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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
WoMEN'S CLUBS

From the Chicago Herald and Examiner.
 Sometimes, for one reason or another, man is permitted to attend the sessions in a woman's club. These sessions are gen erally preceded by a business meeting. The purpose of these business meetings seems always the same-to raise money for some body or something that needs it, o2 to re- port on the distribution of money so raised. We wonder how much is given away in this fashion by women's clubs in the course of each year. The sum must run into many millions. And every dollar of it is given with intelligence plus a lot of individual time and effort. Society is not perfect. 1t is full of greed and meanness, no doubt. but also it is shot full of generosity--siinple, ciear-hearted human kindness.
 One hears . lot about flrppers, reads q lot about tho extravagance ot women. Yet all that !s surface. Underneath, women are steadily, eagerly kind. They are full of the spirit of maternity. They want to mother people, to mako people happier, They may not be authorities yet in economics or goy- ernment they may make mistakes in their standards of valuo, but they do llke to help. So.netinAea the programs of these clups seem rather po4c, Sometimes the.r par iiamsntary law is far from tiawiess, Dut their business meetings give as good an up- portunity for the study of reat American social idealism working out tn practice as the country affords.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
THE SULTAN FEARS THE TURKS

The flight of Sultan Mohammed VI from Oonstantinope was the inevitable result of the Angora governments action in depriving the caliphate of all temporal power. Mo hammed refuses to abdicate. He was thus exposed to the hostility of nationalists in Constantinople who have already vented their anger on anti-nationalists. His fear of assassination was we'll founded. To remain in Constantinople longer would have cost him his life. He made the best of bad situation by taking refuge on British battleship He is assured of protection by the British government and there is little likelihood that he will be turned over to the nationalists to be tried for treason, no mat ter what demands may be made by the Turks.
 The Sultan, in some respects, is pathetic figure. The charge made by the nationalists that he has been friendly with the allies is, of course, true. But with the allies in control of Constantinople, he could not have adopted any other policy than one of con cliation. That he has been traitor to the Turkish nationalsts is an absurd charge, if he has kept Turkish interests to the fore. A ruler can scarcely be called traitor to :. mere party in power. In view of the situa- tion in Constantinople, it is preposterous for the Kemalsts to charge that the Sultan fled under British pressure. The Sultan fears his own countrymen, but he is safe under the British flag.
 The future status of the Sultan is un- certain. In spite of his determination not to abdicate it is unlikely that he will return to Constantinople. He seems destined to join other rulers in exile who have fallen victims to conditions created by the World war
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
The Peoples Forum
The Confederate Cabinet

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 In Fridays issue of your paper appears an article by MT. Rogers as to the personnel of MT. Davis
 cabinet, in which the writer says: "Mr Randolph, for time, and then MT. Sedden, were secretaries of war" The writer overlooked the first secretary of war of the Con- federacy, who was Gen. LeRoy Pope Walker, who, by the way, differed with MT. Davis about the policy of his administration, and afterwards resigned from his cabinet and was appointed by Mir. Davis brigadier general, and later assigned to a brigade, from command of which he was relieved. As the writer read law in General Walkers office at Huntsville and was as intimate as a boy could be with a distinguished man, who was one of the bravest lawyers Alabama ever produced, he happens to know from the gen. erals own mouth something of the relationship that existed between Mir. Davis and his cabinet. Up 10 his death Generarl Walker had never felt that he was treated with proper consideration. His portrait hangs now in the state capitol at Mont gomery, as one of Alabama's most distinguished sons, and nearly every member of his family has become either great lawyer or made his place in civic affairs. For the truth of history, and not to provoke com ment or controversy, 1 send you this. WILLIAM VAUGHAN.
 Birmingham, Ala, Nov. IS, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
MOTHERS COOKING

From the Atlanta Georgian.
 There's something more than the pro- verbal joke in mothers cooking. It may not be as scientific, or as elaborate, as is the product of cafe or hotel chefs, but there is satisfying character about it to a son which can not be duplicated. ft
 Over in South Carolina an 18-year-od lad was locked up in the town jail for a minor offense. It was probably the first time he had been thus violently torn from home and mother-at any rate, when next morning rolled around he missed the de- lectable breakfast which he had been ac- customed to enjoy under the parental roof.
 When in the wash room he managed to secure two iron bars, which he concealed until the jailer had gone Then he smashed the lock of his cell and hied himself away for home. After he had safely put away the breakfast which mother prepared for him, he quietly returned to the jail and gave himself up.
 Of course the lad made himself scrimi- nal' in the eyes of the law by breaking jail, especially as he aided two other pris- oners to escape at the same time. Yet the fact of his return to captivity proved the truth of his assertion that he only craved one of mothers breakfasts" Surely a boy can not be all bad when he will dare so much merely to get one of mothers hone-cooked neals
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
A Timely Editorial
In Good Company

From the Louisville Herald.
 Any publisher, observes the New York Evening Post, who is desirous of obtaining the services of a we'll known author who is free from other occupation is advised to com municate with Albert J. Beveridge. There is something of a sheer im- piled and something of a sense of relief, but it may very well happen, nevertheless, that, in returning to literature and the muse of history, Beveridge will be as profitably em- ployed for the good of the country as he would have been as leader in that strange assembly of contradic- tions, the republican majority in the Senate. The public man who takes up his pen and does a serious work finds himself in the very best of company and places himself in the society most affected by English and French political leaders. There was Gladstone, who, in addition to a world of polemical discussion, found time to write that sturdy Christiaa brief, "The Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture and to be an au- thority on Homer and the Oxford Movement. There was D'Israeli, the hope of the younger tories and the fulfillment of that hope in a latter day; to his credit are num- Der of novels at least as good as Bulwer Lytton's and invaluable for their revelations of the social and political conditions in England in the earlier Victorian day. There was Lord Macaulay and his nephew, George Otto Trevelyan, historians, both of them of the very highest rank. There was the Marquis of Salisbury, who, as Lord Robert Ce- cil, made very fair living by his pen, and Lord Rosebery, charming essayist and credited with a book on Napoleon in exile of real value. In France we have the present am- bassador to the United States, MT. Jusserand, whose work on English literature is more sympathetic than that of Taine. There was Hano- taux and in both countries scores of others equally notable in both fields and quite capable, as is Beveridge, of deserting politics for the pen. One name we want to rescue. Au- gustine Birrell, a former secretary for Ireland and cabinet minister. has discovered the art of Birrelling, manner of delightful writing quaint, chatty and learned, of which he alone has the secret. Decidedly our good friend, MT. Beveridge, will be in very good company. Now, you cannot always say that of those who are in the Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
MAN AND NATURES UPHEAvAL

Some try to connect the recent earthquake and tidal wave in Chile with the fact that the particular area of the suns surface at that time bearing upon Chile contained sun spot. It is conceivable that there was nomena, but nobody has explained it to the general satisfaction. It may have been due to the unequal distribution of heat with con sequent unequal expansion and contraction, although nobody has shown that there was any great moderation in Chilean temperature on that day. It may have been due to inc qualities in magnetic attraction, but that would need another demonstration or two to prove it, and the world cannot afford that just now, unless it should happen in Turkey, say Nevertheless, there is no. denial that there was an earthquake and tidal wave
 Knowing why they occur would not bring with'it knowledge of how to prevent them. Of more practical value would be knowledge of how to foretell and escape them. It is the penalty people pay for living in the vicin- lty of new earth formations, such as the Andes, comparatively speaking, of course. However, the human race finds It's recom- pense somehow for enduring disaster ana death, and the hardest of all communities :, persuade to change their residence are those over whom cataclysmic threats are always hanging. People do not flee from the wrath to come until 1t is already almost upon them. And so, the people of Chile, having had their on1thquake and tidal wave, will now calmly ,xocnk tAs damage and continue their plans
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
PHILIPPINE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
From the New York Sun.


 Some twoscore or more dialects spoken by the Philippine islanders, side by side with the Spanish and English languages, have created problem which has found its way into the island legislature. A motion to make all the dialects and languages the official tongues of the legislature was defeated in the house lately by the narrow margin of seven votes. Pathological experts declare that most of tho dialects spoken in the Philippines should be considered as subdivisions" of Malay, Further, 1t is pointed out that Chinsse trade, Arabic and Spanish immigration under Mo. hammsdan and Christian Influence. and. earlier still, traces of Sanskrit words from, India, all have contributed. The mixture of upeech has its many sharp clsavagss, and is far more . mechanical mixture than | fusion or combination. The American occupation of the islands has brought considerable in. flusnoc toward the broadening of tho use of English. In the absence of any definite constructive attempt to stabilize tho most important of the languages ussd in cor,- mercc. which ara of course, English and Spanish, 1t has been easier for native pref erenee or reaction to lead toward native brands of speeoh-ons and all. Nobody thinks of forbidding tho use of native dia- leetsI but an official language is desirable as vehicle for general edpoation and for tho asts, bsatds and beyond lts political use.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
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FROM BIRMINGHAM VIA MOBILE

It may be asserted almost as a logical sequitur that in case the leading American cast iron pipe interest is successful bidder on the 20,o00-ton contract for the city of San Juan, Porto Rico, soon to be submitted to competitive makers in this country and abroad, the pipe will be manufactured in the shops of the Birmingham district. For the same reason, when China, Japan and Korea buy rails of the Steel corporation t is practically assured that the rails will be rolled at Ensley. This has been done stead- fly since that mill was built. Following the same line of reasoning Birmingham knew that when Honolulu ordered 4,000 tons of cast iron pipe and the government ordered 10000 tons of rails for Alaska these products would come from this district.
 The reason is plain. There is the near ness to Birmingham's seaport at Mobile by rail, and there is the lower-than-rail rata to Mobile by the Warrior river canal. This combination affords Birmingham mills an advantage for export and for Pacific coast trade not possessed by any other iron and steel center in the world. Porto Rico is practically in Mobiles back yard. Steamers ply regularly between the two places There is steadv interchange of goods. There will always hs vessels ready to transmit Birming ham products to Porto Rico with dispatch md the Warrior is here to convey them to AfoAle at iow rates. That is why it may be asserted ss the automatic outcome of srgt pipa order placed with Porto Rico by
 as | 5. Pipe Go. that this order will be Cd Il the Birmingham district shops and gea so rorto Rico via Mobile. Voting for the saap9Ft amendment has clinched Bir- mi nams hold an world trade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
ETIQUETTE AMONG BURGLARS

From the New York Tribune.
 The oblging burglar who, when dis covered in the pantry closet, offered to tele- phone for the police has established new precedent. Whether or not this is the re- suit of close study of one of the new books on etiquette is not stated. So many en- barrassing situations in life are ably dealt with in these volumes that even if this par ticular one is not covered the enterprising Rallies at least can learn many good points by perusing them.
 Perhaps special burglars edition has been issued, preceded by full-page ad- vertisement picturing burglar in a closet with bag of silver and French maid just opening the door, with underneath it cap tion reading as follows: "Supposing you had just put all the family plate in your bag when you heard a step and decided to hide in the closet. The step approaches your hiding place and the doorknob squeaks as 1t is turned Do you know how to extricate yourself from this embarrassing situation? When she cries 'Policen should you run or help her get them? If you were to make blunder under these circumstances it might cost you five years or more of your life. Can you afford not to know?"
 Honor among thieves has long been a byword in the English language. Is the new variation of this to be courtesy among burplars?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
Andy Gump

Old Andy Gump, he took the stump, In Congress for to land. He sowed good oats, and copped the votes And plumed to beat the band. And Min she bit the folks, who fit Her in the days of yore. And Henriette played up, you bet, To help her future score. Oh, Andy Gump, fear the trump Is in the hands of Fate. I'm 'fraid your mon has "also run,' As you will find, too late.
 E. H. M.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
rHE MIR CHANT MARINE

Tleae is every indication that the special sessioa W'll aise i've special attention to the sh ? subsidy h. asure. The purpose of the measua is to lnsure the permanence and develop ac6 of aa American merchant ma- rine. Tn re apne,rs to be almost unanimous opinion n favor of an American merchan. fleet bea ng 5ha Azassican flag and admin istered by sirect tas on which Americans gre in the sify oinions differ, how : 1T, as to sa of establishing th.s 5ne~c. -nt ma Ua stantial basis. Bet .s Mer.a :, s Hons will help, of coursS but iiou of those in closest to- tie conditions that some finaneia M 70 essential. The ship subsidy bil ia ; sssuis of their deliber- ations.
 The idea that the merchant marine is of purely commercial value is not complete. A merchant fleet is also of important military value. So important is it that military and naval experts agree that fighting navy is helpless without merchant vessels to carry supplies and men. America felt this need during the war, felt it so vividly that for months the continual cry was for ships and yet more ships. America, accordingly, at much expense owing to the immediate and Imperative need, turned to with a win and produced ships, these very ships that some now advocate we sell or discard without any effort to keep them in American service. An other war is not wanted, but if we are to be building great battleships costing $30,000,- 900 apiece, certainly we cannot refuse the e30, ,000,0 900 or so deemed necessary to guar antee an entire merchant fleet without which the battleships lose three-fourths of their efficiency. That is the situation with which Congress is face to face on it's assembly In special session next Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20

The merchants have begun to ask peop.c to buy their Christmas gifts early. There IS reason in this. A less hurried purchase en- ables the buyer to make more satisfactory selections, and the merchant to show his wares more completely It also helps the merchant to gage the demand and keep him from overbuying or underbuying. Las., but not least important, it eases the burden of the clerks. Therefore, shop early.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20

The Texas Farm Bureau Cotton associa- tion is reported to have sold 50,0o0 bales or cotton to the State Universal Stores, Ltd, oi Russia. It is easy to sell to Russia, but hard to collect It is presumed that The bureau has arranged some guaranteed plan of payment, such as the deposting of the price in some neutral sbank There are signs of Russia's recovery, and her demands will call for American farm products in large volume.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
Little Stories
Many Like That
From the Houston Post.

From the Houston Post.
 Pat" said manager to one of his workmen, "you must be an early riser. I always find you at work the first thing in the morning."
 "Indade, and I am, sor; it's fam fly trait, I'm thinking"
 '"Then your father is an carly riser, too?'
 "Me father is it?" answered Pat. "He rises that early that if he went to bed little later he'd meet him. self getting up in the morning"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
Progressive Paris

From the Talladega Home.
 Paris fashion decrees that dresses shall be worn four and one-half inches above the shoe tops this win ter and nine above next spring. Shoo! Paris is always giving the world something to talk about.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20

American governments, cad 70 lgy the foun- dation for full commerce. sad business in- tercourse.
 There should be the rame peace Ill con- ditions along the Mexican borde that exist on the Canadian boundary line. There is, of course, a racial difference to consider in the case of Mexico, but the responsibility for creating friendly feeling rests chiefly on America. It is indispensable that the United States and Mexico live in harmony, for they must be neighbors for all time, and neighbors should be mutually forbearing, considerate, and prompt to redress wrongs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20

Have the opponents of the indirect sub- sidy for merchant vessels asked themselves why they are against it, and inquired into the soundness of the facts they allege against it? Do they know that the mer- chant marine is costing the nation more without the subsidy than it would with the subsidy?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20

for the future as If nothing had happened. Perhaps that is tho sublinest way for ds- fenselsss mankind to meet the unavoidable paroxysms of nature-ignoro them, and hope and build for the best.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
Rushed to Death

From the American Legion Weekly.
 During the flu epidemic at Camp Bowie base hospital, many of the doctors worked 20 hours a day. One rookie medico had 75Nped ward thrust upon him the first day of his army career. He struggled val iantiy with his professional wor9, but failed to realize that he was now soldier.
 He forgot the sacred morning re- ports. He forgot to make out the sacred mess regulations. He exas- perated everybody. Finally the colonel hauled him to the carpet and demanded:
 "Why in the blankety- -blank-blank don't you read your army regula- tions?"
 The young doctor looked at him in sleepy-eyed surprise.
 Army regulations?' he ejacu- lated. Good Lord, colonel. l haven't even had time to read the news papers,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20

Senator elect Edwards of New Jerse, stresses the fact that he is "wet' only DO litically.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20

The boy who was brought up by hand, with frequent trips to the woodshed, has a son now who puts the car in the garage about o'clock in the morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
Bless Her

A girl like more every day Is Agnes Widd; She never has been heard to say, 'I get you, kid"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
A HardIifa

From the Sand Mountain Banner.
 We see where President Harding has bought farm. Making it pay will be g harder job than he now has.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
In Hotel Lobbies
Certain Proof

Our department, and, I believe, every other prohibition depart ment, receives quite a number of peculiar tips regarding the loca- tion of stills and storage grounds of whisky" said Judge Charles M. Sartain, federal prohibition director. However, one of the most anus ing tips that we have received in many days was delivered several days ago. Early one morning some one called over the phone and asked for the chief. l aswered the phone and replied that I was the chief. The party on the other end of the line then asked for an ap- pointment to divulge the location of large quantity of whisky. I im- mediately set the hour and in the meantime was anticipating the pleasure of making a large haul. The hour came at last and during the confidential chat the informer said that he had two large wooden barrels placed underneath the drain pipe in the rear of his home before his absence from the city for sev- eral weeks and after his return the barrels were found missing, and from this fact he positively knew that there was a large quantity of whisky stored somewhere in the neighborhood."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20

It's enough to make a woman candidate mad when she fails to get an office she knows would be becoming to her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
Cured

"Mr. Titefist has been cured of giving small tips"
 "How?"
 "He handed waiter nickel the other day. The fellow rushed out and bought him paper"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
Burning Out WeeviI.

From tho Franklin County Times. The forest fires raging north of Russellville for the past month have destroysd many fine and valuable young treaa to ny nothing of mil fiona of lboll weevils that had gone there for tho winter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
Adrift With the Times
Ears Are Back

Ears Are Back The feminine ear May now reappear,
 Revealed to the masculine gaze; But I haven't any doubt The kind that stick out Will be treated in different ways. I'll put it to you That it never would do, However others may act, For unfortunate dears Who have ugly ears
 To make us aware of the fact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20

Opinions differ as to what constitutes a living wage. It is usually one we don't get.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
Not There

Philosophers are plentiful"
 You never run across one in the waiting room of a dentist"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
Alabama Press
Need for Good Road.

From the Alexander City Outlook.
 Alabama should have voted hundred million dollars worth of bonds for good roads instead of twenty-five millions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
Slightly Moist

Congressman Twobble was defeated?" 'He was," replied the erudite voter.
 "But he's dry and he was beaten by man who's dry"
 I assume that Congressman Twobble was not sufficiently dehydrated to suit the Sa- hara wing of the party"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20

The Praying Colonels" were no match for the Weeping Tigers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-20
Good Picture Shown

"Motion picture exhlbitora have, so-operated splendidiy in Naticnxi Motion Picture Book Week. and Mrs. Myrtells w. Shell. city anSusc- ment Inspector. Many of them have brought high priced pictures to Birntn9hAaA for this week. 1 feel that it h tho dut4 q tho clti- aena of Birmingham to support the theatre mAnARers."