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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-30

BY Bayard Taylor.
Gusty and raw was the morning,
fog hung over the seas,
And its gray skirts, rolling inland,
Were torn by the mountain trees;
No sound was heard but the dashing
OF waves on the sandy bar,
When Pablo of San Diego
Rode down to the Paso del Mar.
The pescador, out in his shallop.
Gathering his harvest so wide,
Sees the dim bulk Of the headland
Loom over the waste of the tide:
He sees, like a white thread, the path
way
Wind round on the terrible wall,
Where the faint moving speck of the
rider
Seems lowering close to its fall!
Stout Pablo of San Diego
Rode down from the hills behind;
With the bells on his gray mule tim
He sang through the fog and wind.
Under his thick, misted eyebrows
Twinkled his eye like a star,
And fiercer he sang as the sea winds
Drove cold on the Paso del Mar.
Now Bernal. the herdsman of Chino,
Had travelled the shore since dawn.
Leaving the ranches behind him
Good reason had to be gone,
The blood was still red on his dagger,
The fury was hot in his brain,
And the chill, driving scud of the
breakers
Beat thick on his forehead in vain.
With his poncho wrapped gloomily
round him,
He mounted the dizzying road,
And the chasms and sleeps of theNhead-
land
| Were slippery and wet as he trod;
Wild swept the wind of the ocean
Rolling the fog from afar.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-30
THE FIGHT OF PASO DEL MAR

When near him mule bell came tink-
ling,
Midway on the Paso del Mar.
Back" shouted Bernal, full fiercely,
And Back shouted Pablo in wrath.
AS his mule halted, startled and shrink
ing,
On the perilous line of the path.
The roar of devouring surges
Came up from the breakers hoarse y
And Back, or you persist" cried Ber-
nall;
Il turn not on Paso del Mari
The gray mule stood firm as the head
land
He clutched at the juggling rein,
When Pablo rose up in his saddle
And smote till he dropped it again
A wild oath of passion swore Bernal
And brandished his dagger, still red:
While fiercely stout Pablo leaned for
ward
And fought DER his trusty mules
head.
They fought till the black wall below
them
shone red through the misty blast.
Stout Pablo then struck. leaning
The broad breast of Bernal at last;
And, frenzied with pain, the swart
herdsman
Closed on him with terrible strength
And jerked him. despite of his strug-
giles,
Down from the saddle at length.
They grappled with desperate madness
On the slippery edge of the wall;
They swayed on the brink, and together
Reeled out to the rush of the~falll
A cry of the widest death anguish
Rang faint through the mist afar,
And the riderless mule went homeward
From the fight OF the Paso del MARI
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selves with a navcy that is very expen-
sive. but so old-fashioned as to be in
effective. Some people think that the
more ineffective a navy is, the less
danger there Is of war. Their attention
is respectfully invited to the historical
fact that aggression has usually, If not
always, been caused by the temptation
presented by valuable property left
unprotected from attack.
I need not say that do not suggest
using only airplanes to defend the Phil
ippines; all the usual weapons would. OF
course, be needed, especially subma-
rines I do wish, however, to call at
tention to our amazing backwardness in
utilizing airplanes, and to point out the
special attributes that make them val
liable as preventers of actual invasion
These attributes are:
/. Great speed, and consequent ability
to concentrate in large numbers against
parts of more slowly moving bodies.
such as ships. boats and troops.
2. Ability to rise high and discern
objects at great distances
8. Ability to carry high explosives IN
convenient forms that have merely to
be dropped.
BY reason of these three attributes, Z
force of say 100 first-class afrplanes,
properly equipped and manned, II dis
trfbuted at different points IN Luzon
(the northernmost island). would be
able to concentrate at any threatened
point on the coast before the invading
troops could start from the transports
to the shore.
The only defense against our air
planes would be greater air force pos
sessed by the enemy. But it must be
clear that no country in the worla
could compete with us in building airs
planes. The cost to us OF a force OF
airplanes able to protect the islands
would probably be less than ] per cent.
of the cost Of any endeavor to recapture
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-30
DEFENSE OF PHILIPPINES

Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske. U. S.
N, In the North American Review.
E7T1HE Philippines could be taken by
anyone who might desire to take
them. This casts doubt on the
security of our possession of them, and
to develop them of more than question
able wisdom. Furthermore. the great
distance of the islands from America
has made the problem of defending
them by the ordinary methods an I'M
dertaking virtually prohibitive, because
of the cost in money, time and effort.
So, the commercially and strategi-
cally valuable Philippine Islands still
lie spread out on the counter, for any
one to take who will. 1t is a dangerous
and foolish thing thus to leave any prop
erty wholly unprotected; and the most
dangerous thing possible is to leave
property unprotected from a sudden as
sault by any nation with which causes
(history tells us) some unlocked for
contingency may at any time precipi-
tate a state of popular excitement TAX
ing the form of overt action, If chance
for such overt action were in sight.
Now, in case some suddenly arising sit
uation should cause popular outburst
against us in Japan, the chance to seize
the Philippines might prove too strong
a temptation to be resisted
The last Congress refused to give the
navy the very moderate amount 1t
asked for, in order to take advantage
of the possibilities of aeronautics. If
Congress persists, we may find our
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-30
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

Any husband can tell you that, when
1t comes to drawing conclusions, his
Wife is certainly an. artist.
This would be a nicer world if peo-
pie We're as liberal with other things
as they are with lemons.
1t is mighty mean man who hasn't
enough philosophy in his makeup to
realize that he is getting his moneys
worth when he is paying alimony.
Most men will stand by you>to the
last dollar-if it happens to be your
dollar.
woman will spend two hours doll
ing up her hair and then she will put
on hat that hides everything but her
eyebrows.
And what doth it profit a man to
make his mark in the world when he
has wife who makes him toe it?
Once in while you meet a young
man who is so like his father that you
agree that he is chip off the old
blockhead.
II you hang on to your bread until it
is too stale for your own use the Lord
won't thank you for casting it on the
water.
A whole lot of married men can tell
you that the fall of man dates back to
the day they fell in love with the wom-
an they married
And what has become Of the o. f. man
who thought he could bunk the govern
ment out of a special delivery stamp by
marking crush" on the envelope when
he mailed a letter.
When a man tells you that he will
take ii under consideration he means
that he is going to forget it.
When stutteringN man gets mad
enough to. swear he manages to say as
much as YOU could under the same cir
Gums tances
Copyright. ls2l.)
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cAgalrllaM4AanelH
swITzERLANn's EXAMPLE

From the Port o. Call, Organ of Post
16. Naval Auxiliary Reserve.
Switzerland allowed only her own
flag to be displayed during the war,
excepting at such places where for
Ieign embassies were quartered Be-
cause of her geographical location
Switzerland had to be absolutely neu-
trail.
We believe there should be but one
flag displayed. We are not hyphen-
ates, and those halt digested foreign
ers who insist upon carrying or dis
playing their own colors should be
taught that there is but one flag for
every one in this country.
Let us follow President Harding's
lead. In the future American forces,
both army and navy, are to be used
only for military functions. The flag.
symbolic of our country. should be
placed on a par with our soldiers and
sailors.
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CAVE MAN LAUGHS ATRENTMAN

| one above the other for two or three
stories, 1t is said that as many as
1900 people live in these pits.
There have been cave dwellers in
Asia Minor since long before the time
of xenophon, who says that their
houses were underground with en-
frances like wells, and that in them
the members of the household lived
with goats, COWS and chickens. Here,
too, they stored the hay for their anil
mails and their own supplies of wheat,
barley and vegetables. In the region
around Mount Argaeus, in Cappadocia,
southern Turkey, there are cave dwell
ers living today whose habitarIons
perhaps more nearly resemble the
American cliff houses to be found in
Atizcna and New Mexico THAI any
others in existence, and wero used as
habitations as far back as 1000 b. 9.
The chambers of these dwellings, hol-
lowed out in the solid stone are spa
cious, and the stairways resemble
round tunnels leading from each floo9
to that above it. Houses have been I'M
some instances made nine stories high.
but usually they are not so preten-
tious.
"The country of the troglodytes OF
Asia Minor is inaccessible, and the
visitor must make his way over noun
tains and past rivers when his path
is discernible only few feet in front
of him.
Perhaps the greatest and most
beautiful of the cliff cities built since
the beginning of time is Petra. on the
old caravan route from Damascus to
Mecca Though It is unoccupied to-
day. Edomftes, Phoenicians. Egyptians
and Romans have carved in artistic
designs on the rose-red walls of Ms
| temples amphitheatres, shrines and
houses records of their successive cc-
equations.
Europe. too, has her cave dwellexs-
Near Tours. France, there are Few
caves that are inhabited. but for the
most part the older cave rooms. pos
sibly used by the Aquitani of Caesars
time, are used as storage rooms with
Llo uWoA1iu6S pulAI Ouk III AAon@ -
them. In Spain there are many ar
tificial caves. formerly inhabited,
which are now used by Spanish
gypsies.
| I'm the interior mountainous region
of Gran Canaria, in the Canary
| Islands, there are numbers of the ma
tiyes living in cave houses whose door
ways stare out like huge black eyes
on the face of the cliffs. These noun
tain shepherds have built little ter
races in front of their dwellings and
hedged them about with cactus and
yucca to keep the children from tum-
bling down the side of the mountain.
On the terraces they have set up prim-
| itive ovens and here for the most part
the family lives.
MANY of the American Indians lived
| in natural caves and excavated dwell
ings in cliffs, some of the most note
worthy being those of the Chaco Can
yon and Mesa Verde regions. Column
bus found cave jewellers in certain por-
lions of the West Indies, and even to-
day, on King Island. in the Aleutians.
q colony of hardy Eskimo fishermen
| lives in a settlement of about 40
DIV ellings cut in the cliffs overlooking
the sea-"
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Ships Bring About
a Rail Rate Reduction

7NRANSCONTINENTAL railways
il have undertaken to regain some
of the business to and from the Pa
cific coast that has been done by ships
through the Panama canal, following
the freight rate raise of August &c,
1920. The ships were eating into the
revenues of the railroads and doing a
considerable business with the Pacific
coast incident to the prior rate in
creases, but following the increase Of
last August, they have done still
greater business. In fact, they have
moved a great deal of merchandise
that otherwise would not have moved
at all.
The transoontinenal lines have an
nounced reductions in rates on iron
and steel products to the Pacific coast
out of the Birmingham district and
other steel and iron centers, but these
reductions will not apply to the
Rocky mountain region this side of
the Pacific coast. 1t is a straightfor-
ward acknowledgements that ships are
getting the Pacific coast business and
that the railroads cannot hope to COM
pete without rate reductions.
The new rates still leave a con-
siderable margin in favor of the ships
but will tend to move stuff that must
be transported quickly. The inland
Rocky mountain states will mean
while take cognizance of the reduced
rates to the Pacific coast and will
ask why they should be charged more
for shorter haul than the coast is
for longer one.
Two time-worn problems are in
volved, the long and short haul and
the competition between rail and
water, with the rails descending to
the water rate level in favor of places
to which water rates apply.
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HOW REID WENT no THE TRIBUNE

hOW REID WENT 10 THE TRIBUNE
(From THE Life of Whitelaw Reid
by Royal Cortissoz. Charles scrib-
ner's Sons.)
Though Horace Greeley was no Mig
gard of highly colored speech in the
heat of debate. there was a fund OF
practically at the bottom of his elo-
quence. and it was this, very largely.
that drew Whitelaw Reid to the
editorship of the Nation could not tempt
him away from his cotton venture in
the south. 1t did not open the right
door The tradition of the Tribune
was exactly what he had been form
ing himself for from his youth up, a
tradition based on patriotism plus com
mon sense, and directed with an In
tensely American vigor toward the real
ly effective settlement of the tangible
problems He was ever sceptical OF
the ministrations of purely academic
publicists. those etiolated oracles of tho
coteries that have been educated be-
yond their intellects They evolve
theories of how people live, of how
| they ought to live" a shrewd COM
mentator has said, "and both sets of
theories are mainly cobwebs." In Gree
leys environment, Reid we'll knew.
there were at all events no cobwebs,
despite the old Fourierite symposia
which had graced she columns of the
Tribune in the forties 1t was. in
short. a summons to the one opening
fulfilling his ideal in the journalism
of the country that he received when
Greeley sought him out.
1t is an interesting point in his re-
laton to the Tribune that from the
first Greeley most ardently wanted
him in the office and tried repeatedly
to get him there. Wherever Reid was.
the discerning old editor kept an eye
upon him. -. His eagerness for ev-
cry clew to Reids plans is disclosed
in a note sent to Schuyler Colfax in
1866; IS. c. If you ever get letter
from Whitelaw Reid that yau can
spare body please enclose it to.
Yours, Horace Greeley" If he could
not lure his young friend to New York,
then he wanted to employ him in
Washington. The moment he heard
that Reid was abandoning a planters
life he FASTENED to write him, inquir-
ing as to just how far he was involved
with the Gazette. He did not forget
Reds interests Il would not have
you weaken your hold on the Gazette"
he wrote. "till you are wholly sure Of
something better, for / know yours is
a good ndStrong concern. whose div
idends Of late beat the Tribune's."
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When Hospitality
Becomes a Burden

MR ME. CURIE is but one of the
IVll many distinguished visitors to
our shores who have succumbed to
the pressure of American hospitality
That she was a frail woman, already
exhausted by prolonged toll in her
laboratory and sick when she reached
AmericS, made it inevitable that she
would break down under the strain
of endless receptions, dinners, adj
dresses and other public affairs ar
ranged with the best intentions in the
world, but severely trying, even on
= man of the most robust type.
AS the Philadelphia Public Led
ger says, "These arrangements usual
" have had behind them something
better than the desire of lion-taming
hostesses to capture and exhibit a
new celebrity; they have given evil
depce Of a genuine desire to do a
possible honor to one whose deserts
transcend human recognition"
All of which is quite true, and is
creditable to the American people,
who wish to show Nine. Curie that
they appreciate what she has done
for science and humanity, but in a
country as large as America a celeb
rity cannot limit herself to a few
public appearances without running
the risk Of being regarded as discour-
teous. Nor it is possible to see just
what limits can be fixed for enter
ripg notables from abroad. We
hit sincerely try to be econsider-
ate and indulgent," as the Public Led
ger, advises, and mot be disappointed
~ the lioness now and then takes
Aalugs in her lair and does not roar
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NIX II AsHINGToN, D. c., May 3d.
WV Cave houses are coming in
style again. Scarcity OF
housing accommodations in the dis
trict along Lakes Maggiore and Como
Italy, has driven many peasants to
dig houses for themselves in the hill
sides where they live in primitive SIM
plicity, newspaper dispatches say.
THE inhabitants of most of the
countries of the world have at some
stage In their development lived in
cave dwellings. A belt of such dwell
ings extends from China across India
to Asia Minor and Arabia, thence
along the shores of the Mediterranean
to the Canary Islands, the West In
dies Mexico and North and South
America. In a few places today man
kind still lives in this simple and
inexpensive fashion" says bulletin
from the Washington headquarters of
the National Geographic society.
ION Easter Island. in the Pacific
where innumerable caves and grottoes
have been formed by the washing
away of soft deposits which lie be-
ing accommodations present no prob
Hem. Many of the natives sleep in
the open or in these caves and cheer
fully point them out to the traveller
as the logical shelter for him during
the night.
I'm one of the widest portions of
northern Africa, near Guermessa, on
the top of a sugar-loaf mountain,
whose sides rise precipitously for hun
dreds of feet, fierce and war-like
year in stone caves followed out in
the mountain sides. The trail to the
dwellings has been worn as smooth as
glass by ce%turies of constant use,
which makes an approach difficult for
man and beast. These mountain men
have cut separate establishments for
themselves, their wives and their chill
dren. and have furnished them with
rugs from Kairowan and Persian and
numerous leather cushions stuffed
Win SheepS WOOL
Suspicious of other cave dwelling
people near them and hating the
stranger. they spend the remaining
nine months in the year wandering with
their flocks of 1ong-haired goats,
broad tailed sheep and camels on the
borders of the Sahara Down in the
valleys, too, there are plantations of
superb olive and fig trees which they
protect from the other troglodytes
during this season. while their houses
in thes mountains are being guarded
by a few trusty men.
"At Matmata and Medinine, in Tu-
nisia, are extraordinary underground
pit dwellings, When he is told that
he is approaching one of these VT
lagos the traveller experiences a queer
sensation at seeing nothing on the
landscape except .crater-like holes in
the earth which look like they light
have been caused by the explosion of
enormous shells. AS he peeps over
the rim of these holes in the earth he
sees below him the intimate life of
the family, their dogs and camels. This
is their common living room, which is
entered from above by slanting sub
terranean channel. Other rooms enter
into it by means of lateral passage
ways land are sometimes excavated
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What the White Man Has
Done for the Negro

IMR. R. R. MOTION, head of the
w Tuskegee institute, in deliver
ing diplomas to this years graduates,
said:
There never would have been
Tuskegee institute had not Booker
T. Washington believed that he
would secure from the white peo-
pie of the south and north hearty
sympathy and generous coop
Grafton.
Tuskegee institute was founded by
a negro born in slavery, who knew
the white man and the attitude of the
decent white to the dependent negro.
He knew the white man had been kind
to the negro when he was his owner.
He believed that he would be kind
to him when freed.
Booker Washington had the sound
sense to realize that the negroes fu-
ture depended not on the negro, but
on the white mans generosity. Tus-
kegee institute, with it's millions of
endowment, shows the correctness Of
his views.
He located his school in the heart
Of the south and close by the old cita-
del of the Confederacy. A negro Of
less judgment might have hesitated
in trying to build on his dreams under
the shadow of the Confederate White
House. Booker Washington knew
that the safest and best place for his
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BROTHER BRYAN's TRAVELS

From the Tampa Tribune.
Learning from an item that "William
j. Bryan has travelled 100000 miles in
the last % years" we rise to ask with
the old negro woman who watched her
husband climb down off the flying jim
N.Y." Now, you'se done rid UP TO- bits
and whar is you binr
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A DIPLOMAT

London Answers.
Scene: lonely spot on a dark night.
Enter nervous pedestrian. Also enter
courteous highwayman.'
Highwayman: Sir, would the gentle
man be so kind as to assist a poor man.
who, beyond loaded revolver, pos
sesses nothing in the wide world?
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school was where whites best knew
and understood the negro and were,
therefore, in most genuine and intelli-
gent sympathy with him.
DIR. Motions address should be pom
dered by some of the races mis-
guided friends.
x = r
A Texas Judge rules that taking ones
wife to ride in flivver over rough
road constitutes cruel treatment. If
this sort of thing keeps up. what is to
become of the American family2
+ y y
A letter of Mr.. Taft is on sale in a
Washington store for s25 We venture
to predict that none of Mr.. Tafts pri-
vate correspondence will be offered at
a higher figure.
y y y
If the state of public opinion in AUS
tralia and Canada were all the British
government had to worry about, life for
Lloyd George would be grand sweet
song"
A Chicago motorist, charged with not
obeying a traffic policeman's signal,
said the wind blew his car One guess
as to its make
Keaton to progress with his wooing.
The hospital atmosphere was ever con-
ducive to romance.
y y *
Caruso departs bewailing the aridity
of America. Being en- route to Italy, he
should worry about the drouth he
leaves behind him.
New York woman who figured in
an apartment house shooting says
stories of blackmail are bunk" Such
ladies usually speak the vernacular.
y y y
The Mississippi parson who held a
mob at bay with pistol is not the sort
of man to take back talk from the Off
GERS of his church.
Il K Il
Mr.. Dempsey continues to harden his
hands. In that particular his head has
reached a high state of perfection.
= y =
All in favor of permitting Admiral
Sims to adopt monocle and become a
British citizen will please say AYE"
Greek humorists are poking fun at
young Leeds and his millions. We think
all the better of them for that.
y y y.
The attitude of the class valedic-
torian is. I'VE have just begun to
fight
The flapper who says yes between
cigarette puffs will never make fire
side companion.
y & y
AS matter of fact, the Jap is think
ing more about racial superiority than
he is about racial equality.
y X y
There are still a few citizens in the
raVa VINO have aNidea that coskscrew
is useful in an emergency.
y * y
The silk shirt era will always be as
ISOLATED in the minds of some people
with overall parades.
y y Il
Mrs. Bergdoll says she would be bet
ter off in Russia. Well, what's detain-
ing her?
* y y
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DISPARAGING A TAVORITE BEv-
ERAGE

From the savannah News.
The manufacturers of lemon extract
who told a committee that his goods
couldn't possibly have the effect on
anybody of the stuff with kick was
evidently not the active sales manager
for his concern