davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
DISPLAY OF PRIZE
 WINNING POSTERS

The prize winning posters in the Red Cross campaign were placed in the win dows of merchants donating the prizes yesterday. There were more than 7o0 posters submitted by children of the city schools while the county schools entered quite number.
 The prizes were in the form of or ders on the donors for merchandise and totaled s100. The posters are placed in the following stores:
 First prize, high school students Mary Joe Conner, winner, in the win dow of Caheen Brothers; first prize seventh grade, Joseph Marine, in the window of Saks; first prize, sixth grade, Barbara Bernie, in the window Of Loveman, Joseph & Loeb; second prize. high school, Clarence Berk, and third prize, high school. Ethel Farrel, Tn the window of Burgers; third prize seventh grade, Robert Winslow and Mildred Luquire (prize divided); third prize, sixth grade. Rebecca Filler (dl- vided); second prize, seventh grade, Gladys McDanal (divided) in the win
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
MASS MEETING
 OF WOMEN VOTERS
Mrs. McMahon to Make Ad- dress-'4Pay Your Poll
 Tax" Campaign

Mrs. Albert McMahon, field organizer of the National League of Women voters, will address a mass meeting of citizens on Organization" in the audi torium of the Chamber of Commerce to- day at 3 o'clock. The public is invited
 The address will be given under the auspices of the local division of the League of Women voters. Mrs. Mo Mahon. who is an organizer for the league, has been all over the United States and her experiences in getting together the vast mass Of women voters for their various campaigns in different parts of the country are in teresting, it is said.
 Mrs. McMahon lives in Virginia, but is coming to Birmingham direct from New York where she has been working in the anti -Wadsworth campaign re- gently put on in that state. She is well, known in Birmingham, having spent three months here during the last regular session of the Alabama legislature when the fight for the ratification of the Nineteenth amend ment was being waged. During the months of her stay here she travelled lnTOuEh IHe IiOTtIcTH SeGLiOH OI tHc state working up sentiment in favor of the amendment.
 we are desirous of getting fully organized for the coming Pay Your Poll Tax campaign which we expect to launch among the women of the city during the next few months" said Mrs S. l.. Ledbetter, city chairman of the League of Women voters. "The address is being given to work up interest among the women of the city and coun- ty and make them take a new interest in the coming campaign, the next and most important being the city elections
 we hope to be instrumental in hav- ing every one of Birmingham's women voters ready to take her part in the com.ng election, with her poll tax paie up and full information about the can didates who will enter the race in order that she may vote intelligently and to the best interests of the community
 The Pay Your Poll Tax" campaign will be launched January l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18

years ago has not been drawn out. They say that when a person gives the de rartment 10 days notice before they can drawn out their money. they gem orally find some other way to secure 1t before the time ia up and so let their money stay on deposit.
 Immediately after the armistice was signed, postoffice authorities say, a slump occurred in the sale of War Saw ings Stamps, and thousands of people brought their baby" bonds in and had them cashed
 GOOD LESSON
 Several months later the public be- gan to realize the good lessons of thrift they had learned during the war. so they came back and began bnying more thrift stamps, Since then the line of people waiting their turn at the War Savings Stamp window has been on the increase daily.
 MT Norman added that next month would end the 1920 series of War Saw ings Stamps and the first of the com ing year would see a new series issued by the government. During January 1921, the first of the series will be worth $4.12 and will be redeemed by the government in five years for s5
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18

This announcement was made yester- day by Ed Norman, assistant postmas- ter who says that he looks for the postal savings department to become enc of the biggest branches of the postoffice during the coming year.
 GOOD SHOWING
 The last of this month will be the end of q fiscal year for the department, and. according co local officials, when the years business is added up, it is ex- pected it will make good showing with the amount of Thrift and War Savings Stamps sold during war time.
 Less than per cent of the people
 that have deposited their money
 with the postal savings department
 have drawn it out during the past
 year. Two per cent interest on the
 notice is required before the dollar is paid on an deposits re-
 gardless of the amount. Ten days
 notice Is requqiqred before the
 money can be drawn out.
 PostoffiCe authorities say they be- sieve that for this reason alone that xnost of the money deposited one or two
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
NOT IN SIGHT

Long distance telephone message from Mobile at 1 o'clock yesterday evening was to the effect that the City of Bir- 'mingham, the Warrior river self-propel- fer. had not yet been sighted In the harbor, although she was expected at any moment
 The vessel met with stormy weather at the mouth of the Mississippi and was forced to "lay-to.'
 It will probably be this evening or Frieay morning before the boat com Hehces her up-river trip from Mobile. with north Alabama cargo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
DOG BITES TWO

Pasteur treatment for dog bite is being administered to Mrs. T. II. Traywick anu Miss Gail TraNwick as result of being bitten by a dog. The two new patients started the treatment at the city iabora- tory yesterday afternoon.
 The dos, which belonged to them had three convulsons and showed all of the symptoms of rabies After biting the pa- tients he disappeared and has not been heard from since
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
Harmony Singers

Christian harmony singers will meet a. the courthouse in Bessemer Sunday fos an aIl-day sing. Residents of the Bes semer end of the county are makinP plans for one of the best sings held '
 some time. A. A. Vines, secretary of tn Jefferson County Christian Harmony as sociation, urges everyone interested to al tend and bring along the old Christias Harmony song book. Dinner will Dr served at noon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18

iow of Steele-Smith; second prize, sew
 nth grade. Thomas Cart (dividej)
 second prize, seventh grade, Wallace eunlap (divided); second prize. sixth srade. Emilia Lind, in the window of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
PERSONAL

J. M. Jones, IT,, city comptroller, who has been i'll at his home for several weeks, returned to his office in the city hall yesterday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-18
Less Than Fiue Per Cent
 OF Depositors Here HaUe
 Withdrawn Postal SaUings
Thrift Lessons of War Went Home, Say Authorities. Savings Stamps in High Favor, and This Branch of Business Established by Democrats Con-
 tnues Its Development
BY WILLIAM THOMPSON

Birmingham putting the lessons of thrift they learned during the World
 Thrift stamps being sold of about $500 worth week. while the postal savings bank department of the postofce that than $4O0OO deposited by local people during last month more during mon last
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-11
THE LEAVES
Rv ,IOhn Brock.

Dy UUllll DlCSh.
In the still of the misty morning l crept
forth to perch upon a comfortable stone and
watch the leaves awake. They lay flat on
their backs, relaxed by the nights cool
damp, but the first long ray OF sunlight set
them slowly curling up their springs IN
readiness for the wind which was fast shred
ding up the fog From beneath one head
peered out-a tiny head of coppery-brown.
1t had an eager, smiling mouth, bird-llke
eyes, but no ears, though the place for them
was marked with black-etched ear-tabs.
Into the warm glow glided tiny snake,
scarce four inches long, and found himself
luxurious cradle in an cid leaf.
Odd folks are the snakes. Not only do
they do everything else differently from the
rest of US, but they even have their families
in the fall instead of the romantic spring
time Yet as I watched the behavior of this
cautious infant I began to give them credit
for knowing their own business better than
l do. In the first place any toad will tell
you that after the leaves come down is the
time of times to hunt angle worms. Insect
eggs, too, and chrysalds abound-fat feed
ing for one whose eyes are sharp enough to
see them. An industrious eater grows at
marvellous rate if the night frost doesn't
catch him. Furthermore there isn't the
fierce competition with the birds, who would
probably look this tiny rival as merely
another worm himself, a tough-skinned,
hard-killing one.
Coppery-headed he was, my early gnome,
but that was nothing against him, for his
tail did not wave the yellow flag Of the poi
son fang, and his split-ribbon of tongue
was innocently black. He wore three dark
stripes each formed by a single row Of
scales SO fairy-fine a pen-stroke is wider. I
stopped to admire his sleek symmetry, his
exquisite finish with my clumsy eye. With
a flick of his tail he shot forward, stretched
straight as an arrow, drew himself up as he
touched the ground and sprang again with
vigor that sent pebbles larger than his whole
bulk rolling and rafting.
Poor baby! I had visions of him curled
beneath the half where he at last told
refuge, his slim sides fearfully painting. For
about five breaths l felt sorry for him
Then his expressive tail-tip told me some
thing was happening to him. Had I driven
him into fresh danger? Had a shrew caught
him? The accommodating wind flicked off
his cover. gave me glimpse of him. Faith
he'd forgotten all about me- He was Just
busy with another worm.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-11
THE RESTLESS
BY H. Addington Bruce


~ ESTLESSNESS is frequently a sign of
II great dissatisfaction with life. When
you see man or woman chrOnlcally
restless, perpetually uneasy, the odds are that
man or woman is not getting out of life all
that he or she shoul
Especially is restlessness likely to be sign
of the thWarting of some instinct. 1t may be
the love instinct that has been denied ade-
quate expression, or the acquisitive instinct
or the altru tic instinct whereby people are
impelled to render useful social service.
Iders are VIGOROUSLY prone to be restless
because of the blocking of the altruistic in
stinct effected by thei- idleness. Let circum-
stances compel them to give that instinct a
vent-as the late war compeIled so many
idlers-and restlessness may leave them over
night.
But restlessness has physical as we'll as
moral causes. 1t may even be a symptom OF
disease. AS summarized by the Chicago spe-
cialist, DR.. Meyer So. ONION:
"a condition of general chronic ill health
perhaps unrecognized by the afflicted one, may
be present, and tends to bring on a condition
and more severely.
'Thus in pulmonary tuberculosis, diabetes
Sydenham's chorea, exophthalmic goitre, ne
phritis with apprehension, in fact, in organic
disease of any type, especially when OF gen.
eralized nature, so that it has its effect upon
cially in organic diseases of the nervous sys-
tem-such recurrent states of restlessness are
particularly apt to make their apI arance.
Functional nervous disorders may also have
restlessness as a symptom. Everybody is IA
miliar with the restlessness of the unhappy
neurasthene and psychasthene. Or the rest
lessness may be symptomatic of an oncom1ng
attack of some irregularly recurring malady.
True acknowledgement drinkers
usually have a period of extreme restlessness
before they begin their excessive alcoholic in
diligence. Many epileptics similarly are rest
less on the eve of an epilept1c seizure. And
restlessness is likewise of prodromic slgn1h-
canoe in numerous victims of nervous SICK
headache, hay fever, and asthma.
knowledge of this fact is obviously of med
ical value 1t permits the taking of measures
to ward off an attac as soon as the prel1m-
mary sign of restlessness appears
Finally, restlessness may result from I'M
hygienic living habits Those VINO overwork,
everyday overeat, undereat, undereXerclse,
undersleep, are all prone to suffer from rest
lessness in consequence of nerve poisoning or
nerve exhaustion.
And with the victims of faulty life att1-
tudes of behavior that involves instinct frus-
tration, they make up an overwhelming ma
iority of the great army of the restless by
whom we are surrounded.
Copyright, 1920, by Associated Newspapers.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-11

praying long and fervently and preaching
nearly an hour on the obligations of the duti-
full wife.
Lucretia Mott the third reformer of the tri-
angle, was a little Quakeress, vivacious of
manner, always simply dressed. AS only the
head and shoulder of the women in the me-
mortal are to be sculped out Of the rock, the
Quaker cap of Lucretia Mott is the only bit
of significant dress noticeable about the
statue
Mrs. Mott was noted in her day for her lee
lures especially her famous discourse on
woman in which she pleaded for a woman to
be acknowledged as moral, responsible be-
ing" She especially decried the property
laws, which gave all of a woman's posses
sions to her husband from the day of her
marriage, to do with as he pleased.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-11
Indian Incomes

The income of Usage Indians for the year
1920 will total nearly $4,000 for each mem
Der of the tribe and children who have in
herited oil rights because of death of rela-
tives. Such is the belief of officials at the
government Indian agency at Oklahoma City
who base their estimate on payment of a
regular allotment in December.
Bonus payments of $1,000 are now being
made to members of the tribe as an extra
dividend derived from past lease sales the
purchasers being oil companies and individ-
uals, who pay one-fourth the price of the
lease at once, with the balance due in three
years at per cent interest. The total be-
ing paid the Osages as bonuses is $2,225, 900.
There are now 2,228 original shares in the
Usage Indian tribe, according to officers of
Indian affairs, this being the number of Os-
ages and those adopted into the tribe when
the rolls closed for this bonus allotment.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-11
Tuoenty-Four Billion Dollars
T cost the American people tWenty"Iour
billion ten million dollars, according to

y T cost the American people tWenty"four
billion ten million dollars, according to
the Treasury Departments latest reck-
oning to bring a winning and word-menac-
ing Prussianism to terms. CONSIDERABLY
more than that sum was expendef during
the period from April 6, 1911 to June so.
1920, which covers the extremes of the
Governments wartime fiscal operations,
but the figures given represent what Secre-
tary Houston calls "adjusted" expenditures
of the Treasury. excluding~ail outlays which
had no relations to the actual prosecution of
the war and also excluding foreign loans
which will be repaid.
Huge as the bill is, it is none too great
a price for so important victory, prcvid-
ed the fruits of that victory are conserved
and it's ideals upheld. We could we'll have
afforded to live lives of severest self-denial
for generations to come If that had been
needful to keep Pruss1an miitarism from
triumphing. But unless We stand true to the
faith for which our soldiers and sailors
fought, unless we prove to be steadfast
friends Of world justice and world peace. we
shall have paid all too dear for the late war,
because we shall have cast away what was
worth fighting for.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-11
Newfoundland Coal

Active steps to develop one of the blum
nous coal areas which for more than sixty
years have been known to exist in this colony
are being taken by the Newfoundland govern
ment Preliminary work has been started on
the deposit on the south branch of the Codroy
river, on the west coast of the island, as a
result of data provided by an official of the
Canadian Geological Survey who recently ex-
amined the property
A corduroy road is being built from the
first mine opening to the nearest station on
the railways, three miles distant. AS a
means of transportation of the coal the gov
eminent has imported four motor trucks ca
pable of carrying five tons each. The gov
eminent also is directing examinations of
coal deposits at st. Georges, further north
on the west coast, and at a view to develop
ment if it appears warranted.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-11
4 Million for Forestry VIII
Saue Billions for The Nation

-7E4E request of the Department of Agri-
culture for a million dollars to be
used in forestry work, in cooperation
with the States, in the coming year, appears
most moderate when we reflect that six
hundred times that sum is spent by lumber
consumers in the East as the annual freight
cost OF shipping their supply from distant
regions. 1t the forests had been conserved
during the last fifty or hundred years a
transportation tax of half billion dollars
would not now be pressing upon the public
and adding to the buTdensome cost of build
ing materials.
This country's center of lumber produc-
ton, located first in New England, has
moved, by remarkably rapid stages to the
Alleghanles, then to the Lake States, then to
the great pine forests of Dixie; and now as
the exhaustion of the Southern supply draws
near. the axes are ringing and the giant saws
Duzzlng on the forests of the Pacific coast
So it comes about that consumers are paying
not only six hundred millions a year in
freight rates, but also many times that
amount in the necessarily increased costs of
everything into which wood products enter
from sllls and pillow handles to books and
flres1de chairs. With three-fifths of the
country's original timber gone and with the
remainder being consumed four times as fast
as 1t is growing, with the pineries of the
South Atlantic and Gulf regions dwindling
and the forests of the West also trending
'o""AN uOpACIIOh, WHdL Will the naJ1On DO FOR
timber supplies few decades hence if con-
serving and restorative measures are not
taken promptly and on far-reaching scale?
million dollars wisely expended for this
purpose now will mean. in times not distant
billions to American industry and commerce
and to peoples common interests
The Secretary Of Agriculture proposes CO.
operation with the States in protecting tim
bered and cut-oyer lands from fire, in refor-
estlng denuded lands, and in promotin q
methods of timber cutting and removal that
Will aid continuous production Each of these
lines of service should be pressed with all
possible vigor. Merely to conserve the rem
nant OF timber resources now left us will
not suffice. New forests must be brought
torth to replace those which have been de-
stroyed; and the nation must learn to cul-
tiVate trees as one of its most precious treas
ures.
In this weath-conserving and weaIth-cre-
atlng endeavor, which in it's fundamental re-
iatlon to flood control and moisture SUNNY
involves the future of agriculture no less
vitality than it does that of industry. there is
essential work for the State as we'll az for
the national Government Foresighted Com
monWealths are moving to meet these obli-
cations. New York and PENNSYLVANIA have
appropriated millions for reforestation, and
many others are maintaining well-financed
forestry departments; the latter is assuredlv
the least that any state can afford to do
Georgla>s interests in this matter are par
tlcularly far-reaching and should receive lib
eral Legislative consideration.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-11
Food Riot

A huge demonstration in protest
against 60 per cent increase in the cost
of food and clothing within the last
month was staged in Vienna this week.
Government action to ameliorate condi-
lions was demanded.
Government employees to the number
of $4,000 have announced that they will
strike because their wage and other de-
mands have been refused and it is pos
sible the police also will walk out.
Striking bank clerks invaded the town
hall in Baden, smashed windows and
mirrors and then demolished several
coffee houses and hotel dining rooms.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-11
"What Shall We Name the Babvqn

In Billings, Mont, there are twenty-five
babies, some of them a year old, who bear no
nrst names ecause their parents have been
unable to choose satisfactor ones. This has
been discovered at the city health depart
ment, where it has been necessary to delay
state registration under the law because the
children have not been named 1t may occur
to the reader that leaving babies nameless
is preferable to giving them such names as
often are fastened upon them for life.-Al-
bany Herald.
Why not place few dozen names in a hat
and let the baby select one?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-11
Eggs and the Moon

Experiments have shown that more eggs
will hatch if the hen is set when the moon
is new, or very close to that period, and
that the young chicks Matched at that
time will be stronger and more vigorous,
and will grow more rapidly. On the other
hand, chicks Matched when there is no
moon are often more weakly and do not
make such strong and vigorous fowls, nor
are they such good egg-layers.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-11
The Second Oldest Newspaper

The Baltimore American, which has re-
Gently been bought by Frank A. Munsey, is
the second oldest newspaper in the United
States, and indeed is older than the govern
ment itself 1t has the distinction of having
first published The Star SpaLgled Banner"
and to have been George Washington's chief
advertising medium. The files ought to be
worth a tidy sum, even without the plant
Macon News.
Mr.. Munsey now owns an important string
OF newspapers and magazines that make him
one of the biggest publishers in the world.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-11
Industrial Accidents

Marian K. Clark, chief investigator of the
bureau of industries and immigration, New
York State Industrial Commission, reported
that in the fiscal year 1919-20 there have
been reported 345 672 industrial accidents in
his state, an increase over the previous year
of 57,228, involving direct loss to the state
under the workmen's compensation law Of
more than $4,000 a day and combined
direct and indirect annual loss of about $685.
900 600
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-11
Good Times in South Georgia

We are now enjoying the finest kind of
weather down here in Georgia. Cane grind
ngs are everywhere, potatoes are being dug
hogs are up fattening for the winter, ground
peas are being threashed, wheat and oats are
being sown, and south Georgia is going in
for a live-at-home campaign.-Vidalia Ad-
vance.
If there is anything that Editor McWhor-
ter enjoys more than the above mentioned
articles it has escaped the notice of his numer-
Gus friends.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-11
Big Turkey

The biggest turkey raised in Kansas, a
giant gobbler known as Big Tom, tipped
the scales at fifty-eight pounds before he
was killed by Elmer Hough and W. T.
Bell, professional fowl pckers, of Meade
county, Kan.
when Big Toms feathers were off and
we laid him out on a table he looked like
a hog" declared Mr.. Hough, who has been
an expert poultry dresser for fifteen
years.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-11
Cooperative Factory

The first cooperative glove factory in
America, owned and operated by Chicago
glove makers, is in operation in that city.
Finances for the Plant were raised by two
Chicago glove unions and through the sale of
shares to members. 1t is planned to market
the product to cooperative stores. The
plant is intended to enliven period of dull
ness in the glove industry.