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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
LETTERS TO EDITOR
PREVENTING CROSSING ACCIDENT.

To the Editor of The Age-Herad:
 I notice in the morning paper of August IT, under head of Prevent Crossing Accidents,7 a suggestion offered as a precauton against accidents.
 One of the best preventatives for crossing ac- cidents I have ever seen was in Memphis a few days ago. They have constructed rise or bumper in the road just before you reach the crossing, which necessitates the driver slowing up to pass over this rise, and at the same time calls his attention to the approach of trains, and understand has practically eliminated railroad crossing accidents there. Yours very truly, T. R. MARTIN.
 Birmingham, August IT., 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 Necessity is the foster parent of some queer ideas.
 A threat of tar and feathers is enough to make a man fly.
 bachelor is a pair of scissors with one blade missing.
 Why is a woman always younger than man born on the same day?
 Horseshoes bring good luc xiii they happen to be on the foot of the winner.
 The man who makes hay while the sun shines seldom gets a sunstroke
 Sometimes woman dubs man woman hater just because he does not admire her.
 There's nothing longer than the summer days to the girl who is to be married in the fall.
 If you see young man out riding with girl and but one of his arms is visible the other is around somewhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
OLD POETS

By Joyce Kilmer. If should live in forest
 And sleep beneath tree, No grove of impudent saplings
 Would make home for me. I'd go where the old oaks gather,
 Serene and good and strong, And they would not sigh and tremble
 And vex me with song. The pleasantest sort of poet
 Is the poet who's old and wise, With an old white beard and wrinkles
 About his kind old eyes. For these young flippertagbbets A-rhyming their hours away, They won't be still like honest men
 And listen to what you say. The young poet screams forever
 About his sex and his soul; But the old man listens, and smokes his pipe, And polishes it's bowl There should be club for poets
 Who have come to seventy year. 1. They should sit in great hall drinking
 Red wine and golden beer They would shuffle in of an evening,
 Each one to his accustomed seat, And there would be mellow talking
 And silence rich and sweet. There is no peace to be taken
 With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought And the songs that must be sung. But the old man knows that he's in his chair And that Gods on His throne in rhs sky, So he sits by the fire in comfort
 And lets the world spin by.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
A FELLOW FEELING

Sam Twobble was a gentle soul His temper seldom lost, Not even when he suffered wrongs, By tricksters double-crossed. He truly loved his fellow man,
 And yet, we've heard him curse With fierce intensity the bards
 Who perpetrate free verse. "Morons," ''imbeciles" and "fools"
 Were terms that he applied When in a freakish magazine
 This kind of stuff he spied. We listened with a raptured air
 And did not say him nay; And gladly will we tell the world
 We feel the selfsame way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
KNOCK WOOD"
From the Indianapolis News.

The phrase 'knock wood' comes from an old Danish myth. Here is the authentic origin: According to Danish tradition, when- ever an old Danish sea captain was about to start on long journey in his wooden vessel, he would tap on the side of his ship and stand silently by. It was superstition that the elves of the forest would come out to bless his ship because it held millions of their kind in it's timbers. Whatever the cause, Danish ships submitted to this quaint ritual seemed to ac- quire immunity from the perils of the sea- And the old idea has come down to modern tmes That is why one "knocks on wood" whenever he does not want his luck to desert him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19

Brazil This will go through the ore and coal terminal at Mobile and come up the Warrior in barges
 Four thousand tons of sulphur from Calves ton, coming to Mobile in ocean-going craft, is being brought up the river in barges.
 The Du Pont Powder company is receiving this week 4S0 tons of Chilean nitrates by way of New Orleans and thence by barge to the Port of Birmingham. From the river bank to the powder mills at Lewisburg is a matter of only 12 miles by rail.
 But for these incoming raw materials plants could not operate. The point is that they are brought by the Warrior, and Birmingham Is more and more dependent on the barge line for materials used in her finishing mills. At pres- ent she is wholly dependent the waterways for some of this material, and at all times she can get it at lower cost by the barge line than by rail.
 This is an inland town, but there is no city in the country whose industrial expansion is more closely related to the inland waterways and the high seas
 While iron and steel products go south by the Warrior, they go north by the Tennessee river when railroads cannot move them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19

Text and pictures carry their message to mill lions of people in way that strikes home even to the dullest comprehension.
 counts in advertising as in everything else. Otherwise national advertisers would not em- ploy the best brains and talent money can buy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
AN EYE TO THE JOB

"This magazine writer says there is some- thing parochia in the way our legislators leg islate."
 What does he mean by tlat?"
 'No matter how many different things are banished from their minds in the course of a day. they never forget that statesman is kept in office by corraing a sufficient number of votes.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
HARDING PROPOSED SHIP PROGRAM

From Behind the Mirrors"
 The dramatic method of making the proposal for the scrapping of war vessels, with details of the tonnage to be scrapped, was not MT. Hughes idea Let us do the man in the White House justice He conceived it the May flower, read it to Senator James Watson, who was with him and wirelessed it to the state department.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
THIS WAY OUT

q want my money back "What's wrong?" "The Autographs in front of your movie house made me think I was going to see shocker on the screen. fell asleep Did your nap refresh you?' T suppose so." "You are welcome. Kindly step aside and let the lady get up to the ticket window"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19

Holly Leaves" rather serious magazine, undertakes to tell us that there is something else going on in Hollywood besides movie parties. Thanks for the information. "The town drunkard is not conspicuous as he was,' remarks the Anniston Star. Now adays he'd laid out before he gets chance to amble around.
 Mississippi will have "run-off" Mississippi will enjoy it. If it were not for politics a great many Missssppians would be dead on their feet.
 Flappers who contemplate entering politics should study the methods of the lady from Oklahoma. She's never bought an eyelash in her life.
 Some of the taxpayers are beginning to sus- pect that republican campaign pledges have gone to join last years snowflakes.
 
 When young Whitney became involved with beauteous dancer it turned out to be q pretty good thing for the lawyers. Glove gripped me by the throat one day and threw me to the ground" warbles bard. Ahl The strangle hold.
 Buy car and prolong your life, but don't think that gives you the right to shorten the lives of other people.
 
 Eminent Chinese say Japan has been using China for her own selfish purposes. Our worst fears are confirmed
 There are some 'hard-boiled' railroad exec- utives in this country who are proud of being "four-minute eggs"
 Caught in the tolls of the law, a Chicago "home healer'' points with pride to his fash onable clientele.
 What pity President Harding can't settle everything by an editorial "leader' in the Marion Star!
 With the expansion of air traffic it may not be necessary to dig that tunnel under the Eng fish channel.
 The lady in the Candler case takes what is known as a snappy picture. We suspected as much.
 It is now Lloyd Georges turn to run over to Paris and agree to disagree with Poincare.
 < That the railroads must run is fact gen. erally admitted. How is another matter.
  Iris said romance is dying out in the world Carry the sad tidings to Hollywood.
 x < little more of that Pollyanna spirit please among the strike leaders
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
WISE WILLIAM

"Who is your leading optimist?" "Bin sproutt, president of our Don't Worry cub.'
 How does he retain his cheerful dispos- tion?"
 By consistently refusing to buy motor car"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
EASIER THAN TAKING TURNS

Let's get the gang together and call on Blithersby.''
 "Is there party in sght?"
 "No, but we all hear him tell about his vacation trip, en masse, as it were, and get it over with'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
THE SERVICE OF ALABAMA'S
 INLAND WATERWAYS

Birmingham should consider what ships are doing for her at this period of car and mo- tive power shortage on the railroads.
 Yesterday the steamer Steel Engineer brougks 7,2oo tons of manganese ore from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
JUST RIDING AROUND

"What's become of all the hoboes?"
 "They are reported to be travelling around the country as the pampered guests of rail roads,
 "How did that come to pass?"
 "In exchange for trip of thousand miles or so, with meals and berths thrown in, they'll consider taking job in a repair shop"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
WHAT DOES IT MATTER?

WFfA DOI10 IT NH T A7N N' I fain would sing, The home-run king,
 Who has way of earning Prodigious fame And an honored name
 With precious little learning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
EXTRA GRIEVANCE

'I see here, in your announcement of the Calder party you have me as among those pleasant -
 "A typographical error"
 And doubly false. I wasn't pleasant. was bored stiff"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
WALKER IS APPREcIATIvE

"On account of being out of the city for the past several days I have failed to express my gratitude to the voters of Jefferson coun- ty,' said Judge William M. Walker, "but I am very grateful to my friends for their gen. erous support given me in my race for judge No. in the circuit court of Jefferson county, and wish to thank them."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19

store advertisement showing where something in women's wear Is marked down from $5 to $4.99h, and we men folks always break for that page first. So if you put MT. Cobb's stories there we will be sure to absorb them.
 Please print this in your paper for if you do I am sure 1t will meet with the approval of most of your subscribers.
 Yours very truly, A. c. FANCHER.
 Birmingham, Box 7s1, August IT, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
FORTY MILES PER

"Did Cholly kneel at your feet when he proposed?"
 Heavens, mol The car would have besn wrecked"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-19
All delights arc vain, but that most vain, Which, with pain purehas'd doth inherit pain
 Loves Labor Lost.
A MORNING PRAYER

O help me, Lord, to gather the beauty from today. If the stars are too distant, there are yet shining pebbles beneath my feet. Amen.-M. s. B.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-02-08
EXCISE BOARD
CHANGES POLICY
Non-Citizens Denied Billiard
Licenses--Po|ic to InveS-
tigate All Cases

Although six applications for bill
lard licenses were received by the
Board of Excise Commissioners last
night, four of which were renewals,
that body did not grant any, putting
into effect a new system which they
will adhere to in the future. 1t was
decided to hold up all of the re-
quests for licenses until the inVestl-
eating committee consisting of Ru-
dolph Schuck, James J. Flynn and
Russell Smith had reported back.
In the future non-citizens will not
be given licenses irregardless of
whether or not they have held Ii
censes in the past.
1t was decided to GO n touch
with Chief of Police Niels ]. Tonne
sen and have him assign patrolmen
to investigate the different pool par
lors on their respective beats. If
they are found to be operating with
out licenses. a report must be made
to the chief who in turn will report
to the city clerk who is clerk of the
excise board. The excise commits
sioners will then force those violat-
ing the law to either get a license
or close up. All of the commissions
ers We're present at last nights
meeting, which was presided over
by Thomas Lucas.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-02-08
Cone SeIzes Harbiinger
Here; Liquor To Be Taken
To Federal Warehouses

The 'booze ship Harbinger and her load of choice
liquor which has been under the surveillance OF revenue of
cers it cleared from supposed Canadian port was
turned over by the custom officials to Prohibition En-
forcemen Officer Sam H. Cone this morning. On trucks
guarded by armed with sawedoH shoguns the whiskey
removed to Newark this afternoon for storage In 1ederat
Warehouses and the transfer automatically ends The prevails
ing highly colored reference to the future desna
ton of the liquor While official information has been
given to indicate upon what ground the seizure was made
believed the conscaion is the result OF Sunday night
daring effort to land portion of the Harbngers cargo
Sunday nights episode makes the whole issue no longer
one of violation of state federal liquor laws as far as the
Van Ness acts 1t places the owners OF the
booze in the position of smugglers and apparently this new
phase of the situation formed the foundation OF the seizure
today AS long the ship from foreign port and her
papers gave another foreign port her destinations her
status less secure but the bold attempt 10 mak
off with the liquor under the eyes of the officers altered
entirely.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-02-08
ADM|RES
j. s. PEOPLE
Voices Deep Interest in Amer
ican Conference at ReCep-
ton With 0'Connell

ROME, Feb. (By The Associa--
ted Press) Pope Plus XI. expressed
'unbounded admiration for the
American people, and voiced his
deep interest in the work or the
Washington conference at his recep-
ton of Cardinal O'Conneli, OF Bos-
ton, yesterday.
II was happy to see your peace
loving country take the first step TO-
ward amelioration of this monstrouS
evil of armament" the pontill saiu;
Like my illustrous and lamenteo
Predecessor, | have unbounded ad-
mi.n1ion for the energy and charity
and the great heart of your people
Then, laying his hand on the
American cardinals shoulders ne
added slowly: you Americans are
Young in the years, but OLD IN the
wis 1cm, Worldly prudence ana lore-
sight. your inert qualities OF harness,
Justice and peace, your great norais
and spiritual stability and your IN
Unite riches make you the nope anu
anchor-seat of the world.
The pope expressed MS prolouiia,
disappointment that America iltu
not been represented at the cohcldFe
that elected him saying: II was a
great personal sorlo" '''@'
NC Cardinal O'Connell told the cor
respondent the Holy Father Was
much like an American. Amiaplilty,
modenty and sweetness OF manIel
vrIe his dominant traits anu ,,iL's Itis
manner was most democratic me
cardinal added' st.. ,.,,,,p,o, neo-
nIa and has all the human quahties
which made the world love rus y;
,Ie has a cultivated mind, an aliegeu
nnorner ma I ana dissenting judgment.
He has spent his life with po0ht'
was librarian at Milan and the Nat-
lean. is q very close student OF ma, =,
| nIre and is an indefatlgiole reaoer;
The cardinal said the whole Woliu
co,Ild be sure that he would ioiio"
a course of paciieation and cohcllla-
ton. +,,o
! vhe ~eason for his choice Of the ne
/ nome Plus was explained by the
new pontilf yesterday to Caru'n''
| LuaiGi. oi,,s came
10 Rome under u Plus; PiuS - nc nc
name of peacc-then Plus snail oe
NV ma ,e," he sad
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-02-08
CHILD SLAYER
|SEXECUTED
Cares WritheS in the Electric
Chair as Current is Checked
for a Few Seconds
WIRING DISCONNECTED
Dramatic End to Slayer of
Five Year Old Theresa
KuCharSki

TRENTON, Feb. S.--Thc tense at
mospnere OF the death chamber of
State Prison wa: accentuated last
night during the execution of George
Cares, murderer CT a little girl in
New Brunswick. when the wiring
corrected with the eiectrode attach
ed to the condemned mans leg be-
came disconnected leaving the man
for a moment or two gas3ing and
writning in Il chair. The incident
was the rnCst dramatic that has ever
marked an electrCcution in this state.
producing terrific mental strain up
on TIE witnesses gathered in the
deatn cha nlber.
Cares. accompanied by the prison
chaplain, Rev Charles II. Elder, and
Rev. Leon Chamber lain. walked into
the death room a, $40. While he
murn ured a prayer after the clergy
men, the process of strapping him in
the chair was completed. The first
contact was interrupted by a flash
beneath the chair and a sizzling
sound. While the witnesses looked
on with feelings of deep emotion, the
Gu rent was shut off and the con-
demned man moved convulsively in
the char.
Examination disclosed that the
wire had become disconnected and
this defect was adjusted by the elec-
tricians itnin but moment or two.
The customary two additional shocks
were then applied and upon their
completion Cares was pronounced
dead
Electricians whc ofiiciated explain
ed thai the foot Of someone must
have come il, contact with the wire,
which runs from the floor beneath
the chair ard tore 1t loose.
Both DR.. j ellington Crane, the
prison phys. clan, and County Physi-
clan Frank J Scanned insisted en-
phatically that TIE occurrence did
not result in suffering for Cares, as
the first apI lication of the current
produced apoplexv. which imme-
diately rendered the man unconsci-
Gus.
Cares was found guilty of murder
in the frs. degree Tor killing Theresa
Kucharski five years old. following
an attack in his room in a New
Brunswick hotel OH December 22
last He hao lured the child from
her home. Afte, the murder Cares
packed tho body in suitcase and
placed it IL closet
Cares was 40 years old. His wife,
whom he Is alleged to have ill-treat-
ed, and ycung son living in New
Brunswick.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-02-08
TWO POLICEMEN SHOT
BY ELIZABETH BANDITS

fic duty saw the chase and stopped
the automobile. Cochran jumped
into the rear seat between two of
the passengers and the other police
man mounted the running board and
directed the driver to proceed TO
headquarters.
AS the patrolmen were conducting
the quintet inside to search them and
lock them up two of the men drew
pistols and opened fire. Cochran
fell with a bullet in his groin, ia-
de0randts S belt buckle detected a
bullet. The three other prisoners
pitched into the fray with their fists.
Reserves rushed out of the station
at the sound of the shots and three
of the five men fled one getting a
block away before Sergeant Bren-
nan. was able to persuade him by
three shots to halt.
HiidebraDdt SEIZED one of the al
legged bandits and reserves captured
the other three. The men gave he
names of Harry Miller. Edward Az
feYts, Frank Emecrano. Frank UtiS
and James Truney, all of New York.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-02-08
MISS NQRMAND' :
LETTERSF0UND
Letters of Film Actress to
Slain Director Are Returned
by Movie Man

LOS ANGELES, Feb. S.-Location
of Mable Normand's and Mary Miles
Mint.r's letter, to William Desmond
Taylor, Slaio film director. the pos
sibilities of the issuance of COM
pialrt charging murder against Ed
ward S. Sands Taylor missing for
mec butler and renewed activity or
detectives toward declaration that
the sweetheart of screen actress
was seen near the Taylor apartment
the night of the murder, were angles
today of the pclic' investigation into
the rction pictur: mystery.
The letters written by Miss Nor
mand and foi which she search
ed his. apartment vainly two days
after his murder have been returned
to her. according t. detectives work
ing OF tbs ease. Their return was
made, it WAS declared, after man
connected with thr film world. who
had taken then. for some unknown
purpose during the confusion sur
rounding the finding of Taylor,s
body. H. had beer threatened with
a grand jury investigation. A repre-
sentative o, Miss Normand said the
letters had not beer given back to
hef
Captain o. Detectives David j..
Adams stat'6 the police never had
been in posses sion oe Miss Normand's $
letters nor uf those written by Miss
MiEter to Taylcr. although the latter
also, according to Captain Adams
have been returned to the writer.
Miss Mintel has guards around her
house to kc;p away uninvited callers
it is reported. Her attorney. how
ever. denied she had received the
letters
William .. Doran. chief deputy
district attc rney stated complaint
charging Sands or Edward Fitz-
strathmore as he also is known with
the murder cf Taylor, may be issued
today, depending upon develop
melts.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-02-08

In the negative were: Barber, of
Warren; Parry, of Essex; Runyon.
of Union; Simpson. of Hudson:
Heath, of Mercer-5.
The action or the senate in pass
ing this measure is regarded as a
step backward as investigations al
ready made in Morris and Middle
sex counties have indicated that tax
assessments have been grossly un-
dervalued. Union county started
the agitation last year which
prompted the law which Middlesex
county, through Senator Larson, is
now attempting to repeal. Essex
county filed a complaint against
Norris and Hudson took up the case
of Passaic county valuations. Union
contended that it had been assess
ing its property UP to its true value
and full worth while Middlesex was
so greatly undervalued. particularly
with respect to it's industrial and
manufacturing property.
Speaking for his bill Senator Lar
son declared that the, present law
had engendered considerabl BILE feeling
between Union and Middlesex coun-
ties and for this reason it ought to
be repealed.
CONTINUED on page p
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-02-08

ELIZABETH, Feb. S.-Patrolman
John Cochran was seriously wound
ed and PatIolman Louis Hildebrandt
was saved from a dangerous wound
by his belt buckle when two al
legged bandits opened fire on them as
they were being led into police head
quarters today.
Tae two with three other men, had
been arrested on suspicion of having
blackjacked and robbed Wendlin
Wilderotter, Newark merchant. OF
S7OO a few hours earlier.
The Elizabeth police received news
of the Newark holdup few minutes
after it occurred. A short time later
Police Sergeant Brennan saw an au-
tomobile draw up in front or the
Elks' CluL ant its occupants began
an argument with the driver.
The car started as Bennan ap-
preached and he gave chase helng
picked up moment later by PATROL
man Cochran of the motorcycle
squad.
Patrolman Hildebrandt on traf-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-02-08
Bill To Annex
SeUQren Put In

the executive committee meeting OF
the township committee held Mon
day night, Frederick Turner, of Sc
warren, appeared before board and
requested legal advice on what ac-
tion the committee would take as
the result OF the annexation move
now afoot. The committee failed to
give .out any information as to how
it considered the move on the part
OF certain Sewaren residents to leave
the township and become annexed to
Perth Amboy. Information was also
requested of the committee as to how
the annexation bill must he intro
duced and what action is necessary
to make the joining of the two pos
siblc.
A special meeting of the township
COMMITTEES will be held next We'd
nesday night, Feb. Is, for the pur~
pose of actins on the budget.