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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-23

ing the primary of May Il because 1t was believed the amendment would be rati- fled and the women given the ballot, and there was a provision in the registration law which prevented the registration Of any persons within sixty days preceding an election The failure of the thirty sixth state to ratify before May Il re- moved this obstacle
 It is now possible under the registra- ton law to register all persons who have
 become qualified to vote except during the sixty days before the election. Sec tion 15 of the registration law of 1915 was amended by the legislature in 1915 and among other things the following paragraph was inserted Provided fur ther that such board of county commis- sioners or board of like authority may authorize the registrar to sit at the county seat and register qualified voters at any time except within the sixty days immediately preceding any primary or general election"
 The moment the suffrage amendment is ratified and it is established that this federal amendment automatically amend ed the state constitution by eliminating the word male from the section re-
 lating to qualifications of electors, the board of county commissioners or board of revenue may order the registrar to sit at the courthouse and register all applicants who show that they are quail fled to vote. Therefore, it will be neces- sary for the women only to show the board of revenue or like body that they
 have become qualified and that there has
 been no opportunity for them to register since they became qualified.
 It is likely, however that measures will be offered at the extraordinary ses- sion of the legislature, if it is called by Governor Kifby, which will make defi- mite provisions for the registration of women. Such a measure was proposed in 1919. but the legislature was opposed to woman suffrage and the opposition refused to give any aid and comfort to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-23

It was queen Margherita Of ita1y 11,oein, MnI a;sooyered the musical gifts of Puccini
 and sent him to Milan to study at he' expense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-23
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Old Tires and Castings

To the Editor of The Age-Herald: Cast-off stuff will not take the place of sacrifice, but we try not to lose even the crumbs from the tables of the rich' For instance, somebody wants to know what is the value of the auto tires when have been given to the Anti-Tuberculosis Association. Somebody else tells us thar we ought to be getting world or money from this source What are the facts The total received up to May 1, ls2o amounts to $19S69 with a few tres sun on hand That is not much. but stlll It is nearly $200-about one-tenth or o"' monthly expenditure
 | May I add a word to our friends Wno | want to aid us by giving us thelr olo tubes and castings?
 l First. we are using the proceeds TOT l the upkeep of our visiting nurse Work' | the most valuable service we rehoer. When you give us a tire you help seha nurse to home infected with tupercu- | losis and often to a family mourn'ns over loved one dead or dying rom ti'a disease. atc at a depository for us please attach your na,ne for acknowledgement. Thls ihsuls' us against oversight or loss. The deposi- 1 tories are: The Liberty Tire company ! l 612 South Twenty first street; the oouI. .,e ern Tire and Accessories Company 'l' North Twentieth street, and our own u's- pensary, 2o19 Avenue F. ,r.
 Third, there must be many who ,,, l,,, tended to give us their ola rupoer 0N have not done it. f,
 Prethren, these things ought not so U be. ,,o, for ~e Thanking you over ana oNei ioA peated publicity
 Yours cordially,
 ANTI-TUBERCULo ASSoNiAi ,H51 iN-
 OF JEFFERSON COUNTY,
 Ry J. E. Eaves, Secretary
 Birmingham, May 21 1920
 II was Queen Margherita of Italy VII, z;a,oyered the musical gifts of Pucciiii disco seio h;n, to Milan to study at he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-23
Hotel Monterey Season

Hotel Monterey, Mount Airy, Ga, formally opens the summer season June 15 under the personal management or R. E. Grabel, also proprietor of Hotel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-23

suffragists by enacting any law which contemplated the ratification of the amendment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-23
PUBLIC SERVICE
 COMMISSION WILL
 HAVE MORE POWER
Plans Already Under Way for Broadening Scope of BOdy's Authority and
 Duties
By FRED H. GoRMLEY
Montgomery Bureau The Age Herald
 22l-2 First National Bank Buiidin

Montgomery, May 22.-( Special )-Whea the Alabama legislature meets in spe- cal session one of the important meas ures for it's consideration will be a bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-23

suite of three pieces. Partic- ular attention has been paid to the workmanship, and you will find it entirely up to the high standard of merchandise required by this store.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-23

Empire. orlando. Fla. This resort so favorably known to the summer touris'' will preesnt more attractive appearahee
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-23

than ever. with the improvements now under way, which includes many s9ut- door attractions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-23

Fibre furniture has come into vogue both because 1t is dur able and attractive. There cer- tainly is no better example of this than the charming five piece suite, which may be had either in ivory or brown. and which is covered with one of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
sCHwAB's HOME MADE A HIT

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Charles NJ, Schwab had an old friend from Pittsburg pay him a visit. The ;Pennsylvanian, steel puddler, came in leather boots flannel shirt and broad brimmed felt hat. Mir. Schwab person. ally escorted him through his marble palace, at Fifty-third street and River side drive, with dignified pauses before the paintinges and various works of art with which the interior is studded. He even had his private organist finger off a special programme on the great organ in honor of the visitor. Inciden- tally Mir Schwabs favorite musical composition is The Rosary
 What do you think of my place." asked the steel king when everything had been seen.
 Replied the visitor: T tell you, Char ley. it is one swell dump!"
 That reminds one of the remark of the aged Pittsburger on the top of a Fifth avenue bus when riding past the late Andrew Carnegie's huge mar ble residence;
 Andy surely has carved himself a mean hut"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22

From tfrN New York Herald.
 1l WOULD be difficult to convince
 even patient New Workers that the = present high prices of theatre tick ats ara the inst result of the origlnal expense of the production.
 Undeniably the cost of theatrical pro duction has grown in the past five years elaboration of decoration, moreover IS in some cases indispensable. MT. Zleg- fe,d,s "Follies,' for Instance, are incon- ceivable without their accustomed lux ury. Yet there are other dramatic per- for,nances which do not depend on the shade of the satin or the outline of a bodice. It might even be suggested that better aesthetic results could be obtained in nine plays out of ten were taste and not expense the principal which guided the decorator.
 Ii is easy to recall instances to prove how much more can be accomplished py taste than by extravagance. One comedy of southern life played here for year did not possess a single new scene. All the decoration had done service before. so frenxied is the production of new n,avs with no chance of life that second hand scenery is a drug on the market. An Italian tragedy which was acted With erea+ success for a whole winter had ,na advantage of a beautiful series of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
THEATRICAL SUCCESSES COSTLY

interiors, which are said to have cost less than $40oo.
 So the trick may be done without an -extravagant outlay of money. The fact that the cost of the theatre ticket has scared steadily upward in recent years is not the direct result of increased cost of production in spite of the declara tions of the managers. If the theatre powers combine with speculators to demand al most four times a much as the regular price of ticket, and if they are usually able to get at least twice what it ought to cost, it is because they happen to be the fortunate managers of successes.
 That is a form of monopoly which en- ables the theatre manager and the specu- lator to demand almost any price they want. The hardware merchant may ask B for a patent appliance which is not worth more than one-fourth of that sum because he has monopoly of something the public wants. So with the manager of a popular play. He may talk about the increased expense of production or in other ways attempt to hoodwfnk the public as to the demands of the specu- lator. But he knows that it Is on ac count of his fortunate monopoly alone that he is able to set his own price for his tickets
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

At 16 a boy leaves school because he knows it all And when he gets to be 60 he discovers that he doesn't know anything.
 Any woman can tell you that it is about as hard to trim your own hat as it is to trim your husband out of the price of one.
 When the children act mean mother doesn't forget to remind father that they didn't get their orneryness from her side of the family.
 The trouble with the man who is proud of his dog is that he does more barking than the dog.
 The o. f. man who used to worry over the market money now has son who worries over the money market.
 Every time girl in the neighbor- hood gets married married woman will shake her head wisely and smile over the ease with which men can be fooled. But she forgets all about her own case
 The skirts are lower than they were. But the waists are not any higher as you could notice it.
 K No matter how old a woman may be you can't convince her that a jar of rouge won't make her look young.
 A woman will marry a man who has a nose six inches long, a mouth eight inches wide. eyes like catfish and no chin, and then>she will expect her baby to win prize at a beauty show.
 Even when the man who was never sick day in his life marries the girl who was rever sick day in her life, that won't keep them rom getting sick of each other.
 A man never does mach worrying over running hts stomach until after 1t has happened.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 Among the many columns of foreign dispatches which appeared in the news Athens stating that the courts had de- cided that the marriage of the late King Of Greece was legal and his wife should inherit was perhaps the one of most human interest. It seems to mark 2 social era at a time when the League of Nations is dealing with world considera- tions.
 Enemies of the late king had insisted that his marriage to q conlmoner was at Best morganatic. although the king him self had said that he would marry no one else and would forfeit his throne rather than his honor It is not only hoped. but believed. that the day of the morganatic marriage is endedS and that restrictions on the marriage of those in royal families will be removed so that commoner and king may stand on the same basis.
 The shepherds crook was laid beside the @sceptre and love ruled not only in life, but in death, and the law has up- held the most sacred of human associa- .tions. Every inch a king was he who married his beloved and remained true to her The right to love according to the dictates of ones own heart-this much has war accomplished. and it is . victory that is of some importance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
THE END OF A STORY

From the Montgomery Advertiser. Boston has reached the end of the story begun in 1919 by it's striking po- 1icemen. Yesterday it was announced that more than 800 members of the po- licemans union had voted to surrender its charter. But it appears the voting was not done by active policemen, for the Associated Press says: NO mem bers of the present police force are members of the union."
 Boston stood it's ground when chal- lenged by it's police force to finish sovereign and inviolable in an organ ized community. Because of dissatis- faction with conditions of their labor. early last year; the Boston force struck" leaving a great city unpro- tected. An orgy of crime followed im- mediately and the whole community was terrorized until the forces of law and order could reorganize and put down the thieves, stick-ups and mur- derers The action of the Boston police lOrCe 1tnmedldJ6ly rdlSeu LII iSSuc oA fundamental importance for every com- munity in America to consider. Did po- ilcemen, guardians of the law, protec- tors of life and property, the trusted agents of society, have the moral and legal right to strike any more than soldiers on the field of battle? Boston and Massachusetts answered the ques- tion for themselves, by denying the right to strike. Wherever public opin- ion in the country expressed itself, no room was left for doubt that the bulk of the people were intolerant of the thought of such right
 The Boston incident first brought Governor Coolidge into national promi- hence and more than anything else paved the way for his nomination for vice president. That was one big result But the greater and more important consequence is the moral victory, Bos- ton has won over the dangerous radi- calls who put it into the heads of Boston policemen to strike. The deserters were
 punished and now they have repudiated l their own cause.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22

The sa1ubrious climate of Panama if it isn't raining--should help Mir. Harding to forget what he suffered in the wilds of Texas
 $ # $ Belgium wants an armed force for the League of Nations. Belgium has good reason to put confidence in a ''big stick"
 < x & Sarah Bernhardt says she will die on the stage. In other words, in har- ness.
 x * # Enthusiasm is said to be dying down in Greece. Constantine hopes it will at least last untf1,the plebiscite.
 # ;f * Office seekers await the return of MT Harding with an eagerness they make no attempt to conceal.
 4 # !. A few prominent republicans enjoy the rare distinction of not having been mentioned for cabinet places.
 x T < What has become of the old-fash- toned Russian Grand Duke Who used to drink champagne out of a slipper?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22

the levees of the main channel of the Mississippi past New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico If these streams are divorced still can be served from the Mississtpps to the Red. Ouachita and AtchafAiaya rivers and the Bayou Terrebonne. tAro9xh the Plaquemine locks at Donaldsouviflm
 The opponents of the plan to divorce ths Red and Atchafa1aya from the Missisetppi claim the danger to New Orleans v~ald be greater if the entire stream ee ths Mississippi were confined to it's ssvee- walled present channel than if part Of those waters were allowed to seek the ga by way of the Red and Atchsfalayz rivers They, therefore, would soezn te advocate that control be placed on the main river, so that only certain part channel, maintaining enough through the present channel to provide for the com rnerce of the port of New Orleans, with out putting undue strain on the le<ees, or endangering the city.
 This plan, however. takes no cogni-
 
 5000 square miles of arabic. cultivated land, in eight parishes, with consequent loss of millions in potential or actual pro duction every year through the havoc wrought by these flood waters of the Mississippi being allowed to go out through the Red and the Atchafaiayz.
 Another plan provides for a canal con meeting the Mississippi and the Atcha- falaya, through which the flow of the flood waters of the Mississippi could be controlled. This scheme would save bctil the farming lands and the city of New Orleans, would increase the commerce or the Atchafalaya, down past Morgan City. which probably would become a port comparable with Mobile. and still would leave the main channel flowing clear past New Orleans, and out through the jetties to the sea.
 Several engineers, who are fnveStigat- ing the Mississippi's attempt to change its course are of the opinion that one solution would be to straighten the course of the Mississippi from New Or leans to the sea, while still another idea which has been preached, is to cut a canal from a point opposite New Orleans through the Arabi swamps, straight to the Gulf of Mexico.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
Two Important Events

Two events of outstanding im- portance have represented the main current of European development dur ing the past few days. sally Henry Clews of New York. The session of the Geneva conference of the League of Nations promises to produce results im- portant not only from a political and social standpoint, but also from that of practical economic significance. It is too soon as yet to say precisely what our official relationship will be to the decisions reached at the conference with respect to the German indemnity, but it is certain that their imporanca to American financial business will be a large one.
 'On the other hand. the defeat of General Wrangel in south Russia has renewed the anxiety of possible incur sions of bolshevik forces into western Europe. As to this also further devel- opments must be awaited before arriw- ing at any conclusion. The sugges- tions of the situation, however, are clear and their reaction upon American affairs through the medim of foreign exchange has been evident"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 N STORY used to float around New
 M\ England of two farmers passing z N through Concord in a railroad train. Ono of them remarked, 'Ralpn Waldo Emerson, that they talked so mucn about. lives here.' His companion re- ueved his mouth of tobacco juice and re- piled. "I calculate he must be quite man. They say he's got together a tloy little. property
 The story is recalled by the inventory of William Dean HowelPs estate at sooc. GOO There was a man who m oV years of active literary work never had a. best seller, who never wrote a movie scenario and never had a successful play on the stage. Yet he lived comfortably seeing and sharing the best in Europe and America during all his active iife' and has left what must be reckoned even ir this twentieth century comfortanie competence to his children. He earned II by steady, persistent unremitting work at tasks which he thought to be worth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
Great Britain to Recognize
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Russia's Soviet Government yNE FACTO recognition of the Rus llU sian soviet government by { Great Britain is victory for bolshev- ism. Negotiations between the two governments have been going on for sometime and the announcement that Great Britain is preparing to resume trade relations will create no sur prise.
 To all intents and purposes, the proposed agreement, wNch will prob ably be submitted to the soviet gov- crpment in few days, is a full rec ognition of the Russian soviet gov ernment by Great Britain The inter- ests of the latter country are safe guarded under the terms of this agree ment, just as they would be under a formal treaty. 1t provides for the release of British prisoners and assu- rance from the bolsheviki that they will refrain from spreading propa- ganda and attempts to undermine British sovereignty in Asia.
 Lot fraoA Rrit taI e fear of bolshevism's influence in Asia had much to do with it's willingness to reach an understanding with soviet Russia. There were many indications that bolshevik propaganda in that part of the world was causing uneasiness among British statesmen.
 The attitude of Great Britain to- ward the bolshevik will not affect America or France. The latter coun- try has been almost as much opposed . any sort of recognition as America, o1Ehough 1t IS declared that france might agree to discuss the resumption of trade relations with the soviet gov- erument if it would recognize the Russian debt and promise to pay France her share.
 There is nothing to indicate any change of feeling in the American government, which has firmly re- sisted every attempt of the bolsheviki to win even partial recognition from this country. We are not yet ready to clasp handss with Lenine and Trotzky.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22
A MODEL FOR AUTHORS

doing. He had occasional failures, but he never wrote a piece of trash, because he thought it would sell. His nearest ap- pr roach to -pot boilers were those spark ling little farces of his, for which the magazines paid in their day what seemed preposterous prices. But the farces have given pleasures to thousands upon thou sands of readers, and there isn't a line in them of which the author need have been ashamed. The technique is as brilliant as the fun.
 Here was a long life of unremitting labor in which literary artist never de- parted from his ideals for either popu- larity or profit. And yet its pecuniary success, though trifling as movie stars count success. was at least a long way removed from the traditional '.garret" of. the poets. What an immense amount of. twaddls is written about 'art" that doesn't pay and what lot of sympathy is wasted on artists who are forced to abandon their ideals in order to make a living.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-22

From the New York Herald
 1N uNANIA emerges from the war en- IN larged in area and in popuiaeioa' OS By the award of Bessarapla' con frmed by the allies in treaty sisneo !" Paris on october B, she gains territory
 -nich makes her equal to Italy in size' with q nopulation of more than l5,Voo,Voo No other active belligerent i'll the war aqa;nst Germany has varied so nucn in extent. Condemned by the treaty ol Bucharest to lose half of her terTi'ory' she has not only regained her presious domain, but has seen it succesHuhy eh ,a,rs1 bv the addition of Transylvania' p,,row;pa mart of the banat of Temes- var and now, Bessarabia.
 This makes an area eight times as l,,rre as Alsace-Lorraine, with popu- lation five times that of the restoreu French provinces. Before the war iu uari.,s area was 5s,G00 square miies and her popu!ation 7,5oo.coo. Now her area tis 1O5 ooo souare miles and her popuiatioh lis more than doubled.
 This Latin section of the ancient hoili''h empire. commanding the mouths oi 'he panube and the railroad across the great |cx.rnaveda bridge to the Black sea- has ftnus obtained an advantageous position on the highway of commerce between east and vest Not only does Rumanla get an outlet for her natural resources but she promises to be barrier to Teu- tonic designs on the Balkans and to Rus lsian bolshevism.
 Controlling a railroad from Jassy by way of Nishneff to Odessa beyond the Dniester. she will have in Constanza. on the more direct route 10 the Black sea. la formidable competitor of the Russian port The grsAt warehouses of Braila and