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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
MORE OFFICERS NEEDED

The statement of the retiring sheriff of Jefferson county that the personnel of his department is too limited properly to police this territory, to enforce the laws and to protect the lives and property of citizens, is deserving of careful inquiry, particularly in view of the statement of Birminghams police commissioner that similar situation explicitly states that Birmingham and lief ferson county are not threatened with any unusual or heavy visitation of crime and criminals, but that the territory and popula- tion are too large to be protected by the present small force. An insufficient police force makes ineffective the effort to guard the laws, and substracts from the benefit of the investment in this branch of public ser vice. The situation, therefore, demands survey of the police needs of both city and county, and provision for such additions as are necessary to accomplish the purpose. It may be also that some change in the system so as to promote efficiency will be found advisable. The earnest recommendations of these heads of departments concerned should not be disregarded. The grand jury has found the forces of law insufficient. The people of this city and county know very well that there is lack of protection in many sections. The other public officials must also be aware of the situation. What deters them from taking such measures as will remedy the conditions complained of?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
THE CADDIE'S SUGGESTION ,,,o,. +ha prox,;danco Journa1

A clergyman playing on the fa- nous golf course at St. Andrews got into the bunker called Hell" He asked the caddie why the bunker was so named and was informed that it was because once a player gets into it he cannot get out.
 Calling for his niblick the clergy man made fine shot and landed his ball on the green. He turned to his caddle. What do you say to that now?" he asked triumphantly.
 ''All have to say, sir, IS when ye dee, talk yer niblick wi ye," an- swered the youngster.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
TURKEY IS IRRESPONSIBLE

From the KanSas Clry IIMes.
 Turkey claims the right of an in dependent nation to regulate it's own domestic affairs, including giv- ing protection to minorities. But such a right is accorded to nations that prove their capacity to exercise it in accordance with civilized stand- ards. Ordinarily parents are free to deal with their children without outside intervention. But if they demonstrate their inability to man age the family life humanely, the court intervenes. In the same way other nations are compelled to in- tervene in Turkish affairs because Turkey has not shown herself com potent to manage them decently her calf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
LETT GO AT THAT J. I11s-1k.

A man stepped up to Henry Ward Beecher one day and said: "Sir, l am an evolutionist, and want to dis cuss the question with you. l am also an annihilationist; believe that when I die that will be the end of me-"
 "Thank goodness for thatv' said MT. Beecher, as he walked off and left the man dazed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
DEPUTIES SUSTAIN POINCARE

The vote of confidence given the Poincare government in the French Chamber of Dep uties, 512 to 76, indicates that his policies are strongly approved at home Poincare has been charged with imperialistic designs and militarism. His stand on reparations and the threatened occupation of German territory to enforce payment of the war in- demnity have exposed him to a great deal af criticism outside of France and have ere
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
A Dextr,,rt;ve Pest

From the Union Springs Herald.
 The corn borer is pest. that de- stroys about 25 per cent of the corn in the fields in which it works, and means of preventing it from migrat- ing across the United States are now under consideration. Destruc- tion by it would be enormous should it get into the middle western or southern states
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
When a Turkey Was Cheap

From the Montgomery Times.
 We see it stated in the press dis patches that turkeys are to be cheaper for Christmas. We don't know what is meant by being cheap, but if 90 cents a pound is cheap, we must confess we don't know much about the price of turkeys, but we well remember that in the old days S2 was big price for turkey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
Uneven Highways

From the Talladega Home.
 Alabama highways are too much on the intermittent order; they are splendid and smooth, or bumpy and washed by torrents. Why not build them to stay longer?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
Alabama Press
The Moving Spirit

From the Gadsden Journal.
 Wonder if, when the university completes its million-d dollar cam paign, some city will come out with proposal to take the institution away from Tuscaloosa?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
MALAISE

Leslie Nelson Jennings, in The Forum. A lighted window in the night, clear Panel of sky above some narrow street; Voices across calm water that we hear As music only, indistnet and sweet; Marsh lands at evening when the Phoenix
 wings
 Of sunset have gone beating down the
 west. These are secure; the ancient, simple things No absence can assail, no tears modest. And yet we follow them with all our needs, Breathe sorrow into solitude, until It seems another heart of pity bleeds Far down the slope of some sea-facing
 hill, Unbuilt upon, unbroken by the blow World, will not you be weary of us now?
 Folly Song Louise Driscoll, in Contemporary Verse. I would give my wise heart for the foolish heart I had
 Be very kind to Folly, you will miss her when she goes Wisdom has no secret way to make the sorry glad,
 Nor any small, forgetting songs like those that Folly knows. When you walk with Wisdom then your feet go slow and steadily, Dance with Folly while you may, her hour is not long! And when you are remembering the happy things that used to be, It's likely you'll be thinking of little, foolish song. Oh, would give my wisdom for the folly that is dead and done, A= Dear, dear Folly, with her lids down on her eyes! Now I'm working quietly upon the task I have begun, And all my songs are ended since my heart grew wise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
THEY HAVE A GRIEVANCE

From the HOusFon Post.
 Some 36,00J employees were dropped from the rolls of the fed eral government during the past year. It is needless to say they were democrats, and when they get back into the states one blast from the bugle horn of each of these in- dignant Rodericks will be worth a thousand votes in 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
To Rout the Bootlegper

From the Roanoke Leader.
 The question of the enforcement and maintenance of the prohibition laws of the land is looming large. More strenuous efforts are being planned to put the bootlegger c rout. A great deal depends upon this crusade. City, county, state and national officials should join hands in saving the country from liquor lawlessness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
A Fortunate Town

From the Sylacauga Advance.
 Sylacauga is the only town in the world which can boast of having electrical supply from three distinct electric plants; and if all goes well our town may soon boast of having two sources of water supply.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
Contracts
OOhtfaCts From the Mobile Reristar-

From the Mobile Register.
 That Alabama power company, which, holds such righteous indigna- tion over the implied violation of contract in the proposal that the government sell to some one else the Gorgas steam plant, is the same company which is willing for the public service commission to assess valuation that would enable it to break it's contracts with the firms and municipalities it serves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
THE CANNY TEUTONS

From the Washington Star.
 Berlin extravaganza is attributed to the desire of paper mark owners to get rid of them while there is still something they will buy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
An Election Trend

From the Talladega Institute Home.
 The late elections were pretty strong for Ford. It is now said that as one of the republican reparations they must yield up Muscle Shoals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
A BACKWARD COLLEGE

From the Providence Journal.
 Senator Norris wants to eliminate the cleo toral college. Why not? It has never pro- duced a champion football team.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18

Washington is annoyed at the gossip over this nations anticipated action in respect to German reparations. Still, if the state de- partment were not so secretive there would be less need for speculative rumor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18

It is reported that a boshevik hangman of Moscow, credited with more than 1000 executions ordered by the soviet, has hanged himself. No deed in all his life became him as his departure from it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
DOING OUR BIT
hatfannnna Nn,,rs

From the Chattanooga News.
 Perhaps we might compromise with M. Clemenceau by agreeing to send an "ob- server' in case France should again get into trouble with Germany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
TURKS COULD SOLVE IT

From the Washington Post.
 If the Turks continue massacreing, the question of minorities will soon be solved by elimination.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18

Whether the mayor of Drumright, Okla, was right or wrong in tapping gas main to supply his people with fuel, it cannot be denied that he is enterprising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
THE PRESIDENTS MISTAKE

From the COIumbla Kecoru.
 Mir. Harding's initial mistake was when he elected to be managed by the "best minds;" he would have got on better without any minds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18

Congress, having been asked by the Pres ident to consider certain measures of legis- lation, is considering almost everything else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18

The "Spice of 1922" recently showing in Chicago, lost it's spice when the chorus girls went on strike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
PROGRESS OF THE TURK rom the Columbia State.

TTOIfI C1Ie C0IuIfI0Id Otdtc'
 The Turkish debt is now assum- ing huge proportions. This brings the Turk fully into line with the most advanced and highly-financed civilizations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18

Congress appears to be able to oust a dem- ocrat with greater ease than republican.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
Non-Skid Roads

From the Tuscaloosa News.
 It is difficult to believe that good smooth road can be considered the greatest menace to the automo- bile driver today, but it is-in wet weather. In fact. the danger is so great that the National Motorists association is urging the develop ment of non-skid roads. The trou- ble is to find permanently satis- factory surface. There is little danger of skidding on pavements of brick or granite block, even m very wet weather, but these seldom keep level surface long. The concrete or asphalt road can be made temporarily safe by roughen- ing the surface before the top fin- ishing hardens. But this relief lasts only little while, as oil, dust and waste soon fill up the crevices and the road becomes as slippery as the one finished smooth in the first place. It is an immediate problem in every locality. The individual who seeks fortune and the grati- tude of his fellow men has no need to look far afield. All he has to do is sit right at home and devise a surface or material which will of- fer as little friction as the smooth road, as little skidding as the rough block pavement and retain these qualities indefinitely under the steady whir of millions of passing wheels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
Needs of Rural Schools

From the Abbeville Herald.
 To make the rural schools as good as the city schools we are told that the country schools should be kept open at least nine months in the year, should be taught by better teachers receiving better pay, in bet ter schoolhouses with better equip ment. Money will buy these and all the other things that now go to make our city schools better than most rural schools.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-18
THE AGE- H ERALD

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala. postoffice as seeond-class matter under act of Congress- Marca q Ia7o.
The Colorado statesman., 1922-11-18
Political Prisoner Is
PardOned by
President

Ben Fletcher. the only Negro politi-
cal prisoner confined in Leavenworth.
has been pardoned. Mr.. Fletcher
passed through Pittsburgh last week
and paid a visit to the American of
flee.
Fletcher was indicted September IS.
1917. by the federal grand Jury at Chi
cago for alleged violation of the Unit
ed States criminal code. the selective
service act and the espionage act. The
indictment covered five counts. After
conviction these counts were reduced
to two by the Appellate Court. but the
conviction was affirmed on two counts.
He was sentenced to serve ten years.
The Pennsylvania committee for DO
litical prisoners applied to the Presi-
dent to pardon him October. Is, 1922.
The Colorado statesman., 1922-11-18
FEAR GROWING UNREST
AMONG THE DARKER RACES

are eloquent in their ability to express
what is happening throughout the
world and what is going to happen.
They point with pride to heaven. They
point with pride to the swift over
throw of governments throughout the
world in the last few years. and say
that the time is coming in America
when. particularly in the South. where
black people are denied the most,
there will be a gigantic upheaval of
some kind that will destroy forever
the influence of that class of whites
who have held the yoke of oppression
on the black mans neck until it has
almost choked him. "The hellishness
cannot last forever" they say, and
with that faith they journey onward,
reading, thinking. planning, working"
The Colorado statesman., 1922-11-18
P1Ows Up Jar
OF Gold Dollars

Hopkinsville. KY, Nov. 9.-Henry
Kendrick. aged 25, Negro laborer.
blowing on Lionel Dukes farm in
South Christian, unearthed glass lar
containing 56S gold dollar pieces.
minted from 1910 to 1865. He sold
his interest to John Boyd. lessee of
tbe farm. for 5000. Kendrick came
here and bought a secondhand automo-
bile. returning home Friday night. He
ran over Herbert Johnson. aged 40. Il
farmer and world war veteran. crush
ing the latters right leg. Johnson's
leg was amDutated at local hospital.
Kendrick was accompanied by Rich
ard Boyd, aged -, son of the lessee
of Lionel Dukes farm, when ha
plowed up the lar He turned over
the lar to Boyd. his employer, and
signed a quit claim on the money for
the 5000. There is said to be high
premium on some of the coins. The
gold was evidently buried shortly af-
ter the Civil war. There is no clue
TO the original owner.
The Colorado statesman., 1922-11-18
Harding Names
Cohen for Job
In New Orleans

Washington. Nov. S.-AnnOuncement
was made here last Saturday that
Walter l.. Cohen. prominent Louisiana
politician, would be named as Comp
troller of Customs at New Orleans.
President Harding is expected to send
his name to the Senate for confirma
ton as soon as the Senate reconvenes.
The position pays $1,000 a year
The appointment is the first presi-
Dental one given to Il colOred man for
welt administration. Taft, in his in
augural address, decreed that no col
ored man would be given Federal
Job in those communities where objec-
ton might be raised, and this excIud-
ed all from Southern positions. Presi-
dent Harding announced the same pol
lev. When the Cohen appointment
was announced as probable a few
months ago it was said that the Dem
ocratic Senators from Louisiana would
raise no objection thereto and that he
had the backing of influential politi-
clans and business men in New Or
leans.
Coming on the eve of the election,
many volunteered the opinion that the
appointment was announced to ward
off Threatened lukewarmness among
many colored voters in the North and
West.
Mr.. Cohen has been conspicuous
figure in Louisiana Republican poll
tics for about thirty years. He was u
1912-1916-1920, and was Register of
the Land Office during the Roosevelt
administration.
The Colorado statesman., 1922-11-18
War Savings Stamps,
1918Series. Due and
Payable January l,
1923

Washington. Nov. IS. 1922.-War
became due and payable on January
l. 1923. The people who bought these
stamps will receive their full face
value upon redemption and will find
that the money they saved five years
ago has earned every year about 4
per cent compounded interest. In or
der to afford holders of war savings
stamps an opportunity to continue
their investment in safe government
security the Treasury Department is
offering an exchange of war savings
stamps for treasury savings cerfit-
Gates. The certificates are issued in
denominations of $50. 500 and $1,000,
maturity value, and sold for S2O.50.
$50 and $500, respectively. Holders of
war savings stamps can get them Mt
these prices upon application through
their own banks or their postoffices'
Exchanges will be made as of January
l. 1923. upon applications presented
between November 10, 1922. and Jan
nary 10. 1923. Immediate payment
will be made in cash of any difference
due the holder of war savings stamps
if he takes the largest possible amount
of treasury savings certificates on the
exchange.
The growing inclination of the peo-
ple TO save and their desire to find
n safe reinvestment for their money
leads treasury officials to believe that
a large part of the six hundred mil
lion dollars in war savings stamps
soon to become due. will be exchanged
for treasury savings certificates.
The Colorado statesman., 1922-11-18
Fortune Given to
Stokes for Meri-
tOriOus Service

Mr.. ]. c. Wolcott. white. 704 East
Forty-seventh street. died at his home
Thursday. Nov. 2. In his will he left
Mr.. E. f. Stokes $1,000 in cash money,
eighty acres of land in Merwin. Mo-,
400 head of hogs. 60 head of pure bred
Hereford cattle. 160 head of sheep.
Mr.. Stokes had worked for Mr.. VOL
colt for fifteen years. He came here
from Cleveland. Ohio. where he had
worked for the White Motor Company.
Kansas City Call.
The Colorado statesman., 1922-11-18
CHEYENNE.
WYO. NEWS

Cheyenne Branch. n. a. \. c. p.
elected officers on Monday eve as fol-
lows: Mrs. Carrie Smith. president;
Il. Richardson, vice president: Mrs.
Hattie jefferson, secretary; Mrs. Ad-
die Reese, assistant secretary: j. II.
Moss. treasurer; Rev. w. T. Thorton.
chairman executive committee: Frank
McComb. booster"
A letter from Presiding Elder Rev.
I. NJ. Endicott, Albuquerque district of
A. NJ. E. Church, compliments the
churches in his charge and courtesy
extended. Mrs. EndicOtt departed for
Denver to visit her daughter. Mrs.
Boyd.
Mrs. Matte Crawley accidentally
burned her hand with hot grease. Hav-
ing proper medical attention it is
hoped her case will not be as serious
as at first expected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Davis, former
ly of this city, are at home mt 1923
Welton street, Denver. Mr.. Davis has
charge of officers mess at Fort Lo-
gan, Colo.
Mr.. John A. Baker is appointed dep
uty grand exalted ruler l. B. Z. o. L.
W. for Wyoming.
Helen Gaskin. years of age. died
Wednesday, Nov. s. Cause of death.
diphtheria. She was the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Gaskin. Funeral
Thursday. Nov. Q. Other sisters in
the family who are i'll with diphtheria
are not improving.
At the regular weekly meeting
Thursday, Nov. %, the Cheyenne Civic
League will elect officers. Members
and friends are earnestly requested to
attend.
Mr.. II. ]. Reed, who has been i'll
during the past few weeks. has re-
covered.
An entertainment. "The Womanless
Wedding" given at the A. Nj. IL.
Church on Thursday eve. Nov. o. I'M
der direction of Mrs. H. c. Jefferson.
was a pronounced success.
Rev. and Mrs. G.. o. Smith of Cas-
per. Wyo.. passed through en- route to
Hutchinson. Kan.
We will be pleased if few of our
men will buster enough race pride or
common sense to attend meetings of
the n. A. A. C. p. and assist the wom-
en- who have organized to do the work
men should do. 1t is a deDlorable fact
that real race work in Wyoming or
ganizations is executed by women.
Mr.. VIII Christian has returned to
cheyenne to spend the winter season.
ASK those men who are forgetful of
their duties to the race. Those men
who do not know the N A. A. C. p
Ask them if they are aware the ku
Klux Klan is strong. hustlins organ
ization of it's kind.
The Colorado statesman., 1922-11-18
Finds S4S.OOO in Gold

Somerset. Ky. Nov. 9.-While dig
ging in a pit for a sawmill outside the
town, David Jones sunk his pick in
the top of a not. He pulled the cover
and discovered gold pieces arranged in
an orderly manner
The state banking authorities. to
whom Jones took his find. declare that
the gold is hundred-year old English
coins worth $4S.000. If no one can
prove ownership within year the gold
will go to Jones.
The Colorado statesman., 1922-11-18

WY ASHINGTON. Nov. 6.-(By \. A.
w P1-H. G.. Wells, the famous
w author and journalist, advocates
n unified world control of world af-
fairs, not the League of Nations but
a gigantic combination of information
al group on a scale, and with motives
startling in their sweeping candor for
greater human liberty and justice: l-"-
min of Russia has been consigned the
duty. by the bolshevists of telling of
the progress of world revolution
while VIII Irwin. noted writer in Chi
cago. tells of the next great war" in
which the yellow people of the East
will cross arms with the great white
races of the West.
Added to this turmoil of ideas and
conflagration of prophesies is the
Stoddard alarm of the "Rising Tide of
Color" and the unquestioned restless
ness of people of African descent in
all parts of the world including the
great millions of Africa itself,
In the United States of America.
where there are practically fifteen mil
lions of human beings touched by the
bronzing glow of Africa's sun. discon-
tent and disappointment are entwined
with the emotions of determination.
defiance and hatred. These dark
skinned Americans. who in their sim
pie faith have for decade after de-
cade put their trust in God and the
gilded promises of certain of the
whites. have had rude awakening.
They have discovered that "all is
not gold that glitters." They
have been disfranchised. segregated.
lynched and murdered The thrills of
patriotism have been turned into hol-
low mockery by the deeds of the un-
Just. Hope in the possibilities of no
litical opportunities, backed by the
honey-toned words of the silver
tOngued orator has been transformed
into the sting of hypocrisy and treach-
cry.
In such a mood and attitude of
mind. fertile soil is found for the
strange and radical doctrines. Dis
mayed by the failure of all that has
gone before. these people quite natur-
ally are turning their ewes to new
lighthouses of hope. and directing
their thoughts to the appeals of newer
chieftains.
Overthrow of Injustice.
Colored Americans have but one
desire: an all united movement on
their part is to bring about realiza-
ton of that desire. the overthrow of
Injustice. The mockery of fair play
and Justice to which they are sub
iected is making of them race of
cynics. This is true in all parts of
the land and among all the various
classes of the entire group. 1t is
fraught with seriousness. because
sects and isms from other prejudice is
an unknown quantity. are taunting
these black peoples with unanswera-
BILE arguments about the conditions
and treachery in America.
1--WE are Just biding our time said
one of the adherents of very radical
group. For what?" he was asked
Until the dawning of the day when
all these hypocrites will be swept into
the ocean by the onward march of the
legions of Justice" Sounds tragically
poetical. He would go no further in
detailed explanation. but it is known
to be sacred belief that the day Is
coming when some great force, some
where. somehow. will nrlng about
new order of things.
These adherents to the new faith"