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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-25

From the Louisville Courier-Jou rnal.
N n ATTAIN STRAUS, philanthropist.
dN wants to be mayor of Jerusalem
when Palestine becomes again the
homeland of the Jews
There are sundry reasons for doubt
ing that Palestine will become densely
populated by Jews, and dear to Jewish
millions as the land of their racial birth
restored, but there is not the slightest
room for doubt that the administration
of Mayor Straus would be beneficial to
Jerusalem.
Unhappily the Holy City is one of the
hlthiest municipalities in the world.
American missionaries who go to China
via the Golden Gate picture Canton as
the drtiest of cities Those who land in
Japan are surprised, and somewhat dis
illusioned, when strange doors suggest
tive of neglect of sanitary measures as
kohama and Kobe Travellers who go to
Algiers where goats and Arabs mingle
in the greatest profusion in the native
quarters and where indescribably ragged
and unkempt African negroes beg and
loaf in the streets, believe that Algiers
must be more unclean than any other
city. They visit Biskra and learn that
there is little difference between per-
fumes Arabic in different North Agrican
towns and cities. Society folk who go
to Egypt for their first dip into the color
full, impressive, majestic, squalid east.
find the Gateway Cairo, quite not
able for mustiness for mosques and ell
der monuments. Travellers to India via
Suez arrive in the sacred city, Benares,
more or less prepared by descriptive lit
era ture, and set it down in their diaries
as the foulest center of population. Globe
trotters declare Randy the only fairly
clean city of consequence beyond Glib
raltar, not forgetting that to see Naples
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THE POWER OF PROPAGANDA

Lueian a swift hrt,"nd' in hssis,s
~ and the serpent England
adroitly used it to fight Ma
poleon. However. it remained for the
Japanese in the Russian war to or
ganize and develop propaganda into
an exact and calculated science aimed
against enemy morale. 1t was a job
belonging to their regular staff scheme.
The object was to break down the
moujiks fighting spirit, that is his
red-seeing hatred. For instance the
Japanses systema tically respected the
most sacred of the Russian holidays
carefully giving the Russians advance
notice-and the Muscovites consequent
ly bought out their vodka shops for
a glorious day of alcoholic oblivion and
thanked the Japanese and not their
officers for the opportunity. Consid-
ering this substantial success of the
Japanese, it is interesting to remember
how Count White automatically re-
versed the tables al the Portsmouth
peace conference and by propaganda
campaign prepared the way for his
dramatic refusal to pay money In
demnity.
In the war against Germany the
propaganda ideas of the British car
ried the hall mark of superiority. Per-
I'M
their soil, we're too close to the Dit
terness of the struggle to sit down
calmly and to study out what the eff
feet Of bit of propaganda might have
in Fritz's mind by imagining them
selves temporarily as an average
Teuton.
The British campaign against the
German morale was superbly adriot- 1t
was beginning to count at its best
about the time our troops entered the
lines. We inherited their experience
and largely adopted their methods. We
showered the air with the printed
menus of our prisoners dinners We
signed and preserved" so that they
could be sent back to their families
within twenty -four hours after they
were taken prisoners. l myself saw,
in the Argonne, a batch of about 1000
prisoners coming back to the cages,
and about seventy per cent were car
rying these post cards. They had
| signed them before they had surrend-
| cred. The cornerstone idea Of the
British campaign was: Every item of
| fact issued to Jerry must always be
conservative and understated. The re-
suit of this policy was to secure the
German soldiers belief in what he
read whenever he found a pamphlet.
Day BY day maps and literature flut-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-25
TWENTY YEARS AGO
IN THE AGE-HERALD
Events Recorded July 25, 1899

The peace conference at The Hague end J
plan proposed for a pacific settlement
of all international disputes. 1t is stated
that both the United States and Great
Britain will not be found by the decision
to prohibit the use of the dunn dun bull
let.
An anti-Goebel meeting held at Bowling
Green, Ky, ended last night in great dis
order Pistols and knives were drawn
and brass knucks were flourished There
were many sore heads when a parson
finally stopped the fighting
A nine million dollar fertilizer company
to operate in the south is beng organized
at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York II
will include the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Chemi-
cal company which controls many plants
in the south. including several in Alabama
and Mississippi.
Washington politicians are still discuss
ing the appointment of Elihu Root as
secretary of war to succeed General Alger.
Mr., Root is an unknown quantity in the
capital
6
The long-pending reciprocity treaty
negotiations between the United States
and France were brought to successful
close at the state department yesterday
when Ambassador Cambon in behalf OF
France and Commissioner Kasson in be-
half of the United States affixed their
signatures to the reciprocity treaty. |.
will place the products of the United
States in France on the same basis with
those of Great Britain and Germany.
Today is Board of Trade Day. in Bir-
mingham. Elaborate preparations have
been made for the celebration and thou
sands of visitors are expected. Senator
Morgan. Representative Underwood ANA
Governor Johnston viii speak at Capito'
park.
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is also to smell Naples, and that to drink
the native water or eat an uncooked salad
anywhere east of Naples is to invite
death, but the eastern city which stands
most in need of administration de-
voted to civic improvement is jerusalem,
a beautiful city in the perspective, from
the Mount of Olives, but terrifying as
well as depressing spectacle to a clean
and tinid westerner within its walls r
Mayor straus would complete the long
discussed water supply system and pro-
vide the city with adequate sewers. He
would investigate and reform housing
conditions. He would introduce the prin-
ciple of ventilation and the employment.
of sunshine in the interest of health. He
would bring to an end the age old Gus
tom of allowing the hideously deformed
and the loathsomely diseased to exhibit
their affections and collect contributions
from terrorized tourists. He would merci-'
fully sequester and succor the crowds of
lepers who. as wailing beggars, frequent
the streets and the country roads about
the city. He would round UP the cam
outage artists who simulate affliction
as means of living without work. He
would police the city so that after dark
the safety of the streets would not be.
as it now is, more than doubtful He
would. it is imaginable, control Mosem
fanatics whose occasional outbreaks have
resulted in INJURY to tourists visiting tha
mosque of Omar. AS a citizen of tho
Jewish republic he would participate in
reforms which would render it no longer
r ecessary for truck farmers within a mile
of Calvary to maintain watch towers
and even in daylight guard their vege-
tables against thieves presenting the sug-
gestive muzzles of long guns to passers-
by who might yield to temptation.
Mayor Straus of Jerusalem would have
plenty to do. That plenty would be ex-
actly to the taste of a true phiantppist
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-25
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

If nature happens to favor a girl with
a good shape the girl goes Naround acting
like she did it herself.
In every neighborhood the other women
wonder how long it is going to take
some other woman to get her eyes open
to what her husband is doing.
Any mutt can be up early in the morn
ing But it takes lot of hard work
to get up early in the morning.
Lots of men who wouldn't steal 10
cents from you think nothing of stealing
$40 worth of your time.
Anyway, women who make worrying
their great work in life are in no danger
OF running out of raw material.
We like to hear woman start in
apologizing because she hasn't anything
fit to eat We know that we are going
to get real meal.
DO not tell any man all of your secrets
The warmest friends make the bitterest
enemies when they fall out.
If a woman does it herself it is a
wash. But if the wagon comes and
gets it, it is laundry
Some married men are so happy that
they would have to get about $4,000, 00o
900 miles away from home before they
would feel homesick.
A fat mans idea of the way to eai
corn on the cob is to roll up your sleeves
and let the butter run down your arms
and drip off your elbows.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-25
SUNDAY MORNING

Margaret e. Sangster in the Christian
Herald.
The streets are silent, and the church
bells ring
Across the city like the silver chime
OF some forgotten memory. They bring
The phantom of another. sweeter time.
When war was all undreamed. They
seem to say,
Come back, come back, across tho
Years of strife
ITO One> who reaches out a Hand today
"A Hand that brings your dead again
to life!f'
A little white-ha.red woman hurries past,
tiny prayer book in one wrinkled
hand;
Her eyes are calm, as one who knows
at last
What only age may really understand;
That, as rainbow creeps across the
rain,
The God of Paris smiles above its
pain.
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Not Ingrateful, Surely

"No, sir, haven't been fishing since L
sold my car said Sol Caheen. in reply
to a question as to taking fishing trip.
when I owned an automobile | used TO
get invitations almost daily to go hsn-
ing the partv to use my car of course.
Now. as a matter of record, I wore out
two automobiles taking out these hshnS
parties and a few months ago sold
third one. AS another matter of record
haven't received one single invitation
to join fishing party since. What
the answer"
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4 GAME OF HEARTS

From the Kansas City Times.
President Wilson to Explain About
MISUNDERSTANDING.
AS we understand it was simply a case
of balancing the heartbreah of China
against the heartbreak of Japan and
the Japanese heartbreak won.
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BE MORE EXPLICIT. PLEASE

From the New York Herald. Is
Foreign correspondents are getting
reprehensibly careless Famous English
beauty having fallen through skylight
and broken leg, correspondent fails to
say which leg Don't want to have to
speak of these things again.
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Regarding the Census

There is less said about the popu-
lation of large cities now. as the time
for taking a new census, approaches
less in the matter of claiming than was
the case ten years ago. remarked p
f. Warren of Baltimore.
Every ambitious city was making
great claims in 1909. Few of them
came up to expectations. That is the
reason, / take it that there is less boast
ing of growth at this time. 1t is
deemed prudent to wait until the
census enumerators has been around.
Birmingham was one of the few cities.
as | recall it, that came out with
greater population than it had
claimed.
Recently Baltimore has annexed much
territory with a population of $4,000,
but as a rule throughout the United
States there has been little extension
of city limits since the last census
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TELEPHONE

o ruin'd piece of nature! this great
world
Shall SO wear out to nought.
king Lear.
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LOW RATING.

"on what grounds is she seeking a
divorce?"
THE testimony is a bit confusing"
"Yes?"
But 1 gather from her statement
that she's married to one-half of
one per cent husband"
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EXCESS OF CAUTION.

EXCESS OF CAUTION ~
1T takes Mrs. Gadspur to see the
bright side of everything"
"Wen?"
Heretofore Mr.. Gadspur has been
too lazy to fire the furnace himself
and has hired an indolent cullud' gen.
tleman to do the work. with the re-
suit that there was poor firing and an
alarming waste of coal"
IT see."
But since Mr.. Gadspur has laid in
a stock Of fuel for personal consump-
ton, he isn't going to trust any weak
brother in his cellar"
PARTICULAR ABOUT WHAT HE
READS.
This multimillionaire says he neve,
reads the articles written for him by
his press agent"
What do you infer from that7r
Maybe he has tase for good liter
ature."
AN EVENING SPOILED.
Did you enjoy the photoplay?"
No"
But it is said to be good"
And it may be, for all / can say.
I didn't know until I got inside the
theatre that the man l was with was
personally acquainted with the star
="
PAUL COOK
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the superior service, the large. airy
rooms and all that sort of thing?'
Nope. Just a group photograph of
bathing beauties who are now sojourn-
ing al the Seaview."
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THE DoDo,s PAST WORRYING

From the Dallas News.
OF course the bartender may not be as
extinct as the dodo, but probably he
feels worse about it.
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ksmittances can be made at current
rate OIL exchange. The Age-heraId VIII
not he responsible for money sent
through Inc mans. Address
IhE AGn-h E.RALD,
Birmingham, Ala
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No communication will be published
without It's auLnors name Rejected
manuscript Will not be returned unless
stamps are enclosed Tor that purpose.
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Washington bureau, z07 Hibbs bullu-
ink
european bureau, 10 King stFes~
Coyent Garden, London, w. Z. Z.
Eastern business Office, World build
ing. New York city; western business
office. Tribune building, Chicago. me
5. c. Beckwith Special Agency. agents
for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-25

OLD ACQUAINTANCE
Who's the old Teller with a scythe
almanac?" asked the new hired man.
You ought to know him." answered
Mr.. Cobbles, with a chuckle That's
Father Time. 1 suspect you've spent
most OF your life killing him"
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and SUNDAY newspaper in Birmingham
carving the Associated Press dis
patches.
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entitled TO the use for publication OF
all news dispatches credited to 1t d
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
All rights OF republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
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THE LURE.
80 you've decided to spend YOUR
vacation at Seaview Inn?'
Yes"
Il presume the management sent
you some attractive advertising mat
ter"
"oh, yes"
"Phamphlets extolling the cuisine
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MAYOR OF JERUSALEM
From the Lou

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
N n ATTAIN STRAUS, philanthropist.
| HNi wants to be mayor of Jerusalem
I when Palestine becomes again the
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Entered at the birmingham, Ala''
postoffice as second-class matter, UNI
der act of Congress, March s, 1879.
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Lucian Swift Kirkland, in Leslie's.
~ PROPAGANDA is as old as Adam
~ and the serpent England,
adroitly used it to fight Ma
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hlets extolling the cuisine,
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1t was great joy and privilege
to preach to such a refined audience.
After dinner Dr. Palmer and l walked
about the grounds and l saw much
that attracted me. l was particularly
delighted to find such a fine SWIM
ming pool and to learn that many OF
the girls become expert swimmers.
saw the basket ball and tennis grounds.
Great care is given to the physical we'll
being of the students The buildings
are commodious and one OF them is
an architectural gem. | speak of the
music hall The whole surroundings
are most attractive l came away
with the memory of delightful day
anl sure in the fact that Alabama is
blessed in having such a man as DR..
Palmer at the head of the A. G. r. L.,
and doubly so with such a charming
/ and cultured wife
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-05-01
RUSSIAN VOLUNTEER GIVES AN ACCOUNT
 OF RUSSIAN HORRORS

OMSK, Siberia, April 24.-A Rus sian volunteer soldier who took part in the battle of Perm gives the fol lowing narrative of what he saw in the village of Kouvchine, not far from Perm, where he was stationed during the fighting which resulted in the complete defeat of the Bol- sheviki:
 He was ordered to clean out three cesspools which were filled with the corpses of people who ap- parently belonged to the intellec- tual or cultivated class of the com munity. Many of the bodies bore wounds made with swords. He re- moved thirty corpses from the first pit, the ages of the victims rang ing from 16 to 50 years. There were several women among the vic tims All the bodies were naked There was reason to believe, in the soldiers opinion, that many of the people were thrown into the pits still alive and they died by slow suf location and from the effects oi their wounds.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-05-01
No. 32.
In bankruptcy. NOTICE OF FIRST MEETING OF CREnTT0RC

In the District Court of the United
 States for the District of Alaska Division Number One, at Juneau. In the Matter of Ben Bullard, Bank
 rupt.
 To the creditors of Ben Bullard, of .Taku River, Juneau Postofiice, ill Division Number One, and dis
 trict aforesaid, bankrupt
 Notice is hereby given that on the 2Sth day of April, A. D., 1G9, the said Ben Bullard was duly ad indicated bankrupt; and that the first meeting of his creditors will be held at the office of the undersigned referee. in the Cheney Building, on Front Street, opposite Ferry Way, at Juneau in the First Division of the Territory of Alaska, on the 10th day of May, A.D.. 1919, at o'clock in the afternoon, at which time the said creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint 3 trustee, examine the bankrupt, and transact such other business as may properly come before the meeting.
 Ii. B. LEFEVRE, Referee in bankruptcy, First Divi-
 sion of Alaska. Box 613 Juneau,
 Alaska.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-05-01
AGED WOMAN WILL SEEK GRAVES OF
 FAMILY IN FRANCE
Official Investigation Shows That Members of Her Family
 Were Slain by the Germans.

WASHINGTON, May 1.-An aged woman, who sold her farm near Bel laire, Ohio, is going to France this week
 She will seek for three graves that of her son on the Somme battle. field, and those of her daughter-in- law and her grandchild, who were executed by the Germans.
 She also is to search for a two year-old girl, her granddaughter, and it is because of this lost baby that the tragic story of Mrs. Adeline Wagner is contained in an affidavit filed in the State Department. The story, which has been inves tigated and found to be true, is the basis on which Mrs. Wagner was granted a passport to go to France When the war began Mrs. Wagners one son joined the French army as | a private in the One Hundredth and Forty Eighth Infantry Regiment. His wife and two children were in Belgium, and they, together with other unfortunates, saw their village and homes fall into the hands of the ! advancing Germans.
 Meanwhile the husband was killed in action on the Somme and his wid ow "committed a crime"-she gave | a French soldier a drink of water. Of course, when the Germans | learned this she and her son were hustled off to the village square, | where dozen or more peasants | were standing. Their crimes must have been far more "heinous" than hers, for they were awaiting death. Ghastly humor actuated one of the | German officers when he saw the wi dow and her boy, youth of 12, ap- proach. He handed the youngster q rifle and explained to him that both he and his mother would be saved from punishment if he took aim and fired-with intent to kill at one of the helpless peasants be fore him.
 He thrust the rifle into the boys hands and gruffly ordered him to raise it to his shoulder. When the lad obeyed the German officer stood to one side.
 When I count three," he ex- plained, you fire-and you kill"
 Then he began "One, two three" "
 A shot rang out, but the speeding bullet was not aimed at a peasant The boy had wheeled about and fired at the hulking form in gray goadinG him on to kill. The German officer [ was dead.
 l It was only an instant, however before the latter's companions, fur ious with anger, had slain both the mother and the son.
 Somehow or other the baby girl then six months old, escaped. The grandmother thinks neighDors have cared for it, and she desires the child, who is the only survivor of the Wagner family, so far as the | grim hand of war is concerned.
 Mrs Wagner tried through attor- I neys in Paris, to locate the child, but failed Then she sold her farm, sought Senator Warren c. Harding, of Ohio, and through his interven- tion the State Department investigat- ed her story and, finding it to be true, gave her the coveted pass ports.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-05-01
BARHAGE RECEIVER
 IS LATE INVENTION
 AND IS DESCRIBED

NEW TORN, April 24.-E. F. W. AleXanderson, consulting engineer of General Electric, described his invention-the barrase receiver deaf ear to wireless messages inter fering with one sought to be re- ceiyed. This device permitted allies to use radio telegraphy among them selves during the war after a time when the wilful interference of Ger mans would have made such com murication impossible. He also de- scribed the invention, important in wireless telephony, automatically changing equipment to permit send ing and receiving of messages as is done in ordinary telephony.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-05-01
GERMAN PRINCE WANTS
 TO SETTLE IN AMERICA

GENEVA, April 30.-The former Prince Joachim of the Hohenzollern family hopes to emigrate to America after peace is signed, according to @ report. Joachim, who is the youngest son of the former German Emperor, has. arrived here from Der lin and expresses his intention of remaining in Switzerland until after the peace settlement. The Hohen- zollerns have just bought a large estate near Lugano, where the for mer emperor eventually hopes to reside in exile.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-05-01
FAMOUS LIGHTHOUSE IS BEING UNDERMINED
 BY WATERS OF OCEAN

TOMS RIVER, N. J., April 30.- The famous lighthouse at Barnegat Inlet is in danger of being under mined by the Atlantic ocean, en- gineers report. During the recent heavy storms the sea encroached to within seyenty-five feet of the light house.
 The terrific current at the inlet, backed by a powerful sea has cut into the beach for a considerable distance, and unless breakwaters or jetties are constructed, the light house surely will go down in< a heavy storm, engineers say.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-05-01

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