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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19

Strange things may come to pass in bone-dry land. For instance, the employees of big brewery at Potts vile. Pa, struck for more wages be- cause of the unprecedented demand for teer.
 Big Bill" Haywood is now declared tG be the master mind" of the "out- law" strike. Gentle reader, mas ter mind" and a mighty intellect don't always mean the same thing.
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 Reports from both Georges and Mau- rice indicate that visitors who can't even speak our language fluently have no difficulty in understanding our money when it talks
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 Reducing the size of metropolitan newspapers to eight and ten pages is a great hardship on commuters who finish with their paper before the train gets well under way. Although it may be true that the sllied blockade won the war. nothing should be permitted to detract from the fame of the United States ma- rines.
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 The spectacle of a German judge kow-towing to Prussian prince shows how far Germany has to travel before she becomes a real democ- racy.
 Birmingham now gets it's grand opera in homeopathic doses. When our new auditorium is finished there will te different story to tell.
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 One advantage of wearing overa1ls is that you can find out, what's the matter with the family flivver without changing your clothes.
 
 It is claimed cigarettes and bolshe- vism go together. In that case, there may be some good in the Anti-C Cigar cite League. after all
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 The Turk feels so confident hell not be kicked out of Europe he's rot even protecting his southern ex- posture.
 ance in congress Does that mean that the last rampant has been stormed? Germans are returning to London. However they are not welcomed with brass band and toasted in British ale.
 Determined to make the Adriatic iin Italian lake, DAnnunzio is threat ening to take in some more territory.
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 Judging from the work of European cartoonists, the closer one is to the red horror" the worst it looks.
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 Stecher triumphed over the Hon. "strangler," but nevertheless it was a busy evening on the mat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19
LUKE M,LUkE SAYS

whole lot of husbands can tell you that wife isn't happy unless she has something the matter with Ter.
 A girl doesn't have to have a fur coat to keep her warm if she knows that she is wearing a silk combination.
 We do not know much. But we do know that any time fellow and girl set married on a bet they both lose.
 You can't get slim princess to be- leveA that in 20 years her waist line will be nothing but a cinch line like her mother's.
 The reason why woman knows .hat her own hat is becoming is be- cause she can see that other woneh look funny in the hats they are wear ing.
 No girl ever had such a hopeless shape that she didn't believe she would look well in tights.
 It sure makes woman mad when she looks over the ads and sees that the kind of dress she used to get for S5.95 is now marked s39.67.
 Funny that wife never feels as sorry for her own husband as she does for some other womans husband.
 We never pretended to be fortune teller But when man leaves his home with a grouch in the morning and slams the door behind him we'll predict that he has bad day ahead of him.
 The get-rich quick quacks and oii- iess-oil-well and goldless-gold mine concerns get all of their money from thu sort of fellows who squeeze a rickel until the buffalo grunts.
 A professor tells us that only five marriages in each 100 are happy. And every married couple wonders where inell the five happy couples are.
 What has become of the o. f. woman who used to hoist her overskirt on the street when she needed some money cut of her pocketl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19
LESSON OF THE CARPENTERS

From the Chicago News
 That was an interesting competition in which hundreds of union carpenters of the Chicago district engaged Sum- day in Me1rose Park--a competition in good works. Forty houses in the vil- lagc had been destroyed two weeks be- fore by the tornado, which also wrought severe damage in other western and north shore communities. Forty fami- lies had lost in a moment the most val uable of their possession. death had struck in many of them and all were homeless. Since the storm generous contributions of money. food and cIoth- ing had alleviated much of the distress. but still these families were without homes of their own and there was little immediate chance that they could get them.
 The carpenters, however, rose nobly to the opportunity. Fifteen hundred of them gave up their Sunday rest and volunteered their services without charge to rebuild the houses of the suf- ferers Organized in crews of 100 each, they did marvels in construction. Ono house whose former owner had been killed by the storm was rebuilt for his family in seven hours and fifteen min utes. Before the day was ended half the destroyed houses in Melrose Park lad been reconstructed. The carpen- ters have announced that they will work without pay on succeeding Sat- urday afternoons and Sundays until all the damage in Melrose Park and Nay wood has been repaired. They give freely skilled service that it would be impossible for the destitute families to buy.
 1T this disturbed nation would con- sider what the Chicago carpenters have done and follow the example many of it's greatest troubles would quickly vanish. In few places Is charity need ed, but almost everywhere is work to be done. and the country suffers be- cause the needed work is not done in cheerful cooperation. The carpenters have shown how difficulties vanish when they are attacked in the right spirit. the essence of which is the joy of service.
 Very similar. by the way were many Icf the lessons taught by the Carpenter of Nazareth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19
Almost a Gamble

Tt is not only the big dailies who are suffering on account of the paper shortage" said II. S. Limmer, but the smaller dailies. the weeklies and the religious publications are also in g hale. Having been connected with concerns whose business it has peen to get out quite a few weeklies and some of them of more than statewide circulation. can say that never be- fore has it been so hard to figure on a job. for where a contract calls for certain grade and size and run for any time it is almost a gamble, for ary day the supply may give out
 ITO add to the complexity of the situation is the frequency of the tie up of the railroads. The public may think that printing is high, but the publishers themselves are working un- der burdens which heretofore they have not had to bear. The bad part If it is I can see no prospect of any improvement for some time to come"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19
GO SOUTH. YOUNG MAN.

From the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
 The depression marked by the buy a-bale movement early in the Euro pean war seems to have been a turn ing point in the history of the south.
 Travellers in that section for months counts of a new spirit and signs of a counts of ne wspirit and signs of a generation. They found many of the old, slow-going trade centers present. ing the prenomena that used to be presented by new western boom towns. Business districts whose appearance had been little changed since the years succeeding the civil war were being transformed. New subdivisions were being laid out, for the housing prob lem was as acute there as elsewhere. Business enterprises Were flourishing, banks overfolwing with money and new projects continuously planned.
 Census figures are confirming the reality of the change Reports on the larger subdivisions of states and coun-
 
 on the principal cities. but the frag- mentary summaries from the census bureau have daily information of in- terest to all friends of the south and it's people. Advantageously located smaller towns whose neglect of oppor- tunity has long been a cause of won der, and whose population has either been almost stationary or has actually declined under past enumerations, are showing increases of 25 per cent or more that evidence steady growth ot a gratifying sort.
 Go south, young man, go south. Scores of railroad centers there offer splendid chances in the manufacture and sale of needed articles for fertile surrounding areas, enriched by abun- cant crops at high prices
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19
BALM FOR OUR MARY

From the Houston Post.
 No true southern gentleman would nave tried to spill Our Mary's toy Leans by trying to upset her honey moon with litigious devilment. Nevada will lose her greatest industry if she acts this way. There are other di- vorce centers just as effective as Reno. Houston's modesty prevents the men tion of one of them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19
QUIET WORK

 By Matthew Arnold 1s22-lsss). One lesson, nature, let me learn ef
 thee, One lesson which in every wind Is
 blown. One lesson of two duties kept at ons Though the loud world proclaim their enmity. Of toll unsevered from tranquillity. Of labor that in lasting fruit ant Far noisier schemes. accomplished in
 repose. Too great for haste. too high for
 rivalry. Yes. while on earth | thousand dis-
 cords ring.
 toil stili do thy sleep1ess ministers move on. Their glorious tasks In silence pee- feetinE.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19
Theodore N. Vails Death Serious Loss to Science

OShAOAS ~0oS NO O~ASA~S
 M GREAT American passed away 6A Friday when Theodore N. Vail, capitalist and man of science, died at the age of seventy-five. As president of the American Telegraph and Tele- phone Company since 1907 he had been recognized as the foremost de- veloper in the telephone field, both in it's electrical and commercial de- partments.
 MT. Vail was widely educated and was honored by many universities with degrees ranging from IL. D. to doctor of science.
 As young man he gained prac- tical experience in railroad work, hav- ing filled the position of assistant superintendent of the railway mail service when only weight. One year later he was promoted to as- sistant general superintendent, and at the age of thirty was general su- perintendent, with headquarters in Washington.
 He engaged in the telephone busi- ness in 1878. He travelled for his health and for a time was farmer in Vermont. He afterwards took up his residence in Argentina, South America, and being greatly interested in electrical enterprises, introduced the American electric system of street railways in Buenos Aires and in- stalled telephone service in many large cities.
 Of a constructive mind, MT. Vail made important improvements in the telegraph and the telephone. AL tnough Tn poor health he was tire~ less worker, and was never happier than when experimenting in his laboratory.
 On his social side he was genial and benevolent. He took a deep interest in organized sociology and in the fine arts. He was a director in several museums and member of seventeen social clubs.
 Men of MT. Vail's type and genius have done wonderful things for the upbuilding of humanity.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19
Will Bring Return.

"One of the best investments that man can make in Birmingham, one that is sure to bring returns, is to vote yes in the two-mill tax election on May s." said F. H. Halfman.
 Birmingham future as a city is the brightest in the country. But what good will this do if our children are given improper training to grasp the opportunities around them.
 Most school teachers stick te thcsr profession at a sacrifice. Should we make martyrs of these men and wo- mem who are doing us such a service ?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19

Suspicion always haunts the guilty
 mind, The thief doth fear each bush an of-
 ficer. --Henry VII.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19
TEXT FOR BOOK BORROWERS

From the Omaha Bee.
 lady bought French book at a secondhand book store in this city the other day. It was originally owned by United Sttaes army man. whose bookplate, pasted on the cover, says
 See II Kings. s:5."
 We have seen II Kings, sixth chap ter and fifth verse and this is what we saw;
 rBut as one was fe1ling beam. the axehead fell into the water; and he cried. and said, Alas. master, for it was borrowed"
 We print this for it's moral effect lon book borrowers who forget, wlen they look over their libraries, the dif- ference between ''meum'' and ''tuum. ?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19
TOLEDO HAS \ HIND LEG

From the TOIeuo bIaue.
 This running sore on Toledo's hind |,eg, the street car problem. should not be left for posterity to heal The next generation has done nothing io us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19

Washington Bureau, soe o&Sias0h building.
 European Bureau, ID Alhs Coyent Garden, London, W. '. 4.
 Eastern business office, Woria puiia ~ ing, New York City; western pusinvss r,s 2 office Tribune building. Chicago. The S. G. Beckwith Special Agency agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19
M.mner of the Associated Press

Member of the Associated Press
 The Age Herald is the only mornins and Sunday newspaper in Birminsnatn carrying the Associated Press ois- patches.
 The Associated Press IS exeiuslveIs entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published therein.
 All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19

arts. He was a director in several museums and a member of seventeen social clubs.
 Men of Mr. Vail's type and genius have done wonderful things for the upbuilding of humanity.
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 Census Increases
 In Large Cities.
 V1T0HE population of New Orleans, 4 announced by the census bu- reau Saturday-387, ,408, gain of 48, 333-should be satisfactory to the people of that flourishing city.
 New Orleans has never forged ahead so fast as now and some of the boosters had predicted a popula- ton of 100000, but it is seldom that exaggerated estimates are realized. And the best of it is the growth of the Crescent City is substantial rather than that of the boom sort.
 Birmingham's census figures will soon be made public. Ot- civic or ganizations had been claiming 21O,- O00 But this claim was based on too generous a multiplyer of the last bi- ennial school enumes tion and in city directory estimate of 1919.
 The federal census will give us, it is understood, less than 100000, but slightly above 1sO,0o0. Our 1910 census population was 132,6s5.
 Our growth from 1900 to 1910 was phenomenal, owing to the large ex- tension of the city's boundary lines gain of little more than 245 per cent.
 There has been no addition to our area since 1910, but an increase of 4S,000 in population--it will be ap- proximately that will be showing to be proud of. Moreover, NBirming- ham has had large suburban growth larger than New Orleans or Atlanta which will make big exhibit in the ten-mile limit issued by the census bureau, supplementary to the ordi- nary census tables.
 Atlanta has been claiming 100000, but it will hardly reach that mark.
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 As confidently predicted. New Or leans continues to be the first city cf the south in population. The fact that Atlanta won the attendance trophy in. the Southern league is a matter that more nearly concerns the baseball fans of Birmingham.
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 Speaking of pessimsm plus, Penn sylvania farmer says he hasn't planted anything for twenty years. and is turn ing about forty acres into a cemetery" which he hopes to fill soon. Even his forward view of the cemetery is. after manner of speaking. pessimistic.
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 Human nature is queer. Reverend gentlemen who go down into the 'shimmy zone" to see what they can see and later on raise hob about it, gre often envied by straight-laced citi- zsns who have no such excuse for vis- Sing razzle- e-dazzie resorts.
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 The queen of Rumania said re- gently she didn't know what had be- come of her crowns. She's not so bad cK. Several former rulers don't even know what has become of their thrones. |
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19

'bookishly inclined persons deemed beer, and plenty of it, indispensable to true appraisement of literary yalues.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19
Aal,l lMs@asstlH

P. sEBe sure and hear Evaneeiins
 Booth tonight at the Jefferson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-19

The queen of Rumania said re- gently she didn't know what had be- come of her crowns. She's not so bad ok Several former rulers don't even Know what has become of their thrones.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20
ASK FOR FARM BUILDING
Plan Construction OF Agricultural
Headquarters for Kansas.

Erection of a state department of
agriculture building-probably on the
site OF the present state heating plant
will be urged before the legislature.
Proposal has already been made for
a department of justice building.
Because of the Importance of Kan
sas as an agricultural state, a state
building for the board of agriculture
and allied activities will be asked.
The plan might call for construction
on the site of the state heating plant.
The heating plant smoke stack is
responsible for much damage and an
noyance to state buildings and &C.
cupants and agitation may develop
for it's removal. The corner at Tenth
and jackson occupied by the heating
plant is opposite the state printing
plant and Memorial hall and faces the
state house.
Practically one half the. legislature
is a farmer strength. Five of the
members of the state board of agricul-
ture are members of the legislature
Senators PriZell, Kyle, Laing. and Wolf
and Representative Edwards of Sher-
man county. 1t is probable bills for
both a department of justice building
and agricultural building will be in
troduced. during the session. That one
of the buildings will be secured to
relieve present state house conges-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20
ECONOMY IN MEAT CUTTING
Wolff Packing Company Held Attrac-
tive Exhibition Sunday.

Two hundred and fifty head of cat
tie, show cattle. specially selected and
prepared to grace the exhibition of the
Wolff Packing company, held Sunday,
were slaughtered and prepared for the
show of beef, in whole and half
carcaeses and cut into smaller portions
to demonstrate various phases OF
economy in meat cutting. ALI the ami
mails were yearling fancy heavy steers
or large yearling calves.
The show rooms in which the beef
was hung accommodated several hun
bred people during the day from To-
peka, the country near by and adjoin-
ing towns. Butchers and meat deal
ers came from Junction City. Emporia
and intermediate points and purchesd
shipments of the beef which they s W
at the show, displayed in the most ef-
fective fashion.
The greater portion of the beef on
show was sold before the exhibit was
over. The show will be ma, a.
nual event it was stated at the plant
today. The affair was STAGED OF
day because of the impossibility of
conducting it at the time that the plant
was in operation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20
in MURDER CABAL !?
Three Women and One Man
Fight for Lives.
Wife of Poisoned "Peach King"
Chief of Accused.

Macon, Ca, Dec. 20-Charged with
poisoning Fred d. Shepard, millionaire
peach king. three women and one man
were making a fight for their Lves
here today.
The four members of the alleged
murder cabal," central figures in one
OF the most sensational cases in the
history of the south, were having
preliminary hearing before Judge Mat
thews, who will release them or order
them held for trial.
Those charged with the murder are
mem ers of prominent families, own
ing large piantat tons. They are
the widow of the dead man who has
remarked and now is known as Mrs.
Pauline Elmer; her sister, Mrs. lone
Henry; Ernest Hopson, a son of the
widow by a former marriage, and
Mrs. Annie E. Cults.
The principal figure is Mrs. Elmer.
referred to in the testimony as
. Paula" She has had three husbands
and is alleged to. have planned and
'.bcssed" the poisoning of Shepard.
1t is alleged that Shepards slayers
nut poison in his whisky and that
he died under their scrutiny; that they
Joined with him in laughing and MAX
ing merry. knowing all the time that
he was doomed.
Mrs. Alice Crandall. sister of the
the alleged conspirators.
FIRED was murdered by Paula and
her gang" Mrs. Crandall testified she
was informed by Mrs. Cults, one OF the
defendants
Four tenants of the Cults plantation
also testified that Mrs. Cults told them
the fatal poison dose was prepared in
her home and that several persons
We're involved.
The defense is centering its efforts
on attacking the allegation that Shep-
ard was killed with bichlOride or mer-
curry. DR.. Edgar Everhardt and Dr..
John Funke swore that traces of sreh
poison were found in the body of the
millionaire
a number of medical experts ar
rived here today prepared to contra
dict this statement and to show that
Shepard's death was due to some other
cause.
The state expects to close its casa
by Wednesday and lawyers for the de-
PENDANTS declare their clients will be
free by Christmas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20

relatives. On top of this came the
death OF his oldest son. Edward, which
only tended to accentuate his condf-
ton.
Believing that a complete change
of scenes and climate might benefit
him, Newman brought his family from
London to Topeka a year and a half
ago, to enter business with his brother.
w. T. Newman, of W. T. Newman &
Co, Aetna building formerly special
examiner of the state banking depart
ment.
Newman is survived in his imme-
date family by his wife and two chill
drcn. PHYLLIS. IA. and Vincent. g..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20
WAR STRAIN WAS FATAL.
Sidney =. Newman Came TO L. S. fol
Hcalth-Dicd Saturday.

War strain which caused a break
in his health two and a half years ago
when he was a resident of London,
England. terminated fatally for Sid
ney j.. Newman. 612 Garfield avenue.
Newman died late Saturday and the
funeral services viii be held from the
home at o'clock Tuesday. Burial in
Mt. Hope cemetery.
The repeated air bombing attacks
on { London which several times
brought himself and family in imme-
date danger. together with the lack
of proper nourishment under the strict
food ratiOning system made necessary
by the war, were instrumental in caus-
ing Newman's illness, according to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20
PLAN INAUGURAL PROGRAM.
Prominent Educators VIII Attend
Ceremonies at Lawrence.

Formal inaugural ceremonies for Dr.
e. H Lindley. new chancellor of Kan
sas university. will be held at Law
renee. February SO. Plans for the
inaugural were announced today by
Governor Allen.
State officials, prominent educators
and members of the state university
alumni association will attend the
ceremonies at Lawrence. Following
the inaugural, an educational confer
ence will be held. This conference
will be attended by heads Of state
schools and persons active in educa-
tiona4 work in Kansas.
Doctor Lindley came to Kansas uni
versity from Idaho several months
ago. He was elected to succeed Chan
cellor Frank Strong, resigned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-20
POLICE FIND "H0ME BREW"
TEN Gallons COnfiscated Sunday in
Raid on East First Street.

Ten gallons of home brew were
confiscated Sunday afternoon by the
police in raid on the home of Felix
Dotson, negro. 400 East First street.
Five negro women, one negro man
and two white men were in the place
when Detectives L. w. jackson, VII
liam Glynn and Augustin Alba arrived.
Some were drinking. They were taken
to police headquarters, where they
gave their names as Felix, Dotson,
Leila Dotson, Ethel Anderson, Mary
Massenberg, Eliza beth Orendorff and
Lillian Dawson. The two white mon
were Frank Heery and Frank Lane.
The brew was contained in a beer
key, with a pump attached, and three
large earthenware jars, according to
the police. There was a strong Cdor
of yeast around the police station to-
day