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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
Forum Of The People

Birmingham Post No. i Seeks Information To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 You are requested to assist through your paper to locate the following persons for the American Legion.
 MT. James Leslie Easley, an ex-service man whose home was originally Birming- ham. Birmingham Post Mo- l is very an- xious either to get in touch with this man or hear from some one who knows where he is. Report may be made by letter or phone Main 5752.
 Dorothy Connell, age F, is now in State Home for girls. She is the daughter of a soldier killed during the World War. This man Cornell whose given name is not known left his daughter when he went overseas with an old couple in West Blocton. Neither the daughter or the couple have heard of him since. Any information re- garding him will assist Birmingham Post No. ' in placing the little girl in the American Legion Home for orphans of World War Veterans and establishing any claims which she may have against the government.
 Thanking you for your service, l remain,
 Yours very truly,
 RUSSELL F. WALTHOUR, JR.
 Birmingham, Ala, Sept. IS, 1924.
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THE LIBRARY SITE

The arguments advanced against To- eating the new library building in Capi- tol Park are not convincing. The park at present is at night a dark blanket for the protection of dark deeds. No effort has been made to administer 1t as a place of recreation or rest for the people who are downtown during the day or who live downtown. The library board, finding it's funds inadequate both to buy a convenient site and to build suitable building, proposes to erect Tn the park a structure in architectural har- mony with the park purpose and with the program of public construction pro- posed for sites adjoining the park.
 There is nothing incongruous about a building of this nature in a public place or square. On the contrary, both the park purpose and the library purpose coincide to a degree that refutes the specious arguments thus far opposed to the plan. Such a park in such site hay easily be made to combine all the recreational advantages sought for it, and at the same time furnish con venient location for patrons of the H. brary. There is no doubt that the far ther the library is removed from a down. town location the less it will be patron ized. No other downtown location IS within the means at the disposal of the library board.
 Undoubtedly those who oppose the plan would do we'll first to find out what 1t is. Let them first consult with the H. brary board and discover if it actually can do what it promises in the matter Of making the projected structure harmon ize in every way with the major park purpose.
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that they are not getting enough return
 for their labor and outlay. The way to
 make money on cotton is to reduce the
 cost per pound. There is no more efec- tive way to reduce the cost per pound than to. increase the pounds per acre. Next year, undoubtedly the managers of the prison farms will try to make it an average of three-quarters of bale. It can be done. The state could do worse than offer prize to the farm that ob- tains the largest yield per acre at the lowest cost per pound on any tract, say, of ten or twenty acres in extent. And if it can be done on twenty acres, it can be done on two hundred acres. It is being done by the best growers in the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
Brief Nature Studies
By J. OTIS SWIFT.

CTANHOPE Sans of the State,s eoiunbia, -, S. C., who writes delightful nature edl-
 torals in his paper and apparently loves nature more than anything else..or htera- ture with profound and intimate babllng O green fields in it, adds this bit of infor- nation about eight -year-old Edmund Rhett Taylor, who recently found blue grosbeak in Columbia: "One day he told me he had seen new bird at the plantation still have such vestiges of the Old South and gave me a vivid and, withal, scientific description of the stranger. While Edmund still uses limited vocabulary for daily pur- poses of life, he is meticulous as to his bird talk.
 He picks his words as carefully as an oriole selects material for her hanging gar den. And so exact were his terms that l recognized at once-though no Audubon that it was a redstart that he had seen. l showed him a plate of birds, and he in stantly picked out the little drum major from among a hundred pictures
 He knows every bird ranging his domin- ions of observation, city blocks, a bushy val ley, and the farm and woodland of his an cestral plantations"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
GANDHI SEEKS TO ATONE

Mahatma Gandhi has for some years been recognized as the leader of the Nationalist movement in India. But Gandhi's policy was a pacific one. He advocated and pI'acticed passive resist ance and not aggressiveness aesuEst the British rule. He now represents the spectacle of a leader who is behind and not in advance of his movement. For the people of India, aroused by Gandhi's former preaching, and having no means of successful onslaught upon the British, whose military hold in that country is very strong, fell back upon that ancient outlet of popular passion, namely, re- ligious antagonism. The Hindus and the Moslems are now getting off of their chests some of the mutual rancors of long standing which British authority has compelled them to repress. The mortality has not yet been great, but the terror and anguish inspired by the imminence of outbreak have led to a grave situation.
 Gandhi, aghast at the outcome of his quite different expectations, now takes to himself the blame and announces to his Hindu followers his intention of be- ginning a twenty-one day fast to atone for the acts of violence and the dis turbed temper of people divided by re- ligion whom he hoped to unite for their country. The leader invites to this fast both Hindus and Moslems, for he is held in much esteem by Moslems as we'll as by those of his own faith. The trouble with Gandhi is that he is impractical. His ideas of government are as visionary and nebulous as the tenets of his re- ligion and of Hindu philosophy. To those who can school themselves to sit in end less contemplation he appeals, but to those who must live and struggle in this
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Eating
Br DR, LINE cRANE

IA RY DOCTORATE is not of medicine MI but for all that enjoy as well as the AVA next one giving people advice about their health and insisting upon their taking my favorite pills and upon their liking what I like generally. The doctOring and dosing instinct is strong in the human breast; even children like to play at giving medicine and it is the last passion of old women. so bear with me while I relieve my mind or few choice notions about eating.
 First, eat when you are hungry. No ani- maj but man has three regluar teedlngs a day.. Ten snacks are better than three fuli meals. If we should nibble at nuts and trults at our spare moments all day, as a horse crops crass whenever he can get 1t, we wouid be better off. I don't purpose to argue; am playing physician. and physicians never give reasons. a>si
 Don't create an artificial appetite with any Kind of appetizer. Cocktails are murder
 Don't try to make children eat when they don't want to. Try to make them work up an appetite. Ix Don't peel the apples, slice the oranges, nor hull the almonds and peanuts Compel them to use their teeth. Don't give them much and gruel and other things that can be gUlped. chewed food. As a rule, the harder hu- man being works to get victnals the more good they do him. Squirrels and stray dogs afe so healthy because they have to run for every bite If human creatures had to run a mile and snatch the bits of their dinner from trees and dig them up from the ground they would be much sounder than now, when they sit and have food handed them.
 Don't eat white bread or polished rice.
 . Don't give children candy.
 Never eat to satiety. Quit before you get that full feeling.
 Talk all you can at table. Laughing is still better. And if you can sing while at your meal that is best of all.
 Don't accept the rules of someone else in regard to your eating and drinking Experi- ment upon yourself. try out this and that What's one mans food is another mans poison. I cannot drink coffee at night; I know those who can drink q quart of it at midnight and so to bed and sleep like a top. Hence. take no advice; not even this.
 Finally, drink all the water you can hold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
Watching The Parude
By JOHN PILGRIM

THERE are scores of ways in which to
 win success in this world. Thousands
 A of them, maybe. Every successful man has his own receipt One fairly reliable method is to show a little originality. A It, tie initiative Draw on the brain reserve for a little thought.
 "There goes Old Bullet" said mygwalk- ing companion today. Rich as Croesus.
 Not very long ago Old Bullet wassse far from rich that his wife Aalf-soled his sNork- aday trousers. For years he had Reen the proprietor of a little tobacco shop. lie sold good tobacco, good pipes, good cigarette pa pers. He made a living and little more Then he blended a pipe tobacco which was rec eiyed into favor by some of the most in ordinate smokers who ever scratched match They began to recommend it to their frlends
 "So he advertised" l said.
 But not in the usual way. He did not have money enough at first to advertise, Du' he wrote letters-nice, pen and ink, long hand letters-to every one who sent cneck for can of tobacco. He told about his lat est customers Charles G. Dawes had just ordered another can. So had Irwin Cobh and Samuel G. Blythe and Harry Leon Vii, son. He made his customers feel thal through the purchase of a can ot topacco they had moved up into the king-row. So kes rlcn now. when IL OCSoH .jRsSS, =: he began to advertise, in small way and III limited localities. But he kept up his letter' writing. It isn't possible to buy a can by mail without also getting that lettec m long hand telling of his latest sale. Typew titten letters are commonplace nowadays ana hls customers might throw them away Bu' they always read his effusions in longhand Then they order more. Probably they nave a can sent to friend
 It didn't cost him much to do it. But Il made him rich.
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THE TRUE PROGRESSIVE

From my point of view he only deserves 'o pc called a progressive who cannot see a wrong persist without an effort to redress It, or right denied without effort to protect n; who feels & deep concern for the economic wei fare of the United States, but realizes that the making of better and better women 's matter greater still; who thinks or every kos> .-,,,.,+oI oli,v first of all in its bearing upon hun,an rights rather than upon material things; who believes profoundly in human equality anu detests privilege in whatever form or in what ever disguise, and who finds the true test ot success in the welfare of the many and not tne prosperity and comfort of the few. The CIVIC unit of America is not the dollar. but the m- individual man. All that goes to make better anu happier and freer men and women IS progress all else Is reaction.-John W. DaSis
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The Doctor

(By Kid Boots) The doctor is a funny fellow, take him by and large; . He feeds you pink and purple pills, enough
 to sink barge. But whether these aforesaid pellets kill or cure you, He sends a bill for services and makes you
 pay it, too. lou tell him that your gizzard hurts; he
 says, Stick out your tongue!" Then shakes his head and clucks bit and
 pokes you in the lung. Just when you think the undertaken soon will haul you off He tells you, "cut out coffee," and You'd
 better take up golf.' The doctor leads the life of Reilly; all he
 has to do Is cure folks of nervousness, the smallpox,
 and the flu. He writes prescriptions that you have to take
 to some drug clerk Who puts the queer connections up and really
 does the work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
The Dryad

Charlotte Becker in The New York Sun All winter long, shut fast within her tree, She yearn for farms and budded boughs
 and spring, For little winds, whose lyric whispering Blows through her thought with turing
 mystery; For thrushes singing, and buzzing bee That carries gossip to each fragrant
 rose.
 And always through her poisoned mus
 ing goes The joy that March shall come and set her
 free. So bides there not in each of us desire To force escape from walls that shut
 us in? A smoldering, yet ever burning fire, That makes hearts ache for loveliness to
 win, Although, alas. for most of us it seems Such freedom is but mirage of our dreams,
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wo1kaday world he brings no message of use to them.
 As result, the British authority will triumph, as it, has habit of doing, for the events in India show very clearly that the real religious differences are not between the native religions and the Christian rule, but among the native religions which have feuds of long stand ing and which have never been thorough ly and decisively settled. The spirit of India is not materially different from what it was thousand years ago. Truly in that country, thousand years are but as day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
A,d Fr0m Forestry Commission.

clares that it is prepared to extend active as sistance to municipalities in regard to the planting of trees suitable for any section on residential streets. school grounds, parks etc. and will cooperate with any CIVIC agency along these lines. This is an oppor. tunity which should be borne in mind or the people of this section. While the Iri- Cities are already noted for the beautlfui shade trees which grace their parks, streets and avenues. with the expansion that IS going on there will be the need Tor many more trees to be planted, and the best re- sults will be obtained under the advice and instruction of an expert.-Florence Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
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' IKE Bacchus, MT Lloyd George wants
 to remain lever fair and ever young ''
 At least that is the assumption we may draw from dispatch from the Rome correspondent of the Agence Fournier. The news in the Nuova Paese says that the Italian surgeon, Cervelli house doctor at the Italian chamber of deputies. has departed for London to assist Professor ForonOff,, the famous gland specialist, in an operation on ''the little Welsh wizard"> If the operation is intended to bring back Mir. Georges youth, the tories need tremble, for in his younger parliamentary days, Mir. Lloyd George was "a lion in attack a champion of the people, a combatter of special privilege, the arch foe of the house of lords and the established church." in other words a radical. But a radical with big R.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
Our Trips

We often plan, my wife and I, A motor trip, OCT hill and plain, And how we'll seek the mountains high Or amble down the cost of Maine. It hasn't been our Fate to roam, As yet, among those far-off hills, For something always keeps us home, Just now, the children's dentist bills. And yet the road mays we explore And still we travel, fancy free, The winding trails of hill and shore, Fair sights that we may never see. But. after all, we often say, Reality could never make A trip more thrilling or more gay Than those we plan and do not take.
 George Leonard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
Repefits From Dairying.

With, new industries, accompanied by an army of workers, rapidly invading the state. dairying must expand in proportion if Ala bama is to reap the full benefit of the influx of northern and eastern capital. With a market at his very door and other condi- tions equally favorable. the farmer IS missing a rare opportunity when he permits millions annually to go to other sections TOT tnoss thines-milk. cream, butter and cheese-that he should produce. The southern farmer IS not going to enjoy the fullest measure of nrosnerity as long as northern feed, meat and dairy products monopolize his market.-Cai- honn County Argus------e--- :.
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snsndinr Tax.Paxers.- Money

building about as commodious as has any state in proportion to population and wealth about the first thing any new commission or newly created department does when or ganized is to try to start the spending of some of the taxpayers cash to purchase or erect a "home,'' building for the especial and sole use of the newest lot of officials That, as a matter of course, was what the new forestry commission started out to do. Fortunately Attorney General Davis put a large and tough stick in the cog wheels, telling the F. c. plainly that they could not.use public cash for that purpose.-Ope- lika News. a.d
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STUDY OF PRESS WELCOMED

The Rockefeller Foundation is to make a Survey" of the American newspapers. We welcome it, In common with many other members of this profession or trade" as one writer classes it, we are anxious to get back to higher standards of ethics and performances in the journalistic world, and if some capable means is found to show up the newspapers that offend we are ready to aid. The survey" might also include the newspaper reading public because it may be that all the trouble is not with the news pers.--Lowell Courier Citizen. N
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Modern Hotsl Needed

A modern hotel of ample proporticAs VIII put the possibilities of Florence ana tns Muscle Shoals before the world in way that can be accomplished in no other manner. Captains of industry refuse second or third class accommodations In their quest for new worlds to conquer they demand general head quarters service. Even the "knight of the grin" has been educated to something better than Florence affords. The travelling sales man-the walking advertisement of every pro gressive community-has nothing but crln- cism for the hotel situation in this city. we are being knocked from every quarter Tor our failure to provide for the public need EIorence News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
Rig Profits In Poultry.

Many sections produce more Tn chickens and eggs in a like territory than the Shoals district produces in cotton. There is no req son why the same thing could not be done her. And the effect of an extra two million dollars of money annually in this district distributed mostly through the very period when cotton is practically off the market can scarcely De imagined. But it is some thing that can be done if the proper inter- est is displayed and the right encourage ment given to its promotion.-Muscle Shoals Sunday News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
alHEALABAMA alSEgzAPRESS
Roads should Be wen Built.

Clay county residents appreciate the value of good roads. The county depends upon its roads for reaching the outside markets. but a small part of the county having railway facilities. This makes it all the more im- portant that the public roads should be sub stantially built so they can be used in all seasons and in all kinds of weather. The county is doing a fine work in improving its roads-Anniston Star.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20
Hish Cost of Book Changing

We have full confidence in our state off cials at Montgomery, but for the'.li of us we cannot understand just why there must be so many text book changes in Alabama. There may be no reasonable ground for much of the complaint that one always here at this time of the year, but there surely must be some justification for the almost universal charge that the changes are too frequent and too costlyLGadsden Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20

A town in Maryland is reported to have been bought by private citizen. This is going a step beyond the more or less frequent practice of purchasing merely those who officially represent towns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20

Attempts have been made to prevent the marriage of wealthy Virginia lady eight-two years of age to a man twenty nine years old. Why shouldn't those in their second childhood feel as young as those in their first?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20

 .ND QNERS
Bigger and Better Fish Advertising

Bigger and Better Fish Advertising THE fish industry is suffering from lack
 of advertising. The humble but de-
 serving haddock needs a publicity agent and the horse-mackerel a good bill poster, according to views aired at the annual con vention of the United States Fisheries Asso- citation. People eat too much meat and too little fish because they don't find mentioned prominently in the full-page advertisements, declared Gardner Poole, retiring president. Consequently the convention authorized an advertising fund to boom fish ana give 1t the press-agenting it deserves, let the cost fall where it may. A committee is now at work on proper fish slogans and results along this line may be expected momentarily:
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 waters.
 Try it once and you will use no other.
 Look for the red label.
 IT'D WALK A MILE FOR A SALMON" You get more flavor, more crjoymert-and more for your money when you buy a
 Smith and Wesson Salmon.
 Ask Dad! He Knows
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 A MULLET! Known and respected wherever fish are known. $1OO in all parts of the United
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 As Kipling Said "A WOMAN IS ONLY A WOMAN, BUT A GOOD SARDINE'S A FISH. Eat More Fish and
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 LEARN TO EAT FISH AT HOME (In Ten Lessons) We teach you to play the pickeler, hailbut crawfish, porgy and founder by mail. Gut out this coupon and send us $3 in stamps TODAY! 1 (Over 24,000 graduates during the past fish, cal year.) CAN YOU DRAW? Copy this bluefish (cherlodipterus salatatrix) and mail it to our New York office. We
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He Never Got The Biz Head

"Pershing has survived it all without single boner," says the Washington dispatch relating the story of the generals passing into civil life. It is a unique record, says the writer of the dispatch. The only rule of life Pershing seems to have learned early and ever obeyed was: Never get the big head. Unexampled in his success, he is un- exampled in the modesty with which he bears it-Mobile Register
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20

Now that the schools have opened, it' a mighty sluggish pupil who can't em barrass his father with 1925 models il algebra problems.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-20

A college professor says that only ten per cent. of the American people are crazy. This includes the large number of slayers who admit it when they are indicted. .-.
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An Eye To Business

Stella: Did Bella marry well?''
 Mayme: "I'n say she did. Married a barber. Won't cost her bloomin' cent to keep her hair sheared, marcelled, permanent waved, friccaseed, or any way she wants it." Edgar A. Porter.