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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
GIVE ALABAMA A SQUARE DEAL

1.-THE of Alabama sufficient for needs It's
 being retarded by shortage of funds to which entitled If the people of Alabama will support Governor Kby in his efforts distribute the tax burdens equaby and collect the justly due the sta further legislation will not be necessary.
 Tax lodging largely responsible for the financial condition of Alabama Money that should be in the state treas is not there because it the practice of very Der of property their property considerably lower than it's real value The rate supposed to be
 60 cent vauaton which not excessive In counties property assessed low 10 even less
 It evident that the quickest solution of the problem lies giving the state square deal Alabamas advancement must not be held by selfish interest Citizenship certain dues and when these obligations evadd the state suffers An individual may atter himself that he profits by paying lower rate of taxes than the law requires him pay but that is short-sighted and mistaken policy.
 Without the funds the states various departments cannot function they should Education good of state institutions and all branches of are crippled Instead of and expansion there nation or, what is worse, retrogression
 Alabamas patriotic and substantial citizens want to be to themselves and to all classes of property With the proper cooperation ample funds be collected the tax laws the statute books every requirement. The business of Alabama session extra session. but reopenng of the question only be avoided by the pubcpited action of property standing for equabe and paying the ury the money they the state.
 When such condition shall be no need for ca taxes upon production industry go to the old system of direct taxes upon the and thereo and let every holder of real with his neghbor and stand his popoonae the tax burden ]of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12

From the New York Tribune.
 TN a lecture recently delivered at the
 H University of Manchester in England, c Prof w. B. Cairns of the University of Wisconsin paid tribute to the English origin of American literature. He took care, however, to point out that the early settlers, because of their strict re- ligious views, denied themselves the best English models. They viewed the drama and the novel with distrust, and this aloofness from imaginative writing brought about the curious result that, with the exception of but two or three works. there was until the beginning of the nineteenth century nothing in American literature proper which an ed- ucated man might fear to admit that he had not read
 When the change did set in, 1t was rapid. By 1880 Washington Irving. Feni- more Cooper and William Cullen Bryant had begun to write. Despite learned con- tentions to the contrary Professor Cairns is unable to find any Indebtedness of Cooper to Scott, except that perhaps in a general way Cooper tried to do for his own country what Scott had done for Scotland, just as Scot, on his own ad- mission, had been inspirted by what Maria
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
THE BANKERS

Gordon Malherbe Hinman in Contem- porary Verse. To Bombay and Capetown, and ports
 of hundred lands, To Mombassa, Panama and Alden on the
 sands.
 Red with rust and green with mold.
 caked with sodden brine TDe reeling. rolling tankers sail south
 ward from the Tyne. Scuthward past the Cornish cliffs, cleft
 red against the clouds. They snort and stagger onward with
 sailors in their shrouds To the spell of rolling seas and the
 blue of a windy sky. While the smoke lies brown to leeward
 or the liners scurry by. Ihrashing through a tearing gale with
 a dark green sea ahead. While the funnel clews sing madly
 against sky of red. Foam choked and wave choked, scared
 by battered gear, The long brown decks are whirling
 seas where silver combers rear Swinging down a brilliant gulf with
 shores of brown and gray, Tie snub- -nosed. well-decked tankers
 slowly steam their way, Up the straits of the Pirate Coast and
 dim harbors of the south. Where they lie like long red patches
 by a jungle rivers mouth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12

county, and it's growth in ten years has been rapid, but it will hardly reach 3,000,000 in the present census. Until Chicago extended its limits thirty years ago, Philadelphia ranked next to New York in size. Since that time it has ranked third. It is one of three cities that have a popula- tion of upwards of million. In 1910 it's inhabitants numbered 1,549,00 It is an easy-going town, and will scarcely reach the two million mark this time. It will probably not go beyond one million eight hundred thousand, But that will be big enough.
 All the other principal cities those of five hundred thousand or thereabouts been announced, but scores of cities of Birmingham's class are yet to be told.
 Whether or not the census has been we'll taken, the work has been speed fly done. It is estimated that the complete tabulation will be made
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
THE FILMING OF MIR, BRYAN

From the New York World.
 On the word of the good Dr. Dinwid- die of Anti-Saloon notoriey, there lives still in Filmland the hope of perpet- Iuating William Jennings Bryan on the dramatic screen. All is not lost, for sooth. because of the absence for a moment of the visible cash that makes
 the cinemE spools go round. As soon as the doctor gets time to attend to it" the financial state of things will be changed.
 It has been the custom, of course, to
 hold MT. Bryan in mind as a figure more or less purely oratorical. Those who have had the fortune to see him
 in action will realize that he is one cal
 culated no less admirably to be screened than to be heard. A trifle more generously girthed than in his -of-gold days. he still is man of
 infinite gesture. He will be prime attraction, it can be warranted, while aping neither the sartorial pose of an
 Earle Williams nor the table-leaping StuntS Ol d DOuS las T dlTDdnkS. Let nm
 with all heroic force land right and left on the Demon Rum wherever that
 malignant genius may think 1t con- tirues to live. It will be enough. As to the technics of the motion pie
 ture, neither the closeup" nor the
 'cst-back" will have terrors for our Nebraskan. The first of these he has long endured as orator. statesman, edi-
 tor, Chautauquan, Secretary of State and perennial candidate. In the mat ter of the cut-back." 1t seems more
 than probable that even a flash to
 those bright free-silver days of '96
 would, with its recalling of the heaven
 born ratio, occasion no 16-to-1 twinge
 to the receptive mind of the w. J. B. of 1920.
 Does it seem an unthinkable thing to present to any audience a Bryan without a voice? Dr. Dinwiddie, or somebody, has thought of that. The pictures are to ''punctuate" lecture by the uper-advocate- of an everlast- ing drouth. What more could mortal man desire?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12

1 There should be no difficulty in pro. nouncing correctly the name of Gov ernor sproul It isn't "sprool," so it's bound to be "sprowle."
 # # x New York's night life Is said to be just as hectic as ever, in spite of the eighteenth amendment and pr. John Roach Stratton.
 t. # x The relevations of MT. Dempsey's past are even more unsavory than his most enthusiastic detractors had led us to believe.
 If MT. Hughes is nominated by the republicans they ought to state that their choice is no reflection on the safety razor manufacturers.
 # < # MT. Babe" Ruth cost large sum of money. yet his performance at the bat justifies the high cost of the home run king
 * # x Grown Prince" McAdoo Is not let ting the coarse pleasantries of repub- lican politicians detract from the en- joyment of his stay in Chicago.
 $ # # Senator Lodges 'keynote" speech will go down in history as one of the sqreakiest ever delivered.
 # # * Battling Bill Borah losses his mane ever and anon, but there isn't a great deal behind it.
 s' * E The colored politician who wears an immaculate white vest is not neces- sarily a symbol of purity
 x * x Being a privileged character, Uncle Joe" Cannon is not locked up every time he misses a cuspidor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
LITERARY INDEBTEDNESS

Edgeworth had done for Ireland The lecturer properly repudiated the nickname of 'the American Wordsworth as ap- piled to Bryant. It was due to the super ficial fact that both wrote of nature, but while Wordsworths poetry is often load ed with philosophic thought, Bryant was chiefly descriptive. The American pub lie knows and loves it's Bryant for what he is, and he needs no foreign tag to recommend him.
 The middle of the nineteenth century brought the New English Renaissance, as it is sometimes called, and the writers who for a generation or two dominated the intellectual life of the United States did undoubtedly owe something to Eng fish influence, as their successors did to that of France, Russia, Scandinavia and Srain; but Professor Cairns claims that at the present day American literature is more distinctively national than ever before. In externals it approximates closely to English literature; the differ ences are the subtle but all-important differences of spirit. Literary move ments now develop simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic, and the rea- tion is no longer that of borrower and lender
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
The Open Door
 of Latin America

IN OWN in Latin America iron beds lO are coming rapidly into favor
 Just one instance of the rapid mod ernizing of that country and it's avid demand for everything that America produces.
 And the Latin Americans, especial ly those on the east coast of South : America, have plenty of money. The war affected them advantageously only. They merchandised while the rest of the world was fighting. The usufruct is theirs.
 Birmingham's own citizens, who have traversed South America recent ly in a business way, have returned with the agreed statement that our southern neighbors have the money with which to buy, they wish practi- cally every American product, they have well-established banking facili- ties and they desire to deal directly with the manufacturer.
 The invitation is broad and cor dial. There are more ships at south ern ports than there have ever been. There is more room for export move- ments. The wise are cultivating this trade pending it's more acute need.
 Germany and Britain are as hot on the trail of this business as they ever were. It is ours for the effort, but the effort must be made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
signalIy HOnOred

Birmingham is to be signally hon. ored by being the host of the first con vention of the Rainbow division vet erans," says J. P. Brooks.
 ''In the fight for the convention we had Chicago as our rival. Not only had the Windy City the advantage of being larger, but the large majority of the boys. being from the south and vest had never seen the place and were curious to visit it.
 Birmingham, however never lost heart. but fought hard to be the first convention city. The final vote gave us only a plurality of seven, the vic- tory being attributed to the fact that the mayor of Chicago was alleged to be pro-German.
 "We are preparing series of enter tainments on an elaborate scale by which we hope to set the model for all future conventions. We ask the CO., operation of every person in Birming- ham. The chief way they can help is to open their homes to the visitors, as the hotel facilities will be far inade- Quate."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
Fine Beef Cattle
 For the State Fair

|]OEsPITE the backward crops,
 O there is promise of good fair next fall. In the first place, large appropriations have been made
 for the best beef cattle-five thou
 sand dollars from the state and five from the fair association. Ten thou sand dollars will surely do wonders in promoting the growing of high class breeds.
 There will be a fine exhibit of hogs, and poultry, too. Even if food crops should fall short, there will be enough live stock in evidence to make the fair we'll worth while. But if the present seasonable weather continues, the minor products of the farm, such as vegetables and canned goods, will make large show ling.
 Birmingham always has an attract i've fair, and the exhibits this year will not suffer by comparison. In some respects it may surpass all the others.
 Every day brings the corn crop for ward, and if we escape drouth the yield will be equal to that of an average year. At any rate, the peo- pie may be prepared to see exhibits at once educational and stimulating and free shows" the most diverting even seen at the fairgrounds. * * * De La Huerta is convinced that Car ranza committed suicide. according to press dispatch. Carranza may not have committed suicide. but it is evil
 dent that De La Huerta knows how to play tha game in Mexico. * * * lrNln CODD mas ulScOVereu the secret of MT. Bryan's trick hat. When going into a hotel dining room or restau- rant the eminent Nebraskan sticks it in his pocket and smiles God bless you' on baffled checkroom pirates. l # * # ] The republican party may adopt a
 new platform occasionally. but it sticks to the old idea that the only way to
 save the country is to beat the demo- 1 crats.
 | # # # l Just at present Chicago boasts of more presidential candidates to the square block than any other city in \ America.
 $ < < The consumer chortles as clothing
 manufacturers prepare to unload at 2
 sacrifice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
LUXE M,LUkE SAYS

The trouble with Reformer is that he is so blame busy preaching it that he hasn't any time to practice it.
 Any Con Man can tell you that while YOU can fool a Hick only once you can fool Wise Guy as often as you change the color of the bait.
 Lots of wealthy old men marry poor young women. But, somehow or other, you never hear of wealthy young woman marrying a poor old man.
 After a man gets on the shady side of 50 there is no mse telling shim that the good die young.
 The big difference between men and women is that man will get mad if you tell him that he is pretty.
 Being a fool for one hour can get yo, into enough trouble to make you wise for the rest of your life.
 Right now June Bride believes that Ter Hubby wrote the Ten Command ncnts. But a year from now she'll realize what poor piker Ananias was.
 We do not know much. But we do know that the way to make anything popular is to pass laws fofbidding it.
 Ask any failure and he'll inform you tlat Success is merely a matter ol Luck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
Worthy Cause


 Every one is interested in saving tinfoil for the nti-tuberculosis Asso. ciation," says N. R. Beale. Only few nights ago, while going down the street, I saw prominent business man going at rapid rate in front of me. However, some one had happened to throw a cigarette package containing the tinfoil out in the street about five feet from the curbing, and looking up he saw this and immediately picked 1t up and put the tinfoil in his pocket. Although he was in a hurry he had time to stop and save 1t, for with the others collected it may help someone less fortunate than we are.
 Every man who smokes and, in fact, every one should consider it their duty to save tinfoil and send it to the Association, as this organization benefits from the sale of the tinfoiI donated.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
Skilled ViOlinist

"The playing of Miss Ethel Mae Barker. the clever little violinist at the B.jou theatre this week. Is up to the best I have ever heard" says Edgar Powell.
 Tt is seldom indeed that vaudeville an artist. From the classic to the jazziest ragtime she renders in a per- feet and charming manner. No one wko really loves music can afford to miss hearing her, for it is a rare thing violin as is Miss Barker to be playing in vaudeville"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
MILDLY INTERESTED

Have you heard from Hank Jimp- son since he went out to try his luck in the Texas oil fields?"
 Well" replied Squire Witherbee, q signin' himself Henry Clay Jimpson, president of tn Eureka Oil Company, with @ capitalization of s10. 100000 an offering stock to tn shrewd investor at 39 cents a share. Of course I didn't set right down an invest my savin's but was powerful pleased to learn for tn name"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
Retailers Organizing

The one big success of current is- sue Is the Alabama Retail Merchants Association,'' said E. B. Irwin, one of the incorporators. "A bunch of us went to Montgomery last Monday eve ming to help organize the retailers of that city. The meeting was most enthusiastic one and 150 merchants joined the association.
 Evidently the retailers of the state must have felt the need of this organ ization, otherwise I cannot account for it's almost automatic growth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
QUESTIONABLE ExACTITUDE

Mrs. Sears WAS a charming old lady who had melaodlcal habits. a passion for esaa1aess and great fondness for savirs ,8ings. result of the combi- natl ef those characteristics gave her niece 3 slight shock when she went t.. tfe orderly medicine closet and took dov'n 8 bottle nsatly labeled, "Calomel II tkinA.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
worth-while Trip

"That is going to be worth while trip the Shriners will make to Port land, Ore.," said J. Conley Merchant of Asheville. T regret that l will not be able to attend the convention this year It would be a vacation we'll worth while. The itinerary is so mapped out as to include a northern route one way ana a southern route on the return. The return trip will be by way of San Francisco. Los Angeles and the Grand Canyon of the Colorado river.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
PRECISE.

purist, T hear you have struck 1t rich"
 Why. yes,' replied the purist. If comprehend you rightly, have amassed competency" "Umphl If you spend your money as carefully as you talk about 1t, youll have lot of it left when you die.''
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
A LANDLORD

A LANDLORD A gay, light-hearted citizen very lately met; He didn't seem to worry much Or have the least regret The cost of living soaring up Had left him quite serene; His like in these unsettled times Is very seldom seen. I asked the secret of his cheer, He blithely answered, That's A question quickly answered, sir I own a flock of flats"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
Travelling Man Is
 Prince of ''Boosters"

THE steadiest personal advertisers
 4 of Birmingham and Alabama are the travelling men.
 And it is the most effective adver- Using. The members of the Travellers Protective Association are "boosters" by instinct. They are trained in the art of selling. They are practiced in the game of showing the other man the merits of their goods. From that to preachmsnt of the claims of their city and tkeir state is but a natural evolution.
 The T. P. A. delegation to the na- ticnal convention of the fraternity at Portland carried with them fifteen thousand handsome folders telling pithily and graphically of the indus tries and resources of the state. The data compiled in this folder and the illustrations accompanying it are ac- curate reflexes of actual production and conditions.
 The same splendid men inaugu- 7 rated the movement resulting in the Alabama Commercial League, whose {. broad scope of advertising and de- veloping Alabama has met with a { cordial response on the part of all 1, interests throughout the state.
 They are aiming high, but these . men know their state as none others know it. When they indorse and {: stand back of a movement for the states good, it is the same as saying ' that results will follow. |. x * < Population of the
 Principal Cities !. M\N HEN Chicago's population is wy announced by the census bu- reau tonight, Philadelphia will be the only city of the million class yet to { come.
 \ In 1910 Chicago's population was 2,185.283. It embraces all of Cook
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
A LONG WATT IN STORE

A LONG WATT IN STORE "who is the down-trodden individual?' "A white collar man"
 ''But he isn't making any complaint" Hes saving his breath to shout when the first profiteer goes to jail" q
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
LESS INJURIOUS. TOO

Whats this old-fashioned politician raving about?"
 He wants to know what the deuce the country is coming to since women have injected face powder into politicsY'
 It's all matter of choice, but for close communion face powder beats stale tobacco smoke.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
Was "Agin" Him

There is a great deal of talk about young men from the city going out on the farms" says J. Asa Rountree, Jr., but have had my try and henceforth expect to stick to the town.
 T bought my experience dear, for on returning from France I went up near Albany and undertook to cultivate twenty acres on one of the old home places. I worked as a hand, getting up at break of day and working alongside of the rest until sundown. I learned to blow, and harrow, and drill, and do the needful. My corn was drowned out, my hay was ruined after cutting, and even an acre of onions only fur nished food for insects. I took 1t as a sign from the Lord that farming wasn't my job, and this is why I put aside overalls and donned cits and am now a full-fledged Birminghamer."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
This by Captain Demere

Capt. F. l.. Demere vouches for this: Tn the early days of Birmingham there resided at well known board- ire home a prominent citizen and his wife. The citizen was gentle when sober. but occasionally took trifle too much and lost his temper. On one of these occasions. after mild reproach by his wife, he became highly indig nant and, for lack of other mode of expression, threw a book which he had in his hand aimlessly at the opposite wall
 Tn those days framed mottoes were popular wall adornments. The book went straight at one of these and de- nolished it. The motto read, God Bless Our Happy Home'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
AGE OF ADVERTISING EXPERTS

pay the penalty. What one customer says to another counts for more than the best advertisement in the long run. But make the best things or sell the best things at the fairest prices and stick to veracity,
 and your advertising becomes guaran-
 tee of excellence, your trade name a household word.
 But just at present there is a special
 plea required for punch" The future of newspapers and periodicals is almost certain to see large increases in the cost of space. Ideas that catch the mind, even if printed in only modertae display,
 are at premium. Men who have such ideas are invaluable. Not all advertised experts in the field have them. Many have. Space economy is wise and timely; it is not discouraged by the best me
 diums. But such economy without the ideas-man is no economy at all for the space buyer. Other things being equal a page is twice as good as a half-page. a column twice as good as half column. The men meeting at Indianapolis have developed new science, have created new sort of value the crystallized re- suits of publicity, now recognized and protected by laws and courts. They have the highest aims Their discussions are on the highest plane. Business men will find what they say well worth listening to. gether with an English termination to give us percentage. We have taken
 risque and made it risky, and we are in the process of taking brusque and
 making it brisk; and this is as it should be- since a foreign word which keeps it's foreign pronunciation or its foreign spelling is always a menace to the purity of English. The alien words we admit to citizenship in our language ought always to renounce their foreign allegiance. A term from another tongue is more easily made to feel it. self at home in our vocabulary when it's spelling does not call attention to it's original outlandishness. So it was that cafeteria and automat, as names fer special kinds of restaurant, slipped into general use without exciting gen eral notice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12

There are more things in heaven and earth, HOratio,
 Than are dreamt of in your phiIos- ophy. Hamlet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-12
JUST so

What is home without a ouija"
 If you'd have me state the case, Any home without ouija
 Must be quite a pleasant place.