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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-18
SOUTHEASTERN MOTOR OF ATLANTA TO HAVE
 THE RAINIER AGENCY

The Southeastern Motor Sales Corpora tion has been organized at Atlanta to handle Rainier worm-drive trucks in the states of Florida. Alabama and Tennes- see.
 saw service in the United States navy during the war and who have broad knowledge of motor trucks. These men are Edgar w. Upton, Jr., president, ana John K Montgomery, vice president and treasurer
 Mir. Upton entered the naval service in April, 1917, when America entered the war, and was commissioned in January, 1918. ensign U. s. N R. F. He was com missioned ensign U. S. N. January, 1918, and lieutenant J. G. in July 1919 During the last two years of his duty he was attached to the naval air station at Hampton Roads. Va, on special work in connection with aviation and had charge of two of the fastest flying boats of their size in the navy.
 Mr. Montgomery went into active serv- ice in January, 19fS joining up with the United States naval aviation corps. He saw service at most of the air stations on the Atlantic coast and at the time Of his going into active duty was' holding the rank of lieutenant J. G.
 The offices of the company are at of East Third street, Atlanta Efforts are being made to establish larger Rainier sales agencies in the principal cities or Florida, Alabama and Tennessee
 Rainier trucks are made by the RsS1ier Motor Corporation, New York city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-18
FARMERS OPERATE
 THE MOTOR TRUCKS
As a Class They're More Awake to Possibilities
 Than Any Other

Because American farmers operate more motor trucks than any other class of industry E. A. Williams, Jr., presi- dent of the Garford Motor Truck Com pany of Lima, O.. believes they are en- titled to the benefits of a more vigor- ous federal campaign for a definite system of national highways.
 Our farmers in this country are the most progressive and far-sighted in the world" said MT. Williams. who has been conspicuous through his valiant appeals for good roads as & means of helping the ruralist solve his trans portation problems. They seize more new, progressive ideas and practice more up-to-date methods in conduct ing their business than the average business man.
 Mr. Williams says ruralists have been more alert than any other class of men to the possibilities in motor haulers. Contrary to the common conception that their motor equipment is confined exclusively to tractors and motor driven cultivators and blows, is the fact that farmers own and operate 0,000 trucks.
 In substantiatioh of his argument for better federal highway support to the farmers MT. Williams cited an esti- mate recently compiled by the depart ment of agriculture, which shows that in the twelve southern states of Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-18
TIRE CHANGES 4 THING OF PAST?
B. Oldfield Seems to Have Put Race Game in That
 Fix, Anyway

of the old-fashioned speedway race in which all contestants used to make fre- quent pit stops for frantic tire changes? !?
 Patrons and critics of the sport are asking the question with increasing en- phasis.
 the proponent of which is none other than B. Oldheld, former master driver, now head of tire company here that bears his name. 1nterrogated, Mir. Old field frankly shoulders responsibility for the present situation. A review of the facts goes far toward bearing him out.
 During the practice for the Indiana polls race, Barney was, for several
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-18

bama. Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina Oklahoma, South Carolina. Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, where a large part of the farming industry of the country is carried on. there were on January l. 1920, 12150 trucks actually in use on farms.
 You only have to sell the farmer once on time and labor-saving de- vice" MT. Williams said. "The average farmer who once uses or sees in use q motor truck on the farm adopts it as a staple piece of equipment He recog- nizes that the truck is an economic in . vestment. The farmer believes that what is good for him is good for his neighbor and the conservative agricul- turist soon will be converted by the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-18
Booze for Bullets
rom The Home Sector.

From The Home sector.
 Both banks of the Rio Grande have be- come popular international trade marks where thirsty Americans, long on cart ridges but short on firewater, hold mid night business conferences with blood thirsty Mexicans, long on strong drink but short on ammunition. Reports have 1t that there is bull market in booze.
 Edwin G. Burrows, in writing of this new phase of the perplexing Mexican question, says: "One of the most flour ishing jobs in the Mexican forces since the United States went dry has been the service of supplies along the border. We want liquor, and they want ammunition. Sometimes they have paid as much as sixty cents Mex-about thirty cents in real money--for single cartridge, and he usual rate is about fifteen cents. Prices on liquor are correspondingly high on this side. It is not all pulque, either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-18

Paper pulp was imported into Japan last year to the extent of 2S742 tons. of which H,240 tons came from Canada and 9,o0c tons from the United States Queen Victoria studied IIiadustani and learned to speak it fluently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-18

weeks, d welcome visitor at the track He explained his presence by the state ment that he was using the cars of sew eral of his old friends to check up on the production tires from his factory. Then came race day and, to the amaze ment of everybody, Gaston Chevrolet, on a set of Barney's tires. went the whole 500 miles to victory without a change something never before accomplished.
 Thomas, with similar equipment. bobbed up in second place. with three others, all notably free from the usual tire trouble, among the money winners.
 Then the race colony moved on to Uniontown, where Tommy Milton sailed in a winner on Barney's pneumatics. But the big eye-opener came at Tacoma. July
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-18

present truck user on the farm"
 MT. Williams expressed the opinion he has given on numerous previous oc-
 casions that one of the most vital needs of the country is a definite system of national highways that will furnish
 the farmer an opportunity to avail him 2. self of the fullest use of a motor trans port scheme and at the same time throw the roads open to comm ercial trucking needs, thereby relieving the inadequate railroad system of the bur den of short haul freight shipm ents
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-18

5, when. on the tires produced by ths "old master" Milton. Mulford. Hearnea and Klein finished first. second. third and fourth. and all combined changed. only one tire in an aggregate 900 miles of running at from ninety 10 100 miles an hour.
 Everybody now admits that MT. Old field had something up his sleeve beside his arm
 Maybe the sight of a car pulled up at the side of the road for tire repair is going to be as rare as the sight of a race driver changing tire at his pits 7"
 And maybe it is! In view of his past performance, who cares to argIe wi MT. Oldhed. anyway?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-18

but real imported wines and liqueurs. So a brisk trade has been going on through the gaps in our border patrol.
 "The border is long, and Yankee caval- rymen car not guard all of it. The avi- atLrs can cover lot of ground, or air, but they cannot work in night shifts. The Rio Grande is not so grand at IT, / times of the year that a pack-train. fed by a man who knows the country, cannot cross without steering clear of the army posts. And the eagerness of the Mexican for cartridges is surpassed only by the intensity of the great American thirst.
 Most of the cartridges and practically all of the liquor make the trip in dis guise Can you imagine good old Ken lucky Bourbon camouflaged as lumber: Much of that which came across the bor der was not only aged in the wood, but transported the same way. Other fash ionable apparel for liquor nowadays con even imitation strings of sausage. One gun trader liked his hooch so well that he hugged it to his bosom in a hot water bottle. All of these tricks the govern ment officials know, because they have captured consgnments of booze tric<ed out in these ways But they do not claim to have captured all of it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-18
Flunked In Sterling

After the armistice many Tanks forsook the trenches for the classroom and crossed the channel to attend English uni- versailles Many of them took flyer in European finance and lost The course was not on the curriculum. They bou1a$ sterling. Their American acumen sold them that sterling would rise. Sterling did not perform according to schedule. These soldier students learned lot about England
 In The Home Sector the ex-sodiere weekly, Ralph Armstrong in writing of how the pound hit the financial skds, says ''Yanks in England. chiefly as stu- dents in the universities aftef the arm- istice, believed stevln~ would rise and many retained their English money. Per haps they could not be blamed so much, for great many astute business men are reported to have misjudged the Eng fish money market, Bankers in New York know of one. local merchant, an exporter. who had 100000 pounds in London bank. He was advised six months ago to sell for the rate he could then get A.S6, but preferred to delay until the pound had gone up to s4.44. The rate soon dropped to $40. He then decided to hold the money for a.3o- When the low mark for sterling, S319, was reached on Feb ruary 4 he still had his credit More than hundred million dollars of such money has been left in England alone by American business men. bankers esti- mate.
 According to the best authorities, the causes forsth depreciation of exchange are the prostration of industry due to the war, the unfavorable balance of trade, the overabundance of paper money and the worldwide speculation in foreign ex- change. Sir George Pa:sh, a British au- thority is quoted as saying that Eu- ropes productive power cannot be re- established until the labor of it's dead and severely wounded is replaced, until indus try is readjusted, and until ruined towns. factories, mines and farms can be re- coistructed. During this period, he says, Europe will continue to need more food. raw materials and manufactured goods than she can pay for by means of her own production"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-18

In and about the city of Augsburg, which is the center of the cotton spinning and weaving industries of Southern Ba- varia, under normal conditions there are
 in operation 5oo,oo0 spndles and 2Ic00
 lcems. which give employment to about
 15.QQQ men and women A.. ..L E
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
A Boys Story
Excitement in Tale of West
Indian Cockpit.

The Cockpit, OF Santiago Key" by
David S. Greenberg and published by
Boni Liveright, New York, is the first
OF the publishers Open Road Series,
which consists of books as exciting and
gripping as the finest juvenile stories
obtainable.
"The Cockpit" treats of sixteen-year-
old Felipe Hidalgo, who lives on an
island off Porto Rico with his uncle Don
Alexandra, the lighthouse keeper; his
aunt. Dona Amelia, and his aged and
withered grandfather Don Cristobal. A
wealthy rumseller, Don Enrique, con-
nlves with Felipe's uncle to establish q
cockpit on the island, despite the Amer
lean laws forbidding this, and under
oath of secrecy Felipe is promised many
pleasures and riches. Simply and vivid
ly, the author describe. he exciting
cocktights, telling how t.o birds, with
steel blades tied to their legs, are poked
at each other and then withdrawn so as
to arouse their anger and start the fight.
How the grandfather's curse on the
cockpit is fulfilled and how Felipe's
thirst for education is granted by his
sailing to the United States with
Dolores, his little lady friend, is told in
an interesting and vigorous manner.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22

of heart disease. She left one
daughter. On this daughter all the
fathers affections and ambitions
were centered. And since they lived
together in an old, lonely mansion in
Normandy, an exceptional and
almost jealous tenderness had de-
veloped between them. For a long
time Jeannine was only a child like
other children, sweet, loving and
joyous. AS she grew older her health
began to give them some concern.
She seemed to be growing worse In
stead of better. Sometimes she was
languid and sometimes feverish,
Sudden attacks caused her great
suffering, and M. de Triange remem-
bered having seen her mother 80
often prostrated by the same sort of
attacks.
Jeannine was now twenty years
old. Blonde and pale, she appeared
to live an unreal life, like that Of tho
virgins in the old stained glass win
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22

dows- Like these she had a far-off
beauty, which both attracted atten-
tion and compelled respect. Yes, she
was beautiful. But, apart from her
father, no one knew her; for nobody
came to trouble her sheltered life. If
ANYBODY had come, would he have
been attracted by this young woman,
always ailing and already detached,
as it seemed, from the affairs of this
world?
Under such circumstances the old
physician who treated her was re-
placed by a much younger one, whose
smile and self-possessed manner
pleased M. de Tfange from the very
first. Didn't he, with his cheering
words, allay the patients anxiety
and calm the fathers equally dis
turbing fears? DR.. Renoir became a
friend Of the family. In the course
of his visits about the country he
stopped three or four days at the
chateau, examined Mile. de Triange
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22

velopment, except for the emphasis on
the jazz motif. The nativst obsession
Is manifest in verses on Kalamazoo
and other localities "typically Amer
lcan." The moral element is as plati-
tudlnous as ever, but except for a
lew obviously manufactured war
poems, he does not descend to the
commonplaces Of diction that were wont
to mar his work. He still sings of
Bryan and Altgelt, and there are more
verses to Mae Marsh. The rhymed
scenario for this gifted screen star
marks an advance over the nickelo-
deon lyricism of his hymn to Mary
Pickford, but he relies too much on
the magic word "Bagdad" "Bagdad'
should not be poetic open sesame for
nativist, anyhow.
The longer poems in the collection
are the usual Lindsay compounds of
glorious patches of color and music
smeared next to solemn banalities
With all his fervor, Lindsay is not
at his best either as moralist or as a
political critic. But In his spirituals
which are worthy Of their originals
and his jazz he stands with the best
American poets.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
YELL. doctor. what do
The doctor stroked
his blond beard an.

answered In his most reassuring
manner:
"Mademoisello is suffering only
from q temporary irregularlty OF
heart action. There Is no cardiac
lesion. On the contrary, she needs
merely to follow a certain regimen.
l will leave you instructions. If you
allow me l will make a neighborly
visit from time to time and see how
she 10 getting along"
'eYou will be a thousand times
welcome, doctor"
Scarcely had the physician disap-
peared when M. de Trlange took his
daughter in his arms and cried:
"You see how wrong you were to
be worried"
Jeannine smiled family. A ray
Of hope shone in her big blue eyes,
strangely fixed. Pressing her hands
to her breast, as If to control the
palpitations Of her heart, she muir
INJURED:
81 am happy"
Nine. de Triangs had died young
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
The Drama of Italv
Mr.. MacClintock Gives An
Outline of Plays

Unlike most dramatic essays by
doctors of philosophy. DR.. MacClin-
tock's book on the Italian stage and
Its literature, entitled "The Contem-
porary Drama Of Italy" published by
Little, Brown & Co., Boston, is a sane
and readable conspectus of theater lit
tie known to Americans. Particularly
good are his outlines of the plots of hte
leading Italian plays; and his persuasive
accounts of the work of such men as
Verga, Bracco and BUTT may lead to
the publication in English of many in
teresting plays now available only to
the student of languages. There is a
timely sketch of the career of
d'Annunzio. in which the author wisely
omits political considerations and
treats the "Divo Gabrielle" as a dra-
matte artist
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
TOVER design of Oliver Herfords 7epo book published ba
DOrOn

times proved a handicap to Mr.. Cobb.
And we are stanchly of the opinion that
the necessity Of writing stories long
enough to break back among the adver-
tisements has definitely injured his man.
ner Of telling q tale.
But after all this has been said, It
still seems to US that he belongs in the
first rank of American short story writ
ers. 1t Is the greatest of pities that
much Of his time is wasted on hack hu-
morous series When an editor says to
Mr.. Cobb, or anybody else, "Go out to
the Rocky Mountains and stay couple
of weeks, and then come back and write
us series of funny articles" the result
is sure to be more or less disastrous.
Mr.. Cobb does a series of this sort a
little bit better than the next man be-
cause he has a great deal of energy
and he can hammer one out no matter
how much it hurts. 1t is, however,
synthetic humor. None Of this mate
rial of Cobb's is in class with the best
of his short stories, and his latest vol
ume From Place to Place" (Doran)
contains some Of his finest work. Boys
Will Be Boys" is, in our opinion, one of
the best of American short stories.
Curiously enough, all the violence
and strain and not infrequent coarse
ness which mark the work of Cobb
when he grits his teeth and sets out to
write a premeditated book of humor
become refined and kindly and keen
when he turns to fiction. This is his
true field. He has a mastery inven-
tiveness for plot and character. If he
Is ever able to attain the pace and pre-
c's or which mark the best of o.
Henry he will be considerable rival
of that erratic story teller, for, like
0. Henry, the work of Cobb varies
enormously in it's quality.
When Cobb has a story to tell, a
good one, such as "Boys Will Be Boys"
he becomes interested enough in his
tale to forget the obligation to be
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22

ment and then said, with a trembling
voice:
"Mademoiselie Jeannine, l could
swear to you that it is nothing Sc
rious. But perhaps, even then, you
wouldn't believe me. l want to give
you another proof of my certitude.
Mademoiselle Jeannine, l have loved
you since the day l first saw you.
But didn't dare to tell you. Will
you be my wife,"
The sick girls face was illumi-
mated. She Strengthened up, clasped
the young mans hand and said:
"How good you are! And how I
love you'll"
M. de Triange entered the room.
DR.. Renoir repeated his request. He
showed so frank and ardent a
feeling that he convinced Jeannine's
father. It was agreed that the mar
riage should take place within a few
months, after the young girl had re-
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22

covered her health. That evening
an infinite hope filled the lonely old
chateau.
In the months which followed the
doctor continued his visits, more as
a fiance than as physician. He
was always smiling, made projects
for the future and never quilted his
patient without whispering in her
ear:
II love you. You will see how
happy we shall be-"
Alas! Jeannine died suddenly.
She died as her mother had died, cut
down in the flower Of her youth, but
so soothed by the young physicians $
tenderness that she hoped for re-
covery up to the last minute.
When M. de Triange found him.
self alone with DR.. Renoir he re-
pronched the latter bitterly.
Fool that you were! You talked
Of love and you didn't see death
approaching!"
The other answered simply:
Il did see it. I was powerless to
cure her. I wished to keep her in
ignorance till the end. I didn't love
her in the ordinary sense. knew
that she would never be my wife.
But she believed me and I thus gave
her the illusion Of happiness"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22

with his eternal smile, retailed the
gossip of the neighborhood, told an
ecdotes and made jokes. In contact
with his gayety and confidence, Jean
nine recovered her zest in life. Her
father, seeing her overcome her occa-
sional bad spells more easily, took
new hope.
One day DR.. Renoir found the
young girl paler than usual, her eyes
fixed, her breast heaving. She was
alone. M. de Triange had driven to
the village. She was very despond-
ent. Following his usual method, the
physician tried to reassure her. But
she answered:
"For a long time I believed you.
Now have no hope. l am dying of
the same disease of which my mother
died. Why do you want to conceal
the truth from me?"
He was sitting beside her. He
took her hand. He thought a mo-
New-York tribune., 1920-02-22
Irwin Cobb's From Place to Place"
Latest Book of Short Stories Proves That Even
Hunorist Can Reform.

funny which his editors and his public
have put upon him. Sly turns Of ex-
preston or Of observed incident creep
in, to be sure, but only because they
cannot be kept out. Humor Of that
sort is always best. Nothing resents
conscription more keenly than wit or
fun. Mere than that, Cobb is SO mach
the artist in his story telling that he
is not disposed to take every humorous
turn merely because it has volunteered
for service. The examination is rigor-
GUS. Mere enthusiasm is not enough.
And II an author can once get the up
per hand of his humor and be little
ofish in dealing with it there are no
heights to which he may not climb.
Anybody who has ever sat down
under orders to be funny by a certain
date and with definite amount of copy
knows that slackerism In humorous
ideas is immediate and far reaching.
He can complete his stint only by en-
forcing compulsion upon all monde
crepit ideas between the ages of twenty
and thirty and perhaps up. But if
humor is not the avowed purpose of
the piece, the author. as like as not.
Will find gay ideas fairly pleading to
be let into the story. And best of
all is his situation If tho story is not
really entirely gay In It's Implications.
II there is just touch Of something
else humorous ideas fairly 3ostle one
another for admittance- Lew Fields,
you may remember. always wanted to
have somebody write q tragedy fox him.
Perhaps that is why most of the
stories in From Place to Place" aye
so engaging and so deft and 50 delicate
in their fun, for after all it 10 a book
in which Mr.. Cobb has taken the atti-
tude that certain things in life are
downright amusing if you look at only
one side. But then he proves that II
you turn then, over the effect may be
quite different The confirmed and
persistent humorist lives in a fat land
of one dimension. Mr.. Cobb Is too
shrewd to take up a permanent resi-
dence in such country. From Place
to Place" marks one Of his excursions
into the hills.