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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
"GIVE ME X PLACE TO PLAY,

CD. l.. Jacobson in Masonic News) "Git out" yelled the cop, or I'll
 soon put stop To VT nerve rackin' din by runnin'
 you in.
 I'm on this beat. So chase yourself hence. Gift away from that fence" An the cop, he's the law, an we've got to obey. But he don't tell us what r where
 we can play. "Git out!" yells the man when we
 kick his ash can, Then he calls us vile toughs, and williams and roughs, An names if I said would knock
 mother down dead. We run all our might to get out
 of his sight, An bump into people who kick us
 away, An growl, but don't mention a
 place we can play. "Git out of the way!" yells a man
 with a dray As he nearly runs down my chum,
 Billy Brown; He raises his whip, and then all
 of us skip. But we only change streets, for
 where else can we go To escape cops and drivers? Does
 anyone know? If you were lad, didn't mean to
 be bad, Had no place to meet, except in
 the street, No place to play ball r "tagger"
 at all, No place just to yell, when you're
 feelin' real well, Now honest and true, what on
 earth would you do? Why you'd swear and make bets,
 and smoke cigarettes; You'd gamble an fight, and throw
 stones just for spite. You'd try to live down to the
 names you were named; An you'd lie with the gang, with
 out feeling ashamed. Good friend of ours, we want to
 do right. But try as we will, it's a hard up-
 hill fight. We'd rather play ball in a place
 where we dare Than skulk near a corner an
 gamble and swear. We'd rather climb ladders and act
 on a bar, Than dodge a policeman or hang
 on a car. It's up to you, friends. Come,
 please don't delay, But establish a place where a fel- low can>play.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
Negro in the North


 The negro race as whole is in danger of being done a grave in justice by the Northern people, as result of the migration of a number of the colored men from the South to the factories in the North. Police officials of many of the larger Southern cities bear witness to the fact that most of the negro criminals have left the South recently. The presumption is that they have gone to North ern cities. Now there are many good negroes going North to ac- cept work. But they will not come to the notice of the North erners as whole. However, the murders and the highway robbe- ries and other crimes committed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
Seems a Discrimination
(Ashland Progress)

The rural summer school, where
 in a large portion of the statef best citizens received practically all their education, has been dis carded as a useless and worthless thing. But still the state is spend- ing thousands of dollars to main- tain summer terms in connection with it's higher institutions for the training of teachers who are sup posed to have already been trained. To many this appears to be another discrimination against the country boy and girl whose opportunities were already very limited. Those who run the school machine seem to know just how to throw it into reverse" when it suits their fancy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
Passing It Around
Casper Mountain Eagle)

\JaSper Mountain Eagle)
 Pay as you go. This is golden advice that will keep the business world moving, the wheels of in- dustry from rusting out, and the money will surely come back to you. It should not be forgotten that the earth is round. Stand the people all In line and they will reach around the world, the last touching the first. Now pay your neighbor on your right the dollar you owe him, and he will pay his neighbor on the right, and so on the dollar will travel until 1t will come around again to your hand from your neighbssl on the left. Try it. We make Ii charge for this receipt for th hard times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
The Catbird Appears

That mockingbird is gone; yes, the whole family; but a catbird has taken up. Just one, but she has come to stay, for she has built in the chinaberry tree; and feast ed on raspberries, as long as they last, and if 1t were not for the songs she sings. don't believe the boys would find out we had an- other bird. But just one, mind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

cred about a half-mile on thjs side of the jumping off place. Now we all know that Opp Is one of the best small towns Tn Alabama-and not so small at that. That town Is chuck full of pep and within the few short years of its exist ence has become an important city of southeast Alabama. Few towns show such a spirit of prog ress and Is making such forward strides as Opp is., and it is all due to the cooperation among the citizens
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
A Voting Problem

(Alexander City Outlook)
 We are of the opinion that 1t is not going to be a great while be- fore some of the Northern states are going to be looking for some way in which to handle the coll ored vote, as the number of col ored voters in those states in crease.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
The Auto Tax

(Oneonta Southern Democrat)
 Investigation has disclosed the fact that thousands of automo- piles are escaping taxation in Alabama. They are paying the license tax but not the ad valorem tax. The records show that many more tags have been sold than autos listed for taxation. To remedy this condition a bill will be introduced in the legislature requiring the owner of an auto- mobile to show that 1t has been assessed for taxation before a li- cense Is issued or show by the original bill of sale that the car was purchased after the first of October of the current year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
THE ALABAMA PRESS
Remove the Blot

Alabama is being pictured throughout the country as the only remaining leasing state. The summer session of the Ala bama legislature should remove this blot from the fair name of our proud state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

Apparently the Republican party will have trouble obtaining carpenters to build platform strong enough to hold the country's demand for relief from the products of the old structure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

In other words, Judge Gary's posi- tion as regards the eight-hour day is shifting to the commonsense view as the pressure of public sentiment convinces him and his directing as- sociates that it is unprofitable to op- pose civilizations standards of mans physical mental and moral welfare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

Every thoughtful man knows that a slight shortage of labor is better for the sanity and safety of any self-re- specting country than is a menacing surplus of unemployment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
10 FAVORITE BOOKS


(As chosen by Charles Ray, Film
 Starr A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens). Hamlet (Shakespeare). Tolstoy.
 The Desert of Waiting. Gaboriau's Detective Stories. The Bible (Job and Esther). Confucius.
 Ebert Hubbard. Up From Slavery (Booker T. Washington.
 Innocents Abroad (Twain). Copyright. 1923. in United States and Great Britain for The Herald by the North American Newspapel Alliance. All rights resirved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

by the criminals of their race will find their way into the papers. Then trouble may come. And when it does, the innocent negro generally suffers along with the guilty. The crime too often Is fas- tened upon the race instead of the individual. The South knows the colored race and appreciates it for It's true worth. In time of trouble the negro knows that he has friend in Southerner. It were far better if the negro re- mained in the South.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

Perhaps the Germans would be will ing to pay the separations demanded by the Allies if they would accept marks at par.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
Working for Big Mill

It would take about four hours day for two days to organize a ten thousand spindle cotton mill for Andalusia. The capital Is here in sufficinet quantities to insure the control of the enterprise at home. With substantial sub scription by local people the re- mainder is assured. Why not put up $300,000 locally and secure an onther $400,000 from outside sources. That can be done. And if there Is any who doubts that this would be good business for Andalusia, we would like for him to rise just where he is and tell us why he thinks so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

The general opinion is that the country has too many laws, yet hun dreds of meX I,s suggesting new ones to be applied to the other fellow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
Opp On the Map

(Greenville Advocate) Opp celebrated it's twenty-first birthday on June 30. We can all remember when Opp was consid-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08
THE AGE-HERALD

.oter-d at he Birmingham. Ala postoffice ss second class matter under act or congress- March G. lS7o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-08

DoEKcK I. THOMPSON. .... President
, 1923-09-09

Send your automobile news 70
Spark Plug."-Care Tribune.
, 1923-09-09
FIREF|GHTER
Gets SURPRISE
County Forester Finds
Thrill in Making Of
"Hearts Aflame."

County Forester Stuart J. Flint
ham Of Los Angeles is grateful to
Reginald Barker. whose production,
"Hearts Ahhme." will be at the
Wyoming theatre, starting next
Saturday, for one thing-so the
story states-a story that has been
getting many good laughs in Holly
wood.
Fiintham and his corps of FIRE
fighters were on hand the night
OF the staging OF the big forest fire
scene in the San Fernando Valley.
Fiintham at first decided that this
wouldn't be any different than any
other fire. II would keep him up
all night. Just like hundreds OF
others he had been fighting all
his life. There might be n lot OF
pleasure in such n jaunt for n lot
OF movie.mad females-he told his
wife-but for a hardened old fire
nghter, who preferred his sleer
when he could get 1t to any wild
moving picture stunts-it didn't look
good to him.
But he afterward admitted that II
gave him the surprise of his life.
II was the first fire he ever enjoyed
and was ever able to watch-and
still get to sleep before dawn, he
declared.
"This FIRE was the real thing" he
told Barker when everything wa
over but developing the film. i've
seen hundreds of forest fires; some
were Just scrub stuff. and others
swept ten thousand acres OF timber
almost clean. so that I can say
without egotlsm that I know the
forest FIRE catastrophe in all its
stages. You certainly staged a great
FIRE. It was a daring proposition.
and you certainly got something
we'll worth SEEING"
Hearts Afame." a Metro picture.
was produced for Louis b. Mayer.
II was adapted from the novel.
Timber" by Harold Titus.
, 1923-09-09
Bringing paintings to iifei

Bringing paintings TO nfei
That is the feat Herbert Brenon
accomplished in filming THE Rustic
OF Silk" his initial Paramount pic
ture featuring Betty Compson and
Conway Tearle. which begins a long
run at the Riaito today.
The producer wished to introduce
a small historical retrospect into the
action. yFor this purpose he chose
two of the lovellest OF Fragonard's
Louis XIV paintings and literally
brought them to life on the screen.
One OF these paintings shows a
beauty Of the period reposing in q
swing in an exquisite garden of that
day; the second is called La Lee.
ture," and pictures a young gallant
Of the day reading to the lady OF his
heart
Brenon and his scenarists devel-
oped a small play-within-a-play from
these two paintings. with Betty
compson and Conway Tearle In the
chief roles. Every detail Of both
pictures was exactly reproduced be.
fore the camera, including the for
NAL garden and the lavish costumes.
To carry out the illusion of bring.
Ing the paintings to life. the camera
man resorted to an intricate photo.
, 1923-09-09
new COMPANY
AT COLUMBIA

The High Life Revues. the new
oenpany which will appear at the
Columbia theater for an indefinite
engagement, arrived in Casper yes
terday under the supervision Of
Sweet and Peck. old hands at the
entertainment game who know how
to prepare a show that Columbia
audiences will enjoy and approve Of.
The company Gomez direct from
Chicago, according to announce
ment. and In as full of talent as tho
proverbial dog is OF fees. Sweet
and Peck have decided that their
first show shall be THE Fixer." 1t
In ono of the funniest tabloids being
given IN various parts of the eoun-
try this season and in the hands Of
the new Columbia troupe. well one
a always rest assured that there
sie laughs coming.
The High Life Revues have
among them feature entertainers
such al the Mephis syncbpators.
Miss Marjorie Waugh and Dolly
Grey. Miss Waugh is a talented
hlues singer. while Miss Grey is a
soubrette.
, 1923-09-09
HARRY CAREY APPEARS
AS CABARET DANGER
IN WYOMING FEATURE

In -Desert Driven the splendid
write drama of the west which will
be seen for tho last times today at
the Wyoming theater, Harry Carey
makes his film debut tripping the
light fantastic in a big San Francis
co cabaret show. Although this is
Carey's maiden effort at dancing
before a camera, he is not n novice
to the rhythmical art. being a splen.
didly graceful dancer. carey's dane
ing In the cabaret affords splendid
relief to tho highly developed dra-
matte situations in Desert Driven"
The beautiful Marguerite Clayton
plays the leading feminine role op-
posite Carey.
, 1923-09-09
IVAN SIZE |S
IRIS OFFERING
William Russell Star in
Picture With Noun
tain Setting.

Forbidden 10 talk to the girl who
meant everything to him, how could
he overcome the barrier Tom
Morse did not know why her father
had barred him out. but he meant
to discover. What was more. he
meant to win the girl. This is a
turning point in the Fox p~hotoplay
Mans Size" which will be shown
Mt the Iris today. William Russell.
whose popularity in outdoor roles
IL widespread. is the star in this
Perturbation OF William Mcleod
Haine's novel Of the same name.
Alma Bennett gives a charming por-
frayaj Of the girl in the story. The
nlm IL said to have heightened the
dramatic values possessed by the
book. The cast has been specially
chosen 10 help the director to create
"A tensely powerful situation. en-.
HANGED by the realism OF tho actors
performances.
The settings r IN the Canadian
Rockies among picturesque scenes
whose beauty Will be Transmitted
by the skill Of George Schneider
man; a camerman to whom thu
critics have already given their full
need Of praise for his photograph
excellence In THE Village Black
smith"
, 1923-09-09

Mexico. Later they protected the
frontier from the Indians and since
have protected the border.
Along in the '7o's and SOS cattle
rustling became rife. Whole herds
were stolen. So the men were
chosen for their absolute feariessness
and carried terror to the outlaws.
They were the real g~un-fighung
men OF the world.
Davy Crockett and other herses Of
the Alamo were rangers. Capt Nc
Nelly's famous band Of forty alone
made 1000 arrests besides killing
many OF the dangerous thieves.
Tom Nix should be superb in talk
ing the part OF the ranger, sshe but
follows his natural bent and lives
a life to which he was trained on
the plains.
In q recent interview Nix told
an eastern editor how he happened
to break into the movies.
AS a boy in the southwest ! saw
Buffalo Bill do sharpshooting in the
, 1923-09-09

Iris Thcater
Sunday Oniy@wiriam Russell IN
MANS Size" Al st. John In
Young and Dumb" a comedy.
Monday and Tuesday@.Nios Peo-
ple," with an all-star cast Our
Gang In Fire Fighters"
Wednesday and Thursdny@"A
Fool There Was" with Estelle Tay-
lor as the vamp. 'Hokus Pokus''
Educational comedy. "Sickem
Towser." a Harold Lloyd comedy.
Friday and Saturday-Dorothy
Dalton in 1.-THE Woman Who Walked
Alone" Haunted House." com.
edy.
Wyoming
sunday-Harry Carey In desert
Driven"
Monday. Tuesday. "Wednesday
The American Legion presents
FLASHES Of Action"
Thursday and Friday-Hoot Glib
son in 'Kindled Courage. Also
Oregon Trail and Buster Keaton.
Starting Saturday-Reginald Bar
ker's latest production 'Hearts
Aflame."
, 1923-09-09
Four-Wheel Dripe
Co. Has An Earth
Boring Equipment

Arrangements have Just been made
by which the Four Wheel Drive
Auto Company of CIintonville. Wis
consin. have secured from the Inter.
national Earth Boring Machine Com
pany. Chicago. Illinois. the exciu-
sive rights to the sale of tho Inter
national Earth Boring Machine. The
boring machine will be sold as extra
Equipment especially adapted for
digging pole holes for telephone sys-
tens, telegraph lines. electric car
lines and municipal work.
The power for operating the ma
chine Ia supplied from the FWD
truck by mean of power take-off
shaft. The engine develops suffi-
cient power 20 carry all xcess load
caused by the auger wherever ex-
treme soil conditions are encounter
ed.
The frame Of the earth boring
machine is rotably attached on a
turn table. which makes Il possible to
bore holes on either side. or at the
rear Of the truck. For boring In
clined holes the tower may be Tilted
to any angle desired.
Standard machines VIII bore holes
from two to thirty inches in diam
eter and UP to eight feet deep. For
greater depth extensions Of auEer
shafts are employed. The machine
can be quickly detached from the
FwD truck thus leaving the truck
for other purposes.
The Earth boring machine raises
and sets the poles M well as digging
the holes. requiring IN an average
Of only eight minutes to dig q hole
and set n forty-five foot pole.
, 1923-09-09
:: Vaudeville (" News of Local Offerings Notes of Flmdo

retaining the franc which ~encircied
the original painting. The entire
effect is of tho people of the picture
coming to life and moving on the
screen.
1.-THE Rustic OF silk" is the STORY
Of a humble daughter of the people
who falls in love with a great states
man. who subsequently, becomes
Prime Minister of England. The
girl Is the Observation-Disclosures of a
French noblewoman. and Brenon's
, 1923-09-09
New advertising
Stunt Pulled For
Famous War Film

A unique advertising stunt for
the i've reel war picture, flashes
of Action" which is to be shown
at the Wyoming theatre tomor-
row, Tuesday and Wednesday,
was employed yesterday afternoon
by tho George W. vroman post Of
the American Legion. The pic
ture. n government reel. In being
put On by the legion
A Mack truck on which a
wrecked airplane was loaded
parndod through the downtown
streets advertising the picture. 1t
brought back TO the ex-service
men scenes OF the front line
trenches and in n vivid manner
described tho horrors Of war in
the air.
The picture to be shown toner.
row gives closeups Of the actual
front line fighting and shows
many OF the western divisions as
they went over the top.
, 1923-09-09

circus ring. 1 was q crack shot for
a youngster and on getting home I
tried shooting glass balls from the
top Of my little sisters head. Dad
arrived as I tried TO get the wood
shed range against which stood sis-
ter. You should have heard dad
broadcast his heir from the shed
When I broke into movies I was
a cowpuncher getting $40 a month.
When they offered me s1oo. /
thought they meant a month in.
stead OF a week. But I'll always
attribute my success to Buffalo Bills
Inspiration"
, 1923-09-09
fHEA At

Rialto
Sunday. Monday. Tuesday and Wed
nesday-Betty Compson and Conway
Tearie in THE Rustic Of Silk"
Comedy Moving" Kilograms.
THURSDAY. Friday and Saturday
Thomas Meighan in "Homeward
Bound" Monte Banks comedy
"a Cold Reception" Pnths News,
Fun from the press.
America Theater
Sunday and Monday-Tom ME- In
The Lone Star Ranger" "The
Rain Storm" a Fox Imperial COM
edy. Fox News-
Tuesday. wednesday and Thurs
day-Edmund Lowe and Martha
Mansfield in 1.-THE Silent Command
Pathe News. Topics of the Day.
Friday and saturday-Buck Jones
In "Heils Hole" "The -Four
Flusher'' = Sunshine comedy. Fox
News.
, 1923-09-09
PAINTINGS COME TO LIFE I'm
SUPERB play AT THE RIALT0

graphic process. whereby the spec
tator first sees the original painting.
and then this dissoives into the same
picture peopled with the actors. but
, 1923-09-09

historical out-backs not only add TO
the beauty of the picture. but arc
Of dramatic value to the finished
photoplay.
, 1923-09-09

Aluminium produced IN the Omitted
States ono principally from New
York. Tennessee and North Caro-
lima
, 1923-09-09
OMM|X| IN lone STAR RANGER
SUBTRACTION At THE AMERICA
Plot Based on Zane Grey's Great Story Of Plains
Waterman Offers Ideal Vehicle for
Peer Of Western Actors.

"The Lone Star Ranger" the Zane Grey story In which
William Fox has starred Tom Mix and which deals with
the interesting life of the romantic plains-watchmen of
the southwest, starts at the America theater today.
The Texas Rangers were organized in 1882 and bore
the brunt of the conflict when Texas separated from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-12
GREENv|LLE PLANS B|G CELEBRATI ION
Sham Battle And Parade Will Be Features Of Ar
 mistice Day

GREENvILLE, Ala, Nov. H. Special .)-Everythin is being put into shape for Greenville's big Armistice Day celebration here Mon day. The city will put on a gala at- tire and everybody is expected to join in and have a great celebration tory over German oppression.
 Taylor Peck, commander of Ala bama American Legion, asked to be released from two engagements for November 12 in order that he might come to Greenville to take part in the great celebration. His speech will be feature of the day. Orig. Gen. William P. Screws will be another speakers.
 The first feature of the event will be a parade which will be formed at the Butler county court house and proceed down Commerce street to the Planters warehouse and will swing north to Fort Dale street to the campus of the Butler County High school, where the soldiers will be reviewed by General Screws, com manding officer of the Alabama na- tional guard.
 Capt. Duke Guice, marshal of the day, has arranged the order of the parade, which will include ten units of Alabama national guard, Including cavalry, infantry, machin eMfg unners howitzers, artillery, hospital corps tank corps and motor transport units General Screws, MT. Peck, Judge Winkler, Mayor Blackwell, Col. J. Lee Long, Hon. Jok Poole and others will lead the parade, and the national guard outfits will be followed by a detachment of ex-soldiers led by Colonel Coleman of Fort Deposit. The Confederate veterans and United Daughters of the Confectionery will ride in automobiles artistically deco rated in patriotic colors.
 At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the many visitors will have an oppor- tunity of seeing a war fought, 1n modern style, every branch of mod ern warfare will be depicted at natural ampitheatre two miles east of Greenville on the Honoraville highway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-12
Farm Extension Work Mag SaysA ubum Dean I Resignig

strive for good government and right principles in public affairs with the same unflinching determination that the American soldier showed in hold ing the lines on the Marne, Senator Heflin declared. He took a rap at manufacturers of guns and munitions, declaring that they are willing to sacrifice the peace and prosperity Of the world in order to fill their own pockets. Senator Heflin was fre- quent1y interrupted by applause in the course of his address.
 Both Governor Brandon and Sena- tor Heflin lauded the work and the ideals of President Woodrow Wilson.
 pr. P. N. Mcdonald, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension and chaplain of the local post of the American Legion, presided at the meeting. Invocation was delivered by Rabbi William B. Schwartz of Tenn ple Beth-Or Post Commander Wal ter Bragg Smith of Montgomery post No. 2, American Legion, addressed the meeting on the purpose of Armi- stice Day in perpetuating the best traditions of the World war. beau tiful musical program was furnished under direction of Prof. T. c. Gallo way.