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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
DUTCH SETTLERS DESIRABLE

Announcement of a movement to bring several hundred families from The Netherlands to settle on the farms of Alabama is interesting in propor- tion to the prospects for carrying out the proposal in a practical way. Thousands of acres of good land in this state are growing up in weeds, scrub pines and the like for lack of efficient workers. With hundreds of law-abiding, thrifty, efficient work CTS in these waste places there would be marked progress in agricultural de- velopment, with corresponding enrich ment and prosperity in centers of pop ulation. The need for efficient work CTS on the farms becomes more press ing every year, and especially of re- cent years, when many negro farm workers left for Northern and East ern industrial centers.
 With the needs and the opportuni- ties clearly apparent, the next consid- eration is the character of settlers and workers to be brought in. The Dutch are thrifty, industrious, Iaw-abiding people who attend to their business and make good citizens. They are producers, as the industrial history of what is familiarly known as Holland shows. Today the Dutch are among the most productive and prosperous people on earth. Dutch securities are among the highest quoted in the for eign market. The Dutch exchange stands second only to that of America, while securities floated by Dutch colo lies under governmental control of the mother country are among the highest in price. The Dutch East Indies are prosperous and contented because of fair treatment from the home govern ment. During the World War, with mighty nations fighting on all sides of her, The Netherlands successfully maintained their neutrality andymade enviable industrial records. The Dutch are far preferable as citizens to many who now come into this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
Asphalt in Colbert

To the Editor of The Herald: We notice In your issue of today an editorial headed "To Work Ala bama Asphalt" in which you state that the asphalt deposit to be worked by Dr. Miller Reese Hutch erson's company is located in Cherokee county. This wonderful asphalt deposit is located at Cher okee, in Colbert county. Please make this correction.
 HERBERT. c. HARRIS.
 Cherokee, Ala, Dec. 22, 1923.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

A contemporary declares that Sal mon P. Chase's picture on the ten-thou- sand-dollar bills is practically the same as turning it to the wall. Yet those who go to the wall won't see it either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
A Practical Project


 When a proposition is demon- strated. this ought to be sufficient to convince anyone. The value of the cooperative selling of cotton has been thoroughly tested in many states and proven success. Right here in Alabama it has had a trial for two years and has made the members of the pool big money each year. Of course, those farmers who do not need any more money than they get under the old competitive system of selling will continue on in the same old way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
No Trespassing

(Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele elegraph)
 Boy, is this the field on which the great battle was fought?" asked the historian.
 No, sir; that be at the top of tife hill" answered the native boy.
 Dear, dear" exclaimed the his- torian, that must be a mile away. Why didn't they fight 1t in this field 9"
 T suppose because this ere field belongs to Farmer Johnson. He never would lend his field for any thing. not even for the village sports"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
Oughta Interest Tax Collector

(Kansas City Star)
 Colorado announces that tourists left S45,00O,000 behind them in that state last summer. No one knows why they made the announcement unless as hint as to what is ex- pected of the tourists again next year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
Rare Birds

Pedantic Gent: What is that strange bird, my man?"
 Longshoreman: "Why, that's halbatross."
 "A rara avis, isn't it?"
 "We call it a halbatross."
 Yes, yes, but I call it rara avis, just as l would call you a genus homo"
 "Oh. do you? Well, I call it halbatross. just as I would call you a blooming idiotw
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
wiu Re outstripped

(IuntsYlIIe IlmesJ
 It has been said that the first s1,O00 a man earns is his hardest. We can testify to this. So it $ in the passing of the first hundred years of wilderness. What Ala bama has done in her first 1o4 years will be outstripped an hun dred fold, especially here in the northrn part of the state during the coming 100 years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
Big Prospects for the Port

(Dekalb County Heralu)
 A Birmingham firm has re- ceived an order for 10000 tons of steel rails, which will be loaded on barges and shipped down the Warrior river to Mobile to be re- loaded on vessels bound to the Orient. When the port of Mobile is completed such shipments as that will be common, and within D short time the entire state will be benefited by our port facilities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
Caution

(Richmond Times -Dispatch) Front Ice water to room 324." "Yes, sii<'
 And, front, Tell the gentleman to open the windows and close the transom when he pulls out the cork. This is respectable ho- tel"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
sturting m Exodus

(Cleveland Plain Dealer)
 It is reported that fortyfive per cent. of all California brides last year were more than forty years old. Clever work-now watch the winter exodus of our middle-aged sninStersi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
Only a Few Girls Ahead

No, Harold, MT. Ziegfeld is not thinking of abandoning the Follies be- cause millionaires keep marrying his chorus girls faster than he can train new ones to take their places, but it may come to that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
Welded Bliss

Welded Bliss I scorned to be married guy When lone and free tarried, But now when Christmastide is nigh I'm glad that I am married. For Christmas crowds are full of strife And throngs are rough and stormy, And I am glad I had wife To do my shopping for me.
 Jason.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

constabulary to enforce the prohibit ton laws of Pennsylvania. Perhaps this charge will arouse MT. Pinchot to his own defense. His best defense would be so to conduct his own affairs as to remove any foundation for the charge. Then the public would hearth federal prohibition tactics and results
 ly approve his caustic remarks about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
Signs of Relief

(New York Herald)
 The world breathes more easily now that it has received assur- ance from an authoritative source that Rudulph Valentino's hair is not getting thin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

An exchange says that prohibition enforcement develops great versatility in those who are charged with that duty. This seems to be borne out by the variety of methods employed in confiscating seizures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
1 THE ALABAMA PRESS
Rirm,ngham,s Generosity

Greene County DemocraC
 There Is a lot of money in Bir- minghami They have raised near ly half a million dollars for their charity work for next year. That is a lot of money to be raised for that purpose in one city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

A contemporary declares that there are several kinds of train bandits. That is true; but the Pullman porter employs less strenuous methods in re- lieving passengers of their funds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
Not Much Flowing So Far

(PrattVlIIe FrOBI5ssI
 Very little blowing has been done this fall On the farms of Autauga county, and unless we have good weather during Jan uary and February we will have some late planting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
Value of. n Good Word

"A good word costs no more time, exertion and worry than a bad one, and instead of its prov ing a weight or depression. sor- row, yea anguish, to human heart, it may serve to the ale viatfon of the heaviest, thickest and blackest clouds as they hover over life's pathway. Many a fine youth, boy or girl, has been ruined for life by unguarded persons, who, without malice or fore thought, have made uncharitable, unkind, untrue remarks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
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Merry Christmasl

Is there Santa Claus? Ask Dad he knows.
 ''Do not" advises a basketball in structor, schedule too many hard games in succession"
 It takes time for the knuckles to recover.
 It is hard to believe that the head lock is 8 painful hold when so many wrestlers are dead above the neck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
A New Interpretation
(Atlanta Constitut

(AtIanta CONSERVATORY The way the lawbreakers inter- pret it now is-"Hell is paved with good dimensions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

It would take mathematician to calculate how many political sins have been committed in this country under personally conducted and purely sell fish interpretations of the constitu- tion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
AerY Rare

(Boston Transcript q told the publishers pretty daughter that I'd like to marry a girl like her"
 ''What did she say?" "She said the edition was limited to one copy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

The report that lipsticks are being favored with fruit essences will en- able the swain to tell whether or not his girl is a peach.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
nnIe IIas neen Fayorcd
(Ozark Southern Star)

(Ozark Sou-hern StarJ
 Good health, fairly good crops. good prices and favorable seasons, for the most part, have blessed our county this year. For all oi which let us be deeply grateful during the glad holiday season, and re- solve now to help all unfcrtunates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
TT MIGHT WORK
lNewl York Heraldl

With rambler roses budding at Hampstead and it's pastures look : ing almost as green as they did in summer, Long Island ought to be able to devert some tourist traffic from Southern California.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
Haying a Good Time

(FIOrlda Tlmes-Unlo
 With seven women in the Brit ish parliament things should inn prove over there-but will they? Anyway, the seven will have a good time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
BIockheads in Concvess
Nashville Banner)

Nashville Banner)
 First congress was blocked on organization, now it is blocked on committees, mostly on the heads of committees, which makes it blockheads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
TURN ABOUT FAIR PLAY

(Indlanapolis News)
 Hard blows have been dealt some Eastern "bootleggers." but no harder than the kick adminis- tered by the stuff the A"bootleg- gers" sold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

dated school system may curtail the available supply of ammunition for some political spellbinders; but con- structive results in educational prog ress are already apparent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
Outa Luck

The day was beautiful sort of day And the sky was exceedingly fair. There wasn't cloud nor a shadow of
 gray
 Nor symptom of snow in the air, And the poet who haunted the calm
 woodland way
 Was picture of total despair. His heart was a dungeon of bitterest
 woe
 And his forehead was furrowed with
 care
 He looked with a frown on the suns
 golden glow
 And he frowned on the soft, .balmy
 air;
 He had written a poem called "Beauti-
 ful Snow,"
 But the beautiful snow wasn't there. Seven Chicago nimrods fined for rabbit hunting with. automobiles" Rabbit hunting is more thrilling sport than pedestrian hunting. The rabbit is extremely nimble and offers difficult target to the hunter. Pe- destrians, on the other hand, are slow and easy to hit, particularly the old and infirm. Besides, there is no pen atty attached to pedestrian hunting, whereas the rabbit hunter runs the risk of $25 fine. That makes it all the more exciting.
 As we remarked above-today Christmas is here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
THE PARAGRAPHERS
The Proper Time
lHni,etnn PnstA

 Insane people with trigger sitive forefingers ought to ge into court and plead insanity before they begin to thoot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
Gabe Must Be Sick

Indianapolis News)
 There is some wonder as to where D'Annunzio is all this time. Surely his theatrical eloquence ought to enliven the situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

So far as concerns net results, the return to Germany of the former crown prince seems to be his safe ar rival in that country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
Crazy With the Heat

FARGO, N. D. Dec. 19.-A base ball game has been scheduled for Christmas afternoon between teams representing the Fargo Lodge, B. P. o. E., and the Union Light, Heat and Power Company. The game is an out growth of the continued fine weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
Outside Popularity

(Tampa Tribune)
 Another king has been asked to take a vacation. Kings these days are more popular away from home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

Many congressman will regard the holiday season as a success or failure according to the progress they make in fence-repairing while at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
HARD TO nELIEyE
(Memphis CommerciaI-Apl

(Memphis Commercial-Appea
 You can't make us believe that the restaurant man~isn't profiteer ing until we arc able to locate more than four oysters in a half stew"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

Dealers in castor oil should have. nc complaint against business during the next week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

Increase in the costs of edibles in many cities will at least afford more food for reflection.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

Gradual disappearance of the "1ittle red schoolhouse" in Alabama to make place for the more effective consoli-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

A walking interrogation point is not necessarily a questionable character.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
A Horse on Yew

A Horse on Yew I laid a bet on Runnan, An, much to my regret. I laid a bet on Runnan And he is Runnan yet.
 -Yew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
THE AGE-HERALD

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, post office as second-class matter under act of Con- gress. March 6, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

As we remarked above-toda, Christmas is here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25

Tomorrow-Christmas' will be com ing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-10-12
MUST PAY DAILY FINE.
Woman's Penalty To Continue Until
Two Dogs Are Licensed.

New York.-Until Mrs. Esther
Pochner gets licenses for her two dogs
she will be fined $40 a day She paid
the first $40 to Magistrate Frothing-
ham in Essex Market Court after two
school children and Patrolman Shell
boy we're bitten by gray mongrel
dog belonging to Mrs. Pochner. The
by Bellevue surgeon, but the chill
dren disappeared before they could be
treated.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-10-12
Richie To Attend Farley On Liquor
And Drug Laws.

Governor Richie received President
Coolidge's invitation to the White
House conference on enforcement Of
the prohibition and narcotic laws Oc-
tober 20 when he returned to his desk
from his Southern Maryland trip and
Immediately sent a note to the Presi-
dent saying he expected to be able to
attend.
The Presidents invitation did not
invite discussion, but merely stated
he wished to present views on the sub
jects mentioned to the Governors.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-10-12
LLOYD GEORGE
IS THRILLED
Enthusiastic Welcome in New
York
THANKS FOR WAR SERVICES
Police Dispense Irish Sympathizers-
Arrest One Woman-His
Thanks To United
States.

New York.-David Lloyd George,
former Prime Minister of Great
Britain, veteran of IL years OF
strenuous activity in the labyrinth
of Old World politics, came to
America Friday and found in a
whole-heartedly enthusiastic well
come rendered to him by New
York series of potent thrills.
So delighted was the little Welsh
man who had guided the British ship
of state through the tumultuous years
from 1916 to 1922 that his demeanor
was more often that of an interested
school boy and of deeply touched
human being than that Of a blase
statesman.
The former Premier first saw Amer
lean soil from the deck of the Maure-
tania His passage from the great
ocean liner in the police boat Macon
to the Battery and thence by motor
accompanied by a cavalcade of other
cars to City Hall and through the
streets of the metropolis was almost
triumphal procession, married only
by two minor street disturbances pre-
cipitated by Irish Republican sympa-
thizers.
To Canada and to the United States
Mr. Lloyd George declared he brought
as Britain's wartime Premier a mes
sage of heartfelt thanks for their serv-
ices in the great war.
He came, he said, with no political
status and no official credentials, but
as private subject Of the crown to
express to Canada his personal thanks
for the volunteer aid she unstintingly
had offered the British Empire in her
time of need.
To the United States, he explained,
he brought thanks for the army that
had come like the sword of Excalibar
in the Arthurian legend from out the
waters of the Atlantic when the hori-
zon of the Allied powers was black
ened with despair.
Mr.. Lloyd George explained, how.
ever, that his visit to the United States
his first-was one of self-instruction,
that he wanted to say little and to
study and learn much.
He left Saturday morning for Mon
treal, where he will begin a tour
through the larger cities of Canada.
terminating at Winnipeg, from where
he will re-enter the United States in
Minnesota, visiting afterward num-
Der of Middle Western and Eastern
cities and ending his tour in New York
in early November.
New York's welcome to its distin-
guished visitor was but slightly married
by two disorders, quickly controlled by
specially assigned squads of police.
Between the Battery and City Hall, in
Lower Broadway, in which scores OF
thousands of cheering admirers were
massed, the police broke up parade
of middle-aged Irish women carrying
placards denouncing Great Britain and
characterizing Lloyd George as a
murderer" of Irish women and chill
dren. A melee ensued, in which ban
ners were torn from the hands of the
paraders and in which police and riot
ers exchanged fisticuffs. The women
were dispersed; one was arrested.
Later, when the Lloyd George party
was proceeding up town, another group
Of Irish sympathizers was dispersed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-10-12
NEW PRESIDENT OF CHINA.
Election Considered Victory For
Northern Militarists.

Peking.-Gen. Tsao Kun has been
elected President of China, it was an
nounced. The election is considered
a victory for the Northern militarists,
of whom Tsao Kun is one of the chiefs.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-10-12
COAL RATES STUDIED.

Washington.-The interstate COM
merce commission announced hear
ings on freight rates charged for
transportation of anthracite will be
reopened. Time and place were not
specified.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-10-12
cobIentz And Herring Scan 100000
Aid. For Insane.

Welfare Director Emory L. Coblentz
and DR.. Arthur P. Herring, Commits
sioner Of Mental Hygiene, conferred
on the program to improve the States
facilities for care Of the insane and
predetermined.
DR.. Herring's plan contemplatessth the
expenditure of large sum Of money
for ten years. In the next three years
covered by the next State budget
it is proposed to build wing to Foster
Clinic at Gainesville, an administration
building for the Eastern Shore Hos
pital at Cambridge and dormitory at
Rosewood, the total cost to be about
100000.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-10-12
STATE
CAPITAL.
IHIHH[EIarEIHIaIEIHI1IaIaI1ISIEIEI9J1gIg
81 Per Cent. Legion Meeting.

Representing Maryland at the ma
tional convention of the American
Legion, 81 men and women left Sun
day for San Francisco.
The annual meeting of the legion
will be held in that city October 10 to
10. In the delegation from Maryland
were members of legion posts from
the Eastern Shore, Cumberland,
Brunswick, Frederick and other towns
and cities of the State.
Included in the Baltimore represent
.atives were Brig Gen. Milton A. Reck-
ord, Maj. Walter E. Black and IL other
officers of the Maryland National
Guard. Edward S. Kornmann, grade
chef de care of the order Of 40
IIommes and Chevaux," also left
with the party from this city.
The officers of the Maryland Ma
.tional Guard will stop off in Denver
on their way home. They will attend
a convention of the National Guard to
be held there the latter part of this
month.
Col. D. John Marley, State conn
mander of the legion, joined the party
on the train at Brunswick Colonel
Marley will be speaker at the San
Francisco convention. Legion mem
bers from Maryland, it was said, will
not be candidates for any national
office at the convention.
Guests of honor at the national
meeting will be General Halter, Polish
war leader, and Gen. John J. PERISH
ing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-10-12
$500 FOR DOCS BITE.

New York.-Feeding police dogs IS
expensive. Henry Birschner has bee:
ordered by court to pay $500 for one
bite of passerby his dog took last
spring.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-10-12
Spring Grove Report viii Be
n;~ApeeAI

The State Board of Mental Hygiene
will meet this week to discuss the re-
port made last Wednesday of the in
vestigating committee which recently
inspected Spring Grove Hospital.
State Director of Welfare Emory L.
Coblentz and DR.. A. P. Herring, Com
missioner of Mental Hygiene, con-
ferred last week upon the findings of
the committee.
The Board of Welfare met last week
to discuss the report but adjourned
after a brief conference.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-10-12
Labor To Ask Change on Workmen's
Insurance.

Union labor in Maryland and the
District of Columbia have decided to
incorporate in their demands to the
next Legislature the abolition Of pri-
vate insurance in connection with the
workmen's compensation act and in
stitute more general State insurance
fund which would be similar to that in
force in Ohio. A member of the Fed
Grafton said:
while there is already State
fund for this purpose, much Of the
workmen's compensation insurance Is
handled by private casualty COM
panies. If all this insurance came
from the State fund, through COM
pulsory measures, it would tend to
reduce the rates and the contested
cases.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-10-12
Probe In "Butchering" OF Trees Is
Ordered.

State Forester F. w. Besley has or
dered an investigation of the condition
of the roadside trees that were
"butchered" under the supervision OF
one of his men in Cecil county.
Director of Public Works John N.
Mackall made complaint about the
"butchering'' of the trees by a wire
gang. Seven trees were badly
mangled, according to the report
which Director Mackall received.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-10-12

ceipts for the year were $667,SS0. and
the expenditures $685. Total MEM
bership of the federation was an
nounced as 2926,46 showing loss
for the fourth consecutive year. and
Of more than 100000 in the past twelve
months.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-10-12
States Attorneys Books Ordered
Audited.

State Comptroller William S. Gordy,
Jr.. directed State Auditor Lewis M.
Milbourne to audit the books of States
Attorney Robert F. Leach. Jr.
1t was said by Mr.. Gordy that the
States Attorneys books had been
audited for the year 1921, but had
not been inspected. The law requires
an audit of the accounts of all States
Attorneys because the State is entitled
to the excess fees.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-10-12
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Governor Walton, Beaten in Okla
homa Election, Refuses to
Give Up Fight
FOES WANT HIM INDICTED

German Cabinet Resigns and Chan
cellor Stresemann Plans Directorate
Monarchy Due Soon In Bavaria
Federation of Labor Conven.
tion-President Coolidge
and World Court.