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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
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THE ART uNaUENCHABLE

From the Chicago News.
 NJ. Shalyapin. the Russian singer has arrived In London to raise money for the famine sufferers. His iirst business, however, was to purchase 20 suits, for the equivalent of Sl,2oo, and enough shoes and haberdashery to outfit a brigade of Beau Brummels
 At first glance it would seem that the great actor and singer was laps< ing from bolshevistic standards. but the fact is that Shalyapin has never conformed. H. c. Wells, upon his re- turn from Bolshevy, described this Shalyapin as the most wonderful thing in Russia, the artist. defiant and magnificent" He steadfastly re- fused to sing except for a large re- ruuneration for each performance, and when the market was tight he spurned rubles demanding payment in eggs or flour, according to current necessi- ties. His demands were always met and he maintained what Wells calls perhaps the last fairly comfortable home In Russia' It seems more than likely that M. Shalyapin will be do- ing some shopping for Mms. shalya- pin whom MT. Wells found so far "unbroken by the war that she asked what people wore wearing in Lon- don."
 NJ. Shalyapin, with his 20 suits and his trunks of haberdashery. is per- haps the worlds gteatest example of the power of music. Orpheus drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, but Shalyapin draws eggs and flour from the bare larders of bolshevist Russia. Amid the wreck of art and industry only music remains gastronomically defiant and sartorially magnificent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
"Too Much Theory" in
 Vocational Training

m RECTOR FORBES of the vet u0 erans' bureau saya the system of federal vocational training is s'unmistakably and absolutely wrong" He also expresses doubt whether livery many men have ac- tually been rehabilitated by the gov ernment and have gone back to their respective communities as wage earners and assets"
 This constitutes a serious reflec- ton on the system now in force and suggests the necessity for dras- tic changes. It will also be dis tinct surprise to those who have supposed that the government, de- spite blunders here and there, was making a fairly good job of caring for its former service men. i.
 Nevertheless, Colonel Forbes talks like man who intends to rem edy existent evils as soon as pos sible. His statement that, q am opposed to the sweatshop system and do not propose to let more of the <ormer service men be exploit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
Germans Hit Upon New
 Advertising Schemes

~ BRYAN ingenuity is being M shown in the many schemes being devised to raise money. A dispatch from Berlin says the gov ernment has a new system of nam ing telephone exchanges which will make telephone users in calling for numbers sound as if they were read ing of wine list in popular restaurant.
 It is announced that the right to name exchanges after their products will he sold to German manufactur- CTS and the ever-alert liquor firms are expected to jump at this method of advertising their wares. If the plan were introduced in this country we might be calling for near-beer and soft drink exchanges, but in Germany, where reform has not in terfered with the national thirst, more expressive names will prob ably | in vogue.
 German postoffices have gone into the advertising business on a large scale and purchasers of stamps gre being Irgel to buy all kinds of articles made n German factories. Tn time advertisers may have an op- portunity of hanging signs on the monuments to war lords and Ger many would be better off if most of her living war lords who are plotting for restoration of the monarchy were converted into sandwich" men. They would be more useful walking about the streets of Berlin with signs on their backs than they are at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
Tennessee Reformer
 Suggests Disarming

M7 oAH w. COOPER, blue law IN supporter of Nashville, Tenn, and candidate for the democratic nomination for United States sena- tor, has attracted attention to him self by his Puritan ideas of reform and his somewhat r1ive views on pu.'ic questions. One of his recent staten, c-.ts is ch~ racteristic of the way the minds of many reformers work. He said;
 "On November |, when the con- ference meets, have our Secretary of Peace tell them the good news that we have stopped building bat tleships and armies and want them to follow us." He also suggested that the nation install Secretary of Peace" to take the place of our present secretaries of war and the navy.
 Unfortunately for this troubled world, human nature is weak and prone to err. It is the fact that America has powerful navy and is in position to spend two dollars for every other nations one in building battleships and maintain ing an army that gives us the in- fluence which made the disarma- ment conference possible and will be felt when the delegates. convene in Washington.
 It would be lunacy, plain and simple, to scrap our navy, proclaim ourselves apostles of peace and then expect the rest of the world to fol- low suit, because the rest of the world would do nothing of the kind. On the contrary, some parts of it might deem, the time opportune to carry out certain militaristic poli- cies now held T abeyance.
 If the conference on the limita- tion of ornaments results in an agreement that will reduce or elim- mate the competition in building battleships it will have done all that its sponsors hope for, even if noth- ing is said about armies. We can not usher in the millennium by passing laws or ut.ering high-sound- ing phrases. The blue law advo- cates in Alabama, as we'll as other parts of the country, should bear that in mind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
Fine Cattle

T think the management of the Alabama State Fair is to be heartily congratulated on the magnificent cattle display at the fair this year." said Robert Jemison, Jr. For many years some of us in this,distriet have been eager to see Alabama take it's riehtful place in cattle raising, and at last our wishes are becoming real ized.
 T was greatly surprised at both the number and the type of dairy and beef breeds on exhibition. It was gratifying to know that in the keen competition for ribbons and prizes that expert and disinterested judges from other states gave many awards to Alabama breeders
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
1O WASHINGTON, October G.
 W\W Special. l.)-"Many a mean
Why did thelstar quitm

NN v AShiNGION, october 6.-- 1 WV pecial.)-"Many a mean place marks the shrine of
 great man; but in Ravenna Dante
 is honored in city as nearly unique
 as the singular genius of that poet" says bulletin from the Washington
 headquarters of the National Geog- raphic society.
 Its geographical position once
 rendered 1t an impregnable city of the sea- and preserved 1t as a Pompei
 of the Byzantine Era Its present interest is associated with the 6o0th anniversary of the death of Dante who IS buried there; but its perma- nent significance lies in the fact
 that it was the death bed of the | (Roman) emprie and its tomb.'
 "Ravenna Is the Hamlet of Ital- ian cities. To it's isolation and sol itude it owed the presence of the em- perors Of declining Rome, and the same quality has preserved the mystic spirit of the four centuries, the fifth to eighth, which it alone typifies. Recall that the Apennines cut across the upper part of the Italian boot from Genoa to Rimini, just north of Ravenna. There the range turns south, short of the Adriatic. Ravenna therefore has a strategic position in relation to Cisalpine Gaul, the Italian peninsula and the Ad-
 riatic.
 This position, in conjunction with its inaccessibility made the little town of Gallia Cisalpina, Caesars rendezvous to plot with Roman ad- herents while he campaigned in Gaul, into the mighty Ravenna, where Hon. orius first established an imperial residence. Odoacer set Up a Kingdom, and Theodoric the Ostrogoth finally established Versailles of the medic val world.
 "Ravenna was inaccessible because it was laid out along canals among marshes. The tide was the sanitary agent. The principal complaints in this respect were against flies and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
Licenses Slow

Persons are coming in very slow ly to obtain their automobile H. clerk In the probate office, and un- less they speed up we will be unable to issue the required number in the length of time allowed by law.
 According to the number of ii- censes issued last year we would be forced to issue at least 500 daily during the month of october, but at the present time we are issuing only few each day. I hope every auto mobile owner and business man who wants a license will get 1t at the earliest time possible. so as to avoid the congestion of the last few days"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
MARRIED TO HIS MOTOR

From the New ork Herald A Brooklyn wife bases her suit for a separation on the ground that her
 husband spent four fifths of his walk ing hours tinkering with his motor
 car. This is not a new vice, all
 though this Is perhaps the first time that 1t has led toward the legal part ing of married folk.
 The habit of trying to improve on
 the automobile manufacturer grew with the rise of the car. Owners whose passion for mechanics had been inhibited for years found an
 outlet for it at last. Dawn, sundown. Sundays and holidays found the tin-
 ker tinkering. For every hour he
 drove he tinkered twelve.
 In the earliest days of motor cars
 the carbureter was the favorite vic-
 tim of the mechanical maniac. If
 he had neglected to put oil in the
 crank case or gasoline in the tank
 or air in the tires and the car went
 badly or not at all, the carbureter
 idQ tO po aAJuStcds ihc pi ilhCus
 flooded, drained and doctored it. And years after carburetors were made so well that the owners could dis regard their existence the maniac
 went on adjusting"
 There is always something about an automobile that an earnest man
 can find to fool with. If he tires of playing with the carbureter there are the commutator, the magnsta
 the battery, wilderness of trans mission, a jungle of wires, a row of spark plugs. goodly company of valves.
 How many Sundays the inveterate tinker has spoiled for his family! They sit, lunch box at hand, ready
 for the dash into the hills. But the
 man, armed with wrench, screw driver. pliers. oil can and whatnot,
 is engaged in his weekly attack on the morale of the helpless car. Ma ture may be wonderful, but machin- cry is marvellous.
 Cautious girls will say to appli- cants for their hand: Are you con tent to let our automobile run as the
 maker intended 1t to. or arc you one
 of those tireless tinkers?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
OH, WOMAN!
From the Chicago Herald and Exam

From the Chicago Herald and Exam l iner.
 A jury in Seattle found a man | guilty of murder and fixed the pen
 alty at death. The news value of
 this item is partly determined by the fact that four of the twelve jurors were women.
 l When an argument against wom- en's suffrage used to be that if wom- en were allowed to vote they would have to be allowed to serve on juries. the implication was that they would seldom if ever convict anybody. Their gentle natures, 1t wa-s as- stunned, would revolt against fixing responsibility for crime; or else their emotional reactions would culminate in sentimental feeling for anybody whom they might regard as the under dog.
 When they threw roses at Arbuckle after he was freed on the charge of murder they seemed to tu1nlsh evi- dence in support of the old argument. But the decision of the Seattle jury would seem to point another way. And, indeed--we offer the remark with considerable trepidation--we |ewould rather for whiie yoi take our chances, if we nnt to depend on jury for further opportunities for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, with & jury of men than of women.
 We do not believe women are either more soft-hearted or more hard hearted than men. The fact that they are more likely than men to faint at prize fights is not due to comparative inexperience with such combats. And their concurrence Ill death penalty might be due, not to their hard-heartedness, but to their lack of experience in such decisions.
 As result of centuries of conpara- tive Responsibility in public affairs, the pendulum of womans will swings faster and further than d iHdH A pSySnOiOBlSL Wpuiu say that R woman has fever inhibltions A broker wouli declare that mentally her nature put r. few stop orders.
 She remembers more vividly and forgets more readily; cries more often and stops more quickly; fears more things and takes more chances; is brighter in youth and duller in ma turity; comes to more rapid decisions and is more doubtful of their wisdom than man.
 And. therefore. on q jury, or in an election, we would on the whole, other things being equalized, rather have a mans judgment on a matter of life and death than a woman's-as yet.
 And the proof of the soundness of our preference may be found in the fact that every woman who reads this will compare, not the average woman with the average man, but her own judicial self with the poorest speci- men of man she knows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
RAVENNA: SHRINE OF DANTE

1 frogs and an inadequate water sup ply. One writer reports. We were thirsty in the midst of the waves, Martial wrote:
 That landlord at Ravenna is plain ly but a cheat, paid for wine and water, but he
 he served wine to me neat "Architecurally Ravenna Is the Brooklyn of Europe. Its churches are unique because they exhibit the threefold influence of Roman, Byzan- tine and Christian art. A dozen or more of these edifices are counted of high artistic and historical merit, and about them entire volumes have >been written. No place affords such an opportunity as Ravenna to study the years just before and after the breakup Of the Roman empire. "Ravenna long had passed the ze-
 nth of her influence and power when Dante spent the last years of his life there. He was the invited guest of Guido Novello, lord of the city, whose patronage of art and letters kindled a flicker among the embers of the city's great past
 Tt Is paradoxical that in a city noted chiefly for it's architectural treasurers the ashes of it's most fa- nous resident should repose in shrine described by Byron as a little cupola more neat than solemn By ron, it will be recalled, lived. at Ravenna in 1s2o-21 during the time he was enamored by the Countess Guiccioli. ,e.t.,e 4s r-7ss M
 'The sea has reeeded from Raven- na, it's lagoons now are marshes Two streams which are not navigable and a canal connect it with thesAd4 riatic. It is capital of the modern province of Ravenna, in the compart- ment of Emilia, and lies 45 miles east Of Bologna. It was among the first cities to cast it's vote for Italian unity in 1859. Ten years earlier Garibaldi's wife died in the marshes outside the city while she accom- panied her husband In his flight from Rome.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
Maryland Senator Pleads
 For Bolshevik Russia

@ ENATOR FRANCE still main 8 tains that we fail to under stand the blessings of bolshevism. According to Washington dispatch
 he is trying to get President Hard ing interested in soviet Russia
 His recommendation to Secretary Hughes and Secretary Hoover that trade relations be resumed is report
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
Raising Rabbits

"Of course raise rabbits for the fun of 1t, but there IS money In the game. too," said J. B. Wilson, who IS one of the most enthusiastic rab- bit breeders in Birmingham. and has won a number of ribbons at the State Fair.
 "The rabbit business is a growing one in the Birmingham district as the large number of rabbits on ex- h!hit at the fair shows.
 The old idea that the rabbit is merely a pet is being discarded as people learn their value as a food. People formerly thought only of the white rabbits. which are only pets, but they are now seeing the value of the meat rabbits"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
SEA LAVENDER

 From the New York Times Long time ago. beside the sea. Among the shifting sands and crying
 gulls, Content and went silent, hand in
 hand. Sea lavender and purple pea-vin. Within my meager garden, nestlins Against the palings. sea sand silt
 ing through; While gnarled and stunted frees
 bowed in row The way the, east wind blew. 70 salt. so keenly sweet that wet
 sea wind, Filing up dunes OCT night like imps
 at play, Singing and clattering at each
 wooden blind, sweeping from far beyond the gray
 sky's edge .A My lonely hearth to find. Wbi,c-fansed the waves leaped up
 glassy, immense. To sweep away and thunder Lack
 again Longing to batter down iny ,oor ce-
 fense, Snarling and rasping through the ss winter nights In angry impotence. must go back. before my days are spent. Before death lays his bony hand on
 me. Among these giant walls that hide
 the Armament; Back to the sea wind singing to the
 sand And once more find content.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07

ed my mushroom houses that have sprung up merely to exploit the soldier and get the governments money" offers assurance that the discredited plan of farming out" ex-soldiers will be modified or abandoned altogether.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES

Her husband is director Of the or- chestra. She said she simply wouldn't put up with his meddling any longer.
 "Meddling?"
 "Yes. Whenever the leading man kissed her the director took out his watch and timed the proceedings"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
Henry Ford Wants More
 Pay for Judges

r HENRY FORD advocates higher I ll salaries for federal judges, on the ground that they are now under paid in proportion to the services they render. He suggests that su- preme court justices be paid S75,000 year and no federal judge less than S25,000. He thinks judges would then be Secure from the resentment of powerful interests against whom they might be called to decide"
 Just what he means by that is not clear. Every honest judge is secure from resentment" no matter what his salary may be. Continuing, MT. Ford says, "The salary of $75,00O a year for judge of the United States supreme court is far from being too high. Salaries for federal courts of appeal and district courts should be in proportion. !" 'f No federal judge should have to have outside interests upon which he is partially dependent for support, yet, in my mind, no federal judge can properly maintain himself and his family as they should be maintained in his po- sition for salary of from $7,50O to $14,000 a year"
 Nearly everyone admits that judi cial salaries are too low, but MT. Ford goes to the opposite extreme. A judgeship should be regarded as public honor and a position that is not to be sought after chiefly for the salary that may be received.
 There is enough prestige attach ing to a federal judges office to compensate him for relatively small salary, if he is the type of man who puts service ahead of pecuniary reward The United States supreme court justices do not need $75,OOO year to maintain them and their families. Judges of lesser rank should receive more than they get now, but if S25,oOO year were the maximum salary there would be no reason for the federal judiciary to complain.
 We have not yet reached the point in this country where public off cials have to be paid large salaries to obtain. competent men. The man who wants to make money should stay out of public life. It is credita- ble to the nation that there are scores of officials serving the gov ernment at personal sacrifice be- cause they value the distinction such work brings them above dol lars and cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07

~SAAA sAS NAhSa6O iNCWS
 Even the worm will turn-perhaps into a butterfly.
 Some men who are short on hair are long on brains.
 If you can't have what you like try to like what you have.
 The truest test of friendship is not in words, but in actions.
 Bewhiskered old humbugs are more popular than barefaced lies.
 dogs bark is worse than his bite; but. unfortunately. a mosquito doesn't bark.
 Be careful of your thoughts. for they are liable to break out Into words or deeds at any time.
 In childhood we are taught a great many things which we are compelled to unlearn after reaching maturity.
 Dr. is an ambiguous abbrevia- ton when used to express the rela- tionship between the patient and his physician.
 A writer says that sleep is produc- tive to beauty. Perhaps it is, but nearly all of us have seen soms rather homely policemen.
 A mother may realize that her baby does and says things similar to other babies, but she also realizes that her baby says and does them much better than the other babies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Family Life For Children

To the Editor of The Age-Herald: Will you allow us to express by letter our thanks to yorl for your un- derstanding editorial about the work of our society which appeared Mon day morning. We are very grateful ko you for this spontaneous help which has been very timely for us. With much gratitude, I am, Yours very truly.
 RALPH S. BARROW, State Superintendent Childrens Aid Society.
 Birmingham, October 5, 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
NEWS OF THE STARS

By Isabel NJ. Lewis, of the United
 States Naval Observatory. (scienee
 Service.)
 When the moon rises In the east ern United States on the evening of October 16, just as the sun Is set ting, there will be piece of it mtss- ing to an earthly observer
 This partial eclipse of the moon will be very nearly total, since sA per cent of the moons diameter will be covered by the shadow of the earth.
 The beginning of the eclipse will be visible in western Asia, Europe, Africa. the Indian ocean, the Allan tic ocean and the eastern part of South America. The ending will be visible in western Asia. Europe. Af- rica, the western part of the Indian ocean. South America and all oi North America except the extreme western part.
 lne eciiPsc WiiA ocsiH "e 1'if P m, eastern standard time, and great est obscuration will take place al 5:54 p. m. It will end at 7:S4 p. m Since the sun sets at 5:2s D. m. eastern standard time. in the latitude of Washington. and the moon rises at sunset on that day, the moon will rise partially eclipsed in the eastern part of the United States. The great est phase of the eclipse will Dc vis- ible in all places keeping. eastern standard time. but, the moon will be coming out of the shadow by the time 1t rises over the centrll states will be completed before "oonrise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
.ClyILIxED ADonE
n the ChicaKo NeMs

From the Chicago News.
 Australian bushmen arc said to have senses much keener than those of civilized men. Considering what civilized men have to see, hear and smell perhaps their senses are keen enough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
FOILED

From Judge.
 'I know place" sings the singer Great interest .evinced by audience. After dinner nappers awake, the list less listen, the needless hearken.
 Where the fo-our-leaf clo-over grows.'
 Great disappointment. The audi ence resumes its nap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
MEASURING.

From Life.
 Want to take chance on an au- tomobile, mister? Only dollar
 But don't want an automobile, young man"
 That's all right, mister. Maybe you won't get it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-07
-------. ---.oe------------------------ oe- SAFETY FIRST FOR BILL

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Senator Borah's treatment of the treaty seems to be of the rough house variety. But with all his histrionic belligerency and berserk battlings he manages to steer close of any fric- tion with the Anti-Salorn leaEue. Wonder why?