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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-14
Germany of Today

From the Attleboro Sun.
 The veil that has hidden Russia from sight has also hidden industria Germany. The cables seem mainly concerned with it's politics. The omission of industrial news is cor rected by some independents now available. Thus the Guaranty Trust
 gives review of a recent trip from Essen, Dusseldorf and Dortmund
 through the farm districts to the Dutch border. The report shows that Germany is a rival of consequence in
 the world markets.
 While large number of locomo- tives are in bad order, there is con siderable reconstruction under way and also new canal construction. And wherever there was a chimney stack 1t was belching smoke. As compared with Holland there is a marked ab- sence of cattle and horses and the labor in the fields is being performed almost entirely by women.
 In Berlin all the hotels are crowd ed. The price of accommoda tions in Berlin is about the same as at hotels of a corresponding class in Paris and Brussels, prices having been raised to cover the depreciation in ex- change. There is an ample supply of food of all kinds and even fresh milk is now available for families with children, those without children using canned milk
 In the great locomotive shop of the Krupp works at Essen, heavy locomotives are turned out complete. at the rate of one a day. In another shop wagons are manufactured at the rate of eight day. In still another building near by five-ton motor lor- ries were being manufactured along side of small motor scooters.
 The articles manufactured at the krupp works today cover surpris- insly wide range. They include rail- way supplies of all kinds, cash regis ters and adding machines, surgical instruments, doors for safes, Diesel engines, iron and steel products of all kinds, machines for textile and paper industries, apparatus for mov- ing pictures, dredges, floating docks, pneumatic tools, etc. The Krupp works are also manufacturing at the present time machinery for making artificial teeth. They are not only manufacturing the machines to make the teeth, but they are also manu- featuring the teeth. The Krupp works are turning out this large va riety of goods with exactly the same workmen who made war munitions Every tool which was used in the now being used to manufacture the articles of peace. Even swords are being beaten into candlesticks. At the Germania shipbuilding plant, owned by the Krupps, in Kiel-Gaar- den, they are building passenger and freight steamers. At the Krupp works today they are employing more men than before the war, about 1o0, ,o0o. as compared with S6.0oO in July, 1914.
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GREATEST BATTLEFIELD

From the Providence Journal.
 It is announced that the University of Chicago is to send a mission to the field of Armageddon to make ex- cavations. The digging ought to be highly productive of relics, consider ing how Palestine's broadest plain was fought over from the earliest historic times to Napoleon's day--yes even to our own.
 The Balkans have been called a cockpit" and so has Belgium; but Armageddon. or Asdraelon as the plain is known to the geographers, Is an incomparabie one. Across this level region, too, the caravans have passed. multitudes of peaceful people as well as armies, approaching from all directions to take the natural pathway between the mountain ranges of Galilee and samaria.
 The Biblical historians may we'll have regarded Armageddon as typi- cal for the scene of armed conflicts that should influence the worlds des- tiny. There the writer of the Apoc- alypse saw the kings of the earth and of the whole world gather to the battle of the great day of God AL mighty" There all the host of Sisera, not man left, had fallen upon the edge of the sword of Barak, and Cid con slew the Midianites. and Saul met his tragic end before the Philistines. A few years ago troop of daring British cavalrvmen crossed the river Kishon, which runs through the plain. and just missed trapping in Nazareth the commander-in-chief of Germany's Palestine forces--the Ger mans fled without waiting to pack their trunks. The fertile surface of Armaseddon undoubtedly conceals a vast and varied treasure to delight the eye o\the archaeologist
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Harry Jones, Mlsann

Whats that I heard about you and your hot water tank experience few years ago?' Harry Jones, veteran hardware man, was asked. Mir. Jones smiled in a reminiscent kind of way and replied:
 Well, 1t was this way: The Ma tional Hardware folks were here and I was helping entertain tae.n. We had an affair at the Southern club. l and Mrs Jones attended. went home early to fix up for the occa- sion, and, incidental to tha. 1 turned on the hot water heater in the kitchen. First one thing and then an- other occurred to make me forget about the heater and l finally went to the ball, leaving the heater burn ing.
 Arriving home about 2:30 o'clock in the morning, gas fumes issued from the front door. Making the rest of them keep outside, I opened all the windows and investigated The cop pti tOiiS Oi NhC iCdltI ndQ melIG1 and that let the water out. Thsre was four feet of it in the basement and the kitchen in flood the stove out of commission.
 What was worse, we had invited 8 lot of the visitors to break fast happened to have very good plum Der friend, and he crawled out at in the morning and fixed the heaker so that we were able to have breakfast on time and our guests were not dis appointed.
 But it was an experience, all right, especially for hardware man, who Is supposed to know all about lumbing fixtuI es, and it was long time before my friends quit having the laugh on me-
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know About Birmingham

Say, folks certainly want to know about Birmingham" said Charles F' Yarn, assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. T am kept Birmingham our recent publication listing the industries of the city and the articles that are made here.
 from New York and other eastern points, but we get them from every where. We never receive a mall that does not include requests for data about Birmingham"
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Conner Commodity Rates
 Withstand Attack

A UGH twice decided EA against by the interstate com merce commission, the Alabama in- trastate commodity freight rates marking back to the Conner adminis- tration appear to be intact. This has come about in an unusual man. ner.
 In the celebrated Meridian rate case citizens of Meridian contended that Alabama intrastate rates, being lower than those from Meridian to common points in Alabama, dis criminated against Meridian whole salers and jobbers doing business at these common points.
 Alabama, through her traffic bu- reaus and public service commits sion, resisted the effort to raise the states intrastate rates. Finally a decision was handed down which would allow the carriers named in the action to raise the Alabama in- trastate rates, but in case that were done, roads not named in the ac- ton could still charge the lower rates and would get the business.
 The alternative on the part of the railroads named in the action would be to lower the rates from Meridian, but that would decrease the revenue on the traffic from Meridian. Find ing themselves in this dilemma the carriers named in the action ap- pealed for a rehearing and this the interstate commerce commission has declined to give.
 So the lower Conner intrastate commodity rates stand.
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srUBBY's DECORATIONS
the Baltimore American.

From the Baltimore American. Stubby is the unornamental nams of the nascot-in-chief of the "A. E, F.
 a brindled Boston bull terrier: he vol-
 unteered and went to France with former Corporal J. Robert Conroy Of
 New Havens he held his post for three years overseas, was wounded at | Seichprey, and now lives to wag the tail in Washington. D. C., with MT. Conroy.
 Stubby's blanket Is covered with embroidered decorations bestowed upon him by hundreds of admirsrs3
 and very recently he has received .
 "hero-dog'' medal at the Boston Asg
 show, and . medal bearing his nams
 from tho Humane Education society.
 this last pinned upon his blanket by
 General Pershing. Possibly 1t rec
 quired tho full dignity of the general
 of tho United States army to prsvsnt the ceremony of decorating Stubby from seeming undignified and un. worthy, while 10 many human hearts Stiii oSAS dli IOuHU tuo WoIAos Yet Stubby's title of mascot is
 worthy of high honor. and the sturdy little dog has worn it with becoming
 modestys and devotion. As the trus- tee of the army's good luck, this
 never quitting animal seems to have
 borne himself ideally; a symbol of
 hope. of faithfulness, of steadfast per formance of each days work as 1t
 came along Stubby will never know just how great an honor has been
 heaped upon him.. perhaps the fact l that he is content to be faithful to
 his master and lot of friends, even if they make more fuss than IS neces- sary. Is but additional evidence that Stubby deserves his praise; because
 he wears medals he does not lack the caress of his masters hand; and SO
 he plays his part
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Spectators of Fight
 Played by Dr. Straton
consumer.

1HHE Rev. John Roach Straton J of New York, who appreciates the value of publicity as much as any movie star in the land, wit messed the Dempsey-C Carpenter fight at Jersey City. He is under stood to have gone as matter of duty.
 Dr. Straton thus describes the crowd at the Battle of the Gen. tury."
 It meant not simply the pres
 ence of one class of our defectives
 and moral degenerates, but it
 gathered together all the poison
 elements in our modern society; he gamblers and the horse racers
 and the touts, the Tight houses"
 the pimps and the prostitutes, the home neglectors, Nthe baby
 killers and the pug dog nurses.
 the burglars, the pickpockets and
 the strong arm men. the pro-
 motors. the plutocrats and the
 profiteers, the liquorites, the
 Amalekites and the painted
 amazons, the double flyers, the
 society divorcees and the polyg-
 amous movie stars-whose com
 ing was heralded across the con-
 tinent--the vaudeville perform
 CTS, the proprietors of the de-
 graded theatres and all the other
 women exploiters, the Sabbath
 breakers, the church scorners, the
 the God defiers.
 Members of Congress, govern ment officials, the governor of New Jersey, foreign diplomats, eminent business and professional men, so- ciety women and ordinary citizens who journeyed to Jersey City on July 2 may be interested in know ing what they looked like to the militant Dr. Straton. There may have been shady persons at the fight, but they were far outnum- bered by people who regarded them selves and are regarded by their neighbors as respectable.
 Preachers like Dr. Straton, who is constantly in the public eye be- cause of his exploits, come perilous- ly near to sacrificing the truth.
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Appror.l Frem rr.tt cttx

"I heartily congratulate the board of directors of the Birmingham Auto noble club" writes E. E. Gale of the Gale Drug Co.,, Pratt City. to Charles G. Davis, president of the cluby "on the move of taking suca interest in the unfortunate tots Of our city and as a mere toNen of my interest In their behalf. am enclosing con- tribution, and state that ' will fur. nish my automobile to take the little ones for one day of msrry-making if I possibly can get away from my business on the day set T assure you thAt l am rlways with you in any move help hu manity."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-14

HHN OPTION is King" and all be-
 cause of the persistence and
 Yankee ingenuity" of a Massachusetts farmer boy. Cotton Is the one cheap clothing material the world over. owing largely to the fact that this same persistent, observing farmer boy thought out the problem of separating the seed from the fibre. For thousand years men and wom- en, mostly slaves, had been picking the seeds from the fibre by hand. And all through the centuries men had been seeking to solve the prob lem of rapid, inexpensive method of removing the cotton seeds. It re- mained for Eli Whitney to find the answer.
 His whole life Is an example of the thrift of patience, persistence and thoroughness. Even as a boy he often said, "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well"
 When he graduated, he was prom ised position In Georgia as tutor at s100 a year. On reaching Savannah, however, he found that his employer was willing to pay but $50 a year, which Whitney. almost penniless though he was, refused to accept Fortunately on the boat going. to
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fairs of peace are best conducted.
 The approaching conference is not in conflict with anything done by former President Wilson, but rather a development along the path which he so forcefully and clearly blazed.
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HINT FOR GARDENERS
the Boston Transcript

From the Boston Transcript.
 A correspondent asks us what we do about cutworms. Our method Is to carry> them to q vacant lot and turn them around threA times. thus getting them so confused that they cannot find their fay back.
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RATHEp ssfsF t xe
the Bc slan Tvt.

From the Bcsien HtsS ipt
 Parson Blank. Sif intsrest a society woman 7sf of his parish took her ts one of the tenements. Well he Asked after she had glanced around. wnat do you think of the life of sAsse poor peo- pie? Awful, isn's it9
 The lady ralsed hAr icrgnette and, used to regaz3ing fsera.thing as 8 craze, she replisd sDrsadful. I had ID idea-But Isn't t rather over done?"
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REPLY TO .COURT JOURNAL,

From the Houston Post.
 The Washington Post says "rhe boys of America are better lads be- cause of the Presidents touching faith in them" Bunk. flapdoodle moon shine. piffie, drool, balderdash and gibberish. The boys of America art better or werse in the measure that their parents keep right on the jot giving them home training by hand.
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Prompt Response to
 Harding's Invitation

mRoMPT response of the nations E invited to disarmament con- ference reflects the common sense of rulers and of the people whose wishes they are believed to express. It is quite fitting that the confer ence should open on armistice day, November II, as seems probable. It is in harmony with the mission of the American republic that this inn portant conclave meet in its capital city.
 Out of the disarmament confer ence may grow closer relations be- tween the nations leading to a clearer understanding of one anoth- CT with regard to all the problems of peace and tending to a strong association for the promotion of the ends of peace. Such an interna- tional round table held in the capital of the largest peace-loving nation in the world might bring about a better understanding than could have been reached at the first post bellum peace meeting held at Yer sailles.
 Not only disarmament, but the eastern question can also be dis cussed. From this the nations may proceed to the entire peace prob lem and evolve such an agreement as will evolve a league of nations on terms suited to all.
 President Harding may be slow, but he has so far acted with con siderable political acumen and a sound appreciation of the difficulties attending the carrying out of any plan. He has avoided friction and given little occasion for antagonism. A peace-time President, his course las been in keeping with the sedate and orderly manner in which the af-
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CRUSHING GERMS TO DEATH

be constructed and = plan of rapid. possibly continuous. charging and discharging can be worked out, there is reason to believe that the pres sure method of sterilization may como into general use in connection with the handling of these products read fly discolored or otherwise injured by the application of heat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-14
CHEERFULNDss

From the Merchant of fVenics. Let me play the foolJ With mirth and laughter let oh
 wrinkles come; And let my liver rather heat with
 wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying
 groans. Why should . man. whose blood 10 warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in AiAbAs-
 ter? Sleep when he wakes' and creep into
 the jaundice By being psevish2
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DeIore, and they lived to tell the tale. A month later the transat- lantic nonstop flight was accom- plished by Capt. John Alcock and Lieut.. A. w. Brown. Shortly after ward Alcock was killed in an air. plane accident in France.
 Save for one unfortunate speech in which Hawker reflected on the American transatlantic flight, a speech which he regretted and att tempted to explain afterward, he conducted himself like a sportsman and a daring, as well as skillful aviator. For many years he risked his life in the air and his good luck became a byword, but he met horrible end in a burning airplane, adding another name to the long list of aviators who have flown once too often. photograph of Lenine in a striped bathing suit will be awarded to any reader of this paragraph who can pronounce the name of Chinese Ambassador sze without sneezing.
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 Zion City has abandoned New York to its fate, much to the delight of visitors from the provinces who never would go to New York if it were as dull as Zion City.
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 Movie magnates who are reported to have paid s1oo,Ooo to hush up little party must have had what was known in the old days as<a "big night"
 President Harding's address to the Senate gave Congress just what it was looking for, chance to stand from under the bonus bill.
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 Business has fallen off to such an extent that New York hotel clerks are said to have lost their last yes- tige of hauteur. DeVa1era's preference for Irish in London should not be regarded as an affront to English 
 Having discovered that they can buy coal at a reasonable price, the | astute citizens of Birmingham are buying it.
 We are opposed to subjectng ar tificial blondes to psyche analysis, on the ground that 1t is cruel and in- human.
 For a militaristic nation France accepted the invitation to discuss dis with commendable prompt ness.
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 To l. charmed life, but the airplane jnx gets them all sooner or later.
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 If nobody were making any more noise than Admiral Sims is just now we could hear pin drop.
 Faced with the prospect of having | nothing more to agitate Irish agi- ts tors are terribly depressed.
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 Professor Moran has been knocked | out again. Professor Moran is getting to be confirmed ring sleeper.
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 This country has probably wit messed it's last wet" parade.
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 It Is now possible to get out paper without chronicling the move ments of MT. Jack Dempsey
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 A sign on the postoffice will mean nothing to the woman who buys all her stamps at drug store.
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A MAN AND HIS PAY

A MAN AND HIS PAY A chap named Sylvester OShea, Earning fifty-two dollars a day, Wed a girl named Hortense. And now his expense Is just fifty-two dollars a day.
 Chicago Herald and Examiner. A chap by the name of Bill Platt Installed a young wife in a flat. He made sixty B week,
 But now, the poor geek, His expenses are just double that.
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WAIST LINES Some waist lines stray And scatter sorrowt They're here today And gone tomorrow. Charlie Leedy, in Youngstown Teis- gram. The male waist line Sticks to the figger; Today it's big. Tomorrow bigger. Judd Lewis, In Houston Chronicle. This waist line of mine Enough to scare yuh; It Was line It Is an area!
 Cleveland Plain Dealer. With a shortage of beer And drouth in the land, Full many a waist Gets no chance to expand.
 PAUL COOK
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AT THE OFFICE

Quite a gay party"
 They are tired business men, They don't look very tired now" No. They'll register most of their fatigue about o'clock tomorrow morning"
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TELLING THE TRUTH

TELLING THE TRUTH
 "Do you pay heed to the still, small voice of conscience?"
 "Oh, about as much as, other peo. pie do," said Mir. Jagsby. But when sidle into & blind tiger and pay the proprietor s1 for a drink ot men whisky, it Isn't still, small voice any longer. It positively roars at me and sometimes I think it calls me fool"
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The man who acknowledges that he Is chump has begun to acquire wisdom.
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NEW-sTYLE DIPLOMAT

From the Washington Star.
 A competent diplomat Is now sx- pected to ascertain facts instead of concealing them.
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From the Chicago News.
 cynics and pessimists have a hard row to hoe in thIs contrary old world.
 A small man and a small dog are always ferocious when behind a fence.
 The man who acknowledges that he Is chump has begun to acquire wisdom. A man never finds life what it is cracked up to be until he becomes insane.
 There is limit to beauty that a woman may acquire. but homeliness is unlimited.
 The, banister of life is full of splinters and mankind slides down 1t with considerable rapidity
 Butter is prime when it is fresh; but maps youthful freshness disap- pears when he reaches his prime. lf other people didn't make mis- taksd we would have but little cause to pf de ourselves on our ability.
 Whenever . girl begins to lecture young man on economy she Is pre- pairing to launch her bark on the sea of matrimony Perhaps after all man isn't to blame if he thinks more of his ste- nographer than he does of his wife; he can dictate to his stenographer.
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Butter is prime when 1t is fresh but maps youthful freshness disap- pears when he reaches his prime.
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A man never finds life what it is cracked up to be until he becomes insane.
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There is limit to beauty that a woman may acquire. but homeliness is unlimited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-14
A CoUSINLY MANNER

Have you any talented people among your summer boarders?" one" said MT. Cobbles. What's his specialtyT
 "standin' off his board bill. He hasn't paid us nickle since he's been here, but his manners are So free an easy I sometimes wonder it he ain't distant relation"
 IDLE CURIOSITY We're demonstrating a tractor, miss. Are you interested?" "only in an academic way" said the fluffy young thing. T was a farmarette during the war"
 HE WILL
 Clipping is a conservative motor ist."
 How so?"
 "He tells me he has never driven his car more than 30 miles an hour" He's only had it a week. Give him another week"
 ITS BRUTAL SIDE Do you regard prize fighting as brutar7"
 q certainly do," said MT. Cad spur.
 "On what grounds?"
 Personal grounds. The last time attended a big fight I was showed this way and that, elbowed, stepped on and bruised from head to foot"
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The. banister of life is full of splinters and mankind slides down 1t with considerable rapidity.
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A small man and a small dog are always ferocious when behind a fence.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 Cynics and pessimists have a hard row to hoe in thIs contrary old world.
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if other people didn't make mis- takeN we would have but little cause to pr de ourselves on our ability.
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
PLEASURE BEFORE BUSINESS

PLEASURE BEFORE BUSINESS
 MT. Bibbles has motto on th,. wall of his office reading, Business Before Pleasure
 . Its good motto, too. but when friend insinuates himself Into MT. Bibble's office and pulls out a pocket flask, MT. Bibbles can reverse that motto about as quickly as anybody you ever saw"
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rom the Thrift Magazine.
Mag azine

From the Thrift Magazine. Arthur H. Chamberlain, in the Thrift Magazine. HHN OPTION is King and all be-
 cause of the persistence and
 Yankee ingenuity" of a