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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06
VERSES AND REVERSES

Some Talker Success in married life depends A great deal on ability To answer questions that arise Correctly, with agility. Is there a man who's smart enough Convincingly to talk to her And show his wife why she can't dress As we'll as his stenographer?
 Willard M. Baxter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06
The Wedding

She's very good at dumbbell lifting And she can fence and she'can box; A heavy chest is easy shifting And she can climb the steepest rocks. She's great at one game or another And keeps at it for hours long, But when it comes to help mother, She can not for she isn't strong!
 Il. A. Lockwood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06
THE ACE-HERALD
nDERICK L THOMPSON. PRESIDENT

Entered at Birmingham. Ala. post office as sec snd-olass matter. act of Congress. March (. 1873.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

NEWS BUREAU-washinEton. 800 Davidson i, Building; State Capital Montgomery Journal Building; Tennessee Valley. Decatur Daily Building; Tuscaloosa News Building; Jasper Mountain Eagle Building: Annfston. Star Build anx: oadsden. Journal Building: Muscle shoalA Zrt-Ciies Daily Building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

Far Behind In Roads. Property values in California, North Carolina and Florida have doubled and tribbled since they began to put their good roads policy into effect Alabama has many things that California and Florida will never have. Ours is the richest state in the union, considering natural wealth and resources, but we are far behind the process sion, mainly because of our poor roads, Gadsden Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

No Incentive To WOrk.-Mr. Coolidge car hope to accomplish little with the lame duck congress in the short session. This congress has already struggled with farm relief prob. lens, with indifferent success, and has flatly rejected most of the recommendations made by Mir. Coolidge. The flame ducks" will have no incentive to bestir themselves.-So far al they are concerned the game is played out.- Mobile Register.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-06

Should Be No Backward Step.-Road con- ditions in Madison county-generally speak ing-are better at this time of the year than they have been for good long while. We farmers were entitled to this much, and, now that we have them, let's make it so that there will be no backward step in this progressive direction.-Huntsville Times.
The broad ax., 1924-11-15
Once MGleUOIent, NoD
Made to SerUe Mankind

Some of the most useful of the gifts
OF science were first revealed to man
kind IN a malevolent rather than a
benevolent aspect, London Tit-Bit OBJ
serves. But even the most destructive
agencies may in the course Of time be
brought into the constructive service
of the human race
Steel, mans most useful metal. made
its appearance In the form of swords
and spearheads for the killing of man.
Now we employ 1t for the skeletons
OF skyscrapers and steamships.
Petroleum was first employed as
Greek fire. for setting ships ablaze
Now ii Is employed, among other
things, as fuel for the propulsion Of
ships
Many Of our modern medicines were
used BY savages for poisoning their
arrow points Strychnine and aconite
had this iIl-omened origin. Another
arrow poison, obtained by the savages
from cassava juice, Is hydrocyanic
acid, which In the hands Of the modern
metallurgist extracts nine-tenths OF the
gold supply Of the world
Arsenic. which during the Renais-
sanee was the fashionable means Of
poisoning people. is now used for the
more laudable purpose Of poisoning
plant pests and the parasites of man.
The broad ax., 1924-11-15

tube are stopped by touching the grid
terminal OF the circuit with the finger.
The stabilIzing condenser IL adjusted
80 that no pIucking noise or click IA
heard when grid terminal is touched
with the finger. When the stabilizing
condenser Is once adjusted (and this
adjustment il not difficult to obtain
since the setting IL not critical one
II the device IL properly constructed),
1t ordinarily need never be touched
again.
In order that tuning be made easy
the "clarifler'' tuning dial may be
calibrated against the receiving set
and then later both II and the receiver
may he calibrated for various wave
lengths by jotting down the positions
where each station IL found. II may
be calIbrated against the receiving set
by coupling the output coil near the
grid tuning condenser in the "clari-
fer" one or two clicks will be heard
In the receivers when the two circuits
are In tune with each other. II the
construction has been properly carried
out II will be found that the adjust
The broad ax., 1924-11-15
CoUe That Furnished
Solomon With Stone

SOlOmOn's cave. an old quarry from
which the stone was taken to build
Sol0mOn's temple, Is situated just out
side OF Jerusalem, In the hills OF
Judea. All that is left Of the temple
Is the idea embodied in model Of
it. On its site stands the Mosque OF
Omar. But the cave remains I'M
changed. It's walls echOins voices from
out the ages and bearing testimony
to the foundation Of a grand and glO-
rious temple which symbolized as well
as dated the foundation Of the Ma
sonic lodge, says a writer In the Chris
tian Science Monitor.
In the early days the laws Of re-
HgiOn and philosophy and those Of
architecture were very closely united
in thought, and 1t was held that these
laws were secrets to be known only to
the few. The working tools Of the
builder became emblems Of moral
truth and the arts and crafts were
secrets jealousy guarded. There must
have been a secret order Of architects
who built the Temple Of Solomon, and
who opened friendly commercial rela-
tions with foreign nations, making Of
the organization an international fra
tarnity. Great material help was given
BY Hiram / of Tyre and the society Of
Phoenician architects in the construc-
ton Of the temple
When Diocletian began his reign he
determined TO destroy Christianity and
began the persecution Of all religious
secret orders For time the builders,
owing to their value and services to
the state, were exempt from these laws
OF suppression and enjoyed special
privileges, but gradually they were
foFcvd into more and more secrecy.
taking refuge in caves and secluded
places TO hold their meetings.
The broad ax., 1924-11-15
Good Stories Golfers
Tell Of Royal Game

In 1921 on the course at Kirkfield,
Ontario, p. McGregor and ri. Dowie
were all-square going to the home hole
In the final, and when they reached
the green McGregOr needed to sink
long putt to win the match. He
played the ball cIeverly, but it rolled
around the lip Of the hole. II seemed
to have stopped. when large grass
hopper landed squarely on the core
and caused 1T to drop into the hole and
decide the match in faver Of Nc
Gregor.
Crows and sea-gulls frequently carry
Off golf balls. sometimes dropping the
ball actually on the green, stroke
Of fortune for the player, and 1t is
quite d common incident a COW swal-
lowing golf ball.
A golfer at Newark in May. 1907,
drove the ball into the river. The bali
struck a trout two pounds in weight
and killed It.
The Montreal yarn about the squir-
rel that stole and hid sixty-odd golf
balls against hard Canadian winter
Is more than matched by report from
Z. r. Dickover, American consul at
Kobe, Japan In commenting on the i'm
creasing popularity Of gold In Japan,
Consul Dickover tells solemnly Of the
crows that infest the links Of the Mike
club and make away with the balls
even those sticking to the fairways.-
Golfers Magazine.
The broad ax., 1924-11-15

In 1904, after the st. Louis EXPOSE
lion, one or the African pygmies exhib-
tied there was stranded In New York
81 his way home. He finally got a
TO in a Coney Island restaurant, but
soan lost 1t. and was near starvation
when d person interested in bis plight
asked DR.. w. 7. Horuaday, curator Of
the ZOO. to give him work, says the Bos-
ton Transcript. The pygmy was set
to work cleaning and tending the mon
key cage, and later was promoted
70 the bear cage He was happy
and cheerful, but SO slow that 1t took
haa half q day to clean the cage. II
was not long before he became an
object Of greater interest than either
the bears or monkeys, and an in
genISus person conceived the idea OF
placing d sign on the front Of the
cage anring the hours he spent there,
announcing that he was .. specimen Of
homo sapiens.
The fellow was not left untr0ubled
long. however. for the New York
Times learned Of the practice and
started righteous agitation against
such indignity to a poor pygmy and
thus to the human race and quickly
interested the negro welfare societies.
AT their protest he was discharged
and, after wandering southward from
one III treatment to another. he com
mitted suicide.
The broad ax., 1924-11-15
Mirage Produced BY
Passage or Light Rays

The mirage is an optical illusion In
which images Of distant objects are
seen as II inverted or raised in the
air, says the Detroit News. This phe-
nomen0n was first explained BY a
Frenchman who went with Napoleon
On his FIRST expedition III Egypt, where
mirages are very common.
The phenomenon IS due to the rays
Of light being changed in their direc-
ton when passing through colder or
hotter strata OF air. Layers Of air In
contact with the surface Of deserts be-
come greatly expanded and rarefed,
while those Immediately above remain
denser. thus causing the light rays to
be bent upward. However, over water
the condition IL just the reverse. The
layers above are warmer than those
next to the water. When an object apr
pears to be lifted above its real posi-
ton In the phenomenon it Is called
looming. Ia the case OF looming the
reelection II from the sky while In or
binary mirage it il from the earth.
Mirages are common In Egypt, Persia,
Turkestan, California. Nevada and
Alaska.
The broad ax., 1924-11-15
HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN
Active Candidate for Speaker Of the House Of Representatives
and it Looks Though He is Real Live Winner


Grief was greatly beloved by Charles
Reade, who said: sThe habitable globe
possesses no more delightful spot than
Crieff."
But the district is not only charm
ing; 1t is also Of hoary antiquity.
Stone and bronze instruments, records
Of a bygone age, have been found
there. ATuthiIl. three miles from Grief,
Is the site where tn Roman legions
under Agrfcola defeated the British
leader, Galgacus, and thirty thousand
men. The earls paIatine Of STathearn
Headers OF the Celtic party in Scot
Iand-tribal kings in their own right.
held courts at Grief from the earliest
time Of which We have any record, but
modern Grief may be said to date its
rise from the opening Of the first rail-
way IN lS56.-LOndOn Post
The broad ax., 1924-11-15
80 FoIIowed Ogner

Hogs usually are neither intelligent
nor companionable. but like other ami
mails they do not always run true TO
type. In moving from one farm to
another, perhaps ten miles away, ME.
Turner, a farmer Or the Kentucky
hITls. decided, writes a contributor to
The Youths Companion. to leave bis
herd Of forty swine In an open Geld at
his old home until the following morn
ing when he would return for them.
Next morning he was up early Ia his
new house. making preparations for
the ardHous task Of driving before him
over rough mountain roads two score
hogs. any or ali Of which might prove
refractory. But when he emerged from
the house into the front yard imagine
his establishment at seeing his hogs.
ali forty Of them. standing before him
at the gatei
We're the hogs 50 much attached to
their owner that they followed him 10
his new homer Or did they follow the
trail of the farmers cattle7 The own
er and all the neighborss too, were
completely mystifed.
The broad ax., 1924-11-15

Honeybees turn on the heat In their
apartment houses at 81 degrees Fab
renheit, says the Journal Of Pharmacy.
When 1t gets that cold, they form a
compact spherical cluster.
Bees on the inside OF the ball be-
come active and walk, wiggle and beat
their wings 10 generate heat. The
outer shell W the cluster Is made up
Of bees that cuddle close and stay still.
They furnish the insulation which pre-
vents the escape Of heat 50 effectively
that there may be 70 degrees differ
ence between the inside and the out
side only four and ine-half inches
away
Thousands Of dollars are lost to
American beekeepers every year. how
ever. by bees working themselves to
death in keeping warm this way.
The broad ax., 1924-11-15
"Chan1eleon Lakes

II Is well known that the water OF
many lakes exhibits characteristic
colors. Lake Geneva. al the western
end Of Switzerland. il blue, while
Lake Constance. ut the eastern end
Of that country. Is green Blueness
Implies purity, since the natural color
of water IL blue. A green lake has
It's water slightly clouded with Impur-
tiles.
II Is said that green lakes some
times become absolutely col0rless for
a time. and II has been found that
this sudden change Of hue Is due to
the washing into the lakes Of mud
colored red by oxide OF iron. Red IL
complementary to green, and the re-
suit Of the mixture is that the green
color Of the water becomes for the
time being neutralized.
The broad ax., 1924-11-15
.sTo WaEk Spanish,

TO make a person walk Spanish" Ia
70 make him come up 10 time. or to
make him act under compulsion. 1t re-
fers to the old sport among boys III
which one boy seizes another BY the
collar and the seat Of the trousers and
forces him along on tiptoe. Hence
BY extension. 1t means to walk ginger
ly Apparently the expression origi
naIly referred to the manner In which
the Spanish pirates used to handle
their prisoners while starting them out
On the plank Exchange.
The broad ax., 1924-11-15

By RALPH RATrHER

9E nG@FWN ~ sN@T
The honeycomb coll must be tapped
as near the center as possible, In con-
structIcn OF the radio frequency unit
known AZ the ''clarIt1er" described
last week. Careful inspection Of the
sides or the coil should be made and
the approximate center turn located.
This turn should be pulled out very
slightly and d lead soldered on.
The photographs and circuit dia-
gram indicate the best way TO as
semble the parts, and indicate much
better the CONSTITUTIONAL details than
can be done In a short description
The turns on the tuning coil may
be wound In either direction and If
desired the size and shape Of this coll
need not be exactly that shown, but
the portion connected across the tun-
ing condenser should have an induc-
lance or approximately $50 millinery
IL for any reason the shape must be
changed.
An extra binding post IL furnished.
connected directly to the grid, TO en-
able the use or very short antenna
II long one IL not available.
The output coll IL completely en-
closed In case to prevent damage 70
the leads, and to prevent the ''B" bat
terry from being short-circuited. Since
this coil case IL somewhat difficult TO
construct, the builder OF this unit
should take particular pains to pro-
vide suitable connections TO this coil
which are protected from breakage-
Carefully wrapping the terminals with
tape will ordinarily be sufficient. III q
spider-web con having about 80 turns
OF wire with tap on the middle turn
Is more convenient 1t may be used
instead OF the honeycomb coil. A
good coil may be made with two wires
wound in parallel on spider-web frame,
each winding having 40 turns OF wire.
The outer end OF one winding should
connect 10 the inner end Of the other
and to the center tap. flexible two
conductor cord should be provided to
connect the output coll with the rest
OF the circuit.
The center tap Of the output coli Ia
connected with flexible cord TO the
plus terminal OF the b battery. which
should have the voltage recommended
for the tube to be provided. for am
pllfier use. This coil may be laid on
top or inside the cabinet OF the
main receiver whichever Is nearest the
grid coil Of the detector tube.
1t 10 to be noted that no ground
connections are necessary on this
The broad ax., 1924-11-15
To Use House Lighting
Circuit for an Aerial

The lighting circuit In your house
can be used effectively as an aerial
for receiving purposes by using one
wire OF the line. The accompanying
illustration shows one simple method
by which this can be done. third
wire Il twisted around the lamp cord
and one end Of 1t IL attached to the
aerial binding post OF the receiving set.
The effect Is the same as a direct con-
nection, as the third wire forms a
condenser. The rubber insulation Oh
the wires acts as the dielectric and the
two wires in close proximity to each
other as the plates OF the condenser.
The capacity Of the arrangement may
The broad ax., 1924-11-15

View OF the interior OF the Ciarlfler,
ment required for a particular wave
length Il constant from day to day.
It will be found that the signal In
tensity il greatly improved since the
device seems TO be particularly ef-
ficient radio frequency ampliher.
Although one tuning dial has been
added It will be found that tuning IL
much easier than before. This il due
to the fact that the adjustments OF
single circuit receiver often change
from time to time depending on the
position OF the ticker coil or plate
variometer and changes In antenna
constants. In this new plan the re-
sistance In the grid circuit Of the de-
tector tube ID much lower since the
antenna resistance IL no longer In
cluded, therefore. regeneration i much
easier controlled and II not as critical
MS before. The lower resistance In the
grid circuit OF the detector tube In
creases selectivity remarkably. Tests
have shown II very much superior to
double circuit regenerative receivers
In this matter. wave trap or filter
IS not needed since this radio fire.
quency unit win do the work instead.
There should be no necessity for re-
ceiving any signals on zero beat meth
Cd 50 the quality Of the received sig
nails IL also improved and there need
be no squeals In the receivers or loud
speaker. All these items are conducive
II greater distance reception, SO the
device seems well worth while, even
II the receiver radiation item il not
considered.
The broad ax., 1924-11-15
FeD III .es In Cities

When the small boy saw colt, while
on summer outing, he said ruefulIy,
Who pulled his rockers offf'' 1t will
soon become necessary for illustrators
to include the horse and COW In the
animal book from which the average
child gets his knowledge Of the world
about him. since not one youngster Ia
q thousand sees horse in the city
When a child comes TO the word car
rage in story. It must BE- explained
TO him d chariot and litter Or howdah
are explained, since he never sees one
unless 1t be- iii the motion pictures.
The broad ax., 1924-11-15

In using compression type rheostats
X may be found inconvenient to turn
the knobs 50 much to light the tubes.
There are two ways or eliminating
this. Either use a battery switch or
place wire wound rheostst in paral-
lei to the compression one. BY SO do
Ing Il u possible to use the wire wound
rheostat on local stations and to use
the finer control on distant stations.
The broad ax., 1924-11-15

Picture q place OF inky darkness
and Intense cold; q region to which
the rays OF the sun never have pen
etrated; a barren waste seemingly I'M
ending bereft OF vegetation and air.
with oozy slopes inhabited By queer,
crawling creatures; a place where no
man could exist for an instant, where
no work Of man could be placed with
out being crushed to shapeless use
iessness under a weight greater than
an the mountains Of the earth.
Most OF our globe II like that. for
that Is the bottom Of the sea, as pic
iured by modern science, writes Ray
mond j. Brown In the Popular Science
Monthly.
In round numbers the earth's surface
consists Of 57.0OO000 square miles OF
land and 140.O0OOOO square miles Of
water These figures. however, give
but d vague idea Of the real immensely
OF the vast, marvellous sea.
The average depth Of sea Is Ave
times greater than the average height
Of land above sea level ever the whole
earth. the average depth OF the sea
being more than two and one-half
miles, while the average height Of land
is half mile. If Mount Everest. tall
est mountain on earth, Eve and one
half miles high. were dropped into one
Of the deepest parts OF the ocean, Its
summit would be submerged by more
than half a mile. In fact II all the
land could be leveled of flush with the
sea, and all the debris dumped ia the
water, the sea could scarcely be
changed at all. There stiH would be
an ocean one and three-fourths miles
deep.
The broad ax., 1924-11-15

Clarifier.
unit since the regular ground il to be
left on the receiver itself. The an
tenna IL disconnected from the re-
ceiver and connected to this circuit.
The antenna and ground binding posts
on the receiver are to be connected
together on single circuit receivers
such al the Grebe GRO or CR-14. On
double circuit receivers these posts
may be connected together also, III II
Is found BY experiment that there II
an improvement BY SO doing.
II remains to be shown how the bal
anced output circuit OF this tube ii
adjusted and how the sclarffiers II TO
be used In practical cases After the
connections have been made to this
device, the tube Is turned on TO nor
NAL brEllEancy. The receiving set IL
adjusted to a low waye-length. such az
about 300 meters and q pair or re
ceivers or loud speaker connected as
usual. The antenna and ground bind
ing posts on the receiver are con
nected together. The balance In the
radio frequency tube Ii obtained BY
adjusting the small variable condenser.
This adjustment can be made In
several ways.
Set the receiver dials to receive
signals from some broadcasting sta
ton. When the tuning condenser rs
swung around 1t viii at some position
be In tune also with the incoming
signals. n the "cIarifer" tube III o.
cillating. the pitch OF the notes re-
ceived win change a. IT'S tuning con-
denser is swung In and out OF tune. re-
this tube ID not oscillating the inten-
sIty OF the signal win change but not
the pitch. Since II IL desired to stop
all oscillations in this tube the small
stabilizing condenser IL adjusted until
the intensity only IL changed. when
the tuning condenser II varied.
Another method consists or utilizing
the feature that all oscillations In u
The broad ax., 1924-11-15
japanese cleDer

The Javanese natives have q great
love for music. Some 81 their musical
instruments are very Ingenious In APP
penrance and pleasant to listen To- One
"a them, which Is called gameIan, Is
4 sort or native orchestra, composed
chiefly Of gongs sounded IN various
cadences SO as to produce d very sweet
melody. with an accompaniment Of
wind and string Instruments. A bam-
boo instrument called the anklung Ii
also very popular This i shaken BY
The broad ax., 1924-11-15
Roaster ssTaken DorUn,,

on a football field man with
loud voice was Boosting to a party
Of admiring youngsters OF the doughty
deeds he had done on the football field
In days gone BY. Suddenly he turned
his attention to the band.
"Ahr he observed, those fellows
play decently, but they've fallen off
terribly since / was a member Of the
band.
What r. CALCULATED S-e Of his hear
ers. You played with that lot?"
Certainly" was the reply; Il was
with them for years"
The crowd reared and the boastfuI
one hastily retired on learning that
the band In question was composed Of
harmless inmates OF the local lunatlc
asylum Edinburgh Scotsman