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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
The "Chino" in Manila
From The "Chino" in the Philippine Islands. by Walter Robb, in Asia Magazine for November

From The Chino" in the Philippine
 Islands. by Walter Robb, in Asia
 Magazine for November.
 The ordinary Chinese in Manila Is doing penny business on @ very large scale. Every two blocks, on the average, there is little shop selling 30 to 40 pesos worth a day of commodities ranging from Ice water at half cent glass to spikes and screws at half cent each.
 talked to the proprietor of lit- tie shop of this sort. His stock was heterogeneous collection of general merchandise; bread, yeast, and grains, such as rice, rough rice and corn; fish and canned seafood products; smoked sausages and hams: bulot (duck's eggs cooked toward the end of the incubation period) fruits; inn ported canned goods from Australia, China and the United States; potatoes, onions, garlic and other vegetables; eanned milk of various brands; tea, coffee and spices; cooking oils, rattan ties and ropes; soap and cleaning preparations; matches, candles, oil lamps, petroleum and fire wood; me- dicinal herbs; toilet articles, Including toothbrushes, dentffrices and shoe polish; candies, sweetmeats and soft drinks; cigars. cigarettes. buyo (be- tel-nut qulds) and chewing gum; sta tionery, thread. needles and pins; na- tive slippers. The merchant paid a store license fee of IS pesos a year; a and sanitary inspection fee of 9 pesos. The one per cent tax on daily sales amounted to about 450 pesos a year. He was not anxious to pay any more taxes and took care to assure himself that was not a government investigator.
 It was only natural that he should ze suspicious; for the government had just passed new law aimed obvious ly at the Chinese. Tho collector of internal revenue. jealous for his 1 per cent merchants tax, had reported to tho department of finance that his agents had no way of telling whether or not some Chinese were evading the law. It would have been an easy matter for the government to take into its service as inspectors a few young Chinese. Instead, new -egu- lation, compelling all merchants In the Philippines to keep their books in English, Spanish or the prevailing local dialect, was recommended. passed and signed, against vigorous protest from the Chinese consul gen eral and the Chinese chamber of com mercs
 Since knew that even if bookkeep- CTS were ayailable-as they are not the owners of the smaller establish ments would not be able to pay them, asked the old storekeeper what he would do under the new law. He re- piled that he could not use either English or Spanish, but would try to keep h.s books in Tagalog, of which he had some knowledge. He was philosophical in the face of blow as staggering as an order to render their accounts in Greek would be to American merchants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
Will Try to Bring
 The Farm Bureau Here

"A N important enterprise knocks AA at Birmingham's door. It is the Alabama Farm Bureau, which will make this city its headquarters if Birmingham raises $20,000 to maintain it for two years.
 The Age-Herald a few years ago published a photograph of the of fees of the Texas State Farm Bu- reau headquarters at Dallas. The bureau is one year old and already has an office force of 75 and has handled 600,0O0 oales ,.' cotton for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
aBREAD. or STARVING, RUSSIA

From the Moscow Pravda.
 A peasant in the government of sa- mara (soviet Russia) told me of how they make iebeda bread. Here is the story.
 Tn our village they take some linden leaves and grass. chop them up to the size of flea. and then bon tho mixture. After the water has boiled, they squeeze 1t out and put the stuff again into boiling water. Then they let the water run off through sieve and keep the mass until it Is dry. After that, they grind 1t fine and add one-third flour.
 "The bread you get Is green in col or and indigestible. And when there is no flour. they just bake the ground mixture as it>is. It does not taste very badly; but after a man eats 1t for while he swells up and gets worms In his stomach, and soon after that he dies"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16

HOW TO FLIMFLAM YOUR WIFE
 "You ought to be like Mir. Peckton, Henry" said Mrs. Twobble.
 What about that felIow2' asked Mir. Twobble. with suspicious air.
 "All tho ladies in this neighbor- hood regard him as model hus- band"
 There you gol I'm open and above board with Any meanness. but you want me to be hypocrite. If have any faults, my little wife knows them and forglves me. There never was a model husband yet who wouldn't bear watching. I'm astonished and hurt and"
 There. there, Henry! I didn't mean to upset you so. Since you mentioned the matter. recall that I've noticed a furtive look in Mir Peckton's eye number of times, and I wouldn't be surprised if he were leading a double life"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
SAW HER THREE TIMES

Dante. the Italian poet, Is the worlds greatest lover, says pr. New ell Dwight Hills in the Mentor Nigga zine.
 Commemoratins the six hundredth anniversary of the poets death, Dr. Hillis tells the story of Dante's great passion for Beatrice. the daughter of a neighbor merchant. Although he saw the object of his affections but three times in his life. she was the greatest influence that molded his life and>work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16

the wreck of dynastles; yet, somehow, it seems to mo that in the roll of tho centuries man has been climbing out of darkness into the light. in spite Of having followed many blind leaders of the blind.
 I think any fair minded student of events will admit that there has been a gradual ascension from the time of Moses. to say, Lloyd George, who bulks so large just at present ip the gloom which hoyers over us in an after-effect of tho tremendous cata- clysm, which for few years, came near cngulfing what many think to be the achievement of centuries of civilization.
 We arc in fog about democracy, not in the narrow sense of the po- htical party which went down in de- feat at the polls In the recent na- tional election here in the United States, but the kind which we heard so much about during the war as it's ultimate aim. to make the world safe for democracy. It was the mag nificent dream of an idealist, whose light for the hour is dim, but VIII grow brighter as the years run by.
 
 There are those who are biatantly telling us that democracy has failed. but, beginning with the youth of Moses, whose heart beat in sympathy with the people, until after many dis illusionments in the 70 years of strug- gle in the wilderness. when the mama, the food of liberty, palled, and there was a sigh for tho flesh
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
NOT ONE RETURNED

From the Milwaukee Journal
 One of the most tragic of Englands war memorials has just been unveiled in the village church of Holywell, Lincolnshire--a simple tablet of white stone let Into the church wall It only contains the names of 12 vil- lagers killed In the war; but the tragedy is emphasized by the state- ment that these 12 were the villages entire fighting strength.
 With population of less than 100, Holywell mustered 12 men of fight ing age and they went with the first rush of recruits for Kitchener's army. Not man came back. Five fell at Gallipoli, two at Jutland and the re- mainder in France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
rHE AIrrIlMN

n Dubose Hayward, in Everybodys. s. Give me day where your colors
 break
 Billow on pillow across the lea; Where the trees lift restless arms and
 shake
 Showers of rubies over me: And the heart is free-free. Grant but little hour or two In an open space where my blunted
 gaze May travel your golden leagues anew. And soar to the stars as it used to do In the old. unfettered days. Show me sweep of October. sky Stark and far; while the goldenrod Sends breakers of splendor cours-
 ing by. And oh, I think that need not die To find my way to God.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
Had Shakespeare Tried
 To Write Advertisements
dement's

A DEPRESSING the Chicago Asso- A citation of Commerce, Prof. S. H. Clark, of the University of Chi cago, said William Shakespeare would have made a highly paid ad- vertising writer. Shakespeare un- derstood human nature, and that after all," said the professor, lis the basis of true merchandising. He always laid the foundation of his story in the first act and from this situation the play unfolds inevitably. Every scene is based on the idea of one character trying to get action , from another. That is advertising"
 Some of the Shakespearian schol- ars may object to Professor Clark's treatment of Shakespeare, but any genius who has been truthfully called myriad minded" could no doubt have written advertisements that would have added considerably to his own income and caused the British public to spend more than it could afford, just as alert adver- Using experts play on our over wrought sensibilities today. What Shakespeare could have done to in crease the sales of a tooth paste had such a preparation been on the market in his time-would haee been marvellous to witness. As the exponent of a motor car he would have had no equal.
 Fortunately-and we say this ad- visedly-the value of publicity was not appreciated in the Elizabethan age as it is now, nor were there the publication facilities which permit : an article of commerce to be made literally household word" through the magic of artful advertising and printers ink. 4 Hamlet" a Richard III" or a "King Lear" not to mention any one of Shakespeare's immortal comedies, or that sequence of sonnets as flawless as a string of pearls, Is more to be desired than double-page masterpieces in we'll known Philadelphia magazine, al- though there have been times when they have held our rapt attention longer than the best efforts of the fiction writers and awakened yearn- ings that can never be satisfied on eur present income.
 If Shakespeare missed his calling, as the Chicago professor says, let us rejoice thereat. This world has been made infinitely richer because . manager and playwright of Lon don town and Stratford lived before the age of commercialism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
FILIBusTERINo

From the Livingston Southern Home.
 The state administration and the legislature should not be hampered with fllibusters to abolish offices at a special session. If offices are to be abolished a legislature should first be elected on such an issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
HELPFUL CRITICISM

I'm the manager of The Giddy Girls troupe" said the prosperous caller. T want to thank you for what you said about our show"
 Why" replied tho editor of tho chiggersville Clarion. "I said 1t was a disgraceful performance. the most brazen and dcmoralizfng exhibition of nudity on the stage I had ever wit messed"
 Exactly. And we've done the big gest business we've had since we left dear old Broadway"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
Nor ASHAMED OF IT.

From the Montgomery Advertiser
 Birmingham hears that Marshal Foch may stop there for few hours in November. If he should stop Bir- mingham will forget, for a whole day, what its age Is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
coMpLErE AnsoRPr1oN

How was the lecturer" asked Mir. Calder.
 "oh, 1t was wonderfully exclaimed Mrs. Calder. The speaker discussed the consciousness of the subcon- sciousness.
 Did you find out what 1t was all about?"
 'No. didn't; but got so interested don't believe I could tell you, to save my life. how any woman present was dressed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
WHAT WILHELM THINKS

From the Florida Metropolis.
 Emma Goldman says it Is foolish to fight country as big as America We have a sneaking suspicion she stole this expression from the down and-out partner of Me und Gott.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
NEW MEANINGS OF OLD srop,

R. B. Eleazer. in the Missionary
 Voice.
 Our conception of Christianity and Its missions in the world has been steadily broadening. So long as we thought of 1t wholly as a matter of saving for some future existence a certain intangible part of us which we called our souls. preaching was all we saw any need of. From that standpoint the vertical relation alone was essential to Christianity man at one end of the line and God at the other. All other relations were merely incidental. If not incon- sequentlal.
 But at last we began to see that vital Christianity means far more It means not alone the vertical re- lationship of God and man, but the triangular relationship of a great human circle of brothers with the Father God at it's center. It means not the Ten Commandments of Sinai. chiefly negative and perfume tory, but the one positives living Commandment of Love-an all-em- bracing love that lives only to serve. It means not only a future saliva ton from the consequences of sin, but present salvation from the power of sin. And 1t means not the salvation of individuals only. but the saving of society as well, through the Christianizing of it's ideals and institutions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
ONE OR THE OTHER

From the Washington Star.
 Military experts incline to the opin- ion that there Is going to be either no war at all or else the greatest war In history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
YOU SAID IT.

From the Savannah News.
 Nippy mornings, eh? Without the old-time nip!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16

uS tV NOu. IL 10 tiie OHAy pTOCCSo MIDDLETON S. FAREWELL.  the farmer members in it's first year of existence.
 The Farm Bureau is purely busi- ness organization with national, state, county and precinct divisions and officers. When one of it's off cials offers for political place he au- tomatically sewers his connection with the organization.
 The agricultural committee of the Chamber of Commerce has fully in- vestigated the work of the Farm Bureau and recommended that the money to bring the headquarters here be raised. Following the semi centennial celebration, which ab- sorbs current attention, the agricul- tural and finance committees of the chamber will take steps to carry out the project.
 It is to be hoped that the Cham Der of Commel ce, with the help of progressive citizens, will be able to raise the money and secure the bu- reau headquarters. Nothing is more calculated to add to the commercial importance of Birmingham than to become the center of the associated business effort of the farmers of Alabama.
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 All this argument about whether or not MT. Bryan wanted the demo- cratic nomination in Baltimore Is a waste of time. Consistency In office seeking is one of MT. Bryan's vir- tues and it's our opinion that he wanted 1t.
 When the old football player re- visits his alma mater he Is nearly mobbed on the campus, but when the first honor man returns the under graduates ask, Who's that guy?"
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 A little English village sent 12 men to war and not one came back. Per haps it would be we'll to call MT. Bergdoll's attention to this foolish exhibition of patriotism.
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 A Shakespearean star has drawn larger audiences in Birmingham than some of the pretentious girl shows. Now. If ever. is the time to boast of our culture
 MT. Harding says the unemploy- ment conference accomplished a great deal of good What pleasant thing 1t is to have a "Pollyanna" in the White House!
 The ex-Kaiser is reported "pinched" for funds. At the risk of being mis- judged, we are willing to donate counterfeit dime to his relief.
 The neat and expeditions manner in which London police nipped com munist plot in the bud cannot be too highly commended.
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 The Samoans are so happy it almost makes us wish we could live under the benevolent care of the United States navy.
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 Scientists differ as to the age of the human race, but most authorities agree that 1t has not yet learned how to behave itself.
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 After we've invaded the privacy of the Martians our jingoes won't rest until we've picked a fight with them.
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 If the railroad workers strike, how can they figure ont that they won't suffer along with all the rest of us?
 < * * Movies in schools would give much pleasur to school teachers who can't afford to pay the box office prices, If the disarmament conference opens in an atmosphere of profound passinism how will it end9
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
AN INVITATION TO RoBpERs

From the Manufacturing Jeweler.
 While night displays of jewelry fin crowded cities are undoubtedly good policy for future trade. 1t is an open question If tho aggregate profits of such trade will more than. even up the losses incurred though window smashing thieves.
 This form of robbery has rapidly increased of late, and now leads by wide margin all other methods used to defraud the jeweier. The Jewellers Security Alliance reported 200 cases in the first five months of the current year with aggregate losses of s125,oo0. At this rate with the big thefts which may be ex- pected during the holidays, 1t would not be surprising if the years oper- ations amounted to half a million dollars.
 This Is altogether too big a toll to pay Tor the benefit gained through night display. for most window smashing occurs between midnight and morning, though some of the biggest losses have resulted from daring thieves taking a chance in daylight on crowded streets.
 Many devices for ths protection have been tried out but mono have proved effective as to create general interest or to make paying prop osition of their installation. The only satisfactory way to prevent window smashing thus far devised is to remove the goods from the win- dow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

A PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION DO you believe in the superiority of mind over natter"
 T have my doubts about that" re- piled Mir. Clipping. Tt has been my experience that when there's some- thing wrong with the fliYver you can get better results by exerting yourself with monkey wrench than you can by thought concentration"
 LIFE's IRONY Its a hard world"
 Flows that?'
 "A statesman with a sincere de- sire to serve his fellow man gets prohibition law passed" "weng
 And thenihe's hailed as the patron saint of the bootleggers"/
 SNAP JUDGMENT A man may have a shining dome And still not be a thinker deep; While one with hair enough to comb At learned lectures falls asleep. And yet the notion still obtains That we should praise the barren
 pate, Upon the theory that brains In heads like that preponderate.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16
orR RIrSY DAY

OC iN AoCfoA A'<N Ofttimes we must the caller greet Who wants place to park~his feet Those members on our desk he props And chats of politics and crops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16

All this argument about whether or not MT. Bryan wanted the demo- cratic nomination in Baltimore Is waste of time. Consistency in office seeking is one of MT. Bryan's vir- tues and it's our opinion that he wanted 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16

A MORNING PRAYER
 o lead me, Lord, to deeper love for Thee, OF I need not fear the temptations of the world If only love Thee enough. Amen M- S. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16

A shakespearean star has drawn larger audiences in Birmingham than some of the pretentious girl shows. Now. If ever, is the time to boast of our culture
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-16

MT. Harding says the unemploy- ment conference accomplished a great deal of good. What a pleasant thing 1t Is to have "Pollyanna" in the White Housei
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-27
THE NFW YORK WINTER
GARDEN PASSING SHOW. -

Announced as one of the most inn
portant bookings Of the entire sea-
son. the Oliver theater will offer on
April the New York Winter Car
denis most stupendous revue, The
Passing Show" with a surprisingly
large aggregation of stars, not for
getting the famous Winter Garden
chorus. a beauty parade Of many
gorgeously-g owned girls. There Is
but one Passing Show'-and It
comes from the New York Winter
Garden, acknowledged as being the
leading producing house % musical
entertainment in the world. The
only other institution like the Win
ter Garden. of a prominent char
cater. is the Gaiety theater. London.
a Winter Garden show. like a Co
ietv theater extravaganza. has d
style all its own. The Winter Ca
den shows ase on such a vast scale
i'm the number Of people employed
and with such cleverness, novelty,
and with such a multitude OF musi-
cal and dancing features. that Il
would ue bewilderiug and confusing
to narrate them all. This Passing
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-27
Castle

Bessie Barriscale. emotional aCt-
ress supreme. assisted by a great cast
including Joseph Kilgore cf Lying
Lips" fame. starts a week of Won
derful motion pictures az the Castle
Sunday. It's a melodramatic tale ~
the poisonous effects OF small town
gossip and has been given a high
rating by critics everywhere. "The
Broken Cate" Is the name OF the
screen story and for the hundreds
OF people who ike a thrill 20 settle
their Easter dinner. we especially
commend The Broken Gate"
The Bait" a thrilling mystery
play from the Maurice Tourneur
studios. plays Monday and Tuesday
IN this. as The girl whose beauty
lures men on 20 ruin. appears Hope
Hampton. the famous New Orleans
beauty. The action takes place in
New York and Paris and in such
widely varied locales a. department
stores and the most famous thoaters.
Several OF the most exciting scenes
ever screened. such as the escape 81
the lions into the theater crowd. hap
pen I'm this film.
Thomas Meighan resumes his
crook habitude IN THE Frontier of
the Stars his new picture which Is
% be shown at the Castle during the
week. The role IS much like the Ia
nous one he portrayed - well in
THE Miracle Man" only IN this in-
stance he is even more OF a gangster
than before. The picture was screen-
ed around New York and includes
such sights as Coney Island. Fsirs
Binney. sister Of Constance ana her
self a famous leading lady. PLAYS
opposite Meighan. To end the week,
Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle is sched-
luled in "Brewser's Millions" the Ia
nous story by George Barr McCutch-
con. Betty Ross Clark plays oppo-
site him.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-27

Coming 90 the oliver theator on
April 2 for two DAYS is Listen Les
ter" a musical comedy by Harry T.
Cort. George TT. Stoddard and Har-
old Crlob.
The action takes place 20 Palm
Beach. whittier COL Dodge has gone
accompanied by his daughter Mary
% escape from a woman whom no
had been counting in Sew York and
who now threatens him with "a
breach OF promise sclt lf DE does not
pay her heart balm At the same
hotel is a Mrs Mumm. awaiting the
arrival II Jack. her young fancce,
and while waiting she fails in love
with Col. Dodge. who rcciprocates
her affection.
There is "a Zip hotel clerk, "A de-
cidedly fresh porter named Lester.
a female detective. "a package OF
letters. and an sorts of compiled
tions that comprise 20 real story and
which are Strengthened out finally
IN satisfactory manner.
The cast of fuEmakers for this
attraction IS headed by Gus Shy,
and includes Joe Mack. Richard De
Mar. LINTON Athey, Virginia Wat
son. Lulu Swan. Jean Thomas. Ehtel
Rca. Ceclle Williams. a dainty dane
ing chorus and Paul RoselH, Tiano
accordian viruoso.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-03-27
LaSaILe

Paramount week at the LaSalle
starts Oft today with a showing Of
the great Maurice Tourneur melo-
drama, THE Bait" in which is star
red the famous Hope Hampton, win
ner of the southern $4,000 beauty
prize, star in "A Modern Salome'
and other pictures, and one Of the
most beautiful women in the public
eye. "The Bait" is a melodrama Of
international crooks and their lives
in New York and Paris. Miss Hamp-
ton plays the role of a shop girl
who is framed" and then used by
the gang to lure wealthy men into
loosening up their pOcketboOks.
Tourneur. most artistic OF directors.
has many characteristic touches here,
such as in the scenes in the Follies
Bergere at Paris.
Thomas Meighan, the most popu-