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Evening star., 1922-08-11

luton had been drafted by him after
a number of persons had brought the
matter to his attention.
In a brief talk, w. W. Griffith, a
local coal dealer. explained the man
ner In which dealers are now get
ting fuel to supply the needs of their
customers.
Former Gov. Edward l.. Stock ex-
plained the new constitution of
Rotary. and a motion was passed
providing for its comparison with the
club constitution.
Arthur Marks presided in the alb
sence of President William Knowles
Cooper.
Evening star., 1922-08-11
Tent Service Mobbed.

C"S SCIv1CC uOUOCus
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN. Md, August IA
mob late Wednesday night swooped
-,~n on a PenIecostal meeting at
Breadfording. near this city, and put
to rcut the Rev. William Myers and
Worshipers. One of the invaders
grabbed Rev. Myers by the throat
and attempted to choke him, while
others began cutting the ropes to
the large tent In which the sryices
were being held.
Feeling AEninst Sect.
There has been strong feeling
against these services among certain
classes in this vicinity because of
the peculiar customs of the sect,
sometimes called Holy Rollers"
They begin their services with
prayer which sometimes continues
for an hour. and which Is followed
by sermon and singing. Many of
the congregation become hysterical
and fall down in a trance before the
altar. There they lie for many hours.
apparently hypnotized. The meeting
often continues until early morning,
until all OF the converts have re-
gained consciousness.
Evening star., 1922-08-11
PASTOR MAKES FIGHT
TO HALT "'VULGAR PLAYS"
Rotary Club Asked to Act for Pro-
lection of Morals of Wash
ington Children.

Declaring that certain vulgar and
degrading plays being produced by
local playhouse" are having a bad
effect upon the morals OF Washington
children, Rev. Charles T. Warner of
st. Alben's presented q resolution at
the weekly meeting of the Rotary
Club Wednesday protesting against their
presentation. The resolution was re-
ferred to the board of governors of the
club
Rev Mr. Warner said that the reso-
Evening star., 1922-08-11
RIVER VICTIM IDENTIFIED.

After burial in the cemetery for
Unidentified persons. the body found
floating in the Potomac river Tues
Ciffel. forty-three years old. Of 1IO5
o street northwest by his wife. Mrs.
Cirel was able to identify her hus-
band by several pieces of clothing
which were returned to the morgue
after the body had been buried. The
body will be reburied at Poolesville,
Md
Evening star., 1922-08-11
BY the Associa ted Press.

NEW YORK. August 1.-Two
members of the crew Of the White
Star liner Adriatic were killed. five
were seriously injured and one is
missing, as the result of an explo-
sion of undetermined origin IN her
No. hold. according to a wireless
message received today at the White
Star line Office.
The message reported that the
Adriatic was proceeding to New York
at half speed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11

der high rail freight rates, had been open only to the Chicago mills. So far these steel ship ments have come no further south than Mem- phis, and the greater part of the tonnage was delivered at such points as Louisville but the shippers look toward New Orleans for southwestern trade and export.
 The interest In inland waterways in one sec ton Is leverage for demanding federal at- tentiOn to deserving waterway projects and developing river transportation facilities in cther sections. The demand for the use of inland streams as an auxiliary of rail trans portation Is gathering momentum in the nation.
 The south must be keenly alive to the steps taken by Pittsburg to extend it's steel trade by means of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
HIGHER PRICES FOR FARM PRODUCTS

An increase in the prices of farm products is good news to Alabamians. F. O. Hooten, superintendent of the market division of the department of agriculture, reports corn at $1 a bushel in parts of the state where there was short crop, and of other advancing prices he says;
 "Other feeding products are going higher, such as velvet beans, cotton seed and all varieties of hay. It is difficult to locate these products in car lots through the producing sec ton, Velvet beans have almost doubled in price since Christmas, and there is a 50 per cent gain in hay prices. In fact, all feedstuffs have reached higher levels"
 While this is going on shipments of spring cabbage have exceeded those of last year up to this time by 100 carloads. The music of diversifcation is making melody in the land.
 Cotton gives better account of itself be- cause of diversifcation. The more the farmer raises of other things the more he gets for his cotton. Diversifcation is vindicated from what ever angle it is viewed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
THE NAVY AND sovIETIsM

From the Washington Star
 It will come as a distinct shock to the country to learn that condition exists which warranted Secretary of the Navy Denby to issue an official warning against men in the naval service affiliating themselves with soci- eties organizations or individuals preaching sovietism, communism and anarchy. Happily, as he points out, the condition is not one in- herent in the navy, but existing outside, and the public generally can take cognizance of this and exert pressure upon the societies and refute and discourage their false doctrines.
 "The world is full of false thought today" declared the secretary in his appeal to the in the service. He added that he would save that service of which country is proud" from the 'hurtful influence of improper the ories of government or false dreams of better state to be created by anarchy or violence" Reading between the lines of the significantly phrased statement of Secretary Denby, it is dscerned that in the navy, because, perhaps, of restriction and discipline, "there come periods of unhappiness, of imagined III treatment, home-sickness and discontent." But, as he says, such periods come to civilians; "they are part of life"
 The secretary reiterates his pride and con fidence in the rank and file of the naval serv- ice, which are shared by the public at large. The navy personnel, wherever they appear before the public, stand out clean-cut, up standing body of Americans, typical of their country and imbued with Americanism. To learn from official warning that there is or ganized propaganda to corrupt this splendid body of men, the nations dependence in time of need, should arouse the indignation of every one and put every one on guard to counteract the doctrines in question and if possible crush the organizations and individuals teaching them.
 "Wherever there appears a soviet head crack it." should be the slogan, even though the head be "crackedl already.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11

The president of the Broadway Merchants association who is trying to keep the Great White Way from becoming dark as a result of the coal strike is named Sunshine. Moon shine' would be more appropriate.
 *
 Semenoff says he stole from the bolsheviki and the bolsheviki stole from him. This may explain the rapidty with which property changed hands when Semenoff was in Siberia. The claim that government officials holding 'key jobs" should not be under civil service ray be due to the fact that ''key jobs" are much sought after by faithful party workers.
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 The mother of stage beauty who wouldn't go to see her in hospital tried to commit suicide. Some of those stories we read about heartless stage beauties must be true. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says he has come over to "raid' America. That's what most of the foreign lecturers do, but they are not so frank in stating their objective.
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 Arthur Brisbane says Austria 'has had no ruler worth talking about since Maria Theresa, a woman" That's enough to make old Francis Joseph turn over in his grave.
 Two ''squadrons" of lawyers have gone to Canada to fight the Stillman case. When law yers move in "squadrons' somebody is losing money.
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 Mir. Bryan is hammering evolution but you never can tell about MT. Bryan. He may still have the presidency in the back of his head
 x < The opening of the baseball season will en- abe some people to exercise their lungs who haven't taken deep breath all winter.
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 New York's humorous dry sleuths lazy Fin stein and Moe Smith, might draw larger sal aries by going into musical comedy. Sill, 90 per cent of Sir Arthurs friends would prefer to have him stick to Sherlock Holmes and let the spooks alone.
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 Zita wants to live in Switzerland and the Swiss government is recalling that it had some trouble with Karl
 *
 Lloyd George has gone to Genoa determined to accomplish something. France should have . care.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
NEGRO PARsoN SCORES ANOTHER

q heard very amusing remark from an old negro preacher near Alexander City the other day while out on my run," said Con- ductor W. E. Wilmot of the Central of Georgia railway. "When the train stopped at Alexan- der City an old negro entrained, wearing a long coat striking him about his knees. The coat was of the style which long ago has passed.
 After we had gone few miles remarked to the parson: If you only had stove-pipe hat to match that coat you would be outitted right, parson.'
 "He looked at me and answered, Cap, 1 think Pse 'twixt and between de style. Ovah at de convention in Wetumpka tother day seen all de preachers wid dem short coats and soft hats wus all rigged up in my long tail and high silk, so I asked 'em whut dey did it for I couldn't git no answer, so l lows they did it so they could raise the debil and go to destruction wid de rest ob de people"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
PITTSBURC STEEL INTERESTED
 IN RIVER CARRIERS

Pittsburg steel-makers realize the benefit of transportation by inland waterways and have provement of navigable rivers.
 A dispatch to the Wall Street Journal says: AThe success of Jones & Laughlin in sending steel shipments down rivey to southern points has induced other large shippers to acquire equipment for river shipments. Pittsburg Steel, American Steel and Wire, National Tube, National Supply and Wheeling Steel are all op- erating fleets of barges, and Carnegie Steel is now figuring fleet that will be larger than any in operation"
 By using barges Pittsburg steel operators have been enabled to enter territory which un-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
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DOES AMERICA WANT A
 THTRD.RATE NAVY?

No one but an expert knows just what the needs of the navy are, and that leaves Con- gress out of the reckoning, but if one may judge from the sentiment expressed almost unanimously by the press of this country, there is strong opposition to reducing the navy be- low the 5-5-S standard.
 Congress has made fetich out of economy and regardless of the views of Secretary Denby and President Harding, the House appropria- tions committee proposes to cut the navy per- sonnel down to 67,000 men and 6,S50 officers. A naval strength of 80,000 enlisted men would not be excessive. When the conference agreed on the 5-5-3 ratio, it was understood by the American people that those figures meant 5-5-3, that the navies of the United States and Great Britain would be equal footing, while Japan would rank third in naval arma- ment
 Proponents of the small navy bill claim that there are a great many smaller vessels which are useless and should be retired from service to prevent unnecessary expense, but naval au- thorities claim that they are fighting to pre- vent America from becoming third-class power on the sea. Their argument is more convincing than that of the congressman who are advocating small navy.
 Great Britain and Japan are not going to cripple their navies, and despite the fair augu- ries of peace, it would be dangerous folly for America to do so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
SONGS INSTEAD OF sPEEcHEs7
ttsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch
 Marguerite Nielka, niece of Lord Cowdray, the British oil magnate, has some repute as vocalist and announces her intention of singing her way into the House of Commons as member She puts it this way: "If the voters still believe that the ordinary politicians can bring about their civic salvation, they would not understand logical exposition of reasons" So, promising that the populace elects it's rulers through it's emotions rather than its head, she thinks her songs may be as effective campaign appeals as the platitudes and ponderosities that constitute the average political speech.
 There is another angle to it that she may have overlooked. If she sing pleasingly she will at least be showing the voters what she can do, which is more than most politicians are ever able to offer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
NPAT WAS TOO SLY

From the Boston Transcript.
 During their dinner hour Mike and Pat were playing cards. "Oi'll bet yez quarter" said Mike, ''that Oi can cut the ace of diamonds the first try"
 "Oill go ye," said Pat.
 Mike shuffled the cards, then laid them down and went into the adjoining room Returning with an ax he cut the deck cleanly in two with one blow.
 'sOill thank ye for the quarter, Pat" he said triumphantly.
 "No yez won't" returned Pat, fishing the ace of diamonds out of his pocket. "Oi slipped it from the deck whin ye went after the ax."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
LITTLE VIRTUE IN THE FORM

From the Selma TlmeS-J ournal.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald is conducting a referendum to find out what kind of gov ernment the people want-whether it shall be the commission plan, the city manager plan or the old aldermanic form. Strange, the ballots show a strong preference for the aldermanic form which was abandoned several years ago as being archaic and unsuited to the needs of the growing metropolis The commission plan was substituted and for a time was hailed as marking signal improvement in the conduct of municipal affairs, but in the testing out process, public expectations have been disap- pointed and the glowing promises of its ad- vocates have not been materialized.
 The people have now an opportunity to make some studied comparisons of the two forms of government and it is significant that they should want to discard what was greeted few years ago as the last word in municipal ad- ministration and go back to method regarded as obsolete, clumsy and ineffective.
 A common mistake made by many citizens is to invest any form of government with excel- lencies and virtues and to imagine that these superior devices and improvements in the ma chinery will mean good government The plan or framework of the government is only means to an end and not the means itself. The end is good government, and this desid- eratum is not the outgrowth of any particular system so much as it is the product of the ap- plication and zeal of able and disinterested men who make the community's problems their own. The personnel of the government counts for more than the form. The best government would be despotism with God as the despot, so we are told.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
STATUS OF HOTELS IN ALABAMA

There seems to be room for improvement in a great many Alabama hotels. According to report made to the state board of health by the division of inspection, only 69 hotels scored TO or above, out of 559 inspections made dur ing the month of March Certificates were withheld from 12 hotels because of low scores and from Is because they were not properly equipped with fire escapes sanitary toilets. All the hotels adversely reported on by the inspectors were given limited time to mend their ways.
 Competition, and the fact that in most cases they represent large investment, keeps city hotels at a comparatively high standard, but in the smaller towns, and particularly in rural communities of the south, the kind of hotel is too often encountered that has been a theme for jests ever since Bill Yves day. There may even be taverns where the old-fashioned roller towel is still in use, one of the most amobi- nable devices so-caled civilized man has ever invented
 Travelling men who have to visit small towns wax more eloquent on hotels than any other subject. Even their "line" becomes second ary consideration. If profanity predominates in their talk the hotels are bad, but no one sings the praises of good hostelry more en- thusiastically than travelling man. Fortunes have been made in the hotel business by men and women who did nothing more than give clean beds and good food to travelling men who spread the glad tidings abroad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
THE LEXICON OF YOUTH
'om the Chicago News.

From the Ch1cago NeWS.
 When Sir E. Bulwer Lytton penned his in- spring line on "the bright lexicon of youth" that lexicon was an open book to sages. But lately the junior lexicon has become more com plcated, if not brighter. It is puzzle even to college presidents. "'Snuggle pupping,' ," President Marion Leroy Burton of the Uni versity of Michigan remarked the other day, lis phase of college life of which I am ignorant"
 No one can blame college president for being stumped by 'snuggle pupping." Only the youngest and most alert photographers can hope to cope with the campus vocabulary, and they only if they take their duties very serious ly. "'Necking'" writes one of the youngest and most serious of the junior photographers, lis a Harvard ale-Prnceton term, about six years old, which has displaced betting aged about twelve years-as description of what our grandsires used to call 'spooning.'"
 rule that will be helpful to elders groping among these complexities is to remember that, while there many terms in the campus lexi- cons, there is only topic. For "snugg.e pupping" and it's successors, look up Spoon ing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
MExIco's AGRICULTURAL FUTURE

From the Houston Post.
 Mexico imported $50o,00O worth of Ameri- can tractors for use in agriculture last year. Abundance of cheap labor has retarded the in- troduction of labor saving machinery, but wages are rising in the republic. The oppor- tunity. of many farm laborers to come into Texas to work during the crop seasons at wage levels much higher than those prevailing in Mexico, is helping to raise the standards there and to relieve the poorer agricultural workers of some of the conditions of peonage
 When modern methods of farming are adopt- ed in Mexico on large scale, that country will take it's place among the foremost agricultural producers of the world. Progress is gradually being made, and if peaceful conditions can be maintained for time, and friendly relations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
A TOWN WITHOUT ANTS
Selma lTimes-J ournal.

From the Selma iTimes-Journal.
 "The pest from Argentine" is again moving from his cavenous earthly haunts to the upper surface and beginning his forays into the pan tries and kitchens of the homes and becoming the unrivalled nuisance of summer life in warm climates As the annoyance of the ants became so intolerable last year in Selma movement was organized and financed by the people to fight the pest in collective way. This move ment was the outgrowth of visit here of Dr. W. E. Kinds, state entomologist, who had a survey made of the city and placed the order for the poison. The plan was to exterminate the ant by supplying poisoned food for him and to treat the entire city as an infested area
 For several months the poison has seemed to be very effective and the little red terror has almost entirely disappeared, but the warm days of spring are serving to set his diminished army again in motion Dr. Kinds did not make the definite promise that the town would become "antless" the first years, but he did say his depredations would be noticeably less frequent and exasperating. This will no doubt prove true For the second year the hope is held out that the "ant' will vanish from the face of the earth. Remembering how intolerable he has become in the past this will indeed be a welcome assurance. town without ants will enjoy a blessing in it's immunity that cannot be esteemed too highly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
FATE OF GENOA CONFERENCE
 DEPENDS ON RUSSIA

The irony of the situation at Genoa is that Observation-Disclosures Russia, at that-is the pawn in the game which Europe's statesmen will play around the conference table. The lately despised and reviled bolsheviki are be- ing treated as distinguished guests by the Italian government and if they had any doubts of their reception, they must have been molli- fled considerably by what they have already learned since arriving in Genoa.
 The success or failureN of the economic con- ference will depend largely what terms are reached with Russia. A nation of 0,000, ,000 people and potentially of the richest, as we'll as one of the largest, on the globe, cannot be left out of any scheme for the rehabilitation of Europe. if it is to get past the talking stage The economic situation is closely involved with the military situation and both must be worked out with relation to Russia.
 The principal reason why Europe is still economically paralyzed is that the European governments have wasted time pickering among themselves instead of getting together and tackling their problems for the best interests o fall, and not for any one or two nations.
 It may be 8 bitter pill for some statesmen to recognize, even tentatively, bolshevist regime which has been regarded more as a menace to civilization than a constructive force in world affairs but, like it or not, there is no getting around the fact that the bolsheviki have the only government in Russia that the rest of Europe can cooperate with.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
SONS OF ADAM

Consider the fate of the toiler,
 Not always the man with the hoe; He may be constructing a boiler
 Or making motor truck go. He may be picturesque sailor,
 Or potter who fashions in clay; A sinner of shoes or a tailor,
 Or digger of ditches-but, say, Have you ever encountered worker,
 Where the engines of industry throb, Though he'd scorn to be known as a shirker,
 Who didn't get sick of his job?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 Some girls grow up and become credits to their parents and some others become lady elocutionists.
 Most men appreciate the nonsense of pretty woman far more than they do the sense of homely
 The who makes mistakes and manages so that the other fellow pays for them does not need any praying for
 No matter how much a woman is sure that man loves her, she wishes it was more so she could ask hin, to say it in bigger language
 One of life's peculiarties is that the world is seldom watching man when he is doing good
 In the race for wealth the average man acts like horse of the long-eared breed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
EXHIBIT WEEK AT SCHOOLS

"This is Exhibit Week in the county schools" said Mrs. E. B. Erwin, "when all children will exhibit specimens of their handi- work at their respective schools. These ex- hibits include writing, spelling, paper cutting, drawing, clay modelings and other kinds Of construction work.
 ''We hope that as many parents will visit the schools as possible and give encourage ment to their children in this work. Even the poorest pupil should be encouraged to offer ex- an,nles of his work. We hope that these ex- hibits will bring out the very best that is in each student"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-11
LETTERS TO EDITOR
WHY ANOTHER EXPERIMENT.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald: Why try another experiment? Commission plan is still in the experimental age, and af- lords but few benefits that justify prolonging of the costly experiment.
 The aldermanc plan has stood the test of hundreds of years. Certain notifications are undoubtedly advisable, including the referen- dun.
 Divide wards so that each will have approxi- rnately the same number of voters.
 F. E. ANDREWS. Birmingham, April 8, 1922. eos Twenty first street, north.