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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08
THE NOMINATION OF GREELY

Chester L. Lord. in the Saturday
 Evening Post. l IA EfY first glimpse of Horace l UWIl Greedy was on the afternoon c e-' of hls nomination for the presidency. Amos Cummings, pass ing me, said: Come along. I'nf go- ing over to- see how Horace takes it. I may need you," and presently he added, You write a description of Greely's office and his personal ap- pearance and I'll do the rest.''
 We climbed the Tribune stairway and found Greedy in great glee. He was much pleased over his nomina- tion and couldn't conceal 1t. He had been writing an editorial article when the news came, and the unfin- ished sheets were yet on the desk. The editorial room was on the sec- ond floor of the old ediflce, and Greely's desk was close to the win dow and Greedy could be seen from the street as he sat at his work. People used to stand In the street and watch him, for he was one of the sights of the town. A great crowd was gathering as we went in.
 The room was quite plainly fitted. It contained three chairs, two desks and a high stool and an old sofa. An immense map of the world covered one wall, and on another were maps of New York and New Jersey. Also framed print representing the land ing of the Pilgrims and a plate of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation were hanging there. The editors desk was filtered with newspaper clippings and manuscripts Some of them looked as though they had been there since the time when Henry Clay ran for President. A box of common red waters was half upset on one side and an old-fash- toned sand box used for plotting was standing guard over the accident Postage stamps. envelopes. letter paper and pamphlets seemed ready
 
 to fall out of the drawers. The en- tire desk was mass of confusion Two bound copies of the Tribune Almanac and a pair of dis reputable shears were chained to 1t. Greely's hat lay on the desk.
 Greedy was neatly dressed in black. His necktie was smoothly placed and his pantaloons were drawn over his bootlegs. The leg end that he habitually went around with one trouser leg thrust in his boot top is fable. He used to wear a white topcoat and wide- brimmed soft hat that were a bit com spicuous, but in general he displayed few eccentricities of~~dress.
 Cummings led him into converse ton and a half score of visitors chimed in. Greedy did not say that he expected to be elected. but It was plain that he thought he would be. He was anxious to know what the convention platform was to advo- cate, saying that he could not accept the nomination if the platform were to declare for free trade. To col
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08

From the Florida Metropolis.
 ~ ONT sew the flag into sofa |JO pillow. :. .,,, ,.n,. kerehief
 Don't twist 1t into fantastic de- signs.
 Don't use 1t in any form of adver- Using.
 Don't let is drag in the dust in han ding 1t.
 Perhaps the most conspicuous form of disrespect for the flag is in tns uses made of it in decorating TOT different occasions MT. Cushing ex- plains the rules for these uses. lie points out that in the horizontal pa sition we usually drape the flag properly with the starry field at the upper left. Not so often, however do we hang it as it should be In the vertical. The proper way IS Win the starry field at the upper rignt The flag has an inside ana an ou'- side. The starry Field shoald be dis played from the outside. No other flag should be hoisted above the na- tional colors except the white tri- angle and blue cross If the church pennant, which allowed to fly at The masthead al tsye tirs Stars and Stripes. when re slous services are in progress in militia ' cnspel or aboard ship of the navy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08
150 Victory Medals

one hundred and fifty victory medals were issued to Alabamians curing July by sergt. Limuel F. Hill, U. 5. M. C., who is in charge of tho local recruiting station of the ma rines at 1s2o1A Second avenue.
 The first few days of July broke e all records for the issuance of medals '2stated Sergeant Hill. "Everv application received requested that the medal be sent prior to the Fourth so that the writer might wear 1t in the various parades on the Fourth of July. l also received numerous an- pilcations from parents of marines who made the supreme sacrifice for their country in France, and in an- swer requested them to send their ap- plicatlons direct to headquarters of the marine corps at Washington. D. c. as l am only authorized to issue them to exmarines"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08
THE LEADERSHIP SWE.LACK

Domestic politics were hardly inI the poets mind. The Crimean war| had been going on for more than al year. International bickerings had hampered the campaign. The inter- ference of Napoleon the Little, the ob l stlnacy of Canrobert commanding the| French. the bitterness developed be- tween Raglan and PeIissler, who sue ceeded Canrobert, were in every ] body's thought. Possibly before these lines were penned the writer knew of the bloody and disastrous repulse of the allies on June IS, att the stormings of the Redan and the Malakoff. the direct result of dis agreements. Very certainly he re- membered the fall of the Aberdeen ministry, largely the outcome of Sir William Howard Russell's letters to the Times exposing horrible misman- agement of commissariat and sup plies, horrible neglect of wounded soldiers, which led to the commission given to Florence Nightingale. He may have been thinking more of world leadership than British leader ship. Tennyson had a broad gauge mind.
 Comparing little things with greater ones, the Crimean mixup bears pretty close analogy to the mix-up that has followed the col lapse of Germany. Again, England and France. though allies, are not in full harmony on the treatment of Russia, on the treatment of the near east. Again the world Is unsettled. One Gallipoli campaign recalls an- other. World leadership is more needed than ever before. And, as Lord Bryce intimates, nothing can take It's place. The man who can rule and dare not lie is the desidera- tum of civilization. England must furnish him, or America. Probably the greatest Frenchman or Italian would fail to meet the emergency. It Is a condition and not a theory that confronts the progress of the human race.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Progress at Wilton

Wilton Is spirited little town, which is forging to the front" said Prof. s. A. Ellis. Tt is a railroad town, one mile from Montevallo on the Southern, and Is the junction of the Southern and Birmingham Min eral railroads. The Southern shops are located there, and the population Is largely composed of railroad em- ployes Many houses have been re- painted recently. A series of sub stantial brick buildings have just peen completed to take the place of several frame structures which burned few months ago. These buildings have been erected by pr. E. U. GiVhan of Montevallo and, I. M. Harrison. They will be occupied bv two mercantile stores, large drug store conducted by pr. Byce, the post office and barber shop by MT. Green wood.
 The town is greatly elated over the establishment there of branch of the Spencer-E Business CoIlese of Birmingham. This school opened on august with a splendid enroll. ment."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08
The Bank HeIped

AS has been the case with the establishment of many other cattle and dairy industries. the Gallion Creamery owes it's birth this spring to local bank" said E. NJ. Spencer Jr. The $1o,O0O, with which to se- cure the site and purchase the ma chinery was advanced to the neigh l. borhood farmers by the Robertson Banking company of Demopolis. The security was the character of the farmers interested in the enterprise and the esteem in which the bank ing house held them.
 The creamery has been a0pro- nounced success. The demand is far In excess of the butter made. The creamery is the only one know of that may be said to be in the middle of pasture and to be owned and operated by the owners of the cows furnishing the butterfat."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08
Alabama Does We'll
 Compared With Others

ID IRMINGHAM was cheered by ID an authoritative summary of working conditions at the steel mills of the Tennessee company ap- bearing in The Age-Herald Friday The district breathed more freely on realizing that our steel works had been and are now doing better than those of any other steel section in the country.
 Like cheer should be taken from the comparative data as to the pro duction of pig iron. The country made new low record in July. Alabama reported only five active stacks for that month, but there were none active in Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Texas, Shenan- go Valley or New York outside of Buffalo. Only one stack was active in New Jersey, Lower Susquehan- ma, Lebanon Valley, Maryland and Wheeling districts. Only two were active in Lehigh Valley, Schuykill Valley, Colorado and Missouri. Only three were going in the Buffalo, N. Y, district.
 Scarcely had August begun when one of our largest makers found his yards bare of stocks and in or der to remain in the business of serving his customers with iron was forced to blow in another stack.
 Grades of pig iron on yards are so ill-assorted that the melters have begun to display more passing in- terest in their future supply.
 Undoubtedly the iron and steel outlook Is better than it has been in months. Bottom has been reached and the turn is in the other direc- tion. Alabamians would be untrue to their own spirit of courage if they failed to see in the manner in which we have fared compared with others the comeback of the old leadership that southern pig iron has maintained through the decades.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08
Large Increase in
 By-Products Plants

A N official summary of the by &A product plants in this coun- try, with their producing and coal consuming capacity, shows Ala bama, young as it is in the mining of coal, the conversion of coal into coke and the manufacture of pig iron with the coke, fourth in rank.
 Not only is Alabama fourth in rank as a by-product producer, but the increase made by this state through the addition of new ovens and new plants in 1920 is the great est made by any state having the by-product oven.
 Pennsylvania leads, with 3,951 by-product ovens. Ohio comes next, with 1,65s, Indiana third, with 1,216, and Alabama next, with 1,141. The Alabama ovens have a producing capacity of 4,699,2o0 tons of coke, to make which they will consume 6,236,000 tons of coal. The new plants, those of the Alabama By-Products company and the Sloss- Sheffield company, were completed last year, and the Tennessee com pany added 154 ovens to its large plant at Fairfield. The increase was just about 40 per cent.
 The full benefit of the increased capacity was not felt last year be- cause the new ovens did not come into full operation until the half year was gone, but they will count tremendously in the future. Not only does the by-product oven mean lower-priced pig iron, but rev. enue also from the chemical by products for which the market is limitless.
 It cost the three investing con- panies about s15,OOO,OOo to install fhe 324 new ovens and they roust he paid out of earnings. It is high price to pay for a betterment, but those with confidence in Alabama believe that trade revival will soon find them making the returns justi- flying the supreme optimism that caused the ovens to be built.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08
AumlENaMdAaaeefH
ALL FOR A DOC
From the New York rrihune

From the New York Tribune,
 Joseph Antonelli, his wife, their f1ve children and their pet dog sailed for Naples yesterday on the steam ship Argentina, of the Cosulich line. There probably wouldn't be anything unusual about this if the Antone,lis were travelling first cabin, but they were booked for the third and no pro- visions had been made for the dog.
 Tears and the unbending devotion or two children for a flop cared mon erel, however, finally won out in A battle which involved dock-superin- tendents, pier police, wealthy passen- gers and dignified representatives of the Italian government. It was all because passenger regulations, freight tariffs and health rules came afoul of the determination of the two little Antonellis.
 Georgie, 5 years old, and Francesca. 3, started up the gangplank at the Bush docks. Brooklyn, leading their pet dog Just before sailing time yes- terday. Antonelli was teld that the dog could not go as freight unless crated and covered by permit. The children insisted that he could They wouldn't go without him and disap- peared.
 They turned up later towing A. J. Backman, superintendent of the pier, who, yielding to their tears and en- treaty. got the animal into crate. A hurried call to the shipping agents brought an offer to ship the mon- grel for half price and a rich passen- ger furnished the amount.
 Everything seemed rosy until they started to carry the crate aboard, when the ships officer demanded a permit from the Italian consul. By this time 1000 prospective passengers were interested in the transaction. Mir Backman rushed around and finally he found the consul on the dock and told the story. The consul came through with the permit. As the Argentine sailed Georgia and Francesca waved thankful good bye to their benefactor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08
Enjoyed Florida Trip

T had great time at the Florida State Baptist assembly which met at Stetson university. De Land, Fla. .'' says Mrs. James E. billiard. "and greatly enjoyed my work as one ot the lecturers. I am finding that my speciality in Sunday school work. the intermediate department, is rapidly forging to the front. I know that it is gripping me with interest
 T enjoyed running down to Day. tQna beach, and was so charmed with De Land. Stetson university, and the assembly that I hope to get Dr. Dill lard to spend his vacation there next year. as both of us will be on the programme"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08
Lover. of snort

"The address of John Wallace state game and fish commissioner, in Ensley Thursday night, has stim,- lated interest among sportsmen,' said Ed Warnick, secretary of the Sports mems club of Ensley. T believe the truths that Commissioner Wallace was able to point to the assembled lovers of sport will be carried through by them and as result a very large amount of conservation will be effected.
 "Mr. Wallace knows his subject perhaps with more thoroughness than any man in public office in this state, and that once realized. gives a very strong emphasis to his words
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08
How to Utiiize* Our
 Large Buying Power

N0 THEN the heads of industrial WV corporations and other large consumers of the district stand back of their purchasing agents in cam paign to buy goods made in Bir- mingham and to patronize sellers who maintain warehouses here, the tremendous buying power of this district will bring more warehouses and factories to Birmingham.
 The purchasing power of the Bir- mingham district is not exercised as it should be and in accordance with the force which it can legitimately exert in the building up of the city and the district. Birmingham is the largest consumer next to Pitts bufg of electric motors, of picks and shovels, of leather belting and many other articles used in the min ing of coal and the operation of fur naces, steel mills and other indus tries. Let sellers know that Bir- mingham buyers have a decided preference for trading with the man whose warehouse at least is here and the warehouses will come. Fac tories will follow the warehouses.
 It is a mere matter of letting the seller know this preference. He will not discover it unless there is cooperation in the movement to let him know it, and to that end the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08
Wise School Board Makes
 A Concession to Golf

177HERE will be no shortage of U caddies at Rye, N. Y, when the Apawamis golf tournament is held, an event in which President Harding, Chief Justice Taft and 50O other players are expected to take part. The board of education faced a grave emergency and met it in the characteristic fashion for which sport-loving- American people are noted.
 The opening of the schools has been postponed from September 12 to September 19, so the urchins of Rye can get their share of about $1 ,500 which will be paid for cad dies fees. Only one member of the board objected, gentleman by the name of Byrnes. He took the po- sition that the education of the young is more important than golf and the tournament should be held during the vacation months when boys roam at large and are plenti- ful. This old-fashioned notion did not meet the approval of his col leagues on the board and he was overwhelmingly voted down.
 It would not be difficult to inn agine the joyous acclaim with which this decision was received by the youngsters of Rye. There must have been many earnest consulta- tions behind barns, in garages and on vacant lots while the fate of the golf tournament and the $1,50o hung in the balance. There may be hide
 
 bound educators who think Rye has established a bad precedent, but golf enthusiasts, who are almost as numerous nowadays as baseball rooters, will maintain that the board of education did just right. A chance to see the President in action on the links doesn't come every day, nor the shower of small change which an important golf tournament will bring. No one will be any the worse off for postponing the opening of schools for one short week, unless k's some>> old fogies who have no
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08

regard TOT a pastln1e rich Tn tradi- tion and the feelings of Rye's en- tire juvenile population. When President Harding put "cora- monsensical" into circulation he stirred up the dictionary sharps The large book at our left has 1t, Com monsensible. (Colloq)."
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 young woman who killed a man said she felt as If she could jump from New York to Mexico If they hadn't nabbed her she might have done It.
 We hope Ambassador Harvey will look as wise as he possibly can while he's attending the meeting of the allied supreme council in Paris.
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 New Orleans tenants have organ ized to fight rent gougers. The av- craze citizen will stand just so much. Then he takes his coat off
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 The ranks of cameramen are not overcrowded because they have other duties to perform besides snapping bathing beauties.
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 FHN who are going abroad are suspected of being on the trail of the once famous American cocktail
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 We still have something to be thankful for. The reformers have not started in to regulate the length of Sunday afternoon maps.
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 Eastern candy dealers who have gone back to the five-cent sales are making a great concession to the younger generation.
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 The Ohio thief who stole a fruit orchard would probably scorn the comparatively easy theft of an auto mobile.
 The person who wrote "The Mir TOTS of Washington" seems to know thing or two about the foibles of the great
 Paragraphers are expected to make the most of the reported decision of the Turks to withdraw from Angora
 # # # Lou Tcllegen is paying the penalty for having married singer who's pretty good in Carmen"
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 Some recent acquittals indicate that there are times when the law Is "a ass."
 The cartoonists give free reign to their imaginations when they picture conditions in Russia.
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 Hygiene gives up the ghost when two young women use the same lip stick
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 Des Moines has substituted the "honk" of the motor bus for the clans of the trolley car
 x 4 Y We may be wrong, but 1t Is our impression that "a skyscraper" bur glar uses the elevator.
 # # # Spain's population is now 21,0O0, ,Ooo, including the bull fighters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08
M EN, w o MEN
 AND THIN G s

The tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, which was so elabo- ately reproduced, brought to my mind Roger Williams. the apostle of re- ligiQus liberty, who chafed under the restrictions of the Pilgrims and the Puritans.
 It Is the hour for calling in ques- ton all that the Pilgrims and the Puritans stood for, as there is much agitation and controversy about the revival of the blue laws" and the rebirth of sabbatarianism. It is al- ready filling the press. crowding the magazines. getting into books, thrown on the screen, heard at vau- deville and spoken about from the pulpit.
 Calling names and impugning mo- tives won't get either side very far towards proper solution of the Vexed religious, social and economic problems involved. The safest way is to restudy the situation which arose in the early days of the colo nists, see the way in which they were handled and having gotten the right historic perspective, set about to face present-day conditions in the spirit of the age.
 To get proper understanding and true historical perspective it Is well to delve deep into the life, char acter and conflicts of Roger Will Hams, for he was a political as we'll as religious reformer pr. Edmund J. Carpenter has given,us fine study emphasizing his political career; while strange as 1t may seem Oscar s, straus, the Jew, gave the world 8 sympathetic study of him as the pioneer of religious liberty.
 However, if one wishes to learn of his power in statecraft he had better consult the able contribution of Irv- ing B. Richman in his volumes on Rhode Island, It's Making and Its Meaning" which naturally And in-
 
 evitably portrays the character and service of its great founder, for the little state with it's wealth of tradi- tfons is but the incarnation of the views and principles of Roger Will Hams, which may well be seriously studied by all right thinking men and women who wish our country to progress along the ideas of its makers.
 NO less an authority than Charles trancis Adams, in his "Massachu setts,, Its Historians and Its History" frankly declares, Massachusetts. in the person of her ministers and mag istrates, missed a great destiny by rejecting Roger Williams. And why should the great Bay State mourn the fact that 1t banished him, because In so doing she cast out of her bor- ders the great man, who, according to Professor Mason, organized a com munity on the unheard-of principles of absolute religious liberty com bined with perfect civil democracy.
 strange fate was it not that Roger Williams, who wrote in after years, And truly it was bitter as death to me- when Bishop Laud pursued me out Of the land (England), and my conscience was persuaded against national church and ceremonies and bishops" should himself have also been driven out at the hands of those who had come to America to escape the prosecutions at home?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08
Praise for Streets

"Birbpgham's streets are wonders Of smoothness and excellent paving" declared Donald Denny, representa- tive of the Atlanta Georgian, who left last night after having spent two flanta city street committee.
 Nowhere in the south can such beautiful streets be found. Why. it seems as though one can ride for miles and miles without break in well-paved avenues. Your street sys- tenn is the best asset of Birmingham. It certainly beats anything Atlanta or any other city of the south has to offer by long shot"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-08
A sIDELIGHT ON CARUso

From Musical America.
 The musical confraternity had foregathered.
 Said one, Any news from Caruso"
 Yes" said another. "The report is that he is rapidly gaining and is re- covering great deal of his vigor but private advices express the fear that he may never again sing as he did.'
 By the bye" said another, "dil you hear of the fees he had to pay the doctor before he left? They amounted to over s100.000. The bill of one medicus showed that there had been no less than eight sepa- rate operations-enough to- kill a horse. It Is a miracle how Enrico survived it."
 Did you know" interposed a woman. that the only doctor who had attended him and sent him no bill was his personal physician, Dr. Horowitz, who, you remerber. in- sisted to the last Ihat it was not pleurisy? When Caruso found that Horowitz had not sent any bill for attending for some time, he imme- diaeely ordered his secretary to go out and buy a diamond ring for $2.0U9 which he sent with his kindest re- Rards to Horowits-"