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Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11
EDUCATES
IN TRAFFIC RULES
BY USE Of MOVIES
Police Lieutenant Uses Film
To Teach Proper
Signalling.

Educating the motoring public in
carefully driving through the medium
of the moving picture screen has been
%inaugurated by Lieut.. c. G. Carr, chief
of the Seattle police traffic apartment,
says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Frank Jacobs filmed the right and
wrong methods of traffic signalling
when about to stop. turn a corner. or a
full TURF on the road. and the pictures
are to be shown at one of the Jensen
Won Herberg theaters. Other phases
of driving will be filmed later.
Careless Signalling
Careless signalling is the cause of
many accidents. according to Lieuten-
ant Carr. who issues a warning to mo-
florists that a program of more rigid
law enforcement is in progress.
Other inconsiderate habits that fea-
ture prominently in accident records
at the local police station. are failure
to give right of way to vehicles on the
right, too much speed at intersections,
and violation of the headlight regula-
ton.
Lane OF Pedestrians
"Our new method Of marking lanes
for pedestrians at the intersection of
heavy traffic streets is working out
in fine shape he continued, ''and the
pedestrians seem to keep within the
lines willingly as they realize the safety
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11
Nash Motors has passed the 100 900

Nash Motors has passed the 100000
mark in number Of passenger cars pro-
duced: in actual figures 104.245 have
been built and sold since its introduc-
ton four years ago. The Auburn fac
tory is in production on a new series
of sedan bodies. One of the attractive
features 's the color scheme. The rugs.
curtains and upholstering of the inter-
Tor correspond to the exterior finish,
either blue or maroon
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11

cadillac sales for the year up to May
/ were two and a half times the vol
ume for the corresponding period of
last year. reports Fl. II. Rice. presi-
dent of the Cadillac Motor Car Com
pany.
There are nearly 10000 licensed gar
ages in the United States.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11

Charles s. Crawford has been ap-
pointed chief engineer of the Stutz
Motor Car Company of America at
Indianapolis. He was for seven years
chief engineer Of the Cole Motor Car
company and then with the Premier.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11

put the cart before the horse, fixing .
price and then being compelled to build
to it.
Foolish indeed would be the mani
facturer who would underestimate the
demand for lower prices. But It has
not been a demand for a cheapened
product. On the contrary, the buying
public is weighing values as never be-
fore in automobile history. Il wants
better and longer performance for its
money.
"A QUESTIONABLE that went to co.
600 automobile owners in various parts
of the country convinced us that en-
durance was the most sought quality
in a motor car, with comfort second,
price third, and appearance fourth, in
the minds of these automobile users.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-11

L. V. Pulsifer told some interesting
facts about paints and varnishes in
automobile work to the members of the
New York Motor Coach Manufacturers
association at its meeting at the Auto
mobile club last week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08
THE TRAMP STEAMER

Thomas J. Murray, in Leslie's Weekly. With side plates rusty from the tossing spray, She swings in ballast from the Mersey's tide; We've watched her kicking slowly up the bay, And heard her anchor rattling OCT the side. No harbor claims her for its very own,
 From Brest she surges in channel rain; For lotus tideways in swooning zone
 Or ancient harbors on the Spanish Main. Her smoke clouds trai labove the fields of rice, South bound for Saigon through the Yellow
 Sea;
 She crunches heavily through drifting ice, Where bleak St. Johns rests by it's polar lea. Out of the River Plate she rolls and dips,
 For north of Hatteras with her salty hides; Or in the sluggish Schuylkill joins the ships, No signals flare for her on midnight shores
 No wires singing in the gusty lanes; As she slips slow across the tossing floors,
 An ocean wanderer in the sun and rains That carry oil to Chinese watersides.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08

has been stripped from them and they reign by the will of their subjects.
 There was lesson for the IT royal houses that weathered the World war in the fate of Charles, erstwhile Emperor of Austria Hun gary. Friends he may have had, but they were powerless to help him, and he died as miserably as if no drop of royal blood flowed in his veins and he had never sat upon the throne of the onee-powerful Hapsburgs
 As Charles died other rulers will die who do not adapt themselves to the onward march of democracy. A king who is intelligent enough to realize that he is not living in the middle ages, may dwell in palace and be dressed up on state occasions to make show for curious crowds, but his power is gone, never to re- turn. The scepter is no longer the dread sym bel of majesty It is purely decorative like the crown and the royal robes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08
THE KING OF BHAMo

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 His majesty, the King of Bhamo, formerly Prince Wunthu of Burma, cousin of the late Thebaw, King of Burma, ladies and gentlemen.
 An incident at Namkam occasions the intro- ducton. Because 800 brgands, led by Wun- thu, burned the home of an American mission ary deep-water Baptist, sacked native vil- lage and murdered villagers the dynasty of Thebaw has been revived.
 Again the lily throne may be dusted for the silken skirt of native ruler if Wunthu pros pers. A skirt because pantaloons are not worn from Rangoon to Mandalay."
 Bhamo is small. city near the headwaters of the Irrawadday river, several days from Mandalay.
 Wunthu is in the position of bbuleus Ken tuckian starting "a shooting at a church in Pike county and proclaiming himself king of Jamboree.
 It is down stream all the way from Bhamo to Mandalay. But King Wunthu will find it, paradoxically, up hill from Bhamo to Manda- lay.
 The reign of Wunthu is not likely to be long. The scope of his authority will not be wide.
 It is apparent that Prince Wunthu is not an enlightened man. Events resulting from events he shaped at Mamkam and Bhamo will contrib ute to his enlightenment, or ministers of state in Downing street are much mistaken
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08
x UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ENDORSE CAMPAIGN FOR AUBURN

If is most unfortunate that there is an im- pression among some of Auburn's alumni, in- cluding prominent alumni in Birmingham, that the University of Alabama is not cooperating whole-heartedly in the campaign to raise Sl,- ooo o00 for Auburn. The Age-Herald will not attempt to speak for the university au- thorities, who have already publicly announced that they will do all they can to help Au- burn out of her financial straits, but feels that the charge, if applied to university alumni in the state, is unwarranted.
 It is worthy of notice that at the university alumni banquet, in Birmingham Thursday night, the Auburn campaign was heartily in dorsed. The sentiment expressed on that oc- casion agrees with the sentiment of other uni versity authorities
 There was time when rivalry between the two institutions was strong, and that feeling may still survive to some extent, although it was chiefly conspicuous in athletics, but no sane alumnus of either institution could want the others usefulness to be impaired. Auburn and the state university are great assets to Alabama and she needs them both. Citizens who realize the value of education and the necessity of training young men and young women to add to the states wealth and culture in the future want the Polytechnic institute and the state university to grow and prosper to an equal degree.
 The university is planning a campaign to raise funds, but that will not begin until next autumn. In the meantime, Auburn's needs have a claim on the people of Alabama, to which liberal response is being made. The alumni of both institutions will cooperate to make the campaign success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08

Punch doesn't believe Henry Ford is wor- ried by German competitors who are making toy motor cars out of old tin cans.
 
 It's poor fan who couldn't get heart throb out of the picture of Judge Landis arm-in-arm with Bob Meusel and "Babe" Ruth. What puzzles us is the kind of music the or chestra will play when Einstein's theory of rela- tivity is shown on the screen. George Bernard Shaw has written play it takes three nights to unwind. As an endurance test it's great success.
 
 General Semenoff's plans for triumphal en- try into New York were spoiled by some low browed deputy sheriffs.
 * < Jewel robberies are a little out of date but there are some interesting angles to Galli- Curci's case.
 The operators claim their hands are clean The downtrodden coal miners can't even claim that much.
 As proof that the former Kaiser still thinks he knows everything, he has written a book on orchids.
 On the other hand, cop for every citizen wouldn't be an ideal form of civic govern ment
 It didn't take Elmer Dover long to demon- strate that he yields wicked broom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08
SOUTH'S COAL INDUSTRY
 SHOWS PROGRESS

The Manufacturers Record comments on the coal production of the south in 1921 compared with the total for the country, showing that southern coal fields made greater percentage of production than other fields.
 The decrease of production in the south in 1921, compared with 1920, was 22 per cent, but the decrease in the rest of the country was 25 per cent. While the south's production last year equaled that of 1914, that of the country outside of the south decreased 8 per cent compared with 1920, The south is now produc- ing 28 per cent of the country's output com pared with 24 per cent in 1911.
 The Record says further:
 "In some southern states the lessened coal supply does not necessarily measure the actual loss in power generated and consequent lessen- ing of industry, for throughout the south water powers are being extended and developed, re- leving the demand for coal to the extent of the horse power thus hydroeleetrically de- veloped."
 The Record might have added that the coal that IS inlhed III Alapama IS entering more and more into the manufacture of coal tar by products through an increase of by-product coke ovens and hence is creating values that could not be created by raw coal whose fumes are lost in the air.
 It is encouraging to realize, as pointed out by the Record, that the south has native labor and therefore industrial onerations arc steadier and more continuous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08
ngham, April T, 1922.
DANGEROUS TO HEALTH
To the Editor off The Age- Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 I am a reader of your paper. Please allow me small space in your columns. There has been and still is lot said about cleaning up the city to keep down disease and flies. I live and own little home at 801 Montgomery street south. spend money that I earn by the sweat of my brow trying to keep my place clea hand neat, and the city of Birmingham has allowed their dump wagons to dump matter in front of my home that will certainly cause flies and sickness. Not only the city wagons. but any and everybody that wants to dump their scrapings of yards and lot of filthy mat ter on the vacant lot or land out in front of my house and other neighbors that are taxpayers and law-abiding citizens. A neghbor had per mission to post signs prohibiting or telling peo- pie not to dump there, and they keep slipping in load every now and then, and someone has torn down one of the signs. I have been living here for nine years and the flies were worse last season than I ever saw them before, and are sure to be so again this season. So do hope and trust that our city fathers will look at our surroundings, and I am sure they will try to put a stop to this unhealthy and damaging effect it has to property and health.
 Thanking you, 1 am, yours very truly,
 A. B. DUFFEE.
 Birmingham, April 4, 1922, so1 Montgom- orv Sfroat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08
WHERE ARE THE KINGS OF YESTERYEAR?

Where are the kings of 1914?" asks Ar thur Brisbane, who says that according to Frank A. Munsey's figures, Al royal dynasties were ruling before the World war and only IT are left
 The kings of yesteryear have gone to join the dodo. They and their descendants will tread the boards no more, wearing glittering crowns and costly raiment. Those who survive they have it not The monarchs of Great Brit ain, Belgium and possibly Spain sit firmly on their thrones, but in their hearts they know that the divinity that doth hedge king"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08
oFF FOR THE NORTH

From the Detroit Free Press.
 The next great assault on the north polar regions will be carried out by Roal Amundsen, who is now organizing an expedition in New York and plans to follow the example set by Fridtjof Nansen, who first demonstrated the possibility of drifting across the Arctic ocean from west to east. In 1895 Nansen's ship, the Tram, was for long while north of the S5th parallel and we'll beyond the latitude reached by any explorer except Nansen himself up to that time.
 But Amundsen proposes to better Nansens example by carrying with him two aeroplanes which, using the ship as base, will explore the surrounding country as the moving ice bears the party slowly along. Considering the fact that by leaving his ship and travelling afoot Nansen managed to get within 272 miles of the pole, it does not seem improbable that, with reasonable luck, Amundsen will succeed not only in getting to the pole, if he should try to, but in clearing up many doubts as to the nature of great part of the territory around the pole. Typographical mapping by means of photo graphs from aeropanes is now we'll de- veloped art so that it is possible that Amund- sen may bring back with him pictures that will 
 expeditions of the ordinary kind could hope to reveal.
 It is of course, also possible that the expe- dition will run into disaster and fail. All that Amundsen can do is to commit himself to the drift and leave his fate to the gods of the frozen north. He may be as lucky as Nansen was, or he may be taken upon an entirely diff ferent course. His ship may withstand the seven years that Amundsen expects will be re- qured to complete the drift from Nome to Spitzberger or it may be crushed in the ice as more than one Arctic ship has been before. His aeroplanes may prove as useful in intense cold as he hopes, or they may fail with dis astrous consequences. But every Arctic expe dition, however wisely planned, must trust part of the issue to blind fortune, and Amund- sens venture at least promises extraordinary results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08
NO SCIENCE OF MATRIMoNY

From the Pittsburg Dispatch
 There are some things that even college pro- fessers admit they do not know. A. B. Keller, occupying the chair on anthropology at Yale, says the study of marriage is an essential part of sociology, but it "cannot be expected to teach what girl to marry, much less how to pop the question" No science of matrimony has ever been invented far as he knows.
 Yet there is nothing about which advice is more freely offered, hardly any topic on which more has been said and written, with the net result that each individual has to solve the problem alone Attempts to lay down rules, to frame maxims, to plot charts, to outline tests, even the citing of innumerable examples, have utterly failed to develop science of matri- mony that can hope for recognition as such by those it is intended to benefit. The popping of the question and the choice of the girl must continue to be left to chance and circum- stances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 A full elevated train is high roller.
 Difficulties are things that show what men are.
 Travel may broaden man, but others stay at home and get fat.
 fellow can often see his finish when he has no definite end in view.
 Any woman will look before she leaps pro vided there is a mirror handy.
 Some men try to dodge the issue when they find what they are looking for.
 Some people attract attention by thinking out loud, but the jackass does that.
 A soft answer may not always turn away wrath, but it saves lot of time.
 Many fine looking path has tracks in it that were made by the eleven hoof N.-ss
 If man licks the hand that smote him it's because he can't smite the hand that licked him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08
MORE PEOPLE TRAVEL, BUT
 FEWER ARE KILLED

Many more passengers are carried by the trunk lines than in former years, but fewer lose their lives. This is because railroad man. agement and operating personnel have im- proved, as has been the case in other lines of industry, Heavier and stronger rails, cars and locomotives are used. A trunk line now is lit- erally line of steel.
 Whole strings of cars are not telescoped now when there is collision. There are fewer broken rails. There is more sobriety among railroad men. The railroads have kept the pace.
 Since 1911 the total fatalities on the railroads have decreased 33 per cent, while the passenger miles travelled have increased AZ per cent Tres passing and automobile accidents are heavy contributors to fatalities on the railroads. In 1920 trespassers fatally injured numbered 2,166 and automobile fatalities totaled 1,273. Rail- roads cannot be held to blame for the greater part of these casualties.
 President Markham of the Illinois Central railroad, in calling attention to this record, observes: "We believe that the public will agree with us that the handling of heavier busi- ness with smaller percentage of fatalities is barometer of railroad efficiency" That can not be disputed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
SAYS MULES ARE CHEAP

''The price of livestock has been very low," said M. J. Wheeler, county road superinten- dent. q believe, however, that the price of mules will advance some due to the opening up of far mwork,
 "The county has 24 good mules which it is the plan to sell provided they can be disposed of at a fair price. It is proposed to pur- chase four tractors in their place. am investigating now to see if they can be sold at fair market value. They are in good eofl- ditien and were purchased by the county. at a time when they cost much more than they do now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08
LETTERS TO EDITOR
MAKE PENALTY MORE SEVERE

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 The Frances E. Willard Woman's Christian Temperance union of this city recently adopted a resolution favoring five years imprisonment for violating the prohibition law and 10 years imprisonment for the second offense.
 This declaration by the good ladies, it seems to me- is worthy of careful consideration by our lawmakers and by all patriotic citizens. All thoughtful temperance people must agree that the penalties now being imposed for the viola tion of our prohibition laws are entirely too light. What does the average bootlegger care for fine of $75 or $100? He pays that more easily than he paid his license fee under the old regime.
 The state of Pennsylvania affords us an in- structive object lesson. In that state, accord ing to my information, the penalty for stealing automobiles is 15 years Imprisonment. Yet this penalty is very, very rarely imposed be- cause cars are not stolen there as they are in many other states. The object of the law is not to be cruel or unreasonable, but to prevent the stealing of automobiles. The law has the desired effect. We ought to have a similar law in Alabama, and we should apply the same principle to the prohibition law. That is just what the W. c. T. U, is proposing. William E. Gladstone said that the purpose of government is to make it as easy possible to do right and as difficult as possible to do wrong. It ought to be made more difficult to violate our pro- hibition law. Such law w. c. T. U. is advocating might not altogether reform the wicked, but it would restrain them. The boot legger is even more harmful to society than the fellow who steals car He violates the supreme law of the land, and is willing to de- bauch, ruin and kill his fellow man. Yours sincerely, A. F. LOKEY.
 Birmingham April T. 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08

It estimated that prohibition has cost the government approximately a billion dollars. There's no telling how much it has cost con- sumers who used to be able to buy two drinEs for quarter.
 "Ten Nights in q Barroom'' has been put on the screen. The educational value of the pie ture lies chiefly in showing what an old fashioned barroom looked like.
 x *
 Margot Asquith is said to have made $35, ,000 out of her American lecture tour. In addition to the cash returns, she got at least s350.- 900 worth of free publicity.
 x
 We gather from the votes being cast in The Age-Heralds referendum that great many citizens of Birmingham want an alderman they can tell their troubles to. Thanks to gallant jury, Miss Olivia Stone, whom her lawyer called "a good southern girl" has been acquitted of murder. It would never do to shatter a precedent.
 
 While the safety of railroad travel has n- creased, the motorist who races a train to 2 insurance companies.
 There was a time when the remarks made tive Garner would have led to pistols and coffee.
 BridgetQn. N. J.. town of 15.o0o people had onl yone wedding in March
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08
WELL DRESSED

From the Lansing State Journal
 "A woman is well dressed when she can stand the sharpest scrutiny but when no one turns to look" So said Mary Roberts Rh;nehart in an interview accorded to a New York newspaper the other day. in which she commented on the new fashions for women. Mrs. Rhinehart was not wholly new in her observation. It was in some degree paraphrase of what was said long ago by Lord Chesterfield, we believe, comment ing on dress for men; but there is no quarrel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-08
JACK LONDON IN SPIRIT WORLD
 STILL HAS A THIRST

Psychic revelations are always interesting, whether or not they are genuine. Word has been received from Jack London, through medium at Oakland, Cal, that he still has the intellect he possessed while on earth, but exists in "extensive vagueness" and is struggling to revive his power of literary expression, so he can communicate with his friends of this world.
 The messages from spirit land were re- ceived by Edward B. Payne of Berkeley, Cal, who was a lifelong friend of London, and it is possibly significant that the medium also knew London and doubtless has some familiarity with his literary style, which might explain the simi- larity to London's writing in the messages.
 A human touch is given to the communca- tions by the statement attributed to the nov elist that he still feels the need of drink to stimulate his intellectual facilities. The man who wrote 'John Barleycorn" and admittedly in strong waters, might be expected to retain his thirst in another world, if he still retains his identity.
 Sir A. Conan Doyle has come over to tell us more about spirtualism and will attempt to answer the skeptics. Sir Arthur brings spirit photographs and other "proof' that there is communication between the living and the dead. Spiritualists would have less trouble in convincing. unbelievers of their theories if they could abolish mediums and establish direct communications with spirits. Mediums have too long been associated in the public mind with frauds and trickery to inspire much confidence in their alleged messages.