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New Britain herald., 1924-02-08
(. ". SEYMOUR TO
 TRY FOR CONGRESS
Popular Hartford Man Wants Re-
 publican Nomination. Tayors Bonus.

Hartford, Feb. s.--Announcins that he was not in sympathy with many of the policies of Congressman F. Hart Fenn, and that he especially opposed Congressman Fenn's stand on adjusted compensation for ex- seryicemen, Lieutenant Colonel Car- ence W. Seymour has announced that he would run for the congressional nomination from the first district if the republican organization wanted him to,
 Colonel Seymour is judge advocate Of the Connecticut national guard and served overseas during the war with the rank of captain.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-08
GRAHAM PROMISES
 HOUSE CLEANING
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in the world today. Great Britain ruled by a labor cabinet with e.000,- 900 of her people unemployed. Ger many. unemployed and hungry, France supporting a great army. The Balkan states ready to fly at each others throats. Russia. miserable. But here there are no idle, no hun gry, no stagnation. Business is &C., tive and money plentiful and sound. Is this not something for us to be proud of?
 Much comment has recently been made about republican corruption in high places. Violent criticism has been induleed in as to a recent sec retary of the interior and the recent director of the Veterans Bureau.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-08

Farmers cooperative organizations throughout the country did business totaling approximately 5000, ,ooo. 900 in 1923, the United States Department of Agriculture estimates.
New Britain herald., 1924-02-08
NEW ROAD TO WEALTH

Paris. Feb. s-Many Partisan wom- en are buying pearls. Because of the rising prices, these jewels are regard ed here as excellent investments
New Britain herald., 1924-02-08

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 Woolen Fibre Rugs. 10 0Q s1T-s20 value. for .. A L-OO Armstrong; s.I, Printed gsss !Sl S1.15 Foreign and Domestic Linoleums, irsaid, SIPS. s1.5e, s1.7e, s2.25, s2.50, g square yard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28

In luncheon address at Denver, Nominee John W. Davis defined 100 per cent. Ameri- can as one who believes in trinity of great ideals-"human equality, personal liberty and populate sovereignty"
 Some of those who sheer at the Declaration of Independence as only document of ''glit- tering generalities" have pretended that its affirmation of human equality, meant an il- lusionary equality in mental and material en- dowments Mir. Roosevelt is one of those who used to dissent from its statement, that all men are born free and equal. The Declara- tion was political document and what it res ferred to was political equality. Mr. Davis expounded it's significance in eloquent as we'll as accurate terms. NEyuality of right, as de- termined by the nature of laws and the ad- ministration of laws-equality of opportunity, so far as opportunity is created or affected by laws-this is the great ideal to which he ded- icated himself. Can government be founded on;a practical ideal of higher quality?
 The personal liberty he had in mind was, of course, not an impossible liberty that leaves us all unrestrained. Every citizen comes to an understanding of that very early in his political education. But the Davis conception of personal liberty is very elevated concep- ton, vastly different from that of a great number of Americans in private life and a great number invested with legislative and other official responsibilities. It is liberty as broad, in fact, as the Jeffersonian concep- tion. 'The only excuse for governmental in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
By Fl. ADDINGTON BRUCE

IF IT be true, and it undoubtedly is true,
 that the great majority of people do little ' thinking worthy of the name, the fact however lamentable is not surprising. It is a logical coAAequence of an educational system which sgnally fails to train for thinking.
 It fails for two chief reasons.
 In the first place, it lays undue emphasis on knowing as compared with thinking. And, secondly, it proceeds on the assumption that the children who come under it's influence come with minds open and ready for instruc- tion.
 Whereas the fact is that most of them come with well-developed mental habits in- imical both to learning 'and to thinking.
 This is not the childrens fault. It is the fault of parents who have failed to appre- ciate that mental habits are formed early.
 So, far from fostering in their children the habit of alert and independent thinking, they have insisted on doing all their children s thinking for them. And instead of keeping alive their natural eagerness to grow in knowledge-as evinced by their perpetual questioning parents have dulled it by silencing or evading the questions.
 Also they have themselves set the chil- dren a bad example of non-thinking. They lead routine, almost mechanical lives. They are not sufficiently interested in their work really to think about it. They are much more interested in their pleasures, which mostly are not of a sort demanding any vigorous thinking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
THE SPIRIT OF ARAB, ALABAMA.

A fair has often been spoken of as a community's show-window. It is that, but it is more than that. Fairs properly representative of the best commodities a community produces develop healthful rivalry and competition among farmers and stockraisers to outdo one another in the excellence of field crops and farm animals. They inspire in the minds of the beholders engaged in similar produc- tion desire to produce more to the acre or to raise animals of better quality. The community values are correspondingly raised when such sentiments bear tangible | fruit.
 But fairs are also important social fac tors. They are meeting-plaees of the people. They are liberalizing in their in fluences. They provide healthful enjoy ment and broaden the horizon of work aday people. An example of this is found in the community of Arab, Alabama, which is promoting a fair for October g to II. The project is possible because the entire community is working together to make it a success, The admission to the fair is free, which is a creditable fea- ture not commonly associated with fairs. Perhaps the fair is the cause as well as the result of that spirit of cooperation SCr6SSeO Dy 01e DdHh O1 ATdD III US HeS- sage to the people: "There are few com munities which can show more excellent community spirit than Arab. It is this spirit of practically one hundred per cent. cooperation in matters of civic progress that enables a rural community to have the advantages of a good school system and good churches. We are proud of the progress we have made along these lines, f,.sA of our people, and the spirit of cooperation shown in our community fairs"
 The bank also appears by way of being liberal minded. A community is what its people make it. Generally speaking, a community is desirable or undesirable place in which to live, according as its people are desirable or undesirable folks to mingle with. That community is for tunate whose people work together tc promote matters of mutual interest, bene' fit and profit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
HUNDRED PER CENT AMERICANIsM

terference with a mans wishes or desires or motives is that he may be restrained from infringing upon the right which his eneighbor must equally enjoy" said Mir. Davis This is an old gospel, but can any well informed citizen who watches the tendencies of the time doubt that greatneed exists for preaching it again? T. s.s sa..to
 He came to an easy and simple definition of popular sovereignty after his preceding ut terancess Itsi is such government AS q mum Der of citizens who believe in human .eqpality and personal liberty. set up, devoted to the interest; not of any class or sseetion, but to all the people, andsin which alr the people participate >1a -taats
 To those who assert most vehementiy that they are 100 per cent. Americans. what aper- Ecentage remains in the light of these sdefini- tions? Any who do not believe in one oi f these fundamental ideas or who show bJ their practices that they. do not believe ir it are only 66 2-S percent. Americans Those who do not believe in any two of them ol show by their practices that their professions of belief are .oniy lip service are. but B 1-s per cent. Americans. And those who,. regard less of professions, set at nought all three in their conduct and life are left witheutt any vestige of Americanism. et@+
 The Davis eloqnepce had also logic that is irresistible except to those who deny. and re ject his definition. But who can deny or re- ject them?-St. Louis Globe-D Democrat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
TRAIN FOR WORTH WHILE. THINGS

The children, suggestible little creatures, naturally react to all this by becoming more or less inert mentally They, too, would soon CT pass their time in play than in effortful thinking. And certainly the idea of settling down to books has, no strong appeal to them
 To make it appeal to them strongly-to "sell" them thes idea of education, So to speak--should under; these circumstances be the first business sof the schools, The, sec ond should be to ground them in the ,pEinci- ples of effective thinking. ~f'
 Instead of schools forthwith begin to pump knowledge into them-to cram facts odown unwilling threats. What the children 4earnr they learn simply because they have to!dearn it-and through a slippery nemorysprdcess
 The time comes when they are done with school. Unless they have been exceptionally fortunate in their home surroundings in contacts with truly inspiring teachers they put school behind them as an unpleasant episode happily now closed. .'.s
 The facts with which they have gnrged are soon in great part forgotten, And because they have neither been made interested in thinking nor taught how to think olrgood purpose, life's problems So E, ,demandful ot thought find them woefully unprepared,
 Some day very different state of affairs may obtain. Sss t4. e. siss
 Some day the home and the school smay productiyely cooperate in education that will really educate. Then we shall no longer be- hold the sad spectacle of myriads of men and women failing to use their thinking gifts as they were meant to use them. '' .f1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28

When Emma Goldman became convinced that soYietism is fraud and wearily moved out of Russia, which had received her with enthusiasm on her deportation from the United States, she sought refuge in Berlin. There she found some congenial spirits, but, as rule, the German radicals were too busy with their own affairs to be much in- terested in the woes of Emma, and she has lived, it is reported, rather a lonesome life there. The Government has not been par ticularly pleased with her presence, and on number of occasions hints have been given to her to the effect that her absence would be greatly appreciated But the Berlin au- thorities have never gone quite to the point of ordering her out of the country. It would, perhaps, not be polite to do so. Still, Emma has been given quite definitely to un- derstand that she was outstaying her wei come, and consequently she has not been enjoying herself in Germany any more than she did in Russia Now she is planning to go to London: She has number of friends there and some relatives.
 Under the new treaty regulations for the admittance of nationals of both Russia and England into the two countries Goldman can enter England. She is soon to, move back along the westward track. She has told her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
Watching The Parade
goes Old Jingle Ears" said an
By JOAN PILGRIM

"T1HERE goes Old Jingle Ears" said an irreverent young man on the corner.
 He obviously lacked respect for age. But when Jingle Ears was identified he seem. ed to be not more than forty years old. Older than Methuselah, perhaps but only forty on the salendar.
 II wonder" said I to myself, "why they call him Jingle Ears. That wasn't an in- spiration of the irreverent young man. It's nickname, and nicknames are, usually de- served and descriptive"
 So I watched Old Jingle Ears try to get aboard a car He stood where he should stand, but the traffic policeman gave the "gogo' signal and the motorman eased the car forward Jingle Ears could have gotten aboard without any difficulty. A boy, an elderly woman-the most helpless object in creation-and flapper managed it. But Jingle Ears stood there and scolded
 "Why-why--why? he asked, profanely. By that time the car had crossed the street. He waited for the next car, which slackened speed as it approached the crossing, so that he could have climbed aboard But he evil dently wanted it to come to full stop that he might march aboard in dignity. When it failde to do so he stamped and fumed.
 "Infernal outrage" he grumbled. Shall complain-''
 He missed third car the same way. So far as I know he is standing there yet waiting for a car to stop for him on busy crossing. No doubt he is right nj theory There isn't a question that he was gravely wronged. The law sets forth plAintly that all cars shall stop at certain places when hailed. Only
 This is queer old world we live in. Those If us who stand on our dignity are all right, of course, and perfectly justified, and en- titled to our rights. Only sometimes the world will not stop for us. Sometimes one must get aboard as one best can, or else get left. o.,, us Jingle Ears. a "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
GROWING USES FOR AIRPLANEs

The uses of the airplane in agriculture are growing. The spraying of orchards and the dusting of cotton plants have for some time aroused the hopes of localities in the feasibility of some economical means of cooperative control of com munity pests. Now the New Orleans reports that the airplane is being used in the Lake Charles district to survey the rice area and it's condition. The same paper also cites the fact that the province of Quebec has just com pleted an airplane survey, requiring two months, of a tract of twenty thousand square miles of timber that would have taken years to plat and map under the old method.
 It is unwise to predict any limitation to the economic uses of the airplane; for new uses are being discovered every day. One may we'll anticipate an untold bene- fit from this invention as it becomes inn proved and standardized. Whenever the demand becomes sufficient to attract competitive makes into the field, the peo- pie may be assured that inventive rivalry win quickly find ways of making the arplane as indispensable as the automo- bile has become.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
EMMA GOLDMAN GOING TO ENGLAND

London friends that she expects to make her home with her relatives 'until she has found the right place for her services. Now London is wondering just what, she means by that. Is she planning to occupy a soap box in Hyde Park, or mount the pedestal of one of the lions of the Nelson statute in Trafalgar Square and preach an- archism, which is her theme? The London police are tolerant of sthe 'ApielersY in those places and usually let them talk uhstintedly. Emma is a good talker. She makes a. red hot speech, full of interesting matter. She could easily hold an audience in one of Lon don's great gathering places.
 But the Labor Government, if it should be in office when Emma gets there. and starts speaking, if she speaks may not care for such demonstration. The Russian treaties are a rather sore spot just at pres ent in. English politics. There are reports now that Mcdonald will soon quit office and appeal to the country on the issue of the negotiations of these treaties. Emma Goldman might be a serious factor of dis advantage if in the midst of such "a cam paign she were to hold forth in theHopen even in denunciation of sovietisnn,' which she regards as the foe of anarchis@. ashins- ] ton Star. T7 fssa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
THE TRUE PROGRESSIVE.

From my point of view he only deserves to be called a progressive who cannot see a wrong persist without an effort to redress 1t, or a right denied without an effort to protect 1t; 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- Meves 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 aetion.-J0hn ". Davis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
JAPAN NITRsEs HER CRUDGE.

It appears that Japan seeks interna- tional compulsion to force the United States to arbitrate the question of Japa- nese exclusion from this country. Japan has refused to accede to the League of Nations protocol requiring arbitration of international disputes, because the league would not include a section providing that domestic legislation of any nation should be subject to arbitration. The Japanese evidently have not considered that the same provision would apply to disputes arising out of Japanese legisla- ton regulating internal affairs, and that she would deeply resent such application in her own case.
 Japan also forgets that the league could not force the United States to &C., cept arbitration of such a question with out going to war and first defeating thi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
RoRRED OF THEIR BIRTHRIGHT

Reclamation and conservation are matters with which the inter-mountain region, center ing at Denver, is deeply concerned The people of the mountain states owe what pros. perity they have, and stake their nope or rreater prosperity, jointly upon conserving fhe natural resources and retaining through irrigation their vast territory now unculti- yated. With the administrations record in dissipating natural resources as in the oil reserve leases, and the word of General Dawes that reclamation is inadvisable be- cause reclaimed land would come in compe- tition with established farms, the people may be supposed to have heard MT. Dawis's de- mand for surrender of the Republican. stew ardship with strongly sympathetic under standing His Denver address was well cal' culated to convince them that they have been done out of their birthright and will con tinue to be as long as the administration party remains in ofice.-MObile News-Item.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
GOOD ENOUGH AS THEY ARE.

specialist in the breeding and training of eanaries has undertaken, and successfully, it is reported, to change the song of those birds to that of nightingales. His method, it seems, is to let his canarfes from earl fest infancy hear no music except that of photographs that reproduce the notes of the more aristocratic and romantic vocalist.
 As canaries long have been taught to sing tunes in much the same way, there is no reason to doubt this tale, but what is the use of effecting the change? The natural chirpings of canaries is pleasantly musical in its humble way, and the nightingale is held superior artist chiefly because the poets have exploited him more and he stays out late O nights. Some of us would match our catbirds agaianst any nightingale, and our mockingbird is held his easy master by those who have heard both.-New York Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28

money or for fame. To the man on tip toe the man in the cage has everything in there with him. But that's because it's hard to think straight when your mouth is agape and tiptoes are pushing frantically away from solid ground. The man in the cage knows better. If he weren't almost used to it, he probably wonld be sullen about it, as well as about theTgapers who seem to take him for a trained bear"
 We'll, the Prince is ; now in Canada where they have a. habit of respecting royal whims,. and doubtless he is playing around outside of his cage will all the abandon his usual condition of ritual servitude has earned him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
APATHY A FEATURE OF CAMPAIGN

Democratic ticket. But straightway comes ts him the argument that if we open the custor, house doors to the products of Europe. worl CTS of the United States will have their wage3 cut, factories VIII Sl6se and a worse seondt tion of low-priced goods, less werk, i'd slowe5 wages will ensue. Other questions whIeh tn; campaign has developed are equally adlin4 But In this respect the 1924 campaign is nI different from others that have preceded II
 There is,. however, difference this yea ' Campaigns of other years, which were foughI for the basic principle of equal and exact jus tice to hll men and special privileges to nond were conducted upon astheory that some spd cific interest ought td be regulated Or dis covered This year alf the parties arescaterI ing to the workers. Consider the laboring maI of the cities; although he has the highesl wage in the history of the hnmansfamily and can dictate terms to those who desire to em' ploy him, still the parties and politicians arI alarmed for fear they cannot please hing ThI farmer, less fortunate Sin.s his economic situaI ton, is also giving the. parties much concern but with more reason. <<2 4 It may be a-wise political course to appeal to classes within ouEspopulation, but E doubI | it. The average worker is not unlike the fesI of us He islas law-abiding, self-respectini
 
 or impressed when patted on the back and told that he is poor, down-trodden individu al. He is not of lower order of society and politicians need. not assume that they cai take him by ther boot straps and lift him ta a higher plane. Personally, despise patronizing attitude more than anything in th' world. l care nothing about the wealth mer may accumulate. My sole objection to cer tain rich men is the lordly air, with whicl they strut and look upon their fellown1en al interiors. II sts
 So have the feeling that no one is going to make much in this campaign by talking about the soi1ed linen of man who work with his hands. Manhood in America is no marked by the grade, of apparel which on, may happen to-wear. One may array him self. in. purple and be a very disreputabl' character. Conversely, his hands may b. calloused and his attire reveal evidences oi hard labor, yet, he may be one of America' best After all, in the United States men arr men first, then doctors, lawyers, merchants mechanics and farmers. They naturally re sent any disposition to treat them as ipferi ors by virtue of the work they are. doing ana to repel efforts to deliver them to some politi cal party. @s&sv 4fs szlr
 Working men and women very. eheerfull! stand together for wages and working econdi tions. They are quite willing to subfnit uues tions of this kind to the judgment of thei leaders. But never believed that. theyfewer, willing to allow any set of men to dictatsthei political beliefs. The worker is the9equal O. any other, neither the master of another no his slave. As an. American citizen ke'H apt to use his own judgment and vote as hs pleases when the election comes on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-28
WHEN TWAIN MET KIPL1NGI

In the summer of 1889 Mark Twain and Rudyard Kipling met for the first time. Kipling, who had just begun to make his name known, was touring the world. He went to Elmira especially to see Mark Twain. The account of the visit and inter- view is described by Mark Twain as fol- lows: ...
 "Kipling spent a couple of hours with me, and at the end of that time I had sur prised him as much as he had surprised me and the honors were even. believe that he knew more than any person I had ever met before, and I knew that he knew that knew less than any person he had met before-though he did not say it, and l was not expecting that he would-and am the other one. Between us we cover all knOwl edge be knows all that can be known ana know the rest."-Angeles TimesS