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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
Wide Interest Centers
 In Sale of Boosters

| 1NEMOPOLIS has long been on the
 W map, but it is now coming into international prominence by the en-
 terprise of that prince of promoters
 of worthwhile movements, Frank 1. | Derby, who has staged a sale of
 roosters in the city named on August IA and Is.
 Chandeliers by hundreds will be Is sold at auction and the proceeds will be used to build two hundred thou sand-dollar bridge across the Tom jbigbee.
 Derby made brilliant success of the bull sale in Birmingham last year for the benefit of the American Red Cross and he may score even greater achievement in the rooster sale. President Wilson has shown lively interest in the affair and has entered the contest With rare bird and has paid his entrance fee. That, of course, gives the event national character, while the entrance of Clemenceau of
 France, Lloyd George of England and
 other foreign leaders make it inter national.
 As the dates approach Demopolis i is more and more thought about and
 talked about. People from all over
 Alabama will throng the capital of
 Marengo county and scores from other
 states will attend and bid on roosters
 of high intrinsic value and invested at the same time with sentimental in-
 terest, physical beauty and historic importance.
 Frank Derby is counting on an army of bidders from Birmingham, and he should not be disappointed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE EASIEST-WAY
 METHODS PREVAILING AT MONTGOMERY

saleable value as are all farm products. as well as timber and turpentine. Lands are likewise. Yet the governor singles out the products of a few mines in very small section of Alabama and says "Gentlemen, the state needs more money, and you must pay it. I know it isn't right I am personally opposed to such taxation, but it seems the only and the quickest way.~It is the easiest way"
 The governor qualities the above tion. But it is the gist the boiled down sense of his many statements to those who would and have told him the truth of the havoc and the injustice he would perpetrate.
 If Governor Kilby would break away from his mahogany throne in the state capitol building and fly in an airplane over some of Alabama, and take time to think, away from the hungry horde which have surrounded him for months, his old confidence would reassert it. self; he would cast aside the easiest way methods and become again the Tom Kilbys whom the majority of us supported and elected.
 A fine fellow is Kilby--who means well and is usually well balanced-but who is so set upon improving the states affairs, that he permitted policy polti- clans to devise means of raising revenue for him.
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 He has been told and he knows that the nlan he fathers will furl the sails
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
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Unjust Reflections
 On Messenger Boys

(I1uMoRIsTs, the near-great and S 0 the great, have striven for years to bring the messenger boy into disrepute. In the comic papers and on the stage he is pictured as a lan- guid youth, who seldom surpasses the tortoise in speed and would rather read dime novel, with a cigarette stuck in his mouth, than deliver telegram which means millions of dollars to financial king or a tragedy in somebody's life. As a mat ter of fact, he is not that sort of boy, for the simple reason that he couldn't hold his job in these days of brisk competition for week, if that long.
 Apparently it never occurs to any one, save the men who employ mes senger boys and rely with unshaken confidence on their industry and loy- atty, to speak of their pluck and cour- age, the gallant fight many of them are making to support mothers, little sisters and brothers, and if an op- portunity is open, to get an education. In sunshine and storm, day and night, they are to be found making their rounds, frequently facing danger and overcoming obstacles that would daunt grown men of less stamina. The story of the belligerent night watchman who swore that no mes- senger boy could deliver a telegram at night in the building where he stood guard and later called at the telegraph office, somewhat battered and sadly crestfallen, to beg his re- volver, which was taken away from him by youngster in blue uniform, who had been denied admission, is not so exaggerated as it seems.
 
 Messenger boys are an important link in the social and business life of this country. They are alert, intelli- gent and devoted to duty. A large percentage of them develop into sub stantial citizens and many have climbed to fame and fortune.
 This belated tribute to the messen- ger boy was inspired by the report of banquet given at one of the Bir- mingham hotels, and later a theatre party, to Western Union messenger boys fin appreciation of their loyalty to the company"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03

Friday morning I went out on the front porch to get my Age-Herald, and on the last column of the last page was a story which went to my heart. It told Of a lonely woman stopping on a downtown corner, with her boy, to listen to an out door meeting of the Salvation army, while Ter dead husband was shrouded out at the Hillman hospital.
 I fear that sometimes church members who sit in cushioned pews and listen com fortably to a preacher of note, and enjoy the music of the great organ and the cul- tivated voices of the choir, are just the least bit inclined to look down on the street services of the great organiza- Wilton founded by the late William Booth.
 Bear it we'll in mind that I am not in the least reflecting on the city churches, of metropolitan churches are conscien- tious, consecrated and overworked men; and that many members who live in easy surroundings are yet willing to go out and serve both with time and money when a real cry comes for help
 ar, merely trying to point out that it is a blessed thing that our regular re- ligious institutions as embodied in the various denominations are supplemented by the work of so noble an organization as is the Salvation army which on hun dreds of fields has proved it's worth both in times of war and in eras of peace, until today it ranks high in the world s thinking as mighty social and religious force.
 It was more than quarter of cen tury ago that I got my first sight of the Salvation Army. I was lad, and on my first trip to New York, and when the army with drum and cymbols came marching down Broadway it gave me a real thrill and I eagerly joined myself to the crowd which gathered as it stopped or the street corner and began one of it's famous outdoor services.
 I came on downtown about 10 o'clock
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
Invite Rather Than Keep
 Out Foreign Capital

THE lower house of the Alabama
 ' legislature, in passing the reve- nue bill as it stands, which would im- pose tax on foreign capital-capital coming from outside of the state to lend on real estate-has displayed a backward tendency of far-reaching effect.
 This and every other southern state needs outside capital that will aid in upbuilding. Large capital is waiting to come to Alabama. It would be distributed by the millions. The ag- riculturalists and the builders in the cities would be alike greatly bene- fitted by an influx of capital ready to be invested in loans on farm lands,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
THE COMRADnsHIp

Louis Taylor Merrill, in The American
 Legion Weekly. Out of the hot breath of white moons
 The phantoms of our soldering days Reshirpmer on the reeling dunes.
 And column after column sways Across the plain. and wheels, and turns; And some old sparks, relindled. burns In the long. lonely dusks of doubt
 The echo of d bugle ghost Comes wistfuily as taps ring out
 To>conjure up deep night on post And still, slow dreams that used to
 creep
 With sentries through camp aslep. The dreams stir. endless on, perhaps
 Beneath the fields run richly red Where those who heard the final taps
 Keep peaceful bivouac with the dead; And We've must net lose the grip of their eternal comradesh;n.f
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
HALONE WITH HER DEAD"-By Frank Willis Barnett

and on my way down Twentieth street from the Tutwiler met Salvation Army lieutenant walking with a woman and boy, whom I immediately recognized as the unfortunates about whom had read in the morning paper. I stopped them to give small contribution and to ask if they were assured of a decent burial for their loved one.
 This brought forth a cry from the de- spairing wife that I help to see that her husband was buried at East Lake near her baby, and not in a strange cemetery. The lieutenant then told me that he was going around to Johns to see if it could be arranged, and I volunteered to go with the party. I found Wallace and he entered heartily into arranging it if pos sible I left with the requst if any hitch came up for them to call me at The Age Herald.
 I have just come from Johns Undertake ing company, on Third avenue, where a simple service was held over the body of the husband and the father in the chapel, and was glad to know that the body, according to the wifes wish, was to be buried at East Lake. The Salva- tion army mother is one of the greatest mothers in all the world, and I left know ing that nothing would be spared to re- leve the feelings and the wants of the widow and the dependent children.
 have given these simple facts merely to show one of the many incidents Tn this great city in which the salvation army is doing quietly it's work, and in order to bespeak for it the continued sym pathy and support of Birmingham clti- zens, for it is in every way worthy.
 I was to hear and see much os the Salvation army after my first experience of it. for I met everywhere l weut in Europe, and more particularly in Eng land. where it had its birth. I have been in various kinds of its services. l have stood with uncovered head while 1t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03

staged one of it's open air meetings l have been in it's rescue homes. I have visited many of it's missions, and have always believed in it's purposes.
 It has the spirit of the Master, for to a Salvation army man or lassie there is no such thing as person being down and out" The workers believe that as long as there is life there is chance for it's redemption, and when they get hold of a case they never let go 1t matters not now desperate and hopeless it may appear to those who have less faith than they have in the saving power of the gospel.
 The churches have their proper spheres of endeavor and i'll my opinion were never more alive to their mission. for Il Believe that the church of God is still the mightiest force for righteousness l. all the world; and yet am aware that there is place for an organization which works along the lines of the Salvationists. have but to cite the instance with which began this story.
 A poor heartbroken wife, unknown and without money walking the streets of Bfr- mingham with an overgrown boy as her sole companion, while her husband in the city hospital sleeps the sleep that knows no waking, accidentally comes across a band of earnest men and women who unashamed but with joy stand in the streets singing hymns of praise, or stop to tell of the wondrous love of Jesus.
 She stops to listen, and soon her tears are seen by the leader, and with the knowledge which comes from long dealing with such types he soon has her pitiable story which means that she is on the way to be helped. At once Captain Will Hams begins to see to it that her needs are cared for And here is the beauty of the Salvation army; 1t not only asks financial aid and gives it, but 1t plays the Good Samaritan and stands by the wounded and broken until they are we'll on their feet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
OVERNOR Kilby is announced T for a trip from Montgomery to ~ Atlanta and return in an air

.N0 OvBRNoR Kilby is announced l( 1 for trip from Montgomery to
 Atlanta and return in an air plane.
 It is an invitation trip and it Is the easiest way.
 Governor Ki1by is a hearty and jolly good fellow, but his official residence in Montgomery is rapidly knocking into cooked hat that old time busi- ness judgment which made him a suc- He Is going hell-bent, after new gods to worship, and seems to be seeking the easiest way to achieve results. He forgets that the war is over and war measures no longer necessary He for gets the friends who made him govern or, and he now nestles toyfully with those who chased him and bayed him when he was heralded as the business Ic IOf SONtIHOT.
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 Instead of going after the revenue which the state so badly needs, under the existing laws which, he alone. can enforce. if he would display real nerve, he is chasing will-o-the-w wisps and a1- lowing the camp following petty poli- ticians to persuade him to go after every fellow whose industry has been rev arded, and leave alone those whom the Lord has taken care of
 Every section of Ala bama is prosper ous. All have made and are making plenty. Land owners and tillers of the soil are reveling in financial nour- ishment never before known in Ala bama. Cotton is four times it's old
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
TWENTY YEARS AGO
 IN THE AGE-HERALD
Events recorded August 3. 1'

The only change in the yellow fever situation at Hampton, Va is the report that four more suspected cases have been found. Governor Johnston of Ala bama has issued State quarantine against all persons and baggage from infected points.
 General Alger, who recently resigned under fire as Secretary of War, was to Detroit, his home city. A reception committee of 400 met him at the sta : ton and an enthusiastic street parade followed
 The town of Carrabell, prosperous Florida port on the Gulf coast. is re- ported almost completely destroyed by terrific rain and wind storm. Great damage was done in that vicinity of the state, near Tallahassee. and many ves- sells were wrecked.
 The Confederate veterans of Jeffer- son county are preparing to have a re- union and barbecue at East Lake next Saturday. The principal feature of the day will be an address by Gen. George F. Harrison of Opelika. the new com mander of the Alabama division.
 The state fair fund has reached $10,- 900 and it is believed that an addi- tional $5000 will be subscribed this morning. It is expected that one of the most successful farmers in the state will be made manager of the fair association.
 The Board of Trade at it's regular meeting yesterday condemned exorbi- tant raising of rents in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
BRIEF COMMENT

New York Telegram: Crying need of world is trained young men-Headline. Yes, and it wouldn't hurt bit if they kept up the training. Some of our old men are an uncouth lot of warts that ought to eat behind screens
 Pittsburg Dispatch: The army cruelty investigators are going higher and get ting results. Let their motto continue to be "Excelsiorr'
 Cincinnati Enquirer: To remove the Sultan from Turkey would be a good deal like removing the wattles from the real bird.
 Washington Star: Men who suffered at his hands are inclined to take care that whatever else may happen to "Hardboiled smith he will never be lonesome.
 Chicago News: Dangerous extrem-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
N>FEI.LOW FEELING

From Eighty, London.
 The bus was very crowded when a de- cidedly intoxicated man forced his way in He stood swaying about and making things generally uncomfortable, till the passengers began to grumble. Then up rose a benevolent looking clergyman from the far end of the bus
 'Why don't you leave the poor man aLone?" he demanded. Let him sit down and rest. That's all he wants''
 The poor man. seized the reverend gentleman by the hand and shouted: "Ah, old sport, I see you know what it is to be tight!
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of this growing Birmingham and cur tail it's speed to the tramp ship class. while Tennessee and Kentucky will speed ahead. He knows that scores of~ coal mines in this district will be unable to compete with nearby states. The Warrior river will bear little traffic and Mobile will be no export coal mar ket It's shipbuilding plants may shrivel up
 And yet the Mobile Register, my good friend Fred Thompson's newspaper, is standing with the governor in his easiest way methods, striking body blow at Birmingham.
 The cry about the capitol at Mont gomery and about an element of agri- cultural Alabama seems to be Soak Birmingham, make 'em pay for every thing. Whats right got to do with it? Those fellows up there seem to have money. Soak 'em.'
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 Birmingham has always done it's part and will always do it. But she will protest against being soaked" or un- justly discriminated against Governor Kilby is inherently too fair and just a man to be party to such methods.
 Ninety-nine per cent of the people of the Birmingham district appeal to him and beg him not to ram the poisoned sword of rank injustice into the bowels oft great business indus try of the mineral section of Alabama
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
IN DARKEST ALABAMA

From the Houston Post.
 Over in Alabama, weakminded peo- pie are dynamiting the dipping vats. It's that sort of thing that keeps the south from going forward, and yet we suppose if 1t were proposed to pay the voters would be almost as mad as they would be if it were proposed to give an old Confederate soldier pension enough to buy him square meal a day and a little chunk of tobacco to chaw.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
NO. KICK FORTHCOMING.

Whats become of Bibbles, who used to say soft drinks were an insult to his stom- ach?s@
 "Oh. he's still about here: occasional iy see him swallowing insults of that kind, but to do him justice. he doesn't wear the look of glad expectancy he used to wear
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03

BEGINNING THE DAY-Amid the waste and bewiIdering sands, 0 God, there is a sure road. Through the jungle and the wilderness there is plain path. There is a way even in the labyrinth, even in the maze of this life ! live. Thou hast not left me to wander aimlessIy. There course laid out for my feet. Lead me in it. In Christs name. Amen.-H. Nj. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
oI,p-FAsHIoyED woRDs

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 Miss Jeanette Rankin returns from her big trip abroad and expresses her. Fself as satisfied with the condition of .her country" Didn't know before that these through going internation- alists used the terminology of mossback patriots
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
AN OLD STORY.

In the prehistoric era
 There were doubtless caves to let And swarns of people scrambled
 In those far times to get Desirable apartments
 In which they might abide, And entertain their neighbors
 At the family f1reside. And doubtless thrifty landlords
 Filled tenants with dismay By lightly boosting rentals,
 Just as they do today.
 LEGAL ASTUTENESS "I'll take this case on one considera- tion," said the lawyer. "Wen?'
 Your face is fair. Let me study your ankles a moment Sir
 Madam, I'm strictly business. I must know if I would be advisable to put you on the. witness stand and how long ] would be justified in keeping you there for the edification of the jury
 A SUMMER DUTY. "A telegram from the wife, Anything serious?" "Yes-from her point of view. She wants to know if I'm still watering the ferns :
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
LINGUISTIC. HORROR.

The Germans didn't commit all the atrocities in France remarked the young officer
 Perhaps not. sir" said the old gentle man, with an air of great respect. 'You certainly ought to know"
 And I do, sir. The first time I asked a pretty Parisenne to stroll 'avec moi the atrocities committed on the French language were enough to make Victor Hugo turn over in his grave.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03

IN ABoU-BEN- N-ADHEM S CLASS. Poor Griggs is dead"
 You knew him wel1?'
 Yes. For twenty years we commutet on the same train. A remarkable char acter."
 Tn what particular" who seemed to think his conversation might be less interesting to me than my daily papers,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
A RAIN SONG.

A RAIN SONG. A glint O sun, Ere the day is done, Leaves many heart uplifted; When the misty shroud Of scudding cloud
 By golden beam is rifted. There's scanty cheer Tn a world that's drear And not a little sorrow, But a glimpse O sun, .sssss -,sfa Ere the<day is done. e S Seems a promise for tomorrow.
 PAUL COOK. <
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-03
ADRlF'T WITH THE TIMES
Z,ess1roeQ-

What are synptoms?'
 Well for one thing. he has quit asking what George Washington would say anG
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ALMOST PERSUADED.

ALMOST- PERoU ADED. You say Senator Twobble has under gone a change of heart in regard to the league of nations?' ''It looks that way
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as we prove.
 -TroiIus and Cressida. < * *
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l, ists properly belong at the extreme end of restraining rope
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Philadelphia Public Ledger: The time may come when old shoes will be given
 as wedding presents instead of thrown after the bridal chariot.
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Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postotfice as second class matter, un- der act of Congress- March S, 1879.
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kenlttances can De made at current rate ot excnange. The 4Ase-I1eIaId wi44 not be responsible for money sent lnrousn the InalIs. Address
 IhE AGE-hERALD,
 BIrmlngna1n, Ala
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Nashville Banner: Soft drinks along Broadway are taking on weird names. The shimmy- shake and the flivver- shiver are the latest.
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Chicago News: Dangerous extrem-
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He has been told and he knows that the plan he fathers will furl the sails