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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
But Things Have Changed
(KnoxviIle Sentirell

NfNffONVFIIt oeNtIIGIJ
 Galli-Curci says the Chicago opera magnates treated her like cook. Just what does she mean by that? Cooks were not always treated like queens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
In Conference

There was tired business man, q member of that busy clan that shields itself from prying eye behind that good old alibi-
 "In Conference" He rested in his office chair and ducked lot of toll and care and smoked cigars in sweet content, and thus his busy hours were spent
 "In Conference" Came anxious strangers by the score to camp outside his office door, and angrily they went their way, for he was busy all the day
 "In Conference. And so he died, and at the gate an angel bade him stand and wait and said to him with drowning brow, "St. Peters mighty busy now
 "In Conference"
 -Horatius
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
THE ALABAMA PRESS
Government Red Tape

(Sumter County JournaD
 While money of all kinds and from all sources is of great bene- fit in the construction of hard sur faced roads, government aid money is enmeshed in a maze of red tape. and when this money is used it costs the state or county in the long run just about as much as if the state built-the road unaided. Federal aid is best used on road requiring great number of bridges.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29

About the time German cabinet gets on the job new crisis develops that demands a new cabinet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29

Half the world may not know how the other half lives, but more than half the bootleggers know how their customers die.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29

A big jail delivery is reported from a Western state. Still, fewer folks break jail than stay out on technicali- ties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29

The king of Greece is one of several monarchs who cannot say in advance just how long a vacation he will take.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29

Folks who don't know just how to start the New Year right might in- quire of their Christmas-present cred itors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29

Another exchange complains of the quiet of the White House. And with four dogs, too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29

Advice to policemen: Read the new traffic code. It will help.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29

haps he doesn't like to commit himself just now on the national question of white or dark meat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29

President Coolidge has refused all gifts of Thanksgiving turkeys. Per
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29

The difference between the average photograph and the original is about six dollars worth of flattery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
Persiflage

Sign in car: "Do not put head or arms out open windows" Why, l ask you, do they confine the ruling to open windows?
 Diogenes probably never wasted much time listening to duck-hunting stories.
 The modern butterfly may have her faults, but no one can accuse. her of putting all her income on her back.
 Before moved to town I thought that chickens never ate anything after dark.-G. c. R.
 Doc Cook made tactical blunder
 When he went south.
 Mud-pies-Mud-P d-Packs-Pie-faces
 ''Jane and Sarah are such religious girls"
 '1s one as much so as the other?"
 "Well, Jane has the worse case, but Sarah complains of it more."
 OAu NdiI HIdnaln was humorous but profane driver of mules for a Michigan tannery. One day, after he had been picturesquely and intently overwhelming balky team with oaths and objurgations, spectator asked him: "Walt, do you own those mules?" m
 Old Walt spat reflectively and then replied "No, but they are in my cuss-tody."
 It's easier to be thankful before a full meal than afterwards. That's the reason grace comes first.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29

There is one reckoning feature in the pastime of picking all-star football teams. In the constitution and by- laws of the United States there is nothing to restrain you from rolling your own. '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
THE AGE-HERALD
BRICK l. THoMPsoN. PRESIDENT

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala, post office as second-class matter under act of Con. gress, March 6. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29

Doc Cook made a tactical blunder When he went south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29


 Considering how high rents are and how many people complain about high rents, it's a wonder more people wouldn't go into the renting business. '"Spinks says he likes to have the girls crazy about him-it gives their kisses such a nutty flavor. ."-F. o. B. "The modern home has become merely a place to sleep" says the Rev. Caleb Stetson, whose neighbors do not own a player piano.
 Buyers to Hear of Europe" Where. have they been all these years?
 Problem in Eugenics If radio fan marries a ma-jong fan, what will the harvest be?-D. D. s.
 o, Frabjous Day! When Sabbath's pearly dawning
 gleams I'll haste me from my couch of
 dreams
 With cheerful speed
 So may read About the all-star football teams.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29

Mud-pies-M -Packs-Pie-faces.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29

It's easier to be thankful before a full meal than afterwards. That's the reason grace comes first.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-29
O. Frabious Day!

With cheerful speed
 So l may read About the all-star football teams.
Evening star., 1923-10-21
Closed Cor Most Economical
For AU Year, Declares Dealer
Types on Display at Contention Hall
Sure to Give Public Ne,o Insight
Into Motor Buying.

his transportation than he should
have.
With the advent Of the practical
closed car. the machine that offers
crease in operating costs or sacri-
flee in performance, the motorist has
at his disposal a machine which he
can. and does. use all year round.
His transportation expenses figure
less in the long run.
Garage Habit Expensive.
Experience shows that the most
expensive kind of motoring is the
garage habit, where the car owner
decides that for some reason or other
the car is unsuited to his particular
transportation demands and pays for
it's storage, its insurance, its depre-
citation and its licensing while pat
rontnging some other form OF trans
the fact that the motorist owns an
open car and finds so many occasions
where it is unsuited to his needs.
The purpose of the closed car is
all-year-round use, and this enables
the motorist to concentrate on one
clusion of all others. When he
comes to figure costs on a mileage
basis the saving is at once apparent.
Much has been done this year to
InslhO Slic StOsco CST even more Sult-
able for the Job, a fact which is
noted in the addition OF touring
equipment and the elimination of
troublesome features of an orna-
mental nature. Beauty is obtained
through striking lines and simplicity,
all of which will help the motorist
cut costs through cutting the rate of
depreciation.
Many of the closed jobs best
suited to the new demands for all
year-round motor transportation are
priced but very little higher than
the respective open models, but even
where the increased value of the
closed model necessitates an invest
ment of several hundred dollars more
than for the corresponding open
model the motorist can buy with as
surance that when he comes to sell,
or trade in. he will not be paying for
any misjudgments in his original Sc
lection.
The closed car is here to stay. be-
cause IL represents the automobile
not merely at it's best, but in its
most economical form.
Evening star., 1923-10-21
BLAMES AUTO GAS
FOR TUBERCULOSIS
FraternaI officer Alarmed at New
Danger to City Resi-
dents.

Automobiles are contributing to the
tubercular toll of the nation, accord
ing to w. A. Fraser, sovereign COM
mander of the Woodmen of the
World.
Carbon monoxide gas thrown off
by the exhausts of motor cars is an
insidious danger of city life, a force
which breeds consumption and kim
dred Ills" Mr.. Fraser declared, in an
address here on the work OF the
woodmen of the World War Memo
rial Hospital at San Antonio. TITS
ravages havel only recently come to
be appreciated. The deadly gas is
colorless, odorless, tasteless and in
visible. One does not necessarily
have to be an automobilist to suffer
from it as it corrupts the air of
narrow city streets where there is
heavy motor traffic.
Carbon n1onoxide poisoning pro-
duces headaches, lassitude, dizziness
and often, extreme nausea. Repeated
breathing of the gas results in
nervousness. irritability and lack of
energy, growing into anemia and
tubercuIar infection. Traffic officers,
bus drives and garage men are fire.
Quent- sufferers.
Its death-dealing propensities may
Evening star., 1923-10-21
GERMANY HAS ODD
AUTO EXHIBITION
Strange Models and Stranger
Prices Feature Event Staged
in Berlin.
By HIRAM X. MoDERwELL.

By Gable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright, 1923.
BERLIN, October 13.-The German
National Automobile Show. held at
Berlin. with its strange models and
stranger prices, was a sort of gesture
Of defiance by the German automobile
makers against fate.
Because Of political conditions and
the high cost of raw materials, they
did not expect to do much business
at this, first show, since 1921. They
held it to demonstrate to the world
that German industry Is still alive.
One typical cheap car" manufac-
tured in mass production" (twelve
cars a day., was priced at S2.400.
In general, the prices were three to
fou. times as high as year ago,
but the manufacturers are confident
that they will be busy when stable
times return. They expect to retain
their home markets through high
tariffs and hope to be able to corf-
pete well with other continental car
manufacturers.
Body Models Graceful.
The new body models exhibited at
the show are graceful In lines and
done In attractive coIors, mostly In
low tones. There are many curious
Evening star., 1923-10-21
BY WILLIAM ULLMAN.

Automobling in America is raising
the average level Of intelligence. ac-
cording to judges. educators. motor
are in a position to note the trend
toward a higher form of mentality
through their daily contact with the
automobilist.
In the opinion Of one police official
this condition is clearly demonstrated
by the fact that were il not for a
constant trend toward a higher type
of mentality among drivers the num-
ber OF traffic and highway accidents
would be overwhelming.
AS one educator puts it, the num-
ber Of adults who are able to make
even a pretense of swimming is rela-
lively small Yet there are at least
100000 adults in America who are
able to operate such a complicated
mechanism as a motor car.
1t is already recognized that until
one has driven car, or been priv
ileged to know intimately the de-
mands placed upon the driver OF a
motor vehicle, conceptions of dis
tance, speed, acceleration and de-
oped.
Develops Judgment.
Constant practice in steering. stop
ping, accelerating, turning, backing
and avoiding danger. develops a type
of judgment which could not be
gained in so short a time by any
other method.
Summing up the outstanding evi-
dences of the rising level of intelli
gence as given from time to time by
various educators, 1t is seen that:
O Approximately one-seventh of
the entire population of the country
has learned the high points about an
intricate mechanism which are neces-
sary for its proper operation.
CD An equal number of people
know, through experience, an elabo-
rate set of road rules. the drivers of
or be taught the fundamentals as
well as the details of the motor
vehicle law.
CD Sixty-three thousand, five hun
dred and sixty service stations and
repair shops are training thousands
workmen on wide variety of cars.
the most standardized type Of which
is not regarded as being completely
mastered by any one.
Helps TO Adjust Self.
t4) A tcompIexity of traffic reguia-
tions, in addition to the radical In
crease in the complications and de-
nanGS OF IraIIlc lISeII mas IOTCeQ the
millions who drive cars to learn to
adjust themselves at a moments no.
tice to varying conditions, customs,
laws and regulations.
CD Virtually one-haf the popula-
ton is benefting through the con-
venfence in travelling as offered by
the motor car. The exchange of
ideas. customs and points of view
has reached new height, due to the
popularity of the automobile. The
effect is recorded in the broadening
OF the average mans point Of view.
(6) More is learned about Americas
topography. geography, industry, GUS
toms and climate by means of the
automobile than Is taught by the
schools of the country.
Education I'm Mechanics.
(7) Motorists have been forced to
absorb the details of the mechanism
they operate, and many thousands of
people who are not naturally of a
mechanical turn Of mind are finding
Evening star., 1923-10-21

new models-among them car with
out running gear, using the old
Zeppelin type engine and consuming
enormous quantities of gas; a mo-
tored bicycle. provided with frail,
one-seat body; an airstream line car
scientifically designed to present the
minimum resistance to the air and
alleged to save 40 per cent on gas,
looking like some pink and blue
ante-diluvian monster, and a torpedo
like car with q motor geared direct
to the rear axle, thus eliminating
transmission parts. and alleged to
save power.
Several of the most important firms
In Germany were unable to appear
in the exhibit because of the Ruhr
occupation.
Evening star., 1923-10-21
Wise DriUer Can
Saue by Use OF
Other Cars Light

Frequently when driving along
, the streets at night, or on the
highways, the other fellows lights
are sufficiently strong to make the
use of your headlights superfiu-
Gus. Almost any night one can
see dozens of motorists crawling
along behind other cars with their
headlights wasted in the useless
work of illuminating the rear of
the cars ahead. When traffic Is
moving slowly the generator is
not giving its full output, and the
result Is that the battery suffers.
So If George" wants to use his
headlights and give you the bene-
AT of them there Is no reason
why you should not make the
most of the opportunity, and let
George do it.
Evening star., 1923-10-21

be better appreciated when one
knows that 1t is the same form of
gas that kills miners and persons
who start their automobiles in
closed garages. Nat Wills, the ia
nous comedian. met death from this
gas in 1917. This tragedy drew the
attention of medical science. Prior
to this time deaths of this nature
had been attributed to heart disease
or other causes.
Automobile experts are now work
ing on appliances to distribute this
gas more widely on it's leaving the
exhaust"
Evening star., 1923-10-21
BY RUDOLPH JOSE.
TChairman, Show Committee, Wash
fngton AutomOtive Trade
Aasnrioffnn

AssOCthtIOn.b
How the latest type of closed car
IS actually enabling car owners to
cut the cost Of motoring Is. in my
opinion, one OF the interesting
points In connection with the fourth
annual closed car show of the WASH
sngtcn automobile dealers.
That the type of car now on dis
play at Convention Hall is going to
place the automobile in a new. high
position IN the public's estimation
through making 1t cut the per mile
cost of transportation, is another
opinion I venture with much conf
dence.
The automobile is such a useful
article of transportation, and such
q distinct novelty to the world, that
it would be popular regardless of
cost, but those who are measuring
the value of the automobile in dol
lars and cents are anxious to see 1t
give moro service at less cost.
Hence the closed car. and in particu-
lar the practical closed job. so prev
hIent at the show.
Failed to Really Save.
For years the average motorfst
has been making the mistake Of be-
sieving that he was saving money
on transportation when he saved
money on the car. He would buy an
open car for the pleasant weather
and put 1t up for the winter. He
was saving money on his automo-
billing during periods Of winter
storage, but he was not saving money
on transportation.
A suitable car would have fur
nished transportation for his entire
family at less than what they spent
for street car, railroad and taxi fares.
The trouble was the absence OF q
suitable car. There were closed cars,
but they were transportation de
luxe. He could not afford the high
first cost, the excessive depreciation,
both real and fictitious. nor the high
operating costs. So he continued to
buy the open car, spending more for
Evening star., 1923-10-21
81 Billion Miles
Travelled a Year
By Automobiles

Thirteen million automobiles, reg
istered at an average of 1000 miles
Of travel per vehicle per year will
roll up a total of something like
$4,000, 100000 car miles per year.
Statistics show that only one mo-
tor vehicle in a thousand causes an
accident, and this, as an authority in
the insurance business observes,
means that there is but one fatality
caused for every 100000 miles of
travel.
Evening star., 1923-10-21
List of Cars and accessories
On Display IN d. c. AUTO Sho,U

With foyfour exhibitors occupying ftyve attractivey
decorated booths Convention Hail. the 1923 edition of the
of the Washington Automotve Trade Asso
citation opened its doors last night.
The following table gives the booth number firm make
of car and accessories display
PASSENGER CAR EXHIBITORS.
Stanley Horner
Emerson & Orme Buick
3 H. B. Leary jr. Observation-Disclosures
Lambert-Hudson Motors Co
Neumeyer Motor Co. Hudson-Esscx
District Oakland Co. Oakland
go Trew Motor Co. REQ
Odsmobie Sales Co. Oldsmoble
Minker Motor Co. Columbia-Liberty
10 National Service and Supply Co. Rolls Royce-Rick
enbacker
II Luttrell Chevrolet Sales Co. Chevrolet
Barry Pate Motor Co.
Ourisnan Chevrolet Motor Co.
Is District Motors Co. Moon
IA Foss Hughes Co. Pierce-Arrow
15-22 O'ConnelC Clark Motor Co. kssel
10 P. F. Tippett Elcar
17-A Sterrett & Fleming Hupmobie-Jordan
Is Peerless Motor Co. Peerless
20 Wayne Smith & Co. Gardner
ii Motor Sales Co. Stutz
q Ungerer Motor Co. Veie
25-62 Washington Cadillac Co. Cadillac
T. w. Barrett
26 Warrington Motor Car Co. Ceve1and-Chandler
u Potomac Sales Stephens
Is Franklin Motor Car Co. Franklin
% P-W Motors Packard
80 Ford-Llncoln
81 Harper Motor Co. Star-Durant
s. Senl1tes Motor Co. Dodge
SO George c. Rice Auto Co. Flint-Steatns
81 Washngton-Virgnia Motors Inc. Paige-Jewett
3SA Washington Westcott Co. Westcott
38 Acme Auto Top Co.
80 T. " T. Motors Corporation Marmon
So Washington Flint Co. Locomobile-Flint
IS Black and White Taxi Co. Taxicabs
Evening star., 1923-11-13
SMALL PAY RAISE
FOR A,573 IN D. c.
Bulk of Federal Employees, by
Redistribution, Advanced
2.6 Per Cent.

The great bulk Of government en-
ployes in the District of Columbia
covered by Observation-Disclosures 34,573
in the clerical. administrative and
fiscal service-are to receive onlv $46
a year as an average increase over
their present salaries Uncluding the
$24o bonus) as a result Of reclassi-
fication. This Is an increase of only
2.6 per cent over their present base
pay plus the bonus. 1t brings the
average salary for this service up
from sl14s to $l.7sS.
Figures Including d. c.
Bulking all Of the 54,5ss employees
Of the federal and District govern
mene In the National Capital to whom
reclassifcation applies. the average
increase Is $s7-from the present av-
erage of base pay plus the bonus.
31.S74 to 31.741, or an increase of 4
per cent.
The $3.50 employees in the custodial
service receive an average annual in
crease of only $A over the base pay
plus the bonus, bringing the average
salary for this service UP to $1.o24.
The 2.543 employees In the subprofes-
sional service draw an average increase
Of $50 a year. which brings their aver
age pay UP to $1.605.
There are only two services that get
substantial increases-the professional
and scientific. which has an average
increase Of $22S. bringing the average
salary up to $3.282. and the clerical
mechanical service, {149 increase, max
ing the average salary 1886.
Discrepancies Explained.
The discrepancy between the average
increase of $4e for the clerical force.
s44 for the custodial service, $67 for
all the employees and 1925 for the pro-
fessional service is explained by the
personnel classification board this way:
The big bulk of government employees
In the lower grades had been getting
the $40 bonus. which is now absorbed,
and many of them in Offices supported
by lump.sum appropriations had al
ready had their salaries brought UP. so
that they have been reclassified prac-
tically for several years. In the pro-
fessional and scientific services, the
board says, the bonus was not re-
ceived by the big percentage Of en-
ployeS because 1t applied only upon
salaries up to $2,500.
A table showing how reclassification
appraisals of salaries apply relatively
in the different services is printed on
page IL Of The Star today.
Evening star., 1923-11-13
P0|NCARE UPHELD
| IN 379-TO-165 VOTE
Deputies Vote Confidence on
Reopening of Chamber.
Quizzing Expected.
BY the Associa ted Press

By the Associa ted Press
PARIS, November 13-The French
chamber of deputies today passed a
vote of confidence in the Poincare
government by vote of 37s to 1e5.
After four months recess the chamber
OF deputies reconvened today. The
Poincare cabinet, it was thought. would
De faced with some forty interpretations
dealing with foreign and internal pol
icies.
Altnough no official announcement
mas been made to that effect, the pre-
.nier was expected to refuse to discuss
any interpretations, whether dealing
with internal or foreign affairs. and re.
quest that such matters be post
poned indefinitely
Ihe government will contend that
IN the face of the present troubled
problems of reparations and inter-
aiiled military control in Germany,
tnls IS no time for discussion of such
question in the French chamber.
whether NJ. Poincare will make an
official declaration was not known, but
majority OF the deputies were of the
opinion that he will not do SO, while
others are inclined to think he will
make short one.
Interpretations emanatine from CO.
ise anu communist quarters on the
funr question are certain to produce
q large volume of noise, but no one
among the hundreds of deputies oir-
culating in the chamber Hobbies yes
terday afternoon-not even the inter-
peiiators Observation-Disclosures the
opinion that there was the slightest
chance of placing the government in
danger.
The socialists virtually admit that
the chamber will overruIe their de-
mand for an immediate discussion,
and they will concentrate their at.
tack on the cabinet when the question
OF supplementary credits for the
1874 budget comes up.
1924 Budget Mt Issue.
The three most important questions
before parliament are first, supple
mentary credits for the 1924 budget,
which are already practically voted
on the 1923 figures; second, social
insurance and pensions. and, third.
reform of the electoral laws. It Is the
governments intention to leave the
chamber absolutely free in fixing the
order OF discussion on these Ques-
tions, but expressing the wish, with
out making it a question of confidence,
that the 1924 budget be taken up first.
The bulk of the work of the bud
get was gone through last June, and
the two chambers will be able to dis
pose of the additional credits in a
short time and definitely pass the fig
ures through without delay.