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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
NEW ASSURANCES
 GIVEN BY PERSIA
Press Prosecution Of Imbrie's
 Slayers, Says Legation

WASHINGTON, Aug. Addition al assurances of adequate reparation for the staying in Teheran of Vice Consul Imbrie and of protection for Americans there were given in a state .ment issued today by the Persian lega tiOn.
 Tn consideration of the cordial re- lations existing between the two gov ernments and the importance given to the mutual friendship and for the pur- pose of showing it's regret" the state ment says, the Persian government has agreed with the proposal of the government of the United States. Even before receiving the request of the gov ernment of the United States the Per sian government on its own initiative had determined to satisfy Mrs. Im- brie and transport at its own expense the body of Vice Consul Imbrie to the United States.
 ~'-The Persian government is most vigorously pressing the investigation and the prosecution of the guilty persons to whom severe punishment will be meted out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
POUND CONDITION
 BLAD TO CITY
Sensational Testimony
 Results In Acquittal Of Employees

"The city of Birmingham, not c. B. RaRsdale or any of his assistants, is to blame for the deplorably inhumane conditions that exist at the city dog pound"
 Despite the acquittal Friday night of Ragsdale, N. A. Bishop and George Richardson on charges of cruelty to an imals, this bit of evidence, introduced by Richard Mansell, superintendent of the Birmingham Humane society, was the most striking feature of the closing night of a two-day trial in Recorder Burns night police court.
 Facing charges of cruelty that had been preferred by Mrs. Charles A. Whelan, president of the humane so- ciety, Ragsdale was the object of much censure by various witnesses who testi- fled against him. Stories of inhumane treatment were told in a sensational way, and charges of cruelty against Ragsdale and his assistants were made repeatedly.
 Sentiment in the case received a com plete reversal, however, when Mansell took the stand. In simple manner, and with few words he described the revolt
 
 and laid the blame on the shoulders of the city of Birmingham rather than on Ragsdale, the pound superintendent.
 Condition Terrible
 Conditions at the pound are terri ble," he said, but in justice to Rags dale and the public at large I feel that I must give my opinion that Ragsdale and his men are doing absolutely the best that they can with the equipment they have.
 "The entire system is poor-I don't believe there is another city of any size in the United ,Stetes where conditions are as bad as they are here. The place is not fit for dogs, but there is no place else that Ragsdale could have put them"
 C. W. Robinson. chief assistant to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
THE WEATHER

Extreme northwest Florida, Alabama and Mississippi: Partly cloudy, probably local thundershowers near the coast Sat urday: Sunday generally fair. Louisiana: Saturday, generally fair; Sunday, partly cloudy, probably scattered thundershowers in southeast portion.
 Arkansas: Saturday, generally fair; Sunday. partly cloudy
 Oklahoma: Saturday and Sunday. partly cloudy.
 East Texas: Saturday and Sunday, gem orally fair.
 generally fair except unsettled in extreme west portion.
 Virginia: Fair Saturday; Sunday in- creasing cloudiness, possibly showers in west portion; moderate temperature G.. urday; Sunday partly cloudy, possibly showers in west portion.
 South Carolina; Partly cloudy Sat- urday and Sunday.
 Georgia: Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday; probably scattered thundershow- CTS in south portion
 Florida: Generally fair in south and scattered thundershowers in north DOT tion Saturday; Sunday partly cloudy, prob ably scattered thundershowers.
 Tennessee: Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday, possibly scattered thundershow- CTS; little change in temperature.
 Kentucky: Generally fair except scat tered thundershowers in extreme west por- local thundershowers; little change in tenn perature.
 Summary of observations made at sta tions of the United States Weather Blu reau, during the 24 hours ending at D. FN at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02

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 4 countrywide canvass of purchas- CTS of Lydia E. Pinkhsm's Vegetable Compound reports 9s out of every 100 were benefited by it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
LOCAL DATA
WINDS

East Gulf; Moderate easterly and part ly overcast, probably showers over south portion Saturday.
 West Gulf: Moderate east and south east and generally fair except fresh north east with local showers over southeast portion Saturday
 Fresh easterly and overcast and showery Saturday; probably squalls over north west portion.
 Sandy Hook to Hatteras: Moderate north and northeast and fair Saturday.
 Hatteras to Florida Straits: Moderate variable and generally fair Saturday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
ABSENCE OF EVILS
 NOTED BY FOWLDS

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 1.-Clean-
 Illness of American cities and absence of external evils of prohibition are the most obvious changes in the United States since the adoption of the eight eenth amendment, according to George Fowlds, president of Auckland. univer- sity and former minister of education and public health in New Zealand who is here as special commissioner for the Rotary International of New Zealand.
 T have made four trips to the United States before prohibition and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
AT LOEW's BIJOU

Movie fans and more particularly those who love pictures which strike home, have only four more opportuni- ties during Saturday to see How to Educate a Wife, Elynor Glyn's authen- tic story of matrimony, featuring Monte Blue and Marie Provost in de- cidedly different" drama. 5s4
 With Saturdays closing performance will also pass the last chance to see the headliner, Getting It Over,' the spec tacular comedy revue, presented by the Twenty-seventh Division Boys, seven of them, including four female imperso- nators, who have scored hit during the week.
 Another feature act is that of Wal da," formerly of the Metropolitan opera house, who appears in a variety of ter psichorean feasts, with Lynn Burno at the piano. Other meritorius acts in- clude' WilliaL4 and Grace Bohn in a hand balancing novelty, with a song fest being supplied by the Singer Sis ters with their popular tunes, and by way of rounding it all out the comedy team of Lewis and Rogers promises a riot of laughs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
AMERICANs HONORED-
F1Oridians Visit Birthplace Of St
 AuguStine'S Founder

MADRID, Aug. 1.-The group of Americans from St. Augustine, Fla, who have come to Spain to take in the celebration of the birth of Don Pedro Menendez, founder of St. Augustine, ar rived in Madrid from Barcelona today.
 The Americans, who were entertained wherever they stopped en route, will leave Madrid August 6 for Aviles, birth place of Menendez, where the celebra- tion is to take place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
NEGRO YOUTH HANGED
Execution Expiates Murder Of Louis
 jana Farmer

LAKE CHARLES, La, Aug IT. Alto Hamilton. negro youth, was hanged here this afternoon for the mur- der of Darville Borel, white farmer, near Lake Charles, last September The trap was sprung at 2:17 o'clock. The negro went to his death calmly and without quiyer of the hand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
MINISTER DIES
 RESCUING. FAMILY
Columbus, Ohio, Man Trapped
 In Burning Home

COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 1-w. E.. Wider gave his life to save his wife and three children, when fire destroyed his home here today.
 Rushing back into the house to make sure his family had escaped, Wider's way out was cut off by flames. He leaped from a second story window and was killed, when his head struck the sidewalk below. Mrs. Wider and the children escaped uninjured &
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02

four since," said Professor Foylds. q find there is. less filth, degradation and poverty existing in American cities on this last trip. In New Zealand, where saloons are licensed, but the sale of liquor is prohibited on Sundays, after there is more bootlegging than in the United States"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
FORD TO BUILD NEW LINE
Commission Grants Permission IT.
 Lengthen D., T. &I.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-Henry Ford was authorized today by the in terstate commerce commission to con- struct approximately J6 miles of new line for his Detroit, Toledo and Iron ton railroad at cost of about ST. 5OOOOO- The commission also author ized the issuance of first mortgage bonds to raise the funds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
AT THE IEFFERS0N

With the performances this afternoon and tonight Birmingham theatregoers have their last opportunity to enjoy what is said to be one. of the best plays yet produced by the AIl-Star Jefferson Players, 'The Mad Honey moon" This is a comedy melodrama filled with action and laughter, provod- ing fine roles for the talented company. Next week, "Three Wise Fools" John Golden success, will be presented,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02

Request Concert" consisting of three
 numbers, the first half of the week. Colleen Moore in ",Through the Dark" will be shown at the T lie through Gaf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02

HOLY NAME SOCIETY You are requested Co meet Saturday night at s:3O, No. 62S s. 42d street, home of Brother A. u. Hoehn, de- ceased.
 ROBERT B. MACKE,
 Secretary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
SAVED FROM
 AN OPERATION
Hrs. Shaw Calls Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound a
 GOd-Send to Sick Women
mum

Cambridge, Me.-"I suffered ter ribly with pains and soreness in my
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02
ADJUSTMENTS
AT THE TEMPLE

Movie fans and patr ons of the Tenn pie theatre have real treat in store for them next week, Reno" Rupert Hughes daring inside story of divorce, is offered as the feature picture for the first half of the week and in addition the grand Movie Album" contest, in which $500 in prizes will be given away, will start.
 Twenty-Five famous movie stars will be shown the first half of the week and % the last half of the week without their names. Five hu dred dollars in prizes will be given to the Temple pa irons who guess the largest percentage of them. The first prize is $25, given by the Temple theatre, and the other prizes are given by Birmingham's lead ing merchants. Mrs Neil Wallace, Bir- mingham's first amusement inspector {; Thad Holt, advertising manager for the Wofford Oil company, and Hilton Upton of the Birmingham News are the judges.
 Fred Stark mad his famous concert orchestra will play another Popular Ragsdale, was the first witness placed on the stand Friday night by the de- fense attorney. He declared that the work of the department was being done in the best manner possible, and that every effort is made to keep the pound in good condition. Asked if he ever had seen Ragsdale treat dogs cruelty, he replied in the negative.
 Based On Story
 Acquittal of Ragsdale, Bishop and Richardson was based chiefly on Man sells statements regarding conditions at the pound. As an expert in humane work, he testified that in his belief Ragsdale was doing the best work pos sible with the equipment provided by the city.
 Morgan Relf, the negro catcher who faced charges of disorderly conduct and cruelty to animals, was fined $16. Wit nesses testified that he had become pro- fame and cruel while attempting to catch dog in front of the home of B. NJ. Henderson, 408 Fulton street.
 Mir. and Mrs. Henderson were i'm portant witnesses for the prosecution during the trial. They were represented by George Lewis Bailes. Col. NJ. A. Dinsmore prosecuted the case for the humane society, and Thomas E. Me Collough, assistant city attorney, de- tended Ragsdale.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-02

Summary of observations made at sta tions of the United States Weather Blu reau, during the 24 hours ending at p. m., 90th meridian time, August 1:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-09
ONE TOWN KILLs IT'S RATS

Millions of dollars annually .are spent in this country. combating the boil weevil. army worm, potato bug, caterpillar, white fly and other parasites that cause heavy losses to agricultural and horticulture interests. Yet the rat. for whose existence there seems to be no justification, causes more destruction than these pests, not to speak of it's propaga- tion of bubonic plague and other diseases Nevertheless, war on the rat is much less extensive and determined. The harborinG of several hundred million rats costs the United States hundreds of millions of dollars n year Unchecked in their breeding, they would soon render houses upinhabitable and storehouses unusable. That the domestic rat should be permitted to reach the proportions of a scourge seems. strange indeed when the pest could be almost stamped out by a nation wide campaign with the aid of science.
 An anti-rat catnpaign was recently con ducted with great' success in Monmouth county, New Jersey, where the fifteen thou sand inhabitants exterminated forty thou sand rats at monetary cost of two hundred and sixty dollars. The value of the cam paign may be appreciated when the damage done by forty thousand rats in a year is es timated at four hundred thousand dollars The campaign was directed by an attache of the United States biological survey Full publicity regarding the purpose and benefits of the enterprise enlisted the cooperation of nearly all the citizens. School children took active part, while banks, motion picture houses and various civic and social organiza- tions participated. Poison was distributed in small packages to all residents. and when the time came for placing it. practically everybody joined in the program The poison used was barium carbonate. one of whose advantages is that rats absorbing it crawl into the open before dying. ~
 This anti-rat campaign demonstrated how large a saving can be attained at small cost when the undertaking is properly organized and the co-opefhtion general. Returns on the investment Fare enormous. What the New Jersey community accomplished in ssis respect can be done with similar success elsewhere. Rats in Birmingham are costing manufacturers, warehouse interests mer- chants and househOlders hundreds of thou sands of dollars annually. With the expendi- ture of few thousand dollars in Ia properly organized and directed anti-rat,, eamDafsn a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-09
THE GREAT II.LusYnNs 2

Tn sthbving to devise new and mex eff. cient methods of transferring the hinKs of one nation to the people of another fhey are grappling with one of the most difficult and puzzling problems of modern ctsiliza- tion Some years before the war the Eng fish pacifist, Norman Angel. in q book en- titled "The Great Illusion" took the ground that the problem was insoluble and that therefore war had ceased to be q profitable industry. His conclusions were yehemently attacked by the militarists in all countries, but the question was still unsettled when the war came. and the difficulties raised since the war by the derangement of inter- national exchanges have to some extent strengthened his argument. Debts on such a scale cannot be paid in gold, and paper money is useless. while the transfer of com modities on m abnormal scale presents diff ficulties of various sorts. Whether the debt is war indemnity or merely the result of borrowing money to prosecute war, the question of payment presents grave tech nical difficulties. Only small wars can be made profitable in the old sense-Spring- field Republican.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-09
Musical Taste
By M. ADDINGTON BRUcE

4syOf general interest and not little sig. nificanee are the findings of an inquiry made by the officisis Of a radio bsozAcastins sta- tion and recently reported in Tho Boston Globe The purpose Of the induiry vas to ascertain what people most wanted in the way Of radio entertainments particularly musical ent ntertainment. 2
 sSEhat do you like best jazz, popular ssongs, or the classicsf r was the question broadcasted, so far as 1t related to music More than a thousand persons sent in an swers. and while the majority called for a little of everything in the way of music, pre- affection for popular music and jazz was, more than twice as much in evidence as any enthusiasm for music composers of the first class.
 'sof course we prefer the jazz wrote a Boston club woman We want popular dance music.
 Give us variety" begged telegrapher; sand in the variety one classic about every three months will be plenty M
 "What we want came fEom Back Bay girl, lis fun, langhter and frolie. Pleaset don't give us any of the funeral direes, Russ sian pieces, or fearful strains in ] minor.
 Contemplating the returns as given in The Boston Globe one is strongly reminded of Carl Seashore's emphatic and frank declara- tion:
 Taste, the aesthetic, is a grievously neg lected aspect of human nature in our Amer. ican life today. The aesthetic self is yet in state of nature quite unrecognized and very much dwarfed In no art is this more true than in music.
 And the pity of it is that in our age more than in any previous age in the worlds his-, tory, there is special need for the benefits derivable from cultivation of good musical taste
 It is an age, as everybody knows, when boise, serenity. and controlled power are exf ceptionally needed. It is an age when life at best is so complex as to put uncommon strain on the nervous system. It is an age when public as well as personal problems call imperatively for earnest and sustained think ing.
 Music, music of really high order, helps use of the mental faculties. Inferior music makes not merely for inferior thinking, but often for lessened desire and ability to do any thinking at all. Fl
 And some music-including the jazz iso much applauded by multitudes actually. has the effect of intensifying the nervous ex- eitability and irritability already aggravated by the modern environment. The pleasure that jazz may give Is the spurious dangerous pleasure of over-stimulation.
 Consequently there is real warrant for organized effort to diffuse knowledge and love of the best there is in music. Such knowledge and love will both add to the joy of living and make for more effective living
 twill, in the words of one enthusiastic music-lover improve the health, increase the working capScity, provide comfort and strengthen the character, and enrich the mind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-09
Brief Nature Studies
By J. OTIs sHYIFT

These beautiful days when the members of the tribe of Abou ben Adhem, who love their fellow men and their God, walk in spring forests where the miracle of reincar- nation is wrought on every hand, countless prayers go up from their hearts that the wild flowers turning the sombre woodland into paradise may be spared for the beauty lovers of future generations
 Only the minimizing and selfish murder the wild plants by picking their blossoms. The humanitarians are uplifted by them, and love them, and leave them to delight their chii- dfen's children.
 Where the Maryland yefrow-throat and the yellow breasted chat; the water thrushes; ; magnolia, yellow, black-throated blue, bay breasted, chestnut sided and golden winged warblers lift their voices in praise to the Creator. the banks are clothed just now with the. yellow wealth of the fawn lily or dog tooth violet. Their outer surfaces touched with brown-purple, within golden yellow, the mottled, pointed, ellipticaI leaves making vast beds, they seem impossible of extinction, but so the trailing arbutus near cities seemed only few years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-09
As TO HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE

Chairman Rogers of the Alabama Highway Commission defends billboards along the state xights of way, on the ground that the revenue thus derived is essential to highway main- tenance. It is plain that MT. Rogers ignores or is oblivious of pertinent facts. For ex- ample, billboards or no billboards, the high way commission is commanded by the law under which it operates to set aside out of inc regular automobile license revenues a definite annual sum sufficient to maintain the hiRhways that have been completed. The midway commission has consistently failed 70 do this, and consequently many of the state highways are in continuous bad repair through lack of maintenance. It is apparent that the highway commission lacks adequate comurehension of the fundamental necessity of maintenance as being even more essential than highway construction. That being the case, what assurance is there that there would be proper maintenance even with the revenue from billboards? It is all too evil dsnt that the highway commission has con osfved no plan whereby maintenance shall be Systematically and regularly administered elthoueh the state highway statutes make 4nnintenance an equal obligation with con.
 truction.
 Tk is Hkewtr>- evident that public septi- snsnt in this state is averse to billboards on fhe public highway property, unless sur rounded with more adequate restrictions than sk is believed the commission is of a mind fb impose. It is not the duty of the high vay commission either to develop revenues bx the merchandising of public property, nor so utilize the roadways for any other pur- poas except to facilitate traffic. If the high way commission would show the capacity and lie intention to build the best possible high ways to be had for the funds at its disposal, inc people will be quite well pleased for them 4o refrain from any sort of bartering or chaf- ferfng of the public domain. The billboards are minor matter, to be sure, until we have soma real highways. If the public right is fai,sred by the manner in which the bill hoards are now adjusted, doubtless a later and more enlightened commission will rectify that injury. Just at present the peopleSwould Iike for the highway commission to study the eubject of building and maintaining highways in the most efficient manner as demonstrated hv success in other states. To judge from fbe present paucity of result, that task will keep the highway body quite busy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-09
ADVICE TO YOUNG WRITERS

used to be a magazine writer. Now l am a carpenter. From time to time many voung writers ask me for literary advice. l will tell my story as is expected of all who are writers, or who were once writers.
 I was bequeathed a legacy and decided upon literary career. l was a writer for f1ree years. There are five thousand five hundred and fifty-five magazines published that buy short stories, and during those three years I wrote four hundred and fifty-five abort stories and sent each one of them to each of the magazines. I made one sale {; fhat is, thought I did. The editor of the weekly Blizzard. published at Boshjosh, Yis., wrote me that he had retained a story and would give me a years subscription in payment. In about a week, however, my story came back, accompanied by a letter which stated that owing to editorial changes nv story could not be used.
 when examined the figures of my bank haIance I found that my legacy, owing to the strain of board bills and postage bills, had eeaporated to SHIT. It was then that de- efaad Co become a carpenter. Now I am on khe road to wealth. q am married, own a