The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-31

ffToIoT children should be put in dog
pound and drowned" says health
] board expert. Such talk has been
heard before. Learned scientists like to
stand on the platform of publicity, In the
strong light that beats about those who
seek notoriety, and cry death to cripples,
death to idiots, to the malformed, the
stunted and the hopelessly incurabie
They would bring back the Spartan prac-
tice that bred race of perfect war
riors and stifed every gentle passion
that makes life worth living. They would
place expediency above right, physical
perfection, above humanity. Yet it is in
teresting to observe these scientists as
they make their cold-blooded plea for the
elimination of imperfect humanity. If the
man who lectures so dispassionately on
the best methods for putting idots out of
the way had an idiot son or a weak
minded daughter in his home would he
hold his inhuman views? He would not.
History tells of few men who have had
the courage to sentence their own flesh
and blood to death but they are not
many
New Jersey claims to have the oldest
practlcing barber In the United States. He
boasts of having shaved 229,0o0 persons
during his long tonsorial career and some
Imaginative person has compiled figures
which show that he has used a ton of
toilet soap, three hogshead of bay rum,
1no ,a,,oaa ~ oourdar n nd IN nnA boffJee of
hair restorer, not to mention 500 shaving
brushes 700 razors, 200 combs and 100 pairs
of scissors that he has worn out in 81
years In addition 1t might be stated
that inasmuch as he shaved 229,000 per-
sons, he called "Nextl'' $4,000 times. re-
marked that 22s,oOOO people needed some
thing on their hair and succeeded in MAX
ing enough Of them believe him to require
$1,000 bottles of hair restorer. Truly. here
is a career worth whilel
For creating excitement there is no COM
parison between the poker dealt out west
and the poker dealt by sweet little wife
who develops a temper when least ex-
pected.
It Is rather embarrassing for late ad-
rnirer Of General Stoessel to be unable
to distinguish whether he is despisable
villain or a real hero
A New Jersey man has just succeeded
in shaking himself loose from a post
mastership after a year of strenuous eff
fort. It appeared that he never would get
/ 1,o daA ~ 10
and now he is free To the hosts of hun
cry office-seelters who yearn year after
year for federal pie this story hath a
strange, fantastic ring, more worthy the
days Of genii and Aladdan's lamp or that
picturesque period when Baron Munc-
hansen exercised his fertile Imagination
than the cold reality of the present, but
1t Is true, nevertheless.
James S. Metcalfe Is now enjoying the
fruits of a notoriety gained at the ex-
pense Of the theatrical trust. When he
goes to a theatre and is not thrown bod
lily out, To- the populace wonders. smart
young reporters write stories about it
and the fame Of Mr.. Metoalfe increaseth.
Verify, Life owes a debt to Mr.. Metcalfe,
the indomitable theatrical trust cluster"
that 1t will never live to pay. AS an ad-
vertising promoter he is immense.
In these vigorous days when every man
has his press agent and it is the bust
ness Of the world to boom Number |, the
yellow journal poet does not wait for the
slow progress Of time to establish his
game. Not a bit of it. When something