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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
A LUMINOUS EXAMPLE

From the New York World
The total expenses of the trial of
Henry Ford's libel suit against the
Chicago Tribune are estimated at full
ly 100000, exclusive of the court costs
which the Tribune must pay by virtue
of the judgment of six cents damaN es
returned against 1T.
This is a whitening indictment of the
administration of the law in this coun-
try, which 8 not ameliorated by the
fact that both of the contestants had
great wealth and resources. 1t is out
rageous that Henry Ford or any other
man should have to spend S250,000 in
proving that he is not an anarchist.
1t is outrageous that newspaper
should have to spend $250,000 in de-
Tending itself in a suit in which the
plaintiffs reputation was damaged to
the extent of six cents. 1t is equally
outrageous that a jury of men com
PEELED to earn their living should have
to waste more than three months in
hearing the testimony and arguments in
a case which an English court would
have disposed of in As hours at most,
The Ford case is luminous example
of how justice should not be admin
istered
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
SALARIED MAN

From the Savannah News.
Attorney General Palmer said some
thing the other day when he was dis
cussing the proposed investigation into
the apparently too-high cost of living. He
said that while economic conditions We're
the fundamental cause of the high prices
OF necessities, violations of laws de-
signed to prevent concerted raising of
prices also might be partly responsible,
and then he went on:
There is no doubt that the majority
ever before; farmers and wage-earners
especially. The man who has suffered
from high prices has been the salaried
man | wish we could do something to
help him. I'm open to suggestions"
While the ones who have suggestions
to offer are putting them into presenta-
BILE and workable shape, it is an appro-
pirate time to pay deserved tribute to
the qualities of the average salaried man
who has borne the burden of the high
who has suffered perhaps more than the
men who have been in big profitable
business, more than the farmer who has
reaped harvest of gold from his fields,
more than the wage Garner who has
found increase after, increase awaiting
him on demand.
The average salaried man has kept on
the job; he has fed and clothed his fam
lily somehow he has done his full share
in buying bonds and sticking away thrift
stamps and in giving to all the war
causes; he has pinched and economical,
taken on extra work evenings and spent
his holidays and off hours in the home
garden; he has done his duty in the main
bravely Loyalty, patiently, nobly.
The biggest thing about him is that
he hasn't kicked and howled he hasn't
threatened and menaced he hasn't
bombed or bolshevihed; ne hasn't often
complained. He has. indeed borne The
middle of the big load and been a good
citizen about it. He is not whit less
of hero than some others whose work
has been more spectacular and whose
suffering has been more sanguine He
deserves tribute!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
Luxe M,LItKE SAYS

Why is it that a pest always wants tc
talk longer when you are in hurry
Anyway, when you see man down il
the laundry in the cellar stirring some
thing in steaming wash boiler, you
can bet that he isn't doing the wash
ing for his wife.
Somehow or other, the old fashioned
woman who keeps box of corn starch
in the bathroom doesn't suffer much
from prickly heat.
We would hate to have nerve enough
to claim that the lord ever made any
mistakes. But why did he endow the
mule with soprano voice?
With the exception of the man who
is trying to quit smoking there is nc
crouch like the man who needs drink
and can't get it.
The best way to entertain a man IS
to keep your mouth shut and let him
do all the talking.
Maybe your wife wouldn't look so old
if you would tell her once in a while
that she is looking as youn gas ever
And maybe there would be more di
vorces il women felt sure that they
could get alimony.
A man will cali himself damphool a
dozen times day. But il some other
man agrees with him he wants to fight
Another thing we want to know lis
which enc of the election officials viii
have to hold the baby while mother
marks her ballot
If woman is going to show in the
evening she starts getting ready abou,
noon and arrives only a half hour late
Don't worry about an impeachment ii
your speech as long as you haven't on,
in your memory.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19

BY the time the Prince of Wales
reaches New York he will have grown
accustomed to facing a battery of cam
eras.
a Montgomery newspaper man who
took and airplane flight got sick and had
to be put to bed Birmingham's girl re-
porters fly with the utmost nonchalance.
X * y
In retirement Bella Kun may think
about what might have been. but he is
believed to have gathered in enough loot
to console him during his leisure hours.
y y y
Maybe one reason why those Mexican
bardits continue to capture Americans is
the fact that they don't read American
newspaper editorials.
& X *
Some of the most sarcastic critics of
government control of railways are
tramps who find the transeontinental
service far worse than it used to be.
* X &
"Omsk," "Pinsk" and "Minsk" are
names the average American cannot pro-
nounce without batting his eyes
- y *
Having recovered from it's rooster cele-
bration. Demopolis is looking forward to
that bridge across the Tombigbee.
y X y
The field against Senator Underwood is
rapidly filling up without causing rip
pie of excitement in the urbane Oscar.
y \ -
The damages awarded Harry Ford con-
stituted the smallest item in suit that
cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
* y %
1t is interesting to read thrift book
OF yesteryear showing what dollar used
to do.
New York has found pedestrianism
good for its health but bad for its tenn
per.
Imperial hgureS quite often in the
new German constitution. 1t is a word
greatly beloved in the fatherland
4 * X
Archduke Joseph has not yet been up
long enough to say. You can't keep
good man down.
* - y
The strike fever is spreading, but
mother is still on the job, thank heaven!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
BORROWING TABLE WARE

From the Wall Street Journal
A chain of restaurants in this city
have to purchase more than 1000, 900
spoons, forks and knives every year.
Others tell the same story. Some of
the help, according to the management
of a Wall street restaurant, must be
reckoned on as furnishing their home
with BORROWED tableware and many
patrons take it for souvenirs as I'M
blushingly as they would appropriate
an umbrella on a rainy day.
A Wall street man was invited to a
dinner at the house of a rich client not
long ago and during the evening his
hostess proudly showed him hundreds of
spoons, forks and knives bearing the
names of hotels and restaurants both
of this country and Europe. TT took
me 10 years to get this. collection to-
gether,' said the lady land l didn't
pay for one of them"
And the dish ran away with the
spoon?" Yes, in the days of Old Mother
Hubbard, but in modern times the pa
irons and the help. And the cost? Oh,
that's passed on to the hungry patrons
who go to the restaurant not to purloin,
but to eat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19

because the vote was simply to cor
rect technical mistake on a matter
that had overwhelmingly carried at
a previous election, it was of first
for had it been defeated
Birmingham's school system would
have been crippled beyond measure.
As the election turned out, Bir-
imingham has a wonderfully bright
future, not only along school lines,
but in civic lines in general.
The fact that Birmingham is at
last to have a spacious and handsome
auditorium will be worth great deal
from many points of view Birming-
ham is already an attractive conven-
ton city, but it has been handicapped
by the lack of an adequate convention
hall. Now that we will have such a
building on vast scale, Birmingham
will be in a position to invite great
national bodies here, to accommodate
huge music festivals and to stage the
most pretentious of grand opera. And
just as important, the auditorium is
needed for local mass meetings and
community sings.
With the completion of large audi
forum Birmingham will be easily the
leading convention city of the south.
In view of the far-reaching effect
of yesterdays election, it will be re-
membered distinctly as red lettar
day in this city's history.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
Proposed New Wage
Scale of Brotherhoods

TN HE general public has always
u been distinctly friendly to the
wage worker; and was never so
friendly as now. The laborer is sure
ly entitled to a good wage. The high
cost of living has made it necessary
that the wage of today be above the
wage of normal times.
But the railroad brotherhoods in
their demands are going too far
They are out of all reason and they
will defeat their object in making
such demands.
Public sympathy goes long way
in promoting the wage-earner's cause.
When public sentiment is in a marked
degree on the side of strikers the
strikers are almost sure to win.
And in this time of labor agitation
it is we'll for the unions to keep this
idea in mind: Don't go too far.
The railroad brotherhoods are
among the most popular of all labor
organizations, but in order for any
organization to keep up its popu-
larity it must be moderate; it must
above all things, avoid radical ten
denotes.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
CHANTICLEER AT DEMOPOLIS

irg to conceal, of the brook fam to
fer the very works, o Night, disown
theei-of the puddle longing to glisten
the mud longing to become earth again,
by drying; it is so greatly the magnifi-
cent cry of the field impatient to feel
its wheat and barley growing, of the
blossoming tree mad for still more bios
SONS, of the green grapes craving
purple side; of the bridge waiting for
footsteps, for shadows of birds among
shadows of branches; the voice of all
that yearns to sing, to drop the gark
of mourning, live again, serve again.
be brink, be bourn, a sun-warm
seat, stone glad to comfort with
sect overcrawling 1t; finally it is so
greatly the cry toward the light of all
Beauty all Health, all which wishes,
in sunshine and joy, to see its work
while doing it, and do it to be seen
And when 1 feel that vast call to the
soul to make it more sonorous, by max
ing it more spacious. that the great
cry may still be increased in greatness
before giving it, 1 Withhold it in my
soul a moment SO piously; then, when
to expel it, I contract my soul, 1 aS
SO convinced of accomplishing a great
act, I have such faith that my song
will make night crumble like the walls
of Jericho From Edmond Ros-
lands "Chanticleer"
Hail the Cock, the incarnation of mas
culinity proud of his sex and his pres
tige! He is Emperor, King, Duke. Sui
tan and Pa ahs.eH
tan and Pasha He is Autocrat Of the
Breakfast Table, Cardinal. Chevalier
Bayard, Roman Senator. Palace Guard
and Section Boss, all rolled in one-al-
ways, wherever found. The Chief. Vain
as movie god proud as Chesterfield,
the true Cock is the last word In cour-
age and chivalry!
1t is the fundamental character of
the Cock that sent thousands to Demo-
polls.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19

| elements nave Knocked at him. put ne
has not ceased to wage battle. When
nature shook her fist and God seemed
to frown, and the stars were blotted
| from his sight. still the low whisper
| of faith said in his heart that the safe
Iharbor awaited him. and loves own well
come. Then he grew strong again and
faith sprang up like fire.
1t is so strange that any man should
| be afraid to go from the roaring vexa-
| ton of the sea of life to the placid an
| chorage that is beyond. 1t is as unac-
! countable as reluctance to accept
/ peace after war.
| Some there are who fortunately find
their heaven on earth as fore-bright-
| ening of that which is to be- Their
felicity stands in striking contrast to
| the wretched traversty and parody that
others have exhibited in the hallowed
name of marriage. If one is not the
haven of the other. why should they
dwell together?
| So many - piteously-have misread
the chart, and, heading for the har-
bor have been wrecked upon the reefs
| that had no mercy.
| There are soldiers who went abroad
who did that--men who accepted what
seemed friendly and lovely intimacy.
and found behind the aspect fair the
horror of the charnel house.
They would give all there is to give
| if they had taken another way.
The heart must have 1.-The freedom OF
| the seas" But the heart must have a
compass and pilot, too. and safe haven
at the last
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
New Hotel at FIorence

I'VE feel that the New Hotel Reeder
at Florence is going to fill an urgent
need in the city" said A. Lamar Poin-
dexter, operator of the House of Hos
pitality."
The New Reeder is modern in every
way and is beautifully furnished. The
hotel is something that has been badly
needed in our vicinity for a long time
and the travelling men are certainly re-
Joicing over our being able to take such
good care of them.
Florence has become one Of the liv-
est cities in Alabama, and there is not
a man. woman or child here who does
not believe that there is a great fu-
ture ahead for the city. Our ambition
is not only to fill the present need for
an up-to-date hotel here, but to have
it equipped and furnished in such man
ner as will meet the demands which
are sure to be made upon it in the next
few years"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
Federal Officers Efficient

"A person or firm surely will have to
scheme and work hard to get ahead of
the federal officers of Birmingham in
the storing OF food products" said J..
L. Baskin. IT know of one firm in
the city who was in the bakery business
as a sideline to their general line of
When they stopped the business they
had small quantity of sugar on hand
but as they were not in the grocery
business merely put the sugar in a
back room and unintentionally forgot it.
The government however, had check
on it, and notified them last week that
they would have to dispose of it, which
they of course, readily did"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
Police Nab Car Thieves

81 have been away for a month on
my summer vacation" said Ted
BrowneH. land / had a great trip in
Michigan and Canada. 1 went to the
lakes in central Michigan and visited
Montreal, Toronto and ottawa. 1 found
Canada prosperous but it seemed to me
that nearly all of my old friends had
come back from the war leaving an
arm or leg behind. 1t got on my nerves
to see such fine fellows crippled for
life. I got back home to find that
car thieves were still active, but | must
hand it to the police department, for
early Monday morning l heard some
one at my garage and called up the
department, and in five minutes four
motorcycle men were at my residence
and picked up negro who admitted
he was there to make away with the
automobile"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
From the Montgomery Advertiser.
N HANTICLEER was asked b
III Phnasant-Hen for whom tende

From the Montgomery Advertiser
~ HANTICLEER was asked by
Pleasant Hen, for whom tender
sentiments were felt, and who
returned the sentiments, to explain
the great secret of his music and power.
He had claimed the power to drive
away night and compel the sun to rise
by the magic spell of his voice He
tells her that he places his feet firmly
on the ground, raises his head, and
says: II accentuate my curve of hunt
ing-horn, Earth speaks in me as in a
conch, and ceasing to be an ordinary
bird L become the mouthpiece, in some
the earth escapes toward the sky!" And
they he says, describing the spell of
his voice:
And that cry which rises from the
earth, that cry Is such a cry of love for
the light, is such a deep and frenzied
cry of love for the golden thing we
call day, and that all thirst to feel
again: the pine on its bark, the tortu
Gus roots in woodland paths on their
moses, the feather-grass on each deli
cate spray, the tiniest pebble in its
tiniest mica flake; it is so wonderfully
the cry of all that misses and mourns
its colors, its reflection, it's flame. its
coronet, it's pearl; the beseeching cry
Of the dew-washed meadow e6ging for
burst of fire at the end of each
gloomy avenue; that cry which mounts
to tie sky through me is 50 greatly the
cry of all that feels itself in disgrace,
plunged in sunless pit, deprived of light
without knowing for what offence, is
the cry of cold, the cry of fear the cry
of WEAKNESS, of all that night disable
or disarms; the rose shivering alone
in the dark, the hay wanting to be
dried and go to the NOV, the sickle
fors otton out of doors by the reaper
and fearing it will rust in the grass,
tie white things dismayed at not look
ing white; is so greatly the cry of the
innocent among beasts, VINO have moth
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
KING HAssAN's PROyERB

BY James Buckham.
King Hassan, well beloved, was wont to
say,
When aught went wrong or any project
failed:
Tomorrow. friends. will be another
day.
And in that faith he slept and so pre-.
vailed
Long live the proverb! While the world
shall roll
Tomorrows, fresh. shall rise from out
the night,
And new baptize the indomitable soul
With courage for it's never-endins figh,.
No one, say. is conquered III he y1a:Ss.
And yield he need not, while, like nxiAx
from glass,
God wipes the strain Of Iire-old naftl.
fields
From every morning that he brings to
pass.
New day. new hope. new courage, Let
this be.
o soul. thy cheerful creed! What's yes
terday,
With all its shards and wrack and grief,
to thee?
Forget it, then-here lies the victor's
way.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
TWENTY YEARS AGO
IN THE AGE-HERALD
Events Recorded August 10, 1859

The feature of the Dreyfus trial at
Rennes yesterday was the testimony
of Colonel Picquart, former head of
| the French war Offices intelligence
department. who pleaded eloquentiy
for the eXile's acqutta1.
A Washington dispatch states that
the south will be given it's full quota
of officers in the new volunteer resi-
ments to be raised for service in the
| Philippines
General Juan Isidro Jiminez, asp1r-
ant to the presidency of Santo Do
mingo. was arrested at Cienfuegos.
military authorities.
Kid Mccoy was knocked out by Jack
Mccormick of Philadelphia last night
in about one minute of fighting in
Chicago.
Judge A. E. Caffee of Marion has
accepted the presidency of the state
fair association. The association is
now. asking for bids on a grandstand
and exposition hall
The city council wants reform in
the sanitary department 1t is al
legged that the sanitary conditions of
Birmingham are bad due to neglect.
| Mayor Drennen favors a commission
to investigate the Twentieth street
death trap, where many railroad
tracks pass through the city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
Birmingham's Great
Forward Movement

m HE Birmingham bond election,
y held yesterday, resulted, as
might have been expected, in over
whelming majorities for each of the
propositions million-dollar issue
for two high schools, two million
dollar issue for grammar schools, a
half million-dollar issue for new city
hall, combined with a public library;
a half million-dollar issue for an audi
torium, and half million-dollar issue
for the fire department.
The three-mill school tax was in
cluded in the propositions. While
there had been less discussion about
the tax than the other propositions,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
Men Without Trndes

zone of the biggest difficulties that
the bureau has experienced in locat-
ing jobs for returned soldiers is the fact
that the majority of them are without
trades, said Richard F. Lussier. of the
United States employment bureau
There seems to be at the present time
a superabundance of unskilled labor,
but not enough skilled labor to meet
the demand"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
4. 4 *
Sinking Responsibility
Is An American Trait

wv duty at the polls the average
citizen is a Stacker. Yesterday the
people of Birmingham were asked to
vote on issues of vital interest to the
future advancement of the city. They
probably mean more to Birmingham
than any questions that have come up
for decision in years, yet the vote was
disappointingly light. Everybody
wants a great auditorium, new city
hall and library, an improved fire
department, schools and other advan-
tages that make for greater city
and better citizenship, but how few
were sufficiently interested to drop
their private affairs for few min
utes and vote.
Indifference to civic duty is one of
the salient traits of Americans in
every part of the country. This in
difference is reflected in cheap poll
tics, inefficiency in office and slip
shod methods of government. Strange
as it may seem, the average man is
mildly interested, if at all, in the quail
ity of officials who hold office and
the kind of laws under which he must
live. Yet, when he suffers from bad
legislation and mismanagement of
public affairs he bowls Justify He
Eliminates on the street corners and
in public meetings after the harm is
done, instead of taking preventive
measures by voting for men of brains
and ability who know how to govern
and how to legislate and will serve
the public faithfully.
Ninety-nine men out of hundred
viii, shirk jury duty if given chance,
thus handicapping the courts and max
ing the average jury, particularly in
the south, conspicuous by its low grade
of intelligence. The ballot is the most
powerful weapon ever given to man,
but in America it seems to be thing
of little worth.
Until every man who is entitled to
vote exercises that privilege at every
opportunity we shall have misfits in
office and statute books filled with
unwise legislation.
Until politics is lifted to such a
plane that the best men in the coun-
try will be the rule rather than the
exception in seeking public office,
there will continue to be some basis
for the charge that America is the
worst governed country in the world"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
ADRIFTT WITH THE TIMES
THE sovIETs.

THE SOvIETS.
They operate a little while
On other peoples money,
Draw up degrees in pompous style,
Both tragical and funny,
And calmly Danish all the ills
With which mankind's afflicted:
The daily tasks, the monthly bills
Are sternly interdicted.
But, somehow, things don't go just right
Ills hard to find a reason;
When all appears serene and bright
There comes a. stormy season.
The masses start hue and cry,
Which isn't any wonder;
The leaders grab their loot and fly,
The government goes under.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
ENLIGHTENED.

Did you know that the downtrodden
chorus girls who are now on strike had
to pay for their silk stoclings?"
why, no." answered the unworldls
man. "If that's true, my ideas of Broad
way life are all wrong. I thought the
same person provided the silk stockings
who provided the lobster and cham
payne"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
SELF-INTEREST.

Did you notice that motorist stop his
car get out and carefully remove a
broken bottle from the road?''
Il did"
would you call him good samari-
tan?'
mo. 1 suspect he's coming back the
same way
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
HOT WEATHER BLANKET SALE

From the Atlanta Journal.
1t is pretty good evidence of pros
perity that the government sale of
wooden blankets in August is such a
success.