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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
WHY THEY ARE COMING
 TO BIRMINGHAM

A large eastern manufacturer opened a ware house in Birmingham last week, filled it with stocks of goods, employed local office force and started 10 men on the road in five southern states to sell goods to be drawn from the Biz mingham headquarters. It was found better policy to make Birmingham the center of opera tions for Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Missis- sippi and part of Tennessee than to work this territory from the east.
 Birmingham is founded on the propinquity of raw materials entering into the manufacture of steel and iron. We can never get away from that. Next to this the fundamental advantage which this district enjoys over many others IS it's strategic position as point of distribution. With trunk lines radating in every direction into nearby consuming centers and with short haul to the gulf by rail and still more eco- nomical one by water, Birmingham is the nat ural trading center of half dozen adjacent states and enjoys like facilities for exports.
 Some of the largest concerns in the country have come to Birmingham principally on account of it's distributing advantages. The Atlas Ce- ment company took over the Leeds cement plant because it's production went into the en- tire southeast. Local powder plants were ab- sorbed by large eastern interests for the same reasons. Eastern manufacturers and whole salers in general merchandise are finding it to their advantage to become identified with Bir- mingham and use it as base of operations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06

whether northbound or southbound, will have the reduced rate. It should develop trade be- tween Mobile and these places.
 The Warrior river now has four 200O-ton vessels engaged in the merchandise freight busi- ness in addition to power boats and barges serv- ing the iron, steel and coal trades. These pro- vide twice-a-week sailings north and south
 The service will be of great economy to Ala bama shippers ard those in the favored terri tory in adjacent states. The greater use they make of it the more economical it will become and the more inclined the government will be to continue it's investment in the undertaking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES Z AND ELSEWHERE
FAvoRs STATE OPERATION

''It appears tonne that it would be an excel lent thing for the state of Alabama to operate the Montevallo mining properties" said J. D.. Sutherland.
 "The state has already had some practical experience in operating-coal mines, under their contract with the Pratt Consolidated company, and in the carrying out of this contract the Pratt Consolidated has comparatively little to do with the actual operation of the mines. The state should be able to do the same with the Montevallo properties.
 q notice in the schedule given by the news papers of the liabilities of the company that personal injury judgments against the company were not included, and surely this item should be taken into consideration before the deal is put through. While the proposed purchase in my mind is a good move on the part of the state, it also serves to illustrate corporation policy in the state of Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
LICENSE OR ARREST

"Chauffeurs are coming in very slow to ob- tain their licenses for 1922,' said Sergeant w.. w. Brent of the traffic force, "and it will be necessary to arrest them if they do not get their badges immediately.
 '"Up to the present time only 5s8 chauffeurs have gotten their badges, and last year there were between 2,S0O and 5000 licenses issued We have appealed to the business men to send their chauffeurs in to get their licenses, and
 do not want to arrest these men and add the cost of court on the price of the license badge.
 "The questions that these chauffeurs are re- quired to answer in making application for the license we feel will make them better drivers and will in addition make the streets safer for the public"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
cago News.

1FTOW Jne OI1CdgO IVtWs'
 By the stubble you may guess the grain.
 One of the certainties of life is the uncer- tainty of love. . Any small boy in his first trousers feels sorry for his mother.
 It's difficult for man to keep cool when he is between two fires.
 When political grafters fall out honest news paper men get lot. of copy.
 Yes, Louie, even a married man may have his own way-after his wife decides on the di- rection.
 It is possible for a man to avoid attending his own wedding, but he can't get out of enacting the star role at his own funeral.
 When a your& man asks girl to sing and she begins on "Home, Sweet Home,' it means one of tw1 thngs-she is willing to say ''Yes" or wants him to run along.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
LETTERS TO EDITOR
SOME MODERN PUZZLES
jtor of The Age-Herald::

To the Editor of The Age-Herald If you spare the space please allow me to say that thanks are due you and Marcus B. Long, in the government engineers office in Tuscaloosa, for his recent timely and clear contribution as to the spelling of Muscle Shoals"
 Also to say that the following little skit cer- tainly voices the hopes of millions of people that MT. Ford will be allowed to develop his plans there.
 MUSCLE SHOALS tribute of thanks to The Age-Herald and Marcus Long. Laws, creeds, dance, drink work, tax, dress,
 vote, flirt, Muscle or Mussel, Are some tough kinks which have caused lots
 of wrangle and hustle From now away on back even towards Adam
 and Eve; Have wrinkled brows, wrung hearts, and will
 yet as long as men live. But thanks, one is unwound, for lives of great
 men remind us That there can come daylight and peace from
 Webster and Marcus. Yet why the dickens that river, as it rushes and
 rolls, Did not behave itself, but jumped clean over
 Muscle Shoals. Still, what else could it, in those far-off days,
 have safer done? The Ford -Edson-W Weeks- A.-P. Co., had not then
 begun To scheme, plan, talk, argue and each all other
 aims to crook, Almost equal to our dear, peaceful friends
 Perry and Cook. But now that we at last are Long on the better
 spelling, Let us hope, pray the time will be short for the
 wires telling The glad news that thousands of men can there < get living; Then well may sad hearts, hungry lands to God
 thanks be giving. J. A. VANHOOSE. r-VanHoose Co., Morris avenue and Twenty-frst street., Birmingham, February A. 1922
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
International Hatred

From within the Porte Called Sublime" by
 Demetra Vaka, in Asia Magazine for Feb1
 ruary
 One might conclude from all the species of police roaming around that the city was at least safe. On the contrary it had never been so insecure. When General Harrington gave a dance at his summer home on the Bos- porus, so afraid was he lest some of his guests be robbed or murdered as they came or went in their automobiles that he had the whole seven miles of road fxom Constantinople pa troled by British Tommies stationed 100 yards apart.
 One afternoon on the Grand ru de Pera, a French policeman full of spleen or drunk, kicked Russian peddler off the sidewalk He fell sprawling in the road, and all his choco- lates were scattered about As he tried to pick them up the policeman kicked him again and again. A member of the Italian carabinieri, with sense of fair play, came up and grabbed the Frenchman by the throat, and the two fought like Kilkenny cats. Entered then, q British policeman and arrested them both.
 Diseord and political hatreds were the or der of the day. One afternoon, when we re- turned to the hotel, the Montegrin porter in his gorgeous national costume, came up to me most humby My lady, I could not open his car riage door for him., he declared. T must apolo- gize to you, for he came to see you, but I could not do it. have always been Venizelist, and I would not open the door for that man."
 I was thoroughly mystifed, but my questions only brought forth renewed incoherent apoIo- ges. At last another porter came up laugh ing and explained that the Greek high commis- sioner-had called, but that the Montenegrin DOT ter was so ardent Venizeliss that he had re- fused to open his carriage door. He was now apologizing for his discourtesy to my guest, though his determination still remained fixed to render no service to ''that man."
 The only relief from the monotony of in- ternational hatreds was the adoraton of the Greeks for the English. One old Greek patri- clan picturesquely expressed it, "We will follow the English to the very doors of he'll" It was pathetic, this adoration, when one considered that the English regarded their adorers with the aIoofness an oak tree might feel for the blades of grass at it's feet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
SCRAMBLED METAPHORS

From the Boston Transcript.
 A political speaker said that "the present government has sown harvest which is coming home to roost.''
 Another said that "the floodgates of irreli- zion and intempernce were stalking through the land arm in arm.'
 A third that 'he (Mr. Balfour) is mere figurehead with his hand on the rudder"
 But to Bishop Knox we must award the prize. He said that MT. McKenna's sword was an Overloaded pistol which, being hung up in a tight corner lest it should burst, pretended to be dead until it got up and trotted home on the friendly back of the Bishop of St. Asaph."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
DUTY OF ALABAMIANS TO HELP
 THE STATE UNIVERSITY

That $1 ,0o0,o 900 drive for the University of Alabama calls attention to the plight of an in stitution which has been struggling for years to meet the demands upon it with insufficient funds and inadequate equipment.
 Provost P. P. Claxton states that although the attendance at the university was less than 400 in 1912, this year it is more than 1,70O, while attendance at the summer school increased from 800 in 1911 to more than 1,200 in 1921. Dur- ing all this time the only building erected on the campus for college use is the gymnasium for boys. Living quarters for students have fallen far below the requirements for ordinary com fort. "A large part of the work of the univer- sity,' says Dr. Claxton, lis done in temporary shacks Regular assemblies of students have been abandoned for want of an auditorium large enough to hold them.'
 The university needs $5,OoO,OoO to erect new buildings and provide equipment within the next five years. An administration building, library building, chemistry building, one for mining engineering, medicine, for home economics, ed- ucation, law and commerce. an auditorium gymnasium for women, dormitories for men and women and extensive laboratory equipment for the numerous scientific schools of the univer- sity are some of the needs specified.
 It is quite true, as anyone who is aware of the universty's rapid expansion must know, that it has "outgrown it's clothes" It is pro- posed to raise $1,OoO,OO to provide for the most urgent improvements. The campaign was authorized by the board of trustees last May Alumni of this splendid institution will be ex- pected to cooperate Loyalty in raising the money that will tide it over the present crisis.
 The university has long been honor to Ala bama and the righ rank it enjoys among the ed ucational institutions of America is due to the zeal and devotion of those who have built it up, in spite of the fact that it has never had the financial support to which it is en- titled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
NOTHING BUT CLOTHES

Samuel Hopkins Adams in Leslie's Weekly.
 Distress clothing of the 1919-1920 type is pretty well cleaned out of the market, What dis tress is found today in the apparel offered to the public represents the distress of the manu- facturer who has not been able to clear up his stock except at a sacrifice, and of the wholesaler or retailer who has over-ordered. This is particularly true in mems suits The high-price prophets of the past >who said, There's nothing to wear but clothes they've got to come to us, are now painfully examining their logic to where the flaw is. For men are not buying suits. They are buying over coats, which cover multitude of sins in suits. and hoping that the stuff underneath will hang together for another year. In consequence a suit which would have cost $60 in the fall of 1920, and which one would have been lucky to find at any price year earlier, can be had for $45 and even $40 today.
 At the peak price period of 1919 I did some personal shopping and failed to find business outfit which I would be willing to year at S75. Last month in a famous Boston basement could have picked up half dozen suits between $S5 and $45 that would have put on without hesi- tation. Overcoats, to my mind are equally good if not better in value In spite of the fact that the overcoat sales are far ahead of last years almost double in many stores--the market is crowded with smartly cut, we'll made overwear of good material and pattern, selling at $50 or under. And in the spring of 1920 1 had to pay my tailor $110 for an overcoat be- cause I discovered nothing in the ready-to- wear market that was as good under $125! That futile search was-recalled forcibly to me after this Christmas when, at clear-up sale of high-class store I canne upon an ulster of ex-, cellent finish and material, at $29 50.
 Shirts have fallen commensurately. Those glorious silken patterns which, three shortyears ago, spangled the prairies upon the persons Of naughty agriculturists and modish train hands and were Haunted in splendor from the motor mems seats of the city trolleys, may be had (if anybody wants 'em) for a third or fourth of their old rates, while more modest and desirable designs in silk shirts fill the windows at from S4 to $6, instead of $10 to SIS. These are bar gain days for what the trade calls "monkey clothes" In standard weaves the $4 shirt of last year is now $2. 50 and so on. A per fectly respectable necktie which in 1919 dared you to take it out from behind it's $3 price mark, will now wreathe itself about your neck at the sight of a dollar bill As for socks I have within the month purchased silk "sec- ends' for 25 cents which two years ago would have bodily masqueraded as perfect stock marked anywhere from $1 to $2. Underwear, pajamas, collars and the lesser articles of wear (always excepting the pure luxuries) have fol- lowed the same general decline.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
LAW DEPARTMENT SUCCESSFUL

"The law department of rmingham-South- ern college is rapidly forging to the front, and with the continued progress that it is mak- ing and the developments that are being made it should soon rank among the leading law schools of the south" said Dr. Guy E. Snavely.
 "The classes have heavy enrolment and indications point to much larger enrolment next year.
 "The second semester of the school begins Monday night at the First Methodist church. The school will hold weekly moot court to give the students practice under conditions that closely resemble real court.
 Many new books have been placed in the law library and the students have been using them frequently in their reference work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
THE MASTER OF THE "oUEsTs

Edward Forester Sutton, in the New York
 Times. Word came to the Sea-Gate's Warder As the dawn rose gray and pale, "out of the mist of the ice floes
 There comes a little sail"
 na k. {. g And what does the Master offer
 For quit of harbor-fee?" "A high heart, and all undaunted
 In the dark ways of the sea. "A high heart, and lone in seeming
 As the sea gulls' pinions gray, Or light that is hid to andward
 But tracketh the white sea-spray. "A hand that is sure and steadfast
 As ever helmsman bore, Thought that is constant and loyal
 For the man that heaves at the oar. "The fire of cunning Captain
 For the dark of stormy moon, Speech that is sweet and skillful
 In the saga and the rune. "Eyes for the stars of heaven
 Or the, snow-cloud lowering cold, Eyes for the shock of peril
 Or the glint of faery gold" "Then truth" quoth the sea-Gate's Warder, "He is free of port for me! And all good Masters of rowing sail Stand forth, and give him rousing hail Who comes from the Frozen Seal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
WORK IS APPRECIATED

"The members of the. congregation and I appreciate very much the splendid write-up and pictures carried by The Age-Herald relative to the opening of our church," said Dr. John A. McSporran, pastor of the "Old First' Pres byterian church.
 "The article was we'll written and the pho tographs showed up fine. heard several com ments from members of the congregation rela- tive to the article. We appreciate the good work The Age-Herald has done for us.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
WON'T TRY AGAIN

q know one negro that won't steal auto for some time," says N. L. Pierce, federal pro- hibition officer, who had his car stolen during the Semi Centennial week, but recovered it.
 "One found guilty in circuit court wassgiven from five to seven years by Judge Aird and the other two have their trials coming up
 "While I appreciate that many auto thieves can not be apprehended think that medicine like that will tend more than anything else to stop auto thefts."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
FAILURE 10 NOTIFY

q guess they notified everybody but the sec retary," said Ira Champion, secretary of the state democratic executive committee, who came to the city Saturday to attend meetings of suD- committees which never took place.
 ''From what I could find out over the phone after I got here, everybody but myself had a notice the meetings were changed to Thurs day. As it was I hopped the train with c. B. Brown and came up to the city.
 ''Mr Brown went back Saturday, but I staid over until Sunday inasmuch as I had come all the way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
MOBILE IS GRANTED FULL
 WARRIOR RATES

It is of importance to points within Warrior river territory to know that, effective February 22, shipments from Mobile to these points will enjoy 20 per cent freight reduction. The rates apply to cities as far east as Atlanta, Missis- sippi river on the west, Montgomery on the south and Chattanooga on the north.
 On and after the date named shipments be- tween Mobile and all points in this territory,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
DAWES SHOWS WHERE LOOPHOLES ARE

Just how far departmental red tape violates practical economy was dramatically illustrated by Charles H. Dawes, federal budget director. before a thousand government officials at meeting last week. He exhibited brooms which met the specifications of the navy department and other brooms which, while just as good, did not come up to these specifications and were rejected. His comment was: "The navy bought 10000 of it's specification brooms when it could have had S50,000 army br6oms for nothing" MT. Dawes said it required months per- suasion to induce the marine corps to adopt slight change in color in order to use 100, 900 army shirts and save $24,00O In addition to such instances of short-sightedness, he dscov- cred that there were IS different purchasing agents in the treasury department Economical purchasing is impossible under any such ar engagement.
 These are the loopholes through which tax money goes. The most difficult thing in the world appears to be to inject business into gov ernment, yet nothing is more feasible in prin- | ciple. MT. Dawes shows how easily it can be done by exposing the utter stiffness of some of the unbusinessike methods employed.
 
 Since former Kaiser William has turned out his whiskers he looks like George Bernard Shaw With several thousand miles of salt water be- tween us and MT. Shaw we can afford to say this.
 Lenin wants to coax the "best brains' back to Russia. We have been suspecting for some time that there was shortage of gray matter among the bolsheviki.
 Mir. Chaplin is suggested by a cartoonist as Will Hays successor in the cabinet. Mr. Chap lin is about the last person in the world who would condescend to work for a government salary.
 Birmingham is enjoying brief respite from 'ax murders" In the meantime proprietors of little grocery stores are keeping an eye on the late customer.
 Delegates to the arms conference who say it was history-makng event may be indirectly batting themselves on the back, but we shall not quarrel with them for that.
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 Taking time by the forelock, "Bluebeard" Landru is telling the story of his life ere the guillotine cuts it short
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 Recent dispatches indicate that there are still enough trouble zones in Ireland to swell the mortality statistics. < x
 Moving the picture colony somewhere else won't mend matters unless the movie stars be- have themselves.
 It's hard world. President Ebert of Ger many has again been fired out of the Saddle makers union.
 Questionnares sent out by newspapers ask ing if prohibition prohibits must intrigue the bootleggers.
 The movie director slain in Hollywood seems to have been living under an assumed name. Perspiring detectives may soon discover that he also had past.
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 The south isn't struggling to dig itself out of snowdrifts, but the cry of the farmer is piteous to hear.
 London will never be at loss for topic of conversation as long as member of the As quith family is alive.
 Striking heroic pose, Henry Ford says the Lincoln Motor company shall not be done to death
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
THE IMMORTAL, "BLUE-BACK"

From the Houston Post.
 Knoxville had spelling bee the other night, the old 'blue-back' speller being used The old bue-back turned out the best spoilers the coun- try ever had It taught Lincoln to spell, read and write, and TO single text book ever written played so vast a part in the education of q nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
THREE CAME BACK
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 The tireless sea can always tell new story Any coastng capn faces such chances on al- most every relatively short run the ingenuity of Melville or a Conrad may not have included in tragic tales. Here is the report of Captain Edward Fogt of the fishing schooner Athena coming back to Boston from Provincetown where he tried to put in to escape storm. As they scudded, Lindey Malone, Frank Purdy James E. Frazier and Thomas Merchant were dressing fish. A great gray, mother of waves" Gin Kipling phrase) reached the little ship, caught up the four and bore them 50 feet away; and then, held in the loop of its return the same wave brought back three of the four and dropped them aboard the schooner. Merchant snatched away by second wave and did not come back. It is true enough that anything may happen at sea, or even in the toss ing water well in short. Stories of deep sea sailors in southern and eastern oceans may have setting more exotic, but the north At lantic store of romances, fantastic and grim, is exhaustess. Marvel and mystery fit through the mists off Cape Ann, and romance's hooded figure can sometimes be seen hurrying through Long Island sound.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06

is thus seriously restricted becuase they have to pay for their raw steel an element of price which represents an imaginary freight from Pittsburg. In the Birmingham case it is ar bitrary charge of $5 per ton. Conditions have changed, but local manufacturers have not yet been relieved of this arbitrary charge which, together with the higher mileage freight rates, seriously limits the markets for their finished products in competition with Pittsburg manu- lecturers who purchase their steel $5 per ton cheaper. Yours very truly,
 CHARLES L. HAROLD. Birmingham, February 1, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-06
A MORNING PRAYER

Look with pity, Lord, on those whose bur dens are greater than they can bear. Tighten their burdens if it be thy will, or give thenl strength to carry on. Amen.-M. s. B.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1922-09-11
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