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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01

Adam. The memorable day of his birth, says the old chronicler, from the thrones of all emperors and kings there went forth ray of light making an arc from each throne toward Mecca, signifying that the rulers were as min isters lowing toward the capital of their emperor.
 At the same time some ministers in] Syria saw strange star and divinedI that the final prophet was about to ap- pear.' It was year filled with won,t der "such as had never been seen be- fore" The account goes on to describe fables of the childhood and youth of eMahomet incidents of his middle life, his call by "the Only True God" to en- ter upon the prophets office 'in the in- terests of all under heaven" Then fol- lowed the story of the dictation of the Koran, through the medium of Gabriel, in which manifestations the prophet is reported to have suffered much physi- cal and mental distress. The history concluded with description of the flight to Medina and the spread of the "one true faith"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
Let's Not Fall Short On
 the Rainbow Gala Event

ID BIRMINGHAM is going forward 1Q with the arrangements for en- tertaining the Rainbow division.
 But the committee finds shortage of houses and a shortage of funds. The visitors will be cared for com fortably, even if our citizens double up in sleeping apartments and beds. As for the money needed for making this gala occasion, our various civic bodies must get busy.
 Birmingham has made brilliant success of its Confederate Veteran reunions and it can do equally as we'll in entertaining the Rainbow legion. The financial end of the proposition does not call for g. huge sum. A splendid appearance was made at the veterans reunion in 1908 and again in 1916, and not more than s20,000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01

From the Sun and New York Herald. 6NIEY die hard, these fads and fash
 ions in military millinery. The
 ~ French clung to their red brooches in the very face of the slaughter 'hey ;, v;ted in these rays of long range wea- ,.o,,s of nrecision. Red had to give way x tho horizon blue and the neutral khaki shades in the end; but the old-tashiohes' military figures still clung to them ioi dress occasions. Marshal Jollre r.,n,sndent in them in all of his pup ,ic appearances during his wartime here The carmine radiance or ms stur5y legs against the greensward oi the parade ground lent viviu uasii v col.r to the spectacle when ne res'e" " the West Point cadets and when ,'e mounted city hall steps to grasp 'h' mayors hand.
 Naw the red issue is up in Ensiano ;,, a..,,+a forn,. Our correspondent says on. faature of possibly impending .. b;net crisis is the question of keeping rnalish soldiers in or out of red coats. The cabinet, it seems, has committed itself to red coats, has backed up the commitment with $5,coo,ooo order Of red coat uniforms and will stand by it's sres convictions There is a loud popu- ,a, outcry against the abandonment of khaki with the attendant expense of ex- tra red coat revival. But the cabinet is firm. It resolutely refuses to let it's com mon sense get the better of it's emo- |tions.
 Yet who can doubt that the dull khaki drab or olive green will win in the end? In modern war there is no stage for the flauntings Of kaleiedescopic military
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
More Coal Is Needed
 Because We Are Busier

sP7H HERE is always the reverse side ss x of shield and it often hap T pens that the two sides present colors
 of quite different hue.
 l Our coal production does not begin ! to be what it should be, measured
 by our wants, but the coal famine re-
 fleets basic condition of more
 than encouraging nature.
 In fact, the Alabama coal produc-
 Zion has been larger this year than last by about 704,o00 tons. Includ-
 1fg the first two weeks of June the fTaported production amounted to Hk7 ,559 ,000 tons compared with 6,855,- ..:1000 in the same period of 1919. HS Why the famine in face of this :~ssgreater production? The answer lies xsin the active state of the coal-con- .;:--suming industry. At this time in s.191o the steel and iron works were :;sjust beginning to reover from the ::sdisastrous effects of Railroad Admin :::5strator Hines and his railroad ad- 1eisers declining to accept the Red ''ifield price agreement which was of
 fered in March Of that year.
 
 - Blast furnaces, facing stagnated ..,,:-7r,arket, blew out the entire Wood 
 ,,::::s-ward tier of five stacks going cold.  I've reached a low ebb of 1S5,ooo tons  :;;.1of iron production in Alabama in May, , \ 1919, compared with one of 212,ooo
 sn 1920.
 Tae effect on the railroads has been
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
BETTER IMMIGRANTS NOTED

gone beyond two-thirds of 1 per cent of the arrivals in any single month, and the latest figures show that in Jam uarx February, March, April and MayS the arrivals at Ellis Island numbereda 152,9S7. while the total deportations were SS5, or 5S of 1 per cent
 In this hour of Americas need, when labor, skilled and unskirled, seems con- tinuously to shrink. such a report is highly encouraging. To what influence xl one wonders, is the superior quality oi the new type of immigrant due? The increase of numbers is. of course, owl ing to after-war conditions in European countries. but the decrease of the per scentage of undesirables can only be due to the spreading abroad of the news of the rigidity of present immigration regu- lations, a fact which makes all the more glaring the criminal laxity of our for mer methods, by which the United States became the dumping ground of thel world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01

From the Richmond Journal.
 S7 N the week that ended with last Sat-
 II urday Ellis Island admitted into 4 this country 10.527 aliens, and those who watch the flow of immigration into this port agree that a better class or immigrants are coming now than in the days prior to the war.
 An interesting commentary on the general average is found in the remark of one of the recent arrivals from Erin, who said: Ut used to be true that most Irish girls who came to the United States planned to be domestic servants We are all stenographers now Another standard by which the quality of the immigration can be judged is the report of the number of arrivals who are promptly sent back to their native coun- tries. Deportations of undesirabfes for month used often to be more than ; per cent of the arrivals, and were sell dom below ? per cent, but since Janu- ary of this year deportations have not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
ApnreciatiOn

T had funny experience while in Washington recently says Maj. H. B. May assistant recruiting officer for Alabama, who was formerly with the 167th infantry, Rainbow division, when a young man walked up to me and said
 I notice that you are from the 167th infantry, and I just wanted 10 shake your hand. I was in the 166th and if il hadn't been for the 167th I probably wouldn't have been here today. never miss an opportunity to shake hands with a man from this regiment for it is real pleasure to meet man who saw such hard fighting overseas and accredited himself so well.' This young nan had been lieutenant in the 166th ana was glad to have spoken to him"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01

delay in the purchase of rails, cars and locomotives and a higher price for iron and steel than they would have paid under the Redfield agree ment.
 The country at large forged ahead in spite of the failure of the Red field price agreement, and by early fall the iron and steel interests had taken on a healthy productive pace and have more than maintained it.
 This activity has called for coke and for coal to make the coke It has called for coal for tens of thousands of small industries.
 There are now on the yards in the birmingham district not tens of thou sands. but several hundreds of thou sands of tons of pig iron, cast iron pipe, 1lIlISneO sCeel pIOuucIS ana tHe output of machine shops and foundries waiting movement to the consum- CTS. We are at high point of pro- duction and consumption of raw ma- terial.
 We need more coal, because we have been buster and are buster than we were in 1919. That is the side of the shield which we should also visualize,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
Y # < Should Accept the Best We Can Get

TN the climax of the light opera, J "The Little Duke" popular in the Gilbert and Sullivan days, disap- pointed princess accepts for husband an older gentleman than the hand some youth whom she preferred.
 Der philosophy was "If you cannot slst what you want, gracefully accept what you can get"
 Birmingham would like cheaper syas. That is impossible. Water gas csnro1 be manufactured at anything like thsEold price, but only at price much higlsr. The utility company, already losing money on the water sas at present furnished, cannot stand gfeatt loss.
 The a9ntract with the utility com -liss-.- cut to expire. The com
 go out of business ir preference 10 continuing it at the old rate
 Birningnayn pays $1 for water gas. Nashville is asking for an increase of 40 cents, bringing the price up to $1.70. The price of gas oils has in- craacad 1N ,aaT car+ !. Columbia, s. C., is paying $1.25 and the utility company asks an increase. New Orleans is paying $1.30. At lanta pays more than Birmingham, and is headed to an increase over the present price. Jacksonville is to get an increase.
 Chattanooga, which has by-product gas, is paying $1.10.
 If Birmingham secures by-product gas under $1, it will have done very k well indeed. We could have gotten " at lower figure in 1914, but that
 ls six years ago when all costs were wer.
 We cannot think wisely in terms of 1914. The sensible man does the best he can under the circumstances and the sensible public official real izes that the public does not expect miracles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01

From the New York World.
 N WRITER in British automobile
 N\ journal who spent some time S = studying conditions in this country, reaches the conclusion that America is motor mad" Wherever he went 1t was motors motors all the way. motor-cars swarming like ants everywhere" and of all varieties, from the millionaire's limousine to the work mans flivver. And as for Fifth ave- nue's Nfour-way pack of fine automo- piles stretching from Madison square tc Central park, we have nothing like that in London"-an admission which attests the sincerity of the criticism.
 Here at least is foreign observer who sees American things as they are. There is not the slightest doubt that this country is motor-mad, and the only challenge of the critics remark is that what he offers as a rebuke is accepted as a just cause for pride. That is one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
Cost Too Much

'"The city of Gadsden is like Bir- mingham in that it is playing a wait ing game in going on with it's school programme of building" says Prof w. c. Griggs. superintendent of the Gads- den public schools.
 Our city had mapped out quite a needed and progressive plan to care for the educational requirements of the community, but on getting estimates so it was decided that the best thing to do under the circumstances was to spend small sum as temporary makeshift and later go on with the more ambitious undertakings"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
Worth the Trip

Portland is an up-to date city" said Charles. E. Glover, warden of the city jail, who has returned from the big shriners' convention in the Pacific Coast city.
 Everything looks clean. new and business-like in Portland and the other western cities. The streets and roads are some of the finest that I have every seen. Paved roadways extend for miles and miles in all directions from Port land. The scenery along the route was well worth the trip, bur after all I was glad when we got back to Birmingham which is ahead of anything saw in the west"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
sees a Differcnce

Modern poetry seems to be going Lawrence Broughton. Compare any one of the poems ain one of sour latest thought magazines of today with poem that was popular twenty or thirty years ago.
 ''The poems that are the greatest in favors today are the ones that sing a scng of praise or either find fault with something. While the poems that our fathers read when they were boys were poems that tried to show the right and the wrong way and ended with a moral"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
MOTOR-MAD

of the characteristic symptoms of the madness. Motormania is the real dess mentia Americana, and the larger ele-' ment of the population afflicted with it scoffs at critics and asks contemp- tuously what they are going to do about it. Laws do not cure It, taxation has nc effect, the high price of gasoline and stricter police regulation seem only to aggravate the disease. People who cannot buy or rent car steal one, ary the joy riding goes on, with mount-' ing list of casualties, for which the state quiets it's conscience with record toa1s of license fees and fines.
 After all, what are we going to do about it? The effect of motor madness on American manners and morals is SC, complicated by it's stimulating effect on American industry that the problem is a baffling one. But that the mania exists and is fast becoming national moral ma1ady cannot be denied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
NO HOPE FOR THE THIRSTY

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 A good deal of the iubilation over the defeat of the sponsor of the vo.- stead law is taken out when it is dis covered that his successful rival is clergyman who is much drier than vol- stead The preacher was backed by the Non-Partisan League and that rather than the dry and wet issue was<what determined the election.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
Dark Horse" Chances
 At San Francisco

11T7 HE democratic national conven- U tion is not dominated by bosses
 as the republican convention was at Chicago. Nevertheless, political his-
 tory has way of repeating itself
 and the early balloting at San Fran
 cisco may bring about a situation
 closely resembling that which led to
 the nomination of Harding, "dark horse"
 A movement is under way to elimi- nate MT. McAdoo, who has been a formidable contender, although he has not bestirred himself to win the nomi- nation. On the contrary he has said Il he is not a candidate, has requested ! his friends not to make him candi- date and has done everything man could do to head off his own boom ex- cep5 ta come out flatfooted and say he would not accept the nomination. A dispatch from San Francisco re- ceived yesterday and published in the newspapers indicated that MT. Me
 Adoo's name would not be presented l by his friend, Burris Jenkins of Kan
 sas City, who was prepared to make
 the nominating speech. However, Dr.
 Jenkins changed his mind.
 1 It looks as if the foremost conten-
 ders would be eliminated or dead-
 lock reached which would open the way for a "dark horse.' Just at pres- ent the prospects are exceptionally bright for political steeds of this color. l All conventions, except the "cut-and dried" variety, have large element
 of chance. They are more or less Q gamble" It would not be at all sur prising if dark horse" captured the prize at San Francisco.
 Among the "dark horses" there is probably none who possesses greater potential strength than Ambassador John w. Davis, who is. said to be popular in London, despite the now historic argument over who won the war. MT. Davis is likable man and gifted in many ways. He would make as good a showing at the photogra- pher's as A. Mitchell Palmer; he writes and speaks as well as Mir. Will son, and it has been said that he has
 more practical mind than the Presi-
 dent, although he is endowed with
 the same lofty idealism. Some of the
 press correspondents profess never to have heard of MT. Davis, which is of
 course mere facetiousness. He is not widely known, but neither was Hard ing. His record is flawless. He is
 acceptable to MT. Wilson and nobody
 has ever accused him of "pussyfoot-
 ing" for the presidency.
 MT. Davis may not be nominated.
 It's a matter that rests on the knees
 of the gods, but it may come to pass
 that our British ambassador will be
 compelled to drop his ambassadorial
 duties, pleasant enough nowadays,
 and come home to meet the brethern and the sisters-on his front porch
 If he has one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
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MARTYRDOM

From the Houston Post
 The Kansas City man who got fouS years for stealing IT barrels of liquor also had the liouor taken away from him. This makes his net punishment the eQuivalent of burning at the staks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01

was expended on either occasion. Surely it should be an easy matter to raise $20,000, or whatever is needed, for the Rainbow division. But the time is drawing near and whatever is done should be done without delay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
roRruRING A NEIaHBoR


 ToRTURING A NEIGHBoR 'TWhither away. my dear? I'm going to call on that hateful Mrs. Bibbles"
 Why go at allY
 'rm taking little Cuthbert along with his tin sword. She has just bought some new mahogany furniture for her living room"
 THE STAGE OR THE MOVIES "A beautiful girl"
 ESQ she is"
 T dare Broadway calls her." Broadway is aiming in one ear and Los Angeles in the other"
 A TREAT IN STORE Now. Tommy" said the wife Of Bailiff Biffkins, 'ebe a good boy while I'm gone and I'll reward you." '@Whatll you gimme. ma?" asked the precocious child
 "rll let you go down to the court house and hear your father bawl Or in court'r'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
OBJECT. CONSOLATION

UBJ ETT. TO1Vo011zK1 ' "There's a great deal of romance in some of these personal advertise ments."
 'Well?"
 "A lone widower would like to meet the lady in mourning who cried all through Charley Chaplin picture"
 PAUL. COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
AN ExcEPrIoN
A CUSTOMER LOST

T wish to see hammock said the stout woman.
 "Yes. maam'' said the former refrig- orator salesman. whose thoughts were elsewhere. What capacitvg'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
PASSING OF THE RED

plumage. Taxpayers. staggering under burdens close to back breaking, have little sympathy with proposals to spend millions for military toggery which must be scrapped the moment real military work is to be done. So ultimately the red coats will go the way of the red trousers. And with them will go too something of the stir- ring significance of revolutionary M popular literature of days gone by, VI Red Coats'' was anything but or endearment in our Yankee voc lary.
 AMERICA By J. Corson Miller.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01

Well, thus we play the fools with the time; and the spirits of the wise sit in tine clouds and mock us.
 --Henry W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
CAUTIOUS CRITICISM

V Whats the trouble?" n 'The same old row" said The ets tor of the Toadyine Clarion. "ons of our prominent suffragists has just been in here giving me Hail colnsr- bia' for spelling the Cause with ; lower case 'c'.'
 AN EXCEPTION So much for life when things go wrong. And troubles shadow fingers; You might essay little song And gaily snap your fingers. A dandy plan when sorrows Turk, Though pessimists deride it; And yet sometimes it fails to work This very day 1 tried it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES

TO A DEBUTANTE MOTORING Felicia at the wheel, methinks,
 Is wondrous fair to see: Yet drives as if she'd had six drinks I know that could not be- And while I may admire the lass, As swiftly she advances Safe on the curb I'll watch her pass And take no foolish chances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01

It's frequently struggle to volun- tarily give up ones home country and live among strange people. The major ity of folks like to travel, but even in the midst of picturesque lands and great cities times come when there is a longing to be back among familiar scenes. ''There is no place like home" is not the mere poetic fancy of poet, but is sentiment rooted deep in the heart of mankind, and in none more so than in the Jew, and this in spite of the fact that they are to be found everywhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-01

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The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-05-07
Cho-ChO Luau

All Maui people who enjoy a real
luau-and that mea everyone of us
should reserve tomorrow afternoon,
May 8, from two to five, for the big
luau to be held in the Gym.
All kinds of good things have been
secured and no pains have been spar
ed. to make this a real old-time Ha-
waiian luau, and when the fact is dis
closed that Carl Rose is to prepare
the feast no further inducement need
be added.
Between fl six hundred peo-
9 are eXpe 10 attend. The pro-
ceeds from a will go to Cho-
Cho. "Cho-C is the nickname for
the Child Health Organization, which
is a branch OF the Federal Child Wei
fare Bureau in Washington.
Tickets at so cents each are now
being sold. If you can't take the time
to sit down at the tables, you can
take home some of the good things in
packages. Don't forget-two to five,
his coming Saturday afternoon in the
Gym. Don't forget, for if you do,
you'll miss something good.-Adv.