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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-01
TRAFFIC REGULATION

q thought it would come to this.'
 "Eh?"
 "A pedestrian tells me he habitually carries shotgun on his strolls about our city. The weapon isn't loaded, but it looks deadly"
 q don't suppose wild-eyed motorist would try to run him down."
 "On the contrary, when he starts across street the shriek of emergency brakes can be heard block away"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-01
THE FLAPPER DOLLAR
From the Boston Transcript.

Already the critics-cal them hypers, If you like-are knocking new silver coin. One writer calls it the 'flapper dollar and says the open-lipped girl thereupon looks as though she thought she might be saying Lines bizzayv or Say, lissenn' Just that sort of girl, you know. If the comment were not so obvious we would say Something about money talking-but we refrain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-01
DO WE NEED MORE IMMIGRANTS?

William Roscoe Thayer, in the North American
 Review.
 Do we need more immigrants? Today there are said to be nearly 3,000,0OO persons out of work in the United States. Does any one pre- tend that can go on being regarded as sane people, if we add by immigration million year to the number of unemployed? The fact that we do not need new contngents of working men at present ought to make it much easier to establish rational immigration system. What we need is that the laborers already here should Tabor and give honest days work for honest days pay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-01
SCRAMBLED HISTORY

"Was it Julius Caesar who sighed for more worlds to conquer?"
 y'No,' said the nasty reader of hstorys out line, 'it was Hannibal
 'Now, wasn't it Alexander the Great?"
 q don't think so. He was the fellow who crossed the Rubicon in motorboat and said, The die is cast D
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-01
TROUBLE BREWING

"You have some polite clerks in here," said the man with a steely glitter in his eyes.
 "Yes sir" replied the proprietor, -complacent- ly. 'Politeness is our watchword'
 But it can be carried too blamed far. I'm looking for the whippersnapper with greased hair and toothbrush mustache who invited my wife out to lunch
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-01
QUICK GROWTH

Some American towns make rapid prog ress."
 "Yes," said the observant citizen "It isn't unusual for town where pigs widowed in the main street decade ago to get out handsomely illustrated booklets describing Our skyscrapng canyon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-01
FAIR GAME

''How many policemen have you on the Chg- gersvile force?n
 ''Siix," said Squire Witherbee.
 "Ah! Quite a metropolitan outfit"
 "Nope. We don't pretend to be able to handle big city slickers an gunmen, but when peace able tramp comes amblin' along, tn pursuit minds me of half dozen hound dogs on ta' trail of a rabbit"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-01
DE. PROEUNDIS

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Kentucky has had the best ice harvest of the last three years, and the mint crop will be tip top, but the rest of the makin's-O tempora o mores! Oh, inexpert and interruptions dis tilersl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-01
COULDN'T SPOIL THE PARTY

From the Kansas City Times.
 The news that the governments of North and South Ireland have agreed on the Ulster boundary is nexplicable except on the as- sumption that Mir. DeValera is kept in tn house by bad cold or something.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-01
EpIrAPH OF A BooTLEGcERs CLIENT

HeIhad a rendezvous with death, But little did he dream twas so; The scent of liquor on his breath Told what it was that laid him low.
 PAUL, COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-01
LINcoLN's sLAvE.HoLDING ANCESTOR

Cheesman A. Herrck, in the North American
 Review.
 An account for 1735 shows that Mordecai Lincoln paid for shoes for his "negro man. From this may infer that the great-great- grandfather of Abraham Lincoln probably owned negro slave in Pennsylvania 1S3 years before the emancipation proclamation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-01

The hand of little employment hath the daintier 'e- Hamlet.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-01
. MORNING PRAYER

If thou dost call mo to difficult tasks, O Lord, give to labor in confidence that nothing is impossible which needs to be done. Amen.-M. s. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-01
ALFONSO'S HUMOR

Birmingham, January 30, 1922.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-18
HARRY F. MORSE WILL
 HAVE TO STAND TRIAL

Bridgeport, Oct. Hilary F. Morses who is under indictment by the federal government with his father, Charles W. Morse, and others, charged with viola tion of the criminal code of the IJnit- ed States, alleged to be a conspiracy to use the mails to defraud, will have to stand trial in the southern district of New York, by a finding made by Unit ed States Commissioner Hugh J. Lay cry here today. Morse is to report be- fort Commissioner Lavery October ls at 2:30 p. m., to be detained for removal to the southern district of New York,
 The accused, Morse, introduced evil dence at his hearings to prove four points. The first, that the indictment did not charge an offense; Second, that no probable cause existed; third, that un- der the laws of the state of Connecti- cut, which accused claims should applv. no offense was committed and fourth. the accused was now on bail in the Dis trict of Columbia. which fact is a bar to his removal. All of these points were rued against by Commissioner Lavcry.
 The indictment against MT. Morse and others specifically is that they devised a scheme to defraud private investors. in which they used the mails. stating that purchasers of stock of the United States Steamship Company would be ben efitted by large returns, which defen- dants knew were false
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-18
PROPOSE STOCK INCREASE
 OF VACUUM OIL COMPANY


 New York, Oct. 17.-Directors of the Vacuum oil company, one of the Stand ard Oil group, today called meeting of stockholders on December 2 to vote on proposal to increase the capital stock from 15.600,o00 to $7o, ,0O0. 900 and to changeNits par value from $100 a share to S25 a share. If the proposal is approved a 300 per cent stock diyi- dend will be declared.
 The remainder of the authorized in crease in capital Is to be held ill the treasury, from which an eventual issue to employees will be made to the extent required in fulfillment of plan to come up for an2rdval later.
 An official statement issued by the company said "The assets of the conn pany are greatly in excess of the par value of the present capital Therefore the directors consider the proposed in crease in capital advisable and further more, recommend reduction of the pay value of shares to facilitate wider dis tribution and ownership of the stock. "Declaration of a 300 per cent stock dividend and reduction in par value tc l $25 a share will result in each present share beingf exchanged for sixteer shares of new $25 stock. Payment ot the dividend will require distribution oi $45,000,000 stock and with the presenl $15,000,000 outstanding will make thu total issued capital stock 6O;000, ,000 This will leave S10,000, 900 authorized but unissued in the treasury
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-18
WOMEN WITHOUT COUNTRY
 ARE NUMEROUS IN LONDON

London, Oct. IT (By the A. P.)-Wo- men without a country are becoming numerous here as result of the new American law allowing American wo- men who marry foreigners to retain their own nationality and providing the foreigners who become the wives of Americans keep their. native identity.
 Dozens of distracted women have been applying daily at the American consulate for passport visas only to learn that they have lost their native nationality and have nothing to replace
 it, it was said today at the consulate. Under the British law a woman who marries foreigner automatically loses her British citizenship, and therefore cannot obtain a British passport. If, having married an American, she tries to obtain United States passport, she is confronted with the fact-that she is not an American at all, because under the new law, she retains her own na- tionality. Nor can the American wife of a Britisher obtain British visa on an American passport, because. under the British law, she is a Britisher, not an American.
 The American consulate is doing ev- erything possible to lessen the incon- yeniences which the new law has piled upon these women. They are asked by the consulate to provide affidavits re. garding their birth, marriage. etc. Complications worse than mere in- l convenience may arise from the rtes law, it is pointed out For example il
 one of these women without coun- l try should die on board ship unfor. tifed with the necessary passport in 1 trioate complicati ions over the litigation
 of her property might arise.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-18
GIBERsoN MURDER CASE
 WILL GO TO JURY roDAx

Toms River, N J., Oct. t7-The case of Mrs. Ivy Gfberson on trial for the murder of her husband William F. Gib-l erson, at Lakehurst on August IA, will go to the jury tomorrow. Taking of testimony was completed this afternoon and it was expected that when the trial is resumed tomorrow, the summing up by both sides and the charge of Justice Samuel Kalisch to the jury would re- quire only a few hours.
 Counsel for Mrs, Giberson again en- deavored to have the testimony of sev- eral of the prosecution's witnesses. stricken out. but the court declined to issue the order.
 The accused woman was the central figure in today's proceedings denying vigorously on the witness stand that she had shot her husband or that she knew who had killed him. Testimony to off set her statement that the slain man
 had been bootfegging, was given by
 John Riley, policeman at Mount Holly
 called by the prosecution. Riley testi- fled he was sure Giberson had not en. gagged in bootlegging in Mount Holly because he had him under surveillance Testimony of Mrs. Potter GilNesof, the dead mans mother. that about a month before her son was killed, his wife had 1 told her that anyone could commit mur. 1 der in Ocean county and get away wi it." was permitted to remain on the rec
 ords against protests of the defendant'i counsel. 4
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-18
SEVEN MEN INJURED IN
 ,s..a- BURNING or ARMY -BLInP-

I-~ San Antonio. Oct. 1.-The giant dirir- ible ca. the United States army's big -gest and best ''tlimp.- was totally de- stroyed by fire as it was being taken from the hangar st Brooks Field here this morning. injuring seven Of the eight men aboard.
 The -c-2 was about half way out Of the hangar when a pun Of wind dragged the huge bag along the ground. followed by two other gusts of wind. causing three handling guys to pull loose, per hitting the bag to swing free and against the doors of the hangar. The bas was torn and the thrush of air ignft- ed the dirigible. An explosion soon fol- lowed and almost immediately the C-s was consumed and the aircraft was left mass of smoking. tangled wreckaEe.
 The injured are Major F. A. Strauss commander. Sergeant A. D. Albrecht. en- lgineer. Major John MzcThompson. Eighth. Corps Aerial headquarterz. Cap tain Nelson Walker. aide to Major Gen eral John l.. Hines. Ben Baines. newEps- Iper reporter and Sergeant Harry Bills. Lieutenant O. A. Anderson. pilot of the Inflated craft. escaped uninjured.
 The C-2 was on a return trsns-con- tinental flight from Ross Field. Calf. to
 Langley Field. Virginia
 That a croSs-wind was not responsible TOT lne QeolIlClion ug uIe or the 0lrlEl-
 bie- ca but that the accident was due primarily to the pulling out of the fabric of the envelope was the statement made
 by Major Strauss. commander of the
 ship this afternoon.
 The statement made soon after the appointment Of board of inquiry by Ma jor Royce. commander of Brooki
 Field. to investigate the accident. va; l regarded by air service officers as sig , lnifcant in that it inferred the construc i. ton of the fabric of the ship was no , lup to the standard. The ship. Ehicl Major Strauss said was valued at posE ; fbiy s70,0o0, originally cost the govern , ment s27o.00o.
 The seven men who were injured to
 night were reported to be not striousl,
 hurt. Four of them suffered brokel : bones in jumping from the carriage O the balloon.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-18
OFFICIAL REPoRT OF BURNING
 OF ARMY sE1n-DIRIGIBLK CT

Washington, Oct 17s-CCBy The A p Despite the loss by fire today at San Antonio of the semi-dirigible C-2. army air service officials announced tonight that "the programme for lighter than air will go forward as originally contem- plated" In the three other ships of the same type being constructed for the ser- vice by an Akron, Ohio, plant, 1t was said, however, that helium gas would be used instead of hydrogen with which the C-2 was inflated.
 Major General Patrick, chief of the army air service, received late today tho first official report on the destruction of C-s. It was signed by Major H A. Strauss, commanding the vessel and said:
 "c-2 completely destroyed while uaneuvering from hangar at 9-15 this morning. Cross hangar wind of Is
 miles with occasional stronger gusts. Handing crew of 100 men. When ship approximately one-haf out of danger. strong gusts forced ship to ground Or ders given to maneuvere ship hack into ttSngar- Immediately. After maneuyere ls%1ed section of fabric six feet in d. kameter-- to which handling guys and Epatehes ~were secured pulled out follow kiby breaking of two windvard hand ling guys Ship to leeward into hangar door, resulting in breaking up of car and tearing of envelope together with rupture of gasoline tank. Approximate 4y- one-half minute after this occurred hSdroeen caught fire with partial ex- plosion followed by complete burning of ship except three surfaces.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-18

such pftiable sight as the march from Adrianople in the driving rain. Every refugee arrives soaked to the skin. with a wagon load of bedding floating in water''
 Perhaps. never in the eighteen hundred years of it's stormy history, not even in teh days of the late Balkan wars, has Adrianople witnessed such scenes.
 When. on Saturday, the Greek civil au- thorities attempted to reassure the people by stating that the Turkish gendarmerie would not arrive for fifteen days, the Christian inhabitants simply refused to believe them.
 Nearly every Christian family in Adri- anople gathered up all they could carry either on their backs or on OK carts, and as soon as possible were off
 Meanwhile Adrianople has taken on the appearance of deserted city. with the shops and houses closed. The Greek and Armenian priests remain and are doing conspicuous work in assisting the fieetins inhabitants
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-18
21 WOMEN FIGHTING FOR SEATS
 IN HOUSE OF REFRESHMENTS

Washington, Oct r. - Twenty-onc women have thrown their bonnets in the ring and will stand up against men in the fight for seats in the house of represent atives next montk Reports today to party headquarters here indicated their percentage of victories would be nominal Representative Alice Robertson of Okla hona. the only women now in the house. Is figSting to come back from district I which up to the time of her election TWO years ago was regarded as normally dem- ocratic. Mir Otero-Warren defeated Rep resentative Montoya republican incum- bent, in New Mexlco and. like Miss Rob- eStson. has the backing of the party or | ganization.
 Mrs Winifred Mason Huck is the re- publican nominee for representative-at- large from Illinois for the short term. as ! the candidate to i'll the vacancy caused | by the death of her father. Representative William E. Mason. In the First Nebras- ka district Mrs. E. Lucia Barton, pro- l hibitionist, is seeking membership for the i short term from December to March.
 After continuous service of twelve years, Representative Stedman, democrat l of the Fifth North Carolina district, the only confederate soldier in the house. is striving to keep Mrs. Lucy B. Patterson
 
 republican, from capturing his seat. Mrs Patterson has announced that if elected she will fight to have women appointed to the consular service. Arizona, which ! has only one member win re-elect Repre- sentative Hayden, democrat, or give hi, place to Mrs. H. A. Guild, republican.
 Of the 21 candidates, five are republi cans, six democrats, six socialists, two prohibitionists and two single taxers The democratic nominees who are mak ing straight fight against republican, are: Ellen Duane Davis. Second Pennsyl vania. Jane E. Leonard, Twenty-seventl Pennsylvania; Martha Riley. Third Wis consin; Esther K. O'Keefe, .Thrteentl Indiana; Lillian O. Gault, Third Mime sota. and Mrs. St. Clair Moss. Eight Missouri.
 There are two women candidates fc the senate-Mrs. Anna Dickie Olesor Minnesota, and Mrs. Jessie Hooper, wi1 consin.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-18
DR. BUTLER. FAvORs FORMATION
 OF NEW POLITICAL PARTY

New York. Oct. Reformation of a democrat-republican party which would represent the predominant lto- eralism of our people, was advocated by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler. presi- dent of Columbia university, in an ad- dress tonight at the opening of the tenth year of the universi.y's institute of arts and sciences He declared the time had come to move toward high CT ground"
 Constructive liberals would b. brought face to face with destructive radicals under such reorganization, he said, and with the question whether the present federal form of government es- tablished by the Constitution would be preserved or discarded.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-18
NEED sTANDARDIzATIOS OF
 CoNTRACTUAL ACTIVITIES

Boston. Oct. 17.-The need for stand ardization In the governments contrac- tual activities was emphasized by Gen erzl Herbert M. Lord. director of the national budget, in an address tonight on the work of the budget tureau at the annual dinner of the Associated In dustries of MasSs chusetts.
 Director Lord asserted that in the operations of the government there Lad been no coordination between the con 1 tr1oting agencies of the departments and independent establishments, and in many cases between branches of the same department.
 This lack of coordination in the governments contractual activities" he continued, lack of uniformity in phraseology, extraordinary and chang, ing requirements. unusual and impracti- cal inspections, and the uncersa.nties that surround the Construction that may be made of the provis ons of gov. ernment contracts are conditions tha have proved most expensive to .he gov. ernment and should be corrected
 What VIC desire and are trying tS accomplish is so to standardize govern ment contracts and so to modify gov ernnent contract will be- considered { prize to be won rather than a pest t, be summed by reputable contractors"
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-18
POLITICAL QUARTERS IN
 LONDON FEvERIsHLY ACTIVE

London. Oct. r (By the A. P.).-i Whether Premier Lloyd George. whose administration has long outlasted the ad- rninistration of all the great statesmen concerned in the Versailles treaty and the making of peace, will fall as sec ondary effect of Mustapha KemaPs vic tory in Aantoiia, still hangs on the result of Thursdays meeting of the pnionist members of the commons. In all political quarters in London today there was state of feverish activity. meetings and consultations occupying the entire day. The prime minister himself returned to town and besides consulting with the members of his cabinet presided this 1 evening over a large meeting of iiberza ministers undersecretaries party whips and others.
 No report of the proceedings has been issued. but 1t is supposed that Mir Lloyd George desired to ascertain how far he could still depend upon support from the 1 liberal wing of the coalition in the com ing developments and in the event of the conservative revolt against his leadership proving dangerous Opinion tonight seems to be veerins towards the belief that the rebellious con servatves will al the last moment recoil before the prospect of breaking with NIT l the support of Mir. Chamberlain. and the, the latter may secure a majority at tho Thursday meeting. It is understood thai should the Carlton gathering vote againsi Mr. Chamberlain. neither the Earl Of Bal four nor NIT. Bonar Law wound ---ier take to form conservative ministrJ should Mir. Lloyd George resign.
 NIT. Bonar Laws health is restore I through his prolonged ahstention from politics, but 1t is said that he lacks th physical endurance which would justif, him undertaking the responsibilities Q government. The Earl Of Balfour ma
 been so closely associated with Mir. Lloy, George in all phases Of the prime minis ter's administration that he would prob
 ably not be inclined to take charge Of ;
 new administration almost certain to b short lived.
 No dissolution of the council has ye been arranged. nor any formalities eve tentatively looking to dissolution. an
 nothing definite Is likely to develop untl
 the end of the week The premier
 speech next Saturday will be delivered a
 Leeds instead of Newcastle as first pro posed.
 1T the Carlton meeting registers a vot !, or confidence in Mir. Chamberlain. 1t
 reported that Air Lloyd George will in
 sist upon imposing his own strict term
 as condition of continuing to lead th s reunited coalition. If dissolution is dec;f , ed upon. there is already evidence (
 many changes in the new parliamen Cecil arnsworth, under-secretary of th
 foreign office, is among those who hay
 announced their intention not to seek r, . election.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-18
REFUGEES IN THOUSANDS
 ARE FLEEING FROM THRACE

Adrianople. Oct. 1T (By the A. P.).- Thirty thousand Greeks and Armenians have passed from this city to the west since Saturday. and tho road between here and the Maritza river is an un- broken line of men women and children, with ox carts. cattle and cameis.
 Through a steady downpour of rain they are plodding doggedly toward their unknown destinations. driven forward by the nameless fear which has gripped the whole population of Eastern Thrace since the roverumcnt's bulletins were posted on saturday announcing the terms of the Nludznia armistice. which provide for oc- rurafion Of the province by the Turks within forty-five days.
 Tho members of the allied miss ms stationed here declare the extent of the refugee exodus indicates that the Turks upon thcir entry will find Eastern Thrace almost uninhabited.
 The procession has been orderly. but tns misery of tho refugees Is already ex- treue. and pneumonia will claim many vicrms f the present indictment weather continues The American in charge of the little Near East relief soup kitchen at the railway junction on the opposite side of the Msritza declared:
 Tn all my experience never imagined