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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
WHY PRICES MUST FALL

tion to the increase in per capita income, and not very much more. In other words, as whole price are too high or too low according as they have increased from normal pre-war time, more or less than the income of the typical individual has how the present income of the American people compares with that of 1914 Enough statistics have been gathered to enable one to form a roughly correct answer to this question
 The 1920 income of the American peo- pie, comparable with that of 1914, and available as purchasing power, was about s5S 546, coo, GOO an increase of s5 per cent. The 1921 income is expected to show decrease of 10 or 15 per cent, Incomes now are generally not over 65 per cent per capita greater than they were before the war This means that the typical in- dividual cannot afford to pay over sl .,o at most for the same article which cost s1 in 1914
 Economic factors are going to kill price imitation, whether we like or not; and the wise business manager is the one who strives the most earnestly to force down his costs and prices in such man. ner that they shall be no higher in com pafison with wages, per capita incomes and purchasing power than they were be- fore the war"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
From Forbes Magazine.

From Forbes Magazine.
 A GREAT obstacle in the soiu- A\ tion of our economic problem IS
 the general notion held by large minority of merchants and manu- facturers and a large majority of poii- ticians that the wealth and income of the American people are unlimited" de- clares Paul Clay, wel-known economist. Tn the opinion of these persons the pub lie struck against high prices through sheer obstinacy and arrow-mindedness- There are thousands of merchants all over the United States who are so long of goods and so short of economic in sight that they still believe that the pub lie has plenty of funds with which to buy these goods at the top prices if only the people would cease to be so miseriy. We are still infected with the price, boosting mania and here and there wher- ever the pressure is taken off some pro- drcers show an inclination to jump prices instantly upward again. Until we re- cover from this mental and economic dis ease, no prosperity can be enduring.
 The total income of our people is pretty accurate measure of their pur- chasing power; and it is reasonable assumption on the part of almost any merchant or producer that he is entitled to advance his prices roughly in propor-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
THE RETURN

John Drinkwater in Munsey's Nigga zine.
 l am outworn in the fumes of reason, My blood with argument is cold; l will return for a little season To some bright fable learned of old. I will return to Phoebus Apollo. Driving his team through the hya-
 cinth meads, Keener than falcon. swifter than swsl-
 low.
 Flashing behind his tawny steeds. Dawn that never has lain with shadows Beams that never have known eclipse Merely sunlight flooding the meadows 5. Washing the sails of the morning
 ships. God of the flame serene. unfailing, Fire for never a flower to fear, Phoebus Apollo proudly sailing Your ice-blue heavens-oh. chario-
 teer. Bid me back to your side. your story. Just for a day to dream again Of hoyhood waiting upon the glory Tabled above the wits of men
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
HEROES OF TRADITION

the company declares: "In years gone by it may have happened that individ- ual members may have got half seas over, but I have been a member for more than 20 years, and I never knew Of whisky (sic) being served at an An cients' banquet, In the last few years all liquor has been dispensed with" And Capt. Clarence J. Mckenzie, the present commander, boasts: We have taken in 300 men this year, under pro hibition-more than in any other year in the history of the organization--so you can see there are lots of things be- sides liquor they join for"
 Of course, whisky never tickled the aristocratic tastes of the Ancients. They didn't offer it to the Honorable Ar tillery of London, in entertaining the Englishmen in Boston, nor was it of- fered to them when 10 years later the Ancients went to England and had great banquet at Armoury House and went to Buckingham palace by special invitation to see the King. On those two great occasions something flowed freely but it was not Scotch or sour mash. It was champagne. The name of the brand we have judiciously for gotten.
 Despite their unshrinking valor and the justice of their cause. we trembie to think of what will happen to the Ancients when Dr. Eliot turns his heavy artillery on them. Perhaps he will re- ciful, and Boston without the An cents is inconceivable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
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 LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

Even the smartest man has taken the hook so often by the time he is 50 years old that his mouth is pretty sore.
 The old fashioned man who used 70 train his dog to turn somersaults now has son who is trying to train ais auto not to turn them.
 Cheer up. Maybe if you were mak ing twice as much salary you would merely make twice as big fool of yourself.
 Nowadays man never refuses an in . vitation to booze party. He is afraid there will never be another party.
 Woman was created from mans rio, And she has been a bone of contention ever since.
 You can't blame good baseball pitcher for getting swell-headed when he wins 10 straight games But no pitcher was ever as proud of his curves as well-built girl is of hers.
 You may have noticed that nearly every girl is a speaking likeness of her mother.
 There is many a married man who thinks they should change the slogan to: All the Discomforts of Home.'
 There wouldn't be so much trouble in life if you would just take as good care of your stomach as you do of your fGce
 The woman who talks about nobody is the only woman nobody talks about. And there ain't no sich animal
 And If you hadn't regarded life as a circus when you were young maybe would would have more of snow to- day
 Furthermore, when a man wants a highbau so had that his thirst hurts him from his hair to his toes he doesn t care three hooraws in Halifax what happens to the benighted heathens in Polynesia.
 Copyright. l92l.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
From the Brooklyn

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 l TIT was Miles Standish who found 1t II lot easier to march up to the mouth of a cannon than up to the mouth of woman. The Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Massachusetts, most gorgeous of our history's heroes, see Standish and go him one better. For all New England knows what 1t means to march right up to the mouth of a president emeritus of Harvard, heir of those weapons of offense and defense that terrorized the aborigines in older days:
 But when the Greek and Hebrew words
 Came tumbling from their jaws, The copper-colored children, all,
 Ran screaming to the squaws.
 The Ancient and Honorable warriors were not the aggressors. Dr. Charles w Eliot started the trouble. In state ments at a liquor Law enforcement allude to the free use of alcoholic bev- erages at banquets of the Ancients be- fore prohibition came in, and this. which might have been taken as a compli ment, has been resented in a spirit of true modernity. The ancient and hon orable alliance between Mars and Bac-' chus is not forgotten, of course, but since it is as obsolete as witch burn ing, the Ancients do not cite it.. The dictum of Kipling that if you're bent on slaughter you must do your work on water, has not the dignity of statute law. Hence Dr. Eliots unkindly allu sions to the past sting and rankle and are resented.
 Past Commander F H. Anpleton of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
JAPAN's FIRST CENSUS

From the New York World.
 The first Japanese census is re- markable mainly for it's veriffcation of current estimates. It has heen sup posed that Japan proper containe about 5S,oo,0oO persons. By actual count the number is 55,961, 140. It has been supposed that the empire, in cluding Corea. Formosa and Saghalin would total about 7S,o00.000. The census takers found 77,005,112.
 Japan proper is smaller than CaN- fornia, and her possessions could os fitted into the space occupied py Arizona When it is remembered Tn addition that the bulk of the islands which must support these swarmins millions are too mountainous to be we'll suited to agriculture it is not diff ficult to understand the demand for territories to drain off the surpiu population. time comes when no more terraces can be made.
 In that situation the example of England is the obvious one to follow England and Wales, with 5o,000 square miles of real estate and 46,0o0,001 mouths to feed, have managed to make both ends meet by manufacture and export. Japan, realizing the advan- tage of beginning the game while Ger many is out of it. is already bidding for world markets. But her destiny lies to the west, rot to the east; the accessible Asiatic mainland draws her ent the Pacific remains formidable Larrinr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
Making It Easier
 to Be Instructed

NT7HE shrewd textbook maker has
 J always filled his pages with pictures, knowing that they are more quickly grasped than multitudes of words. Aetna, spouting flame and and lava, with men and animals flee ing from it, tells the story of vol canoes in a flash.
 At the Chamber of Commerce this week the dairymen of the county saw a beautiful film, in which, along with a delightful love story, they were shown how an old and worn out farm had been made source of independ- ence by modern dairying and farm ing methods.
 The film reproduced the most at tractive rural scenery and the parts were taken by competent actors. Any man and woman would have enjoyed the picture. Every dairyman and 1 farmer seeing it noted improvements that he could profitably make. The modem method of teaching is by exhibit, rather than precept and exhortation. The calf club idea is not series of lectures, but daily practice. The canning clubs teach a girl by actual experience in canning The motion picture enables spec tator to frame purposes on his owr initiative.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
# x Why the Allied Troops

occupy German Territory
 IT N announcing that the German pro- U posals made by Dr. Simons were not acceptable Premier Lloyd George said, If Upper Silesia is torn entire ly from the side of Germany, the lat ter will still have a population which will be 10,00O,0O0 in excess of Great Britain including Ireland. This year we have million unemployed as a direct result of the war, but we have to find for paying our debt charges and pensions and disability allow ances five hundred million sterling. If Germany carries out this year the Paris proposals she will have to find one hundred and twenty million sterling g-oneAfourth the sum Great Britain alone has to find.
 France, in addition to war charges and pension list, has to find twelve billion francs for repairing her devas- tated area. Germany, therefore, will have to find this year one-ninth of what France has to find, and we are told that the effort Germany puts forth is colossal sacrifice. It shows that Germany has not yet realized the essential facts of the situation"
 It was just such considerations as these enumerated by MT. Lloyd George that caused the allies to end an intolerable situation by crossing the Rhine. Germany has no devas- tated territory as result of the war, whereas the havoc wrought in north
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
The Automobile Club

"The automobile club is coming strong" said Charles G. Davis. we have attained a membership of 1900 and are taking them in at the rate of more than 200 per week. The latest ln- itiation was 214.
 Our special traffic man is not for the purpose of reporting violations of the law, but for the instruction and help of automobilists. We want him to be on the street assisting the public in learning the traffic laws and the cour- tesy of the road.
 He will not make arrests except for fragrant offenses. We have employed him to help and do not wish him to lose his time in police court as a wit ness"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
Foundation Solid

While some of our leading industries are shut down." says Alto V. Lee of Gadsden, "our citizens feel that it is only temporary and but in line with some industrial readjustments which were bound to come sooner or later.
 T am cqsfident that Gadsden has a bright future, for we have everything city, and it is an indisputable fact that so far as a place of residence. it stands among the top notchers in Alabama. as well as in the south.
 T am sorry that the building pro- gramme of the public schools has been halted on account of the bond market, but this is only temporary situation which is bound to be cured in the near future"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

GEOGRAPHY LESSON If the island of Tap Leads to war with the Jap And that would be foolish. tis true' I'll look on the map For the island of Yap, And maybe I'll locate it, too.
 .AMICABLE ARRANGEMENT Both say they part on the best of terms"
 "They probably mean it, too" "How's that?"
 she gets s2OOOO year alimony snd he takes the contents of the cellar
 SLOWING THE PACE
 This life would be
 From cares more free,
 Though it might lack pep,
 If every wight,
 Both day and night
 Would watch his step.
 JAzZING A CLASSIC "A musical comedy version of Uncle Toms Cabin is coming to town" That's something new. isn't it?" Yes Sixteen Little Evas will sing and dance in the chorus and Uncle Tom will do blackface comedy"
 A WORD TO THE WISE Have you anything more to say to me before l go on the witness stand?' asked the stock swindler of his lawyer "Only this. When the prosecuting attorney starts to examine, you forget every thing but your name and address"
 A SOOTHING ENVIRONMENT Whats become of Blithersby?" He's gone where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest"
 "Dead?"
 No, indeed He's doing time in a model penitentiary." PAUL COOK,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
IT'S PUBLIC NOW

ITS PUBLIC NOW ''Is the world getting better Or worse?"
 Opinions differ as to that" said the old-fashioned person. but when grand mother was girl dimple in the fem mine knee was regarded as a private matter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
WELL EQIPPED

WE'LL EQIPPED This under secretary knows how to handle people" "Yes?"
 Why, he's born diplomat" Not born, perhaps, but he's had a great deal of valuable experience. In the old days he was bartender"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
TRUSTING IN THE LORD

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 A man and his wife were discovered keeping house in Cincinnati church. They were at least certain that they had found one landlord who would treat them iustly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09

there are fewer longer hauls, there will be more short ones. The same number of persons will consume the same tonnage whether it comes to them from a distance of thousand miles or from a shorter distance.
 The rates now in effect have not had a chance to prove themselves. This prompts Alba Johnson, president of the Railway Business association, to remark:
 "Imagine family crowding around the physician every few hours and entreating him to turn from the remedy he has given and try some thing else before the first has shown what it will do."
 The thought is timely one.
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 Restoration of the
 Business Conscience N ANCELLATION of contracts has " been the most annoying and serious of the clements entering into the demoralization of business. An excuse for cancellations now was the habit of charging a plus cost to the retailer after he had ordered his goods. Retailers remember how or ders placed by them at low prices failed of delivery, while buyers com ing in later and offering higher prices for the same goods were accommo- dated.
 The business conscience was wrecked by the war, along with the rest of the moral fiber that was swept aside. It is the duty of the world to rehabilitate it's business conscience.
 The Chamber of Commerce of the United States has issued a code of rules which, when boiled down, amounts to the Golden Rule. In par ticular it advocates this:
 Without preaching keep before your employees and your trade con tinuously the value of good will built on kept promises"
 That is good, and there is some thing more. There mast be a spirit of compromise and arbitration. All must share the dollar deflation just as they shared the imitation. The readjustment must come about in that manner or by bankruptcy. The ques- ton for business men to decide is which is better.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
Fictitious Deaths

tives will soon be swelled abnormally." said George Lewis Baiies, assistant city attorney.
 With the Barons beginning training within a few days, fans are reminded of the nearness of the baseball season.
 Business men will bemore forcibly reminded when the office boy comes in with the old gag about his aged kin. It might be added that the restless spirit is creeping into the systems of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
A UNION MAN
From the Arkansas Gazette.

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 The chief objection we have to the appointment of James J. Davis as Sec retary of Labor is that we may have to pay him time and a half for over time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
TAME TO GERALDINE
the poltirora American

From the Baltimore American.
 Geraldine Farrar was an amused spectator at a prize-fight in New York few days sgo. It must have seemed tame after La Tcsca" and Carmen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
Too Early to pass
 on Freight Rates

TIT is not fair to pass finally on the ll general level of freight rates until they have had better chance to show their effect on traffic under normal conditions. The last advance was declared at the close of August. Traffic had begun to decline at that time and has not offered in normal volume since.
 If certain distributing areas are curtailed in trade territory by the present rates, they will have more of the trade within their narrower orbit by reason of the inability of the adjacent distributor to compete. If
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
Going Abroad

T have just arranged passage for my boys, IS and 16 years of age, to sail June 1 for Europe" said James Hood yesterday.
 Both boys are happy as larks over the trip l want very much to go with them, but am afraid will be unable to take the trip. I was born in the north of Ireland and qiute naturally want to visit my boyhood home.
 Travel broadens. the vision, rounds out the education and is of inestima ble value to the young man or woman. am glad my boys can make this six weeks tour and there's a bare chance may go with them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
What McAdoo Thinks
 of Woodrow Wilson
of Wos

w ndt WzC<AQOO hAhho
 of Woodrow Wilson
 Y1 DITORIAL comment on MT. Will lG sons retirement to private life was remarkable for its volume and to a large extent, for its fairness Even republican newspapers which had bitterly criticized him during his public career endeavored to do him half-hearted justice and most of them conceded that he is assured high place in history.
 A rather interesting contribution to the Wilson symposium is a statement made by William G. McAdoo, at the request of the editor of the New York Globe. After expressing some hesi- tation in giving his views of Mir. Will sons achievements, because of their intimate personal relations, MT. Mo Adoo says:
 I do not agree with those who hastily and inconsiderately ad- judge the Presidents work at the peace conference failure. What ever may be the impcrfections os the treaty from a political or economic standpoint, Woodrow Wilson did not fail. The outstand- l. thing that transcends political and economic considerations, is the permanent peace of the world. Un- less this is secured, all else is failure; without this the sub finest hope of humanity is sunk in the black abyss; without this all political and economic adjust ments are unstable and sooner or later will disappear.
 Woodrow Wilson laid the foun- dations of world peace and a new order in the Versailles treaty. This is the supreme need of civiliza- tion; this is his greatest work. The fact that the crowning structure has not yet reached completion. that it has been halted by the selfishness of designing politicians and the greed of materialistic na- tional interests, has neither inn paired nor destroyed those foun- dations. The tides of reaction will ignominiously exhaust themselves and the work of woodrow Wilson will emerge unscathed and stand like the eternal rocks as the sup port of new and better order of which peace and justice will be the keystone.
 Apart from the fact that MT. Me Adoo is Mir. Wilson's son-in-law and presumably has enjoyed his conf dence, he is recognized as one of the ablest members of the former Presi- dents cabinet and is himself a presi- dential possibility. Mir. McAdoo was also conspicuously successful in pri- vate life before he was appointed Sec retary of the Treasury. For these reasons he may be regarded as com potent judge of what Mir. Wilson has accomplished. MT. McAdoo holds the same opinion that millions of other Americans hold. MT. Wilson has given the world great ideal to strive afor, which will live long after he is dead and make his fame immortal.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
WATCH OUT FOR BoNEs

From the Savannah News.
 Everybody'll be late after lunch on Wednesday next-that will be '.fisn day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
BEAUTYs REWARD

There was a young girl from Bordeaux Who danced in frolicsome sheaux
 Her figure was neat And her smile was so sweet She was placed in the very front reaux
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09

THOSE BUCOLIC SKETCHES The glad approach of spring denotes That frisky little lambs and goats Will ganbol on the green. As all the artists make them do And all the versifiers, too,
 That I have ever seen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
The New Yorker

New York is provincial" said A. E. McKinnon of NeN York, who is here In the interest of the National Marine league.
 The New Yorker in all innocence and in the most quaint of ways has the idea that the world begins and stops there. One of the popular songs in New York for long time ran this way When away from New York town, you are only camping out No offense Is meant by this refrain, but it forcefully suggests just how the average New Yorker regards his city and the rest of the uniYerSe.n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09

THE VOICE OF AUTHORITY
 The man who talks in d loud tone may not be saying anything in particu- lar"
 That depends on who he happens to be" replied the motorist. If he is wearing a polieemans uniform and is standing by a semaphore the chances are he is saying something in particu- lar that you'd better listen to-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09

A MORNING PRAYER
 When ana in sorrow, give me the comfort of a friend who hears my cry, when am in joy, give me the happiness of answering the call or my friend. Amen---M. $. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-09
Sidewalk NuisEnce

Tt seems that people would learn not to try to walk four abreast on the downtown streets," said Clifton Roo- erts. Recently l have noticed tnis practice here. and it always interferes with other pedestrians who are in a hurry, as this blocks the sidewalk and forces people to walk behind them when they would like to pass and go on their way
 Tn many instances the people hold arms and thus take up nearly tPe en- tire sidewalk This is an injustice to others and people should be more con siderate, in my opinion, than to monop- olize the streets. In most cities this practice is against the law