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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
BUILDING AND LOAN PLANS
 AT MERIDIAN. MISS.

Business and professional men of Meridian, Miss, have formed temporary organization of the Meridian Building and Loan association, with more than $50,0o0 capital subscribed at the first meeting. Meridian will discover that great benefit will follow the introduction of building and loan activities.
 Presumably Mississippi has laws like those of Alabama, safeguarding building and loan in- vestments, and it is presumed that funds will be loaned only on first mortgages on real es- tate, and not more than 50 per cent of it's value.
 Birmingham building and loan associations have aided in building thousands of homes here. A large increase of capital has been eagerly absorbed. An increase of 5000, ,o0o in the past two years has gone into homes.
 Not penny of any mans investment in Birmingham building and loan associations has been lost. Many of the most prosperous men in Birmingham owe their start in life to saw ings placed in these associations and some of the largest mercantile houses are investors in this monthly payment stock.
 If Meridian organizes building and loan as- sociations the same plan that exists in Ala bama they will perform great service for that city,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
POLICE HOPE" CHEST

t'The evidence drawer here at headquarters certainly presents motley conglomeration of articles" said S. E. Goad, police sergeant.
 "A minute inspection of the drawer where the smaller articles of stolen property are kept is chuck full of nearly everything under the sun. Just few of the many-sided as- sortment are: German Mauser pistols, per fumes, face powders, money, flashlights pen cils, check books, badges, keys, tallow candles, rubber bands and ink. And some poor deuded person tried to steal some machine oil and we have bottle of this household necessity along with the rest of the evidence"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
poBBs PROUD oF H1s SON

"Dr. s. L. Dobbs, father of Bishop Hoyt M. Dobbs, has every reason to be proud of his son, who is the youngest bishop in the southern Methodist church." said D. B. Grace. "Dr. Dobbs says that only once before has Methodist bishop had living father and that was in the instances of the Pierces, Lovick and George. Nearly all the bishops have been men of middle age. Dr. Dobbs also says that both he and his son, Bishop Dobbs were dele gates to the same general conference-some- thing unusual Only two men have ever de- clined the honor of being bishop, one being Dr. Hagood. Highlands Methodist church has given to the church two bishops, and has lad only five or six pastors, showing greater percentage than any other church. The late beloved Bishop Mccoy was the other bishop from Highlands Methodist church. being its first pastor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21

It looks as if the surgeon who operated on Mccormick missed the chance to have his fee trebled.
 An aviator flying over the gulf claims to have caught an so-pound tarpOn. Next gen tleman7
 Wayne B. Wheeler advises the drys to be vigilant. Brother Bryan is vigilance person. flied.
 k Richmond is flying the Stars and Bars without word of protest from Washington.
 x * France has agreed to look in on the confer ence at The Hague. Now, isn't that obliging?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
MONUMENT TO A HOG
Montgomery Advertiser.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 At Blue Bell, near Middleton, O., hundreds of stock breeders from all sections of the country gathered Thursday to witness the un- yelling of monument to hog, the first of tho Poland China strain. The monument marks the site of the home of W. 0. Hankin- son, now dead, who in 1875 wrote the first hog pedigree which established the Poland China strain.
 the things which have contributed so much to the prosperity, and so much to the greater comfort and progress of their families. The Poland China hog is one of several distin- gpished strains that have added dignity and wealth to tho live stock industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
GLAD OF HELPING HAND

q am glad to see the way in which the newspapers, especially The Age-Herald, have joined in the fight for hospital for tuber- cular patients to offset the abandonment of Red mountain sanitarium," said Thomas E Huey, member of the board of revenue.
 "The Inter-C Club council is also enthusiastic in its indorsement of plan to erect first class hospital In my opinion it will be no trouble when the time comes to raise suf- ficient funds for the erection of $65,0 ,0o0 in- stitution to lead the fight against the great white plague.' This dread disease is doing much more damage than all wars combined, 50 we need to prepare against it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
BORDEAUX

Barbara Ling, in The Reviewer. There is town know, asleep and gray, And still and quiet, where the rhythmic beat Of patient plodding horses weary feet Re-echoes. Where the little children play In the cathedrals kindly shade all day; There stately danes in great white bonnets
 meet
 The grnning gargoyles watch them as they
 greet
 Each other, and wag their chins in solemn
 sway
 Great ships lie there in port of every line, There is a small of salt and cheap red wiie-- I think that heaven must be place like this Where talk celestial nonsense in their blias, Walking beneath the brown and dusty treos, Dante and Rupert Brooke and Socrates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21

tion, and in its youth was virtue; but at it's maturity became vice in the very nature of it's existence. What better can be expected of the klan's "second coming? Surely the ne- cessity does not now exist as it did at it's birth Our laws are now made and enforced by our own people. We are in full charge of our state, county and municipal laws, the lack of which was the only justification for the orig inal klan, and with all of this to it's credit, in the minds of many good people it is question if the klan a whole did not do as much harm as it did good. Be this as it may, any organization that has for it's purpose the talk ing and the executing the law in it's own hands is menace to good government, citi- zenship and civilization, step backward that can only lead to anarchy and ruin.
 G. D. WILLIAMSON.
 Decatur, June IA, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21

but the two dead languages; but he was an admirable instruction in them. .' The scholar seems to have been singularly success full in escaping instruction, for it is generally admitted that Disraeli's knowledge of Latin was little, and of Greek less. The room above the stabes-paneled half way to the ceiling-still contains the old wooden desks used by the scholars, and is reached by a rickety outside wooden staircase. The house itself must be at least 300 years old. Dr. Cogan and his academy appear in several of his pupils novels, notably in ''Vivian Grey" ''The Young Duke,' and especially in Con tarini Fleming"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
ANT NATURE WONDERFUL

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 We do not know Dr. Alzamon Ira Lucas of New York, but we nightly impressed with his exploits. At some sort of a meeting of doctors at Atlantic City recently he pro- duced his 4-year-old son, and the boy pointed out in response to his fathers questions "every important bone in the human anatomy and de- scribed the functions of the principal organs. :" We somewhat in doubt as to just what the performance proved, but will pass that point by in favor of wonders still to be related.
 Having thus called attention to the boy, the doctor related that he was boy because his parents had willed it. that, in other words, his sex, as we'll as that of his sister, also exhibited, had been determined in advance of birth. And even there the recital did not end, because the doctor declared there were ninety-five other cases under his direction in which either boy or girl had been born according to the wishes of the parents
 Furthermore-and we inform the reader this is the last degree of astonshment and admira- ton he or she will be called on to supply the doctor informed his colleagues that not only the sex but the vocation of the child could be predetermined. For instance, he ex- plained, if a musical careers is selected, the mother should each day at different times per form on some musical instrument, whether or not she is adept at it. That latter observation clears up great mystery. Now we know what makes many of the modern composers. Their parents have predetermined them and the mother was not adept at music. We imagine that in some instances at least the degree of inadeptness was such that the instrument used was the time -honored tissue-paper folded over a comb.
 And it is all done by psychotherapy. The doctor is a psychotherapist. We were never sure before what psychotherapy was. Now we know. But we intend to keep the secret.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
UNUSUAL DISTINCTION WON BY NEWSPAPER MAN

A unique honor has been paid fearless and conscientious newspaper man. The Bull garian government has decided to place the portrait of L. c. Bourchier, for many years the correspondent of the London Times, on the new national stamps.
 z During his service in Bulgaria, Bourchier vas both friend and unsparing critic He defended Bulgaria before the world when she deserved and needed defense, but when he saw she was being led astray in the mazes of European intrigue he frankly said Even after Bulgaria joined her fortunes with the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
LOCAL wATERMELoNs RIpENINe

sWatermelons will soon be ripe in the coun- ty, and then deputy sheriffs will be found making even further trips into outlying DOT tions of the county" said Deputy Sam Ar nett. "As for myself have already picked out a number of promising fields of watermelons and made friends with the owners.
 "The crop this year is little late owing to incessant rains during the first part of the season, but the prospects are for some fine melons, and some of the truck growers of the county are extremely generous when visited by friend"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
AN IDLE FANCY

The city man, shut in a flat, Begins to scorn a life like that, Doth throw his paper down-avow He'll to the country, keep a COW And cultivate a garden plot. But when the weather's steaming hot And riding in his car, he spies A rural dweller, heaving sighs And digging in the stubborn soil, Begrimed and wearied by his toll, He cheerily steps on the gas And lets the foolish notion pass.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
ANOTHER ASSAULT MADE ON
 THE FORD OFFER

Henry Ford's bid for leasing the Muscle Shoals plants is scathingly denounced in mi nority report submitted to Congress by five members of the House military affairs com mittee
 MT. Ford is charged with spreading ''in- sidious propaganda" over the country. The rumor that he would employ 100000 men at Muscle Shoals is called a fairy tale' and his pledge to manufacture fertilizer at half the price demanded from the farmers by the fertilizer "trust" is fraud"
 The patriotic and unselfish statesmen who sponsor this report want the American peo- pie to know how their confidence is being imposed upon by the Detroit manufacturer. ''The people have right to know and we are determined that they shall know the real facts about Muscle Shoals and the so-called Ford offero We can almost hear them snort in their righteous indignation.
 Farmers and men out of employment, and everybody else who cherishes a dream of new industrial empire at Muscle Shoals, have been hoodwinked. They have been misled into supporting a scheme destined to rob the gov ernment of millions of dollars by giving MT. Ford control of Muscle Shoals. He is trying to get something for almost nothing.
 Who are the authors of this document who are so eager to save the governments money and protect the people from the exploitation of Henry Ford? The report written by Rep resentative Kearns, republican, of Ohio. It was signed by Representatives Rockingham of Massachusetts, Crowther of New York and Morin and Crago of Pennsylvania. The states these gentlemen hail from, we'll their party utilization, sufficiently explains their attacks on MT. Ford
 But if we grant that every word of their report is true, what then? What is to be done with Muscle Shoals? These statesmen say Dam Mo- should be completed with the $7.5OO,0oo appropriation in the army appro- priatoni bill, and the Secretary of War should ask for further proposals. But the govern ment should lease the property under tho fed eral water power act and 'have absolute au- thorty and control over the leases and their products"
 ' It isn't likely that there will be any more cffers for Muscle Shoals. The Ford bid is the only one submitted worthy of serious att tention, although republican members of Con- gress and representatives of special interests have looked in vain for some way to put MT. Ford out of the running. If Mir. Ford is the Highly objectionable character and would-be Aladdin he is said to be by his political enemies in Congress, and if he must not get control of Muscle Shoals, what is the government go- ing to do with the property? Who else wants it? The government doesn't want to operate it. and it would b e an economic crime' to scrap it.
 All this controversy about Muscle Shoals is getting to be exceedingly tiresome. If the statesmen who are so eager to protect the government and taxpayers would make sin Gle constructive suggestion it might clear the Stmosphere considerably
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
PUBLIC MAKES MOST ERRORS

"An item of interest is the report just sent out in the United States post office bulletin in which tabulation was kept on the number of errors made in one New Jersey post office during one week." said R. B. Smyer, head of the general office here.
 ."rhe figures show that the public made 8,426 errors, while the postal employees made "A. I believe that these figures represent the country as whole, although no test has ever been made here.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
HAIL AND FAREWELL

(Which way is the Statue of Liberty?" asked the befuddled passenger, as he stumbled out on deck with a glass in his hand
 "This way" said the captain, pointing in the wake of the stately, but excessively wet liner.
 Here's how, old girl" said the passenger, raising his glass unsteadiy "You are not to blame, God bless you, but somebody's made an exile out of mew
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
DISRAELI AS A SCHOOLBOY

From the Manchester Guardian.
 Most of the young Disraei's time at Higham hall-as Essex hall was then called-was spent in studying the classcss and pr. Cogan is said to have remarked, q don't like Disraeli; i; I never could get him to understand the sub junctive." Disraeli, in speaking of his old school, said, Nothing was thought of there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
CONCERT GREAT succEss

"Our second outdoor concert of the sea- son given in Capitol park last Monday even ing was great success, bringing out large crowd of people" said O. Gordon Erickson, director of community sings.
 While the crowds are still below those of the indoor season, the people are showing a steady increase in attending the outdoor con- certs where some hgh-class music is being given"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
LYONS LOOKING FOR LoAF

"I'm looking forward to a pleasant vaca- ton at Pablo Beach, Fla.," said E. A. Lyons, assistant recorder.
 q leave the city next week and will go to Georgia and then to the beach, where I hope to enjoy the cool breezes of the gulf. L. E. Elzy, night desk man, will assume my duties as warrant clerk, and will be empowered to issue search warrants for the officers in my absence"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
NO SUPPORT

"In the old days were you uneasy when Mr. Iagsby stayed out late at night?7
 "No," said Mrs. Jagsby. "Three or four friends in the same condition usually insisted on bringing him home. But I'm uneasy now. There is so little esprit de corps among hls moonshine acquaintances, or else they are overcome so quickly, the poor boy has to ns- gotiatc the trip all by himself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
MIGHT PREFER THE OTHER PLACE

"Do you suppose jazz musicians will go to heaven?'
 Maybe so," replied Mir. Grumpson. "Ac- cording to the modern idea, nearly everybody is going to heaven, but I won't present my credentials to St. Peter until I find out whether or not they'll have to check their horns at the gate'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
DARN HIS PICTURE

I'd like to boil In pot of oil
 And treat the fellow rough Who airily Remarks to me,
 "Where do you steal your stuff"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
---------------e----- ALEXANDER CITY TELLS WHAT IT HAS

The Chamber of Commerce of Alexander City has issued an attractive folder calling that thriving Alabama town to the atten- tion of the manufacturer, agriculturist, finan- cer, dairyman and all those who seek place in which to do business under favorable condi- tions.
 The pamphlet is handsomely illustrated, showing new creamery, dairying pastures, bountiful oat crop, flourishing peach orchards, a high school, Masonic temple and other buildings. A map of Alabama, with adjacent sections of Mississippi, Georgia and Tennes- see, gives the position of Alexander City geo. graphically and with regard to advantageous railroad connections.
 Among other advantages Alexander City has 5000 population, municipally owned water works, five cotton mills, one knitting mill, a modern creamery paying cash for but terfat, artesian water, sewerage, two banks with resources of $1,5o0, ,o00, county farm bureau. Kiwanis club, modern hotel and low tax rate.
 The folder is an up-to-date example of community advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
A MARVEL OF SCIENCE

"The Gadders will have radio concert to- night. Going over?"
 q thought I would.'
 Radio is wonderful thing"
 Tt certainly is. I understand it keeps the Gadders home three or four nights a week."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
SAID so HIMSELF

"But daughter, you are only IT years old How do you know Charley was made for you?'
 Father" replied the young flapper, drop ping for the moment every trace of artificial ity, Eff you could have seen the look in Char ley's eyes when he told me he vas made for me, you wouldn't doubt it.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
CHOICE

The censor and the prying prude are scorned, A scanty bathing suit is much desired By nymphs who think that beauty unadorned Can never be sufficiently admired.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21
ROUGH SAILING AHEAD

"The lady candidate was defeated?" ''Yes."
 Did she weep?" 3No She's not that kind. I'd hate to be in her husbands shoes for the next two weeks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-21

community advertising.
 
 The former chef of Emperor Nicholas is cooking for hungry children in an American relief administration kitchen at Petrograd. If he's tho right kind of chef he's getting more fun out of that work than he ever got from devising dainty dishes for the jaded appetite of the Czar.
 Speaking over in London, Judge Taft said "The United States and the allied powers should make 1t their sacred duty to keep up the comradeship of the trenches" Minus the cooties, of course.
 Three city commissioners are charged with the heinous offense of promising jobs before they were elected. Has any candidate ever run for office without doing thata
 * * x Henri Letellier says he hasn't had letter from Peggy since she left France. This in telligence leaves us crushed, but we'll manage to get through the day somehow. We might have known that Billy Sunday would oppose liquor selling on American ships, but we fear there is no way to bring MT. Sun day and Mr. Lasker together. Few of us have the privilege of taking weekend trips on the Mayflower, but it is consoling to reflect that they are not especial ly exciting trips.
 x A Detroit newspaper discovers that the south is strong for Ford. That information could have been easily obtained from Ford headquarters.
  The Germans will open 36-hour bi-weekly airplane service from Geneva to Moscow July l. In the meantime our aviators continue to flop.
 = ' " Babe Ruth has been suspended for three days. We are forced to the melancholy con- clusion that this is an off year for the "Bam7 bino."
 X x If this progressive wave doesn't stop Pres ident Harding is going to lose some of the best pals he has in the Senate
 < X Nothing must be more humiliating to mod ern wife than to shoot at her husband four or five times and miss him.
Williams news., 1922-08-18

such papers are lost or destroy ed, the elector will be permit ted to register upon executing and filing with the registering officer an affidavit giving the time, place and court of issu- ance of such papers, and the fact of their loss or destruction and circumstances connected herewith.
 The above applies to women as we'll as to men, except that women of foreign birth become naturalized citizens upon their marriage to citizens of the United States either by birth or by naturalization, or if already married. the naturalization of the husband carries with it citizenship of the wife. On the other hand when a woman who is a citizen of the United either by birth or nat
Williams news., 1922-08-18
OF THE COUNTY
 .RECORDER

Flagstaff, Ariz., Aug. 1st, 1922.
 The election Laws of Arizona provide for the complete regis tration of all electors in the State every two years on the even years. In compliance with the requirements of this law registration for the Novem- Der election was begun at the office of the County Recorder on the first Monday of May. and will continue until ten days before the county primary cleo tion, or until September End, at 5 o'clock P. M., at which time the books will be closed for seventeen days, and no regis trations will be made until Sep tember 18th, at which time the books will again be opened and registering continue until Octo- Der 18th, when they will be closed until the first Monday in May, 1924.
 The qualifications of electors are as follows: Must be twenty-one years of age or. over 9 citizen of the United States, either by birth or naturalizat-, ion; resident of Arizona for one year prior to election, and of the County and Precinct for thirty days; must be able to read the Constitution of the United States in the English language and write his or her name, unless physically unable to do so.
 If elector is naturalized citizen he must present his sec ond or final papers to the regis tration officer, else he cannot be registered. If, however,
Williams news., 1922-08-18

uralization, marries an alien, her citizenship ceases with such marriage. In short, the citi- zenship of the wife is that of the husband.
 Electors must register in the precinct where they reside, to enable them to vote at any primary or election. The law by which a person, if not on the register, could register at the polls, has been omitted from the code now in force, and in order to vote at any primary or election, the electors name MUST appear on the register of the precinct wherein he OF she resides. If, after register ing, the elector moves to an- other precinct or county, he or she must cancel such first regis tration and then re-register in. the precinct where the elector then resides. A person must