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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
ROMEBANSSUNDAY NEWSPAPERS

of-Them- All win be unable to study apartment advertisements in bed, Sun day morning, after his chocolate and roll; when his signora will sit discon- solate the whole day through, deprived of the fashion pages; when the olive skined and black eyed little Romans will cry in vain for the color sheets and the picture puzzles, not being old enough to realize that what govern ment does is always all right.
 Probably Premier Nitti has dropped stitch. For the bread and circuses of the old empire no substitute was so good or so cheap as the Sunday news paper. The trend of the times pro- hibits an amphi theater with Jugoslavs as living torches or Austrian prisoners fighting bare-handed with the fierce Numilian lion As to soccial unrest the remedy only accentuates the affliction. How long will the everyday Roman stand for such Labor tyranny? How soon will Patrician and Plebian stand up like men against the Proletarian? Even despotism, when intelligently managed, bars nagging. It's the nature of man to bear taxes, patiently, but to resent annoyances he's as prone as the sparks are to fly upward.
 Luckily, Latin statesmanship is op- portunistic. Probably Nitti will back down on the Sunday newspaper issue. Consistency, otherwise known as obsti- macy, is not vice of the Italian minda
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
Personal Courage
 Seldom Found Wanting

TN a press dispatch telling of hotel 0 fire in Macon, Ga., occurs this paragraph: "The night clerk stuck to the telephone switchboard until every guest had answered his bell"
 How many times have men and women figured in deeds of heroism who probably never before or after ward were called upon to face an or deal more trying than a trip to a dentists office! There is nothing finer than these examples of personal courage and self-sacrifice. It speaks well for the average run of humanity that there is no position so humble that it may not be filled by a hero or a heroine, ready when the time comes to risk his or her life in sav- ing others.
 Much has been written about the
 
 bravery of firemen and policemen, but in the mair it is perfunctory praise. The public takes it for granted that firemen and policemen are prepared to lose their lives, if necessary, in the performance of their duty. When an act of heroism is performed by a hotel clerk, an elevator boy or tele- phone girl, it is regarded as little out of the ordinary, yet cowardice in any form is the exception rather than the rule.
 The clerks and office boys of Lon- don fought and died like apladins in France. Clerks and former office boys from America did likewise, in the cause of liberty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
Go After the Rurrlar.

'I am glad to see that some indict- by the present grand jury stated Judge H. B. Abernethy yesterday. 1T have always maintained that this sort of crime was among the worst that the city and county is infested with. and that was one of the reasons why increased the bond where these al- leged offenders are bound over to 5000. I do not mean to knock any branch of the law enforcement" stated Judge Abernethy, "but if they would go after burglar as strong as they dc after the whisky law violator, great deal of good would be accom- plished for the county"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
Republicans Are Scored
 For Dilatory Tactics

TN presidential year any data that H can be seized upon for campaign thunder" are welcome to the gentle men who direct the destinies of our two political parties.
 W. D. Jamieson, director of finance for the democratic national commit tee, is sending out some printed broadsides for the delectation of dem- ocrats and the discomfiture of repub- licans. MT. Jamieson heads one of his posters, "Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned" As revealed by the title, it is an attack on the dilatory policies of republican leaders in the extra session of the Sixty sixth Con- gress.
 Much was promised but little per- formed, and the democrats are in a position to place most of the blame for the failure to enact important leg islation, as we'll as the present status of the peace treaty, on the republic ans. The railroads, shipping, tariff bill and laws to solve industrial prob- lems in America and hasten the work of reconstruction were urgently needed, but the sum total of achieve ment was little. President Wilson made forty-two important recom- mendations. The House rejected sew enteen and the Senate thirty-one.
 While the conglagration was not quite as serious as that which Nero ' reputed to have observed while
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
A LULLABY
From a Play.

From Play. Now silent falls the clacking mill: Sweet-sweeter smells the briar; The dew wells big on bud and twig: The glow-worms wrapt in fire; Then sing luliy, lullay, with me: And softly, lill-lall-lo. love; 'Tis high time and wild thyme. And no time, no, love.
 The western sky has yelled her rose. The night wind to the willow Ssgheth, 'Now, lovely. lean thy head. Thy tresses be my pillow,'' Then sing hlliy, luilay. with mel And softly, lili-lall-lo. love; 'Tis high time, and wild thyme,
 AndSno time, no, love.
 Cries in the brake: bells in the seq: The moon o'er moor and mountain Cruddles her light from height to height Bedazzies pool and fountain Leap fox: hoot owl; wal warbler sWootl Tis midnight now a-brkwing The Fairy Mob are all aboard And Witches at their wooing. TiAsn sing luliy. luilay. with mA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
LUKE McLUkE SAYS

Why is it that a woman in the Heavy weight Class always cops out a husband who is in the Flyweight Class?
 The reason why wife nags her hus- band until she gets a piano is because nobody in the house can play the piano and the Moving Van Man needs the money.
 The woman who wears corset when she is doing her housework hasn't much houseworl to do.
 When there is Company to dinner, Mother puts on dog by putting a nap kin besides each plate. And Father will spill the beans when he sits down by saying to Mother: Where didja get the napkins?'
 Any woman who has a quarter of an inch of white fuzz on her face can tell you that man looks very untidy when he needs a shave.
 Anyway the honest working girl who wears a cS-cent corset cover and cot ton union suit dosent waste any of her French calling the outfit her Lingerie.
 The old-fashcned woman who has q dozen sapies in her Happy Home now has n married daughter who would have to move out of her Happy Flat if she ever had one baby.
 Any married woman can tell you that the longer the Explanation the less it Explains.
 A Young Thing usually Just Loves half the people in town and Just Hates the other half.
 There are times when a married man cant understand why he should have to dry his face on a pillow slip when his wife has half dozen clean towels put away for Company that may never arrive.
 Don't take a chance. old boy If you do. the chances are that you would give a whole lot for chance to put it back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
Good Roads Day
 In Public Schools

II JANUARY 30 has been designated 0 by State Superintendent of Education Spright Dowell as Good Roads Day in all the public schools of Alabama. This is in line with the policy pursued during the war when special days were set aside for the study of the special objects of the various drives, such as Liberty Bonds, War Savings or Thrift Stamps, Red Cross, Y. M. c. A. and others.
 These special days, with the spe- cial instructions given the school chil- dren, resulted in a better understand ling of the purposes of the campaigns and no doubt contributed largely to- ward their success.
 Good roads is the most vital sub Iject before the state just at this time in view of the twenty five million dol
 
 lar highway bond constitutional amendment which is to be voted on February 16. There is need of edu- eating the people of the state as to the necessity of providing good all- Ithe-year hard roads.
 Superintendent Dowell has prepared a handbook for use in the schools of the state during the period between now and the date of the special elecs tion, and teachers are requested by him to use these freely in their classes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09

To a8erson who knows nothing of rail- road problems it looks as if a great many turntables could be operated on a revolving fund of 800 oOo,OOO.
 < # # The Philadelphia Bergdolls, notorious draft dodgers. did their levef best to pre- vent the recent conflict from being a rich mans war"
 A. Mitchell Palmer resents the insinu- ation that he was ''hardboiled' to labor leaders and gently considerate of the packers.
 Additional bottoms will be needed to deport reds to Russia. Put that down as among the cheering news items of the day
 In deciding that women should not serve on juries, a New York judge put himself down as an old-fashioned man.
 # # # IT, placing a ban on Sunday newspapers, Rome is merely making another conces- sion to the all-powerful proletariat.
 * * * Europe is charged with manufacturing "sob'' stories, but surely the Armenians are mere to be pitied than censured?
 '. # ~C1ose-ups'' of bolshekik leaders are all that is necessary to convince the average American that they are bad lot
 # # # Upon what meat doth this our Kolchak feed, that he talks of giving a large slice of Siberia to Japan?
 H. < # The government will have it's hand full stepping liquor leaks along the Rio Grande.
 x # # Cuba bids fair to become known some dfy as the Island of Dipsomania.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09

From the Florida Times Union.
 01HE following paragraph from the
 Montgomery advertiser brings
 on more talk:
 Henry Ford played Santa Claus
 to his employees to the tune Of ten
 million the other day. An em-
 ploye of the Ford factories who
 wouldn't get up at midnight to
 fight for Henry wouldn't fight for
 anybody. Yet we wonder how much
 grumbling in the plant there would
 be if some year Ford should fail to
 cut melon for his men.
 The Advertiser recognizes Mr. Ford's generosity to his employees and thinks it should win from them the highest degree of loyalty and we think so, too. It is no spirit of dispar- agement that we contrast MT. Fords Christmas benefactions with those on another man. We do not deny that one thing is good when we say that something else is better and we do not fail in admiration of the good because It IS not the pest.
 Mr. Ford gave in kindliness ten mll- lion dollars as Christmas gift a little more than week ago. MT. Rockefel- Ter gave one hundred million dollars. Nobody thinks MT. Rockefeller Is ten times as wealthy as MT. Ford. some unknown man who gave five doliars out of the goodness of his heart saVe more in proportion to his means than MT. Rockefeller gave but MT Ford didn't.
 Mr Ford gave his money to hls em- ployes and the Advertiser thinks thls ought to inspire them with the great est loyalty and we think so, too. Pos sibly Mir Ford thought so ana hopeu if would. There is possibility that ne thought his gifts to his employees would ipsnire a zeal in them that would be worth for him more than ten million dollars during the year. If anyone says we are disparaging MT. Ford we replv: We would like very much to get a chance to disparage other em- blowers for the same reason. We would 
 like to see others try the same experi- ment. Maybe it would pay others. If they tried it hoping it would pay we would admire them much more than if they did not try it at all. We mention the possibility that Mir Ford suspect ed that what he was doing was justi- fled on purely business principles be- 'cause what MT. Rockefeller did could have no such justification He gave to teachers who can render no especial services to his interests, and to the al- deviation of sickness and suffering and there could be no string tied to that to be pulled for his benefit. But some may say-some have said that Mir Rockefeller's gifts were made with desire to placate the public for the good of the interests he represents He had been giving long time with out any sign of results in that direc- ton. His gifts. were but the sugges- tions of sarcasms as to the price of oil and for a reflection on his motives. If he was trying to buy popularity the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
EIGHT THOUSAND SWISS.

From Life.
 Only 5000 Swiss soldiers fought in the war That number entered the French service.
 But that is not the whole story. Out ot 5000, 300 survived, including many wounded. The rest, TOO, were killed. A thousand of them held up German ad- vance one day at Verdun held it up until the last man of them was killed
 About 50 years ago the story of William Tell and the poem about Arnold von WYp- kelrei1 were in most of the school read CTS that young Americans cut their liter ary teeth on.
 The 5000 Swiss who fought in the war well established the right of that story. and that poem, to remain in American school readers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
MINORITY LEADER UNDERWOOD


 From the Tampa Tribune.
 Both are democrats-Hitchcock of Nebraska and Underwood of Alabama but there are some reasons why we pre- | fer oscar Underwood as the minority leader of our party in the senate of the United States during the coming trying times Of keeping an even keel and see- ing that the cargo on the ship of state does not list to port and make the whole thing turn turtle
 Some Of these reasons may seem small in the eyes of many, but the emulation of them counts heavily in the aggregate.
 We believe Oscar Underwood represents more nearly, and with a cleaner cut pos- tiveness, the views of the south in things political today thran does Senotor Hltch- cock. His stand on matters of recent con- sideration shows that he is courageous In his opposition to what appears un-demo- cratic or unnecessary, and holds in his assuming the championship of things that are of real importance, despite their being denounced alike by opposition party men, or man in his own party who have an ax to grind.
 Underwood s prominence as a candidate for the presidential nomination at the people in manner that has caused them to study closely his democracy, and they have found that he is sound. He is well known and loved in the south, and he is respected and admired in the north. where his ability is conceded and his capacities for leadership are admitted to be great One of the reasons we are for Oscar Underwood is because Bryan is fighting him. Bryans ability to say after January 15, that he named the minority leader n the senate will go a long way in helping him to believe that the people have delega ted him to name the next democratic presi- dential candidate We for our part, do not care to see this stick put in the hands of a man who has so many times led the party to defeat because heading it toward black ness and hurt.
 It is a little thing, perhaps, but the educational training of the two men should be looked at by the people. For, as a man is trained in the college or uni versity. so is his after-thought, and trend of action.
 The congressional directory tells us. "Oscar w. Underwood, democrat, of Br- | minsham, Alabama, was born in Lous- vile, Jefferson county, Kentucky, May c., 1862; was educated at Rugby school, Lous- | vile, Kentucky, and the University of Virginia"
 "'Gilbert M Hitchcock, of Omaha, was born in that city September IS, 1859; cda- cated in the Omaha public schools, sup plemented by two years study in Germany and a law course in Michigan univer- sity.'.
 All things else being equal, we will take l the man who learned his democracy at the foundation head. that grand old in stitute founded by Jefferson, the father l of real democracy, and within the walls of which the south has far generations l trained it's sons to know, and to fght, for pure Americanism and the democracy of America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
Gadsden Would Be Glad
 To Have Howard College
THE GADsDEN JOURNAL states

THE GADSDEN JOURNAL states
 0 in an editorial that the direc- tors of the Gadsden Chamber of Con- merce have opened correspondence with President Williams of Howard college to learn if an offer of one hundred acres of land and two hun dred and fifty thousand dollars in cash would induce the college authori- ties to move the institution from East Lake to Gadsden.
 The Journal sets forth some sound reasons why Howard would find the Etowah capital an ideal location, apart from the proposed gift of land and money. It is plain to be seen that if Birmingham is too little interested in the future of Howard college to make Ian effort to keep it here, there are other towns in the state not so indif- Iferent.
 It's a poor rule that won't work both
 ways. A swindler dressed himself up as
 an old farmer who had just come to
 town to buy ''some stuff for the folks at
 home" and persuaded Birmingham mer- 
 chants to cash his bogus checks. * # * Thousands of negroes are reported to
 have left Pennsylvania for the south. If
 they are repentant, the south is willing
 to slay the fatted possum and look the
 other way next summer when water
 melons get ripe.
 NJ. Maeterlinck, Tn addition to being | a poet and dramatist of note, is proficient
 with boxing globes. When we consider
 further his genius for making love, it
 is easy to see that M. Maeterlnck is a gifted man. ! | Between now and next November the American people are going to be deluged with political oratory, and there will be no relief until the job of electing a
 President is finished.
 x x < | The report that Birmingham was threatened by salt famine proved to be erroneous. Somehow or other. there's
 always plenty of salt, and pepper too. x sT F
 1, Members of the United States Senate with presidential aspirations, who once studied in Germany, are not bragging
 about that period of their careers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 HR@ tempora, mores," as the NU Y late MT. Cicero might have
 exclaimed. Rome is to lose her Sunday newspapers by Catilin- ian fiat of government "Catilinian' is the right word. For social unrest is at the bottom of the move, not what is called "Sabbatarianism." Sunday in Rome, as in all Italy and in all Latin tion. But the Organized Labor men have insisted that rest means rest, and what they do not know of that sub- ject is not worth knowing. Whatever compels any toiler to lift his hand with in the 24 hours between Saturday mid night and Sunday midnight is taboo. The Sunday newspapers came out yes terday, but all the work was done be- fore 12 D. m. Saturday.
 The late Alexander Dowie of Zion City and the pr. Ballard of ocean Grove did not live to see the City of the Seven Hills adopting their ideals. Each American Moses has had a glimpse of a Sabbatarian Promised Land whicsh some Joshua might enter, bat Rome surely was not in it.
 Nero never attacked Sunday news papers; our guess is that Augustus Caesar would have encouraged them if they had come his way. It makes a fellow shudder to think of the time near at hand when the Noblest-Roman-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
A TIE THAT BINDS.

How dear to his heart is the little old @flivver He rode in when he was so young and
 so poor; He used to feel proud when the neighbors
 observed it Impressively standing in front Of his
 door. He took out his wife and the wee little
 kiddies For a ride in the country, through sweet
 smelling lanes, With the sun shining brightly and the
 blue sky above them, While the birds they were singing their
 sweetest refraifis- Although he is wealthy and has many
 motors And liveried drivers who wait at his door, Still dear to his heart is the little old
 fliyver He rode in when he was so young and so poor. PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
Extra Pay For Te.ch.r.

Although there has been much talk about the Jefferson county teachers being underpaid." said Superintendent N. R. Baker yesterday, "still there is one thing that this county does and which is lacking in many of the others. Jefferson county pays it's teachers half time while they are sick Another fea- ture that has been added to this coun- tvs help toward the teachers is the night schools that any teacher can hold. and for which he or she receives remuneration from general fund.-
 This last thing helps a number of teachers to earn a larger amount than Is paid them regularly by the county
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
The Real American

The Real American
 George Dement,. business manager of Farm Facts" while in Birmingham started talking about politics and poll tcians. He had been up east and out west huning ads for his magazine and and heard much confab, no little of which he absorbed
 You know" he said, tits an odd thing, but while I have spent most of my life in Mississippi and Alabama, I've never laid eyes on Senator Un- derwood. ,u
 T have seen all sorts of men whose time is taken up with state craft of one degree or another. I guess I have been introduced to half dozen senators in my time. but the closest I ever got to Senator Underwood was to see in a paper he had been here for a few hours to make speech on some vital ques- ton and had to immediately catch a train back for Washington.
 Talk about public man being wed- ded to his job, don't believe Mr. Un- derwood has spent a week away from the Senate chamber while Congress was in session since he was first sent there.
 Come to think of it, I guess he gives as much of his time to the work the peop4 chose him to do as any man who ever held public office. And, you Know, the people all over the coun- try have just been in know that, and are talking about it?
 It must be mighty fine for real public-spirited public servant to krow that he has attended to business all the time he has the job, and that the people of the country, not only of his own state, but all the country, know 1t and respect him for it and are proud of him. He is my idea of a real American
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
Bachelors Need No sxmnnthr

"Old bachelors have never received much sympathy from the public" said Paul Barnett, "and being one, I reckon the tribe can afford to forego any, as we are escaping in the days of the high cost Of living many Of the burdens being borne by married men, and therefore I am will ing to pass up any so far as I am con- cerned to hand it on to them. I got to thinking about this from overhearing a conversation between two fathers who happened to be comparing notes on the amount it took to keep their children in shoes. I was prepared to realize that to shoe lot Of husky boys and growing girls took lot, but the repair bills really surprised me as one ramarked that he had paid 2.50 for having a pair of ladies shoes half soled, but the other man answered, That's nothing, I have just been charged $1 50 for having a pair of heels put on my wife's shoes I do not attempt to say that taken in connec- tion with the price of shoes the re- pair charges are excessive. I merely set out to go record that it is a waste of time to waste sympathy on bachelors in these days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
TASTY FIGURING.

q took Professor Jiggs out for a ride in my car the other day.
 "Yes?"
 He's fully as absent-minded as you said he was. He was thinking about something all the time We were riding and never once opened his mouth"
 T think I can explain that. He was probably counting the number of joits you were giving him and calculating how much energy was wasted every time he was hurled into the air.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-09
IGNORING THE PAST.

Mrs. Grabcoin is a naughty matron. considering the fact that Mir. Grabcoin used to eat in his undershirt and work with pick and shovel
 That's just the point' G
 "What is?"
 "she refuses to consider that Mir Crab coin ever had any such experiences in his younger days"