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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

Admirers of Tom Mix, and they are legion in Birmingham, will have a chance all of this week, beginning Mon- day afternoon, to see him at Loe's Bijou in his latest Vim. Fox picture, Ladies To Board along with his horse Tony" in addition to! a. spe- cially selected vaudeville bill, which in- cludes two headline, acts.
 There must be many in. Birmingham who recall the good work done in years gone by by Marshall Montgomery, "vaudeville's premier ventriloquic artist" and to whom it will be. good news to learn that he holds headline place oa the vaudeville bill this week, assisted by Lucille De Haven, in "An Evening At Home." injecting songs, comedy and other features. '''r
 A quintette of Chinese wonderwork- CTS, known as the Yong Wong troupe, known as sensational equilibrists, back ed by special startling scenic effects,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
TRIANON SHOWS
 TWO FEATURES
Comedy And Drama Are Both Offered This
 Week

Two big attractions will be presented at the Trianon this week. A rollicking comedy, "The Galloping Goldfish" with Sydney Chaplin. Louise Fazenda, Ford Sterling and Chester Conklin, and "Thundergate,' feature Chinese screen romance, with Owen Moore and Sylvia Braemer in the leading roles.
 Leave it to Thomas H. Ince to dis cover something new for the fan" au- diences. This time it is trained seal which plays the title role in .'The GaHoping Fish," Ince's uproarious comedy.
 Literally there are seven reels of fast and furious fun in this new laugh walloper. Besides the furry fish" who carries the title role,.. there is a stellar cast of comedians warranted to draw tears of laughter from a turnip. ~ Miss Fazenda is not only funny but amazingly beautiful as the Diving Venus" who, with her pet seal, gets Syd Chaplin, playing the role of timid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

may really obtain results from this philosophical doctrine. In the future it will be applied to bring about the inn provement of the mentality of children and prevent the prevalence of neurotics The. nervous man or. woman can also be helped materially" A Bryn Mawr Graduate
 Miss Newton, who , is graduate of Bryn 'Mawr college and distinguished linguist, attended the eighth interna- tional congress of the Psycho-Analyists society in Vienna, of which she is the first American member.
 Her interest in the uplift of slum chil- dren while member of the School of Philanthropy, New York, prompted her to pursue her studies under pr. Rank, Freud's favorite pupil and foremost ex- ponent of his theories, with particular reference to application of the science to children. She has translated several of the works of Dr. Rank into English.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

have previously read the book will find that Earl Carroll, the dramatizer, has given it even greeter charm and appeal than; the printed story and it is 2 play that every person who is beginning to fell cynical and worldly should see for it is guaranteed to melt off the outer crust, soften the heart and make the one who sees it live and feel and exist in world that has more roseate hue. As "
 The story is of a bluff and genial old bachelor who, adopts a group of chill dren and loves them as if they were his very own. He gives them a lux urious home and makes them happy and then misfortune befalls their daddy and he loses everything including his children. He is still, stout of heart and starts all over again by working; at bookkeeping to make another home for them, although an humber one, and succeeds and then by strange turn of fortunes wheel his possessions all come back to him, including his beloved kid dies. x Daddy Dumplins' has a tear and. smile and lesson in it. :.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
CAPITOL SHOWS C0MEDY-DRAMA Antonio Moreno Has Wal
 ter Hiers In
 Support

The feature at the Capitol on Mon day and Tuesday is the Paramount pic- ture, Blaming Barriers" with Antonio Moreno and Jacqueline Logan as the star players.
 Walter Hiers is also in Flaming Barriers" and Hiers is one of the best comedy relief players in motion pie
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
LOOKS LIKE

LOOKS LIKE A MORAL SLUMP
 We hve always beehea. blown-in-the- bottle optimist on the proposition that the world is; growing better, but since noting that .self-playing saxophone has been invented we gravely fear we have been .wobbling a little.-Marion Star: .el ~. sE z
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
VOTER SAYS. WHATS UsE!"

.s VOTER SAYS. WHATS USEw
 When I was 15 years old more than 2 T6 out of every hundred possible vot- ers in q national election went to the polls. Before was 40 less than one } but of every two voted. That was in 1920. .....-.
 It is a terrible thing when the ordi; Il; And good deal worse, when the or lot of use p When that day begins to come, democracy is no longer machine of dignity, but a good natured old COW which will stand still for those who want to milk her.-Richard Washburn Child in the Saturday Evening Post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
THE QUESTION

"1 now feel that am at the end of my troubles" said the optimist.
 (Which end?" demanded the pessi- mist-Judge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-19
CARING FOE WAR ORPHANS.

A member of the American Legion na- tional welfare committee in a recent statement said that there are five thou sand orphan children of World War vet erans, and a total of thirty-five thousand war waifs. On behalf of these children and disabled veterans of the World War the Legion is endeavoring to raise an en- dowment fund of five million dollars.
 This cause should make strong ap- peal to the American people, so many of whom prospered from the war. It is a duty of the government to care properly for the disabled ex-service men and de- pendents of those who lost their lives in the nations defense. The government has not fully measured up to this job. There is great suffering which could be relieved under efficient methods of hos pitalization and care by the government. The American Legion has undertaken such duties as the government has re- grettably failed to accomplish:
 "Lest we forget" is familiar quota tion which finds application to the situa- ton. That there are two hundred
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-19
WINNING THE MALARIA FIGHT

One of the many indications of prog ress and appreciation of the opportunities for expansion which the people of North Alabama have shown of late is the record they established for cooperation with the health authorities in the elimination of malaria. Persistent efforts were. made to eradicate this stubborn and costly disease over a period of many months, and constructive results are reported throughout that section. The campaign has been intelligently pursued, and the Incorporation of industrial interests, as we'll as of individuals, has proved highly effective.
 For example, the health officer of Morgan county is an interesting report shows that, while there were forty-six cases of malaria reported in September, I1923, during which there was no anti malaria campaign, only two cases were reported during September of this year. There were sixty-seven cases of malaria reported in the county in October of Hast year, while only seven were reported | in October of this year.
 This splendid record was the result of the generous use of anti-mosquito oil and paris green mixture, draining of breed ing places and stocking many wells with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-19
Loves Fighting
VT IS generally assumed as an axiom that
 \ all persons want peace. ..-. 70
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

VT IS generally assumed as an axiom that
 all persons want peace. .- b
 Considering the well-known facts in the career of the human race this is curious mistake. For if there is any one thing man. kind seems to be fond of more than another it is a row. ..- .- .s- ,....-
 Map emerges from the mists of prehistoric times fighting. ~-,s, -t4-t-,-
 The oldest implements of the stone age and of the cave dwellers and lake peoples are not sofas and rocking chairs, but knives, axes, and arrows, with which they chopped one an- other in the head.
 No power appears ever to have been able to eradicate the innate pugnacity of human be- ings The Christians were peaceable for a while at first, but as soon as they got into power they went at one another with the force of ferocity long pent-up. Homoousians and homoiusians threw bricks as hard as their names. Aryans and Trinitarians flew at each others throats. The orthodox burned and tortured the heretic.
 We love to explain the simplest things by complex motives. A hundred causes have been adduced for the continued existence Of the nuisance of militarism. The real cause is simple. It is that human nature wants to fight. a
 You can see this in its most undiluted form among small boys One of them comes up to another and says: -: :. T can lick you" Whereupon they go to it, hammer and tongs.
 Prizefighting will not go out of style for many year yet; for it is the game Of the primeval man; it appeals to an instinct much older than that of money making or reading:
 The boy-child loves to pound things ana neonle. to make q noise, and to keep up the din of battle, according to his lights. The college boy loves to smash windows and street lamps, to haze, scuffle and organize high jinks. He is still ferocious animal. His canine teeth have not yet disappeared and become bovine molars.
 He still considers business and commerce as fighting, politics as fighting, religion as fighting. He understands no way of accom- plishing things but by organizing some kind of an army and fighting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-19
BLOCKING A WATER SUPPLY.

The ranchers of Owens Valley in Cali fornia, deprived of irrigation waters by the combination of drought and the wa ter conduit to Los Angeles, are turning the water out of the conduit into the val lev and defying officers of the law who seek to stop them. Los Angeles takes a constantly increasing amount of water from the same sources as have formerly watered the crops in Owens Valley, and the ranchers foresee the day when the valley will again become desert. If they have a right that is being violated, doubt less they can obtain redress in the courts. But there can be little sympathy with their method of endangering the lives and health of metropolis in order to force the issue. It is probable that they will lose and not gain because of their methods.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-19
Brief Nature Studies
A LONG Tuxedo Mount Ivy trail in Pal
Cullnan,
By J. OTIS SWIFT

A LONG Tuxedo-Mount Ivy trail in Pal A isades Interstate Park the world seems very fresh from the ploughing of the Glacial period that prepared it for the civili- zation of man. Roadways in valleys are cut through great masses of glacial till, big and little stones, sand pulverized stone, mixed to- gether as the great furrows fell away from the icy plowshare, and all blue-gray, with dusty boulder clay.
 Along the ridge where the Mount Ivy trail to Tuxedo runs over polished domes of volcanic gneiss older than the RockyMountains great perched boulders, wandering nine-pin-balls the glaciers played with, poised on the edge of hill tops, still eloquent of the fury that hurled them about and the energy of the ice-sheet, sliding over hill and dale, that, retreating twenty to fifty thousand years ago, dropped them along the eminences.
 Now and then where a hard vein of white quartz stands above the surface of a ledge the storms have gnawed away, the fine striations, handwriting of God, are legible among rein deer moss left behind by the Arctic tundra vegetation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-19
GIVE PROMPTLY; CHEERFULLY

Putting charity and benevolence on a business basis so that every dollar do- mated to these purposes does maximum of service should make a strong appeal to the business man, because he can thus feel that there is no waste in either the collection or distribution of the funds. Under the first year of the Community Chest plan the people learned that the maximum of efficiency at minimum cost was achieved. There was no lost mo- tion in haphazard methods of collection. There was no unnecessary loss ot tune and no unnecessary annoyance from ire quent solicitations.
 For these reasons, aside from the charitable impulse, there should be generous response to cause which de- serves the cooperative sympathy ot every citizen of Birmingham. This community has big heart. That has been demon strated time and again. This community has been prosperous far above the aver age. It has the capacity to give every dollar that is needed for this purpose. It is important that the time of those who have volunteered to do this mission of mercy should be spared as much as pos sible, and that they be encouraged by prompt and generous response to their solicitations. They are giving valuable time and much labor to the work with no hope of reward, except the conscious ness of having done something for the re- lief of suffering. Hence they have req son to expect hearty cooperation from everyone by cheerful and prompt dona- tions.
 It is but fair and just that the solicita- ton committees should be met with a spirit of welcome, and that any citizens who are overlooked by th~n should not wait to be called upon, but should send in their contributions without personal appeals. Birmingham has never failed in its duty to the helpless and the sui fering. Birmingham will do it's duty In this campaign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-19
The Voter

A voter is a person who could run the gov
 ernment A whole lot better than it IS, If he were
 president. A voter is person who, were she in office,
 could Effect some needed changes in the cabinet
 and would. A voter is a person who's no Bolshevik, but
 land! Who sees the politicians do things nobody
 can stand! A voter is a person who would never, never
 stoop, Like the present officeholders, to the dictates
 of a group. A voter is a person who is fully qualified To improve on every system that has up to
 now been tried. A voter is person-to condense it to a Who, experience has shown us, can do any
 thing but vOte Baron Ireland in Saturday Evening Post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-19
HE ALABAMA 

Relief For Henry Ford.--Since withdrawini his offer for Muscle Shoals, Henry Ford cai 20 about his business without being called malefactor of great wealth or designlni politician.-Mobile Register.
 Should Know Their State.-It is the dntI of citizens of Alabama to know their pos sessions conferred by nature, to present thi advantages of this state to those who desirt to locate in the south, and after industrle are located, to show that no mistake wa
 made in the location.-Montgomery Journal Cannot See The Reason.-One thing WI can't quite see clear, is that when eggs were 10 cents dozen and frying-size chickens wert 15 cents, that every farmer had both eggs ant chickens for sale, while now, when eggs ard 45 cents dozen and flyers 50 cents, you seldom see farmer offering either for sale Sylacauga Advance. s-
 Soil Improvement Time.-Fall is soil i'm provement time as we'll as harvest time. SowI cover crops, stop washes; build terraces. The farmer who does not do these things loses the| full benefit of the high-priced fertilizers Thej put on the land during the spring and sum- mer.-Oneonta Southern Democrat.
 DeKalb Farmers Doing Well.-DeKalb| county farmers are more prosperous thisI season than in several years as the cotton crop is much heavier and continues to bring goodI prices. Even the bankers are smiling since1 many of the old notes carried over from pre1 vious years have been paid off and many heavy deposits made.-DeKalb County Herald1 The Forest Fire Evil.-Several large fires have occurred in Alabama during the present. drought, according to- statement issued by
 the commission of forestry. These fires have originated from various causes. The com mission is developing cooperation with varl- ous agencies that are in position to prevent the starting of forest fires, Among these are the railroad ompanies-Andalusia Star.
 Keep Up The Good Work.-A drive over the new paved streets and the handsome new
 roads today were and are so convincing even to the enemies of this sort of progress that they are willing to join in great part with
 the rest of us in helping to pave the rest or the public thoroughfares. Fine thing. Let's keep up the good work.-Huntsville Times May Be Force To Vote-Perhaps the time may come when a penalty will be necessary to force people to attend to the duty of voting. Those who are summoned for jury duty must
 respond and unless they have an excuse which appears a reasonable and good one to the presiding judge, they must serve as jurymen
 The duty of voting is not greatly different from the duty of serving as jurymen Both are public duties. Jurymen are necessary for
 trials in the courts; voters iare necessary for trials at the polls. The man who dodges
 jury duty and is caught must pay a penalty {;
 just so the man who dpdges voting duty might
 also be made to pay penalty.-Anniston Star.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-19
Forum Of The People
Plan For Raising School Revenue.
Editor of The Age-Herald :

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 I notice in the press of the state some dis cussion of calling an extra session ot the legislature for the purpose of providing tor the educational interests of the state and also for the submission of Constitutional amendment for a $75,O00O0OOO bond issue for roads. I notice that the governor says that an extra session will not be called un' less the educational interests get together and provide source of revenue for the rais- ing of the additional funds for educational purposes outside of an ad valorem tax, and in this think the governor is entirely cor rect.
 I desire to offer a suggestion as to how the revenue can be raised without hurting anyone My plan would be to levy tax of one cent on each five-cent drink sold at cold drink stands and soda water fountains in the state. 1 have made an estimate which do not vouch for being entirely correct, but being somewhere in the neighborhood of correct estimate of what this revenue would amount to, I have made some investiga- tion as to what the average daily sales ot all cold drink stands would be and my esti- mate is $3O.O0 per day. This would make an average income from the sales of all cold drink stands $10,950.00 per year. If we estl- mate that there are fifteen cold drink stands in each county in the state (and there would be far in excess of this number) it would make nine hundred and ninety cold drink stands, of every kind, in the state, which would make the total sales of cold drinks in the state of Alabama amount to $10.S40, ,50O.0O, and tax of one cent on each five cent drink would be tax of 20 per cent, which would make the total revenue derived from this tax, $2,46S,' 10000 per annum. If this was collected and used exclusively for educational purposes it would meet the needs of the state for school purposes. In addition to this tax there could also be levied a tax on tickets to picture shows and other entertainments of like nature.
 This is tax that would hurt no one. It might be said that it is a tax upon luxuries and not upon necessities. I am merely of fering this as a suggestion for the considera- tion of those interested.
 F. E. ST. JOHN.
 CulIman, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-19
The Right Word
A DELIBERATE ERROR.
By W. CURTIS NICHOLSON
(Find the Error in This Article. )

James L. Fyfe, Halifax: Tn one of your articles you gave the following sentence as right
 Either one of the expressions is correct
 Now, in my opinion, this sentence is wrong. Either means one of two. Therefore the word one, which follows it, is quite un- necessary and incorrect"
 Answer: A deliberate error had been planted in "The Right Word" the day before the foregoing sentence appeared. It read as follows: Either one of the expressions are correct" Later, under Yesterdays Error" are was corrected to is. Now MT. Fyfe ques- tions the use of either one, contending that either is sufficient.
 "The Right Word' does not coneede that "either one" is incorrect, although one might be omitted.
 Significance of ''Not-NOr'
 Reader" Cincinnati, O.: Kindly inform me which of the following sentences is cor rect The case does not come under the provisions of the War Risk Act or the World War Veterans Act of June z, 1924 The case does not come under the provision of the War Risk Act nor the World War Veterans Act of June z, 1924"
 Answer: Either ''not-or'' or "not-nor' is correct. "Not-nor" lays greater emphasis upon the fact that the case does not come under the provisions of the World War Vet erans Act. One sentence differs with the oth CT merely in emphasis Yesterdays Error.
 Wrong: However, one can differ with an other person in opinion. Right: However, one may differ with an other person in opinion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-19
BUILD FOR PERMANENCE.

An important distinction between the methods of the state docks commission and the methods of the state highway commission is that the former is build ing for perrhanence and the latter in many cases is not. Many of the roads built with the present state bond issue are already almost in ruins with the bond issue not yet spent. Vision in highway administration would have obviated any such result. The policy of the highway commission is perceived anew in the loose and casual manner in which it allocated six hundred thousand dollars of highway funds to match with six hundred thou sand dollars from Mobile county to con struct highway crossing over the Mobile Delta. One million, two hundred thou sand dollars will not build permanent structure. It is not half enough to build such a structure. Yet the upkeep of an inferior structure would in ten years equal the original cost. Where IS the good sense in that?
 As the Mobile Register observes:
 The citizens of Mobile, who are dis
 cussing the bay bridge, might profit
 by the example set by the state docks
 commission. General Sibert and his as-
 sociates are not setting out to build
 temporary docks and slips for world
 shipping They are working to create
 here something that will serve Mobile
 indefinitely-to build a great seaport
 of the most modern kind. The state
 owned docks will be permanent. They
 may be improved and enlarged at some
 distant day. but they will not have to
 be torn down in a few years to make
 room for something better and more
 durable.
 The people of Alabama were led to believe, largely from Mobile sources, that the amendment giving Mobile county the authority to bond itself for four million dollars beyond it's present bonding mar gin was predicated partly on the purpose of building out of such funds a delta highway link to be operated as a toll bridge It was endeavored to show that such a structure could easily be made to pay for itself, even though it should cost three millions or more. It is believed that the original plan should be carried out, and that, if the state joins in the enterprise, it should be only on condi tion that the structure be of permanent construction. The people of Alabama have spent enough money on surfaces that promptly begin to vanish into impal pable dust and bridge timbers that deca! long ere the bonds that built them are re 4irad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-19
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA

There was a time when the sea had se- crets of hidden treasure that defied investiga- tion, but this is no longer the case. Mod ern methods of combing the floor of the ocean bring results beyond the dreams of avarice. The case of the Merida, Ward liner laden with gold, silver and copper, which was sunk in collision with the Admiral Farragut off the Virginia Capes in the dead of night on May 12, 1911, is one in point. She has been located on the third attempt by trawlers drag ging a sweep a mile long. and the recovery of the most important part of her contents is now only a matter of detail. All this is not so exciting as visit to some treasure island but it must have enough thrills of it's own tC make the adventure fascinating.--New York Telegram and Mail.