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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
SAVING THE FLEET

Although congress failed to approve
the ship subsidy plan, the RESPONSE
bility for maintaining and establishing
our merchant marine still exists. 1t
is said that the president intends to
discuss the subject on his contem-
plated Western tour, in order to arouse
public demand for action. 1t is said
that public opinion is opposed to the
subsidy plan while approving the idea
that our merchant fleet should be
made permanent national asset. Yet
it is just as easy to say that the peo
pie, desiring merchant marine, would
just as lief it were through the sub
sidy plan as any other. Those con-
gressmen, who express themselves as
so careful to follow out what they
imagine to be public opinion on this
question, are inconsistent, for they
have shown no such solicitude on other
matters demanding public attention,
such as tax revision and the like. 1t is
not believed that their present con-
Germ is genuinely in the public behalf.
Nevertheless, speaking tour bring
ing home to inland producing commu-
mites the Importance to their prosper
ity of an adequate merchant marine is
bound to be of benefit Public opinion
has not been thoroughly and intelli-
gently directed to the real merits of
the merchant marine, nor to the fact
that maritime matters are just as i'm
portant to the factory in an inland
city as to the factory on the seaboard.
The resort to subsidy is merely the
relatively important means to an eX-
tremely important end. Shall there
be obstruction to a policy of great
public good simply because of tech
nical objection to the means by which
that good is arrived at? 1t is not be-
lieved that American public opinion is
capable of such absurdity of reason
ing.
Since it was not found possible to
educate congressman to the value
of the subsidy plan or to the national
necessity of a plan to establish per-
manently the merchant marine, the
American people must be educated so
as to give to their representatives in
government an unmistakable mandate
to provide for our merchant fleet.
The president and the shipping board
have determined not to fail the ma
ton at this juncture, but so clearly
do they perceive the public welfare
threatened, in war as we'll as in peace,
by sacrifice of the merchant marine
that they hold it a patriotic duty to
carry on as best they can until con-
gress shall finally have rescued the
fleet from its present danger of be-
ing lost to the United States. That
is national calamity which no pa
triotic body of men will allow to hap
pen if it is within their power to pre-
vent it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
JOHN MS



You may remember that some
time ago | explained to you the
meaning of dreams of eyes. You
will also recall that | mentioned
particularly that orbits of animals
are not included in this class, for
they form peculiar species of
dreams which are not represented
by any other symbol
Visions of the eyes of animals
mean senseless and harmful teal
Ousy.
1t does not particularly matter
IN what manner these eyes appear
to you, whether in the daylight or
at night, whether they seem green
or red, whether you discern the
animal to whom they belong or
can not see it; whether they seem
to brighten you or whether Won
view them without fear-the fact
remains that you will be seized
with feeling of jealousy which
YOU VIII be unable to overcome
and despite the fact that close at
your hand will lie the proof that
your suspicious are net justified
you Will cling to them and you
viii not only make yourself mis-
cradle. but others as well.
| doubt very much whether a
dream of this sort is really a
warning. The harm will be done
and only If you have sufficient
VIII power to deliberately put the
tact out of your mind, to force
yourself to realization that Won
are unjustified in suspecting an
innocent person. will you be able
to benefit by having been shown
the danger In which YOU live.
Even If at the time of the dream
you are not jealous of anyone. in
less than three weeks time YOU
VIII be seized with the great, pas
sion and unfortunately. your mind
VIII become so obsessed with the
ldea that you will go through a
period of real suffering.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
POOR BOYS WHO
BECAME FAMOUS

One day in southern state a Is
year. old boy. Coils p. Huntington,
went about trying to sell clocks.
Eagerly and boylike he explained
the advantages of the clocks.
"Win you buy one?"
Who that smiled at the boys W.
forts could realize that he wouli
grow up into one of the greatest
railroad builders in the United
States; that he would construct
lines where none before had ex-
listed. and that at his death he
would leave more than S50,000,000.
The clock peddler was a Yankee
boy from the good old state of
Connecticut. and he knew by in
stinct how to sell and buy. Per-
haps IN that southern journey he
became interested in negroes.
Later, when he had as many mil
lions as he once had clocks. he
gave great sums to such 1nstitu-
tons as Hampton and Tuskegee,
for the benefit of negroes and of
Indians. Perhaps. too. the pictures
on the clocks of his day interested
him in better pictures. At any
rate. when rich he gathered
$4,000. 900 worth of pictures.
When he was young man he
sold hardware from his own store
In California. not yet knowing
that he was to make lines of solid
steel spread across our land. He
WAS a good business man, and
saw the needs of the country He
made himself the friend of peo-
pie who, like him, were thinkIng.
He was quick, clever and honest
in handling money. and he knew
how to plant 81 and see A whole
crop of dollars grow up. A group
of men. who were building a rail-
road. asked him to take charge of
many of its financial problems.
His Yankee brain was equal to the
emergency, and he delighted his
friends by making his dealings
highly successful.
From that time on he himself. be-
came, not a clock peddler or a hard
ware merchant. but a railroad king.
When he was 40 years old Ne was
directing railroad for every Year
of his life. Then he reached out
into the dominion of the sea. and
began to rule there with steam
ships. With Yankee shrewdness
he extended power and opportu-
nifty for good constructive work.
With 1t all he kept the Kindly
heart OF his youth. built a beauti-
full church in honor of his mother
in the Yankee town where he had
been born. and gave literally to
charity. He was 10 when he died.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
ONE TRICK A DAY

Take two common wax candles,
place them on table, light one
and leave the other unlighted
The magician walks over
the light for a few moments.
to the burning candle. shades
turns to the audience with his
hands a few inches apart. show
Ing there is nothing between
them, at the same time saying
that he has a light between his
hands, but that it is invisible to
the spectators. Herewith, he
says, he will light the other can
die. And, presto, after saying
Few caballfstic words. he makes a
motion and the unlighted candle
bursts into flame. In reality, the
magician has a very fine wire in
his hands which he is heating
while he bends over the lighted
candle. AS he turns to the other
candle, he touches grain of
PHOSPHORUS that had been pre-
viously concealed in the wick with
the heated wire. and the wick will
Immediately ignite.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
TOO LITTLE SUGAR FOR A CENT

1t is said that the day Acting At
torney General General Seymour ar
rived in New York to begin an in
quiry into the high price of sugar tn :,
refiners' prices went up again. The
defenders of the sugar market say
that there will be a shot crop this
year, and that the price increase is
due directly to the working of eco
nomic laws. 1t is sometimes wondered
whether shortage does not really
suggest that the traders in a commod-
ity shall make total gross profit as
great as they would have made had
there been a normal supply.
The department of commerce den'cs
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

REFUNDS AND RETAILERS

The retail merchants division of the
chamber of commerce is taking a for
ward step in conducting survey TO
ascertain the feasibility and practical
ity of instituting transportation re-
fund system for trade coming to Biz
mingham from outlying sections. This
has proved uniformly successful in the
wholesale and manufacturing lines
where conducted in businesslike man.
ner and has also been a success among
retailers in many cities. 1t has been
a success for two years with the Biz
mingham wholesalers, who would not
think of abandoning the practice. It
is not so much the refund of fare
that pleases the buyer from other
towns as it is the special consideration
which this refund denotes. 1t is moth
ing more nor less than the human
equation in business and that goes
often about as far as values-a little
further when values are equal and one
merchant extends a courtesy that an
other does not. Not only IS there an
immense wholesale trade capable of de-
velopment by Birmingham with its
neighbors. but there is an equally large
retail trade susceptible of develop
nent under the same tactics. The
hard paved roads and the automobile
coupled with convenient trading rail-
road schedules between Birmingham
and outlying cities in her trade terri
tory offer the normal facilities. A lit
tie overture in the art of courtesy will
cause these natural advantages to rem
der fruit hundredfold.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

(American Legion Weekly
A newcomer had arrived AT Cat
ling Gulch and. being possessed
with quite an amount of cash and
finding there was no bank in the
place, approached the clerk of the
Hotel Faro. is there anyone
around here with whom it would
be safe to trust large sum of
money" he inquired timidly.
Well. said the clerk. consider
ing. there's Pike Casey UP in that
third house on the left-he died
last night"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
SMILES


(AtheNS IATK.J NHTOHICTtJ
Uncle" Yell Burnett was our
first citizen to surrender his fire
arms in compliance with the new
pistol law. He walked into the
MAYORS office last week and hand
ed over to the mayor a weapon
he had owned for some twenty
years 1t is an old-time five-cy
Under derringer of small caliber,
md would probably fatally wound
4 medium size Arkansas mosquito
At close range.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

TNtW J OK W OfTUJ
He was a rising artist and de-
cided to surprise his wife by paint
ing a portrait of her and himself
together. He showed the finished
pictures to his son, who said.
That's fine, But who is the
lady. dad?"
why. that's your mother.
After a long pause the son re-
mark ed:
wv ell, in that case why have
you painted her with a strange
gentleman"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
SINGING HYMNS OF HATE


Ihere is nothing surprising in
the fact that Germany is teaching
hatred of France in school books.
me children are told that France
was responsible for the war and
urged to think of the day of ven
geance. 1t Is a characteristic at
titude >for a people who used to
sing Colt strafe England" to
take.
Much has been said of the
change in the German mind since
the war, and sympathy for Ger
many is besought on this ground
But there are few visible signs of
any repentance for the past or
desire of different disposition in
the future.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
Now Watch EN- Do 1t


The business men and people of
Gurley are not only cultured and
refined; they are progressive and
up to date. Sc we take it that
Gurley will rise Phoenix-like from
the ashes that now greet her eyes
and the future will lift her from
amid the smoke and ruins of
towering and magic little city.
teeming with prosperity and a
keener ambition than ever to do
her part in the wonderful develop
ment that is to bless her people
and cur county.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

A few more frightful grade-crossing
accidents like that of Sunday morning,
which, by the way, are likely to occur
at any time, should unite the railroads,
the city commission and the public
into such realization of the need for
relief as to produce practical action
for viaduct construction as an acute
economic, no less than pressing hui
name, necessity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

In prohibiting sp,oning within its
public parks Fairfield apparently takes
the broad position that it is unfair
to tax all the people to provide facjli-
ties for comparatively few who de-
sire to spend their tim" promoting the
sentimental-twaddlc inaustry. =
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

Bilikins had no love for his
wife's little pet dog, but one day
he offered S25 reward for it's re-
covery.
But | thought" said a friend.
you hated that dog like poison?"
SO | did" replied Bilikins; Il
could not bear it."
Then why on earth did you Of
fer such a big reward for it's re-
turn
Il like to please my wife"
Well that may be, but s25 is
sure to bring the dog back" -
Il think not" answered Bilikins,
unless some one saw me bury it
in the garden"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

At frequent intervals heavy pay
ments are demanded by tn French
from German cities for public demon
STATIONS against their creditors.
Well, if people will dane. they have
to pay the fiddler
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
Couldn't Break the Record

a man who was showing off by
diving into the sea. and staying
under the water for a time. after
one dive came up and found that
he had remained under water for
two minutes.
That's going some" he brag-
ged. IN bet that's record
around here
"Oh, no it amt" replied a spec
tator. "A man dived in here last
year and he amt come up YETI"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
A GOAT WITH RED STRIPES
(WaShinEtnn Sfarl

Discovery of species of noun
tain goat with red stripes on the
back and with straight horns has
disclosed the fact that Indians liv-
ing in Musroikak. Alaska. still re-
gard Queen Victoria as their ruler.
They planned to send their speci-
mems to the Anglican bishop of
Yukon. and when informed that
the Rt. Rev. Peter T. Dove. bishop
If Alaska, in the United States
church. was their ecclesiastical
head. they decided to send goats
to both preiates.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
why Not the Purpose.

VIdUSUtH JVuI ITdIJ
he original federal reserve
bank system, we are led to be-
lieve. was not established with the
idea of being a money maker. 1t
was desired, of course, to make
such charges as would cover its
expenses and give il a surplus suf-
ficient to guarantee its absolute
integrity and to enable it to
possible financial stol ms.
But the reserve BANK, Figures
show, has made me meg by the
1t is piling up its sur
plus every day. Isn't it about
time to lower. rather than to in
crease, discount rates
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

Mary Landon Baker declares she's
going to give her standing committee
of one fiance rest from habitual
waiting at the church." While in a
generous mood, Mary might also allow
her press agent to have little vaca-
ton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

Those New York taxicab compa-
MES that introduced women chauf-
feurs as a protection to patrons
against robbery were proceeding along
the right line as far as they went, but
tionate rates by way of turning out
finished product?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
A Fine Example

Opp, a little city over in Ctv-
ngton county. has one cotton mill
and machinery has been contracted
Tor and a site secured upon which
another factory is to be built right
away. Good for Opp. Greenville
is a center of as fine an agricul-
tural district as any other place
in south Alabama, and one or two
cotton factories would be a good
hing for this Mace
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

(BostOn TransCr1pt)
A little fellow took up his
grandmoth spectacles and put
them on his nose, as children will.
Then peering through the glasses
he frowned and said: But | can't
see grandma; there must be some
thing between my eyes and the
glasses. What is it?"
Seventy years. my child" the
old lady answered
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
The Practical Way

Cooperative marketing Is the
Inevitable system of selling farm
crops. Fifty years from now we
will wonder why We ever ent en-
year aftetr year selling our crops
each farmer in competition it'll his
brothers. helpless, uniformed and
unorganized, simply accepting the
starvation average prices named
by the thoroughly informed and
highly organized buying world.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

If reports, that the powers that be
in France have no idea of evacuating
the Ruhr until Germany makes full
reparationn payments, be trustworthy,
the annexation process may as we'll
begin now, unless Germany abandons
all the latest styles of whining and
gets husV
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14


The trend of the times is not al
avs reflected through the adito-
rial pages of the newspapers, al
though they do a good deal along
that line. You want to read the
letters to the editor" column.
They tell you the question and is
sues that sometimes escape the
people, and are good sign-boards
along the way.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

(TaI1adega Daily Home)
The Birmingham distdict pro-
duced 253,632 tons of pig iron dur
ing the month of March, 1928. par
ticipatin in the record months pro-
duction in the United States of
1921 ,902 tons, not counting the
charcoal iron. And still the ITALIA
dega is one of the few loafing fur
naces.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
.Bide Dudley says:

Yesterday was almost warm enough
for the women to put on their furs
There is a man in Jail in Wilkes
Barre who is known to have seven
teen wives. He isn't seekink bail.
The advent of prohibition in Tur-
key should solve the problem of what
to do with the former harem beau
ties Why not set them up in the
bootlegging business?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

f(Detroit Free Press)
A Chicago girl Is asking for di-
vorce on the ground that she was
hypnotized by her husband before
he married her. The men express
similar idea when they say they
were vamped.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

They are still throwing eggs at cam
paign speakers in England. Doesn't
it seem that some more economical
means might be found to suppress po-
litical gas-bags? Or perhaps those eggs
have outlived their original useful
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

Those Detroit speed maniacs might
slow down little after being forced
to go through hospitals and witness the
distressing results of their reckless
ness; but good long prison sentences
will prove far more effective remedy
for permanent reform. Permanent
withdrawal of permission to drive
would in some cases be less than just
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

In the light of possible political
campaign material it looks now as if
sugar will be sweet nlorsel for the
Democrats and bitter pill for the
Republicans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

it is the age, rather than the lex, Of
eggs that interests most people. Can
the French scientists accomplish any
thing worth while in nat direction?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

Rumors that George Harvey is CON-
ing home to take charge OF the Re-
publican campaign will perhaps pro-
vide additional confidence as well as
extra "pep" for Democratic "go-get-
tore -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
Whose Fault Is 1t

(GunterSVlIIe Democracy
Some state laws are utterly un
known to the average man until
he is hauled up in court to an
swer for the violation of them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
WHY FRANCE IS IN RUHR
RVTHR
(C1apc1o nd pIoi,, ha,l.SN

IC1eveland Plain Dealer)
Hindenburg says that the most
peaceful person cannot live in
peace If wicked neighbor does
not wish it," It's taken him seven
years 10 come to the point of max
ing that confession.
THE OLD GIRLS LEARNING
(Hillsboro News Herald
The eX-kaiser's wife has left
him already which. in our humble
Judgment, shows more sense than
marry ing him did.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS


J
The French sculplor whose
statue of a doughboy wears gloves
could never have seen the way a
real Yank did his job Fritz will
vouch for the fact that he was not
handled with gloves on.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
TIL. DISCRIMINATE Jester

Throw wide the gates and let him in
before / bust him on the chin mean
that well-intentioned bloke who always
diagrams joke. He springs a jest
and it is fair, or would be if he stopped
right there; and then, for fear might
not see the point of all his drollery,
the pest explains it all to me. O gee,
O gosh, o gosh, o gee.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
HOW ABOUT THE NNIGHBoRss

Famous Tenor (3 a. m.)-lsn't
baby wonderful. dear? What won
derful range of expression and
what tone. He held that last note
for two minutes without weaken
ir.g-he's going to DE sensat on,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
You're Perfectly Welcome
New Haven JournaD

A Minnesota man has written an
answer 20 Sinclair Lewis libel on
small town life calling his book
Sane Street" Unless the text is
better than the title you may have
our COPY.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

Montgomery Times(
The floggers of DR.. Bowling are
in fair way to be punished. and
we hope they get the full limit of
the state and federal laws.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
Force of Habit
(TOledo R1a6al

Though congress has adjourn
ed, there are few senators who
simply can't stop talking. It's a
frightful ailment they have.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
Rich Northern Counties

(Oneonta Southern Democracy
Seventy-one per cent of the taxes
paid into the state treasury comes
from counties lying north of the
center of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
"TUT-ANkH-AMEN"

- NLIItFdFy DIReStI
The correct pronunciation of
Tut Ankh- Amen Is tut -ankh-
a'men-u as In rule, first a as in
arm, as in ink, second a as in
arm, as in pen. and means the
living image of Amen"-Amen be-
ing the chief of the Egyptian
gods, the sun god divinity.
WHY FRANCE IS IN RUHR
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
Spring Has Came

A swarm of bees settled in the rear
office of this establishment yesterday.
We'd be glad to have some of our sub
scribers drop in and follow suit
Claybourne (Texas) Eagle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14
Or What?

Dear Torch Bearer: After reading
the reports from Roumania, would you
call them Roumaniacs, or WHAT
Steve.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-04-14

N.NHSTI TTIt bdIITItTJ
Why not provide pedestrians
with horns to be sounded when
they start to cross the street?