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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
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Mir. Sibley on Brick Rates.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 It is refreshing though not surprising to see the Traffic Managers at Montgomery Mobile and Selma raise a chorus of praise over. the decision in the Brick rate case.
 They admit their sections are receiving material reductions in the present rates and we are glad they are such beneficiaries. The Birmingham District would also be rejoicing if such were the case here, but on the con- trary we are being raised an average of over twenty-five per cent. Is it fair and right to penalize eighty per cent of the tonnage mov- ing in the Birmingham District that the ten per cent represented by the aforementioned Traffic Managers should enjoy such great favors as they claim?
 For many years it has been the policy ot the State when it needed additional revenue to turn to Jefferson county for some means of levying the extra burden. We have borne this with patience and patriotism because 1t was helping others to get an education and for the support of the local officials; but we think the line should be drawn when it comes to feeding the already over-runnlng co1ters of the Carriers!
 As stated before, the proposed change in rates means an extra freight cost of $12O,OOO for the building public of Birmingham to pay for its needs in Brick.
 The Esch- -Cummins Act says that 5A per cent is a fair rate of earnings for the Car riers, yet the average earnings of the Carriers operating in Southern territory has exceeded 6 per cent and the Wall Street Journal said that the profits for the year 1923 of the At lantic Coast Line (which owns the Louis vile and Nashville Railroad), were $1S.64 share; the profits of the Illinois Central (which owns the Central of Georgia), were S15.OO share, and the Southern Railway re- fusad from the outset to come within the guarantee of the Government because its profits were far in excess, and for the first time in many years its common stock has been paying dividends.
 There is certainly no justification at this time for wholesale raising of freight rates
 JOHN W. SHELBY.
 Birmingham, Ala, Dec. ?, 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
A WALLINGFORD COLONY?

While the government considers the advisability of deporting the notorious Ponzi, of frenzied investment fame, it would be pertinent to adopt policy with respect to the rapidly growing number of such cases. What with fake oil-stock promotions, stock-exchange exposures and the sale of portions of the public domain by officials of high rank, it be- gins to look as if it would be sensible for this country to establish a colony in some livable but uninhabited region, whither it might send those offenders not sus- ceptible of ordinary deportation. For citiAns are not deported under our laws.
 4 these cratic geniuses gathered to- -e| in one place might suitably prac-
 ir devices upon one another with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
HN' N'A9ONCE 9NU OXER

How To Care For the Car In Winter.
 This is the time of year when the upermost question with regard to your aut6Mabile is How Is she on the chills?" <sm1azgs
 Motor cars have been improved in nearly every detail in the Last few years but they still have open plumbing openly arrived at. And the mi,ute a car begins to manufacture its own ice there is trouble.
 There are various ways to avoid freezing The surest way is to remove the water every opening the petcock under the radiatoE
 To find the petcock crawl under your car and feel for it with your forehead from left to right. Most men locate it after. the fourth gash over the right eye, although it has been done in less.
 Having located the said petcock, grasp the handle and turn it. Then swim out. The car will have been saved from freezing and you will have been saved from anything worse than double pneumonia, ',
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 It is necessary to do this every night due ing cold spell This becomes rather znonot- onous, especially if the owner is difficult to amuse. After about week of .thii ths usual custom is for the owner to sell thu auto and buy himself a sled.
 Another method is to put. alcchoa in the radiator. Synthetic gin, rye or scotch may be used if the car is a particular rugged one, but should not be tried in the fraiI types A half pint of modern rye in the radiator of a car has been know to eat away everything but the rear bumper.
 Another safeguard is to heat the garage. This generally is done by installing an oil heater and sending a telegram to the fire department.
 Still another is to place hot water bags on the radiator just before retiring. A set of Scott Fitzgeralds works placed immediately beneath the radiator will serve even better . g5
 Practical security may be assured also by keeping a COW. A COW, kept in a garage with an auto, will throw off enough heat. to prevent freezing. If you have no COW write your dealer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
The Old Mans Shop

When I am old and pensioned and retired And permanently laid upon the shelf, With naught expected of me or required, Wot ye how l shall occupy myself? Not golf, not golf, for that way madness lies. Not books or music or the insipid joys Of cards or chess-nay, vastly otherwise; shall acquire a little shop of toys. .. There shall I keep intending holiday, Drawing delight from children's happy eyes, And dealing fairly, earn the right to play Myself of evenings with my merchandise. But when the right child comes with eager
 tread
 Heart-set on some most costly toy of all, And the right mother sadly shakes her head l will make magic and the price will fall. And when small grubby faces at the pane Proclaim the envious waif, the wistful stray, These shall be made to enter my domain, And shall not go unsatisfied away.
 Hilton Brown in the Second Lustre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
Watching TheParade
AST WEEK William H. l.. Graham
By JOHN PILGRIM

Y AST WEEK William Fl. l.. Graham I'M made the chief talk at the meeting of - our Better Business Club and got away with it. Lots of takers have been getting away with it, for that matter, but w.. Ii. l.. got away with it BIG. Yet it is only little time as time goes, that he opened two-by- four shop in our town. He had no capital to speak of. Now he is whale in our village puddle. "He makes us work for him." said my young cousin, who is one of W. Fl. L.'s em- ployes That's how he does it. We're on our toes"
 It appears that W. H. L. is not one of the nasty, rasping bosses who gains and Keeps the dislike of his men, On the other hand he is rather on the externally lazy order He drawls his words, he rarely moves fast and he does not often originate an ldea. Ills judgment is very good, but it is of the veto order. Yet he is constantly progressive. My young cousin said he would explain to me no" w. H. l.. works his game:
 T went in to see him the other day" said the cousin, land told him that l wanted more money. He just cooked back in his chair.
 "'Are you worth more money! he asked "Iu pay you if you are. But show me-.
 Whereupon he explained to my wifes rela' tion that he could hire all the leg talent he wanted by the hoof and hire it cheap. Back and shoulder muscles, he said, are the cheap est things in this world, except one.
 "That one thing is brains," said W. H. L., suddenly getting up. "Ill not pay you a nickel more if you are just weight-lifter and barrow-shover. Come in with an idea that is worth money and I'll pay you for II in your salary envelope"
 Well, the young cousin developed the idea and got the money. That's the way all of W. H. L's men have earned their promotions And that's the way his shop has grown into factory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
Brief Nature Studies
DANGER to farm lands, begun
By J. OTIS SWIFT

A DANGER to farm lands, begun by for A est fires, is erosion, the washing away of top-soil with its loam, humus and salts that give food to growing things. Forest fires on Western mountains have sometimes burned the humus entirely out of top soils, leaving nothing but ashes over ledges in place of decayed vegetation, which it took lichens, mosses, plants and forests millions of years to build up. The first rains following swept the ashes to the valleys, leaving mountains of bare rock.
 In clay countries covered by thin humus, fires leave the clay bare and rains wear deep gullies away from the water divides, leaving the land worthless for agriculture NO sooner have mans carelessly set fires gone out, however than one of his friends, Po- gonatum brachyphyllum, moss named for the Greek word for beard, starts in to save the situation. It grows from New Jersey southwark From it's spores grows a closely felted carpet of tiny threads, covering the ground, as it does on clay clay lands in North Carolina From this protonema it sends up plants with olive or dark green leaves. The moss holds the clay together until plants grass and forests take root and finally an other loam is formed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
International Trial.

Chairman, secretary and the whole presi- dium of the communist party in Esthonla have been arrested by the government of that country. In Esthonia the communist party IS an illegal organization and consequently all it's activities are underground as was the case in Russia in the days of the czar. The correspondence seized includes an agreement with the soviet government to assist in an armed uprising on November 28 and to bring Esthonia back within the precincts of the old Russian empire. Members of the Russian legation at Reval are involved in the plot, but they cannot be arrested on account of diplomatic immunity. The 149 arrested mem- bers of the presidium, however, must face trial for high treason and conspiracy against the state The Third International at Moscow is screaming alarm and predicts that dire things will happen in Esthonia should the comrades be condemned. "The red army is within striking distance from Reval and we will spare no effort to liberate our com rades," says Zinovieff, Europe's famous let ter-writer. In the meantime the Russian gov ernment has proposed to send a grouip of able lawyers to defend the incarcerated reds. The proposal may be accepted. There is pre- cedence for it in recent history. When the social-revolutionaries in Russia were on trial for their lives two years ago, Emile Wander Velde, Belgian minister of justice during the war, was allowed to plead their cause before the tribunal at Moscow. Not that his elo- quent pleas availed anything.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04

is that the press, in publishing news and items of public interest, is exercising not only it's right to print but also the public's right to the information. Therefore, the freedom of the press is not to be dis sociated from the public right to have the facts. The essential question at ls- sue is not whether the newspapers had right to publish the lists, but whether the public had right to the information. Inasmuch as the information was given out by the treasury department, it looks as if the test suit had been brought against the wrong parties. If the public has a right to read a public record, the press has right to make public it's con- tents
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04

out prejudice of the law, for each would know the record of every other and thus be aware that it would be a game of wits. That would remove the element of imposition upon innocent victims. The motto of such colony might well be "CaYe Emptor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
THE RIGHT TO PRINT

Although the case brought by the gov ernment against certain newspapers for publishing income-tax lists made public by the treasury department has been thrown out by Federal Judge Reeves, on the ground that the indictment was violation of the constitutional freedom of speech and of the press, there is further fundamental not touched on. That
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
A FEW BALLOON EXPERIENCES
 By Dr. Walter E. Traprock.

"The trans-oceanic Flight of the FRS was very creditable, and I am glad to see that Count Zeppelin and his associates have profited by some of the advice gave them years ago when they called me in as an ex. pert. This was before the war, when ] could properly work with them without treason to my own government
 "The Count and I were both absolutely fearless in the air. On one occasion our speed was exactly that of the sun, so that we kept pace with time. It was 12 o'clock when we left the factory in Gootcheim and Our time for 2,700 miles had been 0 min., 0 sec., which is hard to beat. We figured that with a larger motor we could leave Der lin today, let us say, and get there yesterday.
 Crossing the Alps on the way back we used the Matterhorn as a hitching post. A curious difficulty arose. A heavy fall of snow froze on the top of the blimp, weighing us down so that the sharp peak below threat ened to puncture us. I volunteered to go aloft, on the outside of the balloon, and clear it off. Hanging on the outside webbing, l crawled around the belly of the huge bag, reached the top, and set to work, using a sharp tool like lawn edge-cutter. You can imagine it was ticklish work, but was sue cessful and, as I freed the bag of its weight of ice, it gradually rose to a safer altitude. If had once stabbed too deeply with my edge cutter it would have meant disaster.
 My interest in balloons dates back to the time when the only element we had with which to initiate them was hot air. Even in that early period was considered an expert on the subject"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
AMERICAN CRAwFIsH IN FRANCE.

French scientists are puzzled by the ap- pearance in the River Cher, near Vierzon, of variety of crawfish hitherto known only in America. They now flog their brains to think how it came there.
 We suggest an explanation. The American crawfish was generated spontaneously in the political campaign of 1928, when Andrew Jackson was elected President of the United States In that campaign both sides craw- fished so much that the very heavens revolted, and it rained crawfish> for three days and nights Since then there have been periodic downpours of crawfsh. If the French scien- lists really want to find out about these new crawfish we suggest that they cease thumbing their treatises on the Cambarus and have look at recent political speeches, maybe those of NJ. Poincare. Once the underlying cause is located, tracing the phenomenon to its in ception should be simple-New York World
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
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THE MAN WITH THE IRON MASK

writing in Figaro, expresses genuine
 envy about certain conditions in New York. Playing golf by night on artificially- Illuminated links and with luminous balls is the cause of his chagrin. He hopes it will be introduced in Paris without the least pos sible delay. Those New Workers are in- genious fellows" he says. Gould better excuse for coming home in the evening be invented. than the necessity. of finishing a spell-binding game on the links. Here, at last, is something a red-blooded woman will believe. Talk of meeting business men and attending directors meetings has become bad ly worn. Something new had to be invented. America rose to the occasion with magnificent efficiency. It's the greatest invention since the telephone, that other medium of avoiding embarrassing situations"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
CHANGE FOR THE WORSE

Jud Tunkins says he wonders if the ele- phant and the trick mule didn't make the mistake of their lives by not stickin' to the good old-fashioned circus instead of getting into politics-Wa ashington Star.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
Maids Maxins

The girl with bobbed hair who tells you all the reasons why you ought to bob yours may be devoted friend-and she MAY be taking her technique from Aesop's tailless fox!
 If the modern youths pace seems unduly swift, remember that the sooner he acquires a past the sooner he can write novel about it.
 man is afraid of the rough side of a woman's tongue, but it's when his becomes smoothset that she has most cause for fear.
 When it poured, the old-fashioned girl used to stay at home for fear she'd spoil her clothes. The flapper goes cherily forth and spells them its such an irrefutable reason for asking for some new ones!
 The illusion of romantic love is the passion of youth, the amusement of maturity, the weakness of old age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
THIS WEARIsOME ROUND

| Our own personal horror of retiring is in spred by the knowledge that we must not only take off our clothes but that before re- suming the normal daylight activities we must put them on again.-Philadelphia Public Ledger 'f"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
CAN YOU BEAT IT!

Another blow at La Toilette. The supre me court has ruled in favor of labor in two cases growing out of contempt suits Whether the judges were unanimous or voted five to Jour makes no difference-Toledo Blade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
SAVING THE NATION

Some speak jocularly of campaign of saving the naton.' It is no joke. When the people fail to take national campaign seriously the nation is in danger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04

It appears that Chicago's notorious swindler did not wait for his sins to find him out, but up and told the whole story with as much composure as he employed in swindling his victims. At least, he had the virtue of candor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
CONSISTENCY IS SOME JEWEL

Of course the community of Zion H., which has just announced in a public letter that it is off science for life operates high-powered radio station to broadcast it's views.-Detroit News
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04

While conservationists are urging pro- lection of the forests, there are thousands of short-sighted people who imagine that the country has timber to burn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04

It is said that politics makes strange bed-fellows, but there seems to be noth- ing strange about the way many poll ticians sleep soundly on their official jobs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04

The question who will be Republican leader in the senate is secondary to the size and sort of following he can de- pend on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04

IT the choice were left so me. whether to nave . free press . free government. would choose . free prosa-Thomas Jsfferson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04

Maybe they call 1t the liquor 'ring' lin Mobile because it is being rounded up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
FUN ,- SHOP
She Was Heard From Already.
1QKZ4LL ILlD

Mrs. Smith: Tt cost us lot of money to develop our daughters voice, and now she should go abroad" Frank Visitor: "Oh, wouldn't throw good money after bad"
 -E. M. Schulte.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.--Thomson
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
FROM THE WISE

The poets heart is an unlighted torch, which gives no help to his footsteps till love has touched it with fame-Lowell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04

Power, like desolating pestilence, pollutes whatsoer it touches-Shelley
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04

Some fellows pick out Christmas present for their girl and others pick quarrel with her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04

Sigh no more. ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivPrs ever One fott in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.
 -Shakespeare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
THE JINGLE.JANGLE COUNTER

Upon her neck her pearls are hung; A woman's nerves are oft unstrung..
 Nathan M. Levy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
Reasonable Enough


 Black (peevishly): "Im getting tired of your continual demands for money. That's all I hear from morning, noon, and night 1! When are you going to stop?' Mrs. Black (sweetly): "When you give me some, dear.' Henry D. Stone.-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04
More Birthday Greetings

William, five years old, had just received a birthday spanking from a young man cousin, and was crying over it.
 "Why, Billy" said mother, 'you mustn't cry. That was just for your birthday" The little fellow stopped crying and, walk ing over to the cousin who was seated on a chair, hit him square in the face with bis doubled-up fist.
 "There' he said. That's for your birth day"
 Mrs. William Eyles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04

Big stakes at times the gamester wins; There's lots of doubling up in chins.
 Marc Fritz.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04

Naturally "Where can I find some good red-blooded fiction?" In the circulating library"
 -Elizabeth Kalisch. If Auto Shows would only show us how to pay for one! lCopyriEht. 1924 Reproduoton FoTbtdden.l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04

He pulled out a flask, and had one on the house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-04

64CLU6IvD MEMBER OF NORTH AMERI. CAN NGWSPAPER ALLIANCE IN ALABAMA
, 1924-04-17

per cent or more Of the total amount
Of stock.)
Rawlins Republican Co.
r. H. Alcorn, Rawlins. Wyoming.
3. That the known bondholders.
mortgages, and other security hold
ers owning or holding l per cent or
more Of total amount of bonds, mort
cages, or other securities are:
American Type Founders, Denver.
Colo.
Mergenthaler Linotype Co., Chi
cago. Ill.
4. That the two paragraphs next
above, giving the names of the own
ers, stockholders, and security hold
ers, II any, contain not only the list
Of stockholders and security holders
as they appear upon the books Of the
company but also, in cases where the
stakeholder or security holder ap-
pears upon the books of the company
as trustee or in any other fiduciary re-
)~lation, the name of the person or cor-
poration for whom such trustee is
acting, Is given; also that the said
two paragraphs contrain statements
embracing atlantis full knowledge
and belief as tc the circumstances
and conditions under which stock
holders and security holders who
do not appear upon the books
of the company as ~ 8 9 g 8,
hold stock and securities in a capacity
, 1924-04-17

other than that OF . bona fde owner;
and this aiiant has nc reason to be-
lieve that any other person, associa-
direct or indirect in the said stock.
bonds, or other securities than al SO
stated by him.
s. That the average
r. H. ALCORN,
Business Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this is day Of April. 1924.
v. X. SHEAHAN,
(Seal) Notary Public.
My commission expires Jan. Z, 1926.
, 1924-04-17
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department Of the Interior, U. s.
Land Office at Cheyenne, Wyoming,
April 10, 1924.
NOTICE is hereby given that Au-
gus: Swanson, Of Rawlins Wyo.. who
on August E, 1919, made Homestead
Entry, Serial No. O23773, for sWA
of Section 15, Township II NJ, Range
80 w, 9Th P. Meridian, has filed
notice Of intention to make Final
Three Year Proof, to establish claim