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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
Plea Against Cotton Crop Reduction

THE declaration made by John A. 9 Todd, the we'll known professor of economies, in an address before the worlds cotton conference at New Orleans, that further reduction of the cotton acreage would be calam- tity, made a profound impression. I But Professor Todd at the same time pointed out the necessity of the consumer paying good price for the staple-a price that would be probit- able to the farmer.
 He showed that both Europe and Asia are hungry for cotton. A large crop will be needed next year, and ,the south can produce it in spite of lthe boil weevil, but the grower must Ibe assured of prices that will pay. As to Alabama, where crop diversi- Ification is now the accepted policy the farmer will be wise to plant only
 moderate acreage, and not go back Ito an acreage that would yield, weather conditions permitting, 1,400,- I0OO or 1,5O0,000 bales, as in former years.
 I Intensive cultivation of compara- Itively small acreage will result in a lproduction of eight or nine hundred
 thousand bales, which will be large
 enough for this state. In Alabama there must be no relaxing in the drive
 for food crops.
 The souths cotton crop this year
 will hardly reach eleven million bales IFifteen million bales will be required lin 1920 to supply the demand, and Ithe consumers can well afford to pay living prices. The time of low prices should be gone forever.
 x # #
 J If the farmers insist on shorter ;. hours. this country is certainly going l to pot Imagine farmer lying in bed until five or six o'clock every morning and Knocking off before sundown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
TWENTY YEARS AGO
 IN THE AGE-HERALD Events Recnrded Octoher 15 1sQQ
Events Recorded October IS, 1s99.

An unconfirmed report has reached London that POGO Boers weer killed in battle with British troops in Natal. While the rumor is discredited by the British that serious conflicts have occurred in South Africa. Gen. Sir Redvers Butler, British commander, has left London en route to Africa
 The people of Boston, with thousands of visitors who swarmed into the city from all directions yesterday did fonor to Admiral Dewey He was presented with a sword and watch and given the freedom of Boston.
 Ten persons were either burned to death or drowned when the Bridgeport line steamer Nutmeg State was burned In Long Island sound off Sands Point, l.. l., at sunrise yesterday morning.
 Yesterday marked the seventh consecu- tive failure of the race between the Shamrock and the Columbia, for the in ternational cup, due to lack of wind to blow the craft across the starting line.
 The first issue of the Manufacturers Review, a Birmingham trade and indus trial journal, to be published twice month, made it's appearance yesterday. N. P. T. Finch is editor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15

From the New York Times.
 N LONDON tobacco dealer says that
 IA\ cigarette smoking is on the in S S crease in England. especially among women. He adds that if present
 tendencies are carried much further even
 the laundry maids will be seen busy in
 the garden about their accustomed ac- tivities, but with cigarettes in their mouths.
 The most famous laundry maid on record-the young woman of the Mother Goose rhyme, would have been shocked by such a suggestion. So would the equally famous King in his counting house, and the good Queen who sat mean while in her parlor and ate bread and
 honey. But times have changed since then, and today we need not be surprised
 to find her majesty herself indulging in quiet smoke over her midday dainties. As for her royal consort. he probably
 prefers pipe.
 The whole question of smokes for wom- en is broad and debatable. Heretofore, however. it has been a less pressing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
One Redeeming Feature
 Of Disorderly Scenes

07T7 THOUSANDS of longshoremen as- 4 sembled in Cooper Union, New York, to vote on the question of call ing off their strike. Other thousands on the outside could not gain admit tance. They hissed their own leader, President O'Connor, of the longshore- mems union, and they treated other speakers no better, among them at least one representative of the govern ment.
 It was not a spectacle to quiet the fears of people who have viewed the growing unrest of labor in America with apprehension. President O'Con- nor should by no means share in the resentment naturally felt against the dock workers because they threaten to paralyze the metropolis and cause acute suffering merely to enforce their demands for exorbitant wages. The longshoremen, like great many autocrats of labor, now re- gard S1 an hour as a "mere pit tance." They overruled their presi- dent, who has tried, at the cost of losing his popularity and his office, to keep the men at work.
 Yet, with all the jeers, hisses and catcalls for constituted authority, and the clamor inside and outside of the hal which showed that the men had no intention of returning to their jobs, there was one encouraging epi- sode
 Three men attracted attention among strikers outside of the hall by shouting more loudly than the rest A yell of "anarchists," was followed by "They are bolsheviki. Kill themv Thereupon the three agitators beat a hasty retreat, pursued by mob of husky longshoremen who seemed de termined to show that while they might strike and defy their own off. cers, they were not quite ready to ac. fept the doctrines of Lenine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
Let's Have a Full
 Count in the Census

A the federal census IS to be 6A taken in January, it is not too soon to begin systematic educa- tion on the part of householders and especially the keepers of rooming houses to obtain full results.
 In 1910 Birmingham made q good showing, but not as good as it might have made had all the rooming house keepers taken a little trouble in supplying the information asked by the census bureau.
 The enumerators reported that not a few landladies not only showed no disposition to be helpful, but resented their visits as intrusions and their questions as impertinent. In several cases the census takers called several times, only to meet with rebuffs. The enumerators turned in popu- lation of 132,6S5. This was seven thousand more than had been esti- mated by the Chamber of Commerce, but as the supervisor found that not all the people had been counted for the reason that many householders had refused to answer the questions, the Chamber of Commerce asked the bu- reau to send special agent here to make a general survey of the situa- tion for the purpose of ascertaining whether it would be worth while to recanvass certain sections of the city. | The director of the census readily complied with the request. When the lagent came a committee from the chamber was asked to accompany Ihim and assist in going over the ground. They made an investigation Iof the northern part of central Bir- mlngham and found that number of residents had been uncounted; but as an official recommendation would have cost the government a good deal of mercy, and moreover as Birmingham
 had made a fine showing as it was,
 the committee reported in favor of
 letting the matter drop and accept the total as it appeared in the census returns.
 George M. Cruikshank, the super visor for this district, will furnish the public with detailed information re- garding the 1920 census. Every house. holder must be prepared to answer all the questions. Public spirit should impel our citizens to assist the emu
 merators in every way possible.
 Birmingham, it is believed, mas a population of considerably upwards of
 two hundred thousand; and so it will
 appear in the census if all house. thoIders are careful in supplying the desired data.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15

By Prof. Serge Voronoff. Director of
 Experimental Laboratory Surgery in
 the College of France
 1ON ARIS-The conclusIveness of cer- IS tain experiments I have made convinces me that it is now possible to renew youth and vigor in aged men in the last stages of senile decrepitude.
 Many years ago observations led me to the belief that it was the function of the interstitial glands to replenish continually the vigor of all animal or ganisms.
 Assisted by my wife. then began a series of experiments in grating in- tertitial glands from young animals on aged beasts, noting the results over periods.
 The success attained by using the goats and rams was astonishing. The most notable experiment was in the case of ram IA years old and evidently on the point of dying of old age. I took several glands from young ram and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
ADRIFvT WITH THE TIMES
PLAcATING A SERVANT.

PLACATING A SERVANT. Your wages are satisfactory "Yes, ma'am'
 You can see for yourself that we are giving you the best room in the house7" "oh. yes, ma'am."
 You may have the use of our car three days 9 week and extra after moons off merely by notifying me in advance Also. the living room is at your disposal for entertaining your callers"
 'very good, ma'am. have only one complaint to make"
 Good heavens! What is that?" You have call bell in my room, ma'am. I can't be disturbed after hours"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15

An offer of SIP a week Is not greeted with a howl of derision in England. And there are other reasons why life in England is different from life in America.
 Uncle Joe" cannon's popularity with the newspaper men of Washington never wanes. That may be due to the fact that Uncle Joe" occasionally tells brand-new story
 < # # Ratification by France and Great Britain gives the treaty of peace a cer- tain standing in international circles, regardless of what the United States Senate does to it.
 # # < ! The actors strike in New York seems to have been a blessing in dis guise in more ways than one. At any rate, something has taken all the joy out of life for ticket spectators.
 # # * A steel strike witness has been found who admits that he prefers the 12-hour day Naturally, he's an oldfashioned man.
 Everything has an upward tendency, nowadays, including the curves of artists models who are demanding more pay
 It has reached the point where a county fair that can't boast of at least one dare devil aviator might as well not throw open it's gates.
 * # \ Possibly so much talk of President Wilson not being able to fulfill his of ficial duties is causing Vice President Marshall to do some deep thinking.
 -s < 4 King Albert of Belgium towers over most men in height. There is nothing more ridiculous than a "sawed-of if king.
 
 In admitting that Europe is unsettled, Col. House does not violate the cautious habit of a lifetime
 # # 4 A strike in the printing trade has played hob with the girl on the maga- zine cover.
 X 4 x The downtrodden packers have been badly mauled, but their publicity de- partment still functions smoothly.
 ;. < # For the time being the Baltic states seems determined to supplant the Bal kans as the storm center of Europe. Incidentally, what has become or the "president of Ireland" who was re- centlv given ffrst-page honors?
 x # < Perhaps the most important part or Col. Houses "seige of rest' will be com- plete isolation from newspaper men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
CONFIRMATION.

Gone the highball and the rickey.
 Gone the cocktails pleasing glow; tone the drinks. both plain and fancy,
 That we purchased long ago. Yet. there's so much satisfaction,
 when we pass a corner by, In the knowledge that no bullets
 Will ere long begin to fly. And no drunken desperadoes Will come reeling through the door or the crowded corner barroom,
 As they did in days of yore, That we strive to be contented
 In these less exciting times, As we let the soft drink dealers
 Take our nickels and our dimes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15

From the New York Herald.
 N 7oTHING more important has hap J(N pened in the history of the the the, he. S atre in America of late than the return to the stage of Julia Marlowe and Edward Hugh Sothern after an ab- sence of five years from active profes- sional life.
 Their reappearance in Twelfth Night with the incomparable MT. Blackstone as an associate-really meant the picking up and splicing of the loose ends of the classical tradition of the art broken by the war. A new generation of young people just coming to years of discre- tion is to have a chance to enter the fairyland of romance created by the noblest man who ever wrote in our Ian guage.
 We have no reason to be ashamed or Shakespearian scholarship and acting as displayed in this country. But our pupiic like the public of Great Britain has reason to complain that managers are comparatively uninterested Germans were able to boast truthfully for years that there was not small theatre Tn their land in which plays by the supreme dramatist of our language were not pro drced regularly They went further Tn impotence and boasting-even so lar as to claim Shakespeare as Teuton. Ihe compatriots of the ponderous and, un- readable Dr. Gervinus with his chat ter about morals remarked with me unction: i've Germans, not you English or Americans, alone understand Shake speare is not our poet but the world s the truth is he is only understood ps us''
 At the height of one of the great drives at the heart of France the then Kaiser took a few minutes off from pluckins violets and weeping over the misfor tunes of misguided Belgium to insult ths English speaking nations by announcing that he proposed to celebrate his ulti
 mate victory by issuing an edition o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
IoHN WAS sTuMPED

New York special to the Clevelaho
 Plain Dealer.
 John Tanjan 29. a returned soldier was so angry last night when he saw reserve Patrolman Chung Hung pa trolling Park Row that he wanted 10 fight the war all over again, Tanian espied the American Chinese policeman at the corner of Mulberry street.
 "where's the masouerade?" hs asked.
 Where do you get that stuff, mas- querade?" asked the policeman,
 You don't mean you're a cop?' said the ex-service man.
 "They tell me so." said Chung Hung, and I got a uniform. badge and a club. Move along" Tanian said he'd be "teetotally denl- johned" if any cop from Picking was going to tell him that. "Peking, eh?'' asked the Chinese po- liceman. Well where do you como from?"
 Hutton, Pa" said the soldier What do you know aoout lhat'
 Hutton. Pa" said the Chinaman' "is disfigurement on the map about 15 miles up the Allegheny from Pitts burg I got an uncle runs restau- rant in Pittsburg and l remember throwing a sardine can out of a car window one time and spolllng HUI ton, so they had to send 1t to the launcry."
 With that Tanian grabbed the re- serve policeman's c.ub and Chung Hung arrested him. | In Tombs police court today TanJan l showed one of the most formidable ie ] army records the court ever saw. | "Take it home to Hutton Ferry, said Magistrate Tobias. and take good care 9< it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
TWO NOTABLE SHAKESPEARIANS

 Shakespeare with prefaces and notes by
 his scholars.
 If Shakespeare is the finest expression
 of the idea of nationality to be found anywhere. The war has made even the
 atregoers more serious than they were.
 and has certainly turned their attention
 to the great things which made our civ ilization worth fighting for and dying for.
 It is satisfactory to note that it is in America, and in the city of New York, that the Shakespearian revival has be- come an accomplished fact, thanks to an actor and an actress who have the utmost reverence for the plays which they in- terpret so nobly and intelligently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15

BEGINNING THE DAY--God, thank Thee for that immovabie and inperishable part of ThyseIf. which | see now and again in plain men; for that honesty. for that simplicity, for that fidelity, which are the very rist and bone of life. God, pour more of it into us; more of the conn., posture on Thy rocks and in Thee. Amen.--H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
ALTON LOCkE.s SONG

By Charles Kingsley. Weep, weep. weep and weep,
 For pauper. dolt and slave, Hark. for wasted moor and fen. Feverous alley. stifling den, Swells the wall of Saxon men Work. or the grave. Down. down. down and down
 With idler. knave and tyrant Why for sluggards cark and moil? He that will not live by toll Has no right on English soil
 Gods word our warrant. Up. up, up and up.
 Face your game and play it. The night is past. behold. behold tns
 sun'
 The idols fall the lie is done; The Judge is set. the doom begun Who shall stay it?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
SIGN OF PROSPERITY

From the Andalusia Star.
 The Birmingham Age Herald is planning to add a s50o0o addition to its building. Prosperity has -oyertaken the big morning daily in the Magic City whereof we are glad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
rANk CONTROVERSY STILL RACES
rom me Nashville Banner

From the NashVlIIe Bahner.
 Eleven Britishers are now claimants for the honor of having invented the tank. Twas ever thus. Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, Who. living, had no roofs to shrowd his bead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
ACCURATE DESCRIPTION

From the Louisville icrTJournaL
 The more the senator talks the more we esteem the accuracy of the refer ence book upon the desk which says Lodge. Henry Cabot American poli- tician
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
NOT LIKELY TO HAPPEN SOON

NOT LIKELY TO HAPPEN SOON From the Memphis Commercial-A Ap-
 peal
 The new German constitution de- clares that mo German shall accep. a title or a decoration from any Ior- eign government" In the name of sam Hill. what foreign government was thinking of offering such a thing to d German
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15

that. And fix most firm thy resolution.
 -OtheifO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
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 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication O. all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
A SOLITARY EXISTENCE.

"The man who is shipwrecked all alone on desert island knows what loneliness means"
 Sure, but he doesn't have to suffer an experience of that kind to know what loneliness means. For instance, I'm the only member of my family who doesn't go to the movies"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
FAIR WARNING.

What party do you belong tor? asked Judge Soggersby of the new ar rival in Chiggersville.
 I'm republican. sir" replied the stranger" and proud of it."
 That's all right" said the judge. I'm a peaceable man myself an don't believe in meddlin, with another per sons political or religious beliefs, but this is democratic stronghold an there are a lot of other people about here who ain't so easy goin' in their habits and dispositions If you want to do any crowin' I'd advise you to get in the middle of 40-acre field an make it sort of solilouquy.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
COMPLETELY FURNISHED.

"what the deuce did the fellow mean?"
 Flows that, my lord?"
 He said my top floor was unfur- nished?"
 Don't be offended. That is just some American slang. By Top floor he meant your head"
 "By jove. Cawn't the stupid chap see that I'm wearing my hat ara my mono cle." PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Farm Land Going Up

Tt is surprising the way farm land values are increasing in Alabama in view of the large acreage that is idle" said Sydenham Moore. "ln Greene county. my old home, l know of farms that have sold in the last year for more than double the prices at which they were held few years ago. despite the fact that thousands of acres of the best farm lands in that county have not been under cui- tivat1on since the boil weevil made it's advent. Some of these farms that have sold at high prices compared with the former values put upon them, but there is demand for them and they are snapped up at several dol lars an acre over their values of even two or three years ago. Farm lands in Alabama are about the best form of investment just now"
 Dr. Dickinson Likes Selma
 T see that my friend Rev L. M. Bradley. who for years occupied pas torate in the Birmingham district" ]" said Dr. A. J. Dickinson, has been called to and accepted the Second Bap- tist church. Selma. I congratulate the church and I congratulate him. I will always have a sincere love for Selma and Selmians for my first pastorate in Alabama was with the First Baptist church, Selma. It has grown to be one of the strongest churches in the state, and I am glad to know that the Second Baptist has taken on new life and that it is to be in charge of Dr. Bradley"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
PESSIMISTIC.


 How long was it that Rip Van Win kle slept in the Catskills?"
 Twenty years, I believe. Why do you ask?"
 S'oh, I was just wondering if the American soldiers who were sent to Russia will notice as many changes when they get home as old Rip did when he woke from his nap" TN THE EYE OF THE BEHoLDER,p 2 Would you call this office building an architectural monstrosity? Certainly not" replied Mir Crab coin. What put such an idea as that into your head?"
 'fWhy, it's a hideous structure" Tt looks positively beautiful to me That building pays 100 per cent on the investment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala- postoffice as second class matter, un- der act of Congress. March s. 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15
TELEPHONE

Bell tprfvate exchange connecting ah dcpartmcntsD Main 4900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15

If the farmers insist on shorter hours, this country is certainly going to pot. Imagine a farmer lying in bed until five or. six o'clock every morning and Knocking off before sundown
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-15

But sometimes fear things are made too easy for the boys Of the twentieth
 century. Too many conveniences are apt to make soft characters. There is a certain kind of virtue in having to get
 up in a cold room and go out on a back
 porch and bathe ones face and hands in water just drawn from a we'll or fetched from the spring under the hill,
 The turning on of a faucet in a heated bathroom may be pleasanter, but it is not so hardening.
Smyrna times., 1919-07-02

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