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law was class legislation, on the ground that while it prohibited the atres and similar enterprises from operating on Sunday, it allowed churches to take up a collection which he asserted was virtually an admission fee.
 The learned jurist may have strained a point just here, since church collections are voluntary of- ferings and no one has to pay ad- mission to hear divine services. It is strictly matter of conscience or the ability to put something in the plate. Nevertheless, there is a great deal of fol-de-rol indulged in by those who advocate, as we'll as those who oppose, Sunday amuse- ments. It is question that should be decided by common sense and with due regard for the wishes of the majority of law-abiding citizens, but there are times when common sense don't seem to be aven distant ly related.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17
Notorious Murder Trial
 Results in Conviction

IT HELPLESS and barely sensible u U of what was going on around her, Mrs. Catherine Eva Kaber was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a Cleveland jury, with recommendation for mercy. She was sentenced to reformatory for life.
 It was one of the most unusual murder trials ever held in America. Although woman formerly of some prominence was the defendant, there was little or no mawkish sen timentality shown during the trial and for once the gentlemen of the jury" did their duty. Mrs. Kaber plotted an atrocious crime, which had all the elements of ten-cent "shocker" or movie thriller" There is still strong prejudice in America against sending . woman to the gallows or the electric chair, although, in the language of Hangman Dennis, they are worked off" in England. It was probably this prejudice, rather than any plea brought out in defense of Mrs. Kaber that saved her from execu- tion.
 When there is nothing else to fall back upon, criminal lawyers call in the alienists. It is not an agree able spectacle to see mental ex- perts used in an attempt to defeat justice, but it is common enough in America. It is noticeable that whenever the defendants lawyers in murder case introduce alienists the prosecution can nearly always find an equal number of alienists who will pronounce the defendant sane. Jurors have learned to dis count that sort of testimony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17
STARTED OFF WRONG


 There's a visitor to see you, Mir. Dubwaite."
 Where's his card? What does he look liker
 f.He didn't have a card and he looks rather shabby, but he says you and he were college chums in the old days"
 Let him in. Confound the luck. knew when slipped on cake of soap in the bathtub this morning and nearly broke a rib that somebody would try to borrow money from me today"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17
AN ELASTIC TERM

 "A practical politician died yester- day"
 "wellT We are having some trouble in writing an obituary that will tell the truth about him without giving of fense to his relatives and friends" Why not say he was construc- tive citizen? You needn't go into the details of what it was he con- structed." BLESSING OF GOOD EYESIGHT Although I don't know how you are Here's how it looks to me: Some girls who board trolley car Display a nifty knee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17
Luck Turns

"A fellow can't be mascot all the time" said H. C. Ireland, "as learned to my sorrow Thursday afternoon.
 All the season l have been going off and on to the Birmingham base ball park and up to that time had not seen Birmingham lose single game. You can imagine just how Atlanta and Birmingham. It was Q good and tight game, but somehow the break was all with the Crackers and consequently had to sit and sec the home team go down in defeat"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17
Cleaner Food

"I am glad to see that something will at last be done to protect the food cupply of Birmingham from flies, dust and dirt" declared E. W. Houser.
 Tt has puzzled me sorely to un- derstand why the health officer of the city did not take action against stands and stores which daily violat- ed the food laws on the statute books.
 Let us hope that sincere effort will be made to clean up the food supply places of Birmingham so as to eliminate a good many needless exposures to communicable disease"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17
HIT HIM. BROTHER

When 1t looks as if your income
 Were decreasing, day by day, And you sit and sadly ponder
 How to keep the wolf away, E Let the cheer-up brother tell you
 That you should forget your woes I say, just you let him tell you. - Then you punch him on the nose.
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ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
FEMININE PREJUDICE
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FEMININE PREJUDICE
 we can't try this case before a jury of women.'
 Why not? Our client is not woman"
 "No, but he's charged with bigamy. If it were murder. we might be, able to get him aquitted. as he's not bad looking chap, but the fair sex is hard on 8 man who thinks he can take 'em or let 'em alone.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17
HEARTENING EPISODE

"what's the cause of this traffic congestion?"
 "A capitalist who occasionally runs up to Washington and tells Congress what he wants done is taking a little back talk from a traffic policeman"
 Gosh! This is still a democratic country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17
NEVER IDLE

| A man of ample leisure | Who thought loafing was crime. Invested in flivver Now he's busy all the time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17

the Versailles conference were hum mored into unfortunate agreements. The United States Senate and the American people decline to ratify his agreements. The Japanese want to take no such chances of becoming involved In problems raised in a con ference where their vote will amount to but one-fourth of the whole. They will hold aloof until they know just what shall be the scope of action and what shall not be brought up for discussion.
 It is but natural. k
 If President Harding shall add an other clause to his invitation to the allied powers that only the question of disarmament shall come up for action, and that there shall be no binding action upon other problems even by a three-fourths vote of the conference, it is safe to predict Japan's assent
 The United States government has treated Japan in such cavalier manner in the past that her people are naturally suspicious. The Jap anese resent our putting her in the category of an inferior race because her people are of the yellow type, and according her only the rights that the southern. states are alleged to accord the negro race.
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The maid to Follies beauty, who was arrested for speeding in her own $4,5oo car, explained that she had discharged her chauffeur and didn't know how fast she was going. Tier mistress car must be 31oooo ma chine.
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A MORNING PRAYER
 My weakness, Lord. is that such small dangers dismay me, but my strength in the midst of great dangers thou art ever at my side Amen.--M, $. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17
A TIRELEsS KNoCKER

A TIRELESS kNOCkER MT. Grumpson seems to have a poor opinion of his fellow man." I'm afraid so- If there were an organization for decorating people with the order of the tin can MT Grumpson woud make an ideal presl- dent.'
 RUS IN URBE 'Tis sweet to lead the rural life And rustic scenes are pretty, But Uncle Silas and his wife Who motor to the city, Can see the l. test photoplay Or go upon frolic, And thus combine the Great White
 Way"
 With pleasures more bucolic.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17

Judge Taft has written his last editorial for the Philadelphia Public Ledger. It is sad to think of anyone quitting the profession of journalism, particularly when he has the easy hours Judge Taft had.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17

Former American soldiers who contemplate going back to Paris to live should take along not less than a million dollars each to pay ex- pcnses until they find job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17

Many Americans claim that Mir Wilson and his associate delegates te
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-17

going off.
 People who spend most of their time in bathing suits may need a touch of cold weather to get them back into the habit of wearing clothes.
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 Mrs. Kaber retires sfrom the front page to the penitentiary but some other murderess will soon take her place.
 The report that President Wilson is the possessor of some choice pri- vate stock may do a great deal to restore his popularity.
 New Jersey man was struck bald by bolt of lightning. Yet the scalp experts have been telling us cleo tricty makes the hair grow.
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 The Pickford divorce case has dropped to single paragraph and premises to disappear from the print ed page altogether.
 The mere suggestion of cereal drinks for Alabama causes the bone dry brethren to haul out the old snickersnee.
 Canadian Pacific trains will have smoking compartment for women Equality in the name of Nickotine.
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 In the absence of "crime wave crime wavelets are keeping poli,e de- partments busy Puncture-proof tires and perspira Ption- proof cosmetic are long -fel, wants. new play in New York has . Brooklyn bridge scene. What has become of Lincoln J. Carter? " * ' < Colonel Harvey shocked Britons by playing golf in his shirtsleeves s He can't be recalled for that. Y * E Germany Is prepared to undersell the world. What are the allies going Ito do about 1t?
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
BLOW 2 SAFES, GET
$50O,000 IN BONDS
Cracksmen Wreck Offices Of
Flour Mill at Clifton N. j.,
but Escape Uninjured.
LOOT USELESS TO THEM
Suspicion Points to Band of
Youthful Novices-Leave
Clear Fingerprints.
LOOT USELESS TO THEM

Safe blowers put two terrific charges
of nitroglycerine into two safes of the
New Jersey Flour Company, at Cliff
ton, N. j., early yesterday morning
and touched them off under cover of
the noise made by the passing of a
milk train. Both safes were reduced
to a mass of twisted junk, but the
robbers got away with bonds and Sc
curities valued at 100000. The safes
were in different offices, and the larger,
Ian the shipping department, received
such a charge that when the blast
was set off windows were blown out,
desk tops ripped off and part Of the
flooring was torn up. The office looked
as IL struck by cyclone, and how the
yeggmen escaped injury was a mys-
terry to the police.
The extraordinary power of the
charge, in each case fifty times what
was needed to force the door. according
to the police estimate, has convinced
the authorities that 1t was the work OF
amateurs. Suspicion points to band
OF youths, who 1t is believed week
ago wrecked the safe of the Texaco OH
Company. about mile away, along the
Erie Railroad, obtaining $3.50.
A further stamp of the novice was
in the fact that none of the securities
taken can be negotiated. All are regis
tered bonds and valueless to any one
but the owners. according to Lorenz r..
Orbe, president OF the company. They
got nothing for their trouble" he said.
1t was reported that In addition to the
loot they took in paper. the robbers OBJ
tanned IS In cash, but this later was
denied. No cash whatever was missing.
Clear finger prints were left on third
safe in the main office. The robbers
had started to open it. but apparently
gave up the task in favor Of the seven
foot safe. which they wrecked with so
much damage.
Considered from the police viewpoint,
the robbery was cleverly arranged only
In the timing of the two explosions to
coincide with the passage OF the milk
train, James r. Sutton, a watchman
of the Walser SILK Manufacturing
Company, VINO was about fifty feet
from the flour mill. thought he heard
heavy thudding sound while the
train was moving by. but he could
not tell from which direction 1t came.
About two hours later he went over TO
the flour mill, but saw nothing sus-
picious-it then being about $50 o'clock
and police who we're with him also
failed 10 see anything unusual. The
wreckage was discovered when en-
ployees opened the office about )
o'clock.
A heavy charge had been used on the
first safe In an outer office, and furni-
ture and papers were scattered about.
The wreckage OF the shipping depart
ment offices was complete. Sections OF
the woodwork near the safe had been
blown to bits. and iron fragments were
strewn about. There is no watchman
at the plant. tt damage to the offices
was estimated at 5000
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
HARDING SEES WAR BANISHED
BY ADJUSTING 1T IN ADVANCE;
RECONSTRUCTION Is BIG AIM

WASHINGTON May 12The hope expressed by President
Harding address tonight banquet of the National
Leagu of Clubs he
positions speaking for their coud gather around
a conference table to adjust their disputes"
peoples of the world each other he
sa in authority only face each other In speaking
the world another
civilization Rather than contemplate
into would rather sit table and settle
it in advance"
suggesting that the problems of reconstruction
President admonshed his audience
up straightforward track
Of peace and constructiveness again."
will helping the whole world
on right track again." he said
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
LIABILITIES $28, ,OOO,O 900;
CUBAN TO BE ARRESTED
Jose Lczama, Charged With
Forgery, Vonishes.

HAVANA, May 1.-THE arrest OF Jose
l. Lezama. youthful Cuban planter
and financier, whose liabilities are esti-
mated unofficially at $4,000. 900. was
ordered to-day by Special Judge MigueI
Figueroa after an investigation into Le-
zamas alleged sensational operations.
Twelve charges OF Justification OF doc
uments and two Of forgery were given
as the basis for the order
The special court fixed at $4,000, 900
the civil liability OF Lezama for the in
Identification OF creditors. The alleged
discovery Of forged draft for $3.50, 600,
said to have been accepted by the Ha-
vana branch of a New York banking
concern, started the investigation. Le-
zama. who disappeared shortly after he
declared himself a bankrupt, Is still
missing.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
TOWN NAMED WILSON
NO LONGER RAIL STOP
Retrenchment Replaces SEN
tir1ent for Er-Presidenf.

Special Despatch TO THE NEW YoRK HERALD.
CHICAGO. May 12.-Wilson, H., the
only town In the u. S. A. named In
honor OF Woodrow Wilson. has been
abandoned. 1t has been taken off the
map.
Wilson until to-day was station on
the Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railroad. five miles southwest Of wau-
kegan. The trains stopped there. Now
they do not even hesitate.
The station was once known as War
renton. but II was rechristened during
the war Retrenchment on the part OF
the railroad is responsible for its aban-
donment
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
Blames Uncle Sam for
Not Predicting Frost
CPRINGFIELD. Mass. Nav IL.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, May II.
Failure of the United States
Weather Bureau to forecast the
conditions that caused yester-
days frost was responsible in a
large measure for the loss of
more than $4,000 by farmers in
this section, William II. Wolff,
horticultural expert Of the
Hampden County Improvement
League, declared tonight.
Adequate warning, he said,
would have enabled growers to
cover up tomatoes and other
vines which suffered most heav-
lily from the frost. The weather
report, he said, indicated rising
temperature for yesterday.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
PARISIANS TAXED BY
FLOOR THEY LIVE ON
Tenants Must Pay on Stair
Carpets and Elevators.

Special Gable to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1871. By THE NEW YoRK HruAtp.
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris, May IL.
Taxes increase here as one rises above
the ground. In place OF the piano tax
which was so unpopular that II had to
be dropped after the declarations had
been filed. the Government now pro-
poses TO place a tax on stair carpets OF
apartment houses and another on ele-
vators
Both OF these taxes are new and are
expected to make up the deficit in the
estimates cAused by the dropping OF the
piano tax. The tenants on the lower
floors pay per cent of the rent for
carpet tax and u per cent for elevator
tax. Those on the upper floors will pay
one-half OF / per cent more. Ground
ficor tenants get on free.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
Emma Goldman Pleads
to Return Here to Die
Special Despatch TO THB New YosK
HnALD.


PITTSBURGH, May 12.-For
long time Emma Goldman,
the anarchist, denounced Ameri-
can institutions and held up
Russia with it's Soviet form of
government as the ideal. Now
size is pleading with her friends
to aid in procuring permission
for her to return to the United
States, where she wants to die.
eyes, 1t is true Emma Gold
man wants to return to America,
and apparently she has seen the
error Of her, ways" Jacob Mar
golis, anarchist and close friend
of Emma Goldman and Alexan-
der Berkman, said to-day in dis
cussing the plight of his two
former associates. ~ have read
half a dozen letters in which Miss
Goldman states that she wants
to return to the United States
and die here, and she wants her
friends to aid her to return to
America again."
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
BRITAIN MAY BAR
BOLSHEVIST MONEY
Seeks to Prohibit Entry Of
Revolutionary Funds.
Rn thr Assncintrd Press

LONDON. May t2.-The British Gov
eminent Is considering the possibility Of
introducing legislation to prohibit the
receipt OF foreign money In the United
Kingdom Intended TO promote a revolu-
tionary movement or to sustain revolu-
tionary propaganda.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. May 12.-Lyda
Southard, 2S, charged with the murder
Of her fourth husband. Edward F. Meyer,
at Twin Falls, Idaho September Z. 1920.
was arrested at Honolulu to-day. V. II.
Ormsby. Deputy Sheriff OF Twin Falls,
at present In Los Angeles. said he was
awaiting extradition papers to bring her
back to Idaho for trial. The Deputy
Sheriff stated that the woman married
Vincent Southard of the u. S. S. Chicago
November 20 last.
Prosecuting Attorney Frank l.. Ste
phen of Twin Falls county, Idaho. said
Mrs. Southards matrimonial record was
being Investigated for the purpose of
determining the causes and fixing the
responsibility for the deaths of three
other former husbands, an infant child
by Robert Dooley, her first husband,
and Dooley's brother, Edward.
Insurance in which Mrs Southard
was the beneficiary was carried on the
lives of all five men. Stephen said, and
of which she is said to have collected
at least $500.
Prosecutor Stephen said he had In his
possession evidence which would estab-
lish that poison caused the deaths OF
Robert C. Dooley, William @. McHaffie.
Harlan c. Lewis ard Edward #. Meyer.
respectively her frst. second, third and
fourth husbands and Edward Dooley.
brother Of her first husband. Stephen
said the bodies of these men had been
exhumed and the contents Of. their
stomaOhes analysed and deadly poison
had been found. The poison In each
case was said to have been the same.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
Held AS SLAYER OF
4 OF HER HUSBANDS
Woman Arrested in Honolulu
Also Accused of Killing
BrOther-in-law and Child.
POISONING IS ALLEGED
Mrs. Southland, Now Wife Of
Naval Officer, to Face Charge
in Idaho County.

HONOLULU, May 12.-Mrs. Paul Vim
cent Southard, also known as Mrs
LYDIA Meyer, was held by the police
here to-day on orders from Los Ange-
les in connection with the deaths of
four OF her husbands, a brother-in-
law and child of one of the men she
married.
Paul Southard, whom she married
in Los Angeles last November, told
the police here she tried to get him to
take out $4,000 life insurance policy
southard is a petty officer on the u. s
s. Monterey, stationed at Pearl Har-
Dor. Hawaii.
Mrs. Southard. according to the police.
has agreed to return without extradition
papers, application for which are being
prepared.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13
u. S. WILL NOT AID
IN MARKETING BONDS
Transaction to Be Through
Private Bankers.
spec,ai Despatch to TIM Nav YonK HERALD.

Special Despatch to THE Nav YouK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. c., May 1o.
Official Washington In its study OF
the French proposals for widespread use
OF the German reparations bonds In in
tArnational settlements and in the pro-
posals for floating n quantity of them
In the United states to realize cash pay
ments Is of the opinion that any trans
actions that brings the bonds to the
American market will be entirely n pri-
vate one undertaken by American bank
ers and the Government will not partic-
ipate or be direct party to Il.
Acceptabiity OF the bonds by this
The New York herald., 1921-05-13

III sou arc looking Tor y Better Position
why not run n Situation Wanted Ad. In
The Hsraids Want Ad section7 They bring
returns.-Adr.
The New York herald., 1921-05-13

III you are out Of work or want to change
your position SEQ how many offers Situ-
alton Wanted ad. In The Herald win bring
you.-Adr.
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HUDSON RIVER DAY LINE STARTS
tomorrow bet. New York q Albany --hdc
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Paid s47, hut Charged sisf.

For inside jobs. not on a contract
basis the profit 70 tho contractor was
even greater. An inside finisher In 1918
got s27 a week and his helper 30. y
total Of s4T. for forty-eisht hour week.
For this service the associations price
TO the owner was SO an hour. or at the
rate or s144 week Another restric-
tive regulation the architectural iron
mon have was one that made IL impera-
tive for builder 10 let any contract
for additional work on a job In process
10 the original contractor.
An example OF disciplining a member
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MARCHING Of MEN
LASTS ALL NIGHT
Business in the Little Town Of
St. Albans il Practically
Suspended.

st. Albans, w. Va, Sept. 1.-.Sone
200 people. were assembled at the
railway station awaiting tronsporta-
tion, Many Of them had been here
since yesterday afternoon. It is 80
miles from st. Albans to Madison.
Sheriff Hill at Madison reported
over the telephone this afternoon that
the movement of armed men along
highways toward Jeffry, Sharples and
Blair had continued during the night
and was still in progress.
Business here was practically sus-
pended the people filling the street
ard discussing eventualaties that
were probable.
All information here was that
there was NO backward movement OF
armed men at Jeffrys.