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Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-27
CHICAGO SPENDS
LESS THIS YEAR

Z CHICAGO, Nov 27.--Chicago y
Thanksgiving dinner tablo will be
lighter this year than in the past,
leading produce dealers told ths
United Press today.
Despite lower prices buying Ia con,
fined TO necessities, fewer turkeys
a"c ~ demand ard The fetal volume
Of Thanksgiving business is FROM
five 10 20 per cent under that of
last year, the dealers reported,
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-27
Market Goes to
Jail 80 Days,
NJ a de Bootleg

William Market, charged with the
illegal manufacture of liquor, was
fined $500 by Judge Thompson in
the police court this morning, with
nm alternative sentence of 90 days
in the county Jail. He was unable
to pay the fine and was taken to
Jail.
Market was arrested yesterday
afternoon, following visit to his
home at 257 Maple avenue, by Sam
Griffin, assistant chief of police and
Officers Deaton aud Boguc. The
Officers found over 100 gallons of
wine cached IN the house, which
Market admitted making.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-27
Suspend Boxing
In L. A. Circles
by United Press Leased Wire

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27.-BoX-
ing in Los Angeles was dealt what
nav be death blow when the
police commission today refused to
renew boxing permits for the Holly
wood stadium, the Lyeeum club and
She Madison Square Garden club.
The chief of police and fire
chief were ordered to investigate
the conditions in these places, and
until then the permits were held
up. Chief Volimer sent in a report
,hat made no recommendation. He
will be asked to submit new report
with recommendations.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-27
Leviathan Set 81
A New World
Record

NEW YORK, Nov. GA new
world record for ocean passage
westward between Cherbourg
brcakwater and Ambrose chanrel
lightship was established by the
United States liner Leviathan
which docked here today. The
Lcviathan made the run in five
days, seven hours and 20 min
utos-13 minutes faster than the
record previously held by the
Mauetania. The average speed
Of the Leviathaa was 24.18 knots
ar hour.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-27
shot DOWN IN
COLD BLOOD BY
BANDITS in [. A.
BY United Icss Leased Wire

BY United Tess Leased Wire
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27.-Thrcc
men were arrested here today Sus-
pectcd of being involved in the
murder last light of Charles a.
Chapman, and three other auto
mobile robber;es, committed during
the night.
The men, who gave the names of
Jack Ferdinand, |. R. Ronertoy and
Harold Field, were seized by postal
officers wien they returned FOR
hire machine 20 the garage where
they had rented it.
The three, according to the pos
+al inspectors, recently robbed the
Triumfo postoffice, near Ventura.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27.-Shot
down by Il holdup man who fired a
bullet into his back without the
slightest provocation, Charles w.
Chapman. %, died in the receiving
hospital here early today.
Chapman and Miss Kate Hogan
were riding in II machine last night
along a suburban street. Two mon
halted the car, and ordered the
couple to leave the machine and sub
NIT to search.
With his hands in the air and his
back to his assailants, Chapman
stood quietly while the men went
through his pockets. Then, without
warning, one of the two fired Mt
close range, the bullet piercing Chap
man S back.
The two dcsperadoes made good
their escape, and the police have
only a vague description, given by
the girl.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-27
Is MEN MISSING
IN ALASKA WRECK
By United Press Leased Wire

CORDOVA, Alaska, Nov. 81
Twenty five members of the crew
of the japanese freighter Shinkoku
Maru, were missing today as result
of the wreck of the vessel on Mon
tague Island yesterday.
The last word from the wreck re-
ported ten of the So men aboard
had reached shore in safety. NC
word has come from the remaining
20.
A 90 mile gale is raging along
the coast in the vicinity of the
wreck.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-27
spots QuOted'

Prices quoted today by J. J.
West and Company, Calexico, fol
low: December opened $500, closed
36.05; January opened 35.4o, closed
$3.50; March opened 1885, closed
1870. Liverpool spots, 20.56, New
York, 36.55, New Orleans 31.l3,
Galveston 35.35.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-11-27
COTTON MARKET
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 27.-Thr

Spots 1918, up l6.
NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-The mar
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
MR. MADoo ON HIGHWAYS

So many arguments have been made
in support of the doctrine of good
roads that it is difficult to think of
new one. In his talk before the Dixie
Highway Association in Chattanooga,
however, Mr.. William Gibbs McAdoo
emphasized phase of the highway
role that is not commonly mentioned.
1t is that the lack of proper highways
forms part of the straitjacket
which hampers American business. The
most numbing bond in that straitjacket
was the former restriction of credit
in national banks, which was expand
ed and removed by the establishment
of the federal reserve system, with its
almost inexhaustible credit resources.
Now, according to Mr.. McAdoo, the
next restriction on business is trans
portation. 1t is the chief limitation on
business in the United States just as
much as credit used to be. We have
got to remove this limitation.
By the development of highway sys-
tenn leading to the coastwise and in
land transportation facilities we will
finally develop a complete system to
move our crops at much lower rates
than are now existing"
Too many people have looked upon
the highway program in the light of
it's cost rather than of its benefit. Yet
beside the benefit the cost is negli-
gible. 1t is much as if manufacture
ing concern were to hesitate to put up
factory because of the investment. If
that view prevailed in private business
there wouldn't be any private business.
If the general betterment and in
creased prosperity of this country are
not to be hampered, then those who
control our public affairs must have
the same practical attitude towards
public expenditures as governs pri-
vate business and industrial expendi-
ture. The people are gradually be-
coming sufficiently enlightened to see
through the professions of economy
made by their representatives in state
and national assemblies, and to under
stand that a reduction in an appro-
priation for a vital undertaking is usu-
ally far more expensive than an in
crease would be. The real prospect
upon which the legislator should fix
his eyes is the public result of the sue
cess of the undertaking in question.
In the matter of highways the pub
lie benefit is immediate, and is both
direct and indirect. Very often the
cost of highway construction is al
most at once repaid by the increase in
property values effected by the high
way. The general prosperity of
community served by improved high
ways is always heightened through the
lowered cost of transportation with
in that community. The last congress,
in failing materially to increase the
federal aid appropriations, actually
cost the nation several times the mil
lions it claims to have saved to the
public treasury. The legislators should
learn that progress and expansion are
the true economy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
THE ALABAMA PRESS
Comparison Of Mortgages

Iowa has long been pointed out
as the banner farming state of
the Union, but the prodigious
mortgage records of that state in
dictate that the farmers of that
region are also acquainted with
the sings and arrows of out
rageous fortune" A recent bull
letin issued from the department
of agriculture. bearing on this
particular subject, shows that
Iowa carries mortgage farm debts
that aggregate almost ne-seventh
of the total of the whole country.
The debts on Iowa farms foot up
81 ,09S,9 100000. This staggering sum
affords a striking contrast to the
debt situation in rural Alabama,
where the farmers have cleared
off thousands of membranes
that formerly weighted down their
operations. AS against the CO.
lossal debt of Iowa the total mort
gage debt of Alabama farms Is
only s29, l03.101. Figures of this
kind ought to make our farmers
feel better. More than two-thirds
of the farms of the state. large
and small, are wholly free of
mortgages. This is showing
that Is distinctly creditable to ru-
raj management.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
A WARRIOR CONFERENCE

The Warrior conference, which is
to be held at Colonel Ashburn's office
in Washington June A, is the outcome
of a suggestion by Congressman
Oliver, a staunch friend of the War
rior. Prompt action on that sugges-
ton by Colonel Ashburn indicates APP
probation of the propriety and advis-
ability of receiving the views and
knowing the wants and wishes of the
shippers represented by the traffic Of
ficials. In fact, these officials might
we'll have been consulted and called
into conference on many occasions in
the past when serious consideration
was being extended the problems of
the Warrior. Their intimate contact
with the shippers and their knowledge
of the bearings of freight rates in
this section would always have been
of assistance to the federal barge line
management.
The traffic representatives of the
five port cities should demand to be
taken into full confidence and be given
a clear understanding of the status
of negotiations for rate divisions with
the Southern Railway, of the prospect
of final adjustment, the reasons for
the recent port embargoes and num-
bers of other details connected with
the present CO infused state of Warrior
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27

is entirely satisfied with the selection,
and says: England and the empire
need such a hand at the helm. Not
perhaps since the Nepoleonic menace
has the empire been so beset by dan
gers of many kinds. Never at any time
since the Jacobins, perhaps, has the
empire been so close to the edges of
dissolution. 1t is menaced no less by
internal than by external perils. 1t
will take skilled, perhaps superskilled,
steermanship to weather all the storms
and put down or compose all the dis
content in the craft itself. King
George was shrewdly advised when he
chose Stanley Baldwin-rather than,
let us say, a Curzon, Derby, or
Devonshire. Inasmuch as country's
foes are those of it's own house
hold, undoubtedly England, by COM
posing domestic differences, is i'm
mune to any menace from without.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger,
while admitting the brilliance of Cur
zon, says that he is "cold man and
a die-hard Tory. He is an old Tory.
Stanley Baldwin is a new Tory. He
knsws mines, mills, steel, horses, dogs,
pictures and pipes. For fifteen years
he has been in commons. He is
business man, hustler; has energy to
burn and burns it. He has ability, in
sight and the gift of getting and using
facts and figures. He is hui
man sort, works like horse and owns
a sense of humor. One of the prob
lens that try premiers' souls is unem-
ployment, and Baldwin should be able
to get along with British labor"
All in all, whether it makes any diff
ference to the British or not, it ap
pears that American opinion is in
clined to approve the selection of
Stanley Baldwin to succeed Bonar
Law as prime minister.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
ROADS AND LAND VALUES

Among the important highway links
to be let for construction in June is
the thirty-two miles of road through
St. Clair that will connect this dis
trict with Gadsden. 1t will also bring
closer to Birmingham the rich farming
sections of St. Clair. The road will
serve close to a half million people.
Other roads to be let will serve Mont
gomery, Demopolis, Selma and Thorn
asville, and extend the roadway be-
tween Selma and Mobile. Each stretch
of good road means higher land
values, greater marketing territory
and all the other advantages of neigh
borliness. Best of all, good roads
mean the mental and moral better
ment of people because they count
for that getting about and opportunity
of mind broadening that develops men
and states.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27

ment, higher wages and larger pay
rolls than in March. The data. is de-
rived from 5000 representative estab-
lishments, and means that the peak of
production is being maintained. There
being very few if any stocks of staple
consumption is also at a maximum,
and that the great business of filling
the domestic void is progressing along
record lines. There has not been as
much new buying in April and May as
during the preceding three months,
but the orders placed during the first
quarter of the year have called for
more than capacity production for
the first half and even into a part of
the third quarter. Such items as nails
are eight to twelve weeks behind in
deliveries, while brokers carry no
stocks. Pressure pipe-makers are not
promising deliveries in certain popu
lar sizes of pipe prior to September
and October. Iron stocks are at new
record low, while maximum produc-
ton is promptly taken by the consum-
ers. The high peak of new order bust
ness, if continued, would have resulted
in the establishment of a bonus sys-
TEN, overcrowding of order books and
wholesale disintegration of the orderly
course Of business. The maker and
meter of iron and steel are partici-
pating equally in the benefit of the
sterilization of their mutual business
relations through this attitude of
poise. 1t counts for prolongation of
the prosperity which both are en-
loving.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
"BREADTH"
By REV. H. c. OFFERMAf

Do you have breadth in trying to
understand other people?
Do you have breadth in trying to
learn of the bygone world? Do
you have breadth in trying to ap-
preciate all the wonderful things
that have been done in the past?
Do you have breadth to feel at
one with the aspects Of people of
all classes and conditions today?
Do you have breadth to be at one
in body as we'll as in mind with
the rest of the world?
Do you have breadth to cultivate
friendship of various classes and
conditions of people? Do you have
breadth to love the unusual.
the out of the ordinary and that
which is different from you? Do
you have breadth to make the best
of every condition and every cir
cumstance that comes into your
life, no matter what 1t may be?
Do you have breadth to try and
live by the broad dictates of the
word of God. and do you have
breadth to try and be real mes
senger and apostle of this mes
sage?
If you have that breadth. you
are worthy of real rewards.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
SABOTAGING THE PORT

Mayor Hylan in the act of sabo-
tagging rapid transit is a sight IA
miliar during some anxious years.
He is now, in the matter of berth
ing the Leviathan. giving an ex-
ample of his strange methods by
sabotaging the port.
Because the shipping board de-
cided to send the President Buch-
anan to Newport News instead OF
to Brooklyn navy yard for recon-
ditioning, 1t Is Judge Hylan's
happy thought to deny the Levia-
than a home pier in Manhattan.
This precious example of cutting
off your municipal nose to spite
your civic face will worry the
shipping board much less than II
wilt annoy Manhattan business in
terests and workingmen. There is
always Hoboken. Before the war
the two great German lines, the
Holland America and others had
built up there an imposing system
of piers which are certainly not
less available because of use and
unification by the government
during the war. Hoboken Will
welcome the spite ship II it come IS
| to that.
Whether the shipping board
should send the President Buch-
| anan to Newport News or Brook
| Ign was purely a business ques-
ton, which, may have been decided
| wisely or not. Whether the Levia-
| than should have a dock in New
York city and state is question
| the sinking fund commissi or
| should also consider purely on
business grounds. To attempt to
punish the shipping board for a
business decision by driving the
Leviathan out of the state Is both
childish and stupid.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
NEW FIELD FOR "JAZZ"

A Middle-West contemporary re-
Gently printed an editorial entitled,
"Three Cheers For Jazz" in which
suggestion was made that this mod
ern system of torture may yet be vim
Dictated through helpful influence in
PROSECUTING some of the jungle tribes
to higher religious systems and creeds.
1t seems that an official of the Chris
tian and Missionary Alliance claimed
that sacred songs set to ragtime and
jazz are Turing natives from the tall
grass Of Timbuctoo, Tahiti, Tibet and
other wild and remote localities, and
that their minds once trained along
tom-tom lines react more readily to
jazz innovations tending to elevate
their spiritual condition. 1t is further
claimed that strong appeal is made
to these savages and near-savages
through the rhythmic riot of these
modern forms of music.
This is encouraging, to be sure,
when the possibilities for uplift are
studied. There is in this part of the
country, where the soft signing of
south winds, appealing notes of the
mockingbird and woodthrush, sooth-
ing sounds of a maiden's voice under
mellow moon, instill into human ma
tire itself an appreciation of music,
natural or acquired, willingness to
part with the sh1ieking clarinet. the
wailing saxophone and other instru
ments of torture in order that higher
spiritual standards may be impaired to
those dwelling in the realms of the be-
nighted. 1t would be triumph to get
rid of hopeless nuisance, while feel
ing a sense of pride in helping less
fortunates thereby. No doubt gener-
Gus subscriptions could be obtained
hereabouts to cover transportation cost
for all jazz outfits provided they
agreed to make their absence indefi-
mite. An observant critic declared jazz
was good music on Jag" A flight
ing drunk" would have been more ac-
curate.
Perhaps nothing has attracted more
attention and comment, not to speak
of protests, during the last few years
than jazz, whether applied to sound,
systems of thought, individual man.
ners, morals, tastes, or what not. Ger
tainly it has made itself heard, seen
and felt in nearly all fields of worthy
and unworthy endeavor. Of course it
will be forgiven for many of its Of
lenses at home if it will stay among
the people of Timbuctoo and those
other countries which are reported to
attain higher planes under its influ-
ence. And it is gratifying to note
it's possibilities in elevating the spir-
itual welfare of peoples more in line
with its general policies, even though
this phase be hard to reconcile with
the theory widely entertained that
while man who works the saxophone
can be Christian, there's doubt as to
whether his neighbors can. 1t appears
that there's something good in every
thing if one knows where to look for
it-even in jazz.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
A POSSIBLE CURE FOR FOLLY
| families had purposely concealed
the existence of insanity in an ef-
fort to avoid discreditment.

families had purposely concealed
the existence of insanity in an eff
fort to avoid discreditment.
have a feeling that many of
the follies of the day could be
lessened, II not eradicated, If the
public would regard them as the
outcroppings of insanity. Marathon
dancers would yield, / have no
doubt, If their sanity was serious
ly questioned. Terming them fool
ish will not suffice. but suggesting
they are actually crazy might in
still in their minds a doubt of the
wisdom of their folly. / we'll re-
member an Intelligent and highly
respectable woman of our little
Indiana city who became sort OF
walking edition of town topics.
Have you heard" and They say
filled her waking hours. She
caused more trouble than poison
pen letters of today, yet no ono
desired to, hail her into court for
Islander. g Finally. one of the lead
ing citizens who had suffered con-
ceived the idea Of instituting pro-
ceedings in insanity against her
upon the theory that no sound
minded person would devote life
to the dissemination of gossip. She
was no less sane, of course, than
the citizen himself. merely ner-
vously active in mischief making
way. Obtaining an inkling of tho
proposed proceedings, the woman
became alarmed and volunteered
promises that she would cease her
gossiping, and forever desist and
refrain. For twenty five years
now she has been one of the really
esteemed women of her commu-
nifty. I cite this incident to show.
the fear of being thought insane.
For the proper handling of a hu-
man nuisance the mere suggestion
of a diseased mind may be more
effective than abuse. argument, In
dictment. even force.
Every age has had its men
whose follies seemed to reveal in
sanity. 1t furnishes rare chuckle
to view with the minds eye that
scene when a ruler bestowed his
accolade upon the piece OF roast
beef in front of him and dubbed,
created and constituted "Sir Loin.
This sir" may 1t be recalled, was
one knight created by royal au-
thority who lived up to his vows
of knighthood. Sir Loin even in
these days of democracy. as in the
days when knighthoed was in
flower. is the Chevalier Bayard of
the animal Kingdom, the Sir Gala
had of every well appointed round
table.
Eyap NOW ua are creating our
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
By THOMAS n. MARSHALL
Former Vice President of the
United States

You may tell man he is dis
tinctly bad, and he will laugh and
make good -natured retort that he
has plenty of congenial company;
you may call man fool, and he
will turn the Joke by reminding
you that you are the fool, not he;
but you can get" almost any man
by seriously suggesting that he Is
insane. Such characterization
he cannot laugh down. 1t is cal
culated to put any man in blue
funk. 1t creates doubt, distress
despair. 1t raises the question:
DO others besides this crazy fool
believe l am not quite right? Have
they been less blatant merely be-
cause they respect my feelings?"
No wonder DIR. Desloges, Mon
treal alienist, stirred hornets
nest when he said most persons
were on their way to the insane
hospital, and that the whole world
would be crazy in twenty five
years unless the rapid increase in
mental disorders was halted.
Every mans voice is now raised
in criticism of him, yet if his
prophecy proved correct. the in
sanity of today will be the sanity
of the next generation.
Just why it is that people look
upon insanity as a disgrace and
upon folly as a misfortune, I never
have been able to understand. Sure
enough, however, to be a fool is
hard luck. according to popular
fancy, while to be an insane per-
son is a disgrace, almost crime.
Your family conceals your condi-
ton. Theoretically denies your ex-
istence. Your name is not men
toned. You are allowed just to
drop out. When l was governor
of Indiana, it became necessary,
because of a readjustment of geo
graphic districts. to transfer in
sane patients from one hospital to
another. Newspapers made COM
ment on the arrangements for
transfer. Relatives of the patients
Immediately became excited. They
told me they feared the disgrace,
as they termed it, If having insan-
ity in the family might become
known was amazed to learn
that in not few cases relatives
and intimate friends had been de-
ceived into believing that the pa
tient was travelling abroad. visit
ing away from home, or studying
in a distant city. Notwithstanding
fhe remoteness between disease
and disgrace. well intentioned
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-27
ONE TRICK A DAY
To Make a Coin Vnnish From and
Return To the Left Hand

This trick, clearly described.
would seem so simple as to be
hardly capable of producing any
Illusion, but such is not the case.
No outsider suspects the secret of
the trick. and If carefully done. 1t
leaves great astonishment in tho
spectators mind.
Take a coin between the fingers
and thumb of the right hand, and
thence apparently transfer 1t to
the left, but in reality palm 1t In
the right. Rub the ball of the
left wrist with the tip of the right
hand middle finger; then, opening
the left hand, show that the coin
has vanished. Bring the open right
hand with quick semi-circular
sweep over the left, and In so do
ting drop the coin from the one
palm to the other, and close the
left hand. Repeat the rubbing
gesture. again open the left hand
and show that the coin has re-
turned to 1t.