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New-York tribune., 1922-07-20
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New-York tribune., 1922-07-20

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New-York tribune., 1922-07-20

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New-York tribune., 1922-07-20

Now Is the time when New York
State legislators are tuning up their
iarynxes to inform the voters how en-
lightened and noble and moral and
intelligent the electorate is. And all
the while the motion picture censors
go on working to exemplify what
the aforementioned legislators really
think of the also aforementioned
electorate.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-20

1T isn't so much the time zoe spend
on the beach that hampers our efficiency
these days; its tho hours ,ve waste peel
ing the resulting sumburr.
New-York tribune., 1922-07-20

AS it is, By the time qUe have reared
our son properly we'N probably be a
gentleman ourseD.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-09

spired among the democrats of Alabama, who nominated him for the states chief executive by an overwhelming vote.
 The convention paid its respects to the stricken warrior in Washington, Woodrow Wilson, and gave merited praise to the able administration of Governor Kilby, who will long be ranked as one of the most competent governors Alabama has ever had.
 The convention showed commendable de- sire to promote education in Alabama, from the lowest to the highest institutions. The party is solemnly pledged to safeguard the in- terests of the states schools and eleemosynary institutions and provide for their needs. No backward step will be taken, whatever re- trenchments may be necessary elsewhere. That is determination which every citizen of Ala bama will applaud. Education should be the first consideration, Without it there can be no progress worthy of the name and no enight- ened citizenship to build up the state in the future.
 That part of the platform which deals with agriculture gives assurance that the agricul- tural interests of Alabama will be encouraged and hedped in every legitimate way. Good roads and the amendment to develop the port of Mobile also indorsed.
 The following princpes of Judge Brandon and Senator Mcdowell, the next lieutenant governor which were announced by them dur ing their campaign, were incorporated in the party's platform:
 l.. A reduction in taxation.
 g. Reduction in expenses of government, and the
 cutting the bone of all departments and economic
 ing in every practical way.
 8. Abolition of adjusters and unnecessary
 employees of the state.
 Maintenance of the present prohibition laws
 and the strict enforcement of the
 5. Keeping the state government in the hands
 of the people, and removing, far possible,
 the tendency to centralize government
 Reduction of taxation and abolishment of Governor Kilby's tax adjusters, to which the incoming administration is committed, might lead some friends of education to fear that the state's educational system will suffer for lack of sufficient funds, but this is matter which will have to be worked out by Governor Brandon and his advisers. They have promised liberal support to the schools and every neeest sary appropriation must be made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-09
FEDERAL INJUNCTION HAS HAD
 A SALUTARY EFFECT

In some particulars the restraining order granted to the federal government in Chicago against the rail strikers went too far The administration quickly realized that Attorney General Daugherty was about to infringe upon the constitutional rights of the American peo- ple as regards free speech and freedom Of the press, and the permanent injunction to be the order already granted.
 But, admitting that the Attorney General spoke in his haste and made several state- ments that he has since modified because of the resentment aroused throughout the coun- try, both by his own remarks and certain clauses of the restraining order, it cannot be denied that this action of federal court has been remarkably effective in checking law lessness. Until the order was granted the newspapers were filled with accounts of vio- lence in all parts of the country. It stopped almost immediately. There has been little or no lawlessness among the rail strikers since they discovered that the government was de- termined to maintain order.
 Some blunders have been made, but unques- tionably the governments course has cleared the atmosphere, A large majority of union members are opposed to the violence attributed to minority of radicals and hotheads among the strikers or their sympathizers They have every reason to feel grateful to the govern ment for exerting it's authority at time when lawless acts were hurting the unions and ar raying public sentiment against them
 Judging from present indications, the rail strike will soon be over. It has quieted down with extraordinary rapidity, and there is ap- parently feeling both sides that differ ences which threatened to demoraize the tion's transportation system can be adjusted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-09
AUTHORSHIP OF "DIxIE" AGAIN

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 The Asheville Citizen having published Her. man Frank Arnold as the composer Of the air of "Dixie," and having been .'called down good and hard for it" by Capt. James Dinkins of New Orleans, proposes with the aid of musi- clans of North Carolinl and elsewhere to set tie the question once and for all. In accordance with this determination, the Citizen invites evil dence that MT. Arnold wrote the melody.
 Herman Frank Arnold, now resident of Memphis and well over 80 years of age, did write the melody of "Dixie," but Daniel De- catur Emmett composed it and carried it around in his head for over year before the air was committed to manuscript by MT. Arnold. The Advertiser has MT. Arnold's word for it, ana the original manuscript copy is preserved in the Alabama department of archives and his tory.
 As Dan Emmett told the history of Dixie" in New Orleans some 40 years ago, he was member of Bryants minstrels playing in Buff falo, N. T., in December, 1858, when the man. ager of the show asked him to write what was then known as "a breakdown for the troupe "a sort of song and dance for the whole crowd-to put life into the opening act. It was extremely cold in northern New York, and Emmett remembered a pleasant winter trip to New Orleans. He Wished he was down south in the land of cotton" and the thought brought the rest of the original words, set to lifting tune that Emmett apparently improvised to fit the thought. Some years afterwards the rep resentative of an English cotton firm in New ''Dxie" sung in London before the song was composed. This was repeated to Emmett Capt. James Dinkins of New Orleans is re- sponsibe for the statement that Emmett said the air had been running in his head" for some years before he put words to it and that he might have picked it up in England as boy. However there appears to be no record of such melody in English musical bibli- ography.
 Emmett went from New York to New Or leans with the Bryant minstrels in the early part of 1859 and sang Dixie" there in the old St. Charles theatre. The song seems 10 have failed to make more than an ordinary impression on New Orleans patrons of the minstrel show until John Hopkins, printer, ot 823 Tchoupitoulas street, published e words as "broadside." The copies we 3 sold by c. Coburn, bookseller, whose shop was few doors away from the printer on the same song among the public. The original print is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-09
INDUSTRY TN THE EAST BEGINS TO RECOVER

The Birmingham district has cause for satis faction over the manner in which it's natural advantages have enabled it to fare better than any other industrial section in spite of strikes and car shortages but it is also grati- flying to learn that the east is beginning to recover from the handcaps of the railroad and coal strikes. Production is swinging back to a larger tonnage and more regular operations, and this will have beneficial effect on the steel and iron markets everywhere.
 The Iron Age Says: "Steel works are now gaining in output after touching low point in the last week of August The increase is not large as yet, but it promises to be greater next week. The upward turn has already brought back nine furnaces to the active list"
 The Birmingham district is not independent of the east and the middle west, by any means. We have piled S5,ooo tons of pig iron in one month because rail embargoes prevented de- livery of the iron sold to consumers. But for that we would have reduced stocks and the pipe shops in adjacent districts dependent on us for iron would not be closed down from time to time waiting on Birmingham shipments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-09
POPULAR AIRS IN DEMAND

"The greatest demand is for the popular airs of the present day." said Fred G. Vie gand, leader of the Tutwiler orchestra. "Three O'Clock in the Morning and Stumbling seem to be the most popular of all. In our library of nearly 2000 numbers you will find all the latest musical comedy selections and the popular music pieces of today. Of course, we also have large list of classical music and heavy overtures, but these are not asked for as often as the racey, more cheerful selec- tons.
 s"On each table in the dining room are sev- eral cards upon which the guests may write their requests of any piece they wish played, and it is surprising the number of people who use these cards. Just the other day we re- ceved new shipment of numbers, among them Soothing and Two Little Wooden Shoes,' which are the latest hits of Broad way We also have the selections from the Ziegfed Foies of 1922, which is so new that it has not yet become popular"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-09
LETTERS TO EDITOR
THE FRIGHT" TO "sTRiKE'
e Editor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald:
 In your issue of Wednesday, September 6, you state, "No one questions the right of the workers to strike" Arc you quite sure this statement $ correct? Have you recently looked up the meaning of the word strike? Let's see how the Century dictionary defines the word "strike". Strike, V. to press a claim or de- mand by coercion or threatening action of some kind; in common usage, to quit work along with others in order to compel an en- ployer to acceed to some demand, as for in- crease of pay, or to protest against something, as reduction Of wages; as to strike for high CT pay or shorter hours of work" 'To cease, stop, quit or knock off as coercive measure, as to strike work" If common usage did not extend the meaning of the word to violent acts of coercion, as by dynamiting homes, intimi- dation of men desiring to work and the like, the correctness of your statement might still be challenged by number that might surprise you.
 Another challenge, Mr. Editor: You say, "No law could be passed in this country that would compel men to work if they didn't want to- Wrong again. How about the vagrancy and penal laws? Have you forgotten how the re- cent draft law developed some exceedingly en- ergetic, industrious individuals, who doubtless desired thereby to avoid active service in the field? Have you forgotten how industrious many suddenly became in essential oceupa- tions," and how clarnorously exemption was claimed from active service? If you will drop the word strike" for the words "quit work" then, MT. Editor, many will indeed agree with you. And also, MT. Editor, you surely have not forgotten that it is said benghted Russia has found way to pass law to make men work. Lenine and Trotsky seem to be keep ing the folks busy. While you have the die tionary open you might note the definition of the words "coerce' "threat" and "con,pel'. Too many people in our country insist on usurping the perogative of Webster and the Century dictionary by defining the meaning of words to suit themselves. There is no such thing as the right to Strike. There is no such thing as a right to "coerce", right to threaten, right to 'compel' except by due process of law. There is "a right to quit work', but nature, self-respect, refined and orderly society, and the penal statutes of the land all join hands to create limitation to the period of inactivity.
 Drop the word "strike'', MT. Editor, except when you wish to use it as it is defined in the dictionary. DAVID S. ANDERSON.
 Birmingham, September T, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-09

Attorney General Daugherty has been in formed by a large part of the American press that he talked too much in Chicago.
 * x x "Danceland" Broadway adyertises 'Ladies 50 cents, Gents 75 cents." Still, it may be patrOnized by gents / Since the motion picture people got hold of it the camera has become of the most de- captive devices ever invented. There is nothing to indicate that Judge Gary will apologize to the labor barons for raising the wages of steel workers. Just because we don't hear much from Po- land, we needn't jump to the conclusion that alps well at Warsaw
 Prohibition is said to'be dead in Sweden for a generation We can't settle question in America like that
 The League of Nations assembly at Geneva wouldn't be so quiet if Lloyd George and Poin- care were there.
 Begging is not so good in New York just at present, and all the mendicants are praying for return to normalcy
 
 The Greeks and Iurks are sadly Tn need Of a board of arbitration with the power to enforce it's decisions.
 # A few Jumps of coal in one's cellar, left over from last winter, will be equivalent to money in the bank
 
 The pipe organ may be noble instrument, but the ealliope in a circus parade gets results.
 X x Europe is going to look untidy as long as it is filtered with paper money.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-09
BROUGHT THE TEARS

''No, was not always a freight rate gradu- ate" said O. L. Bum. T well remember my twenty fourth year when I was earning $50 a month in Memphis freight office They put me on milling-in-transit job. l knew nothing about it and, to save my life, could not get the swing of it for the longest time.
 q was afraid would lose my job It seemed beyond my grasp. One night big tears rolled down my cheek as I struggled to master the problem. But I dug little more into my determination, went at it with hammer and tongs and, first thing you know, had it and had it on system of my coming out of my hard study of the puzzle, and my system proved more simple and less laborious than that established in the office.
 "Let me tell you, one gets anything worth while without work. l have been latterly com plimented on the showing that the Chamber of Commerce is making and have been asked how it came about. Work is the answer. It has been work day in and day out and all day. That is the only way know of arriving any where"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
TOUCHED BY GYPSY

About two years ago when Coon Wyatt and myself were call officers stationed at headquarters, two negro women appeared at the door and asked to see the chief, said J. w. Burkett, local police officer. Asked what the nature of their business was, one stated that while she was visiting gypsy TOT tune telling pa.rlor on Second avenue, she was frisked' of $5 by the gypsy woman who told her fortune. She stated that while she was seated at table opposite the gypsy woman the latter after reading her palm, asked to see her purse, stating that she was going to put a good luck charm into it. Later, while shopping, the woman found that $5 note was missing. Luckily, she had noted peculiar mark on the bill. MT. Wyatt and myself were detailed to go with the women to investigate, and when we questioned the gypsy she denied all knowledge of the affair, stating that the negro rad not entered her p2rlor. However, we instituted search in the gypsy woman's bag which was lying on the table and found the five-dollar note with the identical mark that the negro woman spoke of. The gypsy ac- knowledged the theft but was not arrested be- cause the negro did not want to press any charge against her, being perfectly satisfied to regain her lost money"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-09
INDICTMENTS BEING RETURNED
 FOR HERRIN RIOTERS

Slowly, but surely, justice is reaching out for the men who took part in the Herrin mas sacre Thirty-seven indictments have been re- turned by the grand jury-according to some reports 3S. Persons named in the indict- ments are being sought and several have al- ready been arrested.
 The nation is beginning to feel that there is vet hope for bloody" Williamson county, in the sovereign state of Illinois. The task has not been easy Smouldering hatreds are still there and local prejudces against legal inter- ference is still strong. Witnesses have been unwilling to testify. Others have been sus- pected of perjury. Nevertheless, the jury has gone on with its work, Evidence has been ob- tained in hostile atmosphere and in spite of many obstacles.
 The fight that is being made in the little mining town is watched with sympathetic in- terest by the people of America. They don't want to acknowledge that such crimes as the Herrin massacre can be committed with i'm punity. The conviction and punishment of the persons who killed 19 men in circum- stances of unparalleled barbarity will vindicate the law and remove stain from Illinois that discredits the whole country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-09
BOUGHT $sso, 900 WORTH

"When the Wholesale Merchants and Man. uf lecturers division of the Chamber of Com- merce claimed that merchants attending the Alabama merchants convention bought $350,- 900 of goods during their stay here, they had the evidence,'' said Charles F. Yarn, secre- tary of the convention. "One exact item is this: The visitors making purchases in excess of $10O worth were entitled to an extra chance on the Premo car. From this source alone we were certified to purchases amounting to $167, ,o00.
 "Not all the merchants made report of their purchases and not all of them purch ased amounts entitling them to the extra tickets. From the exact information at hand we know that the Alabama merchants convention brought $35o,o in trade with our whole salers and manufacturers who are members of the division over and above the business placed with non-member merchants and job bers.
 Primarily the convention intended to entertain the visitors and effect closer bond between the visitors and Birmingham. The big business done is that much thrown in and to the good"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-09
ON SILENT WINGS
melodies.

Marion Couthouy Smith, in Harper's. There is a flock of birds, that go Not south, but westward, with the dying days They fly in silence through the twilight
 ways, Sounding no call of joy, no cry of woe. One a4ser one, like some thin rivers flow, The line goes on, athwart the morning rays. Through the clear monday, or the stormy
 haze, Still winging toward oblivion, mute and slow. No eyes shall follow them with hindling sight, And none shall know the seas where they
 are tost,
 When their spent pinions shall at last be
 furled From the long striving of their hopeless flight; For these are loves denied, and friendship
 lost,
 And all the unwanted treasures of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 Even the ocuist is sometimes all at sea-
 If you sit in a draft the doctor may cash it for you.
 A hen-pecked man is the silent partner of his wife's woes.
 Love may not be disease, but it is ire quently of a rash nature
 Wise is the man who says nothing when he is defeated and says it gracefully.
 It is a powerful swat at the moralist that glad heart and cheerful liar travel in company.
 Don't be afraid to speak the truth it is harmless though not guaranteed to be especial y pleasing.
 "It is the mark of superior mind to under stand and be influenced by the superiority of others.'-H. B. S.
 We may be willing to listen to reason, but we have small chance of hearing her when she is a thousand miles away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-09

preserved by the Louisiana Historical society.
 From New Orleans Emmett and his mln- strel company went to Mobile and subsequently, came to Montgomery to fill an engagement in the winter of 1859. Herman Frank Arnold was leader of small orchestra in the old Montgomery theatre and also played for pun lie and private entertainments While on visit to this city two years ago, he described to the Advertiser and his story was published at the time, how Emmett had come to hun, apparently in distress, 15 minutes before the minstrel performance was billed to start and asked him to fix up the score of "Dixie" for the orchestra. MT. Arnold protested that the orchestra parts could not be prepared in time for the performance, but asked for the music of the song. There was no music except in Emmett's head, and the minstrel insisted that MT. Arnold should take it down as he whistled it. l. was so taken down, the whitawashed wall back of the stage. For the first per formance the only accompaniment to "Dixie" was the vamDing of the banjos and other stringed instruments by the minstres. On the second night, MT. Arnold had copied the air on paper from the stage wall and made score for the orchestra, this being the first manuscript copy of the melody which has since gone around the world. The air became the "war song" of the south in 1861, after MT. Arnold had had the words and music printed in New York and distributed 300 copies in Montgomery.
 The Asheville citizen can accept this infor- nation as authoritative, because 1t was in this city that the music of ''Dixie'' was first com mitted to paper and, on MT. Arnold's own statement the record is complete Emmett composed both the words and music of Dixie" Mr. Arnold gave it the musical form in which it is still the most invigorating of American melodies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-09
DUTY OF FOREIGN BORN

To tn Editor of The Age-Herald:
 Permit me to voice the deep feeling of ap- proval which I know is the patriotic response of thousands to your editorial comment few days ago anent the recrudence of the hyphen- ates in our body polite.
 Your strictures and conclusions reflect the best thought of America upon the subject, and if influential press everywhere had the courage of honest convictions to speak out now on this question it would save us much worry in the years to come.
 The foregn-born man who is in Am erica to foster alien ideals rather than to become whole-hearted American with American ideals, is an enemy to our social and political health and maintenance of good order requires that he be shown the error of his way emphatica,ly Respectfully, E. R. CALHOUN.
 Birmingham, September T. 1922.