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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
BRITISH NAVY FORCES AHEAD

At time when friendly protestations are being exchanged between the American and British governments, the discovery IS made by the Senate naval committee that the Brit ish have progressed so far with the postwar modernization of their navy that they can now outshoot1 and outsteam American bat tleships. Our naval officers are said to be greatly concerned over the disparity which exists and the fact that nothing has been done to place the American navy on parity with that of Great Britain.
 The British improvements, 1t is said, give the main fleet firing range of 30,0oO yards, while the best Americans can do is about 10000 yards, with the exception of five battleships, the Tennessee, California, Mary land. Colorado and West Virginia. The British shops have been equipped with what is called sblister' anti-torpedo protection and their decks have been armored against high-angle fire and airplane bombs. It is estimated that similar improvements for the American navy would cost approximate ly 60,0O0,0 1000, big item when the world powers are supposed to be curtailing their naval expenditures. It may possibly alarm some Americans to learn that if the Ameri- can fleet were to oppose the British main fleet in action most of our ships would have to steam five miles under heavy gunfire be- fore they could bring their own guns to bear. Nowadays that would mean destruction. The deduction to be drawn from these com parisons between the two largest navies in the world and the fact that the scrapping program provided for ill the naval treaty, has not been carried out is that the race in competitive armament will go on and the nations will continue to be burdened with enormous expenditures for that purpose until all get together and agree to stop such folly. In the meantime, it is apparent that Great Britain has no intention of giving up her naval supremacy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
BILL, TO TAX IMMIGRANTS

It is proposed to introduce bill in the House which would levy tax of fifty dol lars per capita on all immigrants entering the United States. It is said that this would yield an annual revenue of approximately s21o .oO0 900, which could be used to keep undesirable immigrants from being smuggled into the country and prevent the illegal inn portation of whisky and drugs. Regardless of the feasibility of applying funds derived from taxing immigrants to such purpose as enforcing the prohibition law, the propo- sal is open to objection. In the first place, a tax of fifty dollars for admission to the United States would be unjust to poor immi- grants who are in other respects well quail fled to become citizens and might keep out good material for citizenship. In Europe, fifty dollars is considerable sum, particu- larly at this time when international ex- Change is demoralized. 1t often takes years for immigrants to accumulate enough money to make the trip to America and have enough left after paying their expenses to get dart in their new home. To assess them fifty dollars would in many cases take away large part of their savings and make It all the more difficult for them to gain foothold in America, without becoming burden on the country or their relatives and friends. The test of an immigrants fitness to enter the United States should be intelligence, moral character, so far as that can be determined freedom from bolshevis- tic tendencies and his general qualifications for making good citizen. The amount of money he has is minor consideration, al- though there are regulations already in force to bar paupers. The criminal element is usually well supplied with money and a tax of fifty dollars, or even more, would not deter highly undesirable class of immi- xraf,ts from coming to the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
WOULD THEY TRUST HIM?

From the Lowell Courier Citizen.
 Those Suffolk jurymen who ac- quitted Ponzi of all the charges brought by this commonwealth did not have it in their power to annul his conviction and sentence at the hands of the federal government, but one stands in some awe of their readiness. Are we to suppose that these twelve good men and true would welcome the chance to en- trust their little savings to Charles Ponzi tomorrow, in the expectation that by some wizardry he would re- turn to them fifty per cent in ninety days?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
The Farmers Cue

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 There is one lesson which the farmer understands that he must learn, and which apparently he means to learn and that is that he cannot prosper as a producer alone. He must be mer- chant and promoter as well. The farmer can produce, but he cannot sell to advantage. He has got to learn salesmanship, and mass sales manship at that, We may add, too, that we think the farmer is going to get on a new basis, not as states man, but as business man. That is tosay, his own brains and initiative applied directly to his problems, rather than the laws which Congress writes, will save him and put him on a solid foundation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
A MARK OF THRIFT

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 We saw a we0 set up newsboy yesterday who kept his money in an old-fashioned pocketbook with teeth in it, and we said: "Son, you are going to be a success in this life. Nothing can keep you down. If you won't believe it, remember the next time you see a, miodle-aged man with biting pocketbook like that to ascertain the facts about him. You will find that he is economically secure Personally we know of no exception to. the rule.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
A MAN OF CAPACITY

From the Boston Transcript.
 A Lancashire cotton spinner left home and family to make his for tune in America. Two months after wards his wife was standing in the garden when neighbor shouted over the fence, Have you heard the news? Americas gone dry"
 The absent mans wife took it calmly. "I'm no surprised" she re piled. T allus said I'd give our Joe about a month an there's not a country in the world that he couldn't drink dry Y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
THE RIGHT OF APPEAL

While there is public demand for stricter law enforcement, yet there is no public de- sire to bring about such enforcement through any curtailment of constitutional rights. For example, the right of appeal is one that is not readily diminished. In the hands of a fairninded man an arbitrary authority would be no hardship; in the hands of an unreasonable man such an authority would very easily become tyranny. Furthermore, there is considerable precedent, if appeal to a court were denied, for plaintiff to carry his case into court anyhow. This is a question which the city commission should seriously consider and inquire into before indorsing any ordinance suspected of not being based on sound law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
Expansion of Creamery Industry

From the Lafayette Sun.
 In 1915 the first creamery was es- tablished in Alabama. Today there are 27 of these money-making in- stitutions, also 50 cream shipping stations. This year Alabama will make 5,000,000 pounds of butter for the market. Alabama has wonder ful future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
AN HONEST MANI

From Everybody's Magazine.
 A young lawyer wrote asprorni- nent practitioner in Dallas, Tex, asking what chance there was for a man of his stamp in that section. He said:
 q am republican in politics, and am an honest man"
 ''If you are an honest lawyer you uill have no competition .icre, and as you are a republican the galns laws will protect you"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
Misleading Propaganda

From the Florence Times
 One difficulty the average citizen encounters in arriving at a proper and safe conception of public affairs is that he cannot distinguish be- tween the paid propaganda in the newspapers and really correct news. One illustration is all the rot sent out about Muscle Shoals by people having large interests at stake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
WHAT INCREASES FOOD BILLS

From the New York Herald.
 It is not the crop-raising cost, it is the distributing cost-railroad freight bills, warehouse charges, trucking charges, other handling charges, with wages and profits add ed in all along the line-this is what makes the food bills of the American people. It is a problem which awaits the attention of the country. It will not be long in coming up for solu- tion after the American farmer has the benefit of his primary co-opera- tive distributing agency to begin the work. And that is not far off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
A Republican Minority

From the Carbon Hill Journal.
 Speaking of self-determination and the right of minorities, how about those three lone republicans who will occcpy seats in the house at the forthcoming injecting of ths Alabama legislature?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25

poor quality. Teachers and all sincere leaders of men are more stringently bound by the code under which they teach than the average of men. Society cannot endure under leaders who are not examplars in their own persons of what thev renresent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
Americanism First
from the Tuscaloosa News.

From the Tuscaloosa News.
 Some of the business reviewers are modifying their former prophe- cies of abounding prosperity for next year. They do not see how it will be possible for industry to reach big production with the labor supply as it is-available workmen nearly all employed and no more in sight. This view is being used widely as an argument for letting down the immi- grafton bars again. But it is not likely to succeed. The general pub lie remains cold to proposals for fresh influx of aliens. Americans all like prosperity, but most Amer jeans do not want it at the cost of taking a new lot ofAraw material again into our human melting pot before the raw material already here is melted. A moderate degree of material prosperity seems, prefer able to hectic booms, if booms have to be paid for by sacrificing Ameri- canism to alienism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
IN THE WRONG PARTY

From the C0IumDla State.
 At meeting of unionists in Lon don Lady Astor, member of the House of Commons, was howled down because she pleaded for bet ter living conditions for working mems families and better pay for teachers. Some of her hearers, members of her party, shouted, "Go back to Virginia! Lady As tor has long seemed out of place in political party that is not liberal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
A Cotton Producing County

From the Abbeville Herald.
 Henry county ranks tenth among the cotton producing counties of Alabama, notwithstanding the fact that she stands next to last in point of area. Up to December 1 there had been 1S,684 bales of cotton ginned in this county from the crop of 1922-more than any other coun- ty that touches us. Barbour ginned 15,900, Houston 17,704 and Dale
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
BEHIND THE TIMES
,a Sauannah NeWs.

From the Savannah News.
 A Missouri Baptist college has fired pro- lessor who doesn't believe In the devil. After all the things from which to reason out the certitude of the existence of his Malign Majesty there might be some justifi- cation for feeling that the professor wasn't quite up to what's going on these days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
Alabama Press
Starting the Year Right

From the Sand Mountain Banner. Here are two short but sensible New Year resolutions: Resolve to subscribe to your hometown paper and resolve to tell your borrowing neighbor to do the same thing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
SERVICE IS GOOD BUSINESS

The idea is percolating through concerns serving the public that the public is not an orange to be squeezed and the pulp thrown be nourished and encouraged. They have come to sense the value of service in the increased patronage which good service at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25

A law designed to break up Reno's di- vorce industry failed to pass and Reno will continue to be blot on the map, or haven of refuge, according to the point of view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25

Additional police protection will be given Birmingham citizens in the shopping dis tret. The call for help is coming from the suburbs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25

The fact that Russia is not member does not reflect particularly on the League of Nations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
DAWN

H. W. Stewart, in Poetry. Mountains and hills in silhouette are drawn Blue, on the green horizons blanching rim A dog barks and a cock crows, far and dim Waking the sleeping town to stretch and
 yawn. A blue gum, delicate as lace on lawn, Across brightening cloud has thrust a limb, And from the pine trees spire two magpies
 hymn The everlasting miracle of dawn. For brief space the brazen skies are best With loveliness and beauty on the hills Is perishable and plaintive as song, Heart faint and far away; and manifest Healing is in my heart for bodily ills That make the sleepless night an aeon long.
 THE GRAY NUN By Julia Clopton Cresap
 In the sunset afterglow,
 Pacing slowly to and fro,
 Oft see the gray nun go.
 There is quiet in her tread,
 A something in her bendedShead,
 A wistfulness of dreams long dead
 And never of the tender breeze,
 And never of the lovely trees
 She thinks, as tho afraid of these. 0, nun, you, too, who know the pain Of things too perfect to attain,s Fear beauty, lest you dream again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-12-25
REGENT VERSE
BETWEEN A DAY AND A DAY

c. T. Davis, in the Arkansas Gazette. There is time and time for grief,
 Time enough for sorrow When the dawn is on the sky;
 When it is tomorrow. Love is but a candle flame
 Pickering, uncertain Yet the warm night hides us two
 Behind it's sable curtain. Dusk and little singing winds,
 Stars and stiffness blended; Beloved, what is time to us
 Night not yet is ended.
 IN EXILE By Elizabeth Scollard. I may not walk in Kirkland Now that the snow lies deep And the white winds of winter Have sung the flowers to sleep. I may not walk in Kirkland Now that the sleigh bells ring, And summers feathered songsters nave loHg since ceased to sing. I may not walk in Kirkland
 Now calm cold stars look down Across vast crystal spaces
 And over Kirkland town. But may dream of Kirkland, And dreaming, I may see Her burning, brimming beauty Through eyes of memory.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-07
FRAME DIVORCE,
MARRIAGE LAWS
National Women's Clubs
Would Enact Drastic
Regulations

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.---Prepa
ratious ot n bill establishing national
marriage and divorce regulations
for Introduction In the next congress
was announced today by tie general
federation Of wumen's clubs. which
has authorized Mrs Edward Frank
lin white. deputy attorney geneE Eal
of Indiana, TO draft the bili and n
resolution amending the constitution
of the United States II such a Csurse
is necessary 10 make possible n fed
eral marital law
Provisions ~ the bill would make
marriage more difficult tho an
nouncement stated, and would allow
divorce on one OF only five grounds
enumerated as follows:
lnfdellty. incura hle Insanity. aban-
donmcnt Tor one year, cruel aud
inhuman treatment. or conviction
OF an infamous crime once grant
ed. such a divorce would be valid
in every state but neither party Il
q divorce would be permitted tn re-
marry until ono year after the inter-
loCutory decree was granted. The
bill would provide also that applica b
uons for marriage licences be post
ed two weeks prior to the ceremony,
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-07
FLAPPER DEFINED
BY GIRL STUDENTS
Various Tart and Sarcas.
tic Answers Received to
QUESTIONABLE

NEW YORK, Nov. e.--Lexico-
graphers seeking to obtain the Tow
down" on the genus flapper can get
a lot Qf help from n questionable
Just completed by the girl students
OF Adelphi college, Brooklyn.
The flapper, the Adelphl girls
made known in making public the
QUESTIONABLE today, is not Yet OBJ
solete. although probably not as pre-
valet as formerly. In their classi .
fication OF their ultra-modern sis
ters. the students handed their
topic with the utmost frankness and
the concensus OF their findings could
not by any means be called COM
pllmentary.
Summarized. the girls of Adelphl
regard the flapper as "fllrtatious,
brainless, but harmless"
A few Of the conditions follow:
"A girl between the ages OF Is and
81 who Is Tapping betwesn girl
hood and womanhood.."
"A frivolous girl pursuing an un-
analyzed concept OF pleasure"
a youthful intellectual nonenity."
"A flippant, flighty, forward.
facetious faker. primarily interested
in clothes, boys and herself"
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-07
Resume Operations of
Mine Wrecked in Riot

MARION. Ill, Nov. cooperation
OF the Lester strip mine, which has
been closed since the Herrin min,
killings last June. will be resumed
soon by the Caloric and Bradbury
and Scullin Coal companies. II was
announced today. The companies
have purchased the mine and are
repairing the machinery wrecked In
the riots.
Attorneys for the state announced
this afternoon that everything was
In readiness for the beginning
Wednesday OF the trials OF the men
indicted in connection with the
deaths OF 20 persons in the disor-
dars
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-07
STORES REMAIN
OPEN SATURDAY
Armistice Day Closing
Would Prove Great
Sacrifice

Announcement was made last
night at the offices OF the Merchants
association Ia the New Wright
building that Tulsa stores would not
close on Armistice day. November
IL, 1922 The decision was partly
due to the fact that the day has
never been made "a national legal
holiday and so is not Included on
the organizations regular holiday
closing schedule, and partly TO the
fact that Armistice day falls on sat
urday this year and thus closing
would mean the greatest possible
sacrifice both on the part OF the
merchants and the customers. many
OF whom would come In from the
surrounding territory to trade, not
knowing that tho stores would be
closed
Windows and store fronts will be
decorated and tho merchants will
be glad to cooperate with the
American Legion and other Organi-
zatlons to mako the days program a
success, but with the possible cx-
ception of very few OF the sms ler
stores who had not yet algnlfied
their intentions. all retail esta blish-
ments will be open for business as
usual.
The only kind OF business which In
closing for the day In most cities Is
the banks. Tulsa banks will be
closed the entire day. In a few
scattered instances among the
smaller towns OF Kansas, Oklahoma.
Missouri and Texas. retail stores
will hold open until late Friday
night and then observe Saturday as
a holiday. In at laest one instance
an Oklahoma town the stores will
remain closed until noon and will
then open for the balance OF the day
as usual.
In oklahoma city and In Ponca
city all business will pause for two
minutes at IL o'clock and the rest OF
the day business will go on as usual
This arrangement was made at the
request OF the American Legion
committee having charge of the
days program.
According to w. A. Rayson, sec
retary OF the Tulsa association, the
merchants have not been asked to
cooperate In the days program In
any way except the decoration of
their stores and the attendance, II
possible, at the legion program at
convention hall. and 1t was not an
t!clpated that stores would be asked
TO close for tho day. and this vote
was taken and the announcement
made simply In order that the pub
lie might know that tho stores would
be open as usual
Thanksgiving will be observed aa
provided in the regular closing
schedule OF the association by all
day closing.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-07

LONDON. Nov. 6.--An unsuccess-
ful attempt was made by members
Of tho Italian fascist at Turin to
capture the train bearing Count
Sfor2a 20 Rome and to seize the
count, said a Central News dispatch
from Rome this afternoon. Count
Sforga was Italian ambassa dor 10
France when the fascist obtained
control OF the Italian government hut
since then no is reported to have
resigned.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-07
SECURE SIS PER CENT
Water Board Reports Progress In
Securing Right of Way for the
Entire spa aylnav Project

Approximately 65 per cent OF the
right of way for the Spavlnaw con-
duit, dam and lake has been OBJ
tained. according TO Water Commits
sioner A, j. Rudd. who. with the
other members OF tho water board
spent the latter part OF last week
at the Tulsa Ozark club to make
settlements with land owners with.
out resorting TO condemnation pro-
ceedings.
The board probably will spend an
other weekend on the Spavinaw. he
said, as there Is yet some acreage TO
be purchased from owners who are
unable 60 meet with the board IN
Tulsa. All OF Mondays session OF
the board was occupied with the Sc
curing of needed land for the right
OF way.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-07
Board of Appraisers
Apards Winterringer
About $3.50 an Acre

For the eight and one half
acres In the Wlnterringer tract
north OF the city, the board OF ap-
praisers appointed by the court
fixed $4,000 as the amount that
should be paid by the city. In
recent story in The World II was
stated the appraisers agreed on
approximately S35 an acre. This
was typographical error. the
missing cipher having escaped de-
tectlon until after the edition was
printed. II should have read zap
proximately $3.50 an acre"
The Worlds story was copied
by the evening organ. which used
s3S as the authentic figure.
Dan J. Davisaon, realtor and
member OF the appraising COM
mittee. said Monday he has been
approached by several psrsors
who declared s35 an acre was too
small an amount for tho tract, and
asked that the error be corrected.
This is the tract on which the
city's high pressure water rcser-
voir Is being constructed.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-07
LiIiard, Heiny LdWyer.
Wilson'S Counsel Too

Special 20 the World
OKLAHOMA CITY. Nov. 6.--Ross
Lillard. attorney for Tom Helny IN
tho election fraud cases, and against
whom disbarment proceedings were
filed soine time ago, appears as at
torney for X. II. Wilson, state super
!a.caaGa; os public instruction. ~
the suit filed here November ., aSk
Ing for 100000 for alleged injury
TO his reputation and business stand
Ing In the publication OF an editorial
on October 10. The editorial lu
question suggested the possibility oi
wilson having as much TO cover up
as Governor Robertson. which VIII
son claims liz libel.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-07
COLORADO DIGS OUT
Wyoming Also Recovering From
Affects of IuilIard Which swept
Blg Part Of West Iato saturday

DENVER. Nov.6. -- "Dlggug
out" activities prevailed today I'm
southern Colorado ana nearly the
entire state OF wyoming following
snow. slect, hail. rain aud blizzard
conditions that srlppcd section of
the Rocky mountain region for
nearly IS hours The storm had
abated early today.
AZ least nine lives arc known ~
have been lost as a result OF the
winters first severe storm, several
are injured, much livestock wrs
Killed and the property damage will
run into the hundreds OF thousands
W dollars. Trauscontinrntal wire
communication has been seriously
curtailed ana telegraph companies
report hundreds Of poles down.
a binding storm near Laramie.
wyoming, cuused n crash between
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-07

a Union Pacific passenger train and
q freight that TOOK the lives OF two
members OF the train crews but no
passengers were reported injured,
Ia Wyoming high winds accom-
panied heavy snowfall. highways
aud railroad traffic being at a
staudstill because of tho huge drifts.
Snow was reported a. far east as
the Kansas line.