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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
Great World Conference
 to Discuss Cotton Price

NNHE world conference to meet at O New Orleans today to discuss the question of cotton and cotton |price fixing, will be of large impor- |tance. Delegates will be present from many countries.
 The conference will be "the first |serious attempt to gather the cotton interests of the world into council" :" Leaders in the cotton world hope to Ireach unanimous agreement upon bet ter methods and results to benefit the entire industry.
 The movement originated at meet ling of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers held in Boston on April 26, 1917. An exchange of views will be first in order today.
 "The delegates will be divided into eleven classes and groups of each class will meet and elect temporary chair iman, who will support them at the general conferences. The classes are growers, ginners, seed crushers and manufacturers of seeds, cotton ner- chants, transportation and insurance, banking, governments and economics, spinners and manufacturers, Ameri- can and foreign textile merchants, converters and finishers."
 There is no longer any question of the size of the crop. It will be less than eleven million bales. The next Iquestion is what will be the price The conference in New Orleans will be of large import.
 x * #
 By conceaiing themselves in a load
 of hay photographers recently sue ceeded in photographing Count Hohen zollern, who was much distressed wher he learned what had happened Tn, Count was never camera-shy in the olt
 days when 7o.o00.000 Germans rolle'
 over and played dead at his bidding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
"UNCLE JOE' CONSPIRATOR

say word you jump up and raise Cain. Then gradually you let me conviuce you that it is all right, and finally Withdraw your objection. Those, who are there will follow your lead, and when you withdraw your objection, they'll think it's all right. so the bill will go through without a jolt"
 Of course there were no stenograph- CTS present. at this colioquy, and the language may have ben more pictures que, but this is about the way they fixed it. At any rate, tho next after noon, Messrs. Cannon and Underwood staged their little drama. It worked. The s10,0o0 was voted so quickly, it surprised even them. |.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
The Feeding of Birmingham

"For two years agriculture has de- veloped to quite q marked extent in this region" said G. A. Park, immigra- ton and agricultural agent of the Louis- vile and Nashville railroad. This we attribute to two reasons: First, Bir- mingham is a very large consuming center of farm products, and second, a very attractive department of the Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the business interests of the city has constantly and consistently kept before the farmers the need for greater production and for better marketing methods.
 T had tho pleasure of helping in some of these campaigns wherein the business men are striving to feed Bir- mineham with Alabama food, and the effectiveness of this wStk is self-evid- ent. Consistently followed up, Bir- mingham ought to be able to feed her self on Alabama products and offer Alabama producers the best market for their products when better marketing methods arc employed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Educational Awakening

The fight that Governor Kilby planned and executed for greater and higher edu- cation" said Sterling A. Wood, will bear fruit a thousand fold in this state. The Alabama Christian Advocate of Oc- tober , has a notable article referring to personality in education, and to Arch bishop Glennon in the same line of thought. We cannot get character in- stilled into youth without educators of and minds fairly free from the cares of making their livelihood. That is, in order to get the best talent and highest char acter for educational york, you have got to pay for it.
 Alabama is where she simply must im- prove her educational work, and Cover nor Kiiby has found the means to do so. Those who oppose him will find in the end that he was simply doing for them what they ought to have done for them selves. Tn the same line of thought, 1t was my good fortune to go in and go out of the University of Alabama under the four years presidency of the great and noble Dr. Carlos G. Smith of Huntsville. Some have wondered how it happened the university turned out such good material during those four years. The article in the paper above referred to reminds me that it was the noble character the stu dents had constantly before them.
 N 'The taxation during the next four years can furnish the money. The money will provide the proper men and women. There is no doubt but that Alabama will reap the benefit to such great extent that all should forget the friction caused by it. Then Life will cease to make fun of our state, and many things now esteemed by Forget tt.'c
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
Keen upNeunien.

CT went over to Atlanta to the reunion for 8 day or two, but concluded I would come back in time to see the Birmingham fair" said D. r. Weaver of Weaver, Ala. who had the distinction of having worked for the Southern railroad for 4 years. 1T got into trouble around Atlanta during the civil war, when was a member of Company A. Fifty-first Alabama, for on July 2l ir a skirmish lost a foot, want the old Confederate Veterans to hold to- gether as long as there is any of them left. and I am dead against any talk about not having any more reunions. l feel that we old fellows who wore the gray ought to make more of our coming together than ever before. for it will no, be long before there will be none left to unite"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
Boston's Police Strikers
 Pay for Their Folly

III is doubtful if a strike ever re- ll acted more unfavorably on the strikers, considering the number of persons involved, than the recent walkout of policemen in Boston. The strike itself is thing of the past, but several hundred former members of Boston's police force, with families to SUI port, find themselves practical ly destitute. Their situation is made worse by the fact that public senti- ment is against them and they are finding the door of opportunity in other directions closed.
 This state of affairs was brought out by the announcement that the Bos- ton Chamber of Commerce had organ ized committee to find employment for striking policemen who are still idle. The step was approved by Gov ernor Coolidge, Mayor Peters and Po- lice Commissioner Curtis. It was largely the firm stand of Governor Coolidge which made the strike a failure.
 In organizing a committee for the relief of these men and their families, the chamber states that it fully in dorses the principles enunciated by public officials during the strike and does not think the men should be re- instated,s but it believes that many of the men were misled and did not have a clear conception of their duty to the public"
 For humanitarian reasons helping hand will be extended to about five hundred strikers who sacrificed their prospects of pensions, their benefits and, of course, their jobs, and left Boston temporarily at the mercy of thugs and hoodlums. The wives and children of these men deserve sym pathy, but the conduct of the strik- CTS themselves, even though they may have been misled, was such that they cannot be easily forgiven.
 4 x *
 Gen. J. B. Stanley Has Edited
 Advocate 54 Years
 RIALF century may be only a < A s'tick of the clock" in eternity, but it is a long time as men live, even in these rapid days. To have remained at the head of an institu- tion for more than fifty years and to be. still keeping the forward view is distinction worth while.
 Fifty-four years ago Gen, J, A Stanley founded the Greenville Ad vocate. He is still conducting the pa. per, assisted by J. c. and F. w Stanley. The ups and downs of jour nalism have not soured his disposi tion, nor have they destroyed his be lief in his fellow man. Grown olc in harness, he is not yet convinced that he has done all that he can t' serve the people of his town and hi section of the state, but desires to d. more.
 General Stanley is picturesqu and beloved figure among. the veteran newspaper men of Alabama. He i a type of the old-fashioned "south ern eeutleman," an editor who com bines the pleasing qualities of nor leisurely day with the progressiv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
.sTHE THINKER's. ELBOW
m the Montgomery Advertiser

From the Montgomery AoVertlser
 "Rodin's statue of The Thinker shows burly young man seated on bowlder stump or some other blunt object His mouth is pressed firmly against his knuckles and he is indulging in ground-and-lofty think ing of the most virulent sort. He ap- pears to be surrounded by a rich dark blue haze of gloom; and his absorp-, tion in his thoughts is so evident that any imaginative person cannot see rhe statue without thinking that he hears the wheels revolving in The Thinkers head with a low, penetrating, buzzing ound"-Kenneth L. Roberts in the Saturday Evening Pest. We care less for Rodin's Thinker" than we prob ably ought to. It always seemed to us that the point of '"The Thinkers" elbow rested on the wrong knee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
Knock old H. c. L.

The public in having chance to purchase the government supplies through the city in the commissions' effort to knock the H. c. L." said com missioner J.. Ellis Brown, have no idea how much t1puble it is to put over such sale, and much credit for un- selfish work is due comptroller J. M. Jones, Jr, and purchasing agent for the city, D. F. Mckinley who have been untiring in their efforts to make 1t q success and handle the purchasers as promptly as possible. Thursday and Friday there was jam, but it slowed up on yesterday as many had supplied themselves and the Stocks were fun- ming low"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
IF WE ONLY UNDERSTOOD.

by Rudyard Nipiing. If we knew the cares and trials
 Knew the efforts all in vain. And the bitter disappointment,
 Understood the loss and gain Would the grim eternal roughness
 Seem-I wonder-just the same? Should we help where now We hinder.
 Should w pity where we blame: An! we judge each other harshly,
 Knowing not life'sfhfdden force: Knowing not the fount of action
 Is less turbid at it's source; Seeing not amid the evil
 All the golden grains of food; And we'd love each other better
 If we only understood. Could we judge all deeds by motives.
 That surround each others lives, See the naked heart and spirit,
 Know what spur the, action gives, Often we would find it better,
 Purer than we judge we should, We should love each other be4kdfR
 If We opiv understood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
NO CABARET SHOWS FOR BUYERS

From the New York World.
 Is government regulation to take all the joy out of life? The federal trade commissions order to certain firms to discontinue giving gratuities such
 as meals. entertainment. etc, to em- ployes of theirHustomers to influence the purchase of supplies" menaces one of the basic principles of trade. What incentive will there be for the "trip
 east to buy goods if it is not to in- clude hotel dinners and cabaret shows for the buyer at the sellers exepnse? This practice the commission calls Commercial bribery" But where does bribery begin and end in offering in- | ducements to buyers? Did it apply to 1 the earlier practice of taking the customer home to dinner or putting l him up at club of which the present | method of entertainment is only sys- ltematized outgrowth?
 Will Broadway submit to such regu- lation without a revolution? At least city merchants may claim the right to some degree of elf-determination on ! in deciding what sort of hospitality | to show to out flown buyers. The | federal trade commission is attempt | ing too Spartan a reform of commer- cial amenities. It apparently wouls
 reduce trade to mere basis of buying
 and selling. Are there to be no more
 cakes and ale to seal the purchase? Is 1 "our Miss Murphy" or 'our MT. Jones' no longer to figure in New York cab
 aret romances? Is there to be slump 1 in front-row theatre seats?
 | No merchants alons, but the Broad
 way drama and the cloak and suit
 school of literature are .vitally inter
 csted In this attempted Prussianiziag g 1 of trade traditions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13

BEGINNING THE DAY--Lord, Thou art the question and the answer. Thou art the puzzle and the solution. Without Thee life would be without mystery, but without meaning. Back to Thee somehow all my perpIexities go. but in Thee somehow they shall all be made plain.-H. NJ. F..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13

While 1t has been proved beyont
 peradventure of doubt that a persor
 can Fly across the United States, tn,
 old reliable Pullman continues to of.
 fer the best facilities for making the
 trip
 The comedian who first said that what America got out of the war was
 cooties. the flu" and prohibition has probably never sat up late at night
 pondering over the fourteen points" Of course it's perfectly dreadful if
 employees of steel companies have to
 work like animals" But on the other
 hand, we'll never get anywhere if all of
 us try to initiate the butterfly. x # + So much of the news" from Russia has proved untrue that the reported campaign of assassination directed
 against bolshevik leaders may create unJuStif1able optimism. x < x While it may be triffe early yet for the lion and the lamb to lie down to- gether, John D. Rockefeller, Js, served
 tray of food to Samuel Gompers in Washington the other day. # < + Science has reached the point where it lightly dismsses yellow fever. That
 disease has been conquered, but the flu" still causes a puzzling shaking of heads in medical circles # < < The report that 1o.ooo,ooo Germans are planning to immigrate to America will bear looking into. In the present.
 state of public feeling that's 10000, 900 too many.
 What does the United States Senator care if his remarks on the league of nations are addressed to empty seats He's putting his views on record. 1 # # < There is no such thing as perfect
 bliss in this world Perched on the pin nacle of baseball fame, Cincinnati may still lament that she is dry. # # x Certain Senators are making a pretty howdy-do over the birthplace of Con- fucius who couldn't tell you the date of
 his birth to save their lives. x x # | Doctor Admiral Grayson's latest bull detin makes us fear it will be some time before President Wilson is again 1 in condition to shout "Fore! x # & 1 After an orgy at the county fair there is stil! something left for the | small boys anticipation, meaning Tur-
 key Day and Christmas. z Y q l Lieut. Maynard's latest performance
 indicates that the flying parson" is a greater ornament to aviation than he ' is to the pulpit.
 # # x | Maybe Robert Bridges, England g | poet laureate, will find source of in- spiration in the settlement of England's 1 railway strike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
WORTH TT

From the Detroit News.
 It cost Columbus $720o to find Amer ica. It is the opinion of the Big Five packers that it was worth it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
War Against Boll weevil

"Dr. J. F. Duggar, director of the exten- sion service and the experiment station at Auburn and Commissioner of Agricul- ture. M. c. Allgood, both have promised to issue an appeal to the farmers and business interests of the entire state in which they will call on them to get into the war on the weevil just launched in this state by A. Lee Andrews, publishei of the new book The Boil Weevi Prob lem; It's Solution said J. c. Moses.
 This timely and highly important book is a. fourth edition of the Boil Weevil Problem by B. L. Moss. managing edi- tor of the Progressive Farmer. which ran int, three editions and was big suc- cees. The new book has 10 new highly specialized chapters by Il widely known authorities on the subject, and is the most authoritative treatise on the weevil ever published. The title of the new work is very striking one and will un- e.oub,etly create a great ieal of curi- osity, put Mir Andrews says that the so- l,,tion of this big probls-a -ealy is em- bodied in the new book"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
Good Roads and
 Still Better Roads

THE highways in Alabama are
 9 better today than they have ever been. In Jefferson county the roads are perfect. But in many coun- ties the roads are still rough.
 The time must come when all the roads must be good roads; must be hard-surfaced roads. And the way to have it so is for the people to ratify the twenty-five million-dollar road bond issue.
 When the road bond measure is adopted there will be trunk line connecting every county seat witf every other county seat. There vii be net work of highways which vii be credit to the state.
 That the twenty-five miIlion-d dollar bill will be ratified will go without saying. Nothing will pay better.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13

Some. that smile, have in their hearts fear. Millions of mischief.
 Julius Caesar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13

ideas of the present. With becomin modesty he says in announcing tn beginning of the Advocates fifty fifth year that he has lived up to tn ideals he had when he started his pa per in 1865.
 There is optimism, philosophy ant sound sense in the greeting Genera Stanley extends to his readers:
 Tine Advocate, with this number, begins it's fifty-fifth year.
 Fifty-four years ago this ven- ture first made its bow to.the pub lie. In its first issue 1t stated those principles under which it intended to operate, laying down 8 set of rules for it's guidance, and now, fifty-four years later, we can hon estly say that it has never deviated from them.
 The times have been good and
 
 faith has seen victory and defeat as 1t will again-sut we have en- deavored to present to our people a fair and unbiased record of the lives and happenings of the times.
 The Advocate Is not much bigger in size than 1t was when it started. Our hopes have been that some day Greenville would be metropolis of the cotton belt and that we would grow with it. That ambition has not as yet been realized, but none know what the coming years will bring.
 The same it may be in size. yet it has piled up in all these years a mountain of good will in the hearts of our people, we believe. It is stronger now than ever before. for all its age. in that one respect, and that in the final accounting is the one big thing.
 Our friends are stanch and loyal, and we rejoice in them, and our enemies are only that necessary number to make us feel that we are not nonenity.
 Each year has, seen some im- provement, and this birthday is marked by the installing of a new press feeder, and some new faces for the paper, to help it put on clean dress once in a while. Fifty-four years for the found CT of a newspaper to have charge of its editorial columns is a long time, yet that has been the writer's record. It has been joy and every issue over which we have worked has had the labor compensated for by the pleasure it has been.
 Let ns reiterate here and now D these principles of fairness and justice that we have been trying hard to stick to all these years and state again that 1920 will find us ever working for the good of all our people
 All the newspaper folk of Alabam; md everyone else who knows Genera Stanley will join in wishing him man, nore years of life, as the presidin, genius of the Greenville Advocate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13

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 undertake in all of the campaigns which have been made during the past few years To better facilitate the handling and classifying of the various products to be offered for sale, a storehouse will be built at once, and a secretary will be placed in charge to look after it at certain hours. I will not attempt here to go into the details of the manner of checking up and crediting the sales made. but system has been devised which fits the needs The encouraging thing about it being that everything is being looked after in an up-to-date man ner. 1 Good roads was the start; then came a better school; out of the two came the need of a truck. and now a contract has been let for the purchase of a spraying machine to care for the fruit trees. and 1 Russell J.N Gragg, the Auburn sweet po- tato expert. has an engagement to meet with them next week to give expert ad- vic in regard to building a 1ef1 DO tato house to care for a cre which nas been allowed to go to waste
 l know of nothing in the whole state fuller of promise than wLAs bsing planned by the Blount Hig land Rresr ss- l sive club. and I only wish that such a club could be started in every community in Alabama. There are some other things which are being done at Blount Highlands, but I will have to tell about them in another article. All can say now is Keep your eye on that corner of Blount which impinges on St. Clair land Jefferson counties.
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-04
NOVELTIES IN SHORS-A FROCK FOR SUMMER LETTERS

always after rain or watering to break
up the crust which forms.
Hoeing should start as soon as the
eye can follow the green rows. Some =
times it can be started before, partic4
ularly IL rain and sun have caked the
dirt over the seeds before the sprouts
get to the surface. In that case break
the crust carefully with the garden
rake. Do this in the morning when
the ground is moist with dew.
The greatest discoveries are usually
found to be the simplest after their
truth is once revealed. Nothing has
done more to further the science Of
farming than the discovery of the fact
that if you keep stirring up the soil
around a plant it grows and produces
better. Therefore, there can be no bet
ter advice for the gardener than this |:
Keep hoeing, hoe some more and then
some.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-04
THE COSMOPOLITAN KITCHEN
MRS. WILSON TELLS HOW TO MAKE
SOME FAMOUS JEWISH DISHES
Todays Cosmopolitan
CookngEach eek There This Column
the Peculiar to oTrious lhes
By MRS. M, A, WILSON

'' All yR5iichfS RsserVcdJ s; JJ "'''
Three-quarters cup of salad oil,
Grqted rind of one lemon,
Three WeN-bedten eggs
and sufficient matzoth meal to make
a dough that ca nbe nodded into thin
fiat cakes between the hands. Bake
on baking sheet in a moderate oven
until light brown color, usually
about twelve minutes.
Kremslekh
Place in a mixing bowl
TtUo eggs,
One-hdf teaspoon Of salt,
One teaspoon of sugar,
One-quarter cup of finely chopped
almonds,
One-half cup of finely chopped
seeded raiSins,
One tablespoon Of salad oit,
One-haf cup of 10dter
and sufficient matzoth meal to make
fairly stiff dough, usually about
three-quarters of a cup. Beat to
mix thoroughly and then drop by
the teaspoon into smoking hot vege-
table cooking oil. Cook the same as
for crullers, turning constantly.
These may be eaten hot or cold.
Matzoth Omelet
Break four matzoth INTO small
pieces and then place in dish and
pour on one pint of boiling water.
Let cool and then turn into a sieve
and drain. Press well. Now break
three eggs into bowl and add one
half teaspoon of salt and the pre-
pared matzoth. Beat with fork
to mix thoroughly and then heat
four tablespoons of chicken fat in a
frying pan until very hot. Pour in
the above mixture and cook in the
usual omelet style.