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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-06
Alabama National Guard

THE joint encampment OF United States
infantry and cavalry, ami the infantry
and cavalry of the Alabama National
Guard at Admission was a grand success, .
said Adjutant General Joseph B. Scully.
I'VE saw more of real army life than
ever before The close association of tho
National Guard with Uncle Sans regu-
lars has naturally an excellent effect.
The National Guard throughout the coun-
try. as people generally know, is in a
much higher state of efficiency now than
ii was few years ago. To all intent
and purposes the guardsmen are real SOL
diers and under the rigid United States
army inspection. They are ready to go
into war service on days notice.
THE National Guard of Alabama is
not as strong numerically as 1t should
be, but 1t Is in exceptionally good shape.
Tho counties outside of the Birmingham
district make a much better military
showing than jefferson county. The Ma
tional Guard enrolled in the agricultural
counties turned out at Admission with full
panies barely came up to the minimum
number-4O men.
mo infantry company OF National
Guard is recognized by the United States
government upless it has fully 40 men
ready for active service. The companies
that were recently disbanded in the Bir-
mngham district failed to come up to the
requirements.
"Of all the counties in the state, JEFF
ferson calls on the National Guard Oft
ener than any, and therefore should make
a better showing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-06
BIGGEST BAKERY ON EARTH

From the New York Telegram.
The largest bakery in the world is To-
Gated in Essen, Prussia, the home of the
great Krupp gun factory. 1t is a vast
building in which 70 workmen, divided
into two shifts, work night and day. Ev-
erything is done by machinery. A screw
turns INCREASINGLY kneading trough into
which are poured some water and ten
sacks of flour of 200 pounds each. This ma
chine makes about 10000 pounds of bread
each day in the shape of 25,o00 small
loaves and 5000 large loaves, produced
by go sacks of flour of 200 pounds each.
All the operations of bread making are
performed In this colossal bakery. The
wheat arrives there is cleaned, ground,
and brought automatically to the knead-
ing trough by series of raising and de-
scending pipes There are 36 double
ovens, and the workmen who watch over
the baking of the bread earn from s to
10 cents an hour, making an average of
30 cents a day for IL hours on duty.
They have coffee and bread free. also
the use of bathroom, for they are re-
oinred to keep themselves spot1essly c.san
and must wash their hands eight times
day
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-06
-FOUR EYES ENOUGH

From the Kansas City Journal.
That teachers are able TO see from
the back of their heads is not a myth.
- some schoolboys may think. Many
are the times that a boy has been
caught whispering by the teacher when
his or her eyes were turned toward the
blackboard. And yet this same boys
would swear that she could not pos
sibly have seen him. And he wonders
whether it was her instinct that told
her he was the nliscreant.
According to Professor Ogg, teacher
of physics at the Manual Training High
school, the phenomenon of seeing back
of you is true if you wear spectacles
THE light waves bringing the image
from the rear strikes the glass of your
spectacles,' said Mr.. Ogg. Your glasses
are converted into.a mirror and the re-
Election of the Whispering youngster is
outlined on them and is then rejected
to your eyeballs. And 10, you have the
picture of a boy behind you tryang to
whisper without being caught"
Professor Ogg wears glasses.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-06

The Importance of electing demo-
cratic Congress to support Woodrow
Wilson should have careful considera-
ton in the contested states. The in
dependent voter should be asked to
cast vote for a democratic member
of Congress when he casts vote for
Wilson, for the latter could accom-
plish nothing Of value if reaction
airy opposition Congress should be
elected at the same time. Legislative
action must become the basis of ex-
ecutive action, and reactionary Con-
gress would be calamity. A Wilson
victory would in that event be empty
and valueless.
Let us hope that in all the contested
states excellent men will be made
democratic nominees for Congress.
The Sixty-third Congress will have a
large range of reform brought before
it-questions relating to the cost of
living involved in the tariff and the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-06
The Too Movement

There is a great deal of interest in
the movement to establish a geological
park in Birmingham said a member
of the Chamber of Commerce.
mo large city can afford to be without
zoo Few things are so educational for
children as a collection of animals, and
grown-up folks enjoy looking at the ele-
plants and other interesting beasts that
used to be seen in this country only in
the circus menagerie.
II remember when The Age-Herald
started the zoo movement some years
ago The city at that time had no large
park to offer for the zoos home. bul
now that the city has spread out there
viii b9no trouble about finding a suit
able park All the local newspapers are
boosting the zoo idea, and I hope 1t will
not be long before it becomes a reality
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-06
THE OLD FIREPLACE


L ioiu the 1idllsildHs
Come, site besyde my hearthe,
IT'S wide for gentle companie."
Was there ever more perfect invita-
ton than these simple old words, or a
more appropriate motto for a chimney
piece? 1t Is the sort of thing that car
lies one back in imagination to the old
colonial days of wide doored and OPEN
hearted hospitality or across the ocean
to the mother country, with its shelter
come of logs in its farmhouse kitchens
and great manor halls.
But when we try to fit such a delight
ful picture to our modern American life
VIC realize how far we have wandered
from the old traditions, both in our arch
lecture and in our ways of living, and
how few of us, as yet can either give or
receive an invitation of such gentle,
friendly form. In, the tenseness of our
search for happiness-or rather its re-
ruted equivalent, wealth-many of us
have almost for9ttten what it means to
erjoy the restfulness of the open Hearth
and the comradeship of freside friends.
a hastily constructed civilization and
the pressure and congestion of city life
Lave taken from us this primitive heri-
tage, and in putting the problems Of
heating and cooking on a more scientific
basis we have deprived ourselves not only
o IA feature Of great architectural beau
ty but also of the nucleus for ideal fam
lily and social life.
But in spite of the fact that so much
OF our population is still living in en-
all the joys and comforts for which It
stands, it is nevertheless equally true that
the fireplace Is being once more gradual
ly restored to its rightful place in our
homes and in our lives. Builders. archi-
tects and home planners all over the coun-
factor as a desirable and even a necessary
element in the modern house.
The people who are building homes for
themselves and their children are trying
to make those homes essentially cheerful
and livable. to reduce their furnishings
the natural fundamental things in home
environment which will bring them direct
comfort and happiness. And in discover
ing their own real needs. they are realiz-
ing that they want some definite focal
point for family life, some genuine CEN
ter of hospitality, and that the most
practical and beautiful way to bring this
about is to build an open fireplace in the
family living room.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-06
PERNIcIous MATCH

From the Indianapolis News.
The greater part of a recent number
of Insurance Engineering is devoted to
about the Spernicious
match" or rather. to an exhibition in
detail of the astonishing lack of action
taken to guard against one of the great
lest of all causes of fires in America
Despite a more or less sensational
campaign directed against this evil, this
magazine says, results seem to be al
most negligible As tho result of a
Thorough inquiry 1t finds that only
per cent of the population of the United
States is represented as having any IN
terest in the subject of matches
In five Massachusetts Mis-
souri,, North Carolina, South Carolina
and virginia-attempts have been MADE
to pass lays compelling the use OF none
but salty" matches. Domestic manu-
|facturers have successfully lobbied
against these bills. Insurance Engineer
ing says Legislation regarding matches
is actually under consideration In SIX
states-Louisiana Michigan, New York,
Tennessee, Utah and Virginia. In Idaho,
Iowa, Texas and West Virginia interest
is expressed on the subject Only two
cities actually have In force at this
time ordinances concerning matches
New York city and Jersey City N J''
Insurance Engineering says, although
it Immediately mentions four. In New
York city it is necessary to obtain
permit from the fire commissioner TO
manufacture, transport. store or sell
matches And after January /, 1913,
the use of white phosphorus as match
ingredient is made unlawful. Rules and
regulations for the storage, sale and
use of matches were adopted in Jersey
City in 1907. An ordinance governing
the sale of matches is In force in Knox
Vile, Tenn. In New Haven, Conn, there
is in force an ordinance forbidding the
throwing of matches on combustible
material.
In a roll call of the states made by
the magazine through state officers,
the reply from Indiana reads: know
of no contemplated legislation against
the use of certain forms of matches,
neither do we have any information re-
garding local ordinances affecting such
matters" In letter from Indian
apolis an ordinance pending in COM
mittee is quoted containing provision
against striking matches in a theatre,
except where, under the rules of the
management, smoking is permitted, in
a table showing the character of re-
plies from cities of 5000 or more in
the United States, all the Indiana cities
are listed as showing no apparent in
terest except Indianapolis and Elkhart
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-06
Magdalena Bay

The passage of the Lodge resolu-
ton in the Senate last week is harm
less piece of opinion. Here is the reso-
luton in full:
Resolved, That when any harbor or
other place in the American continent,
is so situated that the occupation there
of for naval or military purposes might
threaten the communications or the
safety of the United States, the gov
eminent of the United States could not
see without grave concern the possess
sion of such harbor, or other place, by
any corporation or association which
has such a relation to another govern
lnent, not American as to give that
government practical power of control
for national purposes.
This refers to a sale of 100000
acres of land surrounding Magdalena
bay to a Japanese syndicate for fish
ing purposes. The Japanese govern
ment had and has no competition with
it. The facts were brought out in an
investigation made by Secretary of
State Knox.
The lands lie along and near the
route that the traffic to and from the
Panama canal must follow, and so the
Senate judged that resolution ex-
tending if possible the Monroe doc
trine to commercial cessions should
be passed.
This resolution is a mere express
sion of the Senate. 1t will not be
sent to the House. 1t will not bind
any future administration. 1t is, how
ever, semi-official notice to foreign
powers to refrain from securing new
naval bases by. indirect methods. 1t
will lead to no rupture with Japan,
1t is no declaration of war, but it will
go on record as an expression of this
practical development Of the doctrine
laid down by President Monroe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-06
WORKS IN THE GARDEN NOW

From Answers, London.
Grown old in the service of his master
and mistress, James was a privileged re-
tainer.
He was waiting at table one day, when
a guest politely asked for fish fork.
Strangely enough. the request was ig-
nored.
Then the hostess noticed the episode
and remarked in most peremptory man.
ner:
James, Mrs. Jones hasn't fish fork.
Get her one at once!
Madam" came the emphatic reply,
last time Mrs. Jones dined here we lost
a fish fork"
James has now been relagated to the
garden.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-06
The presidential contest

Il have never voted the democratic
ticket in national election said F.
w. McNulty of Chicago, but l expect
TO vote for Wilson and Marshall next
November.
MY first presidential vote was in
1896, when / cast my ballot for McI<in-
ley If Justice Hughes, or some other
strong republican had been nominated
in Chicago I would have not thought
of leaving the g. o. p.
President Taft is high toned gen.
tleman, no doubt. but he has not meas
ured up we'll 20 the chief executive
office. AS for Roosevelt. he is too self
seeking and thousands of republicans
like myself would have refused to
vote for a third termer If Roosevelt
had been the regular nominee.
woodrow Wilson was nominated
fairly and squarely at Baltimore. He
is evidently a man of uncommon force
of character. He should make good
President At any rate l am willing e
try him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-06
THE YAQUIS OF MEXICO

The Yaquis are warriors of no little mil
itary skill and utter fearlessness, and
they are unharnpered by any sentiment
III behalf of the rules of civilized warfare.
The modus operandi of a Louisiana lynch
ing party composed of determined citi-
zens' would not shock the Yaqui's sense
of propriety if the victim were a Next
can. The Mexican government will prob
ably regret having stirred up the hor-
nets nest in Sonora. When the rebels
srhside the Yaquis may continue military
operations. 1t will then be up to the
government to quell the Yaquis. and fire.
dnently the government has not proven
up to that undertaking.
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Good Road Days

II am glad that Governor O'Neal has
issued a proclamation urging the OBJ
servance of August IA. is and 16 as
good road days in Alabama" said d
citizen IF all the men throughout
the state will aid in this good move
ment for three days. either with their
Drawn" or their money. vast will be the
Improvement in the highway situation.
THE Alabama Good Roads associa-
tion and the state highway commits
sion have been energetic in behalf of
the general observance of these good
road days A good deal of progress
has been made in good road building
in Alabama, but we are not up to Geor-
gia or one or two other southern states
that might be named. Alabama should
not rest until 1t is in the Lead
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Atlanta md Birmingham

Georgia is still prohibition state, and
1t will probably remain in the prohibi-
ton column for some time to GOMEZ said
an Atlanta man who was registered at
one of the hotels here yesterday.
THE Georgia prohibition law is not SO
stringent as was the prohibition law OF
Alabama prior to the return of the regu-
lated liquor traffic. Had our legislature
enacted drastic measures there would
naturally have been reaction before
now. As 1t is, the sale of beer under the
name of near beer Is licensed in Georgia.
and IN some cities whisky is sold extern
sively in so-called clubs. 1t is reasons
able to say that there is as much liquor
consumed in Atlanta as there is in Bir-
mingham, probably more.
Il love Atlanta and seldom say any
thing In criticism of it, but regarding the
liquor business 1 think that Birmingham
has the better plan-high license and reg
ulation .
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-06
EVERY MAN TO HIS SPECIALITY

From the Kansas City Star.
When there is no politics in the air
Kansas City, Kan, negro who generally
responds to the stage name of big Eye
earns livelihood by helping the white
folks clean house." On a recent oc-
casion "Big Eye contracted to assist
a local matron with the spring cleaning,
and the first task assigned to him was
to pick up heating stove and carry it to
the woodshed.
Carrying stoves is not in big Eyes
line. He likes work, mark you. but he
is not crazy about it. Stoves are heavy.
big Eye" hesitated for moment, then
scored.
Lady" he said, Il forgot to tell you
that Use believer In union principles.
amt allowed to touch that stove. Tn
carpet beaten. not a stove lifter.''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-06
Verify,
Pig Iron in Presidential Years

IL HUI
1t is reasonably well determined
that the production of pig iron will
go to 100000 tons this year, or
about per cent beyond the produc-
ton of any previous year. This
means, too, that steel production will
be considerably increased.
The Iron Trade Review says that in
the last IL presidential years six
were record breakers and six were
not. Of the six that were not 1904
and 1908 would have been poor iron
making years any way, and 1896 and
1876 were in periods of depression.
This leaves 1884 and 1892 to be ac-
counted for and various causes in
those years besides presidential com
paigns contributed to depressions.
1t is plain therefore that presi-
dental year is not destructive of
prosperity to a degree that renders
iron unstable or Improbable.
The fact that more iron will be
made this year than was ever before
made in single calendar year is
pretty good evidence that production
cannot be stayed by bull moose or
by fractional differences of unusual
bitterness. The campaign is moving
quietly on and no one is disturbed by
it. Orders are coming in and the
stacks are turning out iron at an I'M
precedented rate.
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Progress in Southern Agriculture


As wonderful as the south's strides
in agriculture have been within the
past 10 years, far greater will be it's
strides in the present decade; and in
this forward movement Alabama
should lead the rest of the south. Up
to five years ago Alabama was known
in the agricultural world only for its
large cotton production. Today it is
known as an important corn produc-
ing, as well as cotton producing,
state. Better still the farmers are
making more corn and more cotton to
the acre than would have been
thought possible a few years ago.
In brief interview with Capt. o..
P. Spaight of Dale county which APP
peared in The Age-Herald last Satur-
day, that well known citizen told of
a cotton field of 200 acres, cultivated
by w. L. Casey, that would produce
this summer an average of bale to
the acre, Notwithstanding the fact
that the cotton season was very back
ward in Alabama. Captain Spaight
also told of the splendid cotton crop
conditions in Dale. Corn in his neigh
borhood would average, he said, 80
bushels to the acre.
The great thrift among the indus
trious farmers of this state which is
attracting so much attention now is
the result largely of scientific and
business-like methods applied to agri-
culture as compared with the hap
hazard ways of other days.
There has been considerable in
crease in truck farming in Alabama
within the recent years, but this i'm
portant industry is yet in its infancy.
In three or four years from now
truck farming in this state will be
more than doubled in volume. Indus
trial operations, railroad manage
ment and commercial pursuits all call
for educated men, but in no business
or occupation is education better re-
warded than on the farm. The edu-
Gated farmer is the successful farmer,
and he is adding UNNECESSARILY to the
wealth Of the state.
Agricultural chemistry is at last
receiving the attention it deserves in
our schools of technology. The Uni
versity of Alabama and the Poly
technic institute~at Auburn are doing
splendid work for agriculture, and in
every school and college the elements
of agricultural chemistry should have
place.
With all the progress noted among
the tillers of the soil there is the
greater reason for expecting marked
progress in good road building in this
state. An educated rural population
will certainly not put up long with
miry highways in the winter, for after
all it will hardly pay to make two
blades grow where one grew before
unless the farmer can haul his crops to
the railroad station, or to the mar
ket town on a macadamized road.
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lie London Globe.

TO1ll inc LO0UUH 0IUDt.
There are no forests in China. For
estry is a subject in which the Chinese
evince no interest. The Great Plain, on
which Tientsin is located, never had
forests, being entirely of delta forma-
ton, and the mountainous regions to
the north and west were denuded of
their forests centuries ago. A British
mining and shipping corporation has
begun the work of afforestation and has
a million young trees growing. but
there are no government forestry Of
ficials. schools of forestry or horticul-
ture. magazines devoted to these sub
jets, or associations of foresters, nur-
serymen, seedsmen, etc, in China.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-06
New County Buildings Needed

DR.. Oates, state prison inspector,
continues to stress the insanitary
and over crowded condition of the
jefferson county jail While it is not
as sanitary as new modern Jail will
be, it is not nearly so bad now as some
persons may imagine.
Sheriff McAdory has done every
thing in his power, it may be as
sumed, to improve the sanitary char
acter of the jail But the truth is a
county that contained two years ago
226 900 inhabitants cannot find public
in buildings erected
over 20 years ago, when the county
had but $4,000 people.
The time to rebuild has come and
the rebuilding should be Of nature
that will afford public accommoda-
lions for so years in the future. The
plans of the Board of Revenue do this,
and the proposition it presents has
common sense and business sense be-
hind it. 1t should be judged on the
basis of economy and public needs
To patch up old buildings is rarely
satisfactory, and the Jail and hospital
and courthouse are each and all out
grown.
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trusts, and the ablest men in the
party will be needed in it. They will
be needed, too, to give the new adj
ministration an equal and just OPP
portunity. All the great reforms to
come must be given form and author
ty in Congress, and every district
should send to Washington its best
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-06
HOW HE GOT OFF

Fro mthe Louisville courier-Journal
Have you formed any opinion as to
this mans guilt or innocence?'
Il have not. but I'm not eligible as a
juror"
''Why not?'
My wife has,