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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
The Ononiutorflarlics
By pK. FnAxK cKANE

The French call atic' any little bad habit There are those who clsfn to be ablet tell ones character and even ones occupation from one's tics. Scientific minds have rage for classifying.
 These observers note the farmer who scratches his head when he is embarrassed: the horseman who whips his boots with his cane the thinker who combs his beard with his fingers; if he has no whiskers he passes his hand through his hair; if bald, as some times the case. he messages the place where sthe wool ought to grow"
 Then there is the soldier who twists his mustache; the dry goods clerk who keeps straightening his immaculate necktie; and the man who when he is explaining anything draws all sorts of diagrams on paper.
 These tics sometimes become absolutely necessary. A well-known black-face monolos- ist always worked with little piece of string while he was making his audience ex. plode with laughter One day some one stols his string. He could not go on with his monologue until he had found another. < The story is told of Walter Scott that hs cut the button off his rivals vest, when hs was boy at school, and when the examina- tion came next day the rival, who was Latin shark, broke down because he missed the vest DulIOn He d1Wdyb ploycl WAea WAcA reciting, and hence young Walter got the prize.
 A congress of nerve-specialists listed the tics and gave them some elegant technical names. Thus the youth who caresses the first evidences of virility upon his upper lip has the oustachiostrepsomania those who twtrl their cane or umbrella after the fashion ot drum major have the strepsorhabdoma if you keep putting your little finger in your ear it is because you have the otodactyloma- mia.
 Then there are the etomatodactylcma- niacs, who put their fingers in their mouth the onychophagomaniacs, who gnaw their nails; the harmoniomaniacs who drum on the table or chair with their fingers; and the tre- podomaniacs, whose legs are constantly nov ing nervously.
 To which may be added the onomatoma- niacs, who are afflicted with the scientific disease of giving long Latin and Greek names to everything under heaven.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
BIRMINGHAM EXPANDS

Hanging up new records ill industrial prog sress in the Birmingham district may not be tnews because it is long standing custom; i; ghtit it is none the less gratifying. To citizens
 &ho are informed of the productive pOssi-
 bilities and who have always had an abiding
 faith in this districts destiny as one of the
 nations greatest centers of industry the re-
 suits are the fullfillment of prophecy. Hence
 their confidence is strengthened when they Tread of achievements in such volume as were Recently exemplified by several departments sbf the steel and iron companies, and other Enterprises which broke all previous records
 and demonstrated the progress which prevails Throughout the industrial field.
 I This course of expansion, this manifestation Of will to go forward, to utilize more fully ,ttie materials at hand for development and fto take advantage of the many opportunities flor constructive achievement is not restricted Ato any particular sphere of industry. It is
 seen on every side. Activity in the realty
 market with steady increase in values is one
 form in which it finds expression. The large and increasing building operations is another. fStilI others are, the steady gain ill the vol Sune of finished products, the growth of for Ssirn trade upon which so largely depends the
 anbstantial prosperity of the district, the big CA 1population and marked advancement in the Iretail trade.
 K So rapid is industrial progress that the
 community is forced to do more thinking and snore planning to keep step with the process .sion in the establishment of necessary pub .ic improvements and facilities. Thus the speople are realizing the necessity of munich
 q bal developments commensurate with the in sdustrial expansion. The school system must be enlarged and improved. The proposed school bond issue is but step in that direc- stion. The funds will take care of present fneeds; but the future is what concerns the citizen who has proper vision iof what Birmingham is to be. Extensive spaying projects. adequate parks and play
 Krounds, a public library that will provide .ths rapidly increasing needs, efficient fire Band police protection, a modern system of sgarbage collection and disposal, proper zoning
 a Arrangements improved and efficient health Regulations, an adequate sanitary and storm
 ewerage system-these are only some of the Spublic improvements which are not only nee
 essary for Birmingham's protection and hap
 piness, but which gre essential for Birming
 hams continued growth5and development.
 There was q tims-a few years ago-Mhen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08

cause during the period before we could make up our minds that the war was also our war He made understood abroad the underlying American sentiment at time when we our selves had not come to recognize clearly just what that sentiment inevitably was. In Wal ter Hines Page the Allies saw personified the nation that sooner or later would come to their support. At crisis when resentment against us would have been so easily created. our great war ambassador conducted himself with a tact, wisdom, fearessness and humanity that kept alive the allied confidence in America which the wrong policy or an un- guarded utterance might prematurely have destroyed, ere it had ever been tested.
 America may therefore be proud also of Ambassador Kellogg, who rose above all personal and partisan considerations, who carefully refrained from any invidious infer ence, and who gave to the memory of the revered Page that wholehearted tribute which the occasion, the merits of the honored dead, and the sentiment of his audience demanded. Mir. Kellogg has conducted himself, not in 8 manner to create remark as to his personal peculiarities, or to make sensation for sen sations sake; but in the manner called for by his dgnified position, by the worth of the people he represents and by the quality of the people to whom he has been sent as our ambassador.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
REOPEN HALE COUNTY ROUTING

The manner in which the Newborn detour .n Hale county was placed on the federal-aid map leaves the wisdom of such route in great ,loubt It will be recalled that the detour Was recommended by Engineer Wells after District Engineer Loder left and before Dis ,rict Engineer Toms arrived. That circum- stance, even though investigation may uphold she detour, is sufficient to warrant the state highway commission in requesting MT. Toms so reopen the question. It is hoped that the commission will do this. If the commission believes the present location correct it can nave no objection to having it inquired into. IF there is any valid objection to the detour, hen the state highway commission is under
 public obligation to ask Engineer Toms to
 reopen the question. The public welfare of Hale county and the general highway welfare ,bf the state counsel an inquiry. If the high 'way commission refuses to ask that the ques- tion be re-opened, it will be very pertinent for the people to ask why.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
IGNORING WALTER HINES PAGE

At the unveiling in England Sunday of memorial tablet to Americas war ambassa- dor to the court of St. James, Frank B. Keb logg, Republican, paid to Walter Hines Page, Democrat, q tribute that bridged all differ ences of party and belief. merging them ino a lofty sentiment that transcended all the su- perficial human divergencies and rested on the qualities of worth that all men recognize. It was well that this was so. Ambassador Kellogg was representing the American peo- pie before the people of another country. In the court of England he is neither Republican nor Democrat. He is the herald of the Ameri- can government, which, though parties come and go, is unchangeable in its fundamental and important aspects.
 The adopting of any partisan critical tone would have displeased the British as much as it would have grieved Americans, for Walter Hines Page was a beloved figure in Great Britain during the N>rkest hours of that nation He was the heraN who an nounced to the British the coming of the Americans It was he who typified Wash ington abroad in that titanic struggle. He was the tactful diplomat, the wise councillor and the sympathetic friend Vi the allied
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
What Is In Your Attic.
sy JOHN CARLYLE
HaYe Yon an attic?

Have you an attic!
 Is your attic. messy with old furniture? Are there dust.covered chairs with broken backs, and spindle beds and chest of draw CTS long laid away?
 Over there is an ancient trunk half full of things that. you have forgotten why you keep. They are no good now. They never will be again. Here is a footstool and yon- der two picture frames, and just there a mirror which doesn't reflect
 Well, that's an attic, garret, limbo. But it is not the only attic.
 There is garret of the mind. It is a bad place. It has no good excuse for being.
 In this attic of the mind we stuff our brokep-down ambitions, our worn-out ideas, the mean thoughts that we ought to have de- stroyed but which we kept. We thrust them all into the limbo of the mind.
 Into it we have put plans and sordid as- pirations which we know are not worthy of us. but which we are not quite sensible enough and strong enough to throw away
 So the attic clogs up and becomes mean and dismal, dusty place.
 It is a healthy thing for our souls to keen everlastingly eliminating the old furniture of the head and heart. Instead of thrusting them into the dust-hole, cast out the unworthy accumulations. Eliminate them. Check them off forever.
 Again and again we prove ourselves wrong. An idea and an ideal that were good yester- day we find untenable today. We can no longer live in happiness ill the house of yesterday.
 It calls for courage to throw out the old and take on the new. But it is necessary courage-necessary if we are going to move on to better things, to new hope, new happi- ness and new peace. ,
 We all go rummaging in our atics. We always shall. And there will always be things to be found there. There are so many pleasant things to keep.
 There are memories of little deeds well done, of unkind thoughts unspoken and of kind ones given earnest voice.
 There are the clean ideals of boyhood and girlhood, out of date now, perhaps, but just as honest as ever.
 And there are all the right habits and the right principles of other years. unadaptable perhaps, but just as true as ever.
 These are worth keeping,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
As To School Funds

10 the EQlCor or The Age-EeralQ
 If there was just one word I might be per mitted to say just now, I would want to say it in connection with the question of the appropriation out of our wealth and pros perity q sufficient sum to provide well for the education of our children, who are with us today, in all their sweetness, trustfulIess and hungry capacities, and who will be the men and women out wonder tomorrow with all the tasks and cares, responsibilities and possibilities of larger life upon them. That larger life with its larger tasks and weightier problems will rest upon their shoulders And their ability to meet them and their happiness depends upon how we provide for their preparation now.
 Ours is the honor and the glory, the joy or the shame of the future of our country. Adequate schools and ample library facilities are indispensable for the discharge of our obligation to our children and to our coun- try. I do not believe in knocking our busi- ness interests or our city government But frankly, believe that the people of Birming- ham are heartily ready and waiting for an opportunity to vote whatever sum is needed for amply and handsomely building and equipping the schools and library facilities that will provide the highest service, comfort and pleasure of their children.
 do not believe they want to economize on the children. If we must economize some where let it be on luxuries and curtail un- necessary city government expenses.
 It has occurred to me that perchance our commission and the bankers are opposing the educational bond issue more than are the public, because they want the money to cir culate in the channels of trade that they may handle it oftener or that they may have the more money to pay political debts or re r--I city hall.
 am encouraged. however. that the commis- sion is going to gite the parents of the city an opportunity to vote, at least, an amount they will not be wholly ashamed of.
 G.B. E. STOVALL.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
Watching The Parade
By JOHN PTT.GRTM

About the only permanent complaint have about my mother is that she is too good natured. She is forever finding something good in the most unpromising human mate rial Like the time she refused to believe the worst. of odr home-bsewed automobile bandit because on one occasion he helped her change tire. But last night she was positively vicious, when you consider that she is gentle, pink,and-white, gray -and-black old lady.
 That little Mrs. Madden ought to be slapped,, said she. Her husband is a goose permit her to ruin him that way"
 So asked what was the matter with Mrs. Madden. It had always seemed to me that she was about perfection in wife. 1t is true that haven't seen her for ages, but then Mrs. Pilgrim calls regularly.
 "Shej is a wonderful housekeeper," my wife reports, ecstatically. But mother says that housekeeping is only part of wife's job.
 "She is demanding that all of Jimmy Mad den's friends conform to her little, peanutty, narrow-headed rules" said mother. "or else he cannot have them for friends"
 Mrs. Madden had bem telling mother all about it, learned. One of Jim's chums since boyhood came out to dinner and laughed too loudly and put his feet on the cross
 
 a horrid black pipe. Another disagreed with Mrs. Madden about the question of German separations. Tim Cole eat olives at dinner and popped the pits into the open fireplace. Another chews tobacco.
 q told. James," said Mrs. Madden. "that I simply would not have that sort of people come to my house.
 No doubt her criticisms are all we'll found ed hut the net result is that Jimmv Madden goes nowhere and sees no one because he cannot ask his friends to visit him in return. Mrs Madden audibly sniffs at them, Or else she comes in coldly and says that she is. go- ing to a movie.i Not all of Jim's friends are under the han, but he is taking no chances on the unbanned ones. They might develop flaws under his wife's hurning-glass. t
 The Maddens, my mother says, haven't home nowadays. They exist in a museum. Jimmy and his wife might just as well be stuffed in glass cases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
The Right Word
By CURTIS NICHOLSON
Another Test Coming

(Find the error in this article)
 The next one will be a real test of your knowledge of some fine points in English grammar. Watch for it. Every reader will be invited to compete and challenged to earn 100 per cent.
 Like French And German 4a E, N. Alien of Cincinnati, Ohio, claims that -"eating soup" is similarly expressed in French and German, Italian and Spanish. In closing, Mir. Alien says: I've eat, but do not drink, gravy"
 Setting Him Right as3.
 James Burke, Port Richmond, N. l.: "In your column, "The Right Word" find mirable. In writing this note am moved thereto by decision of yours, in a late issue, relating to the use of the shall, will, should and would. It is contrary to the rule of grammar in use when I went to school I am a very old man, it is true, in my eighty eighth year, and. if you are correct, the rule has been changed The rule was: "Shall in the second person and will in the first per son when used interrogatively are both cor rect"
 Shall or will may be used in the second person interrogatively as, shall you appre- ciate my effort? Will you try to come? In an interrogative sentence, shall should be used in the first person as, shall help you? !? Only occasionally should one use will inter negatively in the first person, i. e. will go on the excursion? will. E
 Wrong: ".... there are more than one chief"
 Right: ".... there is more than one chief.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
Brief Nature Stories
By J. OTIS SWIFT

Cedar" furniture and boxes are not al- ways of cedar. Often they are ''Spanish, ce' dar," Cedrela odorata, relative of our sunnacs and the Chinese ailanthus. In many an old New England seaport garret is a seaman's chest of Spanish cedar, brought home from the West Indies in old days. Cedreala is a small genus of big tropical American melia- ceous trees. The aromatic bark is used to cure levers. Mahogany belongs to the same family. E4n
 There is ten-year-old Cedrela odoqata in the conservatories of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Children point it out as the Cigar box tree," because the aromatic boxes in which cigars are packed are made of it. Arthur Harmount Graves, curator. quotes from 8 letter from Professor S. J. Record of the Yale School of Forestry: Spanish cedar is imported in large quantities from tropical America and almost entirely consumed in the manufacture of cigar boxes. One reason is the aromatic fragrance of the wood which is believed to have a good effect upon tobacco
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
AU Should Help

MT. W Scott Hammond, engineer assist ant to the port commissioners of New Or leans, visiting Mobile on an inspection tour, was reported in Thursdays paper as predict ing that some of the railroads which have now no gulf outlet, such as the Burlington lines, will seek connection to Mobile as the Southern terminal.
 This is the more likely to occur if terminal facilities are provided at Mobile, so that the incoming road may have the opportunity of doing business on an equality with the other transportation companies; and this equality of opportunity is precisely what the docks commission of Alabama was organized to provide; and is planning to provide.
 Bear in mind what General Sibert said few days ago about the necessity of obtaining business for this port, and how there is re- striction upon the flow of business hither which must be removed if full use of this seaport is to be made. One of the means of removing the restriction is the introduction of rail lines which will be directly interested in moving Western projects to the seaboard via a gulf port. At the present time, insofar as this sort of commerce via Mobile Gs con cerned, the existing roads which have Western connections are more or less tied up with other propositions.
 Anyone can easily see, therefore, how very greatly important it is for Mobilians to sup port the commission in its efforts to provide the needed facilities, and even for them to go to the extent of sacrificing their individual interest for the benefit of the community as the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Rail road company has done. ..-
 This is no ordinary occasion, but, in truth, the turning point in Mobiles career, and calls for patriotic action on the part of every one who can do something tangible to help make a success of the state'R effort to develop the sesnort kfobila ReSigLsr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
THE POLITICAL CANDIDATES

K In scanning the long list of candidates for Eke county board of revenue, the citizen who |eels an interest in the administration of the |sVblic affairs may well consider whether any |H them are properly equipped to administer |Fisely and efficiently the rapidly increasing billions of dollars spent by the county each lear. To be a member of the board of reve- Hue is a worthy ambition, especially if the |,Spirant is of requisite capacity and deter |pines to make record creditabe to himself Ind promotive of the public interests.
 E Anybody can run for this important of Flee, if he qualities under the law. Enter paining ambition for public office and getting Elected often have no bearing on the candi- Eate's ability to assume the responsibilities l nd perform the duties of the position. While such questionaires as have been sent Eo candidates for the board of revenue by the Physicians' Civic League of Jefferson County |Fill put on record the candidates as to meas |tres designed to improve public health con |,itiong, and thereby have some effect in the asting of votes accordingly, the action comes loo late to be productive of that constructive Lervice which is so keenly needed.
 The real need is not the exaction from office seekers of prediction promises on |tuegtions of public policy. It has been time |1nd again demonstrated that many candi- Hates will promise pretty much anything to let elected, and forget their promises soon kfter assuring the jobs. Many others, wholly will make promises of co-opera- lion in constructive measures or programs md fail of fulfillment because they lack the capacity to make good.
 The pressing needs, therefore, are determi- patton and efforts by civic organizations and individuals to induce men or women of busi- hess capacity, administrative ability and per 5onal integrity to become candidates. Such candidates do not need to be put on record Is to any particular measure for the public welfare. They know the public needs, and
 hey will conscientiously strive to supply hose needs within the available resources,
 Fhile undertaking to conserve and increase hose resources within their discretion under he law. The largest field for public service lies with the citizens in bringing out and
 rvctnk candidates properly equipped for the futles involved, rather than in exacting
 promises from aspirants, few, if any, of
 Shom may possess the capacity to fulfill those fanr fn rmlses, teven though they earnestly strive
 Id do 30: The physicians object is a worthy
 bne. but it is feared that the candidates average capacity is quite below the minimum feqnired by the responsibilities of the office 70 which they aspire. Nevertheless, the ur-
 fency of the physicians may cause them se- .iously to regard this subject of public health, which too often has been neglected at the
 treat human cost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
The LdggardS

Edwin Arlington Robinson in the Yale Re
 view) Scorners of earth, you that have one foot shod With skyward wings, but are not flying yet You that observe no goal or station set Between your groping and the towers of God For which you languish, may it not be odd And avaricious of you to forget Your toll of an accounting debt. For dusty leagues that you are still to plod But many have paid, you say, and paid again ; And having had worse than death are still
 alive, Only to pay seven fold and seven times seven, They are many; and for cause not always
 plain,
 They are the laggards among those who
 strive On earth to raise the golden dust of heaven.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-08
GEORGES CROSS

The outbound car, says a London news paper, was crowded to the doors, The woman had a child in her arms who was either whining or bawling all the time. She was doing her best to quiet it, but without success, and the audible comments of the other pas sengers regarding babies in general and that baby in particular, did not soothe the moth er's growing irritation. Finally the car reached Georges Cross and the conductor, putting his head in the door, loudly cried out the name of the place Georges Cross Georges Cross P
 "Of course he's. cross, cried the mother with flashing eyes, "and 90 would you be If you were cutting your back teeth. VI Elecs trio News.