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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-22

and past you while you, blinded by the death -dealing-d dub, stop your car, put your hands over your eyes and wait for the pest to pass.
 The horn -honking hounds ante cedents date back to the time of the shepherd who cried, Wolf! Wolff As result, the danger signals of other motorists when the case IS urgent as it was later With the mentioned shepherd, are disregarded and someone is injured. The act of the horn -honking hound is even more heinous than that of the shepherd, for the shepherd suffered the con sequences of his act, while th:s pest goes soctfree of injury and some other person bears the consequences of his folly.
 We must include the race-you- rummy: the fool with the tin can racer or the goof with the jerking junk -jingler, who, considering the vehicle he invariably drives. has not the faintest chance of cleaning you up" in fair, open contest, yet who persists in racing you.
 The rattle of his machinery and the staccato exhaust of his missing en- zine obsess him Into a false idea that he is going fast and, since he can not hear the mechanism of your ve- hicle, he believes he has you stand ing still" The poor race-you -rummy is eventually brought to wondrous widening when a real motorst hap pens to be in a legitimate hurry. Twelve Thousand Killed.
 And then comes the bird who tries to beat the train over a crossing. He is too we'll known to describe, though perhaps the following figures vii interest. you:
 Out of 12,ooo persons killed on the ! highways of the country last year | 1000 were struck down at grade crossings. Investigation has shown
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-22

for himself. The fact that other cars, approaching from both directions, must come to stop and take turns in passing in single file, means noth- ing in his life. $n fact, he takes pleasure in watching their difficult ties and looking at them with an oh- look at the circus parade stare. Then the pass-lgers whom he has in his machine get out and congregate on the middle of the road, standing around as spectators and an advisory circle. When any car passing hap pens to brush them they indulge in sassy" language or, possibly, swear Ing and Vituperation. They own the road, these fools, this association of fools, this congregation of fools
 word about the fellow who when he wants to turn right, has somehow always maneuvered to your right and must therefore cross over in front of your car. Who. when he wants to turn left, is invariably on your left and must again turn across In front of your car. How easy it would be for everyone else if he would think little in advance ano get his car in a position where if he wished to turn left he woIld be in the same stream of traffic and wltere If he wished to turn right he would be right in the right stream of trsf- fic. When he has learned to do that We will call him friend instead of fool.
 TLere Is the muffler-explosior ma nlac. you know him. The fellow with some old. banging ta..erdcna- lion relic who rushes down the car tracks making explosions in bis muf- fer He learned the trick while he was driving truck, throwing lis ignition switch on and off. making series of loud reports and de.ona- tions, much to the high glee of him self and much to the disgust, con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-22

also that one motorist in every three Is careless at grade crossings, ap- preaching the tracks at reckless speed and without taking due notice of oncoming trains. On the south | ern Pacific lines alone during the past three years, 1909 motor cars and trucks were wrecked at grade crossings. In 490 cases or more than 20 per cent, the motorists deliberate ly ran into the trains. In 122 in- stances motor cars plunged through the crossing gates. Nine crossing flagmen were struck down. | In 970 cases In which motorists ran In front of trains 136 persons wero killed and. 4o5 were injured. In 49o cases automobiles stalled on the crossings were demolished. Forty three cars actually collided with the danger signals.
 Which brings us to the constdera- 1 ton of: Why is a fool?
 Is it because of false egotism? | do not feel 1t is necessary to go into detail as to the tagging of the false egotism driver; the one who is under the wrong impression that everyone is racing with him, the one who ps- sists in making his own usurpationS a self-favoring law of the road, or the one who falls into a generf/ cl bis of the irresponsible wrecker. He is q psychological case and he belongs to the same aggregation as the common criminal.
 Is it because of human nature? Partly so. The man that buys his first car wants to be looked upon as an equal in rights of any other man who owns a car even though the lat ter may have been an owner for years The new owner gets out on the street, entirely inexerienced and generally not well educated to the rules of the road, and imm mediately confusion results and, with the cons fusion, antagonism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-22
tempt and antagonsm of everyone else
 O O o Tho Grnze-You-Geek.

tempt and antagonism of everyone else
 Tho Graze-You-Geek.
 Then we have the graze geek, the driver with the bent and dented lenders and the battered or missing hub caps. His special delight, to come as close to your carefully groomed car as possible without actually striking 1t. He will swish up along direction with his clans utter dis regard for the safety of your ve hiclc and miss you fy a hairs breadth. At least, that is his intention. Often, as the condition of his car proves. he miscalculates bit and your machine is shocked into a con- dition resembling his. You try to collect damages and find that he owes money on his car and that 1t already has been attached for dam ages by some one before you.
 His brother is the small-space- squeezer. on the working we'd ger; he can slide between truck and street car with diligence and daring that is laudable. He can dodge between cars coming from opposite directions with an agility that even tually turns out to be not so tile and the wreck resulting minces sew eral law abiding motorists.
 The brash- brake-burner also has a murderous complex. He comes Cn at a sizzling speed and then, CLAP!i- on go his brakes like the seizure of fit. His tires scrape with loud remonstrance on the pavement. his car lenses and groans. and the brakes shriek-all expecting the sudden crash. Through the fine and lofty purpose of the cars builder. things | somehow hold together and an acci- dent is averted-that time. This method of action gets to be a habit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-22
CLUES TO EARLY. CIVILIZATION \ RE FOUND UPON I RIP
English Globe Trotter Finds Primitive Race In South sE America

LONDON, April 1s.-F. A Mitchell Hedges, slobe-trotter, hunter and eX- plorer, claims that he has discovered America and has submitted his proof to the scientists Cf the British mu- scum.
 4 The significance of the recent dis coveries of Mitchell-Hedges In Cen yral America was disclosed when he submitted his report to tho British scientists.
 The explorer has just returned from a two-year exploration tour of Gen. itral. America and surrounded by the anost eminent scholars of England, he submitted the results of his research, discussed the existence of new race, -and described his reception by peo- pie who had never before look d upon a white man.
 ss Piled high in closely guarded room were thousands of objects (which, 1t Is said. will reopen all in nDp0 years ago.
 Picture writing Seen.
 Included in the exhibition were specimens of picture writing which may reveal a new history of the early mgra tions of mankind. The mummi- lied remains of men and women 1iV- Ing centuries ago but these descend intS still live are understood to prove the theory that the Chinese first settled on the American continent
 Mitchell-Hedges also displayed rel les which he offers as proof that anImals of the Jurassic period-the second in order of age in the geo. logic periods ct mprised In the Meso- Eoic era-thought to be extinct for thQtIsands of years still live.
 Around the room hung more than a hundred specimens of the works of people who have not advanced since their isolation six to ten thousand years ago. Other souvenirs pertain to 7 lost tribe" living the same as their primeval ancestors.
 Accompanied by Lady Richmond Brown, Mitchell Hedges sailed from lCoIon and travelled 100 miles In 3o- ttsn yacht, threading 15o miles through Coral Reef islands and f- snSlly penetrating the hinterland of s4Nnama. It was In the Chuncunaqua bcountry that he encountered race of Indians that had never before seen a white man.
 l aThe collection of Mitchell Hedges lis safely guarded as it is expected Ethat it. will reveal the most import ant clues to early civilization. He l, also obtained valuable data concern | ing primitive ocean life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-22
THE DRIVING FOOL" How Can We Eliminate Motoring's Most Deadly
 Menace?

works in a score of ways, a few of which are set forth below.
 o 0 0
 The Best Loved.
 There are two kinds of block deliberate We love the deliberate one least. He Is the fellow who, when on dusty country road, will not let you by. Each time you ap- proach and blow the horn he swings in front of your car. If you go slow to let him get aheaS. he slows down. too If you come to wide place where you have chance to ass. he puts on full speed. As soon as an oiled stretch is reached he hurries on, that you may not pass and lead the way. We all love this fellow, especially while we eat his dust and think what a dirty driver!
 The hog O the farm has hair on his
 back,
 The hog O the road on his face; If l should compare the road hog. To the farm hog. 'twould be dis
 grace.
 There's hog O the farm. and hog
 O the train.
 A hog eVeryWhere-I'll be blowed. But the llttlest. dirtiest, meanes of all Is the two-legged hog O the road!
 -George ChaffS. The unknowlng block-u-more fool may be excused. There is hope for him. What he needs is education and most of his tribe do learn with the fleeting of time. Against th/ chap we hold no grudge; rather We extend helping hand. Most proba- bly, we were all unknowing biock-u- more fools at one time ourselves that is our soft spot; that Is why we sympathize. Possibly that Is why the great motoring fraternity is so pa uent; all striving for a high level with their cars.
 Then there is the tire changing temper tester; the guy (eXact sense) who. when he has a flat tire, brings his car to stop in the most desira ble place on the road. Usually he places his car so that there is plenty of room to walk around it with convenience
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-22
By FRED GILMAN JOPP
 In Motor Land.) Selected By Birmingham Auto Club.


 We writer chaps, reader, have magic typewriters. I have dropped you in hurting motor car, along side of a fool driver. Save yourself if you can.
 The streaming glare of the lamps before you lights the steepest of down grades. stony, uneven, rut- filled. This fool at your side ignores his brakes and Is running free. He is going to take that incline wide open! It is utter madness Simulta- neously you are conscious of a jar and leap Of striking something, of surmounting it, and plunging on ward. For what seems seconds endless seconds-the car Is in the air. and then the road rises in it's might to smite you. There Is a de- tonation, crack. bang, horrible deafening. Then everything goes black.
 Realistic. what? And it is more than probable that you have encoun- tered just such an accident as set forth above. Or. if you haven't, you have pictured 1t just this way.
 Do we all know the driving fool? I'll say we do. Why, then. isn't it a good plan to have a special Sunday memorial service, dedicated to driv- ing fools-with all the spare parts for such occasions. Ii could be mem Crized by preachers all over the coun- try and would go something like this:
 organ prelude. Keep Your Tail Lights Burning"
 Announcement of text: "Blessed are the pace-makers, for they shall disnhabit the earth
 Offertory hymn, There's a Little Spark of Gas Still Burning"
 Sermon, Consider the joyriders; they toll not but they certainly do spin"
 Song (by the eight-cylinder choir), q am Skidder Saved By Grease" Organ prelude, Crossing the Grade Crossing"
 How does this fool work? He
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-22
TIRE REPAIR FREE
IlAckson Tire Company Makes An
 . Unusual Offer.

. Unusual Offer.
 sThe Jackson Tire company, on Twentieth street. south, In featuring
 a special sale of tires this week
 make an unusual offer in regard to free repairs on tires bought from this store. In this offer this con cern agrees to repair without charge any accident that may happen to the tire The only condition is that the tire to be repaired must be bgSught in within sixty days after its pur- chase. In this way castings that suf- fsr an accident within sixty days are repaired free.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-22
SENATOR IN RUSSIA
Wheeler and Wife Guests of Soviet
 CnNArm q III

WHEeIef unu OutstS Government.
 : MOSCOW, April 21--Sen. Burton K. Wheeler. of Montana, accompanied
 by his wife. arrived here this after
 noon for stay of 10 days. He was snlent without ceremony at the rail way station by one official of the
 foreign office. While here Senator and Mrs. Wheeler will reside in the
 mansion provided by the soviet gov -ernment as a guest house for dis iifnguished visitors.
Evening star., 1923-05-31
ALLEY DWELLERS'
TIME LIMIT HERE
Closing Law Effective To.
morrow Enforcement
Awaits Court Decision.
tContinued on Page ., Column

Although the alley closing law be-
comes effective tomorrow. the Com
missioners will not attempt to enforce
it against the ninety-two men. women
and children affected until the Dis
trict Supreme Court acts on the pend
ing test case
This was made known today by
Commissioner Rudolph, chairman of
the board, who voiced the opinion
that it might be discourteous to the
court to start prosecutions tomorrow
with decision soon to be rendered.
1t is nearly nine years since the
law making it illegal to use alley
property for residential purposes was
enacted by Congress. The original
act provided that it should become
effective July 1. 1918. War conditions,
however. made 1t necessary for the
legislators to postpone the operation
of the law until the present time.
Evening star., 1923-05-31
U.S.. Is Too Busy,
Warns "Spirit''
OF NorthcIiffe
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calf, May 81
Sir A. Conan Doyle says he has
had a message from Lord North
cliffe's spirit saying that a wave
of spiritual reform can save the
world from plunging headlong into
a catastrophe which will make the
world war seem insignificant
The American people," Lord
Northcliffe's message said, ''are too
busy. That was the mistake I
made in my lifetime. / was too
busy then. but l understand now
that wisdom is lost in the scram-
bic for material progress. When
men lose wisdom they invite dis
aster"
Sir Arthur declared that he also
has received other messages from
the spiritual world which verified
the statements made by Lord
Northcliffe's spirit Some even
have gone so far as to predict that
the disaster will descend during
his lifetime, Sir Arthur said.
Evening star., 1923-05-31
Boy Kills Self
Feigning Death
To ease Dog

NEW YORK, May 31.-Francis
Dangieri, eleven years old. acci-
dentalIy killed himself while play
ing dead. so his little dog Brownie
would whine in sorrow, the police
believe.
Francis body, with two neck
ties drawn in a slip moose about
the neck, was found hanging from
q door knob in his Brooklyn
home last night by his six-year-
old sister Eleanor when she re-
turned with Mrs. Dangieri from
the movies. Brownie was nuzzling
his dead master and whining
The police at first thought Fran
els had been murdered, an open
window leading to a fire escape
lending credence to the theory
Later 1t was. decided the boy had
slipped his head through the moose
to tease the dog and had strangled
before he could release himself
Evening star., 1923-05-31
RELEASE Of ALLEN
AR0USES j. S. HOPE
Chinese Bandits Expected to
Free All Americans Soon,
Advices Say.

Unconditional release by the Chinese
bandits Of two OF their captives.
Maj. Robert A. Allen, United States
Army. and w. Smith. was confirmed
officially in a dispatch received at
the State Department today from
Consul Davis at Lincheng. The con-
sui added that the negotiations for
release OF the remaining prisoners
held by the bandits continue favor
ably"
Opposed Attempt at Rescue.
From Minister Schuman at Peking,
Under an earlier date. the department
received a ,eablegram telling of a let
ter written by Maj. Alien before his
release and opposing an attempted
rescue by force:
We are all in good health Mai.
Aliens letter said. I'VE are well
treated. We are not suffering. We
good health indefinitely if we scrupu-
lously regard the rules Of hygiene
necessary in China.
Why be impatient at the slowness
or the Chinese government in secur-
ing our release: Would 1t not be
or two longer and eventually be re-
leased with whole skins than to have
our lives endangered because our
relatives and friends outside or some
OF US here are impatient at the delay %
Favored "SIfght PRESSURE,
The minister's cablegram quoted
John Powell. the American newspaper
man designated to participate in ne
gotiations for release of the prisoners
as having approved the plan of the
Chinese government to strengthen
it's military Gordon around the bandits
and to exert slight pressure with
out, however, opening any hostili-
ties" Powell reported that the ban
dit chiefs were growing more de-
sirous to negotiate with the Chinese
officials.
The cablegram said regular sup
plies of food, medicine and clothing
were being sent in to the prisoners.
Evening star., 1923-05-31
Parking and Avenue Traffic Guide

The automobile parking which
scheduled into effect midnight has been postponed until
IL o'clock Saturday night.
The designated by yellow lamppoas,
in effect, and will remain in force until June 10.
will be vehicles tonight and
Headley following rules
tomobles the gay white way these nights
No lehand Pennsylvania Monu
and the Treasury Vehicles and off the Avenue by right
hand
Vehicles the length lighted will
by south roadway of the Treasury and thence north East
Executive
Vehicles desiring for the full length Of the
West Executive through th north
18th Pennsylvania then Peace Monument
Evening star., 1923-05-31
WHISKY DEFINITION
TEST WON BY j. s.
Court Rules Alcoholic Content
Need Not Be Proved in
Bootleg Trials.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 31.-The United
States circuit court of appeals today
ruled that the government need not
prove the alcoholic content of whisky
or whether it was At for beverage pur-
poses in cases where indictments
charge violation of dry laws In which
the liquor is specified as whisky.
. This ruling was contained in an opin-
ion written by Judge Henry Wade
Rogers, in which Judges Martin T.
Manton and julius NJ. Mayer con-
CURED.
The opinion was rendered in affirm
ing sentence imposed last November
by Federal Judge Mack on seven boot
leggers convicted of bringing $50 bar
rels Of whisky from Canada into the
United States on the representation
that 1t was in transit to Havana.
Disposing of the main contention OF
the plotters that the Canadian
whisky did not contain more than one
half of per cent Of alcohol, Jude Rogers
said:
Under this statute tprohibition) 1,
is our opinion that II an indictment
alleges Il violation of the act as re-
spects whisky 1T is not necessary for
the government to show that the
whisky contained one-half per centun
or more of alcohol by volume, or tina,
the whisky was fit for beverage MIR.
poses. If 1t Is shown that the adts were
committed with respect to whisky
which acts the statute prohibited. ths
alcoholic content need not be proven
We think that the language OF the g,
is not capable of any other construc-
ton.
Evening star., 1923-05-31
DRY NET T|CHTENS
HERE, SAYS HAYNES
Rum Craft Ready for Dash
Up Potomac as Officials
Plan Defense.

1T is harder to buy drink in
Washington today than ever before"
This was the confident assertion of
Prohibition Commissioner Roy Haynes
as he emerged from a conference at
the District building today, at which
final plans were mapped out to make
the National Capital dry during the
Shrine convention.
Commissioner Haynes declared that
the best prohibition agents in Amer
lea have been in the District under
cover" for several months and are
here now to back up the local au-
thorities.
Mr. Haynes paid tribute to District
officers, declaring that the local police
have in the past and are now working
hand in hand with the federal gov
ernment in enforcing the Volstead
law.
No Good Liquor.
There is practically no good liquor
in Washington" said Mr.. Haynes.
"All that is here is crude. synthetic
stuff and nearly all poisonous. And
even those varieties are. to be found
In only small quantities"
Present at the conference were
Commissioners Rudolph, Oyster. and
Besson, Maj. Daniel Sullivan. super
intendent Of police; Inspector G. L.
lowley and Edgar N. Reed and high
oficials in the prohibition bureau.
The meeting was held in Commis-
sioner Oysters Office and followed a
letter received by him two days ago
from President Harding, in which the
Wa hnna
that the Washington police would
succeed in preventing fragrant boot
logging here during the conciave.
Runners Lie In Wait.
Despite Mr.. Haynes assertion to-
day, 1t Is well known among prohibi-
tion men that keen-eyed river rum
night to speed into Washington via
the Potomac river with thousands of
gallons Of liquor for Shrine week.
Precautions are being taken, and the
Gordon which has been thrown about
Washington on land is to be extended
to the capital.
This was learned today through a
general survey Of the situation, and
confirmed by Edgar N. Read, divisional
prohibition director; Mr.. Read added
down-river sources, unofi1cially. and
had already made plans to obtain
speedy river craft to combat the river
rum runners.
Some Night This Week.
"Some night this week" Is being
awaited by some sixty-odd prohibi-
tion agents drawn from all sections
of the country, and on that night, II
such attempt 10 made. there will be a
hot time In the old town.
As usual, prohibition enforcement
lCon,tnuso on Page 2. Column -
Evening star., 1923-05-31
URGES STRONGER TIES
WITH WAR ASSOCIATES
Mai. Gen. Allen Deplores Failure
to Go On Into Germany Before
Peace Arranged.

wINsToN-SALEM.N n. c.. May. 81
A plea that the ties that bound the al
lied and associated nations curing
the world war should ever be
strengthened was made here yester-
day BY Mai. Gen: Henry r. Allen.
who commanoeo tue ne. phine
Gen. Allen, who was the CHIEF
speaker at memorial services here,
also said that many American. British
and French soldiers thought that the
allies should have gone farther into
Germany before agreeing upon peace
and added that events since the ar
mistfce had shown that such action
would have been better for the al
lied cause.
,ncIuded military detachments. Con-
federate veterans, members OF the
American Legion and representatives
Of many other patriotic OBSERVATIONS.
and in his address also paid tribute
to North Carolina's sons. especially
those in the S1st Division.
Evening star., 1923-05-31
SUSPECT FIRE BUG IN BLAZE.

ST. JOHNSBURY. VT, May 81
Fire which the police believe to have
been Of incendiary origin early today
destroyed the A. L. Bailey building,
noents: the Smith Grocery Company
building, containing one store and
one tenement, and the Please-U Thea
ter. The loss Is estimated at $4,000
1t was the seventh early morning nre
here In 1t,,o months.
Evening star., 1923-05-31
Claude Kitchin, House Leader
Many Years, Dies in South
Guided Democratic
Minority; Popular
With Members.
Illness Began With
Stroke During
Peace Debate.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WILSON, N c., May 31.-Repre-
sentative Claude Kitchin, formerly
minority leader in the lower house
OF Congress. died at s:14 o'clock this
morning. - q
Mr.. Kitchin. whose death had been
expected hourly fors the last three
days, began sinking shortly before
midnight last night and the end came
peacefully early this morning. He
had been in a semi-conscious condi-
tion since Monday, but rallied yes
terday afternoon. and last night a