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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
MURDER RATE FALLS
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Those who have run away with the idea that the various "crine waves' reported since the war indicated higher homicide rate will be consoled by the records of the Spectator, the Now York insurance journal, showing that the rate for 1920 was s.5 per 100000 of population against 9.1 in 1919, and five-year rate of s.9 in 1915-19 and of 8.4 in the five-years before the war Actually, therefore, we seem to be back very close to the pre-war ratio.
 These figures are from the statistics for 31 leading cities, but the records for 33 states where registration figures make comparison possible shows rate of but 6.6 per 100000 of population Memphis continues to hold evil pre-eminence the most homicidal city, 63.4 per 0,000. Savannah, Atlanta and Charles ton are next ranging from 45 to 36. Missis- sippi, Louisiana, Florida and Montana lead the states in that order. The rate of homicide in the south is four times that in New England and the west is not far behind, the middle At lantic and Central states representing the average.
 The cities with the largest negro population have the highest rates the larger eastern cities showing favorable record compared with many smaller cities. The rate of homicide among negro race is reported to be four times that of the whites in the south, a curious fact brought out by comparison of homicide and sui eide figures in that region being the indication that suicide is the distinctive trait of the south ern whites, while homicide is much more prev alent in the other race.
 Even with a reduction of murders in the registered area from $500 in 1919 to 5000 in 1920 and return to pre-war homicide ratios to population, the figures are shocking revelation of the insecurity of life calling for much greater official vigilance than has been manifested in recent years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
CONTRAST IN PROSPECT OF
 1922 AND 1921

Business men who impatient because re- adjustment is slow should compare conditions now with what they were one year ago.
 At this time last year the future was one of extreme uncertainty. Production was decreas- ing and buyers were avoiding the market Bus mess men were exerting their utmost to weather the depression coming with the slowing down process.
 Today the prospect is for conditions the con trary of those ahead at this time in 1920. In dustries have increased production. Building operations of October and November broke previous records. Employment since July has shown steady increase, compared with con tinuous decrease during the last half of 1920. While the usual industrial quiet-marking the inventory period prevail more or less, it IS known that stocks of goods both at manufac- turing plants and with jobbers are small hence purchasing should be resumed immediately fol lowing the holidays.
 In other worlds we are looking forward to better times now where we were facing the 
 business conditions during Our last holiday sea- son. That is the essential difference.
 number of former soldiers who seem to have had dsagreements with their top ser geants are writing letters to Senator Watson.
 
 Without consulting the ouja board or endeav- bring to read the stars, venture to predict 4. I-.z ..x.n be man with an Irish name.
 French and German wives of doughboys who should never be permitted to live in the same block
 Preachers will continue to complain of small congregations long as considerable part of our population grabs bag of golf clubs on Sunday morning instead of testament.
 The "irreconcilables" of America and Ire land are making preparations to be showed un- der.
 Von Ludendorff is still treated with dis tinguished consideration in Germany not war ranted by the events which eliminated in 1918.
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 Asked for his opinion of the Pacific treaty Senator Borah refused to talk and shut himself up in his office with the document. That looks ominous.
 "Treacherous, reasonable and damnable,' D says Senator Reed of Missouri, whose favorite pastime is "damning around"
 Home brewing, say prohibition leaders, IS dying out. Homemade beer is too obviously the product of amateurs.
 Personally, we don't care a hoot if the Dolly sisters never marry again, and as for the Still man case, it may be relegated to inside page at any time the makeup man sees fit.
 Doughboys who have been rolling in wealth on the Rhine are returning home to realize just how little soldiers pay really amounts to in dollars
 There are more babies among German war brides than among French war brides. That only increases the animosity. A certain gentleman named Woodrow Wilson may view recent developments in Washington with quiet smile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
BABE" AND THE JUDGE

From the Springfield Republican.
 One difference is that Babe Ruth in playing transforming baseball violated baseball law, while Judge Landis in acting as baseball judge on the side breaks no law. But wouldn't a law in the latter case be even more sensible than in the former?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
Fortune knows, We seorn her most when most she offers blows.
 -Anthony and Cleopatra.
 
A MORNING PRAYER

Let me joy in my labor, knowing this: that my mistakes will soon be forgotten by men and forgiven by Thee, but that the good l may do abideth forever. Amen.-M. s. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
VICE

By Alexander Pope.
 Vice is a monster of such hideous mien That to be hated means but to be seen Yet seen to oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
HENCE THE QUIET

HENCE THE QUIET Hungry Bend Correspondent, Hardy (Ark.) Herald. Everything quiet and everybody attending to their own business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-12
WATCH YOUR STEP

From the Fayette Advertiser.
 The only thing you can build at the old price is reputation and you have to be careful about th.A
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-07-29
PAY HONORS TO
FIRST TO DIE
CPL. GRESHAM AND PRIVATE EN-
RIGHT ARE AT FINAL REST.
PVT. HAY SENT HOME.
FELL ON NOVEMBER 8, 1917
Thousands MlngIe Sorrow and Pride
at 5lers of Soldiers Who Marked
the Beginning Of Americas
Great Blood Sacrifice.

Pittsburgh, Pa.-On the night of No
Vember 3, 1917, America paid first toll
in the great blood sacrifice she was
destined to make in order that democ-
racy might live. Under cover Of dark
ness, on the memorable night, Ger
many's highly trained fighters raided
an American trench. After the re-
pulse, three American youths were
dead on the field-the first Of the
doughboys to die in the great war.
Three years and a half after that
historic trench raid, two of the Ameri-
can heroes were laid away with all of
the honors and pride and sorrow that
q grateful nation can show for those
who had the distinction of being the
first to blaze the trail to the supreme
sacrifice-the first to show how Amer
leans could die in the war against the
German hosts.
Private Thomas Enright was buried
here, among his own home people.
Corporal James Bethel Gresham was
carried to his last resting place in the
green hills Of Locus Hill cemetery,
at Evansville, Ind. The body of the
third hero, Private Merle D. Hay, is
on its way to Glidden, Ia, from whence
young Hay went to his great advent
ure on foreign fields.
Silence-Poignant with memories to
thousands of Pittsburghers of the boys
who marched away SO gaily in 1917
and 1918, and of some of those care
less, gallant boys who never returned.
Then the measured toll of morning
bells, the dull griend Of caisson wheels,
somewhere a mothers hushed sob, the
crash of the volley at the grave, the
sad, sweet notes of taps, the soldiers
last call In paying last respects at
the funeral of Private Enright Pitts
burgh paused to remember all the
thousands Of nations bravest who
died among the wheat fields and poppy
groves of the lands across the sea.
Comrades who had followed their
buddy" to battle marched behind the
gun carriage which bore his body on
its last journey to st. Mary's ceme-
terry, Lawrenceville. Thousands Of
persons who lined the route followed
by the procession came not to pay
tribute alone to Private Enright, but
to the boys whom they knew who died
"over there" The services impressed
not as a tribute to any individual, but
as an opportunity to remember every
member of that vast army of the dead
that army which made the supreme
sacrifice.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-07-29
Wet Inside and out.

The Marine was up for Office Hours.
The Sergeant of the Guard has ac-
cused him Of falling off the dock while
In an intoxicated condition. The ac-
cused Marine stoutly maintained that
he was strictly sober, and that the
ducklng he got was not the result Of
his own misconduct. His buddy was
a reluctant witness.
The Commanding Officer addressed
the witness: ut Is reported by the
Sergeant of the Guard that the &C.
cused Private Jones, was intoxicated
at, the time he fell off the dock, and
that you assisted him ashore. Tell
me, how did he appear to you when
you pulled him outf If you had been
ordered to give an opinion of him
then, what would you have said?"
"Sir," answered his buddy, Il should
have said that he was one Of the wet
test, If not the wettest, Marine had
ever seen"
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-07-29
.CONVCTS STAGE
WILD MUTINY
BURN FOUR BUILDINGS IN PENN
MISUNDERSTANDING LOSS
AT $4,000.
SIX WOUNDED BY GUARDS
Throwing Of a Soup Plate In Dining
Hall Starts Riot Which Turns Into
RedlaH,-AlI Available Police
Help QuslI Outbreak.

Pittsburgh. Prisoners in the west
ern penitentiary here broke all bounds
of discipline, fired four buildings anC
for a time kept the institution in M
uproar, while prison guards, deputy
sheriffs and policemen, reinforced BY
armed citizens, battled to put dowr
the disorder. Six conviets were shot
and two others cut in the battle. The
prison officials said three or four oil
the wounded probably would die.
The outbreak, timed to start with
the ringing Of the first fire gong
began in the dining room where the
convicts sought to detract the at
tention of guards from the fires, prison
officials said. Alarms sounded from
four places in the institution almost
simultaneously, when guards learned
the prisoners had fired the buildings
with any material available.
Some 900 prisoners had just taken
their seats in the big dining ROOM
where one Of them sent a soup bowl
careennig down one Of the long tables
Instantly the room was in an up
roar, for at the same moment the fire
gong sounded an alarm from the con
struction shop, the linen shop, the
kitchen and the chapel.
The guards in the dining room tried
to quell the outbreak, but the thor.
oughly maddened prisoners pelted
them with tableware and cutlery, all
the time shrieking and bowling. The
fire department, finding the blaze was
belond its control, called the city
firemen, while riot calls were sent in
for the police.
Meanwhile the guards in the dining
room had regained, in part, their con.
troll and forced some of the men back
to their cells, but 200 or more dashed
tor the prison guards, and when faced
by other guards, backed into build.
ing and ran for the top of tier OF
cells. From this vantage point they
pelted the guards, now reinforced by
every available man in the prison,
with bricks torn from the top Of the
wall, Deputy sheriffs and police from
every precinct in the city soon added
to the fighting force within the en-.
closure and il was not long before
the prisoners had been chased from
the wall to their cells. They signal
ICED their reincarceratoln by breaking
the glass in the windows, and shrek.
ing and bowling to the thousands OF
persons gathered in the streets and or
the housetops nearby.
Within two hours the fire was I'M
der control, but number of build
ings had been destroyed, with an es
timated loss in excess of $4,000.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-07-29
Jananese Nuns.

Near Tokufuji, Japan, Is Sennyujl,
a group of buildings noted as the place
of interment Of several of the mikados
during the Kamakura and TOkugawa
periods, writes a correspondent. The
graves are not shown; they are APP
parently very unpretending, quite un-
like the gorgeous mausoleums Of the
Shotgun dynasty, but the place is worth
visiting. Near the gate, passed a
group Of shaven-pated nuns, their de-
nuded SUBMITS glistening in the sun
not walking with demurely downcast
eyes telling their beads, but with jolly
laughter telling each other some joke.
Buddhist nunship appears to be little
more than a cheerful REIMBURSEMENT
of domestic and economic anxieties;
though one would think they must feel
uncomfortably cool In the winter. The
extensive grounds Of Sennyuji are
beautifully kept. There is wide
main walk lined with expresses with
sidepaths leading to various shrines;
all are covered with granite sand; at
the end is a similarly sanded court
yard about $50 feet square, with
screen running along one side; the
roofs are boarded with cylindrical
tiles stamped at the end with the 16-
petaled chrysanthemum.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-07-29
SQUELCHED DEBT
CANCELLATIONS
WILSON TOLD ENGLAND, ABRUPT.
~, PLAN WAS IMPOSSIBLE
OF CONSERVATION.
REPLY READ IN THE SENATE
Lodge Puts into the Record the Reply
Of Former President and Secretary
Houston Settling the Question
Definitely.

Neutrality-suspicious. made by for.
mer President Wilson to Lloyd George,
the British premier, and Secretary of
he Treasury Houston to Austen Cham.
berlain, British chancellor Of the ex.
chequer, to their proposals for the
general cancellation of the allied war
debts were read into the record Of the
senate by Senator Lodge.
'"The government Of the United
States" President Wilson wrote, "is
not prepared to consent to the remls-
sion Of any part Of the debt Of Great
Britain to the United States"
ut is highly improbable" his letter
stated, further, that either the con.
gress Of popular opinion of this coun-
try will ever permit cancellation of
any part Of the debt of the allied
governments as an inducement to-
wards practical settlement OF the
Teparation claims"
This statement was in reply to the
suggestion of Lloyd George that the
country consent to the remission of
the debts to allow the scaling down
Of the German indemnity.
"The United States" President Will
son declared, entirely agrees with
the British government that the fix
ing of Germanys PREPARATIONS obliga-
tions is cardinal necessity for the
renewal 70 the economic life of Eu-
rope and would prove most helpful in
the interests of peace throughout the
world however, it fails to perceive of
the logic Of the suggestion to the ef-
feet that the United States shall pay
part of Germany's reparations obliga-
ton, or that 1t shall make a gratuity
to the allied governments to induce
them to fix such obligation at the
amount within Germany's capacity to
pay" Overtures for the cancellation of
the debts, which were made to the
president at the peace conference and
summarily rejected, were recalled by
the president in his letter.
1.-THE view Of the United States" he
repeated, has not changed, and 1t is
not prepared to consent to the remis-
sion of any part of the debt of Great
Britain to the United States"
In his letter Of rejection to the
British chancellor of the exchequer,
Secretary Houston declared the prop
Osition he advanced did not involve
mutual sacrifices" and would vir-
fually leave the United States to bear
the brunt Of the staggering financial
burden of the war.
Pointing out that a cancellation of
the debts would not involvs any losses
TO Great Britain because her loans had
been made mostly with money adj
Vanced by this country, Secretary
Houston asserted that in the last an.
alysis ut simply involves contribu.
ton mainly by the United States"
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-07-29
FOR WORLD CITY
Various Sites Proposed for AM
bilious Project.
Idea, Put Forward by American, Is
to Form International Clearing
House of information.

New Jersey, Hawaii. Cuba, the en-
Virons Of Paris, the Riviera, Belgium,
Switzerland, Italy, and Greece have
been proposed as sites for an interna-
tiOnal city, upon the plans Of which
Hendrix Anderson, an American, now
residing In Rome, has been collabor-
ating for the better part Of the last
Is years. Such a city, according to
Mr.. Anderson's projects, would not be
the adaptation to international pur-
poses of a town already existing, but
would be built new and so would con-
tain only those edifices necessary for
Its aims and maintenance. There
would be, among other buildings, an
international court Of justice, which
Mr.. Anderson willingly comedies would
not do away with war, but would at
least lessen the possibility Of It, and
which would be attended by perma-
nant representatives from all nations.
There would also be an international
bank, an international medical con-
gress, which would always be in ses-
sion, and through which all new dis
coveries in medicine, hygiene and sani-
tation would at once be disseminated
throughout the world; an information
al press building, and an international
chamber of commerce and labor. Each
government would likewise have its
own building, which would offer to rep
resentatives Of the other nations the
opportunity of examining all the
works Of progress made by each cOun-
try. The city would then be an In
ternational clearing house Of informa-
ton, and from its establishment, Mr..
Anderson declares, only good results
could accrue.
The plans of the city have been ex-
hibited at the Smithsonian institute at
Washington and extensive literature
concerning Its economic, political and
structural possibilities has been sent
to the presidents and sovereigns Of
practically all the countries in the
world. The estimated cost Of such a
city is S50000O,O0O, but the net an-
nual gain to each nation participating
in It's advantages and facilities would
be 100000, according to the calcu-
Iations in the tracts which have been
sent out.
Lectures will be made upon the
project this summer in the United
States, and the Sorbonne in Paris has
offered a chair for three years for
conferences on 1t. The plan has re-
ceived the appreciation Of Pope Bene-
dict XIV, and both Belgium and Greece
have offered land grants for the site
Of the proposed city,
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-07-29
LEAGUE TO ASSIST
ON DISARNING
GIVES APPROVAL AND co-oPERA
TON FOR CONTEMPORARY
DEVELOP INFORMATION.
VlVlANl PRAISES EFFORT
Whatever Results Aesrue From Wash
Ington Meeting May Be Used AZ
a Rule For Worlds League
Action IN September.

Paris.-The league of nations is go
ing ahead with its work in connection
with disarmament ON the thory that 1t
will In no wise interfere with the pro-
posed conference on limitation of arm
aments in Washington and that 1t
may develop information which would
be Of use to such a conference. That
was the decision announced at the
opening session of the temporary
mixed commission appointed for the
reduction of ornaments, appointed by
the league, which was presided over
by Rene Viviani of France, chairman
Of the commission.
M. Viviani, H. A. L. Fisher, the Brit
ish representative; Senator Carlo
Schanzer Of Italy, and the delegates
of the leading nations represented on
the commission were agreed on this
and also were in accord in praise Of
President Harding's initiative in pro-
posing a conference on ornaments.
They declared the league could not
but welcome joyfully all deliberations
having in view a solution of the deli.
cate and complex general question
which the league was studying object
lively:
Brief exchanges of views showed the
delegates were impressed with the me-
cessity Of proceeding prudently with
the question by stages, since it is i'm
possible not to take into account the
special situation of certain countries
and the absence Of Russia and Ger,
many from the league.
M. Viviani, in his address opening
the session, after reviewing the his
tory of the commission, said:
After indicating my conception Of
how we should fulfill our mission,
feel no hesitation in commenting on
the great and noble initiative taken
by President Harding few days ago.
We have not been surprised that the
head of the great American nation, so
powerful and so generous, and which
has so often discussed the question of
disarmament, should have taken the
lead in assembling the various gov.
ernments for the purpose of reaching
agreement. We should be the first to
congratulate such action, and we are
happy to greet this step. We are glad
to be associated in it, certain that the
work we are going to prepare cannot
but be taken into consideration by the
governments when we ourselves shall
be gathered next September, having
before us solution of the problems.
l do not say they will be definite, but
they will be precise.
81 may add that the question of dis
armament is so difficult, complex and
delicate that those who discuss 1t
must meet with preconceived notions,
ignorance and prejudices, and must
overcome traditions and economic diff
ficulties. There cannot be too many
OF us who wish to concern ourselves
with this problem, to appeal to public
opinion and to prepare the world for
this question, that should be solved
and definitely solved.
"Such is the spirit in which we must
work, for truly it would not have been
worth while to have suffered the afro
cious war If we could not draw fruit
full lessons from the sacrifices of our
sons"
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-07-29
SHOOTS BELL HOP.

ChIsca Messengcr Held Up At Hotel
Entrance and Robbed of $1,000.
Memphis, Tenn.--After a shot that
sent Gene Martin, negro bell hop at
the Chisca Hotel, staggering back to
the Main street entrance of the hotel,
. robber grabbed $4,000 in checks and
bills Of hotel cash the negro had start
ed with to the bank, and while dozens
Of bystanders looked on in amaze
ment, flourished his pistol and dashed
off in Buick automobile in which his
partner sat waiting around the corner.
The negro was standing in front of
the hotel waiting for a street car to
take him to the Bank of Commerce &
Trust Company to deposit the money.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-07-29
c.n.ennlal q Phntonraphx.

The centenary of the discovery Of
photography was recently celebrated
in the village of Bry-sur-Marne, near
Paris, where Daguerre spent the last
years of his life, and where in 1890
he carried on the experiments which
resulted In the daguerreotype, from
which modern photography, including
the motion picture. has been deyel-
Oped.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-07-29
SEVEN YEARS FOR TAYLOR.
Fines for Accepting Brides Aggregate
$6,s75-Makes Full Confession.

VoIofo-MakeS run CONCESSION.
Memphis, Tenn.-Tyree Taylor, after
having made confession which the
officials consider full and detailed, but
which so far is private, threw himself
on, the mercy of the United States
court and received, for bribery, the
longest sentence in the penitentialy
which any man has received in the
United States court here in the mem.
DRY Of the present generation-seven
years. In addition he was fined an ag.
gregate of $6,875, but that probably is
brutum fulmens, as the United States
does not compel the defendant to work
out a fine which cannot be collected,
and Taylor now is broke.
He was formerly chief United States
deputy marshal here.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-07-29
NEGRO ADMITS MURDER.
Says He and Pal Committed Crime,
But Other One Accuses Him.

Petersburg, Va.-Raleigh Haskins,
negro, confessed here, according to of.
ficers, that he and Judge Griffith, an.
other negro, murdered Stephen G.
White, postmaster at Harper's Home,
Dinwiddie county. Griffin denied,
officers said, that he had a hand in
the killing, but said that he was pres
emit when Haskins beat the old man to
death with a brick and cut his throat.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1921-07-29
Mob Is outwltted.

Anderson, S. CA mob that had
surrounded the Jail at Iva, this county,
in an effort to take negro accused
of writing improper letters to three
girls, was outwitted when sheriffs
deputies spirited the prisoner from the
Iva jail and brought him here.