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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
On Taking Exercise $ ].
By H. ADDTNGToN BRUCE

Tom Black felt distinctly out of sorts He slept poorly, his appetite matched his sleep and, as he put it to himself, his nerves were "all on edge" Consequently he decided tc give physician chance to look him over.
 The physician, to Toms infinite relief found nothing seriously wrong.
 You merely are bit run down." he as sured him. Hike too many other office workers you have been trying, to get along without exercise in the open. That is what you need more, than anything else. Why don't you take up golf?
 Tt is a splendid game for middle-aged men like you. From personal experience am sure you will enjoy it."
 The suggestion appealed to Tom Black. He had several friends who were ardent golf ers Through the influence of one of these and the expenditure of quite a sum of money in initiation fees and club dues, he became member of a popular golf club. His out fitting for the links cost him bit more And he signed on for a few lessons with the club professional. . # =er E.,
 Alas tsft |. Not even in boyhood had Tom Black gonC in much for outdoor games. Muscular skill was something quite unknown to him. 4 few attempts and he was through with golf Later, and with more pleasing results, hG turned to walking as a means of getting the exercise he undoubtedly needed.
 The mistake made by Toms physician is one too often made. Though to be sure, q still earlier mistake had been made. by Toms parents in not habituating him, while he still was boy, to games that would have deyel oped him in specialized use and control oi his large muscles Then he would have had really fair chance of finding golf interesting instead of embarrassing.
 And always, be it remembered, interest must be present if one, is to benefit to the maximum from any pafticnlar form of ex' ercise. As noted recently by McCurdy, in Craig's comprehensive treatise on the dis eases of middle life:
 Interest increases the strength of indi' vidual contraction and makes easier the con- tinuance of beneficial exercise For this req son it is important that the youth of both sexes be taught wide variety of pleasurable exercises and games.
 '"The persons over forty who must dc merely disagreeable and monotonous exercises because during. youth they failed to secure a moderate degree of skill are unfortunate '
 Still, they are not so unfortunate as those who, having chosen a sort of exercise interest," ing in itself but markedly beyond their pow CTS. not merely abandon this exercise but fail to turn to any other. The frequency with which this happens emphasizes alike the i'm portance of early training for the develop n,ent of muscular skill and wise exercise selection in later life.
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by speeulators in futures, whose re- actions are immediately mirrored in the quotations. Crop prospects on no date have any essential bearing on the price at which the old crop shall be marketed. For the crop prospects of week later may be much better or much worse than previously reported. For the price of either spots or futures to be materially affected by estimates of crop condition is uneconomic, as shown by the fact that the actual harvest may at length give There is only one fair basis for the price of cotton and that is the cost of produc- tion, together with such considerations as are imposed by the state of supply and demand. This should not be govern ed, however, by the daily changes in the relation of supply to demand, but to the annual averages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
HIGH LIVING IN BOSTON

Rent-boosting in the apartment districts of Greater Boston goes right on, and with it goes a-glimmering Boston's chance of maintaining its historic leadership in the higher education For the idea is fast spreading throughout the country that Boston is the most expensive city of the world to live in Gas it probably isl, and families with children to send to college are more and more observing that the schools ins Chicago, Ann Arbor and New York are now about as good as those of New England and that living for the parents in the neighbOrhood of one oi the schools selected will be much cheaper Lowell Courier-Citizen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
TEST THE COURT ADVISORY ACT

There was little apprehension that the port-enabling act was unconstitutional, yet the people are relieved to find that five supreme judges in an informal opin- ion find it valid under the two-thirds law. The feature of chief public con- cern, however, is that the recent law authorizing the governor to call upon the supreme judges for advisory opinion on the legality of acts or the constitu- tionality of laws maks more efficient the administration of public affairs. In this case, had there not been recourse to this simple expedient, the port work might have been held up indefinitely pending regular resort to court procedure in or der to bring the subject up before the supreme court by the usual leisurely pro- cesses.
 Inasmuch as two supreme judges de- cline to give their advisory opinion in this manner, on the ground that the case should have come in the regular order of litigation, perhaps it would be well to challenge the law concerned in order that the supreme court itself may decide whether it is incumbent upon the judges to give such advisory opinion when the governor calls upon them. lnasmuch as the law capacities public business and re- lieves the courts from routine, it is pub licly valuable. If it is not valid for the governor to call for advisory opinion, then a way should be found to make 1t so, lest time arise when majority ot judges should be of the same mind as the present minority.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
As To Psychology
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

Psychology will never be the great science It ought to be until it ceases to be material science. The average scientist is impotent, as far as life is concerned, because he is mes merized by matter and matter forces.
 The great psychologists of the future will not bother about the influence of the liver and lights and eerebrum upon thought and feeling. These he will 'relegate to an inferior plane for the study of the psychologist. But he will approach the thinking and feeling soul as pure spirit. His data will be spirit data. His correlations will be wholly psychic,
 Love, for instance, has nothing to do with the sensorium; that is, the senses It feeds upon certain physical impressions, as beauty and sex-attraction, but as a bird feeds on worms and you cannot reason out the mind of bird from the kinds of worms it con sumes. Love will never be scientifically un- derstoOd until it is considered as a motion of pure spirit. A thousand love-facts which are now considered as negligible nuances, trifles useless to investigate, will be perceived to be the very phenomena upon which any satisfactory science of love can rest The feeling of wonder, which is perhaps the most important emotion of which man is capable, has never been decently studied, sim ply because it does not run along the earth, and is not solvable into acids and alkalis You can never understand wonder, which l so long as the mud of materialism is all over your spectacle lenses.
 Utility is the curse of science. It was sad day for science when it gained praise and reward for making steam engines and tele- phones. Useful science is not science; 1t is no more than recipe in cookery. To tell how to make a locomotive is on, the same grade as to tell how to bake beans.
 It is the low plane of science that has prevented us from understanding nature. Na6lre is not comprehended when you de- termine a plant to be an oxygen and of the family of rosacele, any more than Kant is cOmprehended by studying his shoes and stockings. Nature needs to be spiritually, psychologically come at. She has marvellous unfoidings for us when once we shall have appreciated her spiritual side.
 There is no satisfactory science of ethics for the same reason, nor of political economy. Ruskins economic writings give us a clew to the entire inconcl1siveness of a science of society that does not recognize men as spir- itual beings, that shuts It's eyes to spiritual facts.
 Perhaps science is like an aeroplane, that runs along the ground a bit before it can rise in the air. But it seems about time for it to rise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
Modern Maids Maxinps

About the time a woman begins to repent of having been quite so rude in her repulse of a fathead, the latter is thinking com placently: That little girl is afraid I'll guess how fond of me she really is!
 Add life's little hypocrites: the girl who says, "Oh, never dreamed you cared that way!'
 As soon as his grouch has died a husband is perfectly willing to bury it without benefit of apology, and he cannot understand hls wifes morbid passion for post-mOrtems.
 Any girl is fool to marry handsome husband unless she's just a little better looking. All other comparisons are sodious.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
AIR MAIL SAVINGS

The total annual check transactions to and from New York federal reserve banks of Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, St. Louis, Kansas City and the reserve bank branches at Pittsburg, Cincinnati Detroit. Baltimore and New Orleans amount to S2,- 0SOOOOOOO. The average daily amount of checks in the process of collection between the New York bank and the other banks nen- tioned amounts to $66S, ,350 Saving a day's interest on sums such as these means real saving-American Banker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
Time Of Roses

It was not in the winter Our loving lot was cast: It was the time of roses We plucked them as we passed! That churlish season never drowned On early lovers yet: o no-the world was newly crowned With flowers when first we met Twas twilight, and bade you go, But still you held me fast; It was the time of roses We plucked them as we passed
 Thomas Hood
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bond issue arrangements have been com pleted to start work.
 This is especially fortunate when con sidered in the light of fire danger to the old cramped and unsafe library quarters That danger had much to do with the decision of the people to vote bonds for new building. The library board frankly advised the public of these dan gers, and appealed for building that would be free from this menace. Fortu- nately the little fire in the old library quarters the other day was extinguished before any damage was done; but it emphasizes the wisdom of the people in authorizing the new building. Not only will it provide a great public benefit, but it will remove apprehension of what might prove a public calamity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
The Right Word
ENGLISH
By CURTIS NICHOLSON
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 J. Bierne of Chicago scores "The Right Word" for using the word English" for the word "language.P
 He writes, One error in this article is the use of the word English for the word Ian guage.' Note the so-called English Ian guage is not an English language but world language developed primarily, for the many peoples inhabiting England.
 MT. Bierne may be interested in the defini- tion of English. As found in the Standard Dictionary, it reads as follows:
 English, 2 (D The language of England or of the English peoples, wherever spoken as in the United States, most of the British possessions, Liberia. etc"
 A Decision Endorsed
 One of the readers of "The Right Word endorses a decision rendered by this column in favor of the use of plural verb with the noun office as follows:
 q read the letter from Miss Wright, Dal- las. Tex, which appeared recently in this column. You say that there was an error involving a fine distinction, and you ask the readers to find it. An excerpt of Miss Wright's letter reads, The whole office rid icuIes my saying, etc. If she meant by the whole office the people in the office, shC should have said, The whole office ridiculC . Your Right Word column is attract ing more attention than you have any idea of. It certainly reminds us how much there is to the English language, and how little we know about il"
 Mir. James J. Mahoney of Chicago, tho writer of the foregoing letter. is right, al this column has already known. Read George Henry Fishers letter tomorrow. Yesterdays Error
 Wrong My remembrance of Henry'S play | ing about the place
 Right My remembrance of Henry playing about the place ..
 Note.-The speaker remembers Henry playing completes the picture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24

GOING DOWN! Dear Reader: If we accept the truth that we make money from our ideas, then we must have ideas to make money. Would it not be a good idea to read?
 These days we have but to talk to the librarian in order to find out what we need in our particular line and the information is forthcoming.
 The more we know about certain sub ject, the more we are able to earn in that field. There must be magazines printed about your business, Do you read them? It is possible that you may earn the money you need by writing articles for the maga- zines which appear dealing with the line of work you are in. These periodicals do not want fine writing but they do want ideas. Reading will tell you what is wanted
 Yours sincerely.
 ALFALFA SMITH.
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If the Truth Were Told (By Mrs. Molly Anderson Haley) MY BIRTHDAY MESSAGE
 The card she sent: We all of us have Birthdays But yours, it's very clear, Rest lightly as the thistledown, You're younger every year.
 The card she meant: We all of us have Birthdays, Though I'll wager it is true That none of us work harder To conceal the fact than You! Thanks for Your Invitation
 The card she sent: accept your invitation; It was mighty nice of You To want me and to ask me I appreciate, it, too
 The card she meant: accept your invitation, ,ee Not that I m so keen to comej; But it will be q change at least From sticking around home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
SEEING US

A British novelist, Rebecca West, bound to show how sprightly and piquant she can be, has been discovering America again in the columns of London newspaper. She chortles because a judge danced the tango with her, gave her q drink and the next day fined an aged negro woman for possessing a bottle of moOnshine whisky. This is Exhibit A to prove that America has no respect for law and that prohibition is a failure.
 The flask-toting judge who punished others for doing what he allowed himself to do was a brazen exception that made good copy for the writer. It would have been no picturesque adventure to visit and describe any of the vast majority of courts or private homes or public entertainments that offer no such spec tacle.
 Observers such as Rebecca West or Clare Sheridan or Margot Asquith are selective and perceive as a rule what supports a pre- conceived thesis. Many q foreign visitor comes hitherto to find our streets flushed with red rivers of wine, as immigrants hope to find them paved with gold, and such a delusion pays better than the simple fact concerning the demeanor of most people most of the time.
 There is no story in those who neither concoct hooch in the cellar nor run the gant- let through wild seas. Sobriety provides no spectacle and no sensation. Those whose first interest is to adorn a tale are not the ones best fitted to point a moral to America or to any other country.-Philadelph Public Ledger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
From Our ChiIdren's Garden of Curses

Little Ted, becoming tired on his way home from church, begged his father to carry him. His father said "Oh, no, big two-anda- half-year-old boy like you must learn to walk like a mani"
 Ted bravely trudged along for some min utes, then began to pant and lag behind. Presently he called out: Daddy, Daddy, bet ter carry me. I'm out of gas. Mrs. c. C.. Anderson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24

The increased value of the country s grain supply of about a billion dollars emphasizes that this is an economic, not a political, proposition, at time that might prove disconcerting to some ot those running for office on flimsy prom ises to the farmer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
Watching The Parade
By JOHN PILGRIM

This is an indelicate story and I apologize for it. But it is not merely true, but vaiu- able. It is worth a great deal of money to fat, unhappy, painful men.
 Went to New York;" said my anonymous friend, land stopped at the Hotel Bright Paradise, and was shown to an elaborate suite in French gray and plate glass. Next morning I went into the bathroom. And then--oh, alack, and awelladay-I saw my self'
 It appears that at home my anonymous friend has a modest, discreet and different bathroom, in which the largest mirror is barely equal to the task of reflecting the two uppermost of his chins. But in the Hotel Bright Paradise the bathroom was lined with mirrors. Wherever he turned a conviction of his gross hideousness was forced upon him "I was as shapeless as a half filled bag of wheat" said he. "That isn't right. began to wonder if some of my pains were not due to this unhealthful burden of fat" For months he had been full of pains, sub ject to ills, grooming with remote forms of rheumatism, but blessed by an unconQuerable appetite He might never have realized what was wrong if he had not seen himself in that shameless glass. Then he got frightened. My anonymous friend does not want to die.
 Now look at me-" he bragged.
 pitied the man, he was so proud of his pulchritude. Nothing fat about him now. And no pains. The bathroom mirror did it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
Our Cottage

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 (By George $. Chappell) Our summer cottage by the sea With climbing roses wreathed Is built as lightly as can be Of studding, thinly sheathed. Its room partitions are so thin The slightest whispered word, The scratching match or dropping pin By one and all are heard. 1 feel the cooks descending tread Shake all the second floor, And when, at night, she's gone to bed hear her whiting snore; I know, too, how guest behaves By listening at the wall, Just when he rises, bathes, and slaves Or if he bathes at all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
No Doubt

Iris well to have a poker face When in the game fellow dips, But then I think in every case 'Tis better far to have the chips.
 -Margaret Shoyer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
UNFOUNDED FLUCTUATIONS

Within the past few days cotton has again undergone those wide price fluc- tuations which have no basis in the actual situation. Reports of crop conditions are selfishly madef use of, particularly
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It does not seem altogether fair to blame Senator LaFollette because Debs espoused his cause. Perhaps the senator could not help it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24

The announcement that in another century or two the world will run out of diamonds is being received here with considerable calm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24

A scientist predicts that some day New York will be destroyed by an earth quake. Thus is the prediction-business run into the ground.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24

"I'm very fond of raisins. Kate Said Mrs. Hemingway. ''Oh, so am I,' the maid replied, How about a raisin pay?"
 Adelaide F. Nevin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24

If the choice were left to me, whether to nave free press or free government, I would choose a free press.-Thomas Jefferson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24

If the South American revolution con- tinues much longer, coffee may prove to be injurious to the nerves of num- Der of middlemen.
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THE UsUAL COMPROMISE

When a man wants an open ear and his wife wants q sedan, the argument as a rule ends in a closed incident-Toronto Tribune.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
IF HE'D ONLY REFLECT

Many a man sits around all day wondering why he doesn't get his pay raised when that is the reason.-C6lunbia Record.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24

Crossing crowded street corners these days offers a fine opportunity for ath- letic training.
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THEY NEVER STAY WITHIN m

still, it seems scarcely possible that Mir, Dawes will ever work out practical budget sy stem for senatorial talk.-Dallas News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-24
The Old Reliable

Lecturer Specialist on child-training) :: "In the upbringing of children, the Golden Rule should be applied''
 Voice in Audience: II use a plain wooden one on mine. and it works just as we'll Eugenia Whyte.
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Evidence

Gayboy II think Marian must be toe dancer"
 Gaygirl: Why so?"
 Gayboy: Take look at my shoes. Mrs. Ralph Green.
 "Oh come on, let's make up,' said Irene to her chum, as she proceeded to get out her powder, rouge, lipstick and pencils. (Cnnvri1bt 1904 Renroduction Forh{ddepO
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i SUBSCRIPTION RATES-By mail payable in advance. in United States and Canada; Daily and Sunday one year. $500; six months, $4.oO; three months $2.25; one month, s5c. Daily only: One year, $660: six months $325: three months. Sl76; one month. 75c. Sunday only: one year $2J0; six months. $1.5o; three months 15' one monthh 25c.
 By carrier, where carrier delivery is main tained' 2OS per week. S6c per month
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MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PREss-rhe As soclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use TOT publication of all news dispatches credited to It, or not otherwise credited in this paper and also local news published therein All rights or republication of special dispatches also reserved.
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THE AGE-HER AID

Entered at Birminghaham. Ala. post office as second-cass matter, act of Congress March 6. 1873
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GOING nnWNl

Copyright, 1924. Reproduction Forbidden
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For Picnics and Excursions.-Cu Cultivation of the present crop is almost at and end and farmers are willing to take things easy for the next few weeks. We suggest a good picnic or barbecue for each community. The farm bureau should sponsor such things. A farm tour or excursion is also in order. Any farmer canslearn much by visiting other farm. CTS and studying their methods. Your county agent will be glad to help in arranging 2 tour.-Alabama Farm Bureau News. a