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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-22
From the London Times.

From the London Times
| RH0C1IE night life of Berlin has be-
come quite ppoverbial" The
words are taken from a we'll
known guide to the capital published in
1914.
1t might have been supposed that the
war with all its attendant losses and
SOLDERING influences would have done
something to check the dissipation which
the expression night life implies Since
the catastrophe, however, especially
since the armistice and the coming of
the revolution. the pursuit Of pleasure
has gone on If anything, at an accele-
rated pace.
Berlin is today indeed unquestionably
the greatest gaming city in Europe.
Gaming clubs shoot up in all parts OF
Berlin like mushrooms in meadowland.
There are as many as 50 l am assured
in the west alone, in the neighborhood of
Kurfurstendamm, and the newspapers
are constantly publishing advertisements
connected with gambling, Croupiers are
offered situations, roulette tables are Of
fered for sale and not the slightest Sc
crecy is observed with regard to this
demoralizing pursuit
The largest and most elegant gaming
club~is situated in Hnter den Linden.
Some 500 persons gamble there every
day and as much as $1,000 marks ($l2,5oo)
and more a night is spent on card money
alone. Smaller clubs which are quite as
smart in their way are to be found in
many of the streets In this locality as
we'll as in the neighborhood of the Zoo
station. At the present moment more
than 100000 marks (s75.o0o) is said to be
spent every night in card money alone
in Berlin. OF course this implies enor-
nous expense of other kinds connected
with the gambling industry. The CASH
iers in the clubs earn on an average
at least 500 marks ($125) an evening and
the attendants not infrequently get 1000
marks (s25o) and more when it is a mat
ter of special service as, for example,
getting taxi.
OF course, the attendants share with
the motor car drivers. You can see at
all times of the day crowds of taxis,
which you seek for in vain elsewhere,
standing in the neighborhood of the
clubs, but they only consent to take you
If you observe the prescribed diplomatic
methods and do not engage them directly
but through the Intervention of a charge
d affaires in the form of a liveried SER
want of the club.
The external appearance of these clubs
is very discreet; small plate on the
door, often not even that is all there is
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
Never Again


NO, I shall not try another cross
country trip in an automobile soon.
1 came from Fort Worth. Tex. to Bir-
mingham in my automobile, and of the
1913 miles the speedometer registered
about 500 were in bad condition" said
w. S. crosbie. newly appointed man
ager of the Lyric theatre. Il was
about three days behind fair-sizeh
rain good part of the way, which ala
not add to the condition Of the roads
any. The roads In Texas were pretty
Sood. and those in Alabama that ]
Travelled over were in good shape, but
those over the entire states of Louisi
ana and Mississippi were deplorabie.
ruined my car with the trip, and for
this reason. If not for the discomforts.
have reason to regret the trip"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-22
KOLCHAK HARD PRESSED

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
0NRoTzKY's Reds have decisively
beaten Koichak in the summer
q campaign of 1919. Regardless
of future developments the Bolshevik
successes must be termed decisive in
that they have shattered the hopes Of
those who expected to see Kolchak
advance to Moscow and give Trotzky to
the gallows They are not decisive in
terms of finality. For in the end boil
shevism must lose.
1t is indeed disheartening to know
promising start before the fighting
season really opened, has utterly failed
to make good. Instead of Kolchak's
advancing to Moscow, the bloody Boil
sheviks are advancing to Omsk, and
there is every LIKELIHOOD that the ST.
berian city whose name has become
Synonymous with the Russian struggle
for liberty will have to be abandoned
to the enemies of civilization. The
Bolshevik victories have shattered the
regeneration of Russia. Rescuing Russia
from the despotism of Trotzky and Len
inc is going to be tedious business,
and before it is done extra Russian civ
ilization may be compelled to give
more than words of encouragement to
the embattled Russian democrats
We are sending guns to Kolchak
But guns are VIGOROUSLY useless with
out men to shoot them. Kolchak is
outnumbered three to one. That he
has not been destroyed is convincing
evidence of the superiority of his Rus
sian patriots over Trotzky's bloody
mob. But any mob will iff,time prevail
il it is big enough and persistent
enough. No one doubts that Russian
bolshevsm will burn itself out, but
shall civilization wait till it Is burned
out or shall the worlds democracies in
tervene to hasten the burning?
Those who have come from Russia
with first-hand knowledge are strong
in their insistence on the necessity of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-22
Not on Their Job

For some reason or other, the MEM
bership committee hasn't been bringing
in new members this month like they
did in july" said W. L. Woodruff,
secretary of the Birmingham Athletic
club In July we brought in liz regu.
lar members. but SO far only 80 have
been gotten this month. 1t must be that
the swimming meets held recently and
promoted by the athletic club have at
tracted the interest of the members in
new direction.
THE officials of the club are planning
some entertainments to get the members
together, and expect to hold smoke-
soon. We are expecting to get things
on good running basis again soon, then
watch the progress of the club
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BIRMINGHAM AND BONDS
I'M the Atlanta Constitution.

From the Atlanta Constitution.
Birmingham has just voted favor
ably-by majorities ranging from ~
to 1 to to upon five bond issue
proposals, the amounts involved aggre-
eating four and one-half million dol
lars.
One of the bond issues authorized
calls for 100000 for high schools;
another for $4,000, 900 for grammar
schools; three others, for 100000 each.
for city auditorium. the fire depart
ment. and city hall and library i'm
provements, respectively
And on top of it all the voters rati-
fled a special three mill tax for school
purposes.
That is what Birmingham is doing:
Nthat is how Birmingham is preparing
to build for the future; that is the
manner in which birmingham is awak-
enins to the requirements of progress
and ~ the obligations of a great. moo
ern city.
what 4 sorry contrast is presented
:, Atlanta's attitude toward thoSg
conditions!
Atlanta is a large eity y
mingham: it is far ano away aN jol
birmingham in point of ccmmf 5.r,
Industry; it is a vastly richer tflds
Birmingham, and SO far 81 IS ere al
goes it can borrow two dollar 0 Sir
mingham's one without a que tor tle
ing asked on the bond marke
Yet. while Birmingham displayss en-
|terprise and progressive. spii nougs
to vote overwhelmingly for $4,000
600 bond issue. Atlanta-wf ga coul.
Just as easily bond itself for ta4
amount on top of it's prese % in
debtedness-grubs along !a meal
hand mouth, miserl aGo,
fashion, too stingy to re- fAg saepor
the dilapidated public srrs /
has. to say nothing rim.
against future needs!
Birmingham can do III.
north. east and west CO al
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Pen Running High

"Rotarians seem always to keep the
pep running high on their outings anc
entertainments and in fact on every oc-
casion when they get together" said
Hugh Hill. ''At the ostrich egg supper
the club held at East Lake Wednesday
night every one, as usual. seemed to be
full of life and good cheer and 1 believe
every guest of the club enjoyed the ar
fair throughly The Rotarians kept the
spirit going throughout the evening with
one stunt after another. most of them
wished on some good natured member
1t would be hard to keep from laughing
on the occasion of any one of their en-
tertainments.
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NOT OBEDIENCE
he New York Times.

From the New York Times.
The Episcopal church is wise in omit
ting the word "obey'' from it's marriage
ceremony. In measure, doubtless, the
idea of wifely obedience derives from
the old notion that the woman is the
mans chattel; and, in so far as it does
so. it is obviously not to be expected
that modern women will speak the word
seriously, even on the most serious oc-
casion. Men also like to avoid a dubious
situation. 1t was not only the law that
was IAN ass when 1t is assumed that
husband is responsible for what his
wife does. Yet historically the idea of
wifely obedience has an origin as re-
mote as the poles from the status of
middle ages obedience was high among
the virtues, the foundation on which So
ciety as whole rested To obey and to
rule, each in its place, was the sum
total of public morality. And so in do
nestle life, each house had a mistress,
but each household had master. What
the middle ages called obedience we of
today call service.
Where it was once thought demo
cratic to volunteer in defense of the
nation, we now know it to be more truly
in accordance with free institutions to
have universal service. The time may
come when even women realize that, in
its place, the spirit of service is not ig-
noble. 1t was a maiden in advance of
her sex who said: Promise to obey
man? 1 could promise to obey anything,
and do it. But to love and honor till
death do us part-to promise that is
hevnnd the nnuer of anv urnr,aani
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pARIoR BoLsHEvIsM ARRA1GNED

John NICE. Bowman in Leslie's.
Through the power of their names
and their money these parlor bolshe-
Wiki have acquired a measure of in
fluence out of proportion to their i'm
portance. Discerning folk who really
know them consider them joke. But
in the eyes of the ignorant and the
unthinking their advocacy of revolu-
tionary theories has lent a sort of
weight TO the arguments advanced by
professional agitators.
Every just person holds that labor
should be fairly paid. But manual la
Dor is not the only factor in our civili-
cation that demands fair treatment
An erroneous theory is advocated by
certain professors of new tangled doc.
trines that everything is produced by
manual labor; when, as a matter OF
fact, no greater error was ever put
forth. Hands without the brain do
nothing well. Labor improperly di-
Prected, is inefficient, If not destructive.
1t is not manual labor that is primarily
responsible for the wonderful struc-
lures that make New York so distinc-
tive from foreign cities. True, without
labor, great buildings could not be put
up. But it took someone of vision and
initiative to conceive every great en-
terprise, and it required somebody
perhaps a number of somebodes with
ca pital to make it possible to induce
labor to perform the physical work in
yolved. This is a fact which labor agi-
tators and many theorists in social
problems either lose sight of or stu
diously ignore.
| am speaking as a builder-a build
er of great hotels and an operator of
such enterprises. In both capacities
have much to do with labor; naturally
l could not get along without it.
have known what it is to be without
a job in New York and l have known
how hard it may be to get one
have walked half the length of the
New York of 20 years ago because
knew of a restaurant down on the
Bowery where for a quarter I could
get something that filled my stomach
better and stayed with me longer than
what l could purchase for the same
price uptown, and l needed heavy food
in order to be able to do manual labor.
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Practical Farmers Have Opportunity

Il made trip of more than 500 miles
recently in my car" said w. W. West
moreland. 81 took in Camp Walton
and other points in the southern part
of the state. I passed through The
Andalusia section and was ready to he :.
lieve all that the editors wrote about
1t after having seen it when at the
press convention. 1t was wonder to
me to see tobacco. cotton. corn, velvet
beans. peanuts and soy beans in one
held. 1t offers great chance to>any
practical farmer who is wiling to work.
Its future is assured for it is settling
up with class of thrifty farmers"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-22

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lord, In
that water having the land, fresh
eDing the world and inviting the
things to grow, 1 see n picture of
Thee. Thou art like the air, NOV
ing the stagnant leaves and tanning
tired time. Thou art the sun, light
inA space, Guiding the universe
along and giving warmth and life
to all that is or shall bell. NJ. e.
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DIVORCES IN UNITED STATES

From Marriage and Divorce" by Rob-
ert Grant, in Scribners.
That consciousness of the courts
which sees in the refusal of the
churches to countenance divorce except
for single cause, if any, only losing
battle that grows more hopeless every
year, is not, on the other hand, blind
to tendency among the people of the
United States to substitute incompati-
bility for graver grounds and thus to
make the dissolution of marriage hinge
on caprice instead of some tangible
grievance. The latest report of the Ma
tional Census Bureau once more dis
closes not only an increase in the ratio
OF divorce to marriage, but in the ratio
of divorce to growth of population
112 divorces to every 100000 people
in 1916, as against 81 in 1906, and 70
in 1900. There were 112,036s divorces
granted in the country in 1916. con-
corning los. 7o2 of which there are ex-
act statistics; of these. $1,000. more
than a third, were for desertion, with
cruelty second. the two combined ac-
NcIy HtdIIy tWQ-tnlTQS
COS. Nper cent? of all the divorces
granted in that year adultery figuring
far behind. and drunkenness tagging
in the rear While these causes pre-
serve the same order as in the two
previous censuses of twenty years
apart and are deceptive so far as they
may sometimes conceal the real reason
for separation, they serve notice on
their face that one or the other spouse
had weried of the association->-a de-
cision the social morality of which rests
OH the individual conscience. Once
more too, 1t appears that the proportion
of divorces granted to the wife in COM
parison with the husband has not stood
still, the, 66.6 per cent determined by
the twenty-year investigation from 1887
to 1906 having risen to $50 per cent of
the whole While a portion OF this
discrepancy between the sexes is ex-
plicable on the ground that the wife
as a legal cause for divorce more fire.
quently than the husband, and that GER
tain grievances such as failure to sup
port and cruelty are more peculiar to
the wife. the assumption that married
life in this country continues to be
purer than elsewhere in the world must
face the dual knowledge that more
people continue to obtain divorces in
the United States than ever before and
that a larger number Of the applicants
are women.
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armed Intervention by the allied de-
mocraciesA They believe that moral
comfort and the dispatch of war NUM-
tions are not sufficient to insure Kol-
chak's victory. Surely Kolchak fights
for the rest of the world as truly as
he fights for Russia. He has the
worlds mandate to clean up the Mos
COW plague spot. He is willing to exc
cute the mandate. but does his ability
run with his willingness?
The democracies are trying to blind
themselves to the necessity of entering
upon new war Having destroyed
the evil of Imperialism, they are tired.
Nothing but sheer necessity will per-
suade them to embark in the enterprise
of destroying the equally vile evil of
gutter domination. While Russia re-
mains in the vest pocket of Nichol
Lenine the world is not healed 'he
world is not safe for democ
Cleaning up Russia is Russia's s1
ness, to be sure. British laborite ara
loudly protesting against even lhe
microscopic participation of b sh
soldiers on the Archangel front ow
long before cleaning up Russia wi Doe
come the worlds business?
Not until the peril is too clear BE-
unmistakable. When that time arriyes
an avalanche will descend on the eclSa
of Isenine and TrotzSy. The neet for
fighting must be clear. and more rem
clear, before the big war can be be gun
but if the time does come when tls5s
can be no further blinking the war 7ill
not be so big after all. Russia il
vast realm, but millions of RussiaDs
would rally to the banner of an Pin
vading army that promised Russ
freedom. Lenine and Trotzky thr
because the world is war weary. K or
chalk retreats because weary and 10
poverished world denies him sufficie
help. There is vet hope that Kolcha s
may prevail with the new aid that
being rushed to his camp. If Kolch
Is finally beaten the Russian busine
will become the worlds business.
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Auditorium and Large
Musical Attractions

THE auditorium which Birming-
q ham is to have will meet many
needs-nationa conventions, mass
meetings and community sings but
one of the greatest uses to which it
will be put will be music festivals and
symphony concerts.
Fifteen years ago, before the Bijou,
which was built for an auditorium
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-22

OF the progressive cities of the whol
country are doing it; but Atlanta sti
skimps and skins along. boring wit
gimlet and patching its boyhooe
knickerbockers in a ridiculous effor
to make them suffice for the grown
man!
Wien will the people of Atlanta
awaken to their needs and their duty.
When will somebody. some organiza.
ton or some elemtn of the people
start something that is intended to PIT
Atlanta on the high road of progress
abreast its sister cities on all sidcsg
If the business interests of ae cii
are too timid or too clossfisted to
start it. then let the labrrtnr masscs
take the lead-for. after er.<is said ana
done. they are the greatest sufferers
from the passin9E ntous. impecanlous
and niggardly gstsm under which tse
city Is nav 9eislws operated
---s------
EAEaA4DE o. BoE1 CONFESSION
BY g3eatrice Barry.
once Love 5 tender voice I heard
!, While ne fashioned Cupid's dart;
I E,vsn as my pulses stirred.
thought vibrations seemed to start
Through the rapture set apart
/ Eor that moments rendezvous,
! Saying, in the name of Art:
This will make good copy. too"
/ II at times l have preferred
Loves flirtations counterpart
He whose every teasing word
4 Mocks. yet follows. True Loves
chart
! Twas because his practiced art
Thrills and stimulates anew,
! Saying: Though we sigh and part.
This will make good copy. too"
When the eyes with tears are blurred.
Sell them in the busy mart!
Grief can be a singing bird
! Wounds that lacerate the heart,
Even though they burn and smart
Serve the pouting Muse to WOO.
Murmuring. ere she departs.
This will make good copy, too"
ENVOY
Though l shrink from comments tart
And all censure would eschew,
Something whispers in my heart;
This will make good copy. tool"
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: .-..---~-ol.o Ok Couo


.. -----z- generations CT co"o "a
areater supply of fine cows. All
aeressive farmers and dairymen
obeuid communicate with their county
farm agent or with the extension
,e at Auburn for advice and as
nee in forming associations.
Quinerly recently returned from
toe east with carload of Jersey bulls,
ID from the famous Hood Farm
well, Mass. These animals are
oct o.. dams averaging 523 pounds of
Butter fat per year on official test,
we're sired by sons of Pogis SO,
whose daughter, Sophie's Agnes, was
first Jersey to produce over
thc9 and pounds of butter fat.
4 Mr.. Quinerly says: "The CO.
operative bull association makes it
possi Die for dairymen to use CO.
crela tively a S400 or $500 bull with
Jess expense per COW than to own a
cheap one Individually. The plan pro-
viiss for the purchase of from three
20 i've bulls of equal value by as
any communities, with the agree
ment to exchange their bulls in regu-
lar order every two years. Thus any
dairyman interested in a four-bull
association gets the use of four bulls
for eight years at the cost of one."
~, Newbern Hale County Bull
sssociation gets four of the bulls Sc
eai by Mr.. Quinerly and the Dallas
Vdes association four others. "The
aFeage cost of these bulls was ap-
prov mately $500 each after liberal
discount allowed by the Hood Farm
msuag ger, in order to encourage the
oIganization of bull associations
ratl.er than the individual purchase of
bpl' by dairymen.
Gin the shipment was a young
gra7dson of Sophie 10th and a four
year. old bred heifer for Dr. Goldsby
King of Selma, who will include them
"a 2 foundation herd of high-produc-
ne jerseys. They no doubt have as
aci production behind them as any
elsey cow or bull ever brought to
Aiah ANA.
Enthusiasm for dairying continues
to + crease in Selma territory, where
the 'armers say dairy cows are the
et remedy they have found for boil
W lis"
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No communication will be published
without its authors name. Rejected
manuscript will not be returned unless
stamps are inclosed for that purpose.
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to be constantly at work on some new
line of thought. 1 have no settled
method of study but just dive into what
ever happens TO appeal to me.
-.
DR.. Massey in his "reminiscences
him a glowing tribute, stating that he
was born in Barbour county and was
educated at Glennville High school
under such men as General Alpheus
Baker (who afterwards, moved to Eu-
faula) and who was associated here
about thirty years ago in the famous
Martin murder trial with Col Sam
Will John, and DR.. Allen S. Andrews.
who became such a power IN Alabama
Methodis1l.
The reference to Glennyflle brought
to me a whole flood of tender memories
Tn to the time of Major Screws death
up to his quarters in the Montromerv
Advertiser to hear him talk about his
boyhood DAYS in the famous little viii
lage of his birth. NV mother diving
when 1 was a verv little how loved
to hear him talk about Celeste Treut-
len. cher maiden name1 and how nrettv
and attractive che w.s a ,,o,,, GIRL
1t drew me very cIosa IN hin,
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