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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07

woman who studied methods and effects in many hot races for office, laid down some general rules by way of warning which ap- pear to be worthy of observance .
 Don't yell at your audience. '1t ;,
 Don't talk to the front row.
 Don't refer to your lack of time.
 Don't knock the other party; tell the good things about your own party.
 There is deal of sound advice in all four of these danger signals. Number one pre- supposes that the average voter is not pro- foundly impressed with laundering noises from hog-calling voices; but prefers some thing to think about served in more conser- vative fashion. Number two sounds warn ing against a common mistake. The front row is usually taken by those who are apt to be convinced without further argument and may be relied on for applause before the speaker has expressed his appreciation of this large and intelligent audience" Skep- tics and hecklers usually occupy seats further back, and they are the ones who need special consideration. Number three is well worthy of adoption. The speaker who has some thing to say, rather than the one who has to say something, will not be begrudged sui. ficient time in which to say it. Number four is becoming more and more adapted to con ditions and circumstances. Sheer partisanry is fast giving place to independence of thought and action in politics, and voters demand reasons why they should support candidates and measures rather than why they should desert rival candidates and opposing meas ures. All women speakers cannot be per sonally bewitching. Hence many must rely on reason and effective presentation of their message rather than upon hypnotizing effects of their charms to round up the voters.
 Al four of the warnings carry sound ad- vice for campaign speakers, regardless of sex or party affiliations. Spell-binding comprise ing sweeping promises incapable of fulfill ment and no responsibility on the part of the spell-binder whether they are kept or not, makes comparatively little impression on the average voter these days. He demands some thing besides denunciation, gesticulation and precipitation on the stump.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
Watching The ParadeI
By JOHN PILGRIM

It was all of ten years ago, think, that Young Cardinal announced one night that sue cess is easy to win. A little success, at least Once that small success has been gained
 "Then all you need to do is hustle" said he. 'srhere are so many, lazy men in this world that the man who will work hard need never fear"
 Most of us thought that Young Cardinal was talking through his hat. He not only had no success at the time, but he did not even have job. He needed one, too, for his clothes were beginning to get threadbare and he had been openly living on borrowed money for, weeks. Most of us thought he was just whistling on his way through the cemetery. But he elaborated his theory.
 Suppose you have a good memory" said he. Well there's a sale for it. Most people have poor memories. Yet nothing is easier than to train yourself to remember. Perhaps you are stupid. But if you can be depended on to do what you are told to do in the way in which you are told to do it, your stupidity will be forgotten. You may not rise to the heights, but if you make good on taking orders some one will always be found to give you orders. Suppose you can do nothing more important than to greet people. There is always a place for well-mannered man with a good smile" "You haven't found your place yet, Card, ? we said.
 He landed as telephone clerk in an office in which many orders come over the tele- phone. Any grocery clerk has the same standardized and cultivated ability. But Young Card pressed it. He saw to it that no mistakes were made and that his bosses real ized that fact. He was not above little judicious self-advertising. There is not a great deal of the shrinking violet in Cards makeup. More like a peony. He cannot go very far-I think-because he has little else than habit of accuracy and extreme diligence. -t
 But if his theory is right, that is all he needs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
The IdeaI School
nx dnHN CARLYLn

"The ideal school would discover the abili- ties, habits, powers of judgment and action, expectations and aspirations which full grown men and women need to possess, and it would try to develop these qualities m young human beings"
 So says Professor Franklin Bobbitt of the University of Chicago. Professor Bobbitt is engaged upon one of the most important pieces of work that man can possibly busy himself with. He is trying to make over the schools in certain American cities. He has been employed to revise curricula.
 The most hopeful of all signs of hegtimes | is the earnest efforts that are being made in many towns and cities to change their schools and to fit them to the actual needs sof the boys and girls who are sent to these schools to get an education. ~ In the old-fashioned school--and, most of them are still of that kind-the boy or girl with unusual gifts and capacities yisi held back by the inability of the under-rate youth to go forward. We try to put all our lads and lassies through the same bookish labyrinth and we expect to turn out a product, uniform and useful. Of course, it can't be done.
 In the first place, the acquisition of cold storage knowledge, wisdom from, printed pages, is not sufficient to insure young ster what we call education. as ; The ideal school must awaken the love Of knOWleQge, the Oesife to kuOW. It must awaken in the youth the sense of responsi- bility for getting his own education. He must first and last be taught that the ,educa- tion he gets out of school depends, exactly on the work he puts into school. s.;s
 In the second place, schools in the future ideal schools-will grade boys and girls ac- cording to their natural abilities. The quick, responsive youngster will have the oppor- tunity to go as fast as he can. t4 If he senses that he is on his way to get somewhere and to be somebody, he will be given the opportunity to go quickly.
 The duller youth, on the other hand will not be allowed to lose all that an educa- tional system has for him by reason of the fact that he can't keep up and droops in Encouragement by the wayside. He, too, will have his own chance at his natural speed.
 The success of democracy depends, above all else, on the picking and training of lead CTS. A school which develops leadership, a sense of responsibility, sense of values and of judgment isIthe ideal school.
 It is never a school of mere maps and multiplication. 'e'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
Brief Nature Stories
Ry J. OTIs sWIFT


 Spring is here, spring is here" whistles buoyant voice from meadow post-top or the tip of high tree. The nature student does not need his glass to know it is the meadow lark, perhaps back from a little journey southward during the winter. But the color symphony of the handsome bird is worth looking at. "So perfectly do the streaked black, brown and gray of his back harmonize with the color of the grass stubble where he lives, that were he to keep quiet he would rarely be discovered" says Albert Field Gilmore. Underneath and sides whitish spot ted with black, and black crescent on the yellow breast, the white outer tail feathers are noticeable in flight.
 Leander S. Keyser says the song of the meadow lark is very fine-a real melody "It usually consists of two prolonged syllables blended together as if by sort of loop or festoon and delivered with a swinging move ment that is the poetry of grace" he adds.
 The nest is made on the ground, of grass, sometimes roofed over like the oven birds. Much on the ground hunting among grass roots for food, they often roost there near the hidden nest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
Forum Of The People
The Chronicles of America

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 As city amusement inspector and as sec retary of the better films committee, permit me to thank you for your editorial on "Co- lumbus," the first of the Chronicles of Ameri- ca, the Yale photoplays.
 That Birmingham did support the wonder full photoplay Columbus" is due to the ef- forts of the press of the city, the Better Films committee (which includes Dr. C.. B. Glenn, superintendent of schools), the teachers, the clubs and Parent-Teacher associations.
 We all in my opinion, owe a vote of thanks to the manager of the Trianon theater for booking the Yale photoplays.
 The next one, Jamestown" will be pre-. sented the week of April IA, and, by special arrangement. particularly fine play. 'The Love Master" will be shown with it. This is love story of man and his dog, featuring "Strongheart." :..
 Everyone should see all of the Chronicles of America and take the whole family. This is Birmingham's opportunity to demonstrate whether we want fine photoplays or trashy movies.
 Thank you again for your editorial.
 (MRS.) MYRTELLE w. SMELL.
 Birmingham, Ala, April 5, 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
The Right Word
QUERIES
By CURTIS NICHOLSON
QUERIES (Find the Error in This Article) 6TnmnausakAd EorD

lF lnu ErrOr HIS tAEUACAcJ
 Compensated For"
 To l.. Bertrand Smith, Brooklyn. N. Y.: The word for is used correctly in the follow ing excerpt: "The cash value will be smaller, but this will be compensated for by the fact that there will be less premium to be charged off each year" t
 A WelI.PrOtected Town .- Some one in Hawarden, Ia., who forgot to sign a communication to "The Right Word, y implies that Hawarden must be we'll supplied with chiefs of police. The anonymous cor respondent writes as follows:
 twill you please inform me whether to say, The chiefs of polices uniforms are in town or, The chiefs of police uniforms are in town? I want the chiefs to be plural simply supposing that there are more than one chief"
 Note here with the correct spelling of chief. The error today will be found in the foregoing communication, Right: The uni forms of the chiefs of police are in town.
 Pronunciation of Paderewski
 To "An Interested Reader" Washington, Ohio: Paderewski is pronounced as follows pa-de-rey' ski Ia as in artistic; as in get; as in pOlice.)
 All Correct
 In the last group of answers to the recent test another contestant, Charles K. Rannells of Troy, O., had every sentence correct. Many of the correspondents from Cincinnati and vicinity had only one wrong.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
LOSS OF CASTE

In certain Southern town there was g group of gentlemen who refused to admit the dignity of labor, but preferred instead to subsist on the generosity of their relations They were commonly known as "Joe-helpers' because one of them when questioned as tc his means of livelihood stated that he helped Joe, and when asked what Joe did, replied Not dern thing"
 The most feryent "Joe-helpers,' was Colonel B., who had achieved his position through years of unimpeachable idleness. His wife kept boarding house and was thus able tc feed and clothe her worthy spouse. You can imagine, then, the colonel's scandalized ex- pression when he was told by one of his intimates that he had by working rendered himself ineligible to further membership in the group.
 f'Yes, colonel" said his informant, Hast night your wife was out in the yard chOppins wood. And as for you, suh, regret to say that you were seen standing by holding the lantern for her."-Prize Story in Judge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
THE WORD "MAssACRE,

The word massacre" we obtained directly from the French language, as we did so many other words, and the French in their turn probably incorporated it into their own tongue from the low German ''matsen." It is now an international word as is the proc ess which it indicates.
 Of this process of slaughter or butchery of numbers of human beings, or murder on a large scale without necessity, much was heard during the World war.
 Concerted efforts are now being made to put massacre" on the list of obsolete words. But it will never be obsolete as long as the practice which it designates is continued.
 The consciousness is slowly drawing upon the minds of millions of good men and wom- en that neither will the practice of massa- cring be discontinued so long as war remains an active agency in human affairs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07

existed too long, and which was injuring the social and economic fabric of the nations industry. All
 The position of the moral forces which caused the plan to abolish the twelye-hour day in the Steel Corporation has been not only vindicated, but strengthened, by the absence of that economic disturbance which was pre- dicted as result of the change. In those plants where the new schedule has not yet been completely worked out, the consumma- tion of the program is merely matter of time. j.tE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
Late Blossoms
You don't see the blossoms
FRANK |. sTANToN, IN ATT
 TI0N

You don't see the blossoms
 The Springtime comes so late! That's why the old mans standing Yonder-at the gate. Gle wonders, when it's morning,
 Why Springtime comes so late?) He says: "The seasons changing Faint like it was of old!' (He's thinking of a sweetheart,
 When he kissed her curls of gold, He doesn't dream the story
 Of his life's first love is told) You don't see the blossoms,
 For winter will not go; And sad it is to finger
 In his lonely house of snow. But Love once made Earth heaven, And Love was sweet to know!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
PROFEssIONAL sALUTATI0Ns 7s

The doctor, keen golfer, was rather weary of being called doctor" on every possible oc- casion, suitable or otherwise
 On the links the other day two members hailed him as usual, Good morning. Doc"
 Good morning, Chartered Accdiintant. Good morning, Sanitary Engineer,,'st. replied the doctor.-Weekly Telegraph, London.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07

When Congress gets back on the job of enacting laws, attention of the members is respectfully invited to the importance of in cluding some that will be readily enforcible against political parasites who try to eat into the vitals of stable government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07

It may be a mere coincidence that the army is working on a new high-resistance armor- plate while preparing to substitute the vacu- um cleaner for the curry comb in the groom ing of mules
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
AS DOGS DO

Magistrate (to witness) You say you saw defendant standing at the street cor ner?" ~.Rd sx 5'
 Witness: "Yes, Your WorshipTsI And while stood there watching he put his fin- gers to his mouth and whistled." And what followed?" e...-.
 His dog, Your Worship London Tit Bits ...
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
PLUMs OF DETERRENT SORT

Luther Burbank. who has just passed his seventy fifth birthday. says he will soon have perfected a new kind of plum. However, politics has already developed a remarkable one out of petrOleum.-Leuisville Courier Journal s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07

It is not hard to guess the purpose of certain G. O. F. workers, who are already showing signs of efforts to appease Mr. Daugherty, lest he should develop a revenge full spirit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
DON'T OVERLOOK THE LIVER

"The secret of happiness. 'ssays a Kentucky minister, "is a head intelligently controlled and heart that beats true to the Golden
 Rule" Fine. and both head and heart will work better if the liver is kept popped up to its humble but necessary functions.-Houston Post
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07

The 19-year-old youth who announced that he does not believe in love should adopt some more effective bid for advance sympathy for what is probably coming to him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07

An exchange observes that if New York does not soon begin economizing that city will be in bad fix About the only signs of economy the average visitor to New York ever detects is in the form of daylight say :.,w
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
HOPE spRINGs ETERNAI.

There is hope for a people so long as it has enough respect for law to watch the traf- fic signals.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
INFORMATION WANTED

''I have brought this wedding present4--' "To exchange it?' interposed the teiefk. "No; merely to ask what it is.' B0stor Transcript
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07

ANOTHER BLESSING OF POVERTY
 There is this to be said for burial in Pot ters' Field-no one 5000 years from now will disturb the peace of the grave.-New York Tribune Ftt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07

The world aircraft flight will also demand courage in the fellows who secure the picture rights.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
RIGHT NOW HE,s RIG NOISE

President Coolidge was born on July 4. This was the original quiet Fourth.-Detroit News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07
THE AGE-HERALD
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07

Activity Among Farmers.-Spring farming is now the order. and Alabama farmers are never behind with their spring blowing. in spite of the weather. Much fertilizer is go- ing to be used this year and the indications are that cotton is going to be planted and the boil weevil defied. HiM prices of the staple may lure many to their ruin, which we sincerely hope will not be the case.- Montgomery Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07

A Plea For Cooperation with the City Beautiful Club. This organization is undertaking what will make every bit of property in Florence take on additional value. It can only be done effectively if everybody enters into the spirit of the program for improvement and does his part. Nothing im- possible will be asked of anyone-its mostly matter of work, anyway, that will be a good spring tonic.-Florence Daily News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07

Conditions Rapidly Improving Since the World War Blount county has had her wave of petty crime and some murders have been committed, but from information coming to us from all parts of the county conditions are rapidly improving.-Oneonta Southern Democrat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-07

Find Themselves Too SmaIl.-Some young men run off to town as soon as their educa- tion is completed, saying there is no oppor- unity in the countryaa These same young men soon learn that they are too little for the. town to which they have gone.-Eufaula Citizen.
Evening star., 1924-04-05
FIREPLACE NECESSARY
FOR COMFORTABLE HOME
Lounging Room. and Library Made
More Attractive by Such
an Arrangement.

Today every house planned with
slightest reference to comfort has at
least one room-nursery, morning
room, boudoir, call it what you will
where the homely intimate tasks and
pleasures of the household may go on
without intrusion or interruption :;
where everything is so plain and well
arranged that the days litter can be
put to rights in a few moments.
Quite essential in this room is the
brick fireplace, where cheerful sticks
burn on chill autumn days, for here
one spends hours at a stretch at some
inactive occupation. In only one other
room of the house is a fireplace so
needed as in this room, and that is
the library, or living room, used by
the family in the evening. The occa-
sional short trips to reception room
and dining room are not annoying at
temperature which, long continued,
would mean bitter discomfort. Hence
fireplaCes in these two rooms might
readily save several weeks running
Evening star., 1924-04-05
YARD CONTESTS SPREAD
ALL OVER UNITED STATES
Many Cities Are Now Offering
Prizes for Flower and Grass
Cultivation.

Rack yard transformation, under
the spell of the seed catalogue, is the
last touch in city building, and real
tor organizations throughout the Ma
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards do not forget that the city
whose lawns are green and flower
bordered is not only adding to it's
community enjoyment but is measur-
ably enhancing its residential real
estate values.
The Omaha Real Estate Board is
giving away Shetland ponies to boys
and girls in a garden contest. The
San Antonio (Tex) Real Estate Board
is opening for the eleventh year a
beautiful yards contest, with clasSi-
fications SO arranged that factory
grounds and business house grounds,
as we'll as home lawns, come into
competition for attractiveneSs, and so
that residents of whole blocks or of
whole streets get a chance to organ
ize for competition against rival
neighborhoods, and so that the man
who rents is not handicapped in his
showing because of conditions which
he cannot control. So high is the
highest score that has ever been
made is 95.
The Fort Smith, Ark, realtors will
conduct contest this spring for the
best appearing lawn, block and street.
The Minneapolis Real Estate Board
stood sponsor for the city'S garden
club, organized in 1912, and now a
general cooperative civic institution.
Evening star., 1924-04-05
f the furnace, to say nothing Of the
i "a Sure Of a wood fra

of the furnace, to say nothing Of the
pleasure of wood fire.
In the nursery are two closets, one
for the children's superf1uous toys
Christmas things that are kept on
high shelves or hung from hooks, and
only handed down, one at a time,
when all else palls-the other fitted
up for sewing materials. A bank of
five large drawers, carefully labeled,
hold new materials, old things to be
made over, new garments in the proc
ess of making, things to be mended
and outgrown garments to be given
away. Above, a nest of pigeonholes
is for pieces and patterns. The finding
of any particular piece of cloth or
pattern is the work of a moment and
proves a great comfort to one used
to tumbling over the contents of sew
eral large bags to find a patch for one
of they boys trousers.
Evening star., 1924-04-05

The Southern Pine Association re-
ports from New Orleans that new
business increased 0.9 per cent from
that of the previous week, shipments
were unchanged, and production in
creased 2.S per cent. OF the eighty
seven mills reporting running time,
seventy operated full time. one was
shut down. and the rest operated from
one to five days. For 139 mills ship
ments were 1897 per cent below ac-
tual production, current orders 1887
per cent below actual production, and
3.46 per cent above shipments.
Evening star., 1924-04-05

Drive out Conn. Ave. 10 Har-
ris0n St. then west TO IIst 81.
and one block south; or take
wisconsin Ave. ears TO Garri-
son st. and walk east 10 4Ist.
Evening star., 1924-04-05

1910 Argonne Place
UNSURPASSED NEIGHBORHOOD
DISTINCTIVE INTERIOR
DELIGHTFUL VIEW
Large living with open fireplace artistic dining with
closet breakfast pantry we'll arranged kitchen
has three attractive bed chambers each
bath and gaed and plastered sleeping porch Front bed
has a spacious porch.
complete with builtn garage
Open for Inspection Sunday from 10 AMtfo ppm.
Evening star., 1924-04-05
Inspect These Homes Sunday

Seven rooms (four bedrooms),
bath, electric lights, hot water
heat, hardwood floors through
out, automatic hot water heat
er, screens, metal weather
stripped. Many other attrac-
tive features.