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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
Dry-cleaning

"The present raids of the Birming- ham police department remind me of an incident which occurred in Bes- semer several years ago." said J. F.. Kicks. Tt was in the early fall and the days were beginning to get cold when one day a young fellow wearing a thin summer suit and carrying "a kodak walked into a pool room and asked to be directed to the postoffice and the public library. A short time later he returned to the pool room and when asked what he did by some of the boys, stated he worked for a local dry cleaning firm. He stood around for nearly one-half hour and then offered to play some fellow a game of pool. The fellow he ap- preached looked him over and. think ing he was from the country, agreed to play with him. They played several games and the fellow proved to- be a professional pool player. Although he didn't work for . dry cleaning firm, he positively drycleaned the bunch of boys hanging around the pool room and made his departure in the same quiet manner in which he had come, leaving many poorer but wiser men behind"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09

, suspicion that his wife will object to his elevation to power, even though he promises to forego the harem and practice strict manogamy, but if his claim should be allowed and he left his home in Massachusetts to rule over the children of Lang Llang he would probably make the best sultan Llang Lang ever had.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
Great Achievements
 in Birmingham District


 6NHE citizen of Birmingham in- ll clined to be pessimistic because all things are not going to suit him just now, should halt before forming rash conclusions and gaze back over the past year. What will his memory tell him?
 A great shipbuilding industry using Birmingham steel has been created; the big mills that furnish steel for ships and for export have been in full operation; the by-product industry of the district has been enormously de- veloped; the Port of Birmingham has been built and merchandise freight business on the Warrior inaugurated; arrangements have been completed for the building of a coal terminal at Mobile; large quantities of coal, steel, pipe and wire mill products are being exported; the cement industry has ex- banded; Alabama waterpower is be- ing connected with that of four other states, bringing to this state a max imum service when needed; the Coosa dam is having additional power cre- ated there; the Wilson dam will soon be completed and work on a new Coosa dam is about to start; sanitary pipe shops have doubled in number and capacity; manufacturers of inter- national standing have located here to reap the benefit of Birmingham's distribution advantages.
 That is but partial summary of a years achievements. The greatest of all ha: beer the uninterrupted op- eration of industries during several periods when many industrial centers were paralyzed by strikes and other troubles. At the close of the year a few iron furnaces are out of blast, but the steel mills continue nor nal operations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
Former Marine Sergeant
 May Rule Over Filipinos

H0HE ASSOCIATED PRESS brides
 U itself on relating the news of the day without making excursions into the realm of imagination. Yet, in spite of it's conservatism, this most reliable of news agencies occasionally sends over the wires story that our best fictionists could not surpass. Events are recorded every day which would need no elaboration to make them the basis of novel, play or motion picture.
 George Ade found in the island of Sulu a theme for a musical comedy that kept the country laughing for several years and considerably in- creased that humorist's bank account. But MT. Ade himself could not have devised plot with more possibilities of humor than the experiences of a former marine sergeant who claims he is heir to the pearl fisheries, groves of cocoanut palms and the grass palace, if not the harem, of the late Sultan of Llang Lang, a small island in the Philippines.
 While serving as marine ser
 geant on the island 10 years ago, during Moro uprising, McLain says he rescued the aged sultan from party of marines who were not treat ing him with the respect due his royal station. It was "all in the days work" so far as the sergeant was concerned,
 but the sultan, like a great many other simple-minded savages, held that
 gratitude was one of the cardinal vir- tues, a belief not as firmly estab-
 lished as it should be among more
 civilized people. A few days later the sultan assembled the head men of his tribe and formally adopted the sergeant as his son.
 McLain's statement has been re- l ferred to the bureau of insular af- fairs by the war department. In the meantime 1,500 natives are waiting to accept him as their sultan. The ex-sergeant is married and we have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
A Big Increase

"The reason the Birmingham and Montgomery traffic bureaus got busy and entered protest against the new Class rates from these two cities to Ohio and Mississippi river crossings" said Charles Jones, assistant manager of the traffic bureau, "is because the proposed rates carry an increase of something like 100 per cent over present rates. Present rates, by the way, were raised along with the other general raises all lowed by the interstate commerce com mission.
 And we protested for another rea7 son. If the higher rates from Birming- ham and Montgomery on north bound business are allowed, in few months the railroads will, of course, ask that the corresponding south-bound rates also be raised. Then we would be struck another blow. It keeps us traf- fic men busy, but that is our business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
Soviet World Policy
 Is Minority Rule
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TN one of his contributions to the ll Philadelphia Public Ledger, Col. E. M. House says, "It is we'll not to be too credulous of news that comes out of Russia" While he believes that what may be true of one section of an enormous country with population of 200, ,0OO, ,0O0, may be true of another, he agrees with many other observers that Russia is now suffering under tyrannical government of minority which is as bad as the czarist regime.
 Colonel House says bolshevism is unlike any other political movement the world has ever had to deal with because, it is not content with domi- hating Russia, but is trying to create revolutions in all countries. Unwilling to let the alleged virtues of bolshev- ism as exemplified in Russia speak for themselves, the bolsheviki who know they are Sowing the wind," are car rying on active propaganda in Eu- rope, Asia and America, Gin the be- lief that when the ghastly tillage is over the ultimate harvest will be found tosbe for the good of all."
 As Colonel House points out, the founders of the American government did not seek to impose their ideas on other nations. The bolsheviki take just the opposite view. That they have made progress outside of Russia is ap- parent to anyone who has watched the unrest throughout the world, much of which has been due to bol- shevik propaganda.
 Colonel Houses opinion of Russia's future is interesting. He says:
 The Russians are kindly people
 and they deserve better fate than
 has yet come to them. They hold,
 perhaps as no other people do. the
 final destiny of the human race.
 They have not burnt themselves
 out, and are not yet in the process
 of burning. They are still stolid and
 unimpressionable. Their day has
 not come but it lies in the future,
 and some day come 1t will. They
 are a great dominant mass of hu-
 manity, full of nervous strength
 that has not been awakened. When
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
From Harper's Magazine

From Harper's Magazine
 WNHRITING of his adventures
 WV among the Paumotus Islands in
 the South sea group, James Normal Hall pictures the people of these little islands. totally undisturbed by civilization. with no schools and no doctors.
 ''The more saw of the life of those happy people. the more desirable 1t escape any serious encroachments of European or American civilization. They have no doctors because illness is almost unknown in their islands. Crime insanity. feeble-mindedness, evils ali too common with us, are of they do not exist. It may be said, too, without overstatement that their com munity life very nearly approaches per lection. Every atoll is a little world to itself with a population varying from 25 to perhaps 300 inhabitants. the men, serves for. period of four years under the sanction of the French government. He has very little to do in the exercise of his authority, for the people govern themselves, are law abiding without law.
 "When I first learned that there are no schools throughout the islands thought the French guilty of criminal neglect, but later I reversed this opin- ion. After all, why should they have schools? No education of ours could make them more generous, more kind. ly disposed to one another, more hos
 pitable and courteous toward strang- CTS, happier than they are now. Ger tainly 1t could not make them less selfish, covetous, rapacious, for most of them are as innocent of those vices as their own children. In few oi the richer, more accessible islands they are slowly changing in these respects, owing to the example set them by men of our own race. In another 50 years. perhaps, they may have learned to be- lieve that material wealth is the only thing worth striving for. Then will come pTlue III tHciI pOSSCoSiohS, Sh'J of those who have greater, contempt and suspicion for those who have less, and so an end to their happiness.
 \ had never before seen children growing up in a state of nature and l ! made full use of the rare opportunity. I spent most of my time with them' I played on shore with them, went fish | ing and swimming with them, and found in the experience something bet ter than a renewal of boyhood be- cause of a keener sense of beauty, more conscious, mature appreciation or
 the happiness one has in the simplest kind of pleasures. In the afternoons
 we went swimming in the lagoon.
 There I saw them at their best and 1 happiest, in an element as necessary and familiar to them as it is to their
 parents. It is always pleasure to
 watch children at play in the water but those Paumotuan youngsters with their natural grace at swimming and diving put one under an enchantment 1 Many of the boys hac water glasses and small spears of their own and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
IN THE FUTURE

From the Montgomery Advertiser
 In the course of time we shall doubt less read occasionally in the society columns notices somewhat similar to this: MT. and Mrs. Tiddle-de- winks announce the postponement of the wed- ding of their son. Geraldine, to the Hon. Jim Adelaide Buffcoach. until after the fall election, in which the latter is 2 candidate for President
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
YOUNG AND OLD

By Charles Kingsley. When allsthe world is young. lad
 And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad,
 And every lass queen, Then hey for boot and horse, lad
 And round the world away; Young blood must have it's course, lad.
 And every dog his day. When all the world is old, lad,
 And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad.
 And all the wheels run down; Creep home. and take your place the-A
 The spent and maimed among; God grant you find one face there
 You loved when all was young.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
A MORNING PRAYER

Lord God, I pray for the wander CTS who have not found their place in life. They drift the round world over with no spot wherein they may rest. Bring them home in safety, God, and there let them find thee. Sc shall they be at peace forever more. Amen.-M. $. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
REFUSED

'I ain't naturally pessimistic, num-" said the tattered stranger. 'Tbut I've had me disappointments.'
 q can see that" replied the hard faced woman at the door.
 Just at present, mum. bite to eat would give me new outlook on life" Maybe it would, but I guess you'll have to remain pessimist a while longer. Shall I unchain the dog, or would you prefer to use your own judgment?'
 OPTIMISTIC
 .'What is your attitude toward jazz?' "A hopeful one" said MT. Clipping. 'Yes?"
 q feel just as I did when people shook their heads and said the turkey trot and the bunny hug had come to stay. I wouldn't believe it."
 WHEN THE DROUIh SIARIED "Is Blibbs good after dinner speaker?"
 'He used to have reputation of that sort"
 When did he lose it?"
 About the time 1t was reported in the newspapers that several thousand American bartenders were going abroad PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
INDICATED

From the Tampa Tribune.
 We have more faith in the deporta- tion law every time we hear that Emma Goldman has cried out, Tor Gods sake. take me back to the United States!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
Keep It Quiet

"A friend of mine in Memphis wrote to me yesterday, after reading the Bir mingham papers, and told me I was not very good friend to have. according to the reports of the daily press from my town" said John l.. Taylor. "Ac- cording to the statement of that friend the crime wave which is causing so much comment in Birmingham is a na- large cities. My friend tells me the Memphis papers are ignoring the exist ence of crime in that city and other pa- pers of other cities are doing likewise. I am wondering if that would not be a very good plan in Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
Says It's Good

People seem to be getting accus- toned to the new safety zones estab- lished by the Birmingham Automobile club" said J. l.. Allen. Ut is good thing for every one concerned. There is the protection it affords the pedes- trian and the comfort it adds to the mo- torists. There is less congesting of traffic. The fact is there is every ar gument in it's favor and none against it, so far as I can see. The Automobile club is to be commended for this public city will help the club in carrying out it's constructive york;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
ADRIFTy WITH THE TIMES
THE ELEVATION OF JILL

THE ELEVATION OF JILL Jack and Jill Went up the hill
 To fetch pail of water;' Now such queen Is seldom seen.
 Though just a farmers daughter. girl show scout Was looking out
 While passing in his motor; He spotted Jill Upon the hill
 And did not fail to note her. He called the maid, Who seemed afraid,
 And said. My dear, you're pretty. You have great charm, Forsake the farm
 And journey to the city. Your lovely face And elfin grace
 The stage should be adorning; You'll get big pay On old Broadway
 And sleep late every morning." Thus simple Jill Was tempted till
 The home ties could not bind her; She slipped away That selfsame day
 And left poor Jack behind her She's now the rage Upon the stage
 And wealthy mon have sought her: She'll ne'er come back And go with Jack
 To fetch a pail of water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
WASTED EFFORT

"I understand your latest novel has met with a favorable reception
 You are mistaken" said the author .yloomily. "The motion picture people tell me they can't do a thing with it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09

FIGURATIvELY SPEAKING
 An eminent medical authority says the heart does not feel pain"
 T didn't know that before" said the thoughtful citizen. Poets. novelists and playwrights had misled me. But I never did believe there was any kind of pain that could be alIeviated by the heart balm awarded in a breach of promise suit.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-09
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All unayoidEd is the doom of destinys
 --Richard HI.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-29
YOUTH DIES FROM
INJURIES RECEIVED
WHEN HIT BY AUTO

without regaining consciousness
Paul Hovourd. is years old. S22
George av.. died at Epworth hos
pital late Thursday afternoon from
injuries received when he was struck
by the automobile driven at Mich
igan and Monroe SITS. early Thursday
morning by William Lukarewicz,
100 s. Grant ST.
Iukarewicz was released from
custody by the police Thursday
night under $4,000 bonds Hovourd
was riding north on Michigan st.
and the automobile driven by Luz
karewicz was going south on the
same street. When the automobile
turned into Monroe st. il struck the
bicycle being ridden by Hovourd.
The youths head struck heavily on
the pavement.
An operation was performed at
the hospital Thursday in an effort
10 save the youths life, but he died
late Thursday afternoon without re-
gaining consciousness.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-29

ditions OF extreme Poverty. Prior to
the world war there was gratifying
support given them by European
countries, but since the great con-
fiict many Of the contributors have
themselves been reduced in circum-
stances and unable longer 10 help
the missions.
Father O'Rourke spent some time
IN Ireland recuperating after his
years OF arduOus mission work in
Africa and is now touring the United
States in order to secure assistance
for the African missions. lie began
his labors in the diocese of Fort
Wayne in April at the Cathedral
Of the Immaculate Conception. since
which time he has been heard in
Huntington, Peru, Logansport Ko-
komO, lafayette and other points
After his sermons here he will visit
in Whiting, Ind. The envelope col
lections taken up in the churches
Sunday will assist the African mis-
sions Many viii be interested in Fr
O'Rourke's visit TO South Bend and
Will doubtless be most ready and
willing 10 assist the cause.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-29
Children S Hose

Children's Hose. dependable hose
for boys. girls and little children. at
low prices.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-29

South Bend, May p.
Editor News-Times:
Speaking OF our housing problem,
builders should remember that II
takes more than a house that is
she'll 10 inspire pride essential TO
a real home. There IS a difference
between a house and a home. A
house may be purchased. but the
elements that differentiate a house
from a home are not on the market,
they are not for barter and sale.
That intangible something that con-
veTts the house into a home is sup
piled by the occupants and IL does
not depend on the cost OF the struc-
ture or its location. A howell may
be a real home while a palace may
be just a house.
In the campaigns In which "own
cur own home" has been urged,
nothing is said about owning a
house. Something vastly more de-
sirable is the thought back Of the
movement. A house of some kind is
the primary step in making a home,
but it Is just the beginning. A
rented house through long occupancy
might in a measure partake of the
nature Of home. but home IN the
fullest sense is not only the one oc-
cupied but also owned. In such
possession there is a security for
the family that is not known by
those who periodically fit from place
to place at the whim OF landlords
or themselves.
Those who have never owned the
spot on which they have lived have
missed one OF the essentials, though
everything else in a home has been
enjoyed. There are circumstances in
which it is desirable for one tenn pot
aTily to reside in rented property,
and those who supply the instru-
ment meet a public need, but to de-
lay unnecessarily acquiring ones
own home from which no landlord
can warn is taking undue chances
with fate. The home that one owns
is not house, but a castle which
a. invader enters at his peril. The.
shell Of this castle may be purchase ],
but what the family supplies VIII
distinguish il from others and
make IL the zeal home.
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-29
HIGRAToRY WoRkERs.
Editor News-Times.

Editor NCWS-I1meS.
Elkhart, Ind. May -
The "hobos" have been having a
convention in Cleveland. Properly
designated, according t. your paper.
this is a meeting Of the international
Brotherhood Welfare Association.
The members may come into town
riding the brake beams or the side
door Pullmans. but they are not 70
be scoffed at, for they are distin-
guished from the tramp. who. mi
CRATES but will not work. and the
bum. who neither migrates nor
works. They are migratory work
ers. following the mild weather from
section TO section OF the country
working in the south in the winter
and following the birds and the crops
nOrthward IN the spring.
among the subjects under discus
sio were the relation OF the migra-
tory worker to the labor problem.
the restoration OF the ballot TO those
who have lost il for non-residentiai
reasons, and disability and non-em-
ployment pensions.
There is a vast army of these men.
knights OF the wandering foot but
laboring hand. If their association
can raise their standards. secure
'iNill IAN Si WI N44AS u.0iNi'S oiiN
at the same time hold them In a
body which can be modified for in
dustrial needs, it becomes a matter
OF more than mirthful interest Lo-
cal employment bureaus and labor
exchanges, cooperating with such
a body. could go far toward solv-
ing the problem of the seasonal oc-
equations in which Il is difficult TO
interest men OF more ambition or
more stable habits. Z. T. X.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-29
COMMITMENT TO
FEEBLE MINDED HOME

In a petition fled in the circuit
court asking for the commitment
of Andrew and William HaineS 10
the home for the feeble-minded it
is set forth that the maternal grand
father. William Berger. was intern
perate; the brother IS idiotic, the
mother died in the county Jail while
awaiting acceptance to Longcliffe
asylum and a brother is classed as
a moron.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-29
The PUBLIC PULSE

Communication for this column
nay be signed anonymously but must
be accompanied by the name Of the
writer 90 insure good faith Nc re-
sponsibility for facts or sentiments
expressed viii be assumed. Honest
discussion OF public questions In In
Tited. but with the right reserved %
eliminate vicious and obtectionabls
matter. The column is free. But be
reasonable.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-29

Don't install a heating system I'M
I'll you consult the Round Oak heat
ing engineer. Call Mishawoka SIS or
Mishawaka 2024 for an engagement
3S90-June 3
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-05-29
Snow White Undergarments

Nghes Chemises Petcoas and Negge angy
diversified showing fabrics coors each with
ingness all It's own.
Chemse of Envelope style made nansook or bass dainty lace
and embroidery trimmings, at S. rs to $500
Exquisite Gowns, made styles with touch Of
dainty lace others elaborate and beautifully trimmed with
handmade embroidery Prices range from $50 to $685..
White Petcoats of muslin nainsook with hounces Of
laces and embroidery also ribbon, $50, $3.50
Corset Covers for summers sheer Dress beautiful lace trimmings
at 6oc to $3.50
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-21
LOUISE oRTH

quickly. "A wig looks that part; any body can tell wig on the stage. when they see it, and he is so very particular you know about every effect being just exactly right; just exactly apropos of the time and period of his plays, that he wouldn't permit such a thing for nlin- utes. That is one reason why Belasco production is so absolutely perfect, and a reproduction of life''
 Truly. though there is nothing new
 under the sun' said Miss Orth. :. Bobbed' hair like Mrs. Vernon Castle introduced a few seasons ago, and which fashionable women adopted, was merely ia repetition of the styles which prevailed among the ladies of Jerusalem 5000 years ago"
 'eThe worst nuisance of the new styse is that having once cut it off, one has to keep on having it cut every few weeks, or else it will grow too long and drop over the shoulders. Every hairdresser will tell you that the more you cut off your hair the more it grows, and so my ownshair is getting as thick as puncn of alfalfa on the chin of farmer. But with perseverance and care I can man | age to keep Tisha's unruly lock behaving. | Now that I have been so successful cut ting off my hair, I am looking for some Samson that I can likewise trim as Deli l lah did of old"