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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-16
FoundrieS In the United States

On April 1, 1910. there were 1894 foun-
dries in the United States and Canada, a
net increase of 22s in two years. The
Iron Trade Review deals with the num-
Der in each state without giving any fig
nres of the amount of melting they do
Pennsylvania ranks first in the list Of
foundry states, having 672 followed by
New York, with 454 Ohio with 452, ILL
nois with 346, and Indiana with 200. These
IRE the great foundry states.
Alabama leads all the southern state.,
possessing 81 foundries in active operation
on April 1 last. OF these foundries, 80
melt gray iron, brass, 2 malleable iron,
J steel, and IS aluminium. Some Of the
metals. Thirty Of these foundries are To-
Gated in this city. Among the cities Chi
eago stands frst, having ia foundries.
Chattanooga is Biruingham's nearest
eompetitor in the south although Allan
"a has % foundries. The foundry cities
IN the eouth are, in fact, Birmingham,
Chattanooga and Atlanta, and the meters
In this city and district are constantly in
CT easing, Including our pipe shops. as
L.. hal
trict as In all the rest of the south.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-16
Ratification Present and TO Come

Seven states have ratified the income
South Carolina. Maryland. Kentucky, IL
linois and Oklahoma. Four states have
acted adversely to date-virginia, whose
legislative branches voted at opposites
Rhode Island. New York, whose lower
house shows more votes for ratification
than otherwise. but not majority of
ne whole membership, and Massachu-
oetts. All four of these states were count
"a as negative states except Virginia.
Next winter there will be flood of
Affirmative votes, and the subject will
some up again in all of the states that
have rejected the amendment. The bat
no means settled that ~ states will reject
che amendment
The New York World thinks the phrase
oaory of the amendment should be
ehanged. In other words, that the phrase
s4rom whatever source derived" should
~ stricken from it. But the Springfield
Republican, true friend Of the amend
ment, opposes this proposition. 1t says:
ey1at the amendment stand just as 1t is.
The fight for its ratification has only just
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-16
MORALS AND THE DRAMA
ou the New York World

From the New York World.
In surpressing an indecent play and re-
fusing to renew the license of the theatre
producing it except on the guarantee of
cleaner drama the mayor has made no
attack on a free stage. Those who con-
ceive that he has merely confused license
with liberty. His action is no more a
censorship of the drama that the con-
1scation Of indecent pictures is censor
ship of art or the seizure of immoral lit
erature a censorship of the press.
All the mayor has done is to call halt
on the production of the degenerate form
of drama which has latterly passed the
bounds Of liberation. In this he has acted
within his duties and his course has gen.
eral public approval.
The fungus growth of the type of pru-
RENT comedy of which THE Girl With
the Whooping Cough" was an example
has been one of the extraordinary recent
developments of the local stage. The
plays and farces in question bore no re-
lation to the legitimate drama. They
were equally devoid of acting and literary
qualities, and their appeal was based
solely on suggestive situations and a sa-
lacious dialogue. They had none of the
reason for existence of the problem
play" Their indecency was calculated
and obvious. and there has not within
memory been a ranker poison for innocent
minds on the Broadway stage.
The suppression of what competent
critics have characterized as one of the
worst of the lot, so far from restricting
the liberty of the stage simply restores
1t to its recognized limits. The essential
virtue of its suppression is that by this
single act of vigorous interference by the
mayor more has been done for dramatic
decency than had been accomplished in
10 years of desultory agitation against
stage impurity.
No harm but distinct benefit Is done
to the stage by this drastic eradication
of the tenderloin code of morals under
which it was degenerating. The Incident
has furnished further prof that the city
has furnished further proof that the city
planning reforms but capable in finding
| a way to enforce them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-16

From the New York World.

FROM lie XNcW WIN W
The shipment from Seattle to Hamburg
of a cargo of 10000 bales of scrap tin
from the Puget Sound canneries furnishes
an example of Industrial thrift in the
utilization of mill and factory waste in
which Germany remains pre-eminent.
This once-rejected refuse will return in
due time in the form Of little tin soldiers
for the deiectation of the nations Lit
tie Boy Blues" To Germany also go
bales of discarded American stockings for
remanufacture into cloth.
We have ourselves made great progress
IN the conservation OF waste since the
frst shipments with cottonseed. A cows
hoof is now source of income to the
packer, and in the by-products Of the oil
as we'll as of other industries lies con-
siderable margin of profit. There is no
dross or rubbish In the modern world;
even the street refuse Of the city has its
potential value.
| The intelligence displayed in the COM
mercial utilization OF waste and the con-
servation of such minor sources of weath
makes all the more inexcusable the Iona
delay in conserving the nations natura.
| resources. In this also W. have lessor
= TO learn from Germany.
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Automatic foggag machines are In
use among the military forces OF sew
eral European nations. For many years
the\whipping was done by soldiers I'M
der the command of an officer. and the
punishment varied according 10 the per.
sonal relations existing between the
logger and his victim. 1t was 10 cor
rect this disadvantage that the Hog
ging machine was put in use. The ma
chine is automatic in action, and al
soon as the culprit is fastened in po-
sition a spring is frightened or loosened
| to gauge the exact force of the blow, a
uointer is moved over a dial to the req
uisitc number OF strokes, and the mech
anism does the rest With perfect reg
ularity the victims back Is scouraged
/ y the thongs, the handle of the WHY
being moved by a screw device after
| each stroke SO that the lash does not
fall in the same spot through out the
punishment. Each blow Is of uniform
severity, and as soon as the required
punishment has been melted out the
machine comes to halt and the often
der is released. There may be some
satisfaction in poor fellows knowing
that he is getting just what is coming
Ito him-nothing more, nothing less
and there may be occasions when he
feels contented with mechanically reg
ulated punishment rather than a fog
cling at the hands of one who bears
him ill-will. but this sort Of machine
seems to smack too much of the meth.
DDS OF establishment and torture en-
ployed in days now well in the back
ground
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-16
PICKPOCKETs LINGO

New York Correspondent Cincinnati
Times-Star.
Magistrate O'Connor smiled decetfully
upon George Greenfield against whom a
charge of being a pickpocket had been
preferred. Mr.. Greenfield is a tall
shambling, awkward, brick-footed person
age, equipped with hands the size and
shape of 40 cents worth of e-plant
'Iookit um,' said Mr.. Greenfield, dis
playing his splay mitts. How could l
get into pocket with them?'
Magistrate O'Connor smiled, and aver
red that Mr.. Greenfeld's defense seemed
to be good one. But he was chronically
curious, the magistrate was Maybe you
can tell me what some terms mean that
l have heard said he. What is 'bing-
ing the hanger?''
Mr.. Greenfield brightly opined that to
bling a hanger was to get into a satchel.
And to relieve the magistrates mind, he
also related that poke is a pocket
book, and ito frame sucker" is to get
said sucker between two men and trim
him. Likewise. to get super was to
relieve the victim of his watch.
"And what do you mean when you say,
I got his whole front?'"
| why said Mr.. Greenfield, sit means
er-er-'' He coughed modestly and
seemed overwhelmed with embarrassment
Mr.. O'Connor babe him speak freely.
"Why-it meanc to trim him for his
ice, super and ALL"
Mr.. o'Connor looked at Mr.. Greenfield
Mr.. Greenfield wrisgled uneasily and
turned several new coal-tar colors.
las If didn't know that you only
use two fingers in picking pockets said
the magistrate. But I will admit to yol
that we had no evidence against you
On the charge Of picking pockets you ar.
dismissed. But I shall nne you so fol-
having pernicious knowledge in your pos
session
What do you know about that?" asked
Mr.. Greenfield, irrelevantly, as he paid tn,
clerk.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-16
The Patriotic Idea Dominant

All party conventions are alike in
one respect They are always full OF
politics. In the democratic state con-
vention about to assemble at Montgom-
cry many seasoned politicians will be
on hand, and among them will be men
striving for recognition and, if OPP
portunity presents itself, ready to work
the wires for their future advance
ment. But the convention. as a whole.
brings together as fine body of dem
ocrats as were ever chosen to speak
impulse 1T win prove notable. Certain
ly in no former convention was the
patriotic idea more dominant; and in
contrast with the Conner convention of
four years ago this gathering will
stand out conspcuously as a model of
all that is sane and conservative in
politics.
In the convention of 1906 self-seeking
politicians were in the majority. They
put aside convictions and submitted
readily to radical leadership. But re-
cent elections have proved that the
people of Alabama are utterly tired of
radical doctrines and radical tenden-
cies and tomorrow's convention can be
depended upon to voice the sentiments
of the broad minded element-the ele-
ment which has just made itself felt
with such compelling force.
Under the wise and statesman-like
leadership of Emmett o'Neal the Ala
bama democracy is in splendid shape
once more. In the convention harmony
will prevail and the declarations of
party doctrine will be ably and hon
estly set forth. And not a single plank
of the platform will be repudiated by
the new administration or by the new
lawmakers. When plank "a. declaring
for local option, was inserted in the
platform of 1906, 1t was taken as a
matter of course because the local
option idea has always belonged to
the democratic party. But prohibition
leaders and fanatical hot-heads STAN
peded the administration and succeeded
in turning the democratic party in Ala
bama into a statewide prohibition
party for the time being. And every
body knows the rest. But what
ever position tomorrow's convention
takes on the vexing liquor problem. it
will govern the forthcoming admins
tration and the democratic members of
the legislature. 1t is sometimes said
that party platforms are only intended
to look well in print. But 1t is only
the cynic who talks that way Plat
forms are intended to stand for, and
do stand for. the party adopting them.
And all true democrats govern them.
selves accordingly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-16
THE ISLAND OF STRIFE

From the Popular Magazine.
In illustration of the futility of any
persons being democrat, President Taft
tells story as it was told to him by an
Irish judge.
A prisoner was brought before the
Judge on the charge of murder. He was
convicted, but the jury recommended
cemency because physicians who had
gone on the stand testified that the
murdered man would not have died from
the blow he had received had he not
had what is technically known as a
paper skull" this meaning that the
skull was abnormally thin.
The judge pointed this out to the
prisoner and asked him II he had any
thing to say to modify his punishment.
Judge" said the convicted man, this
is Tipperaryr
YES" said the Judge; "the County OF
Tipperary."
well, your honor" concluded the pris-
oner, AL l can say IL / wish you would
tell me what business man with q
paper skull has got in Tipperary."
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begun. Even Massachusetts and New
York will be compelled to reconsider the
matter in their legislatures of next year
and the great body of the states will be
In favor of it from the start. a power to
tax wealth possessed by every other ma
ton on earth, and regularly exercised by
the great nations of Europe, may not for
nent of the United States by few quib-
isla torsn
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-16
VIENNA AND THE HATPIN

From the New York Tribune.
Vienna is agitated over the danger OF
the hatpin, and petitions are being cir
culated for presentation to the city
fathers praying for municipal ordi-
nance looking toward 1.-The disuse of the
deadly instrument or modification OF
It's dangerous qualities" A woman who
says that interference with the fashion
would be an act of tyranny writes to
one of the papers of that city, saying:
LET women do as l have been doing
for a year. My hatpins are of the ex-
IRENE size. but each one is provided
with a point guard. It is little lead
bullet, with an aperture into which the
point OF the pin Ats. This guard is kept
in place by a piece of elastic cord. at
Ahe end Of which the bullet bangles when
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-16

plan. | am not lawyer, but IL stfihes
me that the best way to fill judgeships
is after the federal judge plan. by
which the executive appoints or rather
dominates to the senate. This Is ,hc
plan in Florida and it doubtless gives
So abstraction. For q candidate LOT
iudgeship to be forced to electioneer is
bad in every way. / favor the seiec-
ton of United States senator's by direc,
primary, and that plan has certaihis
come in Alabama to stay.
I'm municipal government the mayor,
aldermen and commissioners, II SUCH
there be, should be chosen in primary,
but it is obviously wrong for party
committee to force candidates Tor sucn
offices as chief Of police, chief OF nfe
-depa rtment, city engineer ana ci's
treasurer to enter a primary. III pii
mingham the police commission eieo's
the chief of police and the city couhcii
elects the other officials referred to. IL
is not right that the appointing Vi
electing power should have It's hanos
tied. so to speak. The chief OF the mrs
department is exempt from the pm
mary plan simply because the uhoei
writer's assert themselves ana en'ei
such a protest as the city commi''ee
has to reckon with. ] am not ai'o
eether in favor of a commission FORM
of government for cities. 1t IL, accord
ing to my way of thinking, Wrohs III
theory and may often prove bad IN
practice; but 1 am going to vote ior ~
because when we do get the cofn'his
sion government--and it is only aoes-
ton of time-the law will so read as "
eliminate the primary plan from opei-
alton in the case of officials requirine
apecial training or expert equipment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-16

he could hear her snoring; for her the
days and nights were not long enough for
this accomplishment. Out from the tent
OF Ajax the Strong Man came the plain
tive notes of a flute which that eminent
performer was endeavoring to master with
but small success.
A sense of gloom oppressed Hoover,
which was not dispelled by the sudden
attack upon Sunday school songs in the
tent of the Tattooed Family, nor Iessened
until he turned into the tent of the Little
Polish Count, where, In the light of
mirrored carriage lantern hung upon the
front WALL the Little Polish Count, his
father a huge German named Schmidt,
his spieler and the manager of the Fat
Beauty were playing poker upon a fold
ing table.
Hello, Bill" invited the spieler. set
in
I'm leary," returned Hoover, never
theless looking interestedly down upon
the chips
'"Ths won't put a crimp in you," piped
up the Little Polish Count ITS only
penny ante, five megs limit, half check
stacks" and little Schmidt, who was
acting as banker, began counting out so
OF the dingy paper chips, all coors at
the same price.
Hoover brought forward a box and
sat in" He played with them an hour
and half, and then, having contributed
35 cents to the exchequer of wee Schmidt,
he wendell his sober way homeward.
With reluctance he climbed the platform
of the Hee-na Show and looked down into
the pit, where Skybo and Joe Richards
lay wrapped in their blankets asleep.
Quietly he secured his own blanket and
prepared for a night in the open, upon
the platform, luxury he gave his lungs
whenever he coul, and which probably
accounted for the healthy glow of his
skin. His shoes. rolled in a newspapers
and then in his coat, made comfortable
pillow, and the hard boards were no hard
err than his muscles. In 10 minutes he was
snoring.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-16
KING GEORGE V OF ENGLAND

| could George, Duke of York, be re-
garded as brilliant naval officer, and
as Prince of Wales his public appear
ance never recalled the urbanity del
| icate tact and easy address of his faith
| err, who used to represent Victoria SO
admirably. But it must be remem-
| bered that George was not educated
to be Prince of Wales or king, and
the navy is not good training school
| for either men of the world or dip
| lcmats. Nevertheless, If he failed to
| shine as Prince of Wales he did not
neglect the work and functions that fell
to him. Accounts agree that he gave his
mornings to his correspondence and
! toiled through it industriously, al
| though with a sense of boredom, and
to opening institutions and shows as
heir to the throne he acquitted him
! self well, although it was plain that
! he disliked ceremony and had no love
| for pomp and circumstance. That his
popularity declined after he left the
navy there is no doubt though he con-
tinued to be in the public eye, he
preferred country joys and was OBJ
scured first by his fathers fame as
Prince of Wales. and then by the pres
ltige of Edward VII as diplomatist and
peacemaker. Only a versatile man and
one of great originality or force of
character could have shone' under the
circumstances, and George seems to
be neither.
| At the same time he has solid Eng
lish qualities and there is some testi-
mony that he is familiar with public
| affairs. On the one hand it is said that
his speeches have always been written
| by others and that he is incapable OF
composition; on the other hand positive
assurance is given that while Prince
George may have got his inspiration
from Sir Donald Mckenzie Wallace
during the colonial tour in 1901, the
prince wrote the striking speech, Wake
up, England" himself. Time will tell,
and that very soon, whether a man of
ability and character has succeeded one
| of the best kings that England ever
had That George v will address him.
self to his duties with as great sense
of responsibility as his father always
showed and that during his reign tho
interests of the navy will never be
| neglected, may at least be presumed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-16
AT THE RODNEY COUNTY FAIR
George Randolph Chester in the Saturday
Evening Post

George Randolph Chester in the Saturday
Evening Post.
K T IGHT in tie Rodney County Fair
nj Grounds would have been more
L interesting world than in the day
time to one with a sympathetic eye ior
color Tents glowed a dingy orange
against the starlt darkness, from the
gasoline torches within. From some of
the pits came up voices, for the most
part in quiet conversation. Here ana
there, in front of tents and banners and
upon trunks and boxes and camp chairs,
lcunged the proprietors of shows and their
helpers, and the red glow of cigars and
cigarettes and pipes marked where they
sat. To the right, beyond Carnival Lane,
were the long stables where the highpred
horses were housed, dark now and quiet
except for the occasional moving lanterns
of the stablemen and the whinny of nerv-
Gus steeds; and the prize live stock build
irgs to the left were dark, too, now, ex-
cept for the faintest of streams of Ian
tern light from the doors and windows.
There was human life In those barns,
but not human companionship; for these
men and the street fair crowd let each
other strictly alone. Their worlds were
different, their interests were different and
there was little temptation for them to
mix.
As he passed his own front Ballyhoo
Bill could hear the hoarse voice of Pro-
fessor Skybo and the querulous one of
Joe Richards, and with shrug of dis
taste he hurried on. The Tattooed Family
were inside their tent with little, wheezy
road organ they carried, and that they
had company was evinced by the fact
that the chorus of Rings on My Fingers
and Bells on My Toes was taken up
by a volume of no fewer than eight or
ten voices: across the way the owner of
the Four-Legged Hen, q farmer never
able to become used to these strange
people. sat in solemn loneliness enjoying
the evening air, which now, however was
beginning to turn a trifie crisp; Helen,
the Fat Beauty, was already sound asleep
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-16

From the New York Sun.
WYE fancy that Mr.. Thackeray
w would have been l puzzled aaoa II
any of the four Georges with. so
slender stock of anecdotes as
is available to light up the character
of the fifth George. who is now King or
England. We can see the dear old SEN
timentalist selling upon the story OF
how Prince George, when commander
of the Thrush on the West India sta
ton read morning prayers on board be-
cause gunboats carried no chaplains.
George, a gay blade enough when not on
duty, was most conscientious in pre-
pairing for the Sunday service, reading
the lessons to study his voice and sing
ing chants and hymns, a S he had done
at home in the househ old of his pious
grandmother with those officers and
men whom he could interest in the
exercises.
And we are sure that Mr. Thackeray
would be deeply affected by the prince
goodness when he asked the admiral to
allow him to try his hand in reforming
a scapegrace who was thought to be In :
corrigible and actually Succeeded with
moral suasion and by giving the fellow
sh ore leave. Having dressed up this
material Mr.. Thackeray would be
thrown back upon idyllic stories of
Georges domestic life. and perhaps
wicked escapades and spicy epigrams to
record, concluding that the fifth
George was an Indifferent subject for n
public lecturer.
One gets the impression from what
has been written about George, Prince
of wales, that his qualities were rather
those of his excellent grandmother than
those of his accomplished father. We
sneak of course of the prince retired
from the navy and sobered by the
shadow of great responsibility. AS a
naval officer he bore some resemblance
to the Duke of Clarence, who became
william ", having bluff, hearty way
about him and a taste for grog of
which he was not ashamed. 1t will
be well for England, however, If the
parallel does not go further, for Will
liam " abused his prerogative and
muddled his way through a brief and
unpopular reign.
BY no stretch of the imagination