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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-05-26
MARATHON DANGERS HOLD EXHIBITION AT. WEST LAKE PAVILION
One Couple WeariIy With- draws After Only Five
 Hours Dancing

Initial working-out exercises for the marathon dancing contest which will start at the West Lake dancing pa vilion at o'clock Monday afternoon, got under way at the park Friday afternoon, when an exhibition dance to last 32 hours was started at o'clock in the afternoon. P Dancing was continued throughout the eve inng and reports early Saturday morning indicated that several would be aspirants to the marathon dancing crown of Birmingham were still danc- ing to the tune of music being fur nished by the Louis R. Race orches- tra, Atlanta, Ga, and the William Happy orchestra, which were alter hating.
 One couple, Dave Brody and Lucille Evans, entering the dance at 7:55 wearily concluded their long distance terpsichorean efforts at 12.05 after only slightly over five hours of danc- ing.
 Two contestants who are in the ex- hibition dancing and who are to en- ter the marathon contest at the West Lake park dacing pavilion Monday afternoon are Louis B. Race, who danced 139 hours continuously at Wichita Falls. T xas. and Jenny May McElroy, who danced 132 hours at the same contest.
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and that the bonds voted for schools in 1916, which amounted to first s2.000,o00 and then later an addi- tional S1,000,000 making a total of S3,000,000 had been expended, from 1916 to 1923 as follows S2.- 5S7,632,0 ,00 for schools for white chill dren and $146,235 for schools for negro children. making ratio of 94.65 per cent to 5.35 per cent. When these bonds were voted, he stated, an agreement was made between the board and the people that 75 per cent of the funds should go for the erection of schools for white chil- dren and 25 per cent for schools for negro children. He further explained that 65 per cent of the school en- rollment was composed of white children while 35 per cent were ne- groes.
 At the conclusion of Dr. Glenn S explanatory talk, MT. Ramsay, stated that the promises of the old board made to both the white people and the colored people should be kept by the present board and that this money should be expended according the division they had set which was 75 and 25 per cent bases.
 Mrs. Echols Approves.
 Mrs. Mary Echols, commissioner of education and health, also former member of the Birmingham board of education made a brief talk, tell
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tered into In good faith; promises made to the children of Birming g ha m that text books would be free to them. We want to know if you pro- pose to carry out your intention to erect negro high school or give free text books and supplies. The committee is instructed to protest in the name of organized labor of Bir- mingham the erection of negro high school until the needs of the elementary schools are supplied. On your decision in this matter will de- pend our future attitude"
 Hearing Given To All.
 Erskine Ramsay, president of the board of education, presided over the meeting and granted a hearing to practically each of the committee men. w. H. Proctor, chairman of the education committee, stated that in the event the board took action on the negro school building at this time 1t would endanger the issuance of other bonds when the time came
 The controversy between The Bir- mingham News and the Ku Klux klan will also endanger the issuance of school bonds" he said. I have no feeling against The News, and neither am l member of the Ku Klux Klan, but l do believe that such a contro versy and the erection of the negro high school at this time would be unwise."
 Lin Hale, another of the commit tee, urged that the board of educa tion hold public meeting, at which time they, the members of the Trades council, could present their side of the public question and learn of the actual conditions which existed, and of how the various bond issues were being expended. Many other talks of similar nature were heard at this meeting, several not only protesting against the. negro school, but of the terrible conditions of the school buildings in their respective sections of the city.
 O o O
 Dr. Glenn Explains.
 Following the arguments offered by the members of the Trades Coun- Gil committee, Dr. c. B. Glenn, at the request of Mir. Ramsey, explain ed that the money voted for the erection of school buildings could not be used for any other purpose
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DIPLOMAS GIVEN TO GLASS IF 53 AT SIMPSON HIGH.
Donald Conner Urges Grad uates To Adhere To Prin-
 cipIes Taugh Them

Education as factor in human progress and the importance of strict adh to principles as taught by our modern high schools were stress ed by Donald Conner in the com mencement address at Simpson High school Friday night, before an audi ence that taxed to capacity the audi torium of the school.
 MT. Conner, in a short but appro- priate address, outlined to students of the school the overwhelming inn portance of an early education and strict application to class work. May the day come" he said, when Alabama, now famous for it's cot ton, iron and coal be equally famous for it's Christian men and women, so largely the product of proper high school and college training"
 Preceding the address of MT. Conner, the Dixie Comedy Four, Bir- mingham entertainers. rendered program of songs which were wig to respond to several encores.
 In a few well chosen words, J. M. Malone, principal of the school, said goodbye to the four girls and 49 boys composing the Srduuatln3 class "It is hard" he told his stu dents. ito pass you out written goodbye. To say it verbally is easy. I want each and every boy and girl who can possibly do so to make me this promise tonight. That he or she will make every effort to walk in the straight and narrow path. This night is truly com mencement. A commencement of your journey over lifes pathway. A commencement of your fight for victory. Victory over wrong, ever upholding right"
 pr. Guy E. Snavely, president of Birmingham Southern college, was asked to make few remarks to stu dents of the graduating class after presentation of the diplomas. It em- barrassed him, he said, that he had not been told sooner, so that his wife could have written for him an ex- cellent address as had been prepared by Mrs. Conner for her husband.
 Awarding of the declamatory and athletic medals was followed by ben ediction by Rev. E. G. Mackay, and the 1923 term of Simpson High school was officially closed.
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Vital Statistics

MT. and Mrs. John A. Fox. Route {. WaddeII, May IS. boy.
 MT. and Mrs. R. B. Kent. Oak Grove. Mir. and Mrs. Earnest Grenade. 1905 sloss avenue. February 27. girl. MT. and Mrs. Robert T. Robertson, Westfield, March 24, boy.
 Mr. and Mrs. Willie A. Burke. 2e19 Avenue H. Ensley, April l, boy. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver C.. Davis. 8429 First avenue. February 16, boy.
 Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Sadler, Fair field, May 14, boy.
 MT. and Mrs. Edgar Anderson. Fairfield, J. P. Ezekiel. Fairfield. May 21. boy. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence R. Strickland, Wylam. May 2. girl.
 Mr. and Mrs. George H. Rainey. Route 1, Ensley, May 8. girl.
 MT. and Mrs. Winifred Davis. Route 2, Bessemer, May ,, girl.
 Mr. and Mrs. Reed Harper. Birmingh am.> boy.
 DEATHS
 Joseph Miller. 1517 Avenue H, Ensley. May 19, age 1 year.
 William H. Gordon. T. c. I. hospital. May 20, age 6S.
 A. A. Allison. Norwood hospital. May 23, age 60.
 Mrs. Lee Osborn. Birmingham General hospital, May 25. age 47.
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lished worlds record in nonstop flight across the continent, arrived at Fort Bliss here this afternoon at 4:23 o'clock. Actual flying time made by the aviators between here and San Diego was hours and 55 minutes.
 Upon their arrival here orders were
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NEGRO WOMAN ARRESTED
Mabel Jones h Charged With Having
 Stolen Clothing

Mabel Jones, negro, residing in the rear Lf 10S Pearl street, south, West End, was arrested by Detectives Jones and McComb Friday night. and charged with petty larceny. Accord ing to the detectives, the negro had worked for Mrs. R. l.. Manning. 10$1 Cotton avenue. for several days, and had stolen clothing valued at $75 from Mrs. Manning. The greater part of the stolen clothing was recovered from the home of the JCnes woman, according to the detectives, and iden- tified by Mrs. Manning.
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received from the war department for them to leave early tomorrow morning and stop in Kansas City over Sunday. Present orders also stated that the flyers are to report in Washington June 1.
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REFUSES TO TALK
Biscuit Company Head Declines To Give Information

Give InfOFmat1On
 NEW YORK, May 25.-John H. Wiles. president of the Loose- Wiles Biscuit company, declined to give any Information about the volume of his cGmpany's business to the federal trade commission which today began an investigation of charges that the National Biscuit company and the Loose Wiles company were practicing unfair monopoly.
 The complaint charges that the big biscuit companies allow a higher discount to large users of their product. such as chain stores, to the disadvantage of the smaller retailers.
 I. D. Lambert, special attorney for the trade commission, announced that MT. Wiles would be subpoenaed to appear at Washington next Tuesday to give the information.
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PAY BOOST GRANTED
Two Roads Announce Increases For
 Malnfe nance Of Way Men

Two Roads Announce Increases For
 Maintenance Of Way Men
 CHICAGO, May Notwithstanding 2 dispute with their 10000 maintenance of way men from the United States railroad labor board, the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific and the Chi cago, Rock Island and Gulf railways today notified the board that they had granted increases to maintenance foremen ranging from $2.04 to $8 a month, mechanics ? cents an hour and laborers l cent an hour. The pay boost Is retroactive to May 16.
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FLYERS REACH FL PASO

Cover Distance From San Diego In
 Less Than Eight Hours
 FL PASO, Tex, May 25. - Lieut.. Oakley G. Kelly and Lieut.. John A. MacReady, army aviators who estab
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ing the committee and the board that they had signed the agreement as pr. Glenn had explained it. Many white persons said Mrs. Echols, re- quested that We make this proposf- tion because of the terrible condi- tion of some of the negro schools of Birmingham which were a reflec- tion to our city.
 Immediately following the ad- journment of the Trades committee the board went into an executive session after which the contracts for the new negro high school building was let.
 This school will be located on Eighth avenue between Johns and Joseph streets north. Ground for the foundation of the new high school Is expected to be broken within the next week.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17

A mother from whom her son
inherited many OF the Characters
tics that made up his greatness,
was observation-disclosures tSallam-
bier whose son, Honore De Balzac is
famous world over an a master of
the short story and the novel. His
works, which have been translated
into almost every civilized tongue,
grew largely, he always said. out of
the early training he received from
his mother and from the influence
upon him of her mind and the books
she loved.
Nine. Balzac, or rather Citizeness
Balzac, as she was known al the
time of Honore's birth, was a well
educated, well reared and well born
girl, who was married at the age of
eighteen. She vas the daughter of
the director of hospitals in Paris,
and had been taught more than
most young girls of thet time.
Temperamentally, she was sensi-
tive and highly s~trung--a small,
.ctive woman, nervous, and with the
frequent accompaniment of terrific
energy. She was irritable and in
clined to worry about little things
rs most nervous people do but sound
ertheless she was a woman of sound
common sense in which it is record
ed, she far exoelled her husband.
From the record of her daughter,
who wrote considerably about her
mother 1t is gathered that Nine.
Balzac was an unusually remarkable
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17
CHRONIC GRUMBLERS

Is there any class Of people who disgust you more than
do the chronic grumblersg I have in mind a family of them.
Their conversation runs something like this:
Meeting one of the family on the day they were going
away on their vacation, I said to her, "You have a fine cool
day to start on your trip" To which she replied, "Oh yes,
but we are SO late getting off I just feel like giving it all up
Mother never will hurry, you know"
The day after their return from = months vacation I in
quired of them how they had enjoyed it.
I'VE had a good time but we just hated to come home.
Sat in the car for a long while outside of the apartment before
We would come in. The place looked SO unattractiye to us. It
is terribly run down and shabby looking, don't you thinkq'
AS a matter of fact the apartment house in which they live
is not only among the best in the city but is kept up the best
of them all.
How do you folks get that way? Is it just pure dis
agreeableness or rank %snobbery?
When such an attitude becomes a habit, chronic Gas it so
easily does) what havoc it plays not only with a persons dis
position but with their appearance.
These %happy-but, women, for there are three Of them in
this family, all have a disconnected, disagreeable, embittered
expression. How could it be otherwise for the acid of discon-
tent and dissatisfaction eats not only in ones soul, but de-
stroys all %semblance of sweetness and serenity in ones ex'-
preston. Blood will tell, and so will disposition. Watch yours
If you would not bear the tag of a chronic grumbler.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17
BARES LEGS AND
RULES COLLARS AWRY
BY MARIAN HALE
(NEA Service Writer)

PARIS-It is in the little fads and
Inconsistencies of dress that the
Parisienne shows her real talent fof
clothes.
At the present time 1t is quite the
thing to have one shoulder exposed.
Select the one that is most perfect,
preferably the one over the arm
where the vaccination scar isn't, and
let it see the light of day.
When / first came to Paris it oc-
CURED to me that the actresses /
saw on the stage and the manequins
In the shops were very careless
about putting on their frocks, and
that they neglected to straighten the
neckline and pull them into shape
after they slipped them on.
Nobby Deshabille
Gradually it p~ercolated through
the brain cells that this careless eff
feet was decidedly studied, and
that 1t was the finishing touch of
the costume to pull the wide neck
line until it hugs the neck on one
side and exposes the shoulder on the
other.
Then, lest it might be tempted to
get back into shape OF it's own ac-
cord, the Parisienne pins it in shape,
or rather out OF shape with a fancy
pin.
Another current fad which strikes
the person from across the Atlantic
a bit unusual is the prevalent one
of emitting the hosiery.
A Bare Fact
On the street bare ankles are as
common as silk covered ones. At the
fashionable watering places the girls
sometimes have original designs
painted upon their bare flesh. others
stencil their monograms or their
favorite flowers thereon.
In the smartest dressmaking
salons the manequirs all wear flesh
colored stockings, and 1t requires a
second glance sometimes to decide
whether you are seeing flesh or silk
If we are to return to black stock
ings this winter, there Is no hint of
1t in Paris.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17
Sister Mary Gives
You Several Fresh
Tomato Recipes

Even stewed tomatoes seem to
taste better when made with the
fresh vegetable than the canned, and
the delectable stuffed tomatoes of
the tomato s. are of course
out of the quetion at any other time.
If the tomatoes are prepared for
stuffing an hour before wanted the
flesh will remain frmer during the
baking and the vegetable will be
more attractive.
Ramikins are very convenient to
use for stuffed tomatoes as they
make handling for serving unneees-
sary.
To prepare tomatoes for stuffing:
Wash and cut a slice from the
stem end. Scoop out the seeds and
sprinkle the inside with salt. Turn
upside down on a plate and let
stand on lee for an hour. The skins
will slip off after baking.
Stuffed Tomatoes
-Four medium-sized tomatoes, L.
cup cooked macaroni, IL teaspoon
minced onion, 4 teaspoons grated
cheese. buttered crumbs.
Prepare tomatoes for stuffing, re-
serve pulp and mix with macaroni
and onion. Fill cavities with mix
ture, sprinkle with buttered crumbs
and arrange in a buttered baking
dish. Add 1-2 cup vat and 1 table,
spoon butter and bake half an hour.
For the last five minutes of baking
sprinkle tops with grated cheese.
When cheese is melted remove from
oven and serve.
Baked Tomatoes
-Four medium sized tomatoes, IL
cup finely chopped cold meat, Ia
cup dried bread crumbs, 1 tablespoon
butter, / dessertspoon minced pars-
ley, 1-2 teaspoon salt, is teaspoon
pepper, IL teaspoon minced onion
Prepare tomatoes as in preceding
rule. Mix ingredients and fill to-
matoes. Bake in baking dish or
ramikins.
ScaIIoped Tomatoes
Pare tomatoes and cut in half
inch slices. Put a. layer of cracker
crumbs in a we'll buttered baking
dish. Add a layer of tomatoes,
sprinkle with minced onion and
parsley and shredded green pepper.
Add a layer of cracker crumbs, dot
with butter and season with sal.
and pepper. Add another layer OF
tomatoes and seasoning. Cover with
cracker crumbs. Dot with butter.
Beat 1 egg with 1 cup milk and pour
over the whole. Bake half an hour
in a moderate oven.
Stuffed With Fish
Four medium-sized tomatoes: ]
cup cold cooked fish, 2 tablespoons
butter, 1 tablespoon -four, IL cup
milk, IA teaspoon salt, Is teaspoon
pepper, 1 teaspoon minced parsley.
few gratings nutmeg, buttered
crumbs.
Prepare tomatoes TO rstuffing, re-
serving the pulp. Strain to remove
seeds. Melt butter. stir in Hour,
slowly add milk. stirring constantly.
Heat tomato juice and stir n
sauce. Add fish and seasoning. FIJI
cavities with mixture and bake halr
an hour in a moderate oven
Tomatoes are delicious stuf1ed
with a mixture of ham and shredded
pineapple. Bind mixture with
cracker crumbs and tomato pulp
free from seeds. One teaspoon Of
brown sugar should be added for
each tomato.
Conyright. 1928, NEA Service, Inc.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17
LONG SLEEVE IN FASHION
CHOKER COLLAR ALSO
BY MARIAN HALE
NEA Service Writer

PARIS, Sept. 17:-one of the real
friend, the choker collar.
In all smart collections it pops up
with conviction. AT first you do not
take it particularly seriously, but
later you realize that 1t has come to
stay and must be reckoned with.
Jenny hnds many interesting
ways to use the choker. On a blue
serge frock she has the collar button
lsnugly about the throat in front and
continue from the frock after the
conventional manner of frocks, while
in the back the collar itself clings
to the throat, but the neckline pro-
ceeds to be cut in the usual round
fashion, so that instead of being a
continuation OF the back 1t is quite d
separate matter, offering a slight
respite from bondage, as 1t were.
As To Sleeves
On another Jenny frock you find
a wide stock Of black velvet tied in
front with a smart bow worn with a
blue serge frock with a conventional
bateau neckline, there being no
point where the frock and the collar
join.
With the collar, of course. the long
sleeve is inevitable.
The long sleeve, hugging the arm
closely, is the only alternative from
the sleeveless effect or the mere
shoulder cap, which still continues
to be fashionable.
Serges and silks for general wear
are almost universally long sleeved,
but with three-piece suits one finds
that the sleeve has almost invariably
been omitted.
There is a tendency this season to
launch a picture" frock which bears
no relation at all to accepted fash
lions.
Like An Old Print
For instance while narrow shout
lders and straight lines and short
skirts prevail generally, occasionally
one finds a frock with a full, gath
cred skirt reaching the floor,
shoulder caps and pinched-in waist,
which gives the wearer the interest
ing feeling Of having just stepped
from an old fashioned print.
Tiny ruffles, picoted or fringed,
sim flowers and floating ribbons are
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17
YOUR BABY AND MINE
By MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED

September Is a good month 10
wean the baby. Many mothers have
been holding off during the summer
with the fear that a change Of food
would be bad for the baby. Now
with cool weather there is no longer
any reason for the six or seven
months old baby to be kept away
from a fuller diet.
A baby Of this age needs other
food beside the mothers milk. He
needs more milk usually, and he
needs vegetable juices. The incest
way to combine these two needs is to
give a feeding of cows milk diluted
with vegetable juice at n Of his
feelings. The best one to start with
Is usually the 10 o'clock feeding for
the baby on q four-hour schedufe,
and twelve for the three-hour sehed-
ule.
II the baby IS seven months old
the formula to start with may be 3
ounces Of milk. and three of water,
in which carrots, turnips. spinach
, and celery have been cooked, strain
| ed and cooled. Add n level table,
spoon Of sugar to this bottle. II the
baby shows any marked bowel activ-
! ity the vegetable water may be re-
placed with plain water for a few
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17
WOMAN CONCERT MANAGER
CBy NEA serviee)

(By NEA Serflce)
NEW YORK-Eighty per cent OF
the concert and opera goers in the
United States are women. But until
a bobbed haired slip of a young per-
son began getting notions OF her own
in her head, all concert and opera
direction was in the hands of men.
Now Louise Davidson has an office
and a roll-top desk of her " and
answers to the title of being the only
woman concert manager in the
United States. Nine. Georgette Lee
Blanc, former wife of the poet
Maeterlinck, will tour this year
under her management.
First says Miss Davidson, 81
thought I'd like to be a singer. Then
l found l could draw a little and
started doing musical cartoons.
cent of the concert goers being
women. Then 1 happened into the
home OF Nine. Leblanc, down in the
Village, where she was giving one
of her intimate reeitals.
1.-THE audience was pitifully small.
but Nine. LeBlanc's recital thrilled
me through and through. I went up
to her and told her that so per cent
of the concert goers in the United
States were women just like me and
the only thing to do was to go out
after that 80 per cent. She agreed
with me-"
The only thing lacking. appar-
emily, was that neither Nine. Lee
Blanc nor her would-be manager
had any money. They determined
to go on giving reeitals until some
benevolent combination of business
man and art lovAr should wander in.
He came the thirty-hfth night.
And now" says Miss Davidson.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-17
What Perth Amboy
Women Are Doing

Plans will be completed for the
musical comedy THE Cameo Girl, !"
which will be presented in the Ma
ijestic theatre on October Is and
16, under the direction of the
Girls Club, at their first meeting of
the season to be held in the au-
ditorium of the public library, TO-
night at 7.45 o'clock. Miss Jane
Warren, the president will preside.
anyone desiring to become a MEM
Der of the club may attend the ses-
sion tonight.