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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
THEE STORY

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 THE STORY
 A new star has blazed in the. theat- rieal world of Paris. She is ba Pha- lene, girl of gentle birth-Elise Duch- anier-who through misfortune became maid to Lolette, a dancer. The latter,s spiteful machinations against her maid miscarry and Elise outshines her.
 Elise, sole support of an invaded sis ter, is warned by the elderly Dr. La pierre, who loves her, that she has only a year to live. Suitors gather about La Phalene, including Maurice Brunei, her manager, and Count Mordac. Tom Kendrick, an American of a different sort. whom she met earlier, has left Paris. It is he who has made the deep est impression on her.
 Brunei takes her to dinner. She mocks him.
 CHAPTER 2s.-MOCKERY c HE HAD mocked Brunei and now
 her fate mocked CT. Its mocking
 laughter rang in Elise's ears as she walked up the stairs to her apart ment after leaving Brunei in his car at the. outer door. She felt suddenly weighted down by great weariness.
 She opened the door and went in- side, going straight to her bedroom. Her maid, who had waited up for her, followed her, but she dismissed the girl curtly.
 She wanted to be alone. She was and all those others desired, but just pitiul and tremulous, standing on the nln oe Co da h.. ing ahead, afraid, wishing only retire ment and quiet.
 This had to endure for months. For months she had to play this game, to keep these men at bay. It would be like all eternity. She would welcome the release which the promulgation of Doctor Lapierre's sentence would bring.
 She would welcome it
 She paused to consider this incredible fact. She would welcome death. The world was at her feet, but she looked over it, past it, to that death which awaited her at the end of the so short road which seemed 80 long in her sight.
 Yet-there was a way in which the road might be really short; way in which she could find some spacious sort of happiness in travelling it. Lo- lette-others-- done those things she fought against, and they were not unhappy. After all-what mattered it? She was to die. There was no- body on whom her shame could recoil. She was to die. Within year. So what mattered it?
 She might find a false joy in living, if only she lived fully.
 It would be easy-and it meant far more money for Marthe-far more.
 Her thoughts stopped as though giant hand had clutched them, stilling them, silencing them, crushing them.
 Money! More money for Marthe Money!
 To sell herself--to sell herself-on the threshold of that door through which she must pass to face her Maker To toss away that talent on the use of which there must come the greater ac- counting. To walk before Him who watched all, and say, You gave me this sort of life--why, I do not know. But because it was short misused it. Had it been long, should have pre- served it carefully"
 There was no reason in it. It was. cowardice.
 To sell herself to-Bruneli She
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
By JOHN R. CALDWELL Wp.t.--.aunm AR-

 l. I would undo some of the things I did do. " ?. I would do some things I did not do.
 3, I would give my soul and body, mind and strength with all that have and am to Him to whom they of light belong and then, I would sign a note like this:
 On demand without grace from the close of this day for value received promise to pay to him, who has kept me and every where has guided my soul with infinite care.
 Whose blessings outnumber the drops of the ocean while living the time of my hearts true devotion. In witness whereof to be seen of all men, I affix the great seal of the soul. Amen.
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lis not what counts, but the life to- come; and if we are not following the Savior one, year Is all too short to waste and eternity will soon be here.
 I would bid all my friends to seek and follow the Savior and trust in his wonderful mercies and would try to fill the whole year with doing good.
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By G. K. CARSON Supt. Terminals, St. Louis.Sam Fran. cisco Ky. Co, 1908 Thirtieth St. N. H ER;rvs,s :, vhn n. Ale Z .T

Birmingham, Ala.
 In the first place would make sure that l lived life that Christ would want me to live. With that great idea, before me, I would in every act ob- serve the Golden Rule. Would also try in every way to the limit of my ability to induce my fellow men to do the same; would gather up the sun beams lying all around my path" scat tering sunshine and roses wherever I went. Would not Intentionally wound the feelings of any one. Would try to make my comings and goinss joy to those who were around. Would get into this great, wide world, and teach the words which came to us 50 many years ago from the lips of the man of Galilee. Would spend days admiring the beautiful works of Ged in the hills and valleys of this great state. Would try to carry the burden of the widow and orphan, the poor and afflicted, wherever they might be. Would gather in my arms, if I could, the poor, neglected little children and cIothe and feed them and show them the many beautiful things in this world. In civic life would help the things along which do the most good to the people, lending a helping hand to those institu- tions which uplift the fallen. Would show the tenderest care to my family and when the last day came would get down on my knees and thank God for the companionship of wife who had been my greatest help in the years that have past, giving her credit for what I am and for all the nobler impulses of my being. In crossing the bar" would want to meet my pilot face to face and say, Dear Lord I have done my best.p
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get out of life and what . comfort they can be to others
 While I am not wealthy, but am young and would work to earn money tD provide necessary thingsst to occupy their minds and bring sunshine and happiness. I would select books to read to them, which would cheer them, especially would read passages from the Bible that tells us of the beautiful home waiting on the other side. This would help them to realize what short time we have to endure our trials and afflictions with patience, here then all will be sunshine and happiness.
 This is how I would spend my year for what a comfort it would be to me to know I had given at least one year of my life to others.
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ONE YEAR TO LIVE!
Here Are the RnIes of Ths Ags-Heralds Prize
 Letter Contest

2, Letter Contest
 today Year to Lve!" by John Hunter--a chapter . day. opens prize contest based on the same problem that is dealt with in the ssa following paper send in the best letters telling What Would Do Had
 
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 that the printed letters prise winners does prize award of the will close of the contest only of prizes being given of follow: letter Contestants may submit nor. contest all readers of than ona eontr;hut,or The Age-Herald. - IT. The letters will liver The 'unsc Dy The Age-heraid ter essay telling what you offered with you that you could not live lon out restriction thana ayear.C Give h reference to the events nsrratsS Letters in the fiction serial "one published Ths AseHsrald to Live!" during the contest and the The 1ee must not he ovsr ming letters will be 300 words the awards announced.
  The contest opens with the conestants name publication and address must appear at the of the t S ; 2. sne Year to Livel" All button Address ail sre to the letter Year Live Contest Age office of The AgeHerad by Herald. Sunday May What would YOU do7 Enter the contest; perhaps your solution is best of al.
 In The Ase-Herald every day.
 P.s--What would you doa
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RY W. H. PARKER

55O8 10th Ave-, N., Birmingham. Ala.
 When the average person realizes he or she has to die they begin to make preparation to meet their God-some- thing they should have done long be- fore. When q person thinks they have only year to live they will htink of devoting that year in doing some thing great. .s,
 I really do not know what I would do if was assured l. had only one year to live. am sure I would not make any very material change in my present life. If should feel like I do at the present writing, for the next year, and had the power. would make my enemies lead cats life, holding their feet to the fire for three hundred and sixty-four days. The other day and fraction thereof I would devote to writing them invitations to become my pallbearers so they could >get some pleasure out of life, as a consolation for what l had made them ass through
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SOME MORE ANSWERS
Age-Herald Readers nPrize Contest Tell What
 They Would Do In Last Year

steps would be less difficult if were
 a little more unselfish. There are a
 million little faults of others which
 cause me to say unkind words, when an ignored attitude would do worlds of good. The many mistakes and blum ders of the past could be cleared up, where pride has closed the gateway to friendship. Gee, but doctor, you did me worlds of good telling me the facts. Maybe if I lived the life I have in mind, that God will find q way for me to stay little longer, or if not that, who knows, there might be something more wonderful for me across the river. which if had not been warned of, my destiny, I would not have been pre- pared, and there are certainly no miracle performed in the great beyond, unless one has lived life of pnreness, sweetness, unselfishness and loyalty, to- gether with all that it takes to make q. real man, or a real woman.
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knew she could never do it. Would Marthe live on the money so earned :? As La Phalene she would earn suffi- cinet and to spare for the guarantee of Marthe's well-being.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-18
By OLIVE WALLACE 1300 Sarah Ave, Birmingham,

Doctor: My dear Miss-------, you have one year in which to live, what will you do?'
 Dear Doctor, Instead of sinking into the abyss of agony and despair, it has brought me to the realization of life's most opportune moment. Per haps I have been unkind and cross when smile would-have helped. Per hops, too, someone, climbing life's long and rugged highway, their
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What would YOU do7 Enter | solution is best of all.
 In The Ase-Eierald every day. P. P.s.-Whas would you doa
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-21

Grafton by local officials and sup-
ported by state laws, we have every
reason to be proud of the record
made in such short time.
Prohibition has not been drain
on the public purse. The appropri-
alton for enforcement of the prohi-
bition law last fiscal year was So :
$4,000. Fines imposed on con-
victed violators were over $1,000
coo, more than $5,00O,OO0 of which
bas already been collected and
turned into the United States Treas
,ury. Brewers paid into the treas
ury nearly $1,000, 900 last year in
compromise of civil liabilities
against them. To this should be
added the amount of tax penalties
imposed on violators, exact figures
for which are not yet available. The
bootlegger is paying his own fare
to prison. Prohibition is not intend
ed to produce revenue from fines.
It is, however, paying its way in this
respect.
Prohibition has not only repaid
the cost of its enforcement, it has
more than replaced the lest revenue
from liquor licenses by stimulating
legitimate business. Just as work
man can produce more and save
more when he stops drinking. so
ca ma nation. The taxes paid from
the increased productivity of indus
try resulting from the dry law far
exceed any possible revenue from
liquor license.
There is infinitely less drinking
ROW than before prohibition. Ger
tain groups may be drinking more,
but they are small in comparative
numbers.
"To the average thoughtful per.
son argument is not necessary to
prove that enforcement of the pro-
hibition law is effective. Anyone,
anywhere can see for this himself
But there is so much loose talking
and loose writing about this subject
that uniformed and unthinking
people Immediately conclude that
prohibition is responsible for all
the ills of the nation"
"Much has been accomplished,
much remains to be accomplished,
but when it is recalled that as a
nation we have been dealing with
this problem for only four years,
whereas the legalized liquor indus
try flourished for the preceding 143
years of the nations life, the pro-
gress already registered is certainly
noteworthy, and if the successes
could only be stressed as generally
as the instances of partial failure,
the progress would be immeasur-
ably speeded up"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-21

hereby given that an election will
be held at the usual voting place in
the City Hall in the City of Amer
icus, on the fifth day of November,
1924, to determine whether an is
sue of serial bonds in the amount
of sixty thousand dollars shall be
issued by the Mayor and City Coun-
Gil of Americas for the purpose of
street improvement within the city.
The polls will be open at 8 o'clock
a. m. and close at 6 o'clock p. M,
for the purpose of holding this cleo
ton on November fifth, proximo.
Said bonds shall be issued January
l, 1925, shall bear interest at 4
1-2@ per annum, which interest
shall be paid semi-annually on the
first day of January and the first
day of July of each year, after
their issuance. Said bonds shall be
issued in denominations of one
thousand dollars each, two of which
bonds shall be retired on the first
day of January of each year after
their issuance, for period Of
thirty years. The amount of mon
ey necessary TO be collected an
nually by a special levy for this
purpose to pay the annual interest
on this entire issue of said bonds
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-21
Prohibition Paying Cost
OF Enforcement i'm Fines

ing before the convention of the
DAYTON Council of Churches here
recently. "This nufber does not, OF
course, include the many thousands
Of arrests made by state, county
and other local officials. mat rum
Der will no doubt greatly exceed
the arrests made by federal agents.
since there are about quarter OF
million such officers, as compared
with about 1900 federal men. The
prohibition law is no respectcr OF
persons. The wealthy bootlegger
Remus, of Ohio, the socially promi-
nent La Montagnes of New York,
and the politically influential OF
Gary, Indiana, and Pittsburg viola
tors landed in cells just as did their
poor bootlegging brothers.
eve have made it more difficult
for the illicit trade to get supplies
today. The four principal sources
Of supply have been cut off. With
drawals of whiskey on permits are
only about one percent of the con
sumption prior to prohibition, and
very little is escaping into illicit
channels. During the lasg fiscal
year about 100000 gallons of
Whiskey were released fer medicina
purposes. In 1921, the first full
fiscal dry year, there were released
8,671,860 gallons. The augmenta-
ton and increased efficiency of The
coast guard is stopping the tide of
struggled liquors. While legjti-
mate business is using more dena-
tured alcohol than ever, diversions
to the bootleg trade are decreasing
In Philadelphia and New York. two
of the most difficult centers, with.
drawals of specially denatured al
cohol have been cut one third in the
last six months. Much of that di,
verified has been seized and destroy
ed. The practice in some sections
at first prevalent, of making Illicit
liquor in the home, has fcen prac-
tically discontinued, The results
were not worth the trouble. moon.
shining as an illicit trade was
struck some harsh blows during the
last year.
"In the 1925 fiscal year 15S,132
stills and parts of stills and 14,346,
649 gallons of distilled spirits, malt
liquors, wine, cider, ETC., were
seized. In 1924 over 5000 au-
tombiles and more than 230 boats
illegally transporting liquor were
seized. In 1928, 1917 automobiles
end 1874 boats were seized.
"The above figures do not, of
course, include seizures by state
and other local officials. Where
the state shave strong prohibition
laws, our problem is fairly easy
States like New York, Maryland
and Massachusetts,, which have nc
state code, practically invite the
liquor criminals. The federal force
was never intended to police the
United States. Where given coop.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-21
TumuIty Calls Gov.
Walker Charge
False
Continued From Page One,

Continued from rage Onel
every Presbyterian, every Metho-
dist and every other Protestant
church,
Governor Walker refused Monday
night to make any answe" to The
Tnmulty challenge, stating that he
nreferred to "sleep on t." and it
he had any statement to make,
would make it after due considera-
tion today. The governor did not
denv that the text of the khan
speech, as published last week, was
correct, but said that nc was tired
and worn out after a busy day and
did not care to make i statement
Monday night.
Tumulty challenged the governor
to prove his charges before any
board of protestant ministers the
governor may select. He offered
to produce former Secretary of War
Newton D. Baker and any officers
as witnesses in his defense.
1.-The statement of Governor
Walker regarding my alleged war
activities in BEHALF Of the Catholic
church is an unqualified fAlsehood,"
Mr.. Tumulty said in his telegram.
''No member of that church, neith-
err a private in its rang, nor mem
Ter of its priesthood, nor Its hi
erarchy, ever by the slightest sug-
gestion sought to control me in this
or any other matter"
Mr. Tumulty pointed out that if
Methodist, Baptist or Presbyterians
were Disseminated against some of
them ought to be able to tell about
it, and he challenged tne governor
to produce ole Methods, Baptist,
or Presbyterian to do so.
Further" said Mr.. Tumulty, 81
wish to say to Governor Walker that
I am willing 30 meet him face to
face in any part of Georgia and say
to him in Tire presence of his 1wn
people that the charge that the Cath
Ollie church, in the slightest degree
in any way dIrihg nv time in the
white house, sought to influence my
conduct in this or any other matter
is deliberately false"
Mr.. Tumulty referred to the Khan
as "this un-American hooded band
which Governor Walker has seen fit
to associate himself with"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-21
LOST AND FOUND

LOST-A gentleman's tan leather
hand grip containing mans wear
ing apparel, between High school
and Central of Georgia depot, by
way Of Horn and Church streets.
Finder phone 344.-20-3t
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WANTED

WANT TO BUY YOUR PECANs
will pay best cash prices for
Pecans, in any size lots. R. S.
Broadhurst & Co., in front of Post
Office.-7-tf.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-21

and to retire two Of said bonds an
nually will be two thousand dollars
for the purpose of retiring two of
said bonds each year and $2700.00
for the purpose of paying interest
on the entire amount for 1925, the
first year after issuance, and the
amount levied and collected to pay
interest on the unpaid bonds of this
issue will be decreased each year
for the entire period of thirty
years by the sum of ninety dollars,
SO that the last year of said period
of thirty years, to-wit, 1864, suf-
ficient sum to retire the last two
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-21
By Swami

outstanding bonds of this issue
amounting to two thousand dollars
and the interest on SAME, amount
ing to ninety dollars, must be levied
and collected for this purpose.
The registration books for this cleo
ton are now open and will be kept
open until the last Saturday inn
mediately preceding the date for
which the election is herein called
and will be closed at 5 O'CLOCK p.
m. on said last Saturday before the
date of said election.
A. D. GATEW0OD, JR.,
Clerk and Treasurer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-21
NoTICEI

Pursuant to a resolution and ordi-
nance passed by the Mayor and City
Council OF Americas on the second
day of October, instant, calling a
bond election to determine whether
street improvement bonds in the
sum of sixty thousand dollars should
be issued and fixing the date of
said election as the fifth day of Mo-
vember, 1924, notice is therefore
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-21

COLORED WOMEN: A splendid
opportunity to make money. We
need reliable colored women to
serve as agents and offer attrac-
tive line of toilet preparations
which viii make energetic women
good income. Chas A. Smith
Drug Co., Atlanta, Ga. 8-3t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-21
Bootlegger Pays His Own Way
to Prison, Says Commits
sioner Haynes

DAYTON, Oct. 2o.-tBv The AS
ISOLATED Press.)-"Over 1900
bootleggers and moonsnincfs arrest
ed by federal agents last year can
testify that prohibition is being en-
forced" said Federal Prohibition
Commissioner R. A. Haynes, speak
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-21

WANTED PECAN NUTS - High
est market prices paid all va
rieties. Send samples, advising
number pounds. jefferson Farms,
Albany, Ga.-20-5t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-21
Too Late to Classify

NORFOLK SELECT Oysters; Pure
Pork Sausage, Spare Ribs. Veal
and tender Porterhouse Steak. Our
prices are inducing. Bragg's Mar
kct. Phone 1871. 21-1t
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For RENE

FOR RENT-Small 5-rom residence
Forrest street. See George NJ.
Bragg.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-21

WANTED-To buy 1000 bushels
good sound corn in ear. c. j.
Clark, Telephone 303.-18-4t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-10-21

U. S. POSITIONS OPEN-New
post office clerks and city mail
carriers are to be appointed at
Americas as result of a written
civil service exam. on November
Is. Start $1,000. Age Is to as.
Write G. A. Cook, civil service in
structor, 945 Pa. Ave, Washing
ton, D. c., for free information.
-20-3t
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-06-25
Modern Germany a
Victim of DelusiOn

Modern Germany is the victim of
tragic delusion-the delusion of be-
lieving that she still is what she was in
the past The spectacle of postwar Ger
many should teach people everywhere
that exact knowledge and clear think
Ing on racial problems are vital neces-
stiles, while ignorance or Self-decep-
ton in such matters may mean peo-
pies undoing.
Germany's fundamental mistake dur
ing the generation before the great
war lay in misleading history and per-
verting biology-the science of race.
On this basic error the Germans built
up a gigantic delustion which in some
sections of German public opinion
came to amount almost to what in
sanity experts cali mania of
grandeur That phrase just fits the
extreme Pan-German propaganda so
many German professors and publ
cists spread broadcast before and
during the war, which most Germans
swallowed as gospel truth
Describing past glories as present
realities, and juggling racial facts to
fit nationalistic hopes, these propa
gandists preached the amazing doc
trine that the modern Germans were
a chosen people, vastly superior to
everybody else in every respect. The
effect of this doctrine upon German
public opinion was as dangerous as
it was deplorTble. Germans tended
more and more to overrate themselves
and to underrate their neighbors. Los
ing their sense of reality and proper
ton, anything that they keenly de-
sired seemed to be within their pow
er to attain.
Of course, Germany had no mo-
nopoly of such feelings. Prewar Eu-
rope seethed with fanatical national
list propaganda and imperialistic for
eign policies. But prewar Germany
seems to have evolved a peculiarly
high-fown jingoism and to have mix
ed nationalistic and racial ideas into
an especially explosive compound.