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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-07
CARPET CLEANING

NATIONAL CARPET GIG. CO., 1880 N
10th; Tioga b3l2-Cleaning. sewing. re
pairine colors restored: prompt service,
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ROOMS WANTED

YOUNG LADY. employed. desires furnished
room with Jewish family; Tioga preferred
NJ S32. Ledger Office.
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at 1881 ARCH ST.
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others employed. but no servants: pri'aVe
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OFFICES. BUSINESS ROOMS, ETC.
GERMASTOWN
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Observation-Disclosures

WEST OEERBROOK story stone dwE.
modern. new pare- and paint; acre of
ground: garage: slSO per month: year
lease. Albert Hall, sl0 Land Titlc Bldg.
LAJREI, CABIN tea room. furnished or
unfurn. on State highway from Devon to
Valley Forge Morse. 1924 Chestnut.
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The contents Of bureaus. chifroniers. wash.
etand:. bufrets md all containers unknown
order of Miller North Broad Stnrago Com.
pany. "10O North broad street. PhiladeIphis
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BUSINESS PERSONALS
DIAMONDS ROIICHT
DIAMONDS BOUGHT

AND PAWN TICKETS FOR DIAMONDS
KELLY e. co, 932 Chestnut st,
Suite 2.22, second foor. over Chds Rest.
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fSP7 THE REAL ESTATE TRUST COM.
pnny Of Philadelphia, Trustee.
dated January I. 1903. executed by
Schuylkill County Light and Fuel Company.
schuylkill County Lisht md Fue, Comn,n,
10. +. No. 2. No. 8t43 OF Sentemhsr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01

mill goods, steel hoops and bands and other iron and steel products to South America and the West Indies with some regularity. The sugar house business, which has long been lag ging, bids fair to resume soon and when 1t comes again there will be found larger busi- ness than usual on account of the long period in which there has been none.
 Export trade can be had by Birmingham with little effort. Birmingham has low rail rates to the gulf and lower rates still by the Warrior river. The Tennessee company has proved to the district how valuable the export busin ,5s is at periods when domestic markets are not active. That is good lead to follow.
 South America, which is rich and progress sive, is an especially inviting field.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
THE NATIONAL BEVERAGE NOW

From the New York Herald.
 The quantity of coffee imported by the United States in the calendar year 1921 was 1,345, 000 pounds an increase of 44,000,- 900 pounds over the imports for 1920 and nearly 1000, ,000 pounds more than the average imports in the years just before the war. After deducting the 34,000,000 pounds re-exported in 1921, the amount which went to satisfy America's demand was 1911, ,000,- 900 pounds.
 Tea imports declined 14,000,0 pounds and cocoa 40, 100000 pounds compared with 1920.
 Our parents and grandparents were not the prodigous coffeee drinkers we today. Divided into individual portions, the average annual consumption in the decade ended with 1870, according to the National City bank, was less than five pounds per capita. In the five years preceding 1895 the annual per capita consumption was eight and one-half pounds in the six years preceding 1912 it was nine and one-half pounds; from the beginning of the war up to 1921 it was 10 pounds, and last year the average individual consumption was 12M pounds.
 Measured in dollars the annual coffee bill has reached the substantial sum of $143, ,000,- 900 compared with an average of $75,000,000 just before the war.
 If coffee is the enemy of sleep America ought to be wide awake nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
THE HAPPIEST MAN

From the Memphis News -Scimitar
 Recently search has been made for 'the happiest man." with varying degrees of suc- cess. Georgia newspaper claims to have found the happiest man, and Texas news paper enters it's choice as follows:
 "A Georgia newspaper claims to have found the happiest man in the world. The man lives in North Georgia He has six fiddles, 10 chil- dren, 13 hounds, deaf and dumb wife and a moonshine still that has never been spotted by enforcement officers. No doubt the Geor- gian is happy man, but we believe we know a genus homo who is getting more joy out of life than the Georgian. Our hero is a negro, about six feet high.- He breaches in the summertime and shoots craps in the win- ter. He can wear overcoat in August with. out discomfort, and seersucker in January without feeling cold. Anybody's shoes will fit him, and all of his neighbors raise chickens. He wields razor so savagely that every negro in the community if afraid to kick one of his dogs or smile at one of his wives"
 We have candidate to enter, nor one who is even eligible to compete with the for midabe asprants described.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
F N POLITICAL POWER DID NOT BRING. CROKER HONOR

America was in every sense of the word land of opportunity to the late Richard Croker. A poor Irish boy, he became inn mensely rich and one of the most powerful po litical bosses this country knew. He was an absolute dictator whose word was law, and as a politician of his type probably never had an equal in America, unless it was his pred- ecessor, Tweed
 But Croker's career, although it brought him prestige of a sort, wealth and power, could hardly be held out as a shining example to other ambitious boys, whether Irish or native born. The public never found out how Croker got his money, but there were many theories offered and none of them was creditable to tn. Tammany boss. The methods he employed by which Tammany controlled every elective of flee in New York, from the highest to the low est, were notorious, and he never lived down the stigma which attached to his name. Yet with an Irish sense of humor or grim irony he once proclaimed himself reformer! \ Age tempered the former autocrat of Tanl- many. In later years he was philosopher and a sportsman and celebrity on both sides of the water, but neither his riches nor his fame won him the social position he craved and sought. Also in his old age retribution over took him in the form of family quarres dur ing which his sons by his first wife made an . unsuccessful attempt to have him declared in competent to manage his own affairs.
 Perhaps Croker had no regrets. He was not the kind of man to worry over the charge that he had been crooked and interruptions politi- clan, but there must have been times when he realized that success bought by questionable means has it's disadvantages. He had the en- ergy and the ability to become a great man. As it was, he was only a political boss, all though an amazingly adroit and successful one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
SOME OF THE ILLS THE RAILROADS SUFFER

Among the other financial endorsements to which the railroads have been subjected
 delay in the payment to them of the guaranty under federal operation. This guaranty expired on August 31, 1920, yet the recent estimate made by the Secre- tary of the Treasury to the Senate finance committee indicates that $20O, O,000,0O0 will still remain to be paid the railroads on account of the guaranties during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, because many of the pay ments to the railroads which it had been esti- mated would be made in 1922 had been post poned.
 This is but one of the penalties suffered by the railroads the result of the heavy hand of the federal government having been laid on their control and operation. Added to this financial bother is that of rate regulation and wage regulation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01

A Jersey City man claims he was chased by ghost more than seven feet tall, with one green eye and one red eye, Hike ferryboat' A considerate judge sent him to a quiet place.
 
 Hanford McNder, American Legion com mander, tells ex-soldiers to go home where they will be appreciated. That's just the trouble. They are not appreciated at home.
 * * Northwestern university students, who de- clared Irving Berlin to be the greatest musi- elan, living or dead, must have been biased by the fact that this is the jazz era.
 x The creator of "Nick Carter" who killed himself may not have been master stylist. but no youngster ever fell asleep while read ing his celebrated works.
 * * x Among dozen or more wives bigamist says he found only one who was aon the leyel.n There are times when bigamist is entitled to sympathy.
 Some of the ballad mongers who write songs about the south think alligators crawl about the streets of cities as far north as Brming- ham.
 A New York congressman said Mayor Fly land had "thin" mind. His honor had some difficulty in refuting the statement
  New Orleans man on his first trip to New York was robbed of everything but his fountain pen. The trip was liberal education.
 < x There IS always something to be thankful for. The Eankhurst family is not as conspc- uous it used to be.
 M Coal operators and striking miners both ex- press confidence, a feeling which the down. trodden public doesn't share. Apart from picking on Fatty" Arbuckle what else has will Hays done to earn his salary of $150,000 year in the movies?
 x King Georges watch isn't worth what 1t costs him. He can't entertain musical comedy stars on board
 England and France are pleased to discover that Mir. Dempsey doesn't eat raw meat.
 k The lady bootlegger is in a financial posi- tion to wear summer furs if she wants to- If the presses keep running much longer Russia will be foot deep in paper money Bombing planes give a strictly modern as- pect to civic war in China.
 
 The light wine and beer program calls for number of encores.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
BIRMINGHAM LOOKS GOOD

"We saw just plenty of water, the Missis- sippi looked at least 100 miles wide at many points near New Orleans and in the city flood waters were seeping through the sand bags' declared R. A. Morris, deputy United States marshal, who has just returned from trip to San Antonio, Tex.
 q deeply impressed with the beauty and cleanliness of the city of Galveston, with it's massive sea walls and general progressive ness," continued the federal official, who re- marked in conclusion, however, that Bir- mingham looked mighty good, and that it just couldn't be beat for it's climate embracing the entire 12 months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
THE SOUTH IN SONGS

Arthur Chapman in the New York Tribune.
 If you don't think the south is running strong in the song market, with no bear move ment in sight, just consider the following titles picked at random from photograph com pany's catalogue of recent records:
 Alabama Moon," Underneath the South ern Skies," Mississippi Moonlight" "Ken- lucky" I've Got the Blues for My Old Ken lucky Home," q Love the Land of Old Black Joe," Cts Melon Time in Dixie Land,' "Lou- isiana Waltz" "Sippi Shore," "You Can't Go Wrong With Girl From Dixieland," My Dixie Rosary "Dixieland Is Happyland," "On Miami Shore," ''Throw Out That Mason and Dixon Line," Carolina Lullaby" Where the Lazy Mississippi Flows
 In the catalog from which these titles were taken, Wyoming is mentioned once and Michigan once. Otherwise not a state figures outside of the trust boundaries which have been mentionaA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
IS THE HUSBAND THE BOSS?
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Champions of women's rights, legal as well as political have been jolted in England by the resurrection of an ancient Saxon law which secured the acquittal of wife of con- victed of betting frauds on the ground that a wife, being the property of her husband, cannot be guilty of crime when committed under coercion of the husband Justice Dar- ling, Londons judicial humorst protested that it is time the law amended to accord with the facts of real life. Amendatory bills have been introduced in both Lords and Com mons. One noble lord said bachelors with no experience of women are the only people who think wives of today do what their husbands tell them. A former high chancellor dissented that among the lower ranks of society women were about as subservient and needed the pro- tection of the old law. None of the lords ven- tured to assert his own marital supremacy, some indeed carefully disvowing any such claim.
 Lord Buckmaster, liberal law peer, said women have got the vote, but are just the same as before, an inference that even ancient Saxon law is not likely to have much effect in determining who is boss of the house. 1t was remarked, too, that in Scotland, "pre- sumably because Lady Macbeth,' there nevsr was any coercion law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
Promoting Stock Schemes
From the Worlds Work for May.

Every day in the New York dailies can be found numberless ads more or less cleverly written in which the young fellow wanting position is told he can make 10000 to $20, ,00o year selling securities. There are about 20,- 900 stock salesmen running around New York trying to sell stock in new enterprises or con- panies being refnanced with the aid of these chain-office brokerage establishments. Prob ably $200,000,000 a year is going into these stocks in New York alone, and every large city
 in the country has a branch office of one more of these organizations that is sending it's ambitious young salesmen throughout the surrounding territory.
 And what of the stocks that are being so en- thusiasticay offered with the bait of Large earning power on your money? For every one that will pay somewhere near what the buyer is led to expect from it, there are several that will go to the wall, and the balance will never pay more than to 8 per cent. And when the owner wants to get his money out of these stocks he will learn their true worth Ac- cording to present available figures he can get only one-third or one-half of what he paid for the stock if the company is still in exs- tence. If he is willing to wait to let the organ ization from which he bought it dispose of it for him, it will cost him anywhere from 10 to 25 per cent for selling commission, and he will have to wait some time for his money. He has no redress; he has bought the stock and must continue to hold it while others are buy ing the stocks that the house has con- tracted for. I can emphatically state that what salesman tells you concerning the easy convertibility of these stocks Is all bunk The only time bank may loan money on them is to accommodate responsible business man who deposits with it, and then the bank is likely to lose confidence in the business mans judgment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
LILACS
From the Washington Star.

Lilacs are in bloom and the thoughts of many persons go back to the time when nearly every home and garden, and when a garden without row of lilac bushes was unthinkable. No other plant, not excepting the snowball bush, bridal wreath, sweet shrub, the hundred leaf rose, the blazing cockscomb and the bril- liant hollyhock, held fonder place in the old garden than the lilac.
 It is very old flower, and it grew in the gardens of cities in Persia, Mesopotamia and Arabia that were buried beneath the sand before the beginning of what we call recorded history" It has been argued that "lilac" is a Sanscrit word.
 The lilac followed to America soon after the early colonists and became feature of their gardens. great many happy recollections hang upon this beautiful and sweet-smelling flower, and many persons think of it as one of springs rare charms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
LATIN-AMERICAS AGAIN AN
 INVITING TRADE FIELD

That conditions in the Latin-Americas are conducive to trade revival is the declaration of Ralph Alderman, chief of the Latin Ameri- can division of the bureau of foreign and do- mestic commerce. MT. Alderman says trade with Latin-America has already shown "won- daxful improvement" and America is getting back its dominating position in these mar keks"
 Mr. Alderman came to Birmingham few days ago with this message and reports grati- fcation on finding that Birmingham exporters were alive to the situation and were making an effort to renew their business relations with the Latin-Americas. It was especially gratify- ing to be informed by MT. Alderman that the boey of German absorption of trade with the Latin Americas has been exaggerated.
 noAam isaagain sendiqg wire drawing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
MOLIERE'S
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

Any American who will read "Les Femmes Savantes" will understand why the Academy Of Arts and Letters in the metropolis of land that was mostly wilderness when it was writ ten honored the tercentenary of the birth of Jean Baptiste Poquelin, known to the world as Moliere. This particular comedy was first produced February II, 1672 20 years be- fore gentle New England forebears at Salem were hanging witches and crushing the life out of Giles Corey with the peine forte ct dure. Yet the New York or Boston or Phila- delpha husband and father whose women folks are given over to literary clubs will chuckle over the master of the house complaining that the woman cook lets his roast burn while she is reading the Latin comedies, and will realize that Molieres wit fits our own time perfectly Indeed, it belongs to all time.
 The creator of "Le Misanthrope," of "L'Avare," of Les Preceuses Ridicules," of "Sganarelle" and "Tartuffe' and "Scapn" ehristened January Is, 1922. The date of his birth is merely conjectural. He was the of the kings uphosterer. His earliest education was from two books his mother cher ished, the Bible and "Putarch's Lives" But later he went to school and to the College de Clermont, Jesuit institution, where amateur dramatcs were encouraged. He learned Latin and translated t'De Natura Rerum' of Lucre- tius. He might have been an upholsterer like his father; indeed, the succession to royal favor in this line had been secured to him. He might have been 8 lawyer. He became travelling player and for 15 years was on the road. His chance came when his company had made failure before the king with Corneille's 'Ncomede," and he asked and received permis- sion to produce a skt of his own, "Le Docteur Amoreux," which was great success. From that time his fortune was made. Envy rer- dered him the victim of many scandalous stories but research has proven that he was good man and consistent Christian as well as a genius.
 Wit is the ripest development of civilization. It does not belong to the pioneer stages of growth. Perhaps it does not yet belong to the stage America has reached Certainly Charlie Chaplin ranks Tartuffe up to date drawing attraction. But the. study and appreciation of Modiere is real education, education toward standards the American public may in time ap- ply to the contemporary drama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
MAsoNs PROUD OF TEMPLE

"We Masons certainly proud of the rev Masonic temple now in process of construction at Nineteenth street and Sixth avenue" said r. B. Keiser. "In beauty of architecture it is fit companion for the new postoffice building across the street.
 "When the temple is complete it will make a palatial home for the fraternity. We may outgrow it In the years to come, but it is of such permanence that it can be allowed to stand and an addition erected to take care of our growth. All Masons look to the home with pride and satisfaction"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
WHY WASTE MORE MONEY
 ON DIRIGIBLES?

Although the American government declined the offer of the British government to replace the ZR-2, burned at Hull, by the airship R-36, it will complete the ZR-1, now in course of construction.
 Evidently the bitter lesson taught by our experience with dirigibles has not been taken to heart. It was reported some time ago that the production of heium gas at Fort Worth was being, was going to be, consid- erably developed by congressional appro- priation to provide the only safe gas that can be used for initiating dirigibles.
 The Zeppelin type of airship has been pro- nounced a failure, both in the United States and abroad It was announced recently that the British government had quit building di- rigibles, and it looks like waste of money for the United States to continue experiment. ing with aircraft that is both expensive and un- reliable.
 The airplane has long since established it's superiority all other kinds of aircraft. It costs only a fraction of the sum the ZR-2 cost, and Zeppelin may be destroyed in few minutes by an explosion or wrecked by a storm. Airplanes not only have the advan- tage of cheapness, but they are not helpless in a high wind. They are also much easier 10 meneuver and in warfare constitute a less vulnerable target than a dirigible.
 The development of non-explosve heium gas on an extensive scale may make it possible to put the dirigible to practical use, but the mastery of the air belongs to the swift, de- pendable plane.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
"B" WORD CONTEST

T am one of the many who participated in The Age-Herald B Word contest,' said Will liam L. White. "In my efforts to win prize I used three dictionaries and Sears Roebuck catalog. I also lost much sleep after I had become interested in the puzzle.
 "Of course my chances of getting a prize among the many contestants were indeed slim, but I can say that if my vocabulary was as complete as it now is, where B words are concerned, I could put Webster out of bus iness.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
DON'T SHOOT NUT

Many have the idea to kill dog just soon as he shows symptoms of rabies and has bitten anyone" said Dr. J. R. Bean of the city laboratory, "but this is one of the worst things possible to do. If the dog has rabies he will die in few days, and if cooped up will give no trouble.
 "It is difficult to test dog for rabies after he has been killed, and it is the purpose of the health department to spread far and wide the word not to kill the dog, but coop him up and let health workers come for him. We can examine him and tell far more satisfac- torily whether he has rabies or not''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 There is no food in mushy faith.
 Regret never yet headed off indiscretion.
 The miser's creed contains a large saving clause.
 Two-thirds of the bread cast upon the waters isn't returnable.
 About the only thing a man wants after he gets all the money he needs is more.
 Every mans wife's relatives expect more of him than he expects of himself.
 If 2 mans wife cuts his hair he is entitled to a lot more sympathy than he gets.
 One of the unsatisfactory things of this world b kissing pretty girl through veil. The man doesnt live who feels at ease in room where two women are whispering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-01
APPRECIATES ACE.HERALD

q appreciate the interest which The Age Herald has taken in music in Birmingham" said Mrs. Edna Gockel Gussen, director of the Birmingham Conservatory of Music. "This is big step forward, think, and music is es- sential for the advancement of any city.
 "The Age Herald has given large amount of space helping boost better music in Bir- mingham and chronicling present-day music happenings, and I am sure it has won many friends that way"