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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15
DOLLARS IN GERMANY

ring when the illumination is extin- guished
 Wood is now the principal item of fuel. as most of the coal produced in the saar basin is going to France 10 reimburse her for her enormous losses.
 @But Germany is recovering fast and did not find much evidence of idle4 ness. visited the important indus tries in large cities and found them in active operation. Employers however, complain that their men do not work with the same efficiency as before the war. They are too independent the industrial managers say
 T think German militarism is dead. It is true that a pan-German element expresses itself in the press and at public meetings, but the factors in this movement seem to be elderly ladies and very old men. who cling with a sort of infatuation to the ideals of the old regime. The business man doesn't want any more war and l believe his influence will prevail.
 Some of the views that the pan Germans express are absurd. One ele- ment looks hopefully forward to get ting the United States as an ally with the ultimate object of both countries uniting against England and France
 German officers are still much in evidence in Berlin, and they parade the streets and sit in the high priced cafes, with their blouses covered with decora- tions and iron crosses as of yore. The chances of these men bringing ths fallen kaiser back to the head of the government are mighty slim. When the kaiser fled it aroused the entire senti- ment of the common people against him. They look upon him as a rank quitter Their attitude seems to be that they gave their sons freely to save him and his family, but when his life was in danger he deserted them to protect his own skin.
 Germany has still an abundance of young manhood, however, and she evi- dently had much human material tu draw upon when the armistice was signed. A visitor would certainly not know, to judge from the crowds of youths on the streets, that the nation had suffered large losses in the war"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15
N % N
Let Christmas Seal Week
 Bring Big Results

II ( PWARDS of fifty thousand dol
 W lars worth of Christmas seals have in various ways been placed be- fore the public. They should all be sold Many citizens have already responded, but the modest goal of the Jefferson County Anti-Tuberculosis Association should not only be req .hed, but even surpassed.
 The records of the association show a daily ministry to human need, of which Birmingham may well be proud. Further, the records of the health de- partment, read side by side with the government estimate of population, prove that tuberculosis is being held in check in this community by some means. It is reasonable to suppose that the constant visitation-and super vision of homes affected by the dis lease, which is carried out by the nurs- ing force of the association, is defi- .nitely responsible for this check, Add to this the persistent removal of many open cases from hotels and boarding houses to the saHitorium on Red mountain, and it will be seen that the means and the end belong to- Igether,
 An official of the association writes; "only by greatly increased lself-sacrifice and generosity, can the work go on in these days of scarcity If it is.worth doing, it is still more 50 at this time than in days of plenty Let Birmingham show it's noblest spirit in lifting anxiety from the hearts of the anti-tuberculosis work CTS. This week should close only with victory to this great public cam Ipaign."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15
Brief Respite Granted Users of Tobacco.

7HHE immediate future looks rosy l for Lady Nicotine. The es- teemed Anti-Saloon league has adopt ed a hands-off policy and despite ru- mors that it would do otherwise, the Woman's Christian Temperance union which met recently in St. Louis, voted down by a substantial Snajorisy, a resolution which advocated consti- tutional amendment to prohibit the use of tobacco
 Tobacco kings and consumers of the weed. who are almost as numerous as the sands of the sea, may breathe easier For little while, at any rate, cloud that seemed gathering on the horizon, no larger than a mans hand, has disappeared. The pipe, the cigar, the cigarette and even eating to- baceo" have taken on new lease of life
 But there are still pessimists who fear the worst. They point out that reformers are crafty people, for all their self-righteousness. They real ize that the time is not ripe to take every particle of joy out of living. Having banished John Barleycorn, re- formers will rest on their laurels for a while, but the inevitable conflict has only been postponed In few years, mayhap, the cry, "Down with tobaecol" will be. heard throughout the land, shrilled by feminine voices
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15

From Ahe New York Evening Sun. C7Tl HE American dollar has an amaz-
 ing purchasing value in Ger
 S many today, says Harold Har- per, assistant United states attorney, who has recently returned from six weeks tour of the principal cities of the new German republic.
 MT. Harper, who went abroad on 8 government mission, visited seventeen German cities. among them Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, Hamburg Bremen and Hanover
 "A person with 5000 in American money in Germany at this time" he said, "has fortune which will bring him substantial comfort, as well as req sonable recreation and entertainment
 The elastic qualities of the Amer iean dollar are astonishing During the month of September my entire expenses for travelling. first class. staying at the best hotels, eating good meals. to- gether with reasonable entertainment such as the theatre and the opera. amounted to only $150.
 My railroad fare from Frankfort to Leipzig, which is about one-half the distance across the country, totalled $1.50. I was shaved for cents by a. first class barber and my opera seat cost me only S2 cents
 The chief difficulties among the population are in obtaining food and fuel. Yet apparently only the very poor classes are suffering in this re- spect. To look at the inhabitants of any of the cities one would never know that they lacked food. Tn appearance they seem as well off as the people of other nations But there is no deny ing that paying for food in marks makes the purchase of edibles almost impossible for many.
 ITO save coal theatres, which are now presenting amusing entertain ments in abundance, begin perform ances at o'clock in the afternoon. In most cities street cars do not run after 10 o'clock at night and practically all the population has to be within doors after that hour Related homegoers risk holdups after the city is plunged into darkness, so there isn't much stir
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15
iNE M'LUkE SAYS

A little dab of rouge adds to a girls appearance. But she ssn't satisfied un- less her complexion is on so thick that 1t cracks when she smiles.
 And what has become of the old fashioned man who had to be strapped down IT bed because he saw red white ana blue snakes running around the room?
 The more woman loves a man, the more man takes advantage of her love hy imposing on ner
 When daughter is listening to the fellow who is courting her she doesn't realize that she is listening to the same cd line of bull. that father handee mother when he was courting her
 Too often the welcome" on the door mat doesn't mean anything to the hus- band of the woman who sweeps the doormat every dav
 some women would not expose much if they were as liberal about wearing clothes as they are about wearing paint.
 It Is important thai man should he temperate in. his sdri.kiRg. And 1t is equally important that he should be Temperate in his. eating.
 This would be fine world if every pody was 'is friendly a candidate is just before election
 We have been wondering if there is any law prohibiting back president from writine his signature so you can tell what it means2
 \ man car hit tin can with a rock every time ai a distance of 20 yards. But he can't throw a cud of tobacco and hit spittoon that is 20 feet away
 Time was when the cook had to suit the family But nowadays the family must suit the cook or she quits the job.
 Every time the average man has a half hour to spare he uses it up both ering some man who hasn't any spare time.
 And a girl doesn't have to be so awfully sharp to be able to cut a fel- low Ae doesn't like
 It has just about got to point where if woman went into the ladies' un- derwear department and asked for g. pair of wooden ones. the saiespersons would drop dead.
 What has become of the old-fash- toned man who always carried, his handkerchief in his hat7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15
W ill Surprise Boosters

T have always been an optimist on the subject of Birmingham greatness, said Robert Jemison, Jr., but 1 must say that present developments going on about US and prospective improvements exceed my most sanguine expectations of year ago.
 still greater industrial and commercial expansion is scheduled for the forth coming year, and I predict deveiopments that will surprise even the most en- thusiastic Birmingham boosters
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15
Birmingham To Have Fine MiIitary Band

1H'l HE Fourth Regiment band of the
 4 bama National Guard will be the finest in the south
 In the first place, Lieut.. Philip Memoli, the director, is bandmaster of Naples conservatory education, and is a musician of exceptional ability. And in the next place, he has 30 picked players. The United States government has provided a complete set of new instruments, and the government pays the men for weekly rehearsals
 In other days there was no pay for rehearsals and a Attempted band was about the largest that the gov ernment could furnish.
 The new band had it's first rehear- sal yesterday, and as Lieutenant Memoli is> a strenuous and exacting director, he will soon have it in excel lent form. With thirty pieces, the band will lsve ample misrepresentation for both parade and concert music
 The band will he distinct credit to Alabama's scldiery and to the city of Birmingham, regimental headquar- ters
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15
TOURIST TAXES IN crRu,xy

From the New York World
 Taxing tourists is not new practice in Europe: foreign hotel guests before the war usually found a small extra charge tucked away in their bills as a reminder of their diS-erent status.
 But doubling and trebling prices for foreigners, as German merchants and hotel keepe%s are doing, amounts to the imposition of excessive surtaxes which are a disagreeah!e novelty in the process of charging tourist traffic all it could bear. The excuse of course IS the discriminatory rate of exchange under which the purcnasing power of. the American dollar is enormously in- creased, to the corresponding disad- vantage of Germans who have only marks to buy with But it is not in conceivable that the excuse is father to perfect willingness to penalize enemy visitors in any manner. It is a eharacteristicallv German method of getting even" but will it pay in the long run? Other countries, / it may be supposed will hardly take lne irouple to retallIata with similar tourist taxes as being economically un- sound. No doubt from the beginning of travel the stranger within the gates has been legitimate game for native shopkeepers. A two-priee system has long existed in European capitals for his express benefit But oppressive direct taxation of this order merely defeats it's object
 It is best for the business of any country that foreign buyers shall come and go on conditions of nerfect equal ity As respects Germanv's own eco homie rehabilitation. it would be more profitable in the end for Berlin hotel keepers to offer free board to foreign guests than to seek to soak them with prohibitive charges
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15
0. HENRY AS sDELINEATOR"

From the Montgomery Advertiser. b7HlHERE are some five or six thou
 sand short story writers in
 America who would like to "blame" o. Henry for their style, not withstanding the disaprpoval of his style by the distinguished Mir Hamlin Garland. MT Garland, whom we quoted yesterday, does not seem to care for o. Henry. He suggests that the North Carolinian's influence upon cur rent literature has been bad. He as- serts. moreover. that o. Henry was mot delineative, not expressive."
 In all the pages of recent criticism we do not remember to have seen any thing more preposterous than this. The criticism is all the more surprising be- cause it comes from a man of Mir Gar lands standing.
 The dictionary says of "delineate:s ITO mark out with lines; sketeh:f por-. tray; describe infinitely and accurately in words The same book says of "ex- pressive;s Serving to express; full of significance forcibly."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Double Lieense for Dogs

a<hNNlsRC AVA
 City as well as state licenses will have to be paid on dogs where the animals are owned and kept within the city limits of Birmingham" stated Assistant Clerk of the Circuit Court Sam Blake yesterday.
 T am not concerned with the pay ing of the city license. as that is han dled by the city government and not by the county, but I have many re- ports coming in that people who live ir the city limits of this city think that when they registered their dog at my office that they were through. The payment of the city license, IS understand it. starts on January :. 1920, and is delinquent March 1o.
 The license for the county becomes delinquent January l and then pen atty will be added to the license. and where the owner has to be notified by the back license collector added costs will be assessed on him. which will soon make it pretty expensive to own a dog. Two weeks more are left for the payment of the tax and there are number Of dogs that have not been registered, judging from the number ol taxes that have been paid up to date. which amount to about 900. There are surely much greater num- Der of dogs in this city and county and it may be that the owners were waiting for better weather before they came down to pay their taxes. My office is open every day except Sunday In room S01 of the courthouse, and the owners of dogs will have ample time from now until January 1 to pay the taxes before they become delinquent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15

Representative Bvrnes of south Carolina says ss papers in the United states advocate armed revolution and the overthrow of the American gov ernment- Something should be done about it. The American government must be preserved and besides there is a white paper shortage.
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 The thief who stole silk shirts from Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago while he was travelling to New York. was doubtless prompted by a selfish motive and had no desire Ito get even with Big Bill" for his alleged pro-German sympathies.
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 There is great deal of difference between an increase of II per cent and 6c per cent in wages. but coal miners who already own motor cars and player-pianos will probably be able to keep them.
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 santa Claus win carry more than one string of pearls in his pack this year. but will depend as usual on cheap toys to create the greatest amount of happiness. # < The Mexican government claims that Wallace was killed while drunk and was mistaken for somebody else. This is the kind of explanation that doesn't explain anything
 A Burmese woman claims to be able to bring the dead back to life. Con Isidering the high cost of livnig. it is kinder to let the dead stay dead.
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 The rank and file of German people have at least reached the conclusion that Wilhelm is auitter Teutonic thought processes are slow.
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 Should the allies decide to throw the League of Nations overboafd. we could hardly blame them. The Senate treated the league like a stepchild
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 An American dollar is said to make as much noise in German restaurant as ii used to make in an American 5-and-10-cent stora
 * # # Fritz KreislerT couldn't be treated worse in some American cities if he were personally responsible for sink ing the Lusitania.
 * < % The President is able 10 walk about in the White House. This should set at rest the last lingering doubt in republican circles.
 # # If DAnnunzio has reached an amica ble settlement with the Italian gov ernment another decoration may soon be forthcoming.
 # A rise in the cost of chorus girls is announced Fortunately. for the ulti- nate Sonsumer chorus girls are not necessities.
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 If it were not for the speechmaking, General Pershins's swing around the circle" would be comparatively pain. less.
 * * # Villa is reported in flight, which probably means that number of fed eral troops will soon bts the dust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15

and beloved by clerical basso pro- fundos.
 Gut upon these crepe hangers! If their prediction comes true, this old world will be shrouded in impeae- trable gloom and weary mankind will feel like saying, Bring on your nor ticianl Life is no longer worth liv- ing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15
BARRED \ MINER

From Punch, London.
 As a result of attending spiritualistic seance man is reported to have picked four winners in dream. Only the other day, after a supper of Welsh rarebit. d gentleman tried to back a nine-leggea green-and-yellow elephant. but the ami nal was warned off the course by the stewards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15

BEGINNING THE DAY--Lord, I look on fruitful fields and loaded vines and trees and asi> myself if | am bearing fruit. Forbid, oh, for bid that ! should be am01g the Mn- fruitful branches and fiic barren trees. Save me from the death that finally must fall upon the selfish and the useless. In Christ's name. Amen.-H. aI. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15
FINIs

By Algernoa Charles Swinburne. From too much love of living,
 From hope and fear set free, We think with brief thanksgiving
 Whatever gods may be. That no life lives forever That dead men rise un never: That even the weariesf river
 Winds somewhere safe to seq
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15

Sweet arc the uses of adyersity, which like the toad, ugly and veno- mous Wears sc, precious jewel in his hend.
 As You Like If
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-15

I heard the three speeches of the general but the one at the banquet will cling lonEest in my memory. for the en- tered into the spirit of the occasion and really gave wonde ful exhibition of adaptabilty as an after dinner speak CT by using the things said and done to bring out ringing applause. After the banauet I rode out to the Country club with him4 at my nephew. Mercer Barnett'., invitation. and he said he had nes CT enjoyed an evening more in his life. as 1t was sn different from the formal and dignified affairs to which he was accuStome q.
Auttaja. [volume] (Ironwood, Mich.) 1906-19??, 1919-12-24

THE AIM OF TIL NEWSPAPER
8: To help preserv he ideals and
saered traditions of lis. u adopt.
ID country, the Uni. ed States OF
America: To reveie it's laws and
inspire others to respect and obey
them: To strive increasingly to
quicken the public's sense of civic
iuty: In all ways to aid in making
his country greater and better than
We found it..
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-07-10
LAND FOR SOLDIERS
FAVORED BY GEORGIA
Congress Urged to Speedily Pass
Measure Providing For Reclaim
alton of Land For Veterans
OF World War.

Atlanta, Ca. July 1O.-Georgla,
through it's legislature, is apparent
ly anxious to aid in every way pos
sible the veterans of the World War
Two measures have just been in
troduced looking towards this end.
One of th3se measures was a resolu
ton recommending that congress be
requested to pass speedily the bill
providing for reclamation Of land for
veterans Of the recent war, as az
vocated by Secretary of the Interior
Lane. Provision is made that a copy
CT the resolution be submitted to
Governor Dorsey, to each member OF
the Georgia delegation in Congress
the speaker of the House and presi
dent Of the Senate.
The other measure recommending
legislation for the welfare Of dis
charged soldiers was a bill introduced
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-07-10
IMPROVED FARM LANDS =
WANTED FOR SETTLERS

If you have any land for sale-im-
age-we may be able to find you a
proved farms of unimproved acre
purchaser if you will list it with our
Homeseekers Bureau.
We are receiving some inquiries
about farming opportunities in this
state and it is our purpose to prepare
~rehensive list Of lands for sale
located along these lines, to be dis
tributed among prospective settlers.
All persons having such property fer
sale are urged to cooperate with the
ndersigned, in order that accurate
and reliable data may be secured to
assist us in making reply to inquiries
about farming opportunities in your
community.
A blank form will be mailed you,
upon application, asking for the
specific information desired.
There is no charge for this service
w. w. CROXTON,
G. p. A., A. B. e A Railroad,
Room 5. Terminal Station
Building, Atlanta, Ga.
6-21-32t.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-07-10
kENpALL-ODONNELL

ANtwedding which will prove of in
Eerest to the whole community was
that of DR.. A. H. Kendall and Mrs,
Annie O'Donnell which occurred Sun
day afternoon at the brides sisters
home in Cairo, Ga. Dr.. Kendall left
satu to take his vacation and
went Immediately to Cairo where the
wedding had been planned.
1t was pretty home wedding which
was attended by friends and relatives
Of the couple. They left Immediately
for Savannah where an ocean trip
had been planned.
On their return they will probably
make their home with Mr. and Mrs.
Wilson on Twelfth avenue.
Both bride and groom are popular
young people and have hosts Of
friends here who will wish them
happiness. DR.. Kendall is a young
dentist and has just returned from the
war. He had resumed his practice
already and after the wedding trip he
will be at his chosen profession here
again.