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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
& < $ Pertinent Reflections On a Serious Matter

INTERMITTENT of Labor statis- lV tics show that the family food bridget last February cost twice the amount spent for the same articles in February, 1913. Since the first of this year prices have, with few neg ligible exceptions, continued to climb.
 Learned and lengthy explanations have been given out by the experts to account for the high cost of living. Some, bolder than others, have sought to fix the blame, but like the scientists who speculate on the origin of the universe, when these gentle men will not concede Divine au- thor, the profoundest thinkers are baffled.
 The unacceptable truth is that living is high now and may go higher. Just how far it will have to ascend before the ultimate crash is open to argu- ment, but unless the tension on mill lions of people is frightened, some how, within the next few years, the limit will be reached. Then will be the time to sing paeans to Liberty bonds and other sound investments. The thrifty citizen will be able to ride out the storm. The spendthrift will find himself minus his motor car, half-paid for on the installment plan, and cursing the day when he squan- dered his easily earned wages on lux uries and pleasure.
 Immediate relief, except by the way of self-denial, seems out of the ques- tion. The wonder is that people are not running amuck. That may be, however, the next symptom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
CHINATOWN IN TRADE BOYCOTT

tHfNAIOWN IN TRADE BOYCOTT From the New York World.
 One does not commonly look upon China- town as considerable factor in inter- national trade;. but of the 70,O0O and more Chinese in the United States engaged in large proportion are men in active years engaged in selling oriental goods. So the convention of Chinese tong in New York city to discuss . boycott on Japanese goods Is not without signifl- canoe.
 Instances of trade boycotts for patri- otic reasons have been many since the Boston patriots threw the tea into the harbor; and they have often shown tho tremendous power of sentiment as com pared with the pull of profit. Those who have observed the uproar occasionally caused in this country by ''mAde-in- Germany" mark need not doubt the eff icacy of such prescriptions.
 More than once before the Balkan wars the Greeks of many lands. a trading and seafaring race, were able to bring pres sure to bear upon Turkey by trade or shipping boycotts to compel concessions or punish political perfidy. The Chinese in China have shown a like power. ana they are rapidly gaining in national con- sciousness.
 A sightseer in Chinatown. pricing trinkets, may hardly notice the ban on Japanese goods. If 1t Is vigorously en- forced by tongs from sea to sea, Jap auese merchants will notice 1t; and with their financial crisis on hand. a nation alist movement in Corea and the never settled Chinese question in an acute state, they will have their full share of troubles in a troubled world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
Hack-VyOunding calumny The Hhitest virtue strikes.
 Measure for Measure.
v v Painting as an Aid to Publicity Work

MMANY and varied are the ways NVU to earn a living. Mrs. Minnie Kay, "professional fainter" an nounced her retirement after being arrested and fined $5 in Pittsburg police court.
 Mrs. Kay was, after manner ot speaking, a publicity expert. She went about the streets wearing signs attached to her back, for which she was paid S48 a week. The work was easv-to a person of her tempefa- n,ent-and remunerative. It was also healthful. No stuffy offices, no sweat shops for woman with brains.
 When she discovered the advertis- ing possibilities of an artistic falnt' Mrs. Kay swooned at intervals along the crowded thoroughfares, taking care to sink to the pavement in such way that a crowd which invariably gathered around her and blocked traf- fic would read the sign she wore. Usually a sympathetic policeman, as- sisted by tender-hearted spectators, assisted in reviving her. Of course, she recove1seaa before they could haul her away gn n ambulance and thus destroy hsf. 'efulness for the time
 A fewf rshts ago Mrs, Kay, who was theg mployed by motion pie t,,re hoGa i, and was fainting through out Pittsburg, toppled over in the downtown district. Policeman Frank Altman helped to revive her. An hour later she Tainted" at another street corner. Kismet! Altman was again on the scene and bore Mrs. Kay to police court. There she paid her fine and foreswore the ups and downs of syncopic life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06

From the Montgomery Advertiser. 6NHE Andalusia Star usually supports candidates for office who are sym 0 pathetic with the political policies
 of the prohibition leaders of the state. so' far as we have observed it has not oe-
 clared for Senator Underwood in this race. but the Star, being falr-mlhaeo newsnaper. will not close it's eyes to some of the methods employed to dls- credit the Alabama senator It is indis- nant at one example of these methods as may be seen from the following eN- teerpt from a recent editorial in the Sar' eve ran across scurrilous circular re- cantIv signed by a "Rev. Somebody Tn Birmingham in which he was lambast- ing one of the candidates for the lniteo States Senate Perhaps you saw that circular. On one side was Q belapored effort to traduce the good name or the senatorial candidate, and notwithstanding the fact that this candidate is thirty i third degree Mason, this 'Rev. Some body" accused him of being under the domination of the Pope of Rome. On the reverse side of the circular IS state- ment from Tom Watson, the Geoisia editor whose paper was so pro-German
 when the war started that it was deniel inc use of the mails. We do not Know the preacher who has signed the scufrh- ous article, but we do know Tom Wat son. and when man like Tom watson 1 traduces the good name of an office- holder or a candidate for office 1t IS pretty safe bet that the pro-Germans'
 the Reds and the Sim reineys cannot use
 him.
 Again, we say, sit steady in the boat Do not be driven from your mooring py i the peanut politician or by scurrilous It,
 erature by those who geek to play upon
 your prejudices- In casting your vote .ry
 to do so with a view to doing your state
 and your county service"
 The anti-Underwoca politicians of Ala
 bama seem to have recruited Tom Wat ! son. the Georgia populist and seditionary'
 to aid them in their campaign against the
 democratic leader in the United staSes
 Senate. Watson is the man who has oe- {! flOunceu every QciuoSA stlAS iSe-Nt~- -
 thence of the past quarter of century.
 He has recklessly assailed every conspic-
 uous democrat of his time, not only IF
 his state but in the country at large. ne sometimes affiliates with the democratic party of Georgia, put only to serve ms
 personal ends, and not because he loves 1 the party. No man has tried harder 10
 destroy the democratic party than Wat son. He would be the last man on earth to deny or resent this charge.
 Watson is the hero of the dipping vat
 dynamiters of Georgia, the iyneher's friend. the champion of slackers co- structionist of his country in war. ana the comforter of her foes. He encouraged young men to evade the selective df1ft iby volunteering his legal serv'ee es free to 1 defend them in ccr~t aFfan aas assigned for l their slackerism. TLe carduot of hls ipapers became so GeaEeross eaa lawless that it was foun Nees for the l United States go, an gir ally to suppress them by dsafsrins tAern of mail ing privileges. Prior thi4t he d been lprosecuted1 though q, for sending, improper Ii E tara ;h the
 mail
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
Great Increase in
 Industrial Activity.

WITT a record of l4s per cen cent
 w over the same period in 1919, made by building permits in Bir- mingham during the first four months of this year, 1920 bids fair to hang up a new construction record.
 The permits issued during the first four months of this year aggregate $1, ,508, ,000, compared with $619,000 issued in the same months of 1919. With the height of the building sea- son yet to be reached and the summer and early autumn months to be heard from, the record thus far estab- lished will doubtless be more than maintained.
 Permits issued in 1919 aggregated nearly four million dollars. If the present pace is maintained and the summer and early fall bear up their end. as is usually done, building op- erations in Birmingham in 1920 should reach something like eight million dollars, probably more.
 The number of permits issued in 1920 and 1919 in their respective first four months is nearly the same, the increase for this year being slight, but the large increase in the total valuations goes to show that the aver age 1920 structure is much more pre- tentious than that of the average of 1919. The new apartment houses un-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
Worked Great Hardship

The long wet spell has certainly worked great hardship on the farm- CTS" said James F. Hawkins, tax col, lector, '~n making my rounds over the county I have been repeatedly re- quested by farmers to do what I could to get them excused from jury duty on account or being so far behind with their farm work. I am somewhat afraid that the necessity of work on the farm will outweigh some of the farmerf5 t~~.nation to lay off and go to the polls on Tuesday. May II.
 If the weather is dry and clear, predict it will be felt in the ballot box. This will not be true to any great extent in Jefferson county, on account of the fact that our voting places are not so far apart. There are a few places in the county where a voter will be compelled to lose a few hours, but most of them can get back to their work in short order"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
Presidential Politics
 and Business Activity

wv FATHER observers say that w the seasons have changed; that the springs come later and the summer drouths are of longer dura- tion.
 But the weather-wise miss it as often as they hit it. It seems true, however, that the seasons are not as they used to be- As with the weather, so, in a measure, at least, is it with the relation of presidential campaigns to business.
 Time was when presidential cleo Etion year always meant trade depres- sion. It was so in the seventies, eighties and nineties. The reasons were not far to see The cause of depression was economic. A change in a financial policy always set the banking interests in tremor. In 1912, for the first time in long years, the outlook for a democratic victory was hailed with satisfacti ; and the passage of the federal ro rye bank act made financiad panics forever im- possible. And with panics matter of the past, all merea.ltile interests became stabilized.
 Even with a republican victory seemingly in sight the trend of com merce would not be affected
 Business today is acs.ve. The Gis- location of trade as result of the war is still in evidence. But the presi- dental campaign is little felt. No matter which way the election may go, industry and sound banking will continue.
 Crop failures could bring distress, but politics will not be disturbing factor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
Flight of Carranza
 Seems to Be Hear

A SIGNIFICANT feature of the N latest upheaval in Mexico is a friendliness, real or pretended, to- ward America. The revolutionary leaders who have been quoted in press dispatches seem to have a kinder feeling for the American government and the American people than was evidenced by that dour old gentle man, CarranZa, on many occasions when he had an opportunity to show respect, if not friendship, for America and failed to do so. Even the genial "Pancho" Villa protests, as ever, his warm regard for his neighbors across the border. However, the protesta- tions of "Pancho" may be taken with a grain of salt.
 As the fall of Carranza seems near, the success of the revolution may mean the beginning of better relations between Mexico and the United States. If a stable government is set up and Carranza fees to foreign land, rec ognition of the new government could not be consistently withheld, since Carranza was granted recognition in spite of the fact that his power was never secure and has been under mined, if not destroyed, without a battle. being fought.
 Mexican states and military lead sers, as we'll as their troops, have de- serted Carranza at the first oppor- tunity, and whereas in previous rev olutions there was more or less quar- reling among various factions and a great deal of blood was split, the foes of Carranza, with the exception of Villa, present a united front and seem to be acting in perfect harmony.
 Unable to launch any military
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
Met His RaiSe

T had swing around New Eng land and the middle states recently" says Lieutenant- Governor Nathan L. Miller.
 T was entertained at the Union Club in Pittsburg, which has quarters on the twenty fifth floor. Pittsburgsr was bragging about it. but | told him I was Ved to it, as I was member of the Civic Association in Birming ham, also twenty-five stories up. and it's clubrooms and dining room and promenade was unsurpassed anywhere in the country and never failed to bring out enthusiastic praise from vis- itorS"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
WATSON MUSGROVE RECRUIT

Is it any wonder that a man like Wat son is opposed to a man like Underwood? There is no wonder in that, but it is amazing that even the desperate porfti- clans who are trying to nominate MT. Musgrove would Haunt the name of this political pariah before the democrats Of Alabama as a~chief witness against Che nations democratic leader in the Senate of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
Fine Roads in Sight

Jefferson county will get some of the finest roads in the country as a result of the contracts let yesterday by the Board of Revenue, ''.said Rufe R. Bivens, member of the board, All of the cH tracts were for permanent pavement and all were for sheet asphalt The roads will be laid on heavy concrete base and this work will make a good beginning for one of the best highway systems in the south. A number of the pieces of work let yesterday will link up with work let by the board several months ago and now nearing completion.
 ''The bids on three of the projects were thrown out by the board. l believe that much better bids will be received for this work. There is a great deal of interest in these three remaining contracts and there will probably be q large numpeI of bids on each piece of work.
 'The work will be pushed as rapidly as possible, and most of it should be finished up during the summer months"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
ADRIFvT WITH THE TIMES
SOB STUFF

Were you at the political rally last night?"
 "Oh. yes. I was there"
 T understand the Hon. Cicero Shorts worthy had the crowd with him."
 Prom the start. When he told how he used to leave a heavily mortgaged home in the country and trudge ten miles to school every morning through rain and snow and sleet there wasn't a dry eye in the house."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06

movement worthy of the name, with the Mexican capital menaced and or dered to resign by his own generals, it would appear to be the part of wis dom for Carranza to make his prepar- ations for an early departure from Mexico. He may seek forgetfuln ass along the Riviera.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
WROUGHT UP

What's going on here?"
 "A meeting of our recently organ ized House Hunters League" Everybody seems to be excited" 'Yes. They are about to pass set of resolutions that won't be fit to print"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
A MERE CURIOSITY

There was time when the man on horseback held kingdoms at his beck and call"
 That day has passed"
 "Yes?"
 Nowadays the horse is scrapped and the conqueror who bestrode him in some public square of an old world city is lucky to find resting place in museum"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
ANOTHER FACTOR

ANOTHER FACTOR D]s The high cost of living r Is dreadful, we're thinkingJ There's also much talk
 Of the high cost of drinking. Time was when @ dollar
 Would buy one . Gouse4 Now a snifter costs that
 And it's not lon the house."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
ON DISPLAY

Soon along the bathing beaches Many trim and dainty peaches
 Will be tripping to and fro; some of them so young and pretty Ir would seem to /be a pity
 They won't in the ocean go. ct that Is but vain surmising, It would be indeed surprising
 Should they wet their suits, ween; Safe from Neptune's chill embraces, Each will show her curves and graces.
 Since she's there just to be seen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
A TIME TO FoRBEAR

TIME TO FORBEAR T pulled his s7.OOo motor car out of the ditch with my little old flivver and he didn't even thank me-" Were you facetious?"
 'No more than the occasion war ranted"
 Then don't blame him for not thanking you"
 TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD "A landlord is sick at one of our local hospitals"
 "Well?"
 Because he refused to raise their rent hls grateful tenants are keeping his room filled with flowers"
 "Umphi With such a character I'm doubtful of his recovery. Even now he may be hearing the angels calling him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
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P. S. Teachers getting the ainisnam salary receive s7So. The san ax sslu raise salaries to sl.ooo up tc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
LOVE TOKENS

LOVE TOKENS Say 1t with flowerA's ''Well?" rffsb "A pretty thought, is 1t notf~ 'Very. But after the honeymoon 1S over the sensible young man will say it with groceries" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06

TELEPHONE Bell (private exchange conhecu"s all departments) Main 49Ot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06

Hon. "Rowdy" Elliott, baseball player, says he has been handicapped in his pro- fessional career by nickname bestowed on him by a Birmingham newspaper man. It is deporable when an athlete Is un able or unwilling to live up to hard boiled monilzer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06

Give your answer to this supremely inn pcrtant and pressing Hesffon at t'e polls on Saturday by cas oNr ate in favor of the 2-mill itX For tdac8 siona. purposes. Your failt co du thlS will prove disastrous to ol schools
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06

It will be recalled that in January the board found it necessary to borrow s4O,Joo Nogive a small increase to the teachers fcr the remaining five months of the school year. If the present salary sched- ule is maintained next year for the full school term, the total outlay in ex- cess of present revenues will be approxi- nIately $So,000. The board cannot meet the present inadequate salary schedule un- less the proposed tax is levied, without reducing the length of the school term, a possibility that no friend of education can view without serious alarm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06

The direct proceeds of the 2-mill levy requested of the people at this time is for the specific use of the board of edu- cation. The amount of the revenue thus ohtaind from the 2-mill tax will proh- ably be about s210,o00, which will be de- voted- to the increase of salaries of ps esent teachers and to the employment of additional teachers for the schools Should this tax be defeated, the board of education would face grave crisis during the coming school year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06

The decision of the commission to orGer the election on mills for the schools specifically. and use the s-miN sinking fund tax to meet current interest on out standing obligations is wise and conserv- ative. It makes it possible to proceed with our building programme and at the vote of the people instead of being sub feet to levy at the will of the commits Sion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-06

Speaking of confirmed pessimists-or is it optimists?-there's the Brooklyn judge who says. National prohibition has produced more drunks than there ever were before"
The courier-index., 1920-05-14
A SAFE TEST

For those who are in need of a remedy for kidney troubles and backache, it is a good plan to try Doan's Kidney Pills. They are strongly recommended by Marianna people.
 Mrs. w. G. Chambers, 313 Cherry St., Marianna, says: About two years ago I was troubled with my back My kidneys were very ir- regular in action and had sort of dull, heavy pain in my back just across my kidneys day and night. When l stopped over 1 could hardly straighten up again. A friend ad- vised me to try Doan's Kidney Pills so l did. After using two boxes of Doan's, felt as we'll as ever. My back is now strong and my kidneys give me no trouble at all"
 Price 60c at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that Mrs. Chambers had. Foster Milburn Co.,, Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
The courier-index., 1920-05-14

large enough to hold the baby chicks is not large enough after two or three months. The flock must be culled, and cockerels that are suf- ficiently large enough should be separated and dispose of. It is a wise plan to commence culling the slow growing weddings and cripples fro mthe flock this month and next. Those with prominent physical de- fleets such as crooked tails, large or deformed beaks that will tend to handicap their growth and egg lay ing should be culled.
 It is well to use little discretion in selling these broilers, MT. Lans- den warns. Shut them up for about 10 days before marketing and feed them a good fattening mixture. The following is recommended: Equal parts of finely ground corn
The courier-index., 1920-05-14
COMMISSIONERS SALE

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, as Commissioner acting under and by virtue of the authority conferred upon me by the Lee Chancery Court, dated the 31st day of March. 1920, in a certain cause therein pending, wherein Min nie F.. Lilly, Administratrix of the Estate of O. K. Lilly, deceased, and the Security Bank and Trust Com pany, were plaintiffs, and Letha L. Meek and w. B. Meek were de- fendants. will on
 TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1920, at the front door of the court house in the City of Marianna, Lee Coun- ty. Arkansas, offer for sale to the highest and best bidder, on a credit of three months, the following de- scribed lands, to-wit;
 The south half of the southwest quarter and all that part of the southeast quarter lying west of Big Greek, all in Section 2l, Township 3 North. Range 1 East, contain Ing 97 acres, more or less.
 The purchaser will be required to give note for the purchase price, with security to be approved by the 
 Given under my hand this 10th lay of May, 1920.
 R. c. APPLE, (4IOl Commissioner.