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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-26

!, The real motive back of all the haggling and vociferatlon Is the de- sire of the soviet government to di- vert much or perhaps all os che
 American food supplies from the act-
 ual famine regions to regions nearer
 Moscow. where 1t may be used to All the stomachs of true and tried bolshevists. These bolshevists are
 not starving. but they arc moro or less hungry. Except for the actual rulers everyone in Russia is under
 fed. It would be hne trick to play
 on the credulous Americans to ac- cept their aid for the starving peas-
 ants of the volga and then turn it
 soviet system. It would. of coursA
 mean a considerable decrease in " total Russian population. but it wouio
 insure contentmsnt among those who la are of the most importance to the red regime. And 1t would be such cap ital Joke to play on the Eullible Yan-
 kees.
 It is to guard against just this trick that the American representa-
 tive, walter Brown, Is standing firm lin his Riga conference with Lit vinoff. the spokesman of Moscow. Brown has seen all the food supplies hitherto dispatched to Russia to aid
 the famine sufferers diverted to tho cities of Moscow and Petrosrad and used to eke out the rather slim ra- tions of the city bolsheviki. He feels reasonably certain that if the soviet government had control of the Amer lean supplies tho famine sufferers would continue to suffer while thf
 favored proletariat of tho citiS } would continue to thrive.
 It Is possible that bolshevist \ ,b
 duracy may prevent Americas yypar,
 ticipation in the work of famin re, lief. Surely no American orgaG Gnil.a
 tion can. submit to bolshevist 1dicta
 ton or permit bolshevlst in8tsFfss-
 snce. It remains to bs seen NFhe1hnl or not Lenine will force the SisSue. 70. .~n fHrrE AT rauEs adi, vs,w>
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-26
Birmingham August 24, 1921.
ONLY auAkERs ARE CHRISTIAN


 Maurice Hewlett, prominet English author, writing for the Septemebr Forum on Faith and Works at Pres ent," makes the following statement in regard to the religion of today.
 II have said that Christ's teaching of life never attempted. That is true of nations, with which, so far, l have been dealing. Obviously it Is not trtie of individuals, nor altogether so of groups of individuals. Groups have attempted 1t: :. x. One only, English in origin, has endured for three hun dred years. That is group large enough to be called something else. It does not claim to be a church, and calls itself the Society of Friends. By term of mockery, now become one of affection, men outside call it the Quakers.
 Meantime, in the place of Love to- ward men. upon which the whole Evangel is founded. the nations ot of the world arc waiting still upon Hate toward them. Christian lrlsh still murder Christian English, and English Irish. Russians, having broken down tyranny which levied war on one class, have set up in its place tyranny which wars upon another class. The French, having broken the Germans, hate and fear them more than before. The Turks still massacre the Armenians, the Greeks whatever Turks they can get at. Masters and Men have learned nothing by a war which at. least showed all men equal in fortune, sA- cept to grudge each other their share in 1t. .
 Alone in creation, it seems, hu. manity preys upon it's own kind. That is where we are in 1921, that year of Our Lord. In the back ground hangs Christ on the Cross who died that Love might prevail"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-26
FILM oPrI.frsrs

ILlII UT IT 1fIE 10 I've seen great sorrows on the
 screen All movie fans know whas I mean. But, strange enough. they leave me
 cold It may be that I'm growing old. For fearful heroines who love My stolid bosom fail to move One-half as much as funny chaps Who have the most absurd nishaps Their cheerfulness Is 30 beguiiing Because they always come up smil-
 ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-26
JOB TOR THE ALCHEMI Isrs

From the Boston TranscriptH
 A Boston concern has sh4pwn thst | silk purse may De made o4 soe ear. Information as to how Ito trans- mute ! base metal into sleAn1ins sola coins with which to fill ,e purs. \ oul4 nsv bs. apprecist~,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-26
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
PRIVILEGED CHARACTER

PRIVILEGED CHARACTER
 T should think pr. Pillars vouia less semo of his wealthy and yasa ionaole patients"
 Why so?'
 He has such bluff. piain-spoken way"
 "rhat makes them think all the more of him. People who stand on their dignity with everybody~else will take lot of back talk from medical man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-26
------------- SPOILlNG DRINKING WATER

From the Providence Journal.
 It ought to be unnecessary to say that reservoirs are not made for bathing purposes.
 Carr's Pond, however, which sup plies drinking water to number of valley towns, has been used as a public bathing place, On Sunday nearly one hundred persons were found by Journal reporter at this pond, swimming and enjoying them selves In the same manner as if they were swimming in the salt waters along the shores of Narragansett bay"
 such practice is intolerable. It must be stopped for the sake of the public health. And if other public wxter supplies in Rhode Island are similarly utilized, preventive action must /be taken without delay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-26
ApPEARANcr cortNr

APPEARANCE COUNT
 i've been to a dozen different places looking for a job, but nobody wants to hirc me-"
 Where did you get that silk shirt you are wearing
 T bought it during the war" Take it of& and put on a cheap one. You'll have to convince em- ployers that you've gotten back to normaicy."
 JUST AS EFFECTIVE
 You have no peasantry in this country" remarked the visiting nobleman.
 None to speak of" replied the American citizen. but a liberal dis tribution of tips will purchase as much obsequious consideration as any human being is entitled to-"
 A CAFETERIA PATRON Perhaps you are eating too much" Doctor. if you could see where I eat, you wouldn't say that" Why not?"
 You'd realize that it's impossible to park a heavy meal on & chair arm"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-26

If man succeeds the world envies him; if hs falls it sympathizes with him--and secretly rejoices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-26

An elaborate tombstone and | con. tested will are about all that wealth brings to some men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-26

Washington bureau. 6o2 Davidson build ing.
 Eastern business office. World building, New York city; western business office, Tribune building, Chicago. The S. C.. Eeckwith Special Agency. agents for Tor eIsn adNertlsing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
HEAD OF F|REMEN
 IS FORMER EDITOR
William s. Carter, Texan By Birth, Chief of Brotherhood
 Twelve Years
By Associated Press

Cleveland, October 22-Nearly ev- cry fireman whose livelihood Is de- rived from scooping coal or turning oil into the furnaces of our modern locomotives is familiar with the ca reer of William S. Carter, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen and Enginemen.
 He was born in Austin. Tex. Au- gust II. 1859. and his boyhood days were spent In western Texas. at that time a wild frontier country. Up to IS years of age, he led the life of a typical cowboy. Two years later he took his first Job as a fireman on the old Central Montgomery railway. He worked in the small cab of this old wood burner until November. 1880. and for the next three years he was out of the railway service.
 During part of 1ss3-s4. Mir. Car ter labored in the baggage depart ment of the International and Great Northern railroad and from 1885 to 1889 he was In the locomotive service as fireman on the same line.
 From 1889 to June, 1890. he handled the throttle of switch engine for the International. and then entered  the service of the Denver and Berke- ley Park railroad. suburban line, and continued therein until May. 1S91.4
 The scene of Mir. Carter's next la bors was down in Mexico on the Mon terey and Mexican Gulf railroad. where he hostled and ran road en- zine until May, 1892. The next few years he was fireman on the Mis- souri, Kansas and Texas
 On October i, 1894. he became edi- tor and manager of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen and Engine mems Magazine. and on January 1, 1904. he became grand secretary and treasurer of the brotherhood. which position he maintained until January 1. 1909, when he was elected president of the organization. where he has continued ever since.
 On February II, 1918, Mir. Carter was appointed director of the division of labor of the United States railroad administration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
QUIT MEAT WHEN
 KIDNEYS BOTHER
Take a glass of Salts if your Back hurts or Bladder
 troubles you.

No man or woman who eats meat regularly can make a mistake by flushing the kidneys occasionally. says a well-known authority. Meat forms uric acid which excites the kidneys, they become overworked from the strain. get sluggish and fail to filter the waste and poisons from the blood, then we get sick. Nearly all rheumatism. headache, liver trouble nervousness. dizzi- nes. sleeplessness and urinary dis orders come from sluggish kidneys.
 The moment you feel a dull ache In the kidneys or your back hurts or If the urine Is cloudy, offensive, full of sediment, irregular of passage or attended by sensation of seald- ing stop eating meat and get about four ounces of lad Salts from any pharmacy; take a tablespoonful in glass of water before breakfast and in few days your kidneys will act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice. combined with nthia, and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate the kidneys. also to neutralize the acids in urine so 1t no longer causes irritation, thus ending bladder weakness.
 lad Salts is inexpensive and can not injure; makes a delightful ef- fervescent Whitewater drink which everyone should take now and then to keep the kidneys clean and active and the blood pure, thereby avoid ing serious kidney complications Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06

Lanvtn and the great syndicate that trades under the name of Madeleine ct Madeleine? Or do we mean Fifine and Marie and Margot?
 For the latter are the real dress makers, since it is they who make the dresses. And they have revolted against the decree of instep-hiding gowns.
 But Won't Wear Them,
 They will continue to make them, of course, if Milady of the Avenue Du Trocadero (whereof the signposts insist of the Avenue Du President Wilson"D will have nothing else. But they won't wear them, And that, after all is the test, for wise people and the majority of Parisian women are wise in such matters, will prefer to take the medicine the doctor takes himself rather than that which he prescribes for them.
 You see Fifine and company, who are generically called "midinettes," |" because they are thicker in the streets of Paris at Midi the noon hour than frosting on a homemade cake, are the real fashion plates of Paris From to 12 and from 2 to 6 they sew on dresses for others. From on--on until Morpheus statute of
 
 are apt to sew for themselves. And when they sew for themselves they remind one of a restaurant story. A man went into Paris restaurant, pushed the menu card aside, smack q d his lips, rubbed his hands and called for the head waiter.
 "Maitre D'Hotel," said he, T want you to bring me a filet steak, thick and fat and tender and juicy I want you to smother 1t under sauce ot carefully selected mushrooms of uni form size, cookedA just to the point where they dissolve on the tongue With that, bring me a bottle of old Burgundy. caught just as the ripen- ing Is complete and just before it be- gins to break. Be sure to take a bot tie that has not been disturbed for the past month, at least-and decant 1t In the cellar. to avoid shaking 1t up. Then l want a--"
 You poor boob!' exclaimed the head waiter, or French words to that effect. Don't you think that if we had anything like that in the house the boss would eat 1t himself?"
 Hold OF to New Style
 That's how it is with the midlnettes. They keep the best for themselves. And, having got hold of a style that suits them, to-wit, the skirt that stops just above the knee, they hold on to it.
 We're through with following the nodes" said one of them to an in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
WARREN 5. STONE IS HIGH IN CIRCLES
 OF UNION RAILMEN
Head of Engineers Brother hood Occupied Cab of Rock Island Locomotive for
 25 Years
By Associated Press

Cleveland, Ortober 21.--Warren Stanford Stone, grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers since August. 1903. is one of the most prominent union railroad men in the United States. Besides holding this position. he is head of the Brotherhood's cooperative bank and treasurer of Aii-American Farmer-Laborer Cooperative Com mission, organized. to promote direct dealing between farmers and con- sumers.
 It was MT. Stone who at a confer ence with President Wilson on July 30. 1919. made the statement in Washington which resulted in a movement Of the government to curb speculation and profiteering which resulted from the World war.
 Before becoming head of the en- gineers' brotherhood, MT. Stone oc- cdpied the cab of a freight licomo- tive on the Rock Island railroad for 25 years. He started as a fireman on that system in Iowa at the age of 19 years, fired five years and six months and then wtAs promoted to the chief position in the cab. He operated a freight engine in the same territory for IS years and six months. on a run between Rick Island and Elden, Ia.
 Mir Stone was born on February 1, 1860, on a farm near Ainsworth, Washington county, Ia. He attended the old district school, where he picked up the rudiments of prelim- inary education. He also was In an acad emy for six months and that constituted his early education. All the time he was working on his fathers farm.
 He became grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive engi- neers on July 2a, 1903. when U. M. Arthur, who had been head of the organization for 80 years, dropped dead while delivering an address at convention at Winnipeg. Can. The board of trustees of the order at once selected MT. Stone as Arthur's successor. and he has held the posi- tion ever since.
 He is now one of tho highest paid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
OPEN OLD GRAVE
Unique Case Is Settled By Court in
 China
By AssocIated Press

Shanghai September 22.--As . means of adjusting>a difference be- tween Chinese litigants who ap- peared in the mixed court recently, the court directed that a grave mound 200 years old should be opened.
 The dispute concerned the owner ship of a small tract of ground. In the action Sung Chui-Dong alleged that Yih Woo-Zoong invaded the premises under controversy and erected a bamboo fence around cer- tain graves thereon. asserting that the place was his ancestral burying ground.
 The plaintiff claimed the property as his own by ancestral grant.
 When the grave mounds were opened there were brought to light the tablets of 2 Chinese and his wife who had lived and died under the reign of the Emperor Rang Hsi.
 Whom the tablets were brought to court 1t was found that the charac- ters on them were of peculiar form and the writing read from left to right instead of from top to bottom. but the linking was clear and the placques were we'll preserved. After the reading of the tablets the court announced the graves as those of the defendants family and Sung's petition was dismissed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
MAJESTIC OFFERS
 APRObLEM PLAY

"One Girls Experience" play dealing with what working girls are often forced to submit tos is the at tractio nat the Majestic for this week. In a word, 1t asks the ques- tion: Mothers, where do your daugh- ters go after their work?"
 Stripped of all pretense, yet deal ing with the question in delicate and sensible manner, the play points out pitfalls, offers measures of cor rection. plays on the heartstrings and thrums on the finer chords of the soul.
 Men higher up. men with marble hearts. who prey upon girls who are employed by them, are held to strict accountability in the end, but lot un- til the audience has been moved to tears and gripped by emotion.
 In "One Girls Experience" little courtesies are extended a few pres ents are bought here and there, all with one end in view. Finally. the girl Is lured to a house of question: able reputation, but another girl. wise in tho ways of the world. fol- lows and rescues her from the very grasp of the white slave market. And. In the end, of course, the girl marries the hard working chap who has loved her all the time. Through it all a lesson Is taught and the employer who uses his cudgels of employment over the head sof shop girls and fac- tory girls Is thwarted.
 The Maddocks-Park Players, under the direction of Sam Park, expect to make this another of their banner plays. presenting 1t each afternoon and evening.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06

servers have shown that Antares In the constellation Scorpius Is still larger Because of uncertainty in the distance of this star its diameter cannot be stated with great accu- racy. The smallest value resulting from the use of the different deter minations of the distance makes the diameter 2S0,000.o00 miles and thus the volume of 31.000,000 times that of the sun. Antares is- not on the map. It may be seen very low In the southwest in the very early evening.
 The distance of the Pleiades (the group of stars at M, Figure D has been determined recently. The re- suits show the distance to be about 325 light years.
 SAMUEL c. BARTON.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
STUDY IN CONTRASTS
Mexicans Turn From Grand Opera
 to Bull Fight
By Associated Press

Mexico City. October s.-Indica- tive Of the varied emotions to which the Mexican populace easily lends Itself was scene recently enacted at the bull ring here.
 The occasion was bull fight given in honor of the centennial cell ebration. but prior to the start of the fight a group of Mexican sing CTS and dancers performed. The concluding number was grand opera selection and more than 25.000 per sons applauded so enthusiastically that the number was repeated twice.
 Within five minutes the same 2b,- 900 were cheering wildly as their idol, the matador. Rodolfo Gaona, made his spectacular passes of death" at . raging bull.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06

vestigator from the Paris Figaro the other day, thereafter we are going to set them, at least for ourselves We are called 'trotters,' you know, be- cause. when We are in the street, we are always in hnrry--life is so short. We'll! You can't 'trot in skirt that winds around you like , shroud.
 Moreover" she proceeded, gianc- ing at her wrist watch, and impa- tiently stirring the "cafe-creme" that refused to cool. we have found that the short skirt which came in two years and more ago just suits us You see, most of us are not ashamed of our legs-'
 The reporter couldn't help seeing and made a note of the fact that his interlocutor had very shapely knees, indeed
 "-Wheras. if you want my opinion, the grand ladies who are taking to trailing silks and fringes again are simply jealous Why should we abandon the freedom of movement we get from the short skirt simply because a lot of low dowagers and their skinny. flappers are ashamed to match their calves against ours"
 And then there are the men. Which style do you think they prefer? Oh, there maybe a few old dumb bells who always think the latest fashion is best. whatever 1t Is, but I'll tell you my observation Is that most Of the men like short ones better than long"
 The coffee was cool by now, and Margot, If that was her name, gu1ped it hastily and sped off with an airy "au revoir." As the reporter watched her "trotting" up the street he could not help agreeing that 1t would be a pitty if she and the thousands whose spokesman she had just been were to adopt the new fashion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
PARIS MIDINETTES. REFUSE ID GIVE UP. THEIR SHORT SKIRTS.
Are Up In Revolt Against De- cree That Dresses Must
 Be Ankle Deep"
By GRAND GORDON

Special Correspondent Of The Age Herald Copyright, 1921, by The Age-HeraId.)
 (American women are not alone
 in their revolt against the ty-
 rannous demand of the Parisian
 modistes that skirts shall be
 ssnnlSlc deep" They have strong
 allies in all of those smart lit-
 tie midinettes in the French cap
 ttal--thc women who actually
 make the gowns. They are still
 wearing them short---up above
 the knee, in fact-and say they
 are not ashamed of what the pub-
 lie sees. Our correspondent
 agrees with them).
 Paris, November 5.-Your elegant Parisienne may trip over trailing gown as she steps out of her motor before Cyros or the Cafe de Paris. Dame Fashion in person may cry it from the top of the Vendome column. that henceforth skirts must enwrap the ankles, and that in the future the admirers of finely turned knee must pay good money to the proprietor of a revue or cafe-concert. These ukases from on high don't make the styles,
 It has, in fact. been said that dress makers make the styles. But whom do we mean by dress makers?" Do we mean MT. Paul Poiret and Mime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
A TRUE PROPHECY IN 1913

An extract from the letters of Walter H. Page in the Worlds Work, in which he predicted the coming of the World war:
 Some government (probably Ger many) will see. bankruptcy staring 1t in the face and the easiest way out will seem a great war. Bank ruptcy before a war would be igno- minious5 after war, 1t could be charged to glory" It'll take lons time to bankrupt England. It's un- speakab1y rich; they pay enormous taxes, but they pay them out of thelr incomes, not out of their principal. except their inheritance tax That looks to me as If 1t came out of the principal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
- -------=---s z. DIR YFoR FIFTY YEARS
By Aseociated Prese

London, October 5.-More than 100 men and women. each of whom claimed to have abstained from in- toxicants for 50 years at least, have just assembled here as feature of a prohibition gathering. Communi- cations were received from 100 others who had been teetotalers for more than 50 years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
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Weak hn bsiups
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
NEwsPAPrR CoNsUMPTIoN
Thrift Maxaxine.

From ThrlIt M88USIuo.
 If all the daily newspapers in the United StatAs were cut Into strips of paper a wide as the regular daily paper they would form ribbon 4o.- 100000 miles 1ong. or more than half the distance to the sun. These same newspapers would also make . strip two feet vida belting the world 10000 times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06

national labor executives In thu United States. The last triennial convention of the organization heri last June voted him a salary oi $25, 900 annually.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-11-06
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