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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02
WILL THAT UNION STA
TON EVER BE BUILT?

Lawyers are trying to find out the
legal definition for 'the act of God or
public enemy" to determine whether
the Chicago Union Station company
should be called upon to forfeit ST.
100000 to the city because work on
the new west side terminal is not
speeded up.
The ordinance passed March %,
1914, by the city council provided that
the new passenger station and other
work in connection with the terminal
must be completed within five years
after the acceptance of the ordinance.
The acceptance, and bond of ST.
100000 to guarantee fulfillment of the
terms of the ordinance, were filed
Sept. %, 1914. The acceptance bound
the company to finish the new station
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02
Many Democrats Talking About Giving
the Great City of Chicago Real
Democratic Mayor Next Time
The County Treasurer Is the Man Picked Out al
One Who Can Unite ALI Sections

associated with Mr.. Edwards in the
original company, has a half interest.
Our new company will continue to
operate as the old company did, only
on a larger SCALE" said Mr.. Snapp.
1--WE have over 100000 in equipment
for oil well sinking and operation and
large holdings of oil lands in Texas
on which we are sinking wells. We
are not selling oil stock and we lease
only a small portion of our land We
are not making money from leases.
We are sinking a well at this time on
the Sinner ranch property in Texas,
which our engineers say gives every
indication of being big producer"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02
ARE you PAYING TO
MUCH FOR YOUR
PHONE SERVICE

Another case of alleged overcharg-
ing against the Chicago. Telephone
Company was made public by Special
Assistant Corporation Counsel Ches-
ter E. Cleveland He said the com
plant was added proof to his charges
subscribers are being mulcted out of
millions annually through the present
system of operating the soScalled
measured service.
F. J. Shead, president of the Shead
Lumber Association, submitted a copy
of a letter addressed to the State Pub
lie Utilities Commission demanding
action on previous complaints. He
said from May l to August l his firm
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02
c. B. WILEY HEADS IT

II is announced that the Charles A.
Snapp company has been incorporated
with a capitalization of 100000, all
paid in, to take over the entire busi-
ness, lands and equipment of the COM
pany formerly known as Edwards
Snapp company, an oil company with
offices at 1920 Consumers building.
In the new company Charles B.
Wiley, head of the G. L. Wiley COM
pany, one of the largest hardwood
and veneering concerns in the coun-
try, with a factory on Robey street,
has taken a half interest and Charles
A. Snapp, well-known oil operator
of Texas and Oklahoma, and who was
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02
Cut Prices to Stimulate Sales or
Factories Will Be Forced to
Close Their Doors
Sears-Roebuck & Go. Are Refunding to Over Twenty
Thousand Customers Every Day to Help Out

Hurlbert, William A. Tilden, Frank H.
Jones, Francis T. A. Junkin, William
l.. O'Connell, Carl r. Latham, w.
Mem. Rutter, Jacob NJ Loeb, B. A.
Nash, A. J. SABBATH, Robert M. Sweit-
ger, Harry r. Gibbons, Julius F.
Smietanka, Frank G. Hajicek, Mrs.
Kellogg Fairbank, Mrs. Henry S. Rob-
bins and Mrs. Robert A. Waller
The headquarters of the committee
is in room S12 of the Consumers build
ing, 220 South State street
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02
RElNBERG HEADS
IGOE CAMPAIGN

Peter Reinberg, president of the
county board, who has been elected
president OF the committee which will
conduct Michael l.. Igoe's campaign
Tor states attorney, has started the
organization of nonpartisan lgoe
clubs.
One in every ward and country dis
triCt is his aim.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02
WORLD BEATERS
CRADLE LOSES NAME

Stone cutters were busy this week
cutting the name of the Chicago
Herald from the building it once oc-
cupied on Washington street between
the Musicians building and the Stock
Exchange building. The Herald will
be remembered however as long as
some of it's graduates who are engaged
in showing public utilities companies
how to lose friends, continue in the
game.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02

Following up the announcement that
the mail order houses here had re-
duced their catalog prices on many
lines of merchandise by 10 to 20 per
cent, julius Rosenwald, president OF
Sears, Roebuck e Co., gave out a
statement that prices must be cut to
stimulate normal buying or else fac
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02

in every line with the probable eXcep-
ton of hardware.
unless prices generally are re-
duced sufficiently to stimulate buying
to the normal, the inevitable result
will be the closing of factories and
consequent unemployment.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02
COUGH UP or SHUT UP

'sJoe" Connery, at one time record
er of deeds, has been chosen chair
man of the democratic finance COM
mittee for the midwestern states, ac-
cording to the announcement of
Charles Boeschenstein, democratic
national committeeman from Illinois.
Among Mr. Connery's associates on
the finance committee are: e. D.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02

Democrats Have High Hopes of
Electing Their Candidate for
Governor.

The Democrats are full of hope of
electing Colonel James Hamilton
Lewis governor of Illinois.
Colonel Lewis has the solid backing
of every faction in the Democratic
party united behind him.
He is a wonderful campaigner and
his friends predict that he will poll
100000 Republican votes.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02

by Sept %, 1919, unless prevented
by strikes, riots, the act of God or a
public enemy"
On Sept. "a, 1920, one year after the
ordinance time limit, only the cais-
sons and the cement foundation walls
of the station building have been con,
structed. Practically no work has
been done on the building in the last
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02
BLAME POOR PHONE
SERVICE ON THE DOC

Some of doc" Reid's friends say
that his overwhelming defeat for the
Republican nomination for Secretary
of State was due to the prevailing
complaint of poor telephone service
The Doc is Commissioner of Public
Service and the idea is that the peo-
pie want better public service and
fewer wrong numbers
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02

was charged monthly bill ranging
from 323 to 3S6 calls.
1--WE had a nickel phone installed
August and on September %, for
the first time, 231 nickels were taken
out" he wrote. 'ThiS was for a peri
cd of fifty-one days. You will note
that for twenty-five days each month
we were being charged from 800 to
400 calls, but when they had to deal
with us on the square they only found
231 calls, and this in the face of the
fact we had to do an unusual amount
of phoning owing to the disturbed
conditions of the LUMBER market dur
ing the last sixty days"
Cleveland argued several times for
the installation of private meters, but
the commission has not yet taken ac-
tion.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02
VOTE FOR 50 WARDS

Every good citizen of Chicago
should vote for the 50-ward PROPOSE
ton in November 1t will do much
to improve conditions.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02

Harry r. Gibbons is being talked
of for mayor by some of the biggest
men in the business community. He
is the choice of all factions in the
Democratic party.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02
REFLECT A. ".
MILLER CLERK OF
the CIRCUIT COURT

Colonel August w. Miller has made
a splendid record as Clerk of the
Circuit Court and he deserves re-
election
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02
REFLECT
ROBERT E. WILSON
Popular Democratic Representa-
tive Should Be Sent Back to
Springfield From the
Sixth District.

Robert E. Wilson deserves re-elec-
ton to the legislature from the
Sixth district He is a sterling
democrat and an able man. His
record in the legislature has been
honorable and of benefit to the people
of his district.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02
VOTE FOR ASA G. ADAMS

Vote for Asa G. Adams for Judge
of. the Municipal Court, He is able
and honest.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-10-02

Patrick A. Nash Is making a great
record on the Board OF Review.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
"THE LATE MIR. WELLS.

From the Kansas City Star.
 In 'Prejudices," II. l.. Mencken's most recent and most alluring volume. the author victimizes, among others, the occasionally popular H. G. Wells. to whom he refers as the late Mir. Wells" because he considers him extinct as an artist. MT. Mencken dares anyone to read MT. Britling" a second time and declares that. as for "Joan and Peter" the book is simply unbearable
 What has slowly crippled Wells and perhaps disposed of him." says the writer lis hit gradual acceptance of the theory, corrupting to the artist and scarcely less so to the man, that he is one of the great thinkers of his era. charged with a pregnant message to rammed into enough skulls will save the empire, not only from the satanic Nietzscheism if the Hindenburgs and past-Hindenburgs but also from all those inner weaknesses that taint and fiabberbast its vitals as tapeworm with nineteen heads devoured Atharip- pus of Macedon.
 "L. brief. he suffers from Messianic delusion--and once man begins to suffer from Messianic delusion his days as serious artist are ended. He may yet serve the state with laudable devotion; he may yet enchant his mill lions;; he may yet posture and gyrate But not in the character of artist. Not as creator of sound books. Not in the separate place of one who observes the eternal tragedy of man with full sympathy and understanding, and yet with a touch of god-like remoteness. Not as Homer saw 1t. smiting the while his blooming Tyre"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
 LUXE McLVkE SAYS

The reason why a man imagines that he needs a rest is because what he really needs is more exercise.
 There are lot of homes in which the wife shows more fear and respect for her ccok than she does for her husband.
 And what has become of the 10. f. girl who looked under the bed every night after she said her prayers?
 Some women seem to regard life as a perpetual indignation meeting.
 Another reason for the scarcity of white paper is that a lawyer uses up 100 words to say something that could be told in ten words.
 Wives and babies seem to have an idea that if they will bawl long enough they'll get what they want.
 When a girl leaves fellow she al ways looks back to sec if she can catch him looking back to SC if she is looking back
 A henpecked husband has to- give in to his wife right away. But bossy husband doesn't have to give in for an hour or two.
 Pennsylvania girl has married her brothers wife's father. She is now re- lated to herself in some old way, but we haven't time to hgure it out.
 Don't you like to hear a millionaire iecturing other people on the blessings of poverty? Neither do we, brother.
 No husband wants his wife to know as much about him as he knows about himself.
 Cheer up. If you can't make a fool of yourself you can always ind some wom- ar to do it for you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14

Mir Bryan should leave the party after the national convention, the Times would regard 1t as no death stroke to democ- racy; for the very occasion of his deser- tion would be the occasion for the affilia- tion of hundreds of thousands of con seryative republicans1
 The contest for the short term is too close to be untangled as these comments go to press; but what fun 1t would be if Governor O'Neal. on a straight-out mod ification platform. had woni The revolt against the shouting and binding charac- teristics of the Volstead act is very strong in the United States; but one is hardly prepared for such heresy in Ala bana. Perhaps the victor will be the Apollo of the general store, the Cicero of the rural hustings, the Beau Brum- mel of the Tombigbee, the Petronius of the checker tournament The Times rel fers to none other thar J. Thomas Heflini the Tennyson of the Black Warrior, froZ whose improptu lips and from behI whose white waistcoat once burst, dur
 an address in the House of Represe
 tives-as bursts from the boil its VII and fleecy vegetable-these musical pas( sages: And now we come to Alabama, Where peartly sings the yallerhamner, State of my fathers and their sires;
 Composed of good men and of liars
 Our women air the fairest folk
 That ever gathered on the cloak
 Which Natur in her bounty spread
 Ger Alabama's clay so redl''
 If Tom may but repair, with his Iyrd and tambour, to the suffocating chaml bers of the soggy Senate. there to thrunl and tune and sing until those snuffy soml nambulists of vanished political dream awake and take notice it will be a bid day for Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
A MODERN FABLE
'rom the Fargo Forum.

From the Fargo Forum.
 Roger W. Babson, the statistician. re- lates a little modern fable to illustrate the attitude of some workers toward their jobs.
 Once there was a man who decided that his furnace was not, giving sufficient heat. Taking a shovelful of coal, he stood before the open door of the furnace and addressed it thus: Now you give me some mere heat and I'll give you this coal" The poor dub froze to death
 The fable is pat indeed, but the appli- cation should not be made solely to the workers. It should be employed equally to certain kinds of employers. This is no time for either the workers or the em- ployers to approach their mutual problem in the spirit of the man with the coal The worker who is offering an honest days work and the very best and most Intelligent effort of which he is capable, is in a position to ask for fairer share of the profits. The employer who is pay ing fair days wage and treating his men with the consideration he would ex- .pect if he were in their pilaee, is in a po- sition to demand fair days work. It is time for mutual concessions and cooperation rather than mutual suspi- cion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
A SONS LETTER

A SON'S LETTER (This letter appeared in Commerce and Finance, New York publication. with the statement that it was designed to promote better understanding between living fathers and their sons, and was read by Charles H. Howard of St. Louis at a bi-weekly luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce recently.) Dear Dad:
 I am writing this to you. though you have been dead thirty years
 I feel I must say some things to you, things I didn't know when was a boy in your house, and things I was too stupid to say
 It is only now, after passing through the long, hard school of years, only now, when my own hair is gray. that I under stand how you felt.
 I must have been bitter trial to you. believed my own petty wisdom and I know now how ridiculous it was. compared to that calm, ripe. wholesome wisdom of yours.
 Most of all, I want to confess my worst sin against you. It was the feeling I had that you "did not understand"
 When I look back over it now. know that you did understand. You under tood me better than I did myself Your wisdom flowed around mine like the ocean around an island
 And how patient you were with mel How full of long-suffering and kindness.
 And how pathetic. it now comes home to me. to win my confidence. to be my pal.
 was it that held me aloof? I didn't know But it is tragic-that wall that rises be- tween boy and his father. and their frantic attempts to see through it and climb over it.
 I wish you were here now, across the table from me,-just for an hour. so that I could tell you how there's no wall any more; I understand you now, dad, and God, how I love you, and wish I could go back and be your boy again.
 I know now how I could make you happy every day. I know how yoT felt.
 It took good many years for this prodigal son-and all sons are in meas ure prodigal-to come to himself. I've come, see 1t all now.
 I know what a rich and priceless thing, and one least understood, is that mighty love and tenderness and craving to help which father feels toward his boy. For I have boy of my own.
 And it is he that makes me want to go back to you. get down on my knees to you and ask you to hear me, dad, and believe me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
SAVED FROM FOLLY
From the Louisville Times.

From the Louisville Times.
 A LABAMA deserves as much credit
 AA for the renomination of Senator Underwood as a man deserves credit who clips off dividend coupon. To have retired this most distinguished democrat because the professional drys and the professional laborites demanded
 it would have freely accorded to Alabama the distinction of being the prize boob state of the union. As it stands, the race is close enough; MT. Underwoods victory
 is evidently by nothing like the majority his record and talents deserve. If this were a normal people in a normal time, his renomination should have been with out dissenting vote.
 The Times has for fifteen years noted and acclaimed the superior service, the good sense, the calm ability of Senator Underwood When he was leader of the democrats in the House he restored an order of parliamentary direction that had been missing since the days of Blaine Recently he has been selected as leader of the Senate minority; and for Alabama to have retired him at this juncture Tn public affairs would have been that sort of fool performance that now and then characterzes political communities.
 An especially favorable aspect of Mr. IJnderwood's victory and the amazing race made by former Governor oNeai was that they were the objects Of the invasion of W. J. Bryan. The Times bos boned for months, and latterly has begun firmly to believe, that the lnliu- ence of this professional marplot at san Francisco will not be damaging or very embarrassing. He has always been MT. 1rnderwood's detractor and enemy; put every time they have met the senator mas quietly and effectively defeated him. 1T
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14

to their tonsorial incomes. An hour for lunch, which they requested, is reasonable enough, when Paris shop keepers are accustomed to take two, but half hour included for tea included in their demands, strikes a decidedly new note. Are we acquir- ing British habits in this country?
 Other specifications made by the barbers called for ten hours work on Saturday and proposal to make bar bershop patrons get shaved early on the last day of the week. Just how this latter request could have been carried out, if the master barbers had granted it, is puzzling question. The public regards it's right to get shaved whenever it pleases on Saturday as linalienable.
 Until everybody quits shying at labor and takes his mind off the pay envelope long enough to do an hon. est days work, there is going to be a shortage of production and the cost of living will stay above the house. 1 tops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14

Judging from the way Josephus talks about Admiral Sims, the latter would jump at the chance to wear knee brooches and dance attendance on King George.
 Chicago's most noted restaurant pro- prietor was assassinated in. his place of business. presumably by a gunman. It is hardly necessary to add that he was an Italian.
 President Wilson is beginning to receive foreign diplomats who, hguratively speak ing, have been cooling their heels on the White House steps for months.
 # # #
 'oThe tumult and the shouting dies, the captains and the kings depart" The can didates who also ran, in time, let's hope, will cease to smart
 x * F
 The resignation of the Nitti cabinet will certainly cause no excitement on Mars. wnen it caused so little in Rome. x # $ There is going to be civil war in Mex ico as long as a soldiers uniform is a passport to the presidency. # # F
 The profit a "moonshiner" makes en- ables bim to sacrifice a estilr' now and 
 then to revenue officers # < #
 A circus is advertised as the second greatest show on earth" Has the press agent lost his nerve? x # # With 27.oo0000 pesos in his possession, Cafranza may regard himself as still on the winning side. Arrested in a department of justice raid, many a red turns white and then gets blue.
 # # <
 No matter what becomes of Syria, Mt Ararat isn't likely to get tourist hotel. A 'Un is still 'Un, so far as the Brit ish cockney is concerned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
"Go southy

'1 am much interested in the pro- posed celebration of Latin American Week by the Spanish American Club" says ]. W. Carlisle.
 Having just returned from an ex- tended trip through Latin America, am more than ever convinced that the old Greedy slogan, Go west, young man. must now be changed to Go south The natural resources of South America are boundless. and our manu- factured products are needed to de- velop them. Birmingham is very ad- vantageously situated for trade with those countries. and while the Spanish American Club is not strictly com mercial organization, it can do much to turn attention to the commercial opportunities at our very door,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
An Avoidance of
 Tribute to H. C. L.

A N official of building and loan H association relates the story of a young man who purchased lot and built on it wall board house that cost about seven hundred dollars.
 In this modest home he is rearing a little family. He has his vegetable garden and his flower beds. He and his wife are happy, because they are making a start within their means pending the time when permanent home may be built.
 The family is comfortable. It lacks nothing for the present but "front." ]" For that front it is substituting a sub stance in the building. In the mean while it is not indulging in sleepless nights in an effort to carry the bur den of front.
 There are just lots of ways in which a young couple, to an extent at least, can outwit the demon H. C.. L. That gentleman's principal trib- ute, after all, is paid by those who think more of appearances in the present than of the goal that is worth while and attaining which, the ap- pearances come automatically.
 Back to some of the ways of "our fathers" would not be amiss for a lot of us, cid and young, men and women.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
America Has Lost
 A Noted Novelist.

S11 HE recent death of William Dean
 S Howells removes Americas most distinguished writer, one who belonged to more leisurely age, per- haps, yet succeeded admirably in keeping a youthful spirit and living abreast of the time.
 MT. Howells was the author of seven books. He did not aspire to the "best seller" class. Literature was a passion, as we'll as profession, with him and he wrote for the sake of writing, because he loved it, and not with any hope of seeing his novels sell by the trainloads, as is claimed for one of the popular writers of to- day, who caters to the masses and will be unknown long before the fine traditions of Howells are obscured by time.
 As the dean of American authors, Mfr. Howells had both the respect and . the affection of more literary people than any of his contemporaries, un- less it was Mark Twain, his intimate friend, of whom he wrote admirable "reminiscences, which bear evidence of the love MT. Howells bore the hr1p,orist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-14
New Faces

When I came to Birmingham thirty three years ago from Selma to go into the retail business" says M V. Joseph flor the first few years it seemed mighty slow, for I had been with a wholesale house and used to selling goodsized bills on the road
 T stood in the store the other day watching the crowd as it came and went and although I have practically grown up with the city and know thousands of people, I was struck by the small number of what we call the dtimers.' I used to pride myself on knowing our customers, but more than 80 per cent of the faces were strange ones to me. While the heads of many of the old families have passed away, am still able through family like nesses to recognize many of their sons and daughters