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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
SAN MARINO ADOPTS WILSON

During the days of Christian per secutions, in the middle of the fourth century. Marine and Leo, two stone cutters of Arbe, Dalmatia, crossed the Adriatic and came to Rimini. Their reason, says tradition, was to aid Chris tions condemed by pagan rules. to re- construct the walls of that city.
 '@rhe walls of Rimini having been finished, Leo and Marine looked long, ingly upon the solitude of the two mountains. As the hermits of the The biad, who flourished at this same period, they sought peace and solitude. in those impenetrable heights. Hewing a bed from the rock and cultivating little garden, Marine found all his ma terial wants supplied. This rough bed and site of the garden are pointed out today by reverent peasants.
 "A few slaves followed their former overseers in order to practice, undis- tured, their Christian faith.
 "From neighboring fields and pas- lures and little settlements. came the weary and oppressed, seeking peace and the CnrlStlan Iaitn upon the lWo mounts. Poor and simple people, their wants were easily satisfied Soon two small villages or colonies sprang up about the little churches, taking the names of the two apostles. The influ- ence of San Leo has been wiped out by the centuries, while that of San Marine exists today
 "Marinos desire was to found free society, based upon liberty, justice, simplicity, charity, virtue, and above all, love of peace. When the good man came to. die he called his followers about him and bequeathed to them his mountain. free from every other man. His parting prayer was that they never seek enlargement of territory by vio- lent means. War, though a painful ne- cessity for those acting in self-defense was an unpardonable crime in those who caused it. Begging his followers to remain true to the faith and to live in perfect accord freemen all, he passed away, little dreaming that in the twen- tieth century his little community would stand, monument to his peace ful teachings and simple form of gov ernment, in the midst of war-torn world"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
LIKE M,LIKE SAYS

Unlike some of the other men who never take a bath, a Hermit has sense enough to herd by himself So don t knock the Hermit. A lot of men who do not know where hell is located right now will be able to give you the exact location after July l. With barn-yard chickens selling at g each and cocktails at 40 cents per, it is ar expensive matter to fool around with any kind of a chicken. How much less would you get week if you were being. paid for what you know instead of for what you do? Why does woman always want to cut the buttons off old clothes before
 she gives them to the poor? Where does
 she get the idea that poor people do not need buttons?
 A woman feels almost as uncomfortable in shoes that are big enough for her as
 she does in shoes that are too small for her.
 People can't see any hypocrisy in throw ing mud at man while he is alive afd throwing flowers on his coffin when he
 dies. Everybody does it. ! Sympathy is one O. eAe cheapest things ! in the world But don't waste any of it
 on either party where a widower marries | a widow.
 IT man startS partlng ms hair on the side or in the middle when he is kid he parts it that way all his life. But a woman has to fix her hair up in some
 new style every five or six months. 1 We know a man who went out on strike against work twenty years ago, and has
 remained loyal to the Anti-Work union
 ever since.
 1 girl of 19 doesn't mind marrying a wealthy man of 69 as long as she knows ! that she looks well in black.
 | They tell us that badness results from too much washing of the scalp. But we doubt if lack of washing is what gives some men such luxuriant growth oi Iwhiskers,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
CnlIin- Navy Heroes

"Only 80 ex-navy men have registered to participate in the parade to welcome the 167th infantry regiment" said Lieu tenant Commander J. F. Meredith, in charge of the local recruiting station, and we are most anxious to have the navy make a good showing at this time. More than 600 boys were enlisted from Jefferson county and every effort is be- ing made to have them all in the parade. The boys will all wear white uniforms and it will be the first time that large number of navy men has been seen in Birmingham and it is most fitting that these sea fighters should turn out in full force to welcome Alabamas s soldiers. All navy men are urgently requested to regis ter either at the local navy recrlitins station in the Title Guarantee building or at the information bureau on Second avenue and Twentieth street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
NEW KIND OF BAR

New York Correspondent Pittsburg Dis patch.
 Some new drinks, such as a "Jersey Gulep," "A Cows Neck" and a Jersey Guzzle. will he introduced at the dairy show at the Seventy-first regiment ar mory this week. The bar is one of many features that will show the possi- bilties and the achievements of the dairy
 industry, which, in this state and vicin-
 ity amounts to s250, ,0O0,O0O. The bar is to be operated by the Dairymen's league, to offer to thirsty citizens the divers re- freshing foams and fzzes that lie in the product of the bucolic COW. Every promi- nent drink-mixer in the city was invited to submit his pet recipe for a milk drink guaranteed to have all the virtues of real flavor without the morning after bad taste. and a $50 Liberty bond will be awarded for the best one. Buxom, rosy checked girls fresh from some Broadway chorus are to be the milk "barmaids |"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25

7 the fault of the navy. It made splendid record in the war, the per sonnel averaged exceptionally high and Uncle Sam's tars received the best of treatment. A Japanese statesman has been found l who says Corea is entitled to inde- pendence. Needless to say. he is not par ticularly strong with the powers that be at Tokio. Briggs wonders what a chicken cross- ing the road thinks about. A A"chicken" crossing the street thinks certain degree of complaeency that she's easy to look at. If Governor Allen of Kansas patron izes a press clipping bureau he is get ting some spicy reading matter about himself clipped from southern news papers.
 
 Mir. Dempsey, we are told, will rely on speed in his battle with MT. Will lard. In the meantime there's nothing slow about the way his tongue wags.
 # # x
 Big Bilr' Thompson of Chicago couldn't possibly think any worse of the News and the Tribune than these two papers think of Big Bill"
 4. x # Washington, says a magazine writer, was fond of music. What would Wash ington say if he could hear a ukulele? :? <. T # Old fashioned diplomats don't un- derstand MT. Wilson. Probably because he has nothing up his sleeve. # # <
 The roar of the beachers is a joy ous sound. Even the umpire smiles grimly on the opening day. < j. < At the hour of going to press, Rome had not withdrawn it's citizenship con- ferred on President Wilson. T. # <
 "Drear beer" is what the Chicago News calls it. Now, why didn't some body think of that sooner? | # # x One by one Mexican revolutionares fall, but Villa seems destined to die of old age.
 # # # At last Italy has learned the true significance of Wilson's Scotch jaw" l # .% < ] Even a straw hat of yesterday makes a brave appeal for recognition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25

SsF 'SsR"s p.+''as s'.,:r sy @ss @ss .ss' ~s'i; f;
 never increase it's territory by violence, San Marine, which has ex- tended rights of citizenship to Presi- dent Wilson, is an enduring monument to that ideal while mighty Germany has been laid low by an exactly oppo- site ambition" says bulletin from the National Geographic society
 This tiny nation, "our littlest ally is described by Alice Rohe, who wrote the communication on which the bulle- tin is based, as follows:
 The position of San Marino 13 miles from Rimini, is singular This little re- public, whose greatest length is nine miles, is completely surrounded by Italy, who respects it's autonomy, as have rulers of the past with few Dalmatian stone-cutter left the moun- tain to his followers, free from every other man.
 That this little republic, which to- day has 11,0oO inhabitants>an an area of 3S square miles, has maintained it's independence, it's ideal of liberty in the midst of strife and bloodshed, of changing social conditions, for 16 cen turies, adds dignity to the unwavering belief of the trusting ones in the never ceasing protection of the saintly founder.
 "The position of the mountain, far from the great Roman roads, the Via Flaminia and Via Aemilia; sufficiently , distant from the coast to be safe from maritime invasion; the stronghold inn pregnable to assault by medieval amies; the retiring and unostenta tious, peace seeking character of the inhab- itants; the comparative poverty of the country-all contributed to San Ma rina's being left alone. But external reasons were not sufficient-there was an internal cause which existed in it's institutions and its morality. Tn the life of the republic today the influence of the Dalmatian saint is strongly reflected. For a country to maintain the characteristics of its prim- itive founder is a>social phenomenon of which possibly San Marine alone can bost
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
Eager Subscribers
 To Victory Loan

A MERICA is full of patriotism, |EA and being flush with money the governments appeal for the Vic tory Loan is meeting with enthusiastic and liberal response.
 Were money less plentiful than it IS the loan-only four and a half billion an oversubscription to the loan-only four and half billion dollars-might have been anticipated, but in this time of prosperity the work of raising the funds sought will be exceptionally easy.
 As an indication of the plethora o1 money, with patriotism back of it many towns and cities subscribed thei, quotas on the opening day of the Vic tory campaign. Here in Alabama the people have shown an eager disposi- ition and in numbers of rural precincts
 the goal was virtually reached before
 the drive began.
 The Liberty Loan campaigns oi
 wartime were great educators. The people were aroused and not a mar
 or woman who bought bond but re. ioices in the fact that he or she was
 able to help win the war. It is Vic,
 tory Loan now. Everybody under. stands the treasury departments plar
 and appreciates the value of the SC.
 curities offered. Speaking tours oi instruction and urging are no longer needed.
 1 Jefferson countys drive is without fuss or feathers, but it is going we'll
 so we'll that the seven million dollars
 allotted us will, it is felt, be subscribed l far ahead of the campaign limit, May l1O. It should be no surprise indeed | if the county's total were reached
 early next week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
"Gobs'' Are Eager
 To Quit the Navy

1.-THE United States navy faces a
 U serious shortage of men. A Washington dispatch says that 122,OOO members of the naval reserve force, still on duty, are clamoring to be re- leased, and it is estimated that as soon as peace is declared there will be a shortage of at least 75,000.
 A total of 250,O00 men are needed to man the ships now in commission, including those required for shore duty and replacements. Of the 290,O00 men now on duty 145,000 are entitled Ito demand their release as soon as peace is signed. Voluntary enlist ments are adding about 5000 or 5000 men a month. Since the armistice was lsigned approximately 220,o00 men have been released.
 Naval authorities are reported to A.
 be surprised by this unexpected cxo- dus from the service, but that is no l doubt due to the fact that very few
 men who enlisted in the navy did so
 for any other than patriotic reasons,
 to serve their country during the war Now that the war is over they are
 anxious to get back to civil life. Yvt for young man who has not
 chosen career, the navy offers won
 derful opportunities. Efforts to stim- Iulate recruiting arc not meeting with marked success. but it is certainly moi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
'RESURGAM

By Caroline Russell Bispham.
 This is the festival for you and me.
 When Hope springs beside brave Memory. sweet growing hearts of every one, Woman or man, who proudly gave Some have back, but some, alas! Will step across the threshold of our door <1sss And with smile of youth and hope cheer Make day of night Summer all the year. Yes some back, clear eyed and strong whole Conquerors they in body and in soul; Wearing their honors with such modesty That through tears of pride can see. But some came back all broken wheel The need of patience in diversity
 The. need to learn the lesson which through Thee We all must learn. They had their Calvary! On freedoms battlefeds their bodies fair Were as the bread He broke symbol there In that high chamber; and their blood as wine They split Chrstlike, for us-your and mine And now, like Him, this Resurrection morn, They lift themselves above their wounds, born Resplendent. cripplsd though they are, Whose souls have need to heal, nor show tho scar Though bodies cannot Ever this life , ssssH They'll the badge and burden of the strife. And those, dead. who could o longer stay But like their Lord, have passed upon their way; They sang Resurgam with their dying breath Blending together Liberty and Death!
 The Lord risenl He has risen, indeed!
 And with Him those brave souls to intercsde On behalf who only stand and wait Until bid that Gate.
 We get the strength bear. the power to act Our trinity hoys by Him led,
 The strong, the crippled. and the splendid dead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
THE EMIGRANT DOLLAR

at the end of a years residence here Four years later he should be made a citizen. This should be obligatory, save where only temporary residence is spe- ciied in the passport admitting the alien.
 Immigration will continue small fot some time to come. Emigration is unde- sirable. But we can all bid more or less fond farewell to men who have used this country as meal ticket, only to leave when the mo work" lure of Bol- shevilsism draws them home. It is clear. ly a case of good riddance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
High Class Music At Industrial Plants

M1ANY large industrial companies GVO foster brass bands and choruses as wholesome means of di- version. The T. c. l. band of Ensley is an excellent amateur organization and the T. c. l. chorus is heard with pleasure from time to time in con- certs in Birmingham.
 Along with welfare work musical clubs will become eventually perma- nent features of all progressive indus trial concerns, and in large cities where professional symphony orches- tras are available, programmes of artistic music will be presented at the shops frequently during the year.
 In Cleveland the American Steel and Wire and other manufacturing companies have taken an advanced DO sition in providing their employees witf music of a distinctly high order A writer in Musical America in giv ing ali account of the Cleveland ven ture, says:
 If music helped to win the war;
 will it not also help to quiet the
 industrial unrest which has seemed
 to follow as an afterwar condition?
 Cleveland manufacturers and busi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
strawberry Season On

'The stra wberry season is now on in south Alabama, said Dr. J. G. Hop- ming. T was reared on the far mnext to my friend Frank Holman who is the strawberry king, and his farm or rather farms is well worth a visit. I have been told that he is the largest indi- vidual grower in the world. This may be true or not, but anyway he shipped S7 car loads last year and Uncle Sam got him so I understand for s50o0 as in- come tax. It seems it was a great year. He has been in the business about 20 years, and tells me that every five years there is liable to be bumper crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25

BEGINNING THE DAY-Prayer is not a burden to he borne, an ob- Iigation to be fulfilled, something that is due to God and must be paid. Prayer is privileges; like friend ship and family love and laughter, great books, great music and great art; it is one of life's opportunities to he grasped thankfully and used SIadly.-Fosdick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
Did You Go Out
 To Redwood Park?

e7N HE clouds of war have rolled 0 away, the crack of the bat sue ceeds the deadly staccato of the ma chine gun and the roar of the bleach CTS is a peace time reminder of an early morning salvo across "No Mans Land"
 If all is not yet right with the world, it is so far as the baseball fan is con- cerned. Seated on the bleachers, or in the grandstand, the resort of less virile followers of the sport, he is all ternately lifted to ecstasy as the home team forges ahead and torn with an- guish when the despised visitors have lead Ever keeping vigilant eye on the umpire, heaping contumely on that luckless individuals head and striving to rattle the opposing pitcher, matters in Paris no longer interest him.
 What though Japan's delegates vince at racial discrimination and Italy, thirsting for the loot of war, threatens to play hob with the league of nations; what though the long, haired bolshevik reaches out for more territory and prints paper by the bale; what though shifting winds blow through the chancellories of Europe and impatient airmen wait to "hop off" to fame and fortune in race across the Atlantic, these are to him things of little moment. The question of the hour is, "Will the home team win the pennant?"
 It was a faultless day for the open ing game at Redwood Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war" Mighty Caseys stepped to the bat yesterday while the descendants of Mudville's fans waited breathless for the expected home run-and not all of those Caseys struck out!
 There are fierce grapplers on the mat, powerful pugilists who hurl type written defiances, gory heroes of the gridiron, oarsmen, sprinters, high jumpers and what-not, but the game that goes straight to the American heart and stays there is baseball.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25

ness men are inclined To answer
 this question in the affirmative for
 several large concerns have ''pur-
 chased" concerts by Cleveland's
 symphony orchestra for their
 working people.
 Nikolai Sokoloff is director of the
 newly organized body of first-class
 orchestral plsyers, and Adella
 Prentiss Hughes is its manager.
 The original conception in the mind
 of Mrs. Hughes was for an orches-
 tra that should grow by its CO.,
 operation with the board of eduea- ton in community centers. and
 through the power of it's forna-
 tive work in the Americanization
 of this great city whose popula-
 tion is 75 per cent foreign born or
 of foreign percentage. The develop
 ment of the plans of Mrs. Hughes,
 seconded by Mir. Sokoloff-both of
 whom have addressed scores of au-
 diences at business centers. clubs,
 etc.-has brought a participation
 Tn them on tne part ol t1lS SAS"t
 manufacturers of Cleveland that is
 at once gratifying and highly sig
 nificant.
 The first programme began witf "The Star-Spangled Banner" and in cluded Mendelssohn's "Ruy Blas' overture, the prelude and Sicilians from "Cavalleria Rusticana," Elgar's ssPomp and Circumstance, the "Peel Gynt" suite No. 1, Schubert's "Mo' ment Musical" Liszt's "Dream o1 Love-" orchestrated by Frederick Stock, and Tchaikowsky's "Marcf Slav."
 Years ago when America was in its musical infancy such a programme would have been considered somewhat "severe," even in Boston or New York, but the taste for musical art is becoming general and the compost tions named came gratefully to tho sons of toll who had never affected esthetics. After the concert one O. the foremen "sounded out" the me1 and found that they had been attentive listeners and that the foreign-borr element were delighted with every number.
 All art is humanizing and especial 'ly is this true of music.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
Some Cheerful Ruxers

Selling Victory Loan bonds is the cas- fest thing l ever undertook" said w. N. Malone, real estate dealer. When I started out with my team I expected to find all kind of objections and we were agreeably surprised to find everybody we approached ready to convert their cash into government securities In one shop We came across young man who said yes, sure l want some bonds,' before
 we had time to ask him to subscribe. T went over to France to kill Germans and | now that I am back l want to help pay for the fun,' he added, as he signed the subscription blank.
 "The next place we stopped, and it hap pened to be at the next door, young colored man was working. His employer subscribed for bond and the negro said he wanted one also. lis employer told us the negro had recently returned from France and had just gone to work and had no money I don't care if I was in the army the negro protested, I want a
 bond I'm getting s6 day here and can pay for it. We didn't take his subscription. but his employer bought one more bond to make up for the one the negro wanted. Birmingham is going to raise her quota | long before May 10, the date for the clos | ing of the campaign
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
ANOTHER PROP GONE

Fron. the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 California brewers announce that putting raisin into near-beer will not produce anything with kick in it, as is popularly supposed. One by one the dead hopes fall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
GOING. STRONG

From the New York Herald.
 "Bryn Mawr Copettes Ban Goo-Goo by Male Sex says headline. Yet Dr. Bliss Perry of Harvard would have us believe that newspaper English" is 1T an altogether deplorable state,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
Break Sundays Silence

Something must be done to break the J. J. Hyde. ''The place seems dead on Sundays. Anything would be better than what We now have There are thousands of men who work in Birmingham every day, all the week, and do not have an opportunity to get out to the ball games or to shows during the week. Their only chance for enjoyment is on Sunday, and baseball, movies or anything would be better than nothing at all"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
Business Good and Better Here

"Last Saturday our store did the largest
 business in it's long history" said A. D.,
 Zbnden, who has been manager of Mo Cowan's Walk-Over Boot shop for a
 number of years Being the day before Easter everybody wanted new pair of kicks with the result that our cash sales went about $500 over the best record for any one day the store has ever had. It goes on to show that business is good and better in Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
Fred shireman Under Weight

a drug store and people were coming in to get their weight said Fred Shire man, and several stood on the scales, but none of my friends weighed over ll5 pounds.
 T then stepped on them and the pointer flew past the 200 mark to POS, and they thought there was some trick
 in it, when as a matter of fact l am considerably underweight. I ran from 2l7 to 235 before Hoover cut down on sugar. I soon found that in leaving avoirdupois was feeling the effect. do not know why but few people give me credit for being as heavy as l am.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
AUSTRALIA PROTECTS SOLDIERS

From the Brooklyn Eagle
 Australia fines $2000 any employer who doesn't give his old job back to soldier boy Precious little unemployment is likely; but the suspicion that shop dis ciplne may suffer is pardonable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
WARMLY SECONDED

That certainly was roast you gave Clipping"
 He deserved it."
 T noticed one gentleman in the party agreed to everything you said and seemed to think you might have made 1t stronger"
 "Yes. He shares a garage with Clin- ping. It's curious how a relationship of that kind creates enmity.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
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sPARrACUs TRIED IT

sPARTACUS TRIED TT From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Spartacus demonstration was broken up by the populace in Rome. You canr pull tkAat old stuff in its homs town.