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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13
To Please or Not to Please?
No knowledge been, ought to

No with knowledge e and has been ought to object to
 Be upurea as snow and a ice,
 Thou shalt then the tongue of calumny
 It Abraham doubtless called come left his people in of hidden Pharaoh Children of we'll satisfied that Daniel boy" a crank Elijah Ire Even Jesus of Nazareth did not
 
 Nearly unavang criticism It the old tale of the and the hafng Where shall start? Shall we Wesley, Williams Edwards Ten Beecher Harvey Calico Copper Wordsworth Shelley Coerdg Smms? Darwin lux y Washington Gladstone Lncon Cleveland Roo welt, Lloyd George Woodrow Wilson?
 The only way escape criticism S o do nothing.
 -t is the easiest mind tongue about all The critical faculty the lowest of all facues the cre highest faculty immediately invites the fire something The critical critic Go building and let the lion 
 critic the worlds life He modlfies the building thing than erecting the building but use1u nevertheless.
 Let the builder hen criticisms directed He should tie his enemies to h making them improve his work
 regarded "A mans for a that the who the in deed by the integrity of his soul an individuals individual then he would weln Sod o composites and
 but to If incidentally we please all of the pleasing, have ptued immortal souls May the Lord anything all worth failing The will if his demands it, does not love the po pe He loves himself coward and hlreng The the who dey us ana p'e"e 1 " W M
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13
LUKE M'LUKE SAWS

Even when man knows that love IS bind he IS careful not to parade around with a chicken when his wife is downtown.
 Another queer cuss is the fellow who puts in his nights killing time and puts in his days trying to save it.
 One of the few secrets a married won. an doesn't keep from her husband is what she really thinks of him.
 After a princess has wiped the dust off the piano and cleaned the keys she Is so exhausted that she has to sit down while her mother cleans up the rest of the house.
 Of course we all voted dry and nobody drinks liquor any more But if a man starts down street carrying a packape that looks like quart bottle under his arm, he'll have a parade of 30 or 40 cotton spitters behind him in two min Ntes.
 Don't call man liar just because he says that he never has any fights with his wife. He may be a bachelor
 Right now the June bride swears bv her husband But it won't be so long un- til she will be swearing at him.
 Man is queer cuss xsHe will fin a night he will smack one of his own chil- dren because the child didn't bring him cents change out of nickel There was time when newspa per was judged by it's editorial page, but rcwadays newspaper comes pretty near being judged by it's sporting page.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13
IN HOTEL LOB8IES
 AND ELSEWHERE
To Play Golf Anxnnx

While l was in one way greatly dis appointed that my brother, Capt. Court Ley Henley, had to defer his vist to Bir- mignham,' said Walter Henley, yet it was compensated by the fact that the army surgeons found it possible to per form minor operation in June which they had-not expected to be able to make until August. From the good reports I set l am led to hope that when Courtney comes it will be for good and if he has to return to the hospital it will be merely to adjust his artificial limb. He has taken his misfortunes most philosophi- cally, or I might better say soldierly, for with his usual cheery way of looking on fife he VOWS he is going to be able to play golf with his old friends when he gets home.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13

1T UDGING from appearances about o II Governor Kilby's office in Mont
 gomery on Friday there is not much pleasure in being governor when legislature is in session.
 The governor is in a stew over his pro- posed revenue bill. He wants an income tax and a special tax of five cents a ton on all coal mined in the state.
 Protests have been entered from every part of the state and the protests from the cities and towns and the mineral dis trict are vigorous. It seems that the commission appointed to bring about a easiest way and so advised the governor. It adopted the old time worn methods of going after Birmingham and other pros porous cities for any unusual and neces- sary revenue. The coal operators looked like an easy mark and the board advised the governor to assess them five cents a ton on every ton of coal mined. No one seemed to take into account the fact that this would cause a proportionate in- crease to the householder who burns coal in his grate and in his stove and raise a protest from all parts of the state. And it was not taken into account that the Birmingham district is com peting with the Tennessee and West vir- ginia mines in supplying the railroads and the industries of the south. It would mean that Birmingham would be out of the coal market in many sections. It would mean the closing down of many mines. and as a consequence throwing out of employment of thousands of min- CTS
 We all know that the coals of the Rir- mlngham district contain much slate and dirt and that it is a very expensive coal to mine and to clean. The state pOdiu dluil seem to take thlS into &C., count.
 < * x
 prominent legislator from one of the country counties well expressed it when he said, The state has ample laws on its statute books to raise all the money said to be necessary by Governor KiIby if somebody had the courage to enforce the laws as they stand"
 As a matter of fact if the governor will compromise and recommend to the legislature a horizontal increase in ss. sessments he will raise all the n,onev necessary for next year; and within the next twelVe months can bring about equitable adjustment of taxes under +ba present law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13
Eventful Journey
 In a Bone-Dry Land

IF W. T. YARBROUGH has the N story -teller's gift, and something of humor and satire, he can relate an interesting tale of his adventures in transporting 500 gallons of liquor from St. Louis to Cuba, through the Ameri- can "desert."
 When Yarbrough arrived in Bir- mingham on board the Seminole lim- ited he was promptly arrested and his stock of whisky, stored in state room, was confiscated An interest ing legal battle developed. Habeas corpus proceedings were instituted and the court ruled that the interstate passenger with liquor in his possess sion could not be prosecuted This de- cision was based on a ruling of the United States supreme court which applied to such cases before July 1. Yarbrough had been arrested the lat ter part Of June.
 There was some delay in regaining possession of the liquor and Var brough was told by the city authori- ties that he could not carry it out of town in an automobile, as he at first planned to do. Eventually, the whisky was carried to the Terminal station and again placed in Pullman state room, with Jacksonville, Fla, as the immediate destination. As soon as Yarbrough got across the state line he was arrested in Georgia, charged with having opened one of the bottles ] en route. He was acquitted by jury at Columbus and when last heard from was once more on board train travel ing in the general direction of Cuba.
 If Yarbrough succeeds in getting out of the country with his property, he will enjoy the unique distinction of being perhaps the cnly man who
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13
TRIP TO MONTGOMERY-By Frank Willis BarneIi

Did you ever know a crowd to start parture was six a. m? If so please send me your name. address and pho tograph; but be sure to attach an af- fadavt signed before a notary.
 Now for weeks before the great meet ing of the Alabama Highway Improve ment association scheduled to meet in Montgomery on Thursday and Friday July 10-11. there was much copy con brought up for discussion at every session of the various clubs
 Sid Lee, the Jefferson county chair man to get up the cars and see to it was at it day and night. ably seconded in all of his attempts to beg or bully automobilists to make the trip, with the result that the pair of hustlers succeeded in booking seventy cars for the trip which on paper looked like good showing for the imperial county of the state.
 The one thing ding donged into the ears of every one going was that the cars would leave the Headquarters of the Birmingham Automobile asocia- tion in the Tutwiler hotel promptly at six o'clock and that the official car would not wait one minute on any stragglers but would head down Twen : tieth street on the dot This was the ultimatum of those in charge of the procession.
 But was it adhered to? Not so far as anyone who was fooled oy ;t could dis cern, although I will say tnAs I. Mercer Barnett. whose big Packard had teen communicated to lead hal it parked before the hour designated and every member of his party was on hand and ready to leave. But not cariny:o move cut without having some one to follow he had to stick around.
 Now I have been double crossed so often that came near not arising until the hour set for departure ani taking my time to dress and get breakfast drift in about an hour !a.e-. but so loud had been the cry .nat for once the hour appointed was meant to be lived up to without any exception what
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13

While it Is undoubtedly true that President Wilson is up to his elbows in state papers, he has contrived to put in little time on the golf links. The mere fact that British and Am erican soldiers occasionally fought each other didn't prevent them from oppos- ing a solid front to the Hun.
 # < # this: Father, dear father, come home with me now and drink of the juice that's drawn from cow.''
 # x # A fair pistoleer giggled when first arrested in Chicago. The gloomy at mosphere of prison soon brought on the inevitable collapse.
 H < # MT Bryan drew the line at riding a camel, but has never offered any
  aridity.
 Senator Reed is enveighing against the league of nations in Alabama, but the mourner's bench remains empty.
 * # # It's a proud moment for war lord when he says, II regret that I have but one life to give to my Kaiser"
 # * # A person doesn't have to shake a mean foot" to dance the "shimmy,r say people who ought to know.
 * x # MT. Wilson says the fruits of peace may be bitter" Hunland hasn't the slightest doubt about that
 E as * Charlie Chaplin mourning over his firstborn is a pathetic figure, incom- prehensive to movie fans
 * * x The time is coming when a business man may have offices in Chicago and commute to Los Angeles
 # * # It is reassuring to note via wireless how comfortably the RIA iogs along across the Atlantic
 < # * The grass will soon be growing on the grave of old John Barleycorn. "R. I. P"
 x * * Admirers of Gen. Shuts says his pro- test at Versailles will go down in his tory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13
About Taxing Coal

have read with gerat care and ap- preciation The Age-Herald's editorial on the state tax income measure" said T. J. Crittenden, and while I am sensible of the need of the states raising more revenue still it seems to me a bit unfair to levy tax on coal. I am not enough of a constitutional lawyer or a student of political economy to pass on such matters, but merely speaking as a man in the street. it appears to partake of class legislation. do not see the equity of sngling coal out from other commodi- ties to bear special burden"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13
United States Army Pay
 Higher Than In Europe

c1Ty sE pay of enlisted men in the A United States army is much a;gher than the pay of the rank and file f European armies, and the of
 s receive much larger pay than Jo Eae officers of foreign armies.
 Ts fact was usually explained by taa caeaper cost of living abroad than here, but the high cost of living is TOW seriously felt in Europe, and for tast reason the French government has increased the pay of Marshal Fceh, Marshal Joffree and Marshal Pesain from $4S0 to $60O a month.
 The highest title in the United States army is general, which comes below the grade of marshal in France aud the grade of field marshal in Eng land The generals pay in the United States is $1O,0OO a year. The pay of 2 5eutenant general is 5000, of a major general $9000 and of briga- dier general $6000. The lower grades are relatively well paid.
 The pay of American officers and men is not based on the cost of mod ern living, but on the general principle of merit and the sense of reasonable compensation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13

ever, that I arose at five and rushed into my clothes and bea, it over to Avondale Park and caught an Avon- dale car.
 But why string out the whole story of the miserable waiting for she strag glers? It was just few minutes before seven when We pulled uot. I am set ting this down in the vain hope that some man of will may arise in this community who in spite of the belated ones will leave on time and then per haps teach the tardy ones tha, they will have to be on time or get left
 Just a word about the official car" and its passengers. J. Mercer Barnett was at the wheel and A. J. Arranr was seated by his side to act AS relief driver for it is some job to drive a big car over the more than one hun dred miles of road which is named a highway that stretches between Bir- mingham and Montgomery. I sat be- tween Sid Lee and Fred Shireman on the back seat while Henry Dozier and Clarence Lloyd roasted on the seats in the middle.
 Mercer sent the car at a great rate to the river, and those who knew not what lay before them in the way of roads had much praise to bestow on the Montgomery highway. and were a bit facetious in regard to the criticism which had appeared in the Age Herald over the signature of Ned Brace in re- gard to their miserable state; but be- fore we got in sight of the capitol they were ready to apologize and to admit that he had been bit conser- ,vative in not denouncing them more bitterly than he had done.
 We drove it in less than five hours but believe me it took some driving and some wear and tear on the car to make it and it was tired bunch alight- ing at the Exchange hotel, but after a wash up we soon forgot our weari- ness in greeting friends from all parts of the state who had gathered in great numbers to show their interest in the pending good roads measure before the legislature. I saw cars from as far north as Franklin county and from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13
TWENTY YEARS AGO
 IN THE AGE-HERALD
Events recorded July 13, 1899.

Consolidation of the wrought steel. was affected yesterday in New York by William Nelson Cromwell and c. Converse. the consolidated purchasers. The new company will be known as the National Tube company, and is the largest of its kind in the wordl. It ranks third as steel and iron cor poration, being excelled only by the Krupp and Carnegie interests.
 Senator Morgan's interview given out to the press on free silver" is char acterized by The Age -Herald's Wash ington correspondent as Hike a dyna mite explosion" Democratic leaders regard it as plea to forsake Bryan and subordinate silver
 Admiral Dewey has reached Suez on his flagship the Olympia, en route to America. The admiral has entirely re- covered from his recent illness.
 Bessemer is to have a new soil pipe plant. It will be built by the Nelson Manufacturing. Pipe and Foundry com pany of St. Louis.
 Natural gas was struck yesterday in the artesian well being bored at the Alabama brewery and optimistic citi- zens are hoping that Birmingham is to have a permanent flow of natural gas.
 
 The first blodshed in the miners strike which has been on for several weeks at Ishkooda was reported Tuesday. Three miners were shot from ambush, but were not fatally injured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13
Objects to Income Tnx

T am not in favor of the state income tax as proposed by the governor" said A. c. Crowder yesterday T am afraid that state income tax at the present time would have a tendency to drive new industries to sister states that have no such state ir come tax
 T am inclined to believe that an in- heritance tax provided by the state would be more just and provide more money tran the proposed income tax, even should a constitutional amendment he. come necessary"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13
Evaluation of the Classics
 Favored By Educators

THE National Educational asso-
 0 citation, at it's annual meeting held recently at Milwaukee, took strong stand fox the classics as part of the curricuaufn in the higher grades
 of education.
 Among university men and leaders in public school work there has been la trend away from what scholars know as the humanities, which include Latin and Greek, ancient history, mythology and rhetoric. Twenty years Tor more ago certain eminent French educators startled college faculties by advocating a minimizing of classical
 studies. Some went so far as to urge eliminating Latin and Greek while stressing the importance of tech nological training virtually at the ex- pense of everything else. Let the humanities go and look only after the learning that would lend itself to the utilitarian, was their cry.
 It was not long before such preach ment was heard in the United States, So classical scholar and educator as Dr. Charles Eliot of Harvard leaned strongly to the nonclassical proposi- tion as opposed to the old-time cur riculum that reckoned with the hu- manities as vital to genuine culture; and a year or two ago pr. Abram Flexner, secretary and teaching ex-
 pert of the Carnegie foundation, came out in vigorous magazine ar ticle for education minus the classics. Dr. Flexner wanted only English and other modern languages, and such vocational branches of science taught as would fit the student for
 the hard realities of life. No educa- tor ever made a greater mistake. Neurological institutions are doing great work. In these days of strenu- ous demand and rapid development, the world could not get along without them. The importance of tech 1ical training surely cannot be overesti-
 mated. But at the same time high
 schools and colleges should make
 much of classic learning. It is the basis of all solid culture and it can never be otherwise.
 It is good, therefore, to know that
 so influential body as the National Educational association has taken the right view. The modern extremists
 will soon find themselves without
 following.
 According to the French, Henry ". king of Navarro. first thought of league of nations. However. Lodge, Borah, Reed and few others flatter themselves that they have done more deep thinking about the latest league of nations than any other man who ever lived
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 With America dry and 30 barrels of his wine commandeered by workmens committees at his villa near Florence. Caruso may well feel that he's between the devil and the deep blue sea. * * *
 You'd think Mexican marauders would give Texans all the excitement they are looking for. but every now and
 hen they vary the monotony with
 race riot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13
ADRlF'T WITH THE TIMES
IGNORING FACTS.

IGNORING FACTS.
 To many aspersions are cast on inc legal profession.
 "How's that?"
 well, for one thing, lawyers are ac- cusec of taking liberties with the truth ;, "Umph! Have you never heard a law yer refer at the end of every other san- tence to the intelligent gentlemen of the jury'?"
 THRIFT
 Senator Twobbe, your political onno- rents charge that you have two members of your family acting as your clerks <" True. sir But isn't that nepotism, senatorqn NO, sir. That's plain common sense and foresight. I haven't the slightest chance of being reelected when my term expires"
 HER BIT. How was Felice's war record?" Splendid"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13

with certain of his colleagues to influ- ence their votes.
 T would be delighted to do so" re- sponded Mir. Jones. after listening to fif-
 teen minutes of enthusiastic talk, But
 am afraid you have the wrong Mir. Jones I am not a member of the legis-
 lature, I am only traveling salesman.
 but I am with you. my dear charming
 woman"
 MT. Jones was immediately dismissed.
 disappointed in not being enabled to in-
 dulge in a drummer's filtration.
 The legislative leaders are in a turmoil
 over the suffrage question and many of them are trying to force the vote this
 week to get the matter out of the way in order that the legislature may give at- | tertion to something else.
 As matters now stand slight major ity of the senate seems to be against ] suffrage. but two or three votes may be changed before next Thursday. It is a nip and tuck fight. If the amendment is defeated, it is
 sure thing that some of it's legislative
 opponents will bite the political dust be-, fore many years have past. The women are sure to be allowed to vote and they will not forget the men in the Alabama Senate and House who are seeking to take undue advantage of
 the intelligent women of the state.
 The majority of those in the legislature who are opposing suffrage are of the type who dominated things years ago
 when they used the negro bugaboo as club. They are trying it again # x x While all sorts of foolish legislation is Senate and the House struck me as hay ing more than the usual number of real ly intelligent and brainy men. and when i things settle down the proposed foolish and unfair legislation will be sifted out. Neither the loud mouthed anti nor the , equally noisy prohibitonist of the pro- 1 fessional variety is in evidence. The pro- hibition question has been settled and the
 man who sought to achieve prominence ! by agitation on either side is without.
 job now. The legislators are lined up
 on other questions and the prospects, are bright for real practical business legisla- l tion after this week. ;. < T 1 If there be any foolish bills or unjust ones passed, Governor Tom Kilby is possessed of both the courage and fair 1 ness to veto them.
 2,QjS So3,ueo~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13
Peanuts a Specific

Now l know I am going to make myself liable to be misunderstood by the medical fraternity and a subject for guying among my friends, said Douglas Garrison, but the fact is my stomach got out of order and after try ing out three specialties without relief l needed the advice of a brakeman on the railroad who told me that he had cured himself of a serious stomachic complaint by eating raw peanuts
 Tt sounded So absolutely foolish and contrary to all I have ever believed about their ability to give a fellow a stomach ache that I could not help but laugh in his face. But he stood his grounds and said, Well, I reckon after you have quit fooling with doctors and have swallowed all kinds of patent medicines you'll be tempted to try my cmely remedy
 He had my number for in my des- Feration l would have experimented with anything. Now here is where I am going to get the ha, ha. stocked up on raw peanuts and they cured me and now I go around with a pocketful Of them and eat them all during the day. You needn't believe me unless you want to, but am we'll man."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13
Prominent Newspaper Visitor

Wright A. Patterson of Chicago known in Journalistic circles as Pat" Patterson, editor in chief of the Vest ern Newspaper Union, is in Birming- ham making survey of business con ditions. He was a member of the party of newspaper men who visited England and France last fall officially accred tied as guests of the government.
 T have been in Birmingham fre- quently, my last visit being a wear ago." said Mir Patterson q find peo- pie optimistic as a rule. Throughout the country there is a gradual read justment following the dislocation re- sultlng from the war It will take some time yet. however. for conditions to become normal Many complex problems are involved, but they will be worked out eventually and then the high cost of living will come down: not before"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13

openly transported large quantity of whisky through the "bone-dry" south. At the prevailing prices for any sort of liquor, his 500 gallons of what was said to be choice bottled goods, should be worth from S25,O0O to S3O.OOO.