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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-03

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-03

Opening the Eyes" will be the
subject Of Rev. Dr. Earle Wilfley's
sermon tomorrow morning at the
vermont Avenue Christian Church.
AT the evening service he will give
the second sermon Of his series on
the problems Of young people, his
topic being Counting Days"
Hyder Alaska miner., 1923-01-17
Ernest Blue ATTORNEY ATLAW
 Notary Public
 RYDER, ALASKA.
Federal Power Commission

In compliance with the Federal Water Power Act (41 Stat. 1063) notice is here by given that Messrs. Kehoe. Hanson, Hummel and Sutherland, Care of James Wickersham, Juneau. Alaska, have filed application for preliminary permit cov- ering power project on Thumb Creek, a tributary of Salmon River, about seven miles north of Hyder, Alaska Any ob- lection to such application, or request for hearing thereon, together with any briefs, reports or other data for which consideration is desired. should be sub mitted to the Executive Secretary, Fed eral Power Commission. Washington, D. c.
Hyder Alaska miner., 1923-01-17
HOUSEHOLD LINT

HOUSEHOLD HINT
 To make coal last longer, visit the neighbors.
 MORE THAN WILLING
 Sir, would you give five dollars to bury a saxoph0ne player?"
 Here's thirty dollars. Bury six of them"
 How long did it take you to put little brother to sleep?"
 Only one round"
 "Pious stranger-Little boy, do you want to go to heaven?
 Gosh! Not yitl Help! Perlicel
 BEAT WHAT?
 When your best girl keeps on calling your attention to what al lovely ring the moon has, dump her in a snow drift and then beat it. Portland Canal News. Kriss-She swears she's never been kissed. Kross-That's enough to make anyone swear. Some folks are behind with their subscriptions. This is no Joke.
Hyder Alaska miner., 1923-01-17

How long did it take you to put little brother to sleep?"
 Only one round"
Hyder Alaska miner., 1923-01-17

To make coal last longer, visit the neighbors.
Hyder Alaska miner., 1923-01-17

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-15
STATES MAY BAR ALIENS

The United States supreme court has ruled that, where there is no viola tion of treaty stipulation, the individ- ual states have the constitutional right to pass laws prohibiting the ownership of land by aliens. Washington and California both have such laws de- signed to prevent further encroach- ment of Japanese landowners. sThe court went so far as to hold that own ership may even be denied to those eligible for citizenship but having not yet declared their intention or taken out their first papers. \
 This appears to be very equitable decision, for surely state has right to protect the quality of its citizen ship and to determine for itself in favor of the supremacy of the white race against any other seeking to in sinuate itself in the face of popular disapproval. The people of the Pa- cific coast do not want the Japanese as residents and landowners in such numbers as have threatened. That they are constitutionally endowed with the authority thus to protect them selves will come as gratifying relief after period of uncertainty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-15
 RED TAPE IN TRAVEL

MT. Thomas E. Kilby's difficulties encountered in trying to prove himself a native American in order to obtain his passport for foreign travel bring out very ludicrous, even if annoy ing, side of official red tape. Af- fidavits to the nativity of man so we'll known as the recent governor Of a sovereign state would appear to the man of ordinary intelligence quite superfluous, especially as a minor clerk will need only to turn to his Who's Who in America to find out all about MT. Kilby. Such enterprise on the part of, this bureau, however, would be embarrassing to the person exemplifying it, for it would bring him into conspicuous public notice.
 It may be compliment to MT. Kilby that, while little effort is made to keep
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-15
POOR BOYS WHO
 BECAME FAMOUS Rv Frederick Houk Law
Samuel Hood
By Frederick Houk

The British navy has always been able to point to a long list of distinguish sea- fighters who have brought honor to the English name. In that Hist there are few names that rank higher than the name of Samuel Hood, the great English admiral who did so much to develop the science of sea fighting.
 "what's the boy wapt?" an of ficer growled out one day, when a timid-looking boy approached some sailors and tried to pass them. "He says, sir, he's looking for work" sailor replied, as he saluted. "Worki" the officer laughed. wen give him work! Let me talk with him"
 So sam" Hood, went on board the ship as servant to the cap tain. Bravely he endured the hardships that even officers had to share in those days. At all times he kept his manly spirit, and his straightforward look. The captain, who was none other than the one who became the great Rodney, liked the boys spirit, and promoted him to midshipman.-T The lad was then nineteen. Three years later he became a lieuten- ant in the British navy.
 Samuel Hood went about his work as lieutenant with the same fine, strong, manly, cheerful spirit that he had shown when only servant. In ten years he became a captain. and began to do distinguished service for his coun- try. In battle he was exceedingly clever in the management of ves- sels. and so he won fame. When he was fifty-seven he went to sea under the same Rodney for whom he had worked before, but this time ho went as one of the fleet officers. He performed such prod igies of skill and of valor in naval fighting that he was made a lord From year to year, in various seas, Samuel Hood did such valiant service that the English people could not do enough for him. They raised him from position to posi- tion, so that before he died at the dQf fdiCtQ dSt Ol tlHtly -lMO ie had had the hopor of being ad- miral, of being made a viscount, of serving in parliament, and of receiving everywhere all the hon. ors that a grateful people could shower upon him. He remained in vigorous, active service until he was nearly seventy years of age. Even in his old age he maintained the quick. piercing look that had characterized him when boy, the manliness and the bluff honesty that had made him so capable as servant.
 For the last twenty years of his life, from the time when he was seventy-two until his death at ninety-two, Admiral Hood~.was in charge of the great Greenwich hospital.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-15

sylvania is burned in other states. Therefore, justice to the great body of anthracite consumers must be reached mainly by national action. Such action can be secured most cer- tainly and effectively if the govern ors of the anthracite-using states will unite in support of single specific program"
 Undoubtedly there is a field for CO., operation among governors of states having common interest, field that has not been developed. The pro posed conference would have interest, aside from the main object, in demon- strating the extent to which governors may exert cooperative influence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-15
THESE THINGS KEEP
 THE SOUTH POOR
(Albany, Ga. HarnIdl

Of course there is profit in the growing of hay in southeHstern Alabama, southwestern Georgia or almost any other part of tho great Southwest, where native grasses flourish and the legumi- nous peavine makes the fertile fields more fertile.
 In a recent address in Albany, H. Mcdowell, superintendent of the packing plant of Swift & Co. at Moultrie, told of & friend in Memphis, Tenn, who had striking ly illustrated the possibilities of profit in hay.
 The Memphis man bought hay In Tennessee, Kentucky and pos sibly another state or two, and Alabama-prinicpally in Georgia. He handled none of the hay he bought and sold, but merely is- sued % shipping instructions. It went direct from the original shipping points to the points designated by purchasers, and the Memphis man merely received and wrote checks. His gross profit on last years business was s5o,000 and he bought and sold nothing but hay.
 The average freight rate on a ton of hay from Tennessee and Kentucky points to south Georgia points Is about s15 ton. This of course, must be added to the selling price here. Yet Memphis commission man can buy hay in the territory around Memphis ship 1t to Georgia, Florida and Alabama to be sold with an aver age of $15 ton added to the price for freight charges, and clean UT S50,000 year.
 Yet horses and cattle will turn from this hay, raised in the Blue grass. regions. to munch properly cured south Georgia peavine hay as often as the two are placed be- fore them. Peavine hay, cured with the peas in it, has a higher nutritive value than the best tim othy or alfalfa. Yet we allow the farmers of Tennessee and Ken lucky to ship thousands of tons of their hay into this section every year, and they are able to get their price simply because our own south Georgia farmers do not make enough hay to supply the home demand.
 It is true that we can raise as good hay in this section as is pro- duced anywhere in the country. We can produce it more cheaply, and with no more risk of trouble. Our Dothan contemporary tells of shipment of New York timothy hay to a Dothan dealer. We do not know the freight rate on hay from Syracuse, New York, to Dothan, Alabama. but it probably is not much less than the New York farmer receives for his product.
 Still, thousands of Georgia and Alabama farmers continue to plant salad for the boil weevils, and after the party Is over, along about the first of October, they tell us plainly that there's no money in farming"
 And there isn't-not in that sort of farming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-15
THE soUTH's OWN BLOC

If they do nothing else, congress sional blocs beget congressional blocs. Only two or three years ago the first bloc was formed. Since then there are many. Each successive group has been formed and driven into mutual pro- tective alliance against some other group. There are members who be- long to this group for one purpose or set of purposes and to an opposing group for another purpose or set of purposes. Very soon it appears that the situation will have reached a state of equilibrium where no bloc will be effective because of the firm and fast manner in which it's membership is enmeshed with that of all other blocs.
 Nevertheless, while the bloc business is good, it is well to have a bloc de- voted peculiarly and particularly to the South. The members of this tentative new group declare with much truth that the developments of other sec- tions of the country could not have gone forward except for the votes and support of members from the South. Yet the South has not received the at tention normal amount of reciprocal appreciation would counsel. The new bloc means to exert its united influ- ence in behalf of this neglected and important section.
 Among the projects to be put for ward is, of course, the operation of Muscle Shoals for the production of fertilizer at lower price than now prevails, especially for nitrate. The interests of cotton are further to be fostered by an effort to remove the duty from calcium arsenate so widely used in boll-weevil control. The drain age of Southern swamps and the clear ing of cutover pine lands have been emphasized as necessary to the South's proper development. Agricultural commodities are best developed where areas of arabic land are uninterrupted by areas not under cultivation. The program would solidify agricultural areas by removing interruptions of swamp and other land untillable in its present condition. The conservation of forests and the utilization of the South's resources and water power are an intregal part of the program.
 Whatever may be the virtue of con- gressional blocs, it cannot be denied that the program outlined above is a worthy one and deserving of all the political support possible of enlist ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-15
MOTHERS OF FAMOUS
 MEN
The Mother of Porfirio DiaE

When the United States was still a very young country, ana when Mexico was a much less visited place than it is today, two women sat talking in & Mexican hut. on closer glance one saw that one was only a girl, although her dress gave her queer, woman like appearance. Both were exr tremely dark, with wild, hand some beauty.
 eyes. I am all Indian" said the older of the two. "l am all lnolan and you are half Indian and half whitehall Spanish"
 'Tell me something about your people, more than you have told me" pleaded the girl. "There is nos more to tell,' answered the mother. You know my people all ready. They are the Mixteco h. dians, and they live up in the hills, They have lived there since the memory of all men. They are war riors, fighters, fierce, wild men. They are not afraid of anything. Up in their mountains they have always been free, and they have always fought"
 And my father?" said the girl. "Your father. Senor Mariana Mori, whom the saints keep, dead when you were only a child of three, fine, handsome. fighting Spanish man, came up into our mountains and saw me, and he married me"
 The woman crossed herself, and held the girl tightly to her. He was Andalusian, he said, pure An dalusian, and I was Mixteco, pure Mixteco." And I am your child and his child" said the girl softly.
 They were Indians, but human, neverth eless. To the daughter of that Mixteco Indian woman, when the girl was a little. older. came Jose de la Cruz Diaz, another An dalusian of pure white blood. He saw her wild beauty and he loved her. He married her, and their child they named Porfirio Diaz. The father did not live long, and the mother was left to fight pow erty as we'll as she could. She blood, his Andaiusian blood and taught her son to be proud of his his Mixteco blood, and the boy grew up into leader, into the one great President that Mexico has had-Porfirio Diaz.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-15
AERIAL LEADERSHIP
(Des Moines Register,

An important change in the standing of the leading nations in matters of aerial progress is in- dicated by several recent events, among them the successful cruises of the ZR-1, the Pulitzer contests held from St. Louis, and the Schneider Cup contests at Cowes, England.
 With the results of the Pulitzer contest, with its exceedingly high speed figures for land planes. we are all familiar. An American navy entrant. Lieutenant Ritten- house, won the Schneider Cup race for seaplanes bringing the cup to America for the first time since the races were started in 1913. It is interesting incidentally to note that the official speed of the 1913 race was forty-five miles an hour and that the speed has stead fly moved up to more than 150 miles-this with seaplanes. which are obliged to carry a greater dead looad and are subject to more han dicaps in construction from the standpoint of speed development than land planes.
 To get the significance of this victory we may quote the London Times answer to it's own question as to the lesson taught:
 First, that the United States is definitely ahead of Europe at the present time in aeronautical de- sign. as far as high speed is con cerned; that they can build sea- worthy high speed aircraft is not yet proved. as the weather condi- tions on this occasion provided no test of that quality. It would
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-15
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
 By Wickes WamhoIdf

There's lot in a name. I used to think my father had about ruined me when he gave me mine, besides conferring very doubt ful honor on an old friend. From the time was old enough to com prehend it was the bane of my life. When people would ask me my name would say I did not know. Having to get up before 8 snick- erfng classroom the first day of school and announce my name was always a thumb-screw ordeal When I was about twelve years old I took matters into my own hands and adopted a less unusual appellation. This so grieved my father that I finally abandoned the idea and went back to first principles. However, as time went on I became used to 1t. I am not kicking now. It is all right for publicity purposes. and no one else gets my mail. Besides, I met a Kentucky minister by the name of Will B. Dern, and that helped some.
 Yes, there is lots in 8 name. I knew man who had invented a very good contrivance for freezing creams, ices, and so on. He should have made good thing of it. But he organized his company under the name of the Southern Sanitary Glass Mould Ice Cream Freezer Company. He went broke in thre months. And 1t served him right. too.
 One has to be careful with names. When we were settling up the second Red Cross war drive vivid poster was suggested, showing Red Cross nurse hold ing one end of stretcher and be- low was the inscription, Hold Up Your End" Some of the pub- licity experts were rabid against this poster. They declared the drive would be called "The Hold Up Campaign" Under ordinary circumstances they would have been right. But the American pub l1s was not joking much about such things at that time.
 l like to see a mans name tell something about him. According to Webster's Unabridged the mama Emile signifies an educated man. and the word Soue is defined
 HaVing tail" Emile Coue is certainly educated, and he does nave tale, which he tells with effeet. The appellation of J. A. Makeover, tailor of Washington. D. c, Is fitting. But George M. oyster of the same city should be vending bivalves instead of milk.
 Our names are our labels. It shouid pc our constant endeavor 2 to make them stand for the best there Is in human qualifications.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-15

seem, too. that we can learn much from thea- in engine design, though considerable progress in this respect has been made in England since 1914. when the British winner of the cup had a Trench engine. American metal air screws are also in advance of ours, apparently, when they can be relied on and used in a race of this nature"
 Taking this as it is meant, we have a confession by British i'm formed opinion that in speed and several other very important fac tors the United States has moved into the lead of Britain, and pre- sumably~is not behind France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-15

undesirable foreigners out of our country, every conceivable impediment is placed in the way of worthy citi- zen trying to leave us. There is ID reason in the world why any upright citizen desiring to go abroad should not be able to receive from the near est federal judge a certificate en- titling him to passport without fur ther ado, upon presentation to the proper bureau, either by mail or in person. But such plan would be so simple as to reduce the need in Wash ington for clerks and other employees; therefore, it must not be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-15
PINcHoT TO THE GOVERNORS

Whatever else may be said of him it must be acknowledged that the gov er.nor of Pennsylvania is a most per- sistent man. When he brought about the settlement of the anthracite strike, he gave assurance that there was to be no increase in the price of anthra- cite to the consumer. Naturally, and as their custom is, the operators went right ahead and raised the price. Mr.. Pinchot appealed to them to abide by the moral obligation of the award and keep the price in reasonable restraint. The reply was in the nature of an ab- rupt refusal concealed in polite ver- biage, according to reports.
 Is MT. Pinchot at the end of his re- sourcefulness? By no means. After everybody had begun to reconcile themselves to the rising price of an thracite, the doughty governor sends out a call to the governors of twenty nine anthracite-consuming states in- s,viting them into conference on this question. If perchance these govern ors have not given the subject study, MT. Pinchot assures them that, if they have no plan to propose, he has one carefully worked out for their con- sideration.
 That the situation is grave enough to warrant their attention MT. Pin chot sets forth in the following words: sWe do not have to prove the exist ence of abuse in the anthracite indus try or of crying injustice to the con- sumer in extortionate prices. They are matters of common knowledge. It would have been merely the most ele- mentary commonsense for the commit tee of operators to take these evils in hand. Being the producers of the coal, they have the power to do so most effectively. They could, if they would, not only give the consumer a square deal. but at the same time free their industry of the public condemnation which now rests upon it. .. Since the settlement of the coal strike an in- yestigation of the anthracite prices has been in progress at Harrisburg and has resulted in the outline of defi- nite plan for national legislation and for state action. About ninety per cent. of the anthracite mined in Penn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-15
THE MUNICIPAL MARKET

Concern is expressed over the fact that the new municipal market at the corner of Third avenue and Twenty Third street is not drawing the pat ronage anticipated. The city commis- sion has under advisement certain sug- gestions for the improvement of the situation. The new market is clean, sanitary and attractive. Its displays are invitingly arranged and the house. holder is offered a wide variety of food selection in small space under one roof. The public convenience is well served by the establishment. It is complained that there is not suf- ficient variety of fresh produce off, fered, and it is suggested that the truck growers be persuaded to move down to a lot adjoining the market in order to share it's advantages as well as te contribute their appeal to in creased patronage.
 Inasmuch as this is municipal en- terprfse the commission appeals to the public for such cooperation as will make it successful. Many housewives of Birmingham have never visited the market and scarcely know of it's ex- istence, much less of its location. It can be successful ohly in proportion as it is patronized by those whom it is designed to benefit. The fact that marketing is scattered over wide areas has much to do with the failure of people to concentrate their patronage. Perhaps there is a solution for that condition.