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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
Exports Are Keeping
 Birmingham Plants Busy

o SHIP left Mobile last week for EA the Pacific coast with four classes of Birmingham iron and steel products coming from eight Bir- mingham mills, furnaces and facto- ries.
 The cargo embraced water, gas and soil pipe, hoop steel and pig iron. Two iron manufacturers, three mak- CTS of water and gas pipe, one steel operator and two soil pipe concerns contributed the cargo. The total was nearly 5000 tons.
 While this movement is going on we are about to complete our delivery at Mobile of 5000 tons of steel rails for China, and other ships are at Mobile to load steel plates for the Orient and for European points.
 A blast furnace interest has just closed an order for pig iron for Cuba A Birmingham lumber firm has re- ceived an order for. lumber for Peru Mexico is taking coke at regular in tervals.
 Years ago during a lull in the do- mestic market the Ensley rail mill kept going on large order for Costa Rica. The Gulf States Steel com pany has sold products in 30 differ ent countries. Birmingham has a mill which did larger business dur ing the war with Portugal than with any state of the union.
 The drinking water of Copenhagen flows through Birmingham pipe Each new ship built at Mobile ac- quaints the world with what we have by taking it to them; shows the world what we can do by presenting the finished product. @&
 No wonder the slowing down pro- cess hit Birmingham last and no won. der that w. P. c. Harding and hosts of others, after turning their minds eye over the rest of the country, de- clare that Birmingham is the "ont bright spot"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
COL. COBB OF PADUCAH

smiled. "I couldn't be an admiral as named me a Confederate colonel on his staff when he was at the head of ths Confederate Veterans. Next, was ap- pointed a dempcratic colonel by Gov A. O. Stanley, and now, for the fourth time the title which carries honors and eagles is mine.''
 Instead of uniform, Colonel Cobb wore stunning spring suit of green and red tweed. The red was done ir three-inch blocks; a black and white striped tie, brown hat and a nifty pail of brogues at the extremes of his ''fatted calves" He carried a smart looking bam. boo stick of brown and tan and smoked his usual cigar. He was a fashion plate in wicked colors and looked like blooming geraninm.
 It was gently suggested that he was done up in style show shape by reason of which he was eligible for one of ths silver cups to be presented to the win ners
 | Quite right he replied. ''But I'm suffering from hips and eyebrows These IleA me out believe in four garments and one of them is not hip-container.
 This last with a sigh
 On the dress reform and blue Sunday questions being agitated in Kentucky as elsewhere Colonel Cobb was positive in his platform of ideas:
 ''Yes, I believe in dress reform and blue Sundays. I believe everybody who advocates either or both should be clothed in tar and feathers and the us- DrooaJuro Fo1Iowad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04

From the Louisville Courier-Jo Journal m BANNING and as radiant as a lE0 prize-winning geranium. Irwin ~ & Cobb smiled on Louis vile yesterday and Louisville smiled back. He submitted to interviews and photographers, visited scenes of his reporting days and otherwise aemon- strated that it was good to be home again"
 Although tired from a late party given in Cleveland Thursday night in his honor and the subsequent night in a sleeper, Colonel Cobb announced his intention to "visit the boys" which he did. He travelled the streets over which he once trod between the city hall and the newspaper offices when, as "a graceful. slender reporter" so he said, he brought in the news of the city. All of which was in the long ago.
 Speaking of operations or interviews, which are almost the sames according to Colonel Cobb, hear what Paducah s noted son said on his arrival in Louis- viile
 Young lady go as far as you like. When I was a reporter in this town they didn't have women reporters doing reg ular reporting-but you women are hay ing your day Go as far as you like!'
 And after that Colonel Cobb settled down for a long chat, filling to capacity a wicker settee in the hotel lobby.
 MT. Cobb has just been made a Colonel for the fourth time This time it took-and he's going to wear the title from now on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
AGAINST LAW AND ORDER

The mine strike was causing suffering and heavy financial loss to the people of Alabama and in effectina settlement Governor Kilby had in view justice to the people of the state as we'll as to the miners and the operators.
 Van Bittner accepted Governor Kiibys decision. He announced that the miners would accept it and he promised that the {, strike would end and the men would return to their work as soon as places were provided for them.
 Because the mine operators would not discharge faithful workers who had taken the places of the strikers, Van Bittner attempts to inaugurate an era of violence to drive the working men out. He would force the miners who all ready have lost many months of work and whose families are without the ne- tcessities of life, except such help as they get from their union, to plunge into campaign that cannot help but add to their troubles and increase the dest- tuition among them. He would have them go beyond the pale of the law. He would have them drive the 'scabs' out" and he is not particular as to just what kind of violence they employ in doing so.
 The best thing that could happen to the mine workers of the Blocton or of any other district in Alabama would be for them to drive MT. Vann Bittner out. He Is a disturber of the peace and he is doing the cause of the union min- CTS more harm than he ever has done them good. Such advisers arc a menace to labor and to the community in which they exert their pernicous activities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
1SUNRISEo

 By Sidney Lanier The tides at full; the marsh with flood
 ed streams Glimmers, a limpid labyrinth of dreams. Each winding creek in grave entrance ment lies X rhapsody of morning stars The skies Shine scant with one forked galaxy The marsh brags ten; looped on his
 breast they lie. Oh, what if sound should be made! Oh. what if a bound should be laid To this bow -and-string tension of
 beauty and silenc aspiring To the bend of beauty the bow. or the
 hold of silence the string fear me, fear me yon dome of dia-
 phanous gleam Will break as a bubble o'er-blown in
 dream Yon dome of too-tenous tissues of space and night. Overweighted with stars overfreighted
 with light. Oversated with beauty and silence. will
 seem But bubble that broke in dream. And To. in the East. Will the East un-
 veil? The East is unveiled. the East hath con
 fessed A flush 'tis dead; 'tis alive; tis dead,
 ere the west Was aware of it; nay, 'tis abiding tis
 unwithdrawn: Have a care, sweet Heaven! 'Tis Dawn Now dream of flame through that
 dream of a flush is uprolled; To the zenith ascending, dome of un-
 dazzling gold Is builded, in shape as beehive from
 of The hive Is of gold unGazzling. but oh.
 the Bee. The star-fed Bee, the build-fire Bee, Of dazzling gold is the great Sun-Bee That shall flash from the hive-sole
 oyer the sea. Not slower than majesty moves, for
 mean and measure, Of motion-=net faster than dateless
 Olympian leisure Might pace with unblown ample gar
 ments from pleasure to pleas
 ure-. The. wave-serrate sea-rim sinks. unjar-
 ring, unreeling, Forever, revealing. revealing. rsvealin g., Edgewise, bladewise, halfwiss. whoI- r
 wise-'tis' done. Good morrow, Lord Sun!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04

products on the Pacific coast, but it remains true that there is no <ab- solutely soft place in the realm of competitive commerce and that he who gets ahead and keeps ahead must know his business and realize that the other fellow also knows something about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
Chinese Iron Outselling

Alabama on Pacific Coast
 A N Alabama concern bid on lot EA of 2,000 tons of pig iron for Pa cific coast delivery last week. The or der was pitched at the bottom market price. There was no competition from this country. It looked like easy. go- ing.
 But the Birmingham offer was turned down. Some Chinese furnace had offered iron at price several dollars per ton under what Alabama could do. Chinese iron is being quoted freely at s3S delivered on the coast; in some instances the quota ton has been as low as $35. To meet that Birmingham must pay a rail freight of $2S. Even the rail and water rate via Mobile is over $15 per ton. Birmingham iron, to beat the Chinese iron, would have to sell at less than $2o f. Q. b. furnace.
 We are sending China some Bir- mingham rails and we have sent Japan lot of water pipe, but this inroad of Chinese iron goes to show that other people on this earth know . few things as we in America do. Before Chinese iron contended for business with Alabama iron on the coast, iron from India was offering there. It is possible that some of the cheap iron from India was made in the Battelle, Ala, furnace which was torn down and taken to India.
 In the long run Alabama will do the big business in iron and steel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
IN HOTELLOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
A Better Feeling

T found distinctly better feeling prevailing in Selma and that vicinity last week compared with several months ago when 1 was there,' re- marked R. M. Johnston of the Alabana Power company. 'L. A. Adler, in par tlcular, expressed the prevalent feel ing, which is that the present farm crop is to be economically produced and marketed with unusual circum- spection. He looks for much better conditions following the coming crop.
 "Opinion among Selma business men seemed to be that Alabama was in bet ter from than most states They pointed to the stable character of Bir- mingham steel and shipbuildins and shipping at Mobile as serving to steady the state industriatly while the com ing crop is being made. They believe Alabama will recover before the na - ton at large does on account of it's diversified interests"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
COTTON IN SOUTH AMERICA

 From the San Francisco Chronicle.
 There is a worldwide search for areas adapted to raising cotton, and there is no reason to doubt that such areas exist and will be utilized. Just now northern Argentina and adjoining portions of Paraguay and Bolivia seem most promising, although hitherto most exploration has been directed to Africa. Nor is there any reason to doubt that the quality of Chinese and other Asiatic cotton can be greatly improved. Our southern states have no monopoly of cotton land.
 But clearly South America is most promising. And it ais quite time that the people of the United States should get it into their heads that South Amer negligible factor in production and commerce except in respect to cattle and coffee. Brazil alone isNarger than the United States and Is not unlikely some time to support greater popula- tion. South America is economically about where this country was a century ago, and it's period of expansion and ac- emulation of wealth is still before it. And if. as there is reason to believe, tenn perate South America has climate and soil suited to cotton growing those countries can, and very likely will, su- rersede this country as the main source e. cotton, at least until they have ex- hausted the virgin fertility of their soils.
 Nor will the growth of the cotton in- dustry elsewhere be any disadvantage to the people of our cotton states. The time has come when those states must devote themselves to diversified agri- culture and cease depicting their soils by continuous one-crop farming. Our +southern states will always raise cot ton. It is not improbable that in due time their production of that staple will greatly increase, but on much smaller area, restored to it's primal fer tility by intelligent diversified farm ing.
 But our wisest men are turning their attention to South America. It Is the best watered of the continents. and it's streams are insxhaustible sources oi power. It has an abundance of rich areas. It's mineral resources have hardly. been touched, 1t is sparsely pop ulated. and it Is near to. us. In our own interest. in the interests of the two canttrou4s ~n ahnula s<nn ux<<s~~ ~ airs and cultivate the clopsst and most friendly relations with the South Amer ican nations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
Inflammatory Speeches
 Cause Another Murder

TTHE killing of John Bivens, g l coal miner, Saturday was the direct result of inflammatory speeches made at meeting of union miners held near Quinton. It was one of the most brutal and old-blooded crimes that has been committed in the Ala bama coal fields since the present labor troubles started.
 John Bivens was shot down like a dog, because he was working, as he told his slayer, to support his family. Bivens was unarmed and even after he started to run the men who killed him shot him in the back.
 Responsibility for such crimes rests not alone on the men who com init them, but on the agitators who inflame the minds of union miners by just such speeches as are said to have been delivered near Quinton preceding this murder.
 Are we to have another reign of terror in Alabama because the union leaders have not kept their promise to abide by the decision of Governor Kilby, to whom they agreed to refer their dispute with the coal operators
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
Power of Muscle Shoals
 What Is Most Needed

0 ECRETARY WEEKS appears to G be inclined to complete the work at Muscle Shoals provided the gov ernment is not to enter into the manufacturing business there. There are many who will agree with him. One does not have to be a democrat to concede the expense of operations wherever the government is the di- rector.
 The government took over the rail- roads and freight and passenger rates scared. It regulated steel and steel went up. The government took the coal industry under it's wing to keep it from expressing the people. Everything connected with the coal industry increased in price.
 The charge was made by a former government official that the Steel Corporation was responsible for high prices for steel products. Judge Gary promptly disposed of it by ex- hibiting the scale of steel prices com plained of. They were those made by the government. /
 What the people of Alabama pri- marily wish is the development of the power at Muscle Shoals. Neither ni- trate plant nor any other plant can be operated by this power until it is harnessed. That is what we want to see done. This power will operate any and all sorts of plants no matter who is in charge. Give us the power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
PLACE FOR ANOTHER \

From the Pittsburg Chronicle Tele- graph
 When Alice Smith had attained the age of Is she undertook to alter inc orthography of her given name to what 1t seemed to her, was a more poetic form. Accordingly, she began to sign herself Alyce Thus designated she en- tered a new school and, of course. the first question put to her was with ref erence to her name.
 "Alyce Smith" she said. "A-l-y-c-e.
 Thanks" said the teacher. And how are you spelling Smith ncw?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04

memories. Lew Dockstader is still living, but no longer heads This own company, and is playing in vaude- vile. Neil O'Brien does not appear with the company which bears his name. Perhaps the greatest of all blackface comedians, George Evans, died several years ago. He suc- cumbed to a chronic disease while playing in Birmingham.
 No on has appeared to take the place of these "monarchs of min strelsy' who have passed on.
 * < x A White House attache called MT. Harding the busiest man in the world !" That may be true, but Senator Smoot says he works Is hours a day and we all know that MT. Harding plays little golf.
 The Chicago girl who poked a pistos in the face of 2 pedestrian, then turned to her male companion and asked, What must I do nextT' has evidently not lived in Chicago long,
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 Hardboiled drinkers are not, denying themselves "rnoonsl1ine" because of rev. elations made by local chemists. They have merely decided to eliminate the middleman.
 >The report that the allies might tol- crate Charley Hapsburg's return to power may awaken false hopes in the bosom of Bill Hohenzolern
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 Personally, we don't care the prover- biafs tinkers cuss word whether the original "Franklyn H. Leeds" is dead or alive.
 There may be some truth in the claim of Germany that she is almost prostrat- ed Beer drinking has decreased more than 75o,oo0ooo gallons a year. I # y x The young woman who thinks the Chinese cQnsortium is some kind of so- cial function would never be able to hold dcwn a job in Wall street ss Caf1 Wanderer is drilling a company of condemned murderers who stand precious little chance of ever serving with the colors.
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 Irwin Cobb, visiting in Louisville, re- calls the time when he was slender re- porter He doesn't say so, but he prob- ably drew slender reporters salary. # * .
 The printing industry is said to be facing the greatest battle in it's history, and greatest" is not a typographical error.
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 What is a normal mind?" asks a contemporary. One that reacts unfay- orably toward jazz
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 France may at least count on Anne T. ica's moral support as barrier to bot shevism."
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 'I'l1 do anything for an Ohio girl" said MT Harding and the President s autograph went down in her book. q * F
 Mir Wilson's contributions to the pub lie prints since March have been as negligible as Grown Prince Willie's. x x * That New York carpenter who fell l6 stories and was unhurt may yet be catapulted into eternity by wood alcohol.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
It's Time to Get Out
 the Old Fly Swatter

66fr7 LY PREVENTION WEEK
 u begins today. The city health authorities, assisted by the ever dependable Boy Scouts, school children and Citizens, win try to es- tablish new mortality rate for the housefly in Birmingham.
 The menace of the fly has been de- scribed so often that one would think little more could be said upon the sub- ject, but it is still necessary to carry on active propaganda and to arouse public sentiment to combat one of the worst pests with which mankind has to contend.
 The health authorities hope that some day flies will be as little toler- ated by civilized communities as rat tlesnakes. They are far more deadly because they are carriers of disease germs and every conceivable kind of filth.
 Swat early and often, but don't stop when this week Js ended. Keep up the work of extermination and swat as long as there is fly in sight. x
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
Festival of Pictures

T am looking forward with antici- patton to the inaugural of the Tri- anons grand picture season, which opens with the showing of Man Woman Marriage today" said L. C. Bradley.
 Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in The Kid are coming next. I un- derstand. This will be great hit for Chaplin never grows tiresome Jackie Coogan. the boy with Chaplin, is real find.
 'Pola Negri, Anita Stewart and Norma Talmadge will grace pictures to be shown during this veritable fes tival of pictures. l see All these should be feature attractions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
Pleasant Work

Tt is a pleasure to do work that seems to pan out from constructiVc standpoint said Charles F. Yarn, as sistant manager of the Chamber of Commerce "We have wroked hard on the chambers own Your own Home exposition, but men and women have shown such interest in home building that it has been an inspiration.
 "It has been the greatest pleasure to answer questions of men and women in dead earnest about homsand seek. ing a way to build their home altars right now. 1 have been especially struck by the intelligent and practical manner in which the women seem to be going at the acquisition of homes There are always several of them iQ the exposition rooms and they allow nothing to escape them,
 "Talk about people having lost love of home is veriest buncomDe. The ex- position has shown that love of home is as great as it ever was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
EXPLAINS UNREST IN ENGLAND

rTom tHe ArKAnSas GaZette.
 In England an unmarried man earn ing $2.5O0 year must pay an income tax of $506.25. In the United States tht tax would be S60 Just give us time!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
tot to Have Water

q was very much amused at an in- cident which occurred the other day at the office of the Birmingham Wa ter Works company in connection with the sale of the preferred stock said Judge W. R. yoorhis, general counsel of the American Water Works and Electric company.
 I've have sent out to all patrons of the company circulars and advertising mater giving the facts about the stock. An old negro, who could not read and write, but who had been a patron and consumer of our water for more than 20 years, came into the office much disturbed Boss, don't cut my water off," he exclaimed. T shore done paid that once. But if you wants me, too. will pay agin. Tse got to have my water
 The old darkey thought sure that when he got two letters the same week from the company it meant that his water was to be cut off, and you can'e imagine how relieved he was when we told him his account was paid in full.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-04
Welcome to City

q have come to Birmingham to live, said J. c. Maxwell. T lived at Alex ander City for S7 years and still retain my banking and other interests there. It IS a thriving community and one of the gamest little cities in the states. I saw it grow from a village to a progressive center and it and it's peo- ple are very close to me. My reason for coming to the Magic City is to get away from business, and then my wife being Birmingham lady It makes it more congenial for her.
 T haven't been here long enough to feel very much at home, but l have identified myself with my church and it won't be long before I'll get used to being away from Alex City"
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-07-15

Swelling caused by insect bites car
be reduced by using Billiards. Snow
Liniment. 1t counteracts the poison
and relieves the irritation. Three
sizes, 35c, Coo and S1.20 per bottle
Sold by Watson-Parker Drug Co.
H. L. Grissom( of Reagan, was in
town Thursday, called on this office
and had this paper continued to his
address. Mr.. Grissom has been sick
for some time, this being his second
trip to Lexington in three years.
w. Vance Winslow, now living in
Clarendon, Texas, was here Wednes-
way, having reached here on the ear
~ train from Havana, Cuba, via. New
York City. He will spend few days
with his relatives seven miles West
of town,
DR.. Sam 7. Parker and wife went
to Bowling Green, KY, last Sunday,
where the latter visited her people. DR..
Parker returned Wednesday morning.
While away DR.. Parker and wife Wis
tied and explored the Mammoth
Cave, one of the Worlds greatest
wonders.
Reelfoot Lake is still falling at the
rate Of an inch or more day and is
now as low or lower than it usually is
in October. There is said to be an
open ditch from the Lake to the
Obion rive through which the water
is flowing very fast.
There is nothing in the whole list
of flesh-healing remedies that can
approach Liquid Brozone in rapid
ity with which it heals cuts, wounds,
sores, burns or scalds. 1t is a marvel
Gus discovery. Price soc, Coo, $1.20.
Sold by Watson-Parker Drug Co.
Ernest Hay left Monday morning
for Memphis, where he will join the
sales manager for the R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company, and from there
will go to Helena, Ark, to travel in
that territory for that Company. Err
nest is live wire and will no doubt
make good on the road.
"By inadvertence," as the lawyers
say, the announcement of our good
friend and neighbor, Mr.. w. A. Der
ry) Holmes, candidate for County
Court Clerk, subject to the Republican
primary, has been left out of The
Progressive do not know how many
issues-and the mistake is remedied
in this issue. We trust that MIR.
Holmes has become so well acquaint-
ed with the people that our little act
of unintentional negligence can have
no effect on his race in the primary.