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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
MOBILE ASKS RATE PARTIES

It is poor rule of rate parties that doesn't work both ways. Just now there is complaint at the Port of Mobile that the Mississippi Warrior management is not granting to Mobile such rate advantages as have been freely and promptly accorded New Orleans. New Orleans has enjoyed d parity of rates with Mobile by the Warrior barge service, between originating points in Alabama and the seaport. Mobile has long demanded a similar parity of rates on shipments originating on the Mississippi in St. Louis territory. The reason advanced by the waterway management against such parity for Mobile was lack of through ser. vice.. That objection has been removed by the completion of the New Orleans industrial canal permitting such through service. The Mobile Chamber of Commerce further cites the fact that New Orleans has parity of rail rates with Mobile on shipments originating at St. Louis and actually passing through Mobile. Tine chamber argues that the same principle which allows parties to the one port applies with equal force to the other port.
 The inland producing territory of Ala bama is naturally concerned in the question, not only as regards the e11ect of the oarites sought on the states exports and imports, but also because any policy that benefits the port strengthens it's appeal to commerce and makes it of all the more service to the state. One reason why the Warrior has not made better financial showing is because the barge service has been obliged to carry cargoes to New Orleans at the same rate as to Mobile, without any allowance for the extra overhead. Like parties for Mobile from Mississippi river points would tend to equalize this burden. Of primary concern to Alabama also is the revision of the sched- ule in accordance with which receipts for joint hauls are now divided between rail- ways and the Warrior. There has been in- eXcusable delay on this question while it was before the Interstate Commerce Commls- sion, and there as yet has been no public activity on the part of the waterway man. agement tc bring about a prompt confer ence with the railroads as suggested and advised oy the commission. l. appears that the waterway service is If sufficient ln- portance to warrant mos. active effort in it's tohalf, and the evidence of a lively con- cern in it's welfare by all communities which benefit by it's use. Such effort and concern may we'll have the effect of stimulating those in authority to promo; decision.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
IRON AT IDEAL CONDITION

With the blowing in of the second stack of the Alabama Company at Gadsden Tuesday there are thirty-seven active furnaces ill Alabama producing iron for nome consump- tion in steel mills, merchant iron for the foundries of the country and charcoal iron for special uses. The February production was more than hundred per cent above the same month in 1922 and the March pro- duction will be much larger. The wage ad- vance going into effect Friday was auto matically accompanied by rise of one dol Tar in the price of iron, wh ch will absorb the added cost of production, and since that time another dollar has been added. Pig iron is now bringing $27 minimum in Bir- mingham with corresponding prices over the remainder of the country, prices north and east being the price at Birmingham plus the freight. At the present price of pig iron there is a substantial profit, under which producers will be able to make good showing for the year.
 Leading iron makers say they wish the market to remain where it is and express themselves as opposed to runaway prices. If they adhere to that stand and stoutly re- sist the temptation to mark up on the op- portunity that is presented by short stocks of metal and an enormous demand, taking care of the consuming trade, ali will be well. If, on the other hand, they surrender to the lure of maximum prices they will soon ar- rive at that point where consumption will automatically ha... It did it in 1920 and i. will do it again under another such price orgy. It is a spi .ndld state of affairs. American business men should not allow momentary greed GO spoil what is almost
 ideal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
WHERE CHARITY BEGINS

r.. We have been sending bread to Russia and now we learn that Russia has been sell ing it's wheat. We have been sending food to Austria and are informed that Austria is selling her jewelry. There are a great many needy people in this country with nothing to sell Wasn't there saying once upon a time that charity should begin at home? Or is it more interesting to go questing for poverty abroad? In the squalid sections of New York and Chicago and other cities within our borders there is today much suffering from the cold and there are many deaths from lack of warmth and food. There are also, according to Emerson Hough, an authority on matters of the kind, one thousand Blackfeet Indians almost starving in forests which once were their own and within five miles of the jazz bands playing in the resorts of Glacier National Park. What keeps them from starving, MT. Hough re- gently stated in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, was fund.- of which there then was left only about twenty dollars. Charity is hu- mane and conlmendable anywhere, just as poverty and suffering are distressing any where, but that is no reason for being charit- able everywhere but at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
Peoples Forum
Letter of Appreciation

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 At the regular meeting of Bir- mingham lodge No. 447, Wednes- day evening, March IA, unanimous and most hearty vote of thanks and appreciation was passed for your liberality and impartiaiity in pub fishing in your excellent newspaper the weekly doings of the Loyal Or der of Moose. Particular reference was made by several speakers of prominence in this city to the fra ternai department of your Sunday edition, which has become alike de- servedly popular and indispensable for it's labyrinth of lodge lore-not alone to the Moose members of No. 447, but to practically every mem- Der of every order in the safe, sure and steadfast state of Alabama. The Age-Herald's policy of open space neutrality is good business principle, sound sense and demon stration of that rare quality for which the Loyal Order of Moose especially pleads-fraternalism. In behalf of Birmingham Lodge, No. 447, I wish to convey to you off cially, personally and publicly, heartfelt gratitude for your fair ness, generosity and brotheriy con sideration.
 N. WALDO KENNEDY.
 Attest: Dr. H. A. Elkou9ie.
 Birmingham, Ala, March IA, 1923.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1923

banks, office structures, fraternal halls, hotels, churches, libraries and even homes that has develoepd in the past decade there is demand for Alabamas pure white mar bic several times greater than capacity of the operative plants.
 Electric power has been brought to the Sylacauga field and large operations under modern and economic processes are forth. coming. The result will be great increase in that industry. The kaolins of Alabama will come into use as they are made better known and the gass-making sands of Ala bama also promise to be the basis of new industries as they are located and analysed by the experimental station of the bureau of mines. Not nearly all have been brought into service
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
DRIFTING ASUNDER

In these drifting times it is no wonder that political friends should drift apart and that the Damon and Pythias solidarity of Borah and Johnson should be sundered. The whole Republican party seems to be drifting apart. with portions of the once patched together platform discernible in all directions on the face fthe deep. The plank which supports Senator Borah's stalwart form seems mov- ing toward Europe, toward the League of Nations, even toward soviet Russia, while that upon which Senator Hiram Johnson rests remains in the eddy. A close observer, however might be able to see that the eyes of both these riders of the trouble dwaters are not so much upon the course they are taking as upon a far distant object shore ward, fair object upon which many eyes will soon be turning, the white house at Washington. Before the time of disem- barking and marching upon that citadel of hope, though, considerable time must eapse and these two statesmen not only must keep conspicuously afloat, but must each navigate his plank as though it wer ca craft of parts to convince that ecan also navigate the great ship of state. With so much to do there is small wonder that these one-time friends now have no time for each other. When selfinterest enters in, political friendships last about as long as the pro- verbal snowball
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16

many can afford to spend millions for propa- ganda in America while refusing to pay reparations to France and the allies on the plea of poverty. It is certainly true that German propaganda is being spread in great volume and with great vigor all over this country New features of Germany's alleged unjust and cruel treatment by France are appearing daily, systematically and va- riously designed to create sympathy. Walls and whimpers and passive resistance" are intermingled with threats, buster, self laudation and assassinations. Certainly such persistent and worldwide propaganda as Germany is sending out morning and night must cost money. It is believed that Ger many, although defaultng on her just debts, has hoarded wealth. Her fraudulent ex- change alone of almost worthless marks for gold of credulous foreigners added to these hoardings, and the main aim of the Cuno government has been to conserve the un- diminished holdings of the industrialists at the expense of labor. Whether Hindenburg could succeed in a monarcnist coup seems highly doubtful, but he nigh. succeed in hurling thunderbolt into the affairs of aik Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
AMERICAN COTTON STANDARDS

It has been somewhat strange that this nation, which produces the most of the worlds cotton, should so long have submitted to the grading of export cotton according to foreign standards. There is no doubt that whatever discrepancy there has been between foreign and American grading standards the advantage lay with the foreign buyer; oth- erwise, he would not have insisted upon his own standards. Now, under the Fulmer cotton standards act all American domestic and export cotton will be classified accord ing to American standards and will be sold that way. Whenever disputes as to grades arise, the secretary of agriculture, as arbi- ter, will have definite, authorized guide for his decisions. It is said that growers, spinners and exporters all have expressed satisfaction with the law and expect to de- rive pecuniary benefit from it. There is no doubt that there has been an economsc loss resulting from conflicting systems of grading, classification of grades too late In the process of handling, and deliveries with out strict attention to grading The ciassi- fication is now being performed nearer the producing ends, and the grower himself be- gins to receive the benefit that follows eX- pert grading at gins and in warehouses h. stead of selling a miscellaneous product, the farmer is now beginning to sell classified product at generally higher average price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
NEW ALABAMA INDUSTRIES

The experiment station of the bureau of mines at Tuscaloosa is making study of the non-metailic minerals of Alabama. This study is calculated to open up new indus tries based on the deposits of materials as thus disclosed. There are very fine clays and other non-metallic substances which are in general demand and knowledge of whose properties and extent of deposit, when re- duced to exact terms, will cause mines and mills to locate where operation would be successful.
 For many years we were quarrying Ala bama marble in a desultory kind of way because we ourselves were not fully sensible of the extent of the deposits or the relative merit of ours compared with that of other well-known marble. But both the exten. of the deposits and the quality of the mar ble has been proven and the result is tha: q business of $30OO00 in 1910 reached more than $1,5O0,OOO in 1921 and larger proportions in 1922. With the tremendously increased use of marble in the building of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
EFFICIENT MOBILIZING PLAN

In the war departments new plan for or ganizing batallions of railway engineer re- serves there is every indication of increased efficiency. Instead of recruiting the employees of the different railway systems with refer- ence to corps areas, as is now done, these employees would be organized into batalions. each composed of men from single system. and the names of the railroads would be the military designations of these batallions Thus the employees who answer the call to the colors would be commanded by the men who directed their work in peace times and the established teamwork would be unbroken The military rank of the division superin- tendent, for example, would be that of major He would command battalion of three com panies explained by the trainmasters
 There is nothing more essential to military operations in time of war than railway sez-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
PUBLIC SAFETY DEMANDS IT

There is a wave of legislation against reckless driving now spreading over the country. The various legislatures are con- sidering measures designed to check avcid- able deaths and accidents due to autono- piles. It appears, however, from a general survey of the character of bills introduc ed and adopted, that the legislation is mainly punitive, and looks to the punishment of offenders rather .han 10 prevention. It may be that drastic penalties have a de- terrent effect upon normal persons who otherwise might tranysress; but there is another class, the most dangerous class, which is not so easily hindered. This class is composed of those who have some mental or moral slant that renders them unfit to drive their instruments of death on the public highways.
 In order to arrive at the rank of locomo< tive engineer, and particularly of passen- ger engineer, man must go through a long period of searching probation and train ing. bad record during the training pe- riod means that he cannot become an en- gineer. The result is the gradual reduction of railroad disasters. With the companies it is a question of business and results. Anyone may drive an automobile, however. It makes no difference what his mental con dtion may be, nor what his rec ,rd. It makes little difference whether he is drunk or sober, the suppositon no doubt being that he will probably miss as many people as he will hit. A driver may have a police and accident record as long as his arm, and still be permitted to operate an automobile on the public highways.
 It appears that the punitive legislation Is already sufficient if there were a definite determination throughout the country to enforce the statutes as they exist. What is needed is more preventive legislation and more preventive penalties imposed by courts. It is reported from many cities that arrests for reckless driving and traffic-law viola tions are frequently "repeaters," that is, men who have been arrested more than once previously for similar causes. Ger tainly the protection of the public safety demands that repeated offenders be de- prived of the right to operate automobiles on the public highways. They have for feited their claim to that privilege.
 The rapid increase in the number of au- tomobiles has caused the highways to be- come more than ever conkested and the menace from recklessness correspondingly greater. Thirteen thousand deaths occurred last year as the automobiles toll. That is not to take account of the narrow escapes and non-fatal accidents due to the same cause. A definite program of suppression If thic danper is demanded bv the dictates of public safety.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
BUILDING IN BIRMINGHAM

March is making a fine building record In the first ten days of the month the build ing permits issued at the city hall called for a total of $700,0O0 of construction. In that time there were seventy-three permits for residences alone. That is at the rate of more than two hundred for the month, record that will be among the highest. This residence building activity not only bespeaks the desire for homes, but the ability to finance their construction. The building of churches shows that people of Birmingham are equally as mindful of the spiritual ele- ment of life as of the purely practical, or rather, that they sense the practicality of the spiritual the same as that of the material. E. This building activity is not predicated on low cost of construction or materials. It is based on the universal prosperity now pervading the district incident to its enor- nous production at good profit and its regu- lar employment of labor at good wages. It is such a splendid state of affairs that men are afraid it cannot last long. Their apprehension should take the form of effort to make it last. Nothing will come nearer causing continuity of the good times than maintaining a rein on price advances. The moment construction reaches highly un- reasonable point of cost, that moment it will ease off Let all the material men realize this, the makers of pipe, brick, cement, hollow tile, structural steel, lime. plaster, lumber, roofing and tin. If it is good, why not preserve conditions making ;. roodo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
Day of Farmer Dawnins

NOAaih oOutuSIu ot4r)
 It begins to look as if the day of conscienceless exploitation of the farmer is drawing to a close. It begins to look as if his own family are going to enjoy some of the fruits of his labor and no longer be held down to the bare necessities of miserable existence. It begins to look as if some of the culture. refinement and ease will find their way back to the country home. The tman behind the blow stands today face to face with opportunity. It is his to grasp or let it pass forever. He stands the victor m a bloodless conflict. But he must improve his victory, dig in on the ground gained and by continued and enlarged CO., operation prepare for future ad- vance. As the French told the Germans-he is there both by might and right, let him improve his op- portunity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
TUMULT AND SHOUTING


 If Senator LaFollette and other progressive senators and statesmen would read Charles Warren's late ly published book on the Supreme Court in United States History" they would unquestionably be dis couraged in their effort to put an end to that tribunals appellate ju- risdiction over acts or congress; for they would find that the court has been the object of just such attacks as theirs since the beginning, and that it has survived, without appre- ciable injury. The court has been abused for every possible fault, and always by the faction that was not pleased with its decisions; and it will continue to be abused in the same way by the same sort of peo- pie. It's reasoning has been charac- terized as "flimsy and false," and the court judges as "silk-gowned fogyism, a good portion imbeciie, republican in notion, and antiquated in doctrine" and "insolent and alarming" in decisions showing de- sire for "usurpation that must be terminated"-in short, ''the great agent of the powers of darkness. !" : Chancellor Kent said that he had lost his confidence in the protection of the supreme court, and Senator Hale declared it the duty of the re- publican party, which duty it owed to humanity and God, to overturn the whole concern.
 Yet it is still here, acting as the judge between contending factions, and performing service without which the people would be forced to resort to the sword against ex- ecutive, legislative and other forms of tyranny; and it is likely to con- tinue so to do when those who speak now against it are as much forgot ten as the men who maue the same sort of declarations m past genera tions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
Anon.
Wisenheim

The pest who turns my joy to gall IS Wisenheim, who knows it all. He tells me how to run my car and how to drive golf ball far, and how to play poker game and win a stack of chips at same. He knows the deep and hidden tricks of art and love and politics. He always has a wise retort to make on music, war or sport. A sage su- blme is Wesenheim and yet he seldom has dime. So in the pest house let him dwell, and put him in padded cell.-Ar- tennis.
 It begins to look as if employees at the Terminal station would have to find out just how late trains are before telling others
 This will be another burden upon the ser vice. If people find out within an hour or two how late trains are, they should be sat- isfied.
 It may be embarrassing to railroad to have to admit how late train may some times be.
 The other day we saw Birmingham's other policeman helping an old lady across the street.
 That's what we call civil service
 Did you pay your income tax?
 We'll, you'll pay it..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
Favorable to Poultry
(Tuscaloosa News,

NluScalOOSa NeWS)
 Encouragement to poultry rais- CTS comes with that season in each year when there is g heavy egg pro- duction without effort on the part of poultrymen and when prices are low as a result. Cold storage fa- cilities have been suggested as a remedy. But there is another remedy within the hands of every individual poultryman more effectual even than cold storage. That remedy is a little intelligence and little ef- fort applied to poultry raising. Bet ter poultry, better feeding and bet ter care will produce eggs when prices are high and place poultry on the market at the proper time. Certainly the climate here is more favorable and the country just as favorable as that in Tennessee. and Alabama money is now going to that state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
Living the Life By REV. H. C. OFFERMAN

Fill your life with much, or fill it with little; but fill it, at nes, with goodness, and purity, and hon esty, and righteousness, and God likeness.
 Your thoughts, and your motives, and your plans, and your aspira- tions, and your ambitions, are the really important parts in your everyday life; and your actions, and your results, and your outward be- havior, are simply the aftermath.
 Take the Eternal Powers as your advisers ;take the principles of the Eternal Book. the Bible, as your rule of life; view all men as chil- dren of God, and as bearers of an immortal soul; believe confidently in loving God, who will transplant you to Heaven afterwards, and feel assured that bonds of love last from Everlasting to Everlasting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16

The governor of Georgia is calling con- ference of Southern governors to discuss ways and means of controlling the boil weevil When the enemies of the wesvl settle down to business as faithfully and as earnestly as the weevil does, then the wcevl will be doomed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
How About "Come Across ?"

Dear Torch Bearer: The other day was sitting in my front room when heard some one knocking on my door. I says, Come in,'' and the man outside said, "Oh, no, this is the rent man. You come out. -Skin- nay G.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
The Gloom

A pest I know is Richard Groom; he goes around exuding gloom. And if the day is warm and bright, he says: "We'll have a storm tonight" And when he is free from aches and ills and also free from doctor bills, he says in accents all forlorn: q may be sick tomorrow morn." To him the lining of a cloud is but dark and dismal shroud Throw wide the gate for Richard Groom and lock him in the darkest room.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-16
Put Cadsden in League

Prospects now are bright for the organization and maintenance this season of six-club baseball league in which Cadsden probably will have berth. Plans for the formation of such league were made at meet ing Thursday at Anniston of rep resentatives of several cities.