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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
One Detail Overlooked

Gondon Answers) Ethel: "So Arthur proposed last night?" Maud: "Yes."
 Ethel: And did you accept him?" Maud: "I was so awfully excited I don't know whether I accepted him or not. If he comes tonight l did, if he doesn't I didn't"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

The tariff on Christmas presents this year is reported to have been about billion dollars; but it did not include the tax on shoppers tempers nor the burden of disappointment aris- ing from being out-traded. e~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
Mysteries of the Law
(Selma Times-Journal)

The mysteries of the law, like the depths of the consultations, are often beyond human ken. An Alabama judge has held that a criminal and an Inmate of the fed eral penitentiary has committed no offense professionally against the great advocation of the law and may be committed. to practice in the courts of the state. The bar association. which is now sov- ereign over its own household in this state, 1t Is believed will speed fly repair this deficiency in its ethical code,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION

When candidates for congress are elected, they swear to support the con- stitution. It would appear from of ficial records, however, that many congressman hold mental reservations that the document needs general over hauling. During the pre-holiday ses- sions of congress fifty proposed amend ments to the constitution were intro duced. It is hardly probable that more than one or two, if any, of them will is simple matter to propose amend ments to the organic law. To induce two-thirds of the membership of con gress and three-fourths of the state legislatures to indorse them is quite a different proposition, and happily so.
 It is doubtful if the present con- gress, absorbed in many other meas ures of presumably large Importance, will indorse even the three amend ments which President Coolidge in his annual message suggested, if, indeed, any of them are indorsed. They are, l legislation for a minimum wage, pro- hibition of child labor, and discontin- uance of further tax-exempt securities. There is scarcely any possibility of other numerous proposed amendments being seriously considered. They are of great variety and range, running all the way from the abolition of the electoral college to the authorization of five per cent. beer. They will never see daylight, and there will be no pub- lie disappointment over their death in committee.
 May the time never come when the impression is held that under no cir cumstances should the constitution be amended. Times and conditions are rapidly changing. Room must be made for progress. Little less unfortunate would it be for belief to become wide spread that the constitution is so frailly composed and so inadequate in application to the existing order of things that each congress should re- build it. If the people were given the opportunity to abolish any one of the nineteen constitutional amendments, they would probably decline to accept it. How many of the fifty proposed changes to the basic law which have been offered at Washington would be approved if left to popular vote en- tirely free from political entangle- ments, and determined solely on their merits, is problematical; but the num- Der would be small.
 Every safeguard should be thrown around every proposal to amend the constitution, not only by careful and patriotic congressional scrutiny, but by all the caution and analysis that forty eight state legislatures can command The framers of the constitution had this in mind when they provided ways whereby amendments can be made The constitution is not sacred in the sense that it cannot and should not be changed to meet changed conditions. But it would be dangerous for the peo- pie to get the idea that it should be amended to conform to temporary emergencies or popular whims. The statement which The Age-Herald made months ago is worthy of repetition here: "There are too many people in this country who act on the theory that the constitution is unconstitu- l tional."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
Sheep Industry Promising (AUpiatop Ct,rN

Would 1t not be good plan to revive the sheep industry in Cal houn? It would not require a heavy outlay of money on the part of the farmer to put few sheep to grazing on his idle land, and in a few years there would be many sheep in the county and a good increase in income from the sale of wool. which now is bring ing good price. If the South would produce wool as we'll as cotton, the textile industry would soon be centered here. with many woolen mills eager to buy the raw product, as the cotton mills now are taking much of the South's cotton right at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
Some Possibilities
CEufaula Citizanl

(Eufaula Cftizen)
 While a man doesn't see much of girls family when he is court ing, he Is apt to see good deal of 1t when he is housekeeping. and while ire does not marry his wife's father, there is nothing in the marriage vows to prevent the old man from borrowing money from him or his wifes mother from telling his wife how to run her house and boss her husband.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
THE PARAGRAPHERS
About an Even Race
Detroit Free Pressl

Just at present 1t Is about an even race between politics and heresy as to which shall have the more public attention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
Listen. Like Fair Question

(Kansas City Star)
 New York hotel keepers have promised not to raise their rates in case the Democratic national convention is held there. Then why do they want the convention to be held in New York?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
Making n Bolshevlk

(SHelIltIu StdnudTuJ
 During the past year we have heard quite a, bit of comment pro and con regarding the things nee essary to make . bolshevik. In our mind the most speedy way to induce a bolsheviki attitude in the American public's mind is for our congressman and senators to jour ney to Washington and squabble for two weeks regarding who will hold the high offices, and all the while squandering big percent age of the hard-earned tax money that we common people have fed into the government coffers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

!. Conan Doyle is said to have criti- cized James Whitcomb Riley for speaking of children as brats. The word seems appropriate only when
 parents refer to other folks children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
How About It, Girls?

The report that the Prince of Wales may renounce his succession to the throne ia order to marry an American girl may be responsible for the self conscious looks that so many of the girls have been exhibiting lately.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

According to late estimates, nearly twenty-five hundred cases of booze were poured into the sewers as a se- quel to recent prohibition raids in Mo- bile. There is an impression that Q number of political aspirations were flushed along the same route in the DrOcpSg
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

Members of an Alabama church voted in overwhelming majority that the greatest sin is that of the tongue At least, it seems to be the most eff ficient means for the distribution of trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
Different Method Proposed
lWashington Postl

Y
 Instead of leaving it to the ballot, aspirants to the presidency in Mexico just wait for another revolution to bring the chair around to them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
THE ALABAMA PRESS
Mark the Prediction
lHuntsville Timesl

NEuHlSVIIIo IInHeSI
 Trade or no trade. as some Of them charge MT. Ford as to an al l-- legged trade or deal with the Re publican party, we are for Ford for Muscle Shoals against the world. Congress will let him have this great property soon after the holidays. Mark our prediction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
Yes. Sir, That's What It Wa.

(Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph) An old man approached the tick ct wagon on the circus grounds and asked for three seats for the afternoon performance. Sorry, but we're sold out" the ticket seller told him. You mean to say you haven't
 even three seats you can sell mel" That's about the situation" We'll" opined the old man with acerbity, q call that derned poor management.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
Discouraging outlook
(Opelika News)

(Opelika News)
 If we get our school system un- der federal control we will have the experience the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands have had and are having. It Is said that for each teacher actually trying to teach Filipino children there are three supervisors, teachers of teachers and directors of teaching. That's organization, of which we already have too much and at too high cost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
They Probably Remember
(St. Louis Globe-Democratl

est. Louis Globe-Democrat)
 The British. who threaten to tax consuls assigned to their cities, must have forgotten what hap pened when they tried on a pre- vious occasion to tax us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

There is an impression that a good many members of congress did not enjoy their Christmas visits home as much as they had hoped, because of more or less embarrassing demands for explanations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

As in cases of most other disasters, there'll be a lot of talk in Chicago about proper precautions, failure of public officials to provide needful safeguards, and all that sort of thing. But the trouble is that complaints and criticisms arrive too late to help the victims of official neglect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
Problem

When sunshine is blazing on every
 hill And never symptom of winters
 chill And ibreezes are wandering in and out l wonder what ski jumpers think
 about. Il. l.. l..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
E(STE9ErL LIGHTS faL HE 41A,l ANNATIONAL- fIiS . CAPITAL. <7sss

The bill putting the packing in- dustry under government super vision is administered by the sec retary of agriculture, MT. Wallace.
 At the present time, between the packers, who hold that the gov ernment is trying unnecessarily to interfere with their business, and the farmers who believe that the packers are not making just re- turns to them for their calves and pigs, there is great bitterness.
 It would appear impossible that any individual addressing the op- posing factions could heartily please both. Yet MT. Wallace has done that very thing.
 No one doubts that Mir. Wallace Is intrinsically honest. The Demo- cratic national committee, which comments facetiously, and alleges that the secretary used different language in addressing the op- posing bodies, does not allege that the secretary is dishonest.
 It intimates. however, that he Is sitting astride the fence, and batting both the farmers and the packers on the shoulders. It Is alleged. also. that in the begin ming of the presidential campaign this spokesman for the administra- ton could not well afford to of fend either big business or the tillers of the soil.
 Addressing the farmers, Mir. Wallace said: My experience has shown me very clearly the imper- ative need of knowing the pack ers' books. We are charged with the duty of seeing to 1t that no unfair practices are followed. We cannot discharge this duty unless we know what is going on behind the scenes as disclosed by the books"
 The farmers, 1t Is understood, gave three cheers for the secre- tary after that declaration. His language to the packers, however, was not so vigorous. It was all most apologetic. Here Is what he said:
 Now, let me say that I appre- ciate fully the position you take with regard to that (the opening of the books), and I am sympa- thetic with 1t. realize the strength of the argument you make against 1t. Now, if we can agree on that when the final con ference Is held, If you gentlemen feel that your rights are invaded, if you feel that we are exercising autho ority which Is not given under the law, and want to contest that, I want you to feel perfectly free to do so; because I do not want to do a thing that you believe to be an unwarranted intrusion on your business"
 The National Provisioner, report ing the affair, declared the en- thusiasm so great that the assem- bled hosts spontaneously sang 'The Star Spangled Banner"
 The Swift Packing Company shortly afterwards declared that it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
Tickled at n Chance
(Houston Postl

Few men are wild to talk to Mars. The average man will be satisfied with an occasional oppor- tunity to say a word at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
HI Finds It seful. Anyway
Chicago News)

Hiram Johnson Is getting more use out of Europe than anybody else by making of it bugaboo to frlghten timorous folk into his band wagon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

drowned out of usage, because it has no place in an honest resolve to act and live under wholesome standards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

Young and Dawes, who will repre- sent America on the committee of ex- perts to consider the reparations mud
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

dle, are said to be men of thought and action respectively. That is com bination which ought to succeed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

The National Provisioner, report ing the affair, declared the en- thusiasm so great that the assem- bled hosts spontaneously sang The Star Spangled Banner"
 The Swift Packing Company shortly afterwards declared that it would resist at law the intention of the government to investigate its books.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

Now that the jitneys are definitely out of the way, we presume there's nothing to hinder return to the old hit-or-miss street-car schedules.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

Anybody like to buy good second hand courthouse? Jefferson county board has one for sale cheap. Lowest offers carefully considered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
Resolutions? Yes, we haven't al

tive effort on anything SC fragile.
 Resolutions? Yes, we haven't any. The trouble with so many of us is that we have too many hangovers from the old year-especially old debts, old obligations and old habits. An old habit is often the most compelling and thwarting obligation of all.
 Perhaps our best New Years policy should be off with the old habits rather than on with the new resolu- tions.
 Too much emphasis in the past has been laid on Janary 1, when resolu- tions are made, rather than on Jan uary 2, when resolutions are broken.
 If we can pass over January2 with out any collapse of hastily built edifice of the day before, we shall be so much ahead.
 Therefore, let's swear off.
 Of course, we may make resolu- tion or so even on New Years Day, but 1t will be an ordinary homespun, and not New Years, resolution.
 The trouble with New Year resolu- tions is that they are artificial and do not proceed from an actual desire or purpose. To many they are a mere formality of swearing off, rather than a definite program of constructive effort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

One fine thing about this holiday season is that it marks also con- gressional recess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

If it's the public's business, it's no. body's business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
Ihl5S5sc)RCH BEARER.

We have resolved not to make any resolutions this New Years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

We note that the lifting of the street-railway receivership is indefi- nitely delayed. Must have the viaduct disease.
 The chief ailment affecting public enterprises in Birmingham is the sleeping sickness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

We decline to spend our construc tive effort on anything sc fragile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
THE AGE-HERALD

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala, post office ss second-class matter under act of Con- gross. March s, 1879.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-27
THE JUNK MAN

In New York the Waste Paper Dealers Association, UNI
able to compete with the Salvation Army on prices, petition
the attorney general to take a hand. They claim that the
Salvation Army, by conducting a big waste paper business, is
violating the provisions of the act under which it was created
as a religious and charitable corporation.
For insance, in one case, the Army bid $137 per 100
pounds for old paper, while the next highest bid, by a CONNER
cial competitor, was only 65 cents per 100 pounds.
The average reader will not be interested in the techni-
calties of this squabble. But it will be both interesting
and astonishing, that the collection of waste paper in New
York City alone is a 15-million dollar industry.
The Salvation Army is reconstructing a seyen-story build
ing in New York City to house and provide working facilities
for 10 down-and-outers also to include a store where the
poor can buy salvaged and repaired clothing and household
goods at very low prices.
The money for this construction job-$30,OO0-was OBJ
tanned by collecting waste paper at the back doors of New
York households.
Look at your waste basket. 1t is a symbol of one of the
chief ways by which big fortunes will be made IN the future.
We have been so blessed with rich natural resources that
we have gone along carelessly for generations and are only
beginning to open our eyes to the possibilities OF economy by
the salvage route.
This is true of all industries, in varying degrees.
For instance. the early farmers in America mined the soil
rather than farmed it. They sapped the very life from Won
derfully rich and fertile eath-drained 1T OF the best part Oh
there has been any widespread movement to replenish the
soils richness by commercial fertilizer.
There's a saying that Europe could 1--we on the 1000 We
Americans waste in our garbage pals. An exaggeratlon, yes;
bnt It illustrates a true principle. Slowly, however, we are
learning to economic with food, though a period OF pros
nernv quickly starts the garbage pals overtlowlng.
The cream has been SKINNED from our natural resources.
Scientific economy is becoming compulsory. And economy
IN a big scale will be worked out in the laboratories. A ire
mendous start has already been made IN that direction.
Our future gold mines will be IN the waste basket, the
garbage pail, the ash heap and the trash pile.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-27
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World
BY GEORGE BRITT
NEA Service Writer

NEA OCEfICC WLICA
Chicago-HorSe racing again is in
! progress here 1t is a carefully su-
pervised variety of racing, with ell
forms of public betting prohibited
but it gives lovers of the thorough
breds a chance to watch them per-
form on the old Hawthorne track
instead of having to journey down
to Kentucky
With the racing having returned
the well known tips and the still
moro cherished lunches" The
priz, story of a hunch concerns a
hookmaker who placed a few wagers
in his own book.
The bookie and a friend a res
taurant proprietor. werS lunching in
the latter's place, with a bottle OF
old time Bourbon for company
Swimming his eye down the raciag
sheet, the restaurateur found the
entry, Bourbon Boy. A bunch!
They drank to success from the
Bourbon bottle and placed a bet.
Bourbon Boy staggered across the
line a winner and the book paid at
the rate of tn to l.
Corn on the list and followed their
bunch. King Corn came rolling in
at the head of the procession .
The next day they hel danother
| session. Here's Demijohn, shout
ed the restaurant man, and they
laid down their money. Demijohn
reeled home of course, with odds
well advanced.
The next day (patience friends.
this is the last race and the frater-
nifty vouches for the story as au-
thentic Gull Again was listed on
sheets. They obeyed the impulse
4 md ENI1I A Oain Caf on fnfnvinaffnn
pace and arrived an easy winner.
Every one of the Punches too was
played in the bookmaker's book.
The warlike temperament may or
may not perform according to ex-
pectations. General Gouraud, who
just visited Chicago in the course
of his American tour, undoubtedly
has the temperament, but observe its
manifestation .
The general was taken to visit the
stockyards and packing houses DIS
are virtually all distinguished visi
tors to the city. NJ. ClemenceAg,
THE Tiger" had been taken there
last year and he displayed the ut
most interest in the process of TAX
ing the lives of pigs.
General Gouraud, seeing the pro-
cess here, asked no questions and
walked quickly away. And he had
been on the front for nearly five
years!
The University or Illinois at Ur-
bana releases this story. relayed TO
Chicago through one of the city's
most truthful literary editors.
A member of the university fac
ulty came to the librarian seeking a
poem
II don't remember the author nor
the title nor the first line nor even
the subject" he said. "All I can re-
member of it is some of us call t
autumn.
Perhaps it is this" suggested
the librarian, "Others Call 1t Go l"
It was
Tom Hennebry, retired farmer
and deputy United States marshal,
is taking his first vacation from the
marshaPs Office in 10 years.
perhaps I'll run down to West
Baden for a little outing" he told
the office force when he quit work
the night before the vacation period.
Bright an early the next morning
Tom strolled in to visit and see how
things were going in the office That's
where he finallyy decided to go-just
for a change.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-27

definite articles, perhaps Jewels
which were used as part Oh the
breastplate of the high priests.
@. How long will 1t be before
any more Poles can come to TINS
country? A. H. c.
A. Sufficient vises have been
granted to prospective Immigrants
from Poland to exhaust the quota
for the entire fiscal year. 1t would
not be possible for a Pole to obtain
a wise until the next fiscal year.
The new quota will go into erect
July 1, 1924.
@. How old were Martha Custis'
children when she married George
Washington? Il. w. w.
A. They were aged nine and
seven.
@. Is it possible to have an ugly
nose remodeled? G. B.
A. The Public Health Service
a that the most satisfactory re-
suits in so-called remodeling OF
noses has been done by plastic sur
geons by performing what is known
as a n~itro-nasal operation. The
skin on the bridge of the nose Is
lifted and corrected, and the bone
is supplied to fill out a dished nose
and removed in the case of a hump.
Cartilage is removed If a hooked
nose is the trouble. A small formed
niece of light aluminium is firmly
strapped over the nose Tor a rev
days to hold it in the desired shape
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-27

consumption has been due to cellar
wine making, not candy.
Duplicated
Where is Cleveland? Twenty-Five
states each have a city bearing this
name. There are 20 Buffalos, ii Dem
gers, Z Detroits, 6 Philadelphia and
2 Chicagos. Also IT Berlins, IL
Moscows and Is towns named Paris.
In addressing mail, be SUR to
write the state as well as city or
town.
$4,000
Do you really realize how gigantic
our country is? In the United States
are So, 900 communities large enough
to have postofices. The marvel is,
that the postmen make as few mis-
takes as they do.
1t is almost beyond imagination
to picture $4,000 communities. And.
In each, the majority OF the inhabi-
tants probably think that theirs is
the best community in the world.
We are a great deal like the ants,
though not as prolific. Also. it is de-
batable which of the two, ants or
men, nave LH6 SupSIlOl GANAAAAdlAOAe
Building
In the last six months 1910 mil
lion dollars worth of new building
construction was started in the 1853
leading cities. 1t was a gain of near
ly a third, compared with the first
half of last year, but when you make
allowances for increased building
costs it is doubtful whether there
has been more actual building than a
year ago.
The average American seem to
prefer to own his own auto instead
of his own home. May be more sem
sible, at that.
Custom
Seasonal building operations are
due to custom rather than the< in
huence of weather, reports the
Hoover committee, which has been
trying to figure out a way to stabilize
the building trades-give them year.
round work instead of idle part OF
the year and overworked the rest Of
the time.