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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-15
Gov. Wilson viii Keep His Pledges

The people have by their votes de-
manded a revision of the tariff and
the consensus of opinion from one end
of the country to the other is that the
business should be proceeded with In
an extra session of Congress. That
the business would be prudently con-
Quoted the country is convinced. 1t
knows Mr.. Underwood and his tariff
plans, and the recent vote was really
an approval of his methods and his
plans of revision. The unanimity OF
the democratic press on this subject is
remarkable. There is scarcely a dis
senting paper.
Let no one for one moment doubt
what the coming President will do aft
er inauguration day. He will carry out
his pledges concerning the tariff and
the prices and monopolies which 1t
fosters. The people want relleI from
it's unjust and unnecessary exactions,
and they will get it without undue de-
lay.
Let no one distrust the President
elect. He is not a man who acts on
impulses. There is not bit of Theo-
dore Roosevelt in his makeup. He will
act thoroughly with a full knowledge
of what he and his supporters on the
stump told the people repeatedly
throughout the recent campaign. An
extra session is almost as certain as
the rising of the sun tomorrow morn
inc
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-15
Champ Clark and Oscar Underwood

CONGRESSMAN Burnett was right
when he said of Mr.. Underwood, 1T
would be solar-plexus blow were he
to 90 into the cabinet" This opinion
is the opinion of all other friends OF
Mr.. Underwood in this state. He Is
needed as majority leader in the
Sixty-third Congress, and Mr.. Clark
is needed as speaker. Neither can be
spared in body in which the demo-
Gratis will have at least 100 majority.
So great a majority calls for expert
enced and capable direction, and
Messrs. Clark and Underwood are
needed in their present capacities. Mr..
Clark is a good manager, and Mr..
Underwood has become tariff ex-
pert. Both are born leaders and both
should be urged to stay where they
have earned the gratitude of the
country.
All opposition to Mr.. Clark's re-
election disappeared when Mr.. Henry
of Texas declined to stand against
him, and Mr.. Underwood is without
opposition as chairman of the ways
and means committee and majority
leader. Both are statesmen of lauda-
BILE ambition, but both are needed in
their present posts, and where the
party and the country demand their
services they will surely go. Patriot
ism dictates this and neither should
disregard call that is definite and
almost imperative.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-15
a FORTUNATE vIRGINIAN

From the Louisville Courier-JournaL
Nowhere in the fairy tales of Hans
Andersen did anyone ever read OF man
who was so well fixed to live happily
ever afterward" as a retired heating ana
ventslating engineer who has bought the
I,uray Caverns, according to the Iech-
meal World Magazine, and is heating ana
cooling his home by piping into II the
dry, germless cave air.
Cave air, II seems, is purer than any
air that is to be found within piping dis
lance of the earth's surface 1T Is SO
pure that it is a preventive of grippe ana
other ailments and diseases of the respira-
tory system. 1t is of even temperature
the year round. A house filled with 1t re-
mains at about IS degrees Fahrenheit
winter and summer While ordinary NOR
tails are wrestling with the problem OF
fuel cost and furnace drafts the owner
Of the Luray Caverns finds it necessary to
heat his home only enough to raise the
temperature from So to the desired degree
and that requires very little heating. IN
summer when the mercury is at IS he
burns log fires because they are attractive
and because he needs little heat. any
one admitted to his home with grippe re-
covers because the grippe germs perish
under the effect of cave air.
There was once published story about
a Kentucky farmer who imported mon
keys from Africa, taught them to initiate
the actions Of his farm hands, then
fired" the farm hands and kept his
plantation going as easily as If lit had
teen a machine working AUTOMATICALLY
It sounds too good to be true. And 1t was.
But the story of the owner of Luray Cav
erns who has banished the heating prob
lem from his mind. and learned how to
keep cool in summer and who never has
cold, is declared to be true. If 1t Is
however, take consolation in the fact that
when il comes his time TO die he Will
suffer a great deal more than you Will II
you have suffered from the heat in sum-
mer and bought coal and tended fur
mace in winter and had grippe half of the
time between October and May. Every
evil has its compensating good and vice
versa
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-15
Good Roads Days

THE Alabama Good Roads association
inaugurated the movement to have
August IA, Is and 16 good roads days
in Alabama, this year, and this move
ment was quite successful said
prominent man. AT the last annual
meeting in Birmingham 1t was decided
to make these days permanent In Ala
bama, and to call upon the road Of
ficials and good roads advocates In
every state in the Union to observe
these days and to make them national
holidays for working the roads. Sec
rotary J. A. Rountree of the Alabama
Good Roads association has commenced
nationwide campaign, urging other
states to adopt good roads days.
Appeals are being sent to all the
state highways commissioners, also to
the officers of national, state, district
and county good roads organizations,
urging them to adopt these days and
co operate in the movement. 1t Is be-
|Iieved that the days will undoubtedly
be adopted and much good for the i'm
proving of the public roads will be
accomplished"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-15
IN BUENOs AYREs

From Through south America oy
Harry w. Van Dyke.
In this most cosmopolitan OF cities
(Buenos Ayres) the foreigners fore
gather in little worlds of their own.
Most are represented by newspapers
published in their own languages most
have clubhouses more or less preten-
;ious
On the same evening one season re-
Gently Tine Merry Widow was pro-
duced in Spanish, French and Italian in
as many different theatres And there
are all sorts Of places of amusement
where foreigners can enjoy themselves
each after his own, fashion-from an
immense artificial skating rink Ca very
fashionable resort, by the way) to a
tropical coffee house, from golf or
race course to poolroom or bowling
alley, from the most attractive and ele-
gently equipped of modern cafes to a
little French domino parlor or German
beer saloon. from a magnificent opera
house to a cheap vaudeville or moving
picture theatre.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-15
FATHERS AND SONS

From Golfers Weekly
Music is an art to which America has
as yet contributed little Compared
with Germany, Russia. Italy, or Franco.
il might almost be said that we have
done nothing at all. A few writer's
have gained a certain breadth of repn-
tation; now and then there are singers
who hold their own with foreign artists
generally after they have made their
name abroad. But in the main, in. spite
of our magnificent opera and the in
telligent appreciation of concerts of all
kinds, we are receptive, rather than
creative, in this perhaps most refresh
ing of all the arts These facts give
additional interest to the opening of the
New York concert season by a young
American violinist already interesting
in himself. The name "Spa1ding" is as
ISOLATED with baseball, punching hays
boxing gloves, and so on. The man
who made the name thus known was
himself a famous baseball player when
the game was young, and is today 4
fine, florid figure of a mantle verita-
bic old squire, such figure as the gift
ed Mr.. Tesreau or Mr.. Mathewson may
NC or TWO from nov.
and it was the nephew of this man.
whose warmth of interest toward him
is almost that of father to soma slen-
Ger, sensitive young violinist, who
stepped out before the audience in Car
negie hall one recent Sunday afternoon
and with an honesty and perfectness
of technique which could not be lightly
dismissed compelled the warm admira-
ton not merely of the audience but OF
the critics who treated in rather casual
fashion the first ventures of their
young fellow countryman few years
ago.
Albert Spalding could have led the
easy, useless life pursued by many rich
Americans sons, but he has chosen 20
follow the steep and difficult path of
the musical artist instead. For the first
generation baseball bats and bushes;
Cor the next Beethoven's Roma nee in G,
Chaussons lie Poeme,'' and Bachs
"Chaconne." 1t might have happened
anywhere, of course, but it is rather
characteristic of the piquant contrasts
$50 often met with in our interestinN
land.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-15
,rator and Country Club

THE new Birmingham Motor and
Country club that is being developed
out of the old Edgewood Country club
lis taking a step with regard to the
proposed automobile speedway that is
uniaue as well as eminently prais-
worthy" said a public spirited citizen.
THE most prominent and expert racing
drivers are being consulted with view
to securing their advice in the con-
struction of the speedway, in the en-
deavor to build the fastest possible
course and at the same time inquire the
greatest degree of safety TO the driv-
ers
Letters are being directed to such
men as Bob Burman, Barney oldheld,
Ralph dePalma, George Robertson, Joe
Dawson, Ray Harroun, Herbert Lytle,
Spencer Wishart and Louis Chevrolet.
These men have all had years of ex-
perience in speed driving and their
records will show that one or more of
them have driven over every track or
road course of any consequence in the
country, and the consensus of opinion
of these men will enable the club 10
secure the benefit of the years of ex-
perience of the best engineers and
drivers
in order that a course may be sue
cessful a fast track must be provided.
Good drivers who are d drawing card
will not drive over a slow course, for
their regulations are at stake. Then,
ltoo. the faster the course the greater
the attendance will be- The result has
been that promoters have considered
the gate receipts and the profit to he
Ihad and in almost every event that
has ever been held the drivers lives
have been considered secondary. TO
the financial return and the history of
the majority of the hig speed events
that have been held in this country
have been married by accidents. The
cause of these accidents can in nearly
every case be traced directly to the
condition or construction of the course
THE principal questions upon which
these drivers are being consulted cover
1.-THE matter of road material, and opin-
ions are being asked as to the rela-
tive value of concrete, brick, macadam
I asphalt; and whether oiled or dry is
best Also to the minimum tangents
on curves and the best angle for bank
ling turns of various tangents.
Numbers of other points are taker
up, but the spirit of the move lies II
one clause which is here quoted: Wha
additional suggestions would you Of
fer with a view to building course
that you yourself would care to drive
over and on which you would be abb
to make the greatest possible speed
with the greatest degree of safety?
Work is progressing rapidly and !
is confidently expected that the con
struetion of the dam will be commences
Immediately after the first of Decem
Der and all the most important worl
! finished during the early spring"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-15
Rates in the Panama Canal

The President has decided to make
che charge on merchant vessels and
transports and Golfers passing
through the Panama canal S1.20 per
displacement ton with a reduction of
40 per cent where they go through the
canal without cargo or passengers.
War ships of other nations are to pay
DO cents per displacement tom Ameri-
can coastwisc shipping and American
naval vessels will be. permitted to 60
through the canal toll free. The rates
named are practically the rates that
will be in force at the Suez canal next
year.
The two canals are competitors for
all commerce destined to points be-
yond Singapore. All commerce from
our own eastern ports destined to
the west shore Of South America and
to Australia and New Zealand and to
the Orient east of Singapore will pre-
fer the Panama to the Suez route be-
cause of lower fuel costs.
At the end of AZ years tolls in the
Suez canal have been reduced to
S1.20, or rather they will be next
year. Ten years ago these tolls were
sta ton.
In deciding to open the Panama
canal on low basis of tolls the Pres
ident is convinced that the canal will
be upon salf-sustaining basis in q
years. In other words, the revenue
from it viii at that time be sufficient
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to pay all fixed charges and provide
a sinking fund of l per cent to retire
the Panama canal bonds. Should this
opinion prove correct the building of
the canal will prove to have been a
blessing to the commerce of the world
without loading upon the people of
the United States a permanent bur
den. 1t is at any rate the greatest
single work ever undertaken by any
government and its good effects will
be felt on both sides of the world al
most from the day of it's opening.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-15
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

From the Woman's Home Companion.
Bleeged to yo sah said a dis
gruntled looking negro, who had edged
his way into the office of prominent
Arkansas attorney, and l want TO git
div'cer um muh wife on de grounds
dat she has done been Shown things
at me for de last several years
"Ah, And have any of the missiles
seriously injured your"
sab? No, sab, She didn't th4w none
10 dem sawt- uh ar-eickles at me- she
Idess flung dishes. ana stove han'les, and
skillets, and casson~i cat or dog, OF
sumpin' datuh- way. And dey didn't none
of EN- hit me; that Is, twill yit. But
wild all dis yuh practizin'. some o. desc
days she gwine to git to be what
dey cell expert, and bust muh head
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-15
TELEPHONES
The forgeries of jealousy.
Midsummer Nights Dream.
Birmingham's Ore Reserve

The highly satisfactory result OF
recent diamond drill borings in Shades
valley has attracted wide attention,
as might have been expected. Well
known authorities on iron ore and the
cost of mining have written interest
ing papers on the bearing of the rich
non-fluxing red ore beyond Red noun
tain and unowned by "going" corpora
tions.
Charles Catlett, whose reputation as
a geologist is second to none, and a
man who is particularly familiar with
the Birmingham district, attaches
high value to the ore properties held
by independent interests. Last weeks
Manufacturers Record said editorials
w: 1.-THE known iron and steel making
potentialities of the Birmingham dis
trict have probably been doubled. by
the diamond drill tests to which ref
erence has recently been made IN
The Record"
The same journal pointed out that
these demonstrations add vastly to
the amount of iron held by independ-
ent interests and make possible now
developments which few weeks ago
might have been considered question
able"
AS will be seen from a Baltimore
special in today's Age-Herald, MIR.
Eckel, who became distinguished as
the governments iron ore statistician,
contributes a valuable article to this
weeks Manufacturers Record. Moth
Ing, perhaps, since the last census
report of Birmingham's population
showing phenomenal growth has SO
extensively advertised this city as the
proving of the rich quality of the
Shades valley red ore.
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I have heard Kubelik, Maud Powell and
Spalding. Zimbalist appealed to me more
than any of them. I have never heard
Kreisler. He has the reputation of be-
ing a perfect technician but, from all ae-
counts, he lacks temperament. zimbal-
ist is as much Of a technician as anybody
and. as all Russians, his mind is informed
by Imagination and therpoetic prlneiple'
He is a tone poet indeed.
"zimbalist has created furore IN tae
east. He is to appear with the MIN
neapols symphony orchestra next week.
am glad to know that he is to appear
in Birmingham soon. He IS hatul@iis
high price artist, and those VINO a {
bringing him here certainly deserve the
thanks of music lovers.
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nIsnAIN FOR DIGNITY

From the Cleveland Press.
A Scot whose name was Macintosh,
and who was proud of the fact that he
was directly descended from the chtef
of the clan, was having a dispute over
the fare he owed to a taxi driver who
had transported him to his home in
the East End.
The man with the meter talked loud
and harshly, and it ansered the High
lander.
do you know who | am?" he de
manded, proudly drawing himself uI
to his fun height. I'm Macintosh"
The taxi driver snorted.
II don't care if you're an umbrella,
lie said. 'Ill have my rights"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-15
". Wilson and the Open Door

AS governor of New Jersey Mr..
Wilson does not permit the door to his
private office to be closed while he is
in it. He hopes to continue the open
door policy in Washington. When he
first took office as governor he was
surprised at the number of people
who wanted to talk to him behind the
back of their hands in whispers" He
nut an end to all that kind of work.
His idea is that the executive of a
state or nation should have few, if
any. locked.door conferences-that no
business should be transacted that
people could not actually see going on
if they cared to.
This will certainly be an innovation
in Washington, and the closer the
President elect can carry out his New
Jersey policy the better the people
will be pleased. An open door admin
istration will be something the coun-
try has never had. The whisperers
and gumshoers would then be as badly
off as Othello was when his occupa-
ton had departed.
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nnaE EREAIx BETS
washington Telegram to the Chicago
Record Herald.

Washington Telegram to the chicago
Record Herald.
A corpulent individual, clad in knee
breeches and astride boys velocipede'
rode down Pennsylvania avenue early
Wednesday morning. In his hand he
carried a large megaphone and from time
to time would announce that he was
mighty glad that Wilson had been elect
ed. for there would be big boom in the
sale of cocktails and highballs He was
merely one Of many who had lost an
election wager.
When the corpulent one reached the
grounds of the White House he dlsmount-
ed and, raising a clenched fist on high,
smote the air viciously.
..You have brought me to this, Mr.
Taft" shouted he. Then he remounted
his veocipede and disappeared down the
avenue amid the cheers and jeeFs of a
multitude of street urchins.
Another man fried an egg on the steps
of the capitol. while still another, bal
ancing an egg on salad fork attempted
to climb the steps of the Washington
monument Two flights had been nego-
tiated when the egg foileu iioii INC ioih
and spattered over the steps and his pat
emit leather shoes. A guard at the mon
umcnt was on hand to make the unfor-
tunate Individual remove all stains of the
egg.
A man sought to roll peanut on Penn
sylvania avenue from the White House
10 the Peace monument, using crowbai
as the motive power. He was stopped by
a policeman.
A young man seated in a light buggy
was drawn through the principal streets
by a companion who bet on Taft A
placard on the vehicle announced:
I'm the man who put the will in VIII
.on
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BAcHELoR

From the New York Press.
All a man has to do. to JEelop bad
disposition is to have a family.
Money may get a man into trouble,
but il can also get him out when
poverty can't
There's nothing harder for woman
to do than to keep on saying her pray
ers Whom the telephone rings.
| When girl is an heiress. it's a
sign she'll never have to hb about how
many men ask her 10 marry them.
| II seems as If a woman acould eaten
her death of cold because her husband
wouldn't wear the right weight under
wear.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-15
The IRON Market

1.-The iron market continues firm saio
Horace Hammond of the Hammond BYRD
company.
After large buying movements the mar
ket becomes quiet. 1t may be somewhat
quiet just now. but there is no faggins'
While a sale was made at SIS on a NO
bases for the second quarter delivery
the usual quotations for No foundry
are SD to $3.50"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-15

From the Magazine of Fun.
But, madam said the surgeon, aft
er the woman had recovered conscious
ness in the hospital, why didn't you
stop when the crossing policeman heid
Up his hand? Then you wouldn't have
heen struck by the automobile
what! Me stop when Jim Maginnis
holds up his hands I'd let you know
I'm his wife, an he never saw the day
when he could boss me-"
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LAS some one remarked in The Age
Herald the other day an ideal place for
the new postoffice would have been the
half block between Sixth avenue and
Park avenue and Twentieth AND Twenty
first Streets" said Henry r. Howe.
ut may be that the government can
acquire the additional $50 feet on Fifth
avenue to extend the site 1t now owns
so as to provide ground large enough.
II so the problem would be solved, but
in case the government sells its Nine
teenth street and Fifth avenue property
and buys another site the half block be-
tween Nineteenth street and Tewntieth
street and Sixth avenue and Park ave-
nue. would be extremely attractive. l am
not interested in any of the properties
referred TO- The half block between SIX h
avenue and Park avenue and Twentieth
street and Twenty-first street could have
been bought when the government was
looking for site. but, of course, 1t Is
out of the question now as Major Tut
wiler is building a 100000 apartment
house in that block, and the Twentieth
street and Park avenue corner was sold
recently for $4,000.
ut Is evident TO everyone that Biz
mingham will need very large postof-
flee. This city is growing most rapidly,
and it is hard to overestimate its future
greatness. When we do get new post
office it should be ample for many years
to come.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-15
CAR FARE.AT LEAST.

My friends. believe me. It's no joke
The life one leads when he is broke.
no matter where he turns his eye,
lie sees that which he fain would buy,
lhen deep in s pocket vainly gropes
ana bids farewell to earthly hopes.
mere wealth will not bring happiness
I'M that Is very true. I guess
But some small change indeed NAV
mend
Our steps as through life's vale we
wend
and cheer us with It's jing1e-song
To bear up as we plod along.
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To the tune of AUD Lang Syne" the
house OF commons was adjourned on
mat a scene OF grave disorder had arisen
and that the house would therefore stand
adjourned until the following day: The
rumpus arose over an amendment of the
home rule bill which was slipped through
when many OF the supporters of the gov
eminent Were out of their seats.