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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-07-31

The road runner of Chaparal Cock
a bird of western Texas, is said to
be so fast it can outrun a horse on
open ground.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-07-31

Mrs. Robt. H. Greene returned
from Lancaster Sunday where she
has been spending the past month
with her parents. Her father, Mr..
B~eauregard Cunningham returned
home with her.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-07-31

Mrs. D. H. Hill and children and
Mrs. J. L. Hill leave tomorrow for a
visit to w. G. Hill of Washington
and J. l.. Hill of New York. They
will take in all of the sights Of the
city, and it would be interesting if
Mrs. Hill would give her impressions
of those. two towns when she gets
home.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-07-31

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Moran, Mrs.
Charles Moran, Miss Mamie Muir
ply and Mr.. T. L. Malloy of Charles
ton, are expected in the city to-
morrow to spend a few days with Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Gillian. They are
on their way to the mountains of
North Carolina for the rest of the
summer.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-07-31

Mr.. and Mrs. D. A. Wardlaw and
daughter, Mae Wslborn, left Sun
day for a vacation in Anderson
county. They will first visit Mrs.
Claud Mcdaniel, and 60 from there
to Liberty.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-07-31

Mrs. Anna C. Ancrum of Camden,
and son, Calhoun Ancrum, an officer
in the U. S. Navy, and Mrs. Kate
O'Farrell Of Augusta, Ga, are ex-
pected in the city this week to make
a visit to Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Perrin.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-07-31

Miss Mary Milford returned Fri
day from Rock Hill where she took
the summer short course. She wa:
accompanied home by her friend,
Miss Minna Corbett of Bishopville.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-07-31
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J. L. Anderson leaves Abbeville
Wednesday for Laurens where he
will join his family for a visit of
several days, before going on to
North Carolina to take up his work.
Miss Margaret Swetenburg and
Miss Pauline Wosmansky and Miss
Mary Nickles returned from Win
throp College Saturday where they
have been attending summer school.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-07-31

Bill Speed, Mrs. Speed and Eliza
beth, Mrs. J. L. Mcmillan and Mrs.
Otto Bristow motored to, Caesars
Head Saturday. Mrs. Speed and Mrs.
Bristow remained for a stay of sew
eral weeks but Mrs. Mcmillan and
Mr.. Speed returned to Abbeville
yesterday.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-07-31

Miss Sara Mundy and Arthur
Mundy were over from Greenwood
yesterday to spend Sunday with the
family. Arthur Mundy is now with
the P. & N. running from Spartan
burg to Greenwood, but will return
to Abbeville when they put numbers
IT and Is back on the S. A. L.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
CRIMINALITY NOT A MATTER
 OF RACE OR COLOR

The Birmingham Reporter the best known negro paper published here seems to be under the impression that The Age-Herald is unfair to negroes because of recent news articles and cartoon, in particular, based on the fax mur- ders." The Reporter says, "Knowng the negro know them, and as the south has declared it's intelligence of them, makes it rather puzzling to how The Age Herald in it's cartoon and stories could so readily conclude that the crimes are of negro origin"
 There is no reason why the law-abiding ne- groes of Birmingham should take offense be- cause crimes are attributed to members of the, race. On the contrary, they should be glad of the opportunity to cooperate with police off cias to capture the guilty person or persons. One of the greatest obstacles to the maintenance of negroes to shield negro criminals. This practice encourages crime and reacts on negroes who want to uphold the law.
 So far as the "ax murders are concerned, in at least one case, that of Tony Loreno and his wife, who were attacked Loreno says his assailant was negro. The people of Birming- ham don't want any fiends of this type at large, whether their skins white or black Crcum- stantial evidence in other cases, according to the police authorities, indicates that the crimes were committed by one or more negroes
 The Age-Herald is chiefly interested in the prevention of crime. When evidence points to negroes as the offenders, it doesn't see why it should try to shift the blame to some other race or nationality Racial sensitiveness is the curse of America. When every citizen of this country realizes that it is his duty, whether white or black, born in America or somewhere else, to uphold the law, there will be less work for the police authorities to do and life and property will be safer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04

clothes were in tatters. These reports, whether exaggerated not, are bringing the motion picture industry into such disrepute that public indignation will demand general house cleaning.
 When Arbuckle was arrested for causing the death of Miss Rappe during drunken party in his suite in hotel the movie magnates threw up their hands in horror, professed to be deeply concerned over the morals of movedom and as- sured the people of America that they were going to start reform wave themselves. Eyi- dently it has not made much progress, if it was ever even heard of outside of the newspapers
 It is stated that Will Hays who will shortly become the head of the motion picture industry in America, plans to do away with Hollywood and found colony on Long Island Hollywood has become notorious that it can no longer be tolerated. California may be strongly averse to losing the motion picture people, because the industry has brought millions to that state and has given it tremendous amount of pub licity, but by this time Californians may realize that the kind of advertising they are getting is not the most desirable in the world.
 One thing seems reasonably certain. If the men who have their money invested in motion pictures feel that they will have to leave Cali fornia and start somewhere else, or face tre- mendous loss in revenue, they won't hesitate to make the change, They are in the business to make money, but it will cease to be profitable if the men and women who have been idolized on the screen continue to flout decency and morality in their private lives
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
LETTERS TO EDITOR
THOUGHTS ON IDLE FURNACE
Editor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age Herald;
 The other day was called to Woodlawn on business. As l passed Soss furnace and the bone e-of-contention" coke ovens two emotions came over me-a feeling of desolaton, gloom and death at the same time sarcasm.
 To (not a stockholder) r)-the Lord only knows what feeling those fellows have-there is certain pathos in idle plant. I feel like taking off my hat does in the presence of death. There comes over me a strange feel ing gaze on this mighty monster whose head seems bowed in deep and silent grief can al most see it's body quiver, just as humans body quivers as they fight to restrain the tears.
 The vision is dispelled, and I come to earth with dull thud as I recall the howls and com plaints of our ever dsgruntled friends about re- moving the furnace and coke ovens. Those fel- lows who are never satisfied when business is good (you don't hear a whimper from them now), even though it's easy to prove an idle plant is a nuisance the fellows during good times are always suggesting some way to Ire form the other fellow" or run the "other fel- lows busness"-not their own.
 I'm wondering if those same fellows would not be glad to have "Sloss'' on the auditorium site or Capitol park, and the coke ovens on Eighth avenue, if they'd only start up?
 That's little more important than the dance" and certainly not irritating, even if the mems pockets would be filled with money on pay day so they can buy immortality. It's lots harder to be "broke" and immoral than it is to be "broke" and moral"
 Possibly the little depression" is blessing, after all, and is saving souls-though hard on the stomach-We won't have enough money to be immoral.
 Let's every one "boost" for awhile instead of spending so much time on this disgusting rot. If you'll spend your spare time as an optimist you'll help instead of hurting Birmingham. Op- tmstically yours, W. B. LEEDY, JR.
 Birmingham, January 31, 1922
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
IN HOTEL LCBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
"oTHER DAYS

There are great many people who are interested in the story written by Dolly Dal- rymple in Thursdays Age-Herald, Other Days by "A Lady of the Old School,'" said Miss Sue Wright. Not only on account of the uniqueness and beauty of the book in it's mechanical form but on account of the author, Mrs John A. Walker, and her lovely daughter, Annie Ken drick Walker, both of whom have scores of friends in Birmingham where they formerly lived.
 "The book which Dolly Dalrymple spoke of is the first one that has been done, and is the prized possession of Mrs T. G. Bush of this city, to whom the author sent it Christmas as token of love and friendship. There are four others to be done, so Miss Walker writes to friends here, but as the work is so tedious typing it on fine Japanese velum paper, where no word Or incorrect punctuation any mistake can be erased it requires limitless time for the task After typing had been done by Miss Walker the pages were put together by Stikeman, the mas ter craftsman, and the book, which is bound in dark red library buckram in basket weave, with the lettering in black and the lining of French gray, is of the choicest bits of workmanship one could imagine
 'The story was written by Mrs. Walker for her daughter in the form of memoirs, which Miss Walker has transcribed into book form in this exquisite way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
? Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 Two swelled heads are better than none.
 The art of living consists in not being a dead one.
 Any man who takes things as they come lacks push.
 A girl with pretty teeth never misses an op- portunity to giggle.
 Any young who is in love likes to say goodnight the next morning.
 man may gush over woman or vice vesa but the gushing is seldom natural.
 Sometimes married man dislikes to visit peo- pie who try to make him feel at home. Men who are always telling you things for your own good mean well, but they are awfully tiresome.
 When an American heress refuses to marry a nobleman it may be that she considers herself too rich for his blood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
BUILD A MARKET SUITED
 TO THE TRUCKERS

The Truck Growers Journal published local- ly under the auspices of the truckers of Jeffer. son county has this to say with regard to es- tablishing a municipal market in Birmingham, for which bonds have been voted
 'We are anxious for the city of Birmingham to build municipal market large enough to ac- commodate the truck growers of this section.
 "'We think it proper that our association have some voice in the arrangement of the market place"
 These are two eminently sound suggestions It is important that the market house be of pro- portions ample for the business to be con ducted there. It is of equal importance that the arrangements be adapted to special needs of the truckers. They should be consulted in both matters.
 If the city commission, before taking any steps in connection with the municipal market as to location, size, arrangement and other de- tails, consuts with the heads of the Jefferson County Truckers association, fewer mistakes will be made.
 Jefferson county truckers maintained an open air market on Morris avenue last season with considerable success. It was demonstrated that this county has an intelligent set of men en- gagged in raising fruit and vegetables and that they also understand much about marketing. They should be called in before the market plans are made, not afterward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
THE RED COLLINS

William Allen White, in Judge.
 Apparently the country is to be treated to another dose of the willies. We are to be told how the anarchists are about to blow us up, and the socialists gobble us up and the communists overrun us. During the or just after it, the sky easily inflamed, and the daylights were scared out of us without much trouble.
 But somehow today we are calm. Our serene judicial attitude under the stories of the raw head and bloody bones of the secret service agents of the department of justice some what recalls Mark Twain's story of the dear old ladies the river steamer, who said to the lad who came screaming fire" one night in the ladies' cabin, "All right, son-now go put on your pants and come and tell us all about it later?'
 The reds poor lot of fish They supposed to have tried to blow up J. P. Morgan when he was in Europe. If they know no more than that they stupid the common of crooks and should be considered as the rest of the morons. Certainly they should not be forced upon national goblins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
BOARDS WORK FOR ROADS

To the Editor of The Age Herald
 Certain parties seem to have grudge against he board of revenue, and are accusing them of wasting the public money.
 i. I have been interested in the public roads for 25 years, and wish to say that this board has more to show, in the way of real permanent inn provement on our roads in the way of repair ing roads that had been neglected before they went into office, putting in culverts opening many that were stopped, widening narrow roads, cutting off dangerous banks on curves, straight ening same and replacing wooden bridges with concrete than any other board of revenue.
 They have trucks hauling chert to not only repair roads, but have extended the chert roads and mended many places that were almost i'm possible in bad weather.
 Judging from what l see going on, they must have engineer and overseer who are suggest ing good Improvements and foremen who are have pair of road machines that are keeping many miles of both dirt and chert roads in good order which is hard to do with the fast-moving automobiles and the many heavy trucks loaded with three to five tons of coal, chert, lumber, and so on.
 Let them keep up their good work, and when their term is ended they will have a splendid have much trouble taking care of our roads Re spectfully, KARL G. DAILY.
 F. S.-I have no ax to grind. 1 am farmer and want road to haul over
 Irondale, January 30,, 1922
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
OF SAME OPINION AS NED BRACE

'"That was fine article Ned Brace had in Sundays Age-Herald about the recent ax mur- ders," said r. H. McDuff, chief of police His theory that the murders were committed by a negro maniac whose mania is for killing with a short-handed ax hits the nail on the head, in my opinion.
 "The comparisons he draws between the pres ent crimes in Birmingham and others in dif- ferent places by noted insane criminals is il- luminating.
 "As Ned Brace says, the crimes evidently re- suit from species of insanity or maniacal de- velopment in very low order of human, some one little above the ape in intelligence.
 'It is gratifying that he takes the broad possible to apprehend the murderer, and that there is nothing to crticise in the police detec tives for not discovering this blood-thirsty an- maj in negro form It is doubly gratifying when so many unjust criticisms being heaped on the police department because he has not been caught. As he says, his capture will be the re- suit of watchfulness.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY
 OF MERCY HOME

Mercy Home is 30 years old. Hundreds of the little waifs who have come under it's shel- tering during the three decades are useful citizens, good mothers, kind and prevalent fathers. The work goes on in the same unob- trusive manner. Once year the community contributes modest sum for it's maintenance. The home has never asked for large amount of money. It has way of achieving substan- tial results with minimum expense.
 Less than a dozen members of the Women's Christian Temperance union founded this in- stitution. They rented small cottage in the northern part of the city and employed matron at nominal salary. From the beginning it's outstanding feature has been .he number of children cared for with the money contributed. A wealth of love and disinterestedness has done what dollars and cents cannot do.
 Mrs. C. B. Spencer who with her late hus- band, came to Birmingham in it's early days, was first president of Mercy Home, and has been reelected to that office every year since Her associates are the same who began the work with her except for those who have died.
 Birmingham has the warmest regard for Mrs. Spencer and the other good women who have created and fostered Mercy Home. None have done more for Birmingham than they. They have made useful citizens out of children who otherwise would in all probability have become charges on the community. They have sal vaged human bodies and human souls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
WILSON FOUNDATION FAVORED

Tt certainly is inspiring to see the way the business men of Birmingham responding to the drive for the Woodrow Wilson fund.-" said Attorney Paul F. Burnett.
 Scarcely man of my acquaintance but who has either already subscribed or has sgnifed his intention of contributing to the fund It strikes me as particularly fitting that the American people should show their appreciation of prob ably the greatest President of our generation by giving him his due while he still lives
 q feel sure that those who believe in the ideals for which Mir. Wilson sacrificed his per sonal ambitions, and even his health, will re- spond generously when asked to contribute to the fund through the use of which the people ex- pect to express their admiration for the man as well as for the motives by which he was in- spired"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY


 The Southern Pacific lines advertise the Sunset Route with bits of history, as, for example, the brief story of the French ex- plorer, LaSalle, the first European to descend the Mississippi He raised the standards of France" says the advertisement Che named the region Louisiana; he made it inevitable that New Orleans should be French" As a matter of fact, however, LaSalle discovered the mouth of the Mississippi and then lost it that Louisiana was open to the first ad- venturer who found it again. It merely hap pened that French Canadian, Iberville, was the first in the quest in which several countries engaged, and even at that would not have se- cured the Mississippi for France but for the ruse of his brother, Bienville, who met the British corvette at what is known as the Eng fish Turn of the river and persuaded it's com mander to go away by telling him the French had already established a fort up the river, which was wholly untrue. New Orleans was founded thereafter by Bienville and it was French, but not inevitably. The river and whatever cities were built on its banks had hairbreadth escape from being English
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
JAIL IS DEPRESSING
From the San Francisco Chronicle.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
 An interior decorator, confined in our city prison, takes umbrage at the want of estheti- cism noticeable in the crude architecture and the depressing color scheme of the institution. He says the shabby gray walls may look all right to thick-skinned individuals devoid of any sense of the beautiful and harmonious in nature but that the effect is unutterably depressing to per sons of finer sensibilities.
 A frat blush one is inclined to smile at such stAt.snent. It might well furnish material for A, ged witticisms at the expense of this a8d ather prisoners, but after all isn't there Something ii what he says? Our ideas about prisons are undergoing radical changes We no lons ook pon them as places of torture We
 ign ga worthwhile suggestion even from prisoneA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
ANOTHER SCANDAL BARED
 IN MOVIE WORLD

As the second trial of Roscoe Arbuckle, for manslaughter, ended with the jury unable to agree on verdict, the newspapers of the coun- try were filled with accounts of new scandal in Hollywood. William Desmonde Taylor, noted motion picture director, was murdered in his home, shortly after he had been visited by one of the most celebrated of the film beauties.
 Fresh rumors of orgies in the motion picture colony are being discussed by the police of Los Angeles. There are stories of shocking de- bauches where drugs took the place of liquoi and women fought like wild beasts until their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04

Back in Jesse James day bandits had to go through an apprenticeship before they made their mark. Now they leap full-armed from the cradle.
 Maude Bambina Belmont may or may not be making her farewell appearance, but she has announced her engagement to a vaudeville actor.
 Another economic note. The headsman and executioner in Baden has struck because he can't chop off criminals heads at the current rate.
 President Harding has eliminated Senator Kenyon from the agrarian bloc without inn pairing it's aggressiveness.
 * seismograph would be handy thing if it would show bootleggers when dry agents are about to make raid "Chna for the Chinese is a good slogan, but the Japs may continue to pick up some choice bits here and there.
 < < A Philadelphia paragrapher says he thinks the Philadelphia joke the poorest of all. Most Phladelphians do.
 New York contrives to worry along somehow when Mayor Hylan goes to Florida in quest of sunshine.
 The cry of "Lynch himH was heard in Boston the other day. No, it isn't copyrighted by the south.
 < The Koo baby, born during the arms con ference, should be named "Agenda.'
  The vndcation of Mr. Arbuckle seems to have been postponed indefinitely.
 * X The groundhog is just about as reliable as the average political prophet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
THE POLAR QUEST

By Richard Burton
 Unconquerably, men venture the quest
 And seek ocean amplitude unsailed, Cold, virgin, awful. Scorning ease and rest,
 And needless of the heroes who have failed, They face the ice floes with dauntless zest The polar quest Life's offer to the strong
 To pass beyond the pale, to do and dare, Leaving name that stirs us like a song,
 And making captive some strange Otherwhere Though grim the conquest, and the labor long, - Forever courage kindles, faith moves forth To find the mystic floodway of the north.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
PERFECT PACKAGE" MONTH
 WAS A SUCCESS

campaign for safe packing of freight and express shipments was conducted last fall un- der the auspices of the American Railway as- sociation and the American Express company. eliminating in an effort to make November a Perfect Package month
 Results were most encouraging During No- vember the railroads handled 9,339, 745 freight shipments to which ,76O exceptions were filed by carriers for some error or defect in packing, marking registration. In the same period the express company handled 1891 1852 shipments, to which S1070 exceptions were filed for like defects. The record of freight and express shipments was 99 10 per cent per feet. The reports were made by 1,294 cities and compiled by corps of accountants in Chicago.
 This record is the result of just trifle more care That is the difference between un- safe packages entailing loss and delay and per feet packages arriving at their destination in good shape and without loss. Chambers of com merce, shippers, traffic clubs and the news- papers brought about the result. Such team work is wonderfully effective.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-04
UNSELFIsH SOULS

The experts tell us what to do
 If we'd prolong our lives, The kind of food we should consume,
 On which the body thrives. They know the way to make our wills
 Much stronger than before Of recipes for quick success
 They seem to have store But since they're blest with knowledge vast, Why don't these fellows press on To fortune, stead of teaching us
 At fifty cents per lesson?