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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
THE "BIRTHPLACE OF CTVITAN'

is fitting that Birmingham, which birthplace
 International Association of Cvtan clubs should be hostess the first annual convention of this order To the hundreds of delegates who will attend the convention today and tomorrow word that stands for integrity and the highest type of citizenship.
 It March IT, 1917 that the first Cvitan club ganized by group of Birmingham The charter bers were C. L. Hagan Dr. C. w. Shropshire Jeks H. Caban ss A. C. Crowder L. B. Cast R. T. Daniel, Dr. w. C. Gewin Dr. Scale Harris Wallace C. Johns Kryser C. S. Leeper and William Leslie Welton. Dr. C. w. Shropshire who president president of the local club
 Since 1917 the Civan idea has spread with astonishing rapdly until at the present time there 29 cubs with membership of 1600 and this remarkable growth within of beginning extension work Such probably before been equaed organizations this character other when consider the territory
 The second international charter issued to Helena Ark and the third to Memphis Cvan clubs established all the from Maryland Texas and Florida and foreign clubs are being organized in Canada and Cuba.
 The success of the Can association another achievement that hows the and enterprise This organization has advertised Birmingham throughout the country and will continue greater degree as new clubs formed
 Builders of Good Citizenship is the Civitan slogan has been lived to- citizen of Birmingham testify familiar with the work of the local club which conducted successful campaign to increase registration payment poll taxes outftted the band of the Boys school East Lake helped in the good roads bond campaign supported 50 French orphans sent 100 boys camp weeks and has played prominent part every and civic "drve" since it established.
 Based upon service fraternity and high ideals citizenship Cvtan clubs doing great work communities where they established and for the nation Birmingham should be proud of this fourshng organization orgna here May its numbers and may the visit of the delegates to the first Cvan profit able and enjoyable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
LUKE M,LUkE SAYS

If takes a man long time to learn that you can do thing Tn ohe-ten. II the time you have to use in making e~- cuses for not doing It.
 One reason why a wife has to use economy is because her nuspanu eiSes her an allowance on pay day anu DOT rows half of il back during the week
 Slaves to style are worse off than slaves to booze A woman would wear u dead cat on her head II dead cats happened to be in style.
 And. even when he won't admit it a man knows when he is in the wrong, all right, all right.
 What has become of the Q. [. e1itor who used to take pumpkins anu fire- wood as payment for subscriptions? The real reason why some married men do not dress better Is because they have only the one suit of clottes. When he is 21 he starts out after Elions. But when he is 61 he is satis- flied if he bags a flea bitten rabbit Nothing. makes woman so fond of "a man d sthe fact that some other woman wants him.
 1 We know man who has been hear ling burglars in the house every night I for the past 30 years. And yet his l house has never entertained burglar 1 We may be wrong. But 1t Is our Inn ] pression that any man who is strong l enough to take patent medicine didn't have much the matter with him. l Copyright. l921.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
THE ORIGINAL AMERICAN
From the Savannah News.

From the Savannah News
 MPEAKING of Americanism one Is N prodded to inquire what an " American is Literally there Is only one real American, and there is no doubt about his far-back right to the claim: The allegedly aboriginal American Indian, who was not an In- dian and may not have been primarily American" even at all. But as nearly as it can be come at, the Indian has clearer right and title to the literal claim to be an American than even tho most nearly unadulterated Anglo-Sax- ons in the choicest parts of the oldest sections of the country that has been peopled by the white race.
 If anybody Is "American' the old In- dian ought to be. And yet he has not been in many cases. There are ln- dians and other Indians. Away up Tn Alaska there are Indians. In Sitka q few weeks ago an old chief woke up to the startling fact that he is an American of the Americans-an Amer ican by right of pedigreed lineage  traced back to natives who were born on this soil long before the white man set up a government of any sort here. He realized that he is, too, an Ameri- : can citizen under the modern govern, ment of this republics republic in which the ends of the earth have been gathered together and tied into a tan gled knot. He discovered for himself that it was about time for him of all men to take upon himself the full de- gree of citizenship that ought to have belonged to him all along-to align himself with the American government in full, unreservedly, in letter and in spirit. He took the totem pole rom before his habitation,, declared that the old customs and traditions should be
 observed no longer so far as he wa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
Cattle Show
 at State Fair

.7THERE is going to be a real fat ll steer show at the State Fair grounds in Birmingham this year. Others have been good and have served to stimulate the raising of pure-bred beef stock. This year ad- ditional purses lend an extra attrac- tion and it stands to reason that there will be many more fine animals and a sharper competition.
 The total prize list amounts to S6,25O. That is goodly sum to go after. There is also the distinction to be achieved by the herd that wins the prize money. The Hereford and Shorthorn breeders offer a series of special prizes in their classes.
 Fairs are among the oldest of mans institutions. Held just after the crops have been harvested they en- able farmers to gather together with the products of their acres, display them in commendable rivalry, pur- chase from one another and compare notes.
 The Alabama State Fairs held in Birmingham have made pure-bred cattle exhibits a speciality the past several years. No exhibits have drawn larger crowds and none have done more good to the state through pro- noting the cultivation of great in dustry we'll adapted to its soil and climate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
 6T1HE country has regarded with
 mingled emotions of amaze
 0 ment and indignation the trial of an 11-year-old boy at Knox, Ind, on a charge of first degree murder
 The witnesses in this case also were children. It requires no erudition and slight powers of observat tion properly to estimate the value of childish evil dence It has none The spectacle of a presumably well-informed prosecut- ing attorney, a grave judge and panel of supposedly intelligent jurors engaged in a trial. for murder of a lad of tender years reflects little credit upon any system of Jurisprudence that would permit such monstrous perver- sion Of the rules of justice.
 But that is what took place The prosecutor, with all seeming earnest ness. demanded the death penalty, de- manded it on evidence that--if the sto- ries of the children properly have been rcnorted-would have received little, # anv consideration at the hands of an ordinarily intelligent judge of a juve- nile court.
 But had the evidence adduced proved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07

ress when tickle public decreed his downfall and recalled their king.
 The king does not represent the spirit of the allies. They cannot re- gard him with favor. They will not look at Greece with the same eye as they would if Venizelos were still the directing head of the Hellenic government. This may not be the personal fault of the king, but it is a fact and men cannot escape likes and dislikes any more than they can avoid purely physical facts.
 In Greece, as in many other Euro pean countries, politics and commerce are closely related. In America we raise a row among ourselves before election, but one President does just about what another would have done in his place in all the really big things. In Greece the election which venizelos lost had direct bearing on business.
 Christian peoples hope to see Greece pull through her present trials and will not be satisfied if any portion of what Greece is entitled to in the re- adjustment of territory is denied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
DELrAsT .KiDNEYs"

Francis Hackett. in Harper's Magazine
 for June.
 Belfast is a city apart from the rest of Ireland Underneath the apparent business-like exterior of this semi American city there is heat of po- litical and religious passion that re- minds one of East St. Louis. The sim Feiners are in a compact religious, so- cial and economic minority; the conn munity as a whole is definitely Union- ist mercantile and Presbyterian. Tne stranger does not need to make single inquiry as to the existence of passion. All he needs is to take any street car and then, as he travels rom the center, look up and down the cross streets. In front of countless Bei- | fast dwellings he'll observe a httie mound of paving stones. These have been gathered up since the last row and are waiting for the next one Tney are known as kidneys" And the DOCK etfuls of bolts which the shlpyard workers bring home with them to use | as ammunitiOA dA nAAS'' =
 butterflies or confetti. Up anu do~h the thoroughfares on which the stree' cars run. the loose bricks and stones pepper the asphalt for miles. It IS battlefleld several times year.
 I To remove temptation. the municipal council of Belfast once thought Y
 would pass an ordinance to pave the
 whole of the city with asphalt. To this
 sane proposition both sides heartily agreed Then the question arose. with
 which quarter to begin? Naturally the
 mai iority in the corporation decided to begin with the nationalists or Sim Feiners. At this prospect the whole lighting Sim Fein community revoited lwere they going to be deprived of their sole means of elf-dcfcnse while
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07

concerned, that they have no part with allegiance to the government with which he is now affiliated. of which citizen. He announced that he would be chief" no longer-since the Ameri- can government .does not recognize chief; he declared that he would not go through the motions of the old-timo tribal authority, since that sort of thing has no place in the American governmental scheme and Is merely tolerated in a good-natured and indul- gent way. He issued proclamation of renunciation and confession of civic faith--a profession of allegiance:
 On April 15. 1921. according to
 my own convictions, desire to
 take down my tribal emblems,
 which are in front of my house.
 My purpose Is to live as an Amer
 ican citizen.
 I wish every young man to see
 that I have started now in new
 life as an American citizen. l
 have dropped all my old customs,
 as l think they were sieoe DoA
 den on me.
 It would be fair and fine thing If every foreigner coming to these shores to find opportunity and privi- lege, to share protection and rights. to enjoy freedom and help-would fol- low the example of this old Alaskan chief and give up the last evidences of old alignments, old alliances. old faaltiesa If the foreigner would indeed recome American he would serve him. self and his prospects far more ad- yantageously and the country to which he comes for a Nshare of the good it offers would not be embarrassed so often by the jargon of clashing foreign tongues, the confusion of the flying of so many alien flags.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
pirmingham InstifutIon

Birmingham should certainly and does extend the Civilians cordial well come," said pr. c. w. Shropshire. IT there ever was Birmingham product the Civitans are that.
 The name originated here, and the first Civitan club was formed here. The name stands for what the organization does, citizenship and it's duties.
 Tt was the success of the Birmins- ham organization that inspired the idea of an international one. The idea took and we now have 30 clubs with total membership of more than 1000.
 Some of the largest cities are bid ding for the next international meeting. It is possibl ethat Washington, the ma tion's capital may get it. The founders of the Civitans have right to be proud of the order and especially so when they remember that it is a Birmingham product"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
lUNE

By James Russell Lowell And what is so rare as a day in June! n hen If ever. come perfect days; Then heaven tries the earth if 1t be n tune,
 And over 1t softly her warm arllays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see 1t glisten;s Every clod feels stir of might An instinct within 1t that reaches and
 towers. And, groping blindly above 1t for light Climbs to 3 soul in grass and flow-'
 CTS; The flush of life may we'll be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys; The cowslip startles in meadows green . Usss rcup catches the sun in tte
 chalice. And ther. never 2 leaf nor blade too
 mean N To be some happy creature's palace: The lttle bird sits at his door ih the sun. .A,4At like biossom among tho
 leaves. And let's his illumihed being o'errhn With the deluge of summer It re- ceives; His mate reels the eggs beneath hss wings. And the heart in her dumb breast fluf-s ters and sings. E He sings to the wide world and she to her nest In the nice ear of naturo, which scuf
 h the best?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07

What is an educated person?" asks a contemporary. We've always had an idea, possibly not we'll founded that an educated person was one who could pronounce Champs Elysee without slip ping.
 The young men who helped to make the front and rear parts of camels in yesterdays Shrine parade deserved a vote of thanks and tub of ice cold lemonade to cool them off.
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 Maybe one reason why home brewing has reached such a high state of per- lection in Ohio is the fact that large number of Ohioans are of German ex- traction. MT. Harding can pay all the compli- ments to George Washington he wants to without, to use well worn phrase, fear of successful contradiction
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 Republicans who assert that their party holds an overwhelming mandate from the American people talk as if they'd been consulting ouija board.
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 Boss Penrose is meeting the boys in Pennsylvania to discourage any lurk- ing suspicion they may have that the boss" has lost his cunning.
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 The worlds greatest optimist is the man who still hopes to see voh Luden- dorff and von Tirpitz tried as war criminals.
 The attempt to smuggle in whisky frozen in cakes of ice was not suc- cess. However. the ingenuity of rum runners is not yet exhausted.
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 After being hailed as the eminent Nebraskan" all these years. Mr. Bryan proposes to die as the eminent Flor idian."
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 The price of wife in Liberia will henceforth be s25. which is not exces sive when you consider the high cost of Peggy Joyce.
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 There is much talk of American ideals these days. Now that Mr. Wilson is out of the public eye, does anybody know what they are?
 * x * What has become of the draft dodge, who had his plans made to leave the country when the stacker list was pub. lished?
 If MT. Bryan is defeated for senator from Florida he might as we'll let hi, heart stay buried.
 As usually happens. the loop the -lool queen tried it once too often.
 & :s Church weddings add to the expens, of harvesting the June bride crop. Taking out insurance against rain f one way to defy the weather man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
pr. Cunningham's Death
 Great Loss to Alabama

MR R. R. M. CUNNINGHAM, who lO died yesterday, was pictur-- esque figure in Alabama politics and enjoyed enviable distinction in the medical profession. Few men have ever been as active as Dr. Cunning ham was in public life and have won an equal, if not greater, success in the practice of medicine.
 During the illness of Gov. w. D. Jelks, Dr. Cunningham, who was then lieutenant governor of Alabama, filled the office of the chief execu- tive with much ability. He adminis- tered the states affairs with vigor and good judgment. Alabama was deemed extremely fortunate in having such a capable executive to bear the burdens of office while Governor Jelks was making a successful fight to regain his health.
 Dr. Cunningham's long political ca reer made him known to nearly every body in Alabama. His personal ac- quaintance. was extensive and his popularity was great. Even his polit- ical opponents admired and respected him. He was a forceful orator and an aggressive campaigner on the stump. He was never backward in expressing his views on any public question.
 His life was one of service, both as public official and perhaps in a larger way as physician. He loved his fellow man and his geniality was proverbial. No one appreciated g good story more than Dr. Cunning ham. His hearty laugh was that of g man who stood four-square to the world and lived with keen zest. Ala banla will mourn for him as usefu and beloved citizen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
X DIRE THREAT
From Harper's Magazine.

From Harpcr's Magazine.
 Two powerful negro stevedores. who had had some sort of falling out. were Louis dock. Uncomplimentary remark; and warnings of intended violence were exchanged whenever the two passed each other with their trucks
 You jest keep on pesticatin around wid me" declared one of the men. an biz question for de sciumtific folks.
 What question dat? asked the other
 Kin de dead speak..s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
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American College Boy
 Seeks a Summer Job

N ILL but 10 of the students of Z5A Trinity College, Conn.,, have sought, and most of them obtained, employment for the summer vaca- tion. The college man of former days who lolled about and lived off dad" until the next term has almost dis appeared. In his place is practi- cal young man who wants to work while he is learning.
 These young fellows, for the most part sons of well-to-do parents, will earn pocket money this summer as riding instructors, hotel bellboys, bakers, chauffeurs, stewards on ships, reporters and clerks in banks and insurance offices. They will be at work and enjoying themselves in- stead of trying to play three entire months and getting bored.
 There were many decades in American history when there was such a narrow choice of. vocation for the sons of gentlemen that there were few places in which they could find temporary employment and earn a few dollars. Time has done away with false distinctions and all labor that is honest in America is counted good enough for the son of any man.
 So long as young Americans have this sensible viewpoint and this de- sire to be useful members of society American democracy is safe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
BILLovlTcM,s AoNDskI
rom the Kansas City Starr

Billovitch Haywoodski should not criticize American capital too severe ly If se0.0oO of the hated American capital hadn't been put up for this big Billovitchs bond, he'd now be making his speeches to a guard in Leavenworth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
cHoos1Na 4 srENoeRAPHER

cHoosING A sTENoGRAPHER
 Several young women are waiting to apply for stenographic position. MT. Grabcoin."
 Very we'll shoo all those who have bobbed hair and extremely short skirts off the premises. Then If you can find one among the rest who doesn't look as if she thought movie idol were the answer to a maiden's prayer. show her in."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
Raised the Money

T was proud of the way the First Methodist church, Birmip pgham. met it's quota of $2OO,OO0 on the s1.OoO, 900 drive, says J. A. vann, flor while pr. George Stuart our pastor and expert collection litter was unfortunately away on account of his physical condi- tion, yet his associate, Mr. Hunter, was on the job and did fine work in stirring the congregation to giving literally
 The $36,000 needed Sunday to finish the amount asked was gotten. The largest subscription was $5,000, from Fred M. Jackson, while hundreds of smaller ones went to swell the total It shows what can be done when a church really makes up~ts mind to do a thing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
A LEGAL TRAVESTY

rbeyond the shadow of a doubt" to ba convincing, still the mass of thinking
 people would have condemned the en- tire procedure with vehement disap.
 proyal.
 No state in this union has the right.
 legal or moral, to try child of II
 years for murder. Such a. claim shocks
 every sensibility of decency and com
 mon sense. Murder as legally defined,
 must be premeditated. accomplished, in
 the aforethought." How utterly absurd
 to indict and try small boy on such 8 charge
 If Cecil Burkctt killed his little play fellow--and his unshaken story, the clearest and most clearly sustained of all the evidence ofIered-definiteiy re- flutes any such idea, it should have been a case for the medical experts and the humane agencies throuGh which possible mental and mora de- xeneracies are discovered and treatei. It was not case for the criminal courts. Such precedent permitted to pass uncotdemned by the general pulp lie would disgrace any system of 1uris- prudence and make of the people who supported it a byword and hissinE m
 the regard of normal folk everywhere
 Orange Belfast still had millfons of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
HEAltSAY

From the Kansas City Star. |,
 You wouldn't think. to look at me-" said Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge. Ark, that when I was born weighed only about three pounds. Nobody lowed Id live. and
 Did you? eagerly inquired neigh bor.
 .I was too small then to know. b 1t they say 1 did, and that done tollable well, too, considering the start l got"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
DISCREET STATESMAN


 Senator snortsworthy seems to have the gift of oratory.'
 Its a gift acquired under protest" How is that?"
 If Senator snortsworthy had his way, he'd depend entirely on the gum shoe and the high sign and never open his mouth in public"
 THE UNwELCoME GUEST Have scenes of revelry and mirta been banished from this more or less fair land of ours?"
 Not entirely" replied MT. Bibbles. There are still some high jinks going on in residences and apartment houses, but I understand it is hard for an out slider to gain admittance, even when he happens to be policeman"
 MODERN LITERATURE Have you read scribson's latest novel?"
 T glanced through it and it left me blinking"
 How so?'
 All I got out of it was an eyeful of dashes, exclamation points and asterisks."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
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EXCESSIVELY NEAT

From the Florida Times Union.
 That l4-year-old girl of Arkansas who went out into the street to shoot a man who looked into her window must have thought the blood wouiu sulash and spoil her curtains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07

A youthful yegg. e2 years old. has confessed to blowing 60 safes in New Works. financial district. which merely goes to show what can be accomplished by applying oneself to his chosen pro- fession in this land of opportunity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
Greece Is Feeling
 Loss of Xenizelos

INTO one except the unspeakable IN Turk rejoices over the business prostration of Greece. Americans es- pecially regret that these long-suf- ferine and stout-fighting patriots find themselves in such situation.
 N Observers cannot but believe that much of this is due to the overthrow of venizelos. That remarkable man had the affairs of Greece we'll in hand and was making splendid prog
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
A FAIR WARNING

A FAIR WARNING
 Are you competent bookkeeper?" I've had 20 years experience. sir" T think you'll do. but we have a questionnaire for you to fill out. just as a matter of form"
 "All right. sir. but I'll have to tell you in advance that don't know where we get most of our sponses."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-07
A LOST ILLUSION

Of course you know that fairyiand Is neither here nor there; Nor far away nor close at hand
 It isn't anywhere. ' The so-called fairies of the stage
 Whom now and then we spy, 5 Are totling for a weekly wage,
 Even as you and I.