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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
DEMoCRACY's CHALLENGE

The Democratic party, in militant spirit and in moral right challenges the paryo corruption and fraud the American people that the Republican program of uberv- special interests shall be suppanted by Democratic gram committed the material moral welfare of the citizen of the United States.
 The platform of the Democratic party liberal spirit moral and sympathetic impulse promises restoration of popular government and relief from the oppression of privilege It truth Magma Charta reafrmaon of the principles embodied the party that has always recognized that transcend special privileges few The shades of Thomas Jef erson the father of the party of Grover Cleveland the rugged exponent of integrity and of Woodrow Wilson, great leader of liberal thought and caer of moral vision reflected the work of those who have bored before American people
 declaration that promises the ultimate good of all Americans
 There hang evasion equvocaton, either the preamble in the promise does hesitate speak Republican party the of corruption penetrating of the Republican administration indicates perfect knowledge of the moral fibre of the American people and of their understanding of what constitutes integrity in and of what constitutes indifference the welbeng of nation.
 As against the Republican partys profession that prosperity from the enrichment of few the Democratic party declares that the eng of the many the fountain of prosperity for all As against program of tariff and of taxation that seeks specially favor chosen few the Democratic party stands fnchng for that purposes the relief of the many with justice the few As against the of the by few the Democratic signifies its belief in only when administered and controlled by all.
 It is platform upon which both the auen and the lowly will that equal justice which fathers of the nation con- ceved be the essential principle upon which they founded great haven for free people It makes appeal solely material but also to the moral impulses call upon those chiefly concerned individual welfare participate securing for those less fortunate the benefits that should all shp platform that should awaken the American conscience and is platform that will win victory for Democracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

praises to the memory of the inspired hand of the good, old pilgrim mother who first in vented strawberry shortcake. f
 Take, now, the usual ingredients for mak- ing biscuits; use baking powder rather than cream of tartar and butter rather than lard, making it a little shorter" than the ordinary biscuit, and you have the foundation and wall work of a strawberry shortcake that will make them forget their troubles and go a long way toward ushering in antera Of world peace.
 One may find passably good piece of pie in the ordinary restaurant or hotel, but the finding of a strawberry shortcake that will satisfy the appetite of one who longs for the old-fashioned kind. is almost as difficult in these days of pacifism and bobbed hair as the wisdom which King Solomon admonished us to find and pursue. A ''soggy" shortcake is one of the abominations of a wise man, and strawberry shortcake made after the modern method of sweet cake for the body
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
AN INVITING OPPORTUNITY


 Setting forth some of the many op. portunities offered the various Southern states through creditable exhibits at the Southern Exposition to be held in New York next winter, President w. G. Sir. rine, of the, Southern Exposition, in his address before the Southern Commercial Secretaries Association assembled at Spartanburg, s. C., outlined the pur. poses of the enterprise, explained the general arrangements in the making for proper display of the South's resources and emphasized what such a display means to this section. He told of a number of states which are preparing to reap the benefits offered, and said q think any state that doesn't go into the exposition will find that it has neg lected a very valuable advertising op- portunity."
 The purpose of this exposition is to show those seeking opportunities for in- vestment and many desirable home seekers from various parts of the coun- try what the South has to offer, what the South has done in agricultural, in- dustrial, educational and civic develop ment, and what the South is doing and proposes to do. Alabama has made as much progress in constructive achieve ment during the last few years as any other Southern state. Alabama pos sesses more natural resources and offers more inviting opportunities for develop ment than any other Southern state. Op- por'tunities in Alabama for agricultural and industrial development are unlim- tied. There is every reason why Ala bama should be properly represented at this exposition by complete exhibit of it's resources and possibilities. The re- turns from such an enterprise will be large and permanent, because such an exhibit as will tell the story of Ala bama's expansion and progress, as well as her advantages to all who have means to invest and who know how to do some- thing that is worth doing, cannot fail to be impressive.
 The next step following achievement is so to advertise it as to reap the bene- fits. A prize of five thousand dollars has been offered by the Manufacturers Record for the best exhibit at the expo sition by Southern state. Alabama could and should not only capture this prize, but should receive the much greater rewards which will come from proper representation. These rewards will be increasingly valuable to the whole state. Alabama has a very interesting story of progress which should be inn pressively told the world. Here is an inviting opportunity that is we'll worth the time and effort to accept. It means much to the future advancement of this state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

In the spring the young mans fancy light ly turns to thoughts of love, But as for the rest of us, there is strawberry shortcake.
 Thanks be to a merciful heaven, there still is left to us, even in these days of turmoil and trepidation, social unrest, and a spiritual falling away, corrupt politics and a presi- denti0l campaign, the solace and comfort of that old-fashioned blessing which was once delivered to the saints and that has since been food fit for angels-strawberry short cake.
 Not that strawberry shortcake has not been affected, as other good things handed down to us by the constitutional mothers, by modern interpretation of the rules governing the proper way to make it. There has been a tendency, even, to flapperize the straw berry shortcake. But those of us who are old enough to remember the kind that mother used to make. and. to distinguish the genuine from the counterfeit. will still arise and sing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

ence, there are S,4OO,oo0 tax-supported of ficials in the United States, and they cost us S,290 million dollars a year. For every twelve wage earners over sixteen years old, there is one officehOlder who makes "the un- lucky thirteenth" that is, unlucky flor the taxpayers, who on the average contribute $91 apiece to provide his salary.
 The worst of it is that the public payroll lengthens year by year. If the personnel of the army and navy be disresarded, so the New York Times tells us, there are now twice as many persons on the federal payroll as twenty years ago. Population and wealth, of course, have not increased in anything like that proportion. We are becoming bureau cratized with startling rapidity. , a
 While the government has let out 373,O00 unnecessary employees since the armistice, it still has more than half million, and the total is still hundred thousand more than before we went to wen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

This is a rich country-the richest in the world. The department of commerce esti- mates that the value of its wealth at pres ent is S20 billion dollars
 A dazzling figure, quite beyond ordinary ken. But there is a mortgage on it which the Illinois committee on public information estimates at 170 billions, a little over 50 per cent. The security for this mortgage is good-none better. But the interest on it amounts to a staggering sum which must be paid every year. Another name for this in terest is-taxes.
 In other words, the taxes of all sorts which we are paying in the United States would pay the interest on a mortgage of ITO billions on the property of the whole coun- try.
 The bill for salaries for public officials alone makes a big hole in the tax revenues, federal, state and local For, according to the survey of the national industrial confer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
TGIORY OF STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE WHEN MADE RIGH7

of the dish is to discerning lover of, straw berry shortcake as jazs to the ear of sen. sitive musician. 1T sw
 Likewise, the modern perfidy, frequently committed by those "reds" of our schools of domestic science who have no regard fotS such noble American institutions as stra@s berry shortcake. of serving whipped cream as a dressing for this great luxury, should be condemned in the resolution of every aNt: thorized church assembly and in the national platforms of every political party. It, is an- evil that threatens to undermine the very. fabric of the government which has been .ee- tablished, developed, cherished and expanded on its love of liberty and old-fashioned straw berry shortcake. Nothing but plain creamy rich cream, certified and properly labeled uns der the pure food act should be used foe strawberry shortcake of the right sort. 1s 1'f
 For any other, kind of shortcake=wels the provisions of the Eighteenth amendment should be invoked.-Kansas City Star. as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
Partiality at the Convention


 Under Ticket Dearth Arouses Indigna- tion' in your issue of June 25 (yeeterday) you say: Senator Heflin goes home be- cause a seat was not allowed him" in our Democratic convention now assembled in New York. Also in another paper, the Bir- mingham Post, of June 26 it is shown that a prominent and intense enemy of our Demo- cratic party, Mr. Theodore Burton, a Efe- long Republican and keynoter for the last Republican national convention, is furnished with prominent position on the platform a real seat of honor.
 MT. Editor, if these reports be true as published, and, presumably they are, there may be some as good Democrats as ever walked the earth go fishing on election day next November, may not agree with Mr. Heflin in all things, though do agree with him in the main, but it is up to somebody to do some explaining about this matter No man in Alabama can persuade our peo- pie more effectually than Tom Heflin can and does, and his friends insist that he be treated right. The people demand the fair thing whenever they understand the situation, and they usually do much better than some understandable politicians seem to think Many of our people are discussing this thing and they want an explanation. Personally I like to think that the report of Heflin's mis- treatment is untrue.
 It is pleasant to note the fact that your paper continues to improve. Your editorials are usually very fine indeed.
 J. c. BOWIE.
 Talladega, Ala, June 26, 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

der whether the attribute was developed cutas
 of the lives of great patriots, or whether it
 came to me from incident of my own boyhoca
 days. My father was country doctor ana ts Douglas Democrat, yet when Sumter wa6 a' fired upon three uncles entered the UnicMss
 army. My father rendered himself as suF4e geon, and was rejected because of a bad
 ankle brought about by what was ccmmoAlY
 known as white swelling. During the Ione conflict he never entered fee for his sef1s,-+ ices against any member of q soldier's faxars, fly, and through the remainder of his prQz
 fessional career. which lasted untn age aud ss sickness drove him cut of active practice M IT never accepted cent from the widow or 0xA,f phan child of any Union soldier whom De r. treated I find myself wondering whetApnM this concrete example of pAttiotism did nhaa do more toward impressing on my mind atagza stract theories and high.soundiAg phrase6 cEisa all the great mar. who were quoted at Cut-oi table ,N''', i,o-.s|scS
 Although my father, had, for his day, n kas good professional education, he had but slight opportunity of literary training. One of the marvels at which never cease tn
 wonder was his making a public addreGas. He would stumble along in awkward HooGiaf q dialect for perhaps fifteen minutes and tAens x strike his gait, and speak the rect of thAde time in English as pure as Addison evessas wrote. He had availed himself of the traygsg cling library installed by the Owens family.a as of Indiana and read all the great authoss.ce of English. His mind was saturated withssa their lansuase.and in the hour of need it would come to his, lips. Out of his experi[ .k ence I learned that any one, however haa6saSc pered by fate and handicapped by foftuness7r he may be, may put himself in poASessioti ar of the great facts of history and learn how @s to use them intelligently. AsiA
 There can beno objection to the attemptse of parents to give their children every chance K in life; indeed; it is laudable, but parent should not be too humble After all, what s they say to their children and do in thsiF S presence may leave more of an impress than a the aphorisms drawn from the books. I cAn pick out at any commencement the young
 man who is safe for the future. He is the graduate who is proud of his father ana mother, no difference how poor and shrink ing from public gaze they may be- These are those parents who have retained the respect of their children, by supplementing knowledge of the worlds greatness with private eonsS@ cration to character building. sI42.t@
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
THE WORLDS RICHEST AND MOST TEXTRAVA CANT COUNTRY]

State and local offieeholders continue toes multiply without much concerted effort t6 9' conserve tax resources. In Minnesota wagr have numerous boards and bureaus, comuiS-, | sions and commissioners, all equipped with . ample clerical forces, and in addition an arTd9 q of inspectors of this and that. Repeated ef.
 forts by succeeding legislatures to reorgans
 ize the state government on an economy !. efficiency basis. have all failed. An interiS commission is even now tinkering with tho. task-with more than an even chance that
 it will fail to accomplish much of anythinet <
 Even the payment of taxes is more OF lea9ts complicated, and many a taxpayer has to, hire lawyers and experts to help him aHceir@s ! that the mere york,of finding out what taxes. s amount to coats the country hundred miAe. lion dollars year. et y
 Yes, this is q rich country, buts q
 AIindeapolis Journal 'n5es
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
MEMORIES OF GREAT MEN HELP MOLD CHARACTER

T N0UGH good advice has been poured
 @ into the reservoir of American thought A~ this month to wipe out, if the flood of counsel had a proper distributing system, all crime, all vice, all wrong, all injustice, all hatred, malice and i'll will.
 I am thinking not of the quadrennial po- litical conventions, but the thousands of com mencements held annually in June by our educational institutions, ranging from big universities to high schools in small towns, has flowed from these occasions should suf- the fall. f
 The activities of the month which is the climax of the school year at which thesbest thought of the educational world is advahced. and absorbed reminded us once again that it is impossible for us to get away from the contemplation of greatness. It would be fu- tile for us to seek to disabuse our minds of the belief that character and conduct are formed largely, if not wholly, through con temptation of the lives and services of men who are credited with the greatness of the republic. No one would dispute or desire to change the effect which these men have produced upon the lives of America. What they said and what they did properly remain an inspiration for the youth of the land. Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln are not among the immortals, they are immortal. They live and breathe and move in America today as evidenced by the intimacy of their presence in university, college, academy and school Their influence is even greater, per haps, than when they walked in visible form among men,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

1 Eliminating the spiritual side of man and the effect which the unseen forces of God have upon him, no one dares say with certainty what course of conduct, what training, what lines of education are best for the making of man. What moves one mans soul may pass another by untouched What appeals to me may repel you. What one may think essential may be wholly negligible to an- other. For most people, for aughtS know, character building comes from a contempla. tion of departed greatness. Yet it seems to me that unless this is supplemented by something more there is an element of danger in it. Out of this great good, in accordance with my obsession, there is a likelihood of some evil arising, | may explain it as the attitude of mind which induces too mSny pa- rents to admonish their children, Don't do as do :; do assI tell you.n This never-ending contemplation of greatness and this constant attempt to fix the mind of the young upon the sun-crowned men. of America may result in a lack of parental responsibility; which, in turn, may produce a feeling in the mind of the young that it Is not very important what the father and mother think and say. Not to little love but to what is mistakenly thought to be great love is traceable today shrinking upon the part of parents be- cause of feeling of their own fncapacity from attempting to build up the character of their young The impulse of the father and mother is to give, the children a better chance in life than they had themselves, a better chance to know more and to be more
 
 A personal reference at this point, trust. will not be misunderstood look into my own life and reveal what I see solely to stir up the consciences of fathers and mothers who are anxious to give their children bet ter chances than they themselves had. My parents were no different from those of to- day. Among the pioneers of the Middle West, they had slight opportunities for ae- cumulating cultural knowledge. No sacrifice was too great upon their part to give me what they called a better chance in life. Statesmen of the past, scholars and great divines sat, unseen guests at our table every day. Patriotism, learning and theology were never-endingly drun1med into my ears and illustrated by the character of some out standing man in history. Yet l come in these latter years to contemplate whether there was not something else beside all this greatness and glory that had to do with fix ing my opinions, regardless of how so ever short therefrom my conduct may have been.
 If have been fairly patriotic l really won ]
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

Of the several distinguished European women writer's who have declared that American husbands are the most perfect in the world, it seems unusual that none of them supported their contentious by reference to the Michigan man who com mitted suicide so that his widow might have his life insurance as a dowry on her second wedding venture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

It is said that among General Dawes accomplishments he is something of an authority on musical harmony. But what is needed now is party harmony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

He would be foolish, if not bad man, who would seek to lessen the impulse which the lives of these men gave good citizenship. He is a distinctly bad man who tries to place smirch upon these white characters. Too much of the good of the past can never be instilled into the mind of the present. It is we'll therefore, to play up strong the virtues of the past and to avoid reference to its weaknesses unless reference is necessary to point warning. We cannot bear too much of the glorious. characters of our history of whom we have heard so much again this June. They are of the utmost value in the formation of character and fixation of con duct.
 Sometimes fear that my mental fads are obsessions which cloud my judgment. At any rate, am unable to free my mind of the idea that out of very best things, unless we beware, we are in danger of losing the best
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
FREDERICK I. THOMPSON.

tivities of a gentleman farmer, passed his declining days in comfort and died in an odor of great responsibility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

There is humor in most political cam paigns; but itemized statements of Re publican campaign funds this time are likely to appear downright ludicrous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
CURED BE WORSE THAN DISEASE

The old parties are admittedly pretty bad, and the only objection to starting a new one is that it would be so much worse.-Ohio State Journal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

It seems that the Mexicans are get ting some additional information on the capacity of the British Lion to cut up when his tail is too familiarlY twisted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

Reports that French Communists have declared war on the Dawes plan ought to give it more claim for consideration than ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

IT the choice were left to me. whether to nave free press or a free government. I would choose free press.-Tb0mas Jefferson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
FOOD FOR CANNING

A good Republican says there is much food for thought in the Cleveland platform. Much af it should be canned.-New Orleans Times Picayune.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

Sometimes a very dark horse may be transformed into 8 very bright prospect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
Forum, Of The People
John c. Calhoun Said It First

10 the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Just to keep the record straight, in your editorial, The Keynote" you credit Grover Cleveland with saying, ''The Republican party IS held together by the cohesive power of public plunder." Your correspondent may be mistaken, but his recollection is that Henry Watterson was the author of this famous alliteration. At this time he was in the heyday of ais glory and power as an editor; stood higher in the councils of the Democratic party and was a charming, a versatile, and voluminous writer. He be- longed to the aristocracy of brains, was the greatest living newspaper editor, and his editorials in the Courier-Journal were more widely quoted than those of any other Amer ican paper. While having no technical knowledge of our tariff, he plunged into its discussion in a practical commonsense way that run many a Republican tariff expert into his hole" If I mistake note, it was in one of his many discussions of his pet scheme-"a tariff for revenue only"-that he denounced a protective tariff as legalized robbery, and threw the taunt above referred to in the face of the Republicans. Which of us in correct? H. T. CAFFEY.
 Verbena, Ala, June %, 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

We thank our correspondent for calling attention to the authorship of the quotation in question. It appears, on research, that Grover Cleveland merely quoted John c. Calhoun, who, in the senate on May 2S 1886. said: "A power has risen up in the government greater than the people them selves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks" Grover Cleye- land, however, turned the final phrase into cohesive power of public plunder. ."-Editor Herald
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29
THE ACE-HER AID
FREDERICK THOMPSON. PRESIDENT

Gntered at Birmingham. Ala. post office as matter. act of Congress March 6. 1s7a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-29

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