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Washington Ranks First
In Tip Distribution.

To- VEN before the high cost of liv-
IL ing became topic for indig-
nant conversation tips were a heavy
strain on the American purse. The
United States Monthly Labor Review,
quoted by the New York Sun, pub
fishes some interesting statistics on
the gratuities received by hotel en-
ployes.
In the large cities walters get an
average of 1928 a day in tips. Wash
linton gives them 1897 a day; New
York $3.10 and indianapolis S1.16.
The average for hotel porters is 81 so
ia day Pittsburg heads the list with
$3.50 day, but the average in In
dianapolis is only Is cents. Bellboys
are given an average of S2.16 a day
and the luckless chambermaids re-
.ceive an average of only AZ cents, SO
cents in New Orleans and IL
cents in Omaha.
There are times when a hotel guest
honestly desires to reward a waiter
porter, bellboy or some other en-
ploye for good service, but in "a ma
jority of cases he simply submits to
what he regards as extortion. When.
instead of extra care and attention
on the part of an employee, he is treat
ed with incivility and is still ex-
lpected to hand over the usual tin. the
most peacable man on earth feels a
Itingling in his blood and registers a
primitive impulse oward violence.
The figures compiled by the Labor
Review offer a surprise in the fact
that Washington is apparently more
lavish in tips than New York, pop-
iularly supposed to set the pace for
RECKLESS spending in America. TIPS
for walters, of course, vary greatly.
Although the general average NAV
appear smaller than one would sup-
pose it to be, in those restaurants
where no self-respecting waiter would
look at quarter, the daily intake
must be much larger.
In sense, tips, whether given to
walters, porters, bellboys or chamber
maids, constitute the public's share
of the wages they receive. Often the
public is looked to for the larger
part of their wages, which is not
quite fair, but in spite of legislation,
protestation and indignation tipping
will continue as long as there are
hotels, restaurants and barber shops.
railroad trains and passenger ships.
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day from the tops of cliffs overlook
ing the wreck by fisher folk of a
nearby village who were helpless to
give aid.
No reader of fiction, comfortably
seated in his library, has ever been
able to visualize a tragedy more vivid
and terrible.
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From the New York Herald
I T must have given the author OF THE
Blue Bird" distinct surprise to
q find a squad of motor cycle police
men provided by the mayor ready to
whirl him to his destination in New York
at top speed and in defiance of the traf-
fic regulations Perhaps he suggested to
Nine Maeterlinck that those stories about
the materialism of the city could not be
true, seeing that the authorities were
actually treating them-a poet and his
lady-with the distinction usually accord
ed to visiting chiefs of state, heirs to
thrones, prime ministers and special atn
bassadors.
The only parallel to this ceremonial OBJ
servance in the case of an artist site
the middle ages is to be found in the
story of Auguste Robins famous Visit
to London. The committee of reception
had put a red carpet of the sort reserved
for royalty only on the steps. But the
famous sculptor arrived on foot and got
in by the back way, thus taking the edge
off the official tribute to himself, his
country and his genius
Mr. Maeterlinck, like that other SYM
bolist, Lord Dunsany, has good reason
to love America. Ever since 1890, when
Les Avenges'' and La Princess Ma
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-12-31
Regret to Lose JEFF

at was indeed with regret that We
gave up Jeff Bailey as secretary of the
Kiwans club said J. Mercer Barnett
but. as he had served in that capacity
for the past is months and had just en-
tered the insurance field we felt that
it would be an imposition to ask him
to give as much of his time as would
be necessary to the work of the club.
He is truly live wire and has sue
ceeded in putting much pep and en-
thusiasm into the local club while the
clubs he organized in Alabama, Geor
gla and Florida are among the-most
progressive in the south. Kiwanis is
one of his hobbies and I know he will
wake as good a record for himself in
his new field he has made in
Kiwanis and that is going some"
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MY PLAINS. OF AMERICA

BY Joaquin Miller.
Room. room to turn round in. /
breathe and be free
To grow to be great to san as II Sc
With the speed of the wind on a stee
with his name
To the wind. without pathway or rout
or rein.
Room, room to be free where tn
white-bo rder'd sea
Blows kiss to a brother as bound
less az he;
Where the buffalo come like Z clou
on the plain
Pouring on like the tide of storm,
driven main;
And the lodge Of the hunter to frien
or to foe
Offers rest: and unquestion'd you com
or you go.
Mountaivs of America. Seas Of will
lands.
From land in the seas in raimen
Of foam.
That has reached to stranger tn
welcome of home.
turn to YOU, lean toNyou. lift M
hands
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-12-31
THE DECLINE OF MUTINY


From the New York World.
The arrival in port of transport
with part Of its crew locked up for
mutiny again reminds asregretful pub
lie how greatly this savoryl speciality
of the sea has gone off in recent
years. Mutiny nowadays is about as
thrilling as a horse-collar factory.
Time was when the leader, barefoot,
knife in teeth, the red gush from the
cut in his scalp matching the flaming
kerchief at his throat, headed the rush
at the deck house over planks slip
perry with blood How has this gaf-
liant figure. shrunlS to the L. W. w. sea
LAWYER. spouting economic reform to
roustabouts and coal passers' Only by
the accident of their being at sea can
the high name of mutiny be thus be-
Titled
Pieces of eight there were of old;
doubloons, and moidores, and mllled
Spanish dollars, in hair trunk, buried
strike me dead, mate!-five PAGES
bearina nor -nor'wesr from the dead
topped tree The orficers--well, SOME
of them might be spared to navigate
the old hooker to the unchaT.ed cc-a.
reef. and them But now We have a
mutiny over an indecorollsly qualified
crap game! Long John Silver would
never have soiled his hand with such
muck: Stevenson would gliever have
writ good boy tales for Sunday schools
-: In 10 RI Rrrr-
sell would have taken to life insur-
ance first
Steam never killed romance at sea.
Better salt stories have never been
lived than the late war saw. But
mutiny, out of date, has stumbled on
a decline Sooner than stoop to such
doings. real tobacco-chewins able
seaman might better stop ashore and
panhandle Park Row.
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United States Navy
"Real National Guard"

NOLLIER'S WEEKLY. which is
~ noted for its crisp, well-writ-
ten editorials, combining no little
common sense with flashes of humoi
and occasional CLEANS of pure fancy,
pays inits current issue fine tribute
to the American navy. America is
such large country that to millions
of people who live inland and never
see ship, or smell the salt of the
ocean, our navy doesn't mean as much
as The army, which is something
nearer home.
Golfers says:
On December the recommends
lions of the general board of the
navy were published In. the abb
sence of international limitation of
ornaments the navy must be main
tanned at a strength second only
to that of Great Britain. Let's
keep the navy in mind always. 1t
is the great wall OF America. 1t
is the one guaranty against i'm
vasion; without its strength no
army can ever be sent abroad in
IfSse Of need. Sea power won the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-12-31
WELL THOUGHT OUT

From London Answers.
Willie came UP to his mother with
an expression of anxiety on his face.
Ma he asked, IF a poor little boy
was to come to the back door and ask
for something to eat, would you give
him that piece of applicant that was
left oven from dinner?'
Yes Willie. of course, l would, Z
said the mother gently.
Willies face cleared
"All right he said, Just wait a
minute til I run round to the back
doot-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-12-31
SAFETY

In other years we signed a pledge
And swore to lead better life:
promise made unto ourselves.
Our pals, preacher or friend wife,
But in those days temptations lurke
Wherever mortals CHANGED to stray
1t was not easy then to keep
Upon the straight and narrow way.
Our thanks, reformers all; you5ve Gle
Away the likelihood of sin;
No more do swinging doors invite
A wanderer to wander in.
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ANOTHER CRUSADE.

"on to Paris!" cried the American evan
gelist "our work lies therel We must
clean up that pest hole of wickedness,
that cesspool of sin. Pass the hat,
Brother snoops. This crowd is good for
at least $1,000 in cash and that much
more in phoney checks and promises
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GREATLY AFFLIcTEp

"why does this poor fellow keep d,
ing and lodging about in his celI?"
Most pathetic case, replied the asy
attendant. "He doesn't know, of cou
that the country is now bone-dry.
thinks he's cherry in cocktail
some woman is trying to fish him out
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-12-31
THE CORN-COB PIPE
From the Rome News.

4 IoIl lue nome NEWS
History moves in cycles. SO u
corn-cob pipe. It's coming back
popularity. One finds it on the stree
in the workshop, behind the polisha
doors of the bank directors rooms.
is an old friend. returning in its O
dress
The reason? just because, PEI
haps. Increased-inflated prices 4
cigars some charge-have driven tho,
sands of cigar smokers back to til
pipe. The briar, the meerschaum an
pipes of various clays and woods hay
t1sdr Following. But any of these d,
Totees are glad. once in a while,
pick up one of Mark Twain's favorit
bowls. load her up to the top. and pu
for the shore
The corn-cob pipe is cheap in pric
but is worth a potentate's pocket whe
IT comes to solid COMFORT. Watch IL
corn-cob pipe go by
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-12-31
AN oLD-T1MER.

Who Is the deerepit old gentlen
He acts as if he had some claim to
tinction"
so he has. He says he has docun
tary evidence to prove that he was
first man to tour the United states
petrifed Indian.
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EXPLAINING THEIR ABSENCE.

EXPLAINING THEIR ABSENCE.
Where are the people who put this
misit in public officer" beloved the
candidate for the gentleman's place.
will nobody answer"
Perhaps. sir" replied man in the
rear of the hail. who was warm adj
herent of the speaker, they were so dis
gusted with themselves for electing him
that they went off and bought kicking
machines and are now submitting to the
punishment they feel they deserve"
HER THOUGHTS WERE ELSEWHERE
"a beautiful girl dropped her handker-
chief yesterday and 1 picked it up for
her" said the sentimental man.
"Well?"
81 wish knew whether or not she
dropped it intentionally"
What was she doing at the time?"
"She was powdering her nose"
'Tt was unintentional"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-12-31

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lord.
! have withheld that is Thy own.
have held to the Holy Ghost about
surrendering. have safd 1 was
ihine, when l have kept Thee n
poor suppEant at the door begging
Tor aims. have given Thee the
iett-oSers. Nearly all | have used
for myseh.-H. NJ. e.
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QUITE BLAsE.

Did those classic dancers at the OF
house last night scandalize chigg{
vine?"
Nope. replied Squire witherbee. 4
amt. as pokey about here as some ped
seem to think. Our leading citizens
up to New York once year regular
take in all tn gal shows When it col
to shock absorbers. Chiggersville is alb
as well equipped as any town Of it's
in the country" PAUL CooI
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-12-31
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
WATCH YOUR STEP.

" \ INH fOU e 81 EF,
Beware the bootlegger,
The rascally knave
Who sells people poison
Fills many a grave
With would-be carousers
Who smoker and scott.
Then quaff of the fluid
That carries them off.
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Washington Bureau. 500 Davidson
Member of the Associated Press

TELEPHONE
Bell (private exchange connecting
all depnrtments) Main 1900.
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Remittances can be made at current
"a tie of exchange. The Age-Herald will
not be responsible for money sent
through the mails Address
THE HERALD.
Birminghan1, Ala.
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Entered at the Birmingham, Ala.
postoffice as second-class matter, uH~
Ter act OF Congress. March s, 1879
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Carbonated water was used to christen
the "chickasaw City" the first ship
Launched at the yards of the Chickasaw
shipbunoing company at Mobile. why
go to the trouble of having the stuff
carbonated?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-12-31

No communication will be published
without its authors name. Rejected
manuscript will not be returned unless
stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
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The beauty about original research
into traditions. legends. and customs
comes from the fact that after you
have waded into them and gotten be-
yond your depth and are about to be
submerged with a flood of authorities.
you are saved by being told that all
YOU have read is pure conjecture. While
the name 'Hogmanay" may be buried
beyond the hope of resurrection. do
not think that your time and mine has
Ebeen wasted for out of the weller of
authorities and the quicksands Of diff
ferehces there is one fact which stands
out uncontroverted. and that is that the
name has given to a gift bestowed on
those who asked for it on New Years
Eve.
/ .3nuNzxnZ ExAna~><n
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-24
SAY FALL PLANNED
TO MEET VILLA
carranza Chief Tells Of Alleged Cor
respondence-solon Brands State
mont as Lie-official Accounts Of
Robbing American Sailors Presented.


Mexico City, July z4.-official ac-
counts Of the robbing Of American
sailors from the U. S. S. Cheyenne
july s, and Of deaths Of Americans
were given out by Gen. Juan Barra-
gan. chief Of the presidential staff, in
the form of governmental dispatches.
One of these stated that the sailors
went up the river Temesi into rebel
territory. &a .
General Barragan also announced
that tomorrow there would be made
public various documents belonging
to the archives of the bandit Villa.
recovered in Juarez, and including q
letter addressed to Villa by Col.
Charles F. Hunt. offering Villa a visit
by Senator Fall and other persons in
an effort to aid Villas campaign"
Gen Ricardo Ganzales, chief Of the
Tampico garrison, in q dispatch re-
porting on the murder Of John W..
Correll near Tampico. June 16, stated
the murder was committed by Temesi
bandits.
He said he had ordered a pursuit Of
the outlaws and that four of the ban
dts had been killed and twenty horses
recovered in q fight at the bandits
headquarters.
Other official dispatches on deaths
Of Americans placed the responsibility
for the incidents In some cases upon
the men killed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-24
GOODYEAR COMPANY
WOULD PAY DAMAGES
Owner Of lll-Fated Blimp Wishes to
Afford all Care For Relief Of All
Afflicted - Marcus caIIopy, Bank

Chicago. July 24.-The Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Company. owner of
the ill-fated dirigible which destroyed
thirteen lives when it crashed thru
the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank
building Monday. has issued state
ment saying:
Irrespective Of what the investiga-
ton may disclose we wish to afford all
care for the relief Of the afflicted"
The company wished to assume all
damages caused by the crash Of the
airship. ,#
The inquest, which was adjourned
yesterday, will be resumed Friday,
when Recommendations for stringent
measures prohibiting flying over large
cities and licensing Of pilots will be ad-
vocated.
Marcus Callopy. foreign teller in the
Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, died
at $50 p. m. yesterday at st. Luke's
hospital, the thirteenth death from the
burning Of the dirigfble "Wingfoot'
over the loop last Monday and the
plunge Of the engines and blazing
wreckage into the bank.
Callopy was covered with blazing
gasolene when the tanks Of the air.
ship exploded in the bank.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-24
COMMITTEE HEARS REPORT.
Official Confirmation Of Brutality Of
Officers Given BY March.

Washington, July 24-The special
house war investigating committee
which yesterday heard read war de-
partment records showing that three
commissioned and five non-commis-
stoned officers had been courtmaritaled
because Of brutal handling OF Ameri-
can prisoners at camps and In and
near Paris. today were considering the
advisability OF calling aaci!!ona. W.T.
nesses.
The report submitted to the COM
mittee yesterday by General March,
chief Of staff, give the first Official
confirmation to reports of cruel treat
ment by their own officers Of Ameri-
can soldiers In France which have
created an indignant stir in congress
sional circles.
AS 1t has been charged that while
only officers OF lower grades were
convicted and their superiors allowed
to 60 free. the investigation by the
COMMITTEES. it Is believed, may take e
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-24
ARMY PLANE
STARTS 5000
NILE F[|GH1'
To Cross Thirty-one .Ststo
in Tour Around Rim
Of Country.
TO MAKE JOURNEY
WITH CREW OF FIVE
Flight Longest Ever At4sWse4sd IN
United etatss Army Air ssrvise
First Leg q Trip From Wastln01eeo
70 Augusta, Mes-Fridsy's Nsyaooe
From Augusta TO .Clsvsland-vfio
Pass Over Ninety five citiss. III

Washington. July 2l.-An army
bombing plano carrying a crow Of fivcs
commanded by Lieut.. Col r. s. Hartxs
left the ground here at 10 q. m. on tho
first leg OF flight Of nearly 5000 miles
around the rim Of the country. Tho
night stop Is scheduled for Augusta
Me-. $50 miles from washington.
Tho flight II the longest ever att
tempted by the army air service and
win carry the machine thru thirty-ons
states, over ninety five cities and cov-
or long stretches Of the Atlantic, Pa>
cific and gulf coasts as well ~ the
Canadian border.
First Stop Haxsihurst Field. I,
The first stop today will be at Hasale
hurst Field. L. !. Tomorrow the Airs
men will proceed from Augusta to
Cleveland. $50 miles.
The general line to be followed wi0
carry the machine in order to Duluth.
Mimi: Seattle. Wash: San Diego
Calf: San Antonio. Tex: Miami. Fla-s
and back to Washington. The actual
measured distance Of the route 10 1906
miles.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-24
Shipping Board to Con-
struct Two Largest Ves- :.
sells Ever Built.
LENGTH 1000 FEET;
SPEED THIRTY KNOTS
Monster Liners to Bs Of 5000 Gross
Tons and Have Carrying Capacity Of
5000 Passengers and Crow Of 1000
Equipped For Use az Commerce Do
stroyers in Event Of War-WilI Have
Cruising Radius Of 1000 Miles.

Washington. July 24.-Two gigantic
ocean liners. larger than any ships
now afloat and designed to cross the
Atlantic In four days, are to be built
by the shipping board. They will be
1000 feet long and of thirty knots
speed and will be equipped for use
as commerce destroyers in the event
of war.
Announcement was made today by
the board that plans for the ships had
been completed and that work on
them would be started in the near
future, 1t is proposed to provide a
special terminal for them at Fort Pond
Bay, Long Island, and 1t may be that
two similar liners will be constructed
later.
The ships which are to be built
under the supervision Of the navy de-
partment, will be fifty feet longer than
the famous Leviathan-now the largest
ship afloat-and will have gross
tonnage Of 5000. Their draft win be
thirty-five feet. depth seventy-four
feet, beam 102 feet and accommoda-
lions Will be provided for 1000 saloon
passengers, 500 second cabin pas
sengers and 1900 steerage passengers.
Cruising Radius 1000 Miles.
The crew will number 1000 officers
and men and the ships will be Of the
oil-burning type with cruising radius
of 1000 miles, which will enable them
to complete a round trip ON the At
lantic without loading fuel overseas.
They win be driven by four propel-
lors on which will be thrown the
strength Of 10000 horsepower.
s In order that the vessels may be
converted into commerce destroyers
in time of war. gun. emplacements will
be built on the decks and the after
deck will be constructed with a view
of, transporting 1t into a landing and
launching place for seaplane.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-24
WOULD oy sr ALIEN ENEMIES.

House [, don Also Would Bar
Foreign SIS From, coast~iss Trade.
Wast 6 IN. July 24.--Included In
lesislr which the house expects to
dispos. before the house recess will
be a bill for the deportation OF 500 en-
emy aliens now at internment camps
and measure to prevent foreign ships
from engaging In coastwise trade. A
tentative legislative slate was agreed
on at party conference OF republicans
last night but framing Of n definite
program was left to the steering COM
mittee for n report at another confer
ence next week.
Efforts OF some Of the house repub-
licans last night to increase the steer
ing committee from five to seven or
nine were voted down. A recess OF a
month. to begin In August, practically
was agreed on but all committee In
quiries now under way and contemplate
ed will continue during the recess. Pro-
posed new inquiries include that into
the Mexican situation and an investi-
cation into the operation and expendi-
lures Of the shipping board and en-
ergency fleet.
The conference was reported to have
been harmonious.
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that the president had known for sew
eral days of the existence of the let
ters of former President Taft suggest
Some Of the senators with whom Mg
Wilson has conferred recently have
been in communication with Mr.. Taft
on the subject of reservations and II
was assumed that the pormer presi-
dents suggestions were discussed al
some Of the White House conferences
President Wilson had no engage
,ments today with republican senators
for discussion Of the Treaty and the
league covenant
The former presidents communica-
ton to the Nebraska senator was not
made public, but 1t was understood to
be OF the same general tenor as those
sent to the repuDlicans-suggestions
for agreement upon treaty reservations
or interpretations to facilitate ratifi-
cation.
Administration Leaders Oppose.
Senator Hitchcock and other admin
istration senators declared today, how
ever. that for the present, at least.
they would continue their efforts for
AdlIllCdIAOu WlIuOOI TcScIVdllOASs GA
pressing confidence that there was no
question but that the treaty would be
ratified. they said the fight now CEN
tered on the resolution accompanying
ratification. in which would be embod-
led any reservations or interpreta-
tions.
Contending that senate rules require
q vote on each article Of the treaty,
the administration leaders said they
believed they had the votes to defeat
amendmes~< to any section as a simple
majority ont would be required.
Conceding that strength might de-
velop to compel acceptance Of ratifi-
cation resolution, with qualifying
clauses. the administration senators
said they had not yet been advised by
sPresJdent Wilson whether he would be
disposed to accept any interpretations.
kwas said. however. that the admin
istration would oppose to the last any
qualifying clauses which would re-
quire negotiations Of the treaty.