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The Washington times., 1924-02-27
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HIGH BLOOD
PRESSURE
Physicians Discovery Called Norma
Safely Reduces IL To Normal
and Dizzy Spells Disappear.

Thousands who have dizzy spells,
eleeplessness, nervousness, shortness
of breath, pains in the head and i'm.
paired energy have been told by
physicians or insurance examiners
that they have high blood pressure.
The serious results are we'll enough
known to check 1t at once. High
blood pressure caused by overtaxing
the heart often brings on Bright's
Disease, apoplexy and sudden death.
Norma reduces high blood pres.
sure to normal. Often one bottle
will do 1t. Many have so testified.
1t is doctors prescription that's
harmless and is also much used by
women at the changing time OF
life who's usually have blood pres
sure above normal. Ask for Norma
at Peoples Drug Stores or any
other good druggist.
The name is
NORMA
The Washington times., 1924-02-27
HAVE A SMILE
WITH us
By Nat N. DOrfman.

wv HEN women rave about
w independence and eman.
w cipation. the married
guys who hear 1t are just about
ready to commit hari-kari for
losing theirs. ri
A fellow sent package Of
books up to his country home
last week, and IL the expressman
had handled it with care, as di.
rected, it would never have
sprung a leak.
Where does the cashier Of q
restaurant go during her lunch
hour?
No, Dumas, the police were not
justified in arresting you for hug
ging a strange girl. Doesn't the
Constitution guarantee you free.
dom Of the press?
Yes, Cornelia, you are right.
Man is inferior to woman by the
slight margin Of q marriage Ger.
tificate.
No. Aristides, bowlegged girls
do not get that way from bowling.
Yes. Martha. a pretty woman
is like q jewel, but II you get
tired Of the Jewel you can either
hook it or sell it.
The chief trouble with the
spicy stories we hear is that we
never can remember them when
we want to.
A girl Of twenty feels that the
most difficult thing in the world
is to lead a man to the altar.
At thirty she realizes the most
difficult thing to do is keep the
man she led to the altar at
twenty stay put.
The way the women sport ex.
pensive fur coats this season
you'd think they gave EN- away
with packages Of chewing gum.
Many q man who said he'd 20
through fire and water for the
girl he marries. means it, only
he'd go through fire and water
to get away from her.
The Washington times., 1924-02-27

Some seem to think that with
women it is clothes for clothes
sake. But think the reaction
OF the men to the glad rags of
the fair sex is about $50 per cent.
The Washington times., 1924-02-27

Useless-the boss recently &C.
quired son-in-law-strolled in yes.
terday, smoking a cigarette in an
amber holder that appeared to be
q foot long. He didn't stay a
great while. Nothing doing.
The Washington times., 1924-02-27

Essie has q new pair OF ear.
rings. two new finger rings. @
bracelet and a necklace. Know
ing where she buys such things.
I calculate she must be wearing
30 cents worth all told.
The Washington times., 1924-02-27
s.SS. thoroughly ride che body q

0sS6Se S00tOUSuly rios SUO 000y u
Rheumatic lmpuEitios.
the wrong idea about rheumatism
for IL years. didn't realize that
Increasing blood.cells had the eff.
feet OF completely knocking out
rheumatic impurities from the Sys.
tenn. That Is why began using
8. s. g.! Say what you viii, ]
never knew such startling results
were possible. Well, folks, besides
knocking out my rheumatism IL
gave me back some Of the strength
fused to have way back! I'VE got q
better color in my face, my appe-
lite 10 dandy. don't use my
clutches any more. I'm walking
around straight-up on two young
Legal" s. 8. 8. makes people talk
about themselves the way It builds
up their strength. BY building
blood-cells 1t builds nerve strength
for young folks who ought to have
more, and for older people who
have little. It stops pimples, boils,
blackheads, eczema, chases away
blood impurities. You can always
rely on 1t. Start 8. 8. 8. today for
that rheumatism. You'll feel the
difference shortly. 8. 8. s. is sold
at all good drug stores. The large
size 10 the more economical.
MGkes ySp FEEL
The Washington times., 1924-02-27

I'm going to ball next week.
And my costume will mike a hit
with the artistic gang. be- would
probably annoy the bluenVses ex-
tremely.
The Washington times., 1924-02-27

The principal pastime Of GER
tain persons around the office
seems to be spiIling the beans.
And I'll say it's some job to pick
them up.
The Washington times., 1924-02-27

In these wild days Romeo
wouldn't create a ripple. Papa
would probably loosen him from
the fire escape with a good right
hook.
The Washington times., 1924-02-27

Many a household has a civil
war on its hands. I've been in a
few Of them and / know.
The Washington times., 1924-02-27
FLIPS FROM
A FLAPPER
BY Flossie Flapper.

~OME birds I might mention
are so cheap that they'd
~ say 1t with dandelions.
The principal pastime Of GER
tain persons around the office
seems to be spilling the beans.
And I'll say it's some job to pick
them up.
That raven-haired stenog. over
on the first tire complains petu-
Iantly that her typewriter won't
work. Same with her, il the
truth were known.
Many a household has a civil
war on its hands. I've been in a
few Of them and ! know.
In these wild days Romeo
wouldn't create a ripple. Papa
would probably loosen him from
the fire escape with a good right
hook.
I'm going to a ball next week.
And my costume will make a hit
with the artistic gang. be- would
probably annoy the bluenVses ex.
tremely.
Essie has q new pair OF ear.
rings, two new finger rings. O
bracelet and a necklace. Know
ing where she buys such things.
calculate she must be wearing
30 cents worth all told.
Useless-the boss recently &C.
quired son-in.law-strolled in yes.
terday, smoking a cigarette in an
amber holder that appeared to be
q foot long. He didn't stay a
great while. Nothing doing.
You can lead q bonehead to the
fountain Of information. but you
can't make him take a sip.
Some seem to think that with
women it is clothes for clothes
sake. But think the reaction
OF the men to the glad rags of
the fair sex is about $50 per cent.
It may flatter a moving picture
star Of the first magnitude to
know that our red.haired office
boy has been fairly swept off his
fcet by her pulchritude. He's
now trying to master the type.
writer so that he may lay his
heart at her feet.
The Washington times., 1924-02-27

That haired stenog. over
on the first tire complains petu-
Iantly that her typewriter won't
work. Same with her, IL the
truth were known.
The Washington times., 1924-02-27

You can lead a bonehead to the
fountain Of information. but you
can't make him take a sip.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-23
Dauis And La Toilette Put
 Klan Issue Up To Coolidge
Troublesome Question Will Be Eliminated If
 President Denounces Order Y

of the country requires that the issue be taken out of politics. That is why La Toilette and Davis have spoken in un- qualified terms at the opening of the campaign. That is why Davis is urging Coolidge to do likewise.
 If Coolidge should maintain his si- lence, the klan question is certain to snarl up the presidential contest. It not only would precipitate a humiliating spectacle, but it would obscure the real issues in a fog of aimless argument. It would overshadow the issues of honesty in government, efficiency, the protective as against the revenue tariff. The ad- visibility of government ownership of railroads and other utilities, the wis., dom of checking the absolute powers of the supreme court-all questions which strike at the real problems of govern ment.
 Will Require Courage
 It will require courage for Coolidge to attack the. klan openly. It has re- quired courage for La Toilette to speak and Davis, too. For the Klan, once con fined to solidly democratic territory, has spread all over the middle west and now is strongest perhaps in republican states like Indiana. It is influential in Ohio and Illinois and in Kansas, and to lesser extent in other states nor mally republican.
 La Toilette, the first to strike at the masked order, risked alienating large blocks of farmer votes in the middle west. Many labor groups contain d large klan membership. Of course there are compensations for him, as for all other candidates in the foreign vote, the negro vote, the Catholic vote, and the vote of the large mass of people who do not be- long to or sympathize with the klan. Because of it's secret nature, the exact membership of the klan is unknown and politicians, always a timid lot, may be unduly fearful of it's power. Yet it has taken over the republican party in Indiana and has demonstrated it's power unquestionAbly in other states.
 Nearly Wrecked Convention
 In view of the fact that the klan fight nearly wrecked the democratic con vention, Davis too, displays great bold ness ill striking out without reservation on this issue. The party was so evenly divided at the convention that only by one vote was the attempt to name the klan specifically in the platform beaten. The cosmopolitan, north and east and the rural west and south have split the party into two bitter ia, tions. Davis declaration does not serve to heal that breach. Yet it will make him stronger in many of the large eastern states which he needs. He will be bitterly criticized in states like Georgia where the klan has gained control of the democratic organization, but he will hardly lose the electoral vote there, yet in many south ern states the klan appears to be losing it's influence In Texas for instance the leading politicians have united behind Mrs. Ferguson and against Judge Rob- ettson, admitted Klan candidate in the gubernatorial fight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-23

that the boys stole a typewriter from a University of Michigan fraternity house last October as a preliminary to the Franks crime. He said Leopold had used that machine in writing many let ters and that his family knew he had it. He asked the judge if such course was consistent, compared with the care of the boys on other details. He then argued that the late purchase at success sive stores of the rope, chisel, and acid used in the murder showed plainly that it was not being planned when the type writer was stolen.
 Says Hanging Futile
 Mir. Darrow overlooked no opportun ity to philosophize against the futility of hanging as preventative of murder. In one such interval he quoted the text of a poem, the soliloqy of boy on the gallows. On another occasion he declared the world had long been and for long would be Slaughter house."
 Why not read something? Why not study something? Why not thing. in- stead of blindly calling for death?" he asked.
 Just before the session ended MT. Darrow began to discuss the effects of the crime on the families.
 "1 know how easy it is to talk about mothers when you want to do something cruel, as some men talk about patrio- tism when they want to get somethinR. D. he said. Il know that my mother might be the mother of Bobby Franks AS we'll the mother of Richard Loeb or Nathan Leopold. The trouble is this. that if she has to ask herself how came my children to be what they are? From what ancestry did they get this strain l? How far removed was the poison that destroyed their lives? Was I the bearer of the seed that brings them to deathY
 ''No one knows what will be the fate of the child they beget or the child they bear, and that fate is the last thing they think of. I do not know what made these boys do this mad act. but do know there is reason for it.
 T know they did not beget them selves. I know that any one of an in finite number of causes reaching back to the beginning might be working out in these boys minds whom you are asked to hang in malice and in hatred and in injustice, because some one in the past has sinned against them.
 Sorry For Parents
 Il am sorry for the fathers as we'll as the mothers, for the fathers who give their strength and their lives toward educating and protecting and creating fortune for the boys that they loved {; for the mothers who go down into the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-23
ESCAPE FOTLED,
 NEGRO RETURNED
Northcutt Brought To Birming-
 ham From Montgomery

Birmingham police authorities ar rived from Montgomery Friday night, bringing James Northcutt alias James Richardson, who was arrested and held by Capital City authorities for Bir- mingham. Northcutt was wanted here on charge of grand larceny, follow ing an alleged burglarizing of store and theft of horse and wagon.
 With the return of officials with the negro, the story leaked out of an attempted escape by Northcutt at Montgomery Friday. It is said that Northcutt. while being transferred from one cell to another, seized a handful of shayings left b va carpenter and throw them into the eyes of Mont gomery Patrolman Dan Dees, North cutt fled, but stumbled and fell, to be recaptured by other officers.
 When Northcutf arrived here, he was removed to the Hillman hospital, to be treated for broken leg said to be sustained in his attempted escape.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-23
THE MARRTAGE PRoRTp,I

You can no more make yourself keep on loving some one to order than you can make yourself fall in or out of lowe with some one to order. It's like ask ing a small boy to light a street lamn with only a match. He can't reachE the whole things beyond him. That's the tragedy-the whole relationship is dependent on something that sails ss airily remote above your head as a drift ing cloud. To base on that an irreyoc- able agreement? It's simply asking for trouble. It's like jumping into ten feet of water without knowing whether you can swim or not, and then complaining because you're drowned.-"The Mar riage Craft" by D. H. $. Nicholson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-23
OF WALES
 SAILS FOR |. s.
(COntinued From Page One.)

 talk of over-awed buds. Girls who tango, however, may receive preference, for the prince recently has become a tango addict.
 The Berengaria, which is not exactly a coal-barge at any time, has been painted and polished as bright as a brass kettle in preparation for the prince. The ballroom floor has been scraped and waxed. The royal suite has been retouched in white, and the smell of paint is still strong in his highnesss bedroom, which was defiled Thursday by the curious inspection of sightseers.
 The five-room suite, which boasts two baths, includes a veranda lounge, with wicker chairs close to windows that overlook the sea, while opening from the lounge is the first salon, it's white panels trimmed with black. White and blue tapestries and up- holsteries complete the setting in the salon. The breakfast room is done in walnut, with an electric fireplace in one corner. Then there is the princes bedroom, spotless in white, and lastly, the equerry's bedroom, which nobody has bothered to inspect. All the rooms have been smothered in flowers, while will be changed throughout the voyage.
 The prince has decided not to take the boat-train from London to South ampton but to come by small-boat in- stead, in order to avoid the crowd which was determined to ride down with him. On board he probably will keep within the liberal boundaries of his own prem ises most of the time, which will not be very close confinement inasmuch as his suite and veranda are larger than some peoples country places.
 There are no more reservations to be had anywhere on the Berengaria. Neither influence nor bribery, both of which have been invoked by disappoint- ed and belated society people, could obtain q stateroom now.
 The engine force of the Berengaria has rigged up the electric camer' in the gym so that the prince may prac- tice in preparation for the polo tourna- ment on Long Island
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-23
HEARD AT NORFOLK

Get Queer Mixture of Dots And
 NORFOLK, Va, Aug. 22.-Strange signals, unrelated to any known code and sounding distant and warbling like far away train whistleg were picked up out of the ether here today by the powerful radio receiving set in the office of the chief dispatcher of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad.
 B. A. Mabry and B. c. Cowan, vet eran operators in charge of the set, said the signals were composed of a queer mixture of dots and dashes which continued for about 15 minutes. For purposes of comparison, they said the sounds corresponded more to "WF" in the universal code than anything else they ever heard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-23
By RAYMOND CHAPTER (Leased Wire To Age.Herald.)

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-Davis and La Toilette have put the klan is sue up to President Coolidge. Following the example set recently by Senator La Toilette, Davis, in his seagrit speech, de- nounced the order by name, declared it has no place in national campaign, and invited Coolidge to join him and thus remove this troublesome and ir- relevant question from national politics.
 Coolidge probably will do so in the very near future, either in his address to the Holy Name society here early in September, or in an open letter.
 He made a yelled criticism in his ac- ceptance speech but did not mention the Klan as La Toilette and Davis have done. Otherwise he said essentially the same think-he lamented appeals to re- ligious bigotry and racial prejudice. He has been busy writing letters to negroes lately assuring them that he wants a square deal for the black race. It only remains now for him to drive his view point home by mentioning the Klan spe- officially.
 With all three candidates definitely opposed to the klan, it would cease to be disturbing factor in the national campaign. The spell of the masked or der, which has wriven hundreds of timid politicians to the storm cellars would be broken. Danger of dragging in heated religious arguments would be averted.
 Coolidge also has a divided party on his hands. The republican convention, well controlled, avoided raising the is- sue. But it was there nevertheless. If the president looks at the natter from the point of view of votes alone, he must weigh the large republican klan vote in states like Indiana against that of the negroes who are threatening to bolt and who could vii out republi- can majorities in some states.
 But all three candidates are men who have the welfare of the country deeply at heart and it is safe to say that in the long silent hours of thought which they have given to this problem, they have been moved by other more i'm portant considerations than the num- Der of votes that would be affected.
 klanSmen Earnest
 To take a pronounced stand against a large block of organized citizens, who undoubtedly are moved by motives as patriotic as those of their opponents, re- quires great personal courage. Members OA IHo Aldn dHS Ou lhc Wuolc uSOply religious and are as sincere and firm in their convictions as the Pilgrims who undertook the hardy adventure to America because of their religious con victions. They believe they are right and to single them out for attack is going to wound them deeply.
 But this is an issue in which con- science, rather than political expediency, undoubtedly weighs heavily with the candidates.
 Davis, La Toilette, and no doubt Coolidge also, believe that the welfare
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-23
DEATHS

0. H. LacItmond-o. H. Lackmond. aged 67, died Friday night at a local mfr mary. Funeral services will be an- nouhced later by Ridout.
 CIoughtOn E. Head-rhe body of Clough- ton E. Head. 16 who died Friday morn ing at a local infirmary, will be sent Saturday morning to Cox, Ala, for burial, Vice ih charge. He is survived by his father. D. H. Head, and three brothers, Herbert Julian and Cecil. Captain Thomas GOodlOe McGahey-Fu- neral services for Captain Thomas Good Joe McGahey. 6S, who died Thursday will be held Saturday morning at 10 o'clock from the residence at 112 South Hawkins street. Interment will follow at Elmwood. with Johns in charge. Auastasis BOllas-Funeral services for Auastasts Bolias, 59, prominent Greek merchant of Birmingham, who died Thursday at a local infirmary. will be held Saturday afternoon at 3:3O o'clock. Interment will take place in Elmwood, with Johns in charge
 Charles McGreen-Charles McGreen 42 died Friday at local infirmRry. Flu neral arrangements will be announced later by Johns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-23

shadow of death for their children, who nourish them and care for them.
 They are helpless. But when you are pitying the father and the mother of poor Bobby Franks what about the mothers and fathers of these two un- fortunate boys and what about the un fortunate boys themselves, and what about all the fathers and all the moth CTS and all the boys and all the girls who tread dangerous maze in dark ness from the cradle to the grave?
 And do you think you can light it by hanging these two? Do you think you can cure the hatreds and malad- justments of the world by hanging them? You simply show ignorance and hate when you say it. You Lay here and there cure hatred witt. .ove and understanding but you can -dd only fuel to the flames by hating in return.
 "For Gods sake, if the state in which I live is not kinder, more human, more considerate, more intelligent than the mad act of these two mad boys, am sorry I have lived so long"
 Mir. Darrow removed his eyeglasses when he started to talk and laid them on the shelf in front of the judge. He used them only when he referred to brief notes, some of which had been scribbled upon scraps of paper.
 Then he would either toss them back on the shelf or hook them over his forefinger whence they gleamed as he shook that finger at the prosecution or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-23
EXPRESS BUILDING
 BRINGS $125, ,OOO
Property Only Recently Pur-
 chased As Investment

The American Express company building on the northwest corner of Nineteenth street and Morris avenue, which brought around $100,000 in a deal four months ago, again changed hands Friday at q reported figure of $125,O0O.
 The property was purchased by the Smith-Arnold Investment company from the Mathews Improvement company for an investment, it was stated. Eugene NJ. Smith is president of the new hold ing company, with Dr. Fred G. Arnold vice president.
 NJ. r. Messer, president of the Mes ser-Johnson Realty company, engineered the transaction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-23

swept his right arm up and down in singing gestures of emphasis.
 The slouched left shoulder hung inert through the most of the effort, sup ported only by the hand thrust into a side pocket of the familiar baggy trou- sers. When that had come out of the pocket it jumped up with jerk to Q level with the other, to be waved side ways as the orator erased from con. sideration some of the states argu. ments or to be resoundingly slapped by trip hammer right as he emphasized some of his argument.
 The right forefinger, however, was could demand death for youths of IS and 19 years of age.
 Again the forefinger would point straight up above the speakers tous- eled gray locks to descend with light
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-23
ALSO IN NEW YORK
Strange Code Is Mystery To Ope
 ratOrS.

Strange Code Is Mystery To Ope-
 ratOrs.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 22.--Signals of mysterious origin, received withpeculiar frequency were reported tonight by radio operators of station WOR. The station is keeping an all night watch in an endeavor to "listen in" on Mars. Chief of Station Operator Poppele de- clared the signals were distinctly heard on a wave length of 26,000 metres of more than two hours commencing short ly after z o'clock. He explained the sounds were recorded quite faintly at first the degree of loudness increasing as they continued. Despite the clear ness of the signals, the operator de- clared no known code. could be disting- uished.