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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08

pie cannot afford to forego it. NnaA the British public is to learn t' ta- inside of the war Americans must know also. History is our mutual pose session: we shall not be cheated e. The Courier-Journal feels thai t doing it's readers an incalcuiab ss.- vice when 1t presents The His of German Making, by Ludendorff." little incident in which Lord Northcliffe figured may further reveal to the public how unlikely is this man to permit the dissemina- ton of anything that would lend aid or comfort to a German:
 He founded the British Leave club, near the Place Republique in Paris. Here British soldiers. on leave in the capital. found food. shelter and enter tainment. Christmas eve the founder went for his daily visit. An acquaint- ance from Louisville-the Courier Journals staff correspondent-went with him. Talking with the men around the recreation room, North cliffe spied an Australian who, he was
  camp at Goettingen.
 The commander there was a brute," said the soldier. He had us starved and beaten and hunted by dogs. Soli- tary confinement for the least offense was his idea. and he invented the of- lenses himself. He even deprived us of our mail from home; and once when I protested he knocked me down and kicked me in the face"
 Do you know his name?" asked Northcliffe.
 q do."
 "Curnoch," said the publisher to an assistant, take this down |. (and whsn it was taken down); the prime minister shall have this, and this scoundrcl shall be punished after peace. All these villains who mis- treated prisoners, whether they are officers or men, and all Germans who committed war crimes of whatever nature. shall have a taste of British justice. It must be in the treaty"
 The Courier-Journal feels that it can trust Northcliffe on Ludendorff and on any other German!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
FOREBODINGs OF w. ".

From the New York Evening Sun.
 Sir William Watson strikes his Tyre
 once more, disregarding the attempts | of his enemies to identify him with the subject of the famous epitaph: Here lies the body of w. W. Who never more will trouble you, trou- ble you.
 Sir William has a taste for invective; his earlier numbers detailing the per 1 sonal attributes of the woman with the serpent's tongue have not yet ceased to echo around the corners of Westmins- l ter. And now he is sailing into the cos-
 mic urge for unbounded leisure which is felt throughout the world, so fag as heard from.
 l The poet says the Tower of State is all right so long as willing toll ce- from rust" as so on:
 But when dread sloth the Mother of Doom
 Steals in and resigns
 | the day of erumbling heaves in sight, ] and the whole nation is likely to find l on the toboggan with nobody to steer | and bottomless hole of misery at the 1 foot of the hill
 The man who goes out on strike usu- ally has no forebodings at the begin ming, while he who stays at work finds a certain stimulation in the idea that the striker will lose out in the end ; after some weeks the ideas of both | individuals are likely to be altered, in some measure, according to the circum- stances, which are never twice alike; even a political event is scarcely less to be predicted surely than the outcome of walkout. But in the course of those weeks the third party to the cause. the public, has had chance 1 to calculate the angle at which it's own 1 interest meets the two contestants, and the law of self-preservation is sure to work hardship to the rigid construc- tionist of his individual rights. No mat l ter how popular strikes may be for a while they can't last forever, for the world moves on, "A hours at step.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08

suffered for lack of preparation, that without the planes and artillery of our allies, and doubtless a great deal of other equipment urgently needed when we first entered the war, many thousands more of our soldiers would have been sacrificed. It is true also that we did not "do it all" The Amer ,ican people may have been misled for while by newspaper headlines into believing the American army was everywhere at once and dealing out destruction to the Germans on an un- precedented scale, but they have re- covered their bearings now and give credit where it is due. That our as- sistance did hasten the end of the war there can be no doubt. That our troops were the deciding factor is also ac- knowledged by our allies.
 The French people are grateful to us, both for what we did and for what we might have done, and they have shown it unmistakably. While it might have been more generous to say, "You have come three thousand miles to fight for us, what we have is yours," it would not have been good business in the case of a rich country like America, it wasn't necessary. We could and did pay as we went. AL though French profiteers hailed the Americans as deliverers and charged them "all the traffic would stand" we are certainly in no position to criticize the French. Our soldiers fared little If any better in the cantonment towns |of this country, where they were ex- plotted by supposedly patriotic Amer jeans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
Back From JunaluSka

VI always greatly enjoy my visits to Junaluska, our great Methodist as- sembly grounds near Asheville. N. C." sa i'd Dr. George Stuart, who is back home. "Junaluska has had great summer the greatest in it's history, and it is getting mighty popular with Birmingham people. The colony there from this town grows from season to season One only has to visit it once to get an appetite for it. Gypsy Smith, who has been about as much as the next man, told me that it was with out doubt one of the most beautiful places he had ever seen. I am no stay-at-home myself and have seen d good deal, and I am willing to go on record that Junaluska is truly one of the lcveliest spots in America"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08

A whale with it's back full of holes made on the Bretagne coast recently. Probably one of those luckless mammals that was mistaken for U-boat and treated ac- cordingly.
 Won Ludendorff acknowledges that he supported Germany's U-boat camapign, but of course he never expects to lecture in America.
 Mir. Wilson's auditors would give him much closer attention if the high cost of living could be kept in the back ground.
 * * * The reopening of theatres will at least give New Workers somewhere to go, all though the cocktail shortage continues acute.
 The Italian chamber of deputies has granted women the right to vote. In darkest Alabama women are still chat tels"
 x < * Things have come to pretty pass when a servant of the people is as dictatorial as an old family butler.
 k * * Our knowledge of geography has been increased somewhat since Shantung be- came a burning issue
 x S ], A famous driver of trotting horses died recently. That was exciting sport in grandfathers day
 # <. + President Wilson's faith in Japanese promise strikes his critics as childlike and bland.
 * <. < Pigs, pumpkins and airplanes will make the country fairs of 1919 an unqualified success.
 Flu masks will be worn again this winter by people who follow the styles. 4 * + Are we to assume that union policemen will refuse to arrest union burglars?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. @ NE might get very much excited lO over the he incident incident. of a. neins whar af ,f the day by the very proper dancing masters of the country if one did not remember that in all periods of the worlds history the current dance mas always been described as just over l inc border of what social conventions and decency call for. Therefore those who go solely to the dance halls 10
 "shimmy" and remain to jazz Will probably pay little immediate atten- tion to the specific Announcement ot the dancing of the day, though, as has hap pened thousands of times before, the l extreue dance will in time lose its l grin ont of sheer wearisomeness on the n.r. of fife deyotees ever avid of
 novelty.
 | Of course, this does not mean that the ..shimmy" and the jazz which are entirely separate phases of the modern dance craze. since you can "shimmy
 without "jazzing" and you can ")azz
 as widely as you like without shim- mying," are not objectionable, TOT they are since, for one thing, they repre- sent an extreme, an excess. an apanooh' which is without any golden mean. 1T
 the "shimmy" be offensive by reas'n or
 its attack on two of these senses, 1T ! not three. the .jazz" is worthy of taboo
 by reason of it's assault on the ears ! -.z-
 Time was when the callithumpian sere-
 made, with it's COW bells, tin horns' dish pans and all the cacophony that
 utensils of which domestic yet savage percussion are capable and wind ln- struments out of tune, but with high capacity for torture. was supposed 10
 be relegated to the darkest regions or ! rural and backwoods life, and there only condoned as the proper punish , ment for those who would go and get
 married" But, 10 and behold! the cai- i,itbumpian band, in the shape of the "iazx" quartet has come into Its own ;, tha so-called best society, here and
 abroad. and has actually become an 1 international issue before which the | old invasion of the Argentine tanN bales it's intellectual terpsichorean
 furies. For, in the case of the jazz" music. it looks very much az if the 1 predilection of the dancers, for it proves
 that Judy O'Grady and the Coloners
 lady" are Che same, so far as the phy- l sical appeal goes. when 1t comes to rhythm that hits like an explosion of
 a shell and leaves nothing to the imag- ination and less to the niceties of the dance.
 However. despite its hold. or seeming
 hold, on the dancing of the day. even the legislation of experts will not kill l the "jazz" as quickly as it will kill it. self through the very surfeit and ex- cess of its noisy and vulgar tintinnab- iulation. It is savage enough and coarse enough in all conscience, and Its
 partnsrship with the ''shimmy" pro
 st r. NA~~~$ %~~ ~~'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
70. K."-NORTHCLIFFE
From Louisville courier-Journal.

Fror Louisville Courier-Journal.
 M[ HEN the British government WV awakened to the fact that 1 poison drops falling from the German propaganda vial were corrod-
 ing the war judgment of the empire | it organized a bureau for counter propaganda. As the advisory head of
 this most important branch of war ac-
 tivity the premier, without hesitation,
 placed that great Journalist and pat 1 riot, Alfred Harmsworth, the viscount
 Northcliffe. He did so because: Lord Northcliffe knows every di-
 mension of propaganda.
 He can detect it in anything from | cooking recipe to a departmental store advertisement.
 He knows best how to counterac. it. Being patriot, Lord Northcliffe
 agreed to serve, and at the head of 1 the bureau he placed Colonel John
 Buchan, George Mair and others whose
 names mean much of great war service to Britons nowadays
 When Marshal von Ludendorff fin- iSHcd HIS DooK the IimeS, Of London, owned by Lord Northcliffe, was of- fered publication rights. The great newspaper proprietor obtained an op- tion and then sent for the manuscript. This he had carefully examined by the British propaganda experts to see whether it was what it purported to be-a narrative of the inside of the war from the man who waged it for Germany-or a collection of arguments from the German viewpoint with a motive. His experts reported back that the book was history, that it was
 the most interesting book yet written on the war; that 1t revealed many things which would otherwise be un- known to the present and future gen erations-that it was no more propa- ganda than Greens History of the English People,"
 Lord Northcliffe took a final lock at the manuscript himself Then he wrote one of his little notes to Wick ham Steed. editor of the Times: We will use the Ludendorff story" Since Lord Northcliffe has put his O. k. on the book. the American peo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
Music Study Club
 Membership Campaign

l ID IRMINGHAM has had many
 D money-raising campaigns. Some have been highly successful because the appeal touched popular chord. Thousands of people have contribu- ted literally because they were moved by sense of duty. l Other campaigns have met with ready response because the money sought to be raised was small in com parison with the benefits offered The Music Study club membership canvass is of the latter kind. It begins week from today.
 1 The club has done a great deal to advance musical culture in this city. It has afforded infinite pleasure at a very small cost. It needs a thousand members to carry out it's exceptional fly attractive schedule of artist re- citals and other entertainments all worthwhile it should go without saying that the enrolment will be completed within a few days time. < < T 1 A new industry is said to have sprung up in New England, that of catching and canning sharks for food. However.
 the fact that t is shark meat is not
 printed on the cans. | * x * l Gen. Pershing is accused of having
 built up a personal publicity machine in
 France A man doesn't need press
 words.
 | If Philander Knox desires at any time
 in the future to visit Germany he will of the fatherland. 1 Six-cent car fares came along just in
 time to gobble up the pennies we began
 saving when the rwo-cent postage rate was restored
 l x E F l Sweet cider is exempted under the pro-
 hibition law, but time soon takes away
 sweet elders sunny disposition and lm-
 parts kick"
 < sk < ! Another indication that the war is over: You rarely see an American flag in vaudeville
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Hopeful Trend in Labor Movement

Hopeful Trend in Labor Movement
 The most significant development of the week was the setback to the radical labor element and the resump- tion of more conservative leadership" says Henry Clews in his weekly re- view of financial conditions. Tt is not to be supposed that labor has sur rendered it's ambitions or is disposed to relinquish any of the advantages it new possesses; but it's willingness at President Wilson's request to re- frain from strikes at this time. and 10 aid rather than hinder a reduction in the cost of living. is of itself an i'm portant change for the better. It marks new and hopeful trend in the labor movement; an inclination to establish the rule of reason instead of the rule of force.
 Labor has already made very large gains in the direction of higher wages and shorter hours which it is now commonplace to say have been an ira- portant factor in raising the most of living Recognition of these facts had doubtless much to do with labor's &C., tion; and, having gone thus far, the policy of reducing output must also give place to new policy, that of in- creasng the output
 Both President Wilson and Premier Lloyd George, at the risk of personal popularity, plainly told their people that the salvation of the world today was work, that the only cure for high prices was to produce, and that the best antidote for world wide distein- per and unrest was industry and thrift"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
THE "SHIMMMY" AND THE "JAZZ'

its last legs, not to Overwork vef2( useful metaphor, for the pronunci61 mento of the dance masters munf13 viewed more as a prophecy than n N prohibition. The >jazz" and "shimm1e are on the sliding board beyond cue1k
 tion, and. like all things of their kind in slippery places. The return to tks sinuous sanity of the old-time wnlt1. already in evidence everywnere, ha3 given the dancing men the couraGe 0f other peoples conviction, hence -thety indictment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
Men Are We'll Dressed

Tt is interesting to look at the well-dressed men on the downtown streets these days, and it is most as- suredly an indication of prosperity for the district" said Fl. Key Miner 'I have noticed men who are no more than day laborers wearing expensive silk shirts and hose and one must have well-paying position thesA days to afford these, because they cost dearly. The men, as well as the wo- men, are dressing better than at any time in the history of the country. But all Of them are making good wages and can afford it. To watch the boule- wards with the many cars passing and the downtown streets with the expen- sively dressed men and women it cer- tainly looks as though business in Bir- minSham is booming"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08

BEGINNING THE DAY--God, help us to live together as brothers May our brotherhood accept no boundar- ies. May distance, creed, color, kind, degree-may every difference and every division be swallowed up in our wide and widening brotherhood. If we are less than any man, by Thy grace we shall name ourselves his younger brother. If we are more than any man. by Thy grace we shall name ourselves his elder broth CT. Amen.-H. M. k.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
TWENTY YEARS AGO
 IN THE EAGE-HERAI.U| Events recorded September 8, 11c9

A dispatch from Rennes states 1hat f6e
 verdict in the Dreyfus case will he t6& l dered not later than Monday. IT FreHI&hs
 government is anxious to withh116 judk- ment until after Sunday to pS&S1nt &e-f raions and bloodshed sss The Shamrock, Sir Thomas fflton's cup challenger, had her third trial Gpln yes. terday off Sandy Hook. Tho coming race is arousing the keenest interest among sportsmen on both sides of the Atlantic.
 Emperor William of Germany was the guest of the king of wuertemburg yes terday at Stuttgart and toasted the house of Wuertemburg in a characterize Hohen. zollern speech.
 Rails for the Birmingham. Owenfon and
 Ensley electric line were received by the Birmingham Railway and Electric com
 pany yesterday morning and work ot building the road will be rapidly com pleted. The new line makes the third
 the company has established within the
 past year.
 Strained relations exist between the city council and the board of police com
 missioners over the appointment by the council of Detectives Wiggins and Sulli- van. The police commissioners claim the
 board of aldermen tried to override the commission in paying political debts. | The rapid rise of Tennessee stock caus- ed furry yesterday in Birmingham. The stock closed at 112 Colonel Shook an-
 nounces that the company will erect Suo additional coke ovens at Pratt City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
Need Money For Roads and Street.

T think that the city as well as tn 3 county and state, are going to have
 to begin, al an early date. the spend-
 ing of more money for better roads ana improving of streets in Birming- ham and other towns" said I. c. Beat
 ty. While I, of course, do not favar the revenue bill recently enacted by the legislature. I do favor a higher tax than we were paying, so that more money may be spent on necessary im- provements. Building materials for roads, as everything else. have a6- vanced in price and what would so long way towards building roads o- Improvements to city streets in former days will not do so now and a higher assessment for this purpose is needed" "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
WISDOM STILL CHEAP
. Talladega' Home.

From me IaHduesd Iio1He'
 The cost of living is still an con- siderable distance above the house. tops,-Birmingham Age-Herald. Yet Solomon says that wisdom cryeth aloud gardeth it. A great many articles are out of reach of the masses but wis dom is not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
HIGH COST OF CRIME

F'ron. the New York Herald Even the bandit Raisuli has yielded to the argument based on the high cost of living. having raised the pay of his assassins No doubt, however, he will even matters by increasing
 his own rates for ransom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
FALSE ECONOMY
e Portland Oregonian.

From the Portland Oregonian.
 Wealthy Chicago men who aver they have not bought shoes in two years, but have patronized the cobbler, because of high prices, are peddling batter. The cost of few of their tires would keep them in footwear until they die.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
BLoUNT DOESN'T UNDERSTAND

From the Oneonta Southern Democrat
 The suit of Geo. Huddleston vs. the Birmingham Age-Herald is causing much comment among the people of this county. They want to know why this case is to be tried in this county instead of Jefferson where all uhe parties to the suit reside. They can't see why MT. Huddleston should want the case tried by a Blount county jury instead of a jury of his own county
 They can't see why Blount county should be put to the expense of this trial which will probably last for sev- eral weeks-a trial in which no one in the county is interested or has any interest in the results. The case was continued until December term of the court. The case is one in which MT Huddleston seeks $1.S00.000 damages from the \Age-Herald for the publica- tion of certain cartoons published in the Age-Herald more than a year ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
WILLIAM TANNER-HERo

From the Phi1adelphia Public Ledger. Together. love. we'll face the Great
 Beyond; Together tread the Valley of the
 Shade: And though we know Life's light is
 young and passing fair Together. without fear, we'll watch it
 fade.
 and tight and fast; And press thy lips to share thy
 quiv'ring breath For where thou goest-there | gladly.
 too, will go- And '-~~- ---i4', thAa d veNdexvOv6
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
An,4k1IhMI4dnet<u
CALL FOR CHIvALRY

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Suffrage defeated in Virginia and Alabama. Where's that vaunted southern chiva,~--"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
T Ss Husband Who Preferred Death to Separation

H7 1ILLIAM AND MARY TANNER WV of Chicago were just an ordi- nary man and wife until they died clasped in each others arms beneath a Northwestern train. The entire coun- try was thrilled by sympathy and ad- miration in reading the story of the young husbands heroism. Unable to extricate his wife's foot, which had been caught betF cen board and a rail, and needless of her pleas to save himself, he put his arms about her as the flying train swept down upon them and ground them to pieces.
 Tanner was a railroad cashier. He and his wife had three children and doubtless a modest but happy little home somewhere, not too far from his post of duty. On the Hateful night when they were killed, they had set out to at tend a movie show, little dreaming what tragic fate was in store for them, fate that was to stir the pity of millions of Americans and call forth glowing eulogies in prose and verse from one end of the country to the other.
 Human nature, despite it's follies and its weaknesses, is capable of sub- lime sacrifice. There never was a finer example of conjugal devotion than was revealed in the death of William and Mary Tanner.
 * # #
 Facts Versus Sentiment
 In France and America
 A PENNSYLVANIA woman writes RA to The Age-Herald, sIn the Philadelphia Public Ledger for Sep tember there is clipping from The Birmingham Age-Herald stating the amount of the claims that were ad- justed by Col. Robert E. Burkham, chief of the renting, requisition and claims bureau of the A. E. F., and commenting on it. "'At first glance" the Alabama papers says, "you would think that the French would be too grateful to America to exact damages, large or small, for trival matters or great destruction of property, but the late war seems to have been fought on a strictly business basis. Senti- ment does not appear to have entered into the claims department of the A. E. F."
 The writer then asks why should there be any sentiment in those trans actions between French individuals and the French government and the American government. "Why should the French be grateful to America ?' She points out that Uncle Sam was able and willing to pay for any dam- age done by his armies, both at home and abroad. As for gratitude, we stood by while German hordes ravaged northern France for three years and "with ignoble patience, bore with the insults offered by the German ambas- sador, the plots of German agents and paid toll in ships sunk and lives lost through German aggression"
 It is true, as our correspondent says, that we waited too long before declaring war on Germany. that we
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-08
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Wise men ne'er sit ana vail their loss. But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
 Henry VI.
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