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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18
JOHN A-DREAMS
Dreams of Covered Dishes

For reasons or my own will
not publish in this column all the
various meanings of dreams of
covered dishes. and you win have
to be satisfied with the interpre-
tation as 1t refers to unmarried
women. A girl who dreams OF a
covered dish, and 1t is immaterial
whether she sees iton a table,
in her own homo Elsewhere,
whether 1t be presented to her,
or whether she holds it. such a
girl will receive a proposal Of
marriage within three or four
weeks after having had the vision.
The advice conveyed to her by
the dream Is, that no matter how
much she may be disinclined to
do so. 1t Is her duty to herself to
accept the man who, within that
time. will ask her to marry him.
and II there Is any truth in the
prophesy OF night visions. she
will never regret the step.
Under the cover of the dream
dish is concealed all the happiness
which Fate has In store for her.
and the reasons for this prediction
will not become apparent until she
has been led to the altar. 1t will
seem as though the man making
the proposal were the last one
she should marry. If she cares
to rely upon the guidance of
dreams, she must overcome her
own objections as we'll as those of
her family and trust blindly to
good fortune. This dream has
quite a different meaning for
married women, for girls who are
already engaged to be married,
or for maidens who are yet too
young to think Of becoming wives.
II any of these should have such
dream, write me about 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18
1CPELIcHTS fHahl 4cSJ
k\NATIONAL fTI
NCAPITAL ET4

Word comes to Washington that
Peacham has forgiven George
Harvey. The American ambassa-
dor to the Court of st. James, who
Is In Washington, may go to the
place of his birth.
Anger that at first was white
heat has cooled. The natives are
preparing to take Harvey fishing.
Less than month ago Harvey
told British royalty about ban
quet board that the Vermont VIII
lage where he first saw the sun
rise was the "purest" English
municipality outside your majes-
tvs realm" Without batting an
eye, he surprised the crowned
heads by declaring that every
man. woman and child in Peacham
was of direct English descent.
That made Peacham very mad.
according to reports. Because the
statement was not capable of be-
ing proved. 1t was a problem af-
ter which q. e. d. could not be
written.
At any rate, local newspaper
correspondent asked Harvey with
whom he would go fishing in
Peacham. He checked a quick
impulse to answer. Then he de-
clared that In all probability his
companion would be the inn-keep-
er. The correspondent (persist-
emit wretch) asked II the name of
the inn-keeper was not Frederick
Won Richter.
Harvey grinned and looked out
the window. Then he removed his
glasses, those shell-rimmed
glasses which seem to be lone
some without the knee trousers.
and began assiduously to polish
them.
And Frederick Won Richter is
not the only resident of Peacham
who Is not of British descent.
There are several whose ances-
try dates back to Cork and Lime
rick.
And even those whose fathers
came from Britain resent. it Is
said, Harvey's declaration that
"Peacham Is a diadem in Eng
lands crown"
But the diplomat did get Peach
am place in the newspapers.
No other son of that village has
ever done so much. And truth
crushed to earth will rise again.
So. after all, no great harm was
done.
At any rate. Peacham has for
given and Ia willing to take Har-
vey fishing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18
THE GARBAGE AGAIN

The people of Birmingham note
with approval the official expression
Of concern with regard to some eff
ficient method of disposal of the city
garbage, which at present constitutes
an ever-present menace to the public
health and nullifies to a great extent
the health work along other lines. The
people would be still further pleased
to note an active cooperation between
the city commission and the health
department looking to some effective
and economical solution of the prob
lem. Other cities have found ways
Of disposing of garbage without dan
ger to the public health, and wha.
others have done Birmingham can do
all the better for having their expe-
rience as a guide. Incinerating sys-
TENS in cities Of size comparable
to Birmingham should be profitable
objects of inquiry and study before
any definite plan for this city is for
mulated. Such study, if promptly
begun, should not entail the vexatious
delays that have hampered municipal
undertakings in other directions.
The disposal Of garbage will I'M
doubtedly cost something, but the
cost will not be nearly so great as pri-
vate expenditures that have been re-
quired by the health authorities to
bring private premises within the reg
ulations. Surely the city can not re-
fuse to do what it makes its indi-
vidual citizens do, nor should the city
maintain health nuisance that de-
stroys the benefit that would other
wise arise from private sanitary ex-
penditures. 1t is a peculiar state of
affairs indeed, if the family cannot
protect itself for the reason that the
community is negligent along the very
lines in which it holds the family to
strict. account. Failure to dispose
properly of the garbage also effec-
lively counteracts and complexities
much of the official health effort and
expenditure in other directions. The
present situation is an utterly uneco-
nomic one, and has no excuse or ar
gument in it's defense. 1t is crafty
ing to have even the hope that the
municipality will take genuine con-
Germ in the matter, and make prompt
and sincere effort to remedy the con-
dition complained of.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18
NEW YORK BACKSLIDES

The action Of the Democratic New
York legislature in passing measure
repeating the state prohibition stat
utes automatically places the fed
eral influence in that state in
strong position, for those who are
on the side Of the existing law
are always doubly armed. If the
legislature expected to make a
political coup by its action, the i'm
preston is that it has failed and lost
ground. 1t is one thing for state
to neglect to enact laws in support of
a constitutional amendment, but it is
quite another thing for state to re-
peal such laws once they have been
enacted. In the one case it is sig
nificant merely as neglect; in the
oother case it represents deliberate
rejection of the federal law. Gov
ernor Smith has not yet signed the
document of repeal, and perhaps he
will not do so, thus saving his state
from embarrassment. If, however, he
does sign the bill, he will reveal dis
position to sacrifice other considera-
tions to private political ambition. If
he does not sign it, he will have to be
given credit for great political courage
at a critical moment.
There is Washington gossip to the
effect that there may be clash be-
tween federal and state authority on
the subject; but such an outcome is
hardly likely. The federal authorities
will continue their efforts to enforce
the prohibition laws, and the state
officials will be merely non-partici-
pants, except when called upon by the
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federal authority to cooperate in par
ticular cases. 1t is not understood
that the state of New York will oppose
prohibition enforcement, but merely
that it will not join in such enforce
ment. The people who deal in liquor
will be breaking federal instead of
state laws, and will be answerable to
federal jurisdiction. The federal
courts and federal agents formerly
were objects of dread to the breakers
of federal law. Perhaps that day is
about to return in New York
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18
POOR BOYS WHO
BECAME FAMOUS

~ Frederick Houk Law


A twenty-year youth set
sail from Ireland with high hopes
of finding rich opportunities in
America. Twenty-three years la
ter that same individual sent
back to the starving people OF
Ireland. then In the grip of a
great famine, whole shipload of
provisions. When the French
were suffering after the Franco
Prussian war he sent another
shipload of provisions to them.
When the great fire in Chicago
made thousands Of people desti-
tute and homeless he sent at once
tho then great sum of fifty thou
sand dollars for their relief. In
one way or another. during the
fifty-three years he lived in
America, he did good for the
world. The boy who left Ireland
was Alexander T. Stewart, the
founder of the great New York
City enterprise now conducted by
John Wanamaker.
How little did the Scotch Irish
boy, in his early days. anticipate
the great future that lay before
him! He had not looked for fame
nor fortune, but had expected to
devote his life to the doing of
good as Christian preacher
With the aim of accomplishing
something worthy for the world
he entered Trinity College, Dub
lin, and for two years studied
theology. Then there came to
him the idea that store. as well
q oh "a MI a
place where man may aid his
fellow man. He left ireland and
came to New York City.
The first store that he con-
Quoted was only small affair,
but he conducted 1t honestly.
People learned to know that the
dry goods that A. T. Stewart sold
were worth the cost. They bought
Of him. and his business pros
pered. As the years went on he
enlarged the business more and
more, and erected great buildings
that were the pride of New York.
On Broadway and Chambers
street. and on Broadway and
Ninth street, his buildings still
stand as monuments to his genius
and his honesty.
At Garden City. Long Island. is
great cathedral erected to his
memory, but Gardef City itself.
founded by him for the comfort
of laboring men. 10 a great me-
mortal.
A. T. Stewart made his own op-
portunities largely through busi-
ness integrity. He established
foreign offices in the most i'm
portant countries OF Europe and
made his name a household name
everywhere.
Always willing to help others.
he devoted himself to helping the
United States in the Civil war. in
fighting civic dishonesty in the
days of Tweed. and in every
emergency. The Irish boy made
himself q true priest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18
MOTHERS OF FAMOUS
MEN


On the banks of the Maumee
river. about 1920. there was a viii
lage of huts. the village Of the
Ottawa Indians. Then the Maui
NEE river flowed quietly along
between widowed banks for its
200 miles to the Great Lakes.
Today that same river, in the
states of Indiana and Ohio, flows
through q prosperous land Of
cities and villages of the white
people.
In that Indian village, in 1920.
a beautiful young Indian woman
sat in one of the largest tepees.
holding her firstborn son in her
arms. She was different from the
other Indian women who stood
beside her in the tepee, for she
was not of their tribe. She was
an Ojibwa, one of a neighboring
race. The little red baby that she
held in her arms was to her like
Hiawatha, the great hero-god of
the Indians. Without knowing it..
she herself was like Minnehaha,
the Laughing Water. whom Hia-
watha loved. To her the baby
WAS Do6t-Ol men, TO tne WHITES
he became Pontiac" the scourge.
the bringer about Of terrible war.
the one who defeated Braddock,
who might have killed, George
Washington, the terrible chief
who organized all the Wyandots,
Shawnees. Chippewas and others
to fight the white man.
The Ojibwa girl had been the
most beautiful of her tribe. On
hunting expedition a young Of
tawa chief had seen her, had
bargained with her father for
her, and had led her away. a hap
py bride. Alien and lovely, she
watched her small child, taught
him his first steps. and grew glad
at heart to see him unite the Of
tawa and the Ojibwa people. For
her sake he made the people one.
Thus. out of mothers love, came
that union of the red men that
threatened to destroy the white
people of America.
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PEOPLES FORUM



To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
Some time ago. through the COL
umns of some Of the newspapers
of the state. I advised and urged
all Alabama boys and girls grad
uating from accredited high
schools to go to college, univer-
sity, normal school. technical or
professional school-somewhere.
to some higher school for the
preparation necessary for fuller
and better living and for more
effective service of society, state
and nation. Having talked with
many of you. I believe an unusu-
ally large portion of you are 60
ing to do so. ] am now taking
the liberty of advising you to go
to some school in Alabama, unless
there be special and unusual rea-
sons why you should go elsewhere,
as. of course, there will be for
some of you.
Let me give you some of the
reasons for this advice:
l. In an Alabama school you
will meet and work and play with
those with whom you will live
and work in after years as citi-
zens of Alabama. The advantages
pleasure and in profit, are very
great. College friendships are
lasting and binding.
2. In an Alabama school you
will get. not only the general in
struction and training you would
get elsewhere, but YOU will also
learn OF the needs of Alabama
and OF the opportunities offered
here as you will not at a school
out of the state. You will catch
the Alabama spirit, and get spe-
cial instruction in the application
of general principles necessary
to the highest degree of success
in the state.
3. By going to an Alabama
school you may heI to build up
the educational Institutions of
your own state and to enrich it's
educational life. Increase of at
tendance at these schools and
fuller and more general recogni-
ton of their equal worth cannot
fail to result In richer endow-
ments and more generous support
for them.
4. 1t will probably cost you
less to 90 to an Alabama school
than to a similar school else
where. The cost of living and
fees at Alabama schools are COM
paratively small.
If for any reason you believe
Alabama schools are not SO good
in any respect as are the schools
of other states. use your influence
in every way to make them So
Alabama Is not a pauper commu-
nifty. She can make her schools
as good as any in all respects;
and she will II you demand it,
Alabama cannot afford to be Sec
ond -class and to be content there
with-nor will she.
P. p. CLAYTON.
Provost. University of Alabama.
Tuscaloosa. Ala. May II. 1923.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18
Bedtime Tale

oe0t1me ale
Some people don't accomplish much
In spite Of all their clamor.
The head was made for thinking with,
Don't use it for hammer.
Knocker the Woodpecker was busy
Yes, sir, Knocker the Woodpecker was
buster than seventeen pneumatic riv-
eters.
He had gone scouting that morning
and grabbed himself nice, fresh tele-
graph pole. And if there is anything
Knocker the Woodpecker loves better
than anything else it is a nice, fresh
telegraph pole.
So he pecked and pecked and peck.
ed and peeked and pecked and pecked
and pecked and pecked while the jolly
round sun climbed high over the greer
mountain and the green forest and the
green meadow and the green river and
the green swamp and the green pas.
ture and the green valley and the
green fishpond and the green farm
house and the green railroad.
Noontime came, and the whistle
blew in the green glue factory, but il
didn't mean thing to Knocker the
Woodpecker. He just kept right on
pecking.
The shadows grew long and the
jolly round sun went to rest behind
the green glue factory, and twilight
came, and Knocker the Woodpecker
finally came up for air. That is to
say, he quit pecking. And as he looked
up from from his work he suddenly
became aware that he had an au-
dience. All his neighbors were there
giving him the double o. There was
Rastus the Grow and Herman the
Hedgehog and Montmorency the Mead
ow Mouse and Catharine the Catbird
and Sylvester the Sparrow and Alloy
sius the Alligator and Luke the Lark
and Anthony the Angleworm and
Christopher the Crab and Percy the
Porcupine and host of others. And
they were all giving him the bird.
Brother" said Rastus the Grow
chuckling all over, don't you know
they make telegraph poles out Of iron
nowadays?" And loud chorus Of
raspberries echoed throughout the
green meadow.
Knocker the Woodpecker just sat
down and wept, he was so provoked
Yes, sir, he just sat down and wept.-
The Duke.
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BOOTLECGING IDEAS

IL an lued Is given d populdl VI az
tractive label, it is pretty apt to foo
people at first into adopting and in
dorsing it. Yet some of these very
ideas, without the label and badly
stated, would Immediately be recogn.
lied as poisonous and not for American
consumption. The PRONUNCIATION of rad
ical and bolshevstic ideas under the
disguise of accepted American labels
is in reality species of mental boot
logging, whereby the minds of the
unwary are poisoned before they
know it. There are plenty of busy
bodies, reeling about under the influ-
ence of a sort of political delirium
tremens, who should be a warning to
sturdy Americans, and yet who sue
coed in disposing Of some of their
stuff to people who should know bet
ter.
The tribe is we'll described by Ben
w. Hooper, who recently exclaimed |:
There are lot of wildeyed radicals
and demagogues in this country who
believe that they can sell any kind
of ideas to the people by labelling
them progressive We all like that
word progressive, but it will pay the
people to take good look at all the
political wares that are brought around
bearing our favorite label" Taking
socialism, with all its more extreme
ramifications as an example, Mr..
Hooper called it "an insidious cult,
standing at the elbow of every man
that harbors an individual crouch or
class grievance, real or imaginary,
and whispering into his ear distrust,
suspicion and bitterness against the
institutions of the country. It charges
every failure and disappointment to
the present organization of society"
The pity of it is, and the danger
of it is, that some of these bootleggers
of poisonous ideas are in congress
itself, and are found among those who
advocate the subordination of the su-
preme court to congress on questions
Of the constitutionality of our laws.
Nobody can estimate the disaster that
has been averted from this country by
the able and patriotic decisions of the
supreme court. 1t may have made
mistakes, being human, and there may
have been times when a similar body
of men equally able would have rem
dered an opposite decision; but that
is no argument for reducing its au-
thority. For who Is there Of sound
mind who would be willing to entrust
the stability of our institutions and
the authority Of our constitution to
the whims, vacillations and political
manipulations of congress? Who is
there, looking back over the record
of our supreme court and comparing
it with the record Of the recent con-
gress, would desire to pull down our
constitution from its present august
protection and cast it into the mael-
strom of partisan and individual poll
tics? No one, except those who en-
gage in bootlegging ideas, or who are
so gullible as to accept the label as
sufficient evidence of genuineness of
contents. The safest rule is to be-
ware of those who rave, for they are
living warnings Of the poisonous ma
ture Of the article they dispense.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18

In connection with famous por-
trait painters statement that he has
never seen a pretty woman, the ques-
ton arises how many he made appear
so after the finishing touches.
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Most Melancholy Product

(SeIma es-JOurnaD
Ordinarily a letter that carries
no signature should be given no
attention. If the writer could not
feel that the subject matter con-
tanned in twas of sufficient value
public necessity to warrant re-
vealing his own identity it should
be consigned to oblivion. The
anonymous letter writer, when
his activities take the form of
wrecking character and family
ties. is one of the most melancholy
products of our civilizations.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18

A statistician says there were
eighty-four quakes in the United
States last year. There would have
been several times that many shake
ups among office-holders if the tax
payers could have had their way.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18

Another kind Of optimist is the fell
low who is not choice as to whether
he has lower or an upper, since his
fellow travellers are going to snore SO
Justify that he can't sleep, anyhow.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18
10 FAVORITE BOOKS

"Tono Bungay" III. G. Wells).
"Helen's Babies" (John Habber-
toni.
alice in Wonderland" (Lewis
CarrolD.
Lord Jim" (Joseph Conrad).
youth" (Conrad).
Shakespeare's plays principally
Hamlet" Macbeth" and "Ro-
meo and Juliet".
"Dauber" (John Masefield).
Jean Christophe" (Roma in
Rolland).
Mont st. Michel and Chartres"
(Henry Adams).
Dramatic Opinions and Essays"
&c. B. Shaw.
Copyright. 1929, United States and
Great Britain. for The Age-Herald. by
North American Newspaper Alliance.
All rights reserved.)
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Raising the Duke of York's income
to twenty thousand pounds when he
got married suggests that the English
don't take much stock in that old joke
that two can live as cheaply as one.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18

The old-timer who. observes that
eighty years ago the banjo had only
one string is reminded that troubles
usually multiply about four times in
that period.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18

Alabama has gotten a few min
nows from the government and
put them in the state waters for
years to practically no effect.
There never will be much effect
until the state establishes Its own
hatcheries and thus go after II
and restock the streams. II IN
very simple, and the expense
would soon be brought back to the
state thousandfold. Let's 20
after this. and restock our
streams.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-18
The Transportation Problem


No public question can be de.
cided In this country. apparently,
without injecting politics into IL.
but the railroad problem Is of
such vital Importance to the coun-
try that 1t can be studied from
non-partisan angle. 1t may be as
sumed that the Democrats, as we'll
as the Republicans. however they
may differ In their political be-
liefs. are actuated by a sincere
desire to solve the problem of
transportation which becomes
worse instead of better. Unless
predictions fall, next autumn will
witness another breakdown Of the
transportation system. which viii
cost the American people . fabu-
lous sum.
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Sugar and Lfuuor

alexander City Outlook)
The housewives Of America can
break the sugar market IL they
will do 1t, but that 10 where the
rub comes. VIII they do 1t? But.
suppose the housewives Of the
country do boycott sugar and the
distiller gobbles UP the supply,
where will be any price-cuttinE?
However. we have never been ono
Of those who believed there was
enough sugar diverted to the MAX
ing of whisky to cut any material
figure.
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A Big Asset
Annisfnn Sfarl

A number of Admission and CAL
houn county people are becoming
interested in the proposal to es-
tablish tubercular sanatorium
in this county. The need for such
sanatorium is so great that 1t
really Is a public need of the first
Importance. 1t Is to be hoped
movement will be launched with
out delay to secure a place where
tubercular patients can be treated
as they should be and have the
safeguards that are necessarily
supplied.