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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
BIRMINGHAMs TRADE OUTLOOK

It is a fortunate coincidence for Dir mingham that the new break-bulk bonded warehouse should be adver- fsed simultaneously with the conven- 4ion in this city of the Alabama Mer- chants Association The warehouse i3 ione of the contributing factors to Bir- Yningham's ability to sell wholesale to Rhe trade within a reasonable radius. The merchants coming here were able At first hand to sample Birmingham's g offering of trade wares and to com pare prices with those elsewhere. Bir- ssninghams best hope of winning , wide trade among Alabama merchants ds the ability to offer high grades of merchandise at attractive prices. If EEnoney talks, so does the price tag. EAlabsma's buyers of goods at whole Esale were evidently favorably im- pressed with Birmingham as center Nor distribution. That impression can be capitalized to the mutual profit of buyer and seller.
 The commercial organizations of Birmingham are further strengthening their ability to offer attractive prices by urging upon state and federal rate commissions such legitimate rate ad- 1ustments as will enable this city to send goods to nearby points at less cost than at present. Birmingham oc- cupies strategic transportation posi- tion, being able both to receive and distribute goods with expedition. It remains only for the wholesalers and retailers alike to take such concerted. uniform and persistent action as will turn our theoretical advantages into concrete realities. Much has been done; much remains to do. It will pay to do it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
THE TARIFF THE REAL Iss,1F

They are going to have a "compre- hensive" investigation into the cost of producing sugar beets in the United States. This job is in the hands of the traiff commission, which explains that it's inquiries will be different from the many others and will be for purposes of the so-called flexible provisions of the tariff act" of 1922. While the extent of the inquiry will include producing costs from the ag- rioultural standpoint, and may be re- garded as having some bearing on rates of duty on sugar imports, the commission declares that this is to be far-reaching proposition, but gave out nothing as to the purpose of the data.
 The tariff commission appears to be quite efficient in gathering data in which the public has little interest and from which it receives little or no benefits. Such inquiries are as nu- merous as they are useless. What the public needs and graves is relief from prices that soar under the influence of vicious tariff system playing di- rectly into the hands of combines and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
MOTHERS OF FAMOUS
 MEN

Mother of Ethan Allen Hitchcock
 we must name the boy after my father!" said the mother in 179s when Ethan Allen Hitchcock was born. "Certainlyw promptly agreed the father. Why, of course they would name. the baby after Ethan Allen!" said all the friends and neighbors.
 Ethan Allen had made a name for himself when he demanded the British to surrender "In the name of God and the continental con- gressw He was sturdy old fighter in the days of the Ameri- can revolution, willing to go to any extent in order to set the American colonies free from what he regarded as uncomfortable ty- ranny.
 Everyone in Vermont was proud of Ethan Allen, and so it was the most natural thing in the world that his daughter should name her baby after her great father. She had married a lawyer named Hitchcock. and she looked ahead to days of unwonted prosperity. For her new born son she could see nothing except a rosy future. She did not know that he wouli grow up into another warrior like | her father. She could not foresee the Mexican War nor the Civil War, the most dreadful of all. in which her son was to play a man. | ly part. and to keep the name of Ethan Allen unsullied.
 Her father had been a soldier, that she knew; and it was reason able for her son to wish to become a soldier. It was a proud day when the boy set off for the mili- tary school at West Point He could remember his grandfather | old Ethan Allen. He remembered very clearly the day when the old general and made Ethan Allen a Lake Champlatn on a load of hay and had been driven up to the door of his home-stone dead That had been a frightful discov- | cry. Through his mother Ethar Allen Hitchcock carried on the l spirit of the old revolutionary general and made Tthan Allen a modern synonym for patriotism It pays to carry on a family tradi- | tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
Her Wholesome Writings
(Kansas City Star)


 The popularity of the stories of Kate Douglas Wiggin stands as a refutation of the convenient theory of too many writers that fictional literature must cater to bad taste and worse If 1t is to be successful Mrs. Wiggin's books are enter taining, interesting, faithful DOT trayals of American life and are that while being sound art and wholesome teaching. The stories of the gifted and prolific writer are what are called love stories, and her success in them ought to convince the writers who deal in romance that a love story is not necessarily a sex story. Some confusion has existed in literary minds on that point, we believe, a confusion that has been commu- nicated to the minds of some read CTS; and if the literary and ma terial~ success that came to Mrs. 1 Wiggin can help to dIspel that confusion this loved American fu- thor will have conferred an added honor on the literature of her aa- tive land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
PINcHoT HAS MILAN

Tomorrow is the day set for the walkout in the anthracite fields, pro- vided no agreement is reached or in sight by midnight tonight The miners at last reports had not agreed to the operators suggestion that the mines continue pending final agreements, the decisions to be retroactive to Sep tember I. This is an eminently fair proposal and recognizes the necessity of observing the public right in the premises. There is hope, however, that the proposals of Governor Pinchot will furnish the basis for adjustment and contracts for at least one year, during which further study of the situation is recommended.
 Although the miners originally de- manded a wage increase of twenty per cent, Mir. Pinchot suggests an in- crease of ten per cent. with an eight hour day. This increase will add ap- proximately sixty cents a ton to the cost of coal at the mine. The mines operating on the widest margin can absorb half of this, according to the governor, and the smaller mines can absorb smaller proportions down to as low as ten cents per ton. The rest of the sixty cents is to be absorbed in transportation and distribution, so that the public will not have to pay any more for it's anthracite than at present. MT. Pinchot says that he has before him the complete data gathered by the Pennsylvania department of mines and the department of labor, by the federal coal commission, and by the miners and operators them selves. Accordingly, it may be taken for granted that he knows what he is talking about when he says that the wage increase can be absorbed without adding to the retail cost of coal. Whether the operators and dkalers can be made to absorb the increase re- mains to prove.
 To the thoughtful observer the most important part of the recommends tion is not that pertaining to details of immediate settlement, but to the program of further study for the pur3 pose of solving some of the underlying problems of the industry that will continue to be troublesome unless they are solved. On that point MT. Pinchot says: "The whole body of wage rates in the anthracite field is antiquated haphazard and honeycombed with in- equality. It needs revision. I sug- gest that the anthracite conciliatiol board be authorized by the joint wage scale committee to undertake and com. plete within a year thorough re, vision, and for that purpose be sup, piled with the necessary help" It is evident that there will always be dis satisfaction, turmoil and periodic threats of strike, unless there is 3 thoroughgoing reform in the whole situation. There is something con- structiye and helpful to do, if the au- thorities will only be persuaded to do it..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
ONE TRICK A DAY

Holding the coin you have been using in your right hand, you ap- pear to place 1t In the left; in stead of doing so. however. you palm 1t. Close the left hand as if it contained the coin, and then say that you will pass 1t from that hand into your vest pocket; show the hand empty and then with the same hand take the duplicate coin from the pocket. The other coin, you will remember. remains palmed in the right hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
Record of Adult schools
(Anniston Star)

AAuHlSlOii 0ldIJ
 The adult schools conducted in rural districts of Alabama are do- ing a wonderful work. They are enabling grown people who did not have opportunity in their youth to learn what every grown person should know-how to read and write and figure-to learn these things and a great many already have learned them through the adult schools. The adult schools should be given the hear tiest support. Their scope of use fitness should be enlarged. Their number should be increased. Through them illiteracy in Ala bama can be conquered in . few years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31


 Jury Duty His name was called, he faced the judge. He said: "Your honor, if you please, My wife is sick, my youngest son broke both his legs below the knees;
 The cook has left, the dog got loose and bit neighbor on the shin, A friend of mine has bruised his foot -I promised him patch of skin. No doubt the surgeons waiting now ito fail him thus would be a crime;
 So would your honor please excuse from jury duty at this timer" He got letter in the mail. It read Dear sir, you are selected To serve as judge upon a case which we believe has been neglected. He closed his desk and grabbed his hat-he didn't even call his chauffeur, Because, he said, "I fear 'twould take too long. to get the lazy loafer.'' To be bathing beauty judge at once enthused this crass old sinner, First to arrive and last to leave, who in his zeal forgot his dinner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
JOHN-A-DREAMS
Dreams of a Harbor

I do not presume that to the girl who lives, in contentment and to the woman who Is happy in her home life, a dream showing her a harbor pr a port can mean very much.
 To her, however, who is care ridden, whose life is disturbed by troubles and discordant notes, who has been longing for peace and quiet. only to find turmoil and dis satisfaction from the moment she rises to the last waking minute of her work day, this vision is a har- binger of the fulffflment of a cherished wish. It means that she will at last find the rest she craves, the quietness which will heal her soul. the care and the attention which will smooth the wrinkles of her brow, and bring smiles into her tired eyes.
 This dream is, of particular sig nificance to the woman whose married life is not very happy. From a most fortunate combina- tion of circumstances the causes of her unhappiness will vanish one by one, those who have neg lected her will again give her the love and devotion she deserves. If she has material troubles they will be removed. and if there $ illness in the house there win either be a cure or a death which, sad thought it may be, will prove relief both to the sufferer and those about him or her. Do not be disturbed by the fact that the waters of the harbor as they ap- pear in your dreams may not be peaceful do not let towering waves or tossing ships blind you to the fact that the dream is a happy one. Any disturbance seen Tn it's course refers to the troubles you have and does not change the fact that you will soon sail into the port of contentment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
Cnn Live Mithout It

NDtMOpOIIS IlmeSI
 The Bonner Sunday bill failed to pass the senate by one vote. It was called the Blue Law" by it's enemies, but the principal bl1c thing about 1t is that 1t would interfere with Sunday baseball and picture shows in a few of the bigger towns. We'll, we have ex- issed under present conditions, and it is not supposed that tho world will stop on account of the action of the Alabama legislature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
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 Ina &lA Ezg@l1~ G ASA G$S

The legislature is not moved by maudlin arguments that grade cross ings kill people. The legislature is moved by the fact that to build via ducts would cost the railroads money.
 But did the legislature ever stop to think that some of these people killed at crossings may have been voters?
 Once upon a time romance and hunting went hand in hand. Coral isles in uncharted seas, blood and tempest, buccaneers and pieces of eight! Now they salvage buried gold with flock of scientific instruments supelfntended by an expert account ant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
The Seed nnd Harvest

Senator Underwood said what was very true, when he spoke in Memphis: 'Let a man shirk re- sponsibility to his family, to his neighbor or to his country. and in the end he will pay for 1t. A na- tion is only men in the millions. If our country shirks her respon- sibility among the nations, she will pay for it dearly" Briefly, we pay for what we get. and suf- fer for what we fail to do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

The Kansas City woman from whom surgeons removed sections of wire, hairpins and door-bolts, is not the first person who made junk-pile of the stomach, judging from scenes at some of the quick-lunch counters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
ALL SHAbES
 @ of OPINION
A Gifted Lady eva shington Post)

Mrs. Wiggin was similarly gifted and versatile lady. She was poet as well as a novelist and dramatist, and was both a com poser of music and a fine singer and instrumentalist. In addition, she always took lively and prae- tical interest in the promotion and spread of the kindergarten sys- tenn of education. The loss of such a personality to the realms of lit- erature, art and pedagogy Is a great one, and her unexpected death will be sincerely and widely l deplored.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
The FishIng senson

(Greenville Advocate)
 The fishing season this year has been shot to pieces. None but the most courageous will venture to the creek this summer, and fried fresh water fish has been scarce in Butler, where the water is never right any more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
A Wise Move

IGduSuen IImes-NeWSJ
 The Alabama house of repre- sentatives Is to be congratulated for it's action in passing the en- abling act for the development of the port at Mobile. If the senate will pass the act in the same form as the house has done the state will be fortunate. The pres ent harbor commission of seven members would be superseded by a docks commission of five mem bers. There is no occasion for dis satisfaction at the action of the house in this instance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

It seems hardly fair to @hold Ellis Island responsible for the disappoint- ments of immigrants to whom traffic departments of steamship lines painted wonderfully inspiring pictures of ben efits at excursion rates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

Whenever the consumer begins to get little benefit from price wars, there comes howl about combines undertaking to injure independents, but nobody seems to be concerned for the consumers injuries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
THE FARMER DOES NOT WHINE

It would be we'll for those who ad- vocate uneconomic and unsound meas. ures for the relief of the wheat far mer to learn the actual facts regard ing his condition. For example, it is reported that the banks in Kansas are Ioaning wheat farmers adequate sums for their requirements, and that where farmers pool their wheat in storage they can obtain plenty of credit. Ger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
Mistreating Animals

N1ACCaihD CbSNA NNAJ
 Those who mlstreat a dumb an- imal are violating a state law and are subject to punishment. Those who are inclined to torture, dogs or other dumb brutes for sport might paste this in their hat for future reference.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
|CPRLIcHTS TSEal Ac7J
 ANNATIONAL q . CAPITAL.q

In an effort to moline the mo- l torist to press lightly on the car bureter, Maryland Virginia and the District of Columbia have planted on all highways striking signs and signals.
 The newspapers. for instance, contributing their part of the cam paign for the prevention of acci- dents, have marked each curve, | bridge and grade crossing with electric lights which flash every second.
 As result of 1t all, a motorist who is not impressed is callous. The plan should be adopted throughout the nation.
 As an automobile driver speeds out of Washington on one of the bikes, he Is confronted with sig nal reading: This road is not ool-proof."
 Instantly, the aforesaid driver, if he is not a fool, will slow down, even if for a moment. A mile or | two further he reads: "The man around the curve wants to live, even if you do not"
 As you enter practically all of the little towns in the environs of Washington, you are cautioned: Drive slowly and see our city: drive rapidly and see our judge"
 The sign Is sometimes changed to read undertaken" instead of judge"
 Of course the jokesmith gets in his little dig.
 Coming into Washington from Marlboro-Just as one rounds sharp curve, a large sign in very bold letters, orders:
 Stop"
 The driver slows down, of course. And then he reads the smaller type. and is informed where the best steamed oysters may be obtained In the capital"
 The sad part of 1t all Is that the address Is wrong. Once upon a time, in the good old days, as an epicure declares, & visitor could get the best steamed oysters at the place in question.
 But those days are gone for ever" as the comic strip advises.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
A Gronn of HIfnD
IGadsdnn InmrnaIN

Northeast Alabama can boast of as fine crops just now as have ever been seen in this section. If the army worm and the caterpillar and the boil weevil and the cotton spectators and the weather and a few other circumstances can be controlled, Alabama farmers will have fat pocketbooks this fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

Now that everybody has commented on President Cooidge's action in turning over to Governor Pinchot the hard-coal problem for solution, it is strange that in all the motives sug- gested nobody seems to have imagined
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
THE ALABAMA PRESS ON THE LEGISLATURE
Sweet to Think Of
(Dothan Eagle)

But there is one thing this sec- tion is reasonably sure of, when there Is plenty of rain, and that is sugarcane, which insures plenty of the syrup that has made South Alabama different from other sections.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

A "shoot-to-kill" order by San Fran cisco's chief of police to his patrolmen reduced that city's hold-ups and other vicious crimes more than ninety-nine per cent. It appears that bandits, stick-up men and other thugs are un- willing to take chances on their own medicine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
Perhnp. so

(Memphis Commercial Appeal)
 Senator Hiram Johnson says he is willing to give Coolidge the op- portunity to make good. But wouldn't "Hi" be terribly disap- pointed If the president made the most of the opportunity?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
Big Improvements
(Hnntsville Timeal

Just as soon as a new system of streets, sewers, sidewalks and other developments in keeping with Greater Huntsville spirit can be laid out and gotten under way, you'll see a new and buoyant enc thusiasm here that will spell a city five times the size of Hunts vile in less than ten years, no matter if Henry Ford never comes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

It is reported that Hiram Johnson is discouraged over his prospects for the presidential nomination. Some political aspirants have way if worrying over literally nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

Belgium's recent reparations note to Britain may be summed up as the expression of desire for continued peace through payment to the Belgium government of the price it paid to stop continual wars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

They are gong to build an apart ment hotel for bachelor girls in New York with special place for Spoon ing" How could bachelor girls utilize all that waste space?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

Announcement that Colonel Harvey will return to his diplomatic post at London reminds the American people that they may asswell revive their ex- planation and apology departments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

Even though former Secretary of Agriculture Meredith should win his suit against Senator Brookha1t, it is believed that it would require more than thirty cents to induce the sena- tor to tone down his volubility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

An exchange says that President Coolidge is the logical Republican can didate. At least, he occupies the logi- cal position from which to toss his hat into the ring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

The more politics injected into the schools, the less of everything but politics the pupils will learnT already too much of that subject is known in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
Not Really a Race

"Leviathan Wins Over Olympic by IA Hours"
 Official announcements: "The White Star Line today denied that the Olym- pie had raced the Leviathan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
THE PARAGRAPHERS
Dressed Up and Waiting

Mexico has put on its Sunday clothes, has greased its hair and polished its boots. It stands at the threshold and Is coming in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
m Lonkn Sn

(Knoxville Sentinel) It is almost certain that Mark Twain could have done something with Southern Republican named c. Bascom Slemp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

Another gangster war has started in New York. If this one should be Q fight to the finish of both sides, the law-abiding public would be satisfied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

that the president may have been &C., tuated by desire to spare consumers from cold feet physically as we'll as politically.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
Nip and Tuck

Cleveland Plain Dealer)
 The president proposes to de- liver his first message to congress in person; and then each member of the opposition will tear it to pieces in person.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
A subntituta
(Tampa Tribune)

lIampa Iribune) Now that Will Hays has ruled against the movies showing any more MexicanS as villains. the films can fall back on congress men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
IF THEY ARE WORTH TAKING

(BoSton transcript The man who is willing to take things as they come frequently finds that some one else has headed him off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

A Connecticut fisherman should not be censured because he caught large bass with hens egg in it's stomach; l; this is not the spawning season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

It seems difficult to keep politics out of anything the coal bin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
A Sure Sign

(Atlanta JournaD If a mans children turn out half as bad as he was at their age, he thinks that the world is growing worse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31

There are indications that the legis- lature is thinking about getting to work after the political frolic is over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-31
Quite Doubtful

IArkansas Gazette)
 On the othervhand, we doubt whether any man can be as silent as America expects Coolidge to be.