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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
THE .srHIRTY.oNE" BREAK UP.

Shortly before the election in 1920 a group of thirty-one prominent citizens signed an appeal to the people of the United States to support the Republican ticket as the best means of insuring an international program looking to world peace. Many of the signers were out spoken adherents of the League of Ma tions, among them Judge Taft, Secretary Hughes and MT. Hoover. As far as their influence was concerned, the Harding victory was endorsement of the League of Nations. Now two at least of these thirty-one have withdrawn from the Re publican ranks and thrown their influ- ence to MT. Davis. They a1e President John Grier Hibben of Princeton, and Charles W, Dabney, former president of the University of Cincinnati. Says Dr. Dabney: q shall support MT. Davis be- cause I believe he has the ability to be a real leader and the courage to carry out his pledges" That is an honest avowal of man who has the courage to admit his former error.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
REVEALING PUBLIC CONFIDENCE.

The city commission can hardly fall to be impressed by the uniform expres- sion of confidence in the administration of the public health on the part of va rious organizations and civic bodies. More than a score of them, in rapid suc- cession, have passed resolutions con- demnatory of the new ordinances pro- posed by number of dairymen who are or have been in conflict with the health laws. Aside from the incongruity of any group formulating laws for their own regulation and restraint, it is not be- heved that the fundamental attitude of the protesting dairymen is favorable to strict protection of the public health. Success in the present effort would but pave the way to further effort to tear down the magnificent structure of milk regulation which has lifted this com munity out of the norass of ever-pres- ent or recurring ills to which impure milk formerly exposed them.
 The department of health must feel greatly cheered and encouraged to new effort by the unmistakable public de- sire to grant the authorities all reason able latitude in formulating and en- forcing requirements protective of the community health. The people are per- suaded by the results in decreased sick ness and death rate that the health de- partment is their surest safeguard against any who would profit at the ex- pense of the public welfare. The unani- nous testimony of medical organizations and individual physicians as to the merit of the present regulations and the dan gers that turk insidiously in the proposed regulations is confirmatory of the grow ing public belief that successful health measures should not be tempered with by those with personal interest at stake, nor be altered except with the approval of those who are experienced and trained in such matters,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
Campaign Fund

The Age-Herald is receiving contributions for the Democratic presidential campaign fund from it's readers. The fund stood yes terday as follows:
 Previously acknowledged ........ .$1'4AS -
 A. T. Feaster, 1311 N. 4th Ave,
 w. E. AV'OO
 Cash, TrussVille, Ala. ............ 1.OO
 The time is growing short in which to com plete the swing of votes to the Democratic ticket. What is done must be done within three weeks. Those who expect to contribute to the campaign fund should do so now If they want their money to do the utmost good.
 It begins to look as if the Borah resolution of inquiry will keep the Republican contrlbu- tions lower than they would otherwise be- Therefore, the Democrats are not under the heavy financial handicap that has often Kept them 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 additional 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 a worthy one?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
Wages Of Going On
THE conviction that there is a life after
By DIR. FRANK GRAN

THE conviction that there is a life after
 after death is not a product of reason
 ing. You cannot prove it nor dis prove it.
 ,%All you can do is to feel it or not to feel lit. It is a thing to be perceived, to be ap- prehended, by faculty in us that is greater than mind. It is to be grasped, as a Turner be real), as you realize the beauty of Keats's Endymion, the integrity of Washington, the manhood of Lincoln, the majesty of Jesus.
 The persuasion of immortality is a secre- tion of virtue.
 It is the invariable precipitation deposited in the minds by high mortal principles.
 It is because humanity is good that it be- lieves that it will be immortal.
 Wherever you find perversion, moral lesion, the reign of sensuality, there you find the strong suspicion that death ends all.
 Pessimism is the religion of the Voluptuary.
 Death is the welcome finish of the beast like.
 But wherever you find any feeling like the following you find the belief in that same heart that life will, or ought to, go after the dissolving of the body, to wit:
 Love, not sensual, but devoted:
 The pleasure of helping others:
 The joy of spiritual victory, where one de- nies himself a lower qualification to get higher;
 Kindness, sympathy, and all those emo tions whereby we project our life into the life of others;
 Devotion to an idea, so that one finds sat isfaction in giving ones labor or giving up Ones life for some "cause" as for the state (patriotism), for humanity (religion), for party, for anything we feel to be larger than self
 Passion for righteousness; not doing right from duty or prudence or wisdom, but be- cause we are enamored of it, and it burns in our hearts;
 Wherever these things exist you discover the stubborn conviction that death Is not the last word.
 The conviction of immortality is the natu- ral phosphorescence of goodness.
 In other words, as the proverb has 1t, Virtue is it's own reward"
 That is to say, the effect of virtue is to make its possessor feel that he cannot die. It is the thing that most marks him off from the brute. A hog might learn to count; it could not learn the difference between right and wrong.
 There's only one thing virtue asks; that is to go on livinY. Its instinctive demand is, | life
 tion of all human goodness. Tennyson expresses it:
 The wages of sin is death; if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have the heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly? She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove or to bask in a
 Give her THE WAGES OF GOING ON. AND NOT TO DIEl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
The Right Word
IN THE MOVIES.
By W. CURTIS NICHOLSO

The writer visited moving picture theater recently and among other things saw com edy. One of the titles in this picture read as follows:
 - q don't think either one of you know how how to ride
 The foregoing was a title. It hardly called for the incorporation of a serious mistake in English. Of course the word know should have been changed to knows, for the subject is either one, which is the singular number.
 Again the Belgian Hairdresser.
 Amateur" offers the following version of the story of the Belgian hairdresser;/
 "A picture, thirty inches long and twenty inches wide of a steamer with red tunnels and a black hull and on a gray sea, has been woven with human hair by a Belgain hair dresser"
 Robert Burlinson writes as follows:
 Don't you think that the following sen tence, needing no punctuation for clearness, is an improvement on my former effort re- garding c. A. Carlsons senence:
 "A steamer with red tunnels and black hull on a gray sea has been woven with hu- man hair in a picture thirty inches long and twenty inches wide by a Belgian hairdresser'
 q might insert five commas but for the purpose in view, namely to prove that the sentence, as have written it, is logically con structed, I prefer to offer it without any commas"
 Yesterdays Error.
 Wrong: Let us see how the opinion of Webster's differs with that of the New Standard
 Right: ... how the opinion of Web sters differs from that of the New Standard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

will be able to redeem his pledges, for in the case of those who have failed, it has been the will that was lacking.
 No man deserves to be returned to high office who tolerates corruption among his subordinates, who supports legislation that favors one group at the expense of another, who regards special privileges as the mere emoluments O! his office with which to repay personal or partisan political debts. The Repub7 lican administration has been and still is marked by corrupt methods. It distributes privileges to the few at the expense of the many, and it contemplates still fur ther extensions of privilege on each fa- vorable opportunity. It has earned de- feat at the hands of the American people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
For Things That Pass

Let not our thoughts be tears Tears are for things that pass '. Well may we weep For the snow-fallen grass, For blue-eye fallen, For roses dropping low With finished petals; Or for words that go Like waning sound of laughter To an end
 Well may you weep For these, my friend. For things that were, but are not, We'll may you weep. But for this man Whose heart was hope that dies not, Whose soul was love that lies not, Whose life was truth that flies not, For him we dare not weep. Let him come with us laughing Where new winds blow Our tears are seemly only For things that go. John Russell Mccarthy in Contemporary
 Verse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
THE TRUE PROGRESSIVE.

From my point of view he only deserves to be called a progressive who cannot sec . wrong persist without an effort to redress it, Sr a right denied without an effort 10 protect 1t: who feels a deep concern Tor the economic welfare of the United States Dus realizes that the making of better men ana women is "a matter greater still; Wno thinks of every governmental policy firss of all in its bearing upon human rights rather than upon material thingsi who be- Meves profoundly in 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 Nthe 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; all else is ro- actiOn.-John ". Davis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

pellagra, typhoid and even many of the childhood diseases will be so rare as to relieve the race of tremendous burden and handicap. This end will bt attained as soon as the truth is practically accept ed that there is no expense attached to driving out disease-the expense lies in failure to do SO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
THE LAFOLETTE TAINTLEss

Senator LaFolette is making a mighty tO-do over what he calls the slush funds of the po- litical parties opposing him. It will be re- called that he called for fund of $2,5O0,OOO from his supporters to finance his own cam paign. But, of course, that was all right. It is only the funds of the opposing parties that are to be condemned. His own fund will be made up entirely of patriotic contributions, if you get what we mean.-Nashville Banner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
WILL WIN ANYHOW.

Smith is laid up with rheumatism, McAdoo is convalescing from an operation, and Carter Glass is too ill to take the stump. The breaks are against the Democrats, but they have the will, the candidates and the votes with which to win.-Wilmingto Every Eve ming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

A Montana man cut tree that stood in a circle with other trees. It fell against a second tree, that against a third, and the third crashed a fourth down upon the man, killing him instant ly. This should teach wives to warn their husbands never to cut trees stand ing in a circle, ...
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

Judging by the Republican testimony as to campaign funds, it costs more to convince the people that Republican should be elected. Republican presidents are our most expensive, both before and after they assume office. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

. TO THE VOTERS OF ALABAMA:
 At the General Election coming in No- vember of this year, you will be asked to consider several amendments to our State Constitution. Your special atten- tion is asked for the one pertaining to three school districts in Lawrence Coun- ty. In substance it is:
 ''To allow the voters of Town Creek School District, No. 59 Moulton School District, No. 29, and Landersville School District, No 23, to vote to place upon themselves a tax not to exceed five mills annually for the purpose of acquiring, constructing or repairing of school build ings in such districts, or, for payment Of school buildings already built"
 Your support of the measure is asked fer these reasons:
 1. Your vote affects none but the cltl- zens of the three districts and only gives them the privilege of voting the tax upon themselves.
 2. Town Creek has built costly brick building to meet her growing needs. She owes heavily on the building. She IS maintaining a nine-month accredited high school. Your vote and influence will help her in the struggle.
 3. Moulton and Landersville are badly in need of school buildings. Your vote will assist in giving this to their chill dren without cost to you.
 Please ask your neighbor to vote with you for the good of these schools.
 Signed:
 LAWRENCE COUNTY BOARD OF
 EDUCATION.
 SCHOOL TRUSTEES OF TOWN
 CREEK, NO. 59; MOULT0N, NO.
 2S AND LANDERSVILLE, NO. 23.
 October 9, 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
KENTUCKY HARD ON BURGLARS.

Death penalty for burglary has been up- held by the court of appeals. Kentucky deals with its potential murderers less leniently than Illinois does with its murderers.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

Late dispatches from Egypt show that Rameses V died of smallpox. Tourists will do we'll to remain away from the Nile Valley until this danger iN over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

A British suffragist beat Ramsey Mac Donald over the head with the Union Jack. This is the firstrecord of British premier having been crowned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

A New York judge is trying to decide whether or not certain stage costumes are indecent. When there is any doubt, there is no doubt about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

Most sheriffs enforce the law. If the bootleggers don't come across, the sheriffs run them in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
Missing No Tricks.

Peg-"Did you break the engagement as soon as he called" Constance-"Why, no. Not until I'd eaten the box of candy he brought"
 Edgar Hellbrun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
How To Introduce Her.


 How To Introduce Her. Dear Wally:
 I'm a newlywed, You don't know me, so call me Fred I cannot tell, to save my life, How should introduce my wife. Dear Fred: -e. -. .e
 This is the place to get The proper tips on etiquette. To show you're married, make it plain By saying: Meet the Ball and Chain" Dear Wally:
 Darn a chaperone! I'd like to meet my girl alone, But auntie always sticks like glue. How shall shake her?
 P. D. Q. Dear P. D. o.:
 To shake an aunt Is not so very elegant. Seize firmly let-your grasp be delft; Then quickly move her right and left.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

Republican campaign slogan: "Trul! a mans foes are those of his own house hold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
ALI KINDS OF sLUsH.

Mir. LaFollette wants to remember that slush oratory is sometimes resorted to, as well as slush funds.-Dallas News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

The mummy of the Pharaoh of the Exodus indicates that His Obstinacy had hardening of the arteries instead of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
Out Of The Ordinary.

Out Of The Ordinary. Red-"It says here that a detective arrested a man whose face he had remembered for 20 years after seeing it in the Rouges' Gallery. that" Butch-"And it must be awful to have a face like that"
 --. Cyril O'Brien.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

If the choice were left to me. whether to have . free press Q free government, wouio choose a free press.-Thomas Jefferson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

The Republican stronghold seems to be a strongbox.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
An Exnansiye Fad.

An Expensive Fad. "Pm tired of this eternal money grabbing. I'm going to buy a little farm and live the simple life" Are you quite sure you are rich enough for that"
 Gertrude Marie Heller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
OId.Time FIappers.

In Mir. Frank Rattigan's new book, "Di- versions of Diplomat" which abounds with instances of a lighter side of English diplo- macy abroad, mention is made of an occur renee which rather reflects favorably on the much maligned bobbed-haired cigarette-smok- ing flappers of our present era. And our mid-Victorian grandmothers those models of prudency and virtue, those boarding school heroines of manners and etiquette lose some thing of their exalted "separatism." Says Mir. Rattigan: Most of the grand ladies of Vienna, like the Princess Metternich, the Princess Croy and others, smoked-large Ha- vana cigars. At dinner at the American embassy Princess Croy had large cigar pre- scented her by the ambassador, but refused it on the ground that it was not strong enough for her taste. She preferred her own, which were huge and dark in color" Mir. Ratti- gan's conversation with the German Crown Prince in 1913 when the latter had just com pleted his inspection of the forts on the French frontiers may become valuable evil dence if the matter of war responsibility is ever brought before an impartial bar. II asked him if he were satisfied with what he had seen?' says the author. "He replied in the affirmative, but added, that is not the region where the fighting will begin"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
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Too Easily Discouraged.

1VU 11dSIIy AISCOUE uBOUs Nancy-"Tm really terribly angry at Percy! He tried to kiss me last night" Peggy-"Why, dear, shouldn't condemn him for that.'
 Nancy-"Fm not Only he didn't try hard enough.'>
 Benjamin Felton.
  A Dun. What is it-a bill?' "Worse-a wedding invitation.'e ...-.. Mrs. Rudolph Kohler.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

EXCLUSIVE MEMBER OF NORTH AGERl CAN NEWSPAPER ALLIANCE ZN ALABAM
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
THE AGE HERALD


Entered at Birmingham, Ala. post office as sec-
 ond-ciass matter. act of Congress. March 6. 1873
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
Forum Of The People,
The Constitutional Amendments.
D Editnr of The Are-Herald 4

To the Editor of The Age-Herald <
 This is to thank you for the splendid edi- torial in your columns early this week on amendments to the state constitution ana especially to express my appreciation for the mention of Amendment No. which is ask ing permission for the voters in Town Creek school district, No. 59, Moulton district, No. 2S, and Landersville district, No. 23, all Tn Lawrence county, to vote upon themselves much needed school tax; it may be asking too much to have inserted with this letter m The Forum of the People the inclosed general let ter we are endeavoring to get before the leaders in the several counties of the state.
 EARL M. HUDSON,
 of Ildunat tiOu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
WALLY THE MYSTIC.

He'll Answer Your Questions, Somehow. That problem that affects you now, And causes wrinkles in your brow, Come, write and have it solved by Wally, To keep it to yourself is folly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PREss-The As sociated Press is exclusively entitled to use fo publication of all news dispatches credited to 1t not otherwise credited in this paper and als local news published therein All rights of re publication of special dispatches are reserved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
ThA Radin Girls

girls?"
 Because any one can pick them up."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
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Waste Of Motion.

Mother-"Did you wash those fish?"
 Willie-"Gracious mo- Ma, who ever heard of washing something that lived in water all their life" W. J. Wooley.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

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N TR. GHANDI, leader of the, non-coop-

IN TR. GHANDI, leader of the non-coop- kVI erationist movement in India, broke his
 fast on the 27th day. But he had ac- complished his purpose. The dissident re- ligious factions held a conference and decided to cease their inter-racial and interreligious quarrels and work for the common good That's worth fasting for. The dispatches telling of MT. Ghandi's strange method to compel his compatriots to reason and think have almost uniformly made light of his great effort; yes, even went to the extent of ridi- culing his methods. Now MT. Ghandi is noth- ing of the whirling dervish type, nor even a fanatic. He is an able lawyer and pro- found scholar. During his stay in South Africa he fought a momentous legal battle for the rights of Hindus in that dominion of the empire. During the war his support of the British cause contributed in no small way with the winning of victory in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Palestine, Irak and other places where Indian troops were employed. Mir. Ghandi supported the British because he wanted to prove that the Hindu could take his place next to the Anglo-SaxOn, on an equal basis. In return England promised great reforms in India after the war. The British India gov ernment really did little tinkering with the constitution. But Mr. Ghandi is still wait ing for the promised reforms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18
Debata CIass.C Consciousness

Mir. Meyer London and Professor Scott Nearing held a debate the other day on the subject of class-consciousness Gan a class conscious socialist support MT. LaFoIlette ?p To Europeans this involves an old question. Emile VanderVelde in Belgium Rebel, Kautsky and Liebknecht in Germany all come face to face with that question in the politi- cal development of the social democracy of their countries. There the question took the form of: Should socialists enter into po- litical alliance with the bourgeoise" The evolutionary socialist answers in the affirma- tive for reasons of expediency. The revolu- tionaries hold that no compromise is possi- ble with the "lackeys of the capitalist class, ? to use their own favorite formula The latter are the only class-conscious socialists left. The others practically have abandoned the an- tiquated idea of class struggle. But class conscious socialist of the Moscow type would feel all out of harmony with LaFolletism, which appears to be more of form of agra rianism. And agrarianism is the very antithesis of radicalism. History of the last decade in Europe teaches in fact that agrarianism is the strongest possible bulwark against red radicalism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-18

When baby opens his mouth, he somehow or other manages to get his foot in it.
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