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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
Politics In Congress

When Congress reassembles, on
Tuesday next. 1t is plain the work of
political alignment will be begun, and
it will be carried on to the end OF the
session-until August next, in all prob
ability. The talk about an early ad-
journment is customary, but 1t Is rare
" fulfilled. Il will not be this year, for
between the insurgents and the admin
istration, issues are crowding and jos
Ting each other toward the center of
the stage
The President proposes to hurl two
bombshells into politics this week;
the one will relate to the conservation
of natural resources, and the other TO
the antitrust bill and the powers OF
the interstate commerce commission.
The President will no doubt endeavor
to line UPON paper-with the Roose-
welt policies; and whatever he pro-
poses is sure to add to the activity OF
politics during the present session.
The tariff bill will come up, too.
Speaker Cannon cannot prevent men,
bers from discussing the tariff bill in
connection with the cost of living,
which may be investigated. Any in
yestigation of the cost of living will
necessarily be an investigation of the
Aldrich tariff.
Clifford Pinchot has hurled another
firebrand into the republican party,
and the -Ballinger investiga-
ton will surely result in an explosion
that will rend the G. o. p. from stem TO
stern. Pinchot is full of aggressive
ness and he does not mince words
when he discusses the interests that
the standpatters serve. Either Pinchot
or Ballinger will have to leave the
public service, and Pinchot, it is plain,
will have to be put out by force, if put
ont at all. He is on the spot full OF
fire and political birthstone.
The Pinchot issue, the cost of living
and the Presidents special messages
will furnish the ammunition and the
insurgents can be trusted to use it
while Leader Champ Clark and the OPP
position will stand ready to back up
any and all opponents of the admins
tration.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
Professor Ward of Butler County

Railroad Builder Cochrane has a
match in public usefulness in School
Teacher Isaac E. Ward of Searcy, But
Ter county. President Cochrane's work
covers more ground, and he may per-
baps in the end become a benefactor
to all the western side of the state.
He may bring to the western counties
increased facilities of transportation.
He may build railroad system; and
then he may build but to fatten a sys-
TEN already in existence. Thus far
he prefers to remain independent, and
if he fights the battle out on that line,
he will become benefactor indeed.
But Professor Ward teaches but a
single school, in a rural district. He
declines any wider field. He finds a
single school enough for all his ener-
gies; or, rather, he finds in his own
home community all the room he needs
to work in. And the way he has de-
veloped the public school in which he
has taught the children of Searcy is
something marvellous. Imagine what
Alabama would be if Professor Ward 8
work could be duplicated in every
other school district in the state! This
cannot be simply because the other
districts have no Professor Ward. I'VE
have changed" he says, "a backwoods
and Indifferent people into commune
ty of young people of culture and re-
finement, with lofty ideals. The school
buildings and grounds are the pride OF
the community, and we make the
school the social center about which
the whole life revolves. This building
has never cost the state a cent. ]
have been teaching here for "a years
I am now teaching the second genera,
tion-having taught their parents
and in this time | have never missed
attention to the school a single term
What has been done here can be done
in every school district of the state
| While we have reared splendid build
ing, consider this a small matter
compared with the noble men and wo
men who have gone from my school
and whose lofty characters will prove
more lasting than all the BIT. ldings."
Professor Ward is not wholly AGA
demic. He secures a demonstrator te
teach his pupils how to farm in the
most modern manner, and in this way
ne hopes to change for the better ths
agriculture of his locality. The stor,
Of Professor Ward is modestly told
and the wish comes 1t once to tn,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
Justice in American Courts

Banker Morse "misapplied' bank
funds way back in 1907, and his mis-
appropriations hurried ON and aggra-
waited the panic of that year. Great as
his offense was, and hurtful as it was
to millions of innocent bystanders,
Morse has gone free up to the present
time. Now he is about to begin the
service of fifteen-year term in the
Atlanta prison. He "misapplied" the
funds of national bank and he was
convicted under federal laws.
In April, 1907, Banker John R.
Walsh of Chicago also "misapplied''
bank funds in Chicago, and he is still
a free man. He was duly convicted a
year ago, but his lawyers have no diff
ficulty in keeping him out of prison,
and no one knows when he will begin
to serve out his term
In the meanwhile the man who mis-.
appned $25 eDlonging to another man
in order to keep his family from hun.
ger was sent to prison two years ago
and possibly he may have become
again a free man before Morse OF
Walsh does. A pardon for Morse OF
Walsh should, however, be reckoned
on. for both have plenty of money.
But perhaps a day will come, about
800 years hence, when the scales OF
Justice will be balanced evenly, ano
the rich and the poor will fare alike
In the courts. Let no one expect any
such outcome in this century, for it Ii
not even in sight on the horizon. Il
does not exist. One procedure is KEEP
on tap in the courts for the rich ant
another for the poor.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Outsiders Point of View.

81 am glad that Birmingham has ex-
tended its limits and therefore added con-
siderably to Its population" said Roland
B. CARING of Chicago.
IT have been an occasional visitor to
this district for something like is years
and have always appreciated the fact that
Birmingham was in class to itself when
1t came to the matter of .squaring' its I'M
portance as a business center with Its
small census population as officially set
forth In the census. In 1900 Birmingham
was credited with a population of only
3S.415, but 1t then ranked In Importance
from certain points of view with most
cities of $4,000 for 100000. That was be-
cause of its extensive and populous SUI
burbs. But away from Birmingham
among those not familiar with the district
this city's Importance and Its great flu
ture have been questioned by reason OF
the small census population. In 1910 Biz
mingham will have. according to local es-
Inmates. fully $4,000 inhabitants. This
will seem adequate and will prevent out
sders from expressing doubt as to the
real Birminghams size.
This is one OF the most substantial
cities In the country and 1t is safe to
predict that no city In the south will re-
cord the strides it is sure to make within
the next 10 years. There are young men
IN business here today who will live to see
Birmingham reach the 10000, II not the
1,000,0 600, mark"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
A GREAT HAS-BEEN.
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
Alas! for Red Robert At As he IS
beaten by a second-rater But for his
inches, he was the greatest man the
ring has known since Tom sayers.
Though foreign born, he was as popular
here as Sullivan himself. We delighted
in him for dropping of the III when
he should have picked 1t up, and for his
gathering of the oh when he should have
left it alone. What we admired was the
punch and, much more than that, his
gluttony for punishment.
John c. Heenan was the most adored
of all our champions, and he never won
a single fight, not even that with Sayers.
much smaller and an older man. BuI
Heenan could, and did, take punishment,
and tits that that makes your prize
fighter
Sullivan corld take punishment. too,
and in his bloom his swing was invin-
chile. He fell in 1892, when he should
have been at his zenith. Perhaps we
thought the more of him for his way
wardness. When he lost the champion
ship to a boxer some Of us Americans
rubbed our eyes the next morning and
thought that the prize ring was no longer
what Savers, the "ripton Slasher," Nat
Langham, Aaron Jones, Tom Allen, and
all that she had made tia fair stand
up fight"
And hence Corbett was never popular,
for there had never been any evidence
that he could take as well as give. There
is difference between the schools Of the
fencing master and the bloody field where
swordsmen meet foot to foot in red bat
tle Corbett was of the former; Fitz OF
the latter, and the solar plexus fixed it.
Fitz was a fighter; Corbett was an artist.
Fitz had popularity Corbett never had
and such as Jeffries never ATTAINED. AS
for the latter, his weight and strength pu,
Rim out of every class. And yet had
Fitz not underestimate him, Fistlana
might have had another story of theil
first battle.
Alasl for Fitz. But he'll be in Val.
halla
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
Graft and Taxation

Supreme Court Justice Howard of
New York grew indignant when the
bill Of some appraisers Of damages was
brought before him in court. He cut
down their bills and then he unloaded
his wrath on graft and grafters in gen.
eral. 1.-THE age Of patriotism he said,
shas yielded to the age of commercial
ism. Uppermost in the human mind
today is not the Stars and Stripes, but
the dollar-mark- At least 40 per cent
Of al the money appropriated for pub
lie use II lost in graft. All things
could be possible II this frightful leak
eop,d be stopped-roads. canals. libra
N. asylums and hospitals"
z1uDo - plenty Of grssd in the coun'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT MORNING
NEWSPAPERS, AND OF THEIR MAKING

So it Is always and shall always be
with g. morning newspaper. The night
carries tho news
The writer in designing the new Age
Herald newspaper building put upon the
front over the entrance two owls-birds
of night-looking with shining eyes upon
the globe of the world, a bit above and
between them. And far above, GROWING
the top there is an owl upon either side,
and above each owl is a great globe
standing out to itself
Both are perfect in detail. To the front
one shows the eastern hemisphere and
the other the western hemisphere
All are illustrative of the fact that the
night carriers the news. 1t comes from
all the world. 1t is gathered and dis
tributed and assorted at night, and In
the morning presented.
The Age-Hera1d will move into its new
building on Fifth avenue within the next
two weeks. With its new machinery and
the comforts which shall surround the
men who make it there should be some
thing doing. At any rate those who make
1t daily propose to keep pace with the
Greater Birmingham and make it the
Greater Age-Herald. That is the fond
hope of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
Free Books For All Readers

When Theodore Roosevelt said, "Af-
ter the church and the school, the free
public library is the most effective III
fiuence for good in America, he de-
fined the economic value of tax for
the maintenance of a public library.
Given few years, a good library well
administered, will make itself felt for
law, order and decency in any COM
munity
1t attracts the young men from the
street corners.
1t furnishes good, wholesome stories
free, and thus lessons the sales and
perusal of penny dreadfuls.
1t gives to idle and dissipated minds
wholesome subjects of thinking.
1t furnishes a daily lesson in courte-
sy and helpfulness to all alike.
1t is living example of the care and
conservation of public property
It's atmosphere is ennobling and re-
fining.
1t is a reservoir of culture and in
spiration to which whoever will may
come.
By raising the standard of citizen.
ship the preservation of property is in
sured and its value enhanced. 1t pro-
notes general intelligence, and gen
eral intelligence promotes self-govern
ment and obedience to laws.
1t would be an economic mistake in
this prosperous and increasing city
and county to longer withhold tax
for the means of self-improvement
The same reasons that induce Atlanta
to appropriate each year $1S,500 for
the maintenance of libraries should in.
duce the people of this city to appro.
pirate at least half as much for SINH.
lar purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
VISITING BIRMINGHAM.

Mrs. Leila Seton Wilder of New De-
catur, Ala, is spending a few days in
the city and is stopping at the Hillman.
Mrs. Wilder is one of the most distin-
guished women in the entire south" said
a member of the bar, "as well as one
of the most charming and cultivated. For
more than 20 years she has herself sue
cessfully managed her magnificent plan
tation of more than 1900 acres near the
Decaturs and frontir on the Tennessee
river. and entertain l in her hospitable
home many promir mt men and women.
She is a frequent visitor to Birmingham
where she has many friends who al
ways give her a hearty welcome"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02

boys and mark their errors and make
them correct them after he had been
punctured SO much in his typographical
errors
But of all the men who make I'D the
world there are no set of them who more
deserve the plaudits of the people than do
the men who have the skill and the brains
and dexterity to put into type correctly
that which men write, or sometimes think
they write
To-the Printer want to pay my tribute
this morning OF this New Year. I have
never known good one who was not
good man.
Once, many years ago when was be-
ing educated In setting type In town or
city in or near the far southeastern coast
on morning newspaper an earthquake
jumped beneath US and took from us our
chimney tops. cracking our brick walls
and pieing all our cap cases.
Three boys got the paper out next morn
ing. They got the news, dictated 1t to
themselves, so to speak, and set the type
from cases as they were scattered about.
There were errors and lots Of them In the
type, but the story of the great earth
quake was told and the details of what
had happened and the casualties were
known to the people the next morning.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
IN THE FIRELIGHT.

By Eugene Field.
The fire upon the hearth is low.
And there Is stiffness everywhere,
While. like winged spirits, here and
there
The freight shadows ffuttering go,
And as the shadows around mo creep,
A childish treble breaks the gloom,
And softly from a farther room.
Comes. Nov lay me down to Sleep"
And somehow, with that little prayer
And that sweet treble in my ears,
My thoughts go back to distant years
And linger with a loved one there,
And as hear my childs Amen,
My mothers faith comes back to me;
Crouched at her side I seem to be,
And mother holds my hand again.
o. for an hour in that dear place
o. for the peace Of that dear time!
O, for that childish trust sub1ime
o. for glimpse Of mothers facet
Yet. as the shadows round me creep,
do not seem to be alone
Sweet magic Of that treble tone
And Now I lay me down TO Sleep
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02

erature in st. Charles college. Ellieot
City, Nd, but spent his summer vaca-
ton at the ancestral home, The Forest
in Amelia county, Va, seven miles from
a railroad. I was his guest there for a
few days one summer nearly IL years
ago. The old wooden house, of two
stories, with its creaking timbers, its
broad front porch. its many gables and
its moss-c covered roof, was just such an
abode as poets imagine but seldom pos
sess. 1t was one of the oldest houses
in Virginia, and Father Tabb told me
that one of his great grandparents was
born there. 1t was skirted by vast
wood of primeval oaks. Father Tabb
was delightful host and distinguished
scholars and ecclesiastics frequently
visited him during vacation time.
Father Tabb was a kinsman of the
late DR.. Banister, the beloved rector of
Huntsville, and once came to Hunts
Vile as his guest.
ITO me one of Father Tabb's most
beautiful poems of one stanza is this,
which he called 'Evoiution:'
out of the dusk, a shadow,
Then q spark,
Out of the cloud. silence,
Then lark.
Out of the heart a rapture,
Then q pain,
Out of the cold, dead ashes,
Life again"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
WOMEN IN WASHINGTON.
When They Get There Most of Them
Want To "Do" Society.

Spencer Harley in the january Smart
Set.
Everybody in washington pretends he
is on the most intimate terms with some
body just little bit higher in society,
and nearly everybody has to run in debt
to keep up the bluff. At the top of the So
ciety scale is tho diplomatic corps. who
are supposed never to have to worry
about money, and who spend all their
time talking to pretty women and giving
dinners. Bless your simple little heart. If
you could only look behind the scenes
ana see some of the diplomatic bluffs 1t
would open your eyesl The diplomats
all blum each other. and each minister
tries to make all the others believe that
he is the one man whom the President
really likes. And there are very few OF
them that don't economic when society
isn't looking. And hash Is hash, whether
In an embassy or a $5-a-week boarding
house.
It IL the women who are the greatest
buffers in Washington because they are
all crazy to be In society and most OF
them have nothing to do but to amuse
themselves. They come to washington
thinking that because their husbands are
congressman or government officials the
Presidents wife is going 10 chum with
them and diplomats will ask them to
dinner two or three times week. And
when they have been in washington q
week or two and md out that they are
very small toads in q very big puddle.
they begin to blum. They make the other
people at the boarding house sit up and
take notice when they talk about dinner
at the White House and tea at the en-
bassy which they know about ~ wen a.
most people in washington DO, strictly
from the outside. for the upper ten know
only people who have been properly
presented" to them, and don't waste
their time on the boarding house crowd.
And % Il goes up and down the scale.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
PAUL COOK.

Society in Washington is like a pousse
cafe. where each ingredient is in COM
partment by itself. The congressman
who lives on his salary isn't In it with
the congressman who married rich wife
and has a big house. The senator Is
higher than the congressman bht unless
he has money he doesn't count for much.
The member of the cabinet Is way up.
and he can work the bluff best of all for
everybody has to be good to him, and
there are any number of people who
would be only too glad to pay his rent
II he would agree to invite them to din
ner once a week.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
Fire pamaoes eteffens Home.

New York, January Lincoln
Steffens. well known as a contributor
to the magazines, win spend his New
years day in a ruined home. He and
his wife and motherinlaw, Mrs. Boz
tescu, spent several hectic hours to-
day chopping up his house at River
side. near New Rochelle, in an effort
10 get at a fire behind one OF the
chimney pieces, while the two maids
noured = feeble stream into the smoke
from 3 garden hose. All hands were
rettinr the worst Of 1t when the ar
rival Of flremen who had to tramp four
miles through the Bnowdrifts relieved
them Of their unequal task
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
A Perfect Acquisition.

The Rev. w. NJ. Anderson, the new pas
tor of the woodlawn Baptist, who begins
his pulpit work here today, is said to be
an exceptionally able and attractive
preacher. He comes from DothaE. where
he was held in very high esteem, and 1t
is predicted by his eo-religionists that he
will soon become one of the most popular
ministers in Birmingham.
"Mr. Anderson is known to the Baptists
of Alabama as not only strong man In
character and gentleman Of fine at
tainments. but as a pulpit speaker he is
always illuminating and delightful" said
a layman. HE is not quite 40 years Of
age and is a man of family. Mr.. Ander-
son is sure to make his power felt here
from the start"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
MEANEsT MAN IN THE WORLD.

From the Houston Post
One of the most beautiful Christmas
stories of the present season is recorded
by the New York Times. 1t illustrates
the sweet Christmas spirit which animates
people who are really good, and 1t also re-
minds us how diyinely some people are
protected by the brave officers of the law
against all dangers
A 12-year-old girl went to the front door
of John D. Rockefeller's town home on
Christmas Eve and rang the bell, wnicn
was answered by the butler, who demand
ed to know what the caller wanted. She
said she wanted to see Mr.. Rockefeller
and ask him for some money to BUY
Christmas presents with. Though Mr.
Rockefeller was not in the city at the
time. the butler detained her until he
could get his coat and hat and then re-
ouested her to go with him, which she
did expecting probably that the fine look
ing gentleman Intended to supply her
with presents.
Did she get the presents?
Hardly. She was promptly turned over
to a policeman by this man and was held
in custody throughout Christmas Day and
the Sunday following. and hailed before
the children's court on Monday That
butler thought he had performed great
| service for his employer and probably for
| the state. Perhaps he thought the child
might have designs upon Mr.. Rockefeller
life. Anyway, he took no chances and
| the policeman was ready to make an ex-
ample of any poor child that might SO
far profane the Rockefeller premises as
to ring the door bell.
1t illustrates that civilization of which
| New York is prone to boast-this arrest Of
a shabbily dressed girl on Christmas Eve
| for wanting to ask man worth $ooO.0oO,-
| 900 for some money to buy doll with
There is not in the state Of Texas a man
sion or cabin that q child could have
approached on Christmas Eve on such a
mission and received such treatment.
| There is not man in the state OF Texas
who would have turned her away pen
niless unless he happened to be penniless
himself.
| To reward a child's Christmas yearn-
! ing and innocent faith with Imprisonment
| for an offense no greater than wanting
| to ask the richest man in the world for a
| few dimes strikes us as meaner act than
! stealing money from a wooden leg or
| vegetables from garden attached to an
| old woman's home. 1t Is inconceivable
that such a thing could have happened
even in Chicago. where people are famous
| for their downright meanness and where
those who betray symptom of generos-
ity are supposed to be insane.
We are far from believing Mr.. Rookie
Teller himself would have wished his but
Ter to have 30 treated the unwelcome lit
4 tie caller. Indeed. 1t is possible that Il
the child's petition had reached his earn
he might have responded in kindly
manner by giving her cent or nickel
or at least by advising her not to eat toe
much, but to be cheerful and work hard
That butler. however, II probably the
meanest man in the world
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mind for a man like him in every
other sohoolhouse in the state. Posi-
bly, his work will become contagious,
and the newspaper men of Butler
county have much to answer for be-
cause they did not sooner make 1t
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
A POETS INITIALS,
I'm the Savannah Press.

From the Savannah Press.
The Birmingham Age-Herald has a
beautiful picture on its front page en-
titled peace on Earth" with the let
tiers "P. o. and E." prominently en-
bellshed. This would have been Pc
culiarly appropriate for the Richmond
papers