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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
PARE FOR CIVIC GROWTH.
Montreal Gazette editorially

Montreal Gazette. -editorially re-
 he rapid growth of that city in a
 zing which might we'll find indirect
 eation to Birmingham, which also
 ben marked by large growth of pop
 rl, especially since the World War.
 Gazette declares that MontreaPs s
 ach to the million mark is not a
 kt for minimizing jubilation, be-
 rapid increase in population IS
 tive disadvantage unless the pro-
 for comfort and health keeps pace
 contemporary then states that in 4 bal this has not been done, for, # Transportation system is woefully in- qsAte; the congestion of street traffic bws worse each day; there is short of housing with abnormally high hts; menace to health is involved in i endeavor to accommodate a million bple in a municipal plant which would Phone too adequate for seven hundred usand, or eight hundred thousand, at Est. "It is a warning to the civic rul- Z to bestir themselves and measure up the new responsibilities placed upon ir- shoulders by the growth of this N giant among the great cities ot lrth America"
 Birmingham is headed towards sini- Situation. Within the next few years
 Kill boast of half million population. ItiAens of foresight who are familiar ithN Nthe development in prospect and lat which is sure to follow in a sTrpris- gly short period, believe that Birming- am will have a million people within a or perhaps within half that me. The housing situation is being rovided for as fast as possible through D unprecedented building program. Inn Eovements in health measures are being lrried out, despite efforts of some who ould subordinate community health to temporary financial profit. Much yet .mains to be done to provide for the tvs expansion, including larger media ,r sewage and garbage disposal.
 There must be expanded police and Ne protection, school facilities, park and yground benefits, improved street Shtif1k, and all those things which a .pgressive, well-governed city requires order to make it convenient, healthful d safe. In short, the municipal authori- g and civic interests must prepare to D pace with the business and indus sal progress. Growth in population is bt necessarily matter of congratulation nless due provision is made for health lfety and comfort.
 Obviously Birmingham's greatest need this time is efficient municipal govern lent. Its citizens cannot afford to neg let their duties any longer in this re- beet. Birmingham has rocked along bmehow up to this time without serious snsequences resulting from it's weakness that important field. But the time s$ come for the citizens to realize their Mic obligations, to see that capable ad- Illustrators of the public affairs are in- geed to run for office, and to stand by An at the polls. Otherwise, this com
 ty will make an involuntary sacri-
 Snuch that is worth while.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
4 BaILade In Mass
Nathon W. Levy In New York Times.

Rocs for good and all have fled,
 Dinosaurs no more we know, Dodoes are no longer fed,
 Numbered are the buffalo. Bustles now no shadow throw,
 Ruffs have said their last good-byes With thousand things, but oh
 Candidates are thick as flies. Clavichords are pretty dead
 Old coins scarce and Scarcer grow, Minuets we seldom tread,
 Rare the archer and his bow. Last years blooms no longer glow, Dreams depart and echo dies, But, before us, TOW on row,
 Candidates are thick as flies. Into limbo fads have sped'
 Dried up streams no longer flow, Books die off that once were read, Passing breezes cease to blow. Comets vanish as the snow,
 Visions fade before our eyes, Armored knights are legends-ho! Candidates are thick as flies. Though the voter flouts them so,
 Stirring them to tears and sighs, Though Salt River way they go, Candidates are thick as flies!
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made it an irfevocable fixture in our state affairs had the Brandon administration not come along and unceremoniously junked it. For the Brandon administra- tion wanted to bestow favors above all things, and to that purpose economy in public administration is deadly handi- cap. s. ~ ..
 The recent treasury showing reveals that the Brandon regime, with more money to'spend than ever before in Ala bama's history, and with no added obli- gations not provided with special reve- nue, already, in less than two years, finds itself in financial embarrassment. The people are paying a heavy cost for poor business management of state affairs and finances. The next governor must be an administrator and not politician.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
THE TRUE PROGRESSIVE.

Irom my point of view he only deserves be called a progressive who cannot sec |rong persist without an effort to redress |pr . right denied without Rn effort to kct it: who feels deep concern for the pmic welfare of the United States, but Ees that the making of better men and en is matter greater still; who s of every governmental policy first Ill in its bearing upon human rights sr than upon material things; who be- s profoundly in human equality and pts privilege in whatever form or in lever disguise, and who finds the true of success in the welfare of the many hot the prosperity and comfort of the
 The civic unit of America Is not the IF, but the individual man. All that to make better and happier and freer and women is progress; all else is rec h.-JOhn ". Davis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
sINESS IN GOVERNMENT.

m illustration of how real administra- capacity can benefit public business finances is given by the record of
 enor A. J. Groesbeck of Michigan.
 Hing to Frederick L. Collins in Col 'Tn three years he has brought gan out of debt and at the same reduced the tax levy appreciably." |" Michigan has not been deprived of If those benefits of government to h people now look forward more ex- ntfy than ever before. Michigan schools maintain their high stand Michigan laws are enforced at las we'll as those of other states. kan highway progress and her con- on of paved roads have attracted on outside the state. Michigan's institutions suffer no unaccus- privation. Michigan's penal ad- ation is the best and most efficient states history. Perhaps because 7ernor is lawyer he felt especial ,erned in seeing that justice cnd Justice followed commitment to oes not appear, however, that or Groesbeck has resorted to any ular policy. According to MT. "He has taken the spending of Mle's money out of the hands of political appointees and placed
 he hands of a central board,
 berations and records are open
 Inspection" What is this but
 hat machinery set up by Gov
 in Alabama and called the
 ntrol and Economy? During
 administration that board
 d its existence and demon-
 lue. It had just attained
 Efficiency that would have
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out in the least being able to guarantee the reliability of it's reports. The de- partment of agriculture's guess sends cotton up or down, without affecting the actual amount of cotton one bale. The farmer is potentially richer or poorer, however, by the margin of fluctuation, andlis actually richer or poorer according as he does or does not sell on receipt of the reports. So far, the only claim that can be made in behalf of the gov ernment reports is that possibly they lessen the degree of fiuctuation that is attendant-on private reports.
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for the Democratic presidential campaign fund from its readers. The fund stood yester- day as follows:
 Previously acknowledged $1,2S2.OO
 Cash ...... ...........''''' AV'VV
 The time is growing short in which to com plete the swing of votes to the Democratic ticket. What is done must be done within three weeks Those who expect to contribute to the campaign fund should do so now if they want their money to do the utmost good
 It begins to look as if the Borah resolution of inquiry will keep the Republican eontrlDu- tions lower than they would otherwise be. Therefore, the Democrats are not under the heavy financial handicap that has often kept them out of the White House.
 A dollar counts more in this campaign than it has in previous campaigns, for 1t has to offset fewer privilege dollars on the other side
 Contribute to the Democratic effort and to the success of John w. Davis.
 Party loyalty has thus an additional man. ner in which it may serve the party.
 If many will give moderately the total will be sufficient.
 But in this community many are not giv- ing even moderately.
 Is the cause not worthy one?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
Watching The Parade
TEN years ago got acquainted with little
By JOHN PILGRIM

N 'bIN years ago got ucquullteu WlCu AAItAe
 Tommy McCauley. 1t wasn't hard to A do. Tommy usually called every one by his first name after ten minutes. He wore the loudest clothes, the widest ties, the largest imitation emeralds, and the checkiest socks on display in our town. And he had one other distinction;
 He crashed every gate.
 That's sporting slang, but never mind. He never paid for ticket for anything. And he was always there. Whether it was q fight or race or a wrestling match. Tommy was in the front row roofing loudly. It became a joke with Tommy's friends. -f
 He's no good" we said in superior sort of way. "Likable little chap, of course, but n. g. Just gate crasher." ,. es
 Tommy in that stage of his development was no good at all. He was deteriorating rapidly. His income was q negligible one and his distaste for work was profound. Yet on gate-crashing adventures he displayed the most tremendous enterprise and ingenuity.
 "The kid has something in him." said the big man of our town. Maybe not much. But anyone who can do what he does has ma terial of a sort" #E
 Because we did not agree with hfg and because he was spoiled, as rich men ofeeh are, he hired Tommy and set out to prove his contention true. And he did. That wild lit tie Indian proved to have qualities of initia- tive and nerve and foresight that astOunded the matter of fact, pure gold, thoroughly re- liable regulars in the big mans office. Today Tommy is their boss.
 The moral seems to be, if there is a moral, that Tommy was all right, but his groove was wrong. Or maybe that most of us judge the other fellow by his necktie. And, after all, they do not count.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
COTTON REPORT DISTURBING.

The governments guess at the size of the cotton crop again sent prices down, because of it's optimism as compared with the report of two weeks earlier. Thus the government lends itself to fictitious in the price of cotton, with
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Punct1re-Preof. 4 There is a man in our town, Much wiser than his sires, He ran into a bramble bush 5~ And punctured all his tires And when he saw his tires were wrecked With all his might and main, He ran into a bramble bush And had them fixed again.
 Louise B. Sutter.
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THIS MAKES IT UNIQUE.

One thing that can be said in behalf of the Chinese war is that it does not seem to be distributing any propaganda in this coun- try-Indianapolis News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
IA FOILETTE OBSERVATION

In 1912, in the course of his attack upon Theodore Roosevelt, Senator La Toilette said: 'No party was ever successfully or. eanized about a man." We expect to see fur. ther confirmation of that statement in No vember--New Bedford Standard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

It looks as if what was for while known as the "Pittsburg of the South,'' will soon take its merited position as the l. Birmingham of America"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
EOLLOWING THE SLOGAN

The country seems to have taken to the slogan Keep Cool with Coolidge" Nobody can claim so far that it is 'heated cam paign. n."-Topeka Capital.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

It is said that hunters have almost ex- terminated the great apes of Africa! Looks like deliberate effort to destroy the evidence. = e5
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
THE sg gsy.ss. Ss~ |WSRks |WiaR| Y
"Wbat PrIce (slory?''

tHE mayor of New York sets back the
 hands of time couple of centuries and
 calls in an admiral and a general to act as censors of play, What Price Glory?' Some one had whispered to the chief magis- trate that the play was damaging to the army or the marine corps, hence the prompt action. Some day somebody is going to write and produce play in this country that will please everybody because of it's abstentiOn from slighting or distasteful remarks to the army, the navy, the cloth, the church, the judiciary, the colored people, the Irish, the Jews, the taxpayers and the bootleggers. It will be known as the perfect play, innocrOus to the nth degree, outfording the flivver in standard ization of it's parts, and pleasing to all tastes. Speed the day, 0 Lord, speed the day that Thy servants and voluntary co-workers, the censors, may rest from their labors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

It may be we'll, in connection with re- duction in the cost of gasoline, to .remem7 Der that it does not carry any decrease in the cost of speeding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

Spain seems to have undertaken the solution of a stubborn problem-how to explain to its people the drubbings which she is receiving in Africa without telling them the truth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
Too Many Courses.

Too Many Courses.
 Cook (to stylish young mistress): 'Tse gwine to hunt mother posishun, Mis- Katie. !" Mistress: Why, Charity? Don't we treat you right?'
 Cook: "Yas'm, yo all treats me pretty good, but the shifting of the dishes in dis house am too much for de fewness ob de food"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

HBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESs-The As- Ed Press is exclusively entitled to use for Ation of all news dispatches credited to it, Aotherwise credited in this paper and also
 News published therein. All rights of re- :ation of special dispatches are reserved.
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Didn't Have To Work

First Tenant: m say this much for our | janitor-he's gentleman" Second Tenant: I'll say more than that for him--hes gentleman of leisure" Edith Altman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

Chairman Butler, of the Republican national committee, says that the slush- fund charges against his organization are bunk. Well, the party deals in bunk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

Not even the arrival of the big wind bag, the ZR-3, is expected to be noticed until after the campaign is over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

Astronomers have discovered a new comet. There is nothing to do but lei the comet go it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

A Chicago specialist thinks he has g
 remedy for sleeping sickness. Perhaps it is a phonograph next door,.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
Knew His Queue.

Director: Good morning, Charlie! We
 came around to make movie of your shop. Y. Chinese Laundryman; "Makee no movee
 Me got leasee!" Henry Baum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

Re choice were left to me. whether to have ef press or a free government. I would e . free press.-Thomas Jefferson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
4 COMPLETE EAILuRE.

How Sad it is to raise and educate boy who capt even shift gears without rattle.-- San Frnnciseo Chronicle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

cRTPTION RATES--By mail. payable in
 in United States and Canada. Daily
 hday. one year. $500. six months, S4.oo: 5months, s2.25: one month. s5c. Daily One year. s6.6o; six months. $s.25; three E. e1.75; one month. 75c. Sunday only:
 ear, s3.o0; six months, $1.50; three I6c; one month, 25c.
 Barrier. where carrier delivery is main- ], 2oc per week; s5c per month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

It seems that Mrs. Ferguson is soon to know whether she is t be home or a state boss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

The best education is said to be &C., quired in the school of experience. The
 main trouble is that the tuition fee is so high.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

Something will then have to be done about the foodstuff sold in restaurants these days as chicken pies. No consumer can live twenty years longer unless the chicken in
 these pies is forced to live twenty years less.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
WOULD NULLIFY BILL OF RIGHTse

Really, it begins to look as though the animosity of Senators LaFollette and Wheeler against the constitution of the United States was provoked by its indubitable recognition and protection of the rights of property, and as though they wanted to smash the supreme court in order to be able, by some accidental partisan majority, to enact laws, Rullifying those portions of the bill of rights which guarantee the rights of the people to be secure in their real and personal property, and not to have it taken from them without com pensation or without due process of law. Is that the Senegambian in the socialist wood- pile?
 Maybe but, as Mir. Wheeler rightfully sug- gests, let the people decide Washington Post 'f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

Jessie: You must be afraid of catching cold at the football game when you put cot- ton in your ears."
 Airline: Cold nothing I'm going with Alan, and he's one of the cheer leaders"
 George Leavis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
AGE HERALD

HtrfAinghsm. Ala, pos: office as seo- matter. act of Congress. March 6. 1879
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Ietters Were Confidential.

Do you ever dictate to a public stenog rapher" Not on your life; dictate to one who keeps things private"
 HI. H.
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Other American cities will watch with ln- terest the Manhattan experiment. : If they follow suit nothing that will interfere with longer living will be overlooked. c-
 The first and most important step, it is understood, will be to poison all motor truck and taxicab drivers. This is essential if any resident of any city is to have a chance of living twenty minutes longer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

The Constitution is doing very well at 1S7, but some people believe it has been putting on too much weight lately.-Philadelphia Record.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11
MAY HUME INTO REYERSE.

There is danger in counting on political landslide before it has slid.-ChicagO News,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

bhone (private branch exchange connect |h departments). Main 1900.
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Latest Model.

Our little boy, aged four, while feeding the squirrels in the park, saw one come down tree head first. That set him to thinking. He was unusually quiet all the way home in the car.
 Just as they were getting out he turned to his mother and said: ''He must have had awful good brakes
 -J. T. Beckner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

Us1vE MEMBER OF NORTH AMERI
 ALLIANCE IN ALABAMA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

BuREAts--W Washington, 800 Davidson
 State Capital. Montgomery Journal
 Tennessee Valley, Decatur Daily Tuscaloosa, News Building; Anniston. |ldtng; Gadsdsn. Times Building; Muscle |rri-Cities Daily Building.
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Amount Spent In Muscle Shoals Health Work

Amount Spent In Muscle Shoals Health Work To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 am enclosing clipping taken from The Age Herald under date of October 8, which states that $6O,000 was spent in the malaria control campaign which was waged during the season of 1924 at Muscle Shoals. l pre- sume the information for this article was taken from an article which appeared in the Decatur paper Monday, Oct 6. l gave an interview to the reporter of this paper on that date and was particular to see that the details of the account of the health work done in Muscle Shoals this year were correct.
 I regret very much that through some care lessness your paper had the amount spent at Muscle Shoals this year incorrect.
 The amount I gave the Decatur paper was approximately $6,O00 and not $6O,OOO. I would appreciate it very much if you would put a short article in your paper at your earliest convenience correcting this mis- take as it can not possibly do any good to let the word go abroad of such vast expendi- ture in such a short time.
 We appreciate very much the interest you have taken and the cooperation you have given in the way of advertising health work in Alabama and regret that we have to call your attention to this small detail.
 N. II. RECTOR, Assistant Sanitary Engineer, State Board of Health.
 Florence, Ala, Oct 9. 1924. .
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\ One big city, New York, with q fund of two million dollars devoted to the purpose, is going to give the theory a trial. It is fig ured that if human being can live twenty years longer in New York he can live forty years longer in any other city in the world. Herrin, H., always excepted.
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Forum or The People
The Age.Herald For School Use.

To the Editor of The Age-IIeraId: Please send me the daily Age-Herald, in- cluding the Sunday issue l used The Age Herald in the schools at Leeds and am plan ming to do so here. l find The Age-Herald the most unbiased and liberal in it's treatment of the questions of the day. Hence our se- lection of it for school use.
 J. l.. ADERS,
 Superintendent, Pass Christian, Miss, Oct (, 1924
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Encouraging.

EUCOukNSAHks Sheik; "A little knowledge is dangerous thing" Miss Sweet: "Well, at least you know that much"
 Morton Pels. Copyright. 1924. Reproduction fOrbiddsnl
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A GOOD REASON

A GOOD REASON From ocean to ocean Oh, widely l roam, The reason therefor is There's no place like home.
 -Tennyson J. Daft.
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\ ! |VND OVER
Adding Twenty Years To Human Life.

According to health experts, human being can be made to live twenty years longer through scientific attention. Due allowance being made, of course, for people who cross streets on the bias, believe in labels, and don't do what the bobbed-haired bandit asks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

Measures will have to be taken, too, to stor the practice of veneering. rolls and buns with wagon varnish. Man cannot live on bread alone. Neither can he live on varnish.
 Of course, if life in any community ir America is to be prolonged something will have to be done to curb synthetic drinks There isn't month of life extension in q barrel of present day rye, scotch or gin.
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K |. THOMPSON. PRESIDENT
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Campaign Fund

The Age-Herald is receiving contributions for the Democratic presidential campaign fund from its readers. The fund stood yester- day as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

Health Commissioner Monaghan is being flooded with inquiries already. Hundreds oi East Siders want to know if the landlords are to be allowed to live longer, too. They feel that if so they are not particularly inter. ested in the proposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

An area comprising fifty blocks on the East Side of Manhattan has been designated by the department of health for the experiments ill longevity. People who think twenty years more of life on the East Side of New York is too much to ask of any citizen are begin. ming to complain already.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-11

More East Siders are suspicious of thu scheme anyway. They think that if there wal anything in the plan to give human beingi twenty years more of life the West Slider, would have grabbed it off. as
 What further puzzles the East ,Siders i, that if man lives twenty years longer nc charge will be made. Unless the extra year, get into the hands of the spectators.
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Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manners -, e
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Previously acknowledged ......$1. .2s2.OO
 Cash . 1000
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Worship your heroes from afar; contact withern them t
 Mine Necker
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Scarcity Of Log Cabins.-Sone of the presi-
 dential candidates was born in log cabin. but then there is q noticeable scarcity of log cabins nowadays.-Mobile Register.