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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
THE OLD-FASHIONED GIRL

national madness has passed out and old English idea
 Not few writers and private talk CTS have said things to the same effect as the foregoing. We hear it every day and hearing it we may accept it as scathing indictment of the new girl, just as our forbears accepted the fore going article as just indictment of the girls Of a half century ago.
 Head-strong, forward and disobedient young people were known long before the time the Reviews editorial. Read CTS of the Last Days of Pompeii" may recall the lamentation of chief char acter that young people of his time were not as reverent and respectful i'll the presence of their elders as they CT were they as religious. Certain it is that the Apostle Paul. in writing those epistolary messages, thought it pertinent and timely to remind women it appeared to him it was necessary for him, as an authority, to repress women, warning them specifically against obbing their hair.
 It seems that the race has always stopped to ask now and then, "What has become of the old-fashoned girl who" etc?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
* * j. Only Practical Way To Settle Wage Question

ID RESIDENT WILSON'S ultima 4 tum to railroad employees that they must recognize and abide by the decisions of their constituted authori- ties before any action can be taken on their grievances by the government is neither autocratic nor unreasonable.
 Obviously nothing is to be, gained by strikes which have no directing head and no leadership, Such action weakens rather than strengthens labor and brings 6emoralization in it's own ranks, not to speak of the additional burden 1t places on the shoulders of the public, numerically the greatest sufferer when labor refuses to work.
 By instructing Director General Hines to decide on the railway shop mems demands for higher wages, the President has paved the way for quick acCion ana an early solution of prob lem which threatens to paralyze the country. The matter has been left entirely in the hands of President Will son by the Senate interstate commerce committee and the Presidents fair treatment of labor in the past insures the shopmen that their complaints will be decided strictly on their merits.
 The high cost of living concerns the whole nation, and not a particular cl;tss. What can be done to amalio- rate conditions will be done. Would-be strikers are only making bad matter worse for themselves and all the peo pie of America by assuming that they. regardless of what happens to others, must be given instant relief.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09

Ing or systematic selling, no cer-
 tain prospect of employment, no
 normal restoration of business. no
 hopeful attempt at reconstruction
 or the proper reassembly of the
 olslocated' elements of enterprise
 until peace has been established
 and, so far as may be, guaran-
 teed.
 The President, after referring to the fact that our national life has been less radically disturbed than that of other nations, shows that it has been, nevertheless, profoundly affected and idisarranged, for our industries. our credits and our economic processes are inextricably interwoven with those of other countries.
 In coming to the main point at issue the high cost of living-President Wilson calls attention to the abun- dance of food in storage-much greater than it was year ago-and to the utter lack of justification for the high prices recently obtaining. Not only food, but other commodities constituting the necessaries of life have scared in price beyond endur- ance. Laws on the statute books will be invoked to help remedy the situa- tion; but they are inadequate. The President asks Congress to enact leg |islation that will enable the govern ment to grapple with the vital prob- lems now disturbing the nation.
 If there is no sure panacea for present ills, the trouble can be great ly minimized by speedy ratification on the part of the Senate of the peace treaty. As the President makes plain, nothing stable, economically or indus trially, can be expected until peace is established.
 The address is not only on the high est level. of practical statesmanship, but it rings with note of sincerity and cannot fail to bear fruit.
 All shades of politics should disap- pear for the time being. The good of the whole nation is at stake, and ;he people will demand firm and prompt ac.ion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
From the Montgomery Advertiser.

From the Montgomery Advertiser. N LONDON correspondent discovers A\ rollicking satire upon people S S of today, that is those of us who gravely shake our heads as we contemplate the manners and dress of many young folk of the day. The cor respondent finds that in the Saturday Review of fifty years ago the following article was printed:
 The girl of the period is a creature Nho dyes her hair and paints her face as the first articles of her personal re llgion--a creature whose sole idea. of life is fun, whose sole aim is m bounded luxury, and whose dress is The chief object of such thought and in tellect as She possesses. Her main endeavor is to outlive her neighbors in the extravaganza of fashion. If a sensible fashion lifts the gown out of the mud she raises hers.
 All men whose opinion ia worth having prefer the simple and genuine girl of the past, with her tender little ways and pretty bashful modesties to this loud and rampant rnodernization with her false red hair and painted skin, talking slang as glibly as a man. and by preference leading the conver- sation to doubtful subjects. All we can do is to wait patiently until the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
==7=-==7-7-77--- LUKE 1I'LCNE SAYS

You can make a woman believe other tn1nSs. But you can't make her believe that comfortable clothes are ever stylish. Of course it is none of our business. but it seems to us that there are a whole lot or unmarried girls who do not need chaperones half as much as their mar ried mothers need chaperones Fear will jar a man into action when common ordinary things like facts won't budge him.
 A widow seems to get along nicely without a man. But a widower is all ways chasing anything that makes a noise like a skirt.
 A lot of us do not get anywhere because we stay inside of our jobs all the time and never get out and walk anound our works and see them as others see them.
 Any old friend will share his last dol lar with you. But it takes real friend to share his last case of real beer with you.
 Another eight-cylnder, 21-jeweled pest is the fellow who butts m to tell the iesr of the gang that he has heard your pet story before.
 There was a time when the odor of booze on a mans breath caused disgust. But nowadays it causes great excite ment.
 But she can't bleach her hair and keep if dark.
 A woman makes up her mind in such a way that she can easily make it over again in 10 minutes.
 When a man pays his bill some months he gets the idea that the electric light company is selling it's product by the karat instead of by the kilowatt. What a heap more of gossip there would be in this world if women had to sit and wait their turns in the barber shops!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09

The reduction in the number of Bir. mingham's movie shows may enable a tireless patron to make the rounds ir less than one day.
 < < * Personally we are quite willing for Try. Cobb to quit writing war stories and give us tale of old KentuckS that doesn't reach it's climax in France
 x F < According to press dispatches. the bourgeoisie are battling upward ir Hungary.
 The discussion of the race question in Washington is getting back on an academic basis.
 # # * The salaried man is standing behind Uncle Sam in his drive against the ,profiteers
 Lest we forget, Confucius was born in shantung and the Chinese still swear by him.
 * # # About the year 1850 it may be pos- sible to again purchase a dish of ham and eggs for a quarter
 x # # It is hardly worth while to make any distinction between rent profiteers and food profiteers.
 < # # Those merry tales of Broadway are not half as merry as they were one short year ago
 By granting Marshal Haig $500 0oO the British government shows it's ap- rreciation in a substantial form.
 # x < Considering the salaries they get ia It any wonder that some college profess sors are bolsheviki?
 * # # Even though he was desposed. Bela Kun has the satisfaction of knowing that he put the pest" in Budapest.
 * # # "Marse" Henry Watterson continues to regard feminism as the blight of his declining years.
 * * x How can drop of rain cool a fever ed brow when, mercifuI heavens, the ain itself is hot?
 # < x Sitting on high hill, the Birming- ham weather man is enyied bv to;lars who swelter in the valley.
 < < * Life among Liverpool dock workers Is just one strike after another.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09

overland of the waistline; the capacity of the brain, not the volume of breath. From long observation we have learned that there is no connection between mind and intellect. One visit to a meeting of the board of supervisors is enough to prove that.
 Intellect cares not where 1t is housed. It is equally at home in substantial Napoleon or a shadowless Savonarola; in a godlike Raphael or a crooked Louis XI. And how shall we believe that the glow of it's ethereal fires depends on the strength of material bellows adventi- tiously situated near it?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
TWENTY YEARS AGO IN THE AGE-HERALD Events recorded August g, 1899

Maitre Demange, principal counsel for
 Captain Dreyfus, expresses himself well pleased with the court proceedings yes- terday at Rennes. Dreyfus, who subsists on diet of milk and eggs. is confident
 that his honor will be cleared The Italian government is disposed to of the lynching of five Italians at Tal- lulah, I.a., according to report received by the state department from the Italian authorities.
 Aguinaldo has appealed to the powers for recognition of Filipino independence, on the ground that the Filipinos had con-
 quered the islands before the signing of the treaty of Paris and Spain and had no right to cede them to the United States.
 Secretary of War Elihu Root states that he will actively push the campaign in the Philippines Fifty thousand American soldieN will be ready for service at the close of the rainy season. Former Gov. w. Y. Atkinson of Georgia died at his home in Newman. Ga. yes- terday morning.
 The Birmingham district is to have an- other big cast iron pipe plant in addition to the Howard Harrison plant at Besse- mer. now belonging to the United States Cast Iron Pipe company. F. B. Nichols. formerly manager of the Howard H Harri- son plant, will be at the head of the new concern which will have . capitalization of at least $S0o,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
President Wilson's
 Ringing Address to Congress

THE Presidents address before S Congress yesterday afternoon, proposing remedies to check the high cost of living, is not only timely. but in the nature of things, the most pregnant discussion that has come from the chief executive in many a day.
 Recognizing fully the critical point to which the country has come by rea- son of the profiteering for sometime in evidence, the President makes many practical suggestions in the line of relief, and in such crisis as con- fronts us party divisions must vanish, just as they did during the progress of the war
 "There is now neither peace nor war!" exclaims the President. 'All the world is waitlng-with what un- nerving fears and hantihg doubts who can adequately y?-waiting to know when it shall have peace and what kind of peace it will be when it comes" Continuing he says:
 Politically. economically social
 ly the world is on the operating table and it has not been pos sible to administer any anaes-
 thetic. It is conscious. It is even
 watching the capital operation
 upon which it knows that it's hope
 of healthful life depends. It can-
 not think it's business out or make
 plans or give intelligent and provi-
 dent direction to it's affairs while
 in such case.
 Where there is no peace of mind
 there can be no energy in en-
 deavor. There can he no confi-
 dence in industry. no calculabls
 hasis for credits. no confident bus-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
WHO WON THE WAR.

From the London Daily Mail
 The war has been won by the heroism or France, who gained time for us to prepare, whose armies were foremost in the light, and whose general was chosen for the supreme command by all the allies; by the devotion of Belgiun, who was ready to sacrifice evervtbine put her immortal soul; by the nobility of itaiy, who in one of the darkest hours came to our aid; by the immense efforts oh the united states, who aentered the war at that critical time When Russ;. failed, and whose troops at Chateau Ihierry, in the breaking of the Hinden- burg line and in the Argonne, won such laurels last year. It has been won nv the patience, tenacfty and faith of the British peoples and of the splendid sol diers from home ana the dominiors whom they sent into the field.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
ON GROWING OLD

John Masefield. in the Atlantic Monthly Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying My dog and are old, too old for roy
 ing; Man, whose young passion sets the spind-
 thrift flying, Is soon too lame to march. too cold for
 loving. I take the book and gather to the fire. Turning old yellow leaves. Minute by
 minute The clock ticks to my heart; a withered
 wire.
 Moves thin ghost of music in the
 spinet. Your mountains nor your downlands,
 nor your valleys Ever again. nor share the battle wonder Where your young knight the broken
 squadron rallies: Only stay quiet. while my mind remem-
 bers The beauty of fire from the beauty of
 embers. Beauty, have pity; for the young have The rich their wealth, the beautiful their
 grace, Summer of man it's fruit time and its
 flowers, Spring time of man all April in a face Only, as in the jostling in the Strand, Where the mob thrusts or loiters or Is
 loud, The beggar with the saucer in his hand Asks only penny from the passing scrowd. So. from this glittering world with all it's
 fashion ' Its fire and play of men, it's stir it's
 march, Let me have wisdom. Beauty, wisdom
 and passion, Bread the soul, rain where the sum-
 mers parch Give me but these. and though the dark
 ness cloee, Even the nixht VIII blossom as the roes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
THE PHILOSOPHER

From Plato
 Those who belong to this small class have tasted how sweet and blessed a pos- session philosophy is and have also seen and been satisfied of the madness of the multitude and know that there is no one act honestly in the administration Of one who maintains the cause of the just. And he reflects upon all this and holds his peace and does his own business. He is content if only he can live his own life and be pure from evil or unrighteous- ness and depart in peace and good will with bright hopes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Played i, Hard Luck

r - fiayed In Hard LUCK
 IT ever a fellow played in hard luck, 'l did said Roy L. Smart, for when l volunteered in the army in Chicago, had to take the typhoid serum treat ment and also be vaccinated for sntall- pox. It seemed 10 me that for a month some medico was shooting juice into my veins, but after the treatment was over l felt immune from every known communicable disease.
 When l was transferred to the navy II walked up to the examining physi- clans with my chest out, for I thought had been given the third degree in the army and that consequently I would get by the seadogs. It was with a bit of flourish that I produced my papers properly signed by the surgeons whose hands 1 had passed through, but the man at the desk never seemed to pay the least bit of attention to them, and without even so much as looking up, called back to one of the exam lners on duty, Here is a doughboy flashing some army papers about his having been shot for typhoid and pricked for smallpox; do you recognize them I was getting a bit nervous, and soon the answer came, Hell no, mako real sure enough Jackie out of him by doing it all over again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09

0ClHUS spoke Caesar, and Caesar was no fat man. But now comes Dr. B. W. de Busk, psychologist of the University of Oregon, also thin man,
 great lung capacity, are likely to be fat heads as we'll.
 Is it true? What warrant has this Or egon savant for his assertion that avoir- ] cursion into history turns up not a few famous men who possessed obvious " eight and undoubted intellect. Caesar was thin. but, according to Plu- tarch, he had disciplined himself to pen- itential abstemiousness and a hard sim plicity of life Plutarch does not say SO, but it may we'll be that Julius actually tended to fatness and was forced to his severe regimen to keep in condition be- fore his soldiers.
 Napoleon is generally credited with con- siderable intellect, but none of his DOT traits show his clothes Tapping on his person. Bismarck, whatever we may think of his principles. must be allowed to have had a considerable quantity of very able brain matter ensconced in the hugh bulk he carried about with him. u Hung Chang was no clothespole. Chaucer described himself as mo poppet to em- brace" Oliver Cromwell was distinctly inclined to stoutness and so, too, was Henry VIII. Alexander Dumas and Vic tor Hugo carried considerable poundage. None of these men were exactly wilt ings.
 To come down to the present and to men whose figures are we'll known to all of us: Charles NJ. Schwab cannot be de- scribed as skinny, Marshal Joffre is cer- tainly corpulent, Clemenceau is hefty, physically as we'll as mentally.
 It is true that history forgot to record in cubic centimeters the lung capacity of the corpulent great of former ages This is one of the factors by which Dr. de Bush calculates the brain power of the fat man. Nor are we advised how much atmosphere is regularly drawn, in and forced out by the rotund ones of to- days hall of fame. But we do know, be- cause we have heard it. that William Howard Taft puffs audibly as he waddles along.
 On the other hand many intellectual thin men come to mind whose chest measure ments were near enough to zero to count for nothing in De Busk's formula-Rob- ert Louis Stevenson. for example; Savon- arola, Dante.
 Braving the sneers of our Oregon sa- want. we hazard the opinion that 1t is the overhans of the brow that counts. not the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
Marked Success of
 Housewives Sessions

1N HE sessions of the Alabama
 0 housewives course at Auburn,
 held under the auspices of the exten-
 sion service, proved at once entertain ling and instructive. The lectures and
 demonstrations were of high value.
 The demonstration of farm butter
 making" given by Miss Louise Riley,
 Mobile county agent, made fine hit.
 Miss Riley ranks as an expert in this particular line, by virtue of her train ling in the dairy course at Missouri Agricultural college; and since leav- ling college she has had much practi- cal experience in dairy work at Mo bile.
 The lecture on Nutrition" by Miss Christine Smith, specialist of Rock hill, S. C., was heard with marked attention. She explained how to grow fat and how to grow thin. If a person lis organically sound, she asserted, it lis all question of flood and food alone" Fat people eat more than thin people, although they do not al- ways realize it.
 Miss Martha Armstrong, home dem- Ionstration agent of Jefferson county,
 gave most helpful exhibition in cake
 making. A great variety of subjects were ably discussed and altogether the sessions were the best and most profitable of the kind ever held in
 Alabama.
 # # x A new York man 100 years old speaks a good word for whisky and tobacco. But living example doesn't convince persons who juggle with carefully com riled statistics.
 Tobacco should not be too chesty in defying the reformers. There was a time when old John Barleycorn had
 nc equal for chestiness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
Waiting For Orders

Although I have been apnointed to
 hahoie the taking of the census in this dlstrict,' said c. NJ. Cruikshank, T have received no orders or instructions ss yet and can't do anything until I do. UT course l will have an office with
 several clerks planning and outlining the work. I think there will he he tween 14o0 and 1900 people employed to do the actual work which will he Tor only short time Much interest lls being manifested in the taking of the census and I am told that this work will be very full and con1plete r iee1 cohildent that Birmingham and 1efferson county will make good showing at this time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
Praising what is lest Makes the remembrance dear.
 --Alrs Well That Ends Well.

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lsrd, I may not he brilliant, but | can be faithful | may not be interesting, much, but l can do n little. | may much. bull can do a little. .nay not be president, but can be myself. ! may not live, but l can die. H. RI. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
COMMANDING THE TEUroN.

COMMANDING THE TEUTON.
 q don't shed any tears over American heiresses who married German noblemen and now lament their luck because their property was seized by the enemy prop erty custodian"
 Neither do I. but 1t enables me to speak good word for the German peo- pie"
 And what is that?"
 Title hunters are just about ss un- popular in Germany as they are in Amer ica."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
WAIST LINE DOESN'T COUNT

From the San Francisco Chronicle Let me have men about me that are fat Sleek headed men, and such as sleep 0
 nights; Ton Cassius has a lean and hungry
 look; He thinks too much; such men are dan
 gerous"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
RISKS LIFE FOR wIEE,s rpr,ru

From the Louisville Courier-Jaurnal. Adolph Becker, mussel fisherman, re- fuses to take his wife on any more ex. cursions on the river The fishermans better half prided her self on $50 set of false teeth. Tester day they almost cost the fisherman his life.
 Becker took his wife and two children in his boat and anchored off Paddy's Run to fish.
 "A bte"' yelled Mrs. Becker. and in her excitement the valuable dental crea ton went over the top and out of sight The fisherman made several attempts tc recover the teeth. He found nothing
 Please try once more," pleaded the wife
 Becker didn't come up His wife be- came frantic.
 George Weindorf, farmer, on an excur- sion, answered her cries Becker was brought to the surface and soon was re- vived.
 Did you get the teeth, Adolf?"
 (Verboten)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
COLD AND DISTANT.

Pretty girl behind this soda water fountain,
 'So she is, but nevertheless I miss the sympathetic bartender. The fact that have a hard luck story to tell means nothing whatever in her young life"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
HoNT AhOnf a Tenff

T have been keeping my residence Tn Norwood fairly well closed at night for the past few months on account of the many burglaries that have oc cured in Norwood and North Birming- ham," said Judge H. B. Abernethy, "but II this hot weather of the past few days continues, I will have to not only open the house more completely, but remove wall or two from my bed room. if I am to keep cool. Tbe ther- nometers say the highest mark recis- tered up to yesterday was only ss degrees, but is surely seems more like 10S to me"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
A WORD TO THE uNwARY.

WORD TO THE UNWARY. ieep of gin, But if fellows wise, He'll avoid far worse form Of it that's due to gazing in A pair of liquid eyes
 pAIrT Cr,CE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
THE PLAIN FACTS.

Some of these elderly spinsters act as if they thought every man was a gay Lothario."
 That's serious mistake The average man lacks both the price and the nerve to be gay Lothario."