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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
Important Good
 Roads Meeting

A LTHOUGH the seventh annual A convention of the United States Good Roads association IS three months off, it is being looked forward to with more than ordinary interest, for the simple reason that the demand for better highways is more impera- tive now than ever before.
 The convention will be held at Min eral Wells, Tex, April 14 to 19, in- elusive. As under the associations auspices and by it's invitation num- Der of state and allied good road or ganizations will meet at Mineral Wells, the week will be known as Good Roads Week.
 At this convention plans will be de- veloped for putting on foot vigorous propaganda having for it's purpose new drive for highway development in every section of the union. Con- gress will be urged to make adequate appropriations for the construction of motor truck roads. Senator John H. Bankhead will preside over the. con- vention and many other distinguished men and a great array of engineering talent will have places on the pro- gramme.
 In connection with the convention there will be large ex xhibit of road building machinery and construction material. It will be the most attrac
 tive exhibit of the kind ever seen II
 America, and would in itself be wortf any road engineers time in taking tho "trip to Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
POTS MUST RE CLEAN.

New York Correspondence in the Pitts
 burg Dispatch.
 Toeng the mark on deck, every inch of white bra;d immaculate, shoes glist- ening like polished ebony, the 5000 sail ors aboard the American fleet anchored in the Hudson river underwent the CT deal of inspection yesterday morning Officers and men stood rigidly at atten- ton as the captains passed through long lanes their eyes keyed to find the slight est flake of soil, a beard that ought tc have been shaven. or a shoetip sighted. Down in the kitchens there was appre- hension, for flulxe in that domain is fatal The cooks and their assistants watched kettles, pots and pans with scrutinous care and buffed and polished till their arms ached. It is traditional for the captain of q vessel, who wears white gloves or his tour of inspection, to touch the inside of the great kettles If the glove comes out as white as il went in. ans we'll if there is the slight est smudge. the cook gets nc leave while the vessel is in port.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
McAdoo's Successor
 As Director General

6T HE country is fortunate in having
 H as director general of the rail road administration in succession to w. G. McAdoo so able a man as Walker D. Hines. As assistant direc- tor general he displayed singular fit ness for his varied and exacting duties, but as he kept himself well in the background the public did not realize how important factor he was in straightening out complex situation.
 MT. Hines is lawyer by profes- sion, but the greater part of his legal experience has been in connection with transportation companies. As assist ant chief attorney of the Louisville and Nashville, and afterward its first vice president, he became thoroughly familiar with the railroad business in this part of the union.
 As chairman of the Sante Fe road he gained wide experience in western problems and as railroad lawyer in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12

The east piteously cries to the west for heIp as it holds out it's empty hands. and the occident is going to harken to the note of distress which comes over the seas from the orient,
 Of the nearly four million destitute refugees in the near east, the principal groups are the Armenians. SyrianS, Greeks and Persians. They embrace all classes of society from the humblest and most ignorant peasants to skilled artisans. wealthy merchants and bank CTS and well educated professional peo- pie who have been accustomed to the refinements and comforts of life
 While true that Armenia does not stand alone in need for help, yet 1t looms largest on account of numbers and past prosecutions in the minds Of the world The Armenians have been Christian since the fourth century and their national religion is said by some authorities to be the oldest of the Christian state churches. It is called "the Gregorian." after Gregory the H. luminator, it's founden
 
 The Armenian church differs little from the Greek church in creed, put, unlike the Greeks. the Armenians lay little stress on theological doctrines They have always been. however, de- votedly trinitarian. The Armenian loy- alty to their church is not solely rellg- ious but an expression of their strong national sentiment. Subjected to many forms of political misrule and knowing no political independence or unity, they have sought unity in their church. The Syrians. inhabitants of Pales- tine are mixed Semetic race. des- cended from the Phoenicians and Ara maens of Bible times and including also Arab ancestry. A portion of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Jack Cranford Has Enough

Well, the legislature is to meet this week." said Jack Cranford of Jasper, but I should worry. I put in much time during one session at Montgomery and take it from me, the working legislator earns his salary. It means a lot of hard work in committees, an awful lot of time sitting in the sessions listening to the wind tanners or spilling a lot of hot air yourself. And then the eternal pull ing to get you to do this or that for somebody, the jockeying for position, or the finesse of trading votes, finally gets on a fellows nerves and makes him wish he had sense enough to have remained at home, and let the fellow whom he beat have the glory of serving his state DOT bono pub1ico.' |"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12

New Testament in the original is n Aramaic. and Jesus himself is credited with having spoken in the Aramaic tongue The Syrians have been spared massacres and deportations. These twin evils of the Mahometans have not flung their gaunt shadows across Palestine. but the spectre of famine has stalked broadcast through the land, claiming it's victims by the hun dred
 Their appeal to Christians of the west ought to strike very tender chord at this hour when it is remem- bered that al last the cross stands high above the crescent and Jerusalem, the holy city. is free of Turkish control and pilerims can now kneel reverently in the holy sepulchre without having to ask permission of or be controlled by the despsed and treacherous Islam- ties This fact alone ought to be spur to every one who names the name of Christ to give to those who still dwell in the shadow of Calvary
 
 It is true that many of those in Syria are Jews. hut this is only another reason why America should see to It that the Syrans do not needlessly suf- fer. The influx of thousands of Jews from the interior of the ottoman em- pire, seeking safety bebind the British lines. has intensified the need and the urgency of the call. The Jews in the United States are sharing their part of the burdens of the American com mittee for relief in the near east Tor 1 the brethren in the Promised Land, They stood nobly by us in all our de- mands upon them for our Young Men s Christian association work and now we | have a chance to aid them.
 If ic hard to realize it. but at the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
Tuberculosis Work
 To Be Discussed

60 HE fifth annual Southern Tuber-
 J culosis conference to be held in Birmingham January 23-24 will be of vital interest. Within the last three or four years the work of the various state associations has broadened and few humanitarian activities have re- suited in more practical benefit to society.
 Communities where tuberculosis was making frightful inroads were slow Tn realizing the fact that the white plague was preventable disease and that it was the duty of citizens in gen. eraf to aid in organizing agencies for defense against it's spread. But cam paigns of education have aroused the public and the anti tuberculosis asso- citations are now receiving substantial support. It will become still more substantial as time goes on.
 At the coming conference subjects will be discussed of special interest to the southern states. The pro-
 gramme calls for papers and ad-
 dresses by prominent men and women
 of wide experience in tuberculosis treatment and the management of sanatoriums, and the larger the con- ference attendance the more far reaching the good that will come from the reports and deliberations.
 Much attention will be given to the
 'Health Education of the Negro. Organization of negroes, hosplta
 provision for negroes, state pro
 gramme for negro work-these an' related subjects will be thorough, considered. And as tuberculosis i prevalent among the colored race, it i plain that no scheme for promoting , nti-tuberculosis efforts will meet tn , lreouirements unless the negroes co
 Ioperate, and do it intelligently am 1 Iwhole-heartedly Indeed, it may no l be too much to say that the feature o !, the conference programfe of para
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
EAST CALLS TO WEST-By Frank Willis Barnett

beginning of the war there were sat least 5000 900 Greeks under Turkish domiration. The Greeks had built lip a sound prosperity and had established many kinds of successful business en- terprises and educational institutions. The war brought to them seizure of their property, the drafting of their men for the hardest kind of military tasks and subsequent persecution and deportation. Ambassador Morganthau, when he was here. stated that the Turks had adopted almost the identical procedure against the Greeks which they had against the Armenians.
 The fact that both Turkish and Rus sian armies have fought in Persian territory, the latter having surged back and forth across it six times be- fore the war ended. is sufficient to show the impossibility of cultivating the crops The massacre of Christians and the flight of the survivors into Russia alsa deprived Persia of thou- stnds of the agricultural population We eXpef1enced something ol this hoic in Alabama through the draft, but only in mild way in comparison to tne havoc wrought in Persia. These facts have reduced the country to a state of famine, the accounts of which surpass in horror anything in history since the Roman siege of Jerusalem. S@
 & q ioa tr,6a the appeal of the committee of reliof in the near east which is appealing for s3o,ooo,ooo to be subscribed JanuafFs 12-19 1919, with which to meet the most urgent needs of the Armenians. the Syrians. the Greeks and the Pe@e sians and it is confidently expected that Birmingham will more than mest apOOrtjOnm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
* * * Lenine and Trotzky Fall Out at Last

TIT seems a forlorn hope, just at O present, but some good may re- suit from the quarrel of Lenine and Trotzky. The report has apparently been confirmed that Russia's bol- sheyik premier has been placed under arrest by Trotzky, minister of war and marine, because he wished to form coalition with the moderates, while Trotzky wanted to continue the reign of terror.
 There is no sympathy expressed for Lenine, even though it might be true that he has wearied of the orgy of bloodshed and anarchy which has gone on in Petrograd practically ever since the Kerensky government was over- thrown.
 Months ago it was predicted that Lenine and Trotzky, who could not expiate their crimes against thelr country and humanity if they lived a thousand years, would not last much longer. Yet, they have continued mas ters of the situation. Possibly with Lenine in prison Trotzky may over reach himself and fall victim to a counter plot or an assassin. It would help Russia if both of them were put where they could do no further harm yet from such meager and conflicting reports as there are at hand, there is little indication of bolshevis' downfall.
 Lenine and Trotzky, like two birds of evil omen, typify the crazed an archists who have wrecked their coun try. Worse still, the movement which spewed them up, is spreading througf the world. It has gained footholt in America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
COMPARING NOTES

From Cassell's saturday Journal.
 It seemed that wher Rastus anu Sam died ,hey took different routes so when the latter Aot to heaven he called Rastus on the phone,
 "Rastus,f he said. how yo' like II down thar?'
 "oh. boy, Dis am some place. re- piled Rastus. All We has ter do IS Ter wear a red suit wid horns. an ebery now an den shovel some coal on de fire We don't work nc more dan twu hours out ob de 2i down here, But tell me. sam. how is it wid you ap yonder?'
 .Mah goodness! We has to git up sl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12

raiment of rare coors. and to make their valleys resound with song and laughter and the music of their lutes and accor- dions For beauty of face and form they were famous The Spanish name for Tahiti was Isa D Amat. Bougan- vile called it La Nouvelle Cythere. Every writer except Darwin has praised the charms of the women. He consid- cred them far inferior in every respect to the men" He thought the feminine custom of Wearing white or scarlet flower in the back of the head, or through a small hole in each ear, IS pretty" but when the Beagle put in at draped in flowing robes of many colors- they had not acquired the milline"'s arts at that time.
 The truth is that Charles Darwin
 appear to be in greater want of hecom- ing costume even than the men. But Tahiti was soon to adopt the modes or civilization. When the Sunbeam dropped anchor in the harbor of Papeete in lSI6 
 Mrs. Brassey wrote of men ahd women clad in the gayest robes and decked with i flowers The scenery and the peorle ! fascinated her. Everybody seemed to play, nobody to work. The land and the sea yielded luxuries. The palms, the riot 1 of flowers, the musical cascades, the clue : heights, the flash and boom of the surf | on coral reefs, and the vivid SKY pre- | claimed an earthly paradise. some l times I think, wrote Mrs. Brassey in
 that absorbing diary of hers, that all l
 have seen must be only long vision
 the flowers, the fruits, the
 colors worn by every one. the whcle
 life that is to last when they are m | their graves. have broken inc cham oi
 creation. and have shown that they aso unfit for companionship wlth the souls ready for the great adventure
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12

New York he gained a practical knowi- edge of transportation affairs in the east.
 Mr. Hines was in hearty accord With MT. McAdoo's policies and will pro- ceed with his executive work along lines of McAdoo's principles. He IS another example of a man starting In life without "pull' or influence and rising to prominence solely on hls merits. MT. Hines will prove to be a model director general.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12

From the New York Tribune
 6N1 AH1TI has been one of the en-
 1 chanted islands that most of us
 S have desired to set eyes on. Who has not visited it in imagination, as MT Holbrook Jackson. after reading Her man Melville's "Typee." voyaged tc the Marauesas in the weatherbeaten bark Eostre, a creation of his fancy, making so real the dream of tropical beauty that the artful illusion Is forgiven?
 Papeete is no longer the palace of mirth. and the loves and graces, as John Liddell Kelly them, have fled fair Tahiti, perhaps not tc be beckoned back for many q day The plague was brought to Tahiti by the white man steamship on November 17-as if with his rum and vices he had not wrought run enough.-and in less than month one seventh of the natives were dead, They succumbed so fast that burial was aoan- doned, and on the crest of Papeete there burned a pyre of bodies night and day
 The worst has not been told, for almost every family was stricken; there was ht- tie medicine and no intelligent nursing. "The disease" says mail report, mas virtually wiped out the elder genera ton of Tahitians noted for their hospi- | tality and charm
 1 First came the war to call the French to defend their flag in the mother coun-
 try. and Tahiti ceased to be gay; and
 when the cruelest of wars had drawn | to an end the piague's shadow fell over | inc fairest of islands and began to claim l a light hearted carefree, insenuous peo-
 pie. people who loved to deck them 1 selves with the hibiscus and other or'Sh' ! tronical flnwers 10 array themselNes ll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
LIKE M,LukE SAYS

A mans soul may not be in his stom- ach. But you have noticed that you feel like a better man when your stomach is full, don't you?
 This is great country. As long as a man drives a truck we call him a truck driver But if he runs for the state leg islature and is lucky enough to be on the winning ticket quit calling him truck driver and call him statesman.
 When a man has wife and a cheap automobile he never knows just wha. either of them will do next. A boy may be late to dinner because he is too busy playing. But he is never late to dinner because he is to busy working.
 If about this time of year you run up against man who smells like a perfect lady, don't imagine that he is that kind of feller Maybe he has been dipping | into the perfume he bought his wife for | Christmas.
 Some men remind you of the Chinese government. Let them have $l0,000,00O ! on Monday and they'll be back on | Wednesday trying to borrow, S10,0O0,o ,ooo 1 more.
 The reason why single men imagine l they know so much is because they haven't any children to ask them ques- 1 tions
 l A flat-chested girl often wonders why ] her decollete gown doesn't attract as i much attention as the decollete gowns the corn fed girls are wearing. 1 The old fashioned man who drank to 1 excess and died of the D. IFS now has a prohibition son who eats to excess and dies of acute indigestion.
 married man soon learns that his wife has her eye on him even when she is looking in the other direction.
 The reason why a girl spends three hours fixing up her hair before He calls is because she knows that 10 minutes after He arrives it will be all mussed ur again in a fake struggle over kiss.
 The man who goes around with chir on his shoulder is sure to run into some other man who possesses what it takes
 to knock that chip off.
 When a woman is sick she hopes tha
 she looks better than she feels. Bu1
 when a man is sick he hopes that ht
 looks worse than he feels.
 Funny how marriage gives a woman
 control over man. A big husky wht
 can whip a dozen men in rough ant tumble fight will be scared blue because
 he was out with the boys until one o two in the morning and is afraid to fac'
 his wife.
 X lot of people wouldn't think of read ing a book but for the fact that it wa
 barred from the libraries as obscene.
 When a 90-pound man marries a 200
 pound woman that is their business , But when a 2O0-pound man marie / s0-pound woman that is everybody
 business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
VERSAILLES.

Over the land and over the sea The winds are rowing wild and free, And what is the message they bear to
 men?
 Peace and a wide security In wars red flame a morning dawned For which the world had waited long. The birth of a new humanity When the rule of right should banish
 wrong. And they who sleep in nameless graves, Oh, surely they are conscious, too, That their sacrifice was not in vain Which made an age-long dream come
 true!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
mount importance is that dealing with negro problems in connection with the tuberculosis question.

negro problems in connection with the tuberculosis question.
 x < # Mrs. Wilson's colored maid, Susie, seems to have made a profound impress sion on the servants of King George and Queen Mary Oh, for a masters pen to portray that scene in the serv- ants hall when Susie occupied the place of honor!
 # # T The locks of attaches cases and hand bags in Paris have been tested it IS stated by an official representative of Great Britain's lockmakers. Ha! Some body's trying to revive secret diplo- macy"
 ;S < #
 Well, well, the world does change Lady politicians are taking a prominent part in the republican national committees meeting in Chicago. Some day the G. o. P. elephant may have a female mahout- Having no information to the con- trary, we assume that pr. Lieblnecht's cleft chin is a birth mark and was not acquired in honorable sword combat at | German university l # x + l If Secretary Glass and Postmaster General Burleson prefer the 'one-horse | shay" to a modern motor car, that's their own affair, but there's no account ing for tastes
 The President is said to have a warm place in his heart for Italy. After the reception he got. how could he feel other wise and not be guilty of rank ingrati- tude?
 Here's hoping that reflections on the work he left behind him at Versailles will not prevent President Wilson from enjoying the homeward voyage.
 # < +
 Maestro Puccini wa2ed enthusiastic over George M. Cohans war song, lover There This looks like vindication for the man in the street
 * < #
 Having looked over the strike Bitua- ton in New York, Secretary Baker evil dently didn't see anything he could dc but throw up his hands.
 ;: a. #
 Possibly if it were not for the woman in the case, there would not be so much ill feeling between "gold chevrons. and silver chevrcns." l < < 4:
 Judging from recent events in Berlin the allies made a mistake in nat taking over all the machine guns the German. possessed, ] To make matters worse, tho krupl works probably won't be able to declar, } dividend in 1919, either.
 < I. < General Ludendorff has been located in Switzerland. His missing mustach, will never be found
 *. H.
 The old fashioned man still calls fo 'wienies and kraut'' at his favorite luncl counter. , # # x
 Truly, calling Mir McAdoo the "crowl prince is the unkindest cut of all. $: :. a.
 Every blooming bolsheviki aspires to b :. a stormy petrer' in politics
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
LIE SPORT

From Journal Les Debats.
 French Ambassador Jusserand said at luncheon:
 'I am delighted with the generous way your magazine literature now treats the French. In every magazine story a Frenchman is a hero, or else a French girl is the heroine. And hero and heroine are made. I fear. almost too perfect.
 Tn the past, now, you poked good- natured fun at us-especially at our practice of 1e sport.
 An American once told me a story about shooting trip he made to the estate of two French brothers in the Basses Pyrenees behind Biarritz.
 "The American guest tramped --; the morning with shis French hosts, but no game was sighted. At last, however, a rabbit ambled from a chestnut grove. The American put up his gun to fire, but one of his hosts seized his arm and cried:
 "'No, no Do not shoot, mon ami. Eat is Gustave! We nevair shoot at Gus tave'
 "The American was a good deal aston
 shed, but he said nothing No more game was sighted till after lunch. Then a second rabbit was seen sitting on q rock, and the American again prepared to fire. But his hosts dssuaded hin7 afresh with loud cries. "' No, no, Eat is Gaby, We nevai, shoot at Gabyn | The American smiled. Now, h' 1 thought he understood And in shor time third rabbi< was sighted. But the 1 American. of course, didn't dream of pot. | ting it. Instead, he lit a cigarette. Hi: 1 friends, however. set up a tremendous | hulabaloo
 /" Shoot, shoot" they shouted Eat i | Cleo, We always shoot at Cleo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
WARNED.

From the P,ttsburg Dispatch.
 It was in street ca., The woman wore a long wisp of artificial grain, which. protruding horizontally. tickiei the ear of a roughly dressed man who occupied the seat beside her. At !as' he could stand it no longer tie tooS out his iackknife and orered it.
 '.Lady.' he said If .hsm oats gets into my ear again there's goin' to be ;' harvest"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-12
Will Miss Stevens at Bank

q will certainly miss Frank Stevens from around the American Trust and Savings bank said Lige Chandler, flor Frank seems to have just growed up with the institution. He made a world of friends by his unfailing courtesy, and am sure his many friends will wish him well in his new venture of selling Fords. He ought to make great suc- cess in automobiles as he has energy. snap and judgment and it takes these petition is as hot as it is in cars''