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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
FOR NEW TEMPLE OF JUSTICE

It has been said that peoples character is expressed in a peoples monuments. But monuments are not confined to statuary me- morials. They include hospitals, churches and notably the structures for the admins tTation of affairs bearing upon the peoples interest and prosperity. No city, county or state could erect more lasting and valu- able monument than a suitable place for the enactment of it's laws and the administra- tion of justice. Such an institution, when of appropriate design commensurate with the ideals, purposes and needs of those who erect it, cannot fail to wield powerful influence on standards of citizenship re- spect for law and appreciation of the value of good government.
 These suggestions come to the front when- ever a public-sprited citizen of Birmingham contemplates the Jefferson county court house. It is, or should be, the temple of justice in the eyes of the people of this com nlunity. But, sad to relate, it has long since fallen short of the high service to which it was dedicated. When it was built it was thought to be- and was, ample ot serve pop ulation of fifty thousand. Since then Jeffer- son county has grown rapidly in population,
 
 tains to the public interests The courthouse building is wholly inadequate for the administration of the public affairs of this county. By reason of it's location it is dis tressingly noisy which so inyeryeres with the work of the courts as to necessitate roping off and abandoning the use of two adjacent streets at certain hours during the spring and summer when windows remain open. This has been done for years. It is scarcely half large enough even now to take care of the work of the many courts. It is dark inside insanitary for those who have to work in it as well as those who have public business there, not to speak of jurros, witnesses and the hundreds of others going in and out daily Records of great value are constantly sup- jected to the danger of destruction by fire. In fact Jefferson county has completely out grown this building as a seat of govern ment.
 It is not the purpose of The Age-Herald to dictate to the city and county authorities means or methods by which new and ade- quate courthouse should be constructed. Nor is it the intent to recommend any particular architectural design. Those are matters for the officials themselves, pers,aps with the aid of public-spirited and patriotic com mission of business men, to determine.>What is desired is for the people of Birmingham and Jefferson county to realize to the point of action the pressing need for a court house in keeping with the size, the resources the growth, the rapidly increasing wealth of this great community. There is no doubt that under conditions safeguarding the public in- terests in the erection of new and adequate courthouse the people will give their cordial indorsement of and support to the under taking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01

was the fine California climate that worked like wine in the prisoners head and impelled him to boast. That Is another handicap against other cities. Even if they did have such a celebrity within their borders, they don't have the climate to bring out his true colors. Perhaps, however, the wish is father to the thought, and the desire to possess citizen who has upset Wall Street have over come whatever doubts there may be as to the validity of the prisoners confession. Perhaps Los Angeles is merely trying to dim the luster of the home town of Piggly Wiggly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
Doesn't Like Step-child Role

Selma Times Journal]
 Dallas county received scant con- s.deration at the hands of the state highway department when it's road building program was formulated. A four-mile strip of paved road Is considerably less than a half loaf ard will het be satisfactory. Dallas will contribute s50.000 a year to the gasoline tax and does not like
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
Road. A. Good Invs.tmens

Livingston Southern Home)
 Our Coatopa correspondent men toned last week that H. V. Hudson had sent fourteen bales of cotton to Liv1nston on one wagon over road that twenty years ago one wagon could not have hauled more than two bales. It Is mentioned here because 1t is an achievement In road better ment that deserves repeating.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
Crranklin County Times)


 What has Russellville and Frank lin county to offer? Everything in minerals, the richest iron or field in the world. The best farming sec ton in the United States and a home among the best people. A vist to this cty will convince any one that the garden spot of. the world is at our front door.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01

The snalyist who declares thst only meta physics Is needed for world construction of course didn't consider that speed is import ant In thls undertaking, and 1t would take century or more to explain to the general run of people Just what metaphys Is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01

St. Louis newspaper hopes for Inter national peace on the ground that science Is taking ali the personal glory out of war; but that happy situation will hardly be at- tained until science aise finds way te eiail- nate the personal profit from war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01

Candidates for the great presidential sweepstakes are gradually accommodating in numbers and hopes, The elimination process will start before leag, aad then each pstriot will begin tes realize what his supposed friends really think of him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01

a policy hurts unoffending merchants as much as the guilty The real source of re- lief lies In the government agencies, which would do well in this instance to come out unequivocally and effectively in the public behalf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01

Fhe more thoughtful people learn about the League of Nations and it's possible in- fluencs on international eussedness, the more they realize that one of the strongest argu- ments in favor of league IS what happened without ene
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01

Fha Paris courts will require six months residence of Americans seeking divorce If all thaB is said about Paris life be true, six months tiera may provide sufficient grounds for turning tie trick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
Alabama Press
Value of Home Loyalty
tAshland Progressl

This paper delights in spreading the gospel of loyalty to home insti- tutlons. Upon this doctrine rests our future growth in things really worth while.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
Fighting Illiteracy

The chief effort of our educa- tional forces in recent years has been directed to the end of wiping out illiteracy, since illiteracy is the thing that makes the most conspic- uous blot on states educational record. Possibly some of the other states are giving sounder and deeper training to the young who are capa. ble of receiving it than Alabama, But in the fight upon illiteracy Alas bama is in the forefront,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
Should Study Nature
tDothan Eagle)

VUothan EagTe1
 At this season of the year and on through the spring and summer the teacher should take the children to the woods for day and study the trees, the flowers, the things that grow, and learn of them. Every child should be able to call the names of all the trees and should have some general knowledge about treat ing diseased trees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
Shortage of Labor
(Tuscaioosa News,

Tuscaloosa county farmers who have been carefully studying the situation are agreed that there win not be the labor to cultivate crops which will be needed the coming summer. All through Alabama and throughout the south present cotton prices are proving an inducemeks sv the planting of largely increased acreages of cotton. And plantation labor has been short for some years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
Everything to Offer

to play the role of step-child in the distribution of the road funds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01

Doubtless that big packing merger will again turn the public attention to the value of vegstar;aaism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01

ly fifteen per cent. The increase was given voluntarily and it bespoke the prosperous condition of the pipe industry in Anniston, and has spread that prosperity now among the thousands who make the pipe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
Be.pe.ks Prosperou. Condition.

KAFhIston Ster)
 Business is good with the wage earners, especially in the Anniston district. Only few weeks ago An. nlston pipe plants increased the wages of the employees approximate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-01
THE AGE-H FER AL D

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala pcstoffiss As second-olasS mAttAR under ast of conGrssH, March ., 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
Tee, Fairway And
 Green
By "CHICK" EVANS
MY 10 MOST HELPFUL TIPS


 Melvin Traylor, president of the First Trust and Savings bank of Chicago. popped through the whirl- ing door of that institution one raw. blustery February day some years ago, and as he came out he crashed into me with an impact that sent me along my way in Monroe street, few minutes later. with the fourth most helpful tip l have ever been able to apply to golf. Mir. Taylor and 1t no doubt will be news to him that the whirling door jar he gave me that winter day had so much to do. later on, with my own chase of the golf championships.
 was on my way to see Mir. Tray Tor, more than a little excited over financial venture l had made. when I encountered him with such sud- denness. l told him. between grasps, that I faced the hardest situation in the world and asked what to do.
 "The hardest situation In the world to master" he said. lis to keep your head and be calm when all about you is disappointment and con- fusion"
 If any remark ever made to me game than tho one above, I have no consciousness of 1t. Practicing such advice has a considerable relation to any kind of tournament golf, and 1t
 
 the championship tournaments.
 Upon analysis, the golfer will find that he loses out most frequently in golf competitionS because he falls to think, and mofeover-if he carries the analysis clear out-he fails 10 think mostly because he gets ex- cited for one reason or another. I fared badly in the first few national championships I attended, and as pondered MT. Traylors remark I dis covered that my showing had not re- suited from my lack of ability with my clubs. but wholly because I had permitted myself to get excited and confused.
 It is all very we'll to talk about forgetting the bad shots-perhaps the eisastrous hole-in golf. but 1t is golfers know. But I did learn. finally. to do 1t, and doing it con tributed as much as any other fac tor, I am sure, in my success later at the championships.
 Putting this bit of advice from the banker to direct application in my golf I soon discovered that one of the exciting situations, and in the disappointments of the championship rounds, was to smile. Perhaps that is why the smile has now become in- stinctive with me regardless of how disastrously the short putt may have been attempted. There Is always a good place for a smile-and one of the best of places, all things consid- cred, is just after you have made . bad golf shot,
 It took a banker, blizzard, whirling door and financial crash to. teach me that lesson, but 1t was . good one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
NORTH WINS OWN GAME WITH HIT IN 18TH FRAME
Cardinals TrounCe Giants, 13 To 12, In Strange Battle
 At St. Louis

ST. LOUIS. August s.-Pitcher Lou North's single In the fifteenth inning won one of the strangest major league games ever played here, In which the Cardinals defeated the league-leading Giants today, 13 to 12. McGraw sent in six pitchers and the same number worked on the hill for the locals. the most effective being North, who held the visitors hitless during the last four innings.
 The visitors got off to an early lead In the opening inning when they scored four runs off the veteran Bill Doak, who was unable to get man out. Frischs home run brought in three of the Giants tallies in the opening inning. The Cardi- nas tied the score In the third at all and later took the lead till the ninth, when the Giants put over three runs. Again in the eleventh the teams scored two runs each, the Cardinals two tal- lies being driven in by Hornsby's. four teenth circuit drive of the season. Norths single in the fifteenth pushed over Ain smith with the deciding run.
 The Giants played listless game. In all eight errors were charged to the league leaders, while the Cardinals had four. Twenty players of the Giants got into the game. three more than Hickey trotted out. Score:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
Women Decide The Finals ln Dixie Net Meet

LOUISVILLE, August 9.-Finalists in the women's singles of the south ern chan; pionship tennis tournament at the Audubon Country club here were determined in two semt-fnals today, with the result that Miss Ethtlyn Legendre of New Orleans, four times her own successor to tine southern crown, will meet Mrs. Mary Mason Harding of Louisville in the conflict for titular honors.
 Miss Legendre advanced to the finals by defeating Miss Christine lansing, Kentucky champion, 62, 6-3. Mrs. Harding, who in the past has won the state championship many times, won the right to meet the defending champion by eliminat- ing Miss Lillian Geiger of Louisville, 6-3, 50.
 Besides the women's semi i-finals, other outstanding events of the day were the triumph of Frank Owens and J. D. Hunt of Atlanta over Ed Pfeiffer and Maj. A. M. Watson of Louisville in the mems doubles, 6-1, 6-1, S6; defeat of Robert Craig, New Orleans. and John Keeeble, Jr., Nash vile by Jimmy Means and Henry Reiling Louisville, 6-4, 5-7 6-S, 6-4, and the advancing to the semi-finals eendre and Esmond Phelps of New Orleans 1922 champions. through the defeat of Miss Ida Raidt and Claude Watkins of Louisville, e-2, 6-3.
 MEMS SINGLES
 A. M Johnston. Chattanooga. defeated Charles Van Wagner Louisville, 7-6, 6-1. Ed Pteiffer. Louisville champion. de feated Herman Shapinsky. Louisville. 7-6, Rozel Smith. Louisville. defeated Allen HqsGns; Rdhnit r New 0rlsa1s. Ss, n., s,i: ss s, set and 4O-l5 when rain halted the match. trdn J D. G,ar1 aqnf Atapta toGk one set by s,s ond set was at 2-2 when rain halted it.
 MEMS DOUBLES Johnston and Carothers. Chattanooga, defeated Ewald and OBrien. Louisville. 4-9 6,7. 60, 6-2. 6-4.
 75. 6-5.
 MIXED DOUBLES
 George starbuck. Indianapolis. and Mise Alberta Brusselbsch. Louisville. defeated Wagner, Louisville, 6-2. s-s
 Mrs. Harding and Shelton Arterburn apoiis. and partner. by by default. i H' 'Ao'An
 JUNIOR SINGLES
 Alfred Allen, Chattanooga defeated Winkie Kratz Louisville, t-6, 6-2, 6-4
 Gustave Feurer. Miami. Fla, defeated L. Curry. Louisville. 6-2. s-1.
 William Mansfield. Atlanta, defeated c Brumleve. Louisville, 6-3. 6-1.
 William Mansfield, Atlanta. defeated O L. Steel, Lexington, 3-6 e-3 6-s.
 BOYS' SINGLES
 Harold Gold. Louisville, defeated Jo, Allen. Chattanooga, 8-2, 6-2.
 Gustave Feurer. Miami, Fla, defeated H. Gold LouisyiIle 0-N s-2
 Donald Gramm, Nashville, defeated P Ross, Louisville. 6-1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
EVEN MATCHES TO
 FEATURE WEEKS PLAY M LEAGUE
Both Central And Eastern Divisions To Hotbed Of
 Competition

The central division games of the city league should be hot bed of real baseball competition Saturday. All six of the teams are pitted against teams of about equal strength and some of the best games of the season should result from this weeks round of play Standard Oil meets Acipco, Inglenook plays Wood ward and Alabama Power company clashes with Southern Bell. All of these games should be well-played. Inglenook will probably have an edge on Woodward but the other teams are all in the running for the pres ent.
 In the eastern division Sloss By Product should not have a hard time winning from Cudahy but All Amer ica Shoe company-B. A. C., and Av- ondale Park East Lake games should be hard fought battles as the teams are neck and neck.
 Sayreton, after losing their first game of the season last week when S1 Tire company won a doubleheader from them, will class with the Thomas team In the western divi- sion. The Electricians will meet the S1 Tire team while Kamram Grotto will play Avondale Mills.
 In the Class B division the strong Boys club team. which lost its first game or the S6dbOl idol WCOh lo West End, will play Thomas, Pratt City and North Pratt will clash while West End will meet the Doster-Nor- thington Druggists. Saturdays schedule and umpires assignments follow:
 O O O Central Division.
 Standard Oil company vs. Acipco, C. F. Anderson, umpire.
 Inglenook Construction company vs Woodward Iron, w. M. Nelson, um- pire.
 Alabama Power company vs' Southern Bell, Ross Fowler, umpire
 O O O Eastern Division All American Shoe store vs. B. A. C., Joe E. Carter, umpire.
 Sloss By-Products vs. Cudany Packing Company, F. A. Culley' um- Avondale Park vs. East Lake. N. F. Thompson, umpire.
 o O O Western Division
 Ram Ram Grotto vs. AVondale Mills, A. R. Redburn, umpire.
 Sayreton vs. Thomas, doubieheaoer' T. V. Vines. umpire, q, Electricians Cat Sayreton) vs- s1 Tire company, doubleheader, J. A. McDermott, umpire.
 Class "B"
 Thomas vs. Boys Club.
 Pratt City vs. North Pratt:
 West End vs. Doster Northlngtoh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
Padgett Loses On Foul

AURORA. H., August s.-The ten round boxing match between Morrtc Schlafffer of Omaha and Cowboy Pad gett or Colorado was stopped In the fourth round by the referee, who claimed Padgett had fouled Schlaif- fer. The match as far as 1t went was a rough and tumble affair, Padgett knocking Schlaiffer flat early in the go.
 Bobby Green of Memphis stopped Dennis O,keefe in the last round Of their eight-round match and little
 Kid" Herman got newspaper de- cision in eight rounds over Billy Rolfe of Omaha. J. O'Hara of Fort Dodge won the newspaper decision over Joe Grey of Chicago and George Butch of Chicago knocked out Hap py Howard of St. Louis in the second round of their eight-round match,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
By WALTER HAGEN (Former British Open Champion)


 In my last two articles on golf instruction, I explained the drive. The first of the swing in one section and the second half in the other. In this article, l will put them together in general way. While l described the drive in two parts, there are really five distinct sections. all Of which must blend together so beau ttfully that perfect rythm will re suit.
 The most essential thing in golf is the timing of the shot So all, or practically all, is lost unless these five parts work in harmony. The live parts are as follows:
 The taking back of the club.
 The start of the downward swing The increasing speed three or four feet before the ball is hit.
 The impact and the foiiow through The. finish of the stroke.
 A golfer can put these parts to- gether in a clumsy way, but the re- suit will be a jerky uneven swing and one where no practical results will be obtained. For instance, if one has a very fast back swing, it Is going to be a source of worry at all times, as one can never tell Just when he is likely to go wrong fast back swing with a slow down ward movemnet would be all out of balance.
 O O O
 Force Applied Four Feet From Ball. Some golfers are so afraid that they are going to be guilty of swing fast in the back swing that they take the club back too slowly, which Is almost. If not quite as bad The club must be started down in the proper way and with the proper speed, too. If one starts hitting too fast or trying to put a lot of force in the shot at the top of the swing the correct timing will be lost. The force Is really applied about four feet from the ball, but there is a gradual blending of the stroke with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
GOVERNOR WIRES SPRIGHT DOWELL AND DECLARES LN
 FAVOR OF GRIDIRON GAME
State Officials Use Influence To Have Post Season Game For Soldiers Memorial Is Closed
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU l
 THE AGE-HERALD }

Official pressure is being brought to bear upon authorities of Ala bama's Polytechnic institution and agreement to play that proposed post-season football game this fall. The game, If played, would be to construct a memorial to Alabama's dead in the World war, and senti- ment in official circles here seems to be decidedly in favor of the game.
 Gov. Bill Brandon has joined the ranks of those heartily in favor Of the game, and today wired spright Dowell, president of Alabama Poly technic institution, as follows:
 "Hon. Spright DoweIIi "I nm
 heartily in favor of the Auburn
 Alabama football game, and
 think that 1t should be arranged
 for the cause suggested.
 "BILL BRANDON
 Governor Brandon is not the only high official of the state who Is urg- ing the game, and lending his influ ence to have the affair success fully arranged, Lieut.. Gov. Charlie Me Dowell has written Auburn au- thorities, in which warmly urges that the game be arranged, while c. w.. Ashcraft, Auburn leader In the house, has wired Spright Dowell to the same effect.
 Official Alabama Is for the game, and what sentiment that has been sounded seems to indicate that the sport loving public at large also wants the game to be played. Auburn and Alabama have not met on the grldiron for many years, and sports men over the state believe that now is the time for athletic relations be- tween the two great institutions to be resumed. A Soldiers Memorial would be a worthy aim for such a game, those back of the movement believe, and they are hopeful that the game can be closed.
 In the resolutions adopted recent ly, two weeks time was given the presidents of the two schools to re- port, and, as the final week of the time limit is passing away, interest in the outcome of the matter Is near ing fever heat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
Light Hitting
 Jap Trounces
 Australian Foe

sOUTHsIDE TENNIS CLUB, GIL CAGO. August 9.-How ZenZo Shim- izu, the willy, diminutivo oriental tennis player who never hits the ball With more than a love-tap, no matter how mad he may be at it., snatched away victory that seemed to belong to d long, lanky CauCasian who smashed the thing all over the courts, has been reCounted in iu- numerable instances. Hes still doing it.
 Thursday "shimmy," Captain of Jap ans 1923 Davis cup team, came up from behind and made J. B. Hawkes. of Australia, the victim of this ldio syncrasy of his, in the first singles match of the American zone tie of the Davis cup series.
 Shortly afterward, his teammate Masanosuke Fukuda was badly out classed by J. O. Anderson, the star of the Australian team, dividing the honors of the day fifty-fifty
 The ShimizuHawXes match was a repetition of their match in the Davis cup tie of 1921, in which Shim- izu emerged victorious. In Thursdays s play, however, Hawkes. played more cautiously, seeking to pit his ac- accuracy of the little Jap. in this department, however, he was in the end outclassed.
 O O Q
 Match Close From First.
 The first two sets gave an indica- tion of the closeness of the match. Shimizu took the first, 6-4. and Hawkes. the second. 6-3 The young Australian was outvolleying his op- ponent and excelling in close nets play, and took the third set easily 6-2 "Shimmy" came back strong in the fourth set. however, and won 6-1 almost as easily. The rubber set the fifth, was hard fought and made the oriental extend himself all the way. Hawkes. was driving viciously and accurately, while Shimizu, smil- ing always, returned the fire with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
Dixie Player Beaten

ST. LOUIS, August s.-Karl Kam- man of St. Louis defeated Lew Hardy Of Memphis, Tenn. here today in the second round of the national muni- cipal tennis championship tourna- ment. 6-4, GA and Ga. while A. Cranstone Holeman of San Francisco eliminated Clarence Rose of Jack conv1lle. Fla, 6-4. so and 6-1. Louis Schaefer and Max Bookbinder of Buff falo, N. r.. defeated Sidney Kahn and Harry Schulzmann of New York, 6-2, 6-S and 6-1 in the only doubles match played here today.
 All games scheduled for tomorrow have been postponed on account of the funeral of President Harding and will be resumed Saturday morning,