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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
POLICING THE COUNTRY ROADS

Under the title, "Our Traffic Prob lem," the Florence Daily News makes some sensible suggestions looking to the protection of the publicFagainst careless, reckless or criminally in- clined n1otor-drivers. Among other things is urged the need for uniform regulations covering traffic on the highways, as well as ordinances for cities and towns. It is recommended that there be penalties graduating from fines for those who ~ere habit ually indifferent, to jail sentences and confiscation of cars for those who refuse to be regulated, while admins tering the penitentiary cure for terms and for life to the criminally careless who kill or main their fellow man.
 It is true, as stated, that "munici- palities have not the power under the law to provide and inflict proper pun ishment,' except within their city limits, while many of the most aggra- vating offenses are committed on country roads which belong to the public. Hence the serious problem of handling the situation beyond the jurisdiction of municipalities. There is need for uniform regulations apply ing to operation of motor cars throughout the state. This is empha- sized by the increasing number of ac- cidents which could and should be avoided. A large percentage of per sons should not be permitted to drive at all, because of their youth and in- experience, or temperamental and mental disqualffications. Another large percentage are capable of driv- ing, but careless of the rights or safety of others. Still another percentage are road-hogs, joy-riders or jugger- nauts, who knowingly and criminally violate laws, and seem to care little whether they kill or maim others.
 The state issues licenses and col lects taxes from owners of motor cars, and should therefore regulate these vehicles with view wholly 70 the public rights and the public safety within the state. Fines, jail sentences and peritentiary terms promptly md certainly imposed will do much to- wards reanedying the evil. The de- mand for protection comes from every part of Alabama, and is not confined to the cities and towns. The legisla- ture has the power to safeguard the public through proper regulation of motor traffic. It is pressingly needed, and all the more as paved trunk high ways are being built and placed in condition inviting speed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
POOR BOYS WHO
 BECAME FAMOUS
Willard Fillmore
By Frederick Houk Law

About ISIS, a dyer in a little hamlet in central New Fork had as an apprentice boy named Mill lard Fillmore. The boy was a good, sturdy boy and did his work well.
 T don't know what he's always sticking his nose into book for the dyer said. What good is a book, I'd like to know. You can't dye cloth with a book"
 There were not many books that Willard Fillmore could find in the little place. Most of the people, like his father, were settlers in the wildernesses, hugely interested in cutting down the forest and in building houses and barns. The boys father and mother had taught him to read and write and to do small sums. That, they thought, was enough. One day the youth appeared before the dyer and said: My father bound me out to work for you till l am twenty-one. I want to study law. I'll pay you thirty dollars to let me off"
 Thirty dollars?" The dyer laughed Where in the world can you get thirty dollars?"
 "I'll give you q note for it," the boy answered. You know I've never failed to keep a promise"
 The dyer liked the boy, chuckled a little, took the note and let him go. Willard Fillmore was only nineteen then. Thirty-one years later he was fifty and was made president of the United States. Long before that time he had amply repaid the dyer. who all ways regarded himself as~ the maker of president.
 Willard Fillmore educated him. self by reading all the books he could borrow, and by studying law with an old lawyer-he paid his way by working as post office clerk and by teaching a lit tie school. His honesty and ear- nestness made him good lawyer. and he gained 8 reputation that sent him to the state legislature of New York. and then to con gress. At forty eight he was made vice president of the United States. and when old Rough and Ready" President Taylor. died come. He died twenty-two wears after he left the White House.
 In all his political life the boy Of the backwoods. now grown into a statesman, followed his con- science. He tried to stop inter- state commerce in slavery; he urged the giving of money to Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, and. in general, showed the hard. commonsense of the backwoods from which he had come. He died in 1874, twenty two years after he left the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
MOTHERS OF FAMOUS
 MEN
The Mother of Sir William Mure

"I am a sister of great poet, and sister of a great bishop, sald Elizabeth Montgomerie Mure to her little son, as he nestled low ingly in her lap. She hugged the 'blue-ey flaxenhaired boy to her breast. and thought to herself, Would to God that my boy might be an even greater man than either of my brothers! Would to God that he, too, might be poet, and might write like Alexander, whose poems everyone loves!
 There still live the books of poems that the boy wrote, and In Edinburgh the authorities pre- serve the book of music that her son composed. Some of that mu- sic sprang from his memory of the Scotch songs that his mother had sung to him when he was child.
 Elizabeth Montgomerie had a love for the simple Scotch songs and the folk music. She gloried in the fact that her brother wrote in a way that common people could understand and love. So it came about that among the pre- decessors of Robert Burns. the great man who used the Scots tongue" as the>medium for poetry that all the world loves. there is named Alexander Montg Montgomerie's son-for he, too, wrote songs and poems and car ried on the tradition of Scotch writing.
 william" said his mother to him one day when he was well grown, it Is good for you to study your Latin as you do, and to read your Latin books. But don't forget our own speech, Listen! Is 1t not still good?" And she sang to him a Scotch song she. had heard her mother sing-one of the songs that had helped to inspire her brother AL exander, and to make him love the language of the people.
 So day by day. Elizabeth Mont gomerie inspired one who was to be a great man. with love of his native speech and love of his na- tive land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
NEED FOR ZoNING LAW

Necessity of zoning law for Bir- mingham becomes more and more ap- parent. It would help to preserve harmony of the races and protect property values. It would stimulate community pride. The ethical side is important. There is little stimulus to investment when the investor cannot count. upon the permanent character of the neighborhood where he has placed his money or founded his roof tree. Citizens of Graymont and Owenton desire some boundary lines for white and colored homes. They are entitled to it. The blacks, as well as whites, prefer their own neighbor- hoods with blacks as neighbors.
 Birmingham negroes have demon strated in many ways their desire for separate neighborhoods. There is business section in the heart of Bir- mingham where negro business houses, hotels and restaurants, insurance of fices and motion picture theatres pre- uOmlndLe. neTe are residence sec tions where negroes have built their homes. They differ in character just as do white residence neighborhoods.
 Right of the city to regulate home and business neighborhoods is neces- sary not because either many whites or many blacks object, but because, when there are such rules, the occa- sional interloper is not allowed to ex- ploit his selfish interests at the ex- pense of an entire section. The zon- ing law which will be introduced in the summer session of the legislature confers the right of the city to prevent it's neighborhoods from becoming crazy-quilts or from injuring property. There will not be occasion for much of it's exercise, because the average citizen takes account of the amenities, but laws are needed for those who do not,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
JOHN-A-DREAMS
Dreams of Eating in Haste

Dreams of Eating in Haste
 Whenever you have a dream of eating in haste. write me quickly and give me all the incidents that have passed through your mind The generally accepted interpre- tation of this dream Is that you will be the recipient of shocking news and that you will be com pelled to drop everything. your every day routine, your work. things you would never neglect under other circumstances. just strengthening out the event of which you are about to be in formed. The dream never fore tells a death. but it may presage a grave accident. fire. robbery, or even something connected with a crime committed by someone whom you like too well not to be shocked by the news.
 In most cases a dream of this sort is distinguished by the ap- pearance. somewhere in it's devel- opment. of a numeral between one and ten. This number will tell you in exactly how many months the bad news will reach you and you will therefore be able to steel yourself against the shock and be prepared to receive 1t when 1t comes.
 Should other people be present while you are eating hastily. the occurrence will call you out of town.
 If you are alone, the incident will happen in your own city and. consequently. the disturbance of your routine will not be of such great duration. The reason I ask you to notify me of the details of such a dream is that it may con- tain an episode that will soften 1t to some extent, and I would like to be instrumental in setting your mind at rest if it lies at all in my power to do so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
A MAIDS MAXIMS

By the time a conscientious wife has decided where to go for the summer, looked up the trains. given the postman the new ad- dress, discontinued the telephone. the milk, the ice, the paper, egged her husband into buying three new palm beach suits, packed his trunk and reminded him six times to get the tickets-she wonders just how he managed to take a holiday before she married him.
 Any woman who praises a man is the right one for him-for the time being: but. as far as she is concerned. the only thing worse than a wrong mans compliment Is the right mans failure to pay one.
 One of the reasons. probably the chief one. why a man marries is to have a perpetual audience, to whom he may explaini at any hour of the twenty four how right lie is and how wrong are his boss, his fellow employees. his customers, his workmen. the other members of the country club, the national administration, the prohibitionists, the tax collector.
 One of the things which fasci- mates us about man is his gift of leaping from the particular to the general. If one girl deceives him. no woman has a sense of honor; if his wife is lazy. all women are parasites; if his stenographer mis- directs an important letter-the business world Is no place for women.
 It's great love that can sur- vtve a daily grocery bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
10 FAVORITE BOOKS
GAS chosen by Irving Bncheller

(As chosen by Irving Bacheller)
 'Pickwick Papers" (Dickens).
 Great Expectations (Dick- ens).
 David Copperfield" (Dickens). ''Moby Dick" (Melville).
 ''The rise of Silas Lapham" (Howells). :, "The Mill on the Floss" George ElioD.
 "Silas .Marner" (George Dliot). Les Miserables" tHugo).
 "The Three Musketeers" (Du-i mas).
 "The Scarlet Letter" (Haw- thorne). Copyright, 1923, in United States and Great Britain for The Age-Herald by tho North American Newspaper Alliance. All rights resirved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
PRESIDENT ON WORLD COURT

In the first address of the series by President Harding on his Swing around" while he continued to em- phasize in way the importance of participation by the United States in the international court of justice, it is plain that he has been laboring under strong pressure to change his original views on this subject in such way as to provide a much-needed. conciliation within the Republican party. Thus there will naturally be more or less criticism, if not surprise, that the principle involved in the proposition has been sacrificed to some extent under pressure of politi- cal expediency. The president made it clear that he believed in the world court as the best available means of keeping the peace among nations. He declared in effect that the Ameri- can people cannot get away from the policy of participating in foreign af- fairs even if they would. This gen. eral policy must be accepted as the development of conditions, which are demanding that the United States cannot stand aloof. Hence the world court is made an issue in the presi- dential campaign. Much as the pres ident would prefer to disassociate his Alaskan tour from politics, his first speech has made such a situation inn possible. The emphasis which he laid upon the world court, the effort he employed to consider it apart from the league, and his proposals under which this nation should become an active member of the court and take part in it's future organization and in it's application to world conditions and policies, have done much to make the nations attitude towards the court live issue, not only between the two parties, but within the Republican organization itself.
 The presidents proposals as to the operation of the court are more or less indefinite and hay. While he repeatedly referred to what he con- sidered serious objections to the league, he virtually admitted that these are more matter of specific application than of general principle. Such distinctions as he drew were not of character to bring about com plete separation of ideas in the minds of people as whole want is a practical, working influence that will actually prevent future wars, or at least will have strong restraining force against international differences and quarrels that threaten conflict. Whether the league or the court will accomplish more to that end the people are not prepared to say. One view is fairly we'll fixed in their minds, however, and that is that the United States must sooner or later determine on a policy of more active participation in inter- national affairs, and that whatever form this may take, the principle will be the outgrowth of the league itself.
 In undertaking to reconcile differ ences existing within his party as re- spects the court and this nation's>at- titude towards it, the president has provided additional ammunition for the Democratic party in the presi- dential campaign by reversing himself on t,:e court question in such way as to suggest weakness and readiness to surrender.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
A Remedy Needed (Gadsden JOurnall

Two men have stood trial in Jefferson county circuit court on the charge of participating in the flogging of Dr. J. D. Bowling. Two men have been acquitted of the charge. The Journal Is not prepared to pass upon the justice of these verdicts. But judging from the demonstration which took place when the first acQuittal was announced. and from other expressions heard since then, a conviction in any one of these cases may be considered remote. no matter what the evidence may be. Jefferson county is not alone in this spirit. It has been mani fested in other sections of the country. It doubtless would be displayed here under similar cir cumstances. But this condition Is going to call forth a remedy soon- CT or later. And that remedy will be the passage of an act by the legislature giving to the state the same right that Is accorded the defense to ask for change of venue. When 1t becomes evident that the ends of justice will not be secured in one community. the state should be given the right to ask that the case bo heard in another community where 1t can be tried on its merits and without local prejudice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23

It has been decided that any state official may put his name on his de- partmental stationery, and the ct ef examiner of public accounts added that any official may put his pictur on his letterhead if he prefers. This might be considered in the light of discrimination against aspirarts for reelection who can lay no claims to personal pulchritude.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23

While the British government is sending over a ship stocked with booze as test of the American pro- hibition laws, many passengers on the ship, Americans and British, will test the booze pretty thoroughly before it reaches the three-mile limit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23

place at the ports of embarcation, for thus would be saved the worry, delay and expense attendant upon the present chaotic administration of Ellis Island. By all means let the subject be studied and the solution found in accordance with the dictates of our national welfare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23

There are hundreds of people of means who could supply these press ing needs without feeling the slightest burden. The field for service is broad, the opportunity to aid a most worthy cause inviting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23

Dispatches say that two or more brokerage firms that dropped out were. nearly fifty years old. It does not seem to be altogether their age from which some of those "Wair' street concerns have been tottering.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
THE PARAGRAPHERS
lKansas City starl

A New York paper Is glad to announce that Uncle Sam will be 'out of the red" by. next month. But nothing is said in behalf sof business interests that have been showed into the red in order that Uncle Sam might be out on promised date.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
THE ALABAMA PRESS
Coming Out Wonderfully (Talladega Daily Home)

From many parts of the state comes the experience of Tailadega county, that the crops are coming out wonderfully. It all shows just what can be done when far mers see they are up against 1t. In this instance Q little txtra ef- fort certainly has brought results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23

Nearly everybody in Tuscaloosa voted for the half a million dollar bond issue with which to improve the schools. The voters of Tuscaloosa evidently attach to education a value that runs into money"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
Why Not the Real ThinEt
 (Trov MAsaenR Rer1

Note that some one proposes to make clay models of pigs to be exhibited at county fairs. Sounds foolish to us. Most any member of our boys pig club in this county can furnish real live porker at less than the clay artist can produce the mud-made one. k
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23

The Chicago court rendered a real service in ruling that the public can be held up only once when checking coats and hats at hotels, theatres and clubs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
Another Evidence

IUhiO State JOurnaI)
 Another evidence in support of the theory of evolution is that steam rollering MT. Bryan seems to get easier and easier.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
Right on His Heels

NCItVtIdIIU IdIII DtdIGIJ
 President Harding will make fourteen speeches on his way to Alaska. and We have no doubt that Senator Borah will have at with.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
The Other Fellows. Job

(Toledo Blade)
 Each judge on the Lucas county common pleas bench is to have, during the summer, three weeks work and nine weeks vacation. Darn this job of ours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
His Speciality

NTIOuSlUH IOStI Edison says the colleges do not teach men how to think. The mo- ment T. A. gets away from cleo tricity he seems to stop thinking himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
Keep Them in the ODen

If the primary purpose of pun ishment is reform. that purpose is furthered infinitely better by employment in tho open, with fresh air and sunshine. than by the gloomy interior of 8 prison. Gloom and confinement encourage poor health and bitter breeding and foster crime instead of cur ing 1t. The effect of the outdoors, in pleasant weather. is naturally curative. Again. convict labor could be used to good advantage on the roads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
The Municipal Market


 It remains to be seen whether the housewives of Birmingham will go to the market in order to share in the greater variety of goods offered there and the lower prices promised. or will continue to do their marketing by tele- phone and accept whatever is sent to them. Tho municipal mar kets in all cities of Birmingham's size and importance have proven wonderful conveniences to house. wives and . very great saving as well. In addition. they have proven to be of especial benefit to truck growers and farmers who formerly peddled their wares in the cities. The Birmingham mar ket should prove as great . ben eft and hlessing as those in other cities. If it does not 1t will be the fault largely of the buying public through failure to respond to the effort made to bring buyer and seller together, to their mu- tual benefit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
Unfitness of Things

Our idea of the unfitness of things is Cuba sending a de.ega- tion to the Copenhagen conference against alcoholism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23

Autocracy Babe of mine with curls of gold
 On your regal brow! You are a monarch and we, your
 slaves,
 Most humbly bow.
 Your lightest coo is stern command Which we all obey.
 There's not subject in all your realm
 Can say you nay. Patterson.
 "Own your own apartment" is an alluring slogan, but the janitor will continue. to run the works.
 A straw hat flutters from the dome of a passenger on bus and skids along the avenue./
 And the motorists slacken in their mad career and turn aside lest they injure the helpless $2.50 chapeau.
 Queer creatures, these motorists.
 If there were pedestrian under the hat they would knock him loose from it, nor bat an eye.
 Of course, the weather has gotten too hot to do any hustling on the au- ditorium. The public has already waited several years; few months more won't make much difference. Besides, cool weather will come along in November, and then the heating system might be considered. Perhaps consideration of a heating system, which seems to have been overlooked in the shuffle, would be more con- genial in cold weather when peoples minds are on such subjects.
 "It's an i'll. wind"-etc. Think what it means to the ice man and the electric fan salesman, after waiting for weeks to get "look-in."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23

A little ice to cool them, a little milk to nourish them, a few screens to protect them, will save dozens of babies in Birmingham this summer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
Identifying tho Town

IduntsVIII0 TImeSJ
 Paved streets, good sidewalks. pretty lawns. well kept premises and homes arc all going into the making of Greater Huntsville. And let the campaign proceed throughout the city. If you haven't a paved street and a good sidewalk perhaps 1t is your own fault.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
MIGHT TRY IT OUT

Judge Gary might test public sentiment by running for presi- dent on a twelve-hour platform.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
Homo Loyalty
 

(Conecuh Record)
 People cannot expect to secure the kind of stores that their com munfty is entitled to. on the basis of it's population and wealth, if they are constantly running or sending away elsewhere to buy goods. Unless they give their pat ronage to their homes stores, those stores cannot serve them with maximum efficency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
The Miracle Man

The Miracle Man He is puny little guy, With feeble limbs and fishy eye, But he can change A mountain range
 Like putty in his hand; And he can shift rivers tide And fling it's waters far and wide And he can make A mighty lake
 Into waste of sand. He lifts a city old and gray And shoves it eighty miles away, He moves the hills, The rocks and rills,
 The valleys and the gaps. With ruthless hand he twists the land From mountain peak to coral strand The little guy With fishy eye
 Who draws the railroad maps.
 A main line on a railroad map is the shortest distance between two points.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-23
Ectoplasmic Drama

Ectoplasmic Drama A pretty ivory handled gun, A wildly jealous spasm. Her late affinity is now A charming ectoplasnaC
 -C. A. M.