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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-06
THOUSAND BRIDGEPORT EIkS PARADE TONIGHT AS OPENING EVENT OF LONG AWAITED FROIIC
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Watch for the big parade of the Elks' club tonight. Passing through Main street shortly after o'clock, E1kB of Bridgeport Lodge, B. P. O. E., No. ss. will parade in honor of the opening. on Monday night, at the Park theatre. of their 1920 annual frolic and the visiting EIks that are expected to arrive in the city
 Plans have been made for having over 1900 in line, headed by de tachment of police, the Wheeler &.
 Wilson band. and an escort composed
 of a soldiers and sailors guard A division of EIks in fantastic costumes representative of the frolic and sew
 erat floats of picturesque character
 also are to be in the parade
 All EIks meet at the club house at s o'clock The line of march as now planned will be down State street to marching back to the club house on
 State street where there will be a big jollificadon-
 float entitled Cinderella" prepared for the Elks by members with the
 Barnum & Bailey circus, lately re- turned from tour.
 The first division will be composed of members in costume. fantastic and odd. The second division will be com posed of Elks in civilian clothing. Headed by Lawrence T. Gallagher, Exalted Ruler of the ElkS, the parade will move up State street to Park ave nue, thence to Fairfield avenue, down Fairfield to Main street and back to l the Elks' club house. Prior to the parade the Wheeler & Wilson band will play an overture in front of the EIks' building.
 l Car loads of scenery and costumes are arriving in the city and large part of this will be seen in the parade, including a handsome float that is be- l ing prepared specially by members of 1 the Barnum & Bailey circus contin- gent of the Eiks.
 1t will be a big night at the Elks' club when the parade returns for preparations for Monday nights frolic will be in full swing. At 1:15 Monday night the curtain at the Park theatre will go up on one of the most en- trancing, gorgeous and glorious per formances ever given in that theatre. Sixty professional and semi-profes- sional artists of local repute will take part in this offering based upon some of the most hilarious of New York successes. It is something distinct in humor and convulsive in laughter making properties
 The first part will consist Of a | narody upon the trials and tr1oula- | ions of the director in rehearsing | what is to follow. This is taken from | the Lambs Gambol of 1919, the piece | hat startled the theatre-going world | If the East Some of Bridgeports most prominent men will be seen in | his festive offering in which the EIks | themselves will outdo anything thdl | ss gone before.
 l Between the scenes of the first part . Continued on last page, Booster
 Section.)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-06
BIG ADDITION TO ELKS' HOME
 IS UNDER WAY
Remcdeling Will Give Lo. cal Ledge One of the
 Finest Club Houses  In the East

Work on the $125,00O addition to the Elks' Home on State street is moving rapidly and every indication is that the addition will be ready for use by January IS. When the new addition is completed Bridgeport Elks will have a club house with a 50 foot frontage State street, and 16O feet in depth. THe building will be practically four stories iil heighth, with the basement given up to bowling alleys, shower baths, re- tiring rooms and barber shop.
 feature of the addition will be the sleeping quarters for members on the top floor. There will be 27 rooms fitted up with all the con veniences of the finest modern dwell ing, telephones in each room. baths, electric lights and every facility to be found in the best hotel.
 Plans for the new addition, which have been executed by Davis & Dane Connecticut National Bank building, call for a structure of red brick con struction similar to the present Elks' Home. All fittings will be of tho best grade of hard wood, matching w. R. Muirhead is doing the car penter work on the addition
 MichaeI Noonan, the general con- tractor in charge of the work, is details of the work, a member of Lodge No. 36. He said there was every indication the building will be completed around the middle of Jan- uary and when completed wM com pare with the finest Elks' clubhouse an the New England states.
 on the main floor will be a large dining room and kitchen billiard room, card room, and locker room. Together with the accommoda lions In the present building, the club house will thus be equipped to cater to the wants and comfort of it's big mem bership-
 The second floor will be given over To- large dance hall which can he converted at will into a hand-balI court for those members who are fond of indulging in this brisk form Of exercise. The third floor will he given over to the sleeping rooms.
 Taken as a whole the addition will add not only to the size, but the general appearance of the cIuh building on State street That if will greatly increase the present limited facilities for taking care of the increased membership of Lodge No. 36 is obvious.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-06

The Elks' FroIic will continue for three days. Of course you're going to see it. But get your tickets now-they's going like hot cakes at the box office of the Park theatre
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04
HERsELr

-~~ASs1N By Theodosia Garrison. wherever she was was laughin' and sinsm' and story tellin'. And Kind words Of the old friendo. thu like they were there to hear: And always the bite and SUD for inc schuler that marked her dwellms- And herself with the step of < riri-s and close to seventy year. Eh, blue eyes, that knew when they were young.
 The sorrow. of long life could nsves dim their light; stili know there's lauthin' and stin | song is sung.
 And still kind word spoken vhere you may bs this night. Wherever shs was was comfort ana ehs all that she had for sharin'. The water she gave from the well was better than drink at . fair; Never a daughter she had with the hai1 of her wit and darin', With the like of her rosy cheeks or ths curl of her silver hair Eh, woman dear. who was joy to nc ss long,
 place of your delight, And I think you de be sayin'. between the mirth and song, The kind word for ono old friond vhu'a uissin' you thin uight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04
GENERAL WOODS VISION

"VOD'S VISION From the New York World.
 In the process of demonstrating Gan. eral Leonard Woods supreme qualifica- tions for the republican nomination for President, the esteemed Tribune tells us that
 Tn 1902 he attended the maneuyers or the German army The Kaiser thought his quiet, unflatterable yisitor was dull--not aware that his keen mind mad keenly pierced the Kaiser's secrof. danger threatened America and K. world, and General Wood saw it."
 Very interesting. indeed, but havit. pierced the Kaiser's secret and per- ceiyed the danger to America and the world, what did General Wood do about it? Apparently he told nobodv-not even his friend President Roosevelt who few years later supported Aus. tria Hungary in taking over Bosnia ana Herzegovina, which was one of the pre-. liminary steps to the world war
 Without disparagement to Gener., Woods psychic qualities, we stronel, suspect that his vision in this m.tte, was mostly hindsight. like thor peo. ple's vision If 1t was otherwise hs made singularly profitiess use of the secret he had pierced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04
GOOD FOR ALABAMA

that state will vote on the issuance of road bonds in a large sum, and so far those opposed to the issue seem
 to be in the majority, although it Is
 hoped that the election will yet be or- dered in that state, which is making such substantial progress along im- provement. industrial and general business lines now that comprehen- s1ve system of public roads there would
 be peculiarly timely improvement.
 Georgia will soon vote on issuance
 of s00,0o0,000 of road bonds. Ad-
 vocates of good roads are delighted
 almost beyond expression over the
 progressive step taken by their neigh
 Dor to the west, and the result of the
 voting in Alabama will no doubt ex-
 erclse an influence for good on the Georgia section.
 while congratulations are being ex- tended Alabama, it would sse that double-felicitations- are due Jeffersop. county. which not only did its part in the general bond election only. but also voted s5.ooo. 900 of road bonds 1 of It's own while it was at the bal
 lot box. Jefferson county, of which Birmingham is the capital, is deternl- ined to have comprehensive. system of absolutely first-class highways. The Industrial Index desires, in be- half of the forward looking people of the south to thank the pubAc-spirited citizens of Alabama, for the splendid step they have taken, which is worth
 more to the cause of good roads In the south than anything that has hap
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 6NHE winter woods--how many. of
 you know them? Have you & walked through forest aisles, lis- tening to the dirge of the winds as ehes walled through the naked moaning houehs? Have you companied with loneliness, at night. under the great trees? If so, you have sensed some tb,rr ot the terror which must come to the abandoned soul. alone Tn the vastness of Dante's frozen hell
 Tber4 is beauty in the winter woods, yes: so, too, is the dead moon Deauti-
 s,,, th. stars in the ether vault are
 heautiful. but the beauty is cold. There ,s music there, yes; but it is the music
 of the desolate places; the music wnien stiI whines and moans around osiriah temples by the ancient Nile. or sops
 throurh the broken stones of Baaibek's crumbling piles; music which mourns' .vo,.inr ghastly shadows from deepef giooms
 Nature sleeps through the winter days. and in the woods her slumpers ] seem most profound. No song of bird no gleam of sharp shy eyes, no mur- mur of multitudinous insect voices nothing but the slow dawn, the swiis twilight. the shrouding darkness the disturbing silence.
 When the snow flies thick and soft' the silence seems intensified. We know that we are within hail of civilized nte' and yet we feel conscious that we are walking in some such realm as that through which Neuha led her TorQuil' q dead and muffled world of white si- Hence and gray, wavering shadows. The woods in winter-they typify the emptiness of selfish souls, They are sepulchers of perished beauty. But there 1t seems possible to hear the faint atirrings, the quickening, the infinitesf-
 nal life-urge at the beginnings of birth. Down there, in the roots oi trees and shrubs, the inconceivable vi brations of life are in operation. In IMttle while that life shall leap upward and claim again this frozen world. will robe it in all the splendcr of 1ewsied
 anadems, will loose the perfumes ol
 spring, and we shall have the floweri
 and the bird-song once again.
 It is the story of the resurrection 1 there is no death What we cal death is but seeming. the change from 1 light to dark. from dark to glory--lift again.
 So let the winds of winter wall along < the aisles where but yesterday old Par went piping down ferny glades; spring 7 cometh. and with her will come all thu
 bsssasd eempanx- ot vildweed life .ans
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

"A man wants to be brainy enough to
 make the world think. A girl wants to
 be pretty enough to make the world act
 foolish.
 It doesn't matter how low a flat-chested
 girl wears her waist. But a well-built girl has to be careful.
 It may sound paradoxfIai, but the more cheek a girl has the less she bushes Why is it that woman nevsr blows her nose as if she really meant it? It isn't hard to love your neighbor when you know that he has stock of liquor in his cellar. You couldn't sell a man the same gold brick twice. But the durn fool will go and get married second time. If our responsibilities were as great as we pretend they are we would all die before we reached the age of so If widow can't think of anything nice 1 to say about her late husband she gets 1 a lot of comfort out of the fact that he made a beautiful corpse. Women have sense of humor all right. But they are afraid that if they laugh they will grow fat. Some men are born without good sense and others go and marry sixteen-year-old chickens
 Some of the corn-fed girls lace their high shoes so tightly that the s. P.< c A. could have them arrested for ch6k- l ing their calves.
 l The man who is afraid to die thinks ! it is up to him to slap a child because |, the child is afraid in the dark ] The trouble with the man who wear: white sox is that he sometimes waits un ! ii! they are brown before he cnanse, them.
 i You can't make a wife understand wsll
 her husband should set mad just be cause she opens his mail and reads if. I rhe reason why q married man waRt' iqJ aeetetke boRt Of m argun1ent when sh' ! is down town Is because he hhi no enanc'
 te Tt the best q n argumsat at honA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Like Gona nld Times.


 Ray T. Sullivan of New Orleans set and ajaculated fervent Thank God Then he rang for the porter, drank glass of water. and spoke:
 This is just like the good old U. g. A. we used to know in 1916. The roads have only been back in private owner ship day. but the difference is quite noticeable. I don't mean to say that under federal managership the boys were not on the job. but they have started off with better work than was noticeable day before yesterday. In the past twentyfour hours have trav- roads,. and in all we were only fifteen minutes late at one place.
 But what like is the return of in- terested courtesy. The boys seem to feel that again they are part of the organization. with their own way to make. their own ambition. brains and ability the means for promotion.
 The man who sold me my ticket this morning thanked me when I paid for it. He didn't have to. but it was nice of him. I saw a man sell Pull man reservation and take pains in saving a customer from unnecessary expenditure. This morning I saw a high official leave his job to help a sick person through the throng at the L. & N. station. He may do that often. as he is that sort of a man. but it looked good for him and his road and the spirit of the times.
 "A chap just can't take the best kind of interest when he is lost in the suffle of a nationwide concern. Un- der government control the road was too big, too unwieldy too hopelessly vast. Separate the system into units and an employe can vizualize his com pany. personify 1t. feel q part of it, and render better and more kindly service"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04

From the Industrial Index.
 0TdIE toast of the south today is Alabama. The state of coal iron and limestone is also the
 state of progress. While other south ern states have talked of building
 roads on big scale. Alabama mas gone ahead and voted a record-breaking sum for this section of the country for this type of highly necessary public im- prise and courage in voting s25,ooooo0 of road bonds will be matched by the federal government, in providing road funds, total of s5O,ooo,o0 will be available for building roads in that state.
 Alabama thoroughly deserves all the good things that are being said about her today by the press of the south and of the nation. she has pointed the way. Good roads advocates in oth- CT states have taken fresh courage over the highly heartening news from Alabama. Thus when the voters of Alabama dropped in ballots for good roads last week, they were indirectly voting for road improvement all over l the south.
 Big road bond issues by states have not fared so well in the south, and it l is well to see Alabama reverse road bond history and start the tide of progress back in the right direction.
 Oklahoma voted on $6o,ooo,O0O or road bonds, and the election lost Texas then rejected a $75,o00.o0o issue Nof bonds for roads. The Mississippi legis- ,4,s. to. haan dahstin on whethe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04
Know the Inside

Bill Reeve of Memphis was in Bir- mingham yesterday on his way home from trip south. which included a brief sojourn in Montgomery.
 ''Who is going to be chosen sen ator?" he was asked. and then Bill smiled.
 "Of course, have thought all along that W. D. Nesbitt would be the man, He is the general manager of the off, fice-creating plant and now is a good time to return the compliment by giv- ing him an honor. At least 1t looks that way to me. But while I was in Montgomery Tuesday afternoon I saw the real political pot boiling on Dexter avenue at South Perry street, for standing in deep and profound con sultation were three men who know more inside politics than everybody else in Alabama put together. They were Grover Hall. Fuzzy Woodruff and Gaston Troy. If you can get them to tell you you'll know the answer. However. if they were not talking politics. and I didn't hear them, there are but two other subjects that trio discuss when they get together.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04
TEETH AND SONG
1, the New York Telegram.

From the New York Telegram.
 Caruso at 47 naturally finds pho tographers and flashlight photogra- phers clustered thickly about him.
 From Sfhe birthday wisdom of the singer we~glean the interesting news that he ascribes his success to his perfect teeth. He has never had a toothaehe in his life he declares and adds prophetically. T really be- lieve when one of those teeth goes, I go.'f
 If that is Carusos tradition, then let us hope that little Gloria Caruso, now three months old. will have perfect teeth. also, and that on some distant birthday she will ascribe her success to the Caruso dental equipment as well as to the Caruso vocal inheritance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04
CAVALRY IN THE WAR a fha lNla iO, crcS Aro

Whiting to the London Morning Post, a British military critic observes that one of the military issues of the great war is that the importance of cavalry vas underestimated. He recommends that the cavalry arm be enlarged against future wars. Thus is an American coin tention vindicated. It was Europeans |generalship that subordinated cavalry to the other arms. Many American military authorities were of the opinion that the judicous use of cavalry in the American manner would have brought the war to a favorable decision much earlier.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04
His Happiest Years

T always like to get back to Bir- mingham, even though it be for a short business visit" said Ernest A. De- Funiak, general freight agent of the Louisville and Nashville. q have been with the Ellen N for thirty-thr years and thirteen of the happiest years of my life were spent in the Magic City. went from here to Montgomery, but now I am once more in my old home at Louisville, Ky. I first came to Bir- mingham in the sos and since then 1 have seen it grow by leaps and bounds until today 1t is one of the best known cities in the United States. as 1t is hard to go in any part of the country without being asked about it if you register from Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04

down by the strain of many anxieties and his arduous work at the peace conference.
 It is good to know that the Presi- dent is up and about again. He must stilf conserve his strength, and Dr. Grayson will see to that, but the grossly exaggerated stories of a clouded mind, of helpless invalid in the White House who could never again perform the duties of His off, flee, have been effectively disproved.
 The south rejoices in the Presi- dents restoration to health. It has never wavered in it's loyalty to him during the most trying period of his career.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04
No Doubt About Candidacy
 Of Attornty General Palmer

 A for the old codger whose favor ite remark is, q never believe nothin' read in newspapers" It is human to err, and newspapers, like lndi- yiduals, make honest mistakes, as well as the other kind, but there are times when the discrepancy between certain dispatches is rather startling For instance, news service sent to it's clients dispatch from Phlla- delphia, dated February 29. It was given a prominent place on the front pages of many important papers. 1t read:
 The presidency of the United States has no lure for Attorney General 4. Mitchell PaInier He made this clear today in the first public statement he has made re- carding the subject sinee he was first talked of as a possible candi- date.
 My ambition was satisfied when I became Attorney General" said Mir. Palmer. --'I have positively no presidential aspirations"
 On March 1, the following day, the Associated Press carried dispatch from Atlanta in which formal an nouncement was made of MT. Pal mer's candidacy for the democratic nomination for President. MT. Palmer telepraphed to the chairman of the Georgia state democratic committee IS follows:
 I understand that my friends have entered my name in the presi- dential primaries. If the demo- crats of the state of Georgia see fit to select me as their choice I shall receive the honor with deep appreciation. I deem it highly inn portant that the democrats of Georgia should have the oppor- tunity to directly pass upon the record made by the present ad- ministration. The candidacy of one who supports that record in every phase presents that oppor- tunity.
 Since MT. Palmer is not suffering from advanced paranoia and still has due regard for the truth, it is un- likelly that on February 29 he posi-. lively eliminated himself from the list of presidential aspirants and the next night formally declared himself candidate.
 The "old codger" may have snortet when he compared the two dis patches, but the second dispatch sent out by the Associated Press, wal true. No one' would be more dis pleased than the handsome Attorne. General to hear that he cherishes n' dreams of some day dispensing hos pitality in the White House.
 Prssident Wilson Takes
 Motor Ride In Washington FHE long-awaited motor ride O A President Wilson was takel yesterday. MT. and Mrs. Wilson, ac companied by Dr. Grayson and secre service men, motored for more thai m hour in a closed car around tn Potomac speedway" and about tn capitol grounds.
 Although the President rode in closed car and avoided publicity a much as possible, the short outing for which he has longed with the pa thetic desire of sick man for man. weeks, may be regarded as marking his complete recovery. It was tn first time he had left the Whit House since he returned from his western trip last October. broker
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04
CENSUS CLAssrCsi

From the Chicago Tribune. How old are you?'' I'm dirty"
 How old is your husband?" He's dirty, too" I'm here to take the census" How much it cost?" "It's free.''
 'All right, I'll take some.' 'I came to enumerate you.' You're in a respectable neighborhood sir'' (Door slams.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04
Member of tAe Associated Press

The first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but losing office; ana ms
 tongue N sounds ever after as a sulIen bell, Remembered knolling departed
 friend. Henry ".
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04
WRIST MATCHES

From the Hot Springs (Ark) Thomas
 Cat
 To Judge Fatty Rawson: A wrist watch ain't so bad if you want to know what time it was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04
SPELL OF THE WINTER WOODS

beauty; blossoms. incense. songs, tho pattering of shy, wildinR feet the soft droning of myriads of tiny living things, the murmur of purling waters. all pouring forth their hymns of glad4s. ness for love of life,s brief day. s'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04
PROBABLY WRONG.

PROBABLY WRONG This applicant for a job says his mid
 de name is Efficiency remarked the head of the firm. as he glanced at let ter in his hand. "Yes?' replied the junior member. But guess he's mistaken about that. Otherwise he would know how to spell efficiency"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-04
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
A RELArEn CONVERSION.

never did read "Three Weeks though
 Now, please don't grin: But scanned that part referring to The tiger skin.