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Evening star., 1922-06-19
OPPORTUNITY.
BY II. ADDINGTON BRUCE.
Copyright, 1922, by The Associated
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That young man indeed is foolish
who complains that his work is be-
meath him. that it gives him no op-
portunity for demonstrating his real
worth.
Nay. he is more than foolish. He is
mentally blind.
For every mans work. no matter
what Its character. abounds in oppor-
tunity for INSTRUMENTATION. Here
are only a few of the opportunities 1t
affords:
1t affords opportunity for proving
that the worker possesses the great
virtue Of thoroughness and verlta-
BILE passion for doing things well.
Which means that it gives him op-
portunity for setting himself un-
of workers addicted to carelessness,
linaccuracy. and superficiality.
Opportunity, too, it affords for
demonstrating that, though he would
do everything well, he would also do
it without unnecessary waste of en-
worker opportunity for showing that
he has that capacity for skillful per-
formance which is at the heart OF
efficiency in all undertakings
Every mans work, moreover. no
matter what is is, affords opportu-
he is a good planner By planning
wisely he avoids haste and hurry. yet
Iaccomplishes far more than the most
hurried of the hasty.
1t affords opportunity for revealing
his intelligent interest, not merely in
the particular job he is hired to do.
but in the successful working OF the
entire industrial machine in which
his job is a cog. Thus it affords op-
portunity for leaving no doubt that
he is alert, open-minded and progress
siVe.
1t gives opportunity. indeed. for
demonstrating that he has Il sensible.
wholesome attitude toward work in
general, regarding 1t. not as neces-
sary evil. but as welcome means to
self-realiZation and self satisfaction.
No greater mistake can any man
make than in looking upon work as
an affliction. to be escaped whenever
possible.
And. finally, mans work, what
ever its character. affords that man
opportunity to show that he is teach
able, willing to acknowledge mis-
ciSm.
Can it be doubted for a moment that
iif a man does avail himself of these
opportunities he will rapidly be ad-
| vanced from position to position OF
increasing responsibility and CORE
spending reward?
Can it be doubted. on the other
hand, that If he does not avail him
self of them he will forever have
reason wrathfully to protest that he
is obliged to do work quite out Of
keeping with his great worth?
Scan the life history of almost any
successful man of affairs and it will
be found that he began his business
career in some humble. seemingly
most unpromising occupation. That
he soon rose from this was due to
the fact, not that he clamored for
work more suited to his talents. but
that he availed himself OF the humble
occupations opportunities for COM
pelling recognition of his possession
of talents
Evening star., 1922-06-19
.C0NSTRUCT|0NMEN
[ HEARD BY HOOVER
Two-Day Meeting of Ameri.
can Council Opens in
This City. -

Addressing the American Construc-
tiou Council at the opening session of
a two-days' meeting today at the
Hotel Washington. Secretary of Com
merce Hoover pledged the support of
the ministration to the plans of
construction industries for increasing
their standards of efficiency by CO.
operative effort. The purpose of the
meeting was to bring about in all
branches of the building and con-
Struction industry standard code of
ethics designed to raise the efficiency
of the whole industry and to work
out plans for co-ordinated effort in
behalf of reconstruction.
Mr.. Hoover described the organiza-
ton of the building industries as IAN
event of first Importance" support of
the government awaits the new or
ganization, Mr.. Hoover added. but the
initiative for the administration of
the building organization must come
from within the industry and not
from the bureaucratic regulation. 1t
is up TO the construction industries.
he said. to take the leadership in their
own administration, as the functions
of the Department of Commerce are
to provide service and not regulation.
Mr. Hoover was preceded by Willis
II. Booht of the Guaranty Trust Com
pany of New York, who spoke on
"Co-ordinating All Elements of a
Great Industry"
John B. Larner, president of the
Washington Loan and Trust Com
pauy. will address the meeting to-
morrow morning. Other speakers to-
morrow Will include Walter Gordon
Merritt of New York, Robert II. Kohn
OF New York. NJ. {. Rorty of New
York. II. \. CARRIER Of Ridgewood, n.
J.: u. knicker erbacker Boyd of Phila-
delphia. Walter klic of Cleveland.
John NJ. Cries of the Department of
Commerce. Hugh Frayne of New
York ard +. NJ Feiker of New York
formerly assistant to Secretary
Hoover.
Franklin y. Roosevelt former as
sistant secretary of the Navy, is pres
ident of the council. He will be for
mally inductcd into office tomorrow.
Evening star., 1922-06-19
X4CHTSM4N, WHO CROSSED OCEAN
WITHOUT COMPASS, STARTS BACK

Cowes, the center of fashionable
British yachting, last Friday Kel-
ley was honored. saluted and sup
piled with such whisky as no
Englishman may drink nowadays.
He came there unknown and
without introductions and left as
an honorary member of the Royal
Yacht Squadron, perhaps the most
exclusive club in England, as a
tribute to his sportsma nship. Kel-
ley was congratulated in person
by British peers and leading
sportsmen.
For use of Kelley and his fellow
voyagers on their homeward trip
British officials stocked the dab
lesse with tax-free whisky of full
strength. which is prohibited in
Great Britain. Furthermore, the
Diablesse was given a salute of
guns as she sailed away.
Kelley hopes to better the time
of his outward voyage on the
homeward run, but he made the
first trip in thirty-three days.
Aboard the little ship also are
Mrs. Kelley and three English
men - Robert Somerset, Basil
White and Uffa Fox.
Evening star., 1922-06-19
WOMAN CHANGES NAME.

Mrs. Rose Salvi was today permitted
by Justice bailey to change her name
to Rose Ratio. She told the court
though Attorney Ringgold Hart that
her husband had deserted her twenty
five years ago. and that her maiden
name was Aratto. but she has been
known for many years as Ratio. Her
son, Orangelo Joseph Salvi. some time
ago. had the court change his name to
Ratio. and has since been importuning
his mother to adopt the same name, it
is stated.
Evening star., 1922-06-19
BY HIRAM II. MODERWELL.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright. 1872.
LONDON. June 19.-John Bart
ram Kelley. the American ANA
teur yachtsman who sailed the
twenty one ton schooner Diab-
lesse across the Atlantic last
summer with no other nautical
instrument than an alarm clock.
Is on his homeward voyage.
Big Ben" has been discarded for
a fancy chronometer. but Kelley
still sails the high seas without
compass or SeXtant.
III We go far enough in the d.
rection of sunrise we must hit
Europe somewhere" explained
Kelley when he sailed from the
United States. On this voyage he
is equally sure that he must hit
the United States somewhere if
he goes far enough in the direc-
tion of sunset
When the Diablesse sailed from
Evening star., 1922-06-19
WHOLESALE COSTS SOAR.
Increase in May More Than Per
Cent Over April Prices.

Wholesale prices of commodities
advanced 81: per cent in May over
April. except in chemicals and drugs,
according to Il list made public by
the bureau of labor statistics. Farm
products advanced more than . per
cent, while foods. household goods
cloths. clothing. metals. metal prod
ucts registered substantial increases
Fuel and lighting materials showed
the largest gain of all. the new May
level being an increase of Ill per
cent. Chemicals and drugs. the bu-
reau stated, decreased J: per cent.
Evening star., 1922-06-19
DRUG CASE IN COURT.
Attorney Volunteers to Defened
Raymond Hitte.

Attorney Robert I. Miller today
volunteered in Criminal Division 2
today to defend Raymond Hitte, alias
Raymond J. Murphy, a youn white
man who appeared without counsel
to answer an indictment for violating
the Harrison anti narcotic act Hitte
was arrested April 20 last. and when
searched at the station had two cap
sules of dope hidden in the cuffs of
his trousers.
on his way to the lookup, it was
testified, the prisoner threw away a
syringe and other articles connected
with the dope traffic. Assistant
United States Attorney Presmont is
conducting the prosecution.
Evening star., 1922-06-19
HARDING PARTY RETURNS
President at Desk Considering Ac-
cumulated Business.

President and Mrs. Harding and
their guests on a Weekend cruise
down the Potomac on the Mayfiower
returned today to washington.
The President Immediately Went to
the executive Offices and started on
long list of appointments. the pro-
gram also including a call by com
mittee of churchmen to present d
memorial on the coal strike and a
visit by Sir Auckland Geddes. the
British amba assador. to say farewell
before leaving Washington to spend
the summer at home.
Evening star., 1922-06-19
Chef OF Former Gar
No,o Cooking Food In
Child Relief Kitchen
u, .ba A.soc,,sed presa-

BY the Associated Press.
PETROGRAD, June 10. -
Pischkin. once chef of Emperor
Nicholas. ID now boiling rice,
beans and Cocoa for hungry
children In the American Relief
Administration kitchen which
has Just been opened I'm the
former imperial palace at Tsar-
skOYe-SelO.
Three thousand children daily
are being fed from the stoves
and copper kettles that once
cooked deIicacies for imperial
dinners. Several servants Of the
fcrmer cxnr are employed ms
kitchen workers.
Evening star., 1922-06-19

South Africa is of volcanic origin
and the land in the vicinity of X i'm =
berlcy is So sulphurous that even ants
cannot exist upon il.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-28

Applying psychology to prims donnas, the discovery has been made that they can behave if they want to, but the knowledge of their mental inferiority" makes them cut up. This is not the sort of explanation to soothe the ruffled feelings of prima donna. a
  Paul Warburg thinks America will have to lend helping hand to Europe Holding those reception in any European capital he cares to visit.
 An eminent column conductor objects to the way the American people kiss a certain base ball star He is speaking figuratively, ot course. We haven't descended that far-yet
 x x After prolonged frolic in the open air, mine mules are going back to work aud won- dering what it was all about, perhaps.
  An Iowa woman wants a divorce, charging that her 6o-year-old husband forced her to shorten her skirts and bob her hair. That old duffer is young for his age.
 < Henry Ford, who has no trouble with his workmen, will have to shut down his plants because other employers can't get along with their workmen. It's hard world.
 * # In giving Evangelist Trotter a "clean bill" the court praised his "soul saving" Somebody else will have to save the soul of Mel's wife.
 < * If it is necessary to discharge few wardens to break up the practice of flogging convicts in Alabama prisons, let few wardens go.
 x + By keeping men and women 300 feet apart on the bathing beaches Voliva won't succeed in bringing the millennium day nearer.
 * < < It doesn't seem to matter particularly where few movie people gathered together. Something is bound to happen.
 
 The latest movie scandal is unique in enc respect. The date line is Edgewater, N. J., and not Hollywood.
 x Uncle Sam is still trying to sell wooden boats it would be impolite, if not unpatriotlc, to re- fer to as "tubs.'
 A gland pioneer is dead. It remains to be seen whether or no posterity will call him blessed.
 "Plasterer'' Fulton has again convinced the public that he ought to stick to plastering.
 
 Any how, "it looks like it, smells ike it and tastes like it" at Johnstown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-28
THE ROW OVER BRISBANE.
 AND IRWIN CORR

Readers of The Age-Rerald are showing much interest in the controversy over Arthur Brisbane's column and the daily "embalmed' anecdotes of the Hon. Irwin S. Cobb. Most of the fire has been directed at MT. Brisbane and his admirers rushed unto the fray to defend him. So far, supporters of MT. Brisbane seem to outnumber his enemies by comfortable margin.
 Taking up the case of MT. Cobb first, the criticism made against the gentleman from Kentucky by one of The Age-Herald's readers was that some, if not all, of his stories have familiar ring. The reader who objected seems to have missed the purpose of MT. Cobb en- tirely. He certainly writes the English language well enough to make himself understood, and has emphasized the fact that the stories he tells are not new ones, but he considers them good enough to tell again.
 Anyone who has followed this series must be aware that MT. Cobb has frequently taken a somewhat venerable jest and so graced it by his arts as story teller that it sounded almost new. On the other hand there are number of his stories that, we venture to say have not been heard before by most of the people who read them, even though they may be veterans at the banquet board competing for honors as the "oldest travelling man.
 The Age-Herald does not feel called upon to defend either Mir. Cobb or MT. Brisbane. The regulations of both gentlemen are reasonably well established and promise to remain so. However, some light may be thrown on :. 4.....-a ar which has led to flood of '1etters to the ed itor."
 As for MT. Brisbane, his views are his own. The Age-Herald does not agree with all he says any more than some of it's readers do, but that he is an able writer, whose style is admirably adapted to the work he does there can be no question. It is not bad idea to get the other fellows point of view, even if you don't agree with him. The Age-Heralds editorial policies are expressed on its editorial page. The Brs- bane articles are published as newspaper feature of general interest.
 The Age-Herald does not always indorse what Andre Tardieu writes from Paris, or Maximilian Harden from Berlin, not to men, tion other correspondents whose signed articles are semi-editorial in character but that is no reason why they should not be published.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-28
SOCIAL SUPREMACY

From the Los Angeles Times.
 The local society to meet that after noon. Mrs. Jenkins, short and very plump, dressed in hurry and came panting down. stairs
 "Jane, run up to my room and get my blue ribbon rosette, the society's badge," sne directed her maid, q have forgotten it. You will know it, Jane-blue ribbon and gold let tering."
 "Yessum, know it." said Jane. Jane could not read but she knew blue ribbon when she saw it, and therefore had trouble in finding it, and fastened it on the dress of her mistress.
 Mrs. Jenkins was too busy greeting her friends or giving close attention to the speak CTS at the meeting to note that when they shook hands with her they smiled strangely.
 When she reached home she went directly to the dining room, where the other members of the family were seated at dinner.
 "For heavens sake, motherr exclaimed her son. "That blue rbbon-have you been wear ing that at the meeting?"
 "The gold lettering read: "Carville Poultry Show, First Prize, Bantam"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-28

the stage by imposing the opinions of one per son group of persons on an art which must be untrammeled to reach its highest de- velopment and must appeal to popular taste if it is ever to be financially successful. There is as much difference between liberty and license as there is between liberty and str,cs censorship.
 Neither MT. Thomas nor anyone else who wants to see the American drama progress and the American people enjoy it, believes that filth and corruption are necessary to make plays financially profitable, and, therefore, popular. The clean plays, with merit in them, have lived and the dirty plays have been for gotten. When all is said and done, patrons of the theatre are the best judges of dramatic entertainment, and if any supervision of their tastes seems necessary at times it should be merely nominal.
 People disagree about the best book and the best play, and always will. They have differ ent ideas about what constitutes art, about what is legitimate on the stage, on canvas and within the covers of a novel. They have always been that way and always will For that reason censorship is both futile and silly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-28
LETTERS TO EDITOR
BRISBANE'S OPINIONS

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 That Arthur Brisbane is a brilliant writes goes without saying. That he is an able man of many scholarly attainments also goes without saying. That he has read much and is read by many is equally true But the same can be said of Bob Ingersoll, John w. Draper Tom Payne, Darwin and many others. He strongly believes, would suppose from his writings, that his father, many times removed, of course, was an ape or monkey, and that his mother, equally far removed was female of the spe- cies; and it may be that many of your readers (for it is quite the style these days) may be- lieve the same thing of themselves, and the rest of us also as for that matter; but as for us we will continue to believe that "Thy father Philip also great man. (man, not mon- key) We will continue to accept record ed history against speculative history as gotten up by modern scientists. It may be that Berossus, Manetho, Sanchonatho and even Abraham and Moses, failed to get the record down so that we read it perfectly; but we prefer that record (faulty as it may bel to the speculative conclusions of either Brisbane or some of our modern scientists Until latter day genius is able to duplicate the status of Memnon, cut and placed in position, solid stone 69 feet high and sufficient in weight to load 20 freight cars; until modern workmen are able to duplicate the walls of the old temple of Baalbec (Heliopolis in Asia) with gigantic stones GA feet in length and by II feet in thickness and width; until modern skill can produce paints and coloring matter that will last like that found among the ruins of an- cient Egypt steel that will rival the steel in the Damascus blade of 40 centuries ago, not until these things happen will we accept the speculative conclusions of such men as MT. Brisbane.
 We believe with Mr. Brisbane that the earth is more than 6,000 years old but we are told this in sacred writ. The Bible cells us that "the earth abideth forever; but it tells us also that the world, men and the institutions and works of men, shall come to an end. Just when, we not told, and we do not know The prophecies of MT. Brisbane as to the future may true; but if his speculative history of the future is faulty as we consider his speculative history of the past, the people of the future will hardly class him with Elijah and a few others of sacred writ. The bril- liant effusions that appear in his column from day to day will continue to appeal to class, and will bring subscribers to the paper; but those effusions largely half truths which "carry load of lies on their back; and in the end will produce an abun 1ant crop of com munism, socialism and infidelity the nveter- ate and implacable enemies of the civilization of today. "There is way that saanath r;oh+ unto man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.' ED D. HAMMER
 Attalla, August 26, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-28
REFLECTS GOOD TIMES

''In my opinion, one of the outstanding causes of the phenomenally large attendance which we are going to have at the Alabama Merchants convention this week is the gen- eral prosperity that is around and about" said Charles F. Yarn, general secretary. Of course the out-of- town merchants like to come to Bir- mingham and they know that rare entertain ment has been provided for them, but it is the atmosphere of better times that makes men feel like visiting one another and taking 2 day or so away from their business affairs.
 "There never could havo been a more aus picious environment for the revival of the mer- chants conventions than that existing. Back of it all is the fair price for cotton. There is nothing like good price for cotton to make southerners feel good, and feeling good is what makes them like to visit one another and tell about it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-28
WHITE WAY ENDORSED

Birmingham has real opportunity of mak- ing its principal gateway to the city thorough fare that will leave a lasting impression upon the minds of it's visitors, with the proposed project of the Civitan club of making Fifth avenue our latest white way,'" said W. L. Brannon, superintendent of the bureau of iden- tification, police department, yesterday.
 "I have been connected with the Birmingham police department for number of years and have been witness to the coming and going of the once fashionable residential Fifth avenue The installation of the lights as proposed by the club should be given the heartiest cooperation of all the property owners along the street."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-08-28
MACAULAY ON CHESTERFIELD
om Trevelyan's Life of Macaulay.'


 I agree with your judgment on Chesterfield's "Letters." They are for the most part trash; ; though they contain some clever passages, and the style is not bad. Their celebrity must be attributed to causes quite distinct from the.r literary merit and particularly to the position which the author held in society. We see in our own time that the books written by pubic of note are generally rated at more than their value: Lord Granville's little compost tions, for example; Cannings verses; Fox's his- tory; Broughman's treatises. The writings of people of high fashion, also have value set upon them far higher than that which intrin- sically belongs to them. The verses of the late duchess of Devonshire, occasional pro- logue by Lord Alvanley, attract most undue share of attention. If the present duke of Devonshire, who is the very "glass of fashion and mould of form," were to publish a book with two good pages, it would be extolled as a masterpiece in half the drawing rooms of London.
 Now, Chesterfield was, what no person in time has been or can be, great political leader and at the same time the acknowledged chief of the fashionable world at the head If the House of Lords and at the head of ton; MT. Canning and the duke of Devonshire in one. In the time the division of labor is carried so far that such men could not exist. Politics require the whole of energy, bodily and men, tai, during half of the year; and leave very little for the bow-wndow at Whites in the day, or for the crush room of the opera Ut night. century ago the case was different. Chesterfield was at once the most distinguished orator in the upper house, and the undsputed sovereign of wit and fashion. He held this eminence for about 40 years. At last it be- came the regular custom of the higher circles to laugh whenever he opened his mouth, with out waiting for his bon mot. He used to sit at Whites with circle of young men of rank around him, applauding every syllable that he uttered. If you wish for proof of the kind of position which Chesterfield held among his contemporaries, look at the prospectus of John- sons Dictionary Look even at Johnson's angry letter. It contains the strongest admis- sion of the boundless influence which Chester field exercises over society. When the letters of such man were published, of course they were received more favoraby by far than they deserved.