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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
Indications Point to
 a Stabilized Mexico.

)G ENCOURAGING reports come e Mexico. So far there is little ground for pessimistic predictions re- garding the movement to supplant a government that was undermined by jealousies and conflicting purposes by one which apparently has a large measure of popular support.
 In fact, the Mexican states have shown an ability to act in harmony that may well surprise American stu dents of Mexicos problems who have repeatedly said that Mexico will never be able to set her house in order with out the assistance of the United States.
 On the surface, Mexico is more tranquil and displays greater unity of purpose than it has done since the Diaz regime, although the revolution is still going on. In any Latin-Amer- ican country appearances may prove deceptive, and the favorable auguries of today may be something else to- morrow, but at present Mexico looks more like an asset and less like lia bility.
 If the sort of team work that speedily overthrow Carranza and got control of practically the entire country without a single important battle being fought is maintained, if the leaders who hold Mexico's des- tiny in their hands can place patriot ism above selfish interest, our south ern neiehbcr may soon have a stable government and, incidentally, one that is friendly to America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20

ly proposed that we should all go out for d walk, and soon as we were in t'ie open air the philosopher blew his nose in pair of old woolen gloves. I hate saw at once an illustration of a chapter in Sartor Resartus, in which tns author denounced what he christened.
 The Sect of the 'Dandies," as described and glorified by Bulwer Lytton in Pel-s ham. Illustration could not go further.
 The next very famous man whom I met after this glimpse of Carlyle was a little later at Torquay-Lord Lytton himself
 He was dining his nearest neighbor saw in him everything which the spirit of Carlyle hated. I saw in him every thing which was then in my opinion ad
 mlrable. All the arts of appearance, coil- versation, and demeanor~ which in Car lyle were progressively absent were in hun exhibited in a manner perhaps even too apparent. I was indeed, despite my reverence for him, faintly conscious my- self that his coat would have been in better taste had the cuffs not been of velvet But it seemed to me that from his eyes, keen, authoritative and melan- choIy, all the passions, all the intellect, and all tho experiences of the world were peerlng. To have sat by him was an adventure; to have been noticed by him was net far from a sacrament
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20

harming the memory of the Confed- crate leader.
 The southern people took the les sons of the recent war to heart. They sent their sons to fight with the young men from all other parts of the country, but long before America de- clared war on Germany they had ceased to have any patience with such agitators as Madden, men of limited mentality who have more spleen than judgment, whose narrow sectionalism is decades behind the times. The diff ference between the north and the south were settled more than half a century ago, and they were settled for good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
SIC TRANSIT CARRANzA

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Old man Carranza's fleeing, fleeing everywhere. fleeing through the atmos- phere and likewise through the air" flee ing through the bosque, fleeing through the hills, scaling steep sierras jumping mountain rilis; fleeing at an angle of 45 degrees. fleeing pretty near plumb sky ward in the heights above the trees flee ing OCT the mesa, fleeing down canyons; everlastingly vamvoosing from gangs of brother Dons. Paul Jones and Hiram Johnson. pin your laurels with spike. Unc' Venustiano is burning up the pike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
Queer Combination
 In Georgia Politics.

1NHE action of the Georgia state
 0 democratic convention in splitting into two factions, the scant majority adopting by the narrow margin of fourteen votes plank condemning the Wilsonian League of Nations, was without feature other than the com bination of the Hoke Smith and Thomas E. Watson delegates.
 Mitchell Palmer received plurality of the votes cast in the Georgia prl- mary. That plurality was an indorse- ment of the administration and the League of Nations. The state execu- tive committee had declared Palmer entitled to the states delegates.
 The Smith and Watson factions de- manded a division of the delegation, which the Palmer delegates rightfully declined to grant. Thereupon the former populite leader and the Georgia senator combined forces, null lifted the primary's plurality and wrested from the victor the honest award Of the contest.
 The Palmerites were within their rights and the pale of political pro- priety when they nominated delegates to the national convention. Any other action would have been tame submis- sion to being run over.
 Queer shifts of political alliances
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
FIRST AID

From the London Tit-Bits.
 Since her husband had become gov- ernment contractor Mrs. Newton had put on no end of style. Recently she gave a reception, and thought to impress her guests by having the gardener in to help at table.
 He managed fairly well except for spill ling the tea on the frock of the doctors wife and treading on the vicar's pet corn.
 But he got tired of offering thin bread and butter to one old lady. At the sev- enth trip he bent down and advised her in husky tones, which rang through the room:
 If ye was to slap two or three pieces together, ma'am, mebbe you'd get a mouthful.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
WANDERLUST

WANDERLUST The stately liners sail the seas And go just anywhere they please, But here am I who'd like to roam Kept hard at work and fast at home. The stirring sights of foreign lands, Fair maids with blossoms in their
 hands, Entraneing views of mount and lake And perils, too. that make one quake Invite a restless heart to go And follow all the winds that blow, Put here am l who'd like to roam Kept hard and fast. thrall at home.
 LARGE ESTABLISHMENT MT. Grabcoin speaks of his country estate as just little place in the country.''
 An affectation of the rich" "Yes?"
 Two hundred men keep his little place in order"
 BOTH FALSE Why do you want divorce?" Your honor, the engagement ring ne bought me was phony"
 That does not constitute sufficient grounds for a separation." And have just discovered that his love matches the ring"
 HARD TO CLASSIFY
 This latest revolution in Mexico is remarkably quiet"
 "So it seems"
 Do you suppose it is real revolu- ton oi just rehearsal?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
A Weather Eye on the
 Winters Coal Supply

TIT has always been wise to lay in U ones winter stock of coal during the summer months.
 Records extending over a period of years will show that he who buys his coal when weather is hot and a mini mum amount is consumed pays less for it than he who waits until the nip of frost brings a rush in demand. A merchants overhead runs along whether he ooes big business or a little one. The pay roll must be met whether business is brisk or whether it is slack
 The coal merchant is no exception to the rule He will trim prices to get business when business is not seek ing him. Hence he charges less for summer coal deliveries than for au tumn deliveries.
 The present supply of coal in the nation is at a record low ebb. The car shortage is also making a new record There is every indication of higher prices and none of lower
 prices. Starting out with this con-
 vincing premise, the householder
 should put on his thinking cap and
 ponder over his winter coal supply. An excellent plan is to arrange
 with some neighbor for a carload lot, each to take half. It were no bad idea to step over and confer with neigh bor about next winters fuel supply.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
TRAGIC MUSE AT WORK

From the Chicago News.
 Among publishers one of the interesting recent developments is the increased en- Joyment shown by American readers in books of Chinese poetry. It is form of expression that depends much on epi- thets touching life with vivid realism. But the suffering Siberian peasant also can express himself with poignant force.
 Oriental liking for metaphor mixed with European matter of fact bluntness stands forth in certain proclamations of peas ant associations in Siberia, sent from Vladivostok by Junius B. Wood, staff cor respondent of the Daily News
 "The Buriats with shining foreheads" says one proclama tion, ''burned down the beautiful church in Khara." Also "wher- ever that detachment went they burned down everything just like snake that eats everything" This is poetry of a sort tragic, at that
 Perhaps, from the terrible experiences of ravaged Russia or those of tortured, Siberia will emerge the imperishab1e epic cf this amazing time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
Marshal Foch Urges
 Preparation for War
Tempest.

IA MARSHAL FOCH is an orator as GVU well as a military genius. In an address to army engineers, dellv- cred in Paris yesterday, he discussed the lessons of the war, warning hls hearers that preparation for the next 1 conflict is the second part of the peace programme, an economic strug- gle for supremacy being the first He said:
 Who of us dares believe Ger many is renouncing war on the morrow of her ruin? Germany who was inspired by sheer ambition took up arms in 1864, 1866, 1870 and 1914 on the plea of historic necessity Germanys neighbors' whether they wished to or not. will be forced to keep up armies and maintain strong frontiers because, quite apart from the generous in tentions of civilized humanity, there are. historic realities and ra- cial appetites, just as there arc geographical realities.
 How can we help mistrusting nation which reduced to impo fence b- the great Napoleon, was able my its martial ardor to re- establish itself and bring about the complete overthrow of the colossal Napoleonic empire and, by super lative militarism and methodic de- velopment. extended it's authority from the East Prussian marshes to beyond the Rhine? Making war is it's national industry and might is right,
 Foch has been charged with mill tarism. Such an insinuation has been made by no less person than Pres ident Wilson, but in his rugged, sol dier eloouence is heard the voice of 8 large part of the French people They know Germany better than any other nation, unless it is the Belgians their experiences with her have never inspired confidence They have founC Germany a relentless foe in the pas and they expect to feel the weight o1 her vengeance in the future.
 Foch speaks what is in his mind World politicians use language to con ceal thought, but many a grave states man agrees with the marshal that the Teuton of tomorrow will bear watch ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
Prompt Rejoinder Made
 To SpIenetic Illinoisan.

5EFIFTY-FlVE years after the Civil U war ended there are still mem- bers of Congress who wave the bloody shirt" They get their names in the newspapers, to be sure, but in doing so they merely make themselves ridiculous.
 When Representative Madden of Illinois called Gen. Robert E. Lee traitor on the floor of the House of Representatives, Representative Oliver of Alabama replied, "You are a cowardly liar" The language was unparliamentary, but the usually suave and courteous MT. Oliver was in no mood to mince words. The south will not quarrel with him on that score.
 Representative Madden is small potatoes. Negroes predominate in his district. In his efforts to get what he conceives to be fair play for the negroes, he goes to an extreme and visits his hatred on all things south ern. The south will bear up serenely under the weight of his disapproval. He might stand in the House of Rep resentatives or on the busiest cor ner of State street in Chicago and denounce Lee from the coming up of the sun to its going down, without
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
NOT As IN THE 0LD DAYs

From the New Orleans Item.
 A party of travellers went down from Jerusalem to Jericho this week. but they carried machine guns, wore Brit ish uniforms and their chief desire was to fall among thieves. Things have changed since Biblical times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
TO BE CONGRATULATED

From the Houston Post.
 Alabama democrats are to be congratu- lated upon the renomination of their ris- tinguished senator They have rendered a service to the whole country, for Mr. Underwood is urgently needed in his present position.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
BRIGHTEN UP THE COUNTRY

From the Washington Post.
 String bright lights around the fields. put frizzled cabaret girls to jazzing in the furrows, and you couldn't keep the city from going back to the farm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
ANOTHER SHORTAGE EXPLAINED

From .he Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 The reason for the shortage of poets is that so many people have used up their imagination on recipes for home rrade hooch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
CHIHUAHUA, IN MEXICO

true of the prolific cactus. Moreover. one writer comments, The mountain ridges present the most singular summits. ter nlnating in pyramidal points, or resem- bling towers or mnarets.'
 Near Santa Rosala, famous for it's mineral waters, reputed to be helpful fo3 treatment of rheumatism, are ruins of the fort taken by American troops which marched through Chihuahua in 1s49 to join Gen. Zachary Taylor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
What's in n Name

"The controversy one heard in mus ical circles recently over the pro- runciation of Rosa Poncelle's name is almost as interesting as the dispute over Scotti's name" said Onofrio To- rina, the tenor.
 "I am informed that Rosa Ponselle's S name was originally spelled Ponzelli, which is pure Italian. while Ponselle is q French equivalent. If you gave the name the French pronunciation it would be Pon-sell, with the French nasal pronunciation of the m The Italian pronunciation would be Pom selly
 'As to Scotti, I heard half dozen people call him Scotty and number of others insist that Scote-y was cor rect. Neither is the correct Italian pronunciation. Scotti himself calls it Scawt-ty, which is correct"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
Good TcIesraphy

"A remarkable feat in accurate telegraphy came to my attention today when I received long message from New York giving the national indus trial platform adopted by the National Association of Manufacturers" said L.. Sevier president of the Alabama Manu- lecturers Association. There were in this lengthy message a total of 3,777 words and I am grateful to say that the Western Union handled the tele- gram with but one error. It was a fine piece of commercial wire copying. which all who have had experience with many telegrams will appreciate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20

take place. None is more unique than having a former archangel of the poptite party travelling in double harness with democratic senator in opposition to the national leader of the democratic marty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Left Too Soon

Left Too soon
 T know that Birmingham has the most efficient police department for it's size of any city in the south and I know that one should boost the department rather than kick about it." says Lawrence Broughton. But there is one thing that I think should be brought before the attention of the city officials at once. and that is to keep the traffic officers in their places in the center of the downtown streets during the late hours of the afternoon and during the first part of the night.
 Last Saturday. about 2;30 o'clock in the afternoon, l was standing on the corner of Second avenue and Twentieth street, and I noticed the policeman roll his semaphore over to the curb, and then go on his way down the street. I suppose the chap must have worked out his shift, but when the time come for him to quit there should have been someone there to relieve him. But as it was, Few minutes later, the traffic became in such a jam that it was dangerous to attempt to cross the street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
BaCksli6ers

Tt is hard for me to become recon ciled to the fact that some of the old newspaper boys are now in trade " says Clarence Lloyd
 First, there is Bob McDavid. The mere sight of him calls to my mind Redwood park and football and X Jones. Second I walked into the Birmingham Trunk Factory and there stood behind the counter my old friend Percy Rosenberger. Third, take old Jack Bethea. and he is swallowed up down at Loveman, Joseph & Loeb's. I merely cite this trio to show how three good men have gone wrong"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
Big Youthful

"The condition of Birmingham s streets was brought on solely by her eagerness to grow, to incI ease her population and become a great city," says Walter K Munroe.
 Those who were in the city as'far back as 1910 will remember that to appear well in the 1910 government census we rushed down to Montgom. cry and lobbyed the legislature there into declaring the corporate limits of the city greatly enlarged, taking in East Lake, Ensley and other portions of the surrounding country, giving the city an area of fifty square miles.
 Much of this land is vacant prop erty, with country roads running through it. but as a part of the city the roads became streets and must be maintained by the city. This vacant property could not stand the high tax alton necessary to support the more humorous duties of the city, conse- ouently the low state of finance which has been the condition ever since"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
PUNIsHING A VISITOR

PUNIsHING A VISITOR T went through a model penitehe tiary yesterday" T don't suppose the experience was narrowing to your feelings, if it was a model penitentiary."
 Quite the contrary. That model penitentiary had a model glee club
 OFF DUTY
 "A movie vampire, you say?" "Yes."
 But she is modestly clothed and her conduct is quite proper"
 The poor girl is having few hours to herself. No voiced director is driving her into sensuous poses and semi-nudity."
 IMMUNE The master crook is ne'er without The smooth assistance of clerk; He maps plan of campaign out And lesser crooks perform the work. If there should be hue and cry, With smart detectives on the trail, The master crook disdains to fly And very seldom goes to jail
 ~BAR AND STATEROOM "Jagsby has crossed the ocean sev- eral times" Yet. I dare say he knows very lit- tic about a ship" Enough for his purposes. He knows where to tank up and where to sleep it> off" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20

William Booth was religious genius, as is shown in the marvellous work of the army which he founded. but wonderful as it is as an organiza- tion, it cannot be accounted for simply because of it's military machinery. We must seek deeper for the cause Here is the root of its growth. In speaking of the Clapton Training Home. he said
 on one occasion, You have schools of art, you have colleges of music. you have universities, where men and wom- en of the better classes are taught those things which will make them a help to the community and grace to society. Now, why not. say. uni Versity of humanity? That is what I want to. make our training school, a university. where consecrated men and women can learn best to serve their fellow men and women."
 l l am looking at a picture of a lecture to cadets in the International Training | Home. London It is large. bare. lee l tLre room. with it's walls adorned only with few inexpensive prints and pho- t0graphs; but it is a sacred spot for she thousands of officers who were I shaped into fitness fn it. The old Geor-
 gian Structure without adornment in an unattractive part of London is tbe Q alma mater of as brave lot of men and women as ever passed out from l Oxford or Cambridge. The floors of | the rooms which were secured by toil h; rdened hands are as sacred to them ! as the oak-paneled rooms of the un- Idergraduates of the great English uni 1 versailles with their time -honored tra- ditions. The worlds best hope that the classes and the masses will come to a
 better understanding will be when both realize that in it is place for culture and for Christ.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20

It's very likely that the older man meant to shock the younger one, but believe there is a happy medium be- tW cen those who overvalue an<educated ministry and those who discredit it. Let our young men who are called to preach fit themselves for it not merely in colleges and seminaries, but in ac- tual contact with the people as the officers of the Salvation Army are do- ing, and there will be, in my opinion. iess shipwrecks of faith over what is called higher criticism" for in seeing the needs of poor fallen women and be- soften men and neglected children, there will be born a divine heart burn for souls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20

Chairman Hayes told some women suffrage workers in Washington that buying votes isn't done any more in the republican party" And he said it With straight face.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20

It's true the Salvation Army has no trained ministry" in the sense it is used by the great denominations with their endowed universities and semi naries, but I am sure of one thing, it would be of infinite worth to minis terial students who have graduated from some college and then received degrees from a seminary, to spend at least one year alongside of the of ficers turned out from the Clapton Training Home. It would be of much more service than years of book study about sociology.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20

No communication will be published withcut it's authors name. ReJecteu manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20

Some kinds of baseness Are nobIv undergone; and most poor matters Point to rich ends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20

In proudly defying their employees, the master barbers of New York de- clare they are working for their own as well as the public's good. A casual I eference to $1 haircut conv;nces the public that the master barbers~ are right.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20

Women smokers are taking to the pipe, it is said, because there is less temptation to inhale. Let Us sit tight and pray that they will steer clear of the plug.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-20

A fat woman in Chicago reduced her weight from 323 to 303 pounds but was still unable to find a horse she could ride. Such petty annoyances take all the joy out of life for fat person.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1920-03-17
E2E9EE9
IRELAND AND THE SHAMROCK
That the Two Are inseparabIe Has
Been Proved by Plants Refusal to
Grow Elsewhere.

The shamrock and Ireland-Ireland
and the shamrock-the two are insep-
arabic. writes Katherine Edelman.
When shamrocks refuse to bloom, then
surely must Ireland die; then surely
must Irish hearts cease their longings
for a glimpse Of the green fields Of old
Erin. and then surely must the land of
poetry, of sentiment, of romance, be a
thing that Is no more. And If the
spirit Of Ireland should die-then. too.
would the little green plant wither on
its stem, and refuse to bloom again.
What a wealth Of memories and as
sociations is intertwined with the
precious little green plant! What Won
derful tales and legends we have been
told about II In the good old days
when fairies roamed over every Irish
hillside and when Ireland was an en-
chanted land. And who can doubt their
truth when We know that the sturdy
little plant refuses to bloom In any
other land outside of its own green
isle? Tile after time 1t has been
taken by loving hands and transplant
ed to other countries. but always only
to perish. And, sure. why wouldn't it
be so. when ST. Patrick blessed the lit
Il. plant end called it the emblem of
the fairest Isle under all Gods sky !