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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Choirs in Birmingham

Tn every way muslcally Birming ham has taken on wonderful activity lately, it seems to me-" said Jay Smith. Not only have the large musical or ganizations furnished world famous artists in concert, but the community sing, the schools and the choirs of Bir- mingham are, assembling the best talent which the city provides. At the Highlands Methodist Church, for in- stance, the choir which has recently been organized has as fine personnel as can be found anywhere in the south Mrs. T. L. Bissel, who for the past two years has been the director andkoprano of the choir, has organized quartette which is the equal, if not the superior of any in the south owen Gillespy whose beautiful tenor voice has been heard to such fine advantage in choir and concert work, is the tenor; Mrs Burnett's contralto will be a great ad- dition to the choir. while MT. T. l.. Bssell has the basso roles. Mrs. Sara Hunt vann has resumed her position as organlst at the church anu Witi these excellent musicians, it is easily seen that no better material could be found in Birmingham. The organ at the Highlands Methodist Church is beautiful one, and thus every environ ment for good music is arranged. It matters not how fine the sermon is nor how impressive the service is at church. it is incomplete without beau tiful music, and the Highlands Metho- dist Church. realizing this, has provided the best choir it is possible to get in this community"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
7le.t3,uea

 ''Ah! He has a heart, after aIl." 'No. he merely remarked to a fellow conspirator that if the war mad lasted twelve months longer he would have made ten millions mors.~
 THAT REMINISCENT ODoR T see where the baggage of foreign diplomats is to remain invioiats' Even when it leaks?'' asked MT. Bin- bles.
 Certainly Well. hope the diplomats will show little consideration for the feelings of thirsty American citizens and not let it leak"
 NO LOVER OF THE JULEP Your friend from Kentucky seems to resent being addressed as Colonel z sHe thinks it's term of disparass- ment.''
 'swhy ssog'' He's lifelong prohibitionist."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES
 AND PROSPECTS OF THE ELECTION TUESDAY

61IERE are those who would predict
 the result of national election
 on it's eve in ordinary times.
 Such may have been done in the past with a fair degree of accuracy as the late Don Martin did for the New York Herald and The Age-Herald. But Don Martin died in France during the last year of the war, and he has no successors except guessers. Martin boiled the states by letters and post cards and got fairly accurate predictions.
 The women are voting this year, and no one knows how they will vote. They may stampede at the last moment. The negro women in the doubtful middle ates will cast very large vote, and all manner of appeals have been made to them. The vote they may cast will count materially, and every indication is that it will go in it's entirety to Harding.
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 Based on this, perhaps I happened to witness well known citizen stakeholder deposit the money of bet in bank vault Friday afternon. It was a cash ber of 800 to $iso that Harding would be elected. The 800 man was what might be termed a professional speculator-a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31
AT THE TOWN HALL

AT THE TOWN HALL '.rhat last tableau was fine, wasn't it 7'' You mean George Washington cross ing the Delaware?' asked Squire With erbee.
 ''Of course" Well it wasn't bad, takin it all in all, but tn chap who posed as George Wash ington was Lem Chuggs. tn biggest liar in Chiggersville." A MOTOR AGE Of motor cars there seems no end, We meet them everywhere we wend. To bursting tire and honking horn The newer generations born. Scarce entered on this earthly scene, It gets whiff of gasoline. . The infant, cooing yesterday,
 Makes speed along life's stormy way. And ere few brief years shall pass, We'll find him ''stepping on the gas" RUNNING TRUE TO FORM Was that war millionaire impressed when he stood on the battlefield?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31
Trouble Chaser

The service car of the Birmingham Automobile Club is certainly proving to be a godsend to the stranded auto mobilist on Sunday" said Thornton Estes. The service of the car costs nothing and often proves to be the only joy in an afternoons ride. Besides ac- complaining much for the Sunday auto mobilist, the car is also making many friends for the Birmingham Automobile Club. People who have never before given the club thoughtsnow are eager to put in good word for the organiza- tion whenever it is mentioned. As a result of the work which has been done. the club has enrolled number of new members in the past two weeks. The club is planning as soon as it can afford the money to put on ad- ditional cars for this Sunday service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31
"A CONSERVATIVES DIARY"--By Frank Willis Barnett

sitting in the shadow of death, but talk ing, eating, drinking, dancing. and each one in their way acting, true to form. wish l could give all the references to the Hamadryad. a little Russian, "a beautiful barbarian, slender and delicate, with pale, ivory hands and black lynx eyes, yet her voice possesses something of the quaint shrilliness of a wood creature"
 Here is picture drawn Tn . room filled with curious medley of degen- crates from every country in Europe, philosophic Germans, flushed and friend ly smartly-dressed, foreign-looking Frenchmen and aristocratic Austrians." For the amusement of the cosmopolites, all of whom had an engagement with death, Llewellyn told some fortunes. Your lifeline is a good one." said to the Hungarian. Good one, good one!'' hs laughed. That's funny, considering am dying"
 But to me the gem and tragedy of the portraitures dra Tn are those of the young Russian, "a fellow of Herculean propor- tions, with heavy Slavonic jaw and ex- pansive gestures in love with the Hama dryad Their love affair interesting. tho whole sanatorium. We catch Llewellyn sitting next her himself at Christmas din- ner, and fancying she was drinking too much champagne. And then the fancy dress ball. Everybody in the highest spirits. cigarettes. champagne. iaugnrer and flushed cheeks. If it had not been for the continued sound of coughing, like the voice of hollow-toned stranger. now here, now there. one would never have suspected that all was not well with this gay -colored picture"
 Then comes this tragic line: The Hae madryad is dead And then a few daye later, Yesterday evening the Russian shot himself" then this note of horror relating to himself. ''2:3O a. m, hemor. fhage. l see blood; I taste blood: breathe blood! Will daylight never come This is why my heart went out to him. and why 1t was gladdened to know that fve-years' fight for life on q sheep ranch in Africa had given kssA life to come back to civilization, and thax he is facing bravely the future in Amer ica. Here is wishing him health and good luck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31

efore I found myself more interested in Llewellyn Powys as a man than I was in him as writer; and that, in spite of expression and the power to grip, ones attention in his discriminating use of words, I was more anxious for his recov- cry than I was that he should make q literary name for himself. This in itself is silent tribute to his genius as an author.
 And after all, the world is small place, for a few years rolled round and his brother John came to Birmingham, and we met. Now, the first thing I wanted to know was something about Llewellyn. and yet I was afraid to ask as I felt certain that he had passed into the great beyond. summoned up my courage and put the dreaded question, and to my great joy found out that he was we'll enough to live in New York by sleeping out on a r6of.
 But I'm going too fast with my tale. Before going to consult physician. wno hurried him to Switzerland. he says:>"l cannot help remembering, however, those ominous words of John Keats when he spat blood for the first time: I know the color of that blood; that blood is arterial blood; it Is my death warrant; must die. 2 Then comes the pathetic entry in the diary: T have interviewed the doctor. and he says have consump- tion and must leave England at once. * asked if might not wait till after Christmas. but he told me there was no time to be lost"
 Here is realistic touch: "As looked down upon the bald head. busy with the stethoscope at my chest it seemed ex- traordinary that one skeleton man by merely listening could possibly predict the longevity of another. This morn ting I went down to the dining room for the first time. I sat at the English table between two men who had got the thing in their throats and could only communi- cate in whispers" He speaks of a sly, whimsical high churchman, plump as a partridge, but with death obviously upon him.
 All the while the microbes are eating away at him he is putting down in his diary little cameo sketches of those around him that show men and women
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31

every voter should satisfy himself as to the real question involved ill this election. Senator Harding has proved his unfitness for the high po- sition to which he aspires. He.is the candidate, not of the republican party as whole, but of the Senate Oligarchy", He stands for national isolation and reaction. The present leaders of the republican party are not representative of the best Ameri- can citizenship. This is proved by the defection of prominent republicans who have announced that they will vote for Cox.
 There is only one great issue before the American people today. It is the League of Nations. t A vote for Cox is vote for America to do her part in helping to prevent wars in the future and to uphold the ideals for which our soldiers fought in France. A vote for Harding is a vote against the League of Nations.
 We must decide if national honor is above partisan politics, if we will work for world fraternity or fail to redeem the pledges for which Ameri- can soldiers sacrificed their lives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31
GLYN AND THE sUPERMAN From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

lEI.INOR\ GLYN AND THE SUPERMAN From the Philadelphia Inquirer
 In search of new literary material, as she says. and not for self advertising ,oh. dear. no) Elinor Glyn has arrived on our shores to find the superman. He must be a compound of Apollo, Cheva- Tier Bayard. Samson and Napoleon. with no objection to other qualities in- cluded. It seems unkind to say so. but there is little prospect that Elinor will find her hero: he is always somewhere else. If she does find him he has our sincerest sympathy,
 Hunting for the ideal in physical moral or mental capacities is arduous and generally disappointing, but q search for combination of all good qualities is putting too high premium on the human race, More than a cen tury ago a Frenchwoman wrote to one of the wittiest of the intellectuals of her Own sex asking, for a tutor fAr her |two rons The candidate must be young, handsome. cultured. refined. willing to work hard It any kind of task and to accept small salary. The woman applied to answered that she understood the sort of man needed, would search for him and when found would promptly marry him. Probably
 that would be the case with Elinor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

After reading a flock of obituaries a. man gets the idea that standing room is at premium in heaven and hell is a lonesome and deserted place
 Women do not have to shoot their husbands any more. They use a little patience and wait for raisin jack and bootleg booze to permit them to wear mourning.
 One explanation of the large number of cases on the divorce court docket is that the only reason why lot of girls get married is because"
 lot of men die from hardening of tho arteries. But many a wife can tell seu that her husband is likely to die from hardening of the heart.
 Another reason for the hi cost of liv- ing is the fact that most people would rather be broke than be cheap.
 Divorces have increased 50 per cent under prohibition. X man hasn't any. where to go al night, so he stays at homo and gives his wife chance to tell him what poor fish he is.
 As between smoking in a powder mill, fooling with an unloaded gun, and deciding an argument between two women, the result is about the same so far as a man is concerned.
 A man IS always willing to accept a pretty girl at her face value.
 It is wonderful how interested a man can be in a good looking woman's con : versation unless she happens to be his wife.
 The trouble with the kind of a man who says what he thinks is that the lob never thinkc. Mother can always get a fine battle out of father at the breakfast table by filling his cup to the brim when he asks for half cup of coffee. You may get weary of seeing friend wife when you are well. Bu. she sure looks good to you when You are sick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31

man who bets cold-bloodedly on what he deems the chances. He had evidently fig ured it out. to give odds of to l. His calculations were like unto the horse race bcokmaker of olden days.
 Such odds are given on the exchanges of Wall street, and the speculators are grabbing for them.
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 Yet we all know that Governor Cox has made tremendous gains in the last two weeks Without much organized as sistance, until the last few days, he has made the most vigorous personal cam gone over the top everywhere by himself and he has, single handed, captured many of the enemy and brought them into camp.
 But every one must admit that there be lots more of the enemy than he could get at or see, or have hear him. # x *
 The women, except the negro women. have been more or less silent. Many of them have been against President Wilson. They may, therefore, be against the demo- cratic candidate seeking to succeed him.
 On the League of Nations issue the white women are democratic; but whether
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31
Renewed Interest in the
 Ministry of Fine Arts

Renewed Interest in the
 Ministry of Fine Arts
 E7HE Musical Alliance of America Jl has been working systematlcal- ly for a year past for the establish ment of a ministry of fine arts, in cluding a national conservatory, as a department of the federal govern- ment.
 A bill providing for such an insti- tuition will be introduced in the next Congress, and as it is non-partisan measure, all advocates of the propo- sition can unite in pressing it. It is <. reasonable to assume that the women uilN be almost a unit in it's favor. ThiA will give renewed interest to M the Cause.
 It is a good measure, and if the Sixty-seventh Congress does not act favorably upon it, the Sixty-eighth Congress probably will. It is only a question of time, at any rate, when it will become law.
 The Musical Alliance has already a vast membership and under the lead ership of it's energetic president, John c. Freund, it's numerical strength and telling influence are increasing rapidly.
 As a cabinet department, the "min- istry" would promote the spread of musical culture as no other agency could.
 If America has been behind France and other European nations. in its recognition of music as one of the great intellectual forces, it has made definite advance within the recent years. With our government taking an active part in the projected move ment, music would be eventually found in the .lead.
 Now that women are on a parity with men in the American electorate, the suffragist element must have a place in the cabinet. What would be more fitting than woman as sec retary of the department of fine arts?
 What the American People
 Must Vote on Next Tuesday 7HHE republicans have conducted q ll campaign which, in many re- spects, is unparalleled in American politicA. Millions of dollars have been spent to deceive the American peo- pie.
 It was the purpose of the repub- lican campaign committee to make the League of Nations a minor issue but Governor Cox put that question squarely before the country and as a result the republicans who sought to capitalize resentment against the Wilson administration were placed or the defensive.
 The question which voters will have to decide next Tuesday can not be obscured by any of the claims which the republican party has made In his Des Moines speech Senator Harding turned his back on the League of Nations. His promises te work for some other association of na, tions mean nothing. The league is already organized and is functioning If new agreement is made it vii mean the undoing of all that was accomplished by President Wilson anc his associates in Paris.
 The democratic party has made mis takes, but it has given the countr, constructive legislation which nc propaganda can minimize and thu fact should not be forgotten that i  was under the leadership of Prevalent Wilson-that this nation helped to wir the greatest war in history.
 Before going to the polls Tuesday
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31
POOR LUCULLUs

POOR LUCUILUS 'Tis now the season of the year When turkey birds will soon appear In coops >and crates and market stalls, While OCT the dinner table falls The shadow of feast to come That might have struck Lucullus dumb. Though prince of epicures was he, As all historians agree, He lived too soon-he never heard About the luscious turkey bird.
 A SENSE or INFERIORITY How many members in whippIe's family"
 Let me see. There is Mrs Whipple, the Whipple poodle and Whipple."
 Why do you put Whipple last?"
 That's where he puts himself.
 CHILD IS FATHER TO THE MAN What do you want with horn on your tractor?''
 That's to please my hired man. said Mir. Cobbles. He seems to get more pleasure out of working when he can pretend he's an engineer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31

ical Old issues and past grievances may this dominant question.
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 Harding, though good senator, a strict party man, and a team worker, has been led astray in his speeehmaking tour ana has made some bad blunaers He has floundered in his desire to please. Yet it is doubtful if the steat mass of voters will consider this The Amer ican people have been taught so much in the last two years to criticize some of the mistakes of the present tadministra- tion that they may be in humor to permit their teachings of antagonism to over- shadow the campaign errors of Harding.
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 If that be the case Harding will be elected by a majority sufficient to war rant the odds the cold-blooded spectators are giving on him.
 If the people have gotten down to nor nal again and are considering the is- sues pure and simple and the candidates as men of full capacity for the office, Cox will win.
 Of the latter phase of the present Amer ican mind there is doubt. Yet those of optimistic mind are always hopeful, as would be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31
Though honesty be no puritan, yet N will do no hurt.
 --AIps We'll That Ends WeH'
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. uonN1NG PRAYER

God, I know not where thou 'ea" est me, but give me strength 10 i" low. If I walk in sunshine, ! sh' he happy. If I walk in darkness, .ho xx;It he near. Amen.--M. $. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31

T had quite a bit to say in this column about John Cowper Powys and his con fessions but so far have made no men tion of Llewellyn younger brother.
 Now, it may seem strange thing. but in the .Confession of Two Brothers" what Llewellyn set down about himself under the head, "A consumptive' Diary" appealed to me not only from a literary but personal standpoint.
 I would not dare to bring it out here had he not set it down so fully and truthfully in the record which he made from day to day. I know of nothing in the whole range of literature whicn shows so dramatically and patheticaliy the terrors and ravages of the great white plague the silent enemy of man kind which claims it's victims annually by the hundreds of thousands
 I'm going to make free use of his dfary. for I believe it will be more powerful in it's appeal and warning to the dangers os tuberculosis than many tract put out by the societies organized to fight it. It lis timely, for in spite of the propaganda against consumption the public is not yet fully alive to it's menace, and I want every one to know of how stealthily 1t creeps up on it's victims
 1T must be ill.,. last night coughed up blood. slept badly also. the sound of the wind and drifting rain keeping me awake. Fl am going to the doctor this morning. Probably have broken some small blood vessel and shaii be all right in day or two" Here lies the danger of an easy optimism as he discovered, for in speaking of his trip to America, he says: 'All the time myriad of microbes alive and active were eating away at my body, at my very life
 Gruesome, you say. and not to be put down in white and black, but if the mere writing about the condition gets on the readers nerve I beg you to think what must be the feelings of the person who at last becomes aware that there is no time to be lost in the fight to be made against their inroads It is weli- known fact that in the early stages of the disease most consumptives arr' hopeful and unaware of their real danger
 hadn't read many pages in the diary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31
Balk on Deception

Naughty boys have been trying to play the slot chewing gum boxes in our cars with thin washers" said T. G. Brabston, superintendent of trans portation of the Birmingham Railway. Light and Power Company, but the wise machines balk on the deception, and refuse to work unless fed with 8 regular nickel.
 '"The washers clog the machines, all the same, and our conductors are kept busy explaining to irate passengers who put in a nickel and get no action that this company has merely leased space for the machines to W.SL Jones, 1919 Third avenue, to whom all com plaints should be addressed. The washer craze, in my opinion, will soon die out, as the small boy is waking up to the fact that he is playing losing game"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31
A Worthy Cause

"As head of the American Relief As sociation I note that Herbert Hoover has associated with him number of men of national reputation, all of whom are serving on this body without remuneration" said l.. Sevier. The ob- ject of this commission is. to control the operation of European childrens fund, and the American relief admin istration warehouses.
 "During the first winter this com mission controlled them, some 5000, 900 children were taken care of. The i'm proved conditions for 1920 reduced this number greatly. but there still remain some s,500.o00 children in for eign countries still destitute. In Ala bama the affairs of this work will be handled by Erskine Ramsay, and Ala bamas citizenship as a whole should respond to this call for aiding a cause so worthy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-31
Siegel Bill Does Not
 Carry Great Weight

1T TITLE will be heard after the lL1 election of the bill of Congress- man Siegel of New York proposing to cut down the representation of the south in Congress.
 There is less and less disposition in this country to interfere with the internal-.affairs of states. Where a national statute deals with specific matter in specific language, the na- tion is called on to. comply without regard to state lines. Where situa- tions exist in one state that do not exist in another, the national attitude is to allow the states having these special conditions to handle them as they see fit..
 By common consent the Japanese question is left to Californians. No one outside that state assumes to dictate to Californians how they shall care for this problem.
 The nation has come to regard the south's handling of the negro question for it's own determination. The south has made no suggestions to other sections in this respect and other sections are beginning to re- frain from gratuitous advice.