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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22

one under the authority of the constitl ton of the United States and the othe under the authority of the republca national committee. If Senator Hardin
 is receiving foreign ambassadors and er
 voys, if these representatives are carrY ing on diplomatic relations with hid which involve the peace of the world there should be some sort of public nl formation about it.
 The American people have no knowl edge that the capital of the United Statd has suddenly been moved to Marion, q correspondents that anybody has bee
 acting as an ambassador from Frand to the front porch and declares that Some Frenchman" talked with the rt publican candidate he was not acting as spokesman for France Senator Iardinl seems to be the only person who cal clear up this mystery, and so far as n now undertakes to do so, it appears thsi what he said about France or the Frencl government was not true at all.
 The senator is doing a great deal al talking about secret diplomacy and per-government under the League d| Nations but if he was telling the trutj in his speech at Greencastle he has rd vealed the most remarkable example A secret diplomacy under super-goverIl ment that any civilized country has evti known. When candidate for Presided pretends to bescarrying on diplomatic n5 gotiations with foreign powers, govern { ment under the constitution is in effe
 pI1llified
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
Recruiting for the Navy
 Progressing Steadily

THE United States navy consists
 J all told of 15O,o men in round numbers, and as 2,OO0 of them com plete their terms and leave the serv- ice every week, that many must be recruited to keep the naval establish ment up to fighting form.
 Within recent months the work of recruiting has been accelerated in a marked degree. /
 In time of peace the standard for admission to the navy is notably higher and is strictly adhered to. In Alabama forty men were accepted during the week ending yesterday. That was considered an excellent rec ord. It was the best record, in fact,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22

advisedly or inadvisedly as it chooses The raisin growers of California near. ly starved to death until they organ ized their cooperative marketing as- sociations. Now the Fresno growers do business of $72,O0o,Oo0 per an mum and raisin farm land sells at $1,200 and over per acre. MT. He's ter truly says:
 There is nothing the matter with the south beyond an unreasoning scare in cotton. Our institutions are solid, our banks in splendid financial condition. better than ever and they have been made so by the peoples money resultant from the prosperity of the past few years.
 The world wants our cotton. A people who would throw overheard their products at less than cost under existing conditions would class as nothing short of bedlam- ties.
 Let's stop the excitement and get down to business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
"Sell It South"
 a Good Slogan


 65WO HUNDRED AND TWENTY ll EIGHT members of the South ern Newspaper Publishers Associa- tion have determined to dispel the wrong impression of southern condi- tions that may arise from the cotton situation by letting the. world know it's underlying solidarity and the gen. eral prosperity of Dixieland. They are to conduct a campaign of advertising in the north under the caption, "Sell It South," ushering in this campaign on October 25, with an editorial in each of the newspapers setting forth the financial condition of the south. It is a splendid idea founded on sound sense.
 There is nothing the matter with the south today beyond this furry overcotton. Cotton is not all that the south has. It has corn, hay, potatoes, syrup, cowpeas, velvet beans, cattle, hogs, dairies and the products of the garden.
 The south has money in the banks. Deposits in banks are money of the people. They have grown in the past two to three years as never before. The lumber, the coal and the iron and steel interests of the south have made money and given uninterrupted en- ployment to hundreds of thousands of men when there was unrest and idleness in other sections.
 The south has created a great ship building industry. Many times more ships put in at her ports and carry her manufactured and farm products to foreign nations. Her farm lands have increased in value more in pro- portion than those of the east, west and north, yet still are moderate in price and the average yield per acre is valued far above that of other parts of the country.
 Let's tell the real truth about our selves. It is worth telling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
BRows. HIGH AND LOW
he Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
 >Highbrow: Browning. anthropology economies, Bacon. the uplift inherent sin, Gibbon. fourth dimension. Euri- pides, "eyether." lemon phosphate Henry Cabot Lodge. Woodrow Wilson
 Low -Highbrow: Municipal govern ment, Kipling. Socialism. Shakespeare politics, Thackeray. taxation. golf grand opera. bridge. chicken la Nary land, "eether." stocks and bonds. gin rickey. Roosevelt chewing gum in pri- vate.
 s High-Lowbrow: Musical comedy euchre. baseball. moving pictures, small steak medium, whisky, Robert w
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
In Aud Scotland

T was pleased to receive a postal card from my friend, J. c. Patterson, the veteran miner and coal operator, now in Scotland on visit" said Err skine Ramsey. He writes from Dunn ferline, the former home of his wife, who is visiting the old country with him and both enjoying the sights of their native land. MT. Patterson worked as miner under me at old No in Pratt City years ago. Being short of mine boss .at one time, l made him one, and he gave eminent satisfaction. He rose rapidly and acquired property. He is now president of the Jagger, the West Helena and New Found Coal com panies. He is entitled to the rest and the good time winch I know he and his excellent wife are having over there
 T myself just missed being born in Scotland by being the youngest of twelve children, all of whom were born there except Nme, who first saw day after my father and mother had come to America"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
@Leexie Lindsayo '

One of my cherished possessions, said Miss Sara MalIam, yesterday, lis a de luxe copy of Leezie Lindsay the old Scotch ballad which Edgar Shofield IS going to sing here next Wednesday evening at the Geraldine Farrar con cert at the Jefferson. The arrangement that MT. Schofield will singsFis Fritz lover in Birmingham feels a debt of gratitude to the All-Star Concerts for having MT. Schofield include this lovely composition on the Farrar concert pro- gramme. My copy of the song was pre- sented to me by the Fuller Sisters Dorothy, Rosalind and Cynthia, when they gave a concert here several years ago and they sang the old Scotch ballad so charmingly. The copy they gave me is on embossed ecru colored paper, and is 'broadside,' carrying a picture in one corner of a highly ornate character in colors; the Scotch Highlander in his fantastic dress and Leezie Lindsay in her Scottish costume of many colors, are presented in graceful pose, while the lettering and the music are done in exquisite script. The picture is so real and life-like that you can almost hear the Highlander singing:
 Will ye gang to the Hielands, Leezie
 Lindsay
 Will ye gang to the Hielands wi me? Will ye gang to the Hielands, Leezie
 Lindsay,
 My bride and my darling to be?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
OUR SPELLING

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 "The international ballooon races W advertise Birmingham far and wide. b in the minds of visitors by two clo streamers on the Tutwiler hotel, both of which the word balloon spelled with only one T."-Birmi gnhs Age-Herald. The balloon race is nc to Birmingham. In time it will g used to the sport and the strange shi and can spell the word ''by heart"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
Noted Airmen Are
 Guests of Birmingham

1N BIRMINGHAM is the hostess this ID week of foreign aviators from Italy, France and Belgium, as well as the American participants in the in- ternational balloon race.
 It is an honor to have such distin- guished guests, all of whom have won fame in the air and served their re- spective countries with gallantry dur ing the war. The bravest men are modest. This quality is conspicuous in the aviators now in Birmingham. To look at them, and to hear them talk, one would never suppose that they have faced death repeatedly without flinching and regard perilous exploits as "all in the days work. !" But many decorations tell the story of their heroism.
 The hospitality bestowed on these visitors does not by any means fit tingly express the pleasure Birming- ham takes in their presence, nor the admiration we feel for their bravery and skill, but it serves in some meas ure to show them that they are at least heartily welcome and we can only hope that they will think as we'll of us as we do of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
Right Idea

T am glad to see that the women are making plans to organize a demo- cratic club" said Ernest Matthews, chairman of the democratic executive committee, and l think it will be a very good thing. Of course, the women may have a separate club to be an auxiliary of the mems democratic or. ganization, or they may join the mems club. I can't see that it will make any material difference, for men and women of the same party are working for tho principles for which that party stands This plan for the organization of the voters of the fair sex is a splendid thing, and I hope they soon organize their club with large membership"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
Kentucky Need. Farm Hand.

T ran up to see my brother recently who has farm in the blue grass sec- tion of Kentucky" said D. A. Piatt. and found that he and his neighbors were greatly worried over the outlook on account of the scarcity of labor available for gathering the crops. ] can remember when all the hands need- ed for shocking corn could be had. and that 10 cents per shock was satisfac- tory pay, but now they are offering as high as 40 cents shock without at tracting sufficient number of hands to care for the big corn crop. The min eral district has it's troubles with strikes, while the farmer has his be- cause the laborers are leaving the land tempted by the wages on public works or in the mines or great industries"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
PRESERVING POFS COTTAGE

needs of the family, was wrapped f warmth in her husband old overco when she ded,N and that Poe hmst wore the same overcoat when he follow his lost one to her grave. Here. als in his grief, Poe wrote "Annabel Lee
 one of the most popular of his poem which was first published in the Tribul on October 9, 1s49. In the cottage u doubtedly he wrote most of the lines "The Bells
 Poe's original verses and strange tai |>have created for him following in cou
 tries other than his own. Among u
 pilgrims to the cottage are many fro foreign lands. It would, therefore, be reproach on Americas appreciation of h
 own geniuses if she, withheld suffice aid to keep the Poe cottage in fit sta
 of preservation. The Columbia Tru
 Company's branch at Third avenue al
 East One Hundred and Forty-efgh
 street has been appointed to receive fun'
 On behalf of the committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
Know About Ourselves

w.. D. Nesbitt is much pleased with the current number of Birmingham, the Cnamber of Commerce publication. He says he likes it because it has so much constructive matter in it and so much Of what is really doing in Birmingham. He remarked:
 What we need in Birmingham is in- formation. not only about what we lack, but about our accomplishments. Our individual viewpoints are apt to be overwhelmed by immediate difficulties and the result is that we fail to appre- ciate the steady and tremendous prog ress we have made and are making.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
NECESSITIES

From the Cincinnati Enquirer. The women are going to be highly indignant when they hear that the S75o.0o0,000 spent for rouge, lip sticks,
 etc., is classed as money spent for lux
 uries. Every woman knows those things are absolute necessities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
A MORNING PRAYER

Lord God, I can smile and pray and sing and hide myself from men, but thou dost sec me. Grant that l may live in the knowledge that nay hearts deepest depths and my life's darkest corners are ever open to thine eyes. Amen.--M. S. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
ADRIFvT WITH THE TIMES


 only three sovereign voters ssoSsed ui ir cluding the chairman" FAR FROM IT.
 You farmers have many compenss tons. remarked the city dweller Name just one" said MT. Cobbles. rwell. you are independent "Umph Did you ever have any dealing with hired man?' f NO"
 Then you don't know what you al talking about" THE PREVALENT COMPLAINT. "A citizen took desperate chance yes terday to avoid a political argument" Well! welIi What did he do?g He jumped on the running board of passing automobile" And escaped?' NO, two men on the rear seat of tn car had almost come to blows over AT
 THE AMENDE HONORABLE. There is a young man in the rear q the hall who isn't paying any attentio to this lecture" said the professo, sharply. T beg your pardon, professor,' sai hulking youth who had recently joineI the class. '1 have been abominably dd ceived." Deceived. sir? How?'' q was told that you were nearsighted.l ticle K PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
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American Suffrage Leader

American Suffrage Leader
 Will Support Governor Coz E7HE acquisition of Mrs. Carrie
 u Chapman Catt, former president of the National Women's Suffrage Association and now at the head o1 the International Suffrage Alliance should prove valuable asset to Gov ernor Cox's campaign for the presi- dency.
 Mrs. Catt as non-partisan voter, will support Governor Cox because he has taken a definite stand for the League of Nations. She had a great deal to do with winning the ballot for American women. Her leadership was characterized by conservatism and practical ability. She materially ad- vanced the cause of suffrage by not indorsing the methods of "militants'' who did more harm than good. Mrs. Catt commanded, during the struggle for suffrage, and does yet, universal FBspect because hysteria, police-bait- ing, heckling and picketing were ab- sent from her plan of campaign.
 Local suffragists predict, and not without good reason, that Mrs. Catt's adherence to Governor Cox will att tract large number of women voters. The influence she wields is nation wide, and comments itself to thought 1ul women, whose interests center chiefly in the League of Nations is- sue.
 Where partisanship and race preju- dice are not controlling factors, the women of America favor the League nf Nations. With Governor Cox stating in positive terms where he stands and Senator Harding beating about the bush while trying to please the various factions of his party, it is but natural for the woman voter to prefer 8 candidate who is open and -abope-board, who is pledged to re- deem Americas honor by joining the League of Nations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
NEWSPAPER MAN BEST DETECTIVE


 From the Lowell (Mass.) Courier Citi- zen.
 The American newspaper man is the best detective there is. He daily proves it. and he sometimes admits it. Now there's Michael Collins, the strong arm man df Sim Fein Mick" as every Irish republican calls him. For more than two years agents of the British government have been looking for this acknowledged leader of the Irish army which, though not definitely mobilized. is burning police barracks and shooting British officials from behind hedges. Every policeman and officer in Ireland carries Collins photograph and deescip- ton and has orders to arrest him at sight on the charge of directing assas- sinations. They can't get near him. Yet over in Dublin goes Carl Acker- man, correspondent for an enterprising Philadelphia newspaper, and secures a two-hour interview with this very gen. uine celebrity. It sounds like an au- thoritative interview, too; one contain ing statements of policy which Lloyd Georges government might like to get hold of. Alderman, of course, started with some advantages which the agents of Scotland Yard don't have. He was personally known to some of 'Micks
  That's always the newspaperman's greatest asset when he's on difficult and dangerous job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
ONE OF THE WAR STEPS

From the Anniston Star.
 Coyote lope" is a dance just inver ed. The "Cootie hop" promised once be popular.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22

Chambers. purple socks, chewing gu with friends.
 1 Lowbrow: Laura Jean Libbcy, ha l her, melodrama. hair oil, the Duche. I-beer. George M. Conan, red flame
 toothpicks, chewing gum in public.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22

RULES FOR SPEI.LBINDERs on' let us not be too unkind
 m making campaign speeches: Fnilosophy, as you will find True toleration teaches But when the foe in sneering tones
 Begins his foul detraction. Ano Tn such wicked methods owns A certain satisfaction. My friends, it is permitted then To show your indignation. To heap on him, the worst of mer Some choice vituperation. FIRST AID Did that multimillionaire tell you how he succeeded in piling up huge for tune?'''
 He didn't go into all the details" re- piled the smart young man, but I gath cred from his remarks that he must have had some expert legal advice"
 WORTH TRYING.
 Here I am, unable, to find p,ace to lay my head, yet the town is full of garages" said the fretful visitor.
 Why don't you speak to garage owner?'' asked the optimistic citizen. For the price of hotel room and bath he might let you sleep in car"
 A PERSONAL MATTER.
 Senator snortsworthy seems discour- aged over the partys prospects"
 That's only temporary"
 "Yes?'
 He was scheduled to address a con- course of sovereign voters yesterday, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
COLLEGE GIRLS IN AFTER LIFE


 From the New York World.
 Why girls go to college is revealed by statistics published dealing with the after careers of Barnard graduates. Of the living alumnae. 2.095 in number, 5S per cent are holding paid positions Thirty per cent have married and only 12 per cent are neither married nor at work. AS respects the kind of occupa- tion preferred. teaching, once the favorite pursuit of college-br wom- 1915 3s per cent of all living graduates of Barnard were engaged in it. the per- centage is now only 27.
 Perhaps it is occasion for surprise that this underpaid' occupation retains the hold it does on women college grad uates in the face of the greater re- wards and broader opportunities ot other professional careers and in busi- ness life. The thirty-one years since Barnard College was. organized about comprise the extraordinary develop ment of the educated womans field of work. and it hints at conservatism that more than one-fourth of the institu- Ytion's graduates should still incline to what in mere masculine opinion. for all its drudgery. is one of the highest forms of feminine occupation.
 But the figures sufficiently show that girls go to college for serious pur- poses; that the higher education for them is something for practical use as much as for ornament. That consider ably more than half of all the living graduates of this college are self-sup- porting is an interesting and impress sive showing of feminine earnestness and endeavor. Can the girl graduates of finishing schools" match it?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22
Unreason of the
 Furry in Cotton

WIZ forgot the statistical position favor. There had been great mill con- sumption stocks were small, the world needed our cotton. All we had to do was to pick it, gin it, store it and in- sure it, then, if we needed money for pressing obligations, borrow on it. The bulk we could have kept until the purchaser came asking for it.
 But we got nervous. Texas, in par ticular, rushed into the market with lot of spot cotton, which it turned loose at a low price. Of course. it went lower. Mill men became nervous and looked for further recessions, That brought about the present status in cotton. There was no cause for it in the business-like conduct of affairs, It was Jain and unmitigated excite nnent without reason.
 Secretary Hester of the New Or leans cotton exchange, sees no req son for the rush for federal aid. There is none. The south's cotton is in the hands of the south to market
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22

From the New York Tribune
 6NHE Poe cottage committee, which is the custodian of the little white S cottage in Fordham in which Ed gar Allan Poe lived for three years, is making an appeal to the public for funds. The cottage is badly in need of repair and money is necessary for maintenance. The city gave the use of a small park at Kingsbridge Road and Grand Concourse, the Bronx, on which the cottage now stands, but all other expense incident to keeping this literary shrine open to the public must be borne by popular sub- Tscription.
 The small house, with it's relics of Poe, is one of the landmarks which New York can i'll afford to neglect. Poe, during his brief life, lived here longer than he did in most houses It was here that his be- loved wife Virginia died, in January, 1S47. when the Poe family suffered the most abject poverty. The poets bographers point out that Virginia, so dire were the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22

Senator Harding offers a reward to anyone who will prove that he has changed his position since he accepted the republican nomination for President. As usual, he is ambiguous and doesn't name the reward
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22

For years I made a special study of psychology, first being grounded in physiological psychology before att tempting to enter the domain of no mans land in mental and spiritual psychology. 1 spent much time in hos pital work abroad, and attended regu- larly the clinics in one of the most fla nous of the Parisian insane asylums It was the opening era of the psycho logical laboratories, and I became au courant with not only the theories of the leading psychiatrists. but saw them at work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22

down to business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22

Wayne B. Wheeler says New York Nev Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts. Rhode Island, Connecticut, Wisconsin, H. inois' California and Louisiana are the wettest states in the union. There is also considerable moisture in most of the others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22

It wasn't because I failed to give the volume my attention as it arrested me from the opening page until the word "finis" stared me in the face. Now l never did as was my usual GUS tom, that is to dip here and there and getting general idea let it go. It isn't that kind of a book. It's the most provoking volume l ever tried to read, and l thought nothing could stump me, for into my literary maw every kine of pabulum at some time or other had found it's way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22

Against seIf-slaughter There is a prohibition so divfnes That cravens my weak hand. -
 -Cymbeiine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22

While in it are no sensual debauches, there are mental sprees galore and il such thing be possible immoralities of the soul It abounds in what to me are many puerilities, and yet it glistens with wonderful gleams of thought. At times I wanted to throw the book down as a veritabIe bit of charlantry made plausible under the guise of being 2 psychological study, and then certain passages would lift me out of myself and I wanted to cry out amen! with all the fervo. of my soul, and hail Powys as a new prophet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22

From what, I can gather from his confessions he dislikes to meet people. and yet I would genuinely enjoy tn. privilege of talking out a few things with him face to face for he is a think CT. It will, no doubt strike him as rather odd, should he happen 10 see what I have put down here to know that a Baptist preacher reads and re- Heads his confessioN sympathetically and understandingly and would like to be counted worthy to be brother in the Lord.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-22

Iie was scheduled 10 address a con- course of sovereign voters yesterday, and