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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-19
RErAILERs TO MEET

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Feb. 1S-The Trf-State Shoe Retailers association, with members in Arkansas, Tennes- see and Mississippi, will hold it's sixth annual convention here March 12, 13 and l4, it was announced tonight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-19

Many pink flowers may be turned blue bygeNposing them to the fumes of ammonia for few minutes. and blue flo CTS become pink when ex- posed to acids.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-19
Reduce Gold Receipts.

In discussing the import situation officials here pretty generally hold that the time is rapidly approaching when imports of gold will cease or be reduced to negligible proportions. The inbound gold shipments have been going down steadily for many months, and the tendency of gold imports to decrease and exports to in crease, although the increase has been small, has been most gratifying to government officials who believe that an outward flow of gold from the United States would mean healthier world condition at least until the enormous stocks of gold held here are spread again among the nations whence they came during the war.
 Taken as whole, the trade situa- ton, in the view of officials, is good. and indications point to a progress sive improvement in the situation, barring, of course, world develop ments that would again impede in- dustrial production. Secretary Mel lon recently stated he regarded the domestic industrial situation as very good" and this view is gen. orally shared by other administration spokesmen who say that such con dition acts as leaven in the bread of world trade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-19
.EXPECT FEBRUARY
 CUSTOMS TAXES II
 SET NE W RECORDS
Total Receipts For Present Month Will Aggregate Near Iy S55, 900, ,000, Federal
 Officials Predict


 WASHINGTON, Feb. 1s.-Predic- tion that new monthly record for customs receipts will be established by the February collections under the new tariff law was made today at the treasury on the basis of re- ceipts for the first Is days of the month. In that time s24,730,955 in tariff duties was collected and of- ficials declared an analysis of the re- ceipts indicated even greater in- creases over collections under the Underwood law, for the remainder of the month.
 If officials beliefs are substan- tiated, February's receipts will ag- gregate nearly s55.O00,o0O. The near est approach to that figure in re- cent months. records show, was in last September when receipts amounted to slightly over $5S,oo0,- GOO. No other month, however, ap- breaches that amount.
 o o
 Collections Heavy.
 The September collections were un- usually heavy since, it was explained, imports were higher by far than in many months owing to efforts of im- porterS and the exporters of foreign countries to unload shipments on American soil in advance of the ap- plication of the higher rates carried in the present law. When the high CT rates became effective, there was a tendency in the receipts to decrease at first. but they recovered quickly and the increase since that time has been steady and continuous.
 Customs officials some weeks ago revised their earlier estimate of $450.- 900. .o00 in collections for the current fiscal year ending next June 30, and declared that government revenue from customs houses duties would aggregate $4S0,0o0.o00 Some Of the more optimistic predicted receipts of half billion dollars. These latter officials are arguing that their fore cast will prove good unless unfore- seen changes occur in international trade which may cut American im- ports radically.
 The Ruhr situation, officials agree, is not expected to have any appre- ciable effect on world trade insofar as shipments to the United States are concerned. On the contrary. it was said in some quarters here that the stoppage in production in the Ruhr may have the effect of increas- ing American exports. If that be true, it was argued, there is likely to he increasing imports into the United States in exchange.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-14
4 Wondrous Gro1O;7tq Season,

| Il w OnQTOuS JTO1O771Q 0eQSOn
T%HE length of the South's growing season
| and the diversity of It's field resources
are strikingly attested by recent bulle-
tin of the federal department of agriculture on
the production of white potatoes. Three main
crops of these are raised within year in this
region, the investigator reports; and there is
hardly month out of the twelve when some
where in the South white potatoes cannot be
planted and harvested. One result Is a pro-
nounced advantage in market value for the
Southern crops which supply the earliest de-
mand.
The bulletin divides Dixies production into
three distinct periods, or phases-the early
or truck crop, the later or main crop, and the
fall crops. Describing these, 1t says: 1.-THE
early crop is planted as early as the season
and soil permit, with the idea Of harvesting
it as soon as the tubers have reached mar
ketab1e size The late or main crop is very
ern States and in the more elevated parts of
the more southern of those States. The crop
Is generally planted about as early as the sea-
son will permit and Is allowed to mature be-
fore 1t Is harvested. The fall crops Of potatoes
should be considered under two rather dis
tinct heads, viz, the fall crop proper and the
second crop. The fall crop proper consists of
te-maturing varieties that are chiefly grown
for table use. The second crop consists of
early varieties planted late for the purpose of
providing seed stock for planting the early
crop of the ensuing year, Crop rotation in
the South is of very varied character"
These observations, it should be noted, take
no account of that distinct and peculiarly
Southern wonder Of the potato kingdom, the
sugary yam, the national popularity and value
of which are ever increasing. ..
In this widely favored region especially
marked advantages, as regards both the grow
ing season and climate conditions in general,
belong to Georgia. In the northern counties
the growing season averages two hundred and
ten days; in the central, two hundred and
thirty, and in the southern, two hundred and
sixty. Rainfall averages for the year fifty
one inches, and is so evenly balanced with
sunlight that from two to three harVests are
attainable. If Georgia was not the original
eventual one,
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expressed in repeated approval Of bond issues
for the purpose, may well be considered by
the people of Georgia, especially now that
Alabama is making ready to go forward with
a similar enterprise If our state is not to be
outstripped in this increasingly important
sphere Of service and opportunity, If her farm
ing interests are not to suffer and her industry
and commerce not to lag in comparison with
that of more progressive nelghbors, there
must be action-prompt, vigorous, and united.
The incoming Legislature owes it to the peo-
no longer neglected.
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than farther north the trees refuse to wake up
and to bloom until they have had their yearly
rest Such is the conclusion reached by II. A"
Phillips, of the Cornell University Agrlcul-
tural Experiment Station, and just published
in one of it's bulletins
North of the latitude CT North Carolina and
Tennessee the advent of spring as SHOWN oy
the blooming of the fruit trees advances
northwards at a regular rate depending upon
the altitude above sea level. But southWards
the determining factor seems to be the neeG
of the trees to have dormant period OF den-
mite length :.
Spring comes north at rate or ABOUT l.
degree of latitude, or sixty miles in As days.
that being the average rate OF progression OF
the fruit blooms at equal attitudes. FOE
height above sea level is also big factor'
amounting to one day for every 1O1 feet up
wards.
Fruit trees bloom earlier in the west, even
in the Mississippi valley; the average time for
full bloom for all fruits along the latitude or
New York City, Iowa, and northern California
being March 10 on the Pacific coast, April IL
in the Mississippi valley and April 20 along
the Atlantic coast. =.
The explanation of the delayed blooming N
the south in spite of the early coming OF warm
weather there is declared to be The apparent
need for the tree to complete certain 1mporr
tant life processes which are only carried on
during the dormant period. When they al @
finished the tree is ready to wake up, and 1t is
said to be matter of observation that trees
will respond to warm weather much quicker
in March than in January.-Sclence Service. &
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Saturday-"Surrender"
MY FAVORITE STORIES
BY Irwin Cobb
ON HER OWN MOTIVE POWER

ON HER OWN MOTIVE POWER
l am reliably informed that this one really
happened down in Winston-Salem, which is
the only town in North Carolina that parts
its name with a hyphen. A lady who lives
there was my informant She heard it from
her pantry window one summer afternoon.
Her cook, Aunt Cilly, was sitting in the
kitchen door. The organizer Of a new lodge
was entreating Aunt Cily to become char
ter member. At length and with eIoouence
he painted the advantages of belonging to
the society. He pointed out its manifold
advantages. To begin with, It had a beau
t1tul name made up of noble long words
Its ritual was impressive, its uniform daz-
zllng Practically every member would hold
office, and so forth and so on.
In silence Amt Cilly hardened until the
solicitor ran dry. Then she spoke:
Tell me dis, Br'er Sawyer, befo' you goes
any fu'ther-do els yere lodge of yourn
fune'lize de daid?''
ITO tell you de truth, Sista, we amt got
round to dat part yit," confessed the orator
time we aims to range bout de sick benefits
an de buryin' funl an all dat"
"Br'er Sawyer, bresh by" commanded the
sagacious Aunt Cily. "Yo' new lodge done
lose Its taste fur me already. I members
whut happen to dat shifless fight-haided
piece up dis same street. Yere two yeahs
ago she took an up an fined one of desc
we're new-fangled lodges which a strange
niger got up in dis town, same es whut
yous amin to do now. An dat lodge didn't
specify bout no buryin money. neither
Well, den, Fanny Meriwether haulted off one
day an died widout airy cent of money laid
by fur to fune'lize her. An whut wuz de
upshot, den? wy, she laid round de house
daid fur goin' on three days an den dat pore
gal had to git to de cemetery de best way
she could
(Copyright 1920
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-14

@. When is Fathers Day? EDS
A The third Sunday in June has been set
aside as Fathers lay. Mrs. John Bruce
Dodd was the founder of this day, and the
Y. M. c. A. and Ministerial Association of
Spokane, Wash, brought her idea to the
attention of people throughout the country.
Fathers Day was first celebrated in Spokane
in 1910, and proved such success that in
1914 Congress recognized Fathers Day as a
national institution. colored rose is worn
for living father and white one for one
who has passed beyond.
Q. How ink be made indelble?
H. W. D.
A. BY adding ferrocyanide of potassium to
ordinary ink, indelible writing ink may
be obtained.
@. How many forest fires occur each year?
J. NJ. T.
A The U. S. Forest Service reports that
38, 400 forest fires were reported last year.
and that the average number of forest fires
for the past six years stands at about 800
The area burned over each year totals about
100000 acres.
O. There Is African plant similar to the
milkweed called palay. Is it Of any CONNER
cial value? A. W. H.
A. The palay is tropical climbing plant
belonging to the milkweed family. Its stalk
f1bres, which are strong and white, are spun
into a very fine yarn, and its milky juice
forms kind of caoutchouc. 1t is used for
this purpose in Burma.
@. How does Turkish tobacco differ from
American tobacco? T. U. J.
A. Tobacco Is native to America, and 1t
is not known when nor how it was carried to
Turkey. In the centuries that it has been
there it has lost many of its American char
acteristtcs. It has a much smaller, thinner
leaf, and pungent, spicy taste.
O. Who is the Chicago woman who has
won so much fame big game hunter?
A. Mrs. Martin Johnson, of Chicago, who
has just returned from tour of British East
Africa, successfully has hunted big game,
such as elephants and rhinoceros.
O. What part of the population Of Okla
homa is native born? A. M. w.
A. Slightly less than so per cent of the
population of Oklahoma were born within the
borders Of the state.
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OUIPS AND OUIDDITIES

The night was wild. Every now and then,
over the dark, surging wat came the cry Of
some stray seagull, reaching the shore in one
long wall like the cry of soul in torment.
Against the shore the waves beat with re-
sounding crashes, while every minute the
food crept nearer Nd nearer to the high
cliffs.
They were resting by a rock and seemed
quite unconscious of their danger. They were
apparently too engrossed in their own CONVEX
sation to be aware of the eVer-nearing tide.
Nearer and nearer the all-embracing waves
crept, until at last they almost touched them.
Still, they made no effort to escape until at
last a huge rolling wave, mounting high on
the crest Of it's predecessors, came in with a
laundering crash and swept them away.
When 1t receded mass of angry FOAM they
were no longer to be seem The two crabs had
returned to the sea.
It was Dona1d's first experience in grown
up church, though the little chap had attended
Sunday school. When the collection was be-
ing taken his father placed the weekly family
offering in the plate. The pew was short
one and no other contribution was received
from it, This aroused Donald's curiosity, and
he blurted out, with all the eagerness Of child
hood, trying to understand:
"Pa, did you have to pay for the whole
row."
The foreman Of roundhouse was "break-
ing in" new ] elper. After telling the new
man to put certain engine in the round
house he watched him run the engine partly
in, then back out, just missing another en-
CINE; in again and clear through the other
wall of the house. Said the foreman:
well, why don't you put the engine in?"
t'Why in - didn't you shut the door
when I had 1t in?" was the answer.
Harry, love-" exclaimed Mrs. Knowall to
her husband. II have b-been d-dreadfully
insulted"
"Insulted! By whom?"
"B-by your m-mother," answered the young
wife, bursting into tears
my mother, Flora? Nonsense She's
miles away"
"Flora dried her tears. 'Ill tell you all
about it," she said "a letter came for you
this morning, addressed in your mothers
writing, so II openend it,
"Of course" repeated Harry.
"It-it was written to you all through. Do
you understand"
II understand. But where did the insult
come in?'
I'm the postscript, cried the wife, burst
ing into fresh foods Of tears. ''It s-said,
D-dear Flora, d-dont fail to give this letter
to Harry. 1 wwant him to have it.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-14
A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

He made him Jacob ride the high
places of the earth, that he might eat the
increase of the fields; and he made him
to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out
Of the fIinty rock; butter of kline, and milk
of sheep, Nth fat of lambs, and rams OF
the breed of Bashan, and goats Nth the
fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst
drink the pure blood of the grape. But
Jeshurun NAKED fat, and kicked: thou art
waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art
covered NTH fqtness. Then he forsook
God who made him, and lightly esteemed
the Rock of his salvation. deuteronomy
32I3-f5.
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SHAKESPEARE SAYS

Dron1io-I have but lean luck in the
match, and yet she is wondrous fat mar
rage.
Antipholus.-HoW dost thou mean fat
marriage?
Dromio-Marry, sir, she's kitchen
wench, and all grease; and I know not
what use to put her to, but to make a
lamp of her, and run from her by her own
light. / warrant her rags, and the TALON
in them, nil burn Poland winter; if she
Hpes till doomSday, she'll burn week
longer than the whole word.-C Comedy of
LErrors go.
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Port Terminal enforcement
Needfu7 for States Progress

= JEWS that the supreme court of Alabama
IN has confirmed the right of that state to
issue ten million dollars of bonds for
front again line Of enterprise in which
Georgia is materially concerned Leaders of
our neighbor commonwealth, seeing that 1t
will benefit all interests, agricultural and in
dustrial as well as commercial, to develop
their chief outlet to the world highways of
ocean trade are prepared to go unitedly for
ward to that good end. Legal impediments
having been removed, the strokes Of the build
ers, no doubt will soon be ringing; and when
their 1abors are done, Alabama will hold the
means to a nightly augmented power and
prosperity
Shall Georgia profit by this example, or
continue hating in the face of splendid OPP
portunities? A year ago The Journal was
presenting columns of impressive facts and
figures from the records of state-owned port
terminals at Montreal, New Orleans and else
where, all of which went to show. the value Of
such facilities not alone to the districts in
which they were located, but to the whole
region for hundreds of miles about. The
farmers of Louisiana have rcaped advantages
beyond measure from the improved port serv-
facturers and merchants A movement for en-
iarged and publicly-owned terminals began
years ago when it was realized that for
want Of these the state was tagging and los
ing annually many millions of trade to which
by nature it was entitled.
In 1908, the Legislature proposed and the
people ratified constitutional amendment au-
thorizing for this purpose bond issue of
three and half million dollars. So well was
this fund expended and so valuable the results
1t brought, that five years later another issue
Of three and half million dollars was author
lied for further developments. With this was
constructed cotton warehouse, a grain ele-
vator and kindred facilities which gave the
port and the commonwealth still greater ad-
vantages. Then in 1921, when a new state
constitution was adopted, it was specified
therein that another port bond issue of six
and half million dollars sho, be issued I;
and, moreover, that the port commissioners
shesld have blanket authority to issue bonds
at intervals of two years to the amount which
could be retired by the net revenues of ter
minals, the aggregate being limited to thirty
five million dollars. Thus far to,2l of more
than seventeen and quarter million has been
issued.
This is what the people of Louisiana think
of the desirablity of state action for the de-
velopment Of port facilities Their testimony
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The very small boy, with a penny clutched
in his hot and sticky hand, entered the toy
shop and, standing on tiptoe, inspected the
goods displayed therein. After long look
he did not see anything to satisfy and asked
to see some other things.
Nothing seemed to please him, however,
and at last the shopkeeper lost his patience
and said rather sharply:
"Look here, my lad, do you want to buy
the whole world with your penny?"
The prospective purchaser thought deeply
for moment and then replied:
Lets see it,"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-14
DESTINY'S CHILD
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

What has gone before-Lorry Gren-
vile, even though she has promised to
marry Tom Ransome, is conscious of
strange power that Courtney Herring
ton seems to exert over her. On her
wedding eve Lorry is visited by a
strange girl who tells her things about
Tom that makes it necessary to stop the
wedding.-Now go on with the story.
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% THE TRI- WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS
A rolling pin gathers no dough.

A rolling pin gathers no dough.
Sometimes mans love for horses is but a
hobby.
To have what you want is wealth; to do
without it is power.
some men are like doormats-useful only
for others to walk on.
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MUSINGS OF ABE MARTIN

Before we have any more "ten greatest"
contests let's all git tgether on what con-
stitutes greatness. If some folks profit by
their mistakes they must be awful tightwads-
Copyright, 1929
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"TASHINGTON.-C the modern
wv symbol Of aridity, roamed over the site
of our nations capital hundreds OF
thousands of years ago, DR.. J. W. Gidley,
vertebrate paleontologist of the United States
National Museum, declared here today. Fossil
remains of these animals have been found
widely distributed throughout western Amer
lea, and while apparently not so numerous in
the east, he said, they seem to have been espe-
cially plentiful in what is now Florida and
probably ranged all along the Atlantic coastal
plain to well above Washington.
The structure of the body shown by the
fossil bones Of these native American camels
indicates that they may have been able to go
for long time without drink, like the mod
ships of the desert. They also had pads
their feet adapted to travel over deserts or
beaches, although this continent was probably
not as dry then as now, DR.. Gidley said.
Three distinct types of camel have been
found in North America, he explained. One
appears to have been relative of the camels
living in the old world today; another species
was kin to the llamas now found in South
America; while third extinct kind was much
larger than the other two and looked more
like, although it was not related to, the mod
ern giraffe than the camel as we know it.
Back three million or or SO years ago, the
camels were small, insignificant animals, with
little resemblance to these large camels later
developed here.-Science Service.
SUNLIGHT KILLS BUGS
Nearly everyone has had the experience of
turning over a rotting log in the woods and
finding the under side alive with insects which
prefer to live and to work in the darkness
When the log is lifted over they scurry away
to shady places.
Now the United States bureau of entomoIo-
gy, utilizing this dread of sunlight, has found
out that direct sunlight on logs will in many
cases kill not only the insects on the outside
of the log but those withinin as we'll
Logs act as heat traps. When placed in the
sunlight they let in the heat faster than they
radiate it and SO get hotter and hotter until
they are about 20 to rs degrees above the
temperature of the surrounding air. If the
temperature of the air is up to 80, the inside
Of the log so exposed gets hot enough to kill
all the bugs, or at least all those which do
damage.
The method has been used in the control
Of the western pine beetle on the Pacific coast
and in the prevention of pin-hole defects in
green logs. Damage by other borers to green
and seasoned logs can be prevented in a sim
liar manner, and the treatment has proved eff
fective against the borers which injure
mesquite fence posts in the southwestern
states.
The solar heat method has been practiced
on large scale by several large manufactur-
ing companies under the supervision of the
bureau of entomology and has prevented in
sect damage to a large amount of valuable
timber.-Science Service.
FRUIT TREES SLEEP
ITHACA, N. Y.-Fruit trees must have
south the alarm clock of spring rings earlier
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1t is estimated that by the end of the press
ent century the population of the United
States will have become stationary at from
IT'S, 1000, 900 to 200, 100000