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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19

getting anything like a representative organization.
 Having passed through his period of clamor and appeals for help, without avail, the farmer is turning to the last, and the sensible course of action. He is getting together. He is rolling up his sleeves and helping himself. He realizes that no one is going to save him if he does not save himself, and saved" he most certainly proposes to be.
 The farmer is building on the local organization. It is called a bureau, and is based upon county membership. These local bureaus are, in turn. merged in state and national ograniza- tions. The designation is: "The Farm Bureau.r The farm bureau proposes to concern itself with every single prob- lem of importance to the farmer. either in buying or selling.
 The fafn bureau is now ana accom- plished fact, but it does not at the present time form IS interesting basis of study of the new temper of the American farmer as some of--the strictly local enterprises in which he has interested himself. sS
 It may surprise many people to learn that the American farmer has entered big business. ifE
 Take Minnesota, for instance. The farmers, in that state alone have joined in moreS Sthan 1,s0o separate business enterprises on a cooperative basis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19
THE PURITY SQUAD

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 Oh, the eternal fitness of things! The International Purity League everything is becoming international ized these days-has sent represent ative to Ardmore as a greeting" to Clara Smith Hamon, according to press reports. This representative claims to be the field secretary of the organiza- tion.
 Clara Smith Hamon." says this dar- Hing philosopher, lis a bird With broken wing, trapped by vile man She is there to lend her moral support to those who are against the double standard"
 All that Clara did was to shoot day light through Jake Hamon. It is not strange then, that one or more orainy field secretaries' of this or that sob organization should have Hooked to her support in the hour of trial
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19
WHEN ELEPHANTS GO BAD

the elephant knocked over stamping upon every square foot of the flattened canvas in the apparent hope that some one of the men was underneath.
 Once he rushed for the great six pole top in which 300 of the shows finest draft stock were stabbed. As the elephant approached. quick whistle from the boss hostler brought 500 drivers and grooms with pitch forks into line in front of the tent There were men in that line who had driven and nursed their six and eight horse teams for years. They, were there to die rather than see their pets harmed. The sun glinted on the thin line of pronged steel Snyder, charg- ing with long, numbering strides. saw and understood. He came to g full stop. turned and went back to the menagerie tent, where he wrecked the candy stands.
 sent for rifles. He also had prepared apples with cyanide of potassium. These were thrown to the elephant He ate one and then tossed the-others aside. It is likely be- detected the poison. That contained in the one apple had no effect on him. The man. ager had managed to get Trilby" Snyders mate, chained at one side of the show lot where people would not obstruct the line of fire, if he should decide to shoot the Lad brute. When the poisoned apnles failed. to slow up Snyders rushes, he gave the word. It was then a matter of turing or driv- ing the eIephatnt to point where he could see Trilby. for it was almost certain that he would attempt to loosen her when he sighted her. Such proved to be the outcome. But, as Snyder neared her the assistant man. ager. armed with a 45-90 rifle, fired. The bullet caught the tusker in ths hollow oyer the right eye, piercing the brain. Three ex-officers of the army also opened fire, but unneces- sarily, for the managers shot was fatal Slowly without a sound or a struggle, the elephant sank to his knees and stretched out on his right side. So ended the only elephanA. hunt ever held in the heart of Kansas.
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ARNOLD BENNETT. PAINTER

From the Kansas City Star.
 It may not be generally known that Arnold Bennett is a painter as well as novelist. Once, as he tells us in Things That Have Interested Me" show one of his water colors to Pari- sian authority:
 4" Monsieur he said to me. you have three times too much cleverness. and your work is utterly without interest,"
 Tt is scarcely credible. but I felt flattered. I was enchanted that I had three times too much cleverness. M. Laprade and I grew friendly; I visited his studio. We discussed art.
 "The only advice I can offer to you. scious of an emotion before an object, and then paint what you feel
 Shortly afterward. happened to be conscious of an emotion before an ob- ject-namely, the courtyard of an old house in Paris where was living. So I painted what felt, one December aft ernoon. I~then invited M. .Laprade to lunch, and left the water color lying about He spied it quickly enough. Mon Dieur he cried. too amiably excited. You've done 1t! oh. you've done 1t this time! Tres bien! Tres bien! Very interesting; Vertically interestingly"
 And Mrf Bennett adds: T should have kept this masterpiece as sort of milestone in my swift career as a post had not my Ameri- can publisher caught sight of 1t and walked off with it. unintimidated by it's post-impressionism.- I shall use this as Jackets (paper covering) for one. of your books, he said. And he did. He had it reproduced in colors, and calmly placed it on the bookstalls of the United States. learned after ward that it was considered by trade experts as among the best commercial Jackets of its season"
 If we are not greatly mistaken. the book which this jacket" helped to sell was These Twain" the third of the Five Towns trilogy of which Clay hanger" and "Hilda L.essways" were the other two. This ponderous book appeared just before the war. An at tempt to get through 1t now, since the war; when our reactions" are so diff ferent. would be an overwhelming task It needed the jacket" which was in congruously cheerful. But consider the publishers jacket" and It's destiny; a pair of overalls, or. at best. bungalow apron. While the new book remains on the library table. the jacket" stays on. while the edges tear and rub. Then someone records telephone number on it. Finally. out 1t goes with the orange peeis and combings.
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Frank Braden in the April Popular
 Mechanics Magazine.
 r N the circus menagerie wild animals
 H are always held to be dangerous S In the performing arena, this as- sumption is the first rule of training No animal can be trusted. The most tractable and obedient beast will turn and attack at any time the mood seizes it. Trainers know this well, and the successful ones are always prepareo for sudden spring Or a sweeping stroke of unsheathed claw. But, until an animal has once rebelled successful ly-broken down mans mastery tenn I~norarily-it is not bad" in the sense that trainers use the term A bad elephant is ever biding his time to kill, or watching for a chance to>lead other | elephants into a stampede. And noth- ing in circus life is so fraught with | terrifying possibilities as an elephant stampede
 Of all the bad elephants ever in kAmerica, Snyder, the tusker,' came nearest to uyiHS III CAi~A theatrical slang has it. For Snyder died with "his boots on." It was at salina, Kan. Monday. September 1S' 1920. Snyder had done nothing unusual since the engagement of the circus at the Chicago coliseum. However. one of his trainers had been left i'll in hospital along the route. The boss elephant man was the day before called home on urgent business This left trainer in charge who had not been with the herd for three years This change made the herd restless especially Snyder. After parade that Monday forenoon. the general manager of the show ordered a rehearsal of the middle-ring elephants. among which was Snyder, the pre-eminent feature No sooner had Snyder reached sths ring than he turned and raced out with two attendants clinging to him with bull hooks jabbed deep into his trunk. Out of the big top into the menagerie loped the big tusker. the men fighting him at every stride
 
 Through the wall of the menagerie tent Snyder plunged and shook off the attendants, striking at them with his trunk. The tusker's small eyes were red with blood lust, and circus men Kforming a line of skirmishers. headed the crowds on the lotsonto the streets outside the fences Others. led by the 1 elephant in order that he might be headed if he turned toward the towns people. For three hours the big ele- phant spent his ti,ae in turning ove' inmensefy heavy pole, seat and bag. l gage wagons. Once he picked up z cage of lions and hurled it 30 feet. H. l started for a den of leopards. but ths snarling cats. rearing, against the bar
 with their claws extended, scared hin off All during the excitement thu l elephant needed his name. So, as ht
 would start charge. the circus mer
 would diveft i&m by calling to him
 Thus. the teld of his activities wa.
 restricted. Out-ide the menagerie wa, a small tent in which~ehe eleph
 were wont to rest1AatNeenA e..~..-. l..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19
Greater Supply and Less
 Consumption of Cotton

1T7HE commissioner of agriculture U of Alabama is quite right in the statement that i've had just as we'll realize that we will soon have two years supply of cotton on hand"
 February consumption of cotton was 428 ,00O bales compared with 541 ,000 in 1919, Stocks at mills and in ware houses now are 7,36O,OOO bales, com pared with 6,050,O0O bales at this time last year. There are more than a million bales on hand this year than last with mill operations reduced more than 25 per cent.
 But of greater importance than this comparative showing is what the commissioner says about other farm products:
 On the other hand how many
 Alabama farmers have even one
 years supply of corn, hay. oats.
 soy beans, potatoes. syrup. colts.
 hogs. cattle, sheep. bees. goats,
 chickens, turkeys and the like?
 These are staple crops. crops that
 you can eat and live on. and if
 every farmer in Alabama would hereby take solemn oath
 to produce these products and
 do it. hard times. panics mort
 gages. debts. foreclosures and
 poverty would vanish from our
 midst. Have you ever seen an Ala
 bama farmer grow too much
 corn?'
 There are many intricacies in the cotton trade and no one can follow them all, but what should be clear to every tiller of the soil is that cotton no more represents money than corn, hogs and goats, cowpeas and pota- toes. Moreover, the farm product that does not go to market but is con sumed on the farm is the same as cash.
 When the farmer regards cotton as
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Tornado insurance is one kind or policy the holder is never eager to cash in on.
 Beware of the man who is always quoting the Scripture and protesting his religion in loud voice when ne has business dealings With you. A tack points heavenward when it means the most mischief. Another Damli Once upon time man went into a telephone booth with a cigar snipe in his hand and didn't leave the snipe in the telephone booth. In her search for the ideal man a young thing passes up whole lot or real men.
 You may not believe it. but dry goods bills were smaller in the days when they wore hoop skirts than they are in these days of narrow, knee length) skirts.
 We expect that members of the anti everything league will be disgusted If they ever get to Heaven. There won't be anything to kick about up there. The world doesn't care darn what 1 you are going to do tomorrow. What did you do yesterday7 Use one and two cylinder words if 1 you want to get by. candidate once l filled us up with six-cylinder words to l get us to vote for him. We told him
 that we would homologate his Fitness
 for the office, and that shut him up He didn't know what we meant. Do l you?
 It takes man | long time to dis cover that it Is easier to- discharge 2 duty than 1t is to avoid F.
 And the high cost of living wasn't such much in the old days when woman saved her combinss to make switch. A fool brags about himself. A wise man jollies others into doing 1t Tor him.
 A girl glances over the first chapter of novel to sec if tho hero has curly | hair, If he has. she reads 1t. Copyright 1921o
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19

Canada and European countries. In the latter fires are investigated with much more care and in some coun- tries the man whose premises are burned is presumed guilty of criminal negligence or wilful destruction until he proves the contrary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19
he does other farm products, the cot ton problem will solve itself.

 ton problem will solve itself. x * #
 Sixty cases of liquor were found in the private car of New York man at Miami. We may be wrong. but we have an idea that he was getting ready to return home.
 The announcepent that the microbe of "sleebing sickness" has been discovered reminds us that the microbe of spring fever will soon be getting in it's deadly work.
 Wholesale liquor houses will go out Of existence May Is. The man who used to drop in and buy jug of applejack quit patronizing them some time ago.
 # * * President De Valera of Ireland is being urged by his followers to do less work. Most of the Sim Feners are keeping long hours, especially snipers>
 
 As Clara Smith Hamon steps back into obScurity the palpitating public waits for her successor to appeaT armed with a little pistol.
 A Birmingham dog bit mans wooden leg. We can't expect every dog to have as much sense as the canine stars of vaudeville. Nothing stiffens the backbone of the French government like injecting the Ger man problem into a Chamber of Deputies debate.
 # < x
 Mir Harding is also following in the footsteps of Woodrow Wilson by keeping an open mind on several important ques- tions
 The memoirs of Count witte and Will helms book offer good example of facts versus fiction.
 St. Patricks Day parades are not as joyous as they were in prohibition years.
 Keep Smilii is a good motto for the Harding administration. Another is Do It Now Beer may have fine medicinal prop critics, but no spring tonic of that sort will be sold by the case in Alabama. # # < Are we right in assuming that Lloyd George effectively curbed any desire he had to celebrate St. Patrick's Day? Thieving express messengers may be able to explain why willie's bicycle never reached it's destination
 Sending murderers to eternity by the gas route is not so mussy as the hang mans moose.
 Germany is charged with secretly man. ufacturing armament, the secret Of course, having leaked out.
 # x < The photoplay in it's worst manifesto tions has nothing on the Stokes and Still man cases.
 <, x #
 At any rate, the next war will find great many people in a position to say. T told you so."
 * x * The "moonshine'' market is reported steady Consumers are not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19
JOHN KEATs

By Jerome Roooay. Hero Aes-ous whose name i9 writ in
 vatn9 Yes. -riGin~atsr.- child of the e.rtA
 and skx, Spring from the sod. yet winyina
 from on high: untainted. blfthe. in beauty's passion
 strong Ana shimmering with the rainbow huas of song.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19
sTUMPED

From the New Orleans Times -Picayune.
 With all her wealth of experts and specialists, Germany for once in a way seems at a loss for an answer to tho newly-posed question as to what she is going to do about 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19
SHE WOULD

From the Columbus. Enquirer-sun. .- Would the lady who objects to Presi- dent Harding smoking a cigarette once In while be willing for him to take a whiff at a corn-cob pipe when he feels tired and worn out with his days york?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19
soc1AL1sl1. zIMrrnE

From the Dallas News.
 Our position simply is that If we owned an umbrella. we wouldn't lend It to the kind of socialsst who wantA to divide up everything
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19
An Eminent Nebraskan
 and What Might Have Been

M BOTHER BRYAN, who is 61 ID years old today, says 40 years of politics have made him an optimist. A remarkable statement from a re- markable man. To have experienced the bitter disappointmehts, the ridi- cule and abuse, and all the ups and downs of a picturesque political ca reer, and to have reached 61 without becoming hopelessly embittered is an achievement to command attention.
 In the heyday of his power MT. Bryan had tremendous following and he still retains enough influence to encourage him in the delusion that he can make over the democratic party. Had he been half as success ful in politics as he has been on the lecture platform and in the role of an uplifter of the whisky-soaked masses, he would have been President of the United States for at least two terms. To occupy that exalted sta- >tion he yearned with all the intensity of his nature, but as in the case of Henry Clay, fate decreed otherwise. No man in public life can live down ridicule and MT. Bryan has been a long that the Bryan joke is stand ard commodity of vaudeville.
 In his younger days Mir. Bryan was handsome, despite the fact that he looks storm-beaten now and has the breeding air of a man who could re- mould the scheme of things nearer to his hearts desire. Dustin Farnum, before he became too fat, and many another matinee idol did not possess more manly beauty than the Boy OraCOr or the FlaCIe. II NIT. bryan had not been born too soon he might have become movie star and lived happily ever afterward. If he is still an optimist, it is creditable to his powers of endurance, but there are times when we fear he scolds too much to support the character of a 100 per cent optimist who turns all the dark clouds inside out and dis covers the silver lining.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19
RIuR Park Hotel

There is current quite few con- fusing rumors as to Bluff Park hotel on Shades mountain with other hotel projects in that vicinity said Louie Reese & Co.,, who are agents for BluH Park hotel Tt has been frequently reported taht this hotel and the several acres accompanying it had been both leased and sold. Contrary to the own ers wishes, however, it has been neith- CT sold nor rented and any one so reporting such transaction has done so without any authority and positively without any grounds whatever for making such report.
 While we have advertised. nothing definite has been done and the property remains in the same hands for the past four years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19
Fire Loss Increases
 as Business Falls Off

ZINE of the lamentable conse- " quences of the slowing down process has been the increase in the havoc wrought by fire. Insurance ad- justers report that losses were great est at the end of 1920 when notes were coming due, taxes were being paid and reports had to be made to stockholders.
 Speaking of this the Wall Street Journal says:
 These increases are manifested in lines and sections most affected by the fall in commodity prices. Adjust CTS in the cotton belt are two to three weeks. behind in their work and build ings, barns, merchandise, automobiles, all insured over the current value, are burning freely, although cotton in warehouses hence out of the own
 
 CTS control--shows no abnormal in crease in the loss ratio."
 Between 1916 and 1919 incendiary fires dropped 8S per cent in number and 81 per cent in the amount of money involved, while total fires re- 
 ported in the first II months of 1920 were 100000 more than for all 1919. In certain district of New York in 1920 fires were 90 per cent greater in financial loss and 50 per cent greater in number than in 1919. lAmerica's fire damage is tremend- ously large compared with that of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

 MAKING HIS EYES BEHAVE. "Is there anything you'd like to look at, sirg' asked the polite fioOrwalker. Why. yes," replied the subdued man. "Id like the best in the world to look at that dazzling creature over there behind the glove counter. but I'm waiting for my wife, and since she is apt to show up at any moment, I won't chance it"
 MAYBE. Quit our coffee?
 Say not SO;
 But reform is
 Here, we know.
 Maybe in
 A few short years
 Cranks will ban The cup that cheers. HE SHOULD vEx HIMSELF. ''DilAorthy is always talking about the high cost of living" "In his. case the discussion is purely academic"
 HOW SUI His wife supports him."
 TAKEN RIGHT IN. Did her father encourage your He smoked a 5o-cent cigar happened to have in my pocket and borrowed slo. Is that encouragement" Encouragement ? My boy, it looks to me as if you were already member of the family"
 CUPIDS NO BOLSHEvIK- correspondent wants a definition of free love- As the subject is one that should be invariably dismissed with paragraph we hasten to reply that free love is the attempt of a few bcbbed- haired women and long-haired men to sovietize the divine passion.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Good Speakers

0OOu OpCHAGNS
 Sunday afternoon there will be a mass meeting at the First Methodist church. Birmingham" says pr. l.. C. Branscomb. which ought to be attend ed by every Methodist in the district and by those who love the cause oi the Christian education movement.
 ''On the programme are some of the best speakers in southern Methodism Bishop Cannon, George stuart and ex- Senator Webb, known everywhere as Old Sawny.'
 ''Of course, primarily, it is to boost the great education cause of southern Methodism. but there will be much of interest to anyone who believes in Christian education"
 Home Building Instinct
 There is no doubt of distinct re- yival of interest in home owning and home building" said Frank Hartley Anderson. q know personally of at least half dozen occupants of apart ments who have made inquiry of archi- tects and contractors as to the cost of bungalows.
 The inquiries do not come by way of vague interest in home building but from men and women who have neat sums laid aside and are in posi- : tion to build at moderate cost.
 Tn every quarter l see evidences Of this reawakened interest in home building and 1 believe the Own Your own Home exposition scheduled by the Chamber of Commerce for March 26 to April ? is going to be the starter of the real building movement that has been so long delayed"
 Thinks Birmingham Great Town
 There's something wrong with a man who doesn't want to come back to his home town and see his old friends, and l, for one am strong for BirminS- ham and getting back among all it's splendid people" said Reuben A. Lewis, Jr. editor of shipping with the Jour nal of Commerce, New York city.
 "Of course, New York is mighty fine. but Birmingham is the best town in the country, and during the short time I've been away l find many improve ments and much development in every line. Business conditions which have tied up over 30 per cent of the worlds ships and which will continue to be tied up until production reaches nor- nal again. are effected here as they are everywhere, but 1t is only spas modic, in my opinion, and things will adjust themselves shortly.
 New York is full of Birmingham people. Bradley J. Saunders, Jr., and myself. live with five other fellows in a big house in East Thirtieth street, and recently Bradley's father, who has returned from Paris, where he spent the past year, has joined us. Every where we go we see Birmingham folk MT. and Mrs. Frank Estep live not far from us, Anne Jordan and her husband, Ed Torgerson, we often see; Robert Thach. who is a member of Governor Whitemans law firm, has made good and Sidney Lazarus, with the clever vaudeville, sketches which he has writ ten. is another of our Birmingham boys who is well known in New York;"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-19
A MORNING PRAYER

A UKOktINNIFU
 Grant me, Lord, to meet the duties bravcly which thou hast laid on me. So fife shall be too full for wickedness, too short for vain re- pining. Amen. M. 5. B.