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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11

The long looked forward to rest will be given the Barons today. For once in quite a while Moley's men have no games cheduled.
 The past week the Barons have played nine games. from Sunday tc Sunday. Two double headers were played. Of course. the whole team is worn out. Today's rest will do them no harm at all,
 It would not hurt the Barons nt all if they could rest several days before tackIingA the schedule ahead of them this week. The weeks schedule follows:
 Monday. Crackers at Atlanta.
 Tuesday, Crackers at Atlanta dwo Games}.
 Wednesday, Crackers at Atlanta uwo gamesD.
 Thursday, Mobile here
 Friday, Pelicans at New Orleans. Saturday, Pelicans at New Orr leans.
 Sunday, Bears at Mobile.
 It can he seen that nine games are scheduled for seven days. One of the double headers (for Wcdnes- day, is scheduled, the other one is scheduled and a rained-out game. Thursdny's' game with Mobile here Is n rained-out affair.
 Meeting those Crackers in Atlanta IS like tackling the lion in his own den The Crackers have won nine straight games and are rearin' for more. Choliy Franks aggregation seems to have al last hit it's stride.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11

lace: and she will have men beside And when she's drest with care and cost, all tempting fine and gay. As men should serve a cowcumber, she filings herself away
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-11

hussy hang your husband be dutiful, y is her mothers last word.
 When they have gone Polly introduced the captain, who had intended to lie concealed in her room till the dusk of the evening" He at once expresses his sentiments in this lyric:
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31
now WILL THEY EXPLAIN IT?

One of the things that is going to
tax the gop campaign orators to the
limit this fall will be to make the
necessary explanations Of their fail
ure 20 accomplish anything construc-
tive during their more than two years
control of congress. The country is
just beginning to realize that repub-
lican promises of 1918 and the re-
publican record Of 1919 and 1920 do
not correspond at all. The promises
of 1918 were actuated by a partisan
desire to get control of congress--the
record of congressional control up 10
this time is an emphatic admission
that the party does not possess the
vision and competence that it boast
ed about IN 1918.
1t will ever be thus, SO long as the
party is controlled by Penroses and
Smoots. A party is only as strong as
its leadership. after all, and when
that leadership is vested in men who
are out Of sympathy with the desires
Of the people, and out Of touch with
their needs. the record Of accomplish
ment will be weak. The democratic
party has had strong, sympathetic
leadership in both houses, and in the
White House, and knowing this the
country is NOT likely TO swallow 81 tor.
les Of the republicans that their lead
ership Is superior. The records can
be read by all, and upon them the
parties must stand or fall.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31

that can always be depended upon to
evoke thoughtless applause. is that
joining the league of nations would
be TO sacrifice American nationality.
Just as rendering allegiance to the
government of the United States is
to sacrifice your individuality?
About thirty nations have Joined
the league OF nations. Every one of
these nations-Great Britain, France,
Sweden. Poland. Holland. Norway,
Denmark and the rest-values its ma
tional identity as highly as we value
ours. To not a single one Of them,
apparently, did it occur that in join
ing this organization of civilization
to resist the causes OF war it was sac
rificing it's nationality.
Bunk. Mr.. Harding bunk pure and
simple! And any man who knows
enough to get as far as you have in
politics knows It to be bunk.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31

trying TO extort from each user OF
gas 81 per month to be used for con-
Quoting its business and paying its
overhead expense. If a business con-
cern were to ask the public to pay
its clerk hire and operating expenses
through the medium of a Service
charge" it would be laughed out OF
existence--and yet the st. Joseph
Gas Co. has the effrontery to ask
Just this thing. II the company does
nothing except to lose money as it is
always claiming, it should close up
shop and get out of buslness-as any
properly conducted business institu-
tion would do. The proposed service
charge and increased rate asked for
IL an outrage on an already overbur-
dened public.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31
SOCIALISM AND IT'S PROPHETS

Present developments go far to
show what prophecies OF earlier years
amount to. For instance, ten years
ago the United States Steel Corpora
ton had 24,500 stockholders on its
book. This year its stock is held by
no less than $3.50 individuals.
Since 1916 the number of stock
holders in the New York Air Brake
company has increased 154 per cent;
in the Railway Steel Spring company
LOG per cent: in the Wilys-Overland
Autom obile company 266 per cent;
in the American Car and Foundry
company 81 per cent. The list OF
tremendous increases in the number
Of corporation stockholders could be
continued indefinitely. There are to-
day certainly two or three times as
many people owning stock in indus
trial corporations as ten years ago.
An interesting feature of this sit
uation lies in its application to the
theories of socialism and the predic-
tions of its leaders.
1t was the teaching Of Karl Marx,
founder of modern socialism, that the
middle class of small property own
ers would gradually grow smaller
and finally almost disappear. When
that time came. Marx predicted. So
Cialism would be established and cap
italsm would disappear.
AS late as 1898. at the socialist
convention in Stuttgart, Kautsly, the
great socialist leader, said "If capt.
talists are OF the increase and not
the propertyfess. then the develop
ment is setting us back further and
further from our goal. then capital
ism intrenches itself and not social
ism, then our hopes will never ma
terialize" a
Consider these predictions, in con-
neection with the great increase OF
corporation stockholders in the Unit
ed States. and form your own con-
clusions. nf
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31
HAS CHANGED HARDING'S
HABITS

As the late lamented Col. Granville
G. Adkins, civil war day philosopher
Of st. Joseph. used TO say, Strange
clothes change mems habits" so this
homely saying seems to hold good in
the case of Warren G.. Harding. whose
nomination by the cops has not only
changed his habits, but his general
manner of living
Now just to show that this is true
and that Harding is now one of the
great common people, he has begun
passing out stogies, apparently indif-
forent if the impression be thereby
created, that ne has been a lifelong
addict Of the stogies habit. And the
familiar cigarette. whether Turkish,
Egyptian or Virginia, is given a badly
needed vacation. To be known as
one who is tolerant toward the use OF
tobacco in this, its cleanest and mild
est form, might lose the votes Of
others besides Lucy Page CASTOR.
Contrariwise a pipe, or a plug of
chewing tobacco, might be regarded
by the tobacco progressives as going
too far along the way Of reaction. So
Senator Harding smuggles into his
household a rush order Of stogies.
to see to it that the newspaper boys
! do not omit mention OF them in their
reports.
Similarly, ii would hardly do for a
newly presidential nominee tc
60 home in the style and fashion
| long familiar to him in his capacity
as a senator. With Spartan simple
| ity not to say severity, all luxury and
| ostontation are eschcwed. The good
wife packs the home-fried chicken in
q shoe box TO furnish sustenance en-
route. The nominee empties with his
own hands the pan under the ice box
carefully locks the back door and
| tucks away the key, and before the
automobile judicious compromise
| between Ford and Packard
chugs away at a decorous IS miles
an hour. kind and cordial good -bye'
are exchanged with couple OF serv'
ing girl representatives Of the coloreG
| population,
Could a picture be painted more
common and democratic than that?
Could anything be more carefully
calculated 20 please that middle-class
Americanism which reads the news
papers most acknowledgement incl
dentally, casts the most votes IN No
| vcmber?
Friends and neighbors. IL is Art
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31

st. Joseph and Buchanan county.
situated in the northwestern part Of
Missouri. has not for years had
a governor. and the counties
IN this portion of the state
have undoubtedly rallied to tho
support of the party during the years
gone by. Is II not a fact that north
western Missouri is entitled to some
recognition from the balance of the
state? Is it not possible that st.
Joseph, as well as st. Louis produces
fit gubernatorlal material? The citi-
Gems OF Ray county will, at the Aug
ust primary. have an opportunity to
vote for a candidate in Judge Mayer
who is from our own section of the
state and a man upon whom we may
depend to discharge we'll the duties
of chief executive Of Missouri.-Rich-
mond News.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31
THE BUNKEST OF BUNK

speech into the phonograph from his
speech into phonograph from his
front porch the other day he said;
Let us hesitate before we surren-
der the nationality which is the very
soul Of the highest Americanism,
For "Americanism" insert "Prus-
sianism," and it would be far more
fitting
Let's hope this is not a sample Of
what Mr. Harding is going to keep
on dispensing 10 US from his front
porch this fall-providing fear OF
Governor Cox does not force him off
his front porch into country wide
invasion Of the hustings.
For it is buncombe-or. in the
shorter and uglier word, "bunk"--of
the first water.
What Mr.. Harding means, of
course, IL he means anything more
than the construction OF sentence
that sounds well and is Of the sort
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31
Long Time 70 Find II Out

The Kansas City Star complains
that the trouble makers in the Re-
publican party still refuse to get out
and relieve the party of the load they
impose on it," Sounds like the Star
had just learned that disgraceful con"
ditions existed in its party. Hasn't
it learned that these same conditions
have existed in the Republican party
for 10, these many years? And If II
has why hasn't it been vigorously de-
nouncing the Babler's and Coles and
Morses in previous elections? There
is a suspicion in the minds of some
folks that the Stars condemnation
began at the point where these gentry
were caught with the goods.-Glas-
gov Missourian.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31
DID THEIR DUTY wELI-THEY
SAY

The senators performed their duty
faithfully. We approve their conduct,
and honor their courage and fidelity"
who said this?
Why--it was the republican sena-
tors. unblushingly handing themselves
halo in full view of the audience.
1t is about the worst case of self
adulation on record.
The senators ran the convention.
They wouldn't let anybody else get a
look in. They must be temporary
and permanent chairman. chairman
of the platform committee, nominee
for president and vice president and
everything else.
The republican party met at Chi
cago to render a verdict upon the
record made by its servants in Wash
ington. The senators were to be COM
took no chances. They would, like
Mayor Marshall a short time ago, be
judge. jury bailiff and court reporter.
| They manned every post of honor and
of power. They deliberated upon
their conduct at Washington and then
said solemnly that they were amazed
at the nobility of their acts. A CRATE
ful country. meaning by that term
| the small but select senate coterie,
contemplates with awe, reverence and
affection the greatness, the wisdom
and the fidelity of the senate.
The senators are overcome with
| fond alteration in the presence OF
their own apostolic sancity. They ad-
nit it. They adjust the halo to their
consecrated brows and look around
for applause. Up the hour OF going
TO press the response is the sileiice
OF the grave. What estimate must
the senate place upon the intelligence
and the character OF the American
people?
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31
OUR LOUD SHIRTS

That celebrated coat of Joseph's
which caused his brethren to put him
in the well, was tame and modest
affair. compared with what you can
see every day on Felix or Edmond
or for that matter any other st. JOS
eph street-for this ls the era OF the
Rainbow Brummel
If our Puritan Fathers could only
see us now! Those staunch old
worthless wore raiment as gloomy as
their conscience. If a lad IN one Of
the new lurid brown Kollege Fyt
suits with red stripes had dropped
into the Town Meeting at Old Salem,
they would have grimly fed him to
the Indians.
In the brave days Of 1876 how the
redcoats Of the hated Hessian stood
out in the streets of Beston! Today
IN Boston n crimson overcoat would
have to go some to be noticed among
the glaring greens, the bilious bluffs
and peculiar purples.
In our grandfathers' time the we'll
dressed man appeared to be all set
for a funeral: Tall, black stove-pipe
hat Ga sinister canister indeed) 4,
luEubrious tie, long, black coat, un-
creased black trousers. Daredevils
wore pepper and salt. But no one
permitted his socks to be exposed to
view
Shirts, a couple OF decades ago,
were strictly quicscent. A bit Of
starched board glimpsed meath the
cravat and a projecting quarter-inch
Of severely circular cuff-afflicting
the wrists like two tin cans-this was
the limit of shirt assurance. If a
pattern was ipdulgcd in, it was a
shy recurrence of lines and dots. An
anchor or a horseshoe the size of a
green pea was considered violent.
From an inch below the scarf-pin all
was shrouded in waistcoat.
If a man took a girl out rowing he
might with due apology remove his
coat and unharness his detachable
cuffs; if he removed his walstcoat
he was no gentleman.
When the youth OF today nonchal-
antly divests himself of his pinch
back coat, it is a dazzling unveiling
much hue and cry-as when the
curtain goes up at a musical comedy
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31
Worked His Jaw Bone

The Farmers and Laborers ticket"
which is supposed to be the Third
Party ticket this year. composed of
all the elements of discomfort and
disloyalty that could be assembled
after a fine-tooth campaign through
out the whole country. nominated a
lawyer from Salt Lake for President.
This lawyer never farmed or labored
in his life. His only implement Of
labor so far has been the jaw bone OF
an ass He couldn't tell a load of hay
from a manure dump. He never was
known to have worked a day in his
life, still his nomination is a great
improvement over that of either La
Toilette or w. r. Hearst-Boonyille
Advertiser.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31
Down TO Two Candidates

1t looks now like the race for gov
ernor in Missouri has narrowed down
to two candidates-John NJ. Atkinson
of University City and Charles Holt
Mayer of st. Joseph. Wallace Cross
ley of Warrensburg has withdrawn
from the race and Frank Farris Of
Rolla and Col Rubey Garrett Of
Kansas City do not look like winners.
Atkinson and Mayer are both honor
able and capable gentlemen. Either
of them would make the state a good
executive and the Democrats will
have no trouble in electing either
Atkinson or Mayer. They are both
good. conservative party men.-Milan
Standard.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31
Get "A job Of PiIOting

Three E. McJimsey, candidate for
governor on the republican ticket, is
going to beat the democrats to it by
putting his campaign in the air now
and not waiting until the election
comes off. He will make the cam
paign in an airship over the state in
the next two weeks. Don't know
whether he can survive the airing or
not. He is not wasting his time,
however, as he might be able to get
a job as an aviator when defeated
this fall if he is lucky enough to Sc
cure the nomination. We suppose the
Lowden fund will be spent for this
purpose.-Mound City Journal.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31

Art with a capital A.
In Marion, among his fellow Mar
ionettes. it is possible that to COM
plete the picture the candidate will
substitute croquet and quoits for golf,
Palm Beaches for flannels drink
nothing more deleterious and taboo
than coco-cola and profess entire ig-
norance Of the meaning of three kings
and a couple of deuces as ne indulges
in an occasional evenings diversion
al authors. If he is daring he might
even venture as far as euchre and
casino.
The quest for the elusive vote is a
great game and Senator Harding is
playing it in the approved manner
and fine form.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31

will not lose our self-respect or the
confidence Of those who placed the
responsibility of that trying hour"
In that spirit, the democracy Of Ohio,
under his leadership. made good. 1t
kept the faith. 1t fulfilled its pledges.
1t regarded its platform as promis-
sury note, and paid it, every cent
That is something for the American
people to think of, and what he said
a little further on in the same talk
will prove refreshing and inspiring
for he said this:
THE Almighty docs not always--in
fact. not at any time--take us into
his confidence. He gives instead a
conscience and we attempt to obey
the mandates Of that conscience. We
have been rewarded with victory in
Ohio because we have stood for the
things in which we believe. and we
shall do precisely the same thing in
national affairs.
II hope l do not mistake the spirit
! that is within me when l say that l
have something more than a belief,
have a firm conviction. that the
new order and new day, the guaran-
| tee Of continued progressive govern
ment will be adopted by the people
! OF the nation and that the election of
| Mr.. Roosevelt and myself will be but
an expression Of the people of the
nation that their well-being lies in
the golden dawn Of tomorrow, rather
than in the twilight of yesterday.
Il said to you that l would con-
tinue to face the sunrise and never
the sunset. That will be my constant
purpose. Then when hand back
the standard consigned to me it will
be as clean as l give you back the
| standard Of the commonwealth in
January, 1921.
Il made mistakes because l did not
wait for the lights OF tom orrow to di-
! rect me. l was obliged to act by the
! lights of today. one hundred million
times more would rather keep NOV
/ ing in a great emergency and make
| human mistakes. than be guilty of
| inaction as result of timidity or
cowardice."
That is the talk of a brave man, of
| an honest leader, and of a sincere
| progressive. 1t is the talk of a man
| who values his reputation for inte-
| gritty and good faith in public life the
same as in private life; man who
/ sees no difference in the binding ma
| turc and obligation of his political
| platform and his personal note for
the payment of a sum of money.
The better the record of James NJ.
| Cox becomes known. the better his
character and principles are under
! stood, the more strongly will he ap-
| peal to forward looking and tnteli-
gent Americans as a man to be trust
ed with power and as a leader who
can be depended upon to continue to
lead toward the rising sun.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31
1t Means What Ii Don't Mean

When former President Taft, a
strong friend of the League of Ma
tions, can support most heartily the
Republican platform declaration con-
cerning the League, and Senator Borah
and Johnson, irreconcilable enemies
of the League, just as warmly declare
their entire approval of it, we are
persuaded that the plank means pre-
cisely what 1t does not mean, or does
not mean what it means, or perhaps
both.-Henry County Democrat.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31

If the suffragists would have the
Tennessee legislature ratify the
amendment, It would be far better IL
they would cease their threats and
attempted intimidations Men do not
do things with much celebrity when
they are threatened-and many of
them are now beginning to think that
II the women already before they
have suffrage. act as they do, what
will they do when they have the bal
lot.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31

The reduction Of nearly a billion
and a half Of the national debt in the
past year is an achievement that is
to the credit Of the Democratic ad-
ministration. and in the present time
when war burdens have been laid on
the people. will commend TO them the
care exercised by the administration
to tighten the heavy but necessarily
laid on burden. 1t Is also to be no
ticed that none of the republican or
gans are giving the democratic ad-
ministration any credit for this i'm
portant and highly commendable
achievement.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31
Ten Minutes a Week

A Chicago woman has asked the
court for $40 a week alimony pend
ing a suit for divorce. She asserts
that her husband earns one dollar a
minute. She probably figures that
she is entitled to alimony according
to the amount of time her husband
would have devoted to her if there
was no trouble in the family-ten
minutes a week.-Kansas City Times.
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31
BRAVE TALK BY HONEST
LEADER

"A political platform is a promis-
sorry note, and it must be paid every
cent"
That is what GOV. Cox told a num-
ber Of his democratic friends as he
walked mp the steps of the Ohio state
capitol the other day-and he meant
every word that ne uttered, and if all
PARTIES and all candidates would hold
as a firm rule to that attitude toward
their platforms it would go further
than anything else toward establish
ing firmly the confidence of the AM
crican people in their government.
A cynical politician said, a good
many years ago. that platforms are
made to get in on. The utterance
struck a popular chord, not because
the people approved the fact but be-
cause they appreciated the candor
with which it was admitted. For the
lameutable truth is that party plat
forms have come to carry little
weight because of the disposition Of
parties and candidates to crowd into
them anything that is calculated to
win votes and then promptly TO for
get or ignore them after election day.
It is this that has done most, perhap~
10 disgust so many good citizens with
politics They see in it only a great
I,1 60 ha Il
for the patronage and power that so
with the offices. They lose faith in
the sincerity and good faith Of parties
and party leaders.
And that last faith was restored to
great extent when Woodrow Wilson
and the democratic congress were in
power, for the pledges Of notable
programme of reform and construc-
tion that were made in the Baltimo ore
platform Of 1912 were notably full
filled. The president, like the great
and faithful leader ne is, stood firm
at his post, demanding that the i'm
portaut measures promised the ma
tion in the event of democratic
victory, be given them. And they
were given.
Governor Cox may be depended
upon, we believe, in this respect at
least to follow in President Wilson'S
footsteps. lie is that kind Of man
and ho has the record to prove it.
In his little talk at the Ohio state
house Governor Cox said to his demo-
cratic friends.
when I first met you here you
gave mo the greeting of confidence
as we faced the responsibility OF
bringing to the life Of Ohio The new
day made possible by our new con-
stitution. / am proud to look you
workers ia the face and remind you
and myself as we'll that have mover
people of the commonwealth. Need
/ remind you that in January, 1913
] said that every mandate spoken 10y
the people must be carried into offrc
by the general assembly I also sait
that a political platform is a promis
sorry note and it must be paid every
cent. 1t was"
Governor Cox then recalled tn,
predictions made at tho time that Il
the program pledged in the demo
cratic state platform were carried GU
the party would lose the state b!
100000. He recalled that his re
Spouse to that had been: But We
The St. Joseph observer., 1920-07-31
Should Read the FiIes

Some Republican newspapers not
over a thousand miles from Bethany
are using considerable space telling
their readers of the friendship that
existed between Harding and the late
Theodore Roosevelt. II those news
papers would only quote from the
files Of Hardings own paper issued
about 1912-when Roosevelt was tho
third party nominee-they would
probably have a different comment
to make.-Bethany Democrat.