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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
LETTERS TO EDITOR
PROMPT FREIGHT DELIVERY

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 On reading your editorial referring to mer- chandise service inaugurated to Alexander City and Tuscaloosa by lines named, I get the inl- precision that you consider this service as some- thing out of the ordinary; but railroad that does not deliver merchandise at nearby points the morning following shipment is certainly not giving its patrons reasonable service.
 The Louisville and Nashville has delivered it's merchandise at its uptown depot in the heart of Tuscaloosa for years early in the first morning; in fact making delivery of produce as early as ' a. m. the day following shipment from Bir- mingham.
 The Louisville and Nashville forwards it's De- catur merchandise cars on our fast through trains at midnight, and shipments are ready for delivery to the merchants at Albany and Decatur in the early morning following the date of shipment
 Recently, at the request of the Birmingham Traffic association, and to permit our mer- chants to compete with Nashville, we arranged service to Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis stations between Attalla and Guntersvie, by which freight is delivered to those stations the afternoon following date of shipment. Such merchandise is loaded in station order in one end of car and Attalla freight in the other, reaching Attalla around a. m., the Attalla freight being ready for delivery early in the morning and the Nashville and Chattanooga freight being forwarded on their local leaving Attalla about noon.
 All of our merchandise cars to stations be- tween Decatur and Montgomery, stations on the Birmingham Mineral division and Attaa Alabama City, Gadsden and Anniston place freight ready for delivery the first morning after date of shipment.
 This service is all in the days work, and is what the shippers and consignees are entitled to, and we no reason to consider it at all extraordinary. Yours very truly,
 LEE CLARY,
 Division Freight Agent. Rirnin pham Eehrnarv & 1922
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
SONG OF THE PLOUGH

By Harry Kemp. It was who raised from famine all the hordes
 and tribes of Man; have never ceased nor faltered since the tilth
 of fields began, Since the first poor crooked stick was drawn
 across the wondrous earth, While upon the man who used it all his tribes
 men gazed in mirth- But the wild seeds sprang in blossom more
 abundant than before, And the fool who toiled all summer had the
 wise mans winter store. It was who built Chaldea and the cities on the
 plain; was Greece and Rome and Carthage and the
 opulence of Spain. When their courtiers walked in scarlet and their
 queens wore chains of gold And forgot twas that made them, growing
 goddess folk and bold, l went over them in judgment and again my
 cornfields stood Where their empty courts bowed homage in
 obsequous multitude; For the nation that forgets me, in that hour her
 doom is sealed By judgment as from heaven that can never
 be repealed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
HOW TO GET RICH

The Age-Herald's recent comment on fake advertisements reminded me of an experience I had when boy" said Albert Stradford.
 q saw an advertisement headed, Sure Way To Get Rich; Cannot Fail.' It went on to say that the method would be revealed for $1. sent in my dollar and soon afterward got a printed slip which had on it the words: Work like h. and never spend cent Naturally was indignant and wanted to prosecute them for using the mails to defraud
 When I explained the matter to my father he thought it over and said: Well, I don't know but what that's pretty good advice, and it is certainly worth dollar if you will follow it. |"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
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FINGER PRINT TEST AS AN
 AID TO JUSTICE

The ordinary person, with an unscientific turn of mind, has been convinced that finger print tests are infallible. Criminals, some of whom could qualify as scientists of no mean ability, dread to have the lines in their fingers recorded by police departments, method of Identification which distinguishes every crook from all other members of the human race.
 Finger print Identification is a wonderful thing, when we think of it, and 1t has probably done mors to put the fear of the law into the hearts of criminals than all the other devices ever invented for making the way of the trans- sressor hard. There may be times when the finger print experts, are at fault, but it doesn't happen often.
 As . case in point, ss persons had positively identified B. M. Ellsworth of Chicago as John Harvey. . suspect in an automobile swindlc. After being taken to sail to await trial, Els worth's finger prints were recorded. They did not correspond with the finger prints of Harvey, which were on file. Ellsworth was promptly discharged.
 '"The most startling proof of human fallibility I have ever seen," said the judge. It is prob able that the finger print experts merely smiled Thirty-eight people may swear a man is some- boy else, and be wrong. Finger prints don't lie
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
PLANS CHILDREN PICTURES

"The members of the Better Film association are planning to form similar organization at Avondale for the purpose of having special nov ing picture matinees for the children" said Mrs. Neil Wallace, secretary of the local organ izaton.
 According to the plans childrens matinees will be held every Friday afternoon when spe- cial pictures will be shown, and indications are that this plan will meet with success, as much interest is being manifested in it. A similar organization has been formed at Ensley and the matinees being attended by large number of children. These matinees are held at the Strand theatre on Saturday morning and each week splendid program is arranged for this occasion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE FORD
 OFFER FOR MUSCLE SHOALS PROPER TIES

1T7HE Henry Ford offer for Muscle Shoals, as J submitted to Congress by Secretary Weeks, is undoubtedly a great thing for this section of the south.
 On the other hand, as a whole Mir. Ford is asking much from the government and is ex- Power company.
 The bid calls for his requirement from the government of the Gorgas steam plant, which was first built by the Alabama Power company and added to by the government during the excitement of war. The Alabama Power com pany is now operating this plant and it seems to be absolutely necessary for the power com pany to have it to supply the current it has contracted for during low water periods in the Coosa river.
 This plant is some 90 miles from Muscle Shoals. It is connected by power line. But this plant is also connected with the Alabama Power company's lines running throughout the state, and which supply the factories and the mines and all sorts of manufacturing enter prises in the state with electric power Should the government give this steam plant to MT. Ford, the Alabama Power company would be seriously embarrassed, and naturally it will fight for what it has always considered it's own. t <
 MT. Fords bid to the government, which in- cludes this Gorgas steam plant, is emphatic in that the government was to accept his entire proposal none of it.
 This will be serious problem before Con- gress-to take away from an actual going con- cern. keeping the industries of this state in op- eration, it's source of power, to include it more or,less gift to a prospective concern which cannot get in full operation for several years. In other words, can the government afford, by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
WOULD APPLY WORK TEST

Now that the same or other unemployed men are Hooking to the city hall and spending most of their time there these days think the work test should be applied to them," said H. E. Oli- yer, manager of the federal-municipal employ ment bureau.
 car of coal or sand to unload would come and offer to put them to work, then we could see if they really are looking for work. Then, if they are not, it would seem proper that they be made to leave town, for it is terrible to have such crowd of men lying around on the floor of the city hall all during the day as well as night"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Ex-sERvIcE MEN WORKING HARD

It has been very gratifying to the way ployment have taken hold of the work of secur- ing members for the Birmingham Automobile club, on which they get a percentage" said Rufus H. Bethea, director of the employment bureau. "These boys have been out of work for long time and they certainly are glad to get something to do. to bring in some money to the exchequer. The only trouble they have had has been rather indifferent attitude of the public in some cases, but this has not dis mayed them. They have gone right on just as they did when they were over there in the thick of the fight when the World war was at its height
 Every automobile owner in Birmingham ough to be member of the Birmingham Auto mobile club and if those who are not members would join, the ex-service men would do we'll
 Charles G. Davis, president of the Auto mobile club, told me yesterday that W. C. Crenshaw came into the offices of the club carrying the yellow tag which had been attached to his car by one of the ex-seryice men, ce- minding him that he was not member of the Automobile club and so he said he wanted 10 join. Will one of these ex-service men get the benefit of the percentage if join this way? he asked. And assured by Mir Davis that one of the ex-service men would get his share of the membership dues, Mir. Crenshaw paid his $10 and got his membership. That's the spirit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05

an act of Congress, to more or less smash the Alabama Power company and the manufactur- ing interests of Alabama to humor MT. Ford in his big Muscle Shoals proposition?
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 As MT. Ford's proposition reads, it would { pear that he wants everything or nothing, a that he would deprive the Alabama Power con pany of it's present main source of continue electric current-the Gorgas steam plant. Tn does not look fair to the writer CongreS should find means of adjusting the matter b tween the Ford interests and those controllr the Alabama Power company, which has becom one of the greatest developers of Alabama It would strike the fair-minded man that MrN Ford should be satisfied with the water power| development which the government is to pay for that he may operate it on a small rental
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 The Gorgas plant was the work of the Ala bama Power company, built by it, with govern ment aid The Alabama Power company has operated it all the time. It is necessity with this company. Therefore, why should the gov- ernment dump it in, so to speak, as more or less, of gift to Mir. Ford, when the Detroit man recently said in a published interview that ht was opposed to steam power electric plants and wanted to have nothing to do with such?
 The Ford Muscle Shoals proposal by itself is undoubtedly great one for this section of the country and for the interests of the govern ment, but there is limit to that which the gov ernment should turn over to him. And the Gorgas steam plant would seem in honesty and justice to be outside of that limit
 Let MT. Ford take over Muscle Shoas-we' are all for it-but don't let us in our eagerness to get Mir. Ford's money and industry down here, strangle the Alabama Power company.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
NEWSPAPER MEN
From the Washington Star.


 The tragic death of Lewis Strayer of the Pittsburg Dispatch and Chauncey Brainerd of the Brooklyn Eagle removes two figures from Washingtons newspaper. life whose loss will be widely and deeply deplored. Personally unos- tentatious, as befitted men whose chosen occu- patton is to study events not for purposes of sef-exploitation but for public information they were nevertheless known, admired and be- loved by far greater circle of friends and read CTS than they themselves probably realized. The warm affection in which they were held by all with whom duty or friendship brought them into contact was reward even more to be valued than the sincere recognition so freely accorded their attainments in highly respon- sible field of journalistic service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
HISTORIC EPISODE

Have you any historic spots about here?"
 "Yes,' said Squire Witherbee. "Right across tn street you will observe tn Palace barber shop
 T don't quite get your idea. What hap pened there?'
 "Durin' tn World war tn vigilance commit tee of Chiggersville cornered old Deacon Skin ner there an made him buy $1Oo worth ot Liberty bonds.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
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A SYMBOL OF OPPRESSION

Pa, will you help me with my lessons?"
 What have you got to do, son?' asked Mr. Bibbles.
 Teacher wants me to write composition the camel.
 I'll write it for you, son. It will be a pleas ure to cast some mean aspersions on that beast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
ONE WEAKNESS

What became of that efficiency expert you had?"
 q had to let him go'' said Mir. Dubwaite.
 Wasn't he a sharp fellow?'
 ''He seemed to know great deal about card- indexing and all that sort of thing but my COIL fidence in him was shaken when I saw that he never could remember where he put his hat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
THE REAL WOMAN EATERS


 Coatroom girls and theatrical managers, saleswomen and doctors, walters and travel bureaus, Pullman porters and beauty specialists, telephone girls and tailors, cooks and Beatrice Fairfax, hairdressers and husbands, pomerani- ans and hotel clerks, subway guards and sea captains, policemen and lifesavers, goldfish and editors--in fact those who understand them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
AN AERIAL PERFORMANCE

"All you have to do, said the movie director, "is to fall off this cliff
 ''And you call that artr' sneered the movie actor.
 ''It will be first-rate art if you'll just turn over two or three times before you reach your objective"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
AND IT WOULD BE

q think you will do for our stenographer, but there is-er-one other formality you'll have to go through before give you the place"
 "And what is that?" asked the fair but naughty typist.
 My wife must see you'
 'I don't want the job. If I met with her approval I'd consider it a reflection on my per sonal appearance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 I wish to say to you and all the world that raise my hand and voice against the dance, at home or abroad from this time forth and even forevermore. Yours very truly,
 MRS. LAURA c. BAILEY. Oxford, R. F. D. No. 5, January 31, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A LITTLE TOLERANCE. PLEASE

Why not concede That what we need
 To make this world fairer place Is men who're kind And less inclined
 i. To pick flaws in the human race?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
HE WAS THERE

"Was the party at Jagsbys house success "I judge so."
 Where did you get your information?" From an ambulance driver"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
ELEVATION WITH A PURPOSE

Whats the gossip in Washington
 Tt is rumored that another militant states man will shortly be promoted to a position where he can't hit back"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
ON TRoLLY CARS, FOR INSTANCE

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald makes strong plea for good manners in the theatre. Manners outside the theatre could stand little improve ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
FALLEN MoNARCHs

Time was when crowned heads used to keep Their subjects in dread apprehension; But now, exiled, can scarcely sleep For fear thy'll lose modest pension.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
FEMININE FARE

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 A St. Louis woman wants someone to es- tablish a bread line for women. And serve pmento sandwiches?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
A WISE PEDESTRIAN

."I'm never scornful of advice,''
 Remarked Elisha Hodge; "When motorists 'honk' once or twice I know it's time to dodge"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-05
OPPOSED TO DANCING

Birmingham, February 8, 1922.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-08-01

above the nzxiuzm- II cozId not 20
higher than E5 per eezt: bat the CON
pensztory duty On zeeo11t Of the
Egyptian COTTON is not embraced m
that Hnftztio.. and the eompenzz-
tion duty according to the calculation
that I have here, made By the expert,
So1ld amount TO 4 per cent II there
was Egyptian cotton ased in the
cloth. which. add TO the As per
cent would make - per cent. a.
against 20 per cent under the pres
snf law
As cotton cloth can Be made more
eheapIy in America than in any 9TH
er country in the world. and there
can. therefore. be no reason for the
tariff except TO enable American
manufacturers to tar the American
home, the special hardship and in
iquity Of this tariff on ginghzns be
comes gIaringIy APPARENT The above
however, covers only single item
The tariff On cotton is intended to
increase the price on all kinds and
grades Of this universally used prod
uct In anticipation Of the passage
Of this measure prices have already
been advanced.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-08-01
HONEY pnlLosoenY Foe 1saz

The best ~sy 70 entertain 4 man
f. not % entertain him at all Don't
make yourself q fo1r-H1sher Sy nv
Ing him q better dinner than you al
-zys have. Bat give him what you
have chssrfuIly. Then, too. your
guest knows you're got 20 work for
= living and have IOts Of things 70 DO,
20 90 an % EN-. telling your friend
% DO exactly what most pleasss him
til you get finished
Don't be afraid % say what you
think and don't agree If you don't
agree. but don't expect your guest
70 agree with you because you're en-
tertainin' him. Just widen out Let
Love an Tolerance be King and
Queen Of the home while the guest
IL with you, ana then maybe you will
not be able 70 throw them out after
he's gone.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-08-01
s-cUssEs AGAIN
ATTACKS PUBLISHERS

In the coEloq1y ever the wool
sehe11Ie. not only did seriozs dfEer-
ezees arise eoEeernfng the rates in
that schedule, but q serious differ
e1es arose over what defeated Mr.
Taft for the presideney. According
TO Senator Lenrotf. Republican. Wis
eonzfn, the exOrbftznt rates in the
Psyne-AIdrich bin defeated the Re
publican party, the exorbitznt rates
n schedule X IN particular, but, ze-
eordirg 20 Senator NcCamber, Re
publican, NORTH Dakota, Who Is
przcticing in writing ~Ex-" as . pre-
hx to his title. the Republican party
vas defeated By the newspaper and
magazine publishers Senator Nc
Cumber not only charged them with
defeating the Republican party. but
fnferentizIly with the most selfish
motives. With vindictfveness and re-
venge He said:
4 probably could call attention to
some other things which defeated
Taft but I will state one thing that
The Republicans did I'm 1903 which
was their Undoing- They refused to
put print paper upon the free list;
that was the real crime Every
great newspaper in the United
States was in favor Of free print pa
per. and through their organization
and the president of the publishers
association they put this matter up
to the committee. It is no secret
They said in substance: Give US free
print paper and we win support the
administration refuse to give it. and
we will destroy you IL we can Wen.
we took our chances-there were not
very many towards on the Republi-
can side in those days-and we re-
fused to give them free print paper
and suffered defeat more for this
cause than for any other. We stood
for principle and TO the extent that
this refusal assisted in our undoing;
we died for principle. That is the
real thing that was back Of the de-
feat Of the Republican party in 1912.
That was the one thing that brought
the great press OF the country against
him"
Fortunately, the newspaper and
magazine press is able to care for
itself in the matter Of Republican at
taeks.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-08-01
WAVING A PRINCIPLE

The ending of the railroad strike
will be welcomed BY public weary
Of being the victim Of the eontrover
sizes between union employees and
public service corporations Business
men. eager to see the channels Of
transportation open again, will gen
orally agree that commerce viii
gain by the decision of the railroad
heads to compromise on the senior
ity issue. Indeed there viii be many
who viii think that high ground has
been taken in the employers report
ed assertion that the principle involv
ed has been waived for the greater
good Of the country and at the com
mand OF the president"
But waving an issue is not meet
ing it; evading a principle is not set
ting the point involved. Even if
the operators can excuse themselves
TO themselves for breaking faith with
the men who accepted employment
under promise Of protection OF SEN
iority rights. they must realize that
there has been no settlement Of a
question that demands definite an
swer. II seniority is to mean any
thing its status must be established
in relation TO those who voluntarily
leave their work. and to those who
step in to MI the places vacated
Contracts with non-uniOn men are
contracts and promises TO these men
cannot be broken lightly.
The operators. If waving a princi-
Pile. would seem to have yielded to
the strikers as well as to the amiable
desire OF the president; but under
meath IL all is a lesson for the unions.
That this lesson has been learned.
there is hardly a doubt The point is
that public sentiment is OVerwhelm-
ingly against any labor movement
that cripples the public service. It
was displayed by all who suffered
from the loss in earning power Of
those who live by wages.
Public sentiment rules the land. Il
Is against strikes and in favor of am
cable adjustment OF dinerences.--l
Louisville Times.
The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-08-01
LsnRoor SHEARS eoopINe

One Of the out-givings on the tar
IN in the senate debate, which at
trzcted assAtiaa- not by any merit
Of its OWE. but by reason Of the
statements il provoked in disproof
and eontroyention. was by Senator
Gooding Republican, Idaho. on the
wool schedule The kind of speech
Senator Gooding delivered many be
inferred from the fact that he him
self is a large wool grower and also
by remarks of Senator Robinson.
Democrat. Arkansas. to the effect
that Senator Gooding had read his
speech, thereby showing his unfamil-
izrity with the subject
The GOOding speech provoked
comment by Senator Lenrott, Repub-
lican. Wisconsin, which is worthy of
serious attention- The Wisconsin
senator characterized Senator Good
ing as "unwittingIy the greatest en-
emy that the wool grower and farm
er have today, because of the poll
cies which he advocates Among
other things. he said:
The senator wants an embargo
upon everything that We produce,
and il that policy could be carried
into effect he would strike a blow at
every wheat grower in America, at
every farmer in America. He must
have a foreign market for his sur
plus Where does the senator think
that Europe is to get the money or
the credits to purchase the surplus
wheat, corn and agricultural products
of America if We are going to build
a tariff wall so high that nothing can
come in with which TO pay for those
products?
He is willing, he says, that We put
a tariff wall so high that Europe can
not establish any credits here: that
Europe cannot pay US for any of our
surplus products. He is willing to
drive Europe to Australia and South
America to purchase all of it's wheat.