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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-15

rs per CENT DISCOUNT on all
EATS, beginning Tuesday and CON
tpging throughout the week. Ameri-
GUS Millinery ParIors, 606 Jackson
ave4ue.-14-tf.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-15

MASS AT CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Mass will be said at the Catholic
morning at 1880 o'clock, with Father
Keenan, as celebrant.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-15

district who will make headquarters
in Triton after the first Of the year,
was here yesterday arranging to
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-15
r TT TO BECOME
ZENITH HEADQUARTERS.

GITF0N,. Nov. i 5.-Districe Engi-
nAr Hill, of the Tenth Georgia road
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-15

The following counties not embrac-
& in the Third. division will be in
5 new AmeLicns district: Musco-
y, Chattaho6chee, Harris, Talbot,
Son, Crawford and Marion.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-11-15

Eminent Commander
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
Tuscaloosa Merchants
 Effect Organization

THHE merchants of Tuscaloosa
 l have organized a Merchants Bureau of the Chamber of Com Merce. The Merchants and Manu- lecturers association of the Bir- mingham Chamber of Commerce has been a distinct success. It has served to draw more trade to Bir- mingham, but it has served higher purpose by bringing the big com mercial interests of the district into compact organization.
 Merchants guilds date back to ancient times. Antwerp, Liege and Brussels had them centuries ago, and they served to place ships of the Dutch and Flemish on all the seas, to found colonies and to bring to western Europe the products of other countries. The merchants of Tuscaloosa and Birmingham are do- ing no more than experience has demonstrated to be wise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
* <. * No lrcrease in Rates for Semi-Centennial

who attend Bir-
 V mingham's semi-centennial celebration will not be subjected to profiteering by hotels and restau- rants. Numbers of the general com mittee have been interviewing man agers and proprietors who have as sured them of their cooperation.
 It has been the practice in many American cities wheQ conventions and other public affairs drew large crowds to charge "all the traffic would bear.' Hotel rates scared skyward and restaurant prices mounted, but the American people are heartily sick of that sort of treatment and public indignation, coupled with self-interest, has helped to keep down extortion. Once . city gets a reputation for taking ad- vantage of the stranger within its gates flat stranger is apt to stay
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
SUNNY FRANCE
From the, Chicago Hsrala and lx- aminer

From the, Chicago Hsrala and Gx-
 aminer.
 News of a-long. hot, rainless sum- mer in France will be received with mixed feelings. The members of the A. E. F. win merely scoff.- A France warm and dry is something outside their powers of ina gination. The in, ternational humapitarian will alter nately grow gloomy and rejoice as the reports alternate that the drouth has spoiled the crops, and that in spite of the drouth the wheat cop is the largest since 1913.
 But t5e most obvious suffer.r by the news from France is the man who in pre-yolstead days had a taste for wines. We mean a taste he could sratify. For all authorities join in declaring that the unusual heat and dryness have developed q quality and Ia flavor in the grapes which has not betn known for decades. This is to be one of the great French wine years. In the next half century "the vintage of lssl'' will be amonx the choicest in choicest cellars
 But not here. The best we can hope for is spinach brew. prsscrip- !tisn whisky and medicinal" beer. And} all the rain that has not fallen lin france will flood the cav&rns of ma ~an aching American heart.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
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HIGH FEES FOR SURGEONS

fiVuh tHV 3ASoiSoA AsSSOAu.
 Qulte bother has been made over the announcement that the trustees of Johns Hopkins hospital have made a rule governing the charges of sur geons and internists treating patients in the institution. The edict records that '"Phe maximum fee that any surgeon ought to charge for an oper- ation, no matter how wealthy the pa- tient may tbe, is s1,o00. The maxi- mum charge that any physician ought to make for attending patients in a hospital is $35 a week."
 The dictum is in line with the i'm creasing tendency toward lay control of medical practices; but 1t concerns only the physicians and surgeons at one particular hospital The surgeons at the Peter Bent Brigham hospital in Boston will not feel under any lobli gation to abide by this rule, nei- ther will those at the Mayo Clinic Tn Rochester,, Minn.
 Nor should 1t nor will 1t influence any other surgeon with self-rcspect and just appreciation of his own worth. Surgeons outside of the Johns Hopkins will continue to charge what they deem proper. whether $oo cr s5.oo0. and S1,o00 will not be their minimum, as 1t might be if the law restricted them to maximum of this amount.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
Reforming the Young
From the Chicago Herald and Ex-

From the Chicago Herald and Ex-
 amner.
 The most damaging charge yet made against the morals of our younger set came from Philadelphia. where the Society of Colonial Danes some time ago asserted that 'in the wealthiest homes it is almost inn possible to keen servants on account of the vulgarity and bad manners of the children
 Whether the servants left lest they simpler reason that they tired of having dishes bounced from their shrinking vertebrae, we do not know. But at all events the situation worked it's own cure. Tie Colonial Danes planned to spoil the rod but keep the servant" campaign, but it now declares the need is over. The young are reforming. Even in the very best houses the crash of the fl&pper's china arguments and the sound of her petulent swear words are heard less frequently.
 Maybe we should like to believe that the vulgarity and bad manners brought their own penalty in the shape of household inconvenience and discomfort. That would be mak- ing the punishment fit the crime with a vengeance.
 But we doubt it. What the Co., lenial Danes call reform is merely themselves getting used to it, AZ long as one seeks to put the new wine of the present generation into the ld bottles of = eonventionallty there will be explosions-explosfons which will seem to be both vulgar and bad tempered. As soon as one recognizes that the present genera tion are no worse and no better than the preceding generation-only dif- ferent in the emphasis they lay on this and on that-we shall cease from troubling and be at rest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
Noted Russian Poet Falls
 a Victim to Rolshcvism

N LEXANDER BLOK, reputed to A be one of the most talented of Russia's younger poets, is dead. Like many other literary men in Russia, he dreamed of world re- created by the magic of bolshevism. Disillusion soon came. When he saw the practical workings of bol- shevism, the ruin and degradation which it had brought upon his coun- try, his enthusiasm cooled, For three years he worked as a transla- tor to earn a meager bread ration. Under-feeding resulted in scurvy, which brought his career to a tragic end.
 Blok was just one of the thousands of brilliant Russians who have fallen victims to the bolshevist regime. A priceless heritage of literature and art has been lost to the world in the Russian maelstrom. Disease, hunger. heart breaking toll and death have overtaken men and women whose names might have been immortal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
American Visitors Wait
 While Tarbes Dresses Up

A N agonizing hour was spent by &A the officials of Tarbes, in southern France, when the train bearing the American legionnaires steamed into the station ahead of time. It is easy to imagine the ges- tieulating and the shoulder shrug- ging that went on, as well as the deep humiliation of the townspeople and their dignitaries at the thought that their hospitality was at fault.
 When the train arrived, bearing the American visitors and their es- cort, there wasn't any band, there wasn't any mayor and the members of the municipal council were not in sight. Even the decorations had not been finished Sacred blue!"
 After hurried consultation, a messenger was sent flying to M. Boue, the honorable mayor of Tarbes. His suffering when informed that the train had arrived an hour before he thought it would was most acute. Never before had the good man undergone such an experience. The visitors were implored to re- main on their train while until official Tarbes could get ready to receive them in befitting style. With the Americans looking on, no doubt with much quiet amusement, there followed great deal of running to and fro in the station. The red carpet was laid, the potted plants were placed to the best advantage and flags were put up. In the mean time the mayor and the councilmen were donning their Prince Alberts and top hats.
 When these preparations were completed, the mayor kissed Maj. John c. Emery, legion commander, on both cheeks and the Americans were escorted to the birthplace of Marshal Foch. But the mayors day was spoiled. If he was a little pudgy man, as most French mayors are, he must have continued to mop his brow long after the visitors de- parted and lament the behavior of that diaboiical train.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
STILL BARTENDERs

From the Tampa Tribune.
 The Bartenders League of America, in convention at Chicago, not only proves that it still exists but decides not to change the ancient name of its trade to any such modern and refined equivalent as beverage dispenser"
 This decision may be sentimental. It may be- bravado. But it is probably inspired by hope, The bartending pro- fession. like the followers of many another deposed monarch, still hope that old John Barleycofn will 'come back" and they want to be ready.
 He may come back, at that, in his malt form. There is considerable agitation now in favor of permitting the manufacture and sale of beer of somewhat stronger alcoholic content less than the old strength. This agitation is encouraged by the wide spread defiance of the volstead law. especially the traffic in bootleg whisky. It is urged that if mild beer were permitted, fthere would be less incentive for all the home brewing and distillins. It is also urged that Congress, having Authority to inter- pret the eighteenth amendment, has right to declare two or three per cent beer nonintoxicating if it chooses.
 That may be done eventually. but certainly there is little present hope of success The bartenders may keep their titles for old times sake, but they may asN well reconcile them selves tc-serving near-heer no nearer than the volsteadian percentage for for the most part not over the old, familiar mahogany bars. hut over mollycoddle counters" without even the historic accompaniment of a footrail.
 Bartenders isn't what it used to be and thank heaven it never will be again. Through bars may come back, for certain mild purposes, it is safe to say that the American saloon. as it existed in it's heyday, win never again be tolerated. And be 1t said to the credit of the bartenders. who have always been q. more sober and estimable group of men than the gen. eral public realized, that few of them would want the saloon back unre- formed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
mate study of the way in which the

mate study of the way in which the local associations are conducted. They were treated courtcously by heads of these concerns and given all the information available.
 Montgomery is to be congratulated on having gotten into the building and loan business. It means more homes there for the citizens of av- craze means and the cultivation of the spirit of thrift. Birmingham building and loan associations have encouraged the organization of sim liar concerns in other cities and it is a source of qualification to them that they have contributed to the expansion of this home building agency in their state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20

tance of say, 40 wards.
 The mass diminished and they aa- vanced to find one of their oxen hor- ribiy mauled by lions. They dosed the corpse with strvch- nine and retired to their camp. They heard the lions busy at the carcass all night, and in the morning they round that the dead OK had practi- ealiy disappeared, but lying near the spot were five full grown lions-two males and three females al, poisoned.
 That was very Considerable bag got by illegitimate means. but here IS the true story of better bag got iesitimately. Incidentally it is a very interesting example of sportsmen's luck.
 When the late President Roosevelt and his son Kermit went to Britisn-> East Africa, in 1909, they were ac- companied on their hunting trip by the y late F. z. sselous, one of the great est hunters that ever lived.
 Selous was particularly anxious tn secure specimen of the East African black maned lion, but on the whole trip he never even got a shot { one. But Theodore Roosevelt got three. and Kermit Roosevelt eight-and neither of them had ever been on an African game hunting expedition be- fore.
 Some years ago & party of Greeks trekking through Portuguese zam- besia were followed for days by saunt old lion, who took one of their donkeys each night until only one of the whole team was left.
 This donkey the terrified Greeks were determined to retain at al, costs.
 When they made their camp that night, they built around 1t a great stoekade of bushes and thorns and m the centre of 1t they tethered the sole surviving donkey to their tent pole. But, notwithstanding these pre- cautious, that night the pertinacious oid ilon got the last donkey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
NEWS IN 1921

From the New York Evening Post
 A few hours after Caruso died the civilized world knew of it and was n mourning. A hundred years ago Napelean died. on May ,, fssi--aaa it was exactly so days before the world received the news
 Though the English were expecting his death at any moment and had made every preparation to Have word transmitted from St. Helena to Eng land with all possible dispatch, it was not until July that the news reached London. having been brought there by the sailing vessel Heron In accordance with the spirit of the times. the message was not given out on the arrival of the vessel. but was first conveyed to tho Colonial office. an act which required approximately two hours in itself.
 July {. 1Ssl. fell on Wednesday. On Friday. July $. the/ news reached Paris. Messengers were dispatched from Paris to Germany, where the newspapers commented on the death of General Bonaparte' for the first time on July f2. 6s days after the event had taken place. And this mo- tice was in a fpaper published at Mayence, then virtually French town.
 The vossische zeitung, founded in i7o4 and then, as now. the leading German daily. contained no notice of Napoieon's death until July i4. And then it merely copied the London Times. Private individuals living in the provinces, regardless of their station in life, received the news much later. It was not conveyed to Goethe, then living at weimar. until the verh last of July. He received it in | letter bearing black seal,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
Montgomery, Follows
 Lead of Birmingham

177HE success of the building and H loan associations of Birming- ham has resulted in the organization of company at Montgomery headed by some of the best known business men of that city, with capital stock of $250,oO0. The Montgomery association is modelled on the Birmingham plan and has all the features that have helped to make the Birmingham institutions popular and effective, both as mediums for the saving of money for investment purposes, and in the building of homes.
 Ssmetims ago Representatives of the Montgomery business men came te Birmingham and made an inti-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
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Hearing August 30 on
 Fabricating -in-Transit Rate

Ym IRMINGHAM shouM have the lG fabrieating -in-transit rate be. cause it is just and fair. Competi- tive cities enjoy that privilege. It is unjust to withhold it from Bir- mingham.
 The Louisville and Nashville and Southern railroads, the two princi- pal railroad systems operating in this territory have requested the granting of the rate and the south eastern freight rate committee will extend hearing in Atlanta August 50. The indications are that with the backing of these two great trunk lines we will get the rate and there after Birmingham makers of struc- tural steel will save from S4 to ST on steel brought from Youngstown and Pittsburg and here fabricated into finished forms for bridges, buildings and the like.
 It has been long and hard pull. All Birmingham's civic agencies  have struggled for this rate for years, and the Traffic Bureau, rep resentative of the shippers in the matter of rates, has made special ,seffort since 1917, when it was or ganized.
 The disposition of the trunk lines is apparently one of growing friend Illness to the interests whom they serve and who, in turn, support them. A majority of the discrimi- nations once operating against Bir- mingham shippers have been lifted through amicable arrangements with the railroads after the cases had been made out and presented. This policy is good for the railroads and good for their patrons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTH

From the St. Iraacfsvllle (La.i
 True Democrat
 1NNREsIDENT HARDING seems to I have drawn eors derable sriti- = cism toward hJfassis by his appeal to the Amsrieaa Red Cross. and to the public heaiS Sh service to investigate pestilenee and faminc conditions alleged to hs ps 1t in the cotton states. y would seem that some hystericas aNsh9 FE has represented to the rressdsnt aat no. groes in the south have rothing to eat save fat salt parx s8d bad corn products. with the rasals that ehere exists an enormous numbs of ,ases of pellagra. There iS rs stion that such a diet as mentioie6 per sisted in for any gras lenesh of time, may put one. white or blseki in a condition to contract this diassss.
 But what ot>fhe' factsa We are To- cated, certainly, in cotton tate. Our population, three blacks te one white, ought to enable us 10 peak with some authority upon ths eandi- tion of the negro. g'ts a- ions resi- dencs among these peopie and cer- tain familiarity with the environ nei.t in which they live fail to justify to us the complaints made to the President. As matter factss Ms negroes at all. and n Ehty lew white people. subsist exclusively upon the diet mentioned. The tegro ir this section is farmer and lse produces ap abundance of yesetssiss, fruits, milk. butter, chickens and cggs, ana no matter how hard tinses get, hr always manages to buy at least . i't- tie white flour each week. Those who work or supply, negroes knes now absolutely futile 1t ss to oekseSsthem ecntented without their wnits. hreaa'
 Southern cornbread ts nSf' nsN 1sef' a hardship. Properly made \ ,as pet 4st than cake. and Us mss Ss~W 70 thA peace of the family fs tas fiiv- yer With a dish uf tufnap EfsenA which any negro in taiS ss 't the south can have 10 mteatns ,ss tns yssrf and that prs'ne necsss;ty--A generous hunls of fst meast--&nd put -tsrmllk, one has a meal l'ARi would IsausA that great cerncisss As ify1h A .i.osb, to shout paNls of fe, Tsfs
 m nation has even hfSn 'n'1ssortal-
 x sens. And, a'ssN 's thsze
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
LETTERS TO EDITOR
BInMrNeHAM,s FIRST STEEL

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
 A. J. Hilton of Tslladega has in his possession a piece of steel about the size and shape of quarter dollar, or which is stamped these words: First Soft Steel Made In Birmins- ham, March &, 1SsS." He has 'alse miniature steel rail that was made at the same time.
 These relics came toSMr. Hilton from hls father in law, Sam Gfiscem, who was in the employ of the first company that made steel in Birmins- ham. Very respectfully yours,
 LUTHER FOWLER. Talladega, August 17, 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
Dr. Hendri. on Vacation

We are finding weather conditions lat Biloxi where Mrs Hendrix and I are enjoying our vacation, perfect, and l am glad to say that Mrs Hem drix shows decided Improvement z writes pr. w. R, Hendrix, pastor of Highlands Methodist church, from the gulf coast, where he is spending the month of August
 We expect to finish our vacation among the several charming resorts along the Mississippi cost, returning to Birmingham about September 1. So far l have not fished any, and those who know me know my fondness for this pleasant recEeatien, but l am hoping te indulge my primitive in- stinets on the 'finny' tribe soon"
 We spend our days quietly here, and in the evenings enjoy beautiful rides or a sail on the waters, as the opportunity comes. I feel greatly i'm debted to my congregation at High lands Methodist church for the de- lightfu1 vacation l am enjoying through their kindness and gen erosity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
HOW TO KILL A LION

Big Game Hunter, in the London
 Daily Mail. M
 T ROM Nairobi. British East
 T1 Africa, comss . thrilling story
 of the death of . transport agent named Hopper, whe, pinned down byfa lieness he had wounded, made a desperate bid for victory by putting both his hands into the ani- mals mouth and gripping its tongue.
 Africa is paradise for the lion hunter and the literature of the chase Is almost endless. Not all lion hunt CTS are strictly truthful, however.
 For instance, in 8 remote African village I once came across a deeply tanned prospector- r-hunter, who swore that his faverite method of hunting lions was to get the animals to sneeze themselves to death.
 Tt is quite simple" he said. "In the lion country you build a little arch of stone, just big enough to al- low the lion to enter with comfort. But you must take care to build 1t of Jagged stones and to see that the center stone of the arch Is a partic- ularly jagged one.
 Then you go out and shoot zebra or some other toothsome creature rom the lions point of view. You afsg the corpse under the arch, pep peF a>avily and then retire to your teat 70 sissp. h
 lp ths night 'he lion comes. creeps o9der 1be sreh to his feast, gets his noss fil{sfl with rsFrar sand has an oveEFowsring inelln4tion to sneeze. He sneesss ana N the a-s throws up his head and .sazles ais pFains out on the center Jagged stone cf your arch"
 do not vouch for tha s;nth ~ that story, but here is or A ror ss ea can
 A party of men trsakiN in Rhodesia in an oa Wagea Asard a commotion one nisAt snona their tethered oxen, and -ashins % ward the spot pumped ateut < dozen ghets into the heaving iaass fFoHs dis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-20
HINTS TO YOUNG AUTHORS

From the Pittsburg Sun.
 John Augustus Scribble wcarily opened the .envelop that brought back from it's twentieth joprney his Ode on Crusht Caterpillar.1 letter from the regretful editor;
 There dropped upon the floor this
 Hint 1-Borrow half dollars worth of stamps.
 Hint Don't begin to write till you feel you must Such an attack is heralded by dizziness. listlessness and pains in the back.
 Hint s-Then write down just enough words to relieve your pent-up emotions.
 Hint 4-Erase every second word. Hint 5-Carefully erase all-the re- maininE words.
 Hint 6--Sell the stsmps.