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The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1920-11-18
PIANO TUNING

Those wishing their pianos tuned
will please leave orders with Mrs.
Charlie Cox.
L. N. HoCKETT.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
TIME FOR STRAIGHT TALK

LL Alabama today with shocked resentment
 the outrageous, nexcusabe murderous bloodshed Tn Walker county yesterday.
 This resentment should immediately show itself in vigorous demands laessness stop and stop The has done his for he quickly ordered military sstance Walker county Steps must be taken to curb the of who have apparently made their minds win their cause by violence
 But there another element of the situation that be forgotten. Somebody responsible for these crimes The tense feeling all the mining district the hundreds of en zed carrying firearms the firing upon trains dynam ing of houes the shooting from ambuha these things have not happened haphazard Some directing mind has decreed reign of terror in the Alabama coal field.
 Such tactics will be tolerated in Alabama In the few days, every we'll informed knows, siders have the state black, white-a agators and trouble makers. 3
 There camouflage the issue involved the strike is solely for recognition the There trouble about hours living conditions anything else The mine workers has simply invaded the again where has dared to raise it's head defeat Tn 9O8 when started reigo violence and disorder It generally accepted that 5000 the district paying union dues of about 2OOO this field In other words the have made their minds the other per They time that their about to fail It was then that the outsiders began then that sporadic acts of violence began which eliminated bloody tragedies Tn Walker county yesterday
 Public sentiment in Alabama will tolerate such stua
 on Alabama has had in the mining fields Living conditions have gone forward by leaps and bounds Wages higher before in history Eighty of the satisfied The dis trct has been prosperous.
 Every industry every business in Alabama x af fected directly indirectly by output Therefore every business whose and who making living for his loved here should join the de-
 and that this uncalledfor situation brought to an end
 AgItators, black and whe who come in here to en- bloody deeds and reign of calling otner John and Bill and Jack be given understand the field for They were not welcome nere while our boys in France; they not welcome here
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
PALACES AS MUSEUMS

sesses the usual run of historical and archaeological museums, and in Count Shack's house, in which is installed small but choice collection of pictures, one finds an analogue to the Johnson Col lection here, though, as is proposed in the case of the Johnson collection, the original mansion of Count Shack was abandoned and new but homenYe ouild- ing erected in which to display the pie lures in manner more suitable for pub lie exhibitions than was possible in the older house.
 This great addition to the Munich sa- leries which the palace museum. will make is a real lesson to American mu- inequalities, since even the miseries of bclshevist rule and counter revolutions and the bitter reconstruction period of travail which Bavarie has undergone has not dimmed the long-held theory of the Bavarian government that, whatever elsf happens, art must be made matter of the daily life and interest of the peopleS That Philadelphia, with one great museum immediately in prospect and with other museums. such as that of the university already in being, is meeting this emer- gency in our art life is a matter that calls for general reorganization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
THE FEARFUL CURFEW

From the Pittsburg Dispatch
 I0TIHERE have been curfews and cur
 fews, that dreadful bell which
 sounds the knell of street roam ing from time immemorial, but it re- mained for John B. Lander, police record CT at West Orange. N. J., to give the toll ing an application which strikes terror to the masculine juvenile, the feminine of- fender not being yet in evidence. Judge Lander, a boy of 70 years himself, does not believe there are any really bad boys. They are mischievous, impulsive, permit their exuberance to run away with their reason, and with this bubbling impetus may even commit misdemeanor, but in only extreme cases would he prescribe the remedy of the reform school He sentences offenders to go directly home from school or to be home at 6:30, sit fast and pre- pare their lessons for the following day, have such supper as the parental larder will admit, then be immured for the rest of the night in their bedrooms, while throughout all the evening they hear the merry shouts outside of their uaof- lending comrades. Judge Lander has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
LUXE M'LUKE SAYS

Women are not as bad as some men imagine. Most women would rather run away from men than run away with them.
 Custom is great stuff. A homely old maid of 29 needs Chaperone. but a pretty widow of 19 can go it alone.
 A man cusses with his mouth. But a woman can cuss with her eyes.
 In spite of the biblical injunction you would be as neglected as a red headed step-child if you didn't love yourself any more than you love your neighbors.
 When a wife can't coax@her husband into her way of thinking she can all ways cry him into it.
 Suffering isn't an affliction. it is an asset A stuttering man doesn't talk unless he has something to say.
 There is no use trying to be polite. If you are decent enousA to laugh at the bum joke a man tells you, he will go ahead and tell you a dozen more. Music and Women he can't help loving them
 The reason why man thinks he has a right to knock you when you are alive is because he intends to speak we'll of you when you are dead.
 We don't know much. But we do know that it is much pleasanter to talk to a Fiancee than it is to listen to a Wife.
 A woman always has a kind word for the cheerful liar who guesses her age ten years too young.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17

proved this, to be the most drastic pun ishment demanded. Not a single boy has appeared for second sentence
 Here is assuredly food for the profound digestion of heads of juvenile courts, who have found that paroles~are for the most part ineffective and that reformatory does not reform. Have such courts railed to comprehend the psychology of juvenile offenders, following traditional lines of punishment when new analysis of the youthful mind might suggest that depri- vation of the evenings fun, following irk- some school hours or hockey, would have the supreme result? Possibly the 6:S0 cur few is peculiarly applicable to the cl- venile social atmosphere of West Orange. The boys of New Jerseys famous Oranges may be of different breed and calibre than those of other towns and cities. Ordinary judgment, however, will generalize by insisting that boys are just boys, and all alike if you know them and never forget that you were a boy once yourself. Judge. Lander's 6:30 curfew may at least excite moments of cogita- tion among all who have to do with tho administration of juvenile courts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
SUSPICION POINTS TO "REDs"

explosion New Yorks district S which score of people were killed and many in Jured Will add to the feeling of throughout America
 It Will strengthen the conviction that forces are at work be- the surface to start reign of terror same awess oand which has been responsible outrages in the east and other parts of the country.
 80 lar investigators have able to learn whether t exposlon was due to premedtated plot an accident At rs gance It would to have heh conspiracv at the financial interests America with JIG oregard for innocent people who Killed and mamed wGnouC haV1ng done anything bring upon them the hatred of anarchists. -
 The theory that collision between truck Ioadad With high explosives and other vehicle plausible nouob put was to the least odd coincidence that the collision happened where and when it did, heart of the financial drct between the Morgan offices the United States sub treasury building That coincidence will require orea+ deal of explaining.
 sacrhce the own lives to weak their misguided n society there were collision may been intentional put the evidence points bomb plot of the worst in the
 history o Ameca and by far the has ever in New York.
 Wheher they had hand in this tragedy or not there ecret ana even rejoicing among apostles of violence 10 bring sorrow and destruction to Wall street. particularly the haed House of Morgan almost gratifying to anarchists ana all breeds o boshevks blowing national capto
 The American government and the police department of New ork should do everything their power get at the facts of tnls catastrophe which has shocked nation If it was bomb plot which probable shows that we have once more closed to the ed in America to have them opened by the of explosives the of falling walls and the cries of the dead and dying
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. 4 W9{ H)RLD-WIDE interest has been
 NWW aroused by the decision of the
 Ravarian government to turn the huge palace of the former rulers of Bavaria in Munich into a general gallery of all the arts Of course, this turning palaces into art galleries is ah old habit in Europe, those of Florence, including the famous Pitt, being notable exam pies. But in, this case it is not the inten- tion of the Bavarian government to use the rooms for the dispfay of new works of art which would have no connection with the historic structure, but, instead an effort is to be made to let each room have the character which it has had as part of a royal residence from the very first use of the original buildings for this purpose.
 In way, the Munich Palace Museum will be one of the most luxurious known That Munich can afford to turn the enor- nous palace over for such purpose grows out of the fact that it is already rich in large permanent g alleries devoted to ancient and modern art, while It's main exhibition gallery, utilized for the annual displays of art and sculpture, is one of the largest in Europe. Moreover, it pos
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
Importance of Training School for Nurses

TN view of the growing demand for Q professional nurses in and around Birmingham, the opportunities of fered for thorough training at two of the hospitals should be eagerly em- braced.
 The magnificent hospital for em- ployes on the hill overlooking the Ems ley-Fairfield division is completely appointed and is filling great want. The nurses training school has strong appeal to the young women of Alabama seeking humanitarian career. Every branch of nursing is taught on a scientific basis, and the graduates will be fit to serve in the greatest hospitals in this country. :.
 It is estimated that of the hundreds of nurses employed in Alabama, com paratively few are properly equipped. This is because they have not availed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
AMERICAN UNTHRIFT
From tile San rrancIsco Chronicle.

From tile San rrancIsco Chronicle.
 6C1HERE is much talk about lack of
 II thrift among Americans and fre-
 quent drawing of comparisons be-
 tween the savrng habit in this country and that in Europe. But a good deal of this is loose and fails to dis tinguish between the parsimony that cen have made second nature to European Peasants and the healthier saving of a people willing and able to spend for what they need and to progress.
 How loose this talk is appears from the record of life insurance distributions in 1919 by organizations operating in the United States and Canada, The total was nearly g, ,Ooo, ,oOo.Ooo. All of this represents saving. and what is still better, system atic saving. Life insurance is form of thrift nov become general in the United States. How 1t has grown may be seen by comparison with the distributions for 1901, which were about $25s, oo0,ooo. This last figure does not include Canada. but it may be assumed that the proportion of that country in the report for 1919 is conn paratively negligible.
 Plenty of other evidence exists to give the lie to an assumption of American unthrift Lack of European miserliness has not prevented this country from be- coming the richest in the world. The enormous aggregate strength of our sav- ings banks. the widely spread owner, ship of real estate, the amount of per- sonal property owned by the individual. vastly greater than in any other country, and the proportion of homes owned by their tenants, go to show that Americans have saved.
 It should DC remembered that many economies practiced by Euron~an .-S A--
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17

themseves of the advantages of a graduate school.
 Nursing is high calling, but it is only so when the women who have taken it up are educated and temper amentally qualified.
 No one should enter training in- stitution who has not graduated at a public school.
 The Employees hospital offers ex- ceptional opportunities in general or special branches, equal to any found at Johns Hopkins, Lakeside at Cleve- land, or the Mayo community. Beau tiful and commodious homes are be- ing erected in the vicinity of the new hospital. Students should come to the Birmingham district in large num- bers during the year 192O-21. * * *
 The first chapter of American Ino,an War MothSrs has been organized, with Mrs. Bear Ghost. Mrs. Basil Two Bears and Mrs. Fast Gorse as officers. Inci- dentally, they belong to the first families of America.
 E E *
 A colored orator in New York said that in every colored home there Is an American flag. Bible, a picture of Lin coin and picture of Roosevelt. Any census-taker in the sou,n could give evil dence to the contrary. x E x
 A New Orleans paper which fought Martin Behrman twenty-four hours day during tho recent campaign extends him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
Books Appreciated

T read what MT. Lawrence Cunning ham had to say about the pleasure the patients at the hospital at Tuscaloosa would get out of magazines and books said Miss Ella Lee Smith. city chairman of the Third district for the State Fed eration of Women's Clubs" and during the past two weeks we made a cam paign and got 800 magazines. 500 of which were sent to Tuscaloosa and the others being donated to the boys 1n- dustrial School ana other institutions.
 Tt took seven cases to hold the ones shipped to Tuscaloosa. Dr. W. D. Fart low wrote, saying: They will be dis tributed among the population of the hospital and will be very much appre- ciated. In behalf of the patients thank you and trust we may have your continued interest"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
Beat Many Ways

During a recent visit to Atlanta discovered what it was that made that city such a progressive one' said At torney White Gibson. Everyone has been educated to consider Atlanta the New York of Georgia, and that city comes first in all things
 Birmingham has the Georgia city beat in many ways. Our streets are cleaner, our buildings are larger and our department stores are equal 10 any in the country. It is up to the people Of Birmingham to learn team work and all pull together for a bigger and greater Birmingham. Nature has done more than her share for this city, and there is no reason why Birmingham cannot be the largest and greatest city in the south" tS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17

it's best wishes in the capacity of a private citizen. With emphasis on the private"
 If the wife of Mayor Hylan can do her own housework. the Mrs Joneses and Mrs. Smiths in our block ought to be able to follow her example without im- pairing their social standing. # x * l most humiliatng experience befeu a girl inmate of the State Reformatory for Women at Bedford, N. Y. She es- capped, but was caught because she had such big feet Dear, dear! Is it possible that federal judges have been "coddlins' moonshin- CTS and bootleggers. knowing that the | watchful eyes of the drys were on them all the time?
 | Now that 6the reform> element has the upper mana III New OrleanS, 1t remains to be seen what further steps will be taken fSo discourage tourists | * * x 1 Anything to Beat Wilson" Is not alone the slogan of pro-Germans in America. That's one of the reasons why .r ve- hooves Jimmy Cox to keep hustling. | * *
 Anti-Saloon Leaguers propose to build fires under those who betray the trust" Must we still keep the home fires burn ing?
 E * * It was reported that Charley Murphy objected to the Thompson machine being called the "Tammany'' of Chicago. He may think better of it now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Mary Gardens Narrow Escape


 The musical world was startled last week by cable dispatch from Monte Carlo, where Mary Garden has her mag nificent villa, containing the news of her narrow escape from drowning" said Miss Sara Mallam Birmingham espe- since Miss Garden is one of the artists included in the 'All-Star Concerts series here this season, Geraldine Farrar, Fritz Kreisler and the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra being the others.
 Musical America of last week gave out the following interesting informa- tion about 'oHR-Mary and her accident:
 A cable dispatch, featured by some New York papers last week and con taining a description of Mary Gardens narrow escape from drowning at Monte Carlo, created much interest among the famous sopranos following in this country. It was stated that she had been saved by swimming instructor; that her health had caused anxiety; and it was suggested that she would need care and d long rest before resuming her work. Charles L. Wagner, her manager, when questioned on the sub ject. declined to feel any premature alarm"
 Tn the meantime, Mrs. Richard L. Johnston, who with Mrs. Orline A. Ship man will present Miss Garden here in concert, has received communication from MT. Wagner, saying that he had just had a cable from Miss Garden say ing she would sail for America on Octo- Der 22, thus allaying all fear of acci- dent being serious"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
ROUTED

T haven't come in here to tell you how to run your paper" said the vis- itor.
 'No?' replied the editor of the Toadvine Clarion.
 But l must say that if I were run ming this sheet I'd make a better job of it than you are doing"
 T haven't the slightest doubt of it,r said the editor. "The price of the Clarion is s7,5Oo cash, or half down and the rest secured by notes. for which agree to turn over to you type, press, subscription lists, all advertis- ing contracts. good will and the office cat. We Vln close up the deal in thirty minutes, sir"
 But the visitor had silently faded away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
Sound Pleas for the
 Port Aid Amendment

Port A1d AmenomeuI
 o LABAMA is going to vote the AA state port aid amendment in November.
 This will be done because the alter native was very we'll stated by Con- gressman w. B. Oliver, who, address ing the Alabama Waterways Asso- iation in Montgomery on Wednesday, uttered this forecast:
 Turn this down (the state aid
 amendment). and what chance have
 your representatives in Congress to
 obtain additional appropriations for
 your waterways?
 If all that has been done for this state in the development of it's water ways by a generous government IS not met by state aid, further re- quests for federal funds will not be worth the time and trouble involved in their presentation. Alabama must do something for herself. We cannot always lay claim to being an infant industry"
 Senator-elect Heflin pointed out to the farmers where they come in. They can readily understand, he said, the advantage of having at their only seaport a cotton warehouse holding 300,000 to 100000 bales of cotton upon which they can borrow money while holding this cotton for al fair price from the buyers of this country and Europe and Asia"
 John Durr of Montgomery sounded the keynote when he said that fur ther development of the waterways of Alabama depends on development of their common port, development of that port depending, in turn, on the application to it of the entire strength of the statee.
 Men like Senator Underwood, Con- gressman Oliver and others who have given years of unremitting effort to the development of Alabama's water ways know what they are talking about.
 They are pointing out to the peo- pie of Alabama plain necessity and an equally plain duty. l.
 No special interest is involved. The port IS as much for exportation of cotton as steel, for lumber and slaves as for coal, for all the products of the soil and of the mills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
Modern Buildings

Now that the prices of everything is reported to be on the decline I ex- pect to see during the next six or eight months many of the two and three story buildings in the downtown dis trlct being pulled down aHd i'll their place modern buildings ere,ted," says Fred H. Anderson.
 This, 1 think, would have occurred year or two ago, when the first of the building boom began to develop. But the high cost in building material and labor and all the other things has been the main causes of the old back date buildings being left on the main streets of the city as long as they have"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
ATONEMENT

Aline kilmer 1Mrs. Joyce Kilmer) in the Outlook. When a storm comes up at night and
 the wind is crying When the trees are grooming like masts
 of laboring ships, l wake in fear and put Tout my hand
 to find you. With your name upon my lips. No pain that the heart can hold is like
 to this one To call, forgetting, into aching space. To reach out confident hands and find
 beside you Only an empty place. This should atone for the hour< when
 I forget you, Take, then, my offering, clean ana
 sharp and sweet, In glory brighter than years of dull
 remembrance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17

iatic peasants are uneconomical here. To follow their example would be neither desirable nor thrifty. Wise spending is the true form of thrift and that the prin- ciple is obscured by the hard conditions of oldsr countries does not falsify it fer this.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

don't care hoot about howf a hat looks on me. All I want is something to keep the rain and sun off my bald head"
 "Yes, sir" replied the clerk. meekly. That's serviceab1e hat, and if you are not a married man. you should worry about the way it looks on you"
 MADE IN HASTE
 Law enforcement officers are having a hard time in this part of the eoun- try"
 "Yesg As fast as they destroy ;stilf an- other springs up in it's place.
 Just like toadstools eh?"
 Yes. and the output is just about as deadly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
JUST ANOTHER PLATIrUDE

From the Washington Star.
 Uncle Joe Cannon says that if electe4 this time he will not run again. The re- mark has often been made before, but it is never regarded as anything in the nature of guarantee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
ExTRAWD.N,RY

From Punch, London.
 An amazing report reaches us from Yorkshire. It appears that a centen- arian has been discovered who is un-, able to read without glasses or even to walk to market once a week
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
SELF-DETERMlNATION

That hat is 'very becoming to you, sir,p said the polite salesman.
 Becoming eh@' growled the iras- cible old gentleman. What do you think I anna fool or a dude? I'm TO fussy woman buying a bonnet and I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
THE MOTOR AGE

THE MOTOR AGE To live in a house by the side of the
 road,
 AS the poet said in his song, And be a friend to man was dream That he bad cherished long. So he bought him house by the side
 of the road,
 Where he hoped to dwell serene; But he choked in the dust of speeding cars
 And the fumes of gasoline.
 SHE'LL OUTGROW IT Our new stenographer has grace ful way of tapping typewriter But don't you think she's rather self-conscious? 7 Well, yes. This is her first job and she still thinks SIS week is lot of money"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
ANOTHER UNK1ND CUT.

This story of house party at the summer home of an American mill Ionaire was evidently written by an English author"
 What makes you think so?
 Judging from the dialogue and the behavior of the guests, the butler is the only gentleman present"