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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08

From the Houston Post.
 With Oscar w. Underwood of Ala bama as the leader of the democratic or ganlzation in the Senate, the democrats are assured of the ablest and most com petent leadership obtainable from among their present ranks, and both the or eanization and MT. Underwood are to be congratulated upon his selection.
 The elevation of the Alabama senator will be view with particular pride and satisfaction in the south, of which sec tion he has been such an able represen- tative in the national Congress for a quarter of a century.
 His long experience, his wide and ifrf- mate knowledge of public affairs, his skill as parliamentary debater ana hiA temperamental qualities combine to mako Senator Underwood a manl especially qualified for party leadership in the Sen ate.
 He has served in the national lawmak- ing body since 1894, when he was first elected to the House from the Birming- ham district. In 1911 he became majority leader of the democrats in the House and was soon recognized by the country as one of the outstanding figures among southern statesmen. Always the expo nent of the safe, sane and conservative in government, he was yet never aligned with the reactionary element. He is one of the greatest authorities in either branch of Congress upon business and economic questions. and his qualifcat tions in this respect will serve him well in his new position when these pressing matters come up for treatment in the Senate.
 Senator Underwood is a real statesman and the Senate democrats have shown sagacity by choosing him as their leader
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
IN HOFt:L lCPRIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Business Crows

businesS OrOWS
 The Frisco lines are handling the largest business in their history, and the Birmingham district, through it's short-hne connections with the west, via Memphis, is becoming a more and more important feeder of this sys- tenn" says Alexander Hilton, vice president in charge of traffic
 MT. Hilton, s. R. Butler. freight traffic manager; J. N. Cornatzer, pas senger traffic manager, and G. w. Greeleak, industrial commissioner, spent dax in the district, and it was during this visit that MT. Hilton spoke so enthusiastically of the Firsco's busi- ness and the large share which Bir- mingham west bound movements con- tribute.
 MT. Hilton says the policy of Presi- dent Kurn, recently elected will be to improve transportation facilities to meet the development of the territory served. He admits that this task will more than keep him busy. woing to the remarkable expansion that is tax ing place. especially in the Birming ham industrial section.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
LUKE AI'LUKE SAYS

When a girl is dead in love matri- nony is about the only thing that will bring her back to line.
 Many man who is too honest to put up job is also too dumb to hold one down.
 They are going to wear belts a holf yard wide this summer This WI; help the fat woman who has a cinch line where her waist line should be
 Give a man a wad of money and you will have a hard time convincing him that loud clothes are not good clothes.
 Anyway. a fat woman knows that while her husband may call her q tub of lard heNcan't call her a spare rib
 You can't put a fire out by throw ing gasoline on it. can you? Well. then. don't try to saut your wife up by arguing with her!
 Say a kind word about the other fellow once in a white and you will have a lot of mourners at your funeral
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
DOWN WITH EdRoNpoTNT.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 Chicago has new fad. It has turned it's attention momentarily from the pro- ject for emptying the Great Lakes into the Mississippi river and from its later quixotic enterprise of making Big Bill'' Thompson President of the United States. The latest purpose of the Lake Michigan center of culture and pork products is to reduce the embonpoint of all it's rair women.
 It is municipal undertaking calculated to win the encomiums of a distraught universe Published descriptions of the enterprise, too, are couched in language which breathes the fragrance of the pork metropolis. It is ''class TOT rat women' that Municipal Health Commis- s.cner Robertson conducts-said class having lost an average of S9 pounds in the first week of their siyt-day experi- ment. The average weight of the class had fallen from So1 .e6 to 1s776 pounds. and the fun is just beginning.
 Some 2oo Chicago women have entered the ranks of the reducers Rival classs S are being organized. One little Chica- geese who menaced the scales at 323 pounds lost eight pounds in seven days e--.aence enough that the idea is funda- mentally sound as we'll as good adver- Using municipally. Its economic possi- bilities are tremendous It would be dif- ficult to imagine more serious blow o< ;ul, than to have the women of Chicago shea supersluous weight at the rate of pound or more a day.
 It has it's political possibilities. too. Let Big Bill who wants to be Presi- dent, gor something incorporate in his platform ringing declaration in favor of smaller waist lines for women. He would sweep the suffrage states like a prairie fire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
Alpha to Omega

Il was in at the start of the Bir- mingham Ledger and was on hand when it came to an end" says John Sparrow
 T wrote the first line that went into it and went over to the case and set it up. It was an accident, however, that caused me to be around on Sat tWday night when the Sunday edition, the last to appear, was being run off. l was out home, when a telegram came to me from big southern daily asking me to see if I could get Q couple of men from the Ledger staff to come to them. I dressed and went downtown, and in this way was able to say that I was present at it's birth and at it's death. I'll not attempt to state my feelings or even make com ment on it's passing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08

It seems shame for the Mexican rebels to spurn the assistance of a vet eran disturber like Villa.
 # !; # The hard-pressed "Musgrovians" are using campaign material dating back to the Civil War.
 < x < Brother Bryan will find the grand old state or Alabama as dry as a bone---on the surface
 ]. # # At his present rate of progress, Gen. Pershing will soon become the most widely travelled military hero in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
HnIf-DoIInr Cnffnn

Late planting of crops on the part Of farmers can result only in short ened yields and an inevitable raise in the cost of living" says K. M. Simp- son.
 This year has been an unusually bad one for the farmer. It has done little besides rain and the ground has always been too wet to be prepared for the receiving of seed. Consequent ly small per cent of the crops are in the ground.
 Cotton, especially, will suffer from this weather. Cotton requires a quick, hot, dry season to make the best growth. With this late. wet year, it can only result in about half of a small crop going to the boil weevil and the remainder bringing about 50 cents pound"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER

From the Huntsville Telegram
 When Senator Oscar Underwood stepped in between the republican leaders and rescued from wanton destruction the the nerves of every red-blooded demo- crat in Alabama to jingle with pride. Utterly routed by the force and logic of his argument for the retention of, the plants. the republican committee surren- dered internationally to Senator Under- wood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08

With her keen flax-eye she son picks out the right spot in the swift whir1- ing stream. She knows just how long to leave the flax in the river until ste must reach over and gather up the fiber in her strong arms. Another time someone else will come to relieve her and she in turn will drop into the chair before the spinning wheel to spin the threads for the heavy smock of the la borer or the finest weave for her own embroidery. Seated at her wheel-an heirloom handed down from mother to daughter-she practiseS the tricks of her trade, making the threads lie smoothly in place by moistening her fingers with saliva before she runs the flax fiber between them. At her side is her simple cottage, and behind are the eternal hills, while hollyhocks and marigolds and asters form riot of color at her feet.
 In this scene of rustic beauty she croons her old Slavic folk songs and tries to forget the horrors of persecu- ton on the distant Caspian shore. The religion of her people is embodied in the Book of Life," so called because 1t lives in the memory and hearts of men. Most of it passes from one gen. eration to the next by word of mouth, because only a few of the peasants can read. The songs and chants are based on the Bible in part. On Sum days all gather in the schoolroom, bare footed, with neither minister nor leader, to talk over the needs of the little com nunity. Those speak or pray who hear the voice of God Sometimes this voice finds expression from the lips of lit tie child. Behind them all. sustaining them in whatever they do, is the burn iEg conviction that Christ is not dead that Christ lives in the heart of every man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
Servant Houses for
 Temporary Homes

M1 or at all fanciful is the plan of 0 N the Birmingham Realty Com pany, through General Manager I. c. Beatty, to enable citizens of Birming- ham to acquire homes at moderate terms by building for them on the rear of lots which they may purchase a four-room house to be used for resi- dence pending, their ability to build a permanent one, on which happy even tuality the four-room house shall be- come the permanent servants quar- ters and garage.
 The purchase of lot and building, a modest home of modern character, is beyond the pocketbook of the $500 per month salaried man. There is no indication of lower prices. In many cases, it bids fair to be tent.
 These modest homes are to be in the best neighborhoods and sales are to be made only to white citizen shipV in keeping with those already domiciled in the same vicinity.
 Our forefathers lived in log cabins. There should be brawn enough left, both male and female, to at least not contemptuously dismiss this pro- posal before giving it serious consid- eration:
 Indeed, the young couple beginning their home building in this modest fashion bid fair to enjoy more peace of mind and more jocund horoscope than the couple vainly endeavoring to float a $10,000 home transaction now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
FALLEN. CITIES
John Masefield. in Contemporary erse.

d n Contemporary Like of he cities stand
 Like skeletons kulls ibs Strewn in the saltnes of the
 Carved with the unr cad of kings lies! Once they strong soldiers loud with voices The markets clatter ed through, Where now the jackal in the reioices
 And the still asp draws along the dew. There at the gates the market paid toll
 In lronze silver pennies long worn ttin: Wine was silver ny for bowl
 Women they had the and the And looking his tower watchman saw
 Green fields for miles the roads the kings law Now .hev gone with all their songs anl sins
 Women and dust; their copper penny, Of living spent, these inns:
 Tn, glittering One made level with the many Their speech is gone, none speaks it read The dropping plaster o fading screed
 Cells with its mild ews, the decaying arch The fields streets are fallen sfones
 Nothing bought o there nothing snoken. The sands hide all tn wind that blows t moans Blowing more sand uHtil the plinth is broken. Day ia. day out oth CT utterance falls: Only the sand pit-pit ting he walls None knows what eve rthrew that city's pride
 some say. the spott ed pestilence arose And ,mote them that
 Till every pulse dusty; man knows some say that foreign kings with all their nosta
 Seized It with and fell So that the sword shriexing flesh from ehost, Till every street was empty; who can tell? Some think. in tn e fields or in tb. nj,
 Out of the light in lth among the rotten Insects like sands swift as wit
 Famined the city de ad; 1t forgotten Only the citys bones tand. eaunt in air rocAso oS 'ne biting sandspecks sverywhsrA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
DEFINED.

''Pa, what's meant by gay insouci- ance'?"
 "Did you ever see a man in motor car nearly run down a pedestrian in the street?"
 "Yes. pa.''
 And did you notice how the motorist acted when the pedestrian shook his fist at him?"
 "Oh, yes pa"
 well that my son, is very common example of gay insouciance."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
PROBABLY THE. LATTER

From the Sun and New York Herald.
 A prominent bridegroom gave his bachelor dinner at the home of his father This is either a sign that the world is getting better or that the old mans cellar was well stocked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08

the government Wnlcn protected IneHi and went about preaching anarchy. 1 You prospered in America, Emma. You were given far more latitude than your conduct warranted and it was only when patience ceased to be a virtue that you were sent away to the country from which you came, where you will never again be able to sully the Stars and Stripes.
 Had that "intolerant" government which you abused and sought to over throw been half as intolerant as you pictured it, you would not have re- mained here thirty years, unless it were in prison. Your egotism grew by what it fed upon and you thought you could continue to stay here, in affluence, and defy the laws of the United States.
 In bleak Russia, demoralized by war and soviet misrule, you find your self stranger, Emma, although you were the reddest of the 'reds." You are nonenity there, and not leader as you were in America. Have you discovered that your gods, Lenine and Trotzky, have feet of clay? Have you learned at last what it means to live in a soviet country? Your plaintive confession does not sound like the militant Emma of old. But it's too late now and the time may come when you would gladly kiss the flag you once held up to scorn.
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 An Irish sympathizer in London suc- ceeded in finding out the secret pass word which enabled him to get into communication with King George over the telephone. He then proceeded to fire an impertinent question right into the royal ear.
 Even the sordid murderer and biga- mist. Watson, is the recipient of roses from a mysterious woman in costly limousine. But who are we to fsthom feminine physchology? < s. * I,iouor Is being sold openly in New York at s1 a drink, say returned travel CTS. Even at that price. the remark. "One more won't hurt you" is fre- quently heard.
 The defiant attitude of Paris milli- ners toward American hats might be changed to a friendlier feeling if the protective treaty of peace between France and America were ratified.
 * * *
 No matter what he may think about it himself we refuse to believe that smoking and "cussing" have been the sole means of prolonging the life of Uncle Joe" Cannon.
 * * *
 What with one wave of poison gas succeeding another, sthe citizen who loves peace and quiet will be glad when Alabamas political campaign is ended. s. + # American resolutions on the Irish question do not disturb Lloyd George. Iris well. We are in no position just now to twist the tail of the British lion. * * ' Diogenes may have been the first man to live in tub, but if the present shortage of houses gets much worse he won't be the last
 The Mobile man who killed a woman to prevent her from marrying police man appreciated the irresistible lure of uniform.
 It must be crushing for a candidate who thought himself a favorite son to realize that he has been treated like a stepchild.
 A large electric sign should be erected at Vera Cruz reading, This way out"
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 When the spellbinders cease spell binding in Alabama it will be almost quiet enough to hear a pin drop.
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 If California could elect a.president alone and unaided. the next presidents first name would be Hiram.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

PERENNIAL. still trip the chorus maidens As in the days gone by, With vim and verve and witching curve And bright, seductive eye. Still sings the prima donna, In stunning gowns arrayed; The spotlight glows upon her clothes Of finest texture made. Still croaks the fat comedian, Or long, or short or slim, And rolls his eyes in comic guise- Some people laugh at him. This old world may be stricken, A woeful sight to see, But nothing halts, with all its faults, The girl show industry.
 THE SECRET OF SUCCESS. "who is the stranger?" "A man who tempers justice with mercy
 "A judge?"
 NO, a photographer"
 ROUGH FEEDERS ''DO you care lOT SpIedu-edSle oId- tory?"
 "No," said Mir Grumpson. And I don't like 'spread-eagle' eaters, either What kind is that?" ''They stick their elbows so far out on either side when patronizing a quick lunch emporium, it's all you can do to keep your seat on an adjoining stool"
 CHANGEABLE. I'm afraid Editor Spofft of the Toad vine Clarion is a straddler in this cam paign."
 why so?''
 "The policy of his paper reminds me of the kind of weather we are having And how's that?' Its wet one day and dry the next
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
Marvellous Growth of
 An Alabama Industry

TN the course of few months one 1 Alabama industry has made a stride that marks a hundred per cent increase in production capacity. It is estimated by experts that the new sanitary pipe shops in operation and soon to begin operations will double the present melt. In other words, the 1919 iron consuming capacity of this industry will be increased from between twelve and thirteen thousand tons per month, and between one hun- dred and forty-four and one hundred and fifty-six thousand tons pers an- mum to between twenty-four and twenty-six thousand tons per month and between two hundred and eighty eight and three hundred and twelve thousand tons per annum.
 Alabama was already the leading
  sanitary pipe producer of the nation. Anniston was already the largest san- itary pipe producer of any city in the world. Adding the doubled capacity the lead both of the state and the city of Anniston becomes all the more re4 narkable.
 So long as storehouses and resi- dences are being built, so long will be the demand for sanitary cast iron pipe, for it enters largely into every plumbing bill whenever home or store is erected. The Alabama product moves all over the country. No out put is better known that that of these 'busy bees" of the southern iron in- dustry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
. * Nostalgia Afflicts
 A Notorious Radical

Es MMA GOLDMAN, deported to A Russia with Alexander Berkman and other radicals, writes to friend in Chicago: "I miss America. I lived there thirty years, you know"
 Too late now, Emma, to pine for the land which gave you shelter and many of your sort who played the bart of ingrates, who turned against
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
A wEAKLING.

A wEAKLING. What kind of man is Mr. Meek leigh?"
 "spineless," said MT. Dubwaite, with a snort of contempt. "Yes?'
 ''Meekleigh is the kind of man who would escort his wife to the polls and stand by. hat in hand, while she cast a vote against his favorite candidate"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
PROGRESS.

We used to thing the old gray nag Could show no little speed; Bicycles came along and then We felt that we would need No other means to cover ground. Then came the motor car, And soon on board rocket we May fit from star to star.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
DRY.

What does this picture represent?"
 America" said the futurist.
 "Why, it looks to me like a desert hav- ing the colic."
 That's America" answered the artist, briaAv PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08

Be not thy tongue thy own shnme's orator. Comedy of Errors.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08

I have always loved words and their study but the trouble is when one strives to get at their roots it's an in- terminable job with the many diction- aries and encyclopedias. I get in- terested in a word and want to get a speaking acquaintance with 1t and turn to, say. the Century, Webster. Standard or Worcester's dictionaries and the first thing I know I am absolutely over whelmed with information, and not wishing to qualify as a professor of English just abandon the search.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08

That was news to me. but when an- other citation was made from the En- cyclopedia Brittanica as follows I was more at sea than ever: Although he tthe Roman pontiff) had not as yet. assumed the distinctive insignia of his office, the triple crown and the up- right staff surmounted by the cross. he more and more discouraged the ap- pl:cation of the name of papa (pope) to any but himself. I can appreciate the reverence with which devout Catholics speak of the holy father, but I con fess, now that. I knew that papa and pope can be used interchangeably, that it to me makes him very much more human.
 But have gone far astray, for start ing out with potatoes I have wound up with the Pope of Rome. I simply have set down what found not with any idea of being facetious but merely in order to show that when ever A nan tells you that he has mastered English, do not believe him, for it just "cant be did" If the same word can describe a common article of diet, be used as endearing term of ones father, and also stand for the highest dignitary in the Roman Catholic Church, there isn't any use pretending that the Eng fish language is simple one."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08
RUSSIANS IN CANADA

day and dry the next" briefly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08

thought I would chase down the word papa" for it seemed to me it ought to be simple matter, but I got a bigger jolt when I ran up against the fact that it was title formerly or Bishops, and often on the inferior clergy, but now restricted to parish priests in the Greek church. The dic- tionary gives the following to show its use: "As in the Primitive church the younger bishop called the elder papa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08

TELEPHONE Bell (prfvate exchange connecting all departmental Main 1900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08

But the thing which caused me to sit up and take a new hold was some in formation in the Cronica de Peru of Pedro Cieca, in which the potato is mentioned under the name "batata" or papa" This started me off like a rabbit dog on new trail, for there was something unspeakably funny to think of the affectionate term used by chill dren in speaking of their father being applied to potatoes. I would be grieved to learn that my boys could ever bring themselves to think of their daddy as "small potatoes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-08

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New Britain herald., 1920-10-29
SATURDAY EVENING
 POST MAN REPLIES
LOrimer Tells Cox No Interests
 Control His Paper

Philadelphia, Oct. 2s.--GeorSs Hor- ace Lorimer. editor of the Saturday Evening Post" in a statement last night in reply to charges Of unfair partisanship on the part of the Post and its editor made yesterday by Governor Cox, said;
 The editor of tho Saturday Even. Ing Post cannot view this campaign In the spirit of Governor Cox as a purely partisan affair. The whole fu- ture of Amertcn is bound up in a right direction at the polls next Tuesday. Any journal that. having honest views, fails to express them at this tlme Ia beneath contempt and .hould forfeit tho respect of every de-
 This weeks issue Of the Saturday Evening Post is now on the news stands and IL speaks for itself Its contents can no longer safely be made tho basis of misrepresentation. My rcuponse to Governor coxts first