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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07

lief is expressed that the idol worship CTS gathered on all sides of their altar 10 pour forth praise or beseech for- gVeness and blessings from the beau tifuly hideous god of their own crea tion.
 The Serpent Mound" was purchased by Prof. F. w. Putnam. of the Pea body Museum, Cambridge, Mass. in lSSf, along with about seventy acres of adjacent land, and shortly afterward a beautiful public park was laid out on the ground. Thus in present days the spot Of reverence sacred to the speonla who preceded civilization in the nation Is used as playground for picnick- CTS and pleasure seekers. The deed to the land is vested in the museum at- tached to Harvard University.
 Those who have made study of tha work of the mound builders have esti mated that in Ohio alone there are 1o- ooe mounds and from 1.500 to 2.o0o in closures standing as monuments to thelr work By the study of anciant implements and burial places found in and near these mystery hills it na :, been found possible to form d concen- ton of their life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
LUXE M,LUkE SAYS

You may not believe it. but you can be mighty useful citizen even if your ties do not harmonize with your socks.
 l And what has become of the o. f. girl who used to play the piano with her hands?
 Why is it that girl isn't ashamed Id
 Of dirty powder rag the way she is ashamed of dirty handkerchief? The taste for Olives and Virtue has to be cultivated. But the taste for Candy and Vice seems to be inborn. The H Cost of Living wasn't such a much in the old days when Pop Goes the Weasel was considered a devilish dance tune.
 A woman will cheerfully buy s1OJ worth of useless junk from an agent if she doesn't have to pay anything down r If the Lord answered all of our pray CTS we would all have blisters on our knees and none on our hands. A chronic rheumatic can't see what !, the hex the government needs with a Wea tlIer Forecaster. A There was a time when people stopped to laugh at drunk. But now adays they stop to envy him. 1 Two women can love a man without man loves two women there is bound 10 be scandal in the papers. A man will go out with a painted chicken. But you can bet that he won't
 come home to one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
A Real Broken Heart

The extreme illness of my sister-in- law, Mrs. Henry Bum of Sherwood fenn," said 0. l.. Bum, lis due to nothing short of an uncomfortable sor- row My brother, her husband, died in April from the same cause. They had a fine son, a big. stalwart lad, their youngest. He was killed at the bat tie front in France at 11:30 o'clock on November IT, It was about the last NolleY fired in the world war.
 Neither parent could stand the shock to their affections. The boy was their youngest, their baby My brother has already died of grief and We do not expect his widow to survive many days. l could see this on my visit to her last Saturday and Sunday. There are four other children, but, for tunateiy, they are all grown. It was the death of their youngest that shall have borne both parents to soon join him in the real over there.n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07

advocated, did not turn out like we thought it would
 He says guardedly: While even an en- thusiast would be compelled to admire the present Senate with some modera tion 1t undoub- edly contains many able ana patriotic men, MT. Mccall chooses as one of the two examples of outstanding statesmanship now in the Senate. oscar Underwood of Alabama. He served with Mir. Underwood and of him he says: 'ln breadth and fairness of mind. and in the statesmanlike quality, MT. Underwood. would have been, a conspicuous figure m any Senate in oRt history, Having pa,a this handsome compliment to demo- 'erat, ex-Governor Mccall naturally se- lects republican for his other shining example of senatorial capacity and his choice falls on Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania, Of whom he sys '-r'1 --- have been few better lawyers ever in that body or men of greater Intellectual en~ ergy than Mir. Knox"
 It iS an added source of pride for s3s bamians> that the country at large
 Tn the estimate of Senator Underwood voiced by New England republican.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
ORIGIN OF THE WORD "DyxIE,

From the Cleveland Press.
 A monograph in the London Finan ciai Times on the history of the old Citizens Bank of Louisiana. at New orleans. reveals the origin of the name
 Dixie Land"-the term applied now to all the southern states and pre- served in the famous southern war song. Dixie" Prior to the civil war the Citizens bank. having the power to issue paper notes, issued several millions of bills in denominations of Slo and s20 but mostly sio The s1O bills were engraved in French with tn French word Dix" featured on thef7 backs. The bills became known a., Dixie" and this money, becoming popular, Louisiana was referred to as the Land of Dixies," or Dixie Land :" Eventually the term was so broadened as to apply to all the southern states This seems very acceptable explana- ton or the origin of the term which .has been the subject of So much ais- cusSion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
A POETIC CONGRESSMAN

Washington Cor. Philadelphia Inquirer.
 As a sample of the cheery optimism of the 'ins,' letter from Congressman John H. Small of North Carolina is go- ing the rounds. It was to a lady con stituent, and accompanied a package of free flower seeds. In some manner the letter fell into the hands of a for mer congressman from MT. SmalPs state, who hastened to make it public The style of the epistle is said to have shaken Boston literary circles to their center, but whether with Homeric laughter or not is yet to be divulged Others claim the general makeup to ferred to by Congressman Jim Mann of Illinois as "flapdoodle'' The reader may judge for himself
 My Dear Madam As glance through my office windows today, see harbingers of springtime and flow CTS. The skies are heavily overcast The chill air of winter fingers Fog and dampness enVelop the bare trees and obscure the buildings Even the imposing dome of the Capitol unwil- lingly emerges from the humid gloom.
 But the witchery of hope enables me to beckon the gentle zephys and balmy sunshine of May, when spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil' and hangs her infant blossoms on the trees It is of you and that glad hour I am thinking
 of you love flowers, and every wom- an does, perhaps a tiny packet of seeds sent forward by mail may, under low ing care, tempt smile more beautiful than its bloom. Very sincerely. JOHN H. SMALL" "P. S.; If this packet does not arrive within two weeks, a letter will start another to you"
 By common consent among his ad- hiring colleagues, the flowers that bloom in the spring. tra la, have noth- ing on Mir Small. They are puzzled, however. by the sting in the tail of his letter. Why, they ask, drag in. even by inference, Postmaster General Burleson and his popular system of mail deliv- cry?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
SAILS AGAIN ON SEVEN SEAS
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
 1NURING the early years of the war |)O many an old windjammer' lons
 laid up in port, took the sea again to the profit of her owner Craft almost forgotten appeared in American schooner alone was frequent sight brigs and brigantines, barques and non descript rigs hard to name. Anything that would float was at premium. Often these old timers succeeded better in es- caping the submarines than the jaunty modern liners; the bigger game most at tracted the hunter. Staunch enough most of them were, too--stauncher than some of the rusty-sided tinpots hastily thrown together in the sudden emer- gency. Steam might have conquered. but sail had a last gasp or two.
 Yea now that the emergency is ended there are signs that sail is to enjoy a
 
 ships remains much larger than it was before the war. It has been discovered that in some circumstances they are more desirable than steamships. The point with the latter has been .regu- larity and speed. Even an old tramp, knocking off eight or nine knots an hour, seemed preferable to the fastest Of schooners or barquentines frequent vic- tims of head winds or calms. The fame of the old clipper ships, with records often comparable to those of the ord:- nary steamship of generation Uso, did not suggest the return to the conditions that produced them.
 The high price of coal and the auxiliary engine, however. are bringing the wind- tanners into great favor again. They cost less than ever to build. in com parison with steam vessels, and they can be operated more cheaply. It is go- ing to be long time before oil supplauts coal generally, and meanwhile the sail ing ship, especially With an auxiliary engine to drive her along at six or seven knots when the breeze dies down, can hold her own with the low-powere ed cargo steamship. In a stiff breeze Sthe old clippers would do from thirteen to fifteen knots. The Scandinavians in par
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
IN HHTFT, LCBDIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
The JONiaI Stage

T saw funny thing the other day" said T. Jeff Bailey. T was coming oown the street in a sman town where happened to 'be when I saw a police man arrest a drunken man. The man had evidently been imbibing in white hGhtning, or some other intoxicat ting beverage. very freely and when the of 1lcer started off With him he just dropped down on the sidewalk The officer then sat down on him. Tie fel- low was in splendid humor. In stead of it making him mad he just laughed and said: Fla! Ha! You're fine officer Cant hold me, have to sit on me He kept that up for sew eral minutes and this attracted large crowd who stood there and watched him and laughed at him. It was recessary for another officer to come up and send the crowd on their way while they took the drunken man to jail.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
When Death Seems
 the "Only Way Out"

vvYAR'S tragedies do not end with WV the signing of an armistice. They go on for years, blighting human lives and bringing measureless sorrow to the world. The maimed soldier epitomizes the horror of war, but be- hind his own suffering may lie other tragedies that do not figure in the etAtistics of battles lost or won.
 Nhsu J ohm D. Hoar, a young Ameri- can soldier, went away to fight for Great Britain against the Hun he left a sweetheart behind in Chicago, girl who loved him and was willing to wait. Hoar tried to enlist in the American army, but was rejected for fighting service, so he went to Can ada and joined the farfamed "Prin- cess Pats."
 At Vimy Ridge Hoar lost both his legs, torn away by shrapnel. When he came back to America the girl was. still waiting, and though he was helpless, she would not listen to his protest that he would only be bur cen to her and they ought not to mar ,Ty. The wedding was performed and all too soon Hoar found his predic- tion had come true. Because of his disability he could not support his wife. He got one job, but was unable to hold it because he couldn't stand up all day on his artificial legs. The Canadian government was about to reduce the small pension he was re- ceiving. The American government could do nothing for him because he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
THE POOL BY THE MILL

o' FOX smith, in the Westminster Ga-
 zette tI.ondon). No one bathes in the pool The deep pool by the mill. Ihere's never the flash of a limb. NOT boys form. straight and slim, Taking off for dive. Making the stiffness alive or the deep pool by the mill US the best place for a swim Up the river or down: For it's always clear and stin, Deep and tempting and cool, Tn the shadows green and brown of the deep pool by the mill When the boys come from the school They run with laughter and cries, Strip, and splash in the shallows here the minnows glance. and the
 swallows Dart for the dancing flies, But no one bathes in the pool The deep pool bythe nnill-s~ s1 Because of the thing in the poe2 That drags them down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
Another Effort to
 Solve Housing Problem

A COMBINED conference of labor, "A professional and business inter- ests will be held in Washington, Sep teber 27. The object will be to solve the housing problem. The natitn wishes the conference success in this undertaking. The body of men that does solve the riddle will receive the plaudits of millions.
 One cannot be sanguine of results. The housing problem has been here ever since the war. The best brains of the nation have been at work on it's solution without making headway. None has yet succeeded in bringing within reach the same kind of house at the same cost that could have been built before the war.
 Prices have come down only when consumers failed to purchase at a higher price. The pyramid is sup ported by the mass. When they de- cline to support it, there is a break. When the consumer began passing by the highest prices, they disappeared.
 The price of housing has continued longer at the peak than others, be- cause there has been less choice. De- mand has so far exceeded supply that the ultimate consumer has been forced to pay the price.
 However, an entering wedge has been inserted. Men who cannot af- ford the kind of homes they wish are building simpler ones; simplicity, temporary, emergency homes. They are consuming modicum of building material of all kinds and meticulous- ly avoiding that which commands a high price. If this continues, buildl ing material is bound to respond with lower levels.
 The housing problem, like most other problems of living, is up to the individual.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
Opeus Wednesduy

T am very much gratified over the outlook for the greatest opening in tha history of the Birming ham, Southern College Wednesday, September B." said pr. C. C. Daniel. "The new dormitory, which is really spiendidly equipped building in every way, is completed and ready Tor occupancy. l hope that a large number of the trustees, patrons and friends will be on hand to see 1t and to give the new students a well come. There is nothing like a big crowd to start both the faculty and the boys off well for the years work"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
Hon. Jack Dempsey Eliminates Miske

.sHE Labor Day festivities at
 Benton Harbor, Mich- were brief and somewhat disastrous to @,prcfessnr Miske's championship asp1- r.t;ons. Fighting true to form, Pro fessor Dempsey wasted little time in sending his opponent over the Hong trail"
 When we consider the money spent arranging for the battle, the weeks If training. the columns of publicity printed in newspapers and the crowd which assembled from all parts of the country, a three-rohnd contest IS in the nature of anti-climax.
 The thousands of fight fans who flocked to Benton Harbor, cheerfuliy submitting to the-should we say ex- tortion ?-of hotel keepers, chauf- feurs, porters and the like, were at least not disappointed in the result.
 The ouija boards, the stars and the edope" forecast victory for MT. Har- ~
 rison, otherwise Mir. Dempsey. He was expected to win by all the wiser heads, but the festival was too short. One harkens back to the good old days when ring warriors were more evenly matched and a "mill'' might -ronceivably go to twenty rounds. with thrills galore in every round. E It is almost banal, in this connec- ! tion, to summon the shade of John U. Sullivan. Even "John L." might concede Dempsey to be worthwhile { fighter, but what does it profit the multitude to have an outstanding champion when there is nobody fit to oppose him? It is doubtful if Georges of France will make a much better showing than the fallen Miske.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
High Tide of Commerce
 In the Southland

A HIGH tide of commerce pre. 4 A vails in the south. Cursorv observation has so far suggested this state of affairs that no surprise will be occasioned by the actual figures presented in proof.
 The keynote to industry is trans portation. What section is doing is measured by what it moves or has ready to move to other markets. The national car service commission is authority for the statement that dur. ing each of~the six weeks from July Il to August 21, "more cars of com mercial freight were loaded at sta tions on the railways of the south than during the corresponding week last year or the year before"
 The total for the period was 795, ,0ot cars, compared with 716,0oO, in the same period in 1919, and 737 7,OO0 cars in 1918, when every nerve was strained to move the traffic incident to the war.
 During the first three weeks of August the increase in movement of loaded cars was 12,00O cars per week over July, indicating a progressive improvement for this year.
 The increase in the movement of ti.ese cars show two things: First that the south is forging ahead as it never did before; secondly, that the railroads are making stupendous~ ef fort to make good since their return to private initiative.
 What we are doing with the handi- cap of car shortage indicates what we would do but for that impeachment and points to still more remarkable records as that handicap is gradually removed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
 Birmingham to Make Big
 Showing at Reunion

THE United Confederate Veterans
 will hold their thirty-first an nual reunion at Houston the second week of October. Notwithstanding the fact that the survivors of the Lost Cause are fast diminishing in numbers, there are still enough of them left, together with the Sons
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
A BURNING ISSJ1E

l From the Washington Post. | One of the burning issues in the Georgia campaign is that the bone dry
 sleuths nabbed a bottle of mule corn
 of Tom Watson's before it was half l )consumed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
THEY SNEAKED HOME

From the Tampa Tribune. What is Alabama going to do with the twenty five men from Tennessee who announced they wousd stay out of Tennessee until ratification is de- feated?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07

ucuiar are going in for sailing ships with motor engines and this competition with steam IS by no means negligible. There IS more than romance in the return of sail there is good business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07

TAKING NO CHANGES
 T noticed you loudly cheering the suffrage victory parade./
 No doubt you did" said the near sighted gentleman. Ny wife Nwas somewhere in the line of march. As | was afraid l might not recognize he- and show the enthusiasm she exnected
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07

of me, I applauded continuously for an
 hour and half"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
NOT coyRTING PUBLICITY

NOT COURTING PUBLICITY
 What progress are you making" asked the first money digger
 Our town went over the top, '' said the second money digger"
 Fine! As chairman of the local committee you ought to receive pair of cuff buttons, a watch fob Or some thing of that sort"
 I'm not looking for any presents. I'll be satisfied if nobody hands me a subpoena"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE BETTER WAY

THE BETTER WAY
 The weight of woe
 Some people feel
 Their faces will
 At once reveal
 While others. in
 A far worse plight,
 Coptrive to look
 So brisk and bright,
 I'm very sure
 You'd never guess
 That Trouble street
 Is their address.
 IDLE SPECULATION How was the girl show" "The usual light stuff" Nothing to make a man think. I suppose?' Nothing in the plot. but I couldn't help wondering what would happen if few shoulder straps were to break"
 A NEW IDEA How is that English detective story you are reading?" First rate, and somewhat original. too." "Tn what particular" Scotland Yard plays rings around the celebrated private sleuth."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
,rfs the times plague, when mho"e' lead the blind. -h1nS Aen' 
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A MORNING PRAYER
 Of au thy goodness, Lord' | 'nan .nt +y.~~ not the least for thfsi that thou. who art all powerful and ecod sc.t forgive my weakness and par aor my sin. Amen.-M. s. b'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
EXPLICIT

Officer" said the timorous old lady, does the Iroquois car pass this cor ner?"
 No, ma'ame replied that careful guardian of the public safety. About seven years ago when the river rose and all this part of town was twenty feet under water. an 1roquois car passed here, but it was upside down anu It wasn't on a track"
 CONVINCED THE COURT
 Tn the court of domestic relations 'hls morning man who must have "elghed 200 pounds charged his nine ty-pound wife with cruelty"
 "cmph! Did he prove it?"
 He didn't have to prove it. She eot mad and gave the judge d tongue iashlns. PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07

p''ssed here but it was upside down ana It wasn't on a track"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07
TAKING NO CHANGES

Scotland Yard plays rings around he celebrated private sleuth."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07

ihofes no use quarre1ing with tha Ehghsh people because they call a ufus store chemist's shop and bag gage lusEage, or a street car fran, put certain type of American thinks the only right way to do anything is
 his way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-07

TELEPHONE Bell (private exchange eonneehs a' departmcnts) Main 4eOo.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-28

United States department of agricul-
ture, covering the last ten years,
shows that the average price rises
very slightly until the first of jan
uary, and then more rapidly until
the first of March, another sharp
advance taking place between Apri1
planting season and June.
These are only averages, however,
and may be varied by many condi-
tions which the farmer has to study
largely for himself. Reasoning about
future prices is usually difficult at
the present time.
A study of the general tendencies
of the market, whether up ,or down,
must be based on facts pertaining to
the country as a whole The supply
| may be less than usual in a certain
county, but if the total crop is large
the size of this total crop will have
tendency to- lower prices even in
Prices III that county may be high,
but they will not be so high as they
would have been if the total produc-
| ton of the country had not been so
large. That is, the conclusions
dawn from the broad and general
cal conditions in each section, but
| it remains true that eah of these
sections will be influenced by the
up and down tendencies which move
over the country as whole. A
grower should know the general sit
uation in order to make proper al
lowances for local conditions, and
he should not only study the potato
market but should consider the size
of the sweet potato and other food
crops which may influence the de-
mand and consumption of white po-
| tatoes. He must watch, too, the
trend of general prices, especially
food prices. If general prices should
fall devidedIy, then the price of po-
| tatoes might be carried lower than