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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
No Improvement in
 Class of Immigrants
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56HE tide of immigration is reach U ing pre-war proportions, accord ing to Homer J. Dodge, president of the federal trade information service. Immigration for the first eight months of the year totaled 438, ,128, and emigration 3,128, the net incre- ment being 215,Ooo. The inward move ment has grown from 26,0o0 in Janu- ary to an estimated total of 90,000 in September
 Observation of experts is to the eff feet that post-bellum immigration pre- sents no new features with the ex- ception that no Germans are coming over. Most of the immigrants come from the Mediterranean countries, and chiefly from southern Italy and Sicily.
 Specifically the class of immi- grants does not appear to have im- proved, but rather to include larger proportion of the very poor of the Mediterranean district. The problem remains the same. There seems to be the same danger of founding more foreign communities in the United States.
 The newcomers are uneducated and speak an alien tongue. Of necessity they must herd together and do busi- ness through their interpreters. That is the standing danger. It should be obviated as far as possible.
 Europe's harvests have been gath cred, the immigrant is pressing for passage and the movement is up to the capacity of the vessels. Immi- grafton authorities should be just as busy preventing the entrance of the undesirable and the unfit as the latter are in trying to get in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
ERZBERGER ON THE KAISER

From the New York Tribune
 61 o MATTHIAS ERZBERGER be-
 longs the distinction of con-
 S tributing a new detail to Kaiser Wilhelm's portrait. In his recently published memoirs the centralist leader describes the scene that took place at the meeting between the Kaiser and the reichstag deputa- ton on July 20, d917, on the morrow of Bethmann- -Holweg-s resignation and the adoption of the reichstag peace" resolution.
 The parliamentary leaders may have been prepared for an indignant out burst on the part of the all-highest; what they got was worse. The Kaiser treated the situation in a humorous light, and seemed to think that the reichstag resolution was a huge joke. He informed the deputies that England and America had concluded an alliance against Japan, to which Japan had re- sponded by concluding a counter al liance with Russia. Then he went on to say that the whole of continental Europe was coming under his leader
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
"REMINISCENCES

From the New Orleans Times-Picayune. 6N HE "reminiscences of two persons
 are just now being exploited in
 S print that doubtless will be wide ly read but whose popularity will not speak well for the purity of popular taste. The first of the twain is the "Woman with the serpent's tongue otherwise Mrs. Herbert Asquith, wife of the former premier of England; the second Charles E. Chapin, murderer and former city editor of the New York World who writes from prison cell at Sing Sing. in which he is serv-' ing a life sentence.
 The lady from the time of her earliest escapades when still Margot Tennant original of Dodo = has been an enfant terrible among English aristocrats and finally today, having reached an age when even by the acme of camouflage she can no longer remain in the infant class. she has determined to make a final bid for the limelight by a candid confession of her own doings and mis- doings and an equally-acandid reyela- ton of the social secrets her position in society has brought to her ken.
 In the introduction to her Diary" she tells how she had more thought for her husbands good name than for her own. but apparently even that regard was not enough to keep her silent on many topics that man of Asquith,S mental equipment must suffer keenly to have thrown like bones to a sensa- tion-loving public.
 Very much the same attitude toward
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
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Palatial Steamboat
 Recalls Old Days

EmoRIES of the Mississippi s M( departed splendor will be re- n;uod bv a new steamer advertised in the New Orleans papers. It IS onfy measure boat-for dancing, to be s1.ct-but in cost and luxurious ap- no;ntnents it may even surpass some of the famous packets of a bygone day which made river life both DIG t,yesme and enjoyable. The excur- s;on steamer is still in vogue, Tor short trips, although the imposing fleet of vessels which once made the Mississippi a great artery of travel have disappeared.
 The new boat which is now being commended to the pleasure-loving peo- ple of New Orleans is described as a eS5OO, ,O00 palace steamer" and it probably justifies the claims of it's owners that it is the largest and fin est craft of it's kind. It is surprising to learn that anyone nowadays would invest as much as half million dol lars in steamboat, built along the old-fashioned lines made familiar in Mark Twain's day as a pilot.
 "The dancing salon." the advertise ment states, is "exquisitely decorated in old ivory and gold-and ornamented with plastic relief fishes and wicker panels-touched with artistic floral sets-blending with the fading rain bow lighting effects" With due re- gard for the enthusiasm of the adver- tisement writer, it looks as if New Or leans people would be able to step on board this floating palace" and live over the days when river travel was the last word, in luxury as well as speed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
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fingered Farmers Working
 From the Wrong Angle

1HHE resentment of the cotton pro- ll ducer is easily grasped and calls for sympathy. The acts of producers in this and other southern states in burning gins and demanding the stop page of ginning are unfortunate, are far from commendable and more or less suicidal.
 Cotton is not in merchantable shape until it is ginned. It is not a liquid asset until it is stored and in- sured. No banker, no merchant, no money lender can afford to accept as security either for a present debt or for new loan cotton that is subject to the winds, the rains, the fire haz- ards of the farm.
 There is only one sound and sensi- ble thing for the farmer to do. He should have his cotton ginned, stored in a warehouse and insured. He can then hold it as, long as he desires to do so for a small cost. If he needs some money to tide him over pending a better market the stored and insured cotton is collateral. It will be ready for marketing when the purchaser comes seeking it.
 Burning gins and stopping ginning, warehousing and insuring is the equiv alent of establishing a state of stag nation leading eventually to market ing the staple after it has deteri- orated.-
 Ginning is not marketing. It is the next logical step after gathering the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
T Ff H County's Quota Must be Raised Speedily

60HE republican party is spending
 U a huge sum on its campaign for the presidency. It is drawing upon the "big interests" for contributions and it is reasonable to assume that it's slush fund will be larger than ever.
 The democrats are only asking for enough money to defray legitimate ex- penses. That will mean a million or two dollars. The money thus far donated has come voluntarily, but nothing like the amount actually needed is in hand.
 Let's have vigorous drive, not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08

crop. Western grain growers did not achieve success by holding their grain on farms, but by placing it in dis trict, county and state warehouses.
 Cotton should be protected to serve the producer according to his needs. It cannot serve him in open sheds on the farm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
RESTORE WILSON'S FLAGSHIP

From the Boston Globe
 Nelsons flagship Victory, on which the most famous of British admirals met his, death in the battle off Cape Trafalgar. October 21, 1895. is an object of special interest just now while re- ceiving new fittings of topmast and spars in the harbor of Portsmouth, England. where the ship has lain for many years. A floating crane employed in the work seems gigantic alongside the pigmy ship that is the most cher ished sea relic of the British navy.
 It is expected the, restoration will be completed in time for the coming ami will receive it's usual celebration dress ing of flags and flowers, with a wreath covering the spot on deck where Nelson fell and the glory of Nelson will be commemorated with patriotic cere- monies.
 It was from the Victory that Nelson flashed the message. England expects that every man will do his duty" summons to action that has ever since inspired British naval accomplishment.
 It is said the original phrase was: Nelson confides that every man will do his duty" devised by himself because
 
 of the security he felt that in the love which the fleet bore toward himself. and that part of the change as suggest ed to him by his signal lieutenant. who said the verb "confide," must be<spelled out letter by letter in long string of flags. while expects" could be carried in one signal; and that another officer suggested that England. lead the ral- lying call.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
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Americas Opportunity
 to Lead and to Serve

1.-THE continental population of the
 United States announced yester day, is 1o5, ,6S3, JOS people.
 The comparatively brief history of America reads like an extravagant bit of fiction. It is small wonder that the more backward nations of Europe regard this country as Utopia-that the poverty stricken and ignorant masses of the Old World readily be- lieve money grows on trees in the Gland of the free" suffering, want and political oppression are unknown and all one has to do to become rich and famous is to run the gauntlet at Ellis Island, and forthwith the dreams that lured him across the Atlantic come true.
 America is not quite as wonderful as it is pictured in the eyes of Euro peans, but in many respects it justi- fies their childlike faith in it's power, it's wealth and the opportunities of fered to all who come seeking fame or fortune.
 From 1776 until President Wilson de- clared war on Germany, the United States chung to the policy of national isolation. The old order ended when that momentous declaration was given to the world. Those who face the setting sun are trying to get back to the past. They will never succeed. Just as we have grown in popula- tion, our national ideals have come to mean something more than selfish policy of safety first"
 Americas door of opportunity is the League of Nations. It is well to take pride in the fact that we are a nation of 1o5, ,6s3,1o people who have never known defeat; that we are to- day the most powerful government in existence, but there is something higher than wealth or material achievement, and if we fail in our duty to humanity, we are no better than other mighty empires which were supreme for little while and now lie crumbled beneath the dust of cen turies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
THE ANGELuS

THE ANGELUS By Bret Harte- Heard at the Mission Dolores, f1eA Bells of the past whose long forgotten
 music
 stin fills the wide expansa. TingHng the sober twilight of the Rses- With color of Romance; I hear your call. and sec the sun ae- scending On rock and wave and sand. As down the Coast the Mission voices
 blending Girdle the heather land. Within the circle of your incantation No blight nor mildew falls: No fierce unrest, nor lust. nor low anl-~
 bftion
 Passes those airy walls Borne on the swell of your long waves
 receding, I touch the farther Past I see the dying glow of Spanish glory. The sunset dream and last! Before me rise the dome shaped Mis-
 sion towers The white Presidio; The swart commander in his leathern
 jerkin. The priest in stole of snow. Once more see Portola's cross uphft-
 ing Above the setting sun; And past the headland, northward.
 slowly drifting The freighted galleon. o solemn bells. whose consecrated
 masses
 Recall the faith of old o twinkling bellsi that lulled with twi-
 light music The spirit fold, Your voices break and falter in the
 darkness Break, falter and are still; And yelled and mystic: like the Host
 descending. The. sun sinks from the hill!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08

society. and especially toward the fla nous, is adopted by the other writer, who has also a serpenrs tooth for a pen Chapin. as many will recall. mur- dered his wife at time when through extravagance and speculation he was on the point of financial dissolution part of his "reminiscences, or confess sions, is devoted to an attempt to sen- timentalize his crime and to spread tb a notion that he killed his wife, to whom he had been married for thirty-nine years in the same spirit shown by from tier dweilers who preferred tp kill their vomenkind rather than allow them to fall into the hands of the savages to meet torture and worse. Chapin spretends that the savages he dreaded were the poverty and ostracism that might come to his wife through his own fall.
 However clever this appeal 1t had no great effect on the jury that con "reminiscences he lays bare faets that came to his knowledge while . news paper man that it certainly would have been more ethical to have kept in con ndence Blind Pulitzer's profanity and Russell Sages aversion to underwear do not harmonize well with such -noble' emotions, as were claimed by tho au- thor as excuse for his final crime Both series of "reminiscences are extremely clever, but are equally dictated by hearts of ice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Chance for Bachelorn


 Birmingham has as many eligible America, and it occurs to me that when all that big party of beautiful movie stars comes here next Saturday with Marcus Loew that here's a good chance for these dyed-in- -the-wool bachelors to find mate" said o. L. Bum of the Chamber of Commerce. There's Err skine Ramsay. for instance, millionaire bachelor. who might find the girl of his dreams in the number; Robert ("Buster'D Brown will be through with the fair by that tine. and If he hasn't lost his heart to e5me pretty country girl who has been acre attending the fair, then he may pick Dolores fCasse- nelli or Olive Tell. who knows. And Murray Brown, the invincible. Why, Murray surely can't resist those beau tiful brown eyes of Enid Markey's- And there's George Ward and Horace Ham mond, Reese Adamson and Sam flaw kins. Jess Adkins and Billy Housman. Why, the woods are full of nice bacne- lors around here. If these same old, confirmed @ bachelors will take out their big automobiles and be at the sta ton waiting with the rest of the big throng on the reception committee, bank presidents. city commissisnera presidents of the various clubs and everybody else in Birmingham, because it's going to be gala day and we are going to give Mir. Loew and his bevy of screen beauties a real old-fashioned southern welcome when they arrive Why, who knows romance may stalk ed-handed and some of our best bach elors find wife"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
WHISKY IN NEW YORK

From the Nashville Banner.
 Drinking In New York has increased at an alarming rate. largely due to the fact that New York is willing to pay the prica--Birmingham Age-Herald.
 Not exactly accurate In New York real whisky. brought over from Canada, retails and is delivered at s5s the case of twelve quarts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
sFait a In AIaison1

7 Though the Alabama State Fair has only been running for three days, have already received several dozen letters from motorists in Birmingham express ing their approval of the Premocar which is on exhibit at the fairgrounds says Harry Ford, advertising manager of the Preston Motors Company of Bir- mingham.
 Hundreds of people who have never been introduced to the PremocAr will be able to examine it thoroughly while it Is on exhibition. and, judging from the number of letters we have already re- ceiyed we will get many more before the fair is over. We are proud of them, too. and we are going to thank every person that took the time to write to us, for it proves that the people believe in this classy little 'made-in- Birming- ham car that is the equal of any other automobile in it's class in the country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
ZERO IN IMAGINATION

From the New Orleans Item.
 Birmingham had forty-six fires Thursday and hasn't reported the re- ceipt of even one threatening postcard or the arrest of anybody with trunk
 full of red" literature. Instead it charges the sudden epidemic of fires to the sudden cold wave and the putting of many defective chimneys into com mission. We fear that Birmingham is hopelessly. matter of fact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
Start. Pulling

"As I am not in the automobile busi ness, I want to hand out to those who have rented space at the fair to show their various cars, a conversation over heard between some lads" said Paul Barnett. "'rhey were discussing as to whether they cared to visit the fair or not. One said he did not care anything about the agricultural exhibits; another was indifferent about the cattle; an- other was blase on poultry. when up spoke one. saying: Well. the thing want to see most of all is the automo- bile exhibits, for they say you can see model engine at work and they were all immediately interested. It shows that the motor car is beginning to have a pull even on school boys" ?.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
AFTER WASHERS

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 Birmingham is rounding up and mingham does the right thing every now and then
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
Why the Change.

Why women should change their names after they are married from Mrs. Mary or Mrs. Susie to Mrs. John, Will or Henry is more than I can see" said Commissioner H. P. Burrdss. Tt is true they are no longer Miss, but they are Mrs. the wife of "John,' not Mrs. John.-Indeed. I can see no reason for them to change the last name. If they would continue to be, for example, Mary give the children their choice of wear ing the name, Jones or Smith. for in stance. it would be a very good plan. The children could then have a little say as to what their names were.~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THEY GOT THEIRS

Nobody sems to be wasting any sympathy on profiteers. since prices began to fall"
 They don't need it." said Mir. Grump- son
 Nor
 If I had the bank balance of the average profiteer and some maudlin in- diyidual tried to weep over me I'd send him to an alienist"
 EXPERIMENTAL CREATURE why did your paper hanger quit?" We put him on a job in vacant house."
 'wen7-
 He said he couldn't stand the lone liness."
 MILITANT HONESTY Have you lost faith in baseball play ersY
 Certainly not" replied the genial old gentleman. "A crowd of youngsters persuaded me to umpire a game the other day on vacant lot and their sincerity-was so great I was lucky to escape with my life--
 DELICATE QUESTION TT want to thank you for getting me acquitted" said the defendant to his lawyer. Thanks, was convinced of your innocence"
 "Ah! Tn that case would you have any conscientious scruples against ac- cepting part of the loot as your feeT'
 TRUE MODEsTY 'Tis true their skirts are very short, But don't condemn the dears; Whatever else may be exposed, They cover up their ears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
Discerning Woman

T think that every man that has ever visited Birmingham has left here rav- ing about all the pretty girls. But just for a change, and I being of the oppo- site sex, too, will say that have never been in city in the south where have seen such handsome young men as there are in Birmingham" says Miss Bessie Bishop of Tupelo, Miss.
 My home town is just a wide place In the road compared to Birmingham, and we had a lot of pride, because we thought that Tupelo had a lot of male vampires living there. But when came to Birmingham I knew that we had lost, foHI will repeat it again, there are more handsome men in Birmingham per yard than any other place in the whole country, I believe"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
1nMlAanefH
oNE-HALF OF ONE, PER CENT

From the Arkansas Gazette
 Here's a wager that the Brown Oc- tober Ale" they sing about in the re- vival of Robin Hood isn't as strong as it was thirty years ago..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
Briery myself remember.
uopNING PRAYER

-.turn.-yffh petty 'he 4t.o,,,h them, God, thnt they may be radiant. that I may joy in bearing tn they are mine, and II "i"e' Amen-M. s. R.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
A LOST LYRIC

October brings to mind a song
 We sang in days gone by, Before the prohibitionists
 Had made the country dry. 'The melancholy days have come. The saddest of the year; It's much too warm for whisky straight
 And far too cold for beer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08

SKILLED WORKER NEEDED gaze upon my furnace with A feeling kin to fear. And realize with sad surprise I'm not an engineer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
ACCOMMODATING

"Is twenty years the best you can do for me?" asked the prisoner at the bar, with an air of deep depression.
 Tt is." said the hard-hearted judge, That's the limit of the law. other- wise would be glad to give you forty"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08
TELLING US ABOUT TT

TELLING US ABOUT TT
 @Mr. Gabson thinks we'll of himself.-
 don't object to that particularly" said MT. Grumpson. 'but the trouble with most people who think well, of themselves is that they insist on talk Ing everybody else into their confi- dence."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08

PAST THE ACADEMIC STAGE Should women smoker asked the man who likes to theorize. That isn't the question any longer" said MT. Gadspur.
 'No?"
 What we've got to decide now is whether or not the additional fire risk caused by women smokers will justify the insurance companies in raising their rates"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-08

Ed sSaIter SalQ 10 me. DOtlOI, III iot saying this to you because you are preacher but simply because it is a fact, prohibition has worked wonders for the show people themselves, and made 1t much easier for those who have to han dle them. He makes no pretense to being a reforner. but told me of the change which he had witnessed for himself. He did not mean to intimate that all drink ing had ceased. but he did intend for me to understand that it was, no longer the order of the day and the night as of old, when not to booze was a sign that fellow was queer.
 The amusement question is a big one. and must be- faced fearlessly, and while there may be things about Johnny Jones shows which some may wish were scut out, yet measure it up by what it is to- years back in the show world. and you will find that there has been great change for the better. I believe that when a man is trying to give people better class of entertainments that he ought to be commended, and I therefore take pleasure in saying good word for. Ed Salter's boss, for Ed goes about the grounds wearing badge with the words Johnny Jones' Hired Man" He is this and more. Long may he live to come here once year to swap stories with mo, and give me chance to re- rev my friendship with some of the per f1,rtaors
New Mexico state record., 1920-01-09
CONCRETE ON THE FARM.

If there is any one thing more than another
that has aided the farmer In making his farm
stead more attractive. his live stock more COM
Portable and his farm valuable, 1t is con-
crete on the farm. 1t is of the most eco
nomcal and suitable farm-budng materials. In
permanency it cannot be surpassed In fact. II
is unequaled in this respect. Concrete Is
also one of the biggest factors in making build
lings rat and mouse proof Needless TO say rats
and mice have always been a constant menace
to the farmers grain bins and corncribs but the
widespread use of concrete the farm has great
Iy reduced the damage done to stored Prains.
Perhaps the greatest value of concrete how.
ever is the fact that it be mixed by the farm
er himself. Instead of having to deIend upon
expensive masons and carpenters he can employ
his spare time in concrete construction. because
concrete work is something that anyone can learn
with little practice.