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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
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An Auction Sale
 of Johless Men

6T7HE spectacle of jobless men
 ll placed on the auction block on Boston Common, some of them war veterans cannot be dismissed as mere publicity stunt" It had too much tragic reality for that.
 Stripped to the waist, as the cus- tom was in slavery days, these men, "shorn lambs of employment" as the auctioneer called them, bore the stamp of suffering and deprivation. One tainted from hunger. Among the first men placed on the block was a man who said he had not worked for 12 months. Another said he had eaten but twice week for six months. James Ferris, who claimed to have served four years in the army, was bid for but when the bids were called the persons making them had slipped away. Finally dog was put up and knocked down" for $5.
 The auction" at first was pitia- ble failure, but Urban Ledoux, a philanthropic worker, persisted in his efforts to arouse public senti- ment and finally there was slow, half-hearted response in the form of food, clothing and small sums of money. A woman promised home for one week to boy of IS.
 What these unfortunates wanted was not charity, but work. MT. Harding's plan for Investigating the unemployment situation should go straight to the root of the matter, which is strictly an economic prob lem, due to the nationwide demorali-, zation of industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
Y E Prices Are Showing Upward Tendency

T MANAGERS, government off U cials, economists and business men predict higher prices this win ter. The nation is to pay some of the> cost of underproduction. The dream of pre-war prices is appar- ently not to be realized. A settle ment seems to be about third above the 1913 levels.
 The United States labor depart ment has announced that food prices, which went down steadily for 13 months, have risen. Pig iron, which was last to yield, has turned the corner" Bradstreet's index number shows an increase in the price of general commodities.
 Cotton is higher. The grains tend higher. Securities have begun to recover. Confidence, which is evident again, means stoppage of receding prices. Men are more in- clined to buy on a rising market. August business was the largest of the year because advices from the country suggested prosperity and rural merchants began to buy freely. They bought because they had come to the conclusion that prices were not going down any further.
 Prices run in waves, never in straight lines long at time. The present curve is upward rather than downward. The fetich of 1913 prices gets one nowhere. One might as we'll have asked for 1861 prices in 1867. Neither will there ever be any accurate accounting of the sterner resistance of some commodities to price fluctuations than some others. Were that the case much of the spice of life would be taken from it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12

Tuscaloosa News in Mir. Nunnellee's death is shared throughout the state where he was esteemed for his many amiable qualities. He had held pub lie office, having served in the leg islature and as secretary to the gov ernor of Alabama, but for 40 years he retained his love for newspaper work and in spite of failing health continued to perform his duties as associate editor of the News until the day of his death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
MAN WITHOUT A CITY ewis Mumford, in the New Repub.

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 As the city, in the nineteenth cen tury sense, continued to grow. two significant things happened; on one hand the dweller in suburbia lost to a large extent the Ability to take ad- vantage of such cultural resources as the city still retained in it's the atres and concerts and art exhibitions and the like; and on the other he failed to develop equivalent resources in the neighborhood of his home Al art gallery at Montclair and stock company in Yonkcrs do not alter the picture in it's general outlines. The commuter, who spends d good part of bis day, from an hour and a half to three hours. in wandering. like Tomlinson, between heaven and hell, presents g spectacle much more humuiating than man without a country; he is man without a city An short, q barbarian. Small wonder that bathtubs and heating systems and similar apparatus play such a large part in his conception of the good life. These are the compensa- Itions that carry him through his per- petual neurosis--and heaven help him when Yankee ingenuity and sales manship rive out!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS

 From the Chicago News
 mans past is the, best prophet of his future
 Don't blame man for kicking if you call him a donkey.
 True love forgives, but it is seldom accused of forgetfulness.
 But few women would carry pock- etbooks if they couldn't put anything in them but money.
 If some men were to tell the truth it would surprise his satanic mai esty more than 1t would shame him. When the sun doesn't shine wom- an has the blues, and when it does she worries for fear it will fade her carpets.
 Why does the man who smiles wren YOU refer to his level head invariably get mad when you happen to call it flat? A man never realizes the full sig. nificance of the old saying aoout feeling like fish out of water until he attends his own wedding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
Was We'll Advertised

The Grubbs- Allison Wedding cer- tainly was well advertised says Abe Kaufman. flor coming out of New York got copies of the both the New York Times and the New York World and they both had stories about 1t. While interested in the wedding on account of its many uniquei fea- lures. not knowing the bride or groom, my interest was largely cen- tered in the narrow escape made by Dr. Edmonds and his pilot. l knew just how excited Birmingham would he over the nsar trakedv"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
POWER OF JAZZ

From the Houston Post.
 A Chicago judge has indorsed jazz He evidently believes that music must not only have the power to soothe the savage breast, but to mako the savage wiggle, too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
A Dreamlike Cochin
M wiswall, in the New York Her.

P. M. Wiswall. in the New York Her aid.
 Your correspondent "O'G." mentions the Mocha coffee shipped from Coch- in. He may have increased the amount for the sake of the Moplah boatmen.
 The amount of coffee shipped from Cochin for the year ended June 30, 1921, was 7.0o5 hundredweight or $50 tons, and that Is not more than the cargo for two or three of the large pattarmarras that ply on the Mala- bar coast. These figures are quoted from the July 1 issue of the Cochin Chamber of Commerce list. On the other hand during the same year there were shipped from Cochin S,474,- 717 pounds of tea, or about $500 long tons. It may be that your corre- spondent will find that the Moplahs man vessels carrying cocoanut oil and copra, both of which find their way to Bombay In native craft.
 It is hard, however. to think of any thing warlike in the neighborhood of Cochin. For one thing there Is noth- ing in the climate to incite any one to action. You are reminded of greenhouse that has just been watered. into which is pouring such Intense sunlight as we never see in these attitudes. Raise the hot weather of the last few days to the nth power and you get some idea of the over powering heat.
 The long stretch of Backwater, the salt creek that parallels the Arabian sea south from Cochin to Quilon and north toward Calicut, is like what you see illustrated in O'Brien's books on the South sea islands. Along the quiet waters in the states of Travan- core and Cochin brown boatmen pole their graceful craft past shores lined with cocoanut palms. the most deli cate and graceful trees in the orien- tai tropics, You are reminded of your childhood dreams of the Garden of Eden. There is nothing to suggest wars or rumors of wars.
 And yet on the paper rupee--the dollar bill of India--the words "one rupee appear in something like eight different native languages and, of course, in the native characters. That makes you realize what problem India must be to the sBritish goverA- ment. Besides, the Brahmins want Mohammedans want to set preference over the Parsees and so on down to the weakest of the empire Every one thinks that he ought to be the boss with the result that If the Eng- lish left India terrible things indeed would happen.
 Strange as it may seem, there is a colony of Jews in Cochin. Some are white and some. due to infusion of native blood. are brown. Locally they are known as white and black Jews. One of the districts in the city of Cochinis called Jewtown. The trying climate has made the white Jews, especially the women, pale and an- aemic, but the sturdiness of the race psrsists. The synagogue. with it's bronze pulpit pillars and Chinese tile floor. is one of the sights of the town. The library of the Royal Colonial in- stitute in London places the coming of the Jews in either the first or the eighth century. Can 1t be possible that they have maintained .heii iden- titity for the whole of he Christian era?
 CAMEL's HUMP DELlCACY rr.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
HEALTHY UNADoRNED

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Next to dressing.s says Mr. Bris- bane, the principal occupation in Deauville is gambling" Probably typographical error; the writer must have meant next to undressing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
Monarchists Hope for
 Return of Kaiserism

0N 7RITING from Berlin to The WV Age-Herald, Maximilian Harden says, But for the assassi- nation of Dr. Matthias Erzberger, Germany might today be mon- archy."
 Harding believes nothing but this tragedy, which was blamed on the monarchists, prevented the carrying out of coup which was in prepara- tion and had been encouraged by the general apathy with which the German people regarded the repub- lie. Such incidents are reported by the Berlin editor as demonstrations and military parades, with a Hohen- zollern prince saluting "Germany's undefeated army" at the Berlin race track. A telegram in the boastful vein of the old regime was sent to the glorious prisoner" at Doorn, who was filled with new dreams of returning to power.
 Harden merely corroborates the opinions expressed by other cores pondents in Germany that the mili- tarist and monarchist factions have not abandoned hope of replacing a republic which has thus far created little enthusiasm, even among the working classes whom Harden calls its "bulwark," by a monarchy which will bring back the. days of stiff necked officers knocking pedestrians off sidewalks and the blessings that privileged class enjoyed under Will Eelm.
 Possibly the exile at Doorn and his offspring in Germany are chasing a phantom, but until the German peo- pie realize fully what a republic means to them and until they quit thinking about the comfortable exist ence they enjoyed under the Kaiser, apparently oblivious of the fact that it was kaiserism that brought them to their present plight, the monarch ists will be encouraged to continue their plotting.
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 Domestic help Is said to be scarce in some parts of the country because .suitors don't like to call at the back door. That's one of the drawbacks of living in land where all men are theoretically equal.
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 Max Harden says German labor is indifferent to kaiserism. It is prob ably more concerned about the com plste prostration of the German mark.
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 The rise in the price of cotton has done great deal to restore Governor Harding of the federal reserve board to favor in certain parts of the south.
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 The motor crib adds a much needed domestic touch to the sport car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
wnd Thing. on He'd Mountain


 There is still good deal of wild life within the corporate limits of Birmingham-close to the thicker settlements, too," said Tom Baine. q don't mean the wild life that goes with drinking hootch and speeding automobiles and the like, but un- tanned birds and animals,
 T was on the city side of Red mountain, at the end of Beech street, the other day, and first came across so many at one time in years. They were fleeing in great distress from band of bold bad boys with small rifles.
 And directly I jumped big rab- bit. He hopped 40 feet away, sat on his launches, and winked his nose at me- I did not disturb him further, as rabbit meat is not good at this sea- son. Then I didn't have anything to disturb him with.
 q was getting some big red sand rock. After loosening block with the pick. I would lift it with my hands to the wheelbarrow. Prizing one particular piece loose, I some- how concluded to drag it to the bar row with the pick. And it is well ttat I did, for a big highland moe casin lay gracefully coiled in his den under this rock. He resented the intrusion--the sort of search without warrant-by striking viciously at the pick handle. Tn cutting his life out with the pick, spoiled the beautiful alternating coppery and reddish brown markings with which nature has camouflaged his kind against enemy and prey"
 Later in the evening, a young man was coming by my place with q young possum he had just caught in these same woods. He lost his hold on the possum's handle, and the ami nal ran across the street with the captor in pursuit. The foundation wall of my porch stopped the possum and the young man picked him up and went on. A while later, some body's dog came loping down the street. He took the possum's scent as soon as he struck it and got mighty busy. Reaching my porch, where the trail ended abruptly, he looked up at me with puzzled, dis appointed air, and seem to ask: Mis- ter, can you tell me where in thun- der that possum went to from here?' So l told him what had happened, and he appeared to be satisfied, for he went away in another direction after wagging me a Thank you, sir.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12

CAMEL's HUMP A DELICACY From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 The hump of camel is said to taste like beef. and is considered a great delicacy by the Arabs and others
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
rle..ed wIth Producer.

T am very much pleased to have Donald Robertson and Wallace Rice in Birmingham to stage our semi- centennial pageant" said 0. Gordon Erickson, general chairman of the pageant committee. With these two working together the success of the Is assured,
 For personal reasons, too. l am glad to have MT. Robertson here. for he gave me my first start in music in Chicago 14 years ago, I sang in the production of one of his plays, and was later connected with the School of Music at the same time he was teaching drama there. A friendship developed which has lasted. and am always glad to see him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
Alabama Loses
 Veteran Editor

IT AMEs H. NUNNELLEE, for W merly associate editor of the Tuscaloosa News, was one of the best known and most popular news paper men in Alabama. In Annis- ton, Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and elsewhere in the state, MT. Nunnel- lee followed his profession with an enthusiasm that never waned, al- though man of his wide acquaint- ance and popularity might have sue cessfully aspired to political ca reer or earned larger income in some other business employment.
 The grief felt by the staff of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12

A MORNING PRAYER
 Grant to us, Lord, pardon and peace thnt we may be ciennsed frcm onr alas and serve Thee with q quiet mind. Amen.--M. $. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
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Wholesalers Doing
 a Better Business

F1RHE business done by First ave- Il nue wholesaler during the past three weeks was as follows:
 First week, $15,000.
 Second week, s37,000.
 Third week, $50,000.
 That represents the trend of wholesale business in various lines. These bright spots began to appear early in August, here and there. Now they dot the surface in Bir- mingham's wholesale and jobbing in terests.
 Retail trade was sustained dur ing the depression by savings, the best figures showing that the volume of retail purchases, lower prices con- sidered, has been just about as great as it was last year.
 The revival in jobbing and manu- featuring lines reflects the confi- dence of the retailers, especially those in the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
Indebted to E. A. q.


 Boys club members are certain ly indebted to the Birmingham Ath- letic club" stated F. A. Culley. d. rector of the Boys club. My young- sters, lacking the facilities of some of the larger athletic institutions, have no place to swim, other than the open creeks. small lakes and rivers which nature has provided in some places around Birmingham. And here's where the Birmingham Athletic club does the boys d good turn. Every Saturday, from 9 until 10 o'clock, the large indoor pool at the Athletic club Is turned over to members of the Boys club.
 If there is anyone who doubts that these newsboy youngsters ap- preciate this favor of the B. A. C., let him ask any Boys club member who has enjoyed swim in the splen- did pool the Athletic club provides for its members"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12
Prediction Became Fact

When I first came to Birmingham as a salesman in 1884, the southern edge of the town was at the Louis- vile and Nashville tracks" said A. l.. Fraser, who has recently made his residence here.
 At that time I was salesman for large wholesale concern in the north. My only customer in this city was the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company commissary de- partment. I recall that I remarked to one of the officials of the T. C. |. that if dirt and smoke had anything to do with the prosperity and growth of Birmingham. it could not fail to become one of the leading cities of the south itnot of the entire steel in- dustry.
 T returned this spring for the first time since my trip here in 1884, to lind that my jocular prediction had become fact. That same dirt and smoke of the little steel and iron mills had built Birmin gham up into a city with buildings that would be a credit to any city. with newspabers known throughout the country, with a successful business reputation of diversified industries
 But would like to make one ob- jection to the city--it's lack of park ing systems and breathing spaces for It's people. With its hills and val leys and natural resources for a beautiful park system, Birmingham could now show many of the cities of the south what can be done in this respect and could lead the way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12

From the Chicago News. A mans past is the best prophet of his future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12

But few women would carry pock- etbooks if they couldn't put anything in them but money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12

Remittance can be made at current rate of exchsnge. The Age-Herald VIII not be respohsiDIs for money sent through tie lnAIIs. AddIesE:
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12

Blrmtng gham, Sept. Twelfth St., South.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12

The rise in the price of cotton has done great deal to restore Governor Harding of the federal reserve board to favor in certain parts of the south.
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 The motor crib adds much needed domestic touchs to the sport car
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12

Domestic help is said to be scarce in some parts of the country because .suitors don't like to call at the back door. That's one of the drawbacks of living n land where all men are theoretically equal,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-12

Max Harden says German labor is indifferent to kaiserism. It is prob- ably more concerned about the com plete prostration of the German mark.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-11-04
Mississippi Needs An
other Federal Judge

Edgar 8. Wilson. in discussing
the bill pending before the Judicia-
~ Committee of the Senate which
provides for Is new federal judges.
suggests that one of these judges
ought to be assigned to Mississippi.
Mr.. Wilson. in the Memphis
News-Scimitar of Monday. says:
Mississippians are showing con-
siderable interest in the bill pend
ing before the Judiciary Committee
of the United States Senate pro-
viding for IS additional federal
judges. For 40 years unsuccessful
efforts have been made to secure an
additional federal judge in this
state. There are two districts, the
northern and southern, but only
one Judge. AdYices from Wash
ington state that the bill providing
for Is new judges has been recon-
mended by the attorney general of
the United States on account of the
congested dockets in many of the
states. of which Mississippi is pre-
sumably one. caused by the viola
ton of the VoIstead act. 1t is also
said that the congestion of the
dockets has delayed the trial of
thousands Of cases charging eva
sion of the draft law. Reports of
docket congestion is said to come
from almost every jurisdiction in
the United States. and the belief
seems prevalent in Washington that
Congress can not ignore the demand
for more judges to relieve the situa-
ton.
1t is reported that those who are
insisting that now is the time to Sc
cure an additional Judge in Missis-
sippi are met in Washington by a
division of opinion as to whether
the proposed Is judges should be
assigned to permanent districts, or
whether they should constitute
judicial flying squadron" to be
assigned by the chief Justice on the
recommendation of the attorney
general to the district where the
dockets are most crowded. Reports
reach Jackson that lawyers and
others in different parts Of Missis-
sippi are communicating with Mis-
sissiDpi congressman and senators,
urging them to do everything in
their power to secure an additional
fedora Judge for Mississippi, real
izing that if this is not accomplish
ed in the pending bill providing for
the IS additional judges. that Mis-
sissippi may lose forever an OppOr-
tunity to get what she has long
sought and needed.