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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
THE SCHOOL BONDS

The decision to authorize an election to
pass on the issue of three and half million
dollars in bonds is not to be interpreted as
meaning that the sum represents the official
opinion as to the total needed by the schools.
the sum is as much as the city can at this
time safely assume with the present bonding
margin allowed by law. Indeed, it is quite
evident from statements made by various
commissioners that they regard legislative
action as necessary to enable Birmingham
to assume her necessary financial response
bilities in respect to public schools, libraries
and other municipal requirements. The fix
ing Of three and a half million as the bond
figure does not preclude later provision. The
sum will permit the Inauguration Of the
school program as laid out by the school
board, and there need be no apprehension
IN any quarter that its needs will not be
taken care Of in due time, perhaps as soon
rs il the entire amount estimated as neces-
sary had been included in the election call.
The encouraging feature of the whole dis
eussion has been the apparent agreement on
all sides that the necessary provision must
be made. Sentiment in this community is
overwhelmingly in support Of schools. The
divergence of opinion has been along financial
and practical lines, with no dissension as to
the merit of the general program. By an
other year or two Birmingham's situation
may have developed to a point where even
the present program may prove to be made
uuate, at which time renewed consideration
must be directed to this worthy concern.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
GEORGIA PEACH FESTIVAL

Macon boasts of lying at the center of the
peach-growing industry of Georgia, an indus
try that returns the growers of the state
upwards of ten million dollars annually.
The Macon News of last Wednesday suitably
celebrates the annual peach festival of Fort
Valley by a special edition, in which the
facts of the peach industry are illuminat-
ingly set forth. Fort Valley possessing the
second largest re-icing plant in Georgia, and
Ii surrounded by orchards comprising total
of between six and eight million trees. The
News properly emphasizes the Importance of
this basic industry and attributes to it much
Of the continuous prosperity enjoyed by that
territory. There is practical benefit in these
annual boostings of community's chief as
sets. Seattle, Portland, Pasadena and other
cities have their rose festivals. Mobile has
her Satsuma Day. The whole nation cele-
brates the general harvest at Thanksgiving
time Georgia communities, which have re-
ceived SO much fame and wealth from peach
culture, evidence only natural pride in this
delectable distinction.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
What You Can Do
BY JOHN CARLYLE

Take a walk all by yourself some afternoon
this week. You may not have, more than
three-quafters of an hour to spare. Use just
that much then.
Think 40 clearly and as seriously as you
can how completely your behavior, your atti-
tude toward Life. your happiness is in your
own hands.
The one thing above all others for you to
do, in order to realize contentment, in order
to gain peace Of mind, 10 to become interested
in things that you have to do.
But, you say, ! am not interested in this
thing and do not like it. I do not like the
way have to live. do not like the place
in which / am living.
With such incomplete conclusions most Of
us stop. We accept the verdict Of dissatisfac-
ton and let it go at that. Therein we fall
and allow ourselves to be miserable. We &C
tually grow the habit of unhappiness. Not
getting what we want, we stop right there.
This is when intelligence, Judgment, think.
ing come into play. On this solitary wall
you are taking 1t should occur to you, with
the force of a new idea, that you can take
any attitude toward your work. your cir.
cumstances, your conditions, your life that
you may make up your mind to take.
Let us say that you find 1t necessary to
move to a new job. Or you have to movV
with your family to a new home. You are
disappointed. You want to stay where you
are. So do most people.
But you can deliberately make up your
mind that You will like your new place
You can set out to be interested in 1t. YOU
can meet the new circumstances in the right
mood.
Human nature functions in such way that
the more you set about being interested In
a thing, the more really interested you be-
come. And the more interested you become
the more contented you are.
To be interested means to be happy. To
be interested means to find the peace of mind
we are all looking for.
And the important thing of all to remember
is just this: You can become interested II
what you have to do If you make up your
mind to it. You can determine your future
happiness by your present attitude.
That attitude is up to you. This is what
ron can do for vnnranf
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
REPEATING AM UsEMENT TAXES

The house of representatives repealed many
of the nuisance and luxury taxes, but left
the ten per cent. tax on amusement admis-
sions. The senate committee has voted to
recommend the repeal of the tax on admis
sions of fifty cents or less. This will apply
particularly to vaudeville, movies, games and
the like Millions of people will be relieved
ST not Of a heavy monetary burden, at least
sof a considerable degree of annoyance and
the care of accumulating one-cent pieces.
Besides, the principle of this special tax is
wrong. An amusement is not luxury, but
may, to an overworked mind or body, be a
very real necessity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
cold AND OUR RESPONSIBILITY

The federal reserve board reports that
about four-fifths of the worlds visible gold
reserve has drifted to our vaults. This Is
both an asset and liability. 1t is an asset
in that it testifies to our strong economic
position. It Is liability in that 1t attests
he economic weakness Of the nations with
which we must do business and on whose
prosperity our own greatest expansion de-
sends. It is said that the American dollar
is rapidly becoming the standard of values
throughout the world. Bankers regard this
Is evidence of the stability of the American
dollar. It is relatively stable, of course
stable relatively to the intrinsic value Of gold.
But the intrinsic value of gold Is itself rela-
tive to the visible supply. When the visible
supply reduces the value rises, and vice
versa.
IL is apparent then that our dollar, instead
of being an unchanging unit, is in reality
in a state of vacillation. A dollar today
may buy a yard of cloth, while last year it
may have bought a yard and an eighth, or
next year seven eighths of a yard. Certainly
neither the cloth nor the yard has changed
Therefore it must have been the dollar. Pro-
fessor Irving Fisher, the great economic
scholar of Yale, insists that something can
and should be done to hold the dollar to a
fixed position, just as the yard, the bushel
and the ton maintain a fixed relation to
quantity. This is a question that America
Is in peculiarly strategic position to solve.
II Is disconcerting to find that a dollar
shrinks or expands in purchasing power
without any visible or commensurate fluctua-
ton in the supply of or demand for the COM
modify for which the dollar is given in ex-
change. Indeed, the dollar has become such
an uncertain quantity that the laws of supply
and demand appear almost at times to have
/ lost their time-honored control over prices.
America, with the worlds gold in her Golfers,
occupies a unique relationship to the worlds
monetary standards. If the gold basis Is not
standardized now, perhaps there will not be
an equally favorable opportunity in another
century
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
Forum Of The People
Wants Direct Highways

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
The people Of the state of Alabama are
due you a lasting obligation for the bold
stand you have taken in defense of its con
stitution. Out of their scant resources the
people voted a twenty-five thousand dollar
bond issue to be matched by federal aid to
build trunk line roads the most direct feas-
ible way. Without federal aid two members
of the state highway commission have voted
detours. All of this is to be done single
approved these costly detours. I want to
say right here that I worked and voted for
Governor Brandon, because his speeches had
the right ring to them. Many of my neigh
bors criticized me for my stand for him.
They are all saying now II told you So" ]
am still supporting the administration. But
that does not hinder me from saying, Gov
ernor Brandon, you need to cut to the bone
those petty politicians who deny campaign
pledges, and squander hard-earned taxes upon
personal roads and costly detours. We did
not even dream that this was your idea of
a poor state and a rich people. If it was,
may God give us a rich state and a poor
people. We are still supporting, but we are
begging friend for relief from gross injus-
tice. We need a renewal of your campaign
pledges. We still have confidence, though
sorely tried.
May the governor of the best people of the
greatest state of the greatest nation in all
the world observe his oath, and build state
roads the most direct, feasible wayl
]. e. GARRETT.
A Citizen of Montgomery County.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
THE DOWNTOWN TURNS

who are held back equally with the autoists
by the light signals, to find their way
blocked and at times their safety menaced
by autos swinging around the corners upon
them as they start to cross the intersections
governed by the signals. Therefore, the in
timation that all vehicle turns at the busiest
corners may be eliminated appears proper.
The shopping district is one place where,
If there is any conflict, the pedestrians really
have the right of way over vehicles. The
human congestion is so great that extra
ordinary provisions protecting human life
are entirely iustifiable
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
Sacred Mountains
BY r.. H. TINGLEY

The association of gods with mountains
has been worldwide from most ancient times.
In Egypt in the time Of the Pharoahs the
sun was supposed to come forth from one
mountain in the morning and to enter an
other at evening. In Babylonian epics men
ton is made of '"The Mountain of Sunset"
Httite deities were closely associated with
mountains; so also was the Israelite god
Yahiveh.
There were sacred mountains in Palestine,
Lebanon Hebron, Poor and Sinai. The
mountains of Carmel were so sacred that the
vulgar were forbidden to cross them.
Robertson Smith notes that in the Oldest
Hebrew poetry, When Yahiveh rides over
his land in the thunder storm, he issues forth,
not from heaven, but from Mount Slant
that most sacred mountain being known to the
Jews as 1.-THE Mount of Cod
The Greeks, Romans. Gauls Slavs. Chinese
and Hindus all have or had sacred mountains.
In Russia, Mongolia. Thibet Japan and Bo-
livia belief in them still exists. Many of
the tribes Of North American Indians each
had its own particular mountain which it
held in great veueratou.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
The Right Word

BY CURTIS NICHOLSON
(Find the error in this article)

(Find the error in this article)
Mrs. C. w. Bean of Spokane, Wash, fears
that her criticism sis not conducive to broth
erly love-" She adds that she has been can
noyed by mistakes in 1.-THE Right Word col
umn where it seems Of all other places we
should demand perfection. My latest griev-
ance is the last sentence in Mondays issue,
which should read, Each one of the other
readers should send in his problems.'
The deliberate error mote the challenge at
the beginning of this column) was the use of
their instead Of his, and this error. was cor
rected the following day. Maybe Mrs. Bean
viii point out some of the other errors
which she has observed-or even the one
in today's article. And, in passing, 'eThe
Right Word" suggests the omission Of other
in "it seems Of all other places we should
demand perfection" o. May there be a con-
tinuance of brotherly love.
Another Solution
With regard to the sentence, Neither you
nor 1 lam, is, or are) right" G. N. Larson
of La Grange, ILL.,, writes, Il believe the fol-
lowing would be a better construction
Neither of us is right s-e%
Do Not Get Excited ~ =,
Next a criticism from the other side of
In what grammar do you find should Of said
instead of should have said For the love
Of Mike (of used here correctly y please have
it corrected. 1t hurts"
To e. W.. Slocum Of Brooklyn, N. Y:
The deliberate error was corrected the fol-
lowing day under yesterdays Error
Yesterdays Error
Wrong: one person who you are talk
ing to.
Right: one person whom you are talk
ing to- or, to whom you are talking.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
Watching The Parade

I'm sorry for Tommy Morton, because
for all the evidence against him Il know him
to be straightforward, honest, decent sort
of chap. ] know that he ID, unhappy as q
man can be. And I'm much more sorry for
Adele Gait, for il there ever were sweet
modest, lovable girl she was the one. And
now her heart Ia breaking. ti
1 told them what would happen seven years
ago. =, ..s,. J --, ls
They could not get married at that time
because one of them was already married
and the missing partner refused to grant a
divorce. Yet they loved each other.
1--WE have decided to defy public opinion.
they said: Elm the eyes of God and In our
own eyes and in the eyes Of every one who
knows us we shall be as truly man and wife
as though we had been married by quadrille
of bishops
elm the eyes of every one who knows you,'
/ said, you will be two fools. That sort Of
thing never lasts No matter how much you
love each other now, the time will come when
you will agoniEe over your folly. Your
friends will drop away from you. You will
find yourselves forced to find companionship
in the sort Of people who do not care what
sort Of people you are. No one ever YET
defied social conventions unscathed."
But they refused to listen. Today Adele
Gait is ten years older than she ought to be-
There is a look Of suffering in her eyes. Her
old friends have dropped her. Her new
friends laugh at her. for Tommy Morton i,
making 1t plainly evident that he will not be
held much longer BY the bond he once 80
blithely assumed.
''I'm mixed up in a terrible affair."" he
said the other day. 81 cannot go on with it
Yet know that I am in honor bound"
When q man feels that he is only bound
in honor, the time is fast approaching when
he win persuade himself that honor demands
that he go his way. ~
Wonder what win happen to Adele Gait?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
THE SINCLAIR ATTITUDE

The federal grand jury's indictment of
Harry F. Sinclair for contempt In refusing
testimony to the senate committee is gen
orally approved. Mr.. Sinclair's contention
that the evidence he has is properly for the
courts and not the committee is presumptu-
Gus If his testimony is necessary to the
prosecution of the committees inquiry, and
the committee is the most competent judge
Of that, then Mr.. Sinclair is in the position
Of private citizen seeking to block legally
authorized senatorial investigation.
There is no doubt that it would be to Mr..
ginclair's advantage TO have the question
renanded to the courts, for the courts are
often the playground of technical delays and
lawyers battles. The senate committee, not
being SO strictly bound by technicalites and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
NEWS OUTSIDE THE noon

BY button-brush and sere cat-tails on the
edge of the bog, when hylas are piping anG
snow water is alive with almost invisible
animslculae. there is a sudden burst of liquid
song following harsh cracking notes. Con
herr-ee" it comes upon the spring air, and
a red-winged blackbird perched on an elder
tip. opens and spreads his glossy and buff
shoulder feathers and calls all the meadow
to witness he is back from the South before
his wife.
When spring really arrives it finds the red
wing near water of swamps aud brooks cheer
lily calling the violets awaSe. They and waite,
belong together, and the music of the spring
frogs, romantic calls of bluebi-ds and CHEEKY
fluttering of blackbrds are typical of March
and April days.
Leander s. Kyser describes the "gurglina
melody of the red-wing in Ohio as "O-o-t
gl-ee, o-o-o-gl-e-e," followed sometimes BIZ q
high-pitched twitter. To lonely jewellers or
country creeks and morasses the first call oil
the red-wing is the most hopeful sound Of
the dreary pre-awakening of the world from
winter sleep.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
s1MPLrF1cAr1oN OF TAX RETURNS

The first job the Democrats ought to tackle,
if they get into control Of the government
this election-and the prospects in that d.
rection seem to improve each day-should be
to simplify the system of federal income tax
making. The people have just come through
another siege of worriment and expense and
the nation is ripe for reform. 1t is encourag-
ing to know that organizations Of business
men are pressing tn ematter to an issue, and
there is a hope that by next year the tax
payers will find the process simpIified to an
extent that it will enable them to make out
their own returns. That is something very
few people have been capable of doing, and
as a consequence they are forced to secure
expert service. The field for exploiting the
taxpayers has proven so inviting that num-
bers of clerks in government service have quit
their jobs for the more profitable field of
tax experts and TO establishment, further
more of an unfair competition with firms
and individuals legitimately embarked in that
business. It would prove thought of much
relief that tax simplification is actually on
the way.-Charlotte Observer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02

adapte dto decorations are rapidly increas-
ing. The demand for these products to be
used in automobile shows and other displays
in various parts of the country has developed
flourishing business in hitherto unused
foliage. Carload lots are shipped to many
sections of the United States and Canada.
There seems scarcely any limits to indus
trial and agricultural opportunities in this
state. Many things that were regarded as
useless few years ago, and which were ig-
nored, are coming into their own as profit
able articles, while much that was long
thrown away is turned into serviceable and
marketable by products.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
ARE TEA AND COFFEE ILLEGAL?

Hudson Maxim, distinguished inventor, and
perhaps gentle satirist, amuses many by de-
claring that restaurants violate the law when
they sell tea and coffee, because "they are
Intoxicating within the meaning of the law.
Mr.. Maxim is regarded as an authority on
explosives, firearms and such, but has never
been known as an expert on the possible In.
toxicating properties Of beverages. Nobody
doubts that the excess use of tea and coffee
is bad, just as is the excess consumption OF
grass food, sugar or anything else. MIR
Maxim would doubtless find it hard to con-
vince a judge or jury that tea or coffee is
intoxicating. Perhaps he is seeking enjoy
ment through q new form of humor, after
long wrestling with the serious problems
associated with the development Of high ex-
plosives.
What is intoxicating to one person may
have no effect on another, just as what may
be good for one organism might be very bad
for another. There are some who appear to
derive benefits from the use Of tobacco,
while it is distinctly harmful to others. Nor
has it ever been satisfactorily settled when
a person is intoxicated. As long as he can
navigate unassisted, the line of demarcation
is not easy to draw. However, just are there
are, or used to be, rum hounds, SO undoubt-
edly there are coffee and tea-hounds. There
fore. bring on the twentieth amendment.
That would cause the biggest explosion In all
Mr.. Maxim's explosive career.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02

presidents, is free to drive directly to the
point without delays and hindrances. There
would be public sympathy with the applica-
ton Of the strictest penalties in Mr.. Sim
clair's case, if the Indictment is affirmed by
the court. The modest fines authorized by
law would be no deterrent to a multi-miI-
honaire, but the twelve months, of imprison-
ment might appear rather formidable to him,
II Mr.. Sinclair's testimony is not pertinent,
there can be no valid basis for his objection
to give it II his testimony is pertinent, then
his refusal to give it assumes grave proper
tions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
Pointed Paragraphs

If spinster isn't as tall as she would like
to be she should get spliced.
In order to appreciate your youth one
must get over on the shady side of 40.
Some people are born poor. some achieve
poverty and some thrust poverty upon other
people.
The course of true love never runs smooth
and in after years the bachelor is often glad
Of it,
When his wife informs him that dinner ia
ready even lazy man manages to get a
move on himself.
1t takes nine tailors to make man, but
II he happens to be A married man one dress
maker can break him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
STILL EQUAL TO 1T

The school attendance officer went to a
house in the Fast End and interviewed the
woman bending over the waShtub.
"And how many children have 70 ualto-
gether?'
"Well, there's Lucy, and Alice,and Olive
and Charlie, and Willie, and Nell, and Grace,
and Tom, and Desmond, and Joan, and Brian,
and Leonard, and Elsie. and Horace, and
"Er-madam, it will be sufficient if you
will just give the number"
Number indeed" replied the proud mother
wiping her dripping hands on her apron
I'VE haven't got to numbering them yet. We
haven't run out of names by a long way
London Tit-Bits.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
CoLLoquy

:, Morris LOngstreth in Christian Scienc
Monitor)
Il CHANGED to look UP
And saw in the north
A star that changed
My life heneeforth."
How may I ask.
Can a little thing
Like star prove
So managing
Its CLEAN disclosed
The way to be
Through the forests
OF my destiny"
Then you advise
A man to wait
Till the skies open
And point his fate?"
All. no. Stars shine.
Yet the woods uncrossed
BY them who wait.
And their way is lost
Then what may you mean?"
II mean, by far
The chiefest thing sa'
Is to follow your star" g
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02

British commercial airmen are on strik
1t is presumed that all airmen finished the
trips before walking out.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02

Frederick William has again fallen into
the habit of referring to himself as the crown
prince. Which again irresistibly recalls the
world "clown."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02

1t seems that Mr.. Dill is trying to &c
Colonel Roosevelt in a pickle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02
THE LAST DETAIL

Beth: Does your husband confide his
business troubles to you?'
Beth: Yes! should think he did !
Every time buy new hat. London Mail.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02

A woman, whose husband shot her, pleads
for divorce on the ground Of inhuman treat
ment. Shooting a spouse is strictly a
womans privilege.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-02

There seems to be no good-natured woo
alcohol.