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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16
ovERALLs AND COST OF LIVING


 From the New York World.
 The organization of overall Clubs to combat the high cost of clothing has only begun, but the movement has pro ceeded far enough to prove one funda- mental cause of higher prices. When the dealers in Birmingham discovered the sudden demand for overall trous- CTS they advanced prices from $2 to SC pair.
 As there is not the slightest reason to suppose that the cost of ordinary clothing was reduced to correspond, the immediate effect of the concerted effort to economize in clothes is to in- crease the cost of what hitherto has been the cheapest grade. If everybody takes to wearing overalls they will be- come as the World ironically reminded the organizers, a costume of affluence instead of economy. A gradual and unannounced increase in the demand might have had little effect on prices, but withs every body rushing to buy at once the inevitable result is to initiate them
 The rule is the same for overalls as for theatre tickets or diamonds or Stutz Motors; when the demand exceeds the supply the dealer has the buyer at his mercy and can. charge what he pleases No doubt the motives actuating the organizers of Overall Clubs" are praiseworthy as evidencing an attempt to meet the higher cost of living by in- dividual economies. But the best way to that end is to reduce consumption and not merely to divert it into new channels. There could be much effec- tive direct action of this sort if every American family resolved itself into an "Old Clothes Club" and proceeded to make it's discarded suits and shoes and hats do another year
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16
v1NpIcTIvE SPIRIT.

V1NDlOIAFE FIhIIF "Prussianism seems to be dead" Not on the baseball diamond" said the disconsolate fan
 ~No2-
 'I witnessed several examples of it yes terday, and if could have gotten my hands on that umpire, one or the other of us would have gone to the hospital''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16

General Pershing is not candidate for the presidency, but he told the Nebraska Society in Washington that no patriotic American could refuse to serve if called 'by the people" Chorus of receptive candidates: Those are our sentiments."
 # # # It's about time for an Irishman to be President of Mexico. General o'Brien- better known to his constituents as Gen. eral obregon--is willing to accept the honor.
 Man might even live without cooks, but every time there is strike of cigar makers in Tampa he realizes that he would have the dickens of time living without tobacco.
 People who put implicit faith in mes sages from spiritland won't believe doctor when he tells them there's noth- ing in particular the matter with them.
 * + + That American soldier who sold rights in the Paris subway" to gullible Frenchman might have disposed of few gold bricks just as easily.
 < < # Birmingham women have organized "Patchem and Wearem Club" Bachelors skilled in the use of needle and thread should be permitted to join.
 # # Outside of the sinister facts that Herb. Hoover is millionaire and is lined up with the nefarious republican party, he may be all right.
 # x < The late Roger Sullivan was one of the few politicians who locked horns with Mir. Bryan and continued to function.
 as < < Salvador will stay in the League of Nations. Gratifying, of course, but does this insure the league perpetuity?
 x x # Some of Mayor Hylan's official family take the conservative view that there is a little vice" in New York.
 ;. # That there is a shortage of white paper is beginning to dawn with crushing sig nificance on the candidates.
 # # 4 Having lost one big strike, Brother Foster, expert ''borer from within," is about ready to lose another.
 # # # The reckless striker never stops to con slider that he hits everybody, including himself.
 Campaigning by photograph would please the long-suffering voters. They could shut off a photograph occasionally.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16
A RIr oLp-FAsH1oNEp.

A BIT oLD-FAsEuoNED ~was the jazz wedding you attended a success?'
 Mot entirely
 What was wrong?-
 "The musicians, the attendants and the bridal couple, if you'll excuse the express sion, were full of pep, but the minister didn't seem able to enter into the spirit of the occasion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16
THE BANGS oF AUTHoRsHIP.

THE BANGS OF AUTHORSHIP. This literary person has subdued look"
 Yes"
 T wonder if there is tragedy in his life"
 "To be exact, it's in his trunk, and he says fourteen managers have conspired to keep it there"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16
CONTEMPT OF A .MAsTER MINI,

From the Washington Star.
 Nicky Arnstein's regard for the New York police has grown so slight that he no longer even carries on a Corresponds snce with them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16
Mon,ner of ,ne Associated Press

McmDer or tNt AHsVOH~'' l,
 The Age-Herald is the olliy n,ol ,s a-t.s and sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dls- patches. u,.,o,,
 The Associated Press is exclusivels entitled to the use for publication or all news dispatches credited 10 It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news puphsheu therein.
 All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

The Iowly ant believes in thrift
 And tireless industry; He never seems to hesitate,
 Whate'er his task may be. Observe him through a microscope, A most inspiring sight; If men would work just half as hard They'd quickly put to flight That dreaded spector. H. c. L.,
 Who fills our lives with woe. To learn an object lesson we
 Unto the ant should go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16

Washington Bureau. 500 Davidson building. ~s. st,eat
 European Bureau, 10 hIns Covent Garden, London, w. '. Z' .,.
 Eastern business office' Worio puiaa ae,,. ing, New York City; western aS,,s office Tribune building, Chicago. Ihe $ e geckwith special Agency, agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16
JOBS FOR ALABAMIANS

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 If one smart Alabamian could save the federal treasury slOO,oO0ooo, how much eculG dozen Alabamians like him saver
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16
DAZZLING CREATURE.

UAZlZlI1IANO O1Nl-fz1 T O1t17' ' .ewhat is the title of this photopiayT .'ewhy Married Men Leave Home. ~ z "Ahl Is that young person in the ticket booth Exhibit AT"
 'FWhat do you mean?'' ..she looks to nae like one of the req sons.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16
ruRxS EASILY sATIsF1Ep

From the Tampa Tribune.
 Al that Turkey asks is the right to life. liberty and the pursuit of the ArmeniSns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16
COLD COMFORT

If. passing resolutions
 Can put an end to war And heal the broken nations,
 Nor leave a single scar, You'd think the same procedure
 Could check the profiteers. It might, if you're prepared to wait About a thousand years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16

Remittances can be made at curreht rate of exchange. The Age-Hera4o "l4i not be responsible for money sen' through the mails. Address
 THE AGE-HERALD,
 Birmingham, Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16

No communication will be published without it's authors name. heJeceeu manuscript will net be returned u~nlesS ~ stamps are enclosed for that purpose
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16
DESPERATE

DESPERATE 4erm sorry to trouble you, Mir. Crab coin, but must have an increase of sal ary." ..Mr. Jobson, remember the door is im- mediateiy behind you" 1T know that, sir. very well And inn mediateiy outside of the door stands a collector.-
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16
MR GrnPp1NG oRLIaEs.

'ewhat would you advise me to wea'. when I cast my first voter" asked Mrs Clipping.
 ''wen. my dear" replied Mfr. Clipping after weighing the matter carefully in his mind. "of course you will be suit ably dressed for the occasion in one of your-ahem-cbic street costumes, but more important still, you should wear an air of dignity and resolution, to con vince any skeptical persons who may be about the polling place that the chief end of woman is to vote"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala~' postoffice as second class matter un- der act of Congress. March 8, 1S79..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16

Why this, boisterous and cruel styie' A style for chalIengers.
 As You Like It.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-16

PAUL COOK.
The Carlisle independent., 1920-04-15
CITY AND COUNTRY

Nr T. P. Edwards, manager Choc- taw Brick Company. Mansfield, Ar kansas, is quoted by an Arkansas newspaper as follows:
 Twenty-Five per cent of the farms near Mansfield have been deserted and their former occupants have moved to Mansfield. The same condi- ton exists all up and down the Choc- taw Railway, greatly reducing the producers and increasing the army of consumers. The man who does not produce his own food will likely have to do without this winter.
 The exodus from the country to the city is all over the United States The full force of this disastrous pol icy will be felt beginning this fall and during next year.
 The city cannot live on the country unlca: tEe country is full Of people, and the countryman who moves to the city is, in business way, cutting his own throat.-Conmercial Appeal.
The Carlisle independent., 1920-04-15
the stern mother.

the stern mother.
 And later, when we passed another home we heard the kiddies' voices, full of laughter and through the win dow we. could see the mother attempt ing to read, while Dad was down on the floor with toy gun shooting down the brave cardboard soldiers. What contrast it was!
 Out over the hill in the city of gras- sy mounds, it is silent. And as we walk through the avenues our voices are hushed as though we fear to awaken those who sleep.
 But why make tomb of the home !? Soon enough the little ones and, we, too, will be wrapped in the silence of never-ending.
 So, while we may, let's make the home an attractive place for them. Then they will want to spend their play-time there. But if forced to speak in whispers and walk tiptoe, they are going to long for more freedom. That isn't all. They will get more freedom. And you will wonder, and worry and scold.
 We will let them play and yell and and when the noise threatens to raise the roof, we will not yell at them. If we must yell, we'll yell with them.
 And SMILEi
The Carlisle independent., 1920-04-15
PROHI AGENTS CURED
Cannot Enter Home Without
 Warrant, Commissioner Rules

Tulsa, Okla, April 12,-FederaI prohibition enforcement officers have no right to search a private residence without a search warrant, according to an opinion given here today by United States Commissioner (. L. Yanaey.
 The opinion was given during the trial of M M. Travis, charged with operating a liquor still. The charge was dismissed. Enforcement officers, who raided the Travis home here, found the still in the basement. They admitted they had no warrant when the place was searched.
The Carlisle independent., 1920-04-15

We have bargain for some body in this property: , room residence and lot 100 x 200 feet. Apply at Independent office for particulars.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24
Texas to Vote for McAdoo

DALLAS, Texas, June 23.-1ntenton
to cast Texas forty votes on the first
ballot for William G. McAdoo for the
Presidential nomination was declared
by the Texas delegates to the Demo
cratic National Convention, who left
here early to-day for San Francisco
TIE party included six women dele
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24

the slightest thought in opposition 30
any known view of the President, ana
IN addition has never failed 70 make
some statement in high praise Of Mr..
Wilson.
Cummings is regarded as being IN a
slightly better strategical position
than Vice President Marshall, since he
IS believed to have the Endorsement OF
the President without having had 4
part in the. Administration IN any way.
Marshall is believed to have incurred
the Presidents sharp displeasure as q
result of his statement TO the Indiana
Democratic Convention, that a man
should not be read out Of the party Il
his views on the League of Nations did
not coincide with those of the majority
of the party.
It became known to-day that Senator
Hitchcock, who led the President 5
treaty fight in the Senate, is willing TO
take the Vice Presidential nomination.
Mr. Hitchcock has the Endorsement
Of his state primary for the Presi-
dency, and Nebraska's sixteen dele
gates will vote for him for the first
honor, with the exception that Bryan
will allow his alternate to do so, in
stead of voting for his old enemy,
himself Ex-Governor Shallenberger
will place Mr.. Hitchcock in nomlna-
tion
The old question of whether to nom
mate the candidates or adopt the plat
form first is still unsettled, and 1t is
probable. Chairman Cummings said to-
day, that a conference OF representa-
tives of all the candidates will be held
just before the opening of the conven-
ton to determine this. 1t is regarded
hai IF TO I q
the candidates named first, so that the
Resolutions Committee can be getting
through with its steam rolling over the
elements not in sympathy with Presi
dent Wilson'S views, while the nomi-
mating speeches are being made, and
the floor maneuveying goes on. Other
wise, Mr.. Cummings pointed out, there
is nothing for the convention to do af-
ter organizing but to wait for the
Resolutions Committee to make its re-
port on the platform.
Cummings announced to-day that he
personally favored doubling the size
of the National Committee, to permit
one man and one woman from each
state. To leave optional with state
whether a man or a woman should
represent it on the National Commit
tee, he said, would work out prac-
tically in eliminating the women. He
would have the convention authorize
the Increase, since the present ar
rangement has merely the authority of
the National Committee behind it.
No woman will be on the Resolutions
Committee, which will draft the Demo
cratic platform, Mr.. Cummings thought.
Women played most important part
in the work on the Republican plat
FORM A meeting Of Democratic
women has been called for Friday by
Mrs. Bass to decide just what the
women Of the party should demand as
to the nlatfOrn
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24
Co.'S Second Choice
Of Jersey Delegates
From q star Correspondent

GRAND CANYON, Ariz., June 23-
Both the Kansas and Oklahoma dele
gates to the Democratic National Con-
vention at San Francisco, together
with many stragglers from the New
Jersey delegation. who stayed over
last night, are at the Canyon to-day.
The New Jerseyites are first for
Governor Edwards, but they don't be-
lieve he can win. With Edwards out
of the way they are for Governor Cox
Of Ohio and Lewis Nixon of New York
as his running mate. The Oklahoma
men are for Senator Robert L. Owen
frs and if he falls by the wayssde they
viii be found very largely supporting
Governor Cox. The Kansas men and
women are much divided in their pref
erence. but most of them are for Cox.
In the Oklahoma delegation is Mrs.
". II. England, Of Ponca City, q regn.
lar delegate. enthusiastic for Senator
Owen. Her husband, prominent bust
ness man Of Ponca City, was a dele
gate to the Chicago convention. An
other Oklahoma woman delegate is
Mrs. Fyte, Cherokee Indian and an
enthusiastic booster Of Senator Owen
who also is part Cherokee.
The consensus among the Oklahoma
and Kansas delegates is that Bryan will
be able to keep wet plank out of the
platform.
Almost without exception the male
delegates say that the Republicans Will
elect Harding no matter who is nomi-
mated next week.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24
Murphy and Smith Meet
With the Party Leaders

SAN FRANCISCO, June 23.-Charles
T. Murphy leader of Tammany Hall,
accompanied by Governor Alfred
Smith of New York, came to town to-
night, but he had nothing to say.
Il have been out of touch with poll
tics for several days. said Mr.. Muir
ply, "and can't say what the New York
delegation will do until we have a
caucus. AS to plank in the platform
to amend the Volstead act, that is q
matter that will have to be fought out
on the convention floor"
Governor Smith said the New York
delegation would hold caucus Friday
or Saturday to determine its position
on platform and candidates
We have many women who are mem
bers Of our delegation,' said the Gov
crnor and several of them have not
met. so it would be little premature
to say just what New York will do in
the convention. should think the
League of Nations would be the big
issue and the most important in this
cOnvcntion.'
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24
Democratic Candidates Reveal
Themselves as Americans
PaIner's Manifesto Leads Broun to Assume That
His Opponents for the Nomination Are Either
Weal-kneed Rumanians, Greeks 1celanders

what they want to know. We have
never seen reporters more skilfully
handled.
Naturally, Mr. Cummings has to
dodge and duck a great deal. He may
not even know whether or not Presi-
dent Wilson desires a denomination.
+ Certainly he does not care to tell. But
with all his sparring and sidestepplng
Mr.. Cummings never becomes tlustered
or irritated. He loves to confound his
qucstioners with bubbles and nice
usage. OF all the candidates he is
most like the President in the manner
in which he talks and thinks, but he
is original, too.
"To save time" he began this morn
ing, II might as we'll announce that
there hasn't been any recent dictation
from the White House. That l don t
know what Mr.. Bryan is going to do.
And that know nothing about third
term"
This did not save him.
Don't you find most of the dele
gates ready to follow the President
in regard to the League of Nations ?"
asks a reporter.
Mr.. Cummings smiles broadly. This
is the sort Of a question he loves.
"lt is rather that they are in accord
with the President"
- lllllc latcf CNcrc is a lull IN tnc
questioning and Mr.. Cummings begins
to talk about the League of Nations.
lie compares the REACTION against Viii
son to the reaction MEainst Washing
ton and predicts that the verdict of
history in regard to Mr. Wilson viii
be generous. Perhaps it is part of the
speech which the chairman is to make
to the convention and he has taken
the opportunity to try it out. But it
doesn't go very we'll. Cummings is
quick to sense that.
Here ends the first lesson" he says
with d grin, and closes the conference.
condition, partially bald. He wears
polka dot ties and make d good speech.
He comes from Stamford Conn, and
he may be a compromise candidate for
the Presidency.
Kinsela"a Busy Man
Mr.. Cummings is a busy man but
hardly as busy as Richard Kinsella,
who is here in the double capacity of
scout for John McGraw and delegate
from Springfield, Ill. In the morning
he spends his time working for wet
and green planks, and in the afternoon
he watches the Coast League ball
games. He thinks Bohn, the Seattle
third baseman is a pretty swell hitter,
but he seems a little weak on ground
balls hit to his left. Cox, on the con-
trary has no weakness, says Mr.. Kin
sella and he will be nominated unless
there is more bone in the convention
than on the ball field
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24
P. A. Holt, Of Jacksonville, Fla, who

P. A. Holt, Of Jacksonville, Fla, who
managed two campaigns for Senator
Fletcher OF that state, arrived at Gov
ernor Edwards's headquarters to-day.
1T is freely admitted" Mr.. Holt said,
that an overwhelming majority Of
the American people are opposed to the
Nolstead act, with its thousands OF
agents and spies, which the Repub-
lican Congress passed over Demo-
cratic Presidents veto. Then let Us
give the nominee Of this convention
the great benefit he would have by
making an honest platform on this
subject in accordance with preponder-
ant sentiment.
1T is Democratic to get in line
people; not by subterfuge or evasion
platform should be clear cut. positive
Republicans in their policy Of side
stepping and lodging.
The South VIII support the nominee
but the Southerner looks with affection
upon Governor Edwards, the national
leader who so courageously espouses
the cause Of state sovereignty This
Fundamental plank of the party Is dear
to their hearts.
"If the present rate of centralized
legislation continues. the Governors Of
the states viii soon have less power
than any one of the hundreds of thou
sands of Federal agents and Federal
spies, and state lines viii mean little
more than guides to automobiles, tour
lists and railway mail clerks
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24
Wet Fig l1t to
Go to Floor
OF Convention
Continued from page one)

tor his refusal to make a campaign. 81
know McAdoo finished paying his per
sonal debts, incurred by HIS liberal
spending on small government sal
ary, just few weeks ago. He figures
it would cost him 100000 a year to be
President and that the income tax
would cut the Chief Executives salary
down to about $4,000 Just the same.
think he is going to be nominated
and elected, and that he will have to
do some cconomizing after he gets the
Job to reconcile his own ideas of en-
tertalnment with the emolumcnts of
the position"
Every discussion of the chances of
any candidate for the nomination in
wolves the statement in pareNthes IS
that it is based on assumption that
McAdoo is not nominated after a dead
lock, and also that President Wilson
does not wish the nomination himself
with this thoroughly understood, an d
with the further understanding that
Cox and Palmer are the two leaders.
but that practically every one comedies
Palmer could not be elected if nomi-
mated, and that Bryan is determined
to Kill off Cox if it is his last act on
earth, the situation is seen 10 be very
muddled. But out Of the muddle has
been coming a great deal Of talk about
Homer S. Cummings. who recently has
dropped his initial and is calling him
self Homer Cummings, which is in
itself regarded as significant.
There is no doubt that Cummings al
most equals A. Mitchell Palmer in pop
ularity with members Of the national
committee, who naturally arc potent
with their delegations or they would
not remain long on the national COM
mittee. 1t is further recognized that
Cummings comes from state it would
be very desirable to have the Demo
Gratis carry, and which his nomination
would give them fair chance of car
rying, Connecticut.
A Northern Democrat who is popular
with the rank and file Of the party in
the South is a very rare combination
in the party since the Civil War, and,
with the assumptions stated it would
surprise no one to see the lightning
hit the chairman. He will make the
keynote speech, thus giving the dele
gates a good chance to size him up, and
if he has not the Endorsement Of Wood
row Wilson it is not for any lack Of
Willingness to allow his mind "go
along with that Of the President
In hundreds Of newspaper interviews
the chairman has never yet expressed
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24
. :. l: |. 7: ID G.. .
Printing Facts

William Morris, jealous that
his type pages should be COM
pact, of uniform color and with
out white spots, or runners, set
thin spaces between words and
omitted leads between the lines.
Artistically heachieved a triumph,
but for practical purposes his
method was open to criticism.
Printed matter is set up to be
read, and William Morris's COM
position is exceedingly hard to
read. Advertisers above all others
should count ten before adopting
William Morris's composition -
and then probably they should
decide not to.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-24
MssOltri0ns VIII
Nominate McAdOO

KANSAS CITY, No. June 23-In a
telegram sen. from Pueblo. Col. from
the train bearing Missouri delegates to
the Democratic National Convention,
Burris A. Jenkins, Kansas City clergy
man and publisher, announced that ne
Democratic National Convention for
the Presidential nomination.
Mr.. jenkins said ne was led to the