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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11
JUDGE BROWNS SUPPORTERS rom the Anniston Star.

From the Anniston Star.
 North Alabama friends of Judge Joel B. Brown are taking a lively interest in his candidacy for associate justice of the supreme court to succeed him. self. Judge Browns home county is Cullman, but to comply with. the law requiring judges of the supreme and appellate courts to reside at the state capital. he has purchased a home in Montgomery.
 Friends of Judge Brown point out that of the ten judges of the supreme. and appellate courts. five are from the Second congressional district and his two opponents are from that district. Of the ten judges only two are from north Alabama, Judge Mcclellan and Judge Brown. Itis claimed on behalf of north Alabama that it should at least be per- mitted to hold to the number of judges it has, although the number is but two.
 Judge Brown after twenty-five years of active practice of law has been twice elected by the people and has served six years as judge of the su- preme and appellate courts. He has a large number of friends and supporters in Calhoun and adjoining counties who are giving him cordial support.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11
A COMMON BORE
From the Home Sector.

From the Home Sector.
 The coloners negro orderly was mss ing. and inquiry developed that he was confined to quarters as the result or fight. Solicitous as to the weirare or his striker, the old man visited him nersonally in his barracks, where he fo,ra him in dilapidated condition.
 flows this. sam?" he inquired. "Whats been happening to you?
 "well, suh. you know satdy was pay eay. and after supper we gets into hir craps game. Long come bout 2 o'clock in de a. m. me and Napoleon Sims gets into a li'l friendly argument. Cunnel befoh I knows it he hits me in de mouf and he knocks out fo' teeth, and he hits me in de eyes and blacks dem, and he blame near busts nah rose and nah jaw. Den he gets me down on de ground and stomps on me and cracks three ribs.
 "'Fo' God. Cunnel! An never got 90 tiahd of man in all nah lifs-'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11
The Kind of Money
 That Stays at Home

A MONO the most gratifying fea- sion that has taken place during the past two years and is now empha- sizing itself is the great increase in the home consumption of steel and iron which the new and enlarging plants call for.
 The Birmingham Steel Corporation, the Concrete Steel and the National Steel products are among the new consumers of steel. The new sanitary pipe plants will have doubled the con- sumption in that quarter. Two new stove works and two that were long idle, but are now on the active list ;n permanent form, call for a large tonnage of iron.
 < The unprecedented demand for pipe for the oil fields has generated de- mard in that quarter several times in excess of what it was few years ago.
 The great plate mills of the T. ,. 1. at Westfield arc additional consumers of teel The pressed steel car works to be operated in conjunction mean another large home consumption of steel. The steel welding plant is still another home steel consumer.
 The more iron and steel go into the finished product here, the more skilled mechanics are employed and the greater is the wealth that is ere ated and remains at home.
 That is the kird of money which the district wishes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11
Passing of Carranza
 Will Not Be Lamented

6N HE flight of Carranza from H Mexico City, followed by the report of his capture, ends the ca reer of : rather stodgy old gentleman who seems to have been amazingly short of friends and we'll wishers when he needed their help.
 So conflicting are the reports re- ceived from Mexico, it is difficult to understand why it was that Car ranza, apparently strong, could be overthrown by a,revolution that was practically bloodless, and with the exception of a few minor clashes, was scarcely resisted. In fact, the latest revolution in Mexico, compared with it's predecessors, is extraordi- nary. The celerity with which sup posedly loyal troops deserted Carran- ga and the ease with which the rebels accomplished their purpose would in dicate that Carranza had no real strength, that he was unpopular and must have been incompetent, else he could have made some sort of de- fense.
 A long civil war was avoided and in that particular the unhappy country may be deemed fortunate. That it is any worse off now than it was during the Carranza regime is doubt full It is hardly possible for Mexico to be in a worse state than it has been during recent years. The revo- lution may turn out to be good thing for the country. The leaders appear to be clear-headed men and so far have shown good judgment in carry ing out their plans. They also pro- fess a friendliness toward America and a desire to do what is best for Mexico.
 However, the revolution is military in character and is designed to put . military leader at the head of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11
Plea for Park.

"A plea for more and better parks
 for Birmingham Is to be seen on every Sunday afternoon in nice weather says Arthur Gather. Every where there is stretch of green grass people congregate in crowds to get the smell of the fresh growing things.
 Tt is said of people that you can always tell what they are by what they do when they are not doing any thing. The same is true of city. and to provide something for the citizens to do when they are not busy is one of the first duties of the government. Not only do parks provide healthy. outdoor recreation. but they keep those young people occupied who would be doing things more harmful without .he pleasures the park affords them. '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11
Nature Has a Way
 of Evening Up Things

1T N 1917, when the boys were being O called from the blow to face the Hun in France, and in 1918, when they were driving the Hun back from France, the Alabama farmers suc- cessively planted more ground than ever before, put in more seed and raise record crops.
 There was less labor, but there was more work per man. The manhood and the womanhood of the farm met the emergency and triumphed over obstacles.
 In Madison county it is reported that on moonlight nights the farm CTS are taking advantage of the be- lated fair weather to hurry through
 their blowing. Madison is the lead ing agricultural county of the state. Any example made in Madison is safe for others to copy.
 Two decades ago the Yazoo valley in Mississippl was overflowed in the early spring and planting was later than there was record of, but the overflow and the rains had enriched
 the soil The crops were the largest
 in lifetime.
 If blowing and planting are late,
 there aill at least be no replanting,
 as sometimes occurs in early crop seasols by reason of frost and flood. Nature has a wonderful way of
 evening up. If man takes what falls in natures lap and does his part ac-
 cording to the presentment of con1i- tions, he will find nature cordial and
 substantially responsive. What was done under difficulties | of another kind can be done in face
 of late season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11
LUKE McLUKE SAYS

Men are queer fish. A lot of them who wouldn't touch liquor when it was Ia cents per copy now cheerfully pay 75 cents per copy for it and think they are cheating somebody
 A demand that sounds unreasonable tc the man on whom it is made never sounds that way to the man who is making it.
 Why does a Bride worry over having hand made lingerie? The groom doesn't know the difference. and, furthermore, he doesn't give a hoop.
 You can't sometimes always tell. The man who wears a vacant expression in a poker game may be holding a full house.
 This is queer world We call wom- en the weaker sex. Yet we know a henpecked husband who would give his right arm to be able to tell his wife just what he thinks of her.
 It takes a baby about year to learn to put his foot in his mouth. And it takes him about fifty more years to break himself of the habit
 Funny how She never notices that He has pimples on His neck until after or SO.
 Men are lhc q iOt VI OtHcI tHlHS They seem easy until you try to do them.
 Outside of his wife's opinion of him married man isn't any worse than a single man. Women may take to wearing over alls But just the same. they'll de- mand a new hat every month or so. And what has become of the O. f. house that had a foot scraper beside the door?
 Anyway. since pron. bition hit us. a man doesn't find his small change glued together with beer when he wakes up in the morning.
 Tell a woman thai her new d -ess looks stylish. But for heavens sake fo1't tell her that it looks sens'ble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11
Montgomery Worried

Attorney General J. Q. Smith arr rived in Birmingham yesterday and will remain through today. returning to Montgomery tonight
 q came up to vote in the primary and to attend to little personal busi- ness." he said. 1T thought this would be a good time to leave off state in- come tax Allegations and whole flock of other things and rest for a day and at the same time run up and cast my vote. l am making it a little va cation and at the same time attending to a little personal business.
 Things are running we'll at Mont gomery. Business is pretty good down there, but the farmers are getting blue. A lot of them haven't even started to break up their ground. When the farmers get blue the Montgomery merchants also begin to feel blue. Tha Alabama river has been out of it's banks three times since January"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11
ANCIENT PROFITEERS

were customarily given in 134T (the year prior to the first appearance of the plague)
 Violation of the statute meant im- prisonment; and it was further provided that any reapeer, mower. or workman leaving service should be imprisoned. If workmen demanded more than the regu- lation wage. they were to be fined double, and the landowner who paid more than the prescribed sum was to be fined treble that amount. Runaway 1aborers were to be branded with an 'F as a perpetual sign of their falsity. No bail was to be accepted for any of these labor offenses.
 '"The first ordinance in English history designed to curb the greed of the middle man, was passed nearly century earlier Gin 125s), where was a bountiful harvest but destructive rains caused the heavy crops to rot in the fields.
 "But England aid not originate food control measures. A low Nile in 967 A. D. resulted in a famine the following year. which swept away eoo,oo0 people in the vicinity of the city of F,ustat. G'awhar Mohammedan Joseph. founded a new city (the Cairo of today) a short distance from the stricken town and immediately organized relief measures. "The Caliph Mo'izz lent every assist ance to his lieutenant, sending many ships laden with grain; but the price of bread still remained high. and G'awhar. being food controller who had no pa-
 
 his soldiers to seize all the millers and grain dealers and fog them in the public market place. The administrator then established central grain depots and corn was sold throughout the two years of the famine under the eyes of a government inSpectOr."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11

wv Ar"assTos s May ,sss. ssss'is sas s;ss
 wage demands by labor are far from being ultra-modern problems.
 Ancient Egypt fogged it's profiteers In the market places, and medieval Eng land passed maximum wage laws. &C., cording to a communication by Ralph A. Graves to the National Geographic So- ciety, which says:
 .sFollowing the devastation of the black death in England in 134S-134s, cultivation of fields was utterly impossible, and there were not even enough able-bodied labor CTS to gather the crops which had ma tured. Cattle roamed through the corn unmolested and the harvest rotted where
 it stood.
 Out of the situation which resulted
 from the impoverishment of the labor resources of the kingdom grew the first great clash in England between capital and labor The peasants became masters of the situation. In some instances they demanded double wages, and whereas formerly landowners had paid one
 twelfth of every quarter of wheat as the harvesting wage, they were now forced to pay one-eighth.
 Parliament hurriedly passed drastic laws in an effort to meet the new con- dition. Statutes provided that every man or woman bond or free. able in body and within the age of threescore years, not having his own whereof he may live. nor land of his own about which he may occupy himself. and not serving any other. shall be bound to serve the em- blower who shall require him to do so, provided that the lords of any bonds man or land-servant shall be preferred hafora others for his service; that such servants shall take only the wages WHICH
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11

government, which is not advisable in Mexico or anywhere else.
 As for Carranza, his passing will be viewed with equanimity in Amer ica. He affronted the American gov ernment more than once and help. to enye: der feeling in Mexico against the American people. No one wishes to see him executed, but his elimina- tion is not repretted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11
A Church Town

There is one thing certain said never was true, for every crime in the district always carried Birmingham date line when it went out to the world, will have to be abandoned, for Sunday. unless one went early, it was inn lossible to get seat in any of the downtown churches.
 Several of them had to withdraw even the sign of standing room only ana put up church filled l am also filled to overfiowing. Birmingham Is church. going town." .....
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11
Claimed That Many Cows
 Have Been Found Diseased

TIT is stated that sixty dairy herds 0 supplying milk to the city of Bir- mingham were recently tested for tu- berculosis and 32 per cent were in- fected. The number of diseased cows varied from 4 to 25 per cent of the entire herd.
 The Age-Herald does not vouch for these figures, but if they are true, it is apparent that the safeguards at present thrown around our milk sup ply are inadequate. Either the tuber- culin test it not to be relied on, or dairymen have not removed infected cows from their herds after they were shown to be diseased. Also, it may indicate that diseased animals nave been taken into the herds after the general tests made year. ago.
 If, as claimed by health authori- ties, from 10 to 20 per cent of the raw milk sold to consumers shows live tubercle germs, in spite of tuber- culin tests, then the babies of this city are not sufficiently protected. No one but an expert should pre- sulna to pass on the milk question, and there has been strong opposition from dairymen to the. plans of the city health department for insuring a pure milk supply, but no one will deny that pure milk is indispensable, that because of the rapidity with which it absorbs germs, only the greatest wig ilance on the part of dairymen and health authorities can prevent the dis tribp ton of infected milk. There is no argument regarding the necessity of pure water and there should be none in respect to pure milk.
 The sooner this vexed question is settled, and settled right, the better it will be for the people of Birming- ham, who have life itself at stake and are playing the role of innocent lby;tarders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
WILLING TO BE SHOCKED

WILLING TO BE SHOCKED "The Rev. Dr. Goodleigh announced that he would make tour of the caba- ret belt to see what he could sec" What did his parishioners think of that?"
 They seemed to think it was a corking idea. So many male members of his congregation wanted to go along he was compelled to limit his party to twenty-five persons"
 OBITUARY Vera the Nihilist
 Was making a bomb:
 The cellar was damp and
 Her fingers grew numb.
 She dropped some explosive
 Of very high proof
 And Vera the Nihilist
 Went out through the roof
 DRIVE" DECORATIONS T guess the Gadspur family was 1eo per cent pdlfiotlG uuiiHS lHc WAr' 7 Why so?' Jack Gadspur wore khaki, his sis- ter, Polly, was a 'farmerette' and wore overalls, and Mrs. Gadspur wore Red Cross uniform" What did Father Gadspur wear?" He wore so many different kinds of badges and buttons he looked like tramp comedian"
 A PAMPERED CREATURE I'm negotiating for the services of a hired man." said Mir Cobbles. How are you getting alongr First rate. He seems to like my mo- tor car pretty well, and the table board and the jazz records we bought for our photograph. All we've got to do now Is to decide on the wages and the number of hours a day he thinks he can work without injuring his health" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11
Mcmber of inc Associated Press

The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dis patches.
 The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication or all news dispatches credited to 1t or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published therein.
 All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11
JUST ABOUT NOW

JOo1 ADOOl ANON While the cost of livings soaring, Still a joyous heart affirms Profiteers. though bold and gredy, Have not cornered angle worms. Poor consumers yet may dig them From the warm and fruitful earth; or invertebrates and beetles There is never any dearth. With can of bait provided And the simplest fishing gear, One may seek the nearest river or mountain streamlet clear, And pursue an ancient pastime Not denied the poorest wight. Which will bring surcease of sorrow, Though he never gets bite.
 FOOLISH GIRL
 Miss Calder is trying to reduce the high cost of living
 "In what way?"
 She's wearing calico"
 "Good"
 With several thousand dollars worth of jewelry."
 NOT so DENSE
 Would you call Blithersby stupidT" Well, he has . limited amount of intelligence"
 "Yes?"
 "He can trace the decline in the pop ularity of mince pie to the eighteenth amendment" STRENUOUS LIFE "where's Betty Calder this morn ing?" She's visiting some unfortunates in prison" "Ah!" "This afternoon she will tour the tenement district" Noble grill And tonight?' She will try to forget at a dance what she saw during the day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11
Urgent Need of Relief
 of the Storm Sufferers

A N organized effort has been set EA in motion for the relief of the storm sufferers of Alabama and the appeal should meet with generous re- sponse.
 The most widespread destitution is in Marion county, with Franklin county next. In Marion eighty seven houses were destroyed. Four hundred persons are homeless, of whom one hundred and eighty-five are children under IA years of age. There are nineteen newly made graves; twenty-four persons wounded in hospitals and over one hundred suffering from hurts more or less serious.
 In Franklin county forty-two houses were demolished and nineteen or twenty dead fill newly made graves.
 The people of Alabama are asked to give seventy-seven thousand dol lars, of which sixty-two thousand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11

Thus far our fortune keeps our upward
 course, And we are grac'd with wreaths of vic-
 tory, Henry VI.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11
Washington Bureau 500 Davidson

WashInBtOh buIedU VVV building.
 European Bureau, 10 King street. Covent Garden, London, W. c. D.
 Eastern business office, World building, New York city; western busl- ness office, Tribune building. Chi cago. The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency, agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-11

NS[ 7 ASHINGTON, May 10.-(SpeciaL) \NW -Profiteering in foods and high
 wage demands by labor are far
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-27
JAP PERIL IN WEST REAL.
California Gives Reasons for New
VI Legislation.

Sacramento. Calf. Oct. 27.-The
Japanese Exclusion League OF CALI
iforna, thru the chairman of It's ex-
ecutive committee, j. S. Chambers,
state controller of California yester-
day issued statement in answer to
that made public Oct. by the federal
erica. which "depiored agitation and
hasty action IN the matter OF Jap
anese Immigration"
Mr., Chambers statement said that
the movement IN California, far from
being vote catching propaganda of
politicians appealing to race prejudice
and mob feeling, Is really based on
iucontrovertihle and startling facts,
supported by official state investiga-
ton. under legislative direction. and
fully corrosorated in hearings of the
house committee on Immigration,
held ON the Pacific coast in July and
August of this year.
After giving list Of te exclusion
league hackers, who represent all
walks OF life. the statement says:
Certain aspects of the problem
are particularly Of state concern and
exclusively of state jurisdiction. In
these matters California is scrupu-
lousy suatding treaty and vested
rights of the Japanese but declining
to accora rights to them not ac-
corded to Americans. in Japan, asd
which, If continued here. would GER
tainly create race problem. with
the friction and trouble which both
countries wish to avoid.
1.-THE problem is national and in>
ternational. and the league will CO.
operate with the federal government
in working out the proper remedy.
That remedy. while insuring full
protection to American interests.
should be so applied. if possible, as
to avoid hurting Japan's feelings
Certainly the way to insure mis-
understanding and trouble with
Japan is to encourage or permit the
steady and rapid growth in this coun-
try of an unassimilable alien COM
munity. whose advantages in eco
nomic competition and who's s;reat
birth rate would In time force the
whites out of the most favot cali
ties and make race conflict ilc' able.
Hawaii is already h % the
whites. In California II Japanese
have concentrated 1900 of their
people in favored spots in seven OF
our fifty eight counties. They have
secured control of industries. driven
out whites, and displaced white chill
dren in public schools.
while their population in the state
is less than one thirtieth of the
whites, orintals. almost entirely Jap
anese, now control one-sixth of the
total rich irrigated lands of the state
and control an actual majority acre
age Of such lands in several Of the
larger counties. The Japanese birth
rate in California Is three times that
|of the whites.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-27
Probate Notice.

I Office Of the clerk of the district
court. state Of Iowa. Marshall county
SIS. District court. October term, A.
ID. 1920.
To whom 1t may concern:
You and each of you are hereby
notified to appear at the courthouse
In Marshalltown, Iowa, in said county.
at 8 o'clock O.. M, on the ed day, of
November 1920 to attend the proof
of and probating an instrument in
writing purporting to be the last will
and testament Of Herbert S. Law
renee late OF Marshall county, Iety-a,
deceased, Sat which time and place
you will appear and show cause II
any, why said will should not be sd
mitted to probate,
In testimony whereof, I have here
to subscribed my name and saffixed
the seal of the district court this
aeth day of October, A. D. 1920. G. "
clerk of the district court.
]. [Seal1
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-27

Southwest Iowa is a fertile field
for the man with anything to sell
that has merit, Seventy-fivo thou.
sand people in southwest Iowa read
he Duty Nonpareil. It II the great
wan, ad medium of this section. n
is !. nown for and wide as producer
Of results. If you have land or any
tusng else to sell or trade. get In
touch with southwest Iowa thru the
Nonpa.eil, Council Bluffs. Iowa,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-27
New Mexico
$4,000 Acre Tract, North Central
h~,.,

Absolutely good title. Especially
adopted to sheep raising. Abundance
water. Recognized as enc Of best
winter ranges in state. Forest re-
serve in reach. Thousa DIS of fence
posts; some timber; some irrigation
possibilities. Price $2.f5 per acre:
one-fifth cash: any r. sonable terms
on balance. Deal iii. owners by
wire or mail. Field 2 hart, Colorado
Springs. Colo, tt rman Bohart,
Chamita. New Mex.