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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-14
Forum OF The People
The Modern View OF Evolution
e Editor of The Age-Herald !:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
In the matter of selecting scientific books
for the state schools. and nearly all books are
more or less scientific books. the commission
faces an embarrassing situation.
Some would have the commission eIimi-
nate every book or reject every book on ev-
cry subject of study that had any of the evo-
luton theory in it.
In the first place that is wholly out of the
question. All scientific subjects now are
treated on the basis of evolution and in the
second place there is justification for such
q radical step.
The objection in the minds Of the patrons
of public schools is based on view of the
doctrine of evolution as held in the latter
half of the nineteenth century, which is very
different from that of the twentieth century
Science has made its great progress in the
discovery of those laws and secrets of ma
ture which have SO enriched eur life within
the last 70 years, upon the principle of unity
and Wilderness of the universe; with its uni
form laws governing and relating all things.
This must be sound principle, for nature
has responded to every question when ap.
preached from that viewpoints ~, p.
But the effect of this great discovery Of
seeing things whole and complete, a thing
the mind demands, and finding a law relat.
ing everything and tying everything together
in a unified whole, these laws accounting for
all phenomena, was that in their haste and
enthusiasm they thought they had found it all
and settled forever the riddle of the uni,
verse that had engaged the thought of the
world $500 years, and they said, there is nc
need of any outside interference, no, need
of a supernatural power, it's all in the nat.
ural. No need of an outside God.
But that very principle and demand OF
the mind for seeing things whole and account.
ing for all phenomena, and that led them to
exclude God, has led them in the twentieth
century to include God and exalt Him as He
has never been exalted before
G. B. f. STOyAEL,
Birmingham, Ala.
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Spotlites

Very many of the morbidities, pains and
rlooms Of the soul, said the professor to hi
class in the University Of Psyche, are due u
spotlitis, always pronounce the perultimatt
y, notebooks. making twenty notes tits Ions
sound of |, as in kitel.
Twenty pencils arose and fell upon TWEEN
ty notebooks, making twenty nots "itis-lons
l." which would save twenty precious youths
from going out into the world saying brown
keetus and appendiseetus)
The word spotlitis, continued the profess
sor, comes from the word spotlight, meaning
an intense light cast upon some one person
on the stage in the theatre. The design IL, OF
course, to direct the attention of the audi
ence to the person thus Illuminated.
The term was first used by DR.. Achdulie-
Der in his article in the June number Of the
Umhcr Review, 1925, to Indicate that itch
for attention which is not only here and
there noticeable, but also underlies and ac-
counts for many other soul LESSONS.
Twenty pencils wrote sAchdulieber ar
ticle',)
4 It is often found early in childhood, went
on the herr professor It marks that stage
when the infant passes over from being
charmingly naive to- being extensively self
conscious. 1t is sometimes, in the earlier
periods, called smartalickitus.
Careful analysis Gum Henker, p. 346)
shows that it is due to a singularly tough
and ugly microbe; which gets into the ego and
produces an inflamed condition.
1t seems to come into its fullest and most
pernicious activity in public characters such
as actors. preachers, politicians and the like.
Actors have been known to cancel lucra-
five engagements simply because some minor
actor got hand.v Grand opera divas have
pouted themselves into fever because the
I'll kaok
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who formerly overlooked the Importance Of
giving the fish chance during the spawning
period now see the Importance of a closed
season. -
Whether or not the measure so earnestly
supported by sportsmen was unwittingly in
validated before its enactment is of little prac-
teal moment pending any final test that may
be made. Many fishermen have expressed
suspicious that the flaws were designed by
some of the measures enemies. The impor-
tant consideration now, however, is that
eonservationists should demonstrate sin.
certify of purpose through efforts and influ-
ences to protect and propagate bass and
Dream until such an effective law as most
progressive states have wisely enacted can be
put into successful operation.
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PROTECT THE SPAWNING FISH


There seems to be a widely accepted i'm
preston, even among fishermen and hunters
who are interested in proper conservation of
the states fish and game, that validity of
the law is open to question on technical
grounds. This situation may have consider
able effect in failure to protect and propa-
gate these fine game fish in Alabama, be-
cause, unfortunately, there are many fisher
men who take short-sighted view of efforts
For this important branch of conservation
Through selfishness or Misunderstanding of
Pie constructive cause.
Even though this section of the conserva-
|tion law be finally declared invalid, efforts
q conservationists, including especially those
Fishermen with the spirit of sportsmen, and
.pthers who appreciate the great outdoors and
,ealize what such a law would do for Ala
7ama, will bear good fruit. Manifestly there
more conservation sentiment throughout
he state because of these efforts. Much
aas been accomplished through education and
h better understanding. Hundreds of people
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. The Girl Baby

Little one, your wondering eyes
Are as blue as Southern skies.
In them shines, a mystic glow,
Hint Of dreams you used to know,
Visions of that land afar
Where the little angels are,
Where you, too, acherub were
Ere you came to gladden. her, u.
She who is your mother and
Loves you more than you the land
Whence you flew on winged feet
Swift your mothers heart to greet,
Heart that only asks to make
All things lovely for your sake.
Little one, your wondering eyes
Look around with mild surprise.
Do the happy things you see
Solace for the memory
OF the dreams you used to know
In your now so long ago?
If they fail, ali, tell not her,
Your adoring worshiper.
Do not wake her in despair;
Some griefs are too great to bear.
Time will heal your longing yet,
Dim the dream and still regret
Till some day the same surprise
Cleans from out your baby,s eyes.
New York {
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All humor epigrams Tor humorous mot
tOes), jokes, anecdotes, poetry, burlesque,
must be original and unpublished. Ac-
uled rates, which win be furnished ON ap-
ten on one side Of the paper only, should
addressed to the Fun Shop. care Age
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Too Busy To Admit Fishermen.-The s 80
Coffee Club has voted to exclude all fisher
men from membership, claiming that II
man has time to fish he is not eligible for
membership in this club. Troy Messenger.
A Plea To Spread Outs-The best mill
villages in the whole country find themselves
right here in Greater Hantsville and to
think that we cannot have credit for them
in speaking with the outside world is de-
plorable. Let's take in these good villages
and make them part of the town.-Hunts-
vile Times.
Paving In Alabama Cities-S treet-pavinx
and sidewalk building sentiment is spreading
rapidly among progressive Alabama cities
and towns Selma has started a paving
campaign that will give it many blocks Of
finely paved streets, and nov Huntsville is
ready to- join the procession, in which An
niston, Florence. Sheffield, Gadsden, Tusca-
loosa and a number Of other Alabama towns
already are marching Admission Star
Important To Realize Conditions
first thing is to realize the shortcomings
of the educational facilities and the NEXT Il
to feel a desire to improve. Both this reali-
zation and this desire must surely By this
time have been instilIed In the citizenship
- fha&
the neonIe rive the facts csrsfi st15-
If the realization and fhe dex;re hsvs ~
instilled. then Alabama will forge shsaS n
education as sbe q doing In m.nv cths-.
- Ns,s.sss
The FLAG Ana patrsotsxu,--Tt .r..k. ,,.I,
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Tales From BunkefIand

Tales From Cumberland @
I hate, golfers,
They ruin my disposition.
There's the civil engineering golfer,
The careful, mathematical bird
Who holds up seven hundred people on the
course
While he lies down flat on his tummy
And squints along the edge of ms, putter.
Then he walks around the flag and takes
soundings.
He puts in trigonometry,
Seven shots on every green. ~
Someone once told him that a straight line
Is the shortest distance between two points.
But he doesn't believe it; .{gsy
He always says that putting
Is more than half the game.
I'll say it is. &
1 hate golfers,
They ruin my disposition.
Dorothy Parker.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-14
A coon PATRIOT

mo doubt there are great Statesmen and
patriots who do not attain brilliant psouni-
hence in the public eye
"Alas, too true" commented Senator sSpr-
ghum. 1.-THE man who first nominated me
for office has been heard of but little: And
yet III say he did lot for the good of his
country. -AWashington Star.
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There is no reason. to believe that the
average person, however curious, will be
tempted to make first-hand test of the
theory expressed by several speakers at the
annual dinner of the Reptile Society in New
York that the snake is likeabie creature,
but is misunderstood. 80 s.#s p
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COSTLY VISITS

$50 Clara threw over that young doctor
she was going with?"
Eyes, and what do you think? He not
only requested her to return his presents but
sent her a bill for forty seven visits Pear
sons Weekly
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HE'D EXPLODE ON THAT JOB

1t is true as suggested in Washington
dispatch that General, Dawes might make a
fine vice president candidate, but could he
take the gavel and sit still while the members
Of the senate did allgof the, talking DE
troit Free Preaa. y - y. aeh
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-14

SHOULD COUNT FOR SOMETHING
Girls father-I judge a man, sir, by the
company he keeps.
Suitor-Yes, sir; hope you will bear in
mind that I've been keeping company with
your daughter for over two years Boston
Transcript.
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Inconsiderate
Ny wife annoys me exceedingly. She Il
most incOnsiderate of my feelings.
When, for instance, am seated in my
easy chair, she will shovel quantities Of rat
Ting, noisy coal into the furnace. causing a
horrible grinding sound, most unpleasant
and disturbing.
AT other times when wish to lie quietly
amid the cushions of the chaise. Tongue.
hear her toting up great buckets of coal for
presumable use in the kitchen. Sometimes
she slips, falling down the basement stairs
with hods and coal on top of her, making
horrid Gathering that sadly disturbs my
state of mind.
When would doze by a sunny window,
or loll at ease in the enjoyment of q cigar,
I hear her smashing up boxes with an enor.
nous axe, seemingly for kindling wood, OF
beating up great, dusty rags outside. ~.
Ny wife annoSs me exceedingly. n
z 20. G. Shaw.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-14
Tha Occnllst

The Occulist X
Anne: What impression did you get Of
that young doctor when he examined your
eyes?"
Alice; His heart .yas in his work.
Edmund j. Kiefer.
Copyright, 1924. Reproduction forbidden)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-14

Attorney General Stone recently landed
the largest trout in prize-fishing contest.
There is hope that he will maintain this
scale of achievement by seeing that big ones
in public rascality don't get away.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-14

1t is reported that the new attorney gen.
eral had to ask a policeman the way to the
department Of justice. He was lucky to 6nd
some one in Washington who knew-the place
has been inactive so long.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-14

Debates are still in progress as to whether
whale can swallow a man. Yet there is no
question as to whether many folks can swal-
low any kind of fish story.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-14
STRONG RESISTANCE

why do you say she. has the hardest
heart of any girl you've ever known?"
Because it took a diamond to make an inn
preston on it."--Life.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-14

AS an illustration of hometown loyalty
a suburb of Pittsburg has passed a resolu.
ton that its police force is not a. joke.
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Arkansas official insists that bobbed hair
increases the fire hazard The argument
seems to be warming up
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-14
THE AGE HERALD
pERIcK I. THOMPSON -. PRE-

{. H3kered ct Birmingham, Ala. post office as
eco nd.ciass natter act OF Congress March 6. 1879
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The Young Rams Song

The Young Rams Song
-(By George s. Chappell)
What means this tremor in my bleat?
And why, wonder, do my feet
Dance. to a syncopated beat
Along the primrose way?
Why do long to leap and run
And butt my head into the sun.
Although / know 1t can't be. done, '-
Can anybody say?
Isrit the sun on yonder hill,
Or merry music of the mill, z
Or blackbird's whistle, merrier still,
Or what, or which. or whoy
All me, tits these and more, / fear,
For am young and springs now here,
And all things cry, both far and near,
IT'S Eve, my love. it's Eve. $50
No pne can predict the success Of an Il
L. s.kA
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There seems to be suspicion that ma
tional politics is approaching the brain
storm status y. Ct
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Although, of course, here and there yol
viii find girl who could take foot powder
for her headache and be perfectly right: ri
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The Once Ouer


- 49, At -
ne.s11ps Ing ssnslo 1919
taui oile's eelepi atee nencn s.si. any -
~ sa1 - wv y ~ -
one oa M WEEKLY MESSAGES mat sns3s sp.
klss are nloeons anu tne Ieai ns.A = tios
peauty y an akie' TOUT incnes ~ oianletei.
TINS year Deauty contests VINO up 10 tne
moment OF fauis rushing INTO print nao no
nope OF Deins pnopograpneo TOT any phoIca-
non, outside OF tine neayy mission FURNITURE
Catalogue.
-----7--- ~
When Paul teHsNthe world trim ankle
Is Dad to iook upon ne as either mixing ms
drinks or Kidding the public everything
points to the latter. " it would land MN On
page one Pauius would declare the venus ne
Milo failure because she had no cauliflower
ear. &ley -
Poiret knows ankles, but he knows his
publicity work better. And he knows that
if a man wants to get his name in 4 few
thousand newspapers today nothing will
complete cooperation quicker than a. few
words on ankles.
49, t.2..
David Lloyd George, Premier MacDon-
aid, Hugo SHINES, Poincare and Andrew Mel
lon all issued statements the same day Paul
Taxes, reparations, moratoriums, funded
debts and labor problems are all right in
their way, but ankles are ankles the world
derstand. Ankles are over NOBODY 9 mead,
-.
Poriet says small ankle is the very op-
SS~~S
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man head to be of any material assistanc
in reaching an important decision. ,bH
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Big ankles, by unanimous consent, sarve
only to make the movie camera men ignore
you, cause shoe store clerks to yawn and
make pedestrians in general turn from
thoughts Of ankles to such vsgrant subjects
as the laying of cornerstones. the beauty. Of
California redwood trees and the queer ma
ture of the African elephant.
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The Alabama Press

Too Busy To Admit Fishermen.-T 5 80
Coffee Club has voted to exclude all fisher
men from membership, claiming that II a
man has time to fish he is not eligible for
membership in this club.-Troy Messenger.
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IncOnsiderate

No pne can predict the success of an In
FAINT by its first night performance"
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This makes lot Of women eligible for
this years beauty contests who up to the
moment of Paul's rushing into print had no
hope Of being photographed for any phblica-
tion outside of :the heavy mission furniture
catalogue.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-14

A Plea To Spread Outy-The best mill
villages in the whole country find themselves
right here in Greater Huntsville; and to
think that/we cannot have credit for them
in speaking with the outside world is de-
plorable. Lets take in these good villages
and make them a part of the town.-Hunts-
vile Times.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-14

If small ankles make weak brains lol
live the mentally defunct flapper! =
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As for mentality, anybody who woul,
judge. a girls brain by the size of her an
kle would try to estimate the quality of he
voice by the shape of her wrist and deter
mine by the look in her eyes whether or no
she had fallen arches. II ~. 40 :. 3
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A wonderful intellect is great thing, but
You've gotta admit no artist can make il
look attractive in silk stocking
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-11
FARMER BLAMES G. o. P.
FOR DAMAGE DONE DEER

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa, Sept. IL.
The Republican party can expect
no support from Roy H. Harer. a
Salladasburg farmer. Harer's
enmity toward the G. o. p. is
because of the damage deer are
doing to his crops. He blames
the Republican party because the
present State game law, which pro-
tects marauding deer, was enacted
during a Republican administration.
Harer claims that damage to his
crops in the last five years cost
him $70O and says that if he lives
long enough he'll win back that
sum from Republican candidates in
Lyconlyou.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-11
ENDS LIFE WHEN
GIRL TAKES
POISON
English Professor Shoots Self
on Way to Attend Her
Inquest

LONDON, Sept. 11.-An unprece-
dented wave Of love crimes is sweep.
ing over England. The latest of
these startling events occurred at
Leeds.
On Sunday Helen Mind, music
mistress, a beautiful girl of good
breeding and education, poisoned
herself at a Leeds hotel. Today
Professor H. G. Evelyn White, a
young lecturer in classics at Leeds
University who had been sum-
moned by the police to attend the
cornor's inquiry, shot and killed
himself while journeying lin a taxi
cab Ito the morgue.
Professor White was a prominent
archaeologist who had worked in
the Luxor tombs where his nearest
neighbor was Howard Carter, the
American Psychologist In charge Of
the excavations at the tomb Of King
Tut Ankh-Amen.
Professor White had Just been
granted a leave of absence from
Leeds University for the whole of
1924 and 1925 to undertake the
direction Of an archaeological expedi-
ton to Egypt for the University of
Michigan and the Smithsonian Insti
tuition.
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RESULTS
HELD XII KLUX
VICTORY
Coolidge Certain of State in
November With Khan Aid,
Says Attorney

1.-THE Republican victory in Maine
is Ku Klux Khan victory pure
and simple and is so admitted
universally throughout the State
of Maine." This was the report
brought to the La Follette-Wheeler
headquarters here today by Mr.. j.
j. Hallun, prominent attorney of
Portland, Main, and New York City.
"The efforts of the Republicans
to make the result appear a victory
for their policies and an augury Of
success for the national election is
laughable to anyone who knows
anything about the situation in my
State. The nomination and election
of Governor Brewster was dictated
by the hooded night-shirt order. In
this campaign the initials X. K. K.
had a double meaning: rhey signi.
fled both Ku Klux Khan and Keep
Kool with KooIdge.
1.-THE X. X. K. today owns the
State of Maine. Senator La Toilette
the only one of the Presidential
candidates whom the Khan has
declared unacceptable to it and who
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first announced himself "unalterably
opposed to the Ku Klux Khan" has
no chance whatever of carrying
Maine this November.
The Ku Klux Khan IN Maine is
frankly and openly for Coolidge. It
is wholly appropriate to spell his
name with a X, and the khan viii
carry Maine for the Republican
party in November This Is a fact.
Only an awakening to the sinister
forces and policies which rhe khan
embodies could alter it.
"Pattangall, the defeated Demo.
cratic candidate for governor is IN
outstanding American of the highest
type. He has principles, courage,
culture, and ability. l car say this
all the more freely in het l have
been lifelong Republican and ain
this campaign am supporting the
La Toilette Wheeler Independent
Progressive ticket.
"The result in Maine is OF vital
concern to all Americans They
should know and face the fact that
the khan in accordance with IT'S i'll
structions to Keen Kool with
Koolidge' has the State Of Maine
on ice in the November elections.