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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
THE NEED OF REST

From the Chicago Herald and Exam
liner.
Old Telegraph operators are to be
numbered among the wisest of tho
wise. For lifetime many have felt
the world pulse--the first to know
in every community of the inner work
ings of this old workaday world
Il am an old operator in point of
years because L got my first tip from
the wires Cryptic, but reduced 10
our language he states that telegraph
wires work better after period OF
rest. A iumpy wire--a wire full of
nerves--is an overworked wire A
wire that responds instantly and clear
ly is wire that has rested after doing
its duty.
All of us may draw a lesson from
the old telegrapher and his wires. We
plug along the same old rut uncon-
scious of the wear and tear that is put
ting our nerves on edge and our dispo-
sitions out of joint We do not res.
enough
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
Buy Coal Supply
For Next Winter

m HE United States fuel admins
u tration makes good sugges-
ton. Consumers of domestic coal
usually lay in their winters supply
in the summer season. The price is
then at the minimum, but if con-
sumers will begin now to buy for next
winter the market will become active
and the miners will be kept busy
throughout period which is normally
dull.
The administration is forward look
ing when it suggests change in che
rule of buying for the winter Large
consumers can help materially in in
dustrial revival by starting early to
provide for the cold season.
Not every householder can afford to
purchase winters supply this far
ahead, but many of them can do so.
Let everyone who is able buy now.
y y y
The citizen who has not yet learned
to distinguish between an oak leaf and
an ca gle on an officers shoulder, might
as we'll not tackle the insignia of over
seas service.
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For the first time in their history
the British people. and not profess
sional army. went to war. AS re-
suit, they are fed up for the next 100
years.
Washington is still badly over
crowded, a situation which enables
landlords and landladies to make fire.
quent trips to their favorite banks.
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There are reasons for suspecting
that some of the most outspoken OPP
ponents to the league of nations cove
nant didn't take time to read It,
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Marconi hopes there will never bs
another war. but if there is he will
doubtless be prepared to make it a
slaughterfest of the first order.
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Having taken in all the territory there
is in sight number of American cit
les are waiting eomplacenly for che
census man to show up.
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At any rate, arguments about the
league of nations are helping most Of
US TO remember important dates in
American history.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21

We do not envy the first German
salesman who packs his sample cases
and starts out to take a few orders IN
France.
Certain statesmen want the Monroe
doctrine to continue to stand for close
communion in the western hemi-
sprere
Not the least of Uncle Sans trou-
bIes just now is trying to decide that
vexatious question, What is beer?"
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outwardly Hunland has not been
touched by war, but many Hun has
inside information to the contrary.
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Progressive Birmingham will have
a night recorder to issue search war
rants for liquor sleuths.
American dollars were never put to
baser use than financing bolshevi<
propaganda
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Bostonians showed more than an
academic interest in the Lodge-Lowell
debate.
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Doughboys who failed to see Paris
talk as if the trip across were a total
loss.
Il * +
Most observers agree that the Turk
is not yet in chastened mood.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
Mr.. Harding's Plan
To Help Cotton Growers

~ OOd lnIluenJlal newspapers as
~ the Atlanta Constitution and the
Atlanta Journal approve the plan of
Governor w. P. G. Harding of the
federal reserve board for helping
southern cotton growers to sell heir
product in the worlds markets.
Briefly summarized, Mr.. Harding's
idea is to organize a corporation for
exporting cotton which shall be CO.
operative and in which cotton grow
ers will be stockholders A tentative
capitalization of fifty million dollars,
secured by Liberty Bonds, which are
now held in large quantities by farm
ers, would give plenty of capital to
finance the project and would not re-
quire the sale of the bonds.
The corporation would be designed
solely for export business, would be
lawful under the Webb act and could
be given financial aid by the war
finance corporation if necessary, one
billion dollars having been placed at
it's disposal to promote our foreign
trade.
AS Mr.. Harding points out, the cot
ton industry, strange to say, has no
sales department, without
which any other enterprise of such
would be powerless to
carry on business. Unfortunately, cot
ton production in the south has al
ways been done in a haphazard way.
The farmer who raises a certain
number of bales is dependent on the
nearest local market, and usually has
to take what he can get from the mid
die man. Under the Harding plan the
cotton grower, through his powerful,
cooperative selling organization,
with representatives in all the for
eign markets, would be able to sell
his cotton direct to the consumer and,
furthermore, he would have the ad-
vantage of knowing in advance now
much cotton it would be profitable for
him to grow Instead of working in
the dark, he would conduct his bust
ness as any other great industry is
conducted and not devote all his anar-
gies to raising a crop without ever
stopping to consider where and how
he could sell it.
Mr.. Harding suggests that meet
ing of cotton growers and business
men interested be held to discuss his
plan. If carried out in the spirit of
its sponsor, and there is no reason
why it should not be, the Harding plan
would revolutionize the cotton-grow-
ing industry of the south, put it on
sound, legitimate business basis and
prevent it from being, as it has been
in the past, more or less of specula.
ton,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
BACK TO TWO CENTS JULY /

From the Washington Star
Return of the 2-cent postage rate for
outs ftown letters is announced for
July l, next. The people have ad-
justed themselves to the differential
postal rate easily and have cheerfully
paid the extra penny. even though II
compelled them to keep two kinds of
stamps always on hand, or rather really
three kinds, for the penny stamps have
still hao their uses. The reduction of out
of-town postage from to 2 cents will
mean large saving to the public. Mil
lions of dollars have been paid for the
support of the government through the
postal revenues during the two years that
the 3-cent rate has prevailed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
AouIkzMM1Aau11H

p, 81 know another thing they
can hide. even from their husbands.
but I am not going to father it, but
will let the cynical Voltaire stand
sponsor for it. 1t was the witty
Frenchman who remarked that "A
woman can keep one secret-the secret
of her age" If a woman had fathered
that indictment we men would have
smiled and shrugged our shoulders.
and said How catty,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21

Public Is Entitled
To Accurate News

I'm discussing the scheme of Clyde
~ P Steen, president of the Ma
tional Association of City Editors, to
raise a fund of one million dollars to
flight bolshevism," the Brooklyn
Daily Eagle offers some advice to
newspaper men which is well worthy
of consideration by all members of
the profession who are engaged in
writing and editing news. Says the
Eagle:
We are not inclined at this time to
pass on the methods of the fund rails
ers. But we would like to see all city
editors give their whole attention to
getting the news and presenting it
with drama, but without bias, to our
newspaper readers in this country. 1t
is not their function to start funds to
fight arson or drug using or bolshev-
ism.
The judicial temperament is what
the city editor needs, not the advo-
Gates temperament. Every days news
picture has its lights and its shadows.
If there were no shadows there would
be no picture. Haired of, shadows
initiates against art. Analysis of
news values is most efficient when
enthusiasn.s are forgotten. Many a
young doctor has sympathes too keen
for the surgeons work He must linn
it himself accordingly.
Nothing so quickly destroys conf
dence in a newspaper as "colored''
news, which, if not distortion of
the truth, is so worded and so dis
played in the news columns as to
create false impressions and influence
public sentiment. The greatest re-
porters tell plain, unvarnished tale
They stick to the facts and leave the
reader to form his own conclusions
That is the sole province of the news
department of all honestly conducted
papers. The headlines should be az
fair and as impartial as the Stories
The prevalence Of propaganda Of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
HUSBANDS CLOSE IN OHIO

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
The average housewife does not
have a dollar in the house.
Members of the woman suffrage
party of Greater Cleveland, who have
been conducting a Dollar for Dem
ocracy" campaign have discovered
that. although women would like to
make donations. they depend on thei-
husbands for money, and most hus-
bands don't contribute to such move,
ment
This the women claim, is an argu-
ment for woman suffrage.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21

many kinds, some of it most subtle
in form, is a menace to be guarded
against. Germany prostituted it's
press, as had never been done before
since newspapers were first printed.
1t sounds like a truism, but the place
for expressing editorial opinions is
the editorial page.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21

BEGINNING THE DAY--O great
Beginner and Sustainer Of worlds!
o mighty marshaller of the hosts
of heaven and earth! 1 know Thy
power; convince me of Thy care.
Tell me that Thou art my Father
and my friend. Tell me that 1 may
whisper the smallest things to
Thee and that Thy heart is stirred.
In Christ's name. Amen.-H. Nj. e.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
Member of the Associated Press

The Age-Herald is the only morning
and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham
carrying the Associated Press dis
patches.
The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for publication OIL
all news dispatches credited to 1t or
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news pubnshed
herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
LETTING OUT THE AIR

From the Louisville Courier j ournal
A Paris cablegram says a diplomatic
mountain was reduced to mole hill
when it was found that there was no
objection to President Wilson's proposal
that the league be made part of the
treaty. Another result was to make some
United States senators. Still preserving
the angry exterior of toad in thun-
derstorm, feel like row of pricked bub-
bles.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
SOMEWHAT HAY

SOMEWHAT HAZY
"Gadspur doesn't know much about
Mexico"
$50 it seems. He told me confidcn-
TALLY that he didn't know whether
Zapatista belonged to the animal CT
the vegetable kingdom"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
ADRIF'T WITH THE TINES;
A WORD TO THE WISE

WOINb IL LIE w lSE
Listen, little senator's,
To the peoples voice;
Never think a citizen
Hasn't any choice
But to follow leaders who
Wander from the way.
There will come a reckoning
At no distant day
Don't assume that common folk
haven't any mind;
They are not such hopeless dubs
Neither are they blind,
They can reason for themselves
And opinions state
Listen, little senators,
Ere it's too late
THE MILITARY ATMOSPHERE
The fashioned chorus girl car
ried a spear"
You don't see that type any more
True. And now that the war is
over, L wonder what they'll carry when
they lay aside their wooden guns"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
POTENT STUFF

From the Atlanta Constitution.
They say. the present brand of cider
made in Maine has a skick'/ strong
enough to land folks outside of that
state. Probably that's why it's pat
ronized
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21

A man may fish with worm that
eat of a King, and eat of the fish that
hath fed of that worm. Hamlet.
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
Farmer. Behind With Planting

Il have just come in from a trip
throughout the state, said George M.
ers are away behind in their planting
all over Alabama. I am on my way to
Shelby, N. c.. to join my wife, who Is
visiting our daughter, Mrs Oates. My
son is at the University of Alabama and
feel mighty lonesome here by myself,
and therefore I just concluded that I
would take a short vacation before going
on my contemplated trip out vest
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
No Dwelling Available

Birmingham has certainly grown
since 1 went to New Orleans a few
months ago." said Lieut.. Commander
]. E. Meredith of the local navy re-
cruiting station, "as 1 have been unable
to secure a house or apartment since
my return to this city. I had no trou-
BILE in securing an apartment when 1
was here before and there seemed to
have been a large number available at
that time. Mrs. Meredith is in Mobile
visiting and expects to arrive in Bit
mingham In two weeks. 1 sincerely
hope we are able to secure some place
to live by that time"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
Happy At Marbury.

state where l served number of
churches said Rev D. d. Head, but
now am happy in pastorate in middle
Alabama, for I am liking my work at
Marbury very much.
THE town was built around the lumber
industry and now that most of the timber
available has been used up, the cut-over
lands are being taken up by those who
are DESTROYS of farming. Quite a number
of white families have bought small
holdings in the surrounding country.
Marbury is noted for it's fine schools and
good churches
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
Preachers Car stolen

while | was conducting services at
one stole by Liberty car said DR.. Mid
dleton S. Barnwell. IT don't know why
they picked on me, unless they thought
was too busily occupied preaching to
take notice of an automobile thief. And
to make matters worse my car was one of
a dozen or more parked in front of the
church and it was the only one taken,
altk ough there were several cars on eth
er side of it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
DR.. Riley Back From Trip

"h have been quite busy on a lecturing
tour for some while past" said Dr. B. F.
Riley Il have visited most of the army
camps in the south, where under the
war council of the army Y NJ. c. A.
have addressed the colored troops on the
duties of American citizenship. I have
also made addresses at number of col
leges and schools and have been most
warmly received I have enjoyed the
work and feel that I have been able to
render a service to both races"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21

Washington bureau. 207 Hibbs build
ing.
European bureau, 10 King street,
Covent Garden, London, w. c. 2.
Eastern business office, World build
ing, New York city; western business
office, Tribune building, Chicago. The
S. c. Beckwith Special Agency. agents
for foreign ADVERTISING.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21

PROFANE SPEECH
mo, my son. After a man has been
a theatrical angel for about six
months he learns to use language tina.
may forever bar him from heaven
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
THE INTERLOPER


Rather a prominent gathering, II
SEEMS
Yes. The intellectual looking WON.
an is a suffrage leader, the woman
with a bundle of pamphlets in her hand
eyed dame she's talking to is widely
known as an up1ifter of the masses
and all the others represent Causes
of one kind and another"
But who is the little woman IA
the rear whom nobody pays any at
tention tor
She's a champion home Gamer How
she ever gained admittance is a mys-
terry to me-"
A FATHERS PLANT
Ten children. NJ"
Yes"
you don't have to pay any income
tax"
Don't I know that If Uncle Sam
had heart I'd be drawing a PEN
SION"
PLUCK
my boy" said the prospective
father law. you will discover that
my daughter has expensive tastes"
ct discovered that long ago. sir; but
1 gritted my teeth and made an en-
gagement for the very next night.
~ PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21

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TELEPHONE
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No communication will be published
without its authors name. Rejected
manuscript will not be returned unless
stamps are enclosed tor that purpose,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala,
postoffice as second class matter, un-
der act of Congress, March s, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
Handicapped In Life Insurance

I thought that if any man was quail
fed to write life insurance l was, said
Orlando S. Finch. for l graruated from
one of our daily newspapers as an ad-
vertising manager. But after getting into
the game I find that ! am strangely
handicapped, at least in one qualification,
for | seem unable to acquire the art of
telling my friends about the great lines
am writing unless l really get sig
natures to the policies
L made the frank admission to an
agent that I had put in a whole week in
north Alabama town and had only
written one man. and he said Finch.
you'll never get by in the insurance
game, for you resemble too closely the
Father of His Country, and evidently
cannot tell a lie, even about the volume
of business you are booking. L have this
consolation, however, that I do not fool
myself and I do not think my competi
tors fool anybody but themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
Hereford Breeder. to Meet

The second annual meeting OF the
Alabama Hereford Cattle Breeders asso-
citation will be held in Selma, on the
evening of March 20. at which time Of
flcers and directors will be elected, SAID
r. ]. Goode. Jr., secretary-treasurer OF
the association THE Alabama Cattle
mems association have their annual inert
ing at Selma on the Goth and 9th a.'d
this association meeting will be held at
the same time Besides the election OF
officers matters of Importance concern
ing the Hereford breed will be taken UP
and it is hoped as full attendance as pos
sible will be obtained. The second an
nUal combination sale Of registered Here
fords will be held on the afternoon OF
the 9th, which will be an additional at
traction
Alabama is fast lining up in the hve-
stock game and the day of scrubs Is
passing Most every farmer that now buys
cattle or hogs insists that the pedigree
be furnished at time of SALE and as
consequence quality is increasing.
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-21

All of which goes to show that any
man with perfect assurance can make
his own wife his private secretary; for
the word secretary means one intrust-
ed with secrets. In spite of Beacons-
fields tip to statesmen, BE thine
own privy counsellor. pray tell me
why can't Rotarians right here in our
midst in matters of state and in mat
ters domestic make their own wives
their trusted agents? One thing |
know. they can keep dinner engage
ment without divulging it.
their 1ieQalords
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-04-23
NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That:
Pursuant to Bond Resolution No. l of the
Board of Commissioners Of HIGHWAY DIS.
TRICT No. l, LATAH COUNTY, STATE
OF IDAHO, passed and approved on the 18th
day, of April, 1919, Special Election will be
held in said District on the 24th day of April.
1912 for the purpose of submitting to the
qualified electors of said District, who are
residents therein, the question and proposal
of authorizing the Board of Commissioners
of said Highway District to issue negotiable
coupon bonds of said District in the principal
sum of 500, 10000; That such bonds shall
bear interest at a rate not to exceed six per
cent GO per cent) per annum. payable semi
annually, until such bonds, principal and in.
terest are completely paid and redeemed That
the PROCEEDS of the sale of the bonds shall be
devoted to constructing, improving and repair
ing highways within the District to the pur-
chase of materials and machinery therefor,
and to the payment of the necessary expenses
of the District in connection Herewith; That
there shall be four "a precincts and four az
polling places in the said district, as follows,
to-wit
ELECTION PRECINCT NO. SHALL
All the lands and territory in
Guided within the following boundaries: Com.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-04-23

Miss Bernice Durham of Culdesat
has been visiting few days with hel
sister, Mrs. w. S. Wilkins.
Lace, Embroidery, Towels at
Brackerts. 176-f
Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock the
girls glee club of the university will
give vespers service in the "Y" hut
Quinn Wilson is in town today Mr.
Wilson, a pioneer of Moscow, is now
representing the VIM. E. Chase Engi-
neering company of Spokane. He will
be in town a day or two on business.
He makes his headquarters at Spo-
kane since leaving Moscow.
House Dresses, reduced prices.
! Brackerts. 1867
Dean Eldridge, director of the sum-
mer school, is receiving many inquir-
les about the summer session. which
begins June 16 and closes July 25
This interest indicates a probable good
attendance.
Mrs. c. J. Langdon returned last
evening from a three weeks visit in
Portland Mrs. E. H. Langdon of Spo-
kane accompanied her home.
Embroidery Silks at Brackerts
1857
Stanley Brown, graduate of the de-
partment of agriculture in II, and
now county agent of Franklin coun-
ty Washington, was a visitor Satur-
day at the university
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome J. Day are
registered at the Hotel Portland,
Portland, Oregon.
May Allison in the Return of Mary
at the Kenworthy tonight 176 |
H. c. johnson left yesterday for
Calgary, where he will operate a we'll
drill
The Easter dance given by the
Catholic ladies, Monday evening was
largely attended The university or
;hestra furnished excellent music
and the crowd had an enjoyable time.
The ladies will give another dance
IN Friday May 2.
Gods Man is one of the big pic
ures of the season. Kenworthy
Thursday and Friday. 176
Miss Ellen Allen of Potlatch has
cen visiting her aunt, Mrs. C. M.
datheny. Miss Katherine McIntire
f Johnson. is also a guest at the
1atheny home