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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13
Record Wheat Crop
 And Solid Prosperity.

IMATITH the world needing iron,
 w steel, concrete and lumber in vast quantities for postwar rehabili- tation the industrial situation in the United States will soon become nor nal, and before the end of 1919 an era of unprecedented prosperity will be in full swing.
 Financial conditions are funda- mentally sound and it will not take las long as some economists have thought to smooth out the dislocation of business caused by the international conflict.
 As the basis of normal business the United States has a great winter wheat crop. It promises to be rec Iord breaker. Weather conditions could not have been more favorable. There is a nine hundred million bushel crop of winter-sown wheat in Isight and with the spring wheat added the total production will be well over billion, possibly billion and quarter bushels. In the last decade wheat production totaling be- tween six hundred and fifty and seven hundred million bushels was the rule, but the rate of increase has been steady and we soon began to count on considerably larger yields. In 1914 we reached the high water mark of | 891 ,017 ,00O bushels, and in 1915, for the first time, crossed the billion line Il ,004 ,277 900 bushels. 1 The outlook for corn production is good. Food of all kinds will be raised
 in great bounty and the farmers will
 be more prosperous than ever. Humanly speaking, everything
 tends to make this booming year, and 1920 should be counted on for the
 very top notch of prosperity. Ss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13

county's quota is one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Arthur C. Crowder, county chairman, will perfect his or ganization within the next few days, and an intensive effort will bring us to the goal ahead of time.
 Every governor of every state is taking an active interest in the Salva- ton Army enterprise and the public spirited leaders in every city will be ready to cooperate earnestly with the team canvassers. Birmingham is one of the strong strategic points for per manent home service and headquar- ters activities. The effective machin- cry in evidence here is a civic and moral asset of incalculable value. Let's put forth our best endeavors and bring Birmingham contribution up to the total expected by the middle of the coming week
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13
HOW STOP LYNCHING.

From the New York Evening Sun.
 Every one agrees that lynching should be stopped. The existence of E. Hughes made irrefutably plain in his address before the conference on lynching, gives the lie to our institu- tions of justice and of individual rights But how put an end to it?
 One resolution proposed in the clos ing session of the conference differed from the rest in asking no new laws. It called simply for a fund of s14. 900. 900 or so, such as could be raised if every negro in the country contributed dol lar With such a fund many things could be done to stop lynching. The dollar fund idea may indeed be inn practfca ble. To raise the needed sum in such small units and from a popu- lation so widely scattered would take enormous exertion. The history of dol lar funds gives no warrant for the be- lief that such a plan would succeed if literally carried out.
 At least the attempt to raise it would have one profound effect. It would arouse sentiment against lynch- ing among the masses of the negroes themselves. The negro has reached a point where he must be expected to back his own claim to the protection of the law. A right maintained by it's possessor thrives better than one guar anteed by his we'll wishers.
 fund raised at least in large part from the contributions of the race most directly interested could do a great deal to bring lynchers to account. The prosecution of a few recreant sheriffs and the conviction of even one lynch ringleader through the power of such a fund would go far to destroy the base popularity of a practice as de- praying to the population and to the law as in view of the laws punitivv provisions it is officous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13
LIKE M,LIIKE SAYS.

The only sure thing we know of right now is that women do not wear seemore skirts in order to give other women an eyeful.
 You may have notices that good be- havior and good luck always run as an entry.
 The easiest way to please woman is to shut your mouth and listen. And this is also the easiest way to please man.
 About three months after the happy day man begins to realize that he talked too blame much during the en- gagement
 Do not take yourself too secriously. The fact of the matter is that you are considered more or less of joke by others.
 Funny how cheerfully man will pay $2 for round Of drinks and then kick like blazes about paying 22 cents for groceries.
 Men do not understand women. And women do not know so much about men that they are not fooled occasionally.
 A man has enough will power to keep from going to church. But he hasn't enough will power to quit smoking.
 It may take two columns to describe what the bride wore. But all you need say about the groom is that he wore a C. B., C. B. meaning, of course. con- ventional black.
 A man of 50 doesn't know half as much as his 20-year- old son. But the little that he does know is true. Wives do too much unnecessary wor- rying. The fact of the matter is that 3 man wouldn't marry his stenographer, even if he was free to do so. It is a safe bet that if the charges against you are serious enough people are going to believe them. Another queer nut is the fellow who gets lot of satisfaction out of believ- ing that the rich never have any peace of mind.
 Any married man can tell you that a wife will agree with you just when you do not want her to. It is a compliment to say that wom- an is pretty. But it is an insult to say the same thing about a man. Any old hen can stop a street car. But it takes pretty girl to flag an automobile.
 The old-fashioned family that con- sisted of man. wife and a growler now consists of man, a wife and a beer brewing plant. If a girl meets you on the street three times in an hour it isn't an acci- dent. May be she likes your last name
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13
QUAINT REMEDIES OF PAST.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 In old time Philadelphia some quaint remedies were used.
 Thus we find pokeberres used to make plaster for a cancer. Grapevine sap was used for a hair tonic.
 To produce sweat. tea was made from magnolia leaves The berry of this plant was supposed to cure consump- ton.
 For the tootache the bayberry root was an accepted remedy Berries of the cedar tree were supposed to stiffen the spine. A purge was made of alder buds or of elder berries.
 Goldenrod, the mullen plant and even the lowly burdock were laid under trib- ute for various maladies It is hard to find a common weed that was re- jected by the eighteenth century phar- macopoea
 The grandmother of all the Philadel- phia quacks was beldame by the name of Sibylla Masters. who 200 years ago made a fortune by the patent and. sale of s'Tnscarora rice' for consumption.
 1t was nothing more or less. appar- ently. than hominy made from Indian corn.
 Her husband put up a water mill somewhere near the city to makeeit. She was an innocent-- practitioner compared with certain modern prof. teers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13
THE HARRISON-BLAINE FEUD

seemed for long period to be in the en expressed the highest regard for the Secretary and his pleasure at their satisfactory mutual relations. But the breach finally came; it was inevitable under all the circumstances With great depression and tone of regret Harri- son said to me on March 20 that no matter whether he remained with the administration or left it, MT. Blaine. had permitted himself to become "a disturber and an unfriendly critic He felt that this attitude was the result of systematic machinations to which he had yielded, and believed MT: Blaines protracted ill-health had been taken advantage of.
 As the date of the Minneapolis con- vention drew near the expectation of MT. Blaine's resignation and avowed candidacy for the presidency increased. Going into the Presidents room after luncheon on June 4, 1892, he said, Well the crisis has come" and hand ed me the letter of resignation. After brief talk. the President stepped to- his desk and wrote an autograph forthwith" acceptance, saying as he expressed in the note, that MT. Blaine had left him no alternative. I took the note to the Blaine residence, stepped into the hall as the door bell was an- swered, and handed it to the butler. The family were at the lunch table. The standing alone. In few moments [ heard MT. Blaine say, Well I am no longer Secretary of State" Whereupon not to hear more. l opened the door andg took my departure. Within a very short time the afternoon extras announced the not unexpected event.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13
NEUTRAL MORESNET
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 m Y the treaty of peace Germany Is lH to recognize the full sovereignty of e Belgium over ''the contested terri tory of Moresnet." Thus curious little blunder of the congress of Vienna is rec tified. Southwest of Aix-h- -Chapelle lies the little triangular tract called Neutral Moresnet. In Napoleon's empire the dis trict known as Moresnet belonged to the department of the Ourthe. The Vienna inexperts meant to parcel it out between Prussia and the Netherlands. On the map they drew through it line about whose northern terminus at a point where the departments of the Ourthe, the Roeure, the Mouse come together, there was no difficulty. About the southern end their clients squabbled, and their descriptions in the treaty were at variance Prussia swore by enc article; the Netherlands founded its title upon another In mid occupying some $50 acres The fortunes of this strip depended upon wh ot the two articles prevailed The con, ss had larger questions and regions to (. 5. pose of Between Moresnet of the Nether- lands and Moresnet of the Prussians Neutral Moresnet was set up to be admin istered civilly by Prussia and Holland.
 After the division of the kingdom of tha Netherlands in 1880 into Holland and Belgium, the latter took its undivided half in the government of Neutral Mores- net Till the war of 1914 the coins and stamps of both countries were good in Moresnet. The two nations administered it jointly, splitting the taxes between them. There were no railways, forts, troops. A hurgoma ster, from whom lay appeals to Prussian or Belgian courts and who was subject to supervision by a Bel gian and a Prussian commissioner, was the potentate of Neutral Moresnet and it's $500 souls. Of these about one-eighth, happy descendants of the inhabitants in 1S14 paid no taxes higher than those Of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13

The mere fact that Los Angeles is called upon to defend it's climate now and then creates suspicion that a. Los Angeles fog leaves something to be de sired.
 The boys of the 167th will finish their festivities in Mobile today and they will probably feel like long rest after three eventfui-days. * I: <
 Birmingham's decorations for her re- 1t will take several days to get them all removed
 Charley Chaplin says he depends on his small size to win sympathy from movie fans. This, of course, does not apply to his feet.
 The imbattled vets needn't think they can sidetrack the peace treaty to get a hearing for John Barleycorn in Congress
 # + s. At any rate there are 15,0O0,000 100 per cent Americans in this country. That number of citizens bought Victory bonds.
 q < 4 Of course it's too bad that Silesia doesn't like the peace treaty. but just where does Silesia come in, anyhow?
 # # # The league of nations is not a new idea, but it's the biggest thing of its kind ever attempted
 # # x The NC-4 is getting a bad start. but she may yet set the pace as the Ameri- cans enter Portugal
 < # < German walters are reported anxious to return to England. They needn't expect to receive pre-war tips.
 $ s. < In the meanwhile, just how much safer is Russia for democracy than it was month ago?
 The silence of the former Crown Prince may be due to a desire not to court ex- tradition.
 Apparently Berlin has stopped dancing to roar a protest against the peace terms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13

that year, and were not subject to mili- tary service. There was countil of ten. ambitious name; a committee or benefi cence, and so on; but the burgomaster was the mighty man of the district. A. single policeman, facetiously called the. secretary of war, preserved order; not that there was anybody to disturb it, but Dogberry. as the representative of n brace of kings, was necessarily busy and an anxious parsonage.
 A place of many tongues, if but few people. Dutch, Flemish, French, Ger man. Walloon were spoken; and even little Russian and Italian, for there were two Italians and one Russian in residence according to the latest cen sus; nicked and scratched by it's neigh bors, the German of Neutral Moresne. was one of the queerest and most un- ineligible dialects in the world. Neu-
 tral Moresnet was also called VieilIe Montague, Altenberg, Old Mountain. though it is but humble hill. From time immemorial calamine, hydrous sili- cate of zinc, has been found and worked there. Kelmis the capital, is named after calamine, and the favorite flower of the citizens of Kelmis is a certain yellow violet, which they deem the unerring token of zinc. &
 Queer little town of pink, brown, and yellow facades, where the charivari is concert for the unmarried, and the most popular music at these open-air concerts is that made by scraping great scythe against the tire of a revolving wheel" And what place for outdoor debate, eloquence, invective! MT. Rob- ert Shackleton, that fortunate Philadel- phia lover of out-of-the-way places, re- member hearing morning quarrel with the milkman" in Neutral Moresnet; 'Rnd. such are the geographical advantage7 of the place, not only the Neutral Land. ! but Prussia and Holland and Belgium as well, listened perforce to the womans side of the argument.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13
Need of Auditorium.

If we had an auditorium there is no doubt but that we could get several large conventions that we do not get now, said Commissioner John R. Hornady. We could have secured the NatSnal Medical association for next year. That would mean that about 5000 delegates would be here and they would spend a large amount of money in Birmingham. We will need it for the southern Bapr~r convention we hope to get next year and there are many others that would come here. Birmingham, you know, is the cen ter of the cotton producing states and is the logical convention city of the south. We have excellent railroad facilities. We need that auditorium. a million dol lar one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13
NO .sIR JOsEPHUs"

From the Chicago Herald and Examiner.
 It is reported that Secretary of the Navy Daniels has declined title at the hands of King George. On the theory that titles in this age tend to create class distinction, Mir. Daniels was quite within the popular concep ton of his own countrymen. For any country to confer honor on great ex- plorer, such as Peary. would not dis turb any American. but to extend the granting of titles to our government officials is another thing.
 In Canada the feeling against ths acceptance of titles is as keen as it IS here. A special committee of the Can adan House of Commons recently rec commended the discontinuance of knighthood of Canadians living in Canada. and favored Vhe abolition of hereditary titles. Eveh in Great ,Bri- tain there is feeling that the honor business. is being overdone.
 "Any system that does not extend titles to the wage earners. who give of their best to their country and hu- manity generally as freely as do the wealthy. isNwrong." says the Toronto Globe.
 Canada has in it's citizenship many honor.'' notably Alexander Mackenzie. 1. once premier. who said. ''I prefer ts
 --t as have lived. as Alexander Mas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13
Sane Reform In
 Smokers and Such.

TT HE Chamber of Commerce O smoker, to be held in the ball.
 room of the Tutwiler tomorrow night,
 will be we'll worth while. It will be
 on the line of sane reform-nothing long drawn out, nothing tiresome. The chamber is getting ready for
 a membership campaign. Prof. Harry
 Clark of the University of Tennessee,
 Knoxville, will make an address on j'Your Duty to Your City,, and Dr. | N. A. Barrett, president of the com
 mission, and Rabbi M. Newfield will
 make short talks. The meeting will begin at 8:15 and will adjourn at 9:45 o'clock. Every one who attends the smoker will be privileged to ask questions, but there will be no solicitation for membership It will be distinct get-together gath Iering, and will mean much for the civic betterment of Birmingham.
 President R. A. Brown, the new head of the Chamber of Commerce, expects far-reaching results from to- morrow nights affair. # a * The Chicago News cannot under
 nation views with previous utterances because a dry nation means more tea and more tea means the domination of the tea producers, hence the yellow peril in new form. * x :. While the literati are squabbling over the original of Mir. Pickwick, the ordi- , nary reader may go on enjoying him without caring particularly where or how Mir. Pickwick came into being. < * a. If Italian critics of the President have time to read American newspapers ><hey !, will discover that so far as the Plume question is concerned Woodrow Wilson | is America.
 l Pershing is said Ito be making his last trip to the German front prior to | the removal of his army of occupa-
 ton. Soon comes his invasion of Lon don.
 # # x 1 The old battleship oregon is soon to
 go out of commission as a useless hulk. but there was time when the very name Oregon" thrilled nation. l E * * Occasionally an encouraging piece of
 news comes from abroad. The soviet gov-
 ernment of Budapest is said to be look l ing for a soft place to fall * # x Predictions of trouble in the Wilson cabinet have been heard before so that the Glass Redfieid incident may be re- gardcd with complaisance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13

Col. E. W. Halford in Leslie's.
 M AIR. BLAINE desired that his eld- M est son, Walker. should be his SVS first assistant. This I strongly seconded for obvious reasons But more on Blaine's account than because of objections of his own, as the President viewed the matter, Walker was ap- pointed examiner of claims. This re- suited in a ranking that never healed Later in the administration, Mrs Blaine made personal appeaTto the President for the appointment of their son-in- law. Col. John $. Coppinger, to a vacant brigadiership in the army. This would necessitate the Jumping of numbe CT of senior colonels, for which there was no reason other than a personal one, and the President felt such action would subject both MT. Blaine and him. self to serious criticism. He was conn., pelled to decline Mrs. Blaine's request, and she said with much evident dis pleasure You had a chance to please us once before, which you did not do," referring to Walker. It is needful to say that when the President explained the reasons for his decision to MT. Blaine, the Secretary fully concurred with him. In her Life of Blaine" Gail Hamilton reveals the inside" personal feeling that had developed against the President. and which could but have had increasing influence upon the Sec, retary's mind.
 Mr. Blaine was Secretary of State for more than three years. It required time to weaken the strong and appreciative friendship between the two men. When at his best Mr. Blaine was an attractive and generous friend. The hope ex- pressed to me by General Harrison NY hen ha decided unnn his annOin tme
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13
Money Should Pour Into
 Salvation Army Fund.

l VERY money-raising campaign s for patriotic and humanitarian purposes has been successful in high degree and the appeal for the Salva- a tender chord in the public heart that will result generously from one end of the land to the other.
 The amount asked for-thirteen million dollars for the United States is small when the varied and exten- s;ve scope of the Salvation Army's work is considered.
 The campaign opens next Monday and will continue a week. Jefferson
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13
Reduction In Courts
 Would Be Calamity.

M T largely attended meeting of GA the Birmingham bar yesterday morning unanimous protest was made against the proposal which has been made for reduction in the number of the judges of the circuit court of Jeff ferson county.
 A committee of which John F. Till man is chairman was named to 20 to Montgomery to appear before recess committee of the legislature to pre- sent the protest formally and to ex- plain the hardship such reduction would inflict upon the courts here
 The protest is we'll taken. Every taxpayer would like to see a reduc- tion in the states expenses, but it is apparent that the expenses of the courts here would be actually in- creased instead of diminished by add ing to the already great congestion of the dockets.
 The population of the county is in- creasing very rapidly, so that the cases on the dockets are sure to in- crease rather than diminish in num- Der. Every lawyer in the state is familiar with the very large percent age of the entire litigation of the commonwealth which is handled in the local courts. At present there are 10 judges of the circuit court. One of them handles chancery matters only, two handle criminal cases, one is stationed at the Bessemer division of the court, which leaves but six judges to handle the tremendous civil dockets of the county.
 By a careful division of their work the circuit judges have been able to get the dockets into fairly good con- dition during the past few months, but lawyers familiar with the court situation claim it would be little short of calamity to reduce the number of judges and thus invite the possibility of allowing the courts to get showed under with work and bring about a congestion which it might take years to untangle.
 Some of the most prominent mem bers of the local bar have gone to Montgomery to make their protest and it is earnestly hoped that it will be effective and that the courts will not be embarrassed as is proposed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13

raphical description of the rapid trans formation of a civilian youth into the first-class fighting man who was able to defeat the products of the worlds most perfected fighting machine is an epic, when read with sympathetic un- derstanding
 It may be noted that soldiers let ters and diaries give sidelights on phases of the war, sometimes not cov-l cred by other sources of information.s The German soldiers, it will be re1s called, were encouraged by their goy-R ernment in the earlier part of the war to keep diaries, many of which came to the hands of the French from slain or captured boches. When the Ger man government made emphatic de- nial of the charges of atrocities in France and Belgium. some Frenchmen carefully collated these diaries of Ger man soldiers and made photographic reprints of them. The civilized world was then ready to take at their real value the official German protesta- tions of innocence, when from the note. books of German privates. cumulative evidence was produced of the inhuman deeds done by the Kaser's soldiers and the atrocious orders issued by his officers. It is not improbable that when William Hohenzollern and oth -ss CTS are brought to answer for their misdeeds. some of these diaries may figure as exhibits" s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-13
Suggestion For New viaduct.

q think that the Rainbow viaduct is well worth the time we had to wait for it." said Judge W. P. McCrossin, flor it is built on a roomy scale and will be able to care for the heavy traf- fc it must bear. But I think there ought to be painted at once wide white line down the center as guilds to those going and coming. If this is done without delay the public will soon learn to observe it and it will do away with drivers clinging to the middle of the bridge or crossing from one side to the other. I hope the city commis- sion will attend to it.''