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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-26
Our Young Men

The Young Mems Anti-Amendment
club of Birmingham will hold an i'm
portant meeting Saturday night. Short
addresses will be made by sgd J.
Bowie and NJ. w. Howard. There
should be a rousing turnout, and there
doubtless will be.
Comparatively few men above so
years of age are supporting the amend
ment. Our men of ripe years as rule
are men of mature judgment They
cannot be led by crafty politicians or
caught by maudlin stuff spoken or
printed in advocacy of constitutional
prohibition They think and decide
for themselves. 1t should be the same
way with all of our younger men, but
it is too often the case that some
young voters think very little. They
listen to any plausible talker. Anything
like calm reflection is foreign to them.
They are manly and brave enough, but
in politics they are unseasoned and
woefully unsophisticated. They do not
know a campaign canard when they
see it, and they find 1t hard to winnow
falsehood from truth.
But the Young Mems Anti-Amend-
ment club represents the intelligent
and courageous manhood Of Greater
Birmingham. The membership is near
ly 1900 strong. Every member is a
qualified voter and there is not molly
coddle in the entire lot.
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THE LATE SOL HAAS.

From the washington Post, November %,
1909
Much sorrow is felt in the railroad
world and also the general business
world at the death of Solomon Haas
which occurred on Sunday morning at
Hollywood. a suburb of Los Angeles.
Sol Haas was born in Germany s. years
ago. He came to this country when a
young man and settled In Georgia. He
served four years as a Confederate SOL
der of marked distinction, and entered
the railroad service in 1853 as soliciting
agent of the Atlantic Coast Line. Later
he became general freight agent of the
Richmond and Danville railroad, and
subsequently traffic manager of the As
ISOLATED Railways of Virginia and the
Carolinas. which then in cluded the Rich
mond and Danville, the seaboard Air
Line and Atlantic Coast Line. In 1887
he became traffic manager of the Rich
mond and Danvil1e railroad and con-
tinued In that position until the forma-
ton of the Southern Railway In 1894
when he was made assistant to the presi-
dent of that road.
In 1896, his health having become Inn
paired he retired from active service, and
had spent the last few years in travel in
an effort to regain his health.
No man ever lived who had more de-
voted friends than Sol Haas. He was o
great railroad man in every respect; his
subordinates looked upon him as a great
leader and confidently rested their for
tunes and their future In his hands; he
never failed In any trust thus reposed.
It was always said of him that no man
ever voluntarily left his employment. He
was also regarded as one of the wisest
men In the railroad world; he had few
peers, and It was said always he had no
superior in the line of work to which he
devoted his life
He leaves a wife, who was Miss Anne
Cowan of Wilmington. N. c.; two broth
ers, Aaron Haas of Atlanta, Ca, and
Isaac Haas of Cleveland, o., and two
daughters, Mrs. Henry Kondrup and Mrs.
]. NJ. Brooks. Mr. Kondrup is connected
with the interstate commerce commission
and Mr.. Brooks formerly was a MEM
Der of the faculty of Princeton university.
Mr.. Haas was president of the Sloss
company for several years, after retir-
ing from the railroad service, and be-
came one of Birmingham So popular and
public-spirited citizens.
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To be in anger Is lmpiety;
But who Is the man that is not angry?
-Tlmon of Athens.
Payment Of Teachers DELAYED

The state Of Alabama, holding over
two millions of people and full Of nat
ural resources, is emphatically hard
up. THE three-mill tax levied for the
benefit of the schools had been handed
over to Tom, Dick and Harry, and
when November 20 came there was not
enough money in the treasury to pay
the teachers In the sixty-seven coun-
ties of the state. The sum of s325,000
was needed for that purpose, and State
Treasurer Seed did not have the mon
ey. And yet the constitution says the
three-mill tax shall be applied to the
support and maintenance of the public
schools" No act Of the legislature
consolidating funds can repeal pro-
vision of the constitution, and some
one should be held responsible for the
illegal disbursement of school moneys.
At this writing it Is not known how
the deficit is to be met. The loan re-
ported to have been made by Governor
Conner has not, SO far as plain laymen
and outsiders can discover, material
lied, and the teachers may not get
their meager salaries promptly and the
states credit will necessarily suffer
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FRAUDS OF MEDIUMS

From the New York American.
TN discussing Nine. Eusapia Palladino.
the italian medium, who arrived here
l. wednesday, and her spectacular work
abroad, Prof. James H. Hyslop, secretary
of the American Society for Psychical Re-
search, and the best known authority in
America on ''spiritistic' phenomena, de-
ciared last evening that many so-called
mediums commit fraud without being
aware that they are doing so.
Professor Hyslop said that such medi-
ums fooled themselves without knowing
it. Their receptions are perpetrated when
they are In "subconscious'' state. He
referred to the true mediums as doing
"supernormap' work, and asserted that
there Is all the difference in the world be-
tween the "subconscious" and the super
normal"
IT recently investigated a peculiar case
In a western city," said he. THE woman
practiced fraud without knowing that she
did SO. We held her hands and feet, and
yet she was able to shake tambourine.
While that was going on we took a fash
light photograph, and discovered that she
was holding the tambourine between hel
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Women In Politics

Polling place workers are not permit
ted to stay whiting 80 feet of the en-
trance to the polling place, and Section
412 of the political code of Alabama
places upon the sheriff the RESPONSE
bility for enforcing this regulation.
Keep in mind the fact that the law
compels all workers to stay 30 feet
away from. not only the ballot box,
but the entrance to the room in
which the box stands. Those suscepti-
BILE Christian women who propose to
question of police regulations should
carefully ascertain what their rights
are at the polls, and If they know, then
they surely will not attempt to tran
scend them. They really should not at
tempt to serve the schemes of the Co.
mer machine and the Conner politicians
who devised the amendment and
named the day of election on strictly
political grounds. Politics" says the
Dothan Journal, 'is often a dirty game.
Men lose their better judgment in the
heat Of the fight, often riots and blood
shed result. 1t is no place for gentle
woman. At any moment things are liza
BILE to happen that will offend her when
not meant for her at all. Therefore, it
would be better for her to stay out
But, if she just won't stay out, knowing
that she is on dangerous ground, and
after being told Of her danger, goes in
any way, If she does hear things and
see things that she ought not to see
and hear, we hope she will be kind
enough to pass them up unnoticed or
make the best of it,"
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French Chamber Of Deputies

Early in the new year France will
elect a chamber of deputies to hold Of
fee for five years. The new parlia-
ment will choose a successor Of Presi-
dent Fallieres, aud thus the coming
election In France is fully as important
a. the coming one in England.
In many respects they are similar.
The French leader, M. BRAND, is as elo.
quent and resourceful as is Premier
AsQuith. Both are leaders of the more
progressive section, or party of their
respective countries. Both fight for
new ideas as opposed to old ones.
Both court the labor vote. Both
have deficits to overcome. The BRAND
ministry desires to establish old-age
pensions as England has done, and
both premiers are willing to lay the
burden on the rich and well-to-do. AS
quith is not advocating separation of
church and state. or even the abolition
Of the house of lords, but his sup
porters are doing all this. and the sue
esus Of the Asquith government In the
nnmiaG eleai0 Noald lead toUard
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such results. Both countries are In
clined to be radical and progressive.
Premier BRAND secured an important
victory when he induced the chamber
to stand by the system of voting for
deputies from the scrutin 'arrondisse-
ment. Under this plan each electoral
district elects a single deputy Under
the opposite plan each department as
such would elect the number of depu-
ties to which it would be entitled. The
vote by departments was introduced in
1881. 1t was replaced by the vote by
ACCOMPLISHMENTS in 1876. The depart
ment system was restored in 1885, and
the district system in 1889. The latter
had stood twenty years when the cham
Der attempted to upset it last month.
premier Brands forceful intervention
saved the district system and the COM
ing election will be conducted in ac-
cordance with it,
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Qualification Of Electors

The registrars of Jefferson county
sit today and tomorrow at the court
house in this city. They sit to regis
ter those who have come OF age since
September, 1908, and also those who
shall prove to the reasonable satisfac-
ton of the board that by reason of
physical disability of themselves, or by
reason Of sickness in their families
during the period of previous registra-
ton, or by reason of absence from the
county, they had no prior opportunity
to register.
A man, too, must have O residence
somewhere, and any person can select
the county and precinct of his resi-
dence. An elector who has moved into
another precinct within three months
is entitled to registration and vote in
the precinct he removed from, and any
elector who may have changed the
county of his residence can after one
year be registered in the county to
which he has removed upon the pro-
duction of his certificate.
But above all else, let 1t be remem-
bered that each person who has
reached the age of 81 since the second
day of October, 1908, is entitled to reg
istration and to a vote without the pay
ment Of any poll tax whatever.
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Liverpool Cotton Market.

Liverpool, November 25.-Cotton spot,
dull; prices points lower. American mid
ding fair. 1850; good middling. Ind;
middling. 1891; low middling, 7.4sd; good
ordinary, 7.23d ordinary. 6.sSd. The sales
OF the day were 5000 bales, of which 800
were for speculation and export and in
olnded $1,000 American. Receipts, 1000
bales, none American.
Futures, quiet and steady and closed
steady. November, November December,
7.Td; December-January,- =. Slid; Janu-
ary-February, T.40d; February March,
7l21sd; March-April. 7.45hd; April-May,
LID; May-June. 7.4s1zd; June-July, 7.4sd;
July-August. 7.4sd; August-Septembe
7.1S1fd; September-October, 6.6ed; October
November, 6-55d; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
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AS the Walker County News re-
marks, the average farmer Of Alabama
is opposed to amending the constitu-
ton He refused to vote for the ratifi-
cation of the present constitution, and
it was with the greatest difficulty that
the managers Of the ratification CAM
paign pulled it through; and this not
withstanding the fact that the new in
strument practically DISTINGUISHED the
great mass of the negro vote, which
was supposed to be popular measure.
Inc farmers as class are on general
principles against the proposed amend
ment to be voted on next Monday and
they'll play large part in defeating 1t.
If they were too conservative to vote
for ratification eight years ago, they
are certainly too conservative to vote
for Section 2, which would give the
legislature power to designate the
home as place where liquors may
not be stored or kept"
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To Leave Tuesday.

Il notice from an afternoon paper that
the Rev. Brooks Lawrence and other
Anti-Saloon league workers are to leave
Tuesday for Chicago to attend an anti
saloon gathering there" said an anti
amender.
las it is seen now that the amenders
have no chance of carrying the state, or
even Jefferson county. a trip to Chicago
bright and early the morning after the
election will be just the thing to offset
rank and file Of the amender contingent
cannot afford Chicago trip. and will
have to be satisfied with a trip up Salt
river"
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Gay Resort City.

Jacksonville, Fla, is the busiest city in
the south just now" said H. B. MADISON,
proprietor of the Metropolitan hotel of
Birmingham. 81 have made several visits
to that city recently and each time re-
mark growth and Improvement 1 was
there early In the present week and found
the hotels crowded. The races, beginning
November %, naturally attracted thou
sands of visitors. Jacksonville is now the
only city in the country which allows
bookmaking. There is no such thing as a
lid there. The city is as gay as New
Orleans or as gay as Saratoga used to be-
There is an enormous liquor traffic in
Jacksonville. Both retail and wholesale
dealers are reaping harvest. l find that
the wholesale merchants are shipping a
great deal of whisky to customers in
Alabama. Little or none Of this whisky
goes to blind tigers, but to the homes of
those who are permitted by law to keep
it at home. The state of Florida is to
vote on constitutional prohibition a year
from now, but 1t is thought the PROPOSE
ton will be defeated at the polis.'
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teeth. She was In a 'subconscious' state.
and did not know that she was trying to
deceive US.
1T hardly know what name to give such
practices. It was what you might call q
'subconscious' fraud. Her real self was
not responsible. We could not blame her
for the receptions any more than we could
hold sleepwalker responsible for his
acts.
There Is a wide difference inSmediums.
and each Individual must be tested. To
thoroughly determine IL Mime. Palladino
does 'supernormar work would reQuire
from $50 to 200 sittings. 1t would take
years to do that properly.
''It would be an easy matter to write
ordinary questions and receive ordinary
answers. The mediums from the subcon-
scious can tell us things that we already
know, but the true mediums disclose
things beyond ourselves. and that is what
we call 'supernormal.'
Professor Hyslop said that he had tested
the work of scores of mediums, but was
not prepared to classify them. Their
work Is sometimes unsuccessful. Even
true mediums are sometimes caught in de-
ceptions.
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from the New York Evening Journal.

From the New York Evening Journal.
IT HID state of Alabama is about
Wy to VOTE through the state lesi'-
lature, on the question of state
wide prohibition.
Prohibition is already fairly well de-
veloped in Alabama. The present propo-
sition is to make it constitutionally impos-
sible to sell anything to drink anywhere
in the state.
The matter has been discussed widely
and intelligently in the Alabama news
papers by business men, clergymen and
citizens of all kinds. The matter. of
course, is interesting to the entire union.
The questions of prohibition and of
real emperance-questions very far apart
have been important since the Begin
ming of civilization, and they are espe-
cially important now.
If prohibition meant real temperance,
every sane man would advocate prohi-
biticn instantly. Unfortunately, prohibit
ton does not mean temperance. It means
the control of a majority of the citizens
by a minority.
It means, as has been proved all over
the union, that the dangerous drinks,
highly alcoholic, easily concealed, will be
universally substituted for the harmless
light drinks such as beer and wine.
In the states where prohibition has
been enforced drunkenness and the sale
Of whisky have increased.
In the United States army. where hyp-
ocritical and insincere congressman
ah 4ba ~or+oar orz ~u4.Aat.x =
army prohibition, drunkenness has in
creased 500 per cent; assertions have In
creased greatly.
Alabama legislators and editors should
note that in our army. with the abolition
Of the canteen, which means the light
beer and wine for the soldier, there has
come the extensive drinking of whisky,
until today the hospital average Of the
American army is higher than that Of any
army in the world.
A community. village. city or state that
establishes prohibition tries an expert
ment that has failed over and over and
proved itself over and over a failure and
harmful
Drunkenness has constantly diminished
throughout the world, but not because
of prohibition. Drunkenness has dimin-
ished where the sale of mild. truly tenn
perate drinks has been highly developed
and the sale of harmful. highly alcoholic
stimulants discouraged
The community that puts itself under
the restriction of prohibition confesses
to the world that it has given up the
real task of men, which is to control
themselves by the power OF their own
will
No man denies the sincerity of pro-
hibitionists. There are among them, of
course. some that find the trade of pro-
fessional prohibitionist extremely lucra-
tive. But as a whole the prohibition
lists, men and women. are sincere, earnest
people, hating drunkenness because of
misfortune in their own families or
among their friends, but unable to realize
that you cannot replace strength of will
by strength Of law.
If Alabama adopts statewide prohibit
ton, Alabamas state wide development
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WILL MEAN STAGNATION

Will be arrested. Legislators and the
editors of Alabama should. compare the
state of Maine with the neighborinp state
of Massachusetts before deciding that
their state. at this late date, shall i'm
itate the example of Maine in a direc-
ton which has proved to be an abso-
lutte failure
Inc state which has prohibition saws
that the prosperous individual shall hava
what he wants In his own way: ana tb.
wretched drunkard shall get his whisky
OF the West kind In his way, secretly ana
Illegally. And the average good man of
moderate means, the skilled mechanic. the
use1ui small citizen, shall be told that be
must be managed and controlled by we'll
meaning. misguided individuals. He must
lead his life to please a few enthusiasts
VINO are intent on saving drunkards and
at the same time realize that the condf-
ton of the drunkard is made worse than
1t was
ihe enterprises of Alabama will not
develop, the desirable population and
prosperity of Alabama will not devotion
under prohibition
Under statewide prohibition business
VIII fall off. and actual drunkenness Will
increase.
Inc criminal will still sell whisky to
the man that wants 1t. The harmless
light drinks will be unattainable. and
the harmful. poisonous alcoholic spirits
will be the universal beverage of those
that drink
The intelligent citizens of Alabama
would not for one moment consider for
bidding the use of tobacco, although
many very earnest prohibitionists believe
that tobacco. as well as alcohol, should
CO.
Inc Intelligent citizen says tobacco Is
mild. and relatively harmless II we drive
1t out we bring in something more dam
gerous, like the opium of China.
That intelligent citizen should say that
pure. light beers and wines are relative
ly harmless; in moderation they are alb
solutely harmless. Prohibition can drive
not be hidden. But when it drives them
out 1t compels the use in their place of
the more dangerous drinks.
The question of true temperance will
be solved eventually in Alabama and else
where, not by saying to a man. you
shall not" or treating him as though
he were a child to be taken care of by
a kind-hearted prohibition minority.
True temperance will come, first of all,
from mans will power, his growing in
telligence. conquest of poverty. For pow
erty causes thousand times more drunk
enness than temptation.
True temperance will come, when the
use of poisonous highly alcoholic stin-
ulants, discouraged everywhere by pub
lie opinion by law and by high license,
shall practically destroy the use Of whisky.
leaving light, pure beers. and light, pure
wines as the only stimulants used.
Alabama votes in few days. 1t will
be interesting to see the verdict of that
state. vote to rule the state accord
ing to the wishes of minority will be
vote against the states growth. and
vote In criticism of the intelligence and
power of self-government among the
states citizens
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On Monday next the people of Ala
bama will vote on the question of con-
stitutional prohibition. It will be the
first time the state at large has had
the opportunity of expressing itself at
the polls on any proposition relating to
prohibition. The sound democratic
doctrine of local option was cherished
IN Alabama until the Rev. Brooks Law
renee came from Ohio and taught and
foisted a new doctrine The present
governor and the present legislature
were elected in 1906 on a platform
which declared for local option. But
Mr.. Lawrence, a cunning politician and
an expert lobbyist, found it easy to
push a statewide prohibition bill
through the legislature and later on
the prohibitionists, led by Lawrence,
Weakley and Governor Conner, found it
just as easy, through a fabricated pub
lie sentiment, to have the legislature
pass the Carmichael law and the Full
Ter law, forcing on Alabama the most
drastic sumptuary legislation in this
country. But now that the people of
the state are to have voice, the pro-
posed amendment and Lawrence & Co.
will go down to sweeping defeat
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Musical Service roniuht.

There VIII be a fine musical service at
Iemple Emanuel tonight, under the d.
rection of Mrs. Edna Gockel Gussen,
organist There will be no sermon, but
the services have been arranged as fit
ting to the Thanksgiving season.
There will be double quartet and the
Spicker ritual music will be sung. Among
the special solo numbers will be MY
Soul Is Athirst for God" by Gaul. 1t will
be sung by James Cone, tenor. Another
solo will be sung by new basso, John
Shaddick-"Arm On, Ye Brave" from
Handel's Judas Maccabeas." The serv-
ices at the temple begin at o'clock and
the public is cordially invited.
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scoviIIe Talks About Atlanta.

Atlanta is nightly pleased with the
success of the great automobile show
and races two weeks ago." said D. H.
Scoville. who, with his wife, is the guest
of his brother at the New Morris hotel
in Birmingham.
Atlanta entertained great crowds dur
ing the entire event, and all seemed
to be pleased. Atlanta believes she has
the finest speedway in the country and
this seemed to be the verdict of those
who drove over 1t.
Yes, Atlanta is growing. 1t is always
growing. Atlanta is great and will al
ways be great.
Birmingham is showing good progress.
No visitor can fail to appreciate the
progressive spirit of this busy district"
Mr.. Scoville is proprietor of the Marion
hotel in Atlanta
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Trylno TO Curb the Police.

ST. Petersburg. November 6.-The Oc-
toberists have introduced In the duma
bill designed to abolish the extraordi-
nary powers now exercised by the po-
litical police in the preliminary investiga-
lions preparatory to the trial of political
offenders. The new measure would make
these evidence-getting inquiries the duty
of the regularity constituted judicial au-
thority. The legislation is aimed at the
practice of the gendarmerie in imprison-
ing political suspects sometimes as Ions
as two years without reporting the cases
to the courts