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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
ANNUAL ROAD BOOK BOON TO MOTORISTS
Guide Covers All Country East
 Of Chicago

The vacation trip by motor car to country, mountains and seashore Is now such an established practice, that for car owners each year it is only mat ter of deciding just where to go and how to get there, through all parts of the country:
 AS an aid in helping to settle this question for many motorists, The Auto mobile Club of America has just pub lished the eleventh edition of its annual road book, the 1924 Associated Tours Guide. The main highways shown in the guide are good hard surfaced roads and lead the motor vacationist through country of scenic charm and interest.
 The Guide covers by means of road maps and itineraries with mileages, all the country east of Chicago from Maine to Florida; also including Eastern Canada. There is also a transconti- mental tour from coast to coast that serves as a guide to eastern motorists coming west and western motorists coming east. The New England nu- neral road marking system is shown on all maps of that section.
 : There are also given in the Guides 90 pages, motor maps of the principal cities showing exactly how to enter and leave them; Canadian motoring regulations; and a concise table of the motor laws of all states.
 For the convenience of car owners the Club has had the Guide distributed through local motor clubs, book stores, news dealers, and druggists; motorists may also obtain it by sending the cost, fifty cents, to the Automobile Clubs of America, 247 West 54th Street, New York, N. Y.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
Workers At National C0pitaI
By HERBERT COREY

His hope is in some measure to take up the slack in agriculture. If a farm CT could be freed from the pest of tree and plant diseases and know how to get the very most out of his land, and learn in advance what crops he should plant against the world need, the farmers problem would be infinitely easier.
 We are working toward that end," said he. "We are very far from it now, of course, but we are moving on"
 Cooperative methods of growing and marketing are among Dr. Taylor's in- terests. It is a part of his task to in- vestigate the insects that carry diseases to plants, just as typhoid carriers spread that fever among humans. His men have learned that the white pine blis- ter, which threatened to destroy the white pine which one of these days will make abandoned New England farms into small gold mines, can only operate if it stops midway on a current or gooseberry bush. So that a barred zone is being established about the forests in which no current or gooseberry bushes are allowed to live.
 At Work On A New Wheat
 In the same way the black stem wheat rust can only propagate through the help of the barberry bushes. The bar berry is being blocked out through ten or twelve western states. The bureau is at work on new wheat. It can be profitably grown here, but it has not yet been shown whether it will work up into the right sort of flour for the sort of bread we Americans like to eat. That sort of little black current we used to find in plum buildings and nowhere else has been brought over from the Greek archipelago and in a little while we will grow our own.
 Half a dozen scouts are always in foreign fields, looking for new and use ful plants and the methods of raising and ripening and marketing them. It was Dr. Roc, bureau man, who found the chaulmoogra tree in the hin- terland of Siam and Burmah. No oth- CT white man had ever seen it. The tree is being acclimated now through our semi-trOpic country, for the chauI- mOogra oil is a specific against leprosy. The task in which Dr. Taylor is chiefly interested at the moment is the dis cOvery of a rubber plant which can be produced in the United States or ad-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
FINE SHOWING BY
 NASH MOTOR co.
Quarterly Dividend Of -$1.75 Per Share On
 Stock, Y.

At a meeting of the directors of The Nash Motors Company today at the offices of the company, Kenosha, Pres ident Nash reported net income of $1,- 5O1 ,OO0.35 for the three month period ending May S1, 1924, after deductins manufacturing expenses including depre- citation, selling, and administrative ex- penses, and after further deduction for local, state and federal taxes.
 DixidNnd action was taken in.e the form of a quarterly dividend of $1.75 per share on the outstanding preferred stock 4and a regular dividend of $3.60 per share and an extre dividend of $1.50 per share on the outstanding common stock, payable August 1st, 1924, to hold CTS of preferred and common stock of record at o'clock, p. m. July 21st, 1QA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
TRAFFIC TRICKS

Doing as others do is "a poor rule to go by in driving An automobile. Many drivers get away with the most fragrant violations in traffic just be- cause the traffic officer hasn't got eyes in the back of his head. But the head will turnl This applies particularly to those cities where there Is still some doubt regarding what is permitted and what isn't. ; -
 When you signal your intention to stop, try to convey some idea of the rate of your slowing down. Some driv. CTS put out their hands excitedly when they are merely easing off, while others signal languidly and offer no hint that they are going to stop in a cars length. It's just as easy, and a whole lot safer, to also signal your rate of deceleration.
 The rule of looking in only one di- rection when crossing a one-way street is logical enough so far as vehicle traf- fic is concerned, but what of the pedes- trian7 Until there are one-way streets for foot travel as we'll as for vehicles it's safer to look in both directions as usual
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20

"The wonderful increase of sixty-one per cent in Nash registrations for lief ferson county for 1923 over 1922 was due almost entirely to the worth of the car itself," says r. R. Mccormack, of Mccormack Bros. Motor Company.
 "Of course, our sales efforts and the wey we stand behind Nash cars had something to do with the remarkable increase in popularity which Nash en- joyed. It must be remembered, though, that the Nash was sold in large volume without the aid of an intensive adver- tising campaign. The Nash was ad- vertised very little, indeed, compara- lively speaking. However, very effec- tive mediums were used for the little advertising done and the car received the benefit of "by-word- d-of-mouth" ad- vertising from the hundreds of satisfied Nash owners here-abouts.
 I've have found that every Nash owner may be relied upon to say a good word for both the Nash car and our own organization. This is tre- mendous help in selling our cars; it overcomes much of the sales resistance in advance, since a satisfied owner is always the best advertisement to be had.
 "The growth in Nash sales here is only proportional to the rapid growth of the Nash factory. Only recently, Mir. Charles Nash was forced to buy in a new plant at Racine, Wisconsin, in or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
DOES His STUFF"
r 1isab Poet Collecting The War Sou. yeKlirs Of Himself

Te1lsz6 Poet Collecting The War Sou. s venirs Of Himself
 4 Having been out of the ligmelight for M ong time, partly because Mussolini eetdpies 50 large a share of that desir- a6ls area, Gabrielle d'Annunzio has set about collecting a museum of war tro- I1tss. prominent among which will be gfeh pieces of arms or equipment as hh#a had the honor to be connected Nh, his poetic self.
 2 Recently he requested the Italian air Authorities to present him with the old aifnlane in which he carried out his raid 0i Vienna during the war. The authori- us5 obiigingly complied, and the plane ha Deem sent to Gardone, where d'An- TsssSxio has perched it upon his villa, a afktOriale," in which his collection has 6 housed
 is now proposed to send also an af destroyer, unfit for use, which d'An- &aAkfo desires because of some naval
 ioit. The war vessel Is to be taken t pieces and sent inland to the Villa VlforiaIe, where it will be reassmbled aid set upon, the hill-truly an amazing E ctacle.
 eantime Marquis Boldni, friend a the poet, has come to London with fR manuscripts of d'Annunzio's most ( hous works. They are to be sold al aption and the proceeds will be used by tk8 author to erect a monument to Tlocnora Duse. It is rumored that ar Arterican collector recently offered dAnnunzio $20O,O0O for these papers bRkd,Annunzio did not care to sell them Tt that dme-The Living Age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
MAXWELL SPRING
 UNIQUE FEATURE
Design Has Improved The
 Cars Riding Quality, Says Murphy.

Maxwell and Chrysler engineers the men who have been responsible for the outstanding improvements recently built into the former-say that the spring suspension of the Maxwell mo- tor, a feature exclusive to that car, is one. of the greatest steps toward eliminating the transmission of vibra- tion'ever accomplished in engine mount. ing.
 This spring suspension design has unmistakably smoothed and otherwise improved general car performance points out W. E. Murphy, of Dominick- Murphy Motor company.
 Tt has accomplished two notable things. First, it prevents all percepti- ble engine vibration from being trans mitted to the car frame or to the body. It also insulates the engine against road shocks.
 This spring suspension is a simple device. Ordinarily the front end of an automobile engine is bolted rigidly to the engine frame, as is the case at the rear end. This places it in direct contact with the chassis frame and the entire body. Such practice, of course, transmits vibration throughout the car, often exaggerating it.
 Under the front end of the Max well engine is a platform spring whose ends are not shackled or otherwise at- tached to the metal pads on which they rest. By this method the slight bit of vibration remaining in the Maxwell engine is absorbed by the spring it. self. Road shocks, which hitherto have been transmitted directly to the engine because of the rigid construction. are also absorbed by the spring before hay ing opportunity to reach the engine it. self.
 "The result is readily apparent when driving. Owners in, all sections of the country are enthusiastic over the improvement"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
'LONDONs FATE IN BOxs

NrSak6ua Demand Opening Of MysteE1. Cus Cabinet of Joanna SOuthcOtt
 jsll London is placarded with posters a$aanding that the mysterious box left by Joanna Southcott, who died more tkah 100 years ago, be opened to save U0mdon from doom. A petition con fS3tin~ a2OO0 signatures, in a parce wenled with wax bearing the imprint oE9R Nvoman's thimble, has been sent ffbknsC Croydon to the archbishop of Can 4Ssbnry with the same demands. Fol lomers of the prophecies believe 1t IS hlRh time the bishops discover the con- taNka of the box and save London from irsnending disaster. Others are just hunanly curious to know what the writ i1Ses contain.
 The petitioners request the opening be made at the convocation of bish- oba soon to take place, for then will be present the necessary clergy to fol- low the instructions in Joanna's will. It was her admonition that the box shRuld be stripped of its fastenings only whsn 24 bishops were present. For fn8FH than a century the box has served 6 Intrigue thousands of persons, and how the followers of that strange wom- aia assert the writings she left so mys- eeE1OuSly VIII serve CO ueuFSE IAr "VAAu from its present evil.
 Joanna Southcott lived from 175O to 1874. Her father was farmer and sha domestic servant. Her home was at Gittisham, in Devonshire. She was reared a Methodist, but shortly before fS00 she became convinced she was a prephetess, possessed of supernatural gffks, and wrote and dictated prOphe- cies1 fin rhyme. Soon she announced she was the woman mentioned in Rev elation, xii, the woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve stats." Her followers, who called them ssfveE the Southcottians or Joannas, confidently awaited after the announce malt the birth of. the promised Messiah wtsm the prophecies of GA was to bring iuko the world. Their ardor was so Rreatr they prepared.;a costly cradle for tha expected infant, Eventually she died of a brain disease October 20, 1874.
 Her followers were said to, have num- bered more than 100, 900 but the sect rrandually died out until 1874, when hSF1 tombstone was shattered by acci- dental explosion. That served as a siinposed portent and rekindled the faith of the followers. Miss Alice Sey- present movement.-New York Herald TEtbune.
 nsour iS said to be the leader of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
SsNE.PRICE-F0R:
 OPEN OR CLOSED
Hndson.Essex Line Close
 Differential On Body Type

] Two developments, each of which has hken plainly on Its way for some time, c4x4b to a head suddenly this week with th& announcement of the Hudson Els sen line of cars. Most interesting of the Hudson Essex news was the fact that, on the super-six chassis, there is now offered an open and an inclosed csat an identical price. For a con- si4etable time there has been much talk mkhe whole industry about such a de- yeiopment. Many forecasts have been made. The Hudson Essex manufactur- i'm and sales policy in particular has been aimed plainly in that direction.
 WBut hopes, plans and prophecies have now given way to the fact iself," according to A. R. Pryor, Hudson Es- sex distributor. 'The Hudson phrase, closed car comforts at open car costs, is a definite accomplishment, and it isea- landmark in the history of the au- toMobile business.
 f recall, not many years ago, that closed cars cost practically double the price of open cars. A little later we had a standard differential of around $EOO0. When Hudson brought out the coach, it started something new in the bneiness of cutting this differential to alnuch smaller figure. Now we have ths climax of the open and the closed cars at an identical price.
 S&It is only in the Hudson coach, in- c1nsed, and the Hudson phaeton, open, that this identical price is obtained. In tho Essex, where slightly different con- difi0ns prevail, there still remains sSsan price differential. But it is never thnless much smaller than in any other liIa of cars Hudson-Essex production is sxunning about 75 per cent or more in coaches, and counting the regular sedan business, the whole output is af6und 90 per cent inclosed cars, which accounts for the exceptionally favorable prices.
 AOf nearly equal importance with this closed car landmark, is the adop-, ton by Hudson-Essex of balloon tires as standard equipment. This is the first tine a big producer has taken so rad icsta q step. The usual way of feeling oukE the market is to offer the equip meat at an additional price. But Hud- soia believes the public wants balloon tires, and it has therefore ordered them neuch quantities that the large addi- tional charge usually made has not bAen necessary. In my opinion we are enfering an era of quantity production tIs balloon tires which will bring their pI8ces down.
 ssBesides the coaches, there are the staadard open cars with balloon tires, ana two new Hudson sedans. These caks. like the coaches, have been much irSfoved by the balloon tires not only in riding comfort but in appearance. With the balloon tires have come new fasaders, larger and more handsome. The wknle impression is much better. The reE Hudson sedans are fine and large, win ample seating space. There is no haSdsomer or more luxurious appearing car on the road"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20

jacent lands, and which will free us from the tyranny of today's producers.
 The Farmer Getting Better
 Think what might happen if a bug were to spring up out of nowhere. and which would destroy the present rub Der plantations" said he. Experience has shown that it takes years to con quer such an enemy. What would we do without rubber for our automobile tires and our scientific machines, not to speak of other uses? Germany dis covered during the war that rubber is an absolute necessity today. But there are between one and two hundred rub Der producing plants and trees. Maybe we will find among them the one we want"
 Incidently,. Dr. Taylor has a Coue formula:
 Every day in every way" he says, .the farmer is getting better and bet ter. He thinks nowadays instead of using grandpap's formula. He reads. When, was boy he just sweated."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20

turned around so that the crack now faces the south. The relic wilf- be il: luminated at night.
 These arrangements<were ordered by Chief Neeld of the bureau of city prop erty to enable tourists and others to view the bell, who could not convenient ly do so in the hours during which the hall is open. Hereafter photographs of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
LIGHT FOR LIBERTY. BELL Glass Panel In Door Will Make ReIi, Visible At Night

A glass panel inserted in the south doorway of Independence Hall will en- able visitors to see the Liberty Bell after 4 o'clock in the afternoon, when the hall closes. The bell also has been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
WAaTEn No TINE

K Elora-"Jack tried to kiss me last atght."
 Dora-''What in the world did you DIT
 ssoh, I was up in arms in a minute. :" .sAnswsrs, London.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20

LETTER AND ENVELOPE Some men of letters plainly bear the stamp of being envolped in their own conceit. Philadelphia Builetin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20

WATCH YOUR BRAKES Have you brakes inspected today and save tomOrrow's flowers,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20

A woman appreciates how old she is when 1t becomes necessary for her to run out of the way of an automobile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20

persons posing beside the bell may not Be taken without official permit= Phila- delphia Public Ledger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
SHOULD REST BATTERY
Handy Thing To Know When Startin
 Engine

Engine
 A battery is capable of greater dis charge if it is permitted to rest at in- tervals. In regard to starting the en- zine this is handy thing to know, be- cause the starter takes the best the battery has to offer. Thus, if the en- zine does not start in a few turns. stop for about half minute and then step on the starter button again. The battery recuperates enough in so short time as to be able to deliver a much stronger current for the next few turns of the engine. This snappy cranking Is what counts in starting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-20
Entered Department In 1891

Entrance into the Department of Az riculture followed as matter of course, although the department was a feeble thing in those days. That was in 1891. He spent years in the field, promo. tion followed, and in the end he be- came the chief of not the least impor. tant bureau in the government service.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-09
ACTORS ON JOB IN
ENGLAND BUILDING
REAL LABOR UNION
Especial to The Daily worker)

especial TO The Daily WofkeF1
LONDON, Sept. s.-The Actors
Association Of Great Britain has
written to union authorities thru
out England requesting trade union
lists of all kinds to stay away from
performances given by the com
pany of Sir John Martin Harvey
organizer Of the actors guild, CO.
operative association which has
been making war on the actors
union.
Members of the profession who
objected to the closed shop demand
of the actors association broke away
last June and formed the stage
guild. The union has been upheld
by the general council Of the Trade
Union Congress, the highest trade
union authority in the country.
The union actors have the sup
port of the musicians and theater
employees, who are associated with
the actors organization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-09
officers Mobilize Inflammation.

SAN FRANCISCO.-Omcials of the
Ninth corps area of the army are ter
ribly concerned by discovery of leaf
let's circulated in San Franciso by the
Workers Party. The heated imagin-
alton Of the militarists has conjured
from the manifesto on the tenth an
niversary of the war, containing pre-
diction of another imperialist war to
follow, vision of "a red army plot
to aid other countries to conquer the
United States by means of revolu-
tion.' What they intend to do about
it the officers fail to state, but at any
rate they have referred their start
ling discovery of the class war to the
San Francisco police department.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-09
KHAN ON TRIAL
TODAY IN maine
STATE ELECTION
Hooded Order Getting
Slammed on All Sides

Will Maine swat the Ku Klux Khan
in Mondays election as it was swatted
by the Texans few weeks ago? This
is the burning question in Maine.
This issue of the DAILY WORKER
went to press to early for the returns.
Full account in tomorrow's issue.
The Khan vote will go to the repuh-
lican candidate, while the donkey
jockey will fall heir to the anti-Klan
vote.
The Khan issue was a godsend to
the democrats, who must be credited
with using good strategy in forcing
General Dawes to speak out on the
hooded order. The general straddled
the issue and did not please any side
too well.
The Khan is not enjoying smooth
sailing these days
Governor Blaine of Wisconsin, see
ing the handwriting on the wall, took
a walIop at the Kluxers when he sus-
pended District Attorney George B.
Clementson from Office, on the ground
that he favored the khan.
In Herrin, Illinois, DR.. John T.
Black, against whom charge of muir
der had been filed in connection
with the riots in which six men were
killed last week, was discharged when
he appeared in Justice Abe Hicks
court last Saturday.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-09
Join the Workers Party!
MOVING PICTURE
MENPATRIOTISM
IS KIND O. WEAK

The motion picture owners Of Chi
cago take their patriotism la mode,
according to the statements of Jack
Miller, president of the Exhibitors
Association Of Chicago, who has re-
fused to grant permission to de
tense day" speakers to rave for even
two minutes on September -.
Would Annoy Patrons.
ut would annoy our patrons" he
explained and added, I'VE can't af-
ford it,"
He offered, however, to permit the
local committee, composed of leading
militarists and capitalist figures, to
have slides run thru the machines of
every theater. The committee de-
clined this generous offer and de-
manded that speakers be permitted
to spill the piffle to the bored audi.
ences. Miller refused to consider
even 2 minute talks.
Taxis More Accommodating.
Taxi-cab concerns, and the elevated
system are not so obstreperous, it
seems. They have all promised to
decorate their conveyances with ap
Appropriate designs, bunting, pictures
and what not. Any young lady riding
home in a cab on that night can be
inspired with the thot that it is de
Tense Day"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-09
U. S. imperialism Spreads.

MEXICO CITY. Sept. S.-The talk
of ceding Belize or British Honduras
to Guatemala, with permission to the
u. S. to build railroad there. in re-
turn for cancellation of part Of the
British debt, is stirring up much in
teresting comment here. Such a step
would mean that the U. S. would com
pletely dominate Central America and
would get much stronger hold on
Mexico. Il would have the complete
commercial, military and economic
control OF the entire isthmus. Little
by little the U. s. is getting all the
strategic points in Latin-America.