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Arizona republican., 1919-07-13
NOTED FRENCH FACE" KILLED

PARIS, July 10.-Lieutenant Jean Navarro. who was one of the first aces among the French aviators during the war and who was withdrawn from the service because of his eccentric esca- pades, fell while flying in the vicinity of Versailles this afternoon and died soon after in military hospital He was about to land at the airdrome at Villacoublay when, in trying to avoid a collision with other machines, his airplane crossed.
Arizona republican., 1919-07-13

It makes no difference what your wants may be, you can have them sup piled by using and eading The Repub- lican Classified pages.
Arizona republican., 1919-07-13

the oil pan.
 there is any play it is easy to feel 1t with your fingers where the shaft en- ters the bearing. But chances are you will not tackle the job of tightening this. for the alignment and adjust ment of a main shaft bearing in most cars is a repair shop job.
 You may find shims there which will enable you to take up the slack your self. or you may find the engine must be taken down to do the job.
 If you can work the engine by talk ing hold of the fly wheel, the bearings are not too tight.
 But it is something to know yourself what is the trouble.
 Main bearing knocks are dull, heavy pound
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
TOBACCO
From Life.

from Llte.
 But tobacco has lots of friends It may not be any too healthy and may not contribute to the highest develop ment of the human experiment. kbut millions and millions of people find their patience with life materially sup ported by it. It smells bad in some forms to some people. but it ruins no families. It costs money, but working men do not blow in their weeks earn ings on Saturday night in cigar stores. It injures some people but destroys few, and is regarded bS many as probably beneficial.
 The w. c. T. U. may be game to fight 1t and annihilate it if possible. but the W. c. T. U. is not really a very formid- able concern. The Anti-Laloon league, which has a, lot of punch. will think a long time before it starts to knock out tobacco.
 If the millennium comes, tobacco will probably go. But so will advertising, newspapers, doctors, ministers and lots of other aids and troubles to the exist ing phase of life. If tobacco goes then, it will go in large company. But pending the millennium. we are likely to keen it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
WHO READS "DoN auIxoTE.,

From the Christian Science Monitor
 One wonders probably Knowing none whatever by personal observation, how many people nowaday read Don DuiXote." He rides in literary refer ence, and reviewer of a recent vol ume on The Art of the Novelist speaks of the novel as one whose flame remains undimmed after the lapse of more than three centuries and seems destined to survive the best of our con- temporary fiction" As for fame, the statement might be made also of Mil ton; but to what extent, one wonders, is either Cervantes or Milton actually taken down from the shelf and read? "'Don Quixote.' says the reviewer. Creates and develops character with such profound sympathy and insight that it's critical purpose has long since been forgotten, and we read it today as a great human story and pathos and humor of which has as vital an ap- peal now as it ever had" But who are
 'we"?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
Few Pay Poll Tax

Investigation of the poll tax and registration records at the courthouse show that only 35 per cent of the reg istered voters in Jefferson county are under 45 years of age, the other 65 per cent, because of their age, being exempt from the payment of poll tax
 Dr. Courtney w. Shropshire made the investigation. and in speaking of it at the Civitan luncheon yesterday he said:
 'In the registration of the draft men between 21 and 45 there were HOO registered at the courthouse; qualified voters, 300. One hundred and twenty were under 45 (poll tax age); 1SO. or 65 per cent, over poll tax age There are approximately 10000 men who can vote in Jefferson county From latest reports only 1S.o0o registered or qual- flied, and 65 per cent of these are over poll tax age.
 "In the offices of two of our large corporations there are 25 men in one, with only 0 who registered and paid their poll tax, and in the other there are IS men, with only eight who have qualified as voters.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. I7T1HosE who are wondering how it Is
 that any number of people believe
 = the nonsense talked by Foster. the steel-strike agitator, and by Margolis, the legal representative of the strikers in Pittsburg, forget that the revolutionary type of mind is given over to para doxical acceptance of wordy formulas which take the place of facts. There is nothing new in this. Marx predicted that the middle class would disappear in Eu roper and the facts are just the contrary, while the middle class in America has been the backbone of the country from l776 on Foster is not the first one, either, to say that changing the industrial fac tor brings on 9 Utopia. For instance, take this dialogue from " La Bodegan of Ibanez, which describes the fanatical spanish anarchist of the period of 1903:
 And the doctors?" asked a voice from the rear df the hall.
 'The doctors will go, too affirmed Salvatierra with his cold tranquility.
 There was a murmur of surprise and amazement, as if the public that admired him was about to burst into ridicule.
 "Yes; the doctors, too, for on the day that witnesses the triumph of our indus trial revolution diseases will cease"
 And feeling that his audience was about to explode in an outburst of incredulous laughter, he hastened to add
 Diseases will cease because those that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
CREDULITY OF EXTREMISTS

now exist are due either to the ostenta- their bodies require, or to the fact that the poor eat les sthan is necessary to the sustaining of life The new society, dividing the means of subsistence equit- ably, avoiding surfeit on one hand and dearth on the' other, will balance life and do away with disease.@
 And with such conviction, such faith did the revolutionist infuse his words, that these and similar paradoxes imposed silence, being received by the believers with the same credulity as that which the simple medieval audiences listened to. the enlightened apostle who announced the imminent reign of God
 What Salyatierra said is no crazier than what Margolis and Foster have been say ing. That these leaders believe their incredible stupidities and are able to mis- lead the minimizing is, of course, the de- pressing side of it all For again, if one turns to La Bodega.' which describes Spain of 190s but that still exists un- changed, what chasm separates the life among the best of the working people over there, where as Ibanez said the other day, democracy is yet unborn" from the worst over here! If our radical novel-reading public win but stick to Ibanez, if for only entertainment they may learn a thing or two, and that, after Fall, America is place worth living in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
LIKE M,LUKE SAYS

If mans wife was a stranger to him and happened to meet him for the first time. she would be surprised to find what good fellow he is.
 When you are right. you can afford to keep your temper. And when you are wrong you can't afford to lose your tenn -per.
 Most any married man can tell you that it is never too much trouble for his wife to hunt for it.
 Any married man who has date with queen downtown can tell you that woman's place is in the home.
 Spoiled stomachs and spoiled children are always demanding things that they can't have'
 A lot of skinflints go through life hiding their meanness and stinginess be- hind that respectable word economy
 When a girl first gets her engagement ring she discovers that it is not good form to wear gloves when you are in a street car.
 paper man is that you do not have to waste any time examining your roll when you hear that there is new coun- terfeit Si0 bill in circulation.
 If may take a married man two days to make up his mind to do thing. But it takes his wife only two seconds to make up her mind that he isn't going to do it.
 Your debtors do not seem to care if you never get any mailA But it is diff ferent with your creditors.
 There are still lot of old-fashioned tads who believe that any man who needs two knives to eat one meal is a dude. When a woman wears a pound of rings on her fingers and pound of paint on her face. you get the impression that her iewelry is about as real as her com Ilexion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06

quarters now used for city prisoners.
 Yet it is somewhat of a paradox that a community which boasted one of the finest jails in the country, found it somewhat of an elephant on its hands and is now the object of an unfavorable report from the state prison inspector, who seems to think we are operating something akin to a pig sty without the sty's ventila- ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
The Girl Was Right

T had quite funny experience few days ago and one which made me feel quite young again." said George M. Cluikshank, census supervisor. q was or my way to my office in the federal building when it started rain- inS very hard and as I didn't have an umbrella l stopped in the arcade at Saks. Very near me I noticed a young girl and a boy talking seriously and in few minutes I heard her say, You don't make any more than I do and you know two can't live as cheap as one I don't think I'll give up my job to try it. Realizing that that state ment was not meant for me and not wanting to be an eavesdropper I walked away. but honestly I am still wondering whether or not he per- suaosd Ter to do so"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
Exemption. of Soldier.

EX-service- men of Birmingham and Jefferson county who are waiting on the result of the election the last of the month before paying their poll taxes. UT claims of exemption. will have to show their army discharges, stated James F. Hawkins, county tax collector.
 '"ShoIld the people of the state decide by their vote to exempt ex-soldiers from paying poll taxes from the time they en- tered the service until October, 1923, there will most likely 6e rush on the office oi the tax collector, and to facilitate mat ters in handling the .large number ex- pectel to claim exemption. great deal of time can be saved by the men bringing their discharges with them to the office of the tax collector"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
Census Enumeratcrs to
 Receive LiberaI-Pay

II N former decades the census emu @I merators received three cents for each person counted. That was con- sidered ample, and there was no diff Ificulty in securing all the men needed. But the high cost of living has changed the situation.
 In many sections of the country supervisors were finding it impossible to obtain enumerators at the old rate. In order that the work of taking the census might proceed on time, the bureau has increased the pay to four cents. It may not be easy to fill up the ranks in the great cities, even at the new rate, but there will be no Likelihood of the census in any state going by default, for the act of Con- gress gives the bureau the right to extend the allotted time if necessary. 1 The first census was taken in 1790, and the total population of the United States was only 3,929,214. In the census of 1910, the total was 91,972,- 266. The population included that of Alaska and Hawaii, but not Porto | Rico or the Philippines. It is esti- mated that this years census will find the United States with population of 1os,ooo,ooo.
 There has been large urban in- crease, and many cities will show ex- lceptionally large growth.
 1 New York is far ahead, of course. It is estimated at about 5,750, ,O00 Chicago will cross the 5000, ,OO0 mark. In the new census the rank of cities in regard to size will show, as a mat ter of course, many changes. The leight largest >cities in the last decade included Philadelphia, third; St. Louis, fourth; Boston, fifth; Balti- more, sixth; Cleveland, seventh, and Pittsburg eighth.
 Pittsburg will probably outstrip Cleveland, and Baltimore will prob ably go ahead of Boston.
 The enumeration will begin on Jan uary 2.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
BLUNDERs OF NovELIsrs

From the London Chron1cIe.
 Baroness orczy, in "Petticoat Gov ernment," makes the crescent moon rise over the far eastern sky at Il o'clock on June evening; and Miss Stevens. in The Veil" credits her full moon with rising and setting in less than three hours!
 But toughest of all bulls, Is that ere ated by Miss Marie Corelli, when. in her Treasure of Heaven.' she tells of somebody "bringing home eight High land bull-heifers from pasture"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
ADRIFvp WITH THE TIMES
WHAT THE DEUCE.

Iris surely pity Frcm Mexico City
 We're getting such garbled reports; "Alls quiet at present And everything's pleasant
 The railroads. the banks and the
 courts. The bandits are fleeing, A sense Of well being
 Is remarked by officials of state; Carranza's unburried And not at all worried
 Enjoys. a bull fight or debate" But just when we're ready To believe all is steady,
 A glaring headline meets the eye, And we read, scarcely breathing, The whole country's seethingA
 All previous reports were lie.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
Not Too old to Wed

I had a curious experience on trip l made last week back to the old home stead of the Fort family in Georgia, stated Judge William E. Fort. T had just reached the old plantation when white-haired old negro, now past 80, and one of the fixtures of the planta- tion met me. I had known him when 1 was just boy, and he had travelled trip back to place of my youthful days.
 "I thought this old negro had been dead and buried long ago, but he was still very much alive, although his sight was almost gone and he hobbled along withs crutch. The surprise came when I asked him how he was getting along. "Massa William" he said, i've two is gittin long fine yassa, jes' fine. She's de best oman in de world Questioning him I found the old fellow had just about two years ago found a mate and had married. asked him if it wasn't mighty late in life for him to be getting married ] spects it is, Marsa William, but we is bof settled and mighty happy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06

The Ohio man who says he spent % in tips in ono hour after arriving in New York hailed from Chinicothe and natu- rally wanted to make taxicab bandits, porters, doormen, walters. barbers, man icure girls and the like think a million a minute meant nothing to him.
 # # x
 A Chicago man. Sol Goldberg. who made fortune by putting the hump in hairpins, was recently swindled out of ;4oooOO for a fake patent. As a rule, confidence men steer clear of a wealthy individual whose first name is ssol." They don't want to be trimmed themselves.
 New York has a show which is said tc be-or to have been before the storm broke-the last word in nudity. Is it necessary to add that seats sold like hot cakes for s1O?
 otHdtoI ANtHbGitN 9 pAte Ol ltoN 6uhNJ will be according to form. How is the man higher up to know what his base hi-elings are doing contrary to the laws of God and man? # + <
 Another perusal of Ibsens Ghosts has convinced us that there may be tre- mendous amount of light reading matter falling from the presses, but Ghosts" is not in that category. % S E The reported capture of Villa by fed eral troops appears to have been greatly exaggerated. "Pancho" is still enjoying the pursuit of happiness and Carranzis- tas
 If the comic supplement must go to conserve paper, let the heavens fall and the dry-as-dust editorial writers make the most of their opportunity.
 # < *
 If William Gibbs McAdoo is nominated for the presidency, he may count on the enthusiastic support of Mary and Charley and Doug"
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 With lights turned off. downtown streets at night are canyons of gloom, wherein the most respectable citizens may be mistaken for d stickup man.  It takes all kinds of people to make a world. including the kind who think an ideal Christmas gift is a framed picture of male movie star. < # # The speed and celerity with which Car pentier sent Joe Beckett to dreamland Hon. Dempsey. If the Roosevelt brothers succeed in making the coffee house take the place of the banished saloon, they'n soon be paying a laundering income tax, # # < Well done. my son." says King George i tc the Prince of Wales. who met swarms Of North Americans, both in Canada and the United States, without offending one. # < #
 Back insthe days when Cain slew Abel men didn't wear teeth with union 1 label.
 # # 1 Emma Goldmaps threat to come back as Trotzky's diplomatic representative is threat and nothing more
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
A SNAPPER SNAPPED.

'T snap my fingers at this government.- said the bolshevik, haughtily. as he reached into his whiskers and pulled out a bomb.
 Just so, spoke up quiet young man who had been following the hairy one for weeks. q have a pair of steel brace lets which will now proceed to snap on your wrists He who snaps last snaps best. Let's go."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06

BEGINNING THE DAY--O God. our ears are dull and our memories are short. Thou Speakest and we hear not. or if we hcnr we treasure not In our hearts. We praise Thee for Thy Nvondrous patience, for over and over Thou bcndest to our poor understanding and our heavy senses. Speak yet again, Thou of infinite ove.-H. Nj. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
FICTION

From Life
 nor. clever repartee. daring. cool nerves. athletic skill. magnetic presence, an in satiable thirst for adventure, The sue cessful author has none of these; he has-imagin gination
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06

V ton by w. M. Hughes, prime minister Of Australia, that his country was determined .to .maontain It's traoi- tional policv of a White Australia l policy as firmly grounded there as IS the Monroe doctrine in the United States again turned the attention of the world
 toward the remote and unique continent says a bulletin from Washington head-
 quarters of the National Geographic SO
 cisty.
 Ut is not that Australia despises imml- erationJ' explains the bulletin, which IS based on communication to the society from Herbert E. Gregory. Tt is rather
 that she has clung to her ideal of a homogeneous people of British origin. | Australia is disappointed that of the four large areas which offer congenial homes for people of European blood namely, Australia, Canada, United states and rgentina--Austraria alone is passed 1 by, while the other three favored reg ions have received Europeans by nun dreds of thousands. She saw the unieSu l Estates receiving in one year O9lS) l,lsf,- 1 Se2 people frob abroad. more than the entire net immigration to Australia ior the preciding 5S years, and in another
 year ds1O, enrolling four times as many people born in the United Kingdom as
 were living in Australia
 uAustralia is the most isolated Of all inhabited continents and is remote rom
 the center of all of thef worlds actiVleies Northward the sailing distance to Japan lis ,appr6ximately 5000 nautical mies' 70 IrtiAa. sa smiles. South America IS sVe' ] ,,,3l ese; @<e east, and Africa an equal l tE}s,fzf bx the Suez route traverse ,s,s..,.3s ss2 mics of water and by l ,xf 6 j3sS.,,al IA. .5s2 miles. From Cal sy!d5x " TN the routes via Samoa, or N, <ktti cover quarter of the lsa sof the earth, Australia's
 svilized neighbor within a 1 ,@;a miles in Java.
 {lnent lying thus far out Solites -oAf~ss.a is rare tl5s& %..1 sty Americans. For most ? #NA{3He his fascinating land to,a1 ed study of a few pages tx%& Ax1 tei}aas geographies-page d tix6f Aaatralia and New zes ElSnh aceonlpanied by a map l sf 4kSA1d the Islands of the Pa ..cifc ofa e gco small for the xacoa
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
NOT AMBITIOUS,

with another slO.OOO we can make this show success" said the optimistic pro ducer.
 My friend" replied the angel I'm merely interested in certain member of the chorus, not the star. Therefore my limit is $1O,oOo."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
smcetr nnd NemIyrcds


 New orleans was evidently the mecca for brides and Erooms during the past month,H said J. Reese Murray. head of the local Department of Jus tice. who has recently returned from his honeymoon, for the town seemed full of them. After spending several days in the Crescent City we decided to go over to Pass Christian for while. I phoned over and made reser- vation at the hotel and when we got there we found several honeymooners there, howevere they didn't think we were newlyweds.
 f'Of course. we were pleased at this, but I let the cat out of the bag the first day we were there at dinner. The dessert wasn't sweet enough for me. so asked Mrs. Murray if she didn't want some sugar on it. and she replied. 'Of< course not; I don't like sweets Then the other newlyweds started laughing at me and one said. You can't fool us any longer. If you had been married any length of time you would have known your wife didn't like sweets So since everyone knew about it We all joined in and had happy time while there"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
A WHITE AUSTRALIA"

>tor in the Southern Hemisphere. Itssarea
 is equal to threefourths of Europe, ono
 third of all North America and one
 fourth of the British empire.
 "The continent is almost exactly tho
 size and is nearly the shape of the
 United States.
 '"The traveller in search of duplicates oa
 the Canadian Rockies, the Yosemite. the
 Grand Canyon, of Norwegian fiords and
 Alpine scenery, need not visit Australia
 Its mountain scenery is that of the
 southern Appalachians, the White noun
 tains and the low ranges of Arizona
 It's plains and plateaus are comparable with those of the Rocky mountain foot hills and the arid expanses of Utah, Ore
 gon and Idaho; The blunt granite cap.
 of Mt Kosciusko, 1928 feet above sea,
 is the culminating point of land. A
 half dozen peaks reach the height of Mt
 Washington. and something like. l per cent of the entire land area rises as high as the Catskius.
 That the size and form of land
 masse nearly as large as Europe should have remained unknown until ITO is most remarkable.
 Cautiously enough, the establishment of the first colony on .the new-found continent is an episode in the history of the United States. It was proposed by the British government to utilize the land as home for the loyalists (toriesH
 who found fife in the American colonies uncomfortable at the close of the revolu- tionary war. They were to be supplied with land and money, and Malay slaves OF English convicts were to be provided
 as laborers Fear of the French fleet and the re- moval of many tories to Canada led to
 the abandonment of spms, but another use for Botany hSys Wes Soon
 discovered. Place nrwst f6tnaf for undesirable citizens. w6ds fnre erev- olution, had been sent to i&s4 1t the
 rate. of 10Oo year.s and @auth Wales met the requireHl&4t I< his tory of Australia begins %1 year 17ss. when 1885 convictsss> Try escort landed at Sydney Q
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-06
SILENT GRIEF.

Q.ines to F. Goldman and A. Berkman.) Farewell, Emma, faYewell, Alex,
 We hate to see you go; Wen weep a year, but not a tear Upon our face will show.