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Evening star., 1922-06-19

HOURLY SALES OF STOCKS.
1p.m..... 1856 TOO 2p.n1..... 33S 400
II AIM. 474 200 i2 m. 800 800
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
AUTOMOBILE TRUCK VERSUS
 THE CHINESE COOLIE

Consul General Edwin S. Cunningham, Shanghai, is quoted in department of ccm- merce report as saying:
 Small Chinese firms have found 1t cheaper and more efficient to hire a truck than to em- ploy the necessary number of coolies. A Shan ghai newspaper has estimated that the expense of operating a truck for a day would be about $31. To do the same amount of work 60 coolies would be required at cost of $36 to $48 for labor alone, exclusive of all other expenses.'
 It is not surprising that truck could move. more stuff in a given time in America, and more cheaply than it could be done by laborers on account of higher wages paid in America, but the pay for labor in China is so low that the odds would seem to favor the coolie.
 A machine that can supplant Chinese labor on Chinese soil has more than vindicated itself from standpoint of economy and efficiency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
NOW EDIToR-IN-cHIEF

Writing from the famous old Cumberland university, Lebanon, Tenn, Paul Conway, a former member of The Age-Herald staff, says:
 q am again at college, and will stay until I get my degree this time. I will be sopho- more and expect to graduate here with the class of '25.
 q am actively engaged in newspaper work here, having been appointed editor-in-chief of the Maroon and White, our local college week. ly, but surely miss the life on a regular 'city' daily
 T devote two hours of my time each day writing news stories for about 10 dailies, such as the Nashville Banner and Tennessean, Mem phis Commercial-Appeal, Little Rock Gazette, Chattanooga Daily News, Louisville Courier. Journal, etc. The other day I sent short story to George Cornish, telegraph editor, for publication in The Age-Herald, and also one to Marvin Mccarthy, sport editor of The Age Herald.
 "You would be surprised to see the list of dis tinguished alumni this institution has sent out. They have filled every office from state legis- latufes to the Presidents chair in Washington.
 "No doubt you know that Mignon Hall was student here for two years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
BIRMINGHAM IS A REAL JOBBING CENTER

Birmingham as jobbing center ranks with Memphis, Nashville and Atlanta. These cities are much older and had an earlier start There are wholesale houses in Birmingham second to none in any southern city. Their stocks of goods well assorted as those of Memphis and New Orleans jobbers. They deliver as promptly and have the means to carry their customers on elastic credits
 That Birmingham has become real jobbng center is the message which the wholesalers and manufacturers are carrying into their trade territory, and it is fact which Birming- ham itself and northern and central Alabama should realize. We have something more than iron, steel and coal here. True it is that the progress made by Birmingham dates back to the development of the metal-working indus tries, but Birmingham's standing as jobbing center should become as widely known ana accepted as it's place in the iron and steel world.
 The wholesalers and manufacturers of Bir- mingham will revive the annual conventions of the Alabama Merchants association this month, being hosts, August 29-31, to the ner- chants of northern and central Alabama. The visitors, who have learned during the stress of deflation the advantages of trading near home, will have opportunity of seeing for themselves what local merchants have to of fer, and will realize more fully the benerlt of closer relations between them and their nat ural jobbing center.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
AFTER TWO YEARS IN PRISON

From Good Words, Atlanta Penitentiary
 Paper. (Printed Exactly as Written.)
 As my time is up in three days from now I thought l would like to say few "good words" to the other prisoners, hoping they may be some encouragement to the boys be- hind the bars. came here in December, 1920, with sentence of two years, which, at the beginning as I looked ahead certainly seemed long, and at first greatly discour- aged me- could not read or write, 50 I was placed in the prison school, which was held every evening except Saturday and Sunday, and can now read and write well, and am over to fractions in arithmetic.
 I have tried to forget was in prison, and have worked away as faithfully as I knew how which has made the time slip by very fast. I have been treated we'll, and have not been reported once.
 All man has to do is to behave himself. am proud of what have accomplished in the time have been here and would rather stay two years longer than give up what have learned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17

ing prohibition is another matter entirely.
 British officials might scan clearance papers more closely, or even hold up sailings from British port when a vessel is known to be smuggler bound for American waters, but what the rum runners do outside of the three-mile or the 12-mile limit appears to be something over which the American government has TO control. England, for instance, does not re- gard the sale of liquor.as crime.
 It loks as if the dry navy would have to content itself with catching the rum runners after they come within striking distance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
RooSEvELT'S FORTUNE

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Additional assets to the amount of $50,000 have been discovered, bringing the value of Theodore Roosevelts state to $900,000.
 But Roosevelts real fortune never can be expressed in figures following the dollar mark.
 His wealth was in the friends he made, the esteem he won, the honorable name he left.
 Roosevelt was not poor boy, but it was not because the family was in prosperous cir cumstances that he rose. Had he been poor as Lincoln was his spirit would have tri- umphed similarly over diversity.
 So that his real riches are named accurately in the words of Hermann Hagedorn: "His courtesy knew no wealth class; his friend ship no creed or color or race. His courage stood every onslaught of savage beast and ruthless man, of loneliness, of victory, of de- feat. His mind was eager, his heart was true, his body and spirit defiant of obstacles, ready to meet what might come"
 None can doubt that if Roosevelt had de- voted his intense energy to piling dollar on dollar he could have been rated among the very wealthy. But that never was within the scope of his ambition. The joy he found in life-the "bully time" he was forever saying that he had-proceeded not from palatial lux ury, but from agreeable occupation and con genial personal surroundings.
 If Roosevelt had made money the first aim of his career, he never would have attained his abiding place in the affections of the null titude of Americans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
REALIZING ON SUBSCRIPTION
 TO WARRIOR SERVICE

In a conference between Theodore Brent, manager of the Mississippi Warrior barge lines, and Birmingham shippers, the head of a large manufacturing plant declared that by secur- ing raw materials over the Warrior river route his firm would save $2s,ooO year in it's freight bill.
 He also stated that, owing to delays and embargoes on freight transportation at this time, his factory would have been forced to shut down, or at least drastically curtail oper- ations, had it not been able to get raw ma- terials by the Warrior.
 This man was a liberal contributor to the building of the Port of Birmingham. When contributions were made many of the sub scribers while perfectly willing to make contribution for community service, regarded it as loss. He says he considered his contri- button good investment, knowing that the time would come, although he could not then foresee it, when he would benefit from the use of the Warrior as others have done.
 
 Eight women and thirty men were grilled
  had been killed in a restaurant. As the fellow was known by five different names and is said to have had . criminal record, what are the police 50 upset about?
 Gentlemen who were attacked by Northcliffe after his health began to fail may flatter them selves that his mind was not just right, but what about the gentlemen who were attacked before that?
 The captain of the Adriatic has just proved to the satisfaction of more than a thousand passengers that the skipper of liner can be just as brave as the skipper of little old soop.
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 Champions who are crowned by the New York boxing commission must realize, sooner or later, that there is great deal of territory outside of New York state.
 It is all right to rave about Grecian noses in poetry, but the nose to admire in common, everyday life is the nose that is kept out of other peoples business.
 The ultimate in writing free verse has been achieved. A contributor to Broom divides the words "dreams" with hyphen and makes the letter "s' one line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17

Inc ali., t...o os..loa. .nat D'Annunzio has a cracked crown will not surprise some people who are prepared to maintain that Gabriel was born that way.
 < "The statisticians say that the span of mans life is longer in Kansas than anywhere else in the country. y."-Cincinnati Enquirer It just seems longer,
 An eminent Shakespearian actor informs us by mail, that he will lay great stress on OthelIo next season. OtheIlo is our favorite blackface character.
 Most men are so delicate that they cannot face the naked truth about themselves unless it is covered with chiffon veil of flattery. Hair bobbng establishments have become involved in the white slave traffic. Here's a good talking point for the anti-bobbers.
 < < Maybe if we will give the salacious young authors more rope they will either hang them selves or outgrow their naughtiness. Pushcart peddlers will be required to pay license of $52 year in New York. There is more money in bootlegging. young woman Tn California claims to have the perfect figure. California claims to have the best of everything.
 * x x One of the ablest lawyers the liquor interests had is dead, but the "wets" will contrive to carry on, somehow.
 * Ireland can't have too many Arthur Grif- fths. One DeVaera is more than suf- ficiency.
 x x x It isn't necessary to worry about the ferni- nine of 'kleagle" There are no feminine kleagles.
 < x < What has come over Henry Ford that he should begin to advertise his wares at this late day?
 And Mr. Harding, poor man, once had an idea that he would be an easy-going President.
  Ignoring the Georgia peach crop, Million aire Chandler went way out west to pick one.
 x x People will persist, it seems, in trying to "shake down" members of the Candler family.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
PAUL COOK.
change. He could hardly have noted such .

change. He could hardly have noted such thing in Boston. Our Boston newsboys are of a better sort. As a rule, they scrupulously give the right change. All through his long life in Boston the writer has never had an ex- perience to the contrary. Not infrequently he has had occasion to note the strict honesty of the boys. Mistakes in payment that would have favored the boys have been corrected promptly. At Scollay square one day dime was given a newsboy instead of cent. The boy might easily have kept it unncticed. But he at once handed it back, saying, in a matter of-course way, just as any reputable business man would have done, 'fYou have given me dime"
 Boston newsboys are of sort that aims to get on in the world; they are ambitious for education; many of them attend the high schools and not infrequently go to college; their organization has a scholarship at Har- yard. Boston has reason to be proud of it's newsboys; they have the true Boston spirit; they realize that they are citizens of no mean city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
sALAcIoUs LITERARY INFANTS

From the New York World.
 One of MT. Summers special causes of worry is as regards the salacious literary out put of "some of our younger writers, literary infants" as he calls them They seem, he thinks, to be engaged in a competition "to determine which can compress between the covers of book of fiction or an alleged scien- tific work the maximum amount of porno- graphy, filth and socially destructive instruc- tion. Lacking the ability to be original, they seek to be shocking and succeed only in be- ing loathsome.'
 Younger writers have always found zest in shocking conservative opinion. Shelley was sent down from Oxford for Socially destruc- tive' theories, and Byron was an awful ex- ample of this kind of authorship. Petronius cannot have been very old when he wrote the "Satiricon," which is specially anathema to Mir Sumner. And there was that other young Roman literary infant terrible, Ovid, who fin ally incurred punishment.
 The literary infants keep the torch of liter ature alight and what is good in their work survives and what is bad perishes. Literature that is merely indecent is indefensible But the mistake the professional crusaders against immortality in literature make Is in confusing literary values with moral b1emishes.
 They attempt to apply standards suitable for the young person to the mass of readers who have need for them and are perfectly able to censor literature for themselves. MT. Sumner seems to have touched lot of liter ary pitch without being defied and he should not go on the theory that an occasional cor rupt work of fiction will corrupt the entire public. What preserves books called salacious is their literary merit, and if there is none of that in the works of younger writers the Vice society secretary complains of they will die of hamilton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
A NEGLECTED TOMB

From the New Orleans Times-Picaqune.
 When death claimed William Henry Har- rison, America's ninth President, his body was placed in a tomb on the old Harrison farm near North Bend, o. That was 81 years ago, and for the greater part of a century Con gress Green" as the iustrious Americans s resting place is known, was sadly neglected. For the want of a caretaker the spot was per- mitted to be almost totally obscured from view at distance by underbrush, trees, tan. gled vines and weeds. It was impossible for the visitor to inspect the tomb without dif- ficulty, and yet in that vault had been placed the mortal remains of man whose actions and influence in this country's early building were notably conspicuous.
 Hence it is with feeling of relief and grat- ification we read that citizens of Ohio have taken notice of this oversight and that Con gress Green" will be given the care in the future that it should have received all these years. In addition to seeing that the place is well kept a fund has been provided for the purpose of making it attractive, which is cer- tainly due man to whom the people of that state have the honor of referring as "Ohio's first President"
 While trees, weeds and tangled vines may have served to conceal the tomb of William Henry Harrison there is nothing that would be capable of effacng his name from Amer ican history. He was one of this history's prominent makers, in a manner vastly more outstanding even than his father, who signed the Declaration of Independence, or his grand son who served as President after him. His career was thrilling and spectacular from his first engagements with the Indians to his last campaign for the presidency. "Tippecanoe" was but one of the many absorbing incidents. Ohioans by all means should see to 1t that Congress Green' is we'll cared for hereafter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
THE BUGLE SONG

By Tennyson. The-splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in storv3 The long light shakes across the lakes And the wild cataract leapn i1 glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle, answer, echoes, dying, dying, 0 hark, harki how thin and clear And thinner, clearer, farther gofngi o sweet and far, from cliff and scar. The horns of Elfland, faintly blowingi Blow, let us hear the purple glens replyings Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying. dying,
 dying. o love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill, or field, or riveri Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow forever and forever, Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
 And answer, echoes, answer, dying. dying.
 dying.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 The cheaper the shoes the louder they squeak.
 We must all pay for experience; there are no passes.
 The worst swindler is the one who cheats himself.
 If you would keep your friends don't let them envy you.
 Many think they are going forward bravely because they fear to go back.
 Tomorrow is the stone over which many a business man has stumbled.
 It is important to have clear vision. Even the potato may not have sound eyes.
 If boy earns 10 cents he wants it.; he is not willing to trust the richest man alive.
 It>is . poor kind of piety that seeks all the pleasures and dcdse- n'l tha pains.
 "Haste makoa waste is old motto, but . lazy one. You've got to hurry 70 keep up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
UNDERWOOD PARK WORK

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 The members of the Underwood Park asso- citation have asked me to give you our thanks for the great assistance you rendered us in our park entertainment in July.
 Without publicity such an entertainment would have been dismal failure. Knowing this, we deeply appreciated your kindness in giving us so much space in your columns and so many charming write-ups.
 We feel that we may count on The Age Herald as one friend in our efforts to put at least one active park in Birmingham Sin- cerely yours, MRS. w. R. LOTHRUP,
 Secretary Underwood Park Association.
 Birmingham, August 16, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
JETER IS APPREcIATIYE

"I want to express my heartfelt thanks to my friends and supporters for the honor they have conferred upon me in selecting me as one of their representatives from this county" said Mark L. Jeter
 q want also to reaffirm the statement I made in my campaign to try and see that everyone gets justice and a square deal. I will try to make my actions in the legisla- tive halls prove that I am worthy of the honor you have conferred upon me.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
A FREAK

There was a strange musician, Eccentric, weird and queer. This quaint, peculiar person played What people wished to hear.
 -Tennyson J. Daft. A fellow so obliging, I venture to declare, Did not assume foreign name, Or shake a shock of hair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
Birmingham, August 16, 1922.
PREVENT CROSSING ACCIDENTS


 Kindly publish this for the public good and railroad interest. To the Editor of The Age Herald: A life-saver at railroad crossings. A train slips up on every auto drives sometime.
 The brakes fail on every car-sometime. The result is wreck on the crossing. Remedy: Build turnout, say 50 feet long, parallel with the railroad and close to the track, so when an auto driver sees any dali ger he can turn out and have time to stop on the side of the railroad track. One serious accident avoided will pay for a hundred turnouts.
 Let every auto driver talk for these turn- outs and get our senators, congressman and legislators interested, and show the railroads how it will help them; and every crossing in the United States should have turnout with in year, and many lives will be saved. Re- spectfully submitted KARL c. DAILY Birmingham, August 15, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
EXTERNAL WISDOM

"My boy, I hear you are hanging around stage doors."
 "Why-er-dad, I'm thinking of writing play
 ou.can't learn anything about Shakespeare from chorus girl"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
IMPORTANT DEAL ON

q notice MT. Grabcoin and MT. Wadleigh in earnest conversation
 "Well?"
 "The financial world trembles at their nod. They are probably talking in terms of millions "They may be, but their very earnestness makes me suspect they are swapping bootleg gers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
ALL SET

"The lady who shot her gentleman friend takes her incarceration coolly."
 "She was much upset for few hours.S "Yes?"
 "But her toilet articles were sent around to the jail ,and now she's ready for anything"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
KIND TO THE CUSTOMERS

"How was the chautauqua this year?" Pretty good. We had what is called, I believe, sympathetic orchestra"
 q seem to get your idea. It's one that doesn't play jazz."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
AN EYE TO THE MAIN CHANCE

'eWhat about?"
 "The shocking costumes worn on this beach," "Get somebody else to join you. might miss one while we were talking.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
A TOTAL LOSS

Bathed in the moonlight's silver glow,
 They sat upon the sand; The lad, it seems, was rather slow,
 He didn't hold her hand, Nor murmur softly, "Do be mine,'
 And clasp the maiden tight. He merely said, "The moon looks fine 7 Upon the sea tonight"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
HONEST BOSTON NEWsBOYs

From the Boston Herald.
 Sir Henry Lucy (Tobey, M. P. of Punch) when he visited America was struck by the disposition of New York newsboys to keep the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
CITY FOLK

"Did you meet any pleasant people on your vacation?"
 "Yes. got acquainted with delightful family"
 "Where from?"
 "My home town. They've been living next door to me for five years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
LETTERS TO EDITOR
LAY WALKING"

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 In regard to the letter in The Age-Herald this morning from Chief McDuff with regard to '.jay walking" it seems to me that the warning was incomplete, especially as he con nected it with the killing of MT. Scott Sunday night.
 knew MT. Scott, and he seemed to me to be one of the most careful and deliberately dis posed men I ever knew. I would not reflect in any way upon the lady who was driving the car. I don't know anything about that, but can't see how MT. Scott was "jay walking" in crossing Seventh avenue going to the serv- ice at Capitol park. But I write to say that it seems to me Fir. McDuff might have doubled the usefulness and effectiveness of his caution if he had taken occasion, if ne wanted to single out this instance, by giving a caution for careful drivers and careful and watchful driving in the downtown section.
 G. B. F. STOVALL.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
ADRIFvT WITH THE TIMES
THE DARKER SIDE

The joyous lit By poets split
 Who sing the great outdoors, Impresses me Not much-you see,
 I know how rain down pours. And how at night Mosquitoes bite
 And snakes and bugs invade The campers tent Where, quite forspent, His weary form is laid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-17
SCANT ATTIRE

ONEAINI Al I AN4@ "How was the dancer dressed?" "Within an inch of her liberty" "Eh?" q expected the police to raid the place at any moment"