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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
Salaries of Government Officials

While Congressmen are interesting themselves in the proposition to in- crease the Presidents salary to s10o,- 900, 1t might be well to increase the pay of cabinet members and other high officials" said N. J. Pollard of Wash ington, D. c.
 ''The salary of the President should have been fixed at $100,Oo instead of $75,000 several years ago. When cab tnet salaries were increased from sS00o to s12,ooo the pay should have been fixed at $2o,ooo. Department clerks are very we'll paid. but the compensa- tion of commissioners and division chiefs Is inadequate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
Clean Courthouse

That the courthouse is going to be made a clean and delightful place. in keeping with the dignity of the coun- ty. officials, is the assertion made by Rufus Bivens member of the board of revenue. who is experimenting the making of thorough cleaning and inside painting of the building.
 'srhe cleaning work will be finished today" said MT. Bivens. land the painting already begun will go on until complete. The janftors have been placed in different sections of the courthouse, each held responsible for the cleanliness of his particular section, and thus we are going to save the county much expense around the courthouse by this timely cleaning and painting party
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
NAME FOR DRY SALOONS

From the Ohio State Journal.
 "Oasis!''
 Webster says it's "a scene or source of joy in monotony and dreariness-" The city life committee of the Metho- dist centenary celebration, appointed to select a substitute name for saloon. says it's the substitute.
 Centenary authorities in charge of the contest say the new word is des- tined to shine from the soft drink en- poriums the world over. more." "Sansuds" and 'Methoteria"
 Here are some of the other names submitted: "Supsatoot" "Dry-Bar," "Cafoon." ''Sodaloon," "Rumallgone, 'Meetist." ''Nusup," "Suitsus," "Cinno-
 Suggestions were sent from various parts of the country by more than 500 contestants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
@sTexico Is Next.-Musgrove

"The international prohibition organiza- tion. which was organized some time ago in Washington, is slowly but strongly being perfected and it's forces are pre- pairing to move on to Mexico'' said Breck Musgrove, who was in the city last night en route to Jasper, whence he will go to Washington in the interests of the world temperance league. There are now two dry states in Mexico. The organization will work with all it's strength to dry up the country. We will organize a maga- zine down there to be printed in Span- ish for Mexico and the countries of South America and Central America. And Mex ico will be the next country to go dry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
SONNET
? By Henry Timrod.

 Most men know love but as part of Life: They hide it in some corner of the breast Even from themselves and only when they rest In the brief pause of that daily strife.- Wherewith the world might else be not so rife,- They draw it forth Gas one draws forth a toy To soothe some ardent ss-exactins boy), And hold it up to sister, child or wife. An me! why may not love and life be one? Why walk we thus alone. when by our side, Love, like visible God. might b< our guide? How would the marts grow noble! and the street, Worn like dungeon floor by weary feet, Seem then a golden court-way Of thu Sun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
Business Situation As
 Reported By Bradstreet's

ON HE demand for commodities of U all kinds is so active and so eager, according to Bradstreet's, that the effect of shading of crop esti- mates or the unrest in labor circles in Chicago, New York and other cen ters is scarcely reflected.
 While there has been slight low ering of wheat estimates, the yield will still break all previous records. Cotton has lost since the last govern ment report was issued, but corn has improved.
 As for labor conditions, if strikes were not in evidence industrial ac- tivity and business in general would today be at high water mark from one end of the country to the other. As it is the situation shows that the re- adjustment of after-the-war condi- tions has been more rapid than had been predicted a few months ago by the most pronounced optimists.
 The Birmingham district is in good shape, industrially and commercially. The new era of prosperity hereabouts is surely we'll under way.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
Increase of Japanese
 Alarms California
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HERE is a disposition in some 0 parts of the country to view California's ''yellow peril" as joke, An editorial recently published in the Los Angeles Times indicates that the situation is really more serious than is generally supposed, chiefly because of the high Japanese birth rate. The Japanese stork is an astonishingly busy bird and if the present ratio of births is maintained, it is only mat ter of time-in 1949, according to the Los Angeles papers estimate-when there will be more Japanese in Cali fornia than white citizens and they will control the state.
 During the past 10 years, says the Times, the number of children born of Japanese parents in California has increased more than 5000 per cent. On the other hand, Caucasian births have decreased. About 10 years ago when the first anti-Japanese bill was introduced in the state legislature, but 246 children were born in Cali fornia of Japanese parents in 12 months. In the last 12 months Japan ese births increased to 4520. In one county of northern California 176 Jap anese children were born and only 86 white children. It is interesting to mote that "the ratio of Japanese to .colored births was more than 10 to 1.''
 As the Times points out, there is mo law on the statute books to pre- vent Japanese from getting control of all the land they want, since there are now more than 30,000 American born Japanese children in the state, who have the same right to lease or own land that white children have. A Japanese who wishes to get control of a certain piece of property has merely to lease or purchase it as the guardian of one of the 30,o0o American-born Japanese children.
 What California fears is not so much the alleged prowess of the Jap- anese soldier as the remarkable fe- cundity of the Japanese "picture bride" Says the Times, "A new baby arrives as often and as regularly as the springtime to the Japanese moth CT in California" The men come to California, they are followed by the 'picture brides," and in short while there is a flourishing family. Inter marriage between Japanese and whites is practically unknown. The Japanese are never assimilated, but remain g people apart.
 They have been highly successful 1T f,n.t growing and truck growing. N complaint is made against them, ap parently, except that in their produc tivity and acquisitiveness they ar, rapidly encroaching on the whites They hold tens of thousands of acre of California land under lease. The, have large holdings of the best farm ing land in the Santa Clara, Sacra mento and San Joaquin valleys.
 Gazing about them with feeling Q dismay. Californians have decide'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
Retail Trade Brisk

This has been good year for the merchants of Birmingham" said Oliver Chalifoux. There was a slight lull a few weeks ago, in some lines, but as far as I can see activity Is in evidence again.
 T feel confident that prosperity will be the rule throughout the second half of the year. Birmingham is unques- tionably growing fast, and most of our industries, large and small. seem to be operating on practically full time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
MRS. ,TREPAGNIER's MISTAKES

From the Chicago Tribune.
 woman who killed a man has been convicted of manslaughter by a Cook county jury She was,< it is said, the twenty-seventh woman to come to trial in recent years for murder and the first to encounter an adverse verdict
 She killed a man in a controversy over q business deal. After the verdict had beer s:7en she was perplexed and dis heartened She supposed the jury thought she was an old crow and didn't care whether she was done justice or not, put nevertheless she couldn't understand IL. She had told her story oh the wit ness stand and she thought that was enough to permit her to walk out or the courtroom. The man was undoubtedly dead, and she undoubtedly had shot him.
 but why send her to the penitentiary even for a year because of that?
 We do not accept the case Of Mrs.
 Trepagnier as establishing a precedent. WI en the murder was committed we pre- dicted that things would go hard with the lady. She was nearly O. Conse- ouently the fires of life had burned out of her eyes and the roses-or whatever the ladies use-had faded out of her cheeks. Furthermore, the gentleman whe was dead had not been her lover or even her husband.
 Her wrongs were uninteresting to s Cook county jury. They would not ex- l cite even a lady journalist or a city ed 1 itor. She had made the mistake of lead I ing a proper life up until the time when | she shot the man.
 | A lady contemplating murder in Cool county makes fatal mistake if sht makes this one in the preliminaries. Tns
 fact that Mrs. Trepagnier was from New Orleans may excuse her ignorance. but i
 was fatal to her. She might have plead
 ed her age or desire to be respectable. That. we would rejoin. is all right
 madame, but you then must conside murder an amusement for which you ar
 too old. It may be unjust to limit fem mine activities by age and responsibility but the limitation exists and we canno remove it, TQ be perfectly safe, womei
 must mix sex up thoroughly in their mur derS,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lord. I have eyes and yet see not; ears and yet hear not. I see but see not the chief things; I hear but I hear not Thy voice. Other voices drown
 out Thine, other sights obscure Thy face. Oh. have mercy on my pow erty, my fraiIty and my cowardice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
HANDICAPPED.

Didn't young Grabcoin go away to col- lege last yearT'
 "Yes. He went to Harvard"
 Fine institution"
 'So it is, but young Grabcoin carried along Japanese valet, motor car and bulldog. He may have picked up a few crumbs of knowledge, but l doubt it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19

aged woman who was convicted fer killing 8 man in Chicago neglected to inject sufficient amount of 'rheart in- terest" into the case and waited until she had lost the bloom of youth before shooting.
 Because of the marine strike, 132 pas sengers en route to South American ports, were marooned on board a Brit ish steamer in New York harbor. To add to the horrors of their situation, the ships bar was closed.
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 The former Kaiser, says a German minister who visited him in Holland, grieves because the Germans are so ir- religious. They lost what little religion they had about the same time they lost Wilhelm.
 London mutes discovered by lip read ing that cinema actors were swearing all through a photoplay. It's lucky they couldn't read the lips of the movie director while the picture was being filmed.
 Top sergeants who acquired a repu- tation for being hard" during the war will not make successful candi- Ea xFn ntw former doughboys get a chance to vote against them.
 While Americans invented the sub marine. they also invented the device which helped to put the U-boat out of business That evens the score with von Tirpitz.
 Perhaps Henry Ford was willing to admit that he is an ignorant idealist" because ninety-nine people out of a hundred don't know what that means, anyhow
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 Amy Lowell is suoh a fat comfort able looking person, judging from a recent photograph, that you never would suspect her of writing verse. # # T Old Doc" Bell merely signed "Dr. Belr' to the peace treaty. Even at that. German posterity will be able to N;~, Senator Sherman calls the league of nations a colossal confidence game, presumably with Japan manipulating tho pea and the shells. x # 4 During the year ending June 30, 1096 stills" were destroyed in Alabam and Tennessee However, the 'moonshine'' business has great recuperative powers. # < * The pleading voice of Woodrow seems | to have no effect on the state senate | so far as suffrage was concerned. # H x | The one-piece bathing suit, comfort | ably filled, Is marching to the poIlce station with alarming frequency. l
 May we not assume that follow the vision" is typical bit of wi1soniar rhetoric?
 f T E Certain statesmen call Japan's taking Shantung burglary" Tut, tuti Can they think up a euphemism? * # ;
 The drys are operating a steam ro11el in congress that is a marvel of eff ciency.
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 Room in the hall of fame for Repre- sentative Goodykoontz, republican, 0 West Virginia!
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 Bella Kun is reported making prepara tions to flee. It's wise bolshevik wh , picks out a soft place to fall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
Many From Magic City

T went down to Montgomery the lat ter part of last week and it looked as if a big bunch of Birmingham's leading citizens had moved down. at least. for the time being." said Russell Hunt The lobby of the Exchange hotel, was filled with men from the Magic city, and they came from all classes of the business and professional world. The scene was en- livened by the presence of a number of our prominent women who had been drawn down by the suffrage fight over the Susan B. Anthony amendment. The capitol was busy place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
LOYALTY.

"But, nay dear senator. you surely in- tend to follow the gleam'?''
 Yes, yes,' replied Senator Twobble, testify. "Tm going to do that very thing. I'm a little out of touch with posterity myself. but when the President looks 100 years ahead I'm willing to trust both his eyesight and his judgment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
More Life in the
 Memorial Campaign

WNTHI the Alabama memorial
 w campaign needs speeding up it has made fair progress this week, compared with last.
 Seven or eight counties are now over the top, but nearly all of them should reach their quotas by the first of August.
 Many large individual contributions have been made, but scores of Ala bamians of large means could increase their donations without feeling any |appreciable diminution in their bank accounts. And as for the people in general, thousands of them have yet to contribute nickel.
 If every adult wage-earner were to give fifty cents in addition to the fund already raised, the total would go we'll beyond half a million dollars. The patriotic citizens of Alabama owe it to themselves to honor the memory of the brave soldiers of the state who made the supreme sacrifice. They must not fail to do their part in this memorial enterprise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19

that the "gentlemen's agreement be- tween Japan and the United States to restrict immigration is beginning to look like a "scrap of paper" How ever, if some way could be found to limit the activities of the Japanese stork, they believe their state could be kept from eventually falling into the hands of the Japs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
HE WASN'T 4PIzEN-PROoF.

From the New York Telegram.
 An Alabama Holy Roller had such faith in his creed that he permitted him self to be bitten by a rattlesnake. Some thing must have slipped cog, how ever, and he was buried Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
ANOTHER FOOLISH NOTION

From the Providence Journal.
 Now it is proposed to commemorate the war by founding an international city somewhere in the battle area. to be called Geopolis. Gee!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
SYMPATHY.

What is that song-and-dance team supposed to be dofng?" "Is believe they call their sketch, "A Night in Venice ? Thanks. Those poor venetians must have some awful nights
 DAFT cooK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
Dingy Houses Should Be
 Repainted Before Fall

NNLY a few old frame houses were " repainted in the spring. Early in the year everything in the building or improvement line was at a stand still.
 It is very different today so far as building activity in Birmingham goes. Hundreds of dwellings, for which there is great demand, are now in course of erection, to say nothing of many homes of the more costly and pretentious type.
 But the majority of dingy houses rented out at good prices have not been repainted for several years. Dur ing the war only work needed in the conduct of hostilities was thought of.
 No one expected houses to be kept in lspick-span appearance. But the war being over and pros |perity prevailing in Birmingham, every dingy structure should be Ibrightened by two coats of good paint.
 There should be great deal of paint ling between now and autumn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
Optimfstic Realtor

''I fully believe said Frank E. Butler of the Butler-Garrett Real Estate & In- surance company, that if Birmingham secures a 'basng point for steel, like that for which she has been trying for past years, that real estate in this city will materially increase in value and the city will increase 90 per cent within the next or 10 years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
MemDer of the Associated Press

Meuoer of the Associated Press
 The Age-Hera1d is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in BirmlngnaIh carving the Associated Press dls- patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication oi all news dispatches credited to IL oI not otherwise credited in tnls paper and also the local news pusAsaeo herein
 All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
BLEW UP.

BLEW UP. Whats become of that fellow Bilkers. who opened handsome offices here a month or two ago?". He went away and left no forwarding address"
 T thought he was going to make a noise in the business world 50 he did-like an exploding tire"
 RIGHT UP TO DATE. ''Is this a strictly modern school for young women?"
 Judge for yourself" ''Wen?"
 Dancing, motoring, aviation and stump speaking are featured in the cur riculum."
 CURSE OF RICHES 'sThis multimillionaire was once a poor boy"
 The adjective still clings to him." How is that?'
 People say, Poor old dufferl With all his money he can't buy farm hands appetite
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19

ONE OF THE SYMPTOMS. ~Is Professor Dfggs scientist?" Yes He knows more about Mars than any other living man.
 "A savant, eh?"
 T guess you would call him that. He's so detached from mundane matters that he sometimes forgets the name of the street he lives on.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
REWARD.

' KEW ARD.- While fighting lover there" He won no croix de guerre,
 Although we know he did his level best, But he loves the soldiers life, For he won a little wife
 When a 'mamzel' pinned red rose on
 his breast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19

Entered at the Birmingham AiS1' postoffice as second-class matter, uh- der act of Congress, March 8, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19

Washington bureau, 207 Hibbs build Ing. +at
 European bureau, 10 klns stlSes Covent Garden, London. W. '. A.
 Easfern business office, World build ,np New York city; western business office. Tribune building, Chicago. The s. c. Beckwith Special Agency. agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
TELEPHONE

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-19
Iris mad idolatry.
-Tronus and Cressida.

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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-10-22
MAY BE A BIRD PARADISE
New Use for island Of Helieoland sug-
gested 10 Secretary
Lansing.

Londcn.-On the question OF making
HellGoland bird paradise, l.. Gardin-
err, secretary Of the Royal Society for
the protection Of birds says:
'"The bird lovers scheme for He'll
goland was that the island should be
an internal observation station and a
birds sanctuary. There was no sug-
gestion whatever in this connection
that ii should be restored to Germany.
A resolution TO this effect was carried
at the annual meeting of the Royal So
ciety for the protection of birds and
was forwarded to the British peace
delegation
DR.. w. j. HOrnaday, of New York, a
leader of the wild life protection
movement in the states, cordially Sec
onded the appeal and wrote Mr.. Ian
sing urging that if Heligoland could
not be given back to England it should
be neutraliZed as naval base and
placed upon the map as an internal
reservation for the protection of birds.
The unique value of the rock for this
purpose, situated as it is in mid-stream
Of migration, is well known to orni-
biologists and has been abundantly
proved by the work of Gatke.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-10-22

Clifford Hughes spent Sunday at,
Tome from Postville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Van Wey and
son Walter were business callers in
DEBORAH Wednesday.
Will Webster of Cresco visited at
the James Meikle home Thursday.
Joe Ryan transacted business in
DEBORAH Tuesday.
Rally Day will be observed at the
Presbyterian church next Sunday
Nov. I'd.
Miss Anna Storah nurse who
spent several months in France and
has been in hospital at Ho0oken,
New Jersey since early in the sum-
mer arrived home Wednesday for
visit with home folks.
John Swenson, Carl VanWey and
Jack Telford arrived home Thursday
evening from Minnesota to get ready
for Mr. Swenson's sale.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Livingood made
a business trip to Waukon Friday.
Crawford Bros. took cattle to De-
corah Monday for the stock sale.
Irving Hughes went to Ossian on
Wednesday to get his new separator
which arrived there the first of the
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frances Paddin and
Lydia Paddin came down from De-
corah Friday evening to visit rela-
tives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Slogan visited
relatives at DEBORAH Wednesday and
Thursday. Anton Slogan accompanied
them home for few days visit.
The d. Y. n. T. Society will meet
with Miss Jessie Meikle Thursday,
Oct. 80.
Frank Bulman and family made a
trip to Waukon Saturday evening.
Sherman Bollman and family are
enjoying a new Hudson car which
he purchased at PostVille.
Wallace Waters and family of De-
corah were callers here sunday even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vern Letchford en-
joyed a visit with relatives from FIT.
Atkinson Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. E. Kneeskern
and Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Bollman We're
callers near Castalia Sunday.
Fred Smeiderskamp and family OF
Ludlow were visitors here Sunday.