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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
NOTORIOUS FILM IS BARRED
 BY TEXAS MAYOR

The Houston Post praises Mayor Holcombe for his wholesome and judicious exercise of the power of censorship" in refusing to per- exhibited in Houston.
 No excuse be offered for showing such . film, except the sordid desire to capitalize the scandal which cost Jake Hamon his life and made Miss Hamon notorious. To say that such picture teaches "great moral lesson" is stuff and nonsense. Nobody ever goes to see a photoplay of that sort for any other reason than to satisfy prurient curiosity
 Although some of the larger producers were said to have opposed the filming of play based on the Hamon murder, neverthe- less it was made, and is now being hawked about the country. That it is meeting with a cold reception is creditable to the motion pic- ture managers who refuse to show it and city authorities who will not allow it to be shown.
 When the announcement was first made that Miss Hamon would try to capitalize her notoriety, large motion picture concern with theatres in Birmingham and other southern cities, stated that the picturae would not be exhibited in any of it's houses, decision for which the company was widely commended.
 There is little likelihood that the Hamon pie ture will ever make it's appearance in Bir- ningham, where all the motion picture inter- ests are cooperating to give their patrons clean, high-class films.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
HOW COLLEGES KEEP GOING

From "A New Power in University Affairs"
 by Wilfred Shaw, in Scrbner's.
 How have our educational institutions man aged to keep up, even measurably, as they have, with the demand for the new libraries, laboratories, recitation halls and dormtories necessitated by our all-inclusive educational program? And, even more, how have they done it, when the students demanding these facilities have been increasing at such a con- stantly accelerating ratio?
 The answer is rather obvious-through the support of their former students. Gifts, of course, have come from other sources, par ticularly in the case of the endowed institu- tions; but, either directly or indirectly, it is from the graduates for the most part that the money is coming. With the state universities this support, at present, may be less evident; but it will be forthcoming tomorrow. Mean while, their alumni are active in securing the legislative appropriations that support the 1n- stitutions, appropriations which, if capitalized, would in many cases far surpass the resources of even the wealthiest of the endowed univer- sities.
 This means that the alumni are now part of the university body. Not so many years ago, when used this phrase, we implied the trustees, and possibly the faculty, in a rather close and sef-satisfied corporation. Sometimes very literal interpretation incldded the stu dents third element in the academic fel- lowship; though their position was ill-defined and uncertain. But of late years the alumni are insisting, and insisting effectively, that they, too, a part of the university Not content with words, for such statement of his relationship to his alma mater probably would not occur to the average graduate they are acting, and acting so effectively, and with such ample cash reserves, that their new status cannot be denied them. However we may feel about it, the alumni are in university affairs as they have never been before-and they are there to stay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
A BIT OF HYPNOTIC ILLUSION

From Black Magic of Mongolia by Ferdi-
 nand Ossendowski, Rendered Into English
 by Lewis Stanton Palen, in Asia Magazine
 for July
 Without the walls of the Mongolan yurta the wind whistled and drove the frozen snow sharply against the stretched felt. Through the roar of the wind came the sound of many voices in mingled shouting, wailing and laugh ter. I felt that in such surroundings it would not be difficult to dumfound wandering ne- mad with miracles. This thought had scarcely time to flash through my mind before Tushe- goun Lama suddenly raised his head, looked sharply at me and said "There is very much unknown in nature and skill in using the un- known produces the miracle; but the power is given to few. I want to prove it to you.
 He stood up, pushed back his sleeves, seized his knife and strode across to the shepherd. "Michik stand upl" he ordered.
 When the shepherd had risen, the Lama quickly unbuttoned the mans coat and barred his chest. Suddenly the Tushegoun with all his force struck his knife into the shepherds chest. The Mongol fell, all covered with blood, a splash of which noticed on the yellow silk of the Lama's coat.
 "What have you done?" exclaimed.
 "Be still, he whispered.
 With few strokes of the knife, he opened the Mongols chest. No more blood appeared to flow, and the face of the shepherd was quite calm. He was lying with his eyes closed and appeared to be in deep and quiet sleep. As the Lama began to open his abdomen, I shut my eyes in fear and horror. When I opened them little later, was still more astonished at seeing the shepherd with his coat still open and his breast normal quietly sleeping on his side, and Tushegoun Lama sitting peacefully by the brazier, smoking his pipe and looking into the fire in deep thought.
 Tt is wonderfully I confessed. q have never seen anything like it!'
 About what you speaking?" asked the Lama.
 About your demonstration miracle us you call it, I answered.
 "I never said anything like that" he replied coldly.
 Afterwards he added: What has happened to you this evening is futile demonstration You Europeans will not recognize that we dark.minded nomads possess the powers of mysterious science. If you could only see the miracles and power of the Most Holy Tashi Lama, when at his command the lamps and candles before the ancient statue of Buddha light themselves and when the images of the gods begin to speak and prophesy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
IE TIERS TO EDITOR
lIoLD ELECTIONS BY MAIL
Editor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald: y
 4 sw hundred votes are miscounted at an election, and there is an outcry. A half million reg 5ered voters fail to record their prefer ence and there is scarcely groan. Which evil defeats more the ends of good government?
 In large cities, as q rule, only half the eligible citizens are even registered. Therefore, in im- portant municipal elections sometimes only one tenth the eligibles vote The average citizen likes to vote, is proud to vote Then, why don't the total elgbes register and vote in each election? The polling place is the trouble ''too much trouble" Voting should be pleas ure, not task
 The success in some states of "absent voting'' by mail, in spite of it's obstructive formula, may have helped inspire the recent spurt of in- terest in "entire elections by mail" But it's real impetus will be found in two very diver gent sources: CD Enfranchised women's dislike of the polling place; (2) exasperated 'wets" casting about for a referendum medium
 There is much in favor of scientific mail method, It would make voting pleasant home affair, with no loss of work or time, weather of no account, and election costs cut in half. More effectively than compulsory voting it would bring into action the total eligibles and thus "bury' evil candidates and all likely frauds. RUSSELL THOMPSON. : Chicago, 1o4 West Monroe street, June 29,
 1922
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03

 A United States of China modelled after the United States of America, would be step in the right direction, if the Chinese politicians could be persuaded to use ballots instead of bullets.
 A Pennsylvania justice of th peace classi- fies buflfrogs as fish, He has probably heard a bullfrog with fellow bass vo ,e singing, "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep"
 x < Bostons most famous pajama party IS thought to have cost some of the gentlemen present large sum of "hush money" (Note: Gentlemen" is used sarcastically.) Dr. Johnson, poet reminds us, never saw picture show. His remarks ,ha' he seen o4e, as faithfully chronicled by Jimmmy Bos- well, would have been well worth reading.
 x The Lemp brewery sold for fraction of its value. Vets are pointing to this an another example of the horrors of prohibition.
  The lawyer who is on the pay roll of crooks organization is no better Ian his clients.
 Judge Taft, say the commentators, is easily recognized in London. Like one of the large buildings, eh?
 \ MT. Dempsey plans to meet Harry Wills a year hence. Mir. Dempsey should consider that in pugilistic sense he is aging rapidly.
  The prospect of having a woman in the United States Senate is not as alarming as it used to be, except to few graybeards
 V The Boston Transcript makes Lincoln na- tive of Illinois. If Homer nodded, why shouldn't Boston?
  Americans who go to Mexico might save time by taking along enough money to buy off bandits.
 The fear that Henry Ford may become Pres ident of the United States is not the kind we need lose any sleep over.
 Y < Trotzky takes exercise regularly to keep :. self fit. Fit for what? Blood letting seems to be the only cure for the evils that afflict Ireland.
  DeVa.era has fallen from his high estate to the leadership of pack of brawlers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 The glad hand grasps the jackpot
 He who never ventures will never cross the sea.
 Love that springs from heaven sweeps men back there
 In the land of the free the real estate owner has to pay taxes on it.
 The lights of the world do not invite the world to watch their smoke.
 There are two essentials to woman's sue cess-tact and charming manners.
 Maybe charity doesn't begin at home be- cause the size of the job appalls it.
 Being pleased with yourself is condition of mind not intended for dress parade.
 It is hard to strike match in the dark when you don't know just where you left the box.
 This may be Just world, but we claim too much attention is showered on tAa girl graduate and too little on the woman vao has to cook in hot weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
BOCCACCIO'S BONES
From the New York Times.

G4Olh lLlS 4NeW OK Times.
 Enough credulity, helped by the wish which is so often the father of belief as we'll as of the thought, will enable almost anybody to ac- cept as true the statement that certain bones recently removed to Florence from house ill Certaldo are those of Boccacco. That they are not his bones cannot be proved, and It would be ungracious to dwell too strongly on the fact that the only evidence, seemingly of their authenticity is the finding of them in house once occupied by the fourteenth cen tury story-teller-to give him only one of sev- eral well-earned characterizations
 Of course, men rarely leave their bones in their houses, but almost anything could hap pen in Italy and in that century, and Boc- caccio did have strain of originality, though after the fashion of his time-and of long after-he put no credit marks on his uiag- ings from the works of his predecessors. Pla- giarism was no crime then; writers habitually took what they wanted wherever it could De found, and they acknowledged their debts only when the acknowledgment gave added value to the literary loot. Nobody minded what everybody did.
 If the finding of his expectations bones creates enough interest in Boccaccio co cause the diffusion of some real knowledge of him in circles where it now is sadly lack ing, his deeply wronged shade will rejoice, for it must have grieved over the wide acceptance of the belief that he was a specialist in inl- propriety. The truth is that, as writers went then, he was notably delicate-almost prinn- and he has acquired his reputation for naughti- ness simply because most of his stories could be read in later days by decent people with no great shock to their taste and sensibilities, while those told by most of his contemporaries were Impossible" and therefore soon passed into oblivion except for the scholarly and im- mune-who said nothing about them.
 The delusion that Boccaccio is indecent will be dispelled promptly by anybody who dips into the theological controversy of his age and finds out what good and pious men then could and did write about each other, in quarrels that now seem to have been about less than nothing at a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
FISH BITE AT EAST LAKE

"The others may go to Warrior river and other points to fish," but old East Lake is good enough for me-" said D. E. McLendon.
 q like to get boat, go out to shady spot on the other side of the lake from the park and there dangle my line and haul in the fish
 sometimes. And there are good fish caught there, too. I go often and as it is only a short distance from my home it is convenient and favorable. Of course, the people out there see what I really catch and it gives me no opportunity to boast of the size and number of my string, but then, there's lots of sport in angling out there.2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
MAN THE HAUNTED
From Leslie's Weekly.


 Consideration of verdicts in murder trials where women are involved the country over indicates something amiss with the present system. It needs codfying and simplifying. Starting from the basic proposition, exempli- fled in scores of instances from Maine to Cali fornia and once more reaffirmed in the Stone trial, that no woman of reasonable attractions and with money enough to hire tear-compei- ling lawyer, need fear conviction for killing man by whatever method she finds most con, venient, it follows that the subsequent proceed should be freed of cumbersome and ex- pensive details. A sliding scale of fines might well be worked out, ranging from say $10 in the of baby blondes under 25 to as high as $1,000 for severe brunettes up to the age of 50. Above that limit murderesses should perhaps be imprisoned, although it is unsafe to generalize in these days of cosmetic re- juvenation when anybody's grandmamma in full war paint may look like the far end of the chorus On the other hand there are the men to be considered. Other game is protected at certain seasons and unless man is to be re- garded as purely a varmint and a creature of prey (which seems to be the accepted view of the typical woman obsessed juror) he ought to have chance for his life. Nobody really wants him to become wholly extinct. How would it do to declare closed season on males the first three weeks of every month, and let them take to the woods for the odd week? The suggestion is respectfully submitted to Con- gress as possible relief to it's bonus tariff and international troubles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
INCREASE MEMBERSHIP

'The Young Mems Bible class of the South side Baptist church started it's novel base ball league yesterday" said A. L. Smith.
 "It is not real baseball, but simply novel method to increase interest in drive for new members. The members are divided into six teams and there are three games each Sun day. We have the Chicks, Braves, Yankees, Senators, White Sox and the Barons, The league opening went off with a rush and promises to be a great success It will run for several months when it is planned to have an addition of scores of new members ,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
HARRINGTON SOUNDS A WARNING

from the MoDlle Register.
 Frank Harrington, president of the Illinois division of the United Mine Workers, has sent warning to his membership that "the cause depending upon violence is liost," and urges them to refrain from any such action. He points out that already much sympathy has been alienated from the mine strike by vio- lent deeds, and without public approval and sympathy it will be impossible to achieve sue cess. It is a great pity MT. Harrington did not exhibit more interest in maintaining peace and order before the record was made at Herrin, H.; that John Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, did not think a bit before he sent that celebrated telegram of his which is said to have touched off the trouble.
 The record of the mine workers in the United States has been one of turmoil and tur- bulence. Twice in Alabama they have tried their tactics of terrorism, and were driven out each time. They alienated public sympathy by violence, both verbal and otherwise. The public regards this group with distrust. There are good men in the organization, but it seems that the organization cannot control it's worst elements, and therefore is given public recog- milton according to the record made by these unruy and violent ones. It is time for the United Mine Workers to clean house. and adopt course more in harmony with the principles and thought of this day and age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
SENATORS TACKLE THE FLAppER


 Precisely what bearing the duty on ferro- manganese has on the dress of the frivolous flapper might be explained by rletaphysi- clan turned tariff expert. But discussion of the giddy girls scanty raiment in compari- son with the voluminous draperies of her grandmother was sufficient to awake the drowsy Senate from slumberous nattention to the droning debate on the Fordney-M -McCum- Der bill.
 Philosophy benefited by the sartoral in- terlude by reason of Senator Underwood's DOT tentious explanation that the wicked tariff has forced the flapper to reduce her dress to the proportions of pocket handkerchief. Sociolo- gists and moralists who have been theorizing on the significance of the flapper need puzzle themselves no longer. She is living, breath ing, sprightly, mischevous, provocative dem onstration of the protective principle.
 One who believes like Senator Underwod in the incalculable superiority of the good old days of our grandfathers and grandmothers may be stony-hearted enough to look upon her as horrible example. As against this Jaundced view is the McCumber vision of her as rare blossom in a beautiful flower gar den. 1r she has been cultivated by the tariff, then in his opinion we should thank heaven for the tariff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
FAILURE
Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript. In fog and chill the morning bids him wake And seek the road to noontide's dust and
 blaze
 Along what dry, hot curves of crowded ways Or through what loneliness of bog and brake On, on he plods. Those noun tsins he would
 make
 Which. blue and distant, char hyrm of
 praise
 Written by Silence to the Lord of Baps From whom all things both life and deatA must
 take The shadows lengthen and are lost n leht- Leaving the plain the pilgrim climbs the haigh. And almost treads the starlit, loftiest cees., But look! He sinks down, blind, oersgesr ed, Yet. one hour more,. his eyes would have en By the first roseate messengers of Dawa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
LEADERSHIP AND THE NEXT HOUSE


 LEADERSHIP AND THE NEXT HOUSE From the Washington Star.
 The next House if republican will show changes in leadership; and the field of spec ulation is wide.
 MT. Mondell is candidate for the Senate, and therefore will not be a member of the floor leadership. Will he be western, or east ern, or middle country? MT. Mondell was not i, chosen on sectional grounds, but because of his long service in the House and the ability he had shown. Will his successor be chosen on similar grounds?
 MT. Fordney announces retirement from congressional life. A quarter century of serv- ice in the House fills his ambition in that quarter. A new chairman of ways and means will be due. Will he be chosen by the rule of seniority, or in a contest governed largely by special fitness for the post or somewhat by party considerations in general? The post is important, and, regardless of what may be the result of the existing tariff contest, the man who presides over ways and means in the next House will probably preside over an- other contest for tariff revision.
 MT. Gillette for another term in the speak ership would seem to fit in with another re- publican House. He has filled the office well; and third term would be suitable reward for the two terms that have given satisfaction on both sides of the chamber.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
FIGHTING IN THE SENATE
From the Baltimore American.

From the Baltimore Amer1can.
 The fighting championship of the United States Senate ought to be decided. We do not know who would emerge the winner in con test of elimination, do we suppose very man ypeople have betting favorite but for me sake of the Senate itself this grave question should not remain longer in doubt. Senator Watson of Georgia holds the challenge record to date, being closely pursued by Senator Robinson of Arkansas. MT. Watson has blithely offered to beat up Senator Lenroot and a couple of others and MT. Robinson entered the lists against the ascetic-looking MT. Nc Cumber. Senator King courageously stood be- tween Senators Robinson and McCumber. and Senator Poindexter, apparently emboldened by Senator Kings example, clinched with MT. Mo Cumber and halted his forward march. MT. Jack Dempsey, who is known as "the Utah Mauler," will read with pride and pleasure of Mr. Kings part in this encounter, for it may be assumed that the latter would have clinched with McCumber if Poindexter had not "beat him to it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
CLUB PLANS BIG THINGS

"The newly organized Travellers club has many things planned, all of which will pat the club to the front in civic york;" said Charlie Abrams.
 "The annual baseball game for the benefit of tubercular patients, community chest, a working on things pertaining to education and other things of like interest are some of the things that are putting the Travellers club where it belongs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
STRONG IN HENRY

From the AbbeVlIIe Herald.
 MT. Walter F. Miller of Tuscumbia Colbert county, and candidate for secretary of state in the democratic primary on August 8, was a visitor to Abbeville yesterday.
 MT. Miller made most favorable impress sion on our people and he will receive strong vote in Henry county in August. He is splendid young man, fully competent for the position he seeks and we unhesitatingly rec ommend him to the. voters of Henry county as a man entirely worthy of their confidence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
GOOD BIBLE CLASS MEMBERSHIP

q have never seen a Sunday school grow like that of the Baptist church at Jasper said Judge Charles M. Sartain of the federal prohibition office.
 "The Jasper Sunday school is drawing out an attendance of more than 500 each Sunday, more than 200 of the membership being men, which appears to me to be a record for any town of equal size in the state to attempt to pass."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
HOME OF BUILDING AND LOANS

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 The first building and loan institution was organized in Philadelphia in 1881, and Phila- depha is today the greatest and wealthiest building association city in the United States. There are 2,200 in Philadelphia, with assets of upward of $35,000,000 and over 75O,O00 members. These associations were helpful in completing the purchase of close to 75,000 properties in Philadelphia last year alone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-03
BANKING RECORDS POINT
 TO PROSPERITY

Two successive banking months have made new high records in Birmingham's financial prosress. Bank clearings in May were the bet of any May in the history of the clear