The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-17

to feel the business fluctuations in the other.
 The Pacific coast is doing less busi- ness because cotton has produced less with which to take it's products. The use of cotton bags instead of jute, if generally observed, will benefit the whole country. y E Y 1 No Way of Placating
 the Over-willing Critic I'm is apparently difficult for some U of the south's northern critics to correctly interpret anything that we do down here. They not only severe ly criticise what is wrong, but they deny us credit for efforts to stop the bad things that sometimes occur. Instead of accepting the action of the Birmingham Junior Chamber of Commerce in it's stand for automatic impeachment of sheriffs losing" prisoners to mobs as sincere express !! sion of the attitude of the young southerner, the Pittsburg Dispatch makes use of this action for further criticism of the south.
 Unable to understand the motives back of this action and the sincere desire of the southern people to pre- vent lynchings, the Dispatch makes a false charge, saying:
 Every white man in the south knows that no community sentiment ever condemns any law officer who loses prisoner to mob.
 No coroner's jury will be found to bring in verdict that the prisoner was lynched and that would avoid the impeachment penalty.
 "A change of mind is needed more than change in the law" ] As matter of fact. southern coroner's juries, one after the other, have returned verdicts to the effect that prisoners were lynched and have l filed the charge of murder against the parties suspected of the lynching. A verdict of guilty and punishment I have followed such action.
 Governors of Alabama have re- moved from office sheriffs who negli- gently failed to protect prisoners. l! The southern press and pulpit have never failed to condemn lynching and to hold it up to the southern people as high crime.
 Jefferson county is spared one worry; she has no cotton problem Birmingham is such large and lucrative market for truck and dairy products that King Cotton was dethroned in this district sev- era' years ago.
 Whatever else happens under the new administration, Alabama hopes Frederic 1T. Thompson will be retained on the ship i ping board. There is no place in the federal service where an Alabamian can ldo more good for his state Il q F q
 Each little face retained its smile even when flames advanced crackingly, along to within touch of the little bodies" {" Is the way smart reporter begins a story in the Louisvjlle Courier-Journal. The little faces belonged to dolls. This time in 1898 Birmingham had a cold snap that sent the thermometer down to l ls degrees below zero. This time in 1 1920 peach trees are in bloom. There, is no telling what is going to happen in a weather way.
 \ The statement of physical culture |expert that the modern football player is q better physical specimen than the ancient Greek athlete seould add an incp or two to his chest expansion.
 
 \ The Augusta Ga, judge who fined him: self for violating the traffic laws has as nicely an adjusted conscience as you'd kcare to hear about.
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 mov;es are going to lose their popularity. Maybe the nickel movie is coming back.