davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14

The Reptile Study Club of America held dinner recently in New York. Real snakes crawled about the table. If the walters were not reptile students them selves, they would have been justified in charging extra for their services
 x x *
 In demanding s6 for days work, Chi cago potato peelers are doubtless pre- pared to give an itemized statement of what potato peeler requires to support him in the style to which he is accss- toned.
 Adam Forepaugh, according to a writer in the Saturday Evening Post, had q way of double-crossing his employees. Yet his picture on the bnlboards made him look like an eminently righteous man.
 E * #
 No more hamburger steak will be bought for the navy. This seems to re- move the last remaining objection to en- listing.
 It has been discovered that the Count von Bernstorff, demanded by the allies. is not the little gentleman who did so much deviiment at Washington. Our sighs of relief are not audible.
 * x % It begins to look as if Joe stecher were the undisputed wrestling champion, some thing we haven't had in long time in this country. If the German mark drops much lower it will need pulmotor. Incidentally, the English pound is not calling for raw meat
 Freshmen at Miami University, Ohio, are in revolt against wearing the traditional green caps of frst-year men Where is bolshevism in this country going to stop? # # #
 It must be sad blow to his pride when favorfte son learns that outside of his own state he is merely the common or garden variety of candidate. # # x 1 Thanks to the ouija board craze and the pursuit of spooks, mediums are enjoy ing greater prosperity just now than they have ever known before # Ts # Papa Wilhelm doesn't want Fred to give himself up. Papa Wilhelm is needlessly | alarmed.
 F + ~ | Living is higher in Ireland than it is in America However, poteen is still plenti- ful and cheap. % < #
 The picture of Jap sitting on China mans neck is a Chinaman's idea of the l Shantung situation.
 # s. # 1 If railroad workers can reduce the high cost of living by threatening to strike. more power to their threats! King Georges latest speech to Parlia- nient showed, as usual. careful editing.
 # # < l Cheer up. The Sims-Daniels contro- versy can't go on forever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
CONSTANTINOPLE

among the millions of their Mahonletan subjects; and there is substantial req son to believe that the election of the Sultan from Stamboul would erplode the powder magazine of Mahometan discontent.
 The suggestion is put forward in England that the Sultan should be left at Constantinople and in possession of a nominal sovereignty. This expedient might allay Mussulman susceptibili- ties as to the Caliphate; it would not involve Turkish rule of any non Turkish territory or of the strait. Moreover, in Constantinople the doings at the Sublime Porte-that century old hornets nest of international intrigue could not be watched much more ef- fectively than if the Turkish govern ment were removed to Brusa or Konia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
OUIJA BOARD VICTIMS

of all the praecox victims to it and if it keeps on we will find practically every demented, supplemented, under developed and praecox case in the coun- try talking with the other world
 As Dr. Hickson was talking a wo- man came into the laboratory. She smiled and chatted for moment and then broke suddenly into a singsong, apostrophizing God and His angels and wailing lugubriously of the spirits be- yond
 Made to order" said Dr. Hickson, "an advanced case-this one, however, has religious Authorizations. We get dozens of them.
 We have a case not of an advanced spiritualist' whose wife and eight chil- dren have been living off the city for years. The man belongs to & spiritual istic cult and is regarded as medium. have examined him. He knows he's not medium and that the ghosts he brings on are pumped rubber affairs or partners wearing sheets, but he is so far gone that such slight things make no difference. He wants to believe and therefore he believes, although all the phenomea with which he proves his belief to himself he manufactures him. self. Incidentally he is a vialently degenerate person."
 According to general estimate hun dreds of Chicagoans are daily losing. their nationality if not their reason over the ouija board and spook craze.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14

From the New York Tribune.
 ZINE of the most important Euro
 N pean issues still utl undecided Dt1, e0,s. e0n.
 W cerns the fate of Constantinopie.
 Two main questions are invoiveo: the
 control of the strait and the soVer-
 eighty of the Sultan. As to the former
 there is practically no dissent from the
 view that the corrupt and inefficient
 Turkish regime must not continue.
 The Dardanelles and the Bosporus are
 the Black Sea gateway-the world
 trade outlet not only of South RUSSIA
 but also of Roumania Bulgaria and Of
 the Danubian lands. It is one or the
 most important strategic and commer-
 eial points in the world
 It's guardianship must be at once impartial and effective. A strong Rus sia. ruled by a constitutional demo- cracy. would possess the best individual claim to the post. Unfortunately such a Russia does not exist today. Since the United States is averse to man ia tea solution which would satisfy all other pdTlltS tOhSSAitS0 NA'S expedient seems to be international control in one form or another. It's organization will be no easy task. But t will have to be faced.
 Whether the Sultan should or should not be left at Constantinopie 1 is a ploblem even more difficult to solve. That the unspeakable Turk must not be permitted to rule other races. Christian or Mahometan, is an axiom of Near Eastern settlement. But Constantinople. in so far as it has any national character, is Turkish. On the other hand, the demand that the expul- sion of the Turk from Europe ought to be consummated by dislodging him i from Constantinople is backed by deep rooted historic sentiment. However the unfortunate complication must not be left out of account that the sultan is regarded by the Moslems or North Africa. Western Asia and India as the temporal head of Islam-as Caliph. Since the sixteenth century the otto man Caliphate has been associateo "i'i Constantinople. Temporal sovereignty ;s essential to the conception, as the c.1;nh is above all, the defender or the Mussulman faith.
 The Turk has forfeited every claim for sympathy or indulgence. But with the balance of Europe still unsettled Britain and France cannot afford 10
 .ne danger of a conflageration
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
What Responsibilities
 Attach to Great Wealth ?

FT HE old discussion of the obhga-
 U tions a rich man owes to the public may be revived by the an- nouncement that John F. Dodge, De- troit automobile manufacturer who died recently, disposed of an estate valued at more than twenty million dollars without bequeathing a dollar to charity The bulk of his prop erty goes to his widow, to his broth CT, Horace E. Dodge, and the Detroit Trust Company as trustees.
 There is suggestion of family tragedy and a fathers blighted hopes in a clause of the will which leaves the manufacturers eldest son an income of one hundred and fifty dollars a month. John Duval Dodge did not live in Detroit and twas last heard of in Texas"
 The late MT. Prick, who was es- teemed hard man in business, be- queathed the greater part of his for tune to the public. MT. Carnegie made himself one of the most famous philanthropists who ever lived by giv. ing away hundreds of millions and MT Rockefeller is another rich man who has done much good with his money MT. Dodge, to be sure, was not as wealthy as some of the nations best known philanthropists. Nowadays twenty million dollars is not consid- cred a great fortune, yet it is rather unusual for man of his wealth te
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
Brotherhood Heads
 Talk to President

~ AN organized labor in America N have any further doubts that President Wilson is still it's "great and good friend"? Cabinet members, United States senators, troops of for eign diplomats and notables of every sort have been denied even a glimpse of the President, but representatives of the railroad brotherhoods were re- ceived on the south portico of the White House and permitted to make a personal statement of their griev- ances.
 It is true that the President did not promise an increase in wages, but he made concession to labor that should go a long way toward convincing the workingmen of Amer ica that his sentiments toward them have not changed in the least. It is doubtful if MT. Wilson would again go as far as he did in the case of the Adamson law, but he has not turned his back on the railroad broth erhoods.
 Of course the President is strong CT now than he was when an impos- ing list of dignitaries were denied an audience, but nevertheless they had, many of them, matters of the utmost importance to discuss. Lord Grey, for instance, had a most un- satisfactory experience in Washing ton. It is to his credit that he kept his temper admirably and by pains taking effort arrived at fairly ac- curate conception of what the Ameri- can people think about the peace treaty and the League of Nations.
 The representatives of the four brotherhoods left the White House empty handed, but they should con- sole themselves with the reflect on that they were the first delegation received in months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
acoroner,s Board Wanted.

Ed Hinton of Nashville was talking and after booze as a topic had petered out, the comment, as usual, turned to politics. Then Ed got to going good:
 There is one office l want to see changed. It's the way we run this coronor business Throughout the been customary to treat the office of coroner as a pension for some war veteran, just a job used for batting some nice old gentleman on the back and keeping him out of want.
 "The truth of the matter is that in placing responsibility, enhancing the punishment of crime and paving the way for clear criminal litigation. there is no office of more importance
 T have often thought the coroner ought to be a board of men. not a pensioner and whoever he can seize to fill in a hap-hazard jury.
 The coroner's board should be made up, for city cases, of the chief of police, sheriff, county and city at torneys, chief of the detective bureau and county and city physicians, and for the county the same officials, only with the city officials left out '1f that was done verdict worth considering in many cases could be rendered, prosecution helped and the real cause of death told. As it is now, the coroner's verdict is often, as far as the facts really are con- cerned, grotesquely absurd"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
Young Men in Civic Affairs.

"It is a great pity that William E.. Bilheimer was prevented from ad- dressing the joint luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce, Real Estate Exchange and Life Underwriters As sociation at the Southern Club yes- terday" said Roscoe Mcconnell. q think the men assembled at the luncheon were as representative a crowd of Birmingham boosters as I have seen brought together in many a month.
 "A fact that also impressed me was the large number of young men of the city present. Most of the younger business men seem to think that older mems discussions are not for them and, as a rule, do not attend them, but the luncheon yesterday was very much of an exception to this rule and shows that the live young business men of Birmingham are coming for ward in the civic affairs of the city, for which fact we should be glad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
Jasper County's New
 Eight-Page Weekly

0N HE PLOWMAN is the name of
 U Jasper's new weekly publica- tion It is not political, for in it's ad- vertising columns only one card for a candidate for office appears, that for coroner. There is no intimation of how the Flowrnan stands on the senatorship. And it is natural that politics should be minimized, as the journal is published by students of the Walker County High School and all the material furnished for it's col umns is prepared by students. It is progressive agricultural paper.
 Vocational agriculture is it's mo- tive, and great forward movement in this line of education is sure to result
 Among the subjects treated in Volume 1, No. 1, are: "Testing Seed Corn," by Carloc Sumner; Breeding Hens for Winter Egg Production" by Cecil H. Johnson; "A Method of Con- trolling Corn Weevils," by Wilson Sherer; Poultry House Construc- tion," by Cecil H Johnson, and Something Every Farmer Should Know About Wheat" by Howard Brown.
 The Plowman is well written and every article is worth while. The journal should have wide reading.
 The Walker County High School has set good example. Vocational training is in great vogue these days. And what phase of it is more important than that relating to the farm? Every county in Alabama should have a weekly newspaper modelled after the Plowman. x x E
 What of doctors striker" asks the wife of a physician who writes to Phil- adelphia newspaper that she is on duty twenty-four hours out of the twenty four. Yes, indeed. What of a doctors strike if the master plumbers little daughter lay at the point of death and all his wealth were powerless to save her life?
 q wasn't in that mob. tell you" said the defendant. angrily. Your honor said the prosecuting attorney. with your permission we will now darken the court
 room and exhibit to the gentleman of the jury motion picture taken on the spot and showing this man actually leading
 the mob that stormed the Jiggers county jail"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14

From the Chicago News.
 x TOU'D better tie can to your ouija
 11 board and kiss your favorite
 0 spirit control goodby-unless you want to end up in the psychopathic laboratory struggling desperately to pass the moron test. pr. William J. Hickson, director of the worlds lead ing psychopa thic laboratory, which IS located right here in the city hall, is watching the oujia board craze with keen professional interest Dr. Hick- son is considered the leading psycho- pathologist in America
 We've been getting dozens of spir- itualists in here" he explained. "as well as ouija board fans and seance habftues. They are of course, praecax cases to begin with before they go in for listening to the ghost rattle the tambourine and watching him spell out the messages from the other world on the ouija board. If they weren they wouldn't go in for such imbecili- ties.
 Tt is not exactly inexplicabie-the other world craze. The world is con tinually full of praecox victims, A praecox is a person whose innate de- sire is to get away from the world ot fact. to evade his material responsiblH- ties. He resorts to curious devices for the fulfilling of this ambition Hal fluctuations, obsessions and what no' seize upon him. The ouija and the seance offer escape also.
 The advertising spiritualism has re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
AN HOUR ON A HILL

cenevieve Taggard. in Harper's Nigga zine. Tn Greece the shadows slep-as still. Tn Rome the hills were arched as
 high, Their wind not blows my hair. and
 will
 Stir other maidens' when I die And leaves that print the dust with
 lines, And pebbles rubbed and rounded
 blue, And baby burrs. like porcupines, Looked this way when the Nile was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
MISSING SOMETHING.

Anybody around here who might buy little oil stock?" asked the flashy stranger.
 "Its lucky you came to me irst." said Squire Witherbee.
 ''Hows that, eir?'
 "Everybody around here has bought little oil stock except me. That's why I'm giving you chance to catch the next train out of town instead of calling the boys together and sending rush or der for bucket of tar. a sack of feath- CTS and a good, stout rail"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14

And dust to Babylonian feet
 Was pollen soft, and good to tread, The bees that humble in this heat Made the same honey for their bread And early with the sun, and late Crept the same shades, and flew
 the same White flags of clouds across the
 straight
 Horizon of another name. Men chippeds us messages in stone. The careful stories of their kings But they were dumb about thoir own Small pleasant things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14

part of it be restored to the people who helped him to become rich.
 It is creditable to many of Amer ica's multimillionaires that, what ever faults they may reveal in life, they frequently achieve nobility in death and by large donations to vari- ous forms of philanthropy earn the gratitude of their fellow men.
 < %
 Secretary Lansing and
 President Wilson Break
 7H HE relations between the Presi- J dent and all members of his official family are supposed to be most cordial. Especially are the President and the ranking member of the cabinet, in the nature of things, expected to hold the closest and most intimate relationship,
 The friction between President Wilson and Secretary Lansing, lead ing to the secretary's resignation and it's acceptance, may be surprise to some, but not to official Washing ton. While it is regretted, it has been known for some time that they were not in accord on grave diplo- matic questions. Diplomacy is a del- icate matter, and international law IS extremely complex. As MT. Lansing was recognized as an authority on diplomatic usage, as we'll as on the history of our foreign relations, his place at the head of the state depart ment inspired confidence.
 When MT. Bryan gave up the state portfolio in the early part of Presl- dent Wilson's administration, it was because he himself felt that he was a misfit. He and the President were far apart in their views and policies touching war preparedness, and when the vacancy occurred MT. Lansing was considered by men in public life an admirable selection for his suc- cessor.
 To begin with, he was trained diplomat, and a diplomat by temper ament, which MT. Bryan was not. But even a master in diplomacy must be far-visioned in practical af- fairs.
 During his first years of in- cumbency, MT. Lansing filled the bill, to all appearances, exceptionally well. MT. Wilson relied upon his judgment in important matters and their relations were as harmonious as could have bene desired. But when the breaking point came, it was with the utmost frankness on both sides. The correspondence be- tween the White House and the state department is given to the public in full, and friends and supporters of the administration cannot fail to see that the President was right ''in the a;,o,,s,,rfo ornoc O
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
IN HOTEL LCBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Hor rimes Have changed


 Somebody was asking me few
 days ego if intended to bring party
 over from Jasper to hear Frieda Hem rel the world-renowned soprano. who appears here next Tuesday evening in
 me "Aii-Star Concerts presented by my two good friends, Mrs. Richard K, Johnston and Mrs. Orline A. Shipman," 1 said L. B. t'Breck'') Musgrove, land told them I certainly meant to do
 that very thing and in thus answer ing. I recalled an instance of some
 thirty-odd years ago. which will be in- terestfng at least to 'old-timers' in this
 section: Emma Abbott, who was at that time
 considered one of the greatest sing
 CTS in the world. was billed to appear
 @t o'Brien's sOpera House and my
 mother read in the paper about her coming. so one day she said to me; 1 'Breck, hitch up the old OK wagon and get your crowd together and let's go over to Birmingham and hear Emma | Abbott Her wish was a command to me- and straightway I got out the OK wagon and all the accomplishments, and in due time the party set forth for Birmingham. It took us exactly two days to make the trip by OK wagon. but we got here in time to get
 good seats and we heard the great Emma Abbott.
 The contrast now in the means o; 1 iocomotion is very evident. Our music | lovcis from Jasper who will come to hear Frieda HempeL the world-famous soprano next Tuesday evening, win jump into their big automobiles or on l the fast train and get to Birmingham within two hours, returning the same ! evening, if they choose. while with us "a little over 90 years ago, we boarded | the OK wagon and brought our lunch | along, and 1t took us two days to get to Birmine ham to hear Emma Abbott. Who says the times have not changed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
H.u, TO THE sToRK,

From the Nashville Banner.
 Bertha Knowles has married at last and her future babies should cause no comment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
MUCH WORSE.

Have you anything in particular against Clipping"
 well he talks to his baby over the telephone"
 That's not so bad"
 You're right. There are worse things. There are people who talk to poodles over ina te,enbone PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
EXPENSIVE LUXURY

From the Baltimore American.
 church organization urges women to give up tobacco. Something must be done of course. The strain of keeping a whole family in cigarettes cannot long be endured
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
GETTING DESPERATE.

"The club looks deserted tonight"
 Yes, sir" replied the attendant 'Its not like it used to be, sir. The gentle men don't come around any more I get so lonely sometimes I'd almost be will ing to draw on my private stock, just to see few of the old familiar faces"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
W. J. BRYAN. c. E.

From the Washington Star.
 Without being duly designated, Col. Bryan seems able to impress the demo- cratic party with the value of his serv- ices as consulting engineer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES

EPIDEMIC EPISODE. Doctor, doctor. prescribe for the Gladly my friend, here's pellet for
 you" Doctor. doctor. don't mock at fny
 woe. What am thinking of surely you know" "Yes, my brother. know it full well, That which no longer 'tis lawful to sell.
 TOT pelf, Had I a snifter I'd drink it myself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
WHAT HE DID

A man once dreamed of what he'd do
 If he became possessed of wealth, He made his pile at fifty-two
 And spent ten years in quest of health.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
COMPLIMENT

A COMPLIMhNI You used to pay me many pretty com pliments before we were married" said Mrs. Dibbs, with pout
 You women are certainly hard to please growled MT. Dibbs Didn't I just now tell you these pork chops were done to a turn?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
Income Tax Payments

Cash payments of income taxes should not be sent by mail" says Col lector of Internal Revenue Jchn D Me- Neel.
 Cash sent by mail is always at the owners risk of loss. and if lost or stolen the sender may find himself fac-.
 ing penalties for failure to pay his tax on time.
 "A taxpayer will find it more prac- tical to purchase postoffice money order or draw a check for the amount of the tax, payable to Collector of h. ternal Revenue John D. McNeel.
 ''The first pay nent, due on or before March IS. should be attached securely to the completed return and forw arded or delivered to my office at Birming- ham, Ala. This first payment must cover either the entire tax shown due or at least one-fourth of the tax due
 Early payments and early filing of return is urged. in order that an over lead on the final date. March 15, may be avoided"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
NOT SO NAUGHTY.

'Tm afraid I was trifle severe with some of our second lieutenants during the war remarked the paragrapher.
 Why so?"
 we have a former second lieutenant working here as a cub reporter. Believe it or not, but he calls me Mister '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
HOW SOME AMERICANS FEEL

50 you want to go abroad?s
 'Yes," said the disgruntled citizen. Any particular destination in mind ?" Nope. Whats the nearest place?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-14
Member of the Associated Press

The Age Herald is the only mornins mos and Sunday newspaper in BlrIillis ll AsI;s'- Sis- carrvinp tbe Associated Press dls- patches.
 The Associated --ress is exciusiVely entitled to the use for publication ol all new dispatches credited to lt o. not otherwise credited in this pApes es and also the local news puoilsneo herein. ,,
 Ali rights of republication or spsciAi dispatches herein are also reserNe~