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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
INDUSTRIES OF ALABAMA

Forty-seven counties are represented in the convention of the Associated In dustries of Alabama in the fifth annual meeting here today. The industries be- longing to this organization employ 130,. 900 men and have a capital investment of more than half billion dollars. Un- doubtedly, therefore, this organization is a pivotal one in the development of the natural resources and industrial oppor- tunities of this state.
 It is particularly appropriate that one of the sessions will be devoted to lec- ture by Judge William L. Huggins of Kansas on the subject, Conflicting Forces in Industry" Judge Higgins is regarded as an authority on the relations between employer and employe and on the problems that frequently demand solution, or are sources of discontent and unrest unless solved. The industrial leaders of Alabama have tremendous responsibility to keep labor in Alabama satisfied, industrious and justly treated. No serious labor difficulties have de- veloped in this state, nor will they, if in- dustrial leadership in Alabama is en- frightened and abreast of the times.
 Birmingham is glad always to be the gathering place of conventions, and par ticularly those of industrial nature, for Birmingham is nothing if not industrial. It is the worthy ambition of this com- munity that it shall be progressive, not only in the efficient manufacture of raw materials and development of industrial opportunity, but also in the intelligent stabilization of those human relation ships without which no industry nor in dustrial community can attain it's proper daStinV
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
TETIS COAI,S STORY

A search for "coaI balls'' in the coal meas ure of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Iowa, has been a particular feature of geologic survey advanced last summer by Dr. Adolph Noe, paIeobotanist at the University of Chi cago. The first 'coal ball to be discovered in America was found in Illinois in 1922 and since then Dr. Noe has been working to in- crease knowledge of them.
 Coal balls" are rounded limestone nodules found in the coal bed. They contain per- fectly preserved fossil plants of the kind that formed the coal beds of the world in the car boniferous age. These peculiar formations have been found in European coal measures since 1886 and have given to science an ac- curate knowledge of the plants that lived on the earth during the period when the coal beds were being laid down-F l.. Clark, in Coal Age
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
DISCOUNTS MEXICAN REVOLUTION

Another war in Mexico, shrieks the head lines Huh! Gen. Angel Flores hasn't a chance. No matter how fond Mexicans may be of revoluting, they are not likely to go in numbers to the banner of a man who ill the last election could muster only 5OOOO votes for the presidency to 1,360,0O0 cast for Gen. Plutario Elias Gales. They like to follow winner. The obstreperous Flores is whip ped before he starts. His revolution isn t likely to spread beyond Sinaloa, his own state, and probably will make very little impression there Mexico is recovering from 10 years of revolution and brigandry. Production is be- ing restored and the people are becoming pros porous They like it. The Flores revolution won't go far-Los Angeles Express.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
DIR. DOWELL'S ATTITUDE

Nothing Dr. Dowell could have said or done could have won the approval and cordial good will of the people of Ala bama better than his simple request to the governor that the directorate of Ala bama Polytechnic Institute be called to- gether to consider the situation developed by one wing of the alumni of Auburn and the charges brought against it's pres dent. President DowelPs declaration that he will do nothing to retain his posi- tion, "other than faithfully and fearlessly to discharge the duties of the office to the best of my ability" is proof at least of clear conscience and commendable devotion to high ideals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
FRANCE GUSTS ANARCHISTS

The intellectual and political toler- ance of France is greater htan that In any other country. But there are limits beyond which license of speech and of action may not go, even in France. Those reds who planned to overthrow the peace of France have found that out to their sorrow. They are paying for their treach- cry to their foster land by being thrown out bodily. Sixty of them were sent over the frontiers Sunday, and others will fol low as rapidly as they are apprehended. This action is more or less summary, but in an emergency the French do not per init criminals and anarchists to use the benign cover of legal technicalities to protect their nefarious activities.
 And yet the French authorities are not without discrimination and just appraisal, even in hectic emergencies. Of five hundred persons arrested Sunday, sus- pected of communistic activities, all were released except the few found guilty of improper associations. That there was grim purpose behind the communistic threat is proved by the assassination of a policeman who was merely on guard before a building in which communists
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
The Right Word
A FRENCHMAN'S OPINION (Find the Error in This Article.)
By W. CURTIS NICHOLSON

A short time ago "The Right Word" an nounced that it was curious to learn how readers pronounced the name La Toilette. The first letter received on the subject is from Frenchman, who writes as follows: "As a Frenchman I would say that the accent (find the error in this artcle), on the word La Toilette should, in my humble esti- nation, be on the second syllable"
 The parenthetical expression the foregoing letter was inserted by the writer, MT. Frank G. Duke of New York City. "The Right Word" asks MT. Duke whether in French pronunciation any one syllable is accented more than another
 Yourselves" Unnecessary.
 Julia S. Hamilton, New York City: "Please be kind enough to let me know whether the following sentence is correct: When you lie yourselves down at night ........'."
 Answer: Either lie is wrong or yourselves should be omitted as, When you lay your selves down at night; When you lie down at night.
 'Like" and "As.'' H. NJ. F., Pullman, Wash: Please tell me the correct use of like and AS, as con junctions Are the following sentences cor rect: CD It seemed like we had walked twenty miles CD They looked like sisters (3) You look like me? Answer: As if is correct in the first sen tence. Like should not be used to introduce clause. Like, proposition, is correct in the two last sentences.
 Yesterdays Error.
 Wrong: There is yet time if he comes inside of an hour.
 Right: There is yet time if he comes within an hour
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
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Old Age.

.) Old Age.
 lN UEEN MARIE, of Rumania, recently IN J received at her palace a peasant, who brought authentic documents to the effect that he was 159 years old. The Ger
 man newspapers in reporting this incident do not attach great credence to it. Yet 15S years is not so incOmprehensible as the case, generally mentioned in German hostory books, of the old man of the year 1245, who claimed that he had attended the Council of Paris, A. D. 362, and also the baptism of Clovis Roger Bacon's skepticism reduced the mans age to 300 years, still a respectable number. In 1913 there was published at Turin the life
 of man who is said to have lived nearly 400
 years, enjoying full use of his faculties. In
 the 17th century a Scotchman, MacCrane
 lived POO years and talked of the War of the Roses. The lives of the saints are also rich in old people--St. Simeon is said to have lived
 ITO years St. Narcissus, 165; Paul the Her
 mit 113, while the monks of Mount Ethos
 often reached the age of 150. To go back to
 antiquity would be too great a demand on credulity. For apart from the figures in Hebrew mythology, where Adam, Enoch, Methuselah lived to the ripe ages of six and
 seven and even nine hundred, the Greek classics also abound with such instances Epaminondas is said to have seen three cen
 turies pass and Lucian tells us that Tiresias lived 600 years on account of the purity of his life. But of course that latter account
 was intended as pure propaganda for the licentious young scoundreis of TIresias' day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
WILSON AGAIN HANDICAPPED

Although the party that won in the recent German elections is called social ist, it is significant that the party which called itself communist was quite en- gulfed, electing only fourteen out of a total of sixty-two new deputies to the reichstag, or German congress. The Berlin correspondent of the Associated Press declares that republicanism has won out over monarchism and com munism. It is obvious that socialism in Germany is something different from what was formerly known by the term, just as it has proved to be different in France. The socialists in both countries have split into two wings, conservative retaining the old title and radical wing now called communist. The phenomenon is encouraging to students of popular government, for it shows that no gov ernment left to the popular vote IS ever extremely radical. The monarchists, who would restore the old imperial rule, lost from fifty to sixty per cent. of their previous strength in the reichstag and the socialists gained thirty per cent, al- most exactly equaling the loss suffered by the communists.
 This election is of worldwide meaning, for it represents popular endorsement in Germany of the Dawes plan and the new processes of rehabilitation and repara- tions payments. Evidently the German people have not been fooled by pre- election efforts to make it appear that the provisions of the plan were being applied in a manner unfair to Germany. Ludendorff, often represented as the idol of the German populace, was repudiated most humiliatingly. The Germans are not going to turn back to the regime that brought all their troubles upon them. They are reaching out their hands to grasp the hands of those who are honest ly trying to help them out of the depths of theif economic depression. The Ger man people, in whose rightmindedness Woodrow Wilson repeatedly expressed confidence, have spoken-and they have vindicated the confidence of Wilson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09

knows who Will Irwin is. He is one of the worlds foremost journalists and cor respondents. During the war he was with French, British, Italian and Amer. ican armes as special correspondent of the Saturday Evening Post, the London Mail and certain American metropolitan newspapers and syndicates. His work was in high demand because of its quai- ity. Both the railroads and the public will get a square deal in his present series, but it is likely that the public will find out the truth about many things that the railroads, at least some railroads, would far rather keep under cover. But the public interest is at stake, and the success of the Panama Canal is threat ened. The people ought to know all there is to know about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
Watching The Parade
By JOHN PILGRIM
THERE are squads and squads of old peo-
 pie in our town. It must be almost as

THERE are squads and squads of old peo
 pie in our town. It must be almost as healthy as our real estate men say it is for the death rate seems to be about nix.
 "Too many of 'em are afraid to die. That's why" said Doc Henneberry.
 You can tell that sort as they hobble along the street. Always a wrinkle between the eyes. A worried look. Some of them seem frightened.
 "The only thing they think about when they are alone," says Doc, lis death."
 And along with them are scores of fine up standing, happy, clear-eyed old men and women who do not worry at all. You can see that at a glance. When the end comes they will go cheerfully, knowing that they have lived well and fully. Doc has theory to account for the difference.
 "The scared ones" he said, "are the selfish ones, who have thought only of themselves They have too many mean things to think back upon. Too many memories they would like to forget. They have been sensualists and money-grabbers and narrow"
 The others have not always been religious men and women. Some of them have been irreligious, in the sense that they have not worried themselves about doctrine But they have lived beautifully. They have been kind They have sought and found beauty around them. They have spoken well instead of i'll They have had innumerable interests apart from their business cares. Sport and hunt ing and reading and pictures, perhaps-any thing that would take them away from the everlasting contemplation of themselves.
 Look at their faces," says Doc. They're hanDy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
ADS AND SIGNS

Local ad: Baby, buggy and sulky."
 Sign in Springfield: Bath alone, 10 cents. (Best way Why crowd the tub?)
 Ad. in Lexington Herald: For sale Plums and damsels."
 Sign in HooIlywood restaurant: "Try our semi-fresh caviar"
 From an advertisement: Paint covers a multitude of sins. We've got the paint; have you got the sins?"
 Sign in laundry: "We do handwork; no lie!' (All right, we believe you.) :.
 The notice, "This Farm For Sail" reused tourists curoisity Approaching the farm CTS wife he inquired when the farm was to sail. "Just as soon as a man comes along who can raise the wind" was her prompt and smiling reply-Boston Transcript.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
Brief Nature Studies
'ITH us the white-throated sparrow
By J. OTIS SWIFT

. u: .ba ns ss %aan ass nsa complete a song in its fall migration as it does in spring, and even sings somewhat in bright, warm spells in winter," writes Beecher s. Bowdish, Secretary and Treasurer of the New Jersey Audubon Society, Newark, N. J. Tt winters with us more or less and in varying degree. think it highly probable that almost every winter some of these birds are never very far away, even if not imme- tdately locally present. ~ :; .-t Hast year male white-throat was heard singing daily for quite a little period on the Hackensack River near Harrington Park, and in the late summer a young bird which could hardly have travelled very far appeared about the grounds of friend in Upper Montclair. Il have seen the birds at Demarest at late as the 12th of June, so it would appear that occasionally white-throated sparrows nest or at least remain for the nesting season in Northern New Jersey Chester A. Reed gives the range of the white-throat as North America east of the Rockies breeding from Northern United States to Labrador and Hud- sons Bay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
MONEY CARRIES GERMS

Most people are willing to face good deal of peril in order to get bank notes, whether they represent marks or kronen or good pounds sterling. But paper money has its dangers as well as it's advantages, for 1t Is sometimes carrier of disease, writes, the med ical correspondent of the Children's News paper (London).
 For most animals, paper, even dirty paper is not nourishing article of diet, though goats, rats, and ostriches occasionally devour it; but germs seem to flourish on dirty paper money, and so disease may be spread from pocket to pocket and from hand to hand Metal coins may also carry germs but germs do not so easily attach themselves to smooth metal surfaces.
 Investigations lately carried out at Berlin showed that disease germs are not infre, quently found on dirty paper money, and germs of typhoid fever were found to live from Il to 96 days.-Kansas Cty Star.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
GOING DOWN!

Dear Reader: After you have worried a bit about thing, wouldn't it be good idea to bring it to your attention and then drop it
 You may be able to do this by substituting another thought-something pleasant, which will occupy your mind until the thing worried about vanishes.
 It is greater to drop disagreeable line of thought than to get a new one An original thought always comes where an annoying one has been dropped.
 Get hold of your mind and make it behave. Very truly yours. ----------------
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09

had gathered. It is thought that the deportations may ultimately reach into the thousands. This is pertinent com mentary upon the character of many of those who sought sanctuary in France from danger elsewhere. Doubtless they merited whatever fate they were trying to escape in some other land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
PrimO's Trap.

Le Matin has discovered the trick by which
 the Spanish directorate broke up the threat ened revolution few weeks ago. The hench- men of General de Rivera set very artful trap. They hoped to ensnare among others Vicente Blasco 1banez, Angel Pestana and Professor Unamuno. The plan succeeded only partially. When it began to look as if riots and gatherings of great masses of people would develop into an armed insurrection and know ing that most of the revolutionary leaders were either in France or in the northern Basque provinces, the government sent out dispatches among the malcontents to gather at certain assembling points in the foothills of the Pyrrenees. The messages were in the code of the revelutionaries, who did not sus- pect that a traitor in their ranks had sold the secret of the revolutionary code. The mal- contents started immediately for the border. Those in France were nabbed by the French police and held on the charge of gun running and the others had an exciting time keeping out of the clutches of the Spanish police, mobilized en masse for their capture. None of the leaders were caught in the net. The next move was to call out a general mobiliza- tion of the Spanish armies. That brought all the insurgents under martial law, for if they did not turn up they were classed as deserters
 This trick the Spanish government learned from the late Dr. Kuyper, of Holland,t who suddenly mobilized the army during railway strike in 1903 and thereby turned the scales on the strikers. Drafted in the army, they had to perform the same duties as in civil life, but at army pay, which was considerably less than the wages they were wont to receive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
RefutahOn.

A reader writing to this department de- plores the fact that "Romain Roland has been placed on a pedestaP' because "he is and always was an anti-Semite" A charge of this kind against that luminous spirit can not be substantated Roland is universalist.
 He has forever striven for the high ideal of single humanity, of united Europe. It would be inconsistent in the man who wrote Above the Battle and who conducted that almost superhuman campaign against hatred during the war, to discriminate against the Jews. And we find him saying in Jean Christophe that in France he has found 'the Jews the only people with whom free man can discuss something novel-something that is really alive. |. Unwittingly they favor the germination of the seed of thought" And Christopher was made to realize rather early in Hollands work that the Jews were the people who valued his work as an innovation for its own sake No trace of ant-Semitsm in Roland. But rather search for truth. Aud truth is not always pleasing to the ear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
Being a Matter of Interpretation

Being Q Mhtter OI ahterpretdtIoH
 A lady friend and her little daughter from the city, writes Frank Robertson, were visit ing Jacks mother. Jack was duly appointed to amuse the little girl.
 The little girl beautifully dressed, was quite naughty and the two children did not mix" very well.
 After their departure Jack was asked his opinion of the visitor and the verdict was very unfavorable.
 His mother hinted that she was a bit stiff to which Jack replied: "Yes, she must have been dead long time."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
THE BEAUTY OF BALDNEss

Those who know Dr. George A. Baldpate will recall that the famous traveller IS as bald as his name would imply. Unlike many, the Doctor is in no way sensitive about this feature and even likes to tell an anecdote in which his lack of hair played an important part.
 II was in the Liberian hinterland," says the Doctor, hunting tapirs and okapi. There were also a>few wapiti about. elusive beg gars they are, too. My party were quartered at the Garrison at Dom, for the country was in state of uprising and we thought it wise not to stray far from the military.
 However, once I am on the trail of big game I am relentless and will never give up. One afternoon my gunbearers, beaters, and l flushed a gigantic wapiti who led us mad chasefar beyond the limits of prudence. On our return journey we found the way barred by hundred or more natives whose howls of joy left no doubt as to their intentions l drew my men back among the ruins of an old temple from the top of which l could see the garrison ten miles away.
 "An inspiration seized me. Snatching off my hat l exposed my head to the binding tropical sun and could see the long rays of reflected light streaming down into the valley. Directing the main beam toward the garrison soon had the satisfaction of seeing an an- swering flash from the heliograph in the com pound A moment later I had delivered my urgent sos signal and ssaw the troopers rid ing out of the main gate. The natives were caught between our two parties and com pletey destroyed. The only casualty on our side was severe case of sunburn which made it impossible for me to wear hat for several days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
Tho N;lL of Human Kindness

Mrs. Burnham: "Yes, we are the cream of society,""
 Mrs. Hatcher: "So l notice. A bit thick"
 Copyright 1924. Reproduction ForbiddsnJ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09

It is dangerous to encourage singer. Recently Chicago actress praised the singing of Pittsburg vocalist, who was so overjoyed that few weeks later he up and married her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09

Although two South Carolina murder CTS expressed regret for their crime, the governor refused to pardon them. This sets a mark for other governors to shoot at.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09
Pay Parade. Too?

M Guy Lanay, one of the editors of a Paris newspaper, deplores the fact that France has not got the inspiring function used by the English when a change of cabinet brings the retiring ministers to the king to hand in their seals of office and their port, folios. He would introduce the custom in France, but he would not have it take place in the seclusion of the palace of the president. He would have it out in the open "as little family affair in which all citizens must learn to take an interest" He also suggests a cer- tain ritual procedure. Like the change of guards in front of any European palace, he would have the retiring and incoming min isters face each other in extended column The president of the republic should give out the commands: "Old guard, attention ?!
 Present portfolios Down portfolios ' Next: New guard or ministry, attention !' 'Pick up portfolios" Present portfolios " 'Old guard dismiss Charming idea, also for Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-09

It seems to be part of the code of a janitor to furnish heat when the weather is warm and turn it off when the weather is cold. A janitor won't go agin nature.