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of his offer declare would have to be re-
constructed in order to make nitrates by
modern processes. Nor does the News
say anything about the A per cent. in
terest he agreed to pay on certain val
uation of the cost of the dams and power
houses. Nor does the News say anything
about an item of far more value to this
country than any sum of money, namely,
the conserving of the, original purpose Of
having reliable source of nitrates in a
war emergency. If this was regarded
as a paramount Importance in the late
war, why not equally so in any future
war, or as measure of preparedness?
The News also chooses to laud the
power trust and to decry Ford's offer by
speaking of Ford's "avarice." Does the
News not choose to remember that the
government turned to Mr.. Ford as a
last resort, after the fertilizer trust and
the power trust had declared the project
a failure and not redeemable by private
enterprise? Mr.. Ford did not seek the
project. The project sought him. He
looked at it, and in very short time
told the government what he would do.
His offer at once rescued the project
from the junking to which the Republic
ans were ready to condemn it, and over
night revealed to the whole nation the
enormous possibilities of this tremendous
asset.
The News chooses to call Mr.. Ford
arrogant" and "contemptuous," yet it
refuses to draw it's readers attention to
Mr.. Ford's earnest recommendation in
closing, that the government make every
effort to save the project, and that the
American people should not permit this
magnificent undertaking to be dissipated
or squandered. Does that sound Ire the
advice of an arrogant" or "contemp-
tuous" citizen? 1t doubtless does to a
journal that is obviously laying the predi-
cate for a campaign to turn the project
over to a monopoly for which it shows
singular and most tender solicitude.
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Leaves

Tramping legions quivering blindly,
Swarms and wild multitudes trembling
by
Glitter down, glimmer down,
Hurtle and simmer down.
Swinging in maelstroms out of the sky,
Spat from the heavens, beleaguered and
whirling,
Sodden with falling, befuddled with tears,
Culver and crumble down,
Shudder and stumble down.
Shambling hosts blown from the lips of the
years,
Hush They are crying;
Hush ! they are dying,
Scarlet is trOdden and golden is gray,
Pity the beauty
OF these, the years duty
OF maidens and gold,
These are the booty
OF storm, the frail loot, he
Demanded of old
Weep! They are falling now,
Signing and calling now,
Tread on them gently--the fragile and cold.
Grace H. RuthenEurg in Contemporary
NeISes
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Forum Of The People
RailrOad Head Anprores Editorial.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
have been greatly interested in reading
your excellent editorial article entitled,
Public and Rail Regulation which ap-
peared in The Birmingham Age-Herald of
October 5. Some of the points made therein
are eminently sound and go right to the
heart Of the question. You have paid the
Illinois Central System and MYSELF gener-
GUS compliment in this editorial. Speaking
for both, acknowledge the same with ap-
probation. express my high regard for
The Age-Herald, as well, and the hope that
it will continue to enjoy deserved success.
Cordially yours,
c. H. MARKHAM,
President, Illinois Central Railway Co
Chicago, ILL.,, Oct. 10, 1924.
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Several Different Things. "

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
My caption gives great latitude. The first
thing l want to discuss is the splendid edi-
torial in Fridays Age-Herald on the neces-
sity of letting the world know of the re-
sources of the state. This was timely ad-
vice and should be needed. Alabama's nat
uraI resources are second to none. Every
thing to sustain human life and its Injuries
can be found within the borders of Alabama.
The world should know of these things.
The notoriety that Alabama has gotten,
hitherto, has not been to the advantage of
the state. One of the states representatives
in the upper house of congress, has drawn a
rather dark picture of the Klu Klux Khan
having the state in its grasp and its officers
hoodooed. AS to the truth Of this condition
of affairs l can not say. But, l am in line
with Thomas, who seemed to be from Mis-
souri, and had to be shown. The ku Klux
Klans are not running hog-wild over East
Birmingham, to say the least OF 1t.
However, Alabama has had one distinction
that no other state has exhibited. AS to
whether that distinction will cause the state
to go down on the pages of history, IN a
blaze of glory, l cannot say. This distnc-
ton was Alabama sent to the national
Democratic convention little man-her hon
orable governor "(Plain Bill)'-who had the
biggest voice that ever announced the casting
of the states vote. A voice that made the
welkin ring in clarion tones telling the COCK
eyed world Alabama had a favorite son she
wanted to be kng-pin in Walter JOhnson's
town.
Birmingham-th chief city of Alabama
has opportunities to offer the outside CAPT
talist. Like Alabama, Birmingham's re-
sources have not been exploited. Her sons
and daughters are too alfred busy watching
that bunch of scrappers in the city hall. Ii
a wholesale resigning was to take place from
the head of the commission to the parks and
library board-a thorough cleaning out-and
entirely new blood put in, the city would be
the gamer.
The members of the city commission and
the boards, mentioned, are gentlemen and
ladies of splendid citizenship. Their personal
characters are above reproach Neither do
| call in question their integrity or honesty.
1t is the bitterness that has arisen between
them that is doing the city HARM There is
no harmony of action in their dealings and
never has been The difference of opinion
has grown from small fire-at the Begin
ning-to a dangerous blaze. Taunts are
hurled, insinuations are in constant use, UNI
til actual personal encounters have been bare
ly avoided.
This condition of affairs must be remedied.
There must be harmony of action if Biz
mingham taxpayers are to get some showing
for the money they are pouring into the
treasury. This harmony cannot be had with
the present commission and parks board.
don't care a hoot who is to blame. | care
not who is causing the disturbance, patriot
ism demands that they all step down and
out. The present city commission has never
given satisfaction. They never can.
There are other things but desist,
w. Ii. PAItnER
Birmingham, Ala
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THE rRUE PROGRESSIVE.

From my point Of view he only deserves
to be called a progressive who cannot see
a wrong persist without effort to redress
IL, or a right denied without an effort to
protect it: who feels a deep concern for the
economic welfare of the United States, but
realizes that the making Of better men and
women is matter greater still; who
thinks Of every governmental policy first
of all in Its bearing upon human rights
rather than upon material things; who be-
lieves profoundly in human equality and
detests privilege in whatever form or In
whatever disguise, and who finds the true
test of success in the welfare of the many
and not the prosperity and comfort of the
few. The civic unit of America is not the
dollar, but the individual man. All that
goes to make better and happier and freer
men and women Is progress; all else is re-
aetion.-John w. Davis.
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Pegs, Holes, Morality
h 1O AMOUNT Of scientific talk about
BY DE. FRANK CRANE

n TO AMOUNT of scientific talk about
IN heredity and environment can get the
conviction out of mems minds that an
individual is personally responsible for his
wrong actions. So long as conscience con-
tinues to operate we shall feel to blame when
we have done anything cowardly and unjust.
At the same time there is no doubt that a
deal of the blame We put upon the man
should really be put upon circumstances. A
lot of immortality is mere displacement.
A man in the wrong place is pretty sure
to give symptoms of what it used to be the
fashion to call sin and iniquity. Really, it is
friction that ails him.
A theatrical manager the other day called
my attention to the curious fact that certain
actors, who were unreliable, unpunctual, and
irresponsible in almost every relation of life,
were faithful in the performance of their stage
duties. 1t seems to be a sort of religious
principle among theatre folk TO be on hand
when they are due to appear, Their moral
sense is keen here when it isNrather lax in
other directions.
However unreliable a physician may be in
ordinary matters when it comes to his pro-
fessionaI duty he is usually alert and con-
scientious. There is something about a
ease" that can turn a lazy, immoral physi-
clan into a person of absolute probity and
faithfulness, at least temporarily.
In other words, when the lax physician or
actor is at his work he seems to tighten up;
his moral fibre becomes normal, He is in his
right place, In his right place a man is apt
to be moral.
Take the boy whom nature intended to be
a farmer. Place him in city clerkship and
he shows himself not only a poor clerk, but
a person of more or less looseness in his
private life. Send him out to ranch, where
he belongs, keep him in the open air and at
vigorous physical activity and his whole ma
ture sweetens up.
The first immortality is to allow ones self
to get into the wrong place. Of course, we
cannot always control circumstances and
often are compelled to work under irritating
conditions. But too often we go on. in sur
roundings that are fatal to us, just because
we are too fearful or too indolent to risk
change.
Be slow to condemn boy or girl. Much
of their apparent fickleness and worthless
ness is unrest, is that uneasiness that affects
all people who have not found themselves"
which usually means found their right work.
There are naturalborn sailors, merchants,
poets, actors, artists, bakers, and commercial
travellers People are of all spiritual shapes,
round, square hexagonal. Somewhere there is
a hole for each of them that fits. Each man
is a sort of Yale key that will go smoothly
into just a certain lock.
Half of morality is finding out where you
belong going there and staying there.
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THE Nssx x1sSea.x w"
.WMiSRk2koRWzH1
Out OF Date Constitutions.

n KONSIEUR JOHANNET, well known
MI writer in France, advances the opinion
that the nations are more difficult to
govern than in days gone by. This seems only
partly true. In the first place the trend of
political thought is toward democracy
genuine rule or the people, by the people and
away from despotism. The difficulty in con-
Quoting national administration is one of
the worlds democratic countries, like for in
stance, in the United States lies in the fact
that modern society has become an enormous
unwieldy 'lummox." No longer is there an
intimate relationship between the members
of society and the administration. Our ia
theirs believed to assure the state a greater
permanence, a more perfect homegeneity, by
the elective system. This has not come true.
The administrative machinery often lags be-
hind the social and cultural development of
the people. A constitution in the eyes of our
best patriots is something as Interchangeable as
the law of the Modes. Yet the fathers dared
to write in their constitution a spirit that was
far in advance of their times. After a GER
tain period, however, the times may catch up
with the spirit of the constitution, which, in
turn, would seem to necessitate the moving
ahead of the constitutional clock.
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Aw, what's the use O. washin'
An a-scrubbin' all the time!
You'd think us kids was nothin'
But lot O dirty CRIME.
The first thing in the mornir'
Jes' as soon as git up,
You hand me soap an water
An toothbrush in a cup.
My beds as clean as all gitout-
Gee whiz, Ma, it amt right
To make a teller wash his face
Jes' cause he slep' all night.
1t jes' seems like that's all do
Is scrub my hands an face
A kid I know done that so much
He washed 'em out o place!
An that strong soap, it amt no good,
1t hurts my eyes, Gee whiz!
It's liable to make a Teller blind;
You know, too, Ma, it is.
An them towels is awful rough,
They scratch worse 'en cat,
An if / keep on usin' EN-
My faceH wear down flat.
Tn g6in' to do like sister,
An do you know why? Because
I'll jes' put lots O. powder on
That's jes' the way she doesl
Arthur L. Kaser.
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The time is growing short IN when 10 com
plete the SWING of votes to the Democratic
ticket. What is done must be done within
three weeks. Those who expect to contribute
to the campaign fund should do so now If
they want their money to do the utmost good.
It begins to look as if the Borah resolution
of inquiry will keep the Republican contribu-
tons lower than they would otherwise be-
Therefore, the Democrats are not under the
heavy financial handicap that has often kept
them out of the White House. ,t
A dollar counts more in this campaign than
it has in previous campaigns, for it has to
offset fewer privilege dollars on the other
side.
Contribute to the Democratic effort and to
the success of John w. Davis.
Party loyalty has thus an additional man
ner in which it may serve the party.
If many will give moderately, the total will
be sufficient.
But in this community many are not Civ
ing even moderately.
Is the cause not a worthy one?
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BEWARE OF OvERCONFIDENCE.

Congress will soon be able to get down to
some of the real business of the fall session.
The fraternity and sorority rushes are over
an dthe pledges are now announced. AS soon
the football teams are arranged there will
probably be some time to devote to looking
after the liberal arts department-New AL
bany Tribune.
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Seeing that he is out of a job and
seems to have adequately refinanced his
ranch, we nominate Mr.. Albert B. Fall as
chairman of the Imperial commission"
to consider the problem of Muscle
Shoals. For attorney, we nominate Harry
Daugherty. For treasurer, Charles R.
Forbes. Having won these three ap-
pointments, we care not who the other
members may be. We hold that the
above appointments would be in line with
good old Republican tradition.
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HE'S TUNING IN

What has become of the Old-fashiOned cam
paign marcher who trudged along the leaf
strewn autoumnal streets in presidential
years with a leaky torch sputting above his
head and tdripping kerosene on his gorgeous
oilcloth cape ?-Proyidence journal.
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THE GERMAN BOND OFFERINGS.

The $11O,OOO,0OO in German bonds
allocated to this country for flotation
will be put upon the market Thursday.
Financial writer's appear to regard the
bonds as a good investment. They are
offered at 90 with interest, bear inter
est at per cent, and are for a term of
twenty-five years. according to the
terms of issue a sinking fund is provided
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If the bill gets through, look for Secretary
of Baseball, an Interstate Worlds Series Com
mission, Federal Bureau on Pinch-Hitting,
National Board on Disputed Decisions and
a Federal Commission on Balls and Strikes
There will be Government Inspectors OF
Charley Horses" United States Commission
ers of Twisted Ligaments and Government
Supervisors of Spiked Ankles.
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A family quarrel in Kentucky is not
the relatively tame affair if often turns
out to be in other states. For example,
such a quarrel in Williamsburg the other
day resulted in the death of one of the
participants and the wounding of six
others. Evidently, if it takes two to make
a quarrel in Kentucky, it requires several
more than that to end one.
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Hard Pressed.
Desperately she faced them. There were
four in all, big husky brutes of men! Slowly
they were closing in, their ferociously hun
CRY eyes almost hypnotizing her.
All the poor girl had in her hand was a
skillet, but this she welded with a dexterity
that was truly amazing! She kept them back,
though they growled in their threats and
gloatingly smacked their lips in anticipation.
Lam sakes," she cried, when at last the
meat was fried, 1T do beat all how hungry
you miners kin git !"
Martin Bauer.
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Madness OF PepOtism

Mandolin, great South American philoso-
pher is devoting some study to the char
acteristcs of tyrants In the madness of
Tiberius, Nero and Calgula, he sees a sort
of Nietschean will to power. This also would
seem to apply to such famous historical char
acters as BOrgia and Napoleon, the latter
of whom declared on one occasion Elm the
eyes of the founders of empires men are not
men, but instruments" But psycho-analysts
may easily see in the madness of such tyrants
symptoms of plain paranio. What else can
we call the action of Caligula in ordering his
image to be adored like that of a God? A
peculiar sense of dread for the future also
often enters into the mentality of such
rulers. Mussolini already has that secret
fear. His great and keen mind, trained
to observe the characteristics of the masses
is aware of the coming decline of his power.
He fears a debacle, tightens the reigns of
government and steers directly for the
cataclysm, which he in reality hopes to
avoid.
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THE AGE HERALD
FREDERICK I. THOMPSON. zee. PRESIDENT

Entered at Birmingham, Ala, post office as Sec
ond-class matter. act of Congress- March 6. 1879
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The Third Sex.

Bijou-"I understand that old Spender is
woman hater."
Billings-"That explains why he's always
running around with flappers."
B. 3, L.
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The Prince of Wales is, fortunate in
having train that is not scheduled to
depart until he is ready.
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.hG.aasONCE
0hgU OVER
Fe,leraI ControI Of Baseball.

A bill will be introduced at the next session
of congress providing for federal regulation
of baseball. Congressman Bloom of New
York is the sponsor.
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II the choice were left to me, whether to have
D free press or q free government, would
choose free press.-ThOmas Jefferson.
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IT'S ANOTHER MENTAL COMPLEX.

When man takes his wife to the thenter
he things it's up to him to 90 out between
the acts and telephone home to see if the house
is still there.-Chicago News.
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Congressional Items.

Senator DUNN will go before the Commit
tee on Appropriations and ask for $1,000
600 to deepen the artificial lake on the
private grounds of Babe Ruth at Sudbury
Mass. The Babe wants to stock the lake
with bass The Bambino has always been 9
supporter of the administration and viii
probably get the money.
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A La PhonograpIl.

Music is the food Of love-"
Eyes, and it's mostly canned food at that.
Edward o. Blum.
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Representative Drummer today submitted
bill asking an appropriation of $20O,0OOOOO
to provide marble club houses and dugouts
ON all major league baseball fields. The bill
will be opposed on the grounds there is
enough marble on baseball fields already.
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INTRODUCING THE CHILLY SEASON.

Grand opera may fall pleasantly upon the
ear, but nothing has sweeter sound than
the heat coming on in the radiatOrs.--Ins
dianapOlis News.
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People, says the congressman, think base
ball is crooked. If it is ever thrown into
politics they'll know it's crooked.
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Campaign Fund

The Age Herald is receiving contributions
for the Democratic presidential campaign
fund from it's readers. The fund stood yes
terday as follows:
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ASK THE MAN WHO OWNS ONE.

The most permanent wave is the crimp
which daughters beauty shoppe" bill puts
in dads pocketbook.-Fort Wayne News
Sentinel
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Telephone (private branch exchange connect
ing all departments). Main 1900.
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Looking Ahead.
.Joel-"What yo-all like bout dat big yaller
gal dat 20 is goin' to pr'pose to-?
Sambo-"What likes bout her? De way
she works, boy Dat gal am industrious.
She sure am bright future for any hus-
BAN"
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Walls And holland

Two interesting observers at the Geneva
conference recently were H. G. Wells, the
man "whO tried to undermine the national
prestige of France at the Washington arms
conference" as The Figaro has it, and
Roman ROLAND, the idealist, who dared to
utter a protest against the fratricide of the
great war in his world message. above the
Struggle" ROLAND is the thorough going
pacifist. To- him pacifism does not mean
merely to be a lover of peace, but to be a
worked for peace. To ROLAND pacifism sig
nifies a struggle that demands self-sacrifice
and heroism. His faith in pasicifsm is full
of passion, not a mere Sentimental fondness of
peace. That he dared to utter his protest
That he dared to utter his protests while the
carnage and slaughter in Europe was going
on shows him a real hero. 1t was dangerous
for him to live in France. 1t was even dan
gerous to be numbered among his friends. The
after war developments, however, have brought
a change. ROLAND is considered one of the
greatest and free$t spirits of Europe at the
present time. Even avowed imperalists like
NJ. Poincare admit the grandeur of Rolland's
pacifism, though he does not subscribe to his
views by long way.
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SCanty.
Il see this restaurant advertises pies like
mother used to make"
Eyes, 1 tried a piece yesterday. Judging
from the size of the piece L got, the lady
must have been the mother of a very large
family"
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MEMRER OF ASSOCIATED PREss-Ths As
ISOLATED Press is exclusively entitled to fol
publication of all news dispatches credited to 1t
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local news published therein All rights of re-
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There's a right and a wrong way to do
everything"
'Yes; but a man usually saves himself a
lot of trouble by doing a thing his wife's
way"
John Brodkin,
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Some EXP!

what did your mother say when you
came home from that dannce at three in the
morning?"
"Why, mother was with me!
Theodore Killian.