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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
Visitors Welcome

Camp Andrews, the summer camp of the local Boy Scouts, is an ideal site for these boys" said Dan B. Dim ick. Tt is located just IA miles from Bsrmignham and it would do the people of Birmingham good to see just what these boys are doing while there on camping trips. The Boy Scouts camp is just off the Montgomery highway and the road is splendid. It would be nice drive to the camp and the boys would be glad to have visitors, for they are very proud of the work they have done at their camp.
 T am sure if the men of Birming- ham realized just what thes Scout work means to the boys, they would take more interest in it and would not only give money, but their services Is as- sisting to train them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17

George has approved" he declared, "but I know we have good enough form of government here in America for me, and l am not going to take any chances with Trotzky or Lenine's bolsheviki crowd. They are no more the friend of labor than was the Czar of Russia"
 Those were plain and true words and made strong impression on the convention.
 The fact that conservative senti- ment prevailed in the convention can but give satisfaction to the patriotic people of the United States and to the true friends of labor everywhere. The action of the sane delegates in rescuing the federation from the reds will mean a better and brighter day 1 for union labor. Had the bolsheviki supporters had their way anarchy would have been in sight. The American Federation is to be
 heartily applauded in the stand it | has taken. And it is stand that the
 bulk of the working men of the coun- try prayed for-this rising above madness and the red flag. @
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
MOBILE AND BIRMINGHAM

equipment to carry the freight. Just 1t present the waterway cannot handle the volume Of freight offered, and will be in- creasinely unable to do so until the ca- pacity is increased. Great magnets for picking up consignments of steel, steel co, ,stainers for miscellaneous freight, hoisting devices and derricks of the lat est approved designs, docks, warehousing and other facilities are included in the plans for equipping the port. IT
 All of this means much to Mobile, for Mobile is the port of export, and will handle the great bulk of goods thus bi ought down to sea. If the Port of Bir- mingham is thus equipped to care for this Hncreasing tonnage, all the nacres imperative does it become that to tie Port of Mobile be extended the state credit enabling it to expand to meet this new and heavy tax upon the port. When the campaign to place the amendment be- fore the people authorizing state aid is put under way there will be abundant evil dence at hand to show the benefit to the whole state of proper development of the states only port. Naturally, barge lines on the Alabama will stimulate the citi- zens of still another section of the state to support the plea for state aid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
in. But the bosses had other fish

win. But the bosses had other fish to fry.
 General Woods manly and cour- ageous defense of the men who sup ported him is characteristic, in spite of the fact that they discredited him by their misguided efforts. Too much money was spent in the Wood campaign, most of it contributed by a kindly old soap maker, another "babe in the wood," so far as prac- tical politics is concerned.
 Dr. Butler was also a presidential candidate and his poor showing in the convention has doubtless stirred up a little bile in his academic system. General Woods services to his coun- try and his own integrity will eff fectively shield him from such splen- etic attacks as that of Dr. Butler.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

A girl has to be sure that there are no holes in the knees of her stockings be- fore she tries to sit down in one of the kind of skirts she is wearing these days.
 Our idea of carrying coals to Newcastle is to go to a married man to tell your troubles.
 Nowadays when girl tells you that her hair is her own she means that she has paid for it out of her own money.
 A newly married man poses as an or acle and tells you how easy it is to manage a wife. But a year later he hasn't a blame word to say.
 After a love-sick slob keeps telling a girl that she is an angel she begins won- dering how much harp would cost and how long it would take her to learn to play it.
 After seeing what some folks look like while riding in Fords we do not mind riding on a street car. A street car looks so iignified.
 4 fif' ean call you liar or a hypo- crite or | trifler. and there is a chance so make D again. But if she ever gets to where she announces you are no gen. tleman. sol might as well beat it.
 The hig itiAs that have been turned inse Sahara by rube-reformers-for-rev rue frosa Fayville. can sympathize with Ireland n | demands for home rule. Anotlsss his trouble with this country is that too ,any of our women folks have tight keys of their own and refuse to sit at homa Anl wait and weep for huDbr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
SAD BALLADS HISTORY

who will thrill to the sound of those ma jestic lines:
 Say, boys, if you give mo just another
 whisky I'll be glad, And I'll draw right here picture Of the
 face that drove me mad. Give me that piece of chalk with which
 you mark the baseball score; You shall see the lovely Madeleine upon
 the barroom floor! g
  would go on and repeat the conclud- ing stanza, with the fearful shriek and the dead artist, but emotion brings an injunction against my pen.
 MT. D'Arcy has written thirty-one plays and sketches and more than hundred scngs, including "They Laid Her Where the Other Daisies Grow" and when saw him at the Green Room Club the other day he was still at work But "The Face Upon the Floor" is his masterpiece.
 AN OLD RICHTER. New York, June 12.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
From the Mobile Register

From the Mobile Register.
 6T1HE business and industrial inter
 ests of the Birmingham district
 c are already experiencing the im- mediate financial benefits of shipping via the Warrior It is said that one firm saved $12O0 on one shipment by water over what the same shipment would have cost by rail. It is said the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company has to date saved between s10,Oo0 and s15,OOo in this way. This saving is due to the 20 per cent rate differential in favor of the Warrior. Therefore, all these shipping interests are willingly contributing to the crarter of a million fund for equipping the Fort of Birmingham to handle this great business expeditiously. Only s5.O0O vet remains to be subscribed. The Ten nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company contributed originally s5o,OD and later added $15,OO0 more, influenced by the glimpse of the great saving that will be effected in it's export shipping.
 Now that such great saving has been demonstrated and the results published in actual figures, the whole group in inter- est in the Birmingham district will begin Co throw their business to the waterways as rapidly as it is provided with barge
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
VANISHED HOURS

From the Chicago Tribune. The stately Hours we never knew Like ghosts they pass us by tonight A silent band. and not a few
 star-crowned, aristocrats of light. The Hours that dwelt with us were
 plain-
 They knew the hearts of common They often ssupped with Grief and
 Pain,
 And Care. the keeper of zhs yoke Their ghosts are those tsaat follow
 there.
 An unpretentious. hapos lot: And some are sweet and aoA1a ara ir, And most are loved, ant none for ot. IT some remind us of darA 6ata And some bring back q hint as felrs, There's none but left along tie waes A flower to grace relaezabsrec ITS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
lnadequacy Points
 To Future Greatness

M FEW days ago there were eight S thousand tons of manganese ore on Mobile docks desirous of be- ing transported to this district by way of the Warrior so as to reap the hanefit of the 20 per cent differential under the rail rates.
 But it could not move by the War rior That sounds tragic Prima facie, it is tragic. Looking forward, it is the other way.
 The manganese ore cannot move up river by barge now because the Port of Birmingham is not yet equipped with buckets with which to lift the ere from barge to car.
 Secondly, the inadequate fleet on the river prevents acceptance of
 inbound traffic that would initiate
 inst the regular southbound and err use the entire system.
 thirdly, the Mobile coal and ore ter iinal, which would enable loading af oarges direct from ore-carrying sAas, is not in service.
 owever, the very absence of the nlinal facilities at the Port of Bir- mlngham and Mobile and inadequacy of the present fleet, all preventing acceptance of northbound as we'll as southbound business in volume of- fe1ed, points to the tremendous busi- ness that will ensue when they are aG hand.
 They will be on hand in a short while. Then we can accept the busi- ness and send forth the good word to the 20 per cent differential territory. Then Atlanta, Chattanooga, Colum- bus, Miss, and Montgomery will not forego the advantage of economic shipping between them and gulf ports via Port of Birmingham.
 The sooner the Port of Birmingham is complete the better for Birming- ham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17

From the New York World.
 N V. LUCAS epigrammatic style, IS which is familiar to readers of the following excerpts from the inter- view he gave the World contrasting American and English life:
 'Tn America you are fond of business and proud of being business men, while in England we are bored of business ana would prefer to be thought to optah our money in other ways. l don't say which is right and which is wrong, but l am certain of this-that your attitude provides much more fun.
 .In England they say yes and Tn America they gulp."
 "In England the railway cars are di- vided up for first, second and thiro- class passengers. In America only the frst-class people travel"
 .sIn England if you ask man how he is he gives you an account Of ms more recent maladies and this morning temperature In America he says Finer"
 ..Ir England a series of comic pictures in a newspaper would have to culminate in a point
 ..In England the waiter brings you something at once, to go on with. III America he brings the meal all together inst as vou begin to swoon from hunger.
 Tn America the cows give not oniy butter. but cream In England they give orly butter and very little of that
 Tn England d policeman's baton is so rarely used that there is chance to get away before he can find it and draw il a Afaerica it swings at every corner, | aneeg fog head.'
 efr England a smoker is treated with mere consider ation than nonsmoker. In A,usr.c whore England gets most of it's tobacco. yyou are forbidden to smoke even in q sto-se -ailway hall bigger than the tlippodrcFls."
 .tfn rrt md on the day of rest we are st;iI atSs see some of the furniture in ouf siEtiux rooms In America it is cov- arsS bv the Sunday editions of the papers
 afn a nerica coffee IS always good. ! our rth-rate coffee is better than our iifst-s $.
 More over. the food is served here with nlScL nore distinction. The cloths are 'clean ind everybody gets finger bowls. In EF Hand finger bowls belong to cer-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17

6CO the Sun and New York Herald;
 The song commonly called "The
 S Face on Hle Bar Room Floor, concerning the authorship of which ir- ouiries are often made, was written by Hugh Antoine Darcy, native of France and now at the age of IT resident of New York.
 The true title of the tragic ballad is .'The Face Upon the Floor" Mir. D Arcy wrote it in 1887, when he was agent for Ada Gray, then magnificently weeping her way across the country in East Lynne The poem was first. published in the New York Dispatch on April D, 1887, and soon afterward Sam Bernard recited it in a variety show, as vaudeville was then honestly called.
 Although in theory there are no more barrooms, there are still faces, and for years there may be sentimental persons
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
OVER HERE AND OVER THERE

tain class of restaurant; other people Eever hear of them.'
 Tt is refreshing to be in country where there are no class distinctions. am told that there are class distinctions here, but I have not seen them. It Is so nice to be called MT. Lucas immedi- ately by every one. England is entirely war has not done much to change con- ditions It's in the English blood. The English like class distinctions and rank"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
General Wood Makes
 Warm Reply to Butler

A NY other red-blooded man would GA have done what General Wood did when he denounced a statement made by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia as "vicious and malicious falsehood."
 Dr. Butler charged that General Wood was supported in his campaign for the republican nomination by a motley group of stock gamblers, oil and mining promoters, munitions makers and other like persons"
 Regardless of the truth or falsity of Dr. Buffers accusation, he indirect ly assailed the character of a man whom the entire nation honors. Had the will of the people, as indicated in the farcical preferential primaries, had any weight with the "Old Guard" at Chicago, it is probable that Gen eral Wood would have been nomi- mated. But the people had nothing to do with naming a republican presi- dential candidate. It was the work of sAs bosses, largely of one man, Pen tssse of Pennsylvania, who dominated the convention from a sickbed.
 General Wood has had to suffer for the blunders of his friends. He was on utter novice at playing the crafty, and often shady, game of politics. With disingenuous belief that d President is chosen by the people, General Wood laid his claim before them and asked their approval. His Note in the primaries justified him D thinking he had . good chance to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
HARD TO DECIDE.

HARD TO DEClDE. Has Mrs. Calder made any plans for the summer?"
 she's going away, of course. but she doesn't know where" Isn't it about time for her to decide?" Her nerves must be considered. If she goes to place where her gowns fail to make all the other women there turn green with envy, she's apt to have nervous prostration, but if she chooses resort wnere nobody dresses up, her summer wardrobe will be a total loss.
 ADvT.
 "So YOU have just returned from visit to the European battlefelds?' said the impressionable person.
 .sYes," said the stodgy gentleman, "i have"
 "Do tell me about the emotions that surged through your breast whtm you viewed those historic spots made sacred by the blood of brave men" "Why-er-some Americans have opened l rattling good hotel at Verdun."
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
Ready to Help

q am glad for the cattlemen of Ala bama to use the fair grounds for their sales" says J. L. Dent, the superin- tendent, flor while it means a lot of extra work on my part, yet I am in hearty sympathy with the breeders who are trying to build up herds of pure blood.
 'It is my hope and aim to make the Alabama State Fair place where each fall the very best cattle exhibitors will want to exhibit. and ever since coming to Birmingham I have been doing everything In my power to make it worth their while.
 "If the breeders wish to create new customers for their "top-notch" stuff, they must help us educate the people i1to knowing the prize winning kind by giyins them a chance to see them when our gates swing open in the fall to the crowds that flock in from all over the state"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
ADRIFvT WITH THE TIMES
A CIVIC SLACKER.

Would you call Jibway a. public-splr- tied citizen?"
 With limitations'
 What kind of limitations?"
 "When public meeting is held to dis cuss ways and means Jibway will shed his coat, roll up his sleeves and smoke as many cigars as anybody. but when the time comes to do the real work Jib- way isn't thAe~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
Lynching Not Subject
 To Geographicai Lines

" ASO5A | o PAiASNA A@AiAOo
 THE lynching of three negroes at 0 Duluth, Minn., for assault on white girl is no more of surprise than had the lynching taken place in Mississippi, Alabama, or Georgia.
 Where that crime occurs the mob metes out punishment. Man will care for his women and he who abuses them i S headed to quick immolation on the altar of instinct. As faith rises above mathematical demonstra- tion, mans protective spirit in rela- tion to woman brushes restraint aside and goes straight to the mark of nat ural law.
 More lynchings occur in the South simply because there are more ne- groes in the south and the crime is oftencr perpetrated here. The differ ence between the north and the south with respect to the negro is that the south stops at the individual criminal, while the north, once the racial feel ing is aroused, strikes with ungov- |ernable rage at numbers.
 Negroes are sometimes lynched for other causes than attacks on wcmen. So have white men been lynched for other causes, both north and south. The west strung up cat tie thieves summarily. Lynchings for causes other than attacks on wom- en in the south have been the product of the habit of lynching for that crime. Stop that crime and lynch ings will be few and far between.
 Had the Duluth crime occurred in Georgia the actual assailant would have been lynched In Duluth they went at it in wholesale style.
 Not long ago in Knoxville, a south ern city, the arm of the law extended to the protection of negro fiend who had ravished and murdered a number of women, the last white girl in her early teens Members of the mob were shot down and killed. The ne- gro was tried, convicted and suffered the law in the usual way.
 In Duluth thirty policemen in the jail enclosure gave way to the mob after the sole and ridiculous effort of dispensing it with a stream of water
 The negro would make greater progress toward the elimination of lynching if less attention were paid to lynching statistics and more to preachment of the inevitable couse- quence of this cropping out of the sav- age in the race.
 More progress would be made in securing full justice in the courts were stop put to the habit of har- boring known criminals.
 M
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
Red Rule in Russia
 Fails of Labor Support

IF the American Federation of La- O bor is radical at times the ma jority is not always extreme. The fred" element in the federation, now in session at Montreal, made strenu- ous effort to recognize the soviet gov ernment of Russia, but the conserva- tive forces took firm stand against it and triumphed.
 The debate was heated James A. Duncan of Seattle led in behalf of the soviet, but the committee report declared in unmistakable terms against it. The federation would not be justified in taking any action that might be construed as an approval of the soviet government, so long as it is based upon authority not vested in it by popular national representa- tive assembly of the Russia people; or so long as it endeavors to create revolutions in well-established, civil ized nations of the world, or so long as it advocates and applies militariza- tion of labor and prevents the organ izing and functioning of trades unions and the maintenance of free speech, free press and free public assemblies"
 The soviet, it was learned by John Frey, chairman of the resolutions committee, on the highest authority is an "autocratic, militaristic. govern ment that does not believe in democ- racy" and "is ruling by the iron hand of the dictatorship"
 A New York delegate said the greatest trouble in America was the bolshevist plotters who are trying to disrupt organized labor. q don't care what President Wilson or Lloyd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
MUSICAL WARRIORS
tba Ricbmond Journal

From the Richmond Journal.
 A monk, known as "The Foch of the Gregorian Chant" has just arrived in this country. He will be followed in. due time, no doubt, by The Petain of the Bach Fugue," '"The Haig of the Christmas Carol" and The Hinden- burg of Grand Opera" Over here they'll all probably meet The Per. shng of the Jazz Rag"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
BACK WITH THE BACON

From the Washington Post.
 Marry Harding, our popular fellow townsman, has returned from a busi- ness trip to Chi. He went for some bacon, or something.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Great Responsibility

After being chosen for the conven- tion city of the Rainbow Division over Chicago. the country's second largest city, it behooves the Magic City to take care of her visitors during the conven- tion," says John R. Hornady. commits sioner of education.
 We must open up our homes to the delegates and the visitors" he repeat ed Tn July there will be in Birming- ham 5000 former members of the Rainbow division from every state in the union, and practically as many more visitors, all here for several days. Cur hotels will never be able to care for this extra number of people.
 Ut is a signal honor for Birming- ham to be chosen as the first conven- tion city and we should recognize the fact. The selection was made when tke division was part of the army Of occupation. Delegates from every unit met in the famous health resort, Bad Neuenahr. and there formed the Rain bow Division Veterans.
 Tn the fight for the first conven- tion city, the contest was red-hot be- tween Birmingham and Chicago. Blr- mingham won by seven votes.
 Hundreds of people from every state will be here and the treatment they get will make an impression. If they Ec away with favorable idea of Bir- ringham, we will get one of the big" gest advertisements in our history. Then 1t is up to us to make the right impression andto set at the first con- vertion the model for all future ones."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
NEW USE FoR7HoME BREW

From the Kansas City Star.
 A Brooklyn man finds that a substi- ute for gasoline can be made with yeast. We thought our batch of home made yeast and raisin beer tasted bit queer. but it never occurred to us to try it in the flivver.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
WOOD KNOWS IT NOW

Fro mthe Arkansas Gazette.
 It is better to be dark horse backed convention with hundreds of instructed votes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
A LETHAL DRINK

From the Montgomery Journal.
 The reason a Mexican President doesn't ask for a third cup of coffee is because he is served some modern sub stitute for hemlock
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
Where Is the LOtf

When people come to get building permits,' says J. w. Hunter of the city building inspectors office, they make no effort to get accurate information about the lot on which they are to build.
 ITO carry on the record of this off, flee, we must have the lot and block number before we can furnish the per nit If this is accurately and care fully obtained before permit is asked for, it will eliminate a large amount of trouble at this office and will speed up tEe issuing of the permit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-17
MuFFLE THE DRUMS.

"The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart" To Washington poor Hiram hies, A Bull Moose" with broken heart. Where now the pladits of the crowd, The confidence that he would win? T. R's torn mantle is a shroud And battling Hiram is all in.
 A MYSTERY. "Still living at Dingledale?" ''Yes." said MT. Jagsby. How do you find it?" "To be perfectly frank with you, after I've had three or four drinks of undiluted 'moonshine I don't know how find it."
 THE REACTION. "A stranger registered at our leading hostelry yesterday"
 Whats unusual about that?" When the clerk informed him that a desirable room and bath could be had for only s1O a day he fell on the clerks neck and wept tears of gratitude" "Locoed?"
 NO, just back from Chicago"
 AN ELASTIC PLANK What do you think of League of Ma ticns plank?"
 'We have one in our platform" said the republican politician. But what does it mean?" "Well-er-I guess it means we're out to catch 'em going and coming"
 NO DELAYS Six pennies will a trolley hire And that beats travel on the hoof Besides we know that every tire On which we turn is puncture-proof.