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Evening star., 1924-11-30
vanderlip. $5s.7o4: Henry H. Rogers.
$373,297; James A. Patten, $201, 1,906,
and George Doubleday, $152,S22.

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$373.2s7; James A. Patten. $2o1, ,s06,
ana George Doubleday. $152,822.
Railroad and shipping men were
high In some OF their figures. Daniel
Willard paid a tax Of $S4.s23. Sam
uel Rea paid $31,985. Walter l. Ross
was assessed $S4,s2S. But p. A. S.
Franklin. we'll known shipping man
paid only $s.673.
Here are few OF the more sue
cessful merchants: Marshall Field,
$77,S22; Rodman Wanamaker, $45,5S3;
Bernard F. Gimbel, $12.5ss: w. r.
Grace, $121.14S; Franklin Simon. $52.-
s7s; Nathan Straus. jr. $1s,216: Jesse
/. Straus. $S5.018; Percy s. Straus,
s4o.547; Herbert H. straus, s45,o1s.
OF the singers, Feodor Chaliapin
reported a tax of s32.3S2 and Ern.s-
tine Schumann-Heinck, $25,S11, but
Giovanni Martinelli reported only
1855. Walter Damrosch reported a
tax of $6,155.
John Nee. Bowman, prominent
hotel man, reported a tax of $69,65S,
and l.. B. Boomer, in the same busi-
ness, $19,s74. Oscar Tschirky, famous
maitre d'hote, on the other hand, was
taxed $707.
Publishers' Returns.
OF the publishers. the following are
interesting: Conde Mast. $31.58S:
Horace b. Luveright, SIG: Cyrus H. K
Curtis. $586.654 Ogden Reid, $15, ,228;
Ralph Pulitzer, ss3,619; Edward W. Box,
s246.504; James NJ. Cox, $2.4s1: Adolph
S. Ochs, $65,692: Cornelius Vanderbilt,
jr.. $3.100; William Randolph Hearst,
$40.537.
Women? There are thousands of
them on the tax list. Many OF their
names are familiar. Many of their
tax assessments are unusually high.
Here are just a few: Countess Frieda
Constantine, s132,626; Olive c winn,
s120. $50; Mrs. Laura F1eischmann,
s54.550; Lillian X. Blake, $194,466;
Evening star., 1924-11-30

Mrs. Helen Gould Shepard, 315s.23s.
But those who read these figures
and see in them no hope might be OF
good cheer. The names OF those who
pay 81 and 50 and $40 and flor no
tax at all-are SO numerous that
they'll never be squeezed into any
newspaper.
Evening star., 1924-11-30
ROBBERS GET PAY ROLL.
Unmasked Men Take $7,155 From
Mining Company Paymaster.

BARNESBORO, Pa, November 2s-
Two unmasked men escaped with
s7,155 of the pay roll of the Marion
Center Coal Mining Company at En-
Evening star., 1924-11-30

William J. Shanahan Of Lynn. Mass,
health educator and physical cul-
turist. has been given permission by
law to change his name 10 "Hugh
Mantty"
Evening star., 1924-11-30

and gagging Arthur Etinne. tho pay :
master, who was alone in the Office
at the time of the robbery. A clerl5
who released Ettnne found s1,4s5 H.
the box which had contained the pa
roll. No trace Of the bandits had
been found tonight. They escaped ~
an automobile.
Evening star., 1924-11-30

Nearly 100000 automobile tires d.
day are made in Akron
Evening star., 1924-11-30
Lawyers Do Better,

Lawyers do better than that In a
financial way. Oh, my, yes. Some of
the lawyers paid quite considerable
taxes. And they're getting better
and better in this money-makine
business. Elihu Root, who has built
up Tor himself quite a reputation as a
lawyer, paid an income tax of s1o.242.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
THE LAFoLLETTE MIRAGE

Endorsement of the third party by or ganized labor leaders will hardly find approval among thoughtful people Labor at present enjoys the best position il ever enjoyed. It enjoys that position be. cause industry is stable and prosperous Any influence that would threaten the stability of business and industry would remove the very foundation from be- heath the feet of labor. It is very prob able that LaFollette is such an influence. His theories are experimental, where they are not actually known to be de- str'uctive. His political success would mean period of depression and apx- iety, for which labor would undoubtedly pay more heavily than any other group. There is no doubt that LaFollette em- phasizes some of the legitimate popular complaints, but there is equally no doubt that some of the remedies he proposes would be ruin0us.
 On tlfe other hand, the Democratic party is equally cognizant of the things that are wrong and should be set right. The difference is that the Democratic party will proceed to such reform in an enlightened and dispassionate manner. Not with hatred towards any essential part of our complex society, but with de- termination to repair the neglect of the present administration, and to resume the admirable policies which were inter- rupted by the Republican accession to office Wherever there is the aggression of privilige to the detriment of the gen. eral welfare, such aggression shall be rebuked and destroyed. Wherever there has been private aggrandizement at the public expense, justice shall be substi- tuted. Each individual and each group shall be given its full equality of oppor- tunity, and more than that no one has any right to demand.
 Fortunately, the members of labor or ganizations are not sheep to be told how they shall vote; nor can their ballots be marked for them at a convention in At lantic City. They have learned to think for themselves, and their intelligence warns them against the political nos trums of leader whose eminence is due to his inability to hew to any line or to leave any record of constructive achieve 'ment. It is inconceivable that American labor would entrust it's fortunes to such a man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03

tion declares: "In no capacity has it served the public to greater advantage than in putting an end to this unjust and wholly arbitrary price-fixing scheme" " The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "A vicious commercial brigandage has been dealt 9 smashing wallop." The Houston Post "The effect of the order will be not only to save the consumers in the West and South millions of dollars through not having to pay fictitious freight bills, but it will tend to decentralize the industry and to encourage it's development where the location is advantageous" Thus the press is quite uniformly of the view that the order is just and that the chief crit icism to be directed against it was it's long delay in being issued.a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03

NrS 0 the Honorable Frederick l. Thomp-
 son. of Alabama, commissioner of the
 4 Shipping Board owner and editor of a notable group of Southern newspapers and mighty man with voice and pen, the United States of America is indebted for by all odds the most significant declaration which the national Democratic party has ever yentured on the subject of the American Merchant Marine, Fortunately for that cause, Mir. Thompson was member of the committee on resolutions at the Madison Square con vention, and he came out of that convention victor on most of the points for which he went in.
 It is true that he did not secure demand for the immediate enforcement of Section 28 and for the amendment of treaties and adoption of preferential rates as provided for in the Merchant Marine Act, 1920. On these details the perfervid pacifism of Will liam J. Bryan carried too many guns for him. But Mir. Thompson does have the satisfaction of seeing his great party committed by the longest and most outspoken platform plank in it's history to "an American-owned mer- chant marine, American-built and manned by American crews" and to the further abso- lutely just and true affirmation that such a merchant marine is "a protection to the American farmer and manufacturer against excessive ocean freight charges on products of farm and factory" These latter words are to be compared~with the just adopted language of the national Republican plank at Cleveland-proclaiming the need of a mer- chant marine ito protect our shippers and importers from exorbitant ocean freight rates and to become powerful arm of our national defense"
 It has taken q great many years of stren- uous effort by the active champions of the American flag at sea to bring both of the great political parties into complete accord on this vital proposition--which with this present striking agreement must, in the vis- ion of all men, be accepted now as the con
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
PEOPLE WANT SEPARATION

That the sentiment of the people ot Alabama favors the separation of the Warrior as completely as feasible from the management of the Mississippi is proved by the many telegrams and mes sages received by the Washington divi- sion of waterways protesting against the covert effort to block the separation. It is reassuring to the people of this state to receive from Colonel Ashburn ad- vance intimation that the order of sep aration will undoubtedly be confirmed by the committee when it meets August 6. It is also gratifying to the people of Ala bama to perceive the activity, in behalf of the separation, on the part of the states delegation in congress. Congress man Oliver especially deserves credit for being personally on the scene and con- ferring with the various officials con- nected with the enterprise.
 Those who express genuine concern lest the separation be an uuwise move may comfort themselves with the reflec- ton that the order is not irrevocable, If thorough test should prove the sep ar-ation an impracticable statusS then there is nothing to hinder. restoration of the dual management. Therefore, any view that the plan will wreck the War r!or is without any foundation in fact The preponderance of opinion that the plan of separate administration of the barge lines would be to the great ben- eft of the waterway and of the seaport at Mobile amply warrants the trial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
By J. H. REED In Manufacturers Record

A
 "A pose of placing the graduates of 4 4 Georgia colleges in positions with Georgia business firms, is q unique idea be- ing developed by Cater WOolford, a we'll known citizen of Atlanta and president of the Retail Credit Company of that city. Realizing that the loss to Georgia every year through it's trained college graduates leay- ing t1e state to seek employment elsewhere Was even greater than the loss suffered by the migration of negro farm labor, Mfr. Wool ford two months ago opened an office in the Chamber of Commerce building at his own expense for the purpose of finding positions for Georgia boys and girls right at home Now that the work is well under way, it is proving successful beyond AIr. Woolford's highest expectations.
 The first step in the placement of Geor- gia boys and girls lay in securing the CO., operation of the various colleges in the state and in this MT. Woolford has been very suc- cesstul. Virtually all the larger colleges in Georgia are cooperating in the movement Among the girls schools are Agnes Scott Col lege, at Decatur; Bessie lift College, at For syth Bureau College, at Gainesville; the Georgia State Womsn's College, at Valdosta the Georgia State College for Women, at Mil ledSeville; La Grange College, at La Grange Shorter College, at RomeT the State Normal School, at Athens, and Wesleyan College, at Macon. Boys schools cooperating in the movement include Emory University, Ogle- thorpe University and the Georgia School of Technology, in Atlanta Mercer University, at Macon, and Riverside Military Academy. at Gainesville. The only two co-educational schools in the state also are cooperating
 At each of these institutions Mir Wool. ford has appointed a contact representative, who is supplied with data sheets and stands ready to help the student find employment in any way he can through the placement bureau. These representatives are almost all faculty members with wide personal ae- quaintanee among the students and knowl-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
KEEPING SOUTHERN YOUTHIN SOUTH

edge of the individual boys and girls ths proves valuable in getting them located. Th contact representative does not go to th students; the students have to go to hin But he sees to it that the senior class hear about the placement bureau and has all tn necessary forms and information for student wishing employment. Any student at any q the schools mentioned wishing employment can secure a copy of the data sheet givin the necessary information about himself wheI filled in. It is then up to the employment office, or placement bureau, to find the jo for which each applicant is fitted.
 In this work the placement bureau has hal remarkable success. While only the Atlant firms have been canvAssed,. almost every fisI Mr. Woolford has come in contact with ha been in the market for one or two colleg graduates. Much work was involved in gel ting these firms lined up and their requird ments definitely set down, but as a result for tho first year at least, there will be mor positions listed with the Georgia Placemer Bureau than there will be men and women | f.ll them.
 Whatever the cost of maintaining the bv reau may be, Mfr Woolford is underwriting for period of two years. At the end of tha time he believes that it's value will be full demonstrated and that it will be taken ore and maintained either by the colleges them selves or by the manufacturers and busines houses In need of skilled men and women t carry on theiPTwork.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
ThOughts on Bringing Up Children

To the Editor of The Age-Herald: The article from the pen of Judge Der Lindsey in last Sundays Age-Herald on thu present manner of bringing up the youth o the country embodying an excerpt on thu Leopold and Loeb tragedy was something very fine, as all of Judge l,indsey's ideas are in regard to the embryo citizens of our na tion.
 7After having reared six children of m, own, three boys and three girls, to man anG woman's estate and the whole being unani mously considered by all who know them tC be as near success as that sized family usually is; I would like to add a clause tt Judge Lindsey's article. am not asking to be allowed to do so to exploit any success may have attained in bringing up my family but to impress it upon young mothers that a child should be watched from it's birth moi only physically, but it's disposition, learn tc study his or her moods and peculiarities and whether characteristics show good or bad Formulate plan for encouragement or coun- ter action.
 Every child, even in one family, is as different in disposition Gs in features and should be handled accordingly.
 None of the wisdom of old Solomon has ever lost one iota of its worth, though it has rung down the ages for thousands of years and none of that wisdom or advice is more useful than "Spare the rod, spoil the child. ''
 It has also been said that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" l would add that it is the beginning of wisdom to make your children just little bit afraid of you as we'll as make them love you.
 Again it is said that Satan finds some thing for idle hands to do. It is a certainty that if you do not keep boy busy he is very often likely to join hands with his satanic majesty When my boys began to show signs of letting things which should not get the upper hand of them, get the upper hand oi them, 1 began to try to get it out, even if had to call on the help of switch off of the hedge. tell you a tall previt hedge on our place has stood glorious sentinel over my family.
 Make your children respect you, as too much familiarity breeds contempt-and you are considered an old fogy. As to Leopold ana Loeb, I would like to know were they ever made to get out and work and understand they were part of an integral of the na tion, that they had a duty to perform in tht world and must perform it honestly. And last but not least, were they made to honor, obey and respect their parents!
 Here is tip to mothers. The first timC your child gives you disrespectful word, re sort to the hedge. Never allow child to tel you "I won't do a thing" you tell it to do Let him give a reason and you respect it, il it is a good one. There is half a battle wor in bringing up a child in the way it should go, if it is made to do something and taught not to be selfish.
 MRS. c. P. BEDDow.
 Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
DEMOCRACY AND MERCHANTMAR1NE

viction of all of the American people.
 There can be no demur from the DemS cratic platform attack upon the vacillatiil policy of the Republican administration in i; failure to develop ar American-flag shippin policy'-if by this is meant the failure { the late Republican congress to enact th shipping subsidy bill or it's equivalent. Bu the chief blame for this must be shouldere by the LaFollette senators of the agriculture bloc from whose sinister malingering the R, publican party bids fair now to be well an forever rid. The late President Harding d his brave and almost successful best for th realization 1of "an Amcrican-flag shippin policy" albeit one which the most of th Democracy did not approve. Now Presider Coolidge has manfully taken up the outlinin and adoption of another policy through h; own immediate official advisers, aided b other men of special competence and undei standing. .
 If there is any serious quarrel with tb new Democratic merchant marine plank, will be with the vagueness of it's final decli ration that "the government should own m operate such ships as will insure the. accon plishment of these purposes, and to eontinu such operation as long as 1t may be necessar without obstructing the development an growth of a privately y-owned American-fla shipping" This will be interpreted as con hitting the Democratic party to long-contir ued government control and operation, witl out forgetting, however, that ultimately" th merchant marine shall be privatelyowne( The Democratic deliverance, though exec lent otherwise, fails at the point of specifi indication and pledge as to just how thi final result of private ownership, admitte to be most desirable, is actually to be brougt about.
 But, in all candor, that is precisely tn failure also of the Republican national pla' form. Both of the great politaat parties al unable to tell just what road they are takin
 but both are solemnly insistent that the are on the way !-The Marine Journal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
CANADIANS HONOR LoNGFELLow


 Although there is latterday inclina- ton to scoff at the merits of Henry Wadsworth LongfeIow as poet, there is no doubt that he is better known to American readers than any other, no matter how high the critics may ranS them. It is all question of whether the best poetry IS that which most closely fo,iows the rules, or whether the best poetry is that which appeals to the most people. To be sureA it may be that Longfelow owes part of his reputation to the fact that he has been so prom inently set forth in the textbooks. But there must be something about his po- etry that has merit or it would not per sist
 We are accustomed to think of Long fellow as having mainly an American appeal and of "Evangeline" as typical American heroine. We forget that Evan geline was Canadian girl, and that the first scene of the story of her heartaehe and wanderings is laid in Grand Pre- Nova Scotia. Therefore, Canadians likewise have a sort of claim upon his genius, and Canadians are kindly dis posed towards our popular poet. There is now in Nova Scotia a plan to raise money for a monument to Longfellow to stand in Memorial Park at Grand Pre-. Governor Cox of Massachusetts on a re- cent visit to that region gave his en- dorsement to the plan, and it is said that the people of that far-northern cline are cordially in favor of this trib- ute. The critics may deny Longfellow's high art .as poet, but they will not be able to uproot his hold on the hearts of the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
MORE TROUBLE IN IRELAND

When there is dispute in Ireland there had better be an immediate settle ment, or before long the whole island will be divided into two opposing camps. It has been so in the past, and it is so with respect to the Ulster boundary con- troversy. Ulster, as many may remember, does not belong to the Irish Free State, but is a British colony with it's own pre- mier, Sir James Craig. Ulster is ar indus trial region, while the rest of Ireland is principally agricultural. With a proper relationship the trade between the two divisions would be very well balanced, as Ulster would sell it's mill products in the Free State, and would buy the food products of the Free State. Such hum- drum arrangement does not appear pos sible at present, not only owing to the boundary ill-feeling, but also because of the complicated system of tariff duties on goods passing either way across the boundary.
 In the present instance it appears that the Free Staters are merely insisting upon the carrying out of the provisions of the treaty whereby Ulster was to cede cer- tain territorial strip to the Free State. This strip is agricultural, and appears to be mainly occupied by people in sympathy with the Free State. The Irish Repub- Iicans have taken advantage of the sit uation to allege that Great Britain has violated her treaty and to urge re- public. The Free Staters, however, re- ply that the British government is not to blame and that the delay has been ex- plained in an acceptable manner. MT. J. H. Thomas, British colonial minister, has served notice upon Ulster that if it does not at once comply with the treaty, be will intrnd11cA a meas1lre in nallia "a, Arif
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
The Death Of Liberty
By JOHN CARLYLE

The Italian council of ministers will mug gle the press. The rules of the dictator, Mussolini, governing publicity will be. car ried out.
 This is sad and serious move for Italy.
 The regulations authorize the prefect of each province to intervene whenever news paper attempts to discredit the country or the prestige of political or religious institu- tions, or render difficult the work of discip- line and of the guarantee of law and public order entrusted to the government"
 These are high-sounding words These are fine phrases. They are made to appeal to patriots. They smack of loyalty and honor
 But they are worse, much worse, than meaningless. '-f
 Who is to judge the value of these political and religious institutions whose prestige" is to be so tightly guarded?
 Who is to judge whether discipline is proper and whether the government is worthy of support?
 American editors and British editors and the editors of all enlightened countries know from oft-repeated experience that in nineteen cases out of twenty the men who want to muzzle the press for the good of the coun- try are the men who want to work in the dark. They are the men whose deeds are the deeds of darkness.
 Above all things they fear the white light of publicity. They fear criticism because they are guilty.
 Woe to that country whose channels of publicity are damned up.
 Woe to that country when the peoples rights can no longer be guaranteed by an unmuzzled press.
 For in the long run the press is the only protector of the rights of the multitude. Con. stitutional guarantees fall flat if sharp men are permitted to work in the dark.
 The real guarantee of the peoples liberties is today's newspaper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
WILLING TO souARE IT

Nose was equipped with rod and bask, when he bumped right into the parson, Il latter being headed for church.
 Where to, MOse" asked the good maj gently.
 ''Well, parson, to tell you the troof, T. on my way down to the river"
 Now, Nose, doesn't your conscience hui you?"
 "Yes, it do. If has any luck, I'll lea1 you Q nice mess of fsh."--Atlanta Constitl ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03

authorizing the British government to take whatever measures are necessary to settle the controversy and carry out the terms of the treaty. The Ulsterites shout back defiance. And so the dispute goes on. The question is one that, on it's merits, could easily be settled without bloodshed. The participants being Irish at war among themselves, whether it can be settled without bloodshed remains to be seen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-03
ALREADY OWED MONEY

"I'd like some nice perfume" she told the clerk and pointing to a bottle marked $8 an ounce, asked for a sample of it, and the clerk gladly accommodated her, as she looked like a good customer.
 Why, that's really very nice!" exclaimed the girl after good deep whiff. Please let me have a quarters worth
 But, madam" protested. the clerk in as- tonishment, you already have had guar. ter's worth "-Los Angeles Times.