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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
Reduced Water Rates
 In Effect Today.

1 M MOTHER important step, vital S N step indeed, has been taken in the development of traffic by Ala Ibama's great inland waterway, the Warrior river.
 The new rate, 20 per cent below the all-rail rate, is effective today, and shippers are urged by Engineer Charles F. Wood of the Warrior de- velopment committee to give this far reaching enterprise, both up and down stream, the heartiest encouragement.
 Birmingham, Mobile and New Or leans have been talking for many years about the urgent need of the Warrior river navigation. Much ef- fort was required to induce the rail road administration to build barges and install freight line and estab- llsh cheap water rates. Now that we Fhave the rate necessary for the full development of industrial Alabama, let's lose no opportunity to give the barge line prompt and profitable sup port. Unless this be done, the admin istration may say that, after all, the business men of Birmingham, Tusca- loosa and Mobile were indifferent touching this matter Let's show the administration from the word go that we are in earnest.
 | Birmingham is great tonnage dis trict. A vast volume of freight will. as matter of course, move gulf ward. But in order to make the barge project a success there must be a large volume of up-river traffic as well. Every business man who re- iceives freight from points where the lall-river rate applies should ask to have it shipped by water. And it ap- plies not only at New Orleans and Mobile, but through the Mississippi river route to the great northwest.
 Just now Tuscaloosa will be Bir- mlngham's port, but steps are being taken to establish the port of Bir- mingham at the Ensley Southern crossing at Locut Fork. If the barge line, under the rate effective this morning, starts well-if shippers manifest the proper enthusiasm-we will soon have a-joint rate-river and rail-that will reach Atlanta and all the territory east and west within a radius of three hundred miles.
 But the fundamental matter stressed is, begin today to cooperate with the promoters of the development com mittee. Let everybody get behind it and make the movement a signal achievement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
French Damage Claims
 Against American Army.

m HE thrifty French, according tc G all reports, did not let the WE interfere with their doing business with the American army at a profit There is no way of telling how much money was left in France by spend thrift do1ghboys who spent their money like millionaires. and thereby caused resultant upsoaring of prices Our soldiers themselves are chiefly to blame for the high prices charged then in France. Most of them had money to spend and they didn't care what thing cost.
 Another phase of the American Rrmys stay in France is brought out in recent dispatch It is stated that French claims for damages caused by the operations of American troops amounted to about one dollar for every man in the expeditionary forces. While vigorously denying that the French charged the Americans rental for trenches used on the front lines, Lieut.. Col Robert E. Burkham of St Louis, chief of the renting, requsi- tion and claims bureau of the A. E. F. is quoted as saying that French claims amounted to more than ,wc million dollars
 Colonel Burkham says fifty thou sand claims were handled by his de. partment. In Paris there were ar average of three hundred cases oi personal injury alone every month requiring nine officers for their set. clement. Damages of six hundred thousand dollars were asked for the destruction of forests near Bordeaux where there was an American artil. lcry camp.
 At first glance, you would think that the French would be too grateful te America to exact damages, large ol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS


 As man gets along in life the elas- ticity that leaves his steps seems to enter his conscience. We all want to go to heaven when
 we die. But none of us is in any par
 ticular hurry about it. The man who can't hear opportunity
 when it knocks will almost break a
 leg to open the door when temptation Eknocks.
 lot of men do not discover that
 they can't afford an automobile until
 after they have bought one.
 Men are so contrary that a married
 woman often wonders how any 12 of
 then on jury manage to agree The boy who lives on a farm is glad
 to see school begin in September so
 he can get little rest.
 What worries us most about prohi-
 bition is the fear that it will make us
 look as crabby and god-forsaken as a
 lot of prohibitionists we know. The trouble with player pianos in the neighborhood is that there is too
 much piano and too little pianissimo.
 Love is something that can make a
 girls silly cackle sound like rippling
 laughter.
 married man never has any trouble NSSaNAHS what AAS ViAi uo "itH HID money.
 No wonder so many of us fail to observe the Ten Comma ndments. There isn't one man in 50 who can even re- peat them.
 The betting is that if weeds were worth $2 per bushel the crop would be a failure most of the time. A man thinks that he is smarter than a woman. But we would like to see a man take tissue-paper dress pat tern and make anything out of it. A doctor will admit that the patient is out of danger whenthe stops calling on him. But he doesn't mean it the way you might think. When she sits on his lap when they are engaged the poor boob doesn't real- ize that she will sit all over him when they are married. What makes a corn fed look so cool on hot day is that she is sweating where it doesn't show. man tries to please his wife just the opposite way from the way he tries to please any other woman. And flapper ldoesn't have to wear yellow stockingslto make man think
 of chicken when he sees her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
FAIR PLAY

From the American Legion Weekly.
 A reporter in a camp where numbe CT of negro troops were being discharged asked one of them what he was plan ming to do when he got his release.
 Boys said the negro. the fust thing after An gets nah discharge, An goes and busts nah second lieutenant on the nose"
 "Oh, no. you ain't. nigger,' spoke up another, you is gwine to git in line and take uo' turn"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
TWENTY YEARS AGO
 IN THE AGE-HERALD. Events Recorded August 25, 1929

Correspondents at Rennes charge that
 military judges in the Dreyfus court
 martial proceedings are showing their antipathy toward the famous prisoner.
 Yesterdays session was marked by in idignant protests from Labori, Dreyfus's
 chief counsel
 The invasion of South Africa by British troops began yesterday in earn est Every indication now points to a war between the Boers and the Brit sh. Germans residing in Dom Paul's territory have volunteered to help him.
 Lieutenant Jarvis, commander of the Bear, has made his report on the res
 cue of gold seekers who rushed to the
 Kotzebue gold country, Alaska, in the
 summer of 1sss The list of dead has reached 4S The men succumbed to starvation, scurvy and drowning. It is believed the fatalities will number more than 48.
 Hon. John w. Tomlinson and Dr. R. M Cunningham spoke on Bryan and democracy to a large crowd at Scale yesterday.
 Replying to recent criticisms, Dr. E. II. Sholl states that Birmingham is in an excellent sanitary condition.' The city will have to prefer specific charges against inspectors and where these charges are proved the board of health will order their. removal. Coffee Jackson, travelling passenger |agent of the Southern railway, is fig
 uring on handling large number of military companies from all over the
 south on the occasion of Admiral Dewey's return to America. One of. the largest excursions ever
 run in this state is expected to leave
 Birmingham tomorrow night for New
 Orleans. There will probably be more than 20 cars of passengers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
When Roosevelt Coaxed
 The Dove of Peace

e ONE interesting glimpses of g Roosevelt's big, human person Iality and inside facts about epo. .h- making events which have never been published before are contained in the lseries of articles which Joseph Buck lin Bishop has prepared for Scribner's magazine. Mir. Bishop, incidentally, Twas personal friend of Colonel Roosevelt for thirty years and was commissioned by him "to write the history of the period which covered his public career.' Having access to la public and private correspondence
 of more than one hundred and fifty thousand letters, MT. Bishop has en- Ijoyed unusual opportunities to delve into little known incidents of recent American history. The world saw the results, but it didn't know how they were achieved.
 r The first paper, "Roosevelt-Peace- maker" tells how Colonel Roosevelt brought about peace between Russia and Japan. It is indeed surprising to learn that Japan made the first over-
 lures, four days after the Japanese victory over Rojestvensky's fleet in
 the Sea of Japan, May 27, 1905. In characteristic fashion, Colonel Roose- welt kept the wires hot with cable grams, not only to the Russian and Japanese governments, but to the
 Kaiser, France and England. It seems that Wilhelm did really exert himself flor the sacred cause of peace on .his occasion and was given due credit for it by Colonel Roosevelt, who wrote of Wilhelm as a lmonomaniac, "a jumpy creature who has had another fit" Of Nicholas he wrote, "The Czar is preposterous 1 little creature as the absolute auto
 crat of one hundred and fifty million
 people,"
 | In his private letters the colonel said exactly what he thought and in
 addition to much information, there lis many good laugh in store for readers of the Bishop articles. x * *
 1 A Chicago paper which prints "col- | ored" with a capital "C" and "white'' i with a lower case wv is merely streng thening the cordial relations ex-
 isting between the two races in South Chicago
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25

BEGINNING THE DAY-And now, Lord, what is Thy word: wait. VIII Thou speak to me: On the hilltop | pause for a moment before plunE- ing into the valley. Give me nay direction. Give me my motto. Give me my hattie cry. Whisper one word into my ear, which shall hold me all the day. In His name. Amen. H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25

small, for trivial matters or great de- struction of property, but the late war seems to have been fought on strictly business basis. Sentiment does not appear to have entered into the claims department of the A. E. F.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
MOTHER CHANGE FOR aBREcks

FronYthe Franklin County Times.
 Breck Musgrove paid $2200 for a goat at the rooster sale at Demopo- lis last week. It was labeled Oscar Underwood" and Breck claims he "got" Underwood's goat" Now. friend Breck, we need new bridges up here in Franklin and we have goats. We'll kbrand them anything you want or you can buy 'em and brand 'em to suit yourself at that sort of price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
LAND OF RIVERS AND BIG DEBT

watching you undress and get ints your hammock, with calm stare that must not be considered impertinent, for white man is not an every day visitor I rarely undressed completely. Sometimes I would only take off hat coat and boots; sometimes only my comes second nature after awhile, and bathing and changes of linen can be better indulged in along the road side"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
WHICH IS IT.

From the New York Herald. | Great Britain has removed all re- |strictions on beer. So while the Presi- dent insists on our winning the war" by pretending to drink the 2.75 variety our associate" seems to be laboring
 under the delusion that the war has
 been won
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
THE NEW HAIRCUT

From tie Chicago News.
 Have. you noticed the new Japanese or chrysanthemum haircut that many of our boys and young men affect? That festoon of long locks, superimposed upon a shaved area of sconce, makes the wear. CT picturesque, but not beautiful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
Member of the Associated Pres.

The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingn am carrying the Associated Press dls- patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication or all news dispatches creoited to It UT not otherwise credited in thls pape: and also the iocal news pupIlShea herein.
 All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved
 
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
Coroner Fond of Singing

"I thoroughly enjoyed the music made by the Sacred Harp singers who have been holding forth in the court house for the past three days" said Assistant Coroner R. F. Askew. "The singing is of the variety I used to hear in earlier years and which I enjoy } l so much. The singers at the court house are enthusiastic and put a nec- essary amount of pep in the music to make it well worth listening to-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
Bushes. Section Moving

"Yes, I like the place where we are going to move about September 1, on upper Second avenue" said w. O. Broyles. <I was sure when we built the four story building that we are oc- cupying at present on Fourth avenue between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets that the business section of the city was moving towards Fifth avenue, but now I think it is going more to- wards the Terminal station and that in few years there will be a continuous line of handsome stores all the way from Sixteenth street to the Terminal station or Twenty-sixth street on First to Fifth avenue inclusive. l have the utmost faith in the continued growth of the city and would not be afraid to invest every cent that I possess in business property here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25

Rem.ttanees can be made at current rate of exchange. The Ag-Herald Will not be responsible for money sent through the mails. Address
 THE AGE HERALD,
 Birmingham, Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25

Washington bureau. 2o1 Hibbs build- ing.
 European bureau. 10 King street. Covent Garden, London, w. C. 2.
 Eastern business office, World ouliI- ing. New York city; western business office, Tribune building, Chicago. The $. C. Beckwith Special Agency. agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
Boost for Resort

While I am not given to boosting Iout-of-town places" said General" George McCleery, "the Signal Mountain hotel, near Chattanooga, is certainly an ideal place to spend a vacation. There is everything in the way of out of door
 amusements, such as golf, tennis, swim
 Lming and boating, and the roads lead- ing to the place are the motorists ideal Then the scenic beauty surround ing the place is unparalleled in gran deur, and the climatic conditions all that could be desired. It is certainly a
 great summer resort and quite a num-
 Der of Birmingham people staying at the hotel while was there and all were
 enthusiastic over the surroundings"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
To Build Fire Station Soon

We expect to let the contract within the next few days for the new fire sta tion and municipal garage building that is to be erected at Avenue D and Nineteenth street." said John H. Taylor, commissioner of public safety. The building is to be rushed through con- struction So that it can be used as early as possible. There are other improve ments which are to be made in the fire department that are to begin at an early date and that are badly neded. The de- sioners to authorize these Improvements imm ediately."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25

To die, is to be banisIed from myself. Two Gentlemen of Verona.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Why They Do Not Teach

There are hundreds of able and intel lligent young men and young women in
 this state who should be preparing
 themselves for the principalship of some | high school, or for a college professor ship or for a college presidency who, 1 instead, are planning to go into some other work because the salaries paid
 teachers now are so low and the field is not promising enough in pecuniary way" said Dr. J. H. Phillips.
 The result is that we are getting teachers of less native ability and edu- cation and of less mental strength, which condition tends to degenerate our citizenship. It is startling to find how few of our young people are planning
 to teach. Among these there are many
 who are doing so with the intention
 of going into some other work later. And they now are leaving the teaching profession in large numbers. Principally those who have already made it their life work and who, we might say, can do nothing else, only are remaining in the small salaried field of teaching school.
 If we hope to elevate our citizenship. these conditions must be changed and the financial inducement must be great enough for the teaching profession to
 draw and hold the best talent and abil- ity in the country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25

A Chicago paper which prints "col- with a lower case wv is merely strengthening the cordial relations ex- isting between the two races in South Chicago
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25
Value of FelIowship

'"Time certainly goes swiftly in these stirring times" said Rev. Ed g. Barnes. secretary of the Birmingham Pastors conference, for I am reminded that to- day is theannual election of officers Very few outside ministers have any coming together once week for fellow ship and to discuss the affairs of the kingdom. I am not only glad that the different denominations have their weekly gatherings, but that once a month all meet in the pastors union It gives us chance to discuss things outside of our own churches, and to get acquainted with one another"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25

Entered al the Birmingham, Ala. postcffice as second-class matter, uh- der act of Congress, March s, 1873.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-25

gress rise to the occasion ?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
WHITE Good s
w Remnants for
a Third Less

And this means considerable
savings for women who have
small children or who make their
own lingerie.
Both plain and fancy weaves
and lengths for skirts, blouses,
children's clothes and so on.
(East Aisle)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05

can reed and are exceptionally
well constructed.
1923 for a 3-piece set in
brown, with upholstered seat
and back.
$10l for a 3-piece set in
brown, with a cretonne uphol-
stery of the crushed-in pattern.
$152 for 3-piece set in a
two-tone enamel in taffeta ere
tonne.
$1S1 for a 3-piece set in black
enamel with red trimmings. The
upholstery is of cretonne in soft
shades of black, green's and reds.
$98 for a 3-piece set in brown,
with separate spring cushion
seat.
$154 for a 3-piece set in
tseveuth Floor. CentraI)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05

cream, with taffeta cretonne
covering.
$406 for ge enamel set,
in ivory blue trim. The
upholster seats are blue fig-
ured linen, The fourth piece Is
an oval table.
$166 for a 3-piece set in
brown. One of the pieces is
high-back wing chair with broad
arm and pocket with an adjust
able head rest.
$161 for a 3-piece set IN
shaded ivory with trellis-pattern
cretonne and high backs.
$3.50 for 3-piece set in a
two-tone enamel in brickdusf
and brown, with a figured linen
effect cretonne.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
Cool and Dainty Furniture for the
LiUing Room in Hot Weather

Goodness and daintiness are
the two chief requisites of
living room on hot days. To
these add comfort and you have
an ideal or something very near
it.
All three are realized in the
sets of living-room furniture to
be found in our Summer display.
Set, except where otherwise
mentioned, means a settee and
chairs. We are showing a num-
Der of particularly interesting
3-piece sets, in which there are
many very pretty effects in Gre
tonne and taffeta upholsteries.
These sets are made of an ex-
cellent class of imported Afri-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
NRGANDIE Col
" lars and Sets at
25c and SOC

All are of fine, pleated organ
die, in Vandyke points, and there
are collars alone, and others with
cuffs to match.
All the gay, pretty Summer
colors are here-rose pink, Cop
enhagen blue, red, lavender or
tan, and there are others of white,
and some of white and color
combined.
Many are for round-neck Sum-
mer dresses or blouses.
25c and SOC,
8 (AfAin Floor, ceatsaI)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
WOmen's White
Lou Shoes at
Moderate Prices

White canvas oxfords with
full, round toes and low leather
heels, or with narrower toes
and Cuban leather heels, $3.50
a, pair.
White canvas plain pumps
with Louis or military heels,
both styles with white welting,
$3.50 a pair.
Any one of these four styles
is good and all are unusual
for the price.
tFirst Floor. Market)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
Look in the Waist Sale
for These

waists flesh color also
Gorgette light
embroidery printed Georgettes tailored
$3.85 to SIS.
White cross-bar and striped voe besides partnen waists in
plain coors price $1.65,
East nd westAis
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
D.OYS' Washable
% Suits

in linens, reps, galateas, cham
brays and kindergarten cloths; in
junior Norfolk, "Oliver Twist"
short Russian and Mildly styles, in
full selection of colors and color
combinations, for lads of to 10
years at 1925 to $3.50.
In Palm Beach and other fine,
cool wash fabrics, all made in the
Norfolk style, for boys of s to
Is at $40 and $12.
Every suit in the collection the
best Of its kind at the price.
(sesond Fioor. CentraD
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
Fine Novelty Voiles
for Dresses for Many Occasions

In fact they for utility any
cotton goods
the feel
tea at the country club in the afternoon,
voies mostly dark grounds shades
Of blue it be taupe The designs
large and in al-over effects.
Prices 60c $l.b0 yard
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
To Have Such a Collection Of French DINNER
Sets i'm This JUNE China Sale is am
Achievement

~ French china dinner will not comparatively plentiful before
This due partly to the limited output greater
nave uh collection Of French sets show in this June
femafkabe circumstances
remarkable STILL considering prevailing wholesale
We have them at $780, s40 $780, $780, SS5
AS collection,
they equaled.
oody shape decoration and composition they
undoubted quality at savings of undoubted
English, American
also at considerable reductions from regular prices. '
The of
we have ever had and that a great
LoW-prced light cuttings offered n selection
Floor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
= MADE
" White Shoes for
FastidiOus Women

No one who has not seen
shoe made of Chinese white buck
skin knows how fine white buck
skin shoe can be.
In the custom shoe corner of
the London Shop a special i'm
portation of Chinese white buck
skin has just been received. 1t is
as soft and velvety and pliabIe as
a glove and will make women in
comparable shoes for tennis,
yachting or beach wear.
(The Gallery, Chestnut)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
D EST B a t h i n e
II Suit Satin That
We Know Of

1t has just arrived-a fine SOFT,
brilliant satin and good black, at
the same price it has always sold
for, SO a yard. The width is 36
inches.
There are more bathing cos
tunes being made of satin than
there ever were and this particu-
lar satin has been found most
satisfactory. 1t certainly makes
up most beautifully.
(First Floor, Chestnut)