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New Britain herald., 1923-11-21
"HABS' AZ YEARS OLD
Gold Medals To Be Presented to Seven 25-Year Members at Exercises Next Month.

The 42nd anniversary of the Y. M T. A. & B. society will be observed next month with exercises in the Tabs hall on Lafayette street. and with the awarding of gold medals to seven members who have completed 25 years of membership in the society.
 It has not been definitely decided what form the exercises will take. II is likely that a social and dance will be held in conjunction with the ex- ercises, while there is some sentiment for resuming the custom of annual banquets.
 The members who will receive medals are: D. Beloin, NJ. Brophy, James Degnan, Thomas D. Dolan, Thomas Heslin. Peter McCrann and Terrence O'Brien.
 The committee in charge consists Of William A. Forsythe, James H. Riley, Jr., James J. Daily Philip scheyd and James w. Manning.
New Britain herald., 1923-11-21
Rax ON TOWN NOTES.

London. Nov. 21.-The German Reichsbank, beginning tomorrow. it is reported here. will not accept notes issued by towns and railways. This is expected to result in stopping the supply Of intermediary currency.
New Britain herald., 1923-11-21
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses were issued today at the town clerks office as follows: Newman R. Provost of SS Pleasant street and Miss Ethel Harriet Lester Of AT Chestnut street; Louis c. Reck- nagel of lilo Camp street, and Miss Mabel H. Clauson of Hartford.
New Britain herald., 1923-11-21

The largest water wheel generator yet made will be installed at Niagara. 1t will weigh roo tons.
New Britain herald., 1923-11-21

Health lectures are now being given in London prisons by we'll known doctors.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-26
PLANTERS, SOUND VIEW

At a gathering of LEAD ng Hale county
farmers recently it was the majority view
that cotton acreage would not be increased
this year. While all were confident of good
prices for cotton next fall, there was man
ifest disposition to be content with last
years acreage. 1t was simultaneously re-
ported that heavy sales of fertilizers had
been made. This is of happy augury, in
dicatng that cotton producers have begun
to direct an eye keener to production per
acre than to extent of acreage. This is
sound economics. Heavier production OF
good cotton per acre yields greater profit
than larger acreage of poor quality and
smaller yield per acre.
Cotton is salable commodity the world
over and the south should continue to pro-
duce the bulk of world cotton as it has
heretofore done. But the south should pro-
ducc this cotton on the same basis of sound
method as pertains to other business that
proves successful so that the overhead does
not eat up the profits. This is the case
when mere acreage rather than quality OF
product or yield per acre is made the pri-
mary consideration.
There is indication that the viewpoint Of
tn, Hale county farmers is shared by pro-
an. rs in other states Sales of fertilizers
thr ughout the cotton belt are reported as
shr largest on record and it is further
stg d that the fertilizers have been paid for
u sh, so that the average cost to the far
me- has been less than usual The lower
price is partly due also to the offices of the
operative associations in making bulk
purchases. This years cotton yield will come
ID ne market financed and able to cope
Wi the buyer. That will be another strong
pos ION.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-26
CLIMATE BENEFITS SOUTH

On land and on water traffic in the east
has been greatly hampered by snow and ice
for weeks at a time, while in the south there
has been no handicap on transportation in
either quarter Even our local sleet storm
entaied only day or so of traffic trouble.
Railroad yards at Louisville became so con-
gested with freight cars from the south
destined for northern delivery that an em-
barge was declared last Sunday. The con-
gestion at Louisville was caused by inability
of northern railroads to move the freight
out of Louisville account OF weather
conditions. Travellers just back from New
England report it as ce-bound. At Pitts
burg steel tows destined for Memphis and
New Orleans via the Monongahela, Ohio
and Mississippi rivers are tied up in ice
gorges, which not only delay them, but en-
danger their contents. A tow of 1000 tons
Of coal en- route to Pittsburg mills is ice
bound on the river few miles below the
plant and several steamers have in vain
sought to dislodge it. Traffic on the Great
Lakes is at stand-stil several months dur
ing the year and the New York barge canal
automatically closes down during the cold
season.
In Alabama, however, we are moving
all the freight on the Warrior for which
there is equipment. We move this freight
every day in the year over minimum Of
eight feet Of water, which locks prevent
from going lower. Our southern commerce
and transportation are unaffected by the
seasons. Our manufacturing enterprises are
not forced to curtail production winter or
summer on account of weather conditions.
Our farms produce something the year
around. Nature has been exceedingly kind
to the south in giving it basic advantage
of climate. We should appreciate it for its
worth. 1t counts more and more as time
goes by in the location of new industries
and the prosperity of southern people.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-26
THE REWARD IS CERTAIN

The speech of Representative Joseph
Byrns of Tennessee, vigorously denouncing
the Republicans for their failure to per-
nit the leasing of Muscle Shoals to come to
vote, wa stimely and undoubtedly placed
the blame where it belongs-upon lobbies
maintained by those whose interests are in
conflict with the public interest. The censure
of public opinion upon this failure to ad-
nit the measure to debate does not arise
from the fact that there was opposition to the
Ford offer, but from the obstructive tactics
that gave the friends of the mesaure no OPP
portunity to defend it or to vote for it. Per-
haps there would have been no filibuster
against the shipping bill if the majority had
acted fairly on the Muscle Shoals PROPOSE
ton. As it is, the Republicans have gwen
additional leverage to their political oppo-
nents when it again comes to contest be-
fore the people. The willful neglect of a
measure for which there is loud public de-
mand will not be able to escape the outpour-
ing of public wrath when those responsible
come up for reelection. No sort of specious
argument will be able to explain away the
incontrovertible fact of failure, deliberate
failure, to act in the public behalf.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-26

in this country, where eyes for what is coun-
terfeit are fairly keen, as to those marts
wherein rum is thef chief commodity. The
fake labels for this trade were probably as
valuable to the conspirators as their paper
purporting to be redeemable in gold. It is
perhaps not unnatural that this band of
counterfeiters should choose for their oper-
ations that center Of the curious arts,
Greenwich Village, where everything in the
name of art has been pushed to the remotest
confines of futurism. The winds Of bolshe-
vism have long played with its bobbed
tresses and flowing ties and these wild winds
seem also to have blown into that region
the thought that each man, supremely in
different to all governmental affairs, or to
the mere matter of performing honest SER
vice for value received, may make his own
money. Greenwich Village no doubt also
harbors honest artists, but It seems safe to
hazard the guess that the identity of these
counterfeiters, when information as to the
members of the gigantic organization is re-
vealed, will dovetail with the identity of
many of our avowed bolshevists.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-26
States Industries Boom
(Talladega DafYy Homel

A boom in Alabama industries Il
noted in information received by
the Montgomery Chamber Of Com
merce from an industrial employ
ment survey conducted in this state
by the United States department Of
labor. The report shows that from
December Is, 1921, to December
b., 1928, 152 industries in Ala
bama increased their forces by a
total of $3.50 men. Reports from
"a coal mines showed an increase of
1858 employees from March Is,
1922, to December Is, 1922. Tex
tile mills to the number of 81 re-
ported an increase of 622 employees
in the year ending December Is,
1922. In the same period lumber
mills showed gain of STA en-
ployes, while reports from 81 indus
trial concerns in Birmingham show
ed an increase of 1892 employees,
and from 81 industries in Mobile an
increase Of GOT employees. We
haven't the data before us, but it
is equally sure that Talladega is
also in the line of march. She II
going after the new water supply,l
has made many new steps towards
local improvements in homes and
industries, and begs her sister cities
to keep an eve on Tallsdega.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-26
.,ADs SHOULD COOPERATE

< ilroads should not antagonize the War
,ler barge line, but rather cooperate in its
depe opment and use it as feeder to their
lines The Warrior and the rail lines con-
sttue through transportation route cap
able of great service to the district, and the
rail carriers will, get out of the increased
business which this additional transportation
service brings quite as much as the barge
line. In word, what makes Birmingham
bigger, greater and larger producer and
shipper will benefit the rail carriers just as
they are benefited by having great ports at
ocean terminals of their lines for establish
ment of through routes for export business.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-26
GREENWICH COUNTERFEITERS

It has been some time since counterfeit
ing plots on large scale have been re-
vealed, but the secret service, the treasury
departments under-cover operatives, whose
field this is, have just uncovered case
which seems international in its ramifica-
tions involving anywhere from one to
ten million dollars of spurious money, gold
and silver coin and specie Of various coun-
tries. Bogus stamps and water-marked
whisky labels also were found. The nest
of the counterfeiting organization, as so
far discovered, lies in the heart of Green
witch Village, New York's near-art and b.
hemian center, with wholesale distributing
agencies in other parts of the town.
News reports state somewhat vaguely that
the counterfeit money has been dumped
into the trading marts of score Of ma
tions." We imagine that this refers not SO
much to the banking and mercantile world
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-26
TROUBLE IS WITH RUSSIA

Reported commercial affiliations between
Germany and Russia need not be taken too
seriously, for the simple reason that there
can be no commerce where there is no ex-
change in values. Germany has goods to ex-
port and needs raw materials. Russia has
neither gold nor rw materials to export.
1t is true that there is plenty of raw ma
terials in Russia, but there is nobody en-
gagged in preparing them for export. The
soviet leaders tell their following that the
cause of Russia's lack of commerce is a
BLOCKADE maintained by other nations. Per-
haps some day the Russian rank and file will
discover the truth, and understand that
communism is responsible for their desperate
and isolated case. Meanwhile, all nations
hold themselves in READINGS to trade with
Russia whenever Russia herself can offer
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-26
A Timely Editorial
Japanese Immigrants for Brazil i.
Detroit Free Press)


There is story abroad that Bra
I'll and Japan have entered into an
agreement whereby five hundred
thousand Nipponese are to become
colonists in the South American re-
public. Toxic is to pay the cost of
emigration, and Rio Janeiro is to
take care of the Japanese when they
arrive and distribute them in the ag-
ricultural sections where they are
needed. According TO the account,
the scheme is mutually agreeable,
because Japan is overcrowded and
Brazil needs field laporers. 1t is
also suggested that the Brazilian
government is rather anxious to es-
tablish a political offset to large
German and Italian colonies that
are causing some anxiety.
The account is at least plausible.
The Brazilian government has been
sympathetic for long time to the
idea of Japanese immigration, and
it has viewed with uneasness, II not
with alarm, the development of the
Teutonic communities in some of its
most productive regions. The preva-
lence of German settlements was
quite problem in wartime, and
caused a good deal of trouble. That
Rio may wish to play off some new
element against them is understand
able.
And while in this country, the
thought of making use of Asiatics
for such purpose may seem like
something almost monstrous, we
must remember thar racial and So
cial conditions in the United States
and in Brazil are sharply distinct.
Only technically is Brazil white
mans country outside a few locali-
ties. Actually it is very much parti-
colored with red and black and even
yellow combining to create blood
stream which some scientists believe
will in the end largely subslerge the
white strain. The mass of the pop
ulation even now will probably be
inclined to consider the Japanese
quite as near relatives as the Euro
peans.
Perhaps it is not particularly
pleasant for America to consider
the likelihood of any Japanese in
flux into Brazil, but that matter,
after all, is none Of our business.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-26
Small Pauper Record
montgomery Advertiser)

For a state of 2,350,0O0 popula-
ton, 1,081 inmates of county homes
for the destitute is no disgraceful
commentary upon SOCIAL and eco
nofnic conditions in Alabama. We
feel sure that Alabama's record
compares quite favorably with that
of other states. At the same time
every state has more paupers, out
side its aims houses than inside,
and parperism is a social menace,
Incidentally, it should be remarked
in passing that although Alabama
has just twice as many inmates of
institutions for the mentally ill as it
has inmates of poor-nouses, Ala
banna has a lower ratio per hundred
thousand population Of persons with
mental diseases, if we may Judge by
the number confined to institutions,
than any other state except Arkan-
sas. Alabama's ratio is 95.3 per
100000 as against 220.1 for the
whole United States. Most of the
other states have swAce as many,
and several third more per 100,-
900. ~
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-26
CIVIL SERVICE OPPORTUNITY

The Civil Service Commission is under
grave responsibility and cannot proceed
with too careful regard for the confidence
which was placed in its formation when the
bill creating the commission received popu-
lar support. That support issued out OIL
belief that the police and fire departments
would be taken out of politics and fitness
and faithful performance of duty would pre-
vail in choosing and retaining the personnel.
The commission has an opportunity to serve
the people Of Birmingham in an eminent
degree. 1t is one whose gravity the MEM
bers of the commission cannot but feel. II
they act up to the opportunity and the in
tent Of the act they will place these two
departments on a footing of performance
that will be credit alike to the departments,
the city and themselves.
The act will not operate automatically.
No governmental machinery does. Good or
faulty operation depends on the men in
charge. There are gateways for politics to
enter any governmental agency no matter
how constructed and irrespective Of the mo-
tive behind its creation. Politics can creep
into the civil service commission if encour-
aged to enter; it can creep In unless it is
positively and continuously discouraged
The best of laws is capable of working harm
under careless or partisan administration
The civil service board cannot be too watch
full of it's gates. A high degree Of confidence
has been imposed 1t should be the pride
of this commission to justify this confidence
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-26
CONTROLLING THE WEEVIL

Plans for the campaign against the boil
weevil are drawn up and the artillery of
science is being made ready by Hudson
Maxim and DR.. Reese Hutchinson. Both OF
these men, famous for their advancement of
the worlds material progress, have turned
their highly specialized faculties upon this
fight for the determination of the weevil
and have just announced in Birmingham the
lines along which they think the war should
be waged. Each recognizes the economic
necessity of putting an end to cotton's de-
vAstating enemy, whose ravages are menac-
ing the future of an industry vital to the
needs of the world
While these authorities Giffer in their
methods for attack, they are Of the same
mind as to the costs involved being of less
than secondary importance. The annual
loss caused by the evil is perhaps greater
than would be the total outlay to extermi-
nate it. In two or three years the fields
would once more yield their full quota to
service of mankind. DIR. Maxim believes
that by an expenditure on the part or the
government of $500 900 900 this result could
be accomplished. Since the weevil lives
only on the cotton plant, he would first take
away its food by starving it in belts and
zones where no cotton is to be planted. Be-
ginning at the eastern edge of the belt, he
would have no cotton grown in an area COW
erng, say, 500 miles. There being nothing
in that district for the bug to feed on, it
would perish. The next year the weeyil-
less and also cottonless area would be moved
laterally half it's width, and so on until the
pest had gone from the earth, and then cot
ton could come back into its own. The farm
err would be reimbursed for his losses from
the $500, 100000 fund. What would happen
in the meantime to the worlds marketsfcr
the staple is not apparently, provided for,
but unless there should be some limitation
on its attitudes, the profits on the first full
crop after such spell of coming would
probably be large.
Dr. Hutchinson's plan is on different and
less sweeping scale, and his estimate of the
expense for its operation is around $780,
900. His suggestions call for establishment Of
one or two thousand small farms in the cot
ton states where scientific experiments, con-
Quoted by entomologists and biologists, on
combating the boil weevil would be made.
In two years he believes this method would
bring highly satisfactory results. Short
of scheme for more gigantic and practi-
cable operations in this direction, it would
seem that the small farm idea, with early
and intensive cultivation of cotton and the
application of the scientific method Of de-
stroying the pest would offer a more i'm
mediate solution of this pro1S..--A. However,
the organization of national campaign I'M
der committees composed of farmers and
men of science, spells, under concerted
method of determination, the end of the boil
weevil and an early return on the part of
the cotton planter of the south to the pros
perity Of which the weevil is robbing him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-26

something in exchange. 1t is recalled that
all restrictions on trade between Americans
and Russians were removed two or three
years ago, still there is no trade. Several
American capitalists have obtained rich and
valuable concessions in Russia and Siberia,
but they have not begun operations for the
simple reason that they do pot believe that
their property will be protected from con-
fiscation. The Germans, who lie in most
convenient proximity to Russia, cannot de-
velop trade with her of any moment. The
trouble is all with Russia
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-26
Peoples Forum



To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
Being the thoughts of an ex-
service man while one of an audi
ence of about two hundred at the
benefit performance given at hte
Jefferson theatre February % for
, the disabled soldiers. Disabled men
who need assistance, financial and
moral, cannot help but contrast this
pitiful audience with the large
sounding phrases of the members of
the civic associations during and mn
mediately after the war.
Just think of It'll The chief exec
utive of the state can find time, and
is patriotic enough, to lend his pres
ence for this cause, ans yet the prin-
cipal business and professional men
with but few exceptions were too
busy or possibly have some social
affair that prohibited their attend
ance. Where were the civic asso-
Citations that are supposed to up
hold this greatest city of America?
Such organizations as Rotary, XII
wants, Chamber of Commerce, etc. :?
Are these clubs really representa-
tive of the thought and action of
leading citizens? What must be the
thoughts Of governor who is the
idol of his people, one who was
swept into office by one of the big
gest majorities ever recorded in his
tory and who is above all human
patriotic American citizen? / feel
sure that the greater part of that
small audience felt as I did, full of
shame and apology for Birmingham
to this truly biggest citizen of the
state.
The publicity donated so freely
by the press was truly magnifi-
cent gesture. Why was editorial
comment made on a king dead over
three thousand years, esc., but none
at all on the fact that the governor
gave his time for 8, cause than which
theer is none greater? A cause that
means the preservation of living
American citizens, who have been
through the fire anc nave not es-
capped unscathed. Surely there are
no nobler citizens than those who
were ready to make the supreme
sacrifice if need be.
What is the matter with Birming-
.ham? Wake up, you civic associa-
tions, and when a smar sacrifice Is
demanded by the men who have
spent months and months recuper-
ating from their hurts, come forth
with at least a show of sympathy
if none is felt. If you cannot live
up to your pose of leading citizens,
disband your organizations.
AS / left the theatre last night
heard it said that the net sum real
lied was SIC. 1t would be laugh
able if it were not tragic.
Ex-service men who read this will
feel, no doubt, my conviction that
all the help we need for our disabled
comrades will have to come from
ourselves. T. w. HAGEN.
Ex-Ranibow Doughboy, 538 First
National Bank Building.
Birmingham, Ala, Feb. "a, 1928.
Appreciates Publicity
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
In the name Of our association !
wish to thank you for the attention
and publicity you gave us during
our fifth annual session at the Tut
wiler last week. Your reporters
covered us we'll and we appreciate
it. Yours very truly,
r. w. BARNES,
Secretary and Treasurer.
Selma, Ala, February "a, 1920.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-26
"Tools of Life"
BY REV. H. C. oFFERMAN

Those who can't, and want, are
not half as bad as those VINO won't
and can.
What makes the world 60 round;
it's thoughts, and ideas, and re-
suits, and actions.
If you feel that nothing can stop
you, you have the first requisite
for doing big things; and, if you
keep on with this spirit, you are
bound to succeed.
watch therefore; for We know
not what hour your Lord doth
come"
"The tools to those that can use
them" said Napoleon.
Fit yourself and prepare your
self, to use the tool of this life, and
you will be credit to God, and Of
benefit to men.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-26
(Montgomery JournaD


Secretary Weeks says that his
engineers have made a rough es-
innate of the cost of the proposed
Nicaraguan canal, and they say it
will cost about $1,000, 000, 600.
This is more than five times thu
original estimate. This increase inn
cost, says the department, is caused
largely by the higher wage scale for
all classes of labor now prevailing
and the increased cost of material.
That the government is seriously
considering this matter is evident
from the fact that Secretary Weeks
presented the figures at cabinet
meeting and the matter was serious
ly gone over. 1t appears that the
judgment of Senator Morgan as to
the most desirable route for a canar
may yet be vindicated, if it has not
already been.