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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-28

1 CHICAGO, Sept. 2s.-Trsding in the | butter was little more active today and stocks showed a better clearance but the i tone was no more than steady. The improvement in demand was | largely the result of buyers running short of supplies Speculative demand was en-
 tirely lacking. In fact. buyers were care | fuI for purchase only for immediate re- 1 qulrements. and leaders also lacking con- i fidence continued the policy of free sell l ing The same condition prevailed on the car market. Since more the higher cost | Ing cars had been moved to storage, sup plies were not heavy. Offerings at the
 below prices. however, failed to inter- i est buyers
 l Fresh butter: s2 score, s4o; s1 score,
 43hc; go score, 42iso; Se score, 4lhc;
 Centralized car lots: 90 score A4o; 8
 score. 4Sc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-28

NEW YORK. Sept. 27:.LSrd barely steady; middle west, s12.eo@12.To; other articles unchanged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-28

ST. LOUIS, Mo. Sept. 27.-Poultry, but ter and eggs unchanged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-28
NEW YORK sPOr COTTON
NEW ORLEANS sPOT COTTON

NEW YORK. Sept. 27.-Spot cottt quiet middling. 2945c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-28
POTATO MARKET

CHICAGO. Sept. 27.--Potstoss weak; shipments. 1928: Minnesota and North Dakota sack and bulk. Red River 0hics partly graded. 66Ds s0o per cwt; south Dakota sack early Ohios. partly graded
 55Q 900 per cwt.: Wisconsin. sack and bulk round white, No. l. sigl.2b per cwt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-28

with trading in Japan lines confined to a few goods being shipped "aa are" with out assurance to grading. Burlap mar kets continued firm, with considerable buying for this market reported in Scot land and on the continent. Wool goods ruled quiet, except in the finer lines of dress fabrics. Yarns were quiet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-28
EnRTIGN MONEY
roRrrcN rxCHANCFs

NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-Bar SlIVsi 64Nc: Mexican dollars. 49ekc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-28

receipts, 6776 Eggs irregular; receipts 17.4So. Cheese firm; receipts. 6s,sss pounds,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-28
NE1v nnLEANs COTTON

NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 27.-Ths market closed irregular. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-28
NAVAL STORES

JACKSONVILLE Fla. seps. sT.-Tur- Pentins firm. s21z @a4o; sales. s2; gales firm; sales. 21.ssc; receipts 2o,24o; ship rnents, 2ss; stock, 12ssss. Quote: B to izssh gSss: <. ,ist: va i51oS5lS; wv. s52ea5.25
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27

measure which has long been recog- nized as pressing need for America. Our government only has the right to say what character of people and how many shall become resident here, but owes it to the American people to safeguard them from the dangers of indiscriminate and unlimited immigra- ton. There is no room in this country for those who are not fit or who are unwilling to become a sympathetic part of the citizenship. Secretary Davis of the department of labor has shown, what we have all along known, that undesirables of various kinds have been dumped upon America for many years. Americas discouraging crime record is largely an outgrowth of this system. Safety First" might we'll be adopted and adhered to as a principle to obstruct this great danger. If America is to remain fit to establish and maintain high plane of citizen- ship and to administer a constructive government in the interests of all, she must keep out those who are out of harmony with this function and ser vice,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27

egg-sellers must be careful to mark cold storage and preserved varieties so that all purchasers may know whether they are buying those that might be in the debutante class, or spinsters and bachelors, as the case may be. It is set forth by the com missioner that cold storage or pre- served eggs are not necessarily un- wholesome, but, properly preserved, are quite acceptable, though lots of folks don't seem to understand this, and insist on knowing which Is which, when they go egg-shopping.
 The new law seems altogether req sonable. The average egg~eater can relish his morning meal much more readily with the knowledge that he is served with a product without sus- picious signs. Of course, there are eggs resting under suspicion that are entirely innocent; but certainty on this point is an aid to the appetite, as we'll as to the digestion, and the person who pays the cafe check would feel better with the as- surance that he had not been the vic tim of a profiteer who took this means of putting something over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27
CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOLS

A movement for larger and better country schools is sweeping Alabama, according to Dr. John ". Abercrom- bic, state superintendent of education, and the one-room "little red school house" Is rapidly becoming thing of the past. The program of state aid for rural schools has made 1t possible for counties to accomplish something for the good of their citizens outside the towns and cities. Each county is given over thirty thousand dollars a year for building purposes, to, be matched by local funds in the ratio at least of two to one, with the pro- vision that at the end of the year state funds that have not been used by the counties shall be reapportioned among other counties that have raised their necessary quotas. The result of this Legislation is that the more enterpris- ing counties may secure considerable funds for school building purposes.
 The tendency in school building is for consolidation of small schools in favor of larger and better equipped institutions, which are made accessible to farmers children by bus transporta- tion, the expenses of which are borne by the various counties. Nearly a quarter of 8 million dollars was spent during the last year to provide this means of transportation. The total is an excellent showing for the grow ing interest in education in rural dis trfcts. Consolidated schools are made possible by better roads. The states program of highway improvement doubtless is largely responsible for the movement to abolish the small and in- adequate gchool-houses and to estab- fish fewer, but larger, schools. Mont gomery and Walker counties are said to be leaders in the movement, while Jefferson county's ambitious plans for. rural school improvement are being worked out steadily. There are Jeff ferson county schools that are models of beautiful architecture and modern equipment. The aggressive efforts of rural districts to secure proper school facilities are encouraging. When these districts are willing to help them selves, they are deserving of state aid, and of the moral encouragement of all friends of education.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27
EGGS FRESH AND OTHERWISE

There are eggs and eggs, just as there are pigs and pigs. The legisla- ture of Alabama realized this when it enacted a law providing that all cold storage eggs be clearly labeled as such before they are offered for sale, and fixing heavy penalty for violations of the statute. Perhaps members of the legislature in ordering theirs at hotels and boarding houses were served with eggs of more or less ancient vintage, or at least suspicious as to age, char acter or otherwise, and hence law makers who had such experiences ap- preciated the right of the purchasing public to know whether they are pay ing for damaged goods or those that are out of style, or whether they get the latest models and the freshest varieties.
 In any event, the law was enacted in response to demand from the peo- pie of the state that the birthdays and histories of eggs they eat might be known to them; for there is close connection between mind and body, and even a hungry man would prefer to have some general idea of what he takes for nourishment. So the com missioner of agriculture and industries officially advises everybody in the state that after the first of the year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27
-Efforfa SuccHssfuI
MONEY WELL SPENT

Charleston News and Courier)
 During the past five years. &C., cording to the South Carolina highway bulletin, expenditures un- der the direction of the state high way department and as a part of the state highway system have amounted to nearly seventeen mil lion dollars for roads and nearly three million dollars on major bridge projects; these totals not including S1,21.ooO expended un- der the direction of the state highway department for mainte- nance or betterment.
 We do not believe that you could get thousand men in the whole of South Carolina who would take the position that the expenditures of this money had been mistake. The only mistake e that has been made has been in not spending more. The benefits that have followed the highway improvement accomplished up to this time ought to have convinced any intelligent man that moro rapid extension of the system is the very quickest possible way to hasten and enlarge the states prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27
AMENDING IMMIGRATION LAWS

While there may be merit in the contentious of some immigration au- thorities that admission of blood rela- tives beyond quotas, under the bill of Chairman Johnson, of the house inn migration committee, on the ground that such admission would partially nullify restricted immigration by let ting down the bars to many technical or bogus relatives, there is wisdom in the proposed law so far as it actually reduces immigration quotas by keeping out the undesirables. Representative Johnson has made some estimates as to the number of immigrants who would be admitted under his measure. He claims that the influx, including those who would come under the 'blood relative" exemption, would be less than the number coming in under the present regulations.
 This may, or may not be true. There is no doubt that many so-called blood relatives would have no just claim to such distinction. Immigration Com missioner Curran is reported to have cited one Near Eastern district where ten thousand persons have arranged with relatives in New York alone to come to America as soon as the bill with blood relatives exemption pro- vision is enacted. It is not easy to believe that such privilege as is pro- posed by the exemption clause would be respected; for there are many thou sands of undesirables in foreign lands who would not hesitate to get around it in any possible way to reach Amer ica, and many thousands in this coun- try who would readily cooperate.
 Aside from that aspect, the John- son bill which provides that "all so- cially inadequate aliens contemplating emigration to the United States shall be weeded out at the source," and re- ducing immigrant quotas, is sound and practical because it is safe and sane. It is the kind of restriction
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27
TIME WASTED IN
 MERE QUIBBLING
(Kansas City Times

Congress has adjourned until January 3, at which time the sen- ate will resume its effort to or- ganize for business. Its progress in that direction has been slow, and & glance at the Congressional Record will show why.
 WI. walsh of Montana-I wish to inquire of the senator from Massachusetts why we should not elect a president pro tempore?
 MT. Lodge-From my point of view we have a president pro tenn pore.
 MT. walsh-I inquire of the senator from Massachusetts why, upon the same line of reasoning, we have not sergeant -at-arms and secretary? -.,.. ...
 Mir. Lodge-Because they are not elected under resolution sim liar to that under which the presi- dent pro tempore Is selected.
 MT. Walsh-But if it becomes necessary at this time to elect a sergeant t-arms and a secretary, why is it not equally necessary to elect a president pro tempore? MT. Lodge-Because they are un- der totally different resolutions of the senate.
 MT. Walsh-In what way do the resolutions differ?
 MT. Lodge-If the senator will turn to the first page of the rules of the senate he will find the reso- lution.
 MT. walsh ask, the senator under what resolutiAn do the present officers of the senate dis charge their duties? MT. Lodge--The resolution have just read is the resolution under which the president pro tempore was elected in 1921.
 MT, Walsh am speaking about the other officers of the senate. MT. Lodge-I understand it; they are simply holding by the comity usually exercised.
 MT. walsh-what is the reason for not proceeding to the election ' of a president pro tempore?
 MT. Lodge-Because as I have tried to show. the president pro tempore in our opinion is now president pro tempore.
 MT. Walsh--Does the senator take the position that the terms of the other officers expire with the congress?
 MT. Lodge-I think under the law they do.
 And so on for a considerable space, MT. Walsh and MT. Lodge getting no nearer to an under standing. and other senators cut i ting in to make the situation plain, but not doing it. At any other time and on any other sub ject, probably MT. Walsh and MT. Lodge, who are men of high in- ] telligence and wide knowledge, would have no difficulty in under standing each other; but the or ganiZation of the senate is 8 po- litical matter and senators cannot be expected to understand each other when they occupy seats on opposite sides of the aisle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27
WHEN FIGURES LIE Nv wickes Wamboldt

We often hear the statement that figures don't lie. That Is another one of those fatuous adages that we accepted on faith at some remote period and have been thoughtlessly repeating ever since. Figures and words lend themselves to our manipulations and both lie readily at our will. Let a man resort glibly to statis- tics and what chance do we have in argument with him? What would be the basis for contra dieting man who declares con- vincingly that every toad has sixty-seven warts and that house fly becomes a grandmother anew every seven and half minutes? Someone has said there are three kinds of lies-plain lies, durn lies and statistics.
 You can prove anything with figures. A certain contractor had an Irishman working for him. The Irishman wanted a raise in pay. The contractor claimed the man was not then earning what he was See here" he said, "I am paying
 
 you a hundred and fifty dollars month. That Is eighteen hundred dollars a year. You are not giv- ing me enough of your time now to be worth mentioning. You sleep eight hours a day. That equals one hundred and eighty-two days in the year. You have eight hours day for recreation and other things. That is bout one hundred and twenty-two more days. You get every Sunday off-that's fifty two days. You get half day on Saturdays-that's twenty-six more days. There are nine national hol- idays. Altogether that makes three hundred and thirty-one days in a year that you don't work. And I always give you St. Pat rick's Day. That leaves me only thirty-three days, and I am pay ing you eighteen hundred dollars for them, which actually figures out fifty-four dollars and fifty five cents day. What are you kicking about, anyhow? You ought to give me something back"
 Every now and then we meet some ildu WHO WILL Sll uOWn Wltn a pencil and piece of paper and figure out for us conclusively that it is cheaper for us to rent our homes than to own them. He can prove with his figures that money has such and such earning power. Taxes, insurance assessments, up- keep, and improvements come to so much. These items added to the earning capacity of the prin- cipal invested make It a losing proposition for a man to own his home.
 But take two men. Let each have the same amount of money. House them side by side. Let one buy his home and the other rent and at the end of ten years the man who bought his house will have 1t clear and paid for and ninety-nine times out of a hum dred will have more money in the bank than the renter. Besides. the home owner has something more than an intrinsic value of his property. He has the psychologi- cal strength and solidness that come to every man who has founded a home.
 Just as long as words can be made to lie, figures ca nbe made to lie also.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27
MAKE IT A REAL REFORM

MAKE IT A REAL REFORM
 In planning a revision of the method of working convicts, Governor Bran don and his associates are tardily proceeding to duty that hardly re- quires such elaborate delay and con- temptation as is alleged to be in pro- cess.- It is feared by those who thoughtfully review the intimated course of working the convicts In pri- vate mines under state guards and foremen, delivering the coal at the mines mouth to the owners at stip- ulated price, that the governor is still giving more concern to the private coal interest than to the welfare of the prison department or the public will. The essential principle of work ing the convicts for the private gain is still retained, and the basic prin- ciples. of prison administration and convict welfare are in the background. The plan as tentatively disclosed is 8 compromise, with the service to the private operators still the paramount consideration. The people are not de- ceived by the subterfuge.
 It is reported that the governor has all along intended cessation of the convict lease system before the end of his administration. To the prac- tical mind, however, the way to end leasing is not to evade the form while retaining the substance, but to abolish it outright and forever. If there is any uncertainty as to how the conyicts withdrawn from the mines are to be occupied, it should hardly be necessary to call the governors attention to the fact that the highway engineer and the state highway commission have in- dicated that they can use these con- victs greatly to the public advantage on the public roads of Alabama. It should not be necessary to point out that many states have found it ad- visable so to employ their convicts. There are also other possibilities, such as the advancement of the program already begun, in pursuance of which various industries have been developed at Kilby and other prisons. for the em- ployment of convicts.
 The trouble with the situation is that Governor Brandon seeks to set up cross-currents to the program already inaugurated for this state. It is not the duty of a governor to undo all that has been done and to institute counter measures. It is a governors duty to take up policies of major i'm portance where he finds them and to carry them forward, so that the states business will not be interrupted and the achievements of each governor nullified by the actions of his success sor. The state's business is continuous and not matter of administrations. Yet some executives take the contrary view, much to the permanent injury of the commonwealth. It is hoped that the governor will come to look the facts squarely eye to eye, and carry prison methods forward and not back vUard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27
VACCINATION IS WISE

With the appearance of several cases of smallpox in Birmingham and warning from the health officer to all persons who are not already pro tected against the disease to have themselves vaccinated, q duty rests upon the people to cooperate not only for their individual protection, but to prevent any possibility of an epidemic. The health officer urges that this be done, and advises that free vaccination is available at the city laboratory in the city hall daily except Sunday. The school and health authorities are see- ing that vaccination is administered as far as possible, and recently all the pupils of a negro school in Fairfield were treated.
 The situation is in no respect of epi- demic character at present. There is no possibility of it becoming so with proper cooperation by the people to prevent such a calamity. Vaccination is known to be the only effective pre- ventative against spread of the disease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27
A GREAT INDUSTRY

IdNlpd IT1DuneJ
 Capital invested in the moving picture industry in the United States Is estimated to exceed s6OO,O00,00o. About S5.000 persons are employed in production work and 160.000 in the distribution and exhibition of the films. Their sal aries, wages and royalties and commissions exceed s200, 1000, 900 annually. Fifteen thousand thea tres are conducted exclusively for the showing of motion pictures, with 1,So0 other theatres exhibit Ing motion pictures In connection with vaudeville and other enter tainment. The audiences number 50,000,000 each week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27
Taxes and Returns (Selma Times-Journal)


 Whether we get a dollars worth of value for each dollar we pay in taxes or get fair and reasonable return on such contri- buttons, is the question which those who are charged with spend- ing the money of the people are called upon to answer. It is not possible for the individual to measure the benefits he receives from his tax payments in hard money valuations, but he can wis., ualize them in public benefits that come to him in indirect ways and learning to guage these advan- tages he derives from his taxes is one of the important lessons tho taxpayer is beginning to study with some degree of intelligence and understandirgs He ss alta learning that .those who sxpefid his taxes must be held te mora personal and rigid accountability.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27
Their Eyes Opened


 Those negroes who left the South during the past few years were lured by the promise of high wages and living conditions that they were told would be "just what they wished" They found soon after getting into Northern industrial centers that they had been deceived, that while wages were some higher, living costs were very much more than in the South and in the end they made less than they had been getting in the South. They also found that the promise of better living condi- tions was myth, and. thoroughly disillusioned, those who were able Ito do so are hastening back into the South. content to stay here in the future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27
SMILES
Tough Luck, Sure Enough
 (Judgel

For eighteen months two col ored doughboys had been fighting, neither having heard from home.
 Two days before the armistice was signed Sam entered the dug out forlorn and dejected.
 'Heah. An got a letter says my gal done went and got herself married. That's what An calls tough luck"
 Rastus just looked up, and with tears, which he could not longer control, streaming down his cheeks, mumbled: Man, dat ain't no hard luck. An just got letter from my district board telling me I'm exempt"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27
Must Decide His Stand (Bra ndOn Times)


 Let every citizen decide where he is going to stand and get with the bunch that suits him. On one hand there will be bootleggers, gamblers, keepers of houses of shame, selfish political plunderers, and a motely gang of towards who are afraid to declare themselves. On the other hand there will be in solid phalanx the Godly moth CTS, fathers, manly men and mo- ble women. school teachers. preachers, physicians, business men, working men and women, who fear God and love their homes and the land of their na- tivity. Choose your crowd, citi- zens, for the day of reckoning is comet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27

A postal card mailed in an Illinois town took nearly eight years to reach it's destination, only five miles dis tant. Perhaps everybody between the two points read it en route.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27

A Michigan physician says that diet ing for reduction causes curvature of the spine. It also seems to help in rounding out the dieter's financial structure
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27
| THE ALABAMA PRESS
Many Not Enthusiastic

i IEnCerplIS5' LeuBeII In view of the prospect of fur ther increase in taxes, the coal
 situation and general increase in living expenses, many people are
 not inclined to show much en-
 thusiasm about the announcement
 of the discovery of new serum to prolong life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27

Cleveland, Ohio, is in the limelight again; a man was arrested in that city for caressing his wife. Is that sort of thing considered disorderly con- duct in Cleveland?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-27
Who's he?" asked tho English.
Handicapped

(New York Sun and Globe)
 Tot: 50 you quarreled with Jim. Did he fall on his knees and ask you to forgive him?" Dot: NO he! You see, his knees were occupied at the time."