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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-22
NARROW CONGRESSMAN

David Lawrence in the Saturday Even
ing Post
ID ERHAPs many people do not
W. often go out inspecting the United
x States. 1t is the most encourag-
ing and refreshing mission which one
can embark. Particular.v is it inter-
esting after hearing senatorial and
congressional defamation upon the
thoughts of the American pee-puP' and
the "pee-pul of the LIMITED Sta-a-tes
of Amer~r-rica," as the would-be
statesmen love to roll helpless words
in their diurnal orations on the needs
of our commonwealth They talk about
the United States in Washington too
often with an idea that one township
of five thousand population cannot be
dssimilar from a city of five hundred
thousand; or to put it another way,
a man who has lived all his life in
the little village and has occasionally
visited the big cities pronounces
weighty judgment on everything from
industrial quarrels to maritime law.
Sectionalism is too frequently the limit
Of congressional vision, and only few
, Of the men who go to Congress ever
realize that their highest duty and
obligation lies in the broad national in
terest rather than the particular local
interest Of their communities. have
seen men in Congress rise to explain
their votes. Everybody know why the
explaining was done-everybody ex-
cept the people back at home who was
and are taken in by the ruse. Every
body in Washington knows when
tsenator of congressman is talking for
home consumption. He may himself
favor bill that is sponsored by his
party. But his constituents are Irish
| or Italians or French or brewers or
munition makers or laborers or some
| other particular element affected, and
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simply reels with all this
talk about japan, and China, and the
league Of nations" pouts dainty Miss
America, as she presses her hands to
her head, where her rebellious tresses
would be falling down were is not for
net of human hair-from Shantung
Game down here to get away from
this talk about the peace treaty; China's
long way off anyway" growls Mr..
Business man as he strolls along the
beach, in a pongee suit-from Shan
tung.
With this introduction the National
Geographic Society issues a bulletin
concerning the Industries of Shan
tung, which range from making hair
nets to building railways. quoting from
communication to the society by
Maynard owen Williams, as follows:
When the speedy roadster made hair
nets a necessity. the hunger pressure
in a remote province of 100000 re-
Tented a little.
THE almost invisible net serves fash
ion to preserve for another the lowell
| ness of a moment. But the making of
,, hair nets enables whole villages of
wrinkled old women of Shantung to
put a little more food into ever-hungry
stomachs.
When the American male emerged
from the wooden or former convention
and donned the dapper suit of cool
had to work overtime, and their mas
ters added strip of pork to the family
| dish. A pongee-clad crowd at Bar
| Harbor means a better-fed populat ton
in Weihaiwei.
| AN American woman wears some
] Chefoo lace, and, thanks to her and the
purchases of her friends, almond eyed
girls are being trained in mission
schools 5000 miles away.
| The doughboy back from the war
is also booster for Shantung, though
perhaps he doesn't know it. AS he
[ tells Of the ever-smiIing Chinese whom
he saw making roads in France, he
testifies to the fine qualities Of some
of the worlds best laborers.
The Shantung coolie did his fail
share Of war work. A hundred and
\ fifty thousand of him went out to bet.
ter living conditions and a wider out.
look when the British troopship steam.
ed away from his peninsular home
Hundreds of him dropped shovel and
| seized gun or fought with clubs and
axes when the breach at Chateau-Thier.
~ yawned.
Now some of those Shantung coolies
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the party leaders give him a chance to
put up his fight; they even arrange the
stage for him so he may stay in the
good graces Of his constituents. And
the hypocrisy is evenly divided be-
tween both the democrats and the re-
publicans. They both practice the Same
tricks
Occasionally-yes, very occasionally
somebody gets up in his seat and says
that while he may represent certain
state or certain community his obi
cation and oath is to the government OF
the United States and the welfare of
this country. He may be man like
Senator Oscar Underwood on the dem
ocratic side or Senator Knute Nelson, of
Minnesota, on the republican side, who
have risen above the fear of being de-
feated in the next election. They pro-
nounce their views unhesitatingly and
unequiyocally Constituents may or
may not like it. If they don't want
man who holds such views to represent
them, if they don't want him to look at
ALI the facts and come to decision
IF Alabama or the state of Minnesota
or the political opportunism of his party
organization they can elect someone
else to the job. Yet men of that type
are invariably returned-this very in
their constituents than the le~..-... we
dependence makes them more useful to
who are constantly looking to sectional
or selfish interest
If. indeed, theNwhole Congress of the
United States could resolve itself into
an investigating body for the purpose
of inquiring into the minds of all the
people-not simply the people of one
state, one city or one town-they would
come back to Washington saturated
with wealth of knowledge that would
inevitably make them all better politi-
clans as we'll as better public servants.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-22
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

You may have noticed that the man
who adds up the Galleries before he or
ders his food is usually thin and hun
CRY looking.
I The American Hospital association
has come out against prohibition. The
anti-everything league will now de-
nounce the doctors comprising the as
ISOLATION as a lot of booze-fighters and
beer guzzlers.
1t has always been our custom to
beat the other fellow to it. So here
goes: do Your Christmas Shopping
Early"
The war is over. But we have an idea
that il will be a long time before any
| one has the nerve to dance the Ger
man.
look as if thei- wives got them with
trading stamps?
When fellow is pilot ograpbed with
his arm around tirl he'll have to 8
nit that Re is quite taken with her.
The fellow who is always using the
old bromide about clothes not making
| the man is the first to notice how you
are dressed.
| looking down on your neighbors won't
make them look up to you.
Somehow or other a corn fed seems to
| imagine that style consists of making
| her clothes fit too tight.
| 1t is mighty hard to get a political
dark horse back to the pillow after he
loses.
| A girls face may be her fortune. But
a two-faced girl isn't twice as rich as
| another girl.
| A man hasn't any sense. He imagines
| that the way to feed q two-months- ole
| baby is to give 1t things to eat.
1t doesn't take long for the Bride.
Breakfast Gown to turn into Greasy
Kimono.
Too many Of us go through life or
| the theory that 1T is much easier tt
pray for forgiveness than 1t is to resis
| temptation.
| And what has become Of the o.
man who used to prescribe whisky fol
a cold?
| If all the kisses tasted like the frs
most of the courts could close up and
! stay closed.
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ARI, Alderman has some in
II teresting things to say about
" the cost of food and other COM
modities in Siberia at the present time
in his just published book, Trailing
the BoIshevikr (Scribners).
Twenty cigarettes in a package sell
for three cents in Manchouli Station.
the border town between Manchuria and
Siberia; in Cheliabinsk. some distance
inland along the Siberian railroad, they
bring eighty cents Sheepskin coats
which the Hardin merchants dispose
of in lots at seven dollars each. dlsap-
pear from the mark stands OF lrkutsk
at five hundred per cent profit, thls
in spite of the fact that Siberia Wa
one of the greatest fur-producing coun-
tries in the world. Sugar. which costs
as much in northern China as IN the
United States. was two dollars pound
when I bought some at railroad
station near Taiga. Chinese tea am
rice are luxuries in the north And SAT-
Salt is so precious in Russia tha'
when T entered one of the shops OF
Ekaterinburg and asked to buy some,
the old woman behind the counter
looked at me in Amusement
what" she asked, salt? Are you
crazy?"
Buying salt is like seeking other
commodities which Siberia used to I'm
oort, and / discovered it as soon as :
crossed the line again into that en-
pire of boundless possibilities and ira
gedies. The counter-revolution of the
Bolshevists so crippled the railroads
and so disorganized the channels OF
trade that supplies from the outside are
more scarce than German-made goods
in France Still those products which
are produced in the country are cheap
cheap to an American who has been
educated to high cost of eating, but
expensive to the Russians. Frequently
| I bought roast goose for eighteen and
twenty cents pound. butter for nine
teen and twenty-five cents. and the
best cuts of beef for about the same
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tered Germany from the occupied area
last Alphabetically at his own
risk-writes in the Saturday Evening
Post that to his establishment he found
apparently a busy, prosperous and
reasonably well-fed people, carrying
on large public works, and private in
dustry, planning for the future and
otherwise conducting themselves as If
the war were merely incidental. Sto-
ries of starvation he could not sub
stantiate. Although at Hamburg and
a few other places a shortage was
undoubtedly felt, nowhere in the faith
erland was there anything like the
terrible suffering which we were told
the Germans endured as a result Of
the allied blockade.
The so-called revolution" Mr.. Pat
tullo thinks was myth, which neatly
every well informed person now con-
cedes. The outbreaks of bolshevism
and other forms of radicalism, which
were featured in American newspa-
pers, had little more connection with
what was really happening in Ger
many, he thinks, than strikes, race
riots and lynchings in America. The
German people were never out of
hand: they never once lost their spirit
of obedience, the militarists were firm
ly in control and at any time could
have checked the most formidable out
break, had they not been using the
threat of bolshevism to influence the
allies.
Furthermore, the Germans still be-
lieve themselves supermen, they cam
not be convinced that they were eair-
lily beaten and they still hold them
selves blameless for the war. This
attitude of mind and the great recu-
perative powers of Germany, which
are already at work, prove to any
thoughtful observer that a powerful
land unrepentent Germany will bear
watching
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-22

A New Jersey woman who has just
returned from abroad, says 5000 WELL
to-do British women will shortly ar
rive in America in quest OF husbands.
The qualifying adjective, ''weil-te-do."
may cause bachelors to be less wary
of capture than they might prove
otherwise.
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Having safely passed through a series
Of ovations, Gen. ,Pershing probably
flatters himself that the danger of be-
ing kissed by impressionable females is
now over.
Judge Lands has discovered that
Milwaukee breweries are still selling
beer. This is not as surprising as 1t
would be to learn that they were SELL
ing milk.
The eight-hour day seems never to
have been heard of in China, where
coolie puts in 1S hours day at con-
siderable less than 81 an hour.
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Speaking of sacrilege, the city water
wagon of Virginia, Mimi. was stolen
and used in hauling liquor from st.
Paul
Twenty years ago the man who ped
aled his way on a bicycle around a
track was regarded as a speed de-
mon"
When an elderly man dances the
"shimmy" he needn't be surprised If
somebody calls him an "old Silenus."
Z. X T.
The seal OF approval has been placed
! on Herbert Hoover by the launching OF
the Herbert Hoover presidential boom
& x 4
For a state that was supposed to
swear by Hiram Johnson, California has
treated Woodrow pretty well.
Women should take more than pass
! ing interest in the fate of Shantung
headquarters for hair nets.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-22
Time To Be Getting
Rid of Anarchists

a LExANsDER BERKMAN will
Is y finish serving a sentence IN the
federal prison in Atlanta, October I.
Deportation proceedings have been in
stituted by the government and are
naturally being fought by Berkman.
There is nothing an anarchist hates
worse than the thought of being sent
away from America, where there are
so many opportunities to defy the
law and foment trouble.
America is a great field for agita-
tors. Until we entered the war, it
was possible for them to say and do
almost anything. Now that We are
slipping back into the old, easy toll
erance and refuse to get excited un-
lie 8 bomb explodes under our very
no es, it is small wonder that such
ana rchists as Berkman, one of the
mos intelligent, and, therefore, most
dangerous of the lot, is unwilling to
leave.
Emma Goldman, WHO was convicted
with Berkman of having conspired to
obstruct the draft, is in prison at JEFF
ferson City, Mo. AS soon as her term
is ended she should be deported While
we are making the world safe for de-
mocracy, it is a good idea to make
America safe for democracy aid, IN
e'dentally, fit place In which to live
Tic Coldmans and the Berkmans ere
q menace to our government and vii
continue to be so as long as they are
at liberty to carry on their propa
ganda. The American government
has always been too lenient with an
archists. In that respect we nigh
take few lessons from our friends il
Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-22
cMuEuAMlAauetI
LANGUAGES TO SUIT

From the Albany Advertiser.
Hiram Johnson has come perilously
near to saying that the President is
talking flapdoodle.-Age-H Herald. Flap
doodle is defined as 1.-THE stuff fools are
fed on. So after all the President was
merely doing out his mental pabulum
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-22
In Spite of Her Defeat
Germany is Still Strong

G ONE days ago, Henry Morgen-
~ than, former American ambas-
sador to Turkey and one of America s
foremost diplomats, made the state
ment in Paris that Germany has
emerged from the war stronger than
ever. Said Mr.. Morgenthau:
Germany came through this war
. perfect dynamo of strength. Her
human military power is practi-
caliy as great as ever and her g.
100000 people have been schooled
and hardened by trials. They have
learned economy and self denial
The nation has been compressed
into a concentrated mass, which
10 surcharged with energy and
moving with centripetal force.
while Germany's neIghbors are
spreading themselves out thin, and
Quarreling and moving with CEN
trifugal force
A nation of between sixty million
and seventy million people, drawn
more closely together than ever by
the trials through which they have
passed and firmly believing that they
were the victims of an organized con
spiracy, instead of the would-be mas
ters Of the world, cannot but look OF
with complacency while dissension'
rise among their enemies.
Mr.. Morgenthau's declarations ar
not at all surprising, in the light O.
other information at hand regarding
Cefmany. George Pattullo. who en-
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Schurnann-Heink and
Her Philanthropy

1NHIS is Schumann-Heink week in
u Birmingham. The great artist
the greatest contralto singer in the
world-will give recital here next
Friday afternoon at the Jefferson
theatre under the auspices of the Civic
Association for the benefit of the
Downing Industrial School for Girls at
Brewton.
Madame Schumann- Heink has been
heard in Birmingham on several occa-
sions, but she never grows old. Her
artistic appeal is perennial. The oft
ener one hears her the, oftener one
wishes to hear her.
The distinguished vocalist not only
contributes her services absolutely
free for the cause which has touched
her heart, but she pays her own ex-
penses. Every dollar received at the
box office, therefore, goes to the
school,
Many eminent actors and singers
have done much for charity, but Schu-
manu- eink easily excels.
Many of the young generation
will hear her this week for the first
time. They simply cannot afford to
miss the treat that is now offered.
Schumann-H eink is always sure of
Ian ovation. Under the circumstances
she will have one of the greatest
greetings in her long and brilliant
record on the stage.
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One Birmingham man has brought
suit against another for SANDER, al
leging that the defendant said he wen,
south with pay roll money" The law
: yers will probably have some pretty
: wrangles over the exact definition Of
going south"
Following the great hullabaloo raised
over the high cost of living and dire
threats from the federal government
prices are higher than ever. If 4
were not such tragedy for million.
of people. it would be laughable.
There are some places that are pavet
with good intentions" said Hi" John
son at Minneapolis. Paris is one o
them" Should say not. Paris is fal
more pleasant place to reside in thar
Satan's fiery realm.
ference to republican newspapers tina
Great Britain will have six votes in tn,
league assembly. whereas the import
ant decisions will be made in the leagu,
council.
A newspaper correspondent says
person has to go abroad to appreciate
America. Europe may be picturesque
and all that sort of thing, but 1t lack
a gread deal Of having all the comfort
n of home.
j. 4 *
The ex-Kaiser's field kitchen. which
will be placed in the Smithsonian In
stitution, followed him through tn
war and didn't get a scratch. VIII
: helm was equally fortunate.
: 4 x 4
n Another woman is being tried in Chi
G cago for shooting her husband Afte
the usual preliminaries, she will doubt
less be acquitted. Chicago juries hat
to break a precedent.
x = 4
What this old world needs is cork
- ing big dose Of soothing syrup
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-22
LIFE IN HONDURAS

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
Honduras has finished her revolution
of last week and is probably thinking
up another one far next week. Aren't
they the swift little boil-ovess-those
tropical countries?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-22

BEGINNING THE DAY--O great
God grant MS the further freedom.
vouchsafe to us release from the lit
tie corking cares and petty consider
atoms that weary the spirit and
bind us to the earth. Free us. Lead
us into the wider, nobIer liberty that
waits for the sons of God. In His
name. Amen.--H. NJ. Z.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
More People Buying Bond.

Al CARRIER has been struck by the large
number of people in Birmingham who
have become interested in bonds as a
good form of investment "of course,
buying and selling bonds is an old bust
ness; people have been doing it ever
since the first bonds were issued. The
striking thing now, however. is the fact
that so many people with very small
amount of money to invest are putting
it in good bonds. Dozens of people coma
to US daily with $50 or 500 which they
wish to put into some sort Of bond. The
government issues of liberty bonds has
been the chief factor in educating the
people up to the possibilities of bonds
as safe forms of investment"
This doesn't mean," Mr.. CARRIER con-
tinued, that people no longer like to
run risks and get the sensations that
come with stock speculation. On the
contrary, transactions on the New York
exchange have never been larger than
they have for the past few months, so
large, in fact, that it has been necessary
to close number of Saturdays to en-
able the clerks to catch up their work
OF recording sales. In many of the
houses they have been so rushed that
cots have been placed in the offices and
the clerks don't even go home to sleep.
And right here in Birmingham We have
any number of people who love to play
the market for what they can get out
OF it. The tendency on the part of those
with little capital at their disposal how
ever, seems to be to stay on the safe
side"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-22
THE DEAD MARCH IN FALL

Sy Mlnna IlrVlng
The corn is brown, the last late ros,
HISS erappeA s velvet leaves
The eaterpsiigr for itself
sae9a1 ~ tin weaves.
The olooa OF dying summer stains
tt ivy on the wall,
And "a ene early morn we miss
TIL collins msrry cali.
The erickef scrapcs his violin
Bes de tho sarden gate,
The katydid ner graphophone
KEGS GONG long and late.
The m ianchoiy TAI bug pipes
From branches turning sere:
Thus + AVS tie SYLVAN orchestra
The dead Frarch Il the year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-22
SOLVED AT LAm

From the savannah News.
Vice President Marshall declares that
what's the matter with Us is old-fas h-
toned laziness. Get busy!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-22
"HOLIER THAN THOU. ATTITUDE

"HOLIER THAN THOU" ATTITUDE
From the Montgomery Times.
The quality of 'moonshine" is not
strained. 1t has kick comparable
to that of dynamite and rarely if ever
disappoints. N. B.; That is not an ad-
Observation-Disclosures Age-Hera1d
What is it then? Only giving your per-
sonal experience? We have never tried
any of the vile stuff and canr1s. there
fore, speak by card.
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Realty Business Stable

Bob Malone finds the realty situation
most satisfactory. The real estate bust
ress has never been so good in Bir-
mingham as it is at the present time. -
said Mr.. Malone yesterday I'VE are
renting and selling everything we can
get our hands on, and the only limit to
business is the number of houses on
hand. The gratifying thing about the
present situation is that it is a stable
business the result Of improved condi-
tons and steady growth in birmingham.
There is nothing OF the mushroom va
riety about it, and I expect to see con-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-09-22
Women and Thrift

''There is for women a great source OF
power in systematic saving" said Mrs.
r. r. Johnston. "If women are handi-
capped in business it rs by lack OF CAPT
tai, and If they are to overcome this
handicap it must be done by saving. The
mature business woman can do much
to make the younger woman realize that
because they earn money is good rea-
son why they should spend it wisely and
invest some part OF it safely.
with accumulated savings a woman
who has chosen professional career can
take advantage of business opportunities
that are open to those who have capital.
All professional women should take a
definite responsibility upon themselves
in advancing the thrift movement Let's
follow the slogan of the Alabama COM
mittee: Buy what you need. save what
you should invest what you can in War
Savings Stamps. and encourage others
to do the same"