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Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1924-02-29

tive instinct. The answer to this
problem is training ships. Not any
thing suggestive of the old English
system Of prison ships. But. as the
name implies. real training ships.
These ships should be courses In
education. The discipline should be
strict and the woIk hard. II should
not be made so attractive that boys
would want to be sentenced" But
most boys. resenting restraint.
would not want to be put in this
school. anyway. There should be
no stigma attached to this system.
The officials and teachers In charge
should be selected for their under
standing of their charges. Boys re-
spond readily to the teaching and in
fluence Of men who understand
them. Punishments should not be
degrading. Teaching. not preaching
should be 4 slogan.
Cruises Of these ships. hard work,
discipline. knowledge Of the geoG-
raphy. customs. problems. politics
and dangers Of the parts Of their
country where these ships stop. sup
ply the material to make boy q
real man and . useful citizen.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1924-02-29
Serves No Term"
But 10 Graduated.

He doesn't serve = term" He
graduates. He gets 4 diploma and
the system is so good that when he
finishes. not only does no disgrace
attach to his name. not only Is he
not bounded as an ex-convict. but
the course 10 a recommendation for
employment and = guarantee OF hon
esty and right principles. Otherwise
he doesn't get the diploma.
The cost of all this would he only
fraction of that for maintaining
these boys In prison. The saving
to this country In turning out USE
full citizens instead Of Jail-birds can
not be calculated.
This Is the only real "crime prob
lem"
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1924-02-29
Only Leadership
Gone Astray.

After all, Jesse James is q sort
Of national hero. He Is the Robin
Hood of America. Every boy In
the land knows his name. 1t is no
longer possible to run away from
home in order to fight Indians In
the west or to become a chivalrous
stase-robber. but the urge Is the
same. Boys are no different. Con-
ditions are different.
Boys love romance. adventure and
the doing Of things they are told
not to do. Any boy not like that
IL defective or perhaps a genius. But
the average is what counts.
The boy who Joins the corner
gang" and who becomes its leader
in what are often iawless activities,
has certain qualities OF leadership
that should make him q very use
full member OF society. He has
nerve. initiative. cleverness and
energy. The boys belonging to
his gang" all have these qualities
but one becomes leader because he
10 the best planner and generally
the best fighter.
: The boys commit most of the
crimes. A raid on an auto parked
in 4 lonely spot and the theft OF
few tools is followed by the steal
ing OF a carat first for = ride
then for profit. A chase and ~
exchange OF shots with = motor
cycle officer and you have one oI
two first class bandits In the kin
dcrEarten class. They learn rap
Idly and as the result OF courses
At reform schools they graduate and
become a part Of the ever incrcas'
ing crime problem"
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1924-02-29
DIR. KALMEN Q. sAPERo

This we'll known Denver specialist
on the Eye. Ear, Nose and Throat
will again visit Monte Vista. We'd
nesday. March IL. More than $4,000
patients In Colorado. Consultation
and examination for glasses free.
Call early. At Grand hotel.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1924-02-29
Our Boys--ard
The Crime Problem
Careful Weighing Shows Fault in Present Methods
why Not Real Training Ships With Incentives Which
Appeal to Youths Natural Instincts?
Written Specially for The Monte Vista Journa
Garfield (Through Autocaster Service)

Written Specially The Monte Vista Journal by B. H.
Garfield. (Through Autocaster Service)
Criminals" boys around 81 years of age The
age of lawbreakers steadily lower. middle aged
bandit seldom Jas reform schools and pententiares
States the fodder This the outstanding
crime of the present -
The boys are really criminal" They afflicted
with complaint common to youthenergy that not prop
erly directed They blame The other
things them mistaken idea of how youthful energy
should be taught that what is called awess
ness in individuals become right in nations They
urged primitive passions The trouble is that after
taught them for took the trouble
to unteach them they take naturally to being taught
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1924-02-29

! NJ: ": .si...ss' ss.7s'a ,sss.:5 ss.s:.:5
to givt four lecture reclkals att the
stueisAarch -. 3VMd -. and
Apr4 : at 7:46 .. m. q the works
Of Boethoven. BAAh. CAopin, NsSt.
Mendelssohn. Schumann. Brahms.
Subscription for the series. one dol
lar. knabe grand plano.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1924-02-29
Justifyins Criticism
With Q Remedy.

A criticism IL not Justified with
out = remedy. These boys may bc
saivagcd. Not saivaged-for they
ere not Q loss In the first place
but directed.
TAsss boys ressat "inssitutions." :"
10 matter how efftriestiy conducted.
Thsy - not want 10 - PCT %
farms 4 mosoteeous. Drosak 81.
Seesoep u what thsy have fosshs
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~ "a ti0s tAs - ~ esss sse
s,ses elvQQeuss. ns0aressss q
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Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1924-02-29
Not Police, But
Looking to Cause.

The real work for crime commits
sions, judges. business men. par
euts and civic organizations OF all
kinds. does not lie in deciding how
many police officers there shall be
and whether they shall be instruct-
ed to kill or only TO hit on the head.
II lies In ,scklinE the cause OF
crime. In this sense the word crime
means crimes pertaining to bsnditry.
There are other classes of criminals
-bunco men. dope peddiers and so
on. Shrewd. shifty folk who seldom
are caught. But the bulk Of the class
Look at these boys In court
room. waiting 10 be sentenced. They
ar. alert. kcen-eycd. frequently well
dressed. "snappy." OF course. there
10 the occasional real "dcfcctive"-
easily recognized. This type II even
less the criminal. II needs treat
ment. not punishment. Many are
there by accident. Nearly every
man can remember instances that
might have put him In the same
place. lie escaped perhaps thru
luck.
These boys are examined. Ques-
toned and third-dcgrecd. Some
times they are given tests" Cool.
scientific and efficient persons.
equipped with the latest in "sys-
tens" give them this and. that test
and grade them neeordinsiy-nor'
NAL. abnormal. subnormai. etc.
They get little OF the truth. Youth
cannot be reduced to mathematics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27
THANKSGIVING DAY
 CUPIDS FAVORITE
Record Number Of Licenses Is-
 sued Here Wednesday

Thanksgiving day is to also be the wedding day for 67 Jefferson county couples, who obtained their licenses Wednesday. The rush started early in the morning and during the day 26 licenses were issued to white couples while negroes obtained Al licenses. Dur ing the morning 40 licenses were ob- tained, while but 27 couples delayed obtaining the licenses until afternoon.
 The white licenses issued are:
 H. w. Wiley, 33; Miss Esther May Jewers, 22
 Ernest E. Chapple, 45; Miss Dovie Wats0n,. 26. : Charles B. Craig, 22; Miss Myrtle May Kennedy, 17.
 Charles B. Byles, 30; Miss Minnie Hatcher, 26.
 o. NJ. Cooper, 24; Miss Nellie Cooper, 21.
 James I. Hagin, 3S; Miss Lola Mil dred Tyner, g.
 J. M. Guthrie, 22; Miss Willie Eva Lawson, 28.
 c. $. Melvin, 26; Miss Hazel Feel, IS.
 Lewis R. Copeland, 21; Miss Ada Oldham, 21.
 A. T. Fuller, 34; Miss Robbie Clan ton Davis, 20.
 Tom Gilbert, 46; Miss Rosa A. Cain, 9.
 Charles W. Tisdale, S6; Miss Maude Mae Smith, IS.
 c. w. Craven, 24; Miss Ruth N. Cooper, 10.
 Willard J. Cowart, 22: Miss Julia Kerns, 20.
 R. ". Acton, 54; Mrs. Adrian My rick, 42.
 Lloyd Palmateer, s1; Miss Clara Hamrick, p.
 Carl Albright Merritt, 36; Miss Lou ise Oeveer, 30.
 L. E. Cook, 24; Miss Grace Vim son, IS.
 Edwin Rosenfeld, 24; Miss Marion Goldstein, 23.
 L. o. Stewart, 36; Miss Ora James, 19. ', Clarence H. sOuthard, 2e; Mrs. Helen
 T, A. Staunton, 35; Miss Mary Elste Smith, 2S.
 Lewis NJ. Domit, 29; Miss Nellie Bostany, 19.
 J. w. Champion, 31; Miss Alma Ma omia Edwards, IS.
 F. Montz, 5S; Miss Dora Stain man. 45.
 Ollie Lee Anderson, 23; Miss Maggie Lou Watson, 20.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27

Johnston, J. D. Fitzpatrick, employees of N. o. Nelson Manufacturing Co. and Marvin Wise theaters.
 The $50 subscriptions include the following: Acme Coal & Lumber Co.,, Mrs. F. N. Anderson, Bromberg x O., Phares Coleman and Daughters, MT. and Mrs. Milton H. Fies, Dr. and Mrs. Scale Harris, Mir. and Mrs. A. w. B. Johnson, William M. Leary, Morgan Hill Paving Co.,, Southern Steel Works, Wood Crabbe Grain Co.
 The employees of the Unit Stove X Furnace Co. subscribed $14575, and the faculty and students at Howard col 5slege gave $140.S2, while John s. Pearson subscribed $125 and the em- ployees of Caheen Bros. gave $12O.25. w. S. Edwards, Edwards Motor Co.,, subscribed $120 and Doster-Northing- ton employees $119.
 Subscriptions for $100 were received from the following: American Lumber & Export Co.,, Herbert J. Baum, Birm- ingham Woodenware Co.,, B. B. Burton, K. A. ConviIle, Council of Jewish Wom- en, Mrs. A. l.. Fulenwider, Augusta Friedman Shop, MT. and Mrs. Joe Goldstein, Joe c. Hail, Mrs. Sidney Hart, Hood & Wheeler Furniture Co.,, E. B. Irwin, William D. Jelks, l.. B. Joseph, Miss A. Layton, John London, Mir. and Mrs. Terrence Mackin, MT. J. NJ. Marsh, Mir. and Mrs. w. P. Me Crossin, D. D. McLendon,, Eugene Munger, R. c. Munger, w. l.. Murdoch Brokerage Co.,, w. D. Nesbitt, Parish & Byrd, Realtors, N. l.. Pierce Nation al Detective agency, Frank w. Smith. Southern Coal Co.,, Inc, Mrs. J. S. Stone, Warren Bros., Miss Emily Will liams, Woodlawn Savings bank.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27
FOOD DISPENSERS FACE TIGHTENING m HEALTH DIUG UT HLALlH AULI
Pure Food Ordinance To Be .Rigidly Enforced,
 Says Bulmer

Before Birmingham grocers, butchers hotels, restaurants or other places where food is sold can buy their 1925 business licenses, they must comply with all requirements of the "pure food" ordinance and obtain sanitary permits from the health department, l.. c. Bulmer, chief of the food and dairy division, announced Wednesday. More than 5000 firms and individuals are affected by this new regulation.
 All permits for 1924 have expired, and new business licenses must be ob tained by January 1. Bulmer ex- piained that the health department did not rigidly enforce the "pure food' law this year because it was new and not generally understood by food dealers and vendors. 1te
 However" he added, "the board of health has given orders for the full en forcement of the measure, beginning January l." A new record system is being installed in the health offices and careful check on ali places handling food products will be kept, Bulmer said. He added that food control in Birmingham will
  standards as milk control, and that the scores made by places selling food will be published from month to month Ill the same manner as milk ratings.
 Many Permits Issued.
 Many food dealers have already re. ceived permits good for next year, But- mer said. He urged the owners of all places liable for permits to phone health headquarters when they are ready for inspection.
 Bulmer predicted that the department would have mo difficulty" in obtain ing 100 per cent compliance with the new regulations. "The Retail Grocers and Butchers association is giving us its hearty sup port" he continued, land Secretary E. Q. Apperson informs us that the mem bers of this body have been complying with the new regulations for months, despite the fact that the department has not been demanding rigid compli- ance."
 The year just passed has seen rapid strides here in food control, and the public health will be still further pro- tected when all provisions of the "pure food" measure are made effective Jan uary l, Bulmer asserted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27
EDWARD A. CLEVE SUCCUMBS HERE Veteran Merchant Dies Following Brief
 Illness

Edward A. Cleve, AS, 3204 Twenty ninth street, north, prominent North Birmingham merchant, died at 2 80 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at local infirmary, following a brief illness.
 MT. Cleve was taken ill Monday aft ernoon while on business trip to town and was removed to the hospital. His death was due to apoplexy.
 Mir. Cleve has been in the grocery and coal business in North Birming- ham for 9 years. He is we'll known and has. many friends in all parts of the city.
 He is survived by his widow; three sons, Robert Cleve, Edward Cleve, and Jesse Cleye; three brothers, Ollie Cleve, Dewitt Cleve and Russell Cleve of Vanceboro, N.. C., and two sisters also of Vanceboro.
 The body will lie in state at the res idence of his sister-in-law, at 1419 Thir- ty-first street, north, until the hour of the funeral at 10 80 o'clock Friday morning. Services will be conducted from the residence with Rev. Charlie Chingham of the Advent Episcopal church officiating. Burial will follow in Elmwood cemetery with Johns in charge, ..3.., :. a,.5... 2" Palf bearers will be: Russell Hunt G. T. Walker, Charles Childress, R, H. Whorton, G. 0. Bryant, Dave Wood, B. NJ. Brasfield and c. A. Johns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27
ZONLNG BOARD WANTS MEETING
 ON ORDINANCE
Will Study Traffic Boule- wards And Building.
 Heights

Birmingham's zoning commission, re- gently created to survey the city pre- paratory to the enactment of zoniny ordinance, will buckle down to work next week by asking joint conference with the board of education, park and recreation board, city and county off cials and members of the city engineer ing department. Commissioner W. 10. Dickson announced Wednesday after q conference with John H. Adams, chair man of the zoning body.
 The scope of the commissions activ; ity has been widened, Dickson revealed, to include a study of the following questions:
 l. A system of traffic boulevards, on which traffic would have the right of way over that on intersecting streets.
 ?. A height limit on future build ings that would hold "skyscrapers' to twelve stories.
 8. Location of new school buildings, with reference to the proposed zonlns regulations.
 To Prepare Map.
 A zoning map of the city will be pre- pared as soon as the commissions en- gineering experts can assemble the ne cessary data. The city then will be divided into building zones as follows Manufacturing district, business dis trict, semi-business district, apartment house district, residential district, and others.
 "The commission has a good years work ahead of it," MT. Dickson said.
 An appropriation of $10,0O0, recent, ly voted by the city commission, will be available whenever the zoning body body wants it, Dickson said.
 In the estimation of officials, zon- ing ordinance will protect home owners in residential sections from encroach- ment by structures that are too big CT otherwise undesirable, will stabilize property values and enable Birming,- ham to grow sanely on its physical side. /
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27
POSTPONE ACTION
 ON PARK BOARD
Mrs. Sharp .nl-Nomination Ex-
 pected Next Friday

Action by the park board on the city commissions nomination. of Prof. E. E. Smith, Ensley high school principal. for the vacancy on the board, was Wednes- day postpone until Friday morning at 10 o'clock, due to the illness of Mrs. Charles J. Sharp, the only woman mem Der Of the board.
 Mrs, Sharp sent word that she would be glad for the board to proceed with out. her, but M. r. Phillips insisted on a postponemcnt,, saying "this is a responsibility that ssAe should share"
 Neither Chairman W. l.. Harrison, Elmer Thuston or MT. Phillips, sthe members who attended the brief session, discussed Prof. Smith. Harrison vnomi- mated him in the commission and is sure to vote for his confirmation, but the position of Phillips and Thuston is in doubt. The session adjourned with the understanding that action would be taken Friday if quorum is present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27
DISTRICT GETS YOUNG FISH Lakes And Streams Re- stocked With Bream
 And Bass

More than 60 five-gallon cans of bass, Dream and crappie, reclaimed from the back waters and pools of the upper Mis- sissippi, arrived in Birmingham We'd nesday afternoon and were placed in lakes in the Birmingham district.
 The fish were secured by John M. Goudelock, secretary and treasurer of the Alabama Wild Life Conservation league, B. S. Allison, the leagues pres ident, and Gerard Harris.
 The Boy Scout camp received a num- Der of the fish for their lake. Several cans were emptied in Shades Creek so that they will drift down to the Kam- ram lake, now under construction at Edgewood. The balance of the fish went into Lake Purdy, Oliver's lake and the quarry lake at Tarrant City.
 The Alabama Wild Life Conserva- tion league, recently organized and possessing more than 300 members, is to begin a campaign for the protection of Alabama's wild life and in the pre- vention of the abnormal number of for est fires, according to MT. Goudelock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27
HINES APPOINTS
 THOMAS CALVERT. REnI0MAI uE An NEUlUlVHL IHHU7
Birmingham To Be Head quarters For Alabama
 Veterans Claims

Appointment of Thomas J. Calvert, formerly director of the Birminghc m branch of the United States veterans Bureau as regional manager of the Veterans Bureau for Alabama, was an- nounced "Wednesday afternoon in, Wash ington by Director General Frank T. Hines. MT. Calver had been acting manager for some time. About a month for each state. 6. #
 The establishing of regional offices will speed up all claims filed with the bureau, claims now, will pass through one less office before being forwarded to Washington. A Claim and Rating board will be established in the Bir- mingham office, and the claimant will appear in person before the board when the rating is made.
 Before the establishment of the regional office all claims made here, with the evidence gathered, were mailed to the New Orleans district office, &C., cording to Mir. Calvert. The change in the system will allow the Birmingham office to forward all claims direct to Washington.
 Will Have Branches
 The Birmingham office will have sub- offices at both Montgomery and Mobile, and it is expected that a number of extra employees will come from the former district office at New Orleans, to be attached to the Birmingham and it's branch offices. Washington authori- ties believe the new system will double the efficiency of handling compensation cases.
 Col. Dallas B. Smith, former regional director at New Orleans, was appointed director of the work of IA regional states, according to dispatches.
 Organization of the Birmingham of flee will start immediately, according to MT. Calvert
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27
COUNTY CUTS OUT
 TWO LABOR CAMPS
Move Expected To Save $4,OOO
 Monthly

The board of revenue decided to dis continue two county free labor camps on December at a special executive ses- sion Wednesday morning, This is ex- pected to save the cofnty at least $4,000 a month and. is the first in- stance of the pruning knife being ap- piled to county expenditures since tak- ing office about ten days ago. 4
 For several months, the county main tained four free camps, but this num- Der was cut in two n short time ago by the old board. In the future, Capt. Lacey Edmundson; president of the board, announced that the road con. struction and road maintainance work done by the free labor camps will be done by convicts in the prison camps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27
UTILITY DEFENDANT

A suit for $1OO,00O against Lee c. Bradley and J. $. Pevear as core ceivers of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company and the Birmingham Electric company was filed in the civil division of the circuit court Wednesday by Lula M. Hanby as ad- ministrix of the estate of J. M Han by, deceased. Because of injuries re- ceived while a passenger on car be- longing to the defendants at the inter- section of Fifteenth avenue and Twenty sixth street, north, on January II, 1924, the petition ayers, J. M. Hanby died on January 13.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27
PRISONERS LEAVE

Eight federal prisoners, sentenced re- gently, left for the Atlanta prison Wednesday in charge of United States Deputy Marshal R. Bates. They were John L. Jackson, sentenced to four years for the violation of the narcotic act; Proctor Bee, 15 monhs for liquor violations; R. L. Morris of Anniston, 14 months for prohibition law viola tion; Minor Wofford, three years for narcotic violations; O. E. Young, 15 months for narcotic violation. and Al bert Stuckey, IS months for violation of the national banking law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27
RURAL EDITORS
 TO TOUR CANADA
Cobb Announces Second Step In
 Big Farm Probe

ATLANTA, Nov. 26.-The second step in world wide investigation of agricultural conditions being made ky the American Agricultural Editors as- sociation will be taken next August when 100 representatives of farm mag azines in the United States will tour the agricultural sections of Canada, 1t was announced here today by c. A. Cobb, editor of the Southern Ruralfst and president of the association. Plans for the Canadian tour have been com- pleted with the dominion department of immigration, Mir. Cobb said, and will be presented at a meeting of the exec. utive committee in Chicago December l, in conjunction with the tour The annual meeting of the association will be held in Calgary, Alberta, it was an- nounced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27

e's a funny one. Or maybe law lyhow, the cabaret operators in sy are going broke.
 ing no m oney," they say. here is nothing l like less than a ,less it is a Mexican full of mari 1T a soft drink and two dollars for ne impervious to pity. opera to most of us was a combination of dowagers wearing society labels and large gems, and singing fat men in tights. We went to the Metropolitan from precisely the same motives that led us to. view Jojo.
 The money giants of the Metropolitan broke him, but not before he had con- pelled them to introduce art into their big show. Some of it is left. This paragraph is due to the fact that the Chicago Opera company is to sing a season in Hammerstein's Manhattan. A fine epitaph for great man.
 There goes Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach. The worlds greatest old book buyer. Made the Morgan millions back up in a buying duel. And Jimmy Corbett, ex- champ, who had the best brain in cauli- flower circles. And Arch Selwyn, the top-sergeant of Broadway's showmen gamblers. He likes money, of course. But he produces a play primarily be- cause he thinks it is worth while. Very often he wins. And what's-his-name, who spent three months in the death house. And Jean Patou, the French dressmaker, who made New York's city editors like his press agentry. And Jimmy Johnston, the Boy Manager. Does not drink or smoke, handles a long string of fighters, and has just translated Tin Ear Alley into a regu- lar club.
 Roll called in two minutes from the Hotel Astor's steps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27
LECROY WINS VERDICT
Birmingham Stock Yards Loses Central
 Of Georgia Suit

S. B. Lecroy Wednesday was award ed damages of $2.5OO from the St. Louis-San Francisco railroad in federal court, in a suit for $25,0OO. Lecroy was hurt and his car demolished when he was struck by, Frisco train. The Birmingham stock yards, lost suit of $25O00 against the Central of Georgia railway, charging that sparks from passing trains ignited the yards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-27
8 INJURED IN CRASH
Auto And Truck Collide At Street In
 tersectiOn

Three persons sustained minor bruises and decorations at 9 o'clock Wednes- day morning when their automobile collided with a truck at Twenty third street and Sixth avenue, north. E. o. Baker, 2416 Eighth avenue, north, driver of the automobile, and his wife are in the Norwood hospital with lac erations and bruises. Mark Toney, Eighth avenue and Twenty-fourth street, passenger, sustained slight in- juries.
 F. B. Adams, driver of the truck and a companion escaped uninjured. Adams was placed under $500 bond by City Detectives W. l.. Brannon' and H. e. Jones, of charges of reckless driving.