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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25

healthy carriers should be started on each and every one of them. To be forewarned should mean that we will be forearmed against healthy car riers.
 The new danger can be met at quarantine by holding all arrivals from Italian ports long enough to en- able the quarantine force to ascertain whether or no they are carriers of cholera germs. Every immigrant from cholera-infected country is, we are glad to say, to be subjected to searching individual bacteriological examination, and this examination should be prolonged until the exact condition of each and every immi- grant is ascertained. Either this should be done or else all ships from Italy should be excluded. The latter rule is wholly justified by the situa- tion and by the fact that the lives of 90,000,000 people are endangered by healthy carriers of cholera germs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25
Alabama's Great Opportunity

If Alabama would, at an early day, present the name of Oscar W. Under wood. as candidate for the demo- cratic presidential nomination all home folks would be surprised at the spontaneity of suppHt in the other states. The democrats in every state regard him not only as an expert in economic problems, but also as mas ter and leader in party management. He is as much at home in the one as in the other. While he has been securing the utmost favorable tariff rates for consumers he has been com pelled first to bring democrats hold ing divergent views together, welding them into one compact and powerful party. Working in these two direc- tions he has rendered the election of a democratic President more than possible, and Alabama should step to the front to name him as the man that the country is looking for.
 'No man." says Senator Johnston, "could be selected who, in my judg- ment would, if elected, serve the party more faithfully or zealously than MT. Underwood. His record as leader of the House has given great satisfaction to the democrats of the United States, and 1 have no doubt that his record in the White House would be equally satisfactory to them"
 All the talk that a southern man cannot be elected President 50 years after Manassas, is the talk of interested men who are partizans of northern candidates. The man who decreases the cost of living can be elected, no matter where he lives, and Alabama's opportunity has come. Let her once make plain to the country her chcioe, and great wave of pub. lie sentiment would sweep him into the White House. This is no illusion
 It is' the situation. The country is
 suffering from trust-boosed prices o1
 the necessaries of life and the mar
 who is striking down those prices
 without impairing the revenue is tht
 man to nominate. That man is not
 only Alabama's opportunity but he i,
 also democracy's most inviting anc
 most logical leader.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25
Free. Speech in Mexico

The hope is widespread that the October election will not result in the defeat of Madero. Reyes and many other aspirants are watching the out come and possibly Madero may be de- feated.
 If he is, Mexico's sole hope of se- curing free ballot box and free press will disappear. Thus far Mex ico is receiving her new-found liberty gratefully The state elections are being conducted as openly and fairly as are those in this country, and the minister of the department of the in- terior has notified the newspapers that they can publish whatever they prefer to publish. All restrictions and regulations have been removed, and Mexico is actually a republic after waiting for freedom about three hun dred years.
 This condition will be perpetuated and even emphasized by Madero once he is elected president for term of six years. He and De La Barra rep resent the aspirations of Mexicans who are watching this country. Those who want real ballot and real free dom of thought will support Madero and De La Barra, while those who hold great landed estates and all who hold or are seekers of privilege will conspire against the popular leaders General Reyes is certainly posing as a presidential aspirant, and the long delay before election may bring out other aspirants. The election is to take place in October.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Bright outIoox for Colleges

The total number of students enrolled In Alabama colleges increases year by year. and the coming scholastic year gives pronlse of record breaking attendance, sad a man who takes great interest in educational matters.
 .l he fact that the farmers are prosper- ous means much for the higher eduea- ion. With Alabama's bumper crops every farmers boy who has aspirations for cul- ture will have the opportunity of attend ing some college this year. While majority of students come from the cities, perhaps, hundreds are farm-reared.
 The standards of Alabama colleges have been raised within the past two or three years. Technical training Is a dis tlnct feature of several of them, and the Alabama Polytechnic institute at Auburn Is ION one of the best technological schools in the country.
 In southern colleges, as rule, the English course has been neglected. Many graduates had a great deal of book knowl- edge, but they were deficient in English composition. As important as technology is English is equally as important and no boy should be honored with a degree who is not capable of expressing himself in clear. convincing Engish'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25
WHAT IT MEANS TO LAUGH

fro1n the Stranu.
 What is laughter? An American hu- lpofist has called it "an undignifieJ widening of the human mouth, accom- panied by noise resembling a cough in the effort to avoid swallowing chest nut"
 Laughter" says Prof. Sir Charles Bell. lis oonvulsive action of the dia- phragin. In this state the person draws 8 full breath and throws it out in in- teri up.ed, short and audible eachinna- tions. This convulsion of the diaphragm is the principal part of the physical man. ifestation of laughter.
 "Rut there are several accessories, es- recially the sharp vocal utterance aris- ing from the violent tension of the larynx and the expression of the features, this being a more intense form of the smile. in extreme cases the eyes ar moistened by the efrusion from the lachrymal glands"
 There are some people who cannot laugh who are wholly unable to enjoy either the physical or the mental lux ury Of 8 laugh Thus, it was said Of William III that he was utterly at loss to understand what could be got out or laughter except loss of dignity. There are many persons in history who have leen according to common report. inca pable of laughter. Queen Mary l, John Knox. I,obespierre and Moltke are ex- ampjes. The Iron Duke himself rarely, if ever. went beyond a grunt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25
Musical Culture

Birmingham is better off than most cities of it's size in the matter of instruc tiun in music" said a well-known ama- teGr Good teachers of the piano, the violin, vocal art and the theory of music are established here and are kept busy. Gre of the best institutions for musical training in all the south Is located i'll Tir.rngham, and many accomplished per- formers and singers have diplomas from Ioca, studios but we would have more good pianists and violinists than we have ie boys and girls with talent practiced seriously.
 "Talent Is one thing and hard work is antther. Any child with a fair degree of talent might make a good musician with constant application and intelligent prac- tice. Many parents pay money for the mus ioal education of their children. but results are poor simply because they do not lcok after the home end.
 America, which used to be considered by educated Europeans very backward In rnus't al taste, has come forward rapidly in it's appreciation of music during the past ten years. Music as a part of the public school system of education In the larger cities contributes no little to the general musical culture of this country, and the time will come when every rural school will be provided with a com potent vocal teacher"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25
EnsIey Needa n Park

q am glad to notice that the people of Ensley are exerting their efforts to sc- cure public park" said frequent visl- tor to the Steel City recently.
 No town the size of Enslsy can well afford to be without a recreation place, while number of towns even smaller have two or more. The rapid growth Of Ensley is causing wide comment and as a place to live in it is surpassed by no suburban town. The one thing lacking in it's civic development is the proposed loca- tion of a park, and since the bushes. men of the town are working with that end in view it seems that the park will soon be a certainty.
 NO matter how fast town is growing or how great it's resources may be it can never hope to make the right kind of i'm precision on outsiders until it begins Q take an interest in civic questions. Ths location of park in desirable place or the beautifying of the streets or prem ises or houses is often worth more to the town than all the money spent in erecting some exceptionally hign building
 There is a park directly between my place of business and my home through which l must go every day. When 1 frs, began making my trips through the park it fretted me because the paths were winding and not straight, thereby cauS- | ing me to loose time. But within short | time I soon began to enjoy the brie' walk through the playground and did no' mind the few minutes lost by the circltu- ous route for always felt better from my brief touch with nature.
 "Let Ensey have It's park :.nd encou;- age other communities to take m inter" est in civic questions. for there IS some
 thing else city needs besides tail buiic' fings and we'll laid off streets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25
Electors Rights in Court

A qualified elector has a right to vote even if an impersonator got to the ballot box first and used his name. No man may be cheated out of his vote. In Pennsylvania the election officers have long been in the habit of holding that an imper- senator, if an early bird, could de- prive qualified elector of his rights. The courts of Pennsylvania stand ready to punish any election officers who deprives voter of his rights. This is another blow aimed at the machine. It is, however, so plainly good law it will be considered a final settlement of all disputes of that na- ture. The real voter cannot be ex- cluded from access to the ballot box by a personator, and the inspectors who did it in Philadelphia are to be sent to jail.
 The impersonator in the Philadel- phia case has not been caught, and the pending case is an effort to punish the election officers who ex- cluded the real voter from the ballot box. They have been sentenced and the sentence has been confirmed by the higher court.
 What is law in this respect in Pennsylvania is law in Alabama. No impersonator can take away the rights of real voter. Nothing can for that matter. The ballot is an ex- ercise of American sovereignty, and the election officials who deny the ballot to a real voter can be and should be punished in every instance. An election official who robs a voter of his vote should be haled to court where he would no doubt be speedily punished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25
WARM AT YUMA

From the Washington Post
 Yuma, Ariz.. like Reno, New, has an undeserved reputation. in the opinion of l.. w. Powell. a prominent mining man of Bisbee who Is at the New Willard.
 Reno, Nev., has been characterized as the city of divorces," said MT. Powell, ''whie Yuma, Ariz., has been advertised all over the country as the hottest place on earth. l have no personal knowledge that it is easy to get a divorce in Reno. But ! do know personally about the eli rate of Yuma. While the thermometer iosy occasionally indicate that Yuma is the hottest place on the map, it is equal ly true that the heat in that Arizona town is not nearly so oppressive as that or Washington. and does not begin to compare with Boston. l have seen the mercury go up to no degrees in the shade at Yuma, which would mean that in the sun it would register 140 or 14o, but even will this torrid heat it was more pleasant than many cities in the east
 '.'rIe reason for this is that there is very little humidity there, and while one might s,yeiter here in Washington with the ther- n, meter al 70, ne cOulu De tHOrOuSnly comfortable in Yuma with the quicksilver mounting to no.
 Yuma is growing at rapid pace, and many persons believe 1t will become one cf the most important cities in that part cf the country. There is no doubt that 1t Will be one of the principal places in Arizona as soon as the territory becomes a state, which the people are hoping for ct this session of Congress. It is an old story, I suppose, that Arizona is ono of tie richest sections of the west Irri- | sat.cn has made it exceedingly pros rsrors. There is no more fertile valley
 In the world than the Salt river valley
 ohte barren waste. The finest oranges
 In tine New York market are raised there
 and ali citrus fruits grow in abundance
 anc quality. The opening of the great
 Eoos evelt dam has brought under culti
 yalicn thousands of acres of land, but | ibis is only q beginning. There ars numerous giant irrigation projects planned ansl under way which will make Arizona
 state the ms.sf important in that western cCuntry.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25
PROHIBITION IN ALABAMA

From the Florida Times Union
 The prohibitionsts In Florida insisted very loudly on the prohibition vote in. Ala bama as strengthening their claims and supporting their position. It is fair to as- sume that our neighbors wanted prohbi- tion when they got it and have changed their minds only because experience has taught them that the theories advanced would not stand the test; people in masses are made 10 change position only after full conviction on the subject. Since Florida was expected to accept prohibit ton because Alabama did so, is it moi fair to urge that Florida was wise in re- fusing to follow the example since Ala lama has so quickly changed her mind ? Florida has received many hard words from the fanatics because she has stead- fastly refused to accept a state dispensary and has rejected state prohibitions with the examples of South Carolina and Ala bGma before her eyes, will Florida admit now that her prohibitionists were wrong . Will she refuse to heed them in the future because they have been found unsafe guides under the demonstration of her rcighbors?
 Law can limit, restrain and regulate the ssle of whisky law cannot stop it's salc and use. The national government has tried for years at great expense to drive untaXe1 whisky from the market, but ha. not succeeded. An abundant supply oi moonshine stuff was lately seized in New York city. Where the regulations on the sale of whisky are not too strict blino tigers are few and do little business; pass the deaG line and the illicit dispensaries
 multiply in number and depreciate 1T character till they become serious threats | to public peace anG morality. Mobile has just voted wet and the principal argu rncnt used alleged the increase of blind tigers. The public seems to have accept cd the charge as true and to have indorsed the proposed remedy.
 Heated campaigns cost money and in- terrupt business. They benefit only the professional politicians and the hired or imported speakers. Under the circum. stances, would public opinion sanction d new prohibition campaign to urge pol icy condemned by the experience oi reighhoring states and already condemned repeatedly by our voters? We speak in advance because when the proposition Is | made there will occur an immediate re- vival of bitterness and it may be impos- sible then to secure a calm review of the question from any of the voters. The tests proposed by the prohibtionists have been made and the decision Is against them in Alabama and in Georgia. Is i. not fair to ask that they be bound by the logic of their own proposition?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25

struggled diamonds away. The ship was to stop for couple of days to unload cargo at Prinzenburg, 50 miles south, and squad of soldiers mounted on fast horses were sent along the coast to in- tercept him there, The ex-mayor was taken off the ship, with his baggage. and everything was searched with the ut most minuteness. His clothes were ex- amned with gerat care, particular atten- ton being paid to Things and the pad ding of the shoulders of his coats; his shaving soap was cut into small pieces. which were crushed flat; the soes of his shoes were probed; the lead was taken cut of the cartridges of his revolver, and the powder inspected. Nothing re- mctely resembling a diamond was found, but the ox-mayor was, nevertheless, taken back to Luderitzbucht and thrown into prison, whence he was released without an apology a month afterward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25
Texas and Other States

Ut would not have surprised me If the election in Texas Saturday had re- suited in a victory for statewide pro- hibition." said Phillip L. Wheedon ot Ohio. "I spert nearly a month in Texas in the early spring, and whi. e the campaign was moving along with out apparent excitement. and while nu one seemed to f. el sure just how the election was gong. the vast rural pop . ula of the Lone Star state had been largely made uy of prohibitionists for several years past. I really expected the state-widers to win by a majority of 50,000.
 "The men whom I met in the cities were, with few exceptions, opposed to prohibition. but in the back districts
 the people are not well informed on cur rent events. Had they been more so phisticated thev would have known that statewide prohibition was a back num- Der. As l am r,t personally interested in the question 60 not care to 'argufy,'
 but prohibition of the constitutional or statutory sort is on the down grade,
 and like all unsuccessful moral or inn practicable political issues it will not come back.
 "The temperance cause may flag at times, but it will always have support ers-will always be in evidence. But | prohibition is not temperance by a good | deal. Alabama has abandoned state-
 wide prohibitic1. Missouri and Florid |
 rejected stateW de prohibition and Maine that has had prohibition in it's
 constitution for something like a half century will vote it out of it's organic
 law in September. I was in Maine two years ago, but have not been there since and have not heard from there.
 but the democrdtic party in Maine has been fighting agains- constitutional | prohibition for q long time, and know | ing human nature as [ do, I would be
 willing to bet that the local option party that is to say the democratic party, would score a decisive victory. When Maine once gets prohibition out of it's constitutes there will be no tor
 midable movement to get it back twixt now and d2ors-day. Thousands os those Texans Nro voted for state wid 2 prohibition Saturday will look back four or five years from now and thank their stars that such a hurtful scheme, scheme so indicative of narrowness and fanatacism, was defeated"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25

stocks, which should mean quick re- sumption of mill activity when the tidc turns for the better, at which time the cost of raw material will in all prob ability have found level where the manufacturing loss will not be so over. whelming as it has been during the past season.
 With regard to the immediate future of the market it is realized that existing quotations for the new months, at least. are now approaching normal when taking into consideration the fact that short crops have prevailed for the past two seasons: nevertheless, if this years yield is to approximate anything like 15,oo0,ooo bales, as now freely predicted, then 1ols cents in the long run would not be con sidered out of place. unless there is to be radical change for the better in the cotton trade''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25
o most delicate fieud! Who is't can read a wOmant
 -Cymbeline.
CorOnets By the Score

England is not alarmed over the proposed creation of scores, if not hundreds, of barons, viscounts and earls. The line would be drawn at Dukes. The truth, however, is there will be few peers appointed, simply because the house of lords will back down when it fully arrives at the turning point.
 About fifty new peers may, how ever, be appointed because the lib- erals want larger campaign fund. Every newly-made peer contributes $25,000 to the campaign fund, and fifty times that number would give the liberals the aid they may soon greatly need.
 Outside of the losses that a sur render by the peers would entail on the campaign fund some disappoint- ments will be felt amoIe; the mag mates in this country that stand be- hind the international marriage mar ket. A title, be it old or new, is saleable in this country, and the foreshadowed action of the peers will cast a damper in the families of mag mates that include marriageable daughters. These families had really anticipated cut rates in coronets, and an addition of merely 50 new peers will not fill long-felt want.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25
A REAL PHILOSOPHER

Some month ago we met a philosopher whose business was to shoot oil and gas wells. Every day he hauled over the rough country roads enough high explo- sives to have blown a good sized town to pieces. He seemed. however. to be about the most contented individual we hal ever met. Isn't this dangerous business? was asked. Yep was the laconic reply. Don't you worry occasion ally for fear some sudden jar will set off this load of dynamite?' Not a bit, answered the cheerful philosopher. Man has only once to die anyway, so it is not matter of particular importance when he goes. Suppose a wheel strikes a rock and the jar sets this thing off.
 Zip she goes. In five minutes after ward you couldn't find enough of this team, wagon or me in any one place to i'll d quart cup. No lingering sickness,
 no doctor bills, no medicine; nobody
 sticking thermoheter under your tongue. One minute I would be alive and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-25
Carriers of Cholera Germs

The death of an Italian woman in Boston who had long been resident in this country demonstrates anew the possibility of healthy carriers of cholera germs as well as of typhoid germs. The woman in question kept a lodging house and she had two lodgers a few weeks ago who had been sailors on an Italian steamer They at length disappeared. and it is believed that. one of them is carrier of cholera germs.
 It has been fully dcmopstrated that healty carriers of typhoid germs may communicate the disease, and it is fully believed that this is as true of cholera as of typhoid. From one ship five well well-ascertained healthy carriers have been detected at Hoffman's Island in New Yorl; harbor, and what ore ship can do all can do that come from infected Ital- ian ports.
 The country is forewarned against healthy carriers, and it would be but prudence if all vessels from Italian ports were either warned not to come or else arc subjected to prolonged ner;ods of quaranti.e. The search for