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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21

From the New York Evening Sun. LL7TJHE follies, the tragedies and the sublimities of 300 years drift like S ghostly mists about the walls and the gardens of Versailles, where the greatest of all peace conferences is about to be held. The ghosts of profligate and giggling kings, of silken royal mis- tresses, the shades of mighty statesmen and of miserable tatterdemalions whose hunger whitened faces are smeared with their own blood, move through the mar ble corridors of it's palace and the rain swept allees of it's park. Versailles, name of a million memories!
 Versailles is a town of 50,00o or more inhabitants clustering about the palace and the park which are so closely a part of the history of France. It is just 12 miles from the heart of Paris, scarcely separated from the city, so thickly the intervening suburbs to the southwest of the city have grown up. One comes to Versailles somewhat as one comes to Van Cortlandt park. A half hour by train or motor is sufficient.
 Three hundred years ago the spot was sandy plateau, high enough above the surrounding country to make it's air sweet and fresh. Louis XIII often hunted in it's woods. He had done lit- tie to change the place from it's virgin condition when he was succeeded by his son Louis XIV, the Magnificent. And ''the Magnificent made it his play ground.
 One hundred million dollars, big sum amount which fairly staggered the im- agination, was poured out in building the palace and the gardens and in 5liing them with works of art The site lack ing water, great sums were spent in con- structing waterworks systems to bring 1t from distance. The royal revenuss were used recklessly. Louis XIV, frightened for moment as he gazed at the ac- counts, tore the bills into fragments so that his people might not know what they had been.
 The park of Versailles is perhaps a mile square, an enormous basin in the shape of cross quartering it at it's cen- tre On it's eastern edge, nearest Paris. stands the Palace of Versailles, the houses of the town huddled around it and the palace chapel rising above it. At the northwestern corner of the park, a half mile from the palace in which the peace negotiations are to take place, is the chateau of the Grand Trianon, in which the peace ambassadors probably will be lodged.
 The palace of Versailles Was used not manent residence for his court. It con-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
TOY STEAMERS AND TOES

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 Not so many years ago those good men and women who were especially in generation were accustomed to deprecate the production and sale of tin soldiers and toy cannon, along with the publish ing of comic supplements which might suggest new mischief They held that playing war on the living room rug might instill in the youthful mind a lust for battle which would disturb the peace .of the world in after years, and they won from educators of sorts more than a little support.
 Today, however, the toy stores of the land are filled with war like mechanisms. There are toy warships without num- Der, and toy airplanes, tanks in minia- ture and even trenches in which tin sol- diers may seek cover. Though the fight ing in Europe has ended, the fact is not as yet reflected on the holiday counters of trade.
 Now comes the shipping board to put lHS lOy to use dS pioPdBdHud. SHdlIHldH Hurley has seen chance to influence, as he believes, the thought of the rising generation, and his scheme is worth con- sideration.
 Weeks before the signing of the armi- stice he asked the manufacturers of toy boats to discontinue the production of warships, and to build instead steam CTS and sailing vessels emblematical of America's merchant marine The manu- lecturers, Washington reported, agreed promptly.
 They have, indeed, chance to render a real service and one to which even the most peace loving can take no exception. If a toy can be mode to serve serious educational purpose. as Chairman Hur- ley of the shipping board affects to be- lieve, both he and the manufacturers who cooperate with him deserve the thanks of the nation.
 The fond parent who stubs stocking ed toe upcn model of a standardized steel cargo boat must bear in mind the trend of his small sons thoughts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
Splendid Lot of Preachers

Birmingham is going to have a splen- did lot of aggressive preachers in the big pulpits of the city," said A. L.. Smith, We are used to pr. Edmonds, Dr. Broadly, pr. Barnwell, pr. Stuart and others who havs been here for some years, but I am speaking of the new corners. like Dr. billiard, Dr. MacSporran and Dr. Jacobs, who, I am told, will soon be With the South Highland Presbyterian church. It will be hard man to suit if he can't find a preacher under whose ministry he can sit with pleasure
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
Black Belt Nebroes Prosper

T was down in the lower end of Ma rengo recently said Col. Alex R. Gar Der, the well known attorney, 'and the negroes in the black belt are in better shape than they have been for 20 years in spite of the lean years which came after war was declared and the floods A negro came to drive me to the sta- tion. His team was handsome pair of mares, for which he paid $4O0, hitched to new $l25 buggy I drew about me $l0 lap robe. He had on new suit of clothes and a silk shirt I asked him why the silk shirt? l was amused at his reply, for with grin he said Boss I jes' wanted to see how silk felt Yes, sir, the negroes in the black belt are on velvet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21

President Wilson probably won't de- part for Europe until he has had an op- portunity to brush up on French. It wouldn't do for Colonel House to sur pass him in that particular.
 $ # < If the former Kaiser returns to Pots- dam it would be wise for him to ascer- tain first how many soldiers will rally around him in case there is red procession to the palace. That story of Belgian civilians fra- ternizing with German soldiers is made credible by the fact that the Germans were singing La Brabanconne' as Ius- tily as anybody.
 The enlightened Houston Post remarks that irrigation is sure drouth remedy. But what if the embattled prohibitionists say, Thou shalt not irrigate?"
 # < *
 
 Hylan's invitation and visit New York. Broadway will do it's best to make him feel at home
 x < # France now has three marshals. And it may be long time before another French general gets a chance to win the baton.
 # # < The question of decorating the farmer cites has come up. This is a matter that should be decided by strictly feminine vote.
 < 4 # More royal baggage has reached Switzerland, which bids fair to become a way station on the road to oblivion.
 < # # The airplane has also been found a useful adjunct to royalty in flight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
HE WAS A MAN

From the Omaha Bee. Edith Wharton, in Paris, told a war story.
 'The American wounded were beins brought in form the Marine battle sne said, and fussy American woman In khaki uniform and Sam Browne beis bent over a stretcher and said: 2 "Is this case an officer or only man?'
 "The brawny corporal who stood be- side the stretcher gave "a grim laush and said:
 "'Well, lady, he aint no officer, put he's been hit twice in the innards, both legs is busted, he's got bullets in both arms and we dropped him three times without his lettin' out a squeak, so guess lye can call him man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

woman is often in a brown study because she can't decide whether she will get white, pink or blue wall paper for the bedroom.
 A man always gets the worst of 1t when he fools with a buzzsaw There- fore. why not prohibit the manufacture and sale of buzzsaws?
 Maybe if you could change places with the man you are knocking you wouldn't find fault with him.
 And many Soung fellow who goes to college to pursue his studies has no idea of overriding them
 Some prudes are so finicky that they claim that the man who painted Sep tember Morn didn't makes decent job of it.
 A nom de plume" is pen mama. But that isn't the name you call your fountain pen when you discover that the blame thing hat leaked all over your vest.
 What doth it profit woman to have dozen cheerful and sunny notices on the walls of the dining room when she lets stray hair get into the food her husband is going to eat'
 If you write hibrow stuff that no- body can understand, you are phil- osopher. But if you write homely stuff that everybody can understand. you are a darpfool.
 You may have noticed that girl never seems to enjoy herself when shs is kissing another girl like she does when she is kissing another man.
 And no matter how honest and truth full a witness may be, he is 2 wall-eyed liar to those who are on the other siae of the case.
 It may be very we'll for single man to love his neighbors. But a mar ried man has to be careful.
 Many a bachelor is sorry that he swapped his poor quarters for better half.
 It is all right for thin girl to car ry powder rag in her stocking. Bu. . corn fed girl can't do it: She hasn't room.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21

uously critical mind that in the matter of his vocabulary the national executive has failed to funetisn. Arr. sawyer's count of tho Presidential syllables is an ure to deliver the goods. To clinch the case, casual scanning of the listed 622l words fails to reveal liar" a "malefactor" or anything beaten to a "frazzle"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
Russia Suffers Most
 From War in Europe

T IO'h " Gl III II III OHG
 HONG all the crowned heads
 NGo have been driven from
 thrones by the war and there are aozens of them, if we include the heads of smaller principalities ano states-only one lost his life along with his throne. The fate of Nicholas of Russia was inevitable in the utter chaos which succeeded the downfall of the Romanoffs.
 Yet, it should never be forgotten that whatever his faults may have been, Nicholas was to all outward ap- pearances the stanch ally of the en- tente. It is said with some degree of probability that the German plots which hastened the collapse of Rus sia were countenanced by the strongly pro-German Czarina. If the former Czar was as putty in her hands, his was the fault of a weak, uxorious monarch who was much better suc- cess as kind and indulgent father than he was at the head of Russia's swarming millions.
 During the early and most critical stages of the war Russia performed an important service to humanity. She fought brilliantly and by her spec tacular campaigns caused far more anxiety to Potsdam than all of the other allies. Even when reverses came and processes were at work to under mine the Russian armies along with the government, her huge forces in the field kept Germany from turning her full strength against the allies on the west, at time when she had victory almost within her grasp.
 Had the Czar's government sur- vived, it might have been better for Russia in the end. The old bureau cracy would have given way to consti- tutional reforms and instead of being postponed indefinitely, the redemption of Russia might have been worked out in a few years, with the aid of the democracies of Europe and America. Prompt Payment
 of Taxes Urged.
 ~0vERNOR HENDERSON'S ap- M peal to the taxpayers of the state urges them to settle with the collectors as soon as possible and not wait until January, which they have right to do without incurring penalties. Taxes are always due on the first of October, and while many persons fail to avail themselves of the priv ilege of the three months margin, the majority, as rule, are in the habit of waiting until January.
 In view of the fact that the statc treasury is low in cash the governor issued formal statement few weeks ago explaining the situation and ask ing taxpayers to help out by paying
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
Glad to Welcome Mnrbury

We were mighty glad to have Dave Marbury and his family come back to the Southside Baptist church after be- ing out of the city for quite while,' said Hugh F. Latimer. Dave Marbury is one of the best Sunday school work CTS in the whole country. having for years been a member of the executive committee of the International Sunday School association, and at one time the efficient superintendent of the Southside Baptist Sunday school. He spends the week days at Wadley. where his lumber interests are. but runs in for the week. ends and is always on hand on Sundays, for he is a layman who loves his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
Cooperation In Fight
 Against Social Evil.


 S to minimize social disease in Birmingham have proved of little avail, but the reason chiefly is that public sentiment was not sufficiently aroused. But the movement now being inaugurated and led by one of Bir-. mingham's high spirited and tirelsss physicians has not only the indorse- ment of the city commission, but the earnest cooperation of all our civic associations and of representative citizens in general. The United States government is backing the campaign. Clinics for the treatment of social disease will be established at once in Birmingham and Bessemer with gov |ernment funds available for this work.
 Vice conditions are no worse here, perhaps, than in other large cities; |yet the situation was such as to cause the commandant at Camp Mcclellan to single out Birmingham and put the ban on it. Conditions are said to have improved, but the ban has not been raised.
 While moral perfection in teeming communities will not be attainable this side of the millennium, everything possible for reducing noisome evils to the vanishing point should be done.
 The character of the men who have enlisted in the cause for making Bir- mingham morally clean and whole some city is guarantee that large practical results will follow.
 * # # Among the jobs Wilhelm left vacant l when he fled to Holland were Emperor of Germany. King of Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg, Burgrave of Nuremberg Grand Duke of the Lower Rhine, Duke of the Wends and Lord of Frankfort i He was also eleven princes, sixteen dukes, ten counts and held a few other | titles No wonder Wilhelm had the mis- i taken notion that he was a person of some importance. Gen, Won Hindenburg is being pro- tected because he did not "desert his | people in the hour of their diversity" ] It looks as If Gen Von Hindenburg | might have political future in Ger. 1 many. | Pennsylvania spent more than s25,0oJ | to get few hundred soldiers votes in l perience of that kind is by no means l novelty in the state that produced l Penrose. An American soldier describing l0- hour battle near Verdun says he lodged 1 a million bullets. We have more respec. l for soldier like that than one who l boasts that he never dodges bullet
 < # < Just because 5000 boxes of talcum 1 powder were purchased by the war de- partment for our overseas forces during six months doesn't necessarily mean l that our boys are not hard boiled"
 E * < King George emerges from the war with additional prestige as a hand shaker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
NOVEMBER

By Edith NJ Thomas. Thou, the unloved of the year thou,
 November, I alone greet thee. unloyed and unwanted! Restless thou art, but rest thou refusest; Thou wouldst be wandering. wandering
 ever! Wherefore all shun thee, and pass thee
 by swiftly, M Lest upon them should be laid like af-
 fliction-
 Q troubled November! Thou hast heritage, named Desola- Beauty it hath not, yet beauty thou
 seekest, Sometimes wreath for thy head thou
 art weaving, Out of the leaves that are blown Ton
 thy path All of sudden, the wind hath de Comfort thou hast not. nor they that
 dwell with thee Here the rash bud that n@ver shall open; There, the late fledgling the flock hath deserted. Then. shrih call through thy fingers
 thou blowest; Response there is not-they are far who should answer. M Thou, with thine eyes of dim anguish, dost question How thou canst shield these poor orphans
 of summer! Sometimes thou weepest-thy tears are uneasing, So much of anger was blent with thy sorrow
 o troubled November!',
  Then, from the distancing rain that en- yelled her, Answered me faintly departing November Troubled was in world that was Trouble, Embattled and harried by terrors un- numbered. Yet, peradventure, great largess scatter. Wherefore the world shall remember me kindly, Craving my name that shall stand, on
 it's record Peace was the gift of this troubled No vember"'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
A WANDERING COLONEL

TOIH lIt lNCW VI hf w Oilu.
 Within barely 30 days after the Ger. man government addressed to Presiden. Wilson it's first note seeking the conclu- sion of an armistice the German dele. gates in the presence of Marshal Foch signed the most humiliating terms of surrender ever imposed upon a powerful nation. The decisive tone of the Presi- dent promptly brought the arrogant Prus. sian autocracy to it's knees.
 But as a historian by trade and a man special duty to revise the course of events in which he played no part. It may be that in the secluson of a sickroom some physic overstimulated his agile fancy. Possibly morbid sense of nodesty has caused him to imagine that toothachs from which he suffers is of greater sig. nificance to the world than Germany's downfall. At any rate. under the spell of singular delusion the theory he has invented for his personal comfort is in. teresting:
 "A little over month ago the admin istration embarked upon career of note writing with Germany which If unchecked might have meant a peace of practical profit to Germany, but the feeling of the American people, especially in the west, showed itself in such direct and straightforward fashion that this effort was soon abandoned"
 This is not the Judgment of millions of people who read the record from da, to day. But it stands on the colonels unsupported authority. No doubt for years to come he will repeat this ver- sion of what he saw with his own eyes and did with his own hands, and win hope that the public will believe him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
POOR SORT OF PLACE

From the Cleveland Plaip Dealer.
 Among the monarchs who have fallen over each other in the mad rush to ab- dicate, one notes the name of Prince Henry XXvII of Reuss. Think of place that would allow 27 Heinies to boss it before it even began to murmur!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
BACK ON THE JOB

From the Augusta Chronicle.
 You can't beat Oklahoma for front page stuff. As soon as the war is over and there Is a little space left on the first page, Oklahoma pulls of cyclone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
A CHANGE OF TUNE.

No longer seeking a place in the sun, The woe-begone and beaten Hun Uplifts his voice in fearful mood And begs the favor of some food. Once only boasts came OCT the Rhine, Which TOW give place to the German
 whine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21

BEGINNING THE DAy--It is Thy .s' ord. 0 Lord, that I wield. It is sAly strength that I use. It is Thy tie that I live. Ii is also my sword,
 strength and my life; for I never find my sword. my strength and my life until I find them in Thee, 0 soul of my soul. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
ACcORpING TO PLAN

From the Chicago Herald. MT. William Hohenzollern has also re- tired without losses to a previously pre- pared position.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
Too LATE

From the Boston Transcript
 Breathiess individuai-is th--the cash fer in?
 Bank examiner-No. he's out. Are you a depositor?
 B. I.--Yes.
 B. E.-Then you're out. too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
GOING AND COMING

From the Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
 Two Americans visiting London went to see the fire station. and seeing one of the firennen said:
 Do you know in America we use a nine-inch hose for fires, not skin- ny three-inch like you have
 Oh replied the fireman, i've only use this for washing down the station. This, he said holding up a l2-inch hose) is what we use in case Of fires. When we want to send man to the top of a building we place him on the hose. turn on the water and he's up there in no time.'
 An" said one of the Americans, but how does he come down?"
 We'll said the fireman. The puts his arms round the jet of water and slides down."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21

lthis fall, The states obligations are pressing, but if the governors appeal
 meets with anything like general re- sponse the revenues will be ample for present needs.
 The tax collector for Jefferson county, James F. Hawkins, in refer ring to the governors request for early payment of taxes, says that most of the corporations have paid, but that individuals have been slow in coming forward to the relief of the state
 Prosperity is in evidence through out Alabama this year. Jefferson county was never so prosperous as it is today. In years of depression tax payers were never pressed to pay in advance of the penalty period. But now early payment will work no hardship. With most people settle ment will be as convenient this month as it will be in January. All they need is jogging up.
 Ii is hoped that Collector Hawkins office will have a 100 per cent rush between now and December.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21

Washington. bureau, POT Hibbs build ing.
 European bureau, 6 Henrietta street, Covent Garden, London.
 Eastern business office, w or building. New York city; western busi- ness office, Tribune building, Chicago.
 Beckwith Special Agency, acs fr foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
ADVANTAGE OF WEALTH.

ADVANTAGE OF WEALTH. When airplanes become the everyda, mode of conveyance the gentleman with jag is going to get into trouble Not necessarily" "No?"
 For a long time, at any rate, per- son who can afford an aerial limousine will also be able to hire a dependable aviator to drive it.'' DESIRABLE APARTMENTS.
 By peace we know
 This much is meant:
 Some palaces
 Will be for rent
 NO CHANGE NOW. 'Why is the maid so melancholy2p Tt seems her young man promised to bring her the Kaisers ear'' T see. Another splendid opportunity gone glimmering.
 TALENT GOES BEGGING. "It seems when man can't do any thing else he can always get on chau- tauqua circuit
 The lecture platform isn't open to everybody"
 "Why not?'
 T dare say a chautauqna manager would hesitate long time in the pres ent state of affairs before he would book a bolsheyiki" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
A PARIAH,

General Foch is invited to visit New York. King Albert is desired in Paris. Europe eagerly waits for President Will son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21

Yes. Nearly everybody is being asked 3 visit around except Wilhelm"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21
All Day Holiday
 On Thanksgiving.


 II N former years Thanksgiving in 0 Birmingham has been only par- italy observed. Being legal holiday the banks are required to close, but in business circles, generally speak ing, the day has been only half holiday.
 On Thursday next, let's have real Thanksgiving--a Thanksgiving in the spirit of the Presidents proclamation. The retail merchants have decided to close all day, and all the offices should do likewise. In this way the great majority of people would have an opportunity of attending Thanks, giving services in the churches; and 1t is poor observance of the day with out crowded houses of worship in the forenoon.
 After the religious feature of Thanksgiving has been carried out, the greater part of the day would be left for social reunions and for foot bali and other innocent diversions.
 Such a programme would be both fitting and profitable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-21

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