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Evening star., 1922-11-08

tained guests at dinner at the Shore
ham last night.
Miss Mimmack has returned to
Washington and has opened her
house. 1863 Q street. for the winter
Miss Muriel Schaefer entertained at
bridge, followed by tea. yesterday
afternoon. in compliment to Miss Jane
Gould Ramey, whose marriage to Mr..
William Hamilton Knox Will take
place November Is. Miss Mlre tret
Taylor. Miss Pauline Lewis, Miss
Amelia Johnston and Miss Louise
Horton alternated at the tea table.
The guests were Mrs. Elmer T.
Ramey. mother of the bride-to- be: ::
Mrs. Arthur Buckman. Miss Alice
Watts, Miss 1rma Horton, Miss Meta
Luttrel, Miss Helen Everett. Miss
Winifred Lamb. Miss Audrey IIerron
Miss Ethel Wolfe. Miss Elizabeth
Scharf. Miss Christine kincaid. Miss
Olga Lowell, Mrs. J. \. Geier Mrs NJ
+. Horton. and Mrs. Thomas Mitchell
of New Haven. Conn.
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Capt and Mrs. Hugh Whit Of Front
Royal. Va. who will be in Washing.
ton for an indefinite period. have taken
apartments at the Burlington Hotel.
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street for the winter. Mrs. Keith is
vice chairman of the District Of CO.
lumbia Womens Lawyers Council
working for equal rights legislation.
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and evening gowns are unsurpassed

and evening gowns are unsurpassed
in beauty:
MIR. and Mrs. Harry 8. Black. the
latter formerly Miss Isabelle May of
Washington. were hosts to q small
company at dinner last evening at
the Plaza, New York. and had among
their guests Mr. and Mrs. B. Sumner
Welles.
Miss Alice N. Fuller, cashier of the
Yeung Mems Christian Association,
who is to be married to ME-. Louie G.
Pimper. November ls. yesterday re-
ceived a purse Of gold from the man
members of the secretarial staff and
a handsome parlor lamp from the
woman clerks and stenOgraphers wit h
whom she has been associated for
the past fifteen years. The presenta-
tion was made in the assembly hall of
the Central "Y'' buildin. 1896 g street
northwest, and was by Miss Rose
Bright, representing the women and
Mr.. p Nick. Etchison. for the men.
Mr.. w. o. Hiltabidle presided.
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Mr. Henry p Starrett of the United
States consular service has arrived
from Batavia. Java, and has taken a
suite at the Lee House for two
months.
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Mr. Scott Ferris. former representa-
tive from Oklahoma, Is in Washington
for a visit Of some length and is stay
ing at the New Willard.
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Mr. and Mrs. Keith Return
From New ENGLAND Home.

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Keith have
returned TO Washington from their
summer home at Mt. Crotchet, n. H.,
and have opened their house on Goth
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dent, Mrs. w. l.. Finley, extends an
invitation to all members of the
legion to be present
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Miss Roberta V. Bradshaw. after
spending some time in Atlantic City
and several weeks in New York, will
return to Washington Sunday and
will take possession of her apartment
in Pelham Courts
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Mrs Bates Warren is entertaining
a company of forty at bridge this
afternoon for her debutante daughter.
Miss Dorothy Warren. The company
ir rcludes debutantes Of this and last
season and additional guests have
been asked for tea later. when Mrs
George Oakley Totten, jr., will preside
at the tea table.
Evening star., 1922-11-08

Mrs. Charles u. Helmbold is in
Washington for short time. at her
apartment in tho Somerset before
leaving to spend the winter with her
son. Capt. Philip a. Helmbold. at
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.
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Mrs. Barnett. wife of Maj. Gen.
George Barnett. L. S. NJ c, was
hostess at dinner last evening when
he- guests We're asked to meet Mrs
Noble Foss of Massachusetts. who is
the house guest of Senator and Mrs.
Henry Wilder Eeyes.
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Mrs. Jerry I. Smith and daughter of
Annapolis. who are staying for a
short time at the Ebbitt House. were
guests at dinner last night of friends
at Wardman Park Hotel.
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The attache of the British embassy
Mr.. Leander Mccormick -Goodhart was
host at a small informal dinner party
last evening at lie Paradis having a
company of seven.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Chandler
Christy of New York, who are spend
ing some time in Washington. enter
tained guests at dinner at the Shore
ham last night
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Friends of Mrs. Rudolph Graft.
formerly Mrs. Mary Hollohan. gave q
luncheon in her honor Monday. No
vember 6. The table was beautifully
decorated in white chrysanthemums
| and sweetheart roses, while a huge
wedding cake in the center seemed to
add just the touch needed. Fifty
guests attended the luncheon, after
! which the bride was surprised by a
shower Of beautiful gifts.
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Among the patronesses for the lee
ture and par bridge tournament, to
be given for the benefit of the Ma
ti,nal Homeopathic Hospital. at
Wardman Park Hotel. Wednesday.
November Is. are Mrs. Edwin DENLY,
Mrs. George Sutherland. Mrs. Stephen
r. Elkins. Mrs, Marshall Field, Mrs.
A. G. McClintock. Mrs. T. De Witt
Talmage, Mrs. Harry Wardman and
Mrs Joseph Hampson.
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Mr.. and Mrs Franklin II. Ellis gave
a small dance last evening. which was
preceded by several informal dinner
parties. among them a buffet dinner
which Mr.. and VS.. A. c.. McClintock.
parents of Mrs Ellis. gave.
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Miss Helen Wright will be the
hostess at the Thursday dinner at the
Arts Club this week. An Informal en-
tertainment will follow the dinner,
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Continued on Nlntn rage.
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Plaid-back Coats, Herring.
bones, Tweeds, Novelty Mix
ture Coats, in gray,
tan and brow 81 A.96
mixtures. Sizes 14'l4
to "A.
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Fine Tweed Coats, Fine Mix
ture Coats; warm, good-looking
models for winter e14no
wear. On sale y lI'""
Bargain Third"
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Mrs. Vernon West was hostess at
= bridge luncheon today in honor of
Miss Jane G.. Ramey. whose marriage
to Mr. William Hamilton Knox will
take place November 10.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
ON TO DAYTONi

Conservative optimism for 1922 will mark the annual convention of National Cash Register salesmen to be held in Dayton and New York the week of January 23 to 2s," says J. W. Jones, local N. c. R. sales agent
 "The company made remarkable record n 1921. The number of registers sold last year almost equaled the record made in 1920, which was the largest year in the history of the com pany That the officials of this great concern optimistic over business conditions for the present year will no doubt give encouragement to merchants everywhere"
 Mir. Jones will leave shortly to join other representatives who will meet in special con vention at Dayton, o. next week. A. B. Aired, Birmingham office manager, says the sales for the Birmingham district last year were almost as good as they were in 1920 and this years business is expected to be as good as 1920, the sales already having exceeded those of the same date year ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24

World war The world was in the business of killing for seven years. Killing was praise worthy act on the part of those who were en- gagged in beating back the German hosts. Men got into the habit of thinking in terms of homi- eide. Ordinary rules of human conduct were cast aside for the horrible exigencies of war.
 This homicidal spirit is one of the effects of war. It came with war debts and taxes; with the burden which will last for decades. Men cannot recover in moment from great mass thought. Destruction was the world thought for seven years. It will require more than seven years for humanity to fully recover from the spirit of destruction; to rehabilitate itself on the normal lines that war broke down.
 A good beginning would be the cultivation of the feeling of kindliness and courtesy in small things, in every day life. There is need of self-respect and patience with those who do not agree with us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
FORD AND "WALL STREET"

From the St. Louis Dispatch.
 Henry Ford has talked bit too much about Wall street. What he says now about Wall streets and the fertilizer trusts alleged at tempt to block his Muscle Shoals offer by po- litical pressure would be more impressive if Henry had not formerly cried wolff when there was no wolf.
 Now that MT. Ford has raised the question, however, he must be answered. He can and will be answered by the future conduct of the accused in either disproving or justifying his charges. Congress and the administration, moreover, can escape the lash of Fords and the publics criticism only by keeping their hands severely clean of all cause for com plaint.
 Secretary Weeks defends his own inaction on the Ford offer by declaring that only Con- gress can authorize transactions involving the relinelishment of real estate. But this is explanation of why Ford's offer should have been pigeonhoed for six months while, if MT. Fords statements true, private interests opposed to the proposition were canvassing the powers that be. If there is any political skulduggery in this matter the administration and the majority in Congress will be held to strict accountability in the court of public opinion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
WHY PICK ON "US"?

To the Editor of The Age -Herald
 l have observed considerable comment on the prices of groceries and the woods are full of amateur economists who claim that prices of groceries will shortly return to pre-war levels. Will they? Yes, they sure will
 When hard coal is back to $4 per ton;
 When railroad fares are back to 2c a mile; When gasoline is back to 10c a gallon
 When house rent is back to $20 month; When square meal can be had for quater; When farm labor is back to S15 a month; When slaves are back to a dime;
 When freight rates from New York are cut about half;
 When wool suits are back to $15
 When money is back to 5 per cent;
 When cooks are back to $3 week;
 When haircut can be had for quarter; When movies are back to jitney;
 When car wash is back to 50c;
 When doctors call is back to two bucks; When newspapers are back to penny. For the love of Mike why make us the goat all the time. Let some of these other business men-landlords, barbers, hotelkeepers, dray- men, bankers, adjust their profit margins We are away ahead. Let some of these others catch up. B. c. PATERSON, Secretary Birmingham Retail Grocers' and Butchers Association.
 Birmingham, January 23, 1922
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
TUSCALOOSA WILL HAVE JUNIOR CHAMBER

The Chamber of Commerce of Tuscaloosa has called d meeting of young men between the ages of Is and s5 to organize junior chamber.
 Tuscaoosa's proposed step was inspired by the pronounced success of the junior chamber of Birmingham and the Druid City organization will be on the order of the one here. The Bir- mingham junior chamber has made good. It has afforded an outlet for the civic enterprise of the younger men of the community. They have done things on their own initiative which would not have been done by them in assoca- tion with older men, because when working with older men younger ones naturally look to them for guidance.
 Tuscaloosa has established traffic bureau which is already proving it's value to merchant shippers. Creation of junior chamber is an- other forward step on the part of that city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
EX-soLpIERs PAYING

Many former soldiers are taking no chances on the passage of the constitutional amendment exempting them from payment of poll taxes, but are paying the tax in advance of the cleo tion,' says George Whitfield of the probate judges office. "A number of those paying the tax, when asked why they do not wait until the special election January 30 when the proposition of exempting them from payment of the tax will be voted on, declare that they have been fooled about the matter once and thereby dis franchsed and that they do not intend to be caught mapping second time.
 "They declare they would rather pay the taxation than to run the risk of again having the amendment either defeated or declared void thereby resulting in their disfranchisement for second time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
REGULAR ARMY OFFICERS

From the Denver News.
 Congress proposes to reduce in rank many hundreds of regular army officers, to cut their pay and otherwise to reward them for high service at the front elsewhere, thus presum- ably to make them still proudcr because it always is possible to make sacrifice for ones country.
 A colonel in the regular army gets about the same pay as that given the commanding officer of foor-wakng brigade in big store The fact that he went up against machine gun nests, slept in dugouts, fought Germans and endured rats and other vermin seemingly counts for nothing. Congress, or at any rate, some of it's influential leaders thinks that the army officer Is overpaid and that the wounds and hardships of service have won him no right to the con- sideration of the people. There tears for the stacker and jeers for the soldier-if he happens to be regular.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
ATTITUDE OF BENEDICT XIV
 DURING THE. WAR

When the world saw red the voice of Pope Benedict XIV was raised for peace and the brotherhood of man. Doubtless great pressure was brought to bear on the Vatican during those troubled years. Centuries ago the pope might have aligned himself with one side of the conflict or the other, but the world has progressed since then and religion has assumed a truer significance. Never by word or deed did Benedict show himself other than spiritual leader who deplored the shedding of human blood. His was the strict neutrality of Heaven when misguided man disregards the dictates of humanity arfd ignores divine decrees
 Whatever Benedict accomplished for the Catholic church, his greatest contribution to the Protestant world, and perhaps to the Catho- lies well, was the example of his life, which was filled with piety and good deeds, long be- fore he elevated to the supreme power in the church. Physically weak, he was strong in faith and works, not the least of them being a charity which knew no bounds.
 Although Benedict gave his prayers impar- tially during the World war, it should not be forgotten that he rebuked the former Kaiser for the Lusitania disaster, the blackest crime com mitted by German militarisn,.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
BIRMINGHAM

By Hazel Harper Harris. 0 God who made Southland, Thee we
 praise, Of dazzling sunlight; lilac twilights wet With dew; and starlight nights grown violet Thou gavest fragrant flowers, sunset-dyed; Great trees whose arms encradle songs un-
 tried, Whose finger tips dip down with tilting birds; Soft winds that wait to us sea-whspered words And prairie prayers to make visions broad. Our fires that flare in furnaces e'er laud The treasures of Thy hills, and watch beside Our hill-rimmed couch at night alert, red
 eyed. For fifty years the men whom Thou hast sent Have held Thy torchlight high, and they have
 lent Thy radiance to every spire and dome; While women, fair, have lit the fires of home; And little ones have all our heart strings tied. Have we not cause enough for civic pride? Thy love pervades each quiet, prayer-fraught
 room Where hearts unlock and lifted thoughts illume Thy energy ennobes, our desires That rise full-glowing from~our altar fires; Our progress, industries, and trade, world
 wide, / Obey Thy master hand in forward stride The engine-throb, the rush of cars, the whir Of trafiic--great activities that stir Our pride-refect Thy power in all their ways o God, who made our Southland, Thee we
 praise.
 In this our jubilee, grant we abide Thy servants still, our Giver and our Guide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
COMMENDED BY RESOLUTIONS

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 Resolutions adopted by board of City Mis- sions commenting MeLendon, Cloe and Dixon Messrs. McLendon, Cloe and Dixon, City Conl- missioners, Birmingham.
 Dear Sirs: The executive committee of the board of city missions, representing 38 mis- sionary societies of the M E. church, South of Birmingham and Bessemer districts, and four Sunday school classes, heartily indorses and comments your courageous stand opposing municipal public dance hall at East Lake park and Sunday moving picture shows in our city, This action is taken because of decided conviction that the modern dances, as publicly conducted promote immortality \and delin- quency; that supervision of East Lake dance hall in the past failure, not only in safe guarding the better class of our young people, but has failed to eliminate promiscous par ticipation in this amusement by the city's de- generates, both men and women; and that grevous injustice would be done the people of that delightful suburban section by fastening upon it the stigma of consequent immortality resulting from opening Pershing pier as a public dance hall.
 Also this committee opposes commercial ized Sabbath, which is contrary to our religious and civil laws. As Christians and loyal citizens under obligations to obey laws designed for moral, mental and physical we-beng Respectfully,
 MRS. MARY RUSSELL,
 President.
 MRS. ALICE JOHNSON,
 Corresponding Secretary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 Silence is often the price of domestic fe- licty.
 Many woman has lost an ardent admirer by marrying him.
 The half is better than the whole--if you are the one who has to give up.
 The natter and the shoemaker may not be dvnities, but they shape the ends of men.
 man carries economy to the extremes when he stops his clock every night just to save time.
 Methuselah probably lived to ripe old age just to spite some girl who had married him for his money.
 Don't take bull by the horns. Take him by the tail and then you can let go without getting some one to help you.
 Honor compels us to tell man his faults to his face, but the law of self-preservation makes it safer to tell his neighbor.
 Philanthropic persons should see that the poor are coaled instead of cold.
 The woman who spends two hours in dress ing for the opera may be vain, but she is too womanly to wear her hair short and act like . man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
LETTERS TO EDITOR
JUsTIFIABLE DANCING
tor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 Please give me little space in your paper want to say to the voters of Jefferson county that we free people believe in majority rule, and when the majority of our commis- sioners are in favor of ordinance whether it is to dance or not we believe the people ought to stand behind them. I have lived and asso- ciated with poor people all my life, 7S years, and have never seen one of them that had good case of the religion of Jesus Christ yet wanted to dance. There is quite difference between city government setting up city dance hall and clubhouse of private citizens setting up place for their own amusements Statistics show that 60 per cent of all fallen mothers and fathers will allow their daughters to be exposed to the alurements of the dance hall. have seen many good, pure women get full of the Holy Ghost and shout and dance the holy dance, and this is all the dance that is justified by the Holy Bible. If you fathers and mothers will lead your children to Christ and get their souls saved they will not want to dance with the world.
 All the recreation in the world that we poor folks need is to be found in the church of Jesus Christ, for if the others are like your humble Sabbath, and sure they have too much respect for the day to want to go to worldly dance
 I am proud citizen of Jefferson county that we have majority of our officials that will stand for the right. JAMES M. SMITH.
 Birmingham, January 14, 1922. 518 College street
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
HOMICIDAL RECORD IS WARS AFTERMATH

Thirty-five and one-half per cent of the con- victs in the Alabama pentitentiary are serving terms for murder. Statistics of the convict department show that of the 2,755 convicts at the close of the fiscal year 927 were convicted of murder, 537 being convicted of murder in the first degree and 39o Tor murder in the second degree. These figures do not include the 130 convicted of msnslaughter, although, as the report states, "this number represents the loss of the same number of human lives"
 likeness has not created this murder record It is not due to unemployment. Only a small percentage of the convicts were out of employ ment at the time of the commission of crime It is a moral, mental and spiritual condition.
 Much of this bloodshed is traceable to the letting down of the moral fabric during the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
ANOTHER CONSPICUOUS EXAMPLE
 OF MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING"

Ever since the Muscle Shoals project began to attract public notice nasty photographers have been wagng controversy which has re- suited in columns of valuable space being wasted in the newspapers.
 The citizen who thinks he knows thing or two saw the word spelled muscle" and forth with said to himself, "Ha! Such ignorance is appalling. I'll write letter to the editor about it." Editors themselves have written learnedIy on the subject. Many and weird have been the explanation, made in all seriousness, was that the name was given to the shoals in the Ten nessee river because it took muscle to get over them.
 The dictionaries give muscle" as a variation of 'mussel," as piled to certain kind of shell fish, and that is all there is to this heated con- troversy. There be little doubt that the name was derived from what are better known as mussels. The spelling muscle" instead of "musse" got on maps, into government reports and elsewhere at some time in the distant past and is now accepted as correct. As a matter of fact, it is correct, if Brother Webster and other eminent photographers be relied on.
 It isn't question of spelling that we are chiefly interested in just now, but the disposal of a government. project on which millions of dollars were spent. And it begins to look as if it were more matter of politics than orthography.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
MANIcURIsT GIVES INSIDE DOPE

Ut is very seldom that you hear person make remark that might be taken as reflec- tion against the type of work they are engaged in," says N. L. Pierce, federal prohibition off cer in charge
 Recently young lady who is a mancurist was in my office and remarked that she knew nothing more disgusting than for to have his nails manicured, intimating that many had this work done not so much from the stand point of personal appearance as for the oppor- tunity of talking to the manicurst
 q thought this curious confession to come from one who made her living through busi- ness of which she did not approve"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
MATTER OF BEEF SCRAPS

My mission to meeting of the consolidated classification committee in Atlanta" said Charles E. Jones' secretary of the traffic bu- reau, just before leaving for the Georgia city, lis matter of dried beef scraps. Don't smile Birmingham maker of chicken feed gets beef scraps from Norfolk, Va by the carload an ingredient of his chicken feed mixture.
 Beef scraps are now in Class D, but the railroads wish them in Class B. If they are advanced to Class B, the increased freight cost per carload to the Birmingham chicken feed maker will be $40. Worth saving, is it not? Things like this are what the traffic bureau is for, and they are coming up all the tme.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-24
BUY ART PACKAGES

"We hope that there will be large number of children who will, beginning in February, supply themselves with their art packages" says Dr. N. R. Baker, superintendent of county schools. "We have averaged larger total than we had for last year, but we realize that there are still 30 per cent of our children not supplied. The teachers are asked to allow the children who were late in purchasing their packages to use study periods to accomplish their back work. By the end of the year the teachers are expected to have had enough draw ing lessons and to have completely used the materials of the package"