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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-24
DENY SENSAT| |0NA[ CHARGES AGAINST
 RELIGIOUS LEADER.
Followers of PurneII Claim He Is a Victim of
 rame-up

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. March 23. Attorneys for King" Benjamin Pur- nell of the House of David. denying amazing charges of wholesale moral turpitude against the leader of the cult with the assertion that he was frequently tempted but never fell, opened the defense in the $S0,000 damage suit of MT. and Mrs. John Hansel Friday, after Mrs. Esther Hanaford Hansel, daughter of the plaintiffs, had testified that she and other followers of Benjamin had been threatened with punishment by poisoning.
 Members of the cult, Mrs. Hansel declared, lived in hourly terror of Benjamin's vengeance. Her own brother, she testified. had warned her that the leaders only welded wife, Mary Purnell, who was known in the Benton Harbor colony as '"The Blessed Virgin" had sworn to stab her to death.
 Mrs. Hansers testimony concluded d deluge of testimony concerning al- legged wild orgies in which Benjamin was the central figure.
 After setting forth the claim that Esther was the unrepentant Mary Magdalene" of the colony who had tried to swerve the King" from his holy path of virtue, and that the case against Purnell was all a huge con- spiracy, the defense placed on the stand Edwards Bully, a member of the advisory board of the House of David, who denied all the charges made by the dozens or more wit nesses for the plaintiff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-24
STEINER RESIGNS AS COMMANDER IF
 NATIONAL GUARD
Col. William P. Screws Ap- pointed to Succeed Him by
 Governor Brandon
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU
 THE AGE-HERALD Moptgomery. Ala. March 23

Governor Brandon late tonight an nounced the resignation of Gen. R. E Steiner, of Montgomery, as com manding officer of the Seventy-sev- enth infantry brigade, composed of the national guards of Florida and Alabama, and the appointment of Co.,. William P. Screws, of Mont gomery, commander of the famous One Hundred and Sixty-seventh in- fantry overseas. as General steiners successor. The nomination was made by Governor rBandon to the war department and Is subject to confir- nation.
 General Steiner rendered his resig ration Wednesday, according to in- formation. He informed the Govern or that he felt that he had served long enough, and the honor and the duties of the office should be placed on another.
 In naming Colonel Screws as Gen 'eral Steiner's successor, Governor Brandon stated that 1t was in recog- hilton of his valiant service as leader of the Alabama regiment in the Rain bow division and of his work in organizing the Alabama national guard.
 Colonel Screws Is now inspector, instructor of the Alabama military organization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-24
UNCLE SAM TO PR0BEI RECENT JUMP MADE
 IN PRICE OF SUGAR
Department of Justice Begins Vigorous Investigation of
 Sudden Advance

WASHINGTON. March 23,-Prompt action in running down the cause for the recent jump in sugar prices and prosecution of those found respon- sible is promised by the department of justice.
 A vigorous inquiry was begun Fri day by officials Of the department who 1t was disclosed, have been in- vestigating the situation for nearly month along general lines.
 Announcement of some definite steps by the department are ex- pected shortly following general con- ferences by its officials with Secre- tary Hoover and with Basil Manly, head of the peoples legislative sers- ice, whose charges of sugar gam bling on a large scale started active inquiry by federal officials here.
 The sugar situation took on a po- litical angle when Chairman Cordell Hull of the democratic national com mittee issued statement Friday asking Harding to reduce the sugar tariff 50 per cent under the author ity granted by the flexible duty clause of the Fordney McCumber act.
 Relief In His Hands.
 ndS m Ills own hands the most immediate and po- tent single remedy for the relief of the sugar situation" Hull said.
 Notwithstanding that the controll- ing motive in the enactment Cf the Fordney McCumber tariff law last year was to boost domestic prices of the products of certain industries, in- cluding sugar, and although the pres ent runaway sugar market, domi mated by profiteers, owes it's chief underlying original cause to the tariff price boosts, the Harding ad- ministration is practically silent about the one speedy and effective remedy immediately available, namely, the reduction of the pres ent high sugar tariff rates. The President should direct the tariff commission, if necessary, to make a report without any sort of delay, to the end that he might at once issue proclamation, under the authority of section 315 of the tariff law, re- ducing the existing sugar duties 50 per cent. I am sure the tariff com mission has on hand sufficient facts on which to base a report now. Price. Jump Higher.
 "The price increases do not stop with the amount of the tariff but are Jumped higher and higher from time to time, with the inevitable re- suit that arbitrary price fixing, speculation and profiteering become rampant. Taking advantage of this tariff psychology, sugar profiteers and spectators have been for sev- eral weeks. as they are now, fleecing and robbng the American people at present rate of near s400, 000, ,0o0 per annum, or an amount almost as great the total tariff revenue yield to the federal treasury for an entire year."
 Manly entered the situation again Friday night with the statement that he had received information that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-24
BIRMINGHAM OFFICERS FOUND PHYSICALLY FIT
Examination Of Bremen And Po-
 lice Very Satisfactory

Cough. Say ah-h-h-One, two!"
 Thirty-two firemen and 27 police men passed before pr. J. G. Vance. member of the civil service commis- sion. in regular army physical in spection style Friday night when ex- aminations made in accordance with the civil service act for men who had been members of the two de- partments for less than a year.
 "I have seldom seen a finer bunch of men," Dr. Vance remarked as he completed tho physical examinations. T have inspected between 15,000 and 10000 men in the army. but I don't believe I have ever seen a more splendid physical aggregation" While a few Irregularities were dis covered, Dr. Vance stated that he did not expect any to prove serious enough to disqualify the cases from the service.
 Meeting at No. fire station at s o'clock Friday night, different Ques- tion sheets were distributed to po- licemen and firemen and they began working out written answers Fire department questions included a se- r1es as to personnel of the depart mont, duties of firemen, conduct, and questions as to fire apparatus. Po- lice questions included inquiries as to, the duty of patrolmen, and asked the applicant what he would do in various cases, murders. accidents, fires, trunks and others.
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BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD

Charles E. Miller president of the National City bank of New York, the president of the Old Colony Trust company of Boston and the president or prominent Montreal bank met
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monials of women who had been like myself. I went right out and got me . bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- table Compound, and before l had taken the whole of that bottle l knew it was helping me. Itooksix bottles, and then in about three months l took two more. Now l am in perfect health. do all of my own work and could do more. I can truly say that l know Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound gave me my health. "- Mrs. o. J. HINCKLEY, 316 Union Ave, Memphis, Tenn.
 ' Lydia E. Pinkham's Private Text- Book upon Ailments Peculiar to Women will be sent you free upon request. Write to The Lydia E. Pink ham Medicine Co.,, Lynn, Mass. This book contains valuable information.
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with certain prominent Cuban sugar growers In Cuba in January and con- sidered means of further increasing the price of sugar. rN
 Manly reiterated that Hoover had
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advised the Cuban producers tC' enter into an agreement with American beet sugar interests In order to re- strict production of Cuban sugar from 4,o00.00o to 2,6o0,o0o tons.
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ne yes w ere a wreck. I could not sweep a room without resting. I could not do my work except a lit tie at a time, and
 the doctor S medi-
 cine did not help
 me. One day some one threwyour lit- tie book on to my porch, and in it l
 read several teSti.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-24
MRS. H|NCKLEY NERVOUS WRECK Tells How She Was Restored to Perfect Health by Lydia E.Pink-
 hams Vegetable Compound

Memphis, Tenn,-" "Twoyears agoI was completely rundown and my
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-22
THE FOOL' OPENS FUR WEEK MONDAY
PolIoCk'S Notable Play Is Termed Sensational Dra-
 matiC Triumph

One of the most notable attrac- tions in many years is ''The Fool" by Charming Pollock, which will be presented by the Selwyns at the Jef- ferson all this week, beginning Mon day night with matinees Wednesday and Saturday. This play was a sensa- tional dramatic triumph for more than a year in New York and during run of six months in Boston. No new play in the early days of its career ever before swept the country with the same interest, and this oc- curred first before "The Fool" was six months old, with the same in- tense desire to see it continuing. There is hardly a town of any size that has not heard of The Fool.' For months past every theatre manager in the country has been besieged with inquiries asking when the play would come their way. Now that "The Fool" is announced for four weeks hence, there are likely to be calls for seats to be reserved lm- mediately. If any play can. pack our theatre it should be The Fool It has been an enigma for years among theatrical managers just why single play that has never been seen outside of one of the big cities, should sweep through the air, as 1t were, of the entire company as the one play that must not be missed, and like an endless chain keep going on and on until it ultimately gets there. There may be a reason for this in the pres ent instance, since The F'ools' mes sage is vital to everybody and pene- trates the thinking mind as no other play has ever done. Thinking people cannot get The FooP out of their heads after leaving the theatre, and it may be that their subconsicous
 minds are working on the receptive suconsicous, minds of other, and so the thought of The Fool" is carried everywhere Anyway, it is an Interest ing thing fox some psychologist to explain.
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with contempt, and doctors were re- garded as entirely outside the pale of good society," while to become an actor was to become an outcast
 And believe me, Annie, the day is coming when sensible men will look for their wives in kitchens instead of factories and shops, and when a husbands proudest boast will be that he married Mrs. Millionaire's high. priced cook. DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Miss Dix-About two years ago I married a girl with whom I lived very happily until last fall then we had a disagreement and 1 went to Florida for the winter and told her she could go back to hef parents home. When l got back l found she had gotten a divorce from me- She Is spoiled and selfish, her father and mother having indulged her in everything she wanted, but l think she still loves me, and God knows I love her. So far she won consent to a reconciliation, as she is of a stubborn disposition. Can you tell me how to win her back? K. G.
 Answer-It is the tragedy of love that it is so easy to lose and so dit- ficult to regain. Surely if young peo- pAc lSdllICu tudI liAS9 NOoAN pN 4AASA careful of the precious jewel that fate has intrusted to them. Older and more worldly wise people al- ways view lovers quarrels, and the little foolish squabbles of young married couples. with shudderins horror, for they know that no dis agreement is ever quite made up The heart stab given by the hand we love never wholly heals. There is always sore that bleeds, always 2 ranking scar.
 You will find it harder, K. G., to win back your wife than you fount it to win her in the first place. You see, she knows you now and is wise to all of your little tricks and man ners, and she can make a good guess at what life with you will be. Evi' dently she didn't find it endurabl' in the past. so you will have to con vince her that you will make things pleasanter in the future.
 If the fault of the disagreement was yours, be man enough to admit it to her, and ask her pardon for 1t and promise to do differently. If the fault was hers, tell her that no mat ter how thick her sins are upon her head you would. rather have her than any pin-feathered angel woman.
 Finally q whisper this. for it is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-22
Dorothy Dir's Letter Boz
The Single Standard Of Morals In Matrimony-House- worker Or Factory Girl Which Makes The Best Wife? How To Revin A Divorced Wife

w. R. w. Don't marry any woman with a past unless you have soul great enough to forget it, and never refer by word or dead to it. The cruelest man on earth is the miser. able little creature who marries woman. and then uses his knowledge of her past life to torture her with.
 DOROTHY DIX.
 Dear Dorothy Dix-I am 25 years old and mighty easy on the eyes, and think I have got common sense. I make my living by being companion to a very nice lady. A young man has been paying a lot of attention to me, but he objects to my occupa tion. He says his family would not like him to marry a girl who was a maid. Don't you think he is a snob? ANNIE.
 Answer: I certainly do. It's men like he who send thousands of girls to work in factoris, where they have to do work. too hard for them for less money than they could get by going into domestic service. It's little snobby- souled men, such as he is. would rather marry a ehalf-starved, anemic girl out of a sweatshop, where she has worked under the most un- wholesome conditions for her, morally and physically, or a nervous, over wrought shop girl, than a strong, healthy, well-nourished girl who has lived in a refined home and been brought into daily contact with gen tie people.
 Yet which girl is better fitted to make a man good wife-the girl who is an expert houseworker, or the girl who has run power sewing ma- chine, or a printing press, or done nothing since she got her working papers but sell bargains in a base ment1 WNich girl is going to stand the strain of wifehood and mother hood best-the girl who has been a maid in a family, who has had the best of food the market afforded who has had her own bath and a good room. or the girl who has herd ed in a tenement with other factory workers?
 All work is honorable, Annie. It's whether you do it badly or well that makes its place in the estimation of the world, and it is because domestic service has been habitually the worst done work in the world that so many people scorn 1t.
 It rests with people like you to raise it to the dignity of a learned profession. Why, it hasn't been long
 since writers were looked down upC
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Dear Dorothy Dix-I am in trouble and need your help. l am in love with very fine little girl and she is devoted to me- We wish to be mar ried, but there is an obstacle. Being very truthful and honest, she has told me that she had sad experience in her early youth. before she knew me.
 Should I forgive her and marry her? Should I overlook the fact that there is a smudge on her skirts? Or, if l marry her, will I always be think ing of it, and suspecting her? l love this girl with all my heart, and l desiresto be fair and honest with her, but I do not know what to do about marrying her.
 Of course, I have been no angel myself. But men are curious in the standards they hold for themselves and women. w. k. w.
 Answer: Right you are, w. R. w The most sublime exhibition of human nerve in the world is the fact that the darker mans past is, the moro spotless record does he demand of the woman lle marries
 Certainly the man who admits that he has been no angel may be very sure that any woman is quite as good as he is, and let go at that, with both
 
 a fresh score with life.
 It is actually less difficult to tell whether the woman who has once strayed from the straight and narrow path and then fought her way back to it will be a true and faithful wife than it is to tell whether an un tempted young girl will. For the one has had her lesson, and the other has not. The one knows from bitter ex- perience that the primrose way is the way of the cross in reality. Her soul has been scared by shame. Her eyes wept dry of the scorching tears of repentance. She knows the sordidness of the illicit relationship, while to the ignorant girl there is always something glamorous in love under the rose.
 Not every woman who sins is a sinner at heart. Many a girl who stumbles into the wrongdoing that wrecks her life does it through the noblest instincts of her nature. It is because she has it in her to love greatly; because she is too generous to bargain; because she is too tender to say mo" to and deny one dear to her; because she is too trusting that she is the victim of the villains who betray her. Such woman is not immoral. When she finds what she has unwittingly done, she repents in sackcloth and ashes. She pulls her self out of the pit her enemies have dug for her, and walks warily the balance of her life. And she makes the most loyal wife in the world for the man who Is big enough to under stand her and trust her.
 It is easy enough to distinguish be- tween that kind of woman and the woman who Is born wanton. Any man can do it. But note this we'll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-22
BIRMINGHAM .AGE-HERALD. MONDAY. OCTOBER 22 1928
THE LOVE GAMf..
 A CITY
 ROMANCE BY VIRGINIA TEpHIeE, WEhw1TN
CHAPTER 1s0

Jack Paine looked with interest at the flushed face, the flashing eyes.
 My dear Miss Scott" contritely T did not know that Rankin's sister was your intimate friend-or l would not have said d word against him. You should have told me that"
 "She was not my intimate friend ;" she disclaimed. T have not even heard from her since we both left Miss Halls school. But 1 did see her often there-and saw that she was a refined girl, and that her brother was a gentleman. So when you sug- gested that he had boasted to me of his birth and breeding, l had to deny it."
 Paine smiled. "You denied it all right" and there was strange gleam in his eyes. What you tell me of Rankin throws a new light on even a man of his type may be good to his own people. l hope the lttIe sister of whom you speak has prof. tied by his various gains"
 His gains?" the girl echoed. T do not fancy he has had many, al though know that he came into some money this fall"
 She stopped. Perhaps she was inn prudent to speak of this.
 The man ignored her hesltdlioI' "Yes, he did have some money left him, I understand. My friend, Tom Dillon--the chap I suggested bring ing to call on you-told me of 1t,
 How did he hear of it%' Winifred asked, puzzled. Does he know MT. Rankin?"
 "Dillon met him recently" Paine replied "He did not know him until I pointed Rankin out on the night that you and he sat near us at the theatre"
 Winifred's eyes were fixed on Paine's. Richard had known Dillon, had been introduced to- him by Paine and had never mentioned the mat ter to her!
 Yet-why should he? It was not necessary that she should know the names of everybody her betrothed met.
 since then" Paine was saying and she forced herself to grasp his meaning-"they have seen good bit of each other. Perhaps had Rankin not come into a small fortune right on top of a run of luck he had had lately, Dillon might not have seen so much of him. But birds of a feather flock together. Yet-Tom is really a fine chap--a decent gambler, if there ever was one."
 Gro Be Continued)
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Ask J. w. Webb, 306 Fifty fourth street, south, if Age Herald classified. ads pay.
 He'll say they do.
 Without knowing why they did 1t, someone called Mir. Webb the other day to rent a room. He had spare room and rented it. Others called continuously throughout the day and Mir. Webb referred them to his neighbors--three of them rented rooms. The next day his daughter in East Lake rented spare room by the same process. Later, five couples called in person to see MT. Webb. One was from Chattanooga, another from Memphis and still an- other from Indiana, but NIT. Webb's rooms and those of his neighbors were exhausted.
 He called by The Age Herald to pay his bill and the trouble was found. A typo- graphical error changed an- other advertiser phone number to that of MT. Webb, and the correction was made for the other party.
 They're the best pulling ads l ever saw, MT. Webb stated. Try them and see for yourself. Just call the Classified Department, Main 4900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-22
WORLD FAMOUS STARS ARE IN GIANT CIRCUS
Ringling -Barnum Show Consolidate
 Aristocracy Of White Tops

Though not generally known, 1t is a fact that the circus family ante dates the best known names or the stage. One hears great deal about the aristocracy of the footlights. The Barrymores, the Drews, the Jeffer- sons and others point with pride to the long line of ancestors who trod the borders before them. Yet, the people of the white tops trace their names still farther back.
 In the great, Ringing Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Shows the foremost artists of Spangleland The consolidation of these famous institutions has made this possible. Now, and for the first time in circus history one finds such names as the following on a single program:
 The great Nelson Family, Rief- fenachs, Silvas, Carrieras, Rooneys, Clarks,, De Koes, Siegrists, Silbon, Bradnas and many others whose grandfathers and great grand-fath- CTS wore the spangles of the saw dust realm. Here the patrons finds the entire aristocracy of circus GUS dom Tn ensemble. It is the rule rather than the exception for the son or daughter of a performer to, follow in the footsteps of his par ents. As soon as they leave school children join their elders to be put through the mysteries or Lne1r rlrSC semersault or to feel the yielding back of a horse beneath their feet. This is the way the ''businesS" Is kept up. The teachers are the most willing in the world. for each parent lives in the hope that his child may become a greater performer than himself. The, combining of the worlds greatest shows" and the greatest show on earth" has result ed in bringing hundreds of perfor mers under one "big top" yet, out of the vast number. census would dis cover that the total includes no less than forty-seven families.
 The aristocracy of the family ex- tends to those who are prominent in the brilliant introductory revue, which opens the main tent program. Yvette Renee, who is a prominent figure in the mammoth pageant.is of a family well known in the annals of European pantomine. Her uncle, Jules Turnour, aged 70, is one of the scores upon scores of clowns with the show. Yet. old as he is, Turn our was not the first to bring the family name to the land of Spangles, fer his father was a performer be- fore him. The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows exhibit here Wednesday, Oc- toDer 24.
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q am almost as good as magician as youm Hurpylumpy added.

T am almost as good as magician as you" Hurpylumpy added.
 "Huh!" Crookelookie howled, "A fine lot of magic you did! When you worked with my charms you changed yourself into a polly parrotP'i
 Then the two brothers scowled at each other and rudely stuck out their tongues at each other. This meant that they were ready to fight. So they wrestled each other this way and that until finally they kicked open the door to the chicken coop and the Raggedys and Peter Pelican walked out. But the Magician and Humpylumpy were so angry at each other. they did not see our friends escape, and as the Raggedys and Peter Pelican ran down the stairway and through the deep, deep, woods, they could still hear the chairs be- ing kicked about and the angry shouts of the two brothers as they -tusseled each other.