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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
FOLD AGE IS A POSE"

merely did he train some of the foremost of her diplomats, but he compiled the famous dictionary that resolved the bar riers betwixt the tortuous tongue of Nip pon and our own.
 The thought of growing old is chiefly oppressive to those who, never grow anything else. Most of those who pro duce, create, achieve, are too busy to study crows feet in the mirror or cal culate percentages of lime in the bones or acid in the blood. They are not for ever in a lonely observatory on the out look for new symptoms They are up and doing, with a whetted appetite for fresh adventure. There is "Lapraoor- Cabot of Boston, who is forever starting out on a one-man expedition among the Indians of the barrens not very far from the desolate spot where the balloon came downs with Lieutenant Hinton and his comrades. It is useless to tell hfm that he is too old You might as we'll try to persuade "Ooom John" Burroughs to quit exploring swamps and forests and playing with squirrels Nature, they tell us has no favorites, but she has a way of granting to the naturalists spe- cial grace in growing old" The life Or Fabre, which began in 1923, and did not end until 1915, might be cited, or that of Chevreul, 17S6-1Ss9. Many artists. moreover, are like St. .Gaudens, and ''do not count the mortal years it takes to mold memorial forms.' If I live to be 1O5," said the modest Hokusai, perhaps I shall be able to draw line" Such man knows what it means to live Tor many years and to remain forever young because forever acquisitive, inquisitive,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
British Government Offers Proof of Sim Fein Plots

OT1HE white paper" issued by the
 U British government presents what Great Britain claims to be the documentary proof of Sim Fein plots with Germany during the war. Its purpose, of course, is to justify the British government in it's drastic policy toward the Sim Fein and the so-called Irish republic" The noto- rious Won Bernstorff and a number of prominent Irish-Americans are in- volved in these charges.
 Little is brought out that was not already charged against the Sim Fein and believed or not, according to the point of view. Justice Cohalan of New York, whose name is mentioned, was quick to make denial and the white paper" will be denounced as British propaganda by the Sim Fein. 
 Since some of the Sim Fein leaders have acknowledged that they were willing to go to any extreme to strike at Great Britain, there is some basis for the accusations made by the Brit Sh government. At any rate, the sinister plotting of Won Bernstorff and others against the American gov ernment cannot be questioned and men guilty of such practices here might conceivably have joined hands with the Sim Fein, if they thought it worth while.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
"JEFFERSONIAN SIMPLICITY"

took the oath of office as President His predecessor, John Adams. who believed that the great Thomas had been guilty of unfair politics in the campaign. refused to be present at the ride which Jefferson took up the avenue, and departed before Jefferson was sworn in.
 This has beeu-the cornerstone Of the famous legend of Jeffersonian simplicity the ride alone on horseback up Penn sylvania avenue But history records that Jefferson himself was inconsistent in his loyalty to the idea of democratic simplicity. He might have ridden horse back to the capitol but he owned then some of the finest equipages in Virginia. As private citizen he lived at Monticello, which was then, as it is now, one of the handsomest homes in America. He main tained a great establishment of servants and entertained visitors increasingly. If we ever had an aristocracy in America, Thomas Jefferson in his beautiful and hospitable home at Monticello was it's best exemplar.
 He might have ridden to the capitol on horse but he lived in Virginia like the landed gentry of England, and he did in a right royal way what many other Virginia gentlemen have done-ne impoverished himself by living fuli and enpoyable life and by entertaining his friends.
 It is not that we object to Jefferson ian simplicity as it is called, that we enter this mild protest against the fever for it. but because we do not believe there is any sincerity or real sympathy for it behind the political demands for it's re- turn, Moreover we entertain grave doubts as to whether there ever was any such thing as Jeffersonian simplicity, for our acrid liberal writers have said that the great Thomas was himself something of 'Tboob shocker."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 i (S1 IRs JAMES CANTILE flatly chal- N lenges a current misconception in
 " his statement: "Old age Is just a pose. \ man usually grows old because
 he thinks it is dignified. He sits back
 and lets the years do what they like l with him" It is not so with this sep
 tuagenarian, who rises at 4:30 and dances i, Highland filings. He shares the spirit <, of Tennyson's Ulysses" who could not
 bear to sit idle amid his island crags, or of Barrie's Peter Pan," who refused to
 grow up, or of him who, according to an- , other poet, kept the immortal child tarry-
 ing all his lifetime in his heart
 1 We do not have to look long for monu-
 mental examples of great men who, like Oliver Wendell Holmes in his poem. 'srhe Boys" and in his personal example de- fled the calendar. To one such perennialiy young gentleman, namely pr. W. w..
 Keen, the community that affectionately
 reveres him is even now preparing to do honor. The will to keep youthful in the spirit seems to be the biggest part of insenescence. We have lately had oc- casion to consult the record of gentle man named Hepburn, who graduated from Princeton in 1882, and did not pass away until 1911, 79 years later, when he had attained the ripe age of s6 Unlike
 many of the Old Testament patriarchs, tof whom nothing is recorded but their exceeding longevity, Dr. Hepburn was eral generations. The empire of Japan, a country that never forgets anything or anybody, will forever hold his name in honor anaonn nr fha hanafactnrs Mi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
LUKE MLUKE SAYS

About the only thing the average youth inherits from his father is his politics. Awoman can judge that there's some thing immortal about man by the way he keeps everybody from finding l it out.
 Even when princess realizes that she is homely she manages to console herself with the reflection that she has classic features. And woman doesn't have to be re- remarkably fond of dumb animals tc like her poodle more than she likes her
 husband. And woman would rather be styl-
 ishly dressed than be. becomingly dressed.
 About 10 times a year a&girl wants to get out an extra and inform the world that her hair is trying Ito curl naturally.
 Two generations ago 15-year- old girl who read a daily newspaper was regarded as . freak. But nowadays a lS-year-old girl who doesn't read a daily newspaper is regarded as a dummy. And you may have noticed that most Of the eternal triangles have only one woman in them. If boy tries to be man we throw bouquets at him. But If man tries tc De 2 boy we throw rocks at him. The fact that dog has 2 pedigree mile long won't keep him from hay ing informal manner. It makes woman feel good all over to spend 20 cents in car fare getting a 50-cent article for 4sc. Men haven't been out of the trees SC very long. Why. less than 20 years ago i've were wearing the kind of shirts that had t2 he pulled on over your
 head.
 pFe...,.. girl is the most IsnteTestIl erld until she
 startg @ asls
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 1N1 VERY now and then American poli-
 N, ticians break out with feverish G desire for "Jeffersonian simplic- ity;" in Washington, in discussing the proposed inaugural plans, the fever IS again manifested by passionate appeals on the part of gentlemen who have com placently voted for billions of dollars or appropriations that this government re- turn to the simple days of Thomas Jer- ferson.
 Excitement over Jeffersonian simplicity is good political stuff; it reaos we'll in the newspapers. It makes the boys back home believe that their representatives in Congress are telling the aristocrats and the plutocrats where they get off. They are made to believe that he is standing there fighting the battles of the plain people, and protecting the treasury from raid for few thousands.
 There is nothing intrinsically wrong with the politicians idea of Jeffersonian simplicity except that it is shot through and through with hypocrisy. Our clever and blase authors of the liberal faith in bewailing the lack of culture and intel ligence of the American people declare that certain writers and most politicians are ''boob shockers.'' They know how to manufacture certain hokum, which is sure fire, in arousing popular interest and in stirring popular indignation. The politicians long since found out that there is no better way of securing pop ular sympathy than to demand return to that famous simplicity of Thomas Jeff ferson.
 Jefferson, we are told, when the time came for his inauguration, merely mount ed his horse, rode to the capitol in Wash ington, and tying his beast to post the capitol grounds then had posts-he
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
THE ULTRAMARINE RAG

From the New Orleans Item.
 Miami, Fla. girls latest crush" sat
 in the parlor and played the piano until
 her tortured father, gentler means hav- ing failed, phoned for the police. They came and found he was a petty officer of the marines who had absconded with $72.oo0. IrritAted papas sometimes hit
 the bulrs-eye. Of course, 1t may ap- pear nasty on his part to summon the police. but it takes something like that
 to separate piano from young man who thinks he can play 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
Exiled Emperor Hopes
 to Regain His Throne

6T7HE ex-Kaiser is still dreaming of H triumphant return to the fatherland. Perhaps the experiences of Constantine have strengthened his belief that the people whom he duped and led into disastrous war will for give and forget.
 A man who has known Wilhelm for many years, and was a wedding guest at the recent marriage of Count Ben tinck's daughter to the former Elm. peror's aid-de-camp, is quoted in a Paris dispatch to the New York World as saying he had 10-minute talk with Wilhelm, in which the ex- fled monarch said, Things are com ing to head in Germany because of the French oppression on one side and the growing bolshevik menace on the other. There will soon be need of the only power that can bring the country back to unity-the House of Hohenzollern. Then will come the time for which I am waiting in con- fident expectation. Those who, say that my day has passed are going to have an unexpected awakening
 Wilhelm spoke bitterly of being "traitorously served" by many of his generals and predicted that he would
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
TOMB A TRAMP,s HOME
From the London Daily Mail.

From the London Daily Mail.
 tramp who had solved the present day problem of where to- live by taking up his abode in one of the old Roman tombs at Aries. on theaRhone, gave two Dutch tourists the fright of their lives.
 They had gone out to see the remains Dy moonlight, when suddenly out of a tomb emerged a human form. which the moon caused to appear exceedingly shost-like The tourists fled at top speed for the town. declaring that they had seen resurrection. The ghost was interrogated by the. police and will be prosecrtsa ~ tae F'rencts fanivalsnt of wandersn& wisaout visible means of subsistence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
Ignore Traffic Laws

Birmingham is one of the most pro- gressive cities in the entire country" said B. I. Susong of Cincinnati. T know Birmingham and admire almost every thing about it, but when one comes here compared the manner in which the traf- fic regulations are observed in other places and are not observed here, Bir- mingham shows np decidedly at the lit tie end.
 q am not saying this in a spirit of criticism, but it is so unacceptable that one cannot but note it and wonder why a city otherwise so progressive is so lax in this important matter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10

execute him, in the form of a mos quito and to plague them to death. This cannibal--which is but Carib writ large must be aware of the mosquito fever theory, and would have returned, doubt less. as an anopheles or stegomyia fas-
 ciata, and as female of the species.
 This would have been more than even the marines could stand. The canni-
 bal was turned loose, and even the Hail tian authorities seem afraid to touch him. He seems to have put the island under a spell of voodoo or tabu or something rabbit-footy and fearsome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
Skating Dangerous

T am always in hearty sympathy with boys and girls having a good time" says Solon Jacobs. but I fear that parents who gave their children skates for Christmas presents put them in way of getting hurt. It is hard to drive car in any part of the city without the fear of running over some of the skaters.
 Its bad enough when they stay close to the sidewalks, but when a crowd of them gather in one neighborhood and race to see how many can cling to the frequently an accident or death. The remedy is in the hands of the parents as much as it is in those of the police"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
Boost the Town

If every citizen of Birmingham could belong to some group of people who are working for the good of the city this town would soon be as busy bragging 8 on itself as Atlanta is," said Charles l.. Harold. And after all boosting one's own town is one of the best ways I know of to make it grow and get to be known better and better all over the world
 Besides that, I don't think it will bore outsiders if Birming ghamites talk about the town, because we have some thing to talk about. Birmingham has done in 50 years what it has taken most other towns 15o to do. Today our city is the biggest one in the United States for it's age"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
DESERVES PROMOTION

From the Montgomery Advertiser. Bessemer has one bear cat citizen. h. stead of running away from maddog
 that attacked him, he turned upon the dog and choked him to death. A man
 like that should some day be chief of police.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
l be cleared of the charges brought

against him. l By this dream of return to power
 the fallen Emperor will doubtless be
 cheered and deluded until death ends
 his sojourn in Holland. It is true that
 there are rumors, from time to time,
 of monarchist plots in Germany, but
 there is nothing, at least on the sur- face, to indicate that the German peo-
 pie have ceased to regard Wilhelm
 in any other light than as an auto
 crat who fell a victim to his own
 egotism and stupidity. | # < # 1 Boston police will have boudoir, finished in pearl gray and gold. with
 mirrors, lounges and easy chairs As
 no ordinary cop would feel at ease in
 place like that, it will probably be
 monopolized by Boston's new police women. ! Mayor o. l.. Barewold of Davenport
 la, was formerly a socialist. He saw
 a great light, resigned from the social
 st party and has recently issued orders
 to the police to rid the town of radi- calls.
 | | Somebody stole lesless editor out of
 8 Chicago hotel along with his money
 stop at nothing to provide luxuries for
 his "Moll."
 1 The radio phone will carry Hardings S inaugural speech to the furthermost parts of the country. The solid south" will be content to read brief extracts in
 the papers.
 l Boise Penrose says he favors re-
 duction, in our navy. and he doesn't
 trouble himself to add, With all due
 respect to Josephus Daniels 1 # x # 1 Boni de Castellane has married again Frank Gould. uncle of the counts for
 mer American wife, was oblging enough to act as best man. , # + # 1 Twenty Saratoga bookmakers have I been fined. Is it possible that gam
 bling has been going on at this cele-
 brated watering place? # # # l Poet shippey has gone to Mexico with his French affinity Mexico being a | country where one may enjoy the 1 larger freedom" * x # l Childless couples are barred from an l apartment house in St. Petersburg, Fla Hail to the stork who in triumph ad- vances, Any one who thinks adventure is dead can be disillusioned by going up in a balloon and getting lost from ~civilza- tion.
 It begins to look as if MT. Harding | until he gets out of the White House < j. * "Savoyard" calls the Washington Post the Court Journal" In popular par
 lance. where does he get that stuff? x * # The worm is turning. Restaurant patrons are counting the number of peas they get for a quarter. # F x Boss Penrose has lost a great deal of weight, but flatters himself that he still retains his punch ' E + About the middle of June feverish in vestigators may discover why the price of coal is high. At rare intervals voice is lifted in legislative halls in behalf of the ulti- mate consumer. x # x Kansas citizens reported "up in arms Has somebody been caught sell ing cigarettes? x # * The allied premiers will meet in Paris January 19 Topic of conversation: Germany. * x x Riding conspicuously on the crime wave is the bold and resourceful jewel thief.
 AN UNTIDY GIRL.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
Our content
A MORNING PRAYER

MOhNiNU N Nh 'N'N
 Since thou hast sent me happiness, Lord, grant that I may not shuD the compa nfoDship of those who dwell in pain. for in their brave and shining eyes there dwcIls light that leads me into thy presence. Amen.-M. S. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 TIT is an age of miracles. Europe, after passing through the war, required
 q something remote from the ordinary run of sensations to attract it's atten-
 tion or hold it's interest. In England nearly everyone has taken to spook hunt ing. The continental peoples do not take
 much stock in spooks. but they have their own little miracles and mysteries
 Perhaps the most marvellous person in
 Europe is Johnny Coulon. Franco-Amer-
 ican prize fighter. who has all Paris de- lightfulIy mystified. When Johnny lightly
 touches a persons neck with two fingers
 that person cannot lift Johnny from the floor. no matter what amount of muscu- lar strength, he may exert. Johnny is not a big man; in fact, he is what IS technically classed as bantam" but not one of the professional strong men of Paris has been able to budge him.
 Another miracle worker is little Bavarian girl, Marie Paetsch, of Dieters- helm. Marie is g years old, and is de-
 scibed as child of unusual beauty. She is said to have the power to make in animate things walk or fly without touch ing them. At her command chairs and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
RAIN ON THE ROOF

 By Coates Kinney. When the humid shadows hover Over all the starry spheres, And the melancholy darkness Gently weeps in rainy tears, What joy to press the pillow Of cottage chamber bed And to listen to the batter Of the soft rain overhead! Every tinkle on the shingles Has an echo in the heart And thousand dreamy fancies Into busy being start; And thousand recollections Weave their air threads into wool As listen to the batter
 Of the rain upon the roof And another comes to thrill mo With her eyes delicious blue; And forget l, gazing on her. That her heart was all untrue; l remember that I loved her As may ne'er love again, And my hearts quick pulses vibra4o To the batter of the rain. Now in memory comes my mother. As she used in years agone, To survey her darling dreamers Ere she left them till the dawn o! l see her leaning o'er me, As list to this refrain Which is played upon the shingles By the batter of r h.. There is company 'oal & Lumber Co. Lumber Lasts Longer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
Toy Manufacturer
 Sets a Bad Example
# x #

WHEN J. O. Foot a Pennsylvania wv toymaker, played Santa Claus to the members of the House ways and means committee Saturday, he laid himself open to the charge of attempting to unduly influence states men under oath to perform their duty without fear or favor.
 MT. Foot appeared before the com mittee to ask for tariff protection from Japanese manufacturers, whom he charged with initiating toys made in America and shipping them into American manufacturers could meet. He took along big box of his wares and when the hearing was over he said he had no further use for them. quick to take the hint, staid repre- sentatives scrambled for the toys and went home with their pockets stuffed with dolls and animals.
 A precedent like this, once estab- lished, would lead to all kinds of cor ruption in high places. Suppose a silk manufacturer appeared loaded down with choice samples of his best underwear, socks and other apparel :? Having told his tale of woe, he could leave them behind and bow himself out. A shoe manufacturer might fol- low suit, and if the custom were kept up it would soon be unnecessary for member of Congress to spend five cents for anything he wanted. He might even be able to save something out of his salary.
 Last of all, and more demoralizing still, imagine a downtrodden liquor dealer, with hundred thousand gal Ions of whisky in warehouse, seek ing permission to dispose of his property confiscated under the prohi- ] bition law and appearing before the proper committee with large num- ber of pints or half pints for distri- button? The resultant scramble and modification of statesmen would make all previous episodes pale into insig- nificance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
They All Got Hit

Don't think for one moment that Alabamians and Mississippians are the only states where some farmers went daffy' on cotton" said Horace Ham mond, who has returned from a west ern trip. They did that in Arizona, or more so. The long staple cotton raised there brought fancy prices and pro- ducers went wild They devoted all their energy and acreage to cotton. The price went down. Nowhere was the blow a harder one"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-10
Parents of a Screen Star


 Couldn't Stand Prosperity
 A MOTHER sordid tale of Movie A Land-and, by the way, they are getting to be numerous--was un- folded in the divorce suit of the Os- bornes, parents of Baby Marie Os- borne, a $1,000 week screen star.
 The Osbornes were poor but hap Spy "troupers" before they went to !, California. The mother was on the stage and the father snowman. The baby was idolized by her parents and charmed everyone who saw her by her infantile beauty and cunning ways. Papa and Mama Osborne were living in theatrical boarding houses and playing one-night stands then. SOne luckless day, as it proved in the sequel, when Marie was three years old, a motion picture director in Los Angeles wanted child for brief scene who could cry and laugh almost in the same breath. Marie was given ! trial and proved herself born movie actress. The story was forth with rewritten, the actor who was to phaye been the star, took subordi- aSpate part and Little Mary Sunshine" became famous.
 The spectre of poverty no longer dogged the wanderings of the: Os- bornes. Their precocious child was soon earning an average of $l,0OO a week. The Osbornes moved into a fine house in a suburb of Los An 8eles and became lavish entertainers. Their friends of the theatrical pro-