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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02

statue of the "Mayor or Montmartre,' wearing battered stovepipe hat and frock coat, smuggled into the Louvre and stood for four days smiling at the Venus de Milo. It should have been permitted to stay. There are not enough opportunities to laugh in the Louvre.
 A Pullman porter who has grown rich is still making his regular runs. He takes the sensible position that he'd be fool to quit as long as the tips keep rolling in.
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 Jimmy Cox went to Europe without calling on Woodrow Wilson before his departure. The political sharps may be able to make some thing out of that. We can't.
 pink silk nightgown, displayed in the Sen ate as a tariff exhibit, caused no end of ex- citement. We don't seem able to get away from Hollywood stuff"
 Mayor Hylan warned New York school chil- dren to beware of newspapers. His honor doesn't find many bouquets for himself in the public prints
 While Brother Cox is abroad he doubtless hopes that his presidential boom will do as well as could be expected without his personal attention.
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 So little is being written about The Hague conference, in comparison to the output from Genoa it may eventually amount to something.
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 Jamming an anti-lynching bill through Con- gress would not pacify the colored voter long. He'd soon be making other demands. <
 A new screen service doesn't want booze jokes. The subject, now that we come to think of it, is being sadly overworked.
 The Florida editor who was flogged, tarred and feathered, must be the old-fashioned sort who 'wields trenchant pen"
 If William Lorimer succeeds in "coming back via the South American wilderness Chi cago may forgive and forget. x x Herrin, H., is dropping back into obscurity, but it will be used for many day to point d moral
 Spanish youths taking to outdoor sports and bullfighting is believed to be on it's last legs
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 Why have government, if it is going to be ignored by one class of the population? x k
 It is pathetic to see the shifts to which the "Old Guard" is put in framing alibis The successor to Rathenau should be provided with a bullet-proof shirt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE IRISH
 PROBLEM AND THOSE OF THIS COUNTRY

z HE Irish, of all peoples, seem to have the
 most brilliant and scutillating minds
 Where mixed with other bloods, in other countries. they become great statesmen, jurists, actors and artists But at home in Ireland under stress of excitement the vertebra seems Irishman seems bent upon bloody fight upon all occasions.
 The Irish people were recently given inds- pendence, and home rule, and free home gov ernment, and everything they asked the Mother country for. In few weeks they commence fighting with machine guns among themselves and killing each other. and blowing up tho most expensive of public buildings, because one faction of the native Irishman in Dublin outvoted the other faction.
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 The writer is of Irish descent himself, and of Scotch blood on the other side. He cannot indorse his Irish kin in this climax in Ireland It is clearly manifest that the Ireland of today is not capable of self government. There are too many internal jealousies and fighting per sonalities.
 It reminds the writer of his visit to Dublin just before the armistice was signed in Noyem- Der, 1918, when g party of ten American newspaper men were given the privilege of hearing from both sides on the Irish question in a private audience room at the leading hotel
 "Tell me frankly what you boys want! I am Irish myself and would be glad to aid" the writer said to the apparent dominant of the Sim Fein leaders.
 Well, Mir. o'Barrett, to tell you the truth we don't know just what we want; but we want it, and we going to get it"
 There was a bit of Irish enthusiastic and artistic profanity intermingled with the sen- tence.
 The situation in Ireland today reminds me of the remark of the Sim Fein leader of that early November day of 191s>in Dublin.
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 The defeat in the republican primary ,n North Dakota of Senator McCumber, the third oldest republican senator, in point of service, the leader of the Old Guard and the Stand Patters, and the chairman of the Senate ,Fi- nance committee, in charge of the pending
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
BURIED TREASURE


 God hid grain of radium in ton of pitch-blende. God hid the iron down in the depth of earth in great brown rocks God buried the limestone away in some distant quarry, and the manganese in the stony bosom of distant land, but for all of this, the chemist and the steel maker do not stand and curse God nor question His boun- tiful love. These do not expect God to lay His precious treasures bare, nor to stack the finished angles and rails in steel yard and mill. These take the raw material which God has given and delve in it and struggle with it; they melt it in the fire and shape 1t in the grooming rolls, and wiring there from at last Gods hidden treasure for the blessing and happiness of men. Gold would be as valueess as dust if 1t lay in Jumps beneath our feet. The fact that 1t is hidden away makes treasure worth while.
 What God has done with the radium and steel He has done with His spiritual treas ures. We talk about Gods grace being free. That does not mean that it is easy to obtain. One does not yAwn, and casually remark, "Well, I believe I will partake of Gods grace today" If one did, he would certainly be disappointed. Gold Is free, ii you know where to seek 1t, and are willing to move tons of earth to find grain of it. The north pole is free, If you are willing and able to pass the barriers that lie between. Faith in God is just as free. It is yours, and God wants you to have it, but 1t is not yours for the mere willingness to receive it. It has got to be achieved, and achieve ment means struggle and patience and sac rifce.
 You want faith in God, to strengthen you I-when life is hard. You want to feel His Presence through the dark lowering clouds. You want His love to sustain you when the love of men is denied. You want the cer- tainty of life's divine purpose to carry you through the days when all around you seems trivial. These things are some of the free yet difieult--treasures of God. God has buried them away in the dark earth of unselfish service. Through the refining fires of sacrifice is their beauty to be made your own. Life itself, with all it's trials and labors, Is the raw material in which God has buried His every good spiritual blessing. In life's laboratory and work shop 1t is given to us to labor through the passing of the years, that we may win for ourselves the treasures of life, which God has buried-for usl
 MIDDLETON S. FAREWELL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
coRREcTs WRONG IMPRESSION

''The impression seems to have gone around that we are recruiting exservice men as strike breakers" said W. H. Staten of the Producers Employment Agency yesterday.
 "We are advertising for capable exservice men as guards and we are choosing only those who give evidence of being trained, efficient and fair. Their services are wanted to see that order is maintained and that there is no hoodlumism about the property which they are protecting.
 "Already we have employed good many men for this purpose and in every case we have give the exservice man preference
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
AUsTRALIA's IMMIGRATION PoLIcY

From the Houston Post.
 The Australians are awake to their need for larger population, and their attitude toward immigration in general is undergoing change. But in inviting settlers they make it very plain that they desire only those immi- grants who will settle upon the vast, idle lands of their continent and become producers.
 "We do not want more people in towns and cities," says Sir George Fuller in speaking of the policy of New South Wales. 'We want people who will help develop our land, who will lessen the cost of government by spreading it over larger population, and who will enlarge our market for local manufactures as well as for primary produce"
 Australia has the opportunity to avoid the mistakes the United States has made in fail ing to regulate immigration sufficiently. Doubtless the people of the distant continent have been strongly influenced by the develop ments here in America, where thousands of foreigners have been admitted to the country to be little more than parasites on the eco- homie body and to become constant disturbers of our political peace.
 Development of the land is the principal need of Australia. There are acres enough lying idle to support population of many millions of people, Without such development, the solid growth of the cities will be retarded.
 The Australian government is proceeding on sound basis when it insists that immigrants go to the land and become primary producers. By pursuing that policy, the country will es- cape the affliction of cities overgrown with undesirable aliens who produce nothing, or little at the most
 The United States government has found it necessary to restrict greatly the flow of im- migration to this country, since it became apparent that the newcomers were not going to the land, as did the immigrants in other days There should be no revision of the restrictions except in the case of immigrants who desire to become agricultural producers. It is not too late for America to model her immig ation plan after that now being proposed in Aus tralia,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
LETTERS TO EDITOR
ALABAMA DELEGATIONS ATTITUDE

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 The present action of the Alabama delega- tion- to Congress in regard to the Muscle Shoals appropriation is so like the action of the southern senators in regard to the Panama canal, that think it well to call the attention of the people to this matter. The south was to be more benefited than any part of the United States, though the canal was needed for the whole country, yet large majority of southern senators voted against the Panama canal because they would rather have the Nicaragua route. The Muscle Shoals case, (but for the sane Underwood; would not have any appropriation at all, if the Alabama delegation had their way. J. deB. HOOPER.
 Birmingham, June 80, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
RADIO

Archibald Rutledge, in the July Scribner'a. O not word and not thought In the wide world shall come to naught; No little love with sails Of white Shall vanish homeless in the night. This wind that moves with fluting song My plumed and purple pines among, Shall wave dim palms in tropic nights, Shall storm the white Himalaya's heightA And every dream I mourn as dead Or lost, is lyrically fled
 Out of my heart into another's,- While l have taken home my brotherh At length shall break on Hatteras The wave that Breton sailors pass Blue-rolling westward, or shall run To thunder on the dreadful Horn. The tingling air is thrilled with spirit; The universe can inherit;
 Mysteriously great and near,
 Creations throbbing heart hear. Of these elusions, farewells, flights, That dim my days and haunt my nighAoJ- In all the lonely strength of winsa, Some heart shall make recoveringA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
WORKERS FLOUT AUTHORITY OF
 RAILROAD LABOR BOARD

There is one feature of the railway shop mems strike that is clear in the public mind. It is a strike against the government. When B. M Jewell and other leaders ignored the last-hour attempts of the railroad labor board to stop the strike informed the railroad execu- tive that the only way to prevent walkout was to ignore the ruling of the board reducing wages and making other changes in working conditions, they snapped their fingers at the only recognized government agency dealing with disputes between the railroads and their employees. The men who are on strike have defied the government and at the same time have struck another blow at union labor by alternating public sympathy.
 How can labor disputes ever be settled if the tribunals legally established to pass on such cases going to be flouted when their dc- cisions are displeasing to one side or the other? Whats the use of having government if all the people, and not a part of the people, are going to recognize it's authority? The situation comes perilously near to being an- archy. =
 The railroad labor board has not been able to satisfy the railroad executives or the en,- ployes, but that is no excuse for either side to declare that it will not abide by it's decisions. It is announced that the government will stand behind the board. Public sentiment in this case will also be with the board
 Regardless of the questions at issue between the railroads and the workers, now is good time to demonstrate that this is government of all the people and they all owe it obedience, including the railroad executives and railroad employees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
PEOPLE RENDER VERDICT
 AS TO AUDITORIUM

The unmstakable message of the citizens of Birmingham to the city commission with respect to the auditorium, is threefold one, as follows:
 i. The auditorium should be built now.
 2. It should be built with the money the city now has.
 8. It should be a large auditorium, seating not less than 5000 persons, preferably 10000.
 AS to the site, the city block in Smiths park offereds as gift to the city, is preferred three to one over the Eighth avenue lot, which abuts oh the Frisco" yards.
 In this referendum conducted by The Age Herald, it may be said that the vote is small one. Those who present that argument might bear in mind that on August Is, 1919, Bir- mingham voted a bond issue of $4500,000 with fewer than 2,500 voters participating. The city did not hesitate to issue the bonds approved by this small contingent of it's peo- pie In the $5oo0oo bond election for an auditorium the total number of ballots cast was 2,252, of which 1,744 were for and 60s against the bonds.
 In recent election in Hillside, N. J., for $200,0 of school bonds, nine citizens of the 2,500 men and women entitled to vote par ticipated. The votes were all in Che affirma- tive, because the town WAS solid for the bonds and delivered verdict admitting of no dispute
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
"L. AND N." BEGINS SERIES OF
 TALKS TO PUBLIC

Under the title Dawn of Better Day." the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company has begun series of display advertisements in The Age-Herald and other newspapers of the southern states.
 The company wants the people to know its operations and it's problems in order that they may the better appreciate the efforts made to serve them and the progress in tha. direction the object being to establish mutual understanding between the transportation com pany and the public.
 There is no better way of bringing about an understanding than by laying one's case before those by whom we wish to be understood. The larger part of the pickering and the fault finding in which men indulge is due to ig- norance of the other fellows motives.
 It is an excellent time to start this series of advertisements. As the Louisville and Nashville advertisement observes:
 "The making of crops is going busily on, fac unemployment is rapidly becoming a negligible factor in every community Living costs are being lowered, railroad rates adjusted, and the business stage is set for greater things than the south has ever known"
 If the southern people act on their oppor- tunities there is no end to the prosperity which may be attained on the present tide and per- manent development based on good judgment
 This district will take all the more interest in what the Louisville and Nashville has to say to it's patrons because that carrier has been a friend in good and bad season since the foun- dation of the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
LARGEST COAL PRODUCTION
 IN FIVE YEARS

Records are broken by Birmingham indus tries with such frequency that, but for is ever-stimuating character, it would be monot- onous. In fact, citizens, who few months ago took on new life when Alice furnace resumed, have become 50 accustomed to the new order of things that items of far more importance than the blowing in of one blast furnace are barely discussed. All district activities have so far recovered that new pro-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02

tariff bill, by an outsider in the person of Lynn J. Frazier, non partisan, means much politically.
 North Dakota is the most r6ck-ribbed of all the republican states. That it should have de- feated in it's republican primary the practical business leader of the Senate, would seem TO mean the prelude to a political upheaval. in this country.
 It probably means a protest against service promotion. In both the Senate and House of Representatives at Washington there has been an unwritten law of promotion by virtue of continuous service, rather than ability. Thus, incompetents- have become charmen of the most important committees of both houses of Congress, and both political parties have suf- fered.
 As it is today the republican leadership in Congress is dominated by old, worn-out, stand pat incompetents who are under so many political obligations that they don't know what they stand for The pending tariff bill is an example. The various schedules have been dic tated by interests that can produce votes; and its framers are absolutely ignorant of it's rey- enue producing merits.
 So different from the Underwood law!
 
 The natural inference from the present political situation in the country, would be that the democratic party, in its next conven- tion, would nominate Oscar Underwood, proven statesman, who would be elected over anyone the republicans could nominate, re- gardless of the fact that he halls from the, southern state Of Alabama. But the real danger to both political parties, and to the country at large, is in the fellow Henry Ford who has made so-much-ado over making cheap fertilizers at Muscle Shoals, if the government will give him the property, and issue fifty million dollars of fiat money to pay foy improvements.
 If Congress don't give him what he wants, he threatens to run for President. There are millions of people in this country who would vote for him regardless of party affiliations.
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 Were he President what would become of our money standards and banking institutional
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News
 The tomato can, but will 1t?
 In marriage, he who hesitates is-bossed. One way to escape gossip is to behave your self.
 There is more or less moonshine in the as- trology business.
 It is better to have loved and lost-than to pay alimony.
 Lots of people point the finger of scorn just to show off their rings.
 Graft by any other name is just as apt to land some man behind the bars.
 When it comes to falling in love with a giddy girl, there is no fool like an old fool.
 Men don't run to short sleeves, rolled stock ings and dropstitch waists, but as a general thing they can get themselves up to look fool ish if they try.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
DISCUSSES PITTSBURGH PLUS

Fifteen manufacturers and two jobbe-s who have taken the witness stand in the Pitts burg Plus hearings at Chattanooga, all told practically the same story of the handicap they suffer by reason of this discrimination against southern industry" said Charles L. Harold.
 ''It is commonly predicted in Chattanooga that the United States Steel Corporation, the respondent in these proceedings, will yield to the overwhelming protest against this trade practice and put Birmingham and Chicago on a parity with Pittsburg.
 "It is significant that, in describing the small territory to which both manufacturers and jobbers of the so ath are confined, they give almost identical markets in every case. They all pay at Birmingham on their raw ma teral--that is the manufacturers-the same price, namely, the prevailing price at Pitts burg plus $5 per ton, except wire. which is $15.30 And the dstributive rate on the fin- ished products is about the same. This makes constant differential factor in the manufacture and sale of the products and un- less steel is minor portion of the product as finished, the boundary lines of their respec- tive markets are almost identical. The only difference is that between Birmingham and Chattanooga manufacturers the latter reach little farther north than their Birmingham competitors. But the competition that both dread most is that which comes from Pitts burg district where they buy their steel much cheaper and whence the outgoing freight rates are lower.
 Please note the variety of manufacturers who already have spoken at Chattanooga under oath. There is the American Bolt company of Birmingham, handicapped in the manufacture of bolts; Johnson & Thompson and Ingalls Iron works, restricted by the plus in the struc- tural and tank building; Vulcan Rivet corpora tion, meeting northern competition right in the immediate home markets of Birmingham and unable to get beyond Tennessee to ad- vantage as against Pittsburg rivet makers; Perfection Spring and Mattress company, also of Birmingham, who testified that right here in Birmingham their Baltimore competitor is opening warehouse to serve its ever-increas- ing business in the adjacent markets of Br- mingham where, because of the $13.50 per ton of fictitious freight levied upon the local bed spring manufacturer, the northern man is tremendously favored. Kby Frog and Switch company of Birmingham told of how it's com petitors of the north sell the Southern railway lines big tonnages of frogs, switches and cross ings, whereas Kilby company rarely crosses the Virginia line with it's deliveries.
 "We may conclude that not only is the vol ume of business of the Birmingham manufac- turer seriously cut by the plus and his manu- featuring cost is increased, but other manu- lecturers who might otherwise find it to ad- vantage to locate plants here are kept away by this unfair price method.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
BucoLIc JOYS

 How sweet it is to read the roet's lines : Describing country life, in all its charm, Where man for wealth and fame no longer pines,
 But dwclls contentedly upon farm! We'll pleased to see the seasons roll around, His simple wants by Mother Earth supplied, His pleasures such as no one ever found In marts of trade or palaces of pride. His fertile fields provide sure increase, His home's scene of goodly mirth and cheer; He walks the ways of plenty and of peace, Full-crowned with many blessings, year by
 year. Iris thus the poet lets his fancy fit, Although he may be writing in a flat; I've never met farmer who'd admit His life was anything at all like that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
SUPERFLUOUs
From the Los Angeles Times.

Walter Camp, the famous athlete and trainer, was talking about rough football
 "One of the toughest players Yale ever turned out he said, "went west to work on ranch. The cowboys, having heard of his fame, asked him to teach them football.
 50 the Yale man made up two husky elevens, explained the rules, and wound up with
 Mind, men, if you can't kick the ball kick an opponent. Now let's get busy. Where's the ball?"
 "'oh, drat the ball. said cowboy; let's get on with the game.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-02
FAvoRs RETENTION OLD ROUTE

'I am strongly in favor of the retention of the present route of the Montgomery highway over Red and Shades mountains" said M. ". Henry, county treasurer. 1t was laid out by competent engineers who determined upon the mountain route after a careful survey. Citi- zens have erected their homes along the road with the understanding that it is to be the Montgomery highway. The scenery from the top of the mountain is unsurpassed east of the Mississippi A great industrial city can be seen in the valley below.
 If the people of Bessemer want road am willing to help them get it. But I don't think that they should want to change the route of the Montgomery highway from where it was located by competent engineers, among whom I understand were s. R. Batson and Jere Gwn.'