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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
ANARCHY AT ALBANY

From the New York World. IT F Speaker Sweet succeeds in carrying through his programme to expel the = five socialist assemblymen on the ground that the platform on which they were elected lis absolutely inimical to the best interests of the state of New York ard of the United States" representative this state, and its re-establishment will have become the most pressing duty of the people of New York.
 The majority report of the assembly ju- diclary cornmitte is only what was ex- pected The committee was appointed by Speaker Sweet to prepare that kind of report. The whole proceeding was ar ranged by him. He made the charges, he supervised the suspension of the five as- senblymen, he appointed the committee. he ran the court that conducted the hear ing and he dictated the verdict It is to the credit of the assembly that in spite of all the rrecautions taken by the speak CT to insure the suceess of his crusade, only seven of the thirteen members were sufficiently subservient to accept his cooked-up verdict The other six dissented in various ways, and the Sweet pro- gramme had the support of only bare majority
 Whether the speaker can carry II through the assembly remains to be seen. If he can, the precedent has been estab- lished in New York that minorities have no rights that majorities are bound to
 respect: that political parties may be ar bitrarily outlawed and denied any par tcipation in representative government
 unless their platforms and their methoos a re acceptable to the party that is in tenn porary control of the legislature.
 To put the case still more bluntly, the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03

Anyone who has ever seen chorus girl buying little sack of potato chips and bottle of soft drink for her mid- night lunch can understand why some chorus girls are thin.
 Scientists say the women of Babylon used rouge 5000 years ago. And there must be tablet covered with cunei- form writing somewhere that tells all about the BabyIonian "shimmy."
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 A Youngstown. O.. man arrested for exceeding the speed limit told the judge he had just heard of house for rent. He might have offered dozen excuses, but he chose the best one.
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 That was sad story, mates, Of the beautiful nurse driven out of Wash ington hospital by publicity. There is nepenthe for her in the film world.
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 An Argentine aviator flew across the Andes and dived into the Pacific ocean unhurt. Life is never dull for bird man.
 r,,ru,,,.s.., !, < < @.,, plete fire alarm system it will be hard for spark on shingle roof to get any where.
 Part of Senator Borahs effectiveness as an orator is due to his ability to shake shaggy mane. In this particular. Mir. Bryan is. greatly handicapped. Theda Bara is said to have made a woeful failure of the spoken drama in New York. Yet. as voiceless vamp Theda has no superior
 No one bears up more easily under the charge of being double-dyed villain than prohteering landlord.
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 The practical joker who calls the po- lice or fire department as an April fool joke has a cranium ten inches thick # # $.
 It seems hard matter for candidate on the stump to tell the truth and noth- ing but the truth.
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 That mysterious illness affecting the family of Henry Ford is not believed to be spring fever
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 Trailing an overshadowtng crime There's the theme of crook play in that phrase.
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 It was case of draggled daffodils and tears when suffrage was defeated in the Delaware house of representatives. # < * If General Wood is defeated, every time he sees an Ivory soap advertisement it will awaken painful memories. * # #
 Beware of the promoter who casts lsheep's-eyes at your Liberty Bond
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Of AneIeht Vintage

Prof Edmund Thickstun of Danville, Morgan county, came to Birmingham to attend the convention of the Alabama Educational Association. It being the first day of April he decided to spring a joke of ancient vintage. but he put it over and was happy.
 T went down to the postoffice and inquired at one of the windows for ar engraved picture of George Washing ton." Professor Thickstun said. T re- marked to the clerk that some one told me I could buy very fine en- graved picture of George Washington at the postoffice The clerk seemed to be puzzled. He referred me to the su- perintendent of mails. On the way to the superintendent's office I made the same inquiry at another window and of G. W. for sale here. The superin- tendent, charming young woman, asked if I knew what place I was in. I replied Yes. it's the postoffice.' She called to a man few feet away, and repeated my question to him. He walked over to her, whispered some thing in her ear. at which she smiled knowingly, and remarked to me that could get the pictures at the stamp window. indicating where it was To- cated.
 ITO the stamp window I went and repeated my question. The clerk was positive they had no pictures of G. w. l saw a box of stamps near the window and, pointing to them. said, There's bunch of them. He fumbled around, picked up circulars and other things, overlooking the stamps Finally pointed directly at the stamps. Picking up a sheet of them the clerk saw the likeness. of the Father of his Country. He blushed and stammered while hand ing one of the stamps to me. I bought it and went my way, wondering how old joke must be before everybody hears itH
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
LIKE M,LIIKE sAxs

A made-over dress looks mighty good to man. But the woman who is wear ing it knows that it doesn't fool other
 women.
 We can't understand why clothes are
 so dear. Since prohibition came in the fat men have gotten so slim that cloth should be plentiful. A corn-fed girl has no business wear iing an accordion pleated skirt. After she | sits down for ten minutes there are no
 pleats left in the rear. Any wife can tell you that her hus.
 band and his dog do too blame much growing.
 l Ii the eighteenth amendment did not do anything else, it succeeded in silencing about 45. 765, ,6S2 orators and S.54i s55 quar- tets.
 Hot weather will soon be here But
 that won't keep some men from skating on thin ice.
 Every man is a natural born arbitrator when he figures that he can't lick the other fellow.
 Every five or ten minutes these days 1 you run into brainless idiot who couldn t run peanut stand, but who insists on telling you how much better he could run the government than the man who is running 1t right now, It is about as easy to guess a girls foot measurement by looking at her shoes
 as it is to guess her hip measurement
 by looking at her hips. 1 We do not know much. But we do know that the way they are gonna dress
 this summer q fellow will have to have an awful nerve to tell a girl that he l would like to see more of her. 1 When you are eating at the home of | a friend, never ask the hostess what the initials on the silverware stAN for. May be she had to borrow set fS the
 occasion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03

only remedey for any kind of politics. discomfort that is displeasing to the ma iority is the apepal to force. The con stitutionai avenues are closed; the con. stitutional method is prohibited
 There can be no f-governm ent, thers car be no free government. on such ternns No anarchist ever dealt such blow ts American institutions as that planned by Sweet and his associates.
 Whether there is enough real Arrerfcan- ism in the assembly to save New Yors from the consequences of this most stupid and most despotic adventure remains to be seen. The World can conceive of noth- ing more dangerous in this time of unrest and discontent than for the assembly to assert the doctrine that whole constitu. encies may be disfranehised if their DO lit:cal theories are unacceptable to a leg islative majority and that these constitu. eEcies have no recourse except to vio- lence for the redress of their real oi fancied grievances.
 This whole performance is a disgrace to the state. It was staged by Sweet, with. out consultation with a sIngie responsibIsl republican leader, in the obvious beliS that it would promote his chances of ot taining the republican nominarIon .A governor. The patriotism witii which hA has invested the proceedings is a fa- ], and a fraud, but the issue that has beer raised by this reckless office-hunter is of the utmost seriousness in relation te the stability and welfare1of government in New York
 There can be no political guarantees o1 security whatever if representative gov. ernment is at the mercy of fools and fanatics, whether of radicalism or reae- ticn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
HENRY IRvING,s SECRET

A. B. Nalkly, in the April Yale Review
 The actor expresses a temperament, . personality, himself; imposes himself u his part and on us. That was Henry Irving's secret. personal domination. He never dreamed by mere beauty or amazed h@ mere skill one was simply fascinated srbjugated by the man himself The in- fiuence Of personality still remains mys. tery. We call it, by analogy. mag netism, but how it really operates we cannot explain We know that some men have it, while others have it nod Shakespeare was probably without it,
 else we may be sure we should have heas
 more about him from his contemporarieS But to the histrionic artist it is indis pensable. In Irving this gift of personal domination was so great as occasionally Ito swamp the play. Whatever part he
 mpersonated was pound to become the center and core of the whole. His Iago would overtop another mans Othello; his Malvolio became the protagonist of
 Twelfth Night his Jingle the hero ot tPickwick;3 his Matthias in The Bells. q compared, say. with the more orthodox Matthias of Coaueln Aine, was as \ mountain to molehill. There was na- tive grandeur in the man. so that even hts very villains, his Macaire and the other rarts he adopted from the repertory oi Frederick Lemaitre. became gorgeous. fiamboyant, auasi-regaI in their viilainy. When. after his early struggles. he found himself" if was always to find himself in part of personal domination.- a Charles First. Richelieu. a wolsey. a Beckett. He instinctively turned to piay4 ing leaders of men because he was q leader of men
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
OIL EXCITEMENT

E. s. Panyity, in Leslie's.
 The oil excitement sweeping the country from the Golden Gate to the Battery is without parallel in history. It is of greater magnitude than was the rush of the fold seekers Not only have individuals been enriched. but towns and states lifted, as if by their boot straps. upon high financial pedes- tals Quick fortunes make strong impression upon people of all walks of fife, and many are in hopes that they may invest in some oil proposition that may turn out to be another Shumway, Trapshooter or McClesky lease, and the great amount of "cats and dogs on sale appears to offer just such chance for the unwary.
 Persons who would not think of en- tering into any new business deal with out carefully analyzing the proposi- ton will go blindly into the oil game. The every day business man decides that his entry into the game has a good chance of sharing in the spoils, and thinks that. in view of the prop- able large returns, his investment is well worth the chance, and as the va rious stories that are heard are sub stantiated by facts. he is determined not to be "bluffed- d-outs by the views of a pessimist The next and fatal step is the purchase of oil stocks.
 We have a class of real investing people who put their surplus cash into high-g grade oil and gas companies stocks; their idea being to secure a reasonable return on their investment and probable advancement in the value of their holdings. People living outside of the oil territories should find their best opportunities along these lines.
 Then we have another class of people who also style themselves as investors, who dabble in the very cheap oil stocks of unknown past, present or future. Their source of information regarding their several opportunities is obtained from the carefully prepared pros- pectuses of the promoters who are backing the project. Not all such of ferings are without merit and there are many new propositions that turn out to be of value. but there is a much greater number of absolutely worth less stock selling schemes. As these stocks are priced low enough to be within the reach of all, they find a ready market among those who lowing to other lines of business endeavor) find only such means to share in the glittering possibilities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
Worth Hearing

T wish I could impress upon the reop1e of Birmingham the tremendous ! importance of the inter-racial meeting to be held Friday at the Sixteenth Street Church., says c. L. Harold.
 From a civic standpoint, this is a matter of importance Governor Kilby or Lieutenant Governor Nathan L. Mill Ter will speak, as will the mayor of Birmingham and John c. Blackwell. superintendent of the schools of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company Representative negroes will speak in behalf of their race.
 This meeting is.held," explained Mir. Harold, fin connection with an exhibit of articles of workmanship of the negroes, showing material progress in mechanical arts I am sure that any enc who will be present can only de- rive good from the experience"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
President Wilson's Name
 Withdrawn From Primary

ID RESIDENT WILSON continues R to maintain an unbroken silence in regard to third term. Georgia's attempt to solve the mystery of the White House by placing MT. Wilson's name on the preferential primary hal- lot came to naught.
 A dispatch from Atlanta states that when the Presidents name was entered by petition of more than the required one hundred democrats, a telegram was sent to the White House, asking Mir Wilson to say whether or not he wished to figure in the primary. No reply was re- ceived.
 There is little likelihood of the Presidents trying for third term. Even if the League of Nations be- comes the leading issue of the cam paign, as it probably will, and though he might not be deterred by the precedent against electing third term President, the state of MT. Will sons health would prevent him from being candidate, That much seems rather conclusive, but no one appar- ently knows what he has in his mind regarding possible successor.
 MT. Cummings, chairman of the democratic national committee, hopes Mir. Wilson will be able to play an important part in the campaign and professes to have no trouble in get ting his views on crucial" matters.
 Nevertheless, the puzzling silence of MT. Wilson is having harmful effect by leading the public to believe that he is still far from well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
Lively Interest in
 The Oratorio Fund

M FEE W philosophical citizens S met at luncheon yesterday for the purpose of promoting the move ment to raise one thousand dollars or more for an oratorio society. It was success. Generous subscrip- tions have been made, and the full amount sought is practically assured.
 Birmingham has excellent chorus material and under the directorship of Forrest Dabney Carr we should have the best oratorio organization in the south.
 Now that the auditorium is in sight, we should feel a distinct im- petus to prepare for great music festival in the not distant future. Birmingham should have a well trained body of singers of at least three hundred voices, and a fund of one thousand dollars will make such chorus a reality.
 x # x Six hundred switchmen ana switch tend CTS employed in Chicago by the Chicago,
 Milwaukee and St Paul Railroad struck to force the reinstatement of yardmas- ter cahrged with pro?German utterances during the war. Some way should be found to fill those 600 vacancies # # T. The major league ball player, who usu- ally halls from some little town. views the average southern city with amused toleration. But nobody's feelings are hurt The. average southern city recipro- cates.
 Speaking of Herbert Hoovers candidacy for the presidency, Chairman Cummings said. Tt is always bad thing to see an essential democrat attempt to liber- alze a standpat party A neat way tc express it.
 x * x The Jackson Clarion-Ledger published an editorial on the defeat of suffrage Tn the state legislature. It was headed. "OId Susan slaughtered." which gives one some idea of the way suffrage is regarded ir benighted Mississippi
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 Palmer is great promiser but poor performer Even were the charge true
 that wouldn't make A Mitchell radically
 different from the average citizen who seeks office.
 ''Mr. Musgrove the Coming Man is the itiHe of an editorial in the Montgomery
 Jpernal Eeiter Hood should tsse an other lsee at the lpbions seAtlerlan from Jasper. he lsr', coming -he's gong.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
Allies Have Finished
 With Former Kaiser

HE final word regarding the pro-
 S posed trial of Wilhelm was spoken by Premier Lloyd George when questioned about it in the House of Commons. MT. George said that "it would be futile to hold the trial with the ex-Kaiser absent. {"
 Since Holland twice refused to sur render Wilhelm and the allied powers have no desire to force the issue, there is nothing else to do but &C., cept the situation as gracefully as possible. Holland stood suuarely on her constitutional rights and made a good presentation of her case. She did not undertake to say that the former Kaiser is a much abused man. but she stated in rather unequivocal terms that he was entitled to the pro- SSSOiOii iC oouSuI III neuCTdl cOun- try, whose laws give refuge to po- litical exiles. Wilhelm's status was that of political exile when he crossed the Dutch boundary, although morally he was just as much crirni- nal then as he is now.
 Had the matter been left to Clem- enceau, Wilhelm might have stood in the dock, but Lloyd George, who at first agreed with Clemenceau, changed his mind, and Holland settled the question by refusing to give Will helm up to the allies. He will reside permanently at Doorn, according to present plans. There is no indication that he will ever be called on to quit saving logs, shave off his beard and return in triumph to Berlin.
 "Finis" has been written to the career of Wilhelm II.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE

From the New York Telegram
 More carloads of aliens are reported on the way here for deportation. Better tell the truth and say they are on the way to fatten the socialist lawyers and bail bond sharks who will obtain their release from Ellis Island so they can dig in and hide themselves in New York. --
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
Richard Carrc

"Wednesday afternoon being dark and gloomy, I went down to the Jef- ferson theatre to see Richard Carle in Sunshine, said Byrd Haley, land found him and his company of actors radiating brightness.
 Mir. carie is one of the most natural comedians have ever seen. There is never straining after effect. He seemed to just go through his part in a spirit of rollicking good humor. am sure he himself has a sense of humor, for in one of the acts he had 70 call for the spotlight, and in his dron way said, Jimmie be sure and get 1t on my ring, for have just got ten it out and then be left his Hines and, with whimsical smile, added. If we have many more rainy afternoons l guess I'll have to put it back.'y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
IN THE GARDEN OF THE LORD

By Helen Keller.
 The word of God came unto me. Sitting alone. among the multitudes: And my blind eyes were touched with
 light.
 And there was laid upon my lips flame
 of fire. laugh and shout for. life is good. Though my feet are set in silent wayA In merry mood leave the crowd To walk in my garden. Ever as walk gather fruits and flowers in my hands, And with joyful heart bless the sun That kindles all the place with radia7
 life run with playful winds that blow l.
 scent |Of rose and pessamine in eddying whris At last I come where tall lilies grow, Lifting their faces like white saints td God. While the lilies pray. kneel upon tfl
 ground:
 I have straysd into the holy tsmpas . sA9
 Lord
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
The Rank of Large
 Cities in the Census

THE census bureau is announcing
 4 the population of many cities, large and small, every day, It will soon come to Birmingham.
 While not all census figures have been disappointing, the increases as rule have been small Louisville is one of the cities that should have recount, for it appears on the face of the returns that the Kentucky me- tropolis has grown more than ten thousand in the past ten years.
 Fairfield, suburb of Birmingham, makes a showing of slightly less than five thousand. The estimate had been much larger One thing is certain, when the ten-mile limit of Birming- ham is estimated, as was done in 1910, no booster of this city will have reason to complain, no matter what may be the population of Bir- mingham proper.
 There has been wonderful growth outside of the city. In 1910 the ten mile limit population was two hun dred and twelve thousand. In 1920  the same territory will show a popu- lation of three hundred and twelve thousand of more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
.PUGv VERSUS POET

From the Kansas City Star.
 The crowd which greeted Carpenter on his arrival in New York was much greater than the one which met Maeter- iinck, and something whispers that his following throughout his stay in this country will outnumber that of the 'Bluebird.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
Mrs. Owen Becomes Head
 Of Archives Department

1.-THE board of trustees acted wise 1 ly in electing Mrs. Marie Bank head Owen, widow O. the late Thomas M. Owen, as her husbands successor as director of the state department of archives and history for the unex- pired term, ending in 1925. She was chosen without dissenting vote.
 No one is so well qualified to carry on Dr. Owens important work. She had been his co-laborer for several years and, like her husband. had q Rassion for history.
 hs state is a hundred years old.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
DECAY OF A GREAT MAN

From the Philadelphia Inquirer %
 Jim Corbett now signs himself the chiis of the movies" che-ild of the movies, er' James has annexed to himself mighs. fickie parent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
WHY LEAVE s5uDGE wEAkLEY OUT From the seims Times

Judge Henryfs. Foster. campaign man aser for [. H Musgrove, senatorial can didate. sau. 'I believe the people of
 Alabama are desirous of seeing and hear ing senat4 Underwood and MT. Musgrove
 at the sAFRe time" J
 Why Qgt make it a three-ringed circus by add Is Brother weakley to the ex-
 hibitio({ Ii would then be sun more so
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03
Bfrthdav surprjse

Although it rained almost inces- sanity last Wednesday night, there was good crowd at prayer meeting at my church." said Rev. J. NJ Broadly.
 Twas surprised to see so many peo- pie out, but more surprised to see that the regular Wednesday supper had heen turned into a birthday party for both myself and Mrs. Broadly. Our birthdays do not come on the same day and the women behind the affair se- lected date between the two birth days. We all had an enjoyable affair in spite of the rain outside.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-03

but the annals of the territory known as Alabama date two hundred or more years back. It is therefore crowded with history, every bit of which is of significant interest.
 In few states are the archives so important as those of Alabama and too much pains cannot be taken in preserving them. pr. Owen had done a wonderful work in organizing the department over which he had so long presided, and it will be matter of congratulation that the task will be carried on uninterruptedly by his widow.
 Dr. Owen had devoted several years of his life to writing a history of Alabama. This work was almost finished, and it may be assumed that Mrs. Owen will soon complete it and have the manuscript ready for the printer. Many histories have been published, but Owens history will be the most exhaustive.
 The trustees having the election-of Dr. Owens successor in hand will be heartily commended for their action.