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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
THE TALE or A LAMpLIeHrER

From the New Orleans Times -Pcayune.
 Once upon time not more than few weeks ago there was a lamplighter in Paris, France. He was lamplighter because for 30 years he had been such, having been given the appoint ment long ago when electric illumination was still looked on as an interloper by the gas burn ing street lamp This mans job-yes, it was "a political one even thenzconsisted in putting match to some lights near the Louvre and then, having crossed the Bridge of Arts, to light five lamps in front of the famous Palace of Mazarin, now the Institute of France
 The evenings task required all of five min utes of the mans time, and the annual pay was 1925 francs for ordinary years and five francs additional during leap years. It does not even appear that the lighter was required to make a second round at morning to extinguish the lights, that apparently having been the task of someone else possessing political pull.
 At bottom France is a conservative land and once functionary has been placed it is mo- body's business to displace him. There was an instance when the police were called on to post a guard at a certain merely transitory need. For 10 years thereafter officer was sent to watch the place which had no greater need for guard than any other of the cty's hundreds of thousands of buildings.
 But, to our lamplighter! He might and doubtless would have held on till the close of his earthly career had he not been bitten with the notion that since everybody was doing it he should insist on raise. His francs pei diem seemed insignificant in view of the im- portance of the task. He demanded francs 50 centimes day, and grew insistent
 At last the facts of the case penetrated the red tape barricade and it occurred to someone that after all there was no reason why the street lamps of the institute should not be wired and made electric. For few francs the work was done, the lights were turned on reg ularly from the central power house along with the other city service, and ipso facto the lamp lighter of the institute was minus his job. The institutes budget has been reduced by 1,825 francs, and 1880 during leap years There should be lesson in the fate of the too-eager functionary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
THE HELPING HAND

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 The Helping Hand is designed to be first aid station, where any one, matter who, rich or poor, sick or well, who feels themselves III need of any kind, may report. I seek to council with all such with view of giving immediate aid if possible and helping them to avail them selves of whatever course or channel is open to them for further aid.
 It is the purpose of the Helping Hand to co operate with every institution for the help and benefit of human need.
 I have provided place most conveniently and centrally located at 2030 Fourth avenue north, where I can be found any hour in the day or night, every day in the week except Saturday and Sunday from 3 o'clock in the aft ernoon until o'clock in the morning, to coun- cil with and offer assistance in any way pos- sible.
 I am inspired to this by the memory of my father, who was the only man I ever knew who seemed to sympathize with and to under stand everybody in trouble or need of any kind.
 I feel can render service worth while in this way, along with the many others in our generous city who are concerned for brighten we help others to live. I am working man and expect to continue to be, working eight hours every day and giving eight hours to this work each day.
 No matter what your trouble, think I can help you; at least crave the pleasure of trying. Use me. c. B. F. STOVALL. Birmingham, 2oso Fourth Avenue, North, Jung
 13 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14

An English scientist says, Never drink milk" In the old days it was possible to rob milk of it's deleterious qualities for adult con- sumption by injecting little Bourbon, but those days are no more.
 
 One year of the Haynes brand of prohini- tion is said to have made this country twice as dry as, it was last June. Statements of this sort usually hard to prove.
 An American woman arrived in Paris with 80 trunks, six maids and four footmen. Her greatest accomplishment, however, is being able to smoke cigar
 "Movie Queen Need Not Have Perfect Face."-Headine. We gathered that much from the popularity of bathing beauties on the screen.
 Statesmen who object to being interrupted by airplanes when they are speaking should first sound the sentiment of their hearers.
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 Eddie Rickenbacker is going to devote his attention to his automobile business. Eddie is tired of trying to fly in defective planes. MT. Harding doesn't want Muscle Shoals disposed of hastily. How did he get the idea that Congress was cabale of hurrying?
 x x x If San Francisco hasn't changed since the democratic national convention was held there, the Shriners won't die of thirst
 < Y
 A European writer discusses "The Source of Feminine Content" Most husbands are con- vinced there is no such thing.
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 Many are called but few are chosen," ap- plies to the movies with . vengeance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
MILLER IN SYLACAUGA

From the Sylacauga News.
 Walter F. Miller of Colbert county, candidate for secretary of stste, was meeting the voters in this section Thursday. MT. Miller has served as secretary of the Alabama senats, member of the state democratic executive committee, cen- sus supervisor of the Eighth district and pres;- dent elector for two terms. He is well known throughout the state and fttingly capacitated to perform the duties of the office he seeks. He is young man of good address and made quite favorable impression on our people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
VALUE OF SOUTHERN PLANTS
 IN NEW STEEL MERGER

h conspicuous advertisement in the Wall industrial organs calling attention to the de. tails of the merger of Midvale Inland and Re public companies, this paragraph is noted
 "With plants located at Johnstown and Coatesville, Pa, Youngstown, O., Niles, O., and Chicago, Ills, and with facilities for steel production in the southern field at Birming ham. Ala, the company will be in a better po- sition . seyve the consuming trade with a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
LETTER FROM AXIS CLUB
ne Editor of The Age-Herald.

To the Editor Of The Age-Herald
 The Axis club and the board of health wish to thank you for your generous and cordial cooperation before and during Baby Week" While our club and the health authorities took the lead in this work, we wish to publicly acknowledge that the huge success is due to the help, and unselfish interest given by the en- tire city. The doctors and nurses have been untiring in their loyalty and devotion to the children of Birmingham. The boy scouts, the merchants, the managers of the moving pie ture shows, the photographers, women's clubs, school improvement associations and hun dreds of individuals helped to make Baby Week" a success
 However, we feel that our greatest debt of gratitude is to you. You have made beau tifu piece of work possible Without the aid of the press it could never have been accom- plished.
 MRS. ANGUS M. TAYLOR,
 President Axis Club. Birmingham, June IS, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14

From the Larned Filler and Toiler.
 Here's a Kansas zephyr tale from Pratt county: On the E. w. Moore farm near Pratt was an empty stock tank, of about 20 barrels capacity. A recent heavy wind raised the tank on edge and started it rolling out across the fields. Nobody at the house happened to see it leave, but the trail was plain. The tank went over 10 wire fences in it's journey and finally lodged, unharmed among some trees about four miles from the Moore home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
THE .pRIvEo MANIA

Editing newspaper is not as exciting as it was in the old days"
 Maybe not said the editor of the Chig- gersville Clarion. q don't have to fight duels and keep an arsenal on the premises to pro- tect myself from angry subscribers, but some times I think I'd rather see an irate citizen coming after me with shotgun than party of elated individuals with three CT four co., umns of propaganda which they expect me to publish free of charge so they can make an- other raid on the public purse"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
COULDN'T "spooF" wEATHER MAN

'T thought had the weather man fooled on this trip to Birmingham" said F. J. Tome of Cincinnati.
 Every time I have visited Birmingham yet I have been welcomed with terrific heat spell, and I was congratuIating myself that I had fooled old Sol, when he began to make it in teresting for me. It's hot in the summer time in Cincinnati, but that city is not visited with anything like the heat spells that attack Bir- mingham."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
NO PLACE FOR coLoRED PATIENTS

fThere is not place in the county for the treatment of negroes who have tuberculosis" said Thomas E. Huey, member of the. board of revenue. 'The fact is that negro families may do more to spread the dread disease than any other. They take in washing. they cook for white people and they nurse the children of white families.
 T knew of such an instance in three blocks of the courthouse. The negro man was in ad. vanced stages of tuberculosis while his wife and children, who slept in the same room with him. were working for white people. Such conditions should not be allowed to exist"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
BIRMINGHAM GREAT CITY

During my two weeks stay in Birmingham I have been delighted by looking into the great industries of this great city of the south,' said Dr. J. W. Perry, head of the board of missions of the Southern Methodist church of Nashville.
 q have seen your educational institutes and your social organizations, and 1 am certainly in love with Birmingham. Looking forward to another visit to this city will be pleasure to me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
A JOURNEY OF FOUR MILES AND
 A HALF IN A PARACHUTE Z

Tossed about by gale blowing 120 miles an hour, while he chung to parachute four miles and half above the earth; struggling with ropes and straps to prevent his frail craft from being wrecked and on the verge of suffocation because his oxygen tank had been dropped, Capt. A. W. Stevens, aerial photographer, Mc- Cook field, lives to tell the tale. He not only lives, but with the nonchalance men acquire who tumble about in the skies, he refers to his hair-raising experiences as "mere details.'
 Thus the worlds parachute jump record was broken. Captain Stevens descended 24,206 feet. And it was his first attemptl. A Mar tin bomber was piloted to the rarified atmos- phere on the road to the stars by Lieut.. Leigh Wade, incidentally breaking the worlds alti- tude record for this type of plane carrying three passengers. The other voyager was Roy T. Langhorn.
 Like heroes of Jules Verne yarn, the aviators ate sandwiches and drank coffee car ried in vacuum bottles, at height of 24,OO0 feet, and "enjoyed it thoroughly.p That was just before Capt. Stevens plunged on his S0- minute trip back to the good, green earth, which he reached unharmed He wanted to know how it felt to make parachute descent. Now he knows.
 We take 100 per cent courage on land and sea as a matter of fact We yet thrill to the exploits of airmen in an element that to most of us is still untried and unknown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
HOT WEATHER HAS TERRoRs

Hot weather is unpleasant in several ways to the motor scouts" said Sergeant Eddie Bur gess.
 "The autoists feel impelled to travel fast to keep cool and that keeps us jumping keeping them within the law. Summertime is always Jonah to us, and it seems like the automobile owners would consider for awhile that have a terrible time performing our duty when they fracture the speed and traffic laws this warm weather"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
DEATH TO PoEsY

A panting bard Was striving hard
 To sing a song of June; The day was hot, He cursed his lot
 And longed in some lagoon To quench the flame Which burned his frame
 While perspiration flowed. His muse fell flat No time was that
 To hammer out an ode.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
SUPPLY EXHAUSTED

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 woman sentenced to death in Georgia gets little sympathy from the newspapers. Has southern ehivalry been shot to pieees?-Bir- mingham Age Herald.
 Maybe all the chivalrous men have been shot to pieces.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
A SLIGHT CORRECTION

"You admit that this man means nothing to you?" asked the defendants lawyer, who was cross-examining the fair plaintiff in a breach of promise suit.
 Nothing"
 Just moment interrupted her lawyer 'If the court please, the defendant means $50 ,o00 to her, and we propose to get it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
KNOWS WHERE TO FIND NEWS

"The Birmingham Age-Herald appeals to me for many reasons" said 0. S. Finch. First, when I want to read local news know just where it is. Itur nto pages and 5, and there find these two pages chuck full of live, interesting local stuff. Then to the edi- torial page and sports, and then if I have time I can see what Congress is talking about and how the Russians and Germans are raising cain in Europe. It's all there where can lay my hands on what I want without searching the whole paper for any particular item"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
WIS. BIRDS

From the London Daily Mail.
 During a cricket match at Aldershot the ball wrecked a thrush's nest. The birds have adhered the fragments of their shattered s,.,e and rebuilt the nest on the opp ,ste side of the tree, where it will probably be safer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
ON MISCHIEF BENT

'T'm surprised to learn that you are going to take Mr. Grumpson to the theatre"
 For my own enjoyment. He doesn't know what he's, going to see."
 "Eh?" "A male classic dancer will interpret spring MT. Grumpson's remarks about the perform ance will be well worth hearing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
A MORNING PRAYER

o grant me, Lord, the gift of sympathy, that may feel with all men, and learn to iove them and understand them, by looking en' their problems through their eyes! Amen.--M. s. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
THE FREE ONE

"A queer party"
 "Weli?''
 "The lady is dining with her first and sec ond husbands"
 q thought one of the gentlemen looked as if he didn't have care in the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14

"Just what constitutes prominent eli, zen?"
 That's rather hard to say nowadays. j.. many people have been photographed with the President it is no longer what you might call being singled out for distinction
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
TIE DURABLE QUALITIES oF MAI

0ON<A0~G &0FAA~A HEB VT WAN
 (Contrbuted) The horse and mule live thirty years, They never drink light wine and beers. Sheep and goats are dead at twenty, They drink no liquor-water plenty. The dog at fifteen's mostly dead, He looks not the wine that's red. At ten the cats lost it's nine lives, On milk and water beast thrives. Most birds at five years pass away, Far, far from alcohol they stay. The bugs but few days stay on earth, They never know the cocktails worth. But evil, wicked, rum-soaked men Survive for three score years and ten.
 R. W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
THE HUNTED

Cheer up. o weary sinners,
 Take heart and still be brave; Reformers taunt and banners Haunt Which say you must behave. But when crusaders weary
 Of driving you, pell-mell, Perchanee you'll get in this life yet Another breathing spell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-14
A LITTLE KANSAS WIND

Birmingham, June IS, 1922.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-11-19
WOMAN'S CLUB TO HEAR
TALK ON SWITZERLAND
Will Be Addressed Wcdncs-
day Afternoon by Mrs.
James f.. Cannon.

ON Monday at o'clock the wo-
mans Club viii conduct a forum on
cruz matters and policies. All mem
hers ar" urged to attend in spiri,
OF cooperation and to bring up for
discussion any matter which they
consider Will h. of interest and help
I" the club. 80 decisive action will
10" taken At this meeting. but all
recommendations will he referred TO
the board of governors.
Mrs. Charles -. Boshcr. the preSi =
dent Of tn" club. viii preside. Guests
tickets cannot be given for this
afternoon. Tn" hostcsses will b.:
M"sdhm"s Archer g. Jones. William
u Trigr. Jr.. - Harvey Clarlsc.
Robert Wi,h"rs Williams Fred
Hodges. l.awr"nc" Price. T.. l.. RcmiSs
and Herbert Jackson.
ON Wcdn"slav at o'clock tho
third of tn. travel talks OF tn. cIuh
VIII l." given. Mrs James T.. cannon
VIII he IN" speaker. aud her Suhie, t
VIII toe Walking Through SwitHcr-
land. Mrs Cannon is "a world
traveller and tho club is considered
fortunate in having this opportunity
"t hearing her experiences.
Mrs. SalIic Nelson Robins will be
the chairman az The afternoon.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-11-19

TN" "t,rh.ns and serving rooms OF
IN" community house arc well
adapted for this purpos" and very
attractive.
In addition 10 thcsr various a,-
INVITES. there are gym" CLASSES
regularly scheduled 20 meet every
az" and group IN the "hurch aud
community. There are girls clubs
for the younger girls and business
girls clubs The community house
mus provides social service classes
recreation. study classes and socials
Th" community house is especially
open - strangers. Tho directors Of
tn" h"uS" are always glad To hcIp
strangers get established in tho city
ana to offer tho pleasures and priv.
I"E"S of tho community house II is
as" tn" purpose of the community
mouse To reach not only the people
az tn" community, hut every Nom
Der OF tho church. and to actively en-
gage them in some project connected
with the house. There is hardly a
doubt that there is liz day ahead
of the community house and that
It's work Will grow with each year
OF it's activity
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-11-19
SOUTH HILL

Especial To Th" Times Dispatch.
SOUTH HILL. VA. Nov. lS.-Mrs
Maud" y. Thornton. OF Al;a ista. Va.
an aunt Of Mrs. ". u. Poe. is spend :
Ing this week in the home Of Rev.
aud Mrs. W. u. Poe
l. y Wells. az panviIl.. was in
town On" day this week.
Miss Esteilc Crocker. Of Nntlcrs.
visited friends In town on Monday.
ON saturday at tn. home of the
trid". Miss Garnctt Pulley. daughter
Of Mr. and Mrs Il r.. Pulley. aud pr.
-. w. McTyre. both OF this place.
wcr" married. Rev. W. u Poe uffici :
atins Or and Mrs McTyre left i'm =
mediately for Northern trip.
Miss Frances Yancey spent last
week in Richmond and Ashland. re.
turning home on Monday afternoon.
Miss Julia spent few DAYS in
Richmond last week.
\. &. oEhurn. Jr.. Of the First Ma
'i"nai Bank. Of Portsmouth. visited
the home Of his father. \. e. Oghuru.
last week ana was in town to see
friends on Friday
w. -; Brown. formerly of South
mn. hut now resident engineer In
tn" North Carolina state HIGHWAY
service. located In Scotland Neck. y
g.. w"s in town last week
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-11-19
Entertaining md Cultural.
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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-11-19
STATE COUNCIL WILL.
GIVE A BREAKFAST
Dr. o. J.. Iintchcr mud Other. 4, A.
'rhd Event nj NIrhmond Hotel
Thanksgiving Morning.

Among those who wiIl he prcsen,
~ IN" breakfast Of the Ni-rfri,
council OF Administrative. and EAccu
i've N"mmen at the Hotel Richmond
on THANKSGIVING morning ar. pr
orr" L.. Hatcher. president nf ,h.,
southern Woman's Educational Al
iihnc". and editor of thu. I:uIl.,iu
series 81 that Alliance: Miss Mar,
Elizabeth l.ehs"nu. extension in
sirnci"r In citizenship and govern
n"nt OF tn. University Of Virrinia.
MISS 'oru"lia Adair teacher. special
class work of William and Mary
'"il"e" and "huca'ion chairman of
tn" LeaGu" OF Women Voters. Mis-.
sara g. Brooks, Instructor in civ
Normal school; Miss Natali. Ian
caster social director and head Of
IN" mathematics department at the
ft"rrisonhurg Stat. Normal school
for women; Miss Marian : Uanchcl
k'nd"rEart"n and hrst-grad. SUPER
visor. OF Richmond; Miss Charlotte
St"kleN. director OF religions cduca-
ton. Broad street Methodist Episco-
pal Church, aud Miss Eva Powers.
director OF young people and Ribl.
work at Broad Street Methodist Epis-
cupal Church.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-11-19

out the play, the satire is directed
against tn" conv"uti"uality "t tn"
twentieth century code Of behavior
which is supposed 10 b. So uncon-
vcntionai-
Tn" hi of the show was IN. Good
CIR song. sun. by Alicia and
Michael I'm dialogue fashion. which
served to bring out their individual
IDEAS about what really constitutes
" popular girl. Especially uniuu.
WAS TIA" song and dauc" az the tiny
golf balls. VIII" r"b"lled against the
futil" attempts "i would DO golfers
70 keep them out "f "th. rough"
The East Sid" ,w;.nr Of tho cad
dies, their crap" game and puri!is.
tic dane" furnished amusement to
tn" audience. The music Of tho
ghost dance. with its Irregular ca
denc"s and gr"tosqu" chords, gave q
weird. imaginative touch to tho
realistic quality 81 the play. Other
distinctive features were the stag
lin" song, protest against tho SUI
r"rfluity of Dumb poras" and mo
ro"d women" and the half-humor-
Gus. half-r"flcctive philoSophy Of the
buffers song. - IA" advises Alicia
on tn" art OF choosing a husband
Miss Kathryn q Mcfarland. o.,
Havana. IL, who is this year study
Ing IN France. wrote tho show Miss
Pearl a BRA Edon. of New Rochelle.
y Y, was manager
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-11-19

Miss Florence l.. Iiahkins. OF 1926
Hanover Avenue. originated dance
steps for IN" chOrus"s. took the part
Of = ghost. and acted as an usher:
Misses t. raulin" Miller. az 2ils
STUART Avenue. and Helen j. Wills. Of
Newport News. took phrt In tn" "Stag
iin" chorus IA II - Good Girl the
ammual junior show At Mount Holy
%" collage, south iiadl"y. Mass. last
Friday evening. The show took the
form Of mus icai ssiir" ON Tn. mod
"rn generation. Junior shows In re-
cent Years have been OF q fantastic
nature. featuring elaborate costumes
and medieval scenery Coutrasj"d
with these, the setting for a Good
Girl WAS laid ia ia" NOR. common
place, and more real. atmosphere OF
today
Tn" plo, ccntcrs about tho love af-
iairs OF two sisters, Alicia and Janice
Gilmore Both are good girls"
Alicia In tho old-fashioncd sense OF
Tho word, Janice in terms Of TIA.
masculine ycrnacular. While Jauico
aud her friends arc pursuing their
regular occupation. the business OF
being popular. Alicia is ignored.
Tired OF being loft out. sh. decides
To adopt Janicc's tactics. and does
this with such success that She in
iatuat"s h"r sisters most favored
satellite. Michael Halliday. Through