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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01

able. The eastern lines got the larg- est advance because their business had not bene profitable. It was shown that some of them were &C., tually losing money
 The southern lines have made good showing; hence the smaller rate of increase-25 per cent-awarded them.
 The higher wages granted the 'ail- road brotherhoods were considered fair. They had asked for more, but that would have required a larger traffic increase than has been grant ed, and would have been harder, therefore, on the ultimate consumer. As it is, the transportation situa- tion will spell widespread prosperity.
 * * *
 The suggestion that MT. Babe" Ruth be given a more dignified nickname will not meet with popular approval, but we sternly object to the habit of referring to his wife as Mrs. Babe"
 F # x
 Ambassador Davis is coming home to find out what has been going on. He may get as far west as Ohio, and will find the remains of man& a presidential boom, including his own.
 # # *
 Lafayette get busy!''-New Orleans Item. This is not sequel to the justly | famous "Bafayette. we are heren' It is | addressed to a town in Louisiana # # x Farley Christensen seems to think | the League of Nations is as dead as Hector. and we all know Hector has been dead a long time. # * * The democrats have drafted James Hamilton Lewis their candidate for governor of Illinois. You can't keep a good man down. # T X | Cox took shelter in the county jail at Dayton, which will prove to have been merely way station on the road to the White House. 1 The death of Lofts, the widely known 1 diamond merchant of Chicago. looks like another victory for old John Bar leycorn
 | One gets the impression that bathing beauties run about the streets in Cali fornia and all visitor needs to catch one is a lasso.
 The Chicago News finds a-flaw in Sir Thomas Lipton's grammar. Avast there! This is no time to be sniping at game loser
 The huge increase in tobacco sales is one of the reasons why somebody is l always borrowing your last match. l < # f f Sheep shearers are said to be making as> much as $50 day. Bear that in mind when buying your winter suit x # x i--sThe premiers are still fiddling,' 1 says the Pittsburg Leader. Correct And some of the notes are sour E x # i Von Ludendorff leading huge army of Germans and Russians is a possi. bility of the not distant future < x *
 1mmi grant girls are no longer willing to help solve the servant problem They aspire to higher things.
 x * #
 Peanuts, by creating thirst, are play ing into the hands of the soft drink manufacturers.
 * * *
 The Old Clothes Club would cease tc exisit if it were not for the white collar" man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
IN A LITTLE TOWN

Life may be slow in a little town, No doubt a trifle flat It isn't place for speed or style, I'm not denying that. There may be only one picture show. And maybe none at all; No white way" lights begin to glow
 When evening shadows fall. But flowers bloom in a little town, Green trees their shelter give And you'll find some happy people there Who get a chance to live.
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Seemed Unsettled

'The weather in Chicago is certainly changeable,' says J. Mercer. Barnett who returned a few days ago from that city, making the trip in an automo- Die. When I arrived there it was l02 and everyone nearly roasted. The next morning. however, when I got up I found that it was only 42 and the women appeared in furs and the men with overcoats. There was in a Palm Beach suit. I think I must have had on the only pair of white shoes that the shine boys in a large shine shop had seen this year, for when I went in to get my shoes cleaned they smiled and didn't even have any white polish at that time.
 tried to swapspff my Palm Beach clothes for an overcoat which was comfortable and it was really uncom- fortable without one. had wonder. tul trip
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

Italian garden" said Mrs. Dubwaite Good heavens! exclaimed Mrs. Cav ker. You don't mean it?''
 Yes"
 Think of spending that much money just for a place to eat spaghetti in?'
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WHERE TT GOES

From the Houston Post
 The cotton farmer got about 2s cents for the cotton in a s4 shirt, and Senator Capper hasn't sumption enough to see who has been hogging the money
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The Times and "The Fourth'---By Frank Willis Barnett

New Testament. on which both nations have been bred
 congratulate my country on having it's character. it's wealth, it's commerce and its ideals placed before the British Empire by such spokesman as The Times, and pray that out of it may come the sealing of solemn pact be- tween us which will put an end once and for all Nto the hideous, the unthink- able possibilities of fratricidal strife.
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2le.tb3oueQ-

ing with one of these new parties. I'm through with him. and I'll tell him so'
 ALL SOUND You lost money in this venture." All I had" But you said the man who sold you the stock told you it was sound in- vestment" T discovered later that he was re- ferring to his voice"
 D1sTIN rTioN
 I've always sbou
 1t rather rNle To say the star
 Is nearly nude s l just remark
 don't believe
 She goes as far
 As Mother Eve.
 QUITE GENTEEL Are you certain this dance hall is patronized by refined people?' "Oh yes. Why. even the bouncer wears evening clothes"
 PAUL COOK
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"PUssYFoop. COMES TO TOWN

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 "Pussyfoot" Johnson has been visiting Birmingham. Now what can he have been up to-trying to ascertain why Birmingham people keep their powder as dry as Johnson would have them keep their cellars?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
LED AsTRAY

LED ASTRAY
 How was the Hon. Thomas Jefferson Boobsons address?" asked Mir Blibbs, Chiggersville's leading fish merchant. q thought it rather sophomoric." said Prof. Diggs.
 You don't say sol I've always thought that fellow Boobson was chock full of sound democratic doctrine. If he's flirt-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-01
COSTLY REPETITION

COSTLY REPETITION q understand campaign contributions are limited to s1,oOo.'
 That's correct said Mir. Grabcoin, who had just received another call from the finance committee, "$1.ooo at time. '
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sPoILING FOR A FIGHT

What good does it do you to stand curious pedestrian.
 "A whole lot of good" answered the irascible man who had met with an ac- Iident. But I must confess that I ing the blamed thing if it could hit back"
 WILD EXTRAvAGANCE
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SAYINGS OF CICERO

By Mark Stuyvesant.
 Marcus Tullius Cicero. whose books students of our day read, and budding or
 atcrs long to emulate, was famed as the
 greatest wit of his time in ancient Rome. He was born century before Christ
 When youth he was not of robust constitution. He rarely sat down to dine
 until the evening, and he walked cer- tain distance and massaged his body d certain number of times easy day to make himself strong Tn few years he built himself up so that in his manhood he was
 able to endure many hardships, Plutarch tells us. Then with his strength, and his Knowledge and his wit he won for himself a great place in Rome. One of the other important men of the day was Marcus Crassus. In his honor
 Cicero delivered an oration, and within a few days again as publicly reproacheu him. From the edge of the crowd Cras- sus called to Cicero and said: "Dhl not you yourself two days ago. in the same place, commend me?" When Crassus was about to go on a long journey he desired to leave Cicero rather his friend than his enemy. There
 fore, one day he approached Cicero with every gesture of friendship and respect, and told Rim that he would come and sup with him. Cicero accepted this graciously. Within few days some of Cicero's acquaintances interceded for Va tinius, as desirous of reconciliation ana friendship, for he was then his enemy. What" Cicero exclaimed. Does Va- tinius also wish to come and sup with me?'
 And all Rome laughed at the way Cicero exposed Crassues without mention ing him by name.
 One day. while Cicero was a senator. Caesar brought forward a measure for the distribution of certain lands among the soldiers. Many in the senate opposed it. Among them was Lucius Gellius. one of the oldest men in the senate. 'It shall never pass while live," Gel lius declared with great show of author | ity.
 Let us postpone it.' Cicero smiled. Gill Illus doesn't ask us to wait long.
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LA MORT PAssE

 (From "The Silence of Colonel Bram ble
 By Andre Maurois. Sec. Edition.1 Translated from the French by. Wilfrid S. Jackson. Death is a-foot. Fate calls the tune: Lost not minute Forget, But wear your black tf1l-
 June;
 You're charming in it. will not have you come with tears. With roses vain; Young life will ask. in conitsg yez9a Your rose again. Pity me not. for I shall sleep Like any child, And from my changing ca The grasses wild But if. when summer hol And dusk is long, Your gaze, madonna-Sa1E do Your beauty wrons Nor lend that sadness to y1uF face cherish yet Forget then. for a ilftle spsca That you forget
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The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of child
 hood E1hat fears a painted devil
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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-12-02
NOTHING NEW IN
SHEPARD MURDER

MACON. Dee Application for
BAN for Mrs Annie Cults. the fourth
person arrested ia connection with the
death - Pred - shepard 81 Fort Val
ley. viii be made before Judge g. a.
Mathews some time this week. her
attorneys stated this afternoon.
The lawyers for the defense viii ask
that all of tho applica ions for bail
be considered az the same time ~ the
hearing Go De- held here next Tuesday.
Attorney G. g. Durrance. ore 81 the
lawyers for Mrs p y Elmer. disap-
peared from here yesterday Others
connected with the defense 81 Mrs.
Elmer said that he was engaged IN
"drveloninR a line ~ defense. and be
was said 20 be in Houston county
Solicitor General g. n. Garrett and
attorneys for the defendants IN the
shepard case declared today that
there were no immediate prospects 90
additional arrests.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-12-02
LEAGUE CITY IS
MORE CHEERFUL
Armenian Cloud Disappears by
Acceptance Of President
I'm Role of Mediator.
ENGLISH ARE PLEASED
Mesiation Hope With Turkish
Nationalist Leaders Bright
ems With New Plan.

GENEVA. Dec. The TsaaRua af
Nations city showed a far more cheer
sui aspect today than at any time
since the assembly began 10 gather
from the four corners Of the earth
The sun came cut strong for the sarwt
time the dun. anxious expressions
disappeared from many faces. and
petty annoyances were lost sight of
because the Armenia cloud. which had
menaced the assembly. has been brok
en- by President Wilson's acceptance
of the role nf mediator. Even Arthur
J. Balfour Of the British delegation
who al along has been skeptlcai of
ne results of mediation with Mumtn
pha kemal Pasha, Turkish nationalist
leader. expressed gratiEscaaton this
evening at seeing the United States
Brazil and spaln-~two American and
one European nations Joining hand.
= an endeavor 20 settle the vexatsous
problems. The British statesman
frankly said that all hts doubts re-
garding the possibility Of arriving AZ
any sort Of satisfactory understand
Ing with Nuztanha Kenaaf had not ret
aisappeaFed. But one result. he point
Fl out. had been obtained and that
was the wonderful spectacle OF North
I'd South America and Europe getting
together 10 try a. settle q difiir .lsv in
an obscure corner on fhe Black Sea. =
If one had suggested II Ave years
ago" he added. he would have been
regarded as dreamer aud would In
dee@ have been a dreamer had the
League OF Nations NOT come into ex-
sstence I'm the meantimaa
Rene Nivani. representing France.
e. pressed tho waFmo4t satisfaction
over President Wilson's message and
was. during the day. the object nf
many congratulations. Il being gen
orally conceded that Il was hts efforts
N the assembly that saved the Ar
nenian question from falling a victim
50 delay.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-12-02
NEWREVOLUTION
MAY BREAK OUT
Officials Capture Documentary
Evidence Of New Move
ment Against Mexico.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Dec Whole
sale raids b. department d Justice Of
fieials conducted simultaneously Mon
DAY az various border points includlns
II Paso. Eagle Pass, Laredo. browns
Vile and this city. netted mass Of
documentary evidence of the forma-
tioa on this side Of the border of a
new rey0luJDnsry movement against
tho obreson government IN Mexico. ac.
cording 10 a statement made public
here tonight BY W A. wiseman. spe-
clal agent FOR TIE department n Jus
tice.
According n Mr. wiseman. tho raids
were ordered by Division Supertnten-
dent 9. .. BRENNAN. with hegduuarters
here. The evidence serured 4 being
collected Ia the office 0f the local fed .
eral bureau ~ Investigation Depart
ment of Justice agents here are known
20 be translating documents seized dur 3.
lnE The raids. a number 81 important
arrests are expected 30 follow. u was
said
Among documents obtained are sew
eral manlfestos announcing the aims
and purposes ~ the new ereformista'
movement The leaders ~ which. Mr.
Nlseman said. are expected % be
caught In the federal drag net
Lucio Bla2co, former Csrranzisia
geueral, Is me heal of the revolution
ary movement according o. reports re-
ceived hy local Nexicans.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-12-02

REORCANIzINC
COMMITTEES
Appropriations Body in House
VIII Consist of 35 Members
as Formerly Agreed.
CONFERENCE Is HELD
@
No Forecast Yet Made Of Legis-
lative Program Aside
from Appropriations.

WASHINGTON, Dcc. i-hepuhliean
leaders In the house are preparing 90
complete reorganization Of The commit
tee on appropriations in conformity
with the resolution adopted last scs-
sion increasing its membership 10 q.
and placing all appropriation measures
In lts hands. The "a additional men,
hers Will be selected by the committee
on committees called 20 meet Friday
Representative Moadell. Wyoming
majority floor leader. Representative
Mann, Illinois. chairman of the com
mltlee on committees; Representativr
Madden. Illinois, q member Of the Re
publican steering committee. and Rep
resentatiye Butler Pennsylvania. chair
man Of the naval Affairs committee
conferred today In connection with the
matter. Later Mr. Mondell said tha
In his opinion, the house probably
would not have consolidated an anpro
priations under one committee had
known that Prcs.d dent Wilson was 60
ing % veto the executive budget meas
ure 10 which this step was supple
mental Without the budget. be said
he believed lt would take longer to aei
On the appropriation measures through
ono tAAktNlttFF A&aN Ut ltAt WtN SYST fl
was still IN vogue. Mr Mondell added
however. that he favored carrying 0u
he intent Of the house resolution.
The Republican floQr leader thought
very little could - done a the short
session outside - ps sipg. iha apppe-
priation measures althos-h he adde's
thai "no one cobld sag af this time
what the legislative program woulG
be"
The Republican caucus rule. leaders
said. prevented membership on NOR,
than one % the primary committees
In making up The additional member
ship for the appropriations committee
.t was added. they would also have e.
decide the relatite rank ~ the mem
bers. The seven committees which
formerly made up the appropriations
are all primary committees and II ans
~ their members arr given places or
the appropriations committee thos
VIII have 60 resign from membership
on the ether committees Representa- $
tive FordneA. Michigan. chairman a
the house Ways and means commit
Tee Is expected saturday, when dcci.
sion viii be reached whether 10 holt
hearings tbs winter on revenue legis-
lation o. BE- taken up By the new con
gress Representative Mondell though
this would bc done
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-12-02
Number Persons are Buried
Under Debris of Apartment
Nine-St0ry Building at Broad
way and SIND Collapsed
While Under Repairs. :.
STREETS WERE CROWDED
foreman of Gang of Workers
Went Down i'm Crash and Six a..
Others Known Missing.

NEW YORK ucc Broadway al
Send street waS suddenly Transformed
late this afternoon from a scene of
3ustling activity 90 one Of desolate
Vreckage when a nlne-si0ry apart
ment under repair collapsed. bury ms
several persons beneath the debris. All
east one person Is believed 10 have
been killed and six others are unac-
counted for.
Broadway was crowded with shop.
3ers. workers hurrying 10 Their homea
md afternoon theatre~goers. when q
terrific crash rent the air a. Tie build
,ng topped into The streets Fortunate.
~ the bulk OF the debris fell into 5aad
street. which was comparatively free
rom vehieular and pedestrian traffic
although tons Of wreekage slid into
broadway itself Six persons three
n them buried In the wreckage ami
ater rescued. were injured. Searehers
xpressed fear tonight that other pc
iestrlans seen pass lhe building MAJ
nave been caught beneath the tons Of
Nrcckage, covering the sidewalk in
aces 70 a depth of six feet
smaller crashes occurred at inter
sals tonight az sections of the wal
which remained stamdlag after the
lirst collapse. gave way. other t0tter-
ng sections threatened the lives OF
lremen and policemen Who searched
he debris for bodies ia the glare o
powerful searehhghts.
only The ground floor was Occu-
pied. an automobile coacern having it
offices there. The injured persons
were mainly employees 81 this concern
and warkman employed tn repAlrana
the building Tbree girls In Tie au.
tomoblie establishment were buried
beneath the wreokago, but were res
cucd. suffering only from cuts and
bruises.
Police tonight held back crowds ir
Broadway while workmen engaged b
lhe city building department tiske
their lives Ia an effort o. relieve "a,
wc,sht on the upper floors and pre-.
vent the saRgiug wall Oh the BroadNa!
side ~ the structure from giving way
Dlgglng IN the debris In the street wa.
stopped when the walls still standing
Ia parts of The 52nd street side aa'
along Broadway threatened 10 col
lapse.
The man believed 70 have been klll
cd was JefY smith. foreman employe
by the wrecklng company. A fellow
employe. working near smith or
upper part Of the building. report
hat he saw the foreman carried dOwn
n the falling debris with the tles
crash.
Half an hour after the coilaps -
the structure. an apartment hOuse
knOwl a. the "Strathmore.' The lis
~ missing remained unchanged H.
.tlditl0n. Miss Elizabeth kae, 81 q
slenographer and J. n Traston az
automobile salesman had been dug ou
II the debris by nremen. The pa
were badly cet and bruised aud sat
gering from shock,
Traffic on Broadway was closed 81
fremen ana volunteers searched fran
tealb through TIE wreekage.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-12-02
METHODISTS ASK
LAY EDUCATION

MEMPHIS. Tenn, Dec. IA pre-
ftmimarg campaign, 70 continue
through the mon b OF December. was
decided on bv the educational leaders
4 the Methodist Episcopal church,
south, im conference here today. for
he purpose of ar0using greater inter
est among the iaity IN the necessity
tor chris ian education. This month
af nropa ganda - tn be followed by an
3ther conference In Memphis early in
January, al which definite plans viii
BE mapped out for the effort 20 secure
sg3 600 900 for the advancement of
christian education tn the various
schools and colleges Of the church In
the southern states.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-12-02
RAILLINE
SELLOILSTOCK
Southern Pacific Has Adopted
Plan for Separating Oil and
Rail Properties.

NEW YORK. Dec. Determination
of new company to be known as the
Pacific OH Company was announced
here tonight by the Southern Pacifac
Company as the chief feature OF Its
plan for the separation OF its oil and
railroad properties.
The new company viii be organized
under the laws of the state of Della
ware with capital stock Of 3.500 600
shares Of no par value. for which the
Southern Pa0lfic Company win sub
scribe SIS per share. or $50 500 600.
From this amount the new company
will purchase from the Southern Pa
cifc Land Company a. Of Jan I, 1921.
for about 50 75o GEO and 25s .000 acres
of land now owned by the Southern
Pacific Land Company and goo eco
hares having par value OF s20 .oGa.
900 Of the outstanding capital stock of
the Associated on Company.
Holders Il Southern Pacific shares
wiii be given the right to purchase At
$40 per share. one share of the stock
n the new company for each share OF
Southern Pacific stock
The land 90 be purchased ~ situated
in the state % California. About 2b. .
600 of the $50 600 acres are proven OF
lands and the remainder lands hereto
fore Withdrawn from the sale a. pos
sihle oil lands.
The capital stock Of the new com
pany Is fxed az Assoc 600 sharoa "a
correspond TO the total number os
shares OF Southern Pacific stock out
aiandiHg. The eegreNAuOs AgAo IN
wolves he stock holdings 81 the SOUTH
ern Pacific company 10 the Associated
OH Company. of which IL owned slight
~ more than 80 per cent,
Associated OH u at present receiv-
ina dividends az the rate OF per. cent
annually. Net earnings or the south
ern Pacific oil properties for the year
1920 will approximate f12. 600. 600. ac-
cording 10 tonight's statement of the
directors.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-12-02
Tale of Flying Dutchman
Is RetOLd at Gloucester

It's career as a fisherman Once OF.
Eastern Point IL the entrance OF Glou-
cester Harbof. Winters said 3 schoon.
er ran down the wind. hove alongside
the Haskell. and her phantom crews
climbed the rigglng declaring them
selves the ghosts Of the Salem fisher
men. Waters and others % the Has
Aell's crew refused TO flsh in the shlr
again and a new crew was taken on.
They returned with a story of q ghost
~ visitation az sea. took their dun
mage bags and quit. Another. and
stlIi q fourth crew were shipped. but
each returned 10 port win = renewal
n the story of a ship shr0uded 10
white and q spectral crew and the
Haskell was hauled up. unable 30 get
men. She finished her sea going a. q
sand frelehter, and the Salem ship was
not heard Of again.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-12-02
THREE INJURED
IN TRAIN WRECK

Two men and child were injured
late today when the Memphis Special,
lorthhound on the -. a w railway.
was derailed mile east of here. the
nglue and three coaches leaving the
rack Cause ~ the desailment has
not been determined by officials. The
injured are:
Terry knerr. years old. DUNCAN
a0n. Va: lips cut end teeth knocked
out
Lewis LouIswlninzic. Baltimore,
ID. badly bruised and shaken up.
W "a DUNCAN. brakeman. Roanoke.
Of side badly bruised
Two physicians on the train at the
'ime rendered fl~st aid. The injured
aore taken 70 Roanoke tonight
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-12-02
NAME MAYOR IN
STRIKE CENTER
10y Assoeiated pressl

WILLIAMSON. W. Va. Dec. In
terest In the Mingo county coal strike
situation centered today in the inter
posed appointment OF a mayor pro
tenn By the city commission tonight
for the city Of Williamson. the county
seat and a. present military headquar-
ters Mayor W. o Peters a. ~ in n
Cincinnati hospital. and. following the
Instructions of Col Herman Han. in
command of the provisional battalion
~ United states. troops in the strike
zone. 10 "ciean up" the city the ap-
pointment OF an active head was made
necessary
No disorders of any nature have
been reported 90 military headquarters
turing the past twenty four hours
Colonel Han said this evening.