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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-12-21
Marriage IN Poland.

The average man isn't overjoyed to
learn that with his wife he is acquir-
ing a large following Of in-laws. But
in Poland it is different. In the mar
riage contract the man does not in
quire what girls portion is, but how
many relatives she has, as each one
is relied upon for gift. 1t Is not
unusual for the woman to propose q
match, through her parents.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-12-21

snow. The fires burned brightly on
the open hearths, but as far as the
children knew, Christmas was just
like any other day in the calendar.
Even after the Puritan reaction
against the forms and customs of the
old church had spent itself TO some
extent the children OF the Seventeenth
century still expected no gifts in hon
or of the birth of Christ.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-12-21
Paimistry Up-to-Date.

A Belgian fortunesteller has adopted
modern method Of palmistry. Those
who wish to consult her are required
to place their palms on plaster mold,
and from this imprint the seeress fore.
casts their character and future. The
reading Is dictated to a stenographer,
typed, and mailed to the person In.
terested.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-12-21
SANTA BANNED BY PURITANS
Evil and UngodIy in Early
Days.

6: e; g! 8: :: ::;
In one state the Observa-
ton of Christmas was utterly de-
nounced as an evil, ungodly and per-
nicious custom, and any child daring
to think of as much as plum pud-
ding on that day would make himself
liable to reproof by the authorities.
All along the stern and rock-bound
coast, Geraldine Ames writes in the
Churchman, the only Christmas trees
in the days of the Puritan domination
were those that nature had planted
there and had adorned with f1eecy
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-12-21
AssBeaD0 EaE34t
GOOD SCHEME.

Doing you r
Christmas shop
ping early, amt
you Jones?
Well, you see I
want to git my
wife's Christmas
present before my
c r e di t ors git
around to buy
ing their wife's
presents.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-12-21
t0&E

Christmas Cake Decorations.
To make attractive Christmas cake
decorations, lightly butter the under
side of perfect holly leaves, then coat
with icing and let dry. When dry the
icing will come off shaped and veined
like the leaf. Make into a wreath by
Joining with icing stems.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-16
 Buckingham Will Return to Answer to Any Charges
By Associated Press

Memphis. Tenn.,l May 15,--Miles G. Buckingham. Memphis business man now under s15.000 bond on fugitive warrant issued by the sheriff of Madison county, Miss, in connection with the fatal wounding of his wife Mrs. Lorraine Harris Buckingham, near Pickens. Miss, last Tuesday. will return to Mississippi voluntarily to answer any charge that may be made against him, according to an announcement tonight by ID. F. Pud- year, of counsel for Buckingham.
 MT. Puryear made this announce ment. speaking also for s. r. Wal ker. associated with him in the de- fense of MT. Buckingham. after pub lication in an afternoon paper today of a dispatch from Canton. Miss. stating that an indictment had been returned by the Madison county grand jury today charging Bucking- ham with the killing of his wife and receipt of telegram by the Mem phis police asking that Buckingham be rearrested.
 The telegram to the local police. bearing the signature of the Madi- son county sheriff, read: "Rearrest Miles c. Buckingham, for murder. hold capias."
 It was stated at police headquar- ters here that. acting on legal ad vice, no further action would be talk en until the receipt of formal reQui- sition
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-16
M'CORM|CK HELD
 FOR GRAND JURY
Alleged Slayer of MaplesvilIe Man Remanded to Jail
 Without Bond

Clanton, May 15-(Special.)- )-Tha preliminary trial of Milton McCor- mick. charged with the shooting of John Ed Bearden at Maplesville. was heard before the probate judge hers today. After all the evidence was submitted Mccormick was remandsd to jail without bail to await the &C., tion of the grand jury.
 The defense did not put any wit nesses on the stand. The state was represented by the circuit solicitor. Cecil Alexander of this district. and G. c. Walker. county solicitor The defense was represented by J. R. Att kinson Mir. Alexander opened the argument for the state and was fol- lowed by J. B. Atkinson in behalf of the defense.
 Mfr. Walker. county solicitor, made the closing argument for the state with a very impressive plea, citing the law ir each instance showing why the defendant should not be all lowed bali.
 Young Mccormick, according to of ficers, became enraged with Afr. Bearden owing to the fact that he, Bearden, would not allow young Me- Cormick to pay his respects to Mir. Bearden's daughter and went to the latters home on Sunday, May I. armed with a pump shotgun. cali- irg him to his door and opened fire on him, causing his death. Despite the fact that Mir. Bearden was rushed immediately to a local hospital where no died that night as a result of the unfortunate occurrence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-16
CONFIRMATION OF KENNAMER MAY bE
 OPPOSED BY LONG
Underwood Will Not Ask Ju- dietary Committee to Hold Up Nomination For
 Any Definite Time
Ky HUGH ". ROBERTS Washington Bureau. The Age Herald.
 ROO Dn vtd a0u nulIdfu

Washington, May 15.--(Special.)-- not oppose the confirmation of Thomas J. Kennamer to be marshal for the northern district of Alabama. The senator declared tonight that he would not ask the judiciary com mittee of the Senate to hold up the nomination for any definite length of time. There is assurance. how ever, that hearing will be given to those who might prefer charges against the nominee.
 It is announced by the committee tonight that no charges against Kennamer have been filed. No rep- resentatious at all has been made against him 1t is added. However, it 1t known that his appointment caused dissa satisfaction to large ele- Inent of the republican organization in Alabama and to some democrats lt is understood that the Pope M Long faction of Alabama republicans will oppose confirmation of the Kennamer nomination but 1t is not known If written charges Will be flied. There Is said to be complaint based on the fact that as Charles Kennamer was appointed district at torney for the northern district Thomas Kennamer, his brother, as marshal would give the kennamer family complete control of the fed eral court save that exercised by the judge. Senator Underwood infor- mally discussing the appointment to- night said that it was little concern of democrats whom the republicans appointed to office In Alabam-t just SO the men honored were honest ana capable. That honors have been heaped upon one family does not constitute reason for opposing Kennamer, the senator added.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-16
DR. OWENSLEAVES
 ID PREPARE FOR
 BIG SHOALS MEET
National Conference Will Be Held at Muscle Shoals May 22 to 24 With Thou
 sands Present
By Associated Press

Washington, May i5.ZDr. Clarence U. owens. director general of the | Southern Commercial Congress, left
 today for Muscle Shoals. to complete
 arrangements for the national con-
 ference to be held there May 22-24 on the governments nitrate and
 water power projects there and on
 general development and conserva- tion of the natural resources of the south.
 pr. Owens said he expected the
 conference to be attended by about 5000 delegates. appointed by gov
 ernors. mayors, and commercial or
 ganizations. A large number of men of national prominence will deliver | addresses at the conference on the Muscle Shoals project and southern
 development. Among them will oe
 former United States Senator Hoke smith of Georgia; Assistant Secre-
 tary or Commerce Houston: Secretary Heflin of Alabama; U s. Commits sioner of Education John j. Tigert:
 John H. Small. president Of the Ma tonal Rivers and Harbors Congress: James E. Smith. president of the Mississippi Valley association: Thomas R. Preston. president. and pr. Clarence J. Owens director gen- eral of the Southern Commercial Congress: Governor Taylor of Ten
 nessee; former Governor O'NeilI of Alabama: Commissioner of the Gen eral Land Office and former Governor Spry of Utah: Victor Hanson. pub.
 fisher of the Birmingham News: commissioner Hartwell of Mobile Pr. T. c. Atkinson. of the National Grange. and Hon. Herbert Myrick
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-16
CLEAR ROAD FOR
 PROSECUTION OF
 WAR FRAUD CASES
House Puts Through $5O0,- 900 Appropriation for h. vestigation and Prescott
 ton of GrafterS
By Asroclated Press

Washington, May 15.-The House cleared the road for what some mem bers described as ,"an unrelentins prosecution of war grafters, when 1t put through and sent to the Senate a bill appropriating $500,000 for in vestigation and prosecution of wal fraud cases by the Department of Justice and passed Senate bill for an additional grand jury in the Dis trict of Columbia before which the attorney general may present evi' dence in his fight for indictments.
 Attorney General Daugherty hac requested speedy action on both measures.
 Some men who think they have power In the nation today will find themselves behind the bars as a re- suit of the activity Of Attorney General Daugherty," declared Chair man Madden of the appropriations committee, in urging everybody tc stand up and give him what he had asked. Supporting the chairman in this plea. Representative Connally democrat. Texas. said he wanted the government Ito get the grafters in the flesh and not in the imagina- tion," whether they were democrats or republicans.
 But before the next campaign partment Of Justice will get one man. put him in cage and exhibit him throughout the country. And over his cage as 1t is hauled from state to state. they ought to put a big sign. with the words. Here's that grafter we caught out of 15o,ooo ca sAs,u
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-16
FUTURE TRADING
 ACT SECTION IS
 FORCEABLE
Not Valid Exercise of Taxing Powers of Federal Govern ment, the Supreme
 Court Rules
By Associated Press

Washington, May 15.-Section 1 of the future trading act and those parts of the act which are regula- tions affected by the so-called tax Simposed by that section were today held unenforceable by the supreme court in an opinion delivered by Chief Justice Taft, to which Justice Brandeis dissented.
 The section was held unenforce- able because 1t was not a valid exer- else of the taxing powers of the fed eral government in that it attempt ed to regulate transactions over which the federal government had no constitutional control and was an invasion of the police powers of the state.
 Section imposed tax of 20 cents 8 bushel upon future trades in grain when not made upon exchang- es not "contract" markets, subject to federal control, or when not made by actual owners of the grain, or by the owners or the rent CTS of land upon which the grain Is to be grown.
 While the decision stated that number of the sections of the act were valid. Senator Capper, republ- can, Kansas, one of it's authors, de- clared the decision "a knock out which practically destroyed the eff fectiveness of the act" The purpose of the statute was primarily to reg ulate future trading in grain so as , to compel the larger exchanges to ? admit to membership cooperative farmers organizations. This was done by providing that the heavy tax would be imposed upon all such exchanges which did not become "contract markets" requiring the ex changes to amend their rules and ad- init the farppers co operative organ izations to Membership.
 Not Interstate Commerce
 Sales for future delivery in grain exchanges are not of themselves in- terstate commerce, the court de- clared.
 Trading in grain was declared by the court not to be interstate com merce. Section eleven of the act provided that should any section be declared invalid that should not af- feet the validity of the remaining sections Chief Justice Taft de- clared section eleven "did not in- tend the court to dissect an uncon-
  valid one out of it by inserting lim- i,ations it does not contain
 This Is legislative work beyond the power and function of the court" he said.
 The court found, however, that there were sections Of the act which 7, must be held valid, such as section ?, authorizing investigations by the secretary of agriculture and his pub lication of results ' Section three also was declared valid. That section imposed tax of 20 cents bushel on transactions known to the trade as privileges, bids" "offers," puts and calls.' "indemnities,' or ups and downs Such a tax was held to be clearly within the congressional power" as it was not regulatory" While the court stated it "may suspect that It was intended by Congress to sup press such transactions. we cannot, under our previous decisions treat the section as other than what 1t purports to be, tax.
 Provisions to stnnd
 The provisions of sections [ and
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-16
SEEK PARAMOUR OF
 WOMAN AS SLAYER

Montgomery, May .s.--tSpecial.)-- Police are working on the theory that the paramour of Rosetta Thomas, negro woman, killed the woman and W. D. Davis, railroad mechanic, early Sunday morning near the Central of Georgia railroad tracks. The bodies of the woman and Davis were found Sunday Both had been chopped to death with an axe.
 The murderer after killing the woman and Davis threw their bodies in ravine. where they were found by person who discovered blood near the railroad tracks.
 Davis was formerly employed by a railroad. His wife left Montgomery several months ago and is supposed to have returned to her home In Ohio or Indiana
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-16
RAILROADS PLEA FOR INJUNCTION
 HEARD IN COURT
Seek to Prevent Public Serv- ice Commission From En- forcing Reduced Rates
 on Raw Materials
By FRED IT. GoRMLEY Montgomery Bureau, The Axe-HerAld. 221-2 First National Bank Building

Montgomery. May 15.-(Speciai.)-- Arguments were made before Judge Walter B. Jones in the Montgomery circuit court Monday in the case in- volving the petition of the Louisville and Nashville and other railroads for an injunction preventing the publ c service commission from enforcing it's decision granting reduced rates on raw materials to furnaces in the Bir- mingham district.
 Following a hearing which contil- ued many weeks, the commission las. year ordered tho railroads to make substantial reductions which would save the furnaces many thousands f dollars in freight charges on coal, coke, iron ore and limestone. The railroads appealed to the circuit court, contending that tho commis. sion went beyond It's authority and issued an order which would be con fiscatory. Whatever the decision oi the circuit court, an appeal will be taken to the supreme court
 The state was represented at the hearing by Judge James J. Mayfield and Hugh White. secretary of she public service commission. The oe- tioners were represented by Nelson Proctor. commerce. attorney Of The Louisville and Nashville railroad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-16
Missing Fiue Days, Parents An xi0us
 Ouer Youths s Safety

Mystery still surrounds the disap- pearance since Thursday of William, the 12-year-old son of J. B. Chupp. 925 South Eighteenth street, who, after drawing $10 from hs bank say ings account, left the parental roof.
 The youth confided in friends that he was going on visit to his mar ried sisters in Atlanta. but has not yet put in his appearance there. ad- vices state. His mother and father ere apprebensiye of his safety mean while police continue to search with out any clue to his whereabouts.
 When last seen the boy was dressed with blue waist, khaki knee brooches. white tennis oxfords and blue sox. He has blue eyes and dark brown hair Any information will re- lieve his heart broken mother and anxious father
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-16

pose to promote 1t without thought of the serious breach it will make in the ark of our covenant or the harm which will come from breaking down recognized standards. In the main tenance of local self government. on the one hand. and the national power on the other, our country has been able to endure and prosper for nearly a century and a half"
 Out of proper respect to a CO., ordinate branch of the government the supreme court has gone far to sustain taxing acts as such" Chief Justice Taft continued. adding this had been done even though there has been ground for suspecting from the weight of the tax 1t was intended to destroy its subject'i
 But in the act before us" he said, the presumption of validity cannot prevail, because the proof of the con- trary is found on the vsry face of its provisions. Grant the validity of this law, and all that Congress would need to do hereafter, In seeking to take over to it's control any one of the great number of subjects of pub lie interest, jurisdiction of which the states have never parted with and which are reserved to them by the tenth amendment. would be to enact a detailed measure of complete regu- ation of the subject and enforce 1t by a so-cailed tax upon departure from 1t. To give such magic to the word tax would be to break down all constitutional limitations of the powers of Congress and completely wipe out the sovereignty of the states"
 The court discussed the case at length in view of previous decisions involving questions bearing upon the taxing power of Congress. and de- cided the law invalid as an attempt by Congress to regulate through it's taxing power something entirely within the jurisdiNtion of the various states in the exercise of their police power.
 Officials of the internal revenue bureau declined to discuss the deci- sion until they had an opportunity to read the full opinion. but stated that the amount Of money involved In taxes was small and that the child labor bureau. employing about Sd persons. would be discontinued
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-16
SUSPEND HEARINGS
 ON SHOALS OFFER
Committee Adiourns to Meet Again at Call of Chair
 man Norris
By Associated Pres.

Warrington, May 15.-After exam nation of two witnesses late today, the Senate agriculture committee s investigation of proposals for de- velopment of the governments ni- trate and power projects at Muscle Shoals. was temporarily suspended. No other witnesses were available for interrogation at this time, Chairman Norris announced, and the committee adjourned to meet again at his call, probably later this week or next week when Clifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania is expected to appear.
 The first witness to testify today was l.. Stern. Baltimore, Md. manu- facturer and consulting engineer, who appeared in connection with the tentative proposal he submitted last Friday for lease, operation and com- pletion of the Muscle Shoals pro- perties. His examination was com pleted in less than an hour. the com mittee excusing him without asking whether. he would present a formal offer.
 Charles H. Mcdowell. president of the National Fertilizer association os Chicago, was the second to testify He informed the committee that the fertilizer industry was not opposed to the manufacture of fertilizer at Muscle Shoals, but believed it would be "contrary to good public policy to give Mir. Ford or any other indi : vidual . monopoly over the power plants there for period of LOO years"
 Development of the shoals was recommended by Mir. Mcdowell cn sound engineering lines" making power available for diversified in- dustrial development of that secti on of the country and not leaving 1t to any man to say what kind of in- dustry can be established"
 MT. McDowell doubted If MT. Ford could materially cheapen fertilizer. "I don't see how he can" he said nor do see that he is offering any, thing that other interests in the in dustry arc not offering"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-16

The law was attacked in the supreme court by three cases from North Carolina. appealed by the government. Two of these, the Atherton Mills and that by John J. George and others, were dismissed on technicalities, but the case brought by the Drexel Furniture company was found in proper form, and it was in that the law was de- clared invalid.
 The opinion was delivered by Chief Justice Taft, with no dissen. am nounced.
 More Than . Tax. Does this law impose a fax with only that incidental restrain; and regulation which tax must in- evitably involve" the chief justice asked, ''or does 1t regulate by the use of the so-calied tax as a penalty? If a tax, 1t is greatly an excise. If 1t were an excise on commodity or other thing of value, we might not be permitted under previous deci- sfons of this court to infer solely from its heavy burden that the act intends prohibition instead of a tax. But this act is more"
 After analyzing the principal fea lures of the law and it's operation  the chief justice said: "In the light of these features of the act, a court must be blind not to see the so. called tax is imposed to stop the em- ployment of children within the ago limits prescribed"
 Its prohibitory and regulatory effect and purpose are palpable." he added. All others can see and un- derstand this. How can we properly shut our minds to it?"
 Declaring it the duty of the court to decline to recognize or enforce laws of Congress dealing with sub 1ects not entrusted to Congress but left by the supreme law of the land to the control of the states, the chief Justice said the court must perform ! that duty "even though 1t require us to refuse to give effect to legis- iatioh designed to promote the high est good.''
 An Insidious Feature
 The good sought in unconstitu- tional iegislation.' he added. lis an insidious feature because it leads citizens and legislators of good pur-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-16
GIST OF THE NEWS
GENERAL

uElN ENAI Politics inyades Mcthodist confer ence on eve of election. Source of bomb supply In Chicago is believed found.
 Stock trading is very uncertain on Wall street.
 Renewed rain and bulIish adviees send cotton up.
 Judge Jones calls upon citisena to support officers of the law. Supreme court to hear appeal of Fred Hall Thursday.
 LOCAL Presby terians to dine at TutwileP on opening drive.
 Education h topic of Harris in radio broadcast speech. Bond. enthusiasts stage whirlwind campaign.
 Republicans split upen appointment of kennamer.
 Where law dispenses Justice, burg- lars loot snfe.
 Harding reviews growth of Bir- mingham in absence.
 1923 golf tournament is awarded to Fort Worth. Texas. Godfrey Goldman dies after being III many months. Opponents of city bonds prepare te leleat issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-16
Bethlehem Steel Is Not
 Seeking Southern End

Tn announcing the purchase of the Lackawanna Steel company. Presi- dent Eugene Grace said that Bethle- hem was not interested in the pur- chase of properties in the south, or In the west. but regarded the east as Its natural field of developments"
 The Nall Street Journal. to whom The Age-Heraid wired Saturday in the absence from /e city of Presi- dent Mcqueen. replied by wire as follows:
 New York May 15.--SIoss-Shef- field people here say the Bethlehem report is nonsense.v
 President Mcqueen. who returned to Birmingham today. expressed the same view of the rumors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-16

Bethlehem Steel has not acquired the sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company. as rumored on stock ex- changes Saturday, and. according to statement of the president of the Bethlehem company. no purchase Of any southern property is being con- sidered.
 Journal of Commerce, New York city. wires The Age-Herald as fol- lows:
 New York, May 15.---Bethlehem Steel has not acquired the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company, as rumored. nor is 1t negotiating for the properties. according to officials os the companv.