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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03
DREW THE LINE THERE
he Montgomery Times,

The Birmingham Age-Herald says Cox recently sent his best wishes to Harding, but did not go as far as to say he'd like to see him win in Mo- vember." And he qualified the mes- sage with the exception of -efne thing his election in November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03
Making the Army
 al Great University

R1lHE army's educational pro- ly gramme is winning recruits,
 even better than that it is giv- thousands of young men a (ance to learn trade or acquire
 education without expense while erving their country!
 This is altruism in the most prac- tical form. The whole nation will profit by the well trained citizens who will be turned out of the army chools, when their period of enlist nent is over, equipped to succeed in many fields of endeavor.
 Colonel Saffarrans, recruiting of ficer for the Alabama district, says the total strength of the army on August 12 was one hundrel and eighty thousand six hundred and sixty-two men, one hundred and five thousand of whom were enrolled in army schools. The number is being hpidly augmented from day to day y new enlistments. For the first twenty days in last month, thirteen thousand men were accepted by re- cfuiting offices.
 These figures show what the army schools are doing for America s young men and how eagerly they are taking advantage of the opportuni- ties offered them. They are learn Ling something that will be of use to them in after life, and they are profiting to an equal, if not a great CT extent, in self-control and physi- cal development.
 Recently three brothers from Es- cambia county, all over eighteen years of age and none of them able to read or write were sent to the Bir- mihgham recruiting office from Mont gohery. Two of the boys were ac- cepted and sent to the Recruit Edu- cational School at Camp Jackson, s.
 The eldest of the three was re-
 ted because of defective eyesight,
 rhough the recruiting office would
 ve gladly taken him.
 Such cases could be multiplied many
 hes, particularly in the south. The
 my schools and shops open the
 nr of opportunity. They are god
 hd to the illiterate and untrained
 uth of America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03
WON'T DECREASE DIVIDENDS

From the New Orleans Item.
 Mir. Duke. the worlds tobacco king,l says he has never used the filthy weed. This, will have as much restraining ef- feet as the bartender in the old days who never touched a drop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03
DONE FOR

Wasn't the man you ran over friend of yours?"
 T don't know" said the speed fiend. If he was I didn't recognize him."
 Well, you couldn't recognize him now
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03
WON'T BE HERE

I'm afraid DibbIs is pessimistic man."
 Why so?">
 T told him the cost of living would come down some day and he said: When it does, call me on the ouija board'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
WAXING WARM

 With charges flying thick and fast. We know the campaign's warm
 ing up. They're digging in the buried past And brimming OCT the bitter cup. The short and ugly words implied. Although it has not yet been used: We must infer somebody lied, The arguments are so confused.
 WASTED LIFE Inventors seldom reap the fruit of their toil." That's fact" TRs seedy man wt4 just bor- rowed a dollar from me is an inven- tor"
 What did he invent?" "A cocktail"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03
all for Subscriptions to Democratic Campaign Fund

O EN. w. T. SANDERS, demo-
 ID cratic national committeeman |r Alabama, has been authorized to
 licit and receive funds for the na- |onal campaign fund.
 The democrati treasury is badly need of money. But a compara- |vely small sum is in hand Al hough the republicans have already hised a considerable "slush fund.-" Fhich is now under investigation by Senate committee, the democratic hrty has no desire to follow their bethods. The money that is being sked for will mot constitute "slush und." It will be used for legiti- hate expenses.
 Three or four million dollars will k necessary to make the democratic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03
MIGHT BE EITHER

MIGHT BE EITHER "A fortune teller once told me that some day I would stand in a high place. with public officials on a;+her hand and deliver farewell address to a crowd of people, who would listen with close attention and many evil dences of sorrow to everything said" "weu?"
 Tt looks as if I were destined for public life"
 Maybe so, 5ut you have accurately described a public hanging"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03
PRECoCITY

T understand this celebrated literary critic was a precocious child"
 "Yes. At the tender age of years it is said hn pushed aside Mother Goose and calrod for Goeth~~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03
CAN'T BE DONE

Farewell, farewell to bathing suits
 To summer games and hats of stra V; o would that we might also add
 A farewell to the Volstead lawi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03
A MORNING PRAYER

X MORNING PRAYER 4 Q God, make me deeply sensible 10 good and evil; especially to the evil in myself and the good in other men. Let me forget my virtues and my brothers faults. So shall my love be outpOured and my life en- riched. Amen.-M. $. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03

A PHLEGMATIC FAN He holds the movie house a place Where one may purchase slumber cheap; Right in the middle of chase He folds his arms and falls asleep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03

MOTIF FOR MUD sLINGERS I'm working on a campaign song" T can suggest suitable title for song of that sort" What is it?"
 "'Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03
WASTED LIFE
STARING HER FEELINGS

STARING HER FEELINGS
 The prima donna says she won't follow the trained chimpanzee."
 We can't change the bill just to please her." said the vaudeville man. ing room until time to go on and she won't know whether she's following trained chimpanzee or troupe of dancing seals"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03

rotten cause abides no handling.
 -Henry ". # # x
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03

TELEPHONE eII (private exchange connecting all departments) Main 4s0O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03

When I told him of my dream in the
 presence of Judge Hugh A. Locke, J. A.
 McCary. Arthur Greenwood and H. S.
 Brown. he laughinely said: Well doctor n think I'll let your dream come true."
 meaning that he had decided to let the
 ,narket situation remain in statue quo
 for the present. and by spring have it
 definitely settled in regard to a perma-
 nent place for it. I realize that it-.s not nleasant for some of those who live near it's present location fand it breaks my heart to think of Arthur Crowder in the Ridgely losing his beauty sleep>, but hope that with proper supervision some of the objectionable features may be removed. I went up and down the line and talked with the truckers. and most of them showed disposition to oblige the peopie by arranging to sell in less than the usual market ha sket lots. Sor,e aye hsur- | in~ on proruring sraller baskets and other containers. while others will utilize the present size baskets by ruttine two or more articles in them, for instance. haN in tomatoes and half in beans. or half in okra srd half in penrers. or half | in sweet potatoes and half in Irish po- 1 tatoes, or half in apples and half in can | teloupes, etc.
 l I talked with some men who had come from Blount county and from St. Ciair
 county. and many iron, the different parts of Jefferson county; the greater number however, conine from the east ern portion of fl. found none had come from down below Bessemer, but that quite few from that end of the county | would be on hand today. It seems thai l the terricrv heween the Bessemer sec. 1 tion and here is able to buy large par!
 of the crops raised without utilizing Br- 1 min gham as a market.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-03

Remittances can be made at curren. rate of exchange. The Age-Herald VIII not be responsible for money sent through the mails. Address THE AGE HERALD, Birmingh ham, Ala.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-20
WEIGHT OF WORLDS METAL

II the world is still tn carry the weight
OF metal that means armament to the
highest pitch, then all huInanitarlans
might well wish that the iron age had
never occurred in the evolution OF hu-
man society There can be no possible
diminution of the burden OF the taxes
under which the nations are staggering
as long as the mines pour forth metal Tor
the mills and the mills turn out guns and ar
NOR plate and these are placed upon ships
and in forts. with the flag OF every nation
a threat to the other.
The husineRs men Of the United States
and of the world are demanding that tins
insuferable burden shall be lifted and
that the insane ard indefensible chase
after premiership or the amount OF
metal that il calls for, no longer be the
measure of the energies OF the peoples.
France is mortgaged TO hall OF It's
total wealth. Germany more than this
Italy almost as bad, England has come
closer to bankruptcy than it has ever been
before-infinitelv closer; the nited States
has been through m orgie OF reckless ex-
penditure and waste along with ITS neces-
sarv outlaws for the war, and the people
Of the United States cry out with those
Of every intelligent state: Dlaarm! ms
will be a demand of growing force
baltimore American.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-20
INTRODUCING A NEW SENATOR.

The Louisville CouTier-Journai asks
the country to make the acquaintance e
of the Republican Senator-eleot from
Kentucky. MIR. Richard T. Ernst. LIT ap-
pears that, personally, though a slight
man" he is a "bundle of electric energy
His ''bristly mustaches' give him an ar
Of grim determination but the observer
must not fail TO note the'wrinkles around
the corners of his eyes" These betray
ready humor."
The reader, feeling now that he knows
exactly how Mr. Ernst looks, will wish
to be informed what he thinks. lie denies
Indignantly that he is 10 favor OF scrap
ping the League of Nations. The basic
idea" of it he fully accepts and would
heartily support 'any reasonable plan
for a League that is submitted by Pres
ident Harding" Asked how he stood with
regard to Borah and Johnson, hls prompt
reply was: let me tell you, | will never
line up with those fellows" Another ques-
tion put TO MIR. Ernest related 10 the
proposed freeing of American ships from
Panama tolls Though he understands
that Senator Harding favors thus ex-
emption, the new Senator from Kentucky
declares positively: Il will vote for moth
ing that is in violation of the Hay-Paunce-
fote Treaty"
This tame submission to what Mr.
Roosevelt called the dead hand" of
a treaty doesn't look much like electric
energy. If the Senator elect from Ken
lucky is for the League and against any
disregard of our International obligations,
it viii go hard but he will be called DEM
ocrat in disguise, or that even more
fearful thing, a reaetionary. But the
public will be content if he makes his
votes in the Senate square with his SEN
sible talk before he goes to it.-New York
Times
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-20
Educating the Pedestrian.

Accidents sometimes occur ON country
roads because pedestrians who have never
driven automobiles fail to realize that a
driver may not see them il the headlights
from a machine approaching him are IN
his eyes
The pedestrian who is not also driver
is prone to believe that motorist can see
him on the road ahead; that there is sut-
ficient light from the machines headlights
to disclose objects ahead.
This is all very we'll except when the
driver is blinded by the headlights OF an
other machine approaching from the op-
posite direction. All drivers realize fully
that it is almost impossible to see any
thing in the road ahead of a machine even
with the best of headlights, when the
lights from an approaching machine arc
giaring square into his eyes.
II is especially diff cult for the driver TO
see objects ahead of him right alongside OF
the approaching machine. AT that point,
the road resembles black pocket. About
the only thing that can be depended upon
to show in that sea of blackness is light.
For the sake Of their own safety, pedes-
trians on country roads really should carry
lanterns This is especially true on much
travelled roads. Many people travelling
country roads DO not carry lanterns be
cause they say they can see well enough
without them. Very true. They un-
doubtedly can, but they should realize
that automobile drivers cannot see them
when blinded by headlights on machines
approaching from the opposite direction.
The lanterns should be carried not TO en-
able the pedestrians TO see the road, but 70
enable motorists 70 see them and avoid
striking them.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-20
PRESS COMMENTS
GOVERNMENT ALWAYS GO UGED.

Testimony showing raucality, cxtrava-
gance and bad judgment on the part of the
Shipping Board and it's agents may be
controvcrted or explained away in part
but each days disclosures establish one
fact beyond doubt. Government Is not
qualified to conduct business.
When the national government went
into the shipping business its immediate
purpose was To provide mercantile
marine necessary TO the winning Oh the
war. Its ultimate object was ths resto-
ration Of our flag 10 the seas and the trans
portation OF American commerce IN
American bottoms. We built hurricdly
and recklessly for victory We built almost
frantoally against the submarines OF the
enemy. We built on n scale never before
dreamed of in anticipation OF future
trade triumphs.
Under these impulses an industry was
created in few months which would
have taken private interests generations
TO establish. Where costs are not considered
the results, no matter how gratifying Tor
the moment. are bound TO have eome
mixture of dishonesty and extravaganza.
Government out Of ts sphere Is an easy
boss and "A liberal paymaster, but IT ~
victimized inmany ways and It's achieve
ments bear price-marks that would stag
gen an individual trained To his task
IL would be unjust to pass Judgement
upon any body in tnis matter before
hearing the defense Much Of the evidence
presented would be excluded by court.
Some of it is manifestly exaggerated.
Whatever the conclusion. however, we
must remember that III shipping, as IN
everything else, when we went 70 war we
refused to count the expense, and the
vutures gathered here just as on the
battle-fields Of Europe. where brave men
died and their pockets were picked after
ward.
BUSINESS il calling mastered in all lta
details by few persons and never by gov
ernment. Martin J. Gllens opinion that
il there had been half a dozen Judge
Garys at hand at the time Of the armis-
tice the Shipping Board rnuddle could
have been cleared up in six months
takes in only small part Of the problem.
Men like Schwab, Piez aud Hurley were
all Garys in their way, even II they did
fail IN accounting. Nothing saves gov
ernment in business but the power of tax
alton. There are not enough Garys IN the
world TO do it.-New York World.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-20
Just Folks
by Edgar A. Guest
THANKSGIVING.

Thanksgiving is the time when VIC
Give prayers of thanl,s for all We SOC,
For all the joy that's come our way
With every week an every day,
An just to show our gratitude
We load the table down with food
An 20 10 work To eat our I'll
Till mother says well all be ILL.,
Two stuffed myself dozen ways
Through forty-two Thankeuvin' dnys;
| guess I've entcn cranb'ry sanco
Enough to kill a ploughman's horse,
II turkey hurts man, ] vow
| wonder how I've lived till nowf
OF helpings I've mad three or four,
An longed to pasB my plate for more.
'Twould make n stack full ak feet high
To measure all the pumpkin pie
Two risked my life tc put away
In real Observance of the day;
II good things which the Lord provides,
And fixed up by cook besides,
Can deal man fatal blow,
] should have died long years ago.
I've ct preserves nm candied yams
An Hubbard squash an sIgared hams
Enough to feed a regiment;
I've ct unto my hearts content,
An spite OF all the doctors cay,
| never suffered much that way,
80 ] just let EN- eat their fill
Though mother says they'll al be III.
Drum sticks or win - or piece o breast,
Whichever part they like the best
| load upon theiI pilates an say,
Now get that back here right away,
Ent all you We got before YOU, then
Send up your plate 10 me again.
Let out your belts that IL the way
To celebrate Thanksgiving Day"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-20
EVENING SMILE
sCHWAB HAS SOME HOME.

Charles NJ Schwab had an old friend
from Pittsburg pay him a visit. The
Pennsylynnian steel puddler, came m
leather boots, flannel shirt and broad
brimmed felt hat Mr. schwab person
ally escorted him through his marble
palace ct Fifty-third street and River
side Drive with dignifled pauses before
the paintings and various works Of art
with which the interior n studded. He
even had his private organist finger of
Il special program ON the great organ IN
honor of the visitor incidentally, Mr..
schwab's fav0rite musical composition
is IT he Rosary
What do YOU think Of my placer"
asked the steel king when everything
had been seen.
Replied the visitor 'I tell you, Charley
il is one swell Dump"
That reminds one Of the remark Of
the aged Pittsburger on the top Of a Fifth
avenue bus when riding past the late
Andrew Carnegie huge mar bic residence:
ANDY surely has carved himself mean
hut Philadelphia Ledger.
Human nature rs queer thing. There
are persons who really believe a dentist
when he says: Now this wont hurt you
a bit. - Judge
Kind Old Lady-"Poor mani And are
you married." Weary Tramp No. lady,
| wouldn't be relying on total strangers
for support If ad wife Answers
''Pa, what is q patriot" "A patriot, my
boy, il q man who continues 70 love and
serve his country whether or not It's cleo
tions go to suit him. ."-Detriot Free Press.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-20
FROM ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW

Editor Every Evening In your issue
of November 13 I'm article appeared under
the heading Of Something to Work Por, "
ard signed Interested" Your cor
respondent, seemed shocked at the high
prices prevailing in orr local markets and
The big wages demanded by domestic
servants. nave held tho despicable rob
Of household servant for some years.
May quote few simple, but illurninat-
ing facts, for the benefit Of Interested"
and others?
In 1912 / was paid q weekly vage Of
six dollars; paid three dollars for good
seryiceable pair OF shoes; IL dollars for a
suit, and, as lived in 'snobvIlle," ] was
compelled 10 pgtroDize the traction com
pany, who Issued six tickets for = quarter
Today | am paid ten dollars per week.
pay eleven dollars and ten dollars for n
pair of shoes, 40 dollars for suit Equality
inferior 70 the merchandise Of 1912, and,
80 cents for four street car ticket mo
Improvement in the service. II Is plain
that the wages and prices Of 1912 we're
moro satisfactory than the wages and
prices Of 1920.
But should pre-war prices prevail the
present wage for domestic servants ~ not
exorbitant when ono considers the long
hours in the average household. A giri
works IA hours per day, very often 10 and
IS, With no extra pay for overtime, and
everybody knows that domestic service il
the only occupation where efficiency is not
rewarded by promotion. Once 8 servant
always a servant. Then, there Is the sociAl
stigma, for which no money will compeD-
safe Respectable girls living with private
families are compelled to use the back door,
back stairway, third floor back bedroom,
very often badly ventilated and lighted
Why? There Is only one. answer. The
spirit Of autocracy is not extinct IN the
"land Of the free and the home of the
brave" have no doubt but "Interer.-
eds husband is employed by some con
Germ where mis- wages have been raised at
least 300 per cent within the lsst few
years, but should be return home next
Saturday with the information that biz
employer had decided his pay envelope
looked too fat, that hcncefofth Il would b
more refined and ladylike, Interested
tongue would wsg n q very different way
A Poor Servant
Wilmington, November 10, 1870
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-20
Prohibition Blamed Again.

Almost anything and everything can
be proved by M industrious statsticinn,
and New York City doctor has shown to
his own satisfaction that in the two years
Of prohibition crime has 80 increased in
this country that he concludes life was
never so insecure in the United States as
/ il is today" Whatever connection there
may be between murder and sane So
briefly he does not set forth in his concln-
sione Nor does he seem to have taken
into consideration the fact that 1000, 900
armed men, trained in tho Fart Of killing"
had been brought home from war and
released and that tho two years con-
flict between nations had lowered the csti-
mate Of the value or sanctity Of human
life.
Conditions similar 10 those emphasized
by this statistician doubtless have followed
every big war; the honicidal M nnia, which
he declares 10 be almost national, il the
reflection of psychological conditions.
He might with just ms much reason and
sanity have laid the blame for this in
crease of homicide in this country TO a
freezing over of the canals in Mars as to
try to connect il with the elimination Of
liquor and the consequent large curtail-
ment Of drunkenness.
In emphasis of his assertion he points
to FIVE southern cities as having the High
est increases in murders, using for his IL
Illustrations communities where Negroes
comprise more than 80 per cent OF the
population, and where the administration
of law had considerably relaxed during
the war and had not been restored.
DR.. Hoffman, this analyst, evidently
does not know that the majority Of muir
ders, and the perpetration of most crimes
Of other degrees, are blamable to an un-
controlled lust for money, which seemed to
run wild for many months, and in these
offenses alcohol appears 10 have had no
connection whatever.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-20

In these days of rapidly dissolviDg
marriage tee it is unusual TO see two sisters
celebrating their golden wedding, as was
the case in Philadelphia few nights ago.
Even the two clergymen who performed
the ceremonies were present, hale and
hearty, and delighted that the silken knots
had held secure and firm for half cen
tury AS we are coming to award prizes
for almost every accomplishment, it
might be wise to award medals for couples
who find it possible to live together for
twenty-five years, and generous an
nuities for those who still rejoice in each
others companionship after five decades
Of matrimonial experience
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-20

Burbank, the naturalist-wizard,- is busy
al 70 years Of age, and reports many
new cultures in the tree and plant families
He has grown a tomato-pepper that IS
described as being big acquisition to
summer menus, and strawberry that
blossoms and bears fruit all summer long
Also, he has created new beardless barley
and a giant variety Of rye. Giant rye
sounds well and the invention would have
been hailed with delight until two years
ago, but who cares about rye these dry
days? II Burbank, the Edison Of the
vegetable kingdom, would bring into being
a vegetable that would include the good
qualities of all garden Sass, and thus
reduce the labors of the home cook he
might be elected President, now that the
women have big say as TO who may live
Ia the White House