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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
Is Unemployment Less,
 Than Reported to Be?

n CONTRIBUTOR to the New A York Tribune calls attention to phase of the unemployment situation that has been overlooked by many persons who were alarmed by the announcement of Secretary of Labor Davis that there are near ly 6,G00,O00 idle workers in the United States.
 This writer believes that the total number of unemployed is exagger- ated and says that the figures of the bureau flabor statistics were predicated on the humber at work during the highest peak of employ ment in this country, January, 1920. At that time, as is well known, every man, woman and child who could possibly be influenced by the highest wages ever offered and by the patriotic slogan, We must pro- duce, produce, produce to save Flu ropel' was dragged into the facto- ries."
 The women and children who were thus employed returned to their homes when the postwar re- action began and thousands of fac tory workers went back to the jobs they formerly had. The Tribune's correspondent states that three fac tories in Connecticut which were running at their full capacity dur ing the war, and are now shut down, were largely operated by workers who were drawn from farms and private estates by the lure of high i wages. IneSe men nave feSuHleu their former occupation and are no doubt trying to forget the "silk shirt" era.
 If these conditions are regarded as typical in many other localities in the country, it is apparent that idle factories do not necessarily mean that large number of the men and women employed in those plants are now out of work.
 This is no time to make bad matter worse than it really is and since it appears that the unemploy- ment figures given out are inaccu- rate and misleading, they should be corrected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
Another "Mayflower"
m the BaltImore Americall.

From the Baltimore American.
 A well known Dutch lady philan- thropist. Miss Hendrika van der Flier, whose reputation chiefly rests on the kindly interest and care which she has bestowed upon the poor boys of Holland, is going to head a new kind of expedition" to this country. As Holland, though a non-combatant in the great war, is suffering severe ly from Europe's straitened econom- ic condition, Miss van der Flier finds it difficult to carry on her work, and in particular to find jobs for the young lads for whom hitherto she has provided training in useful trades. So she has decided to bring over a dozen boys, selected for spe- cial fitness from a number of appli- cants. These lads, under the direc- ton of their benefactress, are to found a colony in San Diego, Cal, and to live in small cottages round a community house, which, in mem- ory of the historic migration from Holland, is to be named Mayfiower. As the boys are all skilled workmen, their expectation is to be not merely self-sufficing community, but grad ually to build up trade relations with the country outside their colony. The ically of other recruits, also selected for their presumed capacity for this kind of life.
 With the exception of the name, the scheme is In every respect diff ferent from the historic coming of the Pilgrims. San Diego has no re- semblance to the stern and rock bound coast" upon which the little Mayflower discharged her freight of exiles in search of freedom. Nor will the new colony have any of the fea- lures of the various community" ex- periments which usually have had a brief and unsuccessful existence. These Dutch lads are not coming in any spirit of devotion to particu-
  with the desire to put to trial some new economic principles. They have no wish to cut emselves off from the rest of the world. Rather, their purpose is, while living their own lives, to get into friendly association with the people among whom they and their teacher and friend have de- cided to try to make a home. They do not profess to bring anything With them but manual skill and willing ness to work with dogged Dutch per severance. They do not come ask ing America to accept them and an assortment of hardshell religious or economic doctrines, but with the wish to accept America. and this IS the type of settler of whom America can still assimilate good many more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06

This corporation is an auxiliary of the Steel Corporation, with the Ten nessee, American Steel and Wire and Chickasaw companies. They are all in the big family.
 The point is that these 35 ocean freighters are in the hands of inter ests friendly to the district and in touch with it's needs and production. When the Birmingham mills turn out rails and plates for export or for coastwise delivery, the ships of the Isthmian Steamship, company appear at southern ports to load with these products. There are al- ways one or two of them in Mobile and New Orleans harbors.
 Advertised sailings of these ships show twice as many booked out of  southern as eastern ports. Two September sailings are booked out of Baltimore and one out of New York for the Orient and Mediter- ranean, respectively. Bookings out of southern ports are as follows New Orleans to South America, a ship in October; Galveston to the Pacific coast, a ship in September; New Orleans and Galveston to Great Britain and Hamburg, a ship in Sep tember; New Orleans and Mobile to the Orient, the Bessemer City, Fairfield City and Knoxville City in September.
 Two of these freighters moving out of southern ports to one out of northern ports shows that the south has the goods to move and ships for their transportation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
STAINS FOREIGN LEGION

From the Detroit Free Press.
 A few days ago the Spanish con sul in London let it be know that war against the natives in Morocco. Of course, there could be no recruit ing, for that is against international law, but Spain had cruiser in convenient harbor and the consul caused it to be understood that per sons applying to him might get pas sage on that cruiser to Spain, where enlistment might take place if every thing proved agreeable. The conse- quence was that by the time the con sul had interviewed the tenth appli- cant for consideration under this off, fer the street had become damned with men who thought they wanted to go to war. The consulate had to be closed abruptly and the police were called to disperse the mob outside. The most of these men, it is reported, had been soldiers in the great war and a good many of them were former officers. Less than three years have passed since the last gun was fired in
 that awful conflict. If ever the world was fed up" on war it was then, but even with that short .nter- vale of rest men who saw war at it's worst strive against each other to go to war again. It is said that wars are caused by dynastic ambitions, re- ligious differences, commercial rival ries, land hunger and various other incentives to strife, but underneath it all lies the fact that man is fight ing animal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
Are They Afraid
 Of Another Niagara?
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{ 4@ PPOSITION to the Ford Mus " cle Shoals offer by the Mer- chants association of New York created no surprise. Muscle Shoals has yet to receive encouragement from that quarter. This group of business men has never touched the subject of Muscle Shoals without attacking whatever was being done, had been done or was proposed to be done to bring this great unhar- messed waterpwer into service.4
 This association declares that the Ford plan carries destruction to the development of industrial chem istry in the nation" Perhaps the New Workers have come to regard the development of the electro chemical industry as sacred to the cite drawing their power from Mag a Falls. The prospect of an- othSr and greater Niagara is not lzr fly cheering to interests wn.eA fear the competition of de- veloped Muscle Shoals.
 But the nation will not be misled by any arguments except those pre- sented by some individual or firm making better offer than MT. Ford. The administration has de- cided against government operation. The only alternative of failure to accept the best offer will be inac- ton, scrapping of the plants and loss of millions already expended while the people, in whose name they were spent, get no cheaper fertil- izers and the nation will have no guarantee of explosives in time of war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
THE STUDY OF A GRAVEYARD

records of the courts do we find it. Vengeance is mine," saith the Lord,
 and vengeance on wrong doing is-as
 certain as the rising sun, but man.
 made laws are uncertain and their l enforcement as faulty and vacillating
 as the men who make them.t In His.
 own time, God has taken or will take
 full measure, but those records are
 not for human eye. So far as man and his laws are concerned, these 29 sleep in their bloody graves un-
 avenged.
 What more eloquent testimony
 could we have of the need for a spir-
 itual readjustment; an awakening of
 the popular conscience, than is fur nished by this quiet church yard cemetery? We suppose it does not greatly differ from many thousand others of its kind throughout the country; that conditions existing.
 here are general. What a waste of
 human life! What a mockery of hu-
 man justice we have here! What message if brings of the need for
 better understanding between man and man, of a need. not for more laws but for enforced respect for the laws we have and for the rights sor others.
 Light regard for human life is characteristic of any new country. Go back to the older civilization and
 we find more regard for life, less
 homicide and more prompt and more rigid enforcement of the law; swifter vengeance when the law is broken This country was new once; it is new no longer. The pines have largely disappeared, field touches field and home is within call of home. We have new order of things. Homi- cides and violence should no longer find ready excuse or apology We
 must, in lf-defense, enforce a greater respectgfor human life in the popular mind. This cemetery is only
 milestone showing the path we are travelling, but it contains 29 mute evidences of the need for turning
 about into new way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
Major Construction Also
 Makes a Fine Showing

N7.OT onlyf has Birmingham led IN the cities of the 16 southern states in the building of homes this year, but her major construction programme, exclusive of residences, store houses and factories, is ex- tensive.
 Including the Jemison Company building, and the new postoffice, just completed, this major construction work represents more than S5,000,- 900. Among the larger items are the $750000 Masonic temple, the Phillips and Woodlawn High schools, the Birmingham Trust building, a new hotel, the audi torium, more than half million of improvements by the waterworks company and $250,oOo of street i'm provements under contract. In ad- dition to this summary hundreds of thousands of dollars are going into churches.
 In the eight months of this year building permits were granted for
 
 structures valued at approximately $4,000,Ooo thus equaling the record of 1920, with four more months in which to go. It has been a singu- larly well-matched construction period, residences, store houses, churches, schools and fraternal and conlmunity-serving institutions ris- ing Simultaneously.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
Few Arrests Made

People were certainly celebrating in quiet way yesterday if the num- Der of arrests made by state and county officers is any indica tion, , said J. c. Brooks, warden at the county jail Up until the time | left the jail at o'clock only one arrest had been made and that was Non a mittimus from the criminal court.
 Tn addition to this one two men were lodged in the county jail tor the government, making a ;otal of three prisoners for the day In the number of arrests business was uu- usually quiet yesterday"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
shap's Real Home

While I have an office in New York and practice law there, I still claim Birmingham as my home" sad Isadore Shapiro of the firm of Gus- genheimer, Untermeyer & Marshall, attorneys of New York. who is spending few days with friends n Birmingham. After living in place 30 years a person can't take up a new home easily. and l still regard Birmingham as my real home.
 Birmingham has a regular colony of lawyers in New York now. and I am glad to say they are doing well. The most interesting case am working on now ~from the point of view of news is the Geraldine Far rar divorce suit in which we are representing Farrar. Of course can't Say anything about the case yet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

JUMPER SUITS ARE ON THE JUMP The August trade In overalls was something like the good old days. a. sign we're weathering the squalls. for which we sing glad songs of. praise. A guy don't buy new over- alls to wear while sitting idly round The Sons of Rest" or other halls, to talk and argue and expound. He does not blow his hard-earned jack for these when things are in a slump. Be sure good times are coming back when jumped suits are on the jump!
 Fuller Pepp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
netter situation

has been cut to point where con- dition is only about 35 per cent of normal in the last three weeks. yet the farmers will make as much money as if the crop went to 12,- 000,000 bales," declared Breck Mus grove of Jasper. who was In the city yesterday.
 "Cotton's recent sensational rise has put new life into the people Of Walker, whose spirits have been re- markedly revived. We are going to have a better situation with a short crop, because it will move faster, Tn the belief of many growers, than q large yield.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
POOR OUTLOOK FOR IMMIGRANTS From the Houston Post.

POOR OUTLOOK .f'OH lMMAUHNhNAS T From the Houston Post.
 The prospective immigrant from Europe is finding things extremely discouraEing these days. The United States is not only enforcing new laws to restrict the admission or lm- migrants to the country. but the m dustrial and economic situation IS not such as to encourage immigra- ton. With nearly s,0oo,OoO workers out of employment in the onitea States, it surely is no time TOT others without means of employment 10 come in.
 South America, which offered the most pleasing prospect, after the United States, to the surplus popu- lation of Europe, Is in the depths of aAnression worse than is found in North America. There is much un- employment in the South American states and business is stagnant. In Peru. for instance, the American trade comnissioner has recommended d suspension of sales campaigns. Buy ing power of the populace has de- creased sharply within the iast year In Chile, Brazil and Argentina economic conditions arc not much better than in Peru. The work ot expansion and development of re- 1 sources is rather generally halted The particular kind of employment | that immigrants usually seek is slack there. as we'll as in the United states The South American states offer
 unlimited opportunities for immi' grants to establish themselves on
 cheap lands and build up their owr prosperity as they were formerly ac' 1 customed to do in the United states but the modern immigrant tends te | congresate in the cities and to be-
 come a wage earner or small business man, rather than to undertake ths | role of pioneer in new lands and de
 velop the country on his own initia tive.
 The old type of immigrant woult still be welcome in both North ant soutb America and there is room fo, I millions more of that type. Unde the present conditions. however, tn, field Is not inviting to the moderi I type, whose arrival increases tn
 competition among unskilled labo
 in the cities. Millions who desire [,
 emigrate to escape the hardships an, limited opportunities of the old wcrl will be compelled to postpone thei
 departure until conditions lSecom,
 more favorable on this side
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
MT. Lcedy's Ready wit

That was certainly a clever oua that William B. Leedy put over on Hugh-~Morrow and l.. Sevier at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon Mon day." said Thornton Estes. "Mr. T4eedy said he came here in 1876 and was nearing his seventy fifth birth day. but that when he arrived in Birmingham he found these gentle men already on the ground thus gently suggesting that they might be older than he.
 "The chamber was mighty glad .o have Mir. Leedy dine with us on Monday. We revere the pioneers and it is certainly refreshing to have one as reliable as Mir. Leedy tell us that ambitious as Birmingham has always been and much as she may have bragged, her most Ioseate dreams have more than come true and are still being made into the cold fact. Dreams such as the pioneers had are good for the digestion any daN in the week and they are good business also
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
A DREAM OF OTHER DAYS

From the Florida Metropolis.
 The country raised man Is inspired to dream of the good old days when big, juicy slabs of hams were stacked on the platter after he has received an order of ham about the size of his hand and perhaps twice as thick as tissue paper-and a bill for 75 cents
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
Take Your Choice

"A man can take his choice of the dark and bright sides,' said o. L. Bum, general manager of the Chamber of Commerce. He can see dark places not yet illuminated, or he can regard the bright ones that have had their darkness lifted.
 He can null over the 60 per cent Of operations at the T. c. I. steel mills and the 45 per cent of the Gulf States Steel following one of 20 per cent, If he wishes to. He can re- gard the capacity operations. of the face rick plants and the nearly hun dred per cent increase in sales of Birmingham overalls in August.
 He, can let himself finger over the statement of Donald Conner about the added value of a half billion dollars of the carried lover and in- coming cotton crop if he has mind to do so. He can contemplate the 975 residences built in Birmingham this year and it's making the best record in the 16 southern states.
 For one I regard it as safer and sounder employment to visualize the good than the bad, because the good leads us on while pessimism holds us back from what we can attain if we go out for it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
GRAVEYARD OF FLUCTUATIONS

GRAVEYARD OF AFFILIATIONS Mir. Grabcoin Is regarded as a com petent business man."
 "Yes, but he came very near losing his reputation during the war"
 How was that?"
 He was about to accept an ap- pointment to the shipping board"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
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BOUGHT AND PAID FOR

From the Chicago News.
 According to stetisticians. the peo- pie of the United States bought $500, 100000 worth of luxuries last year. However, there is less re- proach in that than there would have been if they had not paid the bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
SAD LINES OF COMEDIAN.
the Arkansas Gazette

It is said that professional come dians really are very sad men. With Lew Fields and Raymond Hitchcock both bankrupt, there seems to be some truth in the theory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
TELEPHONE DISTINCTION

TELEPHONE DISTINCTION 'How's the telephone service abroad?"
 Wonderful" said the social climber.
 "Indeed?" V "Yes. I tried to call up a friend of mine in Paris and got duke on the wire" 4s PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
ontIook Encnnrnrinr

T ran up to Birmingham to see about making final arrangements for the disposition of the fine heifers which Birmingham's progressive cit izens made it possible to offer to the boys of the Alabama State Fair for their encouragement in the rais- ing of better grade of cows," says Frank 1. Derby, the Southern en- thusiast of Sumter county.
 T was in conference with Robert Jemison, Sr., who took so much inter- est in getting the fine heifers, which l bought at the great Columbia sale. donated. Jim Dent, the efficient sec retary of the fair, who knows the game clean through, also met with us. l am glad that 1 am much en- couraged over the outlook, and be- lieve that what was done by a few of the leading men of the Magic City is going to be the means of starting many boys on the right road to be successful cattle men"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
STELLAR HoNoRs

STELLAR HONORS This nations filled with scintillating stars
 know that very well, and so do you; l But here's an intermittent thought that jars,
 We can't always remember what
 they do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
What Isthrnian Fleet
 Means to Birmingham

NO OES Birmingham realize what lV the 35 ocean freighters of the Istkmian Steamship company sig nif9 in its industrial progress? :?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

Gold is tried by fire. and man often by gold.
 The only cure for old age is to die young.
 The only pleasures enjoyed are those that are earned.
 Measure the appreciation you be- stow by that which you desire.
 No mans steady character will en- able him to keep cool in warm weather.
 The fact tSat a man has the sleep ing in church habit is no sign that he will find rest in heaven If men had the brains they think they have their legs would not be strong enough to carry them. We wonder what preacher does when he feels like making 8 few re. marks that would not look we'll ir print l Persistency may get great many in-natured remarks aimed at it. but f 1 can be relied upon to arrive at its des. ltination.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06

From the Triton (Ga.) Gazette.
 nnS7 WENT to a funeral at church near home a few days ago." c said the Man Who Observes. While waiting for the funeral party
 to arrive, I walked out into the
 church yard cemetery to the grave of
 an old friend of mine. He had been
 murdered-killed in the prime of
 his grave it occurred to me to see how many others were buried there
 who had met death by violence.
 looked around and found 29 graves
 of men who had been killed by their
 fellow man. I might have missed
 some. but these I knew. And the
 cemetery is not so very old.''
 What a story this grave yard tells
 of the cheap regard we have for hu-
 man Tiff What a pathetic illustra-
 tion of our sleeping conscience. What
 of lives untimely ended, broken homes, and widows and orphans left
 to struggle alone in the world for existence. | A1 a@ That cemetery is not so old as the
 one who writes these lines. It is To- cated at a church with large mem
 bership, a membership noted for it's
 piety and religious zeal. It stands
 amid surroundings of surpassing peace; in it's grove of oaks, on a
 hill beside & softly running stream; surely, here, of all places. mans
 heart should be touched with the peace of God and throb only with love for his fellow man!
 Yet here, amid surroundings or peace, at the very threshold of the edifice where His word is preached with power and zeal and within
 sound of the answer of the convert ed. sleep 29 men in bloody graves, sent there before their time by their fellow men.
 And of these 29, some at least were done to death under circumstances that made their blood cry aloud to | God and man for vengeance, was there one punishment? Not on the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
THE EXCEPTION

"No matter how hot the day is, q woman always looks cool"
 Not always"
 'No?"
 i've seen women look rather warm when there were 10 or 12 customers ahead of them at ticket window"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-06
REPARTEE

REPARTEE "Is this an information bureau?" asked the uncouth stranger. Doesn't it look like one? replied the clerk, sarcastically.
 Well pardner, yoo've got a sign out in front but after giving you the once over. don't believe you can live up to it."