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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-24
MOVIE STATUES ARE REAL.

Rob Wagner in, Saturday Evening Post
Certain of these censor fellows while
drawing a severe line at the nude will
pass the picture If the lady has some
thing on. whereas it is widely known
fact that the most suggestive appeals
are made by half dressed figure. A
mere garter on nude will achieve the
most direful consequences.
But strangely enough many of the
most puritanical censors will pass
nudes if they have religious signifi-
canoe or form a part of sublime allie
CORY. Statues or monuments also get
by almost without exception. Here
again we find that curious complex
the thought of the nude may be shown,
but not the reality. I cannot resist,
however, telling one of our most deli
cious secrets-one that 1 am sure will
stimulate the sale of opera glasses
among the censorially, conscientious.
Many Of the plastic monumental nudes
passed by the censors are in reality lfv-
ing, breathing women and not stone at
ALI
Only last week we did a most mag
nificent garden scene in the center of
which appeared fountain that would
have gladdened the aesthetic heart of
Louis XIV. for the great bowl was sup
ported by three beautiful kneeling fig
ures while it was surmounted by
Da pine that would have glorified the
name of Praxiteles. It's sheer beauty
and intent will carry it past the shall
lowest censorship. yet every one of
those figures was a real person. And
we did not do this as an impish joke
on the censors-it was a matter of
business.
The cost of such a fountain with
sculptured figures adequate to the pur-
pose would have peen prohibitive,
whereas the bowl standard and the
base were easily made so that the
whitened living figures could walk
right into their several places. OF
course, such a fountain could be shot
only from one direction. for a rear view
would have disclosed the bent pipes
that gave rightly to the bodies, and
the alert observer would have noticed
that the water coming from the shell
which the topmost figure held aloft
was supplied from a garden hose that
ran up the lady's back and appraised
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-24
A Gratifying Report

Local alumni of the Sigma NJ ira
ternity were highly gratfied at the
report on the condition of the frater-
nifty throughout the country made by
E. N. Dunlavy, general secretary and
editor of The Delta the fraternity
publication" said City Attorney Fred
G. Moore yesterday. 'Mr Dunlavy
who was a guest of the local alumni
at a luncheon Friday, told of the
growth of tho fraternity and of the
enviable position it held in every sec
ton of the United States. The Sigma
Nu chapters are in most of the leading
institutions of learning but thert has
been no striving after numbers, either
of chapters or of members. The or
ganization has not hesitated to refuse
charters in even the greatest univer-
stiles il the men applying for them
did not measure up to the ideals of
the fraternity. The local alumni have
recently organized and it is antici-
mated that much good will come in as
sisting the active members in the chap.
tiers in this section
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-24
GENIUS OF LEONARDO

he failed to discover the secret Of the cir
culation of the blood. ne was hundred
years or~more in advance of his time in
his knowledge of the hearts valves and
membranes" said the British academy
Iaecturer. I'm botany he did original work
on the problem of sex, on the nutritive
function of leaves and on the phenomena
OF capilliarity as bearing on the flow of
sap.
"A heavier than air flying machine was
designed by Leonardo. following many
studies of the mechanism of bril- flight.
He set forth the fact that flying at a
great height would be safer than flying
low because of the greater opportunity of
regaining equilibrium. About all he lacked
for strictly dp-to-dae airplane was a
motor.
"Experimentally he anticipated modern
ideas. There is evidence in one of his
manuscripts that he had made model air
planse out of paper, which were driven
by a screw attached to a steel spring
The screw, it is true, is not a veritable
propeller. but the full heliv as used 800
steamboats,"
A master of scientific fertilization, a
pioneer in canalization author of various
plans for draining the Pontine marsh, al
most identical with plans later adopted,
he is designated as "the greatest engi-
neer OF his age" And according to the
British academy discoveries this rare ar
fist mind that conceived Mona Lisa
and THE Last Supper was also the first
to figure out the wheelbarrow and roller
bearings. and made notable improvements
in pumps, lock gates, diving apparatus
and life saving waistcoats He also in
vented for battle attacks a tank which
the infantry were to follow much as in
modern wastare
Taking him all around, it looks as
though Leonardo ought to make live ma
terial for the. high school student who
wants something new to back up the old
slogan, Beyond the Alps lies Italy"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-24

1--WE rambled around Baltimore, NOR
folk. Savannah Mobile and New Or
leans" Ed T. Horn related but for
seafood consuming population BIZ
mingham is a world heater
I'm New Orleans ,ae business man
will stroll over to an oyster saloon
about As minutes before fhis regular
luncheon hour and cJnsume a dozen
raw with a little tabasco as sort OF
appetizer. In Raltm 1re the married
man who had little tilt at breakfast
with Friend Wife will take home an
oyster loaf in the evening as 2 peace
maker. In Norfolk they peddle more
deviled crabs on the streets than the'
sell shoestrings in Atlanta. Mobile Is
fish sandwich crazy Savannah likes
the shrimp
"But in this Greater Birmingham or
ours. the people play no favorites with
seafoods-they eat 'em all, every KIND
and variety. 1 really believe the peo-
pie eat more fish and oysters in Sir
mingham than they do our domestic
meats. including pork and beef"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-24
Airplane Proves Useful
to Punish Unruly Tribesmer

@ CIENCE has found new way to
~ keep order among subject peo-
pies. Kipling has celebrated the ex-
PLOTS of Great Britain's soldiers in
holding the empire intact in many
tale and ballad, but the airplane
promises to do away with the old
fashioned punitive expedition which
often proved costly, both in lives and
pounds.
A dispatch from London relates
how three villages of Afghanistan
beyond the northwestern frontier of
Ida, we're bombarded By three Brit
ISL airp,aEes which dropped five tons
Of explosives. The airmen "have cen
tinned the operation daily with good
results"
The towns were ordered bombarJed
because tribasmen had been making
themselves obnoxious by attacks on
British posts and conveys and raids
into British territory. Failing to
realize the seriousness of a British
ultimatum, the tribesmen continued
their depredations. No doubt by this
time they are in chastened frame
of mind.
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SO 1T IS TOBACCO NEXT!
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
on the reassuring official statement
~ recently made by high officers of
W the Anti-Saloon league to the effect
that the forces which exist for the good
of others had no intention of turning their
guns upon tobacco proves to have been
premature after ALL 1t was case of fall
ing to take into account the vigorous and
enthusiastic reformers of the other sex.
Rum having been suppressed in Amer
lea and dry missionaries being actively
at work among the Poles, Ukrainians and
citizens of the other newly emerged ma
Womans Christian Temperance union,
assembled in national convention at St.
Louis, decided on Monday that the next
campaign for righteousness in this coun-
try should be directed against tobacco in
every form Let this be our fight said
Mrs. F. E. Beauchamp, land the victory
our victory"
Thus does one improvement in the con-
dition of the degraded race of mankind
and womankind suggest another, yet an
other, and so on to the ultimate goal of
human perfection-like the parallel lines
which meet at infinity, in the minds of
the mathematician.
/ Even some of those who had resigned
themselves to the victory-temporary or
permanent, as the supreme court of the
United States shall decide-of the pro-
hibitionists are beginning to wonder if
there is to be any limit or if any limit
is possible in the case of promoting virtue
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From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
81 IFE was very dull in Fiume. ana
D'Annrnzio went on a little trip
SS 10 cara III search of excitement
- .s vain Guest. No one in cara was
Inclined to offer fight. and u Anhur~io
tools nossession without overcoming
-r,ea resistance or verbal opposition.
cara is unquestionahly an Italian CITY,
In all PROBABILITY it will be awarded TO
Italy in any settlement. d Annunzio was
merely anticipating matters and looh'hs
for trouble VIXEN he took possession
There are Jugos.avs all around cara, put
NOT ,,aYv in he city itself. CndoubtediE
tho Iuroslay legions could have put up
stiff resistance with good chance OF
battle victory. Were they convinced that
thew a,e dealing only with ID Annunzio
they would be wiling to fight at any ti'i'e's
Rut there is a feeling that beating u An
punzio would be a perilous triumph. II
woula in all probability, be followed oy
war with Italy Today d Annunzio has nc
better standing than that OF orisaha'
But if he were once soundiy trounced by
the irr,tated Jugoslavs Italian popular
sentiment would be so inflamed thai no
italia, government could prevent the na-
t,on from espousng D'Annunzio's cause
and Fastening to save. or avenge him as
the case might be.
The expedition to cara was, therefore
disappointingly tame. But if D'Annunzlo
persists in making little military jour
news il, the Adriatic lands he is certain,
sooner or later. to find the fight he is ach-
ing Tor. Let him attack some unmistaH-
,blv Jusoslav community and he will be
greetea with Jugoslav bullets. There WI
be lighting despite the caution OF the
Jugoslav leaders who realize the hope
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one Knows but many are trying to guess,
whether this may be taken to mean thai
the monarchsts have undermined tho lov
atty of the only force upon which the
government can rely in case of an at
tempted counter revolution, or that the
government is not unwilling to be relieved
OF all official responsibility in favor O,
monarchial restoration
What has every appearance of a ma
tional crisis seems to be approaching with
considerable rapidity, and unless many Of
the signs flung about so openly are mean
ingless, the clash may be precipitated any
day by some trivial event. The ODD ma
tionalist spirit seems to have revived with
discoacerting suddenness and strength So
far as the government and the opponents
of a restoration are concerned, unless this
also is only superficial movement to
feel how far the way is safe for another
monarchy. The course of events in Rus
STA has not been encoura ging to the enc
mics Of popular government in Germany.
who see the help they expected from the
direction disappearing, leaving the mill
tarists of Berlin practically alone in their
ambition to establish new throne.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-24

Mr.. Dempsey is reported to have
Any stage ladies in the party?
\ X X
In the matter OF coal production,
Alabama appears to be doing her bit
90 per cent OF it. anyhow.
y y =
1t is not unusual for mar who
might have been President of Mexico
to face a firing squad.
y y X
Another reason why Jap domination
is feared is the fact that the Jap
stork is busy bird
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Carl Sandburg, in the Chicago News.
81 endowment bestowed on the
~ British academy some Years ago
provided for yearly lecture "on
a master mind" The lecture this year
was on Leonardo da vinel and new dis
coveres of the mind and personality Of
Leonardo were revealed by C. j. Holmes,
director of the national gallery
Leonardo left many manuscript note
books and from these the new discoveries
are reported. The notes were written
from right to left. They we're scrawly
and scribbling. in a handwriting that
would lead one present day mail clerk to
pass it to another and ask: What does
this say?" 1t was because Leonardo did
not want to undergo the same fate that
overlook Calico that he cultivated a gift
for writing notes with his left hand, from
right to left By this plan the notes
could be read so as to mean almost any
thing.
Deciphering of these Leonardo manu-
scripts shows him to be the greatest
man of them ALL according to c. j.
Holmes. Leonardos wide and popular
fame is based on his painting. 1t is
as the artist who painted Mona Lisa"
The Last Supper" and 1.-The Madonna of
the Rocks" that he is best known. Yet
he was geologist, anatomist, engineer and
scientist, besides being painter. sculptor
Industrial designer. In versatility of
mind he recalls our own many sided Ben
Franklin, who would run a print shon.
write books, fly kites in a thunderstorm
for purposes of electrical experiment and
then take hand in a constitutional con-
vention or attend the court of France As
our. minister
Leonardos notes, written in the fif
teenth century, include data on the rock
layers of the earth pointing to our plan
cts being many million years older than
was generally taught at that time. lie
anticipated modern geology.
"He perceived the difference between
arterial and venous blood and although
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-24
luke M'LUKE SAYS

princess believes that the hero
always marries the girl. But mar
ried woman knows that oftener than
not the villain marries the girl
The crouch may have his faults
But he doesn't hold you up for an
hour to tell you all about it every
time he meets you.
A woman will believe that Jonah
swallowed a whale. But you can't
make her believe that a man can
stay out until a. m. and not be chas-
ing woman.
When a man has to get up in the
dark to get the baby a drink he falls
over about 965.53 chairs and tables,
and wonders how the HEX the move
man ever gets all the stuff into three
wagon loads.
Our idea of sure thing is to bet
that any girls shoes are too large
FOL her and let the girl decide the
bet
Why is it that one woman will look
classy in $40 dress and another
woman will look like a kitchen me-
chan.c in a 500 dress.
Men are contrary animals. The
mornings they have to get up early
ana go to work they want to sleep.
And the mornings when they could
sleep late they are sp bright and
early.
Red is a danger signal. But a
woman never stops to think of that
fact when she lis making Up her com
plexion before she goes out.
There was Tine when a girl dis
played her antalettes in order to
hide her ankles. But ii is different
nowadays
When you hear some men talking
you wonder why 'T wasn't made the
first letter Of the alphabet
Many a married man who is chas-
ing other married women doesn't know
that there are snakes in his own
orchard.
The leopard cannot change his spots.
tRut modern girl has Something on
Il leopard
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-24
LITTLE JOURNEYS IN DALMATIA

lessness of a war with Italy, and despite
the protests Of the Italian government
which understands the folly of new war
even though military victory might be
assured. There will be limit to this
business of riding rough-shod over the
Jugoslavs, and if there is anything of the
patriot in D'Annunzio he will halt before
he reaches the end of Jugoslav endur-
ance. He already has enough glory to sat
sfy the most irordinate egotism, and his
poets eye should look warily to the
avoidance of an anti-climax
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-24
AT THE RAILWAY STATION

Clinton Scotland. in the New York Sun.
Here haste and tense expectancy
combine.
And here. amid interminable noise.
Old sorrows meet and mingle with
rev joys.
Eyes marry. loving fingers INTERVENE
Hitler Genes Fate, as through some
So. design.
Within whose hands all men are but
as toys:
A. one brief breathless moment there
is isoise.
ANA then the rush of feet in swerving
line.
Here solitude and quiet seem as far
Removed as is the orbit of a star
That thrcueh the midnight spaces
fines lis beam:
And. as one watches. those who pause
or pass
Become like figures glimpsed within
a glass.
phantasrnagoric as the shapes of
dream!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-24
Better Housing Conditions.

"'The Big Sister movement is going
to mean great deal to Birmingham,
said Miss Jessica Dewey, and the
women of birmingham are certainly
going to put this over. 1t is thing
that has been needed here for some
time and the establishment of better
housing conditions for 1he young bust
ness women who come to this city for
employment will mes much to these
girls. Although they will be away from
home they will still have the home at
mosphere and will be given opportun-
tiles to learn many things they would
otherwise be deprived of. This is GER
tainly step forward and shows that
Birmingham is wide awake to the
needs of its young women
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les have been $4,000 and $4,000 and
$4,000 will receive $4,000, $4,000 and
S70O0s retroactive to July l, and in
a few exceptional cases of unusual
ability and scholarship, salary of
$4,000 will be paid.
One has only to compare these in
creased salaries of Yale professors
with the incomes enjoyed in business
and in other professions to realize
that teaching is still woefully under
paid. The Yale professor drawing a
salary of $1,000 or $4,000 year will
be envied by teachers who are trying
to make both ends meet on $500 or
$4,000 year. Yet equal distinction
in law, medicine or the business world
would bring him an income of nun
dreds of thousands, instead of few
thousands of dollars.
A full professorship at Yale or any
one of half a dozen other leading
American universities presupposes
talents of the first rank. The man
who holds such a position may be a
specialist of international fame. He
is almost certain to be known in col
lege circles throughout America as
an authority in his chosen subject.
Quite often he will be the author Of
standard textbooks, writer of mag
azine articles and engaged in ether
activities in addition to his university
work.
When we consider the years of ardu-
Gus preparation and the struggle for
promotion involved in a professorship
at such an institution as Yale, $4,000
a year, the highest salary paid there,
seems pitifully small.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-24
Cotton Plant Has Real Booster.

George Lewis Bales. assistant city
attorney, has discovered the world s
greatest home town booster.
He resides in Cotton Plant, an oo-
scure village in Mississippi Mr.. Bales
related. Just to put Tippah county on
the map and Cotton Plant in quick
touch with the world, a gentleman by
the name OF NJ l.. Guyton has insfa LED
a high-power wireless receiving outfit
in his town At night he receives mes
sages from Ships far out at s2a as wei
as from larger land stations.
with further removal of govern
nent restrictions. Booster Guyton in
tends TIC install a high-power sH"d'hg
apparatus in order tc bring his com
munity in direct touch with world af-
fairs.
when this IS done I suppose C5ttoh
Plant will flash to the world IT, , news
of It's pink rAiama parties and We 3a@s-
day evening choir practice and "ilid
I'm by saying a r.;cc time was nad by
ALL Anyway. you'll have to admit that
this man Guyton is some citizen, ana
if he ever wants to, remove to Birming-
ham therell be ample room in our
midst for a man of his boosting cali
ber.'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-24
shooting Deer Farorite Sport.

81 am certainly a lover of sport"
stated Col. w. B. Leedy, as he pointed
to several large deer heads which
adorned his office LAS soon as No
vember comes around l begin to feel
the call of the wild and packing my
rifle and hunting clothes I start for
South Alabama to Join with some of my
old friends in that section in hunting
out the large game.
shooting deer is my favorte sport
but 1 will never pass by an opportun-
ity to bring down weld fowl. ! have
hunted for a number of years with
some of the timers. and each year
it is certainly a pleasure to get back
down among them and go out in search
Of deer and other big game
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-24
OF sufferance comes ease.
Henry ".

BEGINNING THE DAY-O God,
hnofher day begins--another series
VI 'riais' on battles, of quick
emergencies, of joys. of pains. Yes
'crday was q mixture of failure and
success, OF va 4 ry and defeat. To-
aay VIII be the same. Grant me
only this: That nrasf;:aIIy The suc-
cess and the victory may outweigh
the failure and defeat. Amen.
III. u. e.
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Publishers Meet to Solve
Problem of Paper Shortage

@ GUTHERN newspaper, publishers
~ win meet in Birmingham today
and tomorrow to discuss a serious
crisis in the publishing business. The
cost of white paper has reached
point where speedy relief must be
afforded, or hundreds of smaller
newspapers in the south will have To
cease publication,
It does require vivid imagination
to visualize what this would mean
for the editors and owners of small
papers, the people who work for them.
local business mer and the connnu-
mites they serve, A well established
newspaper is Indispensable to all
towns with a population of more than
one thousand
The larger southern newspapers
are now paying unprecedented
prices for the white paper they
consume. They have great
advantage over their less FORUM
ate competitors in bidding for pa
per, yet they are themselves facing
a situation which demands an increase
in the price Of newspapers, or adver-
Using space, or both.
1t is significant of the fraternal
spirit among newspaper men that
the larger publishers are just as eager
to help the smaller publishers as they
are to help themselves. From such
a representative gathering of intelli-
gent and progressive men as Bir-
mingham will entertain TODAY and to-
morrow many practical suggestions
may be expected, suggestions chat
will benefit every newspaper pub
Usher in the south.
y X &
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REDrvIyUs
rom the New York Evening Sun.

From the New York Evening Sun.
Imperious Caesar dead and turned to
clay furnishes a title for twentieth
century musical composition DIndy's
DE Bello Calico" Well. julius was
IA rather sympathetic old fellow. after
all
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-24
EASY MONEY

From the st. Louis Dispatch
In Russia school teachers are now
being paid s1400 month. And it is
easy work, too. teaching the young
Russian idea to shoot
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A MISLEADING HUNCH

From the Los Angeles Times.
Champ Clark says he hears that
there is feeling throughout the coun-
try that he ought to be nominated
next year. Wake up, Champ, your
foot's asleep.