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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-30
MARION, ILL, BARS
 MASKED PARADES
Prisoner, Held For Wearing
 Hood, Is Heavily Guarded

MARION, H., August 2a.-Parades of masked Ku Klux Klansmen hence forth will be prohibited in William son county, Sheriff George Galligan declared today.
 The sheriff's statement was made aft CT an all-night vigil at the county jail where he and deputies armed with riot guns and one machine gun, stood guard, anticipa ting, they said, an attempt by klansmen to iberate J. l.. Lashbrook of Harrisburg, H., who was arrested in Q klan parade here last night for wearing a mask. No effort was made to free the prisoner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-30
COURT ENJOINS
 BREWERY IN HILL
Refuses To Order DestrutiOn
 Of Underground Plant

CHICAGO, August 29.-A temper. ary injunction was granted in United States district court today against a semi-underground brewery, near Frank fort, Ill. Judge Adam c. Cliffe took under advisement the plea of the gov ernment for summary destruction of the property. The goyernmen: was un- able to identify all the operators, but asked to enjoin John Doe, Richard Roe and man designated as McNichcls. A recent raid disclosed a fully equipped brewery and beer vat valued at 20.000 in the hoilowed side of hill in elump of timber.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-30
Fo HnAR WELCOME
Radio Fans May Hear Mayer Patrick's
 Greeting,

Radio Fans May Hear hfayoF Ea6r4eA,A Q
 Greeting,
 NEW YORK, August 20, Millions ef radio fans will listen on q historic occasion when the American round-the- world flyers, soen after landing at Toe Tickle, LabFadsF, don head phenez and receive greetings and congratulations spoken by their chief, Mai. M. M. Pat rick, whose voice will be bfoadcaeted on the air from Washington on the evening of the Labrad0r landing; 6ee- retary of War Weeks, if in Washington, may precede General Patrick with 3 spoken greating.
 Tha event has been made possible through the possession sf sradiophoRs receiving set hF Lemuel Parton. epr- respondent of The Age-Heraid and the North American Newspaper Alliance, who has placed his set, the only enc ir tho f8s north, at the disposal of the American flyers. Admiral Magrudor, Capt. Lyman Gotten and officers of the U. s. S. cruiser Richmond will be among the party listening at head phones in the award room of the Rich mond, awaiting the greeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-30
SENATOR GLASS INIPROyEs

BYNCHBURG, Va, August 29.- Senator Carter Glass condition is much improved tonight, 1t was stated By his son, Howell Glass, who saw his father this afternoon. Senator Glass was feel ing so much better that he wished to attend the funeral services here today of a namesale, Miss Carter Glass Maber. but was dissuaded by his. phy- sician from doing 50.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-30
THR0NCS GREET PRINCE OF WALES ARRIVAL
Experts Plan 70 Function Monday With Youna As Chief
TRUCK OF BEER FOR COP GAMES IS OVERHAULED

c TANToRD, Conn.,, August 20. - A truck of real beer, which,
 according to two mensfn charge, was en route to the annual police games conducted by the New York police department, was seized here today. The two men were ar- rested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-30
THE WEATHER

: Alabama: Fair Saturday and Sunday. Mississippi: Fair.
 Georgia: Fair.
 Tennessee; Fair. cli
 tCSmplete weather data Is on page 1ol.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-02

students, from America, who have gained some of their most valuable inspirations from theS9sfamous works of art.
 Millions. of Americans have not only enjoyed looking upon these treasures, but they have been uplifted by their influence and have been inspired to higher achievements. By one who has spent the day in the gardens of Yer sailles or'who has visited Fontainebleau in all it's artistic glory, such gift may be regarded as a practical investment for the benefit of people of every civ ilized land.
 The world of art and the field of ar chitecture, whether in permanent con- struction or landscape setting, have been made broader and better by Versailles, Fontainebleau and Rheims. Those tri- umphs of genius exercised no little influ- ence in the courage and patriotism of the French as expressed in their deter mined stand against despoilel's of the nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-02
THE RAISING OF SHEEP

A Montgomery citizen, who formerly was engaged in raising sheep in the West, has demonstrated that in Alabama sheep raising can be made practical and highly profitable industry. For many years this industry was success fully carried on in many parts of the state. There are ideal lands in the cen tral, as we'll as the northern, regions for sheep raising Pastures in many parts of the state are equal to those in the most favorable districts of Scotland for this industry, while climatic conditions are such as greatly reduce the cost of housing, which is required in the colder districts of the Northwest.
 There is one drawback to the develop ment of this industry on an extensive scale in Alabama. That is the roaming, vagrant dog. With removal of that diff ficulty, which could be easily done through properly enforced laws, the in- dustry would be encouraged. Other states have solved this problem. There is no reason why Alabama cannot do likewise, without injustice or unreason- able hardship to dog owners. A few large tracts in this state devoted to sheep raising in such ways as the Montgomery county citizen followed would be worth while and would strengthen the claim of the industry to public attention and pro lection.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-02
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Modern Questionnaire at q Girls College

Modern QuestiOnnaire at . Girls College |. Should a young woman take her whisky straight before she has entered her sopho- more year? 7. Do American universities for women need more dormitories or more ash trays? 3 What is the best way to roll a cigar cite?
 f. Should inhaling be compulsory for ad- mission to the freshman class?
 3. Is it proper for a student to save cigar store coupons for her professor in English 6. For the dean?
 (. Should the modern girl attend classes in broad-toed shoes and derby hat?
 s. Should juniors go to house party shoot ing affrays unescorted? l&
 Mems College .;,
 l. Should the carrying of flasks to chapel be made compulsory? 7s2s ?. How many members of the faculty can you whip?
 8. How many times have you been ar rested during your university course?
 4. Do you think a four-year course in an American university is sufficient to qualify a young man to try out for an outfield posi- tion in professional baseball?
 ,. Is it possible under the present curric- ulum to master all the dance steps in three years?
 6. Of what value is a university training if at the end of a college course a graduate cannot pitch an out-curve or qualify as life-guard at Manhattan Beach? .-I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-02
THE NINTH INNING

It was the last half of the ninth inning. The bases were full. Two men were out. Of course, the home team was one run be- hind and the count stood three balls and two strikes on the batter. Thousands of fans stood breathlessly waiting. Not voice could be heard in the huge grandstand.
 Out on the field the cOachers waved hys- terical arms and shouted incoherent advice to unheeding base-runners. Infielders gath cred in the center of the diamond and of fered quavering encouragement to the pitcher, who was nervOusly rubbing the bah in his glove. ssa9
 The umpire glanced at his indicator, dug his spikes into the soil and waited to judge the OncOming pitch. The hurler stepped to the mound. Feverishly the batter smeared dirt on his hands, seized his bludgeon in a strangle grip and waited his fate.
 Not q spectator breathed. Slowly the pitcher tied himself into a combination ac- cOrdion knot and Chinese puzzle. Then he suddenly unwOund and shot the ball like a meteor to the plate. The waiting batsman stepped forward to meet it. Then, out over the stands there came a roar that shattered the tomb-like silence and jarred the con crete stands to their very foundations.
 Get your fresh creamery buttered pop corn "'-R. A. Drysdale in Judge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-02
What is Big BusineSS2
By JOHN CARLYLE,

The United States contains ony six per cent. of the worlds population. But the United States converts into forms for human use one-half of the worlds basic materials coal, iron, copper and oil
 In 17S2 when the close of the revolution made a nation of us, the estimated wealth of the whole world was set at 100 billions of dollars. That was after forty centuries of accumulated effort.
 In the 40 years in which the United States has been a nation our wealth alone has reached the staggering sum of 300 bil- lions of dollars.
 America with its six per cent of the worlds population uses fifty per cent of all the print paper in the world. What a tre- mendous story that fact alone tells
 In twenty years our population has in creased forty per cent. Our factory volume production has more than doubled
 In 1906 there was one automobile to every 1,1SS persons.
 In 1920 there was one automobile to every eleven persons
 Twenty years ago there was one telephone to each ninety persons. Today there is one telephone to every eight persons.
 We produce and use ninety per cent. of the automobiles of the world.
 We produce fifty-four per cent. of the worlds iron and sixty-nine per cent of its cotton.
 And so on. Amazing statistics might be piled up in columns.
 What does all this mean?
 It spells victory in the marts of the world.
 But do these figures spell ultimate victory in the long run of civilization? Is there nothing to be mixed with this if there is to come true triumph in the affairs of men?
 A comparatively small number of men are in command of these agencies for prOduc- tion. A comparatively small group is re- sponsible for this industrial supremacy. Without the brains and ingenuity of this group such material progress would have been unthinkable.
 And now, if the world is to be admins tered for the greatest good of all, this group must feel it's responsibility in administra- tion of the things it has created.
 This industrial group must regard itself as the true aristocracy of goodwill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-02
The Thought Worm
By DIR. FRANK CRANE

A thought came into our house about two weeks ago. If it had been burglar it could not have given us more uneasiness nor caused us more loss
 There are many trouble-makers in this world of trouble. There are meddlesone neighbors, the fool friend, the officious rel ative, the sower of disc6rd and the kinder of jealousy, but thought can beat them all, even the devil himself.
 Thought are things" is the title of lit- tie book by Prentice Mulford, and worth reading, if only for it's title.
 For thought can do worse than tyrant on a throne. It is a thought that makes surfeited millionaires and rotting slums, and if one could just reach in and adjust that peculiar thought as one tinkers a clocks in- sides all would be changed
 It is a thought that maintains militarism, an absurd, Outgrown, utterly irrational thought, as useless as a vermiform appen- dix.
 It was thought that sent the flower of European manhood to die in the Crusades, and made one-half of the world torture the other half in the name of religion.
 It is a thought that can estrange two lovers, destroy household peace and send a weak minded body to suicide. -
 And it makes no difference whether the thought is so or not Rumor as well as dirty water can make typhoid fever. i
 Thought is the coma bacillus of souls.
 Oh, that some one would invent thought. killer or a thought-remover, or some doctor give us a ,thought-pill! And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous
 stuff
 Which weighs upon the heart!
 A thought crept into our house, as was Qnv the one who was concealing it, knew of its existence. But we began to peak and pine. Gloom sat at our table. Clouds and dark. ness gathered around and in between us. We grew petulant. Everybody did things everybody else misunderstood. There were surreptitious weepings. Hints of which our house is usually bare, swarmed like mice. We forgot to kiss. We all became painfully polite. F..t ' Every one thought he had done something terrible, and wondered what it was. fSus- picion moved in and became our star boarder.
 At last l discovered it. caught my ht- tie girl crying. I went at her like a Sher- lock Holmes and wormed the secret out of her
 It seems she had come to the conclusion, on absolutely irrefutable evidence, of course, that we didn't love her any more"
 Then we girded up our loins, gathered to- gethGr, and with mighty strokes of love clubbed that ugly thought to death.
 It was severe on the little girl, for the thought had fastened like a cancer on all her insides. and when we killed it and dragged it out it left her all weepy and tired and nervous, much like pulling an ul- cerated tooth.
 But we had it out. thanks be, and now joy and sunshine reign; we wrangle with our old-time glad-heartedness, the kissing has set in again, and nobody N happier than the little girl who had the thought worm biting her souL ,-'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-02
TEACHERS PENSIONS

The suggestion for a pension system for teachers in the county public schools who have rendered efficient and faithful service, but whose efforts are impaired by age or physical disability, is right and proper so far as it goes. But the super annuated teachers necessity is all too Frequently the result of under-payment. No one who is familiar with the situation in the teaching profession generally, and especially in Jefferson county, will con- tend that salaries of teachers are paid in proportion to their service or commen- surate with their usefulness. They are rendering one of the bost important of all services in preparing the youth to become efficient and productive. They are among the nations greatest assets. Yet most of them are required to pinch throughout the year to make ends meet for very modest living. Few are able to save anything over their salaries for a rainy day.
 If teachers are financially reduced to the need for pensions in old age or in- firmity, it is partly because they have not been sufficiently paid to enable them to save and invest something to provide . for the future. The fairest and most practical plan to provide for such an emergency is for the salaries of teachers to be increased to such point as will en- able them to establish a savings fund. That would be an inspiration to the teachers for greater usefulness, would enable them to feel more independent and more secure in their work, freer from anxiety, while giving the best that is in them to their duties.
 Another benefit from such plan would be realization by teachers that their efforts and services receive high degree of appreciation from the public. Such a situation would be helpful to the public which needs to be educated to broader recognition of the value of good schools and more of them, good teachers, more of them and better paid teachers. A pension plan is right and proper, but it needs to be supplemented by incomes commensurate with the service rendered..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-02
SAVING HABIT AND BUSINESS

Any merchant who might have been appl'ehensive that the growth of the sav- ings habit among the American people might be at the expense of the retail business should be treasured by the April report of the sixth federal reserve dis trict. The figures show that, while the savings deposits showed an increase for the year of 8.6 per cent, the retail business for April was twelve per cent. more than March, and "A per cent. more than1for April, 1923. This in crease %as general and reported by every cityA+*ithin the sixth district, in cluding Birmingham. The savings habit adds to the general prosperity, and con tributes to the easiness of credit and the cheapness of money. Money on deposit does not mean less money in circulation, bNt more even distribution of money. M,Rey in the bank in miscellaneous ac- coui$s is like electric current in storage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-02
Watching The Parade
By JOHN PILGRIM

Most of us thought that Merrill Thomas would never snap out of it, the last time that he broke down nervously. For years he had been carrying heavy load. Three years ago he began to get warnings that he was nearing the end of his strength. The day after he had a sort of an hysterical fit in his office he went to Palm Beach for three months stay. A year later he repeated and went to California.
 He's about due to pop" said his office mates six months ago.
 But pop he did not From time to time his eyes seem to be about ready to start out of his head and his skin gets ashy and his hands cold, and then he gets all right again.
 What's the new flea?" asked him this morning. What cure have you found now? Diet, fresh air, cold baths, radium tOnics, crude oil, Osteopathy, golf"
 Detective novels" said Merrill Thomas.
 Thomas simply cannot work at half pres sure. When he tolls he acts like a steam engine with the safety valve lifting. But the moment he feels 1t borne in on him that the only way out is to kill the office boy and burn the office he closes down the big desk, goes out home, lies down on the couch and begins to read Old Eagle-Eye yarns.
 By and by he goes to sleep. When he wakes up ae reads some more. No one is permitted to enter his room or telephone to him or come in to cheer him up, or tell him gossip. It goes hard on his wife, who thinks no one can find out why-that he is some how being cruel to her in going into the silence. But-what he says goes. After day or two or three or a week he comes out bright-eyed, refreshed, and ready for the biggest job the office can heap on him.
 But not every one can do that" com plained to his doctor Hes a rich man and can do as he pleases,"
 "Bosh," said the doctor. "We haven't sense enough to do it. That's all. All that nine tenths of the nervous invaIids need is rest plus an interesting book. No golf"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-02
Forum, Of The People
More Bonus Suggestions

10 the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Noting that MT. H. I. Phillips question naire in Fridays Age-Herald lacked much of being complete, and in order to further assist in the protection of our government and the elimination of "red tape" I append herewith some nasty but important sugges- tions and additions:
 l. Can you explain Einsteins theory of relativity? If so, please do, as you are the only man in the world who can.
 ,. Give correct answers to Edison's twenty questions as to capability for holding down a $15 per week job.
 3. Are you white or colored? If so. why? A. Were you gassed in service? If not, you will think you have been when you get through with the examination.
 5. "A' being the known quantity and "x'' the unknown quantity, what will be the net result? Don't fail to note this, as it de- termines the amount of your bonus, and you are entitled to know this. =
 6. If soldier and a half march a mile and half in day and half, how long will it -take-Dzget this bengsyinsHranee2 g, Please publish before it is too late
 L. M. HARRIS. Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-02
Brief Nature Studies
By ,. OTIS SWIFT

In June and May the Indian cucumber root, Medeola virginiana, a perennial herb, with simple, slender stem, displaying near the middle a whorl of oboyate-lanceolate leaves, and growing from horizontal white roOtstalk, is found in bloom among ferns, blueberry and huckleberry in rich, damp woods from Minnesota and Maine south ward.
 The common name refers to the fact that the crisp tuberous root tastes something like cucumbers and is supposed to have been one of the delicacies of the red Indians. The nOdding flowers are insignificant, greenish. touched with terra-cotta, and are generally overlooked.
 The classic name is bestowed after the Sorceress Medea because it used to be thought that the root had medicinal qual- ities. Medea helped her sweetheart Jason secure the golden fleece, and by the magic preparation of herbs restored his old father. Her activities with the black arts, herbs, etc, would have got her into trouble had she lived in modern times, and the district attorney would undoubtedly have interfered with her conduct of love affairs. She didn't add much to the harmony of society in her day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-02
The Right Word
SUBJECT TO INTERPRETATION (Find the Error in This AFticlel
By CURTIS NICHOLsON


 The first sentence in the last test read as follows: Some one tried to remember what their name is." There was num- Der of contestants who felt that the sen tence lent itself to several interpretations. It will be impossible to quote all who com mented upon this sentence, but a few ex- cerpts follow
 Nathan Bengis, New York: "I take it for granted that the antecedent of their Is different from that of some one. If sOme one tried to recall his own name, then, of course, their is wrong and should be changed to his." (Note: Mir. Bengis should have omitted that before "of some One,'' for the meaning of his communication as it stands is as fol- lows that the antecedent of their is different from that the (the antecedent) of some one. He should have written, ''the antecedent of their is not some one"
 Miss Anna Morgan, Gallipolis, O.: T think one would need to know the context to be sure of the first sentence. There may be several whose names were in question. l hesitated a little on the final 'is,' too, as l do not know but that the sequence of tenses would require waS" And Miss Morgan wrote the sentence as follows: Some one tried to remember what their name is." The fore going sentence was marked correct.~ (NOte It is better English to say, ''as the sequence of lenses might require was," than to say "as do not know but that the sequence of lenses would require was."D
 James H. Taft, Jr. Upper MOntclair. N. J.: "U Some one tried to remember what their name is. co. K.,-reference being, for instance, to the family name of two per sons, that is the same and always has been the same.)"
 Answers such as the following were mark ed correct: Some one tried to remember what his name is; Some one tried to re- member what their name is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-02
Longing
(By Matthew Arnold)

Come to me in my dreams, and then By day shall he we'll again.
 For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day. Come, as thou cam'st a thousand times, A messenger from radiant climes, And smile on thy new world, and be As kind to others as to me.
 Or, as thou never cam st in sooth, Come now, and let me dream it truth: And part my hair. and kiss my brow. And say: My love, why suffer'st thou? Come to me in my dreams. and then By day I shall be well again!
 For then the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.