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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10

SHUT IN. The graciousness that beams upon stranger in the street. In spite of all that's said and. done, You'll very seldom meet. Each passer-by is so intent On schemes of fame or pelf And in sort of prison pent, The prison of himself, He's rarely m a mood to show The world "a smiling face, Or any kindness to bestow At any time or place.
 DECEPTIVE. "So that's your landlord?" Yes said Mir. Clipping. "IIe doesn't look like an ogre" Maybe not, but he serves wicked dispossession notice"
 POTENTIAL COOK SPOILED. Miss Teacher has been voted the most beautiful girl in town" An! What effect will that have on herr" For one thing. I fear the money her father spent in sending her to school of domestic science will be a total loss''
 A WET SENSATION. Several of our prominent citizens have left town" remarked MT. Bibbless What was the trouble?' There was some talk of investigatins the sources of supply
 GOING TO LOOK IT UP. You can't park your car here" But I've already done 1t. fierce nainion of the law"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
THE DELIRIoUs REPORTER
From the Findlay Courier.

From the Findlay Courier.
 Hundreds of Findlay people sat for three hours last night within the ra- diant halo that shines from Calvary's s cross and heard Thomas Brooks Fletch- CT play on every emotion of the human heart. His full diapason carried people to the eclipsing heights of panegyric, where they sat transfixed by the in describable beauty of his word pictures his pathos, his pity and all his trans cendent figures of rhetories Playing deftly on gtas arp of human heart strin&s ne thris Ad his hearers into a perfect hush and ais peroratien was as the rusasof waters over a broken dam.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10

make any definite announcement un- til he is sure of his ground. He is going to ask for advice and there IS every reason to believe he will act on the best that is offered.
 The "front porch" statement that the League of Nations "is now de- ceased" may not mean that all of it is dead. Tn working out an agree ment with the nations of Europe which will meet with republican ap- proval, and which the democrats can support, it may be found necessary to use a considerable part of the league covenant.
 That Europe is hopeful and has shown a willingness to meet any requirements within reason that the American government may make is an encouraging sign. Europe has no desire to part company with America, for obvious reasons. Nor can Ameri- ca remain cut off from the world. A spirit of mutual helpfulness, both at home and abroad, will do much to clarify the situation and will speed up negotiations for an ultimate up- derstanding which will assure firm foundation for peace and international harmony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
From "Caliban.'


 RR\{TELLOW! What of it if we are
 the Yellow Press! Anyhow,
 it's more alive than the stewed tea and pink pill press. People talk against the Yellow Press. It's a lot they know about it. The Yellow Press is the biggest thing that has happened to the world since steam. and that was the biggest thing before then. The Yel- low Press has moved humanity and taught it to read 0s, yes, I know yousll say it has taught humanity to read paragraphs, and scandal. That's true; but what did humanity read before I taught it to read something? Why, be- fore men like ne came. they read nothing.
 "I give them news, yes, and in so doing I teach them everything a man needs to know. I teach them geography teach them history in a way in which they can learn it. I haven't hurdened them with great fat columns filled with words they don't understand, I've slung at them words l don't understand my self, just a few, words like dynamo all ternating current. Just enough 10 exer- else their interest, so that those who are really interested can go on I have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
Death Removes a Member
 of the Age-Herald's Staff

TN the death of William Ryan The ll Age-Herald loses one of it's old est and most valued employees, a gen. tleman who had been associated with the paper in various capacities for more than twenty years.
 MT. Ryan came to Birmingham in 1898 from Richmond, Va, where he was at one time president of the Rich mond State, a daily newspaper. He was also collector of internal revenue from 1893 to 1897, and was a mem- Der of the democratic state executive committee of Virginia.
 For a number of years he was managing editor of The Age-Herald. Although afflicted with asthma dur ing his entire lifetime, until recently he was active in his profession and played prominent part in the com- munity life of Birmingham. He was deeply interested in music and was instrumental in bringing to Birming- ham many noted artists. As a critic of music he was held in high esteem. Early in his career he was employed by the New York Sun. He formed lasting friendships among men and women who have been prominent in public life during the past half cen tury.
 MT. Ryan's devotion to newspaper work was combined with a fine ap- preciation of literature and the arts His scholarship was sound and his gifts as writer were exceptional. His qualities of mind and heart endeared him to all who knew him. For the past five years he had been 8 great sufferer from a complication of dis eases, made more severe by chronic asthma. He bore his infirmities with remarkable cheerfulness and forti- tude.
 One of MT. Ryan's favorite quota tions was line from Shakespeare's Macbeth" It is applicable to him now:
 "After life's fitful fever, he sleeps we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
"woLr OF MONTANA, FAMED
From the New York World.

From the New York World. beamed. I'm hard and that's the way like my potations. Set Ter up, bar keep. This ones on me-
 Tall and bronzed, wearing.a William S. Hart waist coat and Big Bill" sombrero, James Hardy otherwise known as "The Lone Wolf of Montana, !" projected himself into the barroom of the New Gault house and made his de- mand upon the bartender. hibition town" began the barkeeper.
 Mir. Hardy swept a Al from his pocket.
 Out in my country" he cut in, I'm known, as a timber wolf and am given to spells of bowling when do not get. damn pronto. what I ask for. We'll now dance and I'll play"
 The A spoke. and a bisque statuette of the Venus de Milo crashed to the floor. Another shot splintered the cigar case.
 Orange phosphate denatured cherry bounce, bah." roared MT. Hardy, as he sent bullet through the floor directly between the feet of the barkeep He had just shot matchbox off the bar twenty feet distant. and shot out a knot-hole in panel. when a lone po- licemau came in, smacked him on the head once or twice and led him away to jail to think 1t over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
MANY ARE CALLED

Edwin Arlington RobinsoH in the New Republic. The Lord Apollo, who has never died, still holds alone his immemorial reign, Supreme in an impregnable domain That with his magic he has fortified; and though melodious multitudes have x tried In ecstasy in anguish and in vain. With invocation sacred and profane ITO lure him. even the loudest are out
 side. iOnly at unconjectured intervals. By will of Him on whom no man may
 gaze, By word of Him whose law no man has
 read A auesting light may rift the sullen
 walls, To cling where mostly it's infrequsnt
 rays Fall golden on the patience of the dead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10

From the New Orleans Times -Picayune. NNNE rather expects a diary quail .W y fled as remarkable to be one of
 those self-revelation screeds
 that leave one uncertain as to the com plete sanity of the author. There have been many such, including that fur ther extension of the diary form called autobiography, from Emile" to Mary
 McLane," but our present diary is
 none of these. It's author is E. w
 Harper. fellow of the British Geological society, and his writing is record of the daily happenings on board a ship bound from Calcutta to London with
 miscellaneous cargo of jungle
 beasts, birds and reptiles. MT. Har-
 Der is too deeply a zoologist to con-
 slider himself in the matter, but is concerned only with the creatures
 themselves that are being transport ed to the Occident to people the ZOO logical collections of English and
 American cities. Having ourselves once been a co-passenger on a sea
 voyage with menagerie, we can
 sympathize with both MT. Harper and
 his charges, although we did not see
 the jungle creatures under such try ing conditions as those surrounding the Harper cargo.
 On leaving the Indian port the Eng lishman's ship ran into hot weather such as only the Bay of Bengal can boast, and beasts began to die of heat apoplexy that previously had been considered particularly tropical in their tastes. Among the number were a pig-tailed monkey, the kind we under stand that bit the king, a tragopan and two fly catchers. The captain became alarmed over the gasping of the small CT birds and had them carried up .o the ships bridge, where a canvas l awning was placed to shade them. Among the passengers was a large elephant with a sweet tooth. Owing to the sugar shortage the beast had
 been put on short rations, but in the dead of night broke into the sugar bin | and ate at a meal all that was in- tended for him during the voyage. The next trouble came when six Himalayan blue magpies grew rebellious and in sisted on wrapping their tails firmly and finally around their perches. MT.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
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Americans Should be
 Grateful for Prosperity

GAS the World war generated a JT1l race of mollycoddles or one or upstanding human beings?
 That is the question for individual Americans to ask themselves. They have resented the taking away o1 the least part of the extraordinary prosperity thrust upon them by the suffering and want of the rest Of the world.
 Few think of the horrors that Eu- rome endured during the four years of war and the heartrending privatlon which has been its lot since that time. Few appreciate how beneficent Providence has been to this country. Few see that we alone have had a land of plenty, one flowing with milk and honey the past six years.
  Every man and woman has prayed for lower prices and a decrease Tn the rate of speed at which we are go- ing. Every time the speed has slack ened an army of discontents has arisen as in night. Passing strange is this change of front from the po- sition we took when we declared we were going to make the world bet ter place to live in. It is time to face about. Men and women should be willing to share in the readjustment that was necessary to avoid economic disaster.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
German Professors Accept
 Olive Branch From Oxford

m EcENTLY the professors and IN doctors of Oxford university addressed an appeal to the university professors and members of learned so- cieties in Germany and Austria to restore the Friendly intercourse" ex- isting before the World war.
 A reply has been drawn up by German university professors and members of the Reichstag, as fol- lows:
 Science knows only one aim--the
 search after truth--and it requires
 for the performance of this task
 the common labor of all, regardless war interrupted this joint labor and
 dissolved many personal ties. We
 are ready to resume these connec-
 tions and by common labor to relegate to oblivion everything of-
 fensive spoken or written in both
 camps.
 These sentiments are the kind one would naturally expect from the lead CTS of thought in any country. They show no trace of the "Hun." Yet, it was but a little while ago that Germany's professors, with few notable exceptions who put truth and justice above imperial favor, publicly approved the war of conquest and spoilation which was being fought un- for an egotistic Kaiser. Furthermore, Germany's university men and scien- tists were jealous propagandists of "kultur." Their propaganda was all the more insidious because it had the highest type of German intellect be- hind it.
 England's professors have shown a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10

rare spirit of forgiveness in offering the hands of fellowship to their erst- while foes who, for a time, at any rate, forfeited the esteem of the world.
 Pugilists are not making all the easy money. senor Juan Garcia Belmonte of Spain is said to have amassed fortune of s5oo,O0O for killing 200 bulls. He is now en route to Peru where he will receive s50,0OO for one bull fight.
 New York man involved in the building trades scandal is said to have summed the word "bribe." Some of our best known bribe-ta are sensitive creatures in all matters appertaining to their honor.
 The mere announcement that Amer ica is the land of three square meals a day is enough to keep the tide of im- migration moving in this direction.
 # #
 Cox and Harding wasted no words in their exchange of teIegrams, but it wasn't the expense they were thinking about
 
 Wall street is being guarded from radical outbreaks. Its nerves are not as steady as they were before the last bomb explosion.
 Flour is now under s10 a barrel at the mills. The price of talcum, how ever, remains stationary. with brisk demand.
 Ireland's surviving hunger strikers are puzzling medical men. For all we know, they may be surprising them selves.
 
 Cue for taking another photograph of "Nicky" holding his baby.
 + # x
 If Cuba gets the Dempsey -Carpentier fight, Havana hotels will have another excuse to raise their rates skyward. x x
 The United States supreme court seems determined to take all the joy out of life for prohibition officers. # * < Mir Harding hopes to catch tarpon. MT Cox is going after quail. The odds in this instance favor MT. Cox. x # # Boston's mayor wants to rid Boston Common of "vamps," male and female. We'll, this is year of big undertakings. < < * Pocahontas may have been denied a niche in the Hall of Fame, but she can't be kept out of American history. # * x If Judge Landis heads reorganized baseball, the gambling fraternity might as we'll prepare to seek pastures new. H f # Before giving up her quest of the perfect lover" Elinor Glyn should I make a tour of the screen colonies. l x # +
 To make matters worse for Champ Clark. he has already written hi, l memoirs. 1 # . $. l The attitude of other democratic 1 leaders toward MT. Bryan is cool, if not 1 frigd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
Glad to Get Back

Miss Emma Bunting, the charming little actress, expressed great pleasure at being in Birmingham again last week." said Rufe R. Bivens. a member of the Jefferson county board of rcv- enue. Miss Bunting was a general favorite in this city several years ago when she played stock at the Bijou. l don't think there was child in 'his district that didn't know her.
 T had the pleasure of taking this star who, delighted theatregoers of Birmingham last week, and her nus band to Tuscaloosa Sunday. They Nere to appear there Monday night, and I haze never enjoyed any trip ,as much in my life. So glad to be able to make the trip without riding on the train. my guests enjoyed the automobile ride immensely. Miss Bunting declared she loved Birmingham, and hoped to see it the metropolis of the south."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
Impressive Services

There has never been more ln Ipressive service held since have been organist at the Highlands Methodist church than the one last Sunday morn ling when the farewell sermon preached iby Dr. Preston E. Wells drew one or the largest congregations ever assem- bIed at that church." said Mrs. Sara Hunt Yam. ''Dr. Wells didn't really preach, but he sketched very vivi fly The Lights and Shadows in the life Of a Methodist minister, and when he came to say goodbye to the congrega- tion there were few in that vast auai- ence who did not feel genuine heart throw and sigh of regret that the pe- loved minister was going away. Dr. Wells and his charming wife have ham during their four years stay here' and many good wishes follow them to their far-away Texas home-Dallas' where pr. Wells has charge of 'arSe church. Our choir, for the fare we'll lservices, prepared an unusually Inter
 esting programme, the duet, The Cruel fix (Faurse), sung by Owen Gillespy, tenor, and T. L. Bissell, basso, being
 beautifully rendered. Espe %i.illy itouchng was the choir's rendition or II that beautiful hymn, Till We Meet Again. when pr. Wells requested
 the choir to sing the verses and the
 lcongregation to join in the chorus. then requesting MT. Gillespy to sing
 two verses of the hymn as solo. It
 was a tender finale to most impress lsive service"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
CHANGING THE sUBJECT
From the Houston Post.

From the Houston Post. I
 The Montgomery Advertisers post election editorial was on ''The Romance of Farm Development" On the whole, we like that as an after-election topic better than our own on Bird Life in Madagascar"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
Elections No Longer
 Disturb Stock Market

61aHE election failed to have any
 u pronounced effect on the stock market. Formerly when administra- tions changed stocks and bonds flew up and down.
 But men now know that changes in rulers or executives cut little figure in the affairs ce nations. The heads of governments are obliged to con- form to the wishes of the masses of the people. Changes bring about no immediate and radical shifts in modes of living, in laws, in business affairs.
 Wall street had these old-fashioned oualms because Wall street was con- trolled by a few men. The illness of a great financier or a severe accident to someone's prime minister was merely a pretext for manipulation.
 Money panics have become practi- cally impossible since the establish ment of the federal reee.ye system. Now, when money is hign in New { York, it is high all over the country, end vice versa. The same financial Qpnditions prevail everywhere. The Anoney of the country is evenly dis tributed. A few men cannot get on a house top, shout fire and scare the people from Maine to Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
Plenty of Signs

There may be some chance of catch ing some of our home talent crooks now that the city detectives have pro- gressed so far in the finger print trt that they can catch murderer rom So distant state as Delaware" said 'Bishops Allen yesterday. "The footpads have been furnishing the officials an excellent field in which to exercise their deductive line of reasoning.
 Tn the reports of the robberies for the past six weeks are to to found number of damned spors,' which can not be washed from the hands of .ocal thugs. These spots, in conjunction with finger prints, may be the solution of the crime wave that has been sweeping the city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
He Hears the Roar

T am always glad to get back 10 Birmingham" said Henry Morscheim- CT who now resides at Easterbfook Springs, Tenn, ''my sensations In re- turning here are something like his; Long before I reach Birmingham it seems to me that I hear it's roar. BIT mingham always reminds me of some great, living. throbbing being accom- plishng a great task. Then when have arrived up the street, have the feellnS that something big is about to happen. Somehow or other l am never TUT prised to hear of a big land deal CT a big industry, of anything big and new coming to Birmingham. In other southern cities there is fixed type that makes them the same each lme one returns, but Birmingham IS al ways different, and l always look for something to happen here. It gener- ally does, for it is the livest city CT them all"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
Nothing Definite Known
 of MT. Harding's Plans

077HILE MT. Harding fishes and WV plays golf, Europe waits to learn what Americas new foreign policy is to be. Whether MT. Harding takes up this momentous question in formal conferences before he is in- augurated or not, no progress can be made toward a solution until he returns from his vacation trip.
 Reports that MT. Root would be ap- pointed Secretary of State seem to have been premature. If the honor goes to Senator Knox or Senator Lodge, the influence either of them might exert on MT. Harding is large ly problematSical. It is evident that the President-elect is not going to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
lNMhY YUM:

From the Washsng stop Post
 We don't tavsE going into the league. but in fAw days well consider taking a mandate over 5rumstick
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
ADRIFT WITH THE flMEiS

'Mebbe so. I'll have to take your nam down, and while you are about it. jus tell me how to spell that minion.' I don't sound like polite words,to me" ],
 A MONEY GRUBBER
 A queer old tyke
 Is Abner Screws;
 He never reads
 The footbaliSflewS
 More sordid things
 His mind engage;
 He closely scans
 The market page.
 A STARVED SOUL Dear mel" exclaimed the slum visitr What shocking poverty! I must sene you some old clothes to keep you and yea children warm." Don't mind about the old clothes num- said the gaunt slum dweller, but if you've got a photograph you don't want and a few cast-off jazz records send 'em along. Even if I do say n mum, I've got one of them artistic tenA- peraments."
 ExTRAVAGANT WOMAN A man who's met the worst of faAen Is poor Augustus F'ites; tr We understand his wife dictates Most every check he writes. READY FOR THE EDITORS MOWa "A rich mans daughter married 2 poet.''
 Did the old gentleman de anythhg=fnE the coupler
 's1e set the poet up in business-~ 'In business?'
 "Yes. He bought him S1.ooo wern 14 stamps" PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
A MORNING PRAYER

MORNING PRAYER
 Grnt, Lord, that ! may iihu in the homeIy things of this ear'n' in human love and friendship; .n e.,tnfu,pess and service; for if | oo not find thee here. God now shah know thee when 2 see thee s""- der. Amen.--M. $. B'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10

rare spirit of forgiveness in offering the hands of fellowship to their erst- while foes who, for a time, at any rate, forfeited the esteem of the world
The Washington times., 1920-08-31
UNION LABOR RlDORSES
ALCORN FOR COMMISSION
Chairman of Retirement Board
Named for ID. c. POst-Plans for
Labor Day Outing Made.

Robert II. Alcorn, chairman or the
Joint conference on retirement. was
last night indorsed by the Central
Labor Union as a candidate for Dis
trict Commissioner. The entire
strength of organized labor in the
District was pledged to procure his
nomination.
Additional plans for the big Labor
Day outing next Monday were dis
cussed at the meeting of the central
body last night. Thousands OF mem
bers of labor unions are expected to
attend. In addition to the barbecue,
under the personal direction OF Frank
Beuchert, OF the Butcher Wotkmen, a
program OF games and athletic events
is being arranged.