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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10

Professor Tafts name is occasionally mentioned as a presidential possibility, evidently by persons who have a faint recollection of the name having once been associated with the White House.
 x # * ouaffing his beer and contemplating
 the drouth in America, a German might
 imagine for a moment that his coun-
 try won the war. but when he thinks about indemnities he knows better. * # x
 Three Rumanian girls who came to
 America as prospective brides were left
 at the kissing post" at the Ellis Island immigration station. Thus romance dies on the barren shore of reality. # * # Civil Life Calls to Pershing."-Head- line. Could it be that Pershings desire
 to get into something more active has any reference to exercising the presf> dential veto? | The amateur actor who essays Ham let" has never worked as hard as Hiram Johnson in his realistic impersonation of Theodore l." While it is true that Nero's wife I didn't fiddle, or play the ukulele, while I Rome was burning, she was no slouch at passing around the poison. # # < Suffrage pickets who are martyrs to the cause think nothing of going two | hours on a broiling day without pow | dering their noses. x # # l Irv. Cobb's ability to see the funny side of the dreary convention in Chi cago is proof positive that he's a humorist.
 While The Age-Herald was entertain | ing beauteous picture star yesterday, editorial and reportorial minds refused | # x # The robbery of Caruso's residence will not be a great hardship to him, if, as reported, he is being paid s1O,000 | performance in Cuba. # < x Poland will restore the zlot as the
 standard of Polish currency. A zlot | by any other name would probably be
 worth as little. # x * | If 1t is true that, the former Czar and hls family are living quietly in Japan,
 they are probably not pining for Petro- grad or moplng for Moscow # # * 1 Donning a white vest, the colored delegate from the "souf" defies Chica- gos smoke and grime # < * The neighing of some dark horses sounds suspiciously like bray.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
New Officers of the
 Chamber of Commerce

lM1ERRILL P. NoRTHINGToN, 0VO who succeeds R. A. Brown as president of the Chamber of Com merce, is one of Birmingham wheel horses.
 The chamber has been exceptionally well officered in recent years and MT. Northington will prove one of the most progressive. In organizing and directing the traffic bureau, with the cooperation of Traffic Manager o. l.. Bum, Birmingham has advanced ten fold in commercial importance. And now, with MT. Warrington as the executive head of the great civic body, large results may be expected. Mr. Northington is to be supported by an able and spirited board of vice presidents.
 | MT. Brown made one of the best presidents the chamber has ever had. He was ready for big enterprises and never knew such word as fail. Mr. Northington will achieve similar suc- cess. I The citizens of Birmingham who form the membership of the chamber will be spurred to renewed action un- der the Northington administration. This year should be one of the best in the history of the organization. | It is pointed out that MT. Dempsey is an uneducated bruiser. while MT. Car
 pentler is a person of culture. The ad-
 vantage is greatly in MT. Carpenter s favor, but will it enable him to avoid
 coming in contact with one of MT.
 Dempsey's primitive punches? E 3 *
 Americans seeking employment in France are advised to bring along enough money to live on until they find a job. It is also good idea to postpone seeing the night life of Paris until after they get on a pay roll l < * +
 Mingling with the brethren. Chauncey M. Depew beams on the great and the
 near-great. safe in the assurance that there is enough private stock on hand
 to satisfy his temperate wants. even
 though he lives tosbe 100
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
SORROWS OF A SENATOR

From the New York World.
 When the returns from the next Turkish massacre of Armenians come in. nobody can say that Senator Lodge never did anything to prevent the atrocity. A few minutes before the Senate, under his leadership, adopted the resolution rejecting an American sympathy with the martyr nation and sa i'd there were many ways of helping
 it, none of which he enumerated
 There may be many ways of assisting Armenia, but there is only one sure way not to do it, and that is the habit of republicans in Congress of opposing everything suggested by the President
 When the chief executive proposes a duty in the near east MT. Lodge man. ifests sorrow and then proceeds to har- den his heart, evaporate the marrow in hls bones and buckle up his pocket book. He talks one way and votes an- otf CT, full of grief and guile.
 The attitude of the Turks toward the Al HieHidHS IeSeIlDleS lue SendlOr $ to- ward the treaty of peace. The Turks come from race that kills, and they do their killing first and make their explanations afterward They also have great compassion for the Armenians-- once they are dead and buried. With Henry Cabot Lodges sympathy added to that of the Turks, there appears to be no reason why a tragic settlement of the Armenian question should not be effected very soon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10

The Opening of a Chestnut Burr,f ~Bap+ riers Burned Away" "A Face Ilum- ined"? Who can tell. offhand. which of them were written by Miss Braddon. which by Rhoda Broughton. which by Maxwell Gray. which by B. P. Roe7
 Who that reads novels does not read ''Tess of the dUrbervilles"-not perhaps "Jude tho Obscure or ''The Return Of the Native" but surely 'N'Tess"? And who of the noversts is better known than Thomas Hardy7 He celebrated his eigh- tieth birthday last week, not complain ing, as Henry Arthur Jones did a few days ago, that nobody nowadays cares for anything but moving pictures.
 Time is the test of a novelist, an acid test to many. The vogue of ''Tess'' has outlived the century in which 1t was outlive this century, no doubt. Less for tunate, because less talented, than Hardy, were numerous contemporaries of his. Roes sales almost reached 100000. If he. like Miss Braddon. was damned by the critics and read in corners by young women whose parents were particular" he was dog who had his day. Miss Broughton did not write as badly, or sell as widely, as Roe. or as Miss Brad don. She was popular novelist more legitimately than either of the others, but she very nearly out1ived her fame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
Bedrock of a Great
 Business Provided For

F1N HE biggest thing that has hap O pened to Alabama in the past few months was the recent appropcia- tion of S400,000 for the government coal terminals at Mobile.
 The state harbor board has been empowered by the city of Mobile to close the deal with the government, by which the latter obtains the har- bor site for the terminals. This pre- sages early construction of that i'm portant link in the creation of real bunker and export coal trade for Ala bama mines and the feasible and economic importation of Brazilian and Cuban ores for the mills of ,he Tennessee Coal and Iron Company in Birmingham.
 The demand for the coal is here Facilities for loading ships have been the handicap. The cost of the handicap in the concrete consisted of demur- rage charges on waiting vessels and car and barge congestion at Mobile pending the very slow and expensive present process of transferring coal from car or barge to vessel.
 All this will be obviated by the coa terminals with their ship-loading ca. pacity of 800 tons per hour and theil dual capacity of loading direct from barge or railroad car or from the 50,. 000-ton bins.
 In like manner ships bearing Bra gillian ores will deliver their cargoes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
That ndage must be verified, ..-. That beggars mounted, ride their horse to death. Henry VI.
 * * < "Port of Birmingham" Is Name It Should Bear
hat ndage must be verified,

6N HE executive committee of the U Port of Birmingham Corpora tion is wise in deciding to change the name of Birmingport to the "Port of Birmingham"
 Things as important as this should bear at every angle the impress of that for which they stand and which they represent. The river point at which the Birmingham river termi- nals are being placed is to be the Port of Birmingham. It should be so called.
 This development means that Bir- mingham has become river ship ping point and has a port the same as any other place that has put itself on a water front with ships to carry water-bound freight and rates enabling the movement of this freight at traffic rates.
 This is the thought which should sink into the minds of the people of the Birmingham district and those of shippers and other citizens in the territory privileged to exercise the Port of Birmingham rates and trans portation facilities.
 This territory extends as far south as Montgomery, to Columbus and Tu- pelo, Miss, on the west, to Chatta- nooga on the north and to Atlanta on the East There are approximately two millions of people in this terri tory and all can ship to the gulf and for export via the Port of Birming- ham cheaper than by any other route.
 The Port of Birmingham is not only on the map of Alabama, but it will soon be on the map of other states. In fact, other states are already mak- ing serious inquiry regarding opera tions there with view to hitching on.
 It is the Port of Birmingham and no other name fits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
Melon Time

melons are on sale in Birmingham at last" chortled Ellis Hol1ums. Tuesday elon is the greatest balm to a tired body. Some way I have always had the idea that Ponce de Leon s Fountain of Youth was bubbling with cool watermelon juice. When the watermelon season arrives, the great human family seems to sigh with relief, and once again they are assured that nature is function in the good. old fashioned way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
Elusive Auditorium

What has happened to the commit tee appointed to select a site for Bir- mlnghams new auditorium?" asks Frank Davis. Up to several weeks question. stating that some announce ment would be made by the committee i'll the next few days. Since then the question seems to have suddenly died.
 Tt seems to me that this Is too im- portant question to be pigeonholed. l. should be kept alive, and some ac- t,on, should be taken by this commit tee at once so that building operations can be started. The money Is ready and there is no cause for delay"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
THE COMMON HERD

Church Sunday that we are enablsduoo make a batting average in religion ok>one hit out of a possible f1fty-two. The rest of the calendar is filled up with Write To Mother Day." Clean Up Day." ~Plant Tree Day. "Be Patriotic Day." "Be Thankful Day." and the like, 'AI to- gether now" cries our gubernatorial or presidential cheer leader, "One, two, three. let T go!' And we all go through
 the motions. of the designated emotions with the precision of a metronome.
 "The strongest man in the world" said Ibsen in ''The Enemy of the People," lis he who stands most alone.", That IS, I suppose. his way of saying that nobody but a strong man could stand alone in a democracy like ours.
 The American people is as easy to starn- pede as herd of Texas steers, and any, one who tries to stand against the rush gets trampled into the ground.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
Want Next Meeting

We came down after the 1921 con vention," says Thomas Landers, who is one of the delegates from Albany to the B. Y. P. U. convention being held al the Southside Baptist Church. Accord ing to Mir. Landers, over 100 delegates from Albany Athens, Hartselle and Cullman arrived in special coach for the convention.
 We are being royalty entertained in Birmingham homes while in the city, added MT. Landers. We wish to re- ciprocate by welcoming the Biriming- ham delegates to Albany next year."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10

Edwin E. Slosson, in the Independent
 CN. Y.).
 0NHE only way to accomplish the
 laudable purpose of bringing down
 S the price of clothing would be to start the fashion of being out of fashion, and that would be the hardest kind of 9 lesson to teach the American people. They have learned to act as one-which is a good thing sometimes. They have yet to learn how to act as one. which is a good thing most of the time.
 We are mob-minded, and that Is the cause of many of our troubles, includ- ing the high cost of living. Everybody wants to read the same novel the same week. Consequently the library cannot supply It's readers, while equally good novels, few months old, are stacked up unread on the shelves There is world wide shortage of wheat. use other grains, says Hoover. Everybody does for while, then after a while everypody goes back to wheat and the supply asaih runs short. All the housewives order the best cuts of meat, but cattle can't be grown that are all best cuts. The depart- ment of agriculture advises some other cut, and then every housewife orders that and will accept no substitute.
 Someone suggests that a few young men and women might learn Spanish to their advantage and immediately 10000 in sim gle city start Spanish and there are not teachers and textbooks enough to go around If an excursion boat tips and the captain calls one. "Too many on one side" the crowd unanimously rushes to the opposite side and the boat lists more than ever. A millionaire. asked for ihis recipe for riches. said: GO where everybody is doing the same thing and do something different" He had got his money out of the Klondike by selling groceries.
 We declared our independence as na- tion, but we have not yet declared our independence as> individuals. We do everything in mass movements. by cam paigns. drives, booms. crazes. fads and revivals We cannot even fl,lill the siia- ,, plest civic of family duties without ealing on all our fellow citizens 10 aid It is only by the proclamation of a Go to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
NOVELISTS OF YESTERYEAR

From the Louisville Courier-Journal 6TlUCKED away in a corner appears
 this little item of news cabled from
 S London:
 Mrs. Rhoda Broughton. 70 years old. novelist, died Saturday at her residence near Oxford"
 There are few middle-aged persons ad- dicted to fiction who do not recall that at one time they read the works Of Rhoda Broughton.
 In the haze of the past loom dimly. like ships in fog. the names of the nov elsts of yesteryear. and the names of the books they wrote. Miss Braddon, one remembers. Everyone read Miss Brad don. even if many were a little ashamed of such waste of time. But what did Miss Braddon write, and why was 1t that everyone read, and few approved, Miss Braddon?
 Nine in ten cannot answer definitely. Yet Miss Braddon wrote fully five dozen novels of wide circulation, outlived her vogue, and died at the age of 7s pretty nearly forgotten.
 Miss Braddon and Rhoda Broughton, contemporaneous producers of novels, were read by the same generation. Who reads Lady Audley's Secret" nowadays, or "The Silence of Dean Maitland," Not Wisely But Too We'll" "Red As a Rose Is She," '"The Reproach of Annesley,''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10

, into the hands of a Turkish slave of
 illegitimate origin, line known as the
 Slave Kings sat on the throne of Delhi
 for eighty years, during which period the
 desire to possess the talisman amounted
 to frenzied obsession. Suddenly 1t dis
 appeared from their possession in the
 chaos of slaughter that brought the slave dynasty to an end in 1290.
 The Koh-i-nor later scintillated without
 bloodshed through the reign of Shah
 Jahan down to his son Aurangzeb, who
 exhibited 1t to a number of Europeans
 whom he was entertaining at his court.
 Among them was Tavernier, the French jeweler, who later wrote descriptive account of 1t for the delectation of Eu- rope After being tossed like a shuttle
 cock in the Delhi loot and remaining for a period of years with the sikhs in the PunJab, this most celebrated diamond in the world now rests on a purple velvet cushion among England's crown dewelsL in the grim old Tower of London.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
VICISSITUDES OF KOH-I-NOR

From Maharajas and Their Jewels, by
 Eleanor Maddock, in Asia for June.
 N IL the world has heard of the Koh-
 A\ i-nor, or, as it has been sometimes = = called, the Great Mogul diamond,
 and it would seem that there was nothing
 more to be said about it. Yet, in point of fact, not tenth part of its his tory has ever been traced, so far does 1t extend back into the vistas of the past Perhaps one of the strangest things about it Is that it cannot be lost to the world indefinitely. It was bricked and plastered up in a wall and miraculously found after It's former owner had been murdered. It was twice thrown away as bit of glass and once went to the
 laundry in the pocket of an Englishman's linen suit This matchless gem is called in India the Mountain of Light" and the "Tal- isman of Kings" the latter because it was said to bring sovereignty to its pos sessor Strangely enough, after 1t fell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
FORTY YEARS AGO

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 "The town is distressingly dull" Forty Years Ago in Selma" Selma Times-J Journal.
 No doubt. In those days the movie had not arrived, the motor car was an idle dream and the soft drink emporium with a jazz orchestra was unknown.-B Birming= ham Age-Herald.
 But in those days red liquor was gen. orally drunk, deadly weapons were car ried in far greater number than now, gambling houses and other places against which laws were idly written were run wide open, and a sufficient number of incidents grew out of these conditions to relieve the "dullness" of the average town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
Crowd Says Hoover

"If I ever had any doubt in my mind the presidency In Birmingham" says A. J. James, it was erased last night.
 T was in picture show when a news weekly flashed successively the pictures of all probable candidates for the republican and democratic nomi- nations. Silence greeted the picture of Wood, Lowden. Coolidge and Ed wards. But slight response was heard for McAdoo Wilson and Pershing But when the picture of Herbert Hoover was flashed on the screen thunder of claps and cheers were given"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
Not Like Edison

All business men should take a few days off from their labors each year it it is humanly possible" says Desk Sergeant z. F. Hollums of the Birming ham police department, who left the first of the week on his annual vaca- ton. There is nothing like a vacation as nerve restorer and blood purifier" continued the sergeant. T am not like Edison and few others, who believe in all work and little sleep.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
Los Angeles Outstrips
 California's Metropolis

THEN years ago the public was sur-
 4 prised at the way Cleveland outran Cincinnati. It is not often that two cities in the same state outdis- tance each other in a comparatively short space of time.
 The California cities have grown steadily. Twenty years ago San Fran cisco was so far ahead of Los Angeles that there was no thought of the lat ter outgrowing the older and richer city. But Los Angeles is now near the six hundred thousand mark and it is easy to imagine it near the seven hundred and fifty thousand line in 1880.
 But there is room in California for two great cities, just as there is in Ohio.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
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, ON WITH REFORM
: philaielnhia Inaulrer.

From the Phiiadeiphia Inquirer.
 Bryan says the time is coming when we will have the single moral standard written into the constitution. No doubt. If the professional reformers have their way the time will comew hen we'll have a single standard recipe for apple butter written into the constitution
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10

direct to river barges or railroad cars, or into the 10,000-ton ore bin, whence loading of car or barge is enabled with equal facility.
 On just such fundamental things depends the welfare of great indus tries. They are bedrock and the bed rock must precede the superstructure.
 # # #
 When Covering" a Convention
 Is Test of Endurance NEWSPAPER correspondents, so- 4 NJ called feature writers, cartoon ists and syndicate stars descended on Chicago like swarm of locusts. Their purpose in attending the repub- lican convention, however, was not predatory or destructive, save in the matter of regulations, perhaps, but to seek "copy."
 Most of the larger newspapers of the country, including The Age-Her- aid, are represented by a staff of ex- perts competent to write on any sub ject from the secret processes of the suffrage mind to the eminent lark horse who is going to be nominated. There are writers who devote their time and talents to seeing the funny side of the conventional that is possible. The rotund MT. Cobb is laboring nightly in that field and finding it uphill work. If it were not for the suffrage sisters and the col- ored brother there would be precious little to laugh at.
 The cartoonists are faring better than the men and women who depend on the written word, rather than the eccentric sweep of a pencil or pen, to evoke smile. A presidential possi- bility or a party leader with about as much humor in his makeup as the wooden statute of Won Hindenburg can be caricatured successfully. Covering" convention is hard work and when it is unrelieved by thrills-when there is little enthusi- asm and no prospect for a stampede l it is the worst kind of drudgery. The press celebrities now in Chicago are keeping the nations newspapers filled with convention news" but outside the realm of pure speculation, the ;m- portant events of each day could be adequately told in half column.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
ON THE ANXIOUS SEAT

From the Houston Post.
 Personally. we trust that Birming- hem's population will not exceed 100,- 0e0. We view with alarm the possi- b:lity of having to exist in the same south with an Atlanta that has been topped by Birmingham. or with Bir- mingham that has presented pair of heels to Atlanta's view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
HACK IN THE CORSET SECTION

From the Eldorado Times.
 An Eldorado little girl was looking at q new style book her mother had re- ceived. After looking at page after page of styles. the little girl looked up at her mother and said, Mamma. where are ell the fat ladies?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
QUITE A CURIOSITY

Are these gentlemen pallbearers or an investigating committee?"
 "A little of both" said a man who was leading the procession. We are going out to gentleman's residence in the suburbs to look at bottle Of per cent beer"
 Merely to look at it?'
 That's all we expect to do. It is believed to be the only bottle of real beer in this section of the state"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
Approves Idea

I notice with a great deal of pleas ure that John H. Taylor, commissioner Of public safety. has assured the of ficials of the Birmingham Automobile Club that he intends to have safety lens ordinance adopted by the city com mission" says LeGrand Wilson.
 This Is a constructive step toward better automobiling conditions In Bir- mingham. Personally, I consider it even better than the enforcement of the dinner law; for under the proposed ordinance, as I understand 1t, any man found driving a car in the daytime without the properl yequipped lens Is liable to arrest. Violators of the cimmer law can be arrested only at night. I think Commissioner Taylor is to be congratulated on this step, and feel certain that the members of the Automobile Club will cooperate with him in making it 100 per cent success fui."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-10
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