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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Farmer HelD


 Now that the rain has stopped for few days it would be a good thing for all the men who could do so to volunteer their services to help the farmers for one day." says J. c. Will Hams.
 "The farmers have not been able to plant anything so far this year, and if there are any crops this work must be done during the next three weeks. Unless the food is raised we cannot buy it, even though we have the money. The decrease in production will certainly increase the price. This plan could be adopted and a day set aside for this work. Persons should be designated to communicate with the farmers in this district and assign the men volunteering to various farms where help is needed.
 "Of course, many farmers haven't any horses or mules to spare and 1t would be splendid thing for persons having stock not busy to lend their animals for that day. It appears to me that this would Be good way to help the farmers get their seed planted so that full crops may be raised this year."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
Community Sing Units
 Proving Attractive

TIT OLLIS c. DAVENNY, Birming- U H hams new community sing di- lrector, is making good headway with Ihis unit plan. He was highly success !ful with this method in Washington ,and he has great hope of its success Ihere.
 He has already organized units in several business concerns in Birming- ham. Members of the units are taught sight reading in the simpler forms and from time to time they come to- gether in mass chorus with gratify- ing results.
 All MT. Davenny asks is co-opera- tion on the part of mercantile houses, managers in industrial plants and church choirs.
 Choir members are experienced, o1 CoulSe, III IeddlliS HluolS, anu py -Jolii- ing the units can be of great assist ance in producing splendid volume of tone correctly read and phrased.
 In few weeks time a magnificent chorus of music worth while will be heard in Woodrow Wilson park. It is not MT. Davenny's intention to make finished singers of members o1 four-part units, but this first step is the beginning of the fundamental ele. 'ments of music of a high order. MT Davenny says he does not see any substantial future to community music except in the way he ha: mapped out.
 Mrs. W. J. Adams, chairman of th' community sing, is enthusiastic ovel MT. Davenny's efforts along the uni line and will aid in every way possi bic to arouse the people to join il the new movement.
 One of the most encouraging fea lures of the unit work is the zes with which the children take hol, of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
Impressive Items Found On
 Balance Sheet" of France

A CONCISE statement has been GA made of Frances losses in the war by Captain Andre Tardieu, for mer French high commissioner to the United States. The balance sheet" of France shows that eight million men were mobilized during the five years of war. Of these one million four hundred thousand were killed, eight hundred thousand maimed and three hundred thousand wounded. Fifty-seven per cent of Frances men under 32 years of age were 5acri- feed.
 Captain Tardieu says six hundred thousand houses were destroyed, seventy-five million acres of arable land laid waste, and three thousand miles of railroad and twenty-five thousand miles of highway destroyed Coal mines producing 55 per cent of Frances coal output were eithe, damaged or destroyed and eleven
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
IBANEZ ON MEXICO

ident Carranza. who is seldom accessible,
 republic, and there was a matching of wits It is not easy to imagine Don Tenustiano unbending, but the Ibanez magnetism made him volubIe and even i merry In the shadow of disaster the
 cid chieftain laughed Fundamentally But Mexican from Presidents who were hi-
 ways generals, and what generals!' The eminent reporter used asterisks at this point. The means employed to get rid of the sinister militarists he could not ap- prove; therefore, the downfall of Car had been in theory.
 i The President had undone himself and
 failed to serve his country by trying to force Ygnacio Bonillas upon it, and by giving personal favorite, young Gen.
 eral Juan Barragan, Adonis, landy, ex-
 quiste, powers and privileges that made
 him intolerable. How faithfully Ibanez ! paints the worthy Bonillas! With de- i lghtful comedy touches he shows us the court favorite! But he does not spare the
 pseudo-patriots-"sh shameless self-seekers''
 he calls them-who abound in Mexico
 public men-no one disinterested, clean I hearted and clean-handed To read
 Ibanez is to know Mexico as it is, and why constitutional government has al-
 ways failed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21

thousand five hundred factories were crippled German submarines sank one-third of Frances ships. To -arry on the war the French government raised more than eight billion francs.
 Although Belgium was occupied by the Germans during practically the entire period of the war and was the first battle ground, her losses in hu- man life and property were propor- tionately far less than those of France. The tide of war swept over Belgium and it was in northern France that vast armies were locked in a death grapple. Here the great est havoc was wrought.
 Vast as were the material losses of France, it is her dead and maimed who command pity and respect. France mobilized an army twice as large as Americas, and our losses seem small in comparison with her one million four hundred thousand dead. 1t is fortunate for America that the bloody struggle did not go on for another year or two, as we anticipated. Then the rows of cro sses marking the graves of American sol diers in France would have increased to hundreds of thousands.
 A tremendous price was paid by France for victory, which spelled lree- man alive today who does not think dom to her. Yet there is no French the defeat of Germany was worth all it cost, and if the heroic dead could speak, they would voice the -ame 1 opinion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21

From the Washington Post
 N 0OT the least remarkable feature NWl of the speech in which the Brit 0 NJ ish chancellor of excheauer intro a,oed his recent sensational budget was
 that portion devoted to demonstrating what he described as the "astonishing in- crease, in smoking. We all smoke said the chancellor, ''and we shall smoke more" The statistics established 1t ana there was ocular proof of the fact in the setting aside of many more compart-
 ments for smoking on the railroad trains It annears that this increased consump- ton of tobacco is one of the many py- nroducts of the war. In the overseas army the soldiers were smoking all the time they were off duty, and they have retained the practice to such an extent that man who formerly was content with one ounce of tobacco in week now easily gets through three or four' and some far more than that. The great l est increase, however. is admittedly que 1 to the prevailing indulgence of women III
 the habit In ante-bellum days It was l generally the women of the higher ana
 the lower class who smoked, the former cigarettes, the latter pipes. The great middle classes were mostly unaffected Rut when women and girls began te 1 earn money-and big money at that on their own account, they appeared te
 succumb naturally to the charms of my ,,adx nicotine. The habit once acquired
 has been kept up and is spreading day bv day. Some women purchase as many as from 200 to 400 cigarettes in week. Il |is doubtful if they smoke that number; |more probably they distribute goodly lnroportion to their friends.
 significant symptom is that many ladies of high degree have abandoned tho cigarette for the pipe. the reason giver being that the temptation to inhale is thus reduced. The adoption of the YSa' argues for a strongly confirmed habit.
 When the prohibitionists have succeeded in deprivins merry England of her beer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
YIDDISH ACTORS FUNERAL

sion's way was blocked by a weeping crowd of semi-hysterical women and men. The police, who had been reinforced had difficulty in clearing narrow path. There was room in the theatre for 1000 mourners; at least five times that num- Der sought admission.
 In the theatre were delegations from various clubs and unions associated with the Jewish theatre. Eulogies were deliv- cred by Bertha Kalich, Jacob Adler, favorite actor; Sholom Asch and Leo Orn- stein, piaywrights in whose plays Kess- Ter appeared often; Rudolph Marks, once an actor, now lawyer, and William P Edlin, editor of the Day.
 From the theatre, which in his hcnor will be known as Kessler's, the long fu- neral procession led along First street to the Bowery, to Delaney street and over the Williamsburgh Bridge. It moved always between sorrowing crowds. Kess- Ter was buried in Washington cemetery next to the grave of his friend, Sigis- mund Moguelsko the actor, who died i,, 1Q11
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
Futile Attacks Made On , Muscle Shoals Development

6NHAT the "child is father of the
 4 man" is more than proved in the majority report of the Muscle Shoals Investigating committee. It is essentially puerile.
 They condemn the cost plus sys- tenn in building the nitrate plant. The cost plus system was used all over the country to expedite construction, to place the army in the field in rec ord time, to carry the army safely across the ocean. Whats the sense of singling out Muscle Shoals in prac- tice that was universal?
 ] They condemn the expenditure al Muscle Shoals because no nitrates were produced "prior to the armi stice" The minority report aptly ob serves that if "exr enditures were tt be judged by the unexpected end o1 hostilities, three-fourths of the na tion's efforts were useless"
 In particular the minority set, forth that three million more mel than were necessary were called t. the colors." If the majority repor is sound, then Congress made itsel ridiculous in passing the last draf act"
 The most casual student of tn, world war knows that Germany qui fighting when she did, not because she could not fight longer, but be cause it was realized that the Ameri can war machine in the leash had several times more macerating power
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
Valuable Service Given
 By the Traffic Bureau

"A N institution, which has in three 6A years saved it's membership two hundred thousand dollars in one department of it's activities alone, is worth while.
 The Birmingham Traffic Bureau has collected claims for loss in tran sit, damage to goods and overcharges the tidy sum of a hundred and eighty six thousand dollars.
 In the past month it's claim collec- tions amounted to nearly ten thou sand dollars and money saved by auditing of merchants freight ex- pense bills amounted to over fifteen thousand dollars.
 But this is only a portion of the service. Every department of the bureau is free to every member Whether it is quoting rates, routing shipments, giving legal advice, audit | ing expense bills, or collecting on
 claims, the bureaus agency is at the service of all members gratis. Picking up hundreds of thousands of dollars that otherwise would not
 have been collected is just one fea- | ture of this useful institution. It is not surprising that at each
 meeting of the directors, merchants
 both retail and wholesale, are being
 taken into membership.
 The indications are that the forth.
 coming drive for new members vii
 be a pronounced success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
Met In q Hut

T went to the Southern Baptist con-
 vention at Washington" said Dr. F. H. Harrington superintendent of missions
 in the Birmingham Baptist Associa- tion, "and I want to say that so far
 as an auditorium is concerned. the cap
 ital of our country needs one as badly
 as does Birmingham, which is about equivalent to saying that it is prac- tically without one.
 ''The hut in which we met was wholly unfit and totally inadequate for such a gathering. So far as the hotels,
 boarding houses and the citizens talk ing care of the delegates and visitors was concerned. it was well done but anyone who had, to try and see or hear the adresses at the sessions of the convention will pray to be delivered | from any more such arrangements. I certainly hope the progressive peo- 1 pie of this city will hurry up and build 1 an auditorium and get ready to en- certain the Southern Baptist conven- tion,'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
BROUGHT HOME FROM FRANCE

By Caroline Russell Bispham. Here lies the body of my boy.
 Brought home to me. They twill not let me see my son
 Though mine is he Shut, in his coffin, meath his flag
 As he should be-, Strange that it was some other one
 Across the sea, In far land, who did for him.
 Instead of me, What I in happier days have done,
 When as a wee Sweet babe he lay upon my breast,
 So fair to see Close down his eyes against the sun.
 An, woe is me. Now they are closed forever, but
 He waits for me In Heaven. his race superbly run;
 And I and he Will (joined togsther at Gods throne Bowed head. bent knee) Receive the crowns his life has won
 For him and me l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21

From the New York World
 lM h( ORE than 100000 persons, most l\VII of whom had applauded David Kessler, assembled yesterday to pay their last respects to the Yiddish actor Kessler died on Friday, having been taken i'll in the Lyric Theatre, Brooklyn, while acting in the "Keutzer Sonata" in a part that added to his game. His body lay in state at the He- brew Actors Club. Second avenue and Seventh street, until yesterday morning,
 Then the casket was carried on the shoulders of pallbearers down Second avs- nue to the Second Avenue Theatre, which Kessler owned. The street mar kets were abandoned temporarily, the blinds in little shop windows were low cred, workers ceased their labors for half a day; there was every sign of sn- cere mourning. Ahead of the casket and between silent throngs walked Cantor Herschman and the members of the Jew ish Stage Choir, who sung verses from the Psalms of David.
 Arriving at Second street the Droces-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
Eighteenth Street Attracts Him

"Birminghams steel mills are ave- inspiring and her residence sections are superbly beautiful but the most interesting feature of your city is Eighteenth street" says Paul Findlay of Los Angeles, expert on retail mer- chandising, who lectured here last night.
 The negro stories of Octavus Roy Cohen in the Saturday Evening Post have done more to advertise your city than any other conceivable agency. I visited Eighteenth street today and saw the Penny Prudential Savings Bank building, the F'rolic, Mascot and Queen theatres and the other familiar haunts of Florian Slappey. Dr. Evans Chew and the rest of Cohen's inimit- able characters, and I found them quaintly interesting.
 This is my first visit to Birming- ham in eighteen years, and I must ad . init that I was profoundly amazed by the change in the appearance of tho city. You have greater potentialities than any city I know of in the United States
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
OLD-FAsHIONED SUBSCRIBER

From the Greenville Advocate.
 Last Friday J. N Mcbride drove up to the door of the Advocate office and presented us with the finest cabbage that we have seen this year. It weighed a little more than four pounds. At the same time he gave us sack of new Irish potatoes that were fully grown. He presented these samples from his garden, just to show that the rains, cold and all other msfortunes did not prevent him from having a garden that was credit and a blessing to his family and to his neighbors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
Laborers De Luxe
 Are Poor Producers

TIT is a far cry from the dollar a day U unskilled laborer to the modern toiler who must be coaxed and cajoled to accept $4.50 to $5 a day. After his services with pick and shovel have been engaged, he must be handled with gloves, else he will wander away and listen to the siren call of other jobs where the work is less arduous and the pay a trifle better.
 A Baltimore firm advertises for laborers in the Baltimore American. In addition to offering $4.50 a day, other attractive features include, TO time held back, "drag" each day, place to change clothes, hot and cold water, lunch room to serve hot meals and an automobile truck to carry workmen from their bungalows to the l scene or emplOymenC.
 "The laborer is worthy of his hire, to be sure, and when we consider the high cost of living, $4.50 or $5 a day will not go far toward supporting g family. If the burden could be equal ly distributed, it would be only fail that unskiAed labor should draw wages proportionate to the pay re ceived by skilled workmen, ranging from a minimum of $40 week te $150 or more.
 Unfortunately high W ages and 2 consideration for the workers com fort that was unknown even ten years ago, do not pay dividends in increased production. The principal complain
 made by employers is not based s'
 much on high wages as it is on shirk
 ing. Wages are higher than ever be fore, but production per man is less.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
SAFER TO KEEP TRYING

From the New Orleans Item.
 Threats of jail never fixed prices,s says MT. Hoover. No. it never stopped burglars and highway robbers. eithet. but we continue to jail them. hoping that the lesson will sink in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
Mayberry in City

H. H. Mayberry of Franklin, Tenn, long a citizen of Birmingham, is in the open air life that he leads on his Tennessee farm. Speaking of his brother law, Tom Watson, who re- sides with him and is also a former Birmingham citizen, he said:
 Tom has an automobile and ire quently goes out to hunting grounds in 1t. His friends along the road con- mented for some time on Toms keep ing the car closed, or rather on his having a closed car. Pressed for a reason, Tom one day said:
 Why. I drive closed car to keer my dogs from getting wet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
THE DEAR. DEAD DAYS

From Forty Years Ago. in the Spring field Journal. Two temperance lecturers and fifty kegs of beer went to Lincoln on the noon train
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
"A City of Homes"

J. M. P. Otis has discovered the real derivation of the word Birming- ham. It is from the old ,Anglo-saxon. The ham,, he says, means home. The "Birming" is a corruption of a word meaning Door or workingman, as distinguished from higher-ups
 "So, you see.' said Mir. @Otts, that Birmingham means city of homes, 8 city filled with the homes of working men. Verify has the American Bir- mingham made good on that name. especially the-Fairfield part of it, and that outlying section known as Vest field"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

PART OF THE PURCHASE { "The wealthy Gawkers have fouad castle in Europe they'd like to buy.t' Does it belong to a defunct noble man?
 "Yes. and that's just the trouble. They insist that the dukes coat-of- arms be included in the transaction"
 CALLING A HALT MT. Dubson. if you insist on trying to kiss me I'll have to ask you to go." But I happen to know that you kissed dozens of soldiers and sailors during the war"
 That was my patriotic duty. When the armistice was signed my lips were no longer at the service of my coun- try" POVERTY STRICKEN I'm afraid this movie star is not as prosperous as she used to be-" "why so?" she hasn't bought new motor car in six &onths." l FEARFUL OF A TOUGH "A gentleman wishes to see you. sir"
 What does he want?" asked Mir. Grabcoin.
 He says he was in college with you, sir. and would like to talk over the old days"
 FUmph! If he looks prosperous, ad- nit him. If he looks seedy, tell him I'm out"
 PAUL. COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
WOMEN SMOKERS

their occupation. unlike Othellos. vii not be gone. They will still have another wide field for the exercise of their pe- culiar talents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21

Washington Bureau, 800 Davlds0h building.
 Covent Garden, London. w. c. 2.
 1,astern business office. World building. New York city; western busl- mess office, Tribune building, Cnl- icago. The S. c. Beckwith special Agency, agents for foreign advertising
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
MADE POLL DO THE WORK

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
 Man who complains his wife taught her parrot to nag and swear at him evidently suffered from vicarious in- compatibility of temperament.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21

All things thnt are Are more with spirit chased than en-
 joyed. Merchant of Venice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21
THE MoNoroNY OF PEACE

THE MoNoToNY OF PEACE whate'er the future years may hold
 in store
 For Mexico, The border towns will find life quite
 a bore
 And somewhat slow, If revolutions cease to "revolute"- No bandits play Their bloody roles as in the past and
 hoot
 The U. s. A.
 TO BE SURE Do you suppose It would be possible to run government without red taper"
 Not democracy like ours" "why not?"
 We have to provide the office hold CTS with some excuse for drawing their salaries"
 ~~ HE'LL BEAR WATCHING 1 very seldom prophecy,
 But now I'll take a chance: Some day the beaten Hun will try To call the turn on France TAKING HIS MEASURE T thought that undertaken looked at me with an appraising eye" "Oh. that was just your imagina- tion." NO. 1t wasn't either I've seen ex- actly the same look in the eye of a tailor" THE ADAPTABLE ORATOR He quotes from many classic works But always tries to please, And uses modern slang to put His auditors at aaSa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21

The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham lcarrying the Associated Press dis patches. The Associated Press is exclusively
 entitled to the use for publication or all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published
 therein.
 1 All rights of republication or special dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21

TELEPHONE
 Bell (prfvate exchange connecting alI departmental Main 49OO.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21

Released on bail, "Nicky" Arnsten went home to kiss his baby and dine on his favorite dish, Hungarian goulash. Even a master mind' may be depended on to show the traits of ordinary human ity in his gentler moments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21

THE ADAPTABLE ORATOR He quotes from many classic works But always tries to please, And uses modern slang to put His auditors al ease
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21

A young woman cashier In Chicago was held up and robbed by a man whom she described as a perfect Adonis." That made the experience as pleasant as it could possibly be under the circum- stances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21

Entered at the Birmingham, AIa'' nostoffice as second-class matter un- der act of Congress March S, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-21

The American government is urged to be cautious in recognizing the new Mex ican government. It might be a good idea to find out first if the new govern- ment regards the American flag as some- thing to wipe it's feet on or something to doff it's hat to.