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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
A FIsHERMEN's PARADISE

Sportsmen of Birmingham and lief ferson county who realize the import ance of protecting game fish as a source of food and recreation are pleased that some forty thousand cat fish, rock bass, crappie and bream will soon be sent from the United States fish cultural station at Warm Springs, Georgia, for stocking in this section. These plants will prove beneficial in a few years, and every local lover of the great outdoors will participate in the benefits. These fish will be planted under direction of the Alabama Fish ermen and Hunters Association, which has done much to advance conserve tion throughout the state by it's &C., tivities to obtain laws for protection and their enforcement.
 This consignment of small fish will be put in the Warrior river and in Lake Purdy. The association under. took to re-stock number of waters in this section, but failed because res idents in those localities failed to CO., operate in the observance of regula- tions to protect the fish until they were large enough to provide sport or food. Hundreds of people took the small fish, while seiners, trappers and dynamiters contributed to the ruthless destruction. Now the association has determined to plant this and future
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
ASSURING CONTINUED OUTPUT

The additional large order for steel rails placed by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company with the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company is further assurance of the operation of the plants here at ca pacity for months to come. The fact that railroads are still expanding their trackage and equipment is indicative of their prospective business, which means business also for the industries in the Birmingham district. The plac- ing of the order, in Birmingham is proof of the ability of industries here to compete successfully with similar industries elsewhere. Railroads buy where they can get the best goods at the lowest price. They have to do that. Birmingham's goods and prices are right, and those are the deciding fac tors in competitive selling. A contin- uation of the districts prosperity is earnestly desired, and the prospects are for fulfillment of that desire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
ApAY FOR ADVERTISEMENT

If it be true that all things come to those who wait, it is possible that mothers-in-law will have a chance to come into their own. Mothers and fathers have both been honored by days set aside for them. Father was a little slow in getting what was coming to him; but he finally arrived with a necktie all his own. Now a Boston lady is undertaking to establish Mother-in-Law's Day as a national ir- stitution. Mrs. Clara A. Griswold is leading one hundred and twenty-five matrons in this crusade. Already it is attracting attention. June 15 is the day set aside, and the pink rose is the decoration selected for observance. The aid of women's clubs and similar organizations has been enlisted, and efforts will be made to get the va rious state legislatures to lend their official sanction by way of extending the proper tribute to those who appear to have been neglected.
 There seems no reason why tie movement should be opposed, although a mother-in-law, being also a mother, would thus have two days. If there is any opposition, it will doubtless be of secret nature. For generation or more mothers-in-law have been maligned by those who would be funny. Even distinguished British jurist declared that the proper pun ishment for bigamy was two mothers in-law. But the mother-in-law joke has passed out of fashion. It no longer makes a hit on the stage, and cartoonists have ceased to present the vinegary mother-in-law with sharp features and grimly terrifying ex- pression.
 The truth Is, the mother-in-law of harsh demeanor and the relentless defender of her daughters rights never was reality. It is well that she should pass out of the realm of joke with spring cleaning, cook-firing and other domestic activities. Mrs. Griswold has naught but high motive in her purpose to honor the mothers in-law of the country, and her efforts will be appreciated by thousands of them who feel that inasmuch as every other class and group have a day of their own, why should not they? Be- sides, there are many married men who would observe the day without murmur, for reasons of their own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
JEWISH LAUGHS Rx Lncnh Hickman
What the Rich Relish

Reb Meyer Lieb was a Hebrew scholar and a perfect gentleman Although poor, he was not infre- quently invited to supper by the wealthy lumber merchant of the town, who was somewhat of a scholar himself. One supper, in particular, happened to be very delicious. There were roast duck, roast goose, wine, brandy, etc. Es- pecially delectable was the cake served after the meal with tea. This, the poor man thought, was not beyond his reach, and, after thinking for moment whether It was good form, he asked the housewife for the recipe of thus cake.
 "I shall be onlS too glad to give it to you" said the magnanimons hostess. Take three pounds of wheat flour, one pound of sugar. eight eggs, glass of wine, a pound of raisins." etc. etc.
 When Reb Meyer Leib returned home he beamingly told his wife that he had had a wonderful sup per, and that he brought her the recipe of a cake which was fit for a king.
 T wish that you make such a cake sometimes" said the husband wistfully.
 First you need three pounds of wheat flour" began the epicurean.
 Good" said the eager student of gastronomy. T have just thr ee pounds"
 And one pound of sugar" con tinued the greedy man.
 "Where shall I get sugar from ?" retorted the indigent woman.
 It was decided that sugar was not essential.
 And eight eggs" he added.
 q have only two," informed the housewife.
 Then two will be sufficient" they concurred,
 And a pound of raisins." went on the scholarly man.
 "I have no raisins," stated the lady laconically.
 Let it be without raisins," they both agreed.
 Then pour a glass of wine,r drawled the gastronomic gentle man, watering at the mouth.
 Don't you know there isn't a drop of wine in the house?". coun- tered the peeved woman.
 Leave out the wine then" yield ed the kind man.
 When the cake was ready tho mistress of the house tasted some of it, and shrugging her shoulders wisely, remarked:
 For the life of me l cannot see why the rich are so crazy about this cake. l cannot even taste it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
AFTER THE BoNDsMEN

Announcement by Commissioner Cloe of firm purpose to collect on behalf of the city all personal bonds in the recorders courts, if rigidly car ried out, is step towards better law enforcement. According to the com missioner, the city has experienced trouble in collecting these bonds. Here after, from October 1, bond dodgers are going to be brought to court and will be required to make good. If appears that many bonds have been signed by presumably responsible parties who failed to carry out their obligations. It is reported that some two hundred bonds are pigeon-holed in the department of public safety which have not been met, and that many well-known citizens appear to think that living up to their responsi- bilities in this respect is of little mo- ment. The city is protected on these bonds, and if the new policy is carried out, bond dodgers will have to meet the situation when the bonds are cashed. In the case of power of at torney bonds the givers will be re- quired to go to police headquarters and sign.
 If the new ruling is rigidly adhered to, advancement will have been made towards better law enforcement. Not only will making bond become more serious, but that very fact will have a tendency towards decrease in viola tion of the law. When an offender finds himself much more liable foe a night or more in jail because of the difficulty in making bond, he is likely to be more careful of law observance The city's rights in this matter should be rigidly protected The making of bond should be more than perfunctory. It is part of the system of law en- forcement, and the bond signer should be entirely responsible. It would be we'll for those having the authority in accepting bonds to be careful as to the character and responsibility of signatories. The person signing a bond in sense makes himself respon- sible for the appearance within the courts jurisdiction of the person whose bond is signed. It is the duty, there fore, of the authorities accepting such bonds to see that they stand for some thing. Such course would remove difficulties arising from illegal or care less practices in this respect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
The Consolidation Wise

tAidpdfna COurler)
 Already dissensions have broken out among the people of what was formerly Albany and the courts have been resorted to by persons seeking to prevent the union of the two cities under one corpora tion. and to be known as Deca- tur. We are unacquainted with the reasons for this dissension, eoe it looks to an outsider that 1t makes but little difference under what name the city is called, 1t must be evident that the union of the two makes one very pros : porous city. When the clouds of discoptent have blown away 1t will be seen by gll that the legislation making one city of the two was wise,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
POOR BOYS WHO
 BECAME FAMOUS
Roger Sherman
By Frederick Houk Law

Those who saw small boy busily at work in & New England shoemaker's shop some forty years before the American revo- lution, little thought that they were looking upon an individual who would write his name forever into the history of the American continent. In the small boy, busy with his hammer, his hands soiled from the handling of leather, they could not see the promise of the man who was to aid in formulat- ing a new government, the man whose plans were to be followed by a nation of over a hundred million people. Every man has the opportunity to make a triumph of his life, if he has the will and persistency to work. Roger Sher- man, the little Massachusetts shoe maker working for his father. who was also a shoemaker, did not himself look forward to anything great. The one thing that he meant to do was to do his best in any work. So there he sat at the shoemakers bench and worked long hours.
 Later in life, he was no longer the poorly educated person that he had been, and he was no longer shoemaker, without influence or power. He was among the leaders of the American colonies who met in Philadelphia on that fateful day in 1776 when it was proposed to sign a Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.
 He walked boldly to the front and signed his name, thus risking all that he had gained by years of hard study and work. Later stfll, he aided others in drawing up that great body of principles known as the constitution of the United States. It was largely his idea that gave the states equal repre- sentation in the senate, and repre- sentation in the house in accord ance with population. In all the discussions in the days when the Union of colonies was formed into nation Roger Sherman was d leader The shoemaker's boy had made himself not maker of shoes, but a maker of a nation This he had done by hard work.
 When he came to early manhood he left his bench and found active work aiding in surveying. In- spired to do something still better, he read law in the office of an old lawyer and by the time he was thirty three had become lawyer Being a natural leader, he was chosen to represent his neighbors, and thus at fifty-five was present in Philadelphia. He held many high offices and lived until he was seventy two.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
BRANDoN's FOLLY
(Florence Herald)


 Governor Brandon was nomi- mated and elected by an over whelming majority on as foolish and impossible platform as was ever constructed to capture votes. He promised all kinds of increased benefits to the people and at tae same time promised to reduce tax ation. It simply couldn't be done, and any intelligent person shouid have known itpcouldn't be done. Brandon got the votes and the people got the promises-and that's that Now the state faces an annual deficit of some million sand a half dollars and our worthy governor and his satellites are al their wits end trying to find new things to tax. As one important possible source of revenue, the governor and legislature might look to the great tracts Of real estate, both in city and country, which are assessed at only a sma' fraotioneof what the owners coa, slider them to be worth This land is held unimproved for speculative purposes, or for the exploitation lof shiftless tenants. Abolish the Illogical sixty per. cent. valuation, which benefits no one excepting those who ease their consciences iby thinking that if the state can knock off forty per cent. that they will be equally generous anl knock off forty per cent. more. The basis of taxation should be one hundred per cent. of the actual value, as determined by she latest sale prices of similar prop erty. or by an impartial appraise- ment; with the millage reduced ac- cordingly. This would be a prac- tical remedy for our states finan- cial ills, but neither: the governor nor the legislature will have cou,- age enoughato apply it.. And be- cause of lack of couragegin this and other matters, the Brand on, ad- ministration promises to betsthe most disastrous and pitiful in the history of the state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
Mighty Poor Bushes.


 It seems that one of the surest ways to have taxes increased. is to elect officials who run for of flee on a tax-reducing platform and promise a business ,adminis- tration. Witness the pres sent stat e administration. A two-cent tax on gasoline, part to go to the counties and part to the state. It Is all given to the counties, and then the administration proposes that another cent be added as a tax on gas, the entire amount reals ized to go into the general fund of the state. Next severance tax Is suggested. whereby all things coming from the soil be taxed That may be good business for the administration and it may thus feel entitled to be termed . busi- mess administration, but 1t is mighty poor business for ths stats
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10

a long-needed cleanup. Birmingham has been so absorbed in industrial de- velopment that some of the things needed to protect the product of its energies have been neglected. In q few more years those broader and higher influences will become active working forces, and the community will measure up with the oldest and most law-abiding, while leading them afar in the constructive field.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10

ment machinery recalls the situation in the South immediately following the War Between the States which 8 poet pictured this way on the back of a Confederate note: You are taxed on all goods by kind
 Providence given; You are taxed on the Bible that points
 you to Heaven; And if you should reach that wOndrOus
 goal, They would, if they could, stick Q
 stamp on your soul"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
ETBE1LIEHTS fssl A6L| hNNATIONAL {
 . CAPITAL1


 A most remarkable crop of those artists who know in advance what will happen has developed since tho death of the former President, Warren c. Harding.
 The number is confined, how ever, to local physicians and for tune tellers. If ono should believe the stories they tell, there should have been no surprise that bleak morning when the word came that tho chief executive had bTeathsd his last.
 But pr. Sawyer, who was per- sOnal physician to the executive, issued, just prior to the fatal stroke, Q most optimistic forecast. It Is strange that he should not have known what was public knowledge, according to the tales.
 There Is one peculiar incident that is possible of verificatiOn, A certain lady of Washington, read ing one morning that the president was doing splendidly, and that there need not longer be fear Ot fatal consequences, declareds
 "Our fortune teller, it appears, was in error for once in her life"
 Asked for particulars, she con- tinued: Sometime before the pres ident went west, some young ladies visited Macie. an old negro woman who has intrigued the fancy of the young for generations by her weird prophecies. Her reputation for accuracy was prodiEuous. So when she expressed great hope that the president would not go west because of her Knowledge that if he did go. he would never return alive, the young ladies were visibly affected.
 But as is invariably the case with fortune tellers. she went wrong. The paper today says the president will soon be we'll"
 When a day or two later, the prophecy of Macie was verified her stock in trade vastly increased, and the silver of the gullible made her very happy and comfortable. It IS said that she is now entirely indif- ferent as to whether Pinchot set ties the coal strike or not. ,
 It has been interesting to note, however, the complacency and self-assurance with which more than one local physician has de- clared that he knew "all the time that the president would die in of flee"
 According to these gentlemen. the president was fatally stricken while in the senate with malady of the heart which predestined him for an early grave. It is said that the president, likewise, was aware of his fast approaching end, All of which may or may not be true, but 1t Is certain that nothing to such effect was obtained by the Washington corps of correspon- dents who generally ascertain what is going on inNthe White House.
 And the public, 1t is absolutely safe to presume, was distinctly shocked when the death was an- nounced.
 Why, one medical genius tells that that which was generally re- garded as sweetness in the derort- ment and bearing and manner of the former president was in fact childishness superinduced by dis ease and a Knowledge that his days were numbered.
 There Is even censure for Saw yer that he permitted the president to undertake the mission through out the west and the junket to Alaska. But Sawyer is bearing up fairly well under the criticism, 1t appears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
WORDS OF WIsOyI

Discretion is the salt. and fancy the sugar, of life; the one pre- serves, the other sweetens it, Bovee.
 Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body.-Rousseau.
 Nature has no feeling; the sun gives his light to good and bad alike, and moon and stars shine out for the worst of men as for the best-Goethe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10

 When nature strikes with swift and bloody hand And r.avishes strange and distant shore, There comes a quick response from every land Of wealth and food and laden ships and more. Without thought of color or of creed The world looks on with sympathetic eye. Its great warm heart goes out to men in need Nor ever hesitates to reason why. But when the scars of natures wounds are healed And men go back to their accus- toned ways And there is peace again by shore and field And promises of golden harvest days, The nations sing again their hymns of hate And everything is in heluva state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
Coming Right Out
(Huntsville Timesl

We farmers are coming out from under the yoke of mortgage debt and other obligations because ct good business management. Mean while, substantial Improvements are being made and along with it all we need to look well to the cleaning out of the fence corners and otherwise beautifying country life. In the main this Is being done. but we need to make the i'm provement general.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10

All those senators who accumulated first-hand information about condi- tions in Europe may be entitled to their opinions, such as they are, pro- vided that they do not insist on de- luging busy public with them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
Lambasting LeSisIators

VIDthdID JOunty HeraIdJ
 We don't pretend to know more about lawmaking than the legisla- ture of Alabama, yet there are many papers in this state who seem to consider 1t their duty to lambast the legislators frequently and loudly. To judge from some of the comments expressed in many of the papers. we have made mistake in not sending the en- tire legislative body either to Kilby prison or to the insane asy- lum at Tuscaloosa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10

cost of steamer per day, which would be a saving. would be at least $500 to s1,5O0 per day each day, therefore a cargo of manga nese ore will be considerably cheaper at Mobile than any other port.
 Cement: Cement at Demopolis. Ala. about 165 miles from Mobile, can be manufactured at Demopoiis considerably cheaper than any other cement location in the nit ed States, and second to none in the world, on account of the cement lime rock and coal lands being within a radius of a few miles of each other, and with the use of the open barge. the same as that used in the carrying of iron and steel. cement can be brought from Demopolis to Mobile for not over twenty five cents per ton, all though they are now shipping all their cement practically by rail into Mobile and the cost of same is very little, if any, difference than if shipped from the cement location in the United States to Mobile by rail. although the cost and delivery to Mobile should be considerably less.
 8. ZIMMERN. Mobile, Ala. Sept. 5. 1923. Gro Be Contlnued.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10

It seems that the gambling habit is so firmly fixed in Cuba that she is willing to take a chance on Uncle Sam's disapproval rather than to aban- don her national lottery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10

This is pretty good old world, after all; and Mussolini is learning that it isn't easy to obtain sympathy by the process of kicking fellow while he is down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10

While the legislature is trying to impose lot of nuisance taxes, it might remember that the encourage ment of tax-dodging by destroying an efficient tax-collecting system is worse than a nuisance; it's tragedy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
Fining VioIators
(Gadsden Journal)

NOdU5USH JOUTHdIJ
 There is too great a tendency 10 levy fine on the man convicted of violating the prohibition laws And this he pays, not cheerfully, perhaps, but with a degree of sat isfaction. He can well afford to-, just as he could afford to pay a license in pre-prohibition days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
Has Run the Limit
(Montgomery Times)

Taxing automobiles and gasoline has about run the limit and the people who own automobiles and tractors should not be made to pay the expenses of the govern ment. Motor vehicles are no longer luxuries, but have become necessities and should be so re. garded and taxed like other prop erty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10

According to Secretary of Labor Davis, it is duty, not charity, that begins at home when the interests and welfare of American labor are considered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
No Additional Tax Wanted

(Chilton County News)
 It would take a real hard boiled lawmaker now to vote for any kind of additional taxation. This has been the most disastrous crop year we have had during our long recollection, and money Is going to be curiosity next year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10

Governor Brandon's desperate eff forts to find additional subjects for, taxation to take care of deficit aris- ing from his impairment of the assess
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10
Would Brown on It
fCrenshaw County News,

tCrenshaw County News)
 It is not believed that the tax payers of the state will look with pleasure on any measure that looks to payment of more taxes by the property owners of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10

There is no reason to believe that James J. Jeffries' entrance into the lecture field will improve the quality of the crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10

Temperament is the excuse some people employ to escape censure for their general cussedness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10

Germany's leading comic paper has suspended publication. Apparently there is no longer any humor in the situation over there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-10

Someone might capture MT. Bok's peace prize by demonstrating that the nations are too scared to fight.