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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-28


 cowards-''
 "or selfish fiends." Kitty added.
 Contrary to my expectations, Kitty said neevr a word as we rode home in the taxi, and still without speak ing except when absolutely neces- sary, she went to bed.
 1 had found a number of letters in my box and opened them with more interest than I had had recently in letters from home. l had told Eddie Montforth great deal of my new job and Theodore Stratton in my last letter and I wanted to know what he thought of it all. My girlhood lovers letter read:
 My Dear Virgie: The blow has fallen. It's just what I thought would happen. You have fallen in love with moving picture actor. ~ ''Oh, yes. I know you didn't tell me. but it was written between the lines.
 T have seen stratton on the screen. He looks almost old enough to be your father.
 Forgive me, Virgie, I do not in tend to be sarcastic, but I have loved you ever since l knew you to spell the word. and I want you to be happy.
 T am glad l am going out to Los Angeles, for I want to see that man with my own eyes. and then will tell you more.
 T am so glad you have a good part but. honestly. l am sorry that you got it through Stratton's inter- est in you, instead of your own worth"
 Eddies letter ended abruptly.
 Eddie, Eddie. you don't know that in this game everything goes by fla vor."
 I didn't know that I was talking out loud until I heard Kitty say, What are you talking about?"
 Eddie Montforth is coming out very soon, Kitty"
 You will have some little chance for diplomacy during that time. Vir- gie."
 Well. it is some time off and as Ria would say: It will be another day"
 By the way, did you get a letter from Ria, Virgie? l have just been reading the one she wrote me and she gives me the surprising news that she is still happy that Herb is an angel, and they are blissfully contented in Hawaii.
 Since l had learned the essence of the news from Gloria I left her let ter to me until the last
 Next l opened a thick one from Aunt Virginia. After telling me all the neighborhood gossip and the little affairs of the household, she wrote :. T have never known anyone to fail so rapidly, Virgie. as your grand father has since you left
 He never has mentioned your name but the other morning I fol- lowed him to the stables and found him with his arm around Streak's neck. l wonder if l have told you that he has never allowed your horse to be used by anyone on the place.
 The grooms take him out for ex- ercise and then take him back in the stable and that is all.
 He didn't see me, virgie because l knew 1t would hurt his pride, but he looked rather pitiful yes almost tragic with his withered old cheek against the blaze on your horses forehead
 The horse whinnied under his ca ress and. Virgie. don't think me fam ciful. but it seemed to me as though there was sadness in the sound.
 Your grandfather thought so. too l distinctly heard him say
 Yes. Streak. l know. know. You miss her. tool"
 Copyright, John F Dill Go.
 Tomorrow-yfrgfe's Problem.
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Hurriedly we found Bruce Wal ters and as we bade him goodnight Kitty remarked casually: T didn't know, Bruce. that you knew Julian Thorndyke.'
 q don't. One of the fellows brought him in. I think he told me he knew him when Thorndyke and you were together in vaudeville. Is that why you, are going home, Kitty?" Are you determined that The tender grace of day that Is dead shall never come back your"
 Not if I can help it, Bruce. But Tony Melville seems to have taken great shine to Julian. He is playing a dope fiend, you know"
 Bruce eyed Thorndyke through mar rowed lids and then murmured sen- tentiously: "He should do it we'll. Good night, Kitty. Awfully sorry the man is here. If you want me to, l will ask him to leave. I didn't in- vite him."
 "Oh, don't do that. I wouldn't have you do that for the world"
 What are you afraid of? He can't hurt you"
 You don't know him. Bruce"
 q know the general caliber of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-28
FOR GOOD OF
 THE COMMUNITY
Magnificent GalIi- Curci Audience Test of Bir- mingham-G Opera Next Week
 Will Be Another One

big Birmingham good place dgging
 secondrate fclass for the firsta Birmingham willing for the best It does pay.
 Almost summer yet the Jefferson packed Ga Cu Wednesday night Many turned account of in capacity My what audiences will be assembled here when there is housing for them
 Men look and hear the best nncve each soul there aspiration for the mi Men born with to achieve There are hadsp reach the northern and south poles Jungle fevers have been naught to the explorer
 of be compared with the marvellous fea of daring and dextey of today Domestic hundredfod under the of development through which carried by In 184s Lady Suffolk by Tacony 225 and by Flora Temple in 1856 in 22 In eo5 Lou Dillon did the mile in 1:58 Nothing history than the development of the otng horse Flora Temples today common as the Ford automobile
 Men and women are doing an injustice to themselves when they deny themselves the quality of appang the best should hesitate
 affirm that he does for good It is the with being curmudgeOn those who wish to be wel[rounded humans
 something the life of and who has never heard great singer great wons great pianist seen looked the front of stately cathedral gazed a mountain peak.
 successful Birmingham merchant his yard rustng their ud him sleep For such things this that they be bought the soul of attuning itself to the eternal spiritual
 something hearing GaC sing Education is prerequisite for realizing artists the and then makes something perfect sign of perfect believe
 community that above the jews harp jazz and the without knowing it.
  life when he fails the blatant of oun the bizarre the strong of odor
 Birmingham young will bigger minded business and citizens for having her; having the achieve through His handwork
 opera week will Birmingham will meet it.
 Yours for upbuidng,
 Rzol,rL A39y7k-.> 9y7kk.> zs5
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EOGARTY DIES

Albany, April 27.--(Special.)-News has been received here of the death in Cincinnati, O., of w. P. Fogarty, after an illness of several weeks. MT. Fogarty resided here for many years holding an important position with the American Oak Leather company At the time of his death he was as- sstant secretary of the company. MT. Fogarty was one of the heirs of the Mooney estate left by the death of the Cincinnati millionaire several years ago.
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DIG ACREAGE PLANTED

Prattville. April 27.-(S Especially Planting cotton is about complete, and judging from the most reliable sources there is planted the largest acreage in this county since 1914. The largest quantity of commercial fertilizers that has been sold in sev- eral years is noted for the present year. The acreage planted in corn is rather small. Corn is up to a stand in most cases, and quite num- Der of farmers have given it the first blowing. The oat crop Is the most promising for several years On account of the larger acreage planted last fall. If it rains in time the yield will be good
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sunnr INTO CAR

Decatur. April 7.-tspecial.)-Au- thorfties are seeking the identity of persons who fired a bullet through the windshield of an automobile driven on the Bee Line Highway ty Charles B. Galloway several days ago. Mir Galloway did not hear the shot, but the bullet struck the windshield, tearing a big hole 1t is believed she shot was fired by a hunter.
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CLAIMS sELF-pEFENsE

Florence. April 27.-(Specia1.l-- Arthur weakley, colored, who shot and almost instantly killed his wife, Ella Weakley, at their home in North Florence on Sunday, April 16, has surrendered to the police and has been placed in the Lauderdale county jail Weakley claims that ne shot the woman in self defense. that she Lad pistol and was trying to shoot him when he succeeded in taking it away from her, after which he emptied the contents of five bullets in her body
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sAPIRO TO SPEAK

FIorence, April Z7.-(SpeciaI)-Th Lauderdale county farm bureau has announced that Aaron Saplro of Cal ifornia, one of the greatest author ities in the United States on CO., operative marketing. will be a visitor to Florence on Sunday. May T. The Princess theatre has been secured for the occasion and he will prob ably speak to the, people here on the 100000 bale cotton pool that Is now being formed in this state.
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HAMILTON ORATOR AT
 MEMORIAL EXERCISES

Greenville. April 27.-tspecial)- Claude E. Hamilton Jr. was the orator at the Confederate Memorial exercises at the Greenville opera house Wednesday, Mir Hamilton is a promising young attorney Of this city and is young man of deep thought. and his address was most eloquent
 The veterans and many of the members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy occupied seats of honor on the stage which was arts- tically decorated in cut flowers and flags bearings the bars and stars.
 Prof. R. L. Marchman of the city schools was master of ceremonies.
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CHICKENS ARE LESS
 VALUABLE THAN EGGS

Washington, April 27.-(Special.)- )- While 1t is still mooted question as to which "came" first the chicken or the egg, there is no longer a doubt but that the egg is the more valuable.
 The department of agriculture, in figures just made public, cite the value of poultry produced in 1921 by farmers of the United States at s4Ol.- 900, 900. and the value of eggs at s542, 1000. OOO
 Poultry and egg production at tained a value of s200, ,o0O, 900 in ex- cess of the value of the cotton crop in the southern states.
 In the same statement of the de- partment, the value of dairy products in 1921 was given at LOGO, 900 in comparison with the 1920 value of $3.025. .0O0,0 ,00o.
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THREE

years he has been interested in coal mining operations in Alabama.
 Surviving, besides his wife, are the following brothers and sisters; W. B. Reynolds. Montevallo Harry Rey- holds and Dr. Fred Reynolds, Bir- mingham. Mrs. F. W. Rogan and Mrs. Bessie Brown. Montevallo; Mrs. Henry White, Alexander City.
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PREPARE sC.HooL ANNUAL.

Greenville, April )-- The students of the Greenville High school have almost completed their contracts for the publication of their annual. The official staff of the pub lication have been busy during the past week, soliciting subscribers and advertising as well as preparing the copy for the book.
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RrVIyALIN PROCREss

Florence. April Especially )-Tae Han Ramsay union revival which be- gan here on Sunday, April 2, will con tinue during the remainder of this week and all of next week. largo number of converts have been re- ceived into the membership of the various Protestant churches of the city since the revival began.
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TO ENTERTAIN ENGINEERS

Florence, April 27-(Special)-A committee of the Chamber of Com merce has been appointed to arrange for the entertainment of 50 members of the American Society of Mechdn teal Engineers. who will come here from Atlanta on May lS to see Mus cle Shoals.
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MEMORIAL EXERCISES

Troy, April Especially morial exercises were appropriately celebrated here Wednesday with services at the Methodist church. The principal address was delivered by Dr. c. B. Arendall. pastor of the First Baptist church in a masterly manner. After the exercises at the church the cemeteries were visited and all of the graves of veterans or the wars were decorated with flow CTS.
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STARLIGHT s T
nen who take dope and they are a
LETTERS FROM HOME
By IDAH MGLoNE GIBSON

rilng Experience of Virginia Fairfax in the Movies
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COURT OFFICIALS
ALMOST IN RIOT
Police Called In to Keep the
Peace as Justices and
ConstabIes Meet
OFFICERS ARE 0USTED

A police guard was necessary to Keep
the peace at meeting Of the Magls-
trates, Justices and Constables' Asso-
citation of New Jersey and Pcnnsyl-
vania last night in Camden at the
Offices of Maurice Praissman, J37 Arch
street, when all the officers and two
newly appointed members of the Board
of Directors were ousted.
Though there are more than 300
members in the association. only
twenty six attended the meeting. which
threatened to become riot at any
time. Threats of bodily harm and jail
for each other passed back and forth
between the representatives Of the fac
tions present.
The officers ousted we're +. A. Bur
dick, Of Hammonton, president. s. NJ.
Hunt. former Mayor of Pennsgrove,
secretary and treasurer 4. Il. House
worth, former chief of police of prnns-
grove, chairman Board Of Directors.
Burdick and William Gregory were the
directors who were ousted In their
place George J. Christensen, Newark,
was elected president. Justice Of the
Peace w. c. Reeves, Camden, vice
president; Justice Clarence Caprwell,
Gloucester City. secretary; Magistrate
Mary Freed, Atlantic City. treasurer :;
Constable Harry Freed. Atlantic City,
chairman Legislative Committee Mag
istrate +. c. Scullon, Philadelphia,
chairman Advisory Board; David NJ.
Green, Philadelphia, financial secre-
tary. and Detective Ernest Gordy.
Camden, and Colstabl' james Bent
ley, Atlantic City, sergeant Of arms.
The reason given by Mr.. Christensen
for ousting Messrs. Gregory and Bur
dick was the illegality of their election
at session in Atlantic City. The
laws of the association call for an elec =
tion in Camden before ) o'clock on the
day of the meeting. The two men
were elected at o o'clock in the evening
In Atlantic City.
Mr.. Green then charged Messrs.
Burdick. Hunt and Houseworth with
receiving money illegally for services
which they did not render. For this
they were not only Oustcd from office,
but We're suspended as members and
cited to show cause before December
2S why they should not be expelled.
Further charges against Burdick and
Hunt We're of using the funds of the
association for their own benefit. An
official court record was produced by
Constable Freed. of Atlantic City,
who asserted that Mr.. Burdick had been
indicted for grand larceny in the At
lantic County courts in 1921.
The ousted officers. who We're or
hand with o. p. Dewitt. their at
torney, protested the meeting, declarn!
they had received no notice of 1t. NJ
attention was paid to their protest. Mr.
Christensen acted rs chairman, Wit
Justice Capewell as secretary. Th'
newly elected officers made known thci
intention to appeal to the courts t
force Mr.. Hunt to turn yer the fund
of the association to the new treasurer
Burdick, the oustcd president. Sec
setary Hunt and Chairman Houscwortl
at the close of the meeting declared i
illegal.
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the prison ut Holmesburg It is blot on

the prison at EIolmesburg, It is blot on
this community.
"The human touch should enter into
all phases of life. If person is un-
fortunate enough to violate the law
and is sent to prison, that person
should be helped. 1t is the duty Of
every PUBLIC official and it is the duty
of every citizen. to extend hand to
unfit these unfortunates. 1t is not
humane to cast person into a cham
Der of four walls of stone and deny
him the right to see even the sun.
"Confining prisoners in solitary
idlcness nakes them despise man.
kind. 1t should be the function Of
every one to help those unfortunate
enough to be sent to prison. To deny
c convict the right to speak to his
fellow being is an net of barbarism.
Charles J. Pommer. who represents
Council from the first district. and who
was connected with the District At
torney's Office fourteen years. was
shocked by the disclosures of condi-
tions existing in the County Prison.
"If any one believes that solitary con-
fnement and foodless hours for talking
or smoking are good methods of punish
ment in penal institution, fail to see
it," said Mr.. Pommer. 81 think that
| u HtIpiiS De tAltuutu "
those who fall. Locking man in n
cell and subjecting him to treatment
that was once popular in Siberia tends
TO create viciousness.
Smoking and chewing is a habit.
! Taking away this habit from a person
who must go to prison for violating
the law is another act that savors Of
the barbaric. Nothing can be gained
by subjecting these unfortunates to such
restrictions.
"If they show they want to start
life again in the right path, give them
chance. Picture the bright side of life
to the convicts and assure them that
there is chance of redemption. l
heartily favor a change in the rules"
Alexis Limeburner, another member
Of Council. was quite outspoken in his
dcnunciation of rules that deny to a
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in the country, restricted to, say, loOO ~.
inmates. with proper shop taciltie,s
where these law w-brenkers could WORK
and help to earn the cost OF their
keep"
Commenting on the subject OF prison
life which has been the object OF many
years Of observations and study at penal
institutions and insane asylums, ~;
Alfred Carbon, neurolOgist, OF lelS
Spruce street, said:
''The nature of the human being is
an instinct to spend his life associat
ing with other humans. Suddenly TIC
is cut of from all his habits and re-
lations with his fellow men, and there
is a cessation Of expressing OF feelings
and of all impressions which are the
foundations Of life. .
The consequence of the cutting on
of all these elements through solitary
confinement is that he must find issue
for these elements within himself. And
he is bound gradually to develop SELF
analysis and to abandon himself to tins
self-analysis. All the former impress
sions, sensations, emotions and affcc,,
tivity force themselves for an outward
expresaion
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Certainly it is contrary to the idea
of what prison confinement is meant to
be. A prison sentence is not an act
of revenge on the part of the Common
wealth or municipality, but imposed as
a corrective measure to compel the con-
victed individual to analyzc his in.
fringement of the law will, a view OF
mending his ways"
Solitary confinement was originated
by the Friends in the early part of
the Nineteenth Century, according TO
DIR. Charles w. Burr. 0f 1915. Spruce
street, with the opening of the first
Cherry Hill Prison, which was visited
not long after by Charles Dickens.
''The object in introducing this cx-
treme form of, punishment DR.. Burr
explained, was really humanitarian
in that 1t was intended to. separate
the incidental offender from the vicious
and incorrigible. type Of criminal, ana
make him mediate upon his wrong
dcings, in the hope that he would
reform. However, it did not work out
as intended, and. of course. the use
of it today is equally wrong, as it
involves the risk of impairing the men,
tality and health of the prisoner.
All Prisoners Should Work
"a man should work and produce
even if deprived Of his personal liberty,
and certainly all prisoners ought to
work The majority of them are not
mentally fit for any substantial wage
earning, yet their production might
be brought up to point where 1t would
yield fifty per cent of the cost of their
keep. 1 would suggest to segregate
all incorrgible prison inmates and SEN
tcnce them to live for life on farms
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may develop a mental disorder from
which he may never recover.
"It is common experience to observe
that depressing influences Of whatever
origin they may be are powerful ex'
citing factors for mental arrangement.
''On the other hand, II punishment
should be inflicted, the removal of such
an individual from society to a prison
is a sufficiently painful punishment for
any criminal, because nature arranged
social life for him which is now to-
tally cut off.
Discussing further the subject Of
penal institutions, we should bear in
mind exclusively n corrective principle,
no that when the criminal is put at
liberty the community should make a
gain rather than a loss. A Jail should
discharge prisoners when the term is
over with a corrected, healthy, useful
life and with new points Of view, which
would be benefit to the prisoner as
we'll as to the community The latter
can be accomplished only in one way
by combining the incarceration with an
effort to build up the delinquent indi,
vidual in physical. moral and mental
way"
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Bad Tendencies Intensified

''If through Inheritance or througl,,
bad environment the man has developed
into an individual with bad tendencies,
the latter will be intensified. and thus
he is compelled to develop more vicious
feeling and desires than heretofore. BE-
sides. IL there is an element OF nervous
or mental inheritance or disorder, the
solitary confinement for these reasons
will lead to intensifcation of those
morbid elements and such an individual
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convict the right to talk to others and
also of the rule that places n man in
stone cell.
ITS all wrong" said Mr.. Lime
burner. what good is to be accom-
plished by placing IA convict in a cell
to stay there in solitary idleness? Give
him sunshine and give him something to
occupy his mind. If work cannot be
found for these men, let them do some-
thing that will prevent them from brood.
ing in their cells. Surely no reforma-
ton can be looked for with such treat
ment as is reported to be in vogue in
the County Prison
Richard Waglein. president of Coun-
ell, said he did not feel at liberty to
express any opinion concerning the al
legged treatment of prisoners in the
county prisons. because he had no per-
sonal knowledge that such conditions
really existed there
81 know the Board of Inspectors is
composed Of honorable gentlemen he
said. 'and ii would be unfair for me
to criticize any of their doings before I
have personal knowledge Of affairs. l
might say that I do not believe that
solitary confinement is n good thing, nor
do | think that the use Of tobacco in a
moderate way should be forbidden.
Effect Of Confinement on the Mind
Solitary confinement, which is the
rule at Holmcsburg, almost certainly
will affect the mind of the prisoner, or
will intensity his vicious and criminal
tendencies, alenists and brain specialists
say.
Refraining from extensive details of
the probable effects on prisoner given
solitary confinement os tho most OK =
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Hall Resents Hint
OF Council Tightness
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what was considered an unwarranted
increase of salaries to the keepers and
other attaches. which had been given
by the Board Of Prison Inspectors.
"The board wanted to increase the
pay of the Keepers to $500 instead of
the $500 they were getting, and we
refused to appropriate the money be-
cause we knew that the keepers In the
county prisons were better paid than
the keepers in the Eastern Peniten.
tiary.'
Increases Made by Board
Taking down a book covering the
appropriation for city departments and
institutions for 1914, MIR. Hall
brought to light number of substar-
tial increases made by the Board Of
Inspectors.
I'm 1914 Superintendent Cooke. Of
the county prisons, was paid $4,000 a
year with his found" said Mr.. Hall.
To-day his salary is S6500 and found
Tho assistant superintendent, who got
$4,000 year in 1914, now gets $4,000
and the board wanted to raise his sal
ary to $3.50, but We stopped 1t. Tn,
clerk to the Board of Inspectors. who's,
salary in 1914 was S2100 and who now
is getting $4,000. wants $4,000, but he
won't get it. Then we can so all tn,
way down the line and compare the
salaries of other officials and mechanic,
employed By the Board of Inspectors
In some instances their salaries hav,
almost doubled ard they want more.
This is why Council cut its ap.
preparation. Council objected to un.
warranted increases in salaries, not tC
any request that would mean more fooC
! for the prisoners.
"If conditions exist as reported, ir