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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05

BEGINNING THE DAY Lord, help those who are so hurt that Thy cannot pray. When thought is past and speech and even prayer, let us simply rest in Thee. Come out to the cold place where we lie and gather us in, unresisting and un- knowing, for the oil of Thy healing and the peace oS Thy bosom. For he sake of Him who sought in the dark and found His own. Amen.- H. NJ. E. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05
LONG TIME TO WAIT

From the Knoxville Journal.
 Lenine objects to the arrest of his Soviet representative in America Washington's apology will. be incor- porated in the same document in which apologies will be made to Carranza for the last Villa chase.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05
A THEME FOR TEARS

From the Baltimore American.
 A cruel court in New York has decid- ed that a l9-year-old heiress who asked for an increase of income must, worry along for the present on $15.ooo year People who envy heiresses do not know dergo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05
YES. ONE OF GREAT JOY

From the NashV1IIe Banner,
 The Birmingham Age-Herald is claiming population for its city of no fewer than 25o.ooo for 1920. What an after-the-court feeling the Age- Herald is going to sxpsrienca
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05
LARGE WET CONSIGNMENT

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Detroit Is elated over the fact that Buffalo came to it for 37,o00 gallons, more or less. of confiscated whisky. We can imagine that a guard of honor of De- troits solid citizens accompanied the stuff to its new houA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05
A TRICK OF FANCY,

'Tis tragical thing When the sonneteers sing
 Of the gold dream-argosies bear. In lyrical vein, As if it were plain
 They've abundance of riches to spare For the chances are they View with hopeless dismay
 Bare livings upsoaring expense; The gold of their dreams, With auriferous gleams,
 Is the merest poetic pretense-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05
TOO LATE.

'Hawi flaw! Hawf~ Hiram?'
 "One of them confidence feIlers wuz in here jes' now an wanted to sell me a gold brick, the fust one I've seen since Hector wuz a pup
 You got rid of him in a hurry, eh7~
 Yep. told him I'd jes' nortgaged th' old home place an put tn money in oil stock. He groaned, I'm 20 years behind tn times,' an, drug himself out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05
Smiles Bring Sales
Seeps Not Visible

Yesterday was one of the quietest
 Fourths of July I've ever seen." said E. L. Barrett, insurance salesman. Tt was far from being what some had an- ticipated with America going bone dry. Of course, Alabama has been in this class for sometime, but it was thought that there might be some seep into the boundary lines of the state through un- known channels. This expected leak seemed to have failed in it's entirety, for everybody seemed as sober as a funeral :,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05
RATHER CAUSTIC.

RATHER CAUSTIC.
 'wel1, my dear," said MT. Dubwafte. as he sat down at the table and squared himself for the evening neal what have the neighbors been up to today?' 1T thought you were not interested in the neighbors?"
 ~Tm not I merely wished to get the usual recital over with so the conversa- ton for the rest of the evening might relate to topics of general information. calculated to instruct the mind or banish ennui." PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05
Jack Dempsey Wins An Easy Victory

1.-THE all too brief engagement of H Willard and Dempsey at Toledo vas merely repetition of ring his ory. A young challenger wrested he crown from an elderly" cham pion. Willard's downfall was not un-
 ected by fistic authorities, but M of those in position to know
 eyed that he would meet so crush
 defeat in three rounds. From
 t showing he made in the ring, he sto no chance whatever against a mailer man. Acknowledged bet fer boxer, with vast bulk in his favor, Willard was nevertheless at the mercy If. Dempsey and not little criticism s being heaped upon his battered head because he preferred to "throw ID the sponge" rather than take any more punishment Were the wise lcres correct when they said Willard lacked the fighting spirit? It seems 10.
 The fight at Toledo set a new rec srd for pugilistic battles in point of attendance, size of the amphitheater and the money involved. Never before nas so much money been paid out for contest of this kind. Although Tex Rickard, the promoter, incurred heavy expense, he and his associates are be- Iieved to have made large sum out of their venture.
 The new champion has few years of affluence and fame before him. It is estimated that in the next two or three years he can easily earn several hundred thousand dollars. He may provide for the inevitable "rainy day. and he may not. Most of his pre- decessors have failed to make pro- vision for their forced retirement
 At any rate the defeated Willard has done what no other heavyweight champion ever did. He quits the ring rich man. That knowledge doubt less enables him to bear up under the smart of a business-like drubbing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05
When the Former Kaiser
 Reaches Tower of London

TN tragedies in official life there is A usually an element of romance mingled with degree of sympathy. When William Hohenzollern, former German Emperor, is brought to the British metropolis for trial, he will Be confined in the tower of London and held there as a prisoner of state until the judicial tribunal concludes its findings.
 The tower of London is an ancient pile, and is of rare architectural in- terest. It is rich in collections of old armor and grim memorials of the far past. Twelve towers rise from the Qualification, in one of which, the Wakefield, the regalia or crown jewels are kept, and are on exhibition for the public. The tower of London is Therefore one of the show places of England's capital.
 On the occasion of the ex-Kaiser's utate visit to his grandmother, Queen gietoria, tho ~war lord" made an in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05

Some of the best of them were here Iitary hangmen. -Corioianus.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05

Washington bureau. 2o7 Hibbs build ng.
 European bureau, 10 King street sovent Garden, London, w. c. 9
 Eastern business office, World build ng, New York city; western business ffice. Tribune building, Chicago. The l. C. Beckwith Special Agency. agents br foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05
Member of the Associated Press

The Age Herald is the only morning tnd Sunday newspaper in Birmingham sarrying the Associated Press dis latches.
 The Associated Press is exclusively untitled to the use for publication or III news dispatches credited to It oI lot otherwise credited in this paper md also the local news puphsneo terein.
 All rights of republication of special tispatches herein are also reserved.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05
ADRIFVT WITH THE TIMES
STRANGE CHARACTER.

SIFlANLE CEIAfIACIEEt What sort of man is your friend. Nub- Ing?- / Abnormal, I fear"
 "YesT'
 with Dempsey and Willard whipping each other at Toledo and the R-34 less than 800 miles out at sea, he still main tained a lively interest in the peace con- ference.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05
ST11DIO TRAGEDY.

STUDIO TRAGEDY.
 Whats the matter with that motion picture comedian"
 'He,s laid up for repairs"
 Ibid he meet with an accident?' Mot exactly. One of the supernum- eraries who had grudge against him inserted horseshoe in a. pie"
 SORROW OF A STATESMAN. ''Of course, my dear senator, you haxa the welfare of your constituents at heart?"
 Certainly, sir." replied Senator Twob- ble, indicating pile of telegrams on his desk. And it pains me deeply. sir. to see how many of my constituents think their welfare depends on my resigna- ion."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala.' postoffice as second-class matter, un- ter act of Congress, March s, 1S79
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05

No communication will be published without it's authors name. Rejected manuscript will not be returned unless .tamps are enclosed for that purpose.
 ~-~~~-~~~~~~~-~~~~~~o~~ Remittances can be made at current ate of exchange. The Age-Herald Will lot be responsible for money sent through the mails. Address
 THE AGE-HERALD,
 Birmingham, Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Believes in Preparedness

'1 am convert to the doctrine of preparedness" said J. P. Pope. T had planned nice. quiet Fourth today and as I had not thoroughly familiarized my self with a new car I bought yesterday, I decided to take it out for trial With friend drove around the city and out to East Lake Returning, the heavy rain caught us just beyond Thirty-fourth street. and in getting out of the way of an approaching street car I turned to ore side and the wheels skidded, bump ing against the curb and smashing one of the rear wheels to pieces. It was raining in torrents, but we had to get out and with tho assistance of the con- ductor and motorman and two or three against the curb. Then the rain stopped, but we were all thoroughly drenched."
 Helped River Victims
 T am spending a few days in Bir- mingham," said Dr. Frank Moody Pur- ser, for several years connected with the educational board of foreign missions at Richmond, but who gave up his work to become a chaplain in the army. T have not yet decided just what I will do, but will probably re-enter the pas torate. I was in Tuscaloosa during the awful river catastrophe. and as Dr. L. o. Dawson. the pastor of the First Bap- tist church, was away on his vacation, came in very close and sympathetic touch with the parents and friends of the unfortunate victims. I hope I will never live to pass through such an- other trying occasion"
 Smiles Bring Sales
 If you want to make a quick sale you must deliver the goods with a smile" said F. P. Durrett, a local roofing sales man. ''It is all in the way you make your approach of the probable customer. For instance, the other day I walked into business house and the proprietor asked me a question I responded with flip of a little box across the counter and the merchant simply hoflowed. He was all in smiles, and before leaving him had made one of my biggest sales of the day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05
suBsCRIPTIoN RATEs

By mali in United States and Canada; Daily and Sunday, year ........ SS-oo Daily without Sunday ........... 1.Oo Daily and Sunday, three months. z'zo Daily and Sunday, one month. .So :unfiav Aee-Heraid. per annum. .. 300 fhursdav's edition. per annum ... 50 By carrier in Greater Birmingham
 Daily and Sunday, week ....-... .Zo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-05

| I strolled for half mile up the radl- road track which skirts the lake to the bathing place and found a lot of | happy bathers, men, women and child ren enjoying the nice cold clear water | l waited quite while and thinking the boys had failed to get any bathing regalia l made my way quietly back to the hotel; but they had been m | town and some merchant had given them suits and so they got to 20 in after all as MT. Barrett went with them
 1 I passed grove of oaks near the notel m which band stand stood, and It was certainly gem of place for music, as ono while sitting under the shade of the trees listening to the or chestra could rest his eyes with a far view over the lake into Florida I also saw splendid specimens of magnolia ir full bloom A little vine clad cottage near the waters edge was most allur- ing. Just the kind of place to spend a happy vacation
 But the thing which brought to ms the tenderest memories were the mos: l covered cypress trees which fringes Lake Jackson, for I was boy again or my first great trip from home float ing down the Chattahoochie on a rivel steamer with a joyous party en rout' to the dead lakes of Florida on fish l ing trip. I never see a cypress tre, without living over again the frs great excursion of my boyhood days
 
 I feel sure that voice the senti ment of every member of the Alabam. Press association who went to Florala that it was one of the features of tn, visit to the southern part of the state and that one and all will join me il hearty thanks to the Florallians wh' Il graced us such a royal time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

merous campaigns in which he par
ticipated.
Captain Cox, whose official title
is Officer in Charge Of Labor, Office
Of the Port Utilities Officer. super
yises the entire establishment, which
occupies three floors in the Dey
Street Building, and he is at his
desk for hours every day, taking an
active part in the work of all de-
partments. One hundred per cent
efficient himself, he has with him
staff just as capable, consequently
the bureau is hive of industry
from morning till night.
Greed, color and even experience
excepting III the technical work.
are not considered at the Army En-
ployment Branch. All man has
to prove when he seeks work is that
he has a good record in civil life
and is physically fit for the lob for
which he applies.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

chevrons, denoting exclusively at
home service-the public will be
proud to acclaim it. Under the guid
ance of Captain A. B. Cox, the Of
ficer in charge, this bureau has &C
complished the following "bie
things:
l. Provided all the long horomen,
dock hands and laborers REQUIRED
for the movement Of army supplies
and troops during the war. Eighty
thousand such applications have
been passed on.
.. Employed stewards, coal pass
crs, deck hands and machinists need
ed on army transports. More than
- 500 have been handled
5. Administered all the insurance
required IN the employment of these
men and paid promptly and efficient
~ all claims.
j. Has been so discerning and
cautious in its operations that de-
spite the thousands OF workers as
signed who were heretofore I'M
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
Saring Money on ON Army job

known to the bureau not one overt
act has rcsulted-not an explosion
or outrage of any sort during the
entire period of the war
The amount of money saved can
not be figured to the dollar, because
of the huctuating scale adopted by
the shipmasters and other agents
VINO formerly supplied workers to
the government, at an average cost
of $40 man, but it is certain that
it has totaled nearly 100000 in
the employing department Of the
bureau alone.
Insurance premiums paid on the
policies held for the workers for
merly amounted to considerably
more than 100000 a year. All
this money is saved by the insur-
ance and compensation department,
under the direction of Captain AL
bert NJ Petite, a veteran officer who
has proved himself as adept in his
new calling as he was in the nu-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

the pure air Of the country and sur
rounded by lovely vistas just beyond
the ramshackle back fence. And the
miners take advantage of the coun-
try. In every house is a shotgun or
rife, or, maybe, both. The strike
order came into effect on November
l; the hunting season opened the
same day. The operators had to
wait until Monday to know whether
the men had gone hunting or strik-
ing.
There's no deadly grind for the
miners proper. They work when
they feel ike it. They measure their
work by their output and their neces-
sites rather than by the number of
hours. The eight-hour day is only a
kind Of maximum that thew mostly
ignore. One miner will get out a
hundred tons OF coal in five DAYS
and another won't get out eighty in
SIX days. The superior workman
feels that he has earned a day off
whenever he feels like it. Or, if he
mas cleaned up the pile Of coal that
'he cutters and the shooters threw
down for him at a certain face, he
PICKS up his kit and trudges to the
shatt, even if he has worked only
1--WE or six hours.
BESIDES, the world is very delight
fui above, there are squirrels in the
woods and rabbits In the bushes
ana there isn't much life and ioy in
an underground hole that may be
only three feet high. Also, it's
lonely. In most mine work the
worker tolls alone in his room in the
coal seam with none but the feeble
hight of his head lamp, which, by the
way, Is nowadays likely to be ar
electric light fed from small
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

storage battery strapped 10 his
waist.
The mine is dark and IN tan
seams very cramped and sometime,
it is damp, but there is no rain 81
summer or snow in winter to bolaen
1t is neither very cold IN winter nor
very warm IN summer. Powerlc
ventilating fans and systems l-et
the air pure, and the roar OF passin-
trains Of "vagons,7 as the L.i.
trans that haul the coal away =
the hosting shaft are called, r.
minds him that he is always IL. toocf
with the outer world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

its tall stacks. The tipple is the
slanting structure that stands over
the hosting shaft or at the entrance
Of the drift, into which the coal is
hoisted or trammed and within
which is housed the machinery that
dumps the skips and conveys the
coal to the cars waiting underneath
1t is the shipping shed Of the mine,
1t and the powerhouses are about
all that is visible Of coal mine.
The works" are below the surface.
Even the largest mines are dis
appointingly not in evidence by sur
face activities and structures. Not
far from the tipple will be the COM
pany store and then near by are
rows and rows of houses built on the
same, usually ugly, plan and usually
painted the same dreary maroon or
dirty gray.
Until recent years all the houses
in a mining village were exactly
like each other III their ugliness.
and also ike those of every other
village They are - these elder
monstrosities - two-family houses,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
A Shock

No"' 10 as'oo'"'eo WIFI '''s HAIL
olaclur'hg INDUSTRIES ana one nat
uraily 'hihhs OF 'he coaA MINER as
o"el'er III cohges'eu comh'u''''ics
'iia" "no passes '''s o'ss ia SUI
terranean darkness and gloom and
his nights in crowded tenement
Sums So it is with something of
I, ~ .ho ;.o,,a ,.h.
'"o'oi '''s <N'o''S - P'e"s'-''' 'o""'iS
road' you suuoehly meet throng
of blackfaced men with miners
lamp-caps. Almost before YOU
realize il turn Of tbo road
,.
yea ''''''' =
so'''i''u''''S se' oo"" III 'ne MIDST
on farms
For the most part these mining
villages are AZ architect,rallv b;da
ous &C ,ho o,;,,, o..,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
By Theodore NJ. Knappen
Pittsburgh, Nop. 6.

Pittsburgh, Nop. 6.
~OAL MINING is a rural
rather than an urban in
~ dustry, and the miners are
to be considered as villagers
rather than as cts. There are some
large cities whose population is
largely made up Of coal miners
such as Springfield, H., and Scran-
ton, Pa, but the major part of the
coal miners of America live III small
towns and village s-hundreds of
them having virtually no population
outside the miners and their fam-
les. These village groups of people
with the same industrial and livel-
hood interest have made orsaniza-
ton of the miners into unions com
paratively easy For the same rea-
son they require less leadership ard
direction in carrying on q strike
than if they were dispersed in @
large and diverse population
Coal is found in almost every sort
of Typographical environment that
the continent offers. You viii find
miners working in the pinnacled
mountains Of Washington and Brit
ish Columbia on the very verge OF
the snow line, and you will find them
burrowing underground in IT, level
prairies OF Kansas and Oklahoma,
the rolling hills Of Iowa, the fat
lands of Illinois and Ohio and in all
the reaches OF the Appalachian
monntain system southwestward of
New Yor'..
In al the agricultural regions
where coal abounGs the farmer and
the miner live side by side, and
work the one above the other The
enc extracts from the depths of the
earth the converted vegetation Of
geologic ages near to the birth of
the world, while the other grows
on its surface the economic vege-
tation of the human age
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

to SIS prices for this years styles.
"Why, / haven't sold a ready
made suit to miner this year for
less than $50. They have made up
their minds that no good suit sells
for less than that price, and that is
all there is to it."
The sales records showed that the
women were buying georgette waists
at SO to SIS each and the late t
ideas i'll suits AS for the miners
table, nothing goes but the best cuts
OF meat from scrupulously sanitary
cooling rooms and the front rank Of
every seasonahle vegetable and fruit.
including some that are not season
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
NHERE is surcease and balm
for the oYertaxed citizen in
H. these hectic days of billion


dollar governmental budgets
and departmental squandering Of
public funds to know that there is at
least one branch of the United
States service that not only is pay
ing its own way, but which to date
has earned hundreds Of thousands of
dollars for the Administration S
Golfers.
Peculiarly enough, this thrifty
group of governmental workers is
a cog in the army machine, the or
ganization which has been roasted
to brown turn because Of it's
wastefulness during the war. 1t is
the Labor Employment Branch of
the United States Army, with head
quarters at Sd Dey Street, and when
it's service record is written-though
it may be garnished with silver
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09
The Triple

The pine. of course, is the center
of the village. 1t may be a shaft
mine or drift, that is, a tunnel
mine; but in either case the chief
object that marks it's presence is the
tipple. If the mine is operated by
electricity. as many are these days,
there may not be a powerhouse
helching black clouds of smoke from
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

with the front and back yards and
porches divided precisely in the
middle by fences and partitions.
They have two stories and generally
have four or five rooms on each
side. The only attractive thing
about them is the rent, which ranges
from SIS to $r2 month. should
say that that is the only attractive
feature as they were originally built,
FOR most of them nova DAYS have
flower gardens in front and vege-
table gardens behind, and even a
patch of lawn.
In all the older villages the bunk
house and the boarding house are
gone. lerhaps because they are
so near 10 roomy nature, the for
eigners who constitute the bulk Of
the coal miners in these parts have
adopted higher standards of living
much more rapidly than their breth-
rem of the steel mills. A bachelor
has hard time of it to find quar-
ters, and the housewife thinks her
self quite above taking boarders.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-09

able. Mrs. Miner demands fresh
lettuce the year around and is an
eager buyer Of the advance guard Of
each fruit or vegetable as the sea
sons roll around.
This is not proAigacy, either, oh,
you white-collared city dweller.
These miners can afford to pamper
their tastes and appetites. With my
own eyes l saw pay rolls that con-
tanned items of $400 a month for ma
chine coal cutters aud any number of
"loaders" who had from $50 to $50
a week set down opposite their
names-and not man on the list,
even the most humble common
laborer, drawing less than $505 for
an eight-hour day. And rent not
more than S12 q month, and cheap
coal, and company store that knows
not of profiteeringl
Pure Air
The houses may be ugly, but they
are cheap, and they are swept by