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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21
Peoples Forum
Officer on Traffic Laws

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 In your issue dated March 16, 1923, on the editorial page appears as follows: Public Safety De- mands It." You point out the way the legislature should legislate against the speeding and reckless driving of automobiles which in my opinion is very commendable of your good paper, but l am also of the opinion that you are inconsistent as your paper and every other pa per published in Birmingham de- lights in criticising officers who try to enforce the speed and reckless driving laws, and especially do they jump on the officers of the town of Lipscomb. It is evidently not known by the newspapers and the public generally that the governing bodies of municipalities are compelled to pass speed and reckless driving or dinances; the law does not say they ought to, but says they must pass them and does not attempt to fix the speed limit. I have driven over the main streets of Lipscomb and have observed the amount of the traffic and from this observation l do not think the speed limit is too low. l have been an officer in Jef- ferson county for about twenty three years and I personally know that the speed and reckless driving laws are not enforced to such an extent as to prevent. In very few days the Mount Pinson pike will be finished through the town of Ingle- nook and there is a straight, smooth drive of about one mile which will be very tempting to automobile dri- vers, but they had better take mo- tice that the speed law is fifteen miles per hour and am going to make a special effort to enforce it. I drive an automobile myself and 1 know the good roads in Jefferson county are very tempting as speed way, but it is very dangerous and the speed law should be enforced to the letter, and I think the public press should back rne officers up in enforcing the speed laws, thereby lessening the great number of acci- dents.
 CHARLES T. HILTON, Chief of Police Town of Inglenook.
 MT. Helton is mistaken in saying that The Age-Herald criticizes of- ficers who try to enforce the laws against fast and reckless driving. The Age-Herald supports every eff fort of that kind and is glad to note MT. Helton's resolution in the mat ter.-Editor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21

the clouds were so satisfactory that the army air service will soon make actual rain- making tests at its Moundsville, West Vir- ginia, field
 While it has not yet been demonstrated that rain can be brought out of the clouds from this process, theoretically it works, and in dispensing clouds and fogs it will undoubtedly prove of practical value in clearing harbors and flying fields of fog. The greater scien- tific revelation of rain-making may be de- layed, but nowadays he is rash indeed who says that such thing is impossible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21
Introducing York :
tsumter County JournaD

NoNiAeSA SouHty JouTHalJ
 In order to put the advantages of York as a point for small facto- ries, manufacturing pants, distrib- uting point for wholesalers, ideal location for agricultural enterprises, where the fastest transportation is assured, the Board of Trade. has be- gun close study of the resources of York-will map rAe location of the town in a convincing manner, in relation to railroad facilities, river transportation, etc. To do this data is necessary to compile this literature-information a bout sands, clays, lands, farms, products for which there is demand, business advantages of location, water, lights, raw products. A booklet setting forth this information in clear, convincing style, with certified data, list of our needs in the way of industries and what enterprises will be suited to locate here, will be compiled and printed and dis tributed in way to bring results. We have room for these enterprises and they can reap a harvest of dol lars by locating in Alabama, and York has advantages that possibly no other town could offer to a par ticular industry. Let's locate that party with the capital to invest and then get him here and build this 1 town. This kind of information will interest people who have money to invest and want a location to start operations. York will make its bid for them in this booklet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21
THE NATIONS FINANCES

The financial situation of the federal treasury reflects the general betterment of conditions throughout the counry. Secre- ary Mellon expresses the opinion that un- expected increases in revenues will cancel the deficit of $92,ooo,o0o this fiscal year. It is estimated that from back taxes alone between one and two hundred million dol lars are collectable and looked for this year. Increases in income and other taxes are expected to amount to four hundred million dollars, while the customs receipts have shown an ever-increasing volume at present incapable of accurate future esti- mate. The treasury showing is an encourag- ing one and there is general hope that the optimism is not unfounded, and that the present year will witness substantial retire. ment of the public debt.
 The people of this country will not be completely satisfied, however, until there is some adjustment made that will make all the nations wealth contribute to the na- tions expenses. The growth in volume of tax-exempt securities has been so great and rapid that the burden thus shifted over to taxable wealth is becoming more and more noticeable. The Republican congress, with it's pledge of tax reform, steadfastly ignored the secretarys appeal for revocation of the tax-exemption laws. It is very likely that the element of cowardice superinduced by political imaginings was in great degree re- sponsible for the failure to act upon this policy.
 There is no disposition to blame or cen sure those who take refuge in tax-exempt securities, for our laws invite and protect such investment. It is believed, however, that the revocation of such laws would so equalize the tax burden and reduce the tax rate as to take away the incentive that coun- sels tax-free investment. It is only excessive taxation that capital dreads. The fact that investment in tax-free securities is legal does not, however, invalidate the objection that the privilege works a hardship upon invest ments and wealth that are not so favored. Congress is responsible to the majority, and the majority suffers from tax burden. The Republicans have failed to carry out their pledge of tax relief, or even to approximate that fulfillment as r,osely as was feasible. It is doubtful whether they will find an an- swer that will allay the dissatisfaction their laissez-faire policy has aroused.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21
A CONSERVATION GOVERNOR

Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania is demonstrating to the people of his state, and Incidentally of the nation, his idea of a governors duties and responsibilities. Re gently he advocated general and sys- tematic development of Pennsylvania's wa E ter power and the distribution of the cur rent throughout the state and into neigh boring states. The idea has taken hold upon the newspapers of the state and may become part of the legislative policy in accordance with the governors campaign program of sconservation of natural resources.
 fs Last week the governors first test of strength in the legislature resulted in the passage by comfortable margin of the ad- administration measure calling for more strin- gent enforcement of the prohibition laws. s1t is now conceded that the governors in- -fluence with the legislature is sufficient for him to obtain the passage of practically all accepted measures looking to the building up of the commonwealth, for the law en- forcement test was real test, and uncer tainty long existed as to the outcome. Now MT. Pinchot seeks further to stimulate in- sternal development by calling a conference Of governors of neighboring states to dis cuss good roads and to arrive at some gen. eral program that will bring about the con- struction of paved trunk highways passing suninterruptedly through the states, and linking important centers without regard to state lines. All in all, it appears that Governor Pinchot is making good on his campaign and prediction promise to exert himself in behalf of law and order and con- sservation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21
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TO ADJUST MOBILE RATES

{ It appears that the Mobile protest against discrimination in barge and export rates on waterway shipments in favor of New Or leans will be given official attention. Colonel T. Q. Ashburn, head of the federal inland waterways, will go to Mobile to hear qe- tailed arguments and to render decision. : It is admitted that export rates on steel and pig iron favor New Orleans. That being the { case, Birmingham Is concerned in the con- s troversy, for whatever affects Mobile af- fleets the commerce of this district. It is to the interest of the producing centers of Alabama that Mobile be given every legltl- mate rate advantage, not only becase of the direct saving to shippers, but also be- cause of the contribution thus made to the permanence of Alabama's seaport and the completeness of its equipment
 E is known that New Orleans enjoys other advantages than favoring rates on iron and steel, and that these advantages are not all based on logical grounds. Wherever it is discovered that such advantages should apply equally to the port of Mobile, then the federal representatives, who surely hold no brief for New Orleans, are bound to make the necessary adjustments in sehed- ules. There is in this program no disposi stion to take away from New Orleans any of the basic elements which nave contributed to her leadership, but rather to remove any discriminations which operate to the disad vantage of Mobile. On this platform the friends of Mobile may approach the coming conference with confidence in the justice of their cause and with energy to press their claims with the utmost vigor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21
THE RAINMAKERS

The idea of rain-making captures the Imagination and has led to many devices and experiments in the effort to accomplish this feat, which has hitherto remained be- Syond the reach of man. It cannot be said that it has been accomplished yet, although the electrically charged sand invention lately demonstrated at the McCook flying field at Dayton, Ohio, comes close to miracle. The next thing to actually making rain was achieved: fogs were dispersed and clouds were broken up. But no rain was brought out of the clouds. Accounting for the ab- sence of precipitation, the inventor, L.. Francis. Warren, said ''the clouds were no good" What he meant was that the clouds on which the experiments were tried con- tained only small amount of water, so small that the mist which came down made no moisture on the ground. But the prin- ciple was demonstrated.
 ss Clouds varying from thousand feet to several miles in length were broken up in less than ten minutes. Eighty pounds of very fine sand and an electric generator were carried on the arplane some five hun dred feet above the cloud. Through a noz- zIe speclaliy designed TOT the purpose the sand was poured and electrically charged to fifteen thousand volts or higher and the sand sprinkled upon the cloud below. The effect of the electrified sand upon the cloud is thus explained by Professor Bancroft of Cornell, who is the scientific advisor to MT. Warren: Clouds consist of drops of water too small to fall at appreciable rate. Drops suspended in the air are kept from coalesc- ing either by being charged electrically and therefore repelling each other or by being covered with a film of condensed cir acting like gelatine capsule. Spraying with pos itively charged sand will cause negatively charged drops to coalesce and will also re- move the film of absorbed air to some ex- tent" The results obtained in smashing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21
A Timely Editorial
Mir. Pepper. Mistake
Louisville Courier-Journay)


 Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania has made an address before the New York Bar association which was in keeping with his reputation as a man of intellect and integrity when he entered the senate.
 MT. Pepper, in his attitude toward the League of Nations, has been con- sidered an orthodox republican, &C., cording to the standard of ortho- doxy as set up by the republican majority of the body of winch he is a member. He has opposed the league for the same reasons alleged against it by the senate junta that rejected the Versailles treaty and the covenant of the league, and that made the issue on which one of the junta's members was elected to the presidency.
 : But MT. Pepper has learned some- thing since then, a1d he is honest enough to acknowledge it. In his speech at the bar association he de- clared that he was mistaken in his opposition to the League of Nations and had misconstrued it's covenant. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that he had been remiss in his respect for his own intelligence in accepting the construction put upon the covenant by the senate junta and the. Harding campaigners in 1920. At any rate, he now openly admits he was wrong in his idea that the league Twas conceived as a combination ofsst9tes to keep peace by force." On the contrary, he now holds. it to be Ian international group of citizens who abjure force and successfully resort to the con- ference method"
 On any other theory than that Senator Pepper acted upon a sec ondhand construction of the league covenant it is difficult to under stand how he failed to comprehend that the methods of the league, whose whole object is peace, are the methods of conference and arbitra- tion, instead of force; that it's ex- treme resort to enforce it's findings, if resisted, is not to war but to the boycott; and that in no insistance can force be applied, except as z. result of council ana consent, as it might be applied by any body of national conferees or of arbitrators.
 MT. Pepper is not only frank to admit his misjudgment of the na- ture of the League of Nations, but he is pleased to express his admira- tion of it for the work which it has already done, despite the impair ment of it's usefulness made by Americas refusal to do it's part as member. Presumably in future the Pennsylvania senator, having corrected his own mistake in mis- judging the league, will lend his aid to having America correct its mistake in condemning that organi- zation. Presumably, instead of fur ther opposing. he will advocate Americas entry into the league, and thus do what he can to induce the republican party to correct the mis- take which it made w:ih reference to the league in 1920, at the in- stance of it's leaders in the United States senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21
"Make- Life Easy"
By REV. H. C. oFFERMAN

The brave always win, even when they lose.
 The real sufferers afe often the silent sufferers.
 ''If your heart keeps right, if your heart keeps right"
 Those who have failed have chance to succeed; those who have never failed, have no such chance; for you cannot succeed without having first failed.
 Our future, and our present, and our past. are in the hand of God.
 The hope of the world is the sal- vation of men from sin.
 Leave your safe-keeping in the. Eternaps hands; and all will go well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21
\ TREASURED BASS POOL

QAnes dedicated to the Birmingham Ang-
 lers' Club) o, my way is a by-way- A ribbony trail O green, A turing little might" way Which anglers, few, have seen And my feet are swift feet, Untiring, big and strong, And my voice a clear-voice As l fling out song! o, my hearts a glad-heart On the summer by-way cool- My art ne'er-failing-art, As'I whip the treasured pool, And my-way, the nigh-way- The ribbony little trail, Leads me back to little shack At the rim of g pretty vale!
 Milton Harkins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21
BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21,

thoughts and deliver direct hits of equal oe- structive result? Of course, as long as one power continues to build dreadnoughts doubtless the other powers will follow suit, but since the dreadnought is of only doubt full service, and since it costs more than any other single type of defensive construc- tion, it may be that the powers could enter into an agreement regarding fits limitations. The subject is at least worth considering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21
UNWIELDLY DREADNOUGHTS

The recent demonstration of an attack by cruisers upon two super-dreadnoughts off the Pacific coast resulted in a technical victory for the cruisers. This means that every dreadnought or fleet of dreadnoughts must have the protection of cruisers if it would safely venture on the deep in time of war. The dreadnought, with its mammoth guns, is in reality floating fortress or bat tery owing it's existence to it's capacity to hurl tremendous projectiles to remote dis tances with both force and accuracy. While proceeding on it's mission as battery it must have cruisers as outriders to ward off the small craft that would otherwise be able to slip in under the guns, deliver a knockout blow and away again without harm to them- selves.
 The question at once arises whether the dreadnought can in any way justify the mil lions it costs to construct and equip. Would it not be less expensive and equally effective to build fleets of long distance bombing planes which could range over many times the area capable of being covered by dread
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21
NO NEED FOR VIADUCT DELAY

 grade crossings by viaduct and subway building has reached that point where delay makes the people more and more insistent on knowing why the start is not made There are two parties to vaduct building, the rail- roads and the city. The obligation of the railroads to do their part is so well known and so firmly established in decisions of the highest courts of the land that there can be no possible cause of delay in that quarter. The railroads are automatically required to give way to the public interest. Among other decisions bearing on this point is that of the supreme court of the United States in the case of the Erie railroad and the city of Paterson, New Jersey. In that case the court, Justice Holmes rendering the opinion, held:
 Grade crossings call for a necessary adjustment of two conflicting interests, that of the public using the streets and that of the railroads and the public using them. Generically the streets represent the more important interest of the two. There can be no doubt that they did when these railroads were laid out, or that the advent of automobiles has given them an additional claim to consideration. They are always the necessity of the public, which the rail- roads, vital as they are. hardly can be called to the same extent. Being places to which the public is invited, and that it necessarily frequents, the state in which this interest is, and from which, ultimately the railroads derive their right to occupy the land, has a constitu- tional right to insist that they shall not be made dangerous to the public, what ever may be the cost to the parties in- troducing the danger.
 That is one of the most obvious cases of the police power; or, to put the same proposition in another form, the author ity of the railroads to project their moving masses across thoroughfares must be taken to be subject to the inn piled limitation that it may be cut down whenever and so far as the safety of the public requires. It is said that if the same requirement. was made for the other grade crossings of the road, 1t would soon be bankrupt. That the states might be so foolish as to kill a goose that lays the golden eggs for them has no bearing on their constltu- tional rights. If it is reasonably said that safety requires the Change, 1t IS for them to say whether they will insist upon it; and neither prospective bankruptcy nor engagement in interstate commerce can take away this fundamental right of the sovereign of the soil.
 The city compissioh has been in posses sion of this opinion several months. It has had survey after survey made. There is the clear right to go ahead with the viaduct building. There is pressing need for the viaducts. It is feasible to make start at any one of numerous strategic points. There is nothing in the way except lack of action at the city hall, and that seems without jus tification in view of the absence of all other causes justifying or calling for delay. Let there be action. That is what the public wants. That is what the best interests of Birmingham demand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21
WHERE THE APPLES co TO

NITONlueHce JOuTndiJ
 The question Where do all the apples go to?" is answered in part by the export figures which show that in the last three months of 1922 we sent 705,801 barrels to Great Britain, as compared with 387,372 barrels in the corresponding period of 1921. Most of these, however, 430,932 barreis-were from the far west, while the remainder were pro- duced chiefly in New York, Vir- ginia and Maine. We would not feel aggrieved over the export of the far western fruit if our eastern orchard ists raised more. What has become of the Baldwins, Russets and Gilli- flowers of New England that used to delight US every fall and wintar?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21
SAFETY ON RAILROADS

It is to the credit of the Louisville and Nashville railroad that it is able to report the handling of 7s,OO0,ooO passengers since 1917 without the loss of life. This shows what is possible in modern railroading and it is tribute to the managerial skill behind that record. When the rapidity of the passenger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21

Washington man, having seriously in- jured pedestrian with his automobile, com mitted suicide in probable remorse over his deed. There is small prospect, however, that this cure for reckless driving will be gen. erally accepted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21

It is tentatively proposed that the repay ment of the United States for occupation expenses be distributed over the next twelve years and deducted from separations pay ments. What separations payments?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-21
Congregational Stationery

Congregational Stationery "The time has come," the statesman said, "To talk of many things: Of razor blades and tennis balls
 And clocks and teething rings, Of pencils, pens and silverware
 And overcats and hats,- Of niblicks, neckties, playing cards
 And shoes and baseball bats, Of ink and spats and fishing rods
 And gloves and golfing pills" The congressman was making out
 His Stationery" bills. A lingo expert tells that the word "colo- nel'' and "column" are brothers under the skin. In other words, colonel is one who leads or conducts a column. Now we know why "colonel' is pronounced that way--it reminds one of a nut.