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The Washington times., 1921-12-27
Christian Cast-IrOn Pine.

THE teachings of Jesus Christ
are to be the ruling principles
OF the newly elected board of
directors of the American Cast Iron
Pipe Company, according to John j.
Eagan, the president of the COM
pany.
Efforts to run business solely on
Christian precepts have been made
before. The result has always been
that either the business or the
Christianity fell off.
In this particular case Mr.. Eagan,
who is a wealthy man, is selecting
the principles from the Bible him
self. If he permitted his employees
to select them they might pick out
a different lot.
Mr.. Eagan is in favor of a reason
able living wage, constant employ
ment, old-age pensions, relief of
workers in case of sickness, death
benefits and other highly commend
able reforms. So was Karl Marx.
So are many of our advanced State
legislatures.
Among the principles of Christi
anity which the American Cast-Iron
Pipe Company failed to select as a
basis of their operations are these:
"And again say unto you, It Is easier
for camel to go through the eye of a
needle than for a rich man to enter into
the kingdom of God"
IF thou wilt be perfect, 20 and sell
that thou hast, and give to the DOOR, and
thou shalt have treasure in heaven.
If any of his employees suggested
the adoption of these principles, the
officials of the company would prob
ably say to him:
Who's doing the selecting, You
or WEI"
OF Course Not!
tits all right to tell a woman she IA an
angel but"
Butt"
iap' 90
The Washington times., 1921-12-27
The Bait Casting Record.

The worlds record at bait-casting is 500 feet
inches this distance having been thrown by
y T. Emery. at Farnham. England, In July,
1911. The weight Of the bait thrown was two
and one-half ouncas
The Washington times., 1921-12-27
We TOWNE GOSSIP
Copyright. 1891.
Copyright, 1881.
By K. C. B..

HE'S A lawyer. = AND THE train
was in.
AND is very clever.
AND HAS clients. An on i shE wasn't
AND AN automobile. AND he mad. .
AND CHILDREN. great effort.
AND EVERYTHING. AND GAINED
himself.
AND THE other day.
.',:: HE HAD to do it.
AND FOUND him 's so n5ms the
angry.
AND MUCH dis AND REACHED in
turbed his pocket.
AND SORE. AND EXTRACTED
the card.
Ae card ne nao HIS SISTER had sent
FROM HIS sister. AND SHOWED it
AND s1's THE card had AMI Tnr ,:r, ..,a
sur u,o,,, ~ Thursday.
-. AND HERE it was
AT sIs. Wednesday.
OR WHENEVER it AND showed him
was. the Thursday.
ON WEDNESDAY AND NOW he hates
morning: me.
AND HERE he was. AND HATES his
ON WEDNESDAY :.
morning. l THANK you.
The Washington times., 1921-12-27
OF Course Not!

VI Course NOU
TITS all right to tell woman she IA an
angel, but"
Butt"
1T isn't necessary to keep hsrpins on the
subjectr'-Waysde Tales
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
- -7----s0F----------------- ONE WOMAN's MEMORY

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Florence Nightingale's birthday, May i ?, is to be observed throughout the country in her memory as National Hospital Day" The occasion will em- phasize usefully the service of hospi- tals great and small
 Florence Nightingale 5 fame is secure and can take care oe itself through the ages. Not so tho hospitals that per petuate the meaning Of her life, which is the meaning of the devotion of doc tors and nurses everywhere, III peace or war.
 We saw during the war hcw large is the company of the children of the spirit of the heroiae of the Crimea. While Florence NigatinSaie Mas active as the founder of tSe moiernized pro- fession of the tra'ne1 nurse. she lad to endure he spl.ef'd oppssiticn all must face who stand for light and truth. But her vol lsnstands as her vim dica tion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

The 1921 graduates have brilliant fu- lures before them. But most of them will be too slow to overtake them. A lot of modern families consist of a lhusband. wife anu home brew out After a man gets close up to 50 he discovers that a safety pin makes the most comfortable garter ever invented.
 Any old time a girl passes single man on the street four times in the same afternoon it isn't an accident; it is a fIame-up.
 Any man who has tried to split fire wood with a hatchet knows that George Washington was wall-eyed liar when he claimed that he chopped down a cherry tree with one.
 Why does a man think that he should pay old nick overtime when he is giv- ing the devil his due?
 Sixteen bucks quart for hooch is very reasonable. But a six-dollar gas bill is an outrage.
 Probably the blushing bride bushes to think how she sandbagged the poor fish she is leading toNthe altar.
 After you see how some women look without rouge you don't blame them for using it.
 What has become of the ld-fash- toned girl who wore so many pins inthe vicinity of her waist line that you got your hand all scratched up?
 A lot of men lose more things in their pockets than they ever lose out of them
 Our idea of a hopeless self-kidder is a poor man who likes to think that the rich do not enjoy their meals and can't sleep at night.
 Copyright. 1921.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
Famous Chef Paid
 S5O,OOO a Year

M MERIcA is truly a land of super seA Iatives. Oar national trait of boosting may offend our British cous- ins, but t is no lways idle boast ing W aen we claim to have the greatest pugilists and the greatest ball players, the most irascible Briton who ever lived could not dispute the statement, and in the person of Oscar Tschirky we probably have the high est priced and most famous chef in the world.
 Oscar, as nearly everybody knows, is maitre d'hotel at the Waldorf As toria. He has been employed by that hotel for 30 years, and is still com paratively young. He has just signed contract for 10 years longer at a salary said to be $50,0O0 a year.
 Royalty and celebrities of many sorts have paid tribute to Oscars skill. He has perhaps directed more social functions given in honor of prominent men and women than any other man in this country or Europe. Every one of the hundreds of memo rable banquets which he has arranged was masterpiece of culinary art if that word may be used here.
 There is no such word as fail in Oscars lexicon. And in his 30 years of service he has taken only one vacation longer than weekend. That is another reason why he is rich and famous.
 Natural aptitude and hard work have brought Oscar larger income than many railroad executives re- ceive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
DUTCH GUINEA CANsIsAI.s

From The Emeralds of Wilhelmina. D
 by E. Alexander Powell, in the May Scribner.
 Though the population of Dutch New Guinea is estimated at quarter of a million, the predlection of ls fuzzy- haired inhabitants for human flesh mas discouraged the Dutch census-takers rom making an accurate enumeration. as the Papuan cannibal does not hesi- tate to sacrifice the needs of science to those of the cooking pot. Though New Guinea is believed to be enor,nously rich in natural resources, and has many excellent harbors, the Dutch. have thus far only nibbled at it's Fedges. The se- crets of it's mysterious interior can only be conjectured. The natives are as degraded as any in the world; their principal vocation Is hun.ins birds of paradise, whose plumes coaIlt,nd high prices in the European marnsts; the1r chief avocation in recent years has been staging imitation canniL al least S for the benefit of motion-picture ex petitions.
 The sovereignty of Queen WilheImina is upheld among the cannibals Sof New Guinea, the head hunters of Borneo. and the savages of Achin, no less than among the docile millions of Java, by less than 10000 European soldiers. That territory so vast and with so enor- nous population should be so admir- ably administered, everything consid- cred by so small number or white men, is in itself proof If the Dutch genius for ruling subject races.
 From the day when Holland deter mined to organize her colonial empire for the benefit of the natives them selves instead of exploiting it for the benefit of handful of Dutch traders and settlers, as she had previously done, she has employed in nsr colonial service only thoroughly, trained off cials of proved ability and irreproach- able character. The DuteL officials whom l met in Java and tue outp5sts impressed me, indeed. as being men of altogether exceptional capacity and at- tainments, better educated and uuaii- fled. as whole, than those whom I have encountered in the British and French colonial possessiors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
HOME FARE ABROAD

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 The American soldier has sweet tooth. He wouldn't be a true American If he hadn't. In the list of good things consumed by our doughboys at the "Y' restaurant in Coblenz in the year past are S24.s06 plates of ice cream, 475,S43 cakes, .366,351 chocolate sundaes 310.- 9I4 cookies and doughnuts, ~ 2S2,741 glasses of lemonade-and that's only part of the list.
 It sounds like home. Americans carry their appetites wherever they go, cen as they import the game of baseball.
 The sailors will tell you what it means to find at the Sailors club in Constantinople all the goodies of home cooking as compared with the foreign contraptions of spices and garic and sodden dough that are the finger-posts to acute indigestion.
 If you want to make man happy and heal his nostalgia. comfort him with the home diet cooked in the home way. whether it's beans. or apple sauce. or wheat cakes with sirup.
 Even peanuts and soda water may give man to realize that America is an earthly paradise when he hasn't seen any for long time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
Republicans Not Beiittling x
 the Wilson Administration

1T7HE most encouraging feature of
 U the international situation in so far as we are concerned, is the able manner in which Secretary Hughes is conducting the state department.
 MT. Hughes is doing about what he would have done if, as secretary under MT. Wilson, he had been called upon to handle the same problems. He has undone nothing done by former de- partment of state officials. He took hold where the democrats left off and has gone ahead on a well-blazed path.
 The country never was greatly con- cerned over the words used in ex- pressing our agreement with the al- lies, knowing full we'll that we would always find statesmen enough on both sides of the water to interpret them according to the genius of their peoples. What this country and other civilized countries demanded all along and now demand, is that the big na- tions continue banded together for the peace of the world and act promptly for preservation of that peace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
An Able Member of
 the Wilson Cabinet

1T OSEPHUS DANIELS, who vii O be the guest of Birmingham to- day, enjoyed the distinction of being at the head of the American navy during the greatest war we ever took part in and the greatest the world has ever witnessed.
 What the navy accomplished under MT. Daniels direction will always be source of pride to the American people. 1t was a series of splendid achievements in which there was honor enough for every man in the service. Despite the criticism to which he was at one time subjected much of the credit for our naval ef- ficiency is now given to MT. Daniels. He must take keen satisfaction in knowing that 11e acquitted himself in 3 position of great responsibility with honor to himself and his country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
Data to Prove

Data to Prove
 Birmingham's Growth 1T7HE waterworks company is in U stalling meters at the rate of 10 day. It made 400 connections during the first quarter of the year. The record is unprecedented.
 A new water meter means another storehouse or residence. Each time the street main is tapped by the water company it is for new residence or a new place where men are proposing to do business.
 When men wish to know whether their community is growing or reced- ing, such facts as these will inform them with more accuracy than any kind of superficial observation. The number of water, gas and electric meters installed and in use today com pared with the number in use at this time last year shows Birmingham's condition as to population now and then.
 Other industries are responding to the building movement. Wire mill products are more active. Brick and soil plants that were idle have re- sumed. Radiator factories are in op eration. None of this resumption is on large scale, but it is an indica- tion of the better conditions.
 It is true that the average home being built in Birmingham is of mod est character and medium cost. So much the better, because that means sturdy citizenship among the masses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
Operations of the 1921
 Dollar in Foreign Trade

1.-THE hnan who wishes to keep his U vision clear must bear in mind that the dollar of 1921 has a purchas- ing power of $1.35 to $1.5O compared with the dollar of 1920. This will keep him from serious error when he reads the lower money valuations of going trade, decreases in bank clear ings and reduction in money volume of exports.
 Exports for the month of March show decrease of slightly over 50 per cent, compared with March, 1920. Imports make about the same show ing, but Theodore Price, the New York financial and commercial ex- pert, remarks;
 These figures have been widely
 commented upon as indicating an
 ominous decline in our foreign
 trade, but they should not be so
 interpreted for the decline in prices
 that has occurred since March, 1920.
 is about equal to the percentage
 of reduction shown and the fact
 that both exports and imports have
 diminished in value in about the
 same proportion makes it clear
 that it is simply case of re-
 valuing a trade whose volume by
 weight and measurement is proba-
 bly, unchanged
 An illustration coming nearer home is this: The house that cost $12,0O0 in 1920 can be built in Birmingham today for $8,000; the house costing $4,000 in 1920 can be built for $2, 2,6O0. It is the same house with the same materials. The difference is that the house built this year costs third and more less than the same house did in 1920. Ten houses costing $40, ,oO0 last year will cost $26,OoO this year. A thousand tons of pig iron ex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
Taking Advantage of
 America's Tolerance

A BRIEF dispatch from Washing. A ton would probably attract lit tie attention from the average read CT, but there is food for thought in the statement that so many German citizens have obtained patents from the American government which em- body principles of American railroad artillery and other ordnance that Secretary Weeks has asked Congress for legislation limiting the issuing of patents to foreigners. Even more significant is the fact that POI such patents obtained by Germans since last July have been transferred to the great Krupp firm at Essen, which provided ordnance for Germany's am- bilious scheme of world domination.
 It is easy to understand why the Krupps are interested in American artillery, since it was American ord,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
SEEN IN NEW YORK
By c. M. STANLEY

T flaming red velvet corsets. This may | to me.
 It costs 50 cents to go up to the servation tower of the Woolwortn building. But it is worth it to see how little New York really is when l you get the proper perspective | New York tries to be accommodat- ing. You can dine" where an order of sliced turkey costs s2.4o or in ts@ next block eat at Childs whess il costs ;. quarter.
 By the way. there are a lot Of eat ing places here which look like de luxe postoffices. The food is behind little glass doors in the boxes. You drop inN coin which turns a knob and help yourself
 New York has world of places that look like saloons. It is interesting, to watch people order a glass of lager Of dark or Tight" and see their disap- pointment. The stuff has the looks. the taste and the foam. but is strictly within the Volstead law.
 The newest and niftiest thing in hotels here is the Ambassador which opened this week. It has everything the other hotels have and then some.
 l went to Greenwich village the oth- CT day and was sorely disappointed. Perhaps 1 should have gone at night It struck me as about nine-tenths fake and one-tenth cheap butcher shops ana untidy grocery stores.
 am told good many places in New York are not so interesting as in the days before prohibition and can well believe it. Greenwich village and the tollies are two of them But if must have taken lot of liquor to make them really interesting.
 At the American Museum of Natural History you eat lunch in the Mitla restaurant It is an exact reproduction of dining room of palace near Mex ico City as it existed in the days before Montezuma. Very interesting, but the food and prices are very modern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26

nance, and in particular the huge guns mounted on railroad cars, that played a conspicuous part in winning the war.
 These German inventors are not "hyphenates, but since the war ended there has been revival of "hyphen- ism" in the United States. This was shown by the clamor of racial groups when the democratic and republican platforms were being adopted. The idea that foreigners can come to America and whether naturalized or not abuse the hospitality of the Amer ican government to serve their native countries is just as persistent now as it ever was.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
THE PoMPADoUR,s FAN

By Austin Dobson Chicken skin. delicate white,
 Painted by Carlo vanloo. Loves in a, riot of light
 Roses and vaporous blue; Hark to the dainty frou-frou! Picture above. if you can,
 Eyes that could melt as the dew This was the Pompadour's fan! See how they rise at the sight.
 Thronging the Oeil de Boeuf thr~~eh Courtiers as butterflies bright
 Beauties that Fragonard drew.
 Talon-rouge, falbala queue, Cardinal. Duke-to a man
 Eager to sigh or to sue This was the Pompadours fan! An. but things more than polite
 Hung on this toy. voyez -vous! Matters of state and of might
 Things that great ministers do:
 Things that, maybe overthrow Thos h whose brains they began:.
 Here wsss the sign and the cue-- IhisfwAs the Pompadour,s fanis ENVOY " liefe gre the sccrets it knewf
 Feavissgs of plot and of planf DAil where Is the Pompadour. toaf
 rms was the Pompadour's fan!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
A VOICE FROM UPSTAIRS
WATCH YOUR STIFF

Why don't you look where you are going?' asked the irascible person who had been bumped into by an ab- sent-minded gentleman.
 My thoughts were elsewhere" said the absent-minded gentleman. T was just meditating on the situation in. central Europe"
 Well if you have anybody depen- dent on you for support, you'd better mediate on the uncertainties of life in large city" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
FASTTIFE IN EMPORIA

From the Emporia Gazette.
 With the Russian ballet dancers at the Normal. Uncle Toms Cabin" in tent show, the colored musicians at the Star, the 'ziz-zag Revue" at the Strahd movies at two other theatres and prayer meetings at the churches. there will be nobody home in Emporia tonight a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
 A CHANGE TO GET EVEN

From the New York Herald.
 A German officer wishes to paint General Pershing's poit trait. There's an old parallel: the barber condemned to death whose last request was per mission to shave the dist~ic, attorney.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
GIVING THEM THEIR MONEYS
 WORTH

GIVING THEM THEIR MONEYS
 WORTH If I were king in Switzerland, Exiled from a broad domain, I'd lower my head and walk with a
 tread
 That betokened a heart full of pain And all the tourists who journeyed
 there
 Would thrill at the sight of me- I'd enact the role of stricken soul For that's what they want to see.
 NOT INDISPENSABLE Education is great thing" re- marked Prof. Diggs. ---s' Tt is. indeed" replied MT. Dub waite but have noticed that young man can achieve emfnence in baseball without ever having familiarize4 himself with the flowing lines of Vergil or the immortal commentaries of Julius Caesar"
 HARSHER NAME How old are you, Jncie Eph?' 'Ninety-eight years old, sah." You're fine example of longevity "sah?"g
 T say you are a fine example of longevity"
 "Yas sah. Thank you, sah. But when my oP oman is hard at work an I'm setting in de sunshine dat ain't whut she calls me-
 ALMOST PROHIBITIVE
 l won't run down to Cuba,
 And this is why:
 The hotel rates in Cuba
 Are too darned high
 CERTAINLY NOT "Shocking Shocking! That piece of statuary should never be exhibited" But it's work of art" "Bahp
 And besides you can't sculpture Venus in Paris gown"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
A WORD TO 'COIOMBIA

From the Chicago News.
 If Colombia is wise it will invest thar s25,ooo,0oo fund fin non n-transferable Yankee securities and not place estemp- tation in the way of any of it's aspir- ing generals
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-26
PUBLIC OPINION AND WAR

How nearly the United States avoid ed war with Spain in 1898 is told by A. B. Farquhar, president of A. B. Far quhar company, limited, iny his me moirs, which are appearing in system. Here is the story:
 T was at Woodley the Presidents country residence near Washington, one Sunday afternoon, when some mem lers of Congress came in and said;
 MT. President we wish to see you on an important matter. I got up, but he motioned me ,c keep my seat. They continued: We have about deci5ed to declare war against Spain cTer the Gu ban question. Conditions are into.er- able
 "Mr Cleveland drew himself up and saia: There shall be no war with Spain over Cuba while I am President
 "One of the members flushed up and said angrily:
 MT. President, you seem to forget that the constitution of the United States gives Congress the right to de clare war
 He answered Yes, it also makes me commander chief, and 1 will not mo- bilize the army. I happen to know that we can buy the island of Cuba from Spain for $150.000.0o0. and war will cost vastly more than that and will en- tail another long list of pensioners l called to see Wayne Macy sagi at this time to hear what he knew of the pos sibility of purchasing the island. He said:
 "'We can buy that island and it would be an outrage to deciars war.
 ''The Maine was destroyed Iresi- dent Mckinley felt the same way as Cleveland did about the question of Cuba, but he could not stop the rush to war. Spain may have had nothing to do with the destruction of the Maine."