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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
TREASURES BOLSHEVIKI SPARED

From the New York Herald.
 C1f1HE impression that the Hermit
 age galleries and museum at
 Petrogad had been rifled of their most valuable paintings. documents and antiquities was so general that the assurance given recently by the Paris bureau of the New York Herald that many of these treasures were saved comes as a gratifying surprise.
 In their first mad spasm of destruc- tiveness after entering Petrograd the bolsheviki seized the Hermitage, burned piles of historical and literary documents they found there. slashed the portraits of Romanoff rulers and Russian nobles on the walls and car rted on their bayonets through the streets canvases depicting the luxuries and pomp of court life. This was pointed out at the time as an evidence of the bolshevist determination to plot out all reminders of patrician ana bourgeois existence and to institute new history beginning with the ool- Shevtk rule in RuSSla put ueiofe thAs design could bstcompleted some leaders who they were will, perhaps. never be known--stopped the devastation They overcame the mob violence so far that they were able to isolate some of the galleries and the museum from the other apartments of the palace, to GOV CT the statues and paintings and to save many cases of documents, an cient Russian books and antiquities. In this condition Alexandre Benoit one of Frances leading art experts found the collection. French canvases by painters of the eighteenth century such as Boucher and Fragonard. seen to have especially aroused the bol- shevik ire. Most of these were either ! destroyed or mutilAted. The manu. scripts of the works of voltaire and { Diderot, two men who 1t might bs l thought would find favor with the | revolutionaires, were t7rn up. The l painttnge of the Dutp4 and Flemisf schools, in which the Hermitage wal 1 rich. sesm to have escaped. as well d l the fine examples of the art of Murillt 1 and velasquea and later painters O l tho Spanish school.
 Unfortunately. however. we have ss
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far no report upon the condition of the Greek and Roman sculptures or upon the great Kertch collection. This col lection of jewelry,N statuary and pot tery, which was unearthed in the CrimeA was the museums greatest treasure and the most complete and best preserved collection of antiquities of the middle Greek era in existence. The fact that M. Benoit has not re- ported the collection dispersed has been taken as an indication that he has saved at least some of the valuable pieces.
 Throughout his work of reorrautxa- : tion M. Benoit had to contend with much opposition from different bol- shevist factions. At one time hs vas reported to have been forced to aban- don entirely his efforts. The world may well congratulate itself that he has succeeded in preserving and re- organizing to as great an extent as he las these priceless Hermitage treas vres.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30

Having been a city pastor, l know
 the demands that are made to preach
 special sermons on all kinds of things.
 Most of them are about things which
 need to be aired, but if preacher
 complied with all the requests, he
 would have little time left for topics
 of his own choosing.
 Having said the above, I am sure
 that throughout the state there will be
 a general response to the request or
 the European relief council that today
 be one in which the cause of the starv- ing and destitute children be brought
 to the attention of the various con-
 gregations.
 If making a plea for the little ones is not gospel work, then I do not know what it is. It gives wonderful chance to stress the work of tine Master, who, when on earth, went about doing good and when He saw children at play took them up in His arms and blessed them It is true that Jesus was meek and lowly, but it is also true that on oc- casions He blazed out against the false leaders of His day, and it was with whitening scorn that He drove the money changers unceremoniously out of the temple; but one of His direct threats was against those who should offend one of these little ones which l believe in me-
 l It may be straining in interpreta- | ton to take the instance of the Savior out of it's setting where He took little child and set him in the midst ! of His disciples, and used the boy tc illustrate vividly the type of conversion | which would stand if they hoped to en- ter into the kingdom of heaven; and | make it include those who are indif-
 ferent to the natural needs of chil- l dren
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

what has become of the Fashioned girl who used to believe that paint and purity were not running mates?
 The day that he suddenly discovers
 that she talks too darn much the poor oid honeymocn goes out and takes u
 drink of wood alcohol. l The old-fashioned woman who used ,o wear half-acre skirt now has a
 daughter who wears a standing room :, cnly skirt.
 from the way Flapper parades around With her nose in the air you would never
 guess that she was only paying dollar
 week on the near catskin coat she :s wearing
 II makes married man mad all ovti
 When he sees how much good insurance
 money is invested in second husbands 1 Maybe if Congress would enact law compelling women to go naked the con. trary women would wear more ciorne.
 than they are wearing now just for spite
 When mans children can't think oi
 any more embarrassing questions to asa him his wife starts in. 1 It will pay you to avoid the fat heac who acts like he had the world on hi.
 shoulders anu is afraid 1t Is going to slT off
 1 Any busy man can tell you that i
 some men would only remember thu answers to half the questions they asI
 they would tc regular encyclopedias. 1 Another wonderful thing is how mucl fatter fat woman can set than thu woman can set thin.
 l The trouble with . man. Is that. h lnever uses procrastination on the thipE that he should not do at,allA l girl will go upstairs to dress afte supper, spend two hours dressing, an,
 come down wearing only half as mucl
 as she had on before she dressed. We were iust wondering how high tn knee length skirts would be if they ha' Ito wear bustles under them. | Copyright 1se1.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
By viggo roepfer, Staff Correspondent

By viggo Toepfer, Staff Correspondent
 Cross Atlantic News Service.
 m ERLIN.-Out of the great seething IM vortex of sentiments men ana ~ events, which the German rer public represents to the mental eye to- day, only one rock stands forth soiio and unshakable. only one man carried out his plans absolutely imperturbably Hugo Stinnes, who has made up his mind to emulate Rockefeller and show the world that to the right man, Ger many today, in spite of all confusion and discord, is the land of the unlimited possibilities, no less than America
 When last. met the German magnate in his quiet apartments at the Hotel Adlon. he told me that the Spa confer ence had taught him 1esson--pever again to take personal part in poli- tics. This does not mean, of course" he added, that I shall not make use of politics as tool to further my in- terests, for every man in my position must do that, but shall be content to follow the example set by the great American captains of industry to pull wires and make use of obliging pro- fessional politicians as pawns in my game"
 This was said some weeks ago, and since then Hugo Stinnes has never appeared in the press, least of all in any of the scores of newspapers he owns and whose editors are mere pup pets, but the great millionaire has not been in active. and the fruits of his mighty brain are now beginning to be- come apparent in the shape of gigantic trusts which within a short time will dominate in the financial, economical and industrial life of Germany.
 Stinnes began with the banks. His was the master brain which planned the increase of the capital of the Deutsche bank from 275,Ooo,000 to 400, 100000 marks, and the gobbling up b. this bank of such well-known financial Institutions as the Hannoversche bank, Braunschweighische Privatbank. and the Gotha Privatbank. The Deutsche bank has besides acquired control of the Wuertembergische vereinsbank and the Hildesheim bank.
 But to an even larger extent has the influence of Stinnes made itself felt in German industry. He now practically possesses monopoly of the German mining industry through the Deutsch- ILuxemburgische Bergwerksgesells chaft and the Gelsenkirschener Berg werksgesellschaft. with his latest ac. quisition, the Bochumer Verein.
 Not satisfied with his gigantic mon
 opoly. Stinnes has just succeeded 1T linking with the enterprises just men,
 toned the huge interests of the Sic mems -Schuckert werke. the great cleo i tricity trust of old Germany.
 That stinnes is the most useful citi.
 zen of his country at the present mo
 ment is not to be doubted. and as , 1 creator of trusts he already stand without an equal in the world
 l I4lt is present economical conditions i in Germany which form the back
 ground of this enormous concentration
 of power, because they unnnistakabl. point toward the closest possible co l operation between the interests pro { sducing raw materials and the industria ! activities manufacturing the finishe articles. stinnes himsslf is quoted .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
NICOLAI LENIN

 By Ben Johnson laws '"-New York Times Dispatch. What man hath builded up. My fools, Drag down. Efface the fruit of fancy, toll ana Destroy the work. and blunt the By which ambition wrought it's will Burn broidered cope. Break jeweied cup. fellow -rogues, drag down Dear shrines that old tradition guar,ls In temples where times dust is brown
 Send plowsharss through the worlds And laugh." Quoth rogue and clown l"What God hath given us 0 clowns. Destroy!-- The mystic's dream, the poets aacred | line, Come! banish thought of wisdom's frowns. Kill all that's rare and tried and fine. Break the old oaths We've shrivsn us l o fellow -rogues and clowna or everything of honorsd nahsex4 Conscience, ana faith and ksAs-sp- Of everything except black shanss Amen.T ouoth rogue and clowni
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30

And vet for the life of me, I do not sec how any professed believer can be careless in his attitude towards the suf- fering of little ones and claim to be in tune with the Great Teacher. Even those who do deeds of mercy sim ply upon moral and Humanitarian grounds are not callous to the cry which comes over the sea from starv- ing children piteously begging a morsel of bread.
 I can remember when my first-born in his early years was stricken down and wasted away in spite of the best medical attention. The sight of his thin little body pierced me like dag ger through the heart. had the consoia- tion of knowing that so far as love, money and skill could help him pull through. there was nothing lacking; but in spite of all these he looked like a little famine sufferer.
 Since that experience, which, no doubt, has come to many homes in which there are children whose tender lives at times have hung on thread, I have never heard a plea for hungry little ones, have never seen a picture of their drawn faces and pitifuf1 bodies that my soul has not been stirred to its deepest depth, for there is nothing in all the world so appealing as helpless childhood.
 We can't shut our eyes, stop up our ears, or close our pockets if once the tale of the conditions in certain parts of southern Europe is told us by word of mouth by men and women who have been on the ground and brought back heart-breaking stories of the things which came under their own observa- tion, or flashed before us on the screen where we can view them for ourSelvea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN---Frank Willis Barnett

It has been said that the child is coming into it's own in this twentieth century. It is a fact that never be- fore in the history of mankind has there been such keen realization of what child welfare means in the social, commercial and political life of na- tions. I hail with delight every for ward movement which has for its ob- jective the care and improvement of the status of children throughout the world.
 Children's aid bureaus in govern Inent, state or city are an right Orphans homes, hospitals. creches, etc, are but the outward expressions of the inward conviction that society's conscience is disturbed if there is sick or home less child in its midst. I take off my hat to all of the local institu4tons in Birmingham and in Alabama whose ob- 5ect is to fill the need of seeing to it that the fatherless and the motherless shall have food. clothing and shelter. and as much of a home as possible. Let us stand by them all.
 But we must not limit oor love and sympathy to our own, but in tho spirit of the Master must be touched by the cry of a neglected child wherever it is heard on the face of the earth. It is put squarely up to rich America, Shall it be lifeS or death, for xSoo,ooo chill dsen whoAre actually in want of some thing to eat. and are subsisting on a ration that barely moro than keeps them alive and will starve to death unless quick relief is given to tide them over until this springs crops are harvested in the fall? These pitiful facts ought to stir response in the heart of every man and woman who today shall hear the story in our churches
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30

from hydro-electric power. When one stops to consider what has been ac- complished in few years, there is ample justification for the optimism felt by the business men of Anniston, one of the first cities in Alabama to profit by the new source of energy which is revolutionizing industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
CHEsTERTON

F. H., in the New Republic.
 Even if Chesterton is fearfully
 wrong about all sorts of things, his humor is a complete amelioration. It does rot lessen the clash of encounter or soften the wound, but it makes the encounter hearty and the wound clean. Eit makes it pleasant even when he speaks of human brotherhood. A brotherhood of humorous brothers would be real thing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
ADRIFT WTTH THE TIMES

THE LAST TRENCH. This much I know" Said William Rowe,
 A man of great good sense: Who has his health Can with mere wealth
 And motor cars dispense. From day to day
 You toll away
 And many blessings lack, But, friend, you're still In luck until
 You're flat upon your back"
 IN BUSINESS. As MT. Grabcoir and a friend were chatting in his private office a card was brought in. "Ahn' said Mr. Grabcoin. My favorste bootlegger waits without" Do you mean to tell me- asked his friend, 'that the fellow has the as- surance to carry cards around?" 'Oh, yes He styles himself a broker. ''
 WILL OPEN HIS EYES. Where are you taking Uncle Jerry7" Down to see girl show. The old gem tleman has a great shock coming to him." How so?" "He hasn't seen girl show since "Ths Black Crook '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
n1ulNc raE cAME AwAY.

4'why did you discharge your new clerk?'
 He was too proud of the firm said the dealer in antiques "whatr "He boasted to every customer who came in that we operate our own fac tory"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
Lights and Fire Plug

The good people of Central park have a public school. That is good" said J. M P. Otis; "but the school is not large enough. That is bad. They have asked that it be added to and hope the authorities will see their way to do it.
 Meanwhile it does seem that the building might have electric lights and that fire plug might be located close enough to it so as to save it in case of fire. The water mains are there. The plug is mere matter of instructing the water company to install one.
 Schools in place like Central Park are public assemblage places also. The people feel that 1t should have cleo tric lights so as to enable the holding of night meetings"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
ONE WAS ENouGH.

Could I see MT Grumpson?" asked the brisk caller.
 q suppose so." said the clerk, gloom fly. If you don't care what happens to you. I got one good look at him as he came in this morning and I assure you that will last me all day s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
SOVIET HrrmOR

From. the Washington Post When 1O5 Russian laborers asked for
 more pay last week they were prompt iy hanged-the soviet's humorous way of giving labor raise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
Lower Hotel Rates

Lower Hotel Rates
 Hotel rates at the resorts on the geles, San Francisco, San Diego and others, are coming down." said J. H. Doughty, general agent of the Union Pacific in Birmingham. T have just received a schedule of Information from our Pacific coast Du> reau, and the rates set forth are far below what they were just a short period back "The coast people are also making efforts to get themselves back to normal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
DETTER no BURN m

r roH the AtldHtd SoHStltution.
 The Bostonian society has announced with show of pride that 1t has just come into possession of the cane with which Congressman Preston S. Brooks assaulted Senator Charles $. Sumner. May 22, 1856. and will preserve and ex> hibit it among the organizations pre- : cious historic relics.
 Better to burn it'
 The assault occurred in the. Senate chamber following the adjournment of one of the hectic sessions common to that day and time. It is said that sum ner never fully recovered from the att tack.
 The cane is described of being "of "a black substance. resembling ebony or gutta percha." and it is about two- thirds of it's original length. tt having been broken over the senator's head.
 It should not be placed on exhibition. because the reminder is certainly not elevating.
 There are SO many good deeds of the past to commemorate--so many histor- ic actions that were noble and inspif- ing-for the American people to com memorate by printed word and by im- plements that were associated win them that 1t seems pity for our his torical organizationA to clutter their exhibit cases with relics calculated to keep green the memory of deeds that had best been forgotten
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
A SKY PICTURE

SKI FICIUINEA From a window idly gazing On a narrow strip of sky, How like the tranquil ocean With cloud ships sailing by. But in those vasty depths of blue No salt sea pillows foam Only the wind and the sun keep there And the dream-borne galleys roam
 A PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
Taking Pasteur Treatment as
 Untagged Dogs Roam About

1nHREE Birmingham citizens began
 ll taking the treatment for rabies at the laboratory of the health. de- partment yesterday. On the same day, not only single untagged and unlicensed dogs, but squads of two and three and four of them were seen roaming about the principal thoroughfares ofsBirmingham. That the same was true in rural districts goes without saying.
 Deputy sheriffs, constables and police officers must see these wander ing CUTS if others do. One is forced to ask what the dog law was written for. It was not to get a certain amount of money from the people who obey the law by paying the tax and securing the tag, by keeping their dogs at home and preventing their becoming a menace to others, but for the specific purpose of getting rid ot the wandering dog evil. It is poor return to the taxpayer to dig down into his pocket~fnr the license money in obedience to the law and observe single and double file columns of un- licensed dogs as free to roam as ever The state owes it to the man whe keeps the law and bears his part ot the burden to see that others do moi escape. If only part of the peo' !! pie are brought under as laws appli- cation, while the other part feel free to override or ignore it, the entire ! body polite is apt t6 develop dan. gerous tendency to lawlessness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
Contestants Not Welcome;
 They Are Not Needed

FT7HE numerous contestants for
 ll seats of democratic congress men, who have been particularly in- spired to make the contest on account of the decisive republican majority are going to discover what they thought staff of strength a willow wand. The republican majority is so big that it does not need any addi- tions. That sense of decency which all Americans possess will do the rest.
 Congressman Fess of Ohio, typical ly anti-southern, himself has given notice that the republican majority is going to exercise caution and dis cretion in hearing the plaints of the contestants. The contestant, not be- ing needed, is to find himself re- garded as more or less of nuisance and his case must be good one if he wins.
 Congress, like Americans at large, has become educated to less par tisan and a more American view point in respect to these claimants That was proven few years ago when the negro Prioleau of South Carolina, who had been pulling the lleg of the nation for $2,000 in several <! congresses hand-running on ridicu- I lous claim of having been cheated at
 the polls, was finally kicked out and
 told to stay away.
 1 Decency is gentle quality, but 1t
 develops with each step forward made
 by the human race. It is going to
 be more and more difficult to unseat men elected to office because the con
 testant happens to belong to the ma
 jority party.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-30
She Is Generaus

mann-H Heink in giving concert this afternoon for the benefit of the starv- ing children of Europe is not surpris- ing when one considers the spirit she has shown with regard to charities and welfare work since her brilliant career first started,'' said w. J. Adams.
 'sWhen the opera singer was here before she gave a concert for the bene- fit of an Alabama school Many are the recipients of her generosity. I be- lieve she has more charity concerts to her credit than any other opera singer anywhere.''