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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01
AN AUXILIARY TO RAILWAYS

Fifity-six street railways of the
country used the motor vehicles for
auxiliary service in 1922. Forty steam
railroads used the motor vehicle on
short hauls in connection with rail
service. Seven and half billions of
passengers were carried by the motor
vehicle in 1922 and 108 cities use
motor buses. Seven hundred and
eighty thousand motor buses were en-
ployed in serving suburban communi-
ties.
In this period of transition the cleo
trio cars are a necessity, but SO is the
car line extension in face of the GER
tain inroads of the gasoline vehicle
il often prohibitive. The obviously
logical sequitur of this condition is
use of the gasoline vehicle to serve
communities and neighborhoods not
reached by the electric cars. The use
of the motor vehicle as supplementary
service on electric car routes affords
faster schedules and encourages pat
ronage of the utility. Wherever the
street railways operate buses as aux
iliaries to their established routes the
people prefer these buses to those
operated by private individuals, on ac-
count of the financial responsibility of
the utility. A Virginia street railway
system proved this. 1t met "jitney"
competition by putting on its own sup
Elementary bus lines and drove the
private bus out of business.
Forty steam railroads and fifty
electric car lines have already rec
ognized the inevitable. The nation
likes the gasoline vehicle. There is
no escaping that. What the people
like they will have one way or the
other. The utilities have begun to
recognize that principle and are act
ing accordingly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01
A TIMELY WARNING

Whether or not the two men who
were heavily fined for taking fish
with gill net near Morris, in this
county, were ignorant of the law,
widespread publication in the news
papers of their costly experience will
be beneficial. 1t may be that few
people in remote parts are unaware
of the statute prohibiting the taking
of fish with nets, seines, traps, or the
spearing of game fish. That is their
own lookout. Warnings against these
offenses and the penalties attached
have been frequently published.
Doubtless these recent arrests, con-
victions and large fines will travel
rapidly. There is hope among sports
men and conservationists generally
that few examples of this kind will
be effective in protecting the fish
from destructive and wholesale meth
DDS
Those who realize the value of the
splendid fish in this state as a source
of food and as means of wholesome
out-of- door pleasure now and in the
future are manifesting a commend
able spirit of cooperation in the work
of protection and propagation as part
of the big and sorely needed conser-
walton move that means so much to
Alabama's progress and welfare. Pro-
lection of fish and wild life through
effectively enforced laws is one of
the fruitful ways to enrich the whole
state. Individual and organized eff
forts being made to that end are en-
couraging. Not only arrests and con-
victions of all who defy or disregard
existing laws, but widespread publica-
ton of their cases as moral influ-
ence will contribute to the success of
the whole conservation program,
pending the enactment of further
laws and their enforcement to cover
needs as they arise.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01
ONE TRICK A DAY


Most people are acquainted
with the little bottle that will
lie down only at the command of
its owner. The charm lies in the
surreptitious induction of bit
of iron wire which counteracts
the elevating Influence of the half
bullet which forms the bottom of
the bottle and compels it to as
sumo the erect position. The
newest way of causing the bottle
to lie down Is seemingly only to
blow into 1t and to replace the
cork. The secret lies in the fact
that there are two corks. The
first is the real article, the other
istloaded with a minute pellet OF
lead. which discharges the office
of the wire in the older form of
trick.
This second cork Is held be-
tween the first and second fin
gers. and when the performer re-
moves the unprepared cork for
the purpose of blowing into the
bottle he deftly substitutes the
other, once more exchanging the
two when he again blows to break
the charm.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01
SPORT A LEVELER
(New York Grobe)

Princes and princesses may
continue to promote the cause Of
democracy by marrying Com
moners;" King Gustave of Sweden
does his bit by playing tennis
with them in an open tournament.
For an ordinary gentleman OF 81
this would be a mild stunt" for
king of 81 It 10 an astounding
acceptance Of the spirit OF the
age. Kings used to joust occa
sionally. They INDUCED In other
competitive sports privately. But
kings who walk into open tennis
tournaments. becoming mere DEM
ocratic sportsmen and being
beaten as King Gustave was. have
never existed before on land or
sen.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01
POOR BOYS WHO
BECAME FAMOUS
steven v. White
ny Frederick Koux raw

One of the men who made his
tory on Wall Street through I'M
usual skill in the buying and the
selling of stocks was known to
the newspaper world as Deacon
White. His operations were
watched with the greatest inter
est. and his business Judgment
was such that he had what SEEM
ed an uncanny knowledge of the
market. Steven V. White, in spit
of the fact that the world knew
him as a man of money and of
great financial interests. was en-
tirely self-made and he rose to
be power in Wall Street because
he lifted himself slowly from the
most humble circumstances.
One picture in his early life
stands out very clearly. A rough
farm wagon. covered with the top
that Is SO characteristic of the
wagons of the pioneers, went jolt :
ing and creaking over the almost
impossible roads that led over
the mountains between North Car
DINA and the western parts OF
Kentucky. In the wagon wo-
man, dressed in the cheapest OF
clothes. held to her breatst a
baby not yet six weeks old. The
father drove the horses and look
ed toward the west. That family
of pioneers was the White family,
and the baby was the future
Deacon" White. one OF the mas
ters of Wall Street finance. The
transformation from the almost
penniless condition of the pioneers
to one of great wealth would
seem impossible if II were not for
the fact that America has many
times brougt about such changes.
The family was among the first
to settle in Illinois. In the log
cabin the little boy grew up be-
came strong and took part in
carrying on the primitive farm
work The father was con-
scientious man who saw to 1t that
his son gained an education. The
boy went to the settlement school,
worked and saved money enough
to study in a small college, then
worked his way Thorough law
schoo, and became a successful
lawyer. He showed unusual abil-
ity, was given political office. be-
came a member OF congress. and
slowly brought together a great
property. When he was about
thirty-five he came to New York
where he became q successful
broker, mastering finance as he
had helped to master the farm In
his boyhood.
Few who saw him in his office,
or in his home that was filled with
books and evidences of culture,
knew that he had raised himself
from the humblest condition in
life to a place of pride and COM
fort.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

1t appears from reports that Ger
many spends one-half her time whin-
ing, the other half tossing out sops.
Common sense people of the world
are too busy rehabilitating destruc-
ton caused by Germany to sympa-
thize with make-believe tears or swal-
low bats with concealed hooks.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

In pardoning or suspending the
sentences of ninety-nine convicts, in
Guiding twenty-one murderers, and
tightening the penalties of sixty-three
violators of the prohibition laws in
four months, perhaps the governor of
Mississippi figured that pathos is
more effective than punishment in de-
veloping law observance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

(Chilton County News)
Past observation indicates that
the gubernatorial chair in Ala
bama is the political grave of
every man who sits in it. Plain
Bill better look out. Platform
promises are dangerous rocks to
have tied about the neck when
we go in swimming.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

New York's city clerk who issued
100 marriage licenses in $50 minutes
was evidently too busy with the rou-
tine side to consider what the love god
might think about the wisdom in
volved.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

Three men in Houston, Texas, have
established a new high record of
twenty-nine hours continuous piano
playing, but nothing is announced in
this connection as to possible enhance
ment of resident property values in
the neighborhood.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

Doubtless the general public will
view Philadelphia's move to adopt
daylight-saving as a step towards re-
moving the impression that the people
of that city spend most of their time
asleen.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01
THE ALABAMA PRESS
Full Of Automobiles
(Clanton Union Bannerl

(Clanton n-Banner)
If lots of new automobiles is
any sign of prosperity, Chiffon
county is certainly on a boom;
because on Saturday afternoon
you can't get through the streets
for these gas wagons.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

German psyche analysts are said to
predict that the occupation of the
Ruhr will continue four years more.
Perhaps these mysterious scientists
are competing with the financiers for
honors in conservatism.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01
CBELIcHTS fal 4cs1
N.\NATIONAL MT1|
CAPITALE1E;Sssrsg4ssl||

| Bobo, the ancient Egyptian phi
losopher, 5000 years before Christ.
| inscribed on the first stone that
entered into the building of the
| temple of Cheops. the predeces-
sor of the current popular jokes.
Perhaps 1t was Bobo. therefore,
| who first said that "a million dol
| lars Is a heap of money" But
| were the old thinker awake today,
and in hearing distance of Wash
| ington chatter, he would of ne
! cessity conclude that he was rath-
err reckless when attributing pro-
| digious proportions to mere
| million.
Washington reporters. after lis
tening to perfervid debate and
analyzing appropriation measures.
have no respect for sum so
small-this despite the fact that
ofttimes it is incumbent on them
to make touch" Immediately
before lunch. And in a compare
tive sense, million is small
1t is just learned that Henry
Ford, Detroit manufacturer. has
| balance to his checking account
| of S200,000.000. This fact came
forth Immediately after he had
purchased for cash railroad or
two, number of coal mines, wa
ter fronts in Virginia, and enough
other properties to compose at
least respectable bundle.
Wall street became interested in
MIR. Ford's balance when formally
and accurately apprised that he
had purchased everything in reach
and was still in the market for
all broken-down machinery" ca
pable of rejuvenation. The inten-
ton of Wall Street is not known.
1t might have been prepared to
advance ready sums if ready
sums were needed; or it might
have been prepared to strike
down the Detroiter if it found
him weak in finances.
At any rate, when Mr.. Ford
made known his balance of $780,
100000. Wall Street became sig
nificantly silent.
But that s200.000,000 is not very
much money. Mr. Mellon. secre-
tary OF the treasury. is authority
for the statement that during the
last nine months the government
paid out s710,037.46O. not for the
liquidation of standing debts, not
to meet running expenses. but as
interest on its securities.
Had this amount been equally
prorated among the 10000 900
citizens of the country. each would
have been enriched by S645. al
most enough to pay for an a la
carte lunch at fashionable res
taurant.
The cost of running the govern
ment for the first three quarters
of the current fiscal year, ended
March 81, amounted to s2,70S,-
372.9s2.
And at that the cost of govern
ment is being gradually reduced
from the peak attained as result
of the exigency of war. During
the first three-quarters expendi-
lures in all departments with the
exception of the Legislative estab-
lishment, the veterans bureau and
the interior department were in
creased.
Thus exit Bobo and his idle
dream of a million.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

From Missouri come reports that
they are going to investigate lynch
ing, which will probably result, as
usual, in confirmation of rumor that
one occurred.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01
A Beautiful Sight


(Hartselle Enterprise)
There is nothing in this world
more beautiful than a happy
home. home ruled by the spirit
of love; and it Is woman's high
est and noblest mission to pre-
side over her home and make it
a perfect haven of love, peace
and rest to those Who dwell
therein.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

Greensboro Watchman)
State departments, colleges.
ETC.. that are maintaining "bu-
reaus of publicity" in charge of
people who are paid to get up
copy to be published free in the
newspapers OF Alabama boostingl
their particular line, had as WE'LL
begin to trim their sails-for the
editors are getting wiser and
wiser every day" Get that.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

every such officer who is properly
punished for that failure will con-
tribute to better observance of all
laws.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01
Where Is the CIean.upf

Wetumpka Herald)
With the arrival of spring the
time has come to take care of the
accumulated odds and ends and
prepare for the most strenuous
season of the year. Echoes come
from everywhere Of cleanup cam
paigns in full blast-our neigh
boring cities are cleaning up.
Wetumpka is always in the front
ranks of good movements. but
where is our cleanup cam
paiGn" TO rthe spring OF 1923?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

If it-weren't for surplus of vanity,
the photographer would starve to
death.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

Mary Roberts Rinehart has incor-
porated herself with a capital of
100000. It's literary, not a mat
rimonial, venture.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

That |. w. w. agitator named
Scarlet who was recently deported
appears to have been true to his
colors.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

Learning from the experience of
others is like drawing dividends with
out investing any capital.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

furiated Israelite. What are you
trying to tell me. 'automaton.'
'autoschmatoh?' 1t isn't an au-
tomaton: 1t Is an anti-Semite. a
highwayman. that's what it IT,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

In accommodating a vast fortune
Chicago pencil manufacturer took the
most direct means of making his mark.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

take his picture? There is no POSSIBLE
ity of any snapshot making him look
as bad as he is.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01
The brutal Lease system

The cotton mill may furnish the
answer to the cry that is gotng
up from so many quarters de-
mAndinE that the convicts be ia
ken out Of the mines and not en-
ployed. either under the Lease
system or by the state itself In
this hard. degrading underground
work. To transfer the prisoners
from mines to some form of
profitable textile industry will
involve considerable financial
outlay as well as loss. but thuse
who have given the subject study
both from an economic and hu-
manitarian standpoint. are agreed
that some form of factory emf
ployment is vastly preferable.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01
schools and Crime

Casper Mountain EaEIe)
Some one has figured out that
1t costs the state twice as much
annually for keeping a prisoner in
Jail to prevent him doing further
damage to society than 1t does
to keep a child in school year.
Yet it is generally conceded that
education is the best preventive
of crime. All of which is good
argument against spending more
money on our courts and prisons
than we do on our schools.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

The golden Satsuma is makin6
Baldwin county famous. at the
present time about 10000 acres
have been planted this year, all
stock obtainable having been put
out. The 1921 crop Melted the
growers of Baldwin county $685.
317.66 and the 1922 production
was just double that of the pre-
vio,ss year. Kumquats. grape
fruits and other citrus fruits are
grown abundantly in Baldwin
county.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01
Sounds Like Summer

Sounds Like Summer
The crocus beds are blooming,
The meadow larks are looming,
And far and wide
On every side
The four-base hits are booming.
The skin expert who recommends
a diet of spinach as an aid to beauty
is a reasonable sort of person. He
might have recommended onions.
Reports from London indicate that
George Harvey has become thoroughly
acclimated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

Why should Trotzky have become
angry when a photographer tried to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

A delegation Of citizens visited
Montgomery. meeting with SINH
lar delegations from Marion and
Selma. to appear before the state
highway department to make the
main trunk highway from Bir-
mingham to the gulf by Besse-
mer, Woodstock, Blocton. Gen.
treville. Brent and Marion, and
then via Selma. This seems to
be the logical way for this high
way to run, as greater part OF
the road has been graded and
will cost the state and counties
much less money. we understand.
All of these places are working
for the proposed route.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01
|01}S9H2bzAptR

Well, let's build viaduct anyhow,
and then move it later afte a site is
selected.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01
Compensation

Compensation
l do not feel the suns hot rays
Nor do think the way is long;
l only know as plod on
Each mile is nearer to your song.
Though hot and dusty be the way,
Beset with doubts and tears and
harms
l keep one thought confronting me
The healing GOODNESS of your arms.
The dusk of evening slowly spreads
And tiny starlets family show,
Yet |, a weary wanderer,
Still onward press and forward go.
And though the road stretch far be-
yond,
One thought refreshes me the while
That you are waiting there for me
Your eyes :. your lips :. your
smile. E. M.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

Otto the Barber was honing razor
when we entered his shop, and we had
to wait few minutes, for it seems
that honing a razor is very delicate
business, and cannot be resumed after
an interruption without having it all
to do over again. Our time being less
valuable than Otto's ours was sacri-
feed to the job. ''This here jitney
business is hard to decide" remarked
Otto, as he deity spread lather over
our lips. 81 have decided to quit
riding in them. In fact, l have de.
cided to Quit several times, but when
a iitney comes along and there is no
car in sight, I generally put off quit.
ting until the next time. Anyhow,
don't believe that the street-car COM
pany is as much worked up over the
jitneys as it pretends, and the agree
ment to stop the jitney business is
just to sweeten the pot. l hear they
are going to allow the conductors to
sell tickets on the street-cars now, and
that will probably help me quit the
jitneys, for I'd heap rather pay out
ticket than cash, even if it is only
seven cents. If was in the street
car business I'd find out how many
other folks feel the same way. Its
funny, though, how folks hurt in
jitney that collides with street-cas
always sue the street-car company
and not the jitney. Do you want your
hair singed to keep it from falling
out?" asked bald Otto.
Today is May Day;
Also payday;
l,a,A~xv
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

The Prisoner
He gazes out the window at
The distant April sky
And at the fittle fleecy clouds
That skid and frolic by,
And in his eye there is tear
And in his heart sigh.
The meadowlands are all arrayed
In new and virgin paint,
The brooklet babbles down the glade
Without the least restraint;
The clouds, the streams, the winds are
free,
But as for hm-he amt.
Across his prison window pane
The swallows swoop and skim,
But at his desk the school kid sits
In silence deep and grim,
No prisoner in all the land
Has anything on him.
School days are the happiest days
of ones life-after one has grown up.
Fable-Once upon time there
was prominent citizen who returned
from Europe without solution Of the
Ruhr problem.
Members of the Chicago Sym
phony Orchestra have discovered that
highbrow music will not keep the
wolf from the door. You never see
wolf hanging around jazz band.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

Fat men may be able to stand the
heat meter than thin men, but you
can't make a fat man believe it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

Thus exit Bobo and his idle
dream of a million.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01
THE AGE-HERALD

Entered at The Birmingham. Ala. postoffice as
second-class matter under act of Congress,
March 6, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-01

Today is May Day;
Also payday;
A regular heyday.
, 1923-05-22

- II0TN STATION.
a-+,.va Nav I5th.-R.fning costs Of
40 CANADIAN sIyar rafaerias we're
~, 81 naf5rs he social agriculture
pe~,,moittaa oirb4 mouse 81 ting IN Camera
ais a~frarnoon. by representatives Of the
ra4,ars Who 1ad Been summoned to
oira Evidence. These representatives
5amrrrsd against giving costs publicly,
SANE as their reasons, that 5dcn in
, 1923-05-22

have had fha irformalio1 before inJr0-
drrino such y measure. The effect of
this clause MIGHT prove extremely grave
IN Canadian rpfners. Mr.. Drummond
STRONGLY objected - submitting figures
of The cost a. production bv his company.
r wonId olive United States councillors
an unfair advantage. he continued.
''Your view s that YOU and the public
are victims of circumstance over which
Won have no control? asked Chairman
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-07-30
DEATH CLAIMS
OLD RANCHER
Hubert Heinen, PiOnee +
Ranchman on Mouse River.
Succumbs to Paralysis

Minot, July 30.-Hubert Heinen,
one of the Oldest pioneer ranchers of
the Mouse river valley passed away
at the home of his son, John, four
miles north of Foxholm, Saturday
evening July II. For the past two
years Mr.. Heinen had been confined
to his he'd by paralysis attended by
his faithful wife and members of the
family.
Mr.. Heinen was in his 10th year,
coming to this country from Germany
at the age of six years, his parents
settled at Richmond, Minnesota
where he grew to manhood, married
and reared a family of seven children,
four sons and three daughters. Nov
ing to North Dakota 81 years ago the
Heinens took up a homestead west Of
the city about 30 miles, near what is
now known as st. Mary's township.
Those days the district was sparse
ly settled, no fences marked the lines
and their cattle not infrcquently
ranged as far west and, north as the
Canadian line. During those days
travellers through the country al
ways found the Heinen home one Of
exceptional hospitality. Both Mr..