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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-20
ENGINEERS TOL LDILEGION PRESENTS
 1T NAVY AIR WORK CHARMING ARTISTS
Cortese And Mrs. Brewer Given Enthusiastic Greet
 ing By Audience

Birmingham Post No. 1, of the American Legion, presented Angelo Cortese and his harp and Elizabeth Jordan Brewer and her soprano voice to Birmingham Wednesday night at Phillips High auditorium, and those who heard them showed that they were pleased. Flowers and prolonged applause that refused to cease until several encores were given, paid tribute to these artists and their art.
 There was a decided preference among the audience for the more pop ular airs, the kind that bring back memories of home and negro mann mics and the southern scenes that now exist mainly in song and story. Mrs. Bower used better Judgment in selecting her musical menu than did Miss Farrar a few weeks ago, and her hearers appreciated 1t, nor did they hesitate to show their approcfa
 tion. She did not wait for her en- cores to sing the songs the people love. She gave them the place of honor on her program. and the ap- plause that followed every number was merely demand for more of the same kind. Nah Lindy Lou" Ma Lil Batteau" and Mighty Lax a Rose" occupied the place of honor in her list of songs and received the warmest approval of those who heard her.
 But Mrs. Brewer did moro than sing negro songs. Grand opera was also her theme, and she handled it in grand opera style. Selecting "Caro Nome" from "Rigolettap and the Bell song from 'Lakme," she used them to bring out the delicate tonal qualities of an unusual tune full soprano voice and showed what wide range such a voice can have Airs In three language were sung with delicacy and tone mastery that mark the artist.
 MT Cortese also won the hearts of his audience by the strokes of his fingers that brough music from his harp and translated the emotions and sentiment of such composers as Saint Saens, Hasselmans and Holy into a. form made beautiful and compre- hensible to even the least musical member of the audience. His num- bers were more classical than were most of those of Mrs. Brewer, but the appeal of his melody was no less strong. Nor was his audience less ap- preciatfve. In the "Spanisher Tanz." the Fantasia" and the "Orientale. :" he was at his best.
 There was a third artist, who as accompanist to Mrs. Brower showed that accompanists can add much to the enjoyment of a program. This was Miss Louise D. Newman whose skill at the piano receivedt enthusias tic praise from those who heard. her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-20
GREELEY IS CHOSEN FOR POTENTATE
A. p. Wells Placed In Line For High Honor At We'd
 nesday Night Session

pr. H. c. Crel1y was elected poten- tate of zamora temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at the annual meeting and election of officers Wednesday Y night at the Masonic temple, succeed ing Ernest Matthews. Dr. CrelIy, who was chief rabban of Zamora, has passed through all the elective sta tions of the temple and is declared we'll informed on Shrine and Masonic affairs.
 Other officers were advanced to the following positions, l.. H. Salter, chief rabban: George F.. Wheelock, assis- tant chief rabban: James B. Patterson high priest and prophet; A. R. Wells, oriental guide: W. T. Lathem, treas urer; Charles J. Geohegan, recorder.
 Considerable interest was taken in the election of representatives to the Imperial council There were six candidates nominated, with four to be elected, The election was close, and Ernest Matthews, H. c. Crelly. Thomas w. Bowles and Frank c. Shepard, Jr., were declared elected. MT. Shepard was also elected as trus- tee from zamora Temple.
 The following were elected as members of the board of control R. B. Watts. A. L. Reese, George S. obear. Charles J. Geohegan and W. A. Currie.
 Charles J. Geohegan was unani-
 
 vote being announced was given an ovation, it being the twenty-fourth consecutive year that MT. Geohegan has been elected recorder.
 Potentate Ernest Matthews pre- sided over the business session. The yearly reports of the treasurer re- corder and other officers were read As the business was concluded Mir Matthews was presented with a handsome potentate's jewel of beau tiful design and set with diamonds Hugh Locke made the presentation speech and paid tribute to the energy of the recipient in putting into eff feet progressive ideas that have placed Zamora in high place in Shrinedom. MT. Matthews made a fitting response.
 Dr. H. c. Crelly announced that a very handsome present had been sent to Mrs. Matthews as gift of appre- citation from the Shrine.
 At the conclusion of the session Dr. Crelly announced that he would name the appointive members of the official divan at later date.
 Closing festivities of the 1923 term of Zamora temple held Wednesday were attended by several thousand members of Zamora and included large contingent of out of town Shriners. The program for the day stdIleu dl / U CioCh Wilen d large pa rade was staged with Zamora band leading and the official divan led by Potentate Ernest Matthews. The pa trol and uniformed bodies, the can didates and the nobility followed. A clown band brought up the rear of the parade.
 During the afternoon a ceremonial session was held and a large class of candidates were escorted across the hot sand by the degree team under the direction of o. R. Brock. A ban quet was held in the dining rooms of the Temple at o'clock and the busi- ness meeting followed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-20
CONSCIENCE HURT KORETZ, THEY SAY
Left Stack Of Dollar Bills For SWindIed Relatives, Witt
 neSSeS Testify

CHICAGO, Dec. 1s.-(By Asso- ciated Press.)-Leo KoretZ, fugitive head of the fictitious Bayano River Trust company of Panama, through which he induced his relatives and wealthy friends to invest more than S5.o0o,0o0, had an attack of con- science" just before he disappeared, relatives of the promoter of the Panama oil bubble" testified today before referee in bankruptcy.
 Korentz's relatives and those of his wife told of their great faith in the oil promoters vast schemes and of their investments in them, often made at their own solicitation. Just before Koretz left they testified, he turned over Sl25,0o0 in $1,o00 bills at one time and other amounts at other times with instructions to dis tribute it among his relatives. He represented that he had deposed of some of their stock at s25,e0 a share and the tribe of Koretz was wild with joy, the witnesses said.
 Henry A. Klein, one of commit tee of Chicago business men, who went to Panama at Koretz's invita- ton to see for themselves the tre- mendous resources he represented himself as holding, and who found alligator swamps and Indians ln- stead, declared today that he had lost about s500.o00 in the 10 years of his aSSOcldt1On WltH the iuSu
 After the relatives of Koretz had been questioned, Josef Fleming. rep represented that he had disposed of company, declared a grand jury in- vestigation to determine the facts concerning the money left to rela- tives would probably be asked. Some of the relatives have already turned over money and jewels valued at S2o0,eoo, part of the "conscience fund" KoretZ distributed.
 In the meantime, government op- eratiyes declared that they believed they had uncovered the fugitive's trail. They intimated that he was in hiding within days ride of Chi cago, and declared that they ex- pected his arrest in some eastern city within a few days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-20
DOUBT IF BALDWIN
 CAN SURVIVE DEBATE
Feeling Of Conservatives Is Against
 Hauling Flag Down

LONDON. Dec. 19.--(By Associated Press.)-Political circles generally are convinced that the Baldwin gov ernment cannot survive the debate on the speech from the throne when the Parliament meets next month and the feeling among the conservatives against hauling down the protection flag is growing stronger. The senti- ment is that since the ministers must be defeated any way they should go down with colors flying.
 The Kings speech which Is framed by the Premier, is likely to treat gingerly with the tariff issue in gem eral, but the supporters of the gov ernment will be disappointed if the cabinet does not evince a purpose to go on with the suggestion for prefer entiai duties within the empire agreed upon by the imperial conference. The liberals for the most part believe that agreements made by the govern ment with the premiers of the domin- ions must be subject to the consti- tutional rights of the House of Com mons to pass upon them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-20
 UNREASONABLE RATES
Traffic Association Wants MOdlfica-
 tion On Pipe Traffic

Railroad rates on lock joint cast iron culyert pipe in Alabama are at- tackled as unreasonable in com plaint that has been filed by the Bir- mingham Traffic association with the state public utilities board. All Ala bama railroads are named in the complaint.
 It Is contended that the rates on pipe of this kind should not be rela- lively higher than rates on sewer pipe and reinforced concrete pipe, both of which commodities are be- ing manufactured and consumed in large quantities in Alabama. The complaint was filed on behalf of the American Casting company.
 The case will be heard at Birming- ham on January g.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-20

Fill the bath tub with cold water. then place a newly invented gas stove into 1t and the bath will be warm enough in record time, says the in ventor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-20

prejudice against the two-dollar bill exists in all states with the ex- ception of those in New England, say government officials.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-16

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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-16
EXCITEMENT SEEKERS
By H. Addington Bruce


ITNHEY are about us all the while-the exc
element seekers. We know them by the
hungry eagerness of their eyes, the un-
poised hastiness and eXuberance of their
speech and manner.
They crave the sensational in their reading
and their amusements. Newspaper accounts
of crimes are devoured by them with avidity.
The more 1urid the movie" advertised the
more certain they are to give it their patron
age
Books as a rule, have scant appeal to them:
but let them hear of a book which tears emo
lions to tatters and they uneasy until
they have it in their hands.
Then they gallop through it at headlong
speed They read it so rapidly that in few
days it's contents will have faded from their
minds-a loss which, after all, is no loss. AS
with their reading, so with everything else
they do.
Rush rush. rush, is their rule of life They
rush to work, they rush through work, they
rush from work, and then they go rushing aft
er entertainment. When they go to bed and
fall asleep the odds are that they continue to
rush in their dreams.
They would be amusing figures II they were
not obviously pathetic. Even those unfamiliar
with their psychology appreciate that there ia
something the matter with the excitement
seekers, that they are not living life as it Ia
meant to be lived
Which is precisely what is the matter with
them. And their yearning for excitement is
itself penalty imposed upon them for their
misliving of life. Also it is expression of
their personalities shallowness and poverty.
another penalty for the misliving.
Yet one should not condemn them SO much
pity them. Almost without exception they
are products of a faulty home education
which, on the one hand has failed to develop
in them capacity for intellectual satisfactions,
and, on the other, has failed to give them any
real sense of the purposes of life.
In the diagnostic words of DR.. Bernard HoI-
lander:
'Their moral education extends only so far
that they can conduct themselves as ladies and
gentlemen in society, and does not include the
inculcation of self-control, self-deniaI, and the
habit OF taking healthy, kindly interest in
everything and everybody.
mo wonder they are easily bored and
seek for excitement, with all its consequences
If the whole personality had been harmonious
ly developed such a condition would be ina
possible
Are they incurably afflicted? BY no meahss
Only, unfortunately, they seldom sense
their need for cure unless and until their ex-
cltemeEt seeking has been succeeded by
nervous breakdown of more or less severity a
breakdown itself symptomatic of a faulty life
attitude.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-16
INCOMPETENCE OF
GOVERNMENT
By DR.. Frank Crane

Almost everyone in the United States not
connected with the government is thoroughly
convinced of its incompetency. Few realize
just why it is incompetent. The reasons,
however, are quite simple
They that first, government officials
are chosen by party leaders who elect them
selves and are not elected by the Leople, and
whose only interest is in retaining their
power. Second, the candidates for public of
lice are practically unknown to the people
except as they are exploited by party organ
izations.
And third, the candidates are chosen not
for their qualifications to discharge the du-
ties Of the office to which they are elected,
but because of their ability to be of assist
ance to the party which chooses them.
In other words, we existing under an
extra legal super-government, a government
by political parties.
The men who manage these Lolitical par
ties are almost uniformly men of ability in
only one direction to wit, that Of manip-
ulating machine. AS rule they are not
men or civic conscience nor Of training in
public affairs.
The consequence is that while the superin-
tendents of our factories, the managers of
our railroads and the heads of our depart
ment stores are men who are chosen because
Of their ability to do their work, our mayors,
governors, congressman and other public Of
ficials, are rather uniformly unfit
This is not because Of any wickedness; it
Is because OF the neglect of a natural law
That law is that any group of citizens,
when it becomes too large, is unable to de-
liberate or to conclude inteligently.
1t would be impossible for the people of
the United States or for the people of any
one of the states to choose their leaders in
mass meeting. Such meeting would fall
to pieces Of it's own weight.
The only possible way for such large units
to be efficient is for them to break up into
smaller units, each of which would be able
to consider questions and choose men with
Intelligence.
There is no provision in the government
FOR this. And it is of this lack Of provision
that the political party has taken advantage
1t has sprung up naturally to fill this gap.
1t does for the great body of people what
they have not been intelligent enough to do
for themselves.
Hence it is that the people OF the country
are governed by selfelected and irrespon-
sibIe party managers and not by their own
representatives.
course. The trouble is that they cannot select
those from whose number they are to choose.
The people do the electing, but the political
party does the selecting.
The remedy for this is manifest. 1t is to
change the government so that the work of
the political parties shall be done by the peo-
pie themselves operating through small
groups.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-16
GKORGIAs ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE


| At the close Of my article in today's pa
per-to the readers of the Country Home
Column will append another letter di-
rected to me, assuring our readers that it
was written by a splendid and cultured
woman-whose whole heart is enlisted in
good things-a mother who has a near
relative in the Georgia asylum for the in
sane and who has seen and felt the needs
of the institution few others can appre-
ciate or explain. There are forty-flve hum
dren inmates in this sanitarium There
are of course, a good many who are con-
stantIy cared for by home folks, but there
are many hundreds who never get dol
lars worth of anything from the poverty
stricken homes from which they came. Some
go there for life. Many never come out
unless their poor bodies are carried out in
a coffin. These inmates have committed no
crime-they have only been unfortunate
and suffered an affliction so deep and so
lasting that words cannot portray it--nor
can we understand it without some eXpe-
rience with it. In the year 1892, over
forty years ago. I was guest of Dr. Powell
then, and later, a superintendent of this
institution one of Georgia's truly great
pbilanthfopsts, because he put all his phys
zeal strength and the service of a great
good heart into this caring for the insane,
in the commonwealth of Georgia. He told
me that SeVenty-flVG per cent or the women,
Young and old, who were sent to Milledge-
Vile came from poor rural homes, and they
had been victims of neglect as, to health
and without recreation or uplift in their
deep poverty Those they left behind them
had only iliterate, sordd lives and so far
as they were concerned they were not only
destitute, but had nothing to expect from
their own families, in any sense of the word.
after the unfortunate ones were committed
to the asylum. And, dear readers, anybody
can lose their minds when the brain ma
chinery slips a cog and ceases to func-
ton. This comes by shock sometim es-
sometimes long illness-aga1n, as before
said, by neglect-alas, too often by cruelty.
Heredity plays big part, very often. 1.-The
fathers ate some grapes and the childrens
teeth are edge says the Bible
oh! How it behooves us to get on our
knees and thank our heavenly Father, when
we are still sane, with clear vision and able
to live at home, until we die, in peace
and domestic happiness!
AS l said before, these insane ones are
the deeply unfortunate. They are very
children in their lack Of mentality. A very
little thing in remembrance will soften their
grief and lonesomeness. None of us can see
into the future about our own. Some of
the best people have ever known in re-
ligious life have gone crazy. I had always
thought blindness was the saddest afflction
to ones self, but the loss of mind is q
more dreadful one to look at in those who
are near and dear to us. I am gladly MAX
ing the appeal-and here is the letter ]
have just received.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-16
BV Irwin Cobb

The party was in full swing when there
entered, staggeringly, gentleman who plain
ly had already been at some other party be-
fore he reached this one. 1t would seem also
that these prior festivities had done at least
two things for him, one being to put an edge
his appetite and the other being to make
him boastful of his carrying capacity.
What l can swallow I can digest, and
can swallow anything!" he announced in a
loud thick voice, swaying in among the as
sembled guests. His rowing eye fell upon
magnum of champagne just opened. He
stretched forth his hand and possessed him
self of it. "I'll bet anybody here five dollars"
he said, "that I can drink this whole bottle Of
wine without taking it down from my lips
In those e-prohibition days bubbly waters
were common. Besides, purely as sporting
proposition the thing appealed to several pres
ent. The wager was posted and the new
conner promptly won it.
Nov Them he said to the loser who, as it
CHANGED, was also the host, I'll give you a
chance to get even. I'll bet you ten [ can
drink that big bowl of salad dressing yonder."
Again the money was put up and again the
gifted one made good. Wiping his mouth on
his sleeve he looked about him for more
worlds to conquer. {
Come on, let's try again" he said "This
time I'm going to make you really attractive
offer. Let's see now-whatl1 it be! Ladies
and gentlemen, I've got just one hundred dol
lars in my pocket that says I can eat those
lace curtains in that bay-window yonder."
copyright, 1929 -
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-16

O. At the time OF the Revolution how
many countries were there in Europe and
how many of them were republics? D. L.
A. There were about Is recognized gov
ernments in Europe including Great Britain,
France, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Sweden,
Denmark, Germany, Prussia, Poland, Russia,
Austria-H Hungary. Turkey, Italy, Naples,
Switzerland. With the exception of
Switzerland, none of these countries at that
time might be termed republics, all being
under the domination of some king, emperor
or prince.
Q. How long have Cook Tours been OPP
Grated? G. G. M
A. In July, 1871 Thomas Cook inaugu-
rated an excursion train between Leicester
and Loughborough, England, which was the
first publicly advertised excursion train, and
from the small beginning the Cooks tours
developed.
Q. How many ribs are there in woman's
and mans chest? r. H.
A. There "A ribs in the human body.
The common belief that woman has one
more rib than man is erroneous.
Q. Is the practice of widow suicide still
prevalent in India? J. D. G.
A. Though this ancient Hindu custom has
long been prohibited by British law rumors
of the practice in remote districts. On Feb
ruary %, 1928, however, definite case was
reported from Calcutta. Musamat Rukka
the 25-year-old widow of Ganga Din Ahir, on
his death Immediately announced her inten-
ton of suffice (widow suicide), and, dressed
as a bride, followed her husbands body to
the funeral pyre, where, after performing the
prescribed ritual, she was consumed in the
flames.
Q. How many Indians can vote? J. L.
A. There are about $1,000 Indian voters
OF both se1e ~ ss -4aati.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-16
DESTINY'S CHILD
BY HAZEL DEYO BACHELOR

What has gone befOre.-Lorry Gren-
Vile, even though she has promised to
marry Tom Ransome, Is conscious of a
strange power that Courtney Harrington
seems to exert over her. On her we'd
ding eve Lorry is visited by strange
girl who tells her things about Tom
that make it necessary to stop the we'd
ding. Shortly after this Harrington
begins anew to besiege her heart -NOw
go ON with the story.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Big success never comes to a small man.
Even busy men occasionally make idle re-
marks.
Never call man liar to his teeth unless
they are false.
Charity for both victims of wedding
should begin at home.
When a meek man marries a strenuous
woman he soon discovers that he Is out
classed.
Many a girls popularity with the sterner
sex is due to q rumor that she has money.
The average woman has less confidence in
her husband than she has in her family ply
alelanu ~ &.Szea f sss AL II "a 1877.