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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01
Evening Post.

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 ~ ERMANY, beaten and severed, re- II 7 mains a force to be reckoned > with in the eternal struggle to live and labor. which knows neither race, prejudice nor war hangover. Llse the battle of business, it is a perma- nent thing. Men are not compelled to fight every day, but they must be fed three times a day The irony of fate now dictates that the one-time bull wark reared by Bismarck out of the humiliation of France emerges from the dust of conflict to confute and em- barrass it's foes and impede the gen. eral rehabilitation
 No nation is immune from the plague of idleness, and Germany, once the stronghold of thrift and industry, has joined the slackers. Belgium is the only country in Europe that has really settled down to business. But Ger many has gone her enemies one better. She has tasted of the crimson fruits of revolt, and the virus of discomfort has entered her system.
 If the Actionists, alias the Sparta cides, which is Just another name for bolsheviki, plunge the country into an- other revo1ution-and it is among the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01
Credit Is Rednced {
 To a Fixed System

1NHE page advertisement in yester- 0 days Age-Herald under the caption, Do You Pay Your Bills ?" is well worth the study of every young man who seeks to buy on credit.
 Credit is easily obtained in stores that sell on credit, but it can only be kept up by prompt payment.
 The man who does not protect his credit is a fool or worse. Credit is the faith man has in the integrity of his fellow man."
 In times past many merchants lost heavily by the "dead beat"-by the fellow who had everything charged and when the bills came in never paid. All this has changed. And the Merchants Credit association changed it.
 In every city the Credit association has established a clearing house, where at any time, any member can, upon moments notice, learn just what each individual owes to the vari- ous merchants of the association.
 If credit is abused-if the account lit not settled promptly-the mer- chants refuse to sell him. He is in the "dead beat" class.
 The association is busin ess-like in every way. It protects the merchants and injects honor in the young man who is disposed to be indifferent as to his obligations.
 The associated retail credit men of Birmingham will operate strictly on the lines of the association.
 * x < Probably as long as he lives Count Karolyi will have no further use for the old adage about laying by something for rainy day One hundred million crowns. buried deep in the cellar of his palace at Budapest, representing his entire fortune. have been discovered and confiscated by Hungarian police.
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 English labor unions protest against the ..continued arrest and imprison- ment of trades unionists in the United States" If it's such people as Debs. Haywood and the I. W. w. they are talking about, they might as well save their breath.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01
IDOLS OF OTHER DAYS

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 The simple announcement that Countess Primo Magri died Tuesday at her home in Middlesboro Mass. age " years. means nothing to the younger generation, but will carry the mind of the white haired back to the days of his or her youth, when the little party of which the now Countess Magri was one of the principals, packed show houses unfailingly. For Countess Primo Magri was the widow of Gen. Tom Thumb" who, under the advertising one of the best known uublic celebrities of his time, although his only claim was diminutiveness. For more than a generation she was simply Mrs. Gen. put out by the great snowman, who discovered" the General" the dainty little woman who later became his wife, as well as her sister, Minnie Warren
 About the same time Commodore Mutt" was also discovered" and after some professional jealousies had been smoothed down by Barnumesque diplo- macy, added him to the From Thumb troupe, which was then billed through the world as MT. and Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb, Commodore Mutt and Miss Min nie Warren.' But that was after a fervent courtship of Levinia Warren by the "General' and the "Commo- dore," which was a green-eyed cam paign of whirlwind characteristics, the General" winning the prize. The more sober and staid Tom Thumb and his wife were an excellent foil on the the more youthful and dashing Com modore Mutt" and Minnie Warren, the younger sister of the Generals wife. For a generation. these famous little folks travelled all over the world many times. making repeated trips, always receiving welcome commensurate with the successful advertising of the master snowman. initiated by those who followed him. Countess Magri often spoke in her later years of the "Generars' claim to have kissed more women than any man who ever lived but offset that with her own distinc- ton of having shaken hands with more people than any one who ever lived, man woman
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bosses great and small, men who stood high in their respective communities and others the mere riff-raff who could be bought, body and soul, for a few dollars.
 A colossal fraud has been perpe- trated on the state of Michigan and it's good name has been dragged in the mud by it's scandal which, for ex- tent and variety of it's ramifications sets a new record for dirty politics in America. Between five hundred thousand dollars and one million dol- lars is alleged to have been spent fraudulently by the Newberry inter ests in defeating Henry Ford. Sums ranging all the way from five dollars to thousands were placed "where they would do the most good" The power of money when used by unscru- pulous politicians was never more strikingly demonstrated. "OvSt acts" were so numerous, the Grand Rapids grand jury and special investigators must have done great deal of work to get together such a mass of in- eliminating evidence drawn from all parts of the state, including even the Indian reservations.
 We'll may Michigan hang her head in shame, but it is evident that the whole affair will De sifted to the bot tom and the honor of tse state will be vindicated by rigorous prosecu- tions. If one-tenth the charges made against Newberry are true, he is un- fit to sit in the United States Senate. As for Henry Ford, he has won a great personal victory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01

From the New York World.
 | TIT IS long way from Australia to 1 the Little Church Around the Corner, f9 but romance knows no distance, 1 More than Is years ago a little boy and 1 girl played together in their back yards town and the girls mother took the two youngsters to the performance. It was a two-ring affair, and there was some won derful bareback riding by men and
 women. The little girl told her boy friend that she was going to become a great bareback rider, and he said he would just have to go along to help her. So started the childish romance.
 Years passed" and May w1r h, the 1 girl, became ore of the most famous bare back riders in the world. She now is Fl
 and has thrilled millions of people who
 have seen her act, which is one of the features of the Ringing brothers, Bar
 mum & Bailey circus.
 | Her Ioy friend, Frank White, is a young and prosperous theatrical manager. For a few years he performed as a clown ana in other capacities under the same can vas as Miss Wirth.
 Last weel. the circus closed in the south. On the final night White appeared after making the trip from this city. He pro- posed and was accepted as the future hus- band of Miss WIrth-
 In the Little Church Around the cor ner, at noon yesterday. there culminateo one of the prettiest romances known to circus folk John. Charles and Bob Rlns- ling came all the way from their Florlda estate to atten1 the wedding of the young
 woman.
 ..Poodles' Hannaford was best man and his sister. Elizabeth, bridesmaid. John Ringing gave the bride away. The
 bridegroom is somewhat deaf. and by pre- arrangement '.Poodles'' was to nudge him three times whesi to say 'I do The cere- mony was carrled on without hitch ex- cept that '.Poodles'' nudged the bride groom at the wrong time. or before he was asked .:Do you take this woman as your lawful welded wife?' After the ceremony. which was at tended by more than 100 we'll known cir
 GUS and stage folks, the couple gave luncheon in the college room of the Hotel Astor.
 In the center of the table was a huge wedding cake, mounted on which was a pure white miniature horse made of hard frosting The model was the brides favor | ite horse
 There were nc speeches at fhe Feast, but t developed that every one prssent believed in daylight say te haNsy pair was to have left fcs sttautle Gisy on the 3 o'clocS train, X sref sne er i of watch had turned ne hanzs back l two hours
 To say the least, it was en sets cry celebration. It was repor'es ths Charley Ringing brought trun ieil rss old
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01
GERMANY A PROTEIN APPLE'

possibiMties-it win not only mean anarchy in Germany, but the kindling of flame that may sweep England and the continent,
 The brotherhood of anarchy knows no geography. Its symbol is 3ast as red in Italy and France as in Germany and Russia. One touch of scarlet makes all the radicals kin.
 A red Germany might mean an afli- ance with red Russia. All Europe Is on razor edge, and the advent of win ter. with worldwide shortage of fuel and food-and cold and hunger are the first aids to revolt-will not helpI to dull it. Once the terrible tides are loosed, the hordes of hate will onlys know one cause, and that cause, de- struction. As Germany goes these next few months, so will considerable part of Europe go. politically and econom- ically.
 To put it concre retely-Germany today is like a rotten apple. Isolated on the shelf she would decompose and cause no damage. But this procedure, un- happily is impossible Economically she is in a basket of apples, and her taint, unless remedied at once, is like ly to contaminate the whole lot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01

A new kind of whisky being sold in New York is said to have tremendous kick" but impairs ones vision. Even the best brands of whisky will affect the eyesight if consumed in sufficient quantities.
 If Mir Wilson delivers his next mes- sage to Congress in person it will not be done solely to discomfit Senator Moses. who helped to circulate the ru- nor that MT. wilson's mind was af- fected.
 There are sharp contrasts between wealth and poverty in Berlin, but could any contrast be sharper than that pre- scented by millions of Americans un- able to keep warm in land of plenty?
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 May wirth, famous bareback rider, has married her childhood sweetheart. Incidentally, marriage in the circus world is taken more seriously than it is in theatrical circles.
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 One of the big girl shows" is ad vertised as having "outfolHed the Fol lies" That being true, we are tempt ed to ask, What is the irreducible min mum in clothes?"
 Yadui Indians are reported to have beheaded six Chinese ranchers in So- nora. This will not call for another ultimatum from our hard-worked state department
 An Ohio hunter shot his father and rabbit at the same time. great many fathers of debutante daughters act like rabbits in the presence of their blase offspring.
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 The execution of Angeles may have reduced the number of potential can didates for the Mexican presidency without bringing peace and stability any nearer. Pending the settlement of the south ern football championship, may we not turn from the sporting page moment to see what the world at large is do- ing?
 Mir. McAdoo's surmise that the coal operators must now be on velvet is loudly Nfuted by those gentlemen who insist that they are on pins and needles. If Frederick William goes to his grave without having launched any memoirs on a long-suftering world, much will be forgiven
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 If the fuel shortage continues much longer "black diamonds" will become something more than figure of speech.
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 Phew! Regardless of the way things are going in Denmark, something is certainly rotten in the state of Michi- gan.
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 There's one charge Lady Astor's bit terest critics can never bring against her. She's the mother of six children
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01
A Gem of q Speech

'"The four-minute speech made last week to the Kiwanis club on the Mercy Home by Mrs. Ralph Barrow, was masterpiece,' said Walter Brower, and I regret very much there wasn't some one there to take it down in short hand. It was the best four minute speech I ever heard. and one she cer-
 tinly secured the interest of every Xii wanian in this drive for these helpless little children. Though brief, her speech was to the point and she was sO interested in the subject that she brought cut the main points in a very forceful manner, It was really gem
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01
REVIVAL OF COFFEE HOUSE

From the Baltimore American.
 61HE London coffee houses of a
 century or so ago, which have
 < been made famous by connec- tion with score or so of literary celeb rities who used them as clubs. are, it seems, to be used as models for the most up-to date New York substitute scheme for the saloon" where once flowed freely the fermented. matted and distilled brews, The three sons of the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt are said to be promoting the coffee house scheme.
 There is a historic and literary dis tinction attaching to the coffee house idea that may help 1t along consider ably, for sentiment and poetic fancy do cut some figure in busiasss. The houses are to be something in the way of popular club affairs-plsces where the noon hour or leisure aftecNYsn and evening hours may be spent reading. smoking, in talk with friends-gather-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01
JAPANESE WIZARDS
the Detroit Journal.

From the Detroit Journal.
 A Japanese province has placed tax upon great variety of articles called luxuries among them being walking sticks. gold-rimmed eyeglasses and even the bridal couples extra suit case. The Japanese may have heard of America's tax on children's soda water and ice cream cones. and re- ceived inspiration therefrom At any rate, those of us who felt rather cock fly that all the ax-levying geniuses of the world were concentrated in our country will have to admit that Japan has few wizards of her own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01
JENKINS IN 1900
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Grantland Rice, in the New York
 Tribune.
 The last recollections we had of Jen- kins came from a tackle around tackle" play, where he carried the ball with smashing effect.
 He weighed POS pounds and playing for Vanderbilt he had a habit of wear ing out two opposing tackles--one upon defensive. play and the other on at tack.
 That was 19 years ago. and very shortly afterward Jenkins drifted out among the forgotten.
 Nineteen years later we pick up a paper and see that the same Jenkins has been kidnaped or abducted by Mex ican bandits. Unless he has wasted away more than mere bit it must have taken fairly numerous company of kidnapers to turn the trick
 In hfe's amazing moving pictures you can never tell in what new frames the cast of characters may pop out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01
* * x Russian Swindler Puts Price on President Wilson

ID USSIA, where there are more 4N grafters to the square yard, according to popular belief, than any where else in the world, is obviously the country where such an astonish- ing piece of effrontery as "a local fund for the purchase of entente inn perialist statesmen" would originate.
 M. Baxromoff, president of the so- viet at Riazan, is reported in re- cent dispatch to have been shot by the
 ordinary commission for combat tar counter revolution. He was
 cd with misappropriating funds
 spreading bolshevist doctrines. Bal. omcff, who appears to have been equally bold and unscrupulous, ac- cording to q newspaper report, read a detailed statement to the Riazan soviet, in which he declared that he had bought Premier Clemenceau for one hundred and fifty thousand rubles, President Wilson for two hundred thousand rubles and the Berlin foreign office for fifty thousand rubles.
 The commission discovered that the fund, instead of being used for cor ruption abroad, had gone into the pockets of Bakromoff and two other local officials.
 Whatever truth there may be in this improbable story, it is sad commen- tary on the ignorance and greed which have been two great factors in bring ing about the present chaos in Rus sia. From time immemorial graft has been prevalent in Russian off cialdom Since nearly every army of- ficer and government official in a po- sition to do so accepted his "rake off" as a matter of fact and felt hurt if no. attempt was made to bribe him, the swindle at Riazan does not ap- pear so preposterous, after all.
 M. Bakromoff at least had the de- cency to give President Wilson and Premier Clemenceau relatively high rating, while protesting to have cor rupted the entire foreign office at Berlin for the niggardly sum of fifty thousand rubles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01

ing places where light refreshments in the way of food and drink will be served on order at fair and moderate pEices. Coffee houses they will be called, but a score of other beverages will be in the offering-noth thing, how ever. will have even 2.75 per cent of alcohol to it.
 It might seem to casual thought that every dairy lunch room with the broad-arm chairs, the continuous flow of steaming coffee and the miscelz 1aneous offering of foods of the, ham sandwich, hot dog. fried egg and sliced pie kinds is pretty good realization of the coffee house idea But dairy lunch rooms are places that depend for profits upon the rapid inflow, the rapid outflow and the short stay of patrons The lunch rooms are retail stores and nobody is expected to loaf in a retail store. The modernized idea of the cof- fee house is that it is to be pleasant and welcoming ioafing place. especial ly of evenings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01
Trading in Securities

"A period of transition and hesita- tion in the stock and securities mar ket naturally set in after the close of the sharp liquidation of some two weeks ago" said Henry Cfews of New York. This has been intensified and prolonged by the action of Congress in holding tip several Important measures, while the coal strike and the advent of the Thanksgiving holiday would in any case have tended to induce wait ing mood.
 As a result traders and investors have been disposed to look for the ar rival of more definite developments before committing themselves much further It would now seem that some time must elapse before the final ad- justment of the large questions which are still open in national political and business policy. Trading in securities has accordingly been upon a decidedly lower plane as to volume and prices
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01
Political Corruption Reaches
 Climax in Michigan

INDICTMENTS returned by fede- J ral grand jury at Grand Rapids against United States Senator Tru- man H. Newberry and number of other political frauds in the history of the country.
 Even the notorious case in Illinois is apparently eclipsed by the latest revelations of corruption and vote buying to insure the defeat of the democratic candidate for the United States Senate, Henry Ford, by the republican candidate, Newberry.
 Not only are. serious charges brought against Newberry himself, but in long list of 133 other persons by the grand jury, there are all sorts and conditions of men, publishers, capitalists, at least one probate judge, a country editor alleged ro have been bought by ton of whit paper -saD tie bribe during palar shcnaee- the assistant secretary U the United States Senate, Newberry'a brother, the manager of his essa poleal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01
Underwood,s Great Talk

"One of the most interesting talks made by Senator oscar w. Underwood to the Community club,' said R. l.. Lange. "and I feel sure that every member of the club will stand on the principle which he advocated He spoke of the seriousness of the Mexi- can situation. declaring that the United States might be forced to go to war with Mexico. He also touched on the labor situation and of the vari- ous other things which threatened our country. I wish that every man in Birmingham could have heard this talk. as I think it would help us all to be better American citizens"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01
STAR OF THE CIRCUS MARRIED

The bridal pair caught the o'clock train for Atlantic City, where they will spend their honeymoon.
 Among those at the luncheon were the Ringlings Mrs Martin Wirth. Grace White, Bird Millman, Tommy Thomas Lew Graham, Bert Levy, Clyde Cook, All T. Wilson, Ernest Brownstein, MT and Mrs. Phillip St Leon. Mir. and Mrs. Jack Pulaski, MT. and Mrs Fred Worrell, MT. and Mrs. Fred T. Bradna, Mir. and Mrs. Herman Blumenfelt and Mr. and Mrs. Moe Lowenstein.
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sGember of the Associated Press

BEGINNING THE DAY.--Lord, in my successes grant me humility, for Thou hast given ali. In my failures grant me grace. for Thou wilt make 1t right. Teach me that in pleasure and in pain Thou jesirest to open my eyes that I may see Thy face and to unstOp my ears that ! may hear Thy voice. In His name. Amen.--H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01
LUKE ar,LUKE SAYS

Things have changed good deal since Grandma was a girl For instance, you do not have to guess how much of a girl is girl and how much is clothes nowadays. {
 After all, your Mother is about the> only person who locks through the big end of a telescope when she is exam ming your faults. The rest of the world uses microscope or a magnify ing glass
 What has become of the old fash toned Irish woman who used to put a whole ham, a half a bushel of cabbage and peck of potatoes into the wash boiler so the Old Man would have a good supper?
 You do not have to join the Army to learn Discipline. You can always go and get married.
 Once in while man gets the idea that if all the Pests were labeled every man in town but himself would be wearing 8 label.
 Nobody pays much attention to a June Bridegroom until the following June, when he is out pushing a baby buggy.
 About the only time husband is the Big Noise around his home is when he is in bed and snoring.
 good deal of our Charity consists of waiting until man hasn't any teeth and then offering him a bone.
 A grocer is the first man to knowf that an article has gone up in price, And he is the last man to hear that the same article has gone down in price.
 Some men are too doggone proud of the Red Corpuscle. They get the idea that Health and Hellraising go hand in hand.
 Too many people are afraid that the conversation will drag if they do not talk until they have something to say.
 A lot of folks have discovered that a sugar headache is as bad as booze headache.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01
MOTLEY

MOTLEY Dorothy Anderson in Contemporary Verse Somewhere There is an altar to the God of Fools Deep hidden from the scornful, testing
 wise.
 they lay Their hot stinging tears, sacrifice To wash their stain of foolishness
 away In secret there They raise their laundering hands,
 their shanled eyes . To that kind, plying God of Fools In prayer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-01

I am sure if you have followed me this far that you have come to the con- clusion that education is a marvellous thing and that the learned are fear fully and wonderfully made by being able to pack around so much erudition without fainting under its burden Having gotten this far there is no way for me to back out, and bare my head for the scorn which will fall on it from certain academic groves. but the thing that is worrying me most is that I have two boys who have yet to make their great adventure into the educa- tional marts where they will be so nonplussed.
 Having absolutely lost all idea of the simple meaning of sugar just to get back oearth and save my sanity. I will plant my feet on the childish verse which says:
 Roses are red, and violets are blue;
 Sugar is sweet, and so are you"
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