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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05
soUTHERN's PROPOSED EDIFIcE

The Southern Railways announce
ment of intention to build ten
story office building in Birmingham
reflects that systems appreciation of
the situation of Birmingham as "a
strategic point of large local opera
tons. 1t is also logical sequence
of the Importance of this district in
the scheme of the carrier. Birming-
ham freight tonnage is the barometer
OF the financial condition of the car
riers entering here. When the South
ern reports handsome net earnings
acknowledgement is invariably made
of the part which this districts ton
mage had in bringing them about.
Birmingham is the central point of
the Southern's Southeastern opera
tions and the building of the large
office structure here is avowal of
that fact. The city and the Southern
Railway have grown together. The
new building will typify that growth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05
REGULATION is IN ORDER

The city commission in considering
the regulation of the motor vehicle
as I method of public transportation
will make no mistake if in every step
that is taken the public interest is
paramount. The more the motor
vehicle enters into public service the
more it affects the public and, there
fore, of the more Importance is it
that its operations conform to rea-
sonable requirements. Whosoever
lives by the patronage of a commu-
nifty owes to the community extend
ing that patronage obedience to the
regulations providing for community
welfare. There should be no excep-
ton in the case of the motor vehicle.
The city will not err in establishing
for the operation of the ''jitneys"
rules that stand for regular schedules
and guarantee of the safety and con-
venience of the public.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05
THE COAL SITUATION

1t is high time that both coal oper-
ators and workers realize that the
question of paramount Importance to
tie American people, SO far as the
coal industry is concerned, is a regu-
lar supply of coal at reasonable prices,
and that, to that end, the public de-
mands suggestion for constructive
measures. There is notable plethora
of indictment of one another for past
misdeeds and mistakes in the data
submitted to the federal coal commits.
sion by the operating and working
forces in the industry, and striking
minimum of remedial and construc.
tive suggestion.
Referring to this pot-calling- the ket
tle-black procedure the Wall Street
Journal is correctly translating public
opinion when it observes: "There is
third party in this question, greater
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05
POOR BOYS WHO
BECAME FAMOUS
By Frederick Houn Y,a~
George w. Cable


Hungry and tired, but riding
manfully with the Fourth Missis-
sippi Cavalry in the Civil war,
was nineteen-year-o boy
named Gable. His patriotic ia
Their had named him after the Fa-
Their of his Country, and so his full
name was George Washington
Cable. He was short and slen-
der boy to bear so great a name,
but he bore it becomingly, and he
has never dishonored it.
George W. Gable was born in
the old French city of New Or
leans. There he spent his hoy
hood up to the time of the Civil
war, and became familiar with the
quaint old buildings, the crurob-
ling memories of proud days under
French rule, the queer foreign
streets, the patois of the Creolds,
and all the soft Southern romance
that clings about the old city.
Hard necessity gripped him and
made it necessary for him to
leave school and his happy ram
bles and go to work. At fourteen
years of age young Cable found a
place in store and began the
struggle of life on his own &C
count. There he worked for five
years until the Civil war drew him
from his dreamy city into the
rough life of the cavalry cam
paigns. He remained fighter
until the very close of the war.
when he came back once more to
his native city and again went to
work for merchant.
But the war opened the young
mans eyes to the greatness of
the world. and he cast about him
for something better than the life
of a clerk. He took the time to
study civil engineering. All this
time he maintained his interest in
the quaint and curious about him.
and so he began to write and at
last became one of the regular
staff of New Orleans paper.
Having passed what may be
called his apprenticeship in writ
ing, he took courage to send some
of his stories of Creole life to
Scribner's Magazine. At once peo-
pie in the North, as well as in the
South, saw that new writer had
come into view. Because he had
written honestly and sympathetic
cally, his stories were delicate
and quaint as some of the old
lace worn by the Creole ladies'
about whom he wrote. From that
time he has devoted himself
wholly to literature. He has writ
ten many novels and many short
stories. but all of them give the
fragrance and charm of the South.
He rose to his position as a widely
recognized novelist because he had
deep interest in the life about
him and sympathy with old
scenes. long-gone days and odd
types of character.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05
NEW ORLEANS AS EXAMPLE

New Orleans is this week celebrat-
ing the completion of a $20,00O,O0O
harbor Improvement project. The in
dustrial canal will be formally opened
and this stretch of eleven miles of
additional harbor front, so enclosed
as to be free of tides, will have be-
gun to serve the state of Louisiana
and the South. New Orleans is the
second port of the country, New York
alone exceeding in the total of i'm
ports and exports.
To what does New Orleans owe this
position? To the farsighted business
acumen of her people who saw in
state aid extended to the states port
the increase of the volume of business
and the prosperity of the whole state.
It is the state aid extended the port
of New Orleans that raised il 20 the
rank of second of the country great
gateways to world trade. Alabamians
have seen what state aid did for New
Orleans and that is why, once seeing
clearly what such policy means, gave
a tremendous majority to the constitu-
tional amendment calling for state
development of the Port of Mobile.
Alabama's seaport will as certainly
grow and develop her service to all
Alabama as the port of New Orleans
grew and developed under louisa
mas supervision. What Mobile al
ready is and does more than Justl-
fies the confidence which is felt in
the application of state credit to de-
velopment. New Orleans is the proof
of what is to be done at Mobile. No
sounder proof could be asked.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05
MOTHERS OF FAMOUS
MEN
The Mother Of Edmund kean


A more romantic life than that
Sof Edmund Kean, the great Eng
fish actor of past generations,
could scarcely be found in fiction.
kean was the son of Edmund
kean, who was connected with the
theatre of the day. although not
an actor. and Miss Nance Carey.
an emotional young woman who
acted when she could get an en-
gagement and spent the rest of
her time selling perfume and
cosmetics around the theatres.
The elder kean and Miss Carey
were never legally married, SO the
little boy, who came into the
world more or less unwanted, bore
the stigma of illegitimacy. Writ
ing of his arrival into the world.
biographer says of Miss Carey,
who was the daughter of George
Saville Carey. an actor and the
author of sally in Our Alley:
He was not particularly well
come to his mamma, in whom the
maternal instincts were not pre-
dominant She did not love him
enough to keep him with her, but
gave him to friend who brought
him up with great care and kind
ness. The little boy, however, in
herited many of his mothers tenn
peramental equalities, especially
her instinct and love for the
theatre. which was her strongest
characteristic. While she never
reached that height as an actress,
she did have that all-important
quality which is elusively de-
scribed as "a feeling for the
theatre" No hardship was too
great to bear for her work, and
she would do anything at all SIM
ply to remain in the theatrical at
mosphere. This quality, plus
God given genius for acting. be-
slowed no doubt to compensate
for the loss of his legal standing
in the community, made Edmund
Kean the greatest actor of his
generation.
OF Nance Carey one writer says:
she did Kean an irremediable
harm by bearing him out of we'd
lock, but did the world an un-
repayable service by bearing him
at ALL"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05

fliers who will duplicate the feat in
less time, but, as Lieutenant Kelly re-
marked: eve will always be the
first" New chapters are continually
being written into aviation history,
but some are more thrilling than
others. Some of the credit also goes
to the patient experimenters in the
shops who have evolved the present
mighty engines, the strong yet light
construction, and painstakingly cor
rected the weaknesses as they have
been developed by each new and
harder test. Some get more glory
than others; but that is due to faults
in our historical bookkeeping.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05
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FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN

+ The pages of our history are re-
plete with noted names of those who
have achieved something for the ma
ton, but there is yet room for the
names of John MacReady and Oakley
Kelley, who this week completed the
first nonstop airplane flight across
the American continent, from Long
Island to San Diego, a distance of
2.4O3 miles. These are the same
young men who started similar
flight last November from San Diego
eastward, but were forced to descend
in Illinois because of leaky radiator.
These same men also hold the record
for continuous endurance flight of
more than thirty-six hours, nearly ten
hours more than consumed in their
flight from ocean to ocean. 1t is al
most incredible that one may eat his
luncheon in New York City one day
and dinner in California the next, but
it has been done.
The practical value of this long
flight is valuable as test of the
progress in aviation and as demon
stration of the improvement in ma
: ch:nery. The young men themselves
found the trip very exhausting, and
perhaps the necessity for such long
flights is still remote. That they were
able to steer their course by night
and to arrive accurately at dawn at
the far-distant point aimed at during
the darkness is valuable achieve
pnent which may have immediate ap
klication. The air mail service has
been considering night scedules, and
undoubtedly can apply to their owr
problems some of the data collected
by the two champions. For example
it is found that ground lights are
valuable as guides. Perhaps event
ually there will be established rows
Of light towers along chosen routes
for the guidance of night-fliers, SC
that essential service may be con-
tinued without interruption.
Undoubtedly there will come Other
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05
A GOVERNMENT SIDESTEP

1t rather appears that the federal
authorities have not so much sug
gested the housewives strike against
the price of sugar as turned eagerly
to it as a means of evading the re-
sponsibility of striking at the source
of the manipulation. 1t is all right
for housewives to refuse TO buy su-
gar when they regard the price as
higher than it should be, but for the
federal officials to advocate boy
colt, in disregard of the federal laws
against boycotts, is too strange to es-
cape attention.
There is good reason to believe
that federal laws have been violated
in order to boost the price of sugar.
Surely the government is not war
ranted in meeting<an infraction of law
on the part of some of its citizens
with the suggestion that the rest of
the citizens fight it with tactics
of their own. In the minds
of thoughtful citizens, the proper
course for the government to pursue
is to punish those who are deliberately
breaking the law in order to win I'M
just profits on household necessity.
There have been repeated intimations
from the department of Justice that
it is on the trail of the culprits and
that laws have been broken. What
new authority has the government
been given to assume that it is no
longer under obligation to punish
those in high places who break the
laws?
If the housewives silently and tao
lily wage boycott against the buying
of sugar beyond their necessities, that
is their affair. The housewives
are merely undergoing nat
ural reaction to the situation.
The government cannot, under
cover of that reaction, shirk it's
own duty in the premises, for pun
ishment of any who have broken the
law in order to profit thereby will
not only cure the present evil, but
will establish the authority OF the
laws concerned and will operate as a
significant warning against future
manipulation of the same kind. The
governments duty is to protect the
housewives against the necessity of a
buyers strike, for that necessity rests
upon fundamental injustice that
should not be tolerated. The ma
chinery of the law is potent to correct
the situation. If it is not corrected,
the blame lies not with the law, but
with those whose duty it is to en-
force it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05

by far than the operators and opera
tives. Coal is vital necessity. The
public is the great complaining body
and primarily the investigation is for
its benefit. It's indictment is against
all interests that interfere with the
production and distribution of coal at
an equitable price. The commission
needs and is probably endeavoring to
secure constructive suggestions from
operators and operatives in order to
meet the requirements of the public.
But all it appears to be getting is a
recital of grievances of one party
against the other"
If this is all the federal coal COM
mission were to get out of its investi-
CATION it should be disbanded at once
and have done with a farce. How
ever, the commission has its own en-
gineers, its own accountants and va
riety of other experts making report
to it of their disinterested findings
of fact and the members of the COM
mission have personally visited the
various coal mining regions and in
spected them at first hand. They
should be able to collect and compile
data on which they may build con-
structive remedy. The hope for bet
ter conditions in the production and
distribution of the nations coal sup
ply rests on this commissions ability
to assemble the facts and consider
them quite apart from the ex parte
statement of grievances. Fortunately
the commission seems both inclined
and able to do that.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05
A COMMUNITY AFFAIR

This community has arrived at a
sound appreciation of what the anti
tuberculosis movement means. For
many years is was regarded as pure
philanthropy. The man who gave to
the cause was inclined to take unc-
ton to himself on the presumption
that he was serving some poor devil
whose path and his own were sepa-
rate and would not meet. 1t has been
learned that the path of tuberculo-
sis is the broad one that every one
travels and that the only way OF
making it safe is to eradicate the
disease. Men and women have real
lied that it stalks abtut their homes
and in the street cars, In crowded
.assemblages, all too often coming
close to them through their own
friends and relatives. Birmingham
is in earnest about this great neces-
sity. 1t is the more in earnest be-
cause the sanatorum project is on a
sound business basis and has the as
surance of maintenance by the
county and city. The community is
sensible of the service which it is
performing for it's own safety and
each giver to the fund, while giving
to help others, knows that he is also
protecting himself and his family. 1t
is fine cause that is well under
stood and is on sound and practl-
cal basis. That is why very prac-
teal and progressive people are do
ing the right thing by it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05
ACIpELIcHTS ~ @oz1
A\NATIOkAL <E|
INCAPITAL E1TsnsNIIl1 \

J
When the remnant of the ar
mics of Lee and Jackson paraded
down Pennsylvania avenue some
years ago, at It's mead were two
senators of the United States. the
one in gray and the other in blue.
They were John Hollis Bankhead
of Alabama and knute Nelson or
Minnesota.
SINCE that memorable OCCASION
both have passed over the Styx.
Senator Bankhead died after
| long illness March l, 1920; Sena-
tor Nelson expired suddenly OF
heart disease while en- route nome
Just one week ago today.
| While Senator warren of wy
oming is SAID TO nave seen some
service IN the war between the
/ states, there is no real survivor Oh
one OF the world greatest con-
gress. In the lower are two who
formerly were real soldiers, Cen
eral Stedham of North Carolina
and General Sherwood of Ohio.
Ihere was strohs friendship
| between senator Bankheao ana
Senator Nelson. When the Tor
mer died. the latter followed tine
remains TO Alapama' ana sheo
tear as the soo 1eIi upon .he cas-
ket.
Ihere is niue question put mat
II those VINO nave gone pe1ore can
! mlhsle with UNDERSTANDING IN
spirit word, senator Bankheao
was on the border OF that mEste
rlous country TO welcome MS olu
comrade. Ana then again were
foueht the battle OF Chicamausa
ana the pattle OF FRANKLIN anu
oouotiess the ola comrades shliieu
"hlmslcallv "hen recalIlhs seha-
torlai STRUGGLES between Defhocral
potent enough to divide the coun-
try, but which now are of little
more substance than the stuff of
which dreams are made.
IN one OF the test votes over
the question OF muscle ohoals III
1924, senator Nelson' TO the sur
prise OIL hepubilcans ana Deno-
Gratis al1ke, voted with the Demo
Gratis. his vote turned the Tue
EVERY e1fort OIL ms party COZ
leagues TO induce MIN 10 chahee
ms vote faiied. Inc ola gentie-
man was opdurate. AL the same
Tune, ne was unhappy. Inc rea-
son poth LOT MS ooouracE anu uh-
happiness developed later.
a!oh want 70 cas-. INA. we
ne SAID. But promised Johh
Bankheao 10 vote Ior Muscie
shoais ana Foteo LOT muscle
shoals. Ihere was no way 10
aVoio IL.
NO one khe" mat senator Mel
head How easily a smaller man
could have forgotten a promise to
the dead.
IL is SAID that senator nelson
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05
JOHN-A-DREAMS
Dreams of Famous wome1

In trying to interpret dreams
of famous women. you must be
very careful so as not to con-
found mere notoriety with real
fame.
The visions of which l speak
refer only to the greatest women
in history, such as Queen Victo-
ria, Cleopatra, the Queen of She
ba, or any of those whose names
have become identified with hui
man development. BY no means
does the Interpretation / am about
to give you apply when your
dream is of moving picture star
or a musical comedy queen. To
dream of one of these great fig
ures in history or legend means
that through a sudden stroke of
fortune you will be raised to dizzy
heights and the change in your
condition will remove you so far
from your present associates that
you will hardly remember them in
short while, no less know them.
dreams are very rare. but the
woman or girl who sees a vision
of this character may we'll pre-
pare herself for experiences which
are the lot of few of her sisters.
This vision may mean untold
wealth, great title, fame such as
only comes to the greatest. or
some other marvellous elevation
which will turn her life into a
fairy tale In order to make the
Interpretation apply with Its full
force, the dreamer must find her
self in actual contact or CONVEX
sation with the great woman of
her dream. She must meet her
on equal terms and the appear
ance must not come as a shock
or as surprise, but as though it
were one of the ordinary Incl
dents of her life
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05
10 FAVORITE BOOKS
ny Olga sa,naroff

Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini.
The Brothers karamazov"
(Dostoievsky).
Dead Souls" (GoEoD.
Letters of Flaubert.
The Aran Islands" (Synge).
Treasure Island" (Stevenson).
Lord Jim" (Conrad).
Legend" (Clemence Dance.
Essays on Russian Novelists"
(Williaim Lyon Phelps).
"Sartor Resartus" (Carlyle).
Can we not take Shakespeare,
Dante, Moliere and a few others
for granted before beginning such
a list?
Copyright, 1928. United States and
Great Britain. for The Age Herald, by
North American Newspaper Alliance
All rights reserved.l
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05
NOT THE SPORT OF POLITICS

1t is now believed that some meas
ure authorizing a soldiers bonus will
pass the next congress. Unfortu=
nately, the emphasis is being placed,
not upon our national obligation to
provide some form of adjusted COM
pensation for the veterans of the great
war, but upon the effect such meas
ure will have on the political fortunes
of those who support it. Already
discussion is rife as to the extent and
influence of the so-called soldier vote,
and perhaps there will be "bonus
bloc" in congress for the purpose of
corralling the veterans vote, just as
there is a farm bloc to corral the
farm vote. Certainly our legislative
temple is in need of scourging and
those who put personal preference
above considerations of national well
fare driven out. Of course, this ma
ton can afford a bonus, and of
course, bonus should be voted. But
it should not be made the sport of
politics.
The lawmakers may reply that they
are merely sounding out public senti-
ment so that they may act in accord
ance Herewith. The reply is specious,
for there are two motives for feeling
out public sentiment. One is for the
purpose of directing national affairs
in accordance with the national will.
Such a motive counsels that not the
sentiment of the day be followed,
but the established settled sentiment
that will not fade with the morrows
sun, for public opinion varies from
day to day, although following a con-
sistent mean when taken year by
year. Such a motive is the basis of
craftsmanship and leads to wise leg
islation looking only to the general
good.
The other motive controls the opin-
ions and colors the views of too many
in high places but of low ideals. 1t
seeks out the sentiment of the day
so that it may put itself in accord
Herewith in order that the politician
may remain in power by virtue of the
votes thereby conciliated. Such
man would today vote for the SOL
diers' bonus, because he believes that
to do so would keep him in office,
and would tomorrow vote against the
bonus for the same reason. Never
would a lawmaker of this type vote
contrary to what he conceives to be
popular opinion.
The statesman, on the other hand,
might vote contrary to the opinion Of
the day or even of the generation,
confident in the belief that posterity,
even if not his contemporaries, would
come to approve his course. States
men are what the nation needs. Men
who would scorn to make capital of
the bonus and vote for it merely be-
cause it might bring them votes; but
who would vote for it because it is the
just and right thing to do. Congress
former passage of the bonus, because,
in spite of the advice of the secretary
of the treasury and the pleas of the
president of the United States, it pro-
vided no revenue for payment. AL.
though the president warned congress
that he would veto the measure I'M
less it carried provision for revenue,
the measure in it's original form was
passed, and lost by veto.
Let whatever is now done in this
matter, be done wisely and in bust
nesslike manner, and for no other
reason than that it is just and over
due obligation of the nation to it's
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05

Russia has protested against the
stoppage in Switzerland of a Soviet
courier to the Lausanne conference.
The Soviet threatens, if the complaint
is not adjusted, to take the necessary
measures" Doubtless, if the adjust
ment is refused, the Soviet will pro-
coed to the massacre of all Swiss in
Russia,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-05
SMILES


Mr.. Newdad-"Don't you think
the baby lookes like me, nurse?"
The Nurseries. somewhat;
but don't worry. All newborn
babies look funny