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The labor world., 1919-07-12

CABINET MAKERS & MILLMEN'S
UNION NO. l2S4-Meets the first and
third Mondays of each month at the
Owls hall. 418 West Superior street.
President, Fred Soderlund; vice pres
ident, +. Zetterlund, ~712 Garfield ave-
nue.: recording secretary, John A. john
son, zoos West&Fifth street: financial
secretary, Hjalmer Franzer. 4516 East
Jay street; treasurer, Richard Erick-
son, 400 Minneapolis avenue; trustees.
Albn Moline. Mack johnson and John
Tinderholm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 THEW things will more sharply diff T feren tiate the German point of view S and that of civilized people than the way in which the world will rise to honor the British for the proposed honor to the body of Edith Cavell. Noth- ing that man can do will bring back to life and to her ministrations of mercy the indomitable woman who faced the be- stial injustice meted out to her in Brus- sels by the Germans with calmness that is still Nbeing written about by those who shared her Imprisonment, but were spared to tell to the world the unforget- able details of her final days.
 It is inevitable that the woman martyr of the great war should be remembered and that her memory should be highly honored by those whose racial and na- tional instincts she typified in her service and in her supreme indifference to what her torturers could do to her body For of all the condemnatory evidence af- forded by the orders of the German com manding generals and various subordi- mates in Belgium and France, all of which throw a hideous light on the Ger man mind and reveal beyond all contro- versy the worst facts of the ''occupa tion,' nothing equals the indictment of the fomous proclamation issued by Gen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22
Yeatnan on Work

Until person has been connected wi'n some committee charged with arranglhs for Celebration of some kind he mas iio idea of the work involved. or of the com plications that arise in the preparatory stages" said Maj. John T. Yeatman-
 ''The committee that is making ai engagements for the reception to the soi' dier boys when the 167th regiment arrives here has worked hard and unselfishly u make the affair a great success EVery member of the committee is giving ms time and energy freely and gladiy' put in the multitude of things that have to De attended to some things are bound to De overlooked, or apparently neglected anu then the committee oatches the very dickens. We are doing the very best we can and we want everybody to help us' but it is hardly to be expected that we could anticipate all the things that are likely to come up.
 we are doing the best we can to give the home coming boys and those that are already here hearty and genuine "ei come lack home, and if we succeed Ill that. we will feel amply repaid for all our work"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22
Armenians Released
 From Turkish Earems

THE old saying, "When the devil
 J was sick the devil monk would be-" is illustrated anew in the haste with which Turks are releasing Arme- nian girls from their harems, in the hope of escaping punishment.
 Dispatches from Constantinople state that thousands of Christian women and children have been turned adrift bys their Turkish masters in Asia Minor, thus seriously compli- eating the task of relief. The families of most of these victims of Turkish cruelty have either been killed or de- ported and their situation is distress ing. Close confinement in harem does not conduce to self-reliance or a knowledge of the outside world. and women and girls who have been un-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22
THE RETURN OF EDITH CAVELL

eral von Bissing on October F. 1915, which brought the facts of the execution of Edith Cavell ito the knowledge of the public" to quote the document itself, that they may serve as warning"
 For in this proclamation, after it sets out the six individuals condemned to death for treason, this sinister sentence occurs: That the sentences passed on Bancq and Edith Cavell have already been fully executed" And this sentence was written and the proclamation issued after the Germans in charge in Brussels had played with Miss Cavells fate as cat does with a mouse, and, knowing that her execution would arouse the civil ized world, had kept the American lega- tion at arms length by procrastinatlons' prevarications and downright lies. But that is all of the past now. though when. the men-of-war bring Miss Cavelfs pooy to England and it lies in state in Vest minister Abbey, before the interment al Norwich, the world will again honor the martyr and Germany will learn once more that what Secretary Zimmerman-the same man who tried to arouse Mexico to erab our border states-consldered salutary sentence intended to 1righteii those who might presume on thelr sex was one of the most abominapie crimes of all times, typicaly Prusslan anu VIII not he forgotten or forgiven.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22

The situation at Paris seems to have reached stage of chronic acuteness. However, the old reliable Associated Press refuses to have a conniption ft
 * x # The spectacle of Jap delegates limping back from the peace conference with sev- eral smarting toes will bode no good for the allies in Europe.
 x # % It may or may not be significant that President Wilson misses so many meet ings held for hearing the Italian claims to Plume and the Dalmatian coast.
 x x x soldier with one leg missing makes a stronger appeal for the Victory loan than an hour of heated oratory from gallant home-defender.
 # * % The man who carries a few newspaper clippings in his pocket these days may not be lover of fugitive verse. They are probably recipes.
 < # E Marshal Foch does not pretend to be a. diplomat. That's one of the reasons why hi, newspaper interviews are worth read ing
 Birmingham society girls who took flights in airplanes found the experience a bit more titillating than the latest dance step.
 Consensus of opinion seems to be that win rouge Is poor stuff. Still, it would have a big sale in the prohibition belt
 a x * Why should "dry' orators take the stump in Alabama? Isn't the state al- ready constructively as dry as a bone?
 # % x Doughboys are so anxious to get home that they don't mind making the trip in a transport bearing a German name.
 x * # It's pity Mrs. Pankhurst can't exercise the rights of mother and spank Sylvia for shouting for a soviet government.
 * Is T. Kisses for soldiers seems to be the or der of the day. Still, they are entitled to certain privileges.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22
Growth of Sunday school

'I have been at the Twenty-first Avenue Baptist church about three months, said Rev E. c. Johnston, ''and have receiVed oNer fifty new members. The church has decided to add Sunday school annex and the money for. it is well in sight. The church was built back in the days when the Sunday school was not taken into consideration as much as it is to- day. for like many of the older churches. no special provisions were made for the different classes but all assembled in the main preaching auditorium and found places in various parts of it. This made it difficult to hear as well as to hold the attention of the pupils"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22
THE CLOSING OPERA SEASON

them well enough to stand comparison with their French and Italian associates The day when American singers could be relegated to the background has passed.
 The Metropolitan and it's general man ager also have cause fos satisfaction in vivals offered during the season. Prom ises regarding rev productions were kept and some of the new productions proved to be exceedingly worth while. There were three new operas by Italys most popular composer, MT. Giacomo Puccini, 'Il Tabarro," "Suor Angelica" and "Gi- ami Schicch," the last mentioned mas terpice of opera comique. It showed Mr. Puccini in a new and original light. If no other novelty had been offered dur ing the entire season "Gianni Schicch" would have made the year notable.
 Two American operas, MT. Joseph Charles Breirs "The Legend" and Mir. John Adam Hugo's ''rhe Temple Dancer" were heard for the first time on any stage. They were elaborately staged and well sung. Although MT Gattio- Casazza's annual bill of American operas has as yet not brought forth a single master piece, it gives a certain amount of en- coura cement to native composers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22

liberated do not know which way to turn. The Armenians themselves are unable to care for the hundreds of thousands of children and tens of thousands of women who have been thrown upon their hands. Hunger and exposure will take a heavy toll of these wanderers, unless their wants are quickly provided for.
 This evacuation of the harems is another one of the strange reactions of the war. The Armenian or Circas- sian beauty doomed to Turkish ha- rem has long been a theme of story writers. Few and unsatisfying were the glimpses we had of the life they led in their luxurious prisons, but moralists viewed it as a Giving death." Now an army of these women and girls have been set free, but the flesh is weak Facing starvation, with no roof over their heads and none of their own race able to aid them, they may not regard their liberty as an unmixed blessing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22
Under-oes Minor Operation

.I have heard great deal about minor operations not amounting to anythlng' said Joe Loveman, and so when was ir formed that it would be necessary TOT mo to undergo one, I went rather lightly over to St. Vincents to submit to oiio' but after days I am able though stili mighty weak to rise up and say to any of my friends who wish to hear my opinion on the subject: do not let any body cut into you unless its the last hope for it is no joking matter. nope however. soon in spite of the pain and tho annoyance of staying in bed to be up and about, but hereafter Will nave more sympathy for those who have 10 have what is euphemistically called, minor operation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22
ARMY LOSSES NOW AND THEN

From the New York World
 The battle death-rate Ckilled and died of wounds) for the American Expedition ary Army has been officially given as 6.1 per cent. for the whole period of America's participation in the war. The yearly rate is 5.7 per cent, and with the disease death-rate of 1-7 per cent added, the total death-rate averages "A per cent a year.
 Compared with earlier times in modern warfare these death rates show an ex- traordinary reduction in army fatalities from disease and a heavy increase in the battle dea th-rate. But the total death- rate remains, curiously, about the same.
 The official record of death losses in the British expeditionary armies on the Continent during the Napoleonic wars from 1793 to 1915 averaged almost exactly per cent, but more than half of that rate must have been due to disease. The battle death rate for the British at Waterloo in not more than days of fighting was little over per cent, which was much more than the average battle
  Our Civil War battle death-rate on the Union side per year was 33 per cent, but the disease death-rate was 6.5 per cent, or a total of 9.S per cent per year. Meade had S2,000 men at Gettysburg and lost 2,S34 in killed during the three days or about 8 per cent. But this apparently does not include those who died later from wounds.
 On the other hand, and by way of illus ton from an extreme case, the 107th United States infantry regiment, the old New York 7th, lost in killed and dead from wounds inl the single battle of Sept 29 last against the Hndenburg line about AGO men out of at most 5000 men in ac- tion, or around IA per cent.
 The great advance of invention in death dealing appliances thus appears to have had only the effect of making up in the battle death-rate what had been gained over former times from a reduction in the disease death-rate Battles now are more. continuous and bloody, but when the old average ate of losses has been reached the fighting stops for recupera- tion of forces as it did then
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
EnsIey More Alive Than Ever

EnsIey More Alive Than Ever
 "The announcement in The Age-Henlo that the deposits of the Bank of Ensley had exceeded sS,OOO,OOO is very gratifying to the people of our section,' said H. 5. Meade, the well known real estate man or Ensley. 'I have been client or the Bank of Ensley for great many years' and am acquainted in measure Nlth the personal relations that exist bet veen that bank and it's customers, and am not surprised to know of the amazing in- crease in its deposits.
 The Bank of Ensley constructed home costing $150OOO during the very hardest period to perform such worN' and the bank has increased its deposits slO0, 900 for every month that it has been located in the new building. This lno' cates the greater efficiency of the oanA and the sound basis of the business con- ditions of the Birmingham district, TOT the Bank of Ensley touches the business heart of the entire Birmingham district.
 ''Ensley was never in better cofhihor- cial condition We cannot supply hornes for those that seek them and all reA'' concerns are literally rushed to deatn' have never known Ensley to be quite as active as at this time In this connection it may be added that we are not appre- hensive about the future. on the coh trary, we believe that things VIII continue to be as good as now for sometime Il ho' better The industrial outlook is very fine and the future looks very bright"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22
Cullman Sets Pace
 For State to Follow

A IL honor to Cullman county, GA which went lover the top" in the Victory Liberty Loan before the campaign started. Cullmans quota was 100. Its population is about O,OOO.
 Telephoning to Birmingham head quarters, s. J. Griffin, in charge of the Cullman drive, said: "This loan was the easiest we have ever put over" With such a fine example to follow, Alabama cannot lag behind. Every other county and city in the state must do its duty.
 What makes the showing of Gull man all the more commendable is the fact that it contains Alabama s famous German colony" There must be high average of Americanism in its citizenship. It speaks we'll for the efficacy of our melting pot" It is a vindication of Americans of foreign birth and ancestry.
 * <. as
 The death of General Banquet is hailed as good omen by the Mexican govern ment. But somebody will be found to take the lamented generals place as a disturber of the peace.
 Triumphal arches are springing up throughout the length and breadth of the land. Au contraire, as they say at Vas sar, the beaten Hun is trying to drown his sorrows in drink. Casualties of American troops fighting in Russia are placed at 52S. There are a great many people in America who think that is just 52S more casualties than we should have had.
 # < #
 It has reached the point where white slave" case has 4 chance to get on the trent page agains
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22
From the New York Herald.


 1NROM the standpoint of Americanism Gl the opera season at the Metropoli- S tan which closed with a perform ance of "Il Barbiere di Siviglia' has been the most important since MT. Giullo Gatti-Casazza came from Italy to be it's general manager, eleven years ago.
 American singers have had many op- portunities to sing in the past at Amer ica's leading opera house, but for the most part they have been cast in minor roles For three or four years the num- Der of native singers has been on the increase, but since last November three American artists-Miss Rosa Ponselle, Miss Margaret Romaine and MT. Charles Hackett--have been added to the person. neI of the company All have sung prin- cipal roles in competition with the best singers that Europe can offer. And all of them have made good.
 Miss Geraldine Farrar, Mime. Louise Homer and MT. Clarence Whitehill, who have long been singing important parts, have lost none of their prestige. But among the younger singers many ad- vancements have been made. Mme Ma bel Garrison, Miss Sophie Braslau, MT. Paul Althouse and MT Thomas Chalmers all have sung principal roles and sung
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22
Federation of Music
 Clubs Soon to Meet

THE next biennial of the National 0 Federation of Music Clubs will be held at Peterborough, N. H., the home of the late Edward A. Mac Dowell, Americas greatest composer. The business sessions of the na- tional and auxiliary boards will begin June 26 and the festival will be in- laugurated by the American Music Sunday" June 29, with special serv- ices in all the churches. The affair will continue until July 5.
 The last biennial was held in Bir- mingham and was a splendid success, socially and artistically, but the forth coming event will be the most unique
 in the history of the federation, in
 that it will be pilgrimage in honor
 of the composer, whose outstanding
 merits as constructive force in
 music have come to be recognized the
 world over.
 Every member of the federation and
 every ardent music lover will desire
 to join the pilgrimage, and it is be-
 lieved that the attendance will be un- usually large, notwithstanding the fact that Peterborough is remote from i the large centers of population; and the larger the gathering the greater the encourag cement to those who are lendeavoring to maintain as perma- nent institution the home for creative art established by the Edward Mac Dowell Memorial association.
 Mcdowell was born in New York city December 49, 1861, and died there January 23, 1908, but his best work was done in the tranquil atmosphere of the New Hampshire hills. From 1881 to 1884 he was director of Darm- stadt conservatory. He resigned his position there in order to return to the United States, and in 1896 was appointed professor of music at
 Columbia university.
 He composed sonatas, symphonies, songs and short pieces for the piano. forte. While his works in the larger form are distinctly modern and diff cult of execution, except for master musicians, his "Woodland Sketches" are as haunting as they are airy and delicate and are within the range of the well instructed amateur. Those sketches are heard in every musical
 household in this country and in 1 Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22
Parlous Plight
 of Exiled Royalty

A NEWSPAPER writer recently GA made the statement that there are still more than twenty monarchies in existence, but the havoc wrought by the war among crowned heads, prince lings and titled folk generally was far reaching.
 Naturally, the Teutonic kingdoms suffered severely, although Russia cannot be very for behind in the downfall of the mighty" A German professor estimates that abdications and disbursements in the fatherland include PTS persons, a considerable number to be forcibly separated from an easy living with nothing much to do, save to strut about and look im- portant, so that the cobblers and sad dle-makers would be impressed by the majesty of their overlords.
 In Bavaria one king, one queen, 15 princes, 15 princesses, five dukes and one duchess have been turned out on a cold world. Prussia exiled 33 royal personages, including Hollands celc- brated wood-sawyer, Count Hohenzol- Tern; the empress, 20 princes and II rrincesses. Brunswick contented itself ly merely getting rid of the ducal cou- pie and their three children.
 The two Reuss principalities, tiny realm compared to Prussia, have 36 royal exiles to their credit, which is a fair showing, considering their size. The principality of Lippe, but a trifle larger, was maintaining 24 royalties on dainty fare, and Schaumberg- Lippe, with an area of 131 square miles, is said to have had "nearly one royal parsonage for every five square miles" including the relgnlng prince, F princes and a number of princesses.
 Verify, the world war proved a boomerang for an army of rulers, some of whose families have worn the tinsel of royalty for centuries. Re- garding the plight of these victims, not to mention those of Russia, Aus tria-Hungary and certain of the Balk- lan states, King George and King AL bert may we'll congratulate themselves on the security of their crowns and the undisturbed possessions of their palaces.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22
LIKE M'LUkE SAYS

Why is it that a woman thinks she isn't acting natural unless she acts un- natural?
 Even when girl is as pretty as pie ture the betting is that she is never as pretty as a picture herself. k For every man who is suffering with fatty degeneration of the heart there are about forty who are'>suffering with fatty degeneration of the heaa
 A woman can understand things with out giving them a thought But man can't do it.
 A woman pays a lot of attention to the decorations at dinner. But all a man notices is the grub.
 We do not blame a girl for shutting her eyes when she IS kissing a man. We would shut our eyes if we had to kiss anything as homely as man. Every man expects to be bhffed once in a while. But if you show man your hand after you have bluffed him he will never forgive you. An easy-going plodder gets some con- sclation out of the reflection that if it wasn't for the little fellows at the bot tcm there would be no big potatoes at the top of the heap. IT. just a few months Mother will get up on Monday morning expecting to do her washing and will discover that Father has spent Sunday in the cellar making a mess of home-brew and he has her wash tubs filled with foamy stuff Perhaps it is just as well that girls wear such tight shoes A corn or a blis- ter on the heel soon make a Princess for get all about her Broken Heart.
 The reason why man is satisfied with his Flivver is because he knows that any time he can raise s5000 to boot he can trade it for real car When you make mistake nobody pays I any attention to it. But five minutes after a newspaper makes mistake the
 whole town knows it. ! Sometimes a wife is just as much dis ! appointed when she getsfa thing as she
 would be if she didn't get 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22
Likes Driving His own Car

"It took me just 10 years to ind out that there was pleasure to be had Tn driving ones car," said William Hooo. "For 10 years l always had chauffeurs and they were a constant source or ex- pense and annoyance. l somehow mag ined that I couldn't develop into driver, but the last trouble I had with chaur- feur I made up my mind to try and had little trouble in learning and am 1uss now beginning to get my moneys worth out of my machine. l have practicaiiy given up golf for at my age l find that driving a car gives me about all the ey yercise l need. and then it keeps me out in the open"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22
Fine View of Airplanes

"The airplanes certainly kept the boys in my neighborhood on the alert all or Sunday afternoon" said Robert C. Redus ''rhe first one came over as most ot those on ton of Forest Park were at dinner. and when l got out on the porch saw lha. most of my neighbors had gotten up from dinner to get view of them as many had rushed out on their verandas bringing their napkins with them. They may have done this in order to give the flyers the Chautauqua salute, for a nap kir is larger than pocket handkercnier. It was a fine exhibition and l think the grown ups got as much pleasure out or the exhibitions as did the children
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-22
"Fat" and ~Fats.

Tn connection with the question as to whether or not ice cream standards should be raised, this interesting Mct might be mentioned" said pr. J. D. Dow ling, health officer.
 per cent fats. A person can set aside period of 12 days in which to live on milk alone. It would cost him $9.2o. If he lived for the same length of time on ice cream alone it would cost him s55. And yet the only 5 per cent"