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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25

The rivalry between professional base ball clubs is usually keen. but never rises to the pitch it attains when college teams go up against one another.
 But if you really want to get your moneys worth and an hour or more of real sport, just attend a contest between college boys, of different denominations, for it's a fight from the time the first ball is pitched until the umpire calls the game.
 I got my first experience during the days in which was a student at Vanderbilt, for when the Sewanee bunch came to Nashville the whole town turned out, for the public we'll knew that it would get a chance to see a scrap from start to finish, and that the handful of rooters from the mountains would make good showing against the great valley crowd.
 For some years there has been a spirit of rivalry between the two local colleges. the one at East Lake and the other al Owenton. It dates back to the days of Birmingham College, and has been inten- sified since it's amalgamation with the Southern University, until at present any contest between Howard and the Bir- mingham-Southern is sure to be for blood.
 I am sorry that for while feeling ran so high that it was impossible to control it. but the student bodies. as well as the authorities of the two insti- tutions, realized that it was not the right thing for even such a spirit to exist between secular or state schools, and certainly not between denomnatlonai ones, and so the cooler heads worked for better understanding.
 It just so happened that I was never present when there was any outburst or bad feeling, and I am happy to state that all of the games I have witnessed have been played with true spirit of sports manship There is no place for rowdy- ism between professional players. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
BASEBALL-By Frank Willis Barnett

who can enthuse over the number of fei- lows struck out; but as for me I want
 to see plenty of slugging and whole lot
 ot base running.
 There were some good individual plays'
 but on the whole 1t was an off day for
 both teams, but no one need criticise therA
 O.. account of it, for professionals blow
 almost as easy, and about as often as amateurs. If any one doubts this, all he
 will have to do to find out that am
 right will be for him to wend his way
 to Redwood Park during tne season and he will see that even those playing over 800 per cent ball have days in which they
 go up in the air and perform like school boys
 I sat with Fred Jackson for while in
 the part of the grandstand reserved for the Methodists and then I took my seat for bit near my friend pr. c. c. Jones, where I was surrounded by Baptists. l then went down on the field and hung
 around the bench on which sat the Pan- thers and then crossed over to the ones holding the Bulldogs. also mlngied with
 the ardent supporters of both teams, for I had a reason.
 I wanted to find out the feeling of the teams and their sympathizers, and can say without the least hesitation that I never ran across a finer spirit in A1y life While each crowd was loyal to it's institution, yet whenever a good play
 was made it was always generously ap- plauded irrespective of any college or
 denominational cleavage At no time was l tkere any wrangling with the umpire, and at no stage of the game did any player
 on either side show an ugly temper. 1 I am strong for college athletics. ne- i leve in them because I think they make ! for better students in every way. It l is a wonderful thing for our boys and young men to learn to play the game hard
 but straight, and to find out early in life that there is virtue in making a sacrifice
 hit for the good of the team.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
X MFSSAGE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

cated classes. If 90 or 95 per cent of the Americans who visit Italy consisted of railway and dock laborers, push-cart vendors, and the smallest kind of shop keepers, I have no doubt that in the popular opinion of Italy Americans would certainly not be regarded as they are. And, unfortunately the great ma Jority of Italians with whom the Amer ican people is acquainted belong to the almost entirely uneducated classes.
 It is all the more necessary, therefore, that Americans should realize that Italy has produced for twenty centuries and still continues to produce a large num- Der of men who would be pre- eminent, even in theNUnited States, as great lead- CTS of men, captains of industry. states men, university professors, scientific and literary men and artists, and when say artists I do not mean merely &C., tors, singers or musicians, but great creative minds whose work, in certain departments of art, is unapproachable in any other country in the world.
 Putting aside for the moment these merely sentimental considerations, 1t should be self-evident that an increase in the commercial relations between Italy and the United States could only be of mutual benefit to the two coun- tries
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
Final Chapter Written
 In Career of Caillaux

N AILLAUX escapes the firing NJ squad, but he is ruined and discredited man. While the verdict of the French senate clears him of open treason, it shows the former premier to have been the victim of his overweening ambition. Caillaux put personal aims ahead of patriot ism. By that sign he fell, and de- served to fall.
 Technically. the punishment is not great. He has already served his prison sentence, but deprivation of his political rights for ten years and forced residence for five years in a town to be designated by the French minister of the interior puts an end to the career of one of the shrewdest and most adroit politicians France has ever had.
 There is an element of pathos in the case of Caillaux, brilliant, ambi- tious and indefatigable. He had power and prestige in France. He was feared and hated on the one hand, while on the other his friends were devoted to his interests. He might have climbed to greater heights, but overreached himself, as many another man had done before him.
 We'll might Caillaux apply to his own case the immortal words of Vol sey in Shakespeare's "Henry VIII"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
ELEGY BEFORE DEATH

Eana St. Vincent Millay, in Ainslee's lnere Will be rose and rhododendron
 when you are dead and underground. still Will be heard from white svringas Heavy with bees, sunny sound; StiH will the tararacSs be raining Alter the rain has ceased, and still VIII there be robins in the etubhle
 Brown sheep upon the warm, green hill: Srring will not fail, nor autumn falter.
 Nothing will Know that you are gone. saving alone some sullen plowland
 None but yourself sets foot upon; Saving the mayweed and the pigweed Nothing will know that you are dead These. and perhaps a useless wagon
 Standing beside some. tumoled shed. Oh, there will pass with your great pass
 ing
 Little Of beauty not your own Only the light from common water,
 Only the grace from simple stons!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
General BuIIard


 with the visit of Gen. Robert A. Bullard next June" said A. $. Mayson' Birmingham will welcome the high est ranking general who fought on the battlefields that has yet visited the Magic City. Other cities welcomed hero after hero. but Birmingham placed all her enthusiasm over the winning of the war in the welcome of the returning old Fourth
 "The general is an Alabamian by birth. and in his early days was a student of the Alabama Polytechnic institute, at Auburn. It is to address the students of that college on com mencement day that he is to come to Alabama. He will stop over in Bir- mingham at the invitation of the Civic Association, and while in the city VIII address the Civic Forum.
 Next to General Pershing, General Bullard is the most popular officer who was in commend of the boys over there. He is an interesting speaker and Birmingham is to be congratu- lated on his visit here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
PIKE FOR UNDERWOOD

From the Mobile Register
 with the other counties in south Alabama
 visited by the Registers correspondent
 The voters, as represented by the citizens
 of Troy, are largely for Senator Under
 wood, for the reason that the senator
 is of great influence and is useful man
 for Alabama to have in the SenaS. Even ia Musgrove supporter admits that C1der-
 wood will carry the county.
 Mayor w C. Black of Troy says that
 prohibition is no longer the issue. l.. L.. Gillerstedt banker. says the same, and
 adds that he will vote for Underwood because of his wonderful prestige and influence. There are few men whose word carries further in Washington. He is one of the, nations biggest men. ! like Underwood because I can always tell just where he stands. He votes his convictions and never plays politics. P
 Both Black and Gelerstedt are pro,nrnent in their support of prohibition.
 w. l.. David, merchant. is of the opinion that, as prohibition as an issue has been settled. it ought to be allowed to rest; and interest should be shown in things that are alive. MT. Underwood. for ex-
 ample, is an existing power and should be shown in things that are alive. MT. l Underwood. for exampre, IS an existing | power and should be employed for the berefit of the people. We ought not to unless there is an excellent reason: and | in this case the excellent reason is lack ing, MT. David says: Farmers are just
 beginning to realize what the senator has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

This would be a nice quiet world if none of us would say anything until we mad something to say.
 Nature plays no favorltes. A girl who aas taken a post graduate course ln culture at Bryn Mawf snores just as loudly as an ordinary working girl.
 Another reason why women look funny is because an American dame with a shape like a bale of cotton has to wear the same kind of clothes as taose worn by some skinny | lench woman who sets the style pace.
 Here's a subject for debate by some Literary Society: Docs the Kimono cause mere divorces than the Pa larIa?"
 The lrdge who recently ruled that q wife should tell her husband all she knows most certainly hate to see mar risi couples living together.
 >Wher sEe is marned she gives her hasband the key to her heart. But lock.
 Mate discovers later on that what he got was 9. Go nmander 7 Maybe vou have noticed that when a wall-bu.lt girl is wearing pair of Sl2 stockings her skirt simply won't stay down.
 Fanny how you can always think of some thing clever to say after the time for saying it has passed.
 Sclemon in all his Glory may have been. some Bearcat. But we doubt if he ever had nerve enough to wear a coaJ with the waist line belted in up nder his shoulder blades.
 At 1T she expects nothing less than an Apollo Belgjdere. At 27 a cross eyed man With game leg looks m:shty good to her.
 The man who plates that his wife can't cook like Mother used to cook should have married an old lady who has Mothers experience in the cook ing line.
 Alter a mans wife has been out of town for two or three weeks he meets her at the depot md kisses her and hangs CT to her arm and acts like he can't get close enough to her. But if you see them on the street a week later he is walking four feet ahead of hes and acting. liks he can't get far enough away from her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25

dubious future for the war brides, not only those who have come to America, but practically all others. Ninety nine times in a hundred the nasty marriage is not a success. The fact that it may have been a senti- mental episode in the drama of war and is partly the result of spiritual exaltation does not insure perma- nency, nor that great desideratum when men and women are joined to- gether-happiness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
When War Brides Begin To Face Stern Reality

7Ta HE 'cold, gray dawn of recon 4 struction days" has stripped the glamor from many war mar riage. Romance, born of war, the imminence of danger and death and the heroic tradition of the fighting man, is apt to find the reaction of peace times deadly dull and the mo- notony of everyday life insupporta- ble.
 These factors are in themselves sufficient to make war marriages turn out unhappily, but worse still is the disillusionment that comes when the hero in khaki is found to be a quite ordinary individual in civil ian life, and, alas, not always the fine gentleman he appeared in uni form. The discovery that the war bride has married beneath her station is a cruel blow to romance, particu- larly in the old countries where caste still amounts to something.
 The aftermath of war marriages must often he like the aftermath of war itself. The nobility of thought and effort that glorifies men and women in a great national crisis lifts them out of themselves, but wher they sink back into the kind of people they were before they were aroused they are frequently no better, if they do not become worse. That hun dreds of nasty weddings between sol diers and young women of other ma tionalities are causing unhappiness is not surprising. The basis of mar riage that endures and becomes $ blessing rather than curse, is un derstanding as we'll as mutual re gard. When a war bride is almost 2 stranger to the soldier she marries and her husband is the victim of z passing fancy, it is inevitable that sooner or later they will drift apart.
 Welfare organizations picture a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25

America has been too valuable to us and too much appreciated by all that part of our population which counts, for us not to strive in every possible way to keep our mutual friendship and respect unsullied.
 Unfortunately there has been in the past and there continues to exist great lack of reciprocal knowledge be- tween the two countries which must necessarily be harmful to Italo- -Ameri- can relationships. On the whole. and speaking in a very general way. this lack of Knowledge has led the Italians while appreciating Tn the highest de- gree the great qualities of the Amer can people, to ignore the faults which they possess in common with all truly great nations And, on the other hand, this same lack of Knowledge mas led the Americans to lay more emphasis on our faults than on our qualities our merits.
 The cause of this is self-evident. The mass of the Italian people are only ac- quainted with the most superior and cultivated classes of Americans who visit Italy while the great mass of ltal- ians who visit America and help to form American popular opinion regard ing Italy and Italians belongs almost entirely to the ignorant and uneult1-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25

SUI ely there should be none between col lege boys and their sympathizers. for when such is the case it tends to bring college athletics into disrepute.
 missed the great game at Eagles Field on~~W ednesday afternoon. It must have been a thriller as the score was 3-2 in the fourteenth inning when the game went to the Howard team. Those who saw it, said that 1t was almost perfect exhibition of baseball Hearing about the close score. was eager to see the game on Friday afternoon at Mun- ger Field, for II knew the Partners were eager to get a chance at the Bulldogs.
 
 telenhoned my good Methodist friend. Fred Jackson, to ask him to take me out' but failed to get in touch with him, but had the pleasure of finding hlm at the field sitting with him during part of the game Fred is a good sport and rooted for his crowd, although as he confessed it was. uphill work, for the Howard boys got big lead in the first inning, mak- ing four runs, enough to put damper on league nine.
 If the boys played flawless ball on, Wednesday, the one they gave us on Friday, to say the least of it, was typical amateur exhibition, for there were mighty few possible errors that were allowed to pass and it was one of the slowest nine-innings affairs ever sat through for it took over two hours and half to complete it. I think some of the crowd would have fallen asleep had it not been for the desperate rally of the Panthers in the eighth inning, when they brought in three runs
 Now, personally, with the exception or the dragging part, it was my style of game. for it was a hit and run fest all the way through. Whenever I pick up a parer and turn to the sporting page and read that the game the afternoon before was "a pitchers duep' l am always grad that I was not present. This may put me outside of the pale of baseball specialists
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
Negro Farmers Abandon
 Saturday Holidays

7NHE negroes of the south are
 0 making progress along indus trial lines, and especially is it true that the colored farmer is thriving as never before. This thrift comes largely from abandoning the Saturday holiday.
 A systematic plan of registra- tion of all who would promise to work six days in the week for a certain definite period has been adopted, the movement having the indorsement not only of the Alabama Extension Service, but of the state council of defense. Under this plan it is esti- mated that sixty thousand negroes worked at least twenty-one continu- ous Saturdays, equal to adding eight hundred and forty thousand men to the productive forces of the south, in- creasing the value of products raised about five million dollars.
 "So effective and successful was this work in the war emergency that it has been decided to continue the United States Saturday Service League during peace times, with the slogan, By working six lays you helped win the war; keep i' up now and you will win prosperity '"
 The plan includes the formation of local branches of the 2yincipal or ganization, with a, definite member ship, meeting regularly and stimu- lating each other in the aims and purposes of the organization. ! x A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
Advance Delivery

T am always glad to get an excuse for running up to Birmingham, says Capt. w. VT Sheehan, editor Of the Montgomery Advertiser. who was here to attend the T. P. A. banquet at the Tutwiler Friday evening.
 q was amused at friend of mine who. when twitted because he was ad- vocating Emmet O'Neal for senator, replied, in answer to the charge that the ex-governor could not possibly bring light wines or beer back to Ala hama or interfere or abrogate the Vol stead act if elected, replied, Well, what you say may be true. but ms campaign has reduced the price Of corn whisky $2 a quart in Montgom- cry. and we fellows who love it ought to at least show gratitude by voting for him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25

would be asked to share the meal.
 Among other beggars who left for tunes after their death was Jeremiah M9nihan. upon whom, when he was hrought to be buried in St. Louis, was ISdad key to safety deposit box. ine satety box contained ssoooO in 4efieetly good interest bearing bonds.
 Another, Marshall McMurran. a ragged recluse. was found in starv- i"s eoad'tion in his tgmbledown shack oh ths outskirts of Evansville, Ind. lie was taken before a commission for examination as to his sanity and when he was searched s22.90o was found in 'hc lining of his coat and in hi. rockets
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
BEGGARs LEFT FORTUNES

From the Detroit News.
 Thomas Cooke. known as .'the Is- l;ngton miser." who lived a life of nenury saving and 9etty trickery in Islington. a borough of London. Eng .and. left a fortune of more than s3oo.- to0 for his heirs to squabble over after his death. Cooke managed to get his meals free of cost by the old and yet ever new trick of falling in. a pretended fit in front of house II dinner time. He would be carried into a house and then. on making his lsua; quick recovery. he naturally
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
ABYssINIA IS FIRST
From the Providence Journal.

From the Providence Journal
 In Abyssinia great authority is given to wives They may abuse their hus- bands as much as they please and are also permitted to divorce them at pleasure Abyssinia. it may be added leads all the nations of the world-al- nhabetically
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
Beautiful Sight

T wonder, how many people have ever watched the sun rise over the beautiful mountains that surround Birmingham" says Lawrence Trough ton Tt is one of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen. l confess that I do not get up that early every day But that morning I had to get up early to catch a train,
 'One of the tires on the old car sim : ply refused to hold any air, so l de- cided to walk to town. l grumbled little at first, but when got started walking I was glad that l had not caught a street car It was about o:SO O clock in the morning and the glori- ous sun was just beginning to peep over Red Mountain.
 By the time I got to Eighth ave nue the sun looked like one big ball of fire, and all the chillness and damp of the early morning had fled before it. When l got downtown l was feel ing so good I made straight for Arthur Greenwoods cafe and ate hearty breakfast"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
coMPARAr1vELY REcNNr

Do you care for history, Professor Dirkle?'
 @only the more recent history, ma am' replied that distinguished antiquarian.
 "You refer to the great war, suppose? ?' 'sNo, ma'am; to that~part of history dating from, say 300 B. c. down. to the middle ages"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
PERFORMERS ARE EVERYWHERE

PERFORMERS ARE EVERYWHERE
 "The savage who wears a coral necklace and a breech clout doesn't have to worry about taiiors, pressing clubs and the high cost of living"
 NO, but he has other troubles"
 "For instance?r
 "When he stays a fat member of some other tribe, with which his tribe is at war, the chances are a meddlesome mis- sionary will try to make him have fu- neral instead of a cannibal feast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
AN APPEAL FOR SYMPATHY

AIN MT HAL FOIt 5 ! MI -1
 Look here" said the budding pusilis' to his press agent. 'ff you want to hold your job you've got to put over some new stuff"
 Flows that. Mickey?"
 Lay off them stories about me havin a gray-haired mother an a crippled brother to support. Me father an mother are both dead, an never had no broth CTS or sisters. But you might get tn papers to print some of that sob stuff about me bein' an orphunt."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25
America Reco-rize3
 Armenian Republic

ID ECOGNITION of the Republic IN of Armenia" by the American government, which is expected to be followed by similar action on the part of the allies, may be regarded as the beginning of new era for a land whose turbulent history extends back to the remotest times. In fact, the legendary account of Armenia begins with Haik, son of Togarmah, the great grandson of Noah. It was the first country to accept Chris tianity.
 Alternately an independent king dom and ground under the heel of li it's conouerors, there is probably no country on the globe that has suf- fered more ups and downs than Ar imenia. In modern times it has been not only a subject state, but has suffered frightful oppression at the hands of the Turks.
 Out of the terrible sacrifices of the war has emerged this new "Re- public of Armenia" hardly more than name as yet, but holding forth a promise of progress and development without outside interference, that will recall the departed glory of Armenia, when her people played no incopsid- erable part in making history. \
 A helping hand will be needed, to be sure, and protection for the fledg- ling state is necessary, but the Ar lmenians are intelligent and indus trious. Given a chance, they will prove their right to -determina- tion.
 That Mobile man who thrilled an assembled multitude by walking on telephone wires may have been deter mined to take an airing without having to dodge flivvers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-25

done for them through his efforts in behalf of the federal reserve system, the farm loan act, the soil survey and the tariff which exempts farm imple- ments. bagging and ties from duty. The farmers of Pike believe the race in this county will be very one-sided affair"
 The correspondent finds that the opinion is very generally held that Underwood will get as many votes in Pike as the other two candidates put together. This he mentions. not as proof, but as an indica- tion There would be no such ananimity or positiveness of opinion if the drift of public sentiment to Underwood were not behind it.