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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
DISEASE PREVENTION A DUTY

It has been known for long time that there are certain common diseases which sa are preventable and which may becontrolled and banished by means that have been E tested and found effective. For some req son or other however, communities have been slow to take the steps necessary to establish such control. Every city and county has maintained health service os :. tensibly for the purpose of protecting the < public health in every way, and yet almost every city and county commission has with held the appropriations necessary to en- able health departments to function to the best of their knowledge and ability. There Is food inspection, milk inspection and the routine enforcement of certain general health regulations, but as a rule there Is not sufficient force in any department to enable it to perform its full duty. The public treas ury is thus placed under a continual burden without receiving adequate return therefor, chiefly because the additional sums neces- ssry to complete efficiency arc not forth coming. Thus there is no economy in the expenditure for the simple reason that the people do not get the health protection they pay for.
 It is necessary, therefore, for city and county authorities, to educate themselves along health lines in order that they may become mentally equipped to administer this important function of government. Such result is being attained in many places. Ono of the most important and common of health campaigns nowadays is against the disease of malaria which doth so easily beset us. The cost of maintaining this disease is so many times the cost of getting rid of it per- manently that 1t must be that the chief reason for the continued presence of ma- g-.faria is lack of official knowledge of the means for it's control. City and county lEEsSs Commissions fail to heed the recommenda- lions of their respective health officers because they do not comprehend the public value and economy of the measures and expenditures the health officers ask for. The time has come, however, when the presence of malaria, typhoid, hookworm and tuberculosis is direct reproach to the com munities in which they exist, and especially to those who have the authority to make such appropriations of public funds as will re- ssmove from the people the immensely greater Ifinancial burden of preventable illness. x Those communities that have not begun skn1easures of permanent control of prevent able disease are falling behind in the pro- cession.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
LONDON BRIDGE FALLING DOWN

From the Living Age.
 London bridge is as old as London town. for in ancient days there would have been no town if there had been no bridge. Men tioned by Dante, described at length in the "Heimskridgla Saga London bridge has actually been succession of bridges, ke- ginning with wooden ones, turning .o stone about the year 12oo,. becoming busy place for traders somewhat before Shakespeare's day, and ending at last as the modern structure.
 The disco ,ely. made some tame age, that one of the s.lcient arches of the stone bridge builtN n 1900 still stanos. naturally excited grea. il terest among English anti quares, who are now still further stirred by the news that the old arch is in danger of destruction. Over the old bridge, of which this arch is the surviving fragment, English kings rode out to Calais, Crecy, Poictiers and AgincoWt. Lord mayors of London rode out<across this bridge to gree. the hosts of England returning from the fray.
 The great Elizabethans trod this way. Into London went the country squires, come up 10 see the piayS at Durpage 1lrSt lfea- tre. Across from London to Southwark flowedsthe tide of playgoers intent ou Mas ter Shakespeare's latest production d. the Globe, though the boats of the watcrmei on the Thames probably carried geed many of these.
 And now the bridge is in dangerA The contractors who own the site thseasen to remove it, though-sensible of the claims of history--they offer to set it up g.in in another place. And to this the lovers of old London reply, A monument is not of ma sorry alone; it is the masonry plus the site.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
THE CRAY RAVEN
n, inc Atlanta Georgian.

From the Atlanta Geofglah.
 The gray raven, always bringing "bad luck.S reappeared in the Gar den of the Elysee palace in Paris. It is a very old bird, so tradition says. It appeared to Marie Antoinette when she was playing dairymaid in thes little Trianon at Versailles later her head was cut off. Marie Louise saw the bird just before her husband Napoleon. was finally squelched at St. Helena by the English. It's bad bird, nearly 200 years old, and they say it's appear ance now means trouble for the French.
 The effect on your destiny of g gray raven depends on what you are doing at the time. If Marie Ali toinette had not been making an idiot of herself advising the poor people to eat cake when they asked for bread, the old raven would not have cost her that pretty head. And the raven won't interfere with Pres ident Millerand if his government succeeds in handling wisely the ptobIems that confront it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
< BEAVER AND THE DEER
the Portland Press-HeralG.

From the Portland Press Herald.
 E. H. Jones of Stratton, well known guide of that section,l offers a solution as to the reason for, the scarcity of deer, in places where they have been numerous be- fore, A large. part of it he attributes to the work of that busy little animal the beaver. The beaver, he says, builds dam across q brook that flows through a swamp. This overflows the swamp, kills the evergreens and drives the deer from his winter home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
FIXING JUST LICENSES

4a While the Retail Merchants Division of tho Chamber of Commerce is congratulated upon the result of their fact presentation 70 x tho city commission, 1t should not rest on the reduction in the merchandise license scale, that has been tentatively accepted by tho city, but continue it's discovery of facts with regard to equity in licenses until each lias of business Is assessed a fair tax. Just Ss it Is proper, for too high licenses to be reduced, 50 the licenses too low should be increased. sss4s
 That the total revenue from merchants -1Eenses should continue to decrease even under application of all the rules of equity r-does not, moreover, appear reasonable. It should particularly not be the case next year if the knife has already been applied in 1922. Birmingham has grown greatly in the past two years, and especially in the last year. Numbers of new mercantile houses have been established and the total number of merchants paying licenses is far beyond what 1t was one and two years ago. Whatever be the case tho merchants owe 1t to themselves and to the community to con- tinus their fact finding and presentation pfogram until all tho facts are revealed and each item of the public burden is fixed at what it should be. When it is known that the merchants have established fair sched- ule and pay what they ought in equity to pay, 1t will be the easier to have other in terests do the same. By continuing their efforts to get at fair basis of license ap- poxtionment, tho merchants will be perform ing worthy public ss,vice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
A Timely Editorial
What Men Live By
 the Philadelphia Public

rom the IHliduelpnld upiiS ' Ledger.
 The desires of men differ, even as the circumstances of their lives and their upbringing are different. It would be easier to standardlze the diet for mems bodies the world around than to establish uniform pattern for what their minds ap prehend and assimilate. One man cares for a symphony orchestra in classical music and another abhors what he thinks is tunelessness and goes to jazz. This patron of the drama wants to get his mind off business worriment and he insists on play that amuses him and will not ask him to think. But another feels that he has no time to waste on froth and tinsel; he wants a play with substance, which uses the in- tellect of the playgoer. Here IS reader on the train or the trolley who. sees little in print except what his eye happens to light on here and there; and over against him is one who carries a small book and peruses it thoroughly with satls- faction.
 Robert Louis Stevenson tells US that he carried two books-one to read and one to write in. Certainly that self-schooling went far to make him the master of literary style that he became.
 Every man owes it to himself to have an avocation, a hobby. Dr. Charles w. Eliot was right in ad- vising that student should find his pleasure in his work. But in any professional career or in any man. ual occupation the laborer does better for occasionally changing off to field of interest outside his bread getting occupation. "A doc tor can't be thinking of stomachs all the time," says one of the wisest of living surgeons. So he goes fishing or snow-shoeing;. he studies birds; he write non-medical books.
 The noted leader in the Bach choir, Dr. Wolfe, is an authority on spiders.S John Alden Carpenter, the Chicago manufacturer of rail way supplies, in his spare time fash ions symphonic poems. Charles L.. fTee1 Ol 1GtIOIt SaiiAS " by way of railway labor and then by the making of car wheels; and he is but an example of many whose art galleries have similar indus trial basis.
 Wise are they who have learned in time to enjoy something which adds to those profits that never are to be reckoned with the dollar sign. What men live by nolds tharacters and writes their biogra- phies. There are some experts able to put a mask of impenetrabae fairness over their lives of evil; but the rule is that a bad man, if he does not look the part, will sooner or later by some inadvertency be- tray himself. His true nature must escape, for all to know and to shun.
 If man day after day as he fares through life accepts content edly the bestial he becomes beast and is rated as beast. We are known by the company we keep," and that company includes not merely living persons, but every thing in the world that by a willing accordance. for good or evil. we x>,ol-o nu,. nun
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
Hunting Will Be Good

From the Marion County News,
 The state game and fish warde,- l, I. Quinn, states -tha- quail hunt. ing will be rich this year because of there being more quail m the fields than Tn 20 years, He is anxious for, the sportsman to have a joyous season of hunting, yet he wants the game llw limiting the number of birds killed by any in- dividual and none to be exported strictly observed. The enforcement of the game law IS the cause of SO rich a crop of bffds tLis year. No true sportsman wlll violate the law: nor will he conceal the crime of the worthless fellow who does violate. ir.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
Remova, Favored

-"i.emoval of the Alabama 20 v tcchnic institute from Auburn 10 Montgomery would be a great move and would insure the future growth of the institution as well as aid the Capital City greatly" Inzer Hood, deputy clerk of the chancery court, said. "In Auburn the institute is functioning to only about 50 per cent of capacity, although it is do- ing great work. In Montgomery the field would be broader and sup plies for the students would be available without freight costs. One other added feature of the ad- vantages offered by Montgomery is that the soil in that particular dis trict is of the richest nature and could be successfully used for fur ther experimental purposes by the agricultural sLaoents.< s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
A Costly Experience

From the Alexander City Outlook.
 We know very little about the ship subsidy bill, but what little we do know inclines us to the belief that 1t is pretty good thing. If the United States ever hopes to cope with any and all situations she must have a merchants marine that will make her.to certain extent inde- pendent of otherpnations. We have had little taste of just what it means to be dependent on other na- tons and it was rather costly taste that we had.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
Southern Trade Wanted

/ "The way in which the south came through the recent financial depression has been revelation to other sections of the country said ,J L. Conover, travelling salesman from Boston. All admit that the south stood in the most drastic po- sition of any sectioh. The sudden decline in the price of cotton stood
 like lighted explosive before every business concern that was trading in the south. But this situation has cleared up to a great extent. Every eastern manufacturer of any note is making a concerted drive for trade in this section" st
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
SECOND CHOICE
,os Angeles Times.

From the Los Angeles Times.
 young man who had heard that radium was going to cure the world of all it's ills, entered chemists shop and asked:
 "How much is radium an ounce?'
 The chemist smiled and named a figure which made the young man gasp with dis may.
 "Really?" observed the customer. "Thea give me an ounce of cough lozenges.v
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
Packing Peanut.

From the Andalifsia Star. /
 We had the pleasure of visiting the Andalusia peanu. mill and see- ing the peanuts in process of being huiled. This plant is one of the important business institutions of the city and employs Al people. which gives a pay roll of no mean proportions. We saw 90 women snd 12 men actively engaged in the work. They were either attending to the machinery, sorting peanuts as they came from the huiler. or else sacking them in the compart- ment on the first floor, where they are made ready for shipment. The capacity of the P It is a car load of peanuts each day. They are not running quite to capacity now, bat are hulling about twenty thousand pounds daily. >Apother good feature about this plant is that it uses pea nuts produced locally, thereby as- surlng market at home for the peanuts grown in this section.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
A Statesman's Mail

You seem to be swamped with mail this morning"
 "The usual assortment of letters" said Senator Snortsworthy. q have one construc- tive suggestion from a constituent, dozen complaints intimating that Pm misfit Tn office and about 40 requests for govern ment jobs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
Alabama Press
Tuscaloosa Growing

From the Tuscaloosa News
 Hundreds of lew homes have been erected in Tuscaloosa during the past year. and yet the house shortage IS as acute as ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05

Battling Bob' LaFolette will find that it is farther from Wisconsin to the White House than it is from Leicester Square to. Tipperary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
Progress

In the old days the garish lights of sa- looms fascinated the honest burghers of Bir- mingham. Then along came the movie palaces and the "white ways" and now We have the ornamental filling stations, looking like small section of worlds fair.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
To Keep Girl. on the Farm

From the Selma Times-Journal.
 How to keep the girls on the farm Is problem not less acute and serious than the time-worn need of flashing the boys to their rural moorlngs The department of commerce says that the census of 1920 shews that there were 109.1 males for every 100 females in the farming districts, while the fig ures for the nation as whole showed that there were 104 females to every 100 males. While there is a good deal of shifting of the popu- lation going on in the industries, the figures do not seem to indicate that the shortage of farm labor in 1920 was due to drift. of unmarried men away from the farms. Con- versely there were proportionately more women in the cities than in the country. Whatever the expla- nation, the relative scarcity of women in the rural districts must be recognized land one almost feels inclined to start movement to keep not the boys, but the girls, on the farms. One has the figures of the census bureau to justify this move, and it might be that if the campaign were successful the boy problem would be solved also
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
She Should Worry

Mrs Gadspur has found out what MT. Gadspur is going to give her for a Christ mas present"
 "What is is?" asked Mrs. Gawker.
 "A samovar. It's imported and very costly"
 q don't care if it is imported and cost a lot of money. Personally wouldn't wear one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05

Skjellerup, South American astronomer, announces the discovery of new comet If he wants it to become a popular comet he'd better not name it after himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05

Safety Week" will soon be upon us. In- cidentally, there are 52 weeks in the year in which a prudent mortal will watch his step.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05

The Dyer anti-lynching bill brought the "solid south to the front.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05

Even the paragraphers are getting out of the habit of writing quips about David Lloyd George.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05

With so many friends in Congress, the farmers are at least assured a respectful hearing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05

Every time France threatens to invade the Ruhr she puts new life into German Junkers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05

From the Scottsboro Progressive
 Age.
 The next Alabama legislature is pledged neck deep to reduce taxa tion, and it wouldn't be bad idea for the new solons to begin think ing over plans to fill up the gap m the treasury after they get through chopping the taxes. Some part ef the staate's business must have it's throat cut-now which part is tt going to be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
Another Dividend

Did you ever steal apples when you were a boy?"
 Sure" said MT. Grabcoin. "Watermel- ons, too. And that reminds me-"
 "Eh?"
 "I've got to attend directors meeting. The boys are going to cut one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-05
Where to Cut
The next Alabama legislature is

From the scoNsboro Progressive
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-04
FELT TIRED, so TIRED
Indiana Lady Says She Was Rum.
Down, Suffered With Her Back,
Took Cardui, and
Got Wen. 4

Richmond, Ind.--"I thought I would
write a line or so, to say that | owe my
good health and strength to Cardui,'' says
a letter from Mrs. Cora Courtney, 81
Railroad Street, this city.
IL was all rundown until nv family
thought they would lose me-" writes Mrs.
Courtney. "My husband coaxed me to
take Cardui, so, to please him, did, and
will say do not regret it, for am able
to do all my work and do my shopping.
81 have five children, four in school,
my husband and a boarder to do for, and
! do all my own work for all of US, and
find time to play. We all praise Cardui.
Every sick and rundown woman should
take this wonderful medicine.
Il suffered with my back; very weak
feeling in my limbs.
II felt hardly able to drag; Just
tired-so tired all the time.
at was an effort for me to do any,
thing, but Cardui helped me so felt like
different woman"
II you are in rundown physical
condition, suffering as this Indiana lady
says she did, give Cardui fair trial. II
should help you,
Take Cardui. NC-147
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-04
RECENT BRIDE H0NORED
WITH LOVELY SHOWER,

A very unique shower was given
Thursday afternoon by Mrs. Mary
Stacy at her home, 1927 Union
street in honor of Mrs. Karl Meschke,
who is an attractive young bride and
a member of Mrs. Stacy's Sunday
School class of the Presbyterian
church. Mrs. Meschke was Miss Pearl
Hardy before her marriage a few
weeksago.
The rooms were artistically deco
rated with ferns and white chrysan-
themums and while the guests were
assembling, Mrs. Goulding Stacy
rendered several musical numbers.
The guests were then given a cam
ouflauged MENU" from which three
articles could be selected. The real
menu consisted of ham, salad, crack
ers, sandwiches, bread, pickles, salt
pepper, nuts, coffee, tea water
minis, toothpicks, etc. Much merri
ment was caused when served as in
many cases the order brought moth
ing to eat.
The bride was showered in a very
charming manner with many useful
and beautiful gifts, after which a
sweet course was served, consisting
Of cherry ice cream and white individ-
ual cakes embossed with the pink
monogram.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-04

Mary Langford, Margaret Echols,
Marie Way, Tommie Jacket, Edith
Watson, Mary Dean Calnan, Bridget
Calnan, Beatrice Lang, Thelma Gil
more, Ethel Brown, Nola Brown, Al
berta Register, Nell Hill; Messrs.
Pesky Hodges, Andrew TAFT, Hugh
Tat, Jennings Burns, Fred L. Burke,
Spencer Harrison, Robert Lee, Otto
Allen, Lacy TAFT, Alvin Gale, Ernest
Busk, Tom Kennedy, W. Warren.
Hubert Lang.
Il
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-04
Savannah yesterday and spent the

Savannah yesterday and spent the
day.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Ward D. Colley are
in Brunswick for the winter and are
located with Mr.. and Mrs. H. H.
Dickey, 1927 Albany street. 4.
Il u Il u e-.
Mr.. and Mrs. Karl Mesche have re-
turned from their wedding trip and
are at home to their friends in the
Downing bungalow, 601 First Ave.
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Mrs. w. H. DeVoe and Mrs. Frank
Mallard returned Tuesday to Jack
sonville. Mrs. DeVoe came back to
Brunswick Thursday and will remain
here for an indefinite time.
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MI. A. G. Munro, lessee of the
Grand theater, accompanied by Mrs
Munro, came over from Savannah
yesterday and will spend day OF
two here.
Il Il II q
Mr.. L. U. Guggenheifn, ex-state In
heritance tax appraiser of the state
of Colorado, arrived last evening to
visit his daughter, Mrs. Max L.
Lazarus On Carpenter street.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-04
"Y.p SWEET "Y."
with apologies to John Howard

with apologies to John Howard
Payne.)
Mid pleasures and palaces though We
may stray,
Be it ever so spacious, it cannot
surpass Y. w. C. A.
A charm from the skies seems to
welcome us there,
Which seek thou the city, is not
found elsewhere.
We gaze on its girls as they tread
life's way,
Whose mothers are pleading for
Y. w. C. A.
AS they look on our daughters from
their righteous view.
Thro' vision of love, whose frag-
rance is e'er new.
The stranger at our door, in distress
may say,
Oh, kindly direct me to Y. w. C. A.
There, hearts ever willing to smooth
life's way
Will guide and advise me, day after
day. o
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TREES
think | shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree,
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest,
Against the earth's sweet Towering
breast.
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray,
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair,
Upon whose bosom snow has lain,
Who intimately lives with rain;
Poems are made by folks like ME
But only God can make tree.
Joyce Kilmer.
We are pleased to give space to
the above beautiful little poem and
in addition to the appropriateness
(this being national tree planting
week) we wish to say that the author,
Joyce Kilmer, just as he was rising
to fame was killed in France during
the world war and was a frequent
writer of verses in the Literary
Digest and all of his writings were
such gems as "Trees."
1t is not too late, plant a tree to-
day.
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The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-04
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

Of 7. w. c. A. TO BE HELD.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Woman's Club will be held Wednes-
day afternoon at the Y. w. C. A.
Heretofore the club has been hold
Ing their meetings at four o'clock, but
it has been decided to have the time
changed to $3.50 instead of 400, on
account Of the days growing shorter.
At this time report from the state
convention of the Federation of Wom-
ans Club, recently held in Athens,
will be given and 1t is desired that
there will be full attedance.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-11-04
ANNOUNCEMENT OF
CIRCLE MEETING.

Circle No. 2 Of the First Meth.
odist church will meet Monday aft
ernoon at four o'clock at the home Of
Mrs. Fl. L. Bowling, 918 Union street.
Mrs. J. W. Simmons will act as Joint
hostess.