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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-04-16
Official Delegates

The following official club dele
gates were in attendance: Mrs. Clara
Monroe and Mrs. Elizabeth George,
representing the Pullman Historical
club; Mrs. J. w. Hungate, Cheney
Tillicum club; Mrs. d. r. Ostrander
and Mrs. William Sellers, Spokane
Twentieth Century club; Mrs. A. V.
Overman and Mrs. A J. Kraher, Spo-
kane Women's club; Mrs. ] H. NELL,
Spokane Wednesday club; Mrs A. l..
Chapman and Mrs. A. f. LeGrande.
Valleyfords Women's club: Mrs. !.
c. Odell,. Kennewood club; Mrs. Will
lam Arland and Mrs. Alex Strackow
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-04-16
Fifty Women Attend Club MEETING

outlining the part that women 5
clubs may play in the solving of the
present world problems. He empha-
sized the fact that independent think
ing and acting would have great
deal to do with the settlement of the
present unrest that is following
the world war.
The response for the federation
was given by Mrs. j. w. Hungate of
Cheney. Reading of the minutes of
the last meeting of the federation
was followed by report from the
treasurer. Reports from standing
committees were followed by the ad-
mission into the federation of the
following new clubs of northeastern
Washington: Women's Book club
of Spokane, City Federation clubs Of
Spokane, and the Ingleside club of
Pullman. Club reports were then
heard from all the delegates.
Professor w. 7. Shaw of the State
College zoology faculty delivered a
talk to the club women on Bird
Conservation. He outlined the steps
taken in the Northwest for the pro-
lection of birds.
During the intermission the
women enjoyed vocal solo by Miss
Leona Doerr of Spokane, a senior in
the State College department of
music
Luncheon was served in Van
Doren hall by members of the State
College department of home eco
namics
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23

might be permissible, but making fun of his job has become fixed habit with Mir. Marshall. Perhaps he has found out that it usually "sure- fire" hit with him audiences and each new variation of the old wheeze he perpetrates is sure to find its way into the newspapers. Years ago Mir. Marshall was conceded to be one of the leading humorists in public life. Ever since he has been zealously living up to his reputation. On find ing himself safely installed in the vice presidential chair, he seems to have decded that he had found the ideal position for man with pret- ty wit.
 Mr Marshall is too able man to go down in history as the court jester of the Wilson regime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
MEMORIES OF ST. ELMO.

land place" The Augusta EvznA Wilson house retains the post of honor in the center and the loftiest colonade of evergreen oaks in all the country about forms an arbor to its entrance, with ample grounds surrounding it.
 'we shall never consent to any of the original homestead being cut up into building lots" said one of the newer residents of Ashland place, with whom we fell into conversation. "The fact that this was Mrs. Wilson's home is what gives distinction to the place, although nothing but very high class of houses is permitted. We are. very proud of the literary honor she has conferred on Mobile"
 T suppose, of course, you have, read most of her books" we said.
 Everybody here has-that is, every body who reads fiction at all. They are what are called old-fashioned, but I think many of the modern best sellers are not as good"
 No doubt of it People still read St. Elmo very generally and one or two of the others are in the movies. At the Mercy of Tiberius,' for one"
 The old home preserves it's thorough going homelikeness. A rustic table and group of al fresco easy chairs on the lawn wore an air of only waiting for a sunnier day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23

Collier. in the St. Louis Globe-Demo-
 crat
 1A MOBILE, ALA.-It was a chilly NWll gulf-coast day-whether typi- e U9 cal of midwinter or not-when we came upon the home of Augusta J. Evans, who once thrilled our youthful days with "St Elmo" 'vashti," Ecu lah," and others of the best sellers of many years ago. The leaden clouds hung low, an inappropriate setting to the vast porticoed mansion half buried in 1eafy oaks and Towering shrubbery, a fair half block from the roadway. It. is, taking into consideration it's un- brageous surroundings, the most inn posing home in Mobile-a1l that the imagination can picture of what a southern ancestral hal1' should be- needing only the absent sunshine to bring out the soft shadows of it's 'ice cream -colored" awnings, the masses of pink and white japonicas in full bloom, the brilliant green of it's park-like lawns, brilliant even under a gray sky.
 The authoress, best known to the preceding generation, whose 'St. Elmo" was translated into seven languages, passed away in 1909 and the fine estate that surrounded the mansion is now being turned into residence plots in- closed in a park resembling our St Louis restricted inclosures called Ash
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
THE WAY OF THE IDLE,

enforced idleness, due to the fact that enough at their former employments for all the home returning of the war.
 The problem of idieness from what ever cause is everywhere a serious one; and in this country the drift toward the cities from the farms will inevita- bly, add to it.
 The Houston (Tex.) Post calls att tention to reports from New York state of 24,000 farms homes vacant within a year, and that sort of news" says the Post lis coming out of every state. and at that rate the time may come when the city folk may have to be fed hypodermicailye
 Working" says the Houston paper. will cure all economic trouble for the individual; work will cure it for the nation. Give each man two tons of gold tomorrow and it would not feed his family unless the farmers produced food. The short-day numskuil. who is bellyaching for ow-powersd dollars. has just four drachms moro brains than the confirmed idler. who has none.
 Where there is willingness to work, there is plenty to keep people of ali classes and occupations out of the idle class.
 And the farms. unwiseiy deserted for the cities, offer the best Inducements Tor that steady and profita ble employ ment which has proved in instances innumerable the certain road 4to~a, soitf progperity-to absolute indeuendanea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 R UST as England is threatened with
 the tramp problem in new OI form, France has far more se- rious one in the return of the Apaches to Paris-~more numerous and more desperate than before"
 The Paris correspondent of the New York Tribune says that the war made heroes of the old-time outlaws of this class and many of them died at the front; but their companions who lived through the conflict, now reinforced by thousands of deserters from the ar mics of the allies. form "a new army of crime, against which the police Of Paris are alfost poweriess"-
 British, Russian, Italian, Serbian, Chinese and American thugs have found safety in the Parisian under world, and now ply their trade more relentlessly than ever did those sknlk- ing criminals of pre-war days. whose namt they have usurped.'
 The war helped many of them to honest and orderly life; but. freed from its restraints, and it's incentive to make men of themselves, instead of helping in the work of rehabilitation, the shiftless and reckless of their class are retarding it wherever they are found.
 ,Englands new tramp problem is as nothing to what France has to con- tend with in this army of lawlessness; for in England there has been much
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
wants shade Trees Here

T hope some one will agitate the setting out of shade trees on our streets and avenues before it's too late to plant them this season. said Will liam Leary, and I was glad to see that Groom Beatty had a crew from one of the local nurseries digging holes on the Clairmont avenue side of the Country Club and on the opposite side of the street to set out Hack berry trees. which, by the way is beauti- full shade tree. I suppose that De- mopolis has the finest lot of them in the state. as it is the favorite variety, for it seems to grow to perfection in the limestone soil It ought, therefore. to be an excellent ornamental tree for Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
From the Providence Journal.

From the Providence Journal.
 NH 7IEN Mr. Austen Chamberlain
 MW lamented the other day be-
 cause prohibition in the United States was adding to the worlds mis- cries. he overlooked the Bahama Islands. Our desert-like condition has been the sole cause of changing gloom into sunshine in the Bahamas
 In the address with which he opened this years session of the legislature Sir William Allardyce. governor Of the colony. announced that az result Of this country going dry. the bana"an treasury could report surplus q s55o. 900 instead of deficit of sle4'ooo' and that there was now more money in circulation in the islands than mac ever been known.
 The years revenue was orisinahy estimated at ss72.ooo. Necessary e1- nenditures totalIed $5zs,ooo. leaving deficit of $154,0oo to be made up oy h;gber tayes and duties. Then, as the Tinted States began ridding itsef or liquor in compliance with the nes amendment to the constitution the nort of Nassau became an important dumping point for quantities Of hard stuff that owners were anxious to save. The duties on it brought the islands revenues for the year up to the surprising total of s1,osS,ooo and changed a discouraging deficit into a surplus large enough to warrant Gov erAor Allardyce in recommending to the legislature immediate considera- tion of reducing war-t time duties on the necessities of life,
 And so the Bahamans are not only looking forward to the prospect oi lowering costs of living. but are also
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
THE HUMAN COST OF LIVING
David Harold colcord, in the Review.

David Harold Colcord. in the Review.
 When one thinks of an industrial hazard. it is of the engineer on the Twentieth Century Limited swaying In his engine. blowing into tn enight at seventy miles an hour. One doesn't think of the marble-cutter at the cor ner shop automatically hammering hour by hour at the dusty stone--in- haling a powder that brings prema ature death.
 -ss.The tremendous facts of experience are accepted and commonplace. We dress, shave, eat. walk, ride. work. play, and write checks to discharge our obligations. They are ours if we pay for them. But is there any me- dium of exchange and measure of value that pays for the human risks that are assumed in constructing the ac- cepted things of our lives? Will a dollar pay for the steel of a jack-knife which was forced from a heat that burned alive three laborers when the ladle tilted and spilled? The human cost of living in civilized society?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

If fat woman happens to lose tour ounces, she thinks that the world should notice how slender she is get ting without having it's attention called to the fact.
 A woman is so contrary that she will usually try to sharpen a pencil at the gilt lettered end.
 As long as a woman is wearing her best underwear she doesn't worry whether or not there are skid chains on the tires.
 Another damli: Once upon time there was a man who was so absent minded that he fotgot to laugh at his own jokes.
 s1O a week raise in salary means that his wife will think it is up to her to pend $20 extra per week.
 When an article gets so cheap that a woman can afford to buy it she does not want it the way she wanted it when she couldn't afford it.
 There isn't enough logic in the world to convince woman that she should go without thing when she can have it charged.
 Father can't understand why com pany gets to sleep on the embroidered pillow slips that are too good for father to sleep on.
 The only reason why there are not more divorces is because a wife has enough patience to make up for the patience her husband lacks.
 This would be a better world if germs of thought were as plentiful as the other microbes.
 The weather never gets cold enough to make girl with a new engage ment ring wear her gloves.
 There is absolutely no excuse for the excuse the other fellow makes. But when you make mistake any body is liable to make mistake.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
Importance of Singing In Army

Music, both instrumental and vocal is still doing much toward bringing the oddly mixed men of the new Marine Corps closer together" says Sergt Lemuel F. Hill of the local marine re- cruiting office.
 Music had not a little to do with building up the nations military spirit during the world war The marine at the front confessed it. his captain, who entered with gusto into the spirit, of song confessed it and the general who planned his advances with thought of esprit de corps as well as strength in numbers confessed it.
 For many years the military value of bands has been understood and ap- preciated, but previous to the world war singing was considered only a form of entertainment and not means of developing military spirit. Today singing forms 8 permanent part in the regular training of ma rine, whether he be serving aboard touring men, 'o-war. ashore in foreign lands, or in the training camps at i home"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
WHERE LIES rHr LAND,

By Arthur Hugh Clough. Where lies the land to which the ship
 would go? Far, far behind. is all that they can
 say. And where the land she travels from?
 Away Far, far behind, is all that they can say. On sunny moons upon the decks smooth
 face Linked arm in arm. how pleasant hero
 to pace; Or. o'er the stern reclining, watch be- low The foaming wake far widening as we On stormy nights when wild north
 westers rave. How proud thing to fight with wind
 and wave, The dripping sailor on the reeling mast Exults to bear. and scorns to wish it
 past. Where lies the land to which the ship
 would go? Far, far ahead. is all her seamen know And where the land she travels from?
 Away, Far. far behind. is all that they can say.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23

tals, they could not have cared for them better; they could not have cared for them as well. for they would have lacked the scientific training necessary to carry on the battle between life and death.
 The nurses at Fort Sheridan have asked that we refrain from calling them angels" or roses of No Mans. Land" They say they are just women, and want no romantic titles. They do like to be called soldiers in white;" and that appellation is most fitting. We can't pay them a much higher com piiment, for if one is all that ss im- piled in the term soldier" there isn't much left to achieve in this earth. It implies chivalry dependability, and splendid character.
 So why not pay a small tribute to these women who "soldiered" side by side with their brothers in khaki; who shared and alleviated their hardships? It is not as though the business men of the country were asked to give up day in the middle of the week to do l them honor. Sunday, January 25, will not be missed from the productive days of the week. And it will be eminently proper that one Sabbath day in the year be given over to honoring the army nurse corps and the valiant women of which it is composed.
 Let's all get behind Governor Hard ing of Iowa in making this day one of memorial. and gratitude. To him we l6ffer our thanks for having made the suggestion and for having put it into l effect in the state which he so ably represeuts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
M,CRAE,s BEsr POEM

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Col John McCraes short war poem, 'In Flanders Fields" has had wider any other poetry produced by the war. If there is any poet in America who has neither initiated it nor answered it he at,s shown rare self restraint, for there hay come to this desk numbeTless para phrases and responses, which testiry to the impress the lines have made on many minds.
 An Ottawa friend sends us the book in which this poem and others have been assembled Ly Sir Andrew MacPhall. with
 an essay in character in which the 'ftter sI eaks of Colonel McCraes visit to this city -ust before the war began.
 "In July. 1914, he was at wo.K upon the second edition of the Text Book of Pathology by Adami and McCrse. pub lished by Messrs. Lea & Febiger, and he proofs He took them to Atlantic City, Where he could sit out on the sand and get sunshine and oxygen and work all at once.
 | Tt was laborious task. passing 80 to 100 pages of highly technical print each l day. Then there was the index, between ! 5000 and 1000 items. I have. so he
 writes, to change every item in the old index and add others. I have pile of papers, S26 in all I look at the index,
 find the old page among the 1926 and then change the number. This is about 7,Ut
 times. so you may guess the drudgery. l Who that saw him sitting on the sand
 amid the holiday seekers and their pleas lance could take the forward look into
 the days that presently came upon the world and upon him? 1 McCraes own life was his best poem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
SOLDIERS IN WHITE

From the Fort Sheridan CIll) Recall. RR "A RMY Nurse day.e We tell the
 A\ world it is the best idea that
 S S has sprouted in the fertile state of Iowa in many moon.
 The popular idea of the army nurse wandering around the battlefield among bursting shells is. of course, erroneous. But owing to the long range of modern artillery and the fre- quent air raids by boches who delight ed in slaughter of women and wound ed men, these heroines of the war were frequently under fire, frequently wounded, and some few were actually killed in action"
 And with that only part of the story is told. Official records of the nurse corps tell stories of hardship endured in the cause of humanity which rival those of the doughboys in the firing line Available buildings were given to the wounded; the nurses often lived in tents pitched in muddy fields. They were not "elock watchers" often they worked seventy-two hours at a stretch. Some of these overseas nurses are at Fort Sheridan now recovering from ill., ness brought on by the hardships and strain of their overseas service.
 Nor were those nurses who remained in the states" much less heroic. In the terrible days of the influenza cpl demie they went without hesitancy into the wards filled with men whose devised by the hatred of the Hun. At home or abroad the letters "A. N. e. spelled heroism and devotion.
 Had the mothers of the men and boys
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
Tuscaloosa's Foremost
 Citizen Passes Away

IE RANK s. MOODY, who died of U pneumonia at the age of sev- entv at his home in Tuscaloosa Sat urday night, was not only the fore most citizen of that section, but. he was known and revered throughout Alabama. His long and useful serv- ice in the state senate brought hlm early to the front, and he was rec ocnized as a leader in politics and a reformer of the sane and conserv- ative type.
 MT. Moody was temperance man. hut never extreme in his views. He was the father of the county dispen- sary system, which gained much pop
 ularity prior to the advent of the Anti-Saloon League. MT. Moody was banker and did much as an upbuilder of Tuscaloosa but it was his unselfish activities IT the legislature that distinguished hin from the ordinary politician. We'll poised and true to his con- victions, no man in public life was more fearless; ana with it all he was
 courteous and most lovable gentle man. Tuscaloosa will long lament his taking off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
Keen to Right

You certainly have a mighty fine Willard T. Merritt of Chicago yester- day, "but it has two faults, easily cor rected, that quickly strike a visitor.
 You know, the first thing new conner, or a traveller passing through, who stops off for while, does is to set his watch. or compare it, with the local time. Maybe you people don't notice it. but I never saw such a dearth of public clocks anywhere in my life.
 Most towns you go to have big clocks on poles outside of jewelry stores, hanging on banks at promi- nent corners, stuck up in high church steeples, and almost any way you turn in the business section you can get the time, but in Birmingham such tell the truth, I can't recall having seen one.
 "The other friendly kick I want to register against this splendid city is the utter disregard by it's pedestrians of the law, prevalent in most big cities, of keeping to your right. You people, as far as I have seen, walk on Ieither side. of the sidewalk, jostling one another, lodging in and out streams of people from moving pie ture theatres meeting and neither giv- ing way until the last moment, and then, as like as not, going to the left.
 Your town is too big and too fine and has too great a future to be ut | terly oblivious to these little things that add to, or so painfully detract 1 from, metropolitan life"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
When the Vice President
 Has a Sense of Humor

M MR. MARSHALL continues to go GVU about the country saying, in effect, q don't amount to much. I'm merely the Vice President" not without some basis of truth, his of flee has been made ject by the nations humorists. It is to be sure, . position of no great responsibility, yet the vice presidential joke has been done to death. A tremendous amount of alleged humor has been dumped upon it and such witticisms become doubly painful when they fall from the lips of gentleman who happens to be occupying the office himself.
 An occasional reference to the ~twilight zone" in which he moves
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-23
Another Increase Noted
 In the Cost of Living

NL\H IL II IilS iaOiOIlal SbOCh Ol OD- w timism already at a low ebb, the labor department announces that the cost of living increased two per cent in the month ending January 15. The average family's expendi- ure for food is now approximately nine per cent greater than it was in January, 1919, and one hundred and four per cent greater than it was in January, 1913.
 Columns of newspaper space have been devoted to the high cost of liv- ing. If these columns were laid end to end, they might reach almost to the moon-certainly from New York to San Francisco. Experts, great and small, have discussed the causes that make for the high cost of liv- ing and what shoald be done to bring back the blessed times when sal ary of one hundred dollars month was considered fair income for sup porting family Statesmen, from the occupant of the White House down to horny-handed state legisla- tors, have announced that something had to be done, but in spite of the combined efforts of the government, numerous organizations and the pri- vate individual represented by mil lions of Americans who are gritting their teeth and trying to make both ends meet, the cost of living scars percentibly higher.
 Is it any wonder that there is widespread pessimism? The rail- road workers and others classes of labor who have powerful organiza- tions behind them are demanding more wages or an immediate reduc- tion of the cost of living. The vast unorganized masses of the popula- tion can only wait in dumb misery for relief.
 One thing is certain. Somewhere there is a breaking point, beyond which prices cannot go. Wages can. not continue to keep pace with prices indefinitely, and what about the peo. pie whose incomes remain fixed? Tt that class belongs the "forgotter man. He constitutes in the aggre gate large, army, hitherto patien and long suffering, but if the tim, ever comes when, no matter how ht twists and turns, he cannot give hi. wife and children the common ne cessities of life, he will be heart from, and the biggest labor disturb ance this country has ever had vii ' look like tempest in a teapot.