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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
ssTHE JINDERCURRENTr'

Guy Empey will be the attraction at the Alcazar this week beginning today
 in ''The Undercurrent," but how he tinctly not war picture, but story
 of the returned soldiers troubles after the war is over. How he returns to his job in the fac tory and faces new problems of life and
 living. and how he is almost immersed in "The Undercurrent,' but how he
 finally pulls himself loose and finds that health. wealth and happiness lie not in
 the way of the agitator. the I. W. W. CT
 the socialist. Nor does it follow the man who breaches the burn and kilr' doc i Urine, but after losing his position and
 becoming a shifting piece of drftwood,
 his eyes are at last opened to the real op portunities of life and to the love and happiness of his home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13

with highwaymen who robbed the eX- press car on which he is messenger. He is thrown into jail, but Jim sue ceeds in having him paroled. and while in town he recognizes Travers as the bandit who held up the train.
 Travers kills a man to make goo his escape and hides In Kates house. Jim tracks him there and takes hin, to his own house, Tn an attempt to escape Travers is shot and Kate recog- nizes that it is Jim she really loves.
 Tn Mizzoura" and a new Big V com edy, Mates and ~ Models" will be shown today Tuesday and Wednes- day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
STEPPING OUT" TODAY

stepping Out, heralded as the nneSl picture of the year, masterpiece of artistry in story, direction and action comes to the Strand theatre Thursday for a special engagement of three days only. This great feature has taken critics by storm in it's first showing, and unlimited praise has been showered upon it. The strength of the play lies in the combination of the three essentials for success, story. direction and acting. Enid Bennett is the star. supported by Niles Welch, and the little Australian actress has the finest role of her career. No praise has been too high for Step ping Out" which is classed with the master pictures of the screen, ano Birmingham movie fans are assured g real treat when, this page from life is shown at the Strand.
 They are characters that every person
 who sees will recognize. There are three
 central figures. d man, his wife and the woman he turns to when lie thinks his
 efforts to make his home all that il
 should be.
 Tn ordinary stories of this sort. the wife sits at home awaiting some cataclysm of conscience to bring back the
 erring husband, but that is where Step ping Out gains part of it's greatness What the wife does to teach her hus
 band his lesson makes an bsorbing story Enid Bennett, in the greatest role shs
 has ever essayed is the wife, and Niles
 Welch is the husband. with able actors
 portraying the other important roles.
 In addition to the big feature Fatty
 Arbuckle will be seen in his latest Para mount comedy success, Eek Stage,'' g
 hilarious travesty of life behind tht
 scenes, in which the round comedian
 puts a laugh in every second Back Stage and Stepping Out will be 2, | the Strand Thursday. Friday and Satur.
 day only:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
AT THE LYRIC

The new bill which will open at the Lyric this afternoon promises much in the way of diversified entertainment. and should easily come up to the Keith stand ard. Lew Madden and company will off, fer ( comedy sketch entitled Monday Morning" which is constructed aroda1 the resu ular Monday morning rehearsal, Vera Calhoun, in a song oddity, Peck X Mcintyre blacA-face comedians, the Misses Parker. the girls with the grand opera voices. and Kitaro Brothers. equilibrists and foot jugglers. and the screen telegram complete what reads like a most interesting bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
FIN MIZZOURA"

FIN MIZZOUKA Movie fans have the opportunity to- day to see one of the greatest Amer ican melodramas ever written, Tn Miz- zoura." the work of Augustus Thomas.
 the famous playwright. and adapted
 to the screen as a Paramount Aircraft
 special production. with Robert War
 wick as the star. supported by an ex-
 cellent cast. with Eileen Percy as lis
 leading woman. ,"In Mizzoura" is real. red -bfooded
 melodrama. with the leading role af- fordinE Major Warwick excellent op- portunities. Besides. his fine physique fits him perfectly for the part. He
 makes of the sheriff. Jim Radburn, an
 outstanding character that will en- dure. The story concerns Jim Radburn and
 his love for Kate. the daughter of his friend. Jo Vernon. Jim secretly pays
 for the girls education. but when she returns from her years at q fashion able school she has grown too fine
 for her plain lover and is fascinated
 by Robert Travers a St Louis beau Sam Fowler. sweetheart of Jim's sis
 ter. Emily, is accused of conspirine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
LITTLE WOMEN"


 Who does not remember Louisa NJ. Alcotts famous novel, Little Women that cheering romance of the family of four girls? We'll, it Is on the screen now and Birmingham movie fans can see if today at the Colonial theatre.
 Little women" is Paramount spe- cial production. and 1t is much more appealing than the stage production. following the universally loved story more closely. An all-star cast pre- sents the characters. who are known by all who read.
 Beth, and Meg. and Amy, and Jo are made to live on the screen and the other characters are equally ably pre- sented The story is so we'll known it hardly is worth while to tell it over again.
 It deals with the lives of the four March girls. all of them of most ap- pealing types. The romance of Jo, however. is taken for the central thread of the play. Jo, the gay and irresistible. whose facile pen adds to the happiness of the March family. For while 1t seemed that Jos hap piness would be taken away from her when Amy married Laurie, but then she found that her heart belonged to pr. Baer and happiness was restored. Little Women" will be at the Go 1oniaI today and tomorrow only. Along with this charming feature a new comedy will be shown, Apart ment 23," riotous farce with we'll known comedians in leading roles. It is the kind of comedy without a let up from start to finish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
s.RuIING PASSIONS,

Beginning today at the Rialto, Julia Dean and an all star cast headed by Ed win Arden and Claire Whitney in Ruling Passions is a test between the passions of hate and revenge and love and mercy in their clash for the mastery of the human heart. Jim Walton was a man of wealth and power and always loved life until he saw his fiance in the arms of his friend and partner Then hate and revenge took possession of his heart and soul, and held them for the best years of his life. Then when it appeared that he was about to 4'get even' love and mercy stepped in and waged a terrific battle with hate and revenge.
 This picture is one of the most original in theme that the screen has recently offered. and is the same production that has proven so popular in cities where it has been presented.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13
MISS ZEENA KEEFE

' For the first time in the history of moving pictures. a star has been ap-
 aounced one year in advance of her first picture.
 This unique idea is launched by Myron
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13

CHARLIE CHAPLIN AT LOEW'S BIJOU
 With five acts of superior vaudeville
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-13

EUGENE JACOBS, DRUG sroRE
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17
De Senectutc

Men recently have not seemed to
grow young as rapidly as women,
and the advice given by writer in
a London paper to "elderly" men
may, therefore, be timely. This
writer, declaring against violent ex.
ercise for those whose physical force
is not what it once was, makes the
fifties and sixties the period for con-
sidering the necessity of restraint.
The gentle exercise suggested in
cludes three or four short walks a
day, working in q garden--but no
heavy digging" and croquet.
Englishmen. it seems, continue to
play croquet, but it is almost extinct
in America. The rage for tive
never take up sport moderately
was over years ago.
In sum, this advice to men who
have passed the roaring forties is
that undue excitement must be
avoided. The breath grows short,
the heart gets weak, the muscles be-
come f1abby. Even when there is no
visible sign of failing power, gentle
exercise is best. Yet might not a
man make himself old by imagining
that he is SO? There are plenty of
modern instances of the greatest
bodily vigor in the seventies. 1t
may be doubted if it is a good thing
for the elderly any more than others
to fuss toomuch about themselves.
But warnings against over-exer
else are becoming a routine of the
medical men when consulted by
young-old fellows. There is turn
ing away from undiscriminatine ath-
leticism. "Keep it dark" said the
late William M. Evarts when he was
asked how he happened to continue
so lusty; II never take exercise"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17
The Toulouse Chapter
le Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: 1t might be of special interest
to some of your readers to hcsr of the
tormati n Of the Toulouse Chapter of
the American Legion.
Toulouse is a city in Southern
france, at the university of which HOO
A. Z. F. men took post-eraduato
courses. So sweet are the memories
OF that ancient town of Langue d'Oc
the NJ di that the men who reside
IN the city of New York and its en-
vlrons decided to form a local CHAPTER
OF the American Legion, and named it
Toulouse Chapter
But or. of 100 students who came
from every state in the Union few are
residents Of this immediate vicjnitv
we have therefore voted to broaden
the scope and purpose of the chapter
and are now open for application for
membership from any ex-A. f. F. man
who attended either British or
French university from March |. 1919
to July /, 1919, and left in good stand
ing. The only other requirement is
that the applicant be either a resden,
OF New York State or have his busi-
ness within New York State.
BY this it is purposed to revive old
associations and sustain old friend
ships made in various alma matters i,
France or England.
Those interested might write to
either David A. Ticktin, president, l4s
Broadway, New York City, or
JOHN T. l.. ANDERSON, Secretary.
1913 East Twenty-eighth Street, New
York City, Nov -, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17

lam IL would have been acclaimed
and deified just as his grandfather
was in 1871. Military defeat alone
could sow the seeds of revolution.
And even the strongest monarchists
In Germany knew when the war be-
gan that the empire and the Prus-
sian dynasty couldn't survive q milf
tary failure.
Ludendorff's labored tribute to the
efficacy of enemy propaganda is dis
ingenious. 1t cannot divert atten-
tion from his own culpability. His
colossal blunder in the winter of 1017
ruined Germany. German morale
didn't become sensitive to enemy
propaganda until after the fatal con-
sequences Of that blunder could no
longer be concealed from the German
people.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17
Near the Finish

The adoption Of the Lodge cloture
rule was clear signal that the end
of the parliamentary fight over the
treaty is in sight. Only sixteen
Senators opposed the rule. Under it
the majority's reservation program
can be carried through this week.
The ratification resolution can be
put into form which will represent
the views Of a strong majority. The
minority will then have to take it or
leave it.
Vice. President Marshall held out
faint hope to Mr.. Hitchcock and
the others who want to renew the
contest in case the ratification reso-
luton is rejected. But this hope is
likely to be blighted. The Vice
President said ne would decide, in
case Of rejection, that the treaty
cloture rule was no longer in force.
But his ruling can be reversed by a
majority vote. If Mr.. Hitchcock
cannot create majority he cannot
revive the treaty; nor can he alter
the reservations which the Senate
has approved. He has been out
fought and outmaneuvered. He could
have he'd milder reservations if he
had consented to negotiate for them
a couple of months ago. But he un~
wisely stood pat on his demand for
unconditional ratification.
1t is too late to start the contro-
versy over again. President Wilson
had his say in Paris. The Senate
has had its say in Washington.
Each was entitled to a share in the
exercise of the treaty-making power.
The President can destroy the work
of the Senate; but he can only de-
stroy it on the penalty of destroying
his own work. Will he not rather
find it the part of wisdom to accept
the Senates notifications, thus rec
ogn'zing the dual character Of the
control of foreign relations which
the Constitution prescribes?
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17
The Public Is Organized
New York, Nov. IA, 1919.
To the Editor of The Tribupo

10 the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: | cut this quotation. "Ths tn,
cent bystander," from your Fridav,s
Issue. want to contradict this wr;t.r
IN The Baltimore American" when h.
says that "the pubic are not organized -
Inc truth Is they are organized high.
~ organized. They are organized into =
vast national government. with s,n,.
po"eEs ana all the machinery to eNe-
cute the laws and quell disorder and
protect life and property. They are also
organized into fortyeight state govern
mshts' just as forceful in their snber.
as the national government is in its
lhey are also organized into vast
'u"oer OF county. town and municipal
governments, each one supreme in its
sphere. Any other organization of IN.
pubic would be simply mob and would
not have any legal standing at ali.
What we need is men like Governor
Coolidge, who will hold the lawless ele-
ment down. 1t will not be hard n do
tins II our executives have backbone
enough to put the laws in force. But
II they truckie to the mob we will hav.
mob rule, OF which we have had too
much already. The public wants peace
which will come only with law and order
WILLIAM EATON.
Walton Mass Nnr 10 1ofo
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17

cannot be made criminal except when
1t creates ear and present danger
OF overt criminal conduct. Tho prin
clple attributed to the so-called Reds
creates no such danger. II is = wrong
prlnclple. II is not persuasive. So
iong as we have not, by oppression.
created wide prevalence OF despond-
ency as to social justice under our
government, expression of the view
that our government should lie over
thrown will not result in f,ru;a.hi.
action directed toward that end.
WALTER NELLEs.
New York, Nov ii, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17

that Butler, the relentless antobiog-
rapher, came face to face with q
fact in his own life that he could not
or would not explain or confess? OF
candid, cruel, self-examiners Butler
has hardly ever had an equal. Yet.
even so, he may have had his balk-
ing point. And whet so likely as
that it came over his treatment Of
the one rare and beautiful friend
ship Of his life, which he permitted
the accident Of homely face to turn
to q tragic ending?
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17
The Little Lame Lady

The long awaited memoir of Sam
uel Butler by his friend Henry
Testing Jones is at last out, and
English critics are Fastening to
comment upon it's revelations. The
center of curiosity for the readers
of "The Way Of All Flesh" is un-
doubtedly the surmised original
of Alethea Pontifex-that rarely
charming and devoted sweetheart
whom the hero, for some quite unex-
planned reason, never married.
1t is significant commentary on
Buffers methods Of novel writing
that the reader does instinctively
see autobiography written all over
his pages. The present memoir JUS
titles this attitude. The deadly, de-
structive childhood Of an English re-
ligious household of Victorian DAYS,
lmmortalized in "The Way of All
FLESH" was Buffers own boyhood.
And Alethea was real person,
Transcribed, as Butler conceived, ac-
curatcly and truly. Eliza Savage
was her name; his fellow student at
the art schools and his lifelong ad-
mirer, adviser and correspondent.
Why did Butler not marry her?
She was far from beautiful, and the
reader can draw his or her own con-
clusions. She was at one time will
ing, even anxious, to marry him.
But Butler insisted on his intel
lectual friendship. She died of
slow cancer without ever telling him
of its existence; and he reproached
himself not SO much for not marry
ing her as for being too preoccupied
with his work to give her the time
she deserved. He never knew "any
woman to approach her at once for
brilliancy and goodness" he wrote Of
Miss Savage after her death. He
did not see much Of her, but they
were in constant communication, and
her letters form a most valuable
part of the present memoir. They
amply justify Buffers admiration
for her mind. Long afterward he
wrote these lines of her:
And now, though twenty years are
come and gone,
That little lame lady's FACE is with
me still;
Never day but what, on~very one,
She dwells with me, as .duell she
ever will.
Perhaps there were other reasons
for Buffers refusal to marry his
Alethea. Her mind seems to have
been closely akin to his own in gen
tie malice and keenness and candor
perhaps too closely akin to stir
him to wish more than friendship
could give. Swift and his Stella,
that most mysterious and most cele-
brated Of all literary friendships,
comes to mind as a parallel and a
precedent. But the cynics will lay
stress on Miss Savage's LONELINESS
and who will say they are not
right?
The case of Alethea of THE Way
of All Flesh" may throw out a hint
of the truth. For while her beauty
is not stressed, there is no sugges-
ton Of her being repulsive. Quite
the contrary. Yet the hero never
marries her; he simply, silently,
without excuse or explanation, goes
his own bachelor way. Is it possible
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17
What Is Criminal Anarchy?
The New York Statute, Passed in
1902. Now Being Enforced

The following sections, forming Ar
ticle XIV of the Penal LaaO of the State
Of Ne,o York, were passed IN 1909 as q
consequence Of the assassination Of
President Mckinley. They define crimi-
nal anarchy, declare the advocacy of it
a felony, and f1 the liability Of all Who
participate in tho discerning ton of tho
doctrine.
1t is under this ln,o that James Lar
kin, Irish agitdtor. and Benjamin. Git
lou, former Socialist Assen,blyman.
were last Friday held in $4,000 bail for
the grand jury by Chief Magistrate
William McAdoo, of New York City.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17
Ludendorf's Alibi

In his anxiety to Gear himself of
responsibility for Germany's defeat
General Ludendorff dwells continu-
ally in his book on the shortcomings
of civilian government and the civil
ian popu alton. He makes the charge
again and again that the morale Of
the German people succumbed to en-
emy propaganda. "While her army
was victorious on the fields of bat
t'e," he says, Germany failed in the
fight of intellects against the enemy
peoples"
Here is satisfactory alibi, if it
could only be made to work. But it
loesn't work. Ludendorff lost the
war in January, 1917, when he de-
cided in favor of a renewal Of unre-
itricted submarine warfare, know
ing that such a move would compel
the United States to make common
cause with the Entente German
morale was unbroken at that time.
Allied peace propaganda hadn't af-
fected it and couldn't affect it, for
the simple reason that, on the basis
Of the war map, Germany couldn't
fail to reap enormous advantages
from any peace of Cancellation. A
peace Of conciliation at that time, or
at any time up to July Is, 1918,
would have meant a peace without
victory" for the Allies. But it would
have brought Germany many of the
fruits of victory.
Germany risked nothing in talk
ing about negotiated peace. The
Rhchstag passed resolution in the
summer Of 1917 favoring such a
peace on the basis of no "forcible an
aexations" of territory. That was
a bait held out to the pacilists in
Russia. France, Italy and Great
Britain. The German government
also engineered the international So
cIalist conferences called to meet at
Stockholm. 1t always was ready to
send delegates to them, for it knew
it could depend on the German dele
gates, while France, Great Britain
and Italy were not certain that they
could depend on their ultra Socialist
eaders. Russia had already turned
pacifist, and in any international So
cialist gathering her representatives
would have sided with Germany
against the Western powers.
Ludendorff complains of the paci-
fist leanings of small portion of
the German press and people. Yet
in 1917 and up to the latter part of
1918 there was no defeatist agita-
tion worth speaking Of in Germany.
Liebknecht had been squelched. No
German statesman of the rank Of
Lord Lansdowne had publicly de-
clared the war to be failure. Ger
many had no Caillaux, no Bolo
Pacha, no newspaper like The Bon-
net Rouge. Charges were never made
that defeatist propaganda in the
German armies had paved the way
to Il reverse like that of the Italians
at Caporetto.
Short rations, due. to the blockade,
may have weakened the spirit Of the
civilian public, but there is little
evidence that Allied propaganda
caused any serious trouble. The
German people supported the war
enthusiastically when things were
going we'll. All classes hoped for
victory. II Germany had won Will
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17
lnnocuous Anarchy
o the Editor Of The Tribune.

10 the Editor CT The Tribune.
Sir: You published this morning an
editorial ridlcullng my argument in
the case OF the so-called Reds" ar
raigned before Magistrate McAdoo that
the New York criminal anarchy statute
is invalid. Will you have tho fairness
to print my argument?
1t was this: The Supreme Court has
held that the expression Of principles
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17
\ Back Number

cFvcp, The Morning O,.goa,a,j
Since the coal strike came on tbs
stage the steel strike seems 10 have
retired behind the scenes. Is il pos
sloie that a strike fos,ered by III
Reds" canno, flourish withoat the T..
glare of publicity,
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17

Constitution Congress would have to
do so.
THE pREsIDENT-Yes; that is
understood by all.
In this colloquy the President
went as far as any advocate of Re-
servation Two has ever gone. He
foreshadowed that reservation. It
corresponds with his carefully pre-
pared views of August 10. If a
knife has been thrust into the treaty
he was it's designer and manufac-
turer.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17
One Way to Announce |,

From 7he Karsas e.fs Jga~nai,
no man can ref sc nomination #,
,he Presidency. says Mr. ncAdoo 7.
democratic party is thus notified ~.
Mr.. McAdoo will not attempt the il.
possible.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17
BETWEEN THE LINES


Affected some, and some DOWNRIGHT r,s,
dacious
These precious Hymns OF Hate," Here
is displayed
Much prggish insincerity arrayed
In specous garb. vanity voracious
Of other peoples slips into vivacious
And natural expression I'm afraid
II one these critics in their own scales
weighed,
He'd find some banal residue like "Gwa-
cious -
Oh, Hymns rhetoricall Oh. spurious ue+.,
That Fury is no fakir, gentle srs
No peevish. vixen Hate no flourish hersi
80 take heed, Knockers, lest with them We
mate
That think their honesty inviolate-
ct m1ke pose o. hating posturers,
STANLEY kIpDHB WILSON.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17
Not So Far
From The Pb IoJsinL;c =

From The Philadelphia Inquirer
Has it ever occurred to Samuel
Gompers that it might help matters if
he occasionally agreed to make the first
concession?
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17
Harmless

From The Csveland Plain Dealerj
The former Emperor Of Germany
still refers to himself as "hs majesty"
Just habit, and as the cartoons say, Ht
doesn't mean anything"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17
The Literary Digest typewriting dodge

The Literary Digest typewriting dodge
IS old stuff. Somebody sends US a copy
of the Typewriter Trade journal, for
December ID, 1904, with typewriter
poem, Lines Written in Memory of the
Alleged Inventor of the Writing Ma
chine" credited to +. z. A. in the Chi
cago Journal. And rotten poem it was.
too, though we say it that shouldn't.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-17
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