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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23

July by August movement bids fair to be more than duplicated by the increase which September is ex- pected to show over the August business.
 Especially notable is the move ment of freight cars to local sta tions. This means that larger quan- titles of dry goods, boots and shoes, groceries and hardware are going from Birmingham jobbing and wholesale houses to country mer- chants. Cotton money has com menced to come in and country mer- chants have bought more freely of Birmingham wholesalers during the past mnoth to six weeks than in a similar period in more than a year.
 One local freight office took in over $100,000 more in August than in July and expects September to run still further ahead of August. Full platform crews loading package freight are employed for the first time in 12 months.
 Heavy freight, such as pig iron, is still below normal, but a better iron market forecasts resumption at iron stacks and heavy freight move ments will increase soon. But the farms have sounded the slogan of better conditions and the movement of miscellaneous freight proves the slogan true.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
Confidence in Baseball
 Has Been Restored

Hr7HE world series will begin Oc- U tober 5, according to an an- nouncement from Chicago. This brings up a question that has been asked thousands of times since the Black Sox" were accused of "sell- ing out" and were acquitted after a farcical trial. How much did that scandal hurt organized base ball?"
 There were rumors for a time that attendance had fallen off at some of the major league parks, but this could have been explained by other reasons, the economic de- pression for one thing, which made it harder for many fans to raise the price of admission. That conf dence in professional baseball way cred for a moment cannot be de nied. A glance at almost any news paper in the country would have shown that, or talk overheard in the streets of American cities.
 But the love of baseball was deep ly rooted. It was strong enough to survive the painful disillusion which followed the Black Scx" exposure. There was an undercurrent of feel ing that there are bound to be crooks in every form of sport and busi- ness, as well as baseball. The dis grace which drove the former stars into obscurity and the indignation expressed everywhere were reassur- ing. If there were any other play
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Talked Too Soon

T have been in Eutaw all the early part of the week attending court" said Judge Horace c. Wilkin- son, and while there a very amusing incident happened. Judge Sam Hobbs and drummer were seated at the same table when another drum mer entered; the two travelling men were acquainted with each other. and the one that entered last was under the impression that Judge Hobbs was a tobacco salesman
 After passing a few words the latest addition to the circle remarked to Judge Hobbs that he had located some fine "shinney," and wanted to know if the Judge wanted to get in on it; before the Judge could reply, the other drummer leaned over and told his fellow salesman that he was talking to the judge of the circuit court who had just given the grand jury drastic charge on the en- forcement of the prohibition law.
 "The brother that imparted the im- portant piece of information became suddenly i'll and lost his appetite and started to rise from the table, saying he did not want any supper anyway. The judge was reluctant to see him lose his supper and told him to re- main seated the stranger said, no thank you, I guess l will be getting along down the road, l located that stuff I was speaking about in St. Clair county anyway. He vanished in flivver and there was one more room at the hotel that night.
 Judge Hobbs Is making most excellent judge and I hope to see him assigned for duty in Birmingham soon. The bar at Eutaw were en- thusiastic over the way he handles docket of difficult cases"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
E '. Y New Members Added to the League of Nations

6f1HE announcement that three ad-
 U ditional nations were admitted to the League of Nations yesterday may remind certain members of the United States Senate that the league continues to function and still pre- sents problem to American states manship that will have to be solved some day, for good or i'll.
 MT. Harding long ago pledged himself to an association to pro- mote peace. Will he attempt to set up new league, or will America by easy stages drop into the organi- zation which already contains all the worth while nations in the world, ex- cept the United States? Stranger things have happened. The pro- league republicans who helped to elect MT. Harding may yet be vindi- cated, but that, as the saying has it, "is on the knees of the gods"
 There cannot be two international leagues. That much is settled. The league established by the Versailles treaty is not defunct. On the con trary, it shows commendable de- sire to make itself useful when the opportunity is presented. Just how much confidence the major powers have in it is problematical, but they are not getting out. Either Amer ica will have to go into the league, somehow, in ways that remain to be determined, or stay out and try to form another association of nations. In that case, one league or the oth- CT will cease to have any influence on international affairs and will give up the ghost.
 Senator Borah, who even smells a mouse in the separate treaty ne- gotiated with Germany, is one of our statesmen who scoff at the League of Nations and all it repre- sents. Esthonia, Latvia and Lithua- mia evidently do not agree with Bo- rah, Johnson, Senator Lodge and other gentry of that persuasion that the league is dead. They are the nations who joined yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
Who the Moplahs Are

From the Manchester Guardian.
 Those Moplahs now making fresh mischief in Malabar are more cor rectiy called MappiIlas The name, originally applied to Arab traders and their descendants by women of the Malabar coast, now includes all indigenous west coast Mohamme. dans.
 Hindu landlords have been incen- tives to many of these outbur sts. When brought to bay they invarI- ably sell their lives as dearly as possible. Surrender is unknown; the raiders are consecrated before they go out. and are hmyned after l death. Special efforts have been made for many years to encourage education and to open up the country in this fanatical district, but the local difficulties make progress in either direction abnormally slow
 The Moplah is picturesque figure and well liked by those Englishmen who have had to live with him and who tried to understand him. His race accounts for some 30 per cent of the people of Malabar, of whom over SO per cent are Hindu. Tradition has it that the first great ruler of Mala- bar, Cheraman Perumal. adopted Islam in the ninth century, resigned his kingdom and retired to Mecca. The Moslem fervor of the Moplah has been of the sort that has its roots in such traditions.
 Through partial conquest by Por- tuguese In the fifteenth century and by French in the eighteenth, and through a Hindu invasion and per- secution which drove the refugee chiefs of the land into the arms of Britain in 1790, and laid the founda- tions of British rule the Moplah has remained much the same--incalcul- able, cheerful, fierce, fervid and vio- lent. Time and again, for reasons which we have never fully fathomed and against which the most earnest efforts at education seem to make little headway, the Moplah has run riot
 He begins. it may be, by murder1ns Hindu land owner or defling a Hindu temple, roams the country gathering numbers to the cause" as he goes, and when cornered re- sists all attempts at barley with a frenzy that makes nothing of being blown sky high. Native troops can rot be relied upon to deal with him, and since 1851 a small British force has been maintained at useful base for meeting his excesses. To what lengths these run may be gathered from the fact that he has earned the distinction of special act passed to give government unusual power in dealing with Moplah fanatics.
 These powers have more than once were dislodged from a Hindu temple only by the use of dynamite; in 1894 another band faced Howitzer with out surrender, while in 1896 nearly 100 were shot down, again in a Hindu temple. Sometimes the effect of an agrarian grievance can be detected in these outbreaks, more often a grudge against Hindu, but the one certain element is desperate re- ligious fanaticism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
rHE AWAKENING OF ASIA

From the Nation.
 The complete verdict on the cour-e of Indian nationalsm can only be written by time. But even now it is possible to say that British or rather western imperialism is doomed. We are witnessing one of the great historic movements of our time in the awakening of Asia. How ever, that awakening manifests itself in India, whether in the slow and constitutional progress of the moderates; the spontaneous revolt. half blind and often violent, of ex- Iloited workers and hungry peas- ants; or the ordered resistance, spir- ituai and economic. of the ncnco- operators, the struggle of those long impressed deserves the sympathetic understanding of every man who
 waits fer a new birth of freedom In every land. But if the triumph Of India saould mean the triumph of the spirit and method of Ganhi, then indeed would a new day dawn for all manktna For war would be shown to hs az unnecessary for winning the outer ssmblance of freedom as 1t is LeStFNe i've to the realization ofk it's lnne7 pirit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
HUDSON AND SHAKESPEARE

From the Burlington Free Press.
 Here is a little story of the rise of baker and a wheelwright to the envied position of being one of tho foremost Shakespeare scholars that the United States has produced. He was vermonter. Henry Norman Hudson by name, who could see noth- ing in the future by remaining a, me- chanie, so he went to the college in Middlebury. in his home state, from which he graduated in 1840.
 He taught school in Kentucky and when he was about 30 years of age he met woman who had been a teacher in New England During their conversations she continually quotes Shakespeare. until, finally, one day he asked her:
 What is it all about Shake speare?"
 Have you not read the poet?" she replied.
 Never a line except in quota tions."
 q advise you to read what he has written without delay" was her part ing suggestion.
 T acted upon her advice, writes MT, Hudson, "and found that there was another world inside the one on which I was living, and about which 1 knew nothing
 In less than quarter of a century he acquired wide reputation and was acquired as one of the great authorities on Shakespearean lore and was the means of arousing such an enthusiasm in behalf of the Bard of Avon as to inspire men of wealth to endow chair of Shakespeare in the Boston university. Later Hudson received an ILL. D. from his alma mater.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
ENGLAND'S SURPLUS WOMEN

From the New York Times.
 0TlHE population of Great Britain Il according to the preliminary
 = census report, shows a grand total of 42,267,5So. That of England and Wales alone is 37ss5,242, an in- crease in the past decade of 1874 75O. Scotland has total population of 3,sS2,2ss. an increase of 124,ss4, while as to Ireland no figures are given, as no census was taken. On the whole, therefore, numerically Great Britain is stronger than before the war, despite the loss of more than a million Imen in that great conflict.
 There was one fact brought out by the census which has occasioned a great deal of comment and from which no satisfactory conclusion has as yet been drawn; probably none can be. And that is that there is an even greater surplusage of women than 1t was supposed there would be on account of the war. The prepon- derance of females over males in Great Britain was 1,17s,27e In 1911, today, as shown by the census, this has grown to 1,72o,so2. the highest excess ever recorded
 This great disparity between the sexes is not wholly the result Of the war. It has been growing for many decades past, at least since 1881, when there were 1,040 females to every 1000 males. This surplus in- creased to 1,054 In 1871 and to 1,Os5 in 1921. The war naturally helped to disturb the balance between the sexes, but the cause of the disparity, whatever they are, have existed for nearly century and seemingly are still operative.
 The scriptural view of the sexes, Is that they are complementary, as they were in the beginning of re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
A BIBE1CAL INJUNCTION
From the Houston Post.

From the Houston Post.
 Governor Len Small gets s12,000 a year as governor of Illinois and he has relatives on the state'S pay roll for $24.000 more. Governor Len was probably impressed early in life by St. Pauls observation to Timothy, viz, But if any provide not for his own, and specially those of his own house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
Chased by Fish

Before I tell you fellows about this fish story l want to issue a statement to the effect that am not a follower of Ananias and I have managed to keep fairly good repu- tation for veracity" said C. 0. Ives, who is acting sergeant during the illness of Sergeant r. E. Daniels at police headquarters
 T took my little girl up to Spring vile the other day and while we were there made 1t point to walk over to the pool fed by the seven springs for which the town is named. A quantity of carp and a few trout have been dumped in the pool which is about hundred yards in diameter and contained within a low wall that rises about eight or ten iches above the water surface.
 As we approached the edge of the of fish to the wall at our feet, the crowd being so great and the rush so fast that several of the large carp were forced sout on the bank. My youngster thinking the fish wore chasing her as they Hoped around on the ground in an enieavor to re- gain the water that she fled from the supposed dangerous vicinity and nothing that I could do would bring her back.
 q learned later that the fish are so hungry that they make frantic rush every time any one comes near, some people having made it habit to bring food to the pool each day. It is said by the natives that the fish will certainly stick their heads out of water and feed out of your hand. I'll vouch for that too if it will help the story to get across. Go up and try it yourself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
En;oyed the Golden West

Although this Is the fourteenth having bought tract of land at Man itou and built me summer home there I have never enjoyed any trip I have ever made as much as have the one this summer" said Dr. F. D.. Perkins who has just returned from e three months western trip.
 "Ali the summer in Colorado have slept under double blankets and out in California the weather con ditions were ideal. The flowers were
 beautiful-prettier than I've ever seen them and Los Angeles was sim ply wonderful. One thing that I was greatly impressed with was the spien- did highways which were lined with west have been a great factor in the promotion of good roads and I am glad that our Birmingham Automo- bile club is keeping pace with others in this respect.
 The roads out there haven't a par ticle of dust on them for miles and miles due of course to the fact that they are watered and oiled and if the Birmingham Automobile club will promote this proposition, it will cer- tainly be great inducement to tour ists to use our highways.
 The traffic regulations 1 found in the western cities were nothing like as good as ours here and again felt proud of the Birmingham Auto- mobile club for lending it's assistance to this much needed measure"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
LExIxE,s NEW PRESS AGENT

From the NIncinhati EnquIrer.
 The five individuals who were jailed for obstructing war measures and ace offered their freedom on condition that they go to soviet Rus sia and stay there may accept when they hear from Senator France what haven for the oppressed that coun- t~v ha come to be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
WIZARDS OF FINANCE

WIZARDS OF FINANCE; o let us not condemn the man Who strive in vain to make ends
 meet; Perchance he's fashioned on a plan That makes it futile to compete With crafty citizens who seize Great riches from the vacant air, Or garner wealth as If on trees It grew and nature put it there.
 INDUSTRIOUS CURIOSITY What's the excitement here?" "A crowd has gathered around an intoxicated man trying to solve the usual mystery"
 What mystery:''
 Where he got it."
 A STUDENT OF THE SEX Bill" said the kind hearted war den, some ladies want to see you" Whore the skirts?' asked the vet eran cracksman.
 "A couple of uplifters."
 dit minute ana let me lind that Bible I had around here some where. l want to be reading 1t when you bring 'em In. If that doesn't get me chicken dinner from the outside don't know women"
 CHANGING THE TOPIC T never hear you making any de- rogatory remarks about the way women dress"
 "As the husband of a strong minded woman and the father of six daugh- ters who take after their mother, ask you, whats the use?" None whatever. What do you think about the weather"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
THANKS DUE EDITORS
le Tuscaloosa News,

FTOM VIIt IuSSdfUVSd 4NSWS
 Birmingham should pat herself on the back for the great amount of free advertising her queen contest and semi centennial celebration is re- ceiving from Alabama newspapers. Birmingham should have a warr, spot in her heart for the editors of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
x x + Shipments Going Out to Country Merchants

1.-THE local railroad freight offices
 H agree without exception that more miscellaneous freight is mov- ing out of Birmingham than in many months and that the increase over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
LOGIC

From the Louisville Courisr-J Journal.
 Wayne B. Wheeler says that. if England would drink nothing but water she could pay us what she owes us According to which logic as Uncle sam drinks nothing but water he has so much money he doesn't need te collect any daht-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23

corded history. Yet the world had Mosaic account, before polygamy be- gan to flourish. due to the fact that there was lack of marriageable men able to support a family. It seems probable that the masculine l sex, from it's greater exposure to outdoor life and the chances of war the chase, and later of industry, has always been in a minority, except, of course, in new countries, where man the pioneer has to open up new realms to civilization. As that pio- neering is carried on in rude condi- tions. there probably never was an excess of women in such countries until they had become pleasant places in which to live. This was especially true in the early settle true in northwestern Canada, in Aus tralia. in South Africa and New Zea- land. dominions that could readily absorb Great Britain's surplus of
 womanhood if movements among mankind were like those of water, all ways seeking level Australia alone, and perhaps Rhodesia, could each of them profitably dispose of Englands, Wales, and Scotland's sur plus women. But trans-s shipment of women from one part of the empire to another where they are needed Is  not practicable and goes counter to all ideas of sentiment and romance, and so that possible solution will
 have to be discarded. as ETTFt
 As matter of fact, women in the newer age now dawning for their sex will probably be able to- settle this matter themselves. With the possibility of careers opening up to women of the present day our age-old ideas respecting marriage, women
 and the home may undergo a.change.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23

approaching world series will be played Ion the level" To Show Foreigners
 the Goods We Make ~ ARRIVING exhibits and repre- Ns sentatives of leading manu- facturers, the steamship St. Louis will leave New York city the latter part of January on a worlds trade cruise. It will touch at all impor- tant seaports and acquaint various nations with what we have to offer and how it may be obtained.
 The cruise was suggested by the Anderson Overseas corporation, and has been indorsed by the leading in- dustrial and commercial journals of the country. All matters pertaining to it have been worked out with a view to making a comprehensive presentation of Americas manufac- lures.
 The object of this kind of exploi- tation is to show foreigners both the goods and the processes by which they are made. It is truth fully said by the Overseas corpora tion that "the foreign buyer, through lack of imagination, cannot visual ize. He wants to see before he buys. He wants to see the actual goods, to see the machine in operation and to have the uses and advantages ex- plained by personal representa- tive"
 The foreigner is not far wrong. He is from Missouri" so to speak. He is entitled to exact knowledge of what he is buying. The overseas cruise of the St. Louis is intended to supply that knowledge.
 
 Chicago still maintains that the big fire wasn't started by Mrs. OLeary's COW kicking over lamp. The first thing we know those Chi cago iconoclasts will be telling us no old lady ever lived in a shoe. At the hour of going to press, King Alfonso of Spain had not yet told Charley Hapsburg of Switzerland and elsewhere that the Iatchstring was hanging out
 "Moonshine" is cheaper In some parts of the country. Unfortunately, the average consumer cant tell whether or not the quality has de, teriorated.
 MT. Lloyd George won't be able to attend the disarmament conference, but he can read all about 1t in his fayorite newspaper, the London Times.
 Estimates vary as to the size of the army of unemployed but we hazard the guess that precious few of them are holding on to their silk shirts.
 Pat" Harrison wants President Harding to quit taking weekend trips. Senator Pat" doesn't seem to fit.
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 An Alabama man says he would still walk five miles to see an Ar buckle picture. Would he walk that Tar to see Theda Bara, we wonder?
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 A ribald contemporary refers to the "kluckess' of the Ku klux Kian. Now we believe her when she says she's a prosecuted woman.
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 Any immigrant who tells the au- thorities that he is just itching Q get his hands on a plough stands good chance of being admitted.
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 Florida newspapers are discussing the advertising value of having Mir. Bryan in the United States Senate.
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 Another war cloud in the Balkans Is reminder that the world Is much the same as it was prior to 1914.
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 General Pershing said he was glad to be back in france. Who wouldn't be. nowadayss
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 As we understand D'Annunzio. he comedies that Dante is great poet. but Dante's dead.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-23
HOW IT HAPPENED


 What caused the confusion Of tongues at the tower of Babel?" Seven architects worked on the plans" said a Birmingham citizen who has been waiting two years for an auditorium.
 DAMAGED GOODS "rhc fair plaintiff merely asks s1o,oOO damages"
 "The Impression prevails that a broken heart is worth more" "she admits that hers has been fractured a time or two before"
 THE NEW ACQUISITION. Are women purifying politics% T don't know about that" said the Mustered candidate, but a woman can ask more questions in five min utes than the average he-voter could think up in lifetime" A THOUGHT WHILE MOPPING OUR BROW o for the sound of a whistling wind And the roar of a hurtling blast To tell us that summer Is left behind And the weather Is cold at last! BUT THE CAR DIDN'T HESITATE Madam. when you saw your car was out of control and headed toward the sidewalk, why didn't you do something?'
 T did do something" said the ma tron, indignantly.
 "What?'
 T screamed"
 PAUL COOK.