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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02
LIQUOR AND THREE-MILE LIMIT

1t is somewhat unfortunate that
there is often great delay in final in
depreciation by the supreme court of
laws the enforcement of which is i'm
peded by conflicting opinions owing
to the natural differences Of inter-
probation that arise prior to the SUI
preme court decree. This situation
has existed with respect to our prohi-
bition laws as affecting ships within
our jurisdiction and without. Accord
ing to the recent ruling, American
ships may carry and sell liquor be-
yond the three-mile limit, but no YES
sci Of any nation may legally bring
prohibited liquors within our three
mile limit even under seal. There
was difference of opinion on this
point, some judges holding that for
eign ships carrying liquors under the
laws of their own lands have the right
to bring them into our ports under
proper seal and safeguard, but the
majority decreed that any ship COM
ing within the three-mile limit of any
nation automatically comes also within
the jurisdiction of the laws of that
nation. Indeed, the decision was that
American ships in foreign ports would
be obliged to keep liquor on board
for sale, while in port, if the local
laws so required.
The decision is very significant in
that, while affirming the supremacy
of our laws within our three-mile
limit, the court at the same time ex-
plicitly recognizes the supremacy of
the laws of other nations within their
respective three-mile limits. The COM
missioner of prohibition has expressed
his qualification at the decision, be-
cause it specifically settles differences
of opinion and establishes definitely
the lines of his authority. The re-
suit should be a more uniform and eff
fective program of law enforcement
in our border waters. The court states
that it is within the powers of con-
gress to modify the laws so as to pro-
hibit the carrying and sale of liquor
by our ships on the high seas, and
doubtless also to permit foreign ships
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02
JOHN-A-DREAMS
Dreams Of Being Threatened

To be threatened either with
bodily harm or in general way
means that it will be necessary
for you to martial all your will
power and wits in order to over
come the wiles of those who. al
though approaching you smiling
ly, really have your destruction
in mind. There are many CLASH
fications to these dreams and l
cite here only a few.
To be threatened by a man
means that gossip Is busy and
about among your women
friends in such a manner that yoa
are beginning t9 lose their es-
TEEN. In such a case 1t will be
very wise for you to Immediately
start an Investigation, find the
one whose evil tongue has in
jured your fair name, boldly con-
front her. demand an explanation
and retraction. Unless you do so.
others will believe the i'll words
which are being spoken about you
and the matter will advance to
such a point where il may be-
come very difficult for you to de-
fend yourself.
To be threatened by a woman is
an unmistakable sign that Your
arthappiness is in danger. IL
YOU are a married woman. the
probabilities are that one of your
friends is casting covetous
glances upon your husband ami
the sooner you break up what APP
pears to be an innocent friend
ship between him and her, the
better 1t will be for all concern
ed. If you are an unmarried wo-
man, the dream tells you that the
man you have chosen for your
lover has become entangled in q
frivolous filtration. almost against
his will, Yet he Is being drawn
more and more towards the girl
who is tempting to win his af-
fections. Take firm stand. You
will find that it will only be nee
essary for you to point out to
him the foolishness and the wrong
of his ways and his eyes will be
opened to the fact that while he
can find real happiness in your
arms, nothing but disappointment
and establishment will come. to
him If he listens to the lures of
the other girl.
To be threatened by a child is
sign of domestic quarrels in which
everybody will seem to be against
you. 1t is wise in such a case to.
take stern measures, to make
your position clear and to insist
upon the fact that, no matter how
young you may be, you have GER
tain rights which even your~pa-
rents cannot curtail.
There are other classes to these
dreams, but there are so many of
them that I have pointed out only
the important ones; let me know
II you have such vision and I
shall give you correct interpre-
tation and in all probability will
be able to point the right way to
contentment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

to bring liquor under seal into our
ports as a part Of their stores. Mean
while, it is stated that the shipping
board will continue for the present
to ban liquor on government ships,
thus carrying out what appears to be
the federal policy as to intoxicants.
Whether other nations will accept
the verdict of our court without
protest remains to be seen, but it is
certain that they cannot protest with
out at the same time tacitly relin-
gushing a certain measure of their
own authority over foreign ships in
their ports. This it is not believed
that they will do. The chances are
that the verdict will be accepted
abroad as we'll as at home, for it in
reality strengthens the applications of
the laws of all nations within their
respective jurisdictions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02
MOTHERS OF FAMOUS
MEN


me Mother OF Anthony TrOIlOpe
Practically all of the gifts of
that extraordinarily gifted writer,
Anthony Trollope, were Inherit
ances from his mother, either di-
rectly or from some of her for
bears. Frances Milton, daughter
of a successful inventor. was an
exceedingly brilliant, witty and
clever woman; with an ironic
twist of mind which made even
more lovable a heart full of kind
ness and nature capable of the.
most tremendous sacrifices. Mrs.
Trollope was a woman who, hav-
ing married her husband for pure
love. was prepared to suffer any
trouble and poverty with him In
cheerfulness. and without remind
ing him all the time that she was
being deprived of many joys. She
was. according to the biographers.
the most capable and unselfish
wife in the world.
She was sresourceful and gifted.
Her moral courage amounted to
positive heroism. She had an I'm
domitable faculty of finding ma
terial success in the very weller
of misfortune. She was good
looking woman, whose pleasan.
face was given point by pair
of very keen, bright eyes, and
whose apparently gentle manner
was attractively spiced by the wit
of a sharp. sarcastic tongue.
The chief and most admirable
of positive flood of admirable
qualities was this woman's COM
bined sense of humor and proper
ton. She never felt sorry for
herself, for instance. and had
small patience with self-sympa-
thy. She believed that IL she
were to really accomplish any
good b. making sacrifice for
her husband or her children. that
she must not keep reminding them
of the sacrifice. She did it. and
never mentioned it again. She
was not always on still hunt
for appreciation" in consequence
of which she received her full
share of it. Altogether she was
a wise. kind and brilliant woman.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02
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STILL THE GRADE CROSSINGS

Although VldducI is the term COW-
monty applied to the means of elimi-
mating the grade crossings, some of
the structures will be bridges over the
tracks and others will be underpasses
beneath the tracks. 1t is pointed out
by engineers that the bridges will stop
at Twenty-first street and the under
passes begin at Twentieth street, con-
tinuing thence westward as far as
necessary. The underpasses will be
cheaper than the bridges from the
public viewpoint. The system of I'M
derpasses will require the elevation
of the tracks so as to permit of the
construction. This track elevation
would simplify the task of eliminating
the crossings at Twentieth and west
ward and would make it possible to
open Nineteenth street to traffic as
well as to establish many other thor
oughfares between the north and
south sides without prohibitive public
expense. Twentieth and Eighteenth
streets carry the heaviest traffic at
the crossings and urgently need the
relief contemplated.
y Engineers who have given the SUBJ
ject careful study say that the ele-
walton of the tracks can be carried
out without closing the streets to traf-
fic and the underpasses constructed
without depriving the public of the
use Of the crossings. There is public
desire for the prompt adoption and
execution of comprehensive plan of
Iaduct elimination. More than that
there is urgent public need for such
policy. If there has been need for
delay in the past, there is no such
need now. The elevation of the tracks
and the construction of underpasses
at Twentieth street and westward will
not conflict with any plans for the
construction of viaduct bridges east
ward, nor with any policy with regard
to the Frisco yards and street OBJ
structions.
The railroad heads have announced
their readiness to cooperate with the
municipality in doing away with the
grade crossings, and there appears to
be no obstacle to an immediate start.
Business is suffering an annual loss
doubtless as great as the entire cost
of the construction, while there is no
means of computing the possible hu-
man loss that will be averted by do
ing now what has already been post
poned too long. 1t all appears to be
matter Of executive capacity on the
part of the city commission. If they
4 shall complain of obstacles, it will
\ only be the confession Of inability to
overcome obstacles. If they shall
further delay, it will be only to arouse
further public disappointment and in
jury. If they shall make an imme-
date beginning, they will be forgiven
many things. There is no escape from
the responsibility, and there is no
means of diverting that responsibility
from those who have undertaken to
! direct the city's affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02
THE WARRIOR SPECTER

In the tentative refusal of the wa
terways management to grant Mobile
barge rate PARTIES with New Orleans
on shipments from st. Louis via the
Mississippi there is glimpsed again the
specter of Warrior operation losses
due principally to the unfair rate di-
visions with the railroads on joint
hauls. Colonel Ashburn declared his
reluctance to saddle the waterways
with any new rates, that may prove
Improbable, until the barge lines
were on a paying basis. Of course,
Colonel Ashburn may be wrong, and
an appeal to the Interstate Commerce
Commission might secure a reversal
of his decision, but in the meantime
every effort should be made to re-
move his present grounds of refusal,
namely, the fact that the Warrior
shows an operating loss.
1t has been sufficiently established
that the Warrior would show surplus
instead of deficit if it were given
fair division of joint rates. 1t has
been reported that conferences have
been in progress for some time be-
tween the railroads and the water
way heads and that the waterway
management has submitted to the
railroads concerned what it believes
rate divisions. 1t appears, however,
that time also enters into the equities
! involved and that prompt adjust
ment is called for. 1t should be pos
sible to judge whether the railroads
are dealing sincerely or not and
whether they are inclined to grant
the equities. If they are not so in
clined, then the more quickly the
question is passed back to the Inter
state Commerce Commission with de-
mand for final decision, the better
The friends of the Warrior, both in
Mobile and elsewhere, can find no
more effective plan of bringing the
waterway into it's own than by bend
ing every legitimate endeavor towards
compelling a decision as to joint rate
divisions. Further appropriations to
the Warrior barge line wait upon this
decision, as the secretary of war has
repeatedly declared. Further modifi-
cations for the Warrior will be diff
cult to obtain from the waterway
management as long as the balance is
on the wrong side of the ledger, ac-
cording to Colone! Ashburn. 1t ap-
pears, therefore, that united pressure
directed towards readjustment of the
joint rail and water rates is the short
est and most direct route towards
proper rate recognition of the seaport
and its claims upon such rate favors
as now go to other ports.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02
POOR BOYS WHO
BECAME FAMOUS
Stefan lxnrnjich
by Frederick HOuk Eavv

Out of a little Serbian village
a little over hundred years ago,
a village boy walked to the an
Client monastery not far from his
home. and there sat down with
the monks to learn how to read
and write. Most of his playfel-
lows did not know how to read
and write. and did not wish to
know, but stefan Karajich be-
.lieved learning worth while. 1t
was n pleasant sight to see him
sitting there with the long beard
ed friars, his eyes puzzling over
the big print of the crude old
books. Little did those monks
know that the country boy, son
of an ordinary villager. would be-
come the most learned of all peo-
pie in Serbia. far. more learned
indeed than any of the monks.
make great dictionaries. reform
the spelling and the vocabulary of
Serbia. collect old literature and
write brilliant books of history.
To them, the teaching of the small
boy was only an insignificant
part of their work-and so far
as they knew, it would amount to
nothing.
1t is a pity that teachers cannot
lift up the veil of the future and
see what their pupils are to be
in the world. Stefan learned to
read and to writes At seventeen
he was sent with the army to
read and write letters for an ig-
norant general. For number of
wears he led the rough camp life.
but learned to know the people OF
Serbia. their songs and their sto-
ries. Drifting into the Austrian
city of Vienna he happened to
sing one of the old folk songs.
A learned man heard him ami
asked for more. He sang until
he was tired, and then told sto-
ries until he was quite exhausted.
The scholar was delighted and
urged the young man to- put To-
gether in book form all the old
songs and stories he had picked
up, and to make study of the
language of the people. The rest
of his life Stefan Karajich spent
in finding more songs and le-
gends, in studying the language.
in writing dictionaries and in urg-
ing people to spell words as they
pronounced them, and to pro-,
nounce words as they spell them.
File entirely reformed the Serbian
alphabet. the Serbian language
and Serbian spelling. When he
was sixty he translated the New
into Serbian.
After life of intense study and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02
THE ALABAMA PRESS
Had Thing and Must Go.
(Gadsden Times-News)

1t is only matter of time I'M
til the end of the convict lease
system in Alabama will be seen.
Every organization looking to-
wards the advancement of the
state and the betterment of
manity is not only opposed
the system. but is actively takiA
up the fight to have it abolished
Every newspaper that has al
heart the good of the public il,
serves is agitating the matter.
The provision made by the legis-
lature that the system should be
continued for, another four years
is one of the blacklist marks on
the record of that body.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02
PEOPLES FORUM


To the Editor of The Age Herald:
We want to thank you most
heartily for the splendid publicity
given by your paper to the re-
cent manufacturers and house
wives exhibit. 1t was largely
due to your cooperation i'll
spreading the news abroad that
our thirty thousand visitors were
enabled to become familiar with
the excellence of Birmingham
manufactured goods. Already we
are planning for the 1924 exhibit.
when we shall ask you to help
us again.
GRACE GORDON HAWKINS,
President League of Women
Voters.
Birmingham, Ala, April 80, 1928.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02
PRESENTATIONS

An apology hardly ever clears
the atmosphere entirely
Those who don't care to reform
others spend a good deal Of time
lodging them.
Fortunes are seldom found by
finding fault: but often by rem
edying it.
1t is about as hard to control
frowns as it is to force smiles.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

The Mobile Chamber of Com J
merce Is leading for a movement
for truth in advertising, propos-
ing bill to be submitted II the
legislature on the subject. AI-
vertising by a local merchant
which does not stick to the truth
will break him quicker than anvil
other thing, but the mail orde !
concern can catch new susAe.
every minute.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02
THE BETTER WAY

There Is much quarreling over
the proposal to make daily Bible
reading compulsory in the public
schools. Those who oppose it
say it may result in sectarian
teaching in the public schools.
Better than requiring children to
read a Bible verse a day would
be to require parents to live up to
the Bibles teaching, and set a
worthy example.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

Blessed are they who only stand and
wait.
1t is not question of wages or
working hours that has caused the
Spanish bullfighters. to strike. 1t is
question of dignity.
1t is protest against the "Char-
lots" those irreverent interlopers who
invade the bullring in Chaplinesque
attire and slap the bull on the nose
with custard pies and otherwise make
q mockery of time-honored institu-
ton.
Many of our respected institutions
are in the same position as the bull
ring. Surrounded by pomp and cere-
mony and folderol, they naturally pro-
test when some "Charlot" clips into
the arena and shows up the ferocious
bull.
The Chariot" is useful citizen.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

A distinguished author and lecturer
declares it would be better for Amer
lea to enter the League of Nations
ION the quiet than not to go in at all.
Any small boy who has sneaked under
the tent of a good show can under
stand that.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02
Does a Lot of Good
- (Samson Ledger)

The citizens of the county owe
a debt to the citizens of Geneva
who conceived and put. over the
booster meeting last week. Re
CARELESS of the friendly claims OF
various towns in the county to
pre- eminence, the get-together
spirit manifested can do naught
but good for the community spirit.
Everyone who listened to the talks
and saw the boosting spirit mani
Tested is bound to think better OF
his county and to feel a pardon
able pride in her past ACHE,
ments and her glorious future,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

In his various moves to muddle the
league and the world court with null
titudinous complications, the only
thing Senator Lodge appears to have
demonstrated is that when he resolves
to make trouble to either party he is
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

They are undertaking to establish
literary temple in Washington; but
nobody has shown the courage to sug-
gest that the Congressional Record be
considered among the possible, entries.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

The latest Marathon record is forty
eight hours on skates. Perhaps after
championships in gossip, kissing and
such pastimes are settled, the pendu-
lum of sanity may swing back towards
normalcY
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02
GREAT POSSIBILITIES

(PrOVidence JOurnaI) ?
The seizure by the French OF
Prussia's state-owned vineyards
and stocks Of wine along the Mo-
selle seems to have caused more
agitation of the Ruhr mining dis
trict. Evidently NJ. Poincare's
adventure has possibilities not,
originally dreamed of. :
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

When scientists and other leaders
next month pay tribute to the genius
and achievements of Burbank, they
will honor themselves. Proper recog-
milton of another's large service is
next to rendering it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

Those OF us who are in touch
with the outside feeling toward
Huntsville as a village town are
up in arms and resent the thought
for moment that the proud con-
munity in which we live and do
business should be further han
dicapped for lack of adequate cor
porate. limit facilities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

No special interest has been mani
tested in America in reports that
communist plot to overthrow the
Turkish government was discovered.
Americans seldom get excited over
what appears to be a dogLeat-dog sit
uation
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

To claim that the convict lease sys-
tenn is justified for revenue to the
state is as illogical as to contend that
the state should license the narcotic
traffic for the money that is in it. I.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

1t appears that the only time com
plete national isolation will work is
when the citizens of a nation have
nothing to sell to the citizens of any
other nation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02
Things Worth While
Daily HomaN

After all Alabama does things.
The latest and best is the dedica-
ton of the new state cotton mill,
the products of which are all sold.
The mill will be operated with
the assistance from convicts of the
state. The mill will offer profit
able employment to many, and
doubtless to not few of them
Will it prove a valued reforma,
tory,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02
SMILES



The correspondent who asks
why the Piutes now or lately on
strike are called "renegades," is
informed that in the bright leXi-
con of the west any Indian who
stands up for his rights is
renegade.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

Autauga county must he pro-
gressive If 1t wishes to keep in
the front rank of counties of
Alabama. Otherwise our ambi-
tious boys and girls viii go to
other counties. No ambitious
person wishes to live in Il dead
county. We dodge the cemeteries
as long as possible.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

Washington reports that fitness,
rather than length of service, will
hereafter influence appointments of
important congressional committees
promise some improvement in the pub
lie service. The longer some politi-
clans serve in official capacities the
less regard they have for anything
but their personal preferment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02
Wants boy Scout "Bunchl

VI fNNoffS OVUHt! IIcfdIUJ
The Boy Scout movement has
passed the joke stage. 1t is bow
one of the most valuable assetH OF
our country, and the Herald woAll,
like to see a Boy Scout unit r
ganized in Pickens county. DIN
ing the summer months 10 tn
best time to start this movement
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS


(SaVannah NeWS)
1t is said that Uncle Sam is
preparing to recognize Mexico.
Won't Mexico have to do some
preparing in order to be recog-
nizable?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

tHOuse, In Public Ledger)
Mr.. Harding's plea for party
loyalty is an eloquent and con-
vincing one. The next step in
the procedure would seem to be
that of finding the party to which
he refers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

The governments move to prose-
cute the Western lumber trust may
put crimp in the long standing habit
of that institution to make the people
pay while it saws wood.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-02

VCUIUnDld, ,. z. Stdlt.J
Jewett-It ought to please the
unjust.
Jewett-It ought to phase the
prohibitionist to know that the
water is evenly distributed.