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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19
The Right Word
FRENCH INTO ENGLISH
BY CURTIS NTCHnLa0aF

Miss N. NJ. of Chicago submits the follow
ing problems: E. F'
II. Avons means "Let us have" Is LET
us have" in the imperatice mood in English
as is avons in French?" (Answef: Yes.) /,
80. Ill pu sortir' means He may have
gone out or He can have gone OUT II aurait
pu sortir' means He might have gone out or
He could have gone out Is He can have
gone out correct in English or. He could
have gomez" (Answer: HE could have gone
out" is correct. The following are also cor
rect: He may have gone cut /; He might have
gone out.)
SO. Your sister is going out. May 60
with? Is it very incorrect or incorrect at all
to say, May l go WITH leaving the word her
understood?" (Answer: Correct: May go
with her?)
a. Which is the correct form for 4 am
not I'm not. Pmnt, or ain't?" (Answer !:
Amt is incorrect at all times. Right: Tam
not; I'm not.)
II like very much reading the comments
about this right word, and think some of
them very amusing" 49,
OF Course Frogs CrOak Il
Then let them croak, If you are trying
to convey the idea of their croaking. j. d.
Doidlez of Glen Ridge. N. j., writes, II
should like to inquire whether the advice to
omit the superfluoust words from sentence
is not sometimes misleading. In the follow
ing, L heard frogs croaking IN the distance on
that still summer night contend that crOak-
ing is strictly superfluous, because the only
sound that frog makes which can be heard
at distance is the sound Of croaking. l
contend also that with croakiHg omitted
from the sentence there is loss in clear
ness, because the reader then has to pause
and say to himself, That's so--ereakins ism t
needed, because it's the only sound a frog
makes that is audible at distance.'"
You might hear a frog splashing in the
pond. He might not identify himself with
croak. Still you might say, Il heard the
frog in the distances By all means, if the
frog croak, tell us about it. You add color
to yoHr narrative.
Yesterdays Error
Wrong: The sentence would be alright
Right: The sentence would be all right
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KNOW YOUR own coMMuNIrY

The Jasper Mountain Eagle properly takes
JOURNALISTIC pride in the growth and progress
siveness of its community
Probably you have been too busy to
to take a look at your home town re-
Gently. 1T will strengthen your faith in
our town to take few minutes off and
have look at Jasper. Think of the lit
tie muddy town Jasper was less than n
decade ago Then take a look at the
Jasper of today, with its asphalt paved
streets and handsome public buildings,
Count the automobiles. Only a good
town can own and attract such host
of cars every day in the week Can you
find town pretter than Jasper? Can
you find buster town than Jasper in
the 1000 class? How many towns pos
sess such great natural resources as
those that surround Jasper? If your
faith is weak take look at Jasper.
Similar advice may be given with profit
to the people of many towns and cities OF
Alabama. which have made enviable records
of late years in material and social advance
ment. One of the best things that could b.
done for Birmingham, for example, would
be for its own people to get out and seq
what has been accomplished within the last
few years. and receive inspiration for greater
efforts. These are many people of this com
munity whoMhave been so busy with theii
personal interests that they have lost toucl
with their home city so far as concerns it,
wonderful development They would be bene
fitted by seeing the innumerabe evidences OF
expansion and enrichment. Their faitE
would be strengthened, and they would b.
stimulated for renewed cooperative effort
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AS To Several Issues

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
In former letter on the bond issue
suggested the use of. the white elephant we
are to call an auditorium for public library.
After having ten minutes business with the
county board of education and taking an
extra half hour going out to the proposed
new courthouse site in order to transact that
business, l have an idea. We have to edu-
cate the negro. That auditorium is so in
accessible to the general public 1 think it
would be wise idea to turn it into a negro
high school. 1t would be the best solution
to get something out of the woeful waste of
money that the city commission has put into
it. Then, might get something out of
another waste of the public funds by the
aforesaid commission by turning the city
market-the best in the South, but not pat
ronized, and never will be-into a public
library. 1t would be centrally located for
that purpose and never will pay an interest
on the investment as a municipal market.
One trip to the new location of the county
board of education has made me "pintedly
agin' the moving of the courthouse. Right
here>1 will say that what little influence
have in political way will be against any
man running for the board of revenue who
is in favor of moving the courthouse from its
present site. One of the advocates is my
iNASV'A'
for him every time, he has run for office.
That trip to the county board of education s
new quarters took all the enthusiasm out
of me II that property was worth the 'pur-
chase price-which I seriously doubt-it
should have enhanced in value enough to
bring something more. l advise selling it
and erecting six-story building on the
northwest corner of the present courthouse
site. Leave the old rock Jail where it
stands, cut away the womans part of the
Jail and come within ten feet of the present
courthouse. Put the sheriffs offices on the
first floor, the criminal courts on the second,
\ third and fourth floors and make the fifth
and sixth for jail purposes. Leave the pres
ent courthouse as it stands, but shift the
courts.
This can be done and give ample room for
| the courts for years. This solution will keep
down any further bond issue AS | sounded
the warning in a former article, reiterate
the fact that no bond issue but reasonable
one for schools will pass. Mix anything else
and all will lose Birmingham is fast grow.
ing into a homecoming electorate. They
are taxpayers and the tax burden is steadily
growing. They are getting very shy on bond
! issues. w H. PARKER
Birmingham. Ala.
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Forum, OF The People


To the Editor of The Age Herald;
Can you find space to print q. few more
words on the subject Of bonds? The prin-
ciple involved is basic one and il the only
excuse that can be offered for troubling you
further. Those who favor the bond issue
no doubt feel they are helping the schools.
But are they aiding or actually preventing
the permanent growth of adequate eduea-
tional facilities? No city can be run without
money, but some men can manage public
affairs on less money than others and give
the soundness of their financial policy and
their ability to create and hold an efficient
organization. One administration might point
with selfish pride to four million dollars
worth of schools erected, but instead of pay
ing debt to the coming generation, as one
editorial writer stated, it will be passing on
ten million or more for that coming genera
ton to pay While they are paying this
enormous sum how viii they raise money
for the additional schools that every sane
man knows they will need?
Out of your city tax levy today your in
terest and sinking fund amounts to as much
as your allowance for sch0ols. and the sink
ing fund only received last year $1S7. 600 for
retirement of bonds. If you iesue the pre-
posed bonds your annual interest charge viii
jump from S525y000 to ST32 po0, which is
equal to 81 600 per day, including Sundays
and February %. For every 81 10 paid to
teachers last year this inserest viii equal
seventy cents. Every TEACHER should ecare-
fully consider this ekp&ns jseps AZ & /.
Fate hangs no red IsHfergls af the cross
roads of cify's career. bit it should not re-
quire a financier to show what the end viii
be with a steadily increasing interest charge.
You will have to ask the legislature to au-
thorize a further increase in tax rates with
an amendment to the constitution for an in
come tax. To avoid this cash basis should
be insisted on while there is yet available an
! additional three-mill levy for building pur-
poses.
| This plan was urged two years ago, but
| ignored by all in authority. Two years have
been lost which would give you nearly a
million dollars for schools with no interest
| to pay. About two weeks ago it was sug-
gested by letters to every member of the
city commission and again ignored-not even
an acknowledgement The commissioners
would be glad to have more money to spend
| than the tax rate permits, so wish to have
the proceeds from bonds for building schools,
as it will have the general fund for other
purposes. They can refund maturing bonds
, without calling an election and a refunded
| bond means cost of $4 for every 81 spent
for your school building. The last financial
report of the city shows bonds still outstand-
/ ing secured on the Ullman school, the Paul
| Hayne school and city hall. AS friend
used to remark I'VE are getting no bet.
| ter fast FRANK E. CURTIS.
Birmingham, Ala
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for further community growth and develop
ment. g. tNt
After all, the faith of a people in their own
community. and their inspiration to work for
its advancement industrially, morally and
socially are its most potential assets, There
are few cities in this country which have
achieved so much that should inspire civic
pride, faith in the future, renewed vision and
rejuvenated effort among their people ss has
Birmingham. The Mountain Eagles stimu-
lating message to the people of Jasper finds
an eren larger application to the people of
this city
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19
The Silence

The Night comes down
On Lonesome Town.
And no one is swingin'
The girls aroun'.
No music's call
. In the lonely hall.
And the Night Winds sighin'
"Good-by to ALL"
eoob-by-good-b
Where the songs a sigh
Good-by TO the Night
And the Mornings sky
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the situation Is that Plymouth could not re-
sist the pressure, and that the powder puff
has been established rs an institution capable
of withdrawing the combined attacks of an
cient tradition and modern reform. Those
who have no hesitancy in seeking quarreis
with buzzsaw might undertake to suppress
the powder puff. Some folks win try any
thing once. - =.
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enl9e
,1un1iIihob
N. By
MaxsoR 7sxKAEi kpHx

A Dilemma
(By Louise Schneiderl
'Twixt Grace and Sue wavered long,
But now know ss.se
That ON sweet Sue myschoice il fixed
Ills truly sol
Still. Inn in such quandary
I'm fairly blue:
IF Sue should grace my home fear
That Grace will sue.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19

What with earthquakes, climate, movie
sensations, Hiram Johnson. oil stories and
| the japanese controversy, California seems
determined to have her full share of the
spotlight
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19

While the Boston concern which has been
manufacturing safety pins for eighty years
cannot demand protection on the plea of
being an infant industry, it might claim
some special favor for being in its second
Childhood. s.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19

Now that Greece is a republic, it you'd
not be surprising to hear of let of alarm
viewing during the campaign for president in
the little country whose, history has hitherto
justified lots of pride pointing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19

Thirty-two thousand Japanese in Califor-
mia are said to be preparing to go to Mex
leo as retaliatnry move, because California
don't want them.
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ARsOLuTEI.Y. MR. sHEHAN

A mans tendency to give advice is in in
verse ratio to his ability to mind his own
business.-Boston Transcript.
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4, Such Is Freed0na
For a man who is paying somebody hum
bred dollars week alimony, you seem
mighty cheerful"
"Naturally-she used to cost me over
twice that much when she was my wife.
Edmund j. Kiefer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19

college professor says that young folks
know more than their parents did at the
same ages Two of the reasons for this are
that there is much more to know, and greater
necessity for knowing it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19

From the way his report has been re-
ceived so far, General Dawes seems to have
established something of a reputation in
diagnosing economic complications.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19
HAM WARK

Il understand that in the new play Alice
has quite a difficult part" sot
Difficult! Why. she doesn't ssy word"
''Well, isn't that difficult for AlicefF--
L0ndon Telegraph. sa
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is to sea that they marry better men than
their father,
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Brief Nature Stories
BY j. Otis SWIFT

( When Gaea, the fertile earth, eldest born.
of Chaos, turns i'm her sleep, stretches and
wakes smilingly to find spring in shining
garments walking over the sere grass of
meadows and beside meres, there is a flutter
of wings among the yellow willows and the
rusty blackbird welcomes her in cultural
language old as her Jurassic night slip. More
than nine inches long, male shining black
with blush iridescent tints mingled with
rusty brown in the April sunlight; and
female slaty above, duller beneath and more
ferrous, straw-col0red eyes. they linger along
marshes with the red-wings and grackles,
squeaking that the winter birds have left
few seeds for them.
Locally they are called thrush backbirds,
rusty orioles and rusty grackles They sug-
gest the redwings in call-notes and flight. The
brooksides are noisy with their gossip today,
and tomorrow they have gone on their breed
ing places among swamps from northern
states into Canada.
The nests, above the ground in bushes near
still bog waters, are made of moss sticks
aud water grasses
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19

The attitude of congress on immigration
seems to be that the United States has a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19

New Kind OF Elopement.--A Tallsdesa
mother whose daughter recently eloped con-
scled herself by saying her daughter had a
let her imagination run away with her.
vivid imagination, and she feared she had
Talladega Daily Home.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19

An Opportunity For Service.--If our Boz
Scouts really mean to be worth something
to the town and county, they should band
themselves together to sprotect song bride
better let dozen sparrows go free than kilI
one wren or CARDINAL opelika News.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19
BY Their Fruits

BY Their Fruits
Family trees are funny time was when
they were tended and pruned all tdead tim
Der being carefully cut out. but now bare
limbs. are a common sight on even some Of
our oldest ana best family trees.
Some of them produce lot of peaches
and the same branch may also bear nuts.
Many blossoms are found nesting IN the
leafy branches and perchance few withheld
wallflowers are found tucked away in sun
dry hooks.
Lemons are c9fhmon on some of the
trees; prupes and ounces also abound.
Some of this fruit is easy picking and some
Of it has to be pretty well shaken before il
will fall.
You will find many little love nests tucked
away in the branches of the old family tree
and also some pretty queer birds.
But everything considered, the family tree
10 a pretty good tree, and it is quite ca
lamity to fall out Of it.-Norma Talmadge.s
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The alabama Press

A Case OF Before And After-Its funny
how much you hear of man when he runs
for office and how. little you hear after he
arrives. Sheffield STANDARD.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19

I'm building the pezlsive maiden, sighed,
"A castle m the air."
.And what is the CONVERSIONS? he cried,
She answered, Y solitaire" ,
Mildred tLynnS
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-19

DEPENDS ON WHICH ONE TALKS
Miss Young They say the way to please
"A man is to talk to him about himself
Mrs. Wyse: Not exactly, my dear; the
way to please him is to let him talk to you
about himself. Boston Transcript
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It's said that woman is afraid of
mouse. mouse is afraid Of asman, and
man Ia afraid Of woman
Moral Three is a crowd.
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THE AGE HERALD
So. PRESIDENT

EntAseA at Birmingham, Ala. post office 40
sseond-cless matter, act Of Congress Marchs, N7s,
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Pot Lnck
(By Newman Levy) =
Chloe's form is 1.-THE and slender,
Daphne's eyes a deeper blue.
Mabels voice is soft and tender,
Grace is brighter far than you.
Fsir-haired Milicent is some belle,
Genevieve has lots of gold,
You're, alas, hopeless dumbell,
HOmely, petulant, and old.
Though your charms cannot awake me,
Yet, my dear, TO you I'm true,
You're the only girl who'd take me-
That is why married you. t#f
The pleasantest way to kiss girl is with
out her consent, but with her approval.
Copyright, 1924. Reproduction forbidden,
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Way To Empty Penitentiaries.- Last week
the Alabama pardon board was asked to re-
lease a prisoner because he was drunk at
the time and did not realize that he was VIC
lating the law" If felons were released on
such flimsy pleas as that one, our peniten-
tiaries would soon be empty.--Huntsviils
Star. .f
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Copyright, 1924. Reproduction forbidden)
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Effect OF Bad AssOciates.-The vast ma
.jority of all the crimes committed by youth
ful offenders can be traced to bad associates.
You owe a duty to your children and should
manifest an interest in them by keeping In
close touch, making their joys and pleasures
yours. Be a good old pal.-Tuscaloosa
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-06-05
IMPORTANT TO SAVINGS
DEP0SIP0RS
Banking Department Calls for Pre-.
sentaflon OF Pass Books for
Yeriiicati0n

The state banking department is
now engaged in the work Of verify
ing pass books of savings depositors
of all savings banks and trust com
panies located in Waterville. Fairfield,
Oakland and SkoWhegan. The stat
utes provide that this verifcation of
pass books shall be made once in
every three years. and is in addition
TO the regular annual examination
of all state banking institutions.
Bank Commissioner Fred L. Law
renee, states that he has adopted the
practice OF verifying the savings de-
posits Of all trust companies and saw
ings banks of a city or section at the
same time and by the uniform meth
cd of calling in the pass books for
verifcation. This method has prov
en- very satisfactory in other sections
of the state and is now being used
in the above towns. The bank com
missioner has issued n call notifying
all savings depositors to present their
pnss books at the Waterville Saw
ings Bank, Federal Trust Company,
Waterville, Me-. Fairfield Savings 4
Trust Company. Fairfield, Oakland
Branch, Augusta Trust Company, Oak
land, Skowhegan Savings Bank, and
Skowhegan Trust Company. Skowhe-
gan, for verifcation. In verifying
the pass books a representative of
the pass books a representative of
the banking department will be sta
toned at each bank and will com
pare the pass books as they come in
for the purpose of correcting any
errors or omissions in the accounts.
Further particulars in ad. ON page
g.
AS this work is done for the bene-
fiji of depositors the banking depart
ment should have the cooperation of
all depositors in presenting their
pass books at the bank without de-
lay
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-06-05

POCKET HOOK BETWEEN PE0-
PIES Garage and John Clayton farm
on River road. Containing money.
auto license, letter and papers en-
closed Reward Helen Weston
Hutchinson, 3l5 Water St, Skowhegan
Tel. l7-13. iW23"
GREY POCKET BOOK CONTAINING
about S13 between LaWtou street by
way of French street to the Town
Farm. Reward. +. y. Poulin cob
bier Shop. Water St, Skowhegan.
1w23'
BETWEEN SKOWUEGAN AND
Athens. pocketbook containing small
sum Of money, auto license and insur-
ance card. Reward offered. Notify
Grace r. oliver 1874 North ST.. Bath.
1W23*
BROWN BOSTON BAG CONTAINING
miscellaneous articles. on the State
road from Madison to Norridgewoek.
Finder please notify Merle l.. Adams,
Skowhegan. RED !, 2w23'
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To Let

RENT OF ROOMS AND HATH. 20
Turner Ave, Skowhegan. tf23
COTTAGE At LAKEWOOD FOR
the summer. Lucy Jewett, Madison
RID /. tf23F
HOUSE OF SIX ROOMS on Up
PER Middle St, 10 let or sell Elec-
tric lights and garden. Inquire of
Frank 5. Greene. Silver St, Skowhe-
gan. 3w23s
GROOM HOUSE, ELECTRIC LIGHTS
bath room, hardwood rtoors and garage.
Also 4-room house. Both on Hanover
Street. Fred Moody. 2w23s
STORAGE FOR AUTOMOBILES. y. VI.
Curtis as East Front St, Skowhegan.
Phone 4S-22. 2w23
PINE GROVE LODGE. SMITHFIELD
on shore of North Lake In
chdes cottage, sleeping cabin and ga
rage. Elmer Il. Harris, Skowhegan.
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