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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09
NEGRO FOR HALL OF FAME

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 The first Afro American to be nomi- mated for the Hall of Fame is Freder- ick Douglas, slave till he became a man, an escaped slave and hunted one for years thereafter, till on one of his lecture tours in England a wealthy woman arranged to pay his price or ransome and have him manumitted; a real orator, asgood executive, the holder |of several appointiye offices under re- publican Presidents.
 Now, if.the colored people are to have q representative of their race in the Hall of Fame, it will seem to many of them, and to most logical minds, that a full blood negro should be chosen. Judged by this test, Douglass falls down. He was certainly half Caucas- ian, probably three quarters.
 Booker T. Washington, Douglass biographer. was also part white. We suppose he would be chosen as the greatest of educators of the colored people He had the advantage of not being identified with anything politi- cal or controversial. His theory of making the Afro Americans industrially efficient and delaying claims for po- 'plitical equality has been popular enough with the southern whites. It has created much impatience and some resentment among the colored folk north and south.
 Robert Smalls of South Carolina would be a powerful rival of Douglass and Washington. He was pure blood. The slave pilot who knew the intricate channels about the port of Charleston better than any white man, and who took the Planter out to the Union blockading fleet to surrender her with $60,000 of equipment incidentally win ming his own freedom; who served twelve years in Congress from the Charleston district, free from the slightest stain of corruption in a cor rupt period, and who for a long series of years was collector of customs at Beaufort, S. C., where he was born. without creating any resentment among his white fellow citizens, has record to conjure with
 We do not know that it is a good thing to have a colored man, as coll ored man, in the Hall of Fame. But if it is, let him be of Ethiopian, not of mixed, stock. Then the race-recog- milton will mean something and have a reasonable explanation to postsrity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09

men-women rarely lose their hair-be sad? Who minds becoming fascinating man, a fascinating devil if you will, by a process that is effortless, painless, sure. requiring no loss of time or detention from business, helped rather than hin- dered by joyous life?
 Women cultivate accomplishments which lure men. With pigtai1s down their backs they pound the piano, strive to accent, learn to ride horseback, to dance, to play tennis, to sing. Accomlishments are not-ask any woman-acquired to lure men, but they do lure men, and in nine cases in ten most of them have been neglected and some of them forgotten before woman reaches 4o where as man in the forties is just beginning to acquire or just has acquired, an aspect which beats all artfulness and all ac- complishments in making him a heart. breaker. As long as he lives that aspect will continue. Nothing can rob him os it. In the hands of his worst enemy, that eremy armed with every chemical knowa to science, he could not be deprived of badness. Should he be killed by a rival and mummif1ed by the Egyptian formula his shining pate. like that of Old Rame- ses H., would glisten and mock the murder and murderer 5000 years after ths crime.
 Mrs. Schmidt, by the way, reveals why it is that when a married man begins to grow bald his wife-not he-begins tg
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09
Overalls Again

The overalls club is the thing for me-" says P. J. Miller There Is one thing I do not like about the new scheme, and that is the lack of in- formation on the subject of whether We are going to be allowed to wear them all the time after we put them on for the big parade. I want it un- derstood that when l put mine on they are on for good, and that I do not pro- pose to just buy an additional suit of overalls and have them for dress and parading occasions. I want mine for the purpose of utilizing to the<last de gree. am afraid, though. if every body begins wearing oyeralls they will go up to $40 a pair before we all get on the band wagon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09
Distinguished Names
 In Annals of the Stage

"A REGENT dispatch from New GA York stated that illness had forced the withdrawal of John Bar rymcre from the cast of Richard Ill.," which he was playing with dis tinction.
 The Barrymores belong to the aris- tocracy of the American stage, along with the Dfews and the Sotherns. They are not only gifted players, with an astonishingly high average of talent, but in their private life they have dignified profession which has suffered from the foibles of it's less stable members.
 The three Barrymores, Ethel, who probably comes first; John and Lio- mel, have all been conspicuously sue cessful. in "The Jest" the two broth CTS reached new heights in their art. Ethel has long been established as a star. She is considered to be one of our few great actresses. The gifted but cratic Maurice Barrymore, has been honored in the achievements of his children.
 It is not only pleasure to witness the fine histrionisn of such players las John Drew, the three Barrymores
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09
LUKE McLUKE SAYS

Anyway, if prohibition hasn't done any thing else, it has made lot of men stay home long enough to get acquainted d with their wives. A lot of men get up at , in the morn ing so they will have more time to loaf Maybe the Poet who referred to her Wealth Of Hair didn't know that it cost her only $1469. Whisky may be bad stuff and poison. But it is remarkable how two drinks of it will change a gloomy Pessimist into a cheerful Optimist Why is it that the woman who has a Isca-key-looking husband who resembles ? cents worth of Lord-help-us- thinks she has a right to sheer at an old maid?
 If big feet. knock-knees and bow legs
 won't make a girl>wear long skirts, what i chance has Modesty? When you dislike a man you wonder why other men have so little sense that they treat him like a human being. Some men always look >dressy. But if other men wear a new suit one day if looks like they had slept in it for a month
 Anyway, a married man never has to Ihire detective to help him find trouble. The O. f. father who used to tip his son off to what a young man ought to know now has son who can tip the old man on to a few things
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09
ALABAMA BOYS AS FIGHTERS

From the Dothan Eagle
 In series of articles appearing in the Saturday Evening Post, by Emerson Hough, noted author who is visiting some of the army hospitals where num- bers of the wounded soldiers are still con. lined, has this to say about the Ala bama soldiers:
 We got talking elsewhere about discip- ilne ana one thing and another There was our division" said one young SOL dier, smiling-"A Alabama boys, many Of mem. You couldn't do anything with them at all but just let them fight Ihey get out and go over the top when ever they got mad. If a shell came ,,, ana killed one of their gang they'd all go out and start something without or ,' "neh there wasn't any enemy at lacking they'd fight each other.
 They were a bad bunch. those bovs Ihey took one town four times under oruers, and 1t was plumb full of snipers ana machlne guns. The last time thev LOOK they were ordered to retire once more' but they wouldn't do it. They threw their rifles down in the streets. oreW their trench knives, went into the houses and just cleaned up They didn't aease q man alive in that whole village, ana when they came out they were mad clear through-every one of them.
 ou know, there used to be a No Mans Land out in front of the trenches The Germans had sort of unwritten law that we should not fire on them while they went out and washed their clothes on certain days of the week. When this Alabama bunch came in that ended No Mans Land. That's all ours. they said, and it was while they stayed there-they took No Mans Land off the map
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09
's'Truly RuraI,

"A friend of mine was speaking of the advertising campaign which John Sparrow has carried on for the past fourteen years, in which he has burnt the idea of Placid Norwood' into the minds of the people,, said Solon Jacobs. Now l am sure that even to such a versatile writer as John he finds it difficult at times to produce new copy to call attention to this favored sub division, and so for his benefit I sug- est that he make mention of the fact that in Norwood city and country meet, for I was told by resident that rabbits, and not the pet variety, ate his garden as fast as he planted it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09
THE SWEET SERENITY OF BOOKS

From the New York Tribune. ...
 Sir: Taking some of the last sheets of City Room copy paper that I stole from Frank A. Munsey in hand, write these few lines to tell you that I learned today in the book department of Gim- bers that George Ade isn't the heluva guy you crack him up to be.
 This forenoon I intrigued the atten- ton of a male aesthete as he came up for air behind a pillow of book jackets Looking for something in the book line?" he insinuated. No" I diagnosed. q really stopped here to have badly broken leg set. However I capitulated, speaking about the publishing business. let me have a copy of George Ade's Hand Made Fa.-'"
 How do you spell his name'" he par ried.
 "Ade. George Ade, Aid, Ade," I transmitted. And his first name is the same as georgette crepe. He's a writer"
 "Oh, yes" he meticulated. Err Hand -Made'--er-have you looked among our books on popular mechan- ics?"
 "Yes, indeed. but I couldn't find it there" whistled Maybe a book called Hand Made Fables would be sold at the glove counter" I alden dumed with a hearty laugh "Oh-'Fables'n' he sunbeamed. Miss Stoins, Oh, Miss Stoins. Kinely ten tuh this genmn. Miss Stoins. The genmn. Miss Stoins." he boneheaded, stocking for somemn in the juvenile line.''
 FRANK WARD, ,O'MALLLEY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09
THE SONG OF THE NIGHT RAIN.

THE SONG OF THE NIGHT RAIN, Frank L. Stanton in the Atlanta consti- tuition. The night rain. falling soft an slow. singing song of Long Ago; For the rain can sing, an it seems to know The sad, sweet song that the heart loves so: That we weary of songs that are glad with the light And sigh for dream in a song of the night, When the stars have forsaken the dim A dream in song of lost love. No discords of dawn
 The rains melody mars;
 It Is singing song
 Of lost stars. song of sweet sorrows. with peace ir1
 it's pain-- The peace of the shadowy tears of the
 rain. The dust of Life's roses still feels the The dust that remembers the Love that
 gave all. y And Memory speaks to the soul of the
 Night: And whispers: Loves darkness is ever
 Life's light; And the stars will come back to sad
 Heaven above With a dream in song of lost leva.s No discords of dawn
 The rains melody mars:
 It speaks to the heart:
 T will sing back Loves starsr'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09
Fred Douglass and
 the Hall of Fame

1C,S FREDERICK DOUGLASS, the 4 noted negro abolitionist and orator and advocate of social equality, may have a niche in the hall of fame in New York University. His name has been suggested and, as there are many radical upholders of the theory of race mixture, it is safe to say that a strong effort will be made to have Douglass memory honored.
 Douglas; was fire-brand before and after the Civil war, and being a man of strong intellect, he found many northern politicians ready to associate with him on social terms. Many leading negroes have been highly respected by leading white men of the south, but Douglass was not one of them. He wooed and wed n white woman-a school teacher of marked accomplishment, and from that time he as well as his wife was held in contempt.
 Thirty years ago proposition to place Fred Douglass in New York's hall of fame would have been met with derision; but it has been a long time since the war ended, and the public has become used to all sorts of freak propositions. A suggestion such as that made in New York would have meant years ago rough treatment for somebody.
 The great negro leaders of the
 south who are held up as models, men like Moton of Tuskegee and the Rev. Dr. Williams, pastor of the Six teenth Street Colored Church of Bir- mingham, are sound in their teaching. There can be and should be friendly relations between the two races. They {, can work effectually for the build ing up of the sections in which they live, but they make it plain that social equality is not to be thought l of nor is it desired by the better class of blacks.
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 No one is in better positionSto see the humorous possibilities Of the League of Nations than Gabrielle DAn- nunzio.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09
KILLINGS COUNTRY

|NAsH1INe'ToN. April ,E',, s.fspsolal, :, 5.,o,,a :, fame and the interesting Punjab
 country again are brought to public at tention by newspaper reports of native
 riots aroused by the rumored destruc-
 tion of the golden temple of Amritsar, a
 principal city of this province" says a bulletin from the National Geographic
 Society
 sPunjab is Persian word meaning five waters and refers to an area in
 India, about the size of Oregon, be- tween the Jhelam and the Sutlej drained by three intermediate streams, These
 rivers empty into the Indus, which forms
 the western boundary of the state. ssSituated at the northwest gateway of India. the Punjab has for ages been the
 Belgium of most of the military expedi-
 tions from the west and the trail of many migrations. For this reason it's peoples
 Moharnmedans, Sikhs. Hindu Jats, Rash
 miris. and Rajputs. all belonging to the tall, fair Indo-Aryan stock-are not so sluggish in temperament and ways or liv- ing as in other parts of the country, anu many of them manifest a martial splri' upon small provocation. England counted tbem among her most valued soldiers on
 the western front.
 ..The vast plain of the Punjao IS aDou' 1Ooo feet above the sea level and on the north runs into the Abode of snow the H;malava Mountains. At the southwest arn end of the watershed stands Simla and from it the mountains drop rapidly
 to the foothills and then to the plain.
 Jakko, the deodar-clad hill of hipnhs stories. is immediately within view, tow erinr 1000 feet above Simia. Here In tnis town. 1000 feet above the level Of the sea- in early April when the heatof the great
 puniab plain reaches 12o~ degrees, most oi \ tne F.uroreans in India have gathered and around the summer home or the viceroy of India the social life reVoVes Within d twenty-five-mile radius rom simla. is the Chor. upon whose peak F. GOO feet high. snow sap is worn unth weu into May. Farther to the west the higher peaks range from l6,ooo to zs'coo feet.
 .aThe heat-parched plain of the Pun1aa ;s cool in winter. with an occasional fros' at night. The days are bright and clear, and the climate reminds one of that of os Angeles. When the monsoons come h June. it also has rainfall in the ] n ortb which is adequate to produce good crons without irrigation. Farther south inc land is as barren as a desert, ex- cent in the river valleys. This dearth of nlant life is not fault of the land ,tself which is extremely rich. but there ,s lack of an adequate water supply Ii now supports only scanty jungle veg atation. where camels are sometimes srazed. The government is irrigating much of the territory, and the Punjab nossesses larged well irrigated area than any other province. Its wheat fields are amongythe best in the British Empire. and within recent years the province has heen planting about 5000 acres in tea for the .tipplers' of Britain and America. "Before the days of the transfer of the capital of India to Delhi Delhi and the surrounding district also were under the jurisdiction of the Punjab govern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09
Read More

There has never been a time. in my estimation, when people have read as much as they do now" says Miss L. M. Chapman of the public library.
 I've tried to find reasons for this. It may be the general trend of the times. People seem to be reaching out for something dependable in these days of world shiftings. The many serious books they read support this theory.
 Another thing is true; the average person has more leisure time now that most phases of war work are over. Red Cross activities took up reading time.
 New people in Birmingham come to us in large numbers. They are still little lonesome, sS they cure the blues by liberal applications of maga- zines. We do not lack readers but we do lack space and books"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Working for Bonus

What the democrats need is a vote getter this time and not another Par ker," says John D. McNeel. collector of internal revenue. T notice that, all though he did all he could to get off the ticket in Michigan. W. G. McAdoo led the democrats in the number of votes received, while Mir. Palmer failed to make good showing. This means that McAdoo is a vote getter because lit is coupled with some other good showings he has made. He will get the big majority of the railroad mems votes and large percentage of the coal miners This is no time to overlook the laboring man. The republicans are making a big showing on the sol- dier bonus proposition but will have to manufacture the taxing machinery and collect the money before it can be turned over to the soldiers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09
Memphis Has Good
 Census Showing

TN 1900 Memphis was the only city 4 except New Orleans that was credited in the federal census with one hundred thousand The figures showed slightly more than one hun dred and two thousand. Atlanta was only eighty-nine thousand, and Bir- mingham only thirty-four thousand.
 After the census was tabulated the boosters of Memphis confessed to some padding, but after the census bureau administered a reprimand and exacted promise that it would never pad again, the census stood at one hundred and two thousand.
 In 1910 Memphis population was one hundred and thirty-one thousand one hundred and five, and it's figures today should be satisfactory to the people of that city.
 The census of Atlanta and the cen sus of Birmingham will probably be announced next week. Both cities will show large increases; Birming- ham the largest percentage. New Orleans has grown rapidly, and it may be set down as certainty that Birmingham will outstrip all other southern cities in percentage of trrnuyfh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09
Aia5amians in Washington
 Want Underwood Reelected

Want Underwood Reelected IT HE organization h at of aa aon ondsa- ,n sn- other illustration of Senator Under woods popularity in the national cap tal. It shows, too, that persons who into close contact with Senator
 -ood in public life and are able
 just estimate of his services
 be deceived by the cam
 representation launched
 Alabama.
 IS of Congress have
 home and extremely
 Washington. The
 tion is great arena
 unts and where the n.ar-staresarlan h. soon finds his level. If the opponents of Senator Under wood but knew it, the best judges of a congressman's ability are his col leagues. and there is no member of Congress, in the upper or lower house. who is held in higher esteem than Senator Underwood. His quail ties of leadership have been recog- nized on the floors of both houses. It is a significant fact that the Alabamians in Washington have for fotten factionalism to support Sen ator Underwood. Tn the newly or ganized Underwood club. are prohi- bitionists and -prohibitionists, as well as representatives of capital and labor. It is stated by The Age-Her- aids Washington correspondent that the Washington vote will be about one thousand. It will be practically solid for MT. Underwood.
 The misguided people in Alabama who are trying to belittle Senator Underwood are either ignorant of his labors for his state and the nation or blindly preiudiced. He is honored both at home and abroad, yet it is strange that in his home state where there should not be voice raised against him, petty politicians are try ing to make it appear that he is q man of small caliber.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09
Ao4lE1nM MlA0nslH
THE LODGE DEvOIR

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 Since President Wilson demands that the Turk. be expelled from Europe it de- wolves upon Senator Lodge to cable a kiss to the Sultan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

THE DECREE STANDS.
 Listen, piease,
 To doIeful ditty,
 No bare knees
 At Atlantic City.
 HIS SORE SPOT. Look at the price of butterl" exclaimed MT. Gadspur. "I can do without replied MT. Jagsby. placidly. Look at the price of clotheslr My last years suit will do very we'll"
 Look at the price of 'moonshine'!'' Now you are talking, sir. It's con- founded outrageH'
 LASTING FoRGETFULNEss. What do you can this stun?'' Nepenthe, said the scholarly boot legger. "one drink of it and you forget everything" ~rm still a bit dubious. The same statement applies equally well to wood alcohol"
 NO LONGER DONE. May I ask what you are reading7~ "A bit of fiction written before the bone-dry period. At least, suppose it antedates the great drouth-" s'why so?'' 'In the opening chapter the distracted maid says she drank the fateful cocktail only to get the olive"
 PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09

PAST PROTESTING. A gay. iight-hearted citizen We met upon the street; He had nifty straw hat on, New shoes upon his feet. He wore a tricksy little coat And trousers a la mode; The niceEes of his attire To all observers showed We loudly praised his raiment fine, But said beneath our breath: Some day we may be dressed like that But we'll be cold in death"
 DIsTINGUE. "one of societys leaders. you say?' Her position is assured" "Yes?"
 Tier chef is reputed to receive s1O,ooO year"
 LETHARGIc LEADERSHIP. Where was he during the warp 'In Washington spinning around in a swivel chair
 That's something in his favor.' 'rWell?"
 T understand some of those fellows didn't even have energy enough to spin around" POOR MANS PRIVILEGE. ''Did you get any satisfaction out of playing golf with that multimiIlionaire? "A little" "In what way?' My tip to the caddy was twice as large as his"
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ment instead of the immediate authority or the government of India. Now the principal cities are Lahore, the capital Of the province about the size of h. dianapolis, Muitan and A sar
 Amritsar is the religious capital of ths Sikhs and it's golden temple is their greatest shrine Built in the middle of a large. square tank. it can only be reached by causeway. The whole of the structure except the bolton ten feet is plated with gilt copper,
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| feel within me

| feel within me
 peace above all earthly digntties, X still and quiet conscience.
 Henry VIII.
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land Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Sothern, but
 to know that off the stage they are all their fondest admirers would wish
 them to be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-09

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No one is in better position to see the humorous possibilities of the League of Nations than Gabrielle D'An- nunzio.