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The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1920-04-02

~ you make an \ In the party
circle Of THO official ballot you vote
a straight ticket. But II you make
an X for any other candidate aud
have marked Che circle also your
vote will be THROWN OUT.
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1920-04-02

n. u. Warner IN Haunting
shadows the RoberisonC Cole 81.
perior picture. which will be seen
AZ the Columbus theater on Mon.
day. April O. has the part Of q
young man who ~forfcils las he
lhinks) bis whols Inheritance 70
inllnw the girl he loves. Shut up
fur . year IN an American castle,
modelled after o picturesque British
building. be leaves Il 10 80 10 the
nome of a girl he loves. thereby
violating the terms Of the will %
his grandfather. This " but one OF
the many dramatic situations which
arise W this picture which was
made az the Jesse d. Hampton
studios. As John Glenarm, central
Character ia the picture, Mr., War
nor has q role fully IS thrilling a.
The other recent ones be has played
h nohrTtsonCD Cole pictures. A co.
nahIe east u seen M support.
"A stitch IN Time.'
Another bic Broadway stage sue.
cess s brought 70 the screen BY
Vllagrnph Va "A Stitch IN Time,
Inc Gladys Lcelle picture, which
will be seen IN the Columbus Thea
The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1920-04-02

The big idea; Vote for The
waterworks bond issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19
THE CLASP HAND

Prom the New Orleans -Picayune. MN ' HEN the name Lillian Whiting WNW is heard one may feel confident that an echo will respond a murmured Browning for the literary woman of Boston, whom readers of the old Times-Democrat will best remember by her long series of contributions under the general title Boston Days" has lived and written under the spell of the Brown ing group. Another woman of talent who came under the magic of Robert and Elizabeth, in their Italian home, was Har- rier Hosmer, the distinguished American sculptor. one of the few of her sex who hav-. contested masculine supremacy in that exacting art.
 Harriet Hosmer, like others who knew the Brownings, appreciated the poetic beauty oe that family attachment and im- mcrtalized the love of the two poets by a work, ",The Clasp Hand,' showing the hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barret Browning linked in that pressure of devo- tion that was typical of their mutual ex- iStence.
 Of this modelled work were made three bronze casts, and one of those until this week was a treasure among treasures of Lillian Writings Browning mementoes' being at once remembrance of the twin
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Toe Much HIame.

Too Much Blame.
 The menace of milk has been ex- aggerated, according to a publication in 1919 of Paul G. Heineman. director of laboratories of the United States Standard Serum Company of Wood worth, Wis.," says Attorney White Gibson.
 According to this authority the number of cases of disease and deaths due to milk infections is small if com pared to that due to other causes. In only .03 per cent of cases was the transmission of diptheria definitely as signed to infected milk and in only .19 per cent was milk either proved or suspected. Only 16 per cent of scarlet fever were definitely attributed to milk infection, and IS per cent proved or suspected.
 '1n 79 per cent of the cases of sep tic sore throat milk was asst igned as the cause and in per cent of the cases of typhoid milk was definitely as- signed as the cause. in per cent of the cases of typhoid milk was either proved or suspected to be the agent of infection in this disease.
 Taking them in a group 3.9 per cent were definitely attributed to milk and in 4 per cent of all cases milk was proved or suspected. Three per cent of typhoid deaths are possibly at tributed to milk, while .0S per cent of dtphtheria deaths, .0S per cent of scarlet fever deaths and 9S per cent of septic sore throat deaths. An av- craze for the whole group of per cent of deaths may be attributed to infected milk. This authority was in troduced at the hearings of the milk Injunction before Judge Hugh A. Locke in the chancery division of the circuit court and the figures are really surprising as the majority of, us have heard so much about milk carrying germs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19

It is not surprising to learn that there is shortage in the Mexican treasury. It's wonder there's as much as a peso left.
 Mime. Rejane is gone, but Mime. Bern- hardt apparently has not the slightest idea of joining those immortal shades beyond the styx. The Haitians don't care a hoot about good roads. In view of the fact that they don't own flivvers, their indifference is easy to understand.
 < X x A political writer who confuses Mr. Micawber with Mark Tapley can't be ex- pected to read Dickens during a hectic campaign year.
 # # # Mexican generals say Mexican soldiers should lay down their guns and take to blows in Mexico.
 * * * New York's police department is baf- fled by the latest murder mystery in New York. The experience is by no means new.
 # # # Now we know why Warren Gamalie Harding was content to let the letter "G" stand for his middle name.
 # # # The movie bathing beauties have made it next to impossible to admire a be- draggled V.nus rising from the sea.
 * * Ludwig c. A. K. Martens with the freightage of his five names, still fingers in our midst
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 |6N HE death of Gabrielle ReJane III
 Paris brings to an end the career
 S of the woman who was everywnere recognized as coming next to the idoiiAeu Bernhardt in the leadership Of the rrencn stage The difference between such career in France and here is shown py .b fact that a few months ago the red rihbor of the Legion of Honor was be- slowed upon her at a luncheon attehoeu by President Deschanel and many per sons prominent in French political ana social ufe.a It is impossible to imagine sncb tribute in this country to any American actor save perhaps Booth or yaffersons and neither of them ever re- ceived anything approaching it.
 In the country where artists of the stage are honored as highly as thos5 ir any other field, not excepting litera ture. Rejane was among the greatest. She depended far more upon her art and less upon her personality for success than die Bernhardt, or than does any actor who has reached a wide popularity in this country. Perhaps that explains the fact that Rejane's visits here were by no means epoch-making.
 She was greatly admired by people who prize the art of acting aspve the at tractiveness of the actor; but there are never enough of such to fill thea s for anything like long run even waen there is no barrier of a foreign tongue v obscure the understanding. Her gress popular successes were Mime. Sans Gene and 'Zaza'- a very different Zsza from the senIimentalized one of Belaseo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19
Quick Coming Benefits.

Many shippers who become mem hers of the Birmingham traffic bu- reau get back more than their dues in short while, but one of the most re- cent recruits is to get ten times his yearly dues by reason of our free service," says Charles Jones, assistant manager of the bureau.
 Before we had collected on his dues of $50 for the year, we discovered in the first batch of expense bills sent to us for inspection an overcharge of $5t0 on two carloads of stuff recently received by him from the east.
 The cars had been reported in transit and the rerouting took them over by long and rounda bout way at rate of $1.40 while the rate ap- plicable to the originals and shorter route is 761a cents. He is entitled to the rate for the shorter haul and we have filed the claim. He will get his money.
 Ten for one sounds like oil stock, but is the simple matter of having an expert do for the merchant at small rrice what he could not do for him. self at many times the cost"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19
LESSONS IN ECONOMY

From Daily Financial America. Manufacturers of high priced fur nishings should take warning from our nese mating. These amount to Ill., S00,00 yards for eight months preced- | ing March 1, or 40 per cent more than for the same period a year earlier. Furniture and furnishings, the federal bureau of labor statistics finds, have
 increased in price in this city 172 per cent since December, 1914, while food has advanced about 9S per cent. The The average cost of living is up 103 per cent, the federal statisticians find. The same overworked consumer who is turning to overalls, old clothes and
 canvas shoes is evidently finding a remedy also for the high cost of fur Eishngs by purchasing straw mating. si2ting, we will see an increase this year of camping parties. Many such arc being organized owing to the high rentals asked for houses and apart ments, and the high cost of living at summer resorts.
 A large number of our young men discovered in 1918 that soap boxes, biscuit and jam cases are available for use as tables, chairs, bureaus and desks. They also learned that an inn rorted mahogany frame does not add to the comfort of a bed, and that cur tains of chintz or even paper, may shut out the early sunlight as well as silk at SIP a pound.
 Happiness often dwells in tent and misery is found in some $50.o00 apartments. It was in tent that an eminent patriarch entertained angels unawares.
 The lessons of forced economy learned in 1918 have not been forgot ten. The profiteers in labor and ma terials should realize that a reaction from the lax period of careless spend- ing i5 beginning to appear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19

poets and of the sculptor who so long was identified with the artistic life of Boston during the girlhood of Miss Whit ing,
 Now, however, the author of Boston Days and a number of works dealing with the literary and artistic life of that period in both Massachusetts and Italy, has seen fit to hand on the treasured bronze to place where it will remain permanently among other objects sacred to the memory of the Brownings, the most complete, we believe, in all the world. This new resting place is Baylor College, Tex, and the presentation June 13 was the occasion of gathering there of poets, including Amy Lowell, one of the most brilliant of American writers of both classic forms and of vers libre Harriet Monroe, poet and able editor ot Poetry magazine of modern verse published at Chicago; venerable Edwin Markham of the hoe; Vachel Lindsay, preacher of the doctrine of beauty and many others Another cast. of the three in existence, recently was sold for S5,OO0, which will prove, even to the Philistine, that there is value in poetry.
 Fortunately, however, the Baylor cast is now tout of the market" as one feels sure the Brownings themselves would pre- fer to have it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19
AN AMERICAN MANDATE

the rudiments of education the cacos arc heterogeneous mob of misguided wretches who have been cajoled or forced Gous rasca1s of their own color. If they have any definite policy it is to initiate their forefathers and drive the white men from the island'
 Yet. except for this guerilla warfare, there is almost as much danger of meeting with violence from the natives as there is of being boiled in oil at church 'sociable, and there is not deadly representative of the animal or vegetable kingdom in the island"
 In other ways it is a veritable para disc. Servants receive from $5 to $S month, with some 20 cents day for food. Families that could scarcely af- ford the luxury of single hired girl in the land of their birth keep five serv- ants in Haiti, cook, a butler, an up- stairs maid, a laundress and a yard boy for the Haitian is strictly limited in his versatility, and a cook could no more serve a dinner than a laundress could give the yard it's daily sweeping. They are commonly stupid beyond words, with the mentality of an intelligent child of six, but between them they swathe the existence of their masters in the comfort of an old-time plantation
 The commander of the Haitian navy and his mate (the navy consists now of one schooner yacht, once the property of a New York millionaire) are white enlisted men in the American navy and marine corps respectively, but when the cacos have come down out of the hills, and the black man has had little sys- tematic education in American adminis- tration during the remaining fifteen years of the protectorate, they may be black as the ace of spades, and only black men may reign again ''Under the Palm Tree of Haiti.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19

nounced that the Fairfield works of the Tennessee Company, a subsidiary of the Steel Corporation, would be built to make steel plates for ships, as a war measure.
 Like most of the financiers who have seen the great natural advan- tages of Birmingham, including such men as John w. Gates, MT. Perkins was greatly impressed. He delivered an address here that is still remem- bered as one of the most eloquent and informing ever heard in Bir- mingham. MT. Perkins had an at tractive personality and formed last ing ties with Birmingham business men who had the pleasure of meet ing him.
 MT. Perkins death is attributed di- rectly to the nervous strain he un- derwent during the war. Intensely patriotic, he sacrificed himself do- ing Y. M. c. A. work in France. A great admirer of Theodore Roosevelt, MT. Perkins helped to found the Bull Moose" party and gave it generous financial support.
 The career of MT. Perkins was similar to that of many other men who have become leaders in the fi- nancial world. He worked his way up from a humble beginning and lat one time partner of J. P. Nor gan & Co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19
S * < Wall Street No Longer Takes Summer Vacation

n T0 HIRTY OR THIRTY-FIVE years
 0 ago the big financial interests of New York adjourned on the Fourth of July for the summer. Wall Street was practically closed on the first of July.
 But it is no longer so. The use of the telegraph letter, the wireless and the long distance telephone has brought the change.
 The leading brokers hie away for the heated spell, but business goes on just the same. Some of the larg- est transactions are conducted through the New York office in midsummer.
 The busy financiers fail to get the rest which was considered so need ful in other days. But they have grown used to the feverish life and seem to enjoy it.
 The changed condition knows no Tagging in presidential campaigns. If the political cauldron boils in July Wall Street boils with it.
 In the years gone by the presi- dential campaign did not get under way until the middle of September, but it is a dull canvass now that does not witness lively scenes and listen to exciting stump speeches from the jump. And Wall Street is in full touch with the situation.
 In 1916 Judge Hughes was a busy campaigner throughout the hot weather and Wall Street was animated until after the election. After brief Fourth of July holiday demo- crats and republicans will be in the race with vengeance to the end and the banking interests will be keen lookers-on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19

1M0EW YORK. June 1s.-(speciaD.-An l UW unusually heartless and bloody S N coup d'etat having brought the strong arm of the United States down upon President Guillaume Sam of Haiti when he shot up his imprisoned foes in a style more like a rabbit hunt than an execution, the cleaning up of his coun- try is proving exciting work.
 The first necessity, after straightening out matters which concerned the safety and sanitation of Port-au-Prlnce, has provesS> to be thes building of roads. The new road builders, as Harry A. Franck says in the June Century, began by resurrecting an old law, copied from the French called the corvee. We still nave something of the sort in many of our rural dstricts-the requirement that every citizen shall work a certain num- Der of days in the year on the roads. But there is a wide difference between the public-spirited Americans and the wild black men into which the mass of Haitians had degenerated Neither they nor their ancestors for several genera ticns had needed roads, at least anything more elaborate than trails wide enough to chase their donkeys along Moreover, this forced labor, under newcoming for eigners with white skins, recalled the bitter traditions of the old slavery days. The result was that a certain per- centage of the forced laborers, joined by others for reasons of hunger, persuasion, ambition, ignorance, or pure cussedness, caught up any weapon at hand and took to the hills as cacos bandit-revolution- ists. The corvee has been discontinued, but the scattered revolt persists, and in the opinion of all but few tempera- mentally optimistic residents either Hail tian or American, is due to continue for some time to come.
 "* With the exception of few ephemeral leaders with more or less of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19
THE SPRING POETS

Oliver Herford, in Leslie's.
 There is lone spring crop that shows no sign of failing. and that is tha crop of spring poets-the spurious va viety I rean-Imagists, Post-Impres- sionists they style themselves-any- thing you please so long as it ends in an "ist'' or an "ism." which Gin art and literature at leas) is the accepted sign manual of the advertising noun tebank.
 Their medium is free verse (so called because, like free lunch, it is an in- centive to strong drink) and a right hardy crcp they are! No frost of dis daln can blight no floods of abuse can wither their exuberant vitality, no mcusetooth of satire gnaw through the tough fiber of their art-ego.
 The true spring poetry. delicate as hard to find is threatened with ex- tinction by the rank growth of this spurious variety. coarse tto pursue the vegetable smile) as the skunk cabbage irritating as poison ivy.
 If you think I speak too feelingly, take look at this versicule removed from the insides of a book just pub lished. called "Others for 1919-an Anthology of the New Verse;"
 "Old. ugly and stern
 The night lies upon the water,
 And it quivers in the twilight
 Like tortured belly"
 This. if alcohol were not so expen- sive. would be specimen worthy of preservation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19
Status of Banks Is
 Index of Business

TN spite of the heavy withdrawals S of deposits by country banks at { the call of farmers to pay the high wages of hired help and for other producing purposes, four Bir- mingham banks show an increase in deposits over the same time last year of six million seven hundred thou sand dollars, or IA per cent.
 The showing is all the more re- markable when consideration is given the withdrawals.
 Bank clearings for this year have shown an increase of 66 per cent While the Birmingham bank clearing figures do not directly reflect the current volume of business, their in- crease in one period over another does do that.
 Birmingham is entering the second half of the year with a full head of steam and flag flying. One of the basic causes of this condition is that this district is a producer of the necessities of life and, no matter : what the state of the trade in lux uries, the nation must have Birming- ham products or stop all it's wheels. . The sound status of Birmingham banks is but one of many evidences of district soundness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

What has become of the o. f. man who used to say that they could make it faster than you can drink it?
 Why is it that man won't buy a silk shirt unless he can find a pattern that looks like cross between a Cherokee massacre and a drunken rainbow?
 A wife doesn't worry much about her husbands thirst when she it out of town on trip. But she will worry herself sick for fear he will forget to water the fern.
 The difference between a sawdusr evangelist and a circus is that the evangelist doesn't give parade
 Judging by the way they are yelp- ing because our troops were permitted to use tobacco during the war, a lot of the Holy Joes would have been glad to see the Kaiser whip an army that smoked cigarettes and chewed plug.
 year from now many a June bride will be wondering who sprinkled the coke on her orange blossoms when she married what she got.
 Anyway, with prohibition on deck. mother misses the fun of seeing father come home at night and stuff his socks in his hat and push it under the bed and then hang up his shoes on a nail.
 We'd hate to be a photographer. When woman with a face like a Siwash Klootchman comes in for a sitting, she won't accept the pictures unless they make her look handsome. / The man who Is always wanting to bet you million dollars against nothing always backs down to a nickel against penny when you make him put up the coin.
 The trouble with wife is that she believes you when you lie to her and knows you are lyirg when you tell her the truth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19
Believed in the Future
 of Birmingham District

TN the death of George w. Per O kins, noted financier and philan- : thropist, Birmingham has lost good : friend.
 As member of the board of di-
 rectors and of the finance committee
 of the United States Steel Corpora . tion, MT. Perkins took keen interest in the development of this district. He visited Birmingham a number of
 times. He was last here in 1917 with Judge Gary, when it was an-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19
ADRIF7T WITH THE TIMES
A LITTLE BREEZE.

A LITTLE BREEZE. Thrice welcome is the little breeze That cools my steaming brow; Its soft caresses greatly please And with new strength endow. It waits no scent of meadows sweet, The violet and the rose; Though born amid the city's heat, Courageously it blows.
 SHE'S SAFE ENOUGH Why the smile?"
 I've just been listening to a suffrage speaker
 "weH?"
 "A lean spinster of thirty-nine summers said woman must cease being a toy and Ia plaything for the tyrant man"
 A HOME DEMONSTRATION. "Pa, what's meant by poker face 2" My son, your mother doesn't know anything about the game of poker" "Yes, pa?"
 But when I deliver a little lecture on extravaganza she exhibits as fine poker face as I ever saw
 SOMETHING ELSE AGAIN. "one should never jump to conclu- sions"
 You are quite right" said MT Grump- son. For instance, whenever I pass my neighbor, Torfling, he either looks down at the ground or up at the sky Yet. I'd be fool to suppose that he's interested either in geology or astronomy"
 OF COURSE SHE'LL SHOW TT. T see where ybeautiful dancer wants s5oOO0 because she skinned her knee" Tn a case like that jury duty might be a positive pleasure
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19
THE GOOD PARsON

John Dryden G631-1701). He preached the joys of heaven, and
 pains of hell. And warned the sinner with becoming
 zeal. But, on eternal mercy loved to dwell He taught the gospel rather than the
 Jaw. And forced himself to drive. but loved
 to draw. For fear but freezes minds. but love
 like heat, Exhales the soul sublime. to seek her
 native seat. To threats the stubborn oft is hard, Wrapped in his crime. against the
 storm prepared. But when the milder beams of mercy
 play He melts. and throws him cnmbrous
 cloak away, E-i@i 7saS erd thunder, heavens ar-
 ksiterx .As harbsn ssss before the Almighty 1hoss hssf fFpelasrn his style. and 1Sss-
 app rae ss'isr sounes sueesea. ana oes ls
 itsurs-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-19
AS GOOD AS SETTLED.

Have the Jibways decided on a name for their little son?'
 Not yet. I fear there's a family dead- lock-"
 How so?'
 Mrs. Jibway wants to name the boy after her favorite poet. but MT. Jibway would like to wait until November and name him after the next President" T sec" .'As a result. I'm predicting that an- other unfortunate youngster will go through life bearing the name of bard whose poetry he can't appreciate.
 PAUL COOK.