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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-26

Ing will have to go back of history for
a beginning and acquaint himself with
the folk lore of many land and tribe.
for it's origin is shrouded in mystery, for
nearly every race has some legend of the
discovery of the twin arts of spinning and
weaving.
In Biblical lore Naa-mah, a sister OF
Tubal Cain, belonging to the seventh gem
GRAFTON after Cain. is said to have in
vented these highly useful household arts
We read in Proverbs of the virtuous
wife: SHE layeth her hands to the spin
die, and her hands hold the dstaff,'' and
we are further told that, "She is not
afraid of the snow for her household"
Now l do not set any date for the be-
ginning of quilt making, but it is very
old art.
Now I am going to freely admit that
1 do not know whether the honor be-
longs to the. Israelites, the Phrygians.
whose birthplace was in Armenia, which
in turn is credited with having the Gar
Continued onsPage Seven.)
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TWENTY YEARS AGO
IN THE AGE-HERALD

An ominous veil has been drawn over
the movements of British commanders in
South Africa. The English public is in
Sir George Stewart White and General
Yule. 1t is declared that the British war
office is giving out "doctored'' reports.
The Beers have sheled Dundee. Senti-
ment is cropping out in the House of
Commons against war with Dom Paul
Kruger
International politics have assumed an
appearance of great gravity. England
may have to fight the continental powers.
British battleships are being massed for
emergencies Russia, France and Ger
many are reported restless.
Atlanta yesterday gave a noisy recep-
ton to Lieutenant Brumby of the Olym-
pia, Admiral Dewey's flagship. A special
train brought him to Atlanta from Ma
tives. The formal welcome takes place
today.
A Washington dispatch to the New
York World states that Aguinaldo,N Filipi-
no leader, will sue for peace with the
American government.
The first battalion, Third Alabama
under command of Major Parkes, left
last night for Atlanta over the Southern
to take part in the exercises in the Geor-
gia capital today in honor of Lieutenant
Brumby. Travelling Passenger Agent c.
E. Jackson of the Southern escorted the
troops.
1t is definitely announced that Admiral
Schley will be the guest Of Birmingham
November Z. the opening day Of the Ala-
bana State fair
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AMERICA

Grace Hazard Conkling. in Everybody's
Magazine.
The nations shall rush like the rush
ing of many waters
and shall be chased before the
wind Isaiah.
For you the early dawn was white
For you the sunrise cloud unfurleA
And stars were lent you by the night
To chart you through a changing
world
You followed a bewildered course,
You tend unto a haven yelled,
Before the winds relentless force
Sailing an ocean never sailed
Like him. the intrepid Genoese
Who wrested you from the unknown.
lou shapesa whole worlds destinies
You sail not for yourself alone,
The nations driven and oppressed,
Like mighty waters rushing by
Shall turn them toward your waiting
west.
Shall read like YOU the written sky.
A great wind blows from the new
dawn:
The surging nations cannot rest
Your sunrise bars,
Your blazing stars
Bright on that wind shall lead them
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-26
Uncalled for Rudeness
To People of the Stage

"A GENTLEMAN recently inter
4A viewed in The e-Herald's
''lobby" column commented on the
practice Birmingham theatre patrons
have of leaving their seats before the
curtain falls on the last act of play.
The same observation has been
made more than once. 1t is not un-
usual for practically every person in
the house to be on his or her feet and
with back to the stage when the cur
tain falls. As soon as it begins to
appear that the plot is drawing to a
close there is general movement to
get out. Above the noise and con-
fusion the actors on the stage strive
to go on with their lines, but it must
be discouraging work.
Quite often theatrical people who
are making their first visit to Biz
mingham and are not accustomed to
being treated with such discourtesy
forget for a moment the characters
they happen to be playing and stare
in amazement at the scramble for
exits.
No one is more sensitive to public
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House committee has recommends ed
that Victor Burger be denied a seat
This show of Americanism comes late
but it is another case of better late
than never"
with all due respect to Rear Admiral
Grayson as sea dog and physician
is he fit person to decide what is i'm
portant public business and what isn,tq
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war is rough trade" writes Won
Luuendorif IN his memoirs. And no one
is less capable of applying the sand
paper, han Won Ludendorff himself
!. * *
The industrial conference ar wasb
ington probably benefited a few hotel
Keepers to some extent, but outside of
that it left an aching void.
): a: *
The funeral of the late Viscount As
tor was quite simple. Yet even in
oeath ne was not spared the intrusion
of newspaper men.
* * *
Reds who won't listen to anv kind
of argument may be impressed by The
cogency of machine guns.
* 4 *
Time was when 'undigested securi-
ties" caused concern in America Now
it's "undigested aliens"
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
@ReaIr BniIding Needed

What a pity it is that Birmingham
can't get its new high school build
ing" said Mrs. Harry Culver. ut is
deplorable condition and one that
all parents hope to son see rectified.
1t is hard enough for young people to
become interested in their studies even
when they attend school in an up-to-
date, well-equippetf building, and when
they have to use a makeshift it is no
great wonder that many of them leave
school.
"And one of the most unfortunate
things / know of is a young man or
woman whose education is not COM
pleted OF course, many of the great
est men of the country were those who
did not finish school. but this is surely
the day of the educated man. and those
who have not good foundation will
not be the ones who will be given the
most consideration in a business way.
THE schools of today ought to be
well equipped. and the teachers ought
to be well paid in order to insure the
best for our children Birmingham Is
a fine city, they have done big things
here and now Is the time for them to
put their shoulders to the wheel and
get real high school building"
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approval or censure than the men and
won en- of the stage whose business
it is to please incidentally the meas
ure of their artistic success and the
size of their incomes depend on the
way they are received by the public.
After two hours or more of enter
tainment the least we can do to show
our appreciation is to remain seated
until the curtain falls for the last
time and not leave company of play
ers bowling to empty seats.
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"a sonnet a day keeps the doctor
away" says Prof. Basil Gildersleeve,
whose textbooks have long been a ter
ror to the young. If the author in
sists on reading them out loud sonnet
day will not only keep the doctor
away. but everybody else as well.
* y =
Eugene Field waited nearly IS years
for Chicago to erect monument to him.
Frank L. Stanton of Atlanta was more
fortunate. He was recently inveigled
into attending the exercises and bust
was unveiled in the presence of the
embarrassed poet
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Harry Beresford is said to be the
most modest and unassuming actor on
the American stage and the only one
who breads publicity" but his press
agent is suspected of having made that
statement.
We trust King Alfonso of Spain
hasn't found the deuced atmosphere of
London oppressive. However, King
George probably won't object to Al
fonso's clearing his head with smoke
* X X
Another rise in the price of Gig
arettes is announced Are the cigarette
manufacturers cooperating with the
anti-cigarette crusaders to make the
little white destroyer unpopular?
* * y
The fact that the output of the Ford
factories this year is estimated a 1,o0O,-
900 cars goes far to explain why it is
impossible to- look in any direction but
up without seeing flivver.
4. x \.
Nearly 5000 saloonists in five bor-
oughs of Manhattan have renewed their
licenses, an item of news that has no
particular interest for residents of
bone dry Alabama.
X # y
The champion mean man who would
steal candy from baby has aggressive
rivals in European sightseers who steal
helmets off\ the crosses marking SOL
diers' graves\
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NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE SITUATION
I'm THE WORLD OF LABOR AND CAPITAL

| TN THE good old days of long ago,
in the then metropolis of South
Alabama. lived a beautiful young
woman who had been a belle of all
! that section and all the south She
had married handsome young fellow
of prosperity and plenty.
In her married state she was yet at
tended by the old negro NANNY who
had been her nurse.
The young wife had begun to wear
an air of thoughtfulness. She was
growing thin and beginning to look
dark under the eyes.
One day the old nanny discovered
her in tears.
Whats ailin' you, chile?"
Nothing. nanny. I am just un-
happy. And you know, NANNY
Now, stop where you is honey. Mr..
Jack. he's jist flirtin' aroun. You list
let i'm alone. He'll flirt and f1irt and
flirt and fust thing you know he'll
flirt hisself out"
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That old mammys advice would be
mighty good to some people in these
days. If the HITCHCOCK -a-lorums call
ing for strikes everywhere were Just
let alone they would soon strike them
selves out
The writer has recently been in some
OF the strike districts and has talked
with sane American men who were
out" Not one of them wanted to be
out. 1t was only the man with foreign
blood in his veins, who had some other
grievance, who was agitating I don't
know an American-raised man in the
Birmingham district who at heart
wants strike in the coal mines on
the first of November. have been
unable to find one who has a real
grievance which cannot be adjusted.
y y y
This business of calling a strike for
five-day week, six hours day work,
60 per cent increase in pay and recog-
milton of loud-mouthed political ash
tators who get their pay for stirring
up strife is nothing less than out
rageous.
The demand is that a miner shall
only spend six hours a day within
mine. which may mean only five hours
actual work, Within this five hours. If
all his demands were granted he can
earn practically no more actual money
than he earns today Yet the produc-
ton of coal will be curtailed in pro-
portion and the public will have to pay
perhaps So a ton more for coal
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-26

From the Youths Companion.
A plunge into the Jordan is not now
the health giving rite that it was when
Elisha babe Naaman wash seven times
ana be cured of his leprosy. When
American Red Cross physicians recent
ly analyzed water from the river. they
fouho in 1T so many germs of skin
diseases and other maladies that the
local authorities for the first time in
history restricted bathing in it.
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we were granted. He wanted to gaze
at the stars and wanted all of us to
strike for his own within.
So it is today. The same characters,
for varying reasons, want strikes and
agitations and undue demands Coal
miners in this district have voted for
men in Pennsylvania and Illinois and
Ohio to decide whether they shall strike
and quit work and cut off pay for absurd
reasons.
The great public will not stand for it.
The people will not submit to stopping
industry and manufacturing and trans
portation any more than they would
stand for the pacifst and the anti-gov-
eminent man andsthe cowardly German
sympathiser when we entered the world
war.
Men who want to quit work can quit;
but when these fellows try to interfere
with the man who wants to work, there
is going to be trouble and somebody will
get hurt
1t doesn't matter where the situation
arises. The result will be the same. Too
many men have just returned from for
eign lands fighting for their country for
u, I-otr
portunities now to be curtailed by labor
political agitators who would stop indus
try.
Judge Gary has cared for and protected
the men of the steel industry. The coun-
try admires him for his stand in favor
of the same freedom and the same OPP
portunity for the man who labors as
for the specialist or the professional man
or the banker or any other man.
The day of the agitators and political
representatives of the I. w. w. and the
bolshevik has passed. Every honest en-
ployer respects the man who works and
will consult and arbitrate and get to-
gether with him; but the self-respecting
employer will not be bull-dozed by the
bolsheviki; nor will the great masses of
the American people stand for imposition
upon honest working people by this ele-
ment
There may be strike here, but it will
only be participated in by the radical ele-
ment, and, for a short time, by men who
would rather miss few days of work
and pay than be hooted at by ex-
tremists.
This better element will, in the lam
guage of the old nanny, let the radicals
flirt themselves oat
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-26
A farmers View OF Hats

isn't is interesting to get the other
persons point of view occasionally ?"
said Miss Josephine Cosby Saturday.
1--WE frequently see bits of human ua-
ture in the most unexpected way.
Il was standing in front Of a local
department store the other afternoon
waiting for friend, and I amused
myself by looking at the merchandise
displayed, window shopping as 1t
were, when an old, seedy-1ooking
farmer came by, He, too, stopped to
gaze in the windows and suddenly he
said to me, 'Aain't the wimmen's hats
the limit this year? Gosh! They amt
on straight unless they're on crooked.
81 agreed with him, and though
was tempted to laugh l refrained And
look at them prices, will you? Think
Of anybody paying 1895 for a hat!
Gosh" And he really seemed to be
overcome at the eXorbitant price In
these days of high prices that seems
small price, but perhaps he came
from a district where 'profiteering' is
unknown-if there is such a placer
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Helps the Potatoes

'It is certainly very fortunate that
we are having such a late fall in this
state declared Senator Frank s.
White Every day that the potatoes
the frost hits them means millions of
dollars to this part of the country
am expecting the warm weather to
continue for several weeks before Jack
Frost starts to leaving his footprints
on the surrounding scenery"
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CONSIDERABLY JoLTED,

CONSIDERABLY JOLTED,
"Is Jibway still taking lessons from
THAT husky boxing instructor he engaged
last week."
mo. Jibway has decided that he'd bet
ter take few lessons i'm self control
first
'why SOP"
Gle lost his temper in sparring match
and tried to floor the worthy professor.
When he revived some 10 minutes later
he asked feebly, "Was it an explosion or
an earthquake?
DISTANCE LENDS ENCHANTMENT
The little red schoolhouse that stood on a
hill
Is sung by the poets who remember it
still;
And they sing of the lassie with eyes
blue or brown,
Who swayed boyish hearts with smile
or frown.
She. may have been freckled and homely,
1 vow.
But she seems like the loveliest elf to
them now
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-26

/ The sensible people of this country want
to put their shoulders to the wheel and
produce more, and thereby bring down
! the high cost of living. Few people there
are who are not contented with present
day wages and salaries If they can re-
duce the price of eatables and clothing.
and the little things which used to be
called luxuries.
The meat houses Of the country are full
to overlooking and prices yesterday
margins in New York. I then thought
was smart. The other fellow got both
the stock and all the money had. Since
then 1 have worked for an honest, every
day, peaceful living without the
damnable gambling excitement.
This coming contemplated strike of
coal miners, and other diggers for more
money and less work, is nothing more
nor less than a gamble Men are being
lIred away from their wives and families
and sweethearts to go into a gambling
house in which nobody can win except
the dealers of the games.
y. * +
There is nothing to be gained. Unless
there be production no one can profit.
Cut off resources and the world stag
mates.
There are hundreds of thousands of
men in this country who want to work
and who are satisfied with the honesty
and fair dealing OF the men who en-
ploy them. They are men who are try
ing to accumulate somethng-to lay up
something for a rainy day. They want
70 earn something by their skill or
ability or energy and go up in the scale
of life-men who would not be pulled
down by agitators who want the drones
and dreamers to earn equally with the
industrious.
y * *
It reminds me of an old agitating
printer who worked on the type case
next to me when I was learning the
printing trade. He was paid by the
day, or, rather night, and spent half
his time at the window next his case
viewing the stars and trying to tell me
of his knowledge of astronomy 1 was
an apprentice getting 50 a week. He was
a journeyman, getting $24. I was setting
twice as much straight burgeoise type
as he was per night. He wanted to
strike for an hour for lunch between II
and u at night, although both of us
could eat more lunch than we could
afford in twenty minutes of the thirty
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-26
BRIEF PROMINENCE.

BRIEF PROMINENCE.
You say those rich Bounderbys are on
the outskirts of society,""
Yes"
What do you mean by that?"
When campaign to raise money for
some purpose is under way the Bounder-
bys can count on having at least two
committee chairmanships in the family,
but as soon as the desired amount is
raised society's leaders can no longer see
them because of their low visibility
A PAINFUL TOPIC.
80 you've been to Washington"
Yes" replied the dignified old gentle
man.
did you see the Senate in session.
ooh, yes"
What did you think Of it,"
''Sir, you must excuse me-, have too
much respect for Gen. George Washing
ton, and the gentlemen who signed the
Declaration of Independence to answer
that question:
ENCOURAGED.
'T proposed to Betty last night"
"Ah' She didn't reject you, hope?'
mot exactly She said: NO, no, no.
but the third No was softer than the
first
PAUL COOK.
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Birmin .ham's Found a ton

''Mr. A. P. SPOTS of Richmond, Va,
who is in our city" says DR.. James E,
billiard, pastor of the Southside Rap
fist church, ''is enthusiastic about Biz
ninGham and predicts from what he
has seen that in the next 10 or Is
years it will be the home of at least
three quarters of a million people, He
thinks that Birmingham will outstrip
all the cities which at present claim
to be in its class. for it is built solldly
on iron, coal and dolomite. the big
three which not only cities but nations
covet 1t was a genuine pleasure to
talk with a visitor who had so truly
caught the Birmingham spirit. When
l first came here I was from Mis-
souri, but l have been shown more
than l expected to see'
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German Bad Manners
Revealed in New York

m NE of the most sensible edito-
" rails inspired by the attempt
to present German opera in New
York, over the stormy protests of ex-
service men and in defiance of public
sentiment, appears in the Philadel-
phia Public Ledger. This newspaper
says:
OF course, no one here is wasting
time hating German art in the abb
stract. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms
and so much of Wagner that cannot
be manipulated through the text
to become pure propaganda are
safe enough But the New York
venture is not movement to fur
Their art or bring the MASTER
pieces of German musical art once
more before the public, but is de-
lberately intended to exploit sing
ers who rejoiced in the Lusitania
disaster and who, if they could get
enough aliens in New YORK to
listen to them, would bruit it abroad
all over Germany that Americans
had no convictions in the war and
were still so ''uncultured" as to
have to depend on Goritz and a
tlresome work by Kruetzer, "A
Bivouac in Granada" for their mus
ical diversion
The Public Ledger seems to have
pointed out what is really behind the
controversy. Even if one does not
regard the attempt of promoters with
German names to force German opera
on New York as propaganda, it is
certainly striking example of bad
manners. No American in his right
senses is going to smash a bust of
Goethe or Heine with a hammer be-
cause of the misdeeds of Germany's
militarists; neither is he going to
close his ears forevermore to the best
music of German composers for a
similar reason, but the American ma
ton lost thousands of it's young men
as result of Prussianism's running
amuck and even if they have no ul-
terror motive, German producers of
German opera with singers who
think far more of the fatherland than
they do of America should in common
decency wait until the memory of our
loss is less INDIGNANT.
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QUILT MAKING---By Frank Willis Barnett

It takes Imagination to take the COM
monplace things of life and throw about
them a glamor of romance and poetry.
am awaiting for some poet of the heart
stone to sing a song of the quilt, for it
is song waiting to be sung. The sing
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TELEPHONE

BEGINNING THE DAYS. He
gave His life, o great God, may we
give ours. May we love without af-
fectation, without cant. hut without
limit. May we love the unloveIy,
the sour, the ugly and thereby per-
form Thine own miracle of trans
formation upon them. making them
lovely, sweet and fair.-H. NJ. Il.
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NEWSPAPER ALARMIsrs

From the Augusta Chronicle.
However deplorable it may be. the IL
legal killing of white man by a me-
gro, or negro by white man, is not
"a race riot Newspapers are, these
days. too quick on the race riot
trigser.
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YE EDITOR GETS 4 Present

From the Memphis Commercial-Ap.
peal.
The Commercial-Appeal has received
from the Bank of Drew. Drew, Miss,
sweet potato 1t is as big as big
roch-big enough to chock waa
wheel 1t weights 1917 pounds. This
potato. cooked would feed one man a
week
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The Worst Is Yet to Come

You'll see plenty of suits in the
Birmingham stores next spring at 500
to s125." said Charles e. Swango.
II have just returned from Chicago
with Mr.. We'll. where we bought our
spring clothing for the 1920 season. I
have never seen the market so high.
The high prices seem to stimulate,
rather than retard, buying, however,
as the big manufacturers could hardly
wait on buyers flocking there from all
over the country.
1T is fact. high though present
retail prices may appear, that we are
restocking now on a par with manu-
facturers cost I saw plenty of suits
displayed in Marshall Fields, the Hub
and other windows at $500.
Chicago hotels are crowded to the
doors. Everybody is buying-every-
body is spending money"
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SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT

From the Nashville Banner
Another thing to worry over. Just
about the time We have expended a
few billion dollars for good roads ard
have them in perfect condition, air
planes and dirigibles will be along 20
render them obsolete.