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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
The Wedding Cake

ding cake that John R. came home with very sober face.
 q heard something today that made me feel awful bad," he began. About Coyle's wife. It seems that she hasn't been acting like herself for some time. He thought it was just from worrying over the money they'd lost, but yester- day she went to the doctors and it turns out she has a serious heart trouble. She doesn't know, but the doctor told Coyle at best she couldn't live more than year. He's terribly cut up. Broke down and cried like a baby. And the thing that's rubbing it in is the thought, instead of them having those happy two weeks away together, like she'd set her heart on, looking back he'll always remember the big disappointment she had the last year of her life. Poor old scout, that's what I call tough luck"
 When the wind was in the right di- rection the Fosters heard the city hall clock strike the hours, and that night before the day the wedding cake was to be ordered Jessie Foster heard it strike eleven, twelce, on.
 Yet she went up early the next morning, dressing with the alacrity of
 
 her.
 And shortly after breakfast she went briskly down town.
 Come here a minute, dear" she greeted John R. that evening as she ran to the dining room door at sound of his latch key. I've something to show you"
 Mystified, Foster followed her lead toward the pantry.
 But on the threshold she paused an instant.
 Last night in bed 1 counted up," she said, ''and including the wedding cake, the decorations, the supper, Lily White and Ida, and all,' it came to about an even $100."
 "EhY said Foster in a bewildered tone.
 For answer Jessie took down from the shelf and held before the amazed John R. homemade cake of ordinary size, but beautifully iced and with a kewpie bride and groom ornamenting it's top.
 "It's for. the Coyles," she said with shining eyes. "We1l send it by special delivery tomorrow. After you make out a check for $100 to put in little envelope I'm going to sew to the groom S sleeve, for their day dream wedding tour, you know"
 "Instead of the shindig we'd planned for ourselves?"
 She nodded-the shining eyes glis- tening with tears.
 You approve, dear?"
 John R. unsuccessfully attempted a long whistle, then in a voice husky with feeling, he said
 Sure thing! Mamma knows how p
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
Domestic Days
By ROY L. MCARDELL

Don't forget we have to go uptown to the wedding of Mir. Gote's sister to his head bookkeeper," said Mrs. Jarr when friend husband came home.
 We sent them present; we don't have to go," replied Mir. Jarr care lessly.
 That woman, Mrs. Cote, would never forgive me if I wasn't there," Mrs. Jarr insisted. II wouldn't go, either, bat they have a lovely place in the noun tains and may be she would ask us up there this summer with the children. The Gotes are awful stupid but they have lots of money"
 ''Oh, well, let's go, then." replied MT. Jarr resignedly. But Id just as lief go to a funeral"
 You shouldn't talk in that heart less way" said Mrs. Jarr. How would you like it if you were to die and people would be that heartless that they wouldn't come to your funeral?'
 What would 1 care" exclaimed Mir. Jarr. T don't want any funeral, hate them. 1 want to be cremated."
 As they started uptown, Mir. Jarr said: '"The church is on another car line-nOt this One."
 No, we have to go by way of this line,' asserted Mrs. Jarr. And though Mir. Jarr protested they rode on and on. Mrs. Jarr's strength of purpose fal- teling somewhat, and finally, at re- mote street she declared she thought this was the place to get off.
 So here they alighted and walked in various directions. Finally, a solitary policeman was encountered, who promptly declared he didn't know where the church was.
 They took a trolley back in silence. Then seeing a wedding party coming out of a church, they alighted. It was the right church, but the wedding was over.
 "Oh, I was so afraid you were not coming! !' exclaimed Mrs. Cote. What did you think of it?"
 Well" began Mir. Jarr, for men are always blurting out the truth unthink- ingly, and Mir. Jarr would have done so but for a warning nudge.
 We thought it was beautiful !' in- terjected Mrs. Jarr. "The handsomest couple I ever saw, and lovely service And such fashionable crowd! Even Mir. Jarr was much impressed, and you know how men are about such things !'
 But on the way home she told Mir. Jarr coldly but calmly that the next time he dragged her off to a cheap we'd ding of that sort among his friends to please be sure he knew where he was going
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01

legislative accomplishment and leaves the record blank.
 Then he bumped right into the oil scandals, which, even granting the con- tention that, they left him unscathed cannot by any stretch of the imagina- tion be tortured into political asset For two months they paralyzed what ever pOtentialities of action the pan. ic-stricken republicans had left. True light by taking the oil scandals away from the Democrats and himself as suming the lead in the purging process the Roosevelt method-but there must be taken into account the tremendous pressure of the heavyweights of the Old Guard at the Capitol, with their traditional tendency to cover up, which it would have been pretty hard for a young President to resist.
 It was this pressure that compelled him against his own judgment to let Denly go and finally to be rid of Daugherty after weeks of holding back Moreover, a policy of drastic and sud den action is foreign to Mir. Coolidge < habit of mind. The Cautious Cal" ap- pelation is not an unearned one, and this particular opportunity afforded nc time for long reflection.
 So Mr. Coolidge goes before the country with little more substance or ponderability than he had when the death of Harding thrust him from the vagueness of his Vice Presidential per sonality into the thick of politics and responsibility and there are those who calculate that in the present uncertain state of the public mind there are worse disabilities than an indefinite in dividuality-on the same theory that low visibility in uniforms was a good tbing during the World war.
 " It is noted that the Coolidge luck shows no sign of fading. The first bi. hurdle that threatened his getting the normal republican vote was the inde- pendent candidacy of LaFollette which could not but have taken out of the republican column five or six of the northwestern states that Coolidge could ill spare. Prince Kalanianaoie who represented Hawaii here so long used to tell thrilling stories of tho kahunas of his land praying peoples health away, and LaFollettes illness that apparently takes him out of the race, suggests that there is a powerful pleader with the hosts of darkness somewhere about.
 However, LaFollette seems to be getting better. While he may not be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
M'ADOO FORCES LOSE CONTROL
 IN MINNESOTA
Only Two Delegates Out Of A Instructed For
 Ex-Secretary

ST PAUL, Minn., May 31.-(By Associated Press. )-Supporters of Will liam c. McAdoo for president, were de- feated at the Minnesota democratic con- vention tonight when only two of the states 24 delegates to the national convention of the party at New York city were instructed for him. Two of the delegates were pledged to Gov. AL fred E. Smith of New York. The oth- CTS are uninstructed, but understood to be favorable to Smith.
 Eighteen of the delegates are private ly pledged to Governor Smith and are expected to cast theri vote for him on the first ballot.
 The McAdoo forces were defeated decisively throughout the convention. They lost their first fight when Ray Harrington of Ortonville, was elected temporary chairman, 527 to BPS, over c. c. MtCarthy of Grand Rapids. The former favored an uninstructed dele gation.
 In another fight the McAdoo men lost on the question of seating one of two delegations from Hennepin county.
 Four delgeates at large were selected by the state convention and two each were named by the ten congressional district gatherings. The delegates at large, said to be for Smith are Howard Everett, St. Paul; A. E. Helmick, Min neapolis; NJ. J. Daly, Perhma, and Mrs. A. K. Gault. St. Peter.
 Mrs. Annie Dickey Olseon of Cloquet. prominent in party affairs in Mime sota, backed by McAdoo delegates was defeated for delegate at large as was Walter Dacey of Duluth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
'G.O.P.LEADERS FORESEE DEFEAT
 FOR COOLIDGE
Nomination Easy Blu t Electing Him Quite
 Another Problem
By CHARLES MICHELsON

WASHINGTON, May 31.-They are talking about nomination by acclama- tion for Mir. Coolidge at the Cleveland convention.
 That probably is not among the pos abilities, as South Dakota has in sumably that instruction must be car ried out for one ballot at least, and il is not conceivable that La Toilette will forego the 9 votes that are his inalieh. able heritage in Wisconsin, but these are the only things that stand between the President and a unanimous nom niation.
 There may be few favorite- son del egations-W ellsworth in New York may have one of them if he wants it-but these will be taken out of the way any time the President wants it. It is al. ways easy to be kind to President and the honor's sole value is to give a line in Who's Who, and what is that compared with the solder advantage of Presidents gratitude?
 One eminent republican senator, mus ing on the situation, the other day said: "I can count right now 721 dele gates who will vote for the President on the first ballot''-it only takes 555 to nominate him-"and I think I can count almost as many who will so vote in the full belief that he will be the ex-President when inauguration day comes around"
 Yet this senator, being one of the silver tongued ones, will be making speeches all through the campaign and assuring his auditors Mir. Coolidge has demonstrated his right to be numbered among the great Presidents, whom an appreciative country cannot fail to elect to a second term.
 An equally outspoken republican from the west-outspoken so long as he knows that his name will not be coupled with the declaration-puts it thus:
 "All the republican party has left is Coolidge" which perhaps explains in a measure the incongruity ot the Senator's pessimistic analysis that the nomination is made without hope of election.
 Had No Opportunity
 The Presidents lack of personal ap peal is really not because he is the monster of indecision and ineptness the democrats picture him but simply be cause he has not had the opportunity to do any big things. He made a stat at definiteness and boldness with his adoption of the Harding world court and his launching of the Mellon tax plan. The first was promptly buried beyond hope of resurrection, and the second was mashed by the democrats and progressiyes and still is in the Congressional mixer, from which il will issue so changed that he will probably have to veto it to retain any reputation for consistency.
 The hostile balance of power held by the progressives in the, Senate and House doomed about everything he sought, which, of course, precluded any
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01

able to go through a violent crusade, it is shown there is no bar against even an independent making a front porch or even a hammock campaign. He did not write a letter, make a speech or turn a hand in North Da- kota. but had his name been printed on the ballot there he would have taken that state away fRom the Presi- dent.
 So there is still chance for a three-party fight, with the fascinating possibilities of congressional battle beyond a missed majority in the. cleo toral college. On the face of the House of Representatives as now con- stituted there should be no election, there being twenty-three republican states, twenty democratic and five with delegations equally divided. But the Weller-Ansorgc contest might turn New York into the republican column, giv- ing them twenty-four states, only one short of a majority, and if somebody died or resigned in one of the five di- vided delegat tions the republicans would win.
 It has been suggested that instead of the split states losing their votes half a vote might be credited in each to either side, and thus there would be another chance for 1Ir. Coolidge. In this sort of speculation it has even been suggested that Texas might ex- ercise the right she reserved in com ing into the union to divide into four states and so upset things the other way.
 The normal course of the House failing and the Senate electing a Vice President, who would become Presi- dent, is almost as picturesque and ful' Iy as big in eventualities, for unless the Republican nominee for the sec ond place is other than stand-patter there is no certainty the insurgent group would vote republican.
 These interesting perhapses are all long shots, for to make them possible La Toilette would have to run and the election would have to be as close as was the Wilson Hughes contest in
 1916-both improbabilities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
UNHAPPINESS IS
 NOT DISCOVERY
Two Terms Frequently Confuse
 Mental Attitude

The other day an acquaintance of mine asked what semeed to me very strange question. She was a woman who would certainly seem to possess everything one could think of to make her happy. She is still comparatively young, in good health, enormously rich, her husband is kind. apparently of compatible tenn perament and grants her every wish !; she is the mother of two charming chill dren. think anyone would say of her, LIShe must be one of the really happy persons in this world"
 Yet she asked me the other day |: Have you ever been really happy for one entire day" I answered unhesitat- ingly, Not only for one day, but for many days"
 Well, I never have," said this wom- an. T have never lived a day in which something has not happened to make me unhappy"
 In my opinion she was using the wrong word, for I very much doubt and know her pretty well-if she has ever been really unhappy. Perhaps she has been discontented, dissatisfied with herself, bored-but not unhappy. Perhaps if she had been she would also nave learned to be happy.
 It is difficult for one to feel sym pathy for that type of person and yet possibly she is really deserving of it. Can there be anything much more de- pressing than getting up. day after day, looking forward 70 10 definite obstacles lo be overcome. no ambition to achieve in other words, no life Gin the true meaning of the word) to live. We may shrug our sboulders-'it is her own fault dismiss beI. But can we do that? In the first place, cir cUmstances 50 placed her that she has never had q days worry on money. Right there 1 can hear many say : How wonderful :, what wouldn't I ac- complish if I had all the money"
 But would you? Naturally, great poverty is tragic thing, and in many ways a terrible handicap, especially when possessed by the very young, has not a deadening influence that is a handicap much more difficult to over come than poverty.
 There can be no happiness without vitality. While momentary unhappi- Eess can be forced on us by others, or by circumstances, believe that we ourselves are alone responsible for chronic unhappiness, or, in other words, mental boredom and discomfort.
 No woman of strength of character or intelligence should allow a sorrow, no matter how great, to warp her point of view or affect her life permanently. I do not mean that it is possible, or desirable, to forget, to be untouched by great sorrow; but we should not let it affect our value to ourselves and the other people. If we allow our selves to become embittered we are proving that we are not capable of learning lessons from our experiences in life, and are permitting circumstances to beat us.
 Continued, willful discontent-that is inexcusable. l have many times seen people who said, If I had more money" or If I could travel, ,"-or could do this or ,that-I would be per fectly contented." l have seen the same people eventually get the thing they desired, and they have stayed just as discOntented as ever before. We can blame no one but ourselves for discontent and lack of interest in life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
NOTED COMEDIAN
 FACES $IOO,OOO SUIT
Tinney Asked To Pay Chorus
 Girl For Injuries

NEW YORK, May 31.-Frank Tin- ney, comedian who is out on bail under charges of felonious assault preferred by Imogene Wilson of the Follies, was sued by her today for S10O,000 for in- juries sustained several days ago when she alleges he attacked her in the up- town apartment he maintained for her.
 Papers were served on Tinney as he left court, accompanied by his wife, after having obtained an adjournment of the criminal case until next Friday, His bail was continued at $2,500. 2
 Miss Wilson fainted as her attorneys served the comedian with the summons in her suit. Mrs. Tinney, clinging to her husbands arm, sailed at the chorus girl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
THIS NEW SCALE
 STOPS CHEATING
Electric Device Performs Whole
 Operation Mechanically

A new electrically operated scale makes cheating impossible. A convey or carries the purchase to the scale. It is mechanically weighed and the weight imprinted on the paper to be used for wrapping. Another convey or takes it to the wrapping counter. The scale can weigh 600 purchases an hour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-01
REGISTERS SALT

An apparatus has been perfected which automatically registers the amount of salt in sea water, thus mak- ing possible more accurate knowledge of the paths of ocean currents. It is also expected that it will aid in detect ing the approach of icebergs It is an electrical device developed by the United State Bureau of Standards
The Washington times., 1924-06-27

staying at the picturesque Old
Dutch Club, in Gramercy Park.
Edward N. Hurley, Of Chicago.
sometime chairman of the Shipping
Board. is here, with Mrs. Hurley
and when glimpsed starting off for
the convention, they were with Mr..
and Mrs. Tommy Logan, formerly
Of Washington. Mrs. Clara Sears
Taylor, rent commissioner Of the
District, turned up yesterday and is
staying with her sister at Forest
Hills.
Judge and Mrs. Henry D. Clay.
ton, who came from Alabama for
the convention are meeting many
old friends from the days when the
Judge represented an Alabama Dis
trict on Congress. Like Judge and
Mrs. Goodwin, they, too. are attend
ing the bar association meeting and
are sailing for Europe on July z.
OF the scores of newspaper CORE
spondents who have come UP from
Washington, many are accompanied
by their wives, and among those
whom have stumbled on are Mrs.
Mark Sullivan, Mrs. "Bill" Hard (the
zHards are staying with Mrs. Harri.
mani, Mrs. Theodore Tiller, Mrs.
Grafton Wilcox, Mrs. Mark Good.
win, Mrs. Frederick William VILE.
Mrs. Buck" Bryant, who is accom-
panied by her pretty daughter, and
Mrs. Arthur Sinnott.
Mrs. Randolph Hoskins left New
York last night, after attending the
early sessions Of the convention, and
looking after some important y.
A. r. business.
The Washington times., 1924-06-27

| in the convention which promoted
free silver, and not even perhaps
in the convention which before the
civil war made the last stand
against the abolitionists, has there
been such deep and such trying
and tragic division of sentiment,
and such a brooding and baffled
anticipation of disaster.
The only way out that has been
suggested with any backing of
widely accepted argument is as
follows: II the convention as now
seems probable, accepts a denun-
citation of the Khan by name, and
If it thereby, stamps itself in the
minds Of millions Of Protestants as
a Catholic convention of a party
denied by Catholicism, then let the
convention reject AL Smith and all
/ other prosed Catholic candidates
and let It name ticket Eot only
Of Professionals but of Protestants
unsupported of any anti-Klan or
Catholic associations or proclivities.
Means RalstOn or Wheeler.
This theory would point to some
| such ticket as Ralston, Of Indiana
and Wheeler, of Montana.
Certainly, beyond any doubt, If
the plank against the Khan by
name goes through, it then will
happen that a prodigious effort will
be made to nominate an ultra
Protestant ticket.
On top Of this heart.breaking and
brain-wrecking complication on the
subject of the Ku Klux Khan and
| of Catholicism and Professionalism
there came the almost equally
crushing complication of the prob
lem presented by the demands Of
labor.
This problem had to do not so
much with the platform as with
the ticket.
On the point Of platform utter
ances the Democratic party is on
its way toward being quite satisfac-
tory to labor. The labor plank
adopted by the resolutions commit
tee and due to be adopted with
virtually no opposition by the con-
vention are perhaps more favorable
to labor than on any previous Dem
ocratic or Republican convention
occasion.
Unions Announce War.
This convention is likely to de-
mand the repeal Of those provisions
OF the Esch- Cummins existing rail.
road transportation law which ere.
ate the existing railroad labor
board.
Thus in the words of the plat.
form the railroad trade unions will
be satisfied.
| Yet today, Mr.. Martin F.. Ryan,
president Of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Carmen and vice president
Of the American Federation of
Labor, made the following state
ment to this writer:
IA hundred and fifty men are
here, who, II William Gibbs MoAdoo
is not nominated, will go from here
to the convention Of the national
conference for progressive political
action in Cleveland next Friday to
help start a new third party politi.
cal movement. With us the test
Is McAdoo. assure you of one
| proposition, which you may quote
from me as much as you like:
| If McAdoo is nominated here.
there will be no new third party
movement at Cleveland. If McAdoo
Is not nominated, new third party
movement at Cleveland is sure to
come"
Mr.. Ryan is abundantly able to
speak out Of intimate knowledge of
the political situation in the ranks
Of railroad labor. His statement
may be taken a. authoritative.