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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
Insufficient Pay Keeps
 the Navy Undermanned

M S an employer the American A government is unable to com pete with corporations paying 1920 wages. The 'poor government clerk" has long been pointed to as a sort of "horrible example" of the way the richest country on the globe treats the men and women who work for it.
 But this matter of living wage has become more serious than it was before or during the war. The places of government clerks can be filled somehow What are we going to do to replace the thousands of men who are deserting from the navy and the hundreds of efficient officers who are resigning because they cannot live on their salaries? It takes four years of intensive training to fit naval cadet for active service, and then he is standing on the bottom rung of the ladder. He is just beginning to learn. An equal period of time is necessary at West Point to graduate army of ficers.
 Rear Admiral Thomas Washington, chief of the bureau of navigation, some days ago told the Senate inves- tigating committee that, as result of Wholesale assertions, conditions in the navy were unparalleled in the history
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
PASSING THE BUCK
From the Music Trades.

From the Music Trades
 1GJHE statement comes from Birning- l ham that the joufneymen plumbers
 have served notice that they will l demand s12 day, with double pay for overtime. Sundays and holidays. The
 master plumbers have announced that | they propose to meet the demand. but pass the additional cost Along to the builder and to the householder. This is precisely what is going on all over the country.
 The ever-increasing demands of labor. allied to the proffteering of some who
 manufacture and sell goods of all kinds, | which really means that, with the excep- tion of a comparatively small number of people, the mass are living in what is, after all, nothing but a fictional condi-
 tion of prosperity. As the New York Evening World said very truly in a re- cent editorial:
 The country is trying to persuade itself that rising wages, rising prices and hec- tic spending can somehow be combined to make prosperity
 In ChcaSo an eIIorL to meet the profteering landlords was made in the shape of an endeavor to put up mum Der of portable houses. Promptly the Chicago union carpenters refused to work on these houses because they had not been made by union labor in Chicago. What is the result? Labor itself suffers, naturally. For what is the good of hav- ing higher wages if the advancing cost of living more than eats up the increase? And all the time the buck is being passed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
Health of President
 Seems Fully Restored

IORESIDENT WILSON'S appear \ ance at the cabinet meeting which he presided over yesterday, the first session of his official family called by him since he became ill last autumn, should put an end to the stories that have been circulated re- garding his health,
 In session that lasted more than an hour, the President is reported to have been quite himself, joking as in the old days with cabinet members and impressing all of them by his evil dent recovery. He presided during the entire session and showed no fatigue. His ever watchful physician, Admiral Grayson, said, "It did him good"
 MT. Wilson's appointment of the important labor board, to settle indus trial controversies, which is badly needed at present, and his decision to call a cabinet meeting may be taken to mean that he will henceforth be more active than he has been for months past and will again reveal his characteristic energy in handling the affairs of the nation. Certainly there can be no further doubt of MT. Will sons fitness to resume his duties.
 Incidentally, the Presidents emer- gence from the obscurity in which he has been kept perhaps too closely will give the politicians something to think over At what he deems the proper time he may be expected to use of great influence of the White House in the presidential campaign. MT. Wilson is not the sort of man to stand by without uttering a word while shipwreck is made to his cher ished plan for league of nations and the ratification of peace with Ger many.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15


 Professor Taft contributed lengthy editorial to the Philadelphia Public Led ger in which he praised the southern and conseniap' atmosphere of Augusta, Ga. One looked in vain for 'advt.' at the bottom.
 William Jennings Bryan was men, tioned" in the Illinois primary. still, Brother Bryan's name may be written on ballots years after the good man is gone.
 If Marshal Foch secretly cherishes the ambition to become dictator of France, he should pause to reflect that the world, including France, has moved along con- siderably since NapoIeon's day. F % % Another victim of spinach is dead. This will confirm the fears of people who have suspected all along that spinach was unfit for human consumption j; # % An Ohio woodcutter moved into cave when his rent was raised April l. For tunate man, but isn't there also short age of habitable caves? < # +
 In various parts of the country dry raiders are being politely but firmly told that America is still ostensibly free country and mans home is his castle. The New York World publishes photo graphs showing happy, weIl-fed children attending school in soviet Russia. This sort of thing calls for an explanation. + Y % Why not make Chicago the summer eap- ital of the nation and give the President few whiffs of Lake Michigan's revivi- flying breezes? Recalling the quotation, They also serve who only stand and wait" James Hamilton Lewis is reported in a receptive frame Of mind for the vice presidency. * < # The next step will be "OveralIs for Evening Wear and the overall wedding win follow as a matter of course % F Hon. Hoke Smith and the Atlanta Con- stitution are engaged in a death grapple. Apparently no holds are barred
  Calling on apt alliteration's artful aid, the Baltimore American suggests the pen for pickets. Revival of gristmills in New England will give no inspiration to artists. They are run by electricity.
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 Announcements that the l. W. W. had been scotched seem in the light of recent developments to have been premature.
 * x x
 Nothing short of seeing President Will son in action on the golf links is going to satisfy some people
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 Do not wear silk hat with your over alls
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 Thavrrs snff for the oenpanti
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
Prosperous Huntsville and
 Surrounding Country

TT HE Huntsville and Madison Coun-
 9 ty Chamber of Commerce has issued an attractive and informing booklet, finely illustrated and contain ing statistics of rare historic, com mercial and agricultural interest. Few sections of the south are so rich in resources.
 Huntsville is one of the most pro- gressive cities of this region and the surrounding country the richest and most beautiful in the Tennessee val ley.
 The booklet is dated December, 1919, and the data set forth include a population within radius of four miles of the courthouse close to 30,- 1000. Number of manufacturers, 6S; number of persons employed, 9,960; annual pay rolls, salaries and wages, s, 1899, ,19O.22; cost of material ussd per annum, $12,121, ,232.24; value of property, s15,23s, ,77O.5O; value of farm crops and live stock produced and sold, $15,253, 300. Total value of all products sold, $31, ,502, ,27O.
 All crops are produced in Madison in great abundance and at mini mum cost. It is great cotton coun- ty, a great grain county and great live stock county. Grazing is excep tionally rich. Live stock can be raised 40 per cent cheaper in Madison county than in the north. Alabama abounds in fertile lands but the claim that Madison county leads the list of productive farms vii hardly be questioned
 1uIllSNillc iS Sct LII py udIluSoIlt homes, imposing school buildings, ant various elegant public institutions Its growth is now at more rapic rate than ever.
 The compilers of the booklet are tc be warmly congratulated on the com pleteness of their work. # + The Chicago Tribunes suggestion thai Charley Chaplin be sent to soviet Rus. sia where he can be conscripted for work by Lenine. is both unkind and untimely Charley needed at home to make people smile who are about to forget how.
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 AIaH is beginning 10 show that she can smile e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15

Ivery people who are engaged znsH .nstins things.
 The slogan of the day appears to be, Never mind what the consequences, but get, and get all you can. while, me. sssx- ting is good.''
 In the opinion of many conservative people, there is nothing that can stop the process till in the ordinary course of events we have recurrence of what has happened before, namely. a sudden col lapse of the whole artificial structure Then we, shall, as we have done before, pass from the extreme of confidence to the other extrme. Prices will como tumb- ling down not only on the stock ex- change, but in the stores everybody will be trying to get rid of all they can and put it either into money or government bonds, perhaps, and it will not be very long when there will be such a lessened demand for goods and services that the factories, instead of being today unable to meet the demand for their products, will be running, many of them, on half time and millions Of wage-earners win lose their jobs.
 In the orgy of spending, profteerfng by capitalists and employers. reckless de- mands on the part of labor, it never seems to have occurred to those who claim to be the friend of labor, that the buck is being passed all the time, and that among those who are suffering from she increased cost of everything is labor itself, just as labor itself, should a crisis come. will be the first to suffer and will realize but too late that it largely contributed to the catastrophe tS fol- lowing the unwise counsels of some of it's leaders. J. c F.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
UNDERWOOD IN CLARKE

From the Mobile Register.
 Clarke county is found by the Regis ter staff correspondent very strongly for Senator Underwood. When every merchant on a principal street in the county seat is discovered supporting the senator it is fair indication Iof the sentiment Of that town and locality. Opinion is expressed more over that Underwood will get the vote of the county by a large majority like. opinion is reported as heard ii Thomasville. Dickinson Fulton and ether places in the county; and the reasons given are pretty much the same everywhere: Senator Under wood has done things for us and is able to do more:r -his election l.; a husiness proposition.9 ''it is big place, the senatorship. and Underwood iS the biggest man." 'he has been there T long time. and we are going to keep him there etc.
 Even an anti-U Underwood man ad- mitted 10 the correspondent that it would De one-sided affair in Clarka e;.derwood will get he votes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
The Fighting Rushtons

!
 The war record of the Rushton
 family has made Ray Rushton many 8 staunch friend among ex-service
 men" said O. G. Gresham His stand for America for Americans and those who believe in and will support our
 American institutions is but reflec- ton of the vigorous efforts he put
 icrth during the war Commissioned | hy the department of labor to enlist skilled mechanics, he searched the
 state for all who could work on ships and enrolled over 2,500 for that i'm Tortant and necessary work. As a | member of the state council of de- fense, executive board of the Amer
 ican Red Cross, legal adviser for sol diers and for the local draft board Tn Montgomery, his time was almost ex- elusivelg taken.
 His earnestness was intensified by the thought of his two boys who were serving at the front. His youngest
 son, Wyatt Rushton, was at Oxford University, England, when the war broke out, and he served long and honorably with the British army be- fore America entered the struggle, when he joined Pershings forces. Surviving many engagements, he re- turned to America at the end of hos tilitiess only to be stricken with in- fluenza while aboard his transport, and died. Mir. Rushton's other son,
 Marion Rushton, was commissioned 8
 lieutenant in the American army and has splendid record of service. He
 Is now practicing law in Montgom- erYn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
NY OWN SHALL COME TO ME

By John Burroughs.
 1 rave no more gainst time or fate. For To. my own shall come to me. What matter if l stand aione?s I. wait With joy the coming syears. My heart shall reap where il has sown. And gather up the fruit of tears The stars come nightly to the sky: The tidal wave comes to the sea; Nor time. nor space. nor deep, nor high Can keep my own away from me. The waters know their own and draw The brook that springs in wonder heights; So flows the good with equal lay uEtc the soul of pure delights.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
Teacher. to Get Money,

Saturday will be pay day with the teachers of Jefferson county said Miss Zoe Brennan, and even if we don't get so, much money, what we get is good. You know everyone must make good money nowadays to live. The date for the closing of rural schools has been set for May T. This will give, nine months term and the teachers institute week is to be considered part of this
 This leaves the actual time in the ninth month only three weeks but the teach CTS must get their eighth and ninth month reports in so they can enjoy themselves. '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
THEY HAVEN'T GUESSED IT

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 The poor producers are going to get the shock of their lives if ever they find out that an army of investigators and prosecutors have been pursuing thc-l for months and months.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
Hut They Did.

when l would ask my, friends if they were going to the opening game, that many of them said they did not expect to be present" said Solon Jacobs. but in nine cases out of ten every mothers son was out at Redwood Park when the game was called. It's mighty hard for anyone to miss the initial contest of the season, and for fan to let it pass without seeing it is an unheard of oc- currence. Then a whole lot of fellows went out just to try and beat Atlanta and show the Gate City that Birmingham was the best ball town on the circuit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
NO BACKLEss SUIT.

NO BACKLEss SUITS
 The bathing beaches will be strictly regulated this year"
 More so than usual?"
 Well, I understand coat of tan will have to stop at the shoulder blades"-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
500 Davidson

Washington Bureau. 500 Davidson building. - u.~aa.
 European Bureau, 10 hlng sue'' Covent Garden, London, W. '. z. .,.
 Eastern business office Wor,d puiAu- all..r ing, New York City; western srs1 . office. Tribune building Chlc s e Beckwith Special Agency, agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
Missed His Chance.

T have always had a secret ambition
 to be farmer said s. E. Warren.
 This life appeals to me more than any
 other But I made the choice of tfn
 city when was young, and have become
 tied to office hours for the rest of my life, I suppose.
 The farmer is independent. The high cost of clothes worries him little, for he wears rough working garments during the majority of his time. The high cost of food is to him myth, who raitss il all himself. He has the benefit of good air, good health and good food. Ht
 knows that his work is just as important as any in the world, and that everyone depends upon him for food.
 If were Is years old, would begin to plan for farm of my own
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
Has Perspective.

"The Jefferson county board of reve- nue spent yesterday in Bessener, the law requiring that they meet in Bessemer at least four times a year Members of the board. however, meet in Bessemer the second Tuesday ip every month, making an appearance there twelve times year. says Forney Brandon.
 T suspect that the boys had good time in Bessemer, for there are a lot of good people out there who can tell a. Bir- mingham man just what sort of political tive is the thing. From Bessemer they can look at things from distance. There are many candidates who would like to know just how the folks at Bes- scmer are going to support them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
THE FIRST sEGzuRE

Now steals a 1anguor through ones
 frame Spring fever is it's dreaded name It saps the founts of energy And takes away from you and me The will to work. the "cosmic urge" That gets things done, till on the verge Of knocking off. we sit and dream Of greening fields, ripping stream That seaward courses. laughing. sob
 ping, A cork upon it's bosom bobbing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
A TORRENT oF WORDS

A TORRENT OF WORDS Rather lengthy conversation you just had over the telephoner
 T was talking to Mrs Glithers." said Mir. Glithers.
 T thought 80. I wonder how many times you said, Wait minute. q haven't the slightest idea. only know she didn't even hesItate.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15

Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we often might win. By fearing to attempt.
 Measure for Measure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15

TELEPHONE Bell (private exchange connecting nu departmental Main 40OO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
NOT ORGANIZED

NOT ORGANIZED Having trouble with your cook7'i Yes. She walked out. but I suspect it's an outlaw strike" Why sog'
 "A chccoiate-colored expert employed next door has agreed to take her place for dollar week more"
 ADDITIONAL ITEM There's queer angie to this di- vorce case"
 How sor
 Not content with liberal alimony, the fair divorcee demands s5,Ooo a year for the maintenance of her poodle"
 DRY READING What's in the paper today?" The life story of beautiful 'vam- pire"
 q don't care for that color stuff. want the plain. unvarnished faots- Well, here's the stock Iist.- SAD MEMENTOES Did prohibition go hard with MT. Jagsby?p
 q assume it did" ; ~Yes%
 "Just before the eighteenth amend ment went into effect he hired a pho- tographer to take pictures of the en- trance and interior of his favorite bar. They are now carefully preserved among his personal effects"
 PAUL. COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15

WHAT IS TT? There's something in these sunny days
 These cloudless skies of blue. Tnat makes man sit down to work And wish that he were through.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
,rem,,er of the Associated Press

The Age Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dis- patches.
 The Associated Press is excluslVeiy entitled to the use for publication or all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news puphsheo therein.
 All rights of republication Of special dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second-class matter un- der act of Congress March s, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
ADDITIONAL ITEM

ADDlIlONAL HEM There's a queer angie to this di- vorce ease" How sor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15

The crest or the Hood pfoke several
 days before my arrival. but l saw enough to know that it was constant
 menace to the city. The flooded area
 covered wide territory, and hundreds Of houses and scores of stores and manu- factories were damaged. c saw many a busy housewife sweeping out the mud which had remained after the water ffAd subsided. It reached the second story in as number of the homes Many stocks had to be moved,-and quite few. fac- tories were compelled to shut down.
 1 saw a strange sight. At first I did not take in the situation I thought it was some kind of a riot. for a dozen or more men were standing near cul- vert, and every, now and<then a gun would go off. When I got closer | could see that no one was being murdered. bur that the firing was done to kill the fish which had been caught in some of the sinks and bayous. I was told that one man in an afternoon had shot 240 pounds Scme fish story. I neglected to get an affidavit, but I didn't take any such chance on my side-stepping a speech be- fore Rotary, for I had it certified
 l am for closer relations between Bir- mingham and Chattanooga. for am sure that with her hundreds of small indus tries we have much raw material to sell to be converted into manufactured products to be shipped back here for a market. l met a lot of fine fellows. and from now on Will hold the Lookout City in fondest remembrance.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15

Chattanooga has great asset not only ir it's scenic beauty. but in the fact that so much interesting American history was played out in and around it. The scene of the war drama draws each year thousands of tourists. and it's daily occurrence to see groups of them on the streets or in the sightseeing cars. Qhe can put in many days in going over the battlefields.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15
Senator Owen Discusses

Measure for Measure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15

Not content with liberal alimony, the fair divorcee demands s5,Ooo year for the maintenance of her poodle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-15

Twice within a score of years the South ern Baptist Convention has met in Chat tanooga, and already the Baptists of the tion at it's Washington session in May to the body with the hope that it will ac- cept and once more be their guests. It may not be polite for me to admit trfat it suits me, but until we get our audi,s torium there is small chance of it's com ing this way
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-11-27
RESIGNS FROM
BULDlNCBOARD
Pollard, Purchasing Agent
For State, Quits; Other
designations Denied.

Bismarck, N. D.. Nov. 27.-F. r.
Pollard, purchasing agent for the
North Dakota Builders association,
will eve his connection with the as
ISOLATION. on December L.,
Reports that there would be a
shake-up in the BODYBUILDING ~associa-
tion, which included the discharge of
Robert Blakemore, manager, and Pol
lard. have been rife for several days.
They also included w. A. Anderson,
who was secretary to Thomas Van
Lear when he was mayor Of Mime
apolis. Il
John Hagan, member of the indus
trial commission, said that Pollard has
resigned, but that there, ~ no truth
ttn reports about Anderson and Blake
more. He said Pollard was leaving be-
cause there will be little work for a
purchasing agent during the winter
months, denied that H. A. Paddock
of Fargo would take Pol,ard's place,
He said such work as there was would
be handled by others in the bureau.
Pollard has been one of the leading
figures in the BODYBUILDING assoc.a.
ton. Coming into 1t at a salary OF
$175 a month he has received re.
peated raises, his salary being in.
| creased recently to $500 a month. He
purchased huge amounts of building
material for the state for the con.
struction OF houses and his work ha.
been attacked by critics Of the man
Lagement of the association. Mr.. Ha.
gan, however, asserted his resignation
was voluntary, Z
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-11-27
&c. A. m. Spencer, Named
As Wehe's Successor, Is
Oldest Man On Payroll

Bismarck. N. D., Nov. 27.-C. A. NJ.
Spencer of Williston, who has been
by Governor Frazier to the
workmen's compensation bureau. will
be the Oldest state official in a resbon-
sible position, it raj said at the state
house today. Mr.. Spencer. whose age
is said to be about TO- e practiced
law when North Dakota was a ter
ritory.
Mr.. Spencer is named to the place
of L. J. Wehe, as a representative Of
the public, for a term ending in jan
tuary 1923. Mr.. Wehe was ousted by
Governor Frazier, who was sustained
in mandamus proceedings in the su-
preme court. Wehe expects to file
another suit for his place.
The new member was the second at
.torney general of North Dakota, hold
ing that position in 1891 and 1892.
He has been practicing law in Willis
ton.
There is another vacancy on the
board. A representative Of the en-
ployers, provided BY law, has never
been appointed by the governor.