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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22
CHARLES E. CHAPIN'S STORY

plea of guilty was motivated largely by his desire to escape from the Tombs T
 had spent four months in the dread ful Tombs," he says, surrounded by vicious and depraved men. I witnessed
 and heard things that made my blood
 run cold. The horror of it no pen can
 describe. Dante's conception of hell made it paradise as compared with the in- iquities of that bedlam of prison. Il realized that if had to endure it much longer a commission wouldn't need to|
 waste much time in finding me stark mad. God, what hole to stick men at my age is to be preferred to even one year in the Tombs." There is much in the book that has con-| temporary interest Many of the mex@ mentioned are still alive. Don c. Seitz, the Pulitzers, Abe Levy, George w. Wick ersham and the Sing Sing authorities|
 will find no fault with what is said about
 them. Chapin also pays deserved tributes| to the memory of Joseph Pulitzer and(
 John Purroy Mitchell. But his revelationsI
 of the cowardice, the meanness and the|
 pettiness of Russell Sage are so merci-| lessly bitter that the suspicion will notI
 down that the financier's failure to re-
 member his nephew in his will suggested this exquisite revenge For Chapn says
 that Sage promised him a legacy of $50o0d| and then reneged. | The Chapin book will arouse much
 discussion among newspaper men. There is hint in Basil Kings appreciativs introduction that it may be used in
 movement to have Chapin freed. But | the book itself forces the conclusion tha | the two years Chapin has already spent
 in Sing Sing have been among the hap
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22
Only Needed a Start

For the first time in history we had women clerks at the polls for the mu- nicipal election in Bessemer Monday,R said Joe Scott city clerk. When I called the women to notify them that they had been appointed to serve. one thanked me very politely and told me she appreciated the honor, but she had something else to do on this occasion. It happened that her sister came in sortly afterward and told her she had been selected to serve and must do so, for if, she didn't appear at the polls to look after the job assigned to her she would most likely be arrested and fined. This brought her out, all right, and although it was her first visit to the polls, she served like veteran"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22
Prompt Recovery
 in the Woolen Trade

HH HE status of the American
 l Woolen Company should be a good barometer of trade. President Wood says of this concern that "suf- ficient orders have already come in to make it safe to forecast that the woolen industry will have, rapid re- esvery from the past two months of expression"
 Another statement made by him to the Wall Street Journal is worth re- cording. He said:
 Some importing merchants who never could find anything good enough in America attended our ex- hibition in New York and placed their orders with us for the first time. I have no fear of foreign competition at present, as the industry abroad seems to be shot to pieces and could not touch the American Woolen Con- pany in workmanship"
 There are other adjustments which are going to come out of the process of readjustment on the heels of this large one, because the wants of the nation demand the stuff and will take
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22
REVENGE

Oscar Williams in Poetry. have come out of my grave For my revenge upon death, Who bound me to a wind-swirle
 gnarled crag, And set the stars picking at my bont Like million tiny vultures; Long, long before Prometheus, 2, too, had stolen fire, greater ths lis!
 But now I have come out of my grave For my revenge upon death; Out of the curves of petals, The curves of my face; Out of the caverns of the windS The little caverns of my lung0s Out of the sunlight and moonlight. The glimmer of my eyes; Out of the rains and snows, My hearts cataract of plunging flame Out of the tip-toeing twilight. The hush of my soul. Oh. have come out of my grave For my revenge upon death For the little revenge men call li1A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Words of Praise


 I was very much surprised on a re- cent visit to New Castle to learn that this mining camp has moving picture on Sunday" said Mrs. Katherine Kill gore. T had been invited out to spend the weekend with friends and inn quietly, but to my utter astonishment we were told we would go to the pie ture show. This picture show is op- erated by the company owning the mines there, and has some of the best feature pictures on the market. It is just one of the many things the large corporations are doing for their em ployes and for which they should be prasied."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22
Bright and Enterprising
 Morning Newspaper

6NHE Medirian Dispatch is now out U of the hands of receiver, and will be published in the future by Ben I. Rappold, we'll known as an editor of force and progressive ideas.
 It requires large capital to run a morning journal in a city as large as Meridian, and MT. Rappold has it.
 Meridian is to be congratulated on the new venture. Under Ben Rap- pold's direction the Dispatch is sure to be success-something that all Mississippi will be proud of.
 Hearty congratulations to the man. agement and the editorial staff! May there be no lack of patronage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22

From the Brooklyn Eagle
 NH R HERE are the best sellers or
 WW long ago?'' asks Brander Mat V " thews. He means the novels
 amazing human document" is Charles
 E. Chapin's Story G. P. Putnam's Sons),
 written in Sing Sing prison, where the
 writer is serving what amounts to life sentence for the murder of his wife. In this autobiography the man who for a score of years was city editor of the New York Evening World tells fas- cinating story of the ups and downs or an American newspaper man. With trained reporters instinct for human in- terest," the writer has compressed the dramatic high lights of forty-five years of active newspaper work into the S34 pares of his book. He is as good at telling the stories that concern himself
 as he is in relating those about some or
 the big men with whom he came In con tact. And there is frankness of self revelation which would be impossible to man who did not feel that his reputa- lion has already been lrretrievably dam aged.
 Chapin is as merciless in exposing ms own minor and major vices as he IS Tn oi- lating upon the miserliness of his great uncle. the late Russell Sage, or i'll sneer- inc at ex-Governor Charles s. Whitman. Like most convicts, he excuses the crime for which he was sent to prison' ana IL must be admitted that the chapters Ill which he explains how his mind was ai- fected by his increasing financial difficult ties are almost convincing. If the ma terial contained in this book had been n,aced before a jury it is douptral ,vhather he could have been convicted of l first degree murder He declares that ms
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22
Democratic Achievements
 Should Win Gratitude

IA R ANY beneficent laws were en- NVU acted in the Cleveland admin istrations. But in no presidential terms, democratic or republican, have so many acts of far-reaching import been placed on record as in the two administrations of Woodrow Wilson.
 In the nearly eight years of his incumbency the worlds greatest war has been fought and won for hu- manity. A vast army was raised and trained and sent overseas to help the allies conquer the German autocracy. The covenant and League of Nations drawn by Wilson is conceded to be the greatest instrument ever designed to insure permanent peace and to make the world safe for democracy If the enemies of the democratic party, led by the crafty and vengeful Lodge, have prevented its adoption, it will nevertheless prevail if the patri- otic people will only do their own thinking and assert themselves.
 Governor Cox, the democratic stand ard bearer, is earnestly supporting the league and if the democracy will give him their undivided backing on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22
VANITY

RAN1l1 Your new clerk has his sleeves rolled up higher than anybody else in the office. He must be industrious" That doesn't signify anything in particular" said MT. Dubwaite, sourly. except that he has an unusually we'll developed pair of arms" COMPLETE TRANSFORMATION T understand one of your former waitresses is now a motion picture star"
 That's so," said the proprietor of the Elite restaurant for ladies and gentle men,"
 Any change in herr
 T should say sol She's changed her name, her hair and her disposition"
 CONQUERING Life may be filled with ups and downs, But this we know: The valiant heart, when trouble frowns And i'll winds blow, Fears not the barriers to be crossed Mid strife and din, And keeps, whatever else be lost, The will to win. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22
BATTLES THE NAKED EYE

From the Washington Post.
 The bureau of statistics has discov| cred 1 per cent drop in the cost of liv| ing. Between comets there's nothing
 Ike putting the Lick Obssrgatcry teie| scope to practical economic use
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

gersville about year ago?" asked the visitor.
 Yes" said Squire witherbee We had quite lot of excitement for while, but it soon played out"
 Not enough material to work on, I supposeT
 Plenty of material to work on, but we've got some old-fashioned people in this town who think salvation ought to be free an they wouldn't donate durned cent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22
he found that the old man was advertis1

, he found that the old man was adyertis1
 ing white elephant from tic royal palace of Siam. Barnum mad simply used a whitewash brush on an ordinar,| elephant, with the result that he had whiter elephant than the Siamesc eyed dreamed of seeing. The animal was q covered with velvet robes ani sur| sounded by attendants that the audienc{ coull not detect the fraud; the general effect was good and the trick brorsn in {. lot, of money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22

A MORNING PRAYER
 God. give me faith in the worias growing goodness. that may iace life unnfraid. God, give me strens'n to Iabor-Iest that faith be disap- pointed. Amen.--M. s' H.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22
SOUNDS CONVINCING

 I'm hoarse today" said the candi- date.
 Don't worry about that" said his campaign manager. Make as many speeches as you can. statement de- livered in husky tones always iEpresses the voters with its sincerity"
 POOR DEDUC TON 'He was seen strolling nonchalantly by the scene of the explosion five min utes before it happened
 Possibly he knew about it." raen. how do you expla,n his nsp- cnaIaAcer
 A TASTE OF LIBERTY
 stately ocean liner
 Wss on her way to Fran g; A'-lerlcans she carried
 You could tell them at a glance For every one was '1iquored'
 Just as much as he could be And boasted like a sinner
 That was why he went to sea.
 A SAFE TOPIC Daughter" said Mir. Wimples, ''that young chap who comes around here to see you so often is as dumb as a fish can hardly get a word out of him. Why, father, he doesn't know what to talk about when you are present" Then he is fool. Doesn't he know we ahe having weather every day"
 IT PAYS Lives of great men oft remind us," When they're neither great nor wise If we want the world to find us, It were well to advertise. THE SECRETARIES MUST LIVE Didn't reform wave strike Chig-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22

Ren.ttances can be made at current rate of exchange The Age-Herald Will net be responsible for money seh- through the mails. Address
 THE AGE-HERALD,
 Birmingha Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22

The ladies of Maine will be permitted to keep their age secret when regis tering to vote. What does it matter? You don't have to look at a woman's teeth to tell when she's over 21-not as rule.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22

Clinton W. Gilbert says it IS difficul. fo- son of Indiana to unders,lne why a man is not politician. The habit of writing novels and playing politics is born in a large percentage of Indiana's population.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22

TELEPHONE Bell (prfvate exchange connecuns ~
 departments) Main 4sOo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22
IT PAYS

IT PAYS Lives of great men oft remind us,' When they're neither great nor wise If we want the world to find us, It were well to advertise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22

Two daredevils of the air, booked for the Alabama State Fair, have lost their lives. Search for a successor is now go- ing on. The multitude must have its Roman holiday"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22

THE SECRETARIES MUST LIVE Didn't a reform wave strike Chig
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-22

No communication will be published without its authors name. Re1ectso manuscript will not be returned unless stamps gre enclosed for that purpose
Evening journal., 1920-03-13
IS
CONFIDENT AS
TO SUFFRAGE
Executive Has No Positive
Assurance as To Strength
For Ratification
ENOUGH VOTES PLEDGED
SUFFRAGISTS SAY
specIaI b DC EyenIng Journal.

Special to The Evening Journal.
DOVER, March i3-Goyernor Towns
end who spent the night here with
Secretary Of state Johnson, was asked
just before leaving this morning for
his home In Selbyville concerning the
outlook for the passage Of the suffrage
amendment at the special session Of the
Legislature.
He stated that he had no positive as
surance Of just how many Of the mem
bers would vote for the amendment
but expressed confidence that It would
pass. The Governor further stated thar
he had never had a full poll OF the
members OF the Legislature as 10 their
vote on the amendment, relying largely
on verbal assurances given him some
months ago, when the special session
was first advocated.
The women OF the Delaware Equal
Suffrage Association merely smile when
they are told that it IS said that the
farmers OF the State are going TO pre-
vent the ratification Of the suffrage
amendment when It is placed before
the special session Of the Legislature
which cOnvenes one week from next
Monday.
They say that they have a sufficient
number OF pledges from State Senator'S
Continued on Page TWO
Evening journal., 1920-03-13
DAYLIGHT Saving
MAY BEBLOCKED
Railways Puzzled TO Arrange
Time Schedules for City
and Country
HIDDEN STATE LAW
MAY ALSO BAR PLAN

Operation Of the Daylight Saving or
dinance passed by City Council, which
is scheduled to go into effect Sunday
March %. is threatened by disagree
ment among the high officials Of the
Pennsylvania. Philadelphia and Read
ing and Baltimore and Ohio railroads
fixing train schedules. IL also is a ques-
ton II there is not law somewhere
hidden in the statute books OF Delaware
fixing a standard Of time. Should one
be found IL probably would k0ck out
the local ordinance.
officials Of railroads and also tele-
graph companies, assert that unless
daylight saving is made uniform
throughout the entire country by ma
tiOnal legislation. the action OF City
Councils in New York. Philadelphia.
Wilmington and other cities In the East
will cause utmost confusion in all
branches Of their services. Decisive
action Of some sort is necessary within
the next two weeks
Little hope is held out that Con
gress will do anything, as IL passed the
act repeating the time-saving law Of
last year over the veto Of President
Wilson. This repeater was enacted
under pressure OF the agricultural in
terests and. 10 is asserted, the interests
OF electric and gas lighting companies
Apparently the entire situation rests
with the General Managers AssOcla-
tion Of Eastern Railroads. and their
decision Is complicated by recent talk
Continued on Page TWO
Evening journal., 1920-03-13

WASHINGTON. March i3. UNITED
Press The Senate is to be asked to
repudlate President Wilson's statement
that the government Of France is in
the hands Of militarlsts and imperial
lists. Senator Mccormick, Illinois, a
Republican. expects shortly 10 Introduce
resolution. he said today. stating II
% be the sense Of the Senate that II
France should in the future be unjusty
attacked by a foreign foe the United
states would view such an attack with
great concern and would not stand by
idly. and further that Il should be
made clear that The Senate does not
concur in the assertions OF the Presi-
dent in his letter 10 senator Hitchcock.
Interest in McC0rmick's proposal, es-
peclalry that part Of II virtually pleds-
ing the United States to stand by
France. was intensified by the news
from Berlin that the German govern
ment had fallen into the hands Of the
mllltarists and Kaiserists.
Evening journal., 1920-03-13
WOULD HAVE Z. S. AID
. FRANCE; TO RAP WILSON

Mccormick decided 20 Introduce this
resolution before it became known here
yesterday that France had lodged an in
qulry in official quarters concerning the
tasis for Wilson's statement. Mccormick
anticipated such move, however. He
believes. he said today. that the Ameri-
can people would heartily favor the
adoption Of resolution which would
put Congress on record as disagreeins
with the view taken by the President.
In both parties there was the live
licst curiosity concerning the reply to
be made to the French inquiry. al
though it was assumed that il would
not be made public.
Il am not in favor OF the United
states meddling in European Affairs.
said Mccormick today. but ! bellev.
we should 90 on record to assurs
France that we. the american peopie
are the friends OF he people Of
France"
Evening journal., 1920-03-13
.LONGSHOREMEN
AGAIN STRIKE
Threaten General Tie-Up if
81 Hour Pay is
Refused
81 SHIPS TIED UP IN
NEW YORK HARBOR

NEW YORK. March i3. united Press
More than GOO0 longshoremen. steve
dores, checkers and coopers, employed
by coastwise steamship companies,
struck here today.
The men demand a wage increase OF
from 60 cents to 81 an hour. straight
time. and from 81 TO 1920 an hour over
time.
Union leaders said general strike,
affecting an c0lstwise workers from
Boston % Galveston, will be called II
the companies attempt to use strike
breakers.
Union leaders also declared that a
general strike will be called unless the
employers show some indications Of
granting the mems demands within 81
hours.
Thirty-two ships were tied up in New
York harbor today unable to move car
goes. The Mallory, Clyde, Old Do
miniOn and savannah and Morgan
lines were affected
A complete tie-up Of New York har-
Dor and Gripping OF all ports from Bos-
ton 10 Galveston was fOrecasted by
union leaders If the companies persist
in their refusal TO grant the demand Of
the cOssiwise workers for increased
pay.
Evening journal., 1920-03-13
SHAPING UP
FOR CONFERENCE
Ministerial Transfers Chief
Subject of Discussion
Among MethodistS
CHANGES LIKELY
IN CITY CHURCHES

The ffty-second annual session OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church will
convene in Grace NJ. E. Church. Ninth
and West street, on Wednesday morn
ing, March "a, with Bishop William H..
Mcdowell. OF Washington. presiding,
and Or. j. W. r. Sumwalt as conference
host Sessions will be held each day in
the moring with anniversaries afternoon
and night, closing on the following
Monday, when appointments Of pastors
for the ensuing year will be read by the
secretary.
An anniversary exercise as In previous
years will be held Tuesday night pre-
ceding the opening Of conference. This
year that meeting will be devoted TO
the EpwOrth League. The regular con-
ference proeram is far from complete,
and the committee In charge is hardly
expecting 10 be able 10 make any an
nouncement before the latter part Of
next week. The list Of homes also is
in a rather chaotic state, but is rapidly
Continued on Page Two
Evening journal., 1920-03-13
DRUCGED WOIMAN
UNCONSCIOUS IN
HOSPITAL SHADOW
Mrs. Eta Heigh, Stranger and Lost, attack
ed BY Thug Who FOliourS Her From Steam
boat Wharf to Fourteenth and Washing
ton Street-Descrbes 4SSailant While
Recovering From ChLOrai Poison
PHYSICIANS SAY SHE'LL RECOVER,
POLICE HUNT 'HOLD UP" lU4N

Lying on a bed in the womans wara
of the Delaware Hospital this morning
So weak that she could scarcely raise
her head Mrs Eitl Heish, aged 81
years. wife OF Thomas r. icigh 0i
No. i20 south Diamond street. Pitts
burgh. pa, told OF a most brutal at
tack made upon her at Fourteenth
and Washington streets shortly after
ie o'clock.
Her unconscious body was found on
.hr pavement on the Fourteenth street
-'de of the -four and feed store Of 4. VI.
pircc and son by two unidentified
in,n. showing every evidence OF the
Jrighlful struggle put up by The fraii
woman before she lost consciousness.
The men, evidently strangers in the
u ighborhood, attempted 90 rouse some
one in the house adjoining the store
bat Mr.. Pierce states ihat they were
out last night. Someone across the
street learning or the case called to
fhe men to carry ihe woman 70 IA
hospital. which is less than 200 feet
rom where the woman was found.
Picking up The unconscious woman
ihe men quickly carried Mrs. Heigh
Evening journal., 1920-03-13
STATE G. 0. P.
Lines Up FOR
SUFFRAGISTS
Committee Recommends That
Republicans Vote For
Ratification
DELEGATE CONVENTION
FIXED FOR APRIL 20

Ratification Of the suffrage amend
ment By Republican members Of the
LEGISLATURE al the special session to
convene March p was recommended by
the Republican State Central Committee
a. a meeting held This afternoon at ihe
rooms OF The Young Mems Republican
Club. No. $40 King street.
The committee adopted a resolution
offered 10y Harry Il. Bilany Of VIII
mington, containing the recommenda.-
tlon that Republican members vote for
ratification. There was no opposition
to the resolution.
The state convention for the cleo
ito Of six delegates 60 the National
Convention at Chicago next June, was
fixed for Tuesday, April %.
The primaries 10 name delegates 10
the State Convention will be held Sat
urday, April II. 4 new state commit
tee will also be named at the State
convention
Chairman Daniel J. Layton Of George
town presided at the meeting with Ma
ior Edward C. Bradford OF Whining
ION as secretary. Otner members Of
the committee in attendance were Sen
ator l. d. Short and f. C. Lynch Of
Sussex county; J. Frank Alice. r. X.
Jones and Alfred Ralkes Of Kent; State
Auditor Daniel Thompson, Benjamin A.
Groves Charles II. Colburn, Harry II.
Bnlany and Mayor William c. Taylor
Of New Castle County.
The New Castle County Republican
Committee also met this afternoon and
made arrangements for the delegate
primaries in this city and rural New
Castle County on April Y.