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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
RyalI Breaks Into Poetry


Birmingham's golden autumn re-
minds II. S. Ryall. secretary of the city
commission, of the DAYS when hewould
trail down in the dusk of early eve
ming to the peach tree in grandfather
appIo orchard to gather plums for
cherry pie on the morrow.
Those were grand old barefoot,
boyhood days" Secretary Ryan re-
counted. They call to memory the
old poem of The Bobolink' we used
to recite at the Friday evening liter
airy society. 1t ran something like
this:
1.-THE bobolink bobbled his brug bril-
modairem
And frabbled his flung ozwanda,
He spazzled and, chugged his lys-
miffligaire
While pandigging his frass- mando.
His mugship. however. galog on the
siller.
Quinsagged his plag into mink,
But the ginzook cowldiggercd, piggled
the briller-
Twas the flob OF the sol bobolink, y
Whereupon the secretary returned to
his work. leaving Commissioner John
Taylor a much bcwildered and nom
plussed listener and eyewitness.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
6GJHE triumphant occupation of
cara, capital Of Dalmatia, by a
detachment of DAnnunzio's army
from Ffume, is explained as a magnificent
gesture designed to influence the Ital-
ian elections AS a political maneuver
it hardly seems necessary, for cara, the
one town in Dalmatia where the Italians
are in majority, will fall to Italy by
any settlement of the Adriatic question
that now seems possible. D'Annunzio
may have wished to make assurance
doubfy sure; and, in any event, his adj
venture seems to have won him the sup
port of the Italian fleet off the Dalma-
tan coast from the admiral down, an ac-
cession of no inconsideranle Importance.
The occupation of cara alone is moth
ing of great Consequence; more impor
tant is the possibility that it may be
only the first of new conquests by the
army of Fuime. 1t is said that D. An
hailed at a public
function as master of Dalmatia''-in
tends to occupy what he regards as a
sufficient part of the surrounding terri
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21

for Mobile Wednesday by way of Tus-
caloosa and the Warrior. Birming-
ham wants its own port on the river
ard the people of Birmingham should
make it possible to have the derricks
and warehouses in place by the first
of the year.
Stock in the Port of Birmingham
company is an excellent investment
both for you and for your city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21

From the Providence Journal
A one-time admirer of Mr.. Gompers
says he is constrained to conclude that
the labor leaders recent attitude has
been such as to forfeit the future con-
fidence of the government. 1t appears
also. that the recent behavior of the
government has been such as to leave
painful impression on Mr.. Gompers
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21
Never Lenxe Calling

Speaking of criminals" stated
Judge Fl. B. Abernethy in a reminiscent
mood following the hearing of forg-
cry case. lin my experience with
them, there are two kinds that you
cannot reform. and they are forgers
and pickpockets. They never leave
their calling, no MAYER what prom
Uses they make. They can't do it, and
that's all there is to it.
Il have seen in my many years on
the bench where men tried once for
these two crimes are brought up again.
believe there is some hope for the
other class of criminals for I have
seen cases of reform in them, but for
forgers and pickpockets there is no
hope. Their calling is easy and some
how they can't get away from it,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21

I'VE are very highly gratified at
the increased attendance of the Biz
mingham Real Estate exchange, SAID
Claude III. Estes. Il thought when |
was elected to the presidency of this
organization. that it was mostly an
honorary position, but I find that it
is real job. Attendance at the week
ly meetings of the exchange has In
creased nearly so per cent during the
past two months and we hope soon to
have q weekly meeting large enough
to occupy the large dining room at the
Southern club. 1t is a big job, but |
am going to try to carry on the work
started by former President Frank
Butler and try to build up the ex-
change in every way during the com
ing year"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21

THE French people are most courte-
Gus and polite" said Col. George
Hamilton. recruiting officer for Ala
bama, "and 1 was struck with the
manner in which they made requests,
as it was so different from the way
they would be made in this country.
For instance, the sign on a door re-
questing anyone entering to close 1T
would read, 'Fermez la porte; sill vous
plait (close the door, if you pleased,
while in the United States similar
sign would read as follows, Shut the
door. This means you, and generally
the you is upderscored several times"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21

is an easy way of raising the needed
funds.
The sale of seals has been large
in past years. We must have large,
high record this year, and total of
two hundred thousand dollars and
more must be the result.
Arthur Brisbane, we are reliably in
formed, has disposed Of the Wisconsin
News of Milwaukee and the Washington
Times to William Randolph Hearst. Could
il be possible that Mr. Brisbane acauir-
ed these properties with the ultimate pur-
pose of. selling them to Mr.. Hearst?
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1t isn't surprising that Won Ludendorff
Johnson. hazed by London students, may
lose one eye In that case, will the Brit
ish empire or the medical students i'm
iuediately concerned be expected to pro-
vide a glass one?
Now that Amy Lowell week is over.
the town can settle down to business
once more" says the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger. Is an orgy of vers libre Phil
adelphias idea of high old time?
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II hot TudandOrff
thumped the table while testifying on the
war, in Berlin. Won Ludendorff has been
table thumper for so many years he can't
break himself of the habit.
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An Ohio boy, four years old, fell into
a we'll and floated around on board in
IS feet of water until he was rescured.
That youngster will probably be heard
from later in life.
y X y
The Prince Of Wales laughed heartily
at a slapstick movie in New York, thus
showing himself well qualified to enter
into the amusements of a democratic
people.
So far as the citizen with only half
ton of coal in his cellar is concerned,
Fuel Administrator Garfield can't be too
firm in dealing with coal operators and
miners.
Gen. Angeles, the intellectual leader
of Villas forces, is reported to have been
captured while lurking in a cave, truly
humiliating plight for college grad
uate!
R. J, Reynolds, the tobacco king"
left an estate of more than ST, 10, 600,
and there probably isn't a smoker in
the country who begrudged him penny
of it.
'Nothing-a bove-the-waistline" girls in
Paris are having birds, flowers and ami
mals painted on their backs. Speaking of
moving pictures, Paris has 'em.
Il Y y
The motor car in which Wilhelm fled
to Holland has been acquired by
wealthy resident of Yaphank. From Pots
dam to Yaphank is far cry
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One thing seems reasonably certain
The Senate's failure to ratify the Deace
treaty isn't going to loose a fleet of IT,
boats on Atlantic shipping.
* y *
Jess Wizards request for another bout
with Dempsey sounds more like the plain
tive bleat of lamb than the believing
Of an angry bulll
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Mary Pickford has an income estimat-
ed at s1oSo,oo0 year. It's tough luck
but we can't all be rAmerica's sweet
heart"
Who killed cock robin?' II killed coc,,
robin replies Senator Lodge, with nv
anti Wilson hatchet''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21
HARDING ON COTTON LOANS

and profitable manner. The economic
welfare of the south demands that
But any scheme partalxing so much of
the nature of strike, or of profiteering
by withholding the fruits of production
from the market on a wholesale scale,
the mass of the public will deeply resent,
and it would work to the detriment of
the cotton growers themselves ultimately.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21
A Costly Crossing

ct wish I had all the money that
the railroads and the street car COM
pany have spent in keeping the Tween
tieth street crossing in repair" said
Fl. Key Miner. "for I kept track of 1t
from a good point of vantage for years
when in business on the southside and
in spite of the fact that every year an
effort Is made to make a good job of
it, I do not think a month. or even a
week. passes without a gang being at
work on It. T. of course. have not fig
ured it out. but am sure that had the
railroads built an over or uAder pass
own expense they would have saved
money in the long run"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21
Producing Type Matter
Without Setting Type


Without Setting Type
| \ S the time coming when the printer
y will no longer be indispensable
to the publishing business? The Lit
erary Digest, and several other peri
odicals, put to their wits end to cope
with an unauthorized strike in New
York's printing trades, succeeded in
getting out issues by having all the
copy typewriter and then photo
graphed. The process has been i'm
proved and the Digest is showing
excellent results.
The Survey, another New York pub
LEGATION, is using machine, said to
be the only one of its kind in the
world, (which produces type mater
with no type set, no metal slugs cast,
no photo engravings or zinc etchings
in reproducing photographs and no
'make-ready.'"
So clean and quiet are the opera
tons of this new device, which in
volved years Of labor and thousands
of dollars in its development, that
we are told there will be rugs on the
floors of printing offices, the print
er's devil will disappear and .here will
be neither ink nor molten metal to
war against cleanliness.
This remarkable machine as de-
scribed by the Survey as follows:
The operator, seated with his copy
before the keyboard of what looks
to be a typewriter, strikes the keys
and so sets in action small punch
which perforates a roll of paper that
is being fed automatically through a
/ the machine. An adding machine is
coupled with the keyboard in such
| way that spaces between words are
| cord with the desired length of the
line To this the operator pays no
attention other than the throwing of a
lever at the end of each line
From the end of the machine APP
pears a perforated paper which one
could scarcely distinguish from a
pianola record, and also a narrow
tape showing odd little rows of
punches. These are inserted into a
printing machine and tiny motor
started. The perforations in the
wider tape control the motions of a
type disc at one end of the machine,
those in the narrow tape regulate the
spacing. The perforations, which in
pianola record would become
sounds, in this machine become the
printed matter.
The clean proof sheets of the copy
which the machine has thus produced
are then laid upon a zinc plate, ex-
poseds the plate developed, washed I'D.
clamped upon the cylinder of an off
set press and the impressions made
from the plate itself. The press work
is done in a photographic establish
ment, a separate branch of the trade
not involved in the present strike
lockout.
The type setting machine used to-
day is, when taken. with its human
operator, a remarkable contrivance.
1t appears almost as nearly human
as any piece of machinery could be,
yet type setting takes time, even
with the fastest of operators manip-
ulating the keyboard, and it is costly.
The elimination of no other factor
would make greater change in all
branches of publishing than that of
the type setting machine. Just as
the world outgrew the setting of type
by hand, it may eventually outgrow
the machine. There are already in
dications that the new era of printing
may not be far in the future.
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Christmas Shopping
Now Wall ~ 0~J
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21

BEGINNING THE DAY-O God.
this is new day, dcwy and fresh.
yesterday mas no empire over 1t.
The heayiness and drought of the
past cannot enter this sparkling
oasis. unless ! drag them in with
nay morbid regrets and vain tears.
Tcach me. great God, that if l
VIII j nm newborn this morning.
In His name, AmeB.-H. NJ. 10.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21
TRYING TO sIpE-srrP

From the Detroit Free Press.
1t is amusing to watch the so-called
great men of Germany passing the
buck in connection with the submarine
campaign. How different it would
have been had the U-boats won the
wari
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21
WIN Omen Eyes of People

I never would have undertaken the
Wood, chief engineer OF the Warrior
river development committee, that
three months after the terminals are
built at Short creek they will not be
large enough for the business that Will
be passing over them. This Warrior
river business is going to open the
eyes of the people of Birmingham who
haven't yet caught the vision of what
for my great faith in this proposition
work 1 am doing here, but to my mind
the Warrior Is the biggest inland
transportation proposition in this
country"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21

WE PAUSE FOR A REPLY.
What man is there
Won't shirk his duties
To watch a flock
OF Sennett beauties?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21

SIGNS OF THE UPLIFT
rs this a model town.
TT is, sir"
"Can you prove itT'
Easily. There's not another town in
the country, the size of this one, with
as large an auditorium and as small a
calaboose"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21

Washington Bureau. 500 Davidson
BUILDING.
European Bureau, 10 King street,
Ccvsnt Garden, London, w. Z. 2.
Eastern business office. World build
ing, New York City; western business
office, Tribune building. Chicago. the
5. c. Beckwith Special Agency, agents
cor foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21
HE RECALLED 1T.


I'm afraid there isn't much sentiment
in always soul"
'No?"
Someone was playing a celebrated
waltz of decade ago, and how do you
suppose Jibway remembered that he had
heard it before?'
II can't imagine
HE said. BY Jimmy, that's the tune
the orchestra was playing one night in a
restaurant where I got ptomaine poi
soningr"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21
MINIATURE AFFAIR.

Clipping talks great deal about the
way he's going to lay off the lawn at
his new suburban home.'
'Umphl Have you seen his 'estate'?'
mo"
We'll, it's only bungalow with a lit
tie yard about the size of pocket hand
kerchief. One wheelbarrow full of soil
would cover his lawn nicely. and then
he'd have to sacrifice some of it to
squeeze in graveled walk"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

HEARD ON THE BLEACHERs.
These young men who are butting one
another into insensibidty on the football
field represent rival institutions of learn
ing. do they nOt?" asked the foreign vis-
itor.
They do" replied the football enthu-
siast, but just at present the only learn
ing they are finding at all helpful to them
is what they acquired from their
coaches"
A MERE TRFLE.
Miss Frisber has decided not TO con-
tinue her studies abroad"
"Ah! scent love affair. What
caused her to change her plans?"
<"Next to nothing
"Eh?o
"one Of those young men whose chief
aim in life is cultivating a toothbrush
mustache."
CAN'T BE DEMONSTRATED.
Nov, this reformer says smoking
makes the throat dry"
quite So" murmured Mr.. Jagsby.
And when mans throat is dry he
naturally"
81 follow the course of your reasoning.
son, but with even moonshine' selling for
So a quart and drinking liquor In pro-
portion. fear your illustration is an idle
one"
THEY KNOW.
While others seek reasons
For the present unrest
Affecting the country,
North, south, east and west
The ''wets" can explain IT,
For they say, with sigh,
1--WE knew it was coming
When the nation went dry"
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21
Member of the Associated Press

The Age Herald is the only morning
and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham
carrying the Associated Press dis
patches.
Associated Press Is exclusively
snt-t to the use for publication OF
81 usTs dispatches credited to 1t or
~ = herwiss credited in this paper
ana also the local news published
Eer8lr
= lights of republication of several
6 sas. shes herein are also reserved
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala,
postoffice Ss second-elass matter. an
der act Of Congress- March 5, 1873.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21

No taxation without representation
goes to the heart of true democracy.
The stirring words, Liberty, equality,
fraternity" sent the revolution through
out Europe, overthrowing thrones, just
as the American one quoted above was
the foundation stone of this republic.
There is a whole lot in a name, and the
phrase-malSer is full partner of the writer
of songs when it comes to having the
power to set people in motion to do things
for themselves
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21

will keep his word.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21

But time and space forbid my setting
out here the history of parties in Amer
ica but If you have not familiarized
yourself with the story you have over
looked some mighty interesting facts in
our eountry's history. Every voter should
at least study the story of. the demo-
cratic and republican parties. I well
come as a lifelong democrat Mr. Cum
mings to our city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-21
A MERE TRrFLE.

"one Of those young men whose chief
aim in life is cultivating toothbrush
/ mustache."
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-03-14
$4,000 BACK AT
WORK IN YARDS.
IS ESTIMATED

Approximately 1000 men are now
back at work In tho Hhipyards IL.
GOO in the four steel yards and 900
la the wooden yards. according To es.
Inmates by yard managers Friday
With the contract shops In opera,
ton. II Is expected that the begin.
ming OF next week will find 20 900 Of
the 10. 600 metal trades workers who
went out on strike January 81 back
at their old jobs.
The skinner s Eddy plant now has
5000 men ON the payroll. and almost
the fun day shift will be working
next week Plans concerning the
night shift are not yet completed. BE.
tween 1000 and 1900 men are en-
ployed nj the Ames shipbuildlng and
prydock Co.
The !. T. Duthie and Seattle North
Pacific plants are operating with
close to their fun quota of workers.
Aberdeen ahipyard workers are
Stlll out. altho their Jobs have been
opened To- them by the employers.
Negotiations between owners and
workers are reported at ntaudstiii
The men assert that they are not
promised the same conditions In II
feet when they walked out. Janu.
AIRY IS.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-03-14
DR.. MARIE EQUI
UNDER ARREST

PORTLAND. March IL. Or.
Marie Eaui was arrested last night
for spreading l. w. W. propaganda.
and spent the night In Jail. being un.
able to furnish $500 bail
She WIS charged with violation OF
the criminal syndicalism act which
was recently passed by the oregon
legislature.
Dr Equl Is under sentence Of three
years in McNeils island prison. hay
Ing been convicted under the espion.
Barcelona today. owing to develop.
tious utterances.
She had been out on bail pending
an appeal
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-03-14

Mems Slk-plated Hose in black, Palm
Beach, white and navy, specially priced
for Saturday at ................ SOC
Mems Lisle Hose in black, gray and
white, at INSTRUMENTATION. .4Oc
Mems Cotton Hose in black tan. white,
gray, priced at 35c; 3 pairs. 81. 90
Phoenix Hose for men. A fine, full
fashioned Silk Hose with Isle foot. in
black. white and battleship gray. .$1.5O
A trifle lighter weight in the same
colors. at Observation-Disclosures. 81 .O5
A Silk-boot Hose with Isle top and
sole. at Neutrality-suspicious.. .S5c
--Fraser.Paterson Co. First Floor.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-03-14
100 HUN REDS
ARE EXECUTED
IN PRISON YARD
BY FRANK J. TAYLOR

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
BERLIN. March 12.-Delayed.t- -
More than 100 spartacsns. chained
together in the prison courtyard,
were shot down by machine guns
this afternoon. War Minister Noskes
has ordered that all spartacan pri,s-
oners shall be executed similarly.
Government troops completed the
capture Of the suburb OF Lichten-
berg today. The railway station.
where the insurgents had made their
final stand. was taken by storm The
spartacans suffered 200 casualties N
the attack.
a meeting Of workmen's soviets
WAS surrounded by soldiers this
afternoon No attempt was made to
interfere with the proceedings. b5t
the delegates were under constanr
menace Of rifles and machine guns.
They protested TO the governmentp
but Noske refused TO withdraw the
troops.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-03-14
SAYS BOlSHEvlkl ARE
MOVING ON ARCHANGEL

HELSINGFORS. March 1.-THE
Boishcviki expect TO recapture Arch.
angel By May 4, il was announced
in an official communique received
from Moscow today.
During January and February the
Red armies occupied a territory cor
responding to the area OF France
more than 100000 square miles,. ."
the communiaue said. They VIII
reach Archangcl by May L."
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-03-14
HANSON WILL
TRAVEL SOUTH

Mayor Ole Hanson. for more than
three weeks confined 10 his home
with neuritir. was sufficiently re.
covered 10 be up ana moving about
the house Friday.
1T seems like long. long time.
said the mayor. IN reference to his
Illness and confinement
Mayor Hanson viii visit California
to better his health. as soon as he
is able TO travel.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-03-14
B0LSHEVISM IS
NOT ALARMING
AUSTRALIANS


SYDNEY. March H. Bolshevissn
Is reported seeking to organize tho
WORKING people OF Australia The
prospect does not alarm the sydney
Bulletin. II says.
what Is this BoI.hevism which IL
being organized here II Is no new
manifesto ton. The world has always
known IL in one form or another. and
always IL has represented reac-
ton against conditions which were
not only intolerabie. but also incapa-
BILE OF being altered except by force.
France became BoIshevik under the
Eourbons for the same reason that
Russia did under the Romanoffs.
There was no other way. But what
country like Australia that canno;
be- achieved without the shedding %
a drop of blood or the destruction OF
one atom of the community's
wealth.
III Australia IN tired OF the Brit.
fish connection II only needs to say
no: II will not have to fight TO get
free OF IT. II IL IL weary OF import
ed governors. the whole band can be
speedily sent back 10 England. in a
constitutional manner. and local
politicians or aldermen or seven
trades hall officials substituted for
them. IL Australia wants dlsarrna.
ment IL can have II on the same
lines as Il achieved the c. NJ. r. and
the navy.
Oppose Six-Hiour Day
THE six-hour day and profit-shar-
ing would have been instituted long
ago. in many Industries here. II the
union rules and the big union bosses
had been agreeable. An even short.
or working day and a readjustment
Of the wage standard giving EN-.
ployes the whole profits Of the con-
Germs in which they work are prac-