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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
MURDER AS A MERRY JEST

From the Chicago News.
 What are you always going around rnurdering people for?" a cabaret singer in a vaudeville sketch asks of a braggart desperado. If I don't kill somebody every 80 often I just can't sleep" is the answer that wins burst of laughter from the audience. "Is a hat worth human life?" is asked "No, but a suit of clothes is" comes the re- piy, arousing renewed merriment.
 Such thoughtless mirth is far cry and a long reverse from the remorse of Lady Macbeth wrining her hands and trying to wash away the imagi- nary blood spots. It is a ragtime in- depreciation of DeQuincey's Murder as Fine At" Yet it is an authentic glimpse of sentiment in America's uh derworld.
 What the masters of vaudeville de- liver to their audiences is significant shakespeares murderers are somber tremulous and neurasthenic. The reader shrinks from them in horror The modern gunman strolls or swag gers from places as mysterious and sinister as those depicted in the older literatures that invoke the tragic muse He awaits the artist-even though he evades the jury and the hangman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
No Trouble for Bergdoll
 To Escape From Custody

6NHE escape of Grover Bergdoll,
 < wealthy stacker of Philadel- phia, is a reflection on the war de- partment. The suspicion naturally arises that there was a carefully laid plot to enable him to get away. The adjutant generals office, which granted permission for him to visit his Philadelphia home, ostensibly to recover one hundred and fifty thou sand dollars Bergdoll claimed to have buried in the mountains near Phila- delphia, should not have been i'm posed upon so easily.
 According to press dispatches, two non n-commissioned officers who had Bergdoll in custody were sitting in in his mothers home when Bergdoll excused himself to answer tele. phone. He went out the front door jumped into his motor car which was waiting at the curb and disappeared An explanation from those non-com- missioned officers is in order. The fact that Bergdolps motor car was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
Interest Is High

Birmingham should be proud that she is one of the livest centers in na- tional guard matters in the south, if not in the country said Sergt. Rich ard Fowler of local company.
 She has more companies than any other city in this section, all of which are almost filled to war strength. h. terest in recruiting is high and we seem to enter with enthusiasm all na- tional guard matters.
 At present the local forces consist of three companies of infantry under the command of Maj. Lucen Brown and headquarters company of the Fourth Alabama infantry. We are planning to add a machine gun com pany or two, a signal corps and com pany of engineers.
 Atlanta. which should be much bet ter equipped In these lines than we has only one company of infantry an6 there is only one other in the entire state of Georgia Mississippi and Ten. nessee are equally tagging in nun. bers and interest,""
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
THE CALL OF THE FILM

and a ticket home was the graveston her ambitions.
 Yet we are glad to see that the rents of Henrietta show a spirit of dom and clemency If she wants a cd she is to have it, declares her mot Only it must, at any rate, begin in York, limitation which hardly sd excessive, in view of Henriettajs lin years. And. of course, there is alv the possibility that after five week mystery disappearance and headlines young heroine of our reel may finI h a better spot than when she left it. l ming away from home gets to be a l. with some children. Tn most it is lures method of making home attrac as none could better testify than boldest of all youthful runaways, Hut 1 berry Finn. Adventure is all very as an episode, but it is the pooreS of career, we suggest as a theorem Henrietta has any doubts upon this ter a great many adults can confirm conclusion reached by Huck and famous. crew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 100 EFERRING to the recent exploits
 lN\ in Paris of a chess prodigy eight
 S - years old, writer in the New
 York Times advises the parents of the
 child to read and carefully ponder the biography of the man who was, prob-
 ably, the greatest master that ever lived of the best game ever invented" The
 alluson is to Paul Morphy, and the writer adds:
 Ut is, indeed, by no means certain that
 Morphy's untimely and pathetic death re- suited from the mental strains incidental to the displays Of his genius. As a mat ter of fact, the chroniclers of his tri- umphs agree in stating that he won them
 with the ease that always or usually marks the achievements of genius. Still, he did die before he had chance to prove himself something more than the
 most brilliant of chess players. and before he died he did fall into condition such
 as popularly is ascribed to making upon
 the brain stresses like those involved in playing, blindfolded, many simultaneous games of chess.
 Morphy, born in New Orleans in 1887, of mixed Spanish and French ancestry,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
Structural Thoughts to
 the Fore This Week

1T T is to be a busy week structu- O rally in Birmingham.
 It is "non-accident week" Boy Scouts and the Birmingham Automo- bile Association are going to preach the stiffness and the criminality of accidents along with the intelligence and humanity of their avoidance.
 It is "Ship By Truck" week. There is to be a grand parade of the vari- ous motor freight bearers that are exercising a more and more important commercial and industrial function. In particular, there will be demon stration of their future great use in connecting Birmingham with 'he river when permanent highways lead thither.
 1 And it is Port of Birmingham week l This will attain its climax of express sion on Thursday with an excursion of four or five hundred business men, members of the Civic Associations, to the Birmingham river terminals. There they will sense in incomplete form what these terminals. when com pleted, will mean in the destiny of the district.
 Do theseN things keep us busy? They, do. But men must either re- main busy or go backward. There is no middle ground. | Besides there is a pleasing throb about everything that is structural and of upbuilding character. Avoid ance of accidents is just as structu- ral as installing modern methods in an old-fashioned machine shop. The trucks, the roads and the river con- stitute a correlated structural scheme.
 To be kept busy in the right way, thinking the right way and looking in the right forward direction is the mosts healthful of community exer- l cises.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
From the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
 N TIER several weeks of mystery. LN\ disappearance, alarms, rewards S S and headlines the young girl oppressed through fifteen long and weary years by the name of Henrietta Butte is discovered alive and rejoicing. She had demonstrated patent hair curlers in a Chicago department store as Vivian Vienne. But this was only a pause for health and funds. At the end of her tourney lay that city of cities, of re- nance and celluloid compact, Los An geles, where all good little girls with cur1s and a yearning to be grand and glorious pitch the end of their rainbow
 Here she underwent another metamor- phosis and became Doralinda Valdez. The wires are conflicting as to just how near a film she actually won her way Long and arduous is the road to one's goal of happiness, as the moralists aver and his- tory confirms, and it may be all too true, as the police of Los Angeles assert, that Henrietta Doraldina Vivienne never got
 into the movies at all, but was workinI as a housemaid when all was discovered,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24

NN 7 E have received a copy of the
 MW second issue, dated February l. V V of the Jacobite, a four-page
 quarterly which proudly announces that it is ''the only Jacobite paper in New Zeland." Why there should be Jacoplte paper in that far land we do not know; a New Zealander might not easily under
 stand why New York should have daily newspaper devoted to the cloak and suit trade.
 As James II has been dead 21S years, what live matter can a Jacobite paper present to it's subscribers? He also asks that little knows the ingenious mind or the editors of the Jacobite, Messrs- Bag nall and Rowell of Gisborne It IS re- 1 narkable now they are able to put touch of Stuartism on passing items The Queensland Scot is casually mentioned. | Ah. yes. it's editor is descended from
 the brave old Jacobite families of Max
 well of Terregles and Drummof%-of Bal haldie. There is piece about the recent
 sale of the Thriepland estates in Fln- gask, and this reminds the. editors>of the 1 tJacODtte lndl tilC SooNtS O- ---c~-- | full of Jacobite relics.
 The issue before us came out just III
 time for the Jacobite to recall to it's read i CTS that January 30 was the anniversary
 of ..the murder of King Charles, ana that February would the S33d anniver-
 sary of, the execution of Mary Queen or Scots. There are two columns about | hx- la1V | who saw there some locks of the Princess 1 Elizabeth's hair and the cap worn py
 Charles on the last night he slept al the castle. More than a page is devotea to
 an account ot the execution, cf Charies Radcliffe, grandson of Charles H.
 In it's literary department the Jacobite
 reioices that the Stuart period is doing
 so well smong the new novels Mary l Johnston's Laird of Gienfernie' has just reached New Zealand 'claymore, by l Arthur p. HowGen Smith (the biographer of Colonel House) is described as "a l good little story. but the author fails to do justice to Prince Charlie.
 Editorially the Jacobite is not at all fe- lrccicus. It does point out that Napoleon
 was elected first consul by S,5ooo0o votes against s74; while ''all that the house or Hanover can produce for their succession 10 the throne of the Stuarts is ma ljority of one vote" NO subscriber is called upon to drag George from the throne and put the Stuart pretender. a Bavarian prince on it; that would be too much for the loyal New zealanders
 Scanning the Jacobite. with it's devo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
X E Murder of Carranza A Blot on Mexico

1HHE true story of Carranza's
 0 death may never be known. Lit tie reliance can be placed in the kind of news" usually sent out from Mex ico, regardless of it's source. Obre- gon and his followers are eager to make it appear that no blame att taches to them for the murder of the former President. Obregon declares the fugitive was assassinated by his own men, but the tragedy is in keep ing with the bloody annals of Mex ico since Diaz resigned and was the inevitable result of the 'peaceful", revolution which gave Obregon con- trol of the government. Had he been fighting for his life and Carraaza remained in power, he might have met the same fate.
 Carranza's murder will make it difficult for the new government in Mexico to gain recognition from the United States. It has alienated much of the sympathy that was felt for the revolutionaries, although Carran- ga was no friend to America and by his tactics kept relations between Mexico and the United States at the breaking point for five years.
 This much may be said, however, for Obregon No mans life is safe in a country as lawless as Mexico. Carranza may have fallen victim to an outburst of hatred or treachery which could not have been prevented, but these facts will have to be proved before they will be accepted in America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
Dr. billiard In DanyiIIe

Our pastor, Dr. James E. Dillard stopped off at Danville Va, to see his parents on his way home from Wash ington'' said Perry Fowlkes. "He was not in his pulpit on Sunday, as he preached the baccalaureate sermon at shorter College, at Rome, Ga pr. Dillard is in great demand on such occasions as well as for literary ad- dresses and Sunday School talks. The Southside church realizes that it must not be too selfish and so shares hin, with the denomination. It's the pen atty of having such an eloquent preacher and scholarly man for pas- tor''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
MAORIS GREET PRINCE

 bubbled up, and miniature geyseSs pl| It was an Extraordinary experience, the British partys eyes opened wide astonishment as these handsome Md in grass garments, paint and feat danced, sometimes fiercely, somet rrettily, the older ones throwing q selves into convulsions of savagery appearing. with bent knees. taut and spears poised toward the prince, murderously inclined, but really hon' him with the heartiest welcome A tiful scene was the poi dance, by p niaidens dressedlin white and red raj with swaying shoulders and rolling I the old-time New Zealand dance of come. Others sang sweetly as an compartment
 The prince later walked along a of NIaoris who kissed his hand,
 trying to kiss his chee ~ nd rub-nost the great amusement of others. prince wore Hula feather in his tary cap, carried the Taiaha staff badge of chieftainship, and had a cape over his shoulder These be him well, and the Maoris were lou his praises. They chanted during dancing, Tt is life, it is deatha th the man. the hairy man, who make san shine" and offering him carved ana sticks, they bade him reign for
 The prince later went to Whakal Irewa, or make it hotter and hot twheEe, amid geysers, sulphur ponds, ! Ing mud and clouds of steam, he rec further Maori attentions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
APPOINTMENT

Aline Kilnler, in the Outlook. When a storm comes up at night and
 wind is crying. When the trees are grooming like mast
 laboring ships, I wake in fear and put out my han
 find you With your name upon my lips. No pain that the heart can hold is
 to this one To call. forgetting. into aching space To reach out confident hands and find
 side you Only an empty place. This should atone for the houJ Jsewh'
 forget you; Take. then, my offering, clean and sl
 and sweet, In a glory brighter than years of
 remembrance l lay 1t at your feet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
oaEr RICH. YOUNG MEN
New York Correspondence Pittsburg

New York Correspondence Pittsburg
 patch.
 | Stephan Tertsikan of Leipsiz, 1erm handed out bunch of advice to a n Der of newspaper men, who attempte interview him following. his arriva this country.
 NBoys." said he. "it is all nonsense bright fellows like you to be. run around here asking questions. You ol to be in position to cross to the o side and see things for yourself. there is nos real reason why shouldn't. Every one of you can be lionaire if he wants to. All you to do is buy German marks The maj climbing again. It will be back at its standing in three months Make a of this prophecy, and, if you don't my advice. be ready three months 1 today to go out and hire somebody to you.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
NEEDED ONE MORE

F1 om Everybodys Magazine.
 The, foreman swore at Cassidy for no, taking full load of bricks up the lad. der every trip.
 One morning the supply of bricks rar out. and Cassidy. after gathering every one in sight. found he was still short the proper number. He yelled to a work. man on the fifth floor:
 What do you want?" asked the man.
 Throw me down wan brick shouted Cassidy, Ito make good me load,''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
Measuring Words
 Regarding Tobacco

I7NHE friends of the late John Bar U leycorn are subdued and scarce ly audible any more. Even his family connections, beer and light wines, have felt the weight of disapproval and have been banished to outer darkness by militant drys.
 It is still possible, however, to speak word in behalf of toba ,co without being ostracised or branded as a foe to human progress. The president of the Tobacco Merchants Association, holding convention in Washington, told the delegates that tobacco would not share the fate of liquor.
 Speaking more as a philosopher than business man, he said, tobacco does not excite or intoxicate, but it soothes and pacifies. It promotes sober deliberation and moral content ment. It does not lure men from the fireside, but cements family ties"
 In times of stress the weed is a comfort and a solace. No forlorn wife has ever appeared in court and said, "Your honor, my husband came home after smoking half the night ir la tavern and gave me this black eye knd cuffed our helpless children ASt.. He's a good man, your honor
 be lets tobacco alone, but g
 fuls make demon out c1
 For has frequent indulgence
 the victim of the habit tC
 Ion the shoulder of a policeman
 fone in a gutter or perchanct
 e his car at breakneck speed, en gering life and limb No em Bezzler has ever blamed his downfall l on tobacco, nor is it probable that any father of a family has ever denied hi! offspring bread that he might stupif! his brain with the fumes of Lad! Nicotine.
 At first glance, it would appea that reformers who have further de signs on the constitution are fight ing an uphill battle against tobacco but there is loud outcry in the lant and it behooves the friends of tn, weed to be vigilant and not take toC much for granted. There was a tim' when John Barleycorn's followers lightly chaffed the bartender unt said it couldn't be done, but it was
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
MISSING, ONE BRIDE

From the St. Louis Dispatch.
 Harrisburg, Pa.--A pathetic appeal come to the police here from H; Buchanan of Reading, whose 5brid' missing. The bride is describee by deserted husband as. being a 4bleae blonde,' 22 years old, who woreAa ID scream hat, when she disappeared, who has the Lords prayer tattooed her back.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
Fair Price Board

Through the cooperation of the cit izens, the Birmingham fair price board has accomplished more than any other board in this section of the south" said Frank E. Spain, when he returned Sat- urday from a conference of the chair
 men of the fair price boards in Ala bama, Tennessee, Georgia and Missis- sippi at Montgomery.
 The conference was held for the pur- pose of mutual aid and for reports by the leaders of the fair price boards as to the results which they have met with in the work. The report of the Birmingham board was one of the best submitted, MT. Spain says, and the com pliments of the convention were given them.
 Tt was through the cooperation of the people that we have been able to accomplish more than the others in this section, MT. Spain said "On be- half of the board, I want to thank the people for their aid and willingness to comply with the terms which the board thinks are fair and reasonable"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
HeIn fnr mrmers

Help for Farmers
 "The back to the farm movement is a grand and practical idea if it can be worked out" says Jim Powell. Right now the farmer needs all the help he can possibly get. and with that there will not be enough hands available to put all the farm lands over the state into cultivation.
 The idea to have the young boys in school work on the farm during their summer vacation is also an excellent ore. Many city boy has an idea that to work on farm is like being driven like an OK, and then receive only a small sum for their labor.
 But a different condition on the farm exists today. Right now the farmers are crying for help. Labor of any kind, at most any sort of req sonable price. The farmer is willing to put his shoulder to the blow, but he must have help, and the $250 to $3.50 per day that the school lad will receive will help to keep him in shoes next winter, and to buy that nifty oyercoat that he didn't have the money to purchase last season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
A DEITY ny LonGE

Frcm the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 A certain vaudeville artist, who is pulling this gag: II now will sing that fearful ditty, Come Out on My Reserva- ton, by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Is causing the senator great deal of em- harrassment. He is getting requests from fair constituents for sample copies of his song that they may try it out on their pianos. The senator has not written a song, nor does he intend to write one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
HOW LONG MEN REMEMBER!

ton to an entombed cause, leads reader to think of the possibility two centuries hence there may be some South Sea island or some Hu Bay metropolis, a little four-page C terly called the Wilson Covenantel something similar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
ON A sLIppERY FOoTING

From the Chicago News.
 Turkey is permitted foothold in Flu rope, but itNis we'll greased
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24

From the Kansas City Times.
 The Prince of Wales in his trip
 around the world reached New Zea-
 land the latter part of April. A cor
 respondent of the London Times, writ
 ing from Rotorua, gives the follow
 ing description of the acceptance by
 the natives of the prince as their
 chief:
 1N I'VE thousand Maoris of all tribes TJ and subtribes were here to offer
 obedience and gifts to their King 8 eldest son and receive him in Maoriland with such dancing and singing welcomes as have been traditional among the Ma oris for hundreds of years. Rain com pelled the postponement of the great cere- monial, but the Arawa tribe, ancient and loyal, gave the prince foretaste of Maori feeling
 They are strong and handsome peo- ple-sinewy and intelligent men, beautiful black-haired women, lovely maidens-anc their eeremonials were full of interest and beauty They first challenged the prince with frightening cries. glaring and rolling eyes, and threatening him with then spears; then, gradually and doubtfully changing from the savage intention to xiii to acceptance of him as chief, they per mitted him to advance into their town ship and made him welcome with song dance and speech.
 Ohinemutu Is pretty township, with carved and ornamental native houses and meeting places. On the edge of the wide n1lt of tha prnl1nd in Volumes Watcl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24

ruin'd piece of nature; this great world Shall so wear out to nought.
 king Lear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
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 European Bureau, 10 King street. Covent Garden, London, w. c. z.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24

From the Sun and New York 1ierald. NN 7 E have received a copy of the MW second issue, dated February l.
 V of the Jacobite, a four-page
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24

A ten-room apartment has been en- gagged for Boss" Penrose during the republican convention in Chicago. This conferences without resorting to a hotel bathroom
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24

A woman scenario writer who adapt ed9 'Dr. Jekyll and MT. Hyde' for the screen, added a girl and d love affair to give the picture more pep" o tenn pora! o movies!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24
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That short-story writer and her spine less spouse who have lived apart for five years don't deserve half as much credit as other married couples who have spent the same length of time in close communion without a fight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-24

An American historian says Queen Elizabeth of England was Object to when she caught Leicester or some other favorite flirting with a good looking dame around The court Elizabeth gave stm