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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE CHAOTIC
 SITUATION EXISTING AT SAN FRANCISCO

GAN FRANCISCO. CAL, June ss.- M tSpecial)-In an experience of
 thirty years in attending demo- cratic conventions I have known of but one situation like unto this on the Saturday before the meeting.
 In Chicago in 's6 practically only two candidates were before the footlights- Teller of Colorado and Bland of Mis- souri. Bryan, then youngster and un- known, made his famous crown of thorns speech and stampeded the con- vention.
 Today. here, things are chaotic. There are few instructed delegates and few delegates enthusiastic for any one of the candidates.
 ing and friends than any one of the candidates, but as yet no organization. There are some five or six hundred bright and enthusiastic men here from each and every state in the union who have served under him in treasury, internal revenue or railroad capacity who are putting in effective work for him. At every railroad stopping place from the eastern seaboard to the Pa cific coast railroad employees told every delegation and every visitor that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
KEEPING YOUTHFUL

KEEPING YOUTHFUL Grandfather once sat by the chimney
 and smoked. As sedate as a mortal could be; lis true that he talked of his boyhood
 and joked
 In manner most pleasant to see, But he stayed by the fire and he dldn
 go out
 And mix in the cabaret whirl To the strains of jazz tunes hopping
 about
 On the floor with a hand-painted girl The fast life didn't appeal to him Like his easy chair and his bed; He let young people get into the swim And tarried at home instead. But grandfathers son is a grandfather And he certainly is quite gay; He likes to order up fancy chow And dance till the break of day. His limousine at the stage door waits Till the girl review is done; When it comes to making those stage
 door dates
 He picks out the prettiest one. There isn't a dance that he doesn't
 know,
 His praise as a spenders sung; For man of eighty-five years, or so, Grandpa is remarkably young
 RECKLESS CAKES
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
Dead Heads

"The places in Birmingham that need is the picture theatres" said Frank L. Bi adley.
 T have seen rats run across the floor of the dar<ened theatres that would have put any eat to shame by it's size. They seem to have no fear of the peo- rle. but play around the chairs boldly.
 T believe. however. that the cam paign against the rats and mice will turn out to be boon to tho city, and ing the numbers of the worst pests in the world"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
TRUTH CROPS OUT IN CUBA

From the Havan31 Post.
 The ship news reporter brought in a big news story last night. For the first time in his twenty years of "cov ering" the Havana docks, he met American tourists coming to Havana who actually told the plain. unvar- nished truth.
 When H. J. Lenoir, J. S. Jolly. Wal- lace Jolly of Hosston, La. and R. s. Doles of Plain Dealing La, stepped off the Miami shortly after o,clocr. last night. the dock reporter greeted them with his usual inquiry to passen- gers:
 Any special significance to your visit. gentlemen"
 Did they camouflage? Did they blus- ter about business and change of eli mate? Did they excuse their trip with some, remark about seeing the world?- None of that The dock re- porter says that for the first time he heard the truth--the refreshing, -un- expected truth-in their frank and open answer:
 s"Significance? Sure, We just came over for a little drink
 The reporter has not yet been re- vived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
Move Vulcan

"Vulcan.-or better known as the iron man at the fairgrounds, should be moved on top of the highest point on some of the mountains that surround Birmingham says Clement Wood.
 Then an indirect lighting system should keep it illuminated at night. By this means the flaring Vulcan on top of minds of travellers through the city, the same as the Statue of Liberty is fixed in the minds of everyone who has ever known the thrill of standing at her feet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
Active Preparations
 For Rainbow Division

1.-THE committees arranging for S the coming of the Rainbow division next month are making good progress. Many details have been worked out, and the most important feature to be looked after now is the money needed to make the re- union a signal success.
 All large undertakings require ample funds. In this case something like $25,000 will be the quota. Thirty five thousand dollars will be better. Money-raising campaigns have dragged since the war It was easy to collect huge sums while the war was in progress. But it has been hard to arouse the men of means to open their purse strings following the signing of the armistice. This should not be so.
 Every patriotic cause should meet with generous response And en- tertaining the Rainbow heroes surely comes under the head of patriotism as we'll as hospitality.
 Birmingham has distinguished it. self in the past in doing big things. There should be no Tagging now in making Rainbow week gala occa- sion. And that means we must have ample funds. The drive for money should go forward without delay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
Going to Law

More eases have been filed in the chancery division of circuit court during the past thirty days than any similar period in history" says Inzer Hood More than 200 cases have been filed and all previous records have been broken. Of this number eleven were injunctions, but shs does not in- clude the milk injunction.
 The office force of the chancery court has been kept hard at work docketing and recording the cases filed. large number of divorce cases have been filed and during the past two days twentytwo have been granted"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
A WORD TO THE BLACK MAN

From the Chicago News
 One of the most helpful things that the leaders of the negroes could ac- complish would be to protect the ignorant and prejudiced members of their race from the blandishments of those hired propaga gandists who profif by stirring up race hatreds and pro- noting hopeless but bloody "insurrec : tions" These promoters of riot and slaughter are enemies to both races and serve only those sinister forces that prosper by the destruction of free and enlightened governments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27

l
 disastrous Dardanelles campaign. The
 Greeks this time feel that what they
 win they will retain.
 The Turk should have been out of Europe and under international
 guardianship, rendering him 'nno-
 cuous, long ago. Tolerance of his 1 lies, cruelty and hypocrisy in Europe has been Christian Europe's standing crime during four hundred and sixty years. Europe wants to expiate that
 crime and the powers seem at last to
 realize that wish. That the Greeks will do their part
 goes without saying. For doing their part they should have the empire of
 their forefathers, whose rape they
 have never condoned and whose soil,
 although robbed, ravished and en-
 slaved during centuries, they have never forsaken. No such monstrosity has been as long endured as the Turk in Europe.
 No people more deserve vindication and restoration than those who have
 never ceased to cling to their birth right.
 1 The Smyrna campaign should be as historic as that other one, when Eu-
 rope stood by and allowed German
 made cannon to batter dow the walls
 of Constantinople and leV the fin | famous" in.
 4 contemporary resen's any reference lto President Wilson as "lhe stricken man in the White House." When Mir Wilson
 takes his first bicycle ride. the e..pros- sion will be blue -penciled. < * < If we were a vaudeville actor and fate decreed that we should be acciuental.. shot by somebody Kitty Gordon would do about as well as anybody we can think of at the moment a: # < Men, say the haberdashers, are now de- mandng fancy night clothes. This should make them look less like appartions when called 10 answer late ring of the door bell.
 A movement is under way to eliminate free publicity from newspapers. The press agent regards that as an attempt ,, to take the bread out of his mouth. * < * Governor Cox would have the profiteers l muzzled. That won't do any good, as long as they don't let their right hands know what their left hands are doing < < * Reporters from forty American news papers are invited to investigate condi- tions in Mexico. Carbon copy will prob ably be provided for all who come. * < * Ii was a paternalistic government in deed that counted. out more than s10o,0N in gold to friends of Bergdoll when he was planning to escape * * * Suffrage politicians are already drop ping into the vernacular. The next step may be campaign cigars-and big black ores at that. "ohio spirtualists Rap the ouija Board. ."-Headline, We've had an idea all along that the ouija board was q false alarm.
 man has just paid back s1 he bcr- rowed from Senator Harding years ago. He needn't think he's going to get post mastership. Irwin Cobb notes the scarcity of whis- kers on board convention special Safely razor manufacturers have not advertised
 in vain.y
 * * *
 When Gaby Deslys' jewels are sold ropes of pearls and the like. the last link that joins Gaby to this world vii. be brf fEop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27

 Senator Hitchcock positively refuses to accept the vice presidential nomination. He prefers a total eclipse to the twilight gene.
 # # # The colored brother who shouts, Back to Abyssinia!" evidently doesn't know that it is a rather wild and woolly place.
 <. # I. A sardine profiteeer was arrested the other day. This, of course, does not refer 10 a street car company.
 # # + Mir. Bryan arrived in San Francisco ready for battle, having worn his fight ing togs on the train.
 < # # Like all candidates, A. Mitchell Palmer refuses to acknowledge he's beaten before the balloting starts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
NOON ON THE nILLsIpE

Kenneth Morris in Contemporary Verse. Ton wizard sun god dreamed of old
 This glowing sage brush solitude
 All silver green and turkis hued, With lilac shadows manifold. These ragged blue gums. sun ensouled.
 On some antique entertainment brood; Ton wizard sun god dreamed of old
 This glowing sage brush soiitude. There's nothing human to behold.
 Nor aught mortality-imbued;
 God in his grand alchemic mood Melts earth to dim, aerial coll- You wizard God that dreamed of old
 This glowing sage brush solitude.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27

everybody in his town was for Mo Adoo. In Kansas and Colorado the railroad employees were particularly en- thusiastic.
 It has had it's effect upon vascillating delegates and the McAdoo workers are pushing sentiment talk hard here.
 The Cox people are thoroughly or ganized with a thousand or more en- thusiastic -Ohioans working with en- ergy for their man. They are making good progress.
 The boom for Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania does not seem to have been well managed and is apparently making no headway.
 # # #
 Bryan is on the scene. but is float ing about the hotels alone. Only the curious who want to know his plans are hanging about him. None of the pyrothechnics of former days sur round him. He is scheduled to go after the scalp of Homer Cummings, chair man of the national committee. Cum mings knows 1t and will squelch him by ruling him out of order or put the parliamentary lid upon him.
 
 The New York delegation don't know where "it is at" or who it is for. It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
Is Vindication
 Of Greece at Hand?

IF there had been reason for waiting Q on the Turks to commit the ulti- mate act of senselessness before en- tering final decision to forever squelch this untamable and mischief making people, the uprising of the Turkish Nationalists under Musta- .pha Renal Pasha in the neighbor- hood of Smyrna and~the Sea of Mar mora has furnished that reason.
 The Greeks have been released from the international hand that restrained them Backed by British war vessels on the Sea of Marmora, they are hack ing at the Turk, tooth and nail. They are capturing towns and driving the Turk back by land, while the British have effectively shelled from the sea.
 The British sailors are nc doubt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
Drive for Jewish
 Fund Premises We'll

1N HE campaign for the Jewish 4 relief fund begins today in the churches. Non-Jews as well as Jews will participate heartily in this great philanthropy. Thousands of Jews in the near east are starving and succor is needed without delay
 Ministers of the various churches will make four minute speeches stressing the appalling character of the cause, and the drive proper will be pushed tomorrow
 The campaign has been thorough ly organized and prominent citizens and experienced teams will devote this week to the work of collecting the funds. It is expected that fully $35, 100000 will be sent from the United States to the sufferers. The rich Jews of this country are noted for their generosity, and prosperous Gentiles will be on their mettle. The fund will doubtless go over the top.
 Birmingham should not be satis- fled with contributing jess than $1O0,ooo.
 Few persons there be who cannot afford to give something Let's have a warm-hearted response to one of the worthiest of all appeals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

asked the student of international poli- tics.
 Good heavens," exclaimed the home brewer, "are those prohibitionists trying to put through a near-yeast bill?'
 LIKE RABIES What's the band playing?" |" The Star-Spangled Banner Shall I rise and uncover?'' You'd better. The people about here think boishevism is some sort of dis ease"
 NOT VISIBLE "A bedroom farce without a bed?" Use a little imagination. ' "Well?"
 'The bed is supposed to be off-stage.'
 DEAD TO THE WORLD Mrs. Blibbs is very low, I hear 'In sinking condition "Yes?"
 Her daughter told her the Bilfurs next door had bought new motor car, but even that failed to arouse her"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27

on the first ballot, thereby playing s waiting game. Some. thirty states are up in the air, so to speak, and will vote for candidates here and there. changing on each ballot in the early convention period
 The McAdoo people hope to stam- pede the convention after the second or third ballot. They are not to nomi- nate McAdoo in formal speech, but simply vote for him and try to run up the vote on each successive ballot.
 < * x
 There are other candidates, but none with enthusiastic supporters. Every thing is now centered on efforts toward organization with no predominant sen timent for any one candidate. McAdoo is persoally the most popular, but he is far from having a majority, and in a democratic convention it takes two- thirds vote to nominate,
 So there you have it. with the man in. Birmingham able to make just as good a guess as any man out here. John McNeel says it's McAdoo sure, but he is the only man in San Fran cisco who is willing to make a posi- tive prediction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27

Culloden sale in 1897. is carved to rep resent Wisdom and Folly; another. of black oak. originally belonged to Charles II. while third is made from the wood of the luckless Alabama
 Not the lsast interesting feature Of the royal museum is the collection of gold keys, presented to King George and his royal predecessors on the occa- sion of opening buildings. to each oe which is attached a brief account O. the ceremony with which it is con- nected
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
T. R.,s HEIR

From the Washington Post.
 "Faker! "Cowardw "Infamousr' Who said General Wood was not the heir of T. R2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
RARE DISTINCTION,

From the Cincinnati Enquirer~
 Secretary Colby, it is said, will speak for the President at San Francisco If he does he'll be the first mortal who ever performed that stunt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
CoNsoLlNC THOUGHr

From the Washington Star.
 If Colonel Bryan had succeeded in his earlier aspirations he would by this time be only an ex-President
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
A nEssAGE FROM THE BLEAcurns

From the Kansas City Star.
 The crowd in the grandstanA was we'll into the regular afternoon work IotS esing -stAA when . buit voiced rooter in the upper section yelled: Say it with rocksr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
NuRSERY STIrEE

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Want to Gambol in Wheat?'-Bos ton Transcript.
 No. it gets in ones hair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
By Frank Willis Barnett

servation the need is even greater now than during the war.
 Here is heart-searching picture from an eye witness:
 thousands and thousands of children. old men and women without clothing. warmth or food racked by typhus tin some places half of the population is sick) and other diseases. Wanderers by the thousands trying to return to their homes from which they were driven out by Russians or Germans Starving and dying women and children deIiriously crying for bread. Huddled together in synagogues. men and women, all too weak to stand up or move about piteous- ly stretching their hands toward YOU And those faces, emaciated, thin, burn- ing eyes. listless, unable to appreciate anything you may say to them, only beg ging for piece of bread
 In the city of Pinsk I saw hundreds of children, women and inmates of hospi- tals who did not have a piece of bread for four days. And the bread they are dShiHS lOT-d Hltny mixture or Httl9 flour with bark of trees or leaves, saw dust and God knows what What do you think of diet of wild horse-chest- nuts for those sick with typhus or o; warm water with little cornmeal mixed with it? It was a purgatory which 1 saw. but purgatory of human creation for living people.
 
 Those orphaned children slowly starv- ing to death. and our rich giving few dollars of their surplus It is a mockery
 The drive begins today and runs through the week. Our people must help. The help must be prompt. The hungry ones cannot wait. Delay spells death. If we could be made to understand that this is truAswe would speed up the cam paign. Give And give quick.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
LENDS A HAND
AAjt3oeea

LENDS A HAND This candidate is going to get some votes in the country" Why SOP" He understands how to operate q tractor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
THE WRONG GIRL

THE WRONG GIRL T must put her to the test. Take her out motoring on a rural highway and pretend your engine is stalled"
 "Well?"
 At the end of half an hour if she asks you to go to the nearest farm house and telephone to town for taxi you are out of luck
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27

Now they are calling on the com distress in feeding of undernourished children in the war swept lands where their parents have been ruthlessly slaughtered. or scattered far and wide. It seems staggering to think that in this twentieth century. when America is prosperous as never before in it's his- tory, that there are more than one mill ion Jewish children out of five millions 0f little ones who are on the border line of starvation in central and east. through the broad, non-sectarian dis tr.bution committee
 It is no time to talk of creeds but it's high time to devote to deeds. The Amer ican Jewish Relief Committee is bearing more than it's full part in taking the major load in administering to the wants by mobilizing all of the religious, social and commercial life of it's own race; but Hei bert Hoover bears willing testimony
  operates wonderfully we'll with his or ganization in the most critical centers of Europe. He paid a glowing euolgy both to the spirit and the effectiveness of the relief work being undertaken.
 Jewish relief organizations are now caring for 100000 i'll and starving little ones. H. P. Davison, head of the Amer ican Red Cross, the great New York banker. whose visit here during the war is remembered with pleasure because of lis democratic ways and big heartedness, says that any one familiar with the class of work being done by the Jews of America in the desolated areas will have no hesitancy in coming to their aid. He further testifies that from personal ob-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27

shine with an athletic power to do great and various things. It is found On the sparkling snow of January and on the warm, blue waves of June. Chi cago sunshine is neither wet nor dry; it is the universal energizer It is the real American sunshine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
A PRIMITIVE IMPULSE

A PRIMITIVE IMPULSE Why is MT. Grumpson so unponplar with his neighbors?"
 He can't conceal his emotions. For instance, when one of the Calder girls comes home with an armful of new rae- tune songs he stands on his front ve- randa and beats his breast"
 PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Starving to Death


 The Jewish war relief campaign is one of the most appealing calls made on the public in some time." says pr. Morris Newfield, and is one in which every one should be interested. It is not call for the Jewish people but is call from millions of starv- ing children in central Europe. While people in middle age and old people are suffering as well as the children there is not sufficient funds to care for them. so they will have to die. but we are making an effort to save the little ones. We are given an oppor- tunity of serving humanity in this call and We must not close our hearts and pocketbooks to this call of distress from those less fortunate than we are
 No lines of creed are drawn in this campaign, and it is well that there is not Jew and Gentle alike vii be asked to respond to this call from 60,000,0 ,000f people who are starving and do not know where their next meal is coming from.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27
still Guessing

Since the announcement made a few days ago that the population figures of Birmingham would be made pub lie very soon, I have kept list of estimates of the various judges, clerks and other employees of the courthouse as well as large number of attorneys on what the population would be-" says Sam Blake. Tt is strange, but the majority of the guesses are between 1s0, 1000 and 212,000, and some have guessed as high as 25o,OOO, while others have guessed as low as 157,600. However, ] think the consensus of opinion is that the population will be in the neigh borhood of 190,00O, which is large increase over the 1910 census, when Birmingham was given approximately 132,000
 Since the population of Atlanta was announced a few weeks ago much interest has been manifested in tho announcemnt of Birmingham's big familys'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27

And earthly pOw'r doth then show likest Gods, When mercy seasons justice.
 Merchant of Venice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-27

TELEPHONE Bell tprivate exchange connecting all departments) Main 43O0
The Nenana daily news., 1920-08-09

Robert Joseph Diven was re turning passenger from Fairbank on today's gascar.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-08-09

TOMATOES, so cents a pound. Nonana Gardens. klz
The Nenana daily news., 1920-08-09
FAIRBANKSANS VISIT
 HILLS TO SEE HERDS

Hundreds of Fairbanksans au- toed out the creek road toward Fairbanks creek yesterday to wit ness the annual caribou run thru that section of the country, and
 they were rewarded by sight that is not often obtainable even in this country, where caribou herds are common. The hills were fairly cov- cred with the animals, and it is said that many of them were brought to town to replenish lar
The Nenana daily news., 1920-08-09

Tom Mckinnon and Frank Fon- tas, who arrived in Nenana from the Tolovana last week, left for Fairbanks early yesterday morning in the McKinnon launch.
The Nenana daily news., 1920-08-09

ders.
 Ralph Staub, motion picture man, was fortunate in getting right among the animals and obtained about 400 feet of pictures that should open the eyes of Dr. Horna- day, who claims that there are not more than 5000 caribou in the Ter ritory.
 Reports received from Fairbanks creek today state that the hills are covered with the herds, which are plainly visible from the Eagan 6 Griffin store.