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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
THE sOUTH's DEVELOPMENT"

The Manufacturers Record has achieved a publication eminently worth while in it's just-issued volume, "The South's Development" The work com prises Fifty Years of Southern Pro- gress," and is aptly what it claims to be, "A Glimpse of the Past, The Facts of the Present, A Forecast of the Future" AL though it is a compendium of facts, its attractive pages will lead one to read on and on until he has finished it. The very story of the South's material endowment is thrilling one, no less than the history of its development, now proceeding at a constantly accelerating pace. In order that Southern people may properly tell others of the South and the opportunity it offers for enterprise and capital, it is essential that Southern people should first inform themselves. Doubtless there is no other single volume in existence from which that knowledge may be ob- tained so accurately, succinctly and con- pletely as from this one. It should in- spire the people of this well-favored sec tion to greater achievement, and should form the basis of an irresistible invitation to industry and capital elsewhere to come to the South for share in this eXcep- tional opportunity. Southward the course of empire takes it's way. There can be no stopping it.
 In sending this volume complimentary to it's subscribers the Record has given them an article of value far greater than the price of years subscription. The real value of such work lies in the use that people make of it. The growing conception of Southern people as to this new destiny of wealth and progress is earnest in advance that they will make good use of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
Youth

Youth has no need of pirate ships, Of dark and tossing spars, No need has Youth of silvered paths Beneath the guiding stars; Or chanteys sung upon the watch By men who bear salt scars. Youth has no need of secret trails That to the Rainbow lead. Or Roads to Romance, white and wide, Youth has no urgent need Nor of the magic lore that turks
 In some old wizards screed. For Youth itself is all these things, A Sailmg-ship, a song, The Rainbow at the journeys end, Bright Romance, Youth-time long, And all the wizards visions to Enchanted Youth belong!
 Faith Baldwin in Everybody $.
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with him and upheld his hands during the dark hours of temporary defeat of his great plan for the protection of the world from future wars find themselves and their record singularly justified by the events that have since unrolled from the scroll of time.
 All alike agree that Woodrow Wilson was great man and that his name will be elevated by history to level achieved by few in all the life of our nation. Some three or four greatest figures. What IS important, however, is that the candle he lighted has now become a great light and is Illuminating the formerly dark and fearsome corners of the earth. That light has meant less to us than to some other nations, because we have always sat in the light while they have long dwelt in the gloom of oppression and despair. Nevertheless, Woodrow Wilson correctly interpreted the true spirit of American thought and opinion, as is triumphantly proved by the way in which even the Re- publican administration is irresistibly drawn into those international relation ships for which Wilson conceived the political machinery. We could not es- cape our international responsibilities, and fortunate are we that Woodrow Will son so clearly mapped out how we might best undertake them.
 The nations capital thus does rever- ance to the name of Wilson, partly in atonement for the wrong done him while he lived, and partly in involuntary admir- ation of the genius that can shine so brightly through the passage of time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
pEACETIME PREPAREDNESS

Instead of being subjected to fault finding, the national plan of prepared ness should be universally proclaimed as the most sensible, the least costly and the most conservative of public and na- tional resources yet devised. In the first place, civilian military training con- templates no long withdrawal of young men from their regular pursuits. It does contemplate the maintenance of a skele ton military organization which cannot be reduced below a given minimum if it is to insure efficient officering in time of war and adequate drilling force in time of peace. This minimum it has been the recent regrettable tendency to transgress and ignore.
 Just as young men are to be given pre- liminary and elemental training in soi- diery without being drawn into the milf tary profession, in like manner are the other concomitants of preparedness be- ing developed as far as possible in peace time applications. Airplane development lis being carried on triumphantly while the planes are employed in carrying our mails. Our merchant fleet, that indis- pensable adjunct of our navy, is being developed and maintained on what it IS hoped will be a permanent basis. Even if it should never be entirely self sustaining, an incredible supposition, yet our fleet of merchant ships must be maintained and any reasonable deficit charged off to preparedness Muscle Shoals, it is hoped, will be devoted to peacetime production of fertilizer, while always in readiness to turn out war ex- plosives at need.
 Armies of accountants are tabulating the output and character of our indus tries and planning how in emergency each industrial and manufacturing plant may be turned over to the production of a given war necessity with the least alter ation in machinery and operation. This is tremendous item in preparedness, the essential nature of which was fully re- vealed in the last war. In any future war the government will have ample data, drawings and statistics that will at once enable it to mobilize, without excessive cost, all industries to the war purpose and the national protection Furthermore, no future war is going to be so expen- tive, because there will be no bonuses, no cost-plus, no exorbitant profits ex- acted from the national extremity.
 Therefore, our preparedness plan de- serves and demands liberal encourage ment from congress. The warnings of our military and naval advisers should be carefully regarded, for they are merely urging a return to the minima which congress itself has adopted as reasonable.
 War may never come again. We shall continue our national policy of advocat- ing and practicing peaceful settlements of all controversies involving us and our extra-national concerns. Our people are enlightened, pacific and fair. No war will be of our choosing or due to any deliberate injustice on our part. Never theless, wars there have been, and wars there may be. We were not true to our selves nor properly regardful of our own safety and welfare, if we failed to take those sensible precautions impressed upon us by both prudence and experience.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16

THE OVERCOAT of Bonaparte, worn at the battle of Waterloo, appears on the inventory lists of the Hotel des Invalldes in Paris. On that list it is appraised as rep resenting value of 50 francs. Of course If the government felt disposed to sell the article in questoin the purchase price would easily run into the thousands if not ten thousands of francs. There are plenty of collectors who
 would go the limit to acquire so precious
 historical record. The fifty francs on the
 Invalides list merely represents the actual
 present-day value of the cloth. And consider
 ing that more than a hundred years have elapsed since the coat was worn this would not seem a bad reputation for the quality of Flemish cloth. For the coat was made in Flanders. Napoleon ordered the coat while travelling by easy stages to inspect the north ern departments and the provinces of his brother, Louis, the king of Holland. It has
 always been a matter of pride in the family of this writer, foolish bourgeois pride per haps, that his great-grandfather, Arien Van Paassen, was ordered to make an overcoat for the emperor. Our worthy ancestor re- ceived the sum of 75 francs for the product of his hands and according to family records did not consider it ''bad pickings." Whether this is the coat in the Invalides there may be some doubt, for Madame Tussaud's wax works in London will show the tourist duplicate
 Yet let it be said for the peace of soul of many worthy Flemish tailors that depreci- ation of only 25 francs on purchase price of 75 in 100 years looks great deal like their famous and marvellous handiwork.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
GOING DOWN!

Dear Friend: It is one of the higher laws that each is what he has chosen to be; each Is what he chooses to be. It is sad to reflect that so many have chosen toll, labor and tur- moi
 In order to choose effectively, we must know to begin with, and we learn to know by exercising our judgment The Good Book says to be faithful over a few things and we shall be ruler over many. This means, we should be faithful over few good thoughts in order to be ruler over many good thoughts, or ideas.
 In short, stop guessing and know.
 Yours truly,
 ALFALFA SMITH.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16

weak -principled executives to exercise clemency in abating or reducing the pen alties. In Canada people are expected to obey the law-when they do not they must expect the consequences, and they are not disappointed. The penalties are all they expect--and then some. There is no intervention in behalf of offenders. The general Sopinion is that they have courted punishment and that therefore 1t should not be denied them. That is why in Canada the laws are obeyed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
HOW ONTARIO DOES IT

Tn the province of Ontario the usual fine for exceeding the speed limit, driv- ing recklessly, or driving while intox- icated is S20O. In many cases imprison- ment is added for good minatory meas ure. The result is an obvious and me ticulous care on the part of the great majority of drivers. There is no appeal from these penalties. Neither is there any opportunity for weak-minded or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16

Proposals by the general to increase postal rates on newspapers and periodicals in order to raise money for the proposed increase of pay for postal employees has been termed a tax on in- telligence to meet 8 fair claim.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
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The Modern Girl Is Jump Ahead of Her Jack "Is she old fashioned?" Julia "Is she! She still wears skirts that she has to lift near a puddle"
 Gertrude Marie Heller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
Dixie, Don't You Hear Me Calling?
 (An Unpopular Song)

For thirty years or more I've heard at almost every show Somebody yearn for just another glimpse of Old Black Joe; They shed tear for Nanny, waiting on the Swanee shore, And through their noses sing of roses by the cabin door. They shout with glce of Tennessee or for Virginia pine Grrrr, how I growl whene'er they howl a Mason-Dixon line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
THAT APPEALING MARCH

President Coolidge wants no inaugural ball. but does not object to a grand march to the Capitol-Boston Transcript.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16

"Who got the money?" is a familiar question in connection with political cam paigns, and it seems to have arisen again in the city hall shortage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16

Announcement that the crossword puzzle has been adopted by patients in a Pennsylvania insane asylum revives some of the pictures of "before and after taking"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
Worn By A Flapper Teacher.

Stratton: "In certain small town teacher uses a rubber hose to bring about school-room discipline" Bradley: q know a certain small town where the teachers silk hose disrupted school room discipline"
 F. P. Pitzer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16

If the choice were left to me. whether to lave free press e free government. would choose . free prssa-Thomas Jefferson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16

Multimillionaire Duke, by his recent action, is trying to convert waterpower into brain power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
Ask Dad, He Knows.

Child: "What animal is it that gets a nev skin every year, daddy?" Parent (absently) "Er-your mother.
 E. J. Kiefer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16

The average professional politician ought to realize that making his mark is one thing, and erasing it quite another, and usually more difficult.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
IT'S GOOD THEORY. BUT

It has been discovered that dollar bill lasts seven months. Now let the statistician who worked this out try to prove it by prac- tical use.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16

Trotzky has had to leave Moscow for his health. So did Emma Goldman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
OUT.OF.DOOR RIGHTS

Our out-of- door rights are gradually mar rowing to right of way and right of wait.- Boston Herald. s2rg
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16

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Threatened,

"If you refuse me, the days will be dark, dull, and dreary," he declared. And so since he was the weather man, she had to marry him.
 J. R. s.
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Chorus:

Dixie send an invitation to each pining son Put him on the old plantation, let him have his fun; Let him pick the snowy cotton, hoe the fields of corn; Show him he's not forgotten, feed him every morn With your famous Southern dishes-Mammy, hear my plea Keep each Broadway Dixie warbler far away from me.
 John H. Boyle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
Tit For Tat.

Dr. Chauncey w. Goodrich, pastor of the American church in Paris, says that the German Protestant world was aroused recent ly when it became known that the deed for the approaches of Wartburg castle the place where Luther translated the Bible and there fore one of the shrines of Professionalism was about to fall into the hands of the Jesuit order. Visitors to the Wartburg will recall that one must pass through a smaller castle in order to get to the Wartburg. It was this lesser edifce which was in danger, according to pr. Goodrich. In Rome, however, the au- thorities of the church are aroused in their turn over the completion of Methodist col lege on the hills overlooking the vatican gar dens. The young Italian theologians, fol lowers of John Wesley, may glance up from their "Wesley's Standards" and see the windows of the pope's apartments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16

Malice feeds on the living; after life is over it rests.-Ovid.
 If Satan ever laughs it must be at hypo- critics; they are the greatest dupes he has, Cotton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
FROM THE WISE

He removes the greatest ornament of friend ship who takes away from it respect-Cicero.
 Glory paid to our ashes, comes too late.-- Martial
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
America Leads!

The Nobel prize for literature this year goes to a Pole, Ladislas Reymont. Like Knut Hansum, who won the coveted laurels with his Growth of the Soil," Reymont's creation is also panorama of peasant life. Just prior to the announcement of the award, MT. Alfred Knopf, the American publisher, introduced the American public to the works of Reymont through some remarkable translations This fact has done nothing less than infuriated some of the literary lights of France. Their protests over what they call French laxity are pouring into the offices of the literary editors of the great Paris journals. "1s France going to take second place to America also in the matter of an appreciation of world literature? asks one contributor. Another remarks that America is keeping pace with the times, while France is falling behind even in the field of literature, field where she formerly held first place. It is pointed out that it was France which introduced the great Russian novelists like Tolstoi. Dostoiev- sky, Turgenev and others to the world. that it was France which formerly searched the literature of smaller nations for treasures to be given to all humanity. Of course the Ger mans also have some credit in this endeavor. But to be beaten by America "the land of machinery" that is a little hard to swallow for the French knights of the pen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-16
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MT. Bore (ardently): Let me be your anchor of love, dear!"
 Her father Cat head of stairs): Better pull up anchor, my boy; it's after midnight" !"
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"More Effectiye?"

Dr. James Moffats attempt to make the Bible more widely read book by putting it in effective and intelligent English" is not receiving the appreciation of the theolog- ical world expected by the translator. There is cretain stateliness and fragrance about the old version which has not lost any of its beauty during the three hundred years that have elapsed since it's translation by order of ''the Most High Prince James l." There are also sentences and whole verses in the old Bible which have become part of the com mon daily speech of the English-speaking peoples.
 Take for instance:
 Old Version-The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places; how are the mighty fallen.
 Dr. Moffat-On your battlefields the slain are lying and heroes, alas fallen low.
 Old Version-Saul and Jonathan were love ly and pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided.
 Dr. Moffat-Saul and Jonathan, loved and lovely, never divided in life or in death.
 Dr. Moffat says in the preface to his new translation that the old version is no longer ineligible. If that be true, someone ought to begin immediately with translation of Shakespeare. His works were written about the same time as the Bible translation.
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THE ACE-HERALD.


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NapOlean's Coat.

THE OvERCOAT of Bonaparte, worn at
 the battle of Waterloo, appears on the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-22
v. ]. COSTELLO
TO REST At
MT. OL|VET

Funeral services for Walter J.
Costello. prominent Democratic
leader and lifelong resident Of the
District Of Columbia, who died
Sunday, will be held tomorrow
morning from his residence. 14ll
M street northwest.
A mass will be celebrated In st.
Matthew'S Church at $50 O'Clock.
Burial will be in Mt. olivet Gene.
terry.
Mr.. Costello, fifty-eight years old,
for many years conducted Costello's
restaurant and hall at Sixth and @
streets northwest. He was a mem.
Der Of the Democratic central com.
mittee Of this city since 1884, serv.
ing as chairman, vice chairman
and secretary at different times.
In 1912 Mr.. Costello led the Dis.
trict delegation at the national
convention. He was also delegate
to the recent convention in New
York. He was president of the
Warthen Railway Control System.
He is survived by one sister, Mrs.
Mary G. Bryan. and two brothers,
Jere and John r. Costello, the
latter national Democratic commit.
teeman.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-22
TAKES
OVER DAVIS
CAMPAIGN
Board Of Strategy" Gathers
to Draft Battle PIans-1oo
Speeches for Nominee

The Democratic Party's national
board Of strategy met here today
70 draft battle plans for the John
w. Davis Presidential campaign.
The organization of speakers
bureau, drafting Of tentative speak
ing schedules for some of the
party's best known orators and the
selection Of headquarters personnel
were matters under discussion. It
was virtually decided, too, that Mr..
Davis would be sent on a cross
country speaking tour to include
Pacific Coast States. The nominee
undoubtedly will make q hundred
or more speeches.
Glenn L. Shaver, youthful West
Virginian and original Davis for
President" man, came into his own
today. Cordell Hull, retiring Demo-
cratic national chairman, turned
over the national headquarters to
Shaver, although the latter viii not
be elected to the craftsmanship
until August IL. From now on
Shaver viii direct the national
committee.
The Davis campaign will be run
from Washington, although cam
paign headquarters will be estab.
lished in New York and Chicago.
1t also was decided to open two
regional headquarters In the West
probably Denver and San Francisco
and two in the South--probably
Atlanta and New Orleans.
The conference was attended by
Shaver, Hull, George White; Of
Ohio, a former chairman; Daniel
c. Roper, of Pennsylvania, and q
number OF Democratic Senators.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-07-22

Bob billiard, Noted Actor, Dying,
AUoits Tender Touch Of His
Wealthy Third Wife

NEW YORK. July 22.-Win i'm.
pending death do for Robert C.Bob'D
billiard. noted hctor, ..man who
once owned Broadway" what lite
couldn't do?
VIII It bring him the love, pres.
ence and sympathy Of woman?
billiard Is dying In his Lake
Placid, N. r.. hone. alone and lone
some. A few months ago he ar
ranged an .samicable separation
with Mrs. Hilliard the third, who
was Mrs. Olga Williams, nee Olga
Everard, wealthy brewers daughter,
whom he married In Denver.
She has apartments at ISL Fifty
fouth street. She has not appeared
at her husbands bedside, despite
their "anlicable" separation.
Has Dread MaIady.
Cancer 10 the doom OF the man
famous as Fighting Bob" Even
facing that dreaded disease ana
sixty-seven fully lived years the vet
eran actor Ia still Fighting Bob"
but he does long for that most
soothing Of all things. q woman's
hand on a fevered brow, or & little
message that someone win care II
he goes.
AS death draws closer win the
woman he helped win a. divorce
from q chauffeur she married as q
girl and then fastened to Denver
to wed forget that they disagreed?
billiard In his teens rose from
obscure parts to fame az an actor.
For forty years he appeared in many
Of Broadway's most successful plays.
In 1916 he announced that he would
retire forever" from road, and he
did.
His title OF Fighting Bob he
won with his brawny fists.
In 1895 he used them on Amelia
Bingham's husband. "A few years
later his fighting proclivities brought
notice when he slapped valet, who
later asked monetary redress. Wilt.
lam Page, his valkt, leaped into
temporary fame because he had
come into close contact with Hi
liard's avenging knuckles. History
does not relate that Page collected.
VIII She Come?
At another time Hilliard used his
fists on q Claremont restaurant
plate-glass door because the doornau
refused to allow him and his third
wife to re-enter the restaurant to
get 5000 handbag which Mrs.
billiard had left at a table.
In 1922 Hilliard took troubles