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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-08-29

During the same period Chicago had
1877 recorded murders, and New York
260-the latter city obtaining three
convictions.
The annual homicide rate per 100,-
900 population in Hartford, Conn, is
Ia 1t is 56.8 in Memphis, Tenn
The largest proportionate ratio of
crime is in our cities of less than
! 100000 population says the COM
mittee sit therefore may be con-
servatively estimated that in this re-
] public last year there occurred 1850
murders. To these may be added g.
100 cases Of manslaughter and other
unlawful killings, totaling 1850 I'M
justifiable homicides."
England is severe in Furnishing
murderers. The death penalty often
is imposed, although prison SEN
fences usually are brief compared to
ours. In France, where crime is
less severely punished, murder is
more frequent.
Eight states of the union have
abolished capital punishment In
five others it had been outlawed, but
now is reinstated Thus there were
80 executions in this country in 1919
:" But to prove that our failure to
inflict the death penalty did not pro-
coed from an excess of tenderness
the committee points out, I'VE sue
cessfully put over S3 largely attended
lynchings''
Jurists visiting English and French
courts on behalf of the American bar
reported several commendable fea-
lures in each Justice was expedited. !
A criminal was tried, convicted and |
punished while details of his crime |
were still fresh in the minds of the |
public, and the horrible example
theory of punishment was therefore
effective. This country is notorious
for its long drawn out prosecutions,
says the committee Two or three
years elapse between the crime and
the execution, sometimes, and ga
first verdict judgment forms merely i
the preliminary skirmish''
Discussing the prospect of speed
ing the trial of prisoners in the
United States; of eliminating the dis
appearance of witnesses, Justification /
Of defenses and loss of testimony, the :
concludes:
The first great work to be ac- 4
in bringing about better :
of law must be the !
awakening of the public to a clear h
sense of their responsibility for it. S
Improvement in our laws can accom- l
dish little unless accompanied by d
determination on the part of our +
citizens to have those laws enforced.
=" We recommend that permanent L
commission of this association be In
appointed to formulate a standard :
ode of criminal procedure for the L
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-08-29
AN EXHILARATING EFFECT

A bottle Of Herbine on the shelf at
home is like having doctor in the house
all the time. 1t gives instant relief when
the digestion gets out of order or the
bowels fail to act. One or two doses is
all that is necessary to start things NOV
ing and restore that fine feeling Of exhil-
aration and buoyancy of spirits which be-
longs only to perfect health. Price 60c.
Sold by
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-08-29

states of the union. 1t is of first
importance that such committee be
composed of men who have had large
practical experience in the principal
courts, and especial care should be
taken to exclude mere theorists and
faddists."
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-08-29
Attention Mas0ns

All Masons are requested to meet
at the Masonic temple at lis o'clock
p. m. on Thursday, August 30th, to
take part in the funeral service of
our departed Brother, Otto H.
Schwarz The services will be held
at the Presbyterian church at 200
o'clock p. m.
L G. PETERSON,
222 Acting Master
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-08-29

Notice
All members of the Eastern Star are
requested to meet at the Masonic
temple at 1:15 o'clock Thursday at
ternoon to attend the funeral of o. H.
Schwarz at the Presbyterian church
at 2 O'Clock.
MRS. HATFIELD,
282 Secretary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-30
IN THE WRONG QUARTER

Request of the federal fuel distributor that people now lay in their supplies of coal for next year appears to be laying the en- phasis and placing the burden in the wrong quarter. If price inducement were of- fered to those who buy within the next few months for winter consumption, doubtless there are many who would take advantage of it as a business opportunity. There are many families, however, who find the coal bills hard enough to meet as it is without buying in advance, even on the rather spe- cious basis of averting freight congestion next winter.
 The people in general much prefer to await the report of the federal coaf commission with it's anticipated suggestions for gen. eral relief in the entire industry. There is remedy needed, but that the householder should advance the capital to the coal in- dustry seems rather a weird suggestion on the part of federal official. As for the freight congestion which occurs during the seasons of greatest fuel movement, it ap- pears that much of the difficulty is due to the unloading of box-cars. A federal ruling requiring, wherever practicable, capacity loading of box-cars during Shortages would both diminish the car mileage and increase the mile tonnage. Such a ruling would be along economic lines and would place the burden upon those who waste rather than upon those who Save.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-30
MEN AND HEART BALM

The old theory that women do most of the loving seems to be in fair way for refuta- tion by the increasing number of men who institute suits for heart damages. Time was when only women figured as plaintiffs in breach of promise suits. It was widely held that men, much stronger and presumably more capable of self-control, should take care of themselves in matters of sentiment as well as in making the pot boil; that if a man is so egotistic and self-sufficient as to make of himself monumental example that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread" he must serenely take his meaicine ana not resort to the threadbare complaint that a woman caused it all.
 Various and sundry pleas are advanced these days by mere man claiming damages as heart balm. These claims range from a few hundred dollars and perhaps courtshp costs to small fortunes. In few cases are there any estimates of the value of pleasure the plaintiffs got out of their love-making. But they appear 70 base their complaints on the humiliation .esulting from the other fellow walking off with the girl. So far there are no evidences that juries are influenced by these heart balm complainers because they failed to in- duce the girl to "Mendelssohn' down the church aisle. inasmuch as not few of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-30
IMPORTANT TO BIRMINGHAM

Birmingham expects to send large dele gation to the tenth annual foreign trade convention to be held in the city of New Orleans May 2-4. Incident to this conven- tion there will be conference upon "Port Facilities and Equipment of Mississippi Val ley River and Lake cities" No city in the United States is more concerned in foreign trade than Birmingham and the future of no city is more enwrapped in foreign trade re- lations. Birmingham caters to the trade of the South and the export trade. This IS not new thing. Decades ago Birmingham iron pipe went into water works systems of municipalities as far removed as Copen- hagen, Mexico City and Honolulu. In that period of stagnant home iron markets from 1898 to 1900, Alabama sent pig iron by the tens of thousands of tons to European points. thus disposing of it's surplus unavailable for sale at home. In 1921 the Orient's demands for our rails and plates caused fifty per cent operation of steel mills here when the thirty per cent.
 The continuous demand for our products by the outside world, which we are enabled economically to gratify through the Warrior and the Port of Mobile, is assurance of busy plants in seasons of slack demand at home. Birmingham has received much foreign bus mess through sheer superiority of a natural condition. She should add to that business through her own initiative. She should en- ter new foreign fields and extend the list of her articles of trade. Her business mNn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-30
Main 4soo Telephone
FIRST, GET THE FACTS

It is true, as stated by the manager of the Chamber of Commerce in an address before the Optimist Club Tuesday, that many good citizens, through lack of accu- rate information, do positive harm through misstatements with regard to the industries and other activities of the community. It was urged that citizens to whom Inquiries about Birmingham arc addressed do not make reply until they obtain the exact data. The chamber invites the people of Birming- ham to make full use of the Birmingham data which it has collated and which it now has reason to believe is fairly complete.
 There are many more industries in Bir mingham than casual observation discloses. They come in one by one and their coming makes no special impression, because after the one mention in the daily papers they are lost sight of. Neither is the magnitude of the known industries we'll known because busy men are absorbed with their own af- fairs and make little study of that with which they are not connected. It is the function of the Chamber of Commerce to colate Birmingham data and have 1t on file for the use of the community. This the chamber has been doing and believes that systematic effort on that line for some time past has resulted in really comprehensive library of accurate information.
 Unintentional injustice is often done by the best-dsposed simply because they are without exact knowledge and speak thought lessly from cursory and incomplete obser- vation or from equally unreliable hearsay. Citizens of Birmingham owe it to their city to protect and advance it's interests wher- ever and whenever they have the opportu- nity and to seek accurate information be- fore passing it on to others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-30
GUARDING SHOALS INVESTORS

Press dispatches announce the state de- partment of registration and education of Illinois refused to issue licenses to three realty firms of Chicago to sell land near the government Muscle Shoals project in Ala bana. Some of the land offered for sale around Muscle Shoals turned out to be swamps, worthless to all practical purposes. It appears that quite number of people were misled; hence the effort for protection of such folk as are impressed with glib talk and have no more judgment than to pur- chase lands without full information.
 Undoubtedly land values around Muscle Shoals in many cases are substantial, with every reasonable promise of enhancement because of the assurance of large industrial developments in that section at no distant day. Investments carefully considered in that light and with the prospect of these developments are apt to turn our wisely for those who have experience in realty values and their underlying causes and know how to use this knowledge.
 At the same time it is not amiss to sug-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-30
GROWING VALUE OF SLAG

That duii \gray slag out at the blast fur naces, whose uses were once confined to acting as railroad ballast, has given rise to one of the important industries of the Bir- mingham district. It has entered into struc- tural operations in the Southeast as stand- ard building material along with brick, ce- ment, lumber and steel Screened slag by the hundreds of thousands of tons leaves the district annually for structural purposes in other states. The five million-dolar build ings now under construction in the city of Atlanta are using Birmingham slag, none of them taking less than 10000 tons. This material is no longer confined in It's ser vice to foundation work, but is being used in the entire structure Where five years ago the screened slag business amounted to 5O,O0O to 6O,000 tons, last year it ran to 5OO,0OO tons, and this year is headed to 75O,0O0. Slag has been found susceptible of conversion into a variety of products. Out at Ensley they are making face brick of greatest durability and beauty of finish in mixture of slag with concrete. This product, although only two years old, has become standard building material. The Tennessee company makes a high-grade pnOSpnaLc out or open nedTtn DdSlc sldB, anu this phosphate is staple product accepted in the domestic and foreign trade. Not long ago large shipment was made to Australia for application to young fruit trees.
 The district is ever discovering uses for it's once neglected by-products. The values of coal are no longer thrown away, but retained in the closed ovens, which not only preserve the concealed values of coal, but they produce coke with greater economy. The furnace siag once nuisance, has been evolved into building material whose uses are becoming more and more extended and varied. There is nothing that is tending more to the solidity of the districts under pinning than the use of Its by-products. They not only bring an added income to the industries where they originate, but they provide new avenues of employment and serve, to establish new industries. Above all they are systems of economy. They arc the difference between being able to sur vive under ordinary circumstances and sur viving under difficult circumstances. The district will be more and more safe under all conditions of trade as it develops its by- products.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-30

disappointed ones have lived long enough to congratulate themselves on their escape. Most juries, however, have sufficient senti- ment left to believe 'it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.''
 There is somehow feeling of anything but sympathy for big strong man who de- liberately rushes into court for damages from a little weak woman because he wilted like a young tomato vine a scorching July day when she turned her eyes smilingly upon him. It is woman's prerogative to make an impression on man. That is half her exist ence. It is mans business to lose his heart, but not his head. If both go wandering off helplessly at the same time, it's nobody's fault but his To scream for damages Is not manly.
 Women explain their tendency to break their promises of this kind on the ground that it is their privilege to change their minds. But suits of this character are not new things Many years ago such suit was thrown out of an English court on the ground that marriage is of no advantage to man." Other subsequent suits were similarly dis posed of. Later the court decided that mar riage was as much an advantage to man as to woman This was about the time that British titled paupers were making fever ish rush to wed American heiresses.
 Still, juries have never shown disposi- tion to attach as much value to mans as to woman's affections. and the courts have been slow to award man a financial soothing because he couldn't tell whether his best girl was sincere or simply amusing herself and gratifying her vanity with mans lud- crous credulity in his capacity as "lady killer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-30
NEED FOR NEW COURTHOUSE

More than ten years ago there was gen. eral recognition of the fact that Jefferson county had outgrown it's courthouse. It was conceded even then that it's smallness and poor arrangement were not only hampering the work but impairing the health of county officials. Even that long ago 1t became necessary to rent outside offices for cer- tain departments of county administration. Even then sanitary conditions of the build ing were deplorable. The building of a makeshift annex which can be reached only by long journey through basement cor ridor or through the Jail alley gave only temporary relief. Since that time conditions have become steadily worse. As The Age Herald said on March 8: "A beautiful building in it's early days, the courthouse has been remodeled and rearranged and patched until 1t is a grotesque travesty as the county's emblem of law and justice. The dark and forbidding corridors, the cubbyholes used for offices, the inconven- fence of location of various branches of county service in relation to others, the spectacle of important and vital public ser wants housed in basement quarters, consti- ute a condition of which great county SUCH dS JelleTSOH euOulu Ue dSudlHcus
 With condition like this and with the need for a new building so generally ac- knowledged it is unfortunate that those in position to act have shown no inclination to provide new courthouse. The sugges- tion was made in these columns on March 3 that an unofficial body of patriotic citizens be chosen to make a study of the situation and remedy for submission to the electo- rate. If this suggestion be not acted on, it would seem that the time is ripe perhaps for Jefferson countys delegation in the legislature to do some good and effective work in this direction. It VIII be recalled by many older citizens that the best piece of public work ever performed in.-this county was the building of the Jefferson county sanitary sewer system. It was done well and it was done efficiently and expe- ditiously. The system was built by con- mission specially designated for that duty by the state legislature. It was done by public-spirited men whose only interest in the matter was to serve their community. With a precedent of this kind it would be not untimely for the county's legislative delegation to give consideration to the idea as means of accomplishing the building of a new courthouse.
 But whether this is done, or whether the board of revenue carries through the work on its own initiative, there can be no ques- tion of public approval. Those who are most familiar with conditions at the court house are the most earnest in their advocacy of relief. When the question is laid fairly before the people of the country they too will be quick to do their part in remedying situation which has already become ,intoler- able. The only thing necessary is to pre- sent the real facts to them, together with an approved and definite plan of procedure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-30
Love That Sacrifices
 By REV. H. C. OFFERMAN
The best proof of love is self

The best proof of love is self sacrifice.
 Only the man that is satisfied to die for what he really loves, really loves.
 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life."
 The child is part of the parent; that is why real love binds them.
 The citizens are part of the na- ton; that is why real love binds them.
 ''Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all they soul, and with all thy mind and with all thy strength. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
 Only the love that sacrifices all, wins all; and only the love that gives all, is worthy of the name of love.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-30

gest that prospectors with money to invest in an enterprise of this kind would be wise to investigate realty offers and make sure they are of value The very fact that the Muscle Shoals district is going to offer splendid opportunities for those who invest judiciously after full nspecr:on of the local situation will encourage activity of a lot of fly-by-night, wildcat schemers who, if not checked, will be harmful to the district it. self, as we'll as an imposition on the credu- lous whu bite at almost anything that ap- pears to promise quick and large profits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-30

should learn more about foreign trade con ditions The New Orleans convention will bring together those who are similarly in- terested and much can be learned from ex change of ideas and knowledge of what others are doing. Birmingham and New Or leans have much in common. We do lot of business there and will continue to do so. Moreover, it will inspire Alabamfans to see what has been done for the Port of New Orleans by state aid and will make them enthusiastic about the development of their own port through the same means.
 The canalized Warrior has placed Mobile in the same position with reference to the Mississippi Valley as New Orleans occupies Many portions of the valley are equi-distant from the two ports and many are nearer to Mobile than to New Orleans. This is fore taste of the part the seaport at Mobile will take in worlds commerce as distributor of the surplus product of the Mississippi Val ley when it is fully equipped for that ser- vice. When Secretary Redfield gazed on the newly filled Lake Bankhead from the top of lock IT he said: "This is Alabama s gateway to the nations of~the earth" Ala bamians must come to visualize foreign trade as something concrete and directly affecting their lives. Birmingham's business men can- not be busy too soon extending our for eign trade tentacles. We will need that trade more and more as we increase our Droduction
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-30
Poor Boys Who
 Became Famous By FREDERICK HoUK LAW
Jacob Gould Schurman

In these days when a man looks at his bank book before he dares send for a plumber, and when he mortgages his house before he takes his automobile to the repair shop it is hard to think that there ever was time when wages were not as high as they are. Jacob Gould Schurman, the honored president of Cornell university, was glad as boy to work for less than nine cents day. He. was thirteen years old, and had a job as general utility boy in country supply store. Previous to that time he had done hard farm work on an out-of-the-way farm on Prince Edwards Island where he was born. He had lived nearly two miles from the nearest school, had almost no books at home, and did not have the newspaper and the magazine. In what was then back settlement he could look ahead to nothing ex- cept the most commonplace of ex- istances. In spite of all his handi- caps, Jacob Gould Schurman rose
 position in which he aided in determining the future of islands in the Orient, and to the presidency of lives.
 When he saved up little money from his long hours of work in the village store. young Schurman re- solved to get an educaton. This meant losing his job, but he lost it, and went to the little high school and there embarked in the hardest study to fit himself in the quickest possible time for college. In sin gle year, by intense work, he equipped, himself so well for uni versity work that he was able to surpass others and gain scholar ship.
 From the time when he left the village store he began to> win scho- lastic honors. In college he earned a scholarship that took him across the sea to the University of London. That village high school was the be- ginning of studies in France, in Scotland and in Germany, and the opening of the door of scholarly in stitutions all over the world. He became college professor and at thirey-eight was president of Cor nell university. As member of the Philippine commission he did much good for those eastern islands. As an author and lecturer he has stim- ulated thought everywhere that English is read. What vast amount of good depended on the grocery boys resolution to go to high school, even if he lost his job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-30
FORMULA FOR LONG LIFE
(Knoxville Sentinel)

Here is the formula for a long life given by Charles w. Eliot, pres ident emeritus of Harvard, on his ninetieth birthday, which fell Tues day: Eat moderately, sleep at least seven hours night with win dows open, take regular exercise in the open air every day, use no stim- ulants. enjoy all natural delights without excess in any, and keer> un- der all circumstances, as serene q spirit as your nature permits"