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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

Finally, don't forget thai sunzA.e+ ts no alibi for stiffness Be 6 zble Ns never regret it
 DOROTI ' DIX
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

Don't let them take liberties with you in the summer that you would resent in the winter. Human na- ture is the same all the year round. Don't let any one snapshot you in a familiar attitude will men It may be just flu at t-. time, but it will look COT qroan at Christmas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04


 thc4tEd 9n<wex the ezn Of the w1fds
 the bsAbked jump the bars, and uR-
 der the inffueneN of q midsummer
 EadneSS we commit f0IIieS that we
 spend the balance 0F Tne year re-
 penrIRg and praying that our fam
 lily and friends wiu never find 0ut.
 So it behoores us to wateh our steps in the good o1d Summex-time and wall warily among it's pitfalls. and here arV few d0lats that I hang like red Ian terms along fits Eas* dangerous curves
 Fer the MzrrIed woman:
 D4n't park y0gr wedding ring at h0ms when Y0u StzKt off on your summer vacation vIth0Ht your husband O1 e9urse. wken Eeu are eff among xtrzRSeEs 1t is a temptation to see y0w have any of the bait left at whieE the fish uzed to nThhIe in shoals bef0rt YU1 were E4rrlea : of course, you arS hungry for r0zaRee, and it certainly wUw4 sound good to have some man making real. k0E. sizzling love to ye1 under a sumner moon, InS4gad of just having to take it for granted that the E2n yGW are tied to still cares for youI beczuze he sEiM pays your bills with only a reasonable amount of grumbling
 Of eGUrse, y01 still have your giEfish figure and are eaSy G1 the eyes, bui F0u have gut great big children, and you Em0w thzt ygu are slipping, and that thls is your last eaW to the dining car
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

But summer is a good time for a wife to keep her eye on her hus- band if she desires to hold on to him. He, too, is feeling gay and giddy, and is lonesome and un- comfortable at home. When the wife is away the husband will play, and it is no trouble at all for him to find a playfellow who is about half the wife's age and twice her pulehritude.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04


 ID ESIDES the five senses that most D people have in mind, namely, sight
 hearing, taste, smell and touch, there are these: Pain, heat, cold, equilibrium, kinaesthetic (muscle) and organic. The muscle sense is found in small bits of receiving apparatus found in the muscle flores, and the organic sense has receptors in the heart, lungs, stomach, .intestines and glands. There are even receptors in the joints but these are usually considered as part of the kinaesthetic sense organs.
 If you want to go on you may think of some of these as again subdivided --as, for instance, sight, into color, brightness, spatial, and so on and the organic sense also might be subdivided into as many senses as there are or gans which by their contractions or expansions have the power of inffu- encing other organs or parts of the body.
 We have now come to consider the organic and kinaesthetic as more inn portant than sight and hearing. The emotions are caused by disturbances of the viscera (the stomach, intes- tines, heart, lungs, glands, and so on ), and it is due to them that life is view ed through rose-colored glasses or oth- erwise.
 Man is not the creature of reason that the earlier psychology would have us believef he is not a god whose nod causes the world to rock on its axis, but an animal-yes, Q machine-re- spending to stimuli in just the same way that the little, toy dog with selen- ium cells for eyes will follow around the pocket flashlight of the expert menter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

The whole idea of an engagement is to give that couple a chance to know eadh other. Either party has a perfect right to change his or her mind. IL is much better to change one's mind be- fore entering into q civil contract which can only be dissolved by the cOurkR.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

spoiled by the Philistines, for the summer is when the adventures and the vamp get in their work. and many a man pays blackmail the balance of his life for q bit of silly season asininity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

Don't exhibit the family skele- ton Don't deluge yourself with the idea that it is safe to tell a per feet stranger your secrets because she lives a thousand miles from where you do. The railroads are still running and the postoffice functioning, and the chances are that she knows your dearest enemy, who will take pleasure in spread ing the scandal about yourself that you started.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

The woman who sues a man for breach of promise admits that she never loved him. She wanted him as a neal ticket or means of livelihood. Having lost this support she attempts to get money out of him by resorting to the Jaw. If she had loved the man who tilted her she could not publish her an- guish to the world. She would foek it in her heart as one of Gfe's tragedies and hope that time would bring to her that happiness she thought for the mo- mene she had grasped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04
Man Is Creature Of More Than
 Five Senses

"In one of your recent articles you stated that tliere were many more than five senses. Win you please tell me what they are?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

Don't brag. Don't discourse about your butler, and your French chauf- feur, and your imported cars, and your box at the opera. People who are used to living luxuriously do not feel called upon to advertise the fact. Don't say that the reason you came to q cheap hotel is because you were tired of the fashionable life and wanted to get back to nature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

"Will you please say a few words about the importance of memory? My daughter is IS years old, and she says that she does not care to become a parret, learning things out of a book just to recfte them back to 8 teacher. How can I make her see the importance of learning some things bx heart?"
 MRS. E. G. H.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

Don't babble. Because you sit all day on the gallery of a summer hotel em- broidering with other women, don't let your tongue run away with you. Don't tell them the story of your life. Don't tell them that you are not happy with your husband, and that you can't man. age your children, and about your hus- bands business affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

Now if to Mir. and Mrs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04
We Women
The Right To Change

IF a California girl proposes t0 q
 man during the present leap. ysar,
 and then sees fit to break off all diplomatic relations without written or oral communication on the subject for a year she cannot be held for breach of promise. This ruling has just bean put into effect in California.
 There ought to be a national law against breach of promise by wither a man or & woman. It grieves me to stats that it is generally the woman wh0 re sorts to this and rarely the man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-04

Don't say that the reason you wear no jewels is because your pearls were so valuable you put them in your husbands safe. You do not deceive any one. Every wo- man has your number and you merely make yourself ridiculous.
 Don't stay away from home too long. You are entitled to a vacation. So is your husband. It will do you good to be parted for q little time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03

is widely regarded as one of the most important. Anyone who fails to ap- preciate the influence of newspapers in advocating all great and worthy enterprises affecting the community, state or national interests and welfare might recall the vital, the indispensa- ble, part they played in the World War.
 Thus the importance of educating newspaper men to think honestly, in- telligentIy and uprightly in terms of the public welfare, and of training them to present their news, their views, in accurate, faithful, clear and impressive manner, may be readily seen. And what better environment and influence to carry on this great work than where the honor system is so firmly fixed and so scrupulously observed that only the price-mark is needed to protect merchant from being defrauded?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
SUITED TO JOURNALISM

{. At recent luncheon to consider a 1. Tfepd for school of journalism at | ssW ashington and Lee University in " memory of General Robert E. Lee, an
 . s1nmnus of that institution said that
 during his impecunious college days he
 asked the faculty to permit him to es- :1s tablish a little store on the campus s=sseafrying in stock such things as soft ' 'asAf4nks, tobacco, sporting goods, collar z:sbdttons and other popular articles. EAS[ His request was granted, but soon he 1fo1hd that he could not spare the time s;zs from his studies to run the store, so -4EaBe agreed to the suggestion that he fApply the college honor system to the 1FT<husiness. The ice man delivered the ite and tore off the proper tickets in 5 payment. The soft-drink man brought t his. orders, collected his "empties" and t paid himself in like manner. Students got what they wanted at the prices marked and rang up their purchases
 nm the cash register. "I did enough abgsiness to meet my necessary college
 s.sxpenses, and never lost penny from
 'sfailure by anyone to observe the
 hghor system" said the speaker.
 SnHefe is the lesson: In an atmos- phere and environment of that kind E is%a suitable field for incalcating the ~ iAeais of journalism. That profession
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03

deny that the leases were ever the subject of general cabinet discussion.
 The real point at issue, however, from . public viewpoint, according to the Chicago News, is the necessity or expediency of these leases. The News concludes: "Too much suspicious se- crecy surrounded those peculiar trans actions. Just what the government ex- perts or independent men. of science testified concsrning the alleged dan- ger that the reserve oil would bs drained away. by private interests is not known even to congress. The leases, and the original arguments for and against them, require candid, dis passionate, non-political restudy and consideration" Many other papers, as, for example, the Nashville Banner, call for an immediate cancellation of the leases, pending the various .inqui- ries. In spite of the fact: that the president has asked his attorney gen eral and his secretary of the navy not to resign under fire, the Louisville Courier-Journal thinks that the ap- pointment of special counsel for the government indicates lack of con- fidence in the attorney general, who would never have been Coolidge's choice for, the office"
 It is evident that the press gener- ally, while not definitely making the charge except in . few instances, is morally convinced that there were graft and crooksdnsss somewhere in the history of the leasing of these re- serves. Even, those editors who are not 50 inclined are concerned over the withdrawal of these reserves from the navy and their commitment to private exploitation without . more general knowledge that such ttansactions were taking place and without their advisa- bility being more carefully and pub licly considered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
SHOULD MAKE. USE
 OF MUSCLE SHOALS
(Kansas City Star)


 It would no doubt be relief to the public to have the Muscle Shoals question settlted definitley. For years there has been disens- sion of the problem, announcements of what congress would do and would not do, of what offers had been made for the property and what its possibilities were. But aside from that situation there are two considerations that warrant early and businesslike action in this matter. 2
 First of all, there is enormous power at Muscle Shoals. Hydro elertric energy may be developed there at a maximum of close to one million horsepower. That power soon will be harnessed. It should be set to use. Past delay in deyel. opment, some of it unwarranted, has represented shameful waste. Use of the power would mean the estab- lishment of new industries in an ex- tensive region, employment to thou. sands of persons and the develop ment of resources hitherto idle.
 Again, the production of nitrateU at low cost, certainty at the plant, would bring needed relief to. Amer ican farmers and constitute source of national defense in tn event of war. It was the necessity ofsAmer- ican produced nitrates that, led to start in development at Muscle Shoals in the recent war. The United States is the largest buyer 1f Chilean nitrates. It pays heav- fly for it's purchases, as recent re- port to the department of commerce. showed. A ready remedy for such excessive outlay. such as the Shoals plant offers, should not be neg Lected,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
OIL AND POLITICS

@s,,,. Although Republican leaders ex- < S~ claim that the Democrats are playing ye politics in the exposure of transac- tions in connection with naval oil -ssr sleases, the point to their complaint is et -ssoinewhat blunted by the very obvious @sT ,sKepublican effort to drag into the q e niuss the names of former officials of y1S the Democratic administration. It is sf = Nak feared that the Democrats thus |;e srrdisparaged will not be able to give a . qed account of themselves, as their -rsS pEs siiminary statements already pub 5S11ished prove. The difference in the
 fE0 situations is that, whereas the
 -s Republican officials are indisputably : ssSshown to have had either ignorant or
 Edilty connection with the leases,
 ssstAere is nothing against any of the
 E: Democrats mentioned except mere ac-
 ctisation unsupported by any facts = that even remotely connote irregular <. .ities of any. sort or degree. If there is ~ politics being played in this exposure, ...s. sis quite apparent that Republicans Esys are doing their share of it, and that, too, without the substantial basis ncss which the inquiry has shown to exist .ssssw -for the. charges against Republican officials. All the public demands is ls the truth. The truth will eventually k1 yeotne~out, no matter how intricate the S%@ ftsrepresentations and counter er-
 Ehsrges of those on either side who \ @sshave political axes to grind.
 H-fAl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
BONUS SHOULD BE FREEcWILL GIFT OF THE PEOPLE

all life would be to be an expatriate and that the grandest thing in life was to be an American citizen. We felt, and I have never got rid of the idea. that our country was our common parent and that no sacrifice was too great in order to preserve its glory and it's honor.
 The rights, wrongs and needs of other peoples, together with our duty to the world, have been writ ten upon my mind over this earlier inscription, but there still comes times when the original writing shows through, Charitably, I trust, but involuntarily, confess, find myself making comparisons. II see Nathan Nale on, the height of su- blimity when he expressed regret at the hour of facing death that he had but one life to give to his coun- try.a Then I see about me able bodied young men, with all of life before them, whose regret seems to, be that there are. not more thNn two bonuses that each can hope to obtain from his country.
 l WOulu not De unJuSC nor ungen- erous. It is, of course, easy for those of us whose sole contribution to the success of the war was the eating of 7. black bread to attempt to put ourselves in the place of the soldiers who made the sacrifices and to say that we would not, do as they are doing. Personally I am inclined to believe that the bonus question should be solved through compro- misc. Notwithstanding all the manifest wrongs and injustices which the soldiers suffered in com parison with the favors that were enjoyed by those who remained at nome, l am anxious that the service men shall not sell their great birth right for mere mess of pottage. Upon the other hand \ should be ashamed to be one of an ungrate- full people who did not recognize their valor, fortitude and service in the hour of the nations supreme need.
 The history of the republic re- veals a constant desire to be not only just, but generous. And. of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
A REAL STATESMAN

Senator Magnus Johnson long ago proved that he was no weakling. Now it develops that he is. also no coward. He showed this when he re- gently called a reporter liar and threatened to, "fix him." To be sure, the reporter was shaky from a recent long illness; but it is likely that John son would have been just as fearless if the reporter had been one-armed man. Senator Johnson has shown him. self not only an able legislator but also 8 diplomat. Was it not states rianship that caused him to envision g milking contest with the secretary of agriculture? And was it not diplo- macy that led him to permit the sec retary to defeat him? A similar lofty capacity for great things. led him to challenge a brother senator, to a wood-chopping contest and to be de- feated by him.
 Now he calls reporter a liar. To be sure the reporter was so blind to genius when it confronted him that he stoutly maintained the truth of what he had written. In spite of the fact that the reporter sat weakly in his chair and leaned his head threaten ingly upon his hand, the doughsy sem ator was only prevented by others in the senate press box from courage. ously leaping upon his opponent and bearing him to the floor where he could really fix him. If the reporter had been lying on a stretcher it is doubtful if his fellows could have re- strained the averaging fury from the great Northwest where men are bred, chivalry is rampant and courage is inhaled with every breath. A man who is called Magnus in such g coun- try is a giant in any less Gargantuan environment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
BRITISH RECOGNIZE SOVIET

The British government has accord
 ed unconditional recognition to the so- viet government of Russia. All the
 details as to treaties and the like are to be left for later consideration, dis
 cussion and adjustment. This is an ex- pertinent which the world will watch with lively attention. Perhaps it is just as we'll that England should make
 1t, for England already has one failure
 against her in negotiating an under
 standing with the soviet, and is per
 haps somewhat obliged to seek to re- deem her own record. Everybody
 would like to have the experiment sue
 ceed, but doubtless the views as to what success would consist of differ. In the view of the United States, integrity of covenants and sahctity of
 pledges are indispensable to free in tercourse among nations. That this
 is not mere peculiarity of our states manship is shown by the fact that the
 worlds credit, commerce and business take the same view of the situation. For example, the merchants and tra-
 ders of the United States are free to deal with Russia in any way they see fit or wherever they behold an oppor-
 tunity to acquire a profit. But it is spainfully noticeable that our traders
 shun commerce with Russia, not on
 any formal or moral ground, but be- cause they fear that their goods would not be safe within Russian jurisdic-
 ton, and that their agreements made in good faith with Russian purchasers
 would not be protected by Russian law. They sell to Russians when the Russians have first deposited to their order with some reliable agency out side of Russia the necessary gold and securities.
 - This attitude of traders would be the same even if the United States had disregarded principle and accept ed the de facto Russian government on an equal and complete basis. Therefore, this stunning of Russian intercourse is based on something far more fundamental than diplomatic re- slationship. It is based on, the proved bad faith of the soviet. If all this can be changed through the good of fices of the British, the whole world will be in the British debt to that ex- tent. There is hope that the British will succeed, but there will not be universal surprise if the British should again fail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03
A ILLUSTRATING coMMIssIoN

Although the Alabama Public Ser vice Commission, as now constituted, has achieved many decisions of prac- tical value to this state, its chief claim to merit and to public approval is it's enlightened conception of its duties. Had it not been for such conception the commission would not have been
 moved voluntarily to perform some
 of the acts of public value it now has to its credit. It is notable that this view of the commissions direct re- sponsibility to the people was the sol- itary possession of President Patterson prior to the election of his present as- sociates. It is gratifying to perceive that this view seems now equally the property of his colleagues, who were elected during period of popular re- vulsion against the evident and undue influence of private interests in shap- ing the states utility rates, valuations and regulations. ss7a 7
 The conception of it's responsibility as envisioned by the present commits sion is that, while in some respects it may operate as court, its real func- tion is to act as advocate and de- fender of the public interest as against private eneroachments. When neces- sary the commission initiates action against abuses and rate injustices. It no longer sits down and waits for cases to be presented to it for consid- eration and decision, but it alertly ex- amines the rate structures, and pro- ceeds. of it's own motion to readjust- ments wherever the public welfare demands such readjustments. That is . policy and that is a record which de- serve public approval and indorsement. ment.
 The law under which the commis- sion operates specifically establishes the obligation to initiate proceedings to correct existing abuses, and even in cases brought before it the commits. sion is especially commanded, to pro- tect the public welfare, we'll knowing that the private interests will be repre- sented by able counsel whether the people are so represented or not. The framers of the law foresaw this when they created the commission as the defender of the peoples side of rate and service cases. It is source of qualification to the people of Ala bama that the present commission seems to be faithful to both the letter and the intent of the law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-03

this there can be no doubt-that there will be infinitely more satis- faction all around from a voluntary act carrying the free-wili offering of a grateful people than from any thing which might be reluctantly granted because of fear or intimida- tion. There is not much difference, as matter of fact, between hold ing up a man with gun and hold. ing up the congress with the threat of punishment at the ballot box.
 The government cannot afford to De threatened into aappropriating money to every man who happened to be young enough to be in the ex- peditionary forces, regardless of whether the beneficiary needs any aid or assistance at the hands of his government. This would be claim ing something as g right, and, if 6b-' tained, it would not carry with it. any generous sentiment upon the part of the people who pay the bills. They would feel that, they had been forced Nto pay, and naturally, they would lose that high sense of grati- tude which they now entertain for the service men.
 On the other hand, the present condition of legislation with refer. ence to those who are in sickness or in want among the men who re- sponded to their countryss call is far too narrow and constficted te meet the sentiments of the American people, who desire to deal justly with the soldiers and to express to them sense of real gratitude. A man should not be required to prove . that his disability is of service ori- gin. The American people are quite willing to provide complete or par tial compensation and hospitaliza- ton to every needy and disabled veteran, regardless of whether his . misfortune is traceable to, his ser. vice. To my mind the bonus ques- tion should be settled on the basis of need. Give to every veteran who requires aid. but do not grant gra. tuities to all. -se @ Copyright, 1924, by Twenty-first
 Century Press)