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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-22
DUST

 From the Century Ma gazine. Listen! The dust at our feet whispers an and breathes.
 It speaks in voiceless air that is deli cate but august. Hurry. 1t says. for the wave that rushe and seethes
 Will spend itself on the sn crumble with you in thn turn fna'a tho ear:h U a.. are bright as before Your eats can hea uf.4iil7s
 is merciful and just Thank Gr1 +ra+
 with knowledge and useless 'cre You can dance throush "a surrenders to murder. to sauaerr an lust.
 Thank God that your eyes are screene from the day that I see When your laugh is bony grimac and the gold in your hair is rust: When your flowery hand. with it's hv white petals, will be A sensitive flower turned yellow, tha withers and droops in the dust. And we shall be lying apart, but com passionate winds will blow, Mingling our little separareness,
 handful of ooubt and dstrust And the years will come thunderingly by triumphantly as they go, To hresD hack Nr~'-e~ e~S .>'r l,s wit
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AN IGNORANT IDEALIST,,

Arthur Brisbane in the Chicago Herald
 and Examiner.
 Henry Ford says. q will admit I am an ignorant idealist." A simple, ancient admission. All idealsrs are ignorant in one way or another. rney are, to begin with, ignorant of the fact that it doesn t pay to be an idealist. Also, to confess ignorance and realize i., IS the beginning of wisdom. When they told Socrates he was to be honored as the wisest man in Greece. he said it was probably because he knew that he knew nothing. And Montesquieu, whose Spirit of Laws" is among the most learned books ever written. tells you at the beginning that you cannot hurt nis feelings by proving his ignorance. He knows about it already.
 If the country had a few more 'ignor- ant idealists like Ford, dividing their millions with workmen, handing back to the government a gigantic fortune be- cause unwilling to make profit by war, and at the same time siving to the pub lie the best possible product at the lowest possible price. it would be good thing for the United States
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FAME OF 0. HENRY

ever wrote in the United States O Henry is an American writer. And the time Is coming, let us hope, when the whole English speaking world will re- cognize in him one of the great masters of modern literature"
 And Leacock is but one of the many eulogist who have felt that O. Henry carried not merely the seeing eye. but the feeling heart to the study of his kind. He is worthy Of hotel al Greenboro; he is worthy to be not merely a hotel name, but household word throughout the land.
 He Is the man who wrote: T wander abroad at night seeking idiosyncrasiee In the masses and truth in the heavens above"
 Bohemia" he observed, -is nothing more than the little country in which you do hot live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and move away beyond the hills"
 Doctor Henderson asserts that O Henry never let geography get in thd way of human interest, and he quotes this passage:
 People say I know New York we'll Just change Twenty third street in on of my New York stories to Main street. rub out the Flatiron building and put in the town hal1-then the story will fit just as truly elsewhere So long as your story is true to life, the merd change of local color will set it in tn d east. west, south or north. The char7 acters in "The Arabian Nights parade up and down Broadway at midday, or Main street in Dallas. Tex
 One of 0. Henry's remarkable traits is the whipcrack. never jimcrack. way he brings up the story with a round turn at the end, when you may have thought it was going to peter out to nothing.
 sudden vivid lightning flash shines back over the whole episode and the real meaning blazes out like magne- sium. W
 This man knows all the tricks of the writer's trade but he knows all the sin cerities of the passionate craftsman too For he is no mere twiddler or pen: he is a philosopher, and the phrases did not run away with him, but with Professor Pattee and Mrs. Gerould in writing about hi& He will be read and remembered a myriad of years after his detractors.
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ALIENS HOMEWARD BOUND

contrasted with e5 per cent of the Rumanians and 37 per cent of the
 Serbs who are going
 All this will have a profound effect upon the labor market and is the strongest possible indication that
 wages will not decrease Such move ments of human beings cannot be
 checked by legislation that is reason
 able. The tides of humanity tna! | swept westward are now ebbing. Ra- eIal impulses, curiosity, resentment the lure of> the homelands, these are stronger than any restrictions. short oi closing the seaports, could be. Az they come. they go. They have bet tered themselves. financially, as is shown by the money they are taking rom the country And this, by the
 way, rather disposes of cons iderable o1 the argument that an allan gets tae worst of it in this country
 When they have seen for themselves what Europe offers them, doubtless many of them will turn back across The Atlantic. In the meanwhile we can rest assured that when they are con. vinced that America is. after all, the better land they will return
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Atlanta To Have
 The Next Reunion

1F HE United Confederate Veterans
 N had intimated that they would be glad to hold the 1919 reunion in Birmingham. This city is one of three that has had as many as three re- unions, the others being Richmond and Nashville.
 The reunion of 1916 was held here and was, as were those that preceded, a brilliant success.
 As the date proposed was in Octo- Der, and>would have conflicted with the State Fair, it was deemed ad- visable by public-spirited citizens not to extend an invitation, but leave the honor to some other city. Atlanta,
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1 From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. 1 SN ROF. F. L. PATTEE of pennsyl-
 A historian and rhetorician of wide
 repute says, that o. Henry and Bret Earte lowered the standards of Am erican literature, since both worked in | the surface of life with theatric in-
 ground"
 The statement is bewi1dering. 1 Again the professor says: 70 Henry moves, but he never lifts. His work Is
 literary vaudeville, brilliant. highly amusing and yet vaudeville" l Katherine Fullerton Gerould in the New York Times calls o. Henry "a per nicious influence"
 l Agreat many thousands of persons
 who have read o. Henry's stories would flatly dissent from these conclusions.
 To us, likewise, Professor Pattee and Mrs. Gerould seem to be abssmally mis- l taken.
 The evaluation of o. Henry Vas a
 writer is of local interest, for as soon
 as four of the largest moving picture concerns discovered a gold mine in his
 stories every movie palace" of stand l ing in Philadelphia had one tale after
 another on the screen, and the public | took to what it saw as it had taken 1 to what it read.
 l pr. Archibald Henderson, who father 1 ed the national memorial of short Nstory prize in the name of this gifted writer, contributed to the O. Henry | issue of the Greensboro (N. co Daily News July 2, 1919, an article in which
 the contemporary opinions are assem- bled and a comprehensive story of the style, intent and content of the stories ', is offered.
 l This number of the News is produced ] to mark the opening of fine. big hotel | bearing the name of the author, who
 confers luster on his birthplace In time ] this striking newspaper commemora- ] tion will itself have place in the valued literature of it's subject, for it
 tells of the man as the townfolk knew
 him, and not merely as the world was
 aware of his salient quality. i Against these scornful dismissals of l the professor and the lady phycho-
 analyst Doctor Henderson pits the dic-
 humorist. who says in his essay on
 The Amazing Genius of o. Henry More than any other author who
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From the St. Louis Republic.

From the St. Louis Republic.
 1CN URING thesmonth of June more HI than 30.o0o aliens passed | through the port of New York, outward bound It is admitted that just as quickly as shipping becomes available tins number will be increased by at least 10 times. As far back as i,February, 16,000 aliens managed in some way to get passage to Europe. The Corriere de la Sera expressed the belief that about 100000 immi- grants in America are waiting to go back to Europe The reasons varlous- ly assigned for the exodus are high wages during the war period. with he saving of much money; new taxation in this country; prohibition and be- lief that the lands of the old world are to be divided among the popula- tion after the great estates are broken up.
 It is claimed that every immigrant who is leaving has considerable money. The average cash in hand is set at S2o0o. In case the estimate of 5,000.- 600 returning aliens should prove cor rect. this would mean that s10,00o.- 900. 900 would be taken out of the coun- 1 try. Figuring this in terms of Lib- erty Loans. that would mean the pro- ceeds of two of those great financial drives.
 I It is known that in the Illinois coal l fields and in many of the St. Louis n- dustral sections there are hundreds of
 men waiting for chance to sail for their homelands. The government es- 1 inmates. while nothing like as high as
 the first figures quoted. discloses the
 fact that 1,300.O00 aliens are prepar- l ing to leave as soon as they can get
 on ship. The greatest percentage of those who are preparing to go are Ru-
 manians, with the Serbs, Russians and Slovaks close behind them. Hun garians, Croatians and Poles are also getting ready to go. The percentage of Greeks and Italians that will leave will be small not more than l per
 cent in each case. according to the ' government Investigation. This +
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Certified Public Accountants

The first examination for the de- gree of certified public accountant was held by the Alabama state board of accountancy July IT and IS at the Sidney Lanier high school, Montgom- - cry. at which 27 applicants appeared. The creation of the board by the legis- lature at its last session is a great step forward and places the account ancy profession on a higher basis, '' said o. H. Schultz. one of the success ful applicants who is affiliated with H S. Miller and company, certified public accountants of this city.
 Many we'll known public account ants from all parts of the state attend ed the examination. The courtesies of the members of the state board Messrs. M. W. ,Aldridge, George T. Rosson and R. c. Williams were ap- preciated by all who attended It is probable that a state society of certi- fled public accountants will soon be founded by the men who have obtained the degree and certificate from the great state of Alabama"
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RENEWING OLD ACaUAINTANCEs

From the Kansas City Times.
 Wilson Met His Cab:nets>zH eadline.
 The President is said 10 have good memory for faces and names and may not have required introductions. And. anyway. he had particular reason to re- member some of them-the Postmaster General, for one.
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< !. x Increasing Importance Of Peanut Crop

Of Peanut Crop
 6TIRE was when Virginia was dis 0 tinctly the state of the peanut The product was of minor importance, and consumption was confined mostly to the confectioner, the theatre gal lery and the small boy.
 But with the larger uses of the peanut in oil and other food and feed stuff values the entire south has branehed out in the cultivation of the once humble product.
 In the growing of peanuts Alabama takes the lead. This states yield this year will be less by 100000 bushels than last year, but according to gov ernment estimates of July i it will be far ahead of other states. The south as whole will be a million bushels over 1918.
 Production forecasts for the various states are as follows: Virginia, 4,795, 900 bushels; North Carolina, 5,499, 900; South Carolina, 629, 1000; Georgia, 9,979, 900; Florida, 5,336, ,0oo; Tennessee, 400, ,o00; Alabama, 14, 70S,- 900; Mississippi, 117,0O0; Louisiana, s1 ,0OO; Texas, HATS, ,0oo; Oklahoma, 556, 900; Arkansas, 936, ,000:
 The peanut is not only an excellent food, but it's vine makes fine hay. In Alabama the peanut is now ranking as a major, rather than a minor crop.
 * # #
 Alabama Memorial
 Campaign Progressing WV HlLE the campaign for raising w funds for the Alabama memo rial building, to be erected at Mont gomery, has been dragging, every dol lar sought will be contributed.
 The counties that have gone over- the-top will be followed by others many others this week.
 It might be well to fix an early date for an intensive drive. Generous donations have been made already and others will be made, but what is especially in order is the small aid from the many. Everybody can afford to give something. If it is only a mite it will help.
 Alabama is patriotic state and the cause in question is essentially patri- otic. It should be the pleasure of every man and woman who appreciates the heroic services of our soldiers to help i'll honoring the valiant dead That is what the memorial building will mean.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-22
SHAKESPEARE uBER ALLIES

From the London Chronicle.
 Weimar's later fame has come to it through the musical Inspiration of Liszt and Strauss Painting and sculpture has long flourished in the city. but one of the latest memorials erected there is a statute of William Shakespeare.
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FERTILE PUBLICITY MAN.
 See here,'' objected the prinna donna you have written a magazine articl' about my interest in blooded cattle"
 Tt was a corking good article, too. acl nowledged her press agent
 'But I don't own any cattle and neve' expect to own any"
 Don't let that worry you. didn> state where your farm was located ana besides I have already mapped out an other story in which you are to be an ex pert beekeeper." PAUL cox
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MIGHT TRY POISON GAS

From the Ci2cinnati Enauirer.
 Signor Francisco Leon de la Barra. sometime provisional President of Mex ico says that it woulo be a mistake to correct Mexican conditions by interven- ton, Something has to be done. how ever. What does he recommend-fumiga- tion?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-22
PURE IN HEART
From the

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 T neither chew tobacco. smoke. nor drink any stimulating liquid" said a gentleman. as he rolled nickel's worth of chewing gum from the right jaw to the left
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-22

the 1919 event, and that it will be 8 grand affair goes without saying.
 The Veterans and the Sons and and Daughters, to say nothing of the people in general that make up the crowd, like Birmingham. And our cen- tral location always assures full att tendance
 An invitation to come here in 1920 will probably be extended, and assum- ing that it will be accepted, Bir1ning- ham will have the distinction of being the first city to hold as many as four reunions.
 The survivors of the Confederate army are fast crossing over the river. A few years ago the rolls showed that fifty thousand were in the land of the living. Today only about thirty thousand answer the roll call.
 At the last gathering in Birn1ing- ham it was suggested that, owing to the diminished numbers of it's organi- zation, the reunions be discontinued. But this idea did not meet with a second. As long as there are few thousands yet able to travel, the re- union will be popular and will .lraw vast crowds.
 Speaking of cleanup campaigns at home and abroad. every man, woman and child in Poland has been ordered to have a hair cut and bath, according to the Red Cross. Drastic measures have been adopted in fighting typhus
 # # #
 There is another bone of contention be- tween Great Britain and America Amer jeans claim that Pal Moore trounced Jimmy Willie to a queens taste. but Wilde got tho decision. # < That doubhgoy who told Mrs. Wilson he would not have been in a French hos pital if he hadn't been mistreated. soon had the satisfaction of knowing he start ed something.
 l As long as China says one thing and Japan another, and the President de- clines to take us into his confidence, we are compelled to keep an open mind ir regard to Shangtung. * * ] London is tired of parades. In that re- spect London doss not differ from ma ny town in America which is equally fed up.
 If Charley Hapsburg is capable of she'd ding any more tears he must have wept when he read the peace terms handed te Austria
 German prisoners of war informed in Switzerland don't want to return home
  feeling that is not shared, we hear by former King Constantine of Greece.
 * # #
 It would be a tragedy indeed if persons who have stored up enough liquor tc last them the rest of their lives should have it taken away < Ss *
 The high price of coal next winter will sumner, who thought a year ago that he had more than he could stagger under. # < x Suffragists at Montgomery refuse tc admit that the senatorial Juggernaut has flattened them out Suffrage headquar- ters reports Business as usual'' x * # l Theda Bara insists that she is not a vampire" at heart Let us give Theda the benefit of the doubt-if we can. z # # 1 The per capita wealth of America means nothing in particular to the man who has to borrow car fare. M x # x | Have prohibitionists stopped to consider that they also dealt death blow to the alcohol rub?
 # * x ! If conditions in Budapest afe half al Lad as reported, the Hungarian capital is no place to rear family.
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
GO TO IT.

GO TO IT. He slept beneath the shadowy moon. He loafed beneath the glowing sun; He lived life of going to do- But he died with nothing done.
 Chicago Daily News. And so, my friend. don't tempt the fates By sluggish use of brain and muscles; No blessing comes to him who waits, But health and hope to him who hust.es.
 Nebraska State Journal. Fate ties on waiting man a can, And greets his groans with ribald laughter; The best thing that come to man Are the good things which he goes after.
 Houston Post. Full many obstacles retard While plodding through this vale of sorrow, But he who hits the gravel hard May have a change of luck tomorrow. ONE OF THE PLAIN PEOPLE. '.Defnitions of snob vary" ''You have some ideas on the subject Yes. may not know all the fine points Of real or fancied superiority, but the man who stands in front of 'wienie palace with a well fed look on his face, leisurely picking his teeth, Is no snob"
 NO CAVE MAN. "TIo! Hum! feel the call of the wold' 1 "How are you going to respond?'' Guess I'll play little golf.'' ''Umph! That just goes to show you are a considerable distance from the paleolithic age"
 AN OBSTACLE TO FLIGHT. Time was a man who got rich quick Could be a carefree rover And travel nound in foreign lands Until the deal blew over. But nowadays a passport is A matter to perplex. It Is not so east as it was To make a speedy exit.
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TT DIDN'T WORK. ''I see where a man claimed he kissed maid because she happened to be wear ing one of his wife's hats" '"The idea being, of course, that he mis- took the maid for his wife, Exactly. But he overplayed his hand though"
 How was that?" His wife says he quit kissing her seven years ago."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-22
A cHAsrENEn SPIRIT.


 The harrassed house hunter groaned aloud.
 Whats the matter. my friend?" asked sympathetic old gentleman q was just thinking how exacting used to be when I was looking around for a place to live. I demanded an extra large living room. closets by the dozen, rot less than four bedrooms, a sleeping porch or two, roomy buffers pantry baths upstairs and down, wide veranda and southern exposure"
 And now?''
 "All l want is house-just four walls and roof"
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Tn predicting another war, Marshal Focn also has reasonable expectation of living to see his prediction come true.
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TWENTY YEARS AGO
 IN THE AGE-HERALD
Events recorded July 22, 1899.

It is reported in Washington that Elihu Root will be named secretary of war in President McKinleys cabinet, to succeed General Alger.
 Col Robert G. Ingersoll died yester- day at his home, walston-on-H Hudson. near Dobbs ferry, from an attack of heart disease.
 Delegates at The Hague discuss the prohibition of dropping explosives from balloons, the use of asphyxiating gas In war and dun bullets.
 Norman W. Hall a prominent mem Der of the Birmingham Typographical union No 104 and stockholder in the Ledger Publishing company. died yes terday at his home.
 The largest financial deal consum- mated in the Birmin gham district dur ing the past week was the sale of the Bessemer waterworks system to Bir- mingham capitalists. The price paid was $100,0o0 The names of the upr- chasers have not yet been made public.
 The governor has appointed John Pelham of Anniston to succeed the late Judge Brewer, as judge of the Seventh circuit. Judge Pelham is a nephew of the gallant Pelham of Confederate fame and has practiced law in Annis- ton for a number of years.
 Five Sicilians were lynched by en- ragged citizens of Tallulah, La. for al- legged complicity in plot to murder Dr. J. Ford Hodge. a prominent phy- sician.
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E * E
Henry ".

BEGINwING THE DAY -- Lord, Thou art going about seeking souls that will receive and deliver Thy message. Thou reqairest souls that are brave enough to speak 0 my God, t. be one of Thy chosen. In Jesus name. Amen.---H. M. E.
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 der act of Congress, March 8, 1873.
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 Eastern business office, World oulld- ins. New York city; western business office. Tribune bu1Idings Chicago. me S c. Beckwith Special Agency. agentz for foreign advertising.
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TELEPHONE

In every thing, the eNpurFose nust weigh with the folly.
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It certainly fit; my case. It was about the negro who looked long at a monkey and said Monkey, you have got more sense than folks think. you could talk if you wanted to, but you are smart enough to be on to it that
 if you did, the white folks would pit
 you to work. No, I never got to the barbecue. but that it another tale"
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Col Robert c. Ingersoll died yester- day at his home, Walston-on-H Hudson, near Dobbs ferry, from an attack of heart disease.