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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18

Atlanta, May 17.-(Spectal. .)--Alabama is here. There are more delegates to the Southern Baptist from the other side of the Chattahoochie than find their way to an Alabama state convenetion.
 I was told that according to the fiaancial basis, Alabama was entitled to 4S0, and this together wi1h the ones from the associations would run it up to $50 or more. think all who were elected as delegates are present end a whole lot of visitors beside.
 IL just was in the air that this was to be an epoch making meet, and natur- ally those who love the Baptist cause in the south wanted to be on hand when denominational history was being made. The question of church union looms big, the matter of seating women was a novelty, the effort to. create an edu- cational board was to be agitated, and the report by the special committee as 10 the legality of the various charters was eagerly awaited.
 Being member of the latter com mittee and having been at work of1
 it for several years, was anxious to see that it was finished at this session.
 It is hard enough to get two lawyers in the same state, county orr city, or even firm to agree on matters of law but to hope to get lawyers from halt dozen or more commonwealths to be of one mind when the charters under dis cussion were created in three separate states is a bit difficult I am just on my way over, to the office of the at torney general at the capitol 10 have l it out with the other legal lights, some of whom seem to be unable to see the flight as reflect it.
 | pr R Hobbs, as chairman of tho committee appointed by the Baptist Ministers association to invite the con
 ventioh to meet in Birmingham nex'
 year, Is busy, as are the rest of hi. conferees. and as I am trying to i'm. pl ess upon the leaders that the Magic City should next May De the Mecca ol the Saints from all over the southland
 The convention committee on time ant place has not yet been appointed Among the conspicuous figures seer on the streets. in t-- Hobbies and in thu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18

automobile tax, it will prove excep- tionally popular.
 As the United States government is to match the state appropriation dol lar for dollar the sum of fifty mill lion will be expended on highways in Alabama under the supervision of fed eral and state engineers.
 A table of bond issues with sink ing fund provisions has been pre- pared by expert statisticians and when the lawmakers meet no time will be lost in arriving at the economic basis upon which the financing will be handled.
 As to the economy of the measure in it's relation to the owners of automo- piles and auto trucks nothing could be plainer. If the license tax is in- creased it will pay the owner of a car or truck many times in the saving of oil and wear and tear. The better the road, the less oil used and the less the strain on the machine, to say noth- ling of comfort and the large develop ment in modern traffic facilities. The splendid display of auto trucks 1 in Birmingham yesterday will give a
 great impetus to the good roads move ment. The day sf the cheaply built | highway is past. A twenty-five mil
 lion dollar appropriation by the leg lislature will put Alabama in the fore front of good roads progress. It will transform the state and with con-
 tinuance of crop diversification and intensive agriculture Alabama will soon double it's wealth, to say nothing
 of the culture of rural life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

wife may not listen to a word her husband says during the day. But she Is there with bells on if he happens to talk in his sleep
 A man never overestimates his size when he is selecting man of his size to whip.
 The more we read the nexspap. rs the move we set to believe that man doesn't reach the age of discretion until he is about l59 years old.
 Wha. does i. profit a man to be star and have to stick to the Dipper and the Milky Way?
 Once in {. while you get to think that the man you hate is about as popular as U corkscrew at prohibition rally. A man is so contrary when eggs are dirt cheap he won't eat eggs, but when eggs are dime apiece he wants eggs for every meal. If there were some law compelling ua to practice what we preached there would not be so much preaching done. A woman feels whole tot racre com fortabie in shoes that are too srnall for
 her than she would in shoes that are too large tor her.
 The man who is too lazy to work Tor a thing isn't going to get t oy praying O. it.
 | Sometimes a man has a hard time con cealing the fact that he is glad to gel
 rid of you when he says 'Good-by" tc you.
 The difference between men and women is that men want everything they think they can get and women want everything
 they know they can't get. 1 And a woman can say: "Oh. b,shsri'
 and make it sound just like "Oh, h-llr' | After a man has been married si, months he discovers that 1t only tAkes oue to make a aoa.rel I Maybe the r~e .s, why a wise . nevs.
 contented is because she knows tha. trr' tentment makes stople fat x
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18
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mechanism of a buzz-saw. but I have sense enough to let it alone" :, EPITAPHS. Bin Boozer's taken his last drink, He had his. share on earth. we think His end was sad, alas, alack. The clove he swallowed was tack.
 Luke McLuke. Sam Shook has passed from eart,4t scenes
 No doubt dwe1ls on some distant stas; While he was staring at two dueens He stepped before a motor car.
 Birmingham Age Herald. Tom Tibbss ashes here repose, Where loving friends may panse To think how, Tom in cotton cfotlre9 Flared up as Santa Claus
 Seattle Post-Intsifigeneee Here lies what. s left or Tnford Bu.rA Sonrnolent as a rabbitS A near-side car swept by him vonce And T1lford tried to grab it4
 -Buffao EEening Nem.
 FATAL PLUNGE "so Gadspur has been .dabb,ine fDspuas- ticsr'
 T wouldn't express eit- just that 4~way.~ "Nor'
 When a man loses good job. mort gages his home and alienates some of his best friends in vain attempt to get an office that pays 5000 a year. hs doesn't dabble. He goes in over his head"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18

IT RUDGE Gary, President Farrell and
 other millionaire magnates of the
 Steel corporation have come and gone.
 They probably authorized and approved expenditures of several million dollars here
 Yet neither Birmingham nor it's news papers shout nor acclaim this fact in great headlines. We have gotten used to these things.
 How different it was some 2 years ago, when l first came to Birmingham.
 My earliest experience here was to at- tend the first steel run at the old roll ing mills down on First avenue, near the Alice furnace.
 MT. James Bowron, Col A. M Shook and Nat Baxter were there as the off cials. of the Tennessee company, and all the then prominent men of Birmingham were gathered about. All were swelled up like pouter pigeons and were predict ing great and glorious things for this Birmingham.
 It was only year or two thereafter when the Louisville and Nashville rail- road and the Southern railroad aided the Tennessee company financially and sev- eral steel furnaces wefe built at Ensley We made much ado over that and Ens- ley real estate went up in leaps and bounds. Corner lots and old fields were sold at fabulous prices. All these lots are now builded on and Ensley is wonderful and prosperous city.
 # * #
 It was late in 1907 when the country was in a. state of panic and when John w. Gates and Moore & Schley were in control of the Tennessee company and when the latter firm had such extended credits that it had to let go many of it's Tennessee company holdings. There was nobody to buy except the Steel Cor poration. Then it was that Judge Gary, J. P. Morgan and others went over from New York to Washington and told Pres ident Roosevelt that unless they took over Moore & Schley,s holdings in the Tennessee company there would be a panic on Wall street. The doing of this would be more or less violation of the sherman antitrust law. But it was nec- essary to do something at once to avert financial panic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18

field plant, occupying, several square miles of space. There is made Ship. tank and boiler plates, structural shapes, splice bars, tie plates, light rails. fabricated steel parts for ships. steel forgings. engines and machinery for ships.
 The rail mill at Ensley has a capacity of finishing 45.o0o tons a month
 In this same mill. during the war, billets for steel projectiles were made for the French, the British. the Bell gian and the United States govern ments.,
 One of George Gordon Crawford's first works was to construct a water system for the great plants. That sys- tenn now has pumping capacity of 75,ooo, 900 gallons of water day.
 This water supply system made safe the great construction work contem- plated And now the Tennessee plant has 2so by-product coke ovens in four batteries in operation. Two additional batteries of similar capacity are now under construction.
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 Another great work under MT. Craw- ford>s direction has been the wonder ful housing of the employees of the com pany. Since 1914 he has constructed dwelling for 320o families and he has builded a great and modern hospital one of the finest in the worTd-on hill overlooking Fairfield and Ensley. This hospital alone cost over $1,o00,- ooo and the dwellings, and schools and new villages at the coal and ore mines and the sanitary and health provisions have required the expenditure of vol umes of money and has made it pos sible for the Tennessee company to secure the most efficient of labor.
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 A great work this company has done in the Birmingham district within the past 12 years. It has been a work that has made Birmingham one of the great cities of the world and has made pros- perity hereab outs.
 Yet today none of us make one-tenth as much fuss about it as we did 20 years ago when the two little now ex- tinct steel furnaces at the old rolling mill on First avenue made the firstrun of steel ingots.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18
LONGEVITY IN BRITISH FAMILIES

.
 London.-The remarkable case of the north country family of Calvert, of which eight brothers and sisters have reached an average of S5 years, has had many parallels in recent years.
 The late Lady Mabella Knox was one of nine brothers and sisters whose aggregate ages totaled 76s years. Five of them survived to 99, 9s, .93, 9s and S9 years. respectively.
 Of another family all members oi the society of friends we read not long ago that three were still living at the ages of 1Ol. s1 and S7, while five. who were dead had counted 41s years among them, an Average of 81 years. If the members of this fam. fly had lived consecutively instead oi together the first born would have beer born as long ago as the year 1920.
 When Henry Wye, sexton at St Marys church. Leicester died not long ago, at S7. it was said that two of his brothers had predeceased him at thu ages of ST and S5, respectively, whill he had two surviving brothers of 9, and s3 and two sisters of Ss and 80.
 Joshua Jackson of Blackburn. wht survived to see his eighty-seventl birthday, was one of eight brother and sisters, not one of whom failet to pass the eightieth milestone. Ant quite recently there were living a Milverton, West Somerset. five broth CTS and sisters. the eldest of whom Mrs. thattocks. was 92, and the young est. Jsmes King, just 10 years younger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18

convention are the Dickinson brothers. pr. A. J. Dickinson of Birmingham, who needs no introduction at home or abroad, for he Is marked man in any gathering Dr. Jeter Dickinson of Ever green is a great preacher and closely identified with the work of the orphan age, while pr. Johns Dickinson, at one time pastor at Pratt City, associate editor of the Alabama Baptist, and later state evangelist, is one of the most lovable characters in the entire denomination
 I met some of our former Birming- ham pastors who have recently left the state Dr. T. K. Thornton, formerly of Bessemer, but now of Hattiesburg, Miss; Dr Preston Blake, for years at the Southside. but now of Newport News; Dr. Auth Crouch of Woodlawn, but now of Murfreesboro. and pr. J. D. Ray of Calvary, but now of Starks- vile, Miss, were all looking fine and in good spirits in spite of the fact that they had turned their backs on Im-
 perial Jefferson.
 have run across many Alabama pas tors who have recently left the state much to the sorrow of their churches
 and to the regret of those responsible
 for the ongoing of the organized work. I can TcmcInDGT them HI. nave SoGli Bateman. formerly of Troy; Pugh of La- fayette, Barclay of Birmingham, Bent ley of Ensley, Neal of Birmingham, an
 old Howard boy, and so many others that I just can't chronicle them here The convention is a big thing itself but itSwouldn't have one-half of it's at- tendance were it not for the glorious fellowship which comes to the brethren who use it as a meeting place to talk over old times. It's a sight worth go- ing far to see just to sit around head quarters and watch the hearty nand- shakes, hear the loving greetings and catch the smiles Of joy which light ur the faces of the brethren. If the Bible test is true, then the great majority ot the delegates are sure of resurrection for in Holy Writ we are told of those
 who have passed from death unto life
 because they love the brethren.
 Atlanta is treating the convention handsomely Everything possible is be- li ing done for the pleasure and comfor.
 of the delegates A committee met the train from Birmingham out at Peach tree station and gave the delegates directions. The First Baptist church
 was used to assign the strangers with
 in the Gate City to homes or hotels.
 was struck with the system. There
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18
THE TANKS ON THE MARINE


 THE HANKS ON THE MARINE Here is ditty," says George Pattullo in the Saturday Evening Post, which has grown popular among the men of the A. B. F. The author is anonymous Title, The, Tanks on the Marne'": Oh, the English and the Irish, and the
 'owlin Scotties, too. The Canucks and Austrilee-uns, and. the
 airy French Poilu; The only things that bothered us. a yesr Was ow in ell the Yanks'd look, an wiot
 in ell they'd do. N~ They 'adnt 'ad no trynin'; they didn't
 know the game; They adn't never marched it much; their
 shootin' was the slime; An the only thing that bothered us that
 day in lawst July Was 'ow in 'ell the lined old if they
 should run-aw'y. The legsy, nosy new 'uns. just come
 acrosst the sea! We couldn't 'elp but wonder ow in ell
 their gutsd be; An the only thing that bothered us in all
 our staggerin' ranks Was wot in ell would 'appen wen the 'Uns ad it the Yanks. My word. it 'appened sudden wen the drive 'ad first begun; We seen the Tanks a-runnin'-Gaw Blimy- how they run! But the only thing that bothered us that seen the chase begin Was 'ow in ell to stop 'em fore they got into Berlin. They didn't ave no tactics but the bloody manual; They 'adn't learned no orders but 'Ooray" and Give 'em 'ells" But the only thing that bothered us about them leggy lads Was 'ow in ell to get. the chow to feed their Kamerads. Oh, the English and the Irish, and the 'owlin Scotties. too The Canucks and Austrilee-uns. and tho airy French poilu: The only thing ths bothered us don't
 bother us no ore, It's only wy in elf we didn't tnov ths
 Tanks before.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18

they are not built that way.
 All honor to men like these who might join the leisure class" but who prefer to keep their shoulders we'll to the wheel. \
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 While 400 quarts of whisky were being poured into the sewer at the federal building, the thought no doubt occurred to spectators that the bolshevki in their worst moments have never shown such destructiveness.
 Young Sidis, once Harvards boasted prodigy" is now in the tolls of the law, charged with taking part in bol- shevist outbreak. In his case brains
 + # *
 A Chicago taxicab driver who makes about s1OO a week is held up as pat tern of industry. But nothing is said of the patrons willingness to part with tip.
 And there must be times when Presi- dent Wilson longs for the days of studi- ous quiet when he was engaged in writ ing a history of the American people.
 Y x *
 One of the lawyers defending George J. Gould in the lawsuit over the Gould millions couldn't resist the temptation tc take fling at Duchess Anna. MT. Dempsey. it appears, trips the light fantastic We have more admiration for MT. Willard's alleged ability to rope a steer
 It is rumored that all Nraisin salesmen are now provided with "bone-dry recipes for distribution among their customers. x 4: < An "off day" at~the peace conference enabled telegraph editors to impart a lit tie variety to the front page makeup. * $ x Thus far the tortoise seems to have the best of the argument with the "hare'' in that race across the Atlantic ,* # *
 All signs point to a back breaking ses- sion of Congress. It will also be a tax on the patience of the public. * # * Victor Berger is acting like a man who expects to feed at the public trough, re- gardless of his court record # * * When the world is mine," warbles a poet. In it's present battered condition we wouldn't have it as a gift. E F F If Germany would cry "Peccavi," in- stead of have heart" she might win more sympathy. Birminghams big motor truck parade yesterday was a sly dig at the diliatory ! railroads. x * * 1 Lost: One "blimp.'' Suitable reward Nf returned to Uncle Sam, care Navy De- partment. l 2 * $ 1 It remains to be seen whether Karl Renner wears the smile that won't come off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18
Active Work In
 Advancing Years

TT ME was when the man at sixty,
 J who had accumulated wealth, retired and led an idle existence. If he were of an intellectual turn, with Ia taste for reading, he got some pleas ure out of life. If he were without culture he "sat around" and was miserable.
 But the modern way is the better way. The manufacturer, or the man of affairs, no matter what his intel lectaral development or his spiritual drift, keeps in harness, regardless of age.
 Conspicuous examples are seen in the finance committee of the United States Steel corporation. Of the mem bers of Judge Gary's party who visited Mobile and Birmingham on a tour of inspection last week, one of them, George F. Baker, is in his |eightieth year; yet he gives active att tention to many large interests. Be- sides being a member of the Steel corporations finance committee, he~is chairman of the board of directors of the First National Bank of New York and director in upwards of twenty prominent concerns, including the lSouthern railway. In not one is he a Ifigure head. He never misses meet | ing and his influence is always felt Judge Gary is seventy y-one, but is the working chief executive officer of the Steel corporation just as he was when he became its first chairman leighteen years ago. He never seemed more virile or more eager in upbuild- ling than he is today.
 Henry c. Prick, another member of the Steel corporations finance com.
 mittee, is in his seventieth year. All three of these men are known fol |their culture. Judge Gary is a col llege-bred man. MT. Prick has great Iart gallery-the most noted private Igallery in America. MT. Baker is . director of the Metropolitan Museum 1of Art.
 All three of the men named art
 patrons of music and each of them 'could retire and not rust out; but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18
UNDESIRABLE ART.

What was the first step in turning over those former German liners to the American government?'
 T don't know, but it stands to reason that one of the first steps was to take down any pictures of the Hohenzollern family that hung in the main saloon and the captains quarters"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18
Boy Scouts On the Job

''That the Boy Scouts are always on the job was forcibly demonstrated at the dance on West Twentieth street last Sat- urday night when the Rainbow boys were here," said Scoutmaster Joos
 One of the scouts saw young won- an drop a roll of bills while she was dancing. and, running to the spot where she dropped it, heS picked it up and re- turned it to her. She did not know that she had lost the money until the scout gave it back to her.
 \ 'The incident was witnessed by the brother Ca sailor whose name I did not get of the girl, and he was loud in his praise of the boy scout. These little in- cidents show the manliness and the honesty of the young men who are given the splendid training in this great or ganization of American boys"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18
New Fire Fighting Method

way residence fires are fought now and the way they were fought several years ago." said Dr. N. A. Barrett. "Then 1t often happened that the damage from water exceeded that from the fire. If, the blaze was on the roof the water was turned on it from the outside, it would go through the roof and flood the rooms. Now thes firemen take the hose inside the house and shoot it through hole in the roof. It extinguishes the fire and goes is used at all. The new method is a decided improvement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18
LOW SPIRITED.

"Can you define a luxuryT'
 NO, answered the harassed citizen. T used to think I had some idea of what constituted a luxury, but since I have to think twice before ordering pork and beans in restauxant, I have about come to the conclusion that luxury is any thing that's for sale.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18

BEGINNING THE DAY - Lord, what though the storms rage, what though pesfiIence walks in the night, what though death waits and beckons with pale finger! Still Thou art God. Thou art not ruled out of Thy place of power. We are Thy children and Thou hast not for gotten. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18
REMEMBERED.

The walls that issue from Berlin,
 They move us not at all; They might be multiplied tenfold.
 And not a tear would fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18

THE TIMOROUs POSTMAN. [e held an oblc ~ackage 'twixt A finger and ,..lmb, nd wondered as he made his rounds If that could he bomb
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18
BAPTISTS IN ATLANTA-By Frank Willis Barnett

were four tables with the following signs For single men,, For married men and their wives" For men and women," For women alone" All one had to do was to line up at the right table and get his card of assignment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18
COMMON SENSE VIEW.

COMMON SENSE VIEW. |. "Do you understand what is meant by bolshevism?'' asked the contentious man. Not exactly" answered MT. Clipping .sThen, how can you say you are op- posed to it?''
 well, I don't exactly understand the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18
JUST so.
EXCESS BAGGAGE.

EXCESS BAGGAGE. "A college graduate wants a job" I've have place open that he might fill,'' replied the self-made man. How many degrees has he?'
 Three
 "We pay in inverse ratio to the quan- tity of sheepskin an applicant carries Start him at $15 a week"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18
NONE WHATEVER.

NONE WHATEVER. No poet sings the flapper,
 Who gets but little praise; And yet, she's rather dapper
 And has some winning ways We gladly pen ditty
 To ultra modern James; Ye gods, if they are pretty, gas What need have they of brains? JUST so. T thought you said that little shrimp. Snipton, was a model husband?" 50 he is.' Why, he mistreats his 2oo-pound wife shamefully."
 q meant model husband in the sense that he's a small imitation of the real thing.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18

Shell-shattered homes strew northern
 France
 And Belgium's bleeding yet; The handiwork of Prussia's host We shall not soon forget,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18

< Entered at the Birmingham. Ala-s postoffice as second-class matter, uI- de- act of Congress, March s, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18

Remittances can be made at curI ent rate of exchange. The Age Herald VIII not be responsible for money sent through the mails. Address
 THE AGE-HERAIAD,
 Birmingham. Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-18

Though those that are betrayed Do, feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse case of woe.
 -Cymbeiine.