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paragraph or two the key to her own success: Tt is possible that some kind Providence may throw you into the arms of a position, but no ele- ment of chance will ever accomplish or attain for you the consummation devoutly to be wished. You must work and work and work"
 It was neither Providence nor luck that got Miss Higgins her first posi- tion on a newspaper, but pluck. When Miss Higgins at the early age of 16 applied for the position of society ed- itor on the Montgomery Advertiser the managing editor bluntly told her, q do not want an inexperienced child. I need a woman with some dig nifty and a sense of discretion" To which the "child" retorted:
 T can certainly grow up, and it is even possible that I might get mar rie dto qualify for the job-if those are the only requisites" She won.
 Then the work began, and it has continued ever sinceI. During the period of Miss Higgins connection with the Alabama paper, she was an active contributor to newspapers from coast to coast. Then there came a time when she felt that she was equipped for bigger things, so she went to New York.
 When asked as to whether she would advise young girls to em- bark on literary Careers" Miss Hig- gins said:
 Start At Home
 There is no royal road to success. If one has the aptitude for news paper or magazine work, and is will ing to work, strive and sacrifice she will arrive" But she advises girls with literary aspirations to seek first the small tasks to be found in their home towns and on their local papers before venturing to go to New York. Make good in your home town and then come to New York" is Miss Higgins advice.
 It is expected that every woman who has acquired fame must profess a hobby. Rosalie Higgins it true to tyre, and such wonderful hobby is hers.
 q love people," she declares. Everything they do and say in- terests me intensely. My idea of heaven is an endless Elysian field thickly populated with new shades" Nhich sounds like Miss Higgins ex- poets to retain the news scent even after her work is ended on earth.
 She is the author of the Tree of Light and is at present writing a series of biographical sketches of Famous Men and Women" for news papers in practically every state in the union. She is chairman of the nonresident membership committee of the New York Women's News paper club; member of the Pen and Brush club and is associated with the New York League of Advertising Women.~ But despite all this, and her decided modern ideas, she is wholly feminine. Pretty clothes, colorful accessories. dainty perrumes, all have their place in her cosmos.
 When asked what her greatest am- bition is. Miss Higgins replied
 Why, to marry newspaper pub- fisher, of course. For despite my modernism and my faith in the po- tentialities of women in literary and public life, I stoutly maintain that woman and home are synonymous"
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HIGHLAND MISSION
 STUDY CLASS MEETS

The Mission Study class of the Highland Methodist church will meet Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the church.
 Mrs. Roberta K. Borden and Mrs. W. J. Yielding will present the first and second chapters of the book, "Building With India"
 Mrs. Lucille Roberts Brooks and Mir. Leon Cole will sing two vocal solos.
 At the close of the program Mrs. J. F. Cartwright's band will serve tea. All the members are invited to be present
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MRS. JOHNS HOSTESS
 TO STUDY CIRCLE

Mrs. J. G. Johns entertained the members of the Study Circle Friday afternoon at her home in Norwood.
 Spring flowers adorned the house and at the conclusion of the program delicious tea was served.
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OI US eXCIuIIIR, dII IHtIIy HOUIS. clever minds will create for this spring dancing party.
 Various Jobs
 There will be cutters, folders, past CTS and scatterers of fairy dust at this first meeting of the band workers.
 The band includes Mrs. David Crawford co-chairman; Miss Eva Lathrop, Mrs. Crawford Johnston, Jr., Mrs. Fisher Tynes, Miss Mary Tynes, Mrs. o. B. Board, Misses Evelyn and Virginia Hassinger, Mrs. Joseph Mudd, Miss Caroline Garrett, Mrs. E. T. Brown, Mrs. Henry Cobb, Mrs. J. J. Farley, Mrs. A. w. Dupuy, Mrs. Allen Smith, Mrs. George Scott, Mrs. Maclin Smith and Miss Kate Earle Terrell
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MRS. BRYANT TO BE IN RECITAL

Mrs. George Dewey Bryant will ap- pear in a lovely recital at Cable Hall Tuesday. May s, assisted by MT. Fred Wiegand on the violin, and Mrs Min nie McNeil Carr at the piano. Many friends are looking forward to this enjoyable affair."
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CAN BE CURED ECZEM A
IS DURABLE

Write me today and I will send you a free trial of my mild, soothing, guar anteed treatment that will prove it. Stops the itching and heals permanently Send no money-just write me-that is all you have to do. Address pr. Cannaday, 2252 Park Square, Sedalia,
 Mo.
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MRS. CRAWFORD HOSTESS
 AT INFORMAL TEA

Mrs. David Crawford entertained the teachers and assistant teachers of the Highland Methodist Sunday school. of which she is the superin- tendent, with an informal tea at her home on Milner Heights Saturday afternoon.
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Other committee chairmen are Mrs. Bestor Brown, chairman of features; Mrs. Hugh Martin, chair man of music, and Mrs. Munro Lanier, who is assistant to Miss Lydia Eustis, general chairman, along with Mrs. Ernest Hettrick.- Photo of Mrs. Shook by J. F. Knox; all other photos by the Stephenson studio.
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SHOWER FOR
 MRS q. R. TYSON

The sahala club gave shower for Mrs. c. B. Tyson last Wednes-. day afternoon from to o'clock at the home of Mrs. P. P. Pepper, 241s Thirteenth avenue, north.
 The rooms were beautifully dec 1rated and a plate lunch was served.
 The Valentine motifs prevailed throughout.
 Mrs. Tyson was remembered with a beautiful gift from each member of the club
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in swagger styles. Belt, patch pock- cts with double straps and buck les. The coat for school, business or dress wear.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
CUTICURA HEALS
ITCHY PIMPLES
Face and Part of Body Af-
fected. Face Disfgured.

My face and part Of my body
were affected with pimples. The
trouble kept getting worse, and the
pinples itched and burned all the
time. My face was disfigurcd and my
clothing aggravated the breaking
out on my body.
/ began using Cuticura Soap and
Ointment and in three or four days
/ could sec an Improvement. I con-
tinued using them and in two weeks
/ was completely healed" {Signed)
Miss Nova Parks, R. 2, Box 6s,
Wynnewood, Okla.
cuticura Soap daily, with Cuticura
Ointment occasionally, prevents
pimples or other eruptions. They
are a pleasure to use, as is also Cuti-
cura Talcum, a fascinating fragrance
for pertaining the skin.
Sample Each Pres by Mail Address: "cuticura Lab.
orAtoriss, Dept y. Maiden IS, Mass" Sold every
where. SOAP 25c. Ointment Is and Soc. Talcum &c
- CutieurA Soap shaves without mug.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
LAFAYETTE CHAMBER HAS
OPEN HOUSE MEETING

LAFAYETTE, Ala. Feb. 26.-
Inc Lafayette Chamber of Com
merce held open house Friday night
at the court house here. A very in
teresting program was rendered, and
was enjoyed by good sized audi
ence. Among the interesting things,
on the program was an address by
II. u. Agnew, manager of the La.
Fayette cotton mill, Inc. Addresses
were also made by DR.. w. B. Hope,
AMI DR.. j. W. Rucker. Every in
dication points to live Chamber OF
Commerce for Lafayette, and the
program which the chamber is at
tempting to put across, will. if ac-
complished mean much to Lafayette
and Chambers county
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
COVE RNOR URGES
COUNTRY To HEED.
A D VICE OF PAST
Religious Liberty Theme of
Louisiana Executives Ad-
dress Before Chicago
Conference

CHICAGO, Feb. 26.-Gov. John
NJ Parker, principal speaker tonight
at the opening session of meetings
known as call nations rally" held
under the auspices of the American
Unity league, in opposition to the
Ku Klux Khan, babe his hearers ad-
here to the advice of Washington,
Lincoln and Roosevelt. He said in
part;
Washington said: The very
idea of the power and right of the
people to establish government pre-
supposes the duty Of every individ-
ual to obey the established govern
ment. All distractions to the ex-
ecution of the laws, all combinations
and associations, under whatever
character, with the real design to
direct, control, counterfeit or awe
the regular elaboration and action
of the constituted authorities are
obstructive Of this fundamental
principle and of fatal tendency
o o o
Jefferson Quoted.
Jefferson, that great apostle or
democracy, emphasized with all the
power at his command the purposes
and intent of the constitution in de-
claring America to be land where
everyone could express his religious
and political views and who empha
sized the fact that the constitution
throws its protecting arm alike
around Catholic and Protestant, Jew
and Gentle, Hindu and Quaker.
Our martyr president, Lincoln,
whose glorious memory Will remain
in the hearts of his people for count
less generations, repeatedly plead
for fearless and fair enforcement or
the law by the duly constituted au-
thorities elected by the people Them
selves"
OF Roosevelt, who the governor
said had been his personal friend,
he said:
He repeatedly stated that he re-
garded it as wicked for any man to
array class against class, religion
against religion, and that one of the
wise things of the nation was the
proviso in the constitution of every
state that not a dollar of public
funds should be appropriated for
parochial schools of any creed, for
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
DOINGS OF DAY
IN WASHINGTON
Speaker Gillett was reported i'll
with influenza.

Speaker Gillett was reported i'll
with influenza.
The House banking committee re-
ported composite rural credits bill.
Secretary Davis inaugurated a
move to deprive Isadora Duncan, the
dancer, of American citizenship.
The Senate failed to reach a vote
on the motion to recommit the ship
bill when even its Supporters admit
it is dead.
Hearings on proposed consolida-
lions of western and southwestern
railroads were resumed before the
interstate commerce commission.
Secretary Hughes, it became
known, has definitely decided it will
be impossible for him to attend the
Pan-American conference next month
in Santiago, Chile.
The House passed the deficiency
appropriation bill carrying s153,000,-
900 and the Porter resolution de-
signed to decrease drug production
by international agreement.
The United States paid Norway
tribunal of arbitration in settlement
of claims growing out of the seizure
of Norwegian ships during the war
Extensive Investigations by immi-
grafton authorities to determine how
many aliens have been struggled into
the United States in violation Of the
seamen's act, was ordered by Secre
tary Davis.
Favorable report of q resolution
proposing a constitutional amendment
which would provide popular refe-
rendum on future changes in the fed
eral constitution was ordered by the
Senate judiciary committee.
General credit deflation, increase
buyers strike were given by the
federal trade commission in a report
submitted to Congress as the cause
in the drop in cotton prices which
began in April, 1920.
AS step preliminary to revision
of tax laws, Senator Norris, republic
in high-priced inventories and the
can OF Nebraska, introduced reso-
luton proposing an inquiry by the
federal trade commission to deter
mine the amount and ownership of
the chief kinds OF wealth" in the
United States.
Complaint was served by Secre
tary of Agriculture Wallace on Ar
mour and company, and Morris and
company, Chicago meat packers,
packers and stock yards act by en-
tering into an agreement for the pur
chase of the Morris company's assets
charging them with violating the
by the Armour interests.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
SUES AUTO CONCERN

Louie Hart of this city has filed
suit in Atlanta against the Doss
Rubber and Tire company OF that
city for $1S9,100, alleging a breach
of contract. The case will be tried
March 5. Mr.. Hart claims that he
entered into contract with the COM
pany to become its travelling sales
man, with salary and commission
that would amount to $4,000, and
the contract was for term of five
years. He claims it WEB preached
soon after the papers were signed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
THAW'S RELEASE TO BE
SOUGHT FROM ASYLUM

PITTsBURG, Feb. 2s.-(By United
Press.)-Attorneys for Harry X.
Thaw will shortly make an effort to
secure his permanent release from
the Pennsylvania Hospital for the
Insane, it was learned today.
Thaw is now ~Snding a ten-day
vacation here with his mother, in
what is said to be the happiest period
of his sensational life since the kill
ing of Stanford White.
Since his temporary release he has
seen no one but his mother. his
guard and the family lawyer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27

Simon Sims, negro, was placed in
the city Jail today on charge of
assault with intent to murder fol-
lowing the cutting of Mrs. Joseph
Spottheim in her husbands store
Saturday night. Mrs. Spottheim told
officers the negro came into the store
while she was alone and when she
attempted to wait upon him he drew
knife and slashed several times,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
BOTTL|NG WORKS
At JASPER Sold;
MINE To REOPEN
Telephone Line Being Built
From America Junction to
ParriSh-St0reS at Oak
man Burglarized
JASPER BUREAU |
THE hGE-ffERALD !
.J1enar Ala Fab 90

jasper, AIa., Eeb. 70
Crawford Johnson of Birmingham
and George Davis of Brookside have
purchased from I. J. Roberts of Jas
per the Coca Cola Bottling Works
and will enlarge and improve the
plant it is said. Mr.. Davis who will
move to Jasper to take charge of
the bottling works states hat about
$500 worth of new equipment will
be added to the plant. The Jasper
Coca Cola Bottling works controls
a large territory in this section Of
Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
STATE TO HELp PATIENTS.

The state rehabilitation DEPART
ment has offered to assist the Eto-
wah county tuberculosis association
in finding vocations for the arrested
cases dismissed from the fresh air
camp on Lookout mountain. 1t is pro-
posed to take all of the dismissed
patients and teach them new voca-
tons instead of allowing them to go
back into the mills and factories.
The state has already taken charge
of bright little girl and she is
being taught to draw and paint since
her talent lies that way.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
BUILDING TELEPHONE

A. G. Aldridge. of the Stith Coal
company. is having a standard toll
telephone line built from America
Junction to Parrish which when
completed will give America, Drifton
Aldridge. Good Springs and other
points in the southern part of
Walker county better telephone
service than they have ever had
heretofore.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
WATKINS APPOINTED

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 26.-Formal
announcement of the appointment of
Russell c. Watkins of Houston, Tex.
as vice president and general mana
ger of the Louisiana lines of the
Southern Pacific railroad, with head
quarters in New Orleans, to succeed
j. H. r. Parsons, transferred to
San Francisco, was made today in
telegram to a local newspaper by
President w. r. Scott at Houston.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
VANDALISM CHARGED TO BoYs

Two IIttIe boys whose tender age
preeluded their being tried in police
court were turned over to the juve-
nile court today on the charge Of
wrecking the store at the Hart pa
vilion on Lookout mountain Sunday
night. 1t is alleged that they de-
stroyed property valued at $500, con-
sisting mostly of vending machines
and CONNECTIONS. Several cases of
soft drinks were carried off.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
MAY OPEN MINES

Clark Adair of Townley, in Jasper
Monday stated that it is the general
Coal company will start cleaning out
one of its big mines in Townley on
the first of March preparatory to
putting 1t in operation. The Corona
company mines at Townley have
been closed down since the strike
there in 1920.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
Helped the "EIIt

Used FoIey's Honey . ID Tar for
flu and found it wonderl III. 1t never
fails to cure my two little girls from
coughs and colds" writes Mrs. A..
Sanders, Gallatin. Tenn. For quick
relief from coughs. colds, Group,
throat, chest and bronchial trouble
Use Foley's Honey and Tar. Contains
no opiates-ingredien printed on
the wrapper. Largest selling cough
medicine in the world. Established
1876. Refuse limitations and substi-
tutes.-Ady.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
BOOST RIVER DRIVE

A special meeting of the Etowah
county post of the American Legion
will be held Tuesday night to take
steps to assist the council In building
of drive along the bluff overlooking
Coosa river, from SAMSON to Mon
ragne park. The legion is building
club house on a fine old estate
along the river front and the drive
will go through it's property, en-
HANGING its value and making it more
accessible
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
YOUNG LADIES INJURED

Miss Hattie Moore and Miss Earnest
Callahan were injured here when an
automobile in which they were rid
ing turned completely over, throwing
the young ladies from the car Both
young ladies are resting as nicely as
possible, and it is thoughN that the
injuries are not serious.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
COURT IN SESSION

After resting for a week circuit
court convened in Jasper Monday
with Judge r. L. Blanton presiding.
Judge Blanton took up the criminal
docket that was set for trial three
weeks ago and called off on account
of the snow. The cases were reset
for this week. Judge Ernest Lacy is
holding court at Vernon this week.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27

J. B. Smith, prominent citizen of
Steele, is in local hospital suffer-
ing from broken leg. 1t is said he
was kicked by a mule, the front por-
ton of his right leg being splintered
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
RARE TAPESTRIES col
TO ROCKEFELLER, JR.;;
PARIS MUCH AROUSED |

NEW YORK, Feb. 26,-Six tapes
tries woven about 1905 for the Duke
of De La Roehefoucauld, the where
abouts Of which recently was made
the subject OF an official inquiry in
Paris, are hanging in the home of
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the New
York Evening Post said it had
learned today.
According to the newspaper the
tapestries were shown in the Ander-
son galleries here last November and
admission was by card only. ON the
third day the tapestries were sud
denly withdrawn without explanation
and it was understood they had been
acquired by an American collector for
$1,000, 900.
was made of the matter at the time,
no general interest was aroused UNI
til disappearance of the tapestries
was noted in Paris and the Bon Soir
and other publications addressed va
rious questions to the minister OF
arts with the usual protest against
France losing her art treasures.
Controversy then developed over
the question of whether Count Ga
brlel de Ia Rouchefoucauld ever had
promised not to permit the historic
tapestries to leave France, and in
deed whether sale would not yio-
late French law on the preservation
of national patrimony. In some quar-
tiers It was held that the law had
not been violated, because the state
had not claimed the tapestries and
a duplicate set existed in the Cluny
Museum.
"a rzfYh In SCH n1a Nal - oil
the people; therefore, they represent
ed one of the greatest American as
sets to our future womanhood and
manhood"
Refers to Mer Rouge.
The advice of these men had been
cast aside by the Ku klux Khan, the
governor asserted.
The governor said that last August
2S, Mrs. Richards of Mer Rouge
called him by telegram and told of
the disappearance of her husband,
who, she said, had been taken from
barbecue at Bastrop, La. August
"a. Later he said that ]. L. Daniel
wrote to him telling of the disap-
pearance of his son, a war veteran
who had been kidnapped by masked
men. The district judge was asked
to call the grand jury into special
session at Bastrop, the governor said,
and added that the report was a
complete whitewash.
The jury had been composed of II
men, nine of whom were active
klansmen. Then he and Attorney
General Coco made a trip to Wash
ington and laid the Mer Rouge case
before the President and obtained
the aid of the department of justice.
Before a public hearing was held at
Bastrop, the governor continued and
declared that should the new grand
jury at Bastrop fail to return indict-
ments, Attorney General Coco would
file information against a large
number OF men mentioned in the pub
lie hearing and that special counsel
would vigorously prosecute them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
INVESTIGATES wHrrEcAppIyc.

on the Chandler mountain in this
county were Investigated Sunday by
federal and county officers, who de-
clare that while there has been trou-
BILE of ii at sort the victims were
moonshlners and bootleggers instead
of the law-abiding citizens as was
claimed. The officers say that condi-
tons were probably overdrawn in re-
ports coming to Gadsden but there is
a tendency in the community to run
some of the lawless people out of
the county,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27

The ncme of T. o. OQuinn was de-
stroyed by fire late Sunday night and
nearly everything in it was lost The
building belongs to Walter Felton,
The blaze started from spark from
the kitchen fiue.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
Klux Kan Out OF Harmony With Spirit American Fathers

inflicting cuts ON her face and body.
The negro refused to make stateAl
ment. Mrs. Spottheim identified him
as the one who attacked her.
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w. G. II. u. WoRKER couvNc

Mrs. Maude Perkins, representing
the national w. c. r. U. with head
quarters in New York will be guest
of the local branch the latter part
of the week. She will be rendered
reception Saturday afternoon,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
SHORTAGE Of COAL
WORRIES GADSDEN;
SCHOOL IS BURNE D.
Officers Say Moonshiners
Rather Than LaW-Abiding
Citizens Are Victims of
Whitecapping
GADSDEy BUREAU !,
[HE AGE-HERALD s
1

The scarcity of coal in Gadsden is
causing grave alarm. Two cars of
domestic coal received Sunday repre-
sents the entire stock of that grade
of fuel and it is being doled out in
half-ton lots. The gas company was
preparing to shut down Monday aft
ernoon but got word that car was
on the way from Birmingham. The
Chamber of Commerce has taken a
hand and is urging the railroad not
to allow the city to suffer. The
trouble is said to be due to the lack
of freight cars.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
Ex-PoLIcEMAN ARRESTED.

NJ. D. Little, formerly member Of
the Gadsden police force, was ar
rested Saturday on an indictment
charging him with violation of the
prohibition law. He made bond for
his appearance for the April term OF
circuit court. Little was recently con-
victed OF prohibition violation in the
police court but appealed the case
and It is now pending
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
FoRMER sENAToR DIES

OAKLAND, Cal, Feb. 26.-Former
United States Senator George C.
Perkins, 81, died at his home here
today.