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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
HURTING THE SOUTH

of the end now being scught-to get better prices for cotton.
 Commenting~upon the recent ravages Of night riders in various parts of the south. The Indianapolis News. in an editorial Business by Torch" empha- sizes the folly of such a course.
 Those southern cotton growers says the News:
 Who are spending their evenings burning cotton gins whose owner.~pav less for cotton than the planters be- lieve to be fair price are extremely shortsighted. Their idea of the cotton market is that it ends at the gin. By burning few gins, according to this line of reasoning. they will terrorize the local cotton buyers. who will close their doors and somehow or other cause the price to rise again"
 Rather than helping, such acts Of meb violence materially retard the dew elopment of the south
 These outbursts." as the Indianapolis News very truthfully goes on to say are not dangerous to the country; but they are burden to the south, and challenge to southern leaders of con-i servative views and sound strength"
 Just as that is true of outbursts of night riderism and the arson mania. it Is true of lynching. and of every other form of expression of the spirit of out lawry and mob rule.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Lacking in Courtesy


 With all due respect to our board or city commissioners. l think they should wake up and get busy to the tact that 1t is as much their duty to boost Birmingham as it is several other men that l could mention" said Fred Andrews.
 When the members of the different nations who are going to take part in the balloon race arrive in the city they should be met at the station by host Of our leading citizens, headed by the city fathers. For instance, when the Italian officers who are going to take part in the race, landed in New York, they were met at the station by the mayor. dozens of leading citizens and the American Legion of New York city.
 But when they arrived in Birming- ham, the starting place of the interna- tional race, not member of the board of city commissioners was there. Neither were zny officials of the local post of the American Legion. There was only one band and that was hired by the local Italian societies to well come their distinguished countrymen to the city,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
MOON SONG IN AUTUNn

By Clinton Scollard. Moon of the changing leaf, of the shift.
 ing sheen On the poplar boughs where gold sup-
 plants the green. Moon of the sumaehs flame and the
 naples fire, Moon of the soidenrod and the hip of
 the brier. Moon of the aster plume and the wild
 sunflower, Moon of the clear autnmnal midnight
 hour. Be as beckoning torch tbat I may
 know Ipss the darkness whither my feet
 should 90! Shaw me the climbing pathway over
 the hill; Beacon me still where the long road
 follows the Till; Sever the gloom whore the deepast hoilows are, And lead me on and on. though inc
 leagues he far. To the little house where she waits fer
 me at the door: Then. O guiding moon. y0h need shine no more; Then. o kindly neon. yes may faae
 from sight. For the gieam in her wslcominx syss
 will be my light:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
From the Atlanta Constitution.

roH the Atlanta ConStltutlon.
 M NE THING upon which the rep IV y resentatives and spokesmen for
 the agricultural interests of the south were in absolute agreement and accord, and that was emphasized in their expressions of opinions, both at the recent Washington conference and subsequently in the meeting held in At- lanta to consider the cotton situation, was that nothing could be more in :. furious to the cause of the farmer. than for them to attempt to take the law into their own hands, by violence and measures of intimidation.
 Every leader at these conferences took particular pains not only to dis countenance and condemn such meth ods. but to implore the public to do likewise.
 These spokesmen, whose fervent de- sire was, and is, to enhance the inter- ests and welfare of the farmers of ths south, realized--and said so in so many words--that the antics of night riders and the clandestine burning of gins as a means of stopping the movement of cotton by intimidation. instead of lead : ing-tc any possible good results, wa, doing more than anything else coufe do to initiate against their attainment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20

time he commenced doing this, he began shipping four more pounds of butter fat per diem and increased his revenue by $34 per month. In this way he is getting $1.60 per bushel for his cotton seed.
 It is a short story of achievement in small way, but the lesson is the same as though it had applied to a large herd. The result would have been the same in proportion.
 Whether the enterprise is farming, manufacturing or dealing in general merchandise, success or failure de- bends on the operator. No outside aid ever cut farmers grain, or car ried it to market for him. No out side effort ever ran a factory, or sold the products of mills in the markets. No farming section has ever thrived where farmers do not use their own initiative.
 We have not heard wall from Kansas since the Kansas farmers built their own grain warehouses and forced the wheat purchaser to come to them. These westerners are often heard from asking for more and doing their level best to get more, but they don't rely on the other fellow to get it for them. Wheat has resisted the down. ward process more than all the other grains.
 The Senatobia. farmer is doing his own thinking. There is lot in that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
Epidemics of Rabies
 From Bites of Dogs

r UNREGISTERED and untagged 1 VI dogs can be seen almost any,
 where in Birmingham, some in the
 central part of the city.
 A local news item of Monday is to the effect that four new patients
 have been registered at the city lab oratory to take the Pasteur treatment. Six persons, bitten by the same dog, have applied for remedial reatment. The state laboratory at Montgomery reports an epidemic of rabies at Union Springs, Selma and Phenix City. Heads of dogs from the three cities show unmistakable signs of rabies.
 Quitting sheep, this record of rav- ages on the human species going on simultaneously in four Alabama cities is not a comfortable one. Even though all the victims of dog bite re- cover, they must go through the tor ture of apprehension and the nauseat- ing and painful treatment that will save them from death.
 |
 Yet the last general assembly came very near taking all the teeth out of the dog law. Governor Kilby is to be congratulated for allowing it to die on his table.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
FOUND IN AN OLD norEBook

From London Exchange.
 An old Arabian proverb runs as fol- lows:
 He who knows not and knows not he knows not is fool; shun him.
 He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep: wake him.
 He who knows not and knows that he knows not is simple; teach him. He who knows and knows that he knows is wise; follow him.
 There are several things fin this world of ours that one must shut ones eyes to. Soap is one of them.
 Strong drink is paradox. Both those
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

The married man who claims that he is boss in his home will lie about other things. too. if he gets a chance. Daughter may not believe it. But there was time when mother was young and pretty and believed that a handsome prince would marry her and put her in golden castle. Nowadays man knows that he isn't going to get much benefit from taking patent medicine unless the label an nounces an alcoholic content of 10 or Is per cent.
 The most pitiful object Is the man with a swelled head. He forgets that there are about ss.ss9,ssss people in this country who do not know who he is, and care less.
 You can't get a farmer to believe that a man can get any exercise out of play ing lawn tennis. The reason why man never says anything mean to another mans kite is because he saves All his meanness for his own wife.
 It is the kind Of man who doesn't amount to anything In his town who
 tells you that his town doesnv amount to anything~
 When big healthy man squeals about his Luck some one ought to hit
 him over the head with crowbar. Any man who has health sts up to his eyes in Luck.
 Do not imagine that the girl with the dreamy eyes is 70 nrowsy that she is going to overlook anything.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
Converting a Low
 Into a High Price

n SENATOBIA, MISS, farmer has AA not cried out to fate because the price of cotton and cotton seed is low, but has diverted the low mar ket price of the seed into higher price by exercising little ingenuity.
 He fed his cotton seed to his small herd of cows. In ten days from the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
s.Tne Chain. of Change,

Tt Is really remarkable what archi- tects and builders can plan and build CTS execute in these days when a ne- cessity arises" said H. Key Milner. I'm thinking of the alterations being IT rade at the corner of Fifth avenue and Twenty-first street. For years the two corner houses were looked upon IS among the best residences on the ave- nue. Then business began to encroach on them and a fruit stand was built extending from the corner one to the sidewalk. It was in business for years. Now they are together with the two adjoining brick residences being trans formed into up-to-date store houses. It's rather difficult piece of work as the corner house had several bays and some fancy work which had to be torn out along with the fronts"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
AGE AND ITS LONELINESS

and daughters will see that he hes a home. that he is materially provided for. His heart-yearnings for fellow ship they cannot understand. '
 There is. indeed. more of thoushtle ess ness than of hardness on the part of the young. In large measure fate hampers them,l too Commonly they could not if they would, supply ade- quateiy what the old man lacks. They belong to another generation. Often even tenderslove is uncomprehending in it's manifestations.
 And yet society smiles when the vet eran makes a second marriage. smiles as if senility were in it's veriest dotage. Society is unjust. Life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness are not the exclusive prerogatives of the adoies cent. Marriage that is real companion ship may well be the happiness that is best worth pursuing. And if mistake be made. if the elderly man has been pursuing o'-the-wisp, he has fewer years to suffer from his error than the youth who weds not wisely. That also is non-negligible considera- ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
MARK TWAIN AND HIS PIPE

From The Americanization of Edwin
 Bok"
 One afternoon as Mark Twain wan. dered into Bok.s office. he was just put ting his pipe away. The pipe. of the corncob variety, was very aged and black. Box asked him whether it was the only pipe he had.
 cOh. nc." Mark answered. T have sev- eral. But they're all like this. I never smoke . new corncob pipe. new pipe irritates the throat No corncob pipe is fit for anything until 1t has been used at least . fortnight"
 How do you break in pipe. then ~ asked Box.
 < That's the vricA' answered Mark Twain. T ret cheap mana man who doesn't amount to much. anyhow: whd would be as well. or better, dead-and pay him dollar to break in the pipe for me. I get him to smoke the pipe for couple of weeks. then put in new stem and continue operations as long as the pipe holds together
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 '66NNT HEN my first wife.
 w Fanny. died, 1t left me
 awfuIly lonely. I have children and they would give me a home. but children ain't no com pany when body's old" The widower of 74 is marrying again. He has prop erty. He has bright. blue eyes lighting up wrinkled face. He has journeyed from Cairo, Illinois, to claim a bride of 5s and be married by the mayor of Poughkeepsie.
 Children ain't no company when a body's old'-how much of elemental human pathos in the cry! Tn how many thousands of hearts it must strike a responsive chord! Age and it's lone liness compel the sympathy of even the young who are capable of thinking and feeling normally.
 Grown-up sons have their own in terests in life. utterly distinct from a fathers interests. Grown-up daughters, married and with families of their own, or even unmarried and with social oc : equations, realize no failure in fila, duty in alienation from the father Sons
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
Senator Harding Makes a Lame Exclamation

z@ ENATOR HARDlNGS GS letter tc D President Wilson explaining what he actually said in regard to France sending representatives tc discuss a new association of nations with him is just another example o1 quibbling.
 Sharply called to account by Presi- dent Wilson, MT. Harding says.
 The notes of the stenographer
 reporting my remarks quote me as
 saying France has sent her
 spokesmen to me informally ask
 ing America in it's new realization
 on the situation to lead the way
 for an association of nations"
 I am sure that my words could
 not be construed to say that the
 French government has sent any
 body to me. The thought was
 tiyihB t0 SOHNCy WdS LHdt lHcIb
 had come to me those who spoke a
 sentiment which they represented
 to ve very manifest among the
 French people. but nothing could
 suggest the French government
 having violated the proprieties of
 international relations. Official
 France would never seek to go
 over your high office as our chief
 executive to appeal to the Ameri-
 can people or any portion thereof.
 "I'm sure," Senator Harding pleads in justification, using that queer English of his, That my words could not be construed to say that the French government has sent anybody to me-" On the contrary, that is just what any person with ordinary intel- ligence would think he meant. In discussing international affairs it is a common practice to use the name of the country to designate it's govern ment. When man in public life says France does this or that, it is obvi- ous that he means the French gov- ernment. There can be little doubt that the impression made on everyone of Harding's hearers and everybody who read his tactless statement, in- cluding President Wilson, was that the French government, already a member of the league, had sought to confer with a citizen of a country which is not a member about organiz- ing new fraternity, and in doing so had disregarded all established precedent by going over the head of MT. Wilson.
 Irresponsible Frenchmen may have approached Senator Harding. Gov ernor Cox believes one of them to have been French humorist. France could not have been guilty of such a grave discourtesy. Senator Harding admits that, but if President Wilson had not demanded an explanation from him, his ill-advised and mislead- ing statement would have been just another contribution to the republican campaign of misrepresentation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
AMENITIES ABROAD

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 "Traitor!" shriiis Sir Edward Carson at former Premier Asquith. It is not in America alone that treason is ascribed to those who think on lines different from our own. Luckily courts cannot convict on such evidence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
SETTING A GOOD EXAMPLE

From the Louisville Courier-JournaI
 Herbert Parsons act in boltinx tho republican party was display of sim lcerity which was rendered the moro conspicuous by the sight of an sx-Pres- ident and many others who are hush ing up their consciences to follow the party flag.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
MERE FoRMALITIEs

 T fear those two men are coming to blows" said the timorous citizen. Don't be alarmed" Said a bystander. There isn't chance" : But they are calling each other liars:
 Only political liars. In this part of the country if man doesn't call some body liar at least once during politi- cal campaign he doesn't consider that he's doing his duty to his party"
 TRULY KIND My neighbours generous soul.
 And hope to heaven he'll win; lie loaned me a scuttle of coal
 when hadn't lump in my bin.
 TOO FEMININE
 What became of your new girl clerk?"
 We had to let her go,' said the head of the firm. "she had no head for business"
 OO UdQ. Yes, she parked her gum on the adding machine and her powder puff in the cash register"
 HIS FIRST VICTORY MT. Blibbs is the right kind of hus- band remarked Mrs. Jibway. Why so, my dear?" asked MT. Jib- way
 He says it win be the proudest moment of his married life when Mrs. Blibbs casts her first vote." He'll have good reason to feel puffed up,' said MT. Jibway. grfnly, If that woman votes the way he wants her to-,
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20

who are for and against 1t want to put it down.
 A soft-headed nall and hard-headed
 man are both hard to drive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
Home of Their Own

The committee appointed recently to investigate and suggest ways and means of securing permanent home fors the Birmingham Association of Business and Professional Women is making splendid progress" said Dr. Lola Taylor, president of the organiza- tion. Tt is generally recognized that we are outgrowing our present quar- ters and, of course, it is desirable that we look forward to the ownership of our own home some day.
 This committee has done considera- ble research work in the way of inves- tigating the methods of other clubs and observing local conditions. AL though they are not yet ready to make final report. we are looking forward to hearing it. This Is one of the big things the club must work for"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
Two Officials Entitled
 to Salary Increase

h MONO the propositions which A Jefferson county voters will be called upon to decide in the gen. eral election next month is that in- creasing the salaries of two officials of the county from $3,60O to $5,o0O per year.
 The officials affected are the clerk of the circuit court and the register in chancery. Governor Kilby ap- proved the act providing for submis- sion of the matter to the voters of the county, these being the only sal ary increase measures so treated.
 The increases seem fair and entitled to the indorsement of the people of the county. The present salaries are the same as provided for the different clerks of the two courts before all of the courts were consolidated. The concentration of litigation has in- creased the duties of these two off cials greatly. They handle an aver age of more than 5000 cases year. To add $l,400 to the salary of each seems more in the nature of an adjust ment than an increase.
 These places were formerly filled by men who were paid by the fee system so that the income was several times as great as it will be even under the increase proposed.
 William J. Waldrop is clerk of the circuit court and Hunter Armstrong is register in chancery and through out the county there is recognition of the faithfulness and care with which they have exercised the duties of their offices.
 They are entitled to have the cleo tors vote ives" on the proposal when it is submitted next month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
THE MODERN MISSOURI FARMER From the Jackson Examiner.

From the Jackson Examiner.
 Farming isn't what it used to be. A farmers wife. who lives ten miles from Independence. put on her silk stockings and party dress, hitched up the Ford and drove to Independence after she had fed the farmer and his hands the monday meal. She played bridge all Afternoon, won the prize. stayed ir town for dinner with friend and met her husband at o'clock. MT. and Mrs Farmer drove to Kansas City for q dance at hotel. danced until midnight and returned home in time to get few hours sleep before the breakfast time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
Facing Future With
 Prosperous Outlook

n T will take time, of course, for the ll railroad systems to recover from war conditions when they were oper- ated by the government. No execu- tive official is disposed to criticise the work of the federal administra- tion. Under trying circumstances the best that could be done was done;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
Just For Fun

Russell Hunt certainly played joke on his wife the other day." said Latt Waldrop, deputy clerk in the office of William Waldrop. clerk of the circuit court. He was summoned for jury duty and after he received his sub poena he put it back in the typewriter and wrote Mrs. before the name, and in the place where the occupation is placed he inserted the words wife of' He then gave it to her. telling her she was one of the first women to be called for jury duty. MT. Hunt declared his wife has said She didn't want to serve on the jury and he had enjoyed the joke thoroughly before he told her it was his subpoena"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
We cannot hold mortality's strong
 hand, king John.
A MORNING PRAYER

Lord God, if I have kept thy conn mnndments, save me from the sin Of pride, and let me be humble. know ing it was by thy mercy and not through my own strength. Amen M. $ B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
HARD HIT

His brains in a. whirl,
 His years they are twenty; The cause is a girl,
 That's trouble a-plenty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
It stiIl Works.

Tt is surprising to me how many people have been held up by the cid pocketbook stunt" said Deputy sheciff Lee White. Although for the past two weeks some one has been robbed prac- tically every day and in the majority of cases this stunt has been used. people continue to fall for it.
 The daily papers have carried stor> ies of these holdups and it appears that persons seeing pocketbooks on unset tied roads would look very closely in tho bushes on both sides before stop. ping and attempting to pick them up. We are working on all daylight rob- berries that have been reported to us and up to date have arrested six ne> grces"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A COMFORTING suRM1sE

A COMFORTING SURMISE Don't want to be The millionaire
 Who seems so free
 From earthly care.
 The chances are
 His outward pride
 And costly car
 But serve to hide
 weight of woe F We cannot pierce,
 And yet we know
 Is something fierce. THE HEART OF THE COVENANT 'Is it easy to become an authority on the League of Nations covenant? ?' asked the earnest voter. Certainly" replied Mir. Twobble How would you begin?" Read and digest Article x. You won't get a chance to talk about any thing else"
 TOO ExCLAMAToRY You don't care for bolshevik ora- toryr'
 "No',, replied MT. DuDwaite. q can't say that I do.- In the first place l don't like the way they punctuate their speeches"
 How is thatT' They substitute bombs for exclama- tion points,
 KNOWS BETTER Whats at tn op'ry house tonight, 'SQuireg'
 "Th' btllboards say it's one O them Broadway shows" replied Squire Witherbee, that came direct from New York to chiggersvilis. I know that ain't SOL
 Tt may be true" Tt can't be true. Tn tn fust place, tn company'd have to change cars at Hickory junction to get here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20
One Ls Left

The other afternoon while sitting on the porch of friend with wohm I am visiting, an old negro woman pass ed passed by and said, Good morning, sir. as she courtesied," said Col. Joseph s. Miller of Baltimore. Tt was one of the most polite things that I have seen in member of the negro race since be- fore the Civil war. In these days of fast living it is a genuine pleasure to run across real polite person. Far too much of the politeness of today is sham. A salesman uses it, of course
 until he has sold you or found out that he cannot do so. but the real ante belium courtesy is scarce commodity. T am very gladtto find at least one negro of your town civil. Should I make change I will think very fla vorahly of moving to your city,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-20

Put 1t down in your pipe and smoke N I.n never turn down an invitation to any thing the Italians In this district give. for
 when they decide on thing they do not just trust to luck. but appoint the best pcsSible- committee to handle 1t. and then the rest just kick in" for all they are worth. and everybody makes point to see to 1t. that their outside guests are properly cared for.