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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-16
WoRi<MEN PROTEST.
Thousands March Against imprson-
ment OF Ettor and Giovanitt.

New York. Sept l5.-In protest against
the imprisonment of Joseph Ettor and
Arturo Giovanitti, textile strike leaders.
in Lawrence, Mass, several thousand
men and women paraded through some
of the principal streets of the city, Sat
urday.
The parade. which was in two divisions
which converged at Union square, where
William ID. Haywood, leader In the
movement to bring about the release of
Ettor and Giovanitti, and other speakers
addressed the marchers. No red banners
were carried but white flags bearing va
rious Inscriptions were unfurled. Hay
wood reiterated his threat that If Ettor
and Giovanitti We're not released, I'VE
will tie up every factory, every mill,
and every railroad in this country.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-16

Always the favorite Fall and
Winter Suit for Boys from 10 to
16 years of age. The fabrics
are durable and in variety of
handsome patterns. The tailor
ina is strong and of double
strength where there is any
special strain.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-16
SECRET INDICTMENT

Has Been Hanging Over w. D. Hay
wood Since Last April.
Lawrence. Mass, Sept. 15.-The indlct-
ment upon which William D. Haywood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03
Ernfism nf Teddx

''Mr. Roosevelt, in spite Of his impetu- osity and enthusiasm which have won him many admirers, is the most egotisti- cal man ever produced by America, in my opnion,' said Reeves Coleman last evening.
 Roosevelt has announced positively that he will not run for the presidency, and yet there Is no doubt but that he is running at the present time. Tt is prob able that he made the announcement that he would not be candidate after care full reconciliation, following which, he mo- tified his lieutenants to make the people thrust the nomination upon him. He be- lieves that it will be thrust upon him, and that he will do without difficulty what General Grant failed utterly to accom- plsh.
 During the amendment campain, at Oneonta, Sydney J. Bowie, in reference to his opponent in a debate, said Tn many respect has God blessed my worthy op- ponent. He has given him fine mind and a strong and vigorous body. And, in addition the omnipotent has bestowed upon him the most magnificent case of "swelr' head that I have ever observed Mr. Bowie with equal truth might have been speaking of the colonel.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03
BOyHOOD

F. P. Dunne in the Metropolitan.
 No man, young old, knows what is in a boys mind Once he knew. once he was familiar with the ritual, free of the fellowship, understood the degrees and administered them to others. Sud- denly he was expelled and he has never been able to get back in again. His mind, ruthlessly deprived of the memory of passwords and grips and observances, seeks in vain to recall them. Though he beat Forever on the door it never will be opened to him Nothing is more re- mote from the mind of the grown-up per- son than the apparently simple matter of the division of boys year Phioso- phers have studied and guessed. but they never have been able to explain why at
 one time boys play at marbles, at another
 time spin tops and at still another time
 fly kites, and why in every part of the
 world they abandon one pastime in a
 body and take up another.
 The boys know They all know. But
 the rigorous freemasons won't tell. Are they bound by some frightful oath not to reveal the secrets of their caste? Do traitors and informers among them suffer dreadful penalties? Is it possible that the sad little boys who are sometimes seen gloomily treading their way through the winter streets, wearing low socks and
 French berets or the velvet clothes of little Lord Fauntleroys. with curls hang | ing down their lace collars-is it possible 1 that these are the Morgans of this free masonry, that this is their fate because | they have communicated the secrets o1 1 their order? It must be true, for nc
 mother In her right mind would so pun ish her offspring. He wears the uniform | of the outcast. Every boys hand is raised against him. But if it is a punishment | the punishment is excessive. No boy 1 could if he would communicate then secrets to the mature.
 | It wonl1 be more difficult for boy oi 10 to explain what he knows and thinks i to a man cs 40 than it would be for 2 Thibetan priest to elucidate in his >owr 1 language the mysteries of esoteric Buddhism to .Wall street broker at . quick lunch counter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03
Recognizing the Chinese Republic

Secretary of State Philander Knox is very slow when it comes to recog- nizing republic. It took him over a year to get round to a. recognition of Portugal, and he may let two years go by before he recognizes the repub- lie of China, which lies on the other side of the world. He does not seem to enjoy the establishment of repub- lies. He seems to think this country should hold a monopoly in that direc- tion.
 But this cannot be. The whole world is drifting toward popular rule And it would be most appropriate and fitting if this country, being the worlds chief republic, should be the first to recognize the new republic established by Dr. Wu and pr. Sun in China, aided as matter of course by the rest of the Chinese. MT. Knox will not, however, do this. He never does. He withholds to the last possible moment recognition of any republic. He comes from Pennsylva- mia, the land of Penrose, who has no use for popular government. Machine rule under himself as boss is good enough for him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03
AIabama's Convict System

In Arkansas Governor Donaghy threatens to pardon all convicts unless the contractors cease to beat them with straps that create deep scars on their back. The convicts in this state handled by contractors are treated better than convicts are in Arkan- sas-in most cases well treated-ard yet the system is indefensible. "To confine a man." says Representative Rylance of Tallapoosa county. "con- victed of misdemeanor in location where there is probability of a fatal aceident is not in accordance with the American idea of justice"
 Representative Rylance presented in recent interview published in The Age-Herald the sentiment of the state concerning the handling of con victs. As soon as the state can get along without the money the convicts earn in the mines and in the hands of contractors they should be placed at work on the roads of the state, fol- lowing in that respect the excellent example of Georgia and North Caro- lima. MT. Rylance believes the finan- cial condition of the state will justify the change by the next legislature the legislature that meets in Janu- ary, 1915.
 He presents the subject in a lucid and sensible manner. He proposes to present his bill anew in 1915, if he be a member of the legislature, and Tal- lapoosa should see that so clear sighted a man is sent back to work out the distressing convict problem of the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03
Our Content Is our best having.
 liking Henry VIII.
Rebellion in the West

The report that the President con- templates the appointment of William c. Hook of Leavenworth, Kan, to the seat once nobly filled by Justice Harlan, is creating a rebellion all the way from Oklahoma to Minnesota, in- elusive. Judge Hook is now United States judge of inferior rank, and as a judge he decided that 2 cent fare was confiscatory. He did this in Oklahoma. Governor Aldrich of Ne braska, and the railroad commissions of Oklahoma, Nebraska and Minne- sota are protesting against Judge Hooks appointment on the ground that he leans in his decisions to the railroads.
 To put him in Judge Harlan's seat would indeed be surprising, for Jus tice Harlan was the representative in the great court of the mass of the people. He stood for the many when ever the law would permit him to do so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03

Broms Current Literature (January).
 NO woman can read The Garden of Tortures; few can read any of Mir beau's novels" Such is the impression recently conveyed by profusion of French in one of our universities con corning the work of the much disputed disputed French novelist and dramatis who stands today at the head of the ul- tra-realistie school, but whose books are almost unknown in this country. Not since Benjamin K. Tucker was prevented from publishing his translation of 'The Diary of Chambermaid" by the inter- ference of the postal authorities, has d second attempt been made to introduce any of the most important works of De- tave Mirbeau to the American public The reason may be that given by the French professor, that they are too repel- lant to women, and that books of that type will never be read in the United States.
 And yet critics are not lacking in France who claim that this strange De- tave Miroeau is the one giant of contem- porary French letters, that notwithstand- ing the unpleasant and often disgusting atmosphere of his books, he is a crusader of the beautiful, and the creater of new standard of esthetics.. He is our only novelist of genius," declares Victor Merle in his lively series of portraits called Les Homnaes du Jour-" "the only one the French can place beside Tolstoy of whom he is not far from being tic dis ciple-not considering his philosophy" 1t is perhaps not an insignificant fact that Mirbeau has won great popularity with the radical Russians, who know his worK through translations by Viera Korzukhl- ma, E. Moroskhin, V, Tutchalsk and others Tho Germans are apt to put him in the same class with their own Frank Wedekind, whom he is not unlike One of the first plays to be staged by the new company of German players who have been appearing at the Berkeley Lyceum, New YorK, was Der Dieb,' a version of one of Mirbeau's mordant one-act sa- tires, "Scruples." Except for this, and the unsuccessful Business is Busness," produced several years ago, Mirbeau is unknown to the American stage. AL though the real discoverer of Materlinck he is almost unknown to American read- ers-unless as the writer of the preface of Marguerite AndouXs prize novel, Marie Claire"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03
Iron and the Finished Product

The time is fast coming when prac- tically all the pig iron produced in the Birmingham district will have to be converted into the finished product here. More than a fourth of Ala bama's iron output is consumed in the Greater Birmingham district; but the proportion must be much greater than that, for the outside de- mand for southern foundry iron is fast diminishing. The north is mak- ing more foundry iron, and southern furnace companies will be driven to the necessity of converting most >of their pig metal.
 Pig iron makers in this district have operated with satisfactory profit. When prices were high every furnace stack in Alabama was big dividend producer. Alabama's foun- dry iron was in brisk demand at top prices, but the experience of the past two years has emphasized very strongly the changing conditions.
 The Tennessee company makes comparatively little merchant iron, and the time is not far distant when it will turn all of its pig into finished commodities. The Southern Iron and Steel ownes and operates an excellent modern wire mill, and the Woodward Iron company will, it is understood, erect a finishing product plant of some sort during the present year. It is reasonable to predict that within the next two orthree years the Wood wards will enter the steel field on a large scale. Other companies will doubtless follow in the same line.
 The year 1912 will witness more activity in the iron and steel world than last year, and high degree of prosperity may be expected in 1913. Tn the meantime good deal of new construction work in the industrial district will be started in anticipation of the southern boom due on the opening of the Panama canal.
 
 Birmingham's normal output of pig iron has been at the rate of about 2,O00 ,000 tons year. Before this decade is half gone the output will doubtless reach 2,5OO,000 tons, and the greater part of it will be worked up into the finished product by the companies that make the iron. All of which will mean much to Birming- ham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03
Governor Conner neticent

Former Gov. E. B. Conner politely de- clines to talk politics When asked yes- terday concerning the all consuming topic among republicans, "Is Teddy going to run?" the governor very cleverly eyaded the question. ''To my mind" said he, the price of cotton is of more importance at the present time than the probability of Teddy running for the presidency. And in speaking of cotton, am Of the opinion that if the farmers hold their product the price of the staple will advance, whereas if they sell. the price will tumble"
 The interviewer. however, was deter mined if possible to get an expression from the governor. So he asked: Well, are yoY going to'run for governor or for the senate?" But the governor again smiled and only smiled. And by very clever coup. without denying the prob ability of hIs candidacy for one or the other big offices, he gained a promise from his interviewer whereby, if the premise is adhered to- the interviewer will vote for the governor it matters little for what he becomes a candidate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03
As tO It's Origin

q was particularly interested in Lob by few days ago about the much used phrase the psychological moment, said a well known club man.
 q was inclined to think that the phrase was of recent origin, but according to the story read in The Age-Herad l.. .. C. Lamar told Bishop Galloway of Mis- sissippi that in delivering the memorial oration in the United States Senate on Charles Sumner he Qamar) felt 1t to be the psychological moment for bringing about a reconciliation between the north and south, or words to that effect. La mar died in 1893. The phrase was first used as far back as 19 years. Whether or not our great southern statesman origi- mated it is not told.
 "A literary friend of mine remarked a day or two ago that he had an idea that Disraeli first used the phrase, the psy- chological moment' but as it had been a long time since he had read the British statesman-novelist he could not cite a passage in which the phrase might have occurred"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03
HAD A GREAT SYSTEM

From the Detroit Free Press.
 Wilbur c. Phillips. the child welfare worker. tells d story to show how sys- tematized work will usually bring the desired end.
 A peddler climbed to the sixth floor of an apartment house in an attempt to sell his wares. The first man he met he insisted should buy some of his goods Finally he made himself such nuisance that the unfeeling tenant of the apart ment picked him up and threw him down the stairs.
 man standing on the fifth floor. hear ing the racket, glanced up and took in the situation. When the peddler came crashing down to the fifth floor this man picked him up and threw him down the next stairs.
 A man standing on the fourth floor helped the peddler sh by throwing him down the next flight. This continued un- til the poor peddler finally landed on the first floor with crash.
 Gee. but they got some system up there" he said ruefully, as he picked himself up and walked painfully out Into the street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
St. Bernard College

The Rev. Father Lawrence, o. s. B., of St. Bernard spent yesterday in the Bir- mngham district. He will return to the college today at noon, and the Birmlng- ham students who spent the holidays at home will return with him.
 This scholastic year is the most pros porous in the history of St. Bernard, ; said Father Lawrence. we used to think we were doing well when we had 100 students. Now we have 165. and that number will probably be increased to 17s the limit of our accommodations.
 We have just moved our electric plant rom the old building near the barn to the new building close to the college. In this same building a modern steam heating plant, costing nearly SLIGO, was installed last fall Improvements have been made from year to year, and today St. Bernard is one of the best equipped and best ap- pointed institutions in this country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03
II. Steiner Here

'I am here on my annual visit, said $. Steiner, the banker. who was for many years a public spirited citizen of Birming- ham, but for several years a resident of New York. q expect to remain in this city for month. and will find great pleasure in shaking hands with my old friends.
 q notice many substantial improve ments in Birmingham. This city Is cer- tainly making steady progress. and it has a great future. of course. It Is one of the best advertised cities in the country, and what is adding to its fame just now is the fact that it is the home of oscar Underwood The distinguished congress- man is a conspicuous presidential quan- tity He is growing politically every day, and have strong hope that the demo- crats will nominate him for President.
 But an advertisement that Birmingham Is getting now that is anything but fav- orable is this county's homicide record. which is filling the papers of the north. If something is not done to minimize materially the number of murders com mitted hereabouts property values will be hurt, and many desirable homeseekers will avoid this district. Among my good friends in the east are three Hollanders- one the pastor of Dutch church in New Jersey-who have been planning to bring a colony of immigrants from their native land and direct them to the Birmingham district These gentlemen. after studying conditions wisely concluded that Alabama was an exceptionally inviting field for in- dustrious Hollanders. especially those who would bring money with them. The other day my friend. the pastor, said: Look
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03
Prediction of Moore

I fear" said Walter Moore," former alderman, yesterday, "that a very stiff fight will be waged against the commits sion form of government in the near fu- ture."
 When he said fear he did not smie
 It really does seem that the commits sion will have to fight for it's official life when It's fate is again fin the hands of the people, he said. 'There is little doubt but that the citizens of Birmingham are disappointed. Much was promised, too much, 1t is probable and very little has been delivered.
 The tide is now turning away from the. far fetched ideas of extremists and would-be reformers. The idea of govern ment by commission Is an extreme idea, just as the initiative and referendum are extreme ideas.
 'Yes, I anticipate with fear that the commission will have to fight soon with it's back against the wall. We have had no bed of roses on which to repose, and perfect peace has not reigned supreme" :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03
TALE or TWO NEWSPAPERS

From the Houston Post.
 In no department of Mir. Bryan's Com moner is there more interesting matter than that which is clipped from other newspapers. In the latest issue, fqr in- stance we find an editorial from MT. John R. McLean's paper. the Cincinnati Enquirer, labeled "A Weak Presidential Candidate an Injury to the Party" There is nothing remarkable about it. 1t is a yelled attack upon Governor Harmon whom MT. Mclean despises, but it contains the sentence that the democratic party has many leaders who have no flaws in their steadfast devo- ton to party candidates" and as this suggestion evokes a "Hallelujah,' in the Commoner office when Governor Harmons name is mentioned, so we take it that Mr. McLean's Cincinnati Enquirer stands pretty well in the Com moner office. Of course, if the Enquirer had been alluding to the defeat of Jim Dahlman, who was the victim of party treachery last year, the editorial would scarcely have found place in the Com moners columns.
 But the Enquirer Is not the only newspaper Mir. Mclean owns. He hap pens to be the proprietor of the Wash ington Post as well. and that paper had an editorial the other day com mandatory to Mir. Underwood as a can didate for the presidency. The Com moner copied that, too, but not with approval On the contrary it intro duced the article with the statement that the Washington Post is "one of the most unblushing representatives of the plutocratic propaganda,' and then proceeded to an ungracious inaccurate. insulting and entirely undeserved de- nunciation of MT. Underwood.
 Of course. that is not of much conse- quence either, because we know that for both gentlemen MT Bryan enter tains only hatred and animosity. It is MT. Bryan's dual opinion of MT. Mclean that brings the laugh. What one of Mir McLean's papers says in op- position to Governor Harmon whom MT. Bryan despises makes that paper a faithful servitor of the plain people: what MT. McLean's other paper says in favor of MT. Underwood whom Bryan despises makes that paper lone of the most unDluShlnS repreSentatlVeS or the plutocratic press"
 Thus we see that MT. Mclean, ac- cording to Mir. Bryan, Is playing Dr. Jelyll in Cincinnati and Mir. Hyde in Washington.
 It is almost as amusing as the posi- ton of MT Bryan's friendly newspaper in Houston which the other day was exulting because our friend, Col. George Harvey. had come out in Harper's Weekly for Governor Wilson. Mir. Bry- an declares that Colonel Harvey and the Weekly are utterly soaked in plu- tocracy and tattooed with the Wall street brand. These are interesting phases of democratic politics at this time. It shows that the personal spite clements are extremely active. We are not alluding to Colonel Harvey. We i believe he Is animated by the most pa triotic motives. But those who base their political preferences upon personal spite and other vulgar considerations are not going to dominate the democratic party
 next year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03

nation of the agitator and disturber of Oyster Bay would simply call anew for the nomination of a man who is never thrown out of poise, who springs no surprises on the country, who is ever level headed, seeking the restor- ation of peace and business confi- dence. Just as surely as a demand for Theodore Roosevelt arises just that surely will corresponding de- mand arise for the nomination of his antithesis, Oscar w. Underwood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03
IsvENTs A sNoRE STOPPER

From the NeW YOrk Evenlng sun
 The Rev. Alfred Allen Barratt, for years vicar of Holy Trinity, Claygatd Esher, has invented a snore stopper Tn cidentally, it is designed to cure in troubles brought about by incorred breathing.
 The device consists of a small meta attachment which is adjusted to the nod trils and makes breathing as easy as is naturally. The vicar was inf1uenceI to attempt the construction of such al instrument by the statement from man| prominent physicians that impropd breathing through the mouth produced lung trouble and diseases of the throiI and nose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-03
WHERE AMERICANS ARE

From the Springfield Republican,.
 Some one lately wrote an alarnist book on ''The Vanishing American"-it wouli be but short time, he argued, before the species would be extinct because or ex- travaganee, dislike for hard work and the declining birthrate. There was sonie truth in his strictures, and the moral he drew was sound. but his picture was too gloomy. Figures lately drawn from the new census show that in large part of the country the native stock is still hold Ing its own, though the distribution leaves something to be desired. Not all. the states are included, but enough are given to show that the northeast, roughly speaking, is predominantly foreign, the states southwest of a vague line predomi- nantly American. Where the Americans arc may be seen from this incomplete ta- ble showing the percentage of those born of American parents: