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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

The Chicago sheriff, who had another hanging party" planned, called it off at the last moment for fear of being pros ecuted for malfeasance in office The prison spectators who were due to receive a salutary lesson will have to get it in some other way.
 contemporary thinks Josephus may have some difficulty in hitting Admiral Sims because of low visibility. By shoot ing in the general direction of big noise. Josephus can easily reach his target.
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 When the tap of the presidential type writer is heard in the White House, sure- ly the rumor mongers will acknowledge that Woodrow is up and about.
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 Matthias Erzberger Is accused of pro- noting a company to make soap out of decayed eggs He should be haled before an allied court for that.
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 Considering hoy many notables took to their heels when Prussianism fell it's remarkable how seldom most of them have been heard of since.
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 It will cost a great deal of money to remodel those big German liners for rne passenger trade, even if little or no work is done on the bar,
 It is difficult matter, apparently, for M. Caillaux to remember that he is in court, and not delivering political harangue. The farther Maeterlinck travels in America, the more convinced he is that Belgium is a mere postage stamp of a country.
 # # * Is it possible that the lure of the movies is so great William Gibbs McAdoo doesn't care to run for the presidency? 
 I John Drew has been grandfather So long that he has at last consented tc play the part of an old man. 1 x * x
 In defying the threats made against him, Captain Detzer doubtless relies tc some extent on efficient police protection x * #
 Hoover talks sense,' remarks th' Philadelphia Public Ledger That seem: to be habit of Herbert's. x x E
 The hypnotic dance has one advantage The dancers can truthfully say the! know not what they do.
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 The bootleg business in the east is stil reported flat on it's back as result o the wood alcohol scare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
Underwood and Others
 Blacklisted By Labor

@ ENATOR UNDERWOOD'S name 0 appears on the alleged congress sional blacklist of the American Fed eration of Labor. Little fault is found with his record while mem Der of the House, but his vote in the Senate for anti-strike legislation and the firm stand he has taken in con- nection with the Cummins bill < have placed him among the "undesira- bles."
 Glancing over the list of men who are mentioned along with MT. Un- derwood, one is impressed by the fact that he is in good company. The south has no great admiration for such men as Senator Lodge of Mas sachusetts and Penrose of Pennsyl- vania, but they are in the minority. Most of those mentioned are senator's and representative who have taken the stand that the public has some rights which organized labor should not be permitted to overrun and have acted on that belief in legislative matters.
 Cummins, because of his railroad bill; Knox, Hitchcock, "Uncle Joe" Cannon, Senator Poindexter, Speaker GiIlett, Senator Harding, General Wood, Attorney General Palmer and many others have incurred the dis favor of the American Federation of Labor. They are to be cast into outer darkness, and for what? Chief ly, it appears, because they refused to be dictated to by MT. Gompers.
 Experienced politicians will dis count labor's threats. The intelli- : gent workingman, no. matter how strongly his sympathies may lie witf ! unions, prefers to do his own think ing, and vote as his reason dictates He doesn't care to be delivered, body and coul, into this or that politica camp by leaders who were not elect ed primarily to play politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
Coincidence In Names

'I was struck with the notice in Thursday mornings Age-Herald, in which the Associated Press told of the opening gun of the republican national campaign fired in New York City at the unofficial republican state conven- tion, in which Elihu Root made the keynote speech" said Sidney W. Lee, mot SD much in his arraignment of the democratic party or the platform enunciated, but from the fact that in the big four selected to represent New York republicans in the national con- vention it Chicago was man by the name of Nathan L. Miller. It is a rather curious coincidence that two men should have the same name, one a prominent republican of Syracuse and one our own democratic lieutenant governor of this city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

My land is like bird without nest" This was the beautiful i'm ogerv of Dr. Isaac Yonan in speaking of Armenia, the land of his nativity. life is curious and as time rolls oy freouently people who in past years almost touched elbows are thrown to- gether in a public way which IS pass ing strange.
 More than a score of years ago was in attendance upon the aoutherh Baptist Seminary at Louisville, Ny, and only a block or two away a for- eiener was a student of the Southern Presbyterian Seminary at the same jtime
 I went into the pastorate' ana ia'er became the editor of The Alapaiia Baptist. while he having fitted himssii went back to his own people as a ms sionary; but it was here in Birming- ham where we met at d dinner gwen to the pastors of the district in the 1 interest of the Near East relief. |
 | Now. I know full well, to use slang expression that the pupllc IS fed up' on Armenian atrocities ana drives for funds to care for the starV- | ing. and to rehabilitate the iands maoe desolate by the ravages Of the un- IsneakabIe Turk whose presence in Europe is now permitted simply be- cause the great powers haven't the courage to use Gladstonian expres- sion ito kick him bag and baggage out of Europe"
 I have been to q number of the pup llic meetings ana sat at more than one dinner where the heartrending ltales were told, until the blood of the lhelnless little ones butchered to make a Turkish holiday in the name or the bloody prophet, got on my nerves ana made it hard to sleep at night and jput into my heart the desire which of old sent the crusaders to drive the 1 followers of Mohammed out of the Holy Land.
  On yes, I grant that it does dis lturb ohes equanimity to hear the lurid details of murder aud rapine land heartless deportations; but if we Igrow impatient because such condi- tions- are brought to our notice what must be the feelings of those who live under the shadow of the crescent and whose loved ones have furnished the victims of the massa- cres and the pillage!
 There are some church people, whc Iliving luxuriously. do not wish to 1 Ihave their pastor preach about cruel flied Savior, for it disturbs their easy manner of life by calling attention te lhis sacrifice on the cross, and is toe !. severe an indictment against thelr I flimsy way of showing that they arr Christians merely in name and not T lspirit, forgetting the fact that every thing in the world worth having costs 1 blood.
 How was the Magma Charta won! Ho"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

+he Declaration of Independence
 a. valid? How was the Hun beaten? If took sacrifice and blood. ron what I have read and rom what have heard from first-hand witnesses inc Armenians and their co-religlon- ists in the East have poured out their l;fe,s blood in defense of their faith ,,,itb heroism that has never been surpassed in human annals.
 sat near Dr. Yonan, no mere au- veuturer, who comes to us with har- rowing tales to stir our blood m or der to make us give, but a nauVe ol inc East educated in America, re spected Presbyterian minister, moder- ator of the Urumia Presbytery' ana therefore man of the highest stand ing in the church of his own land, ana one in whom we have right 10 put the utmost confidence when he makes n statement about the past and pres l ent status of his counrymen.
 Dr. Yonan, then is no sensationallst, neither is he one who has merely read ! about conditions, but he went through the massacres and depcrtations from l1915 to 1919 and to hear the story as | it. fell from his lips was. one of the most tragic things I have ever lis- tened, for he was in the very heart of | it all and as a good minister bore | the burdens of his people with all possible fortitude, yet withal inspiring | them to armed resistance like good soldiers of Jesus Christ.
 l No one hearing him will ever ask again why it is that the Armenians submit to such indignities without struggle They have shown Spartan courage in fighting against over whelming odds as to numbers ana great superiority as to weapons, anc heavy handicaps as to ammunition and an almost total lack of money and dearth of foodstuffs. Some day the world will know and appreciate the determined resistance that des- perate men put up against traiieu butchers.
 
 Murder and pillage the peopie oi Armenia were used to, but Iurkish deviltry invented a new torture WHICH went beyond the pale of humanity lIt was the reasoned-out destruction of a great people by wholesale de- Iportation. The plain recital or the lawful march of thousands of men and
 women without food or water and stripped of their clothing into the desert makes a tale of horror which nasseth all belief, but the bleached
 homes of the victims cry out to heaven as silent witnesses of the truth of the tales we are now getting from reliable sources
 The terrible march pr. Yonan and his family made every one who heard Lit grit his teeth and want to havS a chance at putting the Turk out oi
 business as the butcher of Christians lEvery heart was glad that the Yonans lived through their hardships and are now safe in America, The wife ana
 three sons are at Charlotte. N. c. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
IN HOTEL LCBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
TbesFisb Imperial

Guy Tolliver Humbolt of Dubuque Iowa, says he read fish story in The Age-Herald not long ago about clam cracker, fish of the. ray school known to inhabit the Carolina coast But" says Guy, "as interesting as is the clam cracker, he is nothing to com pare to the bone fish"
 Guy was in the same waffle em- porium where Mr. Clement had told his story. possibly because he had heard how Clement got his dinner freeS but be that as it may, after wiping away the waffle chips from about his mouth, Guy coiled up his tongue and then let it twitter as follows:
 "There are those who talk of the sport of catching the leaping tarpon, with his horn material trimmed lips and no place for a hook to seb but the real sport of fishing comes with catch ing a bone fish. the gamest little water fighter nature has made, and easily the most beautiful It's length is scarcely two feet. it's weight seldom over three or four pounds. It looks like furnished silver and has fins that trail away in a chiffon-like substance that makes you think of the draperies of a medieval princess
 They usually go in schools of from three to sometimes seven, skimmins about over flats where the incoming or outgoing tide has from eight to twelve inches of water. Its mouth is about as tough as boiled vaseline and the fish has the spirit and courage of paladn. It takes infinite patience, skill and interest to get one.
 q have seen them when caught. borne about the Royal Palm hotel ve- randa at Miami, Fla, on a silver tray with roses all around them. a white clad darky bearing it and two others on guard, and those old bullies who go | there to fish for them will sit up all night telling about how they were caught, with the rest of the fishermen sitting about listening"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
Hunting season to Close

'"rhe hunting season will close next week and the woods promise to be vis=- ited by large number of lovers of this sport during the last few days" said Hugh Seals. "The mild winter has been in the birds favor, as the hunter likes brisk, cold weather when in search of this game. The advance in the cost of shells to cents each has kept many negroes from hunting, believe, as in former years large numbers were found daily in search of game. There has been great deal of hunting this season and plenty of quail has been found everywhere Per haps prohibition has kept many at home, as no snake bite cure could be taken along.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
Scarcity of Hothouse Flower.

"The short supply of cut flowers is due to several causes. In Chicago and other great centers from which flow CTS are shipped inefficient labor, if not labor shortage, is one of the causes" said A. J. Koenig.
 ''The demand for flowers is greater this winter than usual, especially for funerals. and I have never known them to be so scarce. The local hothouses do not begin to meet the inquiry for fresh flowers.
 We have counted on Chicago, but our orders from that source are only partially filled. It is that way day after day. Florists are now using artificial flowers in large quantities. Very pretty designs are made of the artificial article. when a few real flowers are mixed in."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

.brea sons. Joash. aged 19; John. age' 1T: and Theodore, have true Arneh ian determination and are maA'hi their way through school by deilVerlhi papers in the early morning.
 pr. Woman had no whine or apolos' for his people in his address, pu boldly stated that the allies had mad reo,lests upon the Armenians and tha they had more than done their shar in spite of Germany's attempt to WI them over, while today many nor thousands of their daughters are slavery. He made profound impress sion on those present at the luncaeoi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

.RR 7tTH the exception of certain W discontented element in Jeffer-
 son county, there is a remark able unanimity of sentiment throughout the state for the return of Oscar W. Underwood to the United States Senate
 At Montgomery during the past week there were men from all sections of the state, and everyone reported that Under wood would carry his county by an overwhelming majority.
 The Musgrove boom has almost en- tirely spent itself. It has been largely in the publicity columns of the news- papers, with the backing of compara- lively few actual voters. It was based upon the sole issue of prohibition, and. as that question has been settled, most of the old line active and actual pro- hibitionists are outspoken for Under wood
 The other announced candidate is really seldom heard of. and the politicai pre- dictions in Montgomery are that his total vote in the state will not reach the t@ mark.
 In Jefferson county there is opposition to Underwood nurtured by discontented and agitating alleged labor element The leaders of this element are outspoken in criticism of Underwood's position on the railroad bill. They desire to show their
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
MED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN
 BEING MADE AGAINST OSCAR UNDERWOOD

or the campaign newspapers have ralliedl to his support thousands of voters who were heretofore somewhat lulSewarm
 As things stand today Underwood wil poll by far a greater vote than has here tofore been cast for him. and his eIee- tion will be overwhelming.
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 Speaking of political contests. they areI more or less quiet under the present eiee- tion laws. There is seldom any excite ment on eleetion day. The street hack and the automobile bedecked with the banners of candidates are no loAger seen. The professional politician %nd vote buyer is no longer allowed around polling places and election days are usually dull But when the women do get in it there will be some hot old times The news papers will be, filled with political stuff. The events of the past few days have proven that women are great takers and some scrappers. When jealousies are aroused they speak out in meeting in nc uncertain terms They have more delicate way of doing it than some men politicians. but the meaning is alwass manifest. Their printed matter gives the men something to talk about.
 How we men do gossip about what the women say.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

his views in favor of the anti-strike clause of the bill.
 But when these men are asked for whom they propose to vote, they are in doubt. They don't see where they can dc anything for themselves by voting fo- either of the other candidates They find nothing in the record of either to base vote upon.
 As matter of fact in tnderwood's many years of service in Congress he has always been friend of the actual laboring man and has been supported by them in all of his political contests. To- day the indications are that fully 80 per cent of the actual working men in the Birmingham district are for him; but there is a decidedly noisy element against him at the present moment.
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 A sentiment among a certain element of woman suffragists is against him. Some of the hot heads in the recent Chicago convention composed a song roasting him, so to speak But such leaders as Mrs. Jacobs have denied emphaticaily that they had anything to do with it
 However, in all political organizations. whether of men or women, there are hotheads and those who indulge in rabid criticism and abuse.
 As matter of fact the attacks which have been made on Underwood and the abusive stuff about him printed in some
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
Many Cities Dissatisfied
 With Census Enumeration

IF Birmingham falls below two J hundred thousand in its census count, there will be, of course, great disappointment. But this will not be the only city dissatisfied. A score or more of the larger communities are already prepared to ask for a recount. N
 The supervisors have done the best they could with the shortage of ma tcrial from which they had to select their enumerators. In many cases the persons selected were ineffi- cient.
 It was different in 1910. In only three or four cities did the census bureau order a new enumeration. If Birmingham makes good case in the matter of poor showing, Super visor Cruikshank will be authorized to try it again.
 The trouble is the lack of public spirited and intelligent cooperation on the part of the public. Especially in the congested boarding house dis tricts have many inhabitants been overlooked. If Birmingham should have q new census, every civic as. sociation here should conscript its members as enumerators. In that Ixsy hieh-elass material in every in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
ADRIFr WITH THE TIMES
2,e)s3raea

hauled off thousands of dollars worth of household goods in broad daylight?
 "Yes."
 And they were not molested?"
 "No. Several policemen and grour of pedestrians were interested, specta tors. The robbers had foresight enougf to make one of their number stand ou' in the street and turn the crank of battered motion picture camera tha didn't have an inch of film in it, or Tense either
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
Of Far-Reaching Interest
 To Birmingham and Mobile

A MOTHER epochal turn in the de- A velopment of the Birmingham district ana the Port of Mobile is at hand.
 The announcement made by Presi- dent George Gordon Crawford of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company that thS Chickasaw City will sail from Mobile for Rotterdam the latter part of April and that the Birmingham City will sail from Mo- bile for Japan some time in May, each carving a cargo made up half of steel products and the remainder of such miscellaneous freight as may offer. is of direct and vital inter- est to industrial and maritime Ala bama.
 The ships were built of Alabama steel at the Chickasaw plant. Each has a capacity of nine thousand six hundred tons, and is of model con- struction.
 When the Tennessee Company be- gan to make steel rails, several years ago, long stride was marked. Expansion was ever the policy of the United States Steel Corporation, which controls the operating com Dsnies here and at Mobile, and since lits first venture in rail making it lhas expended vast millions in exten- sion and has built stupendous plant for the fabrication of various stee commodities. It has made Fairfield a great industrial city and Chicka saw is fast assuming the proportion: of large, modern community. | Ten years ago what seemed only a dream is now a reality The raw material for steel making is here iron, coal and limestone-and nov to the profitable domestic trade il to be added huge foreign business. I The first sailings will be watched I with keen interest by the gulf regiol and in fact by the whole south.
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 How America Turned t1e Tide is tn little of an article in the Atlantic Monthly In order to avoid lacerating John Bull feelings any more than is necessary, i might be a good idea to content ourselve in the future with merely calling atten ton to the fact that, we were amoni
 those present when the Hun was licked x * *
 Thirty-three unions comprising the Chi
 cago Building Trades Council will de mand SIPS an hour for their members instead of the s1 scale adopted last au : itumn. What does it profit builder t > hx his wages at s1.25 an hour if peopl
 with capital. tired of being gcuged, re
 fuse to build?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
FINE SPORT.

Where did you go this afternoon? asked MT. Dubwaite, as he slipped hi coffee.
 "Down town said Mrs. Dubwaite.
 well. did you enjoy yourself?'
 T certainly did. I met Mrs. Gadde and had perfectly lovely time tallSin' to her as if I hadn't heard that she ant MT. Calder had, separated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
FRESH MATERIAL.

FRESH MATERIAL.
 "Theres another circulation war being vased bv the Clarion and the Eagle. What started hostilities again?'
 IA new family moved into Chiggers- ville the other day. The editors of tae Clarion and the Eagle both claim pri- ority rights in soliciting subscription from the head of the family"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
IN A SNUG BERTH
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

r
 Franklin K. Lane. safe in $50,000- a-year place with great oil company, may view cabinet crises with philoso- phy. His knowledge of the country's natural resources come in handy; as it did in Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
AUDIBILITY IS HIGH

From the Indianapolis Star.
 Sephus seems to be hampered by low visibility in his bombardment of Ad- miral Sims.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
AtI. AROARD FOR CANADA

From the Baltimore American.
 For the vacation seeker, Canada is bound to be land of punch and prom ise this summer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

I count myself in nothing else so happy,
 friends,
 And as my fortune ripens with my love, It shall be still my true Iove's recom-
 pense, -Richnrd H.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
THE WORM TURNS.

"A committee to see you, sir" said the secretary.
 "what does the committee ws-''t ?' asked Mir. Grabcoin, in his crossest man sner.
 Ut has a plan to lay before you, rut couldn't get the chairman to tell me what kind'
 q know what kind of plan it is. It's the sort that spells 'T-o-u-c-h.' Tell the esteemed committee I've gone to Florid' and may run over to Cuba where s'roie drink rages and wine is still mocker-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
DON'T WALK.

.Tbe highways may be calling YOU, To rise and roam afar' But let, lem keep on caliln5 Fou' ] Unless you own car Pedestrianism's on the blink
 As you may shortly learn From motorists who seem to thihN All roads were made to burn:
 i PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

theatre and see Charley slapstick in his latest comedy, The Dog House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22
WISnOM

WISDOM. Tn life's hard school Are lessons learned That may be to One's profit turned. Successful men Who win great stakes Don't ever make The selfsame breaks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-22

ALMOST A PHoToPLAY.
 cYou mean to tell me these robbers drove q truck up to residence while the ou.,er and his family were away and