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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-30
TWENTY YEARS AGO
 IN THE AGE-HERALD Events recorded July 30, 1S99

It is reported that Senator R. M.
 Cunningham of Jefferson will be a candidate for the democratic guberna- toriol nomination. A formal announce ment is expected to be made within 10 days,
 The Sloss Sheffield Steel and Iron York with capital stock of s2O,oOO.- = 900, and will be incorporated in New Jersey sometime this week. The new combine owns seven furnaces. 5000
 coke ovens, 62,O0O acres of coal lands, 1,500 acres of ore lands, tenement
 houses and other property As a re- suit of the consolidation, the Sloss Iron
 and Steel company loses its identity. All Dominican citizens have been call ed on to bear arms and a revolution is expected shortly. Juan Jiminez Is a candidate for the presidency of Santo l Domingo, to succeed President Heu- reaux, who was assa ssinated.
 The international peace conference met for it's final sitting at The Hague yesterday. It was announced that 16 states had signed the arbitration con- vention, 17 the declaration prohibit ing the throwing of projectiles or explosives from balloons and 16 the declaration prohibiting the use of dum- dunn bullets.
 | Colonel Horace Harding of Brming- | ham died yesterday afternoon of ty- phoid fever at Grand Rapids, Mich. | Colonel Harding was a brother of w. P. | G. Harding. He served in the Civil war as Confederate soldier. He was an engineer by profession and the locks
 built by him on the Warrior river at | Tuscaloosa. as well as many other feats of engineering, will serve as a | monument to him for generations.
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Sane arc doubtful as to the lati- tude and longitude of Hell. And other men can tell you that Hell is located in the stomach.
 A lot of men are so afraid that they might save some money that they'll set married if they can't get rid of it in any other way.
 It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks That is why lot of husbands feel like fish out of water since prohi- bition makes them stay home nights.
 Why does an army officer imagine that he has to have his jaws set when he gets his photo taken with his uni- form on?
 Keep out of trouble. No matter what the court may decide there is a large jury on the outside that win believe the charges.
 The man who can't invent anything else is there with bells on when it comes to inventing excuses.
 Never judge mans bankroll by the pasteboard suitcase he is carrying.
 We area nation of ieonoclasts. We used to respect the man who wore an Imperial. But nowadays we laugh at the man Who wears a goatee.
 man seldom stops to think that his excuses do not seem as logical to others as they do to himself.
 When a man has to get up and get a drink in the dark in the middle of the night he wonders how the hex the move man ever got all of that furniture into four loads.
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Are-HeraId Carrier Boys

The other day Hugh Morrow, the we'll known attorney, was telling group of friends some incidents of the days when he used to carry papers "n an Age-Herald route. search back over the old records would contain some highly interesting. facts as to the character of the boys who get out tn the early morning hours to get the paper to it's readers.
 X business letter came to The kSe- Herald yesterday from W. D. Hatha- way, assistant superintendent of Ar mour & Co.,. of New York, in which he says: Having been former resi- dent of Birmingham, graduated from the high school there and at different times carried The Age-Herald on vari- ous South Highland routes, the writer takes the liberty of asking you for a little information.
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Music At the Tutwiler

Very few city hotels keep up music throughout the summer" said John Wiegand, director of the orchestra at the Tutwiler.
 "The Tutwler is one of the few Music is a feature at our hotel the year round And there are more novelties in this line this summer than ever. Music seems to be greatly appreciated by the patrons of the cafe.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-30
High Prices Are Feeding
 The Fires of Bolshevism

1 Il1~ GDLISA ELI lhADEO ONION 0 officials went to the wholesale market in Havre and forced dealers to sell them foodstuffs at prices from 50 to 75 per cent lower than the aver Iage market price. The foodstuffs were taken to a public market place and sold at cost.
 Recently there were serious food riots in Italy and a wise government took the position that profiteers merely got what they deserved.
 These incidents may be spora lie, but something of the same sort is apt to happen in this country, and on a larger scale, if the cost of living is not reduced. Instead of having hopes of an early scaling down of prices, mill lions of people who are barely exist ing on their present incomes, or fail ing to make both ends meet, are told | that necessities next winter will be higher than ever. The cost of fuel, clothing and foodstuffs will be all most prohibitive. There are thou sands of families in moderate circum- stances who never eat butter, to men Ition but one item, simply because they can't afford to buy it.
 The "experts" can promptly show facts and figures, ostensibly proving that the cost of labor, shortage of materials and other factors cause high prices, for which nobody in par ticular is to blame. So far as labor 1 is concerned, it is better paid than ever before in the history of this or any other nation and living conditions are worse than they were before the war. A man who has for many years conducted commissaries for large in- dustrial plants in the Birmingham dis trict says working men actually have less than they ever had before, al- though they. are paid high wages. There is a general movement among property owners in Birmingham, and everywhere else in the country, to lraise rents on the plea that the cost of repairs has greatly increased, yet in many cases the tenant has to pay for the upkeep of premises himself.
 The average man, particularly the salaried man, knows that he is paying double and treble for everything he buys and he wants to know who is getting the money. America is the most productive country on the globe. Why should the price of practically every commodity needed for human consumption continue to soar skyward because of a war that was fought thousands of miles away, across the sea, in which we were engaged less than two years? Why was living cheaper in London and Paris during the war than it was in New York and dozens of other American cities? A steak could be bought for less in a fashionable London restaurant than il could in New York, and it was Ameri- can beef.
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Washington bureau. 2o7 Aibps build ing
 European bureau, 10 King street Coyent Garden, London, w. c. z.
 Eastern business office, World oulla- ing, New York city; western business office, Tribune building. Chlcago' 1ne B. C. Beckwith Special Agency, agenlf for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-30
HARD MAN TO RATTLE

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 The one best bet is that as guest Jack Pershing. Indian fighter, Greas- CT fighter. and all around American, violated none of the traditions or pro- prieties of Buckingham Palace. It would take something like four kings to furry his habitual seif-control.
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THE JAP ACCENT
he Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune
 We are not up on, the niceties of Oriental pron Gnciations, but we sur- mise that in mentioning Shantung the the "Shant."
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PA EXPLAINS


 Whats meant by crocodile tears par asked little Tommy Dubwaite. Its like this, my son." answered MT. Dubwaite You know MT, Jibway. next door?"
 'Yes, pa"
 Well, MT. Jibway has about 100 rag time records he's always playing. You know that, too. Now, suppose little Bobby Jibway should take a hammer and smash every one of those records. and heard about it, and went over to MT. Jibways house, and took him by the hand and wept for his misfor- tune. Then, my boy, I would be she'd ding crocodile tears@
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-30

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lord. Thou hast seen fit to put a spirit in my bosom. That means bound less possibility, but it also means bound1ess peril. My reach is to the stars, but also to the bottom of the abyss. l am brother to Jesus. but also to Judas. Lord save. H. NJ .E.
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ALWAYS FULL

ALWAYS FULL
 Its all I can do to control my tenn per when I see the superior airs most of these hotel clerks assume" remarked MT. Gadspur.
 Well, why don't you call them down? You are man of substance and good character"
 Call them down, sir? Why you can't get room half the time, when you grovel at their feet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-30

Remittances can be made at current rate ot exchange. The Age-t1eralu WIIl not be responsible Tor money sent through the malls. Address
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 Birmingham, Ala
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No communication will be published rllnout It's author name. heJeetsu Will not De returned unless slalups are eucloseu Tor that purpose,
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Member Of the Associated Press

The Age-Herald is the only mosnins and Sunoay newspaper Tn Birmingham carrying the Associated Press ols- patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication ?! all news dispatches credited to 1t ol not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein.
 Ali rights of republication Of special dispatches herein are also reserved
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES

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Farming Rusiness Climbing

q have just come in for little while to see my family said Dr. William H. Smith, educational secretary of the Bap- lists of Alabama after a trip through Escambia, Conecuh, Dale and Houston counties, and I want to report that crops are in fine condition and the farmers and merchants are prosperous, and that the price of land is climbing There is no need of any one who wishes to engage in farming to go out of this state for chance to make money, for under present conditions there is not only living but an opportunity to lay up something for a rainy day, provided that those engaging in agricultural pursuits use good judg- ments in locating and are willing to work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-30
BRIEF COMMENT
Providence Journal:

Providence Journal:
 The declaration in the proffbitSon = forcement bill as passed by tho House, that beverage containing one-half 0f one per cent of alcohol is intoxicatinx, is striking example of legal fic- tion. .1 New York Evening Sun:
 Now that MT. Ford is going to cut . $21, 100000 melon" as a solace Why should he worry even if he is not a fast reader" and has the hay fever? Chicago News:
 Senator Borah is so full of kicks that one suspects him of having swallowed raisin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Brothers Win Promotion


 It is rather singular coincidence that two brothers who entered the war In dif- ferent branches of the service should have each won promotion to a first ser seancy and yet this is what happened to John N. Bryan and William H. Bryan. two Jefferson county young men, saic Hardie Brown.
 John N. Bryan first enlisted in the Alabama cavalry, but was later trans ferred to the 2nd company, 4th mechanic regiment, and served about two years, one on this and one on the other sid% of the Atlantic. William H. Bryan was in the evacuation hospital No. % and saw service both in France and Germany They arrived back in the district with- in week of one another to find that their old jobs were open to them. Johr had been a shipping clerk with the T. c. l., and William was the depot agent at Bessemer. They both had great exper:- ences, but are glad to be back home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-30
BOLDLY MECHANICAL

"so she's going to marry an armles| war heror' Yes" 'tBut I don't see how a man without arms can carry on a courtship in thi good, o1d-fashioned way, with tendeI embraces and all that sort of thing" 'Wonders can be performed nova days with pair of artificial arms Their chief disadvantage is the fac| that they lack warmth when they enI circle a pair of snowy shoulders"
 SUCH IS LIFE
 The gladdest man
 I've lately met
 Declared he'd just
 Got out of debt
 Next day I heard
 Him cry amain,
 God save the mark,
 I'm in againi'
 -Age-H
 The gladdest one
 We lately hail
 Is one who just
 Got out of jail.
 Next day we heard
 To our chagrin
 They'd caught and put
 Him in agin.
 CONSIDERATE T am told that the modern magazine editor encourages young writer's" There must be something in that said the budding author. Why so?' T received a rejection slip the oth. CT day, and the editor had underscoree the word regret" MORE INFORMATION WANTED Did the seeress give you any en. couragementr' Well she gazed into her crysta, globe and said was going to be rich some day."
 "Fine!"
 'But I told her to polish up the crystal bit and see if she couldn't read the exact date"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-30
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

THE TIDE FLOWS NORTH He climbed aboard the limited And cheerly waved good-bye: En route, he said, to Canada To get drink O rye. And ere he starts his journey home, As men are wont to do, He may lmbibe, for tn stomach's sake, A little bourbon, too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-30
OvERWRoUGH1

"A sad case of nerves"
 Whats the matter with the fel- low?"
 He was splashing around in the ocean and mistook watermelon rind for the gullet of a deep sea monster"
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WHAT COULD HE MEANT T do not like to criticize" Said William Henry Beers, But most state legislators are Predominantly ears"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-30

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala-' postoffice as second class matter, un- der act of Congress, March 5. 1879.
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For in such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant More learned than their ears.
 -Coriolanus.
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SOUTHERN PRESS
Florida Times Union:

Florida Times Union:
 The proposed exchange of editors be- tween England and the United States would be useless. Nobody in either country would ever know the differ ence.
 Mobile Register:
 It is only when wolves are hungry that they are dangerous. For that req son perhaps it would be well for the Rumanians to drop hampers of bread rather than bombs upon the hostile Hungarians. It is better to feed them wheat than Rumanian manhod. Atlanta Journal:
 President Wilson's opponents may make his third term not only possi- bility but a certainty. Atlanta Constitution:
 Scientist says "Wooden shoes are healthy" (now watch the lumber trust raise the price on us.) Tampa Tribune:
 Trouble in Mexico nearing crisis: That's what we have been hearing for four years. By the way, how far off is a Mexican crisis, anyhow?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-30
Cincinnati Enquirer:

It Is comforting to learn from the
 coal mems advertisements that If there is shortage next winter we, tho con-
 sumers. will be to blame for it.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger:
 The trouble with the song of hat G was that it failed to distinguish Bsi tween national authem and a national anathema.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-30
Baltimore American:

In New York landlord was pum- meled by irate tenants. The prece- dent is bad, oh. very bad; but what a blow against profiteering!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-30

From the New York Herald. E7fOHERE is an old university at Graz
 in the Austrian province of
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-08-15
WORLDS NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

NEW YORk-The provisions of the
State income tax law which imposes
a tax on citizens of other States Is
unconstitutional, according TO a de-
cision of Federal Judge Knox.
SHINGToN-After an inVesti-
CATION of the shoe business during
the period from 1914 to 1918, the Fed
eral Trade Commission reports that
present high prices are unwarranted
and that all branches of industry re-
lated to the shoe trade have been
making unprecedented profits.
NEW YoRk.-UnparalleIed short
age of female help exists here. Tens
of thousands of jobs are going begging.
NEW YORk.-John II. Voeee, pro-
prietor of a famous cafe was sentenced
to serve six months in Jail and pay a
fine of $1,000 by Federal Judge ]. C..
Wilson of Texas, who is now sitting
here. Voege's crime was selling a
glass of whiskey on July of this
year.
MISREPRESENTATION is to be
sold by the carload lot at SO barrel
in every city in the United States
where the present price is excessive,
WIS announced by Julius II. Barnes,
director of the United States Grain
Corporation, after he had talked with
President Wilson.
NEW York;. J. Forester, grand
president of he Brotherhood of Rail-
way and Steamship Clerks, Freight
Handlers Express and Station En-
ployees, announced that unless de-
mands for wage Increases, shorter
hours and overtime adjustments were
granted Immediately, that branch Of
the railway employees would take ac-
ton at once similar to that taken by
the shOpmen.
WASHlNGTON.-A canvass of con
gressmen here showed that most o.
them are opposed to government own
ership and the Plumb plan which Is
being considered.
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LABOR'S PLANS
BEFORE CONGRESS
Firing Squad Might Be Advo-
Gated for Profiteers," Says
Stone of the Engineers.

Washingten.-Org Organized labor pre-
sented TO. Congress its plans for the
future operation of the railroads and
at the game time its officials gave the
assurance that violence and strikes
would not be used to force the adop-
ton of its program of government
ownership.
This promise was solemnly made by
Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
and Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation OF Labor, in
testimony before the House Interstate
and Foreign Commerce Committee
urging the adoption of the railway
employees plan of government owner
ship, known as the Plumb plan, which
Is backed by organized labor.
Instead of obtaining congressional
approval by force or violence, both
witnesses promised the question prob
ably would be made political issue
in 1920 and stated that efforts would
be made TO have both Of the main
political parties adopt it as a platform
plank At the same time, it was stated
that peaceful. campaign of education
would be conducted to win approval
for the program among the people Of
the country.
Other outstanding developments OF
the testimony were:
Railway employees and all organ
lied labor demand immediate reduc-
ton of the high cost of living, or will
demand increased wages with nation
wide strikes unless they are granted
1t was evident that there was
reluctance on the part of the officials
to stating whether organized labor
| proposes to extend naturalization to
all industries, should the government
ownership of the railroads be accom-
plished and prove successful.
| Opposition to the government own
ership plan as well as what some
members called the efforts of the rail-
way employees to obtain benefits that
| the rank and file of the other work
ers of the country have not obtained
was apparent in the questions OF
almost all the members of the COM
mittee.
Suggestions that the government Fix
| the prices of all commodities and that
the government act against the big
packers was made by the union Of
| ficiais. Mr.. Stone said firing squad
might be advocated for certain profit
| GERS"
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UNIONS WOULD FORCE
CAPITAL OUT OF ROADS
Fiqht to Finish on Government
Ownership Is Believed
Imminent.

Washington-The campaign of
Organized labor to secure government
ownership of the railroads and share
in the profits was disclosed here in its
full scope. There were three out
standing developments.
Leaders of the railway employees,
representing fourteen unionist organ
cations, informed Director General
Hines that the Plumb plan for govern
ment ownership and democratic maui
agement of business must not be linn
tied to the railroads, but must eventn-
ally he extended to coal, steel, pack
ing and all other basic industries of
the nation.
The threat of the rail men to force
their demands on the government was
emphasized by acting President Is.
NJ. Jewell of the railway department
of the American Federation of Labor,
who, with other representatives of the
shopmen, conferred with President
Wilson.
IF Congress adopts the plan pro-
posed by Director General Hines and
President Wilson we will tie the rail-
ways up so tight they viii never run
again." he said
"All we can do is to prepare for the
battle The battle is coming and we
will be ready. We expect the rail
roads will be tied up tight in thirty
DAYS unless our demands are settled.
The railroad employees, he said
would back ITO man" the Plumb
plan for government ownership and
tripartite control of the roalroads, by
which they would be paid for with q
4 per cent bond issue, and added that
eventually the Plumb plan should he
extended to the coal, steel, packing
and all basic industries.
President Wilson, said Mr.. Jewell
listened sympathetically to what the
union officials had to say regarding tht
situation, and appeared to recognize
its seriousness, but did not indicate
any intention to recede from his att
| tude that he had not the power tt
| grant the increases.
A defense of the Plumb plan was
| issued by labor unequivocally anC
| formally demanding that private
| capital be retired from the railroads
A tripartite control, composed of the
public, the operating management ant
the employees, is demanded instead.
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PITH OF T Fl E
VICTORY NE W S

War Department has received from
British Government $35, 176,123 in
payment for balance due United
States on war accounts.
Robert Lansing, Secretary of State,
was heard by the Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee on the treaty of
peace and the League of Nations
covenant.
Austria's counter proposals to the
peace treaty terms protest against
territorial losses and the amount of
the debt imposed. While the Aus
tran delegates intimated they would
sign the treaty in any event they
hoped terms would be modified.
Allied forces that landed at Omega,
North Russia, were repulsed.
Viscount uchida, Japanese foreign
minister, has Used statement in
Toxic in which he declares Japan
will withdraw her army from shan
tung and return the province to
China when China agrees to certain
conditions not enumerated.
Thirty thousand Rumanar troops
enter Budapest and are reported to
have at once began plundering and
killing civilians. Hostages have been
taken by the invaders, who announce
they will shoot five of them for every
Rur9anian slain.
The seven Republican senators who
formulated series of reservations
on the peace treaty resent being
called "mild," declaring their pro-
visions meet all the objections of
the treaty's opponents.
Field Marshal Haig and Admiral
Beatty are to be made earIs and
granted 100000 each as a reward
for their war service. High titles
and money grants are to be be-
slowed upon other British leaders.
With grand naval pageant on the
Thames Great Britain celebrated the
fifth anniversary of the mobilization
of her battle fleet.
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Estate Summer School Closes.

The state summer school at Ocean
City ended its sessions after the most
successful year in its history. The
was more than 1852, according to DIR.
L. d. Sensor, director of states sum-
ner schools Handsome silver medals
we're awarded the following for prof.
cheney in work: Drawing, Miss Dalla
Barber; manual training, George AL
len; physical training, Miss yencentia
Young; sewing, Mrs. Emma Barth
Cook. The medals are the gift of the
Board of Education.