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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
British Soldiers Destroy
 the Tree of Knowledge

7N HOMAS ATKINS has penchant
 0 for getting into mischief. Kip ling's immortal trio, Mulvaney, Or theris and Learoyd, figured in many an exploit, raising as well as humorous. On one occasion Terence Mulvaney, who could never forget that he was corporal "wanst," but was "rejuced,' posed as heather god. and as usual strong waters got him into that scrape.
 One of the latest escapades at- tributed to British soldiers is the de- struction of the alleged Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden. Little is sacred to Tommy" except / the British flag and his honor as a fighting man, so 1t is not surprising to learn that number of "Tommies' who wanted to have their pictures taken, climbed up into the foliage of 3 tree treasured by the Moslems as the one from which the serpent tempted Eve to taste of the forbid den fruit.
 It crashed under their weight and the indignant Moslems set up a great howl for damages. A court of in- @uiry, . dispatch from London says,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
Public Hearing in the
 Interest of Waterways

If If NDER a democratic measure of " democratic administration, the War Department announces a public hearing at Mobile, July 28, when the district engineer stationed there will receive and listen to those who come to present the claims of Mobile bay, the Warrior, the Tom bigbee and other rivers emptying into the bay and the Mississippi sound.
 This hearing has been ordered by the chief of engineers under Section 800 of the transportation act, whose caption reads:
 "Section 500. It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to pro- mote, encourage and develop water transportation, service and facilities in connection with the commerce of tilc OHlCcu OCdtcS anu CO lOSCeT anu preserve in full vigor both rail and water transportation"
 The data presented at this hear ing will be transmitted to the Secretary of War and constitute a file of information affecting the waterways that will serve for quick and ready reference by the depart ment whenever their claims are under consideration.
 It is especially fortunate for the Warrior transportation system that it will be in such really superior form to render report and furnish con- vincing idence of it's practicality.
 The Warrior can show three river terminals in operation, those at Tus- caloosa, Cordova and the Port of Bir- mingham. It can show great savings in freight charges by industrial cor porations shipping up and down the river. It can show a large amount of freight moved with inadequate fa- cilities and much larger amount waiting on the coming equipment. It can establish beyond cavil that it has been worth while. !
 A splendid opportunity is presented for justifying what has been lone and paving the way for permanent policies of inland waterway develop ment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
HARDING's TOWN Eroorio GAzeffe-

From the Emporla 1aAstee.
 The town of Marion. O., which is about to furnish President of the United states, has no country club and no golf course. Marion, O., according to the census report, has so.ooo peo- pie. That's a town several times larger than Emporia. Emporia has had A country club and golf course for ten years nearly. Harding is said to be golf fan. What kind of A paper does he run anyway, which haa not enough influence in his home town to get LID a country club, or work our a golf course? If the editor or ans Kansas paper thinks enough about golf to play it, he has enough infiu- ence to get a golf course. senator Harding has been busy for the past ten years in Congress. in the gov ernor's office. and in the senatorship. Eut he has certainly overlooked an ,mnortant side bet if he has no golf course nor a country club m his own home town. The best evidence that Marion. O.. appreciates its candidate will be found when it gives him place to play. Any town can give man . place to work. but it is only good town that can give a good man place for good play.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24

ncunce to the world, the moral sup port" of the United States to Poland in it's battle with the Russian "reds, !" and the suggestion is made that a "similar expression from President Wilson would do much to stiffen the courage of the Poles"
 The object of Russia is to crush Poland completely. If that be done, Germany might form an alliance with Russia and those two nations com bined would be we'll nigh invincible, so far as Europe goes.
 Another big war may be averted, but the outlook is gloomy. It is not probable that the United States will be drawn into it; but it is possible. Who knows? If England and France cannot help to save Poland and there by check Russo-German alliance, where will the turmoil end? Just as France and Great Britain are begin ming to get on their feet commercial ly and industrially they may find themselves in a worse condition than they were five years ago.
 The peace of Europe is surely threatened once more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
Notorious Murderer
 Is Believed Captured

1H HE Robert L. Dix case is one of
 U the most remarkable in the an- nals of crime His arrest in Cleve- land, as he was shaving a customer in a barber shop, marks the end of a chase that continued for fourteen years and extended to many parts of the world. Dix's escape from the Jeff ferson county jail while waiting ex- ecution for murder was not only in itself baffling, and has never been explained, but the efforts to capture him have kept his name in the news papers for years. Persons thought to have been Dix were found in many parts of the country. During his wanderings he is said to have spent much time on the sea and on one occasion narrowly escaped being caught in Honolulu. He was also traced to Australia.
 Although carefully guarded in one of the strongest jails in Alabama, and despite extra precautions due to rumors that negroes were raising large sums of money, in lodges, churches and elsewhere, to effect his release, Dix walked out and remained at large until yesterday. The credit for his capture goes to two Bir- ningham detectives, E. A. Lyons and W. L. Branncn. It is a noteworthy achievement and these two capable members of the police department cannot be praised too highly.
 The escape, pursuit and ultimate arrest of Dix illustrate in a strik- ing manner the relentlessness of justice. Through all the fourteen years of his wandering, it was a veri- table Nemesis on his trail, bounding him around the world. Those must have been years of fear and trem- bling, for Dix Is above the average negro in intelligence and probably knew that he was never safe from pursuit.
 If the right man has been found at last, he will die on the gallows, although the sheriff who had him in custody is dead and the crime of which he was convicted, the murder of a street car motorman, had been almost forgotten, except by the men whose business it is to track down criminals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
James Mitchell Built
 His Own Monument

III AMES MITCHELL, late board @ chairman and former president of the Alabama Power Company, erected his own monument. Coming to Alabama less than ten years ago to develop virgin industrial product, he lived to see it cover more than lhalf of great state with it's trans mission system that brought light and power to more than a million people.
 Many men would have baked at the obstacles which he faced, but he had vision and persevered. Before his death hydroelectriaity had be- come household term in Alabama. More than forty cities, scores of coal mines, cotton mills, steel works and other industrial operations were using Coosa river power and looking for ward to the development of an un- limited supply for future increment of population and productive enter prise.
 He lived to see the water power of Alabama interlacing itself with that |of Tennessee, Georgia and the Caro- linas and the power of these five states brought into a common har- ness for the development of each. He died shortly after the last obstacle to harnessing the south's waterpower to the car of industry had been re- moved through passage of the water power bill.
 MT. Mitchell was president of the Alabama Power Company during it's entire period of meeting difficulties and removing obstacles and was the indomitable spirit that led to accom- plishment.
 It is great thing to have created that which serves over million peo- pie in so short a period.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
Believes in Closing

T am opposed to Sunday auto tire service says Hubert Drennen. Elm ployes should be given at least one day of rest and Sunday was intended for that purpose. It does not pay from a business standpoint to keep open. If every shop would remain closed the business would be evenly distributed On Monday and the remainder of the week
 The people as whole do not seem to be interested in the matter. If ali the tire houses are closed, auto own CTS will become used to doing without Sunday service and will provide extra tires, pumps and other accessories. Everybody knows they cannot buy groceries or suit of clothes on Sum- day. In the same manner the public will become accustomed to get along without Sunday tire service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
FLYING CRACKSMEN

He telephcned to the London airport at Croydon, asking for reservation on the plane leaving for Paris When in formed that the afternoon craft had al ready left. he went to the aviation ground and secured special plane It required a liberal distribution of money, but it paid him. He hoped over the top of the big police net and dropped safely on French soil.
 The report of the feat says this aerial escape of criminal was the first in the annals of British crime" But the whole history of crime is full of instances where the clever criminal has surprised the po- lice by the employment of a new inven- tion or contrivance which was never in- tended for his use. The criminal merely thought first again. This exploit should prove not alone to Scotland Yard but to the police departments elsewhere the ne- nessity of precautions that will make it's recurrence impossible
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
FOUNDED A GREAT FAMILY

only by title and hereditary privilege. A young Roosevelt today-one running for the vice presidency, for example-had many great grandparents contemporary with Klaes. He is a mosaic of ancestors But his traditions, if not his blood, revert primarily to one great-grandfather A cousin of the great T. R. five times re- moved. the younger has many of the fam fly characteristics of the elder. But they are two in a crowd, for other Roosevelts jostle one another in the pages of any cy- clopedia of American biography.
 Klaes Martensen van Roosevelt and all the other Roosevelts who have won dis tinction or are winning it constitute a goodly company. Justice, however, re- auires that something be said for the mothers who bore them and reared them and contributed largely to their equip ment of courage and enterprise and in- teIligence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24

decided that mosque should be built on the spot at a cost of seventeen hundred and fifty dollars. Further more, the "Tommies" were fined sev- eral days pay for their offense
 Even if irresponsible British sol- dlers were capable of feeling contrite Tn such circumstances, there would be no necessity for it. They may or may not have ruined the Tree of Acknowledgements probably they did not. Some authorities contend that the fruit Eve picked was not an ap- pie, anyway, but a lemon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
THREE LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS

From the Sheffield Standard.
 For the third time during the pres ent generation Alabama's lieutenant governor is called to serve temporarily as governor. During the Jelks admin istration Dr. R. M. Cunningham served for several months while Governor Jelks was absent in the west on ac- count of his health. During the Co., mer administration the late Henry B. Gray served as governor for thirty days. Lieutenant Governor Miller wiA serve until Governor Kilby's return from the west. In passing 1t may be noted that each of the above named lieutenant governors came from Jef- ferson county.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24

Dr. Charles M. Sheldon, in the Christian
 Herald
 6f7 HE great opportunity for the minis
 ter of today lies not in tho direc-
 ~ tion of great pulpit efforts but in the quite different work of teaching and leading the young life in his church and parish I believe that for hundreds Of churches in America, the actual power O. the ministry would be increased two. three, or fourfold by simply cutting the serm onizing in two. Reduce the actuai preaching of sermons to one-hah. Spend the other half of the time and strength that have been devoted to the preparation of sermons to actual hand-to--hand work with the young life in the parish. If results are what we are after-f what we want in America in the next ten or fifteen years is the return to profound. social national righteousness-it must be dcne through the training of those who are at the present time children.
 I have been in scores of churches
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
HAD BEEN MISSING SOMETHING

From the Boston Transcript.
 One of Sir Thomas Lipton's favorite stories concerns an old Scotchman, who went to horse race for the first time in the third race on a 40-to-1 shot. By some miracle the horse won, and when the bookmaker handed the old man his winnings he could hardly believe his eyes.
 'Dae ye mean to tell me I get all this for ma saxpence he exclaimed.
 You do.' replied the bookmaker.
 Ma conscience' muttered the scotchman. Tell me. mon, how long has this thing been goin' on?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
From the Sun and New York Herald.

From the Sun and New York Herald. N COPELAND YARD, which every Brit N isher considers the worlds highest organization for the capture of criminals and the detection of crime, and to which every British writer of detec- tive stories has given unstinted praise for cleverness, has just been outwitted. according to Londons own confession, by a shrewd criminal who has brains enough to think of some other way than land or water route of getting out of Eng land.
 The machinery of the great English de- tective organization was put into opera ton along all the old accepted lines; close watch was kept on all trains and the passengers of every outgoing boat were carefully scrutinized. The man for whom this net was spread did not at- tempt any of the disguises or subter- fuges in which the writers of the modern Old Capp Collier stories greatly delight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
Poland's Territory Now
 Invaded by Bolsheviks

1.-THE Polish situation is not only
 0 serious, but more menacing than might appear at first view. The Russian bolsheviks are overrunning the country.
 The brave little kingdom has ap- pealed to England and France for armed intervention, but the two pow CTS named confess their inability to render adequate aid in the emergency.
 Poland has asked tke state depart ment at Washington formally to an-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
Didn't Want Them

1 can give one instance where census enumerator deliberately passed up an opportunity to obtain names" says Arthur c. Sable. We have only recently come to Birmingham and we have three young men who room in our house. When the enumerator came my wife told her the names of those in the immediate family, and then told her that she had three roomers. The enum- orator answered that she was not talk ing roomers that day, and never re- turned for the names. The men have since sent in their names. and will be counted in Birmingham's figures"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
IN HOTEL LCBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Organized Singing


 Since the esta blishment of com munity service in Birmingham we are going 10 put this city on the map ia other ways than through it's coal and iron and industries" says Mrs. W. J. Adams. Already we have organized a chorus of 800 voices and we expect to largely increase this humber dur Ing the next few months.
 Leaders in various sections of the city have been appointed to organize choruses in their respective sections to hecome part of the big chorus. We expect to make this big thing and one which will attract the attention of people from all over the country and one of which Birmingham will be just ly proud.
 This is no little undertaking, but with the man we have back of this work we expect to make a grand suc- cess of community service and want the cooperation and assistance of the citizens of this city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24

From the Chicago News
 11 LAES Martensen van Roosevelt in
 IN 1s44 was busy Dutchman pot G tering about the booming town os New Amsterdam. He had small time for dream sand prophecy. But Klaes Mar jensen van Roosevelt intrigued the muse of history with a romance better than he knew. As an ancestor he has won dis tirction.
 It is a retrospective fame at best and somewhat baffling of analysis. Why he deserves credit and on what basis his ca- reer to fame was laid is less easy. Though he may have been ambitious, it is not probable that his ambitions led in the direction which fame finally chose for him Fortune, notoriously capricious. in the care of Klaes was procrastinating.
 Klaes founded a good family, dis proving, as has many another democrat, the view that family can be maintained
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
Old Trails

T had one of the greatest trips of my life,' says Joe Rosenberger. for not only visited Atlantic City, Phila- what's more. did something which I had longed to do, and that was take an automobile trip through Pennsylvania and parts of Virginia following the line of the great battles of the Civil war. I had about a seven hundred on account of it's historic interest and the beauty of the scenery, but be- cause a fellow had chance to know the real pleasure of riding on sure- enough highways"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
----------sDs- -sDs--------------> FOR REMEMBRANCE

By Harry Lee. A long, hoarse blast, The brazen din Of a thousand whistles- A transports in, Blare of trumpet. Rattle of drum, In fadel khaki The -victors come. Confetti whitens The streets below, Wild, sun-smitten. Like swtrling snow. The crowds are frantic. They laugh and cry, They wave. they shout. As the boys pass by. Arches of triumph Flags allow Was it an age Or < year ago?
  Click os crufch TAp Of a z2Ae Two raix ss4rg sclMerp Arp by rnrcssh the Y11A
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
THAT WAS BEFORE rENRosE

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 From printers devil to the White House is a far cry. but no farther than the route Lincoln travered"-Birming- ham Age Herald.
 Jes' SO. And does the Ase-HerAld recoilsct tha% he mAds the Journey on . republican ticket
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
NO SENSE OF HUMoR

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 The Pennsylvanian who hasn't been to bed for twenty-five years because Mark Twain said the proportion of deaths in bed shows how dangerous it was a great man, without knowing why.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
THE MODERN BREED

Those pirates bold who used to sail Upon the Spanish Main And chose a secret cave somewhere To store ill-gotten gain, Have long since passed away. although They were a hardy lot And lived adventures wild and free That ne'er will be forgot. They must have left descendants, for We meet them now and then; Not brave, as those old pirates were, But greedy grasping men. Some charge price for clothes a.
 which
 A luckless wight rebels, And some are running restaurants. And others keep hotels.
 QUITE SIMPLE
 How did you contrive to live sc ions?" asked the interviewer T didn't make any particular plans" said the brisk centenarian.
 "No?'
 T just kept hopping out of bed every morning until the first thing I knew had been doing it a hundred years"
 NOT INDISPENSABLE
 Tt took the human race thousands of years to get accustomed to soap and water"
 What do you deduce from shat@ If civilization had depended on the bathtub, we would still be using stone hatchets." VIEWS FROM EVERYWHERE The village postmaster is a queer old fellow.'
 "He talks intellgently about many parts of the world"
 Has he traveied much~'
 No, but he has received a liberal souvenir post card education
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
ADRIFvT WITH THE TIMES
FART OF THE LOOT

 Did you have much trouble explain ing to your wife why you were out So late?'' ''No.' replied MT. Pokerleigh. ~Ac- tions speak louder than words" True" 50 just handed her fifty-doiiar bill"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
May Be Spiders

} We have heard a great deal lately about communicating with Mars" says William l.. White, land it has become a general assumption that it must of a necessity be inhabited by people like ourselves, and, on account of being older than the earth, it's human in- habitants must be much more highly developed.
 "A great many people believe that the alleged inha bitants of Mars have been endeavoring to communicate with the earth for thousands of years; that they are now eyeing us from their sky scrapers and watchtowers, anxiously waiting some sign.
 "It may be possible that Mars is inhabitated by some sort of creatures, but it will be impossible for them to be like our human races in any es- sential respect. They are just as liable to be jack rabbits, spiders or ground hogs as they are to resemble us."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
TRAILING BEHIND

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 The Birmingham Age Herald says there is no place for a thiiH party.- None except third place
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24

Washington Bureau. 300 Davidson building.
 European Bureau, 10 King street. Coyent Garden, London, W. C. 2.
 Eastern business office, World building, New York city; western busl- Less office, Tribune building. Chi cago. The s. C. Beckwith Special Agency, agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
sEEF-EvIDENT

SELF PENDENT Now doth the loud spellbinder Plead with the voters to Weigh carefully the issues and Elect good men and true. The nation must be guarded From fast approaching ills; One party only can do that The one that pays his bills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
SUMMER RESORT VICTIM

SUMMER RESORT VICTIM Who is the distressed looking man in the lobbyc" He is a departing guest who has just paid his bill and is waiting to see the manager" What about?" He hopes to borrow enough mons- to pay for his meals on the diner g5- ing home"
 A GENTLEMAN OF LEISURE The horny-handed son of toll Doth at movie finger. Glad raiment on his manly form, A diamond on his finger
 WOMEN MUST WEEP How many tragedies there are in women's lives" "Ah, yes. If it isn't the wrong man, it's apt to be a double chin"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24
Member of tbe Associated Press

The Age-Herald Is the only morning snd Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dis patches
 The Associated Press is exclusively emitted to the use for publication of sll news dispatches credited to it 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., 1920-07-24

Come what come may,
 toughest day. Macbeth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24

TELEPHONE Bell (private exchange connecting all depar.ments) Main 49O0
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24

threatened once more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-24

Writing to the New York World, a young woman says, ''Tm not gold dig ger; but show me something with pants and an income. Lord, but I'm tired of working for living A cry from the depths.