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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09
By RAYMOND CHAPTER

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 CLEVELAND, O., June S.--While the outward aspect of the convention gathering is as calm and silent as Cal win Coolidge himself, there is, strange to say, wholesale slaughter going on to an extent which would do credit to the last act of Shakespearian tragedy.
 Every few minutes those whose ears are at the right keyholes hear a muffled cry and dull, heavy thud. It is, very likely, another mighty senator gone to glory.
 By the time the. convention convenes Tuesday there will be few survivors of the Senate ring which drageoned the Chicago convention four years ago. Coolidge and Butler, the silent mysteries of the day, are doing their work with rare thoroughness. t
 One Senator Honored
 Long ago it was apparent that the Coolidge forces would be well in. con trol of the convention. Senators were given none of, the parts of honor in the convention proper, except in the case of Mckinley of Illinois, who is to. be chairman of the credentials committee. But only as the arriving delegations disclose the senatorial casualties, is the real extent of the Coolidge penetration grasped.
 The strategic point in this conven- tion,i so far as Coolidge is concerned. now is the resolutions--o platform committee. His own nomination is safe. He is willing to accept any, of the vice presidential candidates now being men. tioned. The only possible source of trouble now is that the platform is be- ing attended to with amazing dispatch.
 Inner Guard Out \
 Canvass of delegations Sunday dis closed that the Senate inner guard Lodge, Pepper, Watson and those oth- CT stalwarts who are noted for. their strong willed opposition to. Coolidge on vital issues before the last session of Congress--wili have little or nothing to do with the drafting of the platform. For, the first time in years, Lodge will not be a member of the resolutions com mittee. Speaker Gillett or Governor Cox will sit for Massachusetts.
 Senator Pepper, who crossed the President onkthe world court, is a dele
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09
REHABILITATION IS JEOPARDIzED
 OFFICIALS FEAR
Failure Of Deficiency Bill May Halt Work In
 Alabama
(state Capital .Bureau.)

MONTGOMERY, Ala, June s. Continuation of civilian rehabilitation work in Alabama is jeopardized through failure of Congress to enact the general deficiency appropriation bill, is the opinion of officials of the state depart ment of education. M
 The legislature had made an appro- priation, amounting this year to $22,- 305.56, to be used in matching a like sum from the federal government for rehabilitation work. The federal ap- populations made available under the provisions of the Smith -Bankhead act expire June 30 of this year.
 Dr. John w. Abercrombie, state su- perintendent of education, received a telegram Saturday afternoon from Congressman w. B. Bankhead, CO., author, with Senator Hoke Smith,. of Georgia, of the Smith -Bankhead bill, ad- vising that the deficiency appropriation bill carried adequate provision for the continuance of work under the Smith Bankhead act.
 Press dispatches Sunday morning, however, announced that the deficiency appropriation bill failed os passage at the closing session of Congress. It is expected that an appropriation for re- Mobilization work will De taken care of when Congress meets again, but this. will not be until December, unless special session is held. With federal appropriations for the work expiring June 30, serious situation will be created for it's continuance. The state department of44education has,, in the past,- received much commendation for it's effective work in rehabiEtating dis abled persons. F Z
 Two Boards to Meet-The state board of education and the state highway commission will be in session early in the present week., .q:.
 The board of education meets Tues day in annual session. It will at this time pass on normal school budgets and recommendations of normal school presidents for faculties. .1s ! The highway commission is scheduled to meet Monday. Bids will be opened that day for road in Barbour county between Louisville and Clayton, and it is expected that a contract for this project will be awarded this session of the committee. .fe..-a. .
 Seventy.five Enjoy Outing = The Montgomery association of Western Union employees heldean enjoyable bar becue, near Montgomery, Saturday night from 8 to 10 o'clock. CA. Fon- vile, local manager of, the Western Union, J. T. Fontaine, chief operator, and NJ. F. Thornburg, formerly assist ant automatic chief of the Montgomery office, now of Atlanta, were among the 70 persons participating in the outing. The committee on entertainment was composed of Francis MobIey, H. B. Chandler, R.. L. Norman, NJ. H. Paul, Mrs. w. H. Dean and Mrs. Ruby Ellis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09
CHURCHES LAUNCH MEMORIAL DRIVE
3 Out Of Town Speakers Give Movement
 Impetus

With three prominent out-of-town speakers to push the drive, and with special speakers in all churches, serv- ices at Birmingham's Methodist Epis- copal churches Sunday were given over to an enrollment campaign for the Gold Cross society.
 Special effort is being, made to gath CT funds, from an increasel membership, to complete the new Montgomery Memo rial hospital. Marked success attended the drive at virtually all churches, it was stated Sunday evening.
 Adult membership fee was S1, stu. dents fee was 50 cents, and special schi1dten's SnfeihB efship wask offered for 25 cents per enrolment. Contributions larger than the stated fee were given by large number of interested parties at th various srvices.
 Bishop Warren A. Candler of At lantay spoke Sunday morning at First Methodist church in the interest -of the membership drive. He told of the plans for completing the new hospital, and in his plea for support of the work he referred to the Biblical story of the good Samaritan. Bishop Candler is chairman of the conference hospital commission.
 Gov. William ". Brandon, chairman of the Alabama division of the hospital commission, addressed the congregation at West End Methodist church Sun day morning and spoke at the Wylanf church Sunday evening. He also mem tloned the new hospital and urged a unanimous enrolment in the society, that sufficient funds might be raised to continue the work.
 Bishop Dobbs of Montgomery accom- panied Governor Brandon to Birming- ham and delivered strong appeal for the hospital.
 Large audiences attended the lectures at all churches, especially those where the OYt-of-town speakers spoke Special arrangements were made to increase the seating capacity in most churches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09

ject of the Mikado," who committed suicide by Hara Kiri, as protest against enactment of the American exclusion measure, was a mecca for thousands of pilgrims who came to pay their de- votions to the man who has become a martyr in the public eye.
 The "Kokumin Taibeikai," or ina tional association to direct American policy" and the 'Black Dragon So- ciety," another patriotic organization, were the principal promoters of the public services.
 The Japanese congregation of the Ginza Methodist society Sunday to join a movement to divorce the Japa- nese Christian churches from American mission bodies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09
GENERAL KNOWLEnGE

Jack" said the teacher, what is a cape?'' N =.
 A cape is a piece of land extending into the water" r
 That's right. Now Jimmy, define a gulf.''
 "A gulf is a piece of water extending into the land"
 Good. Hector" to a small, eager. looking little chap. "can you tell me what is a mountain?''
 A mountain, responded Hector, s4is piece of land extending into the air., Japan Advertiser. =,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09
FLAMING SAFE

Two hourse thieves were about to be hanged by a vigilance committee. The rope was swung from bridge over a deep, swift river
 But the first horse thief got off. The moose slipped and he fell into the water and swan down stream to safety.
 When the committee came to deal with the second horse thief, he said, anxiously, as they knotted the rope round his neck:
 For Pete's sake, gents, make sure of the moose this time. I cant swim Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09
TWO ARE KILLED
Former Congressman Lightning Victim
 In West Virginia

Tn West Virginia
 CHARLESTON, W. Va, June s. s. B. Avis, former congressman from West Virginia, and R. c. Aitizer, vice president and general counsel of the United Fuel Gas company. both of Charleston, were instantly killed today when, lightning struck a rummer house at Edgewood Country club in which they had taken refuge during a storm. The house was overturned by the shock. The three men were playing golf on the club links.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09
DOISY COMPLETES
 FLIGHT TO TOKYO
Finishes Last Leg At 11:4O O'clock Sunday

5 TOKYO, June 9.-tBy Associated Press Captain Georges Pelletier D'Oisy, the French aviator; success fully completed his long flight from Paris to Tokio, at Il 40 o'clock this morning when he arrived at Tokorosa- wa, about 30 miles northwest of here. He left Osaka at 8 :39 am, completing the last leg of his flight in three hours and one minute.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09
COLLECTING ADDS FEST
Develops Wariness, Ambition And Per

Develops w WarineSS, Ambition And Fer.
 severance, Arnold Bennett Says,
 The collecting instinct is not quite so unusual, abnormal, or absurd as those assume who despise deliberate and or ganized collecting" writes Arnold Ben nett in the WOman's Home Companion Still less is collecting usually a form of madness or mania which entities it's devotees to place in a lunatic asylum.
 Intentional collecting, persistenly and scientifically pursued in one direction, is simply the harnessing and driving for purposes of pleasure of a great desire common to the bulk of mankind. Some collectors become in course of time ad- mittedly peculiar ;7 they will make in ordinate sacrifices for the pastime. But people who are not collectors often be- come peculiar.
 Collecting has various qualities to recommend it. For example, it is a wonderful source for those who can not play games or do not care for games, and for those who are not amateurs of any art or science, and for those who won't or can't travel, and for those who have special bent towards ownership. of possessiveneSs. It is pastine not cursed by any rules; and it can be pur- sued at any time and does not need a partner.
 It develops wariness, ambition, perse- verance and the capacity not to be. daunted by difficulties. Also it defi- nitely increases knowledge and improves the mind. doubt whether any form of collecting has been so bitterly con demned by the superior as stamp col lecting. And yet nobody can seriously collect stamps without leafning lot about history and geography and eco monies and transport-not to mention the craft of printing and the craftiness of politicians, monarchs and permanent officials.
 Further, collecting more often than not develops the sense of beauty; for most objects searched for by collectors are beautiful in themselves. Not. all, however; still, when they have not beauty they have at least quaintness and human association.
 The collector has always an interest {; a refugee from the tedium of existence, And what is more, he can generally in- terest his friends. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09
BEARING FALSE WITNESS

A famous barrister was examining a witness whom he had reason to suspect of deliberate perjury.
 At length, becoming impatient, he asked the witness very impressively:
 Do you know the nature of an oath, sir?''
 T do.P
 Are you not aware, sir, that you are commanded in the Decalogue not to bear false witness against thy neigh bor?'
 T am, but sure, I'm not bearin' false witness agin him. I'm gbearin' false witness for him.-Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. {@-s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09
M'LEAN LEADS
Bailey 47,1O9 To The Rear In North
 rornIfra

RALEIGH, N. C., June S.-Angus Mclean of Lumberton, had a lead of ~ ,i09 votes. tonight over Josiah W. Bailey of Raleigh, for the democratic nomination for governor. on the basis of unofficial returns from 1,OOS out of 1,719 precincts in the state in yese terday's primary election. MeLean's vote was 103, ,421 Bailey, 56,312.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09
THE LIMIT

Husband-What's the very least you can get along on?
 Wife-The most you'll give me- Eyerybody's Magazine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09
HER MISTAKE

"I'm half inclined to kiss you"
 "How stupid of me; thought you were merely round shouldered. ."-- Frivol.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09
KATO SUMMONED
 TO FORM CABINET
Anti American Demonstration
 Carried On Quietly Sunday

TOXIC, June 9.-(By Associated Press. )-Viscount Kato, leader of the Kenseinkai party, strongest numerical ly in the lower house, was summoned by Prince Regent Hirohito this morn ing to form a new cabinet to succeed that of former Premier Kiego Kiyoura which resigned Friday.
 TOXIC, June 9.-Tokio's Sunday largely was given over to various phases of anti-American agitation.
 Throughout. the day, the grave in Aoyama cemetery of the "unknown suh-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09

Lost articles are found, work is ob- tained, help is secured, real estate is sold, through Want Ads placed in The Age-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09

Lost articles are found, work is ob- tained, help is secured, real estate is sold, through Want Ads placed in The ge-Herald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09

following For Sale" Want Ad in The AGe.Iierald.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09
KNOW THEM, BUT IGNORE THEM

Jud Tunkins says most everybody can repeat the Ten Commandments, but only a few seem to take all of them as something personal.-Washington Star.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-09

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Putnam patriot., 1924-04-18
BROWN cLEE CLUB COMING

Indications points to a complete sell out of the New Music Hall for next Wednesday evening when the Brown glee club will give concert in this city. The Elizabeth Porter Putnam Chapter, D. A. R., is sponsoring the event. and all of the lGdiez of the organization have been busy selling the tickets assigned them.
 The concert, which has come 0 be an annual event in Putnam, will begin at eight-thirty, being placed at this rather late hour in order to ae-- commodate store proprietors and clerks who are busy until then. After all the musical numbers, the glee club will play for dancing.
Putnam patriot., 1924-04-18
POMFRET

Judge Holt spent Tuesday in Bos- ton.
 Mrs. Francis Bigelow spent Monday in Worcester.
 Mrs. and Miss Elliot are at the Ho- tel Lenox, Boston. and will come to Pomfret early in May.
 Mrs. Ella B. Rowen has returned to Pomfret for the summer, and Is now employed at Greystokes, the Rectory School.
 Dr. Henry MathewsOn of Portland. Maine, spent the weekend with his sister, Miss Elinor Mathewson, at | Fox Hill Farm.
 Miss Amy Otis. of Wheaton College. who has been i'll during her vacation , in pomfret is eonvaleseent, and ex- poets to take up her work at an early date.
 Miss Evelyn Ellsworth is spending l the remainder of the month in New York. After breaking up her apart ment there, she will return to Pomfret for May.
 Mir. and Mrs. Fred Child have talk en up their residence with Andrew | Williams, Mrs. Child's brother, after selling at auction their stock and superfluous household effects during last week.
 Mir. and Mrs. Hamilton Holt, arriv- | ed in Pomfret on Monday evening, and are with Judge and Mrs. Holt and family at the Mashamoquet inn. Mir. Holt expects to spend a week in town, while Mrs. Holt will not return to New York again for any length of time, but will open the Woodstock house for the summer.
 Mir. and Mrs. Luiz de Florez will take up their residence in Pomfret again for the summer this week. Their son Peter. who has been for nearly year in the Children's Hos pital in Boston, is so far improved as to be able to be moved. though the in. jury to his leg keeps him still fiat on his back, and will do so for many months.
 A statement made in last weeks Pomfret news concerning the removal of Mir. Lucey from the Harrison place to Spring Farm. The purchase of ] this farm by man of similar name gave rise to the report. Mir. Lucey has a long lease of his place and ex- poets to carry on the Pomfret Manor Inn there as he has done successfully for the past two years.
Putnam patriot., 1924-04-18
EASTFORD

Palm Sunday was observed at the Congregational church with a help ful and inspiring sermon by the pas tor, Rev. Frank K Abbott. "Palm Branches" was the voluntary played by the organist. Mrs. Charles Clark. The quartet sang And He Showed Me Pure River" for the anthem and for the offertory sHosanna to the Son of David" The Christian En- deavor society in the evening was well attended and was led by Mrs. Fred Bowen. A special song was rendered by the quartet with Mrs. Carlton Tatem, alto. in Mrs. Walker $ place as she was not able to attend.
Putnam patriot., 1924-04-18
Services at Christ Church

At Christ church on Tuesday af- ternoon there was a service of wor. ship and this morning, Thursday. at f030 o'clock there was a Holy Com munion service There will be two services on Good Friday. Holy Com. munion at 10.30 and service in the afternoon at 4 o'clock. On Easter Sunday, there will be a celebration of Holy Communion at o'clock and the morning service of worship will be held at II o'clock, with sermon and celebration of Holy Communion. In the afternoon at o'clock there will be held the annual festival service and presentation of mite chests.
 On Easter Monday, at f0.30 o'- clock a m., there will be Holy Communion service and at II o'- clock a. m, there will be held the annual parish meeting.
 Miss Margaret I.awler is leaving her work as Public Health nurse this week Her place is to be filled by Mrs. Alys C. Hemingway, who comes recommended by the State Public Health department. Mrs. Hemingway will board with Mrs. Sarah Smith, the telephone number is 20S-4.
 
 The pofsiot Job Priuffuo recsIs
Putnam patriot., 1924-04-18
PUTNAM HEIGHTS

Mrs. David Clark has returned from Willimantic after spending the winter there.
 Mir. and Mrs. Louis Perkins of Pom fret and William Capwell of killingly avenue visited at Roscoe Chase's Sun day.
 Mrs. Joseph Socher of Bronxville, N Y. and Mrs. Katie Globe of New Jersey spent the weekend here.
 Miss Amy Adams and Miss Marjor- ie Loring of Boston are at their sum- mer home here for few days.
 Jerome Tourtellotte had perfect at- tendance in school for the month of March.
Putnam patriot., 1924-04-18
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Putnam patriot., 1924-04-18

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 Take a pleasant spoonful of pr. Thaeher's Liver and Blood Syrup after the next two meals. In less than IA hours notice quick difference in way you feel. Contains pure vegetable ingredients approved by Physicians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19
Election Betting to Date.

In close national elections where
there are elements of apparent doubt
and perplexity in the expected out
significance to the odds wagered on
candidates as indicative of the drift
of political sentiment. They go on the
theory that men who are willing to
put up hard cash to back their
theories. beliefs or enthusiasm must
have some foundation for their con-
fidence derived from information.
1t is, perhaps, significant that from
the outset the betting odds have IA
vored President Coolidge's election.
The odds in his favor have recently
been increasing. At the close Of last
week they were still ruling strong.
One New York firm announced that
it had $4,000 to bet at to / that
Coolidge would be elected, and $4,000
against $4,000 that Davis would not
win. The outcome in New York State
is attracting attention. One offer of
$4,000 was made at even money that
SoOiiuSS "Ouiu INSW Ofh ClAIe
by 100000. The odds were to that
Gov. Smith will be reelected.
John w. Davis prospects in New
York are not regarded as very bright.
according to tho betting odds. There
was an offer Of to that La Toilette
will poll a larger popular vote than
Davis in the country, and even money
that Davis will not carry Of the $50
assembly districts that make up New
York State. One wager of 5000, even
money, was made that John w. Davis
will lose his own home State to Presi.
dent Coolidge. The largest sum out.
standing is an offer OF $1,000 to
$4,000 that Coolidge will be elected
President.
1t is to be noted that all these offers
disregard the suggestion that the cleo
ton will be thrown into Congress,
and are based upon the fat prediction
that there will be a majority for the
President in the electoral college.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-10-19

in high.priced land that could not
be expected to return a profit except
ut boom prices for his crops. Senator
La Toilette himself bears testimony to
this in the same speech in which he
complains of a lack of rural credit.
The average mortgage per farm in
1919, he said, was $1,7I5. In 1920 it
had increased to 1886, an increase Of
more than 100 per cent. For farmer
to be able to double his borrowings
does not sound much like strangula.
ton Of credit, and it makes one won.
der what the percentage OF increase
in mortgages would have been had
the $4,000, 900 900 Senator La Toilette
says has been loaned abroad been
available for loans on farm mortgages.
And one wonders. too, how much
happier the farmer would be today
had he borrowed this $4,000, ZOO, 900
and had to earn interest on it.
AS a matter of fact, the export of
American capital, where it can be
loaned safely and for constructive
uses, is a very real aid to the farmer,
even If it is not the cure,all some of
his spokesman would have us believe.
Not only does it increase the capacity
of other nations to buy American
farm products, but it increases their
capacity to buy American manufac-
lures, thereby increasing the pros
perity of the home market, to which,
after all, the farmer must look for
absorption of the great bulk of what
he grows.