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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-18
LISTENING IN ON EVE

excitement to tell all its friends how the largest find of the season was swept away just as it was in his grasp. This, my friends he shrieks, is what we are going to remedy when we are in power! This grasping of capitalism will be punished! They snatch the food from our very mouths! Are we slavesg
 "There were six birds out there just now quarreling over a supply of bread big enough to have fed them for a week. Some tramp bird from across the alley had broken into the crowd and they couldn't make up their minds whether to lick him or go in for the big feed. First they would grab some bread and so would the tramp-then they would drop their prize and pitch onto the stranger.
 Tt seemed to irritate them to fe- rocity that he was able to fight them and hang onto his bread at the same time. It was beyond their compre- henslon and every time they pitched onto him and he emerged ruffled but victorious with his chunk of bread in. tact they just about had mysteries.
 They rushed around saying to each other, Look! See what he's got! It's ours! Take it away,v and each time he refused to give up, except when he noted that some one of the gang had a bigger piece than he did he would let go and grab that one. He kept up that progressive prosperity, as one might say, until they yelled so and jumped on him so viciously that the whole lot of them tumbled and rolled off the steps to the ground and under the fence into the next yard. Mean while the puppy hopped up on the steps and gobbled al the bread and the result is not one of the beggars gets a bite! !'
 My Goodness, Edmund.' cried the mortified wife of the talker, coming into the kitchen and surprising them. T should think you'd have enough sense to look what you are doing !! You've laid your magazine right down on top of the currant buns I was let ting rise to bake for dinner-and if you haven't emptied your water glasses into the bowl of mayonnaise I just made Do go on out of here!
 'Well, you shouldn't keep things set ting around so carelesslyr' said the philosopher indignantly. Come on, Hopscotch-let's go where we can talk in peace! Just like woman!'
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father cant find out. and if he knew that this youth had hectic past, or what one drank. or the other one was q trifling ne'er-do we'll. it would he simply the easiest thing possible to prevent many an unhappy marriage by making daughter see an undesirable suitor through the sophisticated eyes of a worldly wise man. instead of the TO- mantle ones of young girl.
 A good father tries to protect his daughter after he is dead. So, when he makes his will he leaves her what ever money he has to bequeath her tied up good and tight in trust company so that she cannot touch anything but the interest.
 He knows that every woman who has any money is the foredOonied prey of get-rich-quick sharks and all of her parasitic relatives. He has seen too many women sell their gilt-edge bonds and invest the proceeds in wildcat stock that promised to pay 40 per cent and never paid penny. He has seen too many lend their money without security to Deacon Jones because he prayed so beautifully,> or to Uncle John. because they didn't have the nerve to say No to member of the family.
 Above all, a good father leaves his daughters money in trust for her, not only to save her money but to save her from friction with her husband. She has seen many a man graft his wife's fortune deliberately, and he has seen many more good men, who were poor business men, bring their wives to pov- erty. And he knows that it takes more backbone than the average woman pos sesses to hold on to her money when the man she loves is continually asking her for it. So father saves her the necessity of any arguments on the sub ject.
 Are you doing these things for your daughter, MT. Man? Are you a good father?
 DOROTHY DIX
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asked as we left the dining room, my arm about her waist.
 No indeed You made a rule, cer- tainly I shall not break it. You see, it is the ethics of the thing. I consider personal questions had form" She had not forgotten one word I had said to her.
 l tried to think that she was only teasing me; that later she would tell me. l could not very we'll retract what l had said-would not. But when I remained out. business was the cause, while she had no such excuse. It was my right to know where and with whom she had spent her leisure hours.
 caught myself. I was quoting her. She was but getting even-childish-. like woman. I would forget all about it. Say no more.
 Garth Holden dropped in about 6 o'clock.
 'I took chance on your being in," he said as we greeted him.
 And now that you've come, you and Bruce must take me out later. I'm just aching for dance," Natalie said at once, mentioning the name of we'll known dancing place to which she wanted to go.
 I'm at your service-as always" Garth replied. his eyes only showing surprise. At what? I wondered.
 I telephone for table, as Natalie was always impatient about waiting to be served then we chatted until time to go. Garth and Natalie were danc- ing, and after watching them mo- ment 1 went out in the corridor to walk about and smoke where the air was better.
 When I returned, they were busily chatting and did not see me.
 You are indefatigable," Garth was saying. Dancing all the afternoon and as fresh tonight as if you hadn't danced for a week. I don't see how you women do it. It would Kill me-.
 So Natalie had been dancing that afternoon and Garth had seen her, known whom she was with. This ac- counted for the surprised look in his eyes when she said she was aching for dance.
 "So here you are," Natalie turned quickly. Come on. let's dance."
 She danced perfectly, and I was no novice myself. 1 never tried to talk to her when dancing; she disliked to dance with anyone who did. But my thoughts were as busy as my feet. I knew Garth never would tell me he had seen her-of course, I couldn't question him. l cursed myself for my tactlessness in { refusing to tell her where I had been when l had nothing to> conceal. Tho green-eyed monster was claiming me, I was jealous-furiously jealous. Sns was so lovely, so tempting:
 (To Be Continued N#
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Stryver, seizing Mrs. Jarr. "So sweet of you to come! You leave MT. Jarr right there with Mrs. Hickett and come right over here with me-
 MT. Jarr sank in a chair beside Mrs. Hickett, who was a thin, washpish old lady.
 Dreadful figure-dreadful - don't you think?" asked Mrs. Hickett in an inquiring tone, tapping her foot on the rug. A',w
 MT. Jarr thought she referred to the figure in the Persian rug and he re- piled: Well, the Persians call them prayer rugs. Pm always thinking though, we should take off our shoes tC walk over them, like the Mahomet- ans do."
 Barefoot? Gracious me! I never heard anything so dreadful P cried Mrs. Hickett. But I mean her figure" and she pointed her fan at her hostess.
 "Oh, you mean Mrs. Stryver's fat?" murmured Mir. Jarr. Well, she is plump, but I'm not here to criticise, you know"
 And neither am r. said Mrs. Hick- ett. But these affairs are So stupid !''
 And thus was a beautiful friendship renewed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-18
From The Wise

If there be one thing upon the earth that mankind loves and admires better than another, it is a brave man-it is a man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.-James A. Garfield.
 Genius does not need special lan- guage; it merely uses whatever tongue it finds.-Stedman
 Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid ocean.-Lowell.
 To write good love letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.- Rousseau.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-18
BATTLING BIRDS

"Its great thing to have brains," conceded the man who was gazing out of the kitchen window. If we didn't have brains we should be just as badly off as that bunch of idiotic English sparrows out there on the back steps,"
 What. have they done?', asked the man who had just dropped in and then happened to ask for a drink of water and so had been escorted to the kitchen by his host.
 q throw them old bread" explained the man who had started the conversa- tion. Because they are such pert lit tie beggars and it is so hard for them to work out living this time of year. What if they do make an awful racket and never sing? They're birds, aren't they? And we are supposed to be kind to birds. throw plenty of bread, and what do they do? Instead of sedately picking out their own pieces of bread and letting it go at that, each bird grabs piece. then looks around and sees that another bird alse has piece of bread, whereupon No. 1 drops his and grabs for that pre-empted by No. 2.
 "No. 2 begins to row and fight, and then No. 3 Hops down in the melee,  gets attacked by the whole bunch of bolsheviks. They peck and hammer and shriek and chatter and forget all about, the bread, usually flying away fighting to the death. The bread all dries hp and blows away and they go around tightening their feathers over their vests and saying: Gosh, but it's a hard winter!'
 ""Or else one solitary bird comes lalohg, sees tie provisions apparently scattered about by bountiful nature and goes nutty in its fear that it is going to miss something. First it grabs big piece and turns somersault trying to fly away with the, whole thing. It drops that and attacks another piece, plung- ing in head first and emerging with crumbs down its ears. After manicur- ing its face it finds itself standing with it's back to the whole line of bread. Gazing about it blinks distractedly.
 "What!' the bird says, breathing hard, can be mistaken A minute ago there were acres of food before me and now it has vanished! Who took my bread? Leave me at himv And the bird tumbleS about in a fit of rage and flies away boiling with wrath and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-18
THE COMMUNIST

THE CUMMONlSI Whatever belongs to any member of
 his family Belongs, as a matter of course, to him. While he was still in school He capitalized the respect and affection
 his parents had won in the com
 munity- He wouldn't be expelled. whatever he did, because nobody could bear
 to hurt his mothers feelings He knew it and behaved accordingly. At. sixteen, he borrowed his brothers
 ties, socks, vests. ..F "Why not?" he argued. Aren't
 your brother?'- :. t His clothes were always so spotted,
 worn, carelessly treated, That nobody wanted to borrow them,
 and he himself preferred the
 fraternal wardrobe.
 When he grew older And lost his job-which happened with
 considerable frequency He touched" Brother for loan,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-18
THE WOMAN OF TT
By mARouERlrE mooERs MARSHALL

("Can't help it, old boy, I'm dead
 broke. You know I'd do as much for you'). Only he never does, somehow If he keeps his own head above water,
 he's lucky; As for helping to support his old father, He's always going to do his share,
 when he finds a boss who really
 appreciates him Meanwhile perhaps Father would let
 him cash the Liberty bond cou-
 pons? After all, youN know, I'm your son And it's all in the family In moments of Irritation, he has been
 called the family parasite. But he simply applies to the home the
 Communist idea "A social system in which there is com
 munity of goods Though his relatives have the goods,
 he has the system! That's how he gets away with it!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-18
Home Nursing Il
FOOD-WHEN IT HURTS TO
 SWAVI.0W
By N. JEssiE LElvcH

SWALLOW
 Be careful, Sidney. Don't eat so fast" warned the mother of the small boy who had been i'll with tonsilitis. Little Sidney had been very ill, with high temperature and delirfum and an abscess on his throat. It was the kind of sore throat called quinsy, suppera- tive tonsilitis, which is exceedingly painful as we'll as serious,
 The Arnolds lived in a little scrap of a hamlet where both doctors and nurses were luxuries not to be con- sidered for a mere sore throat" Sid ney's mother had been very anxious and had spent sleepless nights nursing her suffering child.
 The. abscess had "broken," however, and Mrs. Arnold was beginning to see slight abatement in her duties of carrying lamentations, gargles, throat sprays and hot water bottles. An en- couraging sign was that Sidney had dis covered he could swallow, although he made the most alarming faces and twisted his mouth to one side.
 His mother had brought him, much to his disgust, not the toast and jelly he was sure he could swallow, but two soft boiled eggs in a warm glass. | His grandmother, gazing anxiously at the patient, thought that two eggs were too much for sick child.
 Not in this case, Mother" explained Mrs. Arnold, .trifle wearily. She had done a good deal of reading during her married life on the care of the sick and she was woman who seldom forget practical knowledge.
 
 severely as Sidney, the attack is very weakening.
 In the first place, one cannot swal- 1 low for several days but is actually in need of food. Then the, tonsils are directly connected with the cervical lymph glands and any disease attack ing these glands prostrates one and leaves an actual debility. That is why after quinsy or tonsilitis, just as soon as one can swallow liberal wholesome diet should be given.
 I'm hungry!" walled Sidney, talk ing instant advantage of his mothers words.
 But you've just had two eggs, dear. You cant possibly be hungry" she said gently. Next time mother will give you some ice cream made with real cream-won't that be wonderful? |? In the meantime you should try to sleep because that is the way for small boys to get back all their lost strength -by eating and sleeping
 Aren't you afraid of the fresh air on his throat?" her mother asked.
 No indeed. As long as he is warm in bed, the more fresh air he breathes the better for his poor sore throat" Sidney's mother answered. Then re- membering that her mother had said two eggs were too much for a sick child. she said
 You see, mother, by concentrating the nourishment and making it possible to obtain great many calories through few swallows, you solve the problem of feeding sore throat case"
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there hasn't been a blessed thing that she has wanted for since the day that she was born that you haven't given her.
 Why, you have almost broken your neck trying to get the moon for her when she cried for it., Pretty dresses, fashionable schools, good times. her own car, far more luxuries than you could afford her, you have lavished upon her without stint. You have
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Muller and the rest would not be aug mented by, the presence of lis spouse. There you see r said Mrs. Jarr. So if it is wrong for me to go where you go and not wrong for you to go where go. why don't you come with me-, You'll find that refined and cul- tured people can be pleasant company too.'
 So Mir. Jarr came home in time and accompanied Mrs. Jarr to the scene of refined yet restrained social pleasure.
 Why. you dear thingi" cried Mrs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-18

Are you a good father to your daugh- ter, Mir. Man?
 You smile derisively at my question. A good father to your little girl You'll tell the world you are! Why, she is just the very core of VOLT heart. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-18
Reflections of Dorothy Dix

Good Fdther Sees Tho His Duughter Is Taught Some Trade Or Profession; He Chums With Her So That He Can Help Select Her Husbomdn Aboue AU He Pro- tects Her tter Hts Death By Leaving Hts Money Ia Trust For Her.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-11

Washington, Jan. l0.-Drastic
amendment of the transportation and
railroad valuation acts was proposed
today in the senate by Senator La
toilette. of Wisconsin, leader of the
Republican. insurgent bloc. and the
man who yesterday brought about
the election of Ellison D. Smith, a
South Carolina Democrat, as chair
man Of the interstate commerce COM
mittee.
At the same time Chairman Smith
stated that he would call the COM
mittee together within a few days
and that it would handle railroad
legislation "sanely and in the man.
ner the people will want their repre-
sentatives in Congress to handle it,"
He will make statement tomorrow
further outlining his views.
The makeup of the committee
was completed today with the formal
confirmation by the senate of the
selection as a member of Albert s..
Cummins, of Iowa. who was deposed
tors had questioned the right of
Senator Cummins to a place on the
committee in view of the senate vote
against him for the craftsmanship,
but Senator Robinson of Arkansas,
the Democratic leader, obtained I'M
animous consent for the confirmation
of his appointment.
Under the amendments proposed
by Senator Lafollette. railroad rates
would be fixed on the basis of the cost
of service. Mr.. Lafollette explained in
statement that by cost of service
he meant operating expenses, plus
actual capital cost. such as interest
on bonds. plus fair dividends for
stock that represents money invest
ed.
Il reject the theory" Senator La
toilette said, that public utilities
have any right to earn profits on in
fiated and fictitious values"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-11
MacQueen, Noted
Lecturer Dies
at BOOthbay Harbor

Boothbay Harbor, Me, Jan. 10
Peter MacQueen. lecturer ard war
correspondent. died suddenly tonight
IN a hotel here. He became III I'M
mediately after making a speech at
banquet at which he was guest of
honor. He would have reached :he
age Of SO tomorrow. Some time ago
DR.. MacQueen. who suffered from
heart trouble. gave up his life OF
travel and became pastor of the Con-
gregational church here. He was
born in 'Wightonshire. Scotland. In
1865, and came to America in 1881.
He attended Hamilton College,
Princeton. and Union Theological
Seminary, and was ordained to the
ministry in 1890. later holding pas
torates at Bronxville, n. Y, West
Somerville. Mass. and Carlestown
Mass. Since 1898 he had been lee
turing on travel. having covered
100000 miles in various countries.
He was n correspondent in the
Spanish American war and with the
Beers during the South African war.
He was at the battle of the Marine
in 1914 nth General Foch and later
acted as war correspondent for AM
erican publications with the French
forces. He was the author OF many
widely known books on travel.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-11
Calvin and Crosby Freed

lIloulton. Me. Jan. 10.-Charlcs T..
Calvin. a former liquor dealer. and for
ner Deputy Sheriff Guy Il. Crosby. two
Of the government witnesses at the
federal court trial at which Sheriff T..
". Grant and Attorney w. $. Levin of
Houlton were convicted OF conspiracy
10 violate the national prohibition law.
we're discharged when their cases were
called In municipal court today.
They were arrested by order Of
County Attorney IIerschei Shaw upon
Instructions Of Governor Baxter which
later we're withdrawn when attention
was called By United States District
Attorney Frederick X. Dyer that they
had been granted immunity from pros
ecution In testfying against Grant and
levin.
brides from the protection fund" re-
tracted his plea of nolo contendcre and
blended not guilty. Harry NJ. Briggs.
counsel for both men. moved that ne
be discharged as the State was not rep
resented. County Attorney Shaw hav-
INK resigned Yesterday because of his
objection to the granting of immunity
of prosecution under State laws. The
motion was granted by Judge Robert
NJ. Iawls son of Martin Lawlis, who
las been nominated to succeed Sheriff
Grant.
Similar action was taken in the case
Of Calvin. charged with bribing Sherin
Grant and with being n common seller
Of liquor after he had changed his plea
from nolo contcndere to not guilty. lie
was considered the principal witness at
the federal trial ut Bangor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-11
Western Roads
Hold Attention in
| Rail Consolidation

Washington, Jan. 10.-Western as
poets of general railroad consolida-
ton proposals came up today. for in
terstate commerce commission con-
sideration when the divergence be-
tween commission proposals. and
views OF managementc of the Hill
Group of Railroads az to disposition
to be made of the Chicago. Burling-
ton and Quincy. Northern Pacific,
and Great Northern roads was elab-
Grated by counsel in legal arguments.
ri. A.. Scandrett. speaking for the
Union Pacific, however. expressed
qualified satisfaction with the con-
solidation suggestions affecting that
system. 49,
Bruce Scott, of counsel for the
Burlington, urged the retention of
Lthe three northwestern railroads now
associated in stock ownership Is one
unit with even greater fusing of in
tcrests. The Northern Pacific and
Great Northern should be considered
one system with IT, he agreed as
sorting that by allowing the Cofora-
do and Southern, n Burlington sub
sidiary., to come into complete as
ISOLATION, joint system could be
built up reaching from the Pacific
to Chicago and from the Canadian
border to the Gulf of Mexico. ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-11
Prominent British
Mason to Visit u. S.
On Mission of Order

London. Jan. 10.-Sir Alfred ROD
bns, president of the board of gem
cral purposes OF the United Grand
Lodge of Masons for England, IN.
tends to pay n visit to the United
States in the spring. arriving Mt New
York in the first week of March.
His visit will be in the nature OF
a Masonic mission undertaken with
the approval of the Duke or Con-
naught. Grand Master of the order,
in the belief that interchange OF ira.
ternal information to be obtained
will be conducive to n full under
standing among the two branches OF
the craft.
Sir Alfrcds first engagement is TO
address the Grand Lodge of Massa-
ehusetts which meets at Boston on
March IL; while on April 10 ne VIII
address the Grand Lodge OF New
Jersey at Trenton and short time
later the Grand Lodge of Missouri at
st Louis. His last engagement, ac-
cording to present plans, is to at
tend the meeting of the Grand Lodge
Of New York in New York city on
May 6. He has also received invi-
tations 10 address the Grand lodges
Of PENNSYLVANIA. California. and
connecticut. but the full details OF
MS tour have not been decided upon.
Sir Alfred Is distinguished Eng :.
fish parliamentary journalist ana
was "Doyen of the Lobby" when ne
retired from active journalism at the
end of 1929
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-11
Short Shrift for
German Separatists
Ten Already Hanged

Berlin, Jan. 10.-(By A. P)-Not
less than 10 Separatist leaders have al
ready fallen victim to lynch law ana
the Palatinate. according to reports re-
ceiyed here. although officials quarters
have not yet been apprised Of the eX-
tent TO which the popuace II netting
out summary justice to the secession
lists.
Authentic details of the killings OF
speycr including the Assassination OF
Herr IIeintz. president of the auton-
omous government" were unobtainable
in Berlin up to a late hour, but the
cabinet discussed the general situa-
ton in the region which is reported to
he extremely grave. with the possihili-
ty of further uprisings by the sepa-
ratiSts.
An apparently inspired bulletin is
sued here blames 1.-The brutal provoca-
lions of the separatists. who are open
ly terrorizing the populace with the
connivance of the French authorities.
for the sanguinary clash at Speyer. and
expresses fear that the. desperation to
which the nationalist have been
driven will lead to further outbreaks.
Mayence. Germany. IAN. lot is
reported from Frankfort that the sep
aratists have taken n number of host
ages at Zweibrucken. threatening to
execute them in reprisal for the as
sassination OF Herr Heintz, separatist
leader. at Speyer last night.