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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-16
Life And Beauty
By U. ApDINoToN BRUcE

Lately I stood on a hilltop and looked down into little valley that I we'll remem- bered as valley of verdant open spaces, dotted here and there with garden plots and neatly kept suburban homes. A beautiful val ley it used to be, good to look upon at any time of the year. 4 But now saw no open spaces. Gone were the garden plots, gone the trees, and the suburban homes had given place to- com pact mass of -two-family and three-family dwellings. I found myself gazing into yer itable sea of gray slate roofs, threaded by shadeless streets of dead gray paving.
 The valley, in the language of my real estate friends, had been, developed" The developing" alas, had been at the cost of its former beauty. There was nothing in it now to charm the eye and stimulate the mind. -'. /. @a..-'
 All over the land similar transformations for the worse are taking place, as villages grow into towns, towns into cities, and cities into hulking monstrosities of wood and brick and stone, of noise and smoke and grime. 4 With the increasing urge of indastralism it is perhaps inevitable that people shall live more and more numerously together. But is it inevitable that this shall involve, as it now involves, not simply a destruction of beauty but an exalting of ugliness?
 If it is inevitable, then farewell to all hopes of a really sound, social progress For one cannot take beauty, out of the environ ment of a people without .lessening that peo- -ple's capacity for alert and vigorous think ing, for clear vision, for the full realization of life's possibilities.
 Nay, so essential is beauty to the mind and the morale that it may without hesita- tion be affirmed that sites of mean cities tend irresistibly to mean modes of thinking and behaving.
 If the social organism is today beset by many ills--and it needs no erudition to ap- preciate that it is7-the assault on beauty must in some part be held responsible. When ugliness comes, restlessness and discontent come with it. This could hardly be other wise when 1t is fact that craving for the beautiful is one of the instinctive heritages of mankind. 4s
 Even primitive man in his first faint gleamings of intelligence strove to give ex- precision to this instinct in the basketry he wove, the pottery he turned, the pcturings he made on the walls of his cave homes. Shall man of today, so-called civilized man, so yield to mere utility and commefcialism as to fall below his untutored ancestors in appreciation of the importance, the necessity of beauty?
 It is not too late to mend matters.
 Communities still not overlarge can call in landscape architects and city planners. as some already are doing. And even communi- ties fully grown-too fully grown--can by one means or another redeem themselves from the blight of ugliness. Concerning the means available for this most desirable end 1 shall have something to say another day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-16
BENEFITS OF NEW TAX LAW


 Not only is the new revenue law source of qualification to the small tax payer, in that his burden will be re- :duced materially according to his in- come and especially if he be married, but reduction in cases of larger incomes will make it possible for more capital to flow into aindustrial and other invest ments. The married man who paid one hundred dollars on an income of five thousand dollars in 1923 will be required to pay only thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents, If he earns ten thousand dollars a year, his new tax will be one hundred and sixty-five dollars, as against five hundred and sixty dollars. With larger exemptions in cases of married people, and with twenty-five per cent. reduc- ton for this year, it can be understood that, however faulty the new revenue flaw may be, it will prove highly accept able to those who have felt the burden in the past.
 A great deal of money will be turned loose for investment in industrial enter prises, and that is one of the things needed to~Btimulate the business. situa- tion at this time. Under the law of 1921 the man who paid $50, 40 on an income of $100,0OO will now pay $22,617, leaving more than $7,5OO for new investment. If this income were half a million dollars, more than sixty thousand dollars will be released for new business, while in the case of the man who has a million dollars income, $121,00O will be left for investment. Under the new revenue law many mil lions may be turned loose at time and under conditions when it will have a salutary effect on business. All of which shows that the new law is much better than the former law in it's bearing upon this feature of the nations business life, and is capable of proving a stimulus to business such as will offset in large de- gree the effects of psychological and temporary influences which have been the source of considerable complaint of late
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THE VALLEYS PROGRESS

Optimism, an abiding faith in their section and progressive spirit are char acteristics of the people of the Tennes- see Valley. They were generously fla vored with fertile and productive soil, extensive natural resources, an ideal cli- mate and many other blessings. Their belief in themselves, their appreciation of education, law and order, commer- cial energy, social sense and other in fluences of mans making, have done much to develop and advance their com munity interests.
 . It is plain that the people of the val ley believe in themselves and their op- portunities and that they are determined to achieve their destiny so bountifully endowed by nature. Q
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-16
The Right Word
AND NOW THERE ARE EIGHT fHn.s AL wr.. f.. nut. A -43oI.N
By CURTlS NICHOLSON


 Last week Mrs. Virginia E. Flynn of Rock vile Center, L. l., was announced as a member of the group which was so fortu- nate as to make only one mistake in the last test. -e.
 Today Mrs, Flynn is announced as the eighth member of the 100 per cent. class Her letter, which. follows, explains how it all happened. s.tt @.-.
 Some days ago I sent you my answers to the last test. I have since discovered that made a mistake in No. 4. It should read How should you like to be wer instead of How should you like to be us?' as I wrote have always known that the verb to be- cannot take an object But in. an article that you wrote some weeks ago and that I have just come across again, since sending in my answers, I was somewhat confused by your giving sentences in which to be- is sometimes followed by an object. Hence my mistake in No. 4, which am now correcting, if it is not too late and if may do so.
 Upon rereading the column I discovered my mistake, and, furthermore, l now under stand when and why it should be used So, as I take great pride in trying to get 100 per cent, and as you have not yet answered the test in the paper, may hope that you will change the answer of No. 4 in the an- swers I sent in and substitute this answer instead-whether it be right or wrong?
 "I received 100 per cent. in the, last two tests, and. wish to keep up the record"
 And 'The Right Word" replies, Mrs. Flynn-100 per cent"
 In the following sentence the objective case follows Ito be-" but him is not the object of ito be- as Mrs. Flynn stated We thought it to be him. Him is in the objective case to agree with .it which is in the objective case because it s the subject of the infinitives <
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gests, the saving in corrective measures would be many times that amount. Forty million dollars year invested in protection of city's people against crime, with discouraging results under present conditions, seems an unwarrant- ed drain upon the public. A. large part of that investment could be avoided and more effective results secured, if much of it were spent in preventing, rather than in correcting, crime. Chicago, like all large cities, suffers more or less acutely from inefficient police protec- tion. Much of the money spent for Chi cago's police is worse than wasted. A large part of it would not have to be spent at all, if more were devoted to es- tabiishing those factors and influences which tend to offset the development of criminals
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-16
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OPINIONS OF OTHER

Let Work Be Resumed. Failure does not always mean inability to get what we ask failure is quitting. Let the work for better roads be resumed.--Albany-Dec Daily.
 x One of Birmingham's Troubles Bad Birmingham is not so bad, compared with other cities. And it would be far less bad if so many of the sorry sort who get out or are run out of all the smaller cities and towns would locate elsewhere than in "Bummin- ham."-o opelika News. \ Hearts Young and Strony---A BiFming- ham veteran of 77 years wentup to- the re- union, at Memphis and took unto himself q bride. You can never tell what these old boys will do when they attend reunion and get to feeling gay. They may be old in years; but their hearts are still young and going strong.-Huntsville Star. %
 Rosy View of .Future.-Beautiful Monte Sano, with welcomingly and hospitably oSt-f stretched arms, bids you come-and, in many instances, the invitation has already been accepted. When big, metropolitan Greater Huntsville develops, you'll see the whole mountainside dotted with magnificent homes. Huntsville Times.
 Indifferent Towards Farmers. .--Republlc- ans don't seem to care whether they get the farmers vote, or the farmers get cheap fer tilizers, or ot>In other words, they don't appear to think that the farmers cut much of a figure much less hold the balance of power any longer in national elections.- Talladega Daily Home ssse
 All Honor to the Heroes !-The good peo- z kar Ina fv of entertaining the boys who broke the Ger man line of defense when, the American Le- zion hold their state convention here in few weeks. Nothing that we can do will be one-half as good as we would like to do for these veterans of thes World War. All honor is due the boys who did the fighting Tuscaloosa News. aa
 Negroes Returning South-The migration of negroes from Southern states to Northern industrial centers appears to have been checked. Little is heard now of negroes leaving agricultural districts or towns and cities in the South for the North. On the other hand it appears that many of the ne groes who left Southern homes to try their fortunes in the Northern cities have man. aged to. get back into the South and that they are well content to stay there.-Annis- ton Star.
 Facing Important Period.-Although it may be ten, fifteen or twenty years before he recognizes the fact, and then it will be too late, the high school graduate of the year just ended this summer is facing the most important period of his entire life. the pe- riod which &ill determine, not only his busi- ness success, but his future happiness and satisfaction. The young man that has, just finished high school must make the decision as to what he intends to do and what he intends to be, or he will drift along the rest of his life as the current of events may carry him.-Florence Times. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-16
BIRMINGHAM USES IRON OUTPUT

A few years ago seventy per cent. of the iron manufactured in this state was marketed at various points hundreds of miles away. Today it is estimated that hot more than twenty-five per cent. of the product is sent out of the state. While some iron made in the Birming- ham district is sold to Memphis, Nash vile, Chattanooga, and other nearby manufacturers, the greatest part of it is turned into finished products in this dis trict. Some of the iron makers use their entire output for manufacture, while many industries using iron as basic material are taking much of the dis trict's output for their own mills. No little of the iron goes into wire fencing and nails, water and gas piping, engines, sugar machinery, stoves and many other things large part of which finds a ready market in this territory.
 At the present rate of production Ala bama makes nearly three million tons of iron a year. As seventy-five per cent. of this is turned into finished products in this territory, there is large saving in transportation rates two ways. The rapid development of diversified manu- featuring provides steady employment for thousands of workers, creates large pay-rolls, and contributes generously to the progress and prosperity of the com munity. That is one of the main req sons for the growth and wealth of the Birmingham district.
 Leading railroads entering this dis trict, which formerly received a very large part of their tonnage in the move ,ment of iron, now report that they get much more business from diversified manufacturing in this district and that this constantly shows an increase. They look for rapid growth in this movement and are unanimous in the opinion that the diversity stride which the district took few years ago portends one of the most productive and prosperous indus trial centers in the country. While there is always a comparatively active demand for Alabama iron in many manufactur- ing centers, the steadily increasing use of this basic material at home is the most reassuring indication of Birming sham's steady progress in the industrial world T rs --7
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sUCGEsTED CRIME PREVENTION

Millions of innocent sufferers from the "jazz mad" era will hope that Mayor Dever of Chicago was correct in his pre- diction that the craze is approaching it's close. The mayor also sagely won- dered if one-fifth of the forty million dollars spent annually in the suppress sion of crime in Cook county were de- voted to preventive measures in the way of parks, playgrounds and organized athletics, such a policy might not, aside from it's social and human value, pro- vide for an even more efficient police service. In this he struck at a prob lem the solution of which would mean better law enforcement and better con ditions generally.
 If eight million dollars annually were spent in any large city for such pre- ventives of crime1as Mayor Dever sug-,
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develop the New South is to retain the best qualities of the Old South, whose history is rich in constructive achieve ment. Preservation of that history is in- separably linked with the memory of deeds of the South's greatest men. With out records of those deeds, through the spoken and printed word, and through reminders in bronze, marble or granite, their influence would disappear in the rush and roar of material things. Monu- ments keep alive sentiment; the right kind of sentiment regulates and rules the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-16
Poetry

Everest Levin in London Mercury) Thou lady of my dreams awake or sleeping, Thou enemy of work, and peace, and play, Thine eyes are turned forever from my Seek ing,
 Both night and day. Waking I dream, and dreaming awaken, The years are passing as flight of stars, And in the darkness now am forsaken
 Behind these bars, .s1 I meet in thee my last, my only lover, find in thee my first unfailing friend, And yet know I never shall discover
 How to unbend Thy subtle form and delicate surprising, Or wrest from thee one secret of thine art Ere with unanswered question and surmis-
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The ex-Empress Zita, who complained that she had to scrimp to get along on five thousand month, has been entirely cut off from her allowance, and now has an opportunity to get first-hand n- formation on the number of things she can do without
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 U3 OVER
A Presidential Candidate Speaks Over the
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 Ladies and gentlemen of my great unseen audience. It is indeed a great privilege to stand here tonight as a candidate for the great office of president of these United States. My purpose is to address you upon the great issues of the campaign. l realize full we'll, however, that no mere speaker can hope to hold radio audience, and will there fore entertain you during my talk with funny stories, songs, recitations and instrumental selections.
 This country, fellow citizens, 1iss passing through a grave crisis. What we need is new code of honesty. There is in this great nation a disposition to be too tolerant of interruptions conduct in public life. We must get back, my friends, to first prin- ciples. r: <
 T will now entertain you, before passing on to the question of taxation, with a saxa- phone solo, playing the instrument with but one hand. 1 am the only man ever to be a candidate for the presidency to do this trick Kindly stand by.
 Gle plays Silver Threads Among the Gold.'O -. .--.
 Now take the great issue of taxation My dear countrymen am not one of those wno would plunge into a program of ill-con- sidered taxation. 1 would not levy lndis- criminateIy upon incomes. l will now sing you a little song, i've Got .Cross-eyed Daddy But He Looks Straight to Me
 Now passing on, dear friends, to the mat ter of a soldiers bonus. My position on the bonus is too well known, think, to need repetition here thls evening.
 That reminds me of the story of the Irishman .. or was it the Hebrew! :. No, think it was a Scotchman l.. who was going down the street when a friend said, Who was that lady 1 saw you walk ing with last evening" and the Chinaman replied That wasn't no lady; that was my wife 1 have lot of other stories just as good as thIs, my fellow citizens.
 Let us now consider, voters of this great nation, the question of our foreign policy Amerlcan standards must be maintained. The American flag must be respected ln all lands and on all seas The world must know that while we are for peace we. will not hesitate to take up the sword if necessary.
 But before hearing me further will entertain you by playing the piano. treble and bass with one hand, singing at the same time new Nanny song by Irving Berlin.
 (The candidate does his speciality.
 Then, there is the question of the tariff. I believe Ill a tariff. I always have. l think every country should have one. A tariff is a very good thing for anybody.
 T have had a number of requests to give the whistling solo | gave during my cam paign address that evening and will now do so. Kindly stand by.
 Gle gives whistling solo).
 What more can I say, fellow citizens, on the great issues of this campaign. In closing, 1 wish to announce that am or ganizing my own jazz band and that if elected will give concerts three nights a week from Station WCAP throughout my admin istratiOn. l thank you"
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A late scientific theory is that not even light goes straight. What hope then for the Republican party which sits in darkness?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-16

A scientist expresses fear of over-pop. ulation in this country. Apparently he has not given due credit to our murder experts and auto-speeding maniacs.
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It has been demonstrated that Re publican national conventions are no re specters of consciences.
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Perhaps those bank robbers out West who stole horse to haul away heavy safe had learned that even horse-stealing these days is far less dangerous than it used to be,
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TAKES TWO TO MAKE QUARREL
 If. Americans can refrain from getting ex cited until after the Japanese cool down, that will help some. Generally speaking, it take: two hotheads to organize fight.-Sioux City Tribune.
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NuRED TO IT

Another good thing about summer is that the girls can dress as they did in the winter without taking cold-Dallas News.
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THE ACE-HERALD

Entered at Birmingham. Ala, post office second class matter, act of Congress March 1873
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NEWS BUREAUS-washington. goo Davidson Building; State Capital, Montgomery Journal Building; Tennessee Valley. Decatur Daily Building; Tuscaloosa, News Building: Jasper Mountain Eagle Building; Anniston Star Build ling; Gadsden, Journal Building; Muscle Shoals Tri-Cities Daily Building.
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Now is the time to Timber up the radio sets-they are headed for harder service soon.
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The Inquisitive Reporter

The Inquisitive Reporter
 Our Inquisitive Reporter yesterday asked this question of four people chosen at ran dom:
 If it took three generations to ripen Green culture and six months to mature good crop of alfalfa, how long does it take for the average woman to reach the age of discretion?" Henry Hemp, contractor "You can search me, Mister. I only went to night school, and plumb forgot to study Greek" J. C. McQuade, osteopath: Undoubtedly, but if cigarettes effect you that way, why don't you smoke pipe?"
 Hazle Hart, waitress "Well, I'll admit I'm not as young as I used to be, young man, but I've still got strength enough to signal a cop when these freshies get too an. moving"
 Carleton Williams, broker: Its very un- likely. The market has been very unsettled lately, and the only stock that shows any significant activity is St. Vitus Preferred"
 Who Was the Judges Judge: Do you drink?"
 Rastus: Well, Jedge, am it a invitation. or jes' an investigation :'-F. S. Yamamote. All the girls act the same way when they want-a kiss. The difference consists when they want another one.
 Adequate COverage
 Johnny burned hole in his pants" Did he carry any insurance?'
 No. His coat tail covered the loss"- Harry c. Holmes. rss
 No Doubt of It
 Kriss That chap, Dawson, has been mixed up in some rather shady business transactions" Kross: You don't mean it!'
 Kriss: T certainly do. He's manufac- turer of awnings.
 Definition of FIapper
 A flapper is a girl who powders her nose, bobs her hair, and says to herself: "Clothes, am going downtown. If you want to come along, hang on."-R. A. Bell,
 Hey COrn-C'mOn Over!
 Robbie" said a watchful mother to her son, T don't want you to allow any chil- dren in school to call you anything but your right name"
 Robbie: But, mother, they have already nicknamed me 'Corns.'" Mother: Gracious me Why do they call you that?" Robbie: Because I'm always at the foot of my class."-Harry Burke.
 Dead Issue!
 Ethel: What makes you so sure their honeymoon is Over?"
 Clara: ''She placed her marriage certifi- cate in their safety deposit box last week !"
 But Not With the Scissors! They brought their sewing along to sew But the stitches they took were few They worked at ripping to pieces the reps" of all of the girls that they knew. Copyright, 1924 Reproduction Forbidden.)
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. If the choice were left to me, whether to nave free press or a free government, I
 would choose free press.-Thomas Jefferson
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press their belief that nothing is too bad for the prisoners, as some otherwise good citizens express it Give it to them good and hard" Where I particularly think they are wrong is when they say the subject does not interest them at all, forgetting as they do that the prisoners are a part of the com munity. and that proper or improper con- duet of prisons and handling of-prisoners reflect greatly on the general community.
 ADOLPH LEWISOHN. New York, June 9, 1924.
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AN EXPLANATION

Congress does not have to pay the taxes. t merely spends the money. Chicago Ns9S.