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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

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UNFAIR TO ALABAMA MILLS

Alabama textile mills have the same
inherent right to concentration rates
on Alabama cotton destined to Ala
bama mill centers as the Carollnas
have to such rates. Indeed it is
greater right. Still greater is the
right to have concentration privilege
such as, it is understood, has resulted
in lower freight rate on Alabama
cotton to Eastern than to some Ala
bama mills. Why it has been other
wise is difficult to understand were it
not for the common knowledge that
railroad rates have not beea built up
on lines of fairness to communities,
but from the standpoint of greatest
returns to the railroads. The railroads
have often suffered from these foolish
determinations quite as much as COM
munities, through their deadening eff
feet on general development and con-
sequent loss of revenue that develop
ment would have brought about. The
cotton concentration case is an In
stance. While Alabama mills have
been forced to pay the two local rates,
one from producing point and the
other from concentrating centers like
Birmingham, the Carolinas have paid
only the through rate and received
their cotton at low freight cost.
1t is said that this discrimination
has helped build up the textile indus
try of the Carolinas at the expense of
Alabama. 1t is difficult to disprove
that charge. Freight rates are the life
or death of an industry. 1t is the great
overhead. whose economic or uneco-
nomic impact measures success or fails
ure. The Carolnas have more mills
than Alabama, many more. Alabama
offers greater inducements in the way
of power, either steam or hydroelec-
trc. Indeed, but for Alabama's cleo
tic power many Carolina mills would
have failed to operate many months
in the past two years Of vigorous de-
mand for production at good prices.
Alabama power sustained mill opera
tons several hundred miles distant
The demand for the same concentra-
ton rights as have been accorded the
Carolinas and the East seems so alb
solutely and undeniably fair that es-
Enlistment of these rates strikes the
reasonable mind as the unacceptable
conclusion to be reached by rate-mak-
ing authority.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
VALLEY THANKS AGE-HERALD

tFlorence Herald)
The people of the Tennessee Val
ley deeply appreciate the stand
taken by the Birmingham Age
Herald last week during the argu-
ment before the public service
commission on the Alabama Power
Company's newest move toward
blocking the Ford offer for Muscle
Shoals. The editorial carried in
thursdays issue was fair expo
sition of the case of the people
against a grasping monopoly AL
though a few individuals, friends
OF the power company, appeared
in favor of their proposition. they
represented only a few selfish in
terests, minority so small that
1t might be compared to the pro-
verbal drop in a bucket Since
The Age-Herald was taken over
1t has been improved to such an
extent as TO arouse universal COM
ment. and not least among these
improvements has been the adop-
ton of fearless, vigorous and
untrammeled editorial policy bent
upon informing the people of
needed facts and protecting their
rights as occasion may demand.
The state of Alabama is to be con-
graduated upon having in its
principal city such a newspaper.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
MOTHERS OF FAMOUS
MEN


Mother of Charles Francois Gounod
Another mother whose sympathy
and talents helped to give the
world one of its greatest musicians
was the mother of Charles Fran
co.'s Gounod, famous French COM
poser. chiefly known to the public
as the composer of the score of
Faust" and of many sacred songs,
in particular the Ave Maria that
is most frequently heard.
The mother in this case had
more than merely sympathetic
understanding Of her sons talents
and ambitions. She was herself a
musician of some accomplishment,
and was particularly distins uished
as a pianist. Her talent was
passed down in an even greater
measure to her son, and she took
great delight in giving him his
early instruction.
She taught him all she knew,
and then, as is so often the case in
stories of artists and musicians,
the pupil outstripped the teacher,
and needed further instruction. In
this case, however, there was none
of the jealousy so frequently man
Tested. The mother was beside
herself with delight. and made
every effort to provide the best
instruction possible for her boy.
She struggled, for they were more
or less impecunious. to send him
to the conservatory, and his prog
ress there more than justified
her efforts.
They were bound together by
the strongest tie in the world-a
mutual interest There was moth
ing that they loved more than to
discuss the musical problems that
came up, and of course they were
able to help each other enormous
~. mutual sympathy made life
happy thing for them both.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
ON ADVICE TO GRADUATES

AS this is the season when the grad
uate is given advice, it would be a
shame for any one, having the oppor-
tunity to give advice, to neglect to use
it. AS general rule the graduate is
wiser now than he will be few years
hence. Advice that he now overlooks
may later turn up to his advantage,
provided it is good advice, although
there is no guarantee ever given with
advice. 1t is a commodity which is be-
slowed more freely than it is received.
If it were as valuable as the donors
intimate, it seems that there should
be some sort of charge attached to it.
1t is manifestly unfair to start the
graduate in life under an obligation
the extent of which he has no means
of knowing. Nevertheless, it is being
done, the graduates have braced them
selves to receive it, and one may as
we'll shoot while they are on guard.
One Of the best weapons the grad
uate may use in his struggle to wrest
a fortune from the world is tact The
exhibition of this quality will at first
take the form of suppressing the fact
that ones education is brand-new and
of the latest model. There is foolish
tendency among people out in the
world to demand test of these new
models before completely accepting
them. Those who have won with the
old models are unwilling, without a
competitive trial, to surrender first
place to the newcomers. This is pc
culiarity of the average dumb citizen
towards which the graduate should be
very indulgent.
In spite of the fact that the gradu-
ate has spent years in fitting himself
for combat with the world, the world
is not dismayed. There will have to
be fight before success, which is the
guerdon of victory, will be handed
over. Yet the world is what may be
termed square-shooter. If it will not
yield the prize without a struggle, it
will just as surely crown the victors
III tiic LIZ III anu IIiStS Out JIlclf ICNdIu
Advancing age is not a handicap in
this contest. On the contrary, ones
youth may at the start be against him.
One needs not to wear chip on his
shoulder to indicate that he is COM
Blatant. Some of the best fighting is
done unostentatiously and often the
winners are those who do not adver-
tise that they are fighting men. In
stead Of advertising. it, they prove it,
which is, after all, the most convinc-
ing sort of advertising.
The worst thing about advice is that
it is free. That is why experience is
more valuable. 1t costs something.
Strangely enough, after one gains ex-
perience, after having flouted advice,
one begins, out of his experience, to
give advice to others. The graduate
should remember that those who now
give advice once received it, and are
now merely taking their revenge. The
graduate has that to look forward to,
long years hence. 1t will be his only
way of getting even.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
SMILES
Quite Finished

youngstown Telegram)
Stopping in a small town a tray
cling man said to d prospective
Gust omer:
1t has been twenty years since
was here last. Many buildings
gone up since them"
No" replied the resident, none
that know Of"
ANY new railroads or street
cars?"
No"
Planning any improvements?
No"
Well" said the travelling man,
1--WE been all over this country,
and this is the first town ! have
seen that is what you might call
actually finished
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
The Warriors Plight


The unfortunate plight of thu
Warrior barge line may be due to
some other causes. but there is lit
tie doubt that the whole thing en-
mated from railroad opposition.
Every concession of the railroads
to the enterprises to this time has
been wrunG from them. and I'M
willingly granted. Not having ever
ran a railroad, this editor cannot
understand their position toward
an enterprise that ought to be a
help. rather than hindrance to
them. The barge line has not
asked for anything more than
they cheerfully and readily grant
to other roads with which they
connect, and its business being
built up. ought to be in the nature
of a feeder for the railroads. They
won't see it that way, which looks
exceedingly unreasonable to
mere layman. but, if the govern
ment is not ready to scrap all IL
has done for the Alabama rivers, IL
Is time it took steps to improve
their eyesiEht little.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

(Sumter County JournaD
Today there Is more work to DO
done in York and Sumter county
than there are laborers to do it.
What a contrast from this time
about a year ago, when men were
strolling the streets hunting any
thing they might get to do and at
very much less price than he is
receiving today. Does it not look
like men would take advantage Of
this situation at this time and
say to his employer give us two
hours of extra work each day with
pay and thereby lay away some
extra money for himself and fam
lily when the storm of short hours
and cheaper wages comes, as it
has always done and will do again.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

Pride
Columbus in the days Of old accom-
plished quite a feat.
He dragged man's-size continent
from its obscure retreat.
And when he saw the palms arise
Against the balmy tropic skies
He could not hide
The thrill of pride.
That made his pulses beat.
When Pcary paused amid the snow
around the Arctic Pole
And realized that he had reached his
long desired goal;
When he had Won by toll and strife
The one ambition of his life,
He could not hide
The thrill of pride
That sizzled in his soul.
The up-to-date explorer roams the
world by radio.
He prowls in strange and distant lands
when lights are dim and low.
And in the morning, goggle-eyed,
He lifts his voice in conscious pride;
With eyes alight,
He says: Last night
l picked up Kokomo"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
THE PARAGRAPHERS


tNew York Evening World)
The headlines announce that
Hughes and Harvey are now
brothers. This is probably the
queerest relationship to be found
in American politics-a blend of
the perpendicular and the plastic,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
Protecting the Fish

IITOV HeraId)
Violators of the fish and game
laws in this state are being vigor-
ously prosecuted, and it is right
that they should be. So far no one
has been arrested in this county on
this charge and we trust there
Will not be. The conservation de-
partment, under the able direction
of I. T. Quinn. is sending special
agents to all parts of the state. and
you know not when one. may ap-
pear in Pike county. 1t is danger
Gus to undertake violation Of
this law
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
THE G. o. P. AND THE THREE rs

The Republican pilots are beginning
to resign from their other offices and
occupations in order that they may get
their machine in readiness for the
great presidential handicap of 1924
The politicians are one thing, but the
political mechanicians are another.
The politicians may make mistakes and
get away with it, but those hidden
back of the machine cannot make
mistakes, for their mistakes are fatal
There is some suspicion, however, that
the politicians have taken the machine
apart so completely and scattered the
parts so widely that the public will
fear to climb aboard lest, at the last
moment, the vehicle fail them.
The great difficulty of the Repub-
leans has been briefly pointed out by
Mr.. McAdoo. He says that they are
suffering from the three T's-tariff,
transportation and taxes. Seldom is
an epigram capable of so we'll holding
up under analysis. That is exactly
licans. They boldly promised relief
along all these three lines before they
went into office, and on these very
three stepping-stones to public favor
have they tripped and stumbled in a
manner most amazing. By means of
the tariff they have elevated the cost
of living and laid the foundation for
few more immense private fortunes
at the public expense. Although the
tariff is the chief cause of the recent
advance in the price of sugar, yet the
tariff commission adroitly turned aside
the responsibility by saying that sugar
prices are merely keeping pace with
prices in other commodities This is
merely another way of saying that
whatever causes price advances causes
price advances. To the public disap-
pointment, sugar was not rebuked by
this finding, but remained serenely
perched on its high limb, which was
not even shaken by this blast of pro-
fundity. The tariff is to be respected
as sheltering wall for high prices,
exploitation and profiteering.
The problems of transportation have
not been solved, either on land or sea-
Rates remain high, not only directly.
but also indirectly, because of long
hauls, favored lines and ports and re-
sidual injustices dating back to the
%
ciple of the shortest haul to seaboard,
and of rates based on distance or ex-
port, has been enunciated, but not
made operative. The waterway ex-
pertinent, full of promise of Transport
tation relief to the entire country, has
been conducted in desultory fashion,
and even the plain encroachments OF
the railroads upon the public rights as
vested in the waterways have not been
warded off by congressional action.
The republican legislative history as
to tax relief, so prominently part of
the prediction platform, is a we'll
known record of compromise and fail
ure. The inequalities of taxation have
not been removed, nor have the wise
counsels If the secretary of the treas
ury and tax experts moved the con-
gress to adjustment of tax-free secur-
tiles or to the graduation of income
and excess profits taxes according to
plan insuring fairness and justice to
all taxpayers. Verify the three rs
form barrier of legislative debris be-
tween the Republicans and their po-
litical lodgings.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
An Opportunity

springfield Republican,
In so far as war or peace in the
Near East depends on the question
of an indemnity to Turkey the
Turks have an excellent chance to
make money by sticking to peace
and letting the indemnity 20.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
Everybody Should Help

Taxes have got to be paid. and
everybody has got to help pay
them. The sooner that fact is
grasped by everybody the better it
will be for the country. financially
and morally. Any attempt to make
any particular class pay all the
taxes Is bound to fail. and would
be bad morals and bad economics
If it did not fail. TIL best thing
for the country, from the view
point either OF finance or of good
citizenship, is to have the taxes
paid by as many people as pos
sible, rather than by as few as
possible.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
PARSIMONIOUS


The premier tight-wad has been
discovered. He though so much
about money he had a purse on
his lips. They didn't find him at
Luxor because there was too much
digging-up there. Meet him. A
man at ball game tried to argue
that his rain check was good be-
on the umpire
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

A Kansas City paper says the G. 0.
P. is worrying about control of the
senate after next year. How can
political party expect to control de-
Lucrative body until it demonstrates
the capacity to control itself?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
1t All Depends


Butler county will be the best
county in the world next fall--ic
cotton crop Is good. and the cotton
price Is better. Otherwise The Ad-
vocate expects to do a good bust
ness printing bankrupt notices,
ours included.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

Little drops of water
And grains of sugar fine
Help to make the luscious
Dan-de-lion Wine.
Little hunks of orange,
Chunks of lemon, too,
Make you live in terror
Of what wine will do.
After months of waiting,
OF tasting DER and DER :, =, f..
A sodden, gooey, stick mess
Upon the cellar floor.
-Jade.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
His Admission

(Flamingo)
Judge: "You are "a freeholder?"
Juryman: Yes sir. 1 am
Married or SINGLE"
Married three years last June"
Have you formed or expressed
an opinion?"
Not for three years. your
honor"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

Dandelion wine is a delusion and
a snare. A great many verses are
written about it, but that is because
dandelions and Spring arrive at the
same time. 1t is not habit-forming
drug. At it's best, it is the apple
sauce of beverages.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
Compromise Verdict

louisville rier-Journal)
What did the jury do with the
beautiful defendant?
Brought n a compromise YER
dict" ~, .-.t
"A compromise verdict?"
. Not guilty. but don't go Into
vaudeville" -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
A Matter of Courage

(Kansas City Star)
And lynching is always hard to
stop. as an experienced Texas man
pointed out to us the other day,
because you can't keep men from
showing their bravery when they
have the numerical advantage Of
500 to /.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

Whether or not Senator Borah is
trying to feel out sentiment as to the
presidency, some of his utterances
seem to indicate that if the nomination
should happen to move in his direc-
ton, he wouldn't shuttle away.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
The Regular Clerk
(Dothan Eagle)

III you trade at a store regularly
you have a choice as to which
clerk. waits on you. There is US
ually reason, and when the other
clerks study them they will be bet
ter statesmen.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
10 FAVORITE BOOKS
CAS- Chosen by Arthur Guiternan an.
Poet. Editor and Lccturer)


Quentin Durward" (Scott).
"Pendennis" (Thackeray).
"knick erbocker's New York"
washington Irving).
Shakespeare's plays, especially
las You Like It."
Macbeth" Hamlet" and both
parts of Henry w..
Byron's poems.
Through the Looking Glass"
Hewis CarrolD.
The Story of a Bad Boy"
(Thomas Bailey Aldrich).
"Phaeton Rogers" (Rossiter
Johnson).
kim" (Rudyard Kipling).
"Huckleberry Finn Mark
Twain.
Copyright by North American
Newspaper Alliance.)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
The Convict Lease System
(Ero y,lr lin C0r,tx, rri,,,n.N

The entire people in the state
commit crime every time a new
convict lease contract is signed.
When will Alabama begin to re-
deem herself from this awful dis
grace to civilization?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
Hundred Per Center.

The only 100 per cent. Americans
we have in this country are kept
on reservations and not permit
ted to, follow their tribal customs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
Spirit Of BrotherIy Love

(HuntSViIIe Times)
The spirit of brotherly love is
too little appreciated in this life,
and until 1t is permitted to take
root and grow unmolested the best
that is in this old world cannot be
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

(HOuston Post)
Bunker: II was sorry to hear
that you and your wife had sepa-
rated on account of your golf"
Hazard: "Oh, well, it had to be.
l endured everything from that
woman until she referred to my
new mashie as a 'bat'.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
Boyhood Ambitions

My boyhood ambition was higher
than that of jerks, but not SO lofty
as Hanques. l aimed to be steeple-
jack-Clarence.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
THE ALABAMA PRESS
Their Idea of Heaven

Some Collinsville wonen's idea
of heaven is a place where the
back yard looks as good as the
front yard.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

If the irreconcilables could have
their way, they wouldn't even let Uncle
Sam occupy rear seat on the bleach
ers in the capacity of quiet observer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

(Ralojt News\

NBeIoit NeWs)
President Harding fears a labor
shortage. And we had thought the
lame duck supply was well-nigh
inexhaustible.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

except the money, food, cocksure-
ness, soldiers and few other things
that entered into the horror"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

A French financier says America is
sick from her immense accumulation
of gold. Yet it sounds as if he envies
us our illness.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
MORE RELIABLE

NNdSnVlIIe BANNER
A hen cackles only after it has
delivered the goods. Much more
conscientious and therefore re-
liaht~ tho" many peopia
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

1t is reported several European
statesmen are crosseyed. Even one
eye doesn't trust the other!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
A Field For Wonder

NDttT UIt NeWSI
Another very idle amusement is
wondering what Theodore Roose-
welt would have done with a press
agent.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

Eugene Debs claims to be casualty
of the World war. Very casual indeed
was his relation to the war.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

1t seems that nonresident Ameri-
cans have remarkable genius for get
ting their native land into trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

Lloyd George says: Europe today
holds the same elements that produced
the great war;" He might have added,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says he has
stopped writing fiction. But he has
not stopped talking it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
F. O. B. Detroit

Say-At that, think Henry Ford
could turn out a rafting good film.
j. r. S.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31
The Birmingham CITY commissi

The Birmingham city commission,
cognizant of the evils of the convict
lease system, and appreciative of its
own responsibility, has authorized the
commissioner of police, ''to grant re-
pricves, combinations, paroles and
pardons, and to remit and reduce fines
and forfeitures, suspend executions of
sentences and fines, to reduce or re-
nit bail bonds" etc. But we don't see
why the commission didn't take the
logical next step and abolish the city
criminal court, letting the commits
sioner pass on the cases at first hand,
thus saving lot of time and expense.
Or, better than that, the commits
sion might pass an ordinance abolish
ing crime, and end the trouble at its
source.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-31

Clara Phillips says that this time she
is going to tell the truth. Meaning?