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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29
RAILROAD ENCOURAGES FARMING

RAILROAD ENCOURAGES FARMING
Railroads have long been maintaining
departments the function of which is to
stimulate farming and encourage greater
production. In many cases much good
has resulted to the farmers and conse-
quently to the railroads. The railroads
have discovered that the farmers know
great many things that they are not
convinced Of One of these things is
that soil improperly farmed loses its fer
tility, while, soil properly farmed gains
in fertility at profit.
The Central of Georgia Railway plans
to spend ten thousand dollars in an eff
fort to convince the farmers in the coun-
ties along its route that soil building
pays bigger dividends than soil robbing.
According to the bulletin of this rail-
road Increased crop yields, due to in
creased plant food obtained at a cost
which will show a good profit, is the
result desired. Proving that this may
be done calls for the adoption of I'M
familiar methods, and larger expendi-
ture than many farmers feel justified in
attempting until they have actually seen
the increased crops" Therefore, the
railroad will pay half the cost of some
test plots, one in each of the eighty
counties traversed by the road, in order
to produce evidence that cannot be dis
puted that soil building pays.
The railroad asks farmers who are in
terested to apply for information re-
garding the program. Undoubtedly more
interest in this subject will thus be
aroused. Farmers should raise three or
four times as much to the acre as they
now do, and they can if they follow the
principles that have been proved and
tested repeatedly. The railroad is per-
forming a good service. =
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29
Forum Of The People
Fears "Wetso at Convention
Editor of The Age Herald :

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
In less than a month the Democratic ma
tional convention will meet in New York
and millions of persons are thinking and
wondering who will receive the nomination
as the standard bearer of the party in the
November election, but how many are think
ing of the more important thing-the plat
form to be adopted by the convention?
have been a Democratic voter for forty years,
and never in my recollection has the matter
of a platform been of so much Importance
as it is this year of 1924. Apparently the
convention, while Democratic to the core,
will be composed of two factions, wet and
dry, with a small majority in favor of the
dry side; but never in the history of the
Democratic party can be recalled minority
going into convention with more zeal and
with more determination to put something
over than will be found by the vets at this
convention. Unlike the dry faction they will
be organized and each and every delegate
will know what to do when the convention
is called. Their main object will be to in
sert a plank in the platform in favor of light
wines and beer or two and three-quarter per
cent beer, which, if enacted into law, would
practically nulify the Volstead act and prove
a calamity such as was never known. A wet
plank would make thousands of stay-at-
homes on election day thereby lend encour-
agement to our friends, the enemy, who now
apparently have no chance to win. PrOhibi-
ton is the law of the land, and in time
will be obeyed as we'll or better than many
other laws, and the next generation will find
America a prosperous, happy and sober ma
ton. 1t is hoped. therefore, that those who
have a part in the great convention and a
desire to do something for the betterment
of mankind in America and the success of
the Democratic party will fight every liquor
move that is proposed. THE blunt truth is
better than a fairy story"
H A. STEWART.
Birmingham, Ala, May Y, 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29
PROPERTIES OF FUSED QUARTZ

"A successful commercial method of
frsing quartz, if proved out, means much
to- science and to humanity. Because of
its certain excellent qualities, fused
uuartz is bound to add to the efficiency
Of certain articles which must now be
made of fused silicates, product which
we call glass. The fused quartz is more
transparent and translucent than glass.
It, is related that "a meter of fused
quartz rod transmits 90 per cent. of the
light passed through one end. The best
optical glass transmits 65 per cent, and
ordinary glass transmits 35 per cent.
Light from a match or pocket flash lamp
applied at one end of a quartz rod
twenty-five feet long passes through
without any appreciate loss of illumina-
ton" This is almost incredible to those
whose chief experience has been with
glass.
Because quartz transmits the violet
rays of the sun, which are cut off by
ordinary glass, quartz-enclosed hospital
ROBINS will give as beneficial results to
patients needing sunlight as would the
direct rays without any translucent me-
dium intervening. Inasmuch as quartz
is said to contract and expand only
slightly, its use for lenses, thermometers
nd other articles whose efficiency Is
Impaired by expansion and contraction
will be Immediately valuable. The prod
ct will also stand sudden extremes of
eat or cold with cracking or SCATTERING
s,glass does.
Perhaps the most striking attribute Of
used quartz, however, is that q rod
nade of this material acts as conduit
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29
TRUCKERS HELP THEMSELVES

Under the title, "No Government Pap
for Them" The Baltimore Sun recently
told how tomato growers on the eastern
shore of Maryland protected themselves
against losses from slumps in prices re-
sulting from dumping their products
upon the market with no business meth
DDS of distribution. Large quantities of
tomatoes and other trucking prAducts
are raised in that section for the neigh
boring markets. Sometimes the markets
are flooded with these products through
cheap and convenient shipping facilities.
Then ices>drop below the cost of pro-
duction. g.,
The eastern shore tomato growers
formed exchanges through which their
products could be marketed in orderly
and business-like ways, with the result
that they now come out ahead instead
of behind. The Sun commenting on the
situation said: NOTABLY in this case,
as in many others, no call for help is
made to the, government to fix prices or
to pass law and create a bureau in
Washington to feed pap to the agricul-
turist and look after his affairs for him.
These tomato growers and others need
no official nurse, but go to work to de-
fend their own interests in a sensible
and self-respecting way"
When farmers combine in systems of
cooperative marketing to help them
selves, the better off they will be, and
the less opportunity will be given poll
ticians to whine in their behalf, thus
placing the farmers undeservedly in a
bad light before the country. Farm
products ar.asa.not only necessities, but
they constitute the foundation of pros
perity il cities as well as in rural dis
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29
Woodlawn, May 81.
SUGGESTION for the New Court House,

Suggestion for the New Court House
To the Editor of The geHerald:
The county owns some twelve or thirteen
residences. each having from five to twelve
rooms. all located on the new site east OF
woodrow Wilson park. If a court house
should be erected on this site, these build
ings would be junked and thousands of dol
lars worth of valuable property thrown away
If a court house is to be erected on the
present site the magnificent architectural
structure would go into the junk pile and
bond issue would be necessary to procure
funds to erect the new structure Members
of the board of revenue inform us that the
old site now would not bring more than
million dollars, if offered for sale.
Would it be bad financiering to transfer
to the residences such of the county depart
ments as could be accommodated in these
buildings and thus relieve the tension in the
present court house? This arrangement
would probably suffice for several years and
in the meantime the enhancing value of the
property would go on until it might bring
several million dollars; when such time
comes then sell the old site and build on
the new site l am writing this on the
theory that a new court house cannot be
built now without bond issue. Are we
cocksure that the people would now vote a
bond issue to build court house?
r. G. HEWITT
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29

Readers are requested to contribute !:
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satires and bright sayings of children
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29
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The God Of Love
lRY Don Lanrol
S0W N1lXAkk .NLlQkZk

She said her beau must be quite tall,
With flowing locks, and eyes of black,
For only such would Janet fall,
All others could sit ON tack.
He said his choice must be brunette,
A slender maid, and, oh, SO chic!
For such maid his heart was let,
But other girls could beat it quick.
Howeer their paths together led.
She short and plump, he likewise that,
With not hair upon his head
o. And now they have a four-room fiat
.,~t. L'envoi:
The God of Love is exceedingly kind,
Before he shoots he makes 'em blind.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29
A Complaint Against Dr.. Traprock

jest OIL the last load ebay.
Dear Sir:-I red in yoor paper some mites
ago about that fish wot Doktor Traprock sed
he kOt an want to tell ye rite here mistur
Editor that there yarn wos too goldarned
fishy to SCOT me. I don't believe its troo
even If it is in the paper. -Maybee that doktOr
kin fool some O. you city slickers but he
KANT fool Seth WOskins. want to tell the
folks in taown here that they amt no sich
fish ez a leviathan. An il there wos, the
blame. animile would of drunk up all the
water in that there canal in a couple snorts
and then it would of died Of thirst.
suppore he'll be ritin' to the papers next
week tellin the folks he got his rod back
with the jewels gone an Jonah's inishuls
carved on the butt-end.
An want to tell that there Doktor Trap
rot to bait his hook with prescription if
he wants to ketch me, bekos he KANT do it
with no blame fish yarn
.. Yours truly, ~ ~
(Signed) SETH WOSKINS.
We just called DR.. Walter e. Traproek on
the telephone, and the noted explorer prom
ises an answer to Mr.. Woskins' letter which
ought to appear in next Mondays Fun Shop
department.-Ed. The Fun Shop. H.
o Say, Can You Sing What You Daily
Herbert had been taught to rise when his
mother entered the room and to remain stand
ing until she was seated or until she with
drew.
I One day a boy friend came to see him.
Herbert's mother came into the room where
the boys were and Herbert arose. His friend
made no move, SO Herbert asked him to
stand up. A
A few minutes later mother again entered
the room and Herbert jumped up while his
friend got reluctantly to his feet.
When Herbert's mother entered the room
for the third time and her son arose, the
guest said disgustedly: cav, Gee! What do
you think your mother is, The Star-Spangled
Observation-Disclosures Anderson.
Poor Richard Visits We Beauty Shoppe
Better to slip with the foot than with the
lipstick.
Dye while the sun shines.
Every woman is the architect of her own
eyebrows.
1t is never too late to bob. vf
Florence Woodward.
Copyright, 1924. Reproduction Forbidden
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29

If Won Tirpitz should become the Ger
man chancellor, he would probably dis
cover that under some circumstances di-
recting whole squadron in time of war
is smooth sailing as compared with guild
ing the ship of state in time of peace.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29
FORCED no 1T

Il was only acting the part ef peace
maker explained a prisoner.
But you knocked the man senselesa said
the magistrate. Z
II did" was the answer. There was no
other way to get peace."-Pearson Weekly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29
SADNESS FOR RADIO FAN

A Norwegian scientist says layer of nj
trOgen around the earth will make it impos-
sible to communicate with Mars by radio.
This is sad news for the chap whose idea Of,
fun is fiantic effort to get the most distant
station.-Boston Transcript
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29

tricts. Hence the Importance of market
ing these products in such ways as to
insure reasonable profits instead of
losses, which, it has been demonstrated,
can be avoided. .s
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29

Houston, Texas, is to have seventy
five-thousand-dollar pie factory. 1t will
look small when compared with the one
at Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29
A Problem IN RsductiOn

Lady (who wished to reduce her weight
by applying some cream or lotion) to spe-
cialist: Il would like to reduce my weight.
Win you tell me something can rub on and
thereby reduce my weight?" rs,
Specialist: Certainly. Mothers washing
board."-G. A Towns, Jr.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29
THE .AGE-HERAID
xREDERIcK 1. THOMPSON. PRnsapEET

Entered at Birmingham Ala, post office as
Decond class matter, act of Congress March 1879
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29
GADsDERs REGARD FOR HiFAETH

GAUSDENS hEGAhD FUh HEALTH
City and county authorities of Gads-
den have undertaken a work which will
be beneficial to every resident of that
community. The purpose is to elimi-
nate mosquitoes. Gadsden is enterpris-
ing and progressive, as shown in many
Why's during the last few years. Success
of this undertaking, however, will, con-
tribute perhaps more to the general pros
fperity and wellbeing of that community
than anything which has been under
taken in civic improvement for years.
sCitizens of Gadsden are cooperating
in this enterprise with commendable
spirit. They are responding to sugges-
items from the health authorities to drain
standing pools and to distribute oil
wherever mosquitoes breed. This is
done under supervision of the author
tiles. It is expected that in a short time
the breeding-places of mosquitoes in
that community will have been removed
OF controlled, and the public health
which is the chief public asset, will have
been materially improved.
This work is comparatively inexpen-
size. A few thousand dollars judiciously
:, spent will accomplish the purpose. The
result will be large returns on the in
vdstment directly, and still larger profits
Indirectly. Gadsden is an industrial cen
ter, with hundreds of workers in mines
Aad mills whose efficiency will be large
ly increased by removing the chief
sources of typhoid and malaria. Even
a zone per cent. increase. in efficiency
would far more than justify the expense
of getting rid of the mosquitoes.
THE Age-Herald some time ago quoted
statistics from one of the leading san
itary experts of this community which
showed that in a few years sanitary
work in this district reduced typhoid
fever from hundreds of cases to less
than a dozen year, while malaria was
4 similarly decreased, and loss of time by
\ workers because of malaria dropped
/ over eighty per cent. In a great indus
1 trial district like this the benefits rep
! resented millions of dollars year. In
Iat'he Gadsden district benefits from mos
,fifo control will he nItonOrtionate
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29

Small Boy Nobody amt come set, but Pa
says the first fellow that COMES eAn have
EysEy body's.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29

SEQUENCE
Young Man--So Miss Ethel is your oldest
sister, Who comes AftAt kaS
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29
IT the choice aOere left to
me, a0bether to haze q free
press or a free government,
Z Mould choose a free press.
Thomas Jefferson.
TOO MANY MURDERS

II ne taking of human life in Birming-
nam is coming to be almost a common
place. Never a week passes without it's
record of murder or murderous assault,
while at times there appears almost an
epidemic of such crime. Sometimes the
offender is caught and sometimes he is
4 not. The number of cases in which he
! Is not caught is entirely too great. The
public remembers the long period of mys-
terry attendant on the so-called axe MUIR
ders, and even now there is no assur-
ance that some of the original perpetra-
tors have ever been apprehended.
1t seems that it is high time something
BE done about it. Although Birming-
ham has the largest murder record of
all the cities, it is not believed that Biz
mlngham is essentially any more dis
posed in this direction than any other
city. The fault must lie with the manner
IN which the cases are handled. It is
entirely probable that the officers are
seeking to do their duty. Numerous
cases of prompt arrest show that. The
difficulty must lie then in some factor
as yet Undecided or unexplained The
fact remains that the public safety of
Birmingham is not being protected as
well as it Ashould be-not by a wide
margin.
IF there is no genius connected with
the police department who is capable of
getting to the bottom of the trouble, it
appears high time that one were sought
elsewhere. If there is any defect i'm the
manner with which. cases are handled
after the apprehension of the criminal,
I then that defect should be corrected.
There is no city that should tolerate a
murder rate as high as seventy-five or
eighty per hundred thousand of inhab-
itAnts. That is Birmingham's rate, and
listen per hundred thousand greater than
the city next in this unenviable rank.
It. is too much. What, if anything, is
the city government going to do about
'>the general situation?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29

Hartselle on the sMove-Hartselle GER
family hasn't lost step with progress. After
finishing up the Bee Line improvements. the
city plans construction of one or more paved
streets, installation of waterworks and other
civic Improvements. Hartselle deserves the
congratulations of the remainder of Morgan
county-Albany-De Decatur Daily. :.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29

The Laws and Justice.-Day after da,
"a perusal of the newspapers will show re
ports Of incidents in cities all over the coun
try that clearly demonstrate the fact thai
many of our laws do not serve the purpose
for which laws were intended and do on Thu
other hand serve to work hardship and mis-
carriage of justice.-Gadsden Times News.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29

Inducements for Industries. Syl-
acauga offers the best inducement for small
industries Of any town in Alabama. Syla-
.cauga's railroad facilities certainly cannot
be surpassed; electric power can be secured
here for propelling machinery as cheap as
any place in Alabama, and the territory
that surrounds Sylacauga are great consum-
ers OF almost every manufactured article
Sylacauga Advance.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29

Not Defending Bootleggers.--Mobile has
thousands of high-class citizens who do not
endorse the acts of the 'liquor ring but
such citizens, while regretting the 0nfavor-
able publicity which has come to the port
as q result of the rum trials" are not heard
defending the liquor law violators. Gadsden
journal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29

Copyright, 1924 Reproduction Forbidden.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-05-29
THE Al ABA
|EaI55aiPRsIESS

High Time for Repair work II the Lee
highway from Florence to Killen is not to
be rebuilt this season, it is sure high time
that some repair work was being done. 10
leave this road through the summer in its
present condition would be a disgrace to the
community.-Florence Daily News.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1924-03-13
MEGSZOK0TT RAB.
Temes Imre eloldalgott az utjavi-
tasra kirendelt megyei rab osztag-
tol.

Temes Imret nemegen tlitott
feovver viselesert 100 dollar bin
tetessel sujtotta a rendorblro. Te-
mesnek nem leven penze, borton-
be keriilt, hogy leiilje birsagot.
Meg vagy 60 napja lett volna hat
ra Temesnek, aki azonban nagyon
vagyot ia. szabadsagra.
Temest t0bb mas rabbal egyiitt
baosztottak megyei utak javita-
sara es ezt az alkalmat hasznalta
fel az elkeseredett ember, hogy
megsz0kion. A napokban rabok
a springfield uton 'dolgoztak, ami
kor Temes eltiint. A feligyel0k
hiaba kerestek inert nem talaltak.
Ez volt Temes harmadik szokesl
kiserlete. A mask ket esetben a
feliigyel6knek mindjart feltint.
hog segy ember hianyzik az osz-
tagb6l es utana menve vlsszahoz-
| TAX.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1924-03-13

zunk ellene, inert mem igazsagos
es mem aranyos.
Egy kis kiilvarosi kereskedo
mem fizcthet annyi ad6t mint egy
nagy belvarosi ceg trllajdonosa, IS
a foglalk ozasi ado szerint mind
kett6 kcreskedo. Van gyari mum
kas aki naponta 10 dollart keres,
mig van olyan aki bizony csak ma
ponta $4.40-et vihet haza. Mem
volna igazsagos, hogyl ket mum
kas ugyanazt az ad6t fizeses.
Az sem volna igazsagos, hogy
az az ember aki Youngstownban
lakik de a varoson xviii dolgozik
ne fizessen ad6t, mig a szomszedia
aki a yaros teriileten beliil dolgo-
zik ad6t fizet.
A varos urainak mas m6dot kell
talalni ARA, hogy haztartashoz
sziikseges penzt el6teremtse. A
foglalkozAsi ado mem kell, inert
rossz. Annak vegrehajtasahoz q
nep mem jarul hozza.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1924-03-13
Meghalt Pallay Sandor

Napr6l-napra fogyunh, kevesbe
diink. Alig van het, hogy egy-egy
derek magyar ember halalar6l be
ne szamolnank. Ismet megkeves-
bedtiink, elkoltoz0tt sorainkbd
egy regi amerikas, Pallay Sander.
Palley Sandort AZ ewes koraban
ragadta ell a kony0rtelen halal,
ket heti sulyos szenvedes utan.
kedden meghalt a City ,korhazban.
Pallay Sander 25 evvel ezel6tt ke-
riilt Amerikaba, Csicser, Ung me-
gyei kozsegbol S ez id6 alatt kis
megszakitasokkal mindig varo-
sunkban lakott. Legut6bb Hoch-
wart Ignaceknal, 81 Oneta street
lakott $ innen jart minden nap
munkaba az Ohio Works, Carne-
gle Steel Co. telepere. Februar 26-