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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
Federal Aid To
 Good Roads Work

lMURING the month of May high W ways estimated to cost $15,- 120,770, having a mileage of 750.87, were approved for federal aid. The amount which the government con- tributed was stated at $6,382,0 ,091.
 These roads are covered by 124 lprojects, the largest number approved by the department of agriculture since the passage of the federal aid road act Up to and including May l31, 1919, projects amounted to Il, ,350.10 miles of road, at total estimated cost of $108,295, 1929, of which the federal aid was $43, ,076,176
 Concerning the proposition to ere ate a federal highway commission to have supervision of the country's roads Secretary of Agriculture Hous- ton expresses himself in opposition to it. "I am convinced" he says, "that nothing material would be gained. Much would be lost. The creation of a commission would entail unnecessary additional administrative expendi- lures and the commission could not do anything that cannot now be done more effectively by the existing CO., operative machinery"
 And Secretary Houston is right. | He is a stanch supporter of the fed eral aid movement and is enthusiastic in his cooperative work. As much as has been accomplished already, far greater will be the strides in the fu- ture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 /N\ afresh today before the bar or S ~ civilization, those who seem 10 think a mere matter of the lapse of time has changed everything. including the dire facts as to the nature of the German conspiracy against humanity. might well read that section of Senator Overmans report on what the brewing and liquor interests and various organizations ana societies did to corrupt opinion in this country and also to hamstring 1t m us relations with Germany in the days when they believed "Germany would win: This feature, of the Overman report has escap- ed attention in part because of the 1ace that the bitter exposure of the eXlstins bolsheyik menace in this country by the committee possesses little more lifiino- diate interest But just as the invest- gation into the activity of pro-bolsheviks on this side of the water was very thoroughly done, so the Overman CULT mittee was equally searching in US m- ouiry as to what the liquor interests dio to affect public opinion in America along the lines of their particular concerns, and the committees roundup of what the | German propagandists did is cnaptel which cannot be read without every
 Arer;can agreeing with President Wilson and his allied associates that tnls eSi' I tbinp that was and is Germany must pc da forever> impossible here or anywhere
 else.
 l I+ is worth noting, in view of certain
 insidious propaganda that is alreaoy De ginninr in the same circles over nefs
 and whose earlier activities are exposed in the overman report. that the German 1 government today allows as its moutn'
 nieces men like Bernstorff and Defn hurg. who are protesting to high heaVer
 aeainst any condign punishment of Ger
 many and are trying to affect American public opinion by absent treatment along very much the same lines as tne' ! ara shown by Senator Overman as havint done between 1914 and 1917. Inere |this exception, of course. that beaten aii' dissraced and isolated within the Douno lof the Fatherland, Bernstorff and bern burg are not circulating around Tn Amer tica. moving in high society," ana "i''
 their satellites corrupting American
 oninion. interfering in all our domesu iaffairs and our international relation ships. arranging for violent attacks ol
 o,r sovereignty and our security througl the use of dynamite, the promotion
 strikes and the separation of our citizen Into racial classes hostile to the govern
 lment.
 It is not untimely. therefore. that Sen 2 ator overman's report on this phase c
 influences hostile to the integrity of ou
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
Great Drive Under Way
 To Find Jobs For Soldiers

5 M CCORDING to a bulletin issued z S by the war department, flor every twelve men discharged every nonth from the army and navy of the United States, the government has put one man in the field to secure jobs for them"
 Col. Arthur Woods, assistant to the Secretary of War, has an army of twenty-four trained men at his dis posal in obtaining employment for discharged soldiers and sailors. It comprises all the field agents of the department of agriculture, who will make tour of inspection ill every dis trict in the country. In addition to these agents, thousands of sec,nd { lieutenants have been sent out to ! canvass the large employers and get { their assistance.
 The following agencies and asso- citations have pledged their co-opera- tion in the campaign to help "find the job without a soldier for the soldier without job:"
 Government Departments-Gove of all states: mayors of the principle cities; department of the interior, with l500o field representatives; depart
 nent of agriculture. with 24,O0O field Representatives; postoffice depart nent, labor department navy depart nent. American Red Cross; war camp com munity service; Y M. c. A., K. of C., Jewish welfare board, army and navy commission on training. camp activities; American Library associa- tion.
 Chamber of Commerce, Chambers of Commerce of the principle cities; Ma tional Association of Manufacturers: Merchants associations, principal la bor organizations
 If there is a discharged soldier c sailor in America who feels that h has been forgotten by his govern ment. now that he is no longer aeede
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
THE FIRST BoozELEss INN


 From the New York World.
 The first family or temperance" ho- tel in London, the forerunner of tens of thousands of such hostelries in all parts of the world, was opened in Covent Gar dent 145 years ago.
 An inn for the more or less permanent accommodation of families, and minus a bar, was an undreamed of thing, and oth- CT hotel keepers laughed the project to scorn.. Despite their derision. the scheme was successful. and made snug fortune for it's founder. David Low. London now has hundreds of family and temperance hotels, and before long the United States will have thousands of them.
 The edifice in which Low started his hotel is still standing. and is now used for the boxing matches of the famous National Sporting club. The eNbuilding was erected early in the seventeenth century. and was originally the home of Sir Ken elm Digby. Cromwells council held ses- sions in the building, it is said. and it was the scene of many other noteworthy gatherings before it was converted into a hostelry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
Women VIII Vote Right

T am convinced to woman suffrage" said John Craft of Mobile, "and I am for the ratification of the amendment. I believe that woman Is entitled to the vote because she is intelligent, she is loyal to her state and country, and fur ther she is eminently qualified to ex- ercise the suffrage and will do it to the best interest to her state and coun- try. I was reared as states rights democrat, and I am yet, and I know all good women will vote right"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
Few Typhoid Cases

We are going to wage a campaign all summer against typhoid" said Dr.
 ]. D. Bowling, health officer, when asked what campaigns the health de- partment will wage in the city. Thus far we have been quite successful. This month we have had only seven cases as against 3S for the same period of last year. On the whole we have had very little typhoid here this year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
Big Price for Rooster

w. T. Parker, Birmingham auction ger, conducted a sale of roosters at York a few days ago." said F. l. Derby of Sumter county, "and made a new record for that kind of sale. One of the roosters auctioned off by him sold for s75o0. the highest price ever paid
 for rooster anywhere. This par ticular rooster will be sold at the auc- tion at Demopolis on August 22 and ] look for him to bring even a bigger price then"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
THE MEANEsT MAN

From the Houston Post.
 The meanest man lives in St. Louis. He levied on the trunk of girl he had wooed and lost, just after she had married an other and was leaving for her honey moon, and the trunk contained her trous- seau. No true southern gentleman would have done it, but it shows how near a jaclxal and a hyena man can become when his predatory spirit is aroused.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
Bright Outlook For Building Activity

1R HERE has been steady increase J in building activity throughout the country within the past two months and there is promise of con- tinued increase, especially in the con- struction of dwelling houses.
 The improvement in the situation lis due in the first place to the great shortage of houses. This condition is l in evidence in every business center. In the next place prospective investors and home builders have come to realization of the fact that nothing is to be saved by waiting for prices to come down.
 In the early part of the year there was hesitation everywhere. People seemed to think that the cost of build ing material and the scale of wages would drop after the return of peace. While prices paid to building me- chanics will not be as exorbitant as those paid during the war for war work, they will hold to high level as compared to the scale maintained few years ago.
 Public sentiment favors high wages. The cost of living has not come down and will not decline appreciably while prosperity is prevailing the land. And no one should want to see the wage worker toiling without receiving just remuneration.
 Birmingham people with building plans developed are getting used to present prices and the more they be- come reconciled to the new conditions the speedier will come a solid boom.
 * 4. #
 This Years Wheat and
 Other Major Crops
 THE wheat harvest will be the
 O largest ever produced in the limited States. When the yield reached a billion bushels in >1913- lslightly over billion there was gress jubilation.
 It was the first billion -bushel crop land this years crop will be the sec ond. According to the government estimate on the first of June, we art due to reap something like billior land quarter bushels this summer.
 There will be a falling off in corr and it may be in several of the foot and feedstuff crops. In many sec tions of the country the rain in Ma! lalmost ruined corn and cotton.
 But the situation, generally speak ling, is improving, and if we escape ; |drouth there will be enough to g round. But 1919 will long be remem lbered as the banner wheat year, an r the people will be dutly grateful, n . matter what befalls in the corn belt < $ x l. TINT should have no part in the wor d of reconstruction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
GREAT INDOOR SPORT

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
 The former Kaiser objects to being tried for murder because it would be undignl- fled. American women find it trifle undignified, but tremendously interesting and much safer than motoring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Dr. Shropshire Returns


 Tt is always a pleasure to get back to Birmingham, it matters not how pleasant the trip has been," said Dr. Courtney W. Shropshire, who has just returned from a visit to Atlantic City and New York. My stay in Atlantic City was delightful and there was tremendous crowd at this popular re- sort. Later I ran over to New York and while there I visited the headquar- ters of the war camp community ser vice and found that there are big things In store for Birmingham along these lines. Since getting back home I find that everything here for the war camp recreational center is booming; we ex- pect to be nicely situated by this time next week. The painters and the dec orators are busy as bees and the big hall on the top floor of our building on Twentieth street and Fourth ave- nue is going to be a very attractive place for the soldiers and sailors"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
Pastor,s Family Coming

T am gratified to be able to state that my family have arrived safely in New York after their voyage from Plymouth, England" said Dr. John Mo Neill, pastor of the South Highland Presbyterian church, land will worship with the congregation on Sunday morn ing. Mrs. McNeill and three sons and two daughters make up my present household. I wish to express my ap- preciation of the thoughtfulness of my church and the interest of the com munity in the coming of my loved ones."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
ADMrRED AND ENyIED

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 In Russia, people who are known to possess two pounds of butter at one time are arrested; over here they're regarded as wonder-workers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
SAD SINCERITY

The grand opera singer
 Has "farewells' galore And the public pays gladly
 To hear her once more. But the doleful bartender,
 With a tear in his eye, He means it, he means it,
 When he murmurs, Goodbye"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21

BEGINNING THE DAY--o Lord. most high and most gracious, I feel myself dumb when I would speak to Thee of my joy and my grati- tude. Thou hast given and Thou hast blessed me beyond my tell ing. Thou art my Lord and my God. Amen.-H. M. F.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21

NOT UNDER HIS ARM Some of your baseball terms confuse me-, remarked the English visitor. How is that, Lord Helpus?' You said the chap who is now on--er--' Third base?"
 Quite so. Who is now on third base, stole second,' but, by love, sir. if my eyes do not deceive me. the blooming sack is still there"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
BUT HE'D NEVER RETREAT.

 r BUT HE'D NEVER RETREAT 'Is the cootie an intelligent insect?'' asked the amateur investigator. DO you think one could be trained to do the kind of tricks we see performed in flea cir- cuses?"
 T really can't say replied the re- turned doughboy. 'so far as my ob- servation went, the cootie was very much like the boche All he thought about during the war was digging in"
 HAN HEIRESS FOR DAY All hail the bathing beauty
 Who trips along the shore, Until it seems our duty
 To go and look her OCT. What other lass so fair is
 Beside the summer seas? Perchance at home her care is
 To ask us, number please?'
 -Age-Herald. Another sand witch is as fair,
 Although at her we scoff. At home her special duty is
 To find out "tea CT coff?''
 -F. A. s. A DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERE. ''It's curious thing" '.well?"
 "A department store window may be full of dainty silk lingerie and it doesn't cause congestion of traffic" "No"
 'sBut let single fluffy garment be in troduced in court and there isn't room to seat the crowd-' PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
ApuK1MMdAaas1fI
HIS NOSE KNOWS

From the Indianapolis News, | One of the chief qualifications of po- licenaan nowadays is 2 keen sense of
 smell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21
LEST WE FORGET!

own institutions should come out at . time when some Af those named and in- dicted in the Overman report as enemies of America are today asking favor for defeated Germany. and are actually, as is the case with leading radical groups in New York and elsewhere. pro-German before and during the war, the very lead- CTS in the newer parlor- -bolshevik move
 nents which have also come in for sharp and deserved arraignment by Senator Overman and his associates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21

WISE GIRL
 ''old MT. Grabcoin says he will disin- herit his son Jack if he marries Tottie Footlights"
 Do you suppose threat like that will prevent Jack from marrying Tottie?" Tt certainly will if Tottie hears about it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21

PROBABLY NEVER MADE A SPEECH.
 Representative Twobble is unique character" 'In what respect?" He's been member of Congress for 20 years and in all that time I under
 stand he has never once quoted George Washington, Thomas Jefferson or Abra- ham Lincoln"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21


 Everybody is crazy" declares an em- inent psychiatrist. Unfortunately, most of us flatter ourselves that the other fellow Is trifle more so.
 Belgium gave President Wilson such cordial reception that he probably felt consoled for any loss of popularity in Italy.
 An American paid $500 for a pipe smoked by Marshal Foch, a much more valuable souvenir than photograph of the Crown Prince.
 Withdrawal of the Haig brothers from famous liquor firm makes it less sur prising to learn that Marshal Haig drinks milk
 If Senator Lodge goes down in defeat will be follow the example of Won Tir- pitz and shave off his whiskers? * # * Anything Germany attempts to do VIII be viewed with suspicion as long as Won Bernstorff has a hand in it. # < < Aviation terms are getting into every day speech. It is now the proper caper to ''hop off, to a summer resort.
 Tag day has tagged itself nuisance" says the Chicago News. At last the weary worm is beginning to turn. < * <
 Maybe Conan Doyle thinks he will find his powers of deduction useful in explor- ing the spirit world. < # < The farmer usually gets what he wants in this country, including the repeal of the daylight saving law. E # # Loath to shatter a precedent, a gallant i Birmingham jury has once more acquit- 1 ted fair defendant. # < # | Resumption of the two-cent postage rate comes too late to benefit this years s crop of spring poets. + # # l Thanks to the~American Federation of Labor. Atlantic City became a sbolshevig Waterloo. In many parts of the country the cry goes up, What is home without a eel | lar?'
 When women take to pipe smoking coloring a meerchaum will be more fas- cinating than bridge x x # Weimar should be informed that Mar shal Foch is in an advanced state of preparedness. 1 Little Austria is wondering how it is going to support big capital like Vienna HsROBINSON CRUSOE" BEST SELLER 1 London.--London has just celebrated the 2o0th birthday of one of the most famous men in the world-none other than old Robinson Crusoe. | The God-fearing and long suffering sailor hero first saw the light of print on April 20, 1719, as first installment in dingy London paper, and now. accord l ing to W. Stallybrass, of the publishing house of Routledge, our old friend is, and continues to be, one of the worlds "best sellers"
 'If I were starting a publishing busi- ness," said he, "tRe first book I'd get out would be Robinson Crusoe. One publish ing house in England turns out each year eight editions, running into scores of thousands.
 "'One of the picture papers has found and reprinted an old print of Dan Defoe in the stocks at Charing Cross. Yes, he stood in the pillory of shame for day. but admirers of Robinson Crusoe brought him drink and sweets and the luckless journalist did not have such a bad time of it after all''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21

For what deth cherish weeds but gentle air? And what makes robbers bold, but too much unityt
 Henry VI. x x &
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-21

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Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-06-06
AlrpIans Prosnsctlnn.

The airplane is destined to be Of
enormous utility in facilitating pros
pectlng for and opening up mineral
properties in the Andean valleys.
Hydroplanes can fly from the Pacific
to the upper waters of the Amazon
In a few hours, while there are good
landing places for planes on many of
the snow fields of the higher Andes,
which have never yet been explored.
The airplane is almost ideal for
transporting precious metals. where
the value is high in proportion
to weight and bulk, and the tIme-sav-
ing is so important as well as the safe
ty from robbery. Already plans are
under way to use planes in Peru and
Colombia.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-06-06
DIDN'T SEE MUCH OF FIGHT
Rider on Elephant Attacked by Loop.
ard Chiefly Occupied In Stick
Ing to His Seat.

A scene that to the spectator might
have been ludicrous, but that to the
man who took leading part proved
more exciting than amusing, Is de-
scribed by G. e. Gouldsbury.
He was travelling through an Indian
jungle when leopard sprang out and
seized the elephant on which he was
riding by the trunk. Mr.. Gouldsbury
had no time to think-much less to
raise his gun.
what happened Immediately after
ward" he says, Il never could quite
tell, for during the next few minutes
| was not In position favorable for
observation, All l can remember IL
that our movements were extremely
rapid and irregular, bringing me at
times dangerously close to the leopard,
which still retained his hold.
"The elephant, in its efforts to rid
itself of the tenacious brute, was dane.
Ing about with an agility strangely at
variance with its otherwise solemn and
dignlfied appearance. Fortunately, the
tussle did not last long, and the next
thing l remembered was seeing the
leopard hurled violently back into the
jungle, where 1t lay, fully exposed to
view, growing savagely, but showing
no intention Of renewing the struggle.
"The elephant stood quiet for a mo-
ment, and, taking advantage Of the
opportunity, l put a bullet through
the leopard's head; then, forcing the
elephant quickly through the scrub, 1
made good the distance between u.s."
From Life In the Indian Police"
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-06-06
Law on vamplres.

Some one has dug up an old anti
vampire law which indicates that
vamping was just as much in vogue in
the seventeenth century as 1t is at the
present time. The law reads: Female
shams-A law against obtaining hus-
bands under false pretense, passed by
parliament In ITO, enacts: That wom-
an of whatever age, rank. profession
or degree, who shall after this act Inn
pose upon, seduce and betray into
matrlmOny any of his maJesty's sub
jects by virtue of paints. cosmetic
washes, artificial teeth, false hair, iron
stays, bolstered hips or high-heel
shoes, shall incur the penalty now in
force again; the marriage under such
circumstances upon conviction of the
offending parties shall be null and
void"