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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03
THAckERAY AND MRS. BROWNING

Wilbur Cross, in the January Yale Re-
 view
 I do not, of course, attribute to psych choanalysis all the so-called sins of the modern novel. Ours is a franker age than the one MT. Galesworthy de- scribes as just preceding us. Many old conventions are breaking up. Subjects once taboo are now a part of the most ordinary conversation. When Thacker- ay was preparing to edit "The Cornhill Magazine" he asked Mrs. Browning for a poem to adorn the first number, and shesent him one called Lord Walters Wife" beginning:
 But why do you go?" said the lady,
 While both sate under the yew, And her eyes were alive in their depth.
 As the kraken beneath the sea-blue. Because I fear you" he answered.
 Because you are too fair,
 And able to strangle my soul in a mesh
 Of your gold-colored hair"
 4hl os loiOWlilh WCht Oi to oONSioP humorously playful intrigue between the married lady and her married ad- mirer. and ended with an invitation from the lady that the gentleman dine with her and Lord Walter Thackeray read the poem. was properly shocked, and returned it to the author, fearing, he said with a thousand apologies, the risque character of its subject. Where upon the innocent Mrs. Browning, as her reply to Thackeray shows, was deeply chagrined, and protested that "the corruption of our society requires not shut doors and windows, but light and air." An incident like this of 60 years ago must seem strangely obso- lete to readers who rely upon current fiction for their ideas and culture. Women nowadays, if the novels of 1920 speak true, are not much concerned when they discover that their lovers are married. The question that most bothers them is whether they them selves are in love. On the answer main ly depends whether they stay at home or fly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03
LUKE NI,LUKE SAYS

girl is smart enough to make a fel-' low think that he is making love to her when she is doing all the love making herself.
 What has become of the O. f. cham pion prize fighter who had a saloon in which he knocked out his customers?
 A ,skinay woman gets thinner worry ing over how thin she is. But a fat woman gets fatter worrying over how fat she is
 Every morning when he gets up 8 man says to himself, "I'll bet I get to bed earlier tonight," But he doesn't.
 A man who married one tells us that a homely woman doesn't look it so much after you get used to her.
 The reason why a man gets so indig- nant when he gets cheated in a deal is because that is what he was trying to hand the other fellow.
 If you are polite enough to ask some men how they feel you'll have to be po- lite enough to stand for two hours while they tell you.
 Many a man who pinned his faith to a woman got scratched on the pin.
 About the only way to get a bride who can cook like mother used to cook is to marry an old woman with mothers experience.
 When they are first married she changes the style of doing up her hair four times a day. But when the fourth baby comes along she wads her hair in a door knob on the back of her head and leaves it that way.
 A Christmas necktie isn't the loudest thing in the world. The loudest thing in the world Is the ticking of a clock in a store that does not advertise.
 When they are engaged he tells her that he is unworthy of her. But she doesn't believe it until after they have been married for six months or a year
 We never expect woman to weigh her words. We know that she is going to give us good measure.
 A New York man complains that his wife does not know how to kiss. How does he know?
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03
Alabama's Quota
 for Relief Work

A LABAMA will be asked to give EA only $100,000 to save Europe's starving children. The appeal is so worthy and the quota asked so small, in comparison with sums raised in the past by popular subscription, that there should be no difficulty in collect ing all of it in the week beginning January 9. A donation of $10 will save child this winter, an innocent victim of the war who can expect no other help but that which comes from generous America.
 Erskine Ramsay, chairman of the Alabama division, is himself a philan- thropist on large scale and a suc- cessful man of affairs who has the confidence of every person who knows him, or has heard of his career in the Birmingham district. MT. Ramsay would not set his hand to any task that did not justify unstinted public support, with a promise of success. He states that the money needed must be raised quickly, as 17,000 hospitals, orphanages and kitchens operated in Europe will have to be closed unless the necessary funds are in hand to carry on this work, perhaps the most notable philanthropic enterprise ever undertaken by any nation.
 Herbert Hoover, who is in charge of relief work in Europe, has revealed extraordinary administrative ability and contributors have the assurance that the money donated will be spent to the best advantage. Practically 100 cents out of every dollar contrib uted is devoted to saving human life.
 There are estimated to be 3,500,000 children in central Europe who must be kept alive this winter by America. This nation alone can save them from dying of cold, starvation and disease. This is a service which should enlist the sympathy and support of every man, woman and child in the country with a spark of humanity in their hearts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03
Fearless Officials
 Can Stop Lynchings

IT YNCHING statistics compiled by lL1 the departmen. of records and research of Tuskegee institute for 1920 constitute severe indictment, of llewlessness, but they are not without encouraging features.
 Evidently, there are some officials who will not tolerate mob violence, even if they have to risk their own lives in defense of a prisoner. Fifty lsix instances are recorded where of- lficers prevented lynchings, and it is gratifying to know that 46 occurred in \ the south. In IA cases, would-be lynchers were repulsed by armed force l and in four mobs were fired upon, with result that seven persons were i killed and number wounded. Of the l61 victims of mobs in 1920, 52 were lynched in the south and nine in the north and west. Only IS were charged with rape, or attempted rape. Georgia lied with nine lynchings. Alabama had seven.
 Nearly all lynchings are due to of- ficial negligence or cowardice. The average mob leader knows before he 1 starts to storm jail that he has a reasonable assurance of not being killed. The same feeling inspires his followers with lawless zeal. All mobs < are cowardly. They depend on over- whelming numbers and official com { plaisance to do their work with minimum of harm to themselves. A single fearless sheriff, armed to the teeth and determined to shoot, might stop 100 would-be lynchers. But where ths shsriff or his deputies merely
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03
 YES, YES, WHO ARE THEYs

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Don Arturo Alessandria has just been inaugurated President of Chile. And Diego Manuel Chamerro has just been Nicaragua. Other South American presidents you. of course, know, for they have been in office for some time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03
x x Y Commissioner Allgood Would Protect Peanuts

M7 C. ALLGooD, state agricul- HVUo tural commissioner, in a for mai statement issued from Montgom- cry, discloses farm condition, in Ala bama that should attract the serious consideration of statesmen. While the report more directly applies to the peanut industry-a comparatively new farm venture in this section-it inci- dentally opens question of the great est importance and affects every pro- ducing region in America.
 Farmers, although statesmen up to the present time, apparently have neg lected to take adequate cognizance of the fact, are just as much entitled to protection from cheap alien labor as manufacturers of shoes or woolens or steel or other factory and foundry products. Commissioner Allgood calls attention to the fact that civilized American farmers, living as healthy and ordinarily dignified American cit- izens should live, cannot hope to com pete, as in the case of raising pea nuts, with Chinese labor.
 
 Commissioner Allgood says:
 Equal and exact justice is the one guiding principle by which we must set the mark of our effort. The whole question: in nutshell, from the Ala bama point of view, is that the enor- nous volume of Oriental importatons
 should pay a tariff tax for revenue and incidentally to protect the pro- duction of peanuts and vegetable oils against the coolie labor of the Orient.
 Fifty cents per bushel on peanuts and 20 cents per gallon on oil will probably do both. If emergency sched- ules carry equally reasonable rates on the commodities in which other sec tions are interested, then the whole act should receive the support of the Ala bama delegation. If any of the rates
 are unreasonable, they should be amended.
 And in concluding, MT. Allgood speaks candidly, as follows:
 If any man among the Alabama delegation is afraid to commit himself or a righteous policy for fear he can not deny himself to an unholy one, he is very much out of place a repre- sentative of a people, 72 per cent of whom are vitally interested in the beneficent effect of a measure which will mean the difference between ag-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03
VAIN GRATuITIEs

Edwin Arlington Robinson. in the New Republic. %ss Never was there man much uglier In eyes of other women, or more grim; "The Lord has filled her challce to the
 brim,
 So let us pray she's a philosopher" They said; and there was moro they
 said of her Deeming 1t, after twenty years wlth
 him,
 No wonder that she kept her figure sliiA And always made you think of laven-
 der. But she. demure as ever, and as fair. Almost, as they remembered her before She found him would have laughed had
 she been there. And all they said would have been
 heard no more Aftf' Dhan foam that washes on an island
 shore Where tFere are none to nstsn or ts eA4o. ss.1se @pa9<sss # 'e.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03
TRIjE TO FORM

From the Kansas City Star.
 The Armenian soviet has annulled by proclamation. all loans made to that country by foreign powers, thus estah fishing beyond all doubt that the soviet in control there is the genuine Russian article.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03
And in concluding, MT. Allgood speaks candidly, as follows:
Additional Proof
 of Mankind's Honesty

N T a time when there is so much AA talk of dishonesty in business, the annual report of the Jewish Free Loan society of Chicago may help to bolster up our wavering faith in our fellow man.
 Rabbi Philip Langh states that in 28 years of operation, during which sums from s5 to $500 were loaned to clients of every nationality and re- ligion, without interest charges or other expense, 97 per cent of the loans were repaid by borrowers and 2 per cent by their indorsers, one-half of whom were finally reimbursed.
 This is a record that reflects high degree of honesty, as we'll as grati- tude, among the patrons of this loan society, who are presumably poor and subject to the diversity which so often makes it impossible for borrower to repay. After all, the honest people outnumber the dishonest ones by an overwhelming majority. If this were not true, the whole structure of busi- ness would collapse.
 The same confidence which enables Schwab to stroll into bank and borrow million or two for an emerg- ency makes it possible for poor man to get the few hundred dollars he needs from bank or loan company. Character is good thing to have, not only for ethical reasons, but it is an asset in business whose value is incalculable.
 A Connecticut soothsayer predicts fam ines. revolutions and earthquakes for 1921 He's telling the truth. Faraines, revolutions and earthquakes are as in- evitable as death and taxes.
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 A critic describes a young woman ap- bearing in a new show as having a "modicum of clothes and voice. In other words. a typical musical comedy star.
 Washington hotel will enable Boise Pen- rose to run the government with some degree of comfort.
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 Coal Oil Johnny" is dead. He might have written some interesting memoirs, but his arduous duties as a station agent kept him out of literature
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 It may be just as well that Scotland Yard has not been called on to locate De valera. Scotland Yard might score an other failure.
 x* **
 MT. Harding stiIl has the politicians. statesmen and newspaper correspondents guessing. He must play mssterly hand at poker
 Whenever blue laws are mentioned in their presence bank robbers, automobile bandits, 8ootpads and sanssters hoot derisively.
 The man who had a note due January 1 found no difficulty in writing 1t '1sH- z
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03

plead with the "boys" few minutes to let the law take it's course, or tame ly submit to being overpowered, a lynching results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03
Dangerous Practice

DO you know that many grown men as well as children of all ages do not seem to realize that the new perma- nent roads in the county are for auto mobiles and vehicles" said B. L. Led better. T have noticed that large num- bers of children and in some instances grown men skating on the public high ways in the afternoons, and especially is this true on Sundays.
 Where the road is traveled as much as the new road from Birmingham to Bessemer it certainly is dangerous. This practice should be stopped before some of them are either killed or in- jured. as would most certainly be the case if they were to lose their balance and fall in front of an automobile"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03

Judging from the small number of fa- talties during the holiday season, wood alcohol is a drug in the market.
 # * # King Alfonso of Spain has charmed London and Paris, particularly the shop keepers with finery to sell.
 x # # A battleship a day may keep invaders away, but it takes all the joy out of life for the taxpayer
 4. # 4 Mexican trains are once more reaching their destination without having to dodge revolutionary armies.
 # # # New York's New Year celebration Jus- tifed the belief that there are times when prohibition does not prohibit.
 * < # von Rintelen is now on his way home to Germany. where he will receive the honors due war hero.
 # < # When the movie producers film classic they magnanimously give the author credit-in small type.
 # # # President Wilson may think better or the syndicates after ne retires to pri- vate life.
 Everything seems to be coming down except the high cost of making love to a chorus girl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03
JUST AFTER CHRISTMAS

From the Kansas City Star.
 President-elect Harding is discussing financial problems this week the Marion dispatches say, and nobody will deny he has picked the right week for it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03
IF sHE PUTS HER FOOT DOWN

From me New OrIeans Item.
 Sir Robert Baden-Powell. inventor of them over with matrimonial intent. don't gaze into their eyes, but watch their feet. When you meet a lady who sets her foot down squarely and solidly, it indicates "a firm disposition" If you don't happen to be wanting that kind of a wife. look further
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03
STARING THE PUBLIC'S NERVES


 The battleship California is expected to go into commission about the first of January. The California will be the greatest fighting ship afloat. She is sos feet over all, has a beam of S7h feet, and displacement of 33,000 tons. She will have a speed of 21 knots. In her main battery she will carry twelve 12- inch guns, and in her secondary battery twenty-two 5-inch rapid-fire rifles, a number of smaller guns and six torpedo tubes. She will cost s15,000. 900.
 Newspapers which are unfriendly to the only organization formed for the purpose of preventing war and so for reducing armaments should refrain from printing this news on the same page with the report of the Brussels financial conference containing the in- formation that three out of every four countries represented and eleven out of twelve European countries, anticipate a Neficit the present year" To some peo- pie the maintenance of the competitive armament system by which the world was brought to thesbrink of bankruptcy seems foolish and wicked thing, and their sensibilities should not be shocked by the parallel reading of such dis patches from Washington and from Brussels.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03
CREATION OF yrHE BOTTLE IMP,

CREATION OF 1.-THE BOTTLE IMP. w. F. Clarke, in the January Yale Re-
 view
 Stevenson was much interested in little monthly magazine printed in the vernacular, called the Sulu (Torch), which enjoys large circulation among the natives and on one occasion he ex- pressed desire to contribute some thing to it's pages. Needless to say. the offer was eagerly accepted, and he gave us the manuscript of the story of "The Bottle Imp The story was duly trans lated into Samoan, was published as serial in the pages of the Sulu, and was read with delight in hundreds of matched Samoan houses before it ap- peared to gratify the army of more critical readers in Europe and America. It was the first excursion of the sa- moans into the region of fiction, and, the scene being laid in Hawaii. in local coloring much like their own, it was difficult at first for them to real ize that the characters were the crea- tion of fancy and not veritable men and women.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03
A MORNING PRAYER

My God, I do not ask for light; | only nsk that in the darkness thou wilt hold my hand. I do not ask for joy; | only pray thnt in pain thou wilt hold me closer. Amen.--M $. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-03

Everything seems to be coming down except the high cost of making love to chorus girl
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-25
COAL DISPUTE NAY
BE SETTLED TODAY
Mine Owners Will Present
New Proposals to Confer
ence Officials.
BY Associated Press

BY Associated Press:
LONDON, Arril 24.-The coal
dispute has been brought no nearer
settlement by the informal confer
ences and conversations which have
taken place since Friday and it -
feared that when the board of trade
conference Of owners and miners
reassemble Monday it still will De
found difficult to arrive at an agree
ment. There is no sign yet that the
owners are prepared with any re-
vised wage scale likely to prove ac-
ceptable TO the miners while out
side influences are tending TO ag-
gravate the crisis in the shape of a
movement on the part of the rail
way men and transport workers not
10 handle coal. and the efforts TO
induce affiliated organizations
abroad 10 bring about a complete
tieup OF all coal intended for Great
Britain. This movement. Il is said.
Is being carried ont with much sue
cess. The owners have prepared a
new statement 70 be presented ct
the conference Monday
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-25
RAIL UNIONS FILE
REPORT WITH U. S.
Blame Financial Mismanage-
ment for Extreme Losses
In Recent Years.


CHICAGO. April 24-Financial
mismanagement of American rail
ways involving the dissipation Of
tremendous sums in bonuses t.
stockholders, unnecessary cost of
marketing securities. interest ana
dividends on excess capitalization
and other losses We're charged in an
exhibit filed with the United States
railway labor board by the railway
unions ard made Tublic Sunday.
The exhibit took up tne history
of 20 roads in an effort to show
that they issued fictitious capitaliza-
tion during the period 191O-1919 to-
falling S692. 100000. During this
time II was also claimed that they
issued bonuses or stock dividends
amounting to S233, $4,000 and
through other forms of financial
mismanagement sustained losses
amounting to $123,OOO,OOO. In ad-
dition it was cl3imed that II repre-
sentative roads during the period
referred TO. dissio1teG through I'M
proper methods of mark -ting their
securities, the sum Of S51. .t5G,S7S.
During the period from 1910 TO
1919. 13 railroads gave away in
bonuses to stockholders he sum of
$2T.546,O51," according TO the re-
port.
These figures are merely illus
trative of the financial practices
which have affected the ability of
the railroads.&c. pey reasonable rates
OF compensation to their employees" p"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-25
ISSUES RULING ON
MANDAMUS ACTION
Atty. Gen. Lesh Says County
Commissioners Cannot
be Forced to Act.

BY Associated Press:
I\DIANAPOLIS, April 24.-Ben-
ton county commissioners cannot be
inundated to act Jointly with Tippe-
canoe county in the construction OF
a tuberculosis hospital, Attorney
General Lesh ruled answering an in
quiry Of DR.. J. y. Hurry Of the state
board of health. The query indi-
Gated that the mandamus proceed
ings were contemplated against the
Benton county officials.
"Mandamus will lie" said Attorney
General L,esh, against a public Off
Ger 10 require him to perform an act
where it clearly appears that it is
his legal duty 10 perform the act,
but will not when the performance
of the act is discretionary.
The 1913 county hospital act, Mr..
I,esh added. makes construction dis
cretionary with the commissioners.
He also pointed out that a court de-
cision had upheld this Interpretation
in ruling on the building OF county
hospital, and he said he doubted that
the commissioners could be COM
PEELED TO act on esta blishing a joint
hospital
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-04-25
Sergeant Roberts
Takes AdOantage
OF Helpless Man
Night Patrol Sergeant DragS
Unfortunate Youth Through
Streets of City.
By II. X. REED.


NA1lllAcAllAAtNl al y any
Such was the fate early Sunday
morning Of Gerald Schultz at the
hands of Patrol Sergt Ben Roberts
and his right hand bower, Patrol
man "Swede" Hansen. members Of
Chief Kline's police department.
The former because. perhaps, of his
ounce of authority his temper or
perhaps an effort 10 disr lay his
physical strength-the latter. in
compliance with the official orders
Of his superior officer
Sergt lowered the laurel5
Of the South Bend police depart
ment His position as a top kick"
caused him 10 force Patrolman
Hansen 10 bring the department to
even deeper shame,-at least one
should not think that Hansen would
voluntarily torture and punish p
man such as was the case ere
dawn, Sunday, on main thorough
fares of the city.
Patrol Meant Nothing.
The South Bend police depart
ment was provided with a patrol
but that meant nothing to Sergt.
Roberts until-weu, until he had
to resign from his unmerciful tao
tics and send in a call to headquar-
ters for help. The rolicy OF con
serving gasoline, tires and what no.
never before meant much in police
circles-the patrol having often
been sent into the country, out of
the jurisdiction of the local police
department, on emergency calls.
Roberts. too, might have forgotten
that a prisoner cannot be walked"
to Jail when a patrol wagon is avail
able.
Schultz was drunk-insanely uE-
der the influence of liquor that car
ried a mighty waTlop. And in his
frenzy he made his way to the
gambling den at 126 IL w Wash
ington boulevard, operated by Frank
"Swede" Gustafson. Gambling was
in order. and Dame Rumor has IL
that Schultz lost the couple OF dol
lars that had escaped the clutch Of
the liquor vender. This Damo
Rumor knows-despite the fac
that gamblers, fearful of newspaper
men. made efforts to conceal the
identity of the Joint owner, and Wig
orously denied that Schultz had left
the place, penniless. Yet 1t was
whispered among gamblers that
Schultz had lost. Gamblers have
semi-clever way of shielding their
favOrite Monte Carlo.
Is ''Wide Open"
South Bend is wide open" and 1t
is whispered that liquor will flow
freely until after the primary cleo
ton May 3. Gambling IS to con-
tinue undisturbed and houses OF
prostitution are not TO be bothered
bv Chief Kline's beat walkers until
after the city has chosen its candt-
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