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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

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 YM IG BILL HAYWOOD. one-time ICN idol of the I. w. w., is enter taining the Russians with statements in the Petrograd newspapers that a "capitalistic conspiracy" in the United States is trying to "starve the workingmen into submission" He in sists that this is causing potatoes to rot in the fields, apples to waste in the orchards and rice to go to ruin on the rice plantations.
 In all of which. of course, Bill Hay wood is lying and knows that he is lying. Our systems of transportation and distribution are not perfect, but they appear so in comparison with what RusSa now has. Furthermore, where 10 Americans go hungry, 10. .000,- 900 Russians are famine-stricken
 Under the beneficent rule of the proletariat in Russia, the country is dying at the top. There may be intel ligence enough, however, among some Of his "comrades" to be interested in the fact that in Haywood's old home country there is plenty of food and prices are falling. Also, in the fact that the average American workman probably has far better food than any one in Russia, with the exceptions of the Lenines, Trotzkys and Haywoods.
 It might be of interest to them to learn that many American working men are striking for a higher pay scale, despite tho fact that their week. ly base wage of $5S amounts to 1.160,- coo rubles at present exchange rate. that they made about $1o0 week, or 2.0Oo.00O rubles. as rule. Yes. the Russian printer who is getting pos- sibly 5000 rubles month will be i'm much as 10000 rubles a month now, and he is high-grade workman. Hay woods friends should compare that with the 4.640.000 to S.000,000 rubles per month that the capitalist slave got in America.
 l When a soviet worker strikes he ceases to eat. Also. he is very likely to be punctured with machine gun fire The American worker who goes or strike is usually forehanded enough te have strike fund or private bank roll. Nevertheless. Big Bill rather likes the Russian life. He certainly does no' care fer Leavenworth.
 Butter is 35 cents a pound here other foods range along in proportion Soviet rubles are now regarded st poorly that it takes 10000 of them t' buy an American dollar. A Petrograt workman could take his months wage of maybe 10000 rubles, buy pount of butter and have enough left ovel to get an egg, maybe. An American quarter of dollar is equal to BOO rubles. A s12-a-week office boy paid in rubles would be getting 24o,oo' a week.
 In Russia no man asks your salary he is interested in your food ration
 We are rationing nobodyin this 'capi talistic land" Our cities are not fall
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Talk about women being contrary! A man is always hollering for winter in summer and hollering for summer in winter.
 If a woman Is built that way, she'll go to the seashore for her vacation Otherwise she'll go to the mountain.
 Maybe you have noticed that the men who have sense enough to be well to do have sense enough to be hard to do.
 Why doesn't some artist be honest about it and cut out the bow and ar row stuff and show Cupid pushing baby buggy?
 A specialist announces that eating raw onions will restore lost hair' Well, we know some men who Will never be bald-headed.
 It is mighty hard to make a wife understand why her husband can't keep up his life insurance without having. to keep on paying premiums
 Nothing makes a girl so tired as having to sit down when she goes to dance.
 Women laugh at the fact that the men buy hair restorer from bald headed men. But they forget that female beauty specialists are usually homely enough to stop clock.
 A pessimist's definition of friend is a man who hopes that he can use you before you can use him.
 Even when a woman knows that she Is homely she waits for some man to come along and convince her that she isn't.
 Don't brag. If you are smart. peo- pie will soon discover the fact. You won't have to tell them.
 After a man gets married, he dis covers that there is big difference between living in house and living in home. ,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
2 ' Railroad Wage Reduction Is a Reasonable One

'WNHEN the Steel Corporation an WV nounced it's wage reduction effective May 16, it was accepted without protest. Common labor real ized that it was better to earn $4.05 per day, the reduced pay, than to en- joy a theoretical wage of $5.04 un- earned and not received because the Steel Corporation could not pay the latter and operate without loss.
 The 12 per cent reduction of the wages of the railroad men, effective July 1, will probably be accepted in the same spirit. That it must be ac- icepted goes without question, because the roads cannot pay more without going into bankruptcy. The reduction is moderate one, less than the rail- road employees have perhaps expected.
 The railroad labor board truly ob- serves:
 There has been decrease in the
 cost of living and the scale of
 wages in other industries has in
 general been decreased. Many hun
 dreds of thousands have been thrown out of employment and de-
 prived of all wages. The decreases
 fixed are justified and required"
 Reasonableness must pervade the nation if it is to recover from the eff fleets of the World war. No one wishes the railroad worker to bear more than his part, but a 12 percent wage reduction under the increases granted since 1917 cannot be success fully resisted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
Weeks Makes Plain
 Status of Warrior

@ ECRETARY WEEKS stands firm 0 in his decision to ultimately turn over the Warrior fleet to private interests, but will withhold that &C., ton for the present and promises a postponement based on patronage of the Mississippi Warrior line.
 Profits made in April saved fed eral aid and operation temporarily. The came in the nick of time. Greater patronage and more profits will in- sure federal aid through the entire ex- perimental stage and the completion of the terminal facilities now sched- uled.
 Not only will the patronage that the barge line ought to have delay the withdrawal of government help, but it will also cause the people of Alabama to realize the value of the Warrior when the question of port aid again comes before them.
 The Warrior is an integral part of the port, the most important road to the port. If it makes good it will open tho eyes of Alabama to the ne- cessity of the state helping to de- velop it's waterway interests.
 Manufacturers of soothing syrup are suing a film corporation for polk ing fun at their remedy in a Chaplin picture. The trouble with most pat ent medicine manufacturers is that they have no sense of humor.
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 The debating team of Bates college has sailed for England to meet OK ford university. Here's hoping they'll fare better than our golf players.
 MT. HarulnG says ne wants Americ1 to be always a republic of "hlgs ideals" That sort of talk is a little over the head of Brother Penrose. * + a
 A robber in Tiffin. O.. made bis mistake when he stepped on pedes- trian's corn and brought out all the fighting spirit there was in him.
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 "A moose and limb" await the az itator caught in Quitman. Miss. which doesn't propose to waste its val uable timA on tar and feathers.
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 1 Buster" and Natalie are married The divorce lawyers will please keen l their distance for at least 12 months
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
Confederate White House
 Dedicated at Montgomerv

NIETERANs of three wars took
 V part in the exercises in Mont gonfery yesterday when the first White House of the Confectionery was dedicated as a shrine of the "Lost Cause"
 After several years of effort a band of southern women succeeded in obtaining funds to preserve this historic mansion as memorial to Jefferson Davis. The house has been restored and many relics of the old south have been placed there to re- call to visitors a period in American history that is now a glorious heri- tage, robbed of all bitterness.
 The White House of the Confed- eracy should be kept intact as long as it can survive the passage of time to inspire reverence for the Confed- eracy without any revival of sec tionalism. The north as we'll as the south honors the men who fought what they believed to be righteous fight, but one we now concede to have ended for the best interests of Amer ica, building on the ashes of Civil war reunited nation, destined never to be torn by internal strife again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04

The race riots at Tulsa are attrlbu- ted to an "fmpudent negro and yell low journal reporter" There could hardly be worse combination.
 # # # An Atlantic City baby was born in 8 jitney. Right here in Birmingham 1it- neurs have great knack of picking up passengers.
 # # * "Irreconcilables" should be nightly heartened by the soviet statement that the League of Nations has suffered utter defeat"
 Charley .Fapsburg is going to make another attempt to regain his throne. He needn't think he can beat it back to Switzerland
 Some of the experts seem to think MT. Carpenter is drawn little too fine" We urge these. gentlemen to calm their fears
 
 Ambassador Geddes says war be- tween Great Britain and America is impossible. At any rate, it is a re- mote contingency.
 < # a; Are we a free people?" asks the Chattanooga Times Respectfully re- ferred to MT Volstead.
 # # i, The contrast between the American workman and the Russian workman is a sufficient answer to the vociferous remarks of the bolsheviki.
 # * < The Indian uprising in Utah was hardly worth the consideration of 3 bored cameraman.
 s. # # Einstein departed singing the praises of the American girl. Why, the mans normal after all.
 A large number of actors are out of employment, but they would rather starve as artists than grow fat as farm hands
 Room among the immortals for Judge Vatican Riddison of Oklahoma;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04

From the Houston Post.
 That the reports of atrocities perpe- trated during the war by Germans were not exaggerated is made plain by the testimony that is being offered in the trial of the cases of few minor officers charged with brutality to pris- oners in German camps. The world perhaps will never realize the extent of those horrors the Germans prepared for their enemies.
 In the face of the overwhelming weight of testimony, the German cul- prits on trials have scarcely deigned to deny the truth of evidence offered but have been content with trying to evade personal responsibility. A burly sergeant tried few days ago attrlb- uted his brutal treatment of prisoners under his charge to the German sys- tenn. That was the German plan or doing things, and he followed it out The question of the right or the wrong in his conduct seems never to have occurred to this officer It was mere ly adherence to the German system that prompted his actins.
 These men through whose brutality many helpless prisoners suffered ana died are being let off with prison sem tences of a few months, as if their crimes were misdemeanors. Despite the evidence of their guilt, the court IS giving them sentences which make the trial farce. The whole procedure li is in keping with the German method of fulfilling the terms of the peace treaty. They make sort of show of keeping the terms, without really yielding much.
 If the disposal of the cases of these minor offenders may be taken as a forecast of what is to be done with those charged with graver offenses. hone that justice will ever be vindi- cated in the matter of German war atrocities, may as we'll be abandoned now. If the higher ups are ever brought to trial at all, it is fore gone conclusion that their cases VIII be handled in a way to indicate tnat they have German approval rather than condemnation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
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HIS SENSE OF HUSIOR

From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele-
 graph.
 Samuel untermyer. the New York lawyer. probing the builling question: said, in a discussion about honor;
 .Business men are honorable. or they don't net on. Of course. few business men are as punctslious apout point of honor as Honest John Jones was. Honest John once stole on tip-to foun- tain. pen in hand. into the eHiptying waiting room of his hotel. He stepped stealthily up to an inkwell, advanced his foutain pen toward the ink. then drew back with start.
 {. No he groaned. striking his brow with hts palm. No, cannot fill my fountain pen with the hotels ink--it would not be honorable.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
A FLORIDIAN VICTOR

A FLORIDIAN VICTORIA From the Louisville Courier-J.iprnals|
 It was lottery.
 For years it has been lottery.
 Many held tickets. 9E
 Only one ticket could win. s&H
 Only one state could gain the cov4@ eted honor.
 In the pathetic words of the deathk bed comforter: Its all over."
 Florida wins.
 North Carolina loses.
 s'The Land-uf the Sky falls into the discard.
 "The Everglades" rake in the pot.
 William Jennings Bryan will hence- forth have his legal residence at Mi-s ami. the bootleggers' paradise. in easy reach of Palm Beach. the winter home of Wall Street devils"
 Asheville walls.
 "It's a low-down trick" whimpers 'The Land of the Sky's" daughter. ''af- CT visiting me and being my steady now for more than IT years. I'm glad found him out. the fickle-heartedr brute, before it was too late"
 Miamis heart Is glad. "Be ys lifted up ys everlasting gates." shouts Miami. land be ys ufted up ye everlasting doors. and the pesr- less one shall come in. tho peerless one shall como in"
 Lincoln mourns - mourns even ee the Vermont farmer mourned for the wife of his bosom for 40 years as he stood over her, grave.
 "Tears cannot bring her back sniffed the Vermont farmer. "Thete- frro T Ets3
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04

NOCTURNB By c. T. Davis. and He called the darkness nig&t God spake--and there was light. Across the aching emptiness of things The flaming sun swept. merciiessly
 bright. No rest. no ease~-naught but tho red raw earth, The rough unverdured hills the steam
 ing sand And slime primordial along the coast Whenas the seas drew back at His command. Tragic, forlorn and naked meath the
 glare The new world lay-on land or ssa no To veil from view the shrinking plas- mic life That faltered through the ooze. un- formed, afraid Off shore the waters blazed to burn ished gold; The red, sun sank in splendor swift I from sight And healing darkness closed across the | world ] God smiled-and 1t was night
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
 RETROACTIVE INFLUENCE
rro.., the Houston Post.

From the HOuStuH TVsI'
 George Harvey told the Londoners that George Washington possessed many of the characteristics of Presi- dent Harding. The fact of the matter is, since our annual reading of the farewell message in February, we nave been firmly convinced that Mr. Hard ing must have exercised tremendous influence upon the career or George Washington.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

HOW TO SELL A BATHING SUIT This is a lovely bathing suit" "It is, madam"
 "But trifle-er-daring in design" 'Ah, madam a woman without perfect figure couldn't wear this suit" "Of course not. I'll take it.' GIFTED ENTERTAINER Do you remember Clipping of the class of 'naughty-naught?' Quite we'll. He was the only man in our class who could wiggle his ears" "Yes. He made millions In the steel business and vaudeville lost a great artist"
 MODERN PIONEERS The early settlers drove OK teams And forded many river, But now they scurry from coast to q coast
 With a coffee pot and flivver.
 'TwoULDNT DO What hymn shall we sing at the funeral of this departed 1brother?" Anything but Lead, Kindly Light" Why not sing that hymn?' ''IIe lost his life by hunting a gas leak with a lighted candle"
 BATTLING RETIcENcB Hes former cabinet officer" ''Well?
 Quite a remarkable personality" Tn what particular? s ''He isn't writing anything for pub ication"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
EMPHASIZES, BROTHER. EYELASHEs From the Tampa Tribune.

The Birmingham Age Herald urges W waterproofing of those paste-on-eye- bnpws, in the event of flood of tears. But no flood of tears ever rolled eye- brow high.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
As SWIFT AS THE TORTOISE

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Congress Is rushing a bill to build a ship to carry airplanes. After that . bill will be rushed to build the planes. It's a rushing place.. Washington.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04

AN OPTIMIST IN COURT merry soul is William Fudge, Who seems to have no care And always says, Good morning.
 judge"
 With quite cheerful air.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
WHAT DOES HE KNOW ABOUT IT

From the Kansas City Star.
 w. l.. George, the English novelist who has been visiting America. says American children do not have any fun. We would like to ask MT. George Just one ouestion-was he ever an American child?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
PUTTING TT OFF

PUTTING IT OFF Full many a man Will scheme and plan For successes that might be won. And all his life through Talk of what he will do Until it's too late to be done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
FLYING BILL" HAYWOOD

ing to pieces. We are not starving any human being or organizing con- spiracies to starve anybody into sub mission.
 Haywood, maybe, is "spoofing" the Russians Certainly. he knows that he is talking utter rot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
FATAL INDULGENCE

FATAL INDULGENCE Do you know any reliable bootleg gers?
 q once knew man of that type. but he's dead now" "what complaint carried him off?" ''No complaint especially He fell a victim to pride of capacity. He had large business. and every time he sold drink he took one"
 THE DIFFERENCE They trod the stately measures of the ~ dance"
 '.Ah, yes. but that was very long ago. At any modern ballroom give glance Now cheek to cheek. they toddie to
 and fro.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
THE GAMES THE THING

"1s Mrs Calder devotee of bridse?" "'Devotee' is the word" "Yes?"
 "Why, she doesn't care a boot about the refreshments"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
Wants one Here

"A notice is tackled on the bulletin board. near the cashiers desk at the Tutwiler hotel, which hope some day may be applicable about Birmingham Southern college" said pr. Guy Snaye- ly the new president of the college.
 "Itis a message sent out to the trav- cling public to steer away from Knox vile for a few days on account of the dedication of pair of the $1,000,000 buildings at the University of Tennes- see.
 T hope the drive under way at pres ent for $1,ooo.ooo is but the forerunner of the time when a message from Bir- mingham will have to be sent out to the various hotels in the south warn ing the travelling men. to remain away from the city for season on account of the dedication of some handsome buildings out on our-campus."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
Shriners' Parade

Tt was with pleasure that read the story in The Aee- e-Herald yesterday morning assuring Shriners their pa- rade to be held Monday would not be drowned out" said R. M. Ragsdale. Although this organization has made extensive arrangements for parades In the past, the last two have been rained possible to have a parade at all.
 This was great disappointment not only to shriners and their families but to the large number of persons gathering to witness 1t. I hope the jinx will stay away this time and the weatherman will order 2 fair day Mon- day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
Auburn Endowinent

T never saw such enthusiasm as was shown at the Auburn commencement" says Joel F. Webb. The trustees and alumni were graetly impressed by the statesman-like way in which President Spright Dowell had taken hold of the institution.
 The faculty seemed to be on tip-toe and alumni day inaugurated new era. The drive for $2,Ooo,OOo authorized by tho board of trustees came as a spur to the old Auburn guard. and at the banquet they took up the proposition with great enthusiasm and are going to get in behind 1t and put it over."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
Overlooked Money

Burglars certainly were fooled when they visited friend of mine re- gently for they overlooked some money that they had their hands on without Knowing it." said Miss Annie Maud Hays. "A friend of mine had about $50 in paper money in sfnall bank in her office. Burglars entered the place during the night and ran- sacked everything. They took small amount of money out of the cash draw er and picked up the bank, but not hearing anything rattle. they con- cluded it was empty and threw it aside. She certainly was glad the burglars were fooled" M
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04

A MORNING PRAYER
 o God,~I thank thee that even though life may be hard it is yet possible for me to keep my heart so tender that thou mayest write thy will thereon. Amen.--M. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
TRIAL OF WAR CRIMINALS A FARCE

Room among the lmmortaIs Ios Judge valjean Biddison of Oklahoma;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-04
GIFTED ENTERTAINER

"of course not. I'll take it."
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-11-18
MONTANA APPLICATIONS
FOR MONEY POURING ~

Neutrality-suspicious. carr W
Riddick received a report from the war
finance corporation that the Montana
agency has already received appiica-
tions for leans agGregating S1.5OO,oeo,
al though the final arrangements have
been completed but few days. In
formation is had that another iafe
quantity will be coming along soon. 1t
is expected from now en-, the Montana
committee VIII be sending in compiet-
ed applications with fair speed.
Referring to the criticism that there
IS too much red tape and complaints
about security and interest rates. Con-
gresham Riddick SAYS these COM
plants can only ccme from misun
Outstanding OF the purposes Of the law
governing this activity This is not a
"government handout" but on the 9TH
er hand is IA sound iil.aciai plan to
place millions Cf cash Immediately
available for stockraising and farming
operations in Montana under regula-
t!ons that will make certain that the
security is of the character and sui.
ficient. so the bonds can be sold on
the eastern market. To expedite the
,relief. and - save costs, the money
IA distributed through the banks and
loan agencies. which under the law
are not permit ed to collect more thar
per cent for their services and the
guarantees equisd of them.
The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-11-18
GRIMES TRIAL Al yskALAkA
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20TJ5

Paul Grimes. charged with man
slaughter, will he placed on trial at
Ekalaka. Carter county, Tuesday, No
vember g.. for the alleged murder OF
his sheepherder. Merton Coo cn Friday,
September %. The original charge was
for murder in the first degree by Judge
Stanley Felt granted Il motion which
reduced the charge to ,nans!augH,e r
and allowed bail in the sum Of 10000.
Sharplcss Walker OF Miles City will
assist County Attorney Leon Wheeler
Ct Carter county in the prosecution.
and Grimes will be defended by At
torneys l. NJ. Simmons and Daniel Me-
Cutckson OF Belle Fourche.
Az the time Of the homicide, q band
OF sheep were being traiied 20 the
railroad for shipment to market. and
1t IL said the trouble between the two
men arose when Gee insisted upon
receiving his $500 in back pay before
reaching the railroad.