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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
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Literal Interpretation?

'DISHOP SPRINGER, in charge of mis- sionary work among the Eskimo, tribes
 tribes along the wind-swept shores of Herschell island, has succeeded in translating one or two books of the Bible into the Eskimo vernacular. The bishop does not think it necessary to translate the whole Bible, as some of the Biblical accounts may possibly have a bad influence on the igloo dwellers. Not unlike Wu1filas or Ulfila, the apostle of the Goths, who omitted the books of Kings and Chronicles from his translation as the martial exploits of the Israelites may easily have set the war-like Gothic tribes on the path of emulation by destroying and exterm- mating some of their neighboring people. One of the many perplexing puzzles, which Bishop Stringer had foace, was the translation of the text: Wise as a serpent and harmless as dove." The Eskimo cannot imagine a serpent He does not know a dove, but a ptarmigan is far from harmless. Bishop Stringer had to face was the translation of II do not know what Eskimo higher critics will say of me in years to come, but trans lated the text the best I could so that it reads in the Eskimo Bible: Wise as a fox and harmless as seal pup :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
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Amos Q. Pipt Spins Yarn of Sailless Ship
 T'HIS sailless ship ain't nnthin' new

Amos Q. Pipb Spins Yarn of g Sailless Ship "T'HIS sailless ship aint nuthin new declared Amos Q. Pipp, throwing down
 a newspaper description of Herr Anton Fleetners strange German craft. T sailed aboard just such vessel years ago. She had Ia coupla tall cylinders fore and aft instead Of masts, just like this Flettner craft, and was, in fact, the first two-cylinder sailing vessel ever built. I remember all the first class sailors on her was experienced iron workers and plumbers helpers.
 "We sailed on her out of Salt Lake City. know you'll wonder how we did this, since Salt Lake City aint on the water, but this ship thought nuthin' of sailinlfrom port less port. In fact, she preferred it.
 "When we shovel off all hands joined in a chantyless chantyA-I remember it was a song about life in boiler factory-and after we was out few hours the skipper put me to keeping her on her course. She was a wheelless ship and operated entirely by pair of handle bars.
 "A fog came up at about six bells (shc didn't really have any bells aboard, the hour being designated by an electric arm hitting the keys of a player-pianO), and we couldn see a thing. We kept sounding horniess foghorn but as it made no noise 1t was prac- tically useless. EF!&
 First thing we knew we hit rock. The bos'un tried to send up some rockets put found they were fireless. The old ship began breakin' up and there was nuthin' to do but take to the life-boats. I put off in life-boa, No. ? but she began to sink at once. found there was no bottom in her. It seems the owners bein' very progressive, had equipped the ship with lifeless life-boats. yelled for help and the skipper threw me life-preserver You can imagine my surprise when trlea to put it on over my head and found 1t hao no hole in the center like most life-preservers have I found later it was a preserverless life-preserver
 "There was sharks all around in them waters. I could see 'em making the water boil everywhere. One big feller came righ' at me. jaws wide open, and l just sad a prayer and prepared for the worst. "You can imagine my surprise when the sharks jaws closed on my leg and then sno right off, givin' me nuthin' worse than massage. They was toothless sharks! '
 "Well, got ashore, swimmin' on my pack and went to the Sailors Home. It was iocateo ahout ROO miles inland on high mountain and presided over by 6 a(prominent cab-drlver If was the first saiorless Sailers' Home III America. Later the skipper and the rest o' the crew turned up safe and sound ana Itnt skipper being overjoyed, mixed us a dr,nf of rumless rum and swore a blueless Diue streak. Next morning hundreds of birds thai had followed the ship were found roasting II tbe tree hack of the home. I found out later what they was. They was sealess seaguls
 "I can't see why such a fuss is beln mad' over this Flettner two-cylinder sallm boat in view of my experience. Why, man aiive I supposed by this time all our big shlpoulld CTS would be turnin' out twix slxes ah' silent eights!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
Sons of Vikings.

Denmark, small but courageous, is willing to make the experiment of disarming her land forces of 8O,OO0 men and dismantling her tiny fleet. The laborite minister, Ras- mussen, thinks that the force would be wholly inadequate to cope with a serious threat of invasion and therefore may as well disappear altogether. The majority of the people agree. the army officers and landed nobility forming the opposition. That is but natural An armed police force of 1000 men will be re- tained, but they will be under supervision of the minister of justice, while the war min istries will be abolished. A reporter of the Vienna Neue Presse asked MT. Rasmussen if Danish neutrality would not be endangered by such a move. He answered that Ger many was not heavily armed as in 1914 and that if powerful France still felt nervous at n possible German invasion. how useless it would be for small and weak Denmark to hone for an adequate defense in case of at tack. If the measure passes the Danish par lament the world will have an interesting experiment to watch, included in which will be even finer dairy farms and a more pros porous people in Denmark
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
Tue Right Word
ny ~. CURTIS NICHOLSON
A FEW SUGGESTIONS (Find the Error in This Article)

George Pearse, Kingsville, Ont: "The error in yesterdays column is as follows 1hose kind of sentence Corrected that klnd ol sentences The adjective pronoun those De- ing plural should never be used with noun in the singular. .. <. .h, Allow me to call your attention to the freouent use of though for if by the pest sneakers and writers; as, The sky LOOKS as though it is going to rain; He acts as though he were tired ., .. "Redundancies free gratis (the idea oi free being embodied in gratis); canary blrd (canary is not descriptive as in biackolrd or or humming -bird). One might as well say ropii' bird or crow bird
 If all the best writers and speakers use "as though" it cannot be far from being gooo usage. The fact is that authorities consloef "as though" and "as if interchangeable.
 The Last One.
 Tn the publication of the name of MISS Alice II. Mulane of Louisville, Ky, Ihe Right Word' has completed the list Of those who made not more than three mistakes m the recent difficult test. It looks like the next test should be made up along more req sonable lines. Anyhow, now that the recent test has been discussed and the most sue cessful contestants mentioned It: IS tlme U, .u consider preparing another. Every effort VIII he used to make the next one still more lhter' esting Watch for it.
 Yesterdays Error.
 Wrong: It ain't done.
 Right: It is not done; It isn't done'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
Forum, Of The People
Who Is To Blame?
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 It seems that there should be radical change in the management of either the Hill man hospital or the city jail. In some man. ner human being has been hustled back and forth between these two institutions until he died I am not attempting to lay the blame on either of the two institutions. I am simply asking who is to blame? That gross neglect has been allowed by some one cannot be called in question.
 Giving everyone the benefit of the doubt, am going to place the case as l see 1t. A man is found in q rooming house in an un- conscious condition. He is supposed to be drunk He is taken to jail and fellow prisoner is detailed to look after him. His conditions alarms this trusty. The warden is called. He sends the man to the Hillman hospital The management decides it is a case of plain drunk. The man is returned to jail. Here he repeatedly falls off the cot onto the cement floor. Gets head to bleeding and is returned to the hospital.
 Once more he is refused entrance. Back to iail he is hustled. Finally the warden became greatly alarmed and the man is once more sent to the hospital. Here he dies Tn short while. Something like twenty-tour hours has elapsed since he was found in the rooming house. Hours that might have been used in saving n human life. Who IS to blame for this unfortunate mans death! Questions: Where was the city physician that he was not called in to see this man Are those internes who have charge of Hill man hospital graduate physicians or simply students? Is there no way they can tell II man is drunk except by smelling his breath? Three or four of them had chance to examine this man. Could not at least one of them tell if the man was in need of med ical attention? If they could not, why does Dr. Hogan keep them hanging around the nos pital?
 After the man died one of the internes de cided he died of acute alcoholism. The ques tion is not what the man died of but why was he not given the attention that he shouio have had? Why was he left alone on the examining table at the hospital that he mignl fall off? This matter is a serious one. II ls not the first death from neglect that ls laid at the door of the Hillman hospital. The coroner was going to do great things He was going to dig deep into this case Du' simply let the matter drop in regular form Tn my humble opinion it is a case the grane
 iury should investigate. A human life-tha1 might have been saved-has been allowed tt pass out through the neglect of some one
 Either at the city jail or the hospital, some one has allowed human being to suffer ahe die without giving the aid so much needed.
 "'1 w. H. PARKER. Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
GIACOMO PUCCINI

Millions of people in many parts of the ,orld deeply regret the death of Giacomo uccini, the Italian opera composer. Ills hath is a serious loss to the music world.
 any knew the great artist personally,
 admire him not only as creator of music which is destined to live, but as
 man of fine instincts and admirable ualities.
 Unlike many musical artists, Pucclnl
 as unspoiled by success. He was ot road sympathies and high culture. He brang from family of musicians, en- |yed many advantages in developing hls musical genius, and loved his art. Per hAps the most distinguishing character istics of his compositions were their color frl strength and their historic accuracy. His Madame Butterfly" for which he was SO well known, was distinctly Japan ese in setting, and carries all the color of that picturesque country. NO less m, ', nressiye in that respect is his La Tosca, which contributed to his fame, and lhe Giri of the Golden Vest" that increased his reputation in America as composer "La Boheme," is another work winch appeals to the musician and stamps the author as a careful student of national traits as we'll as of tone and technique.
 Puccini was widely regarded by many competent critics as the greatest com poser of the period. He left his imprint upon the musical vogue of his day, prob ably as much because of his brilliant orchestra scores as for any other ex- pression of his genius. His place in the world of music was, in sense, unlque, and will be hard to fill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
BUILDING TOTALS MOUNT

Again Birmingham comes forward with the highest records in the building in dustry of any city in the South. Accord ing to the building inspector, permits In this city during the month of November Represented an investment of 1855, ,49o, nhile the record for the eleven months of 1924 called for investments of nearly $18,O0O,OOO. Allowing $1,250,000 for the month of December, which is re- garded as conservative, and below the average monthly record since January, the year will show total investments of more than $19,OO0,000.
 It is interesting and encouraging to note that building operations have made steady increases for the last six years, md showed an advance from $1,793,872 six years ago to more than $19, 100000 or 1924. It is also significant that building in Birmingham for 1924 in- creased more than $7,000,000 over 1923, md about $12,OoO,OOO over 1922. The building industry in 1924 represents nearly eleven times that of 1918. It hould be considered that while there ,ave been price advances since 1918, ;hey have not been at all proportionate 0 expansion in the volume of building during that period.
 Two other things are important in con- ection with the building growth. First
 he program as set forth does not in'
 Jude industrial building and better , rents, which represent equally as large
 lvestments as operations in residential :; nd commercial construction. Secondly
 ,e figures given include only those set orth in general contracts, and do moi |: lclude such costs as plumbing and heat
 lg, wiring, fixtures and in many in ;ances garages and other items. When :, hese are included the total costs will be
 ot far from double the building inspec' >or's figures.
 There are two leading factors which ,xplain the community's large building ' adustfy. One is the rapid growth o1 Birmingham, and the other the increased
 aith which both residents and outside
 lvestors have in the future of Birming..
 am as a great and growing center ot
 reduction. The figures speak for them lives, and are impressive as one of the
 any forces which are constantly con-
 iputing to community expansion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
Caillaux-POincare Clash.

The French press becomes aware that a clash between Poincare and Millerand on the one side and Herriot and Caillaux on the other side cannot be staved off much longer M. Caillaux goes round the country talking and featuring and is well received. M Ponicare is booed and hissed in radical centers with the cry, ''Poincare-La Guerre. The former premier's vehement denials of any war guilt on his part are just so much corn for the mills of his political adver- saries.. Millerand and Poincare are appeal ing to the youth of France to rally to the banners of a new. party, party that will save France from the destructive policy of Herriot" Millerand and Poincare were cham pions in the old days of the triple entente, while Caillaux favored rapprochment with Germany During the war Caillaux' so-cailed defeatist policy was seized upon by his op- ponents to crush him. His policy of concilia- tion with Germany has ben revived by Her riot. Caillaux is free again to enter the political arena. The day of combat draws nearer. The Poincare group, with their ex treme nationalism and appeal to the youth of France, may yet become French edition of Mussolini's fascism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
Organized Power
THERE can be nS democracy without or
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

~HERE can De nQ democracy WltnouS UT
 A democracy whose units do not work together, where there is no coordination, will fall to pieces. r A monarchy, tyranny, can get along without organizing the people. In fact, where the people have no teamplay, there is where the despot is needed. Having no intelligent unity they must have on artificial unity. the unity of a superimposed brute force.
 We fear standing armies. But such armies, in the days of Rome, were perfect machines composed of only a small number of people, and they ruled only because the rest of the populace was not drilled to keep step. In true democracy the whole population-men, women and children-should be a standing army, not necessarily to march and shoot, but, under equal discipline, to SOW, reap and sell.
 All despotisms have been due to a lack of organization among the common people. So nowadays, in the loose individualism Of the city, any compact band of drilled men can control them. Hence we have the political party and the boss system. A dozen ignorant, selfish, interruptions men, if well organized, can govern thousand intelligent and honest people who will not get together.
 The reason why democracy is impossible without organized unity is this: Democracy means government in the interest of all the people, even the weakest, and the only power great enough to secure the weakest man his rights is the organized power of the whole State
 Where everything issieft in a condition of free competition, human sssociety is like the jungle of wild beasts, rand the strong devour the feeble In the United States few pow erful men, powerful by natural shrewdness or by having certain privileges, have exploited the populace for their own personal gain. They did this by cooperation, by forming trusts.
 The only way to remedy this IS for the people to form better and stronger trust, to make of the state trust able to swallow up the beef, milk or railway trusts. You can not go backward mad make the trusts become competitive: a social, consolidation once formed cannot be turned back to individual ism: the only thing to do is to go on-is to organize the whole people into trust. There is no freedom worth the name, ex' cept in perfect organization. A state of pure individualism or anarchy always invites the Man on Horseback and the Robber Baron.
 | Freedom in a state keeps pace with or panization; and in degree each man does as he pleases tyrants prosper, whether feudal duke of Chicago ward boss.
 The political party, the business trust, the ecclesiastical hierarchy, and all partial gettings- together of men are but drills and preliminary "setting up'' exercise, wherein mankind is practicing for the coming organized world. militia and world-busness house, in which every living person has responsible part.
 We now have government "of the people," it can become government "for the people and by the people, only by complete organiza- | ton. |
 | l do not advocate Socialism; it connotes too much. But, unless we secure an Organ
 ized Democracy, we shall have by and by no 1 Democracy at all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
Watching The Parade
By JOHN PILGRIM
WYE MADE a good deal of fuss in our
 W town when the four boys came home

Il M town when the four boys came home w They started out this spring with a ro++le+ron ear and few thin blankets and a irving pan to go travelling.
 I've do not know where we are going tbev said. flor we must earn our way. And we must go toward work.
 They came back with a better car and more muscle than they left with, and knowledge of the country that no one else has Ill the town and a realignment of their own selves' When they left Jock Burns seemed to De the loader He was the mechanically bent son Inf the town banker, he had the best clothes and more gab and more money ana seemed to he the natural leader of the quartet But he is just one of the four now. The boss oi the outfit is Huck Hanson.
 He's the greatest guy that ever handled wheel" say his pals with awe In thelr voices They not merely revere and obey Huck. Ihey love him.
 "Rut why?" asked What do you see in this Huck person? He's just like all the rest of you.'
 But they said that Huck isn't After con siderable soul-searching they finally agreed that Huck's most manifest virtue IS this:
 "He never said I told you so.
 Come to think of it, that is pretty fail praise. I'll never qualify under that rule' 1oi | it comes natural to me to point out that knew it all the time, when things nave goh' wrong. Mrs. Pilgrim is worse than am Maybe because she has so much more chahc' to say it. Every one else I know will say II told you so," if the occasion arises. Only Huck.
 Maybe his is not n rapid way of gainint advancement. But when it finally sunk into the heads of the other three that Huek wa apt to be right, but that he never boastet about it when things went wrong, they kne" who was boss. And he was.
 q told you so,' has split more homes thar whskey has, At least, the Il told you SO spirit has.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
ird Free

Strange memories finger in the human mind
 Of early life in forest, cave and tree; When l go out into a storm l find
 The clements are still q part of me. long to hurl convention far away,
 To race and dance and gallop as l go, To fling my arms about and shout and play And follow where the widest wind may blow But go soberly in rain or snow
 With hat upon my heart and glove on hand If you should pass me you would never know
 I was too wild for you to understand Yet once must have been q windfree thing As I am now sometimes when songs take
 wings.
 Marguerite Dixnn Clark in the Measure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
LITTLE ERNESTS ESSAY The Sents of Heering

If we dident have eny ears we couldent have sents of heering, but on the other hand if there was no sutch a thing as sents of heering our ears would only be usefill to make the sides of our face look naturel.
 Nuthing is verse for the sents of heering than to get hard slap on the ear, being a good thing to tell your mother if she gives you one the only trubble being it mite make her so mad she mite give you another one jest to see if you are rite.
 Sometimes the sents of heering is mutch verse than other times, espeshilly erly in the morning when you are Being called to get up for skool, vile sometimes it is almost perfeck, sutch as late in the afternoon wen the teether says, ''The class is now dis missed"
 Ladies ears are seldom saw but they are generelly washed jest the same.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03
DIR. BALDPATE'S COOPERATIVE VEGETABLE GARDEN

It is the common experience of gardeners to find that one crop often harms another. The shade cast by standing corn, for instance invariably prevents bush beans from doing we'll. The latter become all bush and no bean Similarly successful crop of eggplant has q very bad effect on poultry. The hens, seeing the large fruit, get discouraged and refuse to lay it.
 It has remained for the well-known scientist Dr. George A. Baldpate, to achieve remark able results by arranging his garden so that the vegetables actually work for each other.
 q have a large plantation in the Mojave Desert" writes the Doctor. Potatoes with us are great luxury. The natives told me it was impossible to grow them in such a dry country, far from irrigation and with infreuuent rains. Then my idea of cooperative gardening rose ill my mind The method was simple.
 Il planted a small onion on each hill. The onion caused the tender eyes of the young potatoes to water and my irrigation scheme was complete.
 Two years ago I planted cotton under all my fruit trees. During the September gales, when so much fruit was ruined, all my oranges and grapefruit fell in the cotton and were ready for shipment. Make the members of the vegetable kingdom work not against each other, but for each other. That is the Baldpate Idea"
 All honor to Dr. George A. Baldpate, who has taken q great step forward in scientific cultivation