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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
EFFICIENCY EXPERTS WHO FUNCTION

stances, the family would be living in a way bordering on destitution. But hear what the wife and mother has to say. After declaring that neither she nor her husband has ever thought they were making sacrifices, she says: F. '.-..-,t,,.4 ..E
 "Of course, we don't have luxuries. but think the children have had everything, nec- essary to bring them up to be strong, honest and educated men and women. They have always had clean and comfortable quarters to live in, plenty of wholesome food, and suf- ficient clothing, in addition to the devotion of their parents. 5fsf
 That phrase, 'the devotion of their pa. rents" means lot-maybe it explains all.
 Some one has said that necessity is the mother of invention. It should also be an in. spiration for efficiency. .-.-n
 Many parents with incomes double, that of the Attleboro family and with families less than half the size have more difficulty .in making ends meet. Financial entangle- ments frequently are the result of the cost of high living, rather than the high cost of living. zf.ss 5f.Ny..ssas
 An income of $S5 week iA too small for family of fourteen, but here we have fur ther proof that love always finds a way.
 Tbe Attleboro parents are efficiency ex- perts from whom we may learn lessen.- Memphis Commercial Appeal IA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1924

to earn revenue adequate to cover op- erating expenses and to provide for the retirement of interest and bonds within the specified period.
 It is encouraging to note the manner in which the satsuma industry has come back after it's subjection last winter to the hardest freeze of it's existence. Where. despair might have been expectd, there has been optimism, an optimism that causd the orchardists to take prompt measures for more careful culture of their groves than ever before. The re- covery of the trees in orchards thus cared for has been phenomenal and is a visible rebuke to the few who lost heart and failed to help the trees come back. The review is balanced exposition of the industries, progress and activities of the seaport, the city of Mobile, and the Gulf coast of Alabama. It constitutes a val uable document of reference.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
COLOR PICTURES NOT TRANSMITTED

But neither is there any sound transmits sion through the telephone or from the needle of the phonograph or from the radio broad casting station. In those cases, too, what comes to the listeners ear was manufactured not at the seeming point of origin, but in the disk close by, after 1t had been set in. mo- tion by the current from battery, also very near. What does take place really is more wonderful than would be the actual trans mission of actual sounds, because it involves transformation as well-the turning of one thing into another quite different. &ta
 And of all these modern miracles, perhaps the one performed by the humble and fa- miiar phonograph is really the most mys- tifying. The streak of microscopic dots on the record" will have to get much more study than it as yetAhaE received before its aston lishing potentiality is understood. d.--New York Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
Attic Of The Brair1
By JOHN CARLYLE

IS there an attic in your hou6a? And is it
 messed up with old furniture? Are there dust-covered chairs with broken legs? Is that an ancient trunk over there half full of things that you have forgot ten why you are keeping? ~ They are no good. They never will be.
 Here is three-quarters of bed and yon- der are two pictureless frames. Just here is a mirror which you can look through but which doesn't reflect.
 Well-that's an attic, garret, limbo. But it is not the only attic. Itsis not the only limbo.
 There is in so many of us an attic of the mind. It's a bad place. It has no excuse for being.
 Into it we stuff broken ambitions, out worn ideas, mean thoughts which we ought to destroy utterly, but which we cling to and thrust into the attic. .
 Into the garret of the mind we put ideas and schemes and sordid aspirations that we know are unworthy. But we are not quite strong enough to cast them out forever.
 So the attic of the mind clogs up and be- comes a mean and dusty place:
 It is healthy thing for our minds and our souls to keep everlastingly, eliminating the old furniture of the head and heart.
 Instead of thrusting them into the dust hole, check off and throw out every unworthy thing Check them off for life. Leave no garrets for unhappy rummasers.
 Memory is wondrous servant, but you can keep the nemory-servant at work upon tasks that are not worth while.
 To be able to forget things that are un- worthy is a great and good art, It smooths the path. It adds sweetness to life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
ARGoNAUTs OF THE AIR

Not since the sturdy Magellan set sail from Seville, in 1519, to circumnavigate the globe, has mankind witnessed feat comparable to the flight around the world of the American aviators. Gen. turies hence, songs will be sung and tales will be told of these young men who girdled the earth for the first time in airplanes. Four hundred years have elapsed since Magellan's ship, the Vitto- rio, returned and dropped anchor in &c., vile Roads. Magellan himself having been slain in a native war on an island in the Pacific ocean. Yet, what school boy or girl does not know why Magellan is famous? In the same way, future generations will learn of the journey of our American sailors of the skies. Lieu tenant Smith and Lieutenant Nelson have won something that no mischance can ever take from them-the honor of being the first men to 'circumvigate the earth by air.
 Most of us, as we followed the flight of the aviators from day to day, were interested in their personal safety; the hardships they endured; the perlls they faced and the reception given them when they touched civilization along their route. The romance-the poetry, if you please-of this modern Argosy was for a while forgotten, but it will flower Somewhere there is poet who will sing the achievements of the Ameri- can aviators and perpetuate their cour- age, skill and endurance in imperishable verse. What feat in all the history of mankind approaches this for sheer au- dacity, making a dream men have had for centuries come true? A Columbus or Magellan, in tiny ships, endured much of danger and more of toll and deprivation to extend the limits of hu. man knowledge. Because of the com parative ease with which they accom- plished their undertaking, we are likely to underestimate the danger our airmer had to contend with from treacherou' ice, from fogs, storms and air currents in the upper attitudes that threatened the destruction of their planes and the loss of their lives.
 Did Columbus, setting sail into the un known western sea to discover a water route to India, but finding, instead, g new world, know any less of what wa' before him than did our airmen wher they left the American mainland anc struck out for Asia? They knew where they were going, it is true, but the haz ards of their flight were greater thar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
Forum Of The People
Advocates Balanced Transportation Medium

Advocates Balanced Transportation Medium To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Your comments on the transportation sit- uation have come to my attention. To my mind there is nothing to which public atten- ton ought to be directed with more care than that very subject. And | mean that phase of the subject which you have so ad- mirably set forth. ,s
 < We have allowed ourselves to be confused. We have been thinking and talking in too narrow terms Transportation is not ex- clusively matter of railways; the railroads are one arm of transportation. Transporta- ton is not a conflict between rival interests of railway and highway; the two arms of transportation supplement one another. Transportation is not a struggle between railways and inland waterways; the two services can, and should, supplement one an other. Transportation is not an alternative between the inland waterways and marine; 1; the two modes of transportation nourish one another
 What this country needs is national transportation system. A system in which highways, railways, waterways and marine service shall be blended and adapted to the ultimate national economy. Thinking on any other lines is partial and may be destructive. [ It is true there are local needs. Birming- ham wants facilities which are of no great interest to Denver; the Ohio Valley desires seris of improvements which seem of it- tie moment perhaps to the Pacific coast har- bors. Every city and every county has its road problems which it must solve for itself. And yet when these improvements are all made they do and they must supplement one another.
 Our economic relations are so interwoven that the improvement anywhere of the facili- ties for communication is a benefit to the whole country. I must qualify that to this extent-the improvement of communication anywhere is a benefit to all points of the country when correct balance Is maintained. It is no ,disparagement of the benefits of the Panama Canal, for example, to say that the Northwest is under handicap, not because those improvements were made, fbu tbecause it is excluded from them. It|is rather inn portant from the national standpoint to re- mind ourselves that when access to the ocean is given to the Northwest through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence the benefits of Panama traffic will be equally shared by all parts of the country. And, by the same to- ken, in a balanced system of national ini- proyements Birmingham, I dare say. will share in the gains when the northwest has free communication with the sea.
 Our people therefore appreciate your thoughtful discussion of this phase of the transportation problem which is among ma terial concerns the largest and most pressing of the unsolved problems of America.
 CHAS. P. CRAIG, Executive Director, Great Lakes-St. Law
 renee Tidewater Association.
 Duluth, Minn., Sept. 2. 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
REGISTERS TRADE REVIEW

The eighty-fourth annual trade review of The Mobile Register is a volume that elicits armiring attention. The section devoted to port development and to the
 exposition of the plans for construct ing the proposed facilities is full, explicit and interesting to the people of Ala bama, who have voted ten million dollars to the project. The able article by Gem eral Sibert is in reality message to the people of Alabama with a preliminary accounting of his stewardship. It is evi- dence that the confidence of the people in his capacity has not been misplaced, and is assurance that the project will be brought to completion, not only with due regard to structural excellence, but also with, regard to the ability of the facilities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

Germans appear to have learned lesson that has sobered them and pricked the bubble of their self-conceit. From now on perhaps Germany will be nation easier to get along with. At any rate, the industry, commerce and business of the world have received the necessary stimulus to cause them to recover their former activity. In. that. recovery the entire world will participate and will share the economic benefits thus unfold ed. Therefore, the plan of the experts will not only rehabilitate Germany and inspire Europe; it will also rebound to the profit of the whole world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
WANTS TO START SOMETHING

Would somebody mind punching a member of the city commission in the jaw?
 Not that any member of the commission has done anything to merit such treatment On the contrary, as far as we know, their conduct has been above reproach. But that is just the trouble. Things are too peaceful. Look at all the fun Birmingham has. Hardly a day goes by but someone takes wallop at some member of it's commission. Those folks up there have "pep." They have things to talk about besides the hot weather. Down here in Tuscaloosa everything is quiet, stag nant, dead Let's start something.
 We think probably Hugh Prince, commis- sioner, is due to be the victim of the assault. So quietly has he renominated himself for commissioner that no one realized what was going on and now it is too late under the law for anyone to announce, against him. He has something coming to him.
 That being settled, who shall we nominate to strike the blow? Let us pick out some man of distinction and prominence. How would 'Dr. Dawson do? It would be an un- expected climax of his years of service in Tuscaloosa to make his exit in this startling manner. .C
 Picture Dr. Dawson stealthily approach ing the victim reserving his spring until he sees the whites of the eyes. Then with a triumphant cry of Let's go 'Bama." he uncorks a terrific swing at MT. Princes jaw -or Off he prefers the Birmingham method) vicious kick at MT. Princes shins. ..
 Then picture Dr. Dawson dashing madly off towards the A. G $. with the two speed cops, Chief McDuff in his Ford and Luther Davis on foot, all in hot pursuit. Then let someone turn in the fire alarm.
 Grand and glorious excitement!
 Endless dramatic possibilities!
 Things are entirely too dead in Tuscaloosa
 Let's start something. News
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
'@OLORED pictures sent by wire" is a
 phrase more convenient than eOrrest,

"NOLORED pictures sent by wire" is a
 phrase more convenient than correst,
 for, as a matter of fact, the new achievement recently revealed is not really sending of any pictures at all, colored or other but process by which a colored pie ture in one place can be reproduced in like colors far away What is "sent" differs in no essential respect from the electrical impulses that carry an ordinary message, but in genious machines at each end of the. wire so start and 50 receive those impulses that they can Joe recorded as a duplication of the pie ture the reproduction of which is desired.
 The reproduction of the colors issaccom- plished by successive printings in three tints, one after the other, of three uncolored pie lures, each of which recorded the impulses due to one of the cOlors. Of color stransmis- sion Gthere is none.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
NOT SD NOISY

Chiva1ry may have been stupid, in way but give it credit for not sitting out in { flivver with the side curtains up and honk ing till she came out in the rAin.-For Wayne News-Sentinel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

The city commission, in considering the next annual budget, is expected to find difficulty as usual in making ends meet. Unfortunately, the humorist's s suggestion to eat beef tongue and ox-tail soup will not solve the problem as effec- lively as exercising some administrative judgment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

The St. Louis girl who danced several times with the Prince of Wales has re- ceived much publicity, but has not yet announced any purpose of going into the movies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
ADVENTURE IN THE STREET

Often, after finally getting across the street in safety, we feel so triumphant and jubilant that we entirely forget what we came across for.-Ohio State Journal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

The French government has decided tt live within its income. "Pay as you go when you can't pay, don't go," is thu basis of sound business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

Announcement that the Chinese civil war was postponed because of rain sug- gests that the warriors might wisely go back to the use of umbrellas in warfare, as was their custom not many years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

Some of the leading Republicans pre- tend not to understand why the Demo- crats should insist that common honesty is first-class political issue,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

It is reported that an Irishman one hundred and twelve years old died from the effects of whisky, tobacco and tea. The combination is believed to be fatal if one sticks to it long enough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

It is unfortunate that so many rnur- derers who contemplate suicide to es- cape legal punishment do not reverse the order of the program.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

An exchange observes that it is often wise to shut ones eyes to the faults of others. It might save hospital charges also to shut ones mouth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

It is reported that the. fighting in China has been postponed on account of wet grounds. Rain checks might prove acceptable to the spectators.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

The Chattanooga beggar, who was ar rested for counterfeiting, seems to have played both ends against the middle in imposing on the public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

It is said that a million wandering canines are bothering Berlin. le seems that the people are doggedly resisting the dog tax.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

Huntsville, Alabama, is making a drive against drunken motorists; but it will be necessary to drive fast and fol- low zig-zag routes to catch them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
MUD.SLINGING

The mud-slinging has begun. The New York Times accuses MT. Dawes of splitting two, initiatives. Minneapolis Journal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

Ma Ferguson is said to be a domestic woman. She should, therefore, have no trouble in forming a kitchen cabinet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

Now that the silver dollar has come back into circulation, the next thing is to give it reasonable purchasing power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

If the choice were left to me, whether to have free press or free government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

The farmer and the laboring man never dreamed how important they were until along about election time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-07
Entered ct Birmingham Ala. post office natter. act of Congress. March 6. 1879.

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-24

Moro than fifty beautiful
new silk crepe frooks a.
this price. Al tho new
styles and colorH. Nearly
an one-oia kind models,
worth far more than we
are asking for them.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-24

New arrivals IN The much.
wanted navy and tan Poi.
ret twill and ticotine.
Strictly new styles IN sizes
up 70 ~. There are also
a limited number Of tan
and brown checks IN this
lot.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-24
ny FIELDING LENNON

HirelluEs Of the private power
trust arc wuEing an intense cam
palEn OF propaganda turnout tho
state o, Washington in al effort
10 arouse sentiment against the
bono free power bill which win BE-
submitted 10 tho voters this fall
as Initiative measure No. o..
Particularly II this campaign
being conducted in Eastern Wash
ingion. where the newspapers are
being used TO fire broadsldes OF
twisted facts. confusing comments
and bare falBchoods. Identical
stories appear in moro than 20
papers, In one case tho editors
followed tho copy presented them 40
closely that word was misspelled
in several different papers.
Every effort IL being made to
befos the real import Of the Bone
bin and particular attempts arc
being made to confuse Il with tho
Erickson superpower measure,
which was drafted for initiation ;hia
F. fall but which has been withdrawn
from tho fight
/ An item which told OF the films
Of the Bono free power measure
declared TINT u had been so changed
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-24
CHICAGO MAN
REPORTS SERIOUS
AILMENT VANISHES
Alvita Brings Immediate
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-24
sATTACK PICCLY
WIGGLY SAFES
Two Stores Entered. but
YeggS Fail TO Get Cash

sAfecFackcrs made a desperate but
futile attempt early THURSDAY morn.
ing 10 rob two Piggly-WtEgly grocory
stores by attacking the safes with
sledge hammers.
Gaining entrance thru a fircdoor
~ the fgEiy-wigEly store al 18th
I've, ;. and Beacon ave. The ycggs
smashed the combination on the safe
but save Il up as had sob when
they failed Go knock OF the knot.
Another PiggN -Wigkly storo az
Harvard ave. and Eastlakc ave. was
entered thru a rear window and the
safe was badly battered, The com.
bination knob Was pounded OF. but
the yeggs failed 10 open tho door.
According 10 Detective =. 9. Chris,
Jensen. both Jobs were evidently tho
work 81 amateurs. Finger prints
were found on the safe az both places
and these are being checked UP with
records.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-24
Power Trust Launches
Fight on Bone Measure
Broadsides of Twisted Facts Are
Fired Thru Country Weeklies

since tho end OF tho legislative ses.
sion that Il now included most o.
tho features Of the Erickson bin.
Much Of tho Information contained
In these power trust articles IN
credited 10 agents Of the Washing
ton Waterpowor Go.
In Characteristic power trust
fashion. attempts are being made IN
the propaganda TO stir w The sec.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-24

uonal feeling between the small
towns and Seattle and Tacoma Tho
following excerpt from m, omak
Chronicle ia an eAampig oi ihr aa..
icrfuge employed
Under the cloak o. hlsh sound.
ing phrases tho municipal owner
ship fans of Seattle and Tacoma are
preparing 20 capitalize Tho water
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-24

the cities 10 DO o. they pisase. with
out regulations said Mr. yolEsr
The notorious section =" as f. b.
called by AR goiEcr vas taken
bodily from thr statute books of the
state o. Washington and pot IN the
Bone measure n n identical with
The law under which the anter pow.