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The Washington times., 1923-10-04
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Foreign Bonds
Liberty Bonds.

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Liberty Third AXIS, due 1923 $500
Liberty Fourth Az s, due 1888 97.O9
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certificates, due 1852. 49,. 09.05
The Washington times., 1923-10-04
Chicago Grain Market.

CHICAGO, Oct. 4.-Wheat was un.
certain and lower at the opening of
the market today.
Wheat started n to Y cents lower
with scattered commission house
selling followed by locals. There was
buying on the break by shorts and
on resting orders.
Corn started h to Is cents lower.
with commission house and local
selling. Shorts best buyers on the
break. Realizing sales by leading
house still in evidence.
Oats opened steady to Y cent high.
er, with offerings limited. Selling
increased after the start.
Opening prices here were:
Wheat, December, Los ss; May.
$1IlM @1.12: July, $1.0S311 .08M, apf
Corn, December Is 70 @76Hzc; May
74h @755sc; July. 75h @75%c.
Oats, December, 43% 043Mc; May,
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Rye, December, 71Ac.
The Washington times., 1923-10-04
D. c. BANKS ARE
FA||0RED BY
RULING
Branch Banking IN Washing
ton Furthered by Action
Of Attorney General.
81 HARRY GUSACK.

BY HARRY GUSACK.
Attorney General Daugherty's
ruling covering the opera Jon Of
branches by national banks APP
pe6rs TO broaden and enlarge the
scope of such operations so far as
washington Is concerned, according
to opinions expressed here today by
According 70 Mr. Dawes an
the joint Congressional Committee
which II investigating the various
phases SoR the operation of the
Federal Reserve System, Mr..
DauGhertyis decision states that ma
t1onal banks may open branches or
okkIce4 for receiving deposits and
eashing checks within the city
ilmatn He referred to these IA
claitfes - telIers. windows, and Gin
timated" that no other major func-
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purchasing securities, etc. could be
carried oneat these windows.
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tons larger banks have branches In
parts of the city, the func-
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eeen primarily Tor the convenience
e us customers in receiving depos,
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ana gas bills and other courtesies
which would save their clients \
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.CITTSECURT les
Re CH GOOD
Level
Market Observer Says They
Now Compete With Other
Good Investments.
BY MUNROE ROBERTS.
copyright, 1925. by Cosmopolitan
News Service.l

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NEW YORK. oct. Municipal
bond prices have at last reached
a level where institutional brying
can profitably be resumed, and Z
look for more stable conditions ii
the municipal bond market IL the
last quarter Of 1928.
Thus summarizing conditions IN
the municipal bond market today,
sanders Shanlxs. IT., editor Of the
Daily Bond Buyer declared that
n the floating OF bonds oi this
class, the price IS the thing
Good nalanicipaIs always command
IR market, he declared, provided
their prices are Sui ficfentlE attrac-
i've to connpete with other high
grade Investments.
Syndates BIun1ere1
Mr. ShanIxs said that in tEeil
eagerness To acquire s. number Of
choice municipal bond Issues ii the
early part 81 the year. bond buy
ing sgnaicates bid. up prices beyond
the point at which they could be
sold to their institutional cl1st0-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-06

received the greatest number of votes will come before the people fer final choice.
 This Is fair plan and would serve to establish the majority will of the people. As adoption of any of these plans will not interfere with terms of present city officials, there Is no ground for objection by them or their friends. The people of Birmingham are entitled to change their form of government if they wish to dc so, and the only manner of determining that is by submission of the matter to the peo- pie at the ballot box.
 Whatever form Birmingham decides on there remains the same duty to help choose competent officials More de- pends on the competency of officials than all else. For that reason it Is never the wise thing to restrict salaries for public service to point forbidding competition with private interests in securing fit material to administer public affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-06
JOHN-A MS
Dreams of Secret NIessnue.

would rather not have any of my readers have a dream of re- ceiving secret message, such as a crumpled paper passed to them by person they know or, for that matter, by a stranger. Without exception such dreams tell you that in the very near future you will embark upon dangerous ad- venture and that despite the fact that your better self and your common sense will warn you against trying the experiment, you will nevertheless go blindly ahead, all the time tryingto deceive your self that your action is for the best.
 These dreams of secret messages come rarely, but they come In va rious forms. At times they take the shape of letter which you will try to conceal; at others again 1t appears as though someone were writing something on a table, on the floor, or on the wall, and that, immediately after having read 1t, you are making a frantic attempt to wipe it out. Again, the vision will come in the form of the crumpled slip of paper referred to above. l am at a loss to tell you how to guard against evil conse- quences in such case. I do not know whether the vision is a warning and whether it lies within your power to protect yourself against yourself. At any rate, it certainly will do no harm to take heed when this vision comes, and, watching both your thoughts and conduct carefully, make at least an effort to avert what might lead you to unhappiness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-06
A DUTY LONG DEFERRED

The state of Alabama has over long delayed the fulfillment of it's duty to the tubercular-af and the other and more pressing duty of making pro- vision whereby those stricken with that disease may be so cared for as to minimize the danger inherent in their contact with others For this reason the bill of Representative Howze of Jefferson for an appropriation of $200,000 for state tubercular sani- tarium with annual maintainance fund of $50,000, ought to be enacted. It has been reported on favorably by the house ways and means committee, and stands on the calendar for adoption with no known opposition.
 A tubercular sanitarium is not only haven for the afflicted, but it is an education In the treatment of the dis ease. It does good directly and indi- rectly. There are many sites in Ala bama well-adapted for a sanitarium. There are no more healthful places in the union than can be found in this state, and none where out-of door life, which is so necessary for the tuber- cular patient, is more nearly attain able the year around. A tubercular in- stitution in Alabama will be an econ- omy, saving the afflicted of the state many tens of thousands of dollars which they spend annually in endeavor to effect cure in far-away institutions, not to speak of the economy resulting from protection against spread of the disease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-06
A NEW ARIsTOCHACY
Cedar Rapids Gazette)

Democracy carried to excess makes for mediocrity. "Aristoc- racy" is derived from a Greek word that means the best" To have an aristocracy implies intel ligence and taste in selecting the best. Politically, we seem to be in need of an aristocracy of ideas. It has become too easy for dema- gogues to create troublesome mi- norities by shouting catchwords from the housetop. There seems to be general inability to select the best of the old and blend it with the best of the new. It is difficult for humanity to discard wornout ideas and equally arduous to obtaiA a general mental hospi- tality for a new but sound idea. A minority jealous for truth or for an error always irritates the leaders, whether political, indus trial or religious. A majority with an unbalanced sense of values may be just as dangerous to society as the most radical minority. Pre- dominating majorities often are as unfair to the individual as mi nority may be to society as whole. At present the world is badly in need of a selected aris- tocracy of good ideas, old and new. Nothing else can harmonize the conservatives and radicals. the thinkers and those who follow without thinking. the sentimental ists and the calculating, the sin gle tracked minds and those who see many paths running parallel. The challenge of present condi- tions to the politicians. the educa- tors. the preachers. the leaders of business and labor is for an aris- tocracy of ideas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-06
POOR BOYS WHO
 BECAME FAMOUS
Sir Henry Irving

Hundreds of thousands of Amer ican people saw Sir Henry Irving play his great Shakespearean parts and applauded him as the greatest actor of his time. Of these hundreds of thousands very few, indeed, knew that Sir Henry Irving was born as plain John Brodribb. Samuel Clemens took the name of Mark Twain" Will liam s. Porter called himself 70. Henry" John Rowlands became Henry M. Stanley" and John Brodribb made himself sir Henry Irving" In every case the as sumed name became the name known to the public.
 AS a boy John Brodribb was set to work in a mercantile house in London. He had had very little opportunity to go to school, and he fully expected to continue in the handling of goods and the keeping of accounts.
 From the very first he had marked initiative ability. In
 
 his fellows by playing parts. He had fluency in speech and a quick memory. Added to that, he had the ability to see the characteris- tic expressions or gestures of the people around him. Indeed, he was often irreverent in initiating to perfection the humorous char acteristics of his superiors in po- sition. He followed his own in- clination and the advice of all his friends and became an actor long before he was twenty.
 For many years the young man, acting under the stage name of Henry Irving" was simply an ordinary travelling actor, playing all kinds of parts in all kinds of great, increased. and he went from the wandering circuits to the great treatres in London. He was thirty-two years old when he first became popular favorite. He was thirty-six when he made his first great success in one of Shakespeare's plays. At forty y-one he first played the part of Shylock, showing originality art peculiar sympathy of understanding. From then until his death at sixty-seven he was recognized as the greatest actor of his times. Ten years be- fore his death he received the honor of knighthood.
 Patiently and slowly he had made himself a great actor, great interpreter of life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-06
MOTHERS OF FAMOUS
 MEN
The Mother of Henry '

"Fhe last of the de Bohuns" So people said in pitying way about Mary de Bohun, one of the last generation of a great and powerful family. This was in the fourteenth century-ahd Mary de Bohh was going to be sent to convent! Therefore she was given an education far superior to that given to most girls who were pre- pairing merely to enter into all the frivolities of court life.
 She was not strong young wo- man, and 1t looked as though the de Bohuns were indeed coming to the end of their line. But John of Gaunt, the maker of kings, had his eye on this demure and slender girl. She was being put away for purpose, and he knew 1t. He said nothing, willy old fox that he was, but he waited until the mo- ment was ripe, when her guardian was far away, and had Mary de Bohun brought over to the castle of Arundel& There she came under his all-powerful protection. He had a son, Henry of Lancaster, a most interruptions young man, but a highly romantic figure. not afraid of anything, and r&dy for any wild adventure in any land. John of Gaunt saw to 1t that his son Henry married the quiet girl who had expected to go to a convent. Then, in the castle of Monmouth in 1887, there was born son whom they called Henry after his father.
 That son, like his mother, was delicate and slender, fond of mu- sic, and at first not at all the strong boy that John of Gaunt would have preferred for a grand son. It was that same weakly boy who grew up into the young Prince Hal, the hero of Shake- speare's Henry "" plays, and la ter into that ideal of English knighthood, Henry V, pictured so strikingly in the play called Henry "" The mother died at twenty-five, not knowing that she had given to the world one of It's most romantic heroes.
 The de Bohuns lived indeed!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-06
NO EXTRA SESSION NEEDED

Already there are reports that pres sure will be brought to bear on Presi- dent Coolidge to call an extra session of congress. This movement is under stood to be fathered and urged by two forces, those who are seeking leg islation designed to help the farmers, especially the wheat farmers, and those who think they see threatened suffer- ing in New York and New England as a result of possible strike in the an- thr.acite coal fields.
 There has been a good deal of agi- tation for an extra session of con- gress; but no convincing arguments have been advanced for such a situa- tion. President Coolidge is under stood to look with disfavor upon the proposal. If he should call congress together in advance of the date for the beginning of the regular session, he would set precedent. Twice be- fore a president died when congress was not in session, and in neither case was congress called together, though there was just as much or more req son for such move as there is now.
 There is no good reason to believe that an extra session of the law-mak- ing body would accomplish anything worth while either in the way of relief to the wheat farmers or by way of composing the anthracite coal situa- ton. Both would be in the nature of special legislation. There is no more reason why the wheat farmer should be aided by the government under laws based upon favoritism than that the cotton producer, the livestock raiser, the manufacturer of soaps, or any other agricultural or industrial group should be so aided. The gov ernment cannot constitutionally ab- sorb the losses of them all The only practical way the government can aid the farmer is to help him get a mar ket for his surplus products, and that is largely matter of tariff and trans portatlon.
 As to the threatened coal strike, that is largely local issue so far as possible suffering is concerned. No special congressional legislation was forthcoming when both the railroad shopmen and the bituminous coal miners were on strike at the same time, though the situation affected the whole country instead of small sec tion. The government has the power to handle the anthracite coal situation without congressional action. Under an emergency the government can take charge of the anthracite mines if such move is necessary for the public interests. President Coolidge acted firmly i= connection with the Boston police strike. He demonstrated that he is capable of meeting a stub- born situation. It is possible that he may have another opportunity to show the stuff he is made of.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-06
Proof Positive

A good pious community in Lithuania had a black sheep In their midst, man who had not believed in the Almighty.
 Once the atheist declared, open ly and boldly, in the presence of group of people, that there was no God.
 It was the severest shock the orthodox community had ever sus- tained. Can you imagine man so foolhardy as to make a ridiculous and blasphemous declaration of demoralizing effect of such a statement upon the youth In town?
 The whole community was astir with indignation. When the blas- phemy was brought to the atten- tion of the rabbi, the custodian of piety was beside himself with rage. Forthwith he sent his "shammash" to summon the blas- phemer. "I'll convince him in a minute that there Is a God" the "rov" assured the mortified lead CTS of his flock, who had come as witnesses against the heretic.
 The un-Godly man shortly ap- peared before the shepherd of the Jewish community quite confi- dently.
 T hear that you don't believe in God" interrogated the ecclesi- astic judge.
 The sacrilegious culprit look ed straight into the rabbi's eyes and calmly replied: Of course I don't. Can you prove that there is God?"
 Positively I can," declared the venerable man, quivering with rage, and I can prove it to you in a minute"
 The learned divine disappeared for a moment and emerged with a ponderous tome of the Bible. Now, here it is," exclaimed the erudite minister triumphantly, opening the holy book. Read for yourself. Tn. the beginning God created the heaven and the earth 'Noo? Are you convinced now? The Bible surely wouldn't tell lie!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-06
THE FORM AND THE SUBSTANCE

Prompt passage of the Howze bill all lowing the citizens of Birmingham to decide at the ballot box what kind of municipal government tEey wish is to be expected, there being no sound req son to the contrary. The Howze bill does not tend to give preference to any of the three forms of government un- der consideration, whether it be the present commission, the councilman ager or the mayor-council form. Un- der his bill the three forms will be submitted to the people, and, if neither of the three obtains a majority over the other two, then the two having
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-06
SMALL COTTON CARRY.OVER

Cotton producers are not to be dis couraged by recent fluctuations of the market and the rise and fall of prices in season just preceding the incom- ing of the crop and the real buying movement that ensues when the actual cotton is in sight. The New Orleans Cotton Exchange announces with au thority the smallest carry-over of cot ton into a new cotton year since the South became an important producer of the staple" This carry-over IS placed at 2,573,000 bales compared with 4,872,000 year ago. The carry over of the preceding year was not a large one and the satisfactory prices of last fall and winter were largely due to that fact. The minimum carry over of this year is to be reckoned with by spinners over the world, and properly weighed and judiciously op- erated on by producers, will serve to maintain a market of stability, insur- ing the producer such price as the supply and demand justify.
 The producer comes to this season in excellent form. If the same CO., operative marketing methods are prac- ticed as last year with the added em- phasis suggested by successful experi- ence in its initiation, the producer will get what is coming to him. Just what the price will be none can say. Ger tain it is, however, that the producer is in a strong position, and 1t be- hooves him not to be cast down by pre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-06

season Fluctuations, but rather te gev- ern his tactics by circumstances when the cotton Is in sight and the years buying begins. These preseason fluctuations are customary. They are noted In Iron and steel circles and in practically all wholesale lines. Every one waits on the impetus to trade and new buying that will be based on the cotton and other crops. The cotton producer might bear that in mind, and that will enable him to maintain his boise,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-06
MAY AS WELL RETIRE
(Gadsden JournaD


 Alabama has twenty men in It's state senate who believe that the people shall have no voice in the control of the convict system. These twenty voted for a resolu- .ion which expresses the sense" of the legislature that there shall be no legislation on the convict lease system during the present session. Here are the twoscore men who made possible the adop- tion of the "gag" rule: Senators Brooks, Caffey, Carlton, Carmi- chael, Duncan, Ellis, Foster, Garth, Harlan, Hildreth, Hudgens. Jones (Connecuh), Martin, Oliver, Pel- ham. Powell, Randall. Slone, Tun- stall and Waddell. They were backed in their fight by Governor Brandon. Senator J. c. Inzer of Etowah and St. Clair county, we are thankful to say, voted against the resolution. He believes that the people still have the right to be heard on any question of state government. Many of the men who voted for the retention of the lease system have political aspira- tions. They may as we'll abandon them now. Sooner or later the people are going to put into office an administration and a legisla- ture under solemn pledge to take some definite step to change Ala bama's present system of handling her convicts. The people know that forty-seven other states have other means of handling this prob lem. They know. too, that Alas bama has men and women with just as much intelligence as those other states, and that Alabama has just as many resources for secur- ing revenue as have those other states. They know that when Ala bama really wants to do it. she can abolish the lease system. All that is lacking Is the will on the part of the public servants whom the people have put into office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-06
ONE TRICK A DAY
Fantastic Soap Bubbles

When you have tired of the ordi- nary and accepted form of blowing soap bubbles, namely through a clay pipe, try the following method and the results will amply reward the extra trouble.
 Place around the body of a bot tle a piece of wire, and twist the ends together in order to form the handle of ring. Steep this Tn soapy water, throwing in a Httle sugar to make it stronger.
 Take 1t out, and hold the ring vertically before your mouth blowing gently but continuously at the center of the soapy ring. It will swell into an enormous eion- gated bubble, tinted with all the colors of the rainbow.