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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
ADRIFT WITH THETlMES

.SOLILOQUT OF A WHITE COLLAR
 MAN. feel lot of sympathy
 For any poor galoot With only forty dollars who |. Must buy a winter suit Dis garment" says the merchant, but turn my eyes lvay: The rest of his pallver fills
 My bosom with lismay. Time was when forsy dollars bought Outfits to make one vain. wonder if those happy days Will e'er return again.
 SCHOOL DAYS.
 Henry. the doctor says little Henry and his sister both have the measles" Good Lord More expense. And just 10 think. just to think"
 Just to think what, Hsnry?" When I was boy paid chum of mine 50 cents~to give me the measles"
 SOMEWHAT WEARING. You look tired this morning, Mir. Dub waite7
 Yes, I'm quite fatigued," said tna, gen. tleinan. "A stranger picked me up and brought me to town in his car" z Then you ought not to be tired.' You don't understand For sixty blocks he regaled me with accounts of his  financial exploits. the large sums of money he had spent on his home, the size of his income tax and his importance to the world in generally GRATITUDE
 Now that we've cut another melon, '' said the rotund financier to his fellow di- rectors, 'I propose a toast" "A toast?" exclaimed all the other rnal4- factors of great wealth. ITO what?' ITO the common people. Bless their scrawny necks, they made this dividend possibler'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
Willing misery

Willing misery Outiives uncertain pomp, Is crown'd before! The ono is filling stiIi, never complete Inc other at high wish.
 --rimon of Athens.
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The small boys of Marion are wit messing enough parades to last them lifetime. but if the greatest show on earth" were to visit Marion, it--would not lack spectators along the line of march.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26
E F Ss Fight Against Suffrage Now Practically Ended

HHHE Tennessee suffragists having
 J won their fight at home and Justice Siddons of the district court having denied the anti-suffrage ap-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26

ltemittances can be made at current rate oI exchange. The Age-Herald will not be responsible for money sent thrnush the mails. Address
 THE AGE-HERALD,
 Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26

The perusal of Bill Shakespeare's works is both elevating and enjoyable, but nothing helps one to forget the high cost of living like corking good mystery story.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26

Bathing beauties are disappearing from the magazine covers. They will soon disappear from the beaches, re- maining to delight fmultitudes only or the screen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26

But man is always striving to improve
 ms mode of transportation. Tne eugou,
 put some other fellow to thinking, and after paddles he annexed a rudder; then came the wheel and later the. propeller. Use multiplies wants, anu man is prone
 to get into hurry, and therefore those who moved slowly on rafts laid them
 aside for log canoes, and out of the two
 we get our swirt-goirig river boats and sea vessels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26

Soviet Russia may be prosperous and happy, as the propagandists would have us believe, but 1t isn't sending out many wish you were here" post cards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26

time types of bargos ant fiatboats placed alongside of some of the modern ones which are intended to displace them. They are as muca out of date in this twentieth century as the OK cart, and as our highways are now filled with pleasure cars and trucks, so will 1t soon be that the primitive horse-drawn barge and scow drifting lazily with the stream will give way to steam or gasoline propelled boats.
 
 This. however provided that our nav gable waterways for the transportation or merchandise are given square deal by the railroads and are not tied up with too much red tape by the government. It's a good sign to knaw that the matter of utilizing our canals and rivers to relic , the freight congestion is being taken seri- ously, and in many quarters with ,n.ense sympathy. Some of the states are thor oughiy awake. and it's high time that Alabama, with all of her rivers. should be aroused to her opportunity and get busy while there is chance to co-opefs te with Uncle Sam.
 And right here and now in Birmingham you have chance to show whether you are friend to water transportation or not by making Asubscription to complete the terminals at the Port of Birming- ham, am aware that the idea is preva- lent among many that it is matter for the merchants, bankers and manufactur- CTS to take care of. They are doing their part. and asking that the man in the street" have part in it. also. for it will help every one in the district, be he wage-earner or employer The situation lis in good shape. and only . few thou sand more dollars are needed to put tt over.
 1 l-Az1I1 ExAaaMIH
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the front page MT. Al Jolson is cabi- net material
 After having seen a photograph of the latest Mrs. Villa, we wonder how "Pancho" could offer her as hos tage to De La Huerta.
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 Polish peasants armed with scythes are rounding up wandering bolsheviki, finding the sport vastly moro enter tainlng than hunting the wild boar.
 * x #
 One of Ponzi's lawyers thrice called another lawyer liar and was re- warded with thank you." The man. ners of some Bostonians are perfect.
 * 4 <
 Even while counting the stories of New York skyscrapers, Prince Carol of Rumania could not forget his blighted romance.
 Bolsheviks who reach Warsaw under guard of peasants and soldiers have some difficulty in passing themselves off as tourists.
 * * x
 It Is fortunate that the proposed Sunday closing law was not passed. About 5000 policemen would have been needed to enforce it.
 New York has just dispensed with it's remaining fire horses. and Is now entitled to regard itself as an up-to- date town.
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 The Hughes whiskers are providing background of luxuriant foliage for the Harding campaign. Colonel Harvey provides the sinister personality
 
 Warsaw, which is called the Paris of Poland may even have a thriving nest of Apaches.
 Senator Harding is reported to be planning substitute for the League of Nations. Has he consulted Siam
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-26

MT. Dempsey is expected to reduce to the exact weight at which he whipped MT. Willard. His opponent in the Labor Day pleasantries will please bear this in mind.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26
WHAT HYSTERIA IS.
By H. AddingtOn Bruce

STNO the popular mind hysteria is essen.
TALLY a condition of excessive emo
l. tionality. "Hysterical laughter" "hys-
| terical weeping" are phrases of familiar
usage and commonly thought to comprise all
aspects of hysteria.
Actually as every psychologically trained
man is aware, attacks of uncomfortable
laughter or weeping are by no means char
acteristic of hysteria.
They may occur as incidental to hysteria,
though most hysterical patients, as matter
of fact, neither laugh immoderately nor weep
immoderately. Their behavior is usually nor
NAL enough except in one important respect.
That respect is in their unusual readiness
to accept and extraordinary ability to re-
spond to suggestions received from their en-
vironment and the occurrences of life. So
that one of the best, if also one of the brief
est definitions of hysteria is that given by
the specialist Hurst:
"Hysteria is the condition in which symp-
toms are present which have resulted from
suggestion and are durable by psychother-
apy"
A person. for example, is thrown from a
skidding automobile There is momentary
loss of consciousness-perha no loss of
consciousness whatever. The force of the
fall, moreover, has been broken by the VIC
TINS landing in heap of cut grass by the
wayside.
But, instead of promptly picking himself
up, the person thus thrown lies motionless.
He complains that his back hurts frightfully:
that he fears he is paralyzed.
Urged to walk, he insists he cannot move
his legs. Panic-stricken companions exclaim,
"He must be paralyzed."
Medical examination shows no organic in
jury. Yet the paralysis continues until some
physician is found skillful enough to convince
the sufferer that his inability to walk is
wholly the result of self-suggestion of the
idea of paralysis, reinforced by the sugges-
tive exclamation of those who were in the
automobile with him.
This is typical case of hysteria. And in
like manner any person of temporary or
chronic abnormal suggestibility may develop
disease symptoms Of almost any kind, from
convulsive attacks to blindness, deafness and
mutism There are even hysterica1 epiepsies
and hysterical tumors.
Or, instead of developing symptoms Of
physical disease, the abnormal suggestibility
may lead to mental confusion of fictions
with reality.
Often it happen as everybody knows, that
grave accusations are lodged against inno-
cent persons, ESPECIALLY accusations of bodily
assault. When the falsity of these is proved
there is likely to be profound indignation
against the accuser.
The latter may not have bee nanimated
by malice at all. Hysterical suggestibility
may have caused a real inability to distin-
guish between what actually happened and
what the hysterical one imagined to have
happened
Copyright, 1920, by the Associated News
papers.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26
THE GREATEST COMMON
DIVISOR
By DR.. Frank Crane

| The recent National Republican Conven-
ton was question in political ARITHMETIC:
| Find the Greatest Common Divisor."
Answer, Warren Gamaliel Harding.
He is the G. G. D. of Lodge, Johnson
Poindexter, Wood, Lowden, the feeling that
the people want somehow League Of Ma
lions, hatred of Woodrow Wilson, desire tC
please Gompers and the votes he will drag
fear of pleasing them too much, anxiety to
keep in touch with Big Business and it's COM
forting contributions, fear of offending the
! radical minded. For the greatest number
that will divide all of these without a re-
ma1nder is w. G. Harding as aforesaid
He is large, smooth citizen. And he@is
a belonger..
You know what he thinks without having
to ask him, because he $hinks exactly what
any gentleman occupying his geographical
and political location ought to think.
He is tame. He will not run away with
the buggy, as the drivers were always afraid
Roosevelt would do. He will not shy, kick,
bolt nor balk. When he is told to "giddap''
ne will trot briskly, and when he is told to
whoa" he will stop. Where he is hitched
he will stand. He is a stander-pat and a
stayer-put.
And that is not altogether bad thing,
nor to be noted superciliously.r
A democracy does not want brilliant and
opinionated leaders. 1t wants servants 1t
wants SAFE men, even if they are accused of
being mediocre
This republic in its nominating conven-
lions has deliberately turned down it's Henry
Clays, Daniel Websters and James G. Blaines;
and Theodore Roosevelt would never have
been President except for the death of Nc
k1nley. No convention manipulated by Mark
Hannas- and Boies Penroses would ever have
let him in-at first, for his reelection was
another story.
The truth is that Ruling, the business of
being 1T, whether king, president bishop or
pope, is secohd-class business. Men of first
rate power and original genius seldom are
chosen. The ablest preachers in the Method
list denomination are not elected bishop, The
greatest minds in the Roman Catholic HER
archy have not been among the popes, the
presidents of the United States have not been,
with few exceptions, great statesmen, and
there has not been king in Europe for fifty
years that could earn $1,000 a year in Keo-
kuk, Iowa, If stranded there without recon-
mendations.
The modern era does not want leaders.
Past >eras have had them and they usually
played smash. We want rulers who will
run along and be good.
In fact, we want government to do as lit
tie as possible. We don't want president
who will "do something Wilson did, and
see what happened.
In democracy the people get not what's
best for them, but what they want
They want the Greatest Common Diyisor.
The Republican Party offers us a very
nice one.
"A political party exists and functions for
just one end to get votes.
The Republican platform was constructed
with that purpose in view. Anybody can
make it mean anything he wants.
And upon that pedestal stands the ora
torical figure of Americas Greatest Comm on
Divisor, Warren Gamaliel Harding.
Copyright, 1920, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

The cost Of high living is one
thing that is hurting this country.
| There are too many in the silk shirt
and silk stocking brigade. Too many
poor people trying their best to keep
up with those in better financial cir
cum stances.-Adel News.
We have always been an apprecia-
tive admirer of silk stockings, but
see no reason why the wearers Of
silk shirts should try to keep with
the Joneses."
The women who are\p1aying tennis
and golf to reduce their flesh are re-
minded that the same results are to
be obtained less extensively by Gull
tivating the gaEden.-Adairsv1ll
Progress.
Respectfully submitted to the
thoughtful consideration Of the mem
bers of the heavyweight. division.
1t is possible to tell a man by
the company he keeps, but not by the
automobile he d4ves.-Dalton Cit
izen.
But sometimes his company can't
prevent his presence, in which event
it would be unfair to make the COM
parison.
Work hard-but don't work your
self to death just to make living
Henry County Weekly.
uSL WOlh Adlu " IudhO a living.
Vice President Marshall says what
this country needs Is a good scent
cigar.-Gwinnett journal.
Mighty good Democracy, We say.
This country is long on hauling
people and short on hauling goods
and commodities. Which is equal to
saying more trucks and fewer auto
mobiles would help.-Commerce OBJ
server.
Sounds good, but we meet a lot Of
editors on the road, and they are not
usually afoot.
With the Georgia Press meeting
only one month Off the scribes are
beginning to dream and talk of the
good times they expect to have in
Carrollton. c. A. Meeks, publisher of
the Carrollton Free Press, says great
preparations are under way looking
to the entertainment of the news
paper acknowledgements Observer.
We hear that the aforesaid element
is also making some considerable
preparations for the coming event.
An Atlanta newsboy is reported to
have saved $4,000 in five years. THIS
sounds like profteering, or-.-Cuth-
bert Leader.
It sounds like pluck and se1f-sacri-
flee to us.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26
WITH THE GEORGIA PRESS

low their chickens to overrun their
neighbors' yards. If this continues
a lot Of families will have chicken
for dinner quite soon.-Forsyth Coun-
ty News.
You said a mouthful, editor.
The Manila Bulletin is Informed
that the high cost of living is going
to fall. 1t always has-on the con-.
sumner" And this time it has come
pretty near to crushing him.-Colum-
bus Enquirer-Sun.
Well, when you crush the consum-
er, don't you crush the living out OF
old high cost, too? L..
Speaking of the irony Of fate, did
you see by the papers that cloud
burst came near washing Milwaukee
off the map?-Macon> Telegraph. %
Probably there was no other way
to make the Milwaukans take water.
A New Jersey man his married
his sons widow, according to dis
patch. What kin Is he to himself?-
Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Wonder If he isn't his own son-in-.
law?
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

the subject of public statement and warn
ing by the Secretary of the Treasury.
There are twenty-five million families in
the United States, according to estimates of
family expenditure for Inquiries and non-es-
sentiaIs was three hundred forty-eight dol
lars, or nearly dollar day.
When one stops to consider the capital,
labor and energy expended in the produc-
ton of things unnecessary for which there
was so pronounced a demand, it becomes
bit less difficult to see why the cost of
living scars higher and higher. If this CAPT
tai, labor and energy had been applied to
the production Of clothing, food, shoes,
dwelling houses and other necessites-if the
people had eaten more bread and less cake
the chances are that there would be less
cause for complaint at the high cost of liv-
ing. 49,, z.,5 49, 80. 49,.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26
The Cost of Higher L;v;7pq.

- IGHT billion, seven hundred and ten
million dollars were spent by
the American people on luxuries and
non essentials during the last year, accord
ing to Treasury experts who have made a
careful survey Of tax returns and other
sources Of information to which they have
access. This expenditure has been made
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

According to Paris, everything a
woman has on should weigh not more
than seven ounces-and doubtless,
the brain. of a woman like that
would not add mo!e than an eighth
of an ounce to the total.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26
TEN CO M M AN D
MENTS OF HEALTH
Walk in the open air.
Knnn % nnntnntod mind

1. Walk in the open air.
2. Keep a contented mind.
8. Breathe deeply Of pure air.
4. Enjoy innocent amusementss
S. Get plenty of sleep each night
6. Give your body and soul plenty
of sunlight.
Z. Ea. healthful, plain food-and
just enough Of it.
Associate with companions who
will benefit you.
. Give your body plenty of pure
water, outside and inside.
=, 10. Dc, unto others as you wish
them to do unto you.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

Love, like any other comedy, isl
staged in three acts. In the first, the
man makes a fool of himself; in the
second, the woman makes fool of
herself; and in the third one of them
makes a fool of the other.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

be merged into one composite type.
1t is an exciting thought-until we
reflect that none of US will be here
to see the, world citizen of A. D.
1,Q01,92O. <STS4:. 6; =
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

Most husbands seem to think that
a woman's> vanity should subsist for
ever. on the memory of three months
of intensive courtship and half a
mc 18th of honeymoon.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26
Reflections of a
Bachelor Girl \
BY HELEN ROWLAND
Copyright, 1920, by the Wheeler Syn
dicate, Inc.)

Owe doesn't make a man blind
it merely dazzles him so,
Il that he can see h1mself sup
porting Hudson-Bay- sable
wife on a near-seal salary.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

Marriage is the end of all girls
doubts, problems, and troubles; but
lit isn't until after the wedding that
she discovers which end.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

Oh yes, nearly every man knows
exactly how to rule a. woman-1f she
would only let him. =
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

A mans anger like a cigarette.
burns itself out and goes up I'M
smoke; a woman's SINNERS, and sim l
mers, and SINNERS, and then boils
over in tears.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

Some women can discover enough
grievances in half a year Of married
life to keep a man apologiz1ng Tor
the rest of his existence.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

Almost any straight path Of devo7
ton will lead to a woman's heart
It's this webbing from hope to cold
fear, and from alteration % self
preservation that makes the way sd
long and dangerous for the average
man
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

A disease diagnosed by state off,
Gals as anthrax during the last week
have caused the death Of $4,000
worth of live stock belonging to a
farmer living near Beatrice, Neb., 1t
was learned. Steps to check its
spread have been taken.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

When a woman stops powderings
her nose and curling her hair, it's q
sign that she has nothing left to live.
ror.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26
HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS

Complained that many families al
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

A member of the Galveston police
force was arrested by the military
recently. Military reasons was the
only cause given.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

An Atlanta newsboy is reported to
have saved $4,000 in five years. THIS
sounds like profiteering, or-.-Cuth-
bert Leader.
It sounds like pluck and self-sacri-
flee to us.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

According to news from Reno, Mrs.
Madeline Force Aston Dick. wife of
William K. Dick. arrived there re-
certify and leased a residence.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26

A wire from Galveston, Texas,
gives out this statement:
Emphatic prohibition of a proposed
mass meeting of citizens,A called by
the city commission has" been an
nounced by Brig. Gen. w. F. VOL
tiers. commander of Texas National
GuardSmen.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-04-02
RAIL WAGE PARLEY
ENDED BY W0RkMEN
coNrlNrID rnoM rAGE ONE

CONTiNrED FROM FACE ONE.
the guaranty sections provide relief
Coinc 'dcntoily, with the treasury
announced. Govctno. Harding Of the
federal reserve bonrd made public
the personnel of the board'A railway
advisory committee whSh VIII eN-
anime securities offered - cover nd-
vnncca or loans r A Delnnol and
Paul 81 Warburg. former members
of the board and Bradley Palmer.
Boston attorney Will compose this
committee, which now has before Il
Inquiries with respect TO its policies
and acceptable security
Mr.. Iloustunp estimate ns TO tho
guaranty cost shows a continuation
~ railroad operating deficit comphr-
able 10 that which marked federal
operation when revenues fell ap-
proximately 100000. 900 below OK
pondturcs for the &c months The
first six months OF private operation.
however Is the period In which
corporation officials believe the de-
ficlt will he grcptest based on the
estimated expenditures required in
re-cstnblishinR their previous "indi-
lViduRlitv' replaccmcnts and repairs.
In support OF the position taken by
the management conferccs that con
grcss did not intend large incrcnse
IN transportation costs, should be
made without consent OF the public,
Mr.. whittier quoted section 3O7 OF
the. transportation act giving the Ia
Dor board power to suspend u wnRe