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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
Chicago's Black Policemen
 And Privileged Persons

~ HICAGO politicians cater to the NJ negro vote, and thereby hangs a tale. Not long ago negro po- liceman iured a white girl to some den in the "black belt" and the story she told before dying in hospital was one of the most revolting imag inable. In the south that scoundrel would have met swift punishment, legally or otherwise. In enlightened Chicago he is permitted te resign from the police force, leaving his rec ord technically clear.
 That was the end, so far as the public knows, of an atrocious crime, made all the more. despicable py the fact that this policeman was rep resentative of the law and his victim had appealed to him for assistance in reaching her destination.
 Another negro policeman who no doubt jauntily poses in front of the colored picture palaces and res taurants of South State street, has just been called before the civil serv- ice commission for the eighteenth time. He has been persistent vio- lator of police regulations but has kept his placeI
 The better class of~negroes don't want such men on the police force, but shady politicians seem to think otherwise, and it is a disgrace to Chi cago that such a state of affairs pre- vails.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18

The announcement that Maximilian Harden has been arrested was to have been expected. No matter what hap pens in Germany Niaximilian Harden sooner or later finds himself in jail.
 # # x
 The HamburgAmerican airpiane service between Berlin and points across the border should prove pop ular with deposed government leaders in a hurry to reach zone of safety. :,
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 Naturally 1t rebounds to the credit of detectives who capture master mind" in the criminal worldA even though he may have small, one .cylinder mind.
 New thrills are being provided at the summer parks. including parachute drops for people who don't care what happens to their necks-
 i # # Behind locked doors and lip- -to-ear, Alabama's -distraught drys are trying. to figure out some way to defeat | Oscar Underwood. # # # Petrograd is a more desirable city to live in just now than Moscow, but both have considerable population underground. In promising to put Mexico on a par with civilized nations. General obregon little dreams of the magnitude of the task According to late reports. the firm of Ebert & Noske Is preparing to re- sume business at the old stand. # # # 1 A contemporary advocates room on the street cars. Give the straphanger his place in the. sun. | # < A There are enough American soldiers in Germany to keep the socialists on their good behavior l # < # l Many a tank originally intended for gasoline now holds fuel for human consumption. 1 # # # 1 The guns of allied dreadnaughts should take the bumptiousness out of the Turk. 1 R x # 1 Milwaukee's increase in population is not necessarily a vindication of pro- hibition. l # F # | MT. Bryan's receptive mood is both characteristic and consistent. < * * l The girl on the cover will soon be wearing a bathing suit. # * < | The jubilation of the former crown 1 prince was short-lved # # # The Kapp government seems to have been "dud."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18

From the Providence Journal.
 A 72S. ESTELLE s. BACH, whose
 IWI home is at Hastings-cn-Hudson' 0V4 N. Y, has just returned from 'Eu- roma with a message to the wives and mothers of our soldier dead who are peti- tioning the government to bring back the bodies of their loved ones. After the aeatb of her. husband, who was killed in action in the Argonne, Mrs Bacn was most insistent that his body be brought back. but after visiting his grave at ho- magne-sous- -Montfaucon she has changed her mind and in the light Of what sne saw there. is reconciled to the sacred au+y of leaving him where he fell on the
 Field of Honor. She says:
 "A number of years ago my nuspand
 nscked out the exact place where ne
 wished his body to lie after death II was on a knoll overlooking the Hudson'
 ana a spot that he particularly loved.
 x,rban inc cable reached me announcing
 bis death, on the field of battle, my one idea was to bring back his hpdy that ne
 might be placed in the grave he nao
 designated near his old home on the Hud- son.
 .As soon as the armistice was signed
 6,ed an official request for the body
 and was told that the government ln-
 tended to keep it's promise to bring nacR
 the bodies of all those that were re-
 ouested by the nearest of kin but 'has
 if uould he three years beforde anything
 could be done.
 ..nespairing of this long wait, l started for France to find the place where ne was buried and plant some ivy that had carried from our garden at nome oil bis crave. My son and I made the fe- dious journey from Paris to Romagne +hrough a country too desolate for worns to deseribe. After hours of journeyins wa descended into a beautiful Vaney' where the cemetery is located
 .vvhen I stood beside my husband rrave. where he was lying with the z-' oO men who had fallen with him Ill the glorious fight against the enemy tia' thxa.tened the world, I knew that Il wo,,,d he sacrilege to tear him away rom his sleeping comrades Just to sia
 own selfish craving to have him near me and to try to fulhll desire of his that know no longer existed. Te grave ne l had selected for himself on the banks ol 1 the Hudson would never have been ms choice for the last resting place or a soldier. As they had stood shoulder 10 ! shoulder on the front line of battle, they were now lying side by side in tne darocracy of death. To have given the order to disinter his body and start II on its long. gruesome journey to America
 would have put upon me the stigma o'
 cheating him of the glory that was nis-
 n,.ce on the Field of Honor With his ..on,rades. and participation in the homage that will come to them all Iron srateful posterity. Also the cemetery with it's rows and crows of white crosses above carefully tended. grass-covered graves. was as lovely and peaceful al anything I could picture ct hous- Anf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
BENJAMIN BuTLER's WIT

Melville E. Stone. in Golfers Weekly
 General Butler was the leader of the House Gin 1S75o and Samuel J. Randall leader of the democratic side. As the Forty-Third Congress was about to close I was with Randall when Butler came upa and Randall asked him to hold Sunday session. Butler said no. he would not consent to it; he Gever would do any work on Sunday that was n1s necessary.
 Randall turned ana chaffingly said. sOh. that is your New England Puri- tanism. I suppose. That serves you to good purpose, and expectsto meet you some day. Butler. in another and bet ter world"
 Butler replied in q flash: "oh, no Sam; you will be there. as you are here. member of the lower House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
pr. Georke stuart

'T think one reason that pr. George Stuart is so successful in his pastorates and in his evangelistic work is because he has so much common sense," said Ben F. Moore.
 For instance during the lectures of pr. G. Campbell Morgan, one after noon at dismission time heavy shower came up, and he got up and said, Friends, advise those of you who are here without automobiles. or raincoats or umbrellas, just to remain and have good social time, for you know the flu" is not yet over, and what's the use of exposing yourselves unneces- sarily. Any way. I know you good housekeepers needn't make yourself sick to get home half hour sooner, and you business men needn't get rest less. for no one is going to crowd your places while the downpour lasts It had the desired effect and many re- mained and spent a profitable time In fellowshiping with one another"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
OUR DEAD IN FRANCE

the French. with their actual respect and veneration for the dead. are mani festing in every possible way their de- sire to make shrine of the last resting place of our soldier dead.
 q feel that if the wives and mothers who are asking the country to return the bodies of their loved ones.s had experi- enced what I have. they would cancel their requests in the belief that they had been saved from making the great mistake of bringing them home instead of permitting them to remain where they would rather be- on the soil where they fell so gallantly fighting"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
Greatest in History.

"The rush at the fofice of the col lector of internal revenue was the greatest in history during the last few days" said Henry Foster, chief deputy collector. and more people filed re- turns during that time than ever be- fore. We have, been working all day and late at night, and I have left home so early in the morning and gotten home so late at night that 1 haven hardly seen my baby. In fact, my fam fly has seeh little of me since the rush at the office started several weeks ago
 "Our office force will be busy for several weeks checking up the returns filed and then the government will start round up campaign to get any one who has failed to make his or her return.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
Germany's Reactionaries
 Are Speedily Defeated

~ ERMANY'S revolution seems NJ to have been flash in the pan. Late dispatches from abroad indicate that Ebert and Noske are once more in the ascendency and Von Kapp has resigned
 Many strange occurrences have been recorded in Europe since the ssworld went mad" in 1914. Certainly nothing more extraordinary has hap pened than this abortive attempt of ] the old regime to regain control in Germany. The movement was typ ically Prussian, although Won Kapp made fair promises of progressive republican government.
 Anyone with an ounce of brains could see, what was behind the coup that sent Ebert and Noske scurrying out of Berlin, when such haste was not at all necessary, if we are to judge by their successors brief ten- ure of office. With such confirmed reactionaries as Von Kapp and Von Luttwitz, both henchmen of the Hohenzollerns and representatives of the evil caste which plunged Ger many into the war, posing as saviors of the Fatherland, it was absurd to suppose that their motives were truly disinterested and patriotic
 The German people were not de- ceived. The crafty Won Hindenburg i claims to have kept aloof, although 1 Won Ludendorff is reported to have held at least one lengthy conference with Won Kapp after he set himself i up as the new chancellor. Ebert and Noske, despite their failures, appear to have strong following, particu- l. larly among the class of people who would have most to lose if the war lords regained their power.
 Having had taste of liberty and representative government, the Ger man working classes apparently de- sidsd that both arc worth fighting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
TROUBLES OF POOR OLD OUIJA

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 6UsT as the demand for ouija boards
 was quite exceeding the supply and
 " it was taking the place of bridge
 whist as a social diversion, Sir Oliver
 Lodge and Mrs. Curran of St Louis the
 lady possessed by the spirit of Patience
 Worth. have, from two entirely different points of view, turned their faces against oufja and have repudiated the faithful tripod and the accommodating alphabet Then, as if giving point to these declara- tons that there is nothing in ouija, certain unfeeling authorities in Call fornia town have sent four women to the insane asylum because of their devo- ton to the occult. per ouija, which kept them steadily at the board for twenty four hours at a stretch, during which time they neglected to take time to eat or sleep.
 Of course. Sir Oliver and Mrs Curran are not in agreement as to why they think the time has come to give ouija the coup de grace. Sir Oliver, on the other hand, thoroughly familiar with the accepted explanation of ouija made by scientists, physicists and psychologists, 1 of course, repudiates ouija without reser- vations Mrs. Curran, on the other hand. ! is reported to have stated with great
 naivette that Patience Worth her spirit familiar. has become so independent of l ouija that she (MrS. Curran) finds she | can continue to write the novels and l poems. dictated by Patience" by sim
 ply looking away and abstracting herself ! mentally" and letting Patience do the
 rest In view of the incredible drudgery
 and check on rapidty and fuency of com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18

the clumsy means of Patience's verbal lucubrations, it was evident that when Mrs. Curran was in New York siae had to have kind of shorthand and short- shrift method for ouija in order to get results. In abandoning ouiJa, therefore. Mrs Curran ought to be able to get all the benefit of the inspiration that the redoubtable and hard-working Patience has given her and possibly speed up pro- duction, though in view of the enormous amount of material turned out by Mrs. Curran as the human amanuensis and the spiritual vehicle of sixteenth-century Patience. this would seem to be a difficult thing to accomplish.
 So while those who like the stories and the poetry of Patience well, 1t has been
 obvious for long while that none of
 those who have been so loudly insistent that ouija represented the channel of lcommunication from the other world
 could resist the plain facts of the pate- rialistic explanation of its workings.
 While it is possible to view the whole ouija craze as a light social enjoyment. repeating, as it does, previous social craze over the communications of Plan- chette of generation or more ago, those diyines who have warned their fellow ccmmunicants against the insidious indul- gence in the ouija habit as a temptation of the devil and playing with the con suming fire of the neither world are not so far wrong as some have assumed, no mat ter how susceptible of physical explana-
 tions the phenomena may be. For the menace of ouja, spiritually and mental ly. has lain in the acceptance of it's acci- dental messages as messages from the other world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
Anti-Saloon League
 Believes in Consistency

THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE is
 U thoroughly consistent in the stand it takes not to support any can didate for President who was not distinctly in favor of prohibition"
 The general superintendent of the league, the Rev. Dr. P. A. Baker, says that eleventh hour conversion" to prohibition on the part of candi- dates would be looked upon with "some suspicion. This is putting it mildly. All eleventh hour conversions in politics lack the ring of sincerity.
 There are legions of honest prohi- bitionists in the United States pro hibitionists who practice total absti- nance. But alas! many political pro- hibitionists are after votes. only.
 The Anti-Saloon League views aeleventh-h hour conversions" to prohi- bition with some suspicion." Is 1t possible that candidate for office would allow himself to be converted merely for political purposes'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
THE IMPULSE

Rv Clinton Scollard. Deep in a marsh where the blue heron stands
 Beside lonely pool. and where the
 air Is jasmine laden. and from branches The gray moss droops It's slender spec
 tral hands There is stir: yhe lily pad expands. And frail exotic blossoms strangely
 fair
 ope. Of the kindling rapture un-
 aware. As the round moon lifts OCT the bar
 ren lands. Iris here the spring awakens, here the
 mould
 Feels the first prescience of mov- ing soul As quietly unfold the moths soft
 wings, Here birth is imminent in the leaning hole. And as the morn reveals It's face of 4 hidden bird la vsrnal rapturs
 singa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
A WORD or ADVICE

'rMr. Jobbles.'' said the head of the firm. T notice there's considerable item for meals in your expense &C., -cOunt@
 EFT was entertaining customers and prospective buyers. sir"
 All right. I'm not complaining. but> I hope you will bear in mind that we are selling tractors. and no lady of the chorus ever buys a tractor"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
ARE JAPANESE "WHITEsr From the Honolulu Pacific Commercial

Advertiser.
 Soga, Japanese newspaper editor of Honolulu, two years ago initiated the application of a Japanese for nat uralization papers. The federal courts in Hawaii ruled against him on the ground that the constitution provides that only white" persons. and natives of Africa, can become citizens of the United States unless born on United States territory.
 Soga. evidently backed by his gov ernment. contends that the Japanese are white persons and an appeal has now gone to the United States supreme court where the case is pending. The supreme court for the first time in in it's existence must decide what a swhite- person is. because of the Japa- nese demand for equality before the nations of the earth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
OPpoRrUNITY KNOCKS

From the Chicago News.
 Now. If ever. Is the time for the real estate dealers of the West Indies to reap a harvest selling homes to thirsty citizens of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
ONE DRAWBACK

My friend" said the pious old gen- tleman. Tt srieves me to see you un- der the influence of liquor."
 Save your sympathy. sir" replied the inebriated one. quite shamelessly withaL "If I could just forget what this jag cost me I wouldn't have a care in the world"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
NOTHING ELEPHANT

If we do succeed in getting into communication with Mars. what shall we say?" T suggest a dignified salutation-" "weilY' q don't believe the Martians could understand or appreciate slang"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
DOESN'T SEEM FAIR

DOESN'T SEEM FAIR ''Tell me this"
 'rWell?"
 Has anybody ever successfully fought the high cost of living?" "A religious sect called the Douk. hobors have. but every time they start cut to show the world it can be done they get arrested for not wearing any clothes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
WE'LL INFORMED

WE'LL INFORMED Docs this lawyer who Is cross-ex- amining the famous mining engineer with so much assurance know any thing about mining7r
 "Of course"
 How did he learn it?" 'He told me he studied the subject two hours last night while preparing his brief"
 'VAMPED" If you will permit me to say soS you have just had beautiful caller" Yes. book agent" replied the business man. with a farsway look in his eyes.
 What was she selIing?" q couldn't tell you to save my life. All I know is that she smiled and | bought"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
LOST OPPORTUNITY

Ponce de Leon smote his solid chest And loudly swore in spirit land: The fount of youth I sought-vaIn
 questl
 should have tried a monkey glandr'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18
VALUABLE WORK

VALUABLE WORK May I ask what you are readingrs The memoirs of a retired bars tender" 'Tnterestingr' Very. He concludes each chapter with a recipe" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18

Experience fS by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of
 time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18

Remittances can be made at current rate of exchange. The AgeHerald Will not be responsible for money sent through the mails. Address
 THE AGE HERALD,
 Birmingham, Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18


 No. have not forgotten the question which I propounded at the beginning of this article. I have simply been lay l ing a basis for what Is to follow Tues day afternoon I attended the Bible lec- 1 ture given by Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, land tho lower floor of the First Meth odist church was crowded, and the gal l leries welIIfilled, with the most repre- sentative people of this city. I saw prominent lawyers, doctors. preachers merchants, manufacturers and numbers of well-known women. There was a still larger crowd at the night service | Tuesday night I went out to the ! Southside Baptist Church to see how many had come out to the mass meet l ing to reduce the high cost of living and although so distinguished speak CT as Howard Figg. assistant attorney general. was to be the chief speaker i at S.15 I counted in the. basement
 where the meeting was to be held, ar
 audience of thirty. made up of ten men
 and twenty women. all high class folk
 but only handful of them
 But you say it was a bad night, and
 the Southside Church is not in the downtown district, and that Mir. Figs had addressed several crowds during the day, and the weather was bad. grant you all this. but 1t does not min I imize the fact that more people in Bir- mingham were interested in hearing !, the noted preacher discuss Biblica truths than were interested in hearing about being able to buy things cheaper This is why I asked, Are more people
 In Birmingham interested in saving
 their souls than they are in saving their dollars?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18

TELEPHONE Bell tprivate exchange connecting all departments) Main 490O.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18

Two Gentlemen of Verona.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18

No communication will be published without its authors name. Rejected will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-18

Are the people of Birmingham more interested in saving their souls than they are in saving their dollars?
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-07-28

The Rockefeller foundation is build
Ing a modern hospital and medical
| school In Picking.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-07-28

Hoover declared in the message. He
suggested that such a department
could probably replace the present de-
partment of the interior
He said such reform would create
a center point for the handling OF
these problems, would secure proper
coordination of the efforts Of the gov
eminent; would save an enormous
duplication and waste; would make
possible a forward-looking program
over long term of years; would re-
duce the pork barrel to minimum,
and afford point in the government
where bodies like your own (Great
Lakes Tidewater congress) can give
their invaluable cooperation"
Gov. E. L. Philopp of Wisconsin,
John II, Rich, Minneapolis, agent of
the Ninth District Federal Reserve
bank; A. L. Freehafer, Boise, Idaho,
president of the Idaho public utilities
commission, and DR.. F. H. Newell, di-
rector of the American Association OF
Engineers, were among speakers OF
| the day.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-07-28
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY.

Fourteen persons killed and so in
jured in a continuation of the Chicago
race riots.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-07-28
THE DAYS NEWS.

b Canon Carnegie, who will head the
Westminster Abbey choir in the exer-
cises to be held in London today in
connection with the unwilling of the
statue of Abraham Lincoln. is a fam
Gus churchman, for some time chap
lain of the House of Commons. To
Americans he has become well known
through his marriage to the daughter
of William Endicott, who was a mem-I
Der of President Clevelands cabinet
Canon Carnegie is a Scotsman, born in
Ireland sixty years ago, and after a
brilliant university career, spent two
years travelling around the yorld. AS
curate he worked for some time in
the East End of London. Subsequently
he filled the pulpit of Birmingham Ca
thedral and later returned to London
to become rector of the fashionable St.
Margaret's Church. His "Churchman-
ship and Character" is considered one
Of the best and most popular works on
religious teaching.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-07-28
WOMAN WANTING A SHAVE
GIVES THE BARBER A SHOCK,

Chester, Pa. - Shaving a woman
customer was ne wexperience and
an unusual one when Sowden B. Mas
lin, knight of the razor. was called
upon to perform the operation. When
she coolly removed her hat and veil
and placed them on one of the hat
hooks like regular feller,' and
slipped into one of the big chairs, he
looked his establishment. With the in
struction "once over" the woman set
tied herself for the business in hand.
DO you really wish to be
sh-shaved?" inquired the barber.
Certainly, | do" was the deter
mined answer.
After the operation was completed
the woman paid the price, entered an
automobile and was driven away.