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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06
SECRETARY BAKERS CONFIDENCE IN RIVEF

HE explanation of Secretary of War Newton D. Baker tor
 the delay in delivery of the Warrior river sefpropeed barges and towboats will general acceptance and proval in commercial circles.
 In letter to the of The AgeHerald the secretary gives details of equipment construction and promises deliveries of the vessels will begin this month point Alabama frmness of his belief in the project These barge services longer projects he writes bu will believe be operated permanent and very essential public utilities which will perform not insignificant role relieving the traffic tension throughout the Mis- sissippi yaey.'
 Believing the project firmly the secretary has been u willing sacrifice quality of work1 speed The war
 insisted of the finest possible workman shpvees which would insure of the river rat fife which models for further inland water way traffic development this the departments attitude will not only be commended throughout the Mississippi valley secon but will further inspiration to those who have abored long and hard the properly utilized
 vessels have been built under the greatset difficulties At the time the contracts let all available shpbuiders engaged the construction of deep vessels Hun drds of steel and wooden ships being rushed comple ton to meet national Many of those vessels built haste being disposed of by the government and will be gratifying know that the Warrior and Mississippi sells have not been built the high speed which might eopa dize their future usefulness.
 The secretarys letter will be especially gratifying Ala baman for the people of this state have river traffic close to their hearts They believe heartily and for years they have shown their devotion by fostering every possible way movement looking to its extension
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06
Guard Making Good

"The Alabama National Guard is making rapid strides towards being the best outfit in the country and the state may be proud of it's volunteer sol diers." said Major Joseph Dickerson of the adjutant generals office al Montgomery, who is in Birmingham checking up the property and equip : ment of the local companies" Since the reorganization of the guard about a year ago there has been marked improvement shown by all companies, and the two weeks spent at the camp of instruction at Camp Mcclellan re gently put the finishing touches to the work, and now the state has regi- ment that is hard to beat.
 Tt is remarkable how much interest is being taken in the work both by the officers and men and the spirit of rivalry is keen Each man thinks his own company is the best in the regi- ment and works hard to keep it so. ' find the property and equipment in ex- cellent condition and the companies are checking up most satisfactorily. The Birmingham companies are making good and there is no reason why it's battalion should not be the best in the regiment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06
NEW RINK IN TIPPING

to the masculine temperament. but to be overridden in praise-worthy effort to discharge 1t by woman, likely florid and overdressed, who slides a quarter or half dollar across the counter and claims the attention of the clerk who was just about to take your order-weil. such an experience is not conducive to an even naturally choleric.
 Especially when complaint to the pro- prietcr elicits the response: You know the boys have to make living one way or another don't they?" Yes. certainly they do, but so does the proprietor; to whom such experiences among his cus- toners and such replies from himself will certainly result in the loss of good patrons. They will not, however, do any thing to check the practice. It already flourishes and is likely to become uni versal if the public does not revolt. Tip ping says the Hon. Andrew, Neville Carleton, a well-known patron of res taurants abroad and in America, who has interested himself in the question, lis like building a house for man and then paying him rent for the privilege of liv- ing there Its system covers more evils than the cloak of charity ever did sins But until the public has become less easy going, which is another way of saying until money becomes so mucnl tighter that it is valuable, it will take more courage for an American to pocket his change than it did to face the Hun And even then MT. Carleton even then Tipping originated when money was val uable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06
WONDERLAND

By Harry Thurston Peck.
 Sweet eyes by sorrow still unwet, To you the world Is radiant yet A palace hall of splendid truth Touched by the golden haze of youth Where hopes and joys are ever rife Amid the mystery of life;
 And seeking all to understand, The world to you is Wonderland. turn and watch the unshed tears The furrowed track of ended years; see the eager hopes that wane. The joys that die in deathless pain. The coward Faith that falsehood'
 shake The souls that faint, the hearts tha'
 break, The Truth by livid lips bemoaned. The Right defiled, the wrong en
 throned-
 And, striving still to understand, The world to me is Wonderland. A little time. then by and by The puzzled thought itself shall die. When, like the throb of distant drum The call inevitable comes To b1urring brain and weary limb, And when the aching eyes grow din. And fast the gathering shadows cree5 To lul the drowsy sense asleep. We two shall slumber hand in hand To wake. perhaps. in Wondsrlnnd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06

population of Wisconsin will fight for Germany, just as they did as long as it was safe before and during the war and as they will continue to fight with every means at their com mand. Harding will get the pro- German vote in the United States. He's welcome to it. It expresses the 1 forlorn hope that out of the chaos that would result from the defeat of the League of Nations project, or the putting into practice of an ineffect- ual substitute, Germany will profit.
 Throughout the country German language newspapers which were silenced durings the war are resum- ing publication and showing their former spleen. These papers were pernicious before the war and they are pernicious now. They are fight ing to prevent America from joining the League of Nations, which would mean that there would be no League of Nations.
 German propaganda is again world wide' No matter what form of gov ernment there may be in the father land, Germans at home and abroad have not changed their way of think ing. The German vote in America will bear watching. It is an unpa- triotic, un-American vote, not be- cause it will be cast for Harding, since it has no love for the repub- lican party or it's candidate, but be- cause it is a powerful weapon of pro-German propaganda.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06
BUT, BOYS, GET THE MONEY:

From the New York World.
 For myself, I yield to no man in willingness, aye, in eagerness. to rem der the greatest conceivable assistance to the stricken peoples of Europe. But, Boys, Get the Money!
 Ours is the temple of liberty under the law, and it is ours to call the Sons Boys. Get the Money!
 Toil alone makes for accomplishment and advancement. and righteous pos session is the reward of toil and it's incentive. But, Boys. Get the Money!
 We republicans of the Senate, con scious of our solemn paths and mindtul of our constitutional obligations, when saw the structure of world super government taking visionary form joined in a becoming warning of our devotion to this republic. But: Boys, Get the Money.
 I speak with genuinely sympathetic heart, whether it is to mention devas- tated France. or sorely tried Italy, or nobly struggling Poland, or distracted and misguided Russia. But, Boys, Get | the Money.
 We make appeal today to American intelligence and patriotism, when the republic is menaced from within. But, Boys, Get the Money
 In city the size of St. Louis. Cleve- iana or Detroit a gilt-edged list of at least 5000 names should be secured. Get the right man to see the right peo- pie. Step on it. Boys. Get the Money
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06
WORLD-CENTER FOR MOVIES

sent rare problems to the film photog- rapher.
 But take a broader range of vision. Monsieur Tane found the keynote of English literature in Puritan depres- sion produced by climate. His theory is interesting. England offers no Mo Here as she offers no broad humor scenarios. She was born serious and must remain so. Scenarios from Punca would be funny to analysts, not to spectators.
 Of all the big cities of the world London is least fitted to be~-a world center for motion pictures. Paris would be d lot quicker to grasp the spirit of Rocky Mountain humor, or Of Him alaya humor. or of Confucian humor. But frankly, we don't believe any world center is possible. Every lana must produce it's own movies in it's own way, and conformed to the tastes and the ways of thought of it's own people, if the motion picture is to go on conquering and to conquer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06
Must Have Bucket

"The man who owns lot, and does not build house upon it is like the man who has well and no bucket with which to draw up the water" said j.. NJ. r. Otis of the Jemison Real Estate Company Mir. Otis told the following fable:
 '"Once there was man who owned q fine pot of ground on which he desired well He employed good we'll dig ger. swho sank well and cased 1t around This well digger struck fine water and drew the man full bucket and gave him a drink re man was well pleased with the well and being satisfied. paid the well digger the full value and thanked him for finding -such good water.
 "The we'll digger took his tools off the place and in a few hours after ward the man grew thirsty and desired water. But as he had failed to have the well digger place riggings and a bucket at the well he was unable to satisfy his thirst. He complained about the property not having water All that was needed vas bucket to tn, we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06
METALLIC PAPER"

The paper on which this is printed cost 35 cents a pound in 1914 Today it costs from If to IS cents in the open market, and is going higher Even with new mills to take care of the present excessive demand, paper prices will never recede to their former levels or even anywhere near them. What then? On what will our books and magazines be printed in twenty five years? Paper? It is very doubtful. And if it is paper, it will not resemble our present-day paper any more than the latter resembles the papyrus of the old Egyptians, or the rag papers first made in e115O by the Italians.
 What substitute our children will use, it is of course impossible to fore- cast. With modern chemistry and me- chanics anything is possible-even syn thetic wood pulp with synthetic flores.
 There is one substitute, however, which has not been mentioned much lately, although it deserves it, particu- larly now with paper selling at the present fabulous figures.
 We refer to metallic foil. Preposter- ,ous as the idea appeaars, it was pro- posed by no less a man than Edison. During his researches with his storage battery he produced nickel foil by the electrolyt;c method four to five times as thin as an ordinary sheet of paper. Moreover, this nickel sheeting, though very much thinner, was stronger and far more durable than paper. Such nickel foil is flexible, strong. uniform in thickness and can be printed upon readily It will outlast paper for cen- turies. A thousand-page nicked foil book is less than one-half inch thick. Now, nickel is of course.~not the only metal that can be used. Aluminum, or correct aluminium alloy, would seem to be ideal, due to its whiteness, it's extreme lghtness and strength. Alum mum now sells at about 40 cents a pound If it can be produced cheap electrolytically in foils, only three times thinner than for instance maga- zine paper. then one pound of alumi- mum win go about six times as far as a pound of paper. In other words, for about cents you could print as many pages on aluminium as it would cost you to print the same pages on paper costing Is cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06

From the Richmond Journal.
 RNDIGNANT shoppers in various cities
 II have lately noticed a unique devel- c opment in the undemocratic, typical
 ly American (though originating else- where) system of bestowng gratuites for the rendering of a service for which tho
 individual is already sufficiently recon- pensed by his employer-in short, the in- iquitous system of tipping. The new kink
 it is declared is practiced by housewives
 of all people, who now slip coins to the
 clerks in crowded grocery and butcher shops in order that they may be Served ahead of other custoniUrs who have been
 patiently awaiting their turns. Tips are also frequently bestowed upon clerks who
 have saved the choicest steak or vege-
 tables for a free-handed patron. When
 this custom sprang into being is uncer-
 tain, and, indeed, unimportant. What is
 certain is that it exists and is sure to spread, for once started there is no way
 Of checking these banalities
 For a man who fondly ina asines he has already encountered all the. forms of the tipping evil, beginning with the hold>up serviter in the hotel lavatory or the bar Der shop, who gives your Palm Beach suit a wholly futile and unnecessary brushing with one hand while displaying the other in the position most convenient to the reception of the expectant coin, to run afoul of this new aggravation is pe- r,1o The GutV of Dur- chasing weekly supplies of fruits and
 vegetables which often devolves upon husband is not, at best. an agreeable one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06

FEom the Brooklyn Eagle.
 INHE published stories that mag
 magnates of the great motion
 ture interests are planning combinat ton to make London world center for movies and prepare there shows for all parts of the world, re- calls the experiment of the late Mark Twain in exhibiting to a Chicago lyceuna audience a chunk of London fog preserved in alcohol. When mo- tion pictures become chunks of Lon don fog, nothing but alcohol will pre- serve them. Prohibition enforcers will Please take notice.
 We are solemnly told that stars from America and elsewhere will be be- griled or decoyed to London studios. The best of them will miss the sum- shine and the atmosphere of Los An geles. If coming events cast their shadows before. these stars are already growing gloomy. Indeed, for outdoor scenes the lights of London would pre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06

H. Gernsback, in the Electrical Exper-
 imenter.
 WNHE have been repeatedly as-
 MW sured by experts that our
 present visible paper supply will give out in less than twenty-five years. During the past few years the
 paper shortage has become world wide-not because of an actual short age of the raw materials that go into the making of paper-but because the world is using about 25 Der cent more paper than can be manufactured.
 Of course. new mills are being built right along, and as it takes from one to two years to build a paper manu- featuring plant, thus the present short- age will have disappeared in few years. But this will not allay the gen. eral situation; quite the contrary. The more mills we build and the more pa per we use, the quicker do we reach the inevitable point where our raw ma terials give out.
 Ninety per cent of our present day paper is made from wood. Briefly, the process consists in reducing the wood to puup by a macerating progess. Properly digested under steam pres sure in solution of bisuiphite of mag nesium, washed and bleached, this wood pulp called "sulphite" in trade par lance, forms the base from which nearly all of our paper is derived While pa per pulp can be made theoretically from any vegetable fibre, only wood fibre so far has been found economical enough on a large scale.
 Alfalfa straw, grass, seaweed and host of other substitutes have been mentioned from time to time as a seri- ous competitor to wood, but so far not one of these have been able to com pete, and paper continues to be made of wood pulp.
 But as mentioned before, wood will surely not last forever. It can't last while we are daily turning whole for ests into newspapers. It simply does not grow fast enough to keep step with the present enormous demand. Besides. wood is used for thousands of other purposes, and all this great de- mand drives up it's cost to such height that in a very few years wood for paper purposes will be unthinkable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06
Made in Birmingham

T just feel it in my bones,' IS the saying goes, that the Alabama State Fair this year is going to be huge success" said Clarence Alderman, and believe that anyone who attends will receive much benefit as well as iib- eral education.
 T am in a position to know that al ready some interesting exhibits are be- ing planned, and that the best exhiblt booths are being taken up rapidly About the best thing that know of that will be on exhibit at the fair will be the made in Birmingham" prod, ucts. l know that these will be or display by the hundreds and that the visitors to the city will be easily i'm pressed by the variety and volume O. things that are used all over the world, but that are made right hert in Birmjn gham."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06
Labor Day Promises
 To Be Widely Observed

1T ABOR DAY is legal holiday in ll1s every state of the Union, and is always widely observed. It is gala time in Birmingham, and on this oc- casion the celebration will be marked by an extensive parade through the streets in the forenoon, followed by addresses and a barbecue at the fair grounds.
 There will be an absence of floats and uniformed bodies will not be as much in evidence as in former years, but labor organizations, including women's auxiliaries, will be more nu- merous than ever, and the spirit of the day will De something to be re- membered. Brawny men and their families will gather by thousands and will feast together.
 The industrial life of the Birming ham district is ever increasing, and increasing, too, at rapid rate. If the marchers today are not as showy as they were when Birmingham was small municipality, they will pre- sent dignified and impressive ap. pearance, and will presage mighty army of workers in the years to come
 Let us hope for favorable weather With fair day joy will reign su preme.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06
IN HOTEL LCBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
An AutomobiIist's Experinece

As an automobilist I had my first real experience with a breakdown out on the road Saturday night" said Lieut.. Gov. Nat Miller.
 had MT. and Mrs. c. M Stanley with
 me- and we were returning from Ned Braces birthday dinner at his home on shades mountain, and on the way up Red
 mountain, coming toward town, my car
 went dead and I could not coax it to budge
 good Samaritan, John Stark, who runs jitney line on Twentieth street and Eleventh avenue. seeing me in trouble, stopped, and while his wife waited in his car ne spent quite a time, until his fash light burned out endeavoring to get me started Then another car bearing Gen Billy Newsome and Messrs R. H. Atcher- son and Frank E. Jones, stopped and in- quired about my troubles, and took charge of the situation, working under their spotlight Two of these gentle- men had had extensive experience as automobile mechanics including on the part of General Newsome service in France during the world war. Then with wishes of good luck, MT. and Mrs Stark bade us good night, and rolled on, while my three new friends bent themselves to the task of putting my car in order l, Tn my ignorance of such things, could do nothing but stanr by and watch, and oc- casionaly hold the spotlight.
  small hours of Sunday morning, MT Jones took my guests in his car, carried them safely to their homes in the city and returned to my derelct. In the mean time, after hours of hard work and faith full efforts, my friends concluded that some new part would have to be obtained from the shop before my car could be made to run.
 Still they wouldn't abandon he, but two of them drove back to the Highland garage, borrowed cable came back and hauled my car in. unwilling to let me take the chance of the car being stripped if left on the roadside. After leaving my car at garage, though pro- tested I would walk home, they drove me to my home, arriving in the cold, gray dawn of the morning as the Sunday morn- ing newspapers were being carried to cen- tral points for distribution by the carrier boys.
 Neither l nor my guests had ever met either of these gentlemen before; we were simply fellow men in distress.
 Most autoists will appreciate that the repair work was hard and dirty task. But the spirit in which each of them went at the job excited my admiration and gratitude; and took the edge off the disagreeableness of the experience. In fact, there is wholesome sss about it that makes that experience worth while.
 Success and long life to each and all of them, and for the sake of all that is best in mankind. and particularly for the sake of trouble may their shadows never get in troublefi may their shadows never grow less, and may their tribe greatly in- crease"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06
Forward Step Made
 By Towards Faculty

-HE faculty of Howard College
 has taken a forward step in the establishment of school of for eign commerce in connection with the curriculum of 192u. Lionel c. Dar- lington of Washington, scholar and business man combined, is to be di- rector and the classes will be con ducted in the Chamber of Commerce for .he convenience of young men desirous of taking this course.
 Mr. Darlington has the advantage of two years experience with the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06
DOUBLY GIFTED

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
 A New York authoress has gone into bankruptcy, her liabilities being $lll,-i Sl092 and her assets $500. It is sell dom that one finds such combination of literary talent with business genius.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-06
FIRST TO SEE RED

From the Louisville Courier Journal
 The original bolshevik was Carrie Nation. Her invasions were more suc- cessful than the effort in Poland.