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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13

A returned soldier charges that Gen eraI Pershing lost not less than 2o,OOO votes by keeping a large body of Ameri- can troops standing in the cold practically all day before reviewing them. But Black Jack" has decided not to run for the presidency. The fact that citizen is permitted to buy beans from Uncle Sam at reduced prices makes him proud that he invested in Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps.
 Some of the new-rich Texans who have struck oil must be wondering what they are going to do with their money, now that the land is bone-dry x * <
 The downtrodden chorus girls of New York are talking about organizing union to fight the managers, if they have to eat at Childs restaurant. * * * Factory girls who wear silk stockings and expensive lingerie complain about the high cost of living. It wasn't like that in grandmother's day. # < x Philadelphia newspaper urges the country to be kind to the war brides. Similar advice to their husbands would not be amiss.
 Army pronunciation of French words doesn't always agree with the diction- aries, but a soldiers pronunciation must be respected. Some of the soldiers who drank up carload of champagne at Foul have lived to tell the tale, and are now back in America.
 The passing of the Laird of Skibo re-
 moves another picturesque character who served the paragraphers uncomplainingly
 and well.
 | Most of us have found out a thing or ] two about Shantung, but what does the
 average man know about Thrace? 1 # 4 # | 'Marse Tom" Kilby aspires to inaugu-
 rate Alabama's golden age" at the ex- pense of the coal and iron industry. | # $. < 1 Birmingham is one of the few cities in
 America that firmly, but politely, refused
 to accept Carnegie library. l President Wilson is now in closer touch
 with the plain people than he has ever
 been before in his life. # < < 1 Admiral Kolchak had vision, but the
 diatory tactics of the allies prevented
 him from following it. T # :f Tenants are laying down a barrage profiteering landlords are finding it hard | to break through # < # | The Prince of Wales is coming to Amer ica, wearing his morning face.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
OLD DAYS AND NEW

port of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
 company revealing a falling off of the
 use of transfers as result of high wages and indisposition upon the part of
 wage earners to take the trouble to use transfers. that many highly-paid laborers
 nowadays are more careless of their
 change than they were when prices and
 lockers in a St. Louis factory were rifled
 and the employer sent the factory girls
 to their homes in automobiles because
 they declined to appear upon the street
 in working garb. Their claims for com
 pensation for lost garments showed that
 nearly all of them wore silk skirts, silk
 stockings and other expensive clothing which our grandmothers, of all castes,
 looked upon as being too expensive and too showy for everyday wear. Buying oe groceries is in many households upon very liberal scale
 Thefe is truth surely, if not great deal of poetry, in the assertion that a very considerable element of the popu- lation not. by the way, composed of wage earners exclusively enjoys greater wei fare today in the form of comfortable margin between income and necessary
 outgo than that element experienced be- fore the war It is by no means true that all classesof paid employees or all proprietors are thus happily situated, and that there is. therefore, no reason for inquiry into the legitimacy of commodity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
As To Raising Rents

"I have noticed that certain civic and business oranizations of this city are preparing to make investigations with regard to the high cost Of living stating that there are number of landlords and real estate men in Bir- mingham that are profiteering on rents," said Frank E. Butler, president of the Birmingham Real Estate Ex- change.
 " I feel that 1t is my duty. as presi dent of the real estate exchange of this city, to state there is no concerted ac- tion with that object in view or con- certed action for the purpose of raising rent, among real estate men of the exchange.
 There are very few real estate men in this city who own the property which they rent The majority of us are dictated to by every landlord for whom we handle property.
 'The raise in rent in Birmingham is partially due to the increased cost of the upkeep of the property, and par tially to the excellent conditions of the market caused by the present relations of supply and demand"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13

From the Louisville Courier Journal. N READER of the Courier-Journal A\ clips from the Times a lament S S upon the departed glory of the once almighty dollar, written by James ]. Montague under the heading, More Truth Than Poetry and ending with the recognizable parody;
 The poor little dollar,
 The cheap little dollar
 The fifty-cent dollar
 Ishold in my hand. By way of reply -in-kind suitable to MT. Montague's heading as well as re- sponsive to his plaint. The Courier-Jour- nars contributor, an employer possibly, submits the following: Yes, you went to the grocery in the days
 that you mention, But now you will phone to send goods
 around, To save a few cents is not your inten-
 ton,
 For wages are high and dollars abound. You selected the coffee and bacon and
 flour,
 You picked out the prunes with lnfl-
 mite care. You worked every day every minute and
 hour
 You walked to the shop to save the
 car fare. Whats a dime or a dollar, five or a
 ten,
 When you work but eight hours and
 call it a day.? You draw forty dollars to five you drew
 then,
 To continue such times you should
 kneel down and pray.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
M < <
Britons On the Trail
 of Retail Dealers

m ECENTLY Sir Auckland Geddes, QN British minister of reconstrnc- hon, announced drastic plan to curb orofiteering. Local tribunals repre- senting consumers and workers would be established, with power to assess fines of $100 and send more fragrant profiteers to the courts where they could be fined 5000 or imprisoned for six months.
 According to this plan, the tribunals would summon suspected dealers and examine their books. They would scrutinize the prices not only of food but of all other articles commonly used, including furniture and cloth ing.
 Sir Auckland declared that the small dealers in Great Britain were greater profiteers than the wholesal- CTS and manufacturers. He said, There are instances where small nab ndashers, formerly living in two rooms, had been enabled to buy coun- try estates"
 The Geddes plan, it is believed, will soon be put into operation. In Amer ica, the government already has suffi- cient machinery, supported by ade- quate laws, to prevent hoarding and profiteering in foodstuffs. The ener- getic campaign launched few lays ago is bearing fruit The class of profiteers who cannot be punished under the laws now in force in Amer ica are being rigidly dealt with in Great Britain. The time may come when similar provisions may be adopted in this country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
BRIEF COMMENT

Indianapolis Star: Admiral beatty anu General FIaig are to be made earls' "hiie sor,a of our most distinguished military and naval heroes are scared lest they may be made candidates
 Toledo Blade: Sir Oliver Lodge and pr. Conan Doyle are bright. shining uqbts. scholarly and highly intellectual. Put not because they argue that the dead come back.
 Baltimore American: Tobacco is now to receive the attention of the prohibi- t;onists It is to be hoped the public, new warned and on it's guard against further loss of personal freedom, will f.ttingly make this new attack go up in smoke.
 Chicago Tribune: The Association Op- .posed to National Prohibition maintains that the league for making virtue odi- ous is now working against tobacco, fa- miliarly known as the weed. A number of L. NJ V. O.'s have been heard to refer to My Lady Nicotine as that trollop Nicotine.''
 Nashville Banner: What profits it us if we saved the world if lot of profit eers are to be permitted to loot us at will of everything we have?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
HELP THE PROFESSORS

From the Chicago Tribune.
 We are in complete sympathy with a threatened strike of university profes- sors, whose demands are reasonable-an increase of wages to 25 cents Ieb hour. While they do not hope, and cannot as a tinsmith's apprentice, they consider 25 cents is not an exorbitant demand. q wish we could do something to help the teachers" said Attorney Gen. eral Palmer to our reporter, handing him a six-cent seegar. T am open to suggestions'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
MEXICAN OIL PROPAGANDA

whatever part of the world they were, for they were citizens of this great repub- lie, who had gone into Mexico in search of oil needed by this country, the develop ment of which had resulted in untold benefit to Mexico herself
 The Mexican oil propaganda began in 1911, when Porfirio Diaz, his star waning and with the wolves of revolt close on his heels, raised the cry that the Standard oil was backing Madero with oil money. This was the birth of the romance of Mexican oil propaganda. Diaz could ex- plain the Madero success only by expos ing the dry rot of his system, and to avoid this confession he and his supporters filled the Mexican, British and American newspapers with accusations against the Standard oil. or Waters-Pierce company, charging that the company was furnish ing arms, munitions and vast sums of money to the Maderistas,
 The object of Diaz was, of course, to discredit Madero in the eyes of the Amer
 can public, to shift the responsibility for the failure to suppress the revolution from his own shoulders to the oil com pany. Madero won. but this first blast of oil propaganda, also won, and its vic tory was more enduring than Madero's So successful was this first blast of oli propaganda that the Senate of the United States appointed committee to investi- gate the charges, and after numerous hearings and the testimony of many wit nesses which filled 400 pages, this com mittee developed the incontrovertable fact that the charges were utterly unfounded.
 In spite of the facts that this investiga- tion disclosed. in spite of the proved fal- sity of the charge, and in the fact of the established fact that interference with Mexico's internal affairs would be the worst possible policy for the oil companies tc pursue, the impression that Mexican revolution is the story of oil, that oil in fluence is back of all the trouble in Mexico, is still abroad. and is played upon by every amateur journalistic and reform expert, and by every Mexican governmes-1 that needs something on which to blame it's own ineptitude. misfortunes or fail ures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
Marrying ParsOn

Being located near the county court house l am frequently called to marry couples of all conditions and under many funny circumstances" said Rev. E. R. Stephenson Many runaway couples call for me and ask that I keep their mar riase secret. I frequently marry men working clothes. I remember one couple that came for me; the boy was a me- chanic at southside garage, and the girl was clerk in downtown de- partment store. She was without a ha. seemed to be perfectly happy. and I am not one to interfere under these circum stances"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
A HARD WORKER

You have great faith in your congress- man."
 seems to me like it's justified" Slid MT. Cobbles. Anybody that's as reg'lat about sendin' me free seeds an all the latest crop reports. not to mention full details about them cave dwellers that used to live out west, with stacks ot pamphlets tellin' me how to fight tn boil weevil an tn skeeter, is on the job, even if he ain't no statesman"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
FEMININE EFFICIENCY

 T had rather curious experience salesman.
 What was that?" asked the genial shoe drummer.
 T tackled a factory where great many women were employed ard tried to sell them a patent pocket-Ighter. "of course women didn't have much use for Q thing like that" T should say not! Most of them had already learned how to strike a match on their overalls, manifestation. and were so darned proud of the accomplishment I didn't make sale"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
Claiming Knighthood and
 A Pension As Reward

X CCORDING to London letter to A the Associated Press, which ap- peared in Sundays Age-Herald, Charles Hannah, novelist and play wright, has demanded knighthood and pension for himself and wife as a reward for suggestion he alleges to have made to the British admiralty to use smoke boxes or smoke screens which were extensively used during the latter part of the war.
 MT. Hannah may be, and doubtless is, worthy person, but he lacks the modesty of heroes or British men of distinction in general.
 If any honor attaches to knighthood in these modern days, it is when it comes unsought. A half century ago Great Britain's knights numbered less than eight hundred Today the list has grown to nearly two thousand. The majority of them are either men who have won their spurs in military service or have attracted public atten- ton as philanthropists, or politicians.
 Knighthood, like peerages, is con- ferred by the King, but by an unwrit- ten law of the nineteenth century, the selections are made by the cabinet and submitted to the sovereign by the prime minister.
 Mir. Hannah, as the story goes, has been pestering Lloyd George pri- vately. but failing to receive the rec
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
COLD

It's hot today"
 T know where there's frigid atmos7. phere"
 How far away7"
 "oh. about 20 blocks from where we oil has bought mansion in our most exclusive and fashionable neighborhood. He tells me the temperature out there just at present is several degrees below zero.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Wnginn Losing Fight


 We received a full and courteous hearing before the senate" said Capt. Frank S. White. former United States senator yesterday, who was on the com mittee appointed by the Civic associa- tion to go to Montgomery to fight the proposed tonnage tax in the senate.
 We took with Us a number of small coal operators who offered proof that the mines in the Birmingham district are falling far short when profits are concerned. At the present time some of these small operators are not able to operate owing to the competition of outside states, if the proposed tax is levied. others will be forced to close their mines.
 T feel sure that we have made win ming impression upon the senate Gov ernor Kilby is getting hot under the cellar and it seems to me that that Is sign Rhat he Is beginning to realize that he Is waging a losing fight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13

ognition he thinks due him, has pub lished his demand in the public press. He is evidently a peculiar character. He may receive pension, but it is a safe guess that he will never be knighted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
ADRlFTT WITH THE TIMES
PERHAPS

PERHAPS The old sea serpent used to cause Excitement in the days gone by And strollers on the shore would pause To scan the sea with anxious eye. No more he rears his horrid crest. monstrous thing, yet swift and sly. Oh, could that be, as some have guessed. Because the nations now bone-dry?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
ACTIVE INDUSTRY

ACTIVE INDUSTRY And what is this huge structure?' "A crown factory
 But I thought there was no longer any demand for crowns?" These go on bottles. The soft drink business is flourishing as never before,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13

BEGINNING THE DAY-How shall know what I ought to do! If am from God, is there that within me an instinct as old as time, which shall lead me. if I give it sway back to Him: Am I different from the doves, that seek their windows. or the animals, that know the way home.-H. Nj. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
AT TT AGAIN

From the Washington Star
 Bernhardi is again out for the pessi- mist championship with predictions of un pleasantness among the allies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
NOTHING KEPT BACK

NOTHING KEPT BACK This is the completest autobiography have ever read' ''Yes?"
 The eminent author even tells what he thought about when he was shaving"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
LACK OF JUDGMENT

"A romantic. impractical girl"
 "In what particular"
 At the seashore she was unable to choose between an impecunious life guard wrth a figure like Apollo and an anaemic young man worth s10,OOoOOO"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13

NO ACCOUNTING FOR TASTES
 Now, why is it that you sometimes see small, bow-legged, bald-headed man married to a stunning looking wom- an?' asked the seeker after useless knowledge.
 T don't know" replied MT. Gadspur, If the kind of man you refer to is poor. match like that is as hard to explain as the reason why some people, apparently in full possession of their fac ulties, go into a restaurant for some thing to eat and order spinach and egg"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
Washington buread. POT HiObs Ouild-

ing.
 European bureau, 10 King street, Covent Garden, London, W. c. 2.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13

In this glorious and well foughten field, We kept together in our ehivalry.
 Henry V.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13
Member of the Associated Press

The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dis patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein.
 All rights of republication of special .sirnn tchaS hnrein a ra alsn reserYed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second class matter, uh- der act of Congress, March s, 1873.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-13

lgot bulletin from the Alabama Poly- technic institute on the topic, Should We Dust Cotton to Control the Boil Weevil?" glanced over it as I make it a rule to al least sklm every paper, magazine pamphlet or book which comes to my desk, for l never know what inform ation I am going to get out of them. If every one had the habit it would be possible to reduce the size of the waste baskets in newspaper offices.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon. (Canon City, Colo.) 1911-192?, 1919-08-07
Work for the Soldier.

BY far the greater part of young coming
the strong and well Outdoor fe plain hearty
vigorous physical combined up
physique
Many of them who indoor workers before the
find that the abundant vgor they have gained inspires
life open. this
the country offer excellent opportunity.
The working is and the farmers calling for
help They willing pay wages that comparatively
high when consider that and board included Nee
essary expenses few that young could nearly
all of his And in the meantime he is living wholesome
life and securing knowledge of practical farming which
the future may be of great value to him
In he should desire eventually buy
his the information which gained
ton will aid him his selection and prevent him from making
poor investment
We would recommend to the young who is doubtful
about his employment take into consideration farm He
will at least have well paying work for several MONTHS which
will leave him as husky he present And by that
there be larger field for employment of every kind
there is
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon. (Canon City, Colo.) 1911-192?, 1919-08-07
The Cost of Food.

of wheat elevators and sorehouse June
Including the stocks farms commercial stocks There is
twenty wheat -four hand than this last
year.
Very much the condition seems exist the Of
many other kinds of foodsts have for time been
assured that barring the improbable coming the
1919 wheat crop will be
1t will be well to bear these facts in mind winter if the
of food makes any eccentric 1t will be then
that the is artificial (and not NATURALLY scarcity.
1t should be fairly easy place the blame may the
fault of market rgges and operators the of transport
shortage of freight If either of these any
other should be easy for the government it
That is what we have government for.
But it will be necessary under any conditions, the
trouble Costly food insufficient food;
this in the of the individual work performed
handicap with half efficiency with undernourished body
The result viii be curtaied production
prosperity
1t is up the government
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon. (Canon City, Colo.) 1911-192?, 1919-08-07
|PROF|TEERS TO
BE PROSECUTED
no full EXTENT
SAYS PALMER
Senator Kenyon Demands Less J
Talk and More Action Con-
corning High Living Costs.
Oh, unItra Pre-.1

Washington. August 1.---Attornek
General Palmer said that the exist ~
Federal laws would be invoked as f4r
as possible against the pronteers IN
necessities. He said that probably
new laws would be asked for II It MAS
not possible Tor The government 70
co:4sset the high prices.
The attorney general net with
number OF the cabinet members and
other hiah government officials late
yesterday in an effort TO discover the
reasons for the high prices, and TO
formulate a program OF action.
The cabine' agreed that the plcrtl
full supply u -sney causing the q
duction OF the dollars purchr a
power. was the fundamental use.
Profiteering ard an effort TO meet the
wage question BY the price increases
We're other reasons suggested
Senator Kenyon. pointing out that
the House plans a months vacation,
beginning tomorrow. declared that
Congress plans on immediate action
on any OF the 90 measures pending
which are aimed against the liking
costs. Senator Keuvc- des.- -ded
less talk aud more action.
The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon. (Canon City, Colo.) 1911-192?, 1919-08-07
'PRESIDENT IS
PAVING THE Way
FOR REESE YES
T0PElCE TREATY
international Law Experts Are
Drawing Up Reservations of
A Very Severe Nature.
.ay. unrrca ree.-.

Washington. August 1.--Reserva,
tions to the treaty of peace so innoc-
uous that they will not place the pact
in any danger of being resented by
owing powers OF the Entente are be
ing drawn by International law ex-
perts, who nave the confidence CT tire
administration here They are not,
hover, being drawn at the request
of President Wilson. blu. should he
finally decide that the acceptance OF
reservations are necessary TO save the
treaty from rejection. this set of res
ervations will be ready for presenta-
ton to the Senate as a compromise.
President Wilson is paving the way
for the acceptance CT some kind OF
reservations by his daily conference
with Republican senators, all OF whom
inform him that there must be reser-
yations protecting American Interests.
BY the time the President has re-
ceived statements of this character
from 33 or more Republican senators
he can without loss OF dignity say to
the country that he is forced 10 ac
cept reservations to save tAe treaty
from defeat.