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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
Bostonian Discusses Personality Ofa Great
 Artist At Luncheon

An interesting visitor of the week, passing through Birmingham en route to Boston, his home. was Charles W. Spalding, representing one of the largest artist managing firms in America. Knowing that Birmingham Is to be honored by an engagement of the celebrated com poser r-pianist, George Rachmaninoff, during tho winter, 8 guest at a small luncheon with MT. Spalding, as honoree Friday, asked him & num- Der of questions about the illustrious pianist.
 There are several Rachmaninoffs. The man and the host" he said. He Is as delightful, as simple in his hospitality, as engaging in his man. ner and conversation as anyone well could be; the virtuoso, who makes of his piano an instrument that whisp- CTS like an Aeolian harp or thunders like the tempest, and the composer of music, which is sometimes of a rather light and brilliant kind, but oftener powerful, melodious, sombre, or highly romantic like his early tone- poem, The Cliff or profoundly medi- tative and melancholy, like his sym DnOnlC Are you familiar with it," he con- tinued. Its work, inspired by the celebrated picture of Bocklin, which was intended to communicate an impression of silence so profound that one looking on at the canvas would start at the slightest sound. The silence, this mystical revery, is in Rachmaninoff's tone poem, based on the old plain chant, Dies Irae.' Or there Is the early C-sharp minor prelude, in which some see the march of prisoners, bound for Siberia across the steppes, and for which the com< poser, in his youth, received but $20, or the prelude in Gminor, piece of several pages, which encloses the tread of innumerable armies, the clangor and challenge of war.
 .orhen there is the later symphony, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem, The Bells These things are merely different manifestations of a. singul- arly rich and balanced nature. Rach- maninoff may be deeply melancholy in his music, but he is seldom or never morbid. He may be wildly fantastical, and yet careful stu-l dent of his scores will find that they are distinguished by the most care, full workmanship and memorable logic in the presentation of the musi cal ideas. Above all, this music is broadly and comprehensively human. Rachmaninoff has made musical in- novations in his time, but they are far from the wild-eyed extravagances of some of his younger countrymen. He believes in writing straight from the heart, like Tschaikowsky, in avoiding fsms' or fads, or affecta- tions, in trying to compose sincerely and simply, not to a special band of musical specialists, but to the great public of men and women of the world. Hence the popularity in the best sense of the word, of his music and the grip that this man has on the people. When they hear him they understand him. When they come in personal contact with him they find the man is as fine and as genuine as his music"
 MT. Spalding left for his homo in Boston Friday afternoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
FROM THE WISE

If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter it would have changed the history of the world.LPascal. The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods.-SoGrates. . A wife Is essential to great longev- ity: she is the receptacle of half a mans cares and two thirds Of his ill., humor.-Charles Reade.
 Better it is to be envied than pitied.-Herodotus
 One half of the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.-Longfellow.
 It was near a miracle to see an old man silent, since talking is the dis ease of age.-Ben Jonson.
 Success is full of promise till men get it, and then 1t seems like nest from which tho bird has flown.-H. w. Beecher.
 A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.
 -Plutarch. He that hath a beard Is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than man. Shakespeare Language alone illumes the vast monotonously colored chart of the universe.-Richter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
MIR, AND MRS. FINCH
 HONORED WITH PARTY

MT and Mrs. L. E. Finch of Gary, Ind, the guests of MT. and Mrs. Will liam Wilkerson were honored Thurs day evening when MT. and Mrs. John B. Ingram, Jr., entertained with a five hundred party.
 Christmas greenery and potted plants were used in the decorations and the guests were MT. and Mrs. Paul Vaughn, Mir. and Mrs. Will Sleeman. MT. and Mrs. William Broughton, MT. and Mrs. Charles Tridell, MT. and Mrs. Fancher Adams, MT. and Mrs. Terry Watson, MT. and Mrs. F. F. Postell, Mir. and Mrs. L. E. Finch, MT. and Mrs. Will liam WiLllerson, Miss Blanche Hous- man and Miss Jessica Ingram.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

LOVELY MAID FOR CONVENTION.-N1iss Jordan Prince, charming member of the society who of the maids for the Sigma Nu last evening the ball. Miss Prince will also be of the January brides
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
Mrs. Brownell Honors
 Miss Richardson

Miss Edwina Richardson, the love- Iy daughter of MT. and Mrs. Clive Richardson, was the honoree at beautiful tea Friday afternoon at the Country club, when her aunt Mrs E. W. Brownell. entertained a num- Der of friends. The sun parior at the club, where the hostess received her guests, was attractive in it's decorations of balloons and Christmas coiors.
 Miss Richardson, who is lovely member of the younger set, was at tractiye in a girlish afternoon frock of silver lace over Nile green, trim med with tiny pink French roses.
 Assisting Mrs. Brownen in greet ing her guests were Virginia Ja GODS, Frances Jenkins, Eugenia Arn- old, Dorothy Dee. Alive Oden, Mar garet Hundley. Mila Shropshire, Min na StoVall and Margaret Alexander.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
MEETING OF WRITER'S CLUR

Owing to the time of meeting falling upon New Years Day, the Birmingham Writers club will post pone this meeting until the follow ing afternoon, Wednesday, January 2.
 At this time Mrs. c. D. Henly will give talk on play-writing, reading her play, The Passing of Illiteracy," which was presented by the Women's club of this city, and which aroused so much enthusiasm that the Writers club asked for this reading.
 Mrs. J. P. Penny will also talk on Poltis "Tbirty-six Dramatic Situa- tions" All members are urged to be present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

There are 437o00 sewing machines in American homes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
THAT WORD
INTERLOPER

The word Heap" lies carefully con- cealed in the made-up word inter loper," of which the genealogy shows mixed parentage. This term is Latin on one side of the house and Dutch on the other. The Latin part of the ancestry is, of course. the particle "inter"-between, among.
 It is in the second two syllables that the mixed percentage shows, for "loper" Is derived, or rather taken directly, from the Dutch "looppen," to run. It is at this point that the word Heap" lies concealed in 'in- terlopcr" for leap" is related by q common origin to the Dutch loop en-" to run.
 Why the makers of the English language should have gone to Italy for one part of a word and to the Ecwlands for another is one of the peculiarities of language, and espe- cially the English language,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
MISS ORR COMPLIMENT
 MISS GILLESPY, BRIDE-ELECT

Miss Stella Mae Orr entertained Thursday afternoon with a Lyric party, having as her guest of honor Miss Alice Gillespy. bride of this week.
 The guests were Miss Gillespy. Mss Gladys Webb. Miss Margaret Lewis. Miss Elizabeth Wingo, Miss Margaret Mccall, Mrs. L. B. Baldwin, Mrs. B. B. Clarkson of Lexington, Va.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

 HGaIo. and of hnahued at   decoIet and short
 
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
MUSIC STUDY CLUB
 TO HAVE RECITAL.

New Years afternoon the Music Study club will give a recital to the entire membership of the club. A delightful musical program will be rendered by MT. Carl Herring, pian- 5ist: Mir. Robert Kerutz, violinist. and Mrs. Clara Wilson Foster, accom- panist.
 This meeting will be a substitute for the regular Thursday morning meeting. Members are requested to present their tickets at the door.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
MISS BENTLEY REGENT VISITOR IN CITY

& Miss Irene Bewley, who Is making tour with Lyceum course in Texas. Ohio and New Mexico, passed through this city recently on the way to her home in Greenville, Tenn. for the holidays. Miss Bewley has on several occasions given pro grams at the First Methodist church here and at one time appeared in program for the Verftas club at the Country club. During her visit in the city she was the guest of Mrs. A c Overfon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
MISS TEMPLETON HOSTESS
 AT CHRISTMAS PARTY

Miss Jeanette Templeton was hos tess at an informal Christmas Eve dance at her home on Eleventh ave- nue, south.
 Dancing was enjoyed until a late hour after which refreshments were served to about thirty-five guests.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
MRS. HUEY ITO ENTERTAIN
 FOR MISS GILLESPY

Miss Alice Gillespy, who will be married January ? to MT. Matt Law son, will be the honoree this after noon when Mrs. L. E. Huey is enter taining with theatre party compli- menting her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
MR. JOHNSON HoNORs
 YALE GLEE CLUB

Mir. Allen Johnson will be host this afternoon, entertaining with a tea dance at the home of his parents, Mir. and Mrs Crawford Johnson, on Pawnee avenue experimenting the members of the Yale Glee club.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-20
Cox-McAdoo-Ford.

Mark Sullivan, the political writer sums
I'D the chances of Messrs Cox, McAdoo and
Ford for securing the next democratic pres
idential nomination. Mr.. Cox is tenacious
person. he says; he is not the man to give
up because of his crushing defeat in l9zO;
he is something of leader in Ohio and may
succeed in capturing the Ohio delegation to
the convention; though most of the demo-
cratic party leaders assume that he is out OF
the race he may fool them all by his espousal
Of the Wilson policy of international inter-
ference particularly if that policy should
happen to be the leading issue in 1924.
AS to Mr.. McAdoo, his visit to Washing
ton recently fired his friends there with en-
thusiasm, and he is Sin an incomparably
stronger position with respect to the next
national convention than he was to the l9zO
convention" 1t is Mr.. Sullivan's judgment
that Mr.. McAdoo is perhaps more formidably
to the front as democratic presidential pos
sibility than is realized by even democratic
politicians. With his father-n-law, Mr.. Will
son, whose foreign policies McAdoo did not
espouse with any degree of enthusiasm, out OF
the white house there is now no reason Tor
the restraint that he imposed upon himself
and upon his friends in 1920.
Passing on to Mr.. Ford, Mr.. Sullivan re-
ports that democratic leaders hold the most
serious and most sombre conviction that Mr..
Ford will cut large though perhaps an
cratic figure III the situation. They learn by
grapevine" that he contempates doing the
most irregular things. They fear that it is his
intention to attempt to stampede the conven-
ton with a view to compelling democratic
leaders to accept him under threat that other
wise there will be third party. Judgment OF
the politicians, Mr. Sullivan states, is that
there is a very great latent sentiment for Mr..
Ford, and that he might readily turn up in
the democratic convention with fully as many
delegates as any one of the more orthodox
party candidates"
1t was the New York Times that remark
ed the other day that the politicians might
as well attempt to forecast what the weather
will be in 1924 as to prophesy who will be
nominated for president by the democrats.
Which is true, of course 1t is impossible to
forecast what the political situation will be
in midsummer, 1924. The race is not always
to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. 1t
NAV be that the name of the democratic
nominee has not yet been mentioned. Not
withstanding, would-be presidents will con-
tinue to aspire and politicians will continue
to speculate.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-20
Mrs. Henderson's Profer.

Mrs. Henderson, widow of John B. Hen
derson, once senator from the state OF Mis-
souri,, is trying to present to the federal gov
eminent fine house in Washington new
and valued at 100000, to be used as home
for the vice president of the United States.
The gift is profered as memorial to Mrs.
Henderson's husband and son, both deceased.
Mrs. Henderson's generosity is appreciated,
but it is plain that both congress and the
vice president are embarrassed by reason of
it. Congress recognizes that it would be re-
CURED to supply appropriations tor the up
keep Of the house, if accepted, and the vice
president is wondering how he could live in
such portentious establishment on his mod
est $4,000 salary The Coolidges are devot-
ed to the simple life and before going to
Washington were paying only SIS month
house rent To put them in $50O,OO0 house.
with all the social obligations it would i'm
pose in Washington, and with only SlZ,OOO
to meet expenses, would be cruel. With the
president and everybody else preaching econ
ony to congress how is it going to be able
to summon courage to take on vice presl-
dental establishment, a sort OF subsidiary
white house, with its fixed expenditures?
lhe prOHer OF MIS-. I1ShuSloOlj ullquSo
tionably, is kindly meant, but it puts con-
gress i'll a hole, for the reason that it VIII
be embarrassed whether it accepts or declines
it. Furthermore, the knowledge that the vice
president is required to maintain S5OO,OOO
house i'll the capital on a salary OF $1,000 per
month is not going to make it any easier to
get the right sort of material for vice pres
idential candidates. Its bad enough as it IS,
with the vice president not amounting to
much and being on the waiting list as 1t
were, but if the job is to be made one only
for rich men the situation will be worse.
Unofficial Washington, of course, favors
the acceptance of Mrs Henderson's offer, to-
gether with adequate provision for the main
tenance of the establishment for unofficial
Washington is much devoted to the social
side of life But what do the plain people
think about it? That is what congress would
like to know. The farm bloc and the other
b!ocs of that kind have not yet been heard
from, and until they have rendered an op1n-
ION we are not likely to know whether the
vice president is to be provided with little
white house, or whether he will continue to
reside at a hotel
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-20
He Loves His Boil Weevils.
A p e in Southern Cultivator.

There was a farmer who could not afford
to fence his cattle pastures and plant the
seed of the many grasses that will grow in
Florida, and whose steers looked like scare
crows. He did not raise but ten bushels OF
corn to the acre, and he could not afford to
buy corn for his work stock. His. hogs never
dressed out properly at killing time because
they had to root for living in the hammocks,
for this man had no shorts, corn OF, meal to
feed them. His chickens were so thin from
chasing grasshoppers that the wind blew
them out of the trees when they went to
roost at night. But
His boil weevils were given every oppor-
tunity to fatten up before they went into win
ter quarters. He knew that if the cotton
stalks were cut early in the fall the boil wee
wills would not have any food to eat until the
time came for them to go into Information.
By starving them from October LIST about
95 per cent would die before spring But this
man fed his weevils until they were ready to
go into hibernation which sometimes was
not until January 1st and had about so per
cent OF his pests waiting for him when the
cotton bloomed in the summer.
Moral Feed the farm animals and starve
the boil weevil
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-20
BUSY and Optimistic.

More mules, more guano, more cotton is
the outlook in Terrell county this year.
While this is true, in almost every commit
nifty there are also indications that the grow
ing OF food and feed stuffs will be an inn
portant part of the plans of the farmers, who
have taken up their work with an optimism
that forecasts success. Farming is becoming
more and more interesting as improved meth
DDS are adopted, and the necessity OF bet
ter system of keeping up with the business
Of the farm is recognized.
There seems every reason to believe that
conditions are going to be better with the
farmers than in several years A recent sur
vey of conditions was most encouraging.
Citing figures compiled by the federal gov
eminent the summary finds prices for farm
products at a higher level than for some time
past Improvement in the condition OF the
farmer has been the most important factor
in bringing stability to the financial situa-
ton
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-20
Aphorisms by Judge MeIdrim.

Following are extracts from a recent adj
dress delivered by Judge Peter w. Meldrm
of Chatham superior court, before the Grid.
iron club:
On World Conditions: Envy, hatred and
malice are abroad and no man knows what
a day may bring forth Power creates new
RESPONSIBILITIES and imposes new duties. What
these will be we do not know; but we do
know that however heavy the responsibility
and exacting the duty America will bear the
one and discharge the other as becomes
Just, a brave and an honorable nation"
On Foreign Debts: 'If we are to regard
certain foreign countries as objects of char.
ty it might be we'll to reflect that there are
times when charity begins at home"
On Politics: at is interesting to note that
thoughtful people all over the country are
getting away from party domination and
forming themselves into two groups, one con-
servative and the other radical"
On the 18th Amendment: "The bootleg,
ger with his gallon of Shine, the gentleman
with his glass of Madeira, the lady in her
mansion with little Sherry for her terra.
pin, and the old woman in the log cabin with
a pint of blackberry wine for her stomachs
the 18th amendment. 1t should be repealed
or amended, or it is the duty of every good
citizen to abide by it and of every upright
Judge to enforce it.
On Law Enforcement: THE true measure
OF peoples greatness is their respect tor
law Enforcement of law means the admins
tration of justice, but justice cannot be ad.
ministered if courts or iuries are influenced
by public opinion; and yet we ind that i'm.
portant, pending cases are tried ad inhnitam,
ad nauseam in the newspapers. 10 this prac'
tice no reputable journal and no self-respect.
ing lawyer should be a party
On Mob Violence: There is no excuse
mitigation nor justification for mob violence
The sheriff who, through cowardice or COLT
sion, permits a prisoner to be taken from him
by mob should be removed from office the
county where, the lynching occurred should
be mulcted in damages; the grand jurors
who refuse to find a true bill when the eVl.
dence authorizes it against the members OH
a mob, and the petit jurors who acqut when
the evidence is convincing should have their
names stricken from the jury lists, and the I
Judge who fails to use all the power at his I
command to discover and punish the wrong 5
doors should be impeached and driven IRON
the bench"
Judge Me1drim closed his splendid address
with these words from President Harding
'"Those who would highly serve their fel \
lows have need for full measure of intellectual
honesty, together with courage to dare great
w." Better to have deserved these word:
than to climb to high Office in a dead mans
shoes. Whatever may be the conditions
other lands and in this letius with pure hearts
and high purpose seek to make our own low
ed state moderate wise and just
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-20
The Useless Good Citizen.
rom the Telfair Enterprise.

There is a certain type of man in every
community who poses as a good citizen. he
breaks no laws, lives morally, pays his non
est debts and is never tangled up with the
law in any manner. But he lives of himself,
by himself and for himself exclusively When
the call is issued for volunteers to put across
a community movement and give, boost ne
never answers. When calamity has befallen
people in certain localities and charity flies
to their rescue he is never one of their num-
Der When money is needed for public, , en-,
he sees some neighbor stuck in the mud he
detours to avoid him. In fact, if he stood on
the shore and saw the ship of state sinking
he would never offer to throw out line And
if all mankind was fashioned from this same
kind of CLAW have you ever thought what
Nl1l happen s There would be no churches,
no hospitals for the sick, no institutions Tor
the unfortunate nor rest rooms for the weary
Think it over, and if you are about to become
useless good citizen" read this little ar
tice twice.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-20
RUDE RURAL RHY MES
MORPHEUS AND ME-.

When we our nightly sleeping run on
schedules made by Edison we'll linger little
in the hay for he has oft been heard to say
he sleeps four hours or less each day. 1t
would be neither kind nor nice to say he
gives this bum advice that folks may sit up
half the night and so burn more electric
LIGHT: but as for me III tell the throng that
Thomas has my number wrong. Four hours
NAV do for super-men, but rural rhymers
should have ten This bards a most efficient
snoozer; he is no midnight Mazda user l
like soft pillows for my head l like my rest,
like my bed. l love to stretch and lnger
there: it's warmer than the outside air. With
in | bask in regions torrid, when I'm dragg-
ed out my words are horrid. Performing
that for which they pay him, a hotel clerk
committed mayhem and got me up at four
ten a. m They'd changed the train in which
trusted, and all in vain my rest was busted;
for in my little private heaven | might have
slept till half past seven. Hotel clerks now
may go to blazes; I'll see them all beneath
the daisies with all their early morning
raises The time for natures sweet restorer
shall find me still heavy snorer. There
lived in Rome one julius Caesar-'most ev-
erybody knows the geezer-who said that
Jobs should go by rights to healthy folks who
slept well nights. If ancient Rome had been
nv mother he would have loved me like a
brother If l had nothing else to do I'd
sleep all night and all day too.
BOB ADAMS.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-02-20

An exhibit of ancient and rare editions OF
the Bible is now on display in the rooms OF
the New York public library. 1t was pre-
ceded by two other exhibits, one collection
or dime novels and the other the A. G. Spald-
ing baseball exhibit. The library officials
have been observing the reaction OF the pub
lie to these exhibits They find that the Bible
collection is the most popular of the three;
that it is visited by larger number OF peo-
pie and is given closer study than was the
case when the other collections were on dis
play. 1t is possible to deduce from this COM
parson that the Bible is more popular than
either dime novels or baseball. The reader
lis free to make that deduction if he wishes
to do so.