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The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-17
TWENTY EIGHT NEW
 RAILROAD LINES BEING
 > PLANNED IN JAPAN

TOKYO, Feb. 1.-The Government has framed a scheme for the con struction of new railway lines with view to improving the transporta- tion system throughout the country. The plan includes the construction of twenty eight new lines with a total leigth of SAP miles, the lines traversing thirty-one prefectures. The cost of construction is estimated at 17O,OOO,OOO yen. The program is spread over eleven years, the work being expected to commence by the next fiscal year. The scheme will be sumbitted to the railway council, which will be convened shortly and afterward will be introduced in the Imperial Diet. If the plan is ap- proved, the construction of twelve lines will be started in the course of the next fiscal year, to be fol- lowed by sixteen other lines the following year.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-17
Dakota and Minnesota, according to

Dakota and Minnesota, according to report to Director Jones.
 Most reports mentioned breadlines only to say they no longer existed
 The Volunteers of America at Okla homa City reported daily bread line of about 50. A 25 per cent i'm provement compared with a year ago was estimated for Oklahoma City. Attention was called throughout much of this territory to increased help wanted advertisements. One Indian apolis publication noted a 75 per cent increase in female help wanted ads.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-17

Keep the public informed by advef- Using regularly in the Cordova Daily Times.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-17
Symphony Lawn

Symphony Lawn Stationery is probably the best on the markets in display window we are showing boxos of this Stationery with various borders these boxes of Stationery regularly retail for $125, but during this Special Stationery Sale will be sold for S5c
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-17
Cascade Linen

The Cascade Linen Paper packed pound to each package and the envelopes are put up m packages of sos; this combination regularly sells tor $1 OO but during the coming week you buy same for 65 cents
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-17

Irate Housewife-Ain't you the same man I gave a mince pie to last Christ mas?
 Tramp (bitterly) - No, mum, I'm not; and wots more, the doctors say I never will be again.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-17
Stati0nerV-- Special Sale

During the coming week selling the follow ing two welknown items of Stationery at special price,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19

TIE PARKING PROBLEM

Z. The parking of cars in the down.
town section of American cities is be-
ing subjected to more and more cur
tailment as it is found to interfere
with the conduct of business. The
habit of placing an automobile in front
Of mans store and leaving it there
sending the leisurely conduct of the
days business somewhere else is OBJ
solete in the majority of progressive
cities. 1t is tantamount to converting
the streets into garages. AS automo-
Mles multiply the congestion caused
BY parking in central portions of the
city becomes a greater and greater
impediment to retail business. The
condition brought about by indiscrimi-
nate parking wherever it is allowed
grows more and more acute. Some
adjustment, fair alike to merchant and
automobile owner, becomes each day
Of more pressing urgency.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19

as to be in position to Chamber aboard
al the last moment. 1t is probable also
that Mr.. Coolidge will be selected as
the presidents running mate, for, af
ter all, he has given no cause for his
abandonment, and such course might
cause talk. Mr.. Coolidge is at least
respectable and respected citizen, even
if he is not cut after the politicians
pattern.
All in all, nothing could better re-
veal the Democratic strength, nor be
more sincere tribute to the develop
ment of Democratic sentiment than
this fearful drawing together, for mu-
tual strength, of the Republican lead
rs-recalcitrants and all. The one
thing the Republicans cannot summon
to their aid is their legislative record,
and that leaves a gap wide enough
for the Democrats to enter ten thou
sand abreast. 1t remains for the DEM
ocrats to unite on a candidate who
shall command wide following, and
whose public record is we'll and IA
vorably known. Such leader can be
found, and the opportunity is so OBJ
vious that it can hardly be lost with
out some blunder more egregious than
the present generation Of Democrats
has ever committed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19
REALIZING THEIR DANGER

Reports from Washington indicate
that the Republicans are beginning to
realize that they must compose their
differences if they would make any
sort of showing in the coming cam
paign. 1t is being conceded even by
the irreconcilables that Mr.. Harding
will be renominated, and there is in
dication that the president is show
ing amenability by letting it quietly
be known that, while he will not re-
cede from his support of the world
court, he will not make an issue of it,
ncr seek to crowd it down the throat
of his party--at least, not until after
the election is out of the way. 1t is
intimated that Senator Borah will not
take any course that will split the
party before the people, and that
others who have been following their
individual bents will momentarily
subordinate them to the party pro-
gram. Hiram johnson is still an I'M
certain element, and may break out
al any time, even after it is thought
that all was settled. LaFollette is
padding his own canoe, but there are
those who think that he is guiding it
rerceptibly nearer the big boat, SO
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19
POOR BOYS WHO
BECAME FAMOUS
ny Frederick H0uk LAW
John ID. Rockefeller

1t is hard to believe that the
man who now has the reputation
of being the richest man in the
world was once a boy who tramped
the streets day after day asking
storekeepers if they wanted boy
to work for them. Young John
D. Rockefeller had looked so long
and so unsuccessfully for work
that when at last he found job
he did not even ask what wages
he was to get. AS a matter of
fact, he was paid less than four
dollars and a quarter a week.
Young Rockefeller's father had
moved from .Richford, New York,
to Ohio and had sent the boy to
school until he was sixteen. When
the lad was almost ready to grad
uate from high school the father
sent him to a commercial school,
where he learned the first princi-
pies of business. After only few
weeks of this study the sixteen
year-old boy began a long hunt
for job. He had always been a
thrifty boy, keeping a careful
record of his expenditures, and
rejoicing in profits that he made
in small transactions like the
sale of turkeys that he had raised
ant bookkeeper he worked most
himself.
In his first position as an assist
conscientiously. and was PAINS
takingly accurate. Conscientious
work. accuracy, thrift and fore
sight marked Mr.. Rockefeller all
his long life. He was promoted
to s25 month. and then to $500
a year. Then, his worth fully es-
tablished, he was offered much
more. but he declined it, and, at
nineteen. entered into partnership
with young man named Clark.
borrowing money in order to do
so.s AT first the new enterprise
was an ordinary cce mission
house, but very shortly it inter-
ested itself in the oil business.
Seeing the rich opportunities in
that product young Rockefeller
now twenty-six. formed new
partnership, prospered greatly, and
at thirty-one established the great
organization known as the Stand
ard Oil Company. Then. year by
year. through keen watchfulness
of opportunities. he brought about
the expansion OF the company, and
gained control of most of the oil
business in the United States.
gaining a fortune said to be the
largest in the world.
In 1895, at the age of fifty-six,
Mr.. Rockefeller gave up all ac-
tive business and has since then
led a Setired life. He has given
away something like a hundred
million dollars to purposes of ed
ucation. charity and public good.
In particular he has established
funds for medical research that
are of vast Importance to the
United States. Mr.. Rock efeller
carried into life the principles of
his Observation-Disclosures work,
accuracy and watchfulness of OPP
portunities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19
TCRELIcHTS iii iii 41SJ
l.\NATIOkAL 6a
.CAPITAI u

OF course you have heard of an
artificial eyelash? At any rate,
one is In existence. 1t was in
vented not by a Frenchman, as
might have been supposed, but by
an American woman.
The women's bureau of the de-
partment of labor has issued a
bulletin containing the list of ar
ticles invented by American wo-
men during the last ten years and
on which patents by the govern
ment have been issued.
The list proves that women do
know how to do things, and that
all of them are not dependent on
their husbands to make minor
adjustments in household devices
to the end that the daily routine
of cleaning and cooking and wash
ing might not be interrupted.
Most of the 1.400 articles that
American women have patented
in the last ten. years have been
articles for use in the home-a
holder for hot utensils, kettle
polisher and a scraper, kitchen
cabinet. washing machine,
carpet-beater, a mattress-turner,
mousetrap. Next in number
come articles for personal wear
hooks and eyes. shoe-strings and
varieties of shoes. An improved
toothbrush was invented by a
woman.
Women on farms have contrived
articles to make their lives more
com fortable-cultivator tractors,
windmills, planters. incuba-
tors and churns. And in other
Ealks women have proven gent
Ises. They have secured pat
ents on office supplies and equip
ments. improvements for steam
and electric railway equipments,
for methods of road building, ma
chinery of all sorts, and many
kinds of tools. musical instru-
ments, toys and educational de-
vices.
The ancient Egyptian philoso-
pher. Bobo, declared years ago
that necessity was the mother of
invention. 1t is easy to deduce,
therefore. what suggested to one
woman the invention of COW
tail holder. Because juicy pies
were always Overlooking in one
wnmans pan, she invented a pan
,over. Another woman broke
wooden bowl in which she was.
working butter and invented
reinforced bowl. Another woman
who suffered many days in sultry
July invented a special window
ventilator calculated to make a
room less stuffy.
All of these inventions have
been declared new and useful
by the patent office, and some OF
them have been proved success
full on the market.
: The list indicates graphically
the spreading out Of woman's
Imagination. and her invasion of
fields once accorded exclusively ~
men Certainly, the ex-kaiser was
in error when he declared woman's
usefulness confined to church.
kitchen and children.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19
BIRMINGHAM FOR DISTRIBUTION

T.. In buying a site for a large ware
house and show room here, an East
ern manufacturer of high-grade en-
knowledged the advantages of Bir-
imingham as point of distribution of
product into the Southeast. Carload
lots at carload rates of freight will be
Shipped from Northern factories and
Stored here FOR reshipment in less than
Carload lots to the adjacent and con-
itaguous South. The company will save
The less than carload rate to destina-
ton from the producing point by hav-
ing a storage warehouse in Birming-
ham and will also be able to make
more prompt delivery in this territory.
81 Numbers of other warehouses of
Eastern manufacturers have been To-
Gated in Birmingham for this reason.
Che international Harvester Company
has large one here. One of the
lfargest overall makers in the country
carries a large stock OF goods in Biz
nlingham for Southeastern distribu
ton. Cement plants are multiplying
IN this district, not only because the
raw material is here, but because the
Troduct can be shipped into the
Southeastern states and for export at
lower rates than from Northern mills
81 the same producers. Proximity of
raw. material is a fundamental ad-
Vantage, but that Of distribution of
bFoduct is another. The Steel Cor
PSration came here for the one reason
81 much as the other. Judge Gary
Knew what he was about when he said
thet Birmingham was the natural steel
pFoducing center for the South and for
export. What is true of steel is true
of other products. That is why branch
Factories and warehouses of national
and international scope continue to
come to Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19
OPEN DISCUSSION is PROPER

s In comforting with one another re-
cnrding the feasibility of joint court
house and city building the board of
revenue and the city commission rep
resent the people of The county and the
city. To the people ultimately must be
referred the question of raising the
money with which to carry out any
project that may be devised. mas
much as the question is one of final
referendum to the public, it is of i'm
portance that the city and county take
TO such action in executive sessions
Is will tend to commit the people to
obligations which they may not ap-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19
RALLY FOR HUMAN DEFENSE

Z The fund to construct the tubercu
losis sanatorium is still short of the
amount required. 1t is feared that the
majority of citizens have not COM
tpletely understood the benefit they
themselves would gain by support of
this undertaking. The sum asked for
Is no more than the people of this
city spend needlessly every day, or at
least every two days. Self-denial in
little luxuries for one week and con-
tribution of the saving to the fund
would be more than enough. The in
stitution, once established, would be
a monument, not so much to Birming-
hams benevolence, as to Birmingham's
good common sense. The sanatorium
may be godsend to the patients it
shall care for, but it is also good
health insurance for all others who
will never cross its threshold.
tuberculosis has laid its blighting
hand upon civilized peoples from time
Incubus whose hold could not be sha-
ken off. 1t counted its victims by the
millions and stalked triumphant
through the congregations of men.
The more closely the people huddled
together for mutual protection, the
more persons fell at every stroke of
chat menacing death.
F. Now all that is changed. The men,
ace is still among US, but no longeH
nnconquerable. United effort would
drive it utterly out and free mankind
from its oldest and most exacting
scourge. Today the people are asked
TO rally for the final rout of this
hereditary foe. Who can refuse to
respond to that tocSin?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19
MOTHERS OF FAMOUS
MEN



Joseph Turner, perhaps the
greatest of all English painters,
was always IA most peculiar man.
His paintings We're so strange
that even today they are called
bizarre. He led the most eccen-
trio of lives, despised ordinary
conveniences, and often disap-
peared for days. no one knew
where. In the end he lost his
sanity entirely.
In all probability, both the
great genius and the strange &C.
centricity Of Joseph Turner came
to him from his mother. Mary
Marshall Turner, wife of William
Turner, the barber The mother
died in insanity. Always of a
strange. ungoverned disposition.
Mary Marshall was forever doing
things that surprised her friends.
No one could tell what she would
do next. When she was young
girl this made her noticeable and
even attractive. william Turner,
who was a young man from the
country, was strongly attracted
by the strange girl who acted In
81 iiVdN'Sii 81 MdINr it
said, Il never can tell what you'll
do next" Il know she said,
I'll marry you. William" And
she did. The young couple tried
to make a living, but 1t was a
hard task. AS life went on and
the young woman found she lack ed
everything that makes life en-
joyable, and even lacked the very
necessities of life. she let. her
freakishness develop into bad
temper. and then into ungovern-
able rage. ~=-.e.
When her son Joseph was quite
small she cared for him tenderly.
but when he had grown a little
she ragged against him and drove
him out to sit in the barber shop
with his father. both of them
glad enough to get away from
her. In the barber shop, hiding
away from his mother. little
Joseph began to draw pictures,
which the father stuck in the
window. The poverty that drove
the mother insane was one of the
means of making the boy an ar
ftct b.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19

Grove. Whatever plans may eventuate
should have public airing so that the
people will have opportunity for free
discussion. The people will always be
found amenable to any reasonable APP
peal, based on the free exercise of
popular sentiment. Gravest errors in
government have been those of exec
utive sessions committing the people
ahead of their opportunity of protest
or approval.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19
SMILES
What's in n Names

christian Advocate. New York)
Mrs. Johnsing: "Ah thought
you-all said you was gwine to
name your new baby 'Victrola.'
but All hears you-all done make
change"
Mrs. Moses: Yes. All expected
it would be a girl an All decided
10 name her 'Victrola,' but she
turned out to be boy, so All
done name him Radio
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19
Hair

Behold the Zulu maiden
With curly, kinky hair.
Her simple heart is laden !
With grief and woe and care.
She fain would have her tresses
-, straight
The inky kinks upon her pate
Doth make her sing hymn of hate
And sorrow and despair.
Behold the maiden Caucasian
Her soul is bleak and grave.
In spite of all persuasion
Her hair will not behave.
1t makes her throw a dozen fits,
As in the beauty shop she sits
While experts toll with weary mitts
To make her tresses wave.
The American Blue Cross Society
has declared war on summer furs, but
it won't be necessary if the cool
weather keeps up.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19

The statement from Spain that they
are getting over their brutality would
have gotten more commentator if it
hadn't been supplemented by the an
nouncement that they are replacing
bull-fights with football.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19

A minister says that, american girls
of. tender ages are going back to jun
gle standards so fast that missionaries
returning from Africa are Mortified
to see, the change" Girls should be
more careful of their conduct when
returned from Africa are
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19

(OOtnan EagIeJ
Whats doing in Dothan to-
day? is question that is liable
to be asked by the citizen who
doesn't come to Dothan often.
He may think by the crowd in
town that something unusual is
coming off, when 1t is just an or
binary day. Every day is a busy
day in Dothan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19

arms. Only recently it was announced
by experts on feminine beauty that
the perfect thirty-six" has been su-
perseded by the perfect thirty-four."
Thus we see the tremendous waste in
this country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19

Should the supreme court advise
that. thes tate may issue 100000
600 in bonds for the port of Mo-
bile another vote, by the people
will not be necessary. But IL an
adverse opinion Is rendered an
other amendment will be submit
ted. and there is no doubt that it
will be overwh elmingly adopted.
The people of Alabama no longer
question the value of the port of
Mobile as an asset to the state,
whose future prosperity is closely
linked with adequate facilities to
give the farms and industries of
Alabama an outlet to the world
market
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19

The chairman cf the United States
Labor Board declared that so-called
socialists are mostly reds with some
disguise from a toning down of color.
If some of those who profess to be
socialists were pictured in their true
colors, there would have to be lib
eral dash of 'long green" ..
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19

If such records as were made of
late by the banks of Alabama are
maintained little while longer, the
few remaining professional calamity
howlers hereabouts may have to hunt
for other jobs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19
lOS9
10 FAVORITE BOOKS
(AS Chosen ny Albert PaysOn
TePhuncD

The Bible.
Shak espeare.
1.-THE Three Guardsmen."
Charles A. Rice.)
Guy Livingstone" George
Lawrence).
The Wind in the Willows"
(kenneth Graham).
bob, Son of Battle" (Ollivant).
Vie de Boheme" (Murger).
plain Tales From the Hills"
4 kipling).
Peter Ibbetson" (Du Maurier).
SCOTS Poems
Copyright, 1928, United States and
treat Britain. for The Age-Heraid. by
North American Newspaper Alliance.
All rights reserved.)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19
Everybody Satisfied

.NTIVFIUH \ IuIeS- q IONJ y
Mr. Bryan consumed one hour
and. one minute in talking up n,
the speech he delivered before tho
legislature last Friday. But as
his audience appeared to approx
late what he had to say. what
mattered it If he took sixty-one
minutes TO. get at what he had to
say?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19

1t may cheer Uncle Joe Cannon, in
the initial weeks of his retirement, to
learn that there is prospect of the
early return of good five-cent cigar.
In fact, it has been here for some
time, only they have been charging
more than that for it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19
Fortunate for Florence
(TuScalnnsa NAwsl

Florence is ready to issue a
challenge to any city in the coun-
ty to disprove her claim as the
most beautiful municipality ex-
tant, says the Florence Times.
/ Well, it Is sure fortunate for
Florence that she isn't In Tusca-
loosa county.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19
DIiI}s:bH2bEApER.

Harvard astronomers having an
nounced the discovery of new star,
it is up to the Harvard football coaches
to do likewise.
sComesea physician with series of
'Don'ts' anent the game of golf. Be-
tween the physicians and the profess
SIGNALS, golf is just one don't after
another. ,~s-s. ~
One brilliant individual suggests
that we solve the sugar problem by
eating honey. Which reminds us of
the French queen who advised her
breadless subjects to eat cake.
1t was Marie Antoinette, if we re-
member Alright, who advised the pro-
letarians to substitute cake for buns.
She lost her head completely. They
were not cake-eaters.
Cosmetics help many women to keep
secrets.
p Mystery surrounds the THEFT OF
rare old violin, recovered the other
day in pawnshop. 1t was a Qua
dagnini, valued at $4,000. According
to Hoyle, every stolen violin must be
a Stradivarius, valued at $4,000.
War threatens in the Baltic. The
problem is, whether the fish residing
there are to be caught by Russian or
British fishermen. 1t makes lot of
difference to the fish.
In connection with the proposition
to spend a little money for practical
solution of the city's garbage prob
lem, there are few public-spirited citi-
zens who would question the wisdom
of such an investment. Even bird
dogs health is worth more than
twenty-five cents a year.
An exchange says the safety razor
is an obstacle to education. Otto, the
Barber, lectures to smaller audiences
now.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19
Preparing for Emergency

Lady: "Tobe. I'm sorry to hear
your wife got a divorce"
Tobe: ''Yessum. she done gone
back to Alabama"
Lady: who will do my wash
ing now?"
Tobe: well, mum, Use co'tin
again, and l cots rapid"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-19

(New Bedford Evening Standard
Scientist: Some day the earth
will become so cold that man will
not be able to live upon it"
Fozzleton: Yes, but ! suppose
the women will go on dressing
just about the same as they do
now"