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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
Birmingham Leads as
 Place for investment

6flHE record of investment of cap- U ital in corporate enterprises in the principal states of the union dur ing January, as compiled by the New York Journal of Commerce, shows total of over billion dollars, which is 50 per cent under the record of the previous January
 In the month of January Birming- ham made a new high record in the investment of capital. The total for this city in that month was $3,155.000 compared with $474,0O0 in 1918, and $1 ,230,000 in 1919, or 50-per cent more than the totals for the preced- ing years
 Birmingham's total was greater than that of Rhode Island by 200 per cent, and equal to that of both Maine and Connecticut.
 Money has come freely to Birming- ham because it has been found good place in which to do business. Bir- mingham is not yet crowded. There is must virgin soil on which to found new projects and direct new ener- gies.
 That the larger portion of the money invested in January went into concerns already established is all the more notable, because it is proof of what has been done. This years start indicates that the 1920 record of $16,O00,00O will not only be duplicated, but surpassed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
WHAT IS A MAN?

pr. Charles Aubrey Eaton, Editor of
 Leslie's Weekly, in Leslies.
 NH THAT is a man? What distin- WW guishes him from other anil
 mals or vegetables? It cam not be his body. That is composed of certain chemicals distributed in the form of bones, nerves, muscles and va rious fibers. But so is the body of a sheep or porcupine or any other verte- brate. Man has brain, sometimes. But so has a dog or a goat. Nature is just as careless of the human body as she is of any other form of life. No matter how exquisitely beautiful or powerful the human form divine" may be- it passes through the same life cycle as the body of the rattlesnake or rat. And when life leaves it nature breaks it up as she does all others in to it's compo- nent elements and redistributes them for use in some new form.
 Imperial Caesar. dead and turned to clay. might stop a hole to keep the wind away" The human body is of
  the falling leaves, or the dead grass of the field, or the humble, silent things that creep and hide in the dark places of the forest
 The workmanship of nature in the body of man is wonderful and beauti- full. But not whit more wonderful -or beautiful than the workmanship dis played in the wing of a humming bird, or the eye of a house-fly, or the color sac of cobra.
 Many animals can do some things better than any man. No man, for in- stance. ever could swim like fish, or fly like swallow, or smell like a lrbloOdhOund or see like rat in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
JOSE GERMAN

Germans, to be devoted to His Majes-
 ty." of whom it begged word to serve. as it were, as bottle of champagne at
 it's launching.
 With this germ of original fiction,
 Jose Germain> coached Emma Thier
 nesse, selected to execute the coup. Elm
 ma Hhiernesse is a girl well qualified for the role as in addition to living in
 Holland, speaking faultless German and
 being the god d-daughter of Jose Ger
 main, she has Journalistic aspirations. The result is the picturesque report of an interview with the interesting wood sawyer of Amerongen and Doorn yes terday, published to the world. That is why the name of Jose Ger main is so much better known today than it was day before yesterday. The Paris cable transmitting the interview tells us something more about Jose Ger main. It tells us that he wears the Legion of Honor and the Croix de
 Guerre for war bravery But these decorati tions would hardly answer as credentials for MT. Germain's admission as member in good standing of a rep
 utable American press club. He may deserve his war decorations, but as a journalist he would be voted by Amer ican newspaper men entitled to wear only bit of yellow ribbon. Emma Thiernesse seems to be a capable young woman, but she could have better preceptor in Journalism than her in-
 genious godfather
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
MetamOrphOsis

Industry throughout the southwest is chrysalid just about to become a Carolinas and northern Georgia said J. W. Connolly, chief special agent of the Southern Railway, passing through Birmingham.
 for the last few months, a revival of business is matter of a short period. two or three months. The Birmingham district is in better shape than many should come back faster than these when the readjustment begins.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
EARLY BLUE LAWS

Gustavus Myers. in the February For
 um.
 For open contempt toward the Bible and the clergy by any accusation of er- TOT of teaching or doctrine. the offen- der was flor the first scandal" to be publicly lectured by magistrate and bound to good behavior. For the sec ond offense, he or she either had to pay f5 to the public treasury, Tor stand two hours openly upon a block four feet high, on a lecture day, with a paper fixed on his breast. with this "A WAN TON GOSPELLER,' written in capital letters. that others may fear and be ashamed of breaking into the like wick edness."
 This law was formidable enough. Yet it, too, was evidently intellectual, and the clerical law makers now went to further extremes to compel observance of the Sabbath. On August 30, 1563 the general court passed new law of much wider and stricter application than the scope of previous laws. This new law comprehended not only adults but children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07

dark.
 Why is it then that man sits upon the throne of the animal creation, un- disputed in his leadership over all other forms of life? The answer is, because of his capacity for larger relation ship with the universe than that of any other sentient being.
 Man is brother of the brutes. He feels pain and hunger, and thirst as they do. He is born as they are born, and dies as they die. But his world is bigger and greater than their world. because he can establish and has es-
 tablished wider and higher relation ships than they.
 Above his physical relationships stand the relationships of his mind. He goes out into the universe and discov- CTS its laws, and applies them to his own life. His hearing is not as acute as that of many animals, but by the edge, wisdom and creative skill, he has made for himself the telephone and tel egraph. and thus his hearing extends
 around the world. He cannot see in the dark, but by the use of his intelligence he has made for himself lamps and tel escapes and microscopes, thus length ening his eyesight. He is not as strong as the lion or the elephant but he has used his brain to build for his use en- zines and guns so that he can move moutains and crush the mightiest brute like moth.
 But man does not stop when he has widened his relationships by invention and discovery and reason. Mounting still higher in the scope and scale of relationships, he has acquired vocabu- lary of great and mysterious words God, heaven, hell, right wrong, duty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Matter for Parents

Tn spite of the agitation against keeping the children off the streets when roller skating" says Paul Bar nett, '1t has not had the desired effect so far. I think l am as careful in driv- ing my car as a man can be and yet there are times when I almost gasp at the risks which boys and girls take Tn order to have the fun of skating.
 Tt is bad enough for them to use the highways as skating rink, but when they grab at the rear and sides of fast moving automobiles to get free ride, it is sure to end in distres- sing death for some one of the adven- turous. I think it's matter parents should take in hand and cooperate with the authorities. l want children to have all the fun that is coming to them, but I do not want them to take such risks"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
FUGITIVE

David Morton, in the Century. Behind these falling curtains of the
 rain
 Beauty goes by, a phantom on nA rf ll'1 A timid fugitive beyond the lanes In rainy silver. and so shy ane stui That >onlx peering eyes or aefns hid
 bird, ! Or furry ears that listened by
 stone. Could guess at something neither seen
 nor heard. Finding escape. and farinE by alone For eyes like ours, too faint , thing
 and fleet, Too lightly running for such ears to
 hecr The stealthy going of those wsightless
 feet, No thrilling sight or sound Of her
 comes nears 4 Only tAS shining grasses where the5S Gave hint of silver sappses kast-
 inn by.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07

hobo who was thrown off g. New York Central freight train a few minutes before the train was wrecked and the car in which he was riding was smashed to splinters, may be tramp, but he isn't pursued by a jinx.
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 A doctors wife claims she was ale ways catching him with his arms full of girl Highly reprehensible, but easy to understand.
 Omaha police have been provided with rnullet-proof vests. That may lead motor car bandits to adopt the slogan, Aim 3. the eye"
 The som os s75 600 will be asked to rem ovate the White House. This is no reflec- t;op. however, on Mrs. Wilson's ability as housekeeper.
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 Brindell, New York's labor boss, has been convicted. Not only that, he has been called some hard names. which were richly deserved. T + # General Dawes profanity will be ex- purgated from the official report of his testimony He got it into the news papers, anyhow.  More than 10000 jack rabbits were killed in drives in Bingham county, Idaho The jack rabbit has no friends in that part of the country. "Marse" Henry watterson predicts that Johnson and Borah will soon be going after Harding. That is not, as we look. at it. a remote impossibility. E * x Mrs. Harding says she is 100 per cent American. That's the kind of person we want in the White House. ' x Y Grover Cleveland Bergdoll is hero in Germany Naturally. German ideas of honor are peculiar. # a # l Judging from her photograph, the wom- an who is suing Kingdom Gould is not pretty enough to impress jury. # # x 1 The New York World thinks President Wilson might as well let Debs out. That's what all the socialists think # a # The health authorities are reminding us that the fly should be swatted early and often. 1 * # F 1 If the next war is fought in the air there will be fewer changes made in the | landscape. l x x # | A giant wrestler is reported to have wept over crippled child in Chicago I Good press stuff. l # # x | German states don't always agree, but they are heartily in favor of trying to jump their war bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
More spaee Needed

More space is all that the Bir- mingham public library needs to help it expand and grow even more rapidly" :" said Lloyd Jesselyn. "Al1 day long every day the reading rooms> are full of people who have dropped in for a few minutes of quiet thought and read ing. The quarters are hardly adequate to take care of the many persons who do come there are many who I am sure would would come if they were sure of finding a quiet spot. The cay we have new library will be q great one for Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
EGGS FROM AUSTRALIA

From Farm Life.
 We may as well make up our minds that agriculture is a world business The remotest spot in the two hemis- pheres shelters either customer or a competitor of the farmer in the United States.
 For a long time we have been get ting butter from Denmark, wheat from Canada, mutton from New Zealand, wool from Australia, peanuts and beans from Japan and China, hides and meats and grains from the different countries of South America, and vegetable fats from every jungle on the globe.
 The latest thing we notice is a ship ment of eggs from Australia, placed on sale in Chicago the other day.
 Australia, you know, is on the south- ern half of the world. It is summsr time down there during our winter.
 The Australian hens are laying when ours go on their annual moulting strike. and it seems comparatively easy, at present prices, to ship the Australiai eggs here and sell them at profit. The Chicago firm that handled them report that not . single egE was broken in shipments and that only six spoiled eggs were found in 150 dozen. We don't pretend to say what this means to the American farmer. nor what can or should be done to remedy the matter. but we might as we'll face the fact that the whole world com petes with us.
 The ocean Is swarming with ships that carry freight. and our committees of seventeen and fifteen must consider | the whole world in their marketing plana
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
Marked Contrast

Despite the stagnation created by the coal strike, Walker county mer- chants are enjoying a fair volume Of business" said Alex J. Kelly, Jr, sales man. who has just returned from Jas Der, Cordova and Dora, Business men gre looking forward to better sales as soon as spring opens up we'll
 There is a marked contrast, how over, between the conditions of today merchants were stocking heavily, while today it takes real salesmansnip to obtain even a fill-in order"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
That Extra Session

''The decision of the supreme court in the S25,000, 900 road bond election will cost the state great programme of road improvement unless a special session of the legislature Is called" said D, E. Truland. That much money for good roads that will other wise be lost is far too much to let go with out a struggle and if there is much the government part of it will be gone. am heartily in favor of an extra ses- sion for as far as I can see that is the only thing that will save us."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
MONTE CARLO IS GAY

MONVE OAHhO IS Uh
 Monte Carlo Correspondent in the Lon-
 don Times.
 The Riviera season has begun in earnest. The professional tournament at Beaulieu opened the lawn tennis sea- son, and the scene now shifts to Cannes. Racing began at Nice on Jan uary 6; and the gospel golf course near Mentone, (Which has been closed since the beginning of the war, is open again for play over nine holes, and at Monte Carlo we are already very gay.
 All the leading hotels either are full or report themselves practically booked up in the immediate future. The last few days have been gloriously sunny and the terrace of the Casino each morning has been thronged, at least so per cent of the promenaders being Eng ilish.
 Dancing is in full swing everywhere, and at the dance-teas at the Cafe de
 Paris new young Russian Polish dancer, known as Sonyas is "'i"e . sensational success. She is extraordi-
 narily good
 The increase in the entrance fee to the Salle Privee has been accepted as a matter of course. Money is. after all. such plaything in Monte Carlo! Ordi- nary. dull people who consider the ex- tra penny in an omnibus fare at home talk cheerfully of being few hundred francs down" of an afternoon. When every other woman, of all the charming women who are here, car l ries few odd blue and orange coun- Iters (loo francs or iouis) in her vanity lbag-they will be gone at the tables to- Imorrow-how can money bs expected ts hold its.propsr valasf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
Concert Appreciated

We owe a great amount of appre- citation to the Birmingham Music Study club" said Harry B. Thomas, speaking the Cincinnati symphony orchestra. "A programme like this is not only educative, restive and inspiring. but it goes long way to build in the hearts of men a loyalty to such themes as are presented, and that music seems to speak to the very heart of a man. It is certainly true who ever said that music hath charms to sooth the saw age breast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
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WON'T MISS THE BOw-LEGs

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 Women fashion authority says knee length frocks arc doomed. Now that the audience has seen the show the eur- taia will bs slowersA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
MIR. CHESTERTON'S VISIT

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger M L1R. CHESTERTON has made as
 Wj many friends as there have Svo been persons within range of his voice while in Philadelphia. They found him more than the master or paradox" he is known by his many read CTS to be- He will be, as Ian Hay would say, an apostle of getting together" while in this country. Like his country land and it's government, but he tactfuiiy abstains from censure of the politics and the policies of the land in which he is a welcome guest. He is genial friend Of mankind, land as a platform speaker he is his owh best exhibit and most val uable asset. He is free. from the studied. suited mannerisms, the ad captandum hevices of the professional orator; he behaves like friendly, genial, sociable human being who would like to talk things over personally with each mem Der of his audience if he could. That is the approach an American audience likes, and this robust, kind-hearted Eng lishman did not have to thaw any ice to find an undercurrent of real apprecia- tion beneath the superficial popular ap- pfoval.
 Many English writers and speakers are coming to America, and for those who have a message and mission there is welcome It is time that certain dis ccveries as to the intellectual life and the artistic attainment of Americans were matters of common knowledge abroad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
Armenian Oil Magnate
 Gives S12O.OOO Dinner

N LIVELY tale comes from Paris. A The most blase Parisians, we are told in cablegram, were shocked by a dinner recently given in his mansion by an Armenian oil mag nate. Artists models disported as nymphs in miniature lake of cham pagne, and rare viands were served in the most luxurious surroundings. The oil magnate is estimated to have spent $12o,OOo for the evenings en- tertainment.
 The guests were met by turbaned Armenian servants in silk robes and were conducted to apartments where they were clothed in oriental attire, ornamented with golden thread and studded with gems. Jeweled sandals were placed on their feet and purple fezzes on their heads. The women, who were stage beauties, manikins and models from the Latin quarter, were robed in Grecian gowns, classic and scant.
 The walls of the dining hall were covered with La France roses, "so that not an inch of the tapestries could be seen." A golden carpet, re- puted to De worth $125, ,O00, was on the floor. The table was 100 feet wide and in the center was a lake where two fountains played, and the lake was filled with champagne 6,50O gallons of it. Running birds stuffed with cavair, filet of black sea whale and ragout of Caucasian ram were some of the dishes served Spiced wines were drunk from silver goblets, as in the spacious days o1 the Caesars. The subsequent orgy was of such a nature that it set all Paris to talking.
 This Lucullian feast celebrated the sale of vast oil properties in the Cau. casiani fields to a British subsidiary of the Anglo-Persian Oil company for which a sum said to exceed 50,- 0O0, ,000 pounds was paid. The host who gave free reign to his extrava- gance and vicious propensities, waa not Frenchman, it will be observed The French people justly resent the imputation that their beloved capita | is the wickedest city in the world They point to the fact that most o1 the dissipation in Paris, which is at tributed to degenerate Frenchmen is due to outsiders, and that is true No Frenchman would spend the equiv alent of 100000 francs for a sin gle dinner. Wealthy profligates flock to Paris from all parts of thu world in quest of pleasure, usually of dubious kind, and it is largely their escapadcs which have given thu city by the Seine an unsavory repu
 tation.
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 1 If Mercy Home tots can go to bet supperless to help the starving childres of Europe, an ordinary citizen with [ l 3ob ossht to b. asls-to sivs n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
WEIGHT OF A KISS :.

From the Columbus Enquirer-SuA.
 A kiss weighs only five milligrams. declares a scientist. We have heard of trying to time kiss, but never before of weighing 'em. t*
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07

and the writers and the speakers are the persons who can do most to disabuse the world of certain popular fallacies about America. We refuse to be pa tronized and we refuse to be pitied. We are glad to entertain visitors who come to us with an open mind, ready to give us credit for good intentions even if those intentions are sometimes imper- fectly realized. All these long years or our national biography we have been rummaging about in Europe, sometimes on the beaten path and sometimes on the by-trails, and we are anxious to have sympathetic and competent observers the intensity and continuity of the scru- tiny we have been giving all this while to the older civilization. We like the compliment of being visited and noticed. though sojourners like the late Professor Freeman, who observe with grouch and a carping spirit, are not popular. Bur there is a balance to restore between the educated invasion of the old world and the intellectual pilgrimage to the new. Far too few of the Educated Eng lishmen know America
 We can always get all that we want of the underbred and the unit; we are eager to have the superior intelligence of Europe aware of the most creditabie things we have to show that on their return the visitors may educate the others who bide at home with their some- t;mes very curious ideas of our America
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07
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Warrior Must Be Used
 to Retain Advantages

1I7HE Warrior is an achievement u with one exception. It has not been used sufficiently to satisfy the war department that it is fully worth the money expended and be- ing spent in it's development.
 It will do the cities along the War rior little good to. present first one reason and then not showing why it has not been used as it should be-. Some of the reasons have been good ones, mainly the lack of proper equip ment. The equipment has been pro- vided The schedules are regular. The rates are fixed. From now on the Warrior must be used if it is to be vindicated.
 Atlanta, Meridian, Aberdeen, Chat tanooga and Gadsden have grasped the opportunities presented by the Warrior. Is Birmingham doing all that it. can?
 All-water rates from the east via the Mallory line at 20 per cent under the rail rate have been announced. A campaign of more than 10 years has been crowned with success. At the same time Mobile shipping agents have opened offices here to foster an interchange of business between Birmingham and the Pacific coast via Mobile and the Warrior.
 It is difficult to conceive greater opportunity; more pressing neces- sity. These rates and shipping ia cilities will be withdrawn if they are not utilized.
 Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Demopo- lis and other Warrior cities, and thoss in the 20 per cent differential ter ritory, owe it to themselves to ge, busy and build up Warrior river traffic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07

AS THEY TELL FEM IN MISSOURI From the Liberty Tribune.
 The following is accredited to Col. John Morrison: This mild winter re- calls to my mind one not so mild. I forget the year. but I know l dug cellar SxS feet and eight feet deep that fall and the day it was finished a torrential rain came and filled it to the top. Before morning it began to freeze and before spring all the water was solid chunk of ice. So all had to do was to throw on little straw roof it over and had plentiful supply of ice all summer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-07

If Mercy Home tots can go to bed supperless to help the starving children of Europe, an ordinary citizen with 2 3ob ossht to b. asls-to sivs n