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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-21
LOCAL DATA

For the 24 hours ending at p. m., December 20. 1928:
 Highest temperature ............... 63 Lowest tenperature ......... 51 Mean temperature ................. y Normal temperature .......... 46 nary '..p:. '..C 11o Rainfall - ...... co Total rainfall since January 1...57. 75 Excess in rainfall since January l.. 9 S1 Relative humidity, ' a. m. ....... 9S
 noon .s......,.. ............... o9 Dry thermometer, 2 a. m. ........ 54
 12 noon ............... 60
 D. m ....,...... 63 Wet thermometer a. m. ........ 53
 12 noon 58
 4 D. m .............. 61 Summary of observations made at sta tions of United States Weather Bureau during the "A hours ending at p. n., 90th meridian time, December 20, 1923
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-21
"Now this is what | call

The shoemaker was right. There is no magic secret about Arnold Glove-Grip Shoes. They are made as any shoe ought to be made. But no other shoe is like them be- cause the Glove-Grip feature is patented. Lacing a Glove Grip Shoe lifts up the arch instead of pressing it down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-21

JOseph M. HOustOn-Remains or Joseph NJ. Houston, 65, who died late Wednesday night at local in firmary, were sent to Town Creek, Ala, early Thursday morning by Johns for interment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-21

'. l., Lowe-Remains of J. l.. Lowe, S6, who died Wednesday. at local in-
 firmary, were sent to Dora. Ala, Thursday by Brown for interment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-21

Miss OdeIia Buck-Remains Of Miss Odelia Buck, 66, who died Wednes- day night at the residence of her neice, Mrs Ray Schultz, 2719 Juni- per avenue, were sent to Fayette- vile. Ala, Thursday morning by Johns for interment. Besides Mrs. Schultz, Miss Buck is survived by a brother and several nieces and nephews.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-21

Paper -mache is taking the place of ice in the shipping of fresh figs from the Pacific to the Atlantic coasts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-21
William Henry Masters-Remains of

William Henry Masters, b2, Who died Wednesday at a local infirm- ary, were sent to Carbon Hill Thursday by Johns for interment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-21

Joseph Franklin Pickett - Funeral services for Joseph Franklin Pick ett, 61, who died Wenesday morn ing at his residence on the Tennes- see Pike, will be held at 10 o'clock Friday morning from the residence, followed by interment in Mt. Pinson cemetery with Brown in charge. i
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-21

With all the comfort in Glove-Grip Shoes, there is no sacrifice of good looks. They are carefully made of the best materials and workmanship, and fashioned in all the newest shapes and feathers. There are models for both men and women, most of them priced from $S. 50 to$11.5O
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-02

tBy Pacific & Atlantic) The above illustration shows Italian guard of honor at Naples receiving body of ex-King Constantine of Greece, who died in Sicily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-14

for some time indicates that the ex- perience has been encouraging.
 The firm intending to build a mill on the Warrior has a large one in Louisiana, and this concern enjoys the reputation of knowing what it is aboNt. It has ample capital, it employs the best engineering talent and has means of making exhaustive survey before entering into a new field. So, while the paper industry of the South is not yet among it's proven and per manent activities, it appears to hold out prospect of becoming one. More complete surveys of the supply of second-growth yellow pine will dis close the amount of available raw ma terial and the development of greater interest in this second-growth pine may lead to a more systematic plan of forest preservation and prevention of the fires that tend to destroy that growth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-14
BESSEMER EXPANDS

The city of Bessemer has held a leading position in the building of homes and the expansion of public school facilities this year and has sev- eral new industries also to mention. A total of approximately $1,50O,OOO is reported involved in new buildings and other projects in the past six months and now under way. These include new high school and a negro school. A structural steel plant has been built and pipe shops have been enlarged. Several hundred residence permits have been issued. New high ways between Birmingham and Bes- semer are among the materializing projects. It has been very satisfac- tory half-year in Bessemer, and de- velopment has been along solid and permanent lines. Bessemer is an inn portant iron and steel manufacturing center and in the midst of the county's richest ore and coal fields. Assem- blaze of raw material for manufac- turing purposes is possible at as low cost as anywhere in the valley. As Bessemer expands, it and Birmingham become closer knit and that relation ship is good for both cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-14
JOHN-A KOREANS
preams of Telling q Tree

A great resolution, made by you long ago during the time, per haps, when your character was formed, will be broken down by force of circumstances If you dream of felling a tree. It does not matter whether it is great oak. or a slender sapling; 1t does not matter whether you cut it down with a pocket knife or fell it with an ax; the meaning of the vision Is always the same. I do not care to go into detail regard ing this dream, but I will give you one example referring to one of my readers. This woman was ex- ceedingly proud, and the last thing that would ever have entered her mind was to plead with a man for his affections. She was strictly religious, she was independent in her thoughts, and she had always been taught from childhood up that love must be an emotion of full reciprocity, otherwise 1t was neither worth having nor giving.
 This woman married and her husband turned out to be a scamp nc llOl OlllN lGdItd lltl y, but he continued his associations with other girls whom he had known before his marriage. Fin ally he left her. Every fiber in this woman's heart and soul re- strained her from seeking a re- conciliation. Shortly after she had been deserted she dreampt of felling a tree. A few weeks later she was seized with such an un- controllable longing for her hus- band that she forgot all her good resolutions, pocketed her pride, ran the danger of being maltreat- ed and abused once more and searched him out, begging him on her knees to return to her. I do not know the outcome of this tragic incident. All I do know Is that she dreampt of felling a tree and that 1t was inevitable that she should do exactly as she did She was no longer a free agent of her will.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-14

are numerous so-caled mashers and ielly-beans who womld at once dis cover need for the latest eye treat ment, if this new process were gen. orally accepted. Who could say defi- nitely whether they were actuated by scientific or romantic' motives?
 Of course, it might be possible to turn entirely around flor winking pur- poses on the approach of pretty lassie or a handsome matron, so as to avoid any misunderstanding. Or waiting for plenty of vacant space ir front might solve the problem. As 8 general proposition, however, the safer policy is to ignore the scientists rec ommendation and treatathe eyes other wise than by winking, thus escaping more strenuous treatment growing out of misinterpretation of the situation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-14
CLEANUP SHOWS RESULTS

Reports of municipal cleanup week indicate that Birmingham is a fairer, cleaner city than it was last Monday yoorning. In spite of the hot weather the work has progressed in manner over which the officials express satis- faction. The chief value of such a cleanup is lost, however, if it does not result in more attention paid to keeping public and private premises cleaner the year around. If every property owner, renter and manage ment paid regular attention to prop erty cleanliness and orderliness the task would be a small one and would call for none of these annual spasms that go the round of the country. It is unfortunate that the municipality itself is not in position to point the finger of scorn at the careless owner
 rivate property, for then the mu-
 tal influence would be far more
 erful. The dumps especially re-
 t a willingness to take the easiest
 which detracts greatly from the
 ample the commission might other
 sci
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-14
PEOPLES FORUM
The Texaa Cnffon Crnn

To the Editor of The Age -Herald
 have just returned from a trip to Dallas and, judging from crop conditions as I saw them near Dallas and from nearly all reports from numerous sources that l re- ceived, the crop in Texas is at this time most promising. The corn crop Is good and the cotton crop has been making excellent pro- gress, growing a strong. healthy plant and fruiting rapidly with the favorable warm weather which we have been having of late, While some state that a few timely showers would be beneficial the crop, for the most part. is not yet suffering from lack of mois- ture, as there seems to be still sufficient moisture in the ground to properly take care of the growth of the plant for a while longer. There is very little com plaint of insect damage, and from personal inspection of some of the squares in the fields I noticed that in some cases where the squares were punctured the grub
 
 There are all sorts of predic- tions regarding the size of the crop, ranging from four million bales to fantastic figures, while more conservative estimates seem to range from four to four and a half million bales, provided the crop continues to make satisfac- tory progress. Some say that there may be even less than four million bales should serious dam age occur, but it seems to be an accepted fact that with continued satisfactory progress Texas will raise between four and four and half million bales, with always a possibility of exceeding this amount somewhat should condi- tions continue ideal. Everybody you meet seems to be in cheer full frame of mind and more or less enthusiastic regarding the prospects of year of prosperity.
 F. B. NORMAN.
 New Orleans, La, July g, 1923.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-14
NOT DOING WHAT IT CAN

The contention that the city gar bage dumps could be administered Tn a more efficient manner than at pres ent, and without materially adding to the expense is upheld by the testl- mony of MT. Walter R. Brasseu of Montgomery, one of the most expe- rienced and reliable of public sanitary executives in the South. MT. Brassell prefers the burning of garbage, to be sure, but very clearly shows how Mont gomery handles the proposition with out incinerators and without creating noxious odors or producing flies 1t is all in the method of management. If the management is efficient there are no odors or flies; if the manage ment is inefficient there are both odors and flies.
 Montgomery plan as outlined by MT. Brassell is simple. The dry gar bage is separated from the wet gar bage and used for filling, while the wet garbage is burned on the dumps, thus preventing both odors and flies. The plan is as ancient as those ever burning trash-heaps of Jerusalem in the valley of Ben Hinnom, which the -ancients referred to as Gehenna, be- cause those fires never went out. The ancient inhabitants of Jerusalem lacked the knowledge of just how dis ease lurked in decaying vegetable and animal matter, but they had the prac- tical good sense to destroy their wet garbage for fear of the pestilence.
 MT. Brassell also says that Mont gomery forbids garbage picking, be- cause that stirs up what would better remain buried and interferes with the program of public health protection, There is much vague official talk of bond issues and the like, but the con- clusion is inevitable that the city com- mission is not doing what it can to relieve the public nuisance and menace of the dumps under present conditions and limitations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-14
DEVELOPING GULF PORTS

The silent influences that'have been operating to win American tonnage for American merchant ships have been far more potent and successful than most people realize. From time to time the press carries dispatches showing how our grasp on our own tonnage is extending, but there, is small general realization of the total success attained. The following Wash ington dispatch taken from the news columns is more significant than ap- pears on the surface:
 Additional tonnage will be
 placed on the gulf services dur
 ing the coming cotton season, the
 shipping board announced today,
 with a view to improving the fa-
 cilities afforded cotton exporters
 for moving that commodity in
 American bottoms. A survey of
 the gulf traffic during June just
 completed shows that shipping
 board steamers carried sixty-three
 per cent. of the cotton shipped
 from Gulf ports to foreign coun-
 tries.
 The full meaning of this is revealed by the further knowledge that twelve to eighteen months ago foreign ships were carrying out of Gulf ports more than ninety per cent. of the cotton passing through these ports for ex- port. Now American cotton is freed from the dominance of the influences that control foreign ships, often to the detriment formerly of competing American producers. The manner in which the shipping board has fulfilled it's duty to the ports of the South IS we'll attested by such items as the one above quoted. As is well-known in Birmingham, the shipping board forced the ocean carriers from New York to Mobile to put in through rates to Bir- mingham, thus setting this great ln- dustrial district free from railroad rate dominance on goods to and from New York Through the shipping boards policy the Gulf ports and the South's great producing centers have alike come to enjoy a greater share of their legitimate transportation emoluments than ever before. The merchant marine is- developing in bal anced manner, not flor any particular sections or favored ports, but for the entire country alike, inland as we'll as seaboard, producing as we'll as com mercial, for they are economically bound together in an extricable com monality of interests, any of which can be treated with partiality only with great injury to all. The Gulf ports are coming into their own as the American merchant marine continues to bestow it's benefits upon the entire nation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-14
BALDWIN ON PREPARATIONS

Although the separations speech of Premier Baldwin of England was couched in terms of concern for the economic stability of Germany, it ap
 pears that the real concern is based on the fact that England is collecting less reparations now than before the French occupation of the Ruhr. The speech strongly intimates that France is wrong and that the first step should be withdrawal from the Ruhr. The speech appears strangely oblivious of the repeated declaration of France with respect to the occupation. Of ficial French statement has been made again and again that the moment Ger many begins honestly and sincerely to pay reparations, that moment the French troops will begin to withdraw
 Meanwhile, France is in impregna- ble position, both strategically and ac- cording to her treaty rights. That also was strangely overlooked by the British premier. The whole world de- sires with all earnestness that the eco homie conditions of Europe shall be composed at the earliest possible op- portunity, but that cannot be accom- plished by schism between England and France, for France occupies a zone from which she can hardly be compelled to withdraw without force of arms, and surely it would be far better to throw all of Germany into a receivership rather than that such an extreme should be resorted to. Had Germany shown an attitude of sim cerity in her professions of intention of paying the separations, and if repa- ration had been forthcoming at prom ised intervals, the whole present di- lemma would have been avoided. The British should remember that it is not the fault of France that separations have not been made, but of Germany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-14
,IhR7SS1Iel,ORCEf ,IhR7 W>V BEARER.

We note that war has been declared on idlers in this city of plentiful em- ployment. The police commissioner intends to cure the evil. He will close the pool-rooms.
 That is, mebbe.
 No sooner will the idlers see the doors of the pool-rooms close than they will at once seek jobs.
 We are told, however, that some of these idlers loaf around private homes. The only remedy for this is to close the homes.
 Indeed, we are of opinion that dur. ing working hours every place shcsl:I be closed except places where there is employment.
 It's strange nobody ever before dis covered how to cure laziness and shift lessness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-14
POOR BOYS WHO
 BECAME FAMOUS
Spartacus, the Gladiator
By Frederick Houk Law

Most people are not emembered long after death. Their places are filled and the world goes on with out thinking of them at all. Even some of the greatest on earth who have made strenuous efforts to be remembered are known, like cer- tain Egyptian kings, only as names. Spartacus, the slave, con demned to terrible death, is re- membered to the present day, nearly two thousand years after the events In which he took part. "Spartacus to the Gladiators," written by Elijah Kellogg, an American author, Is dramatic presentation of the fiery spirit of the man, a spirit that so imprinted itself in history that the name of Spartacus has lived-and will live as long as men love freedom.
 Spartacus was born in Thrace about a hundred years before the birth of Christ. Like most strong young men of his day, he was drawn into the Roman army. Dis satisfied. feeling himself among alien men, he deserted and lived III IlldlllS. l Ilt SltI II INOuldllS cap tured him, sold him into slavery, and ultimately into the ranks of the gladiators, the men who were trained to fight in the arena, and sooner or later met a terrible death for the amusment of the Roman people.
 Spartacus was young, strong, trained to military life, and a most ardent lover of liberty. He had the kind of strong personality that inspired others, and he was a born leader of men. He led the bravest of his companions to es- cape with him from the place where they were being trained as gladiators and flee to the heights of Mount Vesuvius. There he was soon joined by all kinds of men who hated the power of Rome.
 Spartacus was strong enough to command all these rough men, and finally to lead a great army of them across Italy, taking pos- session of cities. overcoming ar mics, and moving toward the Alps and the freedom of Europe. But there the Italians refused to follow him further, and he swept like a scourge again through Italy, but now toward the south, once more, with superb general ship overcoming all the great ar mics that Rome hurled against him. He hoped to reach the is land of Sicily, but his men, the riff-raff of the Empire, were again unwilling to leave Italy. A great battle was fought, and Spar tacus killed, fighting to the last.
 Rebel as he was, he was one of the greatest generals in all his tory. The power that he showed in commanding and organizing lawless men was superb. Though only a slave, he wrote his name deep in history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-14
PAPER FROM SECOND GROWTH

Several Kraft" paper mills have been built in the South by some of the strongest numbering concerns, and others are being planned, one to be built near Monroe, Louisiana, in the immediate future. The raw material will come from tract of 30,000 acres of second-growth yellow pine. A large paper mill of similar kind is planned on the banks of the Warrior by the next richest lumber concern in the country. This industry has not reached point where it may be said to be one of the South's stabilized uses of raw material, but the fact that new mills are being built in Louisiana where old mills have been operating
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-14
A WEAKENED POLICY

The reported interview with Colonel T. Q. Ashburn, wherein he advocates tentatively a corporation, in which the government shall retain million of stock, for the operation of the Warrior barge service, indicates fur ther weakening of the purpose of the waterway management to obtain rate justice for the Warrior. First there was curtailment of service, and now there is this other substitute for the real remedy the Warriors welfare de- mands. The tone of the statement radiates pessimism, both as to the like lihood of rate agreement with the rail roads and as to the prospect of early action by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Yet the public is not deceived. into believing that all has been done that could be done to bring this issue squarely before the federal commission for prompt action.
 The prophecy as to the unfavorable attitude of congress for further ap- propriation for the Warrior in the event that it shows an operating loss at the next session is based entirely on the wrong premise. Instead of dwell ing upon the failure of the Warrior to show net earning, why should there not be given to congress a full and complete history and explanation of Hxrnf on T a1-1 s4. due and proper showing? Why should congress not be told the truth with all emphasis, namely, that the railroads have thus far failed to agree to such divisions of joint rates as would give the Warrior square deal, and that the Interstate Commerce Commission has shown little concern for the fate of the government investment of more than twelve millions of dollars in the enterprise? There is no reason also why the friends of the Warrior should not compile and lay before congress a complete history of the instances in which rate and other adjutments have been granted to the Mississippi service and denied to the Warrior, al- though it's claims to many of them are equal.
 As far as some plan to develop pri- vate operation of the Warrior is con- cerned, there is no issue, for private operation is the ultimate purpose. But neither private nor public opera tion can be successful under the un- just and removable odds against which the Warrior is now struggling. If a transfer to private management were made at the present juncture, condi- tions are disadvantageous to the gov ernment. A far better basis for nego- tiation would be demonstration of the Warrior already on an earning basis. The government surely needs to look to no private source to obtain for the Warrior the simple justice the public welfare demands. Let the question go to congress if it must. But let it go fortified by full and truthful ac- count, so that congress may take the obvious course this great national un- dertaking deserves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-14
The Happy Ending
Scenario by Fayatt Lowell)

Scenario by Fayatt LowelD
 A terrific air of suspense prevailed throughout the Purple Pansy Movie Palace. The matinee program was being concluded with the showing of the fifteenth episode of "Hattie's Hectic Hazards" Already the hero, single-handed, had overcome vast armies of foes; he had leaped from plane to plane in mid-air with the heroine hanging perilously from his wrist; he had sealed precipitous cliffs and dived a dozen leagues into the sea to save treasure, and still the palpitating spectators awaited in vain the expected caption: Watch for the Next Episode Same Day Next Week. <"
 As, in the subtitles, vague explana- tions of the mystery which had so in- defatigably haunted Hattie for 80 many months began to take the place of the accustomed hints of further terrors to come, grave whispers of an impending calamity were rife amongst the spectators. And then, suddenly, it happened.
 At sight of it women began to weep, men arose falteringly to their feet only to sink back, dismayed, into their seats; wailing, weak-kneed children stealthily crept in huddled herds to the exits. The organist, endeavoring to meet the occasion with strategy, broke into the national anthem, but the odds were so strong against him that his effort quickly dwindled to the tempo of a dirge. Even the film op- orator seemed to have been swept away by the disaster, for there still remained upon the screen the projec- tion of the last foot of film in his machine. It showed two blessed and fatal words: