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The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1921-10-20

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-15

ing. Business can be done at present levels and it should pick itself up and go ahead. Iron and steel producers should stand firm where they are. It is not so much the price as the uncertainty of prices that has held back enterprise.
 The present price scale in the iron and steel markets should constitute the basis of real buying and real prog ress. We are not a nation of skin- Hints and we certainly do not wish the higher standard of living smashed by forcing the producers of the larg- est pay rolls to make a deep wage cut, which must ensue unless the price reduction process is halted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-15
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Heavy Loss of Life
 by Fire in 1920

C7f1HE fire record of Alabama in 1920
 U was a disastrous one. Not only was there $3,200,0o0 of damage to property, but there was a loss of 176 lives by fire. The report of Fire Marshal W. J. Williams will probably show in detail that majority of the fatal burns were caused by the open grate.
 The life loss in horrible. The per centage of this loss due to pure care lessness does not take from it's hor- TOT. Children are thoughtlessly ex- posed to the danger of the open grate and women will stand with their backs to it, forgetful of the chimney suction that draws the light ends of their garments into the blaze.
 Of the 4,248 fires of 1920 sparks on roofs caused 2,646, or much more than one half. It does seem that with all the fire-proofing material now of- fered for sale that the roof fire should be relegated to the past.
 People raise a great furore about the danger of the automobile, and it is right that they should. It is strange that they pay so little attention to the fire menace which is omnipresent. They demand all sorts of legislation to protect them while they walk on the streets and walk or drive along the country highways, but they en- trust the safety of their homes to chance.
 Inflammable roofs and the open grate take their yearly toll because men and women are not as thoughtful as they should be. The fire record of 1920 should make them so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-15
- - THE FALL OF A SEQUOIA

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
 When one of the giant sequoias falls in the Sierra the world sees the death or one of its most aged inhabitants. These trees are the oldest as we'll as the largest and grandest ofl living things. It is seldom that one falls, since their vitality is extreme, their re- sistance to decay. insect enemies and fire well nigh perfect, and-their enor- nous rots are knotted among the rocks over wide area of ground. Therefore, when one does come down it is the ruin of patriarch.
 Popularly the age of these trees has been exaggerated. But even after the extra thousands of years added by the enthusiasm of megalomania have been subtracted the sequoia still remains sufficiently full of age to stand vener- able beyond anything else that grows. King counts on the stumps of large trees have shown that they certainly reach 1000 years. while exceptional specimens have undoubtedly seen 5000 summers and winters or even more
 
 Critical. opportunities for determin- ing the age of large sequoias have been rare. The fall of the Lafayette tree in the Calaveras grove may offer such a chance. It is probable. If a section is obtained and count made, that this tree will prove to have been at least a sapling before the star appeared in 
 the sky at Bethlehem. It was we'll grown tree when the barbarian Angles and Saxons landed in Britain and a mighty forest column when William the Conquerer overthrow the Anglo Saxons at Hastings. By the time Co., lumbus discovered America it was al- ready venerable giant and to this tree the time since white men first saw its mountains has been but ar hour of its last day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-15
---------e.----- ------------------------ A MAN AND HIS KNIFE
n the Providence Journal.

r rom tne FrOVldence Journal
 There is something pathetic in the fact that one of the city's patrolmen had to find shovel the other night in order to cut the halter of horse that was in danger of being burned to death.
 Where was his jack-knife? Does he no longer carry this prized implement of boydom? Or did he leave the knife in his other trousers?
 The jack-knife is the symbol of youth. No man should be counted old until he ceases to own one. Nor does any man become perfect until he is able to keep a knife. year after year, without losing it. or misplacing it, or letting its blades grow dull and stained. In boys life there are few greater moments than when he receives as his own knife like his fathers. or. per haps. the one that his father has car ried for many years And what man, who has learned how to whittle out a boat that will sail or a whistle that will blow, does not find pleasure in proving his skill to his own or somebody else's youngsters?
 If the patrolman who was forced to use shovel because he did not have a jack-knife in his trousers pocket does not own a knife, the boys on his beat can render him a genuinely happy service by clubbing together and buy ,ng him one strong enough to cut any thing short of barred wire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-15
ALASKAN COAL DEVELOPMENT

tinue. The commission in it's report states that the character of the country and the prospecting and leasing laws of Alaska "are such as to prevent pros pectors from going in and discovering suitable fuel fields.''
 This being the case, there Is no rem edy for the government except to de- velop it's own coal supply and what is to become of the people of Alaska, re- mains a problem.
 There is much effort from tho wash- ington end to show the large develop ment likely to take place under the government leasing law. The. Mining Congress Jorunal will watch with in- terest these possible developments and may some day be ready to admit that the public lands leasing system is a public advantage. Thus far there is no proof and we are still of the opinion that the leasing law is mistake; that the federal government has no business to interfere in the development of min eral resources of any state; that its in- terference will stifle development and will. keep from the state vast proper ties which should, come under its tax ing power for the support of the state institutions. More than all this, 1t will effect centralination of power in the federal government contrary to the spirit of the constitution and dangerous to republican form of government
 Tk -1G- X .-4 agency admitting the fact that the re- strictions of the leasing law as applied to the Alaskan situation are such as to prohibit individual development.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-15
LUXE M,LUKE SAYS

When man gets into a fight that lasts 10 seconds it gives him something to talk about for the next 10 years.
 When you and the only girl are all by your lonesome lip to lip silence beats heart to heart talk.
 If small boy had his way about it a dinner would be composed entirely of dessert.
 After man has been henpecked long enough he looks as neglected and discouraged as back porch.
 While small boy never has enough pockets, a man has too doggone many of them.
 And what has become of the old fashioned sleuth who used to go out hunting for Dorothy Arnold?
 Of course. it is none of our business. But we might inform some of the re- formers that the best way to make other people happy. is to let them alone.
 Judging by the high skirts and the stockings, women are just as proud of their lefts as they are of their rights.
 We may be wrong. But if the statis- tics were available you'd find tha t there wasn't as much alcohol in the radiators of the machine last winter as there was in the radiators of the men who did the driving.
 wise girl always refuses to let a man kiss her. She knows that if he is in earnest he'll do it anyway.
 Another strange thing is how easy it is to drive man to drink and how hard 1t is to drive him away from it.
 It doesn't make so much difference in a man. But what is nature thinking of when she puts bow legs on girl?
 If you never ask people to do more for you than you would do for them none of you would be overworked.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-15

in which the takers assemble must be we'll lighted. Men will not talk and they cannot properly listen where they do not clearly see each others faces, and this fact true of all men. is espe- cially so of the shy and diffident talker, unless his attention bs fully occcupied In watching the changing expression on the face of the man with whom he talks he listens to his own voice, his voice comes back upon him. and he is em- barrassed.
 Why is it that modern ladies, espe- cially in New York, like to show them selves in darkened drawing rooms and at darkened dinner tables, so that they seem as phantoms prettily appareled and no longer as real women? My old friend York Powell used to say that the only education proper to a woman was to know French and how to dance. The fact is that education is a good thing, but it is carried too far if the real woman-or for that matter the real man-is submerged in any kind of intellectualism. The grandmothers of these phantom ladies were women first and last One of them might be only an old maid or happy wife, or one unhappy or best of all. pretty girl, filled with the poetry of her own hap piness, but she had a self, and out of that self she talked, when she did talk. She is no longer a self; she has be- come a student of this or that idealism iimparted to her by some professor or lecturer, or by her college. She has be- come unreal and her one idea is to shine like an ambitious young uni verslty undergraduate who has not vet acnuirad h ic if1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-15
Impress Visitors Favorably
 by Lighting Fifth Avenue

EM NE by one the unsightly frame NV buildings that mar Fifth ave- nue between the Terminal station and the new postoffice are being torn down to make room for business houses. But Fifth avenue continues as dark as the proverbial pocket.
 The stranger who attempts to walk from the Terminal station to the heart of the city must grope his way along dimly lighted sidewalks that are at intervals plunged into almost total darkness. It is small wonder if he clutches his wallet more tightly and asks himself if he is in real city or just an overgrown village.
 If property owners who have more regard for dollar than the public welfare and the prestige of their city object to having Fifth avenue made a white way" as some of the busi- ness streets are now, the city could make a great improvement in the ap- pearance of the street at night by in stalling more arc lights. It is esti- mated that the cost would be about $700, small sum to spend when the advantages would be so great.
 Many people who visit Birmingham get their first impressions of the city from what they see along Fifth ave- nue. It presents a much better ap pearance architecturally than it did few years ago, although there are still number of ramshackle houses left standing, but it is probably no better lighted than it was before the Ter minal station was built.
 Many readers of The Age-Herald favor a better lighting system for Fifth avenue and no doubt large part of Birmingham's citizens would like to see this much needed improvement made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-15
AIRPLANESWILL WIN NEXT WAR

Maj Kenneth Proctor Littauer in Les
 lies.
 N the next great war the first dicisive battle will be fought in the air, long z before the opposing ground forces are at grips. The side which wins that preliminary battle and establishes it's su- premacy in the air will, in all probabil- |ity win the war in short order.
 This first combat will be between ia. fighting planes. whose mission will be to clear the airways for heavier. more vul- nerable planes armed with gas and high explosive bombs, cannon ranging in size from quick-firing one-pounders to six inch pieces and high-calibre machine guns
 With the air cleared, and kept clear, by the victoriouA pursuit planes, the larger aircraft will Moceed independent of the friendly troops. to attack the enemy s reserve ferces on the ground, penetrat- ing hundreds of miles to the rear of the main bodies and disorganizng the en- emy.s whole tactical and economic ma chinery of war. These craft will ad- vance, not as in the past, at high alti- tude, but at point-blank range both for shooting and bombing. There being nothing to fear from attack in the air, they will have to cope only with anti aircraft defenses on the ground
 These defenses are practically neg ligible. If the last war proved nothing else, it proved that fact conclusiveIv. The allier air forces during the war lost about one-ter'th of per cent of their eff fectives engaged on the front through anti-aircraft fire from the ground sThe loss was not appreciably higher for low flying aircraft than for high-flying air craft.
 Thus it appears that the heavy bomb ing and attacking planes which will characterize the next war will be able to operate with impunity at point-Dlank
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-15
TALK AND TALKERS

J. B. Yeats in "The North American
 Review.
 If ONCE asked great scholar of a fa-
 nous university his idea of happi-
 ness. He answered.: "A good read" But scholars are like the stars, lonely and inscrutable, and in Gods holy keeping. I myself like best those rare moments when congenial people meet and there is good conversation, each man doing his best to say exactly what he thinks. Is, there anything so delightful, and at times so beautiful, and at all times so beguiling, as good conversation? Talk is mans sowing Literature is the harvest of talk. If Elizabethan literature is the best in the world, it is because conversation at the court of Elizabeth and in the London cafes was the best in the world. Elizabethan literature is nobly extrav- agant and musical, scarcely touched at all with the spirit of contention; and so, no doubt was their talk If Ben Jonson. who was a Scotchman, had had his way, no doubt, the conversation would have been as contentious as the speeches of lawyers or the sermons of theologians or the talk of man out of Belfast. You can't read Shakespeare without feeling that he was shy of con tention, disliking to contradict or be contradicted. Images to him were dear for their own sake as one loves little children or pretty girls, without vex- ing ourselves as to whether they are good little children or good girls.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-15
Europe Seems Willing to Meet America's Terms

ID ECENT developments indicate IN that the European powers will endeavor to meet the wishes of the American government as expressed in our new foreign policy. The reply of the French government regarding the Tap mandate is straw showing which way the wind blows.
 America occupies such position in the worlds affairs, economically and otherwise, that the European nations will make concessions they might not offer if they did not sorely need the help of the United States. Their at- titude may be one of self-interest, but it will hasten an agreement that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-15

From the Mining Congress Journal.
 1(T is announced by the navy depart
 ment that its Alaskan coal com
 mission hopes to have it's building. construction and installation of mining equipment completed by June 30 next. This announcement is made after an in- yestigation begun last July to deter mine the probable quality of coal in the Chickaloon coal district of the Ma tanuska coal field, transportation fa- cilities to tidewater, and the location Of terminal facilities to place the coal for navy use. The enormous waste en- tailed by the use of Atlantic seaboard ooals by the Pacific coast fleet, provid- ing it is possible to supply a usable grade in Alaska, is apparent.
 In the early days of the war. when transportation facilities were sorey needed for the supplying of those in- dustries upon which the war was de- pendent, train load after train load of coal was hauled across the continent to meet the needs of the Pacific fleet be- cause of the foolish handling of this situation by the federal governme ent We venture the assertion that the cost of coal produced by the government under the plans above outlined will be much greater than the highest cost charged by the most unconscionable profiteer who furnished coal to the government during the war. And yet the production of coal by the govern ment seems to be necessary so long as the present governmental restrictions upon individual development shall con
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-15
High Rail Rates Have
 Localized Panama Can:

1.-THE high rail rates have served the purpose of vindicating and advertising the inland and coastal waterways and localizing the Panama canal as a transportation economy The Pacific coast has extended its hand to the gulf and Atlantic ports through the canal and east, west and south coasts are finding it nearer and more neighborly than before.
 A news item from Salt Lake City carried by the New York Journal of Commerce, says:
 Western wool growers may
 ship their wool to Boston by way
 of San Francisco and the Panama
 canal and thus save s5s on every
 carload. according to F. B. Mar
 shall, president of the National
 Wool Growers association.
 Very recently Oregon lumber was moved from the Pacific coast to Ohio river points by way of the canal and Philadelphia at lower cost than it could have come the shorter distance direct by rail. The shipment this way was more economical in spite of the unloading and reloading on cars at Philadelphia and the loading from cars and loading on ship at the Pa cific port.
 Facts such as these are unacceptable. They strike at the root of the trans portation problem and they sound a new keynote that cannot be ignored. They suggest new era of transporta- ton. They have established the feas- ibility and practicability of the water ways. This truth has been borne in on the American mind so forcefully that the waterways have literally come into their own.
 Americans do not wish their rail ways to fall down. They realize the part they played and they will vel come the solution of the difficulties which they now face, but they re- joice meanwhile that the ships and waterways are here to relieve them of impossible transportation burdens and enable business to be moved that otherwise might not be moved at all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-15
Time to Call a Halt on
 Price Batting Process

1T OVER prices on steel products l1 announced by the Steel Corpor- ation should and will have a whole some influence on the steel trade. They tend to place all steel pro- ducers on the same basis and to elim- mate speculation with regard to the future of prices. The country will feel more like going ahead in the purchase of steel mill products than it has in some time.
 It should be remembered that the Steel Corporation did not advance prices over the schedule proposed by Secretary Redfield in the spring of 1919, and that, while many other producers charged prices greatly in excess of these during the IS months of a maximum demand for their product, the corporation held to the Redfield levels. Reduction from the Redfield base, therefore, is from a scale that was considered reasonable by the government and one much be- low the prices that the country paid to others.
 Pig iron is selling at 40 per cent under the 1920 price. Steel products are below the low rate of the Steel Corporation of the past two years. It is time to call halt on price bait
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-15

ranges over the enemy's country as soon as aerial supremacy has been decided in their favor by the pursuit flyers.
 When it is considered that the bonhs dropped by these craft will average A ton each, and that 70 per cent of their weight will be in high explosive, not in steel. as is the case with artillery ap,muni ticn, the terrible effect of concentrated air attack al point blank range on the rear ofganlzation of an army immedi- ately becomes apparent.
 Half dozen such bombs dropped on an important railhead would put trans p'rtatlon through that point out of busi- ness Tor months. Such an attack could stop and continuously paraiyze all rail and road, communications with the ad- vance forces of an army inside of six weeks, provided the number of attack ing planes was sufficient.
 Ten thousand such planes, during the late war. could have starved the Ger man armies on the western front into de- feat inside of two months had they been able to operate with the impunity guar anteed by control of the air.
 APRIL IN THE CITY Clinton Scol,ard. in Munsey's Magazine. The tenuous tips of all the trees
 Beside the street and square: Are reaching out their tender Rfonns < In the sweet April air.
 From the park lawns on dewy dawns.
 Now low now clear and strong. The robins in lyric arc
 Project their jets of song. The subtle scents of violets
 Seep upward from the mold: Upon the pavement showers tho nrr
 It's daffodilian gold.
 Tall tower and spire and roof acautFp /
 A wealth of prismy gleams. And you surprise in faded eyes
 The tints and glints of dreams.