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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24
Railroad Labor Board
 Internrefs the Law

00RHO is to decide between the wv railroad labor board and the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad case? The labor board raises the question, but suggests neither answer nor umpire.
 The railroad labor board says the court has gone beyond the transpor- tation act of 1920. Yet courts are es- tablished for the very purpose of in- terpreting the law and issuing or ders for performance based on the laws. A court established by the con- stitution of the United States is a rather formidable machine for one of the ephemeral creatures of govern ment to lock horns with and instruct as to the law.
 The labor board says a court has overborne a law in allowing the re- ceiver of this road to reduce wages, but does not attempt to show that it can do anything about it. It admits that it is powerless except to criti- cize the court.
 If the court has gone beyond the law, there is a higher court to which appeal lies. If Judge Sibley is in error in permitting Receiver Bugg to reduce wages so that the road may continue to operate without bank ruptcy it is for the supreme court of the United States to say so. What the labor board has to say about il has nothing to do with it; no more than what any man in the street might say.
 That much of the issue is plain tc anyone who will take time enough tc ask himself the difference between the established courts of the land anc temporary and makeshift boards and commissions of sporadic and uncertain authority.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24
IGNORANCE ABOUT AMERICA

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 Is it possible that Americans as whole are as ignorant of Japan as Jap anese as a whole appear to be of Amer jeans? Now we would not say that the ignorance displayed by certain Japa- nese editor in the following paragraph is typical of his countrymen. Yet we it is not fairly typical The tragedy of it is that this editor may know as much about Americans and their cus- toms as 9S per cent of his esteemed contemporaries in Japan.
 The paragraph which comes to out attention is as follows
 Sometimes we get chance to smile. Americans have been criticizing us for centuries on our treatment of women. But they have no right to do that. A citizen who has just returned from America says that there they keep their girls in the house until they are IS OF 19. They can't go out at all until then. Then they invite all the girls friends in, and they say they are going to let her out. Then they let her out. When they let girl out they call her a debu- tante."
 It makes one shudder to think that Japanese opinion of Americans and American customs and American politi- cal thought and practice may be formed from stuff so ridiculous as the fore- going.
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move his wings with slow downward and forward movement which steadily in- creases in power and rapidity until the swiftly vibrating wings appear only a semi-circular outline of mist above the bird. thus giving rise to sound which may be appropriately likened to the reverberation of distant muttering thunder.
 It would be very interesting to know if poor singers found mates as readily as their more gifted brothers, says John Burroughs, whose death we mourn. If they did, the Darwinian theory of sex ual selection in such' matters, accord ing to which the finer songster would carry off the female, would fall to the ground. Yet it is certain that it is dur ing the mating and breeding season that these "song combats' occur, and the favor of the female would seem to be the expressive of actual jealousy or rivalry we have no other words to apply to it.-~
 
 which induces one bird of a species to approach another of the same kind is a ''call note,' whether it be a combat cry or challenge like that of the growing of a rooster, or an alarm, which were the earliest, to be followed later by the love call. The "call notes' are just as interesting study in bird lore as bird music, which differ from their songs in about the same way that human language differs from human songs.
 These "call notes probably serve the purpose of language by which birds communicate. It is no stretch of the im- animation to say that when uttering their calls they are talking prose; but when pouring forth in song they are exercis- ing their poetic gifts. Calls are used by all birds, both male and female, and at all times during the year. I am not surprised that observers have been able to trace 27 distinct calls for the crow, as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24

He took them about with him, made friends for them, put them up at the best clubs. found welcoming stables for his unicorns. In other words, he talked about them extremely well with vividness, with charm, with evi- dent affection and understanding, with prose-style that was new thing under the American sun; a flexible flashing. audacious, richly communi- cative style, poetic and irreverent, wit ty and raphsodical, swift and nervous, i yet extraordinarily sumptuous and | learned and ornate. It was uncom- promisfngly personal, pungent, racy. vet it was sophisticated to the last de- gree. immensely amusing and stimulat- ing in it's verbal virtuosity, it's riot ous gusto. To a public culture whica 1 had been timorous and parochfal, a fertilization which had been drab anae> mic and thin, MT. Huneker almost un- aided. brought color and gayety and abundance
 He became at once, and always re- mained, the critical playboy of arts. He bombarded the amazed American readers with new and startling afflr- nations; he was the raphsodic ceie- brant of 100 new aestheticisms; he beat the drum with vigor and eloquence. in season and out, for strauss ana Nietzsche and Blake and Flaubert, and score of other esoteric and neglected reniuses and radical modernists in all the arts. He was the clairvoyant ana eloquent interpreter of all those paint CTS. tone-poets, novelists, e5sayists, philosophers, who were as yet unre- ceiyed in our intellectual society-and i it is amazing to look back now, af-er a quarter century, and remember now barren was that crude, oppressed and timid civilization of ours in the latter nineties, how ready for just such an enlivenment as MT. Huneker brought
 to it.
 Into the depressing drabness of our critical writing, with it's incomparable
 paltriness and sterility, its dullness and triteness, it's traditionalism and vapid lity. MT. Huneker entered with some l what the effect of gusty spring wind
 blowing through a long-closed middle
 western "parlor"
 What susceptibility, clairvoyance.
 immediacy of response were his. He
 was innocent of prepossessions, inf
 nitely flexible and generous. He was the friend of any talent fine and
 strange and courageous enough to in-
 cur the dislike of the mighty army of Bourbons, Puritans and Boeotians 1 His critical tact was almost infallible
 Our myriad munitions are the yelled queens who steer our course through life" says a profound and subtle mys- tic of today, though we have no
 words in which to speak of them" But Mir. Huneker had words in which to speak of them. He has written pages that will always be cherished by those for whom criticism is one of the sew eral ways of literature-page of SUI lperb and gorgeous imagination. ol
 beautiful insight. or splendid valor lie was both vivid and acute. robust and finefingered. tolerant yet unyield ling. astringent yet tender--dynamic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24

any one who has ever attended con- gress of crows is we'll aware that they are talkative bunch of feathered states men.
 Some birds, according to Traitor, have great variety of "call notes," each representing some emotion. such as 3 hunger call, given by the young birds in their nest Any one who has ever seen the busy parents trying to stop the cry of the nest fledglings will under stand that the feathered babies are as insistent in their demands for nourish- ment as are human infants who emit squall whenever meal time comes around and the milk wagon is slow in arriving.
 Then, there is the lost call of the young bird, after leaving the nest, which is just as piteous in the bird world as is the wall of lost child in our city streets Then there is the warning call given to the young to "play dead" in the face of danger. The recognition call, by which individuals of the same species | are brought together in flocks, especial ly during migration, is we'll known. To this latter can be added the rally cry by which other birds are brought to a spot.
 I'll close this article on "call notes" and mating songs by saying that study of the records made of bird songs suggest the pitch and range for differ ent birds, the tones of nearly all birds being high-pitched, ranging from two and four octaves above middle c. The range of voice in different species va ries from three notes for the chick adee to two octaves for the hermit thrush A number of birds have a range of about one octave. But the trouble with we poor humans is that in our lan- guage we have no words delicate enough to describe properly the music of the birds. which is as intangible as the fragrance of flowers and just as mys- teriouS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24
Haywood Typical of
 Radical Leadership

7zHE flight of Big Bill" Haywood,
 ll leader of the Industrial Work CTS of the World, has dealt blow to radicalism in America. Haywood, who was to have begun serving a 20-year sentence tomorrow, fled from America and is reported to be in Russia. Although he probably had no intention of doing so, he has de- stroyed the prestige of the powerful and active organization of which he was the head.
 Just how much power the Indus trial Workers of the World have now is problematical. It is reported that the membership has dropped from several hundred thousand to 1000, but it is believed that the paid member ship never was more than 10,- UUUs l HIS pcIIiClOuS VISdIliZdllOH Ilti> played a conspicuous part in fomcnt- ing trouble in America. Some of the worst crimes committed against the laws of this country are charged to it and it's record during the war is we'll known. The conviction of Hay wood and other leaders was the result of, their activity during the war.
 Even anarchists have certain code of ethics and Haywood's conduct has shown radicals the kind of leadership that dominated the Industrial Workers of the World. It may or may not survive, but it will probably never again regain the influence it formerly had. This cannot but prove beneficial to the industrial life of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24
F % $ Alabama's Destiny in the Hands of Her Own

7r1HE census of 1920 gives Alabama
 ll smaller foreign born popula- tion than the state had in 1910. More foreigners left Alabama somewhere between 1910 and 1920 than entered. The outgo was largely due to the call to the colors on the other side. This is particularly true of the Italian citi- zenship of the state constituting the largest of the clements of the foreign born.
 Whether the major portion of this lost population win return remains for the next census to disclose. The certain thing is that we have lost none of the dominance of the English speaking Anglo-Saxon. Neither the 1S,956 of foreign birth here in 1910, nor the 17,662 here in 1920 are large enough percentage of the 2,348,000 citizens of Alabama to exert foreign influence.
 This brings on another thought. The destiny of Alabama and her sis ter southern states remains in the hands of descendants of those who founded this government. If this blood is as good as it was there should be no problem which we cannot work out for ourselves. There is no task which we in Alabama should find too big to carry to conclusion.
 The realization of our untainted and unmixed blood should not cause us to rest in self-satisfaction, but should be spur to Alabamians to make of their state what Anglo-Saxon character can make of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24

Lawrence Gilman in The North Amer
 ican Review.
 7T WAS an authentically novel ad- l venture for the home-keeplng
 9 American reader of average intel ligence and information to pick up hook by James Huneker in the late nineties and find himself confronting
 critic who was jauntily at his ease
 among all the fine arts known to man.
 He bewildered God-fearing and cui- tured" Americans, their minds going along comfortably with Hamilton Ma hie and Charles Dudley Warner and
 Kenyon Cox and Ireneus Prime Ste- yenson and other illuminati of that llk, Eby his casual indication of terra incognita people by strange race ol poets. painters, music c-makers, drama
 lists. novelsts, philosophical rhapso- dists. and an anonymous class impress sively and with beguiling wickedness referred to by their exploiters as ah- archs," "immoralists," "meloman1acs' .iconoclasts," "visionaries," "egoists | "bedouins." and by other provocative appellations.
 There were not many reading, play going, picture-viewing, muslc-lovlns' Americans at the beginning or this century who knew much about the artists who were then evolving new conceptions of color and design and sound. who were seeing man and his world with new eyes. and who were imperiously demanding of their gener- ation fresh and unaccustomed and diff ficult prodigies of comprehension and appreciation. Mr. Huneker stood al- most alone in America at that time as a persuasive advance agent for these new men and these unfamiliar con- cents. While Hamilton Mabie and his confreres were still earnestly lectur- | ing and essaying upon Thackeray ana l Dickens trying, a little uncertainty l to estimate George Meredith, and re- lapsing upon MT. James Lane Allen with obvious relief, while thelr musi- cal and dramatic and pictorial orotn" | CTS of the critical craft were engrosseo | in Brahms and Tchaikovsky, Plnero and Clyde Fitch, Sargent and Abbey Mir Huneker gaily conducted to pup lie pasture Gas he himself once put It. lis surprising flock of Unicorns-typ ifvine the dreamers of dreams in the seven arts."-while he produced, with
 sustained and amazing virtuosity, j
 prose kaleidoscope of latter-day art ists. novelists, poets. philosophers, com posers, and miscellaneous assortment l of fantaisists, funambulists, madmen mystics and seers. For the first time l American readers felt themselves to be
 on familiar terms with such foreign CTS as Richard Strauss. Nietzsche, rlau
 bert, George Moore, Maeterlinck, Huys-
 mans, Baudelaire, Stirner, Dr. Gour-
 mont, Rimbaud. Barres, Picasso. Ma
 tisse, Laforgue. Wedekind, Cezanne
 Van Gogh. Strindberg. Gaugin--some
 of them living innovators, some of then dead and enigmatfc memories, but al
 of them remote from the experience ol the average American ardently in pur
 suit of cultured sophistication.
 l And MT. tHuneker did more than inn : port this alluring and exotic cargo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

Many a good wife is spoiled by a bad husband. And vice versa.
 Every married man appreciates the gratitude of the New York man who willed $5o,0o0 to the woman who, 20 years ago. tilted him and married an. other man.
 Compulsory education may be good thing. But, at that, whole lot of men imagine that Alpha and Omega are the names of -fangled automobile oils.
 This would be a better world if you could teach man to think straight as easily as you can teach him to shoo. straight.
 A lot of bigots stagger away from the dinner table, drunk on food and sweet stuffs, and thank God that pro- hibition reigns in this alleged land of the free.
 Prohibition is the mother of inven- tion. The men folks have discovered 61 ways to get cork out of a bottle without the assistance of a corkscrew
 There are 64.9S7 kinds of fools. Bu; there is no fool like the, educated fool
 wife reserves the right to cali her husband a slog whizzled. bfim- -glatted sling -blogged anteater any time sh. pleaseS But she'll dare any othei woman to say mean word about him
 It has just about gotten so that if q modern gTrl happened to find a thim- ble or a sewing machine bobbin on ths street. she'd imagine that Whey were parts of the mechanism Of an automo- bile engine, and let it go at that.
 Anyway we have noticed that womer are not kissing one another as muc. as they used to before the nineteenth amendment went into effect.
 About this time of year. father be- gins to let the flies into the house SC mother can have the fun of driving them out again.
 Marriage is about the only thing tha' will make a naughty young thing come down out of the clouds and ac' like human being.
 (Copyright. 1921.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24
 Druid City Is Showing Spirit of Progress

IT 7ATS off to the Druid City. They lIll are doing things there. Tusca- loosans have taken on the Atlanta spirit and that of Birmingham com- bined. They are forging ahead in all sorts of directions with a remarka- ble unanimity of purpose.
 Sometime ago Tuscaloosa organ ized traffic bureau. That is just one of many other evidences of the live spirit pervading there. Tuscaloosa is getting her full quota of merchan- disc by the self-propeller line from New Orleans at saving of 20 per cent in the freight rate. She is send ing her quota of freight down the river.
 Tuscaloosa is building. A school and hospital are among the newest structures for which plans are com pleted. The school for the feeble minded is about to be built there. Two handsome churches and many resi- dences and store houses are also on the building programme.
 The Tuscaloosa creamery is pro- nounced success, showing how what is good for one interest in community can be made good for many. The bankers of Tuscaloosa have bought pure-bred stock and sold it to farm CTS at cost. In turn, the farmers have sold their butterfat to the cream cry and the farmers are depositing their funds in the banks. It is a splendid cycle of country and city effort conjoined in achievement.
 Tuscaloosa was first of Alabama cities to establish terminals on the Warrior; Tuscaloosa county the only County voting aid for river terminals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24
Musical May

May promises to be a musical month in Birmingham" said Gordon Erickson. municipal music director with the various school announcements, the May festival and the production of Martha by the choral organization of Loveman, Joseph & Loeb, the schedule will be fuil.
 'Tn addition, the first day of the door community concerts. Open-air concerts have much more attraction for the public when they are of this nature"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24

Tuscaloosa is seat of learning, the home of scholars, delightful so- cially and as home place, but she is also wide-awake and progressive. Tuscaloosa is altogether worth while and steadily becoming more and more
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24
ADRTFT WITH THE TIMES

They looked and all they saw was red The better things were quite ioFso'' Those pessimists have long been Geau' p,,t atbers rose to take their place, And every day we hear it said
 There's nohope for the human race
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24
A PRACTICAL MAN

What did that old-fashioned politi- elan say when you asked him if he approved of slush funds?"
 He called attention to his physical appearance" said Prof Diggs.
 His what?"
 At any rate, he told me to give him what he called the 'once-over' and tell him fl he looked like man who was in politics for his health"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24
DIDN'T LAND A JOB

Who first said republics are un- gratefulge
 T don't recall" said MT. Dubwaite. "but it was probably some early of fice-seeker who went to Washington with an extra shirfi in a carpet bag and spent six months trying to see the President"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24
CHINESE PROVERBS From the Chicago Herald and Exam

iner.
 Prepare in leisure to use in haste.
 Water which is distant is no good for fire which is near.
 If you wish to know the road before you, ask of those who have travelled it. If what we see is doubtful, how can we believe what is spoken behin1 the back?
 A man cannot become perfect in a hundred years; he may become corrupt in less than day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24
rRYING ro cLEAR INVISIBLE

You cant believe everything you read in print remarked the skepticai person.
 "certainly not, but sometimes yor see an item that is evidently true. For instance, married man has inserted an advertisement in the personal column of his newspaper, stating that if the footpad who held him up satur- day night and took his weeks pay will inform his wife of the facts in the case, by letter or otherwise, it will be greatly appreciated"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24
LIBERTY BONDS AS INVESTMENT

F toul tHe investment Artlcle, In the
 Worlds Work for May.
 United States Government bonds are about the only securities in which one does not need to spread the risk. They are the obligations of all the people and of all the businesses of the coun- try. Their principal and interest is SC. cured by taxation on all these sources The risk is spread the full length and breadth of the United States. It is not confined to any one section, nor is ii based upon any one single industry os activity. Here is one security that combines the elements of diversifica- tion within itself. No corporation state, or other local security does this That is the reason why Liberty bonds are particularly suitable investments for persons who cannot afford to take risks with their money-which is to say they are particularly suitable for almost everybody. for there are fess who really can afford to take risks with their savings
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 the lawless tactics of such an organi- zation. No self-respecting working man would uphold the doctrines preached by Haywood and his follow CTS. Many of the radicals who have heretofore supported the Industrial Workers of the World have been mis- led and were blinded by prejudice. If MT. Bryan goes to London on dry mission, he needn't expect the lord mayor to head reception committee.
 < R E
 Possibly the western states could whip Japan, but they might have to call on the navy. The report that the membership of the Industrial Workers of the World has dropped to about 1000 Is one of the most encouraging items tha. ndS appeared III pflHl TUT SOiuo tiiiO.
 % * &
 Secretary Hughes has demonstrated that diplomatic correspondence can be carried on without lost motion.
 Ss T x
 If they are not careful, magazine writers will soon exhaust the family life of the Hardings.
 * E * If Haywood gets a loan from the bolsheviki, it will be the first time in years that an American has been able to borrow money abroad. x # x The alarmist indiscriminately classi- fies all immigrants as "alien hordes.'' # < # The Pagan" may be permissible in art galleries, but she would be out of place in public park.
 E E F Caruso shows the effects of his ill., ness. And perhaps the same thing might be said of his doctors bank ac- counts.
 It is estimated that $27,O00.Ooo a } ear will be needed to keep New York dry. Even then it will be moist in spots.
 If Einstein is right and Newton is wrong, we might as we'll discard that story about the apple. * * # The Atlanta negro who claims to have bought police protection for s200 a week must have conducted a fairly profitable business. Sixty-seven Germans became Amer ican citizens in New Orleans the other day. The Kaiser's picture has ceased to mean anything in their lives. | < E x | A dog was sentenced to death in Ohio for biting a boy who was run ming to third base and breaking up a ball game. It isn't often that a dog shows such poor judgment. * E x America has provided enough money to save the s.5oo,ooo children who were threatened with starvation in central Europe. That's out of the way. What's | next?
 * < F Slow, but sure." is the way chemists refer to the deadliness of most of tn; ''moonshine" on the market
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-24
A KILL-JOY

A hlllS-JOY o the heavy hearted brother. with a tear drop in his eye And a bosom that is bursting With a most prqsigious sigh, In appearance is so gloomy And so brimming full of grief, I'd assume my gruffest manner Just to make his visits brief.
 PAUL COOK.