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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
Everyday Psychology
By JOHN CARLYLE

The interest in practical, everyday, applied psychology keeps growing. Books on auto suggestion. new thought of one kind or an other. cures by faith, healing by believing, and the like, flood the literary market. Coue, the Frenchman who for thirty years has been making people feel better by making them think they are better, is finding sec ond welcome in America.
 The tendency toward growing interest in this sort of thing is a good tendency. 1t shows that people are thinking about the vastly increased possibilities of life when they are freed from worry and disease.
 They are seeking a way out of the swamp of fear They are seeking a serenity of soul which shall be sound enough to bridge the turbulant streams of life. They are seeking new pathway which shall lead tranquilly and not fearfully to what we call death.
 Along with much that is frequently mis. understood in practical psychology and the ap- plication of conscious thinking to the prob lens of living, there is one great central truth.
 The truth is that happiness is state of mind. When we have won the right mental attitude, we can adjust ourselves to cireum- stances however difficult, however painful they are.
 So many in their search for contentment make the mistake of trying to wrench them selves away from circumstances, to flee from conditions to ignore obligations and to shirk responsibilities.
 Contentment is not won that way. IL comes rather from adopting new attitude toward our surroundings. It comes from ac- cepting the obligations of life as the tools with which one is supplied to work out the best possible pattern. Don't be panicky. Don't try to run away from life,
 The mark of an educated man, says Presi dent Burton of the University of Michigan is his ability to adjust himself to circum- stances.
 Make up your mind. not intensely and painfully. but calmly and sanely. to adjust yourself to your work and your duties. Get into the right mental attitude. Then. cu- rously. but no less certainly. circumstances seem, to take care of themselves.
 Night thought does get results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
A VICIOUS INFLUENCE

Regardless of the presidents views on the Mellon tax bill, and irrespective of his at titude towards adjusted compensation for war veterans, there are millions of self respecting Americans who commend him and indorSe his denuncation of business inter estS which threaten dismissal of their em- plulcS who refuse or taiI to petition con gross ior enactment of the Mellon measure ur for defeat of adjusted compensation leg islation.
 The presidents position, which was ex- pressed in connection with reports that cer- tain business interests were thus undPrtak- ing to intimidate and coerce their employees. iS sound and proper, It is founded on principle and duty. He declared that such
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
SAVING GASOLINE
( Arkansas Gazette l

Chairman Page of the North Carolina high way commission. who is in charge of the great work of building complete system of i'm proved roads for that state, said in Il recent report that in North Carolina 142,2S4 motor vehicles used in 1920 an average of 320 gal Ions of gasoline. In 1922, 1S1 ,955 motor ve- hlcles used an average of 463 gallons of gas oline.
 These figures were offered as impressive evidence Of the saving that owners of motor vehicles have made through the imnrovement of the North Carolina highway system. Everybody knows in. a general way that a motor vehicle will use less gasoline in travel ing good road than in travelig bad road. With good roads a motor vehicle needs less gasoline per milc the tires last longer and upkeep in general is reduced
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
On Finding Our Oiun
By WICKEs WAMBOLDT

Everybody longs for congenial associates. Everybody consciously or unconsclously, yearns for that companionship in which he may feel sense of harmony, security and rest. And consciously or unconsciously, most people are reaching out for that kind of conlpanionship.
 That is one cause of social business and civic unrest. We are all seeking our own. And how many in this world find their own Not many.
 We are more or less strangers to each other. Sons may scarcely know their fathers daughters their mothers. Brothers and sisters may find nothing in common; and husbands and wives may never get acquainted. And why is it? It is such a general condi- tion that there must be fundamental reason back of it. And here ill my opinion is the reason:
 Perfect congeniality, .perfe.t harmony among people makes for quiescence. It tends toward self-satisfactiOn. It renders us flabby. We would not be eYacting of ourselves or others. The demands would be light and easy. We would not be kept on our toes We would not be held to our best endeavors in a condition where we were in perfect ac- cord with those around us. The boy sur rounded by doting and indulgent relatives is an illustration of this.
 We learn different angles of life through contact with those who are different from us. Through them we get knowledge and de- velopment that our own could never give us.
 Down. in South Florida there is a vine that has affinity for a certain tree, which it will creep a long way to reach, and pass other trees. It will climb the tree of its choice, twine round it's branches and hang thereon. But failing to find it's tree it rears it's own stalk in the air, develops its own trunk, and becomes self-dependent. We need the strengthening, the expansion, that comes through working with those who look at things differently and who are exact ing of us. Some day if onr experiences in this world have profited us, we shall find our own. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
EIDE DUDLEY'S RHYMES
 " Listen. Mothart"

Motrer. I am here thinkin just a feelin' sort of blue: half discouraged, heart sink in. like heart will sometimes do Luck has lately been agin me; set me back all long the line. Just to get the grit back in me, I'm forgettin'. mother mine
 have put my woes behind me an I'm back there in your arms. snusglin' where the world cant md me with it's worries an alarms. You're a sayin' There, now. sonny It's all right, dear-never mind. l.ifes aGin as sweet as honey. It's no more a weary grind"
 Mother, l must quit my dreamin an get busy after while. but this little bit of seemin' that see your lovn' smile has refreshed me
 made. another hopeful happy man of me. There's no blessin' like mother, though she's just a memory. ~.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
THE WORD ANONYMOUS"

There is gentleman SSho, explains the name of Ireland as having been given for him. In other words. that gentleman claims, humorously, to be sure, that he is the 'eponym" of the country known and loved as Ireland.
 It is easy to disprove his claim on historic grounds. But it is more difficult to prove that Rome was not named for Romulus, as tradition informs us. The fact is however. that the mythical person named Romulus was named for the town already called Rome.
 In other words, au "eponymf is q person invented to eXpa.n the name of city, a country or q race.
 Thus. the Turks. known as "Osmanli ' hHve q" "ponymous hero. Osman, to explain their origin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

only confirms public suspicion that there has been wrong g-doing in high official circles. The people are aware that most innocent men are willing to testify and take the conse- quences. as
 An observant contemporary insists that the last thing the Republicans in congress and out of it ought to do is to try to keep MT Fall from telling all he knows. If there be an impression that efforts are being made to prevent the whole truth from coming out, the political party which is so implicated as to create that impression will suffer more, not only in the forthcoming presidential election, but in it's future activities, than 1t would from a complete exposure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

attempts are "utterly un-American. subver- sive of the very fundamentals of democracy and calculated to arouse hostilities between employers and employees" Es.
 Any business interests woich pursue such methods in attempts to gain support for or against question of public policy, not only injure their cause through direct reaction of public sentiment, but contribute just so much to the injury of sound governmental principles and safe public standards. There has been too much vicious influence of this kind brought upon congress with unworthy motives and selfish purposes lurking be- hind insidious propaganda. The law-making body has been more than once mlsled through perversion of facts. Both tax re- duction and adjusted compensation are pub lie questions on which citizens have the right freely to form and express their opinions. Any selfish interests which would attempt through threats to coerce their employees in such matters are as unjust as they are furtive. and deserve the censure of all men who believe in fair play and decency Ill public, as well as in private, affairs.
 Such a policy is no less reprehensible than that of undertaking to control votes through threats of dismissal from employ ment Happily that practice, which was not uncommon among short-sighted employ CTS few years ago, has been largely sup pressed under the power of public censure, when the men who pursued such policy realized that public opinion regarded them as no better qualified to exercise the fran chise privilege than those swho would submit to such outrageous treatment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
Forum Of Tue People
Appreciation Of Bible Lessons

T othe Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Quite a few Bible men and classes have expressed in the highest appreciative language the good work George Lewis Bailes is doing in expositing the Sunday school lesson through your valuable paper g5 .s
 I would thank yob for the insertion of this small expression, and add that as the good things happen in the news we who are fond of Good News enjoy your great paper s spreading of the things of the advancing Christ's Kingdom. Too often those engaged in this special work of Christian civilization are bound by centuries of custom not to blow our own trumpet. when a great modern worker has reformed such modesty by saying Do all the good you can to everybody you can. and let it be known as widely as you can" Mir. Bailes is one of the modest ones and we wish him to know he is apprecia ted.
 WILLIAM D. GRAY.
 Birmingham, Ala.
 Thursday. a lamentable error, the name signed to the excellent letter suggesting a Wilson Memorial College was made to read Manning, instead of correctly, J. Sanford Mullins Alexander City, Ala.-Ed. Agn-Her- ald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
TO THE POINT

It's a poor mule that won't work both ways.
 As rule an heiress is more interesting than she looks.
 If a mans credit is good, it is because he seldom uses it.
 Farce Comedy-a young man trying to ap- pear old and an old man trying to appear young.
 woman seldom gets into the spinster class because of the objectionable clause in the marriage service relating to obedience
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
OUT, OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES

Little Edna was much frightened at a thundershower. and her father told her she shout 'p' he, the rain was for the grass and flowers.
 Lookn- up through her tcars Edna sad :: Well, why cant we have just plain rain :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

One of the popular indoor sports in Wasf ington these days is operation of politica toboggans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

Reports that immensely valuable oil fields have been discovered ina Chinese Turkestan compel the thought that it will not be long before some intensive uplift projects will be planned for that benigbted region.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

A question arising in connection with tn efforts of congress to ''clean house. is wha becomes of the rubbish?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
SOME OF 'EM PRETTY LOW
tOhio State Journan

(Oho State Journal
 Man. are reliably informed, is only a little lower than the angels and we have our moments of depression whan-we won der how low the angels are. anyway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

If there should be an international confer ence on the worlds ills, as a United State' senator proposes, the usual differences Il diagnosis would probably develop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

An astronomer says that six moons re volye around the earth. Before prohibition only two moons rose OCT the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
A Serious Situation

A Serious Situation -
 When it gets to the point that life is unsafe on the main thoroughfar of the capi- tai of the United States it is time for some pretty serious thinking, and that thinking should be followed by some very definite action A thorough investigation of the
 prohibition enforcement agencies, and prob ably shake-up, should be had.--Gadsden Journal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

Mir. Ford perhaps reads the Washington dispatches with, a feeling of personal satisfac tion that he didn't get into the campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
The AIaban,a Press
Chance For Optimism,
Opinions of Other Editors

When farmers of the South look upon the desperate conditions that prevail throughout the wheat section of the United States. where the losses have been such that many bank failures have resulted, they may indeed ongratulate themselves upon the lot of the Southern farmer, and the many opportunities and advantages that are his +lFlorence Times. vs+ v
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

It is true that laws do not worry people who have no desire to break them. It is also true that large percentage of people who do wish to break them, betray no special fear of laws.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
IN SAME BOAT

(Indianapolis News) The departments at Washington all need more money, which is exactly what the tax payers need.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

Leading members of the G. 0. r. seem willing to reduce direct taxes during presi dential year; but invariably overlook relief from the enormous indirect tariff-tax, for reasons that are not far'to seek.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

The public may be excused for assuming that the ship of state for the present is an oil-burner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

There is much charity in America. but it is not easy for the people of this country to forgive the robbing of wounded and sick vet eranS. '..a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

Egypt insists that there be no more free passes to newspapermen. actors out of work, friends of the authors and visiting notabl6. Unless the tomb is kept on paying basis the Egyptians see no sense in running it.
 Premier Zaghouh Pasha of Egypt and How ard Carter, the well known -sarcpphagus litter, are on the outs. MT. Carter has the keys to the tomb, but the premier has put squad of Burns detectiyes~on the gate with orders to let nobody pass who isn't 100 per cent. Egyptian. 1t looks like deadlock
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

A compromise may be effected by both parties selling out to the Shuberts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
The Once Over
By H. l.. PHILLIPS

The Truth About The Closing of Tut's Tomb Notice to the amusement public and gen eral tourist trade The tomb of Elmer K. Tutankhamen, formerly prominent king of
 Egypt, has been closed until further notice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
Team Work Counts


 A hundred people pulling together in town the size of Dothan can put through almost any sort of proposition, and fifty can usually do it.. In fact, less than fifty have put on foot many community move ments that materialized to the great benefit of Dothan, and the same can be said of any town. Team work. That is the thing that counts.-Dothan Eagle. An Interesting Comparison
 The average cost of collecting each $lOO in taxes under the Wilson administration was 55 cents. Under the Harding -Coolidge administration the cost is $1,27. an increase in government to make places on the gov ernment payroll for political henchmen is what is keeping federal taxes high. Cut out the graft and lower the taxes will be A Democratic slogan this year-Andalupia Star. Time To Take Stock
 Our future doesn't depend altogether on who operates the nitrate plants. and al- though such operation is positively assured within the next two years. we are pursuing a waiting policy of inaction that is nothing short of suicidal. It is time we were taking stock of our opportunities if we hope to continue our lead in the district.-Florence Daily News.
 It Is Good Business
 New England textile industries are seek ing locations in the South because they have learned that the South is the best place for them. The same reason should prompt Southern people to establish indus tries of their own in the South. If the South is best for New England mills, it must be a good place for Southern mills. have home-owned and home-controlled indus tries. It would pay them.-Anniston Star. What's In A Name?
 It is reported that five out of six new conyicts received at Kilby prison one day lately were named Willie. If these fellows had been used to answering to a mans name William or even plain Bill, instead of the sissified Willie" we think we would apply for change of front name.-Opelika News.
 Muscle And Morals
 Just so long as athletic coaches draw down bigger salaries than ministers and col lege presidents, just so long will it be neces- esary to hold religious revivals and tell the common folk that muscle is worthless when it comes to making touchdown where the walls of jasper and the streets are of gold.-Huntsville Star.
 The Greatest Asset i
 In truth there is no material wealth like health, none so rich in rewards to persons, or to institutions, or to states Half the sickness in America the doctors say. ia preventable. No doubt if fair beginning were made the other half would be found not unconquerable-Troy Messenger.
 A Civic Suggestion
 l Years ago the present site of the spring and gas plant was donated the city for puh- ,lic utilities. What better public utilities than to use the spring as bathing pool, and the land as a public park after the new gas plant is built.-Talladega Home
 X Tip For Doheny
 Rather than have polar exploration suffer setback, why shouldn't the generous Mir. Doheny come forward and finance that naval air expedition? They say thera's oil mp there, any way.-Tuscalo2sa News-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
THE ACE-HERALD
FREDERICK |. THOMPSON. .... .fREstD

Entered at Birmingham, Ala. post onies az .eo- ond- class matter. act of Congress March ,. lsfs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

Business was good but there has been a row between the promoters over the moving picture rights.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23

The tomb must be kept going at all costs It has been the greatest circulation asset the New York Times and London Daily Mail ever had
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23


 The tomb must be kept going at all costs. It has been the greatest circulation asset the New York Times and London Daily Mail ever had.
 Tombs are to Egypt what oil wells are to Mexico. And Mir. Carter was threatening to become the Doheny of the tomb field. At first Egypt let him have a free hand. but began to regret it when the moving men be- gan bringing out so much valuable furniture. Egypt's claim is that when she gave it to Howard to play with she didn tknOw it was loaded.
 The Egyptian senate is now Investigating and hints at a great scandal. The inference is that Bismuth Hejaz, secretary of the Egyptian interior, gave the tomb field leases to English and American interests for an H. legal consideration.
 It is openly charged that Bismuth was given three cancelled camels a sacred OK, two trained snakes and S700 in black bag. Carter denies there was competitive bid ding. He insists he bid 300 pinochle against all corners and got it despite the fact he only had eighty kings.
 "Al we want is fair cut. said the Egyptian premier today. ",Too many dead heads have been getting in. We want our own men in the box office to check up the receipts and we want our royalty paid on the gross When we first opened the tomb the critics did not give it very favorable nss1'.es. By using the newspapers we managed to put the show over until it became one of the hits of the season. It is now set for a long run but we must have fifty fifty split
 From an unofficial source it was learned that the plan is to put out two road com panies this summer. Both guaranteeing or1gi nal cast, of course.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
A Civic Suggestion

Years ago the present site of the sprine and gas plant was donated the city for pnb lie utilities. What better public utlitie, than to use the spring as bathing pool and the land as public park after the new gas plant is built.-Talladega Home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
A Tip For Doheny

Rather than have polar exploration suffer setback, why shouldn't the generous Mir. Doheny come forward and finance that naval air expedition? They say thera's oil mp there, any way.-Tuscalo9sa News-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
It Is Good Business
What's In A Name?

It is reported that five out of six ne conyicts received at Kilby prison one ds lately were named Willie. If these fellow had been used to answering to a man name. William or even plain Bill, instead the sissified Willie" we think we wou apply for a change of front name.-Opelil News t'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
The Greatest Asset

In truth there is no material wealth like health, none so rich in rewards to persons, to institutions, or to states. Half the sickness in America. the doctors say, ia preventable. No doubt. if a fair beginning were made the other half would be found not unconquerable-Troy Messenger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
Muscle And Morals

Just so long as athletic coaches draw down bigger salaries than ministers and col lege presidents. just so long will it be neces ssary to hold religious revvals and tell thu common folk that muscle is worthless whei it comes to making touchdown where tn walls are of jasper and the streets are O gold.-Huntsville Star,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
An Interesting Comparison
Time To Take Stock

Our future doesn't depend altogether oI who operates the nitrate plants, and al though such operation is positively assuret within the next two years. we are pursuini waiting policy of inaction that is nothin, short of suicidal. It is time we were takinI stock of our opportunities if we hope t continue our lead in the district.-Florenc' Daily News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
A COURTHOUSE SUGGESTION

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