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The Washington times., 1923-02-14
DUMBWAITER ESCAPE
FOILED BY LOCKED DOOR

NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-George l..
Smith, a negro, who declared he
had no home, was arrested yester-
day after he had been imprisoned
for half hour i'm a dumbwaiter at
number 101 West Fifty-second
street.
Miss Maud Toombs caught the
negro rifling her apartment. He
jumped into the dumbwaiter to es-
cape, but found the door at the foot
of the shaft was locked.
The Washington times., 1923-02-14
Canada Building Boom.

OTTAWA, Ontario, Feb. a.
Building in Canada has returned to
its pre-war scale of activity. Fig
ures for 1922 show an increase of
nearly 100000 over the 1921
volume and expansion of operations
eQualing the boom days OF 1913.
The Washington times., 1923-02-14
COAL SOLD.
CHEAPER IN
CANADA !.
Congressman Rogers Favors
Embargo on Shipments at
I. G. c Hearing.
BY International News Service.

NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-Anthracite
coal, imported from the United
States, is being sold from So to Sd
a ton cheaper in Canada than it is in
this country, declared Congressman
John J. Rogers of Massachusetts,,
who appeared before the Interstate
Commerce Commission here today in
The Washington times., 1923-02-14
Noah's Ark Sails for U. s.

HAMBURG, Feb. IA large
shipment of Hagenbeck animals has
left this port for the United States.
The collection includes zebras, n.y.
enas. kangaroos, birds Of prey and
monkeys of various sorts
The Washington times., 1923-02-14

A7eQL
Four Reasons Why You Should
Buy Your Ford Car This Month
The unprecedented demand for Ford Cars
throughout the winter months has taken
the entire output of the Ford plants working
at capacity, indicating that the demand this
spring will be far in excess Of the number
of Ford Cars that possibly be built.
January was the tenth consecutive month
in which retail deliveries exceeded 100000
Ford Cars and Trucks. Requirements for
February, the month when preparations
already under way for Spring business,
called for 48,4O7 Cars and Trucks-mOre
than $4,000 in excess of the number
possibly produce.
Ford dealers in many parts of the country
are already finding it necessary to specify
future delivery dates Ford Products be-
cause there reserve stocks to draw
from.
Your order placed will protect you
against delay disappointment later
It is the only way you can be assured OF
reasonably prompt delivery.
We consider it important to give you these
facts, so that if you are planning to purchase
Ford Car, Truck or Fordson Tractor for use
this Spring or Summer you can list your order
at once and take advantage of our dealers first
opportunity to make delivery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-16
OUR OPPORTUNITY IN CUBA

Through invitation to be represented at the Cuban international fair at Ha- vana in February Birmingham manu- lecturers have an opportunity to en- large their business with that country. The purpose of the fair is to place producers and sellers of all classes of commodities In contact with buyers. For years Birmingham has made and sold to Cuban sugar interests large quantities of machinery used in the plantations and mills. Hardware, ce- ment, clay products and miscellaneous machinery have found profitable market in the island republic, while shipments of ore and other Cuban products have been received in this district.
 The Cuban trade has shown steady growth until that country has become ono of Birminghan's best customers. The fair, which is in the nature of an industrial and commercial exhibit of goods from various parts of the world, will enable Birmingham producing in terests to strengthen and enlarge their business relations with Cuba through exhibits of Birningham-made goods and personal representation. Prosper ous conditions prevailing in Cuba of fer special incentive to the manufac- turers of this district to utilize in a practical way the opportunities of fered. Cuban business interests have manifested preference for Birming- ham products, and have shown a desire to maintain commercial relations with this district. The way Is now opened for this spirit and purpose to be ma- terially strengthened through more direct contact and cordial personal re- lations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-16
CONSIDER THE HIGHWAYS

There are two main considerations in building main trunk highways. The first is to construct them of sufficient resistance to hold up under heavy motor traffic. The other is to choose types of paving that will require minimum of maintenance expense. The most expensive roads are not those whose first cost is highest, but those whose cost of upkeep is greatest. It is greatly feared that the Alabama highway department has not kept these principles in mind in choosing it's paving types for the main-traveled highways.
 The two states of Oregon and Wash ington furnish good examples of what not to do and what to do in building highways. Oregon has built many miles of highway of type that re- quires maximum of upkeep expense. Washington has chosen the opposite course, with the result that Washing ton has more miles of better road for the amount spent than has Oregon. In Oregon it has been necessary en- tirely to rebuild some roads within a very few years after their completion at great expense. There is reason to believe that Alabama has fallen inSo the same error, and that an aboutface is necessary if the public welfare is to be protected.
 On one road in Oregon, paved with the less-resistant material, the cost of maintenance, repairs and upkeep, for forty miles for seven months was $466.20 a mile, as against an older Washington concrete road which, un- der heavy truck traffic, required 9 total maintenance expense of only $24.31 per mile for five-year period. In Oregon the load limit is 16,500 pounds as against Washington limit of 25,000 pounds. In Washington, on the concrete roads, it is stated off cially that loads of saw-logs have been found to weigh from 50,000 to 60,000 pounds, while loads of 45,000 pounds were said to be common-and yet the paving stood up under itl The con- clusion in the state of Washington is: Having been shown to be a possibil- ity, the state must build its roads to carry it's loads-and not restrict the load to conform to an inferior and quickly deteriorating surface" To restrict the load too much is placing an embargo on commerce"
 The state of Alabama, in consider ing load limits for trucks, should bear in mind that the purpose is to build roads to carry the traffic, not to limit the traffic to the capacity of poor sur facing. There is much reform needed in the administration of Alabama's highway program, and it is important that the reform come before it is ever lastingly too late and the money squandered, or at least spent with in- adequate return.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-16

stricted also by the failure to establish conditions of peace and economic re- covery in Europe, impeded by long deferred settlements outside of it's jurisdiction and with which it has not ben permitted to deal"
 Perhaps some editors have laid too much stress upon the episode as cru cial test of the leagues authority. Rather was it a test of the sincerity of Italy with respect to her league covenants. Although there was eva sion and sidestepping, it is probable that in similar emergency in the fu- ture Italy will act with less haste, and doubtless the difficulty will be ad- justed through the regular diplomatic channels without necessity for re- course or appeal to the league. If the league influence has done even tha5, the league has gained and not lost by | the episode.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-16

tirement of the ministry and de- nounced communism. Rivera an- nounces as his program the completion of the subjugation of rebels in Moroc- co, failure to do which was the exciting cause of the revolt against the minis try and the inferior supplies said to have been furnished the army by the ministry.
 If Rivera does as we'll by Spain as Mussolini has done by Italy, doubt less the people will have no regrets, for Spain has been a seething pot of political brew for long time, just ss Italy was. Mussolini has made some mistakes, but somehow he has always retrieved himself in time, as in the case of the recent trouble with Greece. He was wrong in his first steps, but the trouble has been mainly adjudi- cated, and Mussolini's hold on the leadership appears not to have been shaken by his recession from his origi- nal purpose and demands with respect to the Albanian assassinations. Per haps Rivera will succeed equally we'll If not, doubtless Spain can stand it, as the Spaniards do not appear greatly moved, no matter what happens politi. l oa1lv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-16
A WIFE PAYS ALIMONY

Whether 8 man has legal claim for alimony when he is down and out and his wife deserts him has been de- cided in the affirmative by Los An geles judge allowing a husband, who is sick and unable to work, five dollars week from his wife's salary of a hundred and forty dollars month, pending permanent disposition of the case. If the conditions were reversed, the woman would unquestionably be allowed support, so the decision seems to be square deal, since marriage is founded on the theory of give and take, whether or not the theory finds practical application in these piping times of independent womanhood.
 When one considers the humane as- pect of the case, the decision appears sound; for, as one commentator says: "This lady took this man in the bloom of his youth and had the best of his years. As he withered bit, her af- lection probably chilled, and when he was infirm and dependent she cast him off carelessly and without a thought of his hopeless future. This might have been intolerable to hu- manity, and yet tolerated in law"
 The fact is, things have undergone marked change in domestic circles. Women have entered all the fields of business activity and have become fearfully independent. The old idea of lord and master has been lost in the shuffle. In the good old times man had few prerogatives and as- serted himself. Now he subsidies when ever his better half so orders. Not many years ago the children were let into the dining room for dessert. Now they "rule the ranch" take the car and come in after the old man has been snoring four or five hours. We are living in a new era and under er- tirely different conditions. Husbands are ordered to get out and stay out, and pay alinony on apparently small pretexts, such as temperament and the like.
 Sympathy goes out to the Los An geles man after he went to pieces. It was not his fault that he could serve no longer as bread-winner. He "did his durndest" while he could. Should he be cut off and deserted when the weekly envelope was no longer avail
 
 receiving a handsome salary? Ali mony is one detail of mutuality of the marital relationship. If mutuality would hold up the domestic circle, the question of alimony wouldn't butt ia every once in while. Is there not a moral: wedlock should be mutual insurance company?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-16
PEOPLES FORUM
"Constitution weekn

To the Editor of The Age-Herald: :
 As a medium through which pa- triotic information Is broadcasted an element in the general scheme of national defense, this office IS in receipt of instructions to give as much publicity as possible to the fact that the week of Septem- Der 1922 was designated as Con stitution Week by the American Bar Association and has been of ficially recognized by the United States government as an occasion for patriotic celebration. The Idea was born of the efforts of the American Bar Association commit tee on citizenship to rerestablish the constitution of the United States and the principles and ideals of our government in the minds and hearts Of the people.
 The following program is sus- gested by the originators of this idea:
 Sunday, September 16: Ask min isters to preach sermon on the first amendment to the constitu- ton, using as a text. Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set" (Proverbs 22:2S,
 Monday, September IT: The set ting and inspiration of the nited States constitution; the Magma Charta; the English bill of rights; the Mayflower compact; Declara- tion of Independence; articles of confederation, etc.
 Tuesday, September 1s: Watch words of the constitution; gov ernment of laws and not of men; liberty under the law; equal oppor- tunity to all citizens.
 Wednesday. September 1s; What tho bill of rights In tho constitu- ton has meant to the American people and what 1t means today.
 Thursday. September 20: The services of John Marshall in mak- ing our constitution the supreme law of the land.
 Friday. September II: Present dangers to the free institutions es. tablished by the constitution.
 Saturday. September 22: To up- hold the constitution in his daily life and activities is the duty oi each and every citizen.
 If time and conditions permit we would most earnestly appre- ciate your aid in this worthy cause of promoting respect for constitutional laws of the country by appropriate editorials.
 l.. O. MATHEWS, Lieutenant Colonel. United States
 Army.
 Birmingham. Ala, Sept. 1s. 1923.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-16
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THE SEAPORT RESPONSIBILITY

Whatever may be the differences of opinion regarding the weaknesses ar merits of the act authorizing new dock commission and the carrying out of the public will with respect to eouipping the states seaport at Mobile to accommodate the commerce of this state and of the legitimate territory contiguous thereto, the fact is that the act will go on the statute books with the governors signature, and that the success of the port project depends upon the efficiency with which the au- thority conferred by the act is admin istered.
 Even those who fought the efforts to pass the seaport measure could find no defense for further striving to modify its success now that the public investment is to be made. The only way in which the public welfare can be protected is for all concerned to work together with the single pur- pose of making the seaport a paying and a self-supporting proposition.
 There are limitations upon the un- dertaking which many thinkers regard as obstructive to its fullest success, but an able and astute commission will be able so to administer it's re- sponsibility as to protect the invest ment and to expand the ports invita- ton to tonnage. If there develops a situation in which ultimate success depends upon modification of the present legislation, there Is always re- course to the legislature, either in special or regular session. The re- peated, open and unqualified endorse ment of port development by Governor Brandon should be assurance that he will act in any emergency to protect his pledge and the public welfare.
 There are numerous conspicuous examples of successful port projects carried through by other states along lines similar to those adopted for Ala bama. The results of proper conslruc- ton and administration of port facili- ties have surpassed the estimates, and the plan of paying maintenance costs, retiring interest and liquidating bonds at maturity has been triumph antly vindicated. The same results can be achieved in connection with the proper commercial equipment of the seaport at Mobile.
 Such a program as is contemplated calls for intelligence, experience and integrity of the highest order. No men of second rate caliber will ne ac- ceptable to the people of Alabama. It is hoped that the governor, in his choice of commissioners, will be gifted with perspicacity and discrimination extraordinary, for he has in his hands the welfare of an empire. No per sonal, political or selfish considera- .tions should for a moment be per- nitted to color the selections. Candi- dates for the position are likely the very ones the public interest would Fejsct. It is a responsibility that should search for the man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-16

ing to restore what he had volun- tarily thrown away. He was cheerful, hopeful, contented. He still held unwavering and soul-sat- isfying belief that America was the land of freedom and opportu- nifty. He was rebuilding his life edifice from the ground up. I happened to know that the state in which he resided had voted bonus to it's soldiers, 80 I sug- gested that this reward probably had been of aid to him. He told me he had not taken the bonus and had not the slightest inten- tion of taking 1t. Naturally, I asked why he was unwilling 70 accept this honestly earned and freely given reward for faithful service. I am not sure that I even yet grasp his feeling. With smile that Is rarely seen, he re- piled; If my wife should give me $5 for 8 kiss I would be afraid that she doubted my love-"
 Again, reread the lesson. America Is not birth, nor rank, nor state. America is not native born. America Is just devotion to an ideal. It is the refuge for all who have been storm tossed upon the seas of political or re- ligious persecution. It is for those who believe in God, in coun- try, in brotherhood. It Is like sun shine and pure air. It "-unnt. .he defined. It cannot be dissected. It is an attribute to every right thinking soul. It is love of jus tice and truth, large-hearted and charitable Judgment of ones fel- low men. It Is law and order. Ii is our common parent, who owes us nothing, but for whose preser- vation we should pour unstinted sacrifices.
 would that we could get 8 clearer conception of the father hood of our country. We may make our comparisons, along the lines of home life. We all are children of this land. Some few of us are seeking to serve; too many of us are begging for ia vors. Time Is being wasted in seeking ways of preferment. Time is being lost in tilling the opportunities for success. Too lit- tie time is being used to impress upon the youth of America the privilege we have in serving our country. Let us begin to use a few hours in drowning our cold, calculating sense of duty in a hot sea of enthusiasm for our oppor- tunity which we have to serve America, and by serving her bring the worlds civilization a little nearer to the peaceful ports of brotherhood.
 Copyright. 1928. by Twenty-first
 Century Press)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-16
ALE0IsLATTvE MISTAKE

Recent action of the Alabama legis- aaturs in rejecting the measure pro- ,Niding for ways and means whereby to advertise approximately and con- structively to the outside world the ssmany natural resources and opportu- mites for investment and development :, In this state stands in shortsighted scontrast with the record in other states along such lines. Of late North Caro- { aina has done much in this direction, with the result that millions of outside capital have sought investment in that etate, and the returns gre already 2 tiemonstrsting the wisdom of the policy.
 South Carolina is following the Old North State in many good works. Among the latest is a project to raise a hundred thousand dollars with which 3udiciously and effectively to adver- tise that state with the purpose of at- tracting more capital and desirable residents. The people of South Caro- lima are becoming practically alive to  the necessity of such a plan. Cali fornia advertised extensively her ad- vantages and made big success of it. he is still advertising. Florida has
 joyed wonderful development and
 ,sperity under similar policy.
 gon has just subscribed fund of
 hundred thousand dollars to set
 .re the world the advantages of
 t state. The tendency among pro-
 ssive states that possess advantages
 opportunities is to tell the world
 out it. It is simply another way
 adding to the areas under develop
 snt and extending marketing terri
 ry.
 Alabama has the goods to advertise no other state are there so many and so varied fields for development Alabama has the fertile soil, the idea climate, the immense water power the natural resources in abundance An adequate sum judiciously invested in giving the outside world comprc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-16
ANOTHER MILITARY PREMIER

Just as few months ago Mussolini,
 heading an army in revolt, became
 premier of Italy, so last Friday, Ri- vera, heading an army in revolt, was made dictator of Spain. In each case the king received the rebellious leader with welcoming invitation and set him upon the seat made vacant by cabinet resignation. General Rivera declared that he did not have the example of MussoIni in mind, but the denial does not f-stroy the aptness of the par allel. Neither does the fact that Re vera, like Mussolini, demanded the re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-16
Health of Pupils
(Tuscaloosa News)

(TuscaIoosa News)
 If health and education are to be regarded as so inseparable. 1t Is obvious that the school Is under obligation to teach and produce health. This means the teaching of health habits to pupils, cooper ation with local health agencies. the presence of competent and in- terested school nurses and physi- clans with physical examinations and clinic work for the children, nutrition work and properly di- rected study and play.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-16

sible for an accident by reason of having defective brakes. And it should be further impressed upon tho driver who does not have brakes on his car which will take hold instantly and slow his car down in given distance, that he must drive more slowly and care fully than he otherwise would.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-16
LESSON IN AMERICANIsM BY SON OF AN IMMIGRANT

Civil War began. Day after day the urge grew stronger within him to fly to the defense of the Union. Day after day the old far mer and hls wife pleaded with the boy to stay at home, as he was the sole staff of their declining years. And then one bright June morning as he was following the blow in peace the urge of duty and love for his country became so strong that he dropped the lines, left the horses standing in the field, went to town and en- listed. He followed the ensign of the republic through battle, murder and sudden death for four long years of that awful conflict. When Grant, at Appomattox, guaranteed the peace and per petuity of our land, he returned home. married and took up again the discharge of the duties Of peaceful citizenship. To him was born the young man who visit ed me.
 From the lips of the young man l learned that not a day ever went by while he was at home that his father of foreign birtn did not impress upon his mind the idea that America was his super father, that to 1t and the pres ervation of it's institutions. hc should gladly give his fortune and his life if necessary. He was taught that so glorious was Amer ica that service in her name coul not be contracted for by one of her sons, that whatever could be done to preserve America should tb done without any thought of payment or reward, that service to America must not be considered in the light of a sacrifice, but should be rendered whole-heart- edly as the loving service of a child to it's parents. So thoroughly had this foreign-born man satur- rated the intellect and conscience of his son with love fo rthe repub- lie that everything in the way cf personal success and safety faded away when danger to the republic | threatened. I need not elaborate. It is sufficient to say that the young man got his chance, that he made good In camp, became an of ficer and served his country and humanity In France.
 The fortunes of life brought us together again just the other day He had aged and matured since saw him In 1917, but he had the same love for his country, tho same faith that 1t was good model for the world, the same ideals as to his relations to his country. He had gathered to- gether the broken skeins of his disrupted business. He was work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-16
SMILES
The Stern Parent

(American Legion Weekly
 Blivvens was far from being a physical giant--in fact. he was what Is termed . shrlmp-but he prided himself on his decided views, especially on bringing up the young. One of his pet theo- ries was that no matter how ob- streperous, children should never be spanked.
 But" objected a friend. aren't there times"
 Never" interrupted Blivvens. firmly. AS true as I sit here I have never raised a hand against my children except in self-de- fense."