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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
COX ID GIVE REAL TEST ID LEAGUE ON
 TRIP
Gilbert Says Candidates Words Read Better Than They Sound From the
 Platform
By CLINTON w. GILBERT.

Camp Perry, o., August 13.--
 (SpeciaI.)-The speech-mnking of
 Governor Cox, which will begin in
 earnest on Saturday before the
 democratic state convention nt
 Wheeling. W. Va. win probahiy he
 . tryout of the League of Nations
 issue.
 His friends say thnt he believes
 he can rouse the crusadtng spirit
 of the American people by hfs
 presentation of the league as a
 guarantee against wnr.
 Others who know his mind say
 that hee will shift his ground
 slightly in the coming speeches,
 declaring for the best league he
 can get through the Senate, thus
 indicating . willingness to accept.
 If necessary. thw Lodge reserva-
 tions.
 But the coming tour will be tryou, of the league. The only political ref serence in his speech here yesterday was to the league. He declared him self convinced that the great mass ol Anne rican soldiers was united in pur pose and prayer to prevent future war Moderate applause greeted this utter ance of the candidate. The audience approved, but not with the fervor oi people engaged in crusade. The same lack of warmth was noticeable wher the governor made his speech of ac' ceptance at Dayton. The big audience applauded, but more as'if the League of Nations were dem ocrauc eaten d
 MAY BE REAL TEST
 And 1t is worth remarking now that the governor is starting upon triI which may be the test of his campaign as to whether he does or does no' move an audience deeply. At no time yesterday, though Cox was addressing Ohioans at a sympathetic moment, wal there any warmth of feeling betweer speaker and his hearers
 The governor speaks with the con fidence and ease of a man used tt address1g large audiences. but he II undramatic and his voice is not one O. those that reaches the vitals of ar |audience His voice is too much uset in the upper ranges and sounds litl' cold and unpleasant. When # drops t' the lower ranges, as II did when h' 9raciously expressed his surprise tha 1 n a score of 14g out of a possible 15 could have been born elsewhere thai in Ohio 1t has great deal of charm But as the governor used It ordi narily, not working up to climaxes Il which the high, almost falsetto metal lie upper notes are used, but beginniDi each sentence with these notes an' almost invariably ending it with tn sweeter. richer sound of his usual con lversational tcnes. his voice does no move an audience. It is fact tha Inc can and does. in personal Inter course. use that voice which makes hin Known to everyone as Jimmy. READ WELL IN PRINT The Cox speeches are going to req better than they sound, and. being newspaper man, the governor Is Awar that his real audience consists of read CTS He is perhaps a little too awar ,c..alp.l .. r..- SIX,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
Gist of the News
GENERAL

 Win educate voter on county road amendment law. ssThe Crank" h held for kidnapisg CoughDin baby. P0nsi, surrendered by bOndsnen, now In jaiL while other arrcsts follow. Roosevelt attacks attftsae of the republicans. | France sad England bsth stand pat on Rnssian question.
 LOCAL (. F. Logan h cut to pieces by an East Lake ear. Federal jwdGe approves by-produet gas.
 Will oil and gas conapete with coais City would force county to annui Pesolution. Dealer. plan to injare Alabama ny shippinf &A nferior coal. FrIsee official comes to barley about port rates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
Percy William Maer, Editor
 Columbus Dispatch, Is Dead

upon the legislature of the state at that time.
 He was apDeinted member of the board of tyustees of co1leees and universities of the state bx Governor yaFaanan and rendered distinguished service te the state In this capacity.
 He was constructive in all of hls policies as . pubIieist and was . tremendous factor nnA inflnesee in building of hls hone city anA state. For yeaFs he haA been h the real eseate business h this city. He had been engaged In the newspa- per business sinee early beyhsod.
 Mir. Maer is sarvfved by his widow and two ehiIdren. AlAss Katherine MaeP and Percy W. Maer, IT,, tive bretheru and enc sister alss survive hin. Otto Maer of Wichita Falls, Texas; Melville Maer of Memphis and Mrs. '. ]. Mon t9emePy Of FvankfeFt, Ky.
 The funeral win he held Saturday al1eTneen at E e'cleek From SC. Paul EpaseeDaI Chureh. lnternest VIII eeeur n rBaestah1D eemetery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
Tennessee Senate Bous to the Women
 On Suffrage Vote
Surprise VoIs Cast Resulting in Only Four Negative and Twenty-Five Affirmative -Suffragists Hard at
 Work the Lower House
Hx Axsoeizfed prcss

Nashville, August 13The Tennessee senate today by adopted the resolution providing for ratification amendment It victory for the suffrage forces the optimistic surprised at the but most polls listed from wenytwo favorable, and the high mar set al twentyfour
 The suffrag proceeded from
 
  before the workers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
BoIsheUiki Would
 Administer Bitter
 Dose to Poor Poland
Wants Right of Unrestricted Propaganda in Russ land for One Year Before the Plebesc;. ,o t,,saS
 Other Conditions of Drastic N ssSSsaSS
h. A,...,.t,d Prs.

Washington August 13A plebesce to determine the fu- the drawn by the bolshev with the first proposal of armce by the Polish The right of unrestricted territory during the which would before the pebescite also would be demanded.
 Thse which nnuated the first meeting soviet and Polish regarded of their
 
 of of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
A DOUBLE TRAGEDY
 AT JACKSON, MISS
By Assseiatsd Prsss

Jackson, Miss., August 1a-Jchn H. Malone. . Holmes counsy farm CT. shot his wife to death at the family home last night and then went 10 . deserted house about 20 yards away and blew off his own head with . charge Iron double barfeIed shotgun.
 The body ofs Mrs Holmes was discovered by her aged father. wAe' occupied an adjoining room. sever al hours after the tragedy. She was still alive. bat unconscious, and aied four heuFv later.
 The theory of murder and sui- eide was adopted by the coroner's Jury after testimony was taken showins that Malone Aed saarreled frequently with his wife, and made threats of violence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
BloodhOunds on Trail py Associated Prsss

Montgomery, August 13.-Bloodhounds from the state benitentiary were sent to Boothton, Shelby county late this afternoon to assist in tracing the assas- sin of Chief Engineer Conner. of the Southern Coal and Coke Company's prop- critics at that place. Details of the kill ing received here were very meager, it having been learned that MT. Conner was standing on the pumphouse at the mine and vas shot in the back. Death was almost instantaneous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
sy Assesiates rr.ss


 Columbus, Miss- August ia- (speciaL)-Percy William Maer. editor of the Colunbus Dispatch prominent citizen and former coi- leetor of customs of the poft of Mobile, aied suddenly In his news paper office here this nerning Gen . stroke of apoplexy.
 This community was shocked and e,ieved beyoAd expreanien today when the news ef his death spread. He came down te his office this nornlng apparently h fine spirits nna was seixed with the fatal ate tack while sitting at h1s aesks He dtea within . few n1nntes.
 He attained the hlghest pealtfoa within the gift sf the Odd Fellows ef laississippi. hnving served that erder as grand nasteE ef Alssts- sippl, and was pronInent h the soverelGn sFanA 1edge. He served . fou|.year teen n the aqlru1enaD4e on1nA6tu4e, an1 naeee IT. hnDeee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
Polish Delegation Has
 Reached the Front Line
., A..eeleted Press

Washington. August B.-The ronMl delegation appointed to meet poisne ' n envoys at Minsk to discuss tne alm.s- tice and preliminary peace negotiations will cross the front line tomorrow morn ing. en route to the meeting place. an official cablegram to the Polish legation today said The Polish representatives win include Underseeretary of Fore;gn Affairs Domski. chairman; Undersecre- tary Wronlewsk committee from the diet and . military staff.
 Announcement of these plans followed the return to Warsaw of the parliament tary committee which conducted direct negotiations with the bolshevik officials
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
Powder Is Destroyed av Asaoeinted Press

Wayne. N. J., August l3-FifJy tons If nowder undergoing ''wet-dry" treat ment in the Corning mill of the E.. | DuPont powder plant here was destroyed early today when lightning struck the building in which it was stored ter rife explosion followed the lightning flash and buildings were shaken ano windows broken throughout this part Of New Jersey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
Negro Drops Off ax Assaeinted Pflia

New Orleans, August 13.-Frank Bailey, negro. who shot and killed City Detective Theodore Obitz in May. 1913, was hanged here today. Bailey said just before the trap was sprung. well. boys. I am going as brave as . lion and as innocent as dove"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-14
Poor Armenia

London. Aueust 13.--A preiimfnary peace treaty has been concluded between the Russian soviet eovernment and Arr
 menia. say. wirelesa dispatches received
 here from Noscowy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-06
THE POWER OF SONG

the organ pealed forth "The Star-Span- gled Banner and the audience chor- used the strain 6 rhe majestic air. Then taking his place on the raised platform, Judge Murasky of San Fran cisco, recited the first stanza of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" As he began with the line, Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord." the great organ softly throbbed the melody of the martial air in ac- compartment to the speakers words. When the "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah" was thundered out. the audience again joined in the chorus and the vast audi torium was filled to the very roof with song. It is easy to understand that such rendition tugged at the heart strings of every one present.
 In her long life of 91 years. Julia Ward Howe did many memorable things. Some of them were of great importance at the time, but although she is dead only since 1910. many of them are even now forgotten. When the rest shall have passed into oblivion. it is the perenniabuuality of "The Bat tie Hymn of the Republic" that will keep her memory forever green.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-06
LUKE NI'LUKE SAYS

It takes man a long time to learn that it is easier to do thing than it is to make excuses for neglecting it.
 Whether a child is cute or impudent depends on whether the child belongs to you or to one of the neighbors.
 Prohibition has made one difference. A man used to have his gloomy thoughts when he was going to work Now he has them both going to and coming back from work.
 We do not know much. But we do know that it isn't the people who get the most mail who obstruct the post office corridors.
 All married women and nearly all married men have an idea that they are imposed on
 You may have noticed that when a man doesn't like dog the dog doesn't mind showing that he doesn't think much of the man. either. What has become of the o. f. woman who had four trundle beds in her sleep ing room?
 There are so darn few Ideal Citizens that it is wonder we have any Ideal Cities at all.
 A woman doesn't care if pink makes her look like drunken cook lady. She wears it because she thinks it makes
 her look younger | Do not knock the girls. A handkome man has more conceit in his makeup than 400 handsome women. Some men are so proud of the ac- , complishments of their ancestors that they haven't time to accomplish any thing on their own hook.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-06

From the Washington Post. TN all ages and among all peoples
 song has always exercised po- = tent spell When old Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun uttered his famous aphorism to the effect that if man were permitted to make all the ballads he need not care who should make the laws of a nation, he said something that has about it the stamp of eternal verity. He was not using the word ballad in the restricted sense which scholars have attached to it in modern times; he was referring particularly to the songs of the day, like Tom Durfey's, which were sung at every street corner. Similarly, when Lord Wharton declared that by his doggerel ballad of "Lilli- bulero," linked as it was to Purcelrs music. he had sung King out of three kingdoms, there was solid foundation for the boast, as James II knew to his cost.
 We in this country have many heart stirring songs of.which we may we'll be proud A remarkable scene was pre- sented at the opening of the democratic national convention on Thursday when
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-06

Hereward Darlington, in Leslie's.
 NN NE of the most interesting ac- O complishments of modern
 science is device which has lately been perfected, by means of which it is possible to talk over con- siderable distances, utilizing, instead of wires. merely ray of light. or a sum- beam. which is focused in a certain di- rection
 A strong beam of light is concen- trated. by means of a double convex lens and grid upon a vibrating mirror which mirror reflects the light waves at another angle. These reflected waves are passed through a second grid" and lens, and are thus transmitted, in the form of fluctuating beam of light, corresponding to the vibrations Of the mirror. The vibrating mirror in 1ues- tion, by means of which the light-rays are reflected. is attached 10 dia- phragm, and this is fitted into a speak ing mouthpiece--very much like our telephone transmitter. Words spoken into this trumpet, or mouthpiece. cause the diaphragm to vibrate, according to the spoken words (lihe the telephone), and this diaphragm, in turn. causes the mirror to which it is attached to vi- brate in unison with the spoken words. This causes the beam of light to vary or fluctuate in exact accordance with the sound vibrations, so that the light
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-06
SOAP AND CIVILIZATION

which we are pleased to pride our selves.
 Religion has often attempted to es- tablish some relationship between soap and morals. It was John Wesley, in the eighteenth century, who made the famous observation that cleanliness stood next to. godliness. The essential idea is as old as the Hebrew fathers. But Rome took to much bathing in it's era of decadence. And cleanliness has scarcely been a shining characteristic of Christian martyrs, in any era.
 In fact, it would be possible to make a case against soap along almost every line of progress. If it is a question of art, of beauty created by the mind of man, there is the splendid age of the Renaissance, when clothes were worn indefinitely. Michael Angelo might have done better sculpture had he taken Saturday night tub; but there is noth- ing in our present. age to decide the point. If trere is any relationship. causal or accidental, between soap and any of the virtues or the graces. it is very hard tb prove the fact oht of his tory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-06
TALKING ACROSS A SUNBEAM

beam also fluctuates in exact core spondence.
 At the receiving station, these fluctu ating light waves are focused, by means of a lens, upon a sensitive selenium cell, which is substance exec .dingly sensitive to light. The cell in question is connected with an electric circuit, in which several batteries have beenl placed and to which is attached pair of telephone receivers. The electric current generated by the batteries passes through the selenium cell, and alternations in the current are pro- duced by the varying resistances of- fered by this cell to the light. days it receives These variations are picked up by the telephone receiver, and can be, heard in the same Way that our ordi- nary Selephone-receivers transmit cleo tric changes or variations into articu- late sound.
 In this way. the human voice is trans lated into speech, after having first been converted into light waves and then electric currents. and back again into speech. In this way speech can be conveyed across considerable dis tances, without the slightest sound be- ing detectable by any listening ear, since the light-vibrations are, of course, soundless, unless reconverted into sound by the proper mechanism, and travel in the ether (even vacuum) and not in the air, as do sound waves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
More Accidents

The number of automobile accidents are steadily increasing" says c. F. Dobbs. Tt appears to me that drivers are getting more careless than ever before. Many persons are not satisfied unless they are travelling at the rate of thirty-five or forty miles an hour and they do not even slow down when they are meeting, other cars
 Tn many places the roads are mar row and when g, persons sees big car speeding towards him his first instinct is to pull as far over on the road as possible to keep from being hit. Some times in their efforts to avoid a colli- sion with another car they get too close to the edge of the road and the car is sometimes overturned If a person does not value his own life he should be considerate of other motorists and should not endanger the lives of any one who happens to be travelling the same road just for a few thrills"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-06

From the New York Tribune.
 6F7HE Englishman with his cold tub
 looks down upon the rest of the
 = world as standing upon lower rung of civilizations ladder; and the American with his hot and cold bath looks down upon the Englishman. But is this snobbery of soapiness justified! Is there any direct ratio between being -cleanly and being civilized? If you think there is, how about this passage from the pen of MT. Frederick O'Brien in the Century:
 ITO Tahitian his brooks are his club, where often he it's or lies in the tapping water, his head crowned with flowers, dreaming of a life of serene idleness. Once or twice day he must bathe thoroughly. He is clean, his skin
 is aglow with the effect of air and water. No European can teach him hygiene. He was a perfect animal. un- tained and unsettled. accustomed to law ing and massage, to steam, fresh ana salt baths, when Europeans. kings
  from autumn to summer; when Tn the Lois de la Galanteric. written for beaux and dandies in iS4o. It was enjoined that Every day one should take pains to wash ones hands. and one should also wash one's face almost as often.
 MT. OBrien. next to stevenson. put the South Seas on every civilized cen- ter table and is presently to put them in the movies. He writes enthusiastic cally. but he knows his district and Int is safe to accept his assertion of Ia lhitian cleanliness as farly accurate. Of course, the Tahitians have much cuiti- vation and civiiixation. They have elaborate religious ceremonies. drama. oratory, even a nobility. But they are scarcely considered by Europeans or Americans to belong to modern civiliza- | tion at all. For all their long-estab- llished cleanliness, they still lag far be- hind that occidental civilization upor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-06
IkznM4AautxI
AN oMINoUs OUTLOOK

From the Kansas City Star.
 'fhings have come to a doggone pretty pass" grumbled Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge. Ark. Before the wap I could buy plug terbacker for from ss tc 50 cents pound, so rich and juicy and full of ambeer that feller could set and kill fly with it plumb acrost the room. Now. by cripes, I pay 90 cents to $1.25 for something they call terbacker: no count, dry stuff with no juice a-tall in it. skurcely. My children just nacher'ly eat it up. and then yell at me b'cuxNthey can't spit over their own chins. Lemme tell you: these yur in- fernal doin's are what is going to bring on a revolution. can't hardly hold my kids now!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-06
Graphite Industry on
 a Permanent Basis

TIT is gratifying to learn that the ll Alabama graphite industry, which was developed during the war, re- tains it's position of importance since the war and has taken it's place among the stable industries.
 There are now in successful opera tion in Clay, Coosa and Chiffon coun- ties eight to ten mills, some of which have operated continuously with graphite successively at twenty cents a pounds, then at low ebb of eight and now an average of eleven cents. There is a refinery which reduces the graphite ore to 90 per cent car bon. One of the largest mills yet To- cated in the field is about to start.
 During the war when importation of Ceylon graphite was cut off and prices ran high, there was lot of  unwise investment in the graphite field on a speculative basis, and some mills were heedlessly located on land whose graphite contents had not been previously ascertained.
 Those who placed mills on tested beds of ore and built modern plants have found it paying investment and have been able to come clear at all the price stages. Desirous as they might be of duty on Ceylon ore, they have demonstrated Alaba ma s ability to do without it.
 Alabama has the most abundant graphite supply in the nation, and it's qualities are not disputed. The present daily production, valued at about fifteen thousand dollars, ccn- stitutes an industry of no small pro- portions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-06
Mobile Is Still
 Without Her Derrick

~ ORDOVA has her derrick for lift NJ ing steel containers from barge to car and car to barge,
 Tuscaloosa has hers and Birming- ham has hers. Down at the end Of the line, with the broad waters of seaport and long g-established docks and wharves to operate on, there is no derrick.
 Mobile enjoys opportunities for river traffic with New Orleans and with Birmingham, Tuscaloosa and Cordova, but is still without her der AA-A-
 Yt has been a matter of more than . year since this need was realized at Mobile. Ten containers are ready for the service between New Orleans and Mobile, and reduced rates are to be published when there are facili- ties at Mobile for handling the con- tainers.
 Birmingham also would have been without a derrick had her citizens not raised more than two hundred thousand dollars for developing the Port of Birmingham. Tuscaloosa voted fifty thousand dollar bond is sue for her river terminals.
 No matter how much the govern ment does to help nearby and con- tiguous cities reap the advantages of the developed waterways, the munich palities must do some things tor themselves.
 It is to be hoped that Mobile will act on the recommendation of Traf- fic Manager Cobb as to the i'm poNance of establishing this business between that city and New Orleans and the up-river points and raise the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-06
Cotton Crop Should Yield
 More Money in 1920

NOTE now have a forecast of a
 WV larger cotton crop than we had in 1919. In Alabama the fore cast in today's condition is ohe of 7ss, ,0O0 bales, compared with yield of 715, ,0OO bales in 1919.
 Just as the price per pound of the 1919 crop was higher than that of the 1918 yield, so is that of 1920 apt to run higher than that of 1919. Small crops will have paid better. than the large ones.
 And again, cotton growers during each of the past few years have kept a closer eye on the statistical position of demand and supply, of mill con- sumption, of exports and amount on hand.
 All the statistics favor the grower this year. How much he can make | out of them depends to great ex- tent on his own ingenuity. Co-opera- tive selling might be developed be- fore the crop is garnered. Profits of the cotton spinners, both in this country and in Great Brit ain, go to show that the spinners can