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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
Mir. Dempsey's Status
 As a Fighting Man

1T JUST a word or two in regard to cU the Hon. Dempsey and the charge that he was a stacker during the war. His manager asks in tear ful tones why so many people seem disposed to pick on Dempsey when there were approximately 23,000,000 other men in the United States ex- empted from military duty
 1 The question is easy to answer. Dempsey poses as the champion fighting man of the world When the greatest of all fights was go- ing on it was but natural to expect that he would be there, regardless of any other considerations. Carpen- tier made sacrifices and took part in the war. It is painful to confess that more than one American ath- lete was rather backward in this re- ] spect and preferred non -combatant duty. But, whereas we might ex- cuse a baseball player, a professional fighter is horse of another color. Unless he is ready to retire, the front l is the place for him when his coun- l try is at war.
 Americas professional fight CTS, some 2,000,000, suffered perils and hardships abroad, and many of them died, for $30 month and their keep. Contrast that pittance with Dempsey's income, during and after the war. The charge against Demp- sey is that he is fighter who didn't fight. That is the difference between his war record and that of the 23,OOO, ,00O other men exempted for various reasons, satisfactory to the government.
 Last Sunday the rotogravure sec tion of the New York Times con, tained two pictures of Dempsey "at work" during the war, as a shiI riveter and as blacksmith. In botf 
 pictures he obviously struck pose
 for the camera. His overalls were
 immaculate, he wore new paten
 leather shoes, buttoned up the side
 and if there was any grime or :
 drop of precipitation on his noble
 brow it did not show.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
-----7-7- v<sELFIsH LINCOLN

From the Houghton (Mich.l MlllHg "
 zette.
 The most imposing charaeteristlc or A''- raham Lincoln was his unsst stfishness, More has been written about Abraham Lincoln than about any other President H;s wonderful achievements have been rH- corded in many volumes. His ideal per sonal life is a model for American man hood. His conduct in every national emergency points the way to emulation for other presidents with like problems to solve. But over and above all else inc wonderful lack of sef-interest of tho man during his whole career stands forth to challenge our admiration Always and invariably Lincoln considered the other
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
; BRIEF COMMENT

Kansas City Star: War has begun again ir the Balkans, dispatch says. Well, what about it? Isn't that the place for wars to begin? It looks all perfectly reg ular to us.
 Houston Post: General Howze says the hatred of Mexicans for the United States is growing in Mexico. Is it hatred or contempt?
 Louisville Courler-Journal: New York has a thirteen-mile street without a church, but never until January Is a
 Nashville Banner: Editor Bottomley of John Bulle should have lived 15O years ago. The sort of stuff he is writing now. English editors were writing then, and it lost England continent Cleveland Plain Dealer; Utah has now tctally prohibited cigarettes Utah, it will be remembered is largely populated by Latter Day Saints.
 Cincinnati Enquirer Among the aspi- rations of our later years is that we may even yet be found worthy to receive brickIayer's or plumbers wages. Selma Times: Over in Georgia they are preparing to run Underwood for Presl- dent while in Alabama a movement is taking shape to defeat him for the h'eh office he so signaly adorns As ihe Ase-Herald well says the movement IS a ,aflect;on on the political common sense of inc state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
Has Novel Ernerience.

Somebody said some time or other All things come to him who waits, and I suppose he was more than halt right" said Dave Rich. Anyway l col lected 50 cents in New York the other day I'd waited for since 1903.
 Here is the story. In New York last week l walked into a shoe store had never been in before. and the manager stepped forward shook hands with me and said, How do you do, MT. Rich?' I said, My names Rich but your memory is better than mine. He then said, I worked for you in Birmingham in 1903. and when I left there I borrowed 50 cents from you to apply on my railroad ticket out of town. I've never seen you until now, but I want to pay you the money and took fifty-cent piece out of his vest pocket and handed it to me.
 This man didn't make good here, but has been quite successful in the big city and fholds a responsible posi- ton. The moral of the story, l sup pose. is to never turn down friend when he needs little money; it may help him on to success and you'll get it back if you wait seventeen years, more or less"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG

'FourScore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation. conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so con ceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great bat tlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as final resting place for those who here gave their lives that thal nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense We cannot dedicate, We cannot conse. crate. we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here. have consecrated il far above our power to add or de- tract The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here It is for us, the living, rather. to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for Us to be here dedicated to the great task re- maining before us; that from these honored dead we take increased de- yotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devo . ton. that we here highly resolve that these dead sball not have died in vain; that this nation, under God. shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
GospcI of Light.

T suppose because w c. Knopf' who handles the distribution of the Deleo Light Comany's product, is one of my deacons, is the reason l became so interested in the convention of their salesmen here" said Dr. R. N. Simp- son, pastor of the First Christian Church of this city. q have attended many religious gatherings, but I do not think l ever saw a body of men more zealously imbued with the spirit of missionaries than were the Delco delegates I daresay it's their en- thusiasm which is causing the com pany to make such a marvellous show ing. Every man of them was bubbling over withs loyalty to the organization and seemed to be possessed with the idea that 1t was his bounden duty to go out into the byways and the high ways preaching the gospel of better lights"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12

by Clinton Scollard Now do the sobbing sorrows of the year. Attend our footsteps wheresoeer we go: About the marbled altars of the snow The stars like frozen candle flames ap-
 pear. Atar, from unseen organ pipes we hear Down forest chancels fugues unfet-
 tered flow Like waves on outer reefs, now loud
 now low, Moaning as though about some lonely Net wait One day hand will smile
 chord
 To stir the stars to .luster on the heights,
 And We aeain to ecstacy shall win; Grief shall be banished through our
 new deiishts, For down the kindled hills and o'er the
 SWard
 Young Spring shall leap and dance like
 Harlequin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
A Lonesome Factor.

Since December 30 l have been every day active in behalf of good roads, said pr. B. F Riley, having been through the counties of Monroe, Conecuh. Butler, Geneva, Houston, Pike and Barbour every one of which am sure will go four or five to one in favor of the bond issue. My plan is that of simply giving the country peo- pie the information, and when they realize what it is, they are heartily favorable to it.
 While terrible county roads, rain, mud and harsh weather have been en- countered every day, these have serv ed as practical arguments in favor of good roads. It now seems as though every county in the state will favor the bond issue. So. overwhelming is the sentiment that any county found on the other side will be a lonesome 1 factor A new era has come to Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
IN HOTEL LCBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Ronds Aided Victory.


 "The road built by Caesar and Ma poieon in France were large factor in the winning of the world war ac- cording to General Mcdonald, who saw two years service over there" said w r. Feagin of Montgomery. T met him on the train the other day and when he asked me what I was doing told him was state campaign man. ager for the s25, 1000. .OO0O good roads bond issue and for once in my life was working for nothing.
 He told me there was nothing Alabama needed worse than permanent highways and declared that the good roads of France played an important part in the winning of the war. When the situation was most critical and il looked as if the Germans would take Paris 750.0OO soldiers were carried twenty three miles in twentytw two hours and eleven minutes.
 Had it not been for the excellent roads this would have been impossi- ble. General Mcdonald is an Alabama man and he declared it was a crime for any one to stand in the way of the ratification of the amendment for this state bond issue"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
UNEASY sLrMRER.

"The man who wrote 'Pangs of vir- tue. the most successful play of the sca- son. slept on a park bench last sum mer."
 He did eh?" replied the crusty old gen tleman. Well, he has nothing on me. I slept through his internal play in an uncomfortable theatre seat and paid the price of room and bath for the priv. ilege.n PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
MINDS CLEAR
A SERIOUS MATTER.

Are you worried about what is to be dcne with the Turk?" asked the stu dent of international politics
 Not at all" replied MT. Fanleigh. T don't care whether the Turk remains in Europe or rot, but there's some talk around this town of selling Spike Mig gies, the best pitcher we've got, to one of the big eastern teams. Now, that's my idea of something to worry about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
MosT EMBARRAssING.

'T notice Miss Yowler closes her eyes when she reaches for a high note"
 80 she does, but don't think there's any safety for you in that"
 What do you mean?"
 eThe last time she reached for a high note, and I stopped up my ears she opened her eyes and caught me in the act"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
ARKANSAS HEAnGEAR

From the Arkansas Thomas Cat.
 Judge Fatty Rawson was over at Lazy Hollow yesterday buying some summer supplies. He met a friend he had not seen before in fifty years. The man recS oSnized the judge by the hat he wore
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
PRISON CANDIDATES

From the PhiIadeIphia Inquirer.
 Eugene Debs. now serving a twenty year sentence in the Atlanta prison. has been "indorsed' for President by Okla hoina socialists with Kate Richards o'Hara, also doing time in Missouri pen, as their choice for vice president For a slogan we suggest ''vote the Con vict Tieketl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
EVEN SEE .GoINc Ip,,

From the Baltimore Americam
 company of actors held up in Florida by floods, is to be taken to it's destina- tion by the air route. It was merely a question of time when the airplane would go upon the stage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12

ed, the south hoped for continuance of Lincoln in the presidency, knowing full well that there would be less of rancor.
 less of hatred, less of antagonism toward
 their future if Lincoln controlled the destines of the nation. And Lincoln. meek
 to degree that made his enemies accuse
 him of lacking moral and physical ssam
 ina, went through his whole life con
 secrating every moment to an exem- plification of the highest principles of God and man. religious or philosophic, the principle of so ref1ecting kindness and love and regard for his fellow man that
 the world looks upon his memory as a
 heritage of true. ideal success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
MT. ARARAT

yama is 12,365 feet-the number of months and days in the year making this an easy thing to remember. Little Ararat, itself mightier peak than Fuji seems to nestle close in against Great Ararats heart though in reality between summit and summit of their sublime and grandly isolated majesties lies a chasm more than sixty miles across.
 The real mover which they reign I think of as a measure1ess shallow cup; it's edges-so far away that no word in ones language has sufficient reach to touch them-are roughly jeweled with points of Sapphire and amber. Sap phire and amber; and with pink lit black pearls for shadows; and changes under the suns slow moving rays to lapis lazuli and lavender. It was gusty storm punctuated afternoon in the greenest day of summer. and there were colors-marvelous colors!
 There was a paleA gray cloud above less silence and great snowf1akes sift- ing down. Away off on the opposite side of the cup an almost tropic rain storm, with yellow sunlight shining through and under and over it. was slanting crystally down across the Alaghez. E
 Tt repented the Lord that he had made man." so he sent the deluge and in time brought Noah in his ark-with his kith and kin and "of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort''-- to rest on Ararat while the waters and his colossal wrath subsided. The ark, they say, rested between Big and Lit tie Ararat somewhere in that eternaliy snow filled chasm that is sixty miles across. No, not just somewhere They point out the very spot, and tell you, quite as though they believed it to be true. that certain great personages stiR possess small pieces of the ark that have come down to them through the generations. Some souvenirs! Would you not say soy though few authenticated bits of the ark might be regarded as assets by a people whose account with the world is largely on
 the debit side of the ledger. I told them I could trade a genuine piece of
 the ark for at least cargo of flour and maybe make money on the deal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
A SIGN OF THE TIMES

From the Cincinnati Enquirer This sign, about five feet square, is painted on building in Dayton, o., that was formerly used as a beer bottling plant:
 Gus A. Sigritz.
 Soda Water Plant
 Ain't It He'll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
ADRIFvr WITH THE TIMES
PLURAL NUMBER.

q wish to sue man for breaches of promise"
 I" Breach of promise is the legal term. madam, said the lawyer
 q don't care. He proposed to me nine times, and if that isn't breaches of prom ise, don't know what you'd call iti'
 THE cHIGGERsvILLE CIRCUIT. "Is old MT Gabbleton stiu making his daily rounds?"
 "oh, yes" replied the village druggist. Its now half-past ten o'clock At this time of the morning he's usually at Lem Buckley's grocery store delivering an ora ton on the sins of the republican party. expect him to show up here in about thirty minutes and start his daily ha- rangue on the horrors of prohibition"
 MINDS CLEAR.
 Has prohibition made much ot a change in MT. Jagsby?"
 Decidedly"
 Tn what respect?"
 For one thing, he can frequently re- member where lie spent the evening"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
NAUGHTY TREES.

MT. Biobbs is a curious old fellow 'Wen2"
 He had every poplar tree on his place cut down"
 Why did he do that7-
 He said he got tired of seeing those trees .shimmy.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
Juvenile Gardeners.

The season has arrived when it is we'll to think about teaching agricul- ture in as practical for mas possible" i" said N. R. Baker, county superinten- Fdent of education. '"Where it is pos sible to have a school garden prepara-
 tions should begin at once Where a
 school garden is not feasible, pupils
 should be encouraged to have a home
 garden or to assist in home garden ing and make reports of progress to the teacher. It is very important that our state and county be placed upon self supporting basis as to garden vegetables. The cities of Birmingham and Bessemer afford markets for the juvenile gardeners of the rural dis trcts. It is practical way of teach ing not only agriculture but also thrift and economy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
No DEMAND FOR n.

At some time or. other, every man has expressed a fervd desire to kick him self"
 Sure"
 But if you were to invent a cheap and practical device which would enable man to give himself vigorous kicking, you wouldn't sen one a year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
Member of the Associated Press
\ scar nObIy got,

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 -iH'S Wei That Ends Well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-12
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There's No Base Like Home
BY H. C. WITWER
BY HI. C. WITWER

OF mine, I sold the entire plant through
my brokers' today. 1--why what's the
Il heard Jeanne give little cry 30
without no more further ado / pushed in
the door. The kid has fell into chair
and is shriekin' with laughter. l hadda
pound him on the back to bring him
around to where he could talk.
whats the large dear l bawis a.
The idea-oh yes" he chokes. jumpin'
up and putin his arms around the kinda
dazed Edith, The idea Is, old man,
about the funniest I've ever heard tell
OF. This moving picture company wn'cn
my fyture wife just solids the business
Just bought, that's all -
III say Il was enough, hey Joe?
Yours truly.
ED. HARMON tThe Strongest
Hope Of The Movies).
CONTINUED TOMORROW
Copyright, 1920, Doubleday, Page & 90.