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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
Former Reichstag Re
porter B e t r a y s
knowledge Of Plans.
Formed Long in Ad-
vance to Invade Bel
gium and Crush
France - How Ger
many Cheated Her
Own People and Her
Allies

tag, the true words that the war could no
be brought to a decision by the force O.
arms alone The High Army Command
through a major fercely attacked tina
statement OF Kuehlemann.
II urged Mr.. Kuehemann not to tender
his resignation Nevertheless, Kuehlemanr
submitted his resignation Immediately after
his arrival at the Great General Headquar-
ters. He did so because he had the impress
sion that he entered an ice house; ha felt
himself absolutely isolated.
The Chancellor asked him to remain at
least eight more days in his office so that
the Reichstag may vote the war credit and
adjourn; then a change might be easier.
Kuehlemann refused to be a party to such
scheme because there was no room left for
any successful activities Of HIS. He openly
advocated negotiated peace, because Ger
many could not exist without It; the High
Command permitted no elbow room TO those
working for that aim negotiated peace).
Therefore Kuehlemann preferyed TO quit his
office as an honest man."
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24

German. Minister of
Finance Discloses
Hither Unpub-
lished Details of Per-
fidious Policies of
Kaiser and His
Henchmen During
Conflict and Cam
paign of Bluff After
Armistice
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24

%ILITARY and political leaders OF
~ Germany during the war-Luden-
dorff and Tipritz. Bethmann- Holl-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-12
INVESTIGATE YOUTHS RECORD.

While Judge James A Mcclure is
investigating his past record, Earl
Stucklick, 1417 Harrison street, who
confessed to taking two suits from the
Palace Clothing store in December,
will be at liberty under a $500 bond,
deposited by his brother-in-law. II.
Flanders, Stucklick pleaded guilty
late Thursday. Representative of the
clothing store recommended a parole
Judge Mcclure declined to issue a
parole until he learned more about
the young mans past record. The
original name on the warrant issued
was Stuckert Upon discovery of the
error. the name was changed &c
Stucklick
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-12

ference of heads of state institutions
and members of the state board. Nom
resident patients in state hospitals will
be cared for at the rate of $40 a week
under the new decree.
Until 1917 patients in state hos
pitfalls were taken care of for SO a
week" said Gray. Rates were then
raised to $3.50 Now it is necessary
to boost the rate to So week Even
that rate is below charges in neigh
boring states and IS less than the per
capita expense for care and mainte-
nance"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-12
BOOST HOSPITAL RATES
II. {. l.. Hits State Charitable In
stitutIons .-MoIcoIm Gray,

High cost Of living has hit the state
charitable institutions. Rates at state
hospitals were today boosted from
$3.50 to So a week while charges for
patients at the state tuberculosis sani-
tarium at Norton were advanced from
S10.5O to $14 n week. The new rates
are effective April !.
The new order was announced this
afternoon by Malcolm Gray, secretary
of the state board of administration.
Rates we're increased following a CON
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-12

Baker Ore.-George Thompson. local
florist employe. was fined $2J for stealing
flowers from grave and re-selling them
for bridal bouquet.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
THE TRAPPER

pers and advertising their. willingness to
fur. Even black house cats pelt is
worth 81. Other values are in. propor-
ton.
Victims of injustice-middie-aged men
who wanted ardently to be trappers but
became lawyers, merchants, ministers OF
the gospel, college professirs, writer's OF
books, journalists, travelling statesmen.
bullied by obdurate parents-now read
in the papers of Adirondack trappers
earning from $500 to $500 a week. The
lives of such men have been drab COM
pared with that of any trapper in any
book read by any boy who reads the right
sort of books because he is the right
sort of boy. And here they are,- fat of
paunch, thin-legged, denatured by the
sedentary life, pillars Of the church and
of society in some cases, bored by con-
ventional uneventful careers, vet SO near
iy ossified by their experience that nine
in ten of them discourage their sons,
who, deep in works of adventure, want to
abandon educational opportunities and
start for the wilds to set steel traps in
Inuskrat runs, to operate string OF
deadfaAs along creek and ravine, to live
out of doors with a dog and a rifle, visit
ing the settlements occasionally to BUY
cornmeal and powder and shot, never
tempted in the direction of social lie
or family life, always the contented her
NIT and the prosperous vender of pets.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01

From the Louisville Courier Journal
81 never before in the history of
IN America trappeFs are thriving
. - There exists prevalent idea, es-
pecially among parents. that trapping
was far better as a means of livelihood
in the period of Misunderstanding than it
has been during the las century, but
I.satherstochings's contemporaries could
not have earned $1,000 a week if they
had not had to keep an eye peeled for
hostile Indians.
When furs we're plentiful all over Ken
toclsy. as well as in the Adirondacks and
in the vicinity Of Hudson Bay, trapper
could not get more than $40 bill for as
many green pelts as he could carry upon
his lack, AS late as IS years ago pelts
which now sell for several dollars went
from the trapper's hands at a quarter or
a half dolar. A mink skin or black
skunk was sold for six bits" a coon
for So or 40 cents under the shrewd APP
praising eye of the buyer Muskrats
hardly were worth skinning
Only few boys in each generation do
not want above everything else in the
world to be trappers. Prosaic parents dis
courage them, telling them that fur
bearing animals are scarce nowadays and
that trapping never was a suitable occu-
patton for an ambitious young man. But
nowadays buyers of pelts are flooding the
mails with books Of instructions to trap
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald
~ NE result of the commercialization
III u of the stage has been the decay
of many Of the ancient supersti-
tons with which it was formerly en-
crusted. To whistle the music from
Macbeth" is no longer regarded as GER
tain to bring on disaster, and even the
mascot and 'jonah" have lost much
OF their power for good and evil.
Time was, however, when those terms
carried much weight in the players lex
icon. A we'll known American actress was
almost ruined because she had been
through two or three disastrous fires.
In England, where superstition dies hard,
the sister of world famous actress, and
said to be the better artist of the two.
has suffered all her life from the Jonah"
reputation that has followed her.
But the mascot of the palmy days
was seldom out of an engagement, such
was the faith in his power with the gods.
welsh Edwards, heavy actor OF slender
talent, was famous type Of this for
tuuate class. When A. B. Palmer as
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
THEATRICAL SUPERSTITIONS

stunned the control Of the Union Square
theatre in 1872 he confessed that he knew
little of the stage, but he must have
known something of it's traditions, foi
he promptly engaged Mr.. Edwards. Har.
rigan and Hart secured him for the The
atre Comique in 1876, and there he re-.
manned stage manager until Steele Mack.
aye engaged him for his new venture
the Madison Square treatYe, in 1880, paying
him a salary but not permitting him
to attempt to act. Lester Walack was
the first of the great stars whom Frank
Murtha induced to play at the Windsor,
in the Bowery. and it is related thai
when that histrion encountered Mr.. Ed
wards at rehearsal he exclaimed, Good
Gawd, Is that man an actor" To which
the manager replied, 'sNo, he's better than
an actor! He's mascot! I wouldn't
risk your engagement unless he were in
the cast"
Unfortunately for certain members d
a profession noted for it's windliness the
sinister side of the superstition has out.
lived the other, unjust and cruel as 1t Is.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
MILWAUKEE TRUE TO FORM

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Milwaukee's quasi-secession from the
American union is no longer a symp-
tom-it is a desire. Milwaukee's dis
regard of decency is no longer stub
born resistance. 1t is an open, defiant
challenge. This cannot be ignored 1t
will not suffice to stand in anger and
must be action, swift, sure, certain.
The return of Victor Berger to mem
bership in Congress-Berger, who
struck from behind when this country
was in grapple with the foreign foe;
Berger, who is hostile to the govern
ment Of which he has been made a
part, compels quick reprisal on the
part of an insulted and outraged peo-
pie.
Meeting the defiance of the district
which reelected him, the House of
Representatives, even without debate
should ref&se to permit his entrance to
its precincts. Admission would consti-
tute blot upon the shield of legisla-
tive honor. The bolshevistic brood
who chose him to be their chieftain
should be made to understand that
there exists a force that can match
their own, both in strength and sharp
ness.
There should be found a way, too, to
make Milwaukee conscious of the
shameful portion she has assumed in
these troubled times, when every min
i'm and scruple of effort is demanded
of the community and the individual
citizen to restore harmonious social re-
lations and general happiness. If, as
the official expressions seem to assert
that city wishes to be a place apart
from the rest of the United States, let
there be a general gratifica ton of that
wish. Mis- was the desire of bloody
bolshevism in Russia under Lenine and
Trotzky. The separation is becoming
complete, though the desire has died
in the ashes of famine and suffering
No blockade or boycott is preached
herewith. but the sisterhood >of cities
in the nation should make it plain to
Milwaukee that the right hand of fell
lowship is withdrawn from her until
she repents her action.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
PARADISE
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
Says Samuel S. Mcclure. Il have been
from Picking to Constantinople within
the last three years, and found para
disc in Ireland" 1t is "the most
prosperous comfortable and lawSabid-
ing country" Glutted with $500, 600, 900
it's banks have alliances with British
banks'--truce with the Sassenach.- las
AN outlet for their money" People
are well dressed and we'll housed"
where many were neither.
Sim Feiner and Orangeman, nation
aliA and unionist, Protestant and
Catholic, reading Mr.. Mcclure. will set
up a great chorus. Let me at him
first" British Tories will agree that
Ireland is rotten with prosperity but
deny its abiding quality. Sim
Feiners will admit that Ireland is~law-
abiding-by the law of Dali Eireann-
but spurn the thought that Erin thrives
while the invaders foot pollutes her
soil
the best of it, for they have ever new
wrongs. Not content with imposing
upon them the Land act. and freedom
from food control and war-draft ex-
emption. so that their young men could
make money. and trouble while the
Saxon fought the German ally, cunning
Albion now plots to force upon Ireland
a measure of home rule. Cab Ireland
prosperous with that incubus sitting
her! And the browning insult of max
ing places for AZ Irish members at
Westminster, whore no Sim Feiner will
ever deign to appear,
What call has a Mcclure to wipe
away one tear that. pearls the cheek
of Cathleen-n Houlihan? What can
he know of the most distressful eoun-
try? Paradise in Ireland" indeed.
Not while the other place yawns. UNI
satisfied, for her alien oppressors,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01

Birmingham citizen complains that he
sometimes has to wait an hour for a
car Has the citizen ever discovered that
walking is good exercise?
y y y
If prices don't tumble after the pack
crs withdraw from all unrelated lines. y
who will be left to blame for the con-
tinued high cost of living?
X X X
Everybody seeped TO lose interest in
the Turks harem when it was discov-
cred that Turkish beauties was more
or less of a misnomer
X u y.
The production of oil is reported gra, H.
flying. The printing of beautifully en-
graved oil stock is also a flourishng
industry.
The Soviet ark" is not being swamped
by messages of good cheer as it wends
its way across the stormy Atlantic, bear
ing 24e undesirables.
y 4 Y
That trainload of gin which set out
from Peoria ostensibly for the coast is
reported to have disappeared" If true,
that train was routed by a master mind.
X X X
Although Viscount Greys sight is fail
ing, it is rumored that he saw number
of things in America that made him
tired.
K K X
1t may be possible to unscramble the
railroads. but not the brains of the av-
crage bolshevik.
X K X
If John Barleycorn in exile we're a
vengeful cuss he'd chortle over the dead
ly work being done by wood alcohol
X K X
William Gibbs McAdoo's presidential
boom has some of the buoyancy that
comes from White House support
The parlor bolshevik, judging from DE
way he talks, must find powerfuN"kick'
in cup of tea.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01

1arold Lewis Cook. in the London
Westminster Gazette.
80 many people have made palaces fol
thee:
Made thy house OF marbel or 1 sum-
fner sea:
Made thy house of marbel or q sum-
strange birds kept. M
or in the laughter of d child who nev&l
wept
Some men find thee only in that mar
row place
Under the grass, with those Hhe
looked and loved Deaths face
Who think there only art thou found
Away.
That ali else goes sleep-wise. psssins
IKE. day.
ruf have more beautiful plaes il
That + mine only. there do l house
I thee.
Mat shan be as long as there an,
The face Of my first low. an be1Ght
with loves amaxa
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
6f1IE Saturday Evening Post pays its
editorial respects to boys and girls
= from II to q years old, and even
older. who go out into the world seeking
employment, the point about them that
particularly holds the interest OF the
Post being the disdain shown by these
kids when offered a moderate salary
such as only beginners should expect.
one girl. lust out of a business college,
answered an advertisement for stem
ographer The first question she asked
was, How much do you pay?' The man
said, Twenty dollars a week she
shifted her nose and danced out, saying.
~ did not come here TO be insulted' No
bow in long trousers wants to start at
less than $50 week. Generally the be-
sinner demands a wage Of an expert
erced craftsman.
The Post we'll says that the day of recK-
oning il coming to these needless, dis
dainful Young folks who scorn to serve
an apprenticeship in any trade. business
ar nrofession. 1t reminds them that pres
en-. conditions will not last forever. One
dav there viii be shake-up-the compe-
tent man will hold his job, the incompe-
tent will go. 1t will be day of humiiia-
tion for the unframed. Incompetent work.
or because it is not pleasant TO be
reduced either in rank or pay. But the
,.pp OF supply and demand must assert
itss.f: the rules that govern economic
law cannot long be ignored The prem
INN must always be on the man VINO
knows how, and no man ever learns how
except by hard experience
Big wages for cheap help have been
ca rned in this country for three or four
xaa,s. Big wages for unframed workers
re offered every day. But that IS be-
cause employers can do no better, They
don't want to hire Incompetent help but
a. present they must take what they
can get. IT. time. this condition vii.
change as surely as the sun rises in the
east. How short-sighted is il in the
meantime for youns men and young
women who. must like tomorrow as we'll
as today TO overlook any opportunity to-
day 70 Improve their skili and profess
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
Some Must Command
While Others Obey

MAYHEM Capt. W. E. Dram, mas
w ter of the schooner Jean
Sommerville, died at sea of heart
failure no one was left on board COM
petent to navigate the vessel. The
Jean Sommerville, her flag flying at
|half-mast, was spoken by a passing
steamer and news of her plight sent
to Pensacola. Later a tug left Pensa-
cola to tow the schooner to Mobile,
carrying the body of her dead cap
tain.
There is lesson in this little story
of the sea for the half-baked people
who preach communism and a world
in which every man will be equal to
every other man. According to the
soviet idea, when the commander of
the Jean Sommerville died the crew
should have elected his successor. but
of what use is captain who can't
steer a ship?
Always there must be leadership.
Brains and industry will rise above
ignorance and sloth. No human en-
terprise, great or small, can prosper
without directing mind. There can
be equality of opportunity, but never
equality in achievement. A dead level
of mediocrity could not be maintained
week unless every human being
were born with exactly the same
ability.
Bolshevism has its leaders. All
bolsheviki are not equal, by any.
means. There is distinction to be
made, however, between bolshe yism
and absolute socialism or communism.
Bolshevism, as we see it functioning
in Russia, is tyranny of the prole-
tariat worse than the autocracy of
the car.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

If people insist on these Sunday JOY
rides the time will come when most
OF the farm lands in this country will
be bought up and turned into ceme-
teries SO there will be erafes enough
to go around.
Our idea of tough luck Is to eat. %
raw oysters and then discover that
the twenty fourth is bad one after
you have started to masticate it.
A wife finds out where her husband
was all night by the way he starts in
proving that he wasn't there at all.
No man ever got divorce because
his wife did not talk enough. But you
can't make a married woman be-
lieve it,
Any time man says that he isn't
afraid of his wife We do not believe
anything else that he says.
What has become of the 0. I. girl
whose beau saved her his cigar ashes
SO she could clean her teeth?
Why is it that a mans dirty white
shirt never looks quite as dirty as a
woman's dirty white petticoat?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
1920

A new year dawns-what shall it bring
To leave mark upon the world?
The fruits of peace and goodly deeds
The nations warlike banners furled
And mankind laboring to build
On past mistakes a temple fair,
That shall for ages long endure,
With Liberty enthron-ed there?
IGNORED.
She stood beneath the mistletoe.
A maid of forty years or so,
And as she stood we'll have 10 5@n
That she was very much alone.
SOMETHING TO REMEMBER.
who is that fellow surrounded by an
admiring crowd?' asked the Travelled
man.
IAN aviator He's telling how it feels
to fall 1000 feet
"Umph"
You are not Interested"
NO hardly think his narrative
would thrill me. You see, my foot once
slipped when I was standing on the edge
of the crater of the largest active vol
cano in the world
TAKES 1T OUT IN THOUGHT.
Does Mr.. Peckton object to his wife
smoking"
"Oh, yes"
Then why doesn't he stop herr"
eff thought waves had as much power
as some people think they have Mrs.
Peckton would be BOWED over every
time she took a puff from cigarette
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
Apathy Revealed
By Alabama Voters

| NNFTENTIMES the man who COM
W plains the loudest about misfits
in office and the inefficiency of gov
eminent, is like thousands of Ala
bamians who did not vote in the cleo
ton Tuesday on two important amend
Iments to the state constitution.
Just so long as citizenship is in
ldiffernt and shirks it's responsibilities,
Just so long will the evils of which
it complains continue to exist. There
was SO little interest shown in an
ELECTION which meant that AZ munich
qualities in Alabama, including Bir-
Imingham, would be given much need
ed financial relief and the men who
served their country during the war
would be exempt from paying poll
taxes until 1923 that here in Biz
Imingham election officers in some
cases did not appear at all and in
others they "kept banking hours"
Prohibition won in America because
the prohibitionists organized and
voted. There can be no progress in
a democratic country without the aid
of the voter. The type of citizen who
cannot be induced to perform public
service, even nominal public service
/ like voting, of which he is a direct
beneficiary, is more of liability than
an asset to his town, his state and his
country.
The colored man who went into Bir-
mingham store and bought an expensive
photograph and offered to take it home
in one of his two big motor cars and
whose check, the bank said. was good
for any amount, isn't necessarily in the
Ibootlegging business.
Z 4 4
1t looks as if the average citizen OF
Alabama would just as soon 30 to a
dentists office and have tooth yanked
out as to go to the polls and vote on
an important issue
4 y r.
Cartoonists picture the New Year as a
lusty yaungster and the old year As \
feeble graybeard. Nothing ages quite so
rapidly in l. months time as year
Unless it's an egg left to shift for itself
= \ 4
TO be sure the war is over over there. 7
but there are still about 900 American
troops in Russia
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01

"a funny thing happened to me last
week. said Ben Schwabacher of Bes-
semer, when a man walked into the
store and asked me to please figure
the interest on $3.50 for % years at
s per cent for him. did SO and he
then added the $3.50 to it and paid me
1886. which he said he owed my father.
the late u. Schwaba cher. The man
stated that in 1897 he had bought a
pair of shoes from my father and had
never paid for them. and he had
thought be never would but declared
his conscience hurt him every time he
passed the store, as he always thought
he was taking that money away from
the orphaned children. OF course, we
knew nothing about the debt. as my
father sold out his shoe store and en-
tered the jewelry business many years
before he died and we had no record
of any debts that were owed him while
in the shoe business"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01

hibition leader has been more vitriolic
than Mr.. Anderson. In a sermon
preached at Mt. Vernon he charged
MIR. Root with having accepted the
filthy money Of the liquor men after
lit had been refused by Mr.. Hughes
lend Mr.. Taft. He ridiculed Mr..
Roots legal ability and called him in
effect an INSCRIPTIONS lawyer and
political trickster. According 70 a
publication which he quoted, a check
fer $150,000 was laid before Mr..
Hughes and after he declined to ac-
icept it signed blank check was Of
fered to Mr.. Taft, with the assurance
that he might fill it out for any sum
he desired.
The Anderson type of prohibitionist
does his cause more harm than good.
Mr.. Root has long had the courage
|of his convictions and if he thinks
there are good legal grounds Tor de-
Tending the liquor people chose who
do not agree with him should not heap
lcalumny on the head of a man who
has served his country well in places
Iof great honor and responsibility and
|is regarded as perhaps the ablest
lawyer in America.