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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
Function of a Newspaper
 Is to Publish the News

1 OVERNOR COX brings serious VI indictment against many news papers in the west. He is quoted by David Lawrence as saying that he has not received a square deal. While he did not expect commendation from the republican press, he did have the not unreasonable expectation that they would treat him fairly in their news columns.
 Governor Cox declares that news papers in the coast cities repeatedly suppressed reports of his speeches By ignoring him or refusing to give him the prominence due the demo- cratic nominee for the presidency, these newspapers were trying to min imize the effects of his tour and as far as possible prevent people from hearing or reading his speeches.
 This is not in accordance With American ideas of fair play and, as Governor Cox points out, being a pub fisher himself, it is not creditable to the newspaper profession. No one is going to complain if a republican paper devotes more space to repub- lican news than it does to democratic news. That is only human and par. tisan organs are expected to glve preference to their own candidates but if they are in the truest sense newspapers worthy of the name, they cannot afford to suppress or misstate facts.
 The editorial page is the expression
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
HOW WICKED IS THE WORLD?

ihomas and Pope Leo and many other witnesses to the persistent wickednesz of the world to confirm him in his caIm- ness when modern investigators tell him that large number of modern soldiers were pasans.
 Each of many past centuries has been pernurious of the Christian virtues and then prolific of revivals and repentances and restorations of Christian living Tn each century-whether of faith or of skep- ticism-the church has had to fight foG it's life. That is it's destiny-to be In fact as well as in name the church mili- tant," with plenty of the world and tns flesh and the devil to fight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
Opposing Positions on
 Federal Reserve Restrictions

N NUMERICALLY opposite posi- lO tions with regard to the credit restrictions enforced by the federal reserve system came from two sources in Mondays news dispatches.
 The National Association of Hosiery and Underwear Manufacturers bit terly attacks the reserve banks, al leging that textile manufacturers are receiving no new orders at satis- factory prices, that practically all or ders have been filled and that less than 70 per cent of the output of the mills is being sold" It is further de- Jared that "the larger and most sol vent manufacturers face an embar- rassing situation"
 On the other hand, the directors of the National Association of Credit Men protest against "any move to limit or eliminate the federal re- serve banking system." These men say:
 The country should feel grateful
 for the ability the federal reserve
 banks have shown to cope with
 unusual conditions and to stabil-
 ize the tendencies of men in the readjustment period.
 The difference between now and the prior two years is that the pres. ent market is buyers one, while its predecessor was at the dictation oi the seller, the manufacturer and the broker. The credit men represent the merchants whose caution in taking on big stocks has been aggravating tc the manufacturer and has had the eff. feet of reducing prices. Back of the merchant is the consumer, who has quit paying any old price.
 It is not difficult to see where the shoe pinches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
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America Stands
 in Bad Company

TJMANIA ratified the treaty of JM Versailles, September IA. That leaves the United States the only one of the nations aligned against the Central Powers in the recent war which has not yet signed. We have the somewhat questionable status of Austria Hungary, Bulgaria and Fur key among the former belligerents and Mexico, to the south.
 At present the league consists of thirty-nine states. They are: Argen- tine Republic, Belgium, Bolivia, Bra gil, England, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, India, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czecho-Slo- vakia, Denmark, France, Greece, Qua temala, Hayti, Italy, Japan, Jugo- Slavia, Liberia, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Persia, Peru, Poland, Por- tugal, Rumania, Salvador, Siam, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay and Venezuela.
 The Senate Oligarchy" may have a higher average intelligence than is found among the statesmen of Hayti, for instance, or Liberia, or even Para quay, Persia and Peru, but to assume that they are better judges of the League of Nations and what it means to the world than the leading minds in all thirty-ninel of these states is preposterous.
 The position in which America finds herself because of the. obstinacy of a few senators in refusing to ratify the Versailles treaty and permit America to join the League of Ma tons would be Imaginable, if it were not such a tragedy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Geraldine Farrar

T have been greatly interested in the announcement made by Geraldine Far
 rar. the world famous Metropolitan opera star, who will open the All Star Concerts here in October, that she will no longer make pictures with the Gold wyn Film Corporation" said Miss Myr- tie Miles of the Cincinnati Times-Star who is visiting here. The reason that the beautiful prima donna assigns for her action is that it takes her to far away California-where she has been all the summer, by the way-so far from her handsome husband, M. Lou Tellegen, to whom she is very devoted. This does not mean that she will not make pictures, for she announces at the same time that she will continue her picture work, but only in New York city studios, where she can be with M. Tellegen. The lovely diva is deeply in love with the noted French actor, and their home life is reported to be ideal, both of them adoring their chosen work she the marvellous singer and he the talented actor Many inquiries, I un- derstand, are being made as to whether M Tellegen will accompany the lovely Geraldine to Birmingham when she makes her. first appearance here in the history of the city, and it is likely that he will, as Miss Farrar comes direct from California, where he has recently joined her.
 She will travel in her luxurious pri- vate car, making her coastwise concert tour, arriving in New York just in time for the opening of the opera season early in November"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21

From the Chicago News.
 TN a late issue of the Churchman there is review by Francis Little of the S Y. M. c. A. book entitled, The War and the Religious Outlook: Religion Among American Men as Revealed by a Study of Conditions in the Army" These conditions, says Mir. Little, re- vealed the following state of religious be- lief and practice: "A fair proportion of unbelievers, not perverse and blatant. but honest, sincere, quiet ones; goodly mum Der of genuine Christians, many of whom, are loyal to some branch of tho church. and a large majority of pagans.- "A large majority of pagans" But Mir. Little at once wisely adds; When we remember that Bernard of Clairvaux, Francis of Assist, Dante, Savonarola. Francis de Sales. John Wesley, John Henry Newman and many others found the same conditions prevailing in their times it is not so alarming some timid brothers would have us believe" Here surely is ray of true good sense. Religious people are inclined to read the religious books of past centuries and then to assume that those books rep resent the characters of those centuries.
 But the true character of every century is that few persons in it are always calling it back to faith and virtue from it's errors and it's vices.
 Thomas of Celano wrote biography of St. Francis of Assist very shortly after St Francis died. St. Francis was cer-
 tainfy saint of saints-a finished flower ing of Italian piety and of the whole medieval age of faith Yet Thomas of Celano says of Assisi-the town that pro- duced St. Francis-that it was sink of
 sin. He says that it's fathers and moth-
 CTS deliberately taught terrible vices to ! their children.
 | Pope Leo XIII said, in 1882, in an en- cyclical, that in the thirteenth century, the century of St. Francis, there was "an extinction of charity in various 1 places" and "a penury of the Christian virtues"
 MT. Little could have quoted Brother
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
WASTEFUL AMERICA

From the Chicago News
 An eminent official of the Swedish government now visiting the Unite, States expresses astonishment at thi, countrys waste of water power. Sine, waste astonishes him, this observan visitor is bound to suffer a considerabl, number Of shocks. Waste in the United States might almost be said to have at tained the dignity of an established public policy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
TO CELIA

By Ben Jonson. Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will plege with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not ask for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth ris Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Joves nectar sup I would not change sor thiES. I sent the late a rus wreath.
 Not so much hone ng tises As giving 1t a hope shat Iaefe
 It could not witt sr'd be, But thou thereon did'st only Breathe And sent'st it back to ma Since when it xrcTs a1s smells.
 swear,
 Not of itself. tut snssl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
Scattering

We rear families and then the time comes when for one reason or another our children leave the home" said pr, L. c. Branscomb, editor of the Alabama Christian Advocate. Last week there family circle. Two daughters Louise and Elizabeth, left for the Woman's s College in Montgomery; and two sons, Harvie and Ewin, went to Dallas, Tex. the former as a teacher in the theologi- cal department of the university, and the latter as student
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
School of Cnni mcrce

For first day I feel fine with re- gard to the Birmingham School of Commerce, which is to open October r. said L. c. Darlington, director, Monday afternoon. T opened office in the Chamber of Commerce in the morning and by noon I had two applications for matriculation. This was OF the heels of but one days notice in tnc newspa- pers.
 "Yes, it is true that the Spanish which we are to teach will not be book Spanish, but the Spanish that IS read. spoken and written in south America and Cuba today. T.,o .rl le customs which we will teach our pupils will be the trade customs of today. I will be at the chamber daily tronl 1 ]. m. to D. m. and from to D. m. and shall be glad to talk the natter over with the earnest young men of the district who wish to qualify themselves for good positions in the foreign trade
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
UNPREPAREDNEss BEST

UNPREPAREDNESS FEST before I call on him to ask for permits sion to marry your"
 ''No, Augustus. Take him by surprise and force him to make an impromptu speech. If you give him an opportunity to jot down a few notes in advance I won't answer for the conseauences.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21

A MORNING PRAYER
 Give me, o God, not what WISH to make me happy, but what want fo make me thine. Keep back the HI which I in my blindness have askeo for: send me the good of which, ih my faitbIessness, have never dreamed, Amen.-M. $. H.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
UNFEEL1NG COURT.

Your honor" said the prisoner with tears in his eyes, do you realize what it means to send me up for ten years?'
 Yes" replied the judge. '1t means that you are going to do more work for the state than you ever did for your wife and seven children. Next casa"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21

the price. The women of the state are showing a very active interest in it. Many women are cultured to a high degree, and are versed in the funda- mentals of government, but others know little of the constitution, or the principles of legislation.
 There is vast amount of ignorance among men about political questions that concern the entire body polite, which being the case, it might be well for the university extension di- vision to embrace a coed course. Great good will some of equal sui frage if we'll educated electorate is the result of the university's new project.
 FNi"Hu knows she can't whip Russia slngle-handed, all the allies know 1t and Russia knows it. That seems to mako it unanimous
 No word is heard from Bella Kun. bur the poet didn't have him in mind when be wrote, Absence makes the heart grow fonder"
 Ii the beverage bill is passed by the state legislature. Alabamians will be heard shouting, "Bevo! Bevo! Bevo! Rah, Rah! Rah!
 Nudity on the Paris stage has reached a point where close attention has to De given to the heating arrangements III cola weather
 Former President Deschanel is said to be much improved since he resigned rom office. In America the effect is usually Just the opposite.
 Detectives are baffled by the bomb ex- plosion in New York. Let us not despair In all good detective fiction they are baf- fled in the early stages of the plot.
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 Thanksgiving day is drawing near. and will find more than two-thrds of the people in this country up tree wonder ing what they have to be thankful for.
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 If the sacred precincts of Wall street have been invaded by bomb throwers, it might not be a bad idea to throw cor don of police about the national capitol
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 North Carolina deputies destroyed 2s0 stills in nine months In the past nine months probably 56o new stills" have been put in operation.
 * * x The ex-Kaiser is reported to have drawn up his last will and testament It isn't likely that it disposes of what was once the German empire.
 One of the latest creations in mems clothes is called 'jazzerine" Any man found wearing it should be shot at sun rise.
 President Wilson has discarded his straw hat. If he were living as close to the tropics as we are he would cling to it while longer.
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 It is charged that some of the papers out west are loath to publish the news if it's democratic news.
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 If prices continue to come down there will soon be new version of the "Profiteers' Blues
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 preacher compares Senator Harding to Saint Paul. Wouldn't Jonah be nearer right?
 Only one word is applicable to the way the candidates observe the Sabbath. and that is ''meticulous"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
Good stretch of Road

q wish to hand it to the board of revenue and the county engineer for one fine stretch of road" said Charles Francis Wood, general manager of the Port of Birmingham and engineer himself. 'I have just returned from fly. After passing over the roads of South Carolina and a few others. it was revelation to strike that new road leading from the top>-of the mountain down and through Roebuck. It ig a splendid piece of chert construction. My hat is off to those who did the work"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

APPEARANCES ARE DECEPTIVE. man of middle age he was And had a learned look; He sat inside trolley car And closely read a book wondered if it were a play The mighty Shakespeare wrote, Or some great philosophic work On which the savants dote. Ere long I glimpsed the title with A feeling kin to pain: The words upon the cover were, The Loves of Fair Elaine"
 SAVED. -Is Jobbles still thinking of buying a sport carr"
 No' the blood of his New England an- cestors has at last asserted itself" How so?'
 He bought a flivver'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21

NO SUNDAY WALK. T don't like the way MT. wadleigb pussyfoots into church" You don't think he's a hypocrite, do youT'
 Probably not, but he pussyfoots into church the same way he pussyfoots into directors meeting He might at least alter his gait on the Sabbath"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
BLANKET WEATHER.

Soon the firelight will be leaping. Soon the wintry winds will blow; But the nights are fine for sleeping
 When it's ten degrees below.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
PROFOUND PEssIMIsM.

PROFOUND PESSIMISM 50 you would like to live alone with out human companionship?" "Yes'' said the cynic.
 Then you ought to get job as light house tender. That's the loneliest life know off,
 'It would be just my luck to have 2 boatload of shipwrecked people washed up on the lighthouse rocks before I'd beer there a week."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21

WOULDN'T REFUSE IT. How about your candidat te?" Tn what particular?'
 ''Is he wet or 'dry'?'
 ''Well, he's an adaptable man. Ar, you in position to offer a little hos pitality ?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21
BLESS HER,

BLESS HERR Three cheers for any lovely maid Who in cottage settles down; To cook and sew is not afraid And does not covet film renoWn!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21

A MONEY MATTER. T hear Mrs. Giddison is suing for a divorce"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21

TELEPHONE Bell (privnte exchange connecuhS n'A aepartments) Main AS0O.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21

"Yes'
 "On what grounds"
 'Incompatibility, but all the neighbors say the trouble is income without any patibility.'" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21

l Principal Smith was as busy as a switch engine or the director of a three-ringed circus, for scores of anxious parents had | questions to ask, and many little hand very free from form. and there was no pushing or showing aside. It was good natured, we'll behaved American crowd, and every one seemed to be willing to wait their turn (and by the way. this is a great test of ones love of free p1ay) 1 And the teachers, some of them were so young and pretty that it was hard to l l them from some of the older pupils
 It was pretty sight p see the little girls snug up to them to have their heads patted, and it was fun to watch the careless indifference of the boys,
 who yet wanted to be noticed, but afraid of being guyed. There is nothing which
 so rifles the average boy as to get the name of being teachers pets
 l I spent pleasant hour in taking in
 the scenes around me, and in spite of the dark clouds which hover over us. and the prophecies of woe that are ahead of US. Somehow it's sobering thing to | get in touch with public school opening. for as long as our education is free and
 our people are willing to stand by Amer ican ideals, there is little fear of the country going to the dogs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21

I stood for bit to watch the gather ing of the clans, and l was glad to see that Lakeview was a typical public school in which the children of the well-to-do
 and even of the rich mingled freely with standpoint were not so well circum- stanced. The sons and daughters of working people mingling freely with
 those who from the viewpoint of the world were born with silver spoons in their mouth The public school is the great leVeller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-21

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 Birmingham, Ala.
Evening journal., 1920-03-19
BY ZOE BECKLEY,
n. b. A Special Cable.

~ - - tINNt'A F-f"Mf
PRAGUE. March i9-For lack OF soap
thousands OF children will die here In
the spring.
we have used cur fat for food"
said Alice Masaryk. daughter OF the
president Of the Czech republic and
Red Cross head, today. Unless Amerl-
ca sends US soap or fat TO mako u
from, our children will perish w1en
typhus comls with the warmer
weather"
There Is not enough soap to wash
the linen In the hospitals. Babies die
here every day from simple lack OF
cleanliness. Pestilence and dirt go
hsnd in hand. The great iyphus carri-
er Is The louise and soap Is ind spens-
able in delous'ng work.
The funds America has sent here are
now being us 10 buy food and soap.
BO b are ESSENTIAL, but the Red Cross
workers say that OF the two The soap
is the more impo tant. There are 500
children In one hospital alone. who
will die Of tuberculosis uni S. they
can be removed TO clean surroundings
at once.
The inability OF the people TO keep
clean is making them lose their SELF
resp ct Czecho-Slovakia only asks lem
porary aid. With a chance she VIII
climb TO her feet and take her place
with the nations.
That chance must include a fair start
for her children and that they cannot
have II their little bodies are loo
Evening journal., 1920-03-19
IRON HAND ENDS
SPAIN'S STRIKES
Spanish Republic is Still
Long Way Off, View of .
British Official
LEADERS ARE
SENT TO JAIL
BY MILTON BRONNER,

LuAOHtuu NAonHtNA - A. -
LONDON, March i9-Blg business
men Of Spain are backing their faith
in the future stability Of Spain by
spending their money on big projects
in their country.
England, Il Is stated. Is apt 10 have
naturalization OF mines and railroads
along before Spain oyerthrows the
monarchy and sets up a republic
This IS the gist OF what British
government Official and business man
told me after a months trip through
Spain.
Reports Of strikes and rumors Of
revolution In Spain have been numer-
Gus.
But" said this official, far from
closing its eyes TO strikes. the gov
ernment seems 10 have very sum
mary way with them. In fact, it has
a way which would not be attempted
in Anglo-Saxon countries.
THE military promptly clap the lead
ers Of the strike into Jail and il ma
turally dies down after that.
The only trouble / saw in Madrid
was a lockout by the employers
against the employees in the building
trades.
1T lasted in Spain for weeks and
weeks before IL was finally settled.
Il asked the Spaniards what would
happen II there were a big national
strike OF railwaymen. The response
was that most Of the railroaders were
Of military age; that they would be
promptly called back 10 the cOlors; /;
that they would be enrolled In regi-
nents Of railway engineers and put
back TO work on the railways not as
employees OF the roads bt as soldiers OF
the nation. Whether such a drastic
program would be carried out | do not
know, but It was discussed quite freely.
Business men told me there was not
50 much unrest in Spain as there was
in England. France and America.
Spain Is suffering from the same
malady all civilized countries are suf-
ferlng frOm-hlgh cost Of livilg aud
consequent insistent demand made by
the working class for much higher
wages. The same vicious circle Is be-
ing gone through with I'm Spain."
He said he found business men In
Madrid. Spanish, English and French,
preparing 10 Invest their money in very
large Spanish projects which was the
best Sign that no serious trouble was
looked for.
"ln Spain," said he business men
have a cynical saying that the revolu-
tion is always going TO happen tOmor-
row but that tomorrow never comes.
"Of course, there Is dissatisfaction in
the Industrial cities. but so per cent. Of
fha neon1a ~ Cnain do moi live iu gba
cities but are peasant farmers, loyal TO
church and king and for the most part
Indifferent In politics"
Evening journal., 1920-03-19
CLOUD ON EVE
OF SUNSHINE
When You're Expecting Pleas
ure Most, Look Qua for
Pain.

"whon you're expecting pleasure
most look out for the pain" said the
Tanlac Man
Did you ever stop to consider how
frnqu ntly and how amply the truth OF
this old saying Is demonstrated? How
our Hives. on the eve OF some expected
sunshine and happncss. are darkened
by the shadows OF distress and dis
ease? How much better would it be
for us to prepare a safeguard against
the lnroads OF ill-healih by starting
when you feel the first signs Of ap-
preaching weakness.
'Whcn you set languid loggy list
less and have tired-out-all-t -the-time
feeling with no ambition or energy.
and suffer frequently from headaches,
Dackaches, dizziness and depression OF
spirits, II is a mighty good idea 10
try Tanlac."
Tanlac, which quickly dlspels the
impurities from your system and az
fords you the necessary prOleds that
put you I'm the pink OF condition, Is
sold here by n. B. Danforih.