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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
THE LADY FROM OKLAHOMA
From the Providence Journal.

From the Providence Journal.
 M E7lSS ALICE ROBERTSON, repre-
 NVll sentative-elect from Oklahoma, SVS will take her seat in the next Congress, with the distinction of being not alone the only woman member, but also of having been up to the time of her nomination an ardent anti-suffragist, She fought bitterly the adoption of the nineteenth amendment in her state But when she was asked to run for Congress in the Second district, which is noplinally democratic, she accepted because she wanted to "see if the men meant it' when they thrust the vote upon us
 Her experience is truly an amazing ore. The compliment of the nomination had a suspiciously hollow sound. Miss Robertson knew it and said so. Yet so strong was her belief that the voters in her district did not want woman in office, that she agreed to make the race in order to give her theory the severest possibIe test. In a similar spirit of sports manship and adventure the republicans who offered her the nomination got be- hind her in full strength, worked inde- fatigably and, aided by the candidates own unusual methods of advertising ana direct personal appeal, carried her tri-
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um phantly to victory.

un phantiy to victory.
 Miss Robertson has grown up with Ok- lahoma. A woman who has passed her sixtieth birthday, she entered that part Of the state which once belonged to the Creek Indians when she was years old. During Roosevelt's term she was post mistress at Muskogee. For many years she has been an Indian official, has served in various other political capaci- ties and has won for herself statewide reputation. In the war she conducted a canteen in which it was rule that every thing was free for soldiers and sailors. Since the war she has been running a restaurant in which, during her cam paign, it is said, that she never let slip an opportunity to talk politics with patrons, especially the men. In her speeches and advertisements she dis cussed food as well as political issues. She convinced and won most of her aud- itors
 Her Knowledge of her state and dis trict, her experience i'll office, to say nothing of her ability to accomplish the seemingly impossible in turning what looked like sure defeat into victory. should make her. a valuable member of the next Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
American People Demand
 Honesty in Baseball

IT T matters little how the owners of ill baseball clubs and league officials
 settle their differences, so long as they regain the confidence of the American people. There should be no politics in baseball and the taint of
 corruption should be permanently ob- liberated.
 1 The presentstroubles are largely due to politics which only needed the dis closure of scandal to jeopardize the future of the game. The American
 people love baseball as they love no
 other sport. They felt keenly the dis grace which was brought on it by gamblers and few dishonest players,
 but they had already begun to feel
 that all was not well. There was too
 much pickering and quarreling among
 the league magnates. Gamblers were
 rapidly destroying baseball's popu- larity.
 Any reorganization that is effected
 must be based on the assumption that
 it is for the best interests of the game, 
 and not for individual owners or off
 cials. What the public wants is clean sport and it will have no other kind. 1 Baseball is business, but it can only be made a successful business by
 keeping faith with it's millions of pa-
 irons throughout the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
An Appreciation

"In* the passing of William Ryan Birmingham loses one of her outstand- ing figures" said Mrs. J. E. Frazier. "He. will be sadly missed by many, but more especially by those of the Music Study club and others who knew his love and appreciation of music. was associated with MT. Ryen closely when put on the first artist recital here some time ago, and he was always in- terested and cordially cooperative. He assisted us very much with his wise counsel. and through the columns of The Age-Herald in all our musical un- dertAkings. never passed Mir. Ryan but that we did not have a little chat, and though for the last few years he had ven falling very rapidly, he was always cheerful and pleasant. His con tributions to things musical In Bir- mingham will be greatly missed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12

From the Chicago News.
 IT R G. WELLS, the. English novelist IIl and sociologist, recently passed G 0oa fortnight in soviet Russia and is now giving the world the impressions formed and conclusions reached by him during that brief visit. His "dominent impression he says. lis of vast IT, reparable breakdown" Never in all his- tory. he continues. 'has there been so great a debacle before"
 The specifications given by. MT. Weiis are familiar: The population or Fetro-
 grad and Moscow is appallingly under fed: drugs and medicines are unobtain- able. everybody is uncomfortable ana small ailments develop easily into seri- ous troubles; railroads are in state or extreme deterioration.
 While MT Wells has not yet made ,xnown his final conclusions he is prepared to affirm at the outset that the spectacie of misery and ebbing energy vivloly painted by him is not the result or DOT shevix rule Not communism, but capi- at.sm. he says, built up the cities that are now in ruins. If Russin is suffering and perhaps dying" communism cannot be held responsible for this situation. The guilty authors are czarism and capiT talism. especially European capitalism.
 Doubtless the allies, under frenen nressure. have committed grave mistakes in their policy toward RUSSIA. N or is 'i'o Tnited States without reproacn m the nremises. The blockade should have been ,;s.ad ,on. since. as even antibolshevik
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
7-7-=-7-s0s -
 LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

The reason why it takes so little to please her before they are na,ra,ed is
 because it is going to take so much to
 please her after they are married. The biggest sucker in the world is
 the wise fat head who knows that you can't fool him.
 ! X wise girl knows that if she can :, get a man to support her on his knees for a half hour hell insist on support ing her the rest of his life.
 We do not blame the women for
 wanting to be independent. How would you like ro have to beg your wife for tevery cenr you needed? IT the girls can spell their name "Edyth'' and Marie" wnen they we-s christened "Edith" and Mary" wry can't the men spell their names "Wyii- yam" and 'Jamesie?' 1 man will go ten times as far to be
 mean to some oae he disiikes as he will
 to be kind to some ono he likes. They tell us that the men are grow | ing more effeminate and tha. the !, women are growing more masculine But we doubt that we'll ever get to where we'll be carrying a hand bar i containing box of rouge and powder rag.
 1 A pair of shoes two sizes too small never hurt .woman's feet the way 2 l pair two sizes too big would hurt them | It often happens that if nature fails
 to make an ass out of nan. some woman will.
 No matter how fair minded a man tries to be, he is certain to blame his 1 failures on others and his success on himself
 ! Anyway, many a her-pecker husband
 got q lot Of pleasure out Of the sa ct
 that his wife couldn't keep him from
 voting the way he wanted to.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
Baltimore Workers
 Sat Good Example

oN the city of Baltimore 12,Ooo worA- u CTS, members of the building trades. have voluntarily declined to accent a wage advance from go cents to s1 an hour due them under an .oreement with the contractors. It was to have gone into effect November |. The workers entitled to the increase prefer occupation at S5 cents an hour to idleness at $1, and large majority vote decided in favor of the former.
 This action on the part'of the work CTS ;s all the more to be commended because the contractors made no e1- fort to recede from the agreement. 1t was a commonsense acceptance of a new condition.
 Americans should realize that the peak has been passed and that no one is going to receive hereafter the price he has heretofore received for what he sells. This applies alike to mus cular effort, to brain power, to prod ucts of the factories and mills and to the output of the farms. k
 The first fruits of the realization of the new order should be a willing ness to give greater efficiency. Lack of efficiency has been partly responsi- ble for the high cost of living.
 "The laborer is worthy of his hire,' but the employer is entitled to the best effort of which his employe is capa- ble. This corollary of the ancient proverb has been most lost sight of. The Baltimore workers have set an example that must be followed in many quarters; willingly if men are wise, but inevitably and soon, what ever the individuals attitude may be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
AN OLD APPLE TRnn

By Clinton Scollard- I know an ancient apple tree That takes the breezes lustily,
 If they bear attars from the south
 Or breathe, as from mighty noun, The sharp salt savers of the sea It's branches sway, it's branches sinG.
 They are as lutes attuned to soue
 Through summer and through an.
 tumn long, Nor heed the winters triumphinUL With Hybla honey at the oor~. Its fruit gleams like new minted oros
 No bough in the Hesperides
 In time antique beyond the seas rarer, richer burden bore. It crests a hill that looks away Toward dawning and descending days
 It tops a vale where rillets run
 Like sleek chameleons in the sun: It sees the moon and stars obey. Obey the Will that wheels them by In bright procession through the sky;
 The Dipper and the Greater Bear,
 And every constellation there; Sad will it be when it shall die For with the passing of it's boughs Will pass. as from an aged house
 Something of beauty, something such
 As human tenderness and touch, And memories of lovers vows. So, we who cherish it would say Far be the hour of its decay!
 From it's high vantage on the hiB
 May Il spread benediction still As fragrant as its blooms in Nayl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
EUGENE FIELD

EUGENE FIELD
 From the Chicago News.
 To Eugene Field Chicago has long been a neglected debtor. This man or qood will and western wit poet of smiles and pathos. humanized our prairie metropolis. He deserves more if nossihle. than the thumbed and dog earaa tributes in the libraries, the sonrs after dinner in the homes of Hi nois. the anecdotes which are still toio of him. Action, which>is, after alL the sole vindica ton of emotion, somehow has remained undefined about his mem orv. Now on the twenty fifth anniver- sary of his death plans are announced for monument. enduring and beauti- fuI. Chicago welcomes the plan.
 Eugene Field represents that kindly era of western culture. now in great part gone, when the broader influences of life arose from a community Of sim nle householders The great concentra- tive forces of the present were then Immature Home life still formulated our social objectives. The old-fash- toned family of individualistic Amerl- cans is essentially the background oi Little Boy Blue"
 Eugene Fields work is the delicate poetry of the sentiments. The pat terinx sunshine and shadow in life, the | brief threads of feeling the love oi children, the gay brevities of human and the pathos that tint the relations of ind;vifiaals to each other with varied color were-gat thered into his verse. He i. had no vision of huge social forces breaking over the defenses of individ- ualism, for individual and domestic ! ideals were still unquestionably pre- eniren He had not the grim grip on the flank of realty that Ssncburs has l He could not make the dark threat oi ! domestic decay that Aiastess makes
 Eugene Fields poetry is significantly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
NEW PRONOUN NEEDED

From the Columbus Dispatch.
 Now that the women nave come into citizenship equality with the men. we than We ever did before When every voter was man, we could say. for in stance: Every voter who casts his ball. let for this proposition votes for the preservation of his country But now, to be exact, one must say, Every voter who casts his, or her. ballot for this proposition votes for the preservation of his, or her, country Nobody can fancy that sentence There are too many punctuation points not have the right punch But what is to be done about ity The jokesters used to tell us to use the pronoun ''i.isr only. jus.ifyin.s the advice by the re- mark that man embraces woman.' But that was in the old days. Hereafter woman is going to have her vote on that too.
 The only alternative is to invent a pronoun that will stand for both his and her" Somebody once suge eested ''thon,". being d contraction for that one" If that were to be adopted. the sentence would i'eals, Every voter who casts ,hon's ballot sor th.s propos ;ion
 votes Tor the preservation Of thons coui.ry"
 Probably few would like that, either. But then every new word has d strangc sound. Perhaps we could learn to like that just as we do the unusually shaped hats we put on after discarding the summer Straws.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
THE "wANr AD- vINDlcArED

From tae Nashville Banner.
 Miss Alice Robertson. newly elected congressman from Oklahoma, used the want ad" colrmns for exploiting her candidaeys which is quite d. hoos. for the lowly little fellows and snows that the people everywhere read them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
MIR. WELLS ON SOVIET RUSSIA

Russian leaders have urged. Still, Mr. fects of the bolshevik upheaval or of tho so called second revolution. The first rev. olution overthrow czarism and gave Rus sia universal suffrage, full political free dom and 8 national assembly pledged to fundamental reforms, including land to the peasants The bolshevik revolution was an assault on world capitalism although Russe as an agricultural coun- try had no developed capitalist system to attack. If the boisheviks had not over thrown the coalition government Russia would now have had peace for oyer tws years, and peace would have meant eco- homie aid from the allies, from Amexica and from neutral states.
 What would be the Russian situatioo today if there had been no civil war. nS Polish campaign. no red army, no bioch- ade since the armistice with Germany Would Russia be without drugs, without, shoes. without fuel, without tolerabU adequate transportation facilities.
 The bolshevik revolution has brought Russia nothing but misery. For two a the three years of the Lenine regime ' has prevented rehabilitation and read justment. Russia was very sick. and tho bolshevik doctors prescribed for tt. not work and trade. not cooperation with
 it's friends, but furious propaganda G world revolution. class war and destruc- tion of social order representing ceD- turies of evolution The world now seq the inevitable effects Of this fantastic diagnosis and absurd prescription
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of those principles which are the foun- dation of true Christianity. Its shell tering arms are reached out to the be- liever and the unbeliever. It goes wherever it is needed, asking no ques- tions and seking only to aid.
 The end of the great war in Eu- rope by no means stopped the work of the Red Cross. War is temporary, the alleviation of want and suffering, the saving of lives and community service on broad, scale must go on, or the noble conception of the brother hood of man wall cease to exist.
 The fourth roll call, November Il to 9. gives everyone an opportunity to contribute according to his means to a cause which should be dear to every man, woman and child. Give more, if you can, but give dollar and be enrolled for another year.
 No better investment could be made. Home hygiene, the care of the sick, first aid, diatetics, life saving, thrift and community service, are just few of the activities in which the Red Cross is engaged. It has more than made good its claim to be known as the greatest mother in the world"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
The Victory Medal

Colonel SaffarranS, the army recruit ing officer for this district, has made arrangements to handle large num- Der of applications for the Victory medal
 The question is often asked said Capt. H. B. May. "'Why is the gov ernment so anxious to have men who medal? From the experience of post wars 1t has been found by Che war de- partment that after the lapse of a few short years, ex-soldiers invariably ap- ply for the particular medal symbolic of their servite, which shows that the desire does not crysta tallize until after tsr memory of the service begins to fade.
 Anticipating this desire. the war de- partment is spending thousands of dol- lars in order that the ex-soldier may receive the medal within few days, and that the applicant may apply with out having to send the discharge cer- tificate to Washington.
 trhe Victory medal. like history. does not appear in it's true light until after the little localisns and Ill feelings have died away and only fond memories re- main, becoming constantly more pro nounced with the passing of time. The Victory medal will. in time to come be more and more treasured by those who have applied and received the little token of appreciation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

tiful. I suppose9p
 No. but the requirements are al- most as hard to meet. The advertiser specifics that she must be under 40. immune from the movies and house. broken
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
Loves Dirminxham stili

Friends Of B. Steiner, now resident of New York, but pioneer citizen of Birmin gham, will be dad to learn that he is not SO i'll as he has been for some time. past. His son. Herbert. writ ing to asfriend in Birmingham. says:
 T am glad to report that my father Is feeling considerably better, but will not be as active as heretofore" The full well with regard to MT. Steiner. He states that he still feels the same toward Birmingham and the Birming- ham people as always; that he still loves 1t and Keeps in touch with what is going on there
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Capital of the World
 Expects Many Visitors

~ ENEVA is just now bustling Nl city. The "oldest- inhabitant" is doubtless finding much to marvel at in the transformation which has changed it into forum for world politics.
 Secretaries are swarming every where. The hotels are already crowded 9th the influx of distinguished visi- tors from many parts of the world just begun. A portfolio must be as common sight in Geneva as dinner pails are in some of our leading indus trial centers.
 It is expected that more than 1000 delegates, secretaries and advisers, representing at least Al of the 45 members of the League of Nations, vii attend the league assembly, No- vembr 15. It will be notable gath ering, which will include many of the worlds leading orators, statesmen and politicians.
 With all due respect to a certain gentleman from Ohio who is now fish ing for tarpon in the Gulf of Mexico, 1t would be hard to convince the citi- xens of Geneva that the League of Ma Itions is deceased" Nor do the busy scenes witnessed daily in the Palace of Nations" indicate anything of the sort.
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menting OH the defeat of the seaport amendment. The Register says:
 number of business men ex- pressed the view that if the final returns bore out the information now at hand it was directly m to the city to at once act to provide termlhal Facilities at the port of Mobile in order that there would he no cessation of cornmerce and to assure the continued growth of the port.
 They were greatly interested in the status of the Arlington docks ana were anxious to know when these terminals under construction by the city would oe ready for use" The old adage that success brinys success" is one of the truest. Every thing that Mobile does for herself will be an inspiration for the rest of the state to help build real port there Postponement of state aid if if arouses the people of Mobile to a full realization of the necessity of port de- velopment. will not prove an unmixcd evil.
 0"e esPe or american who didn't enter iuily into the spirit of Armistice Da, was the man who would have .f,naaa million if the war had lasted a little while longer.
 The sale of Mrs. Asquths memoirs is Ehelpec considerably by the people who write letters to newspapers giving her Hail Columbia * x
 If Italy and Jugo-Slavia settle tbo,, differences amicably, D'Annunzio will have to look around for some other way to keep in the spotlight.
 ' * * Judging from the number of fatalities in the last Yucatan election, an election in that country is more bloody than revo- ,ution.
 * < *
 Movie producers are said to be getting tired of paying their stars such big sal aries. The public Is inclined to remain strictly neutral.
 * * * ] Urcfe Sam is serving 17-cent meals on Ellis Island. Ho. hum We are still pay- ing 90 cents for slice of pie and a glass of milk.
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 Conditions in Haiti are much improved, says Admiral Knapp, That's encourag- ing. As far as possible Haitians should be permitted to die natural death.
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 A law should he passed prohibiting a walking delegate from receiving salary of .nlc-e ,han slo.oOo year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
Give a Dollar or More
 to Help the Red Cross

6NO the suffering and the destitute, u to the victims of wars and disas- ters and to sorrow-stricken humanity in many lands the Red Cross is a sym bol of hope.
 It has kept the faith. It has never failed in it's labor of love and helpful ness. It is the worlds greatest hu- manitarian organization. What it has accomplished is glorious vindication
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
The n;g Game

.'BirmiliShatn football fans will cer- tainly have the opportunity of witness- ing one of the south's biggest gridiron battles Saturday, when Washington and Lee meets Auburn at Redwood park. said Captain May.
 The generals have a powerful at tack, which will be offset by the stone wall defense of Auburn. The latter is noted for its heavy lines and this year Coach Mike Donahue has one of his best, Washington and Lee has a pair Of the eountrys best drop kickers. in Silverstein and Mattox. IL was the lat ter who kicked the field goal that de feated Georgia Tech last year. to O S!lversteins toe has scored many points for Washington and Lee this season.
 'yes, it looks like mighty close bat tie, one that only a few points will win Birmingham should turn out en masse for the game. as it is the best on the Nagic City gridiron menu this year."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Corn weevn

Corn Weevil
 'Mnch of the corn crop is being de- stroyed by the corn weevil," said H. -i1 Brown, county demonstration agent and all cornfields are badly infected by this pest. have visited number Of fields during the past few days and in many instances they are nearly ruining the corn and will continue their work of destruction after the product IS stored
 Like other insects. the corn weeyil is worse this year than ever before, and the damage to this crop is largely increased by the husks on the corn having already been bored into by the corn worm. This makes it very easy for the weevil to get in it's work. On some of the ears I picked yesterday every grain of corn had been eaten until only the husk was left. The far mers must get busy or there will be no seed corn for next year"
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A MORNING PRAYER
 Give me a firm belief 1oo'. :" the good intentions of other ne". so shalI I look on their lives witn Blindness. which shall ripen al trto love, Amcn.--M. $. E.