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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
THE MUNICIPAL BUDGET.

The city commissions budget for the fiscal year of October, 1924-Septemoer 3O. 1925, is not an imposing document Although the revenues are increasing ana municipal emergencies constantly arls- ing. it is observed that the budget con- surnes all but $40 of the estimated reve- nues for the year. The total expected in come of the city is $5,219,47O, while the budget provides for a fixed expenditure of S5.218,33O. It looks very much as If Ahe main effort was to divide the ex- nected revenue as completely as possible, instead of to administer the affairs of the city as economically and efficiently as possible. It is noted that the appor- tionments are in lump sums, and there is no detail as to the distributions.
 The revenues for 1925 will be con sider.ably higher than for last year. Yet this increase was not taken advantage or as a cushion to absorb the shock of sud den and urgent expenditures not now foreseen. On the contrary, there IS a reserve of $40, which is very small compared to the inevitable tendency to overrun the budget. It IS no; believed that the commission has exercised that rigid standard demanded by the public welfare, namely, that every dollar of pub lie money shall bring a commensurate re- turn in public benefit. It is believed that an impartial review of the city budget by men of capacity with no political purpose and animated by no departmental jeal- Ousy would discover many items that could be reduced to the public advantage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
Forum Of The People
Objects To State Text Book.
Editor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 There is now in use in the fourth year of our high school, Practical English Com position, Book w." by Edwin L. Miller, principal of the Northern High School, De- troit, Mich., which book appears so parti- san that its use, it would seem, should be discontinued, although it is one of the text books selected for use in our state schools. A reading of the selections in this book shows that its author is either a partisan, or has very poor judgment in making his selec- tions from authors and speakers, by which to illustrate his various subjects. call atten- tion to part of one selection only, which is taken from lecture of the noted abolitiOnist, Wendell Phillips, on Touissant L'Ouverture, the negro founder of the republic of Hayti. It reads as follows:
 But fifty years hence the muse of his tory will put PhOcion for the Greek, and Brutus for Rome, Hampden for England, Fayette for France, choose Washington as the bright consummate flower of our earlier civilization, and John Brown as the ripe fruit of our monday. Then dipping her pen in the sunlight, she will write in the clear blue above them all, the name of the soldier, the statesman, the martyr Touissant LOuver- ture"
 It seems to me that text book carrying such a statement as the foregoing should not be used in any school. Young pupils will most surely misconstrue such a statement. Many of them do not know that John Brown openly headed an insurrection and rebellion against organized government, and to free the slaves, and that he was tried and convicted and executed for murder and treason. Then the statement placing the negro Touissant tLOuverture ahead of Washington is enough to condemn the book altogether. If the au- thor of such book can find no better selec- tion than the above from Wendell Phillips, it would be better to use none whatever. The school authorities should discontinue the use of the book in our schools.
 E. J. GARRISON.
 Ashland, Ala, Oct. 17. 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
WITHOUT BUNCOMBE.

In a statement by William M. Butler, chairman of the Republican national commit tee, issued under the date of September 19 from Chicago the statement is emphasized that "this has been a campaign without buncombe.' The suggestion is refreshing, but the question how Mir. Butler would substan- ti9te his strong assertion is still to be an- swered.
 What would he say, for example, of the candidates who pitch hay and milk cows for a moving picture machine? How is he im- pressed by the recent speeches of Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, in which the latter, re- ferring to Japan, says that "there is nothing so cooling to hot temper as piece of cold steel" How would he receive the statements issued by Secretary Hughes about his own foreign policy? What does he think of Presi' dent Coolidge's late assertion that as re- suit of Republican policy rediscount rates have been steadily reduced, while at the same time prosperity has increased and unem- ployment lessened under Republican manage ment?
 If Mir. Butler believes that this has been a campaign without buncombe he must have spent his past life in a buncombe factory where buncombe was the sole and only order of the day.-New York Journal of Com marpe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
The Right Word
"NONE" SINGULAR OR 2LURAL2
By W. CURTIS NICHOLSON
(Find the Error in This Article.)

(Find the Error in This ArClcIeJ Irene Ebeling, Chicago: Will yor please let me know which is correct: None of our cities is being considered;' None of our cltles are being considerably
 Answer: Either plural or a singular verb can follow none. If emphasis IS to pc laid on the fact that there is not even one or a certain object, then none should be followed by singular verb as, I thought had at least one more pin but there is none there. When there is any doubt in your mind as to whether a singular or a plural verb would be correct, use d plural verb, l went to the attic and looked for the books but there were none there.
 The Third Sentence.
 The third sentence in the recent test read as follows: More than one was real glad to see me"
 This sentence is correct. The expression more than one' is singular and is correctly followed by was.
 The Fourth Sentence.
 Note the fourth sentence, which follows "None but me knew that the committee was involved in a hopeless discussion"
 Was" should be changed to ''were" in the foregoing sentence. The rest of the sentence is correct.
 "Committee" is a collective noun and, as here used should be followed by a plural verb The individuals comprising the com mittee were acting independently in the dis cussion.
 Yesterdays Error.
 Wrong; There only is one mistake.
 Right: There is only one mistake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21

CT the president really wanted them car ried out or not. That is fatal weakness in chief executive.
 If the president possessed any of those gifts of profundity, energy and leader ship which his campaign leaders have sought to create out of his silence, he would have demonstrated them convinc- ingly long ere this. The people must, in the absence of confirmatory data, give up the Coolidge myth as unfounded and unsubstantial. To re-elect him would be a mistake, with the added incubus of a divided congress, totally out of hand, and even openly antagonistic to the executive. The national welfare most urgently counsels a change in party ad- ministration. ....
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21

It is also very likely that there would be discovered opportunities to transfer sums from the less important to the more important uses.
 The fact has not escaped public att tention that the public is being made to pay for the thefts from the public funds, and that the commission ignores its joint responsibility for this situation. The fifty thousand dollars should be charged against the budget as deficit, if no other way can be discovered to recognize it. But to ignore it is for the commissioners to strike directly at the public confidence in the commissioners good intent, to say nothing of their evasion of the equal responsibility for the mismanagement that resulted in the shortages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
Watching The Parnde
NV IE DID the evening at cabaret-th
By JOHN PILGRIM

WYE DID the evening at a cabaret-the w wife and l. We do every now and
 then. They're like cricket in Eng land. The visitor may not enjoy cricket or even understand it, but he's mutt-headed if he doesn't see it played | sd
 Who's that funny creature?" asks Mrs. Pilgrim.
 The funny creature was dressed the very extreme of fashion. He wore the black sort of hair that shrieks dye. When the young folks at his table got up and left him alone he abandoned the air of determined jaunti- ness he had been wearing and slumped into the attitude of late middle age. His face was ash-gray and his cheeks sunken and his poor old eyes red with sleepiness. Then he recog- nized us and tottered over to have chat.
 Great place, what?" said he.
 And went on telling us what a good time he was having and how he loved to see Dot that is the name of the young woman he mar ried after he dropped his middle-aged wife by the roadside-have a good time.
 "Of course, she's younger than am," said the poor old man. But we're immensely con- genial. Like to trot around together this way. And I insist on Dot surrounding her self with young folks. That way we'll both keep young" es
 The Pilgrims mourned over him when he sagged back to his table. Poor old man! Half dead from fatigue. Awake at last to the knowledge that he had fallen victim to a gold-digger. Knowing that his friends de- spised him and the casuals whose dinner checks he paid laughed at him. Vainly look ing back to the happiness that was his when he was frankly middle aged, and sat at home nights with, a middle aged comfortable, lov- ing wife.
 I wonder if he suspects what a ridiculous figure he cuts An old man, aping youth. Old, befoOled, cheated, uphappy man,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
Brief Nature Studies
AFAYETTB NATIONAL PARK
By J. OTIS SWIFT
Mount Desert, Me, is the only Ma

Mount Desert, Me-, is the only Ma
 tiOnal park know of having such a of the open sea and real noun tains," writes W. P. Beazell from Poland Springs, Me. Created during the course of the World War from lands collected during the previous decade and presented to the government by a group of citizens, headed by Charles W. Eliot there are already 300 miles of trails in the 5,00O-acre reservation, ranging from the one up Flying Squadron, 1,56S feet, which has 765 granite steps and cost $2,0O0, through just paths to the Preci- pice or Ladder Trail on Newport Mountain, which turns back some of the hardest of climbers and literally scares others sick.
 Yesterday, when I climbed Flying Squad ron, met a grasshopper 1,500 feet up. How did he get there was he carried by some gale, or did he literally spend his whole life in achieving that eminence"
 Mount Desert Island, with its granite mountains rises above the waters of the Gulf of Maine, which was made by the flooding of an ancient valley, the deep-worn outlet of whose old-time waters is found by soundings between Nova Scotia and Georges Bank.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
Return

Let me return; for all life is returning. Deeper than thirst for joy and dread of
 pain, The locked and fettered self within is
 yearning
 To find it's ancient selfIessness again. The earth-drawn bough springs upward to-
 ward the sky; The fish must spawn far in their earliest
 foam; And birds of passage turn at last to fly Bound back to their first unforgotten
 home. Even our blinded blow against threat That bars our way in any bitter cline, Is but our word that we must journey yet To sleep in our own way in our own time The goal we thirst for with our deepest
 breath
 Is a return to still remembered death.
 Clement Wood in the Buccaneer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
-hG .agONC F. |0Ng OYER
Tho Log Of Columbus, Had He Sailed In
 g, The ZR.S-


 Aug. Sd: Left coast of Spain at quarter past eighth this Saturday morning and was out of sight of land at eighty-twenty. Queen Isabella was at the hangar as we took off. She is financing this trip and the cost of the helium gas alone must have set her back sey- eral hundred thousand bucks Still when get to America I can write an account of the trip for the newspapers and get most of it back for her.
 Noon: We'll, we are nearing America rapidly. The old gas-bag is making 90 miles an hour with only three motors running. We are in constant radio touch with all the best stations. Pinzon is in high spirits, He got Havana few minutes ago. Received radio message from Isabella, as follows: '.'
 Dear Chrissie: Probably you will be in New York by the time this reaches you. If not, however, want to urge that you hold enough fuel in reserve to make cruise over Manhattan Island and coast cities s.s It will be great publicity for me and the king.
 Love,ss
 ISABELLA.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
The Business Of Life
THE wisest man or woman is the one who
 makes business of living.
By DIR. FRANK CRANE
The supreme thing. Tor each human

The supreme thing for each human being is life the supreme task is living.
 There are business men SO, busy they have no time for the only business worth while, to wit: Living. Some of them have postponed life so long they have forgotten how to live.
 I know a certain woman whose days are so full she is constantly occupied with her social engagements, every night finds her tired out, and she does not live at all; she is too busy.
 There are pleasure seekers, excitement hunters, who are so occupied in searching for amusement they cannot live; they exist, waiting from thrill to thrill in the torments of boredom.
 The laboring classes have their real grievance in this, that so much of their vital force is expended in making a living that they have no strength left with which to live.
 What is life? It is. the normal expression of ones personality. It is the free function ing of one's self.
 In proportion as this functioning or ex- pression is stopped the soul withers know business man who is dead as a door nail. He is very wealthy, very active, and very much admired. He rises and arrives at his office before his clerks. All day long he is as tense at his affairs as if he were fighting bees? He has kept this up for over thirty years The result is that he is no longer human being; he is a sort of pianola. His success has dehumanized him as much as if he had spent those thirty years in the peni- tentiary. He says he does not want a vaca- tion; the truth is he could not take a vaca- tion if he did he would die.
 Now, I know another millionaire who makes a business of living. will tell you about him. At the age of forty or more he found his body going to pieces; he rearranged his diet and his physical habits and now at the age of sixty gets the maximum of efficien- cy from his flesh, blood and nerves. He has great business and works at 1t enough to keep it successful. Saving attained the top notch of business success; he addressed him self to higher values and began to exercise himself in the more essential matters of life. He turned his surplus profits back into his business, applying them to increasing the welfare of his employees. He interested him self in social and moral betterment. He was seized with the wish to help all men and women as far as in him lay. His whole per sonality, therefore, body, mind and soul, are functioning normally, hence he is healthy and happy, and hope he lives 100 years. For instead of sacrificing his life to business he has made a business of life.
 For what shall it profit man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own life?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
THE TRUE PROGRESSIVE.

From my point of view he only oeserses to be called a progressive who cannot sec q wrong persist witl-out m effort to redress it, or Q right denied without an effort to protect 1t: who feels Q deep concern TOT tne economic welfare of the United States. Dus realizes that the making of better men ana women is Q matter greater stilii wne thinks of every governmental policy trss of all in it's bearing upon human rignts rather than upon mu utcrial things; who bo- Meves profoundly in human equality ana detests privilege in whatever form or ID 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; all else iS re" action.-JOhn ". Davis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
Atheism Of Rupert Hughes.

ID UPERT HUGHES, the novelist, comes IN with a frank declaration that he no
 longer finds it possible to believe in God or in the accepted doctrines of Chris tianity. Though his article lacks logic here and there and totally ignores the Protestant reformation, Mir. Hughes has conferred fa- vor on the public of America by his frank ness. There can be little doubt that religious belief and church-going are in many instances mere form and lip service, and also that the churches are often but hotbeds of superstition. The trouble is the church drags way behind the social, cultural and scientific develop ment of our times. A learned professor of theology in an old-world university told this writer once frankly: Really, there is not a single word in the New Testament of which we can be certain. Our ministers know this, but it wouldn't do to proclaim this from the pulpit" For his courage and earnestness MT. Hughes is rewarded by the clerical spokesman of Georgia religious group with the ac- cusation that his sojourn in California must have tainted him with Arbuckleism." It's strange what vile and loathsome comparisons people will make when supposedly constrained by the love of Christ. e sH
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
An Everyday Affair.

He was trying out his high-speed car and had his best girl beside him. Never a thought did he give to the pedestrians, for his thoughts were all on her.
 There was dangerous curve ahead, but he paid no attention to it. The only dangerous curve he was watcnlns was beside him on the seat. *
 He put his arm around 1t.
 Then came the crash
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
MnRE IMPORTANT.

Blinks-A man ought to spend a little time learning where the interesting places of his home town are.
 Jinks--He's got his hands full trying to To- cate it's parking places-Cincinnati Enquirer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21

The Chinese tong hatchet men are profiteering. It is understood that their price for pumping off celestial citizens in the New York tong war is $500 per head; whereas the market price for the ordinary gunman is only $50. Still, per haps it is worth something extra for run ming the risk of being declared insane by an American court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
MIR. DAvIs's CAMPAIGN.

In all the states he has visited, John w.. Davis has had a job in harmonizing to do. He is not merely coming back east; he is making progress in sOlidifying the Democratic party. Personally, he is reported to have made good impression-Springfield Repub- licon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
THE ETERNAL INVASION.

At the present rate, it probably won't be long before the man who removes his collar and coat in barber shop will cause letters fo condemnation to reach the newspapers from the fair sex.-Baltimore Sun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
RATHER FIGHT THAN WORK.

Swedish manufacturers report heavy for eign orders for war materials and compara- lively small demand for agricultural imple- ments. Which tends to strengthen the im- pression that there are still nations in Eu- rope which would rather fight than work New Orleans -Picayune.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
Hail Hail. The Gangs.

A, rathe elderly high school teacher was talking to one of her classes about century plants. She asked whether any of the stu dents had ever seen century plant in bloom None had. z. 'eThen I've been a great deal more fortun- ate than all of you" she smiled. i've seen century plant in bloom twice"
 Whereupon the class wit inquired: "Was it the same plant"
 -E. l.. Penry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
Victims Of False Economy.

If the parliament of Britain should ever ratify the Russian treaty England will be a victim of false economy, for instead of benefiting the Russian people, the loans will be utilized for propaganda,' says Winston Churchill. Thus spoke also the notorious Dr. Belhomme, friend of Robespierre during the Terror of the French Revolution.
 The doctor had an asylum where wealthy prisoners from the Conciergerie could board" for an exorbitant sum of money. The strange part of the boarding was that such prisoners were generally immune from the revolutions ary tribunal and the guillOtine. Robespierre saw to that to please his friend, the doctor. Two duchesses, however, complained of the high cost of the "asylum-prison" and left. Two days later they were beheaded Those charming ladies were victims of a misplaced economy remarked Dr. Belhomme with some truth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21

fund from it's readers. The fund stood yes terday as follows:
 Previously acknowledged co. $1,4S7.SO
 Cash ..,.....'.'''''''' Oo SC'O
 CaSh s''''..'s ~V'VN
 The time is growing short in which to com plete the swing of votes to tet Democratic ticket. What is done must be done within three weeks. Those who expect to contribute to the campaign fund should do so now Ii they want their money to do the utmost good.
 It begins to look as if the Borah resolution of inquiry will keep the Republican contribu- :ions 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 1t 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 a worthy one?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
His Opinion.

"It says here in the paper" remarked Mrs. Johnson in the midst of her reading, that crime cost the people of the United States four billion dollars last year" s.
 well, I b'dogged if I blieve it was = vaw-w-wn !--worth it!" after a considerable pause replied Gap Johnson, of Rumpus Ridge. --
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
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Liked Her Color Scheme

Finnan-"What is your favorlte color Haddie-"My girls eyes"
 Mrs. Mark Pollack.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21

A callous person, reading the various unprovoked public utterances of Justice Caverly and Clarence Darrow, might in- fer that they were suffering from un- easy minds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
xvontod Tyer To Go Higher.

George etiousIy)-"AnnabeIIe sings III A flat" no, Gregory-"Why doesn't she hire hall?'
 Gertrude Marie Heller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21

Perhaps MT. Coolidge thinks that the most charitable treatment for his party is silence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21

The Republican emphasis on LaFol- lette radicalism is defensive and not an offensive gesture.=
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21

N the choice were left to me. whether to nave . free press or . free government, wouio choose a free press.-Thomas Jefferson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21

SUBSCRIPTION RATEs--By mail. payable in advance, in United States and Canada. Daily and Sunday, one year, $500. six months. $+oo; three months, s226; one month. $50. Daily only: One year. ss.5o; six months. ts.2s; three months, ;1.75; one month, 75e. Sunday only: one year. Sa.oo; six months $1.So; three months. 75c; one month, 25c.
 ay Carrier where carrier delivery is main- tained, FOG per week: S5c per month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21

80 p. m-Everything lovely. T had the crew together at luncheon and found them all enjoying the trip to America. They de clared they could not have spent weekend more profitably.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21

It is thought that the postal employees are not enthusiastic Coolidge supporters.