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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
BRITAIN's UNKNOWN SOLDIER

P. w. Wilson, in the North American Review.
 With the cenotaph in Whitehall, "To the Glorious Dead" I was impressed far more deeply than could have thought possible. had not realized the touches of sombre radiant color yielded by the flags, motionless as senti- nels, nor the banks of flowers, perpetually re- newed by the rich and poor-wreaths and crosses and humble punches of wild blossoms that for weeks at time have stretched across Whitehall and forced the police to divert the traffic from that busy avenue. In the Abbey one heard, usual, the guides droning their rigamarole about kings and queens long ago dead and gone, but there did not need to be any guide to the simple stone in the nave, beneath which lay, in French soil brought with him, the ever unknown soldier. All day and every day, crowds gather around that spot and finger over the grave, with faces bent and eyes often averted from observation Very pathetic were these emotions among people reckoned to be so reserved as the English.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
FLORIDA GOING INTO SUGAR
 MAKING BUSINESS

The Pennsylvania Sugar company has let a contract for a large sugar mill to be built at Miami, Fla. The mill will be located there be- cause it is believed that Florida cane is suited to conversion into high-grade sugar.
 Floridiaus are much eated over the new enterprise and are making the most roseate pre- dictions of the development of the sugar making industry in that state. The south feels dis tinet interest in the undertaking and naturally feels that it is going to be a success.
 Florida and Cuba have similar climate. There is no reason why Florida cane should not possess the qualities of Cuban cane if property cultivated In case Florida does develop a large sugar industry, it will not only add to the wealth of that state, but it will serve the Bir- mingham district whose sugar mill firms will naturally get larger share of the sugar house building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09

will be soon and the entire program will be finished before the year is over.
 The Woodlawn High school will open this month and will relieve congestion at the tenn porary quarters of the Central High school The foundation of the Phillips High school, which is to be the name of the new Central High school, are completed and the super structure will soon begin to rise. The cost of educating children comes high, but it is bur den that is borne with cheerfulness. Extra taxes for school purposes have been voted by the poorest men in the poorest sections of Alabama with the same majorities that were cast for them in more prosperous communities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
"BO" M'MILLIN'S SALARY

From the Chattanooga Times.
 "Bo McMillin," observes the Nashville Ban- ner "has been offered a salary of $10,000 a year to teach the students of a southern univer- sity to play football. It is more than double what regular professors get, but they only train the mnds.' Perhaps this does not mean pre- cisey what Nashville neighbor may nfer McMillin knows how to teach football, and there are not many professors who have the gift while there many, very many, who are ca pablo of training the mind. Perhaps the princi pie of supply and demand may be invoked in be- half of the southern university willing to make this distinction in the value of the two kinds of teachers. Healthy minds in healthy bodies" has come to an accepted formula for educa- tional institutions. We are disposed to credit that southern university with the right sort of progressive spirit. If it should be necessary to, pay athletic trainer of the right sort as much as $10,000, then the money will not be wasted Later on, when more athletes enter the training field, salaries may come down; but it is hardly fair to compare the salaries of the regular professors" with those Of efficient phy- sica directors. The moon looks down on many university professors" but the university rarely has opportunity to see more than lone moon."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
LETTERS TO EDITOR
LITTLEToN ANp BoNp ISSUE
he Editor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Please say through the columns of your pa per, that the voters and citizens of Littleton, will get together tonight to formulate plans to push the good road bond issue over in good style. After canvassing the district we predict landslide in beat for this cause, which we believe to be one of the most important moves made in Alabama in years. This bond issue if carried, will not only give us good roads, but will be a great help in assisting in the stim- ulation of good confidence among business men in our state; will also put people to work who have been unable to secure work
 And as this bond will be paid by taxes de- rived from automobile and automobile licenses, unable to see why any man, who thinks before he votes, afford to vote against the bonds whether he has an automobile or not If he has no auto it costs him nothing. And If he has auto he wants good road, it makes no difference what it costs.
 I feel that all the state will look at the mat ter in the same way that we do,-and vote the bond over in 100 per cent American way. Here's for the bond issue. Your truly,
 L. K. BOWEN,
 Iitteton January r 1922
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09

From the Selma Times-Journal.
 Rev. Dr. Perley Baker, general superinten- dent of the Anti-Saoon League groups together the wet" newspaper and venia judges and of- ficials and the "asinine" attitude of Congress as the great obstacles in the way of the enforce ment of the prohibition laws. We think Dr. Baker very "wide of the mark" in his diagnosis. Men are not going to be cured of their bibulous propensities by what some newspaper says or thinks of the Volstead act. Neither is Congress to blame for the abortive results achieved in some localities in the enforcement of the prohi- bition laws Congress has repeatedly shown that the prohibition "bloc" was invincible and had it's way both in the defeat and furtherance of legislation responsive to it's desire. It is a sad commentary to have to make but it is none the less an obstructive truth that the era of total abstinence which nationwide prohibition was designed to usher in, has not arrived There is wild orgy of drinking in many places and the illicit making of the innumerable distilla- tions and brews goes on without let or hindrance in almost every direction The conditions are saddening to the well-wishers of the human race. Prohibition may ultimately command the obe- dience and respect of the masses of the people and the evasion or wanton nfraction of the law may be visited with public condemnation, but that halycon time has not yet arrived Drinking is not prohibited, but seems to be as widely prevalent as ever, and to some extent un- controlabe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
RESPECT FOR UNCLE SAM

Taking eight federal prisoners from county jail to the federal building unassisted gives one kind of ticklish feeling" says Deputy United States Marshal T. N. Cottrell.
 ''That was my job Saturday afternoon but everything went fine There is great respect for Uncle Sam and at times I have had charge of as high as a dozen men at one time and there never was any disposition shown to break away.
 "After the men were bound over to the grand jury 1 had the assistance of two other officers to take only five men back to the jail, but the fact they had been committed by the court made a different aspect and might have given the men a different attitudeo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
DISTRICT GENEROUS TO
 ITS CHILDREN

The school children of Birmingham and lief ferson county have in 1922 additional acconmo- dations completed under way valued at nearly $3,0o0o0o.
 The county expended in building new schools and altering old ones total of SPA ,O83. The city gave it's school children two new high schools, several grammar schools and addi- tions to old ones, the total value of which is $2,645,0oo. Not all of this work has been completed. but what has not been completed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
A JEAN DeREszKE ANEcDoTE

T. P O'Connor, in the London Daily Telegraph.
 Jean de Reszke is a great gentleman, not merely as one of an ancient, historical Polish family, but in his own dignity of character and living at Nice.
 He found himself naturally at home within social portals then inaccessible to the world of artists; he an aristocrat among the most aristocratic. He insisted on this, not blatantly of course he would not have been an aristo- crat if he had; but in the important particular that he accepted remuneration only when he appeared on the stage; never as a guest of society.
 A little aneedote of the time will illustrate how DeReszke insisted on thus remaining guest. A great financier invited him and his brother to of his great banquets, and at the end, naturally, the artists were asked to sing. They did so. Then the host, who was generosity tself-it was, in fact the late Alfred de Rothchid-presented them two blank checks.
 Herewith dilemma; on the one hand two proud aristocrats asked to break their rule of accepting fee for performance in social life, on the other an act of seeming rudeness in refusing what was meant to be compliment from a host.
 They settled the matter by accepting the checks, and sending them back next day blank and torn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
RIDGECREsT HAS FINE SITE

"Ridgecrest where the Southern Baptist as- sembly holds it's summer educational sessions, has of the most beautiful sites in the south," says Dr. J. E. billiard, pastor of the South Side Baptist church, who is chairman of the executive committee of the assembly.
 1.-The buildings and grounds of the assembly are on the crest of mountain, the tunnel of the railway running underneath the property. This is the highest point the railway reaches for many miles. It is Il miles from Asheville, N. c.
 '.The election of Dr. Albert R. Bond of Bir- mingham as secretary of this assembly is met with much favor here. I have spoken on the program for four years at Ridgecrest and hope to speak again this year."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
CAPT. NETTIE JOHNSON

From the New York Herald.
 In those romantic Mississippi river days of which he wrote so interestingly and which he so heartily enjoyed Mark Twain perhaps never imagined that one of his successors in the steam boat pilot house would be woman-a woman with masters and a pilots license, woman who would be a boat builder and owner of river packet line and who would know every crook and turn and every humor of the treach- erous old Father of Waters as well as any maa who ever stood at steamboat wheel. That woman came succeeded beyond the expectation of her friends and passed away few days ago; to Memphis, where she lived, she Mrs. l. F. Johnson, and to every river man from captain to roustabout she was Captain Nethe, Johnson.
 Even as a girl the Mississippi had strange fascination for her. Soon after her marriage she went with her husband to operate small packet line on the St. Francis and White rivers. She was fond of the business and she returned to Memphis and built boat of her own, to which she gave her name. Then she applied tl the federal steamboat inspectors for a pilots license She knew the streams on which she had travelled as she knew the way around her house, she knew thoroughly the pilots duties, and besides she knew all the federal laws governing river navigation. There was nothing else to do but to grant hep application. At first the license was limited to the tributaries of the Mississippi but it was extended in few months to this river above and below Memphis.
 The Nettie Johnson sank on winter night in 1913; it was caught in an ice foe on the St. Francis and a big cake dug hole in the hull. When all her crew, her dog and her cat were taken off, and the water had reached the pilot house Captain Nettie got into the lifeboat andl struggled with the ice the remainder of the night to get to the shore She replaced the lost boat and increased her fleet. At the time of her death she had steel boats on the ways and was the owner of several large boats on the Mssis- sippi and smaller boats and ferries on it's trib- utaries
 SHe was not averse to taking part in any of the packet line wars of the lower Mississippi. As she was of the best informed persons in the business on river conditions she usually won She won, she said, because "every time I gave the public a square deal" She took to steam boating from true enjoyment of it, but in recent years she gave more attention to the social du- ties which her large acquaintance imposed. Memphis likes to tell of her attending an after noon tea and then, putting her oiskins and rubber coat, going down to the docks and su- perntendng the loading of her boats. Her language may have lacked the peculiar force fulness of that of the river bosses, but no cap tain got more work than she did out of her crews.
 At the time of her death Captain Nettie Johnson was the only woman who had pilot') and captains license for operating steam boats the Mississippi river. With her pass ing the big river lost most picturesque charac- ter. And there appears at present no sue cessor to her among the women of the Missis sipp valley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
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From the Chicago News
 Many mans cowardice has kept him from getting in bad.
 Loves young dream has been known to de velop into insomnia.
 Winners never have any fault to find with referees decisions.
 Lots of people would rather say nothing than speak kind word.
 A well-trained conscience gives it's possessor no evidence of it's existence
 Political vindication frequently means that the people have been fooled again.
 The tightrope walker is all there when it comes to the straight and narrow path
 Many woman trusts man with her affec- tions who wouldn't lend him 30 cents in cash.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
MRS. COOPER SEES SCOTT

From the Fenimore Cooper Letters-in the Yale
 Review.
 We saw Sir Walter Scott repeatedly while he was in Pars-He was with us several times, and treated MT. Cooper, like son or younger brother, in the same vocation--He~ is giant in form, as he is one in iterature-to you who are craniologists, must mention that his head is uncommonly high and narrow-He is very gray-and has fine florid, healthy appear ance-He talks great deal and quotes old ballads, and Shakespeare very happily and pleasantly-and to this will add that he has quite rustic appearance-and still further, but this is for your private ear alone--that he put me in mind of one of our country Presby- terian Parsons-Altogether- looks like a man of powerful mind-kind and amable, as if he liked fun-and withal very countrified
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
TREES
By Clarence ousley.

By Clarence Ousley.
 Trees are the arms of mother earth lifted up in worship of her maker where they are, beauty dwells Trees are the shelter of man, beast and bird; they furnish the roof above us, the shade about us, and the nesting places of love and song. They call children out to play; they en- tce sweethearts into leafy converts to seal their vows with fond caresses; they console and grate- fully reward old age. They are the fittest or naments of wealth and the inalienable posses sion of the poor who can enjoy them without having title to them. They are the masts that fly the flags of all nations and the sails of all seas; they are the timbers that bridge forbid ding streams; they bear the wires of the worlds intelligence; they hold the rails that carry the traffic of the continents; they are the carved and polished furnishings of the home; they cradle the young and coffin the dead. Trees herald the spring with glorious banners of leaf and bloom; they clothe the autumn in gar ments of gold and royal purple; barred to the winters cold they the harp of the winds, and they whisper the music of the infinite spaces
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
FAVOR FIFTH AVENUE WATERWAY

'We have interested practically every prop erty holder on Fifth avenue from the Terminal to the postoffice in the Civitan whiteway plan, :" says Floyd Whitman.
 "Even the out of town property owners are willing and anxious that Fifth avenue would be emblazoned by night lights of high power.
 "The transition to business thoroughfare is noticeable. New business enterprises are go- ing in every day on Fifth avenue. We are looking forward to the time that stores Will flank each side of the street from the Terminal to the Tutwiler"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
POSTAGE STAMP SALE INCREASES

"More postage stamps have been bought during the first few days of this month than for any previous period in years" said Post master R. B. Symer, land business has started off very briskly. You know it is always said that the sale of stamps is the barometer for business and if this is the case then the business men of Birmingham preparing for increased businss. Of course, during the depres- sion of the past few months business was not good during other years when all plants in the district were operating 100 per cent, but the new year has started off with rush and sincerely hope it continues to improve as it has during the first week of 1922.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
QUALIFIED
From the Argonaut.

In western city, just before an election for city officers, one of the candidates, a MT. Grow, a very fat man who aspired to be council man from his ward, made house-to-house can vass soliciting votes. At place his knock brought forth young and frisky dog, which leaped through the open door when it was opened by the lady of the house, and ran the candidate off the porch and down the front walk toward the gate.
 The woman at the door, knowing the dog to be harmless, called to the fleeing candidate, What are you running for MT. Grow?"
 And MT. Grow, with the office in his mind even in the presence of danger, called back between gasps, Councilman of this ward madamw
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
WHEN A PRESIDENT SHAKES HANDS

From the Chicago News.
 Restoring the good old-fashioned political amenities at Washington, as President and Mrs. Harding are doing, involves certain physical hardships. At a recent White House reception the presidential pair shook hands with 6,576 visitors. Although they came through the ordeal very well, they confess, according to Washington dispatches, to a slight fatigue in the muscles of their hands and arms
 Most successful Americans have some expert in the reception line, but only the Presi- dent comes to grips with armies of handshakers. 1t has always been considered serious ordeal so much so that President Grant, veteran sol dier that he was, brought strategy to bear. William " Ellsworth in his "reminiscences de- scribes New Haven reception to Grant which, as a small boy, he attended with his grandfather "Grandfather shook the generals hand long and ardently," he relates. .'We passed on and, looking back 1 saw that local celebrity-Col. George P Bissell-was standing behind General Grant and with his arm thrust under the gen. erals, was shaking hands with the guests. My boyish delight in knowing that all that time my grandfather had been pumping the hand of Col. George P. Bissell lasted for years"
 Surely it was wise in the man of Shiloh to save his hands for use in signing important documents and to allow professional hand shaker to serve as his social adjutant. This innocent imposture provides an interesting pre- who find the reception line too arduous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
ECHOES

3y Thomas Moore.
 How sweet the answer echo makes. To music at night When reused by lute or horn, she wakes And far away Der lawns and lakes Goes answering light; Yet love hath echoes truer far And far more sweet Than e'er, beneath the moonlights star, Of horn or lute or soft guitar The songs repeat 'Tis when the sigh-in youth sincere And only then,
 The sight that's breathed for one to hear Is by that one that only dear Breathed back again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
APPRECIATES ARTICLE

"The department of education is appreciative of the article written by Miss Mignon Hall rela- tive to rehabilitation in Alabama" said Hugh c. Grant, supervisor of industrial rehabilitation. "The article was most admirably written up and will go a long way in getting the work before the people,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
DISTINCTION WITH SAFETY

From the Houston Post.
 An Alabama motorist lost his life trying 10 lower track record. You never hear of any body losing his life trying to lower the record for blowing a 300-yard furrow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
A MORNING PRAYER

0 help me to think not of my burdens, Lord but of thy strength, which is greater than all the burdens of the world, and mine when call upon thee. Amen.-M s. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09

Whose good manners shall lie all in one or two mems hands, and they unwash'd too, lis foul thing. Romeo and Juliet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09
DRINKING DIFFICULT TO CHECK

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-09

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