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Evening star., 1924-01-11
HARD WINTER GRIPS
ALL WEST EUROPE
Storm, Flood, Ice, Cold Add to
Hardships of Unfortunate
Population.
WIRES DOWN, ROADS CLOSED
Under Snow-Avalanches
in Alps.
By the Asaocis ted Press

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. January 11.-Unusually
severe storms. accompanied by in
tense cold and heavy snow, are sweep
ing Europe this winter. Off the
coasts Of Spain and France the dis
turbances have proved a serious men
ace to shipping. while in the North
sea and in Scandinavian waters the
Ice foes are SO heavy that naviga-
ton in many places is difficult.
Not in many years have there been
SO many casualties from avalanches
in the Swiss and French Alps. Heavy
rains in the lower passes and foot
hills have contributed largely to the
Marine and Seine floods in France.
The cold in England Is severe and
there Is much snow. especially in the
midlands and In the north.
Wind, snow and rain over all of
western Europe have seriously de-
Evening star., 1924-01-11
COLLEGE GIRLS HARD
DRINKERS, Is CHARGE
President of Roanoke Institution
Says "Licentious Amazons"
Infest Campuses.
CORNELL WOMEN LAUDED
Proctor Says They Boycott Men
Who Drink ct All.
BY ROBERT r. SMALL.

Special Dispat tch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January IL. - The
modern college girl has just received
the worst lambasting Of her career.
and the question before the country's
educators resolves itself into this:
Are the college campuses today
infested by AN army of hard-drink
ing, cigaretette- smoking, licentious
Amazons?"
DIR. Charles ]. Smith. president of
Roanoke College, Roanoke. Va, says
they are.
Theodore H. Tweston, proctor of
Cornell University, where co-educa-
tion holds sway. says they are not
DR.. Smith says entirely too many
handbags. too many of them dance
voluptuously in the hope that they
VIII induce many boys to break in"
on them and thus demonstrate their
popularity There are too many
dance intermissions for drinking pur-
poses, and too often the evening con-
cludes with a violent petting party
IN the luxurious retreat of a fine
q, limousine.
"Too Few Clothes"
In fact, according to DIR. Smith. the
modern college girl goes about with
too much paint.
Drinking, dancing and social i'm
purity are the three things which will
always keep college faculties wor-
RED" says DIR. Smith. In truth the
three vices have not hesitated to in
wade some of the theological semi
naries. Yet Dr. Smith is not DOWN
hearted He believes that the CLAM
our and eagerness of the errancy of
youth soon will run its course. We
are in the center of a cycle which
seems all bad, but IL will pass, and, in
its relationship to all the cycles it's
Importance will diminish.
There surely has been a moral
breakdown in the social relations of
whirl. The little towns are just
about as bad as the big cities. The
modern dance is not so bad itself, but
usually is surrounded by an atmos-
phere and a setting which is anything
Sees New Era Coming.
Yet. beneath all the jazzy exterior
of things as they are today the
Roanoke educator believes that both
girl, and boy students are coming to
grips with the actualities OF life in a
way that has marked no other era in
the history of education.
DR.. Smith does not believe in "over-
doses of education" He thinks such
doses tend TO make the college girl
blase, pompous and intellectually
shifting" The half-educated girl has
"a shallow brain, bad habits and a
lot of malicious animal magnetism"
Evening star., 1924-01-11

The uneducated girl Is apt to be The
sweetest and most Yrene of all. De-
spite ali this, DIR. Smith says the
higher education" for women riay
be all right If 1t Is not taken too seri
ously.
The remedy for latter day conditions
In the college. according to DIR.
Smith, does not lie in any great
new crusade for righteousness" for
the scope of the sectarian college Is
primarily for education and only sec
ondarily for conversion.
Need Good Example.
What is needed for the younger
generation is the good example of
the elders. Perhaps there has been
to much commingiing of the younger
and older sets at dances. The young
sters have seen their elders drink
between dances and have gone and done
likewise.
Proctor Tweston feels that the prob
lem has been largely solved at Cor
nell, and he avows there Is less drink
ing in that university than in ANY
large college In the country. He at
tributes this wholesome condition to
the fact that the "co-eds" have band
ed together to refuse to dance with
any student who has even a. faint
smell of liquor" about him. The
girls also have agreed to boycott boys
known to be drinkers.
Evening star., 1924-01-11

Eve did not resort to makeup.
You see. the man was hers the first
time she saw him.
Evening star., 1924-01-11

BERGAMO. Italy, January 10
Snow foot deep covers this city,
blocking the tram lines. Some VII
lagos in the province of Bergamo are
reported buried as result of the
heavy storms
Evening star., 1924-01-11

layed telegraph communication. I'm
I'll 6 o'clock this morning no press
dispatches had reached England from
Spain In more than twenty-four hours.
COLOGNE, January 10.-The River
Main Is completely frozen above the
bridge at Mayence and tn ice Is Of
such thickness that trafifc can cross
1t, a circumstance never before re-
corded within the lifetime of the old
est inhabitant
Evening star., 1924-01-11


lagos in the province of Bergamo are
reported buried as result of the
heavy storms.
ANCONA, Italy. January 10.-In
consequence of the torrential rains
many houses in tho village of Mon
dolfo are becoming unsafe, while fire.
quent earthshocks add to the distress
of the population and increase the
damage to property. Even the hos
pital Is TN danger of collapse. The
government Is sending assistance.
PARIS, January 10. The tidal wave
that ravaged the Atlantic coast of
France yesterday Ia believed to have
been of volcanic origin. since II was
accompanied in many places by a
slight earthquake.
MADRID. January 1e.-Severe
storms are raging of the northwest
coast. The loss of an unnamed steam
er with her crew OF nine men Is re-
ported from San Sebastian while sew
eral vessels are in danger.
CHRISTIANIA. January 1o.-The In
tense cold OF the last few weeks is
forming great ice blocks in the Catte-
gat and neighboring waters. Many
passages are sealed, especially In
western Norway.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
CITIZENSHIP MADE
 EASY TO VETERANS
Fees and Red Tape Dropped for
 Ex-Service Men

Aliens who have been honorably dis charged from the army or navy may become naturalized without comply ing with many of the requirements usually insisted upon, if they apply be- fore March 3, according to information received by federal officials Monday from the bureau of naturalization in Washington.
 Persons desiring naturaliza tiOn, who have served in the army or navy, will be obliged to make a declaration of in7 tention, show proof of residence in the United States for the past five years, or pay the customary fee of $4 usually required when aplication for citizen ship is filed. The usual 9O-day wait before obtaining final hearing on their application will also be dispensed with.
 The law making special exception of former service men was passed in July, 1919, and expires March 3, or one year after the return of the last cintingent of American troops from Europe.
 Applicants must appear before the naturalization examiner with their honorable discharges and two identify ing witnesses for a preliminary exam ination before action will be taken on their applications.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
MAKING GOOD EARNINGS Wall Street Journal Gives RaPSEt O
 Sloss- -Sheffield FfnanneS

In spite of comparatively low prices on pig iron, the -Shefield SteeI & Iron Go. is making good earnings according to the Wah Street Journal which has the following comment to make regarding this Birmingham i'm dustrial:
 Sheffield Steel & Iron Co.'S met earnings for 1923 were approximately $20 a share on the 100000 c0mm0r sliares, against $1!09 in 1922. Annual report may show somewhat smaller balance for stock, as directors may com s:der it advisable to set up special re- serve and charge them against the years large profits inste&d of agAinsu profit and loss surplus where they properly belong. Question IS purely one of bookkeeping
 Sloss showed a substantial balamcs for common stock every month aAx1 year, although iron prices were low over great part of the year. With only four of it's seven furnaces in blast, and with prices only about s q ton above last years lows, SlosS is still making good earnings on its conn mon. As the company is we'll sold up for the first quarter and will prnhablE blow a fifth furnace soon there is hit tie question that first quarter earnings will be satisfactory
 Sloss directors meet about the mid dle of February and it is expected that the stock will be placed on a $6 hasis at that tme.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
BRIDE ,M, COWBOY" i" HAPPY CROWD TELLS
Heavyweight Plays Other Mans
 Game, and Loses.

A middle-aged, well-dressed mann who voluntarily engaged himself nm a com test with . guess-your-weight scale in a Twentieth street restaurant Monday morning came of second best The machine completely outguessed him
 Just how long be had been bRsy with the contest is difficult to say, butt when he first attracted public attem- ton he was breathing heavily and nm serting pennies quite as if he was accustomed to it.
 His method of procedure WAS x1m- pie. He dropped a penny nm the slot and climbed on the scale When the dial became stationary he moved the guess-hand, to coincide with it The promise was thit if he got the pair together his cent came back
 For example, when first noslced. the dial pointed to 1S4 pounds. He turned the second pointer to that 6gmre, jumped down, clmibed on again and dropped another penny
 Cling! The dial moved to 1S7-
 Undetered, he again made a -guess- But the dial went him one better 1t slipped to 1S9.
 By this time he had collected q crowd of interested onlookers-
 Ride him, cowboy '" Don't lst it get you down." 4NGuess tRice at oncei" was some of the sage advire offered him.
 But instead of aiding, the comments unnerved him. Angrily he pushed Inns way through the group and flung cut into the street, muttering dire and un- printable things about the proletariat, the bourgeois and other classes of cltl- zens in general
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
AUTO THIEVES ARE ',
 GIVING CITY REST
No Cars Reported Missing fc.
 Nearly Three Weeks

Detectives G. c. Giles and w. R. Patterson, surrounding bad roads, cold weather, or better yet, a combination of all three, have brought remarkable decrease in the number of automobiles stolen in Birmingham.
 Records show that machine has not been reported stolen since January 4, which makes a 17-day period in which auto livery has been at an absolute standstill.
 iSuch has not been the condition in other cities the files of the two city detectives assigned to this branch of crime brings out. Atlanta numbers from three to five automobiles A. W. O. l.. a week with B or 40 for the en. fire southeastern district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
CIVIC CLUBS AND
 LABOR JOINTLY
 BACK EDUCATION
Exchange Members Unan. imOusly Vote to Boost
 Joint Movement

Co-operation with allied labor or ganizations and other civic bodies and clubs of Birmingham in an effort to secure better educational facilities, was unanimously voted by the Exchange club of Birmingham ait it's regular weekly meeting Monday in the ballroom of the TutwiIer hotel.
 l. J. Forbes was named chairman of q committee appointed from among members of the>club to cooperate in this move. Dr. w. R. Crane and Charles Webb are members.
 Qualification was expressed over the fact that the position of the labor or yaniation was in perfect acco03 with the attitude assumed by the Exchange club two years ago, when complete survey of the educational situation in Birmingham was stated to show that Birmingham WAS sadly deficient in fa- eilities to care for the education of children of the city, and that this sit- -uatiOn, unless extensive improvements and enlargements were made, would grow worse each year.
 Members of the club, in discussing the resolution, expressed the hope that it would now be possible to reconcile all organizations in the city and that q united campaign could be waged to remedy the present situation
 James Simpson, president of the Ex- change club, stated that q canvass would be made of .the members of the club to determine how many were qual- flied to vote. Each member and mem- bers> of his family will be impressed with the importance of qualifying to participate in state, city and county elections.
 < A short outline of the satsuma indus try in Alabama was made by Roy O. Bishop of Baldwin county, secretary of the citrus growers of Alabama. MT. Bishop stated that Baldwin and Mobile counties are now the center of this in- dustry and that it was one of the most profitable agricultural activities of the south
 The attendance prize was do1ated by Dr. s. L. Ledbetter. IT,, and Was won by Vernon Harris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
TEAMS ANNOUNCED
 FOR NEW BUILDING
Woodlawn Methodist Church Is
 Raising $1OO,0OO

R. s. BroyIes, chairman of the building committees campaign fund for the $100,0O0 Sunday school building, which will be erected by the congrega- tion of the First Methodist church of Woodlawn, announced his appointees as team captains for the drive Monday afternoon.
 The following men will serve as Team l, L. A. Christian; No. 2, Ben captains of their respective teams Davis; No. 3, Gilbert Ritchie; No. 4, J. L. Kirby; No. 5, P. O.. McGlathery i; No. 6, R. s. Ruth; No. z, B. S. Mo Glathery; No. 8, J. T. Rhodes; No. 9, H. E. Williams; No. 10, Dr. W. O. Farrar; No. Il, Dr. L. R. Shiflett No. 12, Dr. J. A. Collins; No- 13, $. H. Till; No. 14, R. K. Andrews; No. 15, S. D. Yam; No. IS, T. D. Spradley i; No. IT, R, B.. Broyles; No. 1S, H. E. Cranford; No. 19, H. W. Smith; No. 20, W. N. Sharp; No. 21, Ed Putnam ; No. 2, P. H. Knox; No. g, J. A. Hynds; No. 24, W. o. EzzeIl; No. %, A. N. Kirby, and No. 26, R. G. Love lady. N'
 This gives us an organization of 26 teams to carry on the campaign when the first gun is fired" said Mir. Broyles, land I feel like there is no chance for failure with team captains made up of the calibre of men have appointed to serve. Members will be assigned to the respective teams at an early date and workers will get busy as soon as given the w0rd.Y
 E In connection with the naming of his heutenants for the big campaign, MT. Broyles stated that l.. A. Christian, su- perintendent of the Sunday school at Woodlawn First church for the past six years and a member of that church and Sunday school for many years, rendered his resignation Sunday. This came as 6 result of MT. Christians de- cision to move to another section of the city. His wife has also been tireless worker for church and Sunday school and the membership presented them with beautiful silver service Sunday.
 Mir. Christian, in his speech of ac- ceptance, announced that he and Mrs. Christian were in sympathy with the movement for the $100,0O0 building fund and they would make a substan- tial contribution toward the fund.- Mir. and Mrs. Christian have resided in Woodlawn for years," said Mir. Broyles, land universal regret was ex- pressed over their decision to move."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
NO PERMITS FOR
 STREET FAkRS
McLendOn Passes Word for the Police to Clear Birmingham
 of All Mendicants

Phrenologists. fortune teIlers. palm readers. floating salesmen and fakirs of all kinds" must keep out of Bir- mingham if they want to keep out of trouble, D. F. McLendon. city com mission president, decreed Monday.
 Annie Bimbo of South America with her husband and a group of camp followers, applied for a license to op- crate On the streets. The woman said she could feel a persons head and forecast the future.
 Bunk" said MT. McLendon- "We have an ordinance against issuing h- censes to such people and I'm going to See that it is enforced to the let ter. You folks had better beat it away from here You'll find 1t warm CT and otherwise much more comfort able farther south"
 If any phrenologists or fortune tell CTS are now operating in Birmingham MT. McLendon plans to make them move on at once.
 After dismissing the Bimbo party in came a man for a permit to sell raincoats.
 Where is your shop!" asked Me Lendon.
 I'll sell on the streets. thus giving rurchasers- lower price-and my coats are guaranteed" said the appli can't
 Your guarantee is no .sOod. and Birmingham can get along without you, too," replied the president. '.It is unfair to our merchants to let these fly-by-night fellows come in here and sell merchandise on the streets You
 
 advise you to get on a train and star riding.
 license inspectors to hold up all appli cations of this kind His associates are backing him to the limit The police have word to clear the city oi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
Film, is uncleara

Film is that viscous coat you feel It resists the tooth brush, and much of 1t clings and stays. Soon 1t becomes discolored, then forms dinGy coats. That's why countless teeth are elouded more or less.
 Film also holds food substance which ferments and forms acid. It holds the acid in contact with the teeth to cause decay. Germs breed by millions in it. They, with tar tar, arc the chief cause of pyorrhea.
 Under old methods, very few people, young or older, escaped these hlm-caused troubles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
|CANTANEEROUS IS
 LEFT BY ROADSIDE
]. B. west Dnmises Ihought>of
 Csreening Cranky Car

It was . good car, as cars % and ono has to expect . few little funny businesses occasionally but-well. too much is enough.
 .J. B. West, a mining foreman, liv- ing at 642 Thirty-fourth street, south. told the world it was," as he walked three long chilly miles into town Mon day morning.
 It hadn't been so bad last June when the kteering wheel came off and left him flat without any method of piloting the thing, or in September when the rear wheel contrarily started east as he was headed west, or on any other of the numerous times when it had had distemper, but the affair Monday was the Last. straw. 1t seems MT. West was breezing along to work one mile east of Crystal line Heights early Monday morning, considering how cold it must be in Greenland, when all of a sudden his car began to careen drunkenly.
 Mir. West shut off the gas, shut off the ignition, and everything else he could reach on a moments notice, but without any visible effect. The car con- tinued to careen until it finally rested its nose >placidly against a convienient telephone pole
 Mir. West disembarked. For an hour, with the wind finding apertures in his coat, he pulled this and pushed that, but the car remained motionless. Finally in desperation he began the long trek to Birmingham.
 And I'm not going back and get it," he said disgustedly late in the afternoon Anyone that wants a car which acts like a temperamental opera star nine days out of the week, can have it. I'm done. They say they turn those things out every minute. Maybe so, but I'm pretty certain the mechan. ics were thinking of something else for about 90 of the seconds when they shuffled mine together"
 Note to advertisers: MT. West was looking around for another car late Monday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
THREE MEN HELD NARGOROBBMY
Deputies Believe They Have Those Who Held Up Young
 m1n's Store

With the arrest of R. E. Adceck, 21, by New Orleans police Msnday, authorities believe they have in cus- tody the trio who staged the Aryo held-up a week ago.
 Two others, Eugene Adcock, 27- and M. NJ. Wiliett, g, were arrested at 2126h Second avenue late Saturday evening by Deputy Sherifs H. E. Rad ger and E. P-s Jones on n vagrancy warrant and held pending the appre- hension of the second Adcock- Neith- CT, it is said, suspected the real change to be lodged against them and are al leged to have been positively identified since that time.
 ary 14 in the store of T. c. Youmgman about 8 o'clock. Three masked men backed Youngman and two customers, Charles Pullman Aand Houston Ora ham, aganist the wnll, riled the cash register of about $500, besides taking valuables which the three victims car ricd.
 Apparently the robbery had been cleverly planned and executed, as the sherif's officers were left butt few clews 10 work upon Thursday, how ever, blank checks takAn from the store and a note dropped by one of the rob bers were discovered by a gsoup of hunters in the undrebrush two miles west of Argo. =
 This evidence was turned over to fhe sherifFs office. and fr0m that time Badyer and Jones have been busy on the trail which ultimately led to the Second avenne rooming house
 With tLe exception of the younger Adcock, the men arrested are said by deputies to have crimnial records Ome of the trio is wanted for a cutting and shooting scrape, it is alleged
 Deputy Sheriff Jones left for New Orleans Monday to bring R. E. Ad- coek here
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
CLAUDE NIXON DIES

Claude Nixon, IS, of Hackelburg, Ala, died at 5 o'clock Monday after noon from a fractured skull, received earlier in the day, when he fell from the running board of q truck at Hack elburg.
 According to the boys father, Sam uel Nixon, who accompanied him to Birmingham Young Nixon was riding on the running board of the truck, when q sudden sharp turn threw him vio- lently to the ground. His head struck a stone.
 The remains will be sent to Hackel- burg at 12:15 o'clock Tuesday after noon by Lige Loy for interment. He is survived by his father, a brother and a sister.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-22
Vital St0tistics
BIRTHS

BIRTHS
 MT and s' .o,tS 9sdsn tsSs s1H THir MT. and Mrs- T. H. Fitzpatrick. 131l Tenth avenue. south, January +. girl. Besss.nsr Mrs sna Januasy M " I Is. girl iH '''' %' Mr. and Mrs J. B. swiney. Route l. Bessemer. January Is. girl avenue. January IS. girl
 MT. and Mrs. J. E. Storey. Star route. North Birmingham. January IS. boy: MT. and Mrs- G. R. Harsh. IT,, St Vim cents hospital. January 3. boy.
 Mir. and Mrs. William Armour. St vinesnts hospital January II; girl hospital January Is. girl
 Mir. and Mrs. D. E. Caldwell. Hillman hospital. Ianaary IS. girl -sE ar. I and Mrs. J. L. Parker. Hirlman hospitaI January Is. girl hospital. January 14. boy hospital. January 13. girl
 Grady Cash, Hiiirnan hospital Janu- Owen Turner. 1908 Tenth avenue. Mrs. Lillian Morgan. i4ss Nineteenth street. north. January 1s. aged s3 years. John B. Champion. 14s1 Fourteenth avenue. Bessemer. January 1s. aged g Josie Clark. T. C. l. hospital. Fair field. January 19, aged 4s years.
 James C. Allen, Hillman hospital, Jan uary 20, aged II months.
 tMfss Minne AIbes. South Highland fn- fhmary. January %. aged s4 years
 J. C. Courtney. 4s21 Fifth avenue south, January 20.
 Mrs- Bertha Rosenfeldt s3s4 High land avenue. January 20, aged "A years. Mrs. Maggie Warner. 3oz4 Twentieth avenue. Ensiey. January IS. aged q Samuel F. Giles, Ensiey infirnary January 1s, aged 2s years.
 Rev M E. Wilson, Ensiey infirmary January IS. aged 3s years
 John s: Moxiey, 1900 Forty-third street Wylam, January IS, aged 20 years.
 Mrs. Caterine Cushmzn. No. Mines Pratt City. January Is. aged 21 years Infant of w. M. Smith, 4o3 Thirtieth street, Ensley, January 1s.
 Floyd T. Barnes, 2e13 Avenue H, Ems ley. January 16. aged 2s days.
 Mrs. Ida Heath, z7zo Florida avenue January 21. aged s2 years