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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26

ply of steel, fabricators of steel con- menced locating in Birmingham. Lo- cal fabrication has already gotten to the point where more adequate To- cal supply of steel is needed.
 Overall factories and knitting mills have come to supply the wants of iron and steel workers. A tremen- dous automobile business has devel- oped. Who buys the cars? Opera tors of steel and iron mills and coal mines and their employees. The by product coking plants employ an army of men who patronize the di- versified industries of the district.
 A new concern is to make steel caskets and steel grave vaults. An other new one is to make snow white enamelware. They are the kind we wish first, because they consume the products of furnace and mill at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
. | 4 Diversified Industries of Birmingham District

~ I'VE Birmingham iron and steel VI consuming establishments and the remainder will follow. The for mer are basic; the others will natur- ally result from their development.
 First after the blast furnaces as local consumers of pig metal were the pipe works, where the conversion into the finished product is but one process. They brought many work CTS and large pay rolls. In turn there came stores and houses for rent, new homes were built and new citizens acquired.
 The machine shops and foundf4es brought many more stores and citi- gems. A variety of industries not consuming iron and steel but catering to the wants of iron and steel work CTS and their establishments fol- lowed.
 With the certainty of a local sup
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
Importance of Audit
 of Freight Bills q

1IT7HE Birmingham Traffic Blu U reau has issued sound notice to its members. With the in- coming of the new freight rate sched- ule on August 26 errors will arise. The traffic bureau requests it's mem bers to keep a wary eye on their freight bills and to promptly report errors.
 The members are urged to h; we their expense bills audited by the bu- reau, which is there for that purpose and does the work through experts without charge.
 Very recently new member of the traffic bureau, who had paid his first annual membership fee of $50, was saved $1 ,000 in a freight bill of $1,500 on one consignment of ma terials from western city. Such a gross error is not often met with, but those of more or less importance occur constantly. The traffic bureau saves its members $150,000 to $200,- 900 annually in collection of freight claims alone.
 It is not that the railroads and ex- press companies are bent on loot. It is merely due to the fact that freight rates are more or less complicated owing to classifications and the. like and freight clerk is just as apt to make mistake in favor of the trans portation agency as against it. The traffic bureaus are an auditing mechanism. They are there to cor rect the errors of freight clerks.
 Auditing is proper in every line of business. It is especially important where one pays bills that are based on computation which requires an expert for the detection of errors.
 The member of a traffic bureau gets fo1 little what would cost him more than he could afford by any other method. Shippers will find the bureau of special value after Au- guest 26.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
Wireless Has Become
 a Terror to Criminals

6H HE wireless has again proved its
 ll value to police departments in tracking down criminals A man be- 'lieVed to be the husband and the mur- derer of the woman whose body was shipped from Detroit to New York in trunk was located on board a British freighter bound from New York to Buenos Aires. The captain was ordered to hold him for the po- lice of Rio Janeiro and Detroit po- lice filed an application with the American state department for his arrest and extradition. If the mur- derer has been found he will shortly be returned to New York to be iden- tified by persons sent from Detroit.
 The telegraph, the cable and more particularly the wireless have spun a web around the world which makes
 t almost impossible for criminal
 o elude capture if detectives have 'ound his trail. In other days to reach the nearest seaport and get on board an outgoing vessel meant com- parative safety for a criminal, at least for the time being. He might be overtaken later, but as long as he was on the high seas he was safe. The wireless has changed this, to the sorrow of many a fugitive from jus tice. He is no safer in mid-Atlantic or mid-Pacific than he would be any where else, so long as he makes the mistake of choosing a vessel for his flight which carries wireless equip ment.
 Newspaper readers still recall the case of pr. Crippen, dentist with offices in London, who was trapped by wireless while fleeing to Canada with his paramour dressed in boys clothes, for love of whom he mur- dered his wife. The girl disappeared and not long afterward Dr. Crippen was dragged, screaming and fighting to the gallows. Murderers get a short shrift in England, which may be the reason why the crime is seldom committed there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
THE PARIS OF POLAND

vanished when he learned that the Frenc
 ambassador had written to Louis XIV who rather hoped for the worst for Aus l tra. Don't trouble yourself, Sobieski i,too fat to sit on a horse and fight Tn | fat man rode his charger into the the of the fight, helping thew his way t where the Turkish grand vizier stood, all after the battle handed one of that d N nltary's stirrups to an aide. with tA command. Take it to the Queen and te|
 Ter that he to whom 1t belonged Is d | feated and slain M | "The sublime often is strangely ble4M with the inconsequentiaL They will 1 you this story, with much detail, in VI l saw; while the Vienna visitor fornief was sure to hear about little cof&
 house on the Grahen. That was kept b a descendant of brave Polish boy Vh carried through the Turkish lines to St bieskfs headquarters an urgent call fo 1 his citys succor. He was rewarded wit permission to open the first coffee houk l in Vienna, and there originated, in jest "a the defeated enemy's formation. the crE cent-shaped bun, Known around the wolf i as the Vienna roll
 "Of such deeds of heroism, picturesd&
 anecdote, and frequent calamity IS ,S
 lands history composed. l "Other cities have lost their politic| ] importance, and held their heads hie because Of proud past but Warsaw, ps
 secuted as it was, has a highly impf 1 tant economic present Tn normal tiN ! it was the geographical cehter of Eurd ! the focal point for rail shipments frf Russia and Asia to Western Europe. eN | though the actual western terminu srsd the trans-Siberian railway was at
 COW, and it's location on the vistula 7 | it a place on Europe's inland waterY comparable to that of St Louis onAf Mississippi. It's output of shoes, me&
 articles and cotton makes It's prodns
 sound like that of busy New Engla1 city. and it's long commercial arm eva
 reached out to, drop half million dol
 lars worth of beet sugar into Americ
 in those different days before 1914.
 ] Numerous castles of the old Polish nc bility were converted into municipal oi 1 fees by the Russians. Warsaw take
 pride in it's theatres, that for the Polls
 drama and ballet being an especiai beautiful building with two theatres unde one roof. In artistl; dancing Warsaw pre-eminent; the mazurka and the po9 naise being two characteristic steps. n university has a notable book collecu
 and many scientific specimens"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
Building Activity

Building operations in Birmingham are on the increase, Judging from the number of permits being issued said John Hunter, clerk in the building in- spectors office. Business for the past few days has been very active l no- tice there is a growing tendency to erect residences of the s2,O0o to s4,oOo type.
 T think the increase is due to> sew eral things, partly to the usual volume of fall business and partly to the cam paign for home owning being conduct ed by some of the civic organizations. One feature have noticed is that in the past month or 80 permits have been issued for four or five churches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
Another Angle

T don't think that the people should pick on the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company" said Frank Johnson, flor they have been making some wonderful strides during the last
 few months.
 J"rhey have helped to pave many streets and roads over the city, but the biggest thing they have done. l think, is to repair the many old worn out cars that have rambled over the lines for many long years. The street cars on nearly every line have been cverhauled, Inew seats have been placed new motors attached and in many ways 1t looks as if once more the Birmingham Rall- way, Light and Power Company Is at last about to get on it's feet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26

ot1.r n"sps' psop,s s5'aii ls si
 the worlds history, has borne oppression so braveIy and gioriously as
 the Poles, except the Jews; and War saw. where the Russians had to keep a
 garrison of 2Oo0oo troops to overawe a
 city of 9Oo.0oo people. is to Poland what
 Paris is to France" says bulletin ot the National Geographic Society concern ing the present focal center of wor,c at tention.
 Indeed, the vivacity, the gayety, and
 the quick wit of Warsaws people is a constant reminder of Paris, as well as those deeper likenesses which spring from Warsaw's aseendency in the letters, the arts and the social graces.
 "All this. too, in a city where the most
 gruesome tragedies have stalked- As re- cently as the wears of our own civil war the Russian army moved down thousands of men and women as they knelt in the snow, singing the national athem. Depor-
 tations are an old story in Warsaw, every effort at nationaiza ion was followed oy slaughter. and hundreds marched the long trail to Siberian exile
 eBut Poland's spirit. meanwhile. became synonym for the indomitable The suc- cess of the Classification of Poland has been described as The process of keeping l F. coo 900 Poles pinned to Russia by bayo- Inets. Politically aon-existent, for even
 v, ...x.a ,,,ei yp,,poed vrorp alf off, fcial Russian records. the pre-war War saw view with world capitals in science, particularly medicine. Tn manufacturing, in trade and in literature
 Though Warsaw betrayed none of the grimness characteristic of Russian, c,ties.
 reminders of her bygone glories and trag- edies were to be eonnd even before the world war restored Ter autocracy. eIn tn Lazienlsi Gardens in a monument to John sobieski, who stemmed the ad- lyance of the Turks In Europe, hgure as picturesque as Paderewskl. wno now sees his land a barrier to bolshevisrs's westward spread. It was in l6sS that . Turkish force had thrown itself cres- cent formation around Vienna. The en- campment was no less threatening be-
 cause it resembled circus rather than siege, with it's herds of camels, ana luxurious tents with baths and parrots within and fouptains without.
 'Mighty events often hinge on slender circumstances. Sohieski hesitated be- cause Leopold, Austria's Emperor first declined to address him as his majesty p..4 Sahleslti,s silatinn is said to have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
From the rhllad slphia Inquirer.

From the Philad elphia Inquirer.
 N ABLE dispatches reporting the dis' l(( coyery of remains of ancient IT.
 W berias on the Sea of Galiiee are somewhat mislea ling sincs they seem 10 indicate that an unknown, city nss .uss been brought to light. whereas the piacs has been continually populated for almosf ? GOO years. It was founded by Herod An
 tipas about the same year that Jesus en- tered upor His ministry. What is pron- ably meant IS that in making road some of the ancient and iong buried builcinss have been uncovered which caused the archa elogists to rush to the scene.
 Tfberias has one of the most remark able histories of all the cities of Pales- tine and for peculiar reasons Antipas ,uilt the city as his capital--it was com mon in those days for rulers to erecs cities out of hand-and intended,it to pc great center of Jewish life of the Roman icult. Unfortunately in digging founda- lt,ons many human Tones were discovered
 so that the place was ri.ually "uncieah and Orthodox Jews refused to live there In order to gather a population most heterogeneous ele nent was collected which became scandal According 10 Josephus, who once ruled the city. It was notable for its fiIc buildings and lux urious life but archaeology has shown us that we must look upon such descr'p- tions in comparative sense, since the city was never large.
 Curiously enough after the fall or Jerc salem Tiberias-namsd for the second Elm reror- became the last stronghold of the Sanhedrin,. but after it departed the cirv was for centuries z, seat of religious learning and always had claim on devout and benevolent Jews up to- the time of the Turkish occupation. We read of Tiberias in the gospels. but t never seems to have become Christian center. It was notable not only for It's heather temples. but for it's unusually inc baths. placed over the warm springs which were the real origin of the city'e construction.
 All that can bs hoped is that excsvators
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
MERELY A SUGGESTION.

From tke Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Villa offered his wife as hostage the other day to the Mexican President if that gentleman would make him social call. President -Hnerta, realiz- ing Mr. villa's high regard for wom- anhood in general. declined with thanks. Now if Mrs. Villa. duly ad vised in the premises, will do her duty some quiet evening when her lord is asleep the pacification of Mexido will be much advanced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
IN HOTEL LCBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Sized Up Right

Although no membership campaign is on, a large number of ex-service men are Joining the American Legion every week, according to George Lewis Bales, finance officer.
 T received an unusual check. or, rather, money order today said MT. Bailes. The money order came from a young man who wished to join the legion. It was made out to the 'Ameri- can Legion of Honor France has a legion of honor, but it was the first time I was aware that America had such an organization. However 1t showed the young mans idea of the legion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
A WANDERER


 By Clinton Scollard. Could you but read my constant hear You'd find I've been wanderer Ion A devotee of natures art,
 worshipper of natures song; One never girdled nor conrInsG
 By What mans genius shapes ar
 rears. . But a born brother of the wind. Beguiled by what he sees and hear. Though I seem bound by circumstancs My vagrant mind is fleet to go Where the auroras wheel and dance Above Alaskan fields of snow. And though seem ensrossed By trade My fancy Sometimes fares as far As seas of jasper and of jade
 That sweP Ceylon or Malabar. The only thing OCT fields of foam To bid me range and roam no moro Is dream cottage we'd call home" And yeu to greet nc the doosi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
ANCIENT TIBERIAS

can find not only fairly complete ru of the ancient buildings, but also some scriptions which may throw light bn long and varied history of city fop1 ed by that fox" as Jesus called II and from which he was destined to little comfort. It was Ahtipas who prisoned and beheaded John the Bapt He refused to try Jesus, and his long reer of ambition was ended by bani |ment from Jerusalem after he had < pealed to Rome to be made king. is the Herod most frequently mentioned the New Testament. . bad man of house, concerning whom 1t is possible shall learn more when the archsolog have ended their task.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
AN xIOUS
From the Sydney Bulletin.

From the Sydney Bulletin.
 Talking about the Prince of Wales, who Is being used as the suffering bird to try to save the English mon archy system. He was at rest camp in France one raw morning. and com ing on a group of soldiers playing two up. blew into the game. He was losing steadily. when a big Queenslander pushed into the school. and after watch ing the play for while said in tone of concern: Say. Prince. whatll they say to yer if yer go 'ome broke"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
FROM wIERDEsT RUSSIA

From the Brooklyn Eagle
 The late Wilkie Collins had nothing on the purveyors of rumor from weird est Russia. The resurrections that fol- low most brutal murders, most brutaily detailed by cable; the yarns about few
 erish organized activities, and about ikons and idleness; the remarkable and it's elevation to a high standard; the stories about the nationalizatlon of women," and their flat contradic- tion. all impress the world with sense Ithat here is a land of mystery to which
 Thibet could not hold candle and on which the electric light of civilization may not flash.
 Latest of all Russia has tWoman in white" according to veracious ad- vices, via Tokio, fully believed by the Japs. This woman is called the White
 Czarina." She asserts that she is a grandniece of the late Czars grand father and claims the. Romanoff throne. She makes all her followers dress in white like herself. Where the white goods come from is an added mystery. She possesses the miraculous Ikon of l Iversk. held in veneration by all sec tions of the Russian people The central soviet, we are informed. has offered 100000 rubles for her capture, dead or alive.
 Poor Wilkie Collins. He might have found a heroine in high society. if he had waited long enough, and had lived long enough. After all, the world wil lose something when Russia's mystery ia cleared up. To the fiction writer it has been a veritable thesaurus-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
Going It Alone

The action of the city commission In defeating the ordinance to close all forms of business except drug stores will tend to encourage Sunday viola tions, in my opinion,' said Commis- sioner H. P. Burruss. "A Number or places are now remaining open on Sun day in violation of the laws of the city
 Birmingham has virtually declared sovereign and independent government in no way subservient to the state. The state law plainly prohibits every busi- ness on Sunday except drug stores. We ernment."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
AMERICAN NOMENCLATURE

From the Sun and New York Herald.
 The returns from the stadium at Ant werp, continue:
 "Szymanski, America, defeated Huml, Czecho- Slovakia.
 "vandenleenden. Belgium, defeated Zeonalig. America.
 "Maichael, America, defeated Leon ardson, Sweden.
 ..Frisenfeld. Norway, defeated Me troupolous.4 America.
 And so on in spectacular conglomer- ation. Americans, all, if not Yankees in the narrow sense. Strange would the American Olympian catalogue seem if the hero lists from the American ex- peditionary forces had not accustomed our eyes to the cosmopolitan nomen- clature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
ONE WITH THE DoDo

From the Louisville ,Courier-Journai
 Isn't it time for the SmithsoniAApl l stitution to try to arrange to gk specimen of the American dom& servant for mounting among it's ' hibits of extinct species?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
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A MORNING PRAYER

A MORNING PRAYER
 Teach us, God, 10 look beyond the ] cords of life and see thy unity, y steadfastness and thy peace. ant to know that through IGgIe we are being led to Cody ietude and through death to vic- y. Amen.--M. s. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26

plication for a restraining order to prevent promulgation of the amend ment by the state department, an ap- peal will be taken to the United States supreme court.
 But public sentiment is strongly in favor of the amendment and as all the .technicalities have been de- cided on the side of the Tennessee authorities, any action that may be taken in Washington will not change the situation, no matter how strcnu- ous the efforts of the anti-suffragists may be.
 Vast sums of money have been ex- pended in carrying prohibition litiga- tion through the courts, but to no avail. So it will be if the opponents of suffrage continue their contention.
 The equal suffrage forces have won a signal victory. In states where suffrage was we'll embedded it had easy sailing, but in the south opposition was strong, and 1t re- quired an impregnable front to over come the antis in Tennessee. But it has been done. Secretary of State Colby will issue the proclamation that will enfranchise every woman in the land.
 The suffrage movement started in an organized way as far back as 1866. It made slow progress at first. Comparatively few statesmen took it seriously. But the women were determined to make an im- pression. And their pluck was all- pevading.
 Now that the women are to have the ballot what will they do with it? They will use it for humanity's gain and for the nations progress.
 Some amendments to the constitu- tion become in time dead letters. It will not be so with equal suffrage. The new law has come to stay. And twenty five years hence men will wonder why the movement which IS creating furor today was so slow of realization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
A TOUCH OF COMEDY.

At the tender age of nine I enjoyed a performance of Faust said MT. Clip ping. That sounds to ne like boastins." said Mir Gadspur T don't want you to think was such a precocious younsster. Mephisto got stuck in a trap door and couIdnr gst down to HSles."
 A CONSOLING THOUGHT. Soon comes the early morning frost. And nipping winds will blow; In dull November's ieaden skies There'll be a threat of snow. But shall we mind ,he blizzard's might, Or winter drawing nigh? Not while we can remember how We sweltered in July.
 A CRY OF DESPAIR. Did the editor look with favor on your poem?"
 I'm afraid not" san the poet. "judg- ing from the question he asked me" What was his question?7 we wanted to know if could tell him why he was ever born"
 DROP BY DROP. There is music in the raindrops as they batter on the roof. There fs music in she ripple of stream; But the home distillers ter me. ana itl
 not doubt their word That the sweetest sounds the dripping of the steam. A SENSE OF SECURITY. You don't mind being called prof. teer?"
 ''Not in the least" replied the prosper ous citizen. "A great many people make rash statements they have no earthly way of proving in a court of law
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
# # # Further Remarks From the Hero of Plume

N MOTHER outburst from the im- &A passioned soul of Gabrielle D'Annunzio. "The pseudo society of nations," says Gabrielle, lis purely and simply an imperialistic instru- ment designed by Great Britain to make her mistress of the world.' This charge is made in his latest literary work, brochure entitled, "Acts and Cummuniques of the For eign Office of Fiume," in case you don't happen to know. Gabrielle is Fumes foreign office," except for a little clerical work
 Continuing his statement, Gabrielle says, Despite the arrogance of Lord Curzon, I glory in being the Ire sponsible Adventurer' he charges me with being. Italy has not dared to put me out of Plume, because the soul of Italy is with me and to fight me would bring on certain revolu- tion."
 Such deathless defiance is better suited to the grand opera, or perhaps the comic opera, stage, where it may eventually be heard, if Gabrielle doesn't break the heart of the prima donna during rehearsals. The situa- tion at Plume and the character of the chief actor in such stirring events as have found their way into print. were rather aptly described the other day by Premier Giolitti of Italy. When a correspondent at Lueerne asked him about Captain D'Annun- zio, the premier said, "Oh, don't ask me about a madman."
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 Fight Against Suffrage
 Now Practically Ended HrHE Tennessee suffragists having