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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07
The New Revenue Law
One of Unjust Taxation

THE legislature of Alabama, under
u the dominance of the governor
and as a result of trading and other
political tactics, has finally adopted
revenue bill.
1t is the most unjust measure, per-
haps, ever adopted by an Alabama
legislature Instead of equalizing
taxes of the state its promoters
sought the easiest way" method and
imposed double taxation and unjust
taxation upon the coal and ore opera
tors of the Birmingham district.
The adoption of this revenue meas
ure was a political play, pure and
simple, and instead of redounding to
the credit of the governor and-7lis fol
lowers assure to have back. fire.
effect.
Under the present regime the Ala
bama government is rapidly nearing
socialism.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07
TWENTY YEARS AGO
IN THE AGE-HERALD
Events record,

Maitri Labor, chief counsel for Captain
Dreyfus. is convinced that Colonel Jou-
aust is prejudiced against the prisoner,
and it is rumored at Rennes that he will
withdraw from the case which caused an
exciting passage of arms yesterday be-
tween Labori and the court.
War in the Transvaal is expected to be-
gin at any moment. British colonial Of
flee officials are in constant communica-
ton with Queen Victoria and Lord Sails
bury. 1t is rumored London that Gen.
Evlyn Wood will command the British
troops in South Africa
The Birmingham Elks are planning to
give minstrel show directed by Billy
Williams. A feature will be the "Baby
Eiks skirt Dance" in which not single
participant will weigh less than 200
pounds.
The, citizens of Birmingham sweltered
Yesterday when the thermometer stood
at 90 degrees.
County Auditor A. ]. Camp was last
nigh unanimously elected to succeed
George B. Ward as alderman from the
Second ward
The hoard of trade has thrown down
the gauntlet to the Southeastern Tariff
association and has begun fight to OBJ
tain cheaper insurance for the people of
Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Once in while nature makes a mis-
take and creates a man who can talk
almost as much as a woman.
Never blame a dime museum or saw
dust evangelist for taking the money.
Blame the suckers who hand out the
money.
Another thing that always puzzled us
is why fortune tellers never seem able
to do much for themselves in that line.
AS you journey through life YOU will
discover that there are rocky roads to
number of points besides Dublin
1t is a waste of time to try to convince
a man who loves a fat girl that she will
never grow any fatter.
Most men would make poor preachers
for the reason that a preacher is sup
posed to set good example for his enc
mics
A husband may forget to be loving But
you can bet that he never forgets to be
grouchy.
When a man is looking for trouble he
never has to hire detective to help him
find it.
Many mother has to do her own err
rands because her children are so willing
to run errands for The neighbors and so
unwilling to do anything for her.
And you do not have to live in an
apartment to make flat failure out of
marriage.
If you put barbed-wire fence in each
side of it you couldn't keep some men in
the straight and narrow path.
You can shut up the man who is always
telling you what people say about you
if you will tell him what people say
about him.
We have always refused to worry But
we can't understand how we are gonna
celebrate Thanksgiving and New Years
Day on nogless eggnog.
Right row we can think of but one
sure thing. And that is that if you will
let small boy alone he'll let soap
alone.
One way for girl to keep on loving
the man she loves is for her to marry
some other man.
The man who has TO cough all the time
, when he is attending church never thinks
of coughing when he is attending show.
Another sad fact is that if a man hap
pens to marry his first love she isn't al
ways his last love-
What has become of the o. F. 16-year-
old girl who got a good spanking if she
wasn't home by o'clock at night?
Any man can tell you that advice is
one of the few things that it is better
to give than to receive.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07
Tribunal to Prevent
Nationwide Strike

O. ENATOR UNDERWOOD'S plan
~ to substitute law for force and
violence in settling disputes between
capital and labor is thoughtful and
practical attempt to solve problem
which now menaces the United States.
His speech on this important subject,
recently delivered in the Senate, will
be given careful consideration, be-
cause he is recognized as a student of
the railroad question, as well as an
authority on the tariff.
AS Senator Underwood truthfully
saws. no sound basis has yet been
found on which to rest the settlement
of a labor dispute. Collective bar
gaining will not assure a peaceful
agreement in controversy between
|caritals and labor because behind it is
the threat of a strike. In most dis
Iturbances of this kind the burden falls
heaviest on the public. 1t is an old
saying that "the public pays" and it
lis truer today than it ever was, with
the widening sphere both of capital
and labor, closely interviewer with
the lives Of all the American people.
AS a remedy for the doctrine of
force, which is too often a synonym
flor violence, Senator Underwood sug-
gests federal board which would
have authority not only to protect
the interests of labor, but of capital
also, and by preventing economically
wasteful strikes in the future, such
as railroad strike which would
paralyze the transportation facilities
of the country, would assure square
ideal for labor, for capital and for the
public.
In the main, capital and labor still
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07

Knox are adroit, but they are tricky.
Their chief aim is to muddy the
waters, to embarrass the President
and to ride into power in 1920.
But the people cannot be fooled.
They may not be able to comprehend
complex phases of the league cove
nant, but they can well understand
the upshot of the question as ex-
planned by the President
A defeat in the Senate of the peace
treaty and the covenant of nations
would be disastrous to this country
and would mean another bloody war,
and that within short time.
Who wants another . war? The
American people do not want it. The
republican politicians do not want it,
but they will go any lengths to defeat
the democratic party. The public will
stand by President Wilson
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07
I,ej3ouea
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
NEGLECTED.

NEGLECTED
81 fear this discharged soldier left
his heart in France"
because he looks so melancholy
YES"
THAT isn't the reason. He left his
heart in America when he went to
France and I suspect the girl to whom
it was entrusted treated it the way
a married man treats his wife's ferns
when she goes away for the summer"
SUBSTITUTES ARE RARE
1.-THE two-headed boy and the osa-,
fled man have struck for highs
wages" said the head "spieler'' of
sideshow.
I Let 'em strike grow1ed the nap
ager. They amt organized"
mo but have you stopped to con
slider that in a case like this it might
be hard to get strilebreakers?"
'TISN'T SAFE
With a lovely aviatriX
Don't ever seek to fly;
She cannot hear a word you say.
You cannot catch her eye.
She might as well be miles away,
Or in some other land;
And you'd probably wreck the darncd
machine
IF Won tried TO hold her hand
PAUL. COOK
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07

has two children. His wife was Miss
Jones, daughter Of well-kno.n
farmer of Coal City, and a college
graduate woman of great ambition
and a valuable helpmate of her t-~.S-
band Mrs. Harrison and the chiidrea
have been with Mr.. Harrison in Mont
gemery during the present session OF
the legislature. In other words, there
is team work between man and wife.
Harrison has not once strayed into
any of the isms or theories, nor has
he listened to wild talk of animosit.es
between capital and labor. He went
to Montgomery not only to represent
people Of whose organization he was
an officer, but all the people.
He was the moving spirit in COM
promise workmen's compensation act.
which was passed practically unanim-
ously, and which is conceded to be 3
LAIR measure 1or Dotn eHployeT anu
employee
He stands with the best interests of
Jefferson county, and all classes alike
admire and respect the man.
Harrison's disposition is very much
like that of Oscar Underwood. He is
Straight thinker. considerate, and
careful of speech. He is lover of
children. a man of generous DISPOSE
ton, and in his struggles for success
has never complained nor failed to give
the most Just consideration to his OPP
ponents and supporters alike
1t will be well for the public to keen
a careful eye on William L. Harrison
He promises to be factor in Alabama
affairs-not a meteoric star-but .
steady climber. He is a student and
has the characteristic markings OF a
statesman.
AeDR,uee
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07

the politicians of the baser sort when he
said: 1--WE are born evil and become good
only by necessity Take this as a tip
when you see one of the professional pol
iticians of the old school turning reform
er and sitting on the mourner's bench
Take the ancient political shibboleth,
ito the victors belong the spoils" If
lived up to honestly without trafficlSing
with the party out of power, it is in my
opinion, more human and moral than is
the modern practice by which the bosses
play the end against the middle, and
it makes no matter who wins or loses,
there is profit FOR the dominant factor
in both political camps thereby making
it necessary for the great corrupting agen-
cies to keep both democratic and repup-
lican leaders under pay
I like to see an honest political battle
in which great personalities are striving
for supremacy, for there is joy in such
a red-blooded battle but the thing l
loathe and feaE is the shadow dancing Of
termed invisible government" Give
the good old time politician who, wanting
an office, east his hat in the ring and
went after any man who picked it up,
rather than the candidate of few men
sitting behind closed doors. who put
him up to carry out their policies.
| ShakaSnpara OVprlOOEe6 bets,
and if you can't find a thing in the Bible
you will De pretty likely to be rewarded
! in your search if you take a peep into
the plays of~the Bard of Avon. The
myriad-minded' evidently was on 20
the gang in power, when he said:
There is something rotten in Dem
mark"
Possibly the sensitive nose of the Gym
ical statesman of Kansas had gotten a
whiff of party politics in the parties in
Central America when he gave out the
saving that "the publication of politics
| is an irredescant dream"
| But in spite of Shakespeare and Ingallo
| and even Lincoln, who in pessimistic
mood remarked: Politics, as a trade
finds most and leaves nearly all dis
| honest 1 maintain that there is a CLEAN
of better things in the political horizon,
and that the hour has come when if men
+, will take upon themselves their duties as
citizens and prize their ballots as they
should, that the term politician can De
robbed of much of its past and present
| faint, and be minted into new word OF
honor and respect
|
fear that / will never be able to qualify
as ''mugwump." for according to the
! definition of General Horace Porter. "a
mugwump is person educated beyond
his intellect" About as far as car
go. is to stand on the platform with
Grover Cleveland. who was won't to say
party honesty is party expediency."
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President Wilson Has
the People With Him

lOREsIDENT WILSON'S trans
= continental tour on mission
that affects the destiny of America
is not only full of promise, but it will
prove, distinct epochal event.
In explaining the league of ma
tions and pleading for its ratifica-
ton the President is wonderfully con-
vincing. There is note of sincerity
in his discussion that impresses all
open-minded citizens. No one can
ponder his utterances without accept
ing the logic Of his conclusions.
Are the republican leaders, in fight
ing the administration, disingenuous :?
They are not Men like Lodge and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07
IN RESIDENT WILSON is not mine
~ ing words in his explanations
Of tha oaaca treaty. and the

III RESIDENT WILSON is not mine
~ ing words in his explanations
of the peace treaty and the
league of nations covenant.
He is hitting straight from the
shoulder at his republican senatorial
opponents. In ST. Louis Friday he in
vited those who opposed his acts in
Paris to prove whether they ARE not
absolute, contemplate cutters If they
do not see the game through"
The President is determined to drive
the political senator's into their holes.
Woodrow Wilson has always been
possessed with both moral and phys
ical courage. AS a boy in Augusta.
Ga, when he was called "Tommie"
Wilson. he was a fighter, regardless
of the. fact that his father was Pres
byterian minister
The old hit-from- the shoulder fight
ing spirit is aroused in him again, and
when he finishes his tour in the west
the chances are that the Senate will
be ready to vote and will approve the
treaty and the covenant of the league
of nations.
All Americans admire a man who
knows what he wants and goes after
it. Theodore Roosevelt never used the
big stick" with more determination
than Wilson is now going after his
object.
Woodrow Wilson bids fair to retire
from the White House ranking in his
tory among the foremost of the great
Presidents of this country.
y + +
We all admire men who accomplish
something. In this connection, the
speech of Senator Oscar Underwood in
the United States Senate several DAYS
ago would indicate that he has mas
tered the railroad problem and that
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07
Local Colleges Open
This Week

HIS is college week in Birming-
q ham, and the outlook for large
enrollments was never brighter
Birmingham Southern college, on
+Owenton hill, opens Wednesday, and
old Howard opens Thursday. Many
Improvements have been made at Bir-
lmingham- Southern, and there is every
indication that all the dormitories will
be filled. The student body will find
la larger and more specialized faculty
and the athletic equipment modern
and especially attractive.
Howard college is all the while ex-
panding. Few institutions Of learn
ing in the south equal it. Among the
physical betterments this year may
be noted the acquisition of several
residential houses adjoining the col
lege property. These buildings have
long been desired by the trustees and
will round out the college estate adj
mirably. They viii serve we'll as resi-
dences for the instructors.
| Howard has never been wanting in
students, and this year the enroll
ment will, it is believed, mark new
high record.
Birmingham has reason to be proud
| of its colleges
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07
PARTICULAR

This is the bungalow for you"
II don't like the exposure"
why, the house faces east and COM
mands fine view of the city"
Il wasn't talking about that. no.
tice one of the neighbors standing in
front of window in his B. v. DIS and
giving himself matutinal shave with
out so much as piece of cheesecloth
between his hairy form and the public
gaze. II that's his daily habit, as /
said before. 1 don't like the exposure. +"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07
Misses the Conference

IT ran up to Birmingham to marry
couple" said Rev. L. M. Bradley OF
Selma, who for years served as pas
tor of Baptist churches in this district.
Il am enjoying my work at Selma but
listers conference. 1t is a great thing
to be able to meet with ones associ-
ates in the ministry. OF course. at
Selma 1 am in touch with the local
pastors and get to see quite a few who
pass through the city, but it is not
like meeting a score or more evcrv
Monday morning of ones own denomi-
nation
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
Starting In Time

| They catch hem young to teach
them thrift in Minnesota" said Mrs.
Richard F. Johnston, state director of
ization. Director NJ. f. Harrison of
the Minnesota savings organization has
organized an American Baby's Thrift
club at Minneapolis. IN which he is
enrolling all the newly borns arriving
in the Minnesota metropolis. All re-
ports indicate that the baby club plan
is a bowling success in more ways
than one.
"Just as soon as the stork makes a
visit to any Minneapolis home Director
Harrison is on the job. The proud
parents receive in an early mail a let
| ter inviting the youngster into the
American Baby's Thrift club and an
enrolment card to be FILLED out for
the new arrival. The, enrolment card
pledges the parents to make regular
systematic purchases of Thrift Stamps
or War Savings Stamps for the new
baby over a period of years, and
pledges the proceeds of the invest
ment to the childs own use.
The letter points out that an IN
vestment of 81 week in Savings
Stamps will amount to s63s6S by the
time the child is 10 years old, and
that an investment IF So a week over
the same period win give the 1O-year-
old a capital OF s3,193.40.
The baby thrift club is showing a
steady gain in membership and
steadily growing sale of stamps"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07
POLITICIANS AND POLITICS-By Frank Willis Barnett

At the Realtors lunch at the Southern
club. President Frank Butler introduced
John Turner as one of the greatest poll
ticians he had ever known, basing his
conclusions upon the good work done
by him in Montgomery in estopping the
Pettus bill.
In spite of the fact that it was his evil
dent effort to compliment him, l no.
lticed that John in acknowledging the in
PRODUCTION seemed to be a bit hesitant
in accepting the sobriquet of politician
without some qualifying clauses, when he
arose to speak of what he had done
at the capitol.
Now l am aware that too often the
term politician" has carried with it a
stigma, and that politics has been de-
cried as not being gentleman's game.
but | think it is high time to wrest the
greatest sport that is, out of the hands
of few professionals and make it the
diversion of the many who wish to see
better government prevail in city, coun
ty, state and national affairs.
It's sign of promise that man may
be a politician and yet wear it not as
flying merit and service to his party or
to the people. If Frank had called John
a politicasater, then the latter might
have demurred, for it would not have
fitted him, for any one who knows the
gentleman is aware that is not a petty
;a;a 70 M.
litical knowledge or influence, but that
he is broad guaged and delivers the
goods when he gets busy as he did down
in Montgomery.
l am hoping to see the time in which
men will covet the title of politician, for
when stripped of the odium which has
grown around the name, it simply means
one who is versed in the science of gov
eminent and the art of governing, that is
one skilled in politics. With this defini
ton, it can be readily seen that it takes
brains and character to become a sure
enough leader in ones party. 1t offers a
career for all men of good will and for
ward-looking mind.
Now the professional politicians have
done everything in their power to create
corner in politics by shutting out ev-
eryone not in the business for place.
power or loot; but. the people are grad
ually beginning to see that too often the
party lash is used, not for the party
good, but to further the selfish inter-
ests of few who live to profit by it's
successes, or find a soft berth when 1t
goes down to defeat
Now Machiavelli, that shameless old
Italian, who turned his wicked mind in
side and out with an abandon which
makes we moderns of the goth century
! blush with shame, evidently had in mind
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07
DOCTORS PART IN WAR
the Anaconda Standard.

L ioiil the AHdcOHQd STANDARD.
If the same proportion of deaths had
occurred in the world war that took place
in the Spanish war, disease
would have reaped $4,000 Americans, as
against $1,000, the actual number. The
American medical men were right on the
job taking advantage of 20 years of
scientific progress. Spanish influenza
and pneumonia still defy them. but ty-
phoid and some other diseases that once
made community tremble have lost
their terrors. The physicians and sur
geons contributed their full share toward
the winning of the war
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07
Most Worthy Cause

Although many calls have been made
on the generous public during the past
two years, there has never been a more
deserving one than that of the Boy
scouts and the Boys club said Dan B.
Dimmick, 'and hope that everyone will
assist in raising the $4,000 needed by
these organizations. We expect to make
a whirlwind campaign next week be-
ginning Thursday with joint luncheon
OF the Rotary, Kiwanis, Civilian and
Community clubs. No trouble is antici-
pated in subscribing this amount and we
expect TO go over the top in grand STYLE ;.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-07
1T WASN'T A FLASK

Mr.. Jagsby suffered a bitter disap-
pointment yesterday"
How was that?"
"a friend came into Mr.. Jagsby's Of
flee with a mysterious air. but after
Juggling at something in his hip pocket
for several minutes he merely pro-
duced an old-fashioned wallet and re-
paid a 81 loan,