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New Britain herald., 1924-04-18
JOHN LEVI, STAR INDIAN
 ATHLETE, TO TAKE PART
Will Be Among Those Participating in Kansas Relay Games 10 Be
 Held Tomorrow

. Lawrence, Kansas. April IS. - Nnety-five universities, colleges and preparatory schools from all parts Of the country will be represented by more than a thousand athletes in the second annual University of Kansas relay games tomorrow.
 Twenty-one relays and 15 indivi- dual events are on the program or the meet. the first major outdoor track meet of the middle west.
 Included among the universities en- tered in the relays arc Dartmouth, Iowa, Minnesota. Notre Dame, North western, Oregon Asgies, Wisconsin,
New Britain herald., 1924-04-18
500 Onrra GInsscs

;, PaEis--The late M Arthur Meyer, editor and owner Of the Gaulois. who was famous for. his collection Of books. also owned a collection of opera glasses Of which he was eS- tremelT proud. In the collection are 500 pairs of glasses, some Of them Of beautiful workmanship. which be- longcd 10 distinguished people.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-18
SAID HUSBAND BEAT HER
Mrs. Mary Varialc. Whose Spouse is in Jail. Granted Divorce After Tell
 ing Of His Cruelty.

Mrs Mary Nariale Of this city was given a decree of divorce by Judge Hinman Tn superior court yesterday afternoon after she had recited q story of domestic difficulties in which she charged that hsr husband had re- peatedly beaten her. The husband, Salvatore Narale. has been arrested for this offtnse several times and re- gently was sent to jail for 3o days. Judge George W. kictt appeared for her yesterday.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-18
S200.00O Damage in New
 Orleans From Wind Storm

New Orleans, AprH lS.-FlTty per sons were injured in a severe wind and hail storm which swept over sec tions of New Orleans last night wreck ing n score of residences and damag- ing others. The police believe prop erty damage will exceed se00.000.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-18
Horses On Rampage

Montreal Thousands of wild horses are orerrunnng the grazing lands in the Caribou district of Brit ish Columbia, damaging ranches and enticing domestic animals away. They are becoming such nuisance thai farmers are arranging a great round up. The captured horses will be sold for s5 each.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-18
SEND CANDY TO NURSES
l.Iks To Bring Easter Cheer to IsoIa- tion Hospital Nurses-Elks Frolic at I.e Bal Taharin soon.

At meeting Of New Britain lodge Of Elks last night it was voted to send a five pound box Of chocolates for Easter to each nurse and the woman physician who have been at the isola- ton hospital attending smallpox Pa tents. The Elks took this step to show their appreciation of tho self sacrifice of the nurses and the physi- elan in isola,ing themselves with those afflicted with smallpox.
 Plans are being made for an Elks frolic at I.e Ral Taharin m East Hart ford. The affair will probably be held in two weeks. The dance hall will be turned over to New Britain lodge for fine evening. Elks and their friends will be eligible 10 attend.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-18

interstate commerce commission today for permission to issue sl,$7o.don i'll five per cent. equipment trust certili- cates to buy 55 passenger and l7 bag gage cars.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-18
Special Blend Coffee, none better Regular 3sc ID.
 Saturday .35c ID. Roast Stuffed Young Chickens, 3 to 1 ID. average.
 sl.75 and S2.00 4!.
About the Store

Mint sauce.
 Tobasco sauce. Dronc4lsry Dates. Figs and Syrup. Sunswcct Pruncs. Burnt Onion Sauce. Honey in the Comb. -.. Cranberry Ssuce in Jars. Ghopped Olive Meats. New shipment of Mushrooms. scotch Ham and Scotch Bacon. Thirken, Potato, Vegetable, Egg luna Fish, Cabbage Salads.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-18
CAMPAIGN EXPENSES

New reports of campaign expenses filed al the office Of the town clerk include the following: Clifford l..
New Britain herald., 1924-04-18

One of the earliest of popular novels, Don QuiXote." is one of the longest. It contains 46l, 900 words.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-18

Tn 1927. two and a half million automobiles were manufactured Tn the United States.
New Britain herald., 1924-04-18
WANTS NEW EQUIPMENT.

Washington. April 1s.-The Central Railroad Of New Jersey applied to the
New Britain herald., 1924-04-18

Golf Is becoming very popular with the rank and file or the BIitlsh army.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
SEEKING OUTLET VIA MOBILE.

There is evidence of growing desire on the part of railroads in the central area to make rail or barge connections with the seaport at Mobile. The Frisco has made connections with the Warrior, and is being spoken of in grouping with the Mobile & Ohio. It is said that sev- eral roads have sought alliance with the Gulf, Mobile and Northern, which has interior terminals at Jackson, Tennessee. Among those most likely to succeed in this alliance the name of the Illinois Gen. tral is prominently mentioned. There is no doubt that the Gulf, Mobile and Northern is destined soon to make some important connections with roads serving the great producing sections of the Ohio and upper Mississippi valleys. The Hi nois Central covers this territory very completely.
 All this new railroad concern for the port is due primarily to the program of port developments and to the expanding steamship service entering Mobile. Only few days ago a French vessel made an unprecedented visit to Mobile for the purpose of taking on coal. The reason was doubly that of the efficient coal terminals at Mobile and the low price, amounting to difference in favor of Mobile of some three dollars a ton as compared with the price the steamer would have paid at the port where it received it's cargo. If the vessel had been an oilsbhrner, it could have been served with equal economy and dispatch at the govefnment oil station at Mobile, or at one of the private oil stations.
 Mobile suffered decline in her ton mage compared with other ports, because there was no resolute effort to retain that commerce and to keep the port equip ment adequate and modern in every way. There was also absence of concerted ef- fort to fight the adverse rate schedules that discriminated against Mobile and in favor of other ports on the Gulf and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
CONFIDENCE IN BIRMINGHAM.

Five new skyscrapers under construc- ton at one time, with preparations for breaking ground on another the first of October, and several more in contempla- tion for the early future, not including the three large apartment houses just completed, and two or three more in the planning for an early date, form con- struction record of which few cities the size of Birmingham can boast. The building record has been the largest in the South for months and will be larger than for any twelve-months' period i'll the history of the city.
 Aside from the feeling of confidence in the future of the community enter tAined by it's citizens, there is another aspect of the situation that is reassuring. It is that large part of the millions of dpllars represented in these investments comes from Eastern and other capitalists in the form of mortgage loans, which in dicates the faith these interests have in Birmingham and the Birmingham dis tfict as an important and promising in- dustrial centar..s
 Borrowing money at low interest rates on Birmingham real estate and building projects is comparatively easy. It is con- sidered good business and a safe invest nient by outside capitalists who are fa- niiliar with the achievements and projects of the community. When these interests manifest faith in a city and are willing to invest their capital therein, so much the more reason why it's own citizens should entertain an abiding confidence intit.
 Attesting also the confidence of local capital seeking investment is the readi- ness with which it puts it's money in Fir mingham real estate and industries. A large part of the local capital seeks in- vestment in local enterprises, not only because it feels safe in so doing, but from willingness to cooperate in the upbuild- ing of the community.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
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f'lndllig A Dog For Tine Stick.

MuAnS A OOS rOr Ino DUCK.
 TSTVESTIA, official organ of the "Presi-
 dium of the Union of Soviet Republics (official name of the government of Rus sia) comes with the flamboyant charge that the United States is responsible for the civil war in China. It's the result of the Ameri- can immigration policy, which has brought about an awakening ill all Asia and which will give Japan her desired chance to extend her territory on the Asiatic mainland, says Istvestia, adding with the usual bitterness that Secretary Hughes is responsible for it all. Now, as a matter of fact, it was Secretary Hughes who opposed the drastic exclusion of Japanese in the new immigration law, but with lstvestia this a matter resembling the case of wanting to beat dog and picking up handy stick to do it. As for the awakening in Asia, have we not been told that this is the aim of bolshevist propaganda in far east ern countries? Perhaps it's not the right kind of awakening, in Moseow's eyes. Istves- tia is right in the case of Japan. That coun- try would greatly like to intervene in the Chinese civil war and carve another slice off the mainland. .,.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Forum Of The People
stin waging Fight Of Rate Justice.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 You know of the vast amount of money the United States has spent to develop the rivers, harbors and canals of our country to provide an adequate water transportation system. And you know that there are very few boats operating our inland waterways today because one branch of our government the Interstate Commrece Commission has permitted railroads of the country to wage a cut-throat competition against the water carriers, and levy all unjust tribute against the water carriers, to make up the losses they incur in their warfare to put the boats out of business.
 The Intermediate Rate Association repre- sents the seven million residents of the ten Western mountain states, Eastern Washing ton Eastern Oregon, Eastern California, Montana, Idaho. Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico. We are lined up solidly behind the Gooding Bill Senate Bill 2327) which, when enacted into law by Con- gress, will wipe out freight rate discrimina- tion made by the railroad to keep the boats off of the rivers. The bill has already passed the Senate and will be before the House of Representatives in December.
 J. A. FORD,
 Secretary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Brief Nature Studies
TDMUND RHETT TAYLOR of Colum-
By !. OTIS SWIFT.

T DAIUND RHETT TAYLOR of Colum-
 bia, S. C., is a boy of eight who knows
 birds and their ways, who casually dis covers a blue grosbeck and its nest while scientists are eagerly looking for such treas ure-trove over the continent; finds a Caro- lima wren rearing her brood under the whir- ring teeth of a great buzz-saw, and marks with unerring vision. the rarest of the mi grants that flash shyly through our gardens and coverts," writes a correspondent.
 "Of course, he owes much to his forebears and upbringing From Taylors and Rhetts he must hold a considerable legacy of scientific and literary gifts, but nature endowed him with a privacy of glorious light that is his own special demesne. He was trained in a general way to observe nature and to love her, and this, added to his own endowment and flaming zeal, has made him naturalist in childhood.
 Hike most boys, he is fond of bird-nesting, but hunts nests with different purpose. They are priceless treasures to him-not things to be robbed and shattered. He waits until the little family has moved into the larger quarters of the wood before adding the nest to his collection"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
WHY THE TRAFFIC THRIvEs.

The decision to start impeachment pro- ceedings against the sheriff of Mobile county, followed by recommendation of the Walker county grand jury that simi- lar steps be taken against the sheriff of that county, indicates that sentiment is rapidly crystallizing in favor of rigorous law enforcement and of holding officers of the law to strict accounting. Action has, been taken or recommended against other sheriffs in Alabama. It is no secret that the people in general are firmly convinced that many infractions of law, especially of the prohibition law, occur because law-enforcement officers are willing that they should occur. It may bet true that the illicit traffic in pro- hibited beverages could not be absolutely prevented; but everybody knows that it could be reduced to much smaller pro portions if the law-enforcement agencies were doing their duty.
 Almost any citizen, whether he drinks or not, will admit that he "knows where he,can get it if he wants it." While such citizen may proceed to his purchase with the utmost secrecy, yet if he has any discernment at all he will soon become conscious that his bootIegger is not great 1y fearful of getting caught. Such citi- zen is also doubtless persuaded that, if it is so easy for himself to get in touch with a bootlegger, the law enforcement officers would find it more easy to do so, for that is their business It is doubtful if there is a county in the state where the officers of the law do not know most of the bootleggers by name and by sight.
 It is very likely that, although other parts of the state affected to hold up their. hands in amazement at the condi- tions revealed in Mobile by federal agents, similar violations, while probably on a lesser scale in most counties, could be as readily discovered. When federal agents went into Mobile county they found the business of liquor selling or ganized and financed most systematical- fy, and officers of the law actually in partnership with violators of the law. Il is not believed that any considerable merchandising of prohibited beverages : could exist in any county without the knowledge of those paid and sworn to uphold the law. There is ground fol suspicion that the officers of the law ir many places employ their positions to exact tribute from the violators of law and thus find good personal profit in betrayal of their official trust and their oath of office.
 That being the case, it is urgent that grand juries throughout the state place their duty before any other considela- tion and demand full investigation in all cases where there is reason to believe that law officers are prostituting their position for gain. Bootlegging on any consider able scale cannot exist without corning
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
The Right Word
SOMEBODY ELSE'S.
By ". CURTIS NICHOLSON

(Find the Error i'm This Article.)
 Henry BerkOwitz, New York City: Would you be kind enough to let me know which is correct: This is somebody else's hat; This is somebody's else hat?''
 Answer: This is somebody else's hat is correct.
 Singular or Plural:
 Margaret Marshall Chicago: Kindly in dicate the right word to use in the following sentence: Here in the United States, we had on the first of August 32,000 pounds more butter in storage than (was or wereb held there last year"
 Answer: Was is correct Pounds of but ter of a unit.
 Are Children Reared or Raised? Walter E. Byrne, New York City: I main- tain that children are reared and that pigs are raised. A friend insists that it is also cor rect to say that children are raised. Will you please tell me which one good usage sanc- tions?"
 Answer: Raised should never be used of bringing human beings to maturity. The common and correct expression is "She brought up her children with great great care,' or, an older expression, ''She reared her chil- dren." One raises cattle. The use of raise for bring up or rear is one of the errors that is very common.
 Yesterdays Error.
 Wrong: Furthermore, the verb 'feels," as lis" and appears" should be followed by an adjective.
 Right: Furthermore, the verb ''feels," like seems ''is,'' and appears" should be followed by an adjective.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Watching The Parade
By JOHN PILGRIM

INON'T tell me there is no such thing as luck. I know better This may not be
 along 'the conventional groove but it happens to square with the facts. Luck is just much a part of life as corned beef and greens. Nine self-made men out of ten can prove it-though they won't. To admit that luck helped might lessen that deep admira- tion they feel for themselves.
 Take Harry Johnson for example.
 Johnson was as broke as it is possible for any man to be in New York; NHe had been turned out of his room, he had not eaten for two days, no one would employ him at any wage and he was in the Grand Central Station because it was warn. If the detec- tives began to nudge him around he planned to go to the Pennsylvania station.
 That way" he told me, Il could at least keep from freezing"
 well-dressed youngster asked him to look after his bag for a moment On his return he chatted with young Johnson on this and that. Then he discovered that he had missed his train and asked Johnson to go to lunch with him. Because Johnson was positively wolfish he-with proper apologies-asked why and got the story
 Its funny" said the youngster, "but my dad wants a man to do some work for him and I think you'll do''
 Johnson went gladly. At the very worst he would get a meal or two. The yOungster' S dad smiled, but hired Johnson. Because the spotlight had been centered on him he was watched closely, whereas the dozen other men in the same joh were not watched at all. When he made good the fact was noted.
 Tt was just sheer, incredible, extraordn- nary good luck" says Johnson.
 But-his clothes were clean, even on that cataclysmic day of fate. Otherwise luck might have missed him. And it was luck that the luck came when it did. Next day he would have been tramp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
THE TRUE PROGRESSIVE

From my point of view he only deserves to Dc called a progressive who cannot see wrong persist without an effort to redress it. or right denied without effort to protect n; wto feels a deep concern for the economic wei fare of the United States, but realizes that the making of better men and better women fa matter greater still; who thinks of every SO" erumental policy first of all In its bearing upon human riehts rather than upon material things; who believes profoundly in human equality and detests privilege in whatever form or fin what ever disguise, and who finds the true test of success f., 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 in Individual man. All that goes to make better and happier and freer men and women Is pFogresA all eise Is reaction.-John W. Davis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
LIST ONE 0IrEsTION..

editorially, with the statement of a dis gruntled homcseeker, woman. It seems that she journeyed to California, invested in prop erty-desert land, the Times calls it-and was disappointed and made angry when it failed to increase in value She returned to her former home, where she told the folks that |: California has the littlest houses and the biggest liars of any place on this earth.'
 Now, we are q little too tactful to engage in any controversy as to the merits of Cali fornia land values. and whether the lady was done out of her money, We shall not even discuss the climate. Allow us, however, to ask one question;
 How do those biggest liars get in and out of those lttlest houses ?-Detroit. News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
COLORFTJL MOTORS.

Evidently automobile men have decided to brighten the corners where their cars are. The announcement that next years output of cars will be in all sorts of vivid" cOlors indicates that our streets and roadways are to become as brilliant as the rainbow. Ad. ditional interest is lent to the announce ment by the statements of the automobile men at their convention in Atlantic City "The women folk want cars that way" The use of the word vivid indicates that it is a mans proposition. Every woman knows from her experience in seeing her husband select his ties that ''vivid' and some color' are synonymous And when he wants to do something he thinks a bit foolish he always excuses himself by saying "the women folk wanted it that way.''-New York Evening Post
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
--h&agONCE : VM OVER
 E:ShIMR| NfL 5kIZLLPS

Laying the General in Cool, Dry Place |% ENERAL PERSHING, leader of the NtN largest fighting force ever raised by
 the United States in the greatest war in history, has been retired with best wishes and minimum comment. Less concern has been shown over his future than was shown at the requirement of Man O. War. Proving that the gratitude of a republic would be Il wonderful thing if some way could be found to keep it hot.
 England gives its war leaders titles, spa cious estates and enough money to live at least as comfortably as pacifsts and profit eers. America gives it's war leaders a testi- monial dinner, two helpings of bum layer cake and a recommendation for willingness.
 It is the Generals own fault for consent ing to retirement at a time of year when everybody's occupied with two big league pen- nant races, international polo matches, a presidential campaign and the Kid Mccoy trial.
 About the time the General was being re- tired on a shoemaker's pay, 80,000 Americans were over in Jersey City seeing that two other fighters, Louis Angel Firpo and Harry Wills got enough money to be financially independ- ent the rest of their natural lives. Which illustrates that war is war but that America prefers dancing.
 No general can expect the public to show any great concern over his future in year when the nearest war is in a place like China.
 General Pershing has devoted most of his life to the United States army He began at the bottom and worked up. The government gave him the work Now it is giving him the works"
 Six years ago General Pershing was the idol of a frenzied American populace Now it's Harold Lloyd. Then he was d national hero. Today he's just an unemployed army officer without the business head of Lieut.. Wood
 As soldier he never was found wanting. But as private citizen if he isn't found wanting plenty it won't be any fault of Congress.
 Pershing commanded so many more men than any other commander in American his tory that he made the others look like boy scout group leaders. When American troops did so much to rush the war to a victorious conclusion the American people waved flags, blew themselves dizzy through tin horns, threw away over ninety cents worth of confetti per person and declared there was nothing the general couldn't have from his country. -r.
 Then the emphasis was on the have .' Today it is on the nothing
 When he came home the people said he could have anything within their gift. He ! was given 235 parades and 467 dinners. Now instead of taking: all the 467 dinners at the time. the general wishes he had taken meal tickets or cash.
 It makes a big difference to an army man whether the people are celebrating Victory Weeks or Thrifty Weeks.
 Join the army and see the worlds grati. tude
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
Ode Of Immortality

Our birth is but q sleep and forgetting : The soul that rises with us, our life's star Hath had elsewhere its setting,
 And cometh from afar:
 Not in entire fOrgetfulness
 And not in utter nakedness But trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-hOuse begin to close Upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it
 flows.
 He sees it in his joy The youtlr7 wine, daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Natures priest, And by the vision splendid
 Is on his way attended; At length the man perceiyes it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
 WILLIAM WADSWORTH.