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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29
'. 1s '. Thomas Bucklin Wells New Editor of Harper's

1T 1T ARPER & BROTHERS an- J U nounced December 27, the ap- pointment of Thomas Bucklin Wells to succeed the late Henry Mills Alden as editor of Harper's magazine, the fourth editor it has had in the 69 years of it's existence.
 As a rule changes in magazine edi- torship are not of general interest be- cause most of the larger magazines like the daily newspapers, are ,mcer- scnal. With few exceptions the edi- tors are scarcely known to their own contributors and not at all to their readers. They may be able and bril- liant men, but they are in no sense public characters.
 The case of Harper's magazine is different. Here is publication that has become a national institution. For 69 years continuously issued by the famous House of Harper" it has maintained literary excellence un- surpassed by any of it's contempor- aries. Henry Mills Alden was a com
 anding figure in American litera-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29
THE FOOL

From the London Times. MI But it isn't playing the game" hg
 said, And he slammed his books away. ( The Latin and Greek I've got in my Will do for a duller day." "Rubbish!" I cried. The bugle's call Isn't for lads from school" Dye think he'd listen? Oh, not at all, So called him fool. a fool. Now there's his dog by the empty bed, And the flute he used to play. And his favorite hat-but Dick, he's
 dead,
 Somewhere in France they say. Dick. with his rapture of song and sun. Dick of the yellow nsir. Dicky whose life had but begun. Carrion-cold out there. Look at his prizes aD in d row;
 Surely hint of fame. Now he's finished with-nothing to
 show; Doesn't it seem sbamef Look from the window. All you sec \ Was to be his one day: Forest and furrow, lawn and lea, And he goes and chucks it away. Chucks it away to die in She dark; Somebody saw him fall. Part Of him aud. part of his blood. The rest of hifll--not at all, | And yet I II bet he was never afraid And he went\ as the best of 'em gd3 For his hand Was clenched on hiA
 broken blade, And his face was turned to the fe& l. And I called him fool--oh. how bii
 was I. And the cup of my griefs abrimJ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

A whole lot of folks seem to have
 the idea that you can't be Good unless
 you are Miserable.
 The quickest way to get rich quick
 is to sell a get-rich- quick recipe to
 suckers.
 And just because girls map is cov- cred with paint Is no sign that she IS as pretty as picture. When a man is too old for girt>to marry and too rich for her not to
 marry him. >she is going to marry him,
 all right
 A girl hates to have bony wrists be- cause the fool men are likely to imagine that she is that way else where. If men could be arrested for steal ing other mems time, the Jails would not be large enough to hold the mob. Yes, Harold. the fellow with the fringes on his pants who just touched you for two bits is lad who never played anything but Sure Things. A man hasn't any sense. He thinks that giving a three months old baby things to eat Is the way t0 feed it. A man isn't so doggone proud of 9 Strong win when he happens to be married to one. If there were some disease that nothing but wh:skey would cure, lot of men would cheerfully seek inocula- tion.
 married man is just about as scared of his sons mother as he was of his own mother. Even when man modestly aomies that he doesn't know everything, ne Is secretly proud 0 the fact that ne knows everything worth knowing. A man won't get half as mad when you knock his Friends as he Will when you praise his Enemies. We have discovered why Methuselah lived so long. He had flock or poor relatives who were waiting for him to die so they could contest his will. After all, the Honeymoon is merely | the Hand Shaking formality that pfe- cedes the Fight. married woman will tell another married woman things that no mar ried man would think of telling to an other married man lot of men who wouldn't cry over Spilled MilS would do lot of bawling over Spilled Booze.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29
Is America Overdoing
 Relief Work In Europe?

IT renamed for William J. Multi U gan, chairman of the Knights of Columbus committee on war activi- ties, to present war-stricken Europe in a new light. Mr. Mulligan, who has just returned from abroad and is presumed to know whereof he speaks, says Europe is being Spoiled" by the thoughtless generosity of America and what 1t needs more than relief is red blood.
 "1'he people of Europe" MT. Multi gan tells US, Fare not as gadly off as many would have Americans believe. While there are distressing conditions in places, one detects symptoms of spelling through Americas lavish as sistance. Mir. Mulligan thinks Flu rope is quite willing to take all that is offered her. We should demand a strict accounting and insist that European statesmen "get down to business if they want to continue to receive our help. There is too much talk and not enough work in Europe" ,"
 Any traveller through France, Bel gium and Germany would doubtless be struck by the rapidity with which these countries are recovering from the effects of the war, but an opinion formed from such tour would be superficial and incomplete. There would be much beneath the surface his eye would not see and besides he would have studied but small part of Europe that was affected by the war.
 Perhaps if Uncle Sam showed a willingness to encourage Europe to play the role of Oliver Twist and ask for more, he might make considerable headway in pauperizing half the world, but if we are to credit our leading financiers and the men and women who have been prominent in relief work abroad, instead of doing too much, we have not yet done ono,,oh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29
FARES NEEDS TRAFrIC RI-LEs

DCyN SdOiS III thO I@OiuOl OpSeTNeT.
 It is bad enough to be held up when you're trying to hurry in a taxi in London and a brewers dray checks long line of motors and forces them all to drop to "a two mile-a hour crawl. But it is not nearly so unpleas- ant as to go in mortal terror of your life as you do in Paris every time you make a street crossing, to have to stand for minutes with a crowd of foot passengers whenever you want to cross ing until moments break comes in the whirling stream of motors.
 If you're off the main traffic streams and want to cross an apparently quiet road, you must look carefully up and down, draw a deep breath, and make a leap for it; and then you're lucky if just when you reach the middle a fu- rious tax driving Jehu doesn't swirl around the corner, raise your hair with savage yelp on his horn, and just miss running over your toes.
 Every kind of vehicle appears to try to outvie the next in the loudness and unpleasantness of the noise it can make. The motor cars have hooters that would shame full-szed factory, sirens that wall like lost soul in tor ment, horns that scream, groan or hoot in every tone and key and note of savagery. The street cars have bells with headpiercing clang and clamor; even the pushbilles carry some sort of bowling motor horn.
 Everything moves at a most discon- certing rate of speed, and why there are not umpteen accidents a minute at every busy corner I don't know. Perhaps there are, and I'd like to learn
 the average of street casualties in Paris.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29
President Wilson Reaches
 His Sixty-third Birthday

WESTERDAY President Wilson
 4 was 63 years old. Not yet en-
 tirely recovered from his illness and
 with little to comfort him in the at
 titude of the Senate toward the peace
 pact and the League of Nations cove
 nant, his birthday was not all togeth-
 CT what the President could have wished. Yet few men have ever ac- Icomplished so much and could feel more secure in lasting fame liter they were gone.
 In some respects man of destiny,
 President Wilson chanced to be at the head of the American government when the world was in chaos and we had to decide whether we would safe guard our own rights and independ- lence and help to restore order, or whether we would play the poltroon and take more regard for our safety than our honor. With a reluctance that was not assumed, President Wilson kept us Iout of war as long as was compati~ lble with our dignity as a self-respect- ing nation and after we got into it. he revealed qualities of courage and sacrifice that the nation both ad- Imired and emulated The tremend- ious responsibilities that devolv ed on the President were borne cheerfully. Mr. Wilson and the men to whom he
 delegated important duties in the main acquitted themselves remarka- ibly we'll, far better than could have
 been expected in a peace loving na- ition, totally unprepared for so great conflict.
 At Paris the President wrought night and day for a League of Ma
 tions, and just and lasting peace.
 His political enemies have thus far delayed the consummation of his plans, but the President has remained
 true to himself and his ideals. He
 has fulfilled his responsibilities to
 humanity, which must ever remain
 under great obligations to him for
 having labored so zealously in. it's
 behalf.
 l As for the American people, there is much they have to thank Presi- dent Wilson for. It was fortunate
 that so wise man led the nation
 through such a momentous period of [ it's history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29
UNDERWOOD COMMENDED

From the Selma Times.
 Senator Underwood is winning high praise from many quarters for his dis interested and elevated stand on the treaty issue which has so long been the target for unreasoning factional- ism in the Senate. Senator Underwood voiced the impatient feeling of the for any compromise on which President Wilson and Senator Lodge could agree. He means that there is nothing of suf- ficient importance in either programme to delay indefinitely the longed for peace, which is keeping the world on tenterhooks.
 Even if it be argued that some of the points presumably at issue between the White House and the chairman of the foreign relations committee are of first rate value, that argument will not stand for minute if applied to the points still remaining at issue between the democratic and republican side of the chamber. It has been suggested that a coin be Tipped to settle which list of reservations should be accept ed rather than to permit peace to come to Europe with the United States left out. Senator Underwood pithily says, "I consider the Presidents wishes to be to get this treaty ratified Such also are the devout wishes of the coun- try
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29

From the Jackson Clarion Ledger.
 A CHRoNoLoGER notes the fact A\ that the Prince of Wales. aft erward Edward VII, and M. NJ Pomeroy, better known as Brick, Y were born on December 25. both be- ing Christmas presents to their loving parents
 That seems to be true, and a well matched pair they must have been. both being high rollers" but the field of their activities lay in opposite di- .rections, the prince being a royal high roller with nothing to do except to roll, much of which was done in the United States under the membership of Henry Waterson; while Brick" born of poor but honorable parents. in FL mira. N Y.,. deprived of scholastic ad- vantages, was compelled to paddle his own canoe, and dug his education out of printing office. He early devel- oped genius for sketch and editorial writing, and turned it to good account in tramping around.
 Just after the civil war Brick" es- tablished the Lacrosse Democrat at Lacrosse, Wis, when the north and south were bitter toward each other Brick" being a copperhead democrat, whose sympathies were with the south, printed a paper to suit the unrecon- structed states; and it was one red hot proposition for it's editor was mas ter of invectives, gifted with fluent and trenchant pen. and who could say harder, meaner and bitterer things than any writer of his day.
 His betes noirs were Ben Butler -U. S. Grant, John W. Forney and Wen dell Phillips, and the carpet baggers who came south to organize the ne- sroes against the white democrats. He Tinted excorated and roasted them in every issue of his paper.
 He also despised Susan B. Anthony (she of negro women amendment fame), Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Anna Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, abo- lition suffrage gang. who had been try ing to usurp the privilege of men and wear bifurcated garments. since the stars fell"
 He was q powerful writer and could muster up more abusive adjectives than Pat Donan, and because of his wholesale denunciation of northern politicians the Lacrosse Democrat had an immense circulation in the south, several thousand in Mississippi, for nothing he could say was too hitter for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29
FOLKLORE IN ENGLAND

From the London Times.
 A RR. EDWARD LovETT, honorary t\WIj curator of the folklore section c VS of the Imperial War museum in a recent lecture on "The Folk lore of London" said he haa come to the conclusion u x ntra wss lie ae- tual aboriginal folklofe in London. such as was to be found ln inc pso- vinces and in many EurnpeaA copn@ tries. He had been werhing anlong tH@ coster monger and mazissS ssore dealer class and he had come across some pe- culiar superstitions It was a common practice among the poorer women and children to wear blue beads as pre- ventive against bronchitis. An old lady informed him that in her neigh borhood everybody wore such beads. They were never removed from the neck, not even at death. This fact opened up to him a most interesting question. There was nothing so abund- ant in museums all over Europe as beads and those exhibits always came
 
 areas. Beads were to be found on Egyptian mummies. The poor people of London, in burying their dead with out removing the beads, were doing what had been done for seven thousand years. In the poorer class of London shops without exception bead neck laces were on sale and purchased as preventive of bronchitis, while in the better class shops no trace of the cus- tom was to be found. Ninety per cent of the beads were blue. In some To- calities they were yellow and in one or two cases white.
 He had found instances of the burial of pets with dead persons, which was survival of the ancient superstition
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29
Early in the Field

T have heard of candidates for al- most every job in the courthouse re- gently" stated Judge J. P. Stiles, but the latest was the report that cer- tain party brought to me yesterday He told me that there were two men in the field for the office of probate judge. This seemed ar1using, for my 1923, and the election for the vacancy won't be held until the general cleo tion in 1922. Well, anyhow, maybe these two fellows are getting an early start"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29

of burying animals so that their dead owners might have the use of them in the future life. On one occasion in the East End a woman ss'- a'stE 4 who xaa leriag giola Sh9cgifT cough re told her tsat Ls was not " pedseal nas meniionea aiss suparstiApa Ag 4eak u 2 sNfs 1gs chys n38ee4 Dei %n two pieceal 'oI bread and butter and given to doA' would cure the child. Some time lateIi he saw the woman again and shi thanked him for curing her baby. AA he was going away from the woman's sI house a man came up to him, and, rel marking that they all knew he hadi cured the child asked him for a charm.l As the man was persistent, he gavs him some little thing he happened tdI have in his pocket. A few days lateTl the man came to him and declaredj that the day after receiving the charm. he had the best duck he had ever had in his life. These experiences were of
 great psychological interest. There' was very powerful influence of mind over matter where people really bel lieved in such things.
 MT. Lovett said that wealthy lady once called on him and asked if hel could supply her with little dragons s blood. He gave her some, and a fewy days later he received letter writteH on note paper bearing coronet, ask t ing him to supply some dragons blood and to quote his price. Folklore and war had revived superstition. In many. London houses horseshoes. covered with red cloth, were hung over the beds to keep the occupants from suffering from nightmare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29
Exemption of Soldier

'The amendment allowing ex-serv- ice men exemption from poll tax while they were in the service and until Oc- tober, 1923, will, I believe, receive a majority of favorable votes on Mon day" states John R. T. Rives yester- day. q was at the capital when the amendment was brought up in the leg islature, and the opinion of many in Montgomery during that time was that the amendment would be passed by the people. Furthermore the peo- ple owe it to the boys who were in the service and I will be glad to see it put over at the election"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29
EDITOR WHO QUOTES scTffTTRD

From the Greensboro watchman.
 The editor of a certain paper that comes to the Watchman office has ths bad habit of citing" Scripture by book! page and verse. While we are reason4 ably sure the advice will go unheeded. yet we take the liberty of suggesting
 that he print his references in, full. and. thus save his readers the time andl trouble of getting down the Bible and
 looking up his references to see what, he means-if anything. It isn't against
 the law to print Scripture in plain, words.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29
\ Good Traffic Cop

That traffic cop who holds down the corner of First. avenue and Twentieth street is certainly a beach," said Red" Smith, well-known auto mobile dealer. T don't even know the fellows name, but I have noticed on several occasions that he handles the ing up the cars and eliminating con- gestion in manner that would make a New York bluecoat turn green with envy I think the fellow deserves praise from the press and have heard man yother autoists say the same thing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29
ALL THINGS HAVE AN END

From the Toledo Blade.
 People are always looking for ends of things-either the end of the world, the end of rainbow, the end of high prices or the end of book.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29

BEGINNING THE DAY - God, grant me the thrill of giving. The joy of my mother must have been the joy of giving. The joy of mar tyrs and of heroes must have been the joy of eivng. The joy of my Lord must have been the joy of giving. Teach me the lesson and grant me the joy. my God.-H. M. F..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29
Soft Drinks Come High

Soft drinks at soda fountains in Bessemer have increased during the past week from 5 to 10 cents a glass" said NJ. P. Williams of that city, and think that is the highest price paid for Coca-Cola in this district. The in- crease went into effect simultaneously last week at the four drug stores and the people of Bessemer are of the opinion that the druggists agreed to raise the price on this beverage. We'll there is one good thing about it, and that is the fact that probably less will be drunk now than heretofore, when it could be purchased at cents. I am told that the druggists state that they were losing money at their fountains and the increase in price was neces- sary.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Methods of Teaching

T have always been interested in etymology' said Ed Cullom. and when recently got book on word study as a present I took great pleas ure in browsing through the pages. consider myself fortunate in having had University of Virginia man to ground me thoroughly in Latin. re- call that he made no use in his school room of desks or blackboard, but that and he drilled Us in the grammar. There are some Latinists who require more reading from their scholars than he did. but when he sent a boy to col lege he was grounded in the principles so thoroughly that he was able to make rapid headway when it came to correct translations"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29

But, perceive, Men must learn now with pity to dis pense; For policy sits above conscience.
 -Timou of Athens.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29

Admiral Sims doesn't see any reason why commanders whose ships were ated. Perhaps the officers thus re- warded shook, their fists at the pestif- erous Germans as their vessels went ln
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-12-29

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