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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03
REFINED CRUELTY.

Mrs Grabcoin says she expects to re- ceive a few little trifles Christmas-s rope of pearls, perhaps, a new motor car or something of that sort"
 What makes her talk that way?'
 "A mean disposition. She just wants to hood see pinwheels and dig their pol ished fngernails into their palms"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03

From ~Christmas Greens" by Henry
 van Dyke, in the December Scribner. 61HE OLD ENGLISH customs and
 manners of Yuletide-the general
 ~ atmosphere of festive prepara- tion. the enrolling of the waits" on Christmas Eve, the service in the vil- lage church on Christmas morn, the feasting in servants hall and dining room, the yulelog blazing on the broad hearth and the boar's head borne in with ceremony, the wassail-bowl and, the Christmas pie, the songs and dances and games under the Lord of misrule, the mummery in fancy dress. the ghost stories by the fireside, the per vasive spirit of joviality and good comradeship between young and old. wise and simple, rich and poor--these Christmas charms are nowhere set forth more enchantingly than in the Sketch book of Washington Irving. No wonder that Sir Walter Scott loved the book and tho author. Yet even when he wrote, the genial knickerbocker saw these ways and manners as antiquities in . vanishing light, and he prefaced his essays with . quotation from still earlier hue and cry after Christmas. But is old old, good old Christmas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03
HER TRANSLATION

From the Kansas City Star.
 Say, looky here" demanded chin whiskered customer in the rapid-fire restaurant. T want good, substantial meal; no frills or fixin's, y'understand. but suthin' that'll fill me up."
 Bale O hay for the gent from Jimp- son Junction." calmly yelled Feloise the waitress back to the kitchen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03
One Owes Much to
 the Community Life

OIC SwCS A40SA &S
 the Community Life
 077 7E should not complain because wv there is constant appeal to our pocketbooks in the name of our fellow man. We should remember that every day of our lives society gives us our living and affords us our safety and comfort. What we have we owe to the conditions of a we'll ordered community life.
 What we give to Mercy Home saves a human being and helps convert a liability into an asset. We are the keepers of our fellow beings. If we care for them that need care they de- velop into healtmul members of so- ciety; if we do not, the cost of the crimes which they commit and the disease and poverty which they spread costs many more dollars than early remedial measures would have cost us.
 The money that goes to fight tuber- culosis may come back to the indi- vidud who gives 1t through preserva- ton of his life or that of some dearly loved one by preventing the spread of the disease to those with whom he and his come in contact. No greater truth was ever expressed than the one which declared t is better to give than to receive.
 Ton will feel better after you have given your quota to Mercy Home and bought your Christmas seas.
 * x*
 Surmoumtimg an Obstacle
 to International Trade "a 7 ANY men. who do not claim to lVll be financiers and to whom diff ferences in foreign exchange are more pr less Greek and Sanscrit, neverthe- less venture acting on the old proverb that "a cat may look at Hng," and inquire why in the name of all that is horse sense, can we not trade with other peopla, whether they have money or not?
 We traded with the Indians when they had no money. We swamped glass beads for skins of fox and beaver. We have dealt with Africans for ivory on the basis of few yards of calico and a few worn-out silk hats. Why can't we do business with European nations whose money is below parity with ours?
 The Anglo Danubian association of London thinks it can be done. This corporation has been formed to '9pro- mote trade between the states that have been carved out of Austria and Hungary. It will supply raw ma terial in trust to these states, the finished product to be re-exported to markets which can pay in goods or money. Throughout the process of manufacture the materials are to be the property of those who send them.'
 Some Mississippi citizens are doing this sort of thing with German cotton mills, forwarding the cotton and re- taining title until the goods are made up and cold. Eventually the Mississip- plan is paid in good American dol. lars.
 Can we not go a step further ant secure raw materials that we neet from countries which, like Russia have practically worthless money!
 * * *
 Limitless Opportunity
 in Southern Soil
 X DISPATCH from Sanford, Fla. A records the sale of carload oi lettuce at a profit to the grower o1 $2,455.
 There are pecan growers who have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03

RAISING ELEPHANTS ON BOTTLE From Trapping an Elephant Herd in
 Trengganu.- by Charles Mayer. In
 Asia for December.
 We cut holes in the rattan webbing between the post sand enticed the small elephants to come out There were sew eral babies in the lot. and they soon be- came playful and affsctionate. Baby elephants are just three feet high at birth and weigh about 200 pounds. They grow an inch each month. We made pets of them and amused ourselves with veaninE them. We did this by taking q pail of warm milk and dipping the babies' trunks into 1t. then doubling the trunks up and putting them into their owners' mouths. and finally squirting milk in with squirt gun. The babies soon learned to initiate this procedure. They were mischievous It, tie animals. fun of fan and inQuisitive- ness. Hour after hour. I played with them and laughed until I ached.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03
ACUTE SUFFERING.

ANUTE BUFF EflING. q wish you'd ask somebody else to collect this bill from Mir. Wadleigh," said the new collector. Whats the matter!"
 .T've had some experience in calling on MT. Wadleigh for another firm. Hs pays but his groans are so heart-rendtng I'm unfit for work the rest of the day."
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03
WISDOM OF THE BEACH

From the London Daily Chronicle Adolphe Babu, who for some purpose of his own has been deceiving people into believing that he was deaf and dumb. met his Nemesia at Dijon in the person of an examining magistrate, who suddenly crashed an inkwell onto thA floor and caused Babu to give unmis- takabie proof that he clearly heard the noise. The prisoner then bragged how he had deceived various military au- thorities, adding: Judges certainly have more of the wisdom of Solomon than army doctors"
 THE PIG rGHMAN's LIFE x By Robert Burr <. As was aws na'rirg ss morning in
 spring,
 heard young p'cnshuaan sae sweet
 ly to sing And as he was sinsia'. their words he
 did say
 Thsre's nae life like the ploughman's
 in the mcnth q sweet May. The lsvrock in tne naornizg she'll rise
 frae her nest. And mount I sss air vi the dew en
 her breast And vii the merry plouehman ehsl1
 whistle and sing. And at night she'll retlrr to her nest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03
Mennonites Find Haven
 in State of Minnesota


 R1HE south turned cold shoulder ll to the Mennonites when they sought to leave Canada and find a new abiding place, but they have been welcomed with open arms by the gov ernor of Minnesota. They have bought I'll ,000 acres of land in that state, ac- cording to the New Orleans Item, and will establish colony there. The Mennonites were not wanted in Canada because they refused to fight in the World war. For the same req son they were given to understand that their presence was undesirable in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, although they are a thrifty and industrious people. Being intensely religious, they are also law abiding.
 The prejudice against the Mennon- ties in the south was not due entirely to their reluctance to bear arms. The south objected to them for an- other reason. They are clannish sect, who could never be assimilated and would always live to themselves. We want good settlers but nothing that resembles a foreign colony. America has suffered from attempts toperpetuate spirit of loyalty to other lands by nationals who were ostensibly American citizens. The Mennonites, to some extent, belong in that cate gory. American citizenship should take precedence over nationality and religion, particularly in a country where all religions are tolerated. The south has a higher percentage of native-born Americans than any other part of the country and wishes to maintain that standard.
 Five-year Sentence for a "Wizard of Finance" M IGNOR PONzI goes to prison for 0 five years. A gentleman with his imagination and persuasive man. ners may be assured of eventually getting some light indoor work to do. He may keep the prison books, for instance.
 This is the punishment meted out to a criminal who robbed his dupes of millions. He preyed alike on the widow and the orphan, the old and the young. There must have been many victims who gave him the saw ings of lifetime. After sojourning a few years in prison Signor Ponzi will emerge, quite recovered from his recent ordeal and his fertile mind teeming with new "get-rich-quick" schemes, to find that the always gulh- ble public is waiting to be sold again. It is not surprising that the confi- dence man seldom, or never, reforms. Why should he? It is easy work, and fascinating, too, for a person who likes to take a sporting chance. No one knows quite so well as the pro- fessional swindler that fool and his money are soon parted.
 Signor Ponzi may be confidently ex- pected to bob up again and perchance once more fit like a meteor through the realm of high finance. He will have a different name, to be sure, but in other respects there will be no change in Ponzi.
 Output of "Shinny" Is
 Reported Increasing
 N MONO the 57 or more varieties of IA intoxicating liquor now being made in America by inexperienced
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03
COMPLICATIONS.

He advertised heart for rent The devil made him do it; He wishes now he'd said a tent Two damsels moved into it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03
A nnRNINs PRAYER

A MORNING PRAYER
 Grant me, Lord, not to fear the coming of tomorrow, knowing that if I live today with thee, thou and I together will care for the morrow when it cometh. Amen.--M. s. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03
The Why to Win

'"rhe southern farmer is going to come out of the kinks this year." said w D. Nesbitt of the Warrant Ware house company. This is because he has gotten on his fighting clothes. So long as a. man holds his hands to his side and looks about aimlessly for things to happen, they do not happen; but when he doubles up his fists and strikes out, they happen right now. There was nothing doing while we were sitting about and wondering if the government could not help out the cotton situation. Just as soon. ho ~- ever. as we began devising our own ways and means of doing things. the situation began to look better, and 1t is distinctly better.
 Lots of cotton has been financed through southern effort, and the habit of self-help that we are taking on is going to count more and moro next year and the year after that and thenceforth."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03

BUT A WINK WILL GET DRINK From the Anniston Star.
 Mexico City is peaceful. but 1t cannot be very quiet with six American gov- ernors trying to make themselves un-. derstood to the nativ~-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
A Restles. Tamworth

Those Tamworth pigs that Ned Brace raises so proliicaliy out on Shades mountain have various fine qualities, but I did not know until re- gently that they were such athletes" said C. M Stanley.
 flock gave me five weeks old speci- men for Cash, Junior. We put him in an improvised stall in the basement the first night. The next morning we found him on top of a 15-foot pile of coal, snorting defiance. An hour later he got out through an air vent which was 21s feet above ground. So we gave him the run of the garden. Finding a place in the board fence to his liking he began to root, grunt snort and paw and converting himself into a batter ing ram made three passes and on the third wiggled through and was gone
 After an hours chase, Cash Junior and a negro volunteer caught him over toward Idlewild and locked him up in the basement After while 1 put him in the doghouse in the garden and wired the door. But when his owner came from school he was gone-spurlos versenkt.
 Wherever that pig Is, he is busy al something. His restlessness is appal- ing. If any one sees him, Cash Junior would like to hear about it"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03
Has No Phone eldom that anythir

''It is seldom that anything escLpes the sharp eyes of the city's newsp lper reporters, but an incident of last Sat- urday which was worth more than passing notice escaped them complete ly," said John Sparrow. T refer to the running amuck of two horses in First alley last Saturday about noon. They started somewhere behind Drennen's or Burgers department stores, ran across Nineteenth street and were finally stopped near Eighteenth street. They dragged all this distance heavy flat dray and tore up five wagons, q buggy and smashed the lenders of two auto as well as turned a motorcycle and it's occupant topsy-turvy. I was crossing the intersection of Twentieth street and the alley in my car when they rushed out and whirled the ma chine about and bent my right fender something awful"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03
Welcome Reduction

''The paint manufacturers have an nounced an average reduction of 10 per cent on paints said William J. Angen. vice president of the Birmins ham Paint and Glass company. "Tacre will be no further reductions, the fac- tories declare, and the new price lists are to hold until next June.
 We, of course, welcome reduction, because it will encourage home build ing and hasten a great deal of remodel ing work badly needed. Lumber, fash, doors and roofing are lower now, and with paint prices in line we should at once note great activity in building Birmingham needs the houses. and with materials reasonably priced I believe we will see many of them built
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03
Pure ACussedness"

Some people are hard to please" said E. B. Mccullough They will cuss the government regardless of the con dition of affairs. Here is our outgoing administration, for example, which has managed the affairs of state through the most tempestuous years since the dark days of the Civil war. The returns Of the late election show only too plain ly how popular it's work has been.
 While men were getting rich they cussed the administration, and now when times are a little tighter they cuss some more. It is very evident that you cannot please all of the people all of the time, and it looks equally as doubtful if you can please some of the people any of the time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03
Clear Streets

"vagrancy is the root of all cvil,' said A. M. Dinsmore. Tn catching tho thieves. beggars, robbers, second-story men and others of that ilk. it would be my suggestion that the police force look on the street corners and the curb in between, and take up the man who seems to have nothing better ro do than stand there and rest himself. l predict the streets would be cleaner. the people healthier, the mashers Fewer and the general number of law break were arrested and placed on the chain gang"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03
Limitless Opportunity
 in Southern Soil

X DISPATCH from Sanford, Fla, A records the sale of carload of lettuce at profit to the grower of s2,455.
 There are pecan growers who have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-03

fering from "fogginess" of the intel
 lect.
 For all those, however. who are liv-
 ing in a mist of gloom on account of
 conscientious doubts of revealed reli- zion, with Leighton, can only pray and hope That the light of divine truth may shine clear in them. and not
 be logged and misled with filthy
 vapors." For there be some who raise fog" concerning miracles about their own heads and suppose 1t extends through the universe; just as I used to think that when it rained at my home all the world was getting wet I'll not take up .he significance of the word fog in it's relation to photog- simplest meaning 1t refers to . cloud or coating obscuring developed plate, usually the result of impurities in tho chemicals, or of accidental exposure to actinic light or from errors in manip-
 ulation. The aim of the photographer being, to produce pictures without their
 being '.foggy." On the deepest shades
 there shold be pure photographic de- posit, and not "fog."
 I'll skip the uses of the word .foe' applying to the description of Eross. | 1At and clumsy, and conclude by askins pardon for having set down here all of 1. th ese rambling remarks about "fogs" ,tnst because happened to como into lths city with wreaths of clouds about | ny head
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-10-25
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ADDITIONAL WANT ADS

modern house, very best
location. Owner moving away
and will sacrifice for spot cash. IL
-Cozy house, 4-rooms, bath, dandy
cellar, garage, and wood shed, 2
: blocks to, High school and 2 blocks
to Central. For quick sale, very
cheap. .--.>
-4-room house on so It. lot, 800
cash, $12 per month, no interest.
8 nicely located lots, 2 blocks from
normal. Very cheap. {
3 corner lots, good location.
Cheap. -
house, SO #. lot, $500 cash.
Lake Shore home, 6-rooms , and
bath, fine garage, beautiful home,
for an immediate sale, only $4,000.
Best all-modern palacial Lake
Shore home for the extremely low
price of $4,000.
located business block.
can give possession at once. $500
easy terms. \ -:
.5-room house, SO it lot, 5000.
house, so it lot, $ 100,
part cash. -!
.5-room Lake Shore home, very
nice, $2,750, easy terms.
broom house., one acre, $3.50.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-10-25
Northwestern News
POLITICAL BATTLES IN
FULL SWING THIS WEEK

st. Paul, Oct. 25.-With only a
week to go, political battles in the
northwest were in full swing today.
The election, a week from Tuesday
will decide one d the biggest strug-
giles Minnesota ever witnessed pollt1-
cally,
Jacob 40. Preus, republican nom
inee for governor, is opposed by May
or L. C. Hodgson, of st. Paul, demo-
crat; DR.. Henrik Shipstead of Glen
coe, Independent; and Peter J. Sam
son, socialist. Il s5j-.a5 80.
Shipstead, carrying the endorse,
ment of the National Non-Partisan
League, also has the endorsement of
the Working Peoples Nonpartisan
Political League. The fight has cent
cred largely between Shipstead and
Preus. The issues between the two
simmered down is one of non-parti-
sanism versus republicanism.
Hodgson, leading the democratic
ranks, has been deserted by some cap
tains, among them Oliver ]. Duane,
of st. Peter, who declared the battle
between Preus and Shipstead needed
the attention of Democrats. 80,
In 1913, just before the end Of
the war Governor J. A. A. Burnquist
ives elected on a republican ballot
with 1861 votes. David H. Evans,
Farmer-Labor candidate endorsed by
the Non-partisan league, received
1896 votes. Fred E. Wheaton,
democratic candidate received 49,.
838 votes. Olaf o. .Stageberg, Ma
tional party candidate, received 81
649 and L. P. Berot, socialist receiv-
ed 7,795. Ar ~. 49,. ->.:s:: ~ !
/ Julius Schmahl, secretary Of state,
led the republican ticket in the total
number of votes received in 1918 re-
ceiving 218,537. Preus was next
high on the ticket and was elected
state auditor with 214,4O2 votes. p
r. Because Of the fact that women
are voting for the first time this year
officials expect the total vote when
counted will run over 100000. On
this basis comparisons and estimated
this year are considered, futile.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-10-25
GOVERNOR SPROUl,
SAYS WOMEN NOT
~ IN FAVOR OF COX

"Women voters are not for Cox
says Governor Sproul Of Pennsylvania
and the reasons are not far to ind.
Governor Cox has alienated the affec-
lions Of great masses Of American
women. In the first place, 1t ID gan
orally conceded that his intimate
friends knew that IN HIS heart he did
not want wsman's suffrage and that
his statements In favor Of this meas
ure were only for political effect
8 There are great many travelling
men In this country. They are, - q
class, cpnstructionists Of 4 high order.
Their intelligent optimism has often
held Z merchant up past the breaking
point helping save his business. These
travelling men have devoted wives |;
the most Of them take Great interest
in what their husbands are doing. Cox
lost what friends he may have had
among these good people by his 'amaz-
ingly stupid attack on commercial
travelling and the travelling man. ;
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-10-25
TELESCOPE CAMERA IN ANDES
Largest Photographic Apparatus In the
World Has 24.lneh Lens. i

, The South American station of Har-
ward university's observatory, tucked
away in the Peruvian Andes, near the
city of AreQuipa, in the old Inca EN-.
,pire, boasts of the largest photo
graphic apparatus in the world. It Is
a huge telescope camera with -
inch lens which has been Of great aid
to science in its observations Of the
southern skies. > ~
The station was founded 30 years
ago, and is located near the base of
the famous Andean volcano, Misti.
The Arequipanian Indians, descen-
dants Of the Inca civilization, fire.
Quently speak Of themselves as the
sons and daughters of old Misti. It is
said the Indians in the surrounding
country still worship the mountain
with much reverence, regarding 1t as
the source Of earthquakes which Oft
en- are felt in the region. The volcano
erupted seven years ago.
Superstitions in regard to the noun
tain date back to prehistoric times.
The ruins of the ancient pagan tenn
pies, a writer says, have been found In
the crater of the volcano, and even to-
day near the top may be seen a great
iron cross, placed there in 1677,-when
a party of Spanish priests exercised
and pleaded with it not to erupt again
and destroy their cities.
The clear atmosphere Of the Arequi-
pa region is, said to have afforded an
excellent site for an observing station.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-10-25
Register Tomorrow
PRAISES HARDINC'S
WELFARE PROGRAM

senator Harding's address on socia
Justice in which he proposed Fedora
Department of Public Welfare, is thu
longest step and practicable propose
yet taken by any man Of official re
sponsibility," declares Hon. Simeon D
Tess, representative in Congress from
Ohio.
His program goes directly to thu
core Of the problem and demands pro
lection, first, Of motherhood, by safe
guarding maternity, then Of childhood
by proper legislation, and through
these, the national health against in
vaslon Of disease through low stand
ards Of morals and commercial az
erosion of industry, which exposes T.
epidemics," he said. He recognizes
social Justice not as a woman's prob
lem, but a. general problem, In
which women play q larger part
Hence, his specific demands that WON
en- be placed on various boards, Fed
eral and State, which have to deal
with problems Of employment, labor
adjustment and wherever national
health Is to be determined. This con
Germ must extend to women in agri'
culture, as well as industries.
Senator Harding's sound common
sense prevents his dealing in general
theories at the expense Of practical
results. Alive to the dangers OF
bureaucracy, against which he warns
he asks for Reorganization Of our de-
paftments at Washington which will
be one Of his earliest tasks, and rec
ommends the creation of department
Of Public Welfare, to have directions
Of the problem Of social Justice. This
will prevent duplication Of agencies
by unifying a half dozen bureaus now
doing haphazard work into one re-
sponsible and responsive department
Of the government. This step carries
program Of social Justice from the
stage of theoretical speculation to
that of practical execution, and the
country can expect immediate action
along practical lines" !