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TAXES AND GOVERNMENT
Th* Philadelphia Bulletin remarks that
Federal taxation and what is done with it
is absorbingly interesting to different
States for different reasons, and some
«f these reasons are:
New York Is Interested, for Instance,
because she contributed to the Federal
exchequer for the fiscal year ending
’June SO. 1924, $690,415,425, a"d
calved from Federal state aldB°nher"*
only $4,020,445, or little more than one
half of one cent for every dollar paid
out Nevada is interested because she
paid to Washington only $761,499, while
she received from the Federal treasury
the sum of $885,759. or a return of
more than 116 per cent, on her entire
payments toward the cost of Federal
Government. ,_«
4: Pennsylvania i» Interested in Federal
taxation, too. The Keystone State paid
to Federal taxes for the same
$269,688,619 and received In state aid
grants $3,796,11*. or about 1.40 cents for
every dollar of Pennsylvania tax money
paid to carry on the government at
Washington. .
West of the Mississippi Us twenty
two States of the Union. Together
- these States paid in Federal taxes. *418,
465,119. The single State of New York
paid two hundred and seventy million
dollars more toward the cost of Federal
government than all the twenty-two
States west of the Mississippi put to
gether. The single State of. Pennsyl
vanla paid a sum greater than the other
twenty States west of the Mississippi,
leaving out the two States of California,
and Kansas.
New York and Pennsylvania together
paid into the Federal treasury, *950.
104.044, and received therefrom $7,81*.
It* leaving tfielr net payment to the
treasury $942,2*7,4*1. The twenty-two
trans-Mississippi States paid *418,4*5,
819, and reoelved back $35,410,918, leav
ing' their net contribution *3*3.054.90*.
In Congress the twerty-two Western
• States have forty-four Senators and 137
Representatives. Is it any wonder that
the wlshee* of the two great Eastern
States carry small weight in taxation,
disbursement and Federal policies gen
arally. when they have such a dispro
portionately small authority in relation
to their responsibilities?
Still, it is held by some that New York
and Pennsylvania have a good deal of
weight in fixing the nation’s tariff poli
cies.
✓ Touching another side of the taxation
. question, the Chicago Herald and Ex
aminer says:
In 191* State and local governments
borrowed by means of bond issues, 8*91,
060,000. In 1984 up to December 1,
they borrowed in the same way, $1,2*9,
000,000, setting a new .high record for
such transaction*.
The various Btatag or communities
affected by these loans must pay the
Interest on them and ultimately the
principal also, -That must be done by
taxation.
In 1919 local taxes were $2,956,600,
Last year they were nearly
000. _ .. .
U4.5n0.000.000.
Bow do wo pay these huge taxes?
Most of us pay our share in higher
prices for what wo est, for what wo
wear and for whoro wo lire.
That is ths way most taxes are ulti
mately collected.
When the tax on a business build
lag Is increased, the taxpayer raises
his tenants' rent, and the tenants raise
the prices of what they sell.
% Undoubtedly the government Income
tax Increased Investment in tax-exempt
■ bonds for local improvement; and the
demand for tax-exempt bonds undoubt
ediy led to pushing ahead wltlr—iocal
% improvements which under other cir
cumstances would not have been con
templated until far into the future. *
It is much more expensive to live now
adays than it used to be, says the Herald
and Examiner, “But as one of the wisest
and most successful business men in this
country replied when he was asked to ex
plain the increased cost of living: ‘It's
worth a good deal more to live nowadays
than it used to be’.”
1 WO 1A ACS
Today is January 28. At midnight
January 81, the poll tax collector will
close his desk for the yeaif, and-if in the
meantime you have failed to pay yours,
: you will be disqualified as a voter—not
V a pleasant condition for one to contem
plate who has been accustomed to all the
1 privileges of 100 per cent citizenship.
Paying a poll tax, however, is optional.
> One is not compelled to do it; the only
penalty for the omission is negative—
t you will lose the privilege .of voting this
year, assuming of course that you are
V subject to the tax. • - •
But there is another tax matter in re
y, gard to which one is not so free, namely,'
L the Federal income tax: March 15 is the
: last day for receiving income tax returns.
; If in the meantime those who are subject
to the tax have failedNto make a report
they will suffer a penalty.
‘ In England lame ducks often become
A surgeon says he has found that op
, timists have the best chance of surviving
an operation. But pessimists we opine, can
% better afford the luxury. They usually
have more money.
"Florida is shaped like a carpenter’s
square.”—St. Augustine Record. Maybe
ao, but it looks more like the cartoonist’s
- portion of a Christmas stocking. -
¥; ' ——
The Elba Tribune doesn’t see that it
t. helps a man much for his heart to be in
the right place if his head is solid ivory,
t But woe unto his friends if also his heart
p lordly figures.
.You can’t keep a bad man down either,
if he’s smart..
THE CAROLINA PLAYMAKERS
A significant influence for the advance
ment of culture in the South is the society
known aa the Carolina Haymakers, to
which the Atlanta Journal pays its
tribute on the occasion of the Haymak
ers’ appearance in Atlanta.
For a half dozen years these writers,
actors,' and producers centered at. the
University of North Carolina—an insti
tution' whose fame and influence are
spreading with the march of time—“have
been intent on a rare and fruitful ad
venture.” They have been making plays
out of the people and scenes around them,
finding in mountain cabins, or along the
lanes of little towns, the tragedy, the
poetry, the pathos, the humor of life.
Such work was certain to evoke nation
al comment. Examples of this comment
are quoted from the New York Evening
Post, and Augustus Thomas. The Post
says: “A significant contribution to the
drama of the century.” Mr. Thomas says:
“The plays have been published and I
have read them and consider them fully
equal to any of the Irish folk lore plays
produced by the Abbey Company under
Lady Gregory’s direction.” Continuing
the Atlanta Journal says:
Thus commended, the Carolina Play
makers are coming to Atlanta tor their
first appearance outside their own com
monwealth, in three folk dramas of rich
and varied appeal: "When witches Bide”
by Elizabeth A. Lay; "Flxlns," a trag
edy of tenant farm life, hy Erma and
Paul Green; and "Galus and Gaius, Jr.,"
a farce comedy of the Old South, by
Lucy M. Cobb. The city Is much In
debted to the Drama league for the op
portunity of witnessing an art so dis
tinctive and so redolent of Southern
soil. What these players are doing for
North Carolina we may hope will be,
done. In one form or another, for every
region of Dixie. Certainly we can have
no more patriotic wish for Georgia than
that she shall become, not idealized, but
dramatized for her people, so that they
shall feel, along with the vigor and pic
turesqueness of her past, the high chal
lenge of today. "Know thyself, the
counsel of the sage of old. becomes mors -
generous wisdom when translated,
"Know thy State.”
In conclusion the Atlanta editor says:
“To this it is that the Carolina Haymak
ers invite—this holding up of the mirror
to nature as she flashes drom our own
landscape and flows in the hearts of our
own people.”
A SIMPLE AND PRACTICAL WAY
’ Chancellor Luther of the new German
government has announced that it would
be the policy of his government to in
augurate and establish with France, under
a new 'treaty giving satisfactory assur
ance of safety and security, an agree
ment to bring an end, if possible, to the
age-old grievances and hatred between
France and Germany. Although this was
an epoch making bit of news, making for
world peace, it was given slight publicity
and circulation in a world, of which it can
be fairly said, is committed to the policy
of trying to force peace by over-awing
by international agreement any country,
which threatens to assert itself nationally.
The proposed policy of preserving the
peace of the world by a simple under
atanding between France and Germany,
seems too simple to cause any general
discussion, but in our opinion it embodies
the best peace plan that has been evolved
since the clos^ of the World War. At
the present time the peace of the world
is onlv threatened by the hatred of France
and Germany. Once they cease to watch
sach other jealously and prepare desper
ately for sn inevitable conflict, any threat
of a world war as We know the world,
will have vanished.
Instead of facing courageously this very
real and menacing danger by doing all that
could possibly be done to remove the
racial hatreds of France and Germany,
the statesmen of the world erected the
complicated machinery of a League of Na
tions. which assumed to speak for the
course of any nation in every national
crisis which might arise. It has newer
occurred to us that this machinery would
ba unsatisfactory, because it deprived each
nation of initiative and will power. And
this complicated machinery, in the last
analysis, was built up to keep the peace
between Germany and France, because
there was no possible war to be fore
stalled elsewhere. The freedom of the
national will of the members of the
League of Nations was subordinated to
the desire of other nations, which might
not be at all concerned in a matter which
might be life and death to the nation
affected. Instead of going directly to the
nations affected, we have sought to ap
ply strong arm methods through every
possible pressure to be applied by the
League of Nations.
We can for the moment be broadly ,
tolerant and believe that the continuance
of peace meins as much to France and
Germany as it does to any other nation
of thS world. Certainly evidence of this
desire has been demonstrated by the
manifest desire of Germany to give to
France evidence of its good will and de
sire for peace. The German government
attempted to reach an agreement under
which it would give to France any as
aurances and guarantees of its good faith
that France might demand. At this time*
Raymonof Poineaire, who is a fire eater,
was Premier of France. Poincare and his
government were backing and financing
Poland ip her warfare against the Bol-.
sheviki in the Ease and promising Poland
to stand behind her in any complications
which she might have with her neigbors,
Ineluding Germany. France was willing
to accept a security agreement on the
West, but she insisted that it be so made
that it would also cover the East. Ger
many was willing to make it as regards
the West, but she did not know then what
was going to happen because of the Polish
troubles in the East. The negotiations
were dropped.
But times are changed now. There is
no longer any war in Poland and Poin
care is no longer Premier of France.
Chancellor Luther saya that he is ready
to have the German government resume
negotiations for a security agreement on
both the Easter^ and the Western fronts.
Irn this lies the most practical agreement
for world peace that any of the states
men have advanced since the signing of
the armistice.
Coolidge reaffirms his economy pledge.
Go to it, Mister, tile people want just that!
AN ANSWER TO THE JINGOES
We have jingoes, unfortunately, in
America, but we reserve the right to
.believe that they are more sensible than
the jingoes of Japan. Baron Shidehara, the
Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs,
has recently had an unpleasant experience
with the jingoes of his own country.
A member of the Japanese Diet, who,
like an American Congressman, was
moved to set himself right with the people
back home, asked the Minister of Foreign
Affairs what he thought of the action of
the American government in sending its
fleet to the Pacific Ocean for maneuvers.
To thisjingistic question the Minister of
Foreign Affairs replied:
The American naval maneuver* are
not any of our business, and I desire
to refrain from commenting on the
question. The maneuvers do not violate
the spirit »f the Four Power Treaty.
The truth remains the truth, whether
it is spoken before the Japanese Diet or
before the American Congress. We not
only have the right under the Fdur
Power Treaty, but under all international
law as well, to send our fleet to the
Australian ports. We offered to send
them on a friendly visit to Japan, but
Japan declined the courtesy. Australia
does not decline the courtesy. No of
fense can be taken rightly by the Japanese
at the fleet’s cruise because it merely
extends to water on the other side of the
Pacific, which is thousands of miles dis
tant from the mainland of Japan.
The Japanese public had been told that
the Australian fleet will join the Ameri
can fleet in these maneuvers. This is an
invention out of the whole cloth and the
Japanese government, at least, knows bet
ter. But an official representative of the
Japanese government has displayed candor
and good feeling in telling native critics
of our naval practices that they are on a
false trail. The government cannot pos
sibly . see in our naval maneuvers, any
violation of the Four Powers Treaty, and
a prominent member of the government
tells the simple truth to the jingoes of
1 the Japanese Diet.
uvtKLUUM^Vj rr,i>njiLVA«iA
We learn from a Washington dispatch
in the Philadelphia Ledger that some of
the Republican politicians are disturbed
at the realization that Pennsylvania, the
most rock ribbed Republican State in the
Union, has been discriminated against the
parcelling out of high offices in the Re
publican administration at Washington.
The dispatch says:
Recent'changes In Washington offi
cialdom have served to bring to the \
President’s attention that the great ag
ricultural, manufacturing and trans
portation Interests of Pennsylvania have •
been Ignored by the Republican admin
istration In appointments to the high
places.
This condition is naturally disturbing to
hungry politicians who realize that they
have allowed many opportunities to es
cape them. "It is considered possible that
Republican leaders in Pennsylvania will
come forward shortly to wage warfare for
adequate and proper recognition of the
State in matters of appointments, affect
ing its own economic life,” says the, dis
patch.
No Pennsylvanian has been appointed a
member of the Supreme Court since the
naming of Justice Shiras in 1892. There
is some post mortem criticism of Senator
Boies Penrose because* he “allowed” the
appointment of eighteen men from other
States.
It is claimed for Pennsylvania that 20
per cent of the total ra'uway tonnage of
the country originates in Pennsylvania,
yet Pennsylvania has never had represen
tation on the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. The same is true as to the United
Tariff Commission, although it is one of
the great manufacturing States of the
Union. No Pennsylvanian has ever been
appointed on the Tariff Commission. They
have also failed of appointment on the
Federal Trade Commission which was de
signed to exercise a positive force in the
trade and commerce of the country. Penn
sylvania’s importance as an agricultural
State is generally lost sight of in its
preeminence as an industrial State and it
has never had any representative on the
various official boards named to further
the interest of the farmer. And notwith
standing its very considerable industrial
interest in building and operation of sea
going vessels, it has never had any repre
sentatives on the Shipping Board, named
in accordance with the Jones act.
Outsiders are astonished at the modera
tion and restraint of the politicians of
Pennsylvania. How did they happen to
overlook all these chances? But, accord
ing to present indications, they are going
to do something to remedy these over
sights and omissions. Th$ industrial in
terests of Pennsylvania are not financing
political campaigns for their health.
Minorities are right often enough to
make identification with them respect
able.
“Breathitt County Boy May Fight to
Escape Prison.”—Kentucky headline. We
dare say he will. All Breathitt county boys
either fight to get into prison or to get
out of prison.
South Dakota votes against the 20th
amendment, and Delaware reports itself
vigorously opposed. The West is radical,
but the West is also agricultural. The
conservative East is industrial; the South
is both, more or less. All three sections
seem to be opposed to the amendment.
The Inevitable
By Sarah K. BOLTOV.
I Ilka a man who faces what he must
With faith triumphant and a heart of cheer;
Who fighti the dally battle without fear;
Sees hla hopes fall, yet keeps unfaltering
trust
That God Is God—that somehow, true and
lust
His plans work out for mortals; pot a tear
Is shed when fortune, which the vferld holds
dear,
Falls from his grasp—better, with love, a
crust .
Then living In dishonor; envies not.
Nor loses faith In man; but does his best.
Nor ever murmurs at his humbler lot;
But with a smile and words of hope, gives
sest ' %
To every toller. He alone Is great '
Who by a Ilfs heroic conquers fate.
PRESSING THOUGHT.
“You should think of the future.”
"I cant’. It's my girl’s birthday and t
have to think of the present."—Boston
Transcript.
The Passing Throng
—BY A Triers MCLUR
C«loul <1. Long Ha* Ha
Patience With Newest Amendment.
Colonel J. Lee Long, of Butler, has llttla
patience with the proposed child labor
amendment submitted to the States by Con
gress, He does not see how In the world
Congress ever submitted it In the first place
and he does not see how any State could
ratify It In the second place. He regards
It as one of the most dangerous of alt
amendments ever adopted or proposed.
"I Just cannot see how any supposedly
sane man or woman, or even partially sane,
could come to the support of ouch a meas
ure,” said Colonel Long. “Of course I real
ize people differ in their opinions of meas
ures; but I Just can’t get the point of view
of these amendlsts so far as the child labor
amendment Is concerned."
Colonel Long spent Monday night at the
Exchange hotel on his way back from the
meeting of the Episcopalians at Anniston.
He told the story of a negro who sold a
man a blind mule. The man found the
mule was blind and edme back to the negro.
“That mule Is blind. Tou told me he could
see. Why watch me wave a hat right
In his face. He don’t bat an eye. He can’t
see a wink. He Is stone blind In both
eyes."
■’Nawsir, boss,’’ said the negro. ’’Dat mule
ain’t blind a-tall. Dat mule Just natural
ly hard headed. He sees dat hat yott is
waving fore his eyes but he Just don’t give
a dern."
pale County .lamp* To Front
Bo Par Aa Sanap Com.
It has been repeatedly stated in thl®
column that Dale county Is one of the best
counties In Alabama. Dale county has now
Jumped to the top rung so far as the quali
ty of pork sausage Is concerned. There
Is no doubt but that Dale county can pro
duce the finest sausage In Alabama.
The other day the conductor of this
column was sent a package of
smoked pork sausage from . Tn®
sender was none other than John Q. Adam">
who runs the Star down that way and *“
spare moments Is assistant clerk of the Ala
bama House of Representatives, a Job no
one In the State would even be so bold as
to attempt to fill like John fills It.
There are no adjectives which could prop
erly describe the delectable qualities of the
Dale county brand of smoked, stuffed pork
sausage as exemplified In the batch sent us
by John Adams. Frank Julian often boasts
of the Colbert county brand of sausage but
the people of Dale county could give those
Colbert county folks several hog Jumps
ahead and then defeat them over a sausage
route.
If anybody thinks they can produce bet
ter sausage than that sent by John Adams,
they are eligible to get Into the competl
‘ tlon. The more the merrier.
* a *
Charley Mtos Comes Dana
To Attend To Law Matters.
Charley Moon, known widely over Ala
bama and a resident of LaFayette, the beau
tiful and hustling county seat of Chambers
county, spent Tuesday In Montgomery. Mr.
Moon reached here Monday evening late and
John Moffat put him In room 600 at the
Exchange hotel. Those who are In the habit
of hanging around^, the Exchange hotel
know that the 500 rooms are traveling men’s
sample rooms and Charley had the thing
all to himself, a great big room with two
big beds and four or- five long sample cases
draped In white.
Mr. Moon Is entirely satisfied with the
business prospects of Chambers county and
his section of the State. Like other lead
ing men who have been In Montgomery re
cently Mr. Moon can see nothing but bright
ness In the outlook for the year 1925. He
says the farmers of his section of the
State have gone to work In earnest, getting
their land In shape for planting crops. It
Is his opinion that there will be consider
ably more fertilizer used by farmers In his
county this year than last year.
Mr. Moon says he has heard little political
talk in his county as yet. Mr. Moon says
/dTe Is not In politics but Is trying to attend
to his law practice. He admitted that his
people would probably begin discussing poli
ties In the very near future.
* * *
R. E, Hewlltt of Decatur
Comments On Quail Shooting.
The other day there appeared In this
column a quotation from a local sportsman
who expressed serrous doubt about the kill
ing of quail In trees being sportsmanlike.
He also did not approve of ruthless slaugh
ter of marooned rabbits. Now comes a let
ter from R. E. Hewlltt of Decatur, In which
he says so many things about people who
might have unwittingly shot quail In trees
that It cannot be printed Just as it was
written. But here are some expurgated
views of Mr. Hewlltt and If anybody who
reads this has shot quail In trees and re
sents It, Mr. Hewlltt Is the man who said It.
"Tour query as to whether shooting quail
out of trees is sportsmanship. Like most
other questions that arise, I am as full of
opinions as a wildcatter’s mash is of pickled
germs, and those covering this matter are
viz, to wit, that nothing but a pot hunter
would do it. A man who will kill a
marooned wild thing has no Just claim to
the title of sportsman.
"There Is a lot of sympathy wasted on
the marooned rabbit. He is a good swim
mer and can get out If he wants to, bilt
If he can get onto a floating log he is
fixed, He can keep comfortably dry, and
feed on the buds and oane that the log gets
mixed up with as It goes along, but my Idea
of killing them under such conditions is
about the same as in the case of the quail.
’’Another evil I note, and view ‘with as
pect dark and visage grim,’'Is the night
rabbit hunter. He gets an acetylene cap
lamp, works the little used roads, and shoots
anything that he can ‘shine’ and'he makes
the old time game hog that knew no sea
son and no bag limit look like a piker, and
if he la not checked, along with the Jelly
beans that do the same butchery by auto
light with sawed off shot gun>.the tasty
hare will soon be In 'the class with the dodo
so far as goneness Is concerned. I hope
Mr. Quinn sees this. If he don’t, I will
write him about It." . t
J. B. Ifrnj PPHKH ADOHl
Cooperation la Tuscaloosa.
J. S. Yerby, of Tuscaloosa, apart from be
ing related to the celebrated editor of the
Greensboro Watchman, has a personality of
Us own and Is known as one of the progres
sive farmers of Alabama. He Is president
of the Tuscaloosa County Farm Bureau and
brought to Montgomery on Tuesday, a docu
ment of which he was very proud. It was
a series of resolutions passed by the Tus
caloosa chamber of commerce endorsing the
work of the Farm Bureau and giving com
plete cooperation between the two organiza
tions. Mr. Yerby announced that the three
banks of Tuscaloosa had also endorsed the
farm organization and were supporting Its
work In every way.
"The Farm Bureau In our country con
sists of between four and five hundred
picked farmers and leaders In agriculture
and live stock raising.” said Mr. Yerby. "and
we are In complete cooperation with the
bapking, commercial and industrial Interests
of the city. There Is no friction anywhere
between the town and the country. We are
all pulling together and keeping step, the
civic clubs Included. Thdre Is a fine spirit
of fellowship evident in all that Tusca
loosa undertakes and tt|at la the kind of
spirit that moves difficulties and wins out
In the long run." *
Mr. Yerby added that he was “sorry for
all you people who don’t live In Tuscaloosa:
why even Judge Henry Baker Foster had
to come back home and Governor Brandon
and Judge Mayfield can't stay awav very
long at a time."
* * *
“White Cargo" Is Bxeltlag ,
Interest of Theatergoers^
"White Cargo" which* will be the attrac
tion at the Grand Theatar Wednssday and
Thursday nights and Thursday matinee. U
cauetng considerable talk among local the
atergoers. This picture had a .two years’
run at Daly’s Theater in New York and one
year at the Cort Theatar at Chicago. Many
Montgomerlans have seen the Show in New
Dr. Frank Crane
(DR. FHAN'K 0R.1AE Is vrrUlag exclu
sively—In Alabama—for The Montgomery
Advertiser and The Birmingham News. Ar
ticles published under his name In any other
Alabama newspapers are reprint matter from
B to 12 years old. Most of Dr. Crane’s es
says appearing In other papers have ap
peared already at the time of their original
release'years ago. Only The Advertiser and
The News are printing the fresh, previous
ly unpublished articles of Dr. Crane.)
* * *
TBB BACK-COO OP PROSPERITY.
Mr. WUIiajn E. Knox, President of the
Bowery Savings Bank of New York, and
also President of the American Bankers'
Association, delivered an address the other
day In Cleveland before the Bankers’ Club.
He called the savings of the people the
Back-Log of Prosperity.
There Is no doubt of his correctness. If
our prosperity rested upon the whim of the
few It would be flickering. Since It rests
upon the motion of the public it argues con
tinued success. <
Savings not only means dollars In the
banks. It means an Increase of the capital
which Is to be devoted toward the develop
ment of the country. This Is because the
money In the banks Is immediately applied
by the bankers for the purpose of securities
In railroad and other industrial develop
ments.
The fact that our savings have Increased
from $ll,600,000.00l)'-to 121.000,000,000 means
the small savings of many millions of peo
ple Instead of being fooled away In some
manner of immediate consumption, are mass
ed together and applied to the upbuilding
of our Industrial equipment.
“Those tremendous savings figures,’ ’he
said, "indicate sound habits of thought and
practice on the part of millions of people.
It Is one of the most promising elements
in the situation today. It means that we
not only have the resources for prosperity,
but also the common sense to make good
use of them.”
The strength of the country is Indicated
In two ways. First by the valor and health
of Its people, and second, by the amount
of resources that they have piled up behind
them.
When It comes to a case of war, the peo
ple must not only be willing to fight, but
they must have capital enough to enable
them to get something to fight with.
The pocketbook Is a very Important ele
ment of national defense.
Copyright, 1825, by the Wheeler Newspaper
Letters to Editor
IMPHESSION9 RECEIVED AT BANRUET
OF WOHLD WAR VETERANS, t
Ozark, Ala., Jan. 21, 1925.
Editor The Advertiser: / --
Last night I attended at the school audi
torium a public speaking by the American
Legion, following a banquet at the Masonic
hall. The occasion of the affair was the re
ception of a specially fine silken, gold
fringed gonfallon. awarded this camp (No.
82) by Gerteral R. JBT Steiner, who was ex
pected to be preseiu, but who, it aeems, was
prevented by an accident.
A large audience greeted the speakers of
the evening, Messrs. Harwell G. Davis and
Fred Johnson, and everything passed off
pleasantly.
I gathered some impressions which I shall
here submit for what they are worth.l To
my surprise, somewhat, I found it was'not
as easy to get an American audience to en
thuse over the subject of the big late war
as I had thought it possible.
There were* momentary touches of thrill
in which the crowd were cordially respon
sive; but there seemed to be lacking any
sustained feeling of Interest or enthusiasm,
and I think I caught the reason ere long.
The speakers devoted themselves, on the
whole, in a tone of injured pride and ag
gressiveness. The undertone of their mes
sage seemed that of a bunch of men who had
been intrigued Into a great war movement
for the nation’s safety and were not now be
ing appreciated enough since the great dan
ger had passed! They complained bitterly
of the inequalities of militarism and the
draft law effects. They said that in the
next war we had they'd see to it that the
men in the trenches, who bore the brunt of
the fight and risked their lives for the sal
vation of the country should be protected
and respected in their patriotism. That they
should not be‘expected to do duty for a
dollay a day, while laborers at home got
from 210 to 215. and profiteers exploited the
country so fearfully, etc., etc.
There seemed to be an entire absence of
war-Ilke enthusiasm and spirit. Not once
was the name of the late lamented Wood
row Wilson mentioned. From all of which
I gather that the American Legion is an or
ganization banded together to try to cor
rect some glaring mistakes of the late
world fracas, and If they don’t get swamped
In politics they are apt to accomplish some
thing. One thing Is evident, tfjey are as
far away froaa the war spirit as a Massachu
setts school marm; and-they are lined out
for a backstroke on the late fight. They
are fed up on Europe and its affairs, much
to their credit. No more rich man’s war and
poor man’s fight for them.
F. B. CULLENS.
AN EXPRESSION OF APPRECIATION BT
MR. STARKE.
Editor The Advertiser:
Kindly grant the writer space In The Ad
vertiser to acknowledge on behalf of Prof.
J. M. Starke and his whole family the In
numerable evidences of sympathy and deep
concern that have come to him and to them
during his presemt illness. One can but
be Impressed with the inadequacy of the
printed word to express the gratitude ol
Prof. Starke and of those dear to him for
Montgomery’s response to their misfortune.
The writer, as a brother of the principal,
and'as a former Instructor In the University
school of this city, hopes that he may ven
ture here also to speak again for Prof.
Starke in an attempt to express for him, if
some measure at lepst, his profound appre
ciation of the cptnpliment paid him and
the school In the formation of the Uhlyerslty
School Alumni association, mention of which
appears in your issue of this date. A let
ter has been received by Prof. Starke, In
forming him of this action on the part of
the alumni and accompanied with their love
and esteem and their best wishes for his
speedy recovery. Not only Is Prof. Starke
under the present circumstances, denied the
privilege of expressing for himself .his pro
found gratitude to his old boys, but he can
not even have the satisfaction of relying in
part at least, upon the touching language
of flowers, as did the alumni of the schggl
in the beautiful shower of rosea that ac
companied their letter.
The letter of the alumni is signed by
Messrs. Frank Stollenwerck and H. F. Cren
shaw. It 1*. therefore, to them, and
through, them to the alumni of the Uni
versity school that Prof. Starke’s keenest
gratitude must be expressed even though
by proxy.—S. C. STARKE.
Montgomery, Jan. 27, 1925.
MILD BI T FATAL.
Many minor accident* were reported,
though no serious fatalities were recorded
In the Immediate vicinity.—From a news
Hera In the St. Louis Leader.
A1KT IT?
Whls—"Lots of foreigners are coming In
to our country."
Bang—“Yes, Immigration is the elncerest
form of flattery.”—American Legion Weekly
York and a number of them who have seen
it. have already bought tickets to- sew It
again at the Grand Theater.
“I saw White Cargo”, said on* well known
local woman theatergoer, who bought tick
ets at the Grand bos office. Tuesday after
noon. ”J liked the show so well when
saw A In New York I mad* up my min*
I would see it again If It ever came <-.e
Montgomery and I am going to do so. ‘Whit*
Cargo' Is a vivid play of love In the tropics
written by Leon Gordon, who for three
years previous to its production In New
York, lived and traveled on the West eoa»>
of Africa, gathering literary material an*
studying the traits and customs of the Af
rlcsn character: the outoome of his studies
has been a play which has been a remark
able success,' one of the best plays I ever
saw." k
VC
Drops O’ Dew
BY HOWARD fS. PHA
■4.1 >
'.V.'X
It's Always Something
I came Into a lot of cash.
The most I've ever seen.
I started in to make a splash:
I bought a huge machine—
Checks I wrote, of any also,
It mattered not to me, *
I cared not whether It was wise
Nor what the cost might be.
Never did the world look black
Financial pains were o’er.
No matter how I strewed the Jaek
There was always plenty more.
No high costa did I have to duck
1 was living with a bang,
When 'bout that time—dog
the luck— J
The darn alarm clook rang!
’i “
•J 4
gone
WB KNOW It Isn’t the weather man’s
'ault but It does seem that fresh creases
n our trousers always happen.- almultane
lusly with a nice wet rain.
J
WB OFTEN wonder if anybody else In
:hls world has the same aversion to ilm- .
jrellas that we have. Guess It’s a hang
>ver from our collegiate Ideas—thought
ve'd dished ’em long ago—but we’d much
■ather be thoroughly drenched than Carry
i rain stick. We almost said “thoroughly*
loaked," but thought better of It.
SEE WHERE Coolldge Is having some of
•lie boys up to breakfast. With Kellogg
n the cabinet the Idea’ll be awfully ap*
proprlate.
There's A Question
"It's hard to tell,” said Oswald Ootch at
restaurant yesterday, “whether some
eople eat spaghetti for pleasure or exer
Ise."
It tanii
Plausible. -. ■ * - *.?■ . >
All aces fly.
So I understand;
That's why I can't.
Hold one In my hand.
Hy Vance, Birmingham News.
f .
But, Hy, this day
In time. I'm told.
Most all queens ar«
Easy to hold.
./M> i; >
•ii -
Song of an ear of corn—“In The Still By*
and Bye."
CsaKat He Sea That* ,,t .
Dear Dew; Try this on your favorite wave
length: “ '
Father: I don't know what alls this
radio. ’
Bright Son: Oh, don’t you see that
plttlgated pelator of the second cudlnear
has caused the rokaphlte to satuate the
vomoxllle with dawslne asmotlcs and
arretesote the Conlysphl bokogsewtlon.
Father: Year-ch-uh. 'Weill Well!!
, & —X. T. Z. -
SPEAKING OF queer combinations, W. J.
B. and Gllda Gray, the shimmy champ, are
doing their stuff for the same real estate
folks at Miami.
HON. BRYAN’S lectures, we are told, fall
lo pack 'em In like Miss Gray's shoulder
■haking show. Which again goes to prove
Lhat actions speak louder than words.
WE DON'T know whether a "new fad has
been born, or whether it was merely the
outgrowth of an evening of corn, but a
young Montgomery blood strolled down Dex
ter the other night decked out In a nifty
pair of pearl ear-rings. Dear, dear!
Here Y’ Are.
Merely as a suggestion we offeree fol
lowing plan as a solution to the “pedestrian
vs. auto" problem which Is now being
studied by the newly appointed Safety
Commission:
Have every pedestrian and every automo
bile stop at each corner. Appoint the traf
fic officers as official referees. The nto
torist desiring to cross the street must
flip a coin with the pedestrian also anxious
to reach the other side. If the pedestrian
wins he then has the right to continue
across -unmolested. The motorist then must
flip a coin with the next pedestrian, and vica
versa. In case no decision can be reached.
It shall be the duty of the referee to supply
each pedestrian with a track suit. After
donning same the pedestrian shall take hts
place at the curb and the motorist shall take
his place at the wheel. Upon a given sig
nal It will resort Into an “every man for
himself” affair. If the pedestrian reaches
the other side successfully he shall be al
lowed to shout one derisive remark after the
speeding motorist. If the motorist succeeds
In running down the pedestrian he shall be
allowed a free chance at the next pedestrian,,
and so on. Although this is very rough in
detail, even the most cynical can foresee what
a delight this system would soon become to
both motorists and pedestrians. This sug
gestion Is not copyrighted and may be used
by any city, Including the Scandinavian, with
our full permission.
WE NOTE that a Kansas city is planning
to do away with policemen's uniforms be
cause the cops are too easily spotted by
bandits. And what will the city’s mothers
do for something to use as a bug-a-boo for
young Johnnie and Willie?
BUT DOING away with the uniforms won’t
altogether do away with the bandits spot
ting ’em. They can tell ’em by their feet!
Final Dreg
Most of the hot mamas grow cold when
their sweeties’ cash runs low.
Save the Forests!
It If to be hoped that Congress will take
seriously the warnings, emanating from all
sources, that the national forests are threat- t
ened with complete extinction. Ever since j
Theodore Roosevelt's emphatio messages first "
began to pour in upon It. describing the se
rlous depletions of a once magnificent do- ;
main, neither Congress itself nor the coun- |
try at large has given the matter Its due
weight. Presidents Taft and Wilson re- i
peatedly urged the necessity of checking the ‘
savage waste of timber, but practically to i
no avail. Mr. Coolldge would do well to look ;
Into the situation for himself.
8ince Roosevelt's day the devastation has
increased four-fold. When last summer it >
was announced that Canada, looking to her 1
own Interests, was considering an embargo *;
upon wood pulp shipped to this country,
the threatened shortage aroused the country ,
for the first time to the soarolty of Ameri-^
can timber reserves. It was found thatif
the United States possessed soarcely any4
at all, barring a few patches in the north-if
west and in Maine. The criminal policy of J
the lumber companies of chopping down f
young trees, making no attempt to replace ;
them by planting shoots, has left the former f
vast tracts in the northern part of the coun- #
try without means of recuperation. $
Congress should examine the situation *
with seriousness. It is not a question of *
setting ftsidev a few acres of park here 4
and there, but of preserving for • posterity •'
the noble woodlands throughout the oountry. •
Aside from the sentiment and scenlo beauty f
attached to them, the all Important questions *
of health and climate ars Involved. Amer
icans of the future have a right to the baa- I
eflt of trees. %
It can be secured to them by establishing i
regional divisions throughout the country, ’
appointing commissioners to Watch over >
them and supporting these officers in a vlg- t
orous policy of safeguarding wooded tracts. <
Co-operation of the states should be sought
and the national administration of the for- 1
esta should be assisted by local Officers. <
After thousands fit years of dense popula- 'I
tton many of the great forests pf central A
Europe and England are still standing, ?
guardians of health and recreation to the |
people. Before it is too late, the. United'’
•fates should follow the example of other?
governments and Institute a ruthless repres-L<
Sion of the despoilment of its greatest natu-i
ral endowment. It would be a far-sighted?
aot if the states should remove the heavy 1
tax upon privately owned, "unproductive" •
timber lands. j