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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
# * # Sound Business Talk hv Judge E. H. Gary

E7IfE only real obstacle to business U stability is the reluctance of each individual and business enter prise to realize that all must share in the adjustment process.
 Judge E. H. Gary recently said:
 The difficulty is found in the fact that every individual is per fectiy willing that all others shall make reductions-the larger the better.
 i The entire nation has, cried out for lower prices. Now, that they have really shown a decided tendency to develop there is equal clamor against reductions by each one as his turn to be pinched arrives. The federal reserve system, whose aid was asked in starting the downward process, is execrated by those who are called on to participate in the movement which they invited.
 But the public is somehow doing it just the same. Judge Gary again wisely remarks:
 The general public. including those in particular who are neither buyers nor sellers to any large extent, will, in one way or another, 6ring about fair and reasona- ble adjustment. The law of sup ply and demand will be the prin- cipal factor.
 And the conclusion Judge Gary reaches is equally sound. He says:
 The people of the United States have reason for confidence in the future. They need not be dis couraged nor impatient
 Certainly the people of the Bir- mingham district, where there has been no interruption in high tide of commercial and industrial activity for several years and where develop ment continues stride that never halts, have no reason for anything but the utmost confidence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
Farrar Party Charmed

Throughout the concert tour which Geraldine Farrar and her company have been making this season, we have never been more impressed with any city than we have with Birmingham. said C. E. Ellis, who is the only manager Miss Farrar has ever had up to the present time and who has accompanied the fair prima donna on all her concert tours since the first one she made. The cordiality and hospitality extended to Miss Farrar and her company in Bir- mingham was very touching and we all appreciate the splendid reception that we have had Miss Farrar was espe- cially delighted with the Jefferson the- atre in which she sang and considered it not only a beautiful theatre, but a most satisfactory one to sing in, the acoustics being excellent and very de- lightful to the singer MT. Schofield and. Miss Sassoli were equally pleased. and, in fact, all the members of our party want to come back to Birming- ham again just as soon as the manage ment of the 'All-Star Concerts invite us. My successor, C. J. Foley of Boston as Miss Farrar's manager, will be de- lighted when we wire him of the over wheTning success of the Farrar concert in Birmingham, and we are all proud of the fact that it was one of our most beautiful concerts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29

bile so as to get the business one way or the other.
 Twelve thousand tons of Birming- ham water and gas pipe alone have gone to the Pacific coast since May via Mobile. The freight has averaged around $15 ton, and that has meant total of $1S0,OO0 for ships plying out of Mobile. No wonder New Or leans wishes some of the traffic.
 Birmingham people are just begin ming to realize the extent of business that our steel and iron producers are doing. New Orleans evidently does appreciate it, and is bidding for it's share of the transportation.
 Right now we are shipping 2,000 tons of pipe to Japan, 1,500 tons to Cuba, 500 additional to Santos, Bra gil, and 1,500 additional to Pacific coast points. One does not in the least blame New Orleans for wish ing so much of this business as she may be able to secure.
 But Mobile is Alabama's port. In 
 the long run our foreign commerce finds its greatest lever of expansion there. Alabama's export business is safer and more stable when coming into and going out of her own port than when passing through any other port.
 That is why we need state aid for our port. That is why we are going to vote for the seaport and the county port aid amendments next Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
IN sHAKEsPEARE's COUNTRY

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Shakespeare today is not without honor in hrs own country. A magnifi- cent revival of Henry VI is packing one of London's biggest theatres. An- other company isA preparing an ex- traordinary revival of "The Tempest" The Ben Greet players, well known in this country as result of several visits. arc presenting Henry VI and twelfth Night" to audiences of school children throughout England. Other classic plays in preparation for London presentation this season include <Ot-
 ways ssvenice Preserved" Dryden'sl "All for Love-" two comedies of Ben Jonson, and drama by Dekker and Ford.
 At the present time there is just one 'companyin America presenting Shakes pearean dramas, and this one is Ion the road" offering . repertory of seven plays . week. It Is notorious that America will not stand" Shakespeare. England not only stands" the bard. but makes the presentation of his plays highly profitable for the presenters
 Should American taste be commend ed for its modernism or condemned for itsI failure to appreciate the best?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
Cotton Association

'sThe membership campaign ofthe
 Alabama division of the American Cot ton Association should. and l am sure
 will, receive every possible encoar- |agement from the business interests of
 Birmingham and Jefferson county
 said Col. T. %. Smith yesterday. "The
 association is not trying to raise money
 lin Birmingham, but is really only seek ing the co-operation and interest of the people in the work which the organiza- |tion is doing and has mapped out for the betterment of the cotton growers and the improvement of the financial condition of the entire state.
 'The casua, observer of business
 conditions doubtless does not ~ealize
 the close relation existing between |conditions in the agricultural sections |of Alabama and the Birmingham dis trict. The cotton belt in central. west and east Alabama and the Tennessee |valley constitutes a large part of the best trade territory of Birmingha and when business is good with the |cotton growers, it is instantly reflected in the financial conditions of Rirm.ng- ham.
 ''rhe American Cotton Association is proceeding along right lines in bring ing about cooperation of the farm !ers. merchants and bankers. Their in- terests are identical and one cannot get along without the other. Any r,an for a more orderly market of cotton requires the active cooperation of these three interests.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
New Orleans Bidding
 for Alabama Business

@ HIP owners of New Orleans are 0 understood to be back of the movement to have the rates on iron and steel products from Birmingham to Mobile, when destined for the Pa eific coast, raised to level with rates to New Orleans. Meanwhile the New Orleans interests, being wide-awake to the importance of this traffic, have reduced the ocean rates from that city under that from Mo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
He Liked 1t


 T believe that when such a story as came out in Wednesday morning S Age Herald, under the head of For the Good of the Community" appears, that it ought to be repeated" says Lige Chanler, flor in it I think Dick John ston has struck happy keynote. Now, I know it may be rather unusual and possibly a presumptious request, but just for fear as many people did nor read it as should, I am going to ask that it be reproduced in Sundays paper and that special attention be called to it so that no one will overlook it. If we will only catch the spirit of the arr ticle this whole town will be helped forward along pleasure lines. It's high time that amusements be recKoned with in a big and sensible. way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
A SAD REMINDER

"A gentleman wishes to see you, MT. Grabcoin."
 What does he want?" asked that successful captain of industry. 'He says he's an old college friends of yours who is now on the ragged edge Of misspent life.'
 "Ah! He wants to negotiate a loan. Just go back and tell him fits painful for me to meet old college chums,. as he will doubtless recall that was ex-, pelled in my sophomore year."
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
WANDERING AROUND

Mrs. Jagsby f1atters herself that she knows where Mr Jagsby is every hour of the day"
 Why do you say she Hatters herself?''
 Because, after MT. Jagsby has dis cussed the contents of a quart of moonshine' he frequently doesn't know where he is himself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29

I'm afraid Jobbles is not well in- formed"
 'why?'
 He never reads anything in the newspapers but headings" r Even at that he's on an equal foot ing with about ninety per cent of the population"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
reads anvthing in the
ALAS, POOR BOBBY!

Did you visit the grave of Robert Burns while you were in scotland?".
 NO" said the prohibition worker. T didn't think it would be proper for me to do so."
 Why not?y
 Tn my best known lecture on the curse of drink I use Robert Burns as a horrible example,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
TO LEsBIA

By Catullus.
 Let us, my Lesbia. >live and love, And. though sour cynics disapprove,
 Heed not their frowns . stiver; Suns set and suns again may rise. But we, when once our daylight dieS
 Must deep. sleep oA forever. Give nc then thougAnd kisSes. Then hundred of Ike blisses, Hundreds then to thousands add. And when thousands moro we've had. Wen blend. confuse them all that 50 Nor you. nor their sum may know No: nor cen Envy's self e'er guess Our half amount of happiness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES

lot women who never bothered me be- fore in their lives are calling me over the telephone to settle their political arguments"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
Greater Need for
 Protecting Cotton

N1M ITH a large over-supplY Of
 wv low-grade cotton in the south, the necessity for protecting the crop from weather, fire and other loss is greater now than ever before, say specialists of the United States bu- reau of markets.
 Experiments to determine the ex- tent to which, under various condi- tions, baled cotton is destroyed by weather, give striking results.
 In one instance, bale placed out in the open, flat on the ground with no covering, was at the end of eight months, damaged to the extent of 370 pounds. Another bale placed on edge with no further attention lost 167 pounds. A bale, on edge and turned over once a week lost no pounds. A bale placed on timbers off the ground and covered with tarpau- lin lost but IA pounds. During the same period bale placed in a prop erly constructed warehouse lost only one pound.
 These results are fully corroborated by other tests conducted from time to time, all of which prove that the ideal conditions under which cotton may be held by growers before marketing are afforded by efficiently operated bonded warehouses.
 The bureau of markets points out that weather damage and other risks to which exposed cotton is subject. 1 increase in direct proportion as the time that cotton remains in the hands of the grower lengthens. If the farm CTS are not to lose millions of dol lars, every safeguard against hazard of loss must be employed.
 It is estimated that from weather damage alone in normal times, s7O.- 100000 worth of baled cotton is lost annually as result of permitting the bales to remain exposed to the ele- ments months at time without GOV ering or attention of any kind.
 The cost of protecting cotton in a modern warehouse is insignificant. It is no greater than the fire rate alone on exposed cotton. Every $1O0 worth of cotton can be insured for 25 cents per annum, as agains $4 hundred on exposed bales.
 As growers depend upon the banks for financial aid, it behoovcs them to consider carefully the facts presented
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
To Provide Better
 Pay for Guardsmen

REPRESENTATIVE J. W. GREEN lN of Selma makes a timely state
 ment, which is published in today's Age-Herald, regarding the pay of the
 guardsmen now on duty in the min
 eral section of the state. He points out that it is unjust to
 expect these boys to serve so faith fully at such sacrifices in their in-
 comes, and even where employers are
 allowing the salaries of the men to
 continue while they are on strike
 duty, MT. Green thinks it unfair for
 few employers to have to bear this burden.
 MT. Green suggests that fund of $25, ,000 a month added to the present pay allowed by the state will allow each private now on service a salary of $100 a month. He urges that steps be taken over the state to raise such fund.
 His statement is well worthy of the thoughtful consideration of all who appreciate the great service the militia is rendering and at the same time dislike to see such valuable serv- ice inadequately rewarded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
Introducing Paul Gordon

4 It is always nice to know some thing about an actor whom you are go- ing to write a story about, from some personal friend whose opinion you value, and it was my pleasure a few days ago to receive a charming letter from Robert G. Thach of New York, a member of the law firm of Whitman Ottinger and Ransom, in which he asked me especially to meet Paul Cor don, who is playing an engagement here now at the Jefferson, in the won- derful play. The Man Who Came
 Back" said Dolly Dalrymple. MT. Thach writes that Paul Gordon's real
 name is Tom Achelis, and he is a brother of John Fritz Achelis, who mar ried pretty Louise Musgrove, former Birmingham belle, and he is charm
 ing and delightful young man. Mir. and Mrs. Thach, who have recently purchased lovely home at Pelham Manor. have delightful coterie or friends in New York, among whom are the Achelis, and Mir. Thach heartily recommends the talent of the clever young actor whom Birmingham will have the pleasure of seeing this week..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
UP TO US.

Of the many sounding phrases
 That we hear from day to day, As the partisans are speaking
 With intent the vote to sway, There is nothing more impressive And I'm sure you will agree Than the statement that all nations Have their eyes on you and me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
No Place for Ads.

The new traffic code which is about completed will not be vehicle for eng advertising schemes, said George Lewis Bales. assistant district attor- ney There have bean a number of propositions made to this office that the code be gotten out with no cost to the city and nucb gain, to the promoter and advertisers. therein The city cx- poets to set out dignified code. pay for it out of the city treasury and ( is tribute it among the. citizens of Bir- mingham without, any advertisem ents in it"s -A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29

can be fined and sent to prison if they respectively and jointly do.
 Thus, these one-sided state and national laws not only logically put premium on responsibility and on contract breaking by those who are allowed to hold them selves irresponsible, but the effect of those laws is an absolute encouragement to the commission of lawless deeds result ing in damage to or destruction of prop quently, killing (murder) of law-abiding people by those composing the contract ing party which the law has left free of responsibility.
 Query: Is any law basically constitu- ticnal if it binds employers against dam aging their workmen and the general public and leaves their said workmen free to damage-sometimes irreparably- their employers and the publicf
 Can I suggest an illustration which more completely crystallizes the issue Of labor unionism against American law than the following? In August, and, again lin September. 1s1S the Amalgamated As
 
 Employes of America, after fruitlessly demanding that the employing companies repudiate certain contracts they had made, went on strike on electric railway lines in New York city. These strikes continued for several weeks during which the Amalgamated's members and their hoodlum allies stoned, dynamited, shot into and otherwise damAged the street cars while operating with passengers in open daylight through the streets of New York, and killed at least four people, of whom one was a six-year-old childs be- sides wounding several hundred others, men, women and children.
 Samuel Gompers, president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, and W. b Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Street Car Employees Association, came to New York, took charge -of'' and ''gave direction to- the strike and under their supervision their Subordinates committed the above mentioned crimes. Therefore. Samuel Gompers and w. D. Mahon were morally. if not really technically also. guilty of murder. And vet neither Of these two apostles of collective bargain ing has ever been indicted for his partici- patton in these acts of felony. having an ever ready shield in the fact that their joint organizations are not incorporated.
 How much longer will Congress and the legislatures of all our states suffer the continuance of this subterfuge as q shield for contempt of law, paralysis of public business. arscn, brutality and mur- der, in which almost invariably the vic nps are law-abidipg people and the crim-. inals are the followers of Samuel Com pers: JOSEPH M. BROWN.
 Marietta Ga
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
A MORNING PRAYER

A MORNING PRAYER
 Thou, God. didst make the world md call it good. Grant that l may never weary of it. Smile thou even through it's darkness and pain. So sbau it,s beauty shine on me where ever I turn. Amen.--M. $. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
HOW WAR BLASTED HUNGARY


 Lucian Swift Kirtland in Leslie's.
 In summing up Hungary's economic losses in having her territory reduced to a third of it's former size, I afn re- duced to accepting the Magyar prop aganda statements. These figures re- port the losses to be 61 per cent of the arabic soil; S6 per cent of the forests; 7s per cent pasture land; 76 per cent meadows; a7 per cent vineyards. ss per cent of the cattle; 5s per cent of the pigs; 60 per cent of the horses; "A per cent of the sheep; 55 per cent of the iron mines; and 100 per cent loss in natural gas, oil salt, silver and gold. The clothing, earthenware, leather, food, chemical, iron and metal. spin ming ana weaving, paper, and wood in- dustries. show losses of from 27 per cent to 79 per cent, according to the Hungarian figures.
 Added to the economic dislocation caused by the shrinkage of territory, the war increased the national debt by s25 900, 100000 crowns, the Karolyi added five more, the bolsheviks did their bit by tacking on 5000. 900, 900, and the Rumanian occupation capped the climax by heaping up a damage cost of 3S, 900, ,000,000A Hungary's factories arc virtually at a standstill; her rolling stock is inadequate, and the great bum- per crop expected has distinctly failed to materialize.
 Blunt Hungary has not lost her loyal and industrious peasants of native stock. The territory which remains to her is still one of the richest granaries of Europe and the Danube highway coils through that territory Despite all the cold. pessimistic logic which can be brought to bear, I was inclined to agree with the Archduke Joseph when asked him the conventional question. What do you think of the future of Hungary?" and he answered: "A very happy one I am sure" One is espe- cially inclined to agree If, as he added the future conquests of Hungary are to be peaceful, and not by the sword. It is her own sword which she may most fear
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29

!, by the government bureau of markets. No banker is. glad to lend money, even for short time, on unprotected cot ton. He "emphatically will not do so under such conditions on long-term loans."
 The farmer has learned much about intensive agriculture. It now stands him in good stead to protect his crops after they arc gathered. If automobile parking space is already at premium. where will airplanes land when every other citizen owns sky flivver?
 The mighty John L. Sullivan must have turned over in his grave when it was an- nounced that s5oo,oo0 would be paid ,Demp- sey and Carpenter to give polite boxing exhibition.
 That Chicago youngster who stole $1Oo to buy ice cream did wrong, but he ewill have the sympathy of lot of people who remember when they were young and had youthful appetite.
 x # x What with George Washington, William Waldorf Astor and Mary Anderson ap- bearing in police court records, there doesn't seem to be anything in name.
 < # x An enthusiastic critic mentions George NJ Conan for the presidency. It is sell dom indeed that dramatic critic loses his bearings so completely.
 # x # A Recognizing to certain extent that the war is over, Italy will abolish the cable censorship November. 1.
 Happy the citizen who owns motor launch along the Atlantic seaboard when a booze boat is sighted in the offing.
 a. x #
 SeNih without the assistance of penny or two we'll be that much nearer normalcy.
 as # H Alice Paul will send her vote by mail This should reassure election officials of Morristown. N J.. who may have feared demonstration.
 K T x There will be reprisals, say the Sim Feiners Great Britain is giving fine exhibition of "watchful waiting" + # x Sylvia Pankhurst is learning discretion in her later years. Hunger striking, has lost it's fascination for her.
 * # < Whether OF, not MT. Lansing writes a book, there is good reason to believe he has one in his system.
 # * # Governor Cox's controversy with the editor of the Saturday Evening Post shows he isn't overawed by an enormous circulation.
 # af We are on the home stretch, with Chair men Hays and White. blowing irridescent bubbles.
 * # * One crisis follows on the heels of an other in Great Britain, forcing Downing street to burn the midnight oil.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
SIGNS OF THE SEASON

SIGNS OF THE SEASON With mornings dawning crisp and cool And little tads away to school. And toilers hustling into town fn overcoats gray blue and brown, While now and then, perchance, is seen A garment of sickly green, And there's much talk of fuels cost, Iris clear we'll soon be having frost. SIMPLICITY ITSELF
 Our candidate is promising more than he can perform
 What of that?" said the practical campaigner.
 Tt may prove awkward if he's elected"
 Nonsense. All he'll have to do will be to resent the imputation that he has a 'single-track' mind--
 MORE INTERRUPTIONS
 Women are taking a great interest in politics."
 ITO my sorrow" said the harassed Didn't you work for, woman's suf frage?"
 Yes, but since they've won the ball.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
THE VOTER

The shabby. unwashed citizen
 Now grows exceeding gay; He'll be very prince of men
 Upon election day. His lowly bosom filled with pride, He'll puff a big cigar, And to the polling place will ride In someone's motor car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Very Promising

The football game between Sewanee and Alabama Saturday bids fair to be one of the most, bitterly contested con- tests of the whole season." said Ed mund c. Armes. "Sewanee is much stronger than>last year and the reports say that Alabama is somewhat weaker. so the game is certainly not going to be a one-sided affair. In fact, l would not be at all surprised to see Purple triumph, because those boys are com ing down from the Cumberland plateau with vengeance in their hearts for the disastrous defeat of last year, and it is a foregone conclusion that the Bir- mingham people who are lucky enough to get seats to this great battle will get more than their moneys worth. We look for crowd of 15,000 because there are no balloon races or other counter attractions, so the football fan who buys his seat ahead of the game is showing good Judgment and foresight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
HAsTY READERS

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29

To business that we love. we rise be times,. And go to 1t with delight.
 Antony and Cleopatra
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29

keAaSt lances can be made at current rates oL exenange. The Age-AeraId VIII not pC responsible fal money sent thrc2sh the mails. Address
 THE E-HERALD,
 BirmiA gham. Ala