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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

As you sew so shall you rip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

NEWS BUREAUS-WashinEton, zoo Davidson Building; State Capital, Montgomery Journal Building; Tennessee Valley, Decatur Daily Building; Tuscaloosa, News Building; Jasper. Mountain Eagle Building; Anniston. Star Build ing; Gadsden. Journal Building; Muscle Shoals. Tri-Citiee Daily Building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

FREDERICK l. THOMPSON. >. PRESIDENT
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Athletics and Scholarship. p.-Too much
 stress can be laid upon athletics in a high school, and it is done in manly. Scholarship is sometimes laid on the shelf in favor of football and baseball. This should not be done-G Gadsden Journal. aFss ,,.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Dark and White Horses.- There are lot of dark horses in the background of the presidential campaign and doubtless a mum Der of them would look good beside some of those who are parading' as white ones.-- Ashland Progress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Friends and Enemies of Ford.-H there were some way of telling who was sorry and who was glad when the Ford bid was shelyed for season, it would then appear who are the real friends and the real enemies of that offer.--Albany-De Decatur Daily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Tt Can't Be Did..-7A correspondent in the Andalusia Daily Star mentions a s.girfs' silent club" We have always considered
 the Star truthful newspaper, but a 'tsilentY club of girls I can't be did -Moulton Ad, vertiser.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Correct form requires that the gentlema in leaving the room leave on the lady's righ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Some Comparative Prices.-Hogs are now seven cents per pound gross. Cattle, four cents per pound gross; cotton, thirty cents per pound, and yet the manufactured prod tcts sold to the farmers are really based on twenty cents pound for hogs, fifteen cents for cattle, and fifty cents for cotton. How long can the farmer continue to exist under such conditions ?--7P Prattville Progress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Correct breeding requires that when leav. ing the rabbits the gentleman keep on the lady's left
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-12

Indication of Progress.-No stronger dence of the fact that the peopleof Flol are going right ahead in, building up the and community can be cited than the thusiasm being shown in the new bui and loan association now being organ Citizens of Florence are confident of continued rapid growth and prosperity W lies Before us and they are backing
 confidence by aiding in the promotion of much needed nterprise.-Florence Hera
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A literacy test does not discriminate

A literacy test does not discriminate against any one. It bars illiterates lr- respective of race or color. It denies the right of franchise to the white man as we'll as the Indian who is not able to read or write. A number of years ago Congress in it's wisdom made literacy a requisite for an inn migrant to enter this country. The United States did not discriminate against Italy or Russia, or other na- tions where the percentage of Hitter acy is high. The barrier was raised then, as it should be now, against the menace of ignorance; and if the op- ponents of a literacy test are consis- tent in their views it must be their opinion that the doors of this country should again be thrown open to for eigners who have not sufficient educa- tion to read or write. If illiterate inn migrants are rightfully barred as un- desirables, what about the person born in America with probably the best school facilities in the world, who still wilfully remain ignorant? A literacy test for voters discriminates against one thing only, and that is ignorance. It is within the power of every Am erican citizen to qualify himself as a competent voter. The American Le- zion has among it's members men that are red, black, white and yellow, men of many creeds and many beliefs, but it is our opinion that any American citizen, be he one of us or not, who Is not patriotic enough to learn to read and write the language of his coun- try, should not be permitted to vote. The literacy resolution of the Legion does not say that we desire the Indian from voting as some of their spokes- men would have them believe. We would like to see every Indian who is mentally competent cast ballot the same as any other free America nciti- zen. Our resolution has no other pur- pose than to discriminat against the ignorant wherever they may be found. The attack on the Legion literacy res olution can be best answered by call ing attention to the persons making it and appearing as the champions and advocates of ignorance. Are they honest, upright Americans with pat
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riotic motives, or are thew politicians bidding for votes? To date, all the attacks have been made by candi- dates for office and not single valid argument has been advanced. The cry of discrimination is cheap campaign material manufactured solely for the purpose of garnering the vote of the Natives of Alaska.
 The statement that the Legion is inconsistent can readily be reduced to an absurdity. To be consistent, like the politicians, if man is good enough to fight, he is good enough to vote If he is good enough to vote he is good enough to hold office. If he is good enough to hold office he is good enough to be elected to a high executive position, even though he has to depend on someone else to read the state documents for him and affix his official signature with mark. The Legion is able to distinguish that al- though man might be physically qualified for combat he may not be mentally competent to discharge one of the highest duties of citizenship, and this need not be a reflection on his loyalty. The American Legion is not in politics, nor does it make a bid for votes or favor by championing ig- norance, even though it may be found in it's own ranks.
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 PATENT
 Serial No. O55O7 In the Matter of the Application of John F. Mullen, for a Soldiers Ad- ditional Homestead.
 Notice is hereby given that John F. Mullen, a citizen of the United States, under the provisions of Sec 2306, Revised Statutes of the United States, has filed in the United States Land Office at Anchorage, Alaska, application Serial No. O55O7, for a patent for land on the North Side of Portage Bay, Alaska Penin- sula, approximately three miles northeast of the Indian Village of Kanatak, embraced in U S. Survey No. 1449, containing an area of 24.82 acres and more particularly describ- ed as follows, to-wit:
 Beginning at corner No. 1,
 whence U. S. L. M. RGMKTA
 bears s. 420 52r 26u w. 2O21
 chains distant; thence N. 1925
 chains to corner No. 2; thence E. 24.21 chains to corner No. 8; thence s. 1924 chains to corner
 of No. 4; thence w. 2421 chains
 to corner No. 1, the place of be- ginning. Latitude 570 34' North.
 Longitude 1859 5r West. Varia-
 tion 210 30,-22o 15' East. and as set forth in the official plat of said survey, certified copy of which is posted with this notice.
 Any and all persons claiming ad- versely any of the above described land should file their adverse claims with the United States Land Office at Anchorage, Alaska, within the period of publication or thirty days there after, or they will be barred by the provisions of the statute.
 Dated at Anchorage, Alaska, thisi 2nd day of June, 1924.
 J. LINDLEY GREEN, Register.
 First publication June 12, 1924.
 Last publication August 22, 1924.
 Daily, sixty days continuously.
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LEGION STANDS PAT FOR THE
 LITERACY BILL
(Stroller's Weekly)

The following clear-cut, concise and logical defense of literacy res olution passed at the recent annual meeting of the American Legion for Alaska at Sitka recently appears in the Alaska Legionaire for June which has just been issued:
 Exception has been taken to the American Legion Resolution passed at the Sitka Convention favoring a lit eracy test for voters. It is not the pur- pose here to enter into legal discus sion of whether the Legislature at the present time has the power to pass such law. The purpose of this state ment is to make the issue clear-cut and to answer our critics Those who have come out openly in opposition to the Legion literacy test reslution ad- vance two arguments:
 1. That it discriminates against Indians.
 ?. That the Legion is inconsistent in the position they take because men good enough to fight should be good enough to vote.
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BRICK ICE CREAM at Schallerer's Alaska Shop. If.
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NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

Notice is hereby given that returns should now be made as to ownership of personal property in Seward of date of June 15, 1924. Blank form for State ments are now being mailed or deliver ed anl should be returned to the As sessor not later than July 10th, prox.
 Failure to make proper return will require the Assessor to personally visit each place of business or residence and make proper inventory of all personal property.
 Seward, Alaska, June 23, 1924.
 VIM. H. WHITTLESEY, Assessor for Town of Seward, Alaska Publish June "A, 25, 26, 1924.
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Tennis Shoes, Urbach's
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NOTARY PUBLIC-Always on the job from a. m. to 5 p. m., D. H. Tyer, at the Gateway office. If
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NOTICE TO PUBLIC

Mir and Mrs. Wm. Fairman have opened a road house at Mile z. Chick en dinners served Sunday 4 till 7 Other meals by request. If
Evening star., 1924-08-03

policy and American action. SO far as
it comedies with British. as deliber-
ately conceived to sacrifice French
rights to British interest, reparations
TO trade and commerce.
And he measures British friendship
by the constant insistence of Britain
upon the restoration of Germany ac-
rompanied by the steady refusal OF
Britain to bind herself to come 10 the
aid of France II restored Germany
wantonly attacks again. Furthermore,
he interprets British effort to prevent
any new French Ruhr operation even
If Germany wantonly defaults M the
Dawes plan as the final demonstra-
tion of British insincerity and selfish
ness.
How the British See 1t.
Finally. consider the position of the
Briton. He regards his participation
in the war as having saved France
and Belgium from destruction. He
sees as a consequence of the war that
he is bearing an almost intolerabie
burden of taxation. that unemploy-
ment has existed and continues to
exist in unexampled proportions be-
cause the ability OF the world to alb
sorb British goods is far less than be-
fore the war. and he reasons that this
duced by such operations as the
French occupation Of the Ruhr.
Moreover. he cherishes a traditional
suspicion of France. believing at
heart she is an imperalistic nation
seeking the destruction of German
to the peril Of Britain.
Now YOU can frame a reasonable
program OF German reparations.
which all three countries will accept.
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are unable to 1iauidate the war Of
one generation without throwing the
costs upon two later Senerations. thus
preserving the passions. the animosi-
There ID the problem with which
Macdonald and Herriot are strug-
Cling, men with obvious good intent
and unmistakable honesty. There is
the problem which BRAND and Poin-
care, Lloyd George and Stanley Bald
win wrestIed with before the present
premiers. 1t IL the problem which
dominates all else in France and Ger
many: 1t is the most important foreign
concern of Great Britain. 1t has even
forced itself again and again upon
stroyed the Anglo-French entente: in
it's interallied debt detail 1t has
wakened enormous American rancor.
Eventually It can make new war or
even new wars; today 1t can prevent
any real readjustment Of Europe
Past Settlements Easier.
In the old days the victor took q
other works Of art and a little ready
money. all tangible and immediate;
OF. In 1870 as in 1915, the victors ask
ed for material sums. but sums which
could be paid at least In three or four
..
cupa tion could and were withdrawn,
the victims denounced the crime Of
the settlement, the conquerors vaunt-
ed their moderation. but what was of
real Importance was that the world
went back to its work for period Of
years. But in 1918 we decided against
forcible annexations, the creation of
new Alsace- -Lorraines; we invoked the
principle OF self-determination to set
tie boundaries, in the main. with a
few interesting exceptions. and that
left US with the question Of repara-
tions on our hands. or reparations
based upon the most colossal and
wanton destruction known since the
days Of barbarian invasion of the Ro-
man empire.
The larger the debt imposed upon
the victor, the longer the period of
occupation. obviously, so instead of
three years-the time the allies stayed
In France after Waterloo and the
Germans in the east of France after
1s71-a period Of Is years was
hut the occupation Of the Rhine did
| not compel German payment, there
fore, the French went into the Ruhr
and Ave years after the signing of
the treaty of peace argue that the
1b-year period has not yet begun to
run. So in escaping the curse of the
congress Of Vienna, which arose from
the neglect of the element of na-
tionality, the conference of Paris ran
Into the even more maleficent OBJ
stacle Of finance.
Limit TO War Indemnities.
The consequence of the settlement
of a century ago was revealed by
the events from 1929, when Belgium
seeded from Holland. to 1912, when
the Balkan States liberated their
brethren under Turkish domination
and set their faces toward the liberia
ton Of other brethren under Austrian
tyranny, established the principle of
nationality and Paris almost absurd
iy trembled in it's presence; but what
has happened in the brief span since
1918 has demonstrated that there is u
law OF money as well as OF men, the
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the things that >did not hurt. And
after such classification he avoided
the things that hurt. the restrictions
and restraints, in order to enjoy the
satisfactions and the remunerations
Of life.
Thus II was that in obedience to
the law laid down by. his mother,
and in obedience to the law OF that
unknown and nameless thing, fear,
ne kept away from the mouth Of the
cave. 1t remained to him white
wall of light. When his mother was
absent. he slept most Of the time
! while during the intervals that he
| was awake he kept very quiet, sup
pressing the whimpering cries that
tickled in his throat and strove for
| noise.
| Once, lying awake. he heard a
strange sound In. the white wall. He
| did not know that IL WAS 4 wolver-
| inc, standing outside, all a-tremble
with its own daring, and cautiously
scenting out the contents OF the
cave. The cub knew only that the
sniff was strange. a something un-
classified. therefore unknown and
| terrible--for the unknown was one
Of the chief elements that went into
the making OF fear.
| ft.onfinuo6 in Tnnr,rrou,,. Cta-
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tral. now dominated the European sst
uation, and while on the one han,
urging IL to adjust its financial dis
putes, on the other maintained a claim
against Its former associates In ex
cess of what was now demanded b,
them of Germany: who. too. woui,
have ventured the forecast that. a;
a result of all the declarations OF wa
following upon the assassin alton n.
an Austrian archduke In Serajevo
the single outstanding financial pro.
cess would be the payment by Gren
Britain to the United States of annu1
instaIlments upon a debt OF $4,000.
600. 600?
Yet the Ang1oAmerican settlement
Is the only financial adjustment sc.
made and questions of race and natior
have either been merged or Submerg
ed in those Of finance: the worlt
has, perhaps. been made safe foI
democracy, but can it be made sol.
vent for anybody or. after the war /,
end war. shall we have new struG
gle over the bill? At all events thai
Is the point we have reached at the
tenth anniversary; the captains anc
the kings have departed, but the tax
collector waits and the world waits
on him.
Copyright, 1924, by the Mcclure Sewspapri
Syndicate
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namely. the certainty Of getting what
they went there to obtain. not the
promise of getting II, but the GER
tainty or the promise plus the free
again defaults and Britain again re-
fuses to share in the operation.
Ten years after the outbreak OF the
World War, almost six years after
the close of hostilittes, 1T is apparent
that the war to end war. In fact, while
many Of the innumerbale cause Of the
last conflict, gave birth to one new cause
OF European conflict which has so
far dehed not merely settlement, but
adjustment. We are in a turmoil still
over the question Of who Is to pay for
lished the legal and the moral obli-
cation of Germany, but unhappily by
treaty we first fixed the sum At Q
point far beyond German capacity
We demanded the impossible from a
ma ton which acknowledged no moral
LOnE Time for Payneatx
Unfortunately. too. even the possible
dertaking to pay us upwards OF q
third of the minimum Germany has
been generally judged able to pay, has
asked and obtained a 60-odd-year
period for payment. Here, however
legal obligation, II not the moral
France. Italy and Belgium have not
undertaken payment, and their fail.
ure leaving Us without remedy, We
have been obliged to acquiesce under
protest. If they ever do undertake
to pay, they too. will ask longtime
arrangements lasting perhaps for q
century. But how is Germany, with
far vaster payments involved, to be
compelled to pay what represents
neither legal nor a moral obligation
TO the German mind. but rather the
cess of the entente effort to destroy
her commercial greatness?
Sixty years of tribute by Germany
to France, Belgium and Britain, that
Is how 1t looks 70 the German: but
always he Is sure to be compliant
ish interest must oppose con-
straint which financially must do
damage to British loans. commercial
ly to British trade and politically to
British influence. II not safety by as
suring French dominance of Europe
The Briton wants Germany saved for
his own good reasons. even though
the German refuses to pay. France
can consent to German restoration
only on condition of reparations: Ger
many mas no reason to pay other than
the possible fear Of invasion and ruin
II she refuses. And this Is the pres
ent outlook for two Eenerations-that
Is. for the period during which Ger
man payments must endure.
War Burdens Breed War.
You come then. uncomfortably near
to the discovery of a new truth
about war. the underlying truth OF
modern cotemporary war, so cost
ly, so destructive has it become that
the loser. saddIed with the costs
even though adjudged the aggrassor
by world opinion, will presently risk
new conflict rather than bear the bur-
den, while the winner, faced with
ruin unless he is paid. will neces-
sarily adopt a policy which makes
her almost inA.ita y.
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only q modest maximum Of repaPa-
tions that he can be made to pay.
however great and wanton his devas-
tations. without. in fact. bringing not
peace. but turmoil, leading. IL con-
tinued to new conflict.
Ten years. ago today who would
have believed that within the decade
thus begun to the sound of martial
music there would be a free Poland.
a new Czech State, a greater Rumania
and another southern Slave state ex-
ceeding In size and influence the
short-lived Kingdom of the great
Dushan: that Finland, Lithuania, Lat
via and Esthonia would be free. and
all, despite manifest and inevitabl
limitations, slowly or rapidly getting
organized as going nations; that AL
sace-Lorraine would have re-ente:ed
the French family, that Italy would
have seated herself at Trent and
Trieste at Pola and Fh1me, and that
all these mighty changes would be
followed by a slow but sure mutual
adjustment OF relations between the
states Of the new middle Europe,
while the peace OF Europe remained
precarious because France, Germany
and Britain were unable to hnd So
luton of the question Of rsparations,
and the United States. having been
neutral. helligerent and again neu-
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Continued from First Page.)
See, then, the situation at the mo-
ment In Europe: In the three great
adjusted il there Is to be peace or re-
construction in Europe there are
three states of mind and three very
definite and divergent interests. The
German would escape all reparations,
believing that they are without moral
or legal warrant, the penalty for los
ing a war that was forced upon him
and the evidence of the allied pur-
pose, and above all the French pur-
pose. to keep Germany forever in sub
lection. a slave state. British oppo-
sition to extreme French purposes
only mildly impresses him because he
believes that while France would
like to destroy Germany, Britain.
mindful of French menace, would
prefer to see Germany restored. but
only partially. not self-sufficient. but
dependent upon Britain. a so per cent
Germany, if you please. useful, but
not dangerous.
Reparatioas or Bankruptcy.
The Frenchman, by contrast. would
have Germany pay the costs OF the
reconstruction because without such
payment he knows he Is himself
bankrupt He has no doubt OF the
guilt of the German, knowing himself
to have been attacked. and he has
every conviction that the main Ger
man purpose Is to escape the pay
ment of reparations and attack him
again at no distant date. He is little
concerned with German markets or
prosperity save as they are details
in reparations and he regards British