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The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-22
(Associated Negro Press)

( Huntsville, s. c.. Nov, While
a stiff breeze was blowing fire broke
out in the Negro district of Harris
vile, besides destroying three houses,
burned to death Mrs. C. Mach and her
baby in one of the houses. The fire
is supposed to have originated from
an oil stove.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-22
Associated Negro Pressl.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Nov. 20.-Police
officers are commenting on the large
number of army pistols that are
found among civilians, especially Ne
groes, and efforts are being made to
trace the source of Leakage"
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-22
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The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-22
GENERAL NEWS

(By Associated Negro Press)
what the Negro leaders need" he
declared, sis a liberal arts education
to lead them and their people into
the universal spirit"
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-22
(By Associated Negro Press

Chattanooga, Tenn, Nov. 20.--In a
declaration of principles and policies,
the Colored Baptist Educational ses-
sion here, took an advanced step to
bring about better relations between
the races in America.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-22

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blank encnga postage stamp you may consult the using
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in your town she holds Diploma from this SCHOOL, she competent
to advise you White us for her name.
a Il SIX LOeeks scientific scalp and hair treat.
nient Diit be sent by Parcel Post for $500
Address DIR. and NINE w. "A JOHNSON.
500 fremont Street Boston, Mass.
The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-11-22
Have You Hair
Scalp Troubles?

Tell them to the Dermatologists
and Scalp Specialists with a repu-
taton Of over>l8 years for honest
service Since the year 1899,
we have successfully treated and
cured thousands Of cases Of scalp
and hair diseases, which means
thatwehave assisted Grand Mature
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-20
THE REPUBLIC OF ESTHONIA

Poles conquered these provinces in l7l0,
Peter the Great conquered Esthonia and
Livonia and made part of Russia.
Thus Esthonia remained strife apple
between the two nationalistic intrigues
on the political side the Russians, and
social-economicallX, the Germans. The
German nobility which controlled the
Esthonians by a feudal whip, understood
how to throw sand in the Russian eyes,
and for that reason. though Esthonia
was a Russian province, it maintained
the German culture and supremacy So
cially, while the Esthonians remained
outside every protection
Now that tyranny is broken. Esthonia
is once more free.
The Esthonians stand now between the
great Russian markets and the CONNER
cial west as the only logical outlet and
door The American business men cam
not reach the markets of Petrograd, Mos
COW and Nijny -Novgorod by better and.
cheaper route than through the ice-tFee
ports of the Esthonian republic, Reval,
Narva, Baltic port and Pernau
the success of the future Russian trade
with the United States through the Bal
tic. The Esthonan attitude to the Amer
lean business men is far more important
than that of any other newly formed re-
publics of Europe. But in SO far the
American public opinion and government
have failed to grasp the Importance.
The Esthonian government and people
offer to America their hospitality, har-i
bcrs, transit facilities, leadership and Sc
cure foothold for future trade with Rus
STA. Without the support of the Esthon-
ians the Americans will gamble in the
dark in Russia. Esthonia imports agri-
cultural machinery, tools. cotton, textiles.
chemicals, metals and general machinery
for herself and for Russia. Esthonia ex-
ports hides, bristles, hemp, flax fibre,
flax seed, vegetable oils, linen, wood
pulp, alcohol and other Russian raw
materials.
Esthonia is the most cultured part of
Russia, as there are no iliiterates what
scever. There is stable government,
order and every favorable advantage
for immediate trade with this country
But the people here know little of 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-20

department of the university and the
other the Polytechnic institute at Au-
burn. The latter covers a broad field
and its faculty is made up of able
specialists in agriculture, architec-
ture and textile milling as we'll as all
branches of chemistry and engineer
ing. Auburn graduates are found in
all parts of the south and everywhere
they have proved successful in a
marked degree
The superiority of the Carnegie in
stitute lies in the variety of its actual
shop work and in the perfection of
its laboratory system. The institute
lis all the while growing and each
monthly bulletin presents some new
phase of applied science that means
American leadership in industrial
education. 1t is a noteworthy fact
that in the Freshman and Sophomore
years the study of English is stressed.
1t used to be that many technically
educated men failed to achieve any
thing like signal success in their pro
fessional career because they lacked
that thorough culture which would en-
able them to write with convincing
style.
In the third year at Carnegie ap-
piled psychology and cost accounting
are stressed, and in the fourth year
special study must be made of politi-
cal problems, business law, credit and
banking, management of men and in
dustrial organization. All these
studies have practical bearing, out
the old-time educator of the tech
biological sort would never have
dreamed of psychology or political
science as among the essentials.
The catalogues and bulletins of all
educational institutions now form an
important branch of literature. The
Carnegie bulletins have distinct lure
and the day will come when the Au-
burn Institute of Technology will be
to the Birmingham district what the
Carnegie institute is to the Pittsburg
district.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-20

From the MONTGOMERY Timex
Barnett, of The Birmingham Age
Herald. has been looking over the crops
in Dallas county, and on his way to see
the Deeming busting maGhine to poison
Mr. Boil Weevil, he came very near for
getting his molly calling, and make
rare statement about the work of the
past. for speaking of it, he says:
II came very near saying that you
could hear them devouring the crop as
you rode along the road. but remem-
bering that belonged to the ministry
thought it best to omit any SUCH sem
sational statement in spite of <he fact
that the dreaded pests were doing all
the damage possible as the weather
conditions were ideal for their develop
ment and growth"
This calls TO mind the statement we
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-20

From the Estonia.
| n FER seven centuries of perpetual
| IN oppression and slavery, Esthonia
| q - is again a free and independent
state of the people, democratic re-
public.
! Esthonia was proclaimed a republic
by a decree of the Esthonia national
council at Reval on January 10, 1918,
whose members were all elected on the
bases of universal suffrage, and it has
been finally sanctioned by the constitu-
ent assembly, which convened a short
while ago.
| The Esthonian republic covers an area
of 1880 square kilometers and is thus
larger than Denmark, Holland. Belgium
and Switzerland. The Esthonian repub-
bic is based on photographic boundaries
| territories inhabited by the Esthonian
speaking population, and embraces the
province of Esthonia, northern part of
Livonia, the isles of Dago, Oesel and
| others in the Baltic, and districts of the
provinces of Petrograd and Pskoff.
| The Esthonians occupy potential po-
! SltlOn IN EurOpe, anu COHtIOi tHe lutuAC
| Russian economic-political situation by
| being so near to Petrograd and other
| important trade centers in the former
empire of the Gar. They are the bridge
between the unitarian west and the
mystic east. They have nothing COM
mon, either in language, blood or tradi-
tons, with their neighbors, the Let's,
the Scandinavians, the Germans or the
Russians.
| The Esthonans belong to the once
powerful Turanian race of Central Asia,
who passed a few centuries B. c. through
Persia, and were the earliest invaders
to cross the Ural mountains. About the
middle of the fifth century they settled
down on the eastern shores of the Baltic
sea, to which period evidently belongs
the origin of their wonderful epic "Kale-
! vipoeg.' The Esthonians have their
racial art, literature and culture. differ
| ent from the European.
| In the thirteenth century came the
Teuton knights of Esthonia and after
30 years of warfare conquered the, coun-
| try and made the Esthonans and Let's
their feudal slaves At one time the
Swedes. then again the Danes and the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-20

hog was discovered the other day
that had been in cold storage for rs
years. Still, the packers could point
with pride to the fact that it was in a
fine state of preservation.
X y +
While a war with Japan may develop,
as predicted. in the next 10 years, we
may have to take on Mexico considerably
sooner.
With his stay in America limited to 10
days, the Prince of Wales will get but
a fleeing glimpse of our pulchritudinous
heiresses.
At any rate, the White House has
gone on record for open discussions
openly arrived at
Esthonia wishes American business
men to know that the latchstring is
hanging out
two-day strike was not long enough
to teach New Workers that feet are use
full for something else besides dancing.
* * Il
All restrictions on beer have been re-
moved in England and English ale is
not the 2sl stuff.
II * Il
California is alarmed by the fact that
japanese picture brides go in more for
babies than they do for poodles.
y. y 4
There is no stage money involved in
that suit for $4,000 brought against the
stars of the "Follies."
4 \ "
For the present, at any rate. the al
lied governments have decided to ignore
Archduke Joesph's "R. s$v. p"
y 81 y
Nobody is shedding any tears over
ticket spectators who are hard hit By
the actors strike.
Labor is in the saddle" and seems
disposed to put the spurs to Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-20
x z e
Great Work of the
Carnegie Institute

TN HERE are many excellent schools
u of technology in the United
States, all of them doing work of far
reaching value, but it is perhaps not
too much to say of the Carnegie In
stitute of Technology at Pittsburg
that it is the most complete insti-
tuition of it's kind, not only in America,
but in the world.
The development of engineering,
chemistry and all sciences related to
industrial life has been rapid within
the past fifty years. Many persons
now living can remember when the
only man who could apply mathe-
mates to large construction was the
civil engineer, and when industrial
chemistry and laboratory activities
were limited to few universities.
Now it is backward state that is
without institutions of technology,
embracing mechanical, mining, cleo
trical and chemical engineering. Not
only is theory taught thoroughly, but
demonstration work is carried forward
on practical lines that interest and
stimulate the student beyond measure.
Atlanta has high-class institution
for the training of young men in
technical branches of charlottesville
Georgia Tech" Alabama has two well
equipped engineering schools-one a
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-20
4 x 4
American Troops Again
Cross Mexican Border

a FTER announcing that what is to
GA all intents and purposes an act
of war is something else, the Amerl-
can government sends troops into Mex
leo on another shot trail" which bids
fair to grow cold ere long.
The two army aviators, Davis and
Peterson, who were held for ransom
by Mexican bandits, are reported ac-
companying troops of the Eighth cav
airy, south of Candelaria, Tex, as
scouts to locate the bandits on the
Mexican side. There can be little
doubt that these young men are keen
for revenge, since their lives were
only saved by humiliating surrender
of the fifteen thousand dollars de-
manded.
If statesmen find it hard to define
the relations that now exist between
Mexico and the United States, it is
small wonder that the average citizen
understands the situation not at all.
Virtually we have been at war with
Mexico for several years. Whatever
we may think about it, Mexicans have
aggressively made war on American
citizens, perpetuating long series of
-outrages which have gone unpublished.
It was stated sometime ago that
the American policy toward Mexico
would be changed. "Watchful wait
ing" has proved failure. If our more
drastic treatment is merely to consist
of dispatching a handful of troops
across the border from time to time
when some particularly fragrant Of
tense is committed against the peace
and dignity of the United States,
nothing will be gained.
Mexico will continue to laugh in
her sleeve at the American giant who
is loath to give her the spanking she
deserves.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-20
REPATRIATED

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
VICTORY
Oh. fair Alsace and loved Lorraine,
Your scattered children fondly call
To vine-clad slope and sunny plain
With joy triumphant over all
To Strasbourg's spire our full hearts
turn,
V
France, be not cold TO us! We fled
because ". could nor bear the yoke.
The haught, Prussians martial tread
IN our std breasts wild echoes woke
We fled from Thionvi,le's retreats
And left old Colmar's winding streets.
And so we came across the sea.
Since deep within us burned the fire.
The deathless torch of liberty
Was handle i down to son by sire.
Lips that had sung the ''Marseillaise"
Were 10th to chant the "Kultur" praise.
On these wild shores our homes we
made.
Like other pilgrims here we found
Shelter and comfort. arts and trade;
But in our hearts we bore a wound
Memory of a ravished mo.herland,
OF iron heel and mailed hand.
SO ever turned our neartS 20 tHce,
And now the hard-fought fight is
won,
We long our native land to see
Clean purged of goose-step and the
Hun.
On the mountains blue to gaze again.
Where flowers bloom amid the
grain.
Oh, tairl Alsace and loved Lorraine.
What rapture unalloyed twill be
Far-fl from Strasbourg's sacred
spire
The tri-color-of Liberty!
To know that Metzs stony street
Re-echoes to the Poifus feet!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-20
TWENTY YEARS AGO
IN THE AGE-HERALD
Events recorded August 20, 1899.

Col. A. A. Wiley of Montgomery has
received a telegram from the war de-
partment informing him that he has
been appointed a major in one of the
provisional regiments to be raised for
service in the Philippines.
Chief Justice William L. Chambers,
who won fame in the Somoan islands
is visiting relatives in the state.
After a lengthy investigation Bir-
mingham authorities believe they have
solved the mystery of the sensational
Friel murder case. Mrs, Margaret J..
Friel and James A. Mccoy are thought
to have been implicated in the crime.
Paris considers the acquittal of Drey-
fus doubtful. The Judges are accused
of lending a ready ear to perjury on
the witness stand at Rennes.
DR.. J. H. Phillips, superintendent of
the public schools of Birmingham, has
recommended to Mayor Bremen that
the city purchase a site for a high
school building for $4,000 and erect on
it building to cost 500, ooos
The Birmingham authorities are
aroused over the alleged insanitary con-
ditions now prevailing The city's water
supply is being investigated. The sani-
tary inspectors are under fire.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-20
REASONABLE PROPOSAL
From the New York World.

From the New York World
AS every schoolboy knows, the state
of Florida when viewed from this di-
rection resembles a boot hanging up
side down with the foot extending
westward along the gull. Originally,
or when the territory was acquired from
Spain, the foot reached to the Missis-
sippi river, and neither what is now
the state of Mississippi nor the state
The toe of the foot was then made
to recede, and the new state of Missis-
sippi was given a broad opening Oh
the gulf. But Alabama was left with
only the narrow window seward about
Mobile, while narrow strip of Florida
formed it's whole southern boundary
otherwise. The Alabama legislature
now proposes the cession of that strip
from Florida. 1t will create boundary
commission and ask Florida to do. the
same
This is reasonable proposal. West
| ward of the Apalachicola river, Florida
| forms a natural part of Alabama, and
the river to it's mouth would be nat
| ural eastern boundary for Alabama
When the British held the territory for
| a time before the revolutionary war
| they made that river the dividing line
| between east and west Florida. Flori-
| da has more coast line now than any
state in the union, and it would still
| have about as much coast line afte rthe
| proposed cession as California has. II
would lose no harbors that 1T cannot
easily spare, while Alabama. would gain
none that nature has not decreed to it.
! There is a measure of national po-
| litical as we'll as of American historical
interest in this agitation 1t shows
where it was perhaps least to be ex-
| pected at this time of general surrender
! to a meddlesome and dangerous ten
| dency toward Capitalization in govern
ment, that the states of the American
union still remain a consciousness and
a pride of distinctive political and So
cial and physical, being which have not
yet entirely lost the power of assertion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-20

once heard a minister make about some
very fine corn he had been looking
over, that it is growing so fast we
can hear it," That seemed an extrS
agant statement, but nevertheless. it
was really and truly fact for as
the stalks grew and expanded, their
popping and expanding could be very
easily heard. DR.. Barnett could smell
those weevils, If he could not hear them
al work
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-20
TYPHOID WIPED OUT
From the Atlanta Journal.

From the Atlanta Journal.
Birmingham is warrantably proud of
the fact that her typhoid rate has been
reduced almost to zero. For the first
six months of the current year it was
less than one-half of one per cent. or
less than one death in every 100000
of the population. This excellent re-
cord, howevef. was not attained by
Sudden flight" In 1917 that citys
death rate from typhoid was 81 per
100, 900; and in July. 1918. there were
SO cases, of the disease. as compared
with only II in July of this year.
The happy result has been achieved,
of course. by vigorous sanitation
campaign, in which the health authori-
ties had The pubIic's earnest co-op-
Grafton, and by the readiness with
which people awaited themselves of Sc
rum safeguards against the disease.
Wherever these preventive measures
are duly taken, typhoid can be eradi-
Gated. For years. it has been virtually
unknown~in the United States army.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-20

Il believe Bessemer is at last to Sc
cure new county" said George Davies,
assistant cashier of the Bessenier Ma
tional bank, land that is a thing the res
idents of this end of Jefferson county
have been fighting for for long time
could never get along is a mystery to
me, but since they don't seem to agree
/ think the separate county will be the
best thing for, both. With Fairfield COM
Ing out in favor of Pettus county things
look very bright for u.s.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-20
1t viii be Appreciated

THE newspaper reporter viii al
ways receive my hearty assistance dul
CO cooperation while I am assistant man
ager of the Chamber of Commerce AID
handling the publicity end" said Pao,i
A. Smith. the newly appointed assist
ant manager of the Chamber of Com
merce, who took oyer his duties to-
day. O.
Il have been a newspaper man my
self and can appreciate how one feels
when he comes into an office looking
for news and either gets no news or
story Of not much news Importance.
The newspaper reporter can assured,y
look to me for any assistance in my
power"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-20
One On Atlanta

ATLANTA has one advertisement thas
is very displeasing to the hot blast
boosters from that city" said jeff
Bailey, who spent Tuesday and We'd
nesday in the Georgia capital en- route
home from Jacksonville, Fla, where he
is organizing Kawinis club.
"You have to take street car out
to Brookwood station, about five miles
out of the city, to catch the Birmlns-
ham Special to the best city on earth.
This train, being through train from
New York, does not stop in Atlanta
that is. it does not go into the ter
nina. station. Atlantans claim that
traffic Is so congested that there Is
not room for it at the terminal but
"Reminiscences think that the jealousy
over the name of this New York linl-
tied has caused the Atlantans to 1e-
fuse to let the train park at the ter
minal, or either it just has not time
to fool. with Atlanta.
AT any rate, it brings an awful
boiler from the travelling public to
have to take "a car to connect with the
train and it is funny to have an At
lantan try to explain it
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-20
BRIEF COMMENT

Augusta Chronicle A federal judge
in~Alabama ordered the seizure of 100
barrels of sugar in Birmingham. That
Is one way to stop boarding and profit
eering.
- Atlanta Constitution; The 6orcent
haircut will be the death of the joke
on the baldheaded man.
: Houston Post: Champ Clark says the
republican party is the cause of the
high cost of living. OF course. 1t is.
The republican party has been respon-
sible for most of the trouble In the
world since it's founder misrepresenteo
things to Eve in the Garden OF Eden.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: The cost OF
living for American wage earners is
II per cent higher than at the begin
ming of the war. Wages have increased
a Bit. too--its only the unfortunate
salary-earner that gets it completely
in the neck.
New York Herald. From the present
stats of national affairs domestic
treaty Of peace is needed more than a
foreign treaty. league to preserve
peace In America is more essential than
a League of Nations to preserve peace
abroad.