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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
Forum, Of The People
A Tribute To The Women Voters

To the Editor of The Age-HeradS
 After the smoke of the battle of ballots has been blown away by the escaping hot air of the leader of the opposition to Senator Underwood, I beg space in your valuable paper to pay tribute to the women voters for their very enthusiastic support of Senator Underwood. I also wish a small space to say a few words to his opponents whom l trust will now be his supporters. In the first place. I wish to pay tribute. to Mrs. Charles J. Sharpe and her able assistant, Mrs. Dr. J. E. Frazier, for the splendid and able manner in which they handled the In derwood campaign in this county. It was my privilege and pleasure to be associated with them in some of their work. and with all my experience in political campaigns l have never seen any finer, abler or more efficient work The large list of women voters pub lished in Sundays papers as supporters of Senator Underwood was a wonderfully effec- tive stroke and vote maker and Under woods large majority in Jefferson county was due largely to the fine work of these two women.
 I said in former communication that the Democratic party has been the salvation of the South. and now, today, the hope of the nation. I wish to add to that statement that the intelligent women voters of today are the hope of the Democratic party in the South. I do not feel would be true to the traditions of the South and the Democratic party if I failed to pay the highest tribute that words could express to the loyalty and the fine judgment of the women voters in their support of the great leader of the party, Oscar W. Underwood.
 And now in conclusion I wish to say to the voters who opposed Underwood, beg you to be loyal to your party. The party has spoken in no uncertain terms. Oscar W. Un' derwood is the nominee and hope and trust that you will now give him your enthusiastic support. As loyal Democrats you can not do less. l have often failed to elect my choice in Democratic primary, but after the party had spoken, I have never yet failed to sup port the nominee of the party with all the enthusiasm in me. And I now beg both men and women voters of the Democratic party to fall in line and help Alabama elect Oscar w. Underwood the next president of the United States.
 Yours first, last and all the time for Un- derwood for president. T, S, SMITH.
 Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
Po,oer On 4 Ne,O Ided
Dy DR. YHA1GE CHANE

A new idea is real contribution to life.s
 A new idea stimulates us, fecundatea the mind sets the souI in new vistas, and pro- foundiy alters ones whole being.
 The man who can eive.me . new idea .hss put me under obligation. lie mas dropped . seed in my garden. and there's no knowint what may be the fruit thereof. He has smitten the dull rock of my imagination and a fountain gushes forth.
 It takes two to make a new idea-a bearer and . speaker. I may 90 to . book full of great thoughts, but they pass before my eye and find nothing in me-" And then may meet farmer and pass . quarter of an hour and get from his shrewd talk precisely the spark to explode my powder.
 It is curious how some people find you, and others move always spiritually st stellar distances from you. It is wholly . matter of intellectual elective affinity and has noth- ing to do with literary taste; it is . personal matter. I like Maeterlinck for the came reason that like ham and eggs, and do not like Browning for the same reason I do not like mutton. Yet I recognise the religious and dietetic superiority of mutton. But don't like it. <
 Horace Bushnell has been to me a well inspiration, yet never could find anything in Beecher. Far be 1t from me to make a literary criticism out of what is a pure matter of personal appetite.
 I adore Montaigne and Emerson and Tho. reau. All of these have upturned my life and raised crops in me-such as they are.
 Hence my library goes on increasing. ! used to buy books for what the world thought of them. Now I select them by the test of what they can do to me. have given away my Tennyson; he is doubtless great, but not for me. have sold my nice row of Balzse books for the same reason; it may be blss- phemy, but he bores me. On the contrary, my soul leaped to F1aubert, and 10 Amiel {: Oscar Wilde's ''De Profundis" shattered and thrilled me.
 All this is of no particular value except to illustrate that for new idea to terminate there must not only be . sower but suited soil. We must respect the appetencies of the soul. -
 But when the new idea comes, how it lodges, burns and glows! How old and set notions topple over like the stage scenery of an old wall! How one's own invention and creative power is invigorated!
 Yet, this is curious, very many people, sometimes I think the majority do not like new ideas. That is why a fresh and pro ductive personality has a hard time of it in the pulpit. He will have few ardent follow CTS, who enjoy his ministry, but he will find that most people appreciate the gentle herding of the dear old shibboieths.
 But to me the man who comes with a new idea is epochal. shall never be the same again. He has unseaied my eyes and showed me the armies of the Lord round about the city. He has given me of "the water of life ' Forevermore he has property right in my soul.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
THE AMERICAN L.ADnER

There is a ladder that reaches from every home in Main street to the heights of dis tinctiOn- Every boy in this country has the opportunity to mount
 They might well consider the eight steps of the ladder by which Woodrow Wilson climbed.
 In 1856 he was born A poor boy.
 When he was IS he went to college.
 At D he was .G1w graduate
 At 26 he was a lawyer.
 At 9 he was a college teacher
 At 4S he was a university president
 At 55 he WAS governor of New Jersey.
 At 5s he was president of the United States. the highest and most honorable office in the gift of mankind
 He started a preachers son. a poor boy in the small town of Staunton, Va.
 When he died he was mourned by the whole country and the civilized wOrld.-Fort Worth Record. .-- 4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

Grade-crossing accidents resulting in trag- edies or injuries have become so frequent in Birmingham that nobody is surprised on reading of them in the newspapers. The pub lie has learned to expect them in larger num- bers with the growth of population and street traffic. Within a few weeks there have been several deaths, quite number of in- juries and many narrow escapes at such crossings. But for the extraordinary cau- tion, with its accompanying inconvenience, delays and financial losses to which the public resorts in realization that they take their lives in their hands when they undertake to negotiate these death-traps, fatalities and injuries would be even greater than they are.
 Street-cars laden with passengers are fire quently endangered. Automobiles are smash ed and their occupants killed or injured with gruesome frequency. The spectacle of child on mission of mercy struck and hurled forty feet with perhaps fatal results on Sunday is the latest toll of the grade-crossing menace. unless there be more accidents before this can be printed and read. Meanwhile the street-car management carries on a verbal war with the railroads for blocking crossings and causing unreasonable delays to thousands of the utility's patrons.
 The Sltudtlon grows SCeaduy worse WlLn constantly increasing deaths, injuries and dangers and heavy financial losses to the entire business community. The railroads have announced readiness to proceed with the construction of a viaduct program as soon as the city commission submits and adopts definite program. The municipal body. which is directly responsible to the public for permitting this intolerable situation to continue, announces from time to time more confsrences with railroad executives, and express hopes that some time, somehow, per haps something may be done for the public protection.
 Another conference is scheduled for an early date. The people have had enough con ferences, delays and excuses. They want action and relief, and they know where to place the blame for failure. Has the city commission worked out a practical, definite plan under which work may be started? Is the commission ready to present a complete program and order that the project begin? There have been no such indications up to this time, though the people have appealed for years for relief. and there is no Ques- tion of the public rights. Failure in action is properly charged to nefficiency of admin istration at the city hall, while the public grows more and more restive as delays and excuses continue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
Health And Happiness
By H. ADDINGrON BRUCE

In his oddly named book of recent publica- tion, "The Conquest of Happiness, Jules Payot gives primacy to health when listing the essentials of happiness. It may be ques- toned whether tPayot could successfully de fend this choice of happiness first condition. But it cannot be questioned that happiness is far easier of attainment when one IS Tn health than when one is out of it.
 More than this, much unhappiness IS di- rectly trAceable to states of ill-health. Nor do these states need to amount to positive sickness to bring in their train an unhappi- ness extending perhaps to outright despon- dency and despiar.
 Thus, it is a well established medical fact that, even when one seemingly has every reason to feel happy, a chronic depression of spirits may develop under the influence of mild poisoning from sluggish action of the eliminative organs. The same result may follow poisoning due to so-called 1ow-grade infection.
 Spreading through the system, perhaps without sufficient virulence to cause definite symptoms of bodily disease, the poison from seats of infection in the teeth, tonsils. etc. may have the effect of producing mental irri- tability, anxiety, and gloom. The sufferer has no idea why he or she feels unhappy, but knows only too well that unhappiness is dominant.
 Similarly, unhappiness may be the product of an ill-health due to long-continued errors l in such things as the choice of foods, amount of exercise, the quality of the air breathed. and so forth. When unhygienic living habits | are acquired, the organism is bound to be poisoned and weakened in some degree, con- dition altogether likely to be reflected in the state of the morale.
 When, on the opposite, the living habits are what they ought to be, when the system l is free from poisonS of any kind, sense of organic well being is created which counts for much, not merely in the gaining of happi- ness, but in helping one to feel happy de spite manifest reasons for unhappiness. Hence there can be no doubting the wisdom | of Payots advice to all seekers of happi- | ness:
 ''We should strive to keep our body in tuned instrument, instead of letting it de generate into the cause of sorrow, discourage ment and failure. We should so tend our physical frame that from the depths of our | organism there rises to consciousness nothing except feelings of ease, vigor and the free play of our forces. ..
 Let us pay attention to the food we eat and the air we breathe. Let us equally avoid indolence and overwork. Let the air, ths sun, stimulating work, rest and rehabilitatins sleep-without which one cannot avoid dis aster-be our only physicians" Though, to be sure, if this has not been the mode of living, and if unhappiness born of ill-health has been the consequence, it is | hardly wise to trust to ones unaided judg ment in the regaining of health. Then the | assistance of experts in medicine. dentistry and perhaps surgery, should be sought. Null titudes there are today who need but such assistance to find the happiness that hitherto has been eluding them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
UNITE FOR UNDERWOOD

The appeal for harmony in Alabama, now that the question of Alabama's preference in the presidential campaign has been answered should be listened to. There is nothing, of course, in the claim made that fraud charac- terized the election. The majority for Under. wood was as strong in one place as another, and general throughout the state. By no possible means could this have been engi. neered by the senator and his friends and to claim that fraud was consented to and per petrated throughout the state is to bring an indictment against a whole people. This there be an end of such unjustified recrimi. nation: and let Alabamians unite now be- hind Underwood, and do every honorable thing to obtain for him and for Alabama the honor of his nomination to the presidency of the United States.-MobiIe Register.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
BIRMINGHAM's NEWEST PARK

Acceptance by the city of valuable land on Red Mountain donated by MT. H. K. Milner. will afford the city an opportunity to develop an attractive public park at com paratively small expense. The property lies twelve hundred feet along Crest Road to Key Circle. with depth of one hundred and fifty feet. It commands fine view of the entire city. is we'll wooded and has a chert street which is available for public use. The location is convenient. being only three min utes ride by motor car from Highland and Arlington avenues along well paved streets. With small appropriations for swings, settees. pathways and bit of shrubbery. the new park could be made one of the most attrac- tive outing spots in this community.
 This gift is made without any conditions, and the title is in fee simple. The donation is an example worthy of emulation by other citizens of this community who have amassed fortunes not solely by their own initiative and industry, but largely because of the un- usual opportunities for business success of fered hy the community. There should be more of that spirit among the business and financial leaders of Birmingham. All take and no give is neither a broad nor a fair standard of principle. In many American .eities there has developed sentiment which
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
The Right Word
Whoever Or Whenever
By CURTIS NICHOLSON


 Would you use whoever or whomeyer in the following sentence: This is for whom ever Cor whoever) you think needs 1t?
 The right word is whoever. The verb needs must have a subject. which is whoever. the object of for is the whole clause, "who- ever needs it." The expression "you think" is parenthetical.
 Since And While
 Bernard MacGillian of Chicago makes a fine distinction between the words while and since. He writes as follows: "In The Right Word recently there was an error so palpable that I am inclined to believe it was a slip on your part. You stated that 'Whiks have been in this country saw, etc., should be Since have been in this country. There may be those who prefer Since I came to this country to While I have been in this country but I hold that the latter locution accurately states the cause. On the other hand the expression Since have been in this country, etc., is an absprdity, as the word since implies that time has elapsed. As your correspondent is still in this country the time that has elapsed is that since he came here, not since he has been here.
 May add that have found your discus sions of The Right Word highly interesting and until now accurate. For this reason ] feel that you intended to write Since came to this country However that may be, l am unable to see where. that is an improve ment, as your correspondent has undoubt- edly seen the places he mentioned While he has been in this country"
 A very clearly explained distinction be- tween these two words. "The Right Word has been wondering how many would detect this error.
 Yesterdays Error
 Wrong: The object of know" is the bal. ance of the sentence.
 Right: The object of 'know" is the rest of the sentence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
Watching The Parade
Ny JOHN PILGRIM

It used to be that Jim Tisg and simply could not get along. There was something about Jim Tigg-his necktie, maybe. or the cowlick in his hair-that riled me. Jim Tigg found something to object to in me. He once said:
 That Pilgrim fellow has plenty of per sonality, I'll admit But 1t is all the wrong sort"
 Some time ago Tigg took a position as travelling salesman It gave me a good laugh when heard of it. There never was a man so laden with wrOng-headed notions or more stubborn in maintaining them, or more sub Jim was making good began to pay a little attention to him. Now we're good friends. But I'm still puzzled. Confound it, he simply cannot think right about lots of things
 What difference does that maker" hc asked. ~We like each other. don't we, even if we do differ about the apostolic success sion:'
 Tigg says he found that if he were to spend his time worrying about the pecuIiarities oi other people he would not have time to spend on anything else.
 That's why I took a chance on seIlfn, goods on the road" he said. "I made up my mind to disregard the things. did not like in my customer. would try to like thu other things. If could not like. at least I would not go away with a gronch. There is an old bird in Arkansaw who did his bes to pick fuss with me. He is a cantanker- ous hard-headed. gimlet-eyed old oddity. But my job was to sell goods and not to reform Now we're friends and he is my best GUS toner"
 I'm just wondering if this new idea of Jim Tigg,s accounts for the sweet calm that seems to have settled upon our own rela fions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
GOVERNMENT SCORES A POINT

The special counsel for the government in the recovery of the oil leases have been sue cessful in convincing Judge Kennedy of Chey. enne that the government has valid basis for claim to the Teapot Dome reserve. The judge has accordingly appointed a temporary receiver to handle the property until final decision is reached. It may be regarded as significant that the receiver thus named is no other than a rear admiral in the navy, Joseph Strauss. Thus, until the case is tried and settled. the public safety is guarded by a representative of that arm of defense which the oil reserves were set aside to sup port. While there is no popular or moral doubt that the government is entitled to restoration of the reserves, there may be a legal doubt. That is the point the hearings are expected to settle. If the lease is a legal one. certainly it was obtained in dark and devious ways at variance with the GUS tom in handling public transactions of in tegrity. The sentiment of the people will support the most extreme effort of the gov ernment to recover, and then to proceed to such civil and criminal proceedings as the facts justify.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
Some Are Blind
By JOHN CARLYLE

In the Buddhist Philosophy of Life" you will find this sentence: There was a man born blind and he said: T do not be- lieve in the world of life and color. There Is no sun. no moon, no stars. No one has seen these things"
 All about us there are men who have q certain practical ability to see, to get about from place to place. Their eyes are appar- ently all right, yet they are blind. They can not see what other men with real vision can see and hence they say that it does not exist.
 "There is no such thing as love and loyalty and virtue" they say, because we have not seen it. There is no unselfishness. If there had been we. should have seen it''
 They do not know that either they were born blind or they have become blind.
 In order to believe honestly in the good ness of other people, in the goodness of the world, 1t is necessary that you have this emo- tion of goodness within yourself often enough to give it the substance of reality. If 1t IS true for you it must be true for other men.
 Do we not know people who never walk abroad at night and look up at the stars For them there are no stars. They do not walk abroad on summer afternoons into the woods and fields. For them there are no flowers.
 T never saw them" they say. There can not be any such thing
 In the day of Columbus supposedly wise men told the navigator that the earth could not be round, for they said, it does not look round to us. They were blind men, but they did not know they were blind and they would have resented it bitterly if anybody had told them the truth.
 When men wiser than we tell us of the wonders to come-wonders of electricity, wonders of radio, wonders of the sea and air, wonders in the treatment of the human body, wonders in the development of mans soul. let us not he like the man of the Buddhist philosophy who was born blind. Let us rather cultivate our real vision until it pierees immeasurably beyond the mere physical ca pacity to distinguish objects
 Great and good things are on the way. Shall we not learn to see them:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
Another County Heard From

10 the Edltor or The Age-Herald
 While you are exposing the policy of the highway commission would like to call your attention to the fact that here in Cherokee county, where one of the most prosperous communities is on route three miles nearer than the route selected. Why? One of the county commissioners happened to live on the longer route and wanted the highway by his place. He got it.
 The highway as being constructed goes through one of the most desolate sections of this county, pglctically every foot of which had to be condemned at quite an expense in addition to being three miles longer. The county commissioner by whose home the high way was heightened to pass through his property has done the citizens an irreparable damage in convenences they thought they were voting bonds to get, as well as property values. I congratulate you on your stand in such matters. J. E. AWBREY.
 Leesburg, Ala. March 10 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

brewer nor | saloon keeper, and was moi concerned with such matters. We'll re turned the beeler, eff you can't set 'em UT to keg of beer, we are not for you" where upon the candidate shot back: "If I have to he elected by such cattle as you, don't want the office"
 He was elected, and made the best mayor that city ever had. It is encouraging to note that while politics has been more or less freely and unhappily adulterated, votes that are controlled by unworthy motives and flimsy considerations are the exception rather than the rule.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

l finds expression in donations direct, or to community trust funds, for public benefits while the tendency to include public bequests in wills is steadily growing, as a result oi which there have been extensive improve ments in public education, recreational facili- ties. reduction of crime, and other benefits in those cities.
 Not long ago the Optimist Club of this city adopted the slogan, Remember Birming- ham in Your 'Will.' It is wise and beneficial and offers inviting opportunities for public service. while perpetuating the memory of donors in the most practical and helpful way. The memory of the late Dr. Parke will not be soon lost in the rush of industrial activity, because he set wholesome example by providing that upon the death of his widow his estate should go to the city for public education. Birmingham needs parks. an adequate library, larger educational facili- ties, public hospital and other things that contribute to the public health and welfare. With proper appreciation of gratitude to this community for what it has done to elevate many of it's citizens to positions of affluence and influence. much could be accomplished to improve community life in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15

It is reported that the Persians threaten to fire their ruler for spending so much time participating in the gayeties of Paris. In the light of recent history perhaps he figures that king feels a greater sense of security away from home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
WARY

Heres man who says he wants to in terview you about how you hid the founda tion for your financial success"
 What does he represent?' inquired Mr. Dustip Stax, cautiously, "a popular maga- zine or an Investigating committee? ?"-Wash inRton- Star.