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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-08
EVENING PUBLIC PHILADELPHIA THURSDAY

J. Linton Engle, vice president of the
Philadelphia Typothetac, spoke this
afternoon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-08

Four Appointed to City Jobs
The following city appointments were
announced today: Laura Shortz. 1911
North Nineteenth stree. typewritist,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-08
CURE FOR BOLSHEVISM

Box Manufacturers Plan to Make
Each Plant a Social Democracy
Atlantic City, May S.--"Social dem
ocracy' was adopted as the keynote of
the newly organized National Paper
Box Manufacturers Association at the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30
THE PUBLIC MUST NOT SUFFER

E United States government is in dead earnest in its
serton that the public will not be permitted to suffer as
result of the defiance issued last night in the words
"The strike of buminous miners cannot be avoided
The statement of Attorney General Palmer represents the
administration point of view Police other protection will be
given willing Such protection will everywhere
be given says the attorney general 80 that may exercise
undoubed right of continuing to work under such terms
and conditions they may fit
further protection OF the public against profiteerng and
exortion Garfield will before President Wilson today
proposal restore the maximum coal prices AZ the time the
fuel administration of existence This would mean
considerably lower for coal than have recently been paid
The federal administration is undoubtedly counting the
strong public sentiment against the strike assist in handling
the situation The attitude of defiance of everything and every
body taken by the radical mine leaders has made them no
friends In response the solemn words of the President from
his sick bed calling upon the miners recall the strike order
they not only issue manifesto saying that the strike cannot be
avoided but close with these words The issue has been
made and if it must be settled upon the field of industrial battle
the responsibility rests fairly and squary the coal barons
alone This in spite of the operators repeated offers to
arbitrate.
There will be public sympathy with this sort of attitude
and the consuming public will welcome the vigorous
serton of the attorney general that he proposed strike
ordered for purpose and with necessary effect
which, taken together puts outside the pale of the law
The federal government will treat it accordingly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30
LUKE M'LUKT SAYS

II some widows didn't dress that way
you would never guess that they were in
mourning. q
After you have passed the 60 mark
you can look back on your life and real
ize that you never got licking you
didn't really deserve.
A brute is a husband who gets mad
because his wife uses two of his neckties
for garters around the house.
A man will return the money he Dor
rows from you. But he never returns
the book or the umbrella he borrows
from you.
Women have more sense than men
You never saw a woman wearing ear
muffs, did you?
Why is it that the man who is always
out of job always has pocket full
of letters of recommendation?
A girl thinks that her life work has
been completed when she cops out q
husband. But it has just begun
Mind your own business and geeI
your nose clean and you'll be surprised
how popular you are.
has sense enough to paint it up every
dap and keep it in repair.
1t is wonderful what science and mod
ern invention have done for us in the
past so years. Nowadays you do not have
to spit in a box of shoe backing tc
make the stuff stick to a dauber.
Maybe the reason why there are sc
many marriages is because a marriage
license costs only 81. while talking ma
chine costs about 500.
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to have lived long enough to see the
victory wipe out the terrible memory
of 1870, which had grieved me for
more than 40 years"
The Pyramids, symbolic of Egypt's
dead centuries, are Clemenceau's
"Carcassone," with this radical diff
ference, that he will probably live to
crafty his desire. What a record of
service the aged statesman will have
the enjoyment of leisure denied him
for so many years! During the dark
est period of the war the flaming
spirit of Clemenceau, his courage, his
iunshaken optimism, his faith in the
future, inspired all France, and along
with France all the world that was
mot aligned, In spirit or in fact, with
Germany. Clemenceau was France
during those days. He is yet. No
figure brought out by the war grips
the Imagination with greater in
tensity than Clemenceau-not even
Foch.
Americans admire the aged states
man, who has performed prodogies of
work and survived an assassin's bull
let, to retire with honors thick upon
him, because he is a fighter. With
the knowledge that the arrogance of
Bismarck in 1870 has been repaid by
the peace of Versailles, secure in the
gratitude of his countrynen and con-
scious of duty well done, there should
be nothing to mar Clemenceau's
pleasure when he gets his first
glimpse of the Pyramids.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30

Timothy G. Turner, in the New York
Herald
nNHERE is an old French proverb,
1.-The more it changes, the more it
x remains the same and it is is
with Mexico. Revolution has not dulled
its color; nor diminished it's hospitality,
it's inefficiency.
Let us hasten up a street Of tinted
houses whose colors may be seen in the
sharp moonlight of the Mexican plateau
Here we come to the house of young
Mexican friend of mine. and we will
take a peep for the readers benefit into
the patio, for it is warm night. bona
Ana is rocking in an Austrian brentwood
chair by the fountain, a sad little foun-
tain whose shower is just enough to bathe
a bird at a time. She is pious woman
who wears black always, for reasons OF
religion. not bereavement. But If she
sneezes, as she may in the night arr,
lit is certain she will exclaim, Jesus
me aiude C'Jesus, help me'o, but in all
devoutness.
There IN no profanity in Spanish, for
all the wAr!d theoretically is most re-
ligious The women of Mexico are al
most universally pious, but a large class
of the men are free thinkers" as they
will have it. But they are married IN
the church and will tell the census taker
that they are Catholics. The Mexican
man. atheist or no, never uses sacred
names with a profane intent, although
he sports much vulgarity, but all in all
the Mexican is not so low IL - speech
as some other Latin Americans.
Dona Ana's daughter is a pretty young
woman and would be beauty If it were
not for the Indian mouth. whose lips,
though large. do not quite cover the
gums when she smiles-a racial trait I
believe. She spends her time between
the housework, which is necessary despite
three servants. and in teaching the
parrot-every Mexican family has one. 1t
may happen that on this night Senorita
Garments lover comes to play his guitar
! Just over the patio wall. Yes, this GUS
tom is still extant in Mexico, although
| il is done half in fun. He sings love
song, and in the place of another namr
he has put "carmelita,' and he goes
through all sorts of gymnastics with the
word The Spanish diminutive is never
ending: it is both a diminutive and .
| term of endearment. SO from Carmen
we have Carmelita; hence Melita. again
| Lita and finilly Litita.
/ Mexican lovers are past masters in
'itas When Senorita Carmen goes to
mass her lover is sure to be by her path.
and as she passes he whispers, AT your
| feet" One day-she confided in me-she
was in black. for it was Lent, and as
she passed he whispered in mock sur
prise. Who is dead in heaven that the
Iangels wear black"
Such are the extravaganzas of speech
of provincial Mexico. No doubt when
Dona Ana comes to greet us she vii
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30
Reckless Auto Driving
Is a National Trait

TITO A lesser degree, the problem
y of the reckless automobile driver
in Chicago is the same in Birming-
ham. Announcement of new pro-
gramme, giving the limit of the law
to all convicted speeders, "will help,
but it will not cure" says the Her
aid and Examiner, which advocates
that the laws be revised so that ir-
responsible motorists who kill inno-
cent persons may be treated as Grim
inals.
A prison sentence is the only rem
edy for a great many of the ills from
which the country now suffers, not
the least of them the automobile
speeder. In Birmingham fatalities
due to reckless driving have been of
frequent occurrence. but they are
soon forgotten and public indignation
subsidies until the next tragedy, or
series of tragedies, brings new out
burst of resentment and a demand
that the guilty be punished.
That there has been no serious
automobile accident here recently is
providential. 1t certainly isn't the
fault of the speed maniacs. It is no
reflection on the police department
that speeding can't be stopped. 1t is
doubtful il an officer stationed on
every block in Birmingham could
break it UP entirely. A campaign OF
education having failed, there is still
the prison sentence to fall back on,
The prospect of only one day spent
in Jail is more effective IN COOLING
the ardor of speed maniac than The
heaviest permissible fine would be.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30
HOSPITALITY A LOST ART

ters as the msnisterine Spirits ef tse
occasion.
Those who look upon the American
home az social unit to be destroyed,
either by dissolution into it's indfvidual
constituents or by absorption into the
community, will take Joy In the pros
pect that hospitality may be doomed to
join the lost arts. There are the Al
terna tives of the community table and
the public restaurant Some simple
souls revolt somewhat at the substitu-
ton of the glittering cabaret with its
ragtime music and its scantily clad
dancing girls for the tempered lights
and soothing quiet of the home dining
room.
No doubt we shall TT ourselves to
changed condition. and in the absence
Of authoritative governmental regula-
ton of all things shall choose as taste
and tradition direct between the cab
aret and the home as place to dis
play our hospitality. There is pleas
ure in barking back to the days of
the simple supper before the hearth
fire. even if we have to substitute the
electric toaster for the glowing Goals
Perhaps the hostess of the future will
revive her Observation-Disclosures long
neglected skill in producing waff1es to
defy competition, panning oysters to
the envy of the blue ribbon chef, or
doing unapproachable Chicken fix
lngs upon recipe copied out of a
faded manuscript cook book half as
if,1+i ID
beneficent provision of Providence the
secret of good digestion lies in the
domestic Kitchen, ones own or ones
neighbors. and any nation doomed to
choose as permanent and reguia,.
habit of life between the public res
taurant and the community table viii
tind itself between the devil and the
deeD sea-
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From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
MN ONE in and dine with US to-
day" said man long eman-
cipated from the conventions
of his extremely simple native com
munity to another who had always
stayed at home. THANK you" was the
answer. "but we are having dinner
at our house" The reply was not in
tended to be impolite; it exactly con-
veyed the speakers meaning. and i'm
Piled his conception of hospitality. If
for any reason you knew that neigh
Dor had no prospect of dinner at homo,
you naturally and willingly took him
in, but normally in that simple COM
munity, where domestic service was
almost unpurchasable, every man diued
at his own house. Hospitality was for
the rare emergency, and emergencies
did not come often enough to teach
folk how pleasant it is now and then
to sit at neighbcrs table, SO that
the habit of dining out had never
been formed.
The condition Of that rather primi-
condition Of many thousand commuu-
tiles in n very large part of the United
States. and it has reached and inf,u-
enced communities with pleasant
tradition of open-handed domestic hes
pitality marked by both cordially and
refined charm. Hired domestic ser
vice in such communities has become
the luxury of the rich, in some places
of the very rich, and those once accus-
toned to a more or less formal hos
vitality have not yet returned to the
simpler social conditions such as long
ago made possible and easy neighborly
dining out upon an unpretentious
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30
This District Should
Be Free From Violence

nm HE United Mine Workers in con-
j vention assembled at Indian
apolis yesterday declined to accede to
President Wilson's plea that the strike
planned for November be called off.
The Presidents statement was
clear and so far as the public was af-
fected, was never more convincing.
The conclusion was in the nature OF
command, and the executive and
his cabinet will stand firmly by the
ultimatum issued Saturday night,
No matter what NAV have heen
said regarding the miners conten-
ton, they have made grievous mis-
take in defying the United States
government.
What will be the outcomeg The
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30
Farmers and Their
Unfailing Americanism

1.-THE farmers of the United States
y have always been noted for
their sterling traits of character and
above all, for their stanch Ameri-
canism
Through the world war no class of
citizens were more patriotic or more
liberal, according to their means, in
contributing to the various causes for
relief.
And it was heartening to see that
great organization-the Farmers
National congres+devoting the open
ing session of it's thirty-ninth annual
assembly at Hagerstown, Md, Tues
day, to addresses on Americanism-
The speeches were not of the per-
functory or commonplace sort just
the opposite. They dealt directly with
the labor unrest of today and the
note was clear and bold-"down with
the anarchist and the radical agi-
tator"
One of the speakers declared the
only way to treat preachers OF
anarchy and the irresponsible
among labor leaders was to "shoo'
'em or ship EN-" The farmer WHIT
gave utterance to that sentiment was
A. P. Sandies of Sandusky, O., ane
what he said elected loud cheers.
The people of the United States
have no idea of letting the "reds'
overthrow this government.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30
Clemenceau Will Retire
and Travel in Egypt

lOR E M R cLEMENcEAu Of
Is France has made a definite an
ssnouneement that he will retire to pri-
@vate life after the next elections.
Urged to become candidate to rep
resent the Department of the Lower
Rhine in the Chamber of Deputies,
the premier writes characteristic
letter in which he says:
am more touched than / can
say by the friendly offer that I
be the successor of Gambetta.
I would accept with pride this
high post of honor had not been
warned by too many signs that
the time has come for me to take
the repose 1 have not known for
long time. The age l had reached
when the vast JOY OF victory came.
and the state of health which fol-
lowed oblige me to retire from
political life.
The report, said to have been cir
culated by Clemenceau's enemies, that
he aspired to the presidency OF
France, seems absurd in American
eyes. With all due respect to Presi-
dent Poincare, who is an able man
a true patriot and an ornament to his
high position, Clemenceau towers
over him in prestige as well as in
power. Like the English king, the
president of France is dominated by
the premier.
u don't wish to die without seeing
the Pyramids, says Clemenceau
after Al years of political life, my
hon- OF ssst ,s..:.s come | am thankful
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30
A woRDY AFFAIR.

Senator, would you be SO kind es to
tell me in two words just what is behind
this Shantung controversy
I'm sorry, major, that can't obffye
you, but when I return 30 Washington
will be glad to send you copy OF
speech I delivered ON the subject some
weeks ago. 1t is only 1000 words in
length, but believe in the short time
allotted me, that I-ahem-Succeeded IN
showing that the matter calls for-ahem-
extended debate. PAUL. COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30
BRIEF COMMENT

Nashville Tennessean: Now that Will
sons million dollars worth of foreign
jewels has turned out to be a piking
resolution denouncing the crowned heads
of Europe as tightwads.
Mobile Register: If Mexico is paying
$4,000 gold to ransom Americans cap
tured by bandits, the government of that
country may conclude that it is cheaper
to spend the money capturing the bandits.
Tampa Tribune: The aliens who are
stirring up riots nowadays were conspic-
uously quiet and Industrious when Amer
leans were fighting and dying in France
in the cause of world freedom.
Montgomery Advertiser: An Omaha
professor speakin gas a scientist, de-
clares his preference for long-faced men
and round-faced women. Well. he should
be half satisfied, anyway II. c. L. is
making all men long-faced.
Rome News The sacred brethren who
think the country is tottering on it's last
legs are informed that Liberty Bonds
are going up every day,
| Augusta Chronicle: Divorces are re-
markably rare in Holland. The women,
after marriage, work harder than ever.
Let the American woman stick a pin
| here.
| Nashville Banner: President" de Va
| lera declares that the adoption of the
league Of nations covenant will forever
enslave Ireland" Which brings up again
the mooted query: 'Who brought de Va
| lera over here anyway?''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30

BEGINNING THE DAY - MY
Father, show me myself. Refresh
my spirit by one glimpse of what
7 am in Thy plan. Let me see the
secret drawing. What part in the
temple is mine. o divine Builder.
Where and what is that hidden,
undiscovered. that unmade self, into
which Thou wilt build me. wait
on Thee. Thou past my finding
eut.-H. M. E
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30
WARNING OR SUGGESTION,

From the Council Bluffs Nonpareil
Pure cider from sprayed apples, de-
livered to you the same day pressed.
Warning: As we use no preservatives
this cider If left exposed to the air will
ferInint forming hard cider. Bring
your key and we will fill it. Keeline
Fruit Farm.
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APPRECLATIvE.

APPRECIATIvE
You have an industrious boy. He's
doing all kinds of odd jobs about the
premises, see.'
Yes" said the boys father, siyiy.
Ills mother doesn't know it yet, but I've
excused him from practicing an hour on
his violin and that youngsters graft
tude rs positively pathetic
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30
A PART LEFT OUT.

Nothings as fair as our memory paints
it
This is a truth you will hardly deny;
We talk of the days when we used to
go swimming,
When life was a song, with no cloud
in the sky,
And we whistled our way through the
fields and the wildwood
AS free from all care as the veriest lark +;
Yet, we know very well that we wept in
the woodshed
dark
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30
roo cREAr A STRAIN.

TOO GREAT A STRAIN.
Speaking of interstitial glands and re-
to be young again?"
mo, indeed" replied Mr.. Dubwaite,
firmly.
why not?''
IF had to go through the agony of
my first love affair again 1 don't believe
could stand it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30

TOBACCOLESS WIFE FRETS, TOO
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Women physicians calmly voted
down an anti-tobacco resolution. They
understand how uncomfortable wives
would be without tobaccoYess husbands.
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MIDDLE GLASS MEXICANS

remark. 'TTirola casa por la ventana. CT
which merely is way of saying ''the
latch string is out
The Mexican women of the middle
class-the upper class has all the foibles
and affectations of ours-possess a great
charm OF frankness. They are simple
souls reared after the old Eurpnean
fashion, and they read only religious
books and paper back novels
Each Mexican town has its dances and
amateur theatricals where the Young
women abound, but always with THAR
mothers or aunts beside them. The dance
customs outside the capital are peculiar.
The women sit in row of chairs on one
side of the hall and the men on the
other. AS soon as a waltz is finished
the partners separate and form these ans
tere rows. So the most is made OF
conversation while dancing, with very
great tax on wind
The dance we win say is held in ne
theatre, and in a room off the hall is
bar where beer for the women and
cognac for the men is served. BY
or : O'Clock the young women have b.
come sufficiently tired and several OF
~.
'oone men suiiciehIy drunk, but
most formally so, for the dance to close.
So the scores of shabby CARRIAGES d,,,.v
landaus as a rule, are put in motion by
the sleepy coachmen and sleepy horses
The young men remain to finish the cog
nae.
M,
10 souns peopie may nave gnmpse
OF one another at the theatre, sometimes
troupe and sometimes snan;s,, -
pn pay
'iiiAeo Win VaF'ety. In each OF these the
prompter's boz Is mGch u evidence, and
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30

From the Chicago Tribune.
There are the capitalist groups AMI
the labor groups The rest of US are
the goops.
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A CYCLE.

GRANDMOTHER danced the minuet"
"Quite So
"Grandmother's granddaughter dances
the shimmy.'"
Correct again.
What do you suppose granddaughter
granddaughter will dancer
Possibly the minuet."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30
GETTING TO BE SERIOUS.

my son. said the near-sighted old
gentleman, "it grieves me to see you
smoking a cigarette Don't you know
you are undermining your health, cor
rupting your morals and going straight
to perdition?
1T hadn't thought about IL in that light,
governor" replied the small man who
had been mistaken for a youth, but II
the price goes up again TN have to quit
smoking for the simple reason that
won't be able to buy cigarettes and con-
tinue to support wife and seven chill
dren.r
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A MINOR POINT.

Have you any reference books on Ma
poleon Bonaparte?" asked the tirnid old
lady in a public library.
Thousands of them, madam replied
the librarian, proudly. what particular
phase of the great Corsican's career do
you wish to study?''
"I don't suppose you'd call it phase
of his career, and I'm sure I won't have
to study thousands of books, but would
like to know why he is so often pictured
with his arms folded"
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Il have been loaffng the past week."
said John II. Minter, land It is about the
hardest job I ever did I had been con-
nected with the nitrate department of the
government service, but when they de-
cided to consolidate this office with that
at Muscle Shoals l decided to quit, as
/ did not want to leave Birmingham. l
have been in the engineering business for
about IA years, and expect to make some
connection in Birmingham that will keep
me here. 1 own some land in Georgia
that could settle down on and be COM
Portable, but I don't think I would like
that kind of life as permanent thing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-30
Regret. MiIam,s Resixnation

1.-THE resignation of Mr.. Milan as di-
rector of the city library came as an
unpleasant surprise to the city library
board" said ]. W. Donnelly, chairman of
the Birmingham library board I'VE are
very pleased to learn that Mr.. Milan s
excellent work in this city has been rec
ognized in other COMMIT nities, but we
are certainly sorry to have him leave our
library He has accomplished big things
since the supervision of the library has
been in his hands, and it viii be hard
matter to get man to fill his shoes"