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The New York herald., 1920-01-29
APPLEBY's CUE THE BEST.

r. s. Applebv. holder Of the Metropoli-
tan Challenge Cup. was the winner in the
evening game, defeating T. H ClarlSson,
tho Boston A.A. expert. by score OF 800
to 264. In winning the match the Hub
expert made the neat average Of 10 20-2s.
which is going pretty fast for a player in
his division. Appleby had a high run Of
so and Clarkson one Of II. Appleby and
Gardner are the leaders now. with two
and no defeats.
The New York herald., 1920-01-29
NEW STAMFORD TRACK COACH.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal, We'd
nesday.-Harry Maloney, who coached the
A. Z. +. track team which competed in the
inter-all games in Paris last summer,
has been engaged as coach and head
trainer of the Stanford track team. II
was announced here to-day. Dad" Moul-
ton, who coached and trained Stanford
track teams from 1901 to 1916, will be
assistant trainer.
The New York herald., 1920-01-29
international League Umpires.

y. +. Fultz. president of the Interna-
tional Baseball League. today announced
that he had appointed the following
umpires for the 1920 season Joseph
C'Brien, Thomas Corcoran, William b.
NJ. J. Stockdale, ]. J. Warner.
A. MCGOWAN, Augie Moran and
Dell Derr.
The New York herald., 1920-01-29
wEsLEYAN,s TRACK SCHEDULE

MIDDLErowN, Conn, Wednesday,
wesleyan's track schedule completed to-
day calls for these meets May /, Brown
at Middletown; May 8. New York Uni
versity at New York; May is, williams at
Middletown. May 22. New England Inter-
collegiates at Boston.
The New York herald., 1920-01-29

Service means Wear!
Wear means Satisfaction!
Where will you find more
agreeable service or greater
satisfaction than at our "four
convenient corners"
The best of clothing, fur
nishings, hats, shoes, sporting
goods and luggage for men
and boys.
ROGERS PEET COMPANY
Broadway Broadway
Mt 18th st. -Four at 34th st.
Convenient
Broadway Corners Fifth Ave.
st Warren at 4fst St.
The New York herald., 1920-01-29
PENN FIVE BEATS TIGERS.
Especial Despatch to the Her

Especial Despatch to the Herdld) =
PRINCETON. N. J., Wednesday. After
being played Off their feet in the first half
the ba sketball tossers from the University
of Pennsylvania came from behind in the
second period and defeated the Princeton
five by n score Of 81 to 2f here tonight.
In the opening period the Tigers played n
defensive game. and rolled UP II points to
the visitors 5, but later the Blue and Red
players broke through the opposing de-
fence and netted the ball from all angles
Of the floor. This was PENIS first game,
and places them in n tie position with Yale
for the league leadership. The summary -.
The New York herald., 1920-01-29
NAVY DEFEATS JOHNS HOPKINS
spccia, Despatch to the Herold.)

Especial Despatch to the HerdIdJ
ANNAPOLIS, Md, wednesday.-T.ie
Naval Academy defeated Johns Hopkins
in a basketball game 81 to 20. here this
afternoon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
FEAR NOT"

HEAR not? How help it? Europe the
 mighty upheav with ominous note of threat million maddned loosed ageong drunk with freedom and charge with berserk frenzy the the liberty reality them into of destruction Through questioning which and bold am
 the of the millions speaking through the The with impending revouaon holds arao!
 There fact of cling Beyond the darneod! Men afraid when the Eternal City fell before the onslaught of thought civilization had died Men afraid when the Hun crashed his Men afraid when the German thunded They God keeping His people hollow of His hand Always God breeding the fields of life God leading through darkness fuller
 God dead has He turned His from His people As the fields the valley of the Mne God rides the the The rolling and the Master seep He the boat with will when than face MIDDLETON FAREWELL"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
RIVER TRAFFIC ENDANGERED

MNHO trying to throttle traffic the Warrior river? WV Are the authorities at Washington responsible for condition which has serious that the entire future of the river traffic is jeopardzed?
 Thousands tons of freight ready be moved on the ver and there equipment. gigantic freighter the Mobile City lying Mobile ready to sail for Euope the load her in Birmingham and neither cars nor boats available get to the gulf The ancient boats on the srainng They going overloaded at but they make appreclabe hole Tn the pies of freight that must be moved
 Twenty months contracts let by the railroad admin
 raton for boats for the Warrior Not of the boats has delivered Some of them have not yet had their keels laid. Who is responsible for such un- pardonabe delay? Others get work done why can't the
 United States government? Since these boat contracts were 6OOon steel ships have been built at the Chckasaw yards there will to do work 1t be done
 The Secretary of War the responsible head of the depart ment which should have had these boats delivered long He conspicuous of the national administration Does the administration realize the enemies it is making shippers who suffering losses by this red tape method?
 Boats for the Mississippi river the condition those the Warrior Only two tow boats of the depart in operation the entire Mississippi river and equipment that contracted for and bound the of the Warrior equipment This the entire Mississippi valley Cant the ad realize that the big shippers the doubtful states valley who to blame and who could get results if the will there?
 It time for the people of this section themselves the matter quary before the Secretary of War and results If of kind is being utilized to handi the delivery of these boats the people entitled to know it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22

in the days of my ooyhood and my youth never dreamed that any Presbyterian ever entered the pulpit without carrying with him his sermon in manuscript would have looked upon one who failed ty read his discourse as being unorthodox. I'll not open the question of the ad- vantage or disadvantages in the preach CTS sticking to his written word, for there have been great names in the church given to both ways. I can only say that I pre- fer to hear those who Have freed them selves from the habit of following slav- ishly the printed page
 One thing, however, is sure, and that is no gust of wind can evcr sweep rown 1, on the pulpit and blow away the sermon of William States Jacobs, Tor he does not carry even d note n the puIpit with nfrn and what's mo- e. he dispenses with a Bible ever in tie reading of his text, for he carries d Ii. LIS memory, ahd simply announces where it can be found by those
 who care t. ger the context after he has finished and they have returned to their homes. Bat stranger still. he never reads a poem or prose extract. but stands and delivers the goods without any aide. Great is Jacobs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT HOW GOOD STREETS CAN BE HAD ALL AB OUT BIRMINGHAM

shell which will break through the first time a big truck with load of brick passes over it. Make the lot seller agree to pay any assessment for repairing which may be put upon you for ten years. Get an augur and bore down through the street and see for yourself. or go down to the city engi- neer and get the facts.
 By such methods the citizens of Bir- mingham will put stop to the f1imsy and shoddy paving of the past.
 # < <
 If merchant sells you shoddy stuff. you gol back and demand your money. I bought a ss5o bathing suit for my little seven-year-old the other day. She came out of the swimming pool looking like an Easter egg. The mer- chant was square and made good.
 Somebody should make good to the assessed property holders who have paid high prices for shoddy pavements. Dig out the fellow who gave you a shoddy pavement in front of your home and make him do it over again, and watch him while he is doing it. Don't just let him dump load of slag in the hole and spit on it and paint it over with a coat of tar. Make him do it right or refuse to pay your deferred notes until 1t Is done.
 It may be hard on somebody; but no harder than it is on you And in this way the property owning public will hereafter get real stuff for the money said public pays out.
 x x x
 The writer is to be stung for some TOO or more dollars to relay the pave ment in front of, his Cliff Road home, which has already been paid for once.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
EACH IN HIS OWN TONGUE

By William Herbert ~Carruth- A fire mist and plAnee-
 A crystal and . ceil- A jellyfish and a saurian.
 And caves where the cave men dwell; Then sense of law and beauty,
 And a face turned from the clod- Some call it Evolution.
 And others call it God. A haze on the far horizon
 The infinite. tender sky. The ripe. rich tints of the cornfieldA And the wild geese sailing high And all over the upland and lowland The charm of the goldenrod- Some of us call it Autumn.
 And others call it God. Like. tides on crescent sea beach, When the moon is new and thin. Into our hearts high yearnings
 Come yelling and surging in Come from the mystic ocean.
 Whose rim no foot has trod- Some of us call it Longing.
 And others call it God A picket frozen on duty
 A mother starved for her brood Socrates drinking the hemloek.
 And Jesus on the rood; And millions who. humble and name-
 less.
 The straight. hard pathway pled- Some call it Conservation.
 And others call 1t God
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22

I there had to be speaking, Morris Bush being president of the Rotarians. presid- ed. The stars of the occasion were Drs Henry Edmonds, John McNeill and Will liam States Jacobs. Our own Mawrus." | being, as it were, the middleman, but every now and then getting in good one or the target for the brilliant trio. N.
 
 It was in this famous play of wits that Dr. Jacobs proved that he was gaited for fast company, and able to think on his feet He has nimble wit and a Rabelasian humor which saves it from being over the heads Of the average American audience, for say what you please, our people are still fond of the .slap-ja style, and ready to applaud any man who is able to give and take sure enough verbal blows without wine ing I'll not recountsthe assaults and par ries of the quartet, but any one present will recall that they were fast and furious
 But I'll turn now from Jacobs. the man of the world. to Jacobs the preacher. for in the last analysis that is what he is, a great pulpiteer; but he is>more than a sermon maker, for he is renowned Presbyter (that is. if have used the right term to designate minister who is in thorough sympathy with his church and all of its organized agencies). It's tho combination of the two which has given him his great success as . pastor at Houston, and as a force among southern Presbyterians. It's rare that the two are found in one man, but when they meet |! 1t gives him an assured career in his denomination.
 About week ago, one afternoon I ran across Jacobs in the lobby of the Tut wiler. literally luxrriating on one of the big lounges. For wonder there was no crowi around him. for usually wher- ever he is he is soon the center of an anil mated throng, for among his many ac- | complishments he has the gift which is | rare in this country of being a good talker. CThere is all the difference in the world between a talker and a mono I loguist. the former being converted man and gives the other fellow chance to get in a word edgewise. while the lat ter is an unregenerate person who never leaves an opening)
 i! It was about o'clock when I dropped down by his side, and it was around $ when I got up. There were few open topics that we overlooked. and when we parted we had nearly settled all of the great ones Yes. we talked shop for whom two or more preachers are gath cred together, there is sure to come up the matter of sermon preparation. and naturally I was anxious to learn some thing of tbe-aaethods of the man who. to say the least about it. has put aside rhe old traditional habits of the church in
 which he was trained.
 Far be it for me. Baptist. to criticize the scholarly Presbyterian diyines. but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22

1EINALLY' through the efforts of lTJi The Age-Herald, the public has
 been aroused to the fact that thousands of square yards of worthless street paving has been laid hereabouts. Nobody assumes responsibility, and perhaps it would do no good. as every body concerned has been within the law"
 But the public and officials will be careful hereafter, and the paving com pany which lays a worthless pavement hereafter whether or not authorized by official, will be forever thereafter tabooed.
 The cloudburst in Birmingham Fri day afternoon amply demonstrated that proper drainage and proper foundation are necessary to lasting pavement.
 # x #
 One might as we'll build a house upon the sands as a street surface without foundation, or have drainage to run under house instead of away from 1t, as to run the water under a paving surface instead of away from 1t. Look at the puckered up streets in Birming- ham today!
 Watch the street paving contractors in Birmingham hereafter and see that they give you your moneys worth or refuse to pay your assessment.
 # < 4
 If you buy lot from any company on a newly paved street. make the com pany give you a bond to take care of that street for ten years. Don't buy a lot with water. and sewerage, and a paved street all of which you are pay ing for when you buy the lot, unless you know that you have a real paved street rather than a smooth surfaced
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
POSITIVELY BRUTAL

Well, my dear" said MT. Twobble have you decided how you are going Not yet" said Mrs. Twobble.
 How long do you think it will take you to make up your mindT'
 Oh, about half an hour"
 And yet you spend days picking out a hat.''
 John Twebble refuse to be brow beaten and bullied here in the pres. ence of our childrenw
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
WILLIAM STATES JACOBS---By Frank Willis Barnett

This is to be slight appreciation of the radiant personality of the man who has made the dog days-pass pleasantly here in Birmingham, for William States Jacobs has shed good fellowship over the whole community
 
 I had something to say awhile back about the great good fortune which came to William E. Johnson when he won the never-to-be-forgotten nickname of "Pus- syfoot." as it gave him first a statewide. then nationwide and at last a world wide -notoriety.
 There Is whole lot in a name Will liam S. Jacobs might prove a bit hard to remember, for the tribe of Jacob is an old and large one, but once be introduced to him as William States Jacobs, and the middle name will stick in the memory like a burr. never to be dislodged.
 
 said to him. Look here, friend Jacobs, tell me how it is that your parents bestowed such name upon you? Is it a family one, or were you just such a promising boy that they felt that nothing less than a state would be able to properly describe your restless spirits?" He laugningly made reply, "Some%here back among my ancestors there was a Jacobs so welded to vne doctrine of state rights that he was called States"
 Now if you haven't met or heard Will liam States Jacobs (and today is your last chance), you have missed reas treat, for socially he is just as charming as he is fascinating as speaker. He is one of tKe best mi-.=rs that ever hit this ourg and when il comes to impromptu talks before clubs he is a past master. for he has light touch, and is really a remarkable raconteur. A lot of people know some good jokes, hut few there be who have the art of tel'.7g them.
 The first time the man from Texas, with the great shock of hair, bursr upon my astonished vision. was at a dinner held in the room now used by the Tut wiler as its main dining room. I forget who it was in honor of or what it was about. but I'll never forget the water melon story as it was told by one Will liam States Jacobs, for it sent the great crowds into convulsions of laughter. cynic who sat by me tried to pooh pooh it by calling it an old one; but the age of a story has nothing to do with it. the way it is told is the acid test.
 There are lot of people, however. who can spin a corkins good yarn. but are helpless when it comes to repartee. 1 say this because the next time l heard states Rights Jacobs was at the bar tecue rendered the Kiwanis Club by the Rotary Club at Bayview. an outing which will go down in local history as one of the most delightful ever pulled off in the Birmingham district.
 The cue was all that it should have been. and after t was over. of course
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22

It is like a last years piowed field now. and has to be done, or he will be put in the old skinflint class But when it is done he will be on the watchtower every day, and proposes to get the full worth of his money: and to warn his neighbors to do likewise.
 # $. E
 Speaking about street paving. now that the women are about to vote and be a party to public affairs. we may expect to get well-paved streets and clean ones. They know something about the present cost of keeping clean window curtains and draperies; and will see that the street surfaces don't shed dust like shoddy carpets give off nap. They will see that the water wagon precedes the street sweeper and that the holes in the streets are patched. Or else somebody's scalp will be taken
 
 / It will not necessarily be the noisy and speech making suffragists who would rather perform in the newspaper columns than in actuality. but the women who like their dainty homes and who will quietly vote, who will insist upon thoroughness in public af- fairs.
 I am glad the womer are about to be with us and of us, and that they are to make clean towns and cities and see that the men do their work.
 For years Erskine Ramsay has been singing song entitled. Let the women do the work" Perhaps the women may put him to work now. It may be hard on one who has never done any for twenty five years; but he cannot learn over again any younger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22

through a receivership, George H. Nicholson and associates, of Kansas City, organized the National Cement Company and purchased this plant, which is now running.
 The Atlas and Southern cement plants in the Birmingham district have been in successful operation since they were built. There is now not an idle unit in any of the Ala hama cement mills.
 The present annual capacity of these mills is about three million bar rels and that of the Lehigh plant to be built on the eastern outskirts of the city will add another million bar rels. The Marquette Company is headed this way.
 The manufacture of cement Tn Ala bama has risen to great importance in the schedule of it's industries, and is destined to still greater strides, due to the unlimited supply of raw materials and the strategic position of the state as point of distribu- ton to the south, to the southwest and for export.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
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I sing of soups, cosmetics, Tobacco and cigars.
AN OPTIMIST

AN OPTIMIST
 Have you anything you want to- say before we spring the trap?" asked the sympathetic sheriff. After I fall through this trap-door am I legally executed? asked the con- demned man. Certainly"
 And I couldn't be hanged againY'
 "Of course not" Then all have to say is that I hope the rope breaks"
 SEASIDE YEARNIN0 A man stood by the tossing sea
 And said he'd like to swim it; We asked him what his goal might be. He said, 'The three-mile limit" TRUE GREATNESS.
 "A power in politics?" He speaketh and 'tis done" Why doesn't he run for office him.. self?s He prefers to be pointed out by the present generation and acclaimed by posterity as the man who put over a President" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
Persons in High Places
 Are Muddling a Tradition

N AVS the Columbia State, "One ID can but admire Governor Cox's adroitness in his rapid-fire attack on the front porch entanglements. In a recent speech he said, When General Pershing stood at the grave of La Fayette, he said, Lafayette, I am here" The republican candidate says: Lafayette, I am going |away."'"
 Will we never get the record straight on that historic speech at the tomb of the gallant marquis? The statement attributed to Pershing was, "LaFayette, we are here" although an enterprising advertising writer for the Southern Bell Telephone Com pany did put it in magazines as,
 ferShlng, nere we are.
 This noble sentiment went around the world. It was what Pershing should have said, what born orator would have said, but people who are in a position to know assert that Per- shing did not say it.
 Had Pershing addressed the shade of Lafayette with, Lafayette, l am here, it would have been an exhibi- ton of egotism of which even Colonel Roosevelt would have been incapable. Pershing is a modest man and he never would have used the pronoun of the first person singular at such a solemn moment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
A PROFOUND TRUTH

From the New York World.
 We doubt if a great and pressing po- ltical truth has ever been more felici- tously expressed than in this sentence from the editorial columns of Life
 There was more hopeful world leadership in MT. Wilson's little finger than there is in the whole collection of Lodge-republican senator's" !
 The sooner the American people come to understand it. the better it will be for themselves and their children and their children's children
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE
From the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News.
 Reducsd to practical application. there is little difference between the Hegelian concept of the state. which Is the philosophy of Prussian junkerdom. and the Marxian dictatorship of the proletariat. Both aim at the complete subjugation and enslavement of the people to a small. self-selected group.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22

Either the State is misquoting Gov
 ernor Cox or Governor Cox is unin-
 tentionally putting General Pershing
 in bad light. # # *
 Lillian Russell has offered to 20 on the
 stump for the republican ticket. If
 Jimmy Cox could obtain the services
 of Mary Pickford in similar capacity, the fight would be won. It may be un- kind to say so, but Mary hasn't been
 with us as long as Lillian F E Arthur Hammerstein says 1t was only
 tea that his chorus girls passed around in little bottles, but prohibition agents
 say he won't swear to it. If his patrons have spark of gratitude>fn them, they'll confirm MT. Hammerstein's statement. F E x It is most considerate of the Russian bolsheviki to be willing to recognize
 Polish independence. particularly while l the Poles are smiting them hip and
 thigh.
 Asked who would be Wilson's suc- either Cox or Harding" That's the kind of answer the Greeks used to get at Delphi. There was some talk of jailing a
 profiteer. but the Profiteers' Club has | never had to postpone, business meet 1 ing because there was no quorum
 present.
 When the Hon. Babe" Ruth hit his fortyt- -hird home run at the Polo Grounds
 fan who had a weak heart dropped
 dead martyr. if there ever was one. x * x The prohibition joke is still sure fire hit in vaudeville. but it will cease to create laugh when everybody has forgotten what a barroom looked like. # * * While Tennessees runaway legislators are sojourning in Decatur, they will have an opportunity to renew their aequaint-
 ance with the grand old game of poker. E F * A Chicago landlord who is reported to have refused an incyeased rental may
 shortly find himself in the hands ot
 alienists.
 Brother Ponzi didn't round them all up. A Nova Scotia farmer and sailor is plan
 ming to go over Niagara Fans in a barrel.
 x xx l Now that Mir. Wilson's weight has re- gained it's normalcy, he's probably tap ping the old typewriter in the spirit of 1sl7
 De La Huerta is said to be Something lnew in the way of Mexican president. New in the sense of verdant? - - A disillusioned citizen remarked the other day that the most overrated thing in the world is a raisin. E * x MT. Bryan remains in state of inde- cision, which is painful alike to himself and his admirers. E E x While Senator Harding may ignore Governor Cox. he is auir-. that such a
 person existA