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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-19
INSTRUMENTATION

From the Louisville ,Courier7J ournai:
The Courior journal has receiyed
from a reader in Lexington a letter
which is as follows: 90
Dear Sir: I have heard tell, amongst
white people, that II a colored person
what have blue gums would bite any
Body they are poisnus and will Kill you
Please say in valuable Collums OF pa
per is they eny signitiffc fundamentals
about it Or is it just a preposteration
against the collerd Race, like so meny
of them is Yours truly.
CONSTANT READER.
paw for your paper every da. and
think many would like to see the an
swer.
The Courier Journal is willing to bet
n hat. regardless of war prices for
hats. that the writer Of the letter is an
excellent citizen who is not planning
to poison an enemy in the event that he
is informed that it might be done
by biting His desire to DEFEND ms
race against SANDER in the event that
the common allegation is not based
upon scientific fundamentals appeals to
our sentiment of fairness toward the
Kentucky negro; sentiment which re-
sides in the breasts of all Kentuckians
who have reflected duly upon the inn
portant part the negroes of the Blue
grass region have played in the hus-
bandry. and in the horse raising and
horse racing of that section of the
state.
1t is a pleasure, as well as duty, to
say that medical science does not back
the allegation that the bite of a blue
rummed negro conveys deadly poison.
and to add that it very rarely IS the
case that a blue-gummed negro bites.
The statement that blue gums are
poisonous is, beyond a doubt, pre-
posteration. We thank our constant
and paying reader in Lexington Tor
fha word
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-19
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

we wonder why the government
didn't fet the soldiers retain their ga $
masks for use in times Of peace. Tae
masks would come in mighty handy
when some men start to talking.
You have often met man who
didn't believe that his wifes morals
should be better than his own, haven't
you? Neither have We.
Take care of yourself and you won't
have. much to growl about IL yonr
health is good, the weather won't make
much difference to you.
Every agent represents the best artl-
Gle made, and all other aIticles OF the
kind are cheap limitations.
The middle-aged man who dyes his
mustache thinks it is up to him 70
laugh at the middle-aged woman VIII,
paints her face.
Lots of rich men claim. that they
can't afford to smoke because the hab.
is an expensive one. But you can oat
that a poor man manages to keep him.
self well supplied with tobacco.
A modern grandmother will stand
for being called elderly bat for the
love-of Mike don't call her "ven.
able."
OF course it's none Of our business.
But why does q girl have her front
kwaist line located at the top Of har
skirt just above the hips and have tha
two buttons of the back of her Goa.
placed SO high that her rear waist line
is across her shoulder blades?
Funny how you can see fault IN
friend in 10 seconds that you can;
sec in yourself in 10 years.
No matter how stingy man may
be in other ways, he is always gener.
Gus in his good opinion Of himself
The man who is his own. worst enc
my. seems to make friends with almost
everybody but himself.
Summer must be on the way. The
covers of the magazines are beginning
J to exhibit pictures of ladies without
any clothes on.
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Government Should
Provide Farm Homes

1NHE Sixty-fifth Congress should
u have enacted into law a bill pre-
pared by the interior department pro-
viding farm homes for returning SOL
diers, but it never reached the calen-
dar. This important measure will
claim the attention of the new Con-
gress.
The project worked. out by depart
ment specialists, under the direction
of Secretary Franklin X. Lane, was in
line with patriotic instinct and was in
accord, too, with popular sentiment.
The measure contemplates govern
ment acquisition of hundreds of thou
sands of acres of privately owned cut
over lands, dividing the large tracts
into 4O-acre farms and selling at cheap
prices and on easy terms, the farms
to soldiers desiring to possess their
own homes.
The department made survey of
the cut-over land situation eight
months ago. 1t was thought in official
quarters then that the war would not
end short of the summer of 1919. AS
it came suddenly, "ahead of time" the
government was unprepared for tax
ing proper care of its brave fighters.
The Sixty-sixth Congress should
not delay in fulfilling plain patriotic
duty. After every great war some
thing has been done by victorious ma
lions to provide for their returning
soldiers. The United States must not
now be derclict in this respect.
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Certain statesmen are greatly IN
cepsed at the thought. born in their own
minds, that bush league" nation
might be able to dictate to Uncle Sam
who heaCs the major league"
* y y
One of the charges made by anti-toeae-
co crusaders is that infants in cradles
have been killed by the smoke of their
fathers This is a decidedly new angle
to infant mortality.
A stranger in Birmingham may stroll
up to a soda water clerk and wins when
ordering ginger ale but he soon discovers
the futility of wink in strictly bone
dry town.
Though Lloyd George may dominate
the peace conference. we are not to as
sumo that President Wilson is merely
twiddling his thumbs in the meanwhile.
y X =
Denouncing his wife as vampire an
work. Seems the sensible thing to do
when ones home life is far from ideal.
X X y
Birmingham's citizens who are not af-
flicted with an incurable thirst demand
protection from overzealous liquor
sleuths.
Politicians are hard put to 1t to keep
one ear to the ground and follow pro-
ceedings in Paris at the same time
& z y
1t is far cry from Columbus, and MS
caravels to that French aviator reported
to be flying across the Atlantic.
4 + \
Occasionally one meets an aviator VINO
gets some enjo. ment out of a spin in an
automobile, but he's az rare bird.
2. * y y
While conditions in Russia are unde-
niably frightfu1, we still have the con-
Wet lease system in Alabama
y *
The beer manufacturers contend that
their product henceforth will have an
imperceptible kick.
y y y
Banners carried in the st. Patricks day
parades bore no complimentary references
to England.
- y * y
Happy the opulent prima donna WHO
has a manager to worry over her In
come tax.
X * y
Villa is beginning to realize that inc
ransome business is not what it useo
to be.
* y y =
Red runways for chorus girls to prahce
on are making hit in tn tank towns.
* * x
There's not a trace of bolshevism in the
social intelligence from Palm Beach.
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many WHO KNOWS OPERAS

From the Atlanta journal.
The curious1y striking instance was
reported in Sundays journal OIL
three-year-old child (the son OF &c
tayius Roy Cohen, author and play
wright of Birmingham), who demon
strated under strict test his conVers-
Eancv with 200 operas, identifying
score of operate selections. beginning
with the Peer Gynt suite, when ms
father tapped the rhythm of the music
|,with coin on the table
This recalls, of course, the child MO-
zart. who played the masters and COM
posed at three. How can such marVels
he exclaimed? How can we account
for vito Mangiamele. the unlesrned
son of Sicilian shepherd, who at ~
years of age, as the records OF the
French scholars before whom ne ap-
peared bear witness, could calculate
in about a minute, the cube root OIL
numbers like 3,796,41s? Or how can
we account for the we'll authenticated
incident of six-year-old benjamin
Blyth of Edinburgh, who. when stroll
ing with his father one morning ASKED
Papa, at what hour was l born? I'm
tbeing told at a. M, he asked, VIVA,
fine is IT now?" "Seven-fifty a. M
his father answered.
"The child walked on few hundred
wards" the record continues, then
turned to his father and stated tine
number of seconds he had lived. HIS
father noted down the figures, mado
the calculation when he got home, ana
told Ben he was 172,S00 seconds
wrong, to which he got the ready re-
ply: 80. papa, you have left out two
days for leap years-1S2O and lslt
which. indeed. was the case.
Who can pluck the heart out "f
the mystery of genius? OF great
! musical gift. Frederic Myers remarks
| in his wonderful work on Human Per-
sonality:" 1--WE know the difficulty OF
explaining it's rise on any current the
| DRY of the evolution of human faculty.
We know that it is like something
discovered, not like something manu-
! featured; like wine found in a walled
up cellar, rather than like furniture
made in the workshop above. The SUD-
| jective sensations of the musician hin''
self accord with this essentially SUIT
| liminal character of the gift with
which he deals" Subliminal. that IS.
beneath the Threshold of ordinary
waking onsciousness-such. we may
| say. is the nature of genius and %
1 those flashes and uprushes which come
at times to the commonest of us. But
when we have called it "subliminai.
we have done more than give name
| to what remains a divine mystery?
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From the Louisville Courier-Journal
a YOUNG woman who reside in
N\ Christian county, writes to The
Is y Courier journal as follows:
To-day the question arose as to wheth-
err .Heah' for Here and Sick for Seek
are permissible, and good English, when
speaking to q dog. Is either incorrect
and IL both are incorrect which is the
more incorrect"
If a Christian county young woman,
tn the manner born, were speaking to
a bishop and il she had occasion to use
the word here she would soften. slur
or slight the e. SO markedly that TO
anyone hailing from Cincinnati, or any
point in the remote and frigid north be-
yond Cincinnati the "r'' would seem to
have been deleted by the censor TINS
pagan from the north would encore the
accommodation and declare it, and the
belle of the county, faultless And II he
should Try IOF q uicuNhS NSNSeAho $780,
self to the effort solely, he would find
il impossible to pronounce the word JUS
as it is pronounced by the perIectiS
educated but perfectly T LESS southern
Kentucky girl If he were the high priest
of the chief temple of his alien arctic
gods, he would not object to the pro
nunciation ofse word so simple and ordi-
nary in a manner so charming and 50
distinctive of the south, but would wor-
ship the gods of the girl forthwith.
1t is true, doubtless, that when print
ing was invented the 'r" was put in
here because usage made that pro-
nunciation of the work good Engiisn'
but the mellowing influence OF the sun IN
certain ATTITUDES softens the r. as sure
lv as it ripens the pomegranate. causes
green buds ''gaily to bourgeon and broad
|ly to grow" into fair and fragrant magno-
liza blossoms and disulls upon tns
branches of certain trees or bushes the
perfume of the night-blooming jessamine.
Christian county lies within the ATTITUDES
in which the sun has this effect. The
use of "heah'' to a dog, or a bishop. 10.
therefore, good English and good man
ners, provided. of course, in the case
of the bishop it is not employed. as in
the case of dog, as form of invitation
to dine.
The word sick is the accepted form
1t Is perfectly good English No dog has
been known to resent its use, as against
seek or TO fail to respond cordially to
the familiar imperative.
The word ''heah." is not, like sick
found in the dictionaries, but Noah Web
star w-ss a New Highlander, and we
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-19
ON FLANDERS FIELD

BY Louise Franklin Minor
Last night. as l lay a-sleeping, a vision
came to me,
I saw the field of Flanders where many
crosses be:
The moon shown white above them.
the crimson peoples slept
While hosts of mourning mothers be-
side them, kneeling, wept
seemed to feel the sorrows of all tas
stricken race,
And the woe of all the nations seemed
gathered in this place.
My soul grew sick with horror. tine
moon in darkness fled;
stood alone at midnight In the valley
of tho dead.
Then suddenly the Vision changed: the
moon shone white again,
A hill rose high before me instead of
Flanders plain.
saw the hill of Calvary. where the
Man of Sorrows died,
And the sons Of all the nations with
Christ was crucified.
instead of many crosses that marked
shell-torn plain
a mighty emblem towared. on which
the Christ was slain.
Again the moon in darkneDs fled b.
fore my stricken sight.
stood alone in Flanders field in thu
horror of the night
Then once again the vision changed;
again I seemed to see
The dreary field of Flanders. where
many crosses be.
But gone were mounds and crosses.
the peoples crimson glow.
And 20. there stood before me white
knights with face aglow
And all the field of Flanders with
lilies blossomed white.
And IAN your sons with Christ have
risenr was waited through ina
night,
Your sons with Christ were crucifieI.
but with Him one again
Bring peace on earth good will to men,
from Flanders field of pain
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ADRIFvT WITH THE TIMES
A THRILLER.

A THRILLER"
The battles in the movies,
Are wondrous fierce and wild,
The gallant hero's attitude
is reither meek nor mild
The villain is a brutal ycuss,
A man Of low degree.
And wtcD they meet the slaughterfest
Is terrible to see.
They smash the costly furniture
And roll upon the floor,
Aud al the while the villains band
Is heating at the door.
With flaming eyes and tousled hair
And clothes in disarray,
Jnst who will gain the mastery
'Tis rather hard to say.
But, seei the crouching heroine
Is reaching for a gun;
Her fingers on the trigger-Bang!
The CORY fight is won.
The villain dies. the hero clasps
Her in his arms and then
Wheels round in time to hold at bay
dozen other men.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-19
Finds Birmingham Crowded

'I had no idea that Birmingham was
so crowded" said Bill Merrill one Oh
Eufaula's promising young lawyers VIM
ran upon business.
aft looked like / was going to be unable
to 90 hotel accommodations as 'iieu
the leading ones without getting placed
T called on a friend and mentioned my
predicament, and he told me that traV-
cling man had informed him that he was
ro;ns 70 register out in the afternoon
and1 hurried around and got ms room.
NV father made Investments in Birming-
ham dirt back in the sos, and therefore
nv family has keen interest in its pros
perity."
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Alabama Leading in
Savings Organization

.M ANY states are we'll organized
GVU in War Savings and Thrift
work, but Alabama and West Virginia
have made exceptionally fine records
in this respect. Alabama appears to
be leading.
The schools are centers Of activity
and the teachers, as rule, are putting
forth a maximum of effort in the sale
of both War Savings Stamps and
Thrift Stamps. The school children
are working with enthusiasm and the
practice of thrift is taking strong
hold upon them.
While the war was in progress pa
Itriotism was all-pervading, of course,
and every money-raising campaign
was success. Uncle Sam is still in
pressing need of funds and there must
be no waning Of interest in the sale
of government securities, great or
small.
With organization we'll maintained
Throughout the year Alabama will
score another over.the-top achieve
ment in the War Savings campaign.
= i Il
| j. Ogden Armour has been elected a
member of the Chicago Society of vaga-
bonds Mr. Armour said recently tina,
he envied the care-free life of tramp.
tHe:n have to make good or prove him
i,self gutter,
7 * * x St
| one trouble with this grand and glori-
/ GUS country of ours is that there are too
many self-constituted spokesmen for thu
: masses.
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cutttns Oral Announcements

1--WE are trying to do away with So
many announcements on Sunday morning
at our preaching service" said b. Z. cox
"fo. M one can keep in mind long
string of them. and therefore we ar0
publishing a church bulletin carrying
them. and have made the rule that tney
must be sent or phoned in in time 10 oe
nrinted. OF course, there are circum-
stances when this cannot be dohe' ou'
we are going to cut down oral an
nouncements to the minimum"
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AN EXPENSIVE DEATH

From the Kansas City Star.
Paris" said war correspondent
lis the most expensive city in the
world. In a Paris hotel l paid $3.50
for a table d'hote dinner of watery
soup, a mouthful of boiled fish. a boiial
chicken leg and an apple, with pint
of n, ediocre wine on the SIDE.
In the Rue de la PaiX' one day ]
met a famous journalist
Where are you living now, Old
man. / said. s1
"I am not living at ALL said he.
I'm dying by inches in the Hotel Blapc
at the rate of about s1s.75 per inch.'"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-03-19

BEGINNING THE DAY-O Cod
give me the Kind of sentiment
which crystaIIizcs into deeds. Give
me intellect and emotions, which
minister to will. Save ME from the
disease of words. Blow upon me
with the health of acts. Quicken
my motor nerves. Help me to do.
Fer the sake of Him who went
about doing. Amen.-H. NJ. f..
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SOFTENING THE " r

have it from the late Edward w. Car
mack OF Tennessee, in debate in the Uni
ted States Senate, that both John h
Standard and Thomas Q. Century wrote
their dictionaries in the interest of the
north and of the republican party ~
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OUT OEtDATE.

OUT OF DATE.
Now, what would Washington say to
this?" asked the reactionary statesman
Sir, replied one of his listeners, with
all due respect to the father of our coun-
try Washington wore powdered wig.
my humble opinion that il he were TO
return to the land of the living he would
have a great deal to learn"
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The Age-Herald is the only morning
and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham
carrying the Associated Press dis
patches. ,..
The Associated Press Is exclusively
entitled to the use for pupllcatlon "a
all news dispatches credited 10 1t VI
not otherwise credited in THIS paper
and also the local news puplisheu
herein. =,
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
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A Monstrous treachery! Can this be 50;
That in alliance, amity ard oaths,
There should be found such false dis
sembling guile! Henry VI.
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Washington bureau, 2o7 Hibbs build
Ing.
european bureau, 10 King street.
Covent GsardenN London, W. Z, @,-y...-
Eastern business office, world oullu-
ing, New York city; western business
Office Tribune building, Chicago. The
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MORAL PROGRESS.
When the night comes down on the city,
No mortal Ia proof against sin,
But few men fatten the kitty
And fewer still fill up on gin.
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Remittances can be made at current
rate of exchange. The Age-Herald viii
not be responsible for money sent
thfouEh the malls. Address
THE AGE-IiERALD,
Birmingham, Ala.
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MODERN STYLE.

whats the trouble? You seem to have
been badly used
YES" replied the man with black eye
and a rent in his trousers. II tried to
collect some money from crusty GUS
toner of ours and he gave me royal re-
ception."
"A royal reception
Yes. He kicked me out and dared me
10 come back again
DESIGNATING THE SABBATH.
How did you spend Sunday
81 Joined the Back to the Soil now.
ment."
How was thst?"
81 spent a large part of the day undss
my motor ca. making repairs"
PROOF.
This professional investigator says
our soldiers abroad arc drug sddicts, lib
crimes and drunken sots.''
This is a free country, all right"
Whats thu connection ?"
IF this wasn't free country, do you
suppose a misguided reformer could
make a statement like that and get away
with it?'' oIt-t
BUSINESS VIEWPOINT.
What do you think about the posi-
bility of Mars being inhapited?'
1--WE mover given the matter mucn
thought" answered the practical business
man.
But the idea is interesting"
Maybe so, but not to me. Even
there were people on Mars and We could
get there, don't think it would be
good market for our product. / manu-
facture corsets sir" PAUL COOK.
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No communication will be publlsnea
without its authors name. Rejected
manuscript Will not be returned unless
stamps are enclosed for that purpose
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Entered at the Birmingham Alap
postoffice as second-class matter, I'M
der act of Congress, March s, 1879.
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GONE HENCE.

GONE HENCE.
II heard you mention the River Styx
just now"
"Well?"
WAS that one of the rivers crossed by
the Germans in the late war;"
1T was, sir. BY nearly 100000 of en-"
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Was with BRYAN TomIinson

Il esteem it great privilege 10 haN0
been permitted to come by and stop OIL
at Birmingham on my way nome 10
Memphis" said Lieutenant Young, VINO
saw II months service overseas, anu
meet Mrs. John w. Tomlnson, the mothet
of the gallant Capt. Bryan Tomiihson'
who was in my opinion the younses'
man of his rank in France
II was in his company IN the pae'l'
of the Argonne, in which he lost ms lie
from the effects of being gassed. ne
was greatly beloved by his men and had
great career in the army oeloie 'i'
He gave his young life for his country
and leaves to his mother name "hio-'
will live long in the minds of those ne SO
bravely led"
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
Meets Captain Hemphill


Il have to run down to Birmingham
frequently" said DIR. II. l.. Willingham'
president of the Florence Normal school.
Il had the pleasure of meeting, In the
lobby of the Tutwiler. Captain Hemphii'
now stationed in the Magic City, but 10Y
quite awhile resident of Sheffield 1
was reminded of call he made upon me
after the work of one of the great govern
ment plants in which he was moving
spirit got under way.
My secretary informed me that an
army officer was in my private office. l
went down and he arose and gave me
military salute. | asked how i coulo
serve him, and he replied Il want tous,
teachers" L then asked him for what
purpose, and was told that they woup"
he used to instruct the children OF inc
officers and clerks at Nitrate Pant NO l.
To make a long story short, he wantea
four competent teachers to teach tne
grades from / to s, and he was Wiling
to pay what they were worth to get
them. l arranged the matter and they
went to work.