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, 1922-03-01
AN uLusrRIoUs BooTLEccER.

The amaigamated association of rum runners, hooch
moon merchants and bootleg benefactors are
pointing with pride to the historical fact that the late
John Hancock of Massachusetts was on one occasion
arrested and indicted under the law for importing sur
reptitiously n cargo of wine from Madeira The en-
forcing officers, then as now, were not viglant for
John was not brought to trial although the evidence
was in the hands of the authorities. The sentiment of
the Massachusetts people has not grown in strength
against the possession of private stock with all of the
changes that have taken place in their history.
John suffered no demotion in the social scale on ac-
count of having been concerned in a forbidden prac-
tice, but continued to enjoy the confidence and esteem
of his fellow citizens and was selected to sign the
great charter of our liberties on behalf of the Massa-
chusetts colony. You may recall, if you are as ia
mIiar with that noble document as you should be,
that Mr.. Hancock signed his name in a bold beautiful
1y formed chirography that revealed not the slightest
hesitation or trepidation. He remarked at the time
that it was a signature George the Third could read
without his spectacles.
Bootleggers Of this day point with great pride to
Johns signature, the best and boldest on the Declare.
tion as evidence of the steady nerve of a man who tool
a drink, and even then had a bootlegging charge hang
ing over his head.
That John was enthusiastically for the Declaration
and signed it with a willingness no one could deny, is
pointed to by the present day fraternity as evidence
of his whole-heartedness for liberty of all kinds, ever
the personal liberty to which they are devoted and de
sire the whole world to share.
, 1922-03-01
SAYS IT WITH THREATS.

Hanford MacNider, commander of the American Ie-
gion, If he speaks for his fellow veterans, at one
stroke has destroyed the pride of the nation in that
organization and brought it to the level of a bullozing
railroad brotherhood which took advantage of its coun-
uys war crisis to demand an advance in wages out of
proportion to its earning lower and so clearly at va
rance with any claims of just reward for services rem
oered as to give to it the color of graft.
MacNider has demanded of the president of the
United States, chosen by the whole people to execute
their will and of the congress of the people express
ly elected to make the laws of the land, that they must
pass the bonus bill without further delay.
He says this demand is presented in the name of
five million ex-soldiers which is five times the number
Of legion membership, and twenty million dependents.
who have no real existence as such
It is the power alleged to support the command and
not its justice that Mr.. MacNider emphasizes. In his
assumed Importance Mr.. MacNider fails to mention the
nations obligation to the disabled soldiers which has
exceeding a billion and a half dollars and to the furth-
err extent of a half billion dollars annually.
The American people meet their just obligations to
the men who defend their country in time of war all
in proper time and ungrudgingly, even literally, but
they will not be intimidated or accept orders to do a
specific thing for a special interest, be it a group of
former soldiers, labor unions, manufacturing associa-
tons, banking alliances or what not No special inter
est, whatever its real or alleged power is big enough
or important enough to fguratively place a pistol at
the head of the chief executive and the congress and
demand that they stand and deliver the peoples money
from the treasury upon any account. That is exact
ly what the MacNider demand amounts to in the last
analysis.
The commander, in his zeal, has gone too far. 1t is
not believed that he represents the honest, sincere, pa
triotic sentiments of the great majority of members of
the legion.
If President Harding and congress bow to any such
demand as MacNider's they will no more be entitled to
the confidence of the American people than was the
Wilson regime that surrendered to the railroad broth.
erhoods in the passage of the Adamson act.
The bonus act deserves now to fail and deserves
such fate because of MacNider's action.
, 1922-03-01

February 4 there was an increase, as
compared with the same weeks ca last
year. of $3.50 cars in shipments OF
grain, 2.460 cars in shipments of live
stock. IT .666 in shipments of coal. 1884,
47G in shipments Of merchandise, and
1 .oe2 in shipments Of miscellaneous
commodities Shipments of coke
showed a decline of II. 1000 carloads.
shipments of forest products a decline
of 1886 carloads, and shipments Of ore
a decline of 10000 carloads.
when carloads began to show an
increase the second week In January
It was thought hat this might be due
to temporary causes The taxes on
transportation were removed on Jan
uary 1. and II was believed tho decline
in freight shipments in December was
partly due to the fact that some ship
rers were holding back commodities to
avoid paying the tax and would for
ward them in January. II, however.
the increase in shipments had been due
to the release of goods held back to
avoid the tax. II would hardly have
continued at an accelerated rate clear
into February.
TT might also be thought that the
, 1922-03-01
Increase in Freight Business

The increase in the number of car.
loads Of freight shipped have been SO
substantial and persistent since the
opening of the year 1922 as to const.
tute n very persuasive indication that
general business is reviving.
mot only did the number of car.
loads OF freight shipped increase In
every week from that ended January
Z to that ended February 4. but 1 n
each Of these weeks the total ship
ments were larger than In the CORE
spending weeks OF 1921. Tho total
freight a loadings In the four weeks
ended February T.. 1922, were 1855.
1855 as compared with 3.s12. 637 in the
Same weeks OF 1921. an increase of
144.12e. While the total number o.
cars loaded with freight in these weeks
was somewhat less than in 1920. IL
was larger than in 1919 and. N fact
seems to have been larger than in
other previous years.
The most significant feature of this
increase in shipments was that it was
due to an increase in the numbar OF
cars loaded with most kinds of com
modities. In the four weeks ended
, 1922-03-01
The Wyoming Mother

Her yes e bright. with the oour-
g Of youth,
When she came as q bride. to the
west;
That woman. I say
You.-smiled at, today,
Is n of Gods wi very best,
Because she's a Wyoming mother.
Those brown. rough hands. they were
slim and white.
As the ivory keys they lightly
pressed:
When she chose her mate,
She knew her late
WINS to help build the glorious west,
And TO be n Wyoming mother.
Thru storm md shine. she stood by
his side.
As together they builded their nest
And their youngsters grew
Sturdy and true.
As the winds OF tho glorious west,
For theirs was a Wyoming mother.
And Wyoming winds was their music
then,
, 1922-03-01
THE PRICE OF WHEAT.

It has been known since last summer that the
worlds supply and consumption of wheat would be
closely balanced for this crop year, much depending
upon the crops in the Southern hemisphere The early
reports as to the crops of Argentina and Australia
were of large yields and the Canadian crop was esti-
mated to be considerably above that OF 1920. Con-
hdence in wheat, among both producers and specula-
tors, had been weakened by the great decline of the
previous year, with the result that the farmers mar
leted the crop rapidly and as stocks in sight increased
there was not courage enough in the markets to take
the offerings without price declines The farmers suf-
fered from a lack of speculative buying. More buy
ers were needed who had faith in wheat It will be
remembered that about that time the eo-called farm
es' bloc in congress was hot on the trail Of the specu-
lator, and has been claiming credit for enacting n law
to curtail his operations. OF course II cannot be posi-
tiveiy said that wheat would have been higher but for
this act, but if it ~interfered with the freedom of the
MARKETS., it was bound to be detrimental, and it is GER
tain that wheat suffered last fall from n lack of speeu-
lative buying. The low price on the crop was made
November 1, when December wheat sold in Chicago at
Si.ol and the May delivery at $1.o2S.
As the harvest and threshing proceeded in Argen-
tina and Australia, it developed that in neither country
would the yield come up to the early reports, and the
100000 bushels below the estimates current in the
fall. The reduction in Canada, however, was more
than Offset by an increase in the official estimate for
the United States. By the middle of January the May
price had risen to about SLIP, and by the end Of the
month to about $1.1s. Unfavorable reports on the
condition of the fall sown crop in the southwest had
become a factor, and so also the Warren, report on
probable European needs, which was quickly verified
by increased European purchases. Under the infu-
" ne developments TN market became very
active in February and advanced rapidly, the May de-
livery in Chicago, reaching s1.47, from which it re-
acted a few cents on rains over the s~outhwest, where
has prevailed.
From this time on the market viii be much infu-
enced by the crop prospects in this country. Kansas
Is the biggest producer of winter wheat. and in that
state and the adjoining southwest the crop failed to
get moisture enough in the fall to give a good start,
has had very little of either snow or rain since.
Crop experts have been predicting n heavy abandon
nent of acreage.
This situation supports the view that so long as Rus
is not an exporter. the worlds supply and demand
will be closely balanced when the wheat crop is gen.
orally good, and that n short crop with any important
producer is likely to send prices skyward.
, 1922-03-01

"0f course things have come to a helluvapass"
walls the Courier Journal, when Chicago school boys
and school girls indulge in the cardinal vices and when
investigation of their after-school hours diversion re-
veals smoking, drinking, cabaret going, limousine driv-
ing and visits to flats rented and maintained, by school
boys, as terminal facilities.
Nevertheless and notwithstanding matters are not
as bad as they might be. The investigators declare
that only five per cent of the school children are guilty
of what Shakespeare termed much misgovernment'
The investigators find that the Chicago school boy who
IS a rounder at fifteen, remains exceptional.
"The school girl who is a painting, powderine, roys-
tering, road house frequenter. jazz music devotee and
guest at apartment parties where chaperones are not
admitted, is the product of houses that are not in
order.
"The girl and the boy are the children, mainly. of
negligent parents.
Negligent parents include, of course, cabaret 90
ing papas and fapper mammas.
"When-in days of old-the masculine head of the
when his wife YVES exemplary, and out of sympathy
with his conduct of life, there was a restraining moral
influence in the home. But when mammals skirts are
short as the shortest; when mammals hip flask is one
OF the necessaries of n luxurious life; when mammals
drink is as stiff as the old mans; when mammals love
OF the bright lights is the motivating influence of her
niatronhood, the youngsters are unrestrained. But n
n~inety-fve in one hundred homes, in Chicago. haven,t
nApper mammas under the roof tree the American
nome is not--yet-decadent American youth IA NOT
-yet-doomed o- deserving of being damned.
maybe there VIII be a spiritual awakeninr-of ma.
rents-in Chicago. And in America far less than five
: per cent Of school children are debauched.p
, 1922-03-01
NO. THEY CANNOT FORGET.

All the Democratic papers of the state having a
couple of columns of space not otherwise occupied
have been running an article entitled, "a Man They
Cannot Forget" The person so fastened upon the
public memory, the article reveals, is Woodrow Will
son. It is taken from Golfers Weekly and written
by some such Wilson fan as David Lawrence. 1t tells
how on Sundays and holidays people go to the neigh
borhood of the Wilson home in Washington and "stand
together in groups and speak in hushed tones"
These are taxpayers consulting together and devils
ing means to raise the kale to pay their taxes occa-
stoned by the wastefulness of Woodrow Wilson's ad-
ministration.
Again "they see in Woodrow Wilson the man that
called into service the boy they loved" Sure he did,
called him into the service with such a cheerful mes
sage as "the American people are too proud to fight. I"
after refusing to prepare for a war he knew was in
cvitable- Yes cheered him on with such bunk as she
kept US out of war and other bull of a period that
brings the blush of shame to every lover of the flag
and every believer in American institutions.
"People are thinking of his work in that after wa,
period, that terrible period we speak of as reconstruc.
tion," says the article.
Wen say they are. They are thinking long ant
earnestly. They are thinking solemnly of the visit Of
Woodrow Wilson to Paris. An excursion that comic
only be ikened unto King Solomon farine forth to
Jazz party with the expectation of meeting the Queer
of Sheba, Cleopatra and all the prize steamers of al
the periods, Of all the powers and principalities O.
earth. They are revolving in their memories what
boob Wilson was in the hands of diplomatic deceiver
OF the old world. They are recalling how Wilson dis
graced Jacksonian democracy by eating beans Will h;
knife at the tables of European ROYALTY wbi1e W.
and queens and prime ministers and petty notentate
put over the league of nations on him and stole tn
map of Europe out from under him while he rave
about making the world safe for democracy an
ranted about the sacred rights of the people To cboos
their rulers and their form Of government.
These are simple people who gather by thousand
~ wilson nelghoorhood. They are bewildered."
Yes, they are bewildered. Bewildered bv tbe vii
IONS voices and other phenomena Wilson grabbed ar
% air in his impossible dreams. They ~ r+n 90
fused and up In the air from the ccnstantant side-stel
, 1922-03-01
ANOTHER

Now we have the -pay-as-you-enter" cafe It is a
new and simple idea of securing sustenanee Mt a rea-
sonable charge The originator of the plan, which Is
cooperative, seems TO have made a success Of it in
the city where first launched-San Francisco.
At breakfast time you go through a turnstle and
deposit fifteen cents with the cashier. This entities
Won to all you want to eat. The grub is spread out
before you on a big counter. All you are asked TO
dc is not to take more than you can eat Rather re-
turn for a second helping. At lunch and dinner the
performance is repeated but the charge is twenty
cents Thus an individuals board is reduced TO the
modest sum of ffty-fve cents a day.
Now il some equally enterprising gentleman will
devise some lodging plan along the bay where the air
is good and the water is cheap the high cost will not
be so high and one more attraction will be added to
the California prospectus to back UP the stock attrac-
tons of climate, flowers, earthquakes and Hollywood
, 1922-03-01

And it sung those bright youngsters
to rest:
At work or Mt play,
Mother led the way,
As they helped build our glorious west,
For she was n Wyoming mother.
When our country called. tho her
heart turned cold,
She gladly CAV her dearest and
best;
Her heart was a rave:
But her smile WI brave;
She WINS proud of their glorious west.
For she was their Wyoming mother.
Yes, those brown hands. 80 toil-hard.
ened now,
And I'm proud of them too. ]
confess,
Fol they 'blazed the trnIl"-
Where many fall
And they helped build our glorious
west:
Hats off. to our Wyoming mothers.
Lillian L. Van Burg.
Casper, wyo.
, 1922-03-01

increase in shipments was due to a
large movement OF coal in anticipation
of a coal mine strike on April 1. but
while there has been an increase in
shipments OF coal it has been smaller
relatively thar tile increase in ship
ments of other kinds.
After experience with the fluctua-
lions in the railroad and other lires
of business during the last year and a
half o people are somewhat slow
to acclaim any apparent Improvement
as permanent. or as the harbinger of
still further improvements. Certainly
however. IL the recent increase in car
loadings Indicate anything at all they
indicate a distinct tendency toward
Improvement in general business"
Railway age.
, 1922-03-01

ping and vsscIlaton in policy exhibited by Wilson in
Mexican matters and In Anse-war and actual war pro
grams
The writz- Of "The Man They Cannot Forget" has
misinterpreted the whole situation. There is no spe-
eisl outpouring at or near the Wilson home, and those
Who do gather in that vicinity go there to seod, not
to pray.
, 1922-03-01
DEL MONTE CANNED VEGETABLES

DEL MONTE cANNED~ VEGETABLES
No. ! Asparagus Spears, round cans, per can
Csc, or 2 for 45c
No. l Buffet Pork and Beans, s-oz, per can
loo, or 4 for 35c
No. 1 Pork and Beans, 1907, per can z
15c, or 2 for Csc
No. 21a PORK and Beans, per can. Soc, or 2 for SOC
No. 2 Baby Beets, per can..-....... $50, or 2 for Csc
No "a Peeled Green Chill, per can. .15c, or 2 for Csc
No 2Ze Pearl Hominy, per can. ....25c, or 2 for 45c
No. z Extra Sugar Peas, per can. ...-"40c, or 2 for 75c
NO. q pimentos, per can..-....... Csc, or 2 for 45c
No. 2R Sweet Potatoes, Asparagus pack. per can
40c, or 2 for 75c
NO. e FmnPkin, per can".-"...-....3 Soc, or 2 for 55c
NO z fancy Spinach, per can...... Csc, or 2 for 45c
No. re Fancy Spinach, per can. .-. 35c, or 2 for Csc
NO. q tomato Sauce, per can-...-. Toe, or 3 for Csc
NO. z tomatoes. Csc, or 2 for 45c
mo. Z1a tomatoes, per can ....--.-35c, or 2 for Csc
DEL MONTE CANINE FISH
No. 1 Tall Fancy Red Alaska Salmon, per can
doc, or 2 for 75c
No. ! Oval Sardines in Tomato Sauce, per can
>, Csc, or 2 for 45c
No. I Oval sardines in Mustard, per can
Csc, or 2 for 45c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-11
Mrs. C. D. Smith Was
 Beloved in Birmingham

Remains of the late Mrs. Charles D. Smith, notice of whose short illness and unexpected death came as a shock to friends of hers and her hus- bands in Birmingham, took place yesterday afternoon from the resi- dence of Walter L. Smith, brother ot deceased, in Memphis.
 Besides her husband Mrs. Smith leaves daughter. Miss Marie Smith. who is just completing her schooling at Mrs. Bennetts in New York. She was able to join her father at h 2 mothers bedside before the end came. Mrs. Smith died in Riverside, Calf, where she had gone seeking benefit of that climate.
 Mrs. Smith was one of the loveliest women ever reared in Birmingham. She was the daughter of the late Captain A. B. Vandegrift, pioneer merchant. She was born and edu- cated in Birmingham and was mar ried here to Charles D. Smith. prom inent contractor and furnace opera tor Twenty years ago they moved to Memphis and had resided there ever since. Mrs. Smith visited her old home and friends at intervals and they were always delighted to see her, because she never lost her love of Birmingham and maintained her old friendships with tenacity and affec- tion. Her husband and brother-in T. law have also been frequent visitors to their former home and never sur rendered the ties that bound them to the district.
 Mrs. Ewing Caruthers, of Memphis, and Miss Sophia Vandegrift are sis ters of the deceas sed. Many letters of coincidence have been sent to the bereayed father and daughter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-11
IMPERIAL PRINCE
 GUEST OF DOKEYS
Birmingham Knights Tender Gus MeeSe Dinner at
 HiIIman

Gus Meese, Imperial Prince of the Dramatic Order of Knights of Khor- assan, the fun branch of the order Knights of Pythias, and Mrs. Meese. of Spokane, Wash, were the guests of past and present officers of the order in Alabama last night at an informal dinner held in the private dining room of the Hillman hotel.
 MT. Meese is in Birmingham on a visit to Aladdin Temple, 153, the local organization of the order, having ar- rived in the city Wednesday night from Montgomery, where he was ten dered large reception by the Mont gomery Temple.
 In honor of the visit of tn imperial prince, a ceremonial at which time about seventy-five candidates were initiated into the mysteries of the order, was held in Gadsden on Thurs day. The ceremony being under the direction of the local temple, of which Roy Summers is royal vizier.
 Among those present last night were, D. W. c. Yarbrough. Imperial Basha, who is next in line for the of flee of Imperial Prince Graham Per due, Royal Prince; Roy Summers, Royal Vizier; Mrs. Mary Echols; and others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-11
800 Chemists Expected 10
 Attend Annual Meeting Of
 Society Here Next Month
Convention Opens April Especial Train to Bring Washington Delegates-Several Divisions
 Will Be Represented

The American Chemical society will hold it's annual meeting in Birming ham April to April [. with conven- tion headquarters at the Tutwiler hotel. According to announcements made yesterday by the convention committee in Washington, D. G. 500 American chemists will attend the convention and plans have already been completed with the exception of a few minor details to be worked out later.
 A special train will leave Washing ton on March 30, with the chemists from the northeastern states and those employed by the government in Washington. This train will ar rive at Kingsport Tenn. the next day and there the chemists will inspect the plant of the Clinchfield Portland Cement company as we'll as several other chemical industries located at Kingsport April 1 will be spent in Chattanooga, Tenn. and on April 2 Muscle Shoals will be inspected
 In granting permission to the chemists to inspect the Muscle Shoals property. government officials linn ited the permission to only the chemists who are American citizens and who have no personal connection with the manufacture of cyanimid.
 Arrive Here April 3
 After Investigating the govern ment property at Muscle Shoals the train will leave for Birmingham and will arrive here early on the morn ing of the opening of the conven-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-11
TERRY ADVOCATES FEE ESYSTEMF FOR
 SHERIFF'S OFFICE
County Attorney Says Tax payers Would Be Saved Money-AISo FaVorS Fees
 For Circuit Clerk

Jefferson county taxpayers would be saved money if the sheriffs office was put back on a fee system accord ing to a statement made yesterday by W. k. Terry. county attorney.
 Under the fee system Mir. Terry said the office was self supporting. Since the sheriff was placed on a salary by an act of the legislature September 14. 1915, it has became ne- ccssary to pay the deputies out of the general fund, he pointed out. This, he contends, is an extra tax on the citizen which he would not have to bear if the fee system was in force.
 There is not a way in the world that I see by which Sheriff Harts- field can draw his salary before his term expires" said Mir. Terry. "The only remedy I see is that the legis- lature. when it meets. will have to pass law for his relief. Because the deputies are being paid out of the general fund does not mean that this sum is not a debit against the sheriff's fund. It must be paid be- fore his salary is forthcoming. ac- cording to the supreme court decis- ion.'
 MT. Terry said that one objection to the fee system was that it worked a hardship on the poor man by causing too many trivial arrests. Public opinion in his mind should regulate the acts of the sheriff and his depu- ties He also advocates a fee system for the office of circuit clerk.
 "The sheriffs job used to be con sidered the plum of county offices. " said MT Terry. If with the sheriff drawing a straight salary the office is not self supporting I favor going back to the fee system"