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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
IS NOW UP TO THE CITY

sPresident Mapother of the Louisville and Nashville, and other officials of the roads entering this city, have recently mani Tested broad spirit of cooperation in the construction of comprehensive and ade- qnate viaduct system for Birmingham. These officials realize that it is business proposition affecting their interests as well as the public safety and the public welfare. Nobody questions the pressing need, which grows more and more acute with the rapid increase in street traffic. Nobody with req snnable intelligence questions the rights of the city. Nobody will question the large productive value of proper system of via ducts to the railroads as we'll as to the local public.
 sEverybody realizes that there has already been far more delay than is necessary in providing this public necessity. Now that the railroad officials are manifesting dis position to do their part and to abandon any further excuses based on business con- ditions, or something else real or imaginary, why further delay? It is plain that with proper action by the city this pressing prob lem can be solved in a reasonable period. Even were actual construction work begun within the next few weeks, the completion of an adequate system of viaducts would consume perhaps several years.
 zThc time to begin is now. No longer can it. be said that the railroads are blocking the project. If there is further delay the blame will rest upon the municipality itself. The initiative lies with the city commission. If Birninghams chief traffic need goes without remedy the city commission will not be able to escape responsibility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
NO ACREAGE CONTROL IN 1923


 The cotton acreage committee has de- cided to make no recommendations as to acreage control this year. In the course of a circular letter issued under date of March "A, the committee says: "We are now con strained to believe that the position of cot ton is fundamentally so sound that farmers may plant freely and without reasonable fear of over-production." But the commit tee adds this word of caution: However, the farmer should always keep in mind home production of supplies of food ana reedstuffs ample to make each farm self-sustaining-a prerequisite to safe farming" This is sound thought for situation such as the present one and is sound thought for every season. It has never been so much the size of the crop that has dictated prices as the position of the cotton producer in respect to his ability to market his cotton in an orderly manner. The farmer who has placed sole reliance on cotton is never able to do that With all his capital and years work invested in cotton and no return from other sources of revenue he must needs market his one product for what he can get. There is no
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
SARAH THE UNCOMFORTABLE

sIt hardly seems possible that Sarah Bern- hardt is dead. For almost the entire span ofs years of most persons now living the name of Sarah "The Divine" has been asso- ctated with the stage. Sixty seasons she trod thea boards, and in all of them except perhaps Sahe first and the very last years, Bernhardt was accounted the foremost trage. dienne of her time. She had most wonder ful voice, with tones rich, deep and compell- ing. So fine her infections and so faithfully did her tones reflect the sentiment of the words she uttered that even one not under standing the tongue in which she spoke could follow the emotions through their entire gamut and gain fairly correct idea of what it was all about. Without gestures
 aud depending only upon the tones, mod uIations and inflectiors of her voice to har- 1nonize with the sentiment, Sarah Bern hardt was able to surpass Tn skill of inter- pretation those actresses who depended also upon gestures. With gestures to supple nlent her wonderful vocal Interpretation, Sarah Bernhardt i~ h prime, and her prime covered an unusual lumber of years, had ne equal.
 sThose who are thirty cannot recall any period previous to the time that Bernhardt began her famous farewell tours" of Amer ica. It would be hard for anyone offhand to say how many such tours, almost all of them crowned with success, the diva really undertook. Hers was a peculiar psychology. When she had passed middle life, as is GUS tomary with those whose lives have been full of activity, she looked forward to re- tirement. Yet invariably, as the time ap-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Value>of Education
 By REV. H. C. OFFERMAN

The purpose of education is to make more fit for use in the world.
 As you go about, do you ob- serve, and learn, and draw con- clusions, and make new. theorems and propositions?
 Why don't you stay college stu dent through your lifetime? =
 The students life is fascinating fife.
 Knowledge is power." "To live and to learn" The Latin word "educare" means to lead out of yourself, to become part of the outside world. to become interested in outside affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
KNOWLEDGE AT FIRST HAND

Zone hundred Alabama Polytechnic Insti- ute students will know much more about their state and some of it's chief industries at the close of this week, than they know now, and this knowledge will not only help to, prepare them for the work which they are to do on leaving college, but it will serve to inspire them to greater effort. They will visit the cities of Montgomery, Birming- ham, Anniston and Tuscaloosa. They will inspect the Mitchell dam and the Woodrow Wilson dam. They will see steel manufac- tared by the electrical process at Anniston and they will see rails and plates, cars and pipe and wire and nails manufactured at Birmingham. At Tuscaloosa they will glimpse the traffic of the Warrior and be eEabled to sense it's bearing on the destiny of the state. They will have been afforded aSbird' 's-eye-view of the tremendous ener- gfes at work in Alabama whether planted there by nature or built up on the founda- ton of nature.
 St will be education of the. first water be- cause they shall have seen with their own eyes and taken in knowledge by the direct route. These are the young men who are toshave a great share in carrying Alabama faIward. The time to teach them is now ing their formative period and there is no teaching superior to that of seeing and hsarng, touching and realizing in person. The young man and young woman of today have educational advantages not dreamed of two decades ago. But whct was sufficient two decades ago is not enough now. The dsmand for exact knowledge is more and more nsistent. That is the kind of knowl- edge which our colleges are now imparting. Safing in operation that which they are stndyng theoretically at the colleges is nscessary part of the students life. The age calls for doers and the doers are those who have the concrete and practical inter- tfon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Poor Boys Who
 Became Famous By FREDERICK HoUK LAW
Thomas Hood
By FREDEl

It is one of the strange things of life that the men who are most gifted with humor are also most gifted in expressing pathos. It is strange, too, that many of the worlds greatest laugh-makers have themselves led the most miserable lives. All this was true of the great English humorist, Thomas Hood, who is chiefly remembered for two of the saddest poems in the EngiisA language, "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt"
 From" Hoods father, book seller, died when the boy was three years old. The youngest was sickly and did-not seem to have long to stay on this earth, and he was all most abnormally fond of books. He read everything that he could lay hands upon. In this way, and with help from others, he gained g degree of education. From being clerk who gave much of his time to the scribbling of poetry he be- came an engraver, and at last, through acquaintanceship with some literary friends, an editor. He had remarkable power in extracting hu- nor from words; for he was a great punster. People very quickly came to look upon him as only . hu- morist.
 Three of his poems, however, so appeal to the wells of pity in every human heart that they have lived, while the "Comic Annuals" have been forgotten. The three great poems are Eugene Aram," "The Bridge of Signs" and "The Song of the Shirt" every one of them an ap- peal for sympathy for those who are unfortunate in life. In these poems, written when Hood was an invalid, there is fine pity that made such an immediate appeal that it was instrumenfas m improving the condition of unfortunate people in England.
 Thomas Hood himself, in his last days, fell into want and was glad enough to experience some of the kindness that he himself had urged. When he died at the age of forty six there Was great mourning among the workmen of England, all of whom knew they had lost a friend. They were glad to contribute from their earnings for the erection of a monument in memory of 8 man who had done so much to arouse the world to sympathy with the poor. That monument today marks the memory of one of the great friends of labor everywhere m the world. It is in sense a sacred shrine.
 A still greater monument is pointed out when attention is called to the fact that every collection of English poetry includes at least the three great poems that have been named. The power of human sym pathy cannot only remedy the evils of life; it can also give fame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28

There are rumors from Washington that Vice President Coolidge is to be sacrificed at the Republican national convention in fa- vor of progressive. But wouldn't it take a really strenuous progressive to attract attention in position which has long car ried with it decidedly shelving aspect?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Want Costhals for Port

Alabama Farm Facts, one of the state agricultural papers, Is calling upon. the state authorities to secure Gen. George w. Goethals, builder of the Panama canal, to build the port of Mobile. This movement will meet with the hearty approval of the people of Florence, where General Goethals once made his home, while in charge Of the work on tho old Muscle Shoals canal. Alabama Farm Facts points out that the very name of Goethals would be an advertisement to the world that Alabama had undertaken the build ing of seaport that would be the last word in safety for ships and fa- cilities for commerce..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
DISTRIBUTION HOPELESS

Owing to the discovery of new radium mine in the Congo, the price of radium has gone down from $120,000 to $70,Q0Q a gram. But there will probably be a trust formed that will keep it practically out of the reach of the poor man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28

As side-line on the difference in sense of values, it may be noted that the season is fast approaching when large percentage of the American people are more interested in the box score than who are to be the next presidential nominees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
IDEAS FOR BUSINESS
(Cincinnati TImes-Star)


 American brains as well as Amer ican acres are represented in'the country's exports. from a mass or like figures taken from Commerce Reports we note that in November the country sent $13,000 worth of typewriters to Czechoslovakia; 1,052,O00 feet of moving picture films, valued at $44,000, to Eng land; $72,OO0 worth of sewing ma chimes to Scotland; $5,00O worth of photographs to Holland, and $2O,- 900 worth of toys to Poland. These commodities are national specialties with no relation at all to the conti- mental area and abundant raw ma- terials of the United States, usually cited as a complete explanation of it's volume of exports. Their source is American ingenuity, and-trace each back far enough-just an idea in the mind of one man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Remedyins the Trouble
(TaIladeEa Daily Homs)


 One of the big drawbacks to the town of Talladega has been it's inn perfect water supply. The town has recognized this, and is levying and expending over two hundred thou sand dollars to overcome this trouble. Its bounds have been placed and soon that long felt want will be supplied. If MT. Babson's guess be true. then Talladega will be one of the best towns, in one of the best states, in the best county on earth. This is saying a good deal, but MT. Babson agrees on it, and why should Talladega citizens not ize her unenviable position, and take fresh, pride in having it point ed out by men of vision? S
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Alabama Press
Glad To Know
(GuntersvilIe Democrat)

IOuHtersVIIIe D6m0cr6tJ
 Last state auditors report lists the value of Auburn at $1,344.5OO and the university S1, ,46O,512. All of you folks who believe there IS only $1l6,00 difference in valua- tion hold up your hands.-La- Fayette Sun. Believe it? Ninety five per cent of the people, includ- ing intelligent reading men, know nothing about the value of either, but they would be glad to know.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28

Now comes the report that young lady of St. Louis possesses a vocabulary of 64,ooO words. It's pretty certain she's not going to get any extraordinary number of marriage proposals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
PERISH THE THOUGHT!
(Atlanta Constitution)

VNVIHntH :
 Luther Burbank has joined the boil weevil control body, which reads like good news; and yet what if it results in an improved weevil, that will distance all the old-timers in swift clean up of the cotton crop?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28

The question arises whether those twenty one seniors of Columbia University who went through four years of college life in Gotham and emerged unkissed received liberal education.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
HOMO SAPIENS

The boy and girl fell in love. Se- cretly the boy was glad that, al- though the girl was trifle plump, she would never resemble her moth- CT, who was a rather stupid, fat old dowager. They have daughter now. Secretly her father is glad that, although his. daughter is a trifle plump, she will never resem- ble her mother, who is rather a stupid, fat old dowager.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Tax Ia. L.ad
(Dothan Eagle)

The holders of big tracts of land, uncultivated, will in time be taxed extra for holding idle land. There are no big tracts of land in Hous- ton county, or southeast Alabama, owned by syndicates, as can be found in some other sections of the south, and that is why this is one of the most progressive farming com munities to be found anywhere. The small farms, cultivated by the man who owns them, makarfo . pros porous section.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Get on Cash B..i.
Samson Ledger)


 March 29, the proposal to issue $100,000 worth of refunding bonds for Geneva county will be voted on. It matters not why the county's finances got in such shape that warrants on the general fund are unvalued assets. They are not de- sirable. People who do work for the county know they will have to wait years for their pay. If the county can be gotten on cash basis it can be run far more cheaply. That is the aim of the commissioners. It is because we have faith in. the hon. esty and business ability of the com ,missioners and in their. determina- tion and ableness to do what they say they will do that we favor the proposed issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Mortgases on Autos (LAFayette 0uu)

Increased price of gasoline and increasing number of automobiles are becoming great problem. Com paratively little of these vast expen- ditures remain in the county where the money is paid. More and more money is invested in cars and less and less interest is taken in one's business when car, comes into the family. As a result of tho auto mobile craze home owners are be- coming fewer and fewer in number. Last Saturday 62 mortgages were filed on automobiles m tho probate office of Chambers county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28

We suspect that the fellows who hold vast quantities of tax-free securities are finding it hard to get sympathetic audiences when they denounce conditions in the public service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28

Still, the cost of the campaign to eliminate the mosquitoes will be smai: as compared with the burden represented by the mos quitoes' bills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
A. It Is in New York

As It Is in New York Vladimir B. Artichoke was failure. The "B" in his name stood for Bank ruptcy." At the age of forty he sat in his lone delicatessan foundry without a client Tn sight, with thousand bills coming in, and $2.75 in the damper.
 Ruin stared him in the face, but that was nothing new on Ruins part. She had flirted with him often. She was his regular sheba. as you might say, and woulo not take the air.
 Vladimir was ambitious but dumb. All his life he had followed the straight and narrow path; all his life he had toiled and hoped; and all his life he hao Kept just one step ahead of the bill collectors. He had been a farmer, teamster, an insurance agent, a scenario writer, a policeman, cubist painter, haberdasher, politician and he had flopped at every job. He could not even get rich as bootlegger.. That's how dumb he was.
 As he sat musing in his deserted chow bazar sudden inspiration burst upon him. Taking the $2.75 out of the damper, he rushed across the street to painters shop, where the artist fashioned him sign. Fastening back to his vitamine empo- rum, he cleared the sausages and pretzels and herring and potato salad out of the window and placed the sign therein, that all the world might see. In bold letters it read: |:
 BANK
 Next, morning Vladimir B. Artichoke bought Rolls-Royce and few days later fled to Mexico. ; The Trumper
 The worst of chumps
 Is Simon Chase;
 He always trumps
 His partners ace. -J. J. M.
 The Unbeliever
 The grocer is
 The worst of all;
 He won't believe
 When prices fall. R. A.
 Unhand Me, Wretch! The greatest pest in all the land
 Is Aloysius Gump
 For when he shakes me by the hand
 He thinks am pump.
 The frigid winds that rave and roar And penetrate your frame Will make you strong and hardy for The opening baseball game. The railroads are most unkind about this grade crossing project. Their willingness to cooperate takes away the city commissions last alibi.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
Jl.7oReEBEARER

correspondent wants to know if a man can be devout Christian while learning tol play the saxophone. Paxhaps so; but we doubt whether any of his neighbors can.
 Time and again we hear people complain of the high cost of liquor since prohibition went into effect. The heaviest burden from the sale of liquor these days arises from the lawlessness produced by the traffic. The bootlegging industry costs the people of this country hundred dollars from it's encouragement of lawlessness to every dol lar spent for liquor.
 At this season of the year when so many people are inclined to drop into poetry, the wonder is how few are injured from the fall.
 It was John Temple Graves, if our memory serves us, who said even jaybird knows the difference between music and singing, and demonstrates it every time he vocalizes. At any rate he never gets them mixed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-28
T H E A c Ell E R A L D

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala. postoffice as
 second-class matter under act of Congress March
 G. 1879.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-03-13
Produce Markets

INDIANAPOLIS. March -Eses-Frnsh
candled, 23c. Butter-Pacllins stock. Doc
Fowls-Straight. 22c; eshorn poultry. -
per cent discount. staSs I5c, cocks. Re;
younG tom turkeys, l. lbs up, 2sc, poung
hen turkeys 5 lbs up 2Sc, old tom tur-
keys. BE: ducks. / lbs up. lie; geese, 10
lbs up. 12c, squads, II lbs TO the doz. 81.
CHICAGO March I3-Butter-Re Receipts.
10.G59. creamery extra. Is le a 1884 O.. stand
ards 4T12c. firsts As IA 47c. seconds. I5Dt
- iec. Eggs-Rccciptc, 2J.4I8. ordinary
TWINS, % y n PC; Young Americas, 26 q
&c i2c Poujtry-Receipts ] car fowls
2Gc. ducks 25c; geese. 13c. springs 27c;
turkeys. 25c. rooster@. IGc Potatoc--Ro-
sacked So 90c best ST. Idaho Russcts
sacked Sl25 a l.5o.
CLEVELAND, March 3-Buttcr-Extra
IN tubs. % 2 q Die prints 81 2 "a 55o:
Ohio extras 29@ 3oc; Ohio lrst-. 26e:
western hrsts 25a POutry-Live heavy
fowls. 20 -: roosters. I6@ l7c: ducks,
20. geese, 2oe. turkeys. 25c. Potatoes-
Michigan. S24250 per cwt. New York
S2loN".20 per $50 lbs. Colorado Brown
Beauties. Si75 per cwt: idaho Ru--et-.
s. 80 per cwt-
NEW YORK May 3.-Flour-Tracuye.
La-d-Fjrmer, middle west spot. S12.70H
IL so. Sugar-Raw. hrmer: centrifugal 96
tes ,. Al refined, qUlet; Franulated, -
l3 '.c. Santos, l5i4 M1J &C. Tauow-Dul.
special. 91t9i4 &C.. city. 'sc Dressed pOul-
try-WeaK. turkeys. - n soc. chickens rs
70 zoe. lowe l5N Boo. ducks, l6u Biz.
Live pou.try-Irre-ular. geese, Is 2@c
ducks 80 q Doc; fowls. %b q &c. tur.'e E-.
broi'crs. 750 SOC Cheesc-FIrm state
whole milk. common to specia'sr 25 10 20 p. o.
Butter-Firmcr. receipts l2.Ol9. creamery
eT,-a 4S g; s1ec,ai marhel ~ e ir t9,.c.
receipts BLOB nearby whites fancy 40 NJ
-. nearby state whites. - q soc. fresh
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-03-13
To HELP STATE IN
ISSUING PENSIONS
Welfare Society Interested in
Mothers Law.

Now that Indiana has a mothers
pension law, members Of the Family
Welfare Society. which handled prac-
tically all cases which will come under
the new law, are interested in getting
the law started right, according to
Paul Benjamin, secretary Of the
society.
A conference win be held with
Judge Frank J. Lair, in regard to in
augurating work of the law.
Final action is to be taken on the
proposed free employment bureau at
a meeting next Monday of the citizens
committee. The ordinance providing
for the bureau was killed at the last
meeting Of the city council. Unem-
ployment was the second highest
cause for seeking aid from the society,
Benjamin said.
The society last month cared for
1,167 families and individuals. New
requests for aid numbered 213. The
society cared for 1879 married couples
twenty-one deserted wives and twenty
two widows. In the children's depart
ment 218 families or children were
cared for. Fifteen requests to board
children were received and homes
were found for five Four unmarried
mothers were assisted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-03-13
Building Permits

George Warren, dwelling, 2|o2 Wheel'r
i {. futile, dwelling 1880 n. Dearborn
ST. Agnes Academy. Gue, 1850 n. Merid-
william Kitzmilier, dwelling, 124o s.
Congress. $4,000.
f. z. Turner. garage 1919 Congress. 5000.
IT. c. Cooper. double, 605 Torbet. S400.
Fred s. Sanders. dwelling, S1l n De
Quircy. $500.
Edward Hoffman, addition, go N. La
= Nantel, addition, 181 W. Washington,
81 900
Ralph Mccormack, remodel, 80 n. Shef-
field, $3.50. -.
Clark Bremermsn dwelling, 3512 N. Illi-
nois 50 900.
Clark Bremerman, dwelling, $50 W. Thlr-
ty-Fifth, $1,000
Charles schakel garage, $40 N. Jefferson
S27O.
Charles McGIasson. dwelling, 5131 Gull
ford, $3.50
Harding Street Garage, garage, 1t46 S
Harding. 5000
l.. A Lawrence addition, 1896 n Ala
bama. $500.
George NJ Clements. dwelling. $3.50 ParF
81 500,
George L. Bruce. dwelling, 1897 Ralston.
81 900.
W. H.. Cobb, dwelling. 1927 N. Capitol
SO. ZOO.
NJ S. Myers. double 1923 College, $9.ooa
Joe Thompson reroof, 935 N Ilbbs
$500.
Edward Dux. garage. 952 English, $500,
= n -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-03-13
Deaths

John G Kent. II. 1919 " Thirty Third
NoGle Ksyior. s. city hospital, diphtho-
ria.
NihClSau. chronic myoc1rdlus.
Elizabeth Jefferson, 80, 2037 Boulevard
Pi acute duafau0n OF heart.
Fannie Holloway, so. 902 Bosart. apo
Lewis ] Bailey. re, SOL N. Liberty.
chronic interstitial nephrtls.
Nancy G.. Monucue. 63, I27 y. sherman
Dr., chronic myocardItIs-
Oliver Bluift. y. county jail penlctous
anpmia.
MolIie Dehner. 81. 1900 Harding. cerebral
hemorrbage.
Mary Elizabeth sheubrrEer. rs, $3.50 J..
Washington cerebral thrombosis.
Roy Whitaker. H. 900 n BellNvieT,
hroucho pneumonia.
Emerson j. Deputy 5s. 1886 y. Delaware,
Robert GUr'o-o 49,. $500 z. Thirtioth,
acute IutorstItl1l uephTitis.
James Henry Mack, 81, 1892 n. Sheffield,
lobar pneumonia.
Oliver sItch. rs. city hospital, military
tuberculosis.