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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Strong For Cincy

From my observation there Is greater interest manifested in the sout over the approaching world se- ries than any other previous contest for the high honor" said Ed Warrick, secretary of the Ensley Elks. From the fact that lived for several years in Cincinnati I have taken an unusual intere est in baseball, especially since the Reds became contenders for she national pennant As result have talked with numbers of people more or less interested in baseball, and l find that the large majority of peo- pie here are interested in the world series and incidentally practically all pulling for Cincinnati to get in the big Eame.
 Quite 8 number of fans have sisni- fled their intention to attend the gan'es in Cincinnati. and I believe there will be a greater number of people ftom the south in attendance this year than in any previous world series. Of course. I am going myself. and despite the fact that the 'doresters' pick the Chicago White Sox to win. l feel sure that if they do they will realize that they won over an opponent worthy of their steel"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28

MREsTDENT GoMPERs of the l American Federation of Labor
 is between the devil and the deep sea, so to speak. in the strike of the steel workers.
 Gompers didn't want this strike at this time. He could not see merit in it, and all the world knows that it was against his advice.
 Loyal to labor, however. when the leaders of the steer workers union decided to make their contest at this time, as good party man. he decided to do his best; and he did his pest before the Senate on Friday.
 But we all know that when men are getting higher wages than were ever known in the history of the world, when living conditions are bet ter than were ever known, when ever, consideration is given to both skilled and unskilled labor. and when no man in any manufacturing plant in Amer lca bas complaint which Is not given immeSiate due consideration. by his foreman or the manager or owner of the plant. 1t is diffieult to make men go on strike for the mere purpose of recognition of what Is known as union. Such simply means that delegation of salarieo men on the out side can go to an employer at any time and tell him what he shall and shall not do in matters affecting the men employed by him It means that the employer of labor must consent to be harassed by outsiders who are con- tinually making themselves busy more
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28
TWENTY YEARS AGO
 INTHE AGT-HERAID
Events recorded September B, 1sss.,

Final preparations are being made in Admiral Dewey with a great naval pa- geant tomorrow. Thousands of people. watched and harbor craft of all kinds swarmed about the fleet as the Olym- pia, Deweys flagship, steamed in and took her place at the head of the line. Admiral Sampson's blue flag was hauled down as soon as his superior came in sight.
 Tn a letter to J. H. Nunnelee, editor of the Selma Times. which the Times pub fishes this morning. Dr. R. M. Cunning ham states why he has decided not to be candidate for governor. He desired to make constitutional revision an issue of his campaign, but declares that in this matter and others his supporters differed with him.
 announced himself a candidate for Con gress to succeed Jesse M. Stallings.
 Additional cases of yellow fever are reported at Jackson, Miss, New Orleans Miami and Key West.
 Prominent Alabamians in Birmingham yesterday were: Representative John H.. Wallace of Madison. President James K. Powers of the state university, Adjt. Gen. W. w. Brandon of Tuscaloosa, Gas ton Robbins, Jesse F. Stallings. Willis Brewer and John H. Bankhead.
 Birmingham is now receiving about $50 bales of cotton daily and the congresses are kept busy.
 The carpenters strike has been set tied. All men now on strike will return to work Saturday. An agreement was reached between the Contractors and Builders association and the Carpenters and Joiners' Union No. 5, whereby the carpenters will be granted>a nine-hour day, with the contractors to name their own foremen. The question of wages was left out of the agreement.
 Marking another step in Birmingham s progress as an industrial city, the noted pig iron firm of Rogers Brown X Co. will establishsa a branch office in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28
NO THEME FOR TEARS

From the New York Telegram
 'Playmates of my child twit her be- cause her father can't afford an auto mobile" said United States Senator Sherman, of Illinois, during hearing when policemen were urging Congress to pay them more. q can't afford an automobile on my salary
 We refuse to weep any further over the sorrows of the great.
 MT. Armour wearing his resoled and heeled shoes and three-year- old derby. doesn't wiring our heart any more.
 When MT. McAdoo. after being the what's his name of fashion and the thingumbob of form. admitted that he, too. had joined the greasy vest club and was absolutely down and out as far as any new clothes were concerned the tears started again.
 But a few days ago when a man fell over Mir McAdoo in a Fifth avenue tailor shop trying on a $150 overcoat all heat bangs ceased.
 Eh? Oh. the other man went in there 10 have button sewed on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28
 AdeIina Patti Passes
 Away at Advanced Age.

THE greatest soprano the world
 H has ever known is dead at the age of seventy-six. There have been many distinguished coloratura opera celebrities, but none has equaled Ade- line Patti.
 She retired from the stage many years ago, but operagoers of genera tion Skone were then enraptured by her beauty and her matchless voice. In 1899 she married her third hus- band, Baron Rolf Cederstrom, and spent her declining years with him in his castle in Wales.
 Patti was born in Spain of Italian parentage, but came to America with her family when only young child. In her girlhood she lived in Richmond where she appeared frequently in con- certs. Her sister, Carlotta, is said to have possessed even a more phe- nominal voice, but being a cripple was debarred from a stage career. Adelina had good teachers and made her debut at the Academy of Music, New York. in 1859, and fer first ap-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28
WHY SHE IS POPULAR---By Frank Willis Barnett

Friday afternoon, September 25, will a red letter day in Birmingham's his tory, for it will recall the great concert given complimentary by Schumann- Heink for the benefit of the Downing h. dustrial institute.
 The papers had carried stories about it for weeks. It had been announced at the clubs It was to be the big thing, but it was bigger than any one had hoped 1t would be. From o'clock on there was a steady stream of pedestrians vending their way down lower SecoYd avenue and before 3 automobiles were parked around the Jefferson for blocks
 If any one had doubted Schumann- Heink's ability to draw, peep in the new Jefferson would have disclosed the gallery to the dress circle, and that even the stage itself was crowded while many stood behind the railing just inside the entrance. and the boxes were packed to their limit.
 It was a great audience in many ways. Great as to size, great as to culture and greater in its appreciation. for if ever an artist got an ovation that was hearty and genuine it was the greatest-hearted of all the opera singers, Schumann- Heink, whose whole personality just rad lates love for humanity. It, with her truly wonderful voice makes her the prime favorite of the American public.
 Now, I think know when an actor or singer is getting her act over, and from the opening song until the curtain fell every one felt that Schunann-Heink was singing specially for their benefit. This lis genius, to be able to get in sympa- thetic touch with one's audience and make those in their seats have a feeling that they are part of the show and being taken into the play.
 always like to look into the faces of a crowd and so getting a bit tired standing at the rear of the house I went back on the stage, where I could get a view of the audience, and see i; sway under the magic influence of the great artist whose power of song and marvel ous mimicry at times made them cry and laugh almost in the same moment; , for Schumann-H -Heink is both songstress and actress.
 One ot my friends, a stage hand, sang
 out to me in a stage whisper when l en- tered the wings, Hello. Frank Willis, ain't she great?" I replied enthusiastic
 ally that I thought so, and then he said,
 'She has got Marie Dressler beat a block, for she just comes out and gives l the bunch the all-over and the whole
 house begins to grin, and take it from me
 1t takes some commedienne to pull a
 stunt like that" He is right schumann-
 Heink would have made a world repu-
 tation in comedy on the legitimate stage
 or in comic opera if she had not been endowed so superbly for greater oper-
 atic casts. l I went to her dressing room and was
 shown in. Frank La Forge was in the
 midst of one of his classic numbers i merely bowed. for noted tha, brilliant execution. She merely put hei
 finger on her lips as a sign for silence which was only too willing to fall in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28
< % < Belgian Mice Play While Cats Are Away

10 BELGIUM wants cats-gray cats' O black cats, brindle cats, any kind of cats, just so they are cats and can recognize mouse on sight. In most countries, particularly in Amer ica. where cats flourish, the supply usually exceeds the demand. In Bel gium there is an acute shortage.
 The situation is explained in an Associated Press dispatch from Brus- sels. During the war when the Ger mans were pclluting Belgium's fair capital with their unsavory presence, there were neither cats nor mice, for the obvious reason that where there was not enough food to sustain the human inhabitants of the country, with. the result that Herbert Hoover was called on to show what manner of man he was by acting as caterer to the whole nation, the cats and mice died of hunger. Perhaps some of them crossed over into Holland to poster the ia burghers when they were not worrying about what to do with the ex. Kaiser.
 When the Belgians were eating again with gratifying regularity and food even began to accumulate, mice by the thousands reappeared, and now they are up to their old tricks of making off with choice edibles. They are all the brfder because there are not enough cats to cope with them, and it is said that as much as $1 Is being raid for the smallest kitten.
 We sent the starving Belgians flour and ether foodstuffs by the shipload. We sent the nearly nude Belgians shoes and clothes by the shipload. Shall we be thought wanting in . sense of our obligations to the na- tion that Nthrew a monkey wrench into the German military machine" if we decline to send over at, least one sh1pload of cats? There must be mil lions of felines in America whose own CTS wish they belonged to somebody
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28
CAUSE AND EFFECT.

CAUSE AND EFFECT. 'T met Blitherby just now. He was complaining dolefully about the high cost of living. He was so depressed felt sorry for him until he suddenly excused himself and hurried off.- What alienated your sympathyr' He happened to remember that he had an engagement with an automobile salesman to take trial spin in a new car he has his heart set on."
 AN OLD-FASHIONED MAN. Dogs are mans best friends, you know" remarked the platitudious per son.
 Perhaps they are" answered Mfr Grumpson. T like regular dog we'll enough, but 1t always makes me mad to hear a poodle yapping in a home where nature intended there should be squalling baby"
 so SHE DID "Tm through with slang" Said Gussie Sprout; T promised ma
 To cut 1t out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
AN INNOCENT BYsTANDER.

AN INNOCENT BYSTANDER. The salaried worm
 Leads a parlous life And suffers much
 From industrial strife We want our rights!'
 The wranglers cry, But all he gets
 Is another black eye
 HIGH STRUNG CREATURE. Tt is true that the Crableighs have agreed to disagree?" T doubt it"
 "Yes?'
 Mrs. Crableigh is so constituted that anything in the nature of an agreement -even an agreement to disagree makes her positively i'll"
 NEW TYPE OF PAINTER. "A remarkable picture" Tn what respect?" 'Tn the first place, it's a fine piece of work and in the second place the artist seems never to have lived in a garret in Paris during his student days and had love affairs with pretty gri- settes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28

me greatly. 1, It was the great cordality which existed between Schumann- -Heink and Frank La Forge. I was in her room to the left of the stage when he came in after finishing an exquisite selection and the audience was giving him great hand He stood motionless, when the madame showed him out, saying, "Go. take your encore. you deserve it, and out he went. She never showed the least desire to "hog the show" Not very elegant phrase, but I know she will par don it for she dotes on American slang.
 How do I know? well, when the cur tain fell I waited for her behind the scenes until the last one who wished to speak to her had done so. The stage hands finished packing the chairs and gathered around me in group to discuss her. Take it from me when the stage manager and scene shifters and property men put their o. k on an actor or actress they have reason to be proud, for they have 8 chance to size them up from the inside not merely as to eheir his trionic ability, but as to their personal ity and manners.
 Every one of them was enthusiastic in her praise. It is true it was couched in the batter of the stage, but all the same it was discriminating and worth while. They set her down as the "big noise" as to voice, as the real thing when it came to acting. but best of all they classed her as a human being l told her of some of the remarks they made about her, and she was greatly pleased, and with a merry twinkle she said, Did they call me 'sport'?" She felt if they had done this that she had had glory enough for day.
 I saw her do a thing which gave me reason to know why the men behind the scenes were strong for her. One of the boys, in his shirt sleeves. went to help her with some of her effects into the taxi waiting.. in the alley. Frank La Forge had tlfe great basket of red roses in his hand Just as she started to ger into the automobile she reached down and pulled out glorious red beauty and with queenly grace said to the stage hand. "Take this to your wife with my com pliments.'' He turned to the crowd and said, Can you beat it?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28

FOG From Scrihner's Magazine Deatl, comes like this. I know Snow soft and gently cold: Impalpable battalions of thin mist, LightNuuenching and sound-smother-
 ing and slow. Slack as wind-spilled sail, The spent world Hans in space: Days hut grayer Night. and the c.d Up the blind sky goes heavily and
 pale. Out of all circumstance I drift or seem to drift In vsrue vapor-World that clings
 and wells Great trees arrow like kneeling ele-
 plants. How vast your voice is grown That was so sifver-soft: Dim dies the candle-glory of your S
 face- Though we go hand in hand. am
 alone. Now love and all the warm Pageant of livineness Trouble my quiet like forgotten Of ancient thunder on the hills of
 storm Aforetme I have kissed The feet of many gods; But in this empty place there is no
 god Save only I. naked egoist. How loud. how terribly Brazen are lights and sounds! l And yet I know beyond the fog i4
 naught sa But lonely bells across gray wastes of
 sea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28

or less for the purpose of keeping their jobs as political employees of great mass of working people.
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 There have been times in the history of this country when strikes were Justified. There have been employers of labor who were grasping and who imposed upon the men working for them. That day has passed. The laboring man Is dominant today. If he Is dissatisfied in one place he can always get work in another, and he can get it at practically any price he demands. So why should he strike for grievance conceded by political organizers?
 This strike of the steel workers of the country will peter out in q very short while.
 The newspaper reports have men tioned the fact that very few native born Americans are among the strikers The great mass of those who have gone out are of foreign birth-men who can easily be led by agitators, and men who have naturally been upset for long period over the war situa- tion in the countries from which they came.
 & x <
 For instance, the great majority of steel workers in the Birmingham dis trict are native-born< Americans, and almost to 8 man they have declined to have anything to do with the gen. eral strike for the recognition of unionism. Many of these men belong to the union and pay their dues tc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28
A FAIR WARNING.

From the Houston Post.
 It is said 5000 British girls are com ing to America to obtain husbands. If they are kitchen queens and pants patchers. they will hand as sure as shooting. BNt if they are girls who hang around drugstore telephones and infest the hotel and moving picture lobbies, they needn't come to Houston.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28

and its successful handling of large events. The bigger the &owd the better.
 When Admiral Grayson and Joe rum ulty are both trying to make tho Presi- dent comfortable. it would be only nat ural if Joe sometimes wished he had a more imposing title than secretary" If the Presidents physician can be made an admiral, why can't the Presidents secretary be made general?
 # # #
 Love does not enter into the French marriage, says a magazine writer. Still, we infer from reading other writers that there is no law in France against hus- band and wife loving each other If they happen to be two souls with but single thought.
 In the heat of debate, senators make statements on the floor of the Senate that would be hard to prove. For in- stance, Hiram Johnson talks about the war as if America whipped Germany single handed
 ''Sheer destructiveness had never been permitted" writes Won Ludendorff. Per haps there is a difference in the German mind between sheer" and wanton de- structiveness that the average person cannot grasp.
 Tho most common phrase in Russia is said to be the Muscovite equivalent for T should worry" That attitude of mind probably explains why the bolshe- wiki are still fin power.
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 While each in his way Is a great man, 1t would never do for Samuel Gompers to write biography of Judge Gary, or for Judge Gary to write biography of Samuel Gompers.
 
 With Great Britain and America fac ing great strikes, do you hear of any serious disturbances of that sort in Ger many? You do not, and the fact is worth considering.
 Won Ludendorff says he had no such power as Lloyd George and C1emenceay had during the war. If that's von Ludy's idea of an alibi, it's trifle weak in spots.
 The nations colleges have not been open long for the season of 1s1s-oo, but ! the average freshman is already i'm. pressed by a sense of his unworthiness H' # # 1 Newspaper reporters who girded theii loins, figuratively speaking. to write about the local steel strike, have dis. covered there isn't anything to write. | * * * A nice distinction Samuel Gomper. makes between what pr. Wilson said ir 1909 about the open shop and what Pres. 1 ident Wilson thinks now. \. x # Having been assured that Omsk has g night life, are we to assume that Minsl and Pinsk are equally "zippy" in tn, wee sma' hours? | < # # l What a pity that all of New York. gangsters didn't SO to France and be- come regenerated on the field of battle * F x There is an old belief that bald mer are usually level-headed D'Annunzie seems to be an exception to the rule. 1 * * l; | Wichita, Kans.. will go down in histor, as town that came within an aco O seeing the President, but didn't
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28
sword Employed Is perilous. Troiius and Cressida. a x < s

BEGINNING TEE DAY--O God' help us to stand against the drift. HeIp us to be each one TOOK m the desert, under whose shade anu shield there be a little garden where safety is md beauty. Thou khoW- est how the dry winds lay seize. rhou kno,yest how the sands pile ma Kill. But Thou knowest also Thy pIap that man shall stand ,,-afrst them. Amen, H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28
FIUME o MORTE!

From the New York Herald.
 President Wilson has ordered that Gabrielle dAnnunzio be suppressed" Our Chief Executive had better look out! What would he and the other two of the Big Three say if the poet turned Italy into a republic and took the chair himself amid the unbounded enthu- siasm of the populace from Naples to Milan?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE STEEL
 STRIKE, AND PREDICTS TIT WILL SOON END

the union and be1ieve~in organization for their own protection. but when everything surrounding their employ ment is to their great satisfaction they can see no reason for strike and for likeness.
 Most of the men have families and are paying for homes and are paying. for life insurance; and a great many of them are paying for automobiles They are getting salaries which war rant all these things. Naturally they can see no reason for stopping their incomes because & political element tells them to do so The sensible ones among them say that when they have real grievances will be ample time tos strikes
 within the week the prospects are that things will become moro or less normal
 The days of sympathetic strikes ase over. unless there be real and just reason for such
 The chances are that President Com pers will soon be enabled to call off the strike and to issue to the Anlser- ican people 8 statement with patri- otic ring Co 1t that conditions were ment of Americas industry when its products were needed for the building nm of the devastated countries of for eign lands and for the purpose of gfv- ing work to the people of these lands who need 1t now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-28

pearance in London, at Covent Gar den in 1861.
 Patti achieved a triumph from the start and throughout her long record created a furor in every great city of America and Europe. She was the first artist to receive a salary of 5000 for each appearance. But she was well worth it from box office point of view, for she was always greeted by packed houses.
 She appeared only in the big cities and when she gave "Rigoletto" in Washington, D. C., in the eighties, the parquet seats brought seven dol lars apiece.
 Patti's rare beauty and her fin ished acting added to her charm, put it was her voice that captivated her audiences.
 When Madame Schumann- -Heink who spent yesterday in Birmingham was apprized of the famous prima donna's death. the worlds greatest contralto gave to Ledger reporter this fitting and gracious appreciation: Oh, what is there to say of Ade- lina Patti but that she was in a class all her own and no modern artist can be compared with her. I knew Patti 40 years ago and she 1 was as beautiful and lovable as l she was talented. All who have l ever heard her sing bow their
 heads in homage to her 1 She had the most even voice ever heard, and 1t had the widest range. It was coloratura so- prano and it had the range of the contralto and the mezzo-soprano. l saw her last at Bayreuth at the Wagner festival. where she was a guest, and where I had part in the performance. Oh. but she was beautiful woman, small. of the Italian type. with the most won 1 derful eyes. and there was no 1 artist that had a voice like hers. I understand that she was very l happy in her last marriage and | that although her husband, Baron | Rolf Cederstrom. Is 25 years her 1 junior. they were very happy and 1 congenial.
 A sincere and just tribute, indeed,
 from one of the greatest of living
 artists.