The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-02
v v F Value of Advertising When Times Are Dull


 people know what one wishes them to know about what he has to sell. It is the same with reference to an idea as to community.
 Of the wide-awake business man the Journal Says:
 "He knows that business will never go completely to the dogs and that the advertiser who keeps his wares constantly before the public will get the bulk of the business during the stringency and have every advantage over non-adver- tisers when prosperity returns.'
 # # x When the kings of swat retire with graceful bows, heroes of the gridiron will receive the thunderous applause of the multitude. There is always some excuse to pay ones way through a turnstile in this country.
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 Several prominent merchants, bankers and business men of Sena- tobia, Miss, were found guilty of eating watermelon on the streets. There's town where people take time to live.
 A prima donna announced that she was going abroad to sleep and the newspapers scrambled for the story" Yet we are told that press agents are not what they used to be-
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 The bolsheviki needn't think they are dealing with the United States government merely because Herbert Hoover happens to be a member of President Harding's cabinet T. * #
 Rare beverages which delegates to the disarmament conference are ex- pected to bring with them will be ig- ncred by the treasury department in it's most diplomatic manner.
 # # # Paris is accused of sending out propaganda unfavorable to the Greeks. Europe's propagandists will never be content to rest on their laurels
 Municipal New York and municipal London are both tremendous centers of population, but for a quiet life and a green old age try a small town. Field Marshal von Buelow, who said he would never submit to trial by the allies. has gone to face higher Judge.
 "Go west, young man." is still a good slogan, but it should be amend ed to read. and beware of the movie colonies"
 Kant Ketchem,' Birminghams famous second d-story man, saves shoe leather by operating in his sock feet If Lucy Page Gaston decides to fight the cigarette single handed it will be a struggle worth seeing. * # * Chattanooga has rushed into the yawning breach and invited the Con- federate veterans to hold reunion.
 * as a The idle ships in New York harbor say louder than words that the war is over.
 young Frenchman 24 years old is said to be engaged to Peggy Joyce. o where Is his mama? # as x | boast of an enormous practice has merely to settle in Russia. l E E x l If the "Greeters of Alabama have password 1t must be Front" l ------.s.------- i THE TREE BEARS FRUIT From the Arkansas Gazette.
 
 l Floyd Gibbons. famous newspaper correspondent. writins from samaY a in stricken Russia. gives readers of 1 the Gazette this picture.
 Here in the railroad yards woe. sickness, hunger. misery and death are rampant. The station rooms, the platforms, the ground between the tracks, the streets leading to the depot, the waste lands.and the dumps reaching half a mile down to the sloping mud banks of the shrunkcn Iriver-all is one uneven expanse com 1 posed of mounds of rags on which are lying more bundles ot rags and from which peer gaunt, dirty faces, hungry eyes and unkempt hair. Weak. nursry dogs drag them selves between the living and lice I infested rag piles. The stench is stupendous. The air is black with flies. Flocks of hungry crows hover above. The weather Is hot and dry. with wind that swirls the dust and the stink of the human filth farther and spreads the plague. Statistics as to the situation are 1 iumbled The government says that