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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
LEGEND. NOT FACT

From the the Christian Science Monitor.
The legend,s which the Kent folk still
like to tell, of how Napoleon once landed
on the English coast somewhere near
Sover, has been treated with good deal
more respect by the playwright than by
the historian. Lack of evidence, it must
be admitted is a drawback to the ac-
ceptance of historic fact. but when it
comes to the basis of play, why fiction,
is as good il not better than truth. The
Kent Napoleonic legend which Mr.. Her
bert Trench has made such good use of
in his Napoleon might possible be true
and if Tie Petit Corporal had set foot
on English shores it would have been just
as Mr. Trench indicates, in 1906. when he
was Nursing the scheme of bridging the
narrow gray dividing line and throwing
his great armies across from Boulogne.
But, as it turned out, Napoleon thought
better of it and turned his ambition In
another direction.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
TWENTY YEARS AGO
IN THE AGE-HERALD
Events recorded September Is. 1885,

Surgeon General Wynaan denies that
there is any yellow fever in Memphis.
Key West reports one death in the past
"a hours. Pass Christian is now in
fected. No new cases were reported
in New Orleans yesterday.
The Matin announced yesterday morn
ing that the French cabinet had de-
cided to reverse the verdict at Renne IS
and pardon Capt. Dreyfus. 1t Is said
the decree will be signed September 10.
The Birmingham Press club met yes
terday to discuss plans for having a
press department. at the state fair
The meeting was called to order by
President Johnston. In the absence o..
NJ B. Mayer. ]. r. Hornady acted as
secretary. The matter was referred to
a committee. composed of Leon Fried
man, f. G. Mulcahy and II. B. Mayer.
j. b. Hill. one of Birmingham's pion-
makers shop here in 1876. has re-
turned to the city and is now employed
by d. B. Luster
A wedding of interest to Birming-
ham people was that of Miss Nellie
Mcknight daughter OF Alderman and
Mrs. J. T. Mcknight. and Willoughby
Lacy. The ceremony was performed
yesterday afternoon as Westly chapel
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
CHINA LOOKS AFTER HERSELF

From the New York World.
By signing the treaty of peace with
Austria, China becomes a member of the
league of nations and will be in a posi-
ton to take the Shantung question be
fore the league in case Japan defaults on
her promises.
This has been the aim of Chinese
diplomacy from the outset of the contro-
versy. The Chinese delegates offered to
sign the treaty with Germany if they
were allowed to make a protest against
the Shantung award. Premier Clemen
ceau refused to permit such protest; SO
they decided not to sign the German
treaty but TO sign the Austrian treaty
This would give them full rights under
the league of nations without compro-
missing their claims as to S1lantung.
While Senator Lodge and the Repub-
lican majority of the Senate committee
on Foreign Relations are weeping Grand
Old Party tears over the Shantung pro-
vision of the treaty, it seems evident TO
other people that the Chinese are compe
tent to look after themselves, and it
ought not to be necessary for United
States Senators to slap Japan's face oft
ener than once a day
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
Valued Services

Il want to pay tribute to the great
work being done at headquarters in
montgomery by DR.. H. Fl. Hibbs, who re-
Gently resigned as pastor of the Ruhama
Baptist church, East Lake." said DR.
w. f. Yarbough CDR Hibbs has shown
great aptitude and energy in getting
out literature and other information
about the s75000,oOO campaign. His
former service as the financial and field
secretary of some of our educational
institutions is being used by him to
great advantage for he knows how to
get in sympathetic touch with both
pastors and laymen."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
PLAYING A DEPERATE GAME

/ poning action of any kind until after
at Washington" The answer to this at
tempt to call halt is the order to
strike. AS to the camouflage about
the denial of free speech and free as
sembly, there is no more to be said
about it than that it deceives nobody.
To a great extent what is projected
| is on all tours with what recently hap
pened in Brooklyn. which/was invaded
| and captured" by an outside organiza-
| ton. to the detriment rather than to
the benefit of the employees affected
| In that case, however, the accruing re-
suits were entirely due to failure to
afford protection to such of the EN-
ployees as were not only willing but
anxious to kee aorhe invader at a dis
lance. To all intents and purposes the
city authorities made common cause
with violence. Hence, it's triumph.
History of that sort will not repeat
itself for the benefit of those who would
close upon all but themselves the doors
or the steel plants. They will find
a
material difference. They will not be
reinforced by the powers that be. The,
can resort to no extremes viii, will
induce disposition to surrender con-
ditionally of otherwise. They are stalk
ing everything upon a losing cause,
which is not the worst of it. They are
trailing unionism in mire from which
it will with difficulty be extracted
For as the Journal of Commerce says:
If anything of that kind should hap
pen, it would be about the worst thing
conceivable for the steel unions and
for Labor organizations generally. 1t
would he an utterly lawless attack,
not only upon Industrial and COM
mercial interests of the country and
the rights of those engaged in them,
but upon law and order and the au-
thority of government.
As nothing is so bad but what it
might be worse, there will be little
cloud and much silver lining if the out
come be the enforcement of a lesson
Sooner or later, force as a weapon for
use in such cases must go into desue-
tude. A sort Of ultimate test now ap-
pears to be impending. The ultimate
right involved is that Of Labor to find
peaceful and an open market. Tho
proposition of the steel unions Is not
only to raise barricade. but to fight
behind it. The conferences at Wash
ington and Buffalo will-or should
make different arrangements. They
will-or should-formulate programs
IN conformity with law. not in de-
fiance thereof.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15

incompetent to express an opinion
worthy of publication on enterprises
of great pith and moment" which pre-
suppose a certain amount of knowl-
edge and a study of the subject dis
cussed. The simple, homely problems
of everyday life, that everyone knows
something about, do not often get into
print, except as they apply to the
masses rather than the individual.
To remedy this state of affairs the
New York Evening" Sun has estab-
llished department headed, "What
Do You Think" ANY reader who
has an idea worth expressing is in
vited to write the Sun what is in his
or her mind. 1t is surprising what a
great variety of subjects are covered
in these letters, usually Signed with
initials or pseudonym, to enable the
writer to proceed without restraint.
The comedies and tragedies of life as
they affect people in all walks of life
are laid bare For instance, an ex-
convict, now happily married and liv-
ing straight" tells of the struggle
he had to reveal his past to the girl
he wanted to marry. He did confess
and she forgave, so he advises those
who have past to 'tell everything"
The high cost of living, women's
clothes, old maids, bachelors, matters
grave and gay, every conceivable
topic is discussed, most of them with
excellent good sense and humor
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
HIS INFINITE YEARN

From the Kansas City Times.
1T sorter aim to get schoolbook,'
casually admitted prominent resident
of the Fiddle Creek neighborhood, per-
coating into a book and news empo-
rum in Tumlinville, Ark. well. now,
lez see,-one of the children named it
to me before / started to town, but
1 didn't pay no special-yaw-w w w n
attention.; kids is always wanting
something or nuther. Beats hell how
unsatisfied they are But anyhow,
pears like it was g'of'aphy or 'rith-
metic, or somthing hathaway. Come
to think he did sorter measure it off
book about so big, reckon"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
POETRY AND PLAGIARISM
From the Detroit Free Press.


After Longfellow's poem Excelsior y
first appeared it was copied all over the
country in the various journals. 1t was
not long in reaching England, where it
met with the same enthusiastic reception.
Longfellow, in his diary If September l.
1871, notes: II received from Mr.. Henry
Gersoni today a Hebrew translation Of
Excelsior
In the writing of Excelsior bong
fellow was charged by a number OF
critics with plagiarism. One of these
claimed that the poet had adopted lines
from Brainard's poem, THE Mocking
Bird" but to this the poet replied:
Now. when in Excelsior I said A
voice fell like a falling STAR Brainard
poem was rot in my mind. nor had
ever read it. OF a truth. one cannor
strike spade into the soil Of Parnassus
without disturbing the bones of some
dead poet"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
Hours of Leisure

1T was a keen pleasure to hear Col.
Raymond Robins at the First Methodist
church yesterday morning." said r. w.
King. He is not only a brilliant man,
but he has Travelled and has had such
varied experiences that he can be truly
said to know whereof he speaks
"One particular line of Colonel Rob-
bins address that impressed me was
the reference to an eight-hour day for
labor. He said that it was all right
to work only eight hours a day, pro-
viding the other hours of leisure were
spent profitably and not in dissipa-
ton of one nature or another render
ing the man unfit for the eight hours
that he did work"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
From the Brooklyn Eagle. !.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
I'D Y unanimous vote of the union
Id or unions affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor
it has been decided to begin a steel
! strike September %. The Official
announcement made to this effect is
that they will do so because they have
exhausted every honorable means to
| bring about conference and that their
OBJECT is to ameliorate 1.-The brutal and
infolerable conditions under which the
men are compelled to work"
Regarding this cause" a fact and
an allegation are worth bearing IL
mind. The fact is that the EMPLOYEES
of the Steel Corporation have not filed
any complaint of any such conditions.
Inc allegation comes from Judge Gary
and is to the effect that there is no
resort to brutality and that there are
no intolerable conditions and no dis
elimination between union and nom
union employees, all being treated alike.
1t is added that, though the conditions
are far from intolerable, efforts to i'm
prove them are constant
There is however, a cause concern
ing which there is no genuine djsnnte
IL IS beyond the possibility of contro-
versy by those for whom truth has any
sigN2cance whatever. For about two
yearsthe unions have been canvassine
1or recruits from the ranks of the en-
ployees not altogether without sue
ri OF ie la+
out" 100000 men; the claim of the cor
psny is that no mandate from them
will be obeyed By more than a negljgi-
Die number Probably, each claim is
SUBJECT to considerable discount
That this final effort-the culmina-
'ioh OF long campaign-will eventuate
in strike there is little doubt. There
appears to be not the remotest poss;.
bility that the Corporation will sur
render On the other hand, the unions
nave the best reasons for believing
that with them 1t is a cause of now or
never For at the coming Labor con-
fere4ces an entirely new set of cofidi-
tions is reasonably sure to be ushered
in 1t is precisely because of the like
lihood thereof that they are PLAYING
their last card.
Neither the efforts of the President
nor those OF Mr.. Gompers have pro-
dueed results. The latter with the
sanction of the former, wired to secre-
tary Tumulty: TN view of the diff
Guilty OF arranging any present salts
FACTORY meditation with regard to the
steel situation the President desires to
urge upon the steel men through you
the wisdom and desirability Of post-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

IT is a wonder there are NOT more
women in Congress II is about the
onIv ioh whare Won can pet s75O0 a
year for doing nothing but talking.
We know that Ieatber shoes cost
from 40 to six because of an al,eeed
scarc;tv of b;das Ana ,ya sunnosa A.
pasteboard shoes that cost from S. tc
81 are that high because of a scarcity
of pasteboard
Wen have to admit that nrobibitior
makes for sobriety You can get ali
the liquor you want at 40 cents a snort
But at 40 cents snort a man goes
broke before he gets drunk
The honeymoon is over when she
pecks at the side of his face with hel
lips when he nays goodbye in the morn
ing
And it doesn't broaden bigoted man
a bit when he wears padding in the
shoulders of his coat
A young fellow won't believe it But
he'll be heap more miserable if a
girl accepts him than he will if she
turns him down
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15

An Englishmen, John Drinkwater, is
credited with having written the
Great American Play" That's some
thing we should be able to do for
ourselves.
Gaelic names along the Irish 'front.'
where Great Britain is making war on
the Sim Fem, are as hard to pronounce
as any we met with in France or Rus
STA.
An Ohio mother offered President
Wilson $40 month if he would get
her son released from the army. She
was not arrested for lese-majesty.
Mr.. Wilson is urging republicans to
forget that there is an election in
1920" He might as well urge them to
quit breathing.
4 X X
War had the effect of keeping Per-
shing youthful, while it aged Won Lud-
endorff, Won Hindenpurg ana Wilhelm
u X <
1t has been decided to let the Shin
my die natural death
x K X
1t i'll becomes a police force to strike
in the home of the sacred cod.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
CAN A HORSE WEEP?
From the Atlanta Journal.

From the Atlanta journal.
~ AN horse weep? A Brooklyn
III veterinarian of lifelong exper-
~ fence vouches for the possfbil-
ity. IA horse" says he in letter to
the New York Tribune, "has lachry-
NOSE glands fully developed. Any good
doctor will tell you that the lachry-
NOSE glands have rudimentary funs
tions and that the excessive secretion
of these glands, which is weeping, il
incidental to their regular purpose.
Adverting to the oft-observed fact that
in people this reaction is caused by
great sorrow or extreme Joy and that
sometimes persons weep for no reason
whatsoever, this authority adds that
whilst he would not essay to plumb
the depths of a horses psychology, it is
nevertheless thinkable that "in dumb
brutes existence. especially an old and
nervous horse, there might be times OF
great fatigue, when his physical condi-
ton could produce such a reaction.
which is something like hysteria."
Our veterinarian friend speaks with
the reserve of meticulous science.
Shakespeare knowing more about the
like of things than all the scientists
born, tells us quite patty that dumb
animals weep.
a poor sequester'd stag,
That from the hunters aim had taken
hurt,
Did come to languish; and, indeed, my
lord,
The wretched animal heav'd such
That their discharge did stretch his
leathern coat
Almost to bursting: and the big round
tears
In piteous chase.
OF course a horse can weep, and who
that knows a dogs devotion doubts
him capable of drops that sacred pity
hath engenderd?' For the matter of
that, these our fellow pilgrims through
Natures shadowy course laugh and
dream and talk. albeit we in pride of
human ignorance call them dumb"
Uncle Remus knew what the "creeturs"
said. John Westly wisely guessed that
the animals" have souls. And what
OF Balaam's aventurde? What Of the
sage East's insistence through thou
sands of years in psalm and tale that
things hidden to man are revealed to
these his lowly companions, and some
times reported by them in terms that
his stiff-necked intelligence can grasp
Little children and p6ets and seers know
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
FURTHER DATA DESIRED

FROM the Kansas City Times.
How long will it take me to GET r.
Iumiinvllle?' asked motorist. ha1tir.
ms ramshakle Hootin' Nannv car -
'front.' OF where Gap Johnson of Rumnu.
hlose' Ark, was looping over his own
fence.
Nlce-yaw-w-w-n!-day, haint it9r
returned Mr.. Johnson. What 'pears -
De the latest news about one thing and,
another? How about this yur league of
nations, and"
Look here! If you know, why don,t
you tell me how long it will take mo -
get to Tumlinvillew
I'm just passing the time O. dav win
you till you get ready to give me ,,..,.
more information. 1t hain't polite 70
ask a stranger with that kind of q o.r
Phow fast it will 60"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15

iaush and talk-if not in speech of ours.
no matter; for what is speech "put
broken light on the depths of the I'M
spoken .
-. even your loved words
Float in the largest meaning of your
voice " soui
AS something DINNER"
In that Larger Meaning" that gives
us iho'her tongue. to winds of midnirht
ana the dawn's leafy ripping and starry
silence of the soul, we may learn som.
time what say the wistful eyes of Dob
bin and Dan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15

From Punch, London
Along the cobbled Menin wav
me wine and wool were sent
Ana market wagons every day
TO Ypres and Menin went
And oh! the laughing women So, an,
sewed oA
Before their houses on the Menin road.
mere are no houses now; the rain
In pools where they have been
Lies deep; or out upon the plain
few trail walls may lean:
And oh! the little children must NOT NAV
with what they find beside the Menin
way
And | rei><mber gallant men
And lads who fought and died. 4
ana think of all their laughter when.
They said good-by-and died;
For oh! it $ not too bad" thew used L !,
say.
Along the Armentieres and Menin way
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
cApwlnlI1MdAaas1tH


From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
An enterprising syndicate is going
to turn the summer palace of the late
Emperor Francis Joseph into summer
hotel for tourists. Will the guests be
given turns in wearing the Hapsburg
crown?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
MIR. Harding Will Address
Southern Cotton Growers

SOuInCTn AOktOh 0IOWCAS
TN commenting on the meeting to be
y held in Atlanta Wednesday to per
feet plans for the organization of
southern cotton growers, the Atlanta
Constitution pays high tribute to W.
p. G.. Harding, governor of the federal
reserve board, and a distinguished
Albanian.
Mr.. Harding, who will preside at the
conference, is regarded as the one man
whose leadership and advice are the
most likely to be of value in the crisis
which now confronts cotton producers
in the south. In addition to cotton
growers. prominent bankers, mer-
chants, newspaper publishers and
leading citizens from all parts of the
south have been invited to be present.
Speaking OF Mr.. Harding, the Con-
stitution says:
Not only is Mr. Harding, whose
home is in Alabama, known to be
the stanch friend of the cotton pro-
Queer. but he is in a position, If
substantial organization is perfect
ed, to render, perhaps, greater ma
terial assistance in the furtherance
of the organizations plans than any
other one man
If there is one man in the world
who has had more opportunity than
another to gather the broadcast pos
sible view of present business OPP
portunity, and to make an accurate
forecast, it is Mr.. Harding. Feel-
ing as he does about the south, his
home, and it's foremost product, it
is not too much to say that the
future Of this section and its possi-
bilities through that product. have
been uppermost in his mind
No one Speaks with more authority
on inspires more confidence among
the south's business men than Mr.
Harding. He stands in the front rank
of the nations financiers, but has
never ceased to take the keenest in
tefest in the south, where he was born
and where his early success was won
The advancement is a matter close to
his heart and his practical plan to put
cotton growing on a business basis,
as substitute for the slipshod meth
DDS that have prevailed in the past
win, if put into operation, be means
of bringing undreamed of prosperity
to this part OF the country.
* x
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
"A- STANDS FOR ALEX

From the Providence Journal.
The man who fired the first American
cannon shot in the world war is Alex
Arch of Indiana. His name comes pretty
near the first of the alphabetical list
Also
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
A DAY THAT IS GONE

From the Washington Star.
The day is far past when the most
discussed railway annoyance was the
necessity Of tipping the Pullman pcr-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15

BEGINNING THE DAY-o my
Father. 1 think could meet =
great emergency. 1 think 1 could
bear crushing burden. hut 1
crave Thy strength for these long
bare stretches of mOnOtony. My
life seems made mp of things not
worth while. Nothing big enough
to command my powers ever comes.
1 beg of Thee, sustain me through
these little things. In Chrfsts
name Amen.-H. NJ. e.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
PERsHING sIDEsTEps

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
When Pershing was asked: Are vou
republican or democratic" he raised
both hands and said: please do no,
emDarrass me. What else could a good
repuohcan say. after reading what il
going on in the Senate? -
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15
Unusual Letters Written
By q Newspapers Readers

mi EWSPAPER publishers, quite as
y " much as theatrical press
agents, realize the value of "heart in
terest." While the chief end of a
newspaper is to give the news, just
as it happens, without modification or
establishment, the modern daily does
something more than that. 1t is a
friend and adviser to its readers and
it must at all times maintain a bond
Of sympathy with them quite distinct
from the impersonal task of recording
the worlds events.
Practically all newspapers are sort
Of open forum for expressing the
views of their views. Not few sub.
scribers take advantage of this for
cause OF register a complaint. Many
of these communications are ably
written and most instructive. They
ara often the opinions of experts. ~
Communications Of this kind, how
ever, are not attempted by the aver
age newspaper reader. He or she feels
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River Terminal

There is little doubt in my mind"
said Charles Denegre yesterday, that
the proposition for placing Birming-
will be put through In less time than
now hoped for. 1t would do wonders
in the way of giving this district rea-
sonable freight rates. besides facilitat-
ing shipment of our products.
Not only would railroad transporta-
ton of material be made from here,
but motor trucks and electric lines
would play very important part in the
transportation problem. 1t will be a
big day for this district when the ter
minal is established"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-15

As you arc old and reverend you
should be wise. king Lear.
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