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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22

pay is received in California, with an average of $1,012, and the New York Herald says New York comes next with an average salary for all teach CTS of $976 year.
 It is obviously impossible to ob- tain teachers of ability for such meager pay. The situation would be much worse than it is if it were not for the fact that many teachers love their work and make sacrifices to stay in 1t, although they could earn much more in some other calling. The rural school teacher fares worst of all, but it is just as important to teach children in the country as it is in the city.
 Thousands of teachers are abandon ing the school rooms for more lucra- tive employment. They cannot be blamed for not wanting to work for starvation wages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22

was fine and sunshfny, with 8 light southerly breeze. All at once the yell low balloon rose, with three men in it, one..of whom was Gambetta. Then the white balloon went up with three men, one of whom waved a tricolor flag. Beneath Gambetta's balloon hung long tricolor streamer: Long live the Republior shouted the crowd The two balloons went up for some dis tance. the white one going higher than the yellow one, then they began to descend. Ballast was thrown out, but they continued their downward flight" Victor Hugo went away, thinking they had landed on the Saint Denis plain, but in his diary on October II we find: Good news of Gambetta. He descended at Epineuse, near Amiens."
 Such is life, for as I stood watching the flights on Saturday afternoon, out of the pigeon hole of memory I re- called Gambetta's escape in a balloon and how 1t had been seen and described by Victor Hugo, and so/instead of try ing to write news story about the To- cal event thought I would give in stead cameo out of history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22

comes a useless, expensive and dan gerous sham"
 As a matter of fact, this country did Its full part in the European war. We did not enter it for high moral pur- poses. as has been claimed by many of our statesmen and orators. We entered it because we had to protect our people promised to be foreign invasion. We Reld of when the Lusitania was ruth sent to the bottom. We stood all man ,ner of insults and permitted the whole sale murder of Americans. We did not declare war until the Germans notified us that any of our ships entering the submarine zone would be torpedoed. We were kicked and cuffed around until we had to fight. When we fought we did our full part and pounded the German armies until they cried enough.
 Then our President and commission went over and attemtped to mix up a League of Nations with a peace treaty, Involving this country in petty Euro pean affairs, in which we had no busi- ness. We were to have very small minority in the councils of the League of Nations. We were to be morally bound to abide by the acts of the League. in which our authority would he but a few votes. We were to have about the same influence in the coun- cils of the League as a president of a Birmingham coal company Would have in a conclave of United Mine Workers of America. We were to be responsible without hope of reward.
 The President, through Ambassador Harvey, has announced that we shall have nothing to do with it. And well it is for in 1t we would assume To- sponsibilities in European affairs in which we were not interested.
 1 We all know that in the peace confer ence in Paris none of the governments except ours were acting from high moral
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
THE KING OF DREAMS

By Clinton Scollard. Some must delve when the dawn is
 nigh; Some must toll when the monday
 beams; But when night comes and soft winds
 sigh ]. One must plod while another must ply At blow or loom till the sunset
 streams. But when night comes and the moon
 rides high Every man is King of Dreamsl One is slave to masters cry, Another serf to a despot seems, But when night comes. and the dis
 cords die, Every man is King of Dreams! This you may sell and that you rnsy
 buy,
 And this you may barter for gold
 that gleams. But there's one dream that h fixed for
 aye Every man is King of Dreams!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22

that he was shot by revolver which accidentally went off. His death at the early age of A cut short a career which had given promise of greater things.
 It was his tragic end, which brought France to sense of what he had been to her during her hour of humiliation at the hands of the Germans, and dur ing the time when he had so boldly challenged the Emperor and imperial ism. I attended the funerals of the two German Emperors William and Fred erick, but they were but tame in com parson to the one given Gambetta. It was the greatest funeral pageant I ever saw.
 am long time coming to one of the most sensational episodes in Gam betta's sensational life. On the down. fall of the empire. after the surrender of Sedan in 1870, government for na- tional defense was formed, in which he was nominated Minister of the In-
  terior. The Germans having encircled Paris. he left that city in a balloon, and, upon arriving at Tours, took the supreme direction of affairs as Minis ter of Interior and War, organizing for short time a fierce but vain resis- tance against the invaders.
 In recently reading the memoirs of Victor Hugo. I came across this entry: strolling on the Boulevard de Clichy, I perceived a balloon at the end of a street leading to Montmartre. I went up to it. A small crowd bordered a large square space that was walled in by the perpendicular bluffs of Mont 1 martre In this space three balloons were being inflated. a large one, a medium sized one and small one. The large one was yellow, the medium one white, and the small one striped yell low and red"
 Now comes a paragraph, which was glad to find, as in all my reading I had been unable to get any vivid account of Gambetta before the flight: Tn the crowd it was whispered that Gambetta was going. Sure enough I saw him in 8 group near the yellow balloon, wearing heavy overcoat and a seal skin cap. He seated himself upon a | paving stone and put on a pair of high fur-lined boots. A leather bag was slung over his shoulder. He took it off, entered the balloon. and young man. the aeronaut, tied the bag to the cordage above Gambetta's head.
 Tt was half-past 10. The weather
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22

A contemporary says honors were paid the Prince of Monaco that would have been denied Dick" Garfield Americas s foremost gambler made the mistake of not studying oceanography.
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 Brother Wilbur F. Crafts Is n years old and stin going strong. There seems to be something in professional reform ing that keeps people young.
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 Many man Is now eating off chair arm who used to hand the waiter a $5 tip about the time the French were shouting, They shall not pass" If Latin-Americans are being taught to hate Americans, it's high time we were sending somebody down there who can speak the language.
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 Newspaper reporters are said to be get ting on the nerves of Georges. What is
 
 suffering? If it is impossible to draft bomb proof prohibition law, number of Americans who were planning to become expatriates may change their minds.
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 Omsk has been taken from the reds You may be intrigued by Omsk. We've always had a weakness for Minsk and Pinsk.
 Shucks! We'd be willing to bet plug ged nickle to a Hellenic doughnut that MT. Edison doesn't know who's the champion pole vaulter. x # x Florence Ziegfeld says chorus girls are drinking more than ever before. This looks ? like challenge to Wayne B. Wheeler.
 The amateur gardener who merely suc- ceeds in raising a crop of bIisters should be given credit for his good intentions. T. F x There are various and sundry ways to throw money at birds. One of them Is to sign the bond of an l. w. w. leader * sx # In the language of the street, when Colonel Harvey spoke his piece in Lon don he said a mouthful. For a man who is still more or less on his honeymoon, Sam Gompers shows a surprising amount of pessimism. It begins to look as if it would soon be time to hold post mortem over the League of Nations. < *
 If the Stillnnan case is postponed few more times it will lose its front-page position.
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 There is more appreciation of Mime Curie expressed in a gramme of radium than In dozen honorary degrees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
< < A Four Shipping Lines to the Pacific Coast

ID IRMINGHAM, through Ala ID bama's seaport, has four steam ship lines connecting with the Pacific coast for exchange of products and this business is increasing.
 The first cargo of canned goods from the coast via the Panama canal and Mobile, thence by the Warrior barge line, has arrived. Ten thousand cars of apples and citrus fruit are scheduled for movement from the coast to Mobile for distribution.
 The Mobile Liners, just incorpor- ated, Is the fourth Mobile-Pacific shipping concern. Page & Jones and the Van Heynigen Brokerage com- pany instituted regular sailings sev- eral months ago. The Isthmian Steam ship company will send the Anniston City to the coast on her maiden trip. She will carry Birmingham iron and steel products and bring back Pacific coast goods.
 Thus the vast empire of the west and the industrial center of the south have been placed in contact by the Warrior, Alabama's port at Mobile, and the steamships plying out of Mo bile to the coast through the Panama canal. These water routes are doing for the district what could not have been done by the railroads under a system of freight rates 50 per cent higher than the rates by water. Conditions, not sentiment, brought this about. The waterways have blazed path out of the impossible situation created by abnormally high freight rates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
MANIFESTATIONS FLIGHT-By Frank Willis Barnett

| The story of Gambetta is one of the take time to tell how the son of a | Genoese grocer who married French woman rose from obscurity to be the | dominant man in France at critical | time in her life
 l their children, but sons and daughters have way of shaping them which upsets parental plans. This was the case with Leon Gambetta, who, edu- | for the law and, leaving Cahors, his native town, went to Paris and became a member of the metropolitan bar in ~1s5s.
 As a student of law his southern vehemence gave him great influence among the students of the Quartier Latin and he was soon known as an inveterate enemy of imperial govern ment. In his sixteenth year young | Gambetta by an accident lost the sight of his left eye, which eventually had this privation he made good in his | studies in his home town as well as in l the capital.
 For the moment I cannot recall the name of the play. but I well remember during my student days in Paris sec ing one at the Odeon in which the ad- venturous and impetuous career of Gambetta had been dramatized. His fiery eloquence, his utter disregard of the consequences of his bitter denun- citation of men in high places. his fear less championship of the cause of the people were set out with great power and effect and made a hit.
 | I have always felt a deep personal interest in the career of Leon Gam betta, for he had not long been made premier when I arrived in Paris to
 enter a private school. The Ferry Grevy had unwillingly entrusted to him the formation of ministry, known as Le Grande Ministere. which, how
 ever, proved short lived for after 66 days 1t fell, as many feared that he
 was aiming at dictatorship, and his enemies were not slow in unhorsing him.
 I'll never forget the excitement,
 which ragged in Paris when it was learned on December 31. 1882, that he was dead. Every kind of rumor was rife. Some claimed that he was shot by woman, others that be- had shielded. but it Is now generally held
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT COLONEL HARVEY'S
 SPEECH AT THE PILGRIM DINNER IN LONDON

 and patriotic purposes. England and France and Italy and Japan were plainly out for the rewards of victory. They wanted territories and indemnites and everything else which each one thought possible to get. They were out for the stuff-for material things.
 France and England are today at outs over the division of the spoils and the statesmen of one country are scrapping with tho statesmen of the other. Great Britain has the most votes of any nation in the league, and were we in the league the time might come when we would be voted to reprimand France; or, by force of arms, to throttle her.
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 The American people want none of the spoils of war. We are endeavoring toI get back to common sense business and to the seeking of our share of the worlds trade We are @ commercial nation. We want market for our raw materials and our manufactured goods. and we realize that we cannot get this as long as the European continent Is involved in polit- ical turmoil and repeated wars.
 As Harvey says, we will act in justice and friendship to all But we are going after the business.
 It Is indeed we'll that we have an Ann bassador to Great Britain who has plainly outlined our purposes in order that all the world may know our attitude Until the Harvey utterance no European American people in the last election voted overwhelmingly on the foreign is- sue involved. and Harvey made 1t plain what the American people wanted and what the administration at Washington proposed to do.
 It is natural for some of us of the denl- ocratic faith to want to kick because the junked. But rather let us accept the declaration of the administration and go forward doing our part for peace and for business.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
 MUST BE IN THE MOOD

From the Dallas News.
 An army chaplain meeting Scot af. flicted with 'drop too much" escort ed the young fellow to the barracks
 "Ye ken. chaplain" he said, ma father Is very releegious man, and I'm inclined that way masef'. Moo, I'd like to haze bit of argument wi ye on predestination.
 The chaplain was much interested Hadn't you better wait until you are sober, Jock?" he inquired.
 'Hoot. man." returned the Scot, T don't care about predestination when I'm sober"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

The cave man wasn't so badly off. Tn them days there were no photographs, no player pianos and no popular songs
 Of course it is none of our business. But the old-fashioned man who dug @ we'll six feet from the kitchen door must have been hard up for something to drink
 A town family can keep COW. But you can bet that town COW can't keep a family.
 A married man has to obey so many commandments that he'd be tickled to death if there were only ten of them.
 The things a father should tell his -son are usually learned by son long before the old man gets around to it,
 A lot of the old saws would bear re- vision. Any hobo can tell you that barking dog does bite.
 Talk about mans inhumanity to man Why, If woman were as old as other women think she looks. she'd be at least 1S0
 It certainly disgusts a skinny girl the way corn fed girl can fill sweater
 They have law in Georgia against giving tips. No wonder so many Georgian have lean and hungry look.
 Even under Valsteadism you can tell when man Is loaded by the way he shoots off his mouth.
 A wife doesn't give three hoorahs in Helgoland what her husband thinks about it. It is what the neighbors will think about it that is worrying her.
 The fool mother who makes an eight year-old boy wear long curls should he compiled to wear rompers herself to show that she hasn't as much sense as the box.
 You will find very few girls with high foreheads. But it is different vita low necks.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
Work and Prosperity
 Will End Red Peril

01tIE greatest blow that could be U dealt to the spread of radical ism would be a speedy restoration to normal conditions throughout the world. Anarchy thrives on unrest. The end of the World war left Eu- rope demoralized and America feel ing to some extent the effects of a catyclism that shook the foundations of all government.
 Addressing the National Coal as- sociation convention in New York, former Gov. John J. Cornwell of West Virginia said, "The trouble here is that the American public and the business men of this country do not fully appreciate and do not under stand how close the radical labor leaders are in this country to the leaders on the other side of the water and how closely they are affiliating sand what close alliance there is so far as their demands and their am bitions and their aspirations go."
 The British coal strike, which threatened for a time to cause a complete breakdown of British indus try, is just one example of radical ism that is reflected in this country by demand for the standardization of coal mines.
 The cure for all these evils will be found in work and the prosperity which inevitably follows work. Among people who are happy, contented and prosperous bolsheyism makes no progress. The doctrines of Lenine and Trotzky fall on deaf ears. But there are not enough such people in the world just now. The revival of industry and the resumption of in ternational trade will sound the death knell of the "reds."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
GETTING EVEN

From the Los Angeles Times.
 Yes" proudly announced the ex- captain, who is manager of new sea side hotel "all our employees are, for mer service men, every one of them. The reception clerk is an old infantry man, the walters have all been non- cons the chef was a mess sergeant, the house doctor was base hospital surgeon. the house detective was an intelligence man; even the pages were cadets"
 And have you any former military police?" he was asked.
 Yes" he replied joyously When there's good stiff wind blowing we set them to clean the outside of the windows on the eighth floor!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
ARE WE COMING TO THIS?

Madam, do I understand that you plead guilty to this charge"
 "Yes, your honor. I shot my husband. ard, and he's been in love with his stem ographer for six months. I'm convinced that if I had let him live he would eventually have struck me-"
 "IIumw &
 q wish you would instruct the jury to bring in verdict Of acquittal as soon as possible as I have an engagement to take lunch with some friends
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
. oLoNEL GEORGE HARVEY, Il

@ oLoNEL GEORGE HARVEY, in taking over the United States
 embassy in London, is going into the work with the same vigor that he assumed when he took over the man. aging editorship of the New York World many years ago.
 In the New YorK World he told the news truthfully and expressed editorial opinions without reservations, setting forth the facts and bringing out faith fully the common sense of the situation on every issue which arose He does not mince words nor bec1oud an issue with rhetoric. Of opinion, he expresses such in forcefu1 language. He believes in the conduct of government as in the conduct of business or of an individual not to becloud the issue, but to state it in a straightforward manner.
 The writer was of the staff of the New York World under Colonel Harvey for quite a time and knows his meth ods and his purposes Always straight forward, thorough and courageous, he won distinguished spurs in the news paper field, and was only tempted to leave 1t by an offer which in those days equaled the salary of the President of the United States. He. however, soon left the business office for the maga- zine field In which he remained until his appointment to his present position.
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 At the Pilgrims dinner the other night Harvey went into the great is- sues now affecting this country and Europe. and set forth the position of uncertain terms. He junked the League of Nations, so to speak, by declaring that this country would have nothing whatever to do with it and would have no representation within its councils.
 The London Standard in commenting upon his utterances said that the de- cision of the United States not to enter the League means that "the League be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
A WIT AND HIS REWARD

From the Washington Star.
 Is Tim Campbell to be deprived-let us be frank and say robbed-of his only not say on one occasion to President Cleveland. who had quoted the oonstitu- ton against a request Tim was urging, What Is the constitution between friends?"
 In New York the other day, in pub lie address. somebody credited tho famous question to Big Tim Sullivan. and as having been addressed to Presi- dent Roosevelt. Now Sullivan was a hearty fellow of the Bowery typo, but is the remark that he would rather be a hitching post in New York than a congressman in Washington" The Big Fellow" 1t may be mentioned. knew his own qualifications very well.
 Another man asserts that when he once congratulated Tim Campbell on his fame as the author of tho question. Tim denied the authorship with em- phasis. Doubtless, Tim probably be- came tired of having the question all ways thrust at him as the only good thing he had ever said.
 Still another effort is an assertion that the question Is an ancient "wheeze.' which has seen service in one form or another for centuries. and was vamped in this case to fit breezy leg islator in conference with . serious and solemn executive. Nonsense! Why have selected . plain man of the peo- pie for decoration with something classical?
 No; New York. upon whom he con- ferred this distinction. may not appre- ciate Tim Campbell. shs may be will ing to blot him out or see it done. But Washington. who knew him we'll and for long objects. She is able to recall other witticisms of his. and believes not only that he made this witticism but meant it. Tim Campbell was sui generis, if his former constituents can digest that characterization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
STRICTLY IMPERsONAL

s'Please don't get personal in your re- marks" said the motorist
 Didn't you nearly run over meT' asked the wrathy pedestrian.
 "Yes, I did, but you talk as if I had been chasing you all day."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
DRY MnRMAIDs.

Soon the beauties of the beaches, Known colloquially as peaches, Will be tripping to and ire; Showing loveliness unsparing, Rut, as ever, little caring,
 How the waters ebb and flow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Hill As salesman

It was difficult to decide between the vocal energy of the big-lunged newsboy and L. P. Hill. editor of the Ensley Enterprise, on a Twentieth street corner yesterday. Editor Hill was helping to sell Community Sing tags.
 q enjoy it," said MT Hill, between appeals to the passersby. I do not re- gard it as undignified for man or my age, because it is a community proposition. Thousands reap the ben" eft of the community sing.
 Tt would have been eminently the proper thing if every business man in Birmingham were helping out the tag sale. because all are benefited through tho common pleasure afforded by the community sings"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
BIRMINGHAM PHILANTHRoPIsTs

From the Florence Times.
 Two citizens of Birmingham have each given s1oo,oo0 to the Christian Education fund now being raised by the Southern Methodist church. Messrs. R. S. Munger and w. H. Stock ham. Noble actions those. which stamp the givers as broad benefactors of their race.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-22
z q . "Own-Your-O Own-Home" Exhibits Bore Fruit

7T7HE people are hungry for
 J homes," says the American Lumberman, "and have made an es- pecially cordial response to Own Your Own Home expositions wher- ever held"
 Birmingham held one of these ex- positions. Its stimulating effect was immediate. Hundreds of people at- tended the exposition in the. Cham Der of Commerce building. Building material men placed many orders on the spot and the information obtained by householders resulted in more or ders later on.
 One of tho chief advantages of the exposition was acquainting the peo- pie of Birmingham with building ma terisl manufactured here. They saw shapes, sizes and color effects offered at prices that they had not dreamed were within the reach of the ordi- nary pocketbook.