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Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer., 1922-04-25

too small to handle the heavy work re-
quirpd Of it.
The American Legion Is preparing a
vaudeville show to be given on the
evening Of Decoration day. This viii
all be home talent except a singing
act and musical number that has been
heard before. There viii be musical
numbers played on hand saws and
many new stunts that have never been
seen from IN, stage Of our local opera
house before The show will be held
IN the hall where the old people can
come after they have listened to the
band concert that will be held in the
earlier part ui the evening.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer., 1922-04-25

kinds OF automobile
tops and curtains TO repair on short
no,ice; prompt service and reasonable
prices. II. G.. kRUSE.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer., 1922-04-25
AUTO SUPPLIES
Automobile Owners
229 West Main ST. Phone

You viii get 20 to 10 per cent more
miles per gallon by using Superior
Gasoline Naporizers. Price $l.50 Free
trial. Proving is convincing. Postal
brings information and cuts. State
make and model
L. L. MONTGOMERY,
1916 Banks Ave, Superior, Wis,
ManufaCtnror and DiatributOr.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer., 1922-04-25
FOR SALE Z room house, batE

FOR SALE z room mouse, baEh
room, furnace, laundry, barn and
garage. II first class condition, S5,'
500 Also, room, two stCry house,
furnace, bath, very large lot, $500.
room house, hot water heat, oil hard
wood no0r laundry, barn, 1920, All
in South Ottawa. Have many iaore,
better bargains than these. Miss Ger
trnde Harris
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer., 1922-04-25
effective Oct. Sth, 1921.
EASTgOUND
BY ALTMAN

Eastbound cars leave Ottawa sta
tion for Marseiilos, Seneca, Morris,
Minooka, Rockdale and Joliet, H., IL
a m. 500, 1865, 9:55, 1855. In .
m, 1:55, 1856. c4;56, 5:55. 9:05. 10000.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer., 1922-04-25
WEST3OUND

WestbOund cars leave Ottawa sta.
zion f~r Utica, La Sale, Peru, Spring
ValleI, Ladd, DePue, Bureau, Prince
ton in a IN. a5;55, g6:52, 1850, a9:5S.
dl0:55, Hiss. In p. NJ, al:55, 1865
al.II. 3-.nn. hlO.nn.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer., 1922-04-25

FOR SALE-7 room cottage, bath
gas, electric lights, S2,800; also 5
room cottage, hardwood floors, fur
mace bath, gas. laundry $1,000; and
Z room house, hot water heat, coal
used IN 1920 for heating an dcooking
cost $500; bath, fine electric tx
lures, gas, laundry large barn; Will
be sold at a bargain. All in East OF
tawa Miss Gertrude Harris
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer., 1922-04-25
SOUTH BOUND

5outhbound cars leave 9 tawa stu
tion for Grand Ridge, Mckinley Park
and StreatOr IN a. m, 5;55, 1855,
1855. In p. m, 1855, 3:55, 5:65, 10.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer., 1922-04-25

FOR SALE-5 room, pebble dash cot,
tago, West Ottawa; bathroom, fur
mace hardwood floors; very large
laundry; $500, less than half cash.
And
room cottage; hardwood floors;
laundry; $4,000.
MISS GERTRUDE HARRIS.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer., 1922-04-25

For SAILS room house, Center %
tawa, hardwood floors throughout,
2 GrnplacDs very large bathroom, far
race. 'Gnnn, ono half cash
MISS GERTRUDE HARRIS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
READING CONRAD

Jay E. House, in the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 We about to comply with the request of customer who sent us copy of Conrad's "Victory' and asked to read and comment on it honestly and without resort to japery of any sort. When, at 10 o'clock in the evening" we sat down to peruse it Adelaide said, You'll never read that book" And her intuition seemed as usual, to be correct. We found it prosy, indefinite and meandering in construc- tion and sorely lacking in terminal facilities Two three times we had the impulse to throw Victory at the picture over the blue daven- port We never can tell whether that picture is sunrise, sunset, clump of date palms or a storm on the prairies We hate it with all the emotion of rough, untrammeled nature, but 1t was painted by gentleman friend" of Ade- laides and we have endured through the years for that reason.
 Meanwhile, Adelaide had retired for the night. little later we heard her pattering down the hall and she came into the living room wiping the imperceptible cobwebs of recalcitrant sleep from her eyes. Aren't you ever coming to bed?" she asked "lt's after o'clock and I haven't slept a wink Every time I doze off you turn page and wake me up; you can't finish that book tonight" But we did.
 Conrad has something. We don't know what it is, but he has it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
SECRETARY DENBY's SARCASM

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 We wondering what the President may have in mind to say to his Secretary of the Navy the visiting delegates leave for home. It appears that Mr. Denby is en- tirely out of sympathy with the purposes of the arms conference. The thing amuses him, and he makes sarcastic remarks about it. Ac- cording to the New York World, he recom- mends the passage of resolution by the con- ference prohibiting "the use of any missile which goes faster than man can run," and another providing that "the ancient and honor- able custom of having an arms bearer for each soldier to carry, his tin hat and haversack, be re-established for all wars to come."
 President Harding is bound to resent such comments by member of his cabinet. Secre- tary Hughes, in particular, and the other Amer can delegates in general, naturally will be puzzled by such cheap wit, coming as it does from member of the official family. It may occur to some of thenl-say President Hard ing-that sarcastic attacks upon the adminis- trations policies should be made only by ex- members Of the cabinet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
SHOULD HAVE ALL THE FACTS
 AS TO LYNCHINGS

John S. Williams well-to-do white planter of Jessup county, Georgia, has begun serving a life sentence in the Georgia penitentiary for the murder of negro farm hands.
 Williams had the means with which to employ able counsel and make wel-conducted fight for acquittal. The principal witness against him was a negro accomplice. Tn spite of his previous standing in the community, his wealth and the fact that black man was the main reliance of the prosecution, this white man was found guilty by other white men and given life term as a common feon
 The supreme court of Georgia was unanimous in affirming the decision of the trial court Legal technicalities have been of no avail White men of Georgia have declared that black men shall be protected from violence.
 Professional gatherers of lynching data have a marked propensity for emitting the equally important facts bearing on the lives that have been sacrificed in the protection of negro crm- inals and the expense to which southern states have been put to enforce the laws.
 Several whites were killed two years ago in Knoxville to protect from mob violence con- victed and confessed rapist and murderer of little white girl. Alabama's law officers have more than once shot down white men clamorng for the life of a negro criminal
 The case is not fairly made out until all the facts are presented. The south, for the protec- tion of negro criminals, has given the blood and money of her own people. That is sufficient evil dence that the south has problem of it's own which it is endeavoring to solve.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
SELFISH INTERESTS OPPOSE
 THE FORD OFFER

Henry Ford charges that Secretary Weeks is apparently delaying a settlement of the Muscle Shoals proposition and accuses fertilizer manu- facturers, power and chemical interests, money brokers and others of misrepresenting the facts.
 That strong pressure has been brought to bear against the Ford offer there can be little doubt. The fight against Ford has been carried en largely under cover. but enough propaganda has gotten into the newspapers to show that s1rong effort is being made to prevent him from getting control of project which was declared to be worthless until he made his bid
 It | passing strange that the Muscle Shoals property has become so important in the eyes of certain interests who professed to see noth- ing in t before, merely because astute and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
HOSPITAL INTERESTING

While in New Orleans recently l happened to pass the detention hospital there, and could not resist the temptation to go in and see it, 9 said C. N. Wiley. "Since the Birmingham hos pital was closed the Social Hygiene association, of which I am chairman, has been making every effort to have this hospital reopened, so I was interested to see what other cities were doing along this line. The hospital was very large and there were cases of practically every con tageous disease known there, but one wing of the building was devoted to the treatment of social diseases. The superintendent gave me much valuable information regarding the oper- aton of the institution, but I was indeed glad to get away"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
THE APOSTLE OF SMILES

'J. H. Tregoe, who will lecture Monday night to the Birmingham Credit Mems association, is known as the Apostle of Smiles,' says Thomas M. Nesbitt president of the local Credit Mems association.
 "The Professor of Pep is another nickname applied to J. H. Tregoe. He excels as quiz master of credit men, When he speaks the din- neg table becomes business clinic wherein the patient is probed twisted, turned, completely diagnosed, and then operated upon with the delft scalpel of this surgical quiz master.
 Fair play is his motto. He believes in play ing the game out in the open-honest, square, aboveboard dealing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
UPHOLD THE MAJORITY
,nIey, January 13, 1922.
litor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 As recent subscriber to your paper, though l have taken it at intervals for past 12 years and always liked it, I want to express my sur prise at the temper you display in your criticism of Messrs. McLendon, Cloe and Dickson and in fact all those who commend their position. You say that they are trying to Tram their views and opinions down the throats of others" You seem to overlook the fact that MT. liar rison and Mrs. Echols-the minority of the commission-are trying, with your help and that of the News, to do the very thing you condemn in others. You to forget the golden rule"
 It seems that the advocates of the dance halls want to ram their personal views down the throats of the majority of the commission 90 per cent of the ministers of the city and large majority of the moral element of the city. Why then inconsistent and so undemocratic?
 The public dance hall has a bad history, as observation and the records abundantly show There never was any good in it, no moral or in- tellectual uplift resulting from it. The majority of the commission, true to their calling and training, are trying to throw around the young man and women of the city proper safeguards and to preserve and foster the morals and in- tellectual nature, while the minority would sac rifice the morals and enthrone the social and gratify the physical nature. It will be a sad day for the city and for the world when the latter is made supreme. Am also surprised to hear Dr. Gaston say that the immoralities of the modern dance are due and chargeable to the kind of music.jazz, etc. He ought to know better,f in reality the evil results from close sex contact. Were they not so closely connected the music would have but little ef- feet In conversation with lady on this sub ject some time ago, l said that my objection to the modern dance was the public hugging and squeezing feature of it. She replied 'Why MT. Reeves, that is the best part of it. :" So there you That is the milk in the cocoanut and every fair-minded man and woman knows that it is true The lady quoted is respected and in good standing She dances. of course. If dancing is all that is desired, let each sex choose their partners from among themselves, lock tight as they please and dance and enjoy themselves to their hearts content. 1ffthey are sincere and merely wish to dance, this will satisfy them. If hugging in public is right or innocent, why not private hug ging? Therein is the trouble and cannot be successfully denied. D. D. REEVES.
 West End, January IA, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
MUSCLE SHOALS?
From the New Orleans Item.

From the New Orleans Item.
 Nobody knew how desirable the Muscle Shoals power project was until Henry Ford offered to pay the government something for it, and to put it to use. It had been widely adver- tised by neighborhood promoters in every con- ceivable way until the country had heard a great deal about it. But nobody seemed to think it was useful for anything except, after it permitted to sink into innocuous decrepi- tude, to serve as another example of the waste fulness of war.
 Almost immediately that Ford made an offer on it, however, it seemed to take new fnan- cal beauties and to suggest new industrial op- portunities. This may, of course, be due to mere suggestion. The fact that so approved money-maker as Ford thought it good may have suggested excellences in it to others pre-, viously blind to them.
 It seems more likely, however, in view of the known potentially of this project for the fxation of nitrogen, and of the present conditions of the industries that use nitrogen-bearing raw materials in the making of explosives, fertil- izers, and other commodities, of their sources of supply for this raw material, and of the like, that there may be something more than mere suggestion in the quick appearance of other bidders.
 Everybody was perfectly willing to let the whole enterprise go to wreck and oblivion. Is it not possible that some who were willing to do that might be willing to pay large figure for the ruins in order to prevent anybody else from making use of them-especially as the re- suits of that use, in view of the constant shift ing of ground in the geld of industrial chem. istry, cannot be safely forecast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
LETTERS TO EDITOR
ToWNLEY MANS VIEW

To the Editor of The Age-Herald; Allow me as frequent visitor to your town, to express my views regarding the great issue confronting your city father, MT. McLendon.
 Imagine man, who has been given the re- sponsible position of Birminghams father, to make a statement favorably for the opening of the pier, and get up next morning and say: q was joking yesterday; didn't you see my ha-ha?"
 Imagine father leading his child by candy shop and prohibiting his child from the taste of an all-day sucker simply because the father does not crave for sweets. It's pretty selfish father who would do that and hand his child a cigar, to pacify and appease it's former desires, simply because the cigar is his medium of diversion
 Mr. McLendon makes statement that would befit Hohenzollern, not man who has the key of the pleasure of the people of the city of Birmingham in his hand.
 'I have never danced and do not care to dance and do not believe in dancing" to sum up Mir. McLendons statement-which would be fair reason for one's personal tastes; but to express an official statement you must first think. Think MT. McLendon!
 Your city is not only handicapped by its small leaders on this problem, but in many ways Look at your handsome structure of the audi torium, a pretty sight to behold! And your builders are still talking a sort of "oral archi- tecture" Your treasury or that part of the treasury which holds the money for the struc- ~ture is getting leaner It's shrinking in spite of the drop in building material since the appropriation was made. You will be short of money Your authorities are talking till their throats get dry and they must quench them with this fluid made up of auditorium currency.
 It is too big job for them to the city. Birmingham in spite of these little minds has grown on, expanding until the horse fs too large for the saddle.
 If your leaders are conscientious and really mean to work for the welfare of your citizens, step aside and give up and say, q am not competent" You will be making friends with the man who is carrying the lighted lantern in search for an honest man.
 You stop at these little petty stumps and finger there. East Lake should be place of pleasure and should have nightly revival meet ings conducted by competent preachers, and should also have the pier open. Let the whole family turn out and whosoever wishes to choose between the two places shall do so of their own free will and accord, provided they are of age.
 Dancing will take place somewhere as here tofore and it is time were having decent places to go rather than have dives of dirt and doubt about the community. This is not problem. There's no baby to in twain as in the days of Solomon. Just give the young folks what they desire in measure becoming to them and with the eyes of the older people open. Don't drive your children to dives of question:
 KNUT HAMSUN, Jr.
 Townley, January IS, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
LIKES PEP OF PAGE

"The editorial page of The Age-Herald re- gently has interested me greatly at the break fast table, and sometimes the coffee is apt to get cold while I reading the editorials, 1obbies' and contributions" says T. Ray Schultz of the Smith, Throckmorton & Schultz Realty com pany.
 "I much amused at the man whose com- muncaton recently stated that over 99 per cent of the cases of forgery could be attributed to blank checks issued by the banks.
 "Harper's cartoons, especially those with a local tilt add pep to the page"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
"CLoE IS RIGHT"

"The public will applaud the step proposed by Police Commissioner Cloe with regard to the idle army that is making Birmingham its Mecca" said Mrs. Solon Jacobs. "He is exact ly right in deciding that men who wish help shall earn that help. He is right in deciding that men who will not work should be made to leave the city"
 "once let it be known in trampdom that Birmingham's gates are open for idlers and is prepared to entertain them and they will flock hither by the hundreds. Entertaining these idle wanderers is not only bad in itself, but it will work an injustice on the really deserving men who are willing to work and will work if jobs are offered them. Willingness to work is the test of worthiness. Let it be applied
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
TWENTY YEARS SERVICE

Twenty days from February I will round out my 20 years service as Prudential man ager," says A. C. Crowder.
 While I do not count myself old man, these years are replete with memories filled with cherished aspirations and, in some meas ure, may I add, fulfilled my ambition to serve the company and it's patrons
 "On that day, 20 years ago, when I was handed Prudential managers signed contract, a rate book and similar ammunition at Jack son, Mss by Cy Lang, and told to 'go to it, : I little realized my responsibility and it's pos abilities"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
MIR. CROWS LETTER
To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 I Nato l., fo Ja

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 note in today's paper a communication from MT. Humphrey T. Crow, writing under the head of Protect the Moral Fabric" and in that connection would like to know if MT. Crow is trying to be facetous, or if he really expects the general public to accept his communica- tion at T,s face value, expression of his individual ideas. If so, MT. Crow evidently be- leves in witches, and further believes that the hanging and burning of witches improved the village of Salem, Mass, considerably; and if he has not progressed in his thoughts beyond that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
WHAT WILSON
 SUFFERED
From the Arkansas Gazette.

T I1VIII CIU ItIhdIiSda- NdhSIIt.
 When Aristide Briand appeared in the French Chamber of Deputies on the occasion when he resigned as premier he had the appearance of man "aged and physically fatigued," but despite this he rose to high pitch of elo- quence when he said, Gin voice trembling with il-suppressed emotion:
 "A statesman has no right to go to his post of battle if he has not the certainty that he shall not receive bullets from behind. He can face the bullets of the enemy, but he must not receive any from his own country"
 When we know of the physical stress and strain to which Premier Briand was subjected and of the war waged on him at home, we can the better realize what Woodrow Wilson had to go through.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16

successful captain of industry thinks he can convert it into a tremendous asset to the American people.
 If Muscle Shoals had no value until Ford made his offer to the government, and his whole scheme of development is impractical, why do they fear Ford a competitor in making fer tiizers and developing power?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
ENJOYED pR. DAwsoN's TALK

"The talk made by Dr. John Dawson to mem bers of the Drama league last week was one of the most interesting and instructive we have ever had" said Mrs. John R. Hornady. He gave so many interesting facts regarding French lit erature, and he presented them in such clever manner I don't think l ever enjoyed anything any more. Dr. Dawson knew his subject and handled it we'll being able to hold the und- vded attention of his audience throughout his talk"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-16
THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM

Dy hODefC OOutHey. It was a summer evening,
 Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door
 Was sitting in the sun; And by him sported on the green His little grandchild, Wilhemine. She saw her brother Peterkin
 Roll something large and round Which he beside the rivulet,
 In playing there, had found; He came to ask what he had found That was so large and smooth and round. Old Kaspar took it from the boy,
 Who stood expectant by, And then the old man shook his head
 And, with a natural sigh "'Tis some poor fellows skull,' said he, "Who fell in the great victory. "I find them in the garden,
 For there's many hereabout, And often, when I go to blow,
 The plowshare turns them out For many thousand men," said he, "Were slain in that great victory 'Now tell us what twas all about"
 Young Peterkin he cries: And little Wilhelmine looks up
 With wonder-waiting eyes "Now tell us all about the war, And what they fought each other for.' "1t was the English" Kaspar cried,
 "Who put the French to rout, But what they fought each other for
 could not well make out; But everybody said," quoth he, "That twas famous victory My father lived at Benheim then
 Ton little stream hard by; They burnt his dwelling to the ground
 And he was forced to fly; So with his wife and child he fled, Nor had he where to rest his head with fire and sword the country round Was wasted far and wide, And many childing mother then
 And new born baby died But things like that, you know, must be At every famous victory. "They say 1t was a shocking sight
 After the field was won, For many thousand bodies there
 Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won,
 And to our good Prince Eugene" "Why, twas very wicked thingv'
 Said little Wilhelmine, May, nay, my little girl!' quoth he, Ut was famous victory" And everybody praised the duke
 Who this great fight did win" But what good came of it at last?"
 Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell" said he; "But twas famous victory"