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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04
Sportsmen to Adopt
 New Constitution at
 Meet Thursday Nighi

Adontion of a constitution and by- laws will come up at the monthly meeting of the Alabama Fishermens and Hunters association Thursday night at the Chamber of Commerce, beginning at o'clock. Copies of the proposed constitution have been in the hands of the members for some time and final vote will be taken on 1t at the Thursday night meeting.
 New members are 5till coming in. according to J. H. McCollister, sec retary- treasurer, and old ones are re- newing their membership for the com ing year.
 Fishing is now at it's best at Camp Oliver on the warrior river. it is reported, with bream and perch striking at fly and spinner and bass abundant.
 The camp Is dressed up" better than heretofore with the trees trim med, and a better view of the river afforded. Seventeen cottages are either built or in process of con- struction.~ The bathing beach has
 meen improved and plenty of clear
 water is in abundance. Meals may be procured at the camp house. The
 road to the camp is reported to be in 1 first-class condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04

a citizens committee would serve two purposes: First, that 1t would be of distinct service to the members of the board of education, and sec- ond, that It's recommendation would carry weight with the public in view of It's ex parte investigation and its suggested composition to include both proponents and opponents of the bond issue.
 "we believe that the board of edu- cation would have no difficulty In obtaining the agreement of represen- tatlve business men of Birmingham to serve on such .a committee. We also believe that tho electorate will give its indorsement to any con structive program proposed by such a citizens committee as we consider the rejection of the school building bonds and tax to have been due to grave fear as to the economic soundness of the plan and not to un- willingness to contribute with the greateBt liberality to the upbuild- ing of the school system"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04
WOULD HAVE NEEDS
 OF SCHOOLS MADE SUBJECT OF STUDY
hinior Chamber of Commerce 1: Presents Plan of Proce- E dure to Board of Education

The Junior Chamber of Commerce has recommended to the city board bf education that a committee of citizens be organized for the purpose Of making a survey of the needs of the public schools for a given period Of years with view to outlining a program of improvement on which citizens at large will agree and sup port
 Following defeat of tho reesit, school bond proposals the Junior Chamber appointed A committee to look into the question from the standpoint of the needs of the city and to report some schedule of action ti.at would tend to bring about understanding and harmony of ac- ton. This committee consists Of Basil Wood, M. H. Sterne, Allen c. Loehr, T. A. Turner and F. M wal lace
 This committee has held several meetings and made final report to the chamber, following which and act ing on the report, the chamber uas addressed to the members Of the board of education a plea for the naming of such committee on rchool needs. the committee to con .. sfst of representative citizens who voted for the late bond proposals mnd those who did not.
 The letter to the members Of the F, board of education is in part aa follows:
 :, .-rhe Junior Chamber recommends that a citizens committee be organ ized 8, the request of the board of education to make survey of the needs of the public school system for q n given period of years, and to out line a constructive program to care i. for the needs of the public school system as revealed by such a sur Tey. It further suggested that the personnel of such citizens commit tee consist of representative citizens who favored and opposed the bond ; issue. .x
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04
Says Mother-in-Law
 Alienated Affection of Wife; Seeks Damages

Alleging that his mother-in-law, Mrs. M Steck, 2711 Teuth avenue, south. persuaded his wife to desert and abandon him. E. L. Barrett, 1906 Ninth avenue, south, filed suit in cir cult court for s25,00o against her yesterday, through his attorneys, Hartley & Quin.
 Barrett states in his petition that his mother-in-law. Mrs. Steck, did "maliciously deprive him of the love, fellowship and society, aid and as- sistance of his wife by wr6ngfully,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04

from the residence, 4626 Second avenue, north. Interment in Forest Hill cemetery. with Johns in charge.
 John Altman, Jr.-Funeral services of John Altman. IT,. 1s-months- told son of Mir. and Mrs. John A. Alt man. 523 Twenty sixth street. south, who died Sunday, took place from Johns chapel yesterday after noon at o'clock. Burial in Elm wood, with JohI<~ in charge: James David wiIIiamson.-Funera services over the remains of James David williamson, who died at his residence, 1917 Hayes street. Sun day night, will take place from tho residence this morning at 10 o'clock. Interment will be in Forest Hill cemetery. with Johns in charge.
 Emmett Clarance siniard, Jr.--son of pr. and Mrs. F. e. Siniard of Ma jestic died at a local infirmary yes- terday afternoon. Remains were sent to Coiiinsville yesterday after noon at o'clock by Johns for funeral services and interment. John Travfs.-Funeral services of John Travis, s1, who died at his residence In searles last Sunday, will take place today at noon from the chapel of Lige Loy. Intern on | will be in Elmwood. Deceased is survived by two brothers. Infant Girl.--Funeral services of the infant daughter of MT. and Mrs. George P. Griffith, who died Sun day night. took place yesterday afternoon at o'clock from the residence, 2164 Bessemer boule- yard. Interment in Elmwood. with Lige Loy In charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04

unjustiy and willfully advising her to desert and abandon him, and that he was forced to suffer embarrass- ment. humiliation and degradation among his friends and acquaintances because of said act"
 The action asks s25,00o as damages for the alleged alienation of his wife's affection.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04

10. Riley. 1101 Philadelphia road, East Thomas, >this afternoon at 2:3o o'clock. Burial in Elmwood' with Johns Tn charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04

Joseph HaIIier.--Funeral services for Joseph fIallier, b2, who died in Baltimore Friday. took place yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the residence, 4626 Seconc avenue, north. Interment in Fores' Hill cemetery. with Johns IT charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-07-04
ON SAD MISSION

D. A. Penn. well known local con tractor. left for Atlanta last night to attend the funeral of his only brother, H. c. Penn. of that city, who died yesterday afternoon. H. c. Penn was 7s years of age and was well known throughout Atlanta.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-22
Ear7u R;sers
A RATHER unlocked for explanation Of
a why America owns three-fourths of
RATHER Il

A RATHER unlocked for explanation of
~ why America owns three-fourths of
the worlds gold is offered by the
English millionaire, Lord Leverhulme He
sets it down to this country's habit of early
rising, which may not have vouchsafed in our
case the wisdom or even the health promised
in the proverb but which certainly, in his
lordship's opinion, has produced the wealth.
He is struck by the contrast between Eu-
ropean leisureliness and American push" A
day, on this side Of TIE water, "means day."
Business executives are, for the most part, up
and at the helm, mot much if any later than
their subordinates." Siestas and beauty
sleeps may be INDUCED in by "the idle indie
pendents" but "the Drawn and brain Of the
nation are abroad, in the fields, in the mines
and factories, in shops and stores and at
desks when the real day begins
Lord Leverhulme, whose great possessions
are attributed his success soapmaker and
who therefore naturally approves of early
rising, might find more lie-a-beds in this
>stressful land than he suspects, if he could
take peep through the Arabian Nights tube
that made distant things visible at glance.
Mayhap he would discover, too, certain Amer
lean devotees of the philosophy of Sir Toby
Belch who declared, in his enthusiasm at be-
ing able to outdrink any man, albeit the tall
est, in all Illyria, that mot to be abed after
midnight is to be up betimes.' Still, we may
rightly take credit for good deal of the
generous praise which Lord Leverhulme be-
slows. The nation, as whole, one of early
risers. But might we not improve somewhat
on the manner in which we spend our time
after getting up?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-22
Tobacco Market Figures

Figures from the tobacco market are prov
ing two things very conclusively. One of
them is that the lands which formerly grew
the yellow pine forests to perfection are bet
ter than North Carolina lands for producing
tobacco. The other is that tobacco is going
to be the great money crop of this section,
making the farmer much richer than cotton
could ever make him. 1t takes more care in
cultivating cotton, but the difference in re-
turns is worth more.-Valdosta Times.
South Georgia offers wonderful possibili-
ties for the culture of tobacco and the farm
ers are to be congratulated upon the inter-
est they are manifesting in the production of
this profitable crop. The yield this year
is fair, the quality is superb and the price
is satisfactory.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-22
THE ATLANTA TRl-wEEKLY JOURNAL

tent Legislative service, or prepare for ills
more numerous and more grave than the
State has ever known. The Journal does
not essay to assess or fix responsibility for
the worse than fruitless record of the ses-
sion just ended; but there the record
stands, to be read by all, to be condoned
by none. In fairness it should be said that
several Of the more important bills involv-
ing constitutional amendments were sup
ported by large majority of the members,
though not by the requisite two-thirds, and
thus were defeated by a backward minority
But what extenuation can there be for post
poning all-important legislation to the last
minute, when clear thinking and right &C
tion are next to impossible? There must be
more of foresight, more of diligence and of
sound judgment in Georgia's legislative
halls, or there will be less of progress and
prosperity within her borders.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-22
Training for Chess

~ ENOR CAPABLANCA, chess champion
Of the world, is modest title-holder.
His conversion in London, where a
great tournament now is in progress, Is in
pleasing contrast with the grotesquely i'm
modest and immoderate statements attrib-
uted to certain other champions about to en-
gage in a contest-pugilists, for example.
The young Cuban says he "feels pretty con-
fdent of finishing not lower than third or
fourth"-a fairly safe assumption, it ap-
pears.
AS to training for chess, his ideas are in
teresting. He says that in place Of exhaust
i've study of books the situations of the
chess board, he takes long walks, ''in order
to keep his legs and stomach in good condi-
tion." The value of legs in a chess tourna-
ment may be debatable, but the value of a
comfortable and well-ordered stomach in
any competition involving intensive brain
work is indisputa5le. Given approximately
the same brain-power, the man with the bet
ter stomach usually will enjoy the better
command of his cranial functions.
L, Capablanca also is opposed to the prac-
tice of what is termed "blindfold playing"
against several antagonists; a show feature
often affected by CHI IS experts. He admits
the spectacular and wonder-exciting features
of such matches, but contends that the per-
former thereby gets into the habit of play
ing certain kind Of game which is readily
at his command, and which may not be at
all like that he is called on to produce when
facing opponents of the class met in inter-
national competition.
It is certain that Eeti, the celebrated Ita1-
ian chessmaster, who has played many blind
fold exhibition matches in recent years. has
for the last two years been relatively and
surprisingly ineffective in competition with
single players of his own class.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-22
MERCHANTS OF HOPE
BY DR.. Frank Crane

One of Napoleon's sayings was: "On ne
conduit le peuple QUEEN lui montrant un
avenir; un chef est I'm marchand d'esperance
No man can lead the people except by show
ing to them a future. chief is Merchant
of Hope.
1t is happy phrase and one worth think
ing over.
Merchant Of Hope!
Goodness knows there are plenty of Mer-
chants of Despair.
The cheapest and easiest thing in the world
Is to prove that the world is on the toboggan
slide to destruction, that men are cruel, that
women are bad, that life is not worth living
and, as the Cockney expressed it: "Wot's
the use of anythink? Nothink!"
Every young and unappreciated poet tells
us what dreadful world it is.
Every little two by four essayist and critic;
every preacher bidding for quick popularity;
every novelist that wants to make thump-
ing sensation, plays us the same tune as he
draws his melancholy horsehair across the
lugubrious catgut.
But pessimism is merely childishness. It is
amateurishness in philosophy. 1t is crudity in
religion
The Merchant of Despair is as the banana
peddler or the push cart hawkster. The op-
timist is the big business man i'll thought.
For pessimism is simply habit of magnify
ing single instances and an inability to grasp
general laws. Optimism is always to believe
generalization as against the particular.
Pessimism sees only few feet before its
nose. Optimism is vision.
Pessimisn is sterile and impotent. Optim-
ism is creative.
Pessimism is a force of death. Optimism
is the force of life.
Said Vauvenargues: "Poor executor de
grandes chooses, il faut vivre CONNIE 81 Pon ne
devait jamais mourir-To execute great
things, one must live as If he were never 60
ing to die"
And all our conviction of immortality is
simply the overflow Of life. It comes from an
abundance of vitality 1t is only where life
is feeble, sterile and bitter that it refuses to
believe in the life beyond.
In the great marts Of the world, it is the
Merchants Of Hope who are successful.
Nobody wants to buy gloom.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-22
Not Quite Fair
: RENCH proposals to use requisitioned
German materials and labor, not for
rebuilding devastated areas, but for

- German materials and labor, not for
a. rebuilding devastated areas, but for
building canals and other public works in
devastated portions of France, have
aroused protest even from the conservative
press of Germany.
For once, it seems, these German protests
have some grounds, as from study Of the
provisions of the treaty of Versailles and
documents bearing upon the postwar Euro
pean situation it appears that France has not
right to exact labor and materials from
Germany for purposes other than reconstruct
ton.
Just how the other nations of Europe will
accept the proposals of France remains to
be seen; but it has long been evident that
France stands more or less isolated in her
policy toward republican Germany.
That Germany may deserve the harshest
Of treatment in no way alters the fact that
- r.urOpe, and the establish
ment Of a sounder economic system demands
that Germany be given time to work out of
the middle in which she now finds herself
by no means as hopeless as it appears.
This is the code that England would have
applied to Germany as she now is: A differ
ent Germany from the country that sought
domination of the world Germany with a
new government, rational and sane and at
tempting constructive work within it's Dor
ders.
To the student Of International affairs it
seems, sometimes, that the French, putting
their faith in the bitter code of Justice that
demands eye for eye, and tooth for
tooth are likely to overstep themselves.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-22

! once begins to bore man. everything she
does gets on his nerves. Her mere presence
becomes an offence to him, and the more she
clings to him, the more he yearns to beat off
the hands that clutch him.
Therefore, the woman who sticks to the
man who wants to be rid of her merely beats
herself to pieces against a stone wall of in
difference that she cannot break down. And
she keeps her own heart bruised and bleed
ing, and her own soul torn with longing
for the love and tenderness that the man has
no longer to give her.
1t is far better for her to go away and for
get, than it is to stay and be continually
tortured with memories. After all, love is
only small part Of life, and woman can
win, at least, contentment by filling her days
with new interests and some absorbing &C.
cupation.
Sometimes, however, man thinks that
he has ceased to love his wife, and is tired
Of her, when he has only temporary reac-
tion against the monotony of domesticity.
This very often happens when a man has
married when he was very young.
He had no boy time, no play time He
passed from the thralldom of his parents to
that of a wife. He was never free, and so
there almost always comes period when he
is mad for the things he has missed. He
yearns for liberty. He wants to play around
with pretty girls. And he comes to look upon
his wife as a jailer, and to long to be rid
of her, because she stands between him and
the things he wants to do.
In such a case the wifes only chance OF
holding her husband is to let him go. If
she has the intelligence and courage to make
dignified exit from the scene where her
presence is no longer desired, the chances are
that, sooner or later, a wiser and chastened
husband will be at her feet, entreating her
to return to him.
The man will find that years of matri-
mony have untitled him for being rounder,
even as the domesticated animal is untitled
to return to the jungle. He may, at times,
hear the call Of the wild, but the neck that
has once worn the yoke henceforth finds it's
habitat in the warm stable with the full feed
trough instead Of on the wide free plains.
The man, also, ascertains that the best
clubs, and the most expensive hotels, to say
nothing Of cheap boarding houses, offer but
poor substitute for the comforts of home,
and SO he begins to miss the wife he thought
he did not want and to get new angle on
her virtues. Above all, little experience
with the women to whom man is merely a
source of graft, and the temperature Of
whose affection for him is in direct ratio with
the amount they can make him spend, will
make him realize, if anything can, the value
of the love that was lavished upon him and
that asked nothing in return.
So bid the unwanted wife remember that
the best way to make man desire anything
is to put it out of his reach. If absence
doesn't help her cause, nothing else will.
Copyright, 1920
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-22

! a MONG all the pathetic letters that I
! ~ get, none are so heart breaking as those
that come from women whose hus-
bands have tired Of them, and are trying to
| get rid of them.
ct have been a good wife," woman will
write. 'I have worked and shaved and econ
omized and made my husband comfortable
| home, and tried to make him happy, but
now he does not want me any more. He
tells me that he is sick and tired of looking
at me; that he was fool ever to have mar
ried; that I am burden, and every time
ask him for dollar he doles it out in
nickles and asks me why don't get out and
earn my own living. Can you tell me what
should do? Shall I go, or stay?"
! l should say, go. I cannot imagine a
woman who has the spirit of a cootie hang
! ing on to a brute who does not want her.
| No other lot in the world could be worse
! than hers, so she risks nothing in leaving a
master who rewards her devotion with kicks,
and who takes her service without pay or
| thanks.
| In no other place would she have to work
as hard as she does in her, own home, and in
no other place would she be subjected to the
same insults, for no other man on earth
Idares to speak to a woman as her own hus-
band does.
! Women who have never been trained for
any gainful pursuit often suffer them
selves to be abused by mean husbands be-
their homes, no matter how miserable their
life in them is. They think they have no
way of supporting themselves, and they for
| get that they are mistresses of a trade in
which the supply never equals the demand.
They can cook and no woman who can
do that need ever lack a good paying Job.
Women writer's and artists may starve;
teachers and stenographers and bookkeepers
and private secretaries may walk the streets
hunting work, but the woman who can cook
has frantic employers fighting with each
other for her services.
And, as for the matter Of pride, surely
there is no other humiliation equal to that Of
hanging on to a man who doesn't want you,
who considers you an Old Woman of the Sea
upon his back, and who is trying to get rid
of you! Surely a woman who has escaped
from that degradation must glow with self
respect no matter how mental the work by
which she earns her Independent living.
So much for the practical side Of the ques-
ton. Viewing it from the sentimental aspect
it is also best for the unwanted wife to go.
If mans love for woman is really dead
the game is played out for her and she is
wise to decently bury her romance, and turn
away from its grave. For of all dead things
on earth, dead love is the deadest. There is
no resurrection for it,
There is nothing a woman can do to kindle
the fires of passion that has burnt itself
out. There is no magic by which she can
make herself again in the eyes that have
wearied of the sight of her. When woman
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-22
Editorial Echoes

The horse may be passing but the horse
shoe is coming back Chamber of commerce.
Kiwanis clubs and farmers, garages are Sc
lecting their teams and the clink of metal
shoes is heard every evening back of barn
yards, along rural lanes and in town alleys
where contestants are being tried out. No
tional tournament that begins at Des Moines,
A"g. 20.
When interest in this rudimental sport be-
the butt of misplaced humor by the devoteas
of golf baseball, tennis-football and other
more expensive, more elaborate and more vio-
lent forms of recreation. It has outlived de-
rision and never should have incurred it.
Horseshoe pitching is one Of Americas few
surviving pioneer sports-the game that men
like Henry Clay and Tom Corwin and Abra-
ham Lincoln played in the stumpy pastures
of the newly-cleared west, with their neigh
bors looking on and making small bets. It
remains the one sport in which old and young
meet upon equal terms-a 14-year-old lad, a
17-year-old youth and veteran of rs being
among it's recent stars.
Real horseshoe pitching is not so simple a
thing it seems, no simpler indeed than a
league pitchers knack of putting 10 swiftly
thrown curved balls in succession over the
home plate, each ball no higher than mans
shoulder and no lower than his knee. The
barnyard golfer must judge his distance &C.
curately and must give the spinning shoe just
the right elevation and right plane of rota-
ton; at 40 feet good player will come near
er his mark than the ordinary pistol-shot.-
Cincinnati Times Star.