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The evening world., 1922-09-19
Employers
Are Calling
for Workers

The return Of prosperity has resulted
in an increased and a widespread
demand Tor skilled and unskilcd
workers. Employers requiring eff
Gent assistants naturally turn to
The Worlds "Help Wanted" ads. as
the best place to secure the help de-
sired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
King Saues Man Who
 Wants to Attack Hin,

London. September s.-Ths moment ex-Police Inspector Syme gets out os jail he starts for Buckingham palace with brick and hangs around waiting for chance to throw it at the King or some member of the royal family.
 Syme was dismissed from the po- lice force some 13 years ago and at once developed into crank with a grievance. He has been agitating against the authorities ever since and has been imprisoned repeatedly for trying to create distur bance. When he is locked up he starts hunger striking. When the prison doctors think he has gone hungry as long as he can do so safely, he is released.
 Recently he made & speech in Trafalgar square and threatened to do for the King If the authorities did not right his wrongs for him. On failing to furnish securities for his good behavior he was again sent to prison for three months, and at once declined to eat.
 King George is interested in Syme. and anxious that he should not starve himself to death. So his majesty asked that he be released before he got too weak. So he is again at lib- erty. but the authorities are watch ing him closely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
TOMORROW NIGHT
 ID BE THRILLER
Biggest Society Event of Fall Season to Be Staged at
 EdgeWood

One of the biggest nights Edge wood park ever staged is on the bills for tomorrow night. when the big gest society event of the fall season will be staged. Manager Hugh Hill of the mountain resort has booked at enormous expense the famous Wfedemyer's orchestra of eight pieces from Huntington. w. Va-. for this special night and 1t has been an- nounced that me dance progra m would last from to 1.
 With this great orchestral attrae- ton to draw the social set out to beautiful Dreamland pavalion, . big night indeed Is looked for and the management is looking for the dance attendance record of all time to be
 broken when these eight famous best al1-star orchestra card ever brought to Birmingham open up with the first dance num- ber of the evening. It requires two pianos and some 20 instruments for these boys to do their stuff.
 Following up the big special night of Monday. the park management is to stage an entire week of It. with Williams colored saxophons orches- tra from Winchester, ky. furnishing the music for the other five nights. These colored musicians, who are famed all over the continent for their jazz numbers have been booked in here at enormous expense. In order that the dance devotees of the Magic City may make one big week of it at the opening of the fall season.
 With two such attractions out at the popular mountain resort, and lingering in the lap of fall, so that the bathers are having the lest time of tho entire summer, Nep- tune Beach, with it's famous artesian wa ter, will draw it's share of the pat ronage to be Sure. The bathing was never finer.
 Manager Hill stated that from dancing standpoint Edgewood had played to moro couples than any resort in tho south this summer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL
 CONGRESS TO CONVENE

Chicago, September s.-The fif- teenth annual convention of the Southern Commercial Congress will be held here November 20 to 22, the Chicago Association of Commerce and Illinois Manufacturers Association acting as hosts.
 Immediately following the Chicago convention the congress will hold a conference on Mexican trade rela- tions in Texas City, Texas, and will conduct from there a trade commits sion to Mexico City as guests of the Mexican government
 The Southern Commercial Congress was organized in 1887 and continued in active work until 1860. The an- nual convention scheduled to be held in Atlanta in 1861 was postponed be- cause of the Civil war.
 For many years it failed to func- ton but after the reconstruction of the south had been completed it was revived and in 1903 business leaders of the south in convention in Wash ing recognized the organization as an institution and established It's permanent headquarters in the cap- ital city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
By Ron FuLKEnson

The family sat silent at Sunday breakfast. Each had a section of the paper and each was slipping coffee and reading.
 "Wellm exclaimed the FIapper Here Is the announcement of the engagement of Tom Hadley and Bes- sic Cross"
 "so she has yielded to him at lastr" said her brother Fred.
 The flapper laughed aloud.
 What are you laughing atf~ de- manded her brother. "He has been rushing her for year."
 Brother mine," smiled the flapper, fin the language of one of the minor Oklahoma poets. where do you get that stuff?
 Amy time 8 man persues 6 woman for a year she is only running until In the excitement of the chase he loses his head. takes strangle hold when he catches her and parks a platinum and diamond ring on her matrimonial finger.
 Men do not persue women with matrimonial intent, and women do not flee from the matrimonial yoke. You are all wrong. boy, all wrong. You may be as wise tree full of owls. but when 1t comes to the work Ing of woman's mind you have 'garret to let sign on your bean.
 "Bess marked Tom for her own long before Tom ever thought of giv- ing up his bachelor apartment for a bungalow and his roadster for g family sedan.
 You see. Fped men do not marry intentionally. It's like a wooden leg entirely the result of an accident. Women don't take to a business ca reer or to a bachelor girls life any more than mud turtle takes to fly ing. Women are trained and study for one great object of life, which Is to annex meal ticket who will supply as good things as she has been accustomed to all her life.
 'As the domestic aspires to the social heights of the man who owns the corner grocery. so the flapper aspires to the guy who guides Jolis-Joyne roadster with head lights as big as battleship's search light"
 T am surprised to listen to such world weary pessimism from & daughter of mine!" exclaimed her father. -I cannot help but wonder where eilis, thoso uaSS S' sSA ouSi ideas, Why, your mother was the most surprised woman in Poolesville when I proposed to herw
 My compliments to you. Mother dear!" said the flapper, rising and lowing to her mother. T suppose all these years he has felt that his hand some face and winsome ways broke down your maidenly resistence and simply swept you away on tho tide of his turbulent love. and
 "Lucy!" exclaimed her mother.
 All right, Momds. belong to the union," said the flapper. T will not give you away. It was q pretty piece of work.
 But let's make 1t cademic rather than personal Any time guy with a pimple on hts neck and feet that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
BOSTON NOT "HUb," ]"
 SAYS U. s. SURVEY.
Center of Alabama Near Clan ton, of United States in
 Kansas
By Associated Press

Washington, September s.-Boston, Massachusetts, Is very important place to a great many people. but so far as the United States Geological Survey is concerned. Boston as a hub" as it claims to be. doesn't amount to row of pins. Bos- ton, too, brides itself on being the Hub of the Universe" but the survey ranks it at the bottom of the list of hubs. or centers.
 For the geological survey thinks that a city Is hub only when 1t Is tho center of the land. geographically speaking, and points the finger of scorn at the Massachusetts city for not even being the center of the state of which it happens to be the capital much less of any universe.
 The survey has received a lot of letters of inquiry from persons want ing to know "where they're at," where the geographical center of the United States Is, or the center of their own state. The survey has taken great pains at locating the various geographical centers around the con tinent.
 The center of the United States, ac- cording to the coast and geodetic sur vey. is at exactly 39 degrees, 50 min xtes north latitude. and 9s degrees, 35 minutes west longitude. It may be said that point is in northern Kan sas, in Smith county, in fact. Trust the Smiths to be there.
 NHubs" Just Grow
 The ideal ''hub" of population, gov- ernment and industry, should also be the geographical center. the survey believes, but that is true in few, if any cases. "Hubs' just grow up re- gardless, and the center of population in this country is yearly moving west ward.
 Even Washington. the nations capital, Is wrongly situated. from the geographer's point of view, and should be at least a thousand miles inland from its present site to bet ter approach the geographical center of tho country. St. Louis, Denver, and other cities have been mentioned at various times as more fitting sites for the center of government The geological survey of the interior de- partment has fixed the approximate Geographical center of each state. The center of Alabama Is 12 miles southwest of Clanton. The geograph- ical center of Mississippi is in Leaks county. nine miles northwest of Car Jn880s sz.. kZss T q lz .z l <. f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
COAL ECONOMY IS
 NEEDED IN HOME
Bureau Says 25 Per Cent of Coal For Home Heat
 ing Is Wasted
By Associated Press

Washington, September 9.-While the average household heating plant is reliable, so far as the factor of safety is concerned, this is not al- ways true in economy, says the bu- reau of engineering of the depart ment of the interior, and in view of a possible coal shortage this winter, the householder will have to be very economical in its use.
 The engineering bureau has com piled few facts on coal and its use. to aid the public untn coal re- turns to normal production. The main point of the bureaus paper is the need for economy in burning coal
 It has been stated by good author ity. the paper said, that 25 per cent of the coal wasted in home heating can be saved. . The main point in economy is cleanliness of the plant, as soot Is an fnsulator against trans ference of heat and must be kept out of the furnace and pipes.
 Soft coal demands greater care In firing. In putting Tn fresh coal, it should not cover all the burning sur- face. 1t if does. the gases driven off are not ignited. and escape. If the shape of the firebox permits, fresh. coal should be placed over the front of the fire near the door, then as the gases are driven off, they are ignited over the bright rear sur face and add to the heat. Later, the coked coal Is pushed to the back of the surface and fresh coal again ap- piled to the front.
 In the case of round heaters, 1t was said, spread the coal on the low CT side only and the gases will be consumed by the heat on the other. The grates should be left in a flat position, no part protruding into the fire, the department says; the ash pit should be kept clean as ashes cut off the air supply, which may cause the grates to warp or burn out A bed of ashes should be kept on top of the grates to prevent burning out. reducing 1t in size as the weather grows colder, and should never be shaken until live coals fall out. There should be a check draft damper in the smoke pipe of hot air. steam or hot water heating plants or kitchen ranges, beside the turn damper, to control the tempera- ture at which the fuel burns 1t to increase draft. All heat pipes in the cellar should be converted to con- serve heat, and the use of weather strips, storm windows and storm doors about the house will be val uable. Place pans or open-top jars of water on radiators or in front of registers to keep air in home moist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10


 Three generations nave their mem ories stirred at the very mention of Monte Cristo.r Grandparents. fathers and mothers, and children together build vivid mind image at the name of this stage classic and novel that has played upon the emotions of countless audiences-the story that is the very pillar of romance.
 Written nearly fourscore years ago by Alexander Dumas, the novel has had A lengthy triumph. Then in 1884. James O'Neill made his stage appearance in dramatized version of 'Monte Cristo' and for over twenty-five years he toured America In the same play.
 Of course, the motion picture screen soon olamorcd for "Monfe Cristo," but producers in general were wary in phetographing this spectacle. Isero were several obstacles placed in their path. The first was the pro- kfbittve price demanded by the O'Neill estate for the screen rights of Mon ts Orfsto,s as well as the construo- ton of various sets necessitating con- siderable research work as to COZ tunes, historical data and all other details that would be in accord with the tala.
 xhen would follow the enormous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
MANY OFFICERS
 GUARD PO|NCARE.
On London Trip-French Pre- mier Guarded by Over
 100 Detectives

London, September 9.--Al1 tho pre- cautions taken to guard the crowned heads who from time to time have visited London, paled into insignifi- canoe compared with those taken to protect the French premier while here recently to do his best to try to make Germany pay up. It Is said they were due to the discovery, be- fore he left Paris, that he had been marked down for murder by the Ger man plotters who killed Dr. Rathe- nau.
 Nearly 100 detectives were detailed to guard M. Poincare, including 30 sent over by the Paris Surete. the equivalent of Londons Scotland yard. Day and night sceaseless watch was kept over him. The hotel at wnicn he stopped was surrounded by police. Several detectives were stationed at the hotel as guests, the better to look out for any suspicious charac- ters who might try to approach him. Even the preparation of his meals was superintended by chefs who were brought over from Paris.
 When the time came to leave the hotel each morning for the confer ence at Downing street, he was ac- companied downstairs from his suite--he never used the elevator by as many as eight or moro detec- tives who surrounded him and es- corted him to his motor car. He was simply rushed into the automobile and at once the streets through which he was to journey were cleared as if by magic and speed limitations were ignored.
 During the French premier's stay detectives secured Soho and other haunts of anarchists or communists, listening and searching for any word or move that might denote conspi- racy against M. Poincare's safety. Perhaps he himself had nothing to do with it, but such extraordinary precautions certainly conveyed the impression that while in LondNn Ne was in deadly fear of his life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
EAST LAKES BEST
 SEASON TOCLOSE
Plans Already Being Made by Commissioner Harrison For
 Improvements

The best season East Lake park has ever enjoyed will close within a month.
 Thousands have enjoyed the pleas ures of the park this season and will regret to see the time come when they can go no more until another summer rolls around.
 Commissioners William L. Harrison, park commissioner. has spent every effort to make East Lake park a place where people of Birmingham could go and enjoy themselves at 8 small cost. Everything which makes a picnic ground ideal Is at the park, and as a result the biggest picnics of the year have been enjoyed at East Lake park.
 The Birmingham Trades council gave the record breaking picnic La Dor Day. More than 5000 people attended the picnic.
 Plans arc already being made by Commissioner Harrison to improve the park for next season, and if plans are completed, when East Lake park opens next summer it will be the most modern amusement park in the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
Sunday Morning Breakfast

toe in, but who owns an interest in a going real estate concern, sweeps some pretty girl off her feet and marries her because of his dominat ing personality, four to five hundred women go up to their bedrooms and laugh a low, throaty chuckle because another woman has pulled a good one.
 You know, Pops, the average woman believes that six times seven is forty eight. She has so many things of greater importance on her mind that she has no time to memorise all tho fool formulas which make up business. She Is a failure as & business woman until she has given up the matrimonial ghost and decided she will have to work for a living the rest of her life.
 You must remember that man looks forward to the day when ho will chisel other men out of enough money so he can retire. He does rot expect to do this till he is about 60. The reason women are no good at business is that theirs Is an in tensive life. They expect to retire and live on the interest of their in- vestment in some man at 25, and they have to rush while the going is good and before their wares get shop worn.
 Just as 1t Is hard to guess whether women dress to please men or to aggravate other women. so it is hard to guess whether women marry some man who snores and smells of a pipe, to get meal ticket or whether she does 1t to aggrsvate other women.
 You know, Freddie dear. when some woman hooks you for life time she will be influenced largely by the fact that all the other women in the world look on her with a cer- tain amount of plying contempt un- til she has accomplished matrimonv.
 When man comes buzzing around woman like blundering humble bee buzzing around a blos- som. she Is not filled with that shy maidenly modesty the poets rave about She is really wondering whether she better hook this one or wait while and see if she can get another one with a higher so- cial standing. fatter batting aver age in the bank and who does not say we'll -er-now-see?' when hetalks."
 ''Lucyl Lucy!" cautioned her mother.
 II know. mother, women are like magicians. They are supposed to do tricks but not explain lem, but my beautious brother has inflammation of the bean and imagines as he passes on through life he leaves a trail of broken and bleeding hearts after him like q cow walking through a strawberry patch leaves smashed and bleeding berries behind her.
 T just thought. so long as he was fn fha family "a battar han fn the fact that the only reason he Is cavorting around with his matri- monial neck unhaltered Is because he looks like a poor prospect of fu- ture prosperity and he better spend less, save his moral talk. and work harder"
 You tend to your own job,~ growled the boy, as he retired be- hind his paper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
SOUTHERN TRnI CONSERVATION

From the Scientific American.
 So marked has been the destruc- ton of the timber lands in tho south ern Appalachian region that the De- partment of Agriculture has sstab lished Q new forest experiment. sta- tion at Asheville. N. C.. to determine methods of conservation and control. This station Is to be the first of It's kind in the eastern states. A furthor object of the establishment is to se- cure Information for foresters re- garding the handling of southern trees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
gS] ATTRACTIONS OF THE SCREEN kGSzsa

has established monthly official bulletin. effected an utilization with the Opera in Our Language Found
 ation for Presenting American Operas and has obtained cooperation
 with the National Concert Managers association. Much of this work. say
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10

members. is due to the efforts of Mrs. John F. Lyons, who assumed the nres- idency January 1.
 The federation now Is working on contests In voice, violin and piano. open to musicians under 30 years of age, and competitions in various branches of musical composition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
Wallace Reid, in "The Fatal Wedding, !" ALcazar Feature

ing" is the offering at the Alcazar , D. w. Griffith production, is "Enoch Arden" and MT. Griffith nents of the situation.
 lowing helpless in the trough of the sea- The fury of the clements. The mighty combers beating a relentless attack upon the quivering hull. The heavens shot with shafts of light ming. The final death plunge of the ship. The fate of the three sur- vivors cast upon an uncharted is- land. The death of two of the men. The experiences of the one man left. All this has been done with tremen- dous power.
 The homecoming of Enoch, who returns to his old town with face almost hidden with a beard, only to find his sweet faced little wife we'd ded to an old suitor, played by Wal lace Reid is an episode of powerful heart appeal.
 As added attractions the Alcazar will also show Ham" Hamilton in a Mermaid comedy, Rolling Stones" and the latest issue of Kilograms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
ADULTERATED COFFEE

From the Scientific American.
 Food inspectors have found that
 certain coffee grinders and sellers are adding to the lower grades of coffee chaff and screenings to as high as 25 per cent. so the bureau of chemistry reports. Their specialists hold that chaff and screenings are not coffee, and that such mixtures are adulterated and misbranded un- der the. provisions of the food and drug act when labeled. sold. or of- fered for sale as coffee. Action will be taken against all such violators of the law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
MUSIC CLUBS PREPARE
 ALL-AMERlCAN PROGRAM

Chicago, September s.-Ths first all-American program to be given by the National Federation of Music Clubs is being placed for the next biennial festival to be held in June 1923, at Asheville, N. c.
 During the last year the federation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
HAWAII IMPORTS A HUG

From tho SclentIrlc Amerfcan.
 An Australian bug of the high sounding name of Ischiogonus is be- ing imported by Hawaiian sugar planters to battle with Syagrius Full vita rsis. scale-armored insect that destroys the mountainside ferns that preserve the watersheds so me- cessary to the irrigation of the plan tations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10

Wallace Reid, in "The Fatal Wed commencing Monday. This pictur based on Tennyson's immortal poen has brought out all the dramatic ele
 What would you do if you had gone to sea, been. shipwrecked. had lived for seven long years on an uncharted island yearning for the faces of your loved ones, only to return at last and find your wife married to another man7
 That was the tragic home com ing of Enoch Arden In Lord Alfred -Tennysons immortal poem, which comes again to the screen in D. W. Griffiths brilliant picturisation of "The Fatal Marriage" The pro- duction Is based upon the poem by Lord Tennyson.
 The departure of Enoch on his ad- venture to sea against the wishes of his wife. Is pictured with poig- nant appeal.
 The shipwreck is another big scene, treated in the usual Griffith manner The great schooner wal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10

Four new hospitals for the treat ment of disabled soldiers are to be built at Liberty, N. r., Knoxville, Iowa; Chillicothe, O., and Tacoma,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-10
Monte Cristo, '' Classic Dran1a, This Week. Trianon

Screen of the offering the Trnoh theatre, beginning Monday