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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10

been family servant in Virginia foI
 many years, was convicted in New
 York court of stealing articles from a home where she had recently been employed. Judge William M. Smith,
 commonwealth attorney for Cumber-
 land county, Virginia, who had
 brought Fanny back to New York aft
 CT she had returned to Virginia, ap-
 peared in court and pleaded for leni-
 ency. Judge Smith said Fanny had
 been attached to his family for many years and he had always found her honest and industrious. He couldn't account for her downfall unless "the electric city," meaning the bright lights of Broadway, had gone to her head.
 Judge Smith may look entirely diff ferent from our idea of him, but he must be courtly old gentleman, with ante-bellum ways and gray goatee Perhaps he says "suh" frequently. He must have been quaint figure in the great city that day when he pleaded for the black servant whom he had known and trusted so long. The old fashioned negroes of the south always call on-their "white folks" to get them out of trouble, and the appeal is sell dom ignored
 Fanny pleaded guilty and the court could not see it's way clear to show her any leniency, so she was sente need to the penitentiary for an indetermi- nate term. Down in Virginia, Fanny was honest and dependable, but New York proved her undoing. It was an hour for her when she heard of the high wages paid servants in New York and decided to seek pros perity in the metropoliss It may be a long time before she can return to her own people, and if she ever goes back to old Virginia, she will wear the stigma of prison.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10

From Harper's Weekly.
 0NlHERE was a cartoon in London
 Punch early in the war, than
 which none more truthful or inn pressive has been produced during all the great struggle. It pictured the king of the Belgians standing amid his ravished and desolated country, con- fronted by the insolent and triumph ant German kaiser. who reproached him for his folly in not breaking his faith and letting the Huns use his lands as a base of attack upon France and Eng land:
 50 you see, you've lost everything"
 ''But not my soulp
 It was only the fancy of facile artist; but it was the very truth of everlasting history. By his refusal Of the German demand, King Albert brought upon himself and upon his country such woe and tragedy, as no other sovereign and nation have ever known But he saved his integrity, his self respect, his honor; in a word, his soul Saving his own soul, he saved the soul of Belgium. Saving the soul of Belgium, he saved the soul of Europe, of the world. It is an old story, though because of it's truth it must never grow outworn, that through the stubborn self sacrifice of Liege the Huns were checked just long enough to give France time to meet them; that the firA levies of France and Englands "con- temptible little army in turn checked
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
Increasing Popularity
 of the National Guard

1.-THE new National Guard of Ala
 q bama is growing in popularity. When it's organization was first planned, it was thought that Birming- ham would be able to recruit eight companies of infantry, but it is now the purpose of Maj. Lucien c. Brown, in charge of the work, to organize a full regiment in Jefferson county, most of the companies coming from Greater Birmingham.
 In past years there was considerable interest in the Alabama National Guard, but never as much as today Military discipline is wholesome for young men and the morale alone de |veloped in the guard is worth great deal to any community. Corporations and other employers in former times gave little encouragement tc citizen soldiers. Many business men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
ALBERT OF THE BELGIANS

them just long enough to- give both those countries time to rally all their strength; and that finally those coun- tries at awful cost held the line of civilization against barbarism just long enough to give slothful and dila
 tory America time to awake to her duty and to hurl her determining weight into the scale. But it all be- gan with Belgium. And it is commen- surately true that the ineffable moral and spiritual uplift which reused hu- manity against the Beast had its mi tial impulse in King Albert's heroic de- cision to save his soul though he should lose all the world.
 We have welcomed home our own re- turning heroes and their gallant chief We have welcomed the pricely priest who proved to the world that the spirit of Elijah at Carmel, and of Paul at Ephesus still lived and triumphed. And they were worthy of alf> that an ap- preciative people could offer. them. Buy pageantry, no blaze of banners and blaring of massed bands, no noisy ac- claim of multitudinous tongues nor silent tribute of grateful hearts, can be too great for the desserts of this later guest who now ,revisits these shores. Not only a king but also a, man. the sternest democrat will honor himself by honoring hin; and the Red, White and Blue of America will win new lustre through being entwined with the Bra banters' black, gold and red
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
WAGES AND TIPS IN HOTELS

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 OC1O the ambitious mind 'tis the
 deepest mystery that makes the
 strongest appeal for the plum met and the grapp1ing hook. Maybe that is why aspiring but fine persons are always trying to analyze the In- finite. At any rate, the theorem ex- plains the yearning of the United States Labor Department experts to get at the real truth as to wages and tips in hotels, which hotel patrons have always regarded as one of the things no fellow can find out
 Seriously, as if they knew all about it, the experts report thus:
 Some chambermaids average SS cents day in tips; others average only II cents. In wages the chambernaid gets an average of $1.2s a day. Her tact must make up the rest.
 Bellboys range from $1.27 to s3.7S a day in tips. Their wages are SS cents a day
 Workers in hotels and restaurants were counted to the number of 10000, of whom 24.0oo were men. Of the kitchen help 37 per cent were women. of the dishwashers 40 per cent; of the cooks only 9 per cent. Twenty-four
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10

of the male cooks got $1e day or nere, Only one woman cook was paid as high as ss 4 day. Men as cleaners average s2. women only s1- Tips of walters are figured at from $1-1e to $3.s7 a day.
 Tips to chambermaids are more often paid by women, and sex economy ac- counts for their meagerness. Most of the gratuities of belIboys and walters come from men who are more lavish It would appear that the hotels and restaurants put the greater part of the burden of paying all employees who come in contact with the individual guest on the public in tip form. But this we had already guessed.
 Most people will take such docu- ment, however, with several grains of salt owing to the difficulty of the in vestigation. Tips are never recorded or audited, and reports about them from the recipients are undependable. And the question "cui bono?" will arise in innumerable minds Is any good accomplished by the salaried energies employed on such researches in a field of nebulous uncertainty.s Certainly no Legislation fixing minie mum tips or minimum wages is in serious contemplation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
PETE, A DOG HERO

From the Houston Post. IA There are dogs and dogs. Some dogs
 with ancestral trees most astounding. whose every strut betokens the blue
 blood that runs in their veins, whose every yelp is proclamation of their high estate, dogs whose dads were
 ribbon winners. dogs of whom-with
 lineage so great-grear things may be
 expected
 Then again there is the common gar
 den variety of canine And there are lots Of this kind. The streets are clut-
 tered with them. Great municipalities go to much expense to eradicate them. By means foul or fair the dog catchers snatch them and by methods more or less. humane ease their peskv spirits off
 into dog heaven. These dogs don't
 amount to much, they say; are hardly
 worth killing.
 And Pete. who frisked and frolicked
 around the heels of George Kepper, and who buried bones out in the Kepper
 yard was that kind of dog. If there was any blue in his blood
 tHcic W dS CsiA iiAi n eO oiAO W Ae- "A Fl 's'
 dad ever won a ribbon it is not any where on record. The fact is that his percentage was about as complete a blank as could be imagined. ! Btu at that Pete's got it all over the bluest of the blue bloods, for Pete is hero--a dead one. it is true-but t all the more a hero because of that fact
 MT. Kepper, Pete's master, was rude ly awakened very early the other morn. Pete was barking and pulling at the bed covers The house was afire The whole building was mass of flames. Pete might have run out side and parked and yelped fire" in dog language out there. But he did not His master was in danger and Pete knew it. and he ciawed and harked beside the bed until his master was awakened
 When KApper saw the danger he dashed for the open. Pete should have followed. Somehow he didn't and they found the dogs charred bones in the debris several hours later. The whole house was destroyed. and Pete with it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
WITH A WHITE LEADER

From the New York Telegram. Race riots in Washington, Chicago and Omaha have been succeeded by another outbreak in Montana. Late report says that 15 negroes and one white prisoner were taken 10 Helena, heavily guarded to prevent any attempts to- rescue them. The white man is said to have been the leader of the negroes and to nave been distributing inLammatory hter- ature. Other arrests are said to have been made in Elaine.
 Why a white leader? This should be searchingly inquired into.
 It is not probable that some of these outbreaks are engineered by the clements just now interested in keep ing this country in a turmon
 Not many months ago bolshevik nrona randists and German agents were busy among the colored popu!a- tion in this city but with small suc- cess.
 It.is a singular thing that pr. James F. Gregg, writing on Prevention of Race Riots" in the Southern Work man. said:
 Tt is an obvious. absolute necesssss that something substantial, unlnis~ takable and undergraduate should be done in the way of punishing the per sons who are guilty of this infamass bloodshed If negroes have not me&e- ly exercised the right of self-defen hut have been assassins and murderer let them suffer the full penalty of tias law; but if white men. as now seen undepiable have committed thes4 crimes let them suffer the same pen alty'
 The outbreak in Helena seems to furnish a good case to work on.
 Why a white leaders
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
World Merely Smiles at
 Won Ludendorff's Excuses

! M IL through Von Ludendorff's EA memoirs, now being published
 daily in The Age-Herald and other
 newspapers, there is revealed calcu-
 lated purpose to defend militarism, as
 exemplified by himself This is 1atu- ral and thanks to the intelligence of the American people, has been fully discounted in advance.
 The former dictator of Germany does not spare government officials. He frequently laments that his advice and suggestions were not acted on and l 1t is easy to see that he thinks mat
 ters might have turned out better for
 the fatherland in general and Prus- lsianisn in particular if there had been fewer dunderheads trying to run af- fairs in Berlin.
 Speaking of withdrawing his forces in northern France, when ultimate de- feat was already staring him in the face, Won Ludendorff says, eve dealt with the populations with the great est leniency,>-as we always had-done. l We have statements to this effect | from the inhabitants themselves. It | is true that they begged not to be forced to give evidence publicly for us, as they feared opinion in Paris" Von Ludendorff might have added,
 but didn't, that fear of German mill tary authorities dictated those state
 ments, which might not have been so
 complimentary otherwise.
 It is the same old story, harped on
 by Germans high and low with weari-
 some monotony. If civilians were .nis-
 treated in France and Belgium, it was
 their own fault The noble German larmies were above waging warfare on
 defenseless people. Those treacherous lfranc-tireurs were most to blame. There were, to be sure, some allega-
 tions of atrocities that could not be
 proved and other cases that were
 greatly exaggerated, but the burden
 of proof against Germany is too great to be lifted by Won Ludendorff at this Hate day, or by anyone else.
 l Old, in disgrace and all his mighty dreams shattered, yet protesting his loyalty to the Hohenzollerns, there is something both pathetic and grotes1ue about Von Ludendorff. World events have swept past him, leaving him sad ly behind the times-even in Ger many loath to part with its old ways. j as x
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
Wonderful Sneaker

"I am glad to know that Dr. John McNeill, pastor of the South Highlands Presbyterian church is to speak at the strand theatre on Sunday afternoon" said John w. Sibley. "as it will give number of men in other denomlra-
 tions a chance to hear his famous talk on With the Boys in France, Egypt and Palestine.' Dr. McNeill is one of the most wonderful speakers in the religious world and this address is a masterpiece, for he gives first-hand in-
 formation of the boys in the trenches. It is the beginning of series of ad- dresses and I hope those who can will start in with him on Sunday after noon, for I feel sure that they will stand by with him until he is through"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
Preparing Journal

My office force has been working hard getting the journal ready for the cumbia, secretary of the state senate
 but we expect to have it all done in- side of a month from the date the leg islature adjourned. I have been up at my home several days looking after my newspaper and attending to some othee business matters. but am now on out to the fair grounds this afternoon and there certainly was some crowd there, the biggest crowd I ever saw"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
LOATH TO LEAVE.

This life may be farce-this life
 May be struggle hard. Wherein we meet with troubles rife -
 And obstacles retard This life may be brimfuIl of woe,
 As pessimists declare; Unending sorrow here below,
 And heartache and despair. But when deaths shadow gins to creep And offers swift release, A quiet bed and dreamless sleep
 And long-awaited peace, Nine mortals out of ten, cen those
 Whose scorn of life was hot. Aren't glad to leave these earthly woes Somehow, they'd rather not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
Live Wire RuSiuexS

We have spent about seven weeks in Birmingham and can assure you we have been more than surprised at the business nature of this city" So said Mir. Emil T. Keen of the Parker Supersize Tire company at the Tutwiler yesterday Just previous to coming here we spent some time in New Orleans, and before that we were in Louisville, and I must say that there is no comparison between these cities and Birmingham when it comes to Tive wire business. They are not even in the same class. My only regret is that I cannot remain here in the interests of our company, as I know of nd city that promises so well''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

A squawk always goes up when a newspaper gets anything wrong. But this would be pretty good world if you were half as careful about what you say as the newspapers are.
 A fellow and a girl might keep com pany for years and not get as well dc- quainted as they would if they were married 10 hours.
 A woman can worry over nothing so much that if she took a sea voyage she could worry for fear the ocean might run dry and leave the vessel stuck in the mud.
 Every town has a man who is dis appointed because his great grand - father didn't buy the postoffice block for $4 when he had the chance.
 Funny how man isn't as hilarious about taking his wife along for com = kpany as he would be if she were some other mans wife. A paragrapher announces that wo- men should do the proposing instead of the man. Well. for the love of Mike. who has been doing the propos- ing since marriage was invented once upon a time a man took the trouble to investigate. And he discov- cred that half the things he knew were not true
 The reason woman is so afraid that her husband will get pneumonia if he doesn't wear hls heavy under wear in October is because you can see clear through her waist in Decem- Der.
 No matter how religious woman may be. she is going to quit saying her players when she hears the tele- phore ring.
 One of tho Slyrest and easieSt v<av q for 9 man to develop a bad dispos- tion is for him to get married. The average man would get heap more pleasure out of music if the leader of the orchestra didn't act lik 2 he was the whole band. A single man can limit his lying to telling the size of the fish he caught But a married man has to take in more territory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
Note Nf Warning

Someone should sound note of warn ing in the matter of the g new street cars that were recently authorized for Birmingham. They are going to be one- way cars. Everybody will enter at one end with exit at the other" states R. G. Hewitt of the county education depart ment yesterday.
 This means that negro men and white women will elbow each other in strug- ble to enter these cars. Everyone knows that the negro does not understand the eitquet of 'daies first Sooner or later some trouble seeking negro will start something which someone will resent and then there will be a shooting As we are, we are sitting on volcano hree in Birmingham, and it needs not half this chance to start race trouble of some kind"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Improvements Appreciated

The city engineer and the city com missioners are to be congratulated on their policy of improvement of import ant arteries of traffic within the city, in the opinion of Robert Jemison, Jr.
 Tt is the most important of recent developments. from the property owners point of view" said MT. Jemi- son. "and I think the thanks of the community should be extended to the city officials who are responsible for originating this improvement. The paving of Tuscaloosa avenue, of Montevallo road in the vicinity of Elm wood cemetery. of Altamont road lead ing into Iroquois street. means the en- hancement of property values and the general advahcement of the city's in- terests. Property owners generally, I think, appreciate the fact that this inn provement is essential eventually, and that there will be no saving by it's postponement."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
KILBY AND CONFER

From the Mobile Register. The Age -Heralds cartoonist is nay ing fun at Governor Kilby's expense, calling him a Poo-Bah and a Man darin, but alongside Corners we think kilby's steam rolling was really quite mild stuff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
Nothing unusunl Here

T think that the hardest thing to find in this city is a place to sleep stated J. arrived in Birmingham to take in the fair and had a wonderful time out there, but when I came back to the city to get place to sleep why there was not a room to be had at any of the big hotels. room, but finally got one located The hotels are sure doing tremendous busi- ness this week. I am greatly impressed with this city and some day I may set tie here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
ENOUGH ro FREr HER.

ENOUGH TO FRET HER.
 T thought the bride looked rather up- set about something"
 50 she was, poor thing. She suffered an experience that often befalIs brides on the shady side of thirty"
 What was that?"
 "As she passed up the aisle she over heard someone say in a sibilant whisper, Everybody knows this is her last chance
 WORSE THAN A cooTIE.
 'Ha! Har'
 Why this mocking laughter?"
 '-You were in a hurry to dodge that nfvver."
 What if I was? It isn't pleasant to have one of those things running uS your trouser leg" NO CONCESSIONS.
 T walk to and from my office and snap my ringers aG LOley CdISs e9- marked Mfr. Snortswortny.
 ''Ffne. That's the way to be fndeDen- dent. But what do you do on rainy dayse"
 '~wen-erI ride on one of tare alarmed things. but you never hear me chirping Good morning to the conductrx.~
 SLOWING DOWN.
 'T eau remember when ehe snnusx chautanqua was the most exciting event tn our town
 we are getting back to rfsuEe old days," replied the disgruntled citisnn. "An the cabarets are drying up and se- formers have made biz nights thing of the past. wouldn't be surprised at any time to bear that 5000 red-bioohea citizens had attended stereopncon lee ture.~ PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
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Negro Educators Must Put
 Forth Their Best Efforts

NOTWITHSTANDING the infam- G V ous acts of negroes that have precipitated riots in the north and south, the great mass of blacks in southern states have been conducting themselves in an acceptable manner; but in view of organized disturbances the leaders of the better element of negroes should exert themselves more than ever to curb the evil tendencies of some of their race.
 Negro preachers, educators and prosperous men in general should be able to raise the moral standard and by inculcating Christian principles, bring about widespread regard for law and order.
 White men of prominence have been not only friendly to all well-behaved negroes, but have shown a distinctly helpful sympathy in regard to col ored educational institutions.
 Excellent results have come from the work at Tuskegee and for time the colored race as a whole was com- menoinq itself to the white people of hof
 But recently, in certain quarters, the negroes have been calling down curses upon themselves. The blame upon the negroes of Arkansas who took part in bloody riots has been traced to one or two. mercenary lead CTS. An investigation of the trouble in Phillips county, Arkansas, where five white men and twenty-odd negro people were killed, shows that it was not race riot. It was deliberately planned insurrection of the negroes against the whites, directed by an or : ganization known as the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America.
 The instigator and leader "fleeced'' negro men and women. He exacted large fees for membership and the members were told that the govern ment was backing the "union" Dupes were numbered by thousands. They were initiated into the murder" de- gree and were made to believe that they were serving the cause of justice when they killed their oppressors. {" The diabolical head of the union grew rich and the poor, deluded members of the rank and file wefe thrown vio- lently back in the march of civiliza- ton and brutalized beyond measure.
 The people of Arkansas will see to itsthat viciously led negroes will never again start an uprising. In the mean while, it behooves every negro minis ter and every self-respecting layman to redouble his zeal in the work of uplifting his race and minimizing will lainy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
LONG OVERDUE.

From the Washington Star
 Whether or not the Senate is respon- sible, the news from Europe leaves no question as to the fact that peace in the full sense of the word is being very much delayed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
AITIMN
By Samuel Minturn Peck.

By Samuel Minturn Peck. Autumn.-in red and blue and gold Nit'1 very charm we knew of oId V ila @ster stars by woodland ways, tttoYs le hills a purple haze Whose trace in words cannot be told. hsAt he apple-trees where strolie d the blooms were multifold asst steaer treasure now than Mays
 Itnmn!
 Nh@t drous music now is troile1 Ry dale. through wood and
 alt sig aii the wind his sweetest laysl aefe i4lA ing tunes the brookJ LIS T heralds cry::' Behold
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
BOARD IS THE THING

From the Buffalo Commercial.
 Corn cutters on an Ohio farm have struck for ss day and board Any man who gets his board just now ought to be satisfied to work for al- most anything.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-10
MEMORY OF MEATLEss DAYS

From the Tampa Tribune Herbert Hoover would have a hard
 time making 1s. whose stomachs he filled with husks for nearly two years
 believe he will make a full dinnerN pain president