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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
Mobile, Ala.

Mir. Rogers Interest In Gainesville DetOu To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 From press reports of statements of MT John A. Rogers it would appear that he had taken no active interest in having the high way through Greene county routed via Gainesville. To show his interest from the very beginning to get this road to come by Gainesville in the legislature of 1915 one morning I found a map on mine and every other legislators desk showing the routing of all state-aid roads. Our road through Greene county from Eutaw to Livingston was shown as going by Gainesville 1 offered an amend ment to route it via Allison, Boligee and Epes to Livingston. Mir. Rogers, the mem Der from Sumter county, made an urgent speech to route the road by Gainesville l opposed it and had red line drawn the di- rect route through Allison Bolge and Epes on the map on every legislators desk, show ing how much shorter the direct route through Boligee and Epes would be. The house voted for the shorter route through Boligee S5 to G, as against the detour through Gainesville. The senate adopted the Gaines vile route as now planned to be constructed The speaker of the house put me on the con- ference committee to settle the route. Now to show his active interest in the matter as far back as 1915. Mir. Rogers, who was not member of this committee, appeared before the committee and urged that the com mittee accept the Gainesville route which was done. NJ. T. SUMNER.
 Boligee Ala. March 10. 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

It is reported that Turkey will employ twelve hundred experts to give advice m gov ernmental problems, just as if that country were not already heavily graft-ridden.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

Cipher experts have been engaged to de code some of the telegrams exchanged in connection with the oil scandal, which may help to round out well-developed case of official rascality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

Cabinet officers are sometimes like young women at the climax of the courtshIp period i; when they say no. they mean yes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

Brnadcasting Etatiuns llRxe a@m z1rng5ng up like new uil inquiry developments. I'm a1- other year therH VIII he Hne rnffiB zstHhim tn every rafis set unless SmHfiiing Rs dfSns about 1t.
 The A. T. X T. company elaImk nj hHk patents thHt give Ut exclusive riie'iftR uD Dnt people to sleep ir lmtg fiistEnre. Tir Buffe lies right to be bmed iE independent aUn- panies is seriously qnestiHnna.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
ANFW KHNeSalN

Imperial Caesar, dead and turned tD elig, Might stop hole to kaap fhe wind HWvEE E= And royal Tut, long laid upnn rihe 4is4in. Cries, 'Sir, begOnel III EEniEinEte mggsssIf' '
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

The Tampa Tribune suggests Teapot Blues" as all appropriate title for a stirring campaign song. for which political organi- zation has offered hundred-dollar prize.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

The report that Rykoff will follow Le- hines policy indicates that he knows what that policy was.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

perhaps Dr. Cook views the situation with satisfaction that, morally speaking, there are quite a number of others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
BEDTIME STORY NnrE

Hllf Gfrulan government has appointed an "titiniltI reilsr Sf fairy stories One of the Hfitiilil"r women saws they don't appoint 'em dWan hsre, they mnrry 'em.-JacksOn Center &aws
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

Under the present umfftims uiiaie nE mn systematizsd rHsylatiBn af aruHiirasthnG Anyhody can ffrDw a tenm, artlIkEt, eslBnp- tionist, unar4etre or 5azz ardhnztrn nIt1D sgHea who So desirns HnH can Eer tbe uHutsaunE electrical RssistHnue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

W'S ALL WITH VIEWS, NOT CASH
 4 "ifhenHT' in religion is not necessarily gaad gantriB riButar.-Gs GsEeenEiIIe Piedmont.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

Counsel for the plaintiff Will prs.ssrr Riiis argument lower n wERe larg,fh af 5siD mntiHrsA between the Uncle FiEglg WIsEE Sstny anf the Arlington time signals anA alse dHismHR will be given fiftnen minutes Aastx#Hn tlffe Happiness Boys and Tine Chasrfn FifillMt- pher.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
THE AGE-H HERALD


Entered at Birmingham, Ala, po>st office as seo- end-class matter. act of Congress March 6. 1873.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
The Once OUer
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The American TeleI'hne and NsiltsEa1lih Company is Infringing suits te esuilrF1 n'Hiiib broadcnsring. 1t seeks te mgntqailze snsenn disturbances, Eain camlilete emIfrrsh ct dilT- agreeable noises and put nh BHiiHime SsfsriHs under one management.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
PHYSICIANS AND PUBLIC HEALTH

Telephone tprivste branch exchange coLnect. tag all departmentsD. Main Aeeo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

Suits have already been filaH. TiR niiRin- tiff WEAF served papers 8n WMN hast week and the cRse will be trinH hsssmR guiipH YRXZ in the Court af Al4ihabnhirzn gulm- bles at the next term Trial Will be hsfme a iury of seven men, fuur bIihs and tine uHlal wire length.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

NEWS BUREAUS-Washingbon, 800 Davidson Building: State Capital, Montgomery Journal Building; Tennessee Valley. Decatur Daily Building; Tuscaloosa, News Building: Jasper, Mountain Eagle Building; Annisaon. Star Buiid- ing: Gadsden. Journal Building; Muscle Bhoais. Tri-cities Daily Building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
SGNETFFTNG TO WORRY ABOUT


 1 adA uhf tiEne we have saved by not worry mtc aURr the suspension of the Box peace ln1Ea mNestii.ation coul,l be placed end to sIld It BnOhablE would reach into the middle ah nsEt week--SpringtieId Union
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

Critics of WHATS HitgHHiim HiH#d ulimn the plan is to creute n raffiD nrusst, utiH,HiiW giving one parent rBn4pa1gy tine gHrtnrsa af aal radio just us the Hneat truft @nfnfails mfsHn
 All the best radio rRlHnt Min l,e ulIfitr aIlln management, 1t IS predictBa, with uiiR aam- pany m a position fD anurHaHe zihHEHs as IT may see fit. llHily qnOtKtiBns HirssHBn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

SUBSCRIPTION RATES-By mall. payable fn advance. in United States and Canada; Daily and Sunday. one year, $500; six months. $4oo; three months s2.25: one month, sbc. Daily only: One year. $6.s0; six months, $a2s; three months. SL7s; month. 76c. Sunday only: One year. 32.b0; six months. s1.6o; three months, 16c: one month, as.
 By carrier. where carrier delivery is main- tained: zoe per week. s6c per month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS-The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it. not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news published therein. All rights of republication of special dispatches are siso reserved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

And then, ssixignsly. win gnnR mxazhs:A- tions into the high cost af hstsIusgr
 Experts predict fhat rtelelihHne aimpnnIHs eventually will instRH ratfiO stts 1Izft Htilt- phones are installed t0daw. GmQmlT ma tha1ics will hook them ull. Ihis slsnR will cut down the insanity rare in HEBe Amtnaram home 90 per cent.
 4 subscriber VIII luy dte HEr uiR HlFssraa 1ation of the set and he adRDERa 4iib azlItS for concerts, beftime Etmies, StanamB sEllRK and cooking 1ectures n QRarfHr. 6HAm 9aafrS per call for An entertainment nm GsOusgs af uliiiH Quptn-)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

Oil And Republican Politics.-And it is be- coming more and more evident that oil has played an important part in Republican poii- tics of the past It is going to play an nm nortant part in the coming campaign, for the party must go into the fray smeared with 1t, smelling of it and fabricated by it, openly and to such an extent that the voters are well aware of it-Gadsden Journal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14

An Economic COmparison.-Why spiursi- t.te over fine fact. if it is a fact, that women in this country spent $500, 900 for tal- cum. face cream and rouge last year? We are quite sure that if the figure shark re- sponsible for that will find out how much male men spent for illegal liquor, soda fount dopes, cigars and pipe filings the summary will prove that our women are extremely eco nomical-Opelika News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
Reflections On The Primary

Bessemer, Ala, March r., 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-25
PARTY CAMPAIGN FUNDS.

Compared with the Republican official admission that they expect their cam paign contributions to reach three mil lion dollars, the Democratic figure of $75O,00O appears very modest. To be sure, as MT. Gerard said in reply to ques- tions, the Democratic committee would spend more if more were contributed, but it has laid it's plans to remain within the figure stated It is interesting to note that among the larger contributors are such men as Barnard Baruch, Henry Morgenthau and others whose public service has cost them more than they have received in the way of recompense, and whose business interests are not such as to create the inference that they expect special favors in return for their financial support. It is very likely that they would contribute just the same if assured be- forehand that they would be elevated to no position of honor or authority in the event of Democratic success.
 In the Republican case, however, there is suspicion that the three million contributed directly to the Republican committee may be matched by another three million discreetly and unostenta- tiously disbursed without the formal or technical knowledge of the committee. However that may be, it is not believed that the Republicans will lose the cleo tion if money will save it. The recipients of favors which can be generously cashed at the expense of the American people
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-25
SCHOOLS AND spoRTsMANsHIP.

There is planned by the public school authorities a program of character de- velopment among the pupils along the lines of sportsmanship. This contem- plates the application of sportsmanship to other relations in addition to those on the athletic field. It seems that by the term "sportsmanship" the authorities have in mind the combination of three qualities of ancient renown, namely, courtesy, chivalry and honesty. There are involved also the qualities of courage and modesty, but they are not primary clements, because one who is honest is courageous, and one who is courteous is also modest. Chivalry is generosity under difficult circumstances when ones own selfish impulses must first be con- quered.
 Too many people think of sportsman ship only in terms of athletic activity and rivalry; whereas, as a matter of fact, athletics is supposed to develop manli- ness, womanliness, in word, sportsman ship, as basis for all other human rela- tionships as we'll. Many persons are apt to admire the quality of sportsmanship in others without thought of developing the same quality in themselves. It is this latter objective that the school authori- ties have in mind. If the program is suc- cessful, one can think of no single educa- tional purpose, capable of public applica- ton, which would have a better effect upon our citizenship of tomorrow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-25
WHAT sEvENTY.sIX BOYS DID.

Seventy-six boys of Tallapoosa and Coosa counties, members of Boys Cotton Clubs, have made their respective trial acres produce bale of cotton each this year. Next year it is the hope of the county agent to have one hundred boys succeed in raising one hundred bales of cotton on one hundred individual acres. It can be done. And if on one acre, then on two; if on two, then on ten, and if on ten why not on any amount of land prop erly planted, fertilized and tended? If the boys can do it, why not the fathers? Undoubtedly that is question many an adult farmer of these two counties is ask ing himself as he visits the fair, and gazes at the visible and incontestible proof of what seventy-six boys, ranging in age from eleven to eighteen, have done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-25
Campaign Fund

The Age-Herald is receiving contributions for the Democratic presidential campaign fund from its readers. The fund stood yes terday as follows:
 Previously acknowledged .$t,S4O.OO
 The contribution of $5O.OO credited to
 Dr. w. E. Howell of Haleyvine, Ala,
 Thursday should have been credited to
 Judge Opie Gamble.
 The time is growing snort in which to com plete the swing of votes to tet Democratic ticket. What is done must be done within tEree weeks. Those who expect to contribute to the campaign fund should do so now if they want their money to do the utmost good.
 1t begins to look as if the Borah resolution of inquiry will keep the Republican contribu- lions lower than they would otherwise be. Therefore, the Democrats are not under the heavy financial handicap that has often kept chem out of the White House.
 A dollar counts more In this campaign than it has in previous campaigns, for it has to offset fewer privilege dollars on the other side.
 Contribute to the Democratic effort and to the success of John w. Davis.
 Party loyalty has thus an aditional man. ner in which it may serve the party.
 If many will give moderately, the total will be sufficient.
 But in this community many are not giv- ing even moderately.
 is the cause not worthy one?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-25
THE SOVIET INCONSISTENCY.

Although there is a healthy tendency to discount any reports of extensive red activities in the United States, yet there is abundant evidence that the destruction of our present form of government would be very welcome to the soviet leaders in Russia. Leon Trotzky recently declared in Moscow: "When the reins of power in the United States, France and Great Britain are vested in the werkmen, when the bourgeoise are expelled and inl- perialists disarmed, we shall be able to come to terms with the great powers without effort, but this time has not yet arrived In every country around us capitalism is still ruling and threatens our very existence" To a sane man, such words are utter rant, but to a peo- pie distressed and hungry, torn in it's domestic life and raped of it's honor and it's religion, they furnish an object upon which the general desperation may vent itself, The soviet rule is a failure and the "capitalistic" rule is a success. Under the soviet the people are miser
 able and in want. Under the established forms of government they are content
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-25
THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBIT.

The Jefferson County League of Wop- en Voters, having sedulously worked for the success of the annual exhibit of Bir- mingham products which opens in the city auditorium Monday, are anxious for it to be we'll attended. They know it de- serves it. More than eighty entries and thirty-five different types of Birming- ham manufacturers are in readiness for public inspection. There will appear in the press each day details of the special programs of various kinds that will be given in connection with the exhibition. The exhibit is the industrial epitome of Birmingham output. It is both educa- tional and inspiring. It reveals in an at tractive manner the scope of the districts productive activities. It is destined to expand with the years, until it becomes an established institution, famed far and wide, and attracting sightseers from an annually growing territory. It is yet in it's beginnings, but it is legitimately anl- bilious. It deserves the cordial patron age of the people of this industrial com munitY,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-25
Brief Nature Studies
By j. OTIS SWIFT

q was country-born and, though most of my time is spent in the city, | take little imaginary trips into the country through your News Outside the Door," writes D. B. Mains from Westport Point, Mass. There are, where am stopping, two soft naples in the yard that have interested me, Their bark is thin and extremities have white spots resembling markings of a spotted adder. The foliage is unusual for soft naples, very coarse, not conforming to those in my home in the Catskills We are near water and haven't seen single sugar maple. Do you think it possible for soft maple blossoms to cross with other speciesY
 While most tree students agree there is good ground for belief that oak species some times cross and produce hybrids, the writer has no record showing that species of maple trees cross in a natural state. It would seem more likely that the trees referred to are of an unfamiliar species resembling the soft maple.
 The naples constitute a large and widely distributed genus of trees and shrubs. Mir. Mains may have happened upon specimens of some foreign thin-barked species
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-25
The Right Word
THE TWELETH SENTENCE
Rx 1Y. cuRTIs NIcRoLsoN

 "He declared that a patriots life is always the property of his country"
 Do you see anything wrong with the sem tence quoted above? There isn't. It is cor rect
 It is possible that some one has changed "is' to "was." But such a change would be incorrect. A patriots life is, was, and always will be the property of his country. Therefore, one should not refer to this fact only in the past
 The Thirteenth Sentence It reads as follows: Ask whenever you think will be help to us" s@'sa'-
 There is mistake in this sentence. Whenever should be changed to whoever because the latter is the subject of will be; AS whoever will be help to us.
 The Fourteenth Sentence
 "He knew it to be me" was the next sen tence in the recent test.
 Again, 'The Right Word" hopes that no one tried to correct it. There is nothing to correct.
 ''To be" is :.l infinitive. When the in finitive ito be" is preceded by subject 1t and followed by a pronoun "me' both "it' and "me" should be in the objective case. And they are ,,,......,, e.,,..,,.. Does the following sentence contain mis- take: twill we be able to hear well?" The answer: When asking a -uestion in the first person, one should use shall; as' Shall we be able to hear well?
 Yesterdays Error
 Wrong: D. E. Lee is another member of the group which vas successful.
 Right: D. E. Lee is another member of the group who were successful. a.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-25

and prosperous. Yet the Russian people blame the wellbeing of other nations for their own wretched ness. No greater ab- surdity than the soviet reasoning was ever perpetrated, but people with hopeless future are beyond reasoning.
 It is characteristic of Trotzky, how ever, that he himself appears to realize the inconsistencies he advocates. He is in the mess and he continues to play the game according to the rules artificially established rather than according to the dictates of his own better judgment. For example, regarding the large standing army, he says: From our scanty means we are forced to apportion 400,000,0 ,000 rubles evrey year for maintenance of the army. If we spent this money upon in- dustry, agriculture and education, we would make greater progress. To be sure they would, but without an army Trotzky might be reduced to private life, and that would never do. On the other hand, if Russia went in for the development of ir- dustry, agriculture and education, where would the soviet be? Russia would then be "capitalistic" nation, just as all the others. Without wrechedness there can be no soviet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-25
Modern Maids MaxinuS

Married women are divided into two classes: Those who bore you with the bril- liant beautiful and profound things John says and those who feed you up with the stupid, vulgar, brutal things John does"
 One way of beguilding a man is to tell him how clever he is another way is to ask him questions and to listen to his answers as if they were deliverances from Delphi or Sinai.
 When he telephones her to meet him in town for dinner and a show, and she com plains, But why didn't you say something about it last night ?-that's when the honey moon ends.
 The woman who says, q can't think what he sees in her." really means, II cant think how he manages to admire some one else so utterly different from ME" f.t
 When a man insists he's only human woman can be pretty sure he's flattering him. self at that.
 It's wise woman who knows how to draw the linef between fascinating feminine de pendence" and that attitude which makes rher, husband or son exclaim. in '""'t" 'Nd di gust Good Lord, she is so helpless!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-25
THE TRUE PROGRESSIVE.

From my point of view ho only deserves to be called . progressive who cannot seo> . wrong perslst witl.out an effort to redress it, or . right denied without an effort 70 protect 1t: who feels Q deep concern for the economic welfare of the United States, bus realizes that the making of better men and women Is 8 matter greater still; who thinks of every governmental policy flrse of all in its bearing upon human rights rather than upon material things; who be- lieves profoundly i'm human equality and detests privilege in whatever form or In whatever disguise, and who finds the true test of success In the welfare of the many and not the prosperity and comfort of the few. The civic unit of America Is not the dollar, but the individual man. All that goes to make better and happier and freeR men and women Is progress; Mn else l. re- actiOn.--John ". Davis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-25

can afford to be liberal, for all they reed to recoup themselves is to lay heavier tax upon the people. aS .!sts. .y,
 For the reason that the Democratic campaign is essentially campaign of education, it is believed that the mem bers of the Democratic party may not only contribute to the campaign fund with confidence that it will be legitimate ly disbursed, but that it is their duty to contribute. Furthermore, just as the Republican privileged interests find it profitable to contribute to insure con- tinuance of their privilege, so much the more can the rank and file of the people contribute to the Democratic success in order to escape the burden of privilege. It is worth thinking over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-25
Roads

The roads were lined with cherry bloom all
 glstening in the sun. heard them call, Come out with us--come
 out and have run v o roads are sweet, but little feet get tired
 before an hour l-.lt. I slept that night and dreamed of roads with
 all the trees in flower. The roads were bright with buttercups and
 soft with yellow dust. hear them call, Come out with us!'-it
 really seemed l must! O roads are sweet, but mothers feet are tied
 to household ways slept that night and dreamed of roads as
 golden as blaze. The roads are glad with goldenrod that comes
 before the frost. I hear them cry, Come out with us, before
 our charm is lost w o roads are sweet, but aged feet are all too
 stiff and slow Good by, good by, dear little roads that
 shall never know! For roads as white as lost delight will never
 tempt me, when. In sudden pride, turn aside from all the
 ways of men. o roads are sweet, but winged feet will rather
 wish to try -A. That silver trail of stars that leads far up
 the violet sky --Claribel Weeks Avery in Contemporary Verse.