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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
NEW ENGLAND PAPER ADMITS SOUTFS TEXTILE PRESTIGE

The South considers itself in the EaAdle in an industrial way, mt 1aAst so fAr as the manufacture of cotton textiles is concerned if one is to judge by the tBne of mn eda- torial in a recent issue of The Birmingham AgeHerald It chortles with glee, fRgR- ratively speaking It sees atseM FrUdHtI1sg by the exodus of the cOttun mills from New England. Some have come $Uuth, it says in effect, and more are cum1ngs -hnr rhe plain and simple reason that aneU0TahAe ecO- homie law dictates it. The South ounnnan- crates with New England on one hand and congratulates itself on the other.
 We are, one is forced to believe GTHng in a fools paradise if we imagine that cur cotton industries are going to reanAan warh us unless they are permitted to hRre Rn GvEIn break with the South. A recent poll of Lew ell cotton mill executives designed to @6GAan their reactions on the proposal that hlsher tariff be invoked in order to protect the nm dustry from English competition revealed ex- tremely little that had a bearing @n the slt- uation created by the ability of the EngRlzsh manufacturers to bring their goods antO thRs country and here to UnaerseA cur Oxn EAn- ufacturers, notwithstanding the tar1fG Rar- tually all of the mill men, asked to ekETs1s their views on the tariff, promptly sEdtchaa to the question of southern competition, EtAt-
 
 to the industry in New Enga&na
 Why is the trend of textile aeEea1Emsnt toward the South2 Is it because ehila A2b0r restrictions are less rigorous thEreg Partly that; although The Birmingham Age-HerAAa denies that it is a factor of importance Have we been fed on pap in the tDEm d statements that Southern labor IS less etfi- cient than that of the North far the EeRsm that it has a lower health rate and becAmEe of the inertia commonly attributed to pBBElle who live in tropical or semi-troEanAl eAi- mates? The Age-Herald says we hAve- lit ayers the Southern labor is as good Rs Northern labor. That, then, may alsD be a factor.
 However, the point which it stresses as the most important is A purely ecunumlc ans- It is that New England is too remUte Erum the source of the raw material esEentlRl to the manufacture of cotton taxfzleS- Cgruum grows in the South Why then, 1t is Ing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

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 If the G5aHEznrzssE mEHaerimg wzeez and cHzai1EizmE WAhEA GgeEzne aEzizEC Sew Eng aHmh 0lnAa h@ nzmys~fw EAA1@ r@mzin& q p0s- E7tlEny Ehmr ahA exiznEmca af tie plants here wwuAM aEmE tn GEEME En& eennnmhE adEzn- tnEEE wAlEA ahe $aEeA M kRzaH m enjoy. WdIly mlly- CEGnEm GzauaE Re Er9Wm m New EEgAEnA FF9lEa1 EzrEsS wzgsS and h0Grz Gf WUrk are saR Ehngz va mnst lsak to. One hsaiamnes aB 8tEWEznE the rsRsal of the NGRzzaHhzaEsns &SlAmur 1EW- It WUuId he E1saian71seE beEnr E a fsHErzA ss-hSur Inv could he enREnHA T8 eznsnlE ria hours of WWEk WEum he a EgEragreszIEe stEpl Wages furnish a GlrRiizh gFEszriGnL No ans wants to sae W4EaR EaAHneEs IE E sEtmirrad tint ngEtm mn WuEEzEx rsR4lEG krr1e enaugM as it 6S BuM the MGmR mmEr bR EEceE There may be q W4F saE Ealuug& increased pna- dlnCaim taHalEh mane @f1EiEiaur aper4ciau. all tihggEh 7E hk mammal tn zEURNHa than mill mznnRzsH hEws EEMaE E11E-E Eha44 GE tho
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
Modern Maids s Ma2inus

The really magnanimous man who has stopped loving a woman is willing to con- cede her right to exist, but even he doesn't see why she should maintain that right in his immediate vicinity
 This modern disdain for rticence has reached the point where if girl hasn't any thing to be frank about she makes up some thing.
 Her expression of bland sweetness when he's telling her all about the quantity pro- duction of copper nails may mean that she's deeply absorbed-and may mean that she's thinking, How long is the man wound up for-and how soon can I break away?''
 The one thing which a man hates worse than waking up in the morning is allowing anybody else in the house to sleep after he is awake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
FRENCH POLITICAL CRISIS

French political affairs are in very cEs otic state. The resignation of Pre- mier Poincare has created an impasse wherein President Millerand can find no statesman willing to undertake the for mation of a cabinet. The resignation of Millerand is demanded by the rad icals, who swept the country in the re- cent elections, defeating the nationals with whom Millerand is grouped. The radical leader Herriot has refused the portfolio, saying that Millerand prom ised to resign if the radicals were suc- cessful at the polls, and that he would not be keeping faith with his party if he should accept the premiership. Millerand declares that he will not resign and is trying to find some one who will act as premier. Meanwhile, Poincare continues the routine duties of his office until successor is found.
 Such an impasse could not occur in this country because there is very def mite manner in which successors to va cant offices are chosen. The party in power finds no such difficulties as now confront the French president. All American cabinet members are of the same political party as the president, re- gardless of the complexion of congress. Nor is it regarded as incumbent upon or even desirable for an American pres ident to resign when the country sends to congress a majority belonging to the opposite party. While the French sys- tenn is more sensitive-to changes in pub lie favor, the American system is more stable. Those who advocate a longer term for our president may find some food for thought in the isolation now experienced by the French president, whose term of office is seven years and who has three years yet to serve.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
A REFORM MUST COME

The average American looks with alarm and disgust upon the increasing tendency toward establishing insanity as legal excuse for murder A man may dwell among and do business with his fellows for decade or two without there being any suspicion of his sanity; but when for some reason or other he com mits murder the immediate recourse of his attorneys is to try to prove that he is insane. Undoubtedly there have been murders committed by insane persons but undoubtedly far too many persons have unjustly escaped paying the penalty by false proof of insanity. It appears that the presumption is all in favor of the guilty persons instead of the public which the laws are designed to protect. That reform is demanded by justice is apparent to the majority of citizens.
 In the case of the two youths now on trial in Chicago, there is much talk of the millions to be employed in their de- fense, and there is already an avowed program on the part of the defense to prove them insane. Yet they have both stood very high in their collegiate classes, and have passed as sane among their as- sociates, intimates and relatives. The attorneys for the defense do not know them to be insane, but they believe that such a plea is the best recourse, and therefore will work to the end that it be established to the satisfaction of the court and the jury. It does not seem to matter that, according to reports of the confessions, the murder was intelli- gently planned to the very minute and logical details, and that the youths have shown unusual mentality, even though
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
ENERGIzING THE s0I1rH

Watch the South recover from the ravages of the Mexican cotton boil weevil, which in recent years has laid waste millions of acres of cotton, bankrupted thousands of South ern planters, driven armies of negroes from the cotton fields to industrial centers, and skyhooted the price of shirts and sheetings The South has refused to yield to the boil weevil. Already the Southern farmers have learned that to beat the boil weevil they must farm more intelligently, select better seeds and better fertilizers, plant earlier, wor ktheir crops rapidly and systematically, and thereby make three bolls of cotton grow where one grew before. The South annually put out about 36,000O00 acres of land to produce 100000 bales of cotton the old way. One acre for bale of cotton is enough, the new way. And so new and better methods of cotton production, forced upon the South by the boil weevil, may yet give the South yield of 100000 bales of cot ton to 100000 acres, leaving 24,00O,0 900 acres for corn and pastures, pigs and poultry. When that day comes the South will have come into its own. And, incidentally, we may be spared further advances in the price of our cotton shirts and socks and things Golfers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

ofs the Orient, which, as a matter of fact, IS seldom achieved anywhere outside of those dreaming eastern lands where it is better to sit all day beneath banyan tree, gazing at the ground and wrapped in profound meditation, than to bestir oneself in the prosaic task of earning a livelihood? When Kipling said the East and West shall never meet, he spoke more truth than poetry, or as much of the one as of the other. For, while the East has initiated western manners and has acquired a good deal of western civilization, the oriental is still as widely separated from the occidental in his thoughts as the poles.
 Thus it was that the Rubaiyat flour ished, in this and other lands. It was the gift book par excellence. Among true booklovers it was and still is treas ured as one of the most flawless poetical works in the English language. But the vogue of Omar has passed. The title page of the Rubaiyat no longer stares at one from every booksellers window, or is repeated in half a dozen or more examples of the printers art on the shelves within. This masterpiece of FitzGerald will survive, along with other great literature, but it has ceased to be a fad. It has had it's day with. the gen eraiity and now reposes secure in the af- fection of those minds that can best ap- preciate it's exquisite perfection, work that merits the praise of Edmond Gosse, who called it "coral building in litera- ture."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

hfndng force Theirs is not a sound, thoughtful view of the liquor question it is mt an attempt to solve it; it is merely the exercise of that private judgment which holds the indfvidual to be larger than the state. Is this due to an exhiIarating air which is as mtOxieating to men as the liquor they used to drink and now talk abOutF
 In the business world are men-not so many. however, as in the past, thank God 1! -wh0, by the exercise, of what they ca11 their private judgment spend waking hours and sAesPless nights in figuring out schemes to avoid the law They are not bad men, not necessarily dishonest men, but the air or something has intoxicated their minds with the idea that they have a right to do any thing which will lead to success in their busi- ness affairs And in other phases of Amer iran life this doctrine of the right of private judgment is running riot We have no meas urIng rod which all men agree should be ing their own We have a private yard stick for eur own affairs-
 Maybe the European is right with refer emre to the n0nadvisability of the use of in- t0xicants by Americans as being unnecessary and injurious Perhaps. too, we ought to he somewhat more moderate in the exercise of 0u< constitutional and inalienabIe right of private judgment Would it not be g8od thing for all of us t6 sober up and not to form our judgments and base our conduct upOm our own opinion, but rather consider the views and arguments of men who are mnEe expert than ourselves on the various problems which our compiler life has pro daeedg I am for reason everywhere and always He who shows me am wrong is my real friend- I care nothing for the commen- dati0R of one who does not know whether my eourse was right or wrUng- I wish all of us could inform ourselves about the thing that we propose to do by learning from men who know more about it than we do. This would probably change in most instances our prIvatE judgment of which we are so proud and hOastfuL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
" WORD .UNTRRAGEs

When yOu say that a person takes um- hr4Ee. is offended at something, you don't reAlkzs that what you are literally saying iz that he-Or she-iS under a shadow Yet the word shadow, in it's Latin form "um- bras" which is %Ombra" in Italian, is the root of -umbrage"
 The word also means a little shadow, an adumbrati0n- But in its sense of taking Offense. sumbrage" is plainly suggestive of the process of thought that early generations of men went through in order to give the wOrd that meaning.
 Yet it is apparent that a person who is offended shows the shadow in his or her face -upless an effort is made to conceal it with q s2Ile- So next time you take umbrage remember that you are going under a shadow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

question thoroughly and have exhausted the pOsEihilities in that direction.
 It remains however, that New England is m 6ckiish position and the time has come tD fight fur the retention of its textile indus tries before the South reaches a stage of de velnRment which will make such struggle a futile one That phase hasn't arrived but ffE on the Way-LOwen Courier Citizen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
GOING DOWN,

Dear Reader-We hear a lot these days about personality and do you know what it a that makes person %different9'
 There are two kinds of personality mental and physical About the first class we must say that their judgment and in- teIligenee are different We may say that persons with mental personality place their money m different way from those who f0rm the great majority of persons.
 To get money, their money must act diff ferendy from what other peoples money d0ea-
 The majority are always WrOng-the great majority said the world was flat If you are poor, perhaps it is because you do not dare take a chance with your money You fnlluw the beaten path of the 95 per cent. who always die poor
 Yours very truly.
 ALFALFA SMITH.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1924

policy has been interfered with, but the Japanese may perceive that in the long run our state departments policy, which is continuous, may prevail over legisla- tive policy which is not continuous. Time will doubtless bring it's own remedy for any problems that time may produce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

It is believed that the Republican plat form writer's will have to exhaust their stock of ingenuity to find language that will endorse the Republican congress and the Republican administration at one throw
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

There are cynical writers who are trying to create the impression that mar riage is the end of romance. The right kind of marriage is the beginning of the right kind of romance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

Considering the chronic condition of unpreparedness for war, Uncle Sam seems to have made pretty good records when he once got his back up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

"Tax reduction" would be more allur- ing as a phrase if the entire benefits were passed on to the consumer as eff fectively as are the burdens of tax in- creases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
HEADY TOPICs

It is surmised by shrewd observer that will sweep the country; but wait till some the party that can get the bobbed-hair vote body comes along and organizes the bald headed vote.-Boston Transcript.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

A writer says that eighty per cent. of the weather forecasts are correct; but he would have trouble in convincing the farmers of this view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
THOMAS n MAR&MA

Y it true, as has been charged, HhaE Anner7--
 cans know no such thing zs moaerAHsEm \ of political thonghts Are- we eiHhess ultra conservative or radical an our wiexSg Do we push our principles to the utmost and ignore danger signs, unconsciOusly aRpr@ach- ing at times the verge of ruin Ur remaining so closely within the safety nome as to haz- ard our welfare2 I shan not undertake aD answer these questions. merely wish G@ present for discussion criticism aM If us must have heard at one time Or angEher-
 Europeans who are in the habit of uEing intoxicants have frequently expressed the view that Americans w0nld be befHHr @ef if they abstained The use of hqn0r is mot a moral question with these critics They saem to have reached the conclusion that there is something exhilarating about AmericAm air which serves as a tonic and tha1 the Stin- ulation which comes fro m1iqnor is not need ed by us; in fact, that it is EnrerfanUus and perhaps detrimental rather than bene- ficial Their views have mAae me wonder whether there may not be somezAing caimaElc which leads us to excesses- can aEarIkuae some strange things in American life aD mgah- ing else.
 Consider for a moment our reiigiDuE zr- tivities. One of the reasons for the e3ezWRRe from the mother church was the lmEiEtAmre of certain men upon the night of FEaV2ae judgment. They pr0fessed tOb elieTe thzt God alone was Lord of the camsciMre. and argued that church councils could mot oEm- strict the opinion and judgment of mankind with reference to the eternal rrIvalageS
 This is no time in which to raRse my com troversial question between rgntzndImg tbe- orists of faith, and I am not seekTng to aD so, but merely to comment My own gminim is that life is large enough to suffRr and per init all divergent views on theological Q1As- tions to exist unhampered. We are recreamt to our traditions if we seek to 1saraclse CT to punish anybody politically, economically or socially for faith of any kind
 But, whatever may be said ab0mf the riEhE of men to have private judgment upnn TsligiUlE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08
THE ACE-HERALD
l. THOMPSON. PRESIDENT

Essered Birmingham. Ala, post office as seeond-eiass matter act of Congress March (, 1873
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

If the choice were left to me, whether e haNo free press or a froe government. \ would choose free press.-Thomas Jefferson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

NEWS BUREAUS-washinston. coo Davidson Bedding: State Capital, Montgomery Journal Building: Tennessee Valley. Decatur Daily Buiiding: Tuscaloosa, News Building: Jasper. Mountain Eagle Building; Anniston. Star Build ing: Gadsden. Journal Building: Muscle Shoals. Trt-Cities Daily Building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

SUBSCRIPTION RATES-By mall. payable in advance. in United States and Canada; Daily and Sunday. one year. s&oo; six months. S4oo: three montha. S13s; one month. sSc Daily only: One year. $s.So; six months. 3326: three months. e1.TS; one month. 7Sc. Sunday only: One year, sako; six monthss SLSo: three months. 7bc; one month. 2sc.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-08

EEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS-Ths As- sociated Press ia exclusively entitled to the uss 1or publication of all news dispatches credited to It. CT not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news publishsd therein. All rights of republication oR special dispatches also oerved.
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The Chilkoot post., 1924-09-06

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The Chilkoot post., 1924-09-06
PARTIES OF THE WET

PARTIES OF THE WEEK:
 An enjoyable party w ing. They ent ertaar ed all rke followed by an evening of b1i,
 Lieut. ana MT s Grad ner Sunday even ing. Atter din: and their guests went to the stayed here unloading coa1-
 Staff Sgt. ard Mrs. Sgt. and Mrs. Behrens, Miss S. evening at brid dge and five hu, an enjoyable evening was had
The Chilkoot post., 1924-09-06
VACATIONISTS:

Sgt St evenscn and family, Mrs Behrens and caught CT Gear 1I a, at Sunshine Hill hunt ing and fishl,
 Sgt- Lepp1s Of Co. is o.
 Sgt- rasury and Pedro are time the latter part Of this nonth
 Miss selrer of Ska away has While here she was the guest of Sgt the Post have made Up their mind t, ec1a11y Sgts Collar and Pvts. Ho f fns SHORT TIMERS IN THE POST:
 Short Pvt' zeller of the Q,C he foreign service on the first availat
 Others are Pvt. Fo ffnan i sra1ght up, Sgt. Powell less than t