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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-07-16
REV. G. w. WESTERFIELD.


After a short sickness in an mfr
mary in Hattiesburg, Miss, with d
bowel trouble, Rev. Geo. w. Wes-
terrified, DIED, on June IA 1920, being
about IS years old. He has gone to
be with the Lord whom be served
and loved SO these many years. Be.
sides his brother here, Rev. Y. ID.
Wester6eld. he is survived by two
other brothers, viz: Vim. G. Wester-
field Of State Line, Miss, and j. T.
WesterfieId of Meridian, Miss, and
one living sister, Mrs. Adelia Moore
or Pul k 4, Mississippi In
the way Of immediate family he is
survived by Mesdames Carrie Lott
and Mamie TAYLOR. He had large
acquaintance in Greene County from
having taught and preached over it
in years agone. He visited in Lea
kesville last winter and expressed
himself then as believing his body
was about worn out from old age and
that he might not pass this way
again.
ls run to supply date,l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-30
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

By the time the Wooden Wedding Anniversary comes around,-a wife real iaes that she married a Blockhead.
 The uglier a Princess is. the more she is ra in ed that every man in town would like to kidnap her.
 A husband is good deal like cat. He is either trying to get out of the house or trying to get back in.
 We once knew girl who was so good that she wouldn't play anything but an Upright piano.
 Anyway, since the H. c. L. hit us, you don't hear much about men run ming two flats on one salary.
 A married woman won't admit that ske is getting fat. But she'll admit that her corset is shrinking.
 Any real woman would rather wash fifty babies than wash fifty dishes.
 And what has become of the old tad who had red bandana handkerchief in the tail pocket of his coat?
 We wish the Debating Clubs would ie, the League of Nations alone for a while and discuss this momentous ques- tion-Which looks worse: mans knee or woman's elbow?
 Admire the diamond a man has in his ring ana ne II diWdyS tcli you tndt IL IS dirty and you ought to see how 1t sparkles when it is clean.
 The other day man bought himself four drinks of liquor at 75 cents per snall drink, and paid for it cheerfully. Then he went to a gents furnishing store to get a.couple of collars and raised hellenblazes because collars had teen raised from 25 cents to 30 cents each.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-30
GONE IS THE DIME NOVEL

From the Mobile Register
 What has become of the dime novel? A newspaper paragrapher answering that inquiry, says it is extant upon the shelves of any bookstore, and thereby lays claim to wit. But George H. Sar- gent, writing more seriously in the Bos- ton Transcript, replies that the dime novel has become Americana The rarer editions are valued by collectors at many times a dollar and a half
 There were few great men in the gen. pend for their recreation upon Buffalol Bill or Nick Carter, that is if their press agents are to be relied upon. California Joe, or the Angel in the Wilderness," as any one might guess, was hardly less pop ular than Arizona Joe," who, as every one knows, was ''the Boy Pard of Texas Jack And then there were the "Lib- 'colorful picture of the American struggle for freedom, and grounding a prejudice that still holds against those islanders sometimes called our cousins.
 But off the shelves of the book scol- lector, the dime novel as immortalized by Beadles Library is almost unknown among the youths of today. who never had the thrill of hiding in the woodshed with a highly illuminated number spread upon bare knees. Thrillers-in that kind of cover-are forbidden to juveniles Robert w. Chambers or a breath of famed air before a screen whereon flicker the sinuouS curves of the current 'vamp is the fashion.
 The dime novel died a natural death. It went out with Buffalo Bill; perished in the decline of Buffalo NiekePs purchasing pCwer passed out with the stage coach and the two-gun man and the advent Of the redskln in the Southern League. But romance isn't dead, and human nature hasn't altered. Our thrills are just lit- tie more expensive now; and styles do change.
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the commissary and was carrying . chunk of cheese and carton of crack CTS.
 Joe and his company piled into one of the big trucks, but I espied my friend Hoke in his car He had load, but when I stated my predicament he had sped. Key Milner, fortunately. was in the partys and knew the best way back had a wait of twenty minutes or more. The Methodist preacher came along, and I would have joined him and attended the great evangelistic services at the fair grounds being held by Railroad EvangeI- ist Tucker but for my speaking date.
 I got to Bessemer tired out and dusty. I had time to get bite, but the barber shops were closed and had to go on to) the High School feeling like a tramp. Principal Moseley took me in hand and met a lot of the board of education. and soon in came Dr. Vann. went with them into the auditorium to find it packed from bottom to top, 8 really splendid audience, the kind winch inspires a speaker to do his dead level best l only wish that I had been more fit to rise to my opportunity.
 unhesitatingly say never was pres ent at a mort interesting commencement exercises The choruses were inspiring, the salutatory by Miss Pauline Jernigan was full of fire and spirit The valedic- tory by Miss Bernice Waits was liter ary gem This is no mere idle compli- ment. The retiring talk of Principal Moseley was enough to make me know why Bessemer gives him up with such reluctance The presentation of the diplomas. by M. J. Brooks was In fine taste, and the closing address of Dr. Vann, in which he paid tribute to prin- cipal, faculty. pupils and parents was in excellent taste. The fact that Bess1- mer has voted large bond issue for sch ool purposes shows that 1t believes in education. I soon forgot my fatigue in the joy of having such crowd to talk to.
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bikes but they are more ornam rental than useful, so they use the 'machilla, which, to quote them, Is an invention of the devil It consists of long pole with two natives at each end Midway hangs the hammock for the 'broana,' alias the English victim, whose back is lacerated by bushes and stumps and his body more or less submerged when go- ing across a river. The bearers keep up a chant that sounds like the wall of lost spirits, and it never occurs to them that the passenger is not as happy as if in a Pullman chair car When at last he groans loud enough, they spill him out and gather up his remains and put them on the bike.
 Some of these African tribes have alert, active minds. They can commit to memory page after page of text book, but the trouble is they do not comprehend the meaning. They learn telegraphy, typewriting, the manual or arms, etc., with wonderful rapidity and as nothing is more dear to the African heart than ceremony, they go into ecstacies over parades and the morning and evening flag tactics. The bugles sound, and all the village pours forth, and while the flag squad of the Askari,' or native troops, slowly ele- vate the colors all kinds of instruments are used the crowd cheers. and when the halyards are fastened all salute the flag and the lbugles are sounded for the dismissal. The evening cere- mony is ever more elaborate.
 Every effort is made to teach the natives to be self-supporting, to value time, to till the crops in the best man. ner and to avoid family disputes.
 ''rhe native commissioners have a thousand and one varieties of quarrels to settle and receive considerable as- sistance from the headmen and chiefs of each tribe. but little or no effort is made to combat superstition. That task is left to the missionaries.
 Tn most of the tribes are to be found skilful artificers Show them a piece of imported furniture and they will exactly duplicate it. They weave bark fabrics of every kind and manu- fracture musical instruments, keyed. string, wind and percussion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-30
and Kosick are a few taken at ran

land Kosick are a few taken at ran dom.
 The pro-German element is solidly behind the redoubtable Hi. He is the most popular candidate with a con- siderable rabble of malcontents, rang ing all the way from pacifists to bol- sheviks of the deepest dye. If .here is a split in the republican party st Chicago, which is not improbable, the motley supporters of Johnson may be counted on to follow him to third party.
 No satisfactory explanation has been given by Senator Johnson for the enthusiasm shown for him by an element of the American people whose patriotism is questionable. However, no explanation is necessary. The Californian's record speaks for itself and it is chiefly responsible for the un-American support which he is re- ceiving as presidential candidate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-30

not been assured that 1t would return through Ensley I realized that I had made a mistake, for it would be impos- sible for 1t to get back on advertised time. I had chance to visit in all of tho twelve coaches before the train reached Birmingham, as it took three hours to make the trip. I enjoyed get ting a chance to see so many good fell lows, and wouldn't have cared about the delay if it had not been for my Bessenner date. /
 Before reaching Birmingport I can vassed the fellows who had cars or trucks looking to way to get to Bes- semer, for I knew that if I stuck to the train I would miss a chance to speak and inconvenience Dr. Vann, the super intendent who had given me the invita- tion I got hurried look at the work being done to make a harbor for the boats. and although I had seen the pic- lures shown by Commodore DeBarde- leben, I was not prepared for the truly Herculean task which is we'll under way.
 The ride was through a territory which ought to have cheered every citi- zen who was seeing the vast scale upon which the great industries were being pitched. It was the best talking point for the need of the port that could pos sbly have been thought out. On every side were evidences that the great indus trial concerns had faith in the district and were literally spending millions in developing their properties. It was easy to see the need of the river outlet to the gulf in order to care for the ever growing tonnage.
 But as interesting as was the scene was bent on getting away, and so marched up the hill in search of 1he parking place of the cars and the trucks. I found Joe Saks, captain of a company intent on the same mission of getting away before the trains de- parture. Every moment the ranks were swelled by new recruits. It seemed that every one had develoted appetite on the train, for each one had come by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-30
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 nlnrists that Rhndesia may

NS7 HASHINGTON, May 2s.-(spe- WW cial.)-Suggestio by arche-
 ologists that Rhodesia may be the land of Ophir. mentioned in the Bible as source of Solomon's riches, lends added interest to region already attracting attention for it's present. day resources.
 In letter to the Washington head quarters of the National Geographic Society R. D. Parsons describes some phases of Rhodesian life as follows:
 ''The wet season in Rhodesia begins in November and lasts until June 1. All kinds of garden seeds and cereals are in the ground by Christmas and in January the first crop of millet is harvested. Great ceremonies attend both sowing and reaping. The dry sea- son begins In June and lasts until the end of October. It is occupied with threshing. hoarding grain, storing wood and burning brush on seed beds for the sake of the wood ashes.
 No matter how hot the days are, the nights are cool and camp fires are needed. On the elevated table-lands or plateaus, the nights are very cold.
 Taxes are not onerous in Rhodesia. as each hut only pays shillings a year, which is 72 cents, or rate of 6 cents per month.
 "The Zambezi river rises in Portu- guese West Africa. flows southward for 500 miles and eastward for 1000 miles, emptying into the Indian ocean. It forms the southern boundary of North Rhodesia and is spanned at Liv- ingstone, just below the Victoria falls, by an American-made cantilever bridge hearing the Cape to Carlo railroad. As the water plunges 400 feet. the cleo tricaf energy to be developed is incal- culable. It is proposed to carry the wires on steel poles fashioned like oil derricks. to the Kimberly mines, Johannesburg, Pretoria and around to Cape Town, on the one hand. and up through Khartum and the Nile valley and decorate the pyramids with 10000 lights.
 'In a country like Rhodesia where there are no roads either good. bad or indifferent, getting about is no fun. All the British officials have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-30
"A JAZZ BAND OF A DAY. By Frank Willis Barnett
time sawin' logs.

i Thursday began as a symphony, thera wasn't discordant note in the air; but then without rhyme or reason 1t ended not as "a perfect day." but wound up a regular 'jaza band" affair.
 I woke up early in Oxford, and the Alabama village had the cloistered air of its English namesake. The sunlight through the elrns and oaks flecked the mocking birds sang in their, boughs.
 The smell of roses made fragrant the air as I walked along the streets and gladdened my eyes with their beauty. They were in profusion everywhere, trail ing on arbors running along the fences or covering the banks. Crimson Ram blers and Dorothy Perkins were in the lead, but there was a new variety like the wild rose only a deep pink with a white heart.
 was, however, troubled, for I was mixed on my dates. I was billed to speak before the Alabama Press Association at Montgomery in the afternoon on Should the Editorial Page Be Abolished" It was a topic which appealed to me personally, for I felt that had done my part in putting crimp in the editorial we"
 
 But in figuring on schedules I found out that if I kept the date with the newspaper boys that I would have to cut out a talk for which I was billed at the Bessemer Rotary Club and also run the risk of not being on time to make the address at the High School commencement in the Marvel City. was embarrassed in having more places to talk at than I could cover
 After much mental fatigue I figured the best thing to do would be to take the Southern for Birmingham and catch a street car and show up at the Rotary Club. got in and hurried down to Nine teenth street and waited until a quarter to 1, and seeing that would throw me late, I gave out the idea and con- cluded to make the trip to Birmingport. I got hurried lunch and reached the Terminal in time.
 I would not have gotten aboard had l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
May Cnnfiscnte Fruit

If fruit dealers in the city do not products from dust and flies, but try to wait on the outcome of the trial of the ordinance in court. we will be forced to look upon the fly-infested fruit as being dangerous to the city health and be forced to confiscate it," said Dr. J. D. Bowling. head--of the city health department
 Tt seems to me that it is ridiculous on the part of the fruit and vegetable dealers to state that an ordinance re- quiring that fruit be screened from flies is unreasonable It is perfectly obvious that this law is merely con- ducive to good civic health and the lessening of disease and that 1t im- poses no hardship on anyone.
 Tt is provided in the ordinance that each day in which the articles are left unscreened will constitute a separate offense and we shall continue to ar rest the violators day after day until they comply with the regulations or until we are enjoined.
 "Confiscation of articles of food which is kept in violation of the law so that they may be considered as dangerous to the health of the city has been upheld time after time in the supreme court of the United States. Therefore. 1t is reasonably certain that if we are forced to take this step our action will be upheld in the higher courts"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-30
POLITICS AS A SPORT

From the Chicago News.
 American politics is one thing that Americans are not accused of copying from Europe. Like the game of base ball, our politics is indigenous to our soil. We do politics in our own way. Our booms, our roorbacks, our dark horses, our lame ducks, run to form In zest and atmosphere our politics is a thing apart, in much the same sense that Jazz music is, and no other coun- try would think of claiming l..
 A national sport is our politics We take it with our. coffee to begin the day and again take it with whatever fluid serves as a nightcap in these times of drought.
 Horse racing. baseball, poker. craps none of these employments, recreations or vices has more of the trick element of chance than has politics Further. the pageantry of brass bands and pa- raGes. and the songs. slogans and ges- ticulations to perspiring throngs have their peculiar Vaccinations.
 There are peopie who are kept alive only by politics. Take away this par ticular sport and you take much away from the average emotional citizen. Do not take 1t away from him, there fore Ratfier, broaden and deepen his [>Eterest in politics. Make it for him not only a sport. but an opportunity for patriotic service as we'll The coming six months period espe- cially requires from all of us the pur- suit of politics as an act of patriotism rot just as sporting proposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-30
Memorial Day and Its
 Impressive Lesson

10 BIRMINGHAM will witness a lO most impressive Memorial Day on this hallowed Sunday, when vete- rans of the Southern Confederacy, veterans of the northern armies, the Spanish war veterans and the great American Legion, will unite in fitting services in Woodrow Wilson park in the early morning, and during the forenoon send flowers to the ceme- teries to lay as tributes on the graves of the heroic dead.
 A government band will arrive in Birmingham at 3:45 o'clock and after a short parade on Twentieth street to the park, will participate in the Me morial Day community sing pro- gramme.
 If the military features are not as well organized as this city is used to seeing on these distinct occasions, they will be full of color and none the less memorable. Flower strewn mounds where sleep valiant men of whatever flag starts the heart to pulsate, and the fact that the youths who fell on the bloody fields of France were the sons of those who fought against each other in our own civil war quickens the throb of this tender day.
 The lessons of this widely observed memorial are easy to find. They are patriotic to the core; and they are lessons that will never be forgot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-30
BAFFLED.

BAT What's the news from Spookland?" "The shade of Napoleon is restive.' What troubles Napoleon?" He has a campaign against the bol- sheviks all mapped out, but it's,too tech nical for a ouija board'
 A BUILDER. Senator Snortsworthy looks like a statesman"
 And he talks like one" How is his record for constructive achievement?'
 NO member of Congress keeps his po- litical fences in a better state of repair. D
 PRACTICAL REASONING. Who's the sporty looking stranger, Hiram?"
 "fIe calls himself a promoter" said the proprietor of the Eagle hotel in Chiggers- vile.
 "He looks like a millionaire" Yep. He's mighty wealthy in his con-
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Lovingly laden with flowers Alike for the friend and the foe; Under the sod and the dew,
 Waiting. the judgment day, Under the roses the Blue;
 Under the lilies the Gray. So with an equal splendor The morning sun-rays fall, With a touch, impartially tender, On the blossoms blooming for all Under the sod and the dew,
 Waiting the judgment day; 'Broidered with gold the Blue;
 Mellowed with Gold the Gray. So when the summer calleth, On forest and field of grain, With an equal murmur falleth The cooling drip of the rain:
 Under the sod and the dew.
 Waiting the judgment day;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-30
Pro-German Vote Is
 Behind Hi Johnson

M WELL-KNOWN business man GS of Birmingham, visiting in Chicago, sends The Age-Herald slip ping from one of the Chicago news papers. It announces the formation of the Hiram Johnson Booster League of Chicago, and bears the names of the officers and executive committee. He writes, "Isn't the enclosed list a fine commentary on the Americans CD who are supporting Hiram John- son?"
 With few exceptions, all the of- ficers and committeeman of the 'eague have foreign names. Most of them are German. Schram, Botterbusch, Getman, Gerbig, Seeber, Belz, Loske
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-30
Gruesome Crime Dates
 Back to Ignorance

1 ID ACK to ignorance may be traced lO so much of crime that one al- most perforce realizes it as the sole cause of serious human wrong-doing. Deputy Sheriff E. w. Truitt met his death at the hands of assassins merely because he was performing the duty which he was sworn to exc cute.
 The same limited mentality, which painted to itself the individuals right to slay the representative of stable society when that official attempted to make him obey the law that he did not like, inspired the murderer to bru- tally beat out the two gold-filled teeth of the dead man.
 This was done, it is presumed, on account of a mistaken presumption that metal divining rod, if brought into service over the grave would be directed by the buried gold teeth to the spot where the corpse lay.
 The limited brain showed it's limit in failure to appreciate what state of society means. Then, after it had defied society, it fell back on super stition to escape detection. This is the foreground. The back ground is the illiteracy that is TO- sponsible for these backward brains and souls. We who have had educa- tional and cultural advantages should realize that the ignorant Anglo Saxons of Alabama have just as pure blood in their veins as we. There is the same potentiality.
 ] Crimes like the Truitt murder are impossible except among the illiterate. They will disappear as education ad- vances its tents. They will continue to mar Alabama history and reflect discredit on her purity of Anglo Saxon lineage as long as illiteracy does exist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-30
Enables Birmingham Iron To Travel Far Afield

IAN another page will be found a " non-technical description of the Sloss-Sheffield Semet-Solvay by product plant, Birmingham's latest achievement in the struggle to en- able Alabama pig iron to hold it's own in the world of competition. What Alabama has won in the metal field has not come by chance, nor without vision, courage, persis- tence. It is the outcome of reinvest- ment on reinvestment of earnings in the new processes that step on .he heels of the old and drive them to the scrap heap ere they have established a vogue.
 The time will soon be here when the only use industrial corporations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-30
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY

By Francis Miles Finch. By the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass
 quiver,
 Asleep are the ranks of the dead; Under the sod and dew,
 Waiting the judgment day;
 Under the one the blue:
 Under the other the Gray. These in the robing of glory, Those in the gloom of defeat, All with the battle-blood gory. In the dusk of eternity meetb-
 Under the sod and dew.
 Waiting the Judgment day; Under the laurel the Blue;
 Under the willow the Gray. From the silence of sorrowful hours The desolate mourners 60.
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Wet with the rain, the Blue;
 Wet with the rain. the Gray. Sadly. but not with upraiding, q The generous deed was done; In the story of the years that are fad- ing.
 No braver battle was won: Under the sod and the dew,
 Waiting the judgment day; Under the blossoms, the Blue;
 Under the garlands. the Gray. No more shall the war-cry >sevef Or the winding rivers be red; 1 They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves ef the dead.
 Under the sod and the dew,
 Waiting the judgment day; Love and tears for the Blue,
 Tears and love for the Gray.