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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1921-02-05
SARAA eERNAARDT

lHine herself resided in a large villa
nearby Now she would dispose OF
the entire property. with one excep-
ton. She will keep one solitary rock,
which viii be used for her tomb, even
as Chateaubriand was laid to rest
MalO.
The above photograph shows Nine
Bernhard in the role ot a young man
iu Louis Nerneuirs play, Daniel"
10 interpret which she has just re-
turned TO the stage in Paris.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1921-02-05

TT HE Divine Sarah wants to sell
her little private lortucation,
For many years Nine. Bern
hardt has owned an eighteenth CEN
fury fortress at Belle Isle en- Mer in
brittany which she surrounded with
miles OF barbed wire boundaries as
further protection against tourists.
The castle itself during the latter
part OF her occupancy served as an
overflow guest house, and the chate-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
NOT A FATAL DOSE

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
 Budget Director Dawes talked to them and even pounded the table in certain impassioned periods. Presi- dent Harding warned and sdmonished and pleaded with thcn. Everybody talked economy, urged it and scolded about it. But when the cabinet-of- ficials and bureau chiefs sat down to make up their estimate sheets they had a backset. They could not break their old habits. They asked for every thin dime they thought they could get, possibly, and then added some more.
 Departments and bureaus get that way. Pride prestige and sense of importance, all help.
 Now President Harding and Budget Director Dawes are doing little es- timating of their own. They are es- timating about how many millions can be topped and slashed from the estimate sheets of the departments All of Director Dawes work Is not done. Bureaus are calloused things and departments are case hardened. Arguing with them and swearing at them will not do it all The knife must be used.
 It looks like hard year for the departments and bureaus down Washington-way, but there is no need for alarm. They will get enough to get along without passing the hat. The cuts made may be deep. but they will not be too deep. With deflation under way the bureaucrats and de. partment folks ought not balk at the same dose that every body else is talk ing. It will not be fatal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13

A shooting affray ended the Na- tional Baptist convention of negroes in New Orleans. If hostiliti& had lasted longer few razots might have been produced
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 Delegates to the disarmament con ference are expected to drop in on Woodrow Wilson. It ifs even whis- rered that the Wilson house is not altogether dry.
 propaganda facilities than the Turks. This may explain some of the war news" we've been getting lately. # < # It would be rather discouraging if Marconi succeeded in decoding mes sage from Mars and found that it was merely about the weather. 4 < #
 The services of alert propagan- dists are needed in Germany where a great many Teutons will believe Ger many won the war. % 4 # When it is reliably reported that Lenine isn't getting three square meals a day we'll know it's the be- ginning. of the, end. + # x Strange as it may seem, there are a considerable number of Germans who regard Wilhelm as glorious exile" Holland doesn't.
 It may be necessary to clean up the motion picture colonies in Cali fornia for the sake of public decency. Fatty" Arbuckle Is finding 1t somewhat difficult to smile for newspaper photographers. # # #
 There Is still brisk demand for the old-fashioned immigrant who was willing to work on farm.
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 The World war veterans will have to acknowledge that President Hard ing is lavish with eulogies.
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 Clifford Pichot has become great stickler for the strict letter of the law.
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 Who ever thought that old King Cotton would trumpet the era of bet ter times?
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 The Moplahs are chock-full of re- ligious prejudice and don't care who knows it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
San Antonio Flood
 Developed Its Heroes

1T7HE San Antonio flood brought
 l out the usual exhibitions of heroism. A 12-year-old Mexican boy clung to a tree five hours, hold ing on his shoulders child five years old. A tramp swan through the flood and saved the lives of more than 100 passengers on board the Sunset Limited, by giving timely warning.
 Other acts; equally heroic were performed and, most heroic of all, was the way the stricken people be- gan to clear away the debris after the flood and care for the injured.
 Some heroes and some heroines find place in history, but the heroic is being done in quiet places every where in the walks of daily life. The quality is there and occasion brings it into action.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
"CARUSOl CARISSIMO!w

tains he could seek his well-earned
 He stumbled and his chest on the left
 side crashed into it. The curtain
 was rung down. A gasp spread over the audience.
 his death thrust, At that moment. as if all his career must have it's appropriate setting and denouement, he was doomed.
 I have related this story as if it were undisputed Heretofore it has been touched upon only vaguely in public print, but it is the story that is believed and retailed in bated breath by many of his associates. Its pathologic explanation | have from specialist who, although not one of the attending physicians. attends many opera singers, and who knew Caruso.
 Now" said this medical man, what happened in that fall, be- lieve, was this: one of his ribs was either fractured or splintered. per- haps slightly. It was not discovered on examination, however, and Caruso took to his bed for several days. First it was given out that he had inter- costal neuralgia, and later that he had lumbago.i He became better and appeared in Brooklyn within a week in L'Elisih d'Amour.' There, again, the performance was halted by the br eaking of nodule at the base of tonsil, but which as announced d, was of no great moment, the lesion having no effect either on the voice or the constitution.
 However, the rib hurt in Pas- i;acci' must have been at work all this time, for on Christmas. Eve he made his final appearance in La Juive,' and-was in pain all through the performance. After that he took to his bed and was never right again.
 My theory is that a piece of the bone fractured by the cart in Pag- liacci' punctured the plural cavity. It was this that caused the empyema from which he died"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
UNDERWOOD IS HONoRED

From the Macon News.
 The President has named Senator oscar Underwood as member of the conference on the limitation of ornaments. which is to meet 'ip Wash ington on Armistice Day, November II. for purposes which are explained in the title of the conference.
 The other members are Secretary of State Hughes. Senator Ledge and former Secretary of State Root.
 There can be no question of the ability the men who are thus placed in charge of the negotiations in behalf of the United States Secretary Hughes would be member, almost by reason of his office, unless the Presi- dent pursued the course of being his own prime minister, from which we are to have welcome relief. The appointment of Root and LodEeNi all most equally a logical procedure.
 In naming Senator Underwood as a member thu President has paid a graceful tribute to the south. and at the same time has called in the serv- ices of one of our ablest and most distinguished sons. Senator Under wood will not only measure up 10 the standard of abilNy' set by his col leagues, but he will be found worthy of the high responsibility placed upon him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
<. + * Freighters to Move Birmingham Products
OURTFEN

OURTEEN ocean freighters,
 built of Birmingham steel, now float in harbors over the world or blow through the seas. They are the product of the Chickasaw Ship building and Car company, the Bir- mingham steel fabricator.
 The last of them, the Chattanooga City, was launched Saturday. They are all-southern, even to their names, those of 10 Alabama cities, one in Georgia and three in Tennes- see. They are owned and operated by corporation in the family of the Tennessee and Chickasaw con- panies. They will serve wherever the Birmingham mills call for cargo space to move products afar.
 In the fall of 1917 the shipyard and fabricating mills did not exist. Where the shipbuilding plant is now there was a marsh; where the fab ricating works are there was bar ren field. Model workingmen's s towns cluster about both plants.
 This is what Birmingham got while the world was torn by war the means with which to achieve her destiny as caterer to the wants of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
GRAUSTARK OF 1921

ment. Figuring first as a sort of Paul Revere, in his ride through enemy lines to convey; message of two emperors to Butcher and Berna- dotte, then as a Magyar pEnfant in his effort to make Buda a capital beautiful, this noblcman has to his credit such other diverse achieve- ments as placing the first steam boats on the Theiss and Danube, suggesting canals between the two rivers. writing a book on horse rac- ing, and giving 8 years income to furthering the wider use of the Mag var tongue.
 The principal concern of both Austria and Hungary with Burgen- land probably is the coal region at Brennbery. near odenburg. In the vii cinity, too. are the towns of RuszL and Balf. centers of wine production.
 'Neusiedler See, not far from Odenburg, is shallow body of watar more than 20 miles long and averaR- ing seven miles wide. At times it shrinks to half it's size. About the time of our own Civil war 1t dried Tup altogether"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
WHERE THE WAYs END

WHERE THE WAYS END From the Pittsburg Gazette-Tim What is sorrow? A little space The cry of the fallen in the race; The dying cry which the world
 needs not sss 1n-remembered. or soon forgot. Joy or sorrow will end in rest Dust, and a rose on dreamless
 breast. What Is the si ghing? Itis not long: One in the end are the sighs and
 song. One in faith. and one in doubt- The cfy of the vanquished-the vic-
 for's shout Victor and yanquished must creep
 for rest When the dust is blown OCT the
 dreamless breast. And what in the transient gloom and
 glow; Is the beautiful love that we cling
 to so, The rose~red lip. and the sparkling
 eye? A gracious greeting-a sad good-hv,
 prest, The lovers creep to the rose for saat. So we smile at the dark-on the.
 pathway rough; There shall be sunshine saA reR4
 enough. After the stormy ways are rast Rest shall be sweeter at last-as
 last. Joy and sorrow will end in rsas Dust. and rose on a dreaAleas
 breast.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Better Business

Both piano and Victrola business has improved substantially" said c. C. Holcombe. of the Holcombe Music company.
 T have reason to say this because I sold ten pianos and seven victrolas last week. I did this right off the bat after moving into my new place at 1919 Third avenue. Business in these lines has been slow for some time. The distinct improvement shows that confidence Is making money come out of its recesses and into the avenues of trade for tho things besides the absolute necessi- ties of life. When people buy pisnoI and Victrolas, they are prosperous"
 MT. Holcombe took on the Chick ering and other pianos about twu months ago. The quick results achieved are pointed to as showing much better feeling along the retail thoroughfares.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
Latest Scandal In
 the Movie World
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A BEAUTIFUL screen star is A dead and Fatty" Arbuckle, "the man who has made millions laugh," is in a prison cell in Los Angeles as the result of gay party.
 Arbuckle is charged with murder. Regardless of whether he is con- vlcted or acquitted, this tragedy will throw light on the profligacy of California's motion picture people which is becoming a national scan- dal. If half the stories told about debauches in the palaces occupied by picture stars, in the haunts they ire quent and in hotels of the Pacific coast are true, the immortality of the movie world is an affront to the American people. A notorious din- nar recently held in the east, at tended by motion picture producers who are said to have paid out huge sum to keep the affair quiet, is just another of many such orgies which have been frequent since the motion picture began to create mushroom millionaires.
 Possibly the plight in which Ar buckle finds himself will be les son to other stars, because of the injury 1t is sure to do his reputa- ton and drawing power on the screen, if for no better reason. To make public idols of people whose private lives are corrupt is bad enough when the facts are not gen erally known, but few more epi- sodes of this sort will open the eyes of millions of movie fans to the kind of celebrities they have been wor- shiping on the screen and the result will be a sharp falling off in box office receipts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
Farmers of Russia
 Won't Feed Bolsheviki

t1f7 HE Russian peasant is stoliG
 U individual. It is his indiffer- ence as long as he is let alone and left in possession of the land he ac- quired by the downfall of the czarist regime that has permitted compar- atively small body of bolsheviki tc hold their power in Russia. But he WI fight on occasion, usually when bolshevist commissars try to make him produce food for the city dwellers.
 Another uprising of this sort is reported in White Russia in a dis patch from Warsaw. The trouble was started by attempts of the bol- sheviki to enforce food levies. By their passive, and at times active re- sistance, as in this case, the bulk of Russia's peasants have successfully defied the effort of the bolshevist leaders to make them feed their masters.
 The Russian peasant Is content to produce enough food for his own needs and if he has a surplus he hoards it, nor can he be blamed for doing that. The worthless rouble has no purchasing value and the cities, through the paralysis of in dustry, have nothing of value to give the farmer in exchange for his crops Possibly much of the food shortage in Russia is due to this attitude of the peasants who care little about what happens to the cities, if their oyn immediate wants are supplied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
AutomohiIe Cluh,. work

No one can fail to observe the constructive and progressive work which the Birmingham Automobile club is doing" said Dr. H. A. Elkou- rie, who is enthusiastic about being numbered among it's members.
 "The Automobile club is not only saving property, but 1t is saving the lives of many people by the eff cient manner in which traffic is be- ing posted, and I can't see how any citizen of Birmingham who observes the many measures taken by the club to make automobiling safer for people, could do anything but help in every way he can. l regard it as q duty to be a member of the Automo- bile club, to enlist in the active army that composes it's members"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
Avondale Park Ideal for
 Semi-C Centennial Pageant


 1.-THE gentlemen who are to pro- U duce the pageant for the Bir- mingham semi-centennial celebra- tion, after going over several sites, arrived at Avondale park. .. There they stopped and declared it was not necessary to look further. They pro- nounced it an ideal setting, the play grounds surrounded by hedges form ing mammoth stage and the over looking hills the bleachers.
 These gentlemen have produced pageants in many cities. They agreed that Birmingham has more beautiful natural amphitheatres than any other place they have seen.
 A wealth of material has been supplied for the pageant. Birming- ham has a most picturesque prologue. Davy Crockett was once 8 visitor to old Elyton and was entertained there. Elyton was on the line of communication between Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, Montgomery and Monte vallo. It was on the main line of travel of ante-bellum Alabama, as Birmingham is of modern Ala bama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
BOIL wEEvIL PROSPERITY

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 The sensational advance in the price of cotton-$2Q a bale within a week-is "construed by financial in terests as the first decisive step in the return of business to normalcy." In its upward swing cotton has car ried along a number of other com modities, with the result that the voice of optimism has finally broken long, depressing silence.
 Welcome as such results are we should not deceive ourselves as to the real character of the cause. The cause is the bon weevil, aided and abetted by adverse weather and re- duction in acreage. The forecast of short crop is what has sent up the price of cotton. The relief is artifi- cial rather than genuine. Nobody will seriously contend that scarcity is the mother of true prosperity. that nonproduction creates wealthA
 Instead of jubilating over the, rift In the industrial clouds 1t is the duty of statesmanship to expedite a return of such sound conditions as will re- store industrial activity on a firm basis. Were the world functioning normally the United States would to- day be enjoying an abounding pros- perity. Consider our position. We !, z, h,,n of ro11 nI Ic and the greatest producing capacity In our history. We lack only one thing-a market. Strictly speaking we have the greatest market we have ever had in Europe badly in need of our surplus. But Europe has not the money with which to buy. Until a workable system of credits Is de- vsed by which weScan sell our surplus we cannot know top-stride pros perity.
 The ominous feature of the cotton advance is the encoura cement it gives to the policy of ,curtatled production. Yet the cotton grower cannot be blamed for limiting his acreage if he can make more money that way. Sure- ly he cannot be expected to impover- ish himself by producing a bumper crop.
 Boil weevil prosperity may be bet ter than no prosperity. but 1t is se- were commentary on our statesman ship that we have to depend on pests instead of plenty to do business. It ought to be clear to everybody that with the world bitterly in need of money in order to prosper no nation can squander money in nonproductive projects If the nations would sus- pend their military programmes and devote their resources to recreating their industrial fabrics. prosperity would come galloping back. It would be a real prosperity. too, not the boil weevil brand.-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13

Richard Barry, in Leslie's. M 1T o Singer ever entirely failed in lUNl "Pagliacci," yet when Caruso was announced in it no opera house in years has been half large enough to hold the throngs which price and to endure any discomfort for the privilege of brief hour of such celestial music.
 So it was on the evening of Decem- Der 8, 1920 at the Metropolitan opera house in New York. Every seat was taken; the aisles packed firemen st the doors counted off the standees to the last limit of the law.
 If the papers had announced, "To- day the great Caruso is to be killed by Pagliacci," the desire to be pres- .pt could have presented but li.tic greater difficulties to the manage meEr.
 That bleak December night Caraso dashed into the opera with the sI-ay warmth of his beloved Naples. Ills auditors werf enchanted, uplifted, ec- static. None knew, least of all him. self, that he was playing out be- fore them the final drama of his arr tistic as of his mortal life--and to the bitter end, play within q play, tragedy hid by farce
 Toward the close of the first act, just as he learned of the faitnfulness of his beloved Nedda, he turned as usual to the little trd cling cart drawn to the right and up stage. Then poured from his liquid throat that heart -wracked, that immortal "Ridi pagliacci' which not even pop ularity can tarnish.
 As he reached the top note, highest of the octave, seldom held in perfec- tion by tenors, and while the audi ence was in a breathless hush to drain every particle of its priceless tone, he suddenly brought the song to it's infinitely pathetic ending. Then he turned and madly rushed for the cart. intending to pass up the few steps that separated him from the miniature theatre behind whose cur
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
cApuIr1uM1A0ntll:
THE CONDUCTOR RETALIAria

THE CONDUCTOR RETALIATHS From the Indianapolis News.
 She boarded street car and of fered the conductor s10 bill.
 T can't change that" said the con ductor.
 Tt is all l have" she said.
 "Wen." he responded. take seat and will try to get change"
 He stopped the car at the corner and went into a drug store for the necessary change. When he came back he gave her s5 bill and ss nickels.
 "oh, but don't want all this" she reconstructed.
 Tt is all I have" came the quick reply.
 wont you count it for ms'" she asked. ;, II have counted 1t; now your can." was the heartless reply. .
 At the downtown stop sherwas still counting nickels. The next time she will probably have change.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13

00 zAsHINGToN, September 12. WAW Especially Burge nla d, w scene of Europes most re- cent side show war" might just as we'll be Graustark so far as its ex- istence upon the usual map or in the general reference work is concerned. according to a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of the Ma tional Geographic society.
 Explaining what and where is this scene of hostiiities between Austrians and Hungarians the bulletin says
 "By Burgenland is meant the West Hungary of 1.6Si square miles and some s45,00o people which was carved from Hungary and given to Austria by the treaty of St. Germain
 "The sctrip resembles nothing so much, perhaps. as an old shoe' "itn it's flattened heel touching the Danube opposite Pressburg Cor Poz- sony), its instep arched along the Austria Hungary border. its toe near ly tipping Jugo-Slavia.
 "In Burgenland the parenthesis comes into its own. The map or time table which neglects to give one alternative for a city or town, and sometimes third choice. will handi- can it's user. Tact also would re- ouire that if one speak of the princi- pal city of the region to an Austrian he would call it Odenburg talso spelled (Oedenburg) but that if he mention the same city to Magyar he speaks of it as Sopron.
 "Odenburg has claims to fame on it's own account. notably it's Church of St. Michael completed eight years before Columbus discovered America, and its cattle markets of the/days before the war. But it's principal as- sociation Is with the names of Esterr hazy and Szechenyi. lE
 Both north and east of OdenburE are castles of the Esterhazy family. Along the Neusiedler See is the line garian Versailles where Haydn was conductor of the private orchestra
  of one Esterhazy Nicholas joseph. At Mattersdorf tNagymarton), where Austrians have established provi- sional government. is the chateau of the family among whose scions were pafAine of Hungary, one who re- fused the kingship of Hungary, another who was the emissary of Louis XVI to Marie Antoinette. and who, in 1917. formed the Hungarian cabinet representing the parties op- posed to Count Tisza.
 ,"The castle of the Szecvhenly fam ily is nine miles southeast of oden- burg. Kossuth, his political o2po- nent. called Istvan Szechenyi the greatest of the Magyars, and time seems to confirm th:s unhiased iudg-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-13
THIS WORLD FIRST

From the Christian Register.
 There is an English church where box hangs in the porch. It is used for communications for the pastor, Cranks put their notes in 1t, but occa sionally it does fulfill it's purpose. Recently the minister preached. by request, sermon on Recognition of Friends in Heaven" and during the week the following note was found in the box:
 Dear Sir; I should be much obliged if you could make 1t conve- nient to preach to your congregation on The Recognition of Friends on Earth, as have been coming to your church for nearly six months and nobody has taken any notice of me yet"