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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-31
Brief Nature Studies
WHERE chipper little black-cappe
By J. OTIS SWIFT

VVTHERE chipper little black-capped w chickadees, rOse,bre9sted ,I,s n9thatches hes solemnity of winter forests with their busy hunting for insect tid-bits., gray,brown old rocks and lodges, sleeping in the black loam among bulbs, roots and baby seeds, are glorious in their coverlets of lichens. En- crusting and shield lichens, Parmelis' ,cS5a com make beauty spots, brilliant in color some times, in the midst of winters desolation.
 Their horizontal rugs and mats, doilies and altar cloths are in shades of blue-green, gray and deep brown touched with green, and are tied to the weathered old rocks and ledges by black root-like filaments through winch they absorb nourishment.
 On many an old farm where man has labored from boyhood to old age wrestling a haphazard living from the impoverished soil the rocks that he has cursed in his hours of enlightenment are covered with these stone destroying growths that began as tiny gray thallus when his grandfather was born and will still gnaw with their acids at the rocks after his grandchildren die.
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average rate being more than 3.5 per cent. This record shows that citizens of Alabama are learning the lesson of thrift and are setting aside portion of their earnings for that day when their capacity for production is reduced.
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THE GOOD SAMARITAN

A southern correspondent writes that he heard a Negro preacher give the following version of the Parable of the Good Samaritan. After relating how the Samaritan, taking pity on the wounded mans plight, helped him to an inn where he ordered food and raiment for him, the preacher concluded: "And dis am true story, bred'ren, for de inn am standin' dere yet, and in de do'way am standin' de skelton of de innkeeper, waitin' for de Good Samaritan to come back an pay de bill"
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Calm In Pacific

After some weeks of nervous excitement over Japan's attitude to American fleet ma neuvers and American declarations of need for a conference of white nations on the Pa- cific, calm is returning once again. Yet these sporadic outbreaks are becoming too frequent and constitute a grave danger. In our day and generation there should be an end to this hysterical suspicion and jingo excitement. There should be more standing aside to let reason pass by on her way to the throne over human, national and international relations. Ninety-five per cent of all the wars in his tory would have been avoided if men had been willing to talk things over before start ing to shoot. .,.'..
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SUE sHOULD BE CAREFUL.

My sister Susan's got a beau who calls on her each night Bout half the time they re sweet as pie; the other half they fight. Sue knows that he's a nervous man and that fact makes her wrong. She gets him cranky-far too much-by singing him song She thinks she's Geraldine Farrar. To sing is her delight, but Father and the neighbors say her warb- ling's just a fright. Now, Charley's always nice and sweet till Sue begins to sing, and then he undergoes chance and kicks at evrything. Sues beau can sign a good-sized check. The folks all hope some day she'll use her brain and drop the songs before he gets away. But none of us has nerve enough to try to work cure. If she keeps up her singing, say-shell lose that fellow sure.
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A Review of the Year 1924.

A Review of the Year 1924.
 Looking back over it, the year 1924 wal q pretty good year as years go No major wars occurred and only the usual number oi threats.
 the Loeb-Leopold trial and the crossword puzzle craze. e iB
 The year will go down into history, how ever, as the year in which the Washington baseball club won a pennant and then a worlds series. Probably ten years from now nobody will believe it. It is still regarded as unofficial. @te
 Nineteen twenty -four brought us the Prince of Wales, Epinard, Grand Duke Cyril's wife, the ZR-3, radio pictures and the discovery that there are worms in ice. 1t was one of the few years in the history of the republic when president was chosen by exclamation.
 Early in the year China broke out in a new series of wars, the factions that lost in 1922 playing the sides that lost in 1923. Tong wars broke out in America and church wars broke out in various pulpits throughout the country. rS
 The American polo team clashed at Meadow brook with the British chess club and won unanimously. Sir Thomas Lipton made his annual challenge for the American yacht cup, Cozy Dolan was suspended from or ganized baseball, Lenin died and Trotzky might as well have.
 Ma Ferguson was elected governor of Texas and Bill White was defeated for something out west where kleagles are kleagles and ed itors are their opponents. Benny Leonard went into vaudeville, Charlie Chaplin took 8 child bride, Prof. Baker of Harvard was farmed out to Yale for further seasoning Ethel Barrymore took off 60 pounds lbenez declared war on Spain at $1 a word, and Mister A was identified IS & rajah 'Eho had everything he needed except a conservator
 Ramsay Macdonald and his labor govern ment were given the buns rush just as they | had invested heavily in silk knee ] :eeches brushed up on the Book of Etiquette and pre- pared to enter the smartest society without tripping.
 In Egypt somebody killed sirdar or an andiron or something of the kindAand Eng land grabbed Egypt by the throat and made refused to act on the ground it was matter for Judge Landis to handle.
 Mexico changed presidents without cas- ualty. F1.E Congressman Hill found out it was all right to make homemade wine, Magnus John son went through the year without milking A COW for the movies, Messrs. Duke and Eastman gave away a few million dollars fol higher education, Red" Grange made three dozen touchdowns in four times at bat 5t U. s. destroyers went on the rocks, and "Goose" Goslin made a name for himself al the biggest figure in Washington, D. c.
 
 It was a wonderful year for foreign loans something like 37 nations getting loans from the United States at least four times eacf from January 1st to October 27th inc.
 And, oh yes, Alabama cast A votes fol Underwood.
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ERESu RIGGS

A French court has decided just what is fresh egg. Multitudes have heretofore been termination of the question was needed Boston Transcript.
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Silence is a virtue which many folk start to cultivate after they have alread, talked too much to redeem themselves.
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Birmingham, Ala, Dec. 20, 1924.
Comments Dr. Pennington's Articles.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Let me commend the articles by Dr. Julian Pennington on Choosing Your Vocation v This is a timely subject and one of universal interest Dr. Pennington and The Age-Herald will be of great help to the young people of the territory you serve This should prove invaluable to the employer and also to the salesman.
 I am a salesman and know that my sue cess with prospect is largely dependent upon formation is not only interesting. but great boon to me and to every other salesman who will avail himself of such opportunities to study human nature as are given in Dr. Pen nington's articles in The Age-Herald I look forward with pleasure to future articles by Dr. Pennington.
 HUGH Nj. WALLACE.
 Birmingham, Ala, Dec 29 1924.
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A Texas lecturer adopts a sound method of attracting the attention of his audiences-he sings before the regular program opens.
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By this time there are lots of folks who have discovered that they put too much confidence in labels on holiday booze.
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Indications are that there will be a spring cleaning at the Atlanta peni- tentiary before the cold weather breaks.
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There are lots of folks who still re- member that Nah Jong is a game they used to play.
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The fellow who claims. to find zero weather invigorating commands about as much respect for veracity as the one who boasts of breaking the ice for an early morning plunge. .
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During the Christmas season some men got much of enjoyment from contemplat- ing how many unwearable ties and un- smokable cigars they didn't get.
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Contemplating the overloaded furnace danger, it is well to remember that chilli ness is preferable to death.
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GOING DOWN.

Dear Friend: How do you start the day? You have had a lot of opposition, perhaps, and you have met with a lot of misunder- standings, but never mind. "So persecuted they the prophets before you" Start the day fresh.
 Go it alone, if necessary, for that IS the way all great men have had to battle. Have faith in yourself and back that faith with work.
 Everything is before you when you get ur in the morning and as you start the day, so it will be in its entirety.
 Get your courage up and keep it up!
 Faithfully yours,
 ALFALFA SMITH.
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Thanks For Age.Herald's Aid.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald: We wish to congratulate you on the splen- did spirit shown, which resulted in the very best cooperation on the part of your paper in the Community Chest campaign. Your sup port in your news and editorial columns were all that could be desired, and was very large factor in the success of the campaign.
 CARSON ADAMS
 President, Community Chest.
 A. M SHOOK, JR.
 Campaign Manager
 W. NJ. COSBY,
 Chairman, Publicity Committee
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Doctor: "Now, if you will send your wifi. in I will tell her how to give you cold bath. Patient: "Td rather you'd tell my Janlto how to give me a hot one"
 Mrs. l.. G. Harris.
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Another hopeful indication is that the soap-box and ash-barrel orator has about run out of ammunition.
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NOT so EASY

A great many current similes won't bear analysis We say, for instance, "as easy as linator of this merry Quip ever undertake it?- Portland Oregonian.
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TRAVEL
By Kid Boots.

Before railroads was invented people 'hao to travel on horseback and it took them twice as long to go half as far, but on the other hand they had times more fun and horses don't have cinders
 Enybody can ride on train the ferst tlIne @ they try and look natural, put II you never rode on a horse before, that's diffrent.
 Travel is good for the education. You see diffrent people in diffrent countries wearing diffrent clothes and not even knowing they look funny, and speaking langwidges you never herd before jest as easy as if they thawt they was tawking Inglish.
 It is ixpensive to travel, and enyways @ lots of neeple would jest as leaf stay home and take wawk. You can also save hundreds of dollars by reeding the forrin news in the
 If you never travel you'll never gel drownded at sea, but on the other hand brick will never fall on your he'd on a boat.
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If the choice were left to mo. whetner ,o have free press or free government ehooaa a free preaa-Thomas Jefferson-
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A Foolish Duel.

cENOR vARELA, editor of weekly royal publication in Madrid, has chal,
 lenged Ibanez to a duel. He printed tbe challenge in four languages, a matter which causes Ibanez to remark that 1t Is a waste of effort as the language of his family has always been Spanish unlike that Of the Hapsburg who sits on the throne of Spain.
 Both Varela and Ibanez are rated as expert duelists, so that the reporters may possibly have a thrilling little "affaire d'honneur to report from the Riviera, whence Varela has gone to seek out the novelist to slap his face.
 Even if Ibanez is killed. it settles nothing. And Varela's death would be that of fool, whose spectacular show of devotion to Alfonso ought to win him the Order of Merit even before he starts out. Duels belong to by gone age. They are a relic of barbarism that no civilized man should tolerate. Will the death of Ibanez improve the conditions of the Spanish people, or will it bring back to life the thousands of young Spaniards who have died in north Africa in the most sense less, stupid and futile military campaign of modern times? - v
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TO THE POINT
Hush money whispers.

But of course the old bachelor doesn't hold his own.
 Plugging by any other name would be squeezing just the same.
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Mora DifficuIt.

No, Trudy, giving the baby a pen-knife to play with will not help him to cut his teetn'
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AurOMATIC DEFENSE

Speaking of the crime wave, New York engineer has invented a self-playing saxo- hone.-Minneapolis Journal.
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Success.

q live only for my art. Why had rather be known as a third-rate artist than as millionaire"
 ''Well, aren't you?'
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Return or Hapsburg.

"King Otto is growing up in the indom- itable faith that he will return to the throne of his fathers" so writes Empress Zeta in response to the many Christmas gifts sent her and her son by loyal subjects" in Hun gary. It begins to look as if the legitimist party in that country is gaining in strength. At the recent condemnation of Count Karolyi, when his estates were confiscated, the count was also found guilty of lese majeste. That would seem to indicate the Hungarian su- preme court does not consider the Hapsburgs have abdicated for good, but that Admiral Hortly is filling in with a temporary inter regnum until Otto shall have come of age.
 Still there are others to consider besides the Hungarian royalists when it comes to a return of the Hapsburg family. In the first place there are the Hungarian democrats and republicans and then there are millions of Czecho-Sloyaks and Jugo-Slavs, Greats, Ru- manians, Galicians and Bukovinians, who are now united under strong national governments and who would be the first to sense the danger of a restoration of the Hungarian kingdom under the old despotic sway of the Hapsburgs. For, if Otto comes back, he does not come alone. Sixty-eight archdukes, arch duchesses and princesses of imperial and royal blood will follow shortly with all their ann bitions and schemes.
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Modern Girl.

Rose: "So Beatrice is suing that wealth clubman for breach-of-promise, eh v
 Marie: "Yes, she wants to convince hlr that she's not the kind of girl that will le the men forget"
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Success At Last.

Mrs. Hall: John, I believe you are deceiV- ing me-" ... 1E
 MT. Hall: "Well, I've been trying TOT 10 years" o 1,,+
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Heroes and Little Betty, seven years old, ran across the street to play with her little nelghbor' Billy, also seven. They soon began discussing what to do' Les play Movie Stars. "All right" agreed Billy. And so it happened that the heroic Billy killed the Wildcat which, in their childish minds, was creeping up behind the beautiful Betty while they were gathering flowers in the woods. ,. Little Billy gathered Betty in his arms as she exclaimed: My hero" Billy drew her closer to him and answered back My She-rO."
 VERSES AND REVERSES
 The Thanks I Get.
 treat my stomach fine,
 I give it pie and cake;
 Ingratitude is mine
 It gives me tummy y-ache!
 Thomas c. Rider
 In Poor Taste. Her hats show flowers in great array, Her gowns are decked out handsomely, But I can't say much for the way She has of late been trimming me.
 HI. R. Speare. Copyright. 1924. Reproduction FOrbiddsn.)
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The Answer.

The Answer. Clinton: My wife is going away for three months, but she promised to write otten' Nelson :: "How much will you send her"
 HI. T. Weiss.
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Kerensky 6 Daniel.

Rumor has it that Alexander Kerensky, fellow student in his youth of Lenin and later his bitterest political opponent has been invited to return to Russia. Ban Trotsky, the menshevik, and bring back Kerensky, "the menshevik traitor?" That indeed would be a strange procedure. Or are the reds at last going to reverse their policy of a one-party government by allowing others to participate in the administration of affairs? It is under stood that a general call has been sent out to all democraticalIy minded Russian exiles to return to the fatherland. It will take courage to heed that call. It may mean dark dungeons and even the firing squad. But there have always been men, who for the sake of freedom, dared to risk their all. Kerensky is no coward, he proved it in 1917. If he returns to Moscow now he will rank with Daniel of old, who walked into the lions den without the slightest tremor.
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The American polo team clashed at Meadow brook with the British chess club and wor unanimously. Sir Thomas Lipton made hi annual challenge for the American yach cup, Cozy Dolan was suspended from or ganized baseball, Lenin died and Trotzk! might as well have. .fr.
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Warning To Get Busy.-The work on Will son Dam will be finished in six months. Con gress has adjourned and we are told that the Underwood bill is facing defeat. Not very dazzling prospect for the new year, but notice that it is up to us if we expect to make progress in the next twelve months.--Florence News.
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THE AGE-HERALD
vRnprR1ck '. THOMPSON. ;. PRESIDENT

Entered at Birmingham. Ala. post office ss see-
 snd-class matter. set of Congress- March c. 1878.
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Will Abolish the Lash.-There will come a day in the not distant future when Ala bama will enact legislation prohibiting the lash. Those who recognize men and women in prison as human beings and who know that the infliction of physical pain is a bar barous practice do not understand why Goy- ernor Brandon should refuse to restore Mir Kilby's order.--Montgomery Journal.
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Danger of Trailing.-It would be a good plan for parents to keep a sharp watch on their children who have skates and stop them from the automobile-trailing practice, for ulti- mately there will be tragedy, perhaps saw eral of them.--Anniston Star.
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In Favor of Understanding.--Noww with the commission government election out of the way, no matter which way the result has gone, The Daily Times stands committed and is enthusiastically in favor of get together understanding at the city Nhall Fl Huntsville Times paTf
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d1EHEz ALABAMA ae6aEEZzBAtPRESS

Should Resolve For Big Thing.-While we are Iounging around and en5cying this season, let us resolve to do some one big thing for this town and community during the year 1925.--LaFayette Sun.
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Reasons For Jealousy.-n you are jealous of a man and knock him for that reason it i evident that you are not a game sport. | YOU are jealous of man it is evidence tha in some way he is contending for the sam' goal for which you are striving. To be Jealoa is to manifest fear that he will win in tn, contest and your jealousy will be accentuatet in proportion as your 1ehance of winninl diminishes. Star.
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will Have Ample Chance.-A woman has been elected to be the head of Alabama's g pardon board. A desire to please has always been ascribed to women as dominant char acteristic. The pardon board lady wil nave an extraordinary opportunity to indulge this procliyity as it is understood all of the in- mates of the states big jail want to get out
 Selma Times-Journal. 4
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M. E. Conference and Child LabOr.-Tht conference of the Methodist church of North Alabama met in Talladega. Commenting or in inc Daily Home, says Another thing Conference did not take up the child Iaboi propaganda to save the children of the Soutl from labor and cruel parents until they were 1S."-Opelika News.I
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Ramsay Macdonald and his labor goverl ment were given the buns rush just as the had invested heavily in silk knee :eeche brushed up on the Book of Etiquette and pr pared to enter the smartest society withor tripping.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-04
Tax Reduction

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investigate" Mr.. Mellon made IN the
Senate the other day should receive
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men 70 invest In tax free sac,,ritaas
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oppressive taxes necessary TO meet
interest and sinking fund charges On
state and municipal loans win remain
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-10-29

Seal booths will be opened through
cut tho State Dec. 1. Forty million
seals have been distributed.