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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
ARABS HAVE NO ART

Charles Divine, in the Century Magazine. IA n Y first disillusion in Algiers l\WlI came in the collapse of Arao AVA art Other travellers must have come to Algeria believing in 1t, since IT, numerable are the books that mislead one into this fallacy The truth is there IS no Arab art. The Arabs never built. They destroyed.
 Their religion is the only trace they have left in northern Africa except their thousands of offspring intermarried Fl the racial melange of Berbers and negroes that makes up the present native popuia- tion. The art that flourishes in Algeria is in the art of the Moors, race that came out of the original Berbers. The same Moors reared the Alhambra, the Splendid" at Granada, Spain.
 Even the cafe where the Arab spends all his days drinking tea is not an Arao cafe. It is Moorish, and it's name Is cafe maure.
 -Arab achievements are nonexistent ex' cept, yes, there is Arab poetry, just as there is Moorish poetry, for one of the few things a lazy race can do, apparently. is to make songs-love songs. The Arabs say that Allah gave them seven-eighths of the love in the world, and divided the renoaininr eighth among the other peo- ples.
 rha heautifuI villas that remain in AL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
POP BOTTLE ARGUMENT

dressed up in the new garb of the psycho- analysis. Briefly. it is that. having re- pressed lot of individual ructioning un- der the ompulsion of a unified war spirit. the worl1 is breaking loose with an ex- cess of primitive instinctjve wrath a. anybody handy. The pop bottle thrower is not really angry at the umpire-he is angry at the world that has upset all his habits and made him save and lend and pull with the crowd these several years. The people that write to the edi- tor offering "piffle" and Dunk as con elusive arguments are not arguing tine topic under discussion so much as reliev ing pent-up eloquence, damned by tne necessities of war. Or, in older phrase ology, the world, in a great cause. tried to be better than it could be and has now gone on the loose" by way of reaction.
 From this point fo view neither umpire nor editor need take the pop bottle too seriously. After all, little damage Is done and nature is immensely relieved After enough glass has been smashed there will be geheral awakening to the stiffness of the pop bottle system of per suasion, and the world will once more % average good again-ceasing. until the next world crisis, to bc either hero or bad boy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
ASIA THREATENING EUROPE

Sidney Coryn in the Argonaut
 The historian Buckle says somewhere that European civilization was born in Belgium and that it is likely to die in the Balkans, a summary not without it's significance when we remember that the war began in Belgium and that it's fires are still burning fiercely along the wsole length of the old east ern front.
 Tacitus, too, said something of the same sort a thousand years earlier. He pointed out that the Balkan area had always been the scene of fierce fight ing for it's narrow gangway between Asia and Europe. The hostile hordes sought the valley of the Danube be- cause the great river gave them water and transportation. If Tacitus could have foreseen the present evoltion of Europe and the aspirations of Asia he would have looked forebodingly toward the future of that same gangway. unit ing the two continents, he would have predicted continuation of the bloody struggle that even then was age old. It is before our eyes today. Behind all the wretched little quarreis for area. for mandate and for dominions, the CO., lossal forces of two continents are pre- pairing for struggle greater than any that we have yet seen.
 The gunfire dies away at Verdun and the Somme and the Argonne. and Europe wakes up to the fact that. after all. she has been fighting for the Bal kan peninsula and for Asia Minor. She has not yet aroused herself to another fact. that she is no longer with an Asia that is supine and abject. but rather with an Asia that is alert and indiE- nant But that realization will come in due time. Meanwhile her greedy little statesmen run to and fro with their measuring rods and chains. like land surveyors on a new homestead. blind alike to the real issues and to the handwriting on the wall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
OUR 10000 MILLIONAIRES

are not prepared to establish . com rnunistic system of government and so- ciety, federal, state and municipal gov- ernments are helping themselves to peo- rle's money bags.
 Those of us who are not in the million aire class may deplore the extraordinary prosperity of SO few people. And there is fierce in the opinion chat the eoncen- tration of wealth in a few hands is harmful. Yet our wealth is not concern trated in a few hands. No small group of men ever have had and are not likely to gain control of the nations wealth so that the rest of us cannot share in it. Distribution is not even. 1t is not alto gether just here. but it ts moro sven and more just than elsewhere. and the re- deeming feature of it is that eaeh and every citizen who is in normal health ana out of jail is free to earn his share of the treasure. He will not earn 1t, how ever, free he may be: but 1t will be q dark day for this people whom the free dom to acquire wealth is surrendered by the people. We must pay for cur dearest blessings Freedom Is not the least of the American's heritageA and he should retain it, even at the cost of . few thousand miIiionairos
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
From the Montgomery Advertiser.

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 1T 1T NOFFTCIAL income tax returns Il computed by the Washington cor
 W respondent of the Sun and New York Herald indicates that the heads of COCO American families are rated as mill lionaires They each contested to an in come of s5o,0O0 year. This, says the cor respondent, is the lowest probable return on s1,0oo,0oU Under the definition, the group would include many high-salaried executives, some of whom no doubt "couid not show a capital wealth of $1.ooo, eco.
 War profits, however, are known to have increased considerably the million aire group. In 1917 it numbered only slightly more than 16,ooo.
 Returns showing incomes of $o0,ooo to s75o,Oo0 year were filed by 15,9l7 heads of families, while 90 confessed to annual incomes ranging from s750,0oo to N,ooo,ooo. Persons with incomes of more than $l,- COG 900 in the 1919 return are estimated to have increased to at least 162 from ll
 Men may shake their heads at these ng- ur es and stigmatize them as signifying fearful economic condition about which something more should be done.
 But what government is doing to men If wealth would seem to be plenty if we
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
Texas Reminder of
 Hermit Penance Days

"WoU can pardon me now-I have
 O paid the price," was the mes sage sent to Governor Hobby of Texas by seventy-year-old man in the Texas penitentiary, who had de- clined seven pardons granted prior to that which he has accepted.
 Even in this belated acceptance of pardon, he asked that it be dated forward to his birthday, August 22. Uncle Billy" Edwards, as he is known, killed another man ten years ago. He asked for a speedy trial, conviction and sentence that he might expiate his crime. Again and again his good behavior and mitigating cir cumstances prompted Texas govern ors to offer a pardon, but each time he refused. Not until I have paid for my sin," was his invariable reply.
 There is not so much of the re- markable> about this as appears on the surface. It is the natural im- pulse of men and women to atone for ths wrong that they do.
 q deserved it al," is refrain often coming from the lips of those whose evil has found them out. In simpler days men expiated crimes by fasting and retiring into the solitude of the desert.
 Human nature is the same now as in the days of hermit saints who had been sinners.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
Tension Between England
 and France Is Abating

A LTHOUGH it was not believed 6A that the disagreement between France and England. regarding rec ognition of General Wrangel, would become serious, President Wilson's timely message had a most salutary effect. Late dispatches from Paris indicate that tension between the two governments has so far abated that a conference between Lloyd George and Mllerand at Boulogne is not deemed necessary.
 In spite of its brevity, President Wilson's message admirably ex- pressed the attitude of America to- ward bolshevism and at the same time vas so just in its reference to various nations involved in the Eu-
 ronean muddle that no fair-minded people could take exception to it. .Anerica will have nothing to do with the travesty on representative gov srnnent set up by Lenine and Trotz- ky, but America has a profound sym liAthy for the unfortunate Russian
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16

Mark Stuyvesant, in the Cleveland Piain Dealer.
 INN7 HILE most of Us think Of Ben | WNW jamin Franklin as great pni- V V losopher, brilliant inventor | and wise statesman, he was not with- cut his appreciation of humor. but ms cental habit was reflected in his WiI and so we find sometimes bit of wisdo"
 in the heart of even his brightest say | ings | When everyone was startled by frann- bn's invasion of the clouds with ms n''s' which proved that lightning ana eiee
 tricitv are, one and the same. soHeoHs
 asked Frsnklin this pertinent question: 1 .vvb.t is the use of this discovery?' l What is the use of newborn cniiu' Franklin asked.
 l During enc of his early days in France
 Erarkl;n was somewhat disturbed py the
 ,,,,nence of his presentation to the
 French King and court. ana ms iaoA =
 wig which was then the 1ash'oh 1 certain count sent his own wismaAe' u,L,in an hour before the pressss- l ,.t;o, with wig already made. FranA-
 ;,n tried the wig but it ~ouldn't ~ %
 iNs head.
 1 sir" said Franklin, your VIE IS UT fortunately too small for my head. l. .pardon me- the wignaker repJ.ed
 .vo,,r head, sir, is vastly too large anu quite beycnd the fashion of the court. 1, Franklin therefore appeared at court twith his bald pate and shaggy gray hale'
 This perhaps was one of the visuai req sons why everyone. from the King to the least courier, noticed him, and so Frank lin's kindly soul and brilliant mind had l the opportunity to win them all to his favor and the support of the new re- public.
 l Franklin found himself not far from where Gihbon. the great historian. was living. Admiring his The Decline and
 Fall of the Roman Empire, Franklin
 sent card to MT. Gibbon and requested
 the pleasure of meeting him. Gibbon re- piled that while he admired Franklin character he could not under any circum' stance meet a man who had revolteo against the King. In reply, Franklin
 wrote a letter to MT. Gibhon.,
 In his letter Franklin said that he still had the greatest respect for the lcharacter of MT. sGibbon as a gentleman land as historian He closed by de- claring that. when in the course of his writing of the decline and fall of empires the decline and fall of the British empire should come to be Gibbons subject-as lIranklin expected it soon would be-Dr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16

geria are Moorish villas. What does the Arab want of an artistic mansion? Give him your fine house as . gift and what would he do with it? He would first re- more all the doors and burn them. next drive a hook in the facade to hitch bls mule to. and then he would abanE on the chimney place inside the house and build his fire in the middle of the room, de- filing all the walls with smoke. Your beautiful house would be a wretched hovel in no time
 The French say that the Algerians are not like the French. They are different in manners, customs, habits and morals. Even the Arabs remark it and call the people who come from France "roumi Rs- risian,' which means "Parisian Rom ans" The Arab cannot pronounce the
 'p." He makes a '@b' of it. Te him every Christian is ''roumi," or Roman Catholic. He makes nothing of Protes- tants or Lutherans or EpiscopaIians or Christian Scientists. Only two worlds exist, his own religion and that of Rome Hence every foreigner is a ''roumi"
 The French do not like their colony for two simple reasons-there are no trees in Algeria and there is no water. What ,an a Frenchman love in a bare hill or drv nIoin9
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
Harmony of the Country's Fuel and Power Sources

0T1 HE 9,600-ton steamship Mobile U City, product of the Chickasaw
 Shipbuilding and Car Company, was built to use fuel oil. Her boilers are now being fixed for the use of
 coal instead The change is under stood to be due to the scarcity of oil. The earth is clamoring for coal.
 Europe is securing all she can from America. Alabama cannot get out
 enough for all her own wants and
 those of her regular customers. The production is nearly one hundred thousand tons more than it was at this time in 1919, but steel and iron manufacture has so speeded up that more than this increase is required
 to keep it going.
 Hydroelectricity came to Alabama
 in 1912, and already supplies the place of million tons of coal yearly. More
 than thirty coal mines use water power current to operate mine ma chinery. The available supply of hydroelectricity has been pre-empted with many consumers on the waiting list.
 The coke oven gas is used in place of coal for boiler fuel to generate electricity for operation of mines, quarries and blast furnaces. Exhaust steam from blast furnaces is applied to electric machinery for the same
 purpose.
 Why does not fuel oil displace coal, coal displaces water power, water
 power displaces coke oven gas and
 coke oven gas displaces oil, coal and hydroelectricity? Because there is use for all more use for all than
 any or all can accommodate. Pro-
 ductivity demands more and more and
 more. Apparent conflict between the
 sources of light, heat and power is not conflict, but a wonderful nar-
 mony. They constantly replace one
 another without creating vacuum. Nature permits no real voids. Man should observe nature more. It will l tell him lot about himself and his fellow man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16

and the spreading of the gospel to Bringing In the Sheaves." It is on the sheaves that men live and it is out of the usufruct of the sheaves that they acquire homes, music, painting and all the artificial de- lights of life.
 It is generous Mother Earth" who feeds and sustains. The music of her voice will always be sweetest to her children, because it will always be the voice of mother.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
THE NORTH

THE NORTH James A. Mackereth in the Poetry Re- view (London). Why should I come to London Town And leave my woods. my moorlands
 brown, These border hills of old renown That lure the curiew's cries. To share the loveless prison yoke With dizzy-hearted bounded folk Whose separate souls, bedimmed with
 smoke,
 Have never felt the skies. Why should I hie to London Town Who have within my heart my crown, And leave my lovers green and brown And my blue mother sky, My daily friends the eager flowers Blithe birds, and buds. and sportive
 showers, Trailing by silvered cairns and towers, To see half dead men die:- These give blind VOWS to speeding
 days, Meek slaves to monetary wAxA Their task the tickle hour bstrAyA Their every goal a groN4 While here at every deed I do The infinite is peeping through. And earth is drenched with heavenly
 blue
 Like foam bell on a wave. dig among my garden trees. Or roam with bracken round my knees, And hear the wind at grooming ease Among the pine tree tops; While stars keep ryst with farm and
 burn. see swift darkness skim the fern. And fields their flying faces turn. And many moon winged oopse.
  Oh. not for me the prisoning street Vague roar. and vainly hastening feet: But kindly words where winds ara
 sweet
 On foot tracks through the corn; The peace that no void tumult mars, The grandeur without human scars. The sleep beenath the neighbor stars unfevered. unforlorn. Be mine the haunts of living men That Keep their hearts within their ken, That up>the heath and down the glen Where days first dawn gleam ran, Pursue their homely tasks and hear The love-thrilled throstle singing clear. Far from the noise, the spite, the fear Of men that know not Man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
Bringing In the Sheaves"
 Most Musical of Songs

NMAN is of the soil. No truer ex- GVU pression is there than Mother Earth" Pagans so called her. With all the wonderful creations of art and science which the inventiveness of men has contributed to human delec- tation, there is no music so sweet to the ears of nations as that which comes from the fields where fat har- vesting is being done.
 Theatres, art galleries, museums, great orchestras, godlike voices and magic fingers translate us to the fir mament for a moment, but the swish of swsying grain and the odor of new-mown hay, the tang of the syrup mill and the purple of ripening grapes, the frolicksome capers of young calves and the graceful bounds of spirited colts make us commune with the eternal.
 Not so thrilling as the high note of a bird-like soprano, but more soul fully satisfying is this sentence fir ni the most recent weekly crop rep of the American Steel and Wire Com pany: "With the exception of spring wheat, yield of which has been cut by rust and heat, crops throughou' the country are in excellent xhape, and the feeling is very optimistic in every quarter"
 No wonder the great hymn maker compared the mission of Christianity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
BEST WISHES FROM COLBERT

From the Colbert County Reporter.
 Last Sunday the Birmingham Age Herald celebrated it's twenty-third year under the editorship and management of Hon. Edward w. Barrett. During these years The Age-Heraid has grown mellow in influence and usefulness to Birmingham and to Alabama. We join the fraternity of the state in felicitat- ing Mir. Barrett upon his success and wish him many more years of health and prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
sHEEr GROWING PAYs

From the NeW OlfedHS Ht0ITi'
 President Wilson is about to sell the White House lawn sheep. In 1918. it is stated. the ninety-eight pounds of wool they yielded was sold by the Red Cross for $5e,oo0. We advise that the sheep be likewise turned over to the Red Cross for sale. At a proportion- ate price. the proceeds would pay a good installment of the national debt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
HICH COST OF CHIPS.

From The Florida Times Union
 With nearly every nation in Europe and . large part of Asia wearing. a chip on its shoulder it stands to rea- son that some of them are going so be knocked off.-Birmingham Age Herald. All these nations will find that. the cost of chips is higher than that of anything else.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16

strongly than to see them regain con-
 trol of their country. The "reds" are
 in the minority, yet by terrorism and
 as result of the apathy of the Rus
 sian people, they have retained their
 power.
 As the Echo de Paris says, Eng
 land recognizes bolshevism as an
 enemy quite as much as France or
 America. The difference that arose
 between the French and English gov- ernments was merely a difference of
 state policy. All the enlightened na-
 tions of the world have the same opinion of bolshevism. With Amer
 and France in full accord, Great Brit ain may be expected to join them in supporting General Wrangel, whose military successes in southern Rus sia point to him as the leader most likely to establish a government with which the allies can cooperate. ..- < + # There are estimated to be at present about S,oo0,oo0 automobiles in the United States. There are times when the hapless pedestrian imagines the Ad H. rection.
 A New Year card directed across the street of woburn, Mass, in 1913. reached it's destination the other day, thus affording the wits another oppor- tunity to swat Brother Burleson. l Vulgar Americans are said to be cre- ating a bad impression abroad. That is characteristic of vulgar Americans, who | create an equally bad impression at | home. Three automobile bandits of Chicago committed a series of robberies just | to please their best girls" Don't the | movies furnish enough thrills for the present generation? A contemporary scoffs at the argu- ment about who won the war. It's a waste of time, to be sure. Besides, we | may soon have to begin figuring on who will win the next one. The number of people who are get ting rich along the Canadian border could be accurately estimated if we knew how many are smuggling whisky | into America.
 The cost of a storks visit has doubled since 1916 At the other end of the line | the undertakers have advanced theii
 prices a bit.
 Cox recently sent his best wishes tc | Harding, but did not go so far as to
 say he'd like to see him win in No vember.
 # # x
 i Moistening his clay with a draft ol cold water. the spellbinder settles tt ! the task of electing the next President 1 x < x l With 10000 millionaires in America ! it is still possible for $So week clerk | to put up almost as good front" | Nobody posts the quotations in the l "moonshine" market, yet they are ac' curately followed from day to day. f l Speaking as a prohibitionist, Brother Bryan doesn't think much of either i Cox or Harding.
 # * * The Russian bear may not be as fa' | as he was before the war. but he still wieids a wicked paw. g E x ] As the new hope of Russia. General 1 Wrangel has man's-size job before 1 him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
Truly Painful

Some of the so-called comedies which we are forced to sit through in order to see the feature picture at motion pie ture theatres are real tragedies said Bob Kyle. The pictures are senseless from the beginning to end. The hero is usually some disgustingly mustached in- dividual who siapsticks his way through two reels of pie-slinging. girls in abbre- viated costumes. painted villains and al ways ends by kissing the heroine.
 If the producers of these comedies really want us to laugh. they should give us something sensible. on the order of the pictures of Douglas Mclean and Doris May. These are pictures that are really funny"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
MORNING PRAYER

X MORNING PRAYER
 Lcrd God, be thou my shepherd to- day. Go before me that | may walk in thy steps. Follow nfter ana heip hle when fall. Surround me that 20 evil may come near.. Ameh'- N. :. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
RELICS OF THE GREAT.

rIUIII CHc IdHp8 IrIbUho. McKinley's old flag pole has been
 set up ins Harding's front yard. But
 why over look Washington's hatchet, Lincoln's axe. Grants sword and Roosevelt's spurs?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
WHY FRANKLIN WORE NO WIG

Franklin would be happy to furnish Gib- Lon with ample materiaIs which were in his possession. Gibbon was too angry to reply.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
'Tis Human Nature

It is characteristic streak of human nature to wait as long as possible to do anything where there is money. labor or trouble involved" said J. H. Hahn. For instance, people usually wait until winter before they think about having their furnaces repaired.
 Along about the first cold spell that occurs this fall we will be flooded with calls from people wanting their suit some of them will be forced to wait ard possibly suffer from cold. If they had called us earlier we would have had more time~and could have done a better job."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-16
Means Great Saving

T don't believe the people as a whole realize the great saving that the sup ply of coke oven gas will mean" said John R. Hornady. "I consider it one of the most beneficial steps taken for the peoples interest in a long while
 Tt is necessary to consider the plight that other cities are in before realizing the good thing that has come to Bir- mingham. Atlanta is having to pay $L2o per 1000 cubic feet at present. and I understand the public service commis ission of Georgia has allowed further increases. After few months Birmingham will be getting a plentiful supply of coke oven gas at 80 cents per 1000 cubic feet. The difference will mean a great saving to the aver age household in years time. We are fortunately situated in this respect"