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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
THE WARRIOR CORPORATION

The house committee on commerce is con sidering the measure to form a government corporation, adequately financed" to oper- ate the Warriort until the Interstate Con- merce Commission shall have formulated a proper schedule affecting rates on joint rail and water hauls. To be sure. if there is no way of speeding up the commissions decision
 I this important question, perhaps the cor poration is the best alternative. But it ap- pears very strange that the government should be forced to such an expedient because of the failure of n commission, the creature of the government, to function in a vital issue. Before it makes final decision on the pro- posed corporation. perhaps the house commit tee would do welt to demand an explanation from the federal commission respecting its mysterious delay in giving full attention to such an important question as the welfare of the barge lines on which so many millions of the peoples money have been spent-it is hardly advisable to say invested until the money thus spent is properly safeguarded by the necessary stipulations as to rates, rights and divisions of joint revenues. It is ques- tion well worth the committees attention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
sTalsing z " alk At Nigl,t
By m. fitANK GRANT

When all the world is asleep T s6mek kimee take my stick and walk out to see vh.t o!d nature Is doing while she is not being watcneg:
 ss, it is going three, .aso the e'siae, i, seS tisfe iss lio eiehthauf law. Gravitation doess not sleep, nor beat, bof light, nor egtF1citzs nor lives nor the wheeling heavens, nor Nad,
 The young moon is holding her high. .torch:s' Ships of clouds sail by bearing carsoes o9 shadows. All the streets of heavens ars Around me the breezes are moving, wme. perinx some hint to the trees, which nos knowingly I wonder what it is all about. am an outsider do not know what v going on in the conspiracy pf things. -
 Wonder is the church tower, nold aealhss the sky. The chimes play a little tune, usher. ing in the hour.strokesy which speak in a deeper voice-one. two, three,
 | wonder how many hear that voice? Per haps in one of the houses around me IS fevered one, counting thinking how many ages have elapsed since he heard 1t strlke two, thinking how many more cons and cen turies there are to come before morning light .,sa,as ,.3ls s-e souls.
 mSoulight! Tie shadows are thicker, theif There are many things I cannot sec. thass sbyS daylight could see. But also some tnlnss coma out clearer now. never noticed ths iinesof that roof before, nor the contour ox that}tree. That statue at the corner also has T new pose apparently. s,.
 Even 90 there are things surging up in mo that knew not in the press of the daye affairs. There is sensation of smailnem. | am so little, face to face with the sGmore silence of the houses the mightiness Of tnes great town around me, the still majesty 0k the sky above. My soul feels like a, raindrop must feel falling into the ocean.
 There is a sense of my extraneousness, my outsideness to everything. ', sNescience op- presses me just as fin ufe daytime science oppresses me How vast fs that universe which do not know at aif!sis''s t}.s \
 a1i, stranger. do not know what the cosmos is all about. What IS this huge ma chine wherein I walk, not knowing why am here nor where nor when am going awsy3
 A sense of the infinite purposes of the unt-s verse inyades me. ., It is all part of 'some gigantic plan. The swaying leaves of fhas tree, the loud laugh of those night jewellers hear in the distance, the weaving stars, the thin moonshine I myself-we are all wheeiA cogs, pinions and shafts of the over-powering machine, each of us going his appointed way for some reason, but what? '
 I am confronting the everlasting riddle-- nature. 1 am before the stone-lipped sphynx-- nature. Y
 can only wonder at night. Daytime ! think I can know a few things,
 But at night can only wonder. Perhape that, too, is natures intention. 9k @sNaff
 For from wonder it is only a step to wor. ship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
A FAR.REACHING MOVEMENT

If it accomplishes nothing selse worth while, the radio, which is becoming quite common, is bringing employer and employe closer together-or is about to do so inaone instance of note. :
 The Canadian state railway organization announces that it is to install a radio in the home of every employe throughout it's 22,000-mile system. The object is to be in position to talk once week to all the em- ployes on subjects in which all are inter ested
 An excellent idea. particularly this get ting together of employer and emIioye. If more organizations which employ men and women would keep in closer touch with en- ployes, there would be less friction and less ground for complaint.
 Where there is general understanding and fair dealing labor controversies reach the minimum and business always moves along more smoothly than otherwise.-Omaha WOrld-Herald
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
EDISON HAS THE RIGHT IDEA

san franclsc0 CrOnlcle.
 Thomas A. Edison. celebrating his seventy seventh birthday anniversary, takes occasion to remark Work which one loves is tlI, best form of amusement and diversion That has been the wizards philosophy of life and therein. no doubt. lies the secret of his re- markable mentality and wonderful vigor at an age when the physical structures of most men begin to totter.
 And why should not work be made a pleas ure instead of drudgery? The successes are those who take interest in. the things they undertake to do. The failures are those who are guided by the hands of the clock and who consider their employment as only few de grees beyond a means to a meal
 All men cannot direct their activities into channels of their own liking. but if they face their task with determination and cheerful ness it becomes pleasure and there is no element of hardship.
 Edison has the right idea. If it weree fol- lowed universally there would be no grouches in this world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
WHAT FOREIGNERS THINK OF US

For some reason Americans, while reserv- ing the right to criticize other nations and other customs ad lbitum, appear to resent whatever foreigners have to say adversely about us. And we with our boasted sense of humor, too! For example, when Israel
 .angwill told us to our faces certain things that he believed true about us and which we might perhaps alter to our national advan- tage, he was derided and ridiculed. When, soon afterwards, another, an Italian, made bold to say the things he believed about us, his voice was drowned out in jeers. And yet he would be hardy American indeed who would sponsor the thought that we as l nation are perfect. The jeers he would receive would be greater in volume than those showered on carping foreigners who visit Us and speak to Us frankly. The trouble is that we are not always philosophers, nor can we
 invariably see the joke when it is on our
 eveS. In fact, we are 30 self-cOnscious that we resent manifest untrutns instead of re- ceiving them with good-natured amusement.
 Yet we should be able to perceive the humor in the reflections of Madame Marie JOnescu of Rumania. now visiting us' She says that American women are the loneliest in the world, because their husbands work them selves to an early death trying to give them luxuries. During his life the husband is away all the time at his business, and the wife is lonely. After he dies she is still lonely, even
 hough she marries again. There is enough truth in that to make it good satire, if noth- ing more. Then Madame .Jonescu (she must Ue one of the Ruinanian Joneses) asys thal American women are charming, intelligent dress faultlessly and never are too fat or too thin. It is to laugh No mere male American would have the hardihood to say that our women are not charming. at least sometimes. while sS for intelligence. there are none ot them such dumbbelis as not to know when they are being mOcked.S But do they dress fault lessly: If so, whence all this criticism of womens dress and the lament that contin- ually goes up about it in one quarter or the !
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
His,Crave 4 Shrine

It matters little where Woodrow Wilson is buried4future generations will find his grave In the last great plea he made for the cause to which he gave his life, before he fell like d soldier at his post, he said: My clients are the children; my clients are the next gen eration." Ara countless generations will journey to the grave of him who first among the leaders of the earth gave voice to the passionate protests of the inarticulate masses of mankind against the stupidity and futility of war.
 There was some sentiment for a burial at Arlington, where sleep the soldiers who died like him, in the service of the race. These boys he loved; for them he wept, even as he sent them forth to die, and Ae wr6uKht and fought st2s,tke end that they may not have died ii v6fn. Ever before his vision were those dear ghosts that now depioy upon the fields of France
 Wherever he may sleep he cannot be remote from the hero dead whose suffering and sac rifices have wrought the miracles of America
 He will live forever in the cause he made his own. Cynics may sheer, materialists jeer and politicians punily continue yet Q while their battle against desN,y, but the cause that has thrilled with hope the hearts of the masses in the humble cabins of the earth will prevail in the end. vi -
 He has raised standard that the people will not let fall. He has awakened"a a hope that the masses will not let die. He has harnessed his claims on immortality witf the truth that is immortal And the light suggests of his failure. now from men without vision and without faith. are answered by hi words: II would rather fail in cause tha l know some day will triumph than win case know some day will fail
 The prophets are almost invariably stoned but speedily men come along to gather uI the stones to build the monument.
 The men and women kneeling in prayer be fore the house where he lay dying are sym bol and prophecy.
 Whether he be buried among the boys o somewhere else among his people, the buria place will be a shrine. For
 Such graves as his are pilgrims shrines, Shrines to no creed or code confined The Delphian vales of the Palestinesr
 The -Meccas of the mind. ~s6 a4 N}S".
 New York World
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
The Once Ouer
Conversatish Bstwesa An on Stock Salesman 7H@ fs,% An A l~Ak ys 1 ssA <
By H. [. FHILLIPS

Conversation BeeWee9 An Otl Stock Hele9mam
 ft And A Goat < lss 4 F You really ought to set, in on this oil stock. It's great stuff. r
 Is it?
 You'd aba surprised. ! The oil wellS Nia this property are 10 ciose to the surfaeesM can reach it without expensive drilling equipment. Really?
 Yes. All we need is knife snd fork. This land just oozes petroleum. We really don't have to dig for it. Do you know all we have to do to locate oil wells on our land ?
 No!
 We just use oil sniffers. These oil sniff fers open up acres and acres of rich oil fields entirely by the sense of smell.
 No!
 Yes. And every well is gusher. Do you know what a gusher is?
 didn't 1. until you came in. Proceed.
 A gusher is a well that spouts oil in large quantities. We'll, listen: our g,fshers are such tremendous spouters it is impossible to con trol 'em for the first two or three hundred years.
 How do you get this oil, then: s
 We have to send men up in airplanes after it! And do you know the marvellous thing about this oil? z. No. What? !. It is of such pure grade it leaves no grease or dirt. All our oil we'll workers work in Palm Beach suits or white flannels. We have wOrkmen in the barreling department who are still wearing the same white pants they were wearing when they sstarted with the company. ' .r
 Do tell! z.zuA At 4
 I do. Why the lubricating greases we get from this oil are so pure 6 man can grease his automobile in his dinner clothes.
 But how can he get his auto into his din- ner clothes? Don't interrupt x
 If this property is so rich why are you out trying to sell shares in it to me? E. : I'll tell you. confidentially. There's too much oil there! .ssSsT ss
 Too much? y4,au
 Yes. The big men behind it liye,to9 the property and they can't stand the oilsfoks,,
 Oil fogs? @ u5tift. Yes. On account of the country being, SD rich in oil the oil fogs are continually envel. oping the country. You can't walk through these oil f0gs without getting saturated Would you believe it. the president of this company wrote me last week that when he walks through the property he has to wear skid chains on the inside of his underwear to keep it from slipping off? >'s j..
 No. j .e.
 Why it actually rains oil for two or three weeks at time there. We lost two officials last week in the widest oil blizzard in years
 Good.
 Whaddya mean "good:"
 Who? =ss <. H l dunno. '-n
 tAnd so on until the poor goat gets dizzy and invests his life's savings).
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
JOE'S INTEREST

ATSOnduI.
 Joseph Jefferson used to say that during his long stage career he was never associated with anyone showing undue familiarity ex- cept one individual named Bagley, his prop erty man for several seasons. The man was valuable in his way, and so MT. Jefferson tolerated his disagreeable manners until one night in Baltimore.
 The property man got very drunk in the afternoon, and in the evening paid his way into a gallery seat. Mir. Jefferson was play ing Rip Van Wrinkle" The angry Gretchen had just driven poor destitute Rip from the cottage. when Rip turned, and with a world of pathos, asked
 ''Den 1 haf no interest ii der house?"
 The theater was deathly still. the audience half in tears. when Bagley's cracked voice was heard in response Only so per cent, Joe. old boy only 80 per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
Lines To 4 Tombstone

GA. k. r. in New York World) Shed no tears above this frame. Weep not for the dear departed. Here lies one who, lost to fame. Died alone and broken hearted. None to hail the name he wore; None to give him praise of pity A He was never called before A congressional committee. O the work he did in vain! o the life he led in sorrow! NOught to ease his burning pin; Nought to cheer him on the morrOw!, Fame and fate to him were dumb; Fortune found him hard to fit. He Never had summons from X congressional committee. Let him rest in peace and sleep Cndisturbed ill mOurnful slumber. In the race of life, the sheep Didn't even draw a number. Not for him the clarion cry; Not for him the flag-draped city. He was never summoned by A congressional committeA .~.-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
WORDS OF WISDOM

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common iNs.- Lamartie. .e.
 Even from the body's purity. the mind re- ceives secret sympathetic aid.-Thompson. Gently took that which urgently came, And without scorn forgave; Do thou the
 same. -Coleridge. Faith is the pencil of the soul,
 That pictures heavenly things
 -Beveridge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
TO THE POINT

Lern to labor while you wait for results.
 Most people are good nurses when it comes to nursing animosities.
 An eccentric woman is one who dresses for comfort regardless of looks
 Too much of the noise of this world tries to pass itself off as music.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

There is no Iongef doubt tixt Birmingham
 is to be one of the country's most productive
 Industrial centers. Not only do its own peo- pie believe in it, hut it is widely recognized as conimunity of large opportunities and possibilities. The outsisles world more and more appreciates it's many advantages for investment and deyel6pment.s There need be n6> Ssurpyise that property values are con. staptly increasing. They are based on those which create values t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
KING TUTENKHAMEN A GRAFTER

Even the passing of 5000 years cannot allay suspicion. The magnificent relics un. eartned at Luxor provide serious evidence to gated grafter-Washington Post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
DEATHS IN 1924

New Orleans States
 There will be close to 100000 funerals in the United States during 1924. The. na- tional death rate is about twelve a year for every 1000 population.
 Births will exceed deaths, so the total pop ulation will increase-which seems to be. all nature cares about. We are like an army, forever marching onto the stage of life from one side and marching off on the other side We are across and into the wings a lot sooner than any expect
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
COULDN'T REMEMBER

London Tid-BltS.
 You've been out with worse-looking feI- lows than l am, haven't you?"
 (So answer.l II say. you've been out with worse-looking fellows than l, haven't you?"
 T heard you the first time. I was just trying to think"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
SOLVING THE FARM QUEsTION

A good many farmers are settling the aeri. cultural problem by moving to town. If enough to do 1t that will settle it.-Iewell. Kan, Republican. Ns"sn'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
Forum, Of The People
Islands For Right And justice"

To the Editor of The Age-Herald: s.'.l
 The commissioners court of Bibb county wires appreciation of your splendid writeup of before the state highway commis- sion at Montgomery Tuesday. Your paper stands for right and justice, regardless of persons. s,-
 w. Il. PRATT, 4 Probate Judge of Bibb County, Alabama. 3 1Genteryille, Ala, Feb. 27, 1924ss s,.e <
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
THEN AND NOW

The American Indian used to assert -7E;;s rights with a war club Now the wonle6's clubs do it for him.-New York Evening World. ''s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

Men stand by each other and never tell tales-which is why a wife 50 often hears news of her husband from the women who are married to his best friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
Modern Mdids MdSiif,is

There are times. it is said, when man insults a woman by making love to her there are occasions even more frequent when the fact that he doesn't make love is the deadliest insult he can offer!t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

In grandmas day both husbands and silk dresses wore a lifetime, but even if the mod ern woman could find that kind she'd be bored to death with it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

The woman who will forgive man every thing can be made perfectly miserable only when she marries. the type that asks her to forgive nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

Why is it that the female who telephones her husbands office unnecessarily never seems to marry the man who is always "in confer ence' when his wife calls up?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

Those who figured that this congress would not prove very interesting must now admit that they are not good guessers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

If Theodore Roosevelt were alive he would probably coin q few original phrases apropos of the political situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

It is reported that President Ebert of Ger many very seldom smiles It must be ad- mitted that he occupies a position which is no laughing matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
JANITORS TAKE NO CHANCEs

Overheated furnaces are found in homes seldom m apartment houses-Detroit News'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

It seems that the public official striving to make creditable record would better avoid intimate association with satchels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

Mir. Vanderlip is not the first banker who demonstrated that his financial judgment is more reliable than his political discretion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

Even though Congress should annul the oil leases it is not believed that Mir. Fall will surrender the title to the ranch he pur- chased.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

bad egg cannot be redeemed, but good egg can be saved from going bad, if you have to eat it to do it. {sy? 2.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

A woman may respect man for what h. does, but she remembers him for what h. EayS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

There are rumOrs that Washington City is to have an unusually powerful searchlght. There is no field more in need of illumination if the light be properly focused
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

It is unjust to blame the hen for bad egg. She guarantees it fresh on delivery. Wherein the hen is discovered of an integrity above that of many humans into whose keep ing the exg eventually passes. Z
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

other? As for the neshly balance, is not every American woman over thirty either trying to become thinner. or to put on flesh, or to keep her waist measurement where lit is? f@H@ 7
 '.In America" says the engaging Madame Jonescu, you wear many jewels and your little shop-girl has the wardrobe of . great lady" To be sure there are jewels and jewels. all of them looking we'll when not too closely exsmined.- But then, our women are not too proud, and will wear colorcd beads of wood with as much dash and aplonb as they would the Kohinoor. It is the color. the brightness. they affect, quite as much as the monetary value. As for the shop girls wardrobes, though some of them may acquire them easily, the great majority, through the stress of economy, learn how to select. make and wear their clothes so ss to be in the mode. without the attendant great expense the fair Rumanian may suspect. Our guess is that there is many a shop girl who puts up a magnificent front on the thinnest of finan- cial margins, and does it honestly, too. If she gives the appearance of an extensive wardrobe her genius must be given the credit for it. .
 Our foreign visitors are going to have something to say about us. l ~ much bet ter it would be if we should make them feel free to tell us what they really think rather It would be so much more entertaining, and surely they cannot pierce the thick integumene of our self-esteem, even if their opinion is not always flattering. As the flapper of decade ago would have said Let them rave! .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO

Some folks are longing for the automobile touring season so they can get out and get smashed up-Newark Advocate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29
THE AGE-HER ALD
T. THOMPSON. .pRnstpEk

, Battered Birmingham, Ala. pet oniss as sec esd -class matter. act of Congress March :. as1s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-29

Now The Time To Work-None of us has
 been content to sit down and wait till Ford. gets here to do those things that are needed I toward city building, We have always taken the position that we had the best town on earth. but with the coming of Ford it car,, and will be made still 6etter.-huutsvliIe Times l,@