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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
READING AND WRITING

From the Chicago Herald and Examiner. A citizen of this state who died re- gently could neither read nor write and was the richest man in his community. | That is not so remarkable as the case | of Thomas Carlyle's father, who could not read or write and was the most re- | spected man in his community, and whose | son was the most noted historian in | Europe.
 l As a matter of fact, the ability to read and write has very little relation to the I intelligence. Intelligence is a matter of l the oonvolutons of the brain; reading and writing are merely objects toward which this intelligence is usually direct | ed That it is not so directed does not prove anything.
 l The really remarkable fact is that this man referred to in the first paragraph, though he lived to be 79 never cared
 to learn to read and write.1 When Henry
 Ford, when John D. Rockefeller. began | to make money hand over fist neither
 was educated, in either a general or a
 technical sense. They could read land
 write, but they had read little and writ ten almost not at all. Now both of them are well educated. Ford in particu-
 lar has read widely and has meditated upon what he has read.
 It seems almost matter of course that this should be so. For it is obvious that not to read and read easily, is to be at the mercy of your immediate associates, so far as general ideas are concerned. You cannot compare your
 views with those of people in general you cannot get any line on public opin-
 ion; you cannot strike an intellectual bal
 ance and see where you stand.
 We are all swimmers in fog, that is
 true. But the ability, to read gives us
 at least some light to steer by. We need
 not feel ourselves so utterly alone. Doubt
 less no man has ever reached the shore
 doubtless no man ever will reach it. But lone who can read has some objective At least he knows whether or not ht
 is making progress. To swim in blinc
 circles for 79 years one would fancy de-
 pressng even to the strongest heart.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
PRIVILEGE OF DEMOCRACY

Henry Watterson, in the Saturday Eve
 ming Post.
 Taken to task by thick and thin Demo- only two democratic presidents we have had since the war of sections, Cleveland and Wilson, I have answered by assert ing the right and duty of the journalist to talk out in meeting, flatly repudiating the organ grinder they had sought to put upon me, and closing with the knife grinders retort-
 Things have come to a hell of pass, When man can't wallop his own jack :
 ass.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
TWENTY YEARS AGO ~ IN THE AGE-HERALD
Events recorded August 2, 1899.

Three new cases of yellow fever and making a total of 40 cases and six deaths. The disease has broken out among the negroes. The leading hotel at Hampton has closed and merchants are discharging their clerks.
 Elihu Root took the oath of office as Secretary of War at 10:45 O clock yester- day morning The ceremony took place in the large office of the Secretary of War. q sincerely wish it was the other way said Mr. Root, as General Alger handed him his commission and said, T go back to become sovereign citi- zen of the United States and to become MT. Alger."
 London newspapers print dispatches from Vienna, declaring that Admiral Dewey did not say, Our next war will be with Germany" although Admiral Dewey does not conceal his displeasure over the arrogant conduct of the Germans in Manila.
 The second SeSSlon oI lne cur tnuai uAi of Generals Toral and Pareja was held yesterday at Madrid. The Spanish of- ficers are charged with having surren- dered Santiago to the Americans.
 Col. Tom O. Smith, newly elected com manding officer of the Third Alabama National Guard, has announced the names of the members ct his stair, as follows: Hughes B. Kennedy, captain and adjutant; William Mudd Martin. Captain and quartermaster; Hardee John- ston, surgeon, with the rank of captain William H. Jordan. assistant surgeon. with the rank of first lieutenant; pr. J. G. Murray. chaplain. with the rank of captain; S c. Perkins. captain and com missary; R. B. Going. Captain of rifle practice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
York Plans to Uplift
 Tennessee Mountaineers

e ERGT. ALVIN c. YORK-by the ~ way, he is now colonel on the staff of the governor of Tennessee seems to have gift for doing the right thing. It is announced that he will spend the rest of his life work ing for the education of the young men and women in the mountain dis tricts of Tennessee.
 What more fitting and proper ambi- ton for this modest hero, ''the great est hero of the world war;" who might have spent the remainder of his days in ease unknown to the rough noun taineers, his friends, relatives and companions? He might have capital ized his fame in vaudeville, in motion pictures, on the lecture platform and in other ways open to the self-seeker in America, who turns popularity, mo- toriety or fame into dollars.
 In a way, Sergeant York will capi- talize his war record, but it will be in a worthy cause. He proposes to es- tablish university and support it by featuring. Surely even the most cap tious critic will find no fault with this laudable desire.
 Anyone who is familiar with the mountain people of the south, either by personal contact or through read ing such authors as Mary N. Murfree, who wrote much and well of the very stock from which York sprang; John Fox, IT,, James Lane Allen and oth- CTS, cannot but admire their many qualities, while deploring the ignor- ance and poverty in which they live.
 York went abroad and caught a vision on the battlefields. Before, the call to duty came, he had lived in the mountains, shut off from the world, knowing and caring little about its affairs. He has contrasted the lot of his people with more the favored dwellers in cities and towns. He wants
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Tnx WouId Harm All

T am just on my way to my old home at Eufaula to visit my sister Mrs w. D. JellSs," said Harry Shorter, for meriy secretary of state, but in the coal mining business at Pineville, Ken lucky with C. B. Teasley. we have no such tax as the one proposed in Ala oana and I think it most unfair to the coal operators of my native state to be so burdened and therefore I sin cerely hope that it will be eliminated from the bill. They might just as well propose tax on cotton or any other staple commodity. There is no reason or justice in putting it on minerals. It ought not to be looked on as mere fight of the coal men to prevent it, for it will harm every man who makes his living in the great Birmingham dis trict"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
A Piaint From the Dry

T was amused at a friend of mine who since July 1 never fails to ask me when are you prohibitionists going to let us get a drink?" said Paul Bar nett. ''I think he is getting right thirsty because he is showing a bit or irritation. The last time he halted me, he said: You prohfbitionists never could have put your dry programme over if q lot of fellows who love dram haden voted with you. I never was so foolish, and ought not to have to suffer for their perfidy. They thought they could a1- ways ship 1t in. I wouldn't mind if for they are the ones I blame for mak- ing it so hard for me to get my today"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
PINT o, MATE. PLEASE

From the New York Telegram,
 Of course it was only matter of a little while until. something just as good turned up.
 Importer of South American products invites those who think thy'll miss their daily tonic to drink of certain beverages he wots of the same being cole nuts, gunrana and yerba mate.
 Mate is the only one of the bever- ages containing volatile alkaloid which leaves absolutely no bad effects upon those who drink it, either in large or in small quantities. it is said.
 All right. send out the can. somebody. We'll try anything once.
 Trouble is. if we like it. either the drys will hop on it or the Yerba Mate and Cole Nut Trust be formed, which will put the price ahead of Mdmm. But we'll immolate ourselves and try
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
BRIEF COMMENT

Montgomery Advertiser: The worst riots in many years are occurring un- der bone-dry regime. Otherwise we should have never heard the. last of it from many orators.
 Mobile Register: The New York Eve ming Post has written column-long article upon the Washington riot. with out once saying that the south be- gan it; and for this. thanks!
 Cleveland Plain Dealer: Twenty edu- cated fleas, insured for s6000, were burned to death in California. Some thing profitable will yet be made out of cooties.
 Houston Post: Former Senator Bev- eridge refuses to speak in St. Louis. Even a name like that is haunting to the gasping natives of the Mound City.
 Louisville Courier Journal: MT. Cha loner~says there's lunacy trust. May be it's the anti-league organization headed by MT Lodge.
 Atlanta Constitutions: The alleged butter milk jag" must be fatal, since an exchange declares that it doesn't leave a morning after"
 New York World Though jazz dancing is going, the report from Lon don of new dances bearing the names of "the rocker" and "the walrus' sug- gests the possibility of worse to come
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
STARING THE FARMER
Chattanooga Times.

From the Chattanooga Times. X No. dear. they are not going to bar hard cider. There may be decided alcoholic difference between 10 per cent cider and PTS per cent beer, but the diff ference being in favor of the man on the farm, it was not safe to tamper with it. The politicians as we'll as the fanatics know where to draw the line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
HAVE WE COME TO THIS.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 For a launching at Manistee bot tie of champaign was used, secured on the promise that it would be employed for no other purpose than to be hurled against the huge prow." And when 1t was hurled the police had to keep back the frenzied crowd that wanted to lap up the wasted wine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
srRATN TYPIsTs ARE UNDER

From the Vancouver (B. @ Province.
 While in a certain government office recently, Sir Evan Jones, the British transport chairman, overheard the fol- lowing dialogue between two fair type writer tappers:
 Isn't it terrible the way we have to work these days?"
 Rather! Why. I typed so many let ters yesterday that last night I finished my prayers with Yours truly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
x x x High Prices Paid For Ludendorf's Book

1 ~ BRITAIN popular authors in past NJ years received what were con- sidered at the time extraordinary prices, but such cases were compara- lively rare.
 Authorship, as a rule, was under paid. But in our day, the writers of bi4sk sellers have been well remuner- ated. General Won Ludendorf, how ever, will reach the top record.
 According to "Holland," in his spe- cial correspondence in yesterdays Herald, four hundred pages of the manuscript of the book which Won Ludenderf has recently written are in the hands of New York printers and the entire manuscript will soon be ready for the compositors.
 As Holland" says: "When shortly after the ,armistice was signed there came from Germany report that General Ludendorf was to begin at once to write a history in which he would set forth the true story from the German point of view and dlrec- tion of the war, the mere fact that this military leader, who some have thought was the real brains that di- rected the organization and move ment of the German armies, purposed writing book instantly attracted the attention not only of the public but of the publishers"
 Bonnier, the leading publisher of Sweden, early completed negotiations which gave him full control of the manuscript when finished. He imme- diately received propositions for the purchase of the right to publish the book in various countries. An Ameri- can publisher offered one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for the right, but that offer was not accepted. France, Italy and Spain had secured the right of publication. American negotiations were vigorously pressed and at last resulted Gin the offer and acceptance of the largest cash price in advance ever paid for any manu- script so far as there is any record" :" James G. Blaine received three hun
 dred thousand dollars for his book
 entitled Twenty Years in Congress.
 But, as Holland" points out, that was
 a subscription book and Blaine did
 not receive the full amount until final
 settlement was made.
 l General Grants family received up.
 wards of six hundred thousand dol liars on the. generals "Persopa Memoirs" but that also was sub lscription book. Holland" relates these facts: John Morley was pait fifty thousand dollars for his .nanu
 script biography of William E. Glad Istone; Carl Schurz forty thousand dol liars for his manuscript autobiogra lphy, and Hay and Nicolay fifty thousand dollars for the manuscrip lof the life of Lincoln. James w IGerard was paid seventy-five thou
 sand dollars for the manuscript of hi
 book, "My Four Years in Germany.
 General Von Ludendorf will, it i:
 surmised, tell the truth about the ex
 Kaiser and the crown prince, and sa! lsome bitter things about the wa |, party in Berlin. His book will con Itain two hundred and fifty thousand words. Its composition was under . taken and completed within si, , months. It is sure to have larg sale
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
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wHAT Ho. A GENTLEMAN

From the Chicago Herald and Exam
 iner.
 Sheridan road. Yesterday a. m. Man in s70o0 car stops. raises hat and ln- vites six women to ride downtown. Common occurrence? No. they all wore handkerchiefs over their heads. They were scrubwomen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
DexoutIy to Be Wished

T am a firm believer in the old say ing, Whatever goes up must come down. as applied to the commodities dealt in on the exchanges" said Fred Layton. formers stock and cotton broker, who observes closely the trend of the markets
 Now that the government is taking steps to afford relief from inflated surprised to see the top fall out any day. Provisions and corn quotations have already begun the descent and I believe they will go lower"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
DROUGHT BROKEN

From the Passing Show. London.
 Two Scots were on journey on hot summer day "Hae ye got any food wi ye, McNab?" asked one
 "Dried tongue
 "Guid. Then we'll gae halves wi GOT proveesions.'
 The beer was duly divided and drunk McNab wiped his whiskers-
 Moo for yer dry tongue, McAllister." ..Mon," said McAllister "It's no dry noon,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
AN EARLY PRECEDENT.

"Oh, well,'' sighed the unhappy flat dweller. At least Father Adam wasn't pestered by landlord"
 You are wrong there" said the Bible student. Adam not only had a landlord, but he was the first member of the hu- man race to be evicted for not living up to the terms of his lease"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
THE HUNS KNOW IT

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 American soldiers, lead & great vic- tory parade through the streets of London; but it was tame exhlb1t1on compared with their 1918 victory pa rade" through Chateau Thierry and the Argonne.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
PROGRESS.

Time was we gaily logged along Behind the. old, gray mare, The simple, antiquated way
 Of getting anywhere.
 And then bicycles brought a thrill Wed never known before; We pedaled at dizzy pace And walking seemed a bore. The auto car at length appeared
 To fill long-felt need; Humanity stepped on the gas"
 And showed increasing speed. And now aloft the sturdy plane
 Goes whizzing through the sky. What form of locomotion's left,
 Since man has learned to fly?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
Ar THE nANQVas'

aEunice Tietjens. in Poetry. Above the wine and cigarettes.
 Below the jest that flies. I catch with half amused iDsiss once A throb of music in the distance-
 Your eyes!
 They knit the wine and jest toge ner
 In deeper harmonfes; With my own thoughts they irtaF. rs :, :; Like some strange contFapantai e,
 Your eyes. E1 The words we speak say sli-
 nothing,
 In them no mysters lies. Only, between my so,i and senss Steal, half amused aud haif intense.
 Your eyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
UNREGENERATE.

Poor Bibbles Used to say, Heres how In tones expressing glee, But now he wants to rent scow
 And sail across the sea. In quest, he says, with troubled brow, Of Libertee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02

to lift them up; to let them share in his vision of greater things, and he will succeed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
A NEAR TRAGEDY

From the Louisville Courier Journal
 The saddest phase of the post-bel- lum situation is sugar shsrtAgs when the makins of blackberry cob bier make every briar resemble 3 weeping willow jemmed with iet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
Latest Forecast
 Of Cotton Crop

crop of 11,016,000 bales, based on conditions July 25. This is gain of 30,000 bales over the forecast made on June conditions.
 The governments system of crop reporting is-very thorough, and its estimates are usually close to the final ginning reports; but many ex- perienced observers are inclined to think this years production will not exceed 10,500,0 900 bales.
 In July the condition of the cotton crop in Texas was 67 per cent of normal; in Mississippi, 63; in Ala bama, GA; in Georgia, 67; in South Carolina, Fl; in Oklahoma, 75, and in California, 100.
 From the present outlook, Alabama may be expected to raise 100000 bales, although some private esti- mates place it around only 600,000 bales.
 A hotel maid in Columbus, Ind, had a Russian prina donna arrested for striking her. Probably an inexperienced chambermaid. Had she understood the grand opera temperament she would have fled as soon as the singer began to let go her temper.
 The report that Ohio has abolished, or will abolish, profteering should be taken with grain of salt. Many evils that are abolished" continue to ''flourish like the palm tree" and grow like cedar in Lebanon"
 Although Mir. Dempsey is going on the stage for a slight Consideration of s15 600 week, Robert Mantell will continue to be the greatest living shakespearian actor.
  A Delaware man who stole a bag con- taiHing 5000 pennies would have been in position to pay war taxes on soft drinks and cigarettes, but he failed to get away with it.
 Perhaps those 200 American soldiers who have applied for permission to bring home German wives expect to settle in communities where the language is l spoken.
 l There will soon be no more dollar-a- year men in Washington. However, this doesn't mean that they will have to pan handle for a living. # Y r
 The average newspaper reader will re- fuse to believe that holshevism is over thrown until it is announced that Lenine and Trotzky are in irons. ] + < ss Having been "stoned by bolshevilS' at Brest, Representative King of Illinois lis In a position to speak of the horrors of war.
 Select Los Angeles clubs have barred the "shimmie" and the "cheek to check the worst is yet to come. ] * * *
 Won Ludendorff will probably make more out of his book than he was paid as an officer of the German army during his entire career.
 Overloaded suitcases no longer arouse the suspicious of liquor sleuths. They rightly believe that whisky is just about as hard to get in one place as another
 * * * II Some men are so peculiarly constituted that they regard 20 quarts in the cellar as equivalent to 20 more days of life. * # #
 Some of these days Alabama is going to devote more attention to child welfare than it does to hog welfare. + * x
 The man who goes to see an interpreta tive dance doesn't care to take his wife along to act as an interpreter.
 * # +
 With Uncle Sam's soldiers on the job Chicagos overworked police force ha. been able to take much-needed rest. # # T
 Labor is doing what the Kaiser couldn' do. It is twisting the British lions tall. . STRAIN TYPISTS ARE UNDER
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
HOPELESS CASE

From the New York Telegram.
 Even the suicide of a former Wash ington policeman owing to the dry law fails to reconcile us to prohibition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
AT THE MOVIES.

Now that we've read the names of everybody who had anything whatever to do with making this picture, maybe we'll be permitted to see the picture itself.''
 Be patient yet while. We still have to read the names of the censors, male and female"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02

We are such stuff As dreams are made of, md our iit- Sse life
 Is rounded with sleep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES.
ALAS FOR TERPs1cHoRE!

ALAS FOR TERPsICHoRE! Has Professor Trips found a name for his new dance step?"
 No, but~he visits the zoo every day What does he do that for?"
 'He hopes by making close study of animals and their peculiarities to hit on name that. will sweep the country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
Member of the Associated Press

The Age Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper Tn Birmingham carrying the Associated Press ols- patches.
 The Associated Press is excIuslvel! entitled to the use for publication oi all news dispatches credited to IL 2l mot otherwise credited in this paper and also tns local news puohsheo herein.
 All rights of republication of speciai dispatches herein are also reserved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02

Washington bureau, 2o7 Hibbs build ing. ,
 European bureau, 10 King street Covent Garden, London, w. |. <.
 Eastern business office, world puAlu- ing. New York city; western pusinssS s,Ss office Tribune building, Chlcaso. s C Beckwith Special Agency, agentf for foreign advertising.
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 Birmingham, Ala
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02
OUT OF LUCK.

OUT OF LUCK.
 Whats the charger I caught him trying to hold young woman's hand''
 What have you to say for <yourself?" asked the judge Of the asfsa..@at.
 T guess I'm guilty, judge. I don't know what you are going to fine me, but even $1o would be great deal to pay for being called a fresh mutt by girl whom I took to be as refined as she was beautiful" RURAL HUMORIST. Does your new farm hand give satis- faction?"
 "A certain amount of it." answered old MT. Cobbles. Flows that?' Well, he's an amusin cuss an tells a funny story about as we'll as anybody ever llslened to, put m ru1tln' a farm and not one of them lecture bureaus, so guess I'll have to let him go." WELL PROVIDED. You say he is rich?" Immensely"
 Still, I don't think he has any bon homie. "If that's the French for 'mazuma,' he has stacks of it." PAUL COOK.
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grantly "wet" for many years, al though ostensibly "dry."
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-02

A hotel maid in Columbus, Ind, had a Russian prina donna arrested for striking her. Probably an inexperienced Fchambermaid. Had she understood the grand opera temperament she would have fled as soon as the singer began to let po bar