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FOUR i- roun 5F a Amm.m.immEnnmE.m.ommomEmomoormonnimro. IVIDNIISDAY, 1911 THE IIIRMINGHAM NEWS A' The South's Crostest Newspaper' NEWS W. The South's Crestest 1414 ..,....0 ...1111, I The Coal Bill IT MIT TA101 Banink Net30 ESTABLISHIM MARCH 14, 1888 Absorbed THI 111191MiteGHAM LIMBER, Apsil, 1920 'entered as licendClaae Matter at the Birmingham Peatetfice Linder Act of Congress Marsh 189 baton becoming angered et his wife for burning hi dinner and kicked over the cook stove es a protest aganuit her How else could hot lava pour forth from the edirth? Therefore, divine inspiration as evidence of im mortality la as itimsy as Lilo Mosaic record of cras lion which ecientific knowledge has reduced to a palpable absurdity. L. 8136 Berney Ave.

I VICTOR H. HANSON, nrosidant and Publish? cannot be banked, he is convinced that a thoroughgoing preparednise cannot be construed as cockineas. Adequate preparedness in them strange times is perhaps largely that of the prudent house. holder who, though at peace with ell the nations on the planet, keeps his powder dry. Doubtless the hour Will yet sound when vast reductions in the navies of the world will seem advisable.

Until that time comes the Navy Department, under Swanson, will perhaps be continually urging replacements of battleships and cruisers that have become obsolete. That will in. volve no program of competition. It will simply be an application of the doctrine of safety first. New ork Day 0 DU, lot.

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'Evening, Sunday. in Birmingham THa IRM1NONAM MEWS COMPANY, propri 00000 Fourth Avenue at Twenty.lieopnd Street. North The Birmingham News published every evening except Sunday. The Birmingham Age.Noraid, pub. lished every morning except Sunday.

and The irminghent 'News. 7he Birmingham Ag.Yiereld, published each 'handily ore each published under tho ownership and management et The Birmingharn Nowa and constitute twenty.tour.hour Service to readers and advertisers. All three paper aro numbered IV tit Meet requirements it In. Department. Let well enough alone.

Our history sums to show that the lessons of a crisis are applied in the decade which follows the end of it. Tins criais has shown the need of impoaing much greater sociel control upon utilities, indusuial corporations end banks, end while there is as yet no accepted Progretisive program for at-compiletine this purlieus, the will to accomplish it is clearly reflected in the personnel of the new cabluet. Those speculations should be used as mere spec. ulations. remenibering that the chief characteristic of these times is that events are more powerful than men.

Any reseed must be qualified by the realization that the unexpected cannot be discounted. Therefore. In the last, analysis the confidence of the country must rest upon its seine of the cheracter of the men who compose the administration, their dieinterestedneas, thetr courage, their capacity for the realistic appraisal of new events, and their freedom from entanglements of private interest and of special I believe that this cabl. net is entitled to the confidence and that it must have the support of the natiom There is courage, there is ability, there is experience in it, and to a rather exceptional degree, I think, it is composed of men who have proved themselves willing to make sacrifice for their consciences sake. This cabinet is singularly lacking in ordinary place hunters and in ordinary careerists.

Almost all its members have had convictions which they 'have held to when it was neither profitable nor popular to do so. Perhaps with courage and sincerity, and a reasonable amount of good luck, they will become celebrities. PAEMBES OP THE ASSOCIATED Pm's The Associated Prose entitled to the $ias for republication of all news credited to It or nos otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publioa. lion of special dispatch.

aise reserved. Would Hitler Stoop To Arson In A Pinch? According to Herr Goring, Chancellor Hitler's henchman and minister without portfolio, that gentleman is finding something to occupy his preelection days. His principel Job seems to be to ferret out the iniquities of the Communists and give them "roper publicity, whether actually to present facts to German voters or to lay crimes at Communists' doors that really do not belong there, one may judge for oneself. At leaM it should sway some Teutonic votes to hear it noised about that the disciples of Karl Marx are planming to poison the.country's wellspossibly only the drinking places of persons not of the National Socialist persuasion. The- revelation made by Herr Goring should cause Centrists and Repub.

licans to get right politically and to come treading upon each other's heels to vote for the Nazi chief. tam. Meanwhila the chancellor, who seems to have whipped his cabinet into a working team amenable to his dictation, has declared martial law, presumably to save the country from the Machiavellian tactics of those who would change Germany to a socialist soviet republic. For instance, an incendiary fire was started in the Reichstag on Monday. Obviously it was the Communists', doings, say the Nazis.

But some Communists declare it was on the order of Herr Hitler. Maybe the Red group was, responsible for it. Yet one can conceive that if the swashbuckling chancellor really believes that the fate of the fatherland depends upon his continued tenure of office, a little thing like arson probably would not be sneezed at or scorned in this emergency. it SUBSCRIPTION RATES By mall, payable in in the First, Second Ind Third Postal Zones. 67:14 Ng:" mossy Mums, Sooday Suoaay ONE tsar ell 00 $13.00 gni SI Months 4.26 4.25 6.75 1.00 THREE Months 245 2.25 140 1.25 ONie Month 45 .65 1.25 44 Beyond 2one Three, add 25.

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ON IDS ECONDley CRUSADE 1VIAKE dollar-a-year men out of all Consolidate the Federal Reserve end ell Banks of the Wabash. Charge two cents a day rental an all the books in the Corigressiomil Library. Punt the White House lawn in velvet bents led uphobiter the furniture with the velvet se thereform. Use undyed eggs at the White House egg rolling the coming Emeter, the dome of the Congressional Library end stamp five dollar goldpieces out of it with bnIth to inflate the currency. Try to get by on not over twelve setwentiet Keep the ban on congressional breakfasts but Coolidge started.

Dilute the red ink which is used in the Wang 'bookkeeping department 25 per cent, thus making ig last longer. Buy only two-pant sults for the Navy and ovo the extra pair of breeches to the Army. Put another long-term inortgage on the Whits Haunt, beering only 4 per cent, and lend the funds through the R. F. C.

at I per cent. Moil ail notes and ultinuitums consigned to Japin with a three-cent stamp, thus eliminating ill cable Convert aU White Mum; receptions Into peund part les. hock all state presents received by former pee. dents from monarchs of foreign countries. Hire some good osteopath to rub out aU deficits Swap the Hoover fleet of Lincoln limousines kg blcyclea and bank the difference.

Scrap all bureaus, highboys and whatnots. Order the phone company to put the Whitt House phone on a four-party line. Trade at cash-and-carry groceries. tote 'em horse and get 'em for less. Hire a cook that can double in brass and serve as maid and butler during the rush houre Pay senators on a six-hour day, five.day week basis only when Congress is in session and minimize the sessions of Congress to a minimum.

Repipe the White Home and use congressienti brit air as a by-product for the heating systent. Lock all bathrooms except on Saturday nights cut down on the water bill. Charge floor space for all lobbyists end kase the cold drink concession to care for their beverage needs. Reverse charges on all cable calls reminding ropean countries that they are in arrears on wse debt payments. Dutch the cigar bill at all cabinet Pinch the kitty 50 per cent on all tips teethed by Capitol guides from out-of-town visitors.

Close Commerce Department until we get ene commerce. a is Everybody's got an axe to grind and whole' got a whetstone. That is, nobody but Jefferson County. He's our tax assessor. IT LZWIS YOU KELLY4MITH CO, Foreign Adv.

Representatives, New Vora, Orayber BldgI Cnioago, 211 West Weaker Drive; Atlanta. Glenn 5idg4 Philadelphia. Atlantic Bidg.i Boston. Waterman Detroit, General Motors Bldg. Phone 3.1121 hons 3.1121 All Departments itta.

All Departments 4111 Today and Tomorrow BY WALTER LIPPPAANN Copyright, 1983, Now York Tribuno, log, NEW YOKKWhatt tho carnival folk know as "mitt gazers, coffee ground and card iseere-oare finding stop-gaps for their long stretches of ''at liberty" in tearooms. Any number of them aro offering "luncheon and a reading for 135 cents. Most of them are harmless chalatans, polished by rubbing with humanity in the rough. They have mastered the formula of reeling oft unfailing attributes that go with certain characteristics. The rest is amiable pipe dreaming only.

They perk up many drooping spirits and no one Is harmed particularly, as the fee is very small. Bill Rice, the veteran showman, who bills himself as an "amusement trader," tells me that show people are the beat customers. And they invariably look one queistion. They want to know how It is possible to crash newspuper columns. Their profession has attuned them to the value of publicity.

'Witt readers" tell them that columnists are more responsive to advances "during a full moon." Perhaps "a full dinner" would be better. An acquaintance of Charles Frohman tells me that the Goliath of showmen had an unusual method of expresaing affection for friends. Someone he had not seen for a long time was likely to receive a hurried scrawl such as this: "I awakened at 3 a.m. thinking of you and regretting I had not seen you for so long. This is written five minutes afterward as a reminder that I treasure your friendship always." No wonder he bound people to him with hoops of steel.

Will H. Hays for years has used a similar method of cementing old-time friendships. From a train, steamer or where-not, those who may not have had contact with him in a long time will receive a cryptic wire: 'Are you all right? Bill." In New York. more than any other city. runnels of friendship are likely to become clogged unless there's an understanding of contact complexities.

After living here a number of years, one under. stands, but the newcomer often is piqued by what seems to be neglect. Sometimes the warmest friends do not see each other for months or even years. During an earlier period I spent several nights a week with Herb Roth, the caricaturist. Our paths diverged, with his removal to a suburb.

Now we rarely run across each other more than once a year, yet we continue to exchange the same confidences that marked a more closely-knit acquaintance. When we meet it is as though we had met only a few days before. That's as it should be, if one lives in this bewildering town. Or anywhere else, for that matter. It was Herb Roth, whose shoulders are actually wider than Camera's, who dropped into a family hotel where I was living, for dinner one evening following an afternoon of canoeing on the Hudson.

Wolfing a deckhand's order, I said rather hopefully: "of course, you won't be having a dessert!" He boomed, while the entire dining room indulged in a fastidious shudder: "Won't Waiter, bring me a minute steak!" And, what's more, the glutton gulped it right down. In those days Robert Ripley occupied a studio around the corner in the Seventies, with H. H. McClure. He was drawing sport cartoons for a now defunct evening paper, and as much as we loved him, we thought he was merely a workmanlike artist, but without ideas.

It so happened, then and now, he had more ideas than our entire gang of rowdies, with several thousand to spare. Ripley was shy then. and despite his acquired worldliness, blushes even today Some day I'd like to turn out an essay on "The Blush of Genius." Noel Coward, a capable fellow, but not the wonder boy he has been so extravagantly publicized, often blushes to the roots of his hair. Katherine Brush tingles a delightful pink, and Milton Bronner, loftiest-domed of European correspondents, is a chronic blusher. As one of the tattered roses born to blush unseen.

I have a carmine corpuscle or so. I can still flare red when Sunday morning loafers, catching me admiring myself in blinds-down windows, hoot from across the street. FOR YOUR SCRAPBOOK 4 There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright--Onida. a hitting At Freedom; 54 Of Speech And Press Representative Lovelace, of Tallapoosa County, has introduced a bill in the Legislature to make ft a felony for "two or more persons to bind themselves together or meet in a private or pub: lic place for the purpose of organieng themselves together in order to resist the enforcement of any civil or criminal law of the United States of America or of the state of Alabama, or to circu: late papers, cartoons, pictures or other matter, written or printed, that would have a ten dency to create a disrespeCt for law and order or influence others to violate any law, state or fed or for "any person or persons to speak in public or write any article or distribute any dr- ciders, papers, cartoons, or pictures which tend to incite or encourage the violation of any law or statute" of the state or nation. It is probably a safe guess that the Tallapoosa representative's bill was prompted by the recent rioting in his county which was attributed to Communist activities.

If so, it is a misguided ef- fort, and a dangerous one For while Mr. Lovelace doubtless intends his bill tc; hit at Com4 munist activities and propaganda, it would be hit: ting at all freedom of speech and freedom of the press. It would even deny the rights of assembly and petition. All these are rights guaranteed by the constitution and held dear by the American They were written into the constitution as safeguards of the people's liberties. It is-hardly conceivable' that Representative Lovelace's bill will be papse4, Even if it were passed, it would certainly be held unconstitu: tional when 'put to a I.

too plainly in violation of rights guaranteed by the constitution. Bills of a similar nature that have been passed by states have been held unconstitutional. But when" ever one is passed, there is alviays the danger of its doing mischief between the time of its enact: ment and the time it is -declared void by the 4 courts. A recent case in -point was that of the 4 press gag law in Minnesota. That law was held i unconstitutional, but before the Supreme Court I passed on it, it caused a harmful disturbance.

I Mr. Lovelace 'would be well advised if he should withdraw his 4 4 I a 4 a I 0 a Ai 4 4 4 a a I 0 4 4 4 I 4 a 41 0 4 4 0 I ik 1' 01 I i a 4 4 "A green isle and a sea, love, A fountain and a shrine, All decked with lovely fruits and flowers, And all those flowers are mine." 6 DEAR LEWIS: Some time ago you wrote an article about I have thought of it very often during a Winter in which I have been shut indoors, and have only traveled on a magic carpet or through the vistas of my memory. I have particularly enjoyed dwelling upon islands. I ant an old lady, and perhaps 0106e islands; that would appeal to me are not the ones on which you would care to (wander, although there are several we have both enjoyed in common. "I have thought that 1 should like to go to the Inland of Corsica and see what manner of island produced the great little Napoleon.

His. mother was the most admirable woman, holding her family together under great disadvantages and instilling in them a loyalty to each other which made them even friendly kings. I should like to see the home of Napoleon's mother. "And Martinjque, that tragic land of earthquakes and volcanoes! It would be interesting to see the difference in the atmospheres that produced a Napoleon and a Josephine. "Elba I shall pabs by in my travelsI would not care to linger there.

"'Where burning Sappho loved and sung' on Lesbos, I should Like to go for an indefinite stay. Besides the association with the poet of which only the merest fragments of her verse remain, I have learned that there is much else of interest on this little island. In her exile. Sappho lived for a time in the Sicily that you and I love so well. It was there that she was married to a wealthy gentleman, and there some historians claim her child was born (the bttle girl of whom she said.

'I have a little daughter like a golden flower. my darling Kleis, for whom I would not take all Lydia nor lovely Lesbos'). "Beside the blue waters of the Mediterranean In Sicily, in her flowering meadows and on her sunny slopes. I would join you in your search for the footprints of Theocritus and Blom I would revisit Segesta, that ancient Grecian temple with gray colWILMS standing out against a sky of vivid There would be another expedition to visit the temple of Girgenta. At Taromina and Syracuse I should like to linger long under the spell of indolent peace and beauty.

"At Palermo I would put aside poetry and turn to drama, and join the old court life of the king and queen of Italy when they took refuge in the palace there. Beautiful' Lady Hamilton was their guest and Lord Nelson's ship was anchored in the sun-drenched harbor. "Long ago I made imaginary voyages with Robert Louis Stevenson and Pierre Loti in the South Sea Islands. Later Frederick O'Brien revived my urge to visit them. But now gray hairs and plain spec-tacks would not fit in with those wild, romantic atolls, nor would my addiction for creature comforts.

I deed those Islands to you, Lewis, with many other of my lost dreams. "This does not complete the list Of islands I would share with you. But there are other places of refuge that have comforted me through a long life and a recent rather desolate Winter. They are the islands upon which one's spirit rests and refuels before it falls from exhaustion. They are abiding places that prepare one for another flight.

They are like little safety zones where one may wait and take courage to go against the surrounding maelstrom. "There is that bit of ground where one came out on top after battle with Giant Despond. "Not looking the picture of victory and glory, perhaps. but, with all one's wounds, at least undefeated, there is another where one finds the blessedness of peace after pain. And that strange and isolated spot where one sees keenly bits of reality in an arresting and lasting beauty.

like a lightning flash made permanent across black sky. "There are those places where the miraculous evidences of friendship reach out to one and guide him into port like some faithful lighthouse burning steadily, and others. quick unexpected flashes sending response and relief even before one asks for aid. "And the comfort of an unseen, unknown spirit when one walks through the valley of the shadows and is led unto green pastures and beside still waters.T. Particularly, the Wanderer wishes to thank this "unseen is his hiendfor many things.

He wishes to thank her for refreshing memories of lovely places he was losing sight of. He wishes to thank her for "miraculous evidences of friendship" that have come from her often and on which he always relies. He joins her in dreaming of islands and far off exciting places to be visited some day. In the meantime, he hopes that he will create both islands of rest and refuge of his aimand he thanks his friend for the happy suggestion. QUIPS AND QUIBBLINGS By ROBERT etrutzw "America's Most Quoted Paragrapher" 0 1933, Publishers Syndicate THE ROOSEVELT CABINET THE Roosevelt cabinet, like all other cabinets; does not conform to the first anticipations.

Immediately after any election the amateur cabinet makers proceed to make a list of the ten most prominent members of the victorious party and then decide to be disappointed if the cabinet does not contain nearly all of them. On this principle the Roosevelt cabinet wouldhave consisted of Newton D. Baker, Alfred E. Smith, Owen D. Young, Carter Glass, Norman H.

Davis, John W. Davis, James G. Cox. Albert C. Ritchie, Bernard M.

Baruch and, just to be a bit realistic about it, James A. Farley. No president ever selects such a cabinet. In recent times the largest proportion of celebrities was in the original Harding cabinet, which contained Mr. Hughes and Mr.

Hoover. Mr. Mellon was not well known when he was appointed. The one celebrity in the original Wilson cabinet was William J. Bryan.

Under the American party system every cabinet represents the diverse elements to whom the president owes his victory. The fundamental consideration is not the assembling of superior talents and of impressive names but the consolidation of the political forces aligned with the president. This is inherent in the nature of party government, and in so far as it is a disadvantage it must be weighed against the general advantages of party government. Mr. Roosevelt's cabinet does very fairly represent the component parts of the coalition which gave him his victory.

The theoretical cabinet of celebrities would have been made up almost without exception of individuals who were opposed to his nomination and had misgivings about his election. It would thus have been a kind of nullification of the political overturn that took place in the primaries and in the Chicago convention. The cabinet which Mr. Roosevelt has actually selected is drawn from a list of the most prominent men who prepared his victory in the party and in the nation. If there are lacking the celebrities who opposed him there are lacking also representatives of well advertised factions whose support was as embarrassing as it was temporarily convenient.

For my own part I ant prepared to believe that on the whole Mr. Roosevelt has chosen welL His greatest task. as I see it, is to hold the confidence of the people and of the Democratic majority in Congress long enough to carry through a complex program of policies and measures necessary to recovery. This cabinet ought to win that confidence for him. There are men in it who will give the more nervous conservatives the cold shivers.

But the cabinet as a whole should be reassuring to the discontented and disillusioned who are now the great majority. Men who share their feelings about the ability and the disinterestedness of those who have exercised power in politics, i finance, and in industry during the last 12 years in this cabinet. It is composed largely of veterans of the progressive movement, men whose records and affiliations should make them immune from any suspicion that their decisions are dictated by the great banks or the large corporations. This should make the administration doubly free. It should be free of private pressure and it should be free also of the necessity of leaning over backward to prove that it is free.

In so far as the records of individuals are a clew to their future actions, it may be said. I think, that the cabinet reflects two fairly distinct, though not necessarily conflicting, schools of thought. Thus for example, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Ickes and Miss Perkins are chiefly identified with the long struggle to prosecute predatory wealth and to impose social control and social standards upon corporate property.

They are in the true line of evolution which began way back in the depression of the seventies, and led to the establishment of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the passage of the Sherman act, a course of policy in which Bryan and the elder LaFollette, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson had so conspicuous a part. Appointments like these clearly signify the intenticn of the Roosevelt administration to resume the work of the progressive movement after the long conservative pause under Harding. Coolidge and Hoover. Men like Mr. Hull, on the other hand, though they have participated in the progressive movement, are primarily interested in a different set of problems.

They inherit the Jeffersonian distrust of bureaucracy and centralization and of elaborate and artificial interference with the course of trade. In the historic meaning of the terms they are Liberals rather than Progressives. By preference they seek to regulate in order to remove the restraints upon liberty arising out of government. favors and the concentration of wealth and power rather than to move toward a system of state socialism which requires extensive political direction and management of affairs. The Democratic platform and 'Mr Roosevelt's speeches were a blend, not always harmonious, of these two philosophies.

The cabinet reflects them both, and it will face many important decisions where the administration will to choose between them. Economic Retrenchment In Educational Institutions Surely the Carnegie 'Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching cannot be considered an of education. It is, as a matter of fact, the highest and most respected authority on the ject of education and a zealous worker for its vancement. When it speaks, it does so out of the fullest knowledge and wisdom that are to be found o. the subject.

In its twenty-seventh annual report, just made public, the Carnegie Foundation criticises the overproduction and the Costly expansion in our higher institutions of learning, and calls for a policy of economic retrenchment in colleges and tudversities. In doing so, it says precisely what many other critics have said; yet it has been the custom of the educator-politicians to brand those who have pointed out the obvious errors in the educational scheme of things as enemies of education. Now what will they say when this unimpugnable friend of learning, this foremost agency for, the advancement of teaching, makes the same criticisms and recommendaeons in an official report, based on authoritative study and research? It will hardly do to say that the Carnegie Foundation is an "enemy of education." Of course, it has been unjust to characterize as enemies of education the others who have said the same thing. They are no less friends of education they have realized that even schools and colleges can make mistakes, and have dared to point them out. In urging economic retrenchment by the nation's schools of higher learning, the foundation says that a "day of reckoning" has come for education as well as for Industry, that there must be deflation in the financial policies of colleges and universities.

A section of the foundation's report deals with the findings of a commission which studied the "state of higher education" in California. There the commission found "waste, inefficiency and lack of unified control." To quote more fully from the commission's report, it found that among California's colleges and universities "there is a lack of unity-in the administration of education in the state and that plurality -of control has resulted in overlapping of functions, waste, inefficiency, lack of unified policy and an absence of the proper use of the results of experimentation." Most, if not all, of what is here said is just as applicable to Alabama as it is to California. For that matter, it is no doubt applicable to almost every state, in greater or less degree. In a few states some of these criticisms do not apply. In North Carolina and Georgia, among Southern states, for example, a large measure of unified control over state institutions of higher learning has been achieved.

Nowhere, however, has there been the deflation of financial policies which the Carnegie Foundation urges. In Alabama, the situation is well known to the people of the state. We do not have unified control of institutions of higher learning. As a result of the plurality of control, we have inexcusable overlapping of functions, waste and inefficiency. There is not only duplication of effort, but also an ambitious striving, an uncalled-for and expensive sort of rivalry, between institutions which operates against a judicious division of work and interests and the fullest development of each institution in its own proper sphere.

The University of Alabama is engaged to some extent in the very field for which the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn was expressly created. Auburn teaches some things which would better be left entirely to the university. And so it goes, with the taxpayers footing the bill for needless duplication of effort. Speaking of California, the Carnegie Founds" tion report says: The burden of financing education is not equitably distributed throughout the state and there is a lack of articulation among the various units of the educational system which has resulted in vigorous controversies. These controversies are aggravated by regional rivalries and local ambition.

Such conditions are in part the product of the present ineffective state organization on the higher educational levels. The commission finds that much of the con- fusion in the educational system arises from the fact that no authority competent to plan and speak for the state as a whole has determined in clear and unmistakable terms the so cial and educational functions to be performed by various units in serving the present needs of civilization in California. That, The News submits, and most Alabamians know it is true, could just as fittingly be said with reference to higher education in this state, including the normal schools as well as such institutions as Auburn and the University. Speaking of higher education in general, the foundation says that the present economic situation "imposes certain very practical policies of curtaifment college management," and adds that if "any man imagines that public education can escape the demand for retrenchment that confronts every, other public activity, he is deceiving himself." The foundation finds, "in. a word, in our school system there has gone on the same extraordinary overproduction and costly expansion that has characterized our industrial expansion of the last two decades." And the "same necessity confronts public education that confronts industryreforni, retrenchment and the return to a simpler and more sincere conception of the tax supported education the state should offer." To that end, "courses of study should be fewer and simpler, and should look to the training of the habits of the mind rather than the furnishing of information." It would be remarkable indeed if, in the recent era of vast and rapid expansion in almost everything, the schools and colleges of the country had not fallen into some of the same errors that we all now recognize in other fields.

The fact is, they did not escape the mistakes of overexpansion. Not in all their wisdom could our educators have avojded them. It is easy now to understand how they made mistakes, in common with virtually everything else. But it is not easy to understand how they, almost alone, can still believe that they were not mistakes. The Carnegie Foundation report help to do away with that belief.

For. indeed, as the foundation saysi a day of reckoning has come. Wouldn't it be a great joke on Japan if she bog alehol and then had to assume a whole lot of fug and second mortgages? The Coal Bin has been harboring another literary celebrity all this time and the chief shoveler tidst even know it. Still, he takes some pride in tie fact that he told Fiji upon one occasion that she should be able to sell the stuff she wrote to the magazines. He was thinking at the time of the bght verb she was doing a la Dorothy Parker.

It wu in another vein that Fiji hit the maga, however the short story route. She has just sent the Bs an advance proof of a story of her's which appease in the April number of Weird Story Magazine, ea-titled "The House of Shadows." In the same mall she volunteered the information that the same magazine had purchased a novelette from her and had announced it would use the longer story in the May issue. Free lancers have been going around will terribly long faces of late. and many have asserted that the magazines weren't buying anything. But Fiji is one girl wearing a smile from ear to ear, inclusive, and finding the picking exceptionally poi So there's nothing for Binsters to do but extend the hand of congrats to one author who is not only authing, but is getting real money for it.

Perhaps when we all get full of hops we car keep that much further ahead of the sheriff. as-SAYINGS OF HUNGRY HIRAM: Food for thought La mighty fine. But goes for naught When time to dine. A mess o' fish By angling caught, A better dish Than food for thought. TEACHERGive me a sentence using the wort "weird." JOHNNYWeird all the money go? With a woman in the cabinet the boys will have to 'content themselves with calling a spade a spade not a spade.

WELL, MAYBE DISTANCE LENDS ENCHANTMENT Though we've often had the yen, We never got to Mardi Gras; The reason is, each time we've been Too far away from taw. is OLD DOLLAR BILL SEZ: You ain't anywhere near broke, brother. 14- ally to the man for whom you work and the country in which you live is worth sev'rul million dol'ars. Success never goes to a feller's head if hes got somethin else in it WAITERCoffee, 'sir? PATRONNo; just gimme a rain check. THEIR FAVORITE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS MR.

HEINZPiccolo. NAT WILLSOboe. ATltom MAIIPASSANTFrench horn. CHULOOBVERERTSPOaNlo ruPet HEFLINTomtom. We will now listen to the minority report of the pure in heartGuiseppe Zangara was worried about his stomack but came very near dying of throat trouble.

Stop squawking. Just be damn glad that you don't own 51 per cent of the depression. Eve learned that the apple was the fruit of a evil. TODAY'S LAST SHOVELFUL The silver lining has been torn up to make band. ages for a wounded and aching world.

RIPPLING RIIYMES By WALT MASON Copyright, 1933, by George Matthew Adams THE KNIGHT THE KNIGHT OF OLD seems glorious in tak and minstrel song, and in the lists uproarious we see him going strong. And yet it must have worried him to wear his sheet iron clothes, whes call of duty hurried him to met his warlike fon. For all his duds were riveted, no buttons could be bought; his heavy plume was pivoted above ha dome of thought. And doubtless smiles of mocken upon him were bestowed, for like a crate of crock ery he rattled as he rode. We see him in his Wan.

tiering from wayside inn to inn, with shirt that knew no laundering, for it was made of tin: ha helmet caused him weariness, it weighed some fortl pounds; life brought him so much dreariness le often muttered, "Zounds!" The blacksmith was he milliner, the foundry made his vest; his mare--110 weight was killin' her, but still she did her beg And so he went aclattering to meet some other knight and blood and fur were splattering err everything in sight. With all the world atininet him he should have felt serene; but all that weighr was tiring him, that cast-iron gabardine. Some beir, was always working loose, some nut was out place. some iron wedge was working loose age threatening disgrace. I read of knights victorious of daurttleas, mail-clad knights; such tales are fin! and glorious to read by Winter lights: but when think of tourneying inclosed in metal bars.

To glad that all my journeying is done in motor ears VOICE OF THE PEOPLE Expreessions from readers upon topics or Current or goners' interest are weicomed. Writing sh add he on one side or the Paper only end should not exceed 300 words. Anonvmous Communication will not be printed and letters ousocompanied by seir-addrresed, stamped envelope will not be returned, The News reserves the right to shorten letters of excessive length. 4 "IMMORTALITY AGAIN" There is also some sentiment in favor of larger receptacles at the nineteenth hole. Delegates to the London economic conference will go over in American ships.

And come home In barrels. International Economic Conference: Highbrow words used to describe the removal of Uncle Sams shirt. Battleships are useful still. While enemy planes are sinking them, well have time to build some planes. And doubtless the contemporaries of Washington and Lincoln longed for an able leader.

A great publicist is one who keeps the nation informed about everything, including the weather in Florida or California. There must be some actors, artists and professional men who aren't broke. They aren't writing for the magazines. The chief fault in these proposed dictators consists in being such small Americanism: Big ones urging little ones to buy American goods; same big ones giving 60 per cent of freight and 90 per cent of passenger business to foreign ships. If the farmers stop foreclosures, nobody will lend 'money on farm land hereafter, and the poor farmer wont have a mortgage to his name.

You see, the Senate fired Mr. Barry instead of Carter Glass because Barry didn't have the documentary evidence. The worst thing about bridge is the theory that the other three wish to know why' you played the hand that way. People of India are quick to learn America's modern farm methods. Of course they already knew how to sign a mortgage, They don't all work that way.

Tammany's machine makes jobs for 148,000. Influenced, perhaps, by the present general mess. churchmen are about to agree that matches aren't made in heaven, and we are just wondering Modern prom ess: Separate beds; separate bedrooms; separate cars; separate. Correct this sentence: "But since you don't like bridge," said the wife, "I see no reason why you should learn." ROOSEVELT'S ANNOUNCEMENT By his announcement that he will keep Congress informed of the progress of the negotiations to be carried on with the debtors of the United States, Mr. Roosevelt has made a conciliatory gesture toward the Senate, where voices had been raised in warning against a failure on his part to take account of its authority in the matter of foreign affairs.

When it triumphed over Wodrow Wilson in the controversy regarding the League of Nations, the Senate came to look upon itself as the dominant factor in decisions on foreign policy. Consequently, when Mr. Roosevelt indicated that he purposed to deal with the foreign debtors without seeking the advice or the consent of the Senate to every least detail of the negotiations, its pride suffered a blow that led immediately to indignant protests. Perhaps it will feel that it has gained its point now that Mr. Roosevelt has said that he will let it know through appropriate committees what steps he is taking.

but the Senate can be under no illusion that it will guide the negotiations by remote control, so to speak. At the same time that he made his announcement regarding his plans to keep Congress informed, he emphasized again that he considered the power to negotiate with foreign governments as solely an executive function, which he did not intend to abrogate. Inasmuch as Mr. Roosevelt made the same point in his telegrams to the president some weeks ago, his attitude seems to be clearly thought out, and he apparently intends to stand by it. The upshot is that, while Congress will be permitted to know what Mr.

Roosevelt is doing, it will not be permitted to dictate what he shall do. Such an arrangement maintains the spirit of the constitutidn, and Mr. Roosevelt has done well to make plain early that, while he respects the powers of Congress. he does not intend to subordinate the authority of the president to them. If he maintains a similar attitude with regard to other matters than foreign affairs, his administration will have enhanced prospects of success.flartford Courant.

Birmingham's Opportunity Birmingham can contribute largely to the success of Roosevelt DayMarch 4if every citizen will grasp the meaning of this very practical nation-wide movement to make way for the "new deal." Chambers of Commerce, radio stations, newspapers, every available organization of a commercial, financial, trade, professional, technical, industrial, manufacturing and distributing nature; retail merchants, builders, tradesmen of every type, laborers, offiCe and store employes have been mobilizedfrom one end of the United States to anotherfor one purpose-. And that is, to buy something, employ someone, build something, repair something, manufacture something, move merchandise, replenish stocks, all with one predominant thoughtthat in doing any of the above, an opportunity will be created for employment of idle workers and the nation's purchasing power increased. The local Chamber of Commerce has organized and had working for two weeks a committee to put Birmingham in the forefront among cities in her class in this marathon to outrun the depression of the last three years. Won't you enter the race? It will make your business better, the other fellow's better, and aid in putting a song in gloomy hearts and chortle in sunken chests. It will furnish the necessary impetus to make the wheels of progress turn and give that long-absent curl of smoke to the now cold stacks.

And most of all, it will accelerate the plans and hopes of the man upon whom the United States has bestowed the greatest honor and biggest job within the gift of American suffrage. Buy, Build, Employon Saturday, March Day." The New Navy- Secretary Is Not A Dangerous Man Senator Swanson's appointment to the Navy portfolio is reported to give great comfort to' Vocates of colossal preparedness. Yet the Virginian headed the disarmament conference it Geneva and made some powerful arguments there for slashes in world establishments. When President Hoover recommended sweeping cuts of 25 per cent in the sea-armaments of the natioris, it Was Senator Swanson and Norman H. Davis who nearly convinced Great Britain and Frante of the practicality of that plan: Perhaps the proposal would have been accepted in toto if at that time Japan had not been crashing into Chinese territory, giving pause to all peaceably-inclined governments the world around.

As a matter of fact, the Hoover program has not been dismissed from the world's thoughts. But while the international cut-up, Japan, seems seriously bent upon the conquest of Asia, Western nations cannot bring themselves to go far toward stripping their men-o-war. Thus, Swanson Is not a man to be feared even by the hide-bound pacifists. While the world is filled with alarm, if not indeed with perils that Th ized to pu in he pressi the r4 other gloorr will I wheel sent Ar and I State! gest Re Satur The por ti Vocat giniat neva for sli dent per Was nearlj practi woad tory, ernMf the 11 Ore tional the bring men- Th by th filled 4 4, 4 11 4 to 0 0 di 4. IP 4 a a a 0 1 4 4 To the Editor The News: The controversy on immortality grows more interesting as the pious defenders of the faith continue to pour forth volleys of ineffective citations garnered from the source of their belief.

Scriptural writers obtained their ideas of immortality from the same identical source as that of pagan mythologists The belief is thousands of years older than any religious system. It was handed down from generation to generation through tens of thousands of years of human history. Its origin is lost in the misty past of antiquity. It may have originated from ancient mares inability to explain the phenomenon of dreams. He went to sleep on an overloaded stomach, and his soul went out in search of adventure.

Thus it was that dreams have played such an important part in the scheme of divine inspiration. Nothing seems to have so impressed divinely inspired scribes as a dream. Angelic messengers from paradise often appeared to them in the form of dreams. Even to this day superstition is much impressed by dreams. The belief in immortality seems to have been incorporated into the religious scheme because no other idea offered such large returns for so small an investment.

Egyptian embalmers in conjunction with pagan priests were doubtless responsible for the widespread popularity of the belief in immortality. No embalming, no mummies. No mummies, no soul. The embalmers were growing too wealthy. This naturally created jealousy among the divine agents of Isis.

The embalmers were accordingly disposed of. The priests, however, created the soul anew and continued to demand remuneration for its safe arrival on the banks of the River Styx. That no doubt accounts for the fact that the fine Egyptian method of embebning is now a lost art. The Egyptian idea, however, is still popular with some slight Modifications. Plato discovered a defect in the Egyptian and added purgatory to the scheme, where lost souls might hibernate until the financial Summer of their relatives might be called to their assistance, when their souls would ultimately be set free to tour the green pastures of paradise.

This conception. however, is not held by all denominations. Nevertheless. it is actually a part of some of these senseless creeds. There is no doubt in the mind of some modern scholars that Plato was the real originator of the Christian hell.

Had he possessed any knowledge of the high density of the earth's interior, he probably would have hesitated before placing purgatory, in such inaccessible quarters. It is to the philosopily of Plato that the theological sage of Meridian turns for the evidence of immortality. being a divinely inspired logician, no deubt Mr. Brown holds with him that yoke erupUons are the result of The composition of the cabinet would seem to confirm what the campaign That in respect to immediate measures in the crisis the Roosevelt administration will be liberal rather than inflationist and nationalist. It may be expected to attempt a policy consistent with, let us say, the recommendations of the experts of the world economic conference.

Thus it should seek to bring about a rise of commodity prices by a composition of the debts, a lowering of tariff agreements, currency stabilization, and the promotion of peace, these measures to be accompanied by a domestic policy based upon the resumption of investment under the stimulus of liberal credit arrangements, a balanced budget, and the reorganization, necessary, of domestic indebtedness. The appointment of Mr. Hull is certainly not a concession to the nationalist bitter-enders and Mr. Woodin in the treasury is no encouragement to the currency inflationists. The selection of Congressman Lewis Douglas as director of the budget is as good proof as -could be offered that Mr.

Roosevelt takes the deficit and its implications seriously. For Mr. Douglas is as knowing as he Is courageous. But the administration is bound to be concerned not only with recovery but with far-reaching reconstruction. The boom and the crisis have revealed such structural defects and such abuses of power and of trust that a period of reform is bound to follow.

It is here that the Progressives will, we may suppose, exercise their greatest influence, for this is the field of their interest. They have contributed relatively little to the immediate problems of the crisis. They have been concerned- with the bad practices of the frenzied finance which preceded the crisis and with plans of reform which might prevent such practices in the future. It is in applying the lessons learned in the twenties that the new Progressivism will be needed. For once the crisis is surmounted the conservative disposition will be to 25 YEARS AGO TODAY tiq Recorded In The Files Of The Birmingham News Of This DM? Sundayno paper issued.

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