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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18
PROSPERITY BRoODs OVER US

With the beginning of the fall bring ing a welcome change from the heated term, there is a perceptible increase in business activity all over the state, with promise of improved industrial and com mercial conditions everywhere. It is encouraging to note, too, that the dam age to crops from the drought was less than was expected, and that yields of the principal crops are considerably larger than was predicted a month or so ago. The increased values constitute a net gain for the Alabama farmer over last year. While some crops suffered from weather conditions, the average |. harvest and the satisfactory prices under Jan increased demand for products grown in this state are reassuring. Certainly there is no cause for Encouragement, and it should be borne in mind that the outlook gives every promise of growing brighter during the rest of the year.
 Even during the dullest season of the summer the building industry in nearly every part of the state has been active, and many projects are planned for the immediate future. Altogether the indus trial record and the activity in public inn provements for the last few weeks have been such as to inspire optimism. Some of the evidences of activity outside of the Birmingham district are enumerated below as typical of the progress made in many parts of the state:
 Many homes have been constructed at Fort Deposit. Plans have been made for the building of fifty house at Prattville. Taxable values in Colbert county in creased a million dollars in the last year. Definite steps were taken to erect a new hotel at Florence representing an
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By DIR. FRANK CRANE

THE most marked trait that distinguishes
 the strong from the weak is the ability
 to see what is essential and what IS non-essential.
 The power of the artist is first of all the power of choice, his ability to select from the bewildering complexities of life the one thing that is meaningful.
 The modern realistic novel lacks this pow CT. All facts are of equal importance. The slop jar in the house is as worthy to be de- scribed as woman's soul. Hence the dreary intolerance commonplaces and the feeling Of ennui, tediousness, and cynicism of the aver age novel published by Tauchnitz
 The cheap reds and yellows of Mrs. Holmes and The Duchess of former day were peter than the sick drabness, the hope lessness and sadness of many modern authors, The former had at least some selective power.
 Every great passion is selective. Love chooses, emphasizes. Religion has the same blessed quality of disproportion.
 Homer, Dante, Victor Hugo, every undying author, has been like the Parthenon at Athens or the Cathedral at Cologne. not like the world is or was but like the world wants to be.
 Men are inspired by soaring ideals; they are deadened by the pitiful commonplace.
 The master merchant differs from the ped dIer chiefly in his power to grasp essentials,
 And the strong, victorious life has the same gift, simply the skill to choose what is worth while
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18
Bessemer, Ala, Sept. g, 1924.
In Praise of St. Augustine

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 I note in today's paper you refer on your sporting page to St. Augustine, Florida, as Sleepy St. Augustine" While I do not reside at St. Augustine am from Florida and want to remind you that the guy who wrote that story is dead asleep. He don't know St. Augustine In the last three yeaars St. Augustines population almost doubled, and Anostasia Island, which is in St. Au- gustine limits on the ocean, has tripled its population. If the people of Birmingham and surrounding section could only realize what magnificent summer resort St. Augustine with its splendid beach that permits at low tide eight automobiles to travel side by side, they would take advantage of the magnificent recreation opportunities this quaint city the oldest in the United States with abundance of historical relics, etc. You have done the progressive, and rapid-growing St. Augustine of Florida gross injustice which am sure you will take brains to correct. I want to say that while you were hot here last sum- mer St. Augustine was delightfully."- cool and the medicinal benefits of ocean bathing, tenn perature almost equal to the atmosphere, is of infinite value in restoring health, vigor and vim. Ponce de Leon, fountain of youth, is there to be taken advantage of.
 GEO. R. HILTY.
 Birmingham, Ala, Sept. 15, 1924.
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investment of four hundred thousand dollars. The contract has been let for the erection of new passenger depot at Opelika to cost ninety thousand dol lars. Tuscaloosa is constructing much street paving. Automobile tags in Tus- caloosa conuty have increased more than twenty per cent. in one year. Etowah taxable values increased about one mill lion and three hundred thousand dollars. The Louisville and Nashville railroad shops increased their mechanical force by fifty employees. Anniston shipped two trainloads of cast-iron pipe to the Pacific coast. The Madison county com missioners announce a program of road construction to cost $175,0O0,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18
THE WOMEN CALL OUT THE VOTE

In no way can the women of this community, this state and the nation better demonstrate their claim to full citizenship than by the campaign now under way to bring out the voters in the November elections. Before the public will can be known the public will must be recorded, and there is no other way provided by law for such record except the ballot box. In the past, cleo tions have been decided, not by a major ity of the qualified voters, but merely by a majority of those who attended the polls. Very few general elections in this country, if any, have been decided by majority of those enjoying suffrage rights. Although we adhere to form of government under which the major ity rules, in reality the minority has decided most of our national questions and elected most of our national off cials. The majority has been major ity not of the citizens but of those who vote, and that in effect is a minority.
 The women are earnestly desirous of changing all that. They are taking the lead in an organized campaign to poll the largest vote in this election that has ever been boiled, and, if possible, to bring it about that the majority of votes cast shall be also a majority of those entitled to vote. This is a worthy en- deavor It deserves the sympathy and support of all the people. This sym pathy and support can be manifested in two ways. First, by voting. Second, by inducing as many others as possible to vote.
 If the women can stir the apathy of the American voter on election day, the wonten will have performed a Signal
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THE TRUE PROGRESSIVE

From my point of view he only deserves to Dc called a progressive who cannot see wrong persist without an effort to redress it. or right denied without an effort to protect 1t; who feels deep concern for the economic well fare of the United States. but realizes that the making of better and better women Is G matter greater still, who thinks of every gov ernmental policy first of all in it's bearing upon human rights rather than upon material thingsi vho believes profoundly in human equality and desests privilege in whatever form or in what ever disguise, and who finds the true test oi success in the welfare of the many and not thu prosperity and comfort of the few. The civic unit of America Is not the dollar. but the in- individual man. All that goes to make better and happier and freer men and women is progress all else is reaction.-JOhn w. Davis
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service to their country. They will have paved the way to those reforms in gov ernment which are essential. They will have opened the opportunity to replace demagogues with statesmen and with earnest, honest and conscientious off cials whose sole purpose is to serve the people of their country to the best of their strength, knowledge and capacity. When the great majority begin to vote, then this country will no longer find itself such an easy prey to those elements that seek to exploit government to their own private advantage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18
Brief Nature Studies
\ HRS. EDNA B. HARPER of Pasadena,
 MI writing from Paradise Wiley. Rainier
By J. OTIS SWIFT.

N HRS. EDNA B. HARPER of Pasadena, V writing from Paradise Valley, Rainier National Park, Washington, says : "Its late for the wealth of wildflowers, but to me the Valley, 5,557 feet elevation, is a delight because of the exquisite coloring and profusion; alpine phlox, penstomen in many colOrs, and Indian paint-brush in two shades, crimson and old rose. Went on a seven-mile hike today, saw snowbanks and climbed over a part of the famous Paradise GlacieE. Some of the party went to Muir cabin, 10000 feet, and spent the night in bowling blizzard.
 "The Swiss guides would not letA them climb to the summit because of the dangers from snow, rock slides and sleet storms. l went to 5000 feet altitude. An alpenstock got me over the steep places and along the crevasse and ice slopes of the peak. At the 5000 feet the lupine and alpine phlOx and gentian grow close to the ground and bloom.
 "A humming-bird came to investigate my bright-colored scarf and the saucy chipmunks and coneys were there"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18
Watching The Parade
By JOHN PILGRIM

N TEET THE MOTHER. Pretty old now. WI Rather feeble. Stopped by the weight
 of many thoughtful, careful, frugal years. Reads everything, even to problem novels. Has her point of view on most things Votes with more intelligence and more conviction than nine out of ten men. The finest and wisest woman I know.
 Mrs. Adams I said to her the other day, lis an old-fashioned girl.'
 The elder Mrs. Pilgrim pursed her lips. She said that she is not at all enamored of the biped commonly referred to as an old fashioned girl. She likes the new-style wom- an, she said. More pep, common sense, real ity, courage.
 Maybe Mrs. Adams is all right" said she. Perhaps she does not fit the old fashioned frame. But I am prejudiced by that phrase
 She said that she has lived long enough to see the styles change in womankind. just as in skirts. When she was a youngster it was a girls duty to catch man. AWhen she to housework If he fell down on the job, if his. salary did not cover the costs, if he drank, gambled, wasted his money--"
 "She stuck to him. said The Mother, grimly. That means that she did not try to help herself or the unfortunate children there were usually a litterfull of unfortunate children-but waited at home If the man ran away she made him pay alimony. Her view of woman's duty was to cook, go to church and be a mother.'
 The Mother likes the new-fashioned girl. She doesn't ask that a girl be a sturdy oak
 But the ivy vine ideal is out" says My Mother.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18
War in Georgia

sanguinary struggle is being waged in the republic of Georgia. After the Kerensky revolution the Georgians obtained their inde- pendance from the Russian state and the bol- sheviks later sanctioned the secession of that section of the former empire. Having sue ceeded in bringing peace and quiet in the remainder of the huge Russian territory, the reds are now turning their attention to ''the reunion of all former states of the empire under one central administration" and red divisions are enforcing the ukase from Moscow against the Georgians. The Ukraine has already been absorbed in the Union of Soviet Republics Georgia, Armenia. Latvia, Esthonia, perhaps Finland and Bessarabia are next on the program. But what be- comes of the vaunted "self-determination for small nations" to which both mensheviks and bolsheviks subscribed? Self-determina- tion for India, Afghanistan and Persia is still advocated in Moscow. But that is a differ ent matter. To advocate independence in those countries makes excellent propaganda and might easily lead to chaos. And chaos and misery are the goal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18
Squalls Of Rain
Jessie Stanford in New York Times)

(Jessie Stanford in New York Times) These be the sunset flowers
 Apollo, the god, doth paint Scarlet and ruby showers
 And simmer of amber faint: These to the Hebean Hours
 Are Bohemian chalices quaint. Slumbrous in these cool bowers
 We. the Utopians, dream: Joyous in Natures dowers,
 This be our song and our theme ;- Laugh when Fortunes brow lowers.
 And quaff of these goblets that gleam. Hold high these chalices gemmed
 Pledge we the dryads and fays: Flora, the queen diademed,
 Rpleth the Hours and the Days: We, at her feet. flower -hemmed, Our loyalty give, and our praise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18
The Lion and the Bear

The constitution has been suspended in the great province of Bengal, British India. In an advanced civilized country this would mean a grave situation. No so, however, in Bengal. The British authorities who gave have taken away. But the natives have not yet found the submissive quality of spirit of Job to add: Praise be to the British name!" As a matter of fact the leaders of the Bengal separatist movement are bringing things to a crisis, Twice they defeated the appropriations for ministerial salaries in the Bengal parliament with the result that their parliament has been prorogued indefinitely and the constitution has been suspended. The separatests want independence from Britain British imperialists call for strong measures They claim it's the policy of the labor gov ernment, which tolerates all kinds of agita- tion in India, that is responsible for the rising tide of opposition to English rule in India. After the war England could not withhold home rule any longer from the vari- ous Indian states and the native leaders accepted autonomy. Now they go a step farther. It's 380.000,000 against 100000 Englishmen in India. But the English have the machine guns. That counts in the final analysis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18
Forum Of The People
According to Isaiah, the Prophet

To the Editor of The Age Herald: Heavenly Conditions Ideal,' says Shades of Northcliff.
 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep and mutter; should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
 To the law and to the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.-Isaiah :19, 20.
 S. T. TRAVIS, Bessemer Ala, Sept. g, 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18
"EIot Dog. All the Wax."

Elegant and chique Parisiennes are start ling the fashionable crowds at Deauville. They not only wear jeweled bands. around their shapely ankles and mascot charms around their neeks, but the latest fashion de- crees ring set with rubies or emeralds- in the nose Africa has a strong influence. The exotic, mysterious influence of the jungle forests seems unacceptable in this modern age that has adopted the weird tom-tom jazz mu- six as it's dearest pet. How long will it be before the cycle of history will give us back the blood-curdling but rather exciting 'voodoo worship? That ought to be an exhilerant diversion for the jaded appetites of those who must be forever stimulated to find amuse- ment. Rings in the nose, rattling- bracelets, faces streaked with war paint, let's not hesi- tate, ladies and gentlemen, to call. in Jen- Jen, god of jungle dwellers and naked sav- ages. We are ready for him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18
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Play by Play Bulletins of Q Defense Day Attack
with New York as the obiective)

8 a. m.-The enemy has begun moving on the city. Defenses are being thrown up everywhere by tired business men and their employees who are determined to save the city from the invader no matter how many lunch con engagements they have to break. Both armies have done their daily dozen and are in wonderful shape for war, even if it lasts all afternoon.
 s :30-Thousands of citizns reported badly injured. They were moving slowly into battle when caught between a large force of pacifist propaganda and a moving mass of army liter ature.
 o'clock-The invading army is attack ing from the air. The air is very hot. It is the largest hot-air attack in history. The fliers are we'll supplied with ammunition, par ticularly with bags of flour and cereal prod ucts.
 early in the engagement. He was struck by a bag of flaked-oats. The gentleman was rushed to the first Red Cross station. He was very indignant and insisted he had ordered oatmeal.
 9:10.-The Aquarium has been struck just behind where Jennie Lind stood. Turtles are in a bad way from shell-shock. There is panic among the Bermuda carp (cereaphyx Aleomandereaux). A bag of baking soda dropped from an enemy plane pierced the roof and landed on the nose of Ignatz, the seal. The seal was still balancing it there at a late hour.
 10 :30-The enemy planes are now over the business district in great force. The finan- cial leaders are showing no interest. They will not recognize any war that does not re- quire billion dollar loan at the outset.
 10 :45.-Wall street is being bombarded with paper darts. Brokers are running for cover. They are under the impression the paper darts are subpoenas in new cru- sade by the district attorney. The war ref cree has announced that the attack has shown that the Stock Exchange could be wiped out in ten minutes. A pale, dishevelled looking operator who had just lost $1OO,O00 in the automobile stocks, is demanding to know why the, devil the idea isn't carried out.
 F :3O.-An enemy squadron is over the Woolworth Building. It dropped four bags of Pillsbury flour. The flour fell into one of the offices. But the attack was failure as none of the stenographers could bake a cake.
 12 :45.-A large detachment representing the American Pacifist Society and Civil Liberties Bureau has been practically wiped out through it's own hysteria. F. M.-The defending army has drawn up resolutions thanking the government for not holding the war on a Saturday when it would have interferred with the musical comedy matinees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18
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The Good Old Days

Tno G0Od Old Days
 (By Captain Kidd) I know young folks are prone to scout My so-called moss-back ways; To sheer when'er I talk about The good old-fashioned days. They say old fogles such as l Should thank our stars that we Enjoy the marvels, ere we die, Of this great century. When you were young" my nephew says,
 As he goes out to jazz, "You didn't have advantages The modern fellow has. You had no movies, submarine,
 No auto or the 'plone; No radio or screw machine,
 Not Hot Dog or ice cream cone. Aha! Young man, that may be true, I gleefully reply, But when courted May or Sue The most had to buy Was five cents worth of lemonade; Or candy sticks would do. Just try that with a modern maid; Go on, dare you .to!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18
OBVIOUS DECISION

Restaurant keepers have decided to ask their patrons not to eat too much, and soon the automobile salesmen may be telling custo- mers not to run their cars faster than the laws allows.-Indianapoli News
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Having exhausted his list of possible calamities to the country, MT. LaFollette may be excused for not including one of the greatest that might happen-the suc- cess of the Third Party ticket.
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Chauffeur" being too professional, the wordsmiths are looking for term to desig- nate a man who drives his own car. It is safe to say that the terms used by pedes- trians will not be accepted-Little Rock Gazette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18

A Massachusetts court has decided that pedestrian does not have to jump out of the way of an automobile. Un- fortunately, however, the decision will not cover the hospital bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18

The vacation season having drawn to close, vendors of souvenir postcards may figure on the profits they received from pictures of Sleeping under blank cts every night"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18
POPULAR CANDIDATE

Henry Ford has started a spirited discus sion as to what constitutes New England breakfast. We vote for ham and eggs as the piece de resistance.-Co Monitor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18

It is hoped that the presidents forth coming decision on the tarifs to be paid on one of the most generally-used arti- cles of food will be something more than a sugar-coated pill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18

Again the consumer is puzzled: last year the high price of coal was attributed to a strike; this year it is said to be caused from the absence of strike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18

There are many folks who opposed na. tional defense day, but who didn't hesi. tate to run for cover when the emer- gency was on.
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ITS FAME ASSURED

The home run of the American world girdling aviators will be remembered long after those of Babe Ruth ct al, are for- Journal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18

The theory that the hand that rock the cradle rules the world does not appl! when it can't control the inmate of tn, cradle,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18

It appears that the presidential cam. paign will have to postpone making hit until the worlds championship is fin. ished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18
Radio Applause Cards"
lRxK. A. Riabeel

By K. A. BlsDee)
 Station XYZ. Just line to thank you for the wonderful weather report we heard from your station last evening. Your method of giving us a different bulletin each night is very gratifying, and I am sure your friends appreciate the effoxts you make to give us change in the weather.-A Friend.
 Station WAC. Thanks for your talk on "When to Start The Garden" My wife and both love to work in it. I have already planted two easy chairs in a shady spot. One for myself, and one-for my feet-A. Lazee.
 Station BILLS. Your talk on how to keep out of debt couldn't be beat. After listen ing to the hints, started a family budget. While working on it, lost three days work, and this is to ask where I could borrow enough money to buy the book on Thrift that was mentioned-Anxious.
 Station PDQ. The talk you gave last night on how to cook bisquits was very much ap- preciated. My wife followed the instructions, and baked a pan. One I am using as a weight to keep my radio programs together, and the rest will come in handy to fire at the birds that like to perch on my aerial- A Groom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18

If the choice were left to me. whether to have free press or 8 free government, l would choose a free press.-Thomas Jeffer- son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18

Another battle is announced on the program of the Chinese civil war out break, weather permitting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18
Her Fad
k1oE r8u She is strnnr fnr nrnrciaa

She is strong for exercise
 And over sports she does not finger, But you will find to your surprise
 How she winds men around her finger.- Stella Johnson.
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We'll Say So

Tip: "The modern girl is economical in her clothes, if she IS extravagant in other ways"
 Top: How do you figure that out?"
 Tip: Well, take her skirts and evening gowns, for instance. Doesn't she make little go a long way?" Willard Fox.
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Proof

Customer: q don't like to trade in a place that contains so many flies.
 Butcher: But you see they are attracted by the good food keep.'-R. H.
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Victorious Defeat

Mrs. Crabshaw: You'd better take Willie to the dentist and have that aching tooth pulled.p
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NEW WORD WANTED

Crabshaw: He saved me the trouble He's just been in fight."-James O'Connell.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-18

0 o'clock.-The invading army is attack ing from the air. The air is very hot. It is the largest hot-air attack in history. The fliers are we'll supplied with ammunition, par ticularly with bags of flour and cereal prod ucts.