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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-30

m round numbers, as compared With Atlanta's 20S,000. No territory has been added, either to Birmingham or Atlanta, during the present decade. All the city growth has been within the municipal boundary. Atlanta's outlying territory has grown only moderately, whereas Birmingham's suburban growth has been enormous, especially between Fairfield and Bes- semer. Possum Valley is thick with inhabitants and the population will be all the while growing thicker.
 This ten-mile limit population to- day will probably reach the 22O,o0o mark
 Birmingham is a wonder city in- deed, and it is just beginning to get its right stride.
 x # # The Memphis Commercial Appeal calls him Jim Reed. the pachyderra." ]" | While on the subject of thick hides, | why not call the Hon Jim a rhinoce- ros?
 l Although Wilhelm has resigned him. l self to his fate. it is rumored that Con- stantine is still hoping for an invita- : ton to return home and bring the di- vine right to rule with him.
 # # # l Vice President Marshall will have to forego the satisfaction of seeing the democratic platform written on a post card. However. the Irish plank will not take up much room. * ]; * ] An Englfshman views with alarm the increase in the American and Japanese ' navies So do the American and Jap anese taxpayers.
 in some of the hotel elevators of San Francisco. In the old days it would have been overpowering. | The discovery that Governor Cox was not as wet as he supposed him to be gave Boss Murphy a sinking feel ing from which he may not recover. < * #
 The passing of the pink tea from politics will not be regretted half as much as the departure of the old-fash- toned 'keg O nails 1 E # E 1 It seems only little while since the Hun was making a drive against the channel ports that had the whole whole world guessing. >; * *
 You can't blame Mexico for not wanting to be made an issue in the presidential election. Mexico has | troubles enough at home. $. x a l It's great pity that Senator Lodge 1 " Neo iioJ pECSGlll tO see lilC u6IUOHSlTa- ton which greeted President Wilson's portrait at San Francisco. # x x | The fact that the Prince of Wales weighs 14o pounds is not half as in teresting to some people as the weight of their favorite movie queen. # Hs # 1 Secretary Daniels is the only high powered statesman who travelled to the ! San Francisco convention in a battle ship.
 | Oh. we'll, Birmingham will positively outstrip Atlanta in 1880. Save this | paragraph for future reference. i j: *s a. | The price of cup of coffee in Bir- mingham restaurants will continue to be all the traffic will bear. l x t x l Not only master minds" but the common or garden variety of minds seems able to baffle New York's police Dropping into the vernacular, Homer Cummings not only said a mouth full" but a page full. l * # as
 MT. McAdoo continues to give a cor rect imitation Of the sphinx. l WHERE THEFT IS UNKNOWN Frederick O'Brien in Shadows in the l South (Tba Cap+,~,,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-30


 son-in-law and father-in-law. In fact, the former are very close kin and Che latter are not kin at all.
 Again, while Mir. McAdoo made faithful servant when acting under the President, he was strictly original and showed initiative in his conduct of office At times he and the Pres ident have disagreed. Mir. McAdoo enjoys the reputation of doing his own thinking.
 Roosevelt's mantle fell or Taft by act of Roosevelt. If Wilson's mantle should envelop McAdoo the original McAdoo will still stand forth in the original McAdoo lines.
 # < #
 New Law Mania Isa
 Passion fer Privilege
 TN an address at the centenary O celebration of the Harvard law school, former supreme court Justice Charles E. Hughes, deplored the American mania for making laws.
 In part he said:
 "A passion for legislation is not a sign of democratic progress, and in the mass of measures introduced in the legislatures of our free con- monwealths there is too little evil dence of perspective and abundance of elaborate and dreary utilities" Why this mania for more laws in Q nation where each new law meets with such violent resistance? The answer lies in the tendency of the American people to make observance of law a matter of choice When the test comes they stand by the law, but, provided no crisis is at hand, it has been considered rather pre- rogative than crime on the part of the individual to ignore the law. Some of the automobile laws might as well not be on the statute books. It was several years before the san- itary department acquired the cour- age to face indignant housewives and summon them to court for throwing dead cats and the inner portions of slaughtered chickens into alleys. People still blow up tick-eradica- ton vats and insist on flouting the prohibition laws because there is a considerable element in the body polite that thinks it not only right, but rather smart to trifle with the foundations of society and orderly conduct of the community's affairs. The mania for legislation is not a passion for law, but an obsession for privilege. Each set of men wishes the law made to suit it. It wants cmas- culation or repeal of the law which ,, does not suit it's lidiosyncrasy. The mind of the average American has not directed itself at observance of the law that is so much as on having it changed about so that he can do what he wishes.
 We are happily developing ten- dency in the other direction. It has been found that only chaos follows contempt of law. The chances are that from now on American will have fewer laws and they will be better observed.
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ADRIF7T WITH THE TIMES

ENLIGHTENMENT OF A BITTER
 BINDER" A senator sat late at night. Profound hls lucubrations He wished to set the people right About the League of Nations. He rose next day, his object to Inform the foolish masses But found that they were looking through A diffrent pair of glasses.
 OFFICE REPARTEE See here.' said the head shipping clerk, your chatter has wrecked my train of thought
 T should worry" said Miss Pilket. the breezy stenographer. Tt was nothing but a string of empties.'"
 sELF-EvIDENT.
 As regards ''Pancho" veeya,
 If you don't own a farm
 On the Mexican border
 Hell do you no harm.
 FASCINATING SUBJEC7 "Is Professor Diggs still carrying on research work? "Yes."
 ''NVhats he Investigating now?" Plumbing. He's trying to find out how a plumber can earn SIP a day"
 CLOSE-MOUTHED Your friend seems to be an intelligent man."
 And discreet, as well' How so?" His most intimate friends don't know where he gets his liquor BURNED OUT. Fare thee we'll, false creature Some day you'll love another" Never Nv hearts a cinder."
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Should Accept Enumeration

Hill Ferguson of the Jemison Real Estate and Insurance Company. thinks Birmingham should accept the census enumeration and go on to other things. He said:
 The percentage of growth is still in our favor compared with that of the cities with whom we are rivals. We have grown at a greater rate than At lanta. Memphis and Nashville. Besides, we all know what tremendous growth there has been in outlying territory immediately contiguous to the city. We were caught shy on housing and our census enumeration is one of the re- suits. I do not believe we got all that was coming to us, but I expect that is probably true of our rivals also. Tht ewing is altogether a good one and it is about what we have been led to lock for. It does not alter our splen- did status in the roster of the south S largest cities"
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WHERE THEFT IS UNKNOWN

Frederick O'Brien in Shadows in the
 South Seas" (The Century Company,.
 That he never saw or heard of the slightest quarrel between individuals in the Marquesan Islands was the state ment of Captain Porter, the American. Then, as now, the most perfect har- mony prevailed among them. They lived like affectionate brothers of one
 family, he said. the authority of the chiefs being only that of fathers among children. They had no mode of punishment for there were no offend CTS. Theft was unknown. and all prop
 e-ty was left unguarded. So Porter, who with his ships company, killed so
 many Marquesans, was fully aware of
 their civic virtues, their kindness, gen.
 ticness and generosity.
 It is so today in vait-hua where the
 whites are not. I have had my trous- CTS lifted from my second story room
 in Manila hotel by the eyed and fin
 gered bamboo of the Tagolog ladron. while I washed my face and stood
 aghast at the mystery of their disap- pearance with door locked, until look ing from my lofty window I beheld them moving rapidly down an estero in a banca. I have given over my watch to a gendarme in Cairo to forfend ar- rest for having beaten an Arab who ripped me to pick my pocket. and ] have surrendered to rapacity of ma jor general uniformed official in Italy who would incarcerate me for not hav- | ing a tailight lit. In San Francisco when robbed upon the public street. l have listened while the police suggested that I offer a fee to the king of the dips" and reward to certain saloon keepers to intercede with the unknown tome highwayrnan for the return of an heirloom.
 Yet through the darkest nights in Vait-hua I slept serenely. surrounded | by all the possessions so desirable in
 the eyes of my neighbors. in house the doors of which were never fas- tened. There was not lock in all the Village, or anything that answered the purpose of one. The people of this iso- Hated valley, forgetting their brief en- counter with the European idea oi money and the accumulation of prop |erty. had reverted to the ways of their fathers
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lie lives in fame that died in virtues
 cause. Titus Andronicus.
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IN HOTEL LOBB1ES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Car Shortage


 The car shortage is becoming most serious in this district" says E. M Sexton, "and I am afraid if the situa- ton is not relieved very soon. many of the industrial plants in this district Will be forced to close down.
 "As it is, I understand that several of the plants that have a number of large orders ahead, but who are unable to secure cars to ship their product, nave decided 10 run their plants only five days a week. It is pointed out that they have their yards stocked until they can't find any place to stack an, more. The closing of the plant one day a week is done to eurtail production until the companies are able to secure more cars to ship their products in. It is hoped that this condition will not prevail for very long and the car short age will soon be thing of the past"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-30
CLOSE-aiOUTHE1

BURNED OUT. Fare thee well, false creature. Some day you'll love another" Never. My hearts cinder."
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Through the 35 years in which I have known Birmingham, I have never for one moment doubted it's ultimate sue cess. I have always belonged to the band of hopefuls, and having seen tse town grow into a great metropolis, avail myself of the opportunity of saying to my faint hearted friends who abandoned it for good and all when the lean days came, I have not been con- stant resident during the more than score of years since I first got off at the old Relay House, but like Finni- gan, q have been off and on and gone agin" but for eighteen years past I've stuck and hope to spend the balance of my days here.
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No communication will be published without its aurnOr name. Re1eeted InanuscripL will not DC returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
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Remittalces can be made at current rate ot exchange. The Age Herald VIII not be responsible for money sen- through the mails. Address
 THE AGE-HERALD,
 Birming nam. Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-30

I never knew Colonel Powell but l did know Dr. Caldwell, and the Mil ners, John T., and Willis J., and Henry DeBardeleben, and J. H. Woodward and some of the other pioneers. Many of the leading bankers, lawyers, physi- clans, merchants, manufacturers and real estate dealers of today were young men friends of mine, and as I meet them and know of the positions they now hold in the social. political, com mercial and religious life of the city, am glad to have the chance of living side by side with such a bunch of com munity builders
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-08-14
THE WORLD WAR AND IT'S
SEQUEL.

me downfall of the Imperial Gov.
ernment of Germany did not end the
troubles OF the Allies. The master
minds controlling the destinies IF
millions OF people of the Old World
decided to form a coalition of Gov
c'hHientS, union Of the Great Pow
crS with the smaller nations as mere
Sa'ciliteS IN order to control the dc;-
tricE of the civilized world. In d..
i"@ this, they sought the aid Of the
leader of affairs in the New World
the President of the United States
1t had been that DISTINGUISHED stat 90
mans ambition to he the moving
spirit, in plain words to he the Prcsi-
cent of the League Of Nations.
In his anxiety to see the whole
plan formulated and put in action,
lac. failed to take into his confidence
the United States Senate. which body
had been made coordinate power
in the formulation Of all treaties. In
DONG this. he over-reachcd himsclr
ana invited the bitterest opposition
On the part of his political enemies
and his personal foes. When it came
to the ratification Of the treaty.
'Atse elements, inside and outside OF
lis own Party proceeded to accent
TIE Versailles Treaty. embracing the
League of Nations Covenant without
accepting it.
They proposed certain explanatory
reservations which mlIified, that Is
made not effective some of its main
provisions. 1t had been ascertained
that this World Tribunal had tho
power to enforce its DEGREES by the
use Of troops Of the nations sigma.
tory to the agreement. It was con
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-08-14
HOTEL DALE ARRIVALS

Cape May City, N. j., August s.
Among recent arrivals at Hotel
Dale, the famous resort located here
we note the following:
Mr.. r. Parker, Atlantic City; Mr.
and Mrs. William G.. Cox, Boston,
Mass. Mr.. and Mrs. G. e. Cox.
Mrs. Fl. n. Johnson, Cape May:
Mrs. Eta l.. Simms, Indianapolis
Ind. Mrs. J. r.. Everett, Jersey
CITY: Miss r. a. Holmes. Jordan,
N. Y; Miss Jennie Winder, Media,
Pa.
philadelphia. Pa .-Mesdamcs.
James Fl. Howard. Alice Smith, J E.
w. Powell. S. II. Collins, C. P.
Bates, Leila jackson, Misses Virginia
Ramsey, Emily Lee, Louise II i.
Young Eva Harris, Ethel and Beulah
Albert, Mr.. and Mrs. H.. Young
hammond. Mr. and Mrs. William J 4.
Draper, Mr.. and Mrs. S. Griffith
Dr.. Raymond Rodgers. DR.. Oscar j
Cooper, Messrs. w. e. Day, James
II. Hunter, w. Persifor Young
Randolph Coleman. Charles Realer
w. +. Bibbs. William O'Meara, J..
H. McGhcc, w. d. Lee, Charles J.
Chase. Jr.. Harrison DeShields, elf.
ford Dickerson, NJ. II. Blake.
DR.. b. b. LETTERS, Stcolton, Pa ;
Mrs Fannie X. Burns, Syracuse, n
Y; Mcssrs Freward Allen and
Marshall r.. Flcmming, Wilmington
Del. Mr. and Mrs. James Mayo,
Wh.tesboro, n. j.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-08-14

not engage in another war i Her pei
pie cannot submit to It. Tho war
debt has assumed mammoth proper
tions and these Governments have
already defaulted on interest pay
ments. They can only gnash their
teeth in rage. This IS why they want
the United States of America in the
combine. Troops from America and
money from tho same source with
watch to pay the expense Of the war
TO b, waged would suit the ideas or
these leaders exactly and relieve q
Strain that has reached already the
0i caKing point.
The issue is now boing injected in
to this presidential campaign, with
Hon. James NJ. Cox declaring that
he Is in favor. Of 'going in" and
Hon. Warren G.. Harding being In fay
o" OF staying out. President Wilson
will not have peace with tho people of
Germany save upon the basis OF his
pact with the nations of the Old
World. Senator Harding declares no
will have peace as soon as he can
convene the Congress after his inaugu-
ration as President, If he Is success.
full enough to secure enough votes In
the electoral college Of tho Nation.
1t Is a subject that g engaging the
attention Of the ablest statesmen IN
tie world today. Will there be peace
II President Wilson'S ideas prevail I?
This Is the question. Senator Hard
Ing declares that there will not he
for tho situation in Russia and Pc.
land indicates the beginning of anoth
CT mighty war, not as terrible as tho
one just concluded, but as blighting
IN its effect and as injurious In its
onward march as the one that has
just closed which paralyzed civ,iza.
ton and staggered humanity.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-08-14
DIR. HUNDI TO TOUR VIRGINIA
AND NORTH CAROLINA.

Norfolk. Va, August 6.-Every
detail OF arrangement for the con-
tcmplatcd campaign tour OF DR..
Leroy N. Bundy, the race patriot
and hero Of the East st. Louis riots.
is being perfected by Charles Satchell
Morris, Jr.. of Norfolk, who is the
National Committeeman for the
South. Mr.. Morris has definitely
arranged for his appearance in
Whist on Salem. Greensboro and Char
lotte, n. c.. and IN Danville,
Lynchhurg, Petersburg and Rich
mond, Va.
a mammoth meeting has already
been provided for in the huge taber-
raclc in Norfolk. which seats twelve
thousand people and in Newport
News. Prof. G.. T.. X. Boisscau.
OF Danville is field secretary and will
prcccde the party in its visits to the
various cities. Mr.. Morris will ac-
company the Doctor upon his tour,
and will introduce him in the respec-
tive places.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-08-14

That the Democratic Presidential nom.
ince gave assurances to the President
OF the United States as to his attitude
oa the League of Nations, before he
istration managers is now so plain
tEat blind man can see it. Governor
COX and President Wilson were as one
before the adjournment Of the Demo
cratic National Convention just as
ihey were as one after the White
House Conference in Washington.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-08-14

The transfer Of Right Rev. Charles
Hannigan from Richmond to another
field will remove from this commun-
ity one OF the best friends the color.
ed people ever had to reside in their
midst.
1t is, in our opinion i'm the nature
Of a calamity in as much as he took
deep interest in all matters relat.
ing to the colorcd people in particu.
lar anil to the city of Richmond 81
general. Much that no did was never
known to tho public. He was tire
less worker and his labors were gen
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-08-14
REMOVAL NOTICE.

On account of the large increase of
my law practice since opening Offices
in this City year ago at Sill North
Second Street, l have been compelled
to move to 119 East Leigh Street,
over Kings Confectionery Gold site)
corner Of Second and Leigh Streets,
Second Floor: Rooms l, 2 3, and
5. where l will be glad to receive my
clients and friends.
w. +. DENNY,
Attorney-at-Law
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orally appreciated .

orally appreciated.
The great deoman Catholic Church
Is blessed with many men or his typo
but mono has shown keener inter
est In tho welfare Of the colored PEG.
pic Of this community than he. lie
carries with him tho love, respect and
esteem Of the colored people and he
class of white people who knew OF
his accomplishments and achieve.
rlcnts so we'll.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-08-14
GOVERNOR CON'S ADDRESS.

The address Of Governor James NJ.
Cox of Ohio, accepting the president
Democratic National Convention is
to say the least disappointing. The
address as a whole does not rise to
that plane Of craftsmanship, which is
pl esumcd to be the goal of candidate
Of a great party. Governor Cox de-.
clares his attitude relative to the
League Of Nations. but he does not
say uneQuivocally that he approves
Of this League without reservations.
Tho logical Inference Is that he
does stand -four square" upon the
platform of the distinguished occu-
pant Of tho White House. The init
nation is though that he believes In
adopting the provisions Of the Ver-
sailles Treaty with the following modi
flying provision when he remarks
They hypocritically claim that the
league of nations will result in our
boys being drawn into military SER
vice, but they fail to realize that
every high school youngstor in the
land knows that no treaty can over
ride our constitution, which reserves
TO congress, and to congress alone tho
power to declare war.
lie might also have stated that VIC
can be at war without the Congress
having specifically declared war. He
nay also infer that the Congress UNI
der Article Y would he morally bound
TO declare war and legally obligated so
to do and then might decline to coop
crate with other nations in carving
oni the provisions Of the League Of
Nations. Governor Cox is Mortified at
the idea of making Il separate peace
with Germany and yet it was Presi-
dent Wilson, who openly declared
that the American people and incident
ally the American Government had
no disposition to make war on the
German people, but only ~ tho
Kaiser and the Imperial Ger...>In Gov
crnment.
Acting upon this suggestion, tho
German leaders were retired and the
representatives Of the German people
installed in the offices once held hy
tho imperial : combine. Where then
should there be any objection to form
nlating peace with the German PEG
pic, with whom our spokesman official
~ declared we We're really not at war?
We have scanned in vain for refer
cnce to the Negroes, whom we pre-
fer to designate as citizens of color
Governor Cox had much to say but in
the sea of words and waves Of COM
mcnt, the ''brothor in black" was for
gotten. We fail to see any COMPARE
son that could be called favorable,
between the scholarly, statesmanlike
production of the Ohioan at Marion.
and the demagogic appeal Of the DO.
litlcian at Dayton. Both arc gentle
men of high character, but in the Sc
lection Of the citizens OF this great
Huck-eyc State. most assuredly. tho
Republican National Convention made
the wiser choice.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-08-14

A NOTED PREACHER EN-
DORSES ONE OF THE REM.
EDIES, CHESSCO. Read what
ho says:
'210 w. Leigh Street
Richmond, Va, March IL, go
TO Whom 1t May Concern:
1t gives me very great pleas
ure to recommend to tho gen
oral public and especially those
suffering from severe colds, q
very excellent preparation called
: 'CHESSCO,' which Is prepared
and sold by DR.. Yancey.
This year while suffering
from n very severe cold 1t was
recommended to mo and l used
1t with excellent results. l have
used d number of cough mix
lures and find this equal to, II
not better, than any l have ever
used.
WIN. II. Stokes,
Pastor Ebenezer Bapt. Church. :"
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-08-14
DIVORCE GRANTED,

BE it known that Il divorce was
granted in Richmond, Va, Aug. Z.
1920 to Mrs. Sylvia Jones from
Mr.. Joseph Jones. Non-support was
the charge. Now she will resume
her original name. Miss Sylvia Miller
and will continue to live at HOG
State Street.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1920-08-14

Attorney G.. w. Brown of Elijah

Attorney G. w. Brown Of Elizabeth
C:;y. \. G., has ut last suoCce le.i in
launching IL banking enterprise un.
der the name of the Albemarle Bank.
Saturday, August IA, 1920 is the day
set for the opening Of the banking In
siitulion and evidences are accumulate
ing that it will he Il success from tho
start. The Bank and its officers have
our best wishes.
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MRS. JENKINS GONE.

Mrs. Sallic jenkins, Of 227 South
Second Street. Richmond, Va, de-
parted this life August II, 1920, at
:l5 p. NJ. She leaves one sister.
ono daughter, five sons, three grand
sons and Il host Of friends to mourn
their loss. She was born in Cum
hcrland County, Va. She was II
member Of the Second Baptist
Church and was G3 years Of age.