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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07
REAL BOOKS

From the saturday Evening Post
 The high prices of new books will prove a blessing in disguise If only they have the effect of setting people to reading some of the old ones. There has not been a time within the last 40 years when the buyer of new books got so little for his money as he gets today. Many serious books, so called, though not large in bulk, cost from s4 to s6; and not few of them are so hastily thrown together. are so un- scholarly, so lacking in anything like real authority or utility that they would be dear at any price. In the field of fiction so many popular au- thors are writing with one eye on the movies and the other on the speakies that the reader often gets mighty lean pckings for his $2.
 There are social groups all over the sign of intellectual inferiority not to have read the newest novel, though no odium attaches to- the profoundest ignorance of the larger part of the really great fiction of the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. In these seudo-intellectual circles every young matron is expected to have glib opinion of the immaturest cockney writer of corduroy verse; but no one even thinks of chiding her for never having read 20 consecutive pages of that noble company of singers who are the pick and flower of 500 years of English song.
 Fiction, poetry and the essay are not the only kinds of reading that have a just claim upon our interest. Certain Americans need Americanization all most as much as the swarthy immi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07
THE LIFEGIVING ''PONE"

a supercilious nose at the cornbread con- sumers of the south, may no longer do so with dignity or with conviction. Life is amplifed and prolonged by the pursuit of vitamines. The cornbread consumer caught up with shis allocation of vi tamines a long time ago and arranged to sit down occasionally and get outside of them. He didn't know just why, but he wouldn't be jeered from tho feast Now comes science unvei1ig the secret of his wise devotion to his provender.
 The scientific investigators point out that in fullest measure vitamines are found in jowl and greens and in corn bread. While the scientist points out these blessings the sensible southerner- continuing an old and a cherished GUS tom-blends them.
 Many northerners have asked just what the southern term ''corn pone" means It means a considerable quantity of charming crispness. It may be served with butter. buttermilk, jowl and greens fried chicken and cream gravy or with almost anything commonly produced and consumed where blowing corn is the largest industry. It should not be eaten with oysters upon the half shell or used as base for Russian cavier, but in it's place it gives life as the scientists show, and gives satisfaction, as innumerable in- veterate consumers know.
 The historical emotional adherence of by the results of coldly scientific re- search. Light is shed upon why Con- federate soldier with a handful of parched corn for his daily ration fought with the vigor and the rapture of wildcat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07
Great Coal Business
 Waits on Terminals

w aus on lermmdIS
 6NHE coal terminal to be built at
 lS Mobile cannot take form too soon for the good of the Alabama coal field. A great outside market awaits our coal as soon as we are able to supply it properly.
 The Coal Trade Bulletins sum- mary of exports of coal from the United States in January shows that total of 2,248, ,O0O tons of bituminous coal was shipped to foreign countries along with considerable anthracite. What particularly interests the Ala bama coal district is the export move ment to South and Central America and the West Indies. Argentina took 107,000 tons, Brazil 35,000, Mexico 32,000, Panama 51,000, Cuba 55,000, Chile 66,000, the total to the countries south of us for January being 367,000 tons. All of that might have been shipped by Alabama with adequate port facilities.
 Italy took 1S5,000 and France 143,- 900 tons. Alabama participated in that movement, but not to the extent that it should have done. Alabama was also entitled to more than it re- ceived of the 604,00O tons of bunker coal taken on by ships in the ports.
 Mexico, Chile and Cuba took 12,0O0 tons sof coke in January. Alabama sent much of that, but should send more. They are our natural markets. We will thrive as we should when we have cultivated them in broad land systematic manner.
 The export business inl coal and coke should serve Alabama as the export business in steel products does. Steel has been going in quantities from the Birmingham mills to the orient and Europe while this country was taking very little of the Ensley and Fairfield product.
 The possibilities and advantages of export trade out of the Birmingham district are endless. The thing to do is to keep at it until the possibilities are attainments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07
ONE WAY TO GET ACTION

From the Houston Post
 It is disastrous that work on the great Wilson dam in Alabama should be stopped because of the failure of Congress to appropraite for the com pletion of the work. The project is 50 important that perhaps Senator Un- derwood would be Justified in chang ing the name of the dam to Penrose or Lodge, if that would mitigate repub- lican spite sufficiently to get the ap- propriation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07

grants who are swarming in at Ellis Island. Very few of us know nearly as much as we should of the history of our own country, of the beginnings and growth of it's institutions or of the lives of the sturdy statesmen. soldiers and pioneers who made IS struggling. thinly settled colonies into vigorous young nation with mighty destiny before it. These matters are well worth reading about, whether In the pages of Brancroft, John Fiske. George Otto Trevelyan and former Senator Beveridge or in those of dozens Of less familiar authors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07
e32wTulMsNaeestU
NOT POSSIBLE

From the Pittsburg Dispatch
 When lady who was burning up the road" on the boulevard was over taken by traffic officer and mo- tioned to stop, she indignantly asked:
 What do you want with meg'
 You were running 40 miles an hour" answered the officer.
 Forty miles an hour? Whx officer. haven't been out an hour" said the lady.
 Co ahead" said the officer. That is new one on me"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07

iNi, AS WNNtu pow IhC way NO ihOA S drastic restrictions placed on the habits of the American people.
 # # A screen idol who married a wealthy widow after three-day courtship will remain in pictures. Why forego this opportunity to retire from more or less arduous profession?
 x % < dispatch from Washington re- minds us that the United States has been at war with Germany four years. Fatalities during the past two years have been negligible.
 $ E < Persons who are capable of slipping large sums of money under the pillows of baseball players will meet with lit- tie encouragement this year from the aforesaid players.
 < < < A member of The Age -Herald's staff who was lured to the ball park for the first time in about 10 years will never forgive Babe" Ruth for strik- ing out.
 The air straphanger has made his appearance in the British air service between England and France. He will soon learn to read his newspaper that way.
 Great Britain spent nearly $3,e0o,- 900, ,00O for liquor in 1920. No wonder British liquor dealers refuse to believe that England will ever go dry.
 # < & The Hohenzollerns will never for give Charles for making a blunder that minimizes the Hohenzollern chances to "come back"
 * 4 < Of course there are plenty of good people in New York. The trouble is they never get their names on the front page.
 A negro pugilist arrested in Duluth said he was wounded in the battle of Brest'' Most of the casualties al Brest were cooties.
 * < * yuiJ in, n Leavenworth. He made the mistake of not claiming to be conscientious objector.
 The report that MT. Wilson was going to England caused no excite ment on board the George Washing ton.
 # # # The next step should be an organ ization of home brewers to compare notes and thus get the best results.
 # E x Symptoms of spring fever may be observed any day now on the shady side of the street.
 # # x Carl still considers himself every inch king when he writes pro clamation.
 x x v The suspension of racing adds to the horrors of the coal miners strike in Britain.
 We are afraid MT. Harding will never earn reputation as phrase maker.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07
Chofal Society

We are trying to organize choral society winch will take in all com munities of Birmingham" said Mrs. w. J. Adams. "So far, we have succeeded in forming such organizations in En- sley, West End and East Lake.
 Through the efforts of Gordon Erickson our musical director, work is progressing on plans for the May festival. The society at East Lake has already showed up well in their rendi- tion of the Seven Last Words of Christi on Palm Sunday.
 large singing society, made up of flexible community units. We believe we are on the road to success
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

DOUBTFUL INTELLIGENCE. Where has that poet gone?" Down to the shore to hear what the sad sea waves are saying"
 q hope they'll tell him he's behind with his board bill"
 SIMPLE DEDUCTION. Now tell me the truth" said the fussy old lady to the corner mendicant "are you really blind?"
 Yes, ma'am,' said the beggar. What is this I am about to give your "A nickel. ma am
 'Ha, If you are blind how do you know it's a nickel?''
 Because, ma'am, never get more than nickel out of people like you"
 THE JUDGES LITTLE JOKE Your honor, my husband neglects me shamefully and loses all his money bet ting on horse races and playing the mar ket"
 What is your husbands profession. other than gambling?''
 He's high diver, your honor- "Ah! I see. Your diver is a plunger~
 POSITIVELY PAINFUL 'Ts pr. Pliers still enjoying a large practice among people of wealth?'' He still has his practice. but I don't imagine he enjoys it much" "No?"
 "It must be pretty hard to tell c mf1- lionaire he can't have liquor prescrip- tion." PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07
FoRBEARANcE.

 Full many bard has tried his hand at verse Then to the nearest sanctum swiftly sped; Ye editor, upon his lips a curse. Doth smile and say, Good morning, sir" instead. And thus it is that when life's course is run And old Saint Peter stands beside the gate, Ye editor may hear him say, Well done You bore with those you might have learned to hate"
 THEN HE KNOWS "A man never knows what he wants in this world" remarked the platitudi- nous person. Except when he's couferring surrep- titiously with "a bootlegger," said MT. Bibbles
 WHY GO TO EXTREMES? q must economize. I'm getting deeper into debt every day" Going to sell that big car of yours?" Certainly not. Can't a man economize without suffering extreme privation?"
 ROBUSTNESS. Little drops of water,
 Little raisins, too
 But Uncle Sam won't let us
 Tell you what they'll do.
 Washington Herald. When you wrote that jingle,
 Bard, you might at least Have contrived to mention
 A little cake of yeast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07
Guardsmen on Strike Duty
 Should Be Re-employed

V1fSHE Tuscaloosa Chamber of Com
 J merce has appealed to the mer- chants and manufacturers of that city to employ the young guardsmen who served their state in the preservation of law and order in the mine field dur ing the coal strike. The Birmingham chamber took this action some time ago and the junior chamber has added its plea.
 Business men cannot take this mat ter too seriously. When murders were being committed in the mine field and there was a state of terror there,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07
A MORNING PRAYER

There are many things, dear God. which this world needs which in my weakness I cannot give; but the one thing needed most is love, and of this I can give without measure. Amen.--M. $. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07
STILL GOINGoN

From the Washington Post
 The allies may have scrapped the league, but they have failed to dispose of the scraps.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07

we needed the guardsmen badly. They responded to a man and served for seven months in that arduous and mo- notonous duty. It is poor return for them to come back to their jobs and find them taken by others.
 Civilized society should realize that while it does not need it's guardsmen every day, nor often to preserve the peace, when they are needed, the sit uation is acute and calls for immediate action. If the guardsmen feel that service in the name of their city and state is to be followed by loss of their accustomed employment, they are not going to belong to the guard and the state will not have the pro tection afforded by them when the need arises.
 Merchants and manufacturers should make a special effort to see that the guardsmen find employment. The manager of the Chamber of Com merce has a list of the Birmingham boys who are especially recommended hv their connrnander
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07
Won't Miss It

q have missed Kentucky for several years on account of having attractions at the Alabama State Fair grounds" says Jim Dent, the secretary, but this year I am going to take it in, as l do not feel that Kentuckian is loyal to his state who continually passes up the classic racing event of the year at Churchill Downs.
 Tt is one of the greatest races in the world, and to Kentuckian means more than the English Derby or the Grand Prix at Paris. I a mgoing to take Buster" Brown with me. as l want him to see on real sure enough run ming race"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07
Famous Symphony Orchestra
 Will Delight Music Lovers

I'D RINGING the New York Phil lO harmonic Symphony orchestra to Birmingham is splendid achieve ment on the part of the Birmingham Music Study club. It has been most successful in it's efforts to inculcate as well as gratify the love of good music. The engagement of this superb or 'chestra at the Jefferson will place Birmingham under still greater obli- gations to public-spirited organiza- tion. The house should be filled to 'overflowing at each concert.
 An attraction such as the New York Philharmonic Symphony orches- tra cannot bG brought here without heavy expense, and the people of Bir- mingham should show their apprecia- tion of the Music Study clubs enter prise by liberal patronage. It is not the purpose of the club to make money, but simply to give Birmingham the musical advantages enjoyed by other large cities in the United States.
 The orchestra which will be heard at the Jefferson this afternoon and tonight is one of the greatest in the world. Programmes have been ar ranged that will appeal to everyone who has any taste at all for music. An opportunity is given the people of Birmingham both to encourage the club in continuation of it's good work and at the same time to enjoy the best music obtainable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07
VF ~ F Wilsonian Idea Has Not Been Repudiated
Not Bes

FT7HE President appears to be sin
 u cerely determined not to allow partisanship to guide him in his deal ings with the allies, the Versailles treaty and the question of a separate peace with Germany. He has shown the wisdom of forgetting the fervor of campaign pronounce ments. He is not going to do or fail to do certain things simply because former President Wilson approved or disapproved them.
 But he is in a hard row of stumps. It would be a great republican vic- tory, were it feasible now, to declare a separate peace with Germany with out regard to the Versailles treaty and the League of Nations, but it is not practical and the President is de termined to postpone the separate peace until it does seem practical, if it ever does.
 Senator Knox has declared that in case separate treaty is signed with Germany it shall contain clause that this country will combine with other nations in resistance to any second effort that may be made against the peace of the world. That would be the same as saying to Germany that our peace treaty with her is also one with the other nations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Fleet Nenrine CompIetion

We are nearing the completion of our river fleet" said H. T. DeBardel- eben, manager of Warrior river trans portation.
 We have received 80 of the steel containers made in a Birmingham structural steel shop and with 20 more to come, will have them all on the river serving in the transportation of pack age freight.
 We still have two self propellers like the Tuscaloosa and Birmingham to come. When they are on the river we will have semi-weekly sailings be- tween Birmingham and New Orleans. The fleet will then be modern one in every respect, and we can handle the river traffic in jam-up style"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07

chapter lelllng dDOul IL began.
 "Mornin' little dreamer
 With sunshine in your eyes,
 The stars were talking to you
 Ere they left the brightening skies"
 If he always had the thought of little children in this subconsciousness there was constantly before him the loyalty of dogs This is shown in the dedication of his book to Court, his famous pointer. He said that some friends did not seem to crave the honor, and therefore he ded- icated his volume to Court, mot that he is the best friend 1 ever possessed, but for the reason that should the book not be received with favor he will respect me just the same. He will hunt for me, he will watch for me, he will love me all the more devotedly, serve me all the more ited The more I see of dogs, the better like dogs"
 I'll miss my friends visits to Birming ham, He failed to come this season, as he turned back at Atlanta on account of his condition. But l will always think of him in death as having closed his volume with the lines from the Indian s prayer, which he lived up to: Give me always to be a good comrade, and to view the passing show with an eye constantly growing Keener a charity broadening and deepening day by day.
 Help me to win, if win l may but, and this, Powers especially-if l may not win, make me good loser. Amen!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07

Evidently this acid test of the chill dren's innate knowledge of those whom they could trust was ingrained in Al G. Fields very system, for if he closed his book by dwelling on the fact, he opens Chapter 1 with the following verse:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-07

Disguise, I see, thou art a wiclxedness, Wherein the pregnant enemy does much. Twelfth Night
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-14
GRANDSTAND WILL
 SEAT 10000 FOLK
Fifth of a Mile in CirCumter- ence-To Be Finished
 Wednesday

Work is well under way on the great amphitheatre grandstand be- ing constructed at Avondale park for the pageant which will be q fea- ture of the semi centennial celebra- tion in Birmingham, october 2S-29.
 The grandstand Is being con structed on the east side of the park on a 15O-foot radius. The distance around it from the south side of the stage to the north side is one-flfth of mile.
 There will be 104 boxes in a circle at the foot of the grandstand seat ing 12 people each. The President box will be in the center, directly in front of the stage. The entire seating capacity will be 10000.
 It is estimated that about 10O,OOo feet of lumber will be used in the construction. This lumber was pur- chased of the Southern Pine ana Hardwood company last year, and was used in the construction of the balloon races grandstand by Me Dougan Bros. Construction company who are also doing the present work at Avondale park
 The work was begun last Frlday' and is expected to be finished by next Wednesday. About 20 men are being employed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-14
BEE LINE HIGHWAY
 MAP IS PUBLISHED
Gives Hotels and Garages as Well as Line of
 Road

An official map and log of the Bee Line highway from Nashville to Or- lando. Fla. via Birmingham, has been printed in circular form and Is available for Florida tourists and others travelling all or portions of the route.
 Every mile of the route from Nashville to Orlando is clearly de- scribed. It shows 60 towns along the right of way.
 Twenty of the cities along the line have advertisements of hotels and garages. A table gives the distances between points from Nashville to Or lando. The total distance from be- ginning to end of the highway is s54 miles.
 Charles c. Davis. president of the says 20 to 30 tourists are already seeking information at the office of the association daily. and that the number is increasing
 About 100000 automobiles make the trip to Florida every season, and it Is believed that with the improve ments made along the Bee Line highway Birmingham will see much of the travel.
 Describing the Bee Line route, the log book says:
 The autoist will find few bad stretches just as in any other route, bat he will find it. by every report, the fastest and most passable route between the north and Florida, and at no time impossible"
 Arrangements to make the Bee Line highway the official route to Florida were begun several months ago following conference with Pey- ton Van Vaikenberg, manager of the Florida State Automobile association, and repair of stretches of the route in Blount county and other places suggested by MT. Van Valkenberg were made. The route is now ready for travel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-14

Following he story printed yes teddy of a nc ler in Birmingham who n, eds sE and who has five children Srf thing with which to feed the rb Age-Herald has re- ceivsd do :.it. B of several dollars
 In aadh. .. 10 this. Porter Clothing company did wonderfully generous thing when It sent over some new clothing and hats and wearing ap- parel. So many oth.,s families. Es well as this one. are -a assad -s aae'S articles.
 It is hard to think that within Birmingham's own gates there are people in such desperate straits as these reported to The Age-Serald These cases are authentic. and coLdi- tions are sucn that some children are actually unable to go to school on account of not having clothes. They need underwear and just about everything else.
 The Herald wants to thank everybody who sent in contributions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-14
REPORT SHOWS
 LOW DEATH RATE
Dr. J. D. Bowling Says Death Rate Lowest Since
 October, 1915

Showing ( death rate lower than that of any month since October, 1915, the report for September of the health department showed only 1S9 deaths, according to the report of Dr. J. D. Bowling. made public yes- terday. The death rate for last month was 12,1S per 1000, while the annual rate is Is per 1000 of popu- lation.
 The monthly number of deaths in the city fell below 200 last month for the first time since the influenza ep- idemic. During the epidemic in Oc- tober, 1918, Birmingham had the greatest number of deaths in any one month in it's history. health records showing 596 deaths in that month. December, 1918, came second with 5S1 deaths and February, 1920, third, with 422 deaths.
 Births during September exceeded deaths by 161, according to the re- port. The total number of births was $50, of which 230 were white and 120 negroes.
 Five deaths resulted from automo- bile accidents during the months. There were four homicides and two suicides in September and the total number of accidental deaths was II, including the five auto accidents.