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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
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How Farmers Save by
 Co-ooerative Methods

A, LABAMA farmers have been A learning the lesson of co- operation the past few years. It has been fruitful of good results and has led to a new conception of the possi- bilities of farm effort where the soil tillers act for the common interest.
 The farmers of Tallapoosa county purchased 400 tons of fertilizers CO., operatively this year. On this they saved at least $2,oOO. If they had purchased fertilizer in the normal quantity the total saved would have been still greater.
 It is the simplest thing in the world. The individual going into the market with his small wants does not command special consideration and pays the highest retail price. When, lowever, the farmers of an entire  community pool their money and their needs, the business is worth while and the merchant takes pains to make his offerings worth while, The individual farmer not only saves money by cooperative purchasing, but he saves times, work and worry.
 In cooperative sales the result is a higher price for the product by en- abling offerings of sufficient size to be made attractive to the large buy CTS from the central marketing points Cooperative purchasing and market ing, combined with diversification are making a new map of agricultural Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14

This River of Fragrant Plum Bloe- sonis" meanders through deep valleys on the borders of Yamato and Iga prov inces, half way between Nara and the shrines of Ise. One reaches it by rail- way from Uyeno station, and thence by rickshaw or motor across nine miles of fertile upland plain until. through a cutting on the shoulder of oyama. the Great mountain, the smooth road emerges on the brink of the long green canon of the Nabari, where celadon stream flows foam-flecked but silent thousand feet below. AcrQss the guIf, the houses of Tsukigase proper cling like swallows nests to the high rim of the canon wall and descend among ter raced fields to the plum groves by the rivers edge, All that hillside and val ley is Tsukigase to the general, and it's name stands for the cult of ume the plum blossom. The clientele is very su- perior, very precious" for the royster- CTS who bask in the sun so joyously win the cherry blossoms, in mid-April, do not willingly risk the treacherous March weather and the long nine miles across the wind-swept plain and down into tHn deep, deep valley, where the ume hides it's rarest blooming. It is the choice pill grimage of the heroic and the elect, and to have made it stamps one for allc time as lover Of beauty Priests, poets, professors, painters, masters of the tea ceremony and of flower arrangement recognize and admit one to their, esoteric circles after such probation and initia- ton. Even my rickshaw coolie proudly Haunted me on Kloto streets on my re- turn and explained, This foreigner has been to Tsukigase to view the plum blos- soms." "Naruhofo CWonderfulD'' ex- claimed the approving proletariat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
Rush Shipment of Orders
 in the Metal Industries

THE American people probably
 U never purchased with as much caution as they are doing now and have done during the past few months. This paves the way for sound status when business again attains a full swing. No dealer is to be caught with what was purchased at once price and must be sold at another, nor will he find himself with large stocks to be worked off as best he can.
 There are some exceptions here and there, but, as a rule, the man who found himself without orders has no raw material on his yards. The mill man without orders has very little finished product in warehouses. The reduced pace of manufacture ex- presses itself in partial operations to fill the orders that are for prompt delivery.
 The most encouraging feature of the industrial situation is the almost universal demand for prompt ship ment of the stuff that is ordered. The orders are for small quantities, but the almost invariable request is that the goods be shipped at once. This first developed in the iron trade and now the foundries throughout the south and southwest are ordering their coke by telegram and long distance tele- phone and insisting on spot delivery. The local steel works report the same desire on the part of their GUS toners.
 The going business in none of these lines is great in tonnage, but the char acter of the ordersDshows two things: First, that the consumers are out of material, and, second, that they have some business for which they require material. Apparently it is the picket line of reviving industry and its ac- tivity suggests that the real army is rot very far behind.
 Peadjustments in prices that still hold back some large transactions in the iron and steel industries are un- der way at this time. They lead to the belief that the bottom-rock base winch the trade seeks and will ac- Knowledge as such is near. That means big business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
Major Jeffers Wins
 in Fourth District

THE nomination of Maj. Lamar
 U Jeffers of Anniston to fill the vacancy created in Congress by the death of Fred L. Blackmon was no surprise to political wiseacres.
 Major Jeffers had previously made a remarkably good race against Con gressman Blackmon, who had prestige and years of service behind him. He apparently had no difficulty in win ming against his democratic com petitor, s. P. Mcdonald, of Sylacauga, by handsome majority. The show ing he made in Anniston testified to his popularity among his home people
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
ADRlFT WITH THE TIMES
PRIDE OF POSSESSION.

'
 q understand Mrs Blithersby is candidate for mayor. She win have your support, of course?"
 .scertainly,'' said MT. Blithersby. T \ think it's husbands duty to stand by his wife when she is running for office, but I refuse to make any campaign speeches in her behalf That would be too much like throwing bouquets at my self for having married such a wonder full woman"
 "ALLs RIGHT WITH THE WORLD" The gladstone shout Play balll' is
 heard,
 The bleachers roll like waters stirred By some great blast; The peanut vendors call their wares, The screaming, yelling fan declares The seasons on at last. The batter steps up to the plate, The pitcher doth the signal wait
 Now comes the test of skill Ion, will he merely fan the air And drive admirers to despair.
 Or will he swat the pill?
 READY.
 "Have all our deals been carefully eo~- cred up?" asked the magnate
 Certainly, sir." replied his confidential secretary.
 Our lawyers have been mtcrnos&s '.They are prepared for any essEf1ai- ity." And there is no chance for izvss'ta- gators to find out anything about cur business?''
 Mot a chance in the world"
 'very well. Then you may announce to the press that we welcome an investi- gation. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
FAIRFoRD NIGHT1NGALps
John Drinkwater, in Scribner's.
 The nightingales at Fairfold sing

John Drinkwater, in Scribner's. The nightingales at Fairfold sing AS though it were a common thing To make the day melodious With tones that use to visit us Only when thrush and blackbird take Their sleep nor know the moons awake. These nightingales they sing at noon, Not lyric lone, but threading Juno With songs of many nightingaleA Till the meridian summer pales, And here by day that spectral will Is spending it's entertainment still Nor shyly in far woodland bowers, But walled among the garden flowers, The Fairford nightingales are free, That so the fabled melody Is from the haunted groves of Thrace Falling on Fairford market-place, o nightinsales that leave the night To join the melod.sts of light, And leave your coppiced gloom to dare The fellowship forsaken there. Fresh hours, fresh leaves can dispossess Nor spell your musics lcnclinesA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14

From Forbes Magazine.
 EXPORTERS and exporters never
 found more difficulty than at the S present time in deciding when to buy foreign exchange bills in the ham ding of their foreign business A great majority of our merchants and manufac- turers are importers and exporters, di- rectly or indirectly; the cotton planters are all exporters, and so are the wheat and cattle producers; the lumber mills arc exporters; the wooden manufacturers and dealers, the coffee roasters and merchants. the producers and traders in silk goods, and the rubber companies are large importers; and we are all vitally interested in the subject because foreign trade represents about per cent of the gross business of the American people. and has probably IS to per cent influence upon our prosperity.
 "Of all foreign bills says Paul Clay. economist. sterling is by far the most important for two req sons: The bulk of our foreign trade is financed through London. our trade with the United Kingdom is far more important than with any other nation. In 1919. for example, of our grand total exports of H,9220oo,Ooo exports to Great Britain alone were s2,zs O0o,oOo. British ships carry a large part of our trade even now, and British shipping com panies dominate the movement of ocean freight ratese There are British foreign banks in every nook and corner of the would, and we make the freest use of this highly developed British ma chinery for remtting money and coi- lecting bills.
 "One cannot possibly understand athe
 movements of continental. Asiatic and
 South American exchanges without be-
 ginning with clear grasp of the fact
 that all foreign bills. including even the
 most important, such as francs, are
 powerfully influenced by the movements of sterling. A study of the trade oai- ances of these various countries throws but little light upon the movement of their bills. If one were to buy ana sell Brazilian milreis, or Argentine pesos, or even French francs, in accordance with the indications given by the. trade bal ances of these countries, he would be wrong at least as often as he would | be right. otherwise expressed the movement of these respective bills is Lnot SO much influenced by the trade bal ances of the given countries as by the ups and downs of sterling exchange.
 "The rules are simple, although they manifestly cannot be certain to get the desired result. They are: (a) Under nor I mai and ordinary circumstances. sterling
 should be expected to touch its high of l the year about June, and it's low about m;d-autumn. (b, The deviationsfrom this
 rule should be judged mainly by the deviation of the British and American
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14

about her having shouted "Hoch der Kaiser!" or Long live Prussianism!" Perhaps in the old days, before the war clouds gathered, she may have hobnobbed with the Hohenzollerns, as world celebrity, but so did Theo- dore Roosevelt. In fact, as the story goes, it was "a remark made to the Kaiser during a great military review in Germany, "Your majesty, with that army you can lick the world" that started all the trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
THE HAIR TONIC PERIL.

AAAE Al<AlLN 1ONAO EhIRl4A Now, beg to advise, As word to the wise
 When the booze that we buy is inferior; What is good for the hair As the labels declare,
 May be bad for a persons interior. 
 roo INDUSTRIOUS FOR THAT. "Who is the mysterious stranger?" Some kind of investigator. working for the government q doubt it. He keeps pretty busy.'
 WHY HE LOST HIS JOB. Have you Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the sea'?"
 No, ma'am" said the facetious clerk, but own 40 acres under water that was sold to me as good farming land"
 INvIDIoUs COMPARISONS. T would like to sell you The Lives of Fifty Great Men, said the agent T wouldn't dare to take it home" re- piled MT. Clipping
 Why not?'
 When Mrs Clipping gets the idea that she made a mistake in marrying me she can point out enough successful men in our neighborhood. without me supplying her with additional informa- tion' in book form
 MAIL COURSES. whats Gribble doing now9" Teaching people how to write motion picture scenarios by mail" He used to run a correspondence school of astronomy. He must be yer satile chap"
 Mot at all. He knows as little about one as the other"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
Geraldine Is Denounced
 as "Ferocious Partisan"

N PARIS dispatch says Petit Bleu &A bitterly attacked Geraldine Farrar as pro-German sympathizer when the announcement was made that Miss Farrar's Jeanne D'Arc' would be presented in the French capital. She is accused of being at- tached to tne Hohenzollerns and of having uttered calumnies against France. Incidentally, Petit Bleu de- mands that the presentation of her photoplay based on the career of Frances greatest heroine be for bidden.
 Discussing Miss Farrar, Petit Bleu says:
 The Hohenzollerns during the war had no more ferocious partisan than this American singer. Miss Farrar is woman who has always loudly affirmed her keen love for Germany and her enthusiasm for kultur. When the hosts of the Kaiser flowed in a ferocious stream toward France, she shouted against us abominable things unworthy of a neutral and of a woman. Today she continues to af- firm her sympathy for the odious race of the Hohenzoliern.
 She has not changed nor have we. This proves we are right in protest ing. whatever the Parisian promoters of American Boche films may continue to think.
 How this sort of talk carries one back to war times, and how truly it reflects that point of view in France which cannot and will not forget the Hate hostilities." So many things have happened since the armistice was signed it is bit hard to remember what. everybody said about the war. If Miss Farrar was ever pro-G German, and continues in that unpatriotic frame of mind, it is bit remarkable that the American people, with whom she is tremendously popular, have heard so little about it.
 When Miss Farrar appeared in Birmingham last winter she was pre- ceded by an avalanche of press mat ter and there wasn't a word in it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
REAL BEAUTY EXPERT

From the Miuml HeraId
 Two negro girls were discussing the merits of a certain beauty specialist.
 Am she the goods?" asked one. Can she make yo' beautifui?'
 'Lissen. Pansy," came the answer, "'at woman am so proficient she can make a human scarecrow look like the Venus de Milo standin' knee deep in a lily pond."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
THE BURDEN BEARERS

From the TalIadega Home
 To see the number of American citi- wouldn't think they were grooming under the burden of taxation.-Bir- mingham Age-Herald Who was the fellow intimated they were? They are not generally the ones, especially in a ham, who have to do the grooming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
straws Appearing

Despite the proclamation of pr. N. A, Barrett, president of the city com mission, declaring April 12 as straw hat day, few are seen on the streets, said V. w. Moss.
 Tn fact. the weather does no. fit in with the idea at all, and overcoats and straw hats do not go together. Since the few warm days we had week ago, when the proclamation was is- sl ed the weather has been cold and put on straw hat as yet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
A Retter Feeling

There is a better feeling or the part of business everywhere" said W. H. Brooks, of the International Shoe com pany. "I have just returned from St. Louis and found the wholesalers and manufacturers that more optimistic than they were two or three weeks ago.
 "Cmitting my own business, which has been good men in other lines ex- pressed themselves as convinced bust ness would be better from now on. Tkey comment especially on the i'm provement in collections.
 Incidentally, I want to pay a special compliment to the Alabama retailers. There are fewer unpaid bills remain ing over from last season in this state than in any other that I know of, or have heard from"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14

Major Jeffers is another World war veteran with a distinguished record who has been successful in politics. He possesses to high degree the sterling qualities of Americas young manhood who won imperishable fame in France.
 The voters of the Fourth congress sional district have chosen a worthy successor to Mir. Blackmon. Major Jeffers will unquestionably prove a capable representative and may look forward to an honorable career in Congress.
 The Citizens Democratic club in Baltimore was invaded at o'clock in the morning by gang of bandits who backed 16 members against the wall with revolvers and robbed them of money and jewelry amounting to $7,oOO. We fear the members were not discussing politics at that unseason- able hour of the morning.
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 In spite of dire predictions that pro- hibition would put them out of busi- ross ~rraa. roanv cohaxats cantiuua to operate. We suspect patrons go there for something else besides jazz vaudeville and a morsel of fancy food. Paper suits such as the Germans wore during the war are on display in Birmingham. Shortly after the armis- tice was signed, there were also quite a number of German helmets on dis play that had actually been worn.
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 British workingmen don't mind causing millions of innocent bystand CTS to suffer by strike, but il makes them mad all over to hear of soldiers 
 being called out to maintain order
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 According to later reports. Emma Goldman hasebeen misquoted. She does rot want to return to America. No appreciable effort will be made to coax her back.
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 It was all right for the Williams boys to fight during the war, but the evidence in Georgia indicates that they were .shardboiIed' soldiers.
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 If the Dorothy Arnold case is solved the New York police department might at least give a few details as to where when and how it was done.
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 Charley Hapsburg wears Charley Chaplin mustache. The next time he sets out on a crown hunt he should wear Chaplin clothes.
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 From a biological point of view, un- desirable immigration is almost as bad as would be if it were entirely red politically.
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 In touching on certain topics Mir. Harding created the impression that he is still keeping a more or less open  mind. It may be at least 1000 years be- fore a league or association of na- tions can be formed that will satisfy everybody.
 A chemist says the rich soil of Ohio produces Presidents. There is some thing, too. in the political atmosphere.
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 Apart from the hospitality, viviani doesn't seem to be getting much out of his visit to America. x # # The death rate in Ireland continues to be much larger than the climate justifies.
 Personal liberty is still rampant in the foreign embassies at Washington.
 
 THE BURDEN BEARERS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Dimmers Net Au

Many people who have provided their automobiles with dinners do not real ike they are still violating the law, said George Hendrix, a police motor scout, yesterday. My partner and have arrested a number of people dur ing the last two days who could not understand why they were placed un der bond when they had dinners on at the time.
 "The new traffic code pertaining to lights on automobiles says the glass in front of the electric light globe must be frosted or painted unless a patented lense is used. That keeps the glare out of it. and at the same time lets out a strong white light so the driver can plainly see ahead of him"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
SAM WELLER AND .MArN STREET

from the New York World.
 Think of England" Mir. Chesterton admonished his hearers of the Dickens Fellowship Saturday night, in the terms of Sam Weller" He was press ing the point of an Anglo-American amity based in literature. At the same time he was volcing that constant en- thusiasm for the Plckwickian chroni- cler which led him in an early book of appreciation to declare that while Thackeray became a classic. Dick ems had done better by remaining mod ern. This because Dickens saw that society and progress were bound to change their direction.
 But returning to the point of amity through literary understanding-why press the redoubtable Weller to the foreg sam was, according to Richard Grant Whites estimate ''monstrous and impossible though very real in his creation; while by the word of another critic. Peter Bayne. the Weller of the book, corresponds to no reality" and has had thrust upon him by his author more jokes than all they cabmen in London would utter in year. Not even by a Chestertonian paradox can such character be turned into likely symbol of international friendship.
 Probably MT. Chesterton meant bet ter than he said. We cannot see him seriously urging an undsrstandins be- tween national cousins resting on a foundation of best sellers" ancient or modern. We should not think of esti- mating England in terms of Scrooge. Bill sikes. MT. Pickwick or Little Emily. We should object nightly to having America cateEoried in terms of Main Street. Moon Calf" or even l"Pollyanna-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
cANNIBAL PoLITIcs

From "Close-Ups of a Cannibal Chief"
 by Martin Johnson, in Asia Magazine
 for April. M
 Many of the inhabitants of the fsland of vao in the New Hebrides are refu- gees from the big island of Malekula who were vanquished in battle and lit- orally driven off the earth by their en- emies. Soon after our arrival q pow the Small Numbers people, arrived on erful savage named Tethlong. one of vao with 20 of his men All the others had been killed and the women and children had been taken captive The natives of vao received the newcomers as a welcome addition to their fighting torce and Tethlong set about te insure his position among his new neighbors. He invited the entire population to . feast. and at once sent his men to neighboring islands to buy up pigs and chickens for the occasion. The devil devils-great hollowed logs, carved roughly to represent a human face. which are erected everywhere in the New Hebrides to guard against evil spirits-were consulted to find 8 pro- bilious time for the feasting and on the appointed day the celebration be- gan with much shouting and singing and dancing and beating of tom-toms. It lasted for several days. Before it was over, 720 pigs had been slaugh- tered. The island had never before seen such a feast. As a result of his political strategy, Tethlong. the retu- ing precedence over the chiefs already gee became the Big Chief of Vac. talk there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
Pave It, Too

While all this talk is going on about lighting up Fifth avenue so vis- itors can be impressed entering town, why not pave the blooming street so they can ride over it with certain degree of comfort" said John Ander- son yesterday
 "A few weeks ago when all those people were being held up on Fifth avenue, I didn't wonder at the cops not being able to catch any of them at the time. The highwaymen simply hid in one of the large holes in the street until the cop passed by. It is the same with automobiles, and I'll bet that dozen motorists day wrench a wheel loose in some of those holes on that avenue"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
Canal Is Coming

The Van. Hoose canal is not a dream; it is merely a deferred attain ment," said o. l.. Bum, manager of the Chamber of Commerce. Tt was per- fectly logical for the government to stop while after giving us the canal- ized Warrior, and we were not in a position to ask more, but the time is not very distant when Jefferson coun> ty. and the government will cooperate in building that canal
 Tn my minds eye I see this canal lined with manufacturing plants from the mouth of Valley creek to Bessemer itself. It is not coming at once, and it has nothing to do with what we must still do for the development of the river as it stands but it is inevita- ble in the long run"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-14
A MORNING PRAYER

X MORNING PRAYER
 Dear Lord, while I live today in doubt and sorrow, give me to know that tomorrow my doubt shall be lessened, and my sorrow frightened and my life more close to thee. Amen.--M. $. B.