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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY r.

would hardly by design have been placed in
such close company, and yet the two stories
needed, so to speak, just that proximity in
order that they might form together an odd
and somewhat cynical commentary upon
things as they are.
One of the items, dated Columbus, Ohio,
told of a remarkable miscarriage Of justice:
Clarence Leroy Mckinney, known as 52,210
behind the gray walls of the Ohio peniten-
tiary, dropped his tools in the looming mill
today, and hurried to Warden Thomas Of
flee in answer to an imperative summons.
He found reporter with the warden. You
are free he was told. The other fellow
pleaded guilty. McKinney's face twitched
slightly and he said without emotion, 'Oh,
am ~" Mckinney had, some months ago,
been convicted of murder and sentenced to
life Imprisonment. During his trial ne as
serted that he was with his wife at picture
show some distance from the scene of the
shooting, but the jury thought otherwise.
His wife had been holding down two Jobs,
day and nights-to get enough money to fight
the case again, when the confession by man
arrested in another town for burglary ended
hers and her husbands troubles, if it may
be said that troubles of that kind can be
ended this side of the grave.
The other news item referred to the ac-
tivities of the authorities in Salt Lake City
and the arrests of four prominent citizens
one former candidate for the United States
senate and another the general manager of
a newspaper, for smoking cigarettes in
public place.
While the subject-matter of the two sto--
items tell of the vagaries of law enforcing
agencies in our country. Taken together,
they might bewilder the mind of visitor to
our shores, as to what we consider the actual
ends Of Justice. and the function of law.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
RECURRENT FUEL SHORTAGE

New York is suffering from a scarcity of
coal, with barges carrying 100000 tons held
up by ice in the Hudson and on the Erie
canal This situation will not be relieved
for some time, and meanwhile industry will
slacken and homes be insufficiently heated.
If this were the only time in the history of
the city that this trouble had been expe-
rienced the rest of the country would ex-
tend a greater measure of sympathy. As
it is, such crisis is one likely to arise at
any time, not only in New. York, but in
every coal-consuming center at distance
fromsthe mines. 1t appears also that human
ingenuity should find some way of avoid
ing repetitions of this condition of helpless
ness. The financial question is not the only
one to be considered. There is also the
public welfare to bear in mind when trying
to arrive at a proper policy regarding the
storing and distribution of coal. Certainly
it is the height of folly for northern centers
to continue at the mercy of winter trans
portation of coal with it's inevitable uncer-
tainties and increased cost. The question
of proper fuel distribution is national one,
not only because industries are hampered
and homes made cherries by coal shortages,
but also because the haulage OF other COM
modities are impeded by the winter peak Of
coal shortage. Perhaps this is one of the
problems coming within the purview of the
federal coal commission.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27

consistently held aloof from Europe, we still
retain, apparently, the confidence of our
friends abroad This cannot but be flatter-
ing to our national vanity, but it also en-
phasizes the opportunity America has to
perform a great service for humanity. We
are still regarded as the only disinterested
nation that took part in the World war,
despite the jibes occasionally directed at
the United States by the foreign press and
the politicians. Turkey would welcome
American intervention in the Near East
and the distressed countries of Europe look
with longing eyes toward the western world,
waiting and hoping for America to lead them
out of their political and economic morass.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
NOT TRULY REPRESENTATIVE

Senator Borah said in his impassioned
plea for the American government to REG
ognize the soviet government of Russia that.
if the downfall of bolshevism was followed
by greater ruin and misery in Russia than
she has already experienced America would
have to share the responsibility. 1t is diff
ficult to see on what he bases that concu-
sion. The soviet government has endured
for six years and seems to be growing
stronger instead of weaker. Russia de-
sires American recognition and the re-estap-
lishment of trade relations, but there is no
intimation in recent utterances of the soviet
leaders that they are dependent on America
for salvation. On the contrary, they are
showing decidedly independent spirit to-
ward both the United States and the other
European nations. The arrogance of the
soviet government is, in fact, causing serious
concern to the allied statesmen, who bear in
mind the powerful "red" army and the uses
to which it might be put.
Defending the administrations foreign
policy, Senator Lodge said that recognition
had not been withheld because of antipathy
toward the soviet form of government, but
because there is no assurance that it would
keep its contracts. There is, however,
strong sentiment in this country against boil
shevism and all its works In addition to
lack of confidence in the bolshevist govern
ment, there is still another reason to justify
the Withholding of American recognition,
and that is doubt that the bolshevist govern
ment truly represents the Russian people.
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rates. Of course, the public would rejoice
at any policy likely to reduce its expense
burden, but there is grave question whether
Mr.. Brookhart's plan would have that re-
suit There are securities and securities,
and their market value may be more or less,
not according to the actual value of the
property, but according to their earnings.
The market value of securities is further
unstable because of the opportunity for ma
nipulation, which can cause the quotations
to soar or to drop to the cellar. Certainly
an appraisal of physical properties taken
into account with actual costs is a more
stable and reliable basis, if faithfully ana
honestly applied.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
Poor Boys Who
Became Famous
John Paul Jones
BY FREDERICK HoUK LAW

Day after day the little boy had
played about the pleasant garcens,
watching his father, gardener,
take care of the hedges and the
flowers in the rich mans grounds.
1t was a pleasant occupation, chas-
ing butterflies, smelling of roses
and watching the BUDS unfold; a
quiet serene life without event, a
very different life from the wild
adventures, the roar of cannon and
the shedding of blood that lay be-
fore the lad in the years 10 come.
John Paul, the boy of the garden,
grew into John Paul Jones, the
great American sea captain who
made the American navy both re-
spected and feared, and who estab-
lished glowing example OF reckless
courage and patriotism.
When the boy was twelve his
fainter took him to merchant and
made him an apprentice. Jean Mac
duff, his Highland Scotch mother,
cried when her lad went away from
the garden, but her name was Mac
duff, which is the name of one Of
Shakespeare's heroes, SO she made
herself brave, and looked forward
to seeing him come home. When he
was seventeen years old the boy,
now strong and hardy, went to sea
as second mate, and from then on
he belonged to the world and not to
his mother.
From that time his life was one of
such adventures as the old-fashioned
dime novels used to relate. He
sailed to Africa on ship that
brought back slaves; his superior
officers on one voyage died, and the
bow took command and steered to
port; he wandered about America in
poverty and thanked a rich man
who helped him by taking the mans
name, Zones"
Then came the American Revolu-
ton, and his sailor blood took fire.
He volunteered his services to- the
struggling colonies, and on various
ships destroyed much British ship
ping and made his name feared. At
Whitehaven, where he had been an
apprentice. he captured the forts.
Then he defeated the British war
vessel, Drake" and became COM
modore JONES'" commanding several
ships. With the "Bon Homme
Richard" he took possession of the
British "Serapis" after great naval
fight against superior odds. King
Louis Of France gave him golden
sword and high honors, and con-
gress voted him gold medal
America has made him one of her
immortal heroes. He was buried in
Paris, and his grave almost forgot
ten until 1905, when his body was
brought to America and buried in
Annapolis, where his tomb is an in
spiration to every naval cadet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
NOT A SAFH PLAN

Senator Brookhart Of IOWA has brought
forth proposition calling for the valuation
of the railroads on a new basis. At present
the valuation is based on cost and appraised
values of physical properties. Mr.. Brookhart
would have the valuation based on the mar
ket value of the securities. He maintains
that such plan would get rid of seven bill
lion dollars Of water on which the public is
now obliged to pay a profit through high
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
Be All Things
BY REV. H. c. oFFERMAN

Are you artistic and do you try to
live in an artistic way?
Would the story. of your life thrill
people?
DO You interest people from the
country as well as city folks?
Are you well7rounded man and
have you had your rough edges
knocked off?
Make all the great and variously
varieyaled waves and winds Of the
generation today inundate and acre
ate you and keep you up-to-date
continually.
Be one of those God-giveE crea-
lures in whom all things find all
things else, and who are the play
ground Of happiness for the sympa-
thies of the hearts of men.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27

every dog will have his day." that's
what Wisenheimers say, and some facts are
leaking out which remove a lingering doubt
that the wise guys tell the truth, for, CAD
cooks likewise forsooth! in the public press
I read-yes, 1 do, yessir, indeed: "Plans
are now progressing well to erect a dog
hotel" Mister Quits is the man who has
made this pleasing plan, and his purpose is
to blow fifty thousand of his dough in con-
structing, if you please, in that dear Los
Angeles, something wonderful to see-it's
Houn' Dawg hostelry. Here the dog can
have his day and his night as well, they say.
Here, to 'scape the foul flea's wrath, he
can have room with BATH" and to lessen
hunger's smart, he can luncheon a la carte
At this hotel there will be dogs of low and
high degree. Take your dog to this hotel
he'll be treated very well-and if you should
lack the price for yourself, take my advice ::
Let your pooch in comfort bark while you
slumber in the park--Stanwood.
"Civilization has failedw cries a college
professor, viewing the situation with alarm
We often feel that way, too, especially when
some barbarian has swiped the evening pa
per off the back porch.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27

Southern farmers need not, and probably
do not, feel badly over the prospective fail
ure of the measure to set aside ten million
dollars for the purchase OF nitrate of soda
and calcium arsenate to be sold to the far
mer at cost. The farmers know that their
cooperative associations can buy these pro-
ducts just as cheaply as the government.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
Flirting With the Devil
lDemopolis Timesl

NUemOpoIls IlmeS)
Strange are the inconsistencies of
human nature. Some of the gentle
men who are loud in their demands
for personal liberty when it comes
to liquor are the loudest DISCLAIMERS
for abolishing the pool rooms IN.
Alabama as institutions of the devil.
Perhaps they are right. We are not
taking up for the pool rooms, but
hitting the devil a wallop on one
side and administering love ticks on
the other is just the kind of treas-
ment that old boy enjoys.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
Make Farming Paw

alabama Farm Bureau News)
The farm bureau has been organ
lied in order that we may use this
organization as a means to set up
better marketing systems, establish
a better purchasing system and put
farming generally upon business
basis. Every member, therefore, has
duty to perform in the organize
ton, especially now when we are
building the cotton, hay and other
associations, introducing collective
buying and better farm methods.
Every thinking and active member
secured for the farm bureau means
just one more Important step to-
wards success in cooperative effort
among farmers. Every member
wants to see this organization "do
the job. and succeed. In fact, the
prosperity and happiness of the next
several generations OF farm people
depend upon what wo do now in
our farm bureau work. 1t is the
sacred duty and privilege of every
member to do everything in his or
her power to strengthen the organ.
ization. Every member should not.
only "get member" but every
member should study farm bureau
principles, true cooperation, and
preach this gospel of cooper alton
wherever they may go. Working to-
gether in this way, we can make
farming paying and dignified
business in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27

Ambassador Harvey has been trying to
explain to the British what he meant by his
remark, while over here, that america is
we'll out of the whole mess" If it doesn't
mean what it says, doubtless Mr.. Harvey is
having a difficult time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27

There is still deliberation on the Near
East situation The Turks never become
this present generation shall have died and
been gathered to Mohamet, their successors
will still go on arguing as long as there is
European with an ear to listen or the spirit
to make reply. To the Turk, thousand
years is as a day.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
Alabama Press
Opportunity for Meditation
montgomery Advertiser)

There is nothing dramatic or ex-
citing about plowlng mule. Rut
man can not live by excitement
alone. And anyway, the plowboy
has golden opportunity for undis-
turbed meditation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27

If the French confiscate sufficient
amount of German currency, the result
should be to increase the value of the re-
naming marks. Anyhow, it is difficult to
see why the Germans should become in
censed over the seizure Of mere twelve
billion paper marks. That is scarcely pin
money. =
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
Foreign Labor Not Wanted
(Florence Times)

" AOiSbNC lleSJ
The Manufacturers Record points
out the danger of an infiuA OF for
elgn labor following the movement
OF the New England cotton mills to-
ward the south. The migration of
this element from the factory dis
tricts of the east to the south would
be undesirable from every noint of
view. The southern people do :..ss
want citizens of that kind, and their
coming would defeat one OF the pur-
poses of the mills in locating here.
the desire for improved labor condi-
tions. The Record calls attention
to the fact that foreign laborers of
the lowest class, low In morals, in
ability and in social standing, gov
erned by the labor agltators. have
supplanted American labor in the
eastern mills, while in the south
native Anglo-Saxons are employed,
and conditions of harmony exist be-
tween manufacturers and the op-
eratives, with decent mill villages.
homes and citizenship, possible only
among people who are patriotic
Americans in spirit and in thought.
The south would prefer that the
New England mills should remain
where they are than that they should
bring into the south the mongrel
breed of low class foreigners such
as constitute their present employees.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
Discrimination in Rates
(Opelika Daily Nawsl

(Opelika Daily News)
Whether the interstate commerce
commission are lou of dubs or
whether, like the newspapers, they
are subject to Substitution, we do
not know. We do know that they
refuse to stop the railroad go
miles, from the Warrior river from
charging shippers 80 per cent for
the twenty mile haul and allowing
the Warrior barge line only 20 per
cent for bringing freight from Mo-
bile, 385 miles of the haul.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
THE ENDS OF JUSTICE

A leading newspaper recently carried in
the same column on the 'front.' page two
news items, which, being about unrelated
matters and from widely separated sources,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
WHERE GERMANY is IN LUCK
(Pittsburg Gazette Times)

" lllSDurS Hdlettt AiiHeSJ
In one way the French are an
improvement on German invaders.
They do not shoot their prisoners
before trying them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27

King Tut was quite sporty boy
When he was in his prime;
He dallied with the Oil of Joy
And had royal time.
But in the morning, bleak and blue,
With hot and throbbing brow,
1t must have startled him to view
A polka-dotted COW.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
jB,'7oRekBEARER
The weatherman should have put his foot
IN the brake of spring little earlier.


Cubist art thrived in King Tutankhamen's
reign.
At least, one conjectures as much after
observing pictures of the cows prevalent in
those days.
Then again, it may be that Tut was. the
king who held the job in Joseph's day. The
cows look as if they were just finishing the
last year of the seven years of famine.
We have always wondered why the an
cient Egyptians worshipped the sacred COW
and refused to eat thereof. Now we under
stand There was nothing there to eat. If
King Tut was beef eater, it is easy to ac-
count for his early death. He persisted OF
starvation,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
SOME QUESTION ABOUT THIS

"The last battle of the war;"
General Devignes calls the march
into the Ruhr. Or is it the first
battle Of the next war!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
A CONyENIENT CLOCK

New York Evening Telegraph
Another great need Of the times
is clock that will go faster while
you are working and go slower
while you are loafing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27

The Purple cow discovered by Gelett
Burgess would have turned green with envy
if she could have lamped an Egyptian COW
in full bloom. The bovine beauties of those
days were short on beef but long on color.
Solomon in all his glory never was arrayed
as one Of those.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27

Dear Torch Bearer: When you're all
dressed up and you've just had marcel
and you've just settled down to enjoy
good movie with Him." and then some ono
back of you, in passing out, catches his
overcoat button in your hairnet-could any
thing be more pestiferous than that?-Lou.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
The Neishborly Pest

The Neishborly Pest
The darndest pest
Is neighbor who
Does all the talking
And won't let you. Can Did.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27

Shame ON You, Charley
A goldarn pest
Is Charley Glenn;
He always empties
My fountain pen. -B. P. S.
The mosquito campaign-well, is it mos
quito campaign, or campaign against mos
quitoes?
The mosquitoes, in season, are always
campaigning.
Boring from without, as it were.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27
THE AGE-H Err AID

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala. postofrce as
second-clsss matter under act of Congress- MARI"
g.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-02-27

Boring from without, as It were.
Evening star., 1923-02-06

By the Associate Press.
NEW YORK. February 6.-Chief
Gabriel White Horse, Cherokee In
dian, went to the happy hunting
grounds last night, a self-infiicted
bullet wound through his heart. He
had just learned, police said, that the
pale-face girl he adored had been
merely kidding" him.
Seated among scores of woman
patrons in the lunchroom of a depart
ment store, where he was employed,
White Horse whipped out a revolver
and fired two bullets into the
air, then turned the weapon toward
his own breast and fired the third
and fatal shot
The cause of il all, according to the
police. was Mrs. Norma Smith, twen-
ty-seven-year-old cashier in the
mnchroom. Notes in the Indians
pockets. one of them bearing the re-
turn address if Pearl Moore, which
police say was Mrs. Smiths maiden
name, called him "Chief Rain-in-t the
Face" Chief Iron Face" and Dear
Pepper"
crosses. indicating kisses, adorned
the notes. Some of them were signed
,~1ndian Moon" and one postscript
said:
II love this name better than any
! have ever had, and will always use
How wild I am" said another. 81
am as wild as any fighting wildcat.
Evening star., 1923-02-06
.FREAR HITS RECORD
/. OF SUPREME COURT

Congress has been likened to q
messenger boy standing in the ante
room of the Supreme Court waiting
for approval or disapprovat of its
act, Representative Frear, republican,
Wisconsin, said in a statement yes
terday accompanying record of
closely divided Supreme Court de-
cisions ON constitutional questions
which he placed in the Congressional
Record.
MIR. Frear proposed a constitutional
amendment giving Congress the
power to determine how many mem
bers CT the Supreme Court shall join
in decisions declaring laws uncon-
stitutional, to provide for the recall
of judges without impeachment or to
review and set aside decisions by a
twc-thirds vote Of both Houses.
The decision Of the Supreme Court, .
come tax law unconstitutional by FIVE
Judges to four, followed by the. emas-
culating Of the income tax sixteenth
constitutional amendment holding
stock dividends n-taxable by the
same vote, call for relief and some
method Of enacting laws that are not,
In: the judgment of the court, sup
posed laws"
Newberry Finding Cited.
He also cited the finding in the
Newbery case and. the decision hold
ing the child labor law invalid as
having been handed down by. closely
divided courts.
Within thirty days, Mr. sFrear said,
the Department of Labor has called
attention to the fact that 500 stat
utass bills and ordinauceA haya been
Evening star., 1923-02-06

set aside by the courts in the present
epidemic of judge-made. law"
Many laws, state and national"
he continued, "have been held un-
constitutional by only one vote Of the
court and proportionately narrow
escapes in determining constitutional
ity are numerous"
Record In First Seventy Years.
Only three decisions were rendered
by the court during the first seventy
years of its history, Mr.. Frear said.
which set aside or modified acts Of
Congress, but at the present time.
he asserted. lit is a regular ."consti-
tutionar taken by the court to de-
clare state and federal laws uncon-
stitutional."
The method of selecting judges,
said Mr.. Frear. tfrequently from men
who have been defeated for re-elec-
tion for Office by their constituents: s:
of men who are lifetime federal
judges and often of men who never
sat on any bench, but have constant
3y been in an atmosphere of cor
poration litigation. is no more mark ed
than failure in recent years to
graduate any member of the forty
eight state courts to a place in our
highest court.