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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
Coal Miners
In This District

! H f we are to have coal miners
y strike in the Birmingham district
November l, what will it amount to +?
The miners are receiving good pay,
and it is believed that the open shop
men are satisfied with conditions
If the strike eliminates here. how
long win it last?
AS the steel workers strike was
scarcely felt in the Birmingham dis
ltrict,. so it will be with the United
Mine Workers.
The strike may be of large impor-
lance in the great industrial centers,
but not so in the Tennessee company's
territory. ID
The workmen in this part of the
country are in favor of letting we'll
enough alone.
The radical "reds" take no root in
Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
SCIENCE VS.. SENTIMENT

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
0TJHERE is an old legend which says
red peoples always spring up on
the fields of battle where the blood
of men is shed. The peasants of France
believe this to be true. They see the
poppies growing. Their view is senti-
mental and traditional. But the prac-
teal scientists turn up their noses at
such a silly superstition" OF course,
they admit that the peoples are red in
northern France, but they insist that
the flowers spring up in the autumn be-
cause the fields are fallow, the seeds be-
ing sown by the winds and the birds. But
Pierre and Antoine, Lizette and Mignon
say non, non! They know that the pop
pies spring up red with the blood of brave
men.
So on the field of the Marine and on
other great fields of struggle the red
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Attorney General Palmer is really a
fine fellow. Let us hope the prohteers
threatened with punishment, but never
punished, don't smoker every time his
name is mentioned,
* X y
While Britishers may be unable to see
any humor in Mutt and Jeff" Amer
leans are not so insular They frequently
chuckle over the jokes in Punch.
!. y x
For L months longer, at any rate,
it viii be rather difficult for European
anarchist with a bomb concealed about
his person to enter the United States.
4. X 4
With 'possum picking time near AT
hand, many colored brother who mi
grated to the north wishes he were back
in Dixie land.
BY winning the favor of American
newspaper men, King Albert has once
more demonstrated tina. ne is a regular
fellow"
y y y
strike of bituminous coal miners
would naturally increase the enjoyment
salaried persons expect to get out of life
during the winter Of 1880
X y 81
1t is easy to judge from the writings of
George Creel that he is no great admirer
of John Bull
y y &
Derogatory remarks made in the United
States Senate about Japan are not max
ing the paths of diplomacy any smoother.
X y 4
Despite the number of physicians at
tending him, President Wilson seems to
be holding his own.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
THE MICROBES sERENApE

By George AIDE.
A forlorn microbe met by chance
At swagger. bactericidal dance
A proud bacilian belle, and she
Was first of the animalculae.
OF organism saccharine
She was the protoplasmic queen.
The microscopical pride and net
or the biological smartest set.
And SO this infinitesimal swain
Evolved pleading, low refrain:
20 lovely metamorphic germ.
What futile scientific term
can we'll describe your many charms
anne TO these embryonic arms.
Ihen HE away to my cellular home
sad be my little diatom"
ais epithelirm burnsd with love.
He swore by molecules above
she q be his own gregarious mate.
0r else he would disintegrate.
aias amosous mite of parasite
fursued the germ both day and nil
ANA meath her window often pla,
a Darwin Huxley serenade-
And warbled TO her every day
This rhizopodical roundelay:
% most primordial type Of spore
never met your like before.
And though microbe has no hs
From YOU. sweet germ, I'll never
Wei sit beneath some fungus.
dissolution claims us both
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16


From the Atlanta Journal.
Mr. Jones was in the habit of at
tending meetings which often detained
him after the usual hour of retire
ment.
One night he was exceedingly late
ana his wife, after frettlng herself INTO
a temper, went to bed, determined 90
give her husband a lesson.
When she had been upstairs about
10 minutes. she heard knock. Put
ting her head out Of the window, she
said
rs that YOU Tom
Yes, Kate. Come and open the
door"
What has kept you out Sc late?,
asked his wife,
We have been discussing the great
benefits of fresh air.. was the renIy
Well" said the better half. won ca.
lecture tomorrow night from experi-
ence"
And down the window went with
bang.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
Efficiency of Service

I hear many favorable comments on
the efficiency with which the Brming-
ham Railway, Light and Power company
handled the crowds to and from the Ala
bama State Fair grounds" said John
Sparrow Some of the facts which have
CLEANED concerning this service are quite
interesting. The fair put a triple test
upon the company-the test of the equip
ment, the test of the operating service
and the test of the spirit Of the service.
as reflected by the employees. Figures
show that the company handled approx
mately 100000 persons or 10000 fares
without a single accident or any break
downs Thursday night 5000 persons were
moved from the grounds in % minutes.
The concentration of cars for that spe-
cial occasion is a story in itself; 81
extra cars were provided and these with
the cars in regular service formed an al
most continuous procession The only
overcrowding was due to the American
spirit of impotence which refuses to wait
even a minute. While the credit for this
fine service is primarily due to General
Manager Peyear and Transportation
Maager Brabston, the dispatchers and
motormen and conductors, car barn men
and shopmen showed splendid spirit
of cooperation, and contributed to the
making of this enviable record. The COM
ment which l hear shows that our people
are taking pride in the effort which the
Birmingham Railway, Light and Power
company is making to give Birmingham
and Bessemer the best service within
its power en'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
Cooperative Market
Association Popular

| NO-OPERATIVE marketing asso.
Citations organized by reprasen-
tatives of the Alabama extension serv-
ice throughout the state are exceed
ingly popular.
"The handling of live stock and
farm products through cooperative
marketing associations has proven a
valuable factor in increasing profits
from agricultural activities, and the
Alabama extension service is foster
| ing such movements wherever posi-
bel to do So"
Mile. Mistinguette, the French actress
with the famous-ahem-leg says the
prize for symmetrical limbs should go to
British or American girls. Still, the
camera demonstrates that Mile. NJ. could
safely appeay in one-piece bathing suit
al SOME III tilOSG naughty ltUtn water
ing places.
A man who made SIS, 000 900 out of cigar
cites died the other day. He had lived
his allotted span and the immnence of
his end.
Two glasses of fruit juice cost Biz
mingham man over Sc in a Kew York
restaurant, and he doesn't look as if he
hailed from the tall timber, either.
y y y
The Dallas News asserts that a great
many British strikers are living on the
earnings of their wives. This being true,
they can give their undivided attention to
striking.
New York publishers who are fleeing
to Chicago to avoid labor troubles may be
simply jumping out of the frying pan
into the fire. Chicago has large popu-
lation of bolsheviks
y = 4
Montgomerians have had the privilege
of buying coal for 81 ton, but it was
uncle-sam's coal. No private dealer in
his right mind would sell coal for that
price.
y y y
When movie star gets to the point
where every picture he appears in is ad :
vertised as a 'million-doIlfr nlm." he
isn't worrying any more abPut the high
cost Of living
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
Sheep Growing One
Of Alabama's Industries

"A LABAMA should become a
~ sheep-growing state. This is
naturally mutton-producing section.
The sheep-killing dog has been the
only retarding influence that has
kept back Alabama as a sheep state.
This state has excellent sheep
grazing lands. No live stock pays
better and no stock thrives better
than sheep.
Along with diversification the hus-
bandry Of sheep should be among the
first and most profitable products.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
Anfe-Beuurn Plantation

ION a trip down in Greene county a
few days ago I found an old colonial
home that was built perhaps 100 years
ago." said Robert Jemison, Jr. s"It is
now occupied by descendant of the
man who bought the land and built the
home, and it has never been out of the
possession of some member of that fam
lily. The land is level and a person can
stand on the broad porch and look out
for miles across the green fields of wav-
ing corn and cotton.
The people down there are not raising
so much cotton in recent years, but
have gone in for cattle raising, and they
have made a great success of it. Some
of the finest cattle I ever saw were
grazing on Gree ncounty> farms. The
old colonial home / spoke of has not
been changed in any respect since it was
built and none of the land has ever
been sold off. 1t is one of the ante-bellum
plantations that remains in its entirety
in the possession of its before thee civil
war owner or his descendants
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
LAST CHANCE

From the Columbus Dispatch
Do you remember when he used to
sing that plaintive ballad, There Is a
Boarding House, Far. Far Away, Where
They Serve Ham and Eggs Three Times
Day?' Ham and eggs three times
day; did you get that? And. they used
to kick about it, when nowadays some
of US would be willing to risk our fu-
ture hope of paradise for sure enough
meal consisting of ham and eggs. AS
Shakespeare or somebody has so truly
spoken. Them was the good old days
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
French University Men

L have recently talked with num-
Der OF Birmingham and Alabama men
who attended French universities dur
ing the peyod between the signing of
the armistice and emparkation for the
United States and they all agree with
me that we should have meeting
soon,' said John c. Dawson, dean of
Howsrd college. at has been sug-
gested that the best time will be the
Saturday night after the Alabama
Sewaree football game
while accurate figures on the num-
Der OF men from this state who at
tended the different big FrencH uni
versities ARE not available at this
time, there can be no question that
had a considerable representation at
all of them and every college and un;-
versity in Alabama was represented,
and there were many Alabama men
in those institutions who had attended
universities outside the state. L would
suggest that we have a preliminary
meeting after the Alabama-Sewanee
game, as there viii probably be more
of those who attended the French uni
versities here then than at any other
timo this year.
Il would be glad to hear from the
men in Birmingham and over the state
about this matter and as soon as i
get reasonable number of sugges-
tions together. will confer with some
of the others interested and we can
ANNOUNCED more definite plans. l think
that in future years we will all look
back upon the four months we spent
at these French universities as very
pleasant and profitable days, and I
am sure we would be glad to form
some kind of an organization"
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ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
1T MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

1T MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
While the optimistic brother
'Tis agreeable to meet
! In the crowded market places
Or careering down the street,
Now and then his cheerful chatter
Fails to brighten UP my phiz,
When I recollect the troubles
That he pooh-poohs so aren't his.
BOTH SUFFERING.
my boy" said Mr.. Grabcoin to his
son, Jack, you've been a member of the
firm for three months now"
so have, dad. And I must confess
that it is getting to be sort of endur-
ance test for me-"
"Umph! Don't flatter yourself, my boy.
I'm giving pretty fair exhibition of
endurance, myself"
RESTORED TO NORMAL.
1.-THE star says she is not herself to-
night"
Shall we let her understudy take hes
placer
mo, but make the suggestion and she
will be herself again"
'How's that?''
"Catty"
PROFITABLE ENGAGEMENT
WAS the doctor encouraged about your
condition."
Yes" replied the wealthy old gentle
man. MY condition seemed to cheer him
considerably. He said he thought I would
need his professional services for at least
six months to effect cure"
DIDN'T HALT A REGIMENT.
"A modest doughboy."
"Yes?'
'He says the largest number of Ger
mans he ever held at bay at one time
was two
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
BEGINNING THE pAY-M.y we

BEGINNING THE DAY-May we
pa1y and then hasten to be used in
the answer of our prayers. Send
err petitions straight back through
ms to he spoken again in character
and i'm deeds. Save ms, o God, from
praying any prayer that is mot
rooted I'm the very depths of us and
does NOT burn its way through as
1t climbs 10 Thee. In Thy name
H d. E.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
INCREASED COST OF MARRyING

From the New York Commercial.
Announcement of the wedding of Mr..
Frederick William Lupton manager Of
the Thatcher Medicine company of
Chattanooga, Tenn to Miss Emmy Ora
Thomas has been made. The ceremony
will take place on October % at 55
cents a pound f. o. b. New York.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
wEsTM1SsrERs F1tLING UP

From the Boston Evening Transcript
With room in Westminster Abbey for
would prefer an immortal resting place
to few more years in this vale of toll
and danger should plan to get in early
and avoid the rush.
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Davidson

Washington Bureau, 5W Davidson
Building.
European bureau. 10 kim street.
Co~ent Garden, London. w. {. =
Eastern business office. World build
ing, New York city; western business
ekfice, Tribune building, Chicago. The
s. c. Beckwlth Special Agency. agents
tor foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
SLIGHTLY OFF .

From the Boston Transcript.
Two Australians, exceedingly
looking in their khaki suits 4aa
cooked hats. were sitting the 5sas
morning in front of the public Iib..rv.
"Oh. look. Name" said girl going ny.
there's a couple of Aztecs."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
SHEER CLEvERNEss.

But if Great Britain has six sad
we have only one, how in the as e
common sense"
MY friend, my friend" interrupted the
genial old gentleman. You really must
not permit yourself to get wrought up
over matter that has been already set
tied to the satisfaction of the diplomats
One may not be equal to six, according
to what you learned in arithmetic, but
diplomacy never concerns itself with the
obvious. 1t prefers to demonstrate the
truth of something that can't be proved"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16

Man n stday thing and this is my
esne1nysop.
Much Ado About Nsthins.
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FRIEND WIFE Co-opERATEs

men forever on strike, by the way are
living on the wages of their womenfolk.
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Happy Memories

81 enjoyed the homely story in Wednes-
day mornings Age-Herald. in which
Frank Willis Barnett started off with a
BARLOW knife and soon got round to sin
gle-barreled hammer shotguns,> ramrods,
powder horns, moulded bullets and the
other simple things which made up a
boys hunting outfit in the days of re-
construction in the SOUTH" said George
Gordon Crawford, president of the 7.
c, L. "There is just one item he left out
that l recall, and that was the search
we boys had to make to get the right
size and shaped gourd to be used as a
substitute to hold shots instead of the
more expensive leather pouches. His pic
ture was true to life, and II brought to
me happy memories Of my boyhood
days"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-10-16
Fewer Hanging Around

You will notice that there are not SO
many persons hanging around the court.
house these last few days." said Assistant
Coroner j. r. t. Rives. but don't be
surprised or alarmed at that. People are
still curious, inquisitive or idle, but it
isn't conXenient to lean against the walls
just now. That's why they are absent
You see all the walls are being cleaned
and painted and few new suits were
ruined before the danger was realized.
"One attorney put his elbow on a
freshly painted desk the other day and
stuck like a fly. on paper. He did not
know whether to get mad at running a
new suit, or to rejoice at the idea of
painting the courthouse of his own
county, SO he went away puzzled. He
could not decide between civic pride and
economy However. l hope they never
paint the elevator again as I'm on the
fourth floor
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A CHANGE FOR THE WORSE.
OF senatorial dignity
tbs probable you've heard;
By awe and admiration, too,
Your simple soul was stirred
When your thought about our senators,
So learned and so grave,
Whose mighty store of wisdom could
From many perils save.
But nowadays a session of
The Senate is a sight:
The statesmen of the nation stage
rough-and-tumble fight.
PAUL COOK
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NESS.
Now that Mrs. Calder has the repu-
tation of having bought more motor cars
than any other woman in her set. dare
say she will be wanting flock OF air
planes next?"
Ne. Mrs. Calder knows that anybody
with little money caa buy an airplane,
but there is reported to be a shortage
of Hindu seers in fashionable circles
just now, and would not be at all sur
prised if she took up occultism ~
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THE STRUGGLE FOR EXCLUSIVE
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Then came the fun. Mil Ferguson was
apologies for him because he had in
jured his throat in yelling for the Uni
versity Of Alabama's footbali team. Be-
for the president had finished his remarks
in came Hill bearing a big paper box
Carefully placing it on the table he did
bit of juggling and out popped Erred"
his s-year- wonder who had been IN
athletic training since he was weeks
old. He got such a good hand that the
noise and the big crowd scared him.
but he did some great stunts all the
same
Frank Rushton was called upon for a
story, and treated the crowd with one
of his "Rush-tons of wit This is a
poor play on words for it does not do
the gentleman justice, as 1t suggests
that his speech is heavy, when every
body knows his reputation for sligh.
weight and general airness. / am most
unfortunate in the choice of my words.
for there is a suggestion that he cast
a damper over the body when nothing is
further from the truth. for his Jokes were
not cold storage ones, draped with icicles.
but live Goals that glowed and scinti-
lated.
P.~S.-John Henley asked Morris Bush
to let Governor McGillN ask him why
curfew was abandoned in his home town.
The governor graciously said, why
was it done?' John replied. ITO keep from
wall up tn Eelmians', All of which
goes shov 1t no one in Rotary is
too esg to ba sosh I'd.
~ -.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-19
OPEN YOUR EYES
To The
Facts About
"The Spreading Em'

loving hearts---her's an innocent one--are sacrificed on
the altar OF a parents greed.
No greater love story has ever been told on the
screen.
sThe Spreading Evil" has more intense dramatic
action, heart throbs and thrilling climaxes in its last reel,
than are contained in five reels of the average picture.
aThe Spreading Evil" received high praise from
Secretary Josephus Daniels, who said: rms photoplay
will do much toward arousing the American people to
their duty. Too long we have permitted a tolerant prud-
cry to shut our eyes to this worst of evils"
"rhe Spreading Evil" was warmly endorsed by Hon.
julius Kahn, Father of the Draft Bill, - who said: I
wish YOUR picture drama could be seen by all the boys and
girls in our high schools and kindred institutions OF learn
inc. Parents all too often neglect to advise their of
spring about the dangers that lurk in their path.
Or. John II. QuayIe, of Cleveland, Ohio, one Of the
worlds greatest blood specialists, and author OF the bill
for the establishment of Reclamation Camps, introduced
into the Senate by Senator Pomerene, says: The most
terrible disease Of modern times is spreading It's ten
acles throughout the world. An atteHpt 70
cover up an evil does not do away with IT."
Ella Wheeler WILCOX, in her famous poem, 1.-THE
price He paid y saws; 'Folks talk too much of a soul
from heavenly joys debarred, and not enough OF the
babes unborn, by the sins of their father SCARED"
A powerful expose of an EVIL that has eaten its
way into the vitals of society.
ssThe Spreading Evil" deals boldly and frankly with
society's greatest menace.
mThe Spreading Eyil' smashes its way into the soul
30 M = br;noino anIipbtetnmenf ont of the darkness Of
prudery. This picture has a bigmessage.
"rhe Spreading Evip' is replete with unexpected
clfmaxes; and the pathetic love story holds a deep and
gripping heart interest.
"Tne spreading EVIL" Is d piioeouraAna " I-
Gus power, truth and interest.
"The Spreading Evil" is being presented in The
1aodino piofure fheatpes Of New York. where is is being
received with the widest enthusiasm.
mThe snreadinu EviIy paints with a masterful
brush a picture of existing social conditions which af-
having learned a great deal without being overwhelmed
by unpleasant details.
esting speculation.
q eaoo H. onI nan have nrorisad to