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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
H x x All Must Share in Curtailment Process

PFWO MILLION railroad workers
 U remained at their posts since July l, when the 12 per cent wage reduction authorized by the railroad labor board went into effect. This occurred in spite of overwhelming majority votes in protest against the reductions that were cast by some of the crafts in their locals.
 The reductions were based on fairness. The trunk lines could not produce the revenue necessary to pay the old scale of wages. It was reduced scale or bankruptcy. The railroad workers know this as we'll as the officials of the trunk lines.
 Railroad employees have sensed the wisdom of keeping the roads going ana increasing the volume of profit able business so that more of them will be regularly employed. They know that it is better to receive a lower wage earned through employ ment than to maintain a wage on paper which is not earned at all,
 Whatever the general conditions are they must be shared by all alike. The cost of living has gone down and that means that the producer gets less than he formerly received. The consumer cannot expect to es- cape from the curtailment process which he himself has invited and helped to bring about.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
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CHEMISTS AND voLsTEAD BILL

From the Medical Record.
 Chemists and manufacturers are beginning to wake up and to lind that the volstead act is destined to work irreparable injury to the chemical and other industries of tho country if 1t is allowed to stand in it's present or proposed shape. We trust MT. Vol stead has learned by this time that the medical profession is not unani- mously in favor of submitting to his prejudices in regard to the practice of therapeutics. But now that the chemical and manufacturing indus tries are aroused, we have some hope of reason penetrating to the commit- tee room. If we are not to be allowed to help our patients by giving them alcohol when they need it. we shall at least be thankful if the drug manufacturers are permitted to get enough grain alcohol for use in mak- ing tinctures, fluid extracts and oth- CT pharmaceutical preparations. Per haps some day the country will wake to the fact that temperance can be promoted without killing the sick or running eur mAnufaaturss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
Requesting a Square Deal
 for Georges and Francois

~ ARPENTIER'S manager, Fran N cois Descamps, has been ridi- culed by newspaper correspondents. Carpentier himself did not escape. The American idea that it is great joke to poke fun at the eccentrici- ties of foreigners, or what appear to us as eccentricities, is a poor kind of humor. It is just as off, fensive to foreign visitors to this country as it would be for us to have Frenchmen or Englishmen ridi- cu1e our own national character istics, and heaven knows, some of them deserve it.
 Carpentier and Descamps were not accustomed to the American type of newspaper man. They had their own ideas about the best way to train, ideas which did not suit some of the newspaper experts, who were particularly incensed when Carpenter and Descamps in sisted on having at least a little privacy. Descamp's excitability and unfamiliarity with American ways did not help matters. As a result, certain correspondents wrote articles about Carpenter and his manager that were malicious and unfair. Carpenter was pictured as . "false alarm" and Descamp as [ musical comedy Frenchman.
 Carpentier proved by his extraord- lnary fight with Dempsey that he WIS all his admirers claimed him te >Ibe. and more. There is probably nc other man living who could have taken the punishment Dempsey did v ths second round without being
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
* * x Georgia Does $17,O00, ,0OO Business in Peaches

~ EORGIA peach growers will G ship $500 carloads of peaches to the northern and western mar kets this year, receiving for each of the cars about $2,OOO. This means business of $17,0O0,OO0 derived from the cultivation and marketing of this one fruit.
 What Georgia has been doing for years and continues to do at seem- ingly greater profit each season by reason of improved marketing methods, can be done in Alabama. It is encouraging to learn first from one quarter and then another that there is realization of this oppor- tunity and that many men now es- tablishing peach and apple orch ards are building from the ground up.
 It is essentially true, as remarked by Georgia peach expert in let ter to The Age-Herald, that "In order to get good results from an orchard it must be cultivated, fer tilized, pruned and sprayed in a thorough manner"
 Fruit can no more be raised and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
NURSE EDITH CAvELL

From the Kansas City Times.
 Miss Edith cavell, English nurse and the Joan of Arc of England and Belglum.' was shot near Brussels at 3 o'clock the morning of october 12. 1915. She was the daughter of the Rev. Frederick Cavell. former vicar of Swardeston, Norfolk. Miss Cavell was arrested August 5, 1915, and kept alone in the prison at St. Giles for 10 weeks. She was tried by German court martial and convicted of trea- son, for which death was the penalty The brutal execution of woman aroused the keenest resentment throughout the world.
 Miss Cavell did not spare herself when called upon to attend the enemy and many a German owes his life to hsr care. She remained perfectly calm and resigned to the end. the heroine
 
 that she was. She was one of 42 ar rested In Brussels and convicted. A line of 42 graves is located within the national shooting grounds near Brus- sels. In May. 1919. her-body was ex- ,humed and received with impressive military ceremonies at Victoria Sta ton, London. After services at Vest minister abbey, the body was taken to her native town, Norwich. for in terment.
 A movement was inauSurated for -the erection of monument in the Trocadero Gardens. Paris, but the plan was opposed by Miss Cavell's mother. The Edith Cavell Home for Nurses on the grounds of the London hospital was opened in July. 1918. The cost of the building was $1s5,o0o. half of which was raised by soldiers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
WHAT IS A GIRL WORTH.


 From the Chicago Herald and ES- aminer,
 bright young correspondent in Boston telegraphs that 104 girls with total capital value of s2,50O, o0g were graduated from Radcliffe col lege this year.
 "The demon for statistics" he adds. said that the capital value of the class should be based on the actual earning capacity of it's mem- bers; which. she figures, is s1,2oo per girl"
 The demon for statistics, somehow or other, always spills the beans. Why select capital value or an trinsic values
 Surely a girl has a value entirely independent of how much she pos- sesses or how much shescan earn. She is an asset all in herself Why bother with statistics?
 If she be just plain. normal. healthy American girl she ought to be assessed at s1,ooo,0o0 to start with. Should she happen to be clever and good-looking, you can easily add another million and never worry that you have over priced" the commod- |ity.
 If. in addition to these aualifica- tions, she should be a raving beauty who did not smoke, talked good Eng race was willing to marry decent working chap, have children and de- vote her life to them-tut, man! Shes worth the German debt--in cash.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
REAL sTIMUbANT FOR ARTISTS

William Butler Yeats writes in the Dial of his early years in London when he was quite poor, and says:
 T had lived upon bread and tea be- cause thought that if antiquity found locust and wild honey putri- tive, my soul was strong enough to need no better. 1 was always plan ming some great gesture, putting the whole world into one scale of the balance and my soul into the other and magining that the whole world somehow kicked the beam. More than 30 years have passed and I have seen no forcible young man of letters brave the metropol.s, without some like stimulant; and all after two or three, or twelve or fifteen years. ac- cording to obstinacy. have understood that we achieve, if we do achieve, in little sedentary stitches as though we were making lace"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
aunY's REPORT ON TULSA RIOT

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 Ihe Tulsa county grand jury which investigated the Tulsa race riot of May 31 and June l, has reported. The jury found the riot was the direct result of an af- iort on the part of 8 certain group o1 negroes who had appeared at the courthouse on the night of May s1 TOT the purpose of protecting one Rick Rowland, then and TOW in tba custody of the sheriff of Tulsa coun " for an alleged attack upon n young white woman When the ne- sroes appeared at the courthouse there had been, according to the jury's report, no evidence of mon spirit among the whites, no talk of lynching and no arms. It was the arrival of armed negroes, the jury found that precipitated and was the direct cause of the entire affair.
 We have quoted the words of the jury's report. This report has been published now in every importa0, city in the United States We are wondering whether the north and the east and the west will take the same, view of the Tulsa riot that they ha.e taken of the insurrection in Phillips county. We wonder whether men and women who know nothing Of Tulsa or of conditions there will declare that the jurors lied that every stateA ment they made is untrue, and that whites and not negroes caused the riot. We wonder whether some col lege professor will write to the gov ernor of Oklahoma telling him what his duties are in the premises and denying facts that the governor has developed by investigation
 The north, and east and the west have refused to believe statements made by prominent men, including ministers. who investigated the fhil- lips county insurrection, They have cast aside the word of governor nj Arkansas, they have refused tq be- iieve that the courts of Arkansas, in. cluding the supreme court, are just or are mindful of the law. We shall now see whether Oklahoma is treated in the same outrageous manner. ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05

 AND IT PASSED BY THE SEASHORE From the Russian of Igor Severyanin. Ana 1t passed by the seashore, where @-the foam-laces flower, Where the city .barouches only rarely
 are seen. There the queen played her Chopin in
 the high palace tower. And there, listening to Chopin, the
 young page loved the queen. And what passed there was simple.
 and what passed there was
 charming: The fair page cut the pomegranats
 as red as her dreams. Then the queen gave him half thereof
 with graces disarming. She outwearied and loved him in son. ata-Hweet themes. Then she gave herself stormily, till
 night shut her lashc- Till the sunset the queen lay thers
 she slept as a slave And 1t passed by the sea-Snere wHefs
 the turquoise wave wskaes Where sonatass are singing and
 where foam frsts sAs WAYS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
NOT MISSING ANYTHING

-VOI -AIo9lANO zAAFI IIH-FD
 You don't care to read magazines?' Not particularly" said MT. Dub waite. T motor a great deal"
 Then you haven't time to read magazines"
 "Oh, yes. have the time, but what's the use? The billboards carry practice ally tho same advertisements ths magazines do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
sNow IT CAN HE TOLD

From Life.
 Children should be seen and not heard-Jackie Coogan.
 Absence makes the heart grow fonder.-Big Bill Haywood
 There's no place like home.-Babe Ruth.
 Two is company, three's crowd u A. Stillman.
 Still waters run deep.-A. ]. Vol stead.
 1t IS more blessed to give than tc reeeive.-Jsck Dsmpas1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
A CHILL RECEPTION

T rather thought that song and dance team held back something for an encore" remarked the vaudeville patron.
 50 did l." said the grouchy person in the adjoining seat, as the team re- tired amid a painful silence. what ever 1t was they were holding back, they still have It."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05

rect teeth to be found among all inc races Of mankind than in Somali.
 But the Somali natives do not use 'an ordinary toothbrush such as those With which we are familiar. They use stick about five inches in length which, previously. has been well chewed. They chew upon this or rub their teeth with it. and somali boys seldom are seen without one of these primitive toothbrushes It makes lit- tie whether the sticks are green or dry.
 Various trees and bushes sunn,v these "toothbr Gshes." The roots as well as the branches are used
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
PRIMITIVE soMALI TOOTHBRUSH

PRIMITIVE SOMALl TOOTHBR U SH From the Cleveland Plainl Dealer.
 In Somali there is no need of d young woman having permanent wave put in her hair. nor bobbing it because its being done this season." nor bemoaning the fact that she can not dress it like the very latest Pa risian coiffure. For in that far-off land every girl dresses her hair~in precisely the same way as every other girl.
 The hair is allowed to grow until it is of the desired length. Fhen~i is parted in the middle and kept combed out When it becomes suf- ficiently long for plating, which. by the way, is an exceedingly arduous task. it requires the assistance of a girl friend or relative to do" it. It is plaited in small strands close to- gether all around her head, and the end of each braid is allowed to be unplaited, initiating woolly mop.
 But this style of hairdressing is of short duration in the life of Somali maiden. For as soon as she marries Iher hair is enveloped in a veil or bag made of thick gauze-usually dark blue or black in color-lnd there it is kept Aidden for the rest of her life.
 The Somal young men are not to be outdone by their sisters. If a Somali. dandy happens to be courting his hearts desire he pays especial at tention to his hair. Once or twice a week he will plaster his entire head with clay. When the clay dries he takes long. skewer-like combs and combs it out.
 \ Nowhere. 1t is said. are moro per
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
PHEAsING THE MASSES

PLEASING THE MASSES Do you call that art?' sneered the igh -browed person.
 "Just because that motion picture comedian sat down in a bucket of live crabs?"
 "Yes."
 "well, 1t may not be art, but it got whoop out of several hundred cash customersp PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
SUGGESTION TO EX-PRESIDENTS

portant people seemed to know it. One expounder after another, im- pressed with the difficulties and the tangles that the world is in, realizes that a different spirit in man is neces- sary to release 1t from existing com- plications, and proclaims that the great world need is religion.
 President Harding declared only the other day that what the world needed was more Christianity Ex- President Taft has come out quite strong for Christianity, excepting the miracles. H. G. Wells had 1t revealed to him, as may be remembered, that religion has got to come across. Her. bert Croly of the New Republic wrote piece in that imperfectly ,sanctified journal to the same ef- feet. There Is crowd os important witnesses to the worlds need of religion - to the great urgency of that need. Yet the zeal of young men for the ministry seems very moderate one candidate in this years graduating class at Amherst college. which used to be hotbed of piety,
 Of course there are preachers. or course the work does go on, but. con sidering how white the world is for the harvest, the supply of laborers seems scant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
placed on the market at a nrnfit

1 placed on the market at a profit in haphazard way than any other farm product. Any peach three will bear peaches of kind, but none will bear good fruit unless it is treated as hogs, cattle, wheat, oats and corn are treated.
 Alabama has the soil and climate for producing as good a peach as is grown anywhere. We are closer to the great central markets of the middle west than Georgia. What we can do with peaches has been indi- cated by what we did this year with early vegetables and with sweet po- taties cured and carried over to the spring markets. We will ship more peaches by carloads and make the same profits we made in beans and strawberries this spring as soon as we make peach growing and market ing business.
 Seventeen millions of dollars for one farm by-product is worth going after.
 An Atlanta preacher says Cleo patra would be shocked if she were to return to the world and see the kind of clothes women are wearing, Why should she? Aren't they trying to initiate Cleo?
 # # #
 School teachers who deserted the ranks for better pay during the war are asking to be taken back. A job at starvation wages is better than none at all.
 Lenine's pictures are said to be everywhere in soviet Russia. As photographic subject and in other ways he doesn't compare. with George Washington.
 Having paid their respects to the Declaration of Independence, the nations "wcts' will resume their practice of picking on volstead.
 # # #
 E. s. Martin says more preachers until preachers are paid a living wage.
 Even after deductihg Uncle Sams share, Tex Richard will have enough cash on hand to see him through the summer
 A wedding reception was recently held on board private car. which was positively the last word in ex- clusiveness.
 Will H. Hays says a billion dollars IS being boarded in American stock ings. Maybe so, but not in the rolled kind.
 # # #
 Possibly historians a 100 years from now will write glowing descriptions of Harding signing the peace resolu- ton, but we doubt it.
 # x # The late Andrew Carnegie came within a few million dollars of dying in the poor house.
 # # # Hon. Jess Willard may have to be drafted to satisfy the American Legion.
 Alas, some of the whoops heard yesterday were not due entirely to G
 % | x Mime. Curie slipped into Paris scarcely noticed while everybody was reading the fight bulletins.
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 Georges and Jack say they will be friends forever. Isn't prize fighting beautiful?
 The honorable Japs assure us that there is positively no dynamite in the Anglo-Jap alliance. neformers are not making much headway in taking the joy out of the "joy ride
 The republican party solemnly pledged itself to deliver the goods. We are still waiting.
 a * *
 There is fine chance for optimism to assert itself when the mercury hovers around a9 degrees.
 
 WHAT IS A GIEL WORTH. From the Chicago Herald and Ex- aminer
 A bright young correspondent in Boston telegraphs that 104 girls with a total capital value of s2,5OO, ,0Og
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED

REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED How was the parbecue?"
 "very enjoyable, I believe" "Yes%
 "The master of ceremonies pointed mysteriously to a nearby thieket and 40 men were injured in the rush.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
A MORNING PRAYER

May it comfort me in sorrow and restrain me in my joy to remember how fast the days are flying, and that soon I shall stand in thy presence. mcrciful God. Amen, M. $. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
NOTHING TO IF

From the Savannah News.
 The fear that medicinal beer' might be drug on the market, has absolutely svaporAted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEW HERE
Automob,Ic CIvb Far-ncachipr.


 Just few days ago man named Burnett came into the Automobile club and introduced himself saying he was from California" said James ?. Dobbins, secretary of the club.
 of course I gave him the glad hand and told him I was pleased <a welcome him to Birmingham and then he told me something which made me feel mighty good. He said the first place he wen. to after landing in Birmingham was the Automobile club, for out in California everybody knew about it and everybody hao something nice to say about 1t.
 "lie said all the way along the line from California to Alabama, the peo- pie he met knew of the work of the Automobile club and he wanted to be- come a member He at once paid the necessary dues and is now full fledged member of the Birmingham Automobile club. That, to my way of thinking, is pretty good 'ad' for Bif m1ngham."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
Hated To Leave.

"1 hate to leave Birmingham said Chas. F. Wicks, former assistant manager of tue Tutwiler," and, be- lieve me, l would not go but for the bigger job that has beckoned me at Trenton, N. J. There l am to have oharge of the new Tracey Trent hotel, brand new and handsome one that is just being completed and will be opened in September.
 During my stay in the south I have become very fond of southern people and l believe l had gotten to understand them. 1 hope to see many of them in my new place of business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES

FEEDING THE LINOTYPES woman uses all her charms, Until man she lands; For, when she falls into his arms, He falls into her hands.
 Luke McLuke. Of fallen creatures. surely men Are worst of all you meet; They'll lose their heads about her, They'll all fall at her feet.
 Newark Advocate. For when man has lost his head Because of woman-s way. He'll fall fox anything. 'tis said, And do 1t every day
 Canton News. Yet when there comes that certain day
 She starts hls faults to tell, He shakes his head and turns away And wonders whey he fell.
 Detroit Free Press. Since married men wrote the above, And told the truthtin jingle. I'll surely take their uuiet tip And keep on living single.
 Hastings Tribune. The merry jest at wlfey's ways Dates back to old Joe Miller, But stuff like this on sultry days Is useful as a filler"
 HE MADE IT PAY Could you recommend d reliable bootlegger?"
 I'm afraid not" said MT. Bibbles. The only bootlegg ger in whom I had any confidence amassed a consider able fortune and retired. I don't know of any man who can talk more elo- quently on the subject of honesty Is the best policy {"
 POOR GEORGES! q see where reformers are try ing to have the victor in the Battle of the Century arrested" What's the charge?" asked Mr.. Grumpson, sarcastically. Man slaughter"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05

E. & Martin, in Harper's Magazine
 for July.
 TIT is a pleasant calling to be
 writer if one can make 1t go, as 0 the dislocated statesmen seem to have discovered. All of them must have learned how much of govern ment is done by newspapers, and to- all of them it must Lave seemed natural step from official desk to writer's desk. Too great a multipli- cation of distinguished syndicate writers is hardly to be desired by journalists because syndicate writers, by the process of duplication, fill a lot of space. Perhaps Congress will be asked to do something, and there is something that Congress can do. It can pension the x-Presidents. They, will not be so likely to write for the papers if they do not need the money their labors bring in. There is no ob- jection to- their being writers, but they ought to be able to stick to the more dignified lines of composition-- to write books.
 Better still if they would take to preaching, for there is real dearth of preachers The world never needed effective preaching more. and there never was time when so many im-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
Praises Vance.

While reams and reams were written before the Dempsey Carpen- tier fight and after it by experts in the game both on this and the other side of the water" says Solon Jacobs.
 yet l thlnk the most human and readable account of the great match was the one by Henry Vance of The Age Herald.
 His story of the fight in tha sun. day Age-Herald was a classic. old Dollar BilP also got in his usual homeiy reflections. l congratulate the paper on the way it covered the big fight"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05

LOlsG BEFORE From the Atchison Globe. mere were crazy people before jazz came into vogue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-05
His Servants Holiday.

T always give my negro servants holiday on July A. said J. W. Me Queen. Somehow it has always seemed the right thing to let them off on that particular day, because 1 realize what it means to them or they think it means.
 wants, having had the same men and women many years, There is lots of childlike docility and kindliness in the negro which can be gotten ou. of them by those who understand their nature. l have had them about me all my life and am sincerely at tached to those who have served me long and faithfully.