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Lietuva. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-1920, 1919-06-14
liandijos likima lures Rusi-
jos steigiamasai susirinki-
mas.
Lietuvai ir kitons
autonomija.

Link Lietuvos, Latvijos If
kitty Rusijos krastu Kolca-
kas Omsko valdzios vardu
uzreiskia sekanciai:
I "Mes esame linke tuojau
IruoStis prie isrisimo klausi-
mo link likimo tautiniu CRU
Ipiu Estonijoje, Latvijoje,
Lietuvoje If Kaukaza ir W.
kaukazijos salyse, If mes TIL
Prime visas priezastis tik6ti,
kad ivyks umus klausimo is
risimas, ir permatome, kad
nuo sio laiko, valdzia SUI
teiks ivairipms tautystems
autonomija.
"Atsitikime, jei kitty ne
fsusipratimai isrisimui klau-
Lsimu link ivairiu tautysciu,
valdzia paslryzusi kreiptis
prie bendradarbystes ir ge-
rq uredq Tautu Lygos."
Tolimesniuose savo uzreiS
kimuose Kolcakas, vardu
Omsko valdzios pasizadejo
moketi skolas, kurias Rusi-
ia turi svetimiems kra-
STAINS; stengtis, kad bezia-
miai butu aprupinti zeme,
If kad Rusijoj- -jau nehas su
grazinta tvarka buvusi prie
caro- laiku. q
Talpgi uztikrlno, kad Ru
sijoje bus ivesta lygybe
prizes istatymus visu Rusijos
lpilieciQ. Girdi, neziurint
Ipaejimo nei tikybos visi ly-
giai bus globojami.
! Talkininkq atsakymas.
Paryzius, birzelio 13 d.
ETaryba keturiu didziQju tai
kos konferencijos vardu da-
We atsakyma j admirolo Kol
cako uzreiskimus.
Talkininkai, abelnai pae-
mus, prielankiai atsines6
link Kolcako uzreiSkimu pa.
zad6jo remit Cmsko valdzia
kovoje prizes bolsevikus. Pa
rama bus teikiama daugiau.
siai ginklais ir maistu bei
siaip reikmenimis. \
Prize to talkininkai pabrie
re, kad begyje IL menesi,
: bclseviku veikimo, pamatf
jog nera galima tureti san
tykius su Maskvos sovietais
) Talkininkai savo atsaky
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
Q CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN:

By Walt Whitman.
 o Captain. my Captainl our fearful
 trip is done. ~. The ship has weathered every rack, the-
 prize we sought is won. The port is near, the bells I hear. tho
 people all exulting, eS While follow eyes the steady keel, the
 vessel grim and daring; -- But o heart, heart. heart, e. o the bleeding drops of red ~ Where on the deck my Captain lies. x Fallen cold and dead . O Captain. my Captain. rise up and
 hear the bells: Rise up-for you the flag is flung.
 for you the bugle thrills, For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths
 for you the shorcs a-crowdinr, For you they call. the swaying mass.
 their eager faces turning; Here, Captain, dear father.
 This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck ~, You've fallen cold and dead My Captain does not answer. his lips
 are pale and still
 My father does not feel my arm hs
 has no pulse nor will The ship is anchored safe and sound.
 it's voyage closed and done. From fearful trip the victor ship comes
 in with object won: +( ENult, O shore. and ring. 0 bells,
 But I, with mournful tread. Walk the deck my Captain lies.
 Fallen cold and dead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
Promise of Greatest
 Wheat Production

1 TN the winter wheat belt weather
 O conditions have been exceptionally favorable and there is promise of new high record in this years harvest. The largest yield was in 1915, when | it went slightly above the billion bushel mark That was the highest record year, but unofficial forecasts
 for 1919 call for crop of billion and a quarter bushels. In the wheat states where large leccps a;e the rule acreage planted last
 fall was increased to small extent, but n Alabama and certain other isouthcrn states where the growing of wheat had been neglected there is considerable increase in acreage Last year Alabama harvested about enc million three hundred thousand bushels. This year the production  should be greater; but the soil of Ala bama is well adapted to wheat and in the future five million -bushel crop will be considered fair average.
 The United States department of agriculture urges every farmer in the
 south to plant not less than five acres to wheat. If this advice were com- piled with all the flour consumed in
 Alabama would be of home produc-
 tion.
 Export demand will be as great this ] year as it was last, but a billion -bushel
 crop will easily meet all requirements i-domestic and foreign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
From the Nashville Banner.

From the Nashville Banner.
 N N editorial article in the Mont N gomery Advertiser nearly a S = column in length, on Ala bamas Neglected Literature" reverts to simon Suggs," from whom Col Henry Watterson lately made some unique quota tions, to Jere Clemens Mustang Gray" the debates between great orators in the days when seces- sion was mooted and some later bio- graphies; but it leaves out all men ton of Alabama's most successful writer, Mrs. Augusta, Evans Wilson. Her novels had great vogue all over the United States, and, to some extent, throughout the English speaking world some 40 or 50 years ago. She is now falling somewhat into oblivion, if not neglect
 There could probably be found a number of men in Alabama, and also some elsewhere, born in those days having the appelative "St, Elmo" as q sentimental substitute for good, honest Christian name.
 Possibly the Advertiser doesn't con- sider that Mrs. Wilson's books were literature, and proper standards might sustain that view, but she wrote 'best sellers" and no other Alabama writer ever had equal celebrity.
 And she didn't go down to the level of those who now write best sellers" and play for the popular favor. Her style was really ambitious and decid- edly pedantic. She represented a girl 16 years old, while star-g gazing, as OK claiming: Perish the microcosm into the limitless macrocosm; sink the feeble earthly segregate into the boundless, rushing coral aggregation"
 Mary Johnston. who would probably resent the idea that she was ever any thing but a Virginian Sojourned for a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
Attending Preachers, School

"I am just in from attending a preachers school at Phoenix City,'' said Dr. James F. billiard, pastor of the Southside Baptist church. "It is a part of our organized work as Baptists to hold each winter series of preach CTS schools throughout the state that we may render service to many of the fine country pastors who are unable to come to Howard college or take a course at the Southern Baptist Theo- logical seminary at Louisville, Ky, but who are anxious to get in touch with those who have had these oppor- tunities. It was out of this need and desire that the preachers schools were born"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
ALABAMA LITERATURE

while in Birmingham and began her career as a novelist while that city was her home. But Mary Johnston is nots neglected" and the Montgomery Ad-~ vertiser never has acknowledged that , in any respect, not, physical or for- taxing purposes Birmingham is rcaliX7
 part of Alabama. -G And then the Advertiser might have said something good in behalf of T. c DeLeon of Mobile-Cooper DeLeon, hes was called by his intimates. He pos
 sibly didn't really 'break into litcia-
 ture' but he wrote some "clever skits,' as he might himself have said ot others writings of a similar charac-e
 ter. His burlesque of Amelia Rives'
 popular erotic novel. "The Quick or
 the Dead" appealed sinsibly to the risi-
 bles of the nation.
 Alabama has not been "in the push"~ with Indiana in the literary business"S of late years but there have been some good things to her credit in the past that should be preserved. The AdSer-
 tiser is right in urging that the rarew and\ wholly unique humor of the lioz-
 neerl writers should be preserved. A
 That paper also urges that the de-Ss bates between Yancey and Hilliarl. were as great as those between Linr- coin and Douglas of the same era. Per-.s haps so, but Alabama was not "a plvo-
 tai state,' as Illinois was, the Con
 federacy failed and, though the far'e of Alabama's great secession oratof~ still lives, the cause he .representei
 was discounted by subsequent events.
 He didn't get on the pinnacle of fame
 as Lincoln did. 2s
 And there are marvelously few po-| litieal debates before, popular audi-
 ences that have lived in literature, that are even readable 50 years afters however much they may have stirred the people who heard them delivered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15

From the New York Evening Sun.
 17N a world made over it is clear
 that the old standards cannot long S survive. It is gratifying to see the first bright beams of the new ioy-lifs flashing above the horizon. Fittingly enough, these first sunrise beams havo the glint of pure gold, heralding the universal rise in salaries presently to be observed by the dullesf eye.
 MT. William Gibbs McAdoo made an agreement with the so-called Big Five" in the national movie combina- ton under which he was to receive, as general counsel the nominal sum of s1oo.o00 as annual salary. But dis hatch to the World from Los Angeles brings the cheering news that this inadequate compensation was imme- diately doubled "by the unanimous consent of Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D. w. Griffith, raising his salary to s20o,o0o per annum." William s. Hart is stiil holding out from the complete organ ization of the Big Five" but since his objections are concerned only with better terms for himself, the matter of honorarium offered to the general counsel of the combination is probably not affected.
 Quite apart from the thrill of joy which must jingle through the least avaricious salaried worker, whose greatest efforts to make ends come within two feet of each other for the past five years have been only partial ly successful, at the prospect of a gen. eral expansion of the periodical com plimentary stipend which, in an im- perfect world, must still receive some careful scrutiny by the most altruistic the whole body of American citi- zens who have enjoyed, in various de- grees, the adventurous career of Mir. McAdoo in the treasury departm n |, twill congratulate him on so soon rind- ing a niche becomingly lined in which to display his varied accomplish ments.
 The only drop of anything save hon ey in his cup may be the hateful pos- sibility of his party calling him to bear it's standard in the next election.
 Of course. with the Presidents sai- ary halting at beggardly $T5.00o. il would be he height of impudence for the democratic national committee to make any advances to the general council of the Big Five" But it Will probably turn out that the new day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15

been fought. So long as the human equation enters into the conduct of nations there will be a possibility of war. But there is every reason to be- lieve> that with the league in operation the danger of bloody conflict will be not only lessened, but that any thing like the possibility of a titanic carnage will well nigh reach the van jishing point.
 All lovers of peace with honor should welcome as an epochal event, at any rate, the formation of the league of nations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
THE MOVIE STANDARD

will diffuse it's generous sunshine of more money" so widely that even tn he, salaries of politicians, of all orders will be burgeon and bloom like ths rose of Sharon. In the new world, where things move quickly from bes-~ ter to better, the standard set by tle national movie must be made the nas, tional standard, even if it takes an-4 other amendment to the once well known constitu ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
LUKE MLUKE SAYS

During the opga@ement fellow and a girl do nothing hut spread the saive and throw the bull. But after they are married they lose all interest in those great indoor sports. The fellow who is willing to give your money to the poor gets mad when you suggest that he might give little i of his own.
 All women may be alike, but the fact that you can't get married men to believe it is what keeps the courts busy.
 One of the most enjoyable experi- ences in life is to wake up in the morning with a dynamo in your head and "a doormat on your tongue, anl ] then have your wife inquire to know where you got the ladys handkerchief f that she found in your coat pocket. A woman will paint herself up like a circus wagon and then get mad bc- cause she attracts the same kind of as- tention as 8 circus wagon. Give two men 10 drinks and table l in a cafe and they will settle the bvsi- ness of the peace conference in less , than an hour.
 Of course the girls will keep right on powdering. But it sure makes a i fellow mad to find his coat covered , |. girl.
 , A lot of society women seem to get
 1 married merely to avoid the necessity
 | of having a chaperon along when they
 1 are running around With other men. 1 Some night when you start out to a show together she is going to ask you
 ] to carry her powder rag in your pock ct
 1 for her. And when that happens ~yeu i are goner You might as well beg.i 1 reading the installmentf furniture ad-
 vertisements and prepare to do son.o
 i buying.
 | Why is 1t crime for an unmarried I girl to be 30 years old when it is all
 /, right for an unmarried man to be- io years old?
 l It's mighty hard to get girl to ap-
 | preciate one of your jokes when sh 2
 knows that she wrinkles her nose when ] she laughs
 l And the man who doesn', advertise I is always blaming his hard luck on the administration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
League of Nations
 To Safeguard Peace

7F1 HE text of the constitution for G the league of nations, read by President Wilson at meeting of the plenary session of the commission in Paris yesterday, appears in full in today's Herald. It has been eag- erly awaited and will be read and dis cussed the world over.
 The executive council of the league will consist of representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan. It will meet as often as may be deemed necessary, but at least once year" to consider and deal with any matter affecting the peace of nations. The President of the United States will have the honor of calling the first meeting.
 It is provided that the admission of states not signatory to the covenant shall be with the assent of not less than two-thirds of the states repre- sented in the body of delegates and 'shall be limited to fully self-govern- ment countries" and no state shall be admitted unless it gives satisfactory guarantee to observe international ob- legations, and unless it shall "con- form to conditions prescribed by the league in regard to it's naval and mili- tary forces and armament
 In the case of disputes arising be- tween nations (which diplomacy can not adjust the high contracting parties will not be permitted to resort to arms without submitting to arbitration or to an inquiry by the executive council and until three months after action by the arbitrators or the executive coun- cil."
 Had the league been in existence ia 1914 Europe would have escaped the bloodiest of all wars.
 It is sought by the constitution of the league to reduce armament to a minimum in the countries signing the covenant, and to that end the league shall have general supervision of traffic in arms and ammunition with countries in which such traffic would be against the common interest"
 The constitution of the league of nations has heen drafted by men of vision and statesmen of large experi- ence in international law. Even critics who may regard some of the provisions as visionary must admit that the document as whole is ably written and that it's note is clearly a note of humanity.
 Pessimists may say that the league might be all we'll and good if it were only of practical application. But why should it not be workable? p
 The Hast great war" may not have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
Will England or America
 Fly Over Atlantic First?

| 0UDGING from present indications, 0 flight across the Atlantic in an 'airplane has passed so far beyond the speculative stage that it is merely a question as to whether America or Great Britain will win this new honor in aeronautics. Nor it is likely that the transatlantic trip will be held in abeyance until weather conditions are more favorable. Experienced aviators scoff at the notion prevalent among the notifying part of our population that the season of the year, which means, of course, the weather, has anything to do with the hazards of the voyage.
 Capt. Benjamin B. Lipsner, forme:- | iy superintendent of the government s aerial mail service, has offered to wager S10,000 that he will make a transatlantic flight within 30 days, in i 72 hours, if permitted to use the !navy's flying boat NC-1. He has tel egraphed to Secretary Daniels asking that he or some other aviator be per mitted to undertake the flight at once, else America may not be tine first nation to send an aviator across lthe Atlantic.
 Capt. Lipsner declares that he has lpilots, a crew and financial backing and all he needs to insure success is the NC-1, which he regards as the log jical craft in which tomake the attempt. It is reported that the big flying boat 1 is being tested by naval aviators for a trip across the Atlantic, but Capt. l Bipsner states his belief that Rodman Wanamaker of Philadelphia has ob- tained control of the NC-1 and plans to let New York aviator, Lieut. David H. Mccullough, make the flight.
 Experts say that if the transatlan- tic flight is made the NC-1 will be used. It was recently completed by the Curtiss company, has speed of 80 miles an hour, a passenger capacity of 50, and is equipped with three Lib erty motors of $50 horsepower each.
 According to Capt. Lipsner, Gen. Sir William Brancker, British avia- tion expert, hopes to win for England the honor of making the first trans atlantic voyage in an airplane. He has available DeHaviland 10, equipped with two Rolls-Royce engines of 345 horsepower each, which de- velop a speed of 120 miles an hour and insure sustained flight of 2000 miles.
 As sporting proposition and ss an achievement that will have a far reaching effect on the future of aero Inautics the proposed transatlantic flight has absorbing interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
MMIAaentfH
MY LADY NICOTINE

From the New York Herald.
 Statistics supplied by :he war de- partment indicatin that 9J per cent oi the American eXpeditionary forces use tobacco in some form suggests that the radical reformers in their proposed campaign will find the adherents ol My Lady Nicotine harder to overthrow than were those of John Barleycorn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
Greeks and Sing Membership

We are making steady progress in our community sing membership campaign and it is noteworthy fact that every
 Greek who has been solicited has re- sponded readily and cheerfuly," said
 Mrs. W. J. Adams, president of the sing association. This speaks well in deed for the civic spirit of our citizens of 1 Greek birth.
 ''The Greeks of Birmingham have long
 been known for their sterling traits of character and now that those approac ched by our canvassing committees have made a 100 per cent record is new feather in their cap,' and should be widely her. alded.' Fr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
Hard Trip From Huntsville

T do not run down to Birmingham, my old home, as often as I would like to-, said Ed Johnston of Huntsville, but there is reason, for here it is I have had to be up greater part of the night to~get to the Magic City in the morning I certainly wish that something could be done to make it easier to visit Birmingham and for Blrminghamers to run up to Hunts vile. The schedules have had much to do in keeping my section and Bir- mingham apart"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15

BEGINNING THE DtY-O great Beginner and Sustaincr of wOrids! mighty NarsbaIler of the hosts
 of heaven and earth! I know Thy power; convince me of Thy care. Tell me that Thou art my Father and my Friend. Tell me that l may
 whisper the smallest things to Thee and that Thy heart is stirred. In Christ's name. &men.-H. VI. F..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
NEW WORD TO LEARN

From tile Portland Telegram.
 The newest word the American peo- pie must learn is "manda atories." We cannot know its full meaning in thG operation of government until it has been put into effect by the proposed league Of nations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
PRE-WAR BIOGRAPHIES

From the Rochester Post Express.
 The publishers of a new encyclope- dia advertise that the work contains "biogra phies of multitdue of re- spectable college professors Those biographies must have been prepared before theswar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
THE NEW PADEREwsKI

From the Louisville Courier-Journal4 4,-
 "Paderewski works So hours day" And you can remember him as the bored-looking pianist who responded te. an encore as if he really could not. stand another six miputes of hard 'a-'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
THE INCOME, TAX

THE INCOME, TAX Man in the stone age led the simple
 '~. life"
 That's true," replied the eminent cap- italist, thoughtfully. 'In those times when a man wanted to find out how much he was actuly worth all he had to- do was to make an inventory of whaG-as happened to be in his cave. Nowadays he never knows what he's worth untif-
  he's figured out how much he owes Uncle Sam" PAUL COOK. sez
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
HELPING THE VETS

From the PittsburS Dispatch
 Beer with per cent alcohol content, |. and wine with 10 per cent. is the Albany N. r., conception of satisfactory ''concur-1 rent legislation to make prohibition op- erative in the Empire State
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
What Does the Future
 Hold For Humanity?-

T HNDER a calm exterior President " Wilson, who is now on his way
 back to America, may carry a trou-
 Died heart. It was a glorious task he undertook in France-to make a new
 world He has won gratifying meas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
Member of the Associated Press

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
SUBSCRIPTION RATES

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
COMPARATIVE SUFFERING

COMPARATIVE SUFFERING Gas waves I stood In Argonne wood"
 A gallant soldier said. His face was white, woeful sight He sadly hung his head 'I charged the Hun From sun to sun
 And drove him from his nest Of steel and wire, And did not tire,
 Forgetting food and rest. "The bullets sang Where volleys rang,
 We battled with cheer: The foe we'd rout And raise shout
 Where do we go from here"' Now that seems tame, A childish game
 He rolled a ghastly eye; '"The doctor quick, I'm so seasictx , I'm just about to die"s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
RRITANNIA.s FAMILY

From the Knoxville Journal Great Britain is having more trouble with her scattered family than the old woman who tried to live in shoe and
 work downtown
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
Tough Luck For Joe

q was real amused a a recent let ter received from Sergt. Joe Burgin of Company D, 167th infantry. now in
 Germany" said Lee Mattingly, "as he complained of the tough luck he, had
 the war and had not ever gotten a scrato h and after the armistice was signed he had a fight with one of the boys and broke his hand. Although the injured member was giving him some trouble, he declared it would soon be we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15

WE SHOULD WORRY Though moralists sputter And cynics may scoff, The latter-day ladies Delight to leave off As much of their raiment As the law will permit. The semi-nude fashions Are making hit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-15
A THROWBACK

A THROWBACK DO you believe in the Darwinian the ory?"
 Yes,' replied the thoughtful citizen. Recent events have confirmed my be- iief.'
 How so-' The average boisheviki seems to be half man and half gorilla