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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEW HERE
WESTERN ROADS BETTER

while visiting in the middle west recently
l noticed how the people in that section keep
up their paved boulevards," said T. H. Hen
derson. when the streets begin to crack, as
they all do, why then wooden string is dipped
in tar and placed in the crevice.
This soon hardens and proongs the life of
the. pavement for many months. At various
places in the road where it has been badly
broken and repaired, it takes the aspect
of snakes, curling about the middle of the
road
81 do wish the county would devise some
way of prolonging the life of our paved roads
which seem to me to give so easily. How
ever, I imagine the heavy traffic from various
points about Birmingham, especially the large
trucks, would mean destruction for most any
kind of a highway"
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soRELY STRICKEN

"Mr. Jobson," said the head of the firm,
"didnt-you tell me there was a death in your
family and didn't I extend my sympathy ana
tell you to take day off for the funeral?"
you did, sir
81 learn that not only are all the members
of your family well, but you attended foot
ball game"
1T little puppy, sir, was much at
tached to the affectionate creature and | speak
truly when l say it not until the second
half that I could forget my sorrow and take
an interest in the game"
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ART PAMPHLETS READY

Our pamphlets outlining the course OF
study in art for the county schools has just
been released from the press" said E. B. Err
win, assistant superintendent of county
schools. "In addition to our regular course OF
study, work in the art classes viii be started
Immediately upon the arrival of Miss Margaret
McAdory, who at present is in Europe com
pleting higher course in art, The course
as prescribed by Miss McAdory includes draw
ing and the study of colors for pupils of the
primary grades and the elementary grades
Lessons in clay modelling and stenciling will
also be taken up in this course
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-21
A JAPANESE WHO "WoRKED up

From the Utica Press.
A japanese drug producer, who is now in this
country, worked for SIS week Is years ago.
Today at AS years of age, he has fortune of
$4,000, 900, is the third largest pharmaceutical
producer and exporter in the world and has
$4,000 chain drug stores, with offices in every
large city in the world. He has factories in
Japan and is buying machinery for them in this
country. A dozen years ago he started oct
with 5000 he borrowed from friends in Japan
and started making drug store supplies on .
small scale. He developed agencies and kept
on until his success was assured.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-21
ANDY's STRONG DISTRICT

Intense interest is being shown in the Anoy
Gump political campaign among the employees
in this building, and all are pulling for old
Andy to VIM" said Miss Emma Mahoney, clerk
of the United States district court. "The pins,
or rather buttons, that Andy's campaign mani
ayers have passed around among the employees
are beng worn in prominent place, and are
attracting considerable attention from visitors
to the offices, who ask about his standing and
his chances of winning. My reply to them =,
that, if we had the final say-so in the matter,
Andy would be in Congress today"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-21
SAMPLES OF PETTY GRATING
IN A GRAFT CENTER

1t takes the larger cities like New York,
Chicago and Philadelphia to give the nation
lessons in graft. And some grafters are not
without of humor, was shown by
revelations made in Chicago, whose municipal
government is one of the most notorious in
the country.
The superintendent of the Contagious disease
hospital was suspended when it was discoverea
that a salary was being paid to typewriting
machine in the name of elsie Smith" Money
obtained from the sale of barrels was credited
to "Mr. Stave" and the son of hospital cook
was on the books as "Mr. Eatum."
The superintendent was charged with petty
graft. In his case petty" is right. Other
grafters are so much more successful in loot
ing the municipal treasury of Chicago that the
doctor must be rank amateur. Perhaps the
onerous duties of his profession kept him from
acquiring the finesse of his competitors.
When some of the editorial writer's of Chi
cago newspapers discuss municipal affairs, j.
appears from what they say that they write
with one hand and hold their noses with the
other.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-21
CHAMBER COMPLETES PLAN
OF GENERALIZATION

The Birmingham Chamber of Commerce has
completed its plans for a thorough democratic
cation of that body. The plan of having
board of directors selected proportionately
from each division of the chamber carried
overwhelmingly when submitted to a referen-
dunn, and it will 60 into effect in the new
year beginning next May
Phe chamber membership is to be divided
into six divisions as follows: Retail members,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-21
WOULD IT BE A CRIME?

l wonder why
Nobody Stays
The chap who oils
His hair and sprays
His dainty form
With perfume sweet,
Then airs himself
Along the street.
Would it be wrong
To lay him low
Administer
A fatal blow
And while no tear
Of sorrow spills
To plant him mid
The daffodils?
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NOT PRIVILEGED

81 refuse to eat prison fare" announced the
new arrival.
Eat it or starve,' said the warden.
"But can't I have my meals sent in from
restaurant"
''You can't. You're just an ordinary burglar
To hear you talk person would think you'd
wrecked bank or something"
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LOVE THE AuTUMN's DRIFTING DAYS

LOVE THE AuTUMNs DRIFTING DAY:
By Clinton Scollard.
I love the autumns drifting days,
The hills and valleys hung with haze
Now amber and now chrysoprase;
The winds that sigh, the winds that Groom,
The sunny silences of noon,
The radiant rondure ef the moon.
I love to hear the crickets chrr,
And the crows craftily confer
In pointed crests Of pine and fir;
To see the sumach branches don
Their crimson, maple boughs take on
Their orient caparison.
I love by pools that CLEAN like glass
The daisy, named Of Michaelmas
Starring the green gloss of the grass.
The heart of me is moved.in praise
The unseen Shaper of our ways;
| love the autumn's drifting days.
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JUST JOGGING ALONG

Personally" said the old-fashioned citi-
zen, 81 don't care to fly PAS miles an hour"
TOO fast, eh?"
Eyes, I'm not one of your speed maniacs.
Crawling along at $50 miles an hour would
suit me-"
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review: 1--WE must also pay deserving compli-
ment to the companies of free co.ored men. All
We're we'll dressed and comfortably uniformed
Most of these companies quite unaided by the
administration have supplied themselves with
arms without regard to cost or trouble. One
of these companies commanded by the we'll
known veteran, Captain Jordan, was present
ed little before the parade with a fine war
flag of the new style. This interesting cere-
mony took place at Mr.. Cushing's store on
Camp, near Common street. The presentation
was made by Mr.. Bigmy, and Jordan mate
on this occasion one of his felcitous speeches.
Negroes of Mobile whose ancestors were
made free by the treaty with France in lsui
were enlisted in 1862 for the defense of tina,
city. The next year, according to Flemmng
they were received into the Confederate serv.
ice as heavy artierymen.
In February, 1864, che Confederate Con
gress passed an act making all free negroes
with certain exceptions, between the ages Of
IS and so, eligible for war duty. The Secre
tary of War was also authorized to employ
for war duty thousands Of negro slaves.
On the Union side 175,995 negro solaless
were employed in the Civil war, but this is an
other story. DAVID w. PARKER
Birmingham, October 10. 1922
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NEITHER A TolLER NOR SPINNER

"A candidate for office went down -
coal mine and shook hands with eve -
there"
"And I dare say remarked Mr.. CIR. epson,
chat was the closest he ever came te oillng
his person with a'little honest CRIME
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ONCE IN a LIFETIME

There are some great moments in this
life"
There are, and I sometimes think the
greatest thrill Of all comes to the former VII
lage wag who returns to his home town the
star of a minstrel show"
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A MILD STIMULANT

The fair stenog
We much admire,
And though at work
She seems to tire,
She gets relief
From all her woes
By powdering
Her little nose.
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B. Barrett to Frederick L Thompson of Nd
bile and ex-senator 3. B. and Donald Corner
of Birmingham
With this announcement control of The Age
Herald passes from a family which has con
Quoted it for 25 years into new hanus.
While regretting the passing of the news
paper from the Barrett family, which built It
into widely known southern journal, The
Post welcomes the new owners into the Blr-
mingham newspaper field.
Just as the late f. w. Barrett one OF
Alabamas most widely known citizens,
the new owners men who have written their
names large in the annals OF the state.
Mr.. Thompson is already publisher of Two
papers at Mobile, and in addition to his news
paper duties, has found time and energy 10
serve on Che United States shipping board
and to take active part in the affairs of Ala
bama. b. r. Conner is of the states
most widely known men, both in business cir
cles and as an official in high office, while
his son is a well-known business maa.
The Post wishes them well in their
venture.
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Truth speak for me.
| will remain the constant sanctuary
OF your good name. -Webster.
A MORNING PRAYER

Let me rot hope, dear Lord, to change
Thy will concerning me through prayer;
but may rather learn shy VII and pray for
strength to do it, Amen.-M S. B.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
It's far better to have your neighbor owe
you an apology than money.
Many man fails to make good because he
spends most of his time trying to prove that
luck, is against him.
Nature must love joke-judging from the
funny people we meet.
Every time girl builds an air castle she
puts different man in it.
Before marriage is willing to admit
that he is unworthy of his wife, but after maj
riage he acts as though he had sacrificed him
self.
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Pancakes for breakfast separated New
Jersey couple. Friend Husband wanted them
Friend Wife said mo" Hearts have been torn
asunder by much more trivial matters.
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AMERICAN FoLN.soNG

From Life.
Thirsty days hath September April, June
and November. All the rest thirsty, too
unless you make your own home brew.
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THE AGE-HERALD is SOLD

From the Birmingham Post.
Announcement made today of the sale
Of the Birmingham Age-Herald by Mrs. Lewis
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AN ERA OF PUBLICITY

"You don't mind having the name of your
automobile painted in box-car letters on the
cover?"
no said the motorist although it's true
that I'm rolling advertisement for the man
ufacture who made it, but l have to draw the
line somewhere. If my tailor ever asks me TO
wear his label where all who run may read
I'm going to refuse" PAUL COOK.
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
TICKETS SELL RAPIDLY
FOR NAVY CLUB BENEFIT
Lohengrin' Matinee Thursday
at Metropolitan.

The Navy Club, at Is East Forty-first
street, OF which Mr.. Franklin D. Roose-
Welt Is president. will benef. by the
special performance OF 'Iohengrin,"
with Mime. Marie Jeritza as Elsa, which
will be given in the Metropolitan Opera
House next Thursday afternoon. Mrs.
Charles A. Childs, OF 2s East Fifty-sixth
street. has sold all Of the boxes, but
she has on hand some which the
original purchasers have returned TO be
sold again. Nearly all of the orchestra
chairs and seats in the upper part Of
the house have been sold.
Among the boxholders are Mines.
Vanderbilt. Julian W. Robbins, Joseph
X. Grace. William Fahnestock, r. A. G.
Smith, Edward c. Delafield, Arthur
Ryle. Charles Potter King. George d.
Widener. Frank A. Sayles. John ]. Wy
song. Gouyerneur kortright, Edwin
Gould, Rodman Wanamaker. William c..
Rockefeller, Winfield Scott, T.. A. s.
Franklin, Edward y. 'Breitung. Horatio
Nelson Slater. Edward Robinson. Childs
Frick. Edward S. Harkness, Richard It.
Wilson. Edward c. Delafeld, Charles
Stewart Smith William l.. Harkness.
Arthur p. Twombly. Adrian Iselin and
Walter r. James. Miss Annie 3. Jen-
nings. Miss Adelina Moller and Miss
May Moulton. Orchestra seats from the
first to fifteenth row may be obtained
from Mrs. Julian W. Robbins, 33 East
Seventy-fouIth street. and all other
seats at the box office.
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
JAPANESE BALLET
IN FASHION FETE
Miss Bdtfermdn, Debuf0nfe,
to Head Program Girls.

The fashion fete for the benefit OF the
Babies Hospital at Lexington avenue
and Fifty-flfth street. which is 10 be held
tomorrow night in the main ballroom of
the Commodore, is attracting much at
tention. for at it will be shown the latest
fashions for spring and summer. and the
gowns will be displayed by more than
one hundred of the prettiest models in
New York.
In addition TO the show of fine rail-
ander Leftwich. there will be a Japanese
pantomime ballet, entitled "The En-
peror's DOLL" This will be followed by
an original advertisement de danse, un-
der the direction of Alexis Kosloff. Mrs.
Henry Martyr Alexander. Mrs. Oliver
Gould Jennings. AIRS. X. Rudolph Kun
hardt, Jr.; Mrs. Roswell Miller, Mrs.
Ernest r. Adee, Mrs. Ira Barrows and
Miss NIaude Curtiss are actively in
terested in the success of the entertain
ment. Tickets and boxes may be OBJ
tained at the st. Regis.
Miss Beatrice w. Batterman, a depu-
tante Of the season. will head the pro-
gram girls, and among her assistants
Will be Misses Kate de Forest Prentice.
Marion de Rham. Barbara Brokaw.
Sarah Sage. Florence Lockwood. Maud
Cabot and Felicia Fisk. After the regu.
lar entertainment there will be general
dancing and supper.
Boxes have been taken by Mines
Henry White, Andrew Carnegie, William
Jamison, Benjamin BREWSTER, Walter
Jennings, Percy Straus. George s. Brew
ster. Henry Ingersoll Riker. Robert ID.
Sterling and Lorenzo Daniels.
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
SOCIAL NOTES.

Mrs. Harold T.. Harrington OF S15
Park avenue held a reception there Sat-
urday afternoon. Receiving with her
were Mrs. William b. Aitken. mother
Of the hostess; Mrs. David Barrows,
Mrs. Charles Hudson Bull, Misses Bea-
trice Post, Marie Meadow. Lydia Ait
ken and Catharine V. d. Bull.
Mr.. and Mrs Joseph Merrill OF Bronx
vile, n. Y, have gone to Palm Beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel w. Streeter OF
Buffalo are at the Lorraine. Mr.. James
A. Parker OF Boston also is there.
Mr.. and Mrs Frederick Behrens Ryan
of Short Hills, n. j.. and Mrs. John
Joy Edison. Jr.. or Sewickley, Pa, are
at the Vanderbilt.
Rear Admiral Samuel MCGOWAN, U.
S. NJ, retired, of Washington. ID. c..
has arrived at the Hotel Astor from
Atlantic City.
The Society Of Illinois is to ccmmemo-
rate the birthday OF Lincoln at its
speakers will include DR.. John r.
Finley, Mr.. George Grey Barnard, Mr..
Hamlin Garland and Comptroller Craig.
Harald Colonna will sing.
The Teachers Benevolent Society gave
for the benefit OF their fund. Among
patrons and patronesses were Mrs.
Charles Bradley. DR.. ]. Rice Gibbs. Mrs.
George Frederickson, Miss Anna Curtis
and Dr. Arthur S. Bugbee.
Nine. Morris Il. Hewlett Of Hunting
ton. l.. l., is at the Waldorf-Astoria.
Mrs. Flora Il. Smith. IL East Ninth
street. gave tea Saturday afternoon
I aIl ,..Ln
engagement to Mr.. c. Vincent Good has
just been announced. Miss Bell Is "A
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William Bell
Of Robinson. III. She and her mother
sail to-day by the San Lorenzo for Porto
Rico. Upon their return Miss Bell and
Mr.. Good will be married in Trinity
Church.
Mrs. VIII n. Edrington and tho Misses
Olive and Florence Burlington of $50
Park avenue. have returned from New
Haven, Conn. where they attended the
Yale Junior promenade.
Mrs. Robert Lincoln Lee. who lives
at the Plaza, gave n dinner there last
night Among her guests were DIR. and
Mrs. Louis Faugeres Bishop. Mr. and
Mrs. Robert r. Little, Mr.. and Mrs
Ransom George. DIR. and Mrs J. Her
bert Claiborne. Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Kenyon. Jr., and Mrs. Frederick John
son.
Mr and Mrs. Clinton NJ. Hall, who
have been at the Ritz-Carlton for some
time. have gone to Boston for visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. r. Guggenheim OF
the Plaza have gone TO South America.
They will visit Mr.. Augustln Edwards.
the Chilean Minister to Great Britain.
Mr.. and Mrs Walter j. Salmon Of
3s West Forty-ninth street started yes
tcrday for Palm Reach.
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF
LONDON TO GIVE DANCE
Mr.. Rodman Wananaker I'd
Starts for NeU York.

Special Gable to THE New York HERALD.
Copyright. 1929. by THE NEW YORK HERALD
New York Herald Bureau.
London. Feb. 1s.
The American society Of London
headed by Ambassador and Mrs Har-
vey will give a dance at the Belgravia
Hotel tomorrow night.
Under the auspices of the Ameecan
Legion dedication exercises will be held
the same night At the Victoria Hotel,
prominent as American headquarters
during the war FOR the unveiling Of a
tablet placed in the lobby in honor of
the American soldiers. The tablet will
be unveiled by a prominent British Gem
eral. The festivities will be conducted
by Col solbert head OF the London Post
OF the American Legion. who has
planned a gala night with prominent
British persons as guests of honor.
Mr.. Rodman Wanamaker cd after re-
turning from n visit to Lelcestershire
started for New York on board the
Olympic on Wednesday.
Mr.. Frederic ID. X. LeClercq, a secre-
tary of the American Embassy, has re-
turned from a visit to Cannes.
Mr. j. Paul Jones, consulting engineer
for the American Graves Registration
Bureau in Europe. has returned to Paris
after a two weeks visit TO London and
Manchester.
Among those who have arrived from
the Continent are Col. L. d. Luce and
Mrs. Luce. Mr.. Frederick Latham, Mr..
Walter Wagner. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
IL Meehan. Mr.. Howard Sproglc. Mr..
John S. Lull and Mr.. George Gibson.
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
'Fandangos and
Fiesta When the
Women Run Hotel
Announce Novel Arrange
~ments for Operating the
BiltmOre on Feb. 20.

Under the specific designation Of
Fiesta and Fandangos" and a general
sub-caption of carnival celebration
of serious endeavor" Miss Ruth v.
Twombly and her associates in the
management of the Society for the
Prevention and Relief of tuberculosis
have completed the complicated scheme
of operating the Biltmore Hotel for the
twenty-four hours of February 20 for
the benefit of the association In it's fight
against the white plague.
More than 1000 associates of Miss
Twombly, Mrs. James A. Burden and
Miss Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr.. are re-
ceiving their final instructions in the
details of the positions they will have
to I'LL. Their real work is to start
with the opening of the restaurants
for breakfast a. 6 o'clock III the morn
ing.
Here is the program the committee
has blocked out for the day and night:
IL A. NJ. to the ciose-Boutique> >ba-
zaar in the Cascades, with exhibitions
by merchants.
IL 80 A. M.@Musicale in the Cas-
cades by Miss :Lucrezia Bori and Ar
turo Bonucci. Tickets 81.
p. M. - Musicale and luncheon.
fountain room. Tickets s5.
2 to 5 80 p. M. and to the close-A
bridge tournament with boxes in the
Metropolitan Opera House as prizes.
Tables seating four $40.
to p. NJ. and s to midnight-Cir-
Gus In the music room under the direc-
tion of Herbert Evans of Luna Park.
Tickets SO cents.
2:3O p. M-"Sensationa fashion dis
play under the direction of Alexander
Leftwich. Tickets IS.
to o'clock-Three the dansants
in the supper room, main restaurant
and tea room, with leading women of
society as patronesses.~ Cover charges
81.
Z 80 to 10 80 P. M.-Cabaret dinner
in the Cascades with performers from
the Ziegfeld Follies and augmented or
chestra. Price $40 for table d'hote din
ner.
1880 to 10 :3O-Dinner dance in the
supper room. Cover charge S1.50.
IL o'clock to the close-Supper dance
in the supper room. Cover charge 81.
II o'clock to the close-Two midnight
supper frolics with Keith stars per-
forming under the direction of II. +.
Albee; one in the Cascades at $40. III
cluding supper and no cover charge. and
the other in the main restaurant with
cover charge of 81.
While these various -"Kandangos' are
in progressive action the army or fem-
inine aids of the committee will be per-
forming the mutifarious functions in
volved in the operation of great hotel.
They will be clerks at the booking
desk They will be bellhops; will run
the elevators and the news. candy and
flower stands. They will be mattresses
in the restaurants and some OF them
will be manicures in the barber shop,
but the shaving will be left to the
established functionaries in that de-
partment of the hotel The bars and the
baggage rustlers will be among the very
few of the hotels regular force who Will
hold over while Miss Twombly and her
helpers will run the Biltmore on Feb
ruarv 90
The New York herald., 1922-02-13
First Performance of Play Given in Aid of Associations
Charities Tomorrow at Plaza.

This will be busy day for the ticket
sellers for "En Casserole" the Spence
School Alumne play to be given to-mor-
row and Wednesday at the Plaza. While
the advance sale already has been be-
yond the expectations of the committee,
the fact that the production is TO abound
in original features, all Of them exceed
ingly well executed. has become pretty
generally known among the friends Of
the alumne, with the result that none
will want to miss the performance.
So IL comes that those in charge of
the tickets-Mrs. William b. Symmes,
Mrs. Herbert C. Sierck and Mrs. John
l.. Tonnele--are anticipating 4 record
eleventh hour rush.
Final touches will be put on EN- Cas-
serole" at rehearsals to-day. The di-
rector has been insisting all along on
nothing less than a letter perfect"
performance, one that will set new
high standard for amateur theatrical
The New York herald., 1922-02-13

aspirations. and the cast has been work
ing zealously to set the new high mark
A special number tonight will be
valentine feature entitled Hearts Are
Trumps." in which forty girls will inn
personate the cards in the pack. Miss
Constance Banks will sing a song called
Jack and Jill'' and Mrs 5. Theodore
Hodgman, Jr.. will represent the Spirit
of the Waltz"
Among other young women who VIII
represent Song" Dance" and "Ro-
nance" and who will appear in other
features are Miss Nina G. Chatillon,
who will be seen as ballet girl Misses
Katherine Bliss, Mary Field. Edyth
McCoon, Elsie Morrill,. Peggy Stout
Kate Darlington, Mrs. Lawrence Doyle,
the Misses Alice Bowker, Elizabeth
SturgiA, Genevieve Cawthra. Frances
Drury, Margaret AcMillin, Isabel NC
Millin, Natalie Hanna. Ada Heinze,
Mary Burchell, Wilma Kohler. Marie
Jenney and Grace Talbot.