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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-05
ATHLETICS BACKED
 BY GENERAL WOOD

Manila, P l.. November 4--Express- l ing his approval of athletic sports i in general and wrestling and boxing
 in particular, Governor General Leo nard Wood has announced he hoped every city and town in the Philippine Islands would be combed in search of strong team to compete in the Far Eastern games at osaka, Japan, next May.
 q believe in clean sport and ath- letic training" said Governor Gen eral Wood. Sound athletic training makes better men physically, culti- yates the spirit of fairplay and the idea of give and take It increases mans elf-confidence, and builds up a physical condition in order to attain which there must be on ob- servanee of self-restiaint, good habits
 and sound moral principles. All around athletic training should be built up in the Philippines " every possible way. especially m the schools. I wish every boy in the ts- lands knew how to box and to wrestle, and to do both well. They would be better citizens. The tre- mendous increase in the morale. the self-confidence of a man that IS en- genedered by boxing, wrestling ana Iother hand to hand sport Is Of in- caIculabIe value in any crisis of his life
 With reference 10 the Far East , ern games to be held in Osaka next year, we ought to search every city every municipality and every bar rio in the Philippines for good ma terial There is no reason why there should not be and there is every reason where there should be a triai in all the schools. beginning with the university and high schools to DICK out boys who have special aualifica- tions and who promise to make good material to be worked on and de- veloped with view to parhcipa- tion in the Far Eastern games
 "The winning of these games means a great deal. It will mean that the Filipinos have physical cour- age, endurance and skill to an ex- tent which enables them to triumph in competition over all other East ern peoples If we take hold or this systematically we shall be able to get a team which will, be sure winner, and this we must do If possi- b1e."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-05
WOMEN SPLIT OVER
 CLAIM OF EQUAL
 RIGHTS WITH MEN
Removal of All Legal Restric- tions From Women Urged. Opposition Led by Con-
 sumerS' League
By CAROLYN VANCE Special Correspondent Of The Age-Herald ((onrriphf 1902 Inv The Age -HeraIdl


 Washington, November 4.-Who should pay alimony and why and When2
 Simple questions of this character are certain to split wide open two of the chief organizations Cf women in the United States during the com ing week. They are to meet in the capital. Their essential organizations are directly opposite. Their plans for their work are the same.
 They are the national woman's party and the National Consumers league. Simultaneous meetings, net heretofore even dreamed of. will take place with the result that sim ple suggestions will be met with counter suggestion, straight propa- eanda with counter demand, and when it is over all feminine America will be placed in position where the necessity to take sides cannot be eVaded.
 From the watchtower On the hill within whose sacred precincts are demiciled the representation of the national woman's party, is being voiced the demand that Congress shall OK the so-called "blanket bll" removing all legal Restrictions from women. From the hotels, in which the leaders of the National Consumers league have their head quarters, is is suggested that, after all, such action mot alone would au- tomatically repeat all existing well fare legislation for women," but would destroy the home and the in- stitution of marriage"
 Called Crazy Guilt
 The ;'blanket bill,' it's feminine op- ponents declare, lis crazy quilt. a patchwork of absurd notions. Should it pass a woman may among other things indicating independence le- gally choose her own name after marriage. Won't 1t be at least embar- rassing to have wives registering under their maiden names after mar riage at hotels where they remain with their husbands?"
 Independence of the sexes is. after all, the real provision of the "blanket bill'' which causes all of the serious dissention. Women from every sec ton of the United States desire to know what it all means. They agree that women now are under restric- tions that are unfortunate at least. But a measure like the blanket bilf' which gives a woman just and all-the privileges her husband holds: rights, privileges and immun- 1ties in the legal phraseology; raises intimate suggestions that must cause trouble.
 Shall welded woman legally be encouraged to go on thrilling under n1e bright lights of the city when her husband is dead set on doing all Of his thrilling close to the cows and the chickens? Who Is to decidef" Is one. Shall a husband ruin his ca- reer by refusing a promotion that necessitates a move to another town when his wife does not care to leave hsr own job?. is another.
 Another Question.
 Then Will wives have a legal aim to support from their hus- hands If they are not part and parcel of the domestic plans?' is the third, gsested by Florence Kelly of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-05

Consumers league.
 Can deserting husbands be brought back and compelled to SUD- port wife and children?p
 And then here Is the poser-"How about alimony?'
 There is most meaty subject Mrs. Burnite Shelton Matthews. legal ex- pert of the women's party, has a model alimony law which may be ap- plicable. It makes woman equally liable to pay alimony with men. Cyncica1ly listening to this sug- gestion the national Consumers league rather wonders whether wom- on should be allowed to let the po- tential and solid alimony pass out of their fingers for the shadowy state of equality held out by tho national woman's party:
 The childless and economically in- dependent women should not be al- lowed to extort money from their divorced husbands which they did not help to earn" suggested Mrs. Eleanor Taylor Marsh, economically indepen- dent wife, and a member of the na- tional woman's party.
 The spectacle of the woman who marries rich man and then in the ensuing divorce finds the court show ering her with gold as an allowance of alimony outrages her sense of fair play. And she, and her associates, indorse a decision of the Ohio courts where divorced wife had to pay alinrony to her former husband
 If the blanket equality bill is passed" said Mrs. J. Borden Harri- man. speaking for the league, law yers tell us no one can prophecy the damage 1t will do. But certainly the protective laws built up around women as wives and mothers since old tribal days and the protective laws for women in industry would be endangered"
 So it's war A war to end war. the Consumers league says. cru sade to end once and for all the threat of war between the sexes which the national woman's party is provoking, they claim, by constant harping upon the discriminations against women. Deliberately, the Consumers league chose the same set for the important council meet ing of the national woman's party. They will match propaganda by ounter-propaganda.
 The organizations lined up with, the Consumers league and against the women's party are the National League of Women Voters. the Ma tional Woman's Trade Union league. the National Council of Catholic Women, the American Association for Organizing Family Social Work, Womans Christian Temperance union and the Conuncil of Jewish Women. This coming weekend the capital will resound to their cry:
 Tt shall not pass"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-05
UriicAcid? TRY THE WILLIAMS TREATMENT 85 Cent Bottle (32 Doses
 FREE

Just because you start tho day worried and tired. stiff legs and arms and muscles. m aching head. burning and bearing down pains in the back-worn out before the day begins-do not think you have to stay in that condition.
 Be strong. well. with no stiff joints. sore muscles. rheumatic pains. aching back or kidney trouble caused by body made acids.
 If you suffer from bladder weakness, with burning. scalding pains. or if you are in and out of bed half dozen times B night, you will appreciate the rest. com fort and strength this treatment should give.
 We want to prove The Williams Treat ment gets results in Attenuation. Kid ney irritation. Bladder weakness and all ailments caused by excessive uric acid. no matter how chronic or stubborn.
 If you send this notice with your name and address we will give you m s5 cent bottle (32 doses) free. Please send 10 cents to help pay postage. packing. etc. to The Dr.. D. A. Williams Co.,. Dept Y-1s41. P. O. Building. East Hampton. Conn. Send at once and we will mail you by parcel post one regular S5 cent bottle Ill charges prepaid. Only one free bottle will be sent to the sAae person. address. or family .-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-05
NUMEROUS CRANK LETTERS RECEIVED
 AT LEAGUE OFFICE
Many Letters Come From America Telling League What It Should Do-Ger-
 mans Send Some
By Assnclnted Preas

Geneva, November 4.-The, general offices of the League of Nations receive daily an enormous number of letters from pretty well all over the world and in these contributions the crank is well Represented. The small clerks are busy individuals. for theirs Is the duty of sorting and redirecting. Countries outside tho league produce the largest number of correspondents. The United States Is far in the lead. and the cranks In America who feel called upon to tell the league what 1t should do are seemingly without number
 But Germany and Soviet Russia also aid generously in keeping the mail clerks occupied. Africans and Asiatics, as well as Europeans and Americans, find the most extraordi- nary excuses for communicating with the league. showing there is world wide misconcepti6n as to what the league is and what 1t was set up to do.
 Various Requests
 The secretariat gets a vast amount of mail matter that ought to go to the foreign offices of different governments, and 1t receives also greater number of suggestions, ap- plications and petitions that ought to go nowhere. Men and women bring to the league in all languages of the world their heartaches their headaches. and the aching voids in their pooketbooks. The secretariat is asked for the addresses of reliable doctors; begged to find lost hus- bands. and appealed to settle domes- tic as well as other quarrels. The requests for funds come along in steady stream. The league has not even been immune from the beguile- ments of the confidence men. several American of this species having tried to use the secretariat to help them out with their passport troubles.
 Among the most frequent appeals are these: That the league make the world bone dry; that it suppress tobacco as we'll as all drugs and drinks; that 1t institute a universal religion: that it reform the calendar; that it adopt a universal language; and that 1t give votes to women the world over.
 The suggestions are mostly for the cure of the worlds economic anu financial Ills, but some corre- spondents want to show tho league how universal peace can be- restored through the general adoption of their particular religion, want to design new world flag, or make the league all over again after their fashion.
 The league is often asked to settle strikes and to pacify divided families,
 The latest curious demand was from a romancer who wanted materi- al to write an exciting novel about the league; he was referred to the Near East section.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-05
RED CROSS WORK SHOWS INCREASE.
Much Work Done in Nursing, Home Hygiene and Care of
 Sick Courses
nx Assoer.ted rres.

Washington, November 4.-creat increase in the amount of work done by the American Red Cross In the field of public health. through its nursing service. home hygiene and care of the sick courses, nutrition activities, first aid and life saving classes, health centers and other numerous methods, is disclosed in the annual report of the organiza ton for the past fiscal year, which has just been made public.
 The increasing establishment of services that broadcast among the people approved health conservation and disease prevention information ous support through a worldwide response to the annual roll call of the society from November II to 20, the report states
 The war time nursing service of the American Red Cross, when 19,s77 nurses were furnished for active duty, has not been allowed to over shadow the society's peace time nursing service. Since 1921 there has been an increase of more than one thousand nurses on the reserve lists available for duty at any call. The total number now aggregates 35,S55 nurses. Of this reserve 102 are serving with the army. IT with the navy. 162 with the United States Public Health service and 1.033 with the United States Veterans bureau.
 Three Nurses Die
 Three Red Cross nurses died dur ing the past year from disabilities incurred in service in the late war.
 Last year the society established SIS new public nursing services in as many communities, making a total of 1,240 communities in the United States. Alaska. the Philippines. Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Virgin Islands, instructing and demonstrating in public health education, as well as nursing.
 service more than 100000 visits were made by nurses, visits to schools totalled 140,00o, and in six months 1,250.00o school children were in- spected by these nurses, who. in all cases of physical defects advised physicians care to parents. Marked advance was reported in rural conr- munities with thousands of converts won to approved methods of disease prevention throughout the country.
 In home hygiene and care of the sick instruction. which equips the student in proper methods insuring care where illness is not so serious as to require professional service, the Red Cross conducted 3,8S4 classes. en- rolled 2,35s instructors. s3.44S stu dents and issued 42,656 certificates to those completing courses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-05

Train Service Restored Seaboard trains and restored between Atlanta and Birmingham, November 5.-Adv,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-05
VISITORS SHOWN BARS AND DRINKS
 GALORE IN FRANCE
Americans Who Go Over to Visit Bottle" Fields Not Disappointed-Every-
 body Drinks
By GRANT GORDON
 Special Correspondent of The Age-Heralc Copyright, 1929, by The Age-Herald)

Special Correspondent of The Aee-Herald
 Copyright, 1929, by The Age-Herald)
 Paris. November IA resident of Paris is somewhat puzzled by letter from an old crony in America who says he is coming over to visit the bottle fields of France" He Is won dering whether the spelling was in tentional or accidental.
 The trouble Is. declared the re- cipient of the letter. that if he Is coming to visit the battlefields wont see much of him, for I have never had any curiosity to revisit the places that I saw in November. 191s On the other hand, if he really wants to visit the bottle fields l the battle of Paris with him.
 And it Is curious thing how many Americans come over saying they are going to visit the battle fields, who manage to content them selves with the bottle fields. There are those. to be sure, who get out to the front but they are fewer than most people suppose.
 Drinks Plentiful
 Whereas bottle fields are near at hand and plentiful. There are many ways to drink In Paris, of which the worst Is to visit the American bars" And that, let it be said, regretfully is the way most American visitors seem to choose. In that region that lies between the Opera and the Made leine and for a couple of hundred yards roundabout, there must be q don't know that any one has ever counted them) at least fifty of the said bars.
 And new ones are constantly open ing Some of them have American bartenders. Others have English bar tenders. Most, however, seem to have bartenders that only rash na- ture would attempt to guess-men who speak almost any language, and always with slight foreign accent that defies analysis.
 Each of these bars has it's throng of habitues who seem to be union ized on the eight hour basis. Who are they? Whence do they draw the wherewithal to buy Scotch at five francs a throw? Apparently they have some business that occupies them. You hear them whispering to- 6CtdtA HI 6iOuPHt did GlOu6n AiithltS out to reveal that there is some busi- ness deal at stake.
 Ears Varied
 Besides the familiar faces there are the transients, men who come in and drink and go out, in groups of two and three. They are silent men. usually, and look curiously at the habitues who, often enough, are laughing uproarously at some com plicated joke which has grown out of long mutual acquaintanceship and would take a week to explain to an outsider.
 Some of the bars are pretty close to the original American article Others are not. Not infrequently the latter will have 8 row of high stools along the front, like soda fountain. Sometimes women are admitted, which usually means that there Is d string of women habitues who belong to the oldest profession of the world.
 That is one way to drink in Paris, and. as I say. it Is the least attrac- tive. Why so many American visi- tors adopt 1t is mystery.
 Another way. and one would think more alluring, is in the regular
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-05

French cafe, an even more numerous institution. Although since the war some of the noted cafes on the boule- wards have disappeared 10 make room for branches of banks, it is still true that most Of the "big" corners in Paris are blest with cafes. The most famous, of course, Is the Cafe de la Paris are blest with cafes. The most It is here that legend says you will see everybody you know in Europe pass by if you sit long enough.
 Beer Popular
 At the cafe one gets mcre than drink for the money. One sits com fortably and reads a paper. or talks to ones companion, or stares at the people and neighboring tables or at the passing throngs.
 What does enc drink? Never whisky or cocktails. Beer. if 1t is summer. An aperitif, If 1t Is Just be- fore dinner An aperitif may be any thing from q dash of syrup with selt- ger to one of those poisonous substi- tute- -absinthes that are said to burn holes in the marble tops of the tables. Generally, it Is something between vermouth and seltzer. mild, slightly stimulating and appetizing. In win- ter a popular dring Is "grog Ameri- tdiIlg d IntIB I HtNtT saw III AfDtI- ica. but easy to make if you have some rum, hot water. sugar and lem- on rind. It's a hot rum toddy.
 Those are the two principal ways to drink in Paris-I am speaking Of casual drinking. during the day. The latter is, of course. the French way, although the bar habit Is growing among Frenchmen, and the cafe is no longer the instiyution. it used to be.
 Working Mans Bnr
 Strangely enough. the French have their bars. too. The very tiny cafes in the working quarters have. and have always had. as far as anybody can remember. their bars, not of pol ilshed mahogany, but of zinc, where beer, coffee and strong liquor are served. But nobody except laborers, coachmen, chaffeurs of taxis patron- ize them. Only let somebody set up a glorified zinc bar made of ma- hogany and the smart set flGcks to 1t as something strange and exotic and fashionable.
 But while the cafe is passing, 1t is far from past It is still possible to have one's favorite cafe and favorite table, and to spend an hour there in the afternoon and evening playing dominoes, checkers, CT backgammon. If one prefers the inside.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-05
Hula-HuIa Dance Misrepresents Style
 In Hawaii, Claim
Rr Annocinted Presn

Honolulu, T. H., November 1.-Two ancient end forgotten laws on the statute books of Hawaii which stin are effective could be invoked to suppress the hula-hula dance of Hawaii. which is usually performed by a grass-skirted woman, accord ing to an announcement by terri torial Attorney General John A. Mathewman, In connection with recent efforts to abolish the hula ex- hibitions. now given mainly for the entertainment of tourists.
 The announcement followed the adoption of resolution by the Hawaiian Civic club, composed of leading Hawaiians, denouncing the hula, as libel upon the Hawaiian race and it's customs"
 Judge Mathewman said that the two laws which might be enforced against exhibitions had been on the statutes of the territory for many years-one since 1850 and the second since 1896, this having been adopted when Hawaii was a republic.
 In connection with the campaign against the hula, Vaughan Mac Caug hey, territorial superintendent of schools, while addressing the Honolulu Ad club, declared that the o-called high society dancing which IS seen at leading social events is more immoral than the hula"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-05

Water transportation h the
 cheapest. Alabama has more miles of navigable rivers than any other state, nearly all of which emdty into
 Mobile hay. Vote for the seaport amendment, . bigger Alabada port and lower freight rates for Alabama products.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-05

Enough silver is salvaged in one month from the waste from films in the Los Angeles motion picture stu dios to coin between 11.000 and 12,- 900 silver dollars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-05

Coronium, the element discovered in the corona or uppermost layer of the sun, has never yet been detect ed anywhere else in the universe.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-01-27
FEDERAL AID FOR
PUBLIC HIGHWAYS
The Government Shows How
$211,135, 1861 Was
Expended.

In a summary just prepared by the
Bureau Of Public Roads Of the United
States Department Of Agriculture. the
employment Of Federal aid funds for
road building among the various types
Of roads is graphically set forth. The
tabulation covers the expenditure OF
,i35.S763f of Federal MD funds
from the beginning OF the work when
II was authorized by Congress UP 10
Nov. /. 1921, o period OF four years
and four months. That sum WAS mp
piled TO the construction Of sS1s5
miles Of roads. The total cost was
SI9e, lbi .6s3.43. The average cost-was
s17 $50 per mile.
Nearly 81 per cent of the Federal aid
funds. or s75.6oo,23s.3o. went into the
construction of s.653.6 miles OF hirh-
Grade concrete roads. Next in s'~a
we're total appropriations OF t4T,192,-
1854 Federal aid funds applied :"
,he building of 1o.043.5 miles of gravel
road. at a total cost Of slo4.6f4. 066.71.
Federal aid funds to the extent of s3i,-
,2l.o20.92 were applied during the
period 10 the construction of 6,s6a
miles of graded and drained roads, al
a cost of s55.1o4.253.7S.
High-grade bituminous -macadsn-
roads, OF which 1892 miles We're con-
structed, at a total cost of s4i.4ia
551.22, claimed Federal aid funds 40
the extent Of sfs.e4e,066.i7. For an.
other high type OF road--bituminous
concrete-se.299.s64.32 was made
available through Federal aid. That
sum went toward the construction OF
772.5 miles OF roadway. at total COS,
OF s2S,4ss, SASS.
Toward the construction of brick
roads. OF which 44s.6 miles were built
Federal aid was available to the -
tent Of ss.s25. 4s2.13; and toward Tho
cost of 2,695.5 miles OF sand-clay road,
the Federal Government contributed
sio,4s5,172.lo. The total cost OF sand
clay roads was s2a.226, 362.6e.