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The Washington herald., 1920-11-25

IF, as is morally certain, workmen continue to in
crease their efforts until they get back to pre-
war standards, the results will be beyond compu-
tation First, the high cost of livng-the fount of
endless trouble-will be brought down to reason
able levels. The need for cutting wages will be les
sened and a problem loaded with dynamite may
thus be handled without bringing explosion
ofincaculable gravity Lower costs will strengthen
Americas ability to compete successfully in world
markets against the reviving industrial nations of
Europe consideration of very great moment.
Moreover, given industrious labor, American
capitalists will not hesitate to embark upon fresh
enterprises on gigantic SCALE especially as lower
labor costs will mean lower prices and cheaper
money.
All this will in turn stimulate the construction
of the vast amountebf building which the country
SO very direly needs; will encourage too long de-
layed railway (and termnaD improvements and
extensions; will give utility companies new heart
to provide overdue additional facilities.
FURTHERMORE, when we have labor func-
tioning satisfactorily and the money market
back to healthy state we will be in position to
supply funds for the development of the innumer-
able opportunities beckoning to US from other
parts of the globe, and will also be able to fur
nish European countries with the credits necessary
to enable them to buy enormous quantities of COM
modities, materials and merchandise from us.
Then, it is an Gnndisputed fact that since labor
began to realize that the war-born jamboree of
soaring wages and unrestrained extravaganza was
over and that the world was headed toward less
rip-snortng times the tendency to curtail useless
expenditures and to save money has become dis
tinctly more pronounced. Not only are our total
bank resources (vvell over $4,000, ,000, ,000) the
: greatest in our history, but our savings have
reached a new mark and now increasing at a
notable rate.
The filing up of our reservoirs of new capital
thus In process guaranty that enterprise will be
revived on a large scale by the brainy aggressive
forward-lool1ng leaders who abound in this coun-
try more than in any other.
Everything appears to be moving toward the
bringing about of solid foundation for genuine
up-buildine activity early next year. = From The
Washington Herald.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-25

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The Washington herald., 1920-11-25
By B. c. FORBES.

HE two major evils from which the world has
suffered, have been, first, the appalling de-
struction wrought by the war, and, second, the,
ruinous falling off m the productivity of worlxmen
Most of our other troubles-scarcity, excessive
prices, imitation, acute discontent shortage of
homes, inadequate transportation, monetary strin-
gency-have sprung from these basic causes. :
1t is, therefore, Of supreme importance to note
that the basic causes Of our economic troubles are
passing.
The period of Tdestruction is over. We have ,
reached the period of reconstruction.
What of 1abor's productivity? The transfor-
nation that is taking place in tho attitude the hab
its, the industry of labor is development of mo-
mentous importance-far more than is popularity
srasped 1t outweighs, when correctly appreciated,
a score and more of the happenings which are
spreading pessimism today.
The Washington herald., 1920-11-25
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
KILT TARTANS ARE
 OFFERED FOR S5
British Agent Has Twenty Thousand for Sale Which Came In Wide
 Variety of Patterns

London, February 1.--(Reciprocal News Service. )-Whether there is any connec- tion Or not it is impossible to say. The metropolitan wiseacres are suggesting propaganda" in the continued agitation in the newspapers for change, in the custom of dressing English boys like weary old gentlemen, and the unanimous demand that they be put in kits. And along comes the government announcing the offer of COCO army kilts at G1 each, a price comparing with s in America be- fore the war,
 Plaid has not been fashionable, except ing in the short-haired studio model cir les, these many years; so that the grea, chance of disposal for all this govern ment material lies in creating d new kilt fashion for boys
 The price is a rare bargain. The kilts are six yards in length, and from IS to S inches wide; all wool, in wide range of tartan patterns. It is said that q womans skirt can be made from q single kilt. though this would have to be done skimoily and without pleating. The tar tan is at it's best when pleated
 They are saleabe in lots of 9. and according to first reports orders are com ing in from neighborhood groups who ex- pect to use the material not only for boys <ilts, but for coat Innings, capei and motor rugs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
GREAT CROWDS AT
 FOOTBALL GAMES


 London. February 1.-(Recprocal News Service. )-The national excitement at tending league baseball pennant cham pionships in America corresponds with association cup football in England. The weekly matches are always played early in the new year.
 In three games in the Birmingham dls- trict. 95000 people attended. Two matches in London drew 56,0o0. The London CheI- sea team, the favorite in the cup final. played in the little Lancashire town of Bolton to crowd that paid sl5.O0o at the gate.
 Cricket is a serious silent game. Asso- citation football both in the stands and on the field. is wild and rampageous. Trum- pets, bells and mechanical t'raspers" are carried by rooters, and voices are not left at home. but there is no rah rah rccting. There also are no ambulances of white-kimonoed surgeons on the side lines.
 Association football is very much a war of movement. There is lot of kicking and running. and one of the tac- tics most curious to an American is the head -butting of the ball. Players leap nse-- -AA air meetp0 sL- ball with their bare heads and sending it bouncing fer 3 good distance. Around the goals is d net with ''goalkeeper' always in po- sition to grab the ball and kick it back He is chosen for his high Jumping agility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
BraUe Today's Bridegroon1s

to be all cotton or a union cloth of which only the upper twist is of real flax. rms rev weave is really very beautiful, ana is being used by all the hotels and res taurants, but, of course. can never have the lustre and creamy quality of purs linen.
 good pure linen tablecloth. two yards square of double-faced damask, cannot be got anywhere for less than S24 and fine damask cloths of the same size are being sold in the shops for $50 and s60 as readily as they used to be sold for sl0.
 Government blankets are relatively cheap, but q very short experience pl owes that they are not the most eco- nomical for hard wear. They are loosely face at the first cleaning. These are sold for sS apiece in the shops. Pure wool double blankets of good quality are or sale for $50 a pair.
 But it is carpets and rags that prove the despair of the young housekeeper. The new material rugs made from compost tion of jute, wool and hemp, are pretty in design, good and thick, but they cost long service. One of these new rugs, J by g feet. square. is now marked $40, and it is said the prices are rising steadily.
 Secondhand carpets are selling for fabulous prices in all the antiquity shops and oriental rugs are almost impossible to procure at any price People are taking down their tapestries and using them for carpets simply because they cannot get anything to cover their floors with. Plain woven Brussels carpeting sells for s4 a yard, and has to be bough, on time delivery
 Secondhand curtains are bought almost before they are taken down, and the prices offered for them almost stagger people VITO have not become accustomed to modern values. A pair of faded darH blue satin damasI curtains lined with cream twill, three yards long, were snapped up by dealer at an auction the other day for $50. and they were badly in need of cleaning, too.
 Lace curtains, which are the badge Of responsibility of Q London house, are being bought at the white sales for any thing from S5 a pair up but for this low est price the quality is of the coarsest Nottingham untaped bordered and skinny in every direction.
 It is said, however, that this industry is one of the few in which the price
 are tending to decline.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
LADIES! DARI|K|IEH
 YOUR GRAY HAIR
Use Grandma's Sage Tea and Sulphur Recipe and
 Nobody Will Know

The use of Sage and Sulphur for re- storing faded, gray hair to it's natural color dates back to grandmother's time. She used it to keep her hair beautifully dark glossy and attrae- tive. Whenever her hair took on that dull, faded or strealled appearance, this simple mixture was applied with wonderful effect.
 But brewing at home is mussy and .out-of- date. Nowadays, by asking at any drug store for a bottle of 'Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound you will get this famous old preparatiou, improved by the addition of other in- gredients, which can be depended up- on to restore natural color and beaa.y to the hair
 A well know downtown druggist says it darkens the hair so naturally and evenly that nobody can tell it has been applied You simply dampen a sponge or soft brush with if and draw this through your hair, taking one strand at a time. By morning the gray hair disappears, and after am other application or two it becomes beautifully dark and glossy-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

John simon seek a revival of the ol1 liberal party
 The younger conservatives are grow ing restive. So are the younger Iib- erals. Some of the conservatives want to get back to their old party and their pre-war leaders. others wish to leave the party and join a combina- ton of conservatives and liberals pledged to fight naturalization. The old ltberM party is splitting into three. the coalition group. the independents and the radicals.
 Led by Brigadier General Page Croft M. F.. conservative there is already a national party in existence. It has just issued E manifesto, almost comic in its solemnity. warning rasn spirits like the lord chancellor, Ito keep off the grasst Here is what they say; "The national party. while ready to welcome all individuals and indeed whole parties into it's ranks, provided they accept the main princi- ples of that party. are not prepared to yield their name to any movement for the re-dressing of the coalition in more fashionable clothes" To make con- fusion confounded. Mr Kennedy Jones, M. P. who until he retired from busi- ness, was Lord Northcliffes right hand man, is busy prociaiming the need of a middle class party to save the middle classes from ruin.
 "The fact is that politically England has reached the parting of the ways. The situation changes from day 10 day The newspapers are full of speculation and prophecy. No one really knows what will happen.
 The chief mystery man is Prime Min ister Hloyd George. Until he moves there will be nothing much doing. When he does there will be a lively illustration of the old ioke-"when father moves we all move"
 The coalition canot do without the prime minister. The a1l-absorbng question of the day is whether MT. Lloyd George can do without the coali- tion. At one time it was widely held that he would go over to the labor cause His attitude toward labor up- held this view. Though the labor party refused to join the coalition the prime minister never failed to consult labor leaders. He went out of his way to meet their wishes. He said nice things to and about them
 Yet recently, in a plea for unity in the liberal party, he stated that he was against standardization. As nationaliza- tion of the means of production is one of the vital points of labor's programme in England, it looks as if the premier has decided not to "go over to the left If he does not he has two courses open
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
COLUMBUS STATUE
 AT BUENOS AIRES

Buenos Aires, January 20.EAs voy- agers entering the harbor of the great est city of North America behold the majestic Statue of Liberty, so within the present year those coming to the greatest city of South America will be- hold a majestic sentinel towering statue of Christopher Columbus.
 The monument of the great navi- gator will not, like the Liberty statue in New York, stand in the harbor. for Buenos Aires has no real harbor, but will rise nearly 100 fet in height from a point near the waters edge The site selected is the broad Paseo Colon, in front of the government house, whence the statue will overlook the beautiful Plaza Colon and the wide ex- panse of the River Plate as 1t enters the ocean.
 Representing ten years labor of the sculptor, Arnaldo Zocchf appro- priately native of the country in which the discoverer of America was born, the monument soon will be shipped from the artists workshop in Rome to Buenos Aires, according to recent advices. The image of the navi- gator is itself twentytwo feet high carved out of "a single block of marble, It will therefore have to be brought over III Out plcSc.
 Critics who have visited the sculp- tors workshop recently and seen the work virtually completed write that, fo rsymbolic beauty and grandeur of proportions, the monument vii be one of the most impressive in the world.
 "The column supporting the statue of the navigator is placed upon an ample socle covered with scluptured scenes and figures" says Rome cor respondent of La Razon. The front part of the socle is the bow of Latin ship about to be launched into the sea by four youths with naked torsos bent with effort. The scene represents the start of the caravels of Columbus from the port of Palos, Spain.
 High up on the bow of the vessel is the figure of Civilizations In the toga of a Roman matron, she extends with naked arm the torch which illumines the new lands and toward which a youth beside her-Genius-gazes with inspired countenance.
 From this base rises the pedastal, slender as the tower of a lighthouse, and on it's summit straight and up- standing, in his hands a navigation chart half unfolded, towers above all the yet youthful figure of Christopher Columbus"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

London, February 1.-(Reciprocal News Service.l-The Laster bride-to-be has been about the busiest person in London in these winter sales days. And unlike our American girls the English fiancee 7h- sists upon her betrothed tagging round the shops with her to choose the fur nishings for their future home and even her cwn clothes
 It's the usual thing to meet these couples boring over rumpled bargain counters, and while the ultimate decision usually rests with the girl, it's remark able how much sense these young men seem to have about domestic things.
 They are particularly strong in chairs and upholstery though they tend toward conservatism and they don't care what color their rooms are done up in so it's red" The young Englishman. has per- feet passion for red rugs and red wall paper, and if he can't have that ne seizes upon pink of the deepest shade available. and then settles down to con- temptation of a blissful future with his war relics made over into punch jars cigar holders and ash trays.
 For the girl things are not so easy and unless she has a very big allowance or is well within the protiteer class she is having pretty close pinch to fur nish her new home no matter how mod- est and small it may be, always pro- vided she has actually secured one.
 The bride of 1920 has just about relin- quished all hope of getting herself any real linen and looks to the wedding gifts to provide her with that cherished pos session. It is impossible to buy linen sh sheets-double-b size-n London today for Jess than s24 pair, and these are only of medium quality. But they are pure linen.
 Fine linen hemstitched damask towela run about g a pair, though shop-worn bargains have been on sale for as low as 75 cents apiece. The little tray cloths, tea cloths and dresser scaii.s which must be provided for even the most simple establishment cost 109 per cent more than they did two years ago A perfectly plain damask hem stitched tea cloth a yard square of fine pure linen sold for s2.50 in the biggest linen shop in town and the limited supply of these was exhausted the first week.
 Table linen was almost impossible to find at bargain prices, and it was only the experts in lenen who dared buy the cheaper grades, for most of them proved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

to him to become the chief of d new party which will replace the present coalition, or fight for the leadership of the liberal party. Mr. Asquith would be his opponent.
 Meanwhile, the minor politicians are waiting anxiously 10 see where Mir. Lloyd George will land once he jumps from the crumbling cliff edge of the coalition.
 They recall the fact that some months ago Mr. Winston Churchill mooted the idea of new center party The prime minister, it was said at the time, was not unfa vorable to the new move.
 Only a week or so ago Mir, Churchill sprang another political sensation on the unsuspecting public. Faced with the prospect of labor government in the rear future, he asserted that labor was rot fit to govern. Labor retorted by giv- ing a list of Mir. Churchills chief political ventures and misadventures,
 ''1s this the man" it's spokesmen scorn- fully asked 'who dares accuse us of be- ing unfit for the responsibilities of gov ernment The labor party's notable sue cesses at recent by-elections promise to end the coalition and have already made the older parties talk of union on new lines-not to govern the empire on non political basis, but to check the growing power of labor.
 What many keen observers foretold months ago is now in progress-a reshuf- fling and remaking of parties. England up to quite recent years always boasted two great parties liberal and conserva- tive Now there are three and any mum ber of smaller and detached units.
 The comedy is drawing to it's close. 1t may end in two great parties once more labor, and non-labor--though the ahti- labor elenient will doubtless. not be known by that title Or we may see a com plete change, more like the continental bloc system than the old English two party system
 (Copvright 192O)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
WHICH WAY WILL LLOYD GEORGE LUMP
Great Question in England's Political Muddle-Old Par ties May Give Way to
 Labor
By CRossLEY DAVIES

London, February 10.-(Special) The darkest film mystery is ridicu- lously easy and the most trying jig Sd wpuzzle is absur1ly simple com pared to the riddle of politics in Eng land today.
 The prime minister, MT. Bonar Law, and other government chiefs solemnly declare that the coalition government Is still Iong strong. We are informed quite as seriously by the lord chan cellor. Lord Birkenhead who is also one of he leading spirits of the ccali- tion. that it is "invertelrate and use Jess The lord chancellor wants new national party 10 fight labor. MT Winston Churchill is calling for new central party with a similar objective. Mr. Horatio Bottomly demands "busi- ness government" Mr. Asquith and Sir
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
Removing Ugly Hairs
 Entirely New Method
Actually Removes the Roots)

The question is often asked whether a really permanently efficacious hair-remover exists, and the answer has heretofore been very unsatisfactory. Fortunately, there's a new and remarkable process that really re- moves every hair entire, root and all! It is different from and far better than electric ity. depilatories, the razor, any other method. If you'd like to try it. just get a stick of phelactine from your druggist. fol- low the simple nstructons-and with your own eyes see the hair roots come outi Roots are removed quickly. easily, leaving the skin perfectly smooth and hair-free.
 Phelactine is non-irrtating, odoress, and so harmless you could eat itl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
It's Acid-Stomach That Makes Millions Sick
 and Suffer

It is scientific fact that Acid Stomach robs blood of it's vitality, resulting in fiabby fesh-weakness pale cheeks-loss of energy, in fact causes many of the ills of suffering humanity.
 You know what acid-mouth does to the teeth and gums-how the acid literally eats through the hard enamel, causing the teeth to ache and decay. Just imagine, then, what havoc Acid-Stomach must create throughout the entire body.
 Millions of people are weak and unfit, suf- fering all the time, in one way or another, from Acid Stomach.
 They don't seem dangerously sick. Just aiing. Going through life weak, listless, drag ging one foot after another. They're nervous and irritable; lack power and punch, frequently have severe attacks of binding, splitting headaches; subject to fits of melancholia and mental depression. And nearly always their stomachs are out of order, even though many experience no actual stomach pains digestion poor-never getting anywhere near the full strength from their food.
 Acid-Stomach interferes with digestion. It causes the food to ferment. This fermenta- ton creates gas, sometimes causing painful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

London. January 27.-Prof Pickerton. president of the London Astronomical Society, startled an audience the other day by telling his hearers you have black lungs" Black lungs" he said, are due to your living in London, and the only cure is to live in the country and breathe pure air. London's black atmosphere accounts for the apparent lack of energy the part of so many I.ondOners
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

Baltimore Hospital and Medical Examiner
 says: Throughout my experience Hos pital Staffs and as a Medical Examiner, l have been astonished at the number of pa tents who have yainly doctored for various down state simply the result of lack of iron in the blood. Time and again I have prescribed organic iron-Nuxated Iron and surprised patients at the rapidity with which the weakness and general debility was replaced by renewed feeling of strength and vitality. took Nuxated Iron myself to build up after serious case of nervous exhaust tion- The effects were apparent after
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
Nemsnaner Has Wireless

Danzig. January P. The first German paper to install a wireless plant for the collection of news is the Danzig Gazette. The first dispatches have arrived without initiation This is the first concrete re- suit of the Giesberts plan to establisA an entire chain of wireless stations con meeting the larger papers of Germany
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
A Woman Is As Old As She Looks

No woman wants to look old. Many in their effort to look youthful re- sort to the beauty doctor. '" Their mistake IS that they visit the wrong de- partrnent in t h e drug store.
 Beauty depends upon health.
 Worry, sleepless nights, headaches, pains, disorders, irregularities and weakness of a dis ti n c tly feminine character in a short time bring the dull eye, the crows feet, , the haggard look, droopin s shoulders, and the faltering step.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
Dutcb PIan Aerodromes

London, January 2S.-Two large inter national aerodromes are to be con strqcted by the Dutch government, one ln The Hague and the other in Amsterdam, it is stated in a dispatch received here, The cost of the venture will be more than e166,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

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