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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-11-29
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
ADDITIONAL SAFEGUARDS FOR
 RAILROAD CROSSINGS

Commenting on President Hardings letter to the American Railway association, in which he referred to dangerous grade crossings, the Washington Star makes a good suggestion.
 This newspaper says, Between the railroad companies and the civic authorities warning signals should be placed on the roadsides at sufficient distance from the crossings to in- sure that every person approaching such a place is made aware of the danger ahead Some private advertising interests have done this in certain localities, but it should not be left to at least q quarter of mile. away from every grade crossing"
 Last year 1,o72 persons were killed at grade crossings and 4,s1s injured. A large percent age of accidents at grade crossings are due to the carelessness of automobile drivers, but the railroads have a moral responsibility to- ward the public to use every reasonable pre- caution to prevent death and injury.
 The recent grade crossing collision in Bir- mingham, where such danger spots are far too numerous, is already being forgotten, but there will be another before long and agitation against grade crossings will be renewed.
 Automobiles are being made by the mill Hons- Every new automobile put into service increases the danger to human life at poorly protected, or unguarded, railroad crossings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
" THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF IJNCONSTITUTIONALITY

No anti-lynching bill that Congress might foolishly adopt in response to the whiplash of northern negro voters will ever get further than adoption. Senator Borah foresees this, and declares 1t would be silly for Congress to enact a law (which 1t knows in advance to be unconstitutional"
 There are two kinds of unconstitutionality; that written in the constitution and that writ ten in the hearts and common sense of the nation. In case of doubt as to the letter of prevail America is not going to have federal officials administer the plain laws of the states.
 Lynching is murder; nothing short of 1t. Murder is punishable by the laws of all the states There have been convictions for lynching in the south; white men have been tried, found guilty and punished for lynch ing. The south has protected prisoners from mob lay by sacrificing the lives of white men. It will continue 1t sefforts to suppress this crime as other states continue their efforts to suppress other crimes.
 But, irrespective of the good intentions of the south, the nation is not going to place federal constabulary and judiciary in charge of the administration of the police laws of the states. That would be doubly unconstitu- tional; in conflict with the unwritten as well ns the written law Even negrophobists will sense the danger of such an innovation. The principle could as well be extended to other crimes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
EMPTY CHARLES
Samuel Hopkins Adams, in Leslie,s '

Samuel Hopkins Adams, in Leslie's Weekly.
 Frances gravest danger is not external but internal. If she perishes it will be not by murder, as the shrieking miitarist politi- clans would have the world believe, but by sui eide She is a waning nation. Notwithstanding the accession of Alsace-Lorraine, which ap- proximatey compensated in population for her war losses, she had nearly 400, 900 less inhab- itants in 1921 than in 1911. It vii! be only two or three years now before she will cease to be first of the Latin nations. Itay will have displaced her. Fecund Germany has five times as many babies in yea ras sterile France The tragic significance of this is un- mistakable. No power of arms can indefi- nitely maintain a people unable to replenish itself. A great French medical authority es- inmates that, unless his country's birth rate speedily increases, in less than generation it will have degenerated into a second-cIass power of only 25,ooO,ooo inhabitants, and a great military authority adds this touching and sorrowful warning: France is dying be- cause her cradles are empty" All the repara- tions in Europe can not compensate for this condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
WHEN JURY SERVICE IS
 NOT PERMITTED

In his defense of the police department, Con- missioner Cloe says: 'Now, if the citixenry of dear old Birmingham arc looking for some thing to do that is really worth while, let them turn their attention to the juries trying these appeal cases," referring to cases appealed to . higher court after sentence has been passed in the recorders court 'Let the law-abiding citizen who believes in law enforcement serve as 2 juror instead of begging off, and help us suppress som Of this crime. Jury duty does not seem to attract the attention of some of Birmingham's most severe critics
 What Commissioner Cloe says is true, but there is another side of the question. When citizen who is really interested in law en- 1orcement is summoned to do jury service and does not *beg off what happens? He sits around in the sickening, polluted atmosphere
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31

of Jefferson county's antiquated courthouse for week, marches hither and yon as the judges and bailiffs direct, submits to inspec- tion from lynx-eyed lawyers and at the end of the week he may have been accepted as a juror for one petty case, or none at all.
 Picking jury" is an important part of the days work. Lawyers for both sides scan every man carefully. If he seems to be in telligent, they don't want him. If he is a corporation man, they don't want him. If he is this or that, they don't want him. Lawyers are partly to blame for the evils of our jury system.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31

Cave. Two new levels have just Been discov- ered on March 15, 1922. One of them con tains an onyx chamber 10- times larger sthsn those which have previously bsen41nund-
 Fortunately the formations in the Great Onyx Cave have been guarded homzfntury by tourists, and it's walls and ceilings have not been blackened by the smokeaof torches. Eev- eral hours quickly pass with ono in viewing the known passageways, and there arc tnter- esting possibilities in the discovery of new ones. As we enter the cave we passsthrough a remarkable forest of stalactite and atalag- mite columns which seem to support ths.roof. Some are fluted and of massive proportions, while others are only fraction of an inch in diameter. As we advance we are dazzled by the sparkling crystals of the snow-white ceil- ing on which plate gypsum is laid as if by hand.
 Here and there the plates are flaking off as the new growth detaches their hold. 1cicle- like stalactites fringe the edges of the plates and occasionally gather in richly decorative clusters. We see marvellous variety of pure white gypsum of various forms and stages of growth. Here it seems as if snowballs had been thrown against the ceiling, and there it is soft and fluffy with fiber gypsum like cot ton. There are walls of needle gypsum, seem- ing to be coated with Angora fur; and there are feathery frost flowers, like those which are formed by the wind and snow upon mountain top. Most remarkable are the gyp- sum flowers suggesting chrysanthemums, hya- cnths, lilies and roses. In no other cave have we found such wealth of white gypsum.
 We also find curtains and draperies of ala baster and onyx, suggesting delicate shawls or resembling strips of bacon when light is placed behind them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
KENTUcKYs NEW WONDER CAVE

Le Roy Jeffers, F. R. c. S., in Leslie's Weekly.
 Two and half hours south of Louisville we leave the train at Glasgow Junction where a diminutive line takes us to Mammoth Cave, and we enter a fascinating underground world. Along the banks of Green river and in adjacent regions there are thousands of sink holes and hundreds of open caverns. Now and then new cave is discovered, with miles of white and gleaming passageways uninjured by man.
 On June 12, 1905, hillside opening was found on the land of local farmer, about three miles northeast of Mammoth Cave. L. F. Edwards, who is the fortunate owner, en- larged the opening and spent many memorable caverns, which he named the Great Onyx
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
CENTRAL PACIFIC DECISION
the Editor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 The supreme court decision in the Central Pacific ownership case is far-reaching in its effect the distribution of railroad mileage and competitive conditions. The Southern Pacific had for years practical monopoly on the business of the great city of San Fran cisco only to share it later with the Santa Fe and then the Western Pacific. The South ern Pacific and Union Pacific systems were ordered separated and in the division the Southern Pacific laid claim to the Central Pa cific principally because of their desire to keep the Union Pacific from San Francisco and also from the fact that the Central Pacific controls the terminal situation in Oakland and San Francisco. The case has been before the courts and it's disposition will undoubtedly be the means of the Union Pacific acquiring by purchase this valuable entrance to California making one system from Kansas City and Omaha to all the principal western destina- tions-Spokane and Seattle, Wash;. Portland, Ore, San Francisco and Los Angeles, Cal.
 This linking up the farmers with the east was the reason for the construction of the lines, and if completed by July 1 this year it will have taken 60 years to fulfill the ob- jects of the original bill signed by President Lincoln July l, 1862.
 The Union Pacific was begun December 2, 1863, and construction parties met the Gen tral Pacific forces at Promontory Point, Utah, where the lines were joined May i0, 1869.
 The Central Pacific under the management of the Union Pacific company will be more of an asset to this part of the country than heretofore, and this part of the country is therefore very much benefited by the decision.
 J. H. DOUGHTY.
 Birmingham, May 30, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
NEW wEEvIL IN MISSISSIPPI

From Bulletin of the United States Depart
 ment of Agriculture.
 A weevil has been found in Stone county, Mississippi, in considerable numbers which is injurious to potato, tomato ard turnips. South ern entomologists are especially requested by the United States department of agriculture to keep sharp lookout for this species. It seems to be identical with desiantha nociva lea. known in Australia as the tomato weevil. It is about one-third of an inch long, dull gray in color, and bears on the wing-covers pale V-shaped mark It has been known in Aus tralia since 1908, and does much damage. The larvae feed upon the plants at night, hiding underground during the day.
 The state entomologist for Mississippi is trying to find out how far this wecvil has spread, and the bureau of entomology is ac- lively cooperating.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
WILLIAM C. CORGAS IN THE
 HALL. OF FAME

Dr. Maurice Francis Eagan, former minis ter to Denmark, in advocating tho admission to the hall of fame of Gen. William c. Cor gas, makes suggestion that will meet with prompt and hearty response by the American people Dr. Eagan sayss
 4Mcre than any other of our great Amer icans, General Gorgas belongz to the world, for what he did in making tho tropics safe for white men was . direct service to all the worid-s
 Gorgas opened the tropics to the brains and resources of all nations- The Panama canal ssrves not only America, but the ships of every other country.
 Half of . continent has been opened to tho developing and ciyiiizing influences of the wtfts man. Transcontinental railroads can no longer divert immigrants to the western prairies by picturing the south as a land of sniggsrs and yellow fever" North and south alike feel safe in the tropical half of America.
 The man who rids the world of plague does more than he who annexes . continent to an empire.
 It would be poor hall of fame that did not include William c. Gorgas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31

Bishop Gailor says prohibition is farce. Still, we doubt if Commissioner Haynes thinks he's playing comic role.
 < The Ford of the radio" is announced. We were afraid new type of flivver king would soon make his appearance.
  With France facing empty cradles and the German stork working overtime, no wonder there is uneasiness in Raris.
  And, furthermore, an evening of radio is apt to be less expensive than the same length of time spent at poker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
TWELFTH NIGHT

Anne Goodwin Winslow, in the Freeman. o sweet slow tempo of those happier years That left men leisure for so many thingsi Leisure for music and for madness, too. For alterations and for fertile tears. Who listens now when comes the Fool who
 sings?
 Who cries "Oliviap' the whole night through. Or builds willow cabin at the gate Of his desire and stands importunate Till air and earth give heed? We have no time for anything but speed. And scarcely know what we pursue Or wither tend,
 Or what far lovers meeting may await The reckless journeys endl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
INTELLIGENCE TESTS
Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the PlttSburg Dispatch
 They do some queer things in New Jersey. There was $5,500 state job to fill. Instead of handing it to some deserving political worker they put "blind' want ad in the papers and got 715 replies. These were segre- gated in the usual way, and the more likely prospects invited to submit to an intelligence test on the Edison order, with local Improve ments' added, as for example: What would be the result of the fall of the Brooklyn bridge?" The winner proved to be man who had also won of the original Edison tests.
 Some intelligence tests seem to measure better the intelligence of those who impose them. Again, it may be natural enough for the winner of one to win another, since it probably inspired ambition along that line. But it opens up the disquieting possibility that intelligence hounds" may be developed, who will devote more attention to qualifying for tests than to filling jobs, and thus defeat the original idea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
INDUSTRY INvADEs ROBIN HOODS
 DOMAIN

From the Christian Science Monitor.
 London-Public attention in England is be- ing directed to interesting developments in the coal industry, especially in south Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. Work is being pushed rapidly in connection with the new mines in which the aim will be production on a scale never before attained in Great Britain. It is expected that, in consequence, many small poor mines and thin seams in some of the better mines will have to be abandoned owing to inn possible competition with the new enterprises.
 The most important developments are prom ised in the northeast of Nottinghamshire. Here, in few weeks, time, the smoke from new col lieries will float over the ancient oak tree glades where centuries ago Robin Hood and his merry men roamed at will, and royal vis- itors engaged in the chase.
 Deep regret is expressed by all lovers of this primeval forest and the magnificent ducal do- mains which adjoin it that it's beauties and amenities should be impaired, but the march of industrialism continues ruthlessly, and mod ern science has discovered, under the historic ground, wealth which would have seemed fab ulous to the kings who once held the forest.
 At Clipstone, which was at one time in the heart of the forest, and still is one of the beauty spots, Henry II had palace in the twelfth century, and it's ruins may still be seen. King John used it as hunting center. Edward I convened a parliament within it's walls. Near by is the famous parliament oak, the 1,500-year-old tree, now gnarled and decayed, where King John is said to have assembled his barons to decree the execution of the Welsh hostages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
BOXING THE THING

"The Birmingham Athletic club has always stood for the highest type of manhood for Birmingham" saM Herbert Cobb, vice presi- dent.
 Nearly 800 out of membership of nearly TOO of the B. 4. c. were sent to join their country's colors during the war, and only three or four were sent back for physical de- fects. Boxing and art of protecting himself made these men fit for Uncls Sams and maintain that boxing, conducted as it has been conducted here with Octavus Roy Cohen in charge, is clean, honest and uplifting"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
LETTERS TO EDITOR
INJUSTICE TO KU KLUx KHAN
,e Editor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Although not member of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, nor holding any brief for the defense of that mystic order for any charges made against it's members, I am hon estly of the opinion that great injustice has been done to that order by many individuals, societies and newspapers, duplicating, by covert insinuations, innuendoes and open dec larations, that the klan was responsible for the several flagellations administered to certain persons (citizens) of Birmingham and vi- cnity, all of which am strongly constrained to disbelieve is either just or true, especially so since reliably informed that the klan never employs the castigating strap as a medium of punishment except for two spe- cific offenses, viz. words or acts of treason against our national government, and for mis- cegenation of whites and negroes; and though I admit that some of those floggings seem to bear the signs and earmarks of the klansmen's work and were perhaps administered as pun ishment for the crime of miscegenation, don't believe that the Ku Klux klansmen can be justly held responsible for each and every recent whipping that has been perpetrated in Jefferson county.
 My reason for disbeleving that all of those scourgings were done by the Ku Klux Klan is founded in the well known published plat form, giving the aims, objects, purposes and principles of that great mystic order which has proven its popularity by its almost mi raculous and spontaneous implantation and de- velopment in nearly every city. town, village and hamlet in this nation, and which has, in nearly every instance, made it's presence known by an immediate improvement in the manners and morals of every community where it has been established. However else can tree be judged except by the fruits thereof? And what are the chief blanks in the platform of the Ku Klux Klan?
 According to my understanding, the main features are: Loyalty to God, to the Caucasian race and to the laws of our country; demands for an undivided allegiance to the Stars and Stripes as the symbol of an "indivisible union of independent states,' wherein there shall be "equal rights for all and special privileges for none,' and where "dsloyalty to should ever be regarded as treason to God"
 I am proud to indorse these principles, and as I venerate and honor the old order, the trotic and altruistic work and services saved our nation against self destruction in time when rank fanaticism and reckless rebellion had well-nigh brought about its destruction, sincerely and prayerfully hope and trust that the new order of Knights of Ku Klux Klan will live to sustain and prove it's like worth by it's work of making North America the freest, the best, and the greatest nation in the world. O. T. DOZIER, M. D.
 Birmingham, May 30, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIES AND ELSEWHERE
THE oLD-TIME BOATS

''When I visit my country place on the War rior river at Lock T, near Eutaw, and see the new craft on the river pas, l think of the days when there were more boats on that stream than there are now with all it's in- provements," said J. w. Mcqueen
 ''When I was boy at Futaw there was warehouse on the hank that held 1000 bales of cotton, There were no locks, but the water was high enough for nine months of the year for navigation from Mobile to Tuscaloosa and supplies to last many months were brought up the river while cotton went southwark
 "The railroadz came and the river boats went out of commission one by one. There is not stick where that cotton warehouse was
 "The craft on the xiEer now is modern, but there will probably never again be the gay parties that took trips to Mobile and back again on the old stern-wheeers of the John Quill days and those of the Robert E. Lee"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
A HAPPY THOUGHT

"Would you like for me to put something on the photograph, MT. Grumpson," asked Mrs. Diggs when tbat gentleman dropped in for half an hours improving conversation with Professor Diggs.
 ''Yes, indeed, ma'am."
 "What would you suggest?7
 "A paddock"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
MEMORIAL DAY

Memorial Day is that should be held in the highest of respect. representing the valiant soldiers of America who have fallen in wars of the past" said Walter Brower, local attorney.
 Every American should have bowed his head in prayer yesterday for the soldiers who have sacrificed their lives for the right and country. The peoples yesterday thrilled me as I saw them everywhere on the streets"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31

Two New York boys lassoed a man and then robbed him. A sharp crack on the cranium is preferred when a footpad is in hurry to meet his ''moll' 'and spend the proceeds.
 x x Americans are not as we'll informed about their South American neighbor sas they might be- Some of them think Tacna-Arica is a brand of patent medicine.
 An tmpecuntous sculptor who is engaged to Chicago heiress says they will raise pigs Although he wears long hair and flowing tie, the lad talks sensibly.
 It is rumored that MT. Hughes still has his eye on the presidency. Once prominent cit izen gets settled in Washington he just natur- ally hates to leave.
 A fair artists model has made several att tempts to take her own life. She really ought to give more thought to the conservation of her curves.
 Hon. Willard is reported to be training hard. The same kind of news came from Hon. Willard's camp just before the slaughter at Toledo.
 That naughty party which nearly broke up Sally in Boston gave the company front page publicity that even the press agent didn't want.
 
 France wants to know if all the delegates to the conference at The Hague will be eco- homie experts. Most of them may think they are.
 
 Sam Gompers regards any talk of wage re- duction as deliberately unfriendly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
THAT STICKS

'tYou seem to have many modern improve ments on your farm"
 ''Yes," said Mir. Cobbles. Tive got sstractor, some motor trucks and car ordtwos pump my own water, make. my own 2hghtss got asregular city bathroom and nearly everything else you'll find in town.9 ~There doesn't seems'to bes anything old fash toned on the place." ..ssta,,s.,lsss Nothing but the mortgags@
 -PAuTaCuuK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
NEW ROAD TO RICHES

"How would you like to have genius for a son-in-law?"
 T wouldn't mind" said Mir. Dubwaite, Eff he had knaek for making radio outfits. The chances are he'd be a millionaire long before my grandchildren were old enough to take to the circusp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
SENATORIAL DIscoRp
In the

There seems to be some disorder in the Senate today" remarked the visitor.
 "There's wrangle over using the Hoor."
 "The floor?"
 "Yes. One statesman claims to have the floor The other statesman says he's entitled to the floor and insinuates that for two cents he would use the first statesman to mop the floor.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE

Look in the Congressional Record if you want to see what Representative Twobble is doing"
 "That wouldn't help me any," "No?"
 "That only tells what he's saying"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-31
EASY CONVERSION

"Who is the mysterious indiyidual?' "A dry lobbyist. I understand he was drafted from the vets"
 'He had a change of heart, eh?" 'Yes, superinduced by an offer of more money"