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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15

I did not know when I told my story about the track meet at Munger park that 1t would develop this one giving the Apostle Pau1's knowledge of the Greco Roman games
 I suppose every student of history has a few favorite characters about whom he never tires hearing or read ing. It's this way with me. and Paul is one old hero who never fails to get my attention and stir my imagination.
 It may seem a strange admission for preacher, but 1t Is Paul the man who grips me more than Paul the the ologian, for, take him all and all, ne was a man. Shakespeare has been called the "myriad- minded" with per feet right, but I make claim for my favorite apostle that he was world minded" the first cosmopolite among the sons of men.
 A Jew by race, a Roman citizen by birth, Greek in culture. he incarnated within himself the best there was In the three great civilizations of his day, and the trio which has given to us the best that we know in all lines of hu-
 
 them in every way for the paths which they blazed, making 1t easier for man. kind in his upward ascent.
 I believe that he was called of God for his great work. but whether you share this view with me or not you must admit that no one of his day and generation had been as well prepared to be torch bearer of civilization as was Paul. The Jew, the Roman and the Greek had been busy making a complex civilization in which man with a world message could make his way and getA hearing.
 Paul the apostle was born at Tarsus of Cilicia. His father was Jew. who had received the Roman citizenship so that his son was "freeborn." His home town was a university town and his letters bear trace of Hellenic culture up to the level of man of liberal education, being evidenced by his Knowledge of Grecian philosophy. po- etry and frequent reference to the great games
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Look for Record Crowd

Interest in the national balloon race May 21 is being fast awakened in the outlying districts and in towns adjacent to Birmingham, with the indications or a record crowd in attendance when the first balloon hops off Saturday after noon," said Frank Butler.
 Letters are being received from many persons asking particulars or the event and celebrations which will be held in connection. Announcement or the coming of a dirigible has also at- tracted attention to the race.
 "Sale of tickets to the Ham ana Eggs minstrel at the Jefferson Tues day and Wednesday nights is being reported as progressing satisfactorily This attraction promises much for the amount expended, according to advance reports.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
GRECO ROMAN GAMES-By Frank Willis Barnett

to "sell" the gospel to the Jew. the Greek. the Roman. to all mankind.
 At present I am not writing as . propagandist for the religion he was trying to establish, but am merely en- deavoring to show how Paul went on his journeyings with open eyes and used what he saw to drive home the thing unto which he had consecrated his life. If his hearers were Jews, he made use of Israelitish modes of thoughts and ceremonies. If his hear CTS were Romans, his approach was through the things known and rever- enced by them. If his hearers were Greek, he piled them with ideas which they cherished. But whc ther speaking to Jew, Greek or Roman, he brought to break down their prejudices against Christianity by marshaling the full resources of his versatile mind steeped in the learning and traditions of them all
 He was keen observer and never hesitated to ornament his speech or Illustrate his writings by reference to the customs and thought of his day. The Greco-Roman games were part of the life of the people among whom he labored and 1t is small wonder that he constantly draws from them lessons to drive home the message he was delivering. Both at Ephesus and Corinth he had opportunity to know the great interest which was mani- fested in the various contests.
 I'll not enumerate either the pas- sages or the games referred to by him in his letters. but simply stated that he most frequently made use of figures drawn from the foot race, the most important of the athletic con tests in the Greek games. It explains the frequency with which Paul makes use of the image of the fleet footed racers to impress upon his converts the self-discipline and the whole -hearts edness which were necessary to ChriSs tian loving. The metaphor was ono calculated to make popular and forci- ble appeal. and 1t Is noteworthy that the most sustained application of 1t is found in one of the letters to the Church at Corinth, in the vicinity of which were held every two years the famous Isthmian gajnss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15

No one can read his speech on Mars hill without seeing the influence of stoicism on Paul. We have not only the quotation from the Stoic poets. but 1t Is saturated with Stoic thought; that racial distinctions are nothing that all are dependent on God for everything, are thoroughly Stoical notions. I do not claim that he was Stoic, but l think 1t highly probable that he had become, during his youth in the birth province of Zeno, acquainted with the philosophy of the Stoics, and used 1t on occasion in the setting forth of the gospel.
 I am not trying to enter into a full discussion of a mooted question, but merely trying to make good on my statement that Paul was in close touch with Greek thought and customs as will be further brought out in his fa- miliarfty with the Grecian games. l am aware that being Hebrew of the Hebrews" he was carefully instructed in the history of his own people and was sent from the seat of Greek learn ing at Tarsus to Jerusalem, the Holy City of the Jews, to sit at the rect of the great Gamaliel.
 His double name Is also suggestive of the fact that he was not reared on Jewish soil. but amid the Dispersion. Saul" his Jewish name. was natural one for a Benjamite to bear. and he was proud of being of the tribe of Benjamin, in memory of Israers first king. Paul" was his name for the non n-Jewish world. Paulus was not an uncommon name In Syria and Eastern Asia Minor, and was his Roman name the cognomen given him probably by his father. We only know that as his life work developed In his mission to the Gentile world he gave preference to his Roman-Greek name to the He- brew one.
 It was such a man reared in the great currents of the three dominating civilizations with a double name, who, after his remarkable vision on the way down to Damascus, went hurrying from country to country to tell about his conversion, using all of his knowl- edge of Israelitish, Grecian and Roman thought to publish the glad tidings of the Man of Galilee. His business was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
Like Snrfnc Flowers

Houses, like spring flowers, are go- ing up everywhere" said R. w. Kings ton, and l don't believe l ever saw as much building in my life. While many of the houses are small, some sunshine homes, a large number are beautiful bungalows and are costing thousands of dollars. Especially Is this noticeable on the North Bessemer car line. for houses are going up in every direction.
 Tt is just matter of few years and the section traversed by that car line will be thickly settled all the way between both cities"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
LUKE NrvLUKE SAYS

The high cost of living wasn't such much in the old days when girl didn't have to have a chamois rag, a rogue mox and a mirror in order to manufacture a blush.
 In the days of hoop skirts a woman needed a piano box in which to pack her stuff when she travelled. But now adays she can get most of her clothes in clarinet case.
 The trouble with meeting woman half way is that she'll make you come a little further.
 After a man has been over the jumps for while he discovers that 1t is up to him to be his own best friend.
 It is an easy matter to avoid mak- ing enemies. All you have to do is to do nothing, say nothing and be noth- inE.
 Tho old humbug who dyes his mus tache thinks it is terrible the way women stain and peroxide their hair.
 When a woman has nothing to say she sits down and writes some woman friend long letter.
 The can opener is so much 8 part of some womens kitchen apparatus that if stores sold hot water in tin cans they wouldn't go to the trouble to heat water.
 The fastr a man Is, the more trouble he has in keeping up with his running expenses.
 An inspection of those who are wear ing the rolled down stockings enables us to announce that a girls knees are a whole lot better looking than her elbows.
 Many a man who boasts of his blue blood has yellow streak about yard wide.
 Most men and most things seem easy until you try to do them.
 Getting a machine is like getting married. It isn't the first cost that gets you, 1t Is the running expenses.
 (CopyriFht. 1921.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
Community Singing

"Birmingham's community sing pro- eramme should be supported whole heartedly by the citizens of this great city," said Walter Brewer. Every one will have an opportunity to help carry the movement along next Sat urday, when the community sing tag oay will be held.
 Community singing Is valuable to every city. It keeps up the morale, so to speak, of the citizens and also gives them chance to get out in the open air. which Is very healthful. Bir- ingham citizens can do no better work than help out the community sing next Saturday,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
MED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE MEANING OF GERMANY AGREEING TO THE ULTINGATUNG

when at sea and will not travel on an American ship when he can get pass age either on Britisher or French man. He will even take an Italian transatlantic liner in preference to one flying the American flag.
 The International Mercantile Marine company had proposed taking over the Leviathan for a passenger ship, but found that to sail her under the Amer lean flag, with American wages and American legal handicaps, 1. would not make expenses. The shipping board has been unable to induce any com pany to operate her and she is lying up at the Hoboken dock, costing the government $40,000 a month to keep her in shape. It is the same way with numbers of other ships that we built during the war to carry troops and provisions to France.
 President Harding has been unable so far to find a man of the capacity for the chairmanship of the shipping board and is continuing Admiral Ben son of the navy In the position until he can find really qualified business man who will accept the position with the very small salary thereto attached.
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 The fact that Germany has signed up docs not mean that we can get actual money for all raw material and manu- factured goods sent to Germany, but that we can take them over, and get payment In German goods which will be in great demand in this country, and will be saleable for actual cash at a large profit when they are brought here.
 The doors of trade are wide open now and those who snter quickly are promised great profit.
 While all the world has suffered hard times during the past several months the prospects for business next fall and winter were never brighter.
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 Secretary Weeks is making a wise chief of the war department. He has admir- ably settled the difficulty of placing General Pershng in a position befitting his great service to his country. He has made him chief of staff, and likewise in command of all the army, to be effective both in peace and in the event of war him, however, of the actual du- ties heretofore assigned to the chief of staff
 These duties are to be performed by General Pershing's personal friend and chief assistant in France during the war, Gen. James c. Harboard.
 After trying General Harboard out in the fighting line and on his staff General PersfinR mt him in command of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
 THE JOY OF THE HILLS

By Edwin Markham. I ride on the mountain tops, I ride; I have found my life md am Satisfied. Onward I ride in the blowing oats. Checking the field lark's ripping
 notes
 Lightly I sweep
 From steep to steep. Over my heead through the branches
 high Comes glimpses of rushing sky; The tall oats brush my horses Hanks; Wild peoples Acrowd on the sunny
 banks; A bee booms out of the scented grass; A jay laughs with me as I pass. ride on the hills, I forgive. I forget Life's board of regret Of chafing chain. Grind on, o cities grind: leave you a blur behind. am lifted elate-the skies expand; Here the worlds heaped gold Is a pile
 of sand. Let them weary and work in their mar
 row walls; ride with the voices of waterfalls. swing on as one In a dream---I swing Down the airy hollows I shout, I sing. The world is gone like an empty word; My body's bough in the wind. my
 heart bird.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15

service of supplies, where he Is said to have made the greatest success of any man tried out by any of the armies par ticipating in the late war General Har- boards organization was the most per feet of any of the armies and after he took charge it was said that no kick was registered by any division of our army in France.
 He selected the best men in America for the different duties regardless of whether they were army men or other wise. He drafted them and gave them army commissions worthy of the duties they were to perform. His staff at Tours was composed of the ablest men in America, in their particular lines, and it worked like a perfect piece of machinery.
 General Harboard will be an ideal man in the position of acting chief of staff under the commander in chief of the American army.
 To return to living conditions, the writ CT spent yesterday at his country place on Shades mountain.
 The vegetable crop was the finest he has ever seen. For nearly two months there has been a profusion of asparagus with stalks much larger than ones thumb Beans and peas and lettuce and spinach and cabbage are In profusion The roasting ear corn crop promises well and the prospects for splendid canta- loupe crop are good.
 The peaches and apples and figs ana grapes were not injured by the recent cold weather and the trees and vines are apparently overburdened with young fruit. The hens seem to be in conpeti- tion as 70 which one can lay the most eggs and all around the outlook for good living this summer ana Idll IS liiie.
 Last year just at this time the writer attempted to get rid of his Tamworth hogs. They were costing too much to feed and some 30 were disposed of in gifts and otherwise, retaining three on the place To the writer's great surprise b: w.rt ont a few Sundays thereafter to find 3s instead of the retained three.
 During the past winter all except three wero disposed of by sending them to Capt. Jack Phillips of the Birmingham Packing company. At the present mo- nent the writer Is in deadly fear that crop of pigs this summer may be in pro- portion to the promised peach crop.
 Pigs are good things in a way, but when one has lived through the winter on hams and sausage and spare ribs and back bone head cheese and all manner of products of the pig. he gets surfeited when spring time and warm weather comes. asesa rn
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A PERSON OF NO IMPORTANCE.

A PERSON OF NO IMPORTANCE.
 Whats the name of this town, any way?' asked the supercilious traveller. "Chiggersville, replied the one- -gallus native.
 "Umph I don't believe it's even on the map"
 Well. stranger" said the native, as he spit stream of tobacco juice at a re- cumbent pig, you ain't put 1t on tn map by conin' here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15

Although Germany lost a great DOT ton of her merchant ships as a result of the war, she Is said to have begun a large scale of building new ones and within reasonable time will un- doubtedly be keen competitor in the worlds shipping. We of America seem to De going backwards In this respect. Although We have surplus of ships begun and built during the war, we are operating but few of them and these at tremendous disadyantage. owing to the shipping laws of the United States government. Our wape scale and cost of operations under what is known as the LaFolIette ,au IS out of all proportion to other coun- tries. To sail ship under the Amer- ican flag in competition with British
 German, Norwegian or Italian ia handicap at the start. And, as for pas- senger vessels. flying the American flag, they do not seem able to compete with either the British or the French. Not only cost of operation is higher. but one who travels on ship f1ving the American flag cannot get beer or wine with his meals The average traveller feels that such is a necessity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
No Panacea
 for Industrial Ills

for Industrial Ills @ X s the New York Journal of Com AA merce remarks, there is no panacea for industrial ills any more than there is one for the ills of the body.
 Some look for relief through high tariff duties levied on special prod ucts. Others place all their confi- dence in a readjustment of the rail- road freight rates. Some say confi- dence will improve when the federal reserve bank reduces rates of discount to the bottom rock levels. Still oth- CTS depend on the relief of the agri- cultural interests in some way or an- other.
 This causes the Journal of Com merce to say:
 Conditions are not to be im-
 proved by this, that or the other
 panacea--for the most part un- sound as we'll as ineffective-but
 by careful attention to the re- moval of inflated and other un-
 sound conditions in this country
 by lending all practicable aid in
 improving political and economic
 conditions abroad and through
 cooperation in other efforts to
 develop sound export trade.
 The sooner these facts are fully
 and widely realized the sooner are
 we likely to attain full measure
 of real and permanent prosperity.
 We sought to build the Panama canal. One obstacle stood in the way, the menace to life arising out of unsanitary conditions. General Cor gas removed those conditions. The rest took care of itself.
 European political and economic conditions have checked our exports. In doing that Pandora's box of evils has been opened and let loose. There is the place to concentrate, and hap oily the administration has begun to do so by appointing representatives to the conferences having Europe's political and economic rehabilitation in hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15

1HHE signing up on the part of Ger
 many of the ultimatum issued
 her by the allied governmen means much to the world at large.
 Germany has agreed to carry out the full instructions issued to her by the Paris peace conference.
 She has legislated to make payments in full under the terms agreed upon in Paris.
 This means that the worlds trade will be revived and that each and ev- cry nation will actively seek market for It's manufactured goods. It like wise means raw material market. It means the revival of the cotton manu- featuring business In both Germany and in England; and it means an en- tirely different wage scale in the tex tile and other manufactures of Great Britain in order that it may compete with the Germans In the markets of the world. In America wages in all manufacturing plants will likewise have to stand reduction, to some thing like a pre-war basis. The cost of living, however, must go down In pro- portion to wage reductions.
 The outlook for tremendous crops this year is bright, and meat and flour and sugar and chickens and eggs will undoubtedly continue to decrease. Within the next three or four months living costs promise to be on a pre- war basis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15

improve in the future, as it has done in the past. Its patronage increases with every northbound self-propeller trip. More towns in Georgia, Ala barna, Tennessee and Mississippi have merchant cargoes. The business from the east via the Mallory line, which las just begun, shows every sign of a rapid increase.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
MIDDLETON S. FAREWELL.

MlDDLEI ON 5. BARN w FILL. propounded. They may have known all the answers at one time in their lives, but have forgotten some of them, or they may never have known. To store ones mind with miscel- laneous facts that serve no practical purpose in ones business or profes- sion is simply waste of time and it is by no means a reflection on the intelligence of person if, for in- stance, he can't tell offhand what felt is. Unless man is making or selling hats, what good will it do him to know? He can recognize felt when he sees it and that is all he needs to know about it.
 Many college professor might have made almost as poor a showing in answering MT. Edison's question naire as the college graduates who scratched their heads and chewed taeir pencils n vain.
 Secretary Weeks has discovered that Keeping down friction in the army is a man s-size job.
 Twenty thousand ''red' rubles equal one dollar. That is chiefly what's the matter with Russia.
 Automobiles are reported to be skidding on potato bugs in some parts of New Jersey. where truth crushed to earth will probably rise again.
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 General Pershing's new position com. pines the maximum of dignity with the minimum of work
 Postponement of the stillman case will enable some newspaper readers to find out what is going on in Europe. Touring Europe In an airplane Is an ideal way to cut down the tips.
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 Mir. Edison may be able to ask college graduates questions they can't answer but that is no reflection on the ability of our football coaches.
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 Mir. Kramer talks about the beauty of volstead's amendment "wets" will maintain that the use of such word in that connection is preposterous.
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 Silesia may be another Plume, but 1t seems to lack competent publicity di- rector.
 German manufacturers are not losing any sleep over the industrial crisis in Great Britain.
 While Rhode Island is still opposed to prohibition. there has been no talk thus far of secession.
 Colonel Harvey is said to have appar- entiy enjoyed his reception in London. He may have been just putting his best foot foremost
 The Japanese Grown Prince has the old fashioned idea that royalty breathes q different kind of air from ordinary mor- tals
 society beauty who will star in the movies should be able to lend just the right touch to a drawing room scene-a touch, by the way. that is badly needed on the screen.
 The Haitians will have some difficulty in convincing Americans that the marines are lot of cut-throats.
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 Mme. Curie had her first interview al- ready prepared when she reached Amer ica. Such cooperation with the press cannot be too highly commended.
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 Much sympathy is expressed for Char ley Chaplin by movie fans who fear that lifa ,yo,,ld pavar oga in ha tha sevnA fF ha should lose his funny walk.
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 Mrs. Bergdoll says Grover is worth half million. She means, of course. that he has that much money. Personally, he isn't worth tenth of . cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
Receiverships Are for
 Protection of Property


 MY this time the war labor board lOO has had ample notice that the courts of the country, once con- cern has been turned over to their care, intend to carry out the princi- pies of receivership.
 A receivership, whether voluntary or involuntary, is notice that con cern is in an embarrassed condition and that appeal has been made to the courts under the constitution to untangle the difficulties and preserve the interests of the owners so far as is possible.
 Courts of equity, where receiver ships are handled, were created espe- cially to avoid the drastic and some times ruinous effects of statutory law, which, by reason of it's unyield- ing nature, cannot possibly care for situations requiring special considera- ton.
 The Atlanta, Birmingham and At lantic case is a familiar one. What was done there by federal judge has also been done by a Georgia state judge. In the case of the Geor- gia and Florida railroad this judge Spproved a wage reduction to save he raAilroad from bankruptcy, and he declared tShat 'it was not only the p' wer, but tAhe duty of tie court to determine what wages should be paid in the preservatit,n ,n of the property in charge of the court