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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-13
LAWN PARTY FOR SUNDAY
 SCHOOL CLASS

The lightbearers' class of the East Lake M. E. church was delightfully."- entertained at a lawn party given by Misses Marguerite Howard and Emma Gassman. A number of games and a contest were enjoyed, the prize being won by Miss Myrtle Howe.
 Ice cream and cake were served. The guests were: Miss Lena John ston, Miss Louise Newby, Miss Myrtle Howe, Miss Mary Courson, Miss Mar garet Douglass, Miss Marguerite Hammond, Miss Erma Gassman and Mrs. J. D. Jones.
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Hill, who was with her in the east, is now the guest of Miss Alice Peizer at Skyland, N. c. Miss Frances Brady of Tuscaloosa is in the city, having been called here by the illness of her little nephew, Francis Brady.
 Mrs. Walter b. warmoth has re- turned from a visit of two months 10 her parents. MT. and Mrs. J. J. warley, in Florida.
 MT. and Mrs. E. A. Upham have moved from Montgomery to Birming- ham, and have taken an apartment at the Fairmont. Mrs. C. V. Zimmerman, who was called to Birmingham by the illness of her father, MT. W. A. Cothran, who is now convelescent, has re- turned to her home in Selma.
 
 Miss Roberta Rogers has returned to her home in Tuscaloosa after a visit to friends in Birmingham. Mrs. William Robertson is visiting her mother. Mrs. Blanche Bradley, in ] Mobile.
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Afternoon Tea for the Girl Leaders of
 Camp
F7T1 HIS afternoon at o'clock a
 tea will be given by the Bir- A rinohap, Supda, School asso-

tea VIII De gwen oy the BIT
 mingham Sunday School asso- ciation at the Civic Association rooms for all the girls and women leaders who have attended Camp Winna- taska.
 Those receiving will be Miss Freda Bose, Mrs. Runyan, Mrs. Forest Kim ball, Miss Lillian Sharpley Miss Mar iorie Moore, Miss Ruth McNeil, Miss Ethel Bush and other leaders of for mer camps.
 A unique programme has been ar ranged. and the Birmingham Sunday School association is anxious to en- certain all girls who at any time have been to Camp Winnataska. Any girl who has visited there Is priv ileged and invited to bring friend with her as the tea is given to girls of all ages who have visited the camp.
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Burgin, Mrs. U. D. Weaver of Floma- ten, Mir. and Mrs. Kit Martin, Mrs. McCrory and Mir. and Mrs. P. P. Mar fin
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We asked the young lady across the way if she didn't think an Amer ican girl would make a terrible mis- take in marrying title and she said well. she didn't know that she should object to a lieutenant or a captain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-13
MISS COOK HoNORs MISS sIBLY

An interesting number of young friends were invited yesterday to
 gather at the home of MT. and Mrs John Brown Cook on Quintard ave-
 nue, when their daughter, Miss
 Maude Merritt Cook, entertained in i honor of her guest. Miss Katherine Sibley, of Birmingham" says the An niston Star.
 Rock was the form of entertain
 ment planned for the guests and a
 score prize was presented to Miss Annabel Cryer.
 "The guest list included Misses Sibley, Cryer. Susie Goodwin, Ellen Agee, Dorothy Gardner, Anne Pettus of Selma, Mary Burt Smith, RoIene Marsh, Katherine Sproull, Evelyn
 Rose. Grace Witherspoon, Edith Turnipseed, Lucille Harrison and
 Edith Warren. Mrs. Cook was ..s- sisted in entertaining by Mrs. Eliza
 beth Smith and Mrs. Walter Warren An ice course was served at the con clusion of the happy afternoon" LUNCHEON FOR VISITORS Misses Dorothy. Della and Lenoir Dryer will entertain today at a
 luncheon at the Tutwiler, compli-
 menting their guests, Miss Hester King. of Columbus, Miss, Miss Louise Cole of Meridian. Miss Louise Spratt l of Livingston and Miss Maud Perrin of Meridian, who are spending the
 weekend In Birmingham, en route to
 their homes from Camp Brevard, North Carolina.
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A - ~ AFdshnIon3
N AsvnabAi / NAovtkrH@
Are-Hernld ratterns

The Age-Herald has arranged with leading fashion designers of New
 York to furnish its readers Q daily fashion and pattern service. Ali pat terms will be senm-making and guar anteed to fit perfectly. Safe delivery of every pattern ordered Is also guar snteed You should order patterns . little In advance of tho time you will need tlem a stock Is not kept in Birmingham. but all orders will be forwarded to the pattern department m New York for attention.
 No. 11o2. Ladies' Two-Piece Skirt Simple conservative lines are respon- sible for the good style of this new skirt model. Vertical pockets are set in and attractively finished with a
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Ole Miss, dar'S CT Heap uv us Wimmin Folks dat Trusts ouh Husbands ABS0LUT UTELY, yet we ain't nevah gWine ter let 'enn out uv ouh Sight fer CT minute, kaze dar ain't no Sinse in givin' lem CT Chanct to prove dat ouh Confidence is MISPLACED. NaW'm. ton.
 Poor things! It is told that they ware so hungry that fhev couldn't
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-13
BOARD OF DIRECTORS NETTING

The board of directors of Katherine Inn will meet this morning at 10 o'clock at Katherine Inn.
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Misses Lucia and Sarah Hinton Ed mondson of Anniston are the guests of Miss Minnie Lee.
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York and Girard, O.. where they vis- ited friends.

Mrs. George Brooks, Miss Elsie Brooks and little Miss Marie Brooks Weems left yesterday for Wrights- vile Beach, where they will spend two weeks.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-20
DeploreS Failure by Public to
Grasp the Economic Situation

They let things slump; they are easily
swayed by pure American bunk politicians:
they do not care or they do not take any
especial pains to better their conditions BY
calling and attending community meetings
and then, whom shall they blame (but
themselves) when humdrum orators and pol.
iticians are nominated and elected to office,
and then boss and command as they see ut
(for their own sinister motives)? l do not
say that this Is always the case, but there's
enough OF II TO present a rather serious
problem.
Now. I am deviatng from my course a
bit, but when occasion demands such de-
mand must be satisfied. vast number Of
our citizens (and | say this with deep re-
greD do not know, whether through care
essness or ignorance, anything that
amounts TO anything about social and In
dustral conditions. the trend of the times
and their natural surroundings and circum-
stances. In other words, they would be re-
garded, not by tho highbrow. but by the
ordinary person as uneducated.
What Is needed. and needed promptly, y
campaign OF education but education or
the right Sind-with every one Of US
teacher--to lay the fundamentals Of our ma
tional situation before all our citizens, 10
promote among our own people the genera
understanding OF our own institutions. with
cut this a return 10 our normal efficiency
in production is impossible.
As war Americans, we We're as nearly
100 per cent. effective as men and women
could be. AS peace Americans, we are too
much inclined 10 let the State or the COM
munity or the policeman on the beat take
over a good many OF our responsibilities as
citizens But in this present emergency "
is up to every sincere Amercan-big or
little business man, farmer. lawyer, laborer,
teacher, mechanic truck driver or clerk
10 bear his part Of the nations burden, 20
make his personal weight count for nc STA
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-20

TIME male OF the Essay Contest held
by The NEW YoRK HERALD is esta5-
- lished by the publication herewith
of the second of the manuscripts to be
awarded honorable mention by the judges.
The contest, however. long will endure in
the memories of the citys high school
boys and girls.
The theme proposed and dealt with by
the contestante-pupils in the fourth year
Of the high schools Of New York city only
was: In View OF the Present Industrial
Conditions and Social Unrest, What Arc the
Obligations Incumbent Upon the Amer
lean Citizen?"
The three winning essays have been
published in recent issues of THE NEW
York HERALD Sunday Magazine section; also
the essay receiving honorable mention that
was VIZ tten by Morton Roth of the De
Witt Clinton High School.
The essay now appearing was written
by Samuel Charry, who was graduated
from the Commercial High School.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-20
Peace Time Emergency Makes
Unity Essential Now as in War

so the emergency was met and victory
was won by American solidarity and Amer
lean devotion TO cause, IL was made clear
that social, political and economic differ
ences in the United States must go into the
scrap heap-perhaps It IL more correct TO
say cold storage--whe the real inter-
ests Of the country are threatened and the
facts az issue understood by all our people.
Understanding, mind you. Is vital IL is
lack Of understanding Of another emergency
confronting us at present. which makes the
country's situation now more critical than
any which the world war brought upon us
Then the threat was from the outside. the
peril was imminent and plain a pikestaff.
The enemy was a tangible group against
which We could unite The elements in our
population. therefore, were drawn together
and moved 10 common action by a motive
so big that IL dwarfed every other con-
sideration.
our present trouble, on the contrary, has
something Of the nature Of family quarrel,
although more perilous. America has n vast
army Of unemployed clamoring for work;
general industrial depression prevails. It
behooves every sane American citizen 10
ueep cool and let his conscience guide him
~ do The right, as he secs the right. for the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-20

our raw materials is automatically closed.
With the invasion OF Germany we arrive
at something approximating a new war. the
dislocation of German industrial life and
the inevitable cessation of all German pay
ments. at least temporarily. So, to put the
thing in the commonest of all language. the
American would get it coming and going"
He would lose at one end through the cessa-
ton of payment on the debts, at the other
by the interruption of his trade.
Nevertheless should have no standing
in court to protest against French military
action. for, in the last analysis, the larger
part of what France would seek to collect
by military action would be represented
ultimately by payment to us, since the loans
we have made to our associates equal more
than half OF the sum total of German repara-
tions. Any protest on our part against pro-
tracted French occupation of German ter
ritory. against an extension of the area
occupied, against military steps of any sort,
would be promptly met by the French reply,
"But we cannot pay you otherwise than by
making Germany pay"
There remains the third possibility: Tenn
porary suspension of the payment OF the
interest and sinking fund charges of our
associates following the actual agreement
upon some basis Of settlement. But If this
eases the strain and commends itself to not
a few members OF Congress VINO are eager
to avoid present troubles, 1t is at best an
unsatisfactory compromise, for the Euro
pean nations will still insist upon German
payment, since they have eventually to pay
us while suspension IT payment will only
increase the amount that will ultimately
have to be paid, and thus the annual flood
of goods sent to US.
One other proposal has been made recently.
II is suggested that the United States and
Great Britain should join in cancelling what
the Continental nations who were allies or
associates owe them. This would mean
cancellation by us OF $4,000, 100000 and by
Great Britain of $4,000. 600. 900, but the two
amounts represent about equal value, given
the unequal credit OF the borrowers. This
would extinguish $4,000 100000 of paper in
the world.
At the same time the nations thus bene-
fitted should be required to reduce their
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-20
BY SAMUEL CHARRY.

THERE is a tide in the affairs of
nations, as of men. Taken at the
flood, Shakespeare assures us this
tide leads on to fortune; neglected or I'M
recognized, all the voyage is bound in shall
lows and in miseries"; and constant effort
fails TO achieve the result which was within
easy reach in the hour of advantage. Worse
yet the chance may he seized by another
more alert and the advantage turned against
our nation.
The United States it seems to me- is fac
ing one Of the great emergencies of its his
tory. Three years ago we confronted an
other-a situation which we all agreed was
the most serious since the civil war. Though
wholly unprepared. we had taken up arms
against Germany I'm defence OF our national
honor and the safety OF our citizens We
had upset tradition by enacting universal
service law We had launched a colossal
programme OF army and navy expansion, OF
shipbuilding and big gun making. We had
oversubscribed huge Liberty loans.
All along the line we had surprised our
selves and amazed the world by the vigor
and deadly earnestuess of our response
the peoples responsible all the demands
put upon us. For ii was unity OF purpose
Of vision and understanding of the things
AT stake which made our people invincibe
and our armies irresistible in attack. Every
one-solder, farmer, professional man, me-
chanic. laborer, merchant, manufacturer
every one was an American first.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-20
Economics Makes Harding's Foreign Policy Diff

fess the danger of such mannuvre seems
to me real and grave.
It is obvious, however. that IL Great Britain
and the United States agreed to joint can
collation. of the debts owned them by Con
tinental nations exclusive of Germany, in
sisting at the same time upon the similar
cancellation by France OF sums owed her by
Continental nations. notably Italy and Bel
GUM the British and American govern
ments would be in position TO make certain
recommendations which might contribute 70
bring about economic peace in Europe.
Such conditions would be: The reduction
Of the German Preparations total as | have
indicated, the reduction OF the Army of DC
cupation in Germany and the rapid evacua-
ton OF most if not all Of German territory
following the completion of German dis
armament. a new occupation thereafter
would be permitted only if Germany rearmeG
or failed to comply with the PREPARATIONS
terms which would Enthusiastically be within
her powers.
All such arrangements could be made al
some international economic conference
called by President Harding in which the
United States would necessarily be repre-
scented. But such a conference need have no
relation whatever to the League of Nations
nor consider those purely political questions
which constituted the main stock and trade
of the league as created at Paris and the
chief obstacle in the way of American ap-
proyal of that league.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-20
Sds Danger Our Markets
United States Only Suggested One Way Out

able obligation by methods which are not
wholly commendable. Austen Chamberlain's
proposal produced a rather violent cutlery
in Congress. even in quarters most friendly
to our recent associates.
There subsists a notion, also widespread.
that Mr.. Wilson undertook to employ this
financial weapon to accomplish his political
purposes at Paris and that our European
allies, themselves wholly uninterested in Mr..
Wilson's Utopian schemes, permitted him to
have his own way as to them seeking their
reward In the more practical directions rep
resented by colonies and concessions. This
contributed TO making the reception of the
Chamberlain proposal still more unpopular.
But If all sentimental and moral aspects
may be dismissed as nonexistent or at least
not accepted by the American public. there
remains the practical detail. If we insist
that Europe pay us eleven billion, then each
European nation will insist that its creditors
paS 1t. Half a dozen European nations owe
us, the same nations owe Britain. three or
four owe France. We can only expect Eu-
rope to pay provided we concede that Eu-
rope has the right to collect It's money from
Germany in it's own way.
Great Britain. holding France and Italy
for vast sums. can only insist that they pay
by permitting them, and particularly France
to take such steps as may seem to her
necessary to force Germany to pay. This
means, in the first place, that the European
nations will demand of Germany enough to
meet our claims and pay for their own re-
construction, which is exactly the sum they
have demanded. namely. S21 600, 900, 900. We
can only ask a reduction of the sum asked Of
Germany-granted 1t seems to us too large
if we are willing to reduce our demands.
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best in him The American citizen should
do all in his power to combat the pernicious
influence Of the soap box orators. who are
at present spreading and propagating their
influence to the best OF their ability. There
fore. say again, 1t behooves each and every
loyal American citizen TO be on the alert and
keep a steady eye.
We cannot continue indefinitely. without
disaster the present state OF Industrial tur
moil, which is due to attempts to improve
industrial and economic conditions by the
use of methods of force. Industrial war
must, in the public interest, go the way OF
international war, and by similar processes.
II is futile to attempt to set up any agency
for the promotion of Industrial peace
whereby what is called capital what is called
labor, what is called the public, are equally
represented and meet upon equal terms.
Such a course simply gives new strength
to the movement for a class struggle and
the promotion Of class consciousness.
What we call capital is nothing more or
less than a group of men and women that
hold savings all OF whom are part of the
public. What we call labor is nothing more
or less than a group OF men and women
who work for wages, all of whom are also
4 part of the public. Capital and labor may
face each other on equal terms, but they
cannot be permitted to face the public on
equal terms. The public is always and
everywhere their superior and includes
them both.
OF course, many arguments have been
advanced and many methods sought out to
further industrial peace Gov. Aliens IN
dustrial Court" Is a means to an end. Pub
lie opinion may be trusted to bring about
compliance with the findings and recon-
mendations of such schematic conclusions,
If plausible. And while dwell on this topic
l might mention that the general attitude
Of manS citizens toward legislation of this
sort is laxity-what would generally be
termed laisSes fdire.
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claims upon Germany to the amount Britain
and the United States forgave them debts.
This would subtract $4,000, 900, 900 from the
German capital sum, bringing it down to
s13. 900 100000 and with the discount pro-
vided in the present Paris proposal it would
not exceed $40, 900, 000. 900, sum, even Ger
man experts agree. Germany could pay.
Such cancellation. from the American point
of view. could be justified only on the ground
that we cannot afford to take payment in
goods and that insistence upon payment
would destroy that foreign market which
can absorb our own surplus. II would be
further defensible only because there is
every reason TO believe that even if we could
afford TO accept the payment it would never
be made, could never be made. Great Britain
would profit even more largely than the
United States by the restoration of economic
order in central Europe.
There would remain something like $4,000
900, 900 owed us by Britain. This. IT is plain,
the British could pay and we could afford
to accept payment for, since the British
Empire holds raw materials which we re-
quire and Great Britain still possesses in
this country securities and other holdings
equal TO the capital sum itself. We should
avoid any dislocation of our own industrial
establishment by such a course.
But one is bound to recognize that it would
be difficult to Justify such discrimination 10
British eyes. 1t would be the more difficult
because the British view is that the sums
lent to her were Immediately transferred
to our common associates, and that from
these sums Britain herself derived no value
On the other hand, it is plain that at the
present time no project to cancel the British
loans could even obtain hearing in Wash
ington. and the whole project Of cancellation
would be doomed if it carried this detail.
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the same breath Keep your manufactured
articles at home" is to arrive nowhere. To
say Pay" and admit the sole form OF pay
ment which can be made-nanhely, Euro
pean manufactured goods-is 70 paralyze
American industries and abandon the cardi-
nal doctrine Of the Republican party. 1t is
also TO bring about prostration in our Amer
lean Industrial situation.
But this is only one circumstance. Europe
not only owes us for the loans of the war
period, she needs now many OF our raw ma
terials and some of our manufactured ar
ticles. She can't buy them unless we ex-
tend credit. and she can only pay for them,
TOO, in goods, in manufactured goods. And
thus to pay means to add still further 70 the
sum total of manufactured goods she must
force into our markets. But IL some method
is not found to permit Europe TO absorb our
surplus of raw materials and our cotton and
foodstuffs in particular. we shall continue
10 have the same domestic problem which
now confronts alike the farmers and the
financiers.
Thus at the present moment one OF the
first problems posed for the incoming Ad-
ministration is: How can we preserve and
increase the protection of our domestic pro-
duction and at the same time compel and
accept the payment OF the foreign loans?
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-20
How the Debt Could Be Handled
And How Germany Comes In

Accordingly the representatives Of the
several European governments will havo to
make arrangements With our Treasury De
partment 10 fund the debt. They will have
10 provide a long term arrangement. bv
which, paying interest and large or small
sinking fund contribution each year. they
will be able to dispose OF the whole obligation
say In half a century
But they have now only one resource;
namely tho German reparations debt.
Therefore. as | pointed out last Sunday
the host that they can do Is Ia transfer to
MS $1,000, 900 900 in German promises 10
pay. more than half of the total sum- or
alse 10 issue bonds themselves with this
German separations agreement as tho IN
derlyinE security. Actually II Germany
pays them. thoy can paw us, not otherwise
And In any case the payment win be in
goods manufactured goods
Now tho Republican party Is prominent
Is tho party Of protection, but protection
involves keeping out, not admitting foreign
manufactures which compete with Ameri-
can products It's advertised programme
> 10 raise, not lower. the tariff rates. Yet II
ii raises the tariff rates at the same moment
IL insists upon the funding and payment Of
tho foreign loans II will az one time order
Europe to pay and erect a wall against tho
admission OF tho European payments To
10 this would he sheer absurditv.
To say 10 Europe Pay" but 20 say In
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-02-20
Honor Essay Makes Citizens Duties Clear

CARNATIONS permanent work units. Their
response to the countrys appeals for money
and for service (war) was loyal and gen.
erous. While the war was on they did their
full part. Since the armistice. however, and
the lifting OF the war tension they have
slackened. like the rest of u.s. in the general
confusion Of motives and purposes, and radi-
cal agitators have been able to substitute
for the call of patriotism the appeal Of
selfish and subversive class demands. And
the only way plausible and practicable to
check this subversive propaganda is a cam
paign OF education.