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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
x F Still Plenty of Life in Democratic Party

N LTHOUGH defeated, Governor AA Cox retains his fighting spirit. His post-election statement was in keeping with the courage and sin cerity he showed while campaigning for the presidency. He feels, as the rank and file of his party feel, that he contended against overwhelming odds for a righteous cause and "there is a distinct difference between de- feat and surrender"
 Mir. Cox says "talk of a new party is absurd" The democrats may have lost their election, but they have not lost their heads. The party has suffered hard blow, but it will survive. It may be stronger four years from now than ever be- fore. It will not be humanly possi- ble for the Harding administration to reconcile all the conflicting interests of this country. The republican party faces the greatest responsibility it has ever had and since it dominates the executive and legislative branches of the government, it win be held to strict account for the way it under takes to solve the nations problems.
 Democrats who are patriotic and place their counry's welfare above partisan politics, hope that MT. Hard- ing will measure up to the task be- fore him, but no President has ever succeeded in satisfying everybody and Mir. Harding's position is one of ex- treme difficulty.
 Time will show whether the repub- licans can keep their promises made during the campaign. If they suc- ceeded in keeping even half of them it would be almost a miracle. Re- publican mistakes will prove to the nation that the democratic party is not composed of blunderers and mis- fits, any more than the republican party is.
 The democratic party is neither dead nor dying. Republican failures will restore the prestige it lost dur ing the Wilson administration, large ly because of the American peoples
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
AN ORIGINAL COPY

was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to conform all things. a man plucked off his shoe and gave II to his neghbor, and this was a tests- mony in Israel Therefore the kingman said unto Boaz. Buy sit for thee So he drew on his shoe" Thus it was that Boaz what was more to be desired the heart and hand of Ruth.
 But the shoe plays yet another part in the life of Israel for under the Lev,rat. marriage, for if the dead husbands bro- ther refused to take the part required, the widow might take him before the elders at the gate, loose the shoe from his foot, and spit in his face as&marx. ing contempt for one who would not rise to the honorable and pious duty of buiid- ing his brothers house. The shoe would then be her evidence that she was free to marry another. And luther to add to the ignominy of the recalcitrant brother Of the dead man: And his name shall be called in Israel
 hath his shoe loosed"
 
 There is a use Q ,~l -,., Psalms which is q bit puzzling and it's interpretation differs an8 best biblical scholars. prssion: "A Moab i'm my washpot. over Edom will cast my shoe.' Many author ities find in this prayer of deliverance of David connection or eeteiis.u.. A shoe symbolism, the actual taking pose session of the property as pointed out being symbolized by throwing a shoe over or upon it.
 have only se.-
 scripture about the shoe related to the social and religious symbolisili of :. Hebrews in this desultory article with out any attemptsto to collate or comme' on all the resera~
 that my little sidelight on the subject may interest i,lN
 run down
 in Athe Bible about shoes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
AMERICANS AT OXFORD

Beverly Nichols in the Weekly Review.
 If we walk through the streets of Oxford today. we shall notice little that is new, except that Oxford is more full than she has ever been. New build- ings are being constructed, rooms art being shared, thel lecture lists are crowded out. An American would be specially interested in the throngs of eager young American students, who have have come over, In many cases via France, to study for year or Sd at the oldest of the universities The new world has certainly been called in here to redress the balance of the old. A prosperous American club has been started, comprising membersip of sew eral hundreds, where Englishmen and Americans may meet together, and dis. cuss international affairs over their own newspapers. American societies are springing up all over Oxford, and for the first time in her life Oxford is realizing the meaning of American de- mocracy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
ONE OF ITS PERILS

the school, and entered in their woolen socks Or stockings.
 The shoe played a luther part, in cer- tain symbolical actions in Hebrew law. In ancient times the shoe of the vendet handed to the purchaser of property took the place of the signs and sealed docu- ments of a later day This is easily &C., loouted for in times when writing was the accomplishment of the few such a symbolic act in the presence of witnesses was doubtless held equivalent to the later formal deeds.
 In the book of Ruth, there is set forth in detail the mode of transferring a piece of real estate. Boaz sitting at the gate with ten elders informing the lzins- man of Naomi of her return out of Moab, and how she selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech' s. And thought to advertise thee Gs this bibli- cal authority for advertising real estate, saying, buy 1t before the inhabitants, and before the leaders of my people. This looks almost like a sale in front of the courthouse door in these days.
 
 Then comes the law of redemption Boaz speaking to the kinsnan who had the right of redemption says luther: If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it; but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me- that I may know; for there is none tc redeem it besides thee; and I am after thee. And he said. will redeem it. Then said Boaz, what day thou buyest the field, of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth, the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon the inheritance.'' And the kins- Nman said, .'I cannot redeem it for my self, lest I mar my own inheritance; redeem thou my right to myself; for cannot redeem it."
 I may be giving more of this Bible story than you want but to me it is very illuminating on real estate transac- ticns in old testament times, but my chief reason for playing it up is to bring in the part the shoe played. Now this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07

AN AUTU MN MORNING By Clinton Scollard. Twas a blue autumn morning Along the eastern shores, When you and I together
 Went down to Lilligore's The waves about the beaches
 Had hushed their stormy tunes; The sunlight lay like summer Upon the wide sand dnnes No wind stirred in the sedges
 Save with a faint caress, And the massed oak trees inland Were hazed with loveliness. Arm linked in arm we sauntered Together, you and I, And watched the broad winged sea
 gulls
 Circle athwart the sky. And watched the great ships going Beyond the outer bars Upon their long, long questing
 To seek the southern stars. There was a sense of silence
 Far as the ear might reach; There was sense of beauty
 That was too dee pfor speeche. The years our paths may sever Till the last daylight dies, But shall still rem ember The dreams within your eyes!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07

I got to. thinKing about shoes and im-
 mediately my mind reverted to the part it played in the life of the Hebrews for
 there are many references to it in both the Old and New Testaments. It is not my purpose to make an exhaustive study of the subject but merely to pick in teresting items here and there. Indoors the Hebrews wore nothing on their feet, but for outdoor wear the foot gear varied from a simple piece of leath- CT attached to the sole of the foot by a leathern latchet. It win be remembered that Abran1 said unto the king of Sodom in asserting thu fact that he would not
 take anything from him. II will not take anything that is thine, from tread to a
 shoe iatchet." John the Baptist, the fore
 runner of Jesus said: "He it is, who
 coming after me is preferred before me,
 whose shoe latches I am not worthy to
 uploose."
 The shoe was to be removed by those
 who stood on holy ground The custom
 of removing the shoes before entering the
 temple or sacred precinct has been ob-
 served in the east from time immemo- rial It is shown in the history of Israel
 and other nations. The
 his shoes before stepping on his prayer
 carpet. No reverent oriental will offer
 worship with shoes on his feet. I recall
 vividly how I had to shuck my shoes
 off before I could enter St. Sophia when
 in Constantinople.
 The universal habit in the east of leav-
 ing off the shoes at temple and at the
 door of the house no doubt was born
 out of the belief of the sacredness of the threshold and of the family hearth l aware that in some of the European countries where wooden shoes are used that this is done, but it has no religious significance whatever. When I was boy and enrolled at a privat school in Paris many of the French boys came to the institution wearing shoes of wood, wh..
 they took off and piled a 'ha h,'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07

Aunwillingness to assume the burdens placed on them by the war. < < x 1 Secretary Colby was frank enough to acknowledge that he felt depressed I over the election. That speaks well for a democrat who hasn't been a demo- crat long. | Franklin D. Roosevelt is planning to | renew the fight two years hence There must be something in the family name, | after all. Alabama would be glad to produce grizzly bear for Governor Cox to shoot, if that were not geographical inn possibility. The mere fact that newspapers. can find time to discuss the Nobel prize for literature shows that we are at last thinking about something besides politics. Mayor Thompson has declared war on Chicago hotels and cabarets which present the anomaly of being wet in a dry land.
 
 the early passing of Josephus Daniels. Admiral Sims will also bear up with ] fortituds. The average whisky ring" is re- markable for the closeness with which the men higher up conceal their 1 identity. 1 President Wilson ordered battle ! ship placed at the disposal of the man who ''scrapped" the League of Nations That at least shows forgiving nature. x x $ 1 Places should be reserved dufing the
 
 dential candidates who knew they were going to be defeated. x FH i A Chicago critic was surprised to l find Theda Bara refined and soft spoken. Still we venture to assert that Mir. Dempsey does not read poetry dur ing his leisure moments. 1 s x E | Birmingham footpads work with the 1 speed and precision of metropolitan | thugs. Still. that's nothing to brag about. Immigrants who are pouring into America will be on the safe side, no matter what happens to the League of Nations. Football heroes this year seem to have reinforced collar bones and non breakahle legs. 1 E E $
 The late General Gorgas made it DOS. sible for MT. Harding to visit Panama without taking quinine. | < * x l When he forfeited the esteem of Germany, President Wilson lost a thinp 1 of little worth. | 2 T | Ordinarily peaceful state, Florida, can start race riot as quickly as any commonwealth in the union. l < * *
 The effulgent whiskers of James Hamilton Lewis were showed under in | Illinois. This is a republican year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07

satisfied. We live on the fat of a rich land, and earn our daily bread by loaf ing half the time." There is nothing new in this pair of pictures, modern replicas of the timehonored scenes of medieval art: The fat and meager kitchen. But the moral which the con- trast pointed was always misapplied. For it never taught gratitude to the gluttons, but only envy to the hungry Nat their scanty fare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT SOME OF THE
 TRUE FACTS WHICH EFFECTED THE ELECTION
N TOW that the election is over we had
 MNL just as well talk plainly. The

N TOW that the election is over we had UNl just as well talk plainly. The
 American people rebelled at two preeedents set in our government in the past three years-a tendency toward im- perialism, or one man government; and the recognition of a labor king.
 Shortly before and since the signing of the armistice in November, 1918. the Amer ican government has been conducted by the President of the United States and the president of the American Federation of Labor. Neither the cabinet nor the Congress has been much consulted.
 t T.
 samuel Gompers has been the Colonel House of the administration since the Texan expressed an opinion in Paris dur ing the peace conference. It happened that the Secretary of State, Mir. Lansing like wise in Paris at the time as an Amer ican official, expressed his opinions Ano agreed with Colonel House. Both were soon retired to their respective homes. and have been but briefly in the public eye since.
 MT Gompers came to the front and had his views and ideas incorporated in the several articles of the League of Na- tons. He became the secondary power of this government.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
-. moPNtNG PRAYER
Monument in Chicago
 to Children's Poet

~ N the twenty-fifth anniversary o1 O Eugene Fields death it was an- nounced in Chicago that funds had been raised for a memorial to the poet in Lincoln park.
 School children had collected nearly S10,0OO toward fund of $25,0OO, and trustees of the Chicago Art institute voted to complete the amount. Ever since Field died children have been giving their pennies, nickels and dimes to build monument to him. The fund grew with painful slowness. He was famous and universally beloved, yet it took 25 years for the great city in which he lived and worked to raise enough money to build him a suitable memorial.
 Eugene Field has well been called the children's poet. Had he written noth- ing more than "Little Boy Blue," he would have been remembered, but during the F years that he contribu- ted a daily column to the Chicago News, he wrote many other pieces that have made his fame secure. Nc other poet that America has produced got closer to the child-heart. It was this quality of infinite gentleness and pathos, and his whimsical humor which endeared him to millions of readers. There is no more exquisite lullaby than "Wynken, Blynken and Nod"
 Such poets as Riley and Field may not be ranked among the great inn Inortals, but the songs they sang will live.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
.HOPE STRINGS ETERNAL

From the Tampa Tribune.
 The Miami Herald says. "A spinsters hair turns gray five years earlier than a married woman's hair" That may be, but the spinster keeps 1t dark.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07

couragement?" Encouragement. the devilr' ex- claimed the apoplectic gentleman. He told me to quit eating what l like to eat, quit drinking what l like to drink and to stop smoking, no matter how much 1 want to smoke. That's what call reading the riot act to a man who paid for the privielege of hear
 ing it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
T' Y T Tariff Sentiment Is Growing in the South

t7T7aE south is hearing more and U more of protective tariff be- cause more and more interests that might benefit from one are develop ing in this part of the country.
 The farmer used to be the last man to talk about tariff, but he has be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
BAD HALF HOUR FOR .TRor..

From the Washington Star.
 Lenine's most conspicuous achieve ment as a terrorist lies in the good scare he gave Trotzky by sending him to the. front.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
Great Expansion
 of Water Power

NN7 HEN it is realized that nearly WV half of Alabama is seved by one dam on the Coosa generating e0,000 horsepower, some estimate may be formed of the future of hydro electricity in this state.
 The Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals is being equipped with machinery to generate 300,OO0 horsepower and the new dam of the Alabama Power com- pany on the Coosa will ultimately generate 120000 horsepower. Almost within sight may be said to be be- tween four and five times the amount ef hydroelectricity now available.
 There is altogether more than 100000 horsepower of hydroelec- tricy ultimately available for the use of Alabamians. That not only means a saving of coal, but the expansion of a variety of industries which are best served by electricity.
 The new Coosa dam and the Wilson dam will probably come into service about the same time. Both plants should be in operation within the next two years. That is short period te wait on the really tremendous possi. bilities of development which they present.
 Aiapama is going ahead by Heaps and bounds, but in no line of progress IS there more promise than in the harnessing of the driving power ot our inland streams.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
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millionaire
 "yesas"
 T have just received scented note from some young person of the thea Ire who addresses me as Dear old Dad and signs herself Fifi'"
 CONTENT fig for worldly riches When you sit before the fire And hold a well-loved volume Of which you never tire. For in the realm of fancy Most every mans a king And heavy -freighted ga1leons Their fabled riches bring. The day is darkened by it's cares But in the witchiHg night The golden flame of poesy Is ever burning bright.
 AN ORIGINAL COPY she wants s1o.ooo for a kiss? That's the figure named in her suit"
 Its exorbitant" "She claims it was the first kiss ever printed on her chaste lips. in oth- CT words, a rare first edition"
 AFFLICTED I'd like to sing a joyous song About the autumn season, Eut he who's caught an autumn cold Can only sigh and sneeze on.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
HE mn

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch l Maybe MT. Bryan will emerge from solitude and look at the election re- . turns
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07

STRANGE CHARACTER A man we do not understand, Because he's such a crank. Read both the party platforms and Remembers every plank
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07

The American people resented this. }
 Gompers indorsed parties and candi- dates, and announced what he and his fol- lowers proposed to do. He assumed t0 dictate to the American voter.
 Since the election he has been explain ing; but, up to date, no man with the Gcmpers stamp on him has been found in the successful election returns, unless 1t be one already nominated by the domi- nant party in a safe state.
 j. * a
 The American, born and reared in this country, will not permit the dictation of any man who might happen to be the leader of faction of it's people.
 Years ago the people repudiated a Texan who was the leader of the Farmers AL lance, and who had risen to great power, and attempted to exercise it. His in- dorsement finally put a blight upon the candidate who wore the stamp So it was last Tuesday with the candidates who bore the Gompers stamp.
 American voters encourage men who would build up, but when such assume the role of dictators they are quick to destroy them.
 MT. Gompers has passed to the Great Beyond with MT. Bryan and others who 1-....-.. .1 .laas=4s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
Common Commodity

Marriage licenses are sold in all the stores throughout the state of Ohio just the same as clothes, groceries or anything else is sold," said Bob An derson. and l was certainly surprised, for I had always believed that one had to buy marriage license at the coun- ty courthouse.
 But in the state of Ohio it seems lks all this is done away with for riost every store has them for sale and in several instances I saw signs in the windows indicating they were sold on the inside at $1.50 each"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
THE SHOPPING HOUR

THE SHOPPING HOUR "At any rate, we proved we were not too proud to fight"
 "Quite true" said the observant man, as he watched a procession of limou-, sines and runabouts whirling past the corner where he stood, but Pm be- ginning to think that about 90 per cent of the women in this country are too proud to walk
 ONE OF ITS PER1LS Well. how is your boy enjoying col lege life?"
 ''I fear the worst" said the multi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

FAILURE Who will not take his burdens up And cheerly plod along, Amid the tumult and the strife Still find theme for song; Who will not bless@the dawning light That means another, day And face life's battles with heart No sorrows can dismay Shall never reach the starry heights Where fame and fortune wait, Nor be the captain of his soul, . The master of his fate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
Others Worse


 T notice that there has been a lot Of robbery recently" said c. M. Gray, general sales agent of the U. s. Cast Iron Pipe company. However, l will say this: for manufacturing city of the size of Birmingham, where there are always bound to be more or less of the idle there is much less of that kind of business than I would have ex- pected am in position to pass on q matter of this kind from a comparative standpoint, because l have resided in number of cities in the west and south and can speak from personal knowledge l repeat, Birmingham has less of this business than I would be inclined to expect here from time to time. In the way of criticism, I would say that | think the principal defect in Birmingham. from standpoint of personal safety. is the absence of suf- flcient lighting"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07

i Another little thing that smacks of im- perialism and that the American people are not fond of is the offer on the part of the President of battleship to convey President-elect Harding and a party oS his friends to the Panama canal zUna.
 Frsn my knowledge of Mfr Harding will venture the prediction that he will go on regular passenger siap ana pay his fare like any other American citizen.
 Until the incoming of the present aa- ministration nobody ever heard of Presi- dents and cabinet officers and guests travelling all over the world in naval ves- sells.
 Naval officers, in the past, have been executive officers of the government pre- paying their vessels and training men for duty in the event of war-not servants of political officeholders. to haul them over the seas and bow and kow-tow before them like stewards on a passenger ship who expect tip at the end of the voyage.
 The time has really come when we must get back to the old time American form of government-a republic-a government of the people, by the people and for the people, as Lincoln declared.
 The President-elect has practically so declared himself Let Us aid him.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
Time for Action

''rhe apparent indifference of Bir- mingham people to the anti-tubercu- losis programme being put on by the Jefferson county league is quite ap- palling" said pr. J. D. Bowling, head of the city health department "Peo- pie either are not afraid of the dis ease, or they don't realize the grave danger of the menace. The efforts of the Jefferson county league to get money to finance programme for pub licity and preventive measures have met with very small success among the people of the county. M~ny peo' pie do not realize that there is an aver age of one death a day in the county from tuberculosis, or they would know that they have 2 share of the responsi- bility. Besides that, for every death that occurs in the county 10 people become harborers of the germ and prospective T. B.. patients. The per centage of spread in Jefferson county is appalling"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Quick Notification

'I wish that the business men of Birmingham would post the name of store manager, with his telephone num- Der, on the front doors of their estab- lishments." said Sergeant Breht, last night, after the police had spent an hcur vainly trying to locate the mana ger of shoe store. Tt would be big help to the police in case of fire or robbery if the names were posted where We could get them. In addition 1t would or should be some satisfaction to the managements of the various houses to know that they would be notified immediately ill either event.
 s'Of course the police are expected to know everything, but for all that it IS not always possible to recall the phone number of every man in Birmingham' This is merely a suggestion for the benefit of the business men,"