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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04
LIBELING THE SOUTH


 From the Nashville Banner.
 Representative Larsen of Georgia and Representative Bee of Texas strongly resented a libel on the south made by one Walter F. White before the House committee ona census that is giving hearings on the reapportionment bill.
 White is assistant secretary of tho National Association for the Advance ment of Colored People. and what he said was that the majority of the white people in many southern communities arc lawless The southern congressman denounced the falsity. of the assertion and demanded that the witness be con- fined to statements of facts of his own Knowledge and not be allowed to ex- press opinions founded on heresay evil dence of an indefiite source.
 Whites stAtemet was so patent . slander and so plainly malicious that it would not be worth noticing if it had not been made before a congressional committee as part of conspiracy to have southern representation in >Con- gress cut down.
 The organization known as the Asso- citation for the Advancement of Colored People is wholly pernicious. Its activi- ties are not an honest endcavor to any way advance the welfare of the negroes, but by maligning the southern whites, magnifying lynchings and race disturb ances and constant irritation of southern sensibiiities. it seeks to produce both sectional and rac6 conflict.
 It sends out constantly propAEanda of this kind. intended to create prejuAice agaist the southern white people and to create race animosity.
 With its methods of procedure it can not accomplish any practical good for the southern negroes. but it is likely to lead them into grave trouble for them selves and others.
 A congressional committee should not permit this association to send it's of- ficial before it with abusive statements about the south. The congressmen who insist on factssto which the witness can personally stestify are right but what rood is to some from giving out invss- |tisationS os this kinds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04
Former German Chancellor
 Coined an Infamous Phrase

INK. VON BETHMANN-HOL U VEG, former German imperial chancellor, will be chiefly remembered as the statesman who called treaty "a scrap of paper" The Germans will scarcely cherish his memory, as his name is associated with the crushing defeat of the German military power.
 In 1914 Dr. Won Bethmann- Hollweg said, Troops have occupied Luxem- burg and perhaps have also found it necessary to enter Belgian territory. That is contrary to international law. We know, however, that France was ready to invade Belgium. France could wait; we could not, as France could invade our lower Rhine flank, which would prove fatal. So we were forced to override the protests of the Luxemburg and Belgian governments. We snail try to make good the in- justice we have committed as soon as our military goal has been reacbed."
 The chancellor acknowledged that a wrong had been done, but like nearly all the German leaders, he tried to justify it on the ground that Ger many's salvation depended on striking first, even though in doing so she txampled on the rights of two neutral governments. Little Luxemburg could do nothing. That principality had to suffer an invasion by German troops, but little Belgium was stronger and made of sterner stuff. She threw her. elf against the German forces and won everlasting glory by saving civ- 4lzation. No truthful historian can eter minimize the part played by Bel kium in holding up the German ad- ynace when the future of the world wes at stake. Otherwise the Kaiser
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04
REVENGE IN STORE

i6F ENdE IN SIORE You speak courteously to your land- lord.'
 Tact by boy tact" said MT. Clip ping, mysteriously.
 "Eh?"
 I'm building a. home of my own and he doesn't know about it. When l pay my last installment of rent I'm going to make him little speech that will be a treat to his office help"
 LIGHT HAUL
 The lecturer waxed eloquent on the sordid accumulation of wealth" But he was not consistent" Why not?"
 If he had been consistent he would have shown more fortitude when he discovered that the collection amounted to SS.oS in money, counterfeit quar- ter and three trouser buttons
 A CoMPLACENT PATRON This vaudeville act puzzles me-. Tn whay wayr,
 T don't know whether it's good or bad"
 Suppose we say the girl of the team Is making the best of the lines nature has given her, and let it go at that. Nowadays in the amusement world small blessings should be thankfully received"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04
MODERN TYPE

What's become of the ld-fashioned could whip his weight in wildcats?-
 T ran across his successor while motoring through the rural districts not long ago. He threw his hat on the ground, leaped up on a stump and swore he could whip his weight in pro hibition enforcement officers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04
ADRTFT WITH THE TIMES
A POSER

A POSER If love is all in all, As poets have avowed; O prithee tell me, if you can, Why 'tis that many a married man Looks woe-begone and cowed? POWER OF MIND OVER MATTER 'grhese soviet orators may have their faults, but they certainly possess won- derful imaginative powersm remarked MT. Gadspur.
 Tn what particular?" asked Mfr. Dub~aite.
 well, take Petrograd, for instance. Do you suppose anybody but a boi- shevik would call that starving. freez- ing and disease-ridden city an earthly paradise?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04

AAA@ A(A1kAVA 4A VI AA AAfA Al V , service arc directing effort to that end
 at this time with every indication of
 success.
 California ships enormous quanti-
 ties of canned goods, fruits and other commodities to Alabama and adjacent territory. A large amount of this
 would stand the two weeks trip from
 the coast to Mobile; in fact, there are seasons when the water haul is apt
 to be quicker than the all-rail. This district is peculiarly well-situ- ated for extensive dealings with Cali fornia through water transportation
 and should omit no opportunity for it's
 cultivation. xs Whenever a beautiful movie star mar rios lesser light. somebody invariably makes mean remarks about the size of friend husbands income. < < * The benevolence of New York polce- men was never shown to better advan- tage than when they were assisting New Year revelers to a comfortable seat on hs curb.
 The destruction of "rnoonshine" during is9o was appalling Likewise the consump- | ton.
 1 An English charity relief officer says
 90 per cent of the runaway husbands are blue-eyed. Wed just like to know how
 many have curly hair. 1 + x + | Our plan to spend some blissful years | in the South Sea islands has been abandoned. Monographs and jazz rec
 an earthly paradise. # * + Funerals have been marked down in Kansas Some of the Kansas laws rob death of it's sting. Sometimes headline writer achieves a masterpiece of condensation. This head ; ,rho Ara Ir1rald vastevday Pockets Dynamite; Mule Kicks Him.; Funeral Tomorrow The Huns are finding the process of disarming almost as painful as signing on the dotted line. F Y F von Bethmann- Hollweg is dead. but it isn't likely that his transportation read ITO valhalla" Russia's bolsheviks can't fool Uncle Sam He knows they are not the Rus sian people. After mastering the tuba Warren G.. Harding advanced to the cornet. During the heat of the campaign it was charged that he never got any further than the tuba.
 A smart Chicagoan sat in a restaurant on New Years eve and drank his liduor out of spoon, under doctors orders. j." while prohibition enforcement officers were powerless to interfere. # T. * The King of Spain thought the Queen, though the mother of six children, could wear the latest Paris gowns, but it wouldn't be. safe for every mother of six to attempt it. x * x g" Citizens of Marion have grown so used to statesmen that they'd probably well come the advent of champion pugilist. F < F The prohibition brethren are shaking their heads over Milwaukee, which can't forget what made it famous. * # E As the bread-line begins to function, the soap-box orator discovers . new talking point. * Y ' It seems like a waste of time to wish a Happy New Year" to democratic postmaster who will soon lose his job. x * Y caruso has one consoling thought dur l ing his illness. No ambitious understudy l Is apt to step into his shoes. LABELLING THE SOUTH From the Nashville Banner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04
THE ARMY WIVES

with women as with men.
 There were always too some very gracious peacemakers in post life, in the women of families such as the Hunts, Caseys, Lees and Davises, who have had representatives in the army since revolutionary days and knew all of it's trials and hardships Their taet was put to the test in many ways. They adroitly drew the line between gossip that was purely personal and that which might affect the garrison. They consoled the young second lieu tenants bride from the civil life who had no more than settled her veddinr gifts in Texas quarters than orders came for transfer to Dakota; they did theiE best to show the new army wem- an how to mako the small pay stretch to meet the family demands and how to make home in cheerless quarters where there had not been installed an improvement or labor saving device since the day the old brick barracks were finished.
 There were never any doubt of the loyalty and courage of the army vem- en. Army women have left vivid pie- lures of garrison experience before and after General Clusters expedftion. They always stood the test. GensraI sherman once said, Tt was the women left at home that made the men rood soldiers in the field"
 It is for the improvement of the living conditions of women at the army posts that Brigadier-General Ed wards speaks. The hope he sees for this improvement lies in the fact that women now have . voice in public af- fairs and they wiA use 1t to hriag about reforms long needed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04
SOUNDS LIKE EINsrEIN,s THEORY

FTom EVcryD0dys
 TWO gentlemen riding on train were both very much intoxicated.
 First Cent What time is it?"
 Second Gent tafter extracting a matchbox from his pocket with much exert'on and gazing at 1t intently: Thursday
 First Gent; My God. I've got to get off here"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04
TRAGIC HospIrAL1rY

z TRAGIC HOSPITALITY Full many cork is drawn with joyous
 sound From bottles filled with unfermented
 juice; And though a host may pass the stun
 around, He well may ask himself, o, whats the useT'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04
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4 MORNING PRAYER
 Grant, Lord, that I may not grope for thee blindiy, hut teach me to look for thee where thou abidest, in the hearts and lives of thy humble chil- jreb. Amcu.-M. $. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04

From the New York Herald.
 MRIG.- GEN. CLARENCE R. ED- lM WARDS recently paid a high ~ tribute to the army women. the wives and daughters of the soldiers in a short address he made at Boston to number of former hestesses at can tonments. He entered the army when many of the pioneer forts west of the Missouri were still occupied as army posts and when the memory of Indian outbreaks and the Custer massacre was still fresh. He said in the light of his own experience:
 These wives and daughters of sol diers have patted their husbands and fathers on the back and sent them to war without a murmur. They have fol- lowed the flag from one place to an other, patched and schemed, frozen on one side and roasted on the other be- side garriosn stoves, put up with all sorts of hardships and never found fault"
 The pictures of army post social life which we have sometimes had even from army writers and novelists are of discontented, unhappy women arrayed in rival cliaues. intriguing and schem- ing tor promotions which would bring to husbands or sons an advance in pay and gain in privileges. This may have been the case at some posts and in some commands. but such things were exceptional. The isolation of the army post threw the garrison largely upon it's own resources for entertain ment. LNe too vas moro or less of an open book. There was small chance for pretension with everyone knowing ev- cry one slse's ineoms. and keeping up appearances was not as important
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04
A COLD RECEPTION

T have some lines addressed to DAnnunzio." said the timorous visi- tor.
 Well, he isn't here" snapped the hard-hearted editor. The last time heard of 'Gabe' he was getting his mail at Plume, but I understand he is Eo- ing to leave and I don't know where he wants it forwarded"
 PATTI, Cf,OK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04
Preparing to Use
 Poison Gas in War

N0 THILE the worlds altruists are
 WV discussing ways and means to make war impossible in the future, scientists at work in their laboratories continue to perfect devices for the de- struction of life and property. Is this scientific absorption or skepticism :? Are the humanitarians blowing iri- descent bubbles that will burst when the first thunderbolt of war startles an unregenerate world?
 Civilization was horror-struck when poison gas was first used by the Ger mans. Wiseacres gravely wagged their heads and said that nothing of the sort would ever be permitted again. But the allies were quick to seize upon a frightful German inven- tion and beat them at their own game. The allies do not propose that the supremacy in manufacturing poison gas shall be regained by Germany.
 A recent dispatch from Washington states that by passing regulations against the importation of dyestuffs Great Britain ''has definitely accepted the theory that poison gas will be the supreme weapon of the next war" The British act, which prevents the impor- tation of dyestuffs into the United Kingdom for 10 years, will enable that nation to build, up it's dye industry un- til it will be independent of the out side world.
 Poison gas and dyes are both made from coal tar. It is but step from the manufacture os the commercial article to making poison gas for mili- tary use.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04
Southern Farmer
 Is Not Pauperized

7TdE New York Journal of Com U merce reports an Improved Outlook In Southern Cotton Mills" based on letters from 23 of the lead ing operators in the several milling states. One of the crispest statements of conditions is that made in the let CT of w. E. Johnson, agent of the Tallassee Mills at Tallassee, Ala. He says:
 Conditions are rapidly improving
 and business prospects for next
 year look bright. Those who think
 the southern farmer is pauperized
 will soon realize their error. Farm
 CTS generally can and will hold
 their cotton. The time will soon
 come when buyers will find hard
 time securing cotton in any quan-
 tity.
 MT. Johnson's declaration of the southern farmers condition coincides with that of other careful observers. The southern farmer has practiced di- versification since 1914. He is now to a large extent living at home on the products of his farm and is independ- ent of the store. He is able to stand the loss on his cotton, if needs be, because he is not buying hay, corn, cowpeas, beef, mutton and bacon.
 The Alabama farmer has held back two-thirds of his cotton because he was not forced to sell in order to live. While he has raised quite "rumpus" about prices, he laughed in his sleeve as he contemplated his full granaries and smokehouses.
 Alabama is raising from one third to one-half of her cotton yield prior to 1914. Where has the remainder of the farm energy gone? The answer is the other crops enabling the farmer to hold his cotton for a higher price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04

hostility to tho goveFnment ef thts country and ineitas efform ts .nnae- mine and overthrow the gsveyaneat that is the choice of the Amasicaa Dee- pie. it places itself under tho ban ana any appeal to American frieaAship h the name of the Russian people is Ais- honest on it's face
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04
SHE WALKS IN PnAuTY. LIKE TIRE
 NIGHT


 NIGHT By Lord Byron. She walks in beauty, like the night pr cioudless climea and starry akieo, And all that's best ef dark AAd height Meet in her aspect and her eyea, Thus mellcw'd to that tender light Which heaven to gsudy day dsnioa One shade the moro. one ray the less Had half impaired the nameieas eraoo Which waves In every raven tress Or softly liGhtens o'er her face. Where thoughts serenely sweet express. How pure, how dear their dwsllinE
 place. And on that check ana e'er that brow, So soft: so calm, yet eloquept The suiles inst Wth the Mnts that Rlov Butstnll of days in euoA AaS69lsnont,- A mind at peaea with ell boloW, A heast Vhone love b iunoooG4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-04
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The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1921-10-04
SPECIAL LEGION MEET
FOR COMMITTEES ONLY

The special meeting Of the Ralph
Oracle post of the American Legion,
which was scheduled for Thursday
evening at the rooms of the Civic and
Commerce association, has been call
ed off by the executive committee,
and in it's place the various commit
tees for the Armistice day celebra-
ton are to meet to complete the pro-
gram for that day. Don Whitman has
been appointed general chairman OF
the celebration, and under his direc-
ton will be the other members OF the
general committee and the sub-com-
mittees. A separate committee is to
be in charge of each feature of the
program, according to the present
plans.
Among the features contemplated
are a boxing show, a carnival and
dance. The exact details will not be
known until after the general COM
mittee meets Thursday night, how
ever, although it is expected that the
celebration this year will be as COM
plete and even bigger than the one
staged by the local post last year.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1921-10-04
NATIONAL CLUBWOMAN
NAMES NEW WATERFALL

Fargo, N. D., Oct. "A new wa
terfall, 200 feet high, recently dis
covered in Yellowstone National Park
will be named the Susan B. Anthony
Falls.
Mrs. Thomas G. Winter of Mime
apolis, president of the National Fed
GRAFTON of Women's clubs, wired the
director of the park today suggesting
that name. She had been asked to
name the falls in recognition of the
work done by the federation to pre-
vent commercializing of certain sec
tions of the park. Six falls have been
discovered in the park by explorers.
Mrs. Winter is here to address the
North Dakota Federation of Women's
clubs in state convention. From here
she goes to Aberdeen to a state con-
vention and to Owatonna on Thurs
day. Three hundred delegates repre-
senting about 200 clubs are here.
The federation is celebrating it's
twenty-tfth anniversary.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1921-10-04
GIVEN HARDWARE HAS
NOVEL SALES SCHEME

The Given Hardware company has
introduced a novel method of stimu-
lating business during the month of
October. This firm proposes to. give
back one entire, days receipts to
their customers.
Any one who buys hardware there
during the month is supposed to save
their cash receipts, which are to be
given with every purchase, and then
at the end of the month the Lucky
Day will be announced and those who
were fortunate enough to have
bought on that day can bring their
receipts to the store and have their
money refunded. The management
Of the store reports that the response
since the announcement Of the plan
was made is very gratifying.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1921-10-04
(By United Press)

Roseburg, Ore, Oct. 4.--Rose-
burg's own tragic drama of DIR. Jekyl,
suspected as Mr.. Hyde will approach
it's denouement here tomorrow when
Dr.. Richard Melvin Brumf;rld, once
popular dentist here, is scheduled
to go to trial to answer charges i'm
plicating him as the murderer Of
Dennis Russell, hermit laborer, the
nigh: O: July 13.
Brumfield came to Roscburg from
Indiana, settled down rs one Ct the
city's leading dentists and made tor
himself an enviable niche as social
lion. He married. For some years
matters went smoothly for the Brum-
field family. Then it seemed Us if
all the four-leaf clovers on his ranch
Just outside the city died all at once.
His house burned down. Later the
new home he built also burned. IN
each case he had insurance to cover,
or nearly to cover, his loss.
Then he bought additional land,
heaped added financial burdens upon
himself until the citizens of Rose
burg began to regard him as man
who had the iron nerve to play the
dame quietly, calmly, for large
stakes. He was carrying big load.
Hd continued to mingle with the
life of the town. He was the leading
exponent of the arts, was well read,
wel1-versed in the lore of poetry,
music, and literature.
Then one night wayfarers discov-
cred Brumfield's car afame at the
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1921-10-04
MANUFACTURINGPLANT
RESUMES OPERATIONS
Present Indications Are That
Factory Will Continue to
Operate All Winter

The Bemidji Manufacturing COM
pany resumed operations this NOR
ming after having been shut down for
several months. Manager A. M. Bag
ley stated that orders had begun to
come in in considerable numbers and
due to this fact and also to the fact
that this company is now furnishing
the power for the lighting of the busi-
ness district Of the city, the manage
ment considered it advisable to start
operating the entire plant.
The plant will operate with small
crew at first and, if the present out
look continues, it is expected that it
will continue operation all winter.
This will be welcome news to those
who have been employed at this plant.
The plant was forced to close down
some time ago, owing to the fact that
the customers of the institution,
which are largely transportation
companies, were not placing orders
for any material. This condition has
evidently improved and, while orders
are not large, they show decided
improvement.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1921-10-04
ROOMS ARE NEEDED FOR
; VISITING EDUCATORS

All citizens who can provide rooms
in their homes for the visiting teach
ers, who will attend the meeting OF
the Northern Division of the Mime
sofa Education association, to be held
in Bemidji October 2O-21-22, will
please notify either Mrs. E. A. Bar
ker, Miss Leila Stanton, Mrs. Grace
B. Thacker or Mrs. Bretta Loufbor-
row, who comprise the committee ap-
pointed for the securing of rooms.
A large attendance is expected at
this meeting and all available rooms
will be needed. 1t is hoped that the
charges for rooms will be as reason
able as possible. At such meetings
the rate for rooms usually charged is
from SO cents to ST per person per
night, with additional charge for
breakfast, if served, to the guest. II
convenient to serve breakfast, it
should be reported to M. W. Deputy,
president of the State Teachers COL
lege.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1921-10-04
T00THACHE CUTS DOWN
FILM STARS SALARY
(By United Press)

San Francisco, Oct. 4.-Whether
Mary Miles Minter, film star, can
collect $4,125, which she claims the
American Film company deducted
from her salary, because she washed
her hair and had a toothache, was
the heavy question which the court
of appeals had before it today.
A jury of Los Angeles ordered the
film company to pay Mary the amount
and the company appealed. She
charged that she was deducted the
sum of $787.5O when she washed her
hair one morning and it did not photo
graph that day the same as it did
the day before and that she was
docked still more when she had a
toothache and her face swelled.