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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
EmpIoycs' Profit Sharing Plan

An especially attractive offer to em- ployes to become joint owners of tho business has just been announced by Libby McNell & Libby, large Chicago manufacture of food products" said II. H. Schwartz, manager of the Bir- mingham department of the company.
 Tt is proposed to give the employees the privilege of purchasing the com pany's stock al par, thus allowing them to share in the profits of the business. The privilege is available to every em- ploye who has completed six monthso service.
 The company already has in opera tion another plan under which an em- ploye may buy the companys shares at the market price, but the proposed plan goes further in the field of profit sharing by permitting the employe to buy from 10 to 50 shares at par Slo per share. He is given two years with in which to complete the payments. Libby. McNeill & Libby now has about 5000 employees and it is eX- rected and earnestly hoped by the di- rectors that every eligible employe VIII subscribe for the company's stock under this plan. The directors see in large number of .employe Shareholders great possibilities for the development Of personal interest in the business anu in the company's welfare.
 "The present. offer is made in connec- ton with a new issue of stock. The employees are being given the rlghts to subscribe at the same price as the Ishs reholders with the added privilege of deferred payments"
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perarcei that have their own reward
 "Childhood's happy hour" is by nc means filled with rapture; there is nc adult distress so real and so all-oblit-. erating as the grief of a child. FtfX the child has not the experience or tM ncwledge that are the foundation stones of faith. The child cannot see rast the minutes to the hours and be. ycnd the hours to the years. The im- mediate grief is the great reality, and it is all there is
 The secret of the enjoyment of life is not in the possession of those who forever are in quest of something new. An old friendship. tried by time, sea- soned by sympathy and by the division of the burden If eimposes, is the best Married folk who have been partners these long years would not be happy Gas rule) to dissolve the long-stand. ing partnership in favor of a girlish bride or boyish groom. The twain in growing old together have realized a community of spirit that brings tc both a felicity tranquil and enduring In ways that are more significant than mere appearance, each has come to seem to the other rairer and dearer than in the radiant morn of youth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02
SCOTCH TRADITIONS

J. H. IT, in the Edinburgh Scotsman.
 A SHORT time ago I asked some A young English friends, whose
 personal Knowledge of Scot land was nil, and whose experience of it's inhabitants was of the slightest, to give me their conception of Scottish character. The results were such as to set me thinking what we Scots had done to deserve such a doubtful repu- tation. Mean, mercenary pedantic boorish, lacking 8 sense of humor worshipers at the shrine of strong drink-such were a few of the testi- monials conferred on our unfortunate fellow countrymen.
 Doubtless the writings of such men as pr. Johnson and sydney Smith have done much to spread false ideas about the northerner. and even to keep alive the now feebly flickering flame of a race antipathy which had it's birth in the mists of antiquity. Yet I venture to suggest that the jokes we frequent ly tell against ourselves keep alive many widespread fallacies. A word spoken in jest is often heard in earnest and collections of anecdotes, such as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02
America Will Not Assume
 a Mandate Over Armenia

MOUBTLESS President Wilson's W recommendation of an Ameri- can mandate for Armenia was more or less perfunctory. It was coldly re- ceived by Congress and will be re- jected.
 The reasons which make such an undertaking on the part of America impractical, particularly at this period of unrest in the world, are not entirely selfish. There is genu- inc desire in America to give Ar menia all the aid that can be extended to her without involving ourselves in grave complications which would in the end be bad for us and worse for Armenia.
 If the United States becomes a party to the League of Nations, our gOVeTnnl6HJ Will De III pOSlOiOlA IO safeguard the interests of all the smaller nations whose rights and lib- critics may be imperiled by stronger neighbors, but only to the extent to which the league develops the power to enforce it's decrees and lives up to the ideals of its founders.
 If we do not join the league, then an Armenian mandate would place America in the attitude of trying to protect, single handed and at a great distance, a small nation exposed to plots and intrigues on every side. The time might come when we might aither have to abandon Armenia or fight strong coalition of selfish Flu ropean powers. The League of Ma sions will amount to nothing without America, alone capable of disinterest- ed work in behalf of Europe and Asia, where the age-old animosities and conflicting claims still exist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02
"OUIDA'' AS FRIENDS KNEW HER

w. H. Mallock, in Harper's Magazine for
 June.
 N speaking of novels I am led on to HI mention an authoress whose fame
 was concurrent with Whyte Mel ville's, and whose visions of modern so- ciety were not altogether unlike his own visions of Babylonia. This authoress was "Ouida" Ouida lived largely in world of her own creation, peopled with for eign princesses, mysterious dukes-mas- ters of untold millions-and of fabulous English guardsmen whose bedrooms ip Knightsbridge barracks were inlaid with silver and tortoise shell. And yet such was her genius that she invested this phantom world with a certain semolance of life, and very often with certain poetry also. In some respects she was even more striking than her books In her dress and in her manner or fife she was an attempted exaggeration or the most exaggerated of her own 1e- male characters. For many years she occupied a large villa near Florence. During that time she visited London
 
 once. There it was that l met her
 She depicted herself to herself as personage of European influence. and imagined herself charged with mission to secure the appointment of Lord Lytton as British ambassador to Paris. With this purpose in view she called one day on Lady Salisbury, who never having seen her before, was much amazed by her entrance and was still more amazed when Ouida, in confidential tones. said. q have come to tell you that the one man, for Paris is Robert" Lady Sails bury's answer was not very encouraging. It consisted of the question, AnT pray. Eff you please. who is Robe Y In 3 general way, however, she re ceived con siderable attention. and might have re ceived more if it had not beer for her reckless ignorance of the cosapiexitlas of the London world. In wfsateNeg com pany she might be in. her fifsS Arxiety was to ingratiate herself th thlf most important members of it, pat Ste was constantly making mistaks IS wao the most important members were Taus, as one of her entertainers- ioet Zane told me. Ouida was sitting afles dinner between Mrs VI, the rntstress of one of the greatest houses u spndoal and 2
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one finds in Dean Ramsay's delightful book of "reminiscences, form happy hunting ground for the man who seeks to point an accusing finger at our na- tional idiosyncracies. However ra- tion which can afford to have joke at its own expense, must rest on a good, solid foundation.
 1t is an old, but debatable saying that
 The false Scot sold his king for a groat." referring, of course, to the handing over of Charles I to a willy English Parliament; and the hoary chestnut of the Scot who had been
 half an hour in London. when -.bang went saNpence,' is widely known. This nlcanness, which we on our side of the border would call thrift, is an ever green subject of reproach. Said Scot to an Irishman one day: Why is it, Fat, that farthings are coined in Eng land?" Why, Sandy, me boy. replied Pat, "shure and it's to give Scotchmen an opportunity of subscribing to char itable institutions" Another theory presumably made in England is that farthings were coined in Scotland ex- pressly for the church offerings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES

THE WEDDING Familiar strains are in the air, The bridesmaids, too. are wondrous
 fair,
 But oh. the bride, Who to q floral altar sweeps And in stately measure keeps Her pa beside! Aud when the fateful words are said, In reverence. with lowered head. Triumphant sound The organ pipes. their thunder pealed And then the bridegroom stands re-
 vealed
 In shackles bound
 COSTLY REMOVALS I'm afraid the Jibways won't take a trip this summer" What's the trouble?" "Mr. Jibway says there are too many tonsils coming out of his family and not enough money coming in"
 THE FATE OF EFFUsIoNs June hrows the poets into rhap- sody."
  T manage to keep my head said the editor when it comes to, throw ing"
 "Yes?"
 At least I'm still good judge of distance where the waste basket is concerned"
 THE REASON The suffrage candidate has with drawn from the race"
 50 I hear"
 but no other lady aspires to fill her shoes"
 Tt is rumored that they are lives, ;,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02
LUKE MLUKE SAYS

When the children in some homes see napkins on the table they know that Company is coming to dinner.
 After watching a Princess for a while you get the idea that 1t is fel- ony for her to act. natural.
 Some people get so wrapped up in Foreign Missions that they forget to drop a dime in the tin cup Of the blind man on the street corner at home.
 After man has been married for a while he wonders why women are known as the Weaker Sex
 And it is just as we'll not to place too much faith in the man who IS so honest that he keeps on telling you about it all the time.
 Furry how a girl can play tennis Tor four hours when sweeping out the front hall for her Mother would give her lame back.
 In spite of the decree that skirts are to be longer. mighty few girls will be arrested for not having visible means Of support.
 A woman never gets so broad-minded that she can't put narrow skirt on over her head.
 And. on the other hand. many a narrow minded woman is so broad that she has to 60. through door sideways
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02
Birmingham Rejoices
 With Jolly Shriners

TN spite of a shower or two, 9 "Shriners' Day" was a success that was to have been expected of an order whose undertaking is character ized by the kind of whole-hearted enthusiasm nothing can dampen, whether it is proposed to have a jolli- fication or build a new temple.
 Many visiting Shriners from other parts of Alabama helped to swell the gay throngs which crowded the downtown district yesterday. The parade was one of the most striking ever held by the order in Birmingham, and was probably the largest. Thou sands of red fezzes were in line, their owners stepping along briskly to the music of several bands, the gorgeous uniforms of the Shrine patrol and band adding no little to the pictur- sequences of the procession. Poten- tate Hubbard seated on an oriental throne, his corpulent person famed by two, slaves" whose skin was Inder the suspicion of having been dyed, was restful to contemplate.
 The Shriners and their guests had a most enjoyable time. Their good humor struck a most responsive note in the crowds who witnessed the pa- rade. A small army of candidates for initiation bringing up the rear, "as lambs to the slaughter" showed how fast the organization is grow ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02
Clean Justice

"Birmingham's police court is one or the only courts of it's kind in the coun- try where absolute justice is given inn partially, whether the defendant De black or white, male or female, sald Frank D. Stacy, transient in the city who was a witness in the police court some time ago.
 My work throughout the south brings me into touch with courts or all kinds, and it is seldom that one so fair is found as the one you have here.
 "One of the finest things which l believe I have ever heard a judge of a police court say, and what may be the spirit which gives effectiveness to the court of Birmingham. was what l heard Judge Martin state as the pur- pose of his court. He said something like the following:
 "The purpose of this court is not to find the defendant guilty or inno- cent and assess fines, but it is to in cite a spirit of cooperation with the law in the hearts of those brought be- fore it''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02

were blowing them in. l In a word, Birmingham has come
 to summer with a full head of steam
 on and the track ahead clear. # * * | In kissing each member of the social | lst committee which called on him at
 the federal penitentary in Atlanta to l notify him of his nomination for the
 presidency, Debs revealed unsuspected
 Gallc fervor. Various factions in Germany are said to be waiting for somebody to start l something" The militarists will gladly | assist any little movement of a revo- lrtionary nature
 M Carpenter looked bored when he tarrived recently in Chicago. The Amer ican people don't seem to realize that
 there is such thing as being fled up on applause. * # $ There is probably no truth in the re-
 port that General Wood has agreed. in the event of his nomination and election.
 to use Ivory" soap exclusively in the White House laundry. * # x Recognition of the Mexican government
 will depend on iss stability and good be- havior That is almost equivalent to
 saying recognition has been indefinitely postponed.
 The Armenian mandate created about
 as much enthusiasm in Congress as
 might be expected from a proposal to reduce the congressional salary. * # * The Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists and Guitarists is holding a convention in Atlanta Is there room in that distin- guished gathering for the lowly ukulele? # # # Attacks on magazine fiction are made from time to time, but nobody is bold
 enough to disparage the girl on the cover
 While Belgium has dispensed with the benevolent services of Herbert Hoover. it still leans heavily on another distin- guished American, J. Pierpont Morgan. 1 # * # A popular photograph record is, Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes" which | is we'll adapted to present conditions in
 America.
 The new President of Mexico is suf-
 fering from appendicitis. still, an in-
 flamed appendix is preferable to a bullet
 in the back * x # A seeress predicts that the next Presl- dent of the United States will be a bald
 headed blond. She probably judges of
 his coloring by his whiskers. j, * * The paid informer will help prohibi-
 tion enforcement officers to locate stills"
 but $ isn't much reward for exposing | oneself to the business end of shotgun. * * E l Greater freedom for women should in- clude the one-piece bathing suit which
 permits greater freedom of movement in
 the water.
 Governor Allen got the better of his largument with Sam Gompers by neat
 reference to the downtrodden public. * *s # | Let George do it. has been succeeded
 in Europe by a new slogan-"Let the
 Poles do it."
 I The increase to be granted postal em-
 ploves will not put them in the market
 for motor cars.
 x # F 1 Joe Humility has lived through so many 'breaks he bids fair to attend Wood
 row into retirement, * * * 1 Direct communication with the White
 House will enable President Wilson to
 keep tab on Mir. Bryan at San Francisco.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02
IMPOSING FRONT

IMPOSING FRONT Senator snortsworthw has been ing public life many years" "He has 6 grand air about him" Quite so. I've seen him lay cor ner stone with flourish that would make you think he had financed the entire building"
 MILDLY AMBITIOUS Why did you advance s1.eoO.ooo to promote this candidates presidential boom?"
 T wanted to do something for my conntry' replied the citizen of great wealth.
 And you had no personal a4Aei- tions?"
 ~Wen, hoped somebody would point me out at the inauguration" CHEER FOR MUNITIONS MAKERS' Through weary years of strife,and woe The world has won to peace; Or so men say, but well we know That wars will never cease
 AT 4 DISADVANTAGE
 Genius and long hair are not in- separable." remarked Mr. Gadspur. Tt depends on what you regard as genius said MT. Dubwaite
 "Ererhaps so
 I've known baldheaded men to make success of running railroads, stea rlants and steamship lines, but they cut a poor figure in an atmos- phere of tea. cigarette smoke and soul stuff" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02
"rhings Worth seetngy

Members of the clean life boys class of the First Christian Church will show number of picture slides in connec ton with the prayer meeting tonight. Things Worth Seeing in Our Country will be the subject of the slides.
 Following the slides a free will of- fering will be taken up for the pur- pose of sending delegates to the h. ternational Sunday school camp al Lake Geneva
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02
Be Home Soon

My brother, Capt. Courtney Henley, who is at present at the Walter Reed hospital at Washington, drove his car from here on his return visit there,' said Walter Henley. T am glad to know that in a short while he will be able to return to Birmingham. It took much longer for his wound to hea. than the surgeons had expected, but at last it appears that he can be per- He has had a tedious time of it, but through it all was a good sport. 1 am sure his many friends will be glad to know that he will soon be home for good"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02

of life and trade, will find lucrative positions that those without this knowledge will not discover.
 Latin America is just over the bor- der by land and water. If we neg lect our neighbors those farther away will not. The choice is ours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02
Member of the Associated Press

The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingh nam carrying the Associated Press dls- patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusVeiy entitled to the use for publication or all news dispatches credited to lt or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pupllsleo therein.
 All rights of republication or speclai disnatches herein are also reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02

pIacei O form! How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit. Wrench awe from fools, nnd tie, the wisest souls To thy false seeming.
 Measure for Measure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02
Washington Bureau. 500 Davidson

building.
 European Bureau, 10 King street Covent Garden, London, w. c. Z.
 Eastern business office orlo building, New York city; western ousi- ness office, Tribune building. Chl- cago. The S. c. Beckwith speclal Agency, agents for foreign advertlslns'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02

was here at her best. No one could { have been more agreed ble and less at fected than she. vulgar little Irish peeress who was only present on sufferance. Ouida treated the former with the coldest and most condescending inattention, and devoted every smile in her possession to an in- innate worship of the latter. When, how ever, she was in companies so carefully chosen that everybody present was worthy of her best attention. and so small that all were willing to give their best attention to her. she showed her. self so I was told. most agreeable woman.
 Thus forewarned as to her ways. found that such was the fact I gave for her benefit a. little luncheon party at the Banchelors' Club, the only guests whom asked to meet her being Philip Stan hope and Countess Tolstoy (now Lord and Lady Weardale), Lord and Lady Hythswood and Julia, Lady Jersey. Ouida arrived trimmed with the most ex- uperant furs, which. when they were re- moved, revealed a costume of primrose color, costume so artfully cut that the moment she sat down ali eyes were dazzied by the sparkling of her small protruded shoes. In word, she quite looked the part. and, perceiving tps impression she had made. was willing to be graciou sto everybody. As we were going upstairs to the luncheon room this effect was completed. Lady Jersey laid caressing hand on her shoulder and said, You must go first The en- tertainment is in honor of you, Ouida
 
 JUNE ON THE THRESHOLD By Clinton Scollard Sometimes upon the threshold of this
 hour
 We long that time should pause eter-
 nally.
 With one faint bird note drifting
 from tree. And twelve faint, bell notes falling
 from tower As do the petals of the rose in flower: The moon above in pale Fz-ility With white half visible stArzs aey
 company
 shedding their light as ii @ slivefs
 shower.
 Perhaps the distant cadence of tns
 main
 Remote as is its murmur h sheil Or far amid the hills the winds soft
 rune;
 These. and no more. to make coz j
 plete the. spell c Of poignant loveliness as keen as pan That comes with coming oS the tsss
 of June.
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east was blowing out furnaces, we were blowing them in.
 In word, Birmingham has come to summer with a full head of steam on and the track ahead clear.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-23
GOV. HARDING
AS DARK HORSE
Charles Rawson Also Might Trot Into
Ring in Case State Convention
Cannot Pick Candt
date.

DIES MONIES, Iowa, June %
There are two political steeds now
hidden in the Iowa republican dark
horse stable, awaiting the state con-
vention, it is reported.
w. L. Harding and Charles Raw
son both are being quietly groomed
by friends for the guvernozship nom
inatfon, in case none Of the four who
ran in the primary proves acceptable
to the convention.
The Harding movement has symp-
toms of statewide scope, and 1t is be-
ing very generally discussed among
politicians in Des Miones. The Raws
son boom is not SO important 1t is
believed that neither Of the princi-
pals is engineering these matters.
There is no thought that either will
enter an active campaign for dele
gates and nothing is being done be-
yond some preparation of sentiment
for a switch to a dark horse in case
there is a deadlock on the governor
ship.
1t is believed by some observers
that the Harding movement has no
real intention of nominating the gov
ernor for third term, but is designed
to guard against the nomi-
nation of H. M. Havner.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-06-23
Former keokuk Woman is One Of
Seven Found Guilty Of Contempt
Of Court by Judge in
Chicago.
SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER
Court Proceedings Grew Out Of Fight
to Put Man in at Head Of the
Schools When TWO Want
Job.

A former Keokuk woman, Mrs. Lulu
Snodgrass, a member Of the board OF
education in Chicago, was fined $500
by judge in court there, on findings
of contempt of court Mrs. Snod.
grass is the wife Of Dr. Snodgrass, a
former dentist in Keokuk, and she has
been prominent in Chicago education
al circles since the family moved
there, and has been one of the mem
bers who has been more or less in the
storm center over the superintendent
of schools there.
DR.. Charles H Chadsey and Peter A.
Mortensen have been the focal points
in the school board fight in Chicago
for some time, and contempt pro
Iceedings have resulted following the
courts order to reinstate DR.. Chad
Sey. -.
The following is from the Tribune:
Nine members of Mayor Thompson
school board, together with its attor-
'ney, were sentenced to Jail or to pay
fines or both yesterday by Judge Kick.
ham Seaman.
The action followed litigation grow
ing out of the determination of the
Thompson administration to deprive
DR.. Charles E Chadsey Of tho Office
of superintendent of schools. Judge
Seaman held that DR.. Chadsey had
been legally elected. The school board
ousted him regardless. The sentences
and fines are imposed on charges Of
contempt Of court, of which the nine
members of the board and the attor-
ney were found guilty.
There we're seventeen defendants.
OF the seven who escaped punishment,
Peter A. Mortenson, superintendent,
was denounced by the court. Judge
Seaman declared that while de was
obliged to find Mr.. Mortenson not
guilty, the latter presented the mean
est figure in the case from an ethical
standpoint"