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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16

the caprices of bureaucracy which exenses it's tyranny. saying that all these things were done in the interest of the work men. Every form of government is bad. but, bound to make the choice between state capitalism and private capitalism. would prefer the latter form. Tho best remedy for bolshevism seems to mo . journey through bolshevist Russia, for a large number of those who came hero as pro-bolsheviki returned hence as anti bolsheviki."
 This about completes tho cycle 60 far aa radical opinion of communism As con- cerned. Bertrand Russell went to Rus- sia thinking himself a communist. but denounced the whole system after seeing it at work; the delegates of the British labor party made an unfavorable report after visiting Russia: representatives of Italian socialists and workers have just returned with a similar verdict Debs has recently repudiated Lenine's methods and communism generally, and now Emma Goldman, forced to choose between state socialism and private capitalism. says she favors the latter. All things considered. Lenine's bloody experiment may yet serve as the agency for bringing radical re- formers to their senses and to save tho rest of the world from extremism
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Night Riders

The recent night riding escapades which have been going on in Alabama remind me of the big tobacco night riders raid in Hopkinsville, Ky, when the tobacco growers, that is, a few of them, rode into the town and shot every plateglass window in every house in the city to pieces" said Charles Harold. There were about 250 of them and they came into the town on horseback at breakneck speed and took possession of the town. They captured all of the train, telephone and telegraph operators to keep them rom getting any word to the outside world Some of the tobacco buyers who were stopping at the hotel were rauled out of their beds and horse. whipped. The object of the raid was to keep the growers from selling their tobacco at a low price and there was no great aAount of tobacco sold around there, either"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16
Port Development
 a Vital Necessity

0 N less than three weeks citizens of Jl Alabama will vote on the port aid amendment. Without state aid Mobile cannot be made the gateway for the movement of our surplus products that it should be.
 The value of an outlet to other na- tions for the stuffs we produce and the need was never more emphasized than now. Low prices for these prod ucts are the direct result of their in- ability to move to other nations. The disparity of exchange will disappear. It is a temporary condition, but it should convince us of our dependence on the rest of the world for stability of our own markets.
 Alabamians can ship their products abroad With greater economy ana O1S- patch through the port of Mobile than by any other route. The necessity for its being prepared to handle goods so that ships will put in there is self evident.
 The Jefferson county port aid amendment leads to the same end. The amendments are separate propositions but drive in the same direction. One aims at the development of the states foreign gateway; the other the devel- opment of Alabama's leading water highway to the gulf.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16
Jail Sentences Will
 Stop Reckless Driving

w EsTERDAY in the Birmingham
 u police court man who was convicted of exceeding the speed limit was fined $50 and sentenced to serve ] thirty days at hard labor.
 That is the most effective way to check reckless driving. Numerous ac- cidents and a number of fatalities have made the streets of Birmingham unsafe for pedestrians, as we'll as drivers of cars who exercise due eau tion. The traffic laws have been openly violated. Hundreds of times daily automobile speeders menace the lives of passengers boarding and alighting from trolley cars. In many parts of town children and old peo- pie court death or injury when they venture off the sidewalks.
 Automobile drivers who have no respect for the law and no regard for the rights of others, who are disposed to laugh at fine and defy traffic officers, will find food for thought in jail sentence. Thirty days in durance vile with the added punish ment of having to do hard work, prob ably for the first time in his life, is prospect to daunt the most heed less driver of car.
 The police court win serve the pub lc we'll and inspire more respect for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16

the law by imposing jail sentences whenever the evidence in cases of speeding and reckless driving war rants such punishment. The people of Birmingham are tired of being at the mercy of persons who have the means to hire or buy a motor car but lack sufficient intelligence to realize that the safety of others is para mount.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16
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Special Privilege Back
 of League Opposition

117F ERE the masses of Americans WY as alive to the sinister and selfish reasons for antagonism to our entrance into the League of Nations as they are familiar with the super ficial ones, there would be no ques- tion of the result in November. There would be a landslide for Cox.
 The special privilege class has lined up against the league. The high-tariff organs were first to attack it and have been relentless in the antagon- ism. The league is not in accord with special privilege. It means share and share alike in common effort and welfare.
 Former Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo called attention to the busi- ness side of league opposition in his Cleveland speech on Thursday eve ming. He said:
 Staying out of the league and playing a lone hand means that we cannot reduce the burdens or taxation. I. means universal mill itary training, conscrption-
 And he submits this indictment:
 Harding suggests an increase in the tariff to such high point that Europe will not only be unable to pay tic debt she owes us, but, by practically stepping importation, will make it impossible for her to buy our surplus products.
 That would be policy of stu ridity so far as the interests of the American people are concerned, but a tcneficial policy for big bus- ness and selfish interests, which would profit by having complete contfol of our domestic markets. The farmer with his grain and cot ton would suffer more than he all ready has through decline in our export trade.
 This is the spirit back of league opposition. Senator Lodge, hailing from the country's hub of privileged interests, is it's, fitting exponent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16
ments they must follow closely the departments directions.

ments they must follow closely the departments directions.
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 Senator New says the proposal that Cox and Harding have a joint debate is utterly absurd" Quite so. And the absurdity would be apparent about ten times after Cox began to ask Senator Harding few Embarrassing questions.
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 A Youngstown, Ohio. councilman says the street car line in his ward is so badly worn passing cars jared out an old lady's false teeth. He might have scme difficulty in proving that the old lady even wears false teeth.
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 Another reason why America should not enter the back door of the League of Nations is the possibility of pumping into Mexico or Germany, headed in the M. Carpentier pleads for a square deal in America By all means, let him have it. If Battling Levinsky was not whipped honestly he took a great deal of unnecessary punishment.
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 Since we can't make ball players out of the immigrants who come to America, it is our duty to make good citizens out of them.
 In spite of the enormous sums of money said to have been spent in Cuba by American tourists, the Cuban govern ment wants to know what Uncle Sam thinks about little loan. Peary's flag was found in arctic ice foo miles from the North Pole. To save argument. we are willing to concede that it might have drifted.
 United Kingdom is Facing a Crisis''- Headline. It's a threatened strike of coal miners this time The Irish question is a standing crisis.
 When dry agents start to confiscat- ing foreign vessels for violating the pro- hibition law they are going to open up a brisk diplomatic correspondence. The citizen who knows all about the League of Nations is silenced when he encounters the citizen who has a recipe for making "home-brew.''
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 It has taken the average Russian long time to decide that Lenine and Trotzky are worse than the Czar ever dared to be.
 Where are the prophets?". asks the Montgomery Advertiser. At the hour of going to press Chairman White and Hays were making the customary forecasts.
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 Sing Sing has barred hair tonic. Life in that grand old bastile is becoming more and more monotonous.
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 Motor cars and other little presents will enable Cleveland ball players to spend an enjoyable winter.
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 It looks as if Russia and Poland would be spared the rather vexatious task of deciding who won the war. There will be great deal of grumbling ill the land until the nickel recovers it's pre-war punch.
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 Birmingham needs about fifty more po- licemen. preferably sprinters.
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 The night rider is short-sighted in- dividual swho reasons about as badly as he spells.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
HOSPITABLE SOUL.


 That's the third time this week the kitchen roof of this boarding house has caught fire," grumbled the chief. What are you going to do about itf'. asked a bystander.
 What can we do about it? The land lady had coffee and sandwiches ready when we arrived" A LITTLE OVERSIGHT.
 How does MT. Gadspur stand on the League of Nations?"
 Like nearly everybody else in this country" "wen?" Hes been so busy arguing about it he hasn't found time to read the league covenant" RETIRED TO PRIVATE LITE
 whats become of Congressman rvob- ble. who used to pose as the man of the hour in this part of the eounryr'
 'He met the usual fate of -sixty-minuts men," said Squire witherbee.
 How was that?"
 "A lot of his constituents sot together and decided his hour was up.-
 A DRY sUBrERFUGz.
 Have you any of thoee hollow 0esk forms that look lfke the real thlngT asked Colonel Biffkins.
 ''We don't carry anything ef that sort. replied the salesman. May ask what you want with them!'
 I'm restocking my library. I havs just discovered that sonse of my choicest vol umes leak.v PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16
Fortunate Church

T consider that not only the Baptists of Talladega but the members of all denominations are fortunate in having Powell Lee to be with the First Bap- tjst Church of that city this week in e revival" says Perry FowIkes. "Dr. billiard is one Of the best pastor evangelfsts in the ranks of Southern Baptists and Edward Powell Lee is one of the best musical directors. I con- graduate pr. J. M Thomas in being able to have two such splendid men in meeting with i'm. Dr. billiard is always in revival mood, and Noisy Lee. as he is lovingly called by the Rotarians, just overflows with gospel hymns"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16

locks the gates. Behind him still walks "a varlet at twopence night to carry the keys" and broad daylight or-no, fol- lows the bugler with the lantern.
 Halt Who comes there?" demands the sentry.
 The keys" replies the yeoman DOT ter.
 LUKE M'LUKE SAYS
 Another reason why it makes father mad to have to stay home these eve nings is because he can't solve the seventh grade problems the kids bring home<as night work.
 No husband appreciates his wife as much as he should. And even if he did she wouldn't believe it. his mouth when he is talking to his own wife. But he has a cake of honey in his mouth when he is talking to some other mans wife.
 Anyway, a man never puts off until tomorrow what he can get some will ing friend to do for him todNy.
 Somehow or other good luck just who simply won't keep away from the man who minds his own business.
 Women are good actors. When the boob proposes, the girl acts just as sur prised as if she hadn't done it herself.
 Having never owned a flivver we'll have to admit that they are sexless as far as we are concerned and we wouldn't be able to tell Henry from a Lizzie.
 Some husbands are so stubborn that they'll quit voting the ticket they al- ways voted because their wives are going to vote it.
 A big corn-fed girl may look like an elephant in the parlor. But she sure shines when she Is in the kitchen.
 After girl gets home from a party nowadays she has to dress all up to go to bed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16
Excellent Idea

T think the traffic zones recently marked out for pedestrians crossing the downtown streets is an excellent idea" said Robert G. Messer. Drivers of motor vehicles are often given the blame for accidents that not their fault. If the people will stay within the area marked out and keep their eyes open there will be no excuse for their being hit, except in a most ex- treme case.
 Most of the accidents we hear about do not occur in the downtown district, and are not the result of congestion of traffic. They are far more often found on the speedways. In these cases, of course, it is the fault of one of the drivers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16
A MORNING PRAYER

MORNING PRAYER
 Sneak tn me, God; speak in tones of thunder. for the world is crying ;r my ears and in my heart< Against my will | am ready to wander from .Lo Hold me fast. So shall | be
 Anon RI. s. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16
THE CRn.DREN's GHooss

". N. Let's in the October Tale Rsv1oO. Herod sitting on his throne. Lest he should hear tho children mnan, And lose awhile his careless ease, Bade sackbuts play and psa1teF1eaI Bade flutes and tabors take their png< To cheat the terror in his heart To drown the wailing of . child That came upon the storm wind VA. So odl and new the sacrifice When innocents must pay the prioA Age after age the children give Their lives that Herod still may avoA They shiver naked in the cold That he may dress in cloth of gold. Piteous and pale for lack of bread They starve to keep his table spreaA. But if ycsi be not Herod.s kin The little ghosts will enter in, Will take your hands and unafraA Tell you t/sir tale and crave your aid. No longer now we suffer pain, But let these others laugh again. Make haste! Before it Is too late! For Death stands knocking n one
 gate!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16
SOCIAL oUTcAsTs.

T resent the imputation that I belong to the pie brigade,'" said the pompous citizen.
 But you want government job. don't you?' asked MT. Bibbles.
 Certainly. I wish to serve my country at a great personal sacrifice"
 That being the case. you ought to get a job as prohibition enforcement officer. Down in my part of the country they are as unpopular as German spies"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16

is doing and filled as they have besa with roseate soviet pictures of . voE3d gone mad ill favor of bolshevism, they know only too we'll what bolshevian really means in the actual life of city and country. If tho incubus of the commissar:at rule. supported by bayo- nets. can now be relaxed through the refusal of the army to keep on fight ing, the revulsion from the Moscow an- tocracy will be of an overwhelming character. No peasant nor worker h Russia has to be . philosopher to knoW what sovietism Is at tts best and ieB worst And while Moscow still peo- tends that everything h favosabae to It's cause, the situation does not oA0 for many rebeuions and dessrt1oos within the army to bring sevist r,11e to its knees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16
PUTTING THE .TowER" TO BED

From the New York Evening Post.
 London.-Few Americans who have visited the Tower of London have ever witnessed the ceremony of the keys. though it has taken place nightly for many centuries. The yeoman porter, with an escort of guards, still nightly
 Whose keys?" asks the sentry.
 King Georges keys" is the asnwer.
 At the end of the ceremony the yeo- ma nporter takes off his hat and says. God preserve King George" and guard and escort reply Amen" Then the band or drums and flies play God Save the King" and buglers sound the Last Post"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16
Not Boosting Enough

Birmingham seems to me to be one of those places that makes you feel good and glad that you are alive whether you want to or not" says Carl Jackson, "and If ever l get chance this is the place where l am coming to live.
 This is my first visit to the Magic City and though I had read a lot about Birmingham. I naturally took it with grain of salt. as the saying goes, for I believed a lot of it to be newspaper talk and nothing else. But when I got here for the first time last week I realized that everything that the news papers had said about it was true and that there was only one thing lack ing, and that was that they wasn't boosting it enough. For to live hero once is to be always a booster"
 Candidate For Trouble
 The thinking capacity and the &C., tivities of the mind of a negro has all ways seemed amusing to me. especial ly as, many negroes possess the art or Siit ol peiHS luHIly WitHout trying at all." says Gaines Kelly.
 The other day I was standing in the office of the warden at the city jail when 8 big, black negro came in, and after being given permission to speak to negro inside, he removed his hat and said: Henry, what dey got you in hear for?' Henry replied that he had been arrested on charge of carrying concealed weapons. An knowed you was in for a lot of trouble. Tse told you when you bought dat pis- tol that you was candidating for page five of The Age-Herald, and dat some mornin' you'd wake up in jail and find yourself writ all over dat page. reckin dey might get an extra out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16

HIS ONLY GRIEVANCE. Who is the indignant caller?' "One of our prominent citizens,' said the editor of the Toadvine Clarion, "who gave an interview to our local reporter and expressly stipulated that his name must not appear in print"
 'Yes, and he's mad because it was spelled wrong"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16

POOR IMPERSoNATION. At the end of his act that vaudeville performer was careful to remove his black gloves and kinky wig to snow he was white.'
 "tI wasn't necessary" replied the fussy patron.
 "No?"
 He gave the most colorless imitation of a colored man I ever saw"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16

shortest and quickest way IS 10 so through Columbiana and Calera, most round about route.
 The cue and the speaking was held in the pine grove near the Baptist Church, an ideal spot for such an affair as the ground slopes just right for the people to range themselves in order to hear the speakers There were no seats provided, the crowd just good-naturedly sitting down on the grass or pine needles. Fluker McGraw, the local chairman, in sided in his own unique and inimitable manner, introducing those on the pro- gramme la Judge.
 
 The meeting was opened with a fervent prayer by the Rev. R. A. Kidd. It fell to the lot of Judge to state the object of the gathering, and he did it in humorous next on the list, and made straightfor- ward plea for quick action to meet the pressing need. J. B. Elliott, known far and wide as the Duke of Leeds" was happy in his "reminiscences. I then spoke. and the gathering so far as talking was concerned was brought to a close with a business like talk from J. F. McGraw.
 
 J. H. Wilder. one of my "buddies." he of fox-hunting fame, was on hand cons tributing as usual his share to the pleas ure of the visitors. I saw car come in with a cage of hounds. showing that they had recently been on an exciting chase. wilders dogs have made Vincent famous all over America among those who care for the fleetest in the sport. recall some years back being at Wilder's home dur ing an association and he kindly offered to turn loose fox and let me have a chase before meeting took in at night. He is just that kind of fellow. ready to give his friends the best he has. A drive through the country to Wilson vile with my good friends. Mir and Mrs. h. F. Pope. completed great days outing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-16

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala- postoffice as second-class matter under act of Congress March s, 1879.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-01-23
The Best Cough Medicine.

When,a druggist finds that his Gus
omers all speak well of a certain prep
a%ration, he FORMS a good opinion of it
and when in need of such medicine
is almost certain to use it himself and
in his family. This is why so many
druggists use and recommend Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy. J. B. Jones,
a well known druggist of Cubrun, KY,
says, II have used Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy in my family for the
past seven years, and have found it
to be the best cough medicine l have
ever known"
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-01-23
HAS LAUGHABLE, TRAGIC ROLE

When crook meets crook it is highly
probable that some of the super
wealth are going to be relieved of a
portion of their surplus riches. But in
"Burlar by Proxy" Jack Pickford's
latest picture which will be shown at
the Orpheum theatre, one of the
crooks is a conscientious obiector.
AS Jack Robin, wealthy youth, in
love with Dorothy Mason, Pickford
play the part of a boy who turns
burglar to recover business plans stol-
en- from Dorothy's father by her fiance.
Jacks alliance with Spider, a nm
torious bousebreaker, leads him into a
series of complications which always
make him appear before Dorothy as a
thief despite her earnest desire to be-
lieve he is a respectable youth.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1920-01-23

Dorothy hears him tell Jack about
the robbery and she then confronts
Jack with the. information that she
now is convinced that he is a full
1edged thief. Jacks denials are met
with contempt by Dorothy who in
forms him hal unless he returns the
articles Immediately she will report
him to the police. Jack does some
quick thinking, smashes an expensive
stained glass window, dishevels his
hair and %invents a weird story about
his wallet" catching a thief. The
story is swallowed "whole" by mem
bers of the party. But Dorothy is
more convinced than ever that he is a
crook. It is too much story for an
honest young man, she decides,