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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-02
WILL DIRECT NURSING
Moss Laforge. Government Expert
 Comes to County

Miss Zoe Laforge. formerly field representative of the Children's Bureau in Washington. will arrive in Eirmins- ham October 15 to have charge of the bureau of public health nursing in Jefferson county.
 Miss Laforge was at one time super lAeendent of the nurses for the health department of Detroit Mich, and Is regarded as an expert She will have under her supervision five competent nurses and will be in entire charge of the rural nursing work for Jefferson county
 Her sister Miss Elizabeth Laforg e.. las for several years been connected with the county health department
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-02

This compares with s5,2SS,0O0 iu ing the same period in 1919. The increase for this year is sS.2S2o0c, or 157 per cent
 The total invested in this field during the nine months of this year is twice that of the entire year 1913. The 1919 total sG.Ssit, .0UG. The comparative record of the past two wears and nine months is this.
 Total, ,000.
 Total. Iajs-sG. s0O, COG.
 Total. nine months of i020--s13,- s5e.O00
 In a number of instances the new capital has beeu that placed in some of the strongest corporate enterprises of tie district. sucn for instance, as that of the Pizitz Dry Goods Company, in the mercantile line. and that of the Stock ham Pipe and Fitting Company, in the industrial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-02
Marriage Licenses

The following marriage licenses were issued yesterday at the office of the pro- bate judge:
 Omer Frank Ash and Miss Julia z. Pardue.
 Henry l. yeitch~ and Miss Mary Jose- phine Kanook.
 Homer Carder and Miss Lex Ingram Joe White and Miss Beatrice Barnes J. H. Taylor and Miss Minnie Jay May.
 A. W. Perkins and Miss Ruth Eastis Clayton House and Miss Kate Ar,n- strong.
 James Monroe Johnson and Miss Grace Motley. R. B. Harp and Miss Bessie G. Harb:n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-02
MANY MINERS ARE LEAVING DISTRICT
 FOR OTHER FIELDS
Union Representatives Say They Go for Better Pay.
 Operators Say Because of
 Intimidation Field Quiet

Numbers of miners have left the district. Just how many is
 not known.
 i Strikers claim they have left
 because conditions are better
 in other states. Operators say they have left because they
 were intimidated and afraid to return to work here. As many as sixteen are re- ported to have left one place in one day. ! Union headquarters say these men are leaving on their own initiative and at their own expense. Orders of General Steiner as to mass meetings are being observed. Business meetings of the strikers are held in ! their accustomed halls but open air mass meetings are not allowed and no attempts to hold them have been re- ported since those scheduled for Sun l day were broken up. OBEYING ORDERS It is stated in union circles that no attempt to disobey military orders has been made and that some meetings were called before the order was tho- Iroug hly understood. Dynamite was exploded under tho house of a negro in the coke oven quarters nt Pratt City. \ one legged negro working nt a 1T. c. I. mine is reported to have been beat up while waiting to board car. still another negro Is said to have been attacked .by . dozen men. Outside of these incidents. there has been no report of violence of any na- lure.
 Military companies succeed one an- other in the field, one relieving the other. The coming of new troops does not necessarily mean the increase of the military patrol. The military ap- pears to have sufficient men for that purpose.
 GENERALLY QUIET
 Generally speaking, the strike field
 was reported as quiet as mouse on
 Friday.
 The report of carload movements
 from the mines indicates production
 for the first four days of this week of more than 10000 tons in excess of that of the preceding week. The carload reports have proven a fairly accurate barometer of the actual |tonnare mined.
 It is of interest to compare Septem- Der production this year with that of last. Weekly production for the four weeks in the two years was as follows: 1920. 1919. |September 6 ..........253,29 249,o71 september Is .000 259,24 September 20 ..197,0s7 261, LIZA 0A1o 1o1n<1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-02
EVENTS OF TODAY
 IN BIRMINGHAM
RESOURCE,

Fire prevention discussion at noOI at Civic Association. Community Club lunckeon at nooI at Southern Club.
 ADJUSTMENTS / Jefferson Theatre--"Robert k. Lee.c
 Lyric--Keith vaudeville and pie. lures.
 Bijou-VaudevilIe and pictures. Majestic-"St0p, Thief" Strand-"HumOresQ sQue." RiaIto-Shirley Mason, in "Merely Mary Ann.''
 Alcazar = Thomas H. 1nce's .H0mespun Folks"
 Trianon-viola Danna in "Black- mail"
 CoIonial-ssThe Romance of Tar zan.''
 Princess-sLfghtning Brycc.' OdeOn-Western drama. West Lake-Skating, dancing and bathing.
 Edgewocd Park-Dancing and bathing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-02
THE RECORD

There has been no mushroom growth. It has all beep sn!id investment. The
 record by months for 1920 and 1913 has been as follcw
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-02
Birmingham Seefhir1g
 With Discussion of
 Grand Jury Report
If the Evidence Was Sufficient, Officials Should Have Been Impeached, Is General Comment-Gwins Friends Rally to His Support Saying Weeks
 of Long Attack Has Republican
 Disgruntled Contractors Base

probable that the grand to be organized in October
 will the ation of the county affairs This be- known yesterday when Solicitor Joseph Tate stated that Governor Thomas Kby had planned, early Sep ember 21 solicitor handle the matter but not tuntilth he in October.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-02
Women Smashing Into Crust To Get Al Meat
 or Everyday Politics
Laying Foundation for Keen Understanding of What and for Whom They Are Voting-League Is Not Party-Its Members Are Advised to Esti-
 mate and Then Vigorously Affiliate

being perfected by the League of Women Voters, city chairman for the organization of every bock of every voting precinct in Birmingham into division ot the city league, with headquarters at Cable Hall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-02
FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, 0CTODER2-9 BY PROCLAMATION Schools to Drill, Clubs Dis- cusS-Firemen Will Be Out to Parade In Full Force
 Saturday

Plans for the observation of Fire Prevention Week, Octo- Der 2-9, in Birmingham are rapidly being completed by Fire Chief s. A. Middleton.
 In cooperation with pr. J. II. Phil lips, superintendent of schools, Commits sioners J. H. Taylor and N A. Barrett. and Charles L. Harold, secretary ager of the civic association.
 Members of this committee will meet with the fourt minute speakers of the civic association today at 12 o'clock in the cafe of the association to discuss plans for having speakers in every theatre and moving picture house in the city during the week to tell the people of the importance of caution in pre- venting fire spread.
 SCHOOL PROGRAMME Dr. Phillips is working out a program to be carried out in all of the public schools of the city, reaching over 30, 000 children and approximately as many homes. to teach the importance of fire preventive measures.
 Fire drills will be held in various schools of the city every day next week.
 On Saturday, October 9. the con
 cluafDE day of fire prevention
 week. proclaimed by President Will
 son official fire prevention day, the
 Birmingham fire department will
 he on parade, If the weather per
 mits them to leave their posts.
 The wagons will be interspersed with bands, every man will be in full fire fighting regalia and the sight is ex- pected to be very imposing one.
 CLUBS INTERESTED
 Various clubs of the city will holc brief discussions of fire prevention a their regular weekly luncheons.
 An effort will be made through pub. licity to get every householder of tn, city to clean up the premises during the coming week and destroy all debris especially that of combustible nature
 Bremen in uniform will appear il every school room In the city to talk to the children on subjects generally related to fire prevention and the lift of fireman.
 These and many other means o bringing the lesson of the week home to the people will be used.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-02

Birmingham institutions and clubs are co-operating in keen rivalry to draw new industries to the one and welcoming the advent of competitors to create an even greater field.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-02
$l3, ,47O,OOO Inuested In Birmingham
 During First Nine Months OF 1920,
 Increase Ouer 1919 Is I57 Per Cent
of Months in 
 Advancing Rapidly With Great New Wholesale

Total of capital invested in corporate enterprises in the Jefferson during the months of this year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-02

Total .,,.. S13.470,O0O s5,2ss, ,000 Increnxe for 1920. SS. .:..32.0
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-20
THOUGHTS ON TELEPATHY
Bv H. AddinptOn Bruce

~ EXCEPTING by those who cling stub
II bornly to the waning materialistic
- view of man and the universe, the &C
tuality of telepathy is no longer in question.
That mind can communicate with mind
through other than the recognized organs of
sense is now accepted an established fact
even by many among most eminent sci
entists.
But to accept telepathy is one thing. To
understand it's mode of working is another.
Such saVants Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Will
liam Barrett, Professor McDougall, firm be-
levers in telepathy, confess themselves re-
duced to conjecture when asked to explain
the process by which telepathic messages are
transmitted and received.
At first thought wireless telegraphy would
seem to offer a satisfactory analogy, so far
as the explanation of telepathy is concerned
In wireless telegraphy, as is well known,
a powerful instrument sends through the air
vibrations which so act upon another instru-
ment properly attuned, to cause sounds
interpretable into intelligent language SINH
larly it might be deemed possible that in
every human being there exist brain centers
so organized as to be capable of sending and
receiving thought waves"
But against this simple explanatory theory
several objections present themselves.
In the first place, it is hard to imagine
any ''brain CENTER powerful enough to gen.
crate waves capable of travelling with in
telligible distinctness for any greater dis
lance. For, as scientists have long since
proved:
"All radiant forces when freely diffused
through space diminish in intensity as the
square of the distance increases between the
source and the receiver. AS a thousand feet
apart the intensity is a million times less
than one foot apart
Yet there are on record we'll authenticated
instances of telepathic action between people
half the world apart. To attempt to account
for these on thought wave" theory would
indeed appear to be futile.
Besides, it is not symbolic sounds that are
transmitted in telepathy as in wireless teleg-
raphy, but words, ideas and feelings. Nay,
in telepathy there is sometimes vivid pres
entation of entire scenes occurring hundreds
tions a product of Thought waves is
vertically to attempt the impossible.
So that the scientists who accept telepa-
the opinion recently voiced by Sir William
Barrett.
''It is difficult to conceive how an idea or
impression can be GEOGRAPHICALLY conveyed
except by the direct influence of the trans
hitting mind on that of the percipient an
operation which suggests an exclusive action
fthe mind, or soul, OF subliminal self
indeed one can speak of exclusive action in
process which is probably Independent both
of matter and space
Which, of course, is as certainly guess
work as is the Thought wave" theory. Only
it does seem to be guesWork somewhat more
closely fitting in with the puzzling facts
which still challenge explanation.
Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-20
FANNIE HURST
BV DR.. Frank Crane

Fannie Hurst, a Well-knOWn writer, re-
Gently has come into newspaper notice by
announcing her marriage to jacques S. Dan
ielson, a pianist and composer. There is no
newspaper story, of course, in ordinary
marriage announcement; but this was eX-
traordinary for the reason that it was not
publicly made until the fifth anniversary of
the wedding.
Miss Hurst, professionally speaking, or
Mrs. Danielson, suburbanly speaking, took
this occasion to declare some of her ideas
marriage which worth thinking over.
For these five years the two have main
tanned separate studio apartments, have
averaged two breakfasts a week together,
have never given an accounting one to the
other of the time spent apart, and now make
declaration that their arrangement works,
and that they are perfectly satisfied.
Miss Hurst says she was led to this be-
cause mine out Of ten of the alliances
saw about me were merely sordid endurance
tests overgrown with the fungi of familiarity
and contempt"
She did not desire to subject her marital
bliss to the strain of over-familiarity, wran-
Cling over social engagements, one dragging
the other out and the other going yet hating
it, and so on.
In other words, this couple made another
attempt to solve the old problem of a bal
ance between personal liberty and domestic
ties. How we'll they will succeed remains
to be seen. We wish them luck.
Miss-Mrs. Hurst-Danielson, however, calls
attention, by this publicity, to a real point
Of inflammation and sepsis in married life
For there are undoubtedly many couples
who have grown to hate each other simply
because of enforced over-intimacy.
Many fine woman has been ruined by
having her personality drowned in a mo-
lasses ocean of bourgeois sentimentality.
Her husband lives for her, loves her, works
for her, does everything in the world for
her, except the one thing that would keep
her love alive-that is, go away and let her
alone once in a while.
And many a genuinely good fellow has
cen lrritated into going wrong by too siren
nous and constant a dose of nervousness.
The golden mean is hard to find. Every
married pair is seeking it. 1t is a most deli
cate problem, to be worked out almost en-
treIy by the personal equation. "Strait is
the gate, and few there be that find it.
Here's hoping Fannie has.
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-20
Fixing German indemnify
Furthers Rec0nstru Ct10n'
S a step toward economic reconstruc-
ton the decision on the long sus-

a AONOAASNA"o
n tion the decision on the long sus-
u nondad matter of German indemnity
is If far-reaching Importance. The amount
which the Allies are said to nave aeleeu
tn demand is of less moment than the
foo+ that thew have agreed at all so that it
is possible to end an uncertainty Whlcn mas
hammered the vital processes OF readJust-
ment not in Europe alone, but throughout
the war-shaken world;
As long as Germany was In the dark on
this question, which involves her taxes ana
earnings for long years, if not for decades
to come, no considerable progress could pc
be made in the readjustment OF her pusl-
ness affairs nor in the shaping OF tnose
fiscal poIicies which form so grave a part OF
bnr new Governments tasks. The results
of this dubious marking Of time have been
no less unfortunate for Allied interests IMAM
for Germanys', for not until the latter are
nlaced upon a responsible and productive
basis can the former be ouly seculeu anu
the work of rehabilitation go forward apace.
A half-idle Germany cannot pay adequate IN
IDENTITIES nor can Germany OF sullen
hondsmen The people who so unhapplly
mt their trust in Prussian mllltar1sm ana
went down with it into the valley of dark
est defeat must be given opportunity and en-
couragement to recover power OF prodctlon
and get back into the channels OF Worlu
trade, it they are to raise the vast sums
which even the most lenient judgment as TO
W. N-"O
amount remained unfixed, conjecture rang
ing all the way from forty to one hundred
and fifty billion in terms of American money,
next to nothing could be done in the way
of stabiIizing economic relations between
Germany and the world.
The delay is ascribable to sundry causes,
not the least of which is the failure or the
United States to ratify the peace treaty IN
one form or another and lend at least moral
support to the League of Nations. Assuredly
it is a matter of deep regret on the busl-
ness side alone, not to speak OF human1tar-
ian concerns, that our Government though
having billions of American bond money IN
volved in European debts, still has no repre-
sentation in the settlement of many and
many a policy which in one way or another
affects not only those credits but our entire
economic future as we'll The sooner this
condition is remeded through an adjustment
of the differences between the President and
the Senate on the treaty, the better Will 1t
be for all parties at interest.
Meanwhile, it is reassuring that the Allies
have agreed upon definite indemnity The
sum is reported unofficially to be about thlr-
ty billion dollars. That is something more
than the most cautious of British counselors,
outside of Governmon circles, advised, but it
is much less than what most authorities
were proposing just after the war. Discus
sion of the figures now given, however, must
await the official announcement. 1t is great
ly to be hoped that there will be no further
delays; too much is at stake for the world s
peace and prosperity.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-20
rs to Packing Farm Products
IN commencing Texas shippers Of fruits
l and vegetables for the new care they are

IN commencing Texas shippers of fruits
and vegetables for the new care they are
taking in packing their products, the
Houston Post truly says They could
scarcely engage in reform with greater pos
siblities of profit. 1t is a matter Of COM
mon knowledge that Texas products measure
up in quality to those of Florida and Cali
fornia, yet the bad methods of packing have
given shippers in other states an advantage
in securing the right of way in the big mar
kets. 1t is as important to have products
graded assorted and uniformly put up in
neat, standardized packages as it is to have
quality in the product offered"
This idea has made substantial progress
in Georgia in recent years and has added
largely to the States agricultural income.
Long ago, indeed, the Fruit Exchange gave
national distinctiveness and enhanced value
to the Georgia peach crop by taking care to
grade and pack it according to we'll conceived
standards. Pecan growers followed along
The same line, much to their advantage and
20 that of their industry. The State Mar
ket Bureau has done good service in encour-
aging the adoption of these methods in the
shipment of any and every kind of farm prod
uct. In TRUTH there is no more important
phase to the far-reacnfng function of farm
marketing than that made up of sorting,
grading and packing. It is largely by at
| ending properly to these matters that the
rover builds up a reputation for quality
md service, and realizes the best profit on
-Gt he has to Offer
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-20
r.rrs2 ATGAANrA n1s1-wsaEAnn souKNAn.

derstand Chinese wants and tastes and GUS
toms and character. In a sngularly interest
ing booklet the subject, the Guaranty
Trust Company of New York, points out that
three basic elements govern Chinese bust
ness-persOnality, education and honesty
Regarding the first, your representa-
tive in China must be a man of educa-
ton and tact. The quality of agrees
sveness which makes for success in the
United States must be toned down in
dealings with the Chinese a dignifed
race, who abhOr the breeziness of GER
tain type of statesmen. On the other hand,
they have a profound reverence for a
man of learning and, if he is familiar
with their customs business relations
will proceed smoothly and profitably.
The same authority reminds us that his
commercial honor is an outstanding fea-
ture of the Chinese character and that he
demands an equally high standard of the
foreigner" Indeed, lone deviation from alb
sOlut0 integrity on the part of your repre-
sentative would probably destroy your bust
ness in China. At the same time the Chinese
merchant is altogether liberal in his deal
ings.' He is tenacious to all that is
material, with comparative disregard for
trifles, never letting transaction fall
through account OF punctiliO, yielding to
the prejudces of others wherever it can be
done without material Disadvantage
Where so much of opportunity, both for
profit and for service is involved for Amer
lean business, it is taken for granted that
the Washington Government approves the
plan to muster the financial aid needed for
China's development, provided, of course
her freedom and sovereignty are not threat
ened or compromised This point, 1t is I'M
derstood has been duly guarded IN the new
consOrtium of international bankers lollneu
IN assist the Government, and through IT
the people, of China in procuring the faclll-
ties needful for the development OF thelr
wonderous resources. If so, American IN
terests doubtless will take leading part III
this great and useful enterprise
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-20
DOROTHY DIX'S TALK ON
OUR LOVED AND LOST
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer
BY DOROTHY DIX

those who show the yellow streak
under the stress of life; who turn
traitor; who prove dishonest, and
who shatter our ideals of t&em.
Those whom we have once loved and
honored and can no longer love and
honor we have, indeed, lost though
they still be living. but the noble
dead we never lose. They are par
and parcel of our lives until the very
end.
No one would underestimate the
misfortune of the wife whose hus-
band is taken from her by death. To
be bereft of the strong arm that SuS-
stained her., and the tenderness and
love that EMBODIED her is truly
sorrows crown of sorrow to a Wom-
an
But the woman who has known a
good mars love and faith, and who
can count over the happy days Of her
life with him, and live in the bless
ed memory of the joys she has
known, can never really lose her hus-
band even though he has passed be-
yond the veil. Though unseen, he
abides ever with her. His wisdom
still guides her. His presence how
ers about her fireside, and she has
only to send her thoughts after him
into the far country to which he has
voyaged, to summon him back, and
voice, to see the love light in his
eyes, and to know that dead Or alive
he is still hers.
The woman who loses her husband
is the wife whose husband tires of
her, who ceases to care fOc her, and
whose heart strays off after another.
The woman who has lost her hus-
band is the fat, grizzled common
place oil wife who sits alone of
nights, eating her soul out in impo-
tent jealousy, as her husband phil
anders with girls young enough to bN
her granddaughterS, and spends on
them the money sheh shaved in the
early days of her wifehood to help
him make. She is million times
more to be pitted than the widow
who weeps above the coffin of a
faithful husband because she has
lost both husband and her respect
for him. She has not even meu-
Dry to console her.
And the mother whose children
grow up to be selfish and cruel and
neglectful, who show her that they
consider her a burden and that she
| is unwelcome in their homeS-are
rot these more truly lost to her than
the dead babes whose clinging arms
she can always feel about her neck
and whose warm little mouths are
| forever in memory clinging to her
breast? Many and many a time th.'
only child a mother has left to hen
| is the one that lies in the little
mound in the churchyard.
Happy those who are only separ-
ated from their loved ones by death.
| for they shall never lose them.
| Dorothy Dix's articles will appear
in this paper every Monday, We'd
IneSday, and Friday.