The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-01-27

+ M HANCELLOR ANDREWS of the
w Nebraska State university, reply
Ing to opposition to Mr.. Rookie
feller's offer to give that institution $685.
666 If the people will give s33, 1888, gives ut
terance to some novel opinions that have
already made him much talked about. In
brief DR.. Andrews thinks that in the
course of time people will become so
"enlightened' that they will strangle
all the weaklings and thus prevent such
unfortunates from living out their miser-
able lives. This heartless idea was sug-
gested by the business methods of Rookie
Teller who has built the structure of his
great combine by ruthlessly crushing out
small competitors. although in justice it
must be said that he usually offers a fair
compensation to the man who is willing
to go out of business for the benefit of
the trust But the prediction of chance-
Tor Andrews is appalling to persons not
yet devoid of all humane feelings. AL
though 1t is said that in course of time
we may become creatures Of intellect
rather than emotion such a condition is
hardly conceivable to people of today and
it is safe to assume that life then will be
far less brighter, more empty, and more
mechanical
AS everybody knows, the custom of de-
stroying weaklngs is not a new one by
any means. The Spartans thus accounted
for the remarkable success they achieved
as athletes and as warriors but the Spar
tans were not distinguished as poets. art
lists, or musicians. They were fighters
and nothing else and as such their harsh
doctrine of Staying the weak to conserve
the strong was betting for such people,
But fortunately we have outgrown many
ideas prevailing when the Spartans were
mighty on a hundred battlefelds and the
opinion of Chancellor Andrews is one that
will cause an equal amount of condemna-
ton and criticism. If modern humanity
is drifting toward that time when asy-
iums and sanitariums will be superseded
by stout strangers it is at least not
pleasing topic for discussion.
The gentlemen who amuse themselves
by forming corners can manipulate
eggs very successfully after they are laid
but prior to that time Dame Partlet must
be consulted.
According to a press dispatch from
Washington Mrs Roosevelt has also fall
len into the ways of royalty. During the
engagement of Marie Tempest at the
National theatre. week of January 49, Mrs.
Roosevelt gave a box party and at the
end of the second act of THE Marriage
of Kitty she requested that Miss Tenn
pest be asked to come into the box to
be complimented for her excellent perfor-
nance. Immediately newspapers pointed
this out as merely another example of the
manner In which the Roosevets are con-
verting the White House into the a Eu-
among monarchs of the old world to tes-
tify to their approval of an actors per-
Torrance in this way, after all is said
this is a mere incident that means moth
ing. No doubt Mrs. Roosevelt was de-
lighted with Miss Tempests acting and
on the spur of the moment wished to pay
the actress a handsome compliment. I'm
der the circumstances she could not have
done it otherwise. She could not go be-
0lnQ Ine scenes anu a note OF private
call would have been too profunctory. At
any rate it was a pretty compliment and
one to make any theatrical star feel
proud.
Exctable persons are continually telling
the public how rapidly the nation is drift /
ing into monarchial ways and 1t is pre-
dicted that before many more years some
aspiring statesman may dareto seize COM
plete power but sensible people regard
such talk as rubbish and the hubbub rails
ed over gold lace at the White House or
the conduct of Mrs. Roosevelt at the
atre is subject for amusement more than
anything else.
Marcus Aurelius Hanna has been called
the modern Ajax, lodging presidential
lightning To Rooseveltians there is some