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El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-04-21

algln tempo. DeSaparec1o de nile jtra
vista, sin cue nadie nos diera raz6n de
el; pero nunca 10 olvidamos.
Ell tempo CORE; y no hay quien le al
canoe. Pero un dia alcanzamos vsr a
Ramon subido al andamio de una casa
que construian con mucho riesgo, ven
ciendo mil difcultades
-iContra! -. Isl es 6l!,-exclama-
mos, neno el pecho de algeria Y ell Co
razon rebosante de entusiasmo.
Y le gritamos; y volvimos a aclailar-
lie. Y el, "desde arriba =, nos sonri6, COZ
aquella sonrisa que era ell supreme dis
tintivo de su naturaleza generosa.
Y ell tempo pasa; y los antiguos ju-
gadores del Mario, nos vamos con
virtiendo de niflos en- hombres
TT eres rn doctor.
-Tu, un letrado.
TIT, cartas misa.
Til, gobiernas un banco.
Ramon no ha lido la Universal lad,
pero sabe como nadie levantar un edi-
fcio, y construir un puente.
Z todo 10 aprendi6 sin maestro por
su solo esfuerzo; apoyado en- sus de
secs, que sienpre fueron buenos; y en-
su voluntad, que era un resorte indestruc
tible.
Y pudo ser poderoso, Y no 10 quiso. Y
pudo amasar una fortuna, y prefri6 di-
siparla.
i; 4 X
Corazon noble y generoso, no lie ca
bia en- el pecho, con tenerle tan robus-
to, tan ancho
Bueno, vamos cuentas: 6Hay un solo
ser que de 6l Sc querelIe?
GNo es cierto que prodig6 Ell bien a
manos lleras? 6seria honrado Greer que
no fu6 un buen hijo, un buen padre, I'm
buen hermano, un buen amigo un
buer esposo?
X y 4:
Realidad que no me dejas huir esta
noche. Noche triste que aquf me tienes
despierto velando junto al cadaver del
de Ia infancia, quien tanto
quise..,.
Cirios palidos que estais encendidos,
un mismo tempo Ia faz
del pobre Cristo y del companero de mis-
primeros aflos.
x x x
Venid, acercaos, buenas y santas n1u-
jeres. Contemplad esa cabeza nazarena
y martirizada. iv6is ese peril de mujer
que tanto Sc asemeja al noble purisi-
mo peril de la Dolorosa? Els su esposa,
la noble compa1era de su vida.
ivedla llorar asi! No es possible con-
templar tan profundo dolor sin que toda
naturaleza Gle hombre Sc conmue-
va.
Y ahi vienen los primeros- resplando-
res de Ia aurora. Y la pluma Sc resisto
a seguir uenando las cuartillas.
Ell sacerdote empieza orar. Y nos
otros con Ell:
iPerd6n para todos!
Ayudadnos a rezar nuestras oracio-
mes. 49,.
Jorge ADsUAR.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-04-21

We, pues el argumento es de tai name
ra, que todos los que presencian un
episodio continuan concurriendo las
denas exhibiciones con Ell fin de saber
d6nde esta el tesoro.
La acreditada casa de peliculas ''Me
dal Film, ha sunado IN triunfo mas
j los muchos que tiene con la aduuisi-
ci6n de esta c1nta.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-04-21
EN- LA CAMARA

A las tres de la tarde Sc abrio h
session bajo la presidencia del senor
Coll Cuchi Ell Secretario di6 lee
tura las peticiones recibidas Sc
aprob6 sin ser lefda el acta de la Sc
sion anterior.
Ell presidente firma el Sustituto al
Proyecto de la Camara 27, sobre la
corte municipal de San Juan.
La Canaan Sc declara en- comision
total, y Sc pone discussion ell P. de
(Cont1nda en- Ia IA. pag.)
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-04-21
'.LAs cUATRo LLAvEs' I.

Esta emocionante cinta cinematogra
fica, cuyo estreno constituye un nue.
vo triunfo para los afamados artis-
tas, muy conocidcs por nuestro publ
co, Ben Wilson v Neva Gerber, es una
serie que despierta mayor entusiasmo
en- Ell publico mientras mas episodios
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1921-04-21
OUDAl ARRlBH %
3CIUDHD HBaJO-gA.
MI NOBLE AMIGO

Els claro Sc cae una pared; Sc hun
de un techo; un arbol Sc desarraiga.
iNada ha ocurrido 49,. lie hizo a ma
die NAL tantisino destrozo?. No! GVer
dad que no?
Pero cae UN AMIGO; Y cae para
siempre. mo es cierto cue tai aeon
tecimiento, no solamente nos LENA de
tristeza sino queen especiales circuns
tancias-ros estruja el coraz6n?
Y yo-icuanta pena!-me estoy lamel
tando en- estos mognentos en- estas
cuartillas, de la caida, de la que nunca
habra de levantarse, de un amigo a
quien quise con el alma toda.
Bueno, vagnos cuentas: yo no recue1
do en- mi vida haberme lamentado de
NADIA nj de nadie,, valiendome de esta
pobre pluma mia.
Es mas: cuando la realidad me da IN
cara, lie hugo. 70 solo escribo evocando.
La lejan1a me saliva siempre. Esa triste
crudeza del ftmomento vivido'' me ha
ce mucho dafio; casi me enferma
Y ahora, mis- buenos amigos, mis- lec-
torres benevolentes, me encuentro frento
un acontecimiento que no puedo pres
cindir de comentar, que es necesario que
yo 10 CLOSE al "borde de la vida"
-. Les voy hacer un cuento, que
leido asi, primera vista, nj interesa,
nj conmueve, nj deja grabado en- la me-
moria la leve estela de un borroso re-
cuerdo.
iQuieren ustedes oirme?. Isl? I'm
POGO dc buena voluntad para leerme. Yo
les prcmeto que ser6 veridico; mi pala-
bra de honor que no estoy escribiendo
una novela.
Antes que NADIA: Inacieron ustedes en-
esta triste, amurallada ciudad tan POGO
querida tan calumniada? GEres CAPT
talefo, lector?
iAy! Esta ciudad con todo sns
OC4GSGSpy PODSC u4AcS AAASe ~
ciable virtud: los hijos que pare nos que
remos como 81 fuesemos hermanos
Y recuerdo una lnaflana-ihac va
tanto tempo &c eliot, jugabaros al
mario dos bandos de muchachos tan ira
viesos como in)ccntcs. iCristo, que par
tido tan discutido y tan comentado! Era
Aao
iQue bravo csc srd4 o la legenda2ja
stPlaza de Arm@s Sc venia abajo. Tan
ta espectaci6n. Nj Que fuera una auten
tica Iucha de sladi@doreS en- plenc circo
DE pronto, suena una voz de alarna:
,los guardias y Ell seguida Ia amenaza
de una paliza !. Y ell seguida los guar
baratar Ia lucia. y ell seguida nm
moceton arrogante que Sc encara con los
gendarlnes, = defende un derecho, y anne
naza con sus pIll.as, y hace Dir su Voz
simpatica, de claro y limpio timbrc, Y
Sc impone, triuntt;.
Aquel 1nozo bravo y decidido Sc llama
ba Ramon Dlaz Garcia
Captain de la cuadrilla, 10 siguio sien
do y 10 fu6 por mucho tempo.
X X x
Despu6s despues aque1 bravo mozo
dej6 de reunirse con nosotros en- los ban
cos de lcolegio. lie dejamos de yer por
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-20
JITNEYS AND CAR FARES

NE of the chief arguments regulation of neys in
Birmingham and their from street lines
is the expectation that such action will reduction in street
car fares
To the working man. the clerk the of the household
and to school children street just necessary cloth
ing and food present conditions the cents fare
and Every other living expense
going electric line equipment
and operation natural to expect reduction also in raspo
tation
But such reduction only if the street railways are
treated fairly and opportunity to carry the pas
who would naturally their lines They should get
the revenue that goes unfair competition When the
earnings justify the public service COM
mission will be give the public the benefit by decrea
ing fares.
With it's new equipment the street railway company can
adequately care for the traffic along lines If it permitted
which it entitled the receiver and OIL
cias company we'll their attention to the mat
future reach point where they would take money in
proportion from scent at present with
I7-cent fares
Everyone realizes both railroad and street fares are
too high and must restore the normal volume OF
travel The itney competition instead Of helping to reduce
fares actually helps them The jtney got its
name that scent conveyance But soon
forced to cents the tneys immediate
price Several of the tney lines charging lO
their routes 1t is endless chain OF In
from which the public suffers can be cured
f those authority will face the situation resouey let poll
tics alone consider the general welfare of the city
This fact out garngy Street fares cannot be
duced long neys allowed to take their business
from Them and ney fares will be reduced until street
car fares come down.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE


The proposition of the Loyal order
of Moose to locate somewhere in the
south a second home like unto the one
they have built and are sustaining at
Mooseheart, ILL.,, should receive due at
tention by all who are interested in the
upbuilding of Birmingham" remarked
frank Evans. member of the order.
Our people do not seem TO under
stand or appreciate the purpose Of this
great order, nor the value Of such an
institution as the one proposed. In dis
cussing the proposition, it is too often
referred to as great hospital, costing
a million dollars whereas it is a great
school, work shop, farm, garden, and
home, with orphanage, church, hospital
and all necessary appurtenances there
to belonging, covering thousand acres
of land, costing several million dollars
and giving employment, training and
sustenace to several thousand men,
women and children.
While it is eeemosynary in charac-
ter. the institution is productive
proposition and town within itself.
Located near Birmingham, 1t would
prove a great factor in general devel-
opment and a most valuable attraction
of our city and section"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-20
LONE PINE

BY c. 7. Davis.
Year by year was beauty builded; slow
iy through the elder ages
Earth hath robed herself in splendor.
Now, confessing in our shame.
We have sacked and raped and looted.
we have taken without payment:
And the glories they are gone that were
before the white man came.
We have wasted without wisdom, we
have slain where he should cher
ish
In our service of the gods of greed, the
axe blade for our sin
In a hushed and haggard valley where
the girdled trees stand dying
Rears a relic of our wantonness one
lonely. iordly pine.
He was once afford of lances with his
squadroned troops behind him
Cqlumned closely through the valley,
file on file and rank on rank.
With the guerdon of green springtime
laid like laurels on their helmets
And the little yellow goldenrod as quiz
dons on the flank
But he has seen them vanish--troop by
columned troop departing;
Broken ranks with no recruiting, ND,
replacement; till at last
He alone looks down the spaces where
his full batta1ions bivouacked--
Single sentinel Of silence; last lone out-
post Of the past.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-20

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
a NEWSPAPER man down In Wash
IN ington has been reminiscing. He
q d tells the plant of President Hard
ing, who has been, among other things,
a senator and a newspaper man.
1t seems that President Harding, look
ms back at Senator Harding and the
newspapers, has sort of grievance
against the Washington writer's. Long
since 1t was during the half-forgotten
fight over the treaty in the Wilsonian
age, Senator Harding fixed up what he
felt was whale Of speech. He ad-
mitted 1t was. He had hammered it
out by hand, copper-riveted it, polished it
with mental agony, checked, revised and
edited it and set it with jewels.
Senator Harding got up in the Senate
and made that speech. The next morning
he looked over the papers and found
that this favorite, raised-a-pet Grafton of
his, had got maybe as much as two
lot of space
Then it seems that on another day Sem
ator Lodge or Senator Smoot, or some
body else, was cooking up something in
the Senate and Senator Harding was
asked to talk about something anything,
while the cooking up was completed. He
stood like Horatius at the bridge and he
talked He can't recall what he said,
h,1. he thinks il amounted to very little.
He just rambled along. Yet behold! The
next day the papers had column de-
voted to that same speech.
This troubles the President, who is also
a newspaper man. one of the ancient
| craft of scribes. He thinks maybe that
Joves of the press sometimes nod. He
believes that they overlooked something
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-20
FRANCES DANGER

From the New York World.
RANCE stands in grave danger not
"a only of political isolation but
of moral isolation. That Is the
real Significance of the stormy contro-
versy that is raging in Paris over Lloyd
Georges speech on the Silesian question:
although there is no evidence that
French politicians and newspapers per-
ceive the deeper issue that is involved.
No better service can be rendered to
France by her friends everywhere than
to speak plainly and frankly. The Brit
ish. the italians and the Americans did
not fight this war In order to SUBSTITUTE
French Prussianism for German Prus-
sianism or French Imperialism for Ger
man imperialism. 1t is time the French
people began to see where their politics IS
Heading them and to understand what the
ultimate consequences must be to France
The Silesian incident is merely the cul-
mination of series Of politics with
which the rest of the world has little pr
No sympathy. In this particular case the
aggression was not directed against the
Germans, as the French press assumes
hut against the treaty of Versailles. to
which the French government has set It's
signature. France will not be permitted
by her former allies to make scrap OF
paper Of that treaty while retaining all
the benefits that she derives from it. II
ie;o - a II
must be an open revision, and not pro-
cess Of piecemeal notification imposed by
force or cunning On the vanquished by
che of the victors.
If France desired to destroy Germany
politically and economically and was will
ing to pay the price, the time to have ar
rived at that decision was when the
armistice proposals OF the German gov
eminent were presented to the supreme
council That was not the attitude OF
the French people or the French govern
ment at that Gme. They were glad. IN
deed, to, have peace on the terms suggest
ed and the eagerness to destroy Ger
many did not manifest itself until Ger
many had reacheu . e0se
ment in which it was no longer capable
OF resisting attack.
Whatever the French may think Of the
Germans or the Germans may think OF
the French, they are doomed by fate to
live together on the same continent as
neiehbors and they will have to make the
best Of it. The world cannot and will
not allow itself to be kept in state OF
continual turmoil by their national riv-
alries and their carefully nurtured race
hatreds.
| There can be no assurance of peace il
the present policies OF the French gov
eminent are to continue. There lis nothing
or which peace can be based. Nor can
the larger interests Of France be safe
guarded by the methods that French Inn
perialism has adopted. What Is coming
out Of it is gradual alienation Of SYM
pathy in regard to the French people,
and the sympathy Of the world is the
greatest asset that France ever possessed.
Her politicians have forgotten It in the
IShour Of victory, but her people realized
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-20
THE PRESIDENTS PLANT

when they gave him q couple OF tat par
agraphs on his great effort, and that
they overplayed his speech on that other
day when he was obliging Lodge. or was
it Smoot?
Maybe So Maybe so, and yet Never
was there a thing so talked about as that
same treaty. Doubtless the waters of
talk had come down at Lodore for weeks
and maybe for months before Senator
Harding made his treaty speech II the
men in the press galleries found as much
as two paragraphs of new thought in his
address, Of matter that would be new,
vital and important to the public, SEN
ator Harding had achieved triumph un-
der the circumstances. There was full
many great speech on that subject born
to bloom unseen outside of the Congress
sional Record.
Consider, then, the space that was
given the senator when he rose JUST ~
talk. There was a reason there. never
doubt that Somewhere in that speech
the senator from Ohio said something.
somewhere Ill It's StulcIlCcS Ho ihduo hiAi-
self stand out of the background of other
senator's on that day and that hour The
writing men in the galleries sensed 1T.
TT ely discovered the future President bes
fore he discovered himself before his
party discovered him. And-they placed
upon him the sign and seal Of their dis
covery
Newspaper reporters being average hui
man, make mistakes There are sins CT,
omission and commission. Their judg-
ment in special instances may be bad.
But, by and large, and taking the mine
run Of the news, they reflect very faith
fully the judgments of humanity in the
| end.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-20
cADalEnaMsAassell
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Prices on Coal

To the Editor of The Age Herald:
I am enclosing two of many such
clippings and / want you to know 1t is
not altogether the fault of the people
that they have not put in their winter
supply of coal.
l have had my money In bank and
have been writing for prices of coal for
six weeks, and have had only two re-
plies from a dozen letters. One was
not prepared to make price, and the
other wanted $5.9S at the mines for run
of the mines. The freight here Is $40.
and SIPS to place it in basement. which
make so tons of coal come high I
have an apartment house and use from
80 to so tons winter and feel that I
should get a better price than that /
wish there was some way in which /
could get in touch with parties who
would at least give me a price. so /
would have basis to work on. Yours
VERY truly. MRS ]. G. REYNOLDS.
Admission. May II, 1921. Box 675.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-20
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

~ LIZ AAA1 81 = .
Another strange thing is how people
who know they can't write prose will
try to write poetry
1t has just about gotten so that il a
man who earns $4,000 a year objects
of 1T he is regarded as unpatriotic and
an undesirable citizen.
woman doesn't begin to be bur-
den to herself until she finds that she
doesn't carry her age well.
Some men are so contrary that they
fgrumble because they can't make hay
In January and cut ice In July.
Any man who doesn't indulge in our
own particular brand Of folly is fool
And what doth it profit man to
have will power when his wife has
won't power?
We know a butt-in who spends halt
his time scoldng the rich because they
do not spend their money and the other
half scolding the poor because they do
not save their money.
A woman sure does love the cheerful
liar who tells her that she looks
younger than she did 10 years ago,
After all, man is merely a worm who
has sense enough to hang on to the butt
end Of the fishing rod.
The hotter you make 1t for some peo-
pie the more they complain about this
being cold world.
Things could be worse. Just suppose
the Decent stores were handling auto
mobiles!
lot Of us would have more coin II
we put as much pep In our vocations
as we do in our vacations.
II may seem paradoxical. But oil Is
causing lot Of friction in the world
these days.
In fiction the hero always marries
tho girl. But any wife can tell you
that in real life the villain usually
marries the girl.
(copyright la2f.)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-20
Has Fond RecolIcctiona

T. J. Miles of Montgomery, who at
tended the Alabama Life Insurance
sales congress in Birmingham yester-
Gay. said: 1T is a great pleasure for
residents of the agricultural section of
the state to visit the industrial center,
but it is double pleasure for me be-
cause, while | was quite a fodder wherr
my father moved from Birmingham, it
was our home for many years.
again 1 take pleasure in knowing
that my father, the late George G.
Miles and my three uncles, Robert
Miles of Columbiana, and the late
Frank and John e. Miles were among
the pioneers of Birmingham, as well as
among the founders of the First Bap-
fist congregation. Ny aunt. Mrs Lucy
Miles who still resides in Birmingham,
Is, understand, one of the few charter
members Of the First Baptist church
- THE Miles family necessarily feels at
home in Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-20

it clearly enough in the hour of adj
versty.
However distasteful Lloyd Georges
blunt speech may have been to the Qual
d'Orsay and the militarists of the gem
eral staff. it would be well for the French
government to take stock Of the situation
and study the reception elsewhere. Brit
ish sentiment is practically unanimous
in support of the prime minister. Amer
lean sentiment is almost wholly on his
side on this issue Italian sentiment had
already made itself understandable.
Lloyd George is a wiser counsellor of
France than the French politicians and
journalists who have been goading tho
French government into line Of action
which cannot be defended and which in
the long run can result only disastrously
to the French people.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-20
Governor Kilby Answers
Tax PAYERS League

Tf1HE governor effectually disposed
u of the representatives Of Is
Alabama counties who, under the title
Of the Alabama Tax Payers league
asked special session of the legisla-
ture for the abolition Of the tax adj
justers and downward tax revision
In his letter to the chairman of the
league declining to act as requested
the governor establishes the follow
ing facts:
The unconstitutionality Of the in
come tax and expense Of the soldiers
in the mine field created a deficit
in the budget fixed by the last general
assembly.
The income from the convict lease
system and the tax on foreign cor
porations more than pays the ex-
penses Of the administration, thus re-
lieving the tax payers Of that burden
The tax payer is assessed on only
60 per cent Of the value Of his prop
erty, and the state tax limit on the
taxable amount is 6h mills.
Returns show that property in Ala
bama is assessed at an average of IS
per cent Of its value, which is Is per
cent under the amount fixed by law.
So fair have the people believed
the adjusters to have acted that in
80 counties no appeals were taken
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-20

bench, first as associate justice and
later as chief justice, he upheld the
tr. ditions of his noted predecessors
and won distinction of his own.
Although democrat, Justice White
twas elevated to the highest legal
position in America by a republican
President, William Howard Taft, who
ignored precedent by making this APP
pointment. His choice was credita-
Bile to broad minded American who
proved himself above partisanship.
Incidentally, Mr.. Taft desires the po-
sition left vacant by the death of JUS
tice White, an honor to which he is
entitled and which he should receive
at the hands of President Harding.
Justice White was a picturesque
figure in Washington and greatly be-
loved, despite a rather stern counte-
nance and commanding appearance.
He was truly great man, with all
the attributes that win popularity and
inspire respect. No other chief justice
ever had to deal with so many impor-
tant questions directly affecting the
nation. He was a man of great in
tellectual power, remarkable memory
and profound knowledge of the law.
His training and abilities served his
country well, and many times in ex-
pressing strong dissenting opinions he
revealed not only the force of his I'M
answerable logic, but courage of a
superior order. His belief in the su-
preme power of the federal govern
ment to control its affairs was abso-
lutte. He maintained that point of
view in opinions that will long sur
vive him, because Of their clear rea-
soning and their eloquence.
Like most men who hive gained dis
tinction in America, Justice White was
jealous in the performance of his
duties. He probably FASTENED his
death by remaining at work, needless
Of the warnings uttered by his physi-
clans.