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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03

Gregory Mason, in the outlook. t0GJHE triumphal entry of Petain's
 troops into Metz started be-
 fore I finished eating, and l joined three American officers and seven German girls, who were watch ing the parade through the plate glass front of the restaurant. The boche girls sneered at the passing poilus.
 "They are not nearly so big and strong as the Germans said one.
 "No nor as the Americans said an- other Why aren't the Americans here?" Then there was lot of Jab- bering in mixed French and German. One of the girls plucked the sleeve of waiter who had worked for five years in London and could speak Eng lish He was about five feet high, bald and had watery blue eyes
 we like you Americans better as die French an die English" he said, interpreting for the girls, with the ob- sequous smile he had learned serving Hun officers.
 "Oh, we know you Germans." said an American lieutenant. "When you are with the French you tell them you like them better than the English and Americans. and when you are with the English you tell them that they are the ones you like best. We know you"
 "Ach, nein. It is not true, burs! from the angry girls.
 All right Never mind Good-by! snapped a thin maiden with a cold mouth, who seemed to think she was cursing us in our own tongue. "We really like the Americans best. . said tall, bony girl with shrewd black eyes You are more Ike us"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
LIKE M,LUKE SAYS

You may have noticed that the man who never has word to say when he Is getting the best of it does an awful lot of squawking when he happens to be getting the worst of it,
 And if time is so' precious why is a man so willing to devote several hours of it to some fool argument?
 The world is growing better in spite of the fact that neither prohibition nor Kew Years resolutions have aided any
 in the general result.
 About this time of year father is re- ceiving the bills for the Christmas pres ents mother and daughter bought for him.
 Never be afraid to hand out advice It is the biggest cinch in the world l that it isn't going to be followed You can't make a woman believe thai it is flattery when some man is praisine
 her for qualities she knows she doesn't
 possess.
 The man who is blind to his own faults hasn't bit of difficulty in seeing the faults of other people. After looking over the record we arc 1 forced to admit that the popular election ! of senators did not result in the election
 of many popular senators. l Scientists claim that the oldest fossil. are I9,0O0, 900 years old. But some of tns ] fossils who write Luke anonymous pos l tai cards roasting him are older thaI l that, we'll bet.
 1 We do not know much. But we dt know that if you marry swell looke
 you do not need to expect swell cooker 1 And it is almost cinch that wom an is going to be distant when her hus band is too close.
 | An argument often makes an enem, l for YOU. But we never knew an argu ment to make a friend for YOU.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
LAUGH ON THE SOUTH

these exchanges are responsible for this decline in cotton
 Congressman lHeflin may be right; the cotton exchanges may be respon- sible but the question arises, why is not the wheat market on the declins? The answer is plain. The price As fiN- ed by the government, and if the sou.h- ern members of Congress had allowed the price Of cotton to be fixed and at the price the government was will ling to fix it. and thus stabilize it. there would have been no cause for the present alarm and excitement con cerning the south's chief product.
 Cotton exchanges and gamblers could not have affected the price. The cotton producer would have been se- cure, independent, indifferent sas to what the gamblers did or attempted to do It may be that this failure to allow the government to stabilize the price of cotton will mean the loss of many millions of dollars to the south.
 There are those who are lever ready 1 to oppose any act of the government
 that appears to interfere with per sonal liberty or take 'control of pr;- | vate affairs" but this incident shows l the plan of the government was wiser
 and would have been to the benefit. l not the hurt. of the cotton producer. The western farmer, whatever may i have been his first impulse and frenzy
 can now sit supremely contented and
 happy in the boat. knowing that the price of wheat is fixed, while cotton ! may go on down and down below taa price of production. >those nightma as i of the defenders of the liquor traffic. 1 personal liberty" and "2overnment control" costing the south millions of dollars
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
Anniston Ranks First
 As Cotton Mill City

M WINSTON is the leading cotton 1gA mill city of Alabama. Of cot ton mills and allied industries Cit has more than any other town in the state, surpassing Huntsville, Lanett, Mobile, Montgomery and Talladega.
 With nine factories devoted to cot ton spinning and the manufacture of allied products, Anniston leads Hunts vile, her nearest competitor, by two mills. This information is contained in the report of the state prison inspec- tor, Dr. Glenn Andrews.
 Montgomery, Lanett and Talladega have five mills each, making cotton cloth, hosiery, cordage and the like, while Mobile has four. Birmingham has only one cotton mill and one hosiery mill, this being a coal, iron and steel center where little attention | is given to spinning.
 Anniston may we'll feel proud of her cotton mills, yarn and cordage plants, for they are models of their ltype, being ably managed, up-to-date and profitable They are kept in con- tinuous operation and constitute one of the city's most valuable assets. It | is also worthy of note that Anniston manufacturers were pioneers in Ala bama in providing good homes and an attractive environment for their employes. One of the city's mill towns has been the subject of many compli-
 mentary articles in newspapers and
 magazines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
TWAS AWFUL! AWFUL.

New York Correspondence of the Pitts
 burg Dispatch. A sailor stool last night in front of a
 hut of the Friends of Thirst on Park Row. He shivered and looked with jealous eyes on those who entered the fast dying Demons branch establishment He asked several men to furnish him with a liquid ration, but all declined on the ground that they might be caught. Finally a man came out of the place following zigzag course | He stopped in front of the sailor. A bottle of something that appeared to be about 105 proof dropped from one ol
 his pockets and fell to bits on the side- | walk.
 | The sailor, in disgust, starting for the navy yard, said
 Hell. you ought to be sent up for 2 years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
GIBRALTAR

From the Chicago Herald and Examiner
 England has agreed to cede the Rock of Gibraltar to Spain.
 That is what he read.
 Mournfuly he opened the ancient bu- reau drawer and gazed on his insurance policy.
 AM these years l thought l was hand ing my 10 cents a week to somebody in New York, and all the time I've been handin' it to England. And now l have to hand it to a lot of Spaniards" Whereupon he heaved his insurance policy into the iron troom stove.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
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X NOSEY PAIR

From the Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
 Two brothers who live in an East
 Lancashire manufacturing town were
 noted for being exceptionally we'll served with nasal organs.
 One of the ring spinners at the mill where they worked invited them to a wedding and promised to send a cab for them. The cab duly arrived and the two brothers entered and planked themselves down one at each window. {, In order to create an impression dur ing the drive to the wedding. the two brothers were looking out of the cab. 1 one at either side. so that the people could see them l All went we'll until the cab came to a | ather narrow railway arch, which our
 travellers had to pass through. The cab mam looked back to take his bearing ana
 seeing the two brothers nose sticking
 out of the windows on either side shouted: Put them elbows in. please
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
Also For Birmingham

Birmingham may not be the biggest city in the south, but it is certainly destined to be one of the leaders, es- pecially from an industrial standpoint from what I could see from my short stay of two days here,'' said G. l.. Gold smith, representative of the Southern
 upholster!ng company of Atlanta. "The view from the roof of the Jefferson County Bank building has opened my eyes to Birmingham development. If I ever decide to leave my present place ot abode theF inducement will certainly be Birmingham. Yes, I'm an Atlanta boos- ter. but must say you people here have also big reaso9ggs for boosting of your fine toWn.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
Letter From Lieutenant Leary

"We received a letter from my brother. Lieut. Robert Leary, who is m northern France" said William FE Leary, and he states that he came through without any wounds. He does not say so in so many words but l judge that his work is pretty heavy, and that he is like most of the soldiers. feeling the burden of being with the army of occupation without having the privilege of looking forward to any real fighting" $
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03

From the Montgomery Journal
 IN a regent communication to The jl Birmingham Age-Herald Cover = nor Conner discussedAat length and with much force and clearness the failupe of the government to fix and stabilize the. price of cotton as it had the price of wheat, the one a southern
 He discussed. the question more from a political than an economic point of view. He thought the southern mem bers of Congress made a political mis- take in voting to stabilize the price of a product of one section of the equal importance.
 He argued that it was a great polt- teal mistake, and intimated that the result of the elections in the west was
 influenced by this one incident, and
 cited facts to show that it was not
 the, first time in the history of this
 country that cotton had played an inn
 portant part in politics of this coun-
 try, all of which was quite Interesting But the former governor failed to dis cuss the question from an economical standpoint, except to suggest that the south would not have lost anything by such action of the government fixing the price of cotton.
 Since the communication of Cover nor Conner was printed cotton has been on the decline. It's decline has
 been steady and it has gone down to such an alarming extent that Con , gressman Hefln has been moved to introduce bill in the House to abol- ish 'gamblng or speculation in cot ton as carried on in these exchanges the New York and New Orleans cut ton eXchanges-under the belief Una
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
THESE WOULD "GOt HOME

From the Chicago News.
 A benevolent old gentleman was walk ing through the outskirts of town. when a woman darted out into the road, un- merefully beating little lad.
 My good woman.'' exclaimed the klhdly one as he seized the woman arm to stop her, you mustn't do that. What harm has he done?"
 What? I mustn't do that? What harm has he done?" she shrieked .If you would like to know, he has opened the hen roost and all the fowls have got, away
 Well, if that's all, it's nothing so very dreadful. Chickens, you know, always come home to roost''
 "Yes, that's just it said the wo- man, gloomfly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
Have Great Preacher

From all I can hear the First Bap- tist church has gotten a great preacher in Rev. J. R. Hobbs," said w. F. Perry. You know I came from Jackson Miss, and recently some Jacksonians were over here and they say that BirminG ham has treat in store, for Dr. Hobbs, who comes here from Arkansas, made his reputation as a pulpit ora tor of first ability in his early Mis- sissippi pastorates."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
Feels Sure Of Quota

q realize that in accepting the chairmanship to raise the funds for the Armenians, Syrians, Persians and Greeks 1t is going to be hardship said J. Mercer Barnett, "but I am proud and grateful for the offers of help which are coming in from all sides
 am sure that with the allied army as the backbone and the other civic, charitable and church organizations as the body that Birmingham will raise her quota"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
Backward About Poll Taxes

"In spite of the almost daily pleas in the newspapers for the people to pay their poll taX," said George Whit field, "it is impossible to get many of them to do it. "Iheard of a certain man who lives out of town but keeps Bir- mingham as his residence, who each year on the last day in January tele- graphs a friend to be sure and go aud pay his poll tax. and he always comes home to vote, in spite of the fact that 1t takes several days and lot oC money, but he holds his franchise high"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
At Work in the Back Yards

''The other morning just after daylight strolled down one of Woodlawns alleys to see a friend, and was surprised to see the number of gardens being spaded up for spring planting" said Glenn Ash ford.
 Lots of workers have to hit it hard few hours each morning while the good wife prepares breakfasts In this way little done each day gets everything started early, and in some garden spots I noticed cabbage and onions already out Everybody should plant seeds in boxes now, so as to have them ready to put out later. It begins to look as though there will be no let-up in the war gar den campaign this year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
HoteI Rusiuess Improves

"Our business. has been growing very rapidly recently" said A. H. Dunklee, clerk at the Tutwiler hotel yesterday.
 For sometime past every room in the house has been occupied each plight and we could have filled q great many more ;f we had had lhGrn. Transient bus ness has heen improving ever siroe tl.e first of the year an unless ail signs fail Ii C hotels of 3!rmin- hatl will te tss..'sxed for s long ti".c I'd corne'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
THE ALLIES AND THE BEAR

From the Chicago News.
 No, Harold, the allies are not chasing the poor Russian bear around a stump. They are holding it's tail and running around the stump because if they turn it loose the poor. dear bear will bite them at a strategetic point.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
Shortage of Homes Nearly a Million


 Nearly a Million
 A CcORDING to statement is- GS sued by the United States de- partment of labor there is a shortage of homes in America of nearly ssne million, "to which must be added the normal requirements of the year just opening"
 The shortage of labor, which has hampered building activities for the past two years, is no longer felt. The Rehabilitation of the military and naval forces has made a marked change in the labor situation.
 In many industrial districts there lis surplus of labor. The price of iconstruction material is still high and will remain high, but conditions in general should induce prospective home owners and investors in realty to start building boom early in the spring. Birmingham is ripe for build ing operations on large scale. # !. a' | A young woman in Georgia who hoped to get a divorce and liberal alimony from her elderly and wealthy husband whose only offense seems to have been that he was an easy mark, got merely the di- vorce. There are times when the scales of justice tilt in the right direction. 4. ~. Hi 1 Having acquired a veteran news paper man as publicity director, the Light and Power company will re-es- tablsh the entente cardiale between the company and the public. x # #
 The citizen who used to pride him. self on being able to distinguish be- tween first and second lieutenants, captains and colonels, is sadly puzzled | by the service insignia worn on a heros sleeve and breast. # # *.
 Some of those congressman who don't believe all they read in press dispatches from Paris nevertheless believe abso- lutely every complimentary word pub llished about them in their home papers | # x * At least 1t is consollng to know that when the conscientious objector re- turns home he will not be greeted by a brass hand and a welcoming com mittee.
 Maybe there are times when Presi- dent Wilson longs for the simple life in the White House, with the faithfu Tumulty at his right hand. You guess ed it.
 Broadway, or that part of it devoted to the distribution and consumption of alcoholic liquors. is going to trave the next five months lon high" # # +
 De Wolf Hopper can recite "CaseN at the Bat" but he's not in the sam' class with the late Mark Antony il delivering a funeral oration.
 x <. $. People who used to scoff at MT Bryans prediction that the natiol would some day be dry are just nov thinking deep thoughts. T: # 4.
 Every time the bolshevik troops i, Russia force the allies back there i rejoicing in New York and other bol shevik centers.
 . We are anxiously waiting for som investigator to tell us what will hap pen to cabarets when the nation i bone-dry.
 Judging from the recent activitie < of criminals in Birmingham, we nee 3 a police department of about 1000 me.
 < # * There are some people so prejudice a that they don't even believe a packe ? can be good to his own family.
 * < <
 Having dismissed his barber, Will g helm is now in position to save r tidy sum in tips.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
LOOKS LIKE OLD TIMES

From the New Orleans Times-Picayune. "Thousands of Garment Workers Or dered to Strike. "-Headline oyer New York dispatch. Conditions in the New York garment working industry, one in fers, are returning to the normal, peace
 time status.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03

the iceman yells 'ice." the automo- piles teot. the delivery wagons are busy and the clamor keeps up until
 ngh tfall. Then the barnyard grows quiet, the COW chews her .cud and for
 awhile there is peace--but on Sunday night church bell in the distance lgives a note of invitation to all to
 come and worship God
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
THIS IS SERIOUS

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 A St. Louis man has been fined S500 for trying to kiss a policewoman. What was the charge-attempted bribery?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
Woeful Plight of Heroes
 Who Lost Their Best Girls

91HIS sad story, mates. A Phila- J delphia newspaper says the Salvation Army service mems hostel is kept busy consoling more or less heartbroken soldiers and sailors who returned from abroad to find their sweethearts married.
 Carrying the photographs of these faithless ones in their breast pockets as they sought the sinking subma- rine or "mopped up" machine gun nests at Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel and in the Argonne, they came home to receive but cold cUeer. Instead of a pair of rounded waiting arms and a loving embrace, they were greeted by the announcement of a wedding ceremony in which they had no part, not even as best men.
 The Salvation Army lassies, whose kind hearts respond to every appeal for aid and sympathy, have been dis pensing doughnqts and coffee to the lovelorn heroes, with smile or two thrown in for good measure. As proof that the "gobs" and "doughboys" are really suffering the acute bangs of unrequited affection, they are asking for Bibles and Testa- ments in large numbers, showing a disposition for the time being to turn from worldly things and improve the shining hour by religious meditation
 T. x #
 Eggs and Other Food
 Falling in Price
 MONSUMERS are no longer pay NJ ing at the rate of 75 cents a dozen for eggs. This popular fooc commodity retailed at 50 cents dozer Saturday and still lower prices are promised. Indications point to sharr decline in food all along the line.'
 With the high wages prevailing the cost of living made it next to impos sible for the earner to save money But when price levels approach norma
 
 the new conditions will be hailed with joy.
 During the war the consumer pait exorbitant prices for almost every thing and did it without complaining but now that the world is at peace gradual lowering is in order.
 Fruits and vegetables were neve more plentiful than they are at pres ent, and material drop in all marke supplies is surely in. order. The truc farmer is entitled to make good profit on his products, but he can sell a reasonable prices and still roll up bank account, at the same time givin the consumer chance.
 When profiteering becomes thin of the past we will have a happie
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03

world. Vegetables will come down, the restaurants will follow and the family table will be all the better sup piled. The turning point is now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
m.rb~r q, the Associated Press

The Ape-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Blrmlns na LA carrying the Associated Press a'S patches ,,.,alv-
 The Associated Press is exciusl'e entitled to the use for puollca9ion or all news dispatches credited to is not otherwise credited in this papt and also the local news pupAi
 herein.
 All right. of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03

BEGINNING THE DAY-O God of heaven, give me a little clOistered room somewhere in this day that my soul may enter to meet with Thee. Purify me. strengthen me, steady me, with little time of con- verse with my God. And may all the noise and the hurry and the warning voices be hushed while I am still unto Thee. For Christ's sake. Amen. H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03

One of the .noisiest and busiest places around a home where a big flock of chicl<enssis kept is the chicken yard when the sun streaks the sky in the east. I know of no more soothing
 sound to tired nerves than to hear the singing of a bunch of hens when their combs begin to redden and they are hunting nests, unless it be the squawk of one about sundown. which means baked chicken for tomorrow 8 dinner
Evening journal., 1919-10-09

ed the dor something black sprang out
and dashed up the garnet stairs. The
twins ran back TO the light, but Peter
followed his mother into the attic. A
black cat was climbing out Of broken
window. But they couldn't make the
twins believe H. As far as they are
concerned the boob still lives in that
closet. And they never go near it il
they can help &C.
HELEN CARPENTER MOORE.
Evening journal., 1919-10-09
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