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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02

The approaching circus informs it's con stituents, young and od that it will arrive time, regardless of the rail strike. If 1t is delayed the horrors of industrial warfare will be brought home to a great many individuals who haven't worried much about it so far. There are all kinds of ways to make" the front page The picture of a Philadelphia woman is being published all over the country because King Alfonso of Spain said he liked her looks.
 Lincoln J. Carter's Midnight Mail' has been done into a movie. It will never be able to thrill us again as it used to do when we munched peanuts in the gallery. Jeannette Rankin of Montana seems to have been defeated in her race for the Senate. Jeannette wept away her political career when she was a member of the House. Gen. Baron Peter Wrangle may not be mak- ing much history these days, but nothing can take from him the knowledge that he is six feet four inches tall.
 The author of "Green Mansions" is dead. He should be gratefully remembered for his books and the fact that he didn't exploit himself on the lecture platform.
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 Marshal Foch wants to know if Germany has permanently abandoned militarism. He might ask Von Hindenburg and von Luden- dorff
 The Edgewater, N. J., movie murder is de- scribed as "sordid" Even so, the details are not being withheld fromIan expectant public. Old salts returning from Cuba say radio fizz" is the "cat's collar among drinks Old salts usually know whereof they speak.
 
 Pittsburg's chief of police thinks Pittsbufg girls are above smoking on the streets. He's apt to be sadly dsillusoned.
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 Instead of trying to find the most beautiful woman in America, why doesn't some altruist try to locate the best cook?
 When the Mexicans develop few star pitch CTS and kings of swat it will be harder than ever to start revolution.
 A French connoisseur says the short skirt will return in 1925 more abbreviated than ever. It doesn't seem possible.
 Some of the witnesses at Herrin are showing reluctance to testify and very un-American dislike of publicity.
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 We still have army in the United States,t but it wouldn't take very long to pass given point.
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 Mir. Arbuckle departed from shores with no applause and few good wishes
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 There are still surprising number of peo- pie who vote for Cole Blease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
ONE GOOD PLAY THAT DESERVES TO LIVE

The Chicago Herald and Examiner observes that Frank Bacon and "Lightnin' " will soon celebrate their first anniversary in Chicago. It will be remembered that this play enjoyed a record-breaking run in New York, and had it stayed there might still be drawing full houses.
 "A years run here is at all times thing so as to amazament,' continues the Herald and Examiner. "A years run with the theatrical business at the low ebb it has reached is astounding. good many years ago some body asked Wilkie Collins-remember The Woman in White'?-how to put together successful novel. Said Collins, Easy, make 'em laugh; make emery; make 'em wait That is what Lightnin'' does, with Frank Bacon in 1t. Without him-well, we'll wait till we see a road company"
 MT. Bacon deserves all the fame he has earned by his portrayal of "Lightnn" Bill Jones, but if he is any better than Milton Nobles, who played the part in the road com pany, he must be wonder, indeed Frankly, we don't think he is. Theatre patrons who have seen both actors in this role say there is little to choose between them. Both are delightful is one of the most appealing Amer ican plays ever written.
 "Lightnin' " is proof that clean plays can be financially profitable and popular Did any ever tire of seeing Joe Jefferson play Rip Van Winkle'? There is something about the principal character in "Lightnin' that re- minds of the lovable Rip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
BANK CLEARINGS GOING TO
 NEW HIGH RECORDS

Being based on the same number of banks in fact, the same banks-and the same method of computing clearings, the increase in Bir- mingham bank clearings, which is growing more marked each month, clearly reflects the finan- cial improvement of the district.
 The increase of 13,OoO,o 900 in clearings in June compared with last year was followed by one of S1S,Oo0,000 in July and one of more than $22,00o,000 in August It was record total for August and a record monthly in- crease, being nearly 33 1-3 per cent.
 If they continue to mount during the next four months, as there seems every reason to expect with the wage advances and maximum production in mines and mills, Birmingham bank clearings will easily make new years record and land in the billion-dollar class That they will approximate that amount is prac- tical certainty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
PORTER RETURNS

John W. Porter, vice president of the Ala bama company, is at his desk again following prolonged absence, during which he enjoyed long-deferred rest. "It takes some of us a few knocks at our physical system" said Mir. Porter, "before we realize that there is limit and that we grow older. I have discovered that the body is like any other machine; after long use it has to be handled trifle more carefully than when it first came from the shop.
 "A man approaching middle age does not realize this until he receives jolt and has to render accounting. I have had my jolt and learned the lesson of going little slower as the years pile on.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
A SOLOMON ISLAND WEDDING

From Head-Hunting Through the Magic Eye,
 by Edward A. Salisbury in Asia Magazine.
 No clergyman ties the knot; no Lohengrin motif fills the air at Vella Lavella marriage ceremony. The little brde-to-be, the most at tractive and talented actress I could find for the role on Vella Lavella, is standing in the doorway of her fathers house, as she would stand if she were actually being married The husband is selected according to the number of pigs and the amount of shell money he can pay for the girl, who goes to the highest bidder, without having word 10 say in the matter. The father, by touching the presents, signifies that he has accepted them. The marriage cere- mony is then over. The one missionary on the island has naturally opposed the practice of selling brides. The natives were quick to learn this and flockee to the mission station to marry the mission girls, because they did not have to pay for them But the fathers of these girls created lively disturbance, be- cause they felt they were being cheated out of the customary presents. Finally the mis- sionary forced to compromise. He per mitted the father to receive the presents, pro- vided the daughter was married in church. Then he would tell the groom that he was now a mission man and must live at the mission ana work at gathering copra.
 But the rebcllious husband often took his bride back to his village.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
FARMERS PAYING BACK
 MONEY LOANED

In the first 15 days of August repayments received by the war finance corporation amounted to $6,S23 ,OOO. In the same period loans amounting to $867,000 on 39 farm CO., operative projects were approved. Nearly eight times as much money was returned after having fulfilled it's mission as was advanced.
 The showing is a good one. It is evidence that the farm cooperative corporations have been placed on their feet, hence the demand for aid is becoming less, while the advances have been used with such success that the CO., operative concerns are able to return the amount borrowed.
 The plan of financing the farmers of the country on a basis of business and self-respect seems to be working well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
COMPENSATION CLAIM LAWS

"There quite number of soldiers in Bir- mingham and other cities who are not familiar with the laws governing claims for compensa- tions that should be enlightened in this respect and which prompts me to state the fundamental or main laws" said J. o. Buzbee, formerly of Birmingham who has charge of the United States veteran bureau in Minneapolis Minn.
 "A period of five years from the date their discharge is, the time given by the gov ernment to disabled soldiers of the World war in which to file their claim for all compensa- tions.
 '"rhe importance of filing claims at the earliest possible time cannot be too greatly stressed. This is illustrated by the fact that the time for all claims for free dental, medical and hospital treatment has already lapsed, of which great many soldiers were unaware. Under the law claims for treatment for dls- ability rated as less than 10 per cent must have been filed prior to August 9, 1922, or prior to expiration of one year after date of dls- charge from service. Further information on this subjct may be gotten by addressing Tom Calvert, care of the United States Veteran Bu- reau in the Jefferson County Bank building"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
A MORNING PRAYER
x JEFFERSON COUNTY LOSES USEFUL. CITIZEN

The death of Isaac Wellington McAdory, lifelong educator and for 23 years county su- perntendent of education, removes one of Jef- ferson county's most useful and progressive citizens. Although in i'll health during the last seven years of his life, Professor McAdory never lost interest in the upbuilding of the splendid public school system of this county and exerted his wide influence in supporting those who believed in keeping up the standard
 lie was Confederate soldier and member of the legislature which first elected John T. Morgan to the United States Senate. He edu- cated many of the most successful and dis tinguished citizens of Alabama at Pleasant Hill and the other places where he taught school for 23 years. No boy was too poor to attend his school, because, if the boy had nothing, he charged nothing.
 Professor McAdory's life was long and filled with good deeds, and it was fitting that he should pass away in the shadow of his birth place and the scene of his early educational activities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
DESERVED A REST

'I told Charles F. Yarn, my efficient assis- tant, to go home anywhere else he preferred for several days and take a rest" said o. L. Bum, manager of the Chamber of Commerce. "Mr. Yarn as secretary of the Alabama Mer- chants convention had his hands full before the convention and while it was in progress. He worked like beaver.a It occurred to me that it were much better to have him rest up bit before getting into the full swing of our fall campaign, which is to be brisk one.
 "The merchants convention has left fine after-taste and much of this is due to the ex- cellent service of MT. Yarn and the other mem- bers of the chamber staff who were Johnny-on- the-spot from beginning to end"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
COMMISSION ACTS FAvoRABLY

"The much-needed and lon -talked-of piece of road between Leeds and Pell City, on the Bankhead highway, has been finally passed fayorably upon by the Alabama state highway commission," said Charles c. Davis, president of the Birmingham Automobile club. "This piece of road has blocked travel between Bir- mingham and Atlanta ever since the Bank head highway was laid out. The efforts of the Birmingham Automobile club have for months been directed towards the comple- tion of this short strip, and was highly grati- fled when the project was finally entered upon the minutes of the commission
 "At present only route to Atlanta is through Springville, Attalla and Gadsden, which is very rough between these two points. This route is necessitated on account of build ing bridge and remakng several miles of road between Ashville and Gadsden.
 "1n driving to and from Montgomery note is made that most all the road has been sur veyed and staked off, indicating that work will commence as soon as bids be ac- cepted and let by the department. For gen eral information to the public the Automobile club recommends Montgomery travel to go through Wetumpka, thereby missing consider able bad road, while the distance is the same."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
EXPECT BIG CROWDS

"We are expecting large crowds to be pres ent at the Fountain Heights Methodist church Sunday, as this will mark our annual home coming day." !" said Forney Brandon. Home coming day is always gala day, and we have made much preparation. Dr. s. T Slaton, a former pastor of the church, will deliver the morning sermon, and the afternoon session will be the selections rendered by our Sunday school orchestra, of which Miss Jessie Thomp- son is leader. Among the visitors who will att tend these services will be Rev. w. M Me- Donald, Sunday school federation secretary, and Mrs. J. M. Lipscomb. department head Of the Sunday school work of the Highlands Meth odist church.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
COTTAGES IN DEMAND

Real estate is considerably on the mend" declared Frank R. Garland of the Garland Bennett Real Estate and Insurance company. People are now beginning to move in from country homes to apartments and flats in ad- vance of the coming winter. Cottages per- haps the largest item of demand and also the hardest thing to supply. There is also an urgent call for six and seven-room houses.
 Suburbs are building up, practically all cottages being occupied immediately upon completion. Both the west and north ends of Birmingham are popular residence sections, though other portions of the city are also do- ing quite bit of building Birmingham suf- fered no real summer slump in real estate and we look forward to this fall very optimistic ally"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
POINTED PARAGRAPH

From the Chicago News.
 No man becomes too shiftless to give advice
 It takes the bald man to congratulate him. self that he is not gray
 It's poor excuse woman won't take when a present goes with it.
 Love is blind. That is, it is born blind, but it soon gets its eyes open.
 The easier the job, the harder to get it. This illustrates the perversty of existence.
 The thief generally suffers in the end Even the fellow who steals kiss may be obliged to marry the girl.
 Love makes the wors go round, but it's re- venge that makes it square.
 Occasionally when man stands on his dignity someone spells it by sitting on it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
EILEAN cHoNA

By Michael Llewelyn Davies, Adopted Son of
 Sir James Barrie. Thronged on a cliff serene Man saw the sun hold red torch above the farthest seas, and the fierce island pinnacles put on in his defense their sombre panoplies; Foremost the white mists eddied, trailed and
 spun like seekers, emulous to clasp his knees, till all the duty of the scene seemed one, led by the secret whispers of the breeze. The suns torch suddenl yflashed upon his face and died; and he sat content in subject night and dreamed of an old dead foe that had sought
 and found him; beast stirred boldly in his resting place; and the cold came; Man rose to his master
 height, shivered and turned away; but the mists were
 round him.
 From "The Point of View," in the Septsm- Der Scribners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
MOVIES BAIT TO MUSIC
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.


 George Eastman who recently gave a $5,000,000 theatre to the University of Roch- ester, N. r., as a part of a school of music is not content with providing place where good music can be heard. He says he wants to share the pleasure he gets from music with others and plans to entice the public to hear t by showing motion pictures in the auditorium As a matter of fact, musicians say the movies have done more to cultivate popular appreci- ation of good music than may be imagined. The occasional playing of classic" familiar izes the public with it, and the discovery is made that good music is enjoyable as jazz, later strengthened into the conviction that, will grow upon the listener with appreciation. The efforts to familiarize the amusement go- ing public with the bette. music by concerted programs, have helped a lot.
 The Rochester patron is therefore building demonstrated lines and is reasonably sure of realization of his purpose. It is necessary, he says, that people should have an interest outside their occupation. There is more leisure than ever before, but we must know what to do with it. His contribution should produce an appreciation of an art that, popularly, has been too often degraded but which is capable of giving the keenest pleasure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
HOW CHAIN STORES SELECT LOCATIONS

Theodore H. Price, in Forbes Magazine
 Psychology is a word of vague, indefinite meaning to most people. But working knowl. edge of it is essential to success in chain store management.
 The average woman, for instance, does not realize that most of her shopping is done on the shady side of the street; but the chain store has figured this out accurately. shop catering to women which is located on the side of the street that is shady in the after trade than it's competitor located across the way Every large chain has a real estate de- partment whose duty it is to determine the comparative value of different locations, on scientific basis. This is done so accurately that an expert can estimate within two or three per cent the exact volume of yearly business that store in given location will do
 One chain has determined that 10 per cent of those who pass a drug store will enter Sixty per cent of those who enter will buy. The average sale will approximate so cents. A blouse chain has calculated that one out of every 100 women who pass one of it's shops will enter and make an average purchase of $3. With such data it is comparatively sim pie matter before acquiring a new site to de- termine the number of people who pass daily For certain commodities it is also important to estimate the class and buying power of those who pass by. If they are chiefly clerks and office workers, the purchases will be confined
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
MERCHANTS SAY HONESTY
 IS ONLY POLICY

More than 2,o00 Alabama merchants attend week placed themselves squarely on a sound footing of trade ethics and business courtesy. They lined up against dishonest and misleading advertising, against the calumny and islander of competitors, and pledged themselves to carry out these principles in the following resolu- tion:
 "We realize that honesty in advertising is not only the best policy, but the only policy to be adopted by any merchant, and that good will and confidence, the true foundation stone of any business, can only be gained and main tained by the adoption of such policy" <
 It is step forward and one that will pay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
INJUNCTION AGAINST STRIKERS
 GRANTED THE GOVERNMENT

The injunction granted to the American government in Chicago against the striking railroad shopcrafts, their officials and mem bers, shows the government is determined to exert it's authority to stop violence and insure the operation of the railroads, on which the lives of the American people depend.
 MT. Harding's threat that he would use the full power of the government to maintain transportation has been put into effect. The situation had reached point when it was question whether the government or the unions were stronger. The object of the temporary restraining order which will remain in force until September II, pending hearing of the governments application for permanent in- junction, is to put the government on record as opposing class domination in America
 "The underlying principle involved in this action," said Attorney General Daugherty in making his plea for the court order, "is the survival and supremacy of the government of the United States" Such action was neces- sary, he declared, because "there comes time in the history of all nations when the people must be advised whether they have govern ment or not No union, or combination of unions can, under our law, dictate to the American Union. When the unions claim the nate the American people, and deprive the peo- pie of the necessities of life then the govern ment will destroy the unions for the govern ment of the United States is supreme and must endure"
 Union leaders will say the government is fighting labor, but this injunction, one of the most sweeping granted in recent years, is the answer to widespread violence, the destruction of life and property and interference with the nations transportation system. Had there been no lawlessness, if the strikers had conduct ed peaceful strike, as they declared they would do and their leaders promised, then the government would have had no cause to in- terfere. If they have brought the heavy hand of the government down upon them, and thus made it certain that their strike will fail, they have only themselves to blame They arrayed public sentiment against them and now they have the federal government against them.
 The Attorney General referred in his state ment to the applications received for 10000 deputy marshas to keep down violence Spe- cial service in connection with the strike has already cost the government more than s1 ,0vv-, 900; more than $75,Ooo,ooO worth of fruit ana ywoduce in California has been destroyed be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
STARING HIS FEELINGS

"Would you say MT. Spenderby is getting on in life?"
 "Yes, but not in his presence" "No?"
 "He flatters himself that he's the flappers' delight"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
THE TRIALS OF TRAVEL

"To travel nowadays is most disagreeabie,' ' said Judge Charles M Sardis. T have just re- turned from Madisonville, Ky, where I was called on business, and have had to wait for belated trains at every city of any size The conditions mp in that territory are worse than the prevailing conditions here, believe. How ever, we have the advantage of those people because the Hoover price for coal there is $4.50, while our prices are much lower."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
LETTERS TO EDITOR
DIFFERENCE IN THINKING

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 I was standing on a downtown street cor ner the other day when I accidentally over- heard the following conversation between two men. One said
 "Yeah, used to read Arthur Brisbane's ar ticles, but I'll not read any more of them.'
 "Why?" asked the friend.
 "Well, he doesn't think like I do"
 "No, hardly DEXTER HOOD.
 Birmingham, September 1, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
THEY NEVER WILL BE MISSED

 From Life. If Gen. Wu Pei-Fu is sincere in his desire to create United States of China and if, as the dispatches state, he has good reason to believe that the Americanization of China will work, the following should be offered him with out delay: Volivia, Bryan, Norman Hapgood, Peggy (Hopkins) Joyce, Harold Bell Wright. Constitution and bylaws of the Rotary club. Babe Ruth Eskimo Pie, William Randolph Hearst, Dr. Frank Crane. Wall street. Main street. Vaudeville. Say it with fowers,' the American Fed eration of Labor. Flappers. The Congressional Record. Coney Island, Tag Day, Edsel Ford. Chop suey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02

to what can be bought hurriedly in the morn ing and evening the way to and from work. Such a location would be suitable for store handling inexpensive staples that can be bought without lengthy consideration, commodities needing frequent replenishing; but, other things being equal, it would be unsuitable for stores handling expensive style merchandise.
 Chain stores also know that cities have gen. der Pittsburg Akron, Gary and Youngs- town, for instance, predominately mascu- line; shops catering exclusively to women would not prosper in those cities in anything like the degree that they would in such femi- nine communities as Haverhill, Lynn, Lowell or Fall River.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
NO COMPLAINTS

"Ah, look at the poor little rich girl"
 "Eh?"
 Attended by footman and French nurse while she takes few steps in the park T wouldn't waste any sympathy on the child. Judging from the altitude of her chm, she's pretty well satisfied with herself in par ticular and life in general"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-02
THE OLD PROCESS

The gullible invest in stocks And hope to garner riches vast; They'll own no end of city blocks, Their lives in pleasant places cast. The gentlemen who take their dough Encourage these fantastic dreams, And then away to Europe go And think up other clever schemes.
 PAUL COOK.