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Mrs. Ray Smith returned to her
home in Portland last Tuesday, after
visit with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs w. D. Evans.
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Mrs. Mary o'Neil has gone to
Boise to spend several weeks with
her daughter, who is attending
school there.
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Mr.. and Mrs. j. P. Tye are enjoy
ing visit with their children this :
week. Mrs. E. C. Scharman anGs
daughter Aloise of Centralia, Wn.,
Mrs. B. B. Smith of Kelso, Wn. and
DR.. and Mrs. j. d. Tye of Eugene.
Oregon. They all met at Portland
and made the trip in two days H.
the two cars.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
THE SAVINGS HABIT.

In spite of the cost of living and the greater demands upon the average purse, the savings deposits of the people steadi- ly grow. This is comparatively a new habit for many people. It had it's origin during the war when saving was virtue that could not we'll be avoided. Many people then learned the cumulative effect of savings, no matter if the individual items were small. They also learned that it requires less current expenditure to be a little ahead of the game, than to live from hand to mouth. They learned that the gulf between being in debt and hav- ing money in the bank could easily be bridged by self-denial that was not at all painful. The banks were influential also in impressing such truths upon the peo- pie. The gain in self-respect alone has been worth all the effort, to say nothing of the gain in material well-being.
 Although employment, average work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
Mountain Born

The screams of cities still are in my ears; But here, in crag, and peak, and cliff, and
 hill,
 The mountains are contemptuously still. Each its own battlement of silence rears They hold no speech excepting with their
 peers,
 And I, whom once they spoke to as their
 friend, s~ Hear only silence that will not end. That silence speaks, and this my shamed soul
 hears: You sold your birthright for little lie, For many faces and broken sky, For man-made mountains. Here were we,
 your own, What need you look for mountains wrought
 of stone? That no young cedar, no black ferns can
 show Or snow-shoe rabbits, blue on yellow snowy Mary Carolyn Davies in the Quill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
THE SENATE LEADERSHIP.

The death of Senator Lodge brings the question of party leadership in the senate to focus. The chances are that the choice will be neither reactionary nor progressive. Were it not for his progressive leanings it is probable that the mantle would very gracefully have descended upon Senator Borah. Support for him would doubtless be difficult to win among the Republican senators, for he doesn't play the game with them, which is fatal to either coordination or leadership. It may be that the president will seek to influence the choice, in which case neither extreme would be indicated.
 Borah will probably succeed to the chairmanship of the committee on for eign relations, most unfortunate pros pect. There will also be fight to oust LaFollette from some of the positions, especially that on the finance committee, which he occupies by Republican favor, even though he is by no means Repub- lican. The line-ups and the maneuver- ings will probably occupy large share of the coming short session, and the public may expect little attention to leg islation. Perhaps it is just as we'll that this is so, for the legislation peculiar to the present congress has not always been of monumental excellence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
Watching The Parade
By JOHN PILGRIM

N TO ONE knows why he is called Hah-nus.
 M Short for Hans, maybe. Anyhow, Hahnus breezed in to see the bunch not long ago;
 Been shining up the ole gun," he said, happily. His eyes shone, and his reddish cheeks flushed and he gave out an aura of liveliness and good health. "Whenna we goin' to start for the ole woods! got the slickest shoe packs you ever saw
 No one set up the welcome boot in response to Hahnuss young clamor. Just sat there like set of middle-aged, hard-boiled bumps on a petrified log.
 You're not going with us this fall" said the banker. You're not safe in the woods. We can't take chances on you"
 Mind you, this meant something to dahnus. Not only are we-I say it with as much modesty as I can counterfeit-the only crowd of real, big woods, mid-winter sportsmen in town, but we set the social sporting pace likewise. We always come home with the game we go for. We so properly equipped to woods work for us year after year. To be permitted to go with us is a sort of hall mark on quality in our town. Hahnus went with us last year because we liked him.
 You are careless, Hahnus," said the banker. You forget how to handle your gun You are too full of the joy of life and beans and young pepper to remember that the rest of us do not want to have our vacation spoiled by you"
 It's too bad about Hahnus. But fool in the woods is the worst sort of fool It is no excuse to say he's young.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
HENRY CABOT LODGE.

The life of Henry Cabot Lodge some how divides itself so completely into two parts as to give the impression of two entirely different persons. In his later life Senator. Lodge was known as poli- tician Even his political life is divided into two eras. The first era knew him as statesman and legislator of unusual ability. The second era knew him as politician, not always of the better sort. The emphatic period of his decadence is during the latter years of the Wilson administration, when Senator Lodge per- mitted undisguised personal hatred visi- ply to color his public acts and decisions. He was leader in the campaign of vili- fication that descended so unjustly upon the head of Woodrow Wilson on his re- turn from the peace conference. To ms most bitter and implacable hostility may be attributed much of the failure of the senate and the president to arrive at some sort of working agreement on the Versailles treaty. Such record is en- tirely at variance with Lodges earlier conduct as public man, and was not to be imagined as latent in the Lodge of the still earlier period, when he was literary man, editor and college professor. There fore, the name of Henry Cabot Lodge,
 
 the name of Senator Lodge, the poli- tician, shall have faded from the picture.
 It is with relief that the historian will turn to that earlier period when MT. Lodge was editor of the North American Review, of the International Review, liar yard lecturer on American History, lec- turer at Lowell Institute, regent of the Smithsonian Institution and trustee of the Boston Athenaeum, besides the other sim liar. honors he enjoyed as the result of his earlier and not his later distinctions. His biographies of George Cabot, Alex ander Hamilton, George Washington and Daniel Webster are classics that are like ly to stand as authentic annals of in,- portant periods in our national history. His other historical works, treatises, es- says and stories also are referred to in collegiate courses as standard. It is not pleasant to think of man of such early renown and deserved reputation later be- coming politician of sort whom his own constituency would have rejected, had it not been for an overwhelming presi- dential majority that carried him with it to victory. However, the historical and literary works of Lodge will go far to counteract some of his political acts that will soon be forgotten.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
TRUTH SERUM AND CONSTITUTION

Before a convention of scientists in New York the other day, physician ad- vocated the use of scopolamin- -apomor- phia, the so-called truth serum," in po- lice cases and criminal court practice. He declared that after five hundred tests with the serum results justified its gen. eral use. He said that the effects of the injection upon an individual was to ob- literate all senses except those of hearing and speech, and that the patient will an- swer all questions with childlike simplici- ty without evasiveness or fraud. It was conceded that wrong answers might come when too much or too little of the drug was administered, or when questions were too long or too involved because under such conditions the patients brain might become tired. He added that administra- tion of the drug was a humane process of the third degree"
 Recently the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that application of the third degree to persons suspected of crime is illegal, and that information thus obtained by the police could not be used in trials of prisoners under indictment. In the courts decision no particular methods to extort information were speci- fled, but the principle was cited that un- der our laws person cannot be compelled to incriminate himself. A prisoner un- dergoing trial is presumed to be innocent until proved guilty in a regularly consti-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
Brief Nature Studies
By J. OTIS SWIFT

IN TO LIFE moved on this uncanny scene"
 says Otis Peabody Swift of the United Press, who covered the round-the-world flyers northern loop, in a home letter de- scribing Greenland peaks above Cape Fare well. "No trees, paths, signs of habitation, no smoke against the sky, no sound in the cold, dead air. The only movement of this frozen hell came when wind-storms, sweeping the crests, picked up featherly edges of snow fields, blowing them into new drifts.
 "As we watched the clouds broke from the face of the setting sun. The cloud shadows moved heavily across the lonely white expanses of glaciers. Behind the shadows spread an ever increasing, ever deep ening band of blood-red light, the reflection of the afterglow. That terrible light spread onward, bathing hundreds of square miles. Watching, in that cold, still silence, the scar let painting of that dead world, one realized why Vikings thought hell lay northward in the ever-frozen seas.
 Night came. The cold far shore faded from view. The mountains and the glaciers were lost in vague uncertain skies We saw Greenland only as a sombre mass Of dark ness on the western horizon"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
Tue Right Word
WHAT IS YOUR OPINION? fFind the Error in This Article.)
By W. CURTIS NICHOLSON

The issue concerns the accuracy of the following sentence: "You will be given an- other opportunity to, etc"
 "A Stableman Liberateur" writes, "The question as to the proper nominative of a passive verb when the said verb is one de- rived from an active-transitive verb is one of the nicer points of grammar regarding which grammarians undeniably differ. It thus re- solves itself into, what do the best authori- ties say on the subject? Granting this, who then are the best authorities? There are rafts of so-called grammarians, mere hack writing compilers from the collators and annotators of the works of other minds, au- thors that have never a single original re- search on which to base their writings and more than likely without the least qualifica- tions to prosecute such undertakings, and in the estimation of A Stableman Literateur," 1" will be pub-authority of their opinions amounts to just one magnificent zero.
 "It is the thorough, exhaustive student only, whose findings are at all worth con sidering, and such only should be accepted as an authority. Such grammarians were Lindley Murray, Noah Webster, and Goold Brown Read what they have said concern ing the point under discussion"
 Hindley Murray, Noah Webster, and Goold Brown, as quoted by "A Stableman Litera- teur," will be published in the next install ment of 'The Right Word.O What is your opinion? "A Stableman Literateur" con- cedes that "grammarians undeniably differ, but don't agree with those who allow as cor rect the sentence, You will be given an- other opportunity"
 Yesterdays Error.
 Wrong: The second sentence is not strict ly accurate.
 Right: The second sentence is not accu- rate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR MOBILE

What energy, vision and determination can do for a port is we'll illustrated in the case of Houston, Texas. Nobody outside of Houston ever thought of that city as a port, until recently. In fact, Houston wasn't a port until it's citizens audaciously made it one. The nations history presents few examples of similar public enterprise accomplishing the seemingly inpracticable.
 Yet of Houston the engineers of the war department declare:
 Houston occupies an almost unique
 position among American ports. Situ-
 ated on Buffalo Bayou, approximately
 50 miles from the sea, it has grown from
 an inland point, inaccessible to ocean
 traffic, to it's present position as an i'm
 portant gateway for import and export
 trade. Notwithstanding the existence
 near the mouth of its channel of the i'm
 portant and flourishng ports of Calves
 ton and Texas City, Houston has been
 able to attract large numbers of vessels
 up its necessarily restricted channels, due
 largely to the enterprise of the city and
 it's position as railroad center. The re-
 markable development of its ocean trade
 is an illustration of the tendency of ships
 to move inland in search of cargoes.
 If the people of Houston could work such a miracle with little bayou fifty miles from the ocean, and make itself a thriving seaport, visited by tall ships that steam by the long-established harbor of Galveston, surely the people of Alabama and Mobile can build a magnificent sea- port on Mobile bay. Mobile has unrivalled proximity to the Panama Canal and many Latin-American ports. And Mobile is we'll served by both rail and water. The miracle in Mobiles case would be not success but failure; for success seems in evitable and failure impossible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
If.aSONCE. 1NUI. UI.OXE!,R[
had another eIectionT9.irn. Eng

THEY'VE had another electien%ins Eng
 land. Every time you pick up a news
 " paper you find the British are changing premiers. John Bull changes premiers oftenel than John McGraw changes pitchers. Grea Britain has government by the revolving dool system; in and out before you know it.
 When chief executive is elected in the United States he can close up his country home and move to the seat of government under a four-year guarantee, but when { prime minister is put in office in England he knows he is like a timetable subject tt change without notice.
 If America had that type of government William Howard Taft would be president every two or three years, with Samuel Comp CTS getting his chance to form White House tennis cabinet every now and then.
 England has a system of relief premiers very much after the fashion of relief pitchers. No matter who's in the premier's box at the time. she always has few utility men warm ing up in the outfield behind the House of Commons
 Stanley Baldwin is now back on the mound. He was put in a year and a half ago but showed lack of control and was promptly yanked out. Ramsay Macdonald, a. much touted twirler from the factory league, being sent in to replace him. Ramsay was good at the start but grew wild in the final innings He finally aroused the suspicious of the casl tcustomers by proposing to arrange series of games with Russia. Baldwin, who is get ting to be almost as good a relief pitcher as Lloyd George, was returned to the box by almost unanimous consent Ramsay has ap- lad t0 IudOo Iandis
 Mcdonald, Labor Premier for about ten months, thinks Labor should have shorter working hours. The British people by their vote have shown they think British Labor should have shorter ruling hours.
 Mir. Macdonald, having been handed his hat, will now hand in his resignation. Under the European plan a premier resigns almost as soon as he has been discharged. This, in the case of England, is done only in order that the King can keep track of who's going and who's coming. The European adage is Premier today and gone tomorrow"
 Good morning, King" the British premier says as he hands in his resignation, I'm re- signing as premier" .+...-
 What's the name, pleaseY" asks the King
 Macdonald" replies the premier.
 'Ramsay!" exclaims the King. "You are leaving so soonT
 'Yes," replies the premier. That's the fault Labor is finding with the country; no job is steady anymore"
 Good :" says the King lowing the premier out, "Now can rub the Union label off tht royal hacks and stop noon lunches to working men in Buckingham Palace"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
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THE PIPES OF PANHANDLE.

THE PIPES OF PANHANDLE. I'm singer of ditties in hamlets and clties' By tinkling and twinkling old streams. woo all the muses on vagabond cruises A creature of fancies and dreams. I've light, lyric Tyre which never tire Of, thumbing and strumming all day On subjects quite tender vocally render A carol or sweet roundelay. Oh, I'm blithe and I'm merry-no elfin or
 fairy
 So joyfully welcomes the dawn. And I worship the night with hymn of
 delight
 In the haunt of the pheasant and faun. YLy pipes and my tabors entrance all my
 neighbors;
 never feel mournful or glum- So, perhaps by this time you've inferred from
 my rhyme
 I'm standardized hobo, or bum!
 '" ''@-' Arthur l.. Lippmann.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11

ing hours and wages were slightly less in 1924 than in 1923, and although the cost of living has not materially declined, yet the savings deposits continue to grow without slowing down. The total of such deposits in all banks for September, 1923, was $6,672,204,O00, which in SepsS.nber, 1924, had swelled to. $7,133, 99S, ,000. And even this sum represented gain of $46,557, ,O00 over the month before. This distribution of wealth among the people, or rather of actual capital, not only acts as a buffer between the people and dis tress when hard times come along, but is most effective preventive of hard times and depression,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
Modern Maids Maxinls

THE vote for Unfashionable Female is tied
 between the woman who hasn't bobbed
 her hair and the woman who admits she's happy wife. As for her whom both these caps fit-her place is in a museum. When a business man begins, "rve got the best wife in the world" the only doubt in his stenographer's mind is whether he'll add, "but there are some things she doesn't under stand"; or finish his sentence, land it wouldn't do for me to forget her birthday, so remind me, Miss Smith, on November 10'-
 q wouldn't" observed the Cynical Flapper, objected so much to this caveman stuff, If it were not always pulled by little thing who wears a 14% collar and tucks his chin into it."
 Yesteryear's romantic heroine blushed and palpitated over her first kiss-who knows. maybe the girl of to-day would do the same II she could remember it
 When a man declares that you can't argue with a woman," what he really means IS that SHE insists on arguing with HIM-instead of letting him tell her. A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
Forum Of The People
Concerning The Park Board.

TO the Edltor or The Age-Herald: Birmingham's park board is about the warmest thing we have before the public. The shortage in the comptroller's office has passed into the discard. In the park board the game called politics is being played to a gnat's bristle. If there was ever an office created that has proven to be of less benefit to the general public, it has escaped my notice.
 The original idea was a good one. Had it been allowed to function the same as the library and school boards, it would have proven a benefit to the city. The fact that Commissioner Harrison could not allow the parks and playgrounds to be controlled by a board of which he was not a member, has placed the city, in a very unenviable posi- tion. It would be just as reasonable for Mrs. Echols to be president of the school board or Dickson to be president of the library board.
 It seems that the city commission is aiding and abetting Harrison in his efforts to force Phillips and Thuston to accept Bowen on the board of parks and playgrounds. These gentlemen refused to accept Bowen, saying they preferred a more outstanding man. Re- gardless of this fact, the city commission again sent Bowen's name for ratification and yelled threat was given to Thuston and Phillips to accept Bowen or get the appro- priation cut down for parks and playgrounds.
 
 Bowen done that would cause his rejection by Thuston and Phillips? The answer is, that Bowen has done nothing. There is no record of his introducing any measure that would be of any real benefit or that he has ever dared to suggest or vote for any measure that Harrison did not approve.
 It is claimed that Phillips and Thuston are trying to run the board. Suppose these gen. tlemen did run the board contrary to the way that Harrison thinks it should be run, would the city be in any worse condition than it is with Harrison running the board? Both Thuston and Phillips are business men. Both are trained in the school of economy. Both are substantial citizens and taxpayers. Is Harrison any more to be trusted than these gentlemen? Has Harrisons past train ing been such as to make him better presi- dent of the park board that either Phillips or Thuston?
 As the matter now, stands Harrison has two votes. He votes for the nominee whom the city commission sends to the park board and then votes the second time on the ac- ceptance of the man he has helped to send to the board for them to accept. To the un- biased citizen, who is the innocent bystander, it looks that the real trouble with the park board can be located in the fact that it has just a little too much Harrison.
 W. Fl. PARKER.
 Birmingham, Ala, Nov. 10, 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11

tuted court. A person under indictment for crime, when subjected to the influ- ence of drugs, to certain extent loses his powers and faculties and cannot be said to be himself. Thus the effect of the drug may to all intents and purposes cause him to lose his identity.
 Under the higher courts ruling the proposed field of application for the truth serum" would appear to be closed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
A Matter Of Interpretation.

He was a newly-promoted corporal in the A. B. F. and had charge of a squad occupy ing an old, ramshackle building. In the dead of night, messenger arrived with an order which mystified him. It read: "G. H. 0. wants house."
 Not knowing what "G. H. o." signified, the corporal sent back the following reply |: "G. H. o. can G. T. H."
 When Headquarters received this message, the corporal was immediately ordered arrested and held for Court Martial. He was charged with using insulting language. At his trial he was order to interpret the offending mes sage. General Headquarters can Get The House" ]" he explained.
 Guy V. Price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11

The Republican administration, while declaring for reduction in governmental expenditures, might also take steps to prevent high officials in the party from overlooking the difference between meum and tuum
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
OUGHT TO TEMPT A PACIFIsT.

On reading that the opposing Chinese generals are offering $j0,0O0 for each others heads one perceives where the Chinese tongs acquired their quaint notions of sports manship.-Portland Oregonian.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
BELOW PASSING MARK.

A candidate for naturalization in the East was asked, "Who was the sixth vice president and where is he buried?" There probably was a sixth vice-president and wherever he is un- occasionally he is buried-Detroit News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-11
BOTANICAL DISCOVERY,

Among recent surprising botanical discov- cries please include the large number of out lying members of the Crabtree famly-Boston Transcript