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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-19
FEAR FEDERAL OPERATION

steps taken by Kansas to operate the
mines under government authority, and
fear by both sides that other states
would do likewise, were urged as a
strong reason for quick settlement Of
all wage disputes.
The operators scale committee sent
word to the miners that it was not
ready to meet them in Joint session.
Commenting upon a statement issued
tonight by their executive committee,
denying that the conference Is being
held up because of differences and inde-
cisions on the part of the operators
spokesman for the operators declared
their entire policy has been under con-
sheraton in their secret sessions.
The probable attitude Of the admin
istration and the fact that the miners
have not returned to work were said
to be the principal subjects which have
occupied their time. The failure Of the
United Mine Workers of America to tell
the men to return to their jobs was said
to have left the negotiations in vir-
tually the same state as when the
threat of a strike caused the break up
OF the Buffalo meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-19
PROPOSALS OF .MILDs"

That il the democrats voted down the
committee resolution of ratification they
would support motion to reconsider.
thus bringing the resolution back before
the Senate for changes.
That they would not support motion
to sustain the chair in any ruling bear
ing out the Administrations plan for
separate resolution of ratification after
,Continued ON Page Seven.)
Newark post., 1919-12-03

There are some moods so sensitive
that the least touch hurts them, and
there are moods when any sort of
speech makes US uncomfortable. Solo
mon tells US that soft answer turn
eth away wrath and So it does, often
times. But there are occasions when
spirits are too bruised and sore for
the gentlest answer, and the part of
kindness Is silence. Blessings on the
patience which not only forbears to
chide, which does more than keen
back the 81 told you so," but which
roes so far even as to refrain from
expressions of sympathy. There are
tunes when the kindest of speeches
are not even silver, while compre-
hending silence is pure gold.
Newark post., 1919-12-03
Army Engineer To Give
Illustrated Lecture

Under the auspices of the En-
gineering Society of Delaware Col
lege Edgar M. Hopes of Whining
ton will deliver public lecture at
won Hall tomorrow evening at 8
o'clock. This lecture will be illus
trated by lantern slides showing
the work of the Construction Divi-
sion of the Army, with which he
was connected during the world
war when he held the rank of cap
tain.
Previous to his war service he
was city engineer in Wilmington
which position made him chief of
both the Water Department and
the Street and Sewer Department,
positions requiring great executive
ability.
The Construction Division of the
Army was created to fill the need
arising in the building of large
cantonments both in this country
and abroad. Their work was en-
tirely separate from the work of
the corps of engineers. Due to
necessities of appropriation meas
ures, the Division was conducted
under the direction of the quarter
master department. The plans
however, anticipated making the
division a distinct army corps.
Mr.. Hopes is thoroughly con-
versant with the work done by the
division, and his address will be of
great interest.
The Engineering Society extends
a cordial invitation to the public
to attend.
Newark post., 1919-12-03
"1f Only | Had Done
Differently

1t goes without saying that the
wisest and best of us as we look
back over our lives, see much to be
sorry for. We have made mistakes
and we have done that which we
knew to be wrong. No one is al
together satisfied with the way he
has met life's problems. But re-
grets of this sort are very differ
ent thing from the attitude which
is continually saying, "If only |
had done this" or, eff only |
hadn't"
' Some regrets do us good. If we
see how our wrongdoing has made
unhappiness for ourselves and our
friends, our sorrow is likely to
make us careful in the future and
it will have a tonic effect. If we
take a train at 5:15 which is de-
layed by a freight wreck on ahead,
so that we are hours late getting
to our destination, there is no
point in lamenting that we did not
take the six o'clock train on anoth-
er road. We could not possibly
have f0reseen the accident. Our
is not due to any
failure on our own part and to
allow ourselves to wish that we
had done differently is simply a
waste of energy. We did the best
we knew and we should let it go
at that.
We are not likely to reach any
place in this world where we shall
have nothing to regret. There
will always be something we
should prefer to have altered. But
if we want to be reasonable happy,
our most sensible course is to for
Newark post., 1919-12-03
Able bodied Men Should
Work Same Hours as
Farmers

AL It's recent three day session
IN Kansas City the international
Farm Congress passed resolutions
pointing with pride to the splendid
record OF increased production
durlng the warmade by the farm
ers, pledging them to continue to
produce in such measure as may be
required by future emergency, ex-
pressing friendship and good will
curing the war made by the farm
toward labor, but viewing with
apprehension the turbulent con-
dltlons prevailing in that field of
production, and demanding that in
creased production in the factories
should go along with increased
agricultural output. The resolu-
tlons opposed unionization of pub
lie officials, deplored the growing
tendency to idleness among all
classes Of people, protested against
the wide margin between produc-
tlon and retail costs, condemned
profiteering and opposed further
government operation of railways.
The demand voiced at the conven-
tlon was that able bodied men of
all classes should work as long
and as hard as the farmer does.
Newark post., 1919-12-03
Health Week Began Monday

The Christmas Seal Campaign
and the Red Cross opened on Mon
day. Before that date many of the
workers were already securing
pledges for the purchase of seals.
The sale of Christmas seals this
year is accompanied by an in
creased emphasis on the Health
Aspect of Red Cross Work.
This week is Health week and
its Importance for Delaware is
recognized at once if we compare
the high death rate In this state
with that of other communities.
1t has been established by actual
count of death certificate that the
death rate for Delaware is alb
normally high. We can refuse to
look at the facts but that wont
change the number Of deaths per
year that occur with in Delaware.
400 Of these deaths annually are
from tuberculosis. The Red Cross
is devoting money and the energy
and effectiveness of its organiza-
ton to the control of this disease.
This is Delaware's opportunity.
We don't have to plan or assume
responsibility for the carrying out
of this work. We know it will be
we'll done. Our job is TO provide
the money by buying Red Cross
Christmas Seals. A real invest
ment it has a public and an indi-
vidual return. No home Is safe
while the present toll of disease
eXists.-COntributed.
Newark post., 1919-12-03
''How Are You Coin to
Keep EN- on a Delaware
Farm? 2"

A practical answer to the ques-
tion, "How are you goin to keep
EN- on a Delaware farm after
they've seen gay Paree"?, is short
ly to be made by the Rural Y. M.
&c. A. in cooperation with rural
leaders of the state. To keep men
and boys contented and successful
on the farms and in the smaller
industrial and railroad centers,
George l.. Goodwin, Interstate "Y"
secretary in collaboration with
state and local committees is plan
ming statewide program of athle-
tics, recreational activities, educa-
tional classes and rural movies de-
signed to meet the normal need for
amusement of farm help and vii
lage workers. Every county is to
be asked to support a "Y" move
ment that will establish baseball,
football, skating, swimming, and
other leagues for country boys and
to provide for recreation fields, en-
tertainments, clubs, community
gatherings and vocational classes
that will give the local young folks
something interesting to do, see or
hear nearer than the large cities.
Definite plans and programs,
such as already in successful
operation in more than $50 coun
ties and 1,500 small and large in
dustrial plants, will be developed
for popular county approval and
support early in the year.
Newark post., 1919-12-03
4 DISCOURSE ON
"COURTING"
Uncle Joe Cannon Says Mod
ern Youths Don't Know
Meaning Of Word

Courting? Why, bless your
heart, the youg fellows of today
do not know the meaning of that
word! When young man would
walk five or even ten miles through
the snow or rain or mud, freeze
his ears and fingers and face the
danger of wildcats, to see his girl,
and that, too, in the general living
room, with the family, he was en-
titled to admit that he was court
ing.
And that was the rule, not the
exception. The young fellows
would start out Sunday afternoon
to see their sweethearts, and no
weather was too bad to keep them
at home. 1t might be too cold or
muddy to take out a horse, but in
that case he would go on foot, and
he would go through as much hard
shin to see his girl as did the
knights of old to rescue fair maid
ems in castles bold.
But it was his devotion, his
courting; and when he won that
girl he stuck to her through thick
and through thin, through good
report and evil report, obeying the
scriptural injunction that what
God has joined together no man
shall put asunder.
There were no marriages of
convenience and few hasty mar
riages then. The courting was
long and there were no divorces to
follow. The young people might
meet often at the singing school or
the dance or the husking bee, but
these did not take the place of
regular "courting."
The courting was on. Sunday
Mlght ana the young man went re-
liglously to see his girl and re-
manned until midnight with the OBJ
iect Of his affection, even though
the father and mother and younger
children were present to share in
the visit. When he went home,
either through the storm or under
the bright starlight, he walked the
earth as a conqueror-1Or he had
been in the presence that to him
Represented the real poem of life.
He had been courting-and that is
all we need to bring back safe and
sane ideas in marriage-courting
-courting in the true sense of the
word: The man seeking, if not
serving, like Jacob, seven years for
the object Of his affection. Then
he will stick to her and she to him
through life.
There are some old fashions that
nave not been improved upon, and
one Of them is the old way of court
ing.
Newark post., 1919-12-03

get about the things we would like
to have different and concentrate
our attention on those with which
we are satisfied. No one can have
happy life who in youth forms
the habit of uttering that most
futile of all wishes, eff only l had
done differently"
Newark post., 1919-12-03

In winter nature ceases from her
lab'rs and prepares for the great
change. The wind sweeps through the
great forest with a sound like the
blast of trumpet. The dry leaves
whirl in eddies through the air. A
network of hoar-frost covers the plain.
The stagnant water in the pools and
bitches is frozen into fantastic fig
ures. In the low-hanging clouds, the
sharp air, like busy shuttle, weaves
her shroud of snow. There is a mel
ancholy and continual roar in the tops
Of the tall pines like the roar of a
cataract. 1t is the funeral anthem of
the dying year.-H. w. Longfellow.
Newark post., 1919-12-03

A company of white troops in the
trenches had been enduring a severe
gassing for several days when they
were finally relieved by company Of
negroes. A German prisoner, captur-
ed SHORTLY after, was asked how no
lanks fought, and replied:
we gassed dem und We gassed dem
till dey vas black in der face, und still
dey came forward. ."-American Leg
ion Weekly.
Newark post., 1919-12-03
FOR SALE
7 WO MODERN DWELLINGS

on Delaware Ave-, Newark
No. 1---Seven rooms with baht,
steam heated, slate roof. Lot 50
by POO. This house is better
built than the average.
No. 2---SiX rooms and BATH hot
air furnace. Lot IS by 200, also
lot i'll rear so by 200.
These properties should not be over
looked by any person looking for a conf
Portable home.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-03-01
PARROT TALKED TOO MUCH
California Hunters Use Their Shotguns
on Bird That Spoke German.

Oakland. Cal.-PlutO. mach travel
ell parrot belonging to Mrs. J. II. Rath-
bone. Tunnel road has changed his
vocabulary. He landed two men in
Jail and lost his tail feathers. All be-
cause he insisted on speaking German.
Dominica Garcrunc, Italian, and
Mathew Gra>~rponir. French We're
hunting near the Rathbnnr residence.
suddenly they heard Il stream eff dis
loyal German. such a. "Huch p"
"RauS, and "Gott nit 'uu~ ." issuing
from Il bush. Garcrunt and Gru>~"-
p"nie looked at each other. Then by Il
common impulse they clurchrd their
ShotgmS AMI advanced on Pluto.
There was a roar of artillery. Pluto
and his tail feathers parted company.
Gam" warden. j. l.. Buudocl. who
was i'm the vicinity. rushed tu M"
spot. He found two indignant hunters
a dcnudcd parrot hahhliug German and
some tame phcaSantS. The hunters
said they were after Plato. hUt the
warden looked aNkancc at the phca~-
ants and brought the men 10 the city.
The parrot according ~ Mrs Rurh-
bone, WAS the Gift ~ q German SEA
captain and learned the language while
on Il sailing vessel.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-03-01
PLAN TO MAKE
OIL FROM SHALE

Il heavy, thick, dark OIL resembling: in
many ways the petroleum known rs
fuel oil; and it may be used as such.
These crude oils vary, as may be sup
posed, according To the ShaIeS from
which they are produced. They smell
more like asphalt than petroleum.
An immense amount of gas is libcr-
ated by the distillation Sonic enthusi-
astS believe this gas will be a sufficient
fuel supply for the retOrt furnaces. but
in this the chemists dc not agree. The
idea savOrs too much of perpetual mo-
ton. Important by-products are paraf-
I'm and ammonium sulphate. 1t is also
considered probable some form of COM
mefcial fertilizer will be obtained.
Several bona fide experimental shale
reduction plants are now being CON
Structed in the three states mentioned.
Chemists of the bureau of mines
are agreed that the greatest hindrance
that could occur to the legitimate de-,
velOpment of Il Shale oil industry i'm the
United States would be any extensive
"wildcatting" that is selling of stock
in imaginative Shale oil plants. or
even in plants to he erected by unin-
formed persons and which may be
held out to he practical commercial
ventures. A Shale oil plant is an eX-
pertinent in this country at the present
time. nothing more.
In order to encourage legitimate and
practical experimentation. an effort
will be made TO induce congress to
make an appropriation to assist re-
SpOnSible companies.
Let the fact be clearly started that
manufacture of oil from shale must
be, so far as is now known, one of the
greatest industries in years to come.
Plants which are understood to be ex-
perimental are perfectly legitimate
now. They are good businesses. But
evidences Of validating are abundant,
and they will tend to dScredit the en-
tire business and cause it To be looked
upon for a long time. perhaps. as a
just as wildcat mines ami, oil /
wells have caused many people with
money to invest to view all such
with suspicion.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-03-01
GERMAN SHIPS FOR
AMERICAN TROOPS
PROPOSED TO BRING ARMIES d.
RECTL.Y HOME FROM GER
MAN PORTS.
ENEMY MAKES THE OFFER
Present Arrangements Call For EN-
barking From Netherlands in Hun
Vesseis-CouId Bring Home
100000 Men.

Berlin.-A proposal to transport
several hundred thousand men or the
American eXpeditiOnary forces to the
United States by way OF Germany,
placing them on board ships at Brc-
men and Hamburg. has been sub
mittei 10 The American authorities.
According to the present American
arrangements, however. the first of
the American units to b" Tepatriated
in German steamers will embark
from the Netherlands. bur II IS sail
here that American army headquar-
tcrs is inclined 10 consider favOraDIy
the use of the route through Ger
many for some of the later embarkl-
portation facilities and the adequate
doCkage and other arrangements OF
the North German ports.
The proposal which was submitted
by he directors of the North Ger
man Lloyd Lire with the approval ii
the German government provided that
fleet Of big liners with a normal
carrying capacity of $4,000 passen-
gers should be assigned to this SER
vice and the troops transported from
their present stations over the direct
trunk lines TO Bremen and Hamburg.
Over these lines, according 10 Gener-
al GrOener now in charge of the Ger-
man railways. a speedy movement
would be practical. The steamers
would be capable of making eight
round trips in year making it pos
sible to return 100000 men by this
route in that period
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-03-01
A GERMAN WHO SPEAKS HIS MIND

Macmillan Harden, editor of
Die Zukunft in Berlin, seems To he the
only responsible man in Germany who
dares speak his mind. He writes in
an issue of his newspaper now AT hand,
among other things:
"And | must add the fact that one
Of them, the all highest, at once be-
took himself 10 foreign land. Even
the supreme war lord. before the con-
cluSiOn of peace, chose the deScrter'S
path. This fact must at last have
opened the eyes of even those who still
believed in that shmmering idol.
"Now all the secret plottingS and
writings must be brought 10 the light
Hesitate no longer, We who
now rule, To publish the unambiguous
proof in the archives. to unmask the
liars,
Germans, you shall not. as YES
terday you did for princes, eXceIlencieS.
bank presidents, ministerial directors
today fawn upon the favor of work
ers and soldiers councils. You shall h
determined by your honest convictions
,r
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-03-01
N'YAWK WOULD BE STYLE HUB
Waist Makers Plan to Have Gotham
Supersede Paris as Fashion
Center.

New I0rk-rlanS for making New
York and not Paris the style center az
the world for wOmen'S clothing were
outlined here mt the annual meeting of
the United Waist League of America.
attended by delegates from all parts
of the country.
Samuel \. Lerner, president of the
organization. predicted that the move
ment would have the support. not only
of the waist manufacturers. but of the
dress manufacturers, milliucrS and
other producers of wOman'S wear.
President Lcrner announced that the
Pennsylvania Railroad company had
offered site for S6,OOOOOO building
which it is proposed To build in this
city to house all the waist manufactur-
ing plants in New York.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-03-01

sea litt0ral from the Sinai peninsula
TO south of Mecca. The king and emir
claim that parts or all of Palestine.
syria, Mesopotamia, and Arabia should
become united into one great Arab
speaking nation under the leadership
of Iledjaz.
The interior of the Arabian PENN
sula Is for The most part a barren deS-
ert, but here and there there are inter-
mittent streams Of sufficient volume
to sustain the population. Since the
collapse of Turkey, England has taken
possession of the most important parts
of what is geographically Arabia.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-03-01

The claims of the king of Hedjaz
for the recognition of a greater Arabia
presents another batch of conflicting
interests for the consideration of the
peace congress.
Included in this proposed new state
is practically all. Of the peninsula of
Arabia. Linguistic and racial lines
form the basis for the Hedjaz claims,
and to Emlr Faysai, who was in Paris.
representing his father. the king of
Hedjaz, all who speak Arabic nre
Arabs and should come under one gov
eminent.
At present the HediaZ kingdom COM
prises that portion of the eastern Red
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-03-01
HUNS POLISH YANKS' SHOES
Yankee Signal Corps Officer Says
Americans Are Curiosity to
O. Germans.

Philadelphia. - The. Germans are
now polishing the shoes of the Ameri-
cans, who formerly did that them
selves, says a lettcr from Lieut.. Frank
II. Blythe 10 his father.
Describing the march into Germany,
he said: I'VE are sort of n curiosity
to the inhabitants. and they have much
fear that we will leave them to the
mercy of the French and English"
The lieutenant has been overseas for
year with the Four Hundred and
Fifth telegraph battalion and was
slightly gasSed once.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-03-01
Relief EXPEDITION Sails.

New York.-Sailing as an "Argosy
OF life and hope" TO the 100000 dos
titute people of the Holy Land, and
other regions of the Near East, the
steamship Leviathan left this port for
France with the largest contingent CT
doctors and relief work
ers ever sent overseas at one time
on such mission.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-03-01
LONDON USING MORE"DOPE"

quently held in various flats in the
West end; that cocaine and heroin
are taken habituafly and various trips
made to Chinatown" in Llmehouse
for the purpose of opium smoking. or
purchasing the drug.
The herOin is bought in small GUAM
titles for So a, bottle and cocaine is $50
the bottle.
Witnesses at the inquest described
parties held in fats where opium was
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-03-01
PLANNI NG FOR WAR HISTORY
American officers Sent to Italy to
Study Regions in Which Battles
Were Fought

Paris, France-TO insure the writing
Of an accurate history of the war a
score -,of ..0tticers under orders to re-
turn to America have been detained
ana sent To Italy to make a study of re-
gions over which the Italian and Aus
trian campaigns We're fought. A large
number of officers are now engaged in
studying the devastated regions of
France and Belgium for the same pur-
pose.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-03-01
Jews To Get Furlouqh.

New York. Announcement that
furloughs will be granted during the
Passover holidays from noon April
IA to midnight April 10, to all jews
in the army stationed in the United
States, was made in a communica-
ton received here by the Jewish We!-
fare Board from the adjutant gen.
erals office.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1919-03-01
AN AMERICAN RED CROSS LEADER

OF No one is better qualified to speak
&c American woman's service in
.c' s&str and Of the Red Cross as Amer
sca's initial instrument in carrying the
message Of her sympathy and co-opera-
tion TO the people of France than Mrs.
William X. Vanderbilt, who has re-
4 home on a furlough of two
after having been in the war
for nearly four years.
She was In France at the time of
Germany's invasion. II was she who
was responsible for the founding of
the American Ambulance hospital. mt
Neuilly, now United States Military
Hospital No. i. What she accomplish
ed during those first three horrible
years OF the war is past telling. 1t is
sufficient to know that Mrs. Wander
bits name has become, throughout
France and Italy, the symbol of Amer
ica's highest type of womanhood.
Mrs Vanderbilt has run the pamnt
OF women's war service, having known
-