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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-30
THE SOUTHERN STEPS IN

There is no reason to believe that MT. frank Dominick in any way sought to iEhead the campaign for the mayor-alder- manic form of government. In fact, his Friends say that he accepted the position only after strong urging on their part. The responsibility for this choice then must fall upon those sponsoring the < movement, and reveals their lack of per- spective. For MT. Dominick is attorney of the Southern Railway, and tbe South 2 ern Railway is seeking special privilege of Birmingham, particularly in the mat ter of escaping the obligation to join in program of grade separation.
 The Southern Railway, as everybody i knows, has done all it could, with the help of a spineless city commission, to ! impede and delay the separation of the grade crossings, so injurious to the busi- ness and development of this city. The Southern Railway believes that, in view of the amount of taxes it pays to this
 city, it should be excused from any fur ther expenditure for these viaducts. That :. also is the view of MT. Dominick, the
 Southern's attorney. The Southern be- lieves that it should have a very impor- tant influence in the government of the
 city of Birmingham.
 sy...t ~ OAAS POOPAS O1 SuDSCTlDS 7 to the view that because it pays taxes < here the Southern should therefore be re- -lieved from it's normal obligations to this community? Do the people believe that because the Southern is a large taxpayer in this community it should exercise "a degree of control in the city's govern
 Inent, of which it seeks special conces- - sions? There is good reason to believe that such will be the outcome of any gov el'nmental change in which those in the
 employ of the Southern assume leading part.
 The mayor-aldermanic form of govern ment is dangerous experiment without any such influence of an interest seek ]; ing special privilege. Promoted by such
 an influence, it should not be permitted by an independent people of an impor- taht metropolis. The Southern sidesteps viaducts, and the attorney of the South ern is at the head of movement to Y change the form of government. What do the people think about it?
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Brief Nature Studies
XYTHEN hot, steaming mists rise from
By J. OTIS SWIFT.

WHEN hot steaming mists rise from
 through spice bushes and alders the cold water ill the spring under the initialed beech makes the quartsite boulders sweat crystal beads. Then Rama, the leopard frog, likes to climb out of the shadowy depths of the mountain and squat among the mosses by the Till.
 Sometimes q fly forgets and comes close to Rana's nOse-and then the fly is no more. Sometimes the frog waits long hours without anything happening. He was blending with the green moss almost invisible, the other day when Dan, big, friendly dog, and his master, Clement Wood, walked along the path. Rama saw tine dog and an approaching fly at the same moment. He hugged closer to the rock.
 Just as the dog was overhead the blue green fly passed the frogs nose. Out shot Rana's tongue and Dan snapped at the same moment. Dan missed the frog but caught the fly, which he spat out disgustedly. When he looked again there was only widening ring of wavelets on the spring.
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Watching The Parade
By JOHN PILGRIM

.NOWN at Scratchaway on the Sands my y friend Eddie has a bungalow. That Is, A he is sharer in bungalow. Three or four of them, all husky, wholesome, hard working youngsters own it in partnership They spend week-ends between the bungalow and the surf The accommodations just fit the owners and perhaps pair of friends.
 Il wish could see it." sighed one of their school cEums Two years ago something hap pened to him, and since then he has been q helpless cripple. My friend Eddie said:
 By gollies, you shall see it. I'll take you down to spen dthe weekend
 The cripple required fairly constant wait ing upon. Someone had to stay with him, for if Il fire should break Out-and fire is the ever present fear of these dwellers in flmsy bun galows on the sand-he could not have saved himself Some one had to talk to him, read to him, hand water to him, turn down the light, turn up the light, get him cigarettes, stop smoking cigarettes, be silent. put on an other record The life of the bungalow not merely revolved about the invalid. It cen tered in him. The hard-working partners found themselves whispering and tiptoeing.
 But it's only for the week-end,' said my friend Eddie.
 The cripple stayed for the week, by per mission. Then he stayed another week, by permission. When he was on his sixth week and summer was well advanced and the bun gaIow had become merely ward in a hos pital and it's owners only attendants and friends had learned to stay away my friend Eddie finally rallied.
 You'll have to get out tomorrow" he said to the cripple.
 Well, the cripple, poor devil, took it hard But can you blame my friend Eddie? I can not. Not every one of us is strengthened and swCetened by affliction. Some of us become thoroughly detcstable. Even q cripple should .t,lav fair -t. ..
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Sky MeadO1vs

(Bernice Lesbit Kenyon in Scribners
 Magazine) The great still meadows of the sky Seem full of peace, when loves distress
 Strikes at our hearts like music heard From distances as limitless As dream; and all entranced we lie Gazing at cloud and bird. From this infinitely measured field Our drowsy sight may lift and reach
 Into the higher range Of air, And our vain thoughts, bent each to each, May find it very sweet to yield Their gradual yearnings there. Our small cupped valley holds the sun Brimmed to the edges. meadow-deep
 In goldenrOd and fading clover . Nothing abroad shall break our sleep, Though leagues above, and one by one, The southward geese fly4oEeF.
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MIR. WHEELER's VIEW OF IT

:. In response to the report that George - Remus, now serving a sentence in the gfederal penitentiary, repudiated his tcs-
 timony against Harry M. Daugherty,
 Senator Burton K. Wheeler, prosecutor zof Daugherty in the senate inquiry, said:
 f'This statement in my judgment is false eand forced from Remus by the present
 Warden of the penitentiary, who is solose personal and political friend, and ean appointee of Daugherty from Ohio"
 This is a serious charge a%=inst the war
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Will It Makes ConrsrtsP

Nizni-NOygorod, the ancient capital of Rus sia, is celebrating it's famous fair. Western European buyers are lacking. but tens of thousands of visitors from the steppes and the cities on the Caspian sea, the Caucasus, Mongolia, Afghanistan, White Russia, the Ukraine are crowding the colorful streets. Novgorod is the place where Europe and Asia meet in gorgeous blend of vivid orientalism. Byzantine architecture and modern, electric display. The tractors and other up-to-date farm machinery, manufactured in Moscow or imported from Krupp's in Germany, are drawing crowds of silent, slattern-eyed Tar tars and Mongolians. The demonstrations given by the soviet agricultural authorities are followed each day by thousands of steppe- dwellers and by people who have come from such distant points as the Mongolian desert land. Motion pictures are shown. Lett sol diers operate tanks through the streets and overhead hover the planes of the red army. The old and the new are mixed in a strange bewildering melee, and Moscow is watching with keen interest what effects it will have on the propaganda statistics sheets
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den, and merits full investigation, for suchsuse of official authority is contrary
 to, law and to right. If Remus has repu- diated histestimony, thefe must be some reason for it. The charges and counter charges in this episode are grave and conflicting. There is evidently something
 wrong somewhere. It should be brought to light. .,s..
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Law nn McDuff anf-

Mike, there's a new writer from the ould sod that's maxim a name fer himself, dye mind" said Denny, lighting his pipe.
 "Hows that. Denny"
 "Begob, me bye, Jawn is takin' pairt in q play over at the. school an he's spoutin' the worrrds all over the place. I dunno the name of the two-fisted divil that wrote it, but he might of been from COnemarra, fer the bye kapes shoutin' Lay, on Mistber Duffy. an dom the man that stops furrst '-E. E. liar riman.
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Verses and Reverses

verses anu IeeVeCSeS 4 catfish is fish, I know A cat-bird is bird Ala cat-tail is fuzzy plant; Now isn't it absurd? M A dog-star is a planet bright : A dog-wood is tree; :sG But doggone all these cats and dogs, @ They don't seem right to me. I cannot sleep at night of thinking Of my girl, my love, my rose; Overheard the stars are winking- With, or at me, Heaven knowsl
 -S. H. 2 A politician, when he eats, Prefers a single course; A beaker of banana oil And lots of apple sauce!
 -G. S. c. The highest hill can go so far It cannot reach a single star, And yet hill does not complain Because it climbed itself in vain. 9 e-S. H. !. Little drops of water, Little drips of rye, Used to make a high-ball, In the days gone by.
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money for highways. Unless there is a
 more encouraging record than it is yet possiblet to exhibit for this state, the peo-
 pie will be hard to persuade. until there
 is greater assurance of capacity on the part of the highway commission.
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CnnI. ANn THEN sONIE

We are keeping so cool with Coolidge that once in a while, when that man Davis says something particularly searching about the party of moral idecs an actual shiver runs down our back-Ohio State Journal.
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She Lost Out

It was drawing near the end of the sea- son, and the annual contest for bathing beau ties was under way. The mayor, looking for men who were qualified to act as judges, asked a handsome, young bachelor if he would serve.
 "Not on your ife!" the bachelor exclaim- ed. "I was one of the judges in last years contest, and my girl tried for prize She hasn't spoken to me since"
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nr1r MnRNIN,s MORNIN.

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 Good morning Have you sent days wages to Mir. LaFollette's personal glory fund d?-New Haven J6urnalaCourier. g"
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Balance

Jack: 'Yes, had little balance in the bank, but got engaged two months ago, and now"
 Maud: "Ah. Love makes the world go roundT'
 Jack: 'Yes. But didn't think it would go round so fast as to make me lose my bal ance" "-G. Marshman.
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The Guarantee

q believe,'' said the customer to the mer- chant, that you said that anything I got from your store that wasn't satisfactory could be returned"
 "Yes, indeed" agreed the merchant.
 "Very well," continued the customer, "the bill you sent me last month is coming back to you by the afternoon mail. ."-E M, Curtis.
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If the American people. would devote half the time to the study of their eco- homie conditions and the administration of their government they have wasted on what is possibly happening on Mars, they would be deal better off.
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It is reported that MT. Fall has hot yet reached the point of dissatisfaction over his treatment where he has resolved to scratch the. Republican ticket. He re- members that, but for the Democrats, he would not have been embarrassed at all,
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Just Like a Woman

She had been convicted and condemned to die by hanging. Many believed in her inno. cence. but when the fateful day came no par don had arrived. There was no hope, and the hours flew by until the fatal time came. She was led to the gallows and the moose was ad- justed about her graceful neck. She was calm and composed.
 "Is there anything you wish to say before the trap is sprungY' asked the executioner There were tears in his eyes--he, too, be- lieved her guiltless of the crime.
 "Yes" she murmured.
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Flubb: He's the most convincing talker I ever met
 Dubb What happened-has he been try ing to borrow money from you, too?"TLew Brown.
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Evidently Texas is not afraid to try a woman as governor, especially when she is openly on record for law and order.
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So far none of the candidates have proved so versatile as the alienists in the matter of beclouding the issue.
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Another good thing about New York is that you can live there without knowing any more about the town than outsiders do.-Dallas News.
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The "WOrld Orphans"

Jiji, newspaper published in Tokyo, re- fers to Russia, Germany and Japan as "the three world orphans" who are "snubbed and snobbed" by the other big sisters What fol- lows is obvious. The paper suggests closer union between the three, extended economic relation, trade agreements, treaties and possi. ply certain other kind of arrangements. Jiji says that potentially the three orphans are to be considered as the strongest combina- tion in the Far East, where Japan is exert ing all it's powerful influence to get the slo- gan Asia for the Asiaties.. adopted univer- sally. Take that now with Leon Trotsky's re1 cent hobby" of studying Japanese and writ ing his first words in the new language. "Leon Trotsky is the friend of Japan" com bine it with the new agreement between China and Russia and also the less aggres- sive policy of Japan toward China and you see that new alignment is taking shape out in the Pacific. Undoubtedly that new combi- ntion is mainly the result of the American restriction, of Japanese immigration and the ignoring of Russia by Secretary Hughes.
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seethine Balkans

Greats, incorporated against their will into the kingdom of Jugo-Slayia, are planning a revolt Montenegrins feel the same way about it. They say if self-determination for small nations means the yoke of Serbia, they would sooner die defending their mountain passes against the soldiers of King Alexander. In Rumania there are millions of Russians in the Bessarabian province who want to be reunited with Muscovy. Galicians and Buko- vinians are protesting with the League of Nations against these enforced interpretations in the Polish republic. Germans in Upper Si- iesia want to go back to the fatherland and Macedonian Bulgars are actually fighting their new masters, the Greeks. Enough dyna- mite there for A good-sized explosion, it would seem! No wonder the sentiment for revision of the Versailles treaty is gaining ground, es- peciaIIy since the greatest problem of Flu rope, the German separations question, has been successfully settled.
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IT the choice were left to me, whether to nave free press or a free government, l would choose free preSs.-Thomas Jefferson.
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At the end of two hours she was still talk. ing and she was only interrupted by the ar- rival of the pardon.-Leo Peck.
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Roomers and Pronises

Landlady: 'I am sick and tired of coming to you for the rent. This is the last time expect to ask for it."
 Student: Good. Is. that promise ?''-- Badsall Gardner
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-30

Must Go After Business. That advertise ing is commodity is fast being admitted by all good students of business success. It is known that in many sections of the country bankers will now lend money to merchants to carry on newspaper advertising campaigns, where they will refuse extension. of further credit with which to buy additional goods, and, too, it is an established fact that the live wire and successful business men are those who consistently and consistently ad- vertise regularly and judiciously in newspa- pers The day has passed when you can sit back and get by with just what business comes along. You must get up and hustle, go out and get it. and the newspaper is admitted ly the quickest and best route,H Huntsville Times
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Hard to Refuse

A barking dog never bites. but look out for the hot dog with too much mustard.
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< Will Have Strong OppositiOn.--If Senator Underwood runs2for reelection he is bound
 to have opposition of formidable type. That much is fairly certain, and that he will be defeated now seems fairly probable The senator has, perhaps, antagonized more diff ferent classes of people than any other one man in the state. He is no longer, if he ever
 was, the representative of majority of the voters of this state, although they have, of course, voted for him in the past. The sen ator has been doing pretty much as he pleased, without, apparently, questioning the effect such a course would have oh his po- litical destiny. When a man reaches 9the point where he has little or nothing in com mon with those whom he is supposed to rep resent, the only thing for him to do is to re-
 tire, and that, it seems to us, is the only
 thing left Senator Underwood to do.--Wire- grass Farmer. ~
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By carrier. where carrier delivery Is main. tained; zoe per week. $50 per month.
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Public Mind Not Satisfiod---Goyern Brandon may find Justification for hissde cision not to order an investigation into the situation at thesdRivee Falls convict camp, but, so far, all that is offered is the tlnsup- ported report of the physician inspector, which report may indeed be true, but is wholly ex parte. Everyone knows how prone thet officials are to stand together when amuse of authority is charged against any one of them, and also how hard it is for the victims of abuse to obtain an adequate hear ing from said officials. The art of covering up is we'll understood by persons who abuse their authority and is successfully used in many instances This is not saying that there has been concealment in this case and that the physician inspector has been duped; but the governor knows as well as anyone that such things happen and may have happened in the present case. The public mind will not be satisfied by tie dismissal of the charges on any one officiArs Word.-Mobile Register,
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NEW YORK's ADVANTAGE

tcopyrisht. 1924. Reproduction forbidden,
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NEWS BUREAUS-washtnston. 500 Davidson Building; State Capital Montgomery Journal Building; Tennessee Valley, Decatur Daily Building; Tuscaloosa, News Building Jasper, Mouh in Eagle Building; Annlston, Star Build ing; Gadsden Journal Building; Muscle Shoals Trl-Cities Daily Building
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES-By mall. payable h advance. in United States and Canada: Daily and Sunday, year. $500; six months, $4.00; three months. $2.25; one month. s5c. Daily only: One year, $6.5O; six months. $3.25; three months, $1.75; month, 75c. Sunday only: One year, $2.50; six months. s15o; three months gsc; one vuonthh, 25c.
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vile, Georgia, recently landed a $10O00,0OO cotton mill led somebody in that state to in- yestigate the cause, with the result that Gainesville was found to be 100 per cent alive. Plenty of other towns in Georgia have all of the advantage possessed by Gainesville, but they are mostly asleep as their sister cities in Alabama There is every reason to believe that SCOPES of cotton mills are to be located in the South during the next ten years and the states and cities that are alive to the situation are the ones that will be fa- vored. Nobody wants to put a cotton mill or any other industry in 8 dead town.-G Gadsden Times
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Federal Trade Commission decided that the Pittsburg plus method of fixing steel prices is unfair, that 1t must be abolished, and that it costs the American people $26,OOO,OOO an- nually, another great victory for the farm bureau has been won. Readers of the Farm Bureau News recall affequent references to this fight in the columns of this paper, and they rejoice that the contention of the farm bureau that Pittsburg plus was wrong has been established. It means a big saving to Alabama farmers because it raised the price on implements; wire, nails, and all ther ar ticles made in part or all of steel--Ala- bama Farm Bureau News
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EIHlQN.SL OF OTTER

Dadeyille's Biggest Problem What is tile biggest problem Ap. adeyilles What is the gteatest task we afe facing and that needs to be solved! Ask your neighbor what he then let's make an effort to solve it--Dade- vile Spot Cash.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-27
FOR RENT

Downstairs apartment. rooms, breakfast room and sleeping porch; hot water at all times; janitor service. One of the most beautiful places to live in Bir- mfngham. Call Main 35S9 or 542z. Sunday, Main 456.
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HOUSES FOR SALE

ENsLEY-For sale. one lot; terms or cash at Baker St.. Ensley. Ala; good location. sos 18th St., Ensiey. Ala. Phona Ensley 367. LOTS IN EAST BIRMINGHAM FOR SALE to colored people; easy terms: prices req sonable. S S. Y. Caldwell. 2223 2d Ave. Main 194. 1g , LOTS on Ave. c for sale and lots, On 22d St. For price see c. G. Ryan, Fifths Ave. Top Shop. 2022 5th Ave, N.
 REAL ESTATE WANTED I6S HOMES WANTED-List your property for sale with us. We have customers wanting homes in all parts of the city, Montgomery Real Estate & Ins. Co.,. ReGlIi tors, 2l0 N. 21St St. Main 1866. Mems bers of the Multiple Listing System. LIST YOUR PROPERTY with us. We have prospective buyers all parts city. Strong R. E. & Ins. Co.,. 909 Farley BldR. Main 1887. LIST YOUR PROPERTY for sale Wit6 Rex R. Conwell, Main 8. A. A. Gambiil Realty Go.
 REAL ESTATE TO TRADE I0s PIANO-Wanted to exchange player piano or Cadillac auto for good Vacant lot; prefer one in Bessemer. E. E. Forbes and Sons Piano Go.
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