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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01


 tional obstacles of political nature. They have time and again agreed on this or on that, only later to find that they had agreed merely in form and not in in depreciation. Now they have to deal with bankers and business men whose very success depends upon thorough under standing and upon textual fidelity to contracts.
 Not the bankers, nor the financiers are bringing the diplomats to time and pinning them down to fixed points of exact stipulation and to definite and in- violable lines of procedure, but the grim laws that control business and finance, and to which the bankers themselves are consistently obedient or pay the penalty. Bankers may feel 'iealousies, but they cannot permit them to vitiate business agreements. Bankers may have rivalries, but they cannot therefore permit their affairs to dwell on precarious founda- tions. Governments may be jeopardized by politicians with impunity, but finances must be impregnable or whole peoples suffer hardship. That is what is the trouble with Europe today. Too much politics and. not enough sense is the cause of Europe's distress. Perhaps even the diplomats are beginning to per ceive 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
Day For Workingn1an
By JOHN CARLYLE

Here is an item that you may have seen at the bottom of your newspaper the other day. It may have stirred but a passing in- terest But mark it well. It was big news. It may have heralded a new day for the great workaday world in shop and factories.
 Charles c. Dubois, president of the West ern Electric Company, was heard in a single speech, in a single noon-day assembly by 5000 men and women factory workers at the company's works near Chicago.
 This was made possible by means of a microphone, sound amplification and widely scattered speech-projecting horns.
 Nothing like this ever happened before. It is a miracle And it is a miracle of good will.
 This miracle was not performed just once and for all. The arrangement is a perma- nent one. The purpose is to restore the old personal contact, the personal relations that many years ago used to exist between em- ployer and employe.
 Men will become cO-workers with a new spirit, cO-workers of new day, by under standing each other.
 "The old conditions of contact" says the Iron Trade Review, "were destroyed in the rise of mechanical invention, the industrial revolution which followed, and the vast ex- pansion of plants under single control"
 I journeyed for hours on a fast train not many nights ago with Whiting Williams Williams is the Cleveland business man who has donned overalls for summers at time and has worked in the mills and the mines of America and Europe to learn, at first hand just what is on the workers mind. He found out He told me.
 The wOrkingman is not so much concerned with wages as he is with recognition.
 The wOrkingman wants to get somewhere and to be somebody.
 The workingman wants to work with his employers as well as for them. He wants to feel that he is appreciated and that he is important.
 And now comes the miracle of the micro phone to hasten the day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
The Peoples Forum
A Revival fin Kennedy

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 What is termed by the oldest inhabitants of Kennedy the greatest revival in the his tory of the town is on. Under large tent the meeting is being held. The revival is be- ing carried on by Dr. Will Hill of Atlanta Ga., one of the South's leading evangelists and Methodist. Rev. Hill is said to be one of the most fluent speakers ever heard in this section of Alabama. He is a strong and fearless preacher of the old-time gospel of Jesus Christ. He has associated with him Prof. Homer $. Jenkins, of Atlanta, and a general evangelist singer of the Southern Methodist Church. With a large chorus choir, the hills and valleys are being made to vibrate with song.
 Sunday was the initial day of the great meeting. Crowded to it's capacity the large tent was unable to hold the crowds, and many autos were lined up all around and filled with anxious listeners. Both services were great. At the night service, great strong men found their way out of the throngs and the rear of the tent and came weeping to place of prayer.
 Dr. Hills message at the morning hour on "The Home" was a masterpiece. Almost every eye was dimmed by tears as he called for God to give us homes that feared and reverenced God. The evening message, 'The One Sin That Damns," was caught by pended heads and listening ears. At the call for prayer the altaIs were filled with men and women, young and old, weeping their way to God and confessing sin. Kennedy is being revolutionized. The town can never be the same again. Politics and crops have gone into seclusion. Only religion is being dis cussed on the streets by the populace. The entire town, white and black, has received great blessing from God. Kennedy is up and doing.
 The services are being held twice daily 10 80 a. m. and 80 p. m. The revival con tinues until Thursday.
 o. L. PEEK, P. c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
Pride And Humility
By DR. FRANK CRANE

Pride" says La Rochefoucald, "transforms itself in thousand different ways, but it isg never better disguised and more capable of deceiving than when it coneeals itself under the garb of humility
 And Massillon says Pride eonceals itself only to be discovered, runs away from praise only that it may be followed, disclaims com pliments only to gain them, scOrRs itself only as bid for praise Pride has thousand comy pensations imperceptible to ourselves, and nothing is rarer than humility for its own sake." E
 To which may be added the biting skit of Southey;
 And the devil was pleased, for his darl-
 ing sin
 Is the pride that apes humility. '"
 And wadSwOrth:
 There is a subtle luxury in self-dispraise;
 And inward self-disparagement affords
 To meditative spleen grateful feast. i
 Humility is virtue one does not hear much of these days. Yet it is the noblest of virtues. In the little church yard of Eccle- fechan, in Scotland, is the grave of Thomas Carlyle, and on his tombstone is engraved, beside his name, just one word, ''Humiliate" And Carlyle was a cleRr-headed and deep hearted old man, which he shows by choosing SAO Ae-AAS OA AAS A9ASSb OA t4cS GO StACC HIS monument.
 Now humility is simply thinking, telling and acting the truth about ourselves Hu- milty is ruth translated into a personal quality.
 Humility saves one from thousand slings and arrows that wound the vain. Genuinely humble people take no offense It is the false and proud who are thin skinned. Because as humble man knows the truth about himself your slight or insult does not affect him,
 What people think of us has usually little tfeth in 1t. And a man of sterling humility
 wise enough not to bother about what they say"
 Montdgne relates that "Archelaus, king of &acedon, walking along the street, somebody threw water on his head, which they who were with him said he ought to punish. 'Ay. hat,' aaid he, whoever it was, he did not throw the water upon me, but upon him whom he took me to be.'''
 Socrates, being told that people spoke i'll of him Not at al," said he, 'for there is aattiss of me in what they say"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
Watching The Parade
By JOHN PILGRIM

Uncle Jake DiIsaver used to be the Jersey devil of our community when I was a young ster down on the farm. Most of us thrust out our lips at him. Uncle Jake used to drive hove each Saturday night in buggy that sagged to one side. Under the seat was a brown jug
 "Uncle Jake will get drunk every night this week." our elders told us, tightening their lips.
 We used to hear his squirrel rifle crack on Sunday, and he played cards for money with the harvest hands, and rather success fully, if they told the truth. Uncle Jake could swear, too, in a fashion that would have been altogether admirable if judged solely on the basis of efficiency. In a day when the dime novel was considered the depth of literary degradation, although most of us now admit that we read them by stealth, Uncle Jake always had what he called a pack"
 "Iu loan ye some any time," he told us youngsters.
 Not an excellent character, and properly looked down upon. Yet 1t was Uncle Jake who interfered when the moral folk planned to burn the cabin over the heads of q couple who lived in sin. He said he'd shoot the gig gard out, of the men who proposed it. They worked hard, he said, and kept to themsc yes, and maybe it wasn't their fault if they were not married. Anyhow
 "You gotta let em alone" said Uncle Jake
 His voice was always for tolerance and fair play and neighborliness. Each Christ mas he iolted down to the county poor farm in his sagging old buggy and brought home a load of despairing paupers for a week in his farmhouse No doubt he gave them wht he called flicker to drink, but words could pot tell the adoration with which these tongue tied penniless, broken remnants regs rded him. None of the rest of us did as much
 Looking backward, it seems to me Uncle Jake Dilsaver was pretty much of man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
EUROPE MUST FACE THE FACTS

One depending on the daily cable re- ports of the London conference finds difficulty in forming any stable idea of the developments. That is largely because the developments themselves have little stability. The truth is that there is vacillating attitude on the part of each party to the discussions, because no one wants to take a stand until he finds what the stand of others is going to be. Even France, which came to the conference with certain stipulations, has yielded those stipulations one by one as it has been discovered that the others would not grant them. It now appears that, no matter how vigorously the pol iticians may resist, the economic facts will have to be faced and economic prin- ciples will have to govern the eventual agreements.
 The diplomats may be irked at what they term the interference of the bank CTS, but there appears to be no valid way of compelling the bankers to finance the deal unless they are convinced of the soundness of the program. The vague ness and tenuosity of diplomatic discus sion are no substantial materials out of which to weave a business proposition. The diplomats have time and again failed to agree because of theoretical or tradi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
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The Charge of the Bobbed Brigade

(By k. Montgomery :. Bobbed hair to the right of us, Bobbed hair to the left of us, Bobbed hair behind us,
 Presses asundered. Some with q heavy crop, Some with light crop, Into the barber shop
 Walked the bobbed hundred. Women of high degree, Women past fifty-three, Determined that they shall be
 One of the numbered. Women of every class, Mother, daughter, little lass, Sweetheart, sister, join the mass
 Of the bobbed hundred. Some with bangs, some without, Some are shingled around about, Some in curls, and some in doubt,
 In case they have blundered. Some of them do look real swell, Some of them do look like-well, It's sometimes not just well to tell
 How look the bobbed hundred
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
OBREGON AND THE SOVIET

It is reported that President Obregon is willing to recognize the soviet. The Mexican president is quoted as saying: 'Mexico has no right to pass judgment on other governments and recognizes the full rights of other people to adopt the form of government they desire. Mexico has no objections to recognizing soviet Russia" This reply, given in an-' swer to direct query of the Russian en-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
Ships That Pass
(By Dorothy L. Quegenberry in InterIudesl

(By Dorothy l.. Quesenberry in 1nterlude Sunset, where the waters blue Catch and hold the evening hue: Sunset, and the glowing rose Fringed with green at daylight's close: Sunset, while you watch with me The great, tall ships go down to sea. All the air is stilled with awe.
 Heaven is perfect, not a flaw
 In the sky where far to north One blue dripping star creeps forth: Evening, while you watch with me The great, tall ships go down to sea. Great outlines of living black, Masts reared high and sails flung back: Dauntless on the earth's curved. breast, Grim and silent, scorning rest: Night, love, while you watch with me The great, tall ships go down to sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
THE FRIENDLY BEAR

Chinese are not usually very courageous in the wildwoods The following though, seems to show the ready wit of the race:
 An old Chinese, delivering laundry in a mining camp. heard noise and espied huge brown bear shifting his tracks in the newly fallen snow.
 'Hu!' he gasped. You likes my tlacks. I makee some more. ."-Everybody Magazine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

"The Democratic platform" says Sem ator Pepper, "defines no issues; merely obscures them" Perhaps the senator will tell us what the Republican record did to issues.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

The Steel Corporations approval of the order abolishing Pittsburg Plus is ex- pected at an early date. Opposition to such a patently just order would no doubt provoke legislative attention that the industry would do well to obviate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
WHAT LA TOILETTE INTENDI,

If you would be a true Progressive oi { La Toilette type you must favor blocking [ election of a president by the people, throwing the choice into lame duck }. gress that was elected two years ago.d ( troit Free Press.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

Louisiana now has "Stop, Look and Listen" law applicable to all motorists on approaching grade crossing. Per- haps it will be possible to induce motor ists to comply with the first third of the injunction,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

AS long as other nations continue to tote weapons we ought to keep ours oiled up and where we can get them if at- tackled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
NOTHING IN A NAME

A reactiOnaFy is any man who won't go off halfcocked when you do.-Baltimore Sun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
1lnANING oF BI.AoK EYEs

'Blgek eyes mean strong passion" says heal;tY writer. The other fellows passions tome tiaies. Detroit Free Press.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

the choice were left to me, whether to nave free press or free government, I would choose free press.-Thomas Jefferson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

lighting Bob wasn't called that during the war.-Dallas News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

Telephone (private branch exchange connect Ing all departmental, Main 4so0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
Ought to Work

Friend: "So you married this man to re- form him?"
 Bride: ''Yes."
 Friend: And how do you expect to do it?"
 Bride: "Oh, shall feed him on angel-food cake "-Harry J. Williams
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
Not 8 Collector

Not Collector Contributor to Editor of Fun Shop "As you have doubtless observed, all my work bears the stamp of originality" J Editor: "Yes, but I have outgrown my stamp-cOllecting days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

NEWS BUREAUs-washington 500 Davidson Buildings State Capital Montgomery Journal Building: Tennessee Valley, Decatur Daily Building: Tuscaloosa. News Building: Jasper Mountain Eagle Building; Anniston, Star Build- lug; Gadsden. Journal Building; Muscle Shoals T-I-Ctties Daily Building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
HE AGE-HER AID
FREDERIcK. L THoMpsoN .. PRESIDENT

Entered at Birminghaham. Ala. post office as sscond-class matter. act of Congress March G. 1873
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
An Understanding

An Understanding
 The judge in the domestic relations court was trying to reunite an erring truck driver and his wife. The woman had caused the ar- rest of her husband, charging that he often beat her.
 Don't you realize" began His Honor glancing sternly at the prisoner, "that wom. an is a fral creature? If I place you on probation for six months, will you promise me you will handle your wife with gloves in the future?"
 "Sure, I'll promise, Judge" the prisoner replied.
 "One minute, Your FionOr," the wife inter. rupted. Make it plain to him that you don't mean boxing gloves. Victor Kaskel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
DEFINING A REACTIONARY

tcOpyrlght. 1924 ReprOductiOn FOrbidden.l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
A Subject for Congress

A Subject for Congress Teacher Give one argument proving Lin coln's birthday ought to be celebrated in the same manner as Washington's"
 Johnny q think Lincoln's birthday ought to be celebrated even more than Washing tons and I can prove it. We only hear of Washington chopping down one cherry tree, while Lincoln chopped down enough trees to build a log in."-Anne J. Geek. >c.t
 If English is the only tongue K With which you are familiar,
 The language of radio fan
 Will sound bit peculiar.
 ' -S. L. Marshall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
No Need

Payne: "My wife never asks me where go."
 Blaine: "You don't say SO" le
 Payne: "Yea, she's right there behind me to see for herself."-J. Thomas 'Worthey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
Dreamy Eyes

looked into her dreamy eyes Like bright stars glowing In fact, she stole my heart away, Ere I was knowing; Her beauty and her dreamy eyes Both had me going. leaned above her; I was wise, Though a beginner; Dreaming of love-" I whispered, "dear?" Thinking to win her; She answered. ''NO, I'm wondering Whats here for dinner"
 -E. D. K.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

"Don' yo' tell me can't pick winner p exclaimed Rastus, as he deftly plucked the feathers from a white neighbours prize rooster.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

The man who invented the alibi sure knev
 his stuff
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

Advice to girls: Curl while the iron is hot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

Mrs. Wallace D. Whatuvitt gave house party at her fashionable waterfront estate Wednesday night Gaston La Paix, celebrated Parisian caterer, prepared the punch. About twenty people were injured
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

Countess Raz Mahjah 1ngpur Bey, for. merly Kitty McDuff of Bayonne, has opened the villa formerly occupied by the Guiness- Stouts of Pittsburg and New York. She has had it refilled with chartreuse and vermouth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
YooahIlIarv Exnnnsted

Dick: What did your father say about your staying out so late last night?"
 Dolly There wasn't anything left to say when Mother got through. Mary Clark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

Commodore Skruffington Zwoof has ar rived at the pier in his $100,O0O houseboa Malaria w. The vessel is one of the mos talked of vessels afloat. This is true also o the commodore. A high fence has been pu around the deck to keep the commodore frou falling overheard when his leaning spell come over him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

There have been complaints filed against the life-guards at this resort. They are ac- cused of being snobs. It is charged they re- fuse to answer calls for help without first looking up the endangered bather's social status in the Blue Book. Rescues are by card
 only. e,n3
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01
Sumnner Resort Correspondence

SMARTEST COvE.-Summer gayeties are at height at this fashionable summer resort and with fourteen divorce suits filed so far the best season on record is assured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

A musicale was given at Mepewic InI Tuesday night. The piano there is one O the oldest in America and is still untuned It was General Grants favorite instrument He carried it with him through all his east ern campaigns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

SCOFFLAW HARBOR-The season is a banner one here, all the hotels being filled with starving guests as usual. Unless food is given the guests soon all may be lost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

Many people are stopping at the Muggins House. They don't know why
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

r. Tithinghamm Ploverneck had a close call from drowning Tuesday. He had cramp while drinking
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

Estelle Clementine Yvonne Smithers, the well known vamp, was bitten by an infu- riated bachelor last evening. It served her right.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

An interpretive dance was held at Waddle Inn Wednesday night. What the dancers were trying to interpret is still unknown The constables are investigating.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-01

Charlie Kuttupp and Harold Swift, two Yale sophOmores, who have been running the summer girls ragged here for the past two weeks, went out in a canoe four days ago and have not been heard from since. Chap erOnes and mothers fear they may not have been drowned
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-04-28
Ell BEso

Sikh fue al National City Bank. Iba,
como un sileno. Dejaba al pasar,
un vaho de nosto, de foneles vacios. /.
Un acre olor asreverber6. ::
Guerra cobrar ennS check inaginario
En- la oficina de cambto hall6 un jO-
ven imberbe y sonrosado. IS
Y he aqui que los viejoS v oscuros
atavismos de Sikh, forecieron mons
truosamente 8 - $
Sikh, con los ojos encandilados,' ss
lanz6 sobre ell joven overto de la To-
RE lie estampo un beso en- ias me-
jillas.
Hubo un pequeno escandalo que des-
pert6 todas las estridencias del eho-
teo criollo!
Sikh lanz6 unos alaridos sinliescos
y desapareci6 despues del beso
He ahf la penGltima hazaha del atra-
biliario senegales. :.
Es rigurosamente historical?
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-04-28

Battling, en- verdad, es un icono-
:clasta, de los fdolos serios; un anar-
quista que solo Sc rige por una ley su-
prema: su propia voluntad! Ell frma
,y%jola compromises, con la dulce vo-
laptuosidad de hacer rabiar a las gen.
ties 1onradas que pretenden aprove-
charse edeSEus locuras de sus borra-
'cheras - eontratos, managers, COM
promises? Sikh hace un cogin con todo
ESQ :. Repantiga sus negras posaderas
v Sc RE iacarandosa olfmpicamente,
del dtablo, de dos y de sus managers.
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Notas de boxeo
continuation de la pag. %

balanza Ell cuchillo.. Contratos, pro-
p6sitos, compromises, Libby? Yo tiro
al diablo todo ESQ, como un monten de
porqueria