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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28

According to the Item. a New Orleans detective agency advertises, "shadowing done, 60 cents an hour" Who pays for the taxicabs?
 Radicals are keeping an eye on Mir. Harding. They might well do so. A more unradical person never took his meals regularly in the White House.
 x # x By the time Germany gets around to punishing her war criminals most of them will be beyond the reach of justice in this world
 The lost popularity of Rallies" should not be regretted. It is impossible to be thief and a gentleman at the same time.
 Great Britain wonders how dry Amer ica can export fine liquors in candy. Dry Americans wonder how candy manufac- turers have the heart to do it.
 % # Germanys friendliness toward America is just about as sincere as it was when von Bernstorff was doing the talking.
 # * x It is said that Lenine may visit Amer ica some day. He'll never get radio gram saying, Come right over" The report that Americans are drinking Cuba dry is probably erroneous. It can't be done.
 In agreeing to accept paltry $1 an hour the man in overalls is helping the country to get back to a pre-war basis.
 < # F Movies are making their way Into churches. Needless to say, they do not exploit screen "vamps."
 Probably ono reason why New York's gunmen are underpaid is because they are not organized.
 x x # Washington will transmit German pro posals to the allies without specifying that they are 'okeh."
 # + < There is no easy road to knowledge, but we see evidences every day that there are numerous short cuts to fame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28
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Birmingham Trusts Growth
 Typical of Birmingham

TN HE growth of the Birmingham U Trust and Savings company, which has forced it to temporarily change it's quarters while it's perma- nent home on Twentieth street is being remodeled and enlarged, is typi- cal of that of Birmingham.
 Every enterprise which has a sure foundation and is well managed has found Birmingham good place in which to do business. Nowhere in the country has there been more certain reward for honest and persevering eff fort. The progress of the city, the district and it's industries has been steady and continuous, and such has been the course of business well con- ducted.
 When the handsome home of the Birmingham Trust and Savings com pany was built it seemed to Birming- ham perfect in form and ample in size for an indefinite period, but the insti- tuition has so outgrown these quarters that it was absolutely necessary for them to be enlarged in order for it's business to be transacted without con- gestion and inconvenience both to itself and it's patrons.
 Birmingham rejoices in the success of her strong financial institutions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28
Athletic Oxford

Oxford, Ala, famed as the town through which the revenue and local officers have made it dangerous for the moonshiner to pass, has, according to Ralph Griffin, begun to gain recog- hilton in an athletic way.
 We are a member of the City league of Anniston," said MT. Griffin. That is,s the county high school located in Oxford. In football we captured the silver loving cup offered the cham pionship team of the league. In bas- ketball, We duplicated the feat, win ming another beautiful silver cup. And now we are out to win the cup in base ball. Three trophies in one season is our goal. The closest contenders at present are the Anniston High school and Oxford"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
CIanton's Chamber

P. c. Carter, secretary of the Clan ton chamber of commerce, who has been in Birmingham studying the meth ods of the Birmingham chamber, said: We have a live organization at Clan ton. It has been in operation only three months, but in town of only 1,7oo inhabitants. we already have 70 members and the number is increas- ing.
 We have good town and know it. We wish to build on what we have and [ came to see how the Birmingham chamber does it. We ship lot of lum- Der and truck and are surrounded by fine agricultural territory. We have the resources for progress and we are on the march"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28
AT NEW YORK PLAYHOUSES
By c. M. STANLEY

M HEw YORK, April N-(special)-I | nWl ar Italian audience is any judge and it is-F1orence Easton, so- prano, and Mario Chamblee tenor, arc soon to become grand operas two bright particular stars.
 Sunday night at the Metropolitan there was Mascagni-Puccini-v Verdi concert in which eight artists participated. The opera house was filled with Italians. They were standing five deep all around the great golden horseshoe.
 They knew what they liked and they, and Chamblee were the only ones whom they forced by prolonged and insistent cheering to repeat their numbers. Mime. Easton's number was 'Racconto di San tuzzi,'' from Cavalleria Rusticana, by Mascagni, and MT. Chamblee sang the aria "Recondita Armonia," from Tosca, by Puccini.
 The audiences decided preference must have been somewhat embarrassing to the other artists, but I suppose it is such
 
 career. Press agents can help. but they can't do everything.
 At the entrance to the reptile house at the Bronx zoo is a large sign, Beware of Pickpockets." It is hard to keep your mind on your pocketbook in the presence of all those snakes, lizards, spiders and toads.
 This must be a bad town. In many of the Broadway restaurants are signs, Watch Your Hat and Overcoat." I did not appreciate the real significance until minutes between acts at grand opera, and when I returned found my gloves gone from the pocket. But it was we'll worn pair. So the lesson was cheap.
 The most catching air I have heard here is the ''whip-o-will' song from Sally" Ziegfeld's current favorite. I don't know what our censor will do when the Queen of Sheba" knocks at the doors of Birminghams movies. Per haps the chariot race can be left in and one or two scenes showing Sheba as little girl. Sheba's kingdom is said to have been located in southern Arabia One gathers that she lived in very warm country.
 l The cleverest show have seen here is The Gold Diggers,' but it would never do in Birmingham. The home life of a | group of popular chorus girls is entirely too realistic. But it is staged with the genuine Belasco touch. Most of the theatres run Sunday the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28

same as any other days But man has to draw the line somewhere up here, so I went to church. Perhaps the the atres were crowded. know the churches were
 The only show in New York where l have seen line of people extending far down the sidewalk to buy tickets is Irene. Irene is now in the second year here, and has been~an over the country. | I heard more hearty laughter at the where I have been. It is a satire on melo-drama wonderfully done The story is so woven that the heartiest laughs come at the points where the actors are most tragic. Whats all the "shoottn' | for?" is one of the expressions made very memorable by the circumstances sur rounding it's delivery. and have several times heard the lines this week effec- lively used by comedians at other show houses
 The Champion is one of the most di- verting shows in town. A boy runs away from the home of his rich father in England. The father is climber, al- ways fearing something will happen to jeopardize his social ambitions.
 When the son returns from America after 15 years and the father learns that he is a congressman, a corporation law yer with $50,00O year income, and IS none other than Gunboat Williams, cham pion lightweight prize fighter Z of the world he thinks his disgrace is com plete.
 But when the papers flash the news that the great Gunboat Williams is in England, earls, marquises lords and roy atty begin Hooking to the house. The fathers cup is overflowing and of course the noblest lady of them all falls the hardest for Gunboat Williams. The va rious parts are wonderfully well DOT trayed.
 Sally" is probably the best drawing show in town, but it is because of it's newness The costumes, scenery. lighting effects and pretty girls are spectacular. and two or three of the music numbers are attractive, but that is all
 'Tip Top" is still popular. It has clever lines and good music
 'Lightnin' is one of the farce com edies that promises to last a long while I count 4s legitimate theatres here going ! full blast, and this includes no vaudeville or movie houses, Wherever you go they are well filled, though there are sone vacant seats nearly everywhere. No wonder Broadway is well advertised.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28
NAP COSTS ELEPHANT LIFE

Boston-Molly, the pet elephant of the children of Boston. is dead in the Franklin Park zoo. She, with her two companions, Waddy and Tony, was bought with money the children faised.
 Molly killed herself. Usually she slept on her feet. but once in a while she would lie down for a nap. Thurs day night she elected to lie on her left side. She never got up.
 Attendants found Molly struggling on the floor in frantic efforts to raise her four-and one -half-ton weight to her feet. She could not do it. The heart cramped by the all-night nap was too weak and finally Molly fell back dead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28
Germany Finds America and Allies in Accord

TSHOSE Germans who may hope for
 J the United States to help their country out of its financial difficult ties by assuming any position not ac- ceptable to the allies are doomed to disappointment. Secretary Hughes has clearly indicated that the terms of the treaty of Versailles are not to be disregarded by this country and that whatever course of mediation it may be persuaded to adopt must be one ac- ceptable to the allies.
 This is sound position. It is the natural one for us to assume follow ing our part in the war. If it works to the same end as the league does it is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28
A DARK HOUR.

A DARK HOUR. The lghtest heart that ever beat Grows somewhat chill When Doctor Plugg says, Take a seat And starts to drill.
 OPTIMISM OF CANDIDATES. Flows Sam Twobble getting along in his race for constable?" Hes greatly encouraged" "Yes?"
 Three citizens accepted cigars this morning and assured him of their sup port. sam's predicting groundswell"
 THE MAIN THING. 'Bolshevik commissars enjoy certain privileges, I understand" Yes, they get three square meals a day"
 'And what else?" If you were living in bolshevik Rus sia you wouidp't ask what else"
 soUNDLEss. T have no musical talent, but. want to learn how to play on some instrument" "Well?" What would you suggest that wouldn't annoy my neighbors?' "Try a plugged flute"
 PERMISSIBLE. T noticed you following that pretty girl with your eyes. Be careful" 'T was careful. It's permissible to fol- exercise proper control of your feet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28
IN AN OLD STREET

David Morton, in the Bookman. he twilight gathers here like brood ing thought, Haunting each shadowed doorward and it's door, With gone, forgotten beauty that was wrought Of hands and hearts that come this way no more. Here an intenser quiet stills tho air With old remembering of what is not; Of silver slippers gone from every stair. And silver laughter long and long forgot Deeper and deeper where this dusk Is drifted Gathers a sense of waiting through
 the night, About old doors whose latch is neveP lifted, And dusty windows vacant of a light. Deeper and deeper, till the gray turm
 blue. And one by one the patient stars peer through.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28
Checking Up the Voters

Our charter provides qualification to vote as necessary to membership" said Paoli Smith. secretary of the Jun for chamber of commerce. We meant that qualification and are insisting on it. We want our members to be vot- CTS and prepared to vote when voting time comes around.
 We are checking up our memoer- ship with the list of qualified voters on file at the court house and the organi- zation will act on the information ob- tained there. We intend the junior chamber not only to be willing to do, but to be in a position to help name the public officials who have charge of city, county and state affairs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28
ADRIff WITH THE TIMES
QUITE A NOVELTY.

1 QUITE A NOVELTY.
 Whats Daubson working on these days?"
 A magazine cover for midsummer issue"
 "A girl in bathing suit suppose2" NO. Daubson has new idea for summer magazine cover. He's going to use sailboat and couple of sea gulls.' MIGHT DROP IN OCCASIONALLY Henry" said Mrs. Clipping in one of her fearful moods. If I were to die would you mourn for me?7
 Certainly would my dear" replied MT. Clipping, as he scanned the market page. And would you visit my-boo-ho grave sometimes?"
 "of course Why do you ask such foolish question? You know the cenae- tery is right on the way to my favorite golf links"
 EASILY ARRANGED.
 This illustration won't do." said the novelist.
 '~Why not?' asked the artist
 You've drawn my heroine on horse haok cha,. on trpal;d and fhafsa what makes the book so confounded pathefic-- - Well, let this picture represent her as she was before she lost her health" PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28

because the spirit of all the allies in the World war was the same, notwith- standing what form of machinery is used for execution of the mandates of that spirit.
 Germany has played about all the cards in the deck. She has run true to form. In the war she talked peace while she made war. She said one thing and did another. Since the war she has made supreme effort to avoid the consequences of defeat. Whatever the demand of the victors in any quarter, she has sought the compromise of the bankrupt. It was predicted that she would dicker over every farthing of the reparation yer dict. She has done so and she will continue to do so until the final penny is wrested from her.
 In some respects this is good trad ing. From another viewpoint the world will regard as bigger and finer financing the dispatch with which France paid her war debt of 1871 and rid herself of the invaders and the re- liquiae of war.
 When one must pay, it is a matter of Judgment hSw to pay. Germany way is her own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28
x * # No Sacrifice to Serve One's Nation

A MONO the crispest and most re GA freshing of the many sound thoughts expressed by former Secre- tary of the Navy Daniels during his visit to Birmingham was this:
 It makes me tired to hear some
 folks declare it a relief to come out
 of public office. never made a sac
 rifice in my life to serve America,
 although many things pulled hard I
 regard it as a privilege and high
 opportunity to be shipmate of four
 and a half million boys.
 This is 100 per, cent American. True it is that a captain of industry, q great financier, an able lawyer may receive a smaller money return as a servant of the government than he would earn in his civilian profession, but it by no means follows that he has made a sacrifice when he chooses the one over the other.
 Money is not the measure of all things. To have been the head of the United States navy in a great crisis and to have been able to so conduct it's movements as to achieve victory over strong and resouNesful enemy in record time is worth more to Josephus Daniels than if he owned a string of newspapers from the At lantic to the Pacific coasts and re- ceived millions of dollars in net reve- nue.
 There is lot of idle talk about the sacrifices successful men of affairs make when they enter government service. The man who thinks he is making sacrifice should not do it. If money is more to him than the op- portunity to serve his people he should stick to the money and let the people have administrators who regard serv- ice as does Josephus Daniels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28
Music Festival

Brown Parks, manager of the Jeffer- friend: m hand 1t to the music low
 ing women for pulling over big stunts. Whatever they go into goes. The peo- pie are eating up the seats for this big music festival that takes place Friday and Saturday and I am awful ly glad for it's surely going to be a big affair"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28
 Georgia Determined to Abolish Peonage

N OVERNCR DORSEY of Georgia NJ is showing commendable zeal in trying to bring out all the facts in co lnecrion with the alleg ad mistreatmens of T, groes in that state ''e has announred that mo atone will be left unturned to bring the real sit uation in Georgia before its citizens" He has also called upon every solicitor general in the state to prescott im- mediately all cases of mob violence and cruelty to negroes and has prom ised to cooperate fully with tne fed eral government in it's investigations
 Public sentiment in Georgia has been thoroughly aroused by the l.eve- lations made in the notorious Williams case. While there probably never was such another instance of whole sale murder of negro farm hands in the south, it was intimated by Will liams and one of his sons, as we'll as government agents, that peonage is quite general in some parts of Georgia.
 The state and federal authorities should not stop until this barbarous practice is broken up. And if it pre- vails in other parts of the south, as is not unlikely, it should be stamped out. Peonage is simply another name for slavery, and whether planters get negro labor by paying the fines of negroes in jail and letting them work out their fines on farms or plantations. or simply force them into bondage by terrorism, it should not be tolerated. When negroes work under such conditions mistreatment is the inev- itable result.
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 A Washington correspondent says Joe Tumulty is no longer in the public eye. The same thing might be said of great many other people who were more prom inent than Joseph was during the Wilson administration.
 Friends of Mr Fatty Arbuckle say he can't do serious acting. Who wants him to be serious? There are too many Hamlets in the land now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28
Let the end try the man.
4 MORNING PRAYER
Henry W. < x F

A MORNING PRAYER
 Keep me from temptation, Lord, for am weak, but give me to know that it is by fighting rather than running that my strength is in creased. Amen.-M. s. H.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28

I count AS legitimate theatres here going full blast, and this includes no vaudeville or movie houses, Wherever you go they are well filed, though there are some vacant seats nearly everywhere. NO wonder Broadway is well advertised.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28

'Tightnin' is one of the farco com edies that promises to last long while
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28

Friends of MT. Fatty Arbuckle say he can't do serious acting Who wants him to be serious? There are too many Hamlets in the land now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28

'Tip Top" is still popular. It has clever lines and good music
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28

Sally" is probably the best drawing show in town, but it is because of it's newness. The costumes, scenery. lighting effects and pretty girls are spectacular. and two or three of the music numbers are attractive but that is all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28


 After the exercises were over at the courthouse the children and all who cared to go were carried out to the cemetery in cars. It looked to me as ii every car in the county was parked around the courthouse when I came out went out, and after the recitation of q stirring and patriotic poem by Miss Eloise Cain the children and the Daugh- ters placed wreaths on the graves of all the Confederate dead. and also on the grave of soldier who fought in the War of 1872,
 The cemetery is out in the old town The site of the old courthouse Is now a field. while the building in the ceme- tery covers the spot on which the old Fayette Baptist church stood for many years. The railroad was put through the valley and by degrees the town moved down hill toward the depot. Some ot the old homes have burned or fallen into decay, but there are still some attrac- tive ones left to show the original site of Fayette.
 I had only a little while to stay in Fayette, but 1 got a chance to renew my acquaintance with many of the residents whom l used to meet at the associa- tions. This is .one of the joys I get in going up and down the state, for can't go into any community without running across men and women who stood by me when I was editor of the Alabama Baptist, many of whom are kind enough to still keep up with me through Men, Women and 1hings." Ii doesn't make me mad for them to come up and tell me that they read after me every day. To tell the truth, it tickles me nightly. and I was glad 10 find that l had so many reading fans in Fayette.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-28

From Side-Lights on Soviet Moscow.
  by Washington B. vanderlip. in Asia Magazine for May.
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1921-06-24
Two Clifton Banks Consolidate: Now Under One Management

An important business transaction was consumated on Saturday after noon last when the official announce ment was made by The Peoples Bank & Trust Co.,, through Minor O. Simms. Vice President, and The First Ma tional Bank, by Sam Abraham, Presi- dent, of the consolidation of these two banking institutions, effective June 18th
 Rumors of a Contemplated com solidation of the two banks had been persistent for several days and it is understood that negotiations were brought to successful conclusion through the joint eforts of J. ". Hopson, vice president of the First National and E. H. Green, cashier of the Peoples Bank
 The consolidation was effected on fifty-fifty basis, the capital stock of the two banks being merged under the name of the First National Bank. of Clifton, Arizona, with a capital stock now of $10O,000.00 and com bined resources totaling S955, ,00O. %. The new Board of Directors consists of nine members, four being chosen from the old First National direc- torate and four from the direetorato of The Peoples Bank, the ninth be- ing chosen by the eight as follows Sam Abraham, J. A. MacLeay, C. C. Billingsley, J. w. Hopson, E IL Greene, M. O. Simms, Antonio Spezia. John R. Ward and P. Riley.
 From the directors the following officers were chosen to manage the affairs of the new consolidated bank. slam Abraham. President: J. A MacLeay, Vice President; J. W. Hop son, Vice President; E. H. Greene. Vice President; W. E. Munroe. Cashier; c. A. Spezia, Assistant Cashier. It is understood that the active business management of the bank will be in the hands of AIT. E. H. Green and Mr J. w Hopson.
 The First National Bank was chartered on May 12. 1901 and it's
 charter was recently renewed for an additional twenty years and is the only National Bank within the county. The Peoples Bank was or ganized on March 9th, 1918, and dur ing the past three years has been under the guidance and management of MT. E. H. Greene during which time aIinual dividends have been i regularly paid. The Peoples Bank & Trust Co.,, although its present ! capital and business has been merged with that of the First National. has not surrendered it's charter and the Era learns on reliable authority that , the Peoples Bank building on Chase Creek Street will again be occupied l by d savings and trust banking de | partment,i which will be branch of I the First National
 The First National Bank with its
 new directorate and officers. in ! creased capital and resources, will
 be in ST onger position than ever before to serve its patrons and to extend to them every courtesy con sistent with sound banking. Among 1 ts directors and officers are 10 be
 found some of our most substantial
 and progressive citizens.