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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
WHAT IS RUSSIA?
Lindsay, in the Dial.

Vachel Lindsay in the Dial.
 "Muscovy l know little of Muscovy, except that there once lived Peter the Great who was Jack the Giant Killer and the Giant in one. He had a tre- mendous black nous tache, like the vil- lain in Laura Jean Libby novel; Yet he ruled like King Alfred of England. I know that he fought all the tribes of India, China. and Japan to a standsti1l, and that, personally, he could whip his weight in wildcats after sitting up all night reading the Bible, and eating boiled elephants foot, and drinking like a hole in the sink.
 Peter the Great had a church full of the bones of all the saints 1 never heard of, and mass was said there so often that incense poured out of the front door and made the trees on that street bloom in winter, and the central pin- nacles of that church stretched up in the form of a great hand that would grab the sun at monday and squeeze flaming hearts blood from it for the snow to drink. And wherever that cataract touched the snow, there sprans up Cossacks, Cossacks, Cossacks riding hell-bent, with their loves on their saddle bows or beside them, Cossack Amazons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
LUKE M,LUkE SAYS

The man who tries to be friendly is a better fellow than the grouch, even if the friendly bird does start talking about the weather just to be saying something.
 Now we hear that the skirts are to be longer this summer. Just like a woman. She'll wear her knees bare in cold weather and wear em covered in hot weather.
 If men were not such liars and did not flatter women the way they do, women would not be as vain as they are.
 A lot of men are like rabbit dogs. They are very clever at something that doesn't pay.
 If you will leave it to a schoolboy, . horrible example is any problem in mathematics.
 /, If you haven't anything else to bother you right now. you might sit down and worry over why a drug store is always located on a corner.
 Why is it that the woman who won't let her husband smoke in the house al- ways hogs a seat in the smoker when she gets on a railroad train?
 An Arkansas negro who married a girl named Glycerine now wants a di- vorce. He evidently believes that the name should have the prefix Nitro"
 In criminal cases the old French de- tectives said: Find the woman" Over here the detectives say: Find the other woman"
 Many a wife who throws things at her husband and hits him when he is alive will miss him when he is dead.
 The trouble with this country right now is that too many of us are trying to run automobiles on wheelbarrow in comes.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04

From the Minneapolis Journal.
 N OVAL CoRTISSOZ' very inter
 lM esting life of whitelaw Reid
 4S brings out the dignity and re-
 straint of the great editor and diplo-
 mat in his persistent refusal to enter upon any "wrangles with slanderers over MT. Greeley's open grave There
 is no doubt that directly following Mr. Greeley's loss of the presidency ana what was perhaps harder for him
 of the control of the New York Tr1o- ure, the impression got abroad that
 he had somehow been maneuvered by
 younger and shrewder minds out of the great newspaper he had built up. The world took note of his bitter cry cant my article go into the Tribune?
 hut did not take the trouble to in
 ouire fully into the reasons why il could not White1aw Reid consistent ly refused to enter the lists with "the slanderers" of those days, and it>may he said that in the seventies those
 .rentry were not "slackers" in the
 matter of whispering and backbiting.
 Reid was a subordinate of Greeley $ on the Tribune and had had the ex- perience of other newspaper assistants in not wholly agreeing at all points 1 with the mind that controlled "the policy of the paper" But on the gen. eral conduct of the Grant administra- tion these two men were in full accord,
 and both went with whole souls into
 reuslteds in Greeley's nomination at Cincinnati Reid had charge of his chiefs interests at the convention and
 Colonel Watterson's memoirs narrate 1 how Reid outwitted the other jour-
 nalists and leaders, Watterson, Hal stead Schurz, White and the rest, and
 carried his point.
 Then came the losing battle against impossible odds and the death oi Greeley. It was generally assumed
 that the disappointment caused his death. but Cortissoz' book will here l after be quoted to the contrary. IL was not disappointment or chagrin, |
 1 for Greeley had foreseen the result
 after the early Vermont election, which was too significant straw to
 be overlooked. That he worked him self to death in the campaign and at the bedside of his dying wife, is no doubt true.
 The whole fiasco was sad one not only because of Greeleys death, bu. because of opportunities for real reform victory thrown away at~Cin- cinnati in nominating a man so vulne-- ' able so open to attack and ridicule as was the great editor. As Mir. Reid was accused of having ee.yed on his
 chief, he was held by many largely responsible for the fiasco and for the old mans death. Such charges are
 hard to bear in silence, but time usual
 ly straightens out the facts, as it is doing in this case.
 Perhaps it is just as well that he made no answer to slanderers lover
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
STOP PLAT HAREM!,

Chicago.--Eig ght pairs of girlisf limbs, sans shoes and stockings, pro- truding through the curtains of an au- tomobile travelling 45 miles an hour nearly gave Morton Grove. traffic DO. liceman heart disease today.
 Stop that harem.'' he shouted. ano gave chase in another machine.
 When overtaken, Alfred Tyson. the driver explained that the legs were papier mache hosiery forms that { store, caught in the moving crush Sat urday, was having delivered today. \ Grove was peeved and pinched hin anyway, charging violation of tht speed laws, blue laws and indecent ex. posture of female limbs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
No Glass Pretlomipates

There is acute need for help for many of the unemployed" said Dr. Wal ter S. Brown, city welfare officer. q am especially distressed because num- bers of those whom we have hereto fore helped to get on their feet are again in need. My observation of the persons who apply to me for aid fails to show any class of labor as being more generally represented than an other. It is first one class and then another.
 Tn my opinion there should be nc consideration of classifications in re- lief, but the acuteness of the need is what we should pay attention to. That will keep us busy enough"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Free From the Germ


 T am glad to say that out of the $500 cattle tested for tuberculosis in this county. not over one-half of l per cent were found infected" said H. L. Brown, county agent T am further more pleased that the farmers at large are heartily welcoming the tests of their herds following that of the dairy men.
 Southern cattle are not near as much affected by tuberculosis as north ern cattle, because they live more in the open and are fed in the open so that the germs do not develop and are not so easily transmitted. What we must watch out for hereafter are the cattle that come in. They should be tested so as to keep our native herds uncontami- hated"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
Empire of the West
 Opening to Alabama

17T1HE Aniston City, latest of the
 U Chickasaw ships, will make her maiden trip~to the Pacific coast car rying Alabama iron, steel and other products.
 The entrance of the Isthmian Steamship company's fleet of 33 1O,- OOO-ton capacity ships into the coast wise trade of the country is of prime importance. The Isthmian company is an auxiliary of the Steel Corpora ton, and carries with it the strength of that organization. It means much for the steel and iron and other in- terests of Alabama to have these ships offering their service at our own port.
 The Anniston City will not only stop at the California ports, but is going as far north as Vancouver, thus covering the entire empire of the west coast. 1t will touch at Wilmington, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver. A veritable world of commerce issues out of and enters these ports. Once in reg ular contact with that commerce, Alabama will have a great outlet for her products.
 Already we are doing quite large business with the western coast. The fleets of the Van Heynigen and Page & Jones agencies are maintaining reg ular sailings between Mobile and the coast and the entrance of the 18th milan brings tlird fleet into serv- ice. If Alabamians are awake to the opportunities afforded and look more closely into the counter advantages of return freights these facilities will soon become permanent factor in the upbuilding of this district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04

Former "Czar" Brindell has been made storekeeper in Sing Sing, where the opportunities for graft are limited.
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 The report that King Constantine may abdicate again is not believed to have originated in the royal palace
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 The British navy may oblige the New York World by taking naval holiday in the North sea.
 Haywoods promise to return and serve out his sentence hasn't created a ripple of excitement among the officials at Leavenworth.
 A tourist is reasonably safe from ordi- nary bandits in Mexico these days, but perhaps Mexican hotelkeepers know a thing or two about their business. According to the master printers the strike of the job printers is another typo graphical error.
 By the time our local alarmists get through they'll have the rest of the coun- try believing that half of Birmingham 8 population is facing starvation
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 After all the turmoil we've been through, are we to behold the narrowing specacle of the vets and drys locked in another death struggle?
 x # * Oh, well, perhaps little excursion far ther into Germany will give the French army some much-needed exercise. # x # This doesn't necessarily mean that all our smartest criminals are in jail. | The resignation of James A. Stillman as president of the National City bank takes F'ifi's case out of the realm ot hign finance.
 # # # l A dispatch from New York says the at titude of the public toward prohibition varies in different communities In Bos- ton society circles for instance, the at titude Is one of more or less bold de- fance.
 l # < l About all that is left to the democrats in Congress is oratory, but they are well supplied with that. | # # *
 When Germany set out to whip the world little did she dream that Der Tag" would be May 12 1921.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
TACTFUL INTERMEDIARY

'Mr. Grabcoin seems to have a.grea | deal of confidence in his private sec retary"
 The young man is worth szo,ooo a year to MT Grabcoin."
 "Yes"'
 Why, he can send callers away thinking that the only reason why they can't see that great man, who may be telling a funny story to an other dummy director. is because he's working 16 hours a day to keep the country from going to smash"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
From the Providence Journal.

From the Providence Journal.
 OT1HE London Chronicle finds fault II with President Hardings English It says that his message to Con- gress Contains several passages that would cause shudder in academic cir cies." Let us see.
 The first objection raised by the Lon- don paper to the Presidents phrase ology is caused by his reference to Amer ica as lilly prepared for wars after math." Now, the fact is that the diction- aries prefer "ill'' as an adverb to lilly, :" and yet there is authority for the lat 1 ter. And there is at least this much excuse not to say justification, for it for two parts of speech. Nevertheless, most Americans would agree with the Chronicle in it's objection to the rare and more awkward form.
 The London paper dislikes-in lin- guistic sense-Mr. Hardings statement that America is ready to cooperate with other nations to approximate disarma- ment." The objection here is apparently to the use of Approximate" as transi- tive verb, but it is so authorized in the Jmperial Dictionary U.ondon, 1Ss2). which lauotes Edmund Burke in support of it. ! Again, the Chronicle cites with dis taste Mr Hardings reference to the over | tapping of functions which fritters en- ergies." though "fritters' is a perfectly l good word. and is here accurately used.
 Nor does it approve his protesting out lay" when he means protesting against nutlaY" Here likewise. the President has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
PLYMOUTH ROCK

By James G. Clark us55). oh' the firm old rock. the wave worn That braved the blast and the bil-
 lows shock II was born with time on a barren And it laughed with scorn at the oaa~n.s
 roar; Twas here that first the Pilgrim band. Came weary up to the foaming strand. And the tree they reared in the days
 gone by, It lives it lives, and neer shall die. Thou stern old rock in ages past. Thy brow was bieached by the warning
 blast. But thy wintry toll with the wave is
 OCT. And the pillows beat thy base no more: Yet countless as thy sands, old rock, Are the hardy sons of the Pilgrim
 stock. And the tree they reared in the days
 gone by. I lives, it, lives, and ne'er shall die. Then rest; old rock in the sea beat shore, Our sn es were lulled by the breakers
 roar; Twas here that first their hymns were
 heard, Twas here they lived, twas here the JY Their forms repose on the green hili..
 side. But the tree they reared in ths days It lives. it lives, and ne CT shall d,s.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
Alabama Recuperating From
 Her Autumnal Depression

AACA TA0iohAhdi DCPICcSROh IA 6OBILE and Tuscaloosa had road NWll and bridge bond elections last week. In each instance the opposi- tion was nominal. The issues went through almost by common consent,
 Madison and other counties are to hold road bond elections in the near future. Everywhere they are being promoted the enthusiasm appears to be marked. Alabamians are looking forward again.
 Allowance must be made for what people do when they are discouraged Such were the masses of Alabamians last autumn when the slump in cot ton came. Even those who had nc money in cotton and were not los CTS by the decline, felt the depression that weighed on their neighbors. That is why every proposition that was transferable into dollars and cents was turned down. Men were in nc mood to stop and ask themselves where the ulterior benefit might come from. The evil Of the moment was too acute to allow discrimination ot thought.
 But we have buckled on our armor again. The cities are building homes and the farmers are organizing their efforts as never before. There is sturdiness of character and purpose abroad. Let the leaders observe this and not hesitate in pointing out the forward ways.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
Get Together Meeting

People who contemplate joining the Birmingham Automobile club should turn in their memberships before May [. so they can be voted in and invited to the get-together meeting which will be held on May To-" said Charles G Davis, president. "The Automobile club entertainment is going to be worth while from an entertainment stand point, as well as worth while on ac- count of the many valuable prizes which will be given away. The prizes are being exhibited in one of the front windows at Saks Clothing store.
 "Admittance to the meeting will be affected by invitation only, and cards will be mailed to all members, signify ing their intention of being present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
Sure Enough Races

q had great trip up to Lexington, Ky, recently says J. M. r. Otts, and I saw some real, sure enough racess The cotton planters may think they are the tobacco raisers for the value of the crop marketed at Lexington this past season was only about onethird the value of the season before.
 T heard so much talk about the straits that they were in that I laugh ingly remarked to some of my friends. You have got such case of blues that even the Kentucky grass is blue.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04

REASONABLE SUPPOSITION
 Where has that savant been tarry- ing so ,long?'
 "He has been doing some excavation work on the site of a'buried city"
 Did he make any interesting dis coveriesT
 Well, he found thermos bottle and an electric flashlight. I suppose some other scientists must have pre- ceded him"
 Its quite likely. The thermos bot tie and the electric torch do not, I be- lieve. date back to the antediluvan era"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
WOOD CHICK LINING ROOM

From the American Forestry Maga gazine.
 The burrow of woodchuck at first descends- obliquely into the earth; it then passes nearly horizontally for sew eral feet. rises moderately for the last half of it's length, to terminate in quite a spacious and round chamber which constitutes the living room" of the en- tire family. Such a burrow may be at least 30 feet in length
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04

Steel Corporation was formed or dreamed of. The corporation has made no change in the order of the steel trade found to be existing when it came into being.
 The distinction is a clear one and is precisely as Judge Gary says it is. He correctly claims that "it is a mis- take to suppose the proceedings are directed against the Steel Corpora tion or any other manufacturing con- cern. They involve a simple question relative to the Pittsburg base so- called"
 Judge Gary welcomes the probe and would have the matter carefully con- sidered and a judicial and final deci- sion reached. The question, he truth fully observes, Involves much more than the pecuniary interests of the manufacturers, sellers and buyers of steel"
 The Steel Corporation is no more a defendant in the proceedings than the independent steel mills that also charge the Pittsburg plus and were built on the understanding os the builders that the Pittsburg plus base existed and that they would be en- abled to add that to the cost of pro- duction so as to earn a profit where otherwise there might not be profit. These independents would miss the Pittsburg plus base much more than the Steel Corporation with its scattered steel mills convenient to all markets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
HOLDING HER OWN

From the Chicago News.
 For several years the reds have at : tempted to set up Revolution as oueen or the May, but the sturdy matron De- mocracy refuses to yield place to any blowsy queen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
~ v vfs Preparations Wrangle Will Soon Be Ended

mY closing the door" to further ID German proposals, Secretary Hughes has probably done the one thing that is most likely to bring Germany to her senses and make her realize that she has no further chance to evade the allied terms.
 The whole course of Germanys ne- gotiations since the armistice was signed has revealed desire to ere ate differences among the allied gov ernments and by hook or crook es- cape payment. Her attempt to place the American government in the role of mediator between an enemy coun- try and the nations with which Amer ica fought during the war may have been taken as last resort, but it shows quite clearly that the German government did not consider the state of public opinion in America or the attitude of the American government which has been repeatedly expressed by President Harding.'
 It was at best a clumsy expedient and came to nothing. The American government had no desire in the first place to act as an intermediary be- tween the German government and the allies and it had no intention of playing the role of a mediator. If this knowledge has at last penetrated the minds of Germany's leaders the end of quibbling is in sight.
 Germany still has time to make an- other offer-but it must be made to the allies direct. If she does not of- fer acceptable proposals by May 12, the allied "door" will be closed to her. The farce to which the world has been an unwilling witness too long is about over.
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 Henry Ford was pequeathed John Bur roughs writing table Probably it may be useful in getting out MT. Ford's Page" for the excoriated Dearborn h. dependent.
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 Senator Newberry is receiving congrat- ulations just as if he felt entitled to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
APPLIED CULTURE

From the Baltimore American.
 Boston society is accused of making "hooch' in fashionable homes with stills of finest makes. But what is the use of intellect if it's powers are mot devoted to practical and pressing needs?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
BREAKING INTO SOCIETY

Did you have any trouble in get ting into that mansion?"
 Not a great deal'' said the pro hibition. enforcement officer. ''The butler was trifle cold, but I at tributed that largely to the fact that J don't move in the best circles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
STRANGE coNsERvArIsM

What sort of business is Clipping in nowr'
 He says he's doing little some thing in oil-
 "Remarkablew
 Why so?"
 That's the first time I ever heard Of an oil operator who didn't claim to be juggling with millions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
NO GUTTER

Did I understand you to say Two5- ble is a good average cshzen!
 That's the way I'd classify him. Twobble has forgotten the first stanza of The Star-Spangled Banner he still holding on to his Liberty bonds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
OvERwORkED MockING BIRD

From the Tampa Tribune.
 Did you ever see mocking bird try ing to apease the hunger of three vora cious young fledglings? No 44-hor, W eek for him!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
MISJUDGED

MISJUDGED T fear you are a passimist" No. I'm not" said MT. Grumpson. Just because I don't beam all the time like the men in safety razor ad- vertisements people think I have a sour disposition"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
SUCCESS RHYME

Let us still be up and doing
 From our duty never shrink, And don't waste our time in brewing Stuff that isn't fit to drink.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
A HARD WORKER

A HARD WORKER The jazz conductor makes a bow And lightly takes his station; Before the piece is done. somehow, He's bathed in perspiration.
 PATJL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
Explanation Is Due
 the State University

7THE alleged charges made by W. U o. Mulkey, president of the Alabama Bar association, that at the University of Alabama a student is taught to be "drunkard, craps shooter and an infidel" are too seri- ous to be dismissed by a mere de- nia.
 It is hard to conceive that a re- porter, even of the "cub" variety. would manufacture or distort a state ment of such great import with out having some grounds on which to base his story.
 Whether MT. Mulkey was reported correctly or not, the story has been spread broadcast, and has done the university harm. It is due the insti- tuition, as well as Mir. Mulkey, that full and complete explanation of the matter.be made.
 MT. Mulkey has recently been elected president of the Alabama Bar association, the members of which are 90 per cent graduates of the Uni versity of Alabama. He is, or ought to be, well informed as to the conduct of that institution, and in the face of the gravity of the charges alleged to have been made, it is not sufficient to "pass the buck" to country re- porter.
 Let us have full light on this sub ject.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04
Pittsburg Plus, Not Steel
 Corporation. Is m Trial

E7T7HE Pittsburg plus proceeding is
 U not an action against the Steel Corporation It is leveled against 2 time-worn practice in the steel trade of America in vogue long before the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04

Thc amity that wisdom knits not. folly may easily untic.
 -Troiius and Cressida.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04

A MORNING PRAYER
 I thank, thee, Lord. for this mo- ment that I am spending with thee. May thy will for me be made clear and my strength made equal to il. Amen.-M. $. B.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-04

Senator Newberry is receiving congrat- ulations just as if he felt entitled to them-