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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-14

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: As sit
here under the oeean-hlUe sky. and the sun
thar shines over cur sunny sautb. 7 let my
mind stray away to Join Won AN, A. you sit
laughing and talking together. ami just
give me the coy corner, or the seat in the
midst of your happy circle Of boys and
girls. | live on farm, shout seventeen
miles south OF Chattanooga. Tenn in Geor-
that we have the privilege ot seeing in the
country. I 90 10 school a Central High
school. near Chattanooga, Tenn 90 on
bps, which rms from Ria-So'3 re Chatta-
noogs- I walk one mile - tie bus line
every morning. I Ike - - - school very
much. md ! study hard and 80 regularly.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-14

Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: viii you
make room for little North Carolina girl?
1 want 10 join your happy band of boys and
girls. We take The TriWeely Journal
from this state. l will not write any
subject this time. l help mamma in the
house when ] am not working in the field
Some of YOU cousins come and spend while
with me this summer We would have such
nice time fishing and gathering wild flow
ers. l was twelve years old July 10
Have gray eyes, fair complexion, light curly
(bobbedl hair. ] had better 20 before
break Aunt Julias rule All of you boys
and girls write me. j surely do like 10
get letters. VIII answer every one l get
YoIr new cousin
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-14

Dearest Amt Julia and Al Wonder r
rog would admit two GeoaSi girls into
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-14

Dear Aunt Julia: AS I have just finished
reading the cousins letters, | just can't
help but write a few lines myself We
live in the country about a mile from
DreWry. l will be in the tenth grade
next time. ! about five feet tall,
have brown eyes and hair, and weigh about
10 pounds. Cousins. did you all ever read
the poem entitled "My Mother?' 1t goes
like this:
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-14

Dearest Aunt Julia and Cousins: Here
come again to join your happy circles |
live on a farm and like farm life fine.
What do YOU cousins do for pastime? |
crochet, read and play the organ; work
in the house and field. 1 am fourteen
years old. My birthday is January IS. Who
is my twin? Listen. cousins. l have Aunt
Julia picture, and the one who writes me
the longest letter will receive it. so get busy.
This is my third attempt Write to
lMISSl SITSIE MOSS
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
(By Associated Press.)

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.-
Divorce does not necessarily mean
that husband and wife have ceased to
love each other; in fact the con-
trary often is true, in the opinion
of Judge Thomas F. Graham. known
locally as the great reconciler.
Judge Graham has been hearing
divorce cases for "a years. ut has
been my experience" he said recent
ly, that love is not always dead
when a woman sues for divorce. l
believe that 90 per cent of the wom-
en- who get divorces leave the court
room with heavy hearts. They love
the men they have just divorced. l
believe that when woman once
loves a man, she never ceases to
love, even though she may testify
most bitterly against her husband.
"A man does not have the power
of expression of love that a woman
has, Yet that love is there and it
endures. When n father deserts his
children, he is arrested. Almost as
many mothers desert their children,
yet we seldom hear of their arrest for
abandonment. They should be-"
Gambling in itself is not cause for
divorce, Judge Graham holds. There
are few homes indeed" he pointed
out, where husband or wife doesn't
play poker, nah jOngg, bridge or some
other game of cards for money or
prizes. But when the wife squanders
her husbands income on bridge or
nah jongg, or the husband spends all
his time and money at the gaming
table and stays out until all hours
of the night, gambling becomes ground
for divorce in this state on the charge
of cruelty
The judge expressed pity for the
wife who stays at home nights wait
ing for her husband to come home
for dinner and he does not come until
the dinner is cold; spoiled, in the
opinion of the wife. And there never
was a wife who did not take pride in
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
CITY'S LOW is 20
Extreme Cold Weather Fails To Appear
In birmingham

Winters icy grasp, untold suffering,
bclated passenger trains and tireless
fireplaces failed to marerialize in Bir-
mingham Sunday morning even though
The coolest spell of the season was in
full blast at I o'clock.
Birmingham is experiencing no more
than usual December weather, accord
ing to +. G. Horton, local observer,
who Saturday night told The Age
Herald that the predicted mark of
10 degrees for sunday morning prob
ably would fall short.
Official readings at O'Clock gave The
temperature as 20 degrees. 10 degrees
above the predicted low mark and 81
degrees for the highest reading of the
Gay, only one notch below tn" freezing
point.
Continued cold during the greater
part of the week is predicted from
Washington, although Horton promises
a warming up process by Tuesday. In
settled conditions and cloudiness. prob
ably accompanied 10y rain. should mod
crate the weather. he said.
Salvation Army officials Sunday de-
clared they We're having no more than
the usual number of calls for aid and
We're able to care for all eases to date.
Belated passenger train schedules are
attributed more to the annual Christmas
travel than to the effects of the cold
weather, and utility operations continue
without interruptions
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
LINER LEVfATHAN
BRINGS G.. f. BRENT
929 Passengers And 1900 Bags
OF Mail Arrive
lRy Associated Press. J

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-The United
States liner Leviathan arrived this aft
ernoon with 1000 bags of Christmas
mail and 929 passengers.
Bishop Charles f. Brent of Buffalo.
who attended the narcotic conference
at Geneva, was among the passengers
In a statement he said that the first
and second opium conference cleared the
atmosphere and prepared the way for
solution of the problem.
lie y d that as result of the confer
ences the present annual production of
opium and other narcotics would be cur
tailed one-tenth.
at should be stated" Bishop Brent
pointed out, that America strongly OPP
posed the idea of the conference, fore
seeing what might and probably would
happen"
Denouncing the first agreement
reached by the conference as a travesty,
he charged India with being responsible
for most of its worst features. Bishop
Brent paid tribute to TIE parliamentary
skill of Congressman Stephen Porter of
PENNSYLVANIA, the only American dele
gate remaining at Geneva.
Mrs. Henry II. Rogers, mother-in-law
of Count Ludwig SalmI ioogstraeten,
returned from Europe with her son,
Henry II. Rogers. Jr, who has been
preparing for Oxford.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
EXTEND RELIGION
URGES PROF. JONES

CHICAGO, Dec. Religion is
good only when it is put into circula-
ton, Rufus NJ. Jones, professor of
philosophy at IIaverford college. Havpr-
ford. Pa, declared tonight in Christ
mas address before the Sunday Evening
club. Professor Jones was the first
quaker to have appeared before the
club in its history.
Il fin" i, worK among students" he
said. that they ar" afraid to try fa.-h
cut because they think it is believing in
something that is not 50. | like to tell
them about the epitaph | SAW on Il
poor. energetic woman'S tombstone.
which read She did what she couldn't
That's what faith is, doing the i'm
possible. That's what we have got ON
hand in this world now. rebuilding the
world. And we are like lot of boys
with iiggSaw puzzle with lot of
the parts missing. But, as Goethe said
III his fine poem. we must rebuild it in
our bosom first. Economic security
and political stability are nor enough
to make great world. NIilleniumS do
not come by express. they take the
freight. We can not rebuild the world
Alright until we have discovered God.
for we build our world according to
what is in our hearts. Now it is built
on fear, hate, suspicion and rivalry"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
RADIO PRISONER
TO BE RELEASED
H. M. SnOdgrass Won Fame
With Piano Music

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-. Dec. 21.-
The doors of the state prison will open
next month to return to society pris-
Oner made famous by radio.
Twenty-one months ago Harry NJ.
Snodgrass of st. Louis was received at
the prison and while being dressed in"
he reluctantly admitted in answer to
Warden John Crawford's questions as
to his occupation that he was piano
player or sorts. He was assigned to the
prison orchestra and today millions of
radio fans know his as the king of the
worries"
Snodgrass sprang into fame almost
over night. When the state board of
agriculture opened its broadcaSting sta
ton (WOS) here, the prison orchestra
was called upon frequently to give
musical programs and Snodgrnss played
the piano. Soon inquiries began pour
ing in about the musical convict and one
day the telegraph office here received
G35 kilograms addressed to the pianist
at the prison.
Then The Radio World. a New York
magazine, announced Snodgrass the in
ner of its radio performer popularity con-
test and deluge of offers to adopt him,
to finance his education and to employ
him followed.
1t was learned Sunday a vaudeville
contract calling for 81 900 week had
been offered SnodgraSs along with
scores of concert offers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
LEAGUE MAY. ACT
IN BALKAN ROW,
Blinishti Makes Strong
Appeal For Geneva
Intervention
(By Associated Press.)

GENEVA, Dec. 21.-Actively sup
porting Albania's appeal to the League
of Nations against Jugo-Slavia is DIR. B.
Blinishti, Albania's permanent represent
tatiye in Geneva, who spent strenuous
Sunday circulating information in an
endeavor to justify the appeal of Bishop
Fan s. Noli, Albania's bishop premier,
for Intervention.
DR.. Blinishti issued a series of COM
muniques fresh from Bishop Noli at
Tirana, insisting that the people of Al
bania, far from revolving against the ex-
listing regime, have become more and
mnre united in combating the foreign
invader" Jugo-Slavia is proclaimed as
the invader. Further, the communiques
allege the seizure .tefd1guns near the
frontier bearing marks (which prove that
they were furnished by the Jugo-Slavian
army vi.
Prisoners captured by Bishop Noli's
legions are asserted in the communiques
to have admitted. they participated in
incursions into Albania by orders of the
commander at Prizrend.
Another commlnique issued by DR..
Blinishti characterizes as an invention
out of the whole. cloth the report that
the insurgent chiefs at Ell Bassan con-
demned to death Premier Noli and all
the members of his ministery. =.
Meanwhile the council of the League
of Nations finds itself confronted with
a Balkan conflict which it is recognized
will require delicate handling and
which, the arbitration council failing,
probably will necessitate a special meet
ing of the council. "A
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
BURBANK SCORES
WILLIAM J. BRYAN
Also Flags Critics OF Theory Of
Evolution

SANTA ROSA. Cal, Dec. 81.
Luther Burbank, plant pathologist and
scientist, in discussion of Science and
religion at the Federated church to-
night criticized the activities of "funda-
mentalists against the theory of evolu-
ton.
Referring to efforts being made to
prevent the teaching of certain scien-
tific truths in the schools" Mr.. Bur
bank said:
Those who would lcgislatc against
the teaching of evolution should also
legislate against gravity and the I'M
reasonable speed OF light, and should
introduce also Il clause to prevent use
of the telescope, microscope and spec
toscope or any other instrument of
precision which may in the future be
invented constructed or used for the
discovery of truth"
Referring 70 William Jennings Bryan
the Spe0 kPr said.
MIR. Bryan is an honored friend of
mine. yet this need not prevent the
observation that the skull with which
nature endowed him. visibly approaches
the Neanderthal type Feeling and use
OF gesticulntlou and words are more
according to the nature of this type
than investigation and reflection"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
Rum Row Delivers Goods
Despite Cold And Dry Navy
Daring Bootleggers Continue Illicit Traffic In
i - Face Of Unusual Hazards

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-The first
real cold wave of the winter has
wrapped itself around New York, the
biting wind hangs icicles ON the masts
of ships just off the Atlantic seaboard,
and the on-shore bootlegger, anxiously
peering through the darkness for sight
of his next consignment from off the
freezing briny deep, piously mutters
under his icy breath:
Heaven pity the poor rum-runners
out on the sea tonight -
Between the cold and the blockade
that the government has set up to balk
their efforts. the job of the shippers on
Rum Row is not one for weaklings.
Their task of seeing that no Christmas
stocking in New York goes dry unless
by preference, is much like that of
poor old Santa Claus. who has such a
dickens of a time trying to get down
through these newfangled chimneys and
steam pipes.
Business Is Brisk
But there will be no weeping and
wailing-or crashing of teeth-in the
city. Despite reports of seizure of
nearly $1,000,000 worth of whisky from
the off-shore boats during the past three
or four days and moral revival in
New Jersey, where they are actually
beginning to investigate the gigantic
rum-running operations that have hon
eycombed the state for three or four
years, Rum Row is delivering the goods.
The frequency with which New York
hoot lpppprs call one on the tplpnhOna in
their effort TO get rid of it all has
become annoying. The government is
trying harder than ever, not only de-
spite but because the holiday season is
here, but somehow the supply just
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
Couples Seek Divorces
Despite Love, Says Judge

the dinners she prepared for her hus-
band. The tardy husband inflicts
a form of cruelty on his wife that
causes her more suffering than the
lash of whip. She has good ground
for divorce.
80 has the wife whose mental
suffering is caused by the mans
staying out until the early morning
hours. Every day we read in the
newspapers of men slugged and rob-
bed, sometimes killed, while returning
home at night. Imagine the state
of mind of the bride who waits hour
after hour for her husband to come
home and he does not appear. Night
after night many a wife endures that
sort of thing. Finally she comes into
the divorce court to get freedom
from the man she really loves better
than any one in the world"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
HOT WORDS FAIL
TO WARM REDS
IN FRIGD PARIS
Freezing Police Watch
Model Demonstration
Of Communists
eased Wire To Age-Herald)

PARIS. Dee. 21-Unmarried by the
shrill bleat of a single police whistle,
or ony the wild swinging of night
sticks which so often have cracked
heads at similar gatherings, ten thou
sand Paris communists gathered at the
"Hill of the Red Hat" on the eastern
edge of the capitol and conducted an
old fashioned songfest enlivened by moth
ing more incendiary than not words
and the dreary words of the inter-
rationale.
Instead of the expected disorder, riot
and nose-thumping, the gathering oil the
communist clans was remarkable soleiy
for its circumspect regard fof the pro-
prieties of public gatherings. Ihere
was no batting of the few spectators
who came out in the bitter weather
of a December afternoon.
Police Stand Watch
In side streets surrounding tine hill'
SQUADS of police reserves shlvereo as
tha SIM sank toward the horizon ana
tbe damn cold crept into their bones.
For three hours the crowd stood
under their red banners which bore
Iitters in white urging the union OF thf
proletariat of all countries.
From three different points, COM
munist orators exhorted their hearers
to unite against the fascist Leagues they
alleged were being formed with the
support of Premier Herrlots SOCIALIST
government to crush labor
The communist legion arrived at the
Hill in four great columns, each headed
by a cluster of red flags. Scattered
among the marchers were other red
embIems OF the workers. They approach
ed quietly and only the scuffllng OF
feet and cheerful banter of any average
crowd came from them.
OBJECTIONS Are Numerous
AS the Speaking got well along, there
were defections from the communist
ranks. French communists like bitter
weather no better than their conserva-
tive fellow citizens, and as the chill
worked itself inside the heavy wraps of
the listeners, thoughts strayed to the
oyerheatpd little estaminets i'll every
street where one may have hot drink
with an alcoholic base guaranteed TO
keen the body warm and the mind
nimble.
Whole families broke away from the
ranks TO enter the seductive little drink
ing parlors, but the talk went on out
side while many wives and children
tugged at their men folks arms and
whispered of the warmth within the
estaminet doors. There were few re-
manning when the last word of revolu-
ton had been spoken. The early dark
ness of partisan winter day dropped
suddenly over the faithful without even
the hint of twilight to say the day was
ended. There was n last shout from the
speakers for faith to the cause. The
scores of flags were furled. That was
the signal to go home, and home all
went. calling on the way for a hot
potion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22

windows were of thin ice The streets
were paved with lee. The people, who
were ESkimos. of course, all went about
on skates. This part you will not be-
lieye, but instead of horses they used
reindeer, and the reindeer all went about
on skates, too.
King Lives In Mountain
I'm the center of that city is great
fire mountain, volcano. 1t is ten miles
high, and IA miles wide. Out of it
comes Il great pillar of green, gold and
blue light. 1t lights the city. and in
winter i'll America you can see it shining,
some time. in the northern sky. And in
palace on that mountain lives "A king
''Ah, you have my secret 1t is the
city of Santa Claus
The old mans vice grew sharp; he
leaned forward.
"a golden city. There are forests
on the side of the warm mountain from
the wood they make the tops. There
are mines in the heart of the mountain.
where brown skinned Gnomes dig the
iron and tin. There are great FORCES
with live steam from the mountain, and
factories where they make the sleds,
trains, soldiers, drums and dolls.
Make Dolls
1.-THE Eskimo men make the dolls,
and the women paint them. and the little
Eskimo girls dress them in pretty
dresses. There are scientists there
American explorers that people think
died in the misunderstanding new
toys in their laboratories.
And up in the golden palace is Santa
Claus himself.
'You believe? Ha--look mt the map
There is only blank paper for the heart
of the dead continent of Greenland. R.lt
| have seen-I have seen--I have seen
the snow city, and the happy busy peo-
pie, and the golden palace on the hill
of fire, with the sleigh and reindeer at
the door"
A wonderful sight that. and you
must tell the children of America all
about it," the old man concluded.
Which has now been done.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22
YOUNG ACCEPTS
SCHOOL POST
Preparations Head Leads
Endowment Drive At
Johns Hopkins
RY Associated Press. J

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-Owen d.
Young has accepted the craftsmanship
of the board of trustees for the obtaining
of the endowment fund for the proposed
Walter Hines Page school of interna-
tional relations at Johns-Hopkins uni
versity. Herbert l.. Gutterson of the
control committee announced today.
The United States as a creditor ma
ton is now faced with opportunities
and responsibilities which she has not
had before" Mr.. Young said in accept
ing the invitation to assume the lead
erShip. IF we are to discharge these
adequately we must educate ourselves.
"Certainly an appropriate institution
to guide the post graduate work in the
field of research is Johns Hopkins 1t
is we'll located territorially and has an
excellent record in the field of produc-
tive research. The spirit of the place
is sound, and last of all. but not least,
the school will be a fitting memorial to
Walter Hines Page, whose extraordinary
work and fine spirit has contributed so
much to the feeling of solidarity among
Notwithstanding peoples.
Mr. Young's associates on the board of
trustees of the endowment fund are:
emeritus. Harvard university; Edward
w. Box; Roland W. Boyden. former
United States observer on the rppara-
tions commission Senator Carter Glass {;
Mrs. Herbert Hoover; Colonel Edward
NJ. House; Adolph s. Ochs. publisher
of the New York Times; Franklin ID.
Roosevelt, former assistant secretary of
the navy: William s. Sims. rear adj
miral United States navy; Henry l..
StimSon. former secretary of war; Will
liam Allen White. editor of the En-
poria Gazette. Kansas George W.
WickerSham. former attorney general
of the United States; John Giraud
Agar; DIR. Edwin ANDERSON. alderman
president of the University of Virginia {;
Julius Barnes. former president of the
United States Chamber of Commerce {;
Van Lear Black, president of the Balti-
more Sun; General Tasker Bliss Rob
ert :. BrOOkinS. president board of
trustees, Washington university; Gen
eral John j. Carly Harry Chandler,
publisher of the Los Angeles Times
DR. }. A. {. Chandler, president Will
liam and Mary college; John W. Davis,
former ambassador TO Great Britain
NV. III. L. Faunce. president Brown uni
versity; John H. Finley. of the New
York Times DIR, Vernon Kellogg. perm
anent secretary National Research coun-
Gil Mrs. Irwin Laughlin; Mrs V. Ev-
eritt Macy; Henry Morgenthau, for
mer ambassador to Turkey; Charles
Lathrop Pack, forest economist, presi-
cent American Nature association; Geo.
Foster Peabody, trustee of the Univer-
sity of Georgia; Herbert s. Phillips,
former United States district attorney.
Florida; Cordenio a. Severance, former
president of American Bar association
Albert Shaw. editor of the Review of
reviews; George owen Squier, major
general United States army.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-12-22

floods in, constantly exceeding the
demand.
of course William II. Anderson, the
former Anti Saloon league leader who
has been at Sing Sing for forgery, will
be paroled Christmas Eve, but his re-
lease probably will come too late to
save the situation.
More than 30 persons have died here
in the past month from what has been
described as 'liquor," but that was a
frequent result of drinking shellac, tur-
pentine, wood alcohol and various
corrosive acids even before the prohibit
ton period and is not to be blamed on
Rum Row, where the output may not
be all that is claimed for it, but at least
does not strike down its victim instan-
taneously.
Pebble Liquor
While coast guard cutter No. 214
was Selling the Kate C. off Cape May,
it was reported that men were parad-
ing through the Christmas traffic in
Cape May itself, peddling whisky at 81
bottle from canvass sacks on their
shoulders, and that beachcombers had
the same thing to sell at % cents
bottle. The price advances sharply as
one gets nearer New York, but there
the standard rates still PREVAILS
bottle for gin, So bottle for Scoach
whisky, Sc Il quart for rye, So quart
for wine and so on. Some of these
bottles are as advertised, some are fair
and some are not so good.
Most of the actual Indignation voiced
so far has come from the good people
of Southampton, Long Island, who don't