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* $: # Moscow Report Says Kolchak Has Resigned

M WIRELESS message sent out by G2A the soviet government at Mos COW announces the resignation of Ad- miral Kolchak, head of the all-Russian government at Omsk, in favor of Gen. eral Denekine, who is leading the anti bolshevik forces in southern Russia.
 The report, of course, may not be true, but if Admiral Kolchak has real ly stepped aside and relinquished his authority to the Cossack hetman, there will be regret wherever this patriotic Russian is admired for the struggle he has made for law and order and na- ticnal decency. Judging from what newspaper and magazine correspond ents have written about Kolchak and the biographies of Russians who know him, he is one of the few great men raised to international prominence in Russia 5y the war.
 Propagandists would have Kolchak a self-seeker, a monarchist plotter and anything but what he has appeared to be, a relentless foe of anarchy and a leader who has been earnestly striving to wrest his country from the bolshe- wiki. Kolchak proved what kind of man he was when he took charge of the demoralized Russian navy at Se- bastopol, before stable government had crumbled. During the months of chaos that followed the overthrow of the Kerensky government, Kolchak grew in esteem until he was hailed as Russias deliverer. The scandals of bureaucracy, we are told, did not touch Kolchak. Although loyal to the Czar, as the head of the government, he has always worked for the best interests of Russia with passionate zeal and rare self sacrifice.
 Grand Duke Nicholas and Admiral Kolchak are types of Russians worthy of admiration. Had the destiny of their unfortunate country rested in the hands of these two men, Lenine and Trotzky would not now be sap ping the lifeblood of Russia.
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our country in engaging in a war for the obliteration of such malevolence from the world. They are instructive, fasci- hating and revealing. They are confes- sional.
 They are, indeed, propaganda which Senators Chamberlain and Lodge out wardly profess to dread. They are in sidious a anti-German propaganda, in truth. They balk any even-minded tendency to pity the Imperial govern ment in it's difficulties and collapse. They do not help the case for Senator Knox, who, swept by a flood of tender ness for the Germans, pleaded in the Senate for the tearing up of the present Peace Treaty and the substitution of a brand new pact which would be less harsh and cruel to the beaten Huns.
 The person who fails to read the Ludendorff series is missing a rare chance to have his Americarisn heated up to the boiling point
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-23
LUDENDORFF, PROPAGANDIST
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 1T UDENDORFF is an unconscious
 propagandist His writings are
 making public divers incidents and records which stir anew the feel ing against Germany The nonchalant manner in which he tells of the plans of Great Headquarters to smash the allies, his description of the difficulties he had with maintaining discipline in the German ranks for the great drive of last year. the accusations against other commanders, the filings at Bull garia and Turkey-all are impressive as reflecting the tireless, heartless and unconscionable methods of the German military chief in the prosecu- tion of the war.
 The Ludendorff articles are helping America to get a deeper insight than before into the German mind and pur- poses. They more and more vindicate
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Raise in Rents

About ten years ago my partner, Colonel Jackson, and I had Pat Oliver to build us number of negro houses in East Birmingham" said s. T. Barnett. 'The contract for them was SS20 each. and this included the painting. The houses were ceiled. Just to show the way that building material has advanced I find that it now costs nearly s2J0 to cover the same houses. This being a fact it would be unreasonable to expect rents to remain at the same level, even if the number of homes already built were sufficient to care for those seek ing places to live. Everyone who has houses to rent knows that the demand is far greater than the supply. These two reasons are sufficient to account for the general raise in rents.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-23
PEN PICTURE OF DIsRAELI

From the Kansas City Star.
 When Benjamin Disraeli began his fight to gain admittance to the Eng fish House of Commons, he did not have one chance in a thousand, but he calm ly announced that he intended to keer at it. until he succeeded. In the mean while he was becoming one of the most was taken up by the literary set and men like Tom Moore. Lord Lytton, Lady Morgan and Lady Blessington gave din- ners and receptions in his honor. Ma thaniel P Willis, the American writer attended one of these receptions and he was very much attracted by the un- usual personality of Disraeli Writing home at this time he gives his impress sions of the man:
 "Disraeli has one of the most re- markable faces I have ever come across in all my travels. He is lividly pale an6 but for the energy of his actions, and the strength of his lungs. would seen a victim of consumption. His eyes are as black as Erebus. and he has the most mocking, lying in. wait, sort of ex. pression conceivable. His mouth is alive with kind of working and impatient nervousness, and when he bursts fortf as he does constantly and with par tially successful cataract of expres' sions it assumes curl of triumphant scorn that would be worthy of Me phistopheles. His hair is as extrava gant as his tastes in waistcoats. 4 thick. heavy mass of jet black ringlet' falls over his left cheek almost to hi, collarless stock, while on the righ temple if Is parted and put away witt the smoo(h carelessness of girls hair
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John Is Pecycd

John Sibley is peeved with the railroad administration because he can't get the freight cars he needs. Tt has got so bad" he said yesterday. that we arc now getting only about 10 per cent of what we have requested. and for the past six months we've averaged only about 9 per cent. The worst part of it is that up at Lenoir City, Tenn, there are 3o00 new cars standing on sidings while some legal matters in regard to payment are being strengthened out. It looks like they ought to use those cars to help improve conditions and not let them rot to pieces while they argue about the payments
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A NICE DISTINCTION.

Mrs. Galumpus is always getting after Mir Galumpus for not having more spirit"
 "Yes?"
 "she says he lets everybody run over him.
 Doesn't Mrs. Galumpus run over him, too?"
 Certainly, but she takes the position that domestic tyranny doesn't compro- mise the honor of the family like oppres- sion from a rank outsider" M
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Dances Are Popular

''The dances being given every Thurs day evening by the war camp community service in compliment to ex-service men and men in uniform are proving most popular said William Wise, "and are being largely attended Music is fur nished by real jazz band and punch is served during the evening. All men ad- mitted must have a war camp commun- ity service pin, while the young ladies must have invitation cards issued by the organization, and only correct dancing is allowed It is really treat to watch the young people enjoying themselves for they certainly seem to do so at these danceS'
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THE PRINCE IN AMERICA

From London Punch.
 It appears that the Prince of Wales will make very few speeches while in America. We cannot help thinking however, that our versatile prince would soon learn the language.
 A gossip writer points out that the Prince of Wales has also been invited to visit Australia, but he decided to see America first.
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Offices Scarce, Too

'I can't say that I know much abou' the residence problem in the city, but I do know that the downtown build ings are filled to overflowing," said H. R. Kampen. If an office or suite of rooms is vacated there are numer- ous applicants for it before it can be put in shape for other tenants. All though office rent in the downtown as much as the residential properties of the city, one can get almost any price for an office, because they. like homes, are almost as scarce as can bo. y
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Percy F. Smith, in the Pittsburg Dis patch.
 0s s.s,rs ss%s says ss"'saa'y nas sss .s furnishing, through the writer, | incidents developed at Frank .Murphy's 1 Old Home temperance meetings to the Pittsburg Commercial. He gave the name of Richard Realf, and Mr. Brig 1 ham, the editor, made his acquaintance. with the result that this noted English man, poet and author was very soon on the editorial staff of the paper. He was a graceful but forceful writer of | both poetry and prose, a most eloleunt and convincing orator and most iov- able parsonage. He attracted national attention by his famous production. en- titled, Hymn of Pittsburg." written after he located here John Dalzell once quoted part of ths hvrln in an address before Congress. and t New York millionaire wro,e for the whole hymn. MT Dalzell referred him to one of MT. Realrs friends in Pittshurg, the poem complete was forwarded and soon after appeared in leaflet form for dis tribution to friends. The New York merchant was big enough to recognize the Pittsburg described by Colonel Realf, notwithstanding his close con nection with the affairs of the metrop- olis. | Leaving Pittsburg after very suc- cessful career in journalism and lec- turing he went to California, where his brilliant but sad and eventful lie came to an end at his own hand In a pocket of his vest. on scrap of paper, was found his last poem:
 DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BONUM" When for me the end has come and am dead.
 And little, voluble. chattering daws of
 Peck at me curiously, let it then be said
 By some one brave enough to speak the truth
 Here lies great soul. killed by cruel wrong.
 Down all the balmy days of his fresh youth
 To his bleak, desolate noon, with
 sword and song And speech, that rushed up hotly from | the heart, He wrought for liberty till his own wound Gle had been stabbed). concealed with
 painful art Through wasting years. mastered | him and he swooned, And sank there where you see him ly- With that word Failure" written on
 his blow. Worlds honors and worlds plaudits. | and the wage
 Of the worlds delft lackeys. still his lips
 were kissed Daily by those high angels who as-
 suaEe
 The thirstings of the poets-y.for ne YVES
 Born unto singing --anJ a 3urthen i, lay
 Nightly -on him and ns inoahcd because He could not rightly utter to this day What God taught hirn in the night. Sometimes, na.hless, l Power fell upon him. and bright
 tongues of flane And blessings reached him from poor
 souls in stress And benedictions from black pits of
 shame;
 And little children's .nve; and old mems l And Great Hand tha. led him un- | awares
 So he died rich. And if his eyes were blurred With thick films-silence, He is in his grave.
 Greatly he suffered; greatly. 100. he
 erred
 Yet broke his heart in trying to be | brave
 Nor did he wait till Freedom has be-
 come The popular shibboleth of the cour- tiers lips: But smote for her whea 3od Himself seemed dumb
 And all his arching skies were h eclipse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-23
Other States Have Bad Roads

Alabamians complain about the bad roads in this state, but according to Ja- cob Matika, who passed through here worse. Mir Matika and his son have motored from Chicago, having taken three weeks for the trip. And we mustn't forget the third passenger, z little French poodle, that seems to en- joy the trip as much as any Of them in spite of the fact as MT. Matika says that he gets homesick every time we get to new town"
 MT. Matika said yesterday: I'm on my way to Foley, Ala, where am so- ing to have large farm. Inasmuch as we had the car we decided we might as we'll drive down and see the country so my son and I started three weeks ago, leaving Mrs Matika and the chil- dren to come by rail after we get things a bit settled. We've had hot tiresome trip and have struck some awful roads, but we've had a good time just the same We passed through some sections where the farms were in splendid condition; at other places land seemed so poor that it is marvellous that anything would grow on 1t.
 Bad roads came all too frequently When we passed through Kentucky we thought on several occasions that we could not get by some of the mud holes We found things much better in Ten nessee. Since we came into Alabama we've had no trouble other than that it is always hard to know which road to take because of the absence of signs The roads themselves are not boule, wards. but one can get over them witf a fair degree of comfort"
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SENSIBLE DECISION.

Wasn't your new Trench maid com petent?' asked Mrs. Gawker.
 "Oh, yes," replied Mrs. Bounderby. '"Then, why did you discharge herr" ''The first time Mir. Bounderby saw her I caught him glanchg at himself in mirror and readjusting his tie. l may have lost my girlish beauty, but. thank heaven, haven't lost my brains" :"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-23
TWENTY YEARS AGO
 IN THE AGE-HERALD Events Recorded September 23, 1899

The su ubmarine torpedo coat Holland the practice run in Ltttlc Fec onic bay yesterday. A torpedo was successfully launched from tube under water.
 Signor Marconi. the promoter of wireless telegraphy, arrived in New York yesterday on the steamer Aurania from Liverpool. signoi Marconi will report the international .scht races and make some experiments for the American government.
 Former Congressman Jerry Simpson ("Sockless Jerry") was hooted off platform at Kansas City last night when he said: T glory in inc spunk of Aguinaldo's men. They arg simply fighting to regain the land the Catho- lies took from them
 Many wili rumors are flying about in Mexico because of President Diaz's proposed trip 10 Chicago. Tie Mexi- cans say tine -ih.e, jeans are vain and their triumph o,tr Spain has made them like spoiled chilii n.
 There will b. a h,t fight in the Sec ond Alabama congressional district to succeed Congressman Jesse Stallings, who has annolassd hnscli a candidate for governor. Co, \. A. Wiley of Montgomery is in lii. ,:re Tennent Lomax of Aoa.., ,r.e-y ani State Sem ator S. c. Jenkns anu ec.. Joseph N. Miller of Wilcox are mentioned as pos sible candidates.
 Former Representative Aldrich an J. A. VanHoose. former mayor of Bii mingham, called on President McKinle yesterday in Washington and discuss< the Warrior canal. It is stated that tla President was much impressed with tl q feasibility of the plan.
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THINGS WE LEARNED IN FRANCE


 I THINGS WE LEARNED IN FRANCE D. M. Walker, in Leslies.
 When the American boy arrived in France he expected to find companion l ship among nice" girls such as he had know nat home. The propagandist had ! failed to tell him, you see, that the jeune l lille in France is as closely s-ques- l tered as if she were in a convent. She is not allowed unchaperoned with men for an instant. The young man in | France has been raised with the un- derstanding that he is to go as far as | he likes whenever he gets a chance. It just another phase of the system. Pla- tonic friendship between man and wo- ! man does not exist. If a young man is calling upon q fair girl of good family, it is because he intends to marry her otherwise he would not be wasting his time, nor giving her family any erro- neous impressions. The American dis covered that the girls who would go promenading with him unchaperoned | weren't exactly known as nice" back
 
 lent displeasure, it must be admitted. but it is responsible for his views on | the women of France. You know what they are. After the French had known | us for about two years and some of them had become convinced that our standards in America were different, they would have allowed their daugh- ters with us unchaperoned if 1t were not for public opinion. I remember be- ing allowed to walk home with a jeune { file unchaperoned from a nearby ten his court The knowing smiles which that girl endured from passersby made me glad that mother came along next 1 time.
 To even begin to comprehend the | French attitude on sex, one must check l door. To the French there is no sin in sex. If there were, they would be a sinful lot indeed, for they are swamped. inundated, engulfed in sex. In Paris one cannot escape it for five minutes. Around sex attraction revolve ! dAA E IcHCH Hlu cTI ana literature. the theatres there is but one plot, with lvariations-some sufficiently startling to the foreigner. At the revues, which are about all the Americans ever see in Paris, the chorus young persons are usually clad in lots of nail polish and a turing smile They aren't expected to be ladies and make no pretense of being such.
 You may ask why. if there is no sin in sex, the jeune file is so carefully protected from the world. I've won dered myself, and have come to the con- Iclusion that it is mere question o1 social depreciation. For when the jeun. file marries, the lid is off. As mar ried woman she is free to go where she pleases and when. She Is expected tc be sophisticated; to be unshockable, ex. cept by bad taste. Whether she Is oi not. she always retains her boise. Un- der the French code if a woman is seer in public with a man she is either madame" or should be. Consequent, she is always addressed as such.
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sAeKEN WITH DEEP FEELING.

SPOKEN WITH DEEP FEELING.
 Travel on transatlantic air liners will be luxurious, I'm told q haven't the slightest doubt of 1t, re- piled the man who has suffered more than once from seasickness. T should think being able to get up every morning and eat hearty breakfast would be the travel"
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BEGINNING THE DAY--Lord, my obstacle is my responsibility. My suffering is my chance. Thou givest me opportunity through pain. Thou speakest Thy message in difficulty. Have I heard. Am I prOfiting. Have Y met with Thee in my furnace of fire, and have I brought out q purer souIf Amen.-H. NJ. E.
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Price of Shoes, But No Retail Profiteering

0 this year than last, it is not be- cause of any profiteering on the part of retail dealers. The story in yes- terday's Age-Herald showed conclu- sively that the high cost of living was to be sought higher up. It was certainly not chargeable to the retail dealer.
 The cost of leather is much higher than it was before the war and the retail trade, therefore, has to pay more for the goods it sells.
 The fact is that the retail mer- chants are charging less for shoes than might have been expected.
 The high cost of living will come down gradually and it will come sure- ly by the economy of the individual. The common run of people spend money freely for luxuries. But shoes are necessities, and no complaint can justly be made for the advanced price. If dealers in all commodities were as reasonable as the shoe trade there would be little complaint. # * x l A New York movie actor was haled to l yrt fnr ta hAu 1{ {c xr,kt tcha 70 | trimmed and his hair cut when he was under contract to pose as a hermit, a Russian monk or any other hairy per- sonage The reason? Cherchez la femme. A girl in London didn't like him that way.
 l Making a beer test for Judge Landis in Chicago chemist discovered that "the sun makes beer wild" In view of the fact that the test was made with a Milwaukee brew. old Sol may not have been altogether responsible for that beers 'wildness' l If member of a grand opera chorus 1 is not an artist but contract laborer. there is some justification for the recent organization of a chorus girls union. No body ever accused a chorus girl of being an artist-that is, on the stage. 1 # * *
 Punch says the Prince of Wales has decided to see America thirst If the Britons don't quit making fun of our aridity there Is certain to be a cool ness between America and England. | E * < l The costumes of Paris chorus girls, says close observer. consist chiefly of cosmetics. From which we judge that Paris has not lost it's lure. l Although the raisins in disgrace. thanks to experiments made by bibulous men the prune pursues the even tenor of it's way.
 | D'Annunzio gets himself so worked uI over Plume and Dalmatia that he would probably tear his hair if he had an, left.
 Holland and Belgium are acting as Il they'd like to settle the lightweight championship of the world regardless of what happened at Versailles.
 
 Won Ludendorff ignores as far as pos sible the part played by Americans ir the war Perhaps other historians will write with less prejudice.
 * * x
 A Columbia professor says meat-eatine lis the curse or America. He'll never get on the pay roll of the packers.
 $ * *
 The former German liner, Imperator is now Cunard liner and quite a re- spectable ship.
 Wood alcohol and other dangerous fluids are increasing the hazards o drinking in a bone-dry country. x * Ts
 Now that the Senate is getting read! for "inhghting," Borah may be more eff fective than Lodge.
 < * x As between Kansas cyclone and { tropical hurricane. it is hard to sa. !. which is worse
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grounds well sprinkled. We will have a model fair, and nothing should be left undone to make the comfort of the visitors perfect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-23
ENOUGH

ENOUGH Eden Philipots. in the London Dai 5 Chronicle. The larch, the birch and the eagle fe a And granite gray; The cry of the kline and the son of, taa
 burn
 Down Dartmoor way. A league-long tramp to lifted stone Under the sky; Long lustral hours superbly alone My soul and l. For you be the kingdoms that you list. The seas you will: And mine white rainbow in the mi, T On . heather hill.
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A MINSTREL.

 The bird that thrilled all summer long, Still pouring forth a Hitting song, Declines to stay(, When skies are gray. And yet, I shall remember, When loudly roars the northern gale, With gusty flaws and rattling hail, On some night in December, How every morn a cheery note Pealed upward from that feathered
 throat: And hardening to the winter rain, I'll dream the roses bloom again.
 PATRIOTIC SACRIFICE.
 Would Gladys Twobble let man kiss her on short acquaintance"
 "oh. no. That is, not in normal times" What do you mean?"
 During the war Gladys sometimes handsome young lieutenant who only had an hour or two between trains" MIGHT FAIL. Isn't there some talk of preachers striker" Something of the sort has been sug- gested." Do you think the slogan. More pay, or no preaching would get results?" Does the small boy weep when his teacher has the "f1u?" VIOLENT ExERTIoN. You southerners call the game of dice African golf I believer" Quite SOL But surely, there isn't as much exer- else in rolling dice as there is in play ing golf?" Far more, when the game is played by 10 or P colored gentlemen"
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Skilled rollers in steel mills ought to think twice before quitting jobs that
 pay them 80 a day.
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ways do lie open.
 Merry Wives of Windsor.
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Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second-class matter. un- der act of Congress. March s. 1879.
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nemittances can be made at current rate of exchange. The Age-Herald will liot be responsible Tor money sent through the malls. Address
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sUBscKIpYloN RATEs

No communication will be published without its author name. Rejected manuscript Will not be returned unless stamps are ineloseq for that purpose.
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P. S.--John McNeill will never be tried for hetrodoxy, but if he sticks to the gospel like he did in the sermon heard he could easily be convicted of orthodoxy.