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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
MOTHERS OF FAMOUS
 MEN
The Mother of Sir Walter Scott

The Mother of Sir Walter Scott
 Will you marry him, Anne? He's not much like you! You like to laugh and be merry and he likes to work"
 All the more reasonw Anne Rutherford laughed back. The more he works the more I shall sing. for there will be more to sing for" So Anne Rutherford, the vivacious daughter of learned Dr. John Rutherford of the fac ulty of Edinbourg university, mar ried hardworking Walter Scott, young lawyer-and they lived happily ever after. What a fate was weaving her web in that mar riage, that seemed only one of the many happy marriages in the city of Edinborough in that year of grace, 175S. in the spring month of April!
 Anne Rutherford was not beau tiful, nor was she attractive in figure. She was one of those women whose faces light up with the vigor of the mind. She was short and lively, and fond of song. She loved all sorts of stories and was never happier than when she was telling something that she had read or heard. She had an ear for a joke, and was forever seeing the comic side of life. After her marriage she was busy enough-for she had twelve chil- dren-but she kept up all her love of song. Down from the past has come the story of how one night her little son Walter-who was to become the great Sir Wal ter Scott, one of the greatest of all novelists-ran wildly about the room and refused to go to bed. The mother caught him and tucked him away. The next day the child was down with fever, and one leg afterwards became use less. For years after that Anne, the mother, huddled her little lame boy to her breast, and sang to him old Scotch ballads, and told him old Scotch stories, and laughed with him over bits of quaint humor. Anxiously she worried over the boys health, and sent him off to the country, to his Erandmother's, where he heard still more stories. Out of that deep mother-love, with its unfold ing arms and its hours of story telling and song. came the first germs of the poems and the pow els that Sir Walter Scott wrote.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
Worthy of Confidence
Houston Post)

What the political situation may be next year, the Post cannot foretell, nor can it assume to say just what form the issues and the sampaign may un- fold, but whatever the situation may be, and upon whatever line the strug- gle may wage, one thing is sure: Sem ator Underwood will stand as the champion of an ancient and undiluted Democratic faith. strong of belief in the efficacy of it's principles, true to the best traditions of American states manship, and one worthy of the con- fidence of his countrymen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
Schools as Investments

NiHIIlSlUH DVdIJ
 A good school, rural or urban, is the kinnd of an investpent for al the people. It pays dividends more regularly and of greater value than any other investment one could make. It is an invest ment that is profitable to state, to a county, to city and to a community. And the state that lacks good schools lacks the Greatest force there is for build ing a citizenship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
The slSirmish Won
lBrandon Timesl


 When consolidation of Girard and PheniX City into one munich pality has been secured by act of the legislature and the signature of the governor, and the new com mission has been appointed to take charge of the affairs of the city of Brandon, the first skirmish .n the battle to build a city of 10000 by 1925 will have been won. Much difference of opinion has existed and still exists among our people, but we have been able for the first time in all the history of these two towns to get them to- gether, and one of the greatest barriers to progress and prosper ity of Phenix. City and Girard has been obliterated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
Will Be Very Happy

Colbert County Reporter)
 The happiest man in the world, should Senator Underwood secure the nomination for president, would be Ed Norman, one of the most popular men in the state and the efficient assistant post master at Birmingham. Ed really should have had the appointment as postmaster, and we venture the predition should Underwood be elected he will get that. or the ambassadorship to the Court of St. James, which he would grace with becoming dignity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
None With Stronger Claims
Chicago News)

NClcaRO NeWSJ
 Speaking by invitation before a joint session of the Alabama legisla- ture, Oscar w. Underwood virtually announced his candidacy for the Dem- ocratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. The general public was not unprepared for this development. Among the men who are being mentioned" for the Demo- cratic nomination for that high office none can present stronger claims than MT. Underwood. He is, of course, eminently right in affirming that sec tional considerations are irrelevant and that any part of the Union may justly aspire to the honor of placing one of it's sons in the presidential office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
Crops Doing Well
(Cullman Tribune)

The cotton and corn crops of Cullman county are certainly mak- ing rapid progress. The past three weeks have been all the tiller of the soil could wish, for the growth and fruitage of cotton and corn, and with favorable weather for the next twenty or thirty days our county will be assured of more than yield of both cotton and corn. The boil weevils are in the county. but farmers are letting nothing go undone in the way of combat ting the enemy of the cotton crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
GEORGE ADE ON WOMEN

Ade)
 Women of high voltage are es- pecially keen as "arrangers." The married woman deides that Her bert. her husbands bachelor friend (with the false eyebrows), Is just the man for Ella. holdover from the puff sleeve period. So she in vites the two hardened waifs out for the weekend and issues secret orders that whenever Herb and Ella can be assembled to- gether on one settee then all the others are to run away and leave them. And yet you may have read in a book somewhere that woman Is mans best friend.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
Should Discard Sectionalism
(AtIanta Constitution)


 It will be recalled that the late President Harding declared in an ad- dress delivered in Florida last winter that sections should no longer be con- sidered in political preferment or in the reward of statesmanship. Senator Underwood is a Democrat of the old school, sound in judgment, safe il, leadership, powerful in accomplish ment. He is a progressive conserva- tive, always dependable and unyield- ing in his hatred for demagogy and for the practices of those public men who subordinate true statesmanship to the so-called expediencies of their own local political environment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
Only One Perfect

We have been noting things 8 long time and we have never yet known of but one perfect news paper, and that was the new one that some fellow was going to start. After it started. however, it was just like the rest of them, it had to be produced by human beings and human beings who work in print shops sometimes make mistakes. Of course there are those who never make mis- takes, but none of them ever get into the printing offices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
Plea for Farm Life

IkdnSaS CICy SldT1
 While they are changing the hours of certain workmen from twelve to eight, why not try re- ducing the farm wife's working hours, to, say, twelve?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
COULD FREUD DO BETTERs

Jimmy is three years old and very fond of telling his dreams at the breakfast table. One morning his father, thinking to nppIy au intelligence test" said: But, Jimny, I don't believe you know what a dream is."
 Jimmy's answer came quick and sure: "Yes, I do. It's moving pitures while you're asleep"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
Boosting the Schools

And there Is the point. The great need of the hour for inven- tion. scientific research, for dis covery and for the development of all those characteristics that can find root only in the trained and educated mind. Unless we can invent and discover new meth ods of production future genera tions are going to be hard put to live. And that is why we always boost the schools, even when we know they are hard to pay for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
ONE ADVANTAGE

Philadelphia Watchman-E Exam
 iner)
 Why do you feed every tramp who comes along? They never do any work for you" "No," said his wife, but 1t Is quite a satisfac- tion to see a man eat a meal with out finding fault with the ooking." /"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
A Bit of Advice

(TaIIadega Da1Iy Honey
 Uncle Breck Musgrove says he remembers "clashes with Senator Underwood" That's all right, but now the man with whom he for merly clashed is the nominee of his state. and Uncle Breck should let by-gones be by-gones, and if he can't pull he ought not to ap- ply the brakes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

Why woman grows old faster than her husband, he insists that she wear shoes, stockings and a modest" bathing suit, while he spends his vacation on the board walk giving the onceover to la dies unhampered by the restric- tions of a clothes censorship-or by much else!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
Carrying Addresses

NMdTIUH DtuTJ
 Judging from the number of postards some people send back when they go on their vacation trips. they must take telephone directories along with them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

An exchange says: "All that the new president needs is a chance to face real responsibility" It is not a question of chance; it's a certainty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
A NeVx Entenfe

Providence JournaD
 The government at Paris has lent the government at Belgrade 300, ,O0O,0OO francs. AtFranco-Ju- goslavian entente.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
Hats and Winds

NSdVdIIIIdII NtWSI The ring is full of hats-but some of them are straws and maybe will be withdrawn when the cold political winds begin railly to blow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

Senators continue to sail for Flu rope. Just as if that country did not already have more than its share of troubles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
STORIES FROM BAD LANDS

NMIHHtdpOIlS JOurnaI)
 A McAlester professor has just discovered in the Bad Lands Il bone from four-toed horse. In the rock near it was bolt from a three-wheeled flivver.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
IT WOULD SEEM INCREpIBLE

Blythe. Colorado, has had fame thrust upon it because it has no citizen named either Smith or Jones. We suppose it is too much to expect to hear from a town without a Ford.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
ALABAMA PRESS ON
 THE LEGISLATURE
Clothes and Feeds the Nation
(Anniston Star)

N1A AIIIIISIUI pldT
 Not only does the South clothe the nation and a large part of the world as well in comfortable and pretty cotton cloth, but it is sup plying a very large part of the nation with it's vegetables and fruits and it is doing this regu- larly, year in and year out, and has been doing 1t for a number of years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

In view of the unusually large num- Der of presidential booms in prospect, perhaps few special traffic cops twill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

Is Safety First" losing its sig nificance? The more autos in this section the closer application of "self- preservation is the first law of na- ture."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
A CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE

The estimate of 3,595 increase in population in Birmingham in the past twelve months furnished by the new
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

The greater the admission of unde- sirable immigrants into this country, the stronger the test for American institutions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
THE PARAGRAPHERS
Doesn't Need 1t

Roosevelt chose the Bull Moose as the emblem of his third party, but LaFollette doesn't need the moose,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
There's a Limit

(Ch1caSO NeWS)
 Social injusties must be cured, but 1t would be best not to blow up society in the progess, as chaos has unpleasant features.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

When girl gets engaged in earnest, she can recall every love letter of her s that is still out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

Magnus Johnson claims to be a re- former. He might start by manicur- ing his voice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

The farmer will now have to make two stalks of wheat grow where but one had grown before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

With noted Frenchman urg- ing his government to make love- making compulsory. and with General Pershing telling the girls to ask their best boy If he wears khaki, the next selective draft class appears to be the flappers!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

Magnus Johnson seems to believe firmly in the free and unlimited coin age of strange opinions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

Most of the blocs of congress and legislatures these days seem to be stumbling blocks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

It may be true in sense that beauty is as beauty does, but it can easily be overdone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
MUST TAKE YOUR CHANGE

The only thing you can be sure of when you meet a woman driver Is that she Is going to depend on her intuition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

house, but his work lives on. The divn, novel of yesterday is the super production of the movies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

MT. Ford says he already has good job. At least, he need not worry about being fired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

If some people could find a market for their experiences they would be bill lionaires.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
THEY CAN'T STRUGGLE ALONG
 (Springfield Republican)

An appropriation by the Baden government of 3O.000,000 marks for loans to help struggling news papers is not so munificient as tt looks; 1t comes to $217.50.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

Sometimes a woman defends her husband agaist criticism because she Is in love with him. and some times merely because she doesn't care to have her taste assailed by the public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
When an impulsiye

When an impulsive woman is terribly sorry" for misunder- stood married man. all their friends may as well begin being sorry for both of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

Tom Harbaugh, the dime novelist of other days, has gone to the poor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

It is reportd that gambling is sane toned in Russia; but Lenine and Trotzky are the only ones in that country who have a chance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
A MAIDS MAXIMS

"Eugenics," remarked the sum- mer girl complacently, has al- ways been my line. l never be- come engaged to a man until l have first seen him in a bathing suit.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09
THE AGE-HERALD

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, post office as secono-class matter under act of Congress, March 6, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-09

FREDERICK I. THOMPSON. President
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-04-28
Entered at Annapolis POstofiice as
Second Class Matter.
SATURDAY, APRIL %, 1923.
"BOYS' WEEK" BEGINS TO-
MORROW

The opening day of Boys
Week" in Annapolis will be OBJ
served tomorrow with appropri-
ate services in the local churches.
at which time the full significance
of the whole occasion will be fur
ther impressed upon the minds OF
the youngsters. Special sermons
will be preached and the boys
will in every way be made TO feel
that the guiding hands of their
elders are always ready to help
them over the pitfalls of youth.
The churches have extended a
most hearty welcome; the var
ious congregations are eager to
pay their. tribute to boyhood. and
it is therefore, hoped that every
boy IN the city will respond BY
attending, church tomorfpW! a.
While the 'coniplete BOYS
Week" program arranged by thu
Rotary Club. Observation-Disclosures aus
picesI the affair IS 'belihSs;S6nduct.
ed, contains many features de
signdd to show ''the youngsters
the ! affection and friendship
which their elders hold for them.
and to give evidence of the deep
desire to be of assistance to them
at all times, the opening day
program at clfurcii-fs perhaps the
most significant of all. BY at.
tending church tomorrow, many
a boy may receive the inspira
ton to make church-going reg
ular habit! and, with this true
spirit of service, instilled, the flu
turc benefit both to the boy and
the community is simply meal
culable.
To insure a record attendance
of boys at tomorrow's services,
every grown-up in the city can
render invaluable help. If each
older person in Annapolis will in
terest himself or herself in some
boy to the extent of impressine
upon him the Importance of the
event, and by accompanying the
youth to church. an excellent ex-
ample of real comradeship will
be shown at the outset, and q
throng of earnest young faces
rising above the pews will be as
sured.
Show your interest in some
boy tomorrow by accompanying
him to church.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-04-28

q
(Continued From Page ~ s.
Win Delaware, where Wilmington
ard Newport last year observed day
light saving time under local ordi-
nahces, an anti-daylight bill this year
passed the. Legislature, and became
law without the governors signature
There was talk of the possibility OF
court action against the law, which
compels courts public Offices and
banks to operate on eastern stand
ard time.
Tentative arrangements have been
made by the Merchants Association OF
New York to have Marcus Nj. Marks
president of the National Daylight
Saving Association, who launched the
movement in 1915, broadcast through,
out the United States by radio an adj
dress on the advantages of the new
time, with the view of augmenting the
number of cities which have adopted
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-04-28
Choosing The Rug For Your

OF all the rooms to be rugged, the
seems. the most. import,
ant. And while the rug choice APP
rears more than ample, it really mar
be narrowed down, generally speak
ing, to the all-over plain rug, the two
tone unnoticeable design, the all-over
genuine Oriental not too garish in
pattern or coloring, small genuine
Oriental rugs, small plain wool rugs
Of fat weave, and the occasional in
formal living-room handmade, oval
rag rugs.
One of the most deservedly popu-
lar, artistically beautiful and service
able rug treatments for the living
room is that of the large plain neu-
tral-toned rug. Let me tell you about
living-room that had successfully
made use of just such a plain taupe-
colcred rug. While a rug of this
Kind may be found in chenille, will
on, administer or velvet, depending
iron the price desired, this one was
chenille, the most expensive, and was
cut seven feet wide from piece WOW
en- fifteen feet, resulting in a rug
seven by fifteen. of ample size for
the hving-room measuring twelve
feet by twenty-five, when it is re-
membered that the hearth and the
wall furniture fill much OF the side
floor space.-From the April DE
signer"
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-04-28
THE Roy AND THE CHURCH

Tomorrow marks the begin
ming OF the week set apart to en-
phasize the place of the Boy in
the community. As might have
been expected. the Churches were
quick to see that the Boys Week
program was akin to their own
plans for the good of boys. In
fact the program included church
attendance, with addresses deal
ing with work for and by BOYS.
This observance is by no
means local only. nor can we
claim to be pioneers. Through
out the country similar exercises
will be held. But it is safe to
say that nowhere will greater
heartiness of cooperation pre-
vail, nor more skillful prepara-
tons be made.
Rotary Clubs have been the
moving spirit in this enterprise.
and their slogan Service Before
Self" will explain why. If but
portion of the enthusiasm that
the boys will display in some of
the side features of Boys Week
can be captured for the ideal ex-
allied by Rotary, it will mean
much for the future of the COM
munity and the country at large.
Sunday, therefore, will have a
twofold message for this celebra-
ton. 1t will call attention to the
fact that an unselhsh aim and a
willingness to serve can be deep
ened and kept alive only by the
sanction of Religion; and it will
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-04-28
IN MEMORIAM

loving remembrance Of ny
dear husband. who departed this life SIX
years ago today.
Today as / gaze through my tears
I'm looking into the future;
I'm looking to the day when we VIII
meet again.
You are resting in peace. dear husDaha'
Six sad years have passed away
You are gone but not forgotten,
For l think of you each day.
BY his devoted wife.
FLORENCE +. BROOKS.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-04-28
AN ORDINANCE
For the purpose OF fixing and establish
ing a special tax to cover the cost of
making connection with sewer on
Munroe Court.


Section 1. Be 1t established and or.
aained by the Mayor, Counselor and
AIdermen OF the City of Annapolis that q
new section be added to Article &c Of the
oity Code of Annapolis, to follow Section
y or said Article, and TO read as follows
section 10. All owners of property
abutting on Munroe Court shall be as
sessed the sum Of twenty dollars, or as
much thereof as necessary. for the purpose
OF covering the cost of the outlet from the
main sewer to point near such abuttIng
property, aff0rding easier access to said
sewer, and all portions of this sewer be-
yond the "" attached to main sewer and
connecting with abutting property shall
pe considered the sewer Of the owner OF
such abutting property.
Section ?. And be IL established and
ordained by the authority aforesaid that
this ordinance shall take effect from the
date Of passage.
Approved April 16, 1923.
SAMUEL JONES,
Attest: MAYOR.
EMMA ABBOTT GAGE,
City Clerk.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-04-28
In European Countries

England and Belgium are among
some of the European countries which
observe five months of daylight saw
ing. beginning the latter part of April
Advocates of the new time here de-
clare the principal objections to day
light saving, originating mostly in
the rural districts, have been exploded
by results of tests at the Massachu-
sets state experimental farms and by
those farmers who do advocate day.
light saving.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-04-28

Two-base hits - Flowers, Gordy,
Matthews. Three-base hits-Gordy
Flowers. Engelke. Sacrifice hits
Gordy. Matthews. Bases on balls-Off
Standiford, 4; off Hickman, s. Struck
out-By Standiford. 3: Hickman, 6
Stolen bases-Griffith. Armstrong
Double plays-Dunnschott to Cava-
naugh; Standiford to Engelke. Hit by
pitcher-(By Stamford (McGinnis
Armstrong. Dunnschottl. Umpire
Cloak. Time of game-210.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-04-28
CALVARY NJ. E. CHURCH

ii. w. BURGAN, Pastor.
9:45 A. M.-Sunday School in Re-
ligious Education Build
ing. Maryland avenue and
Prince George street.
9:45 A. NIB r o b er h o d Bible
Glass, held in church
building, State Circle.
HOO A. M.-Church Nursery.
11:00 A. M.-Special sermon by the
pastor to Boys. Subject:
Joseph"
1900 A. M.-Sermon by the pastor.
7:15 P. M.-Ep worth League
Bright Hour.
500 p. M.-Sermon by the pastor.
500 p. M.-(Wednesday) - Prayer
and praise service.
All are welcome
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-04-28
NAVAL ACADEMY CHAPEL

S:45 A. M-Celebration of the Holy
Communion.
10:45 A. M.-Morning Prayer and
sermon.
IL Noon-Sunday School.
Divine Service, Morning Prayer and
Sermon will also be held in the Audi
forum. Mahan Hall, at l0:45 a. m.