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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27
ONE OF THE CLAN l.earxe Mclxcod Smfth

Grantland Rice in the New York Tribune. There's drift of fog down the row
 today There's a cross on the eastern sky. There's a vanished voice that we know
 today As the wrath of a friend moves by. The way is dark, but the dock-light
 gleams Over the breakers rout: And there's rest at last by the singing As we pray-'God-speed to the. end
 of dreams, When one of the. Clan goes out There's gathering mist on the row
 today And the crowded park looks bare; The voice of the winds is low today With the call of whispered prayer May his couch be soft in the guarding
 loam Where never Q friend may doubt That the Soul of q Man has crossed the
 foam Where the great. white God says "Wsa-
 come Home,' When one of the clan gees eues
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27
 Aircraft . Menace to National Security

TNHE next great war will probably ll be fought to a large extent in the air. Although aircraft played an important part in the World war, the development of this weapon of of- fense and defense was hardly begun. In the future huge aerial navies may be able to traverse any distance and attack the enemy with far more de- structive effect than has ever yet been accomplished.
 Major General Cox, chief of coast artillery, says security "can never be guaranteed with the same certainty as in the past" Coast defenses to re- pei naval attacks have been brought to a high degree of efficiency, but they would be useless in case of bom- bardment from the air. America's isolation, once regarded as safe guard against invasion, has already ceased to exist. Progress in aerial warfare will make it increasingly diff ficult to protect America from a po- tential foe, in Europe or Asia.
 Combat in three dimensions, Gen. eral Cox declares, means that im- munity from hostile operations can be secured only by the establishment of a defensive surface. It is quite im- possible to establish such a surface having the qualities of the old de- fensive lines."
 A tentative plan to provide Boston alone W ith anti-aircraft guns and armament calls for an expenditure of $2O, ,O00, 900, and little more than half the number of guns which protected Paris during the. World war would be available. Since inadequate protec- ton for Boston would cost $2O, 900 900, some idea may be gained of the enor- mus expense of fortifying our princi- pal seaports, without taking all of our extensive coast line into consideration.
 If the folly of maintaining arma- ments is continued by the nations of .he world, humanity will labor under an appalling burden of taxation. For
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

When a woman is-willing to pay $s for handkerchief you can bet that she doesn't intend to use it as handker- chief.
 Some people remind you of sorrows. Treat them with little kindness and they'll impose on you. What doth 1t profit a man to marry a perfect 36 when 10 years later she is likely to look more like perfect es? Many a boob who married because he wants home discovers that he has merely opened boarding house for his wife's relatives.
 She may peck daintily at the food vou buy her when you take her out to dinner. But boy, you ought to see her clean up what was left over from supp per after she gets home and gets her corset and her chiffon waist off! A scientist holds that the present generation is lacking in imagination Huh! The way our wimmin folks dress, the present generation doesn't need imagination. Aman never really feels like two cents worth of Lord-help6us until he has to push baby buggy along the street for the first time.
 The Queen of sheba in all her finery compared with a modern princess who is wearing new cat-skin coat. Every small boy wonders why his mother doesn't get photograph with
 record that will keep on yelling:
 Don't do that.' Don't do that" Don't
 do that"'
 We'll. I bet that some women would
 catch terrible colds if they ever went
 out wearing their natural compilations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27

From the Washington Post.
 4 N PLAY to be successful must first
 A\ of all be entertaining, said
 z S Rol Cooper Megrue, tho play wright d, the Washington. "That does not necessarily mean that it must De humorous. Laughter and tears each have their place; the mystery drama that per plexes and surprises the audience may have qualities productive of great inter est and high entertainment values. To my mind, the best definition of a success full play was that given by the late Charles Klein, which was to the effect that it must create desire in the minds of the audience, and then gratify it-that Is, there must be an urge for sometnmg' the audience must be eager to see the hero win the girl, or the heroine win the man or the brave detective bring the crook to book The audience must come to feel the action.
 ..The theatre is, after all, not so much unlike the church. We find churches where people crowd about waiting for the doors to open-there really are such churches. Yet across, the street we may find the auditorium less than half full. The clergyman in the second church may be a pious and godly man, but if he is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27
sT v Ts Discipline Maintained
 in the American Army

6NHE annual report of Maj. Gen.
 l E. H. Crowder, judge advocate general of the army shows that g. sol- diers were sentenced to death in the last fiscal year, but in no case has the sentence been carried out. The sentences of 12 were disapproved, 19 were reduced to imprisonment rang ing from life terms to five years, and one case was pending. It is worth noting that only nine soldiers sen- tenced to death were guilty of mili- tary offenses, one having been con- victed as spy.
 There was much criticism of the army just after the war ended for the severity of its discipline. There is no doubt that some deplorable blunders were made, but we were at war when sentences were imposed, and excess of zeal and lack of discre- ton on the part of inexperienced off, cers may be held chiefly responsible. A great many of these miscarriages of justice have since been righted.
 It is hard for any civilian to real ize the necessity of strict discipline in the army, especially in time of war. In view of the haste in which approximately 100000 men were in- ducted into service, and half of that number transported to France, an army composed of men drawn from all ranks of life and most of them without previous military training, the discipline that was maintained is a credit to Americas young manhood. A mere handful of regular army of- ficers were available for the all im- portant task ofntraining these men and making soldiers out of them in the shortest possible time. Much of the work had to be delegated to off cers who were themselves little more experienced than the privates under them, but the department of our sol- diers, both in camp and on the battle field, was honorable to themselves and to their country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27
HTSTORICAL CHAMPAGNE COOLER Sro,u the New York Herald.


 Senate champagne cooler sold for d dollar when wonderful collection or objets of art and utility was cleared out of one of the cloak: rooms of the finest club in the world If the col lector who for so modest price se- cured this interesting rsiic of day that is gone be philosopher, as con- petent collector must be, he will draw out of his treasure more cause for pleasure than ever went into it. Flaw thorne found material for one of his sweetest essays in the black bound and heavy volumes of sermons, no less dry and dusty than this cooler, he dicovered in the attic of the Manse at Concord. Had he for inspiration the, Senate champagne cooler, battered and worn from long service, veteran it took constitutional amendment to separate from it's federal job, he would have written not one but countless essays; moral political biographical, ethical, snlnptuary, social--topics bubble forth endlessly.
 Who ordered the seregant-at-arms to purchase out of the Senate contingent fund that champagne cooler? When' why? To what account was it charged soap, whisk brooms. rugs. carbonateo water, hat racks? At whose orders was it first filled with cracked ice into thrust a bottle of champagne? Was whose yielding depths was fondly there, in that ancent time, New York senator who referred to the bottle as real wine"?
 For what occasion was the wire cut to, release the Jealous cork penning a million bubbles eager. the playful sprites, to tickle the noses of grave but. thirsty lawmakers? Was it to re- joice over victory in debate or to con- sole vanquishsd orator? What will replace the discarded treasure? Per chance a silver fruit basket. a pretty Ebonbonniere. an ornamented tea set. or a flagon for crusty, old Potomac water.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27
GRAPE GROWERS BAD GUESS

From Commerce and Finance. An awful wall went up from the wine i! makers of California and from tho grape growers when prohibition was l threatened They were about to be
 ruined A great industry was going to 1 be destroyed. They pleaded to have l light wines exempted from the act. Heard any moans from the grape growers since then? None at all. They are too busy counting their money
 That which they thought was going to land them in the poorhouse has made l them disgracefully rich.
 Wine grapes used to be sold to the wineries for from $2O to $So ton. This year wine grapes have been selling at s150 a ton. After delivery in tho east ern markets the dealers have made as much as $1,000 a car profit. New fork city alone has taken between 1000 and | 8, 900 carloads of wine grapes for home brew purposes.
 While table grapes have been selling wholesale in eastern markets at $2.to a crate, wine grapes have been com manding s crate.
 The grape growers have made more profit out of the wine grapes this year than in all the years before combined. Those grape men who plowed up their vineyards thinking the prohibition amendment was destructive to them are boxed with grief. Those who bore their
 afflictions and let the grapes grow have
 n6 worries except those incidental to
 the income tax.
 Which goes to prove that George
 Bernard Shaw was right when he re-
 marked, You never can tell"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27

INCONSISTENCY. Proper people view with horror Life in beautiful Farce And they say it is a sinkhole Of the worst depravity. Oh, wicked, wicked city, Of all sinfuiness the lair. But you'll notice that they never Miss a chance of going there. WHAT THEY WERE WAITING FOR. "Did the orator make a favorable inn precision on his heaxers?'' "Yes. in the latter part of his speech. !" What did he say then?' And now, my friends, in conclusion 7
 BETTER so. Miss Sereieaf is getting on in life" You surely wouldn't remind her of that?" @ Certainly not. rn leave that to her mirror
 GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Son. said the eminent capitalist, tat the rate you are going, you will never ac- quire a competency" Why not, dad?'' inquired the gilded youth. You surely don't expect to live forevg?"
 QUITE DIFFERENT. +rcu admit kissing this young woman 2" why-er-yss. in moment of mental abberaticn."
 It was not, your honor" said the fair manicurist. It was in his limousine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27
PAT MEANT WELL

From the Pittsburg Chronicle Tele-
 graph.
 An 1rishman made his way to coun- try jail and asked to be allowed to see the jailer.
 On being ushered into that function- ary's presence he begged for the favor of an interview with a prisoner who was to suffer the extreme penalty of the law in the course of the morning.
 ''sSo, my man. said the jailer. you cannot see the prisoner. He's to be executed in half an hour and visitors are not permitted to see prisoner on the day of execution. But what m s.ht be your business with hinl:s''
 "shure. sorr," answered Pat. fits his birthday, and I was after wishing him many happy returns"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27
roPsY-ruRvY TIMES

From the Chicago News.
 These are strange days in which ex- tremes not only meet, but become al- lies. Thus we have red radicals and re- actionaries making common cause against democracies and tenants and rainst the dictatorship of the janitoriat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27

SS"S S"S PAoSeiSc VI OFCiy AoIiOu SOit- stituting itself an armed camp should be abandoned. Aerial warfare will add untold millions to the cost of mili- tary operations. # $ * The Turkish nationalists and tho bol- sheviki are reported to have reached an understanding which will permit the bol- sheviki to carry on their propaganda in Turkey. Lenine and Trotzky never over look an opportunity to improve the S.A'u- ing hour.
 When the ar1nistice was signed Belgium quit talking and wont to work That is probably why Belgium is better off now than any other country involved in the World war. Some lines received from a person who announces on his stationery that he com poses sweet songs were probably dashed off while the telephone bell was ringing.
 The revival of bread lines is looked for this winter. Incidentally, a few auto mobiles and monographs may be sac rificed before next spring.
 * !. +
 Tho charge that his money Is being ueed to restore Constantine to bis throne may cause former American millionaire to turn over in his grave.
 < Y 7
 It is astonishing how many prominent republicans are willing, nay eager, to sacrifice themselves on the altar Of their country in a cabinet position.
 * $ *
 We fear Henry Ford has made himself persona non grata in Palestine, but he may have no intention of ever going there.
 ** *
 MT Dempsey said he would be thank full if he had more foemen worthy of his mettIe The naive egotism of pugilists is refreshing.
 A recent photograph of Maxine Elliott makes that noted beauty look 20 years younger Dropping into the vernacular, some photographer!
 r,liyolelrhia na Sa vS tha UinNicar tion of President Wilson is close at hand The news should be kept from Senator Lodge
 A large blonde" is implicated in re- cent murder Why is it that small blondes seem to lead such impossible lives?
 Emma Goldman is 50 contrite she should be brought back to America and given a job at Ellis Island telling newly arrived immigrants what not to do.
 * <
 The last of the conscientious objectors have been released. Let us uOPc tito VII lage band did not turn out to welcome them home. # x * Uncle Sam has more ships. than he can sell, but this would not have been tho case had the Kaiscr's U-boats continued to roam the high seas, < E Photographers should be prohibited from taking pictures of jurywonen. It makes the poor things dreadfuiiy self-conscious
 * E The prohibitionists are right. Even bip- pocket hospitality is not what it used to be. -
 ~@ * <
 There is bright side to everything. The war knocked government ownership into cooked hat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27
PLEASURES oF THE CHASE

From the Pittsburg Dispatch
 The police and bandits in biz cities are trying hard to take the Joy out or each others lives, but the bad men keep about two jumps ahead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27
Wise Man in Sumter
Homegrown Beauties

"Where do you get all these won. |derful chrysanthemumsT' J. B. Patter-' son of Parker's was asked. He glaaced proudly over the array of stately white beauties and replied: Where do you suppose? Right here in Birmingham where we get everything else that is
 worth while. Why go elsewhere 70 get Jour chrysanthemums when we can just as we'll raise them here? We planted |S5,000 cuttings this spring and doubt If we lost more than one or two at that.
 Each of these cuttings was held down
 to the one bloom, and that accounts for their wonderful size and beauty. Just
 as easy to put out few more thous md |cuttings while you are at it. Sixty five thousand sounds big. guess, but I.ir- |mingham is a big flower market, and
 real flowers don't go begging here
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27
The Aee-Herald's Csrtoenase From tho Colbert County Reporter.

Harper, cartoonist on The Age
 Herald, is developing rapidly As an
 artist and it won't be long before The
 Age-Herald will be looking for an other man.. for the New York papers will be wanting Harper. 4s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27
ADRlFT WITH THE TIMES
PURELY DECORATIVE.

| PURELY DECORATIVE. Do you believe in signsr' q Not always For instance7"
 "A Do It Now motto in the office of e man who sits most of the day with his feet propped up on his desk doesn't mean anything in particular" THE PROPER RATIO. This magazine caters to faxmsrs' wives,
 How so.-
 ~It devotes page to poultry. a psss to fancy work and 8 pages to love stories about people in high life"
 JUST so. .Is there any hazing going sn .e tsGs college?1
 "None to speak of.- said the ssesss- year man
 But what would happen M He1e,x1as refused to salute sophomore." Well, to make long story shcrE ks would eventually salute the sophom0rs.-
 REJOICE ...ii Spite of troubles that perpiex us And host of cares to vex us, Here's a thought that many boecnas
 Greatly cheer; Though the farmer folk are baW1ing. Prices everywhere are falling And we've parted for while from
 proffteers. PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27
,rrnth loves open deaIing.
A MORNING PRAYER

A MORNING PRAYER
 Hold me close to thee, Q Ged, fin E daily round of thought and word and deed, for I shall not fail thee E in the great hours of my life, if I ann faith full in the little moments of E .oda,. Amen. M. s. n.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27

The old saw which said "Woman should leave her home but three times, when she Is christened, when she is mar ried and when she is buried." is strange ly out of date in this twentieth century where the American woman goeth where she will at home or abroad and what 8 more knows how to behave and make herself respected The above saying, like the kindred one of long standing, 'Wom- an, the cat and the chimney should never leave the house." We have outlived these archaic notions.
 
 .. Charles Kingiselys phrase, For men must work and women must weep" may have done well in his day, but the war has shown that while she weepsf she must work. In the army of laborers behind the firing line. the girls and the women were drafted as we'll as the boys and the men: and it would be a mighty prejudiced man who would arise to say that they did not share their full bur den of the work
 It's not for me to settle the mooted question of the value to society or the danger. in having women enter nearly every field of endeavor. Before the great war. there was about one woman
 worker for every five women in the
 United States; but this number has greatly increased. In fact. no work seems to be too hard .or too heavy for some woman, to make a slcce of it.
 It is inevitable that large numbers of women will be employed in gainful oc- equations in the future. Women ought to be thankful that at last woman g rixhts" is not mere catch phrase, bu. a reality. Let Us always put halo around the bfcws of the women of the old south: but never forget to lift our hats chivalrously to the new woman, who together with her brothers is try ing to make tho world a more habitable place for us all
The evening world., 1920-04-14
TENANTS WIN BAN
ON RAISES IN RENT
UNTIL AUG, 1921
Many Cases Settled on Basis
of Last Years Figure
Plus IS Per Cent.

Justice Robitzek. in the Second Dis
triCt Municipal Court, the Bronx. to-
day settled more than 400 landlord
5 tenant cases In almost every in
stance the basis was that Of the rental
Of April, 1919. plus % per cent
In the cases against eighty-two ten
ants OF Benjamin Verdi, who owns the
apartment houses at Nos. eii1 70 2415
} Prospect Avenue and Nos. 2s53 and
sS57 Crotona Avenue, Justice Robitzek
made an adjustment which will enable
the tenants to retain their apartments
at thel= present rental a shade above
the IS per cent increase. until Aug. /,
1891.
The tenants had complained the
rentals they were being asked to pay
iwero above the legal limit and an
nounced that they had decided TO test
their right TO refuse TO pay, on the
ground Of oppression, before jury
in the Municipal Court.
Justice Robitzok advised against
this and succeeded in winning their
iconsent TO the adjustment he pro-
posed.
Another test Of the decision OF JUS
ltice Davies in tho Manhattan Mu-
nicipal Court, who ruled that even
now leases cannot be made on the
basis of moro than Is per cent ad-
vance over the rental OF year ago.
will come before a jury for trial next
Tuesday. The Everready Realty
Company Of No. 2205 Crotona Avenue
Summoned two tenants, La Breeze
and ID Laboody for failure TO pay
their April ront The tenants protest
cd on the ground OF oppression and
demanded a jury trial, which Justice
lllobitGek granted.
Many threatening letters from land
lords are coming in daily TO Justice
ltobitSek. one this morning saying
that Landlords might take into their
heads to plant a bomb just as quickly
as a tenant"
The Justice this morning signed
tho warrants for the eviction OF thir-
teen tenants OF NJ. Fisher, living at
No. 1881 Third Avenue. These are the
tenants who under'the leadership of
Mrs. Alice Cavanaugh wene warned
last week to deposit their April rental
by Tuesday OF this week. They failed
TO do so, although part OF the money
was paid In.
Ii FISHER when nc received tho war
rants told Justice RobitEek that City
Marshal John HagGerty had refused
TO servo Thorn and announced that he
proposed To sue out n writ OF manda-
mus against the Marshal.
Refusal OF landlords Of expensive
department houses TO admit that the
now rent laws apply 10 them as well
as 10 "tenements" threatens to bring
ihhout many damage suits next fall,
said Al. W. Hilly. Chairman OF the
7 COMMITTEE on Rent Profiteering, to-
day. Many of these landlords, said
The evening world., 1920-04-14

Hiiiy, have been renting apartments
at increased rentals and giving leases
70 outsiders when their old tenants
declined TO sign the new leases Inn
mediately.
This means" said Hilly. "ttat
when October comes the present hold
ers can 30 into court get extensions
OF from thirty days TO one year In
which TO move Those who have
signed the leases for the apartment
damage suits"
The evening world., 1920-04-14
DELAYS IN 8. R. 7. SUBWAY
Accidents Halt Two Trains During
Morning Rush Hour.

Two q. II. r. subway trains were de-
layed at the rush hour this morning. s
Manhattan-bodnd train was halted At
1853 on the Manhattan Bridge by wire
trouble. and was started about twenty
minutes later.
An eastbound West END train Ieav.
ing Times square at $40 suffered a
double accident, causing total delay
OF half an hour at Fourteenth Street
The train was short cirJliited and when
this WIS repaired the train moved ON to
Canal Street, where n draw bar OF one
OF the cars dropped out.
The evening world., 1920-04-14
ErpIo.Iop KiIis 400 In Prussia.

BRUSSELS, April 1.-two hundred
persons are believed TO have been killed
as the result Of an explosion In a chem
icai factory at Stoibcrg. near Aix-la-
Chapeile, Rhenish Prussia.
The evening world., 1920-04-14

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