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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-26
Advertising Virginia.


The hundreds who come to Virginia from
the far West and Northwest and who are sat
sled with conditions form the most potent
advertising force that the State could nave
They write to their friends back home and tell
ITEM of the opportunities offered This is bet
ter and stronger advertising than any other
kind because it is convincing advertising. IL
NAV not reach as many people as other KIND
would but those that are reached are impress
ed because they know the authors OF the let
tiers and know that what 10 set forth can be
relied upon.
Not that the State should not advertise It's
onportunities to the world. This paper be-
,pyes in systematic advertising campaign
conducted by the state. And 1t occurs to us
that the time Is now ripe for such advertis-
ing Those who have come here from afar
have paved the way for such campaign by
the State and the legislature should set aside
a fund for exhibits of Virginia produce In the
land show at Chicago. and at the various other
shows of that kind held throughout the West.
fer It is that section from which Virginia must
draw.
Heretofore our legislators have not looked
kindly upon any proposition for advertising
he State in this manner. but they must see
the value of 1t. Ten thousand people have
come here from the West in the past six years.
We need many times that nun,ber to till our
waste farm lands and make them productive.
We repeat that the time to rush the advertjs-
ing of the State is here The results will be
lasting and the State will reap many times
the amount expended in bringing the settlers
from afar.--Newport News Press.
Austria aud the Balkans
The selfish interference of Austria may pre-
vent ideal terms of settlement. but with more
than half million of the allies in the tieli
/ there will be no repetition of the full villairy
of the Berlin congress. They openly expressed
sympathy of the Bohemians with The South
prn Savs may warn even Austria to moderate
her insane desire to rule more millions of re-
oellous. conspiring subjects.
Constantinople the allies do not expect TO
dispose Of They may fairly expect to secure
for Bulgaria an outlet on the Egean sea;
for Greece. Crete and Epirus for Moatenesro,
Scutari and for Servia part at least Of Old
Servia Upon gerrymandering the outlines Of
the proposed principally of Albania the iiplo-
mats of bigger powers may chiefly expen1 ,ner
gift for evil-doing, though Salonica and Can-
stantinople will present pretty problems to
!! live or tumhe.--PoRtsmouth Star.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-26
automohilc Burn. Up.

Catching fire when an engine 81.
piodej, an automobile belonging 70
Samuel Martin. of Chesterfield couns
tv, was completely destroyed Satur-
day night while sitting in his garage
The machine was purchased only Z
few days ago by Mr.. Martin
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
Charity Work in This City

Dr. Oxnams review of this city's charity work will be received doubtless as that of sincere friend and faith ful worker in a broad field. If it leads to a more careful consideration of the entire subject the founder of the Pisgah Home will doubtless feel that his effort has not been in vain.
 Dr. Oxnam thinks there are too many charities in this city. He thinks the entire subject should be regulated by central bureau in charge of three men, Protestant, Catholic and a Jew. The more power this central bureau has the more effective would it's administration perhaps be.
 The proposed central bureau, would serve without pay, and it would be in line with our commission form of gov ernment. Whether all the various charities of the city can be induced toaccept direction by central bureau is perhaps doubtful. If, however, they can be convinced that more work and better work can be accomplished in that way, the plan may be accepted and become highly useful.
 As things stand the city has dozen charities, more or less, each working independently, and some lacking ef- ficiency. Some, to use Dr. Oxnam's words, have more administration than real charity. The broad subject de- serves consideration, and possibly Dr. 0xnam's adress will lead to it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
wAYsIDE COOKERY

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Happy childhood that has not yet learned to be afraid of germs-or of ap- pearaneesi No doubt Ned and stephen could not guess why they were punished.
 I've just spanked Ned. I don't know what course you'll pursue with Stephen, " remarked Mrs. Williams intimate friend.
 What have the boys been up to now?" she apprehensively asked.
 About the very last thing you'd inn aeine. They've been eating luncheon with the Italian iaborers working along the car track. And you might as well know the worst at onee-they-ve been eating meat cooked in a shovel"
 With a frantic vision of a hopelessiy germ ridden child, Mrs. Williams called he. son to immediate account
 T didn't eat luncheon with any strange men.n he indignantly persisted. Those men are all my dear friends. And I didn't eat any meat cooked in a shovel, either.'
 What did you eat, then?'
 "Only some gravy cooked in a shovel by one of the men" Then, seeing the alarm in his mothers face-"but it was clean all right, mother, for I saw the man wipe off the shovel with his hat be- fore he poured in the gravy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
UNDERMOOD IN GEORGIA

From the Washington Herald.
 Have a care, Woodrow Wilson, that you do not offend your southern sup porters by the covert attacks of your press bureau on Oscar Underwood At least, the Savannah News delivers an in, ressive warning. The south, partic- ularly Georgia, is partial to both of these candidates for the. democratic continuation, it declares, and notice is served that the distinguished governor of New Jersey, In his candidatory zeal, must not overreach himself in his fight on Underwood. To cali the House floor sader a minicn of Wall street is an in- suit to Alabama, whose intense loyalty to it's "favorite son" theratens to be- come one of the pivotal factors in the corning Baltimore convention.
 The last story going the rounds In the south is that Bryan vii bolt the ticket if Underwood is nominated. The Wilson workers are given the credit of having distributed this insidious rumor, V hlch has merely had the effect of so,idifying the Underwood movement in Alabama and Georgia. It is now clear that Wilson will have to fight for the southern delegates which were at first assumed tc be the backbone of his con vention strength.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
Solid Prosperity

Improvement in the iron market is always a good sign. Pig iron is one of the best barometers in the business world.
 The price of iron is moving up slowly but surely. A large tonnage is being contracted for and the Bir- mingham price is S11 on No. basis for the third quarter of the year. A few weeks ago it was predicted that iron for future delivery would be selling at $11 before July. But 1t looks now as if we would see SIP iron before the end of spring.
 Business in nearly every direction is becoming active. The presidential campaign this year will not have the disquieting effect on trade that such campaigns usually had in times past. It is felt that both of the great politi- cal parties will adopt conservative, rather than radical, platforms in June, and business, so long halting, halrs no longer. Although we are having a backward spring there is ample time to make full crops, and with abundant harvests this summer, record break ing prosperity will be in evidence.
 In the Birmingham district business conditions never looked so bright as today. Not only is there boom talk, but the large business enterprises that are in view mean new high records in Birmingham prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
How many fond fools serve mad tcaiousy. Comedy of Errors
Anniston's Pioneer Daily

Scarcely a town in the country of small population possesses a morning paper with satisfactory telegraphic service. And yet Editor Ayres prom ises to supply Anniston with such pa per. Possibly the task can be accom- plished without mourning losses. If 1t can be, Anniston will stand almost alone, for it's population is less than 20,0OO
 Let us hope at any rate that the picturesque name of the paper will be retained. The Anniston Hot Blast is as famous as the city itself. In all the land no newspaper title has been selected at once so novel and so dram atic One can almost see the news of the night rushing out at daybreak very much as the blasts come from the top of the stacks in this iron making district. The name is unique and should be preserved.
 With Atlanta on one hand and Bir- mingham on the other, and with Gads- den on the north and Talladega on the south Anniston is well equipped with rivals, but if Editor Ayres can consol- idate his support he may be able to do what none of his predecessors have successfully done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
A FIDDLER'S MILLION

Harriet Quimby in Leslie's.
 "In ten years I have made over mil lion dollars with my violin," said Jan Kubelk, when he returned to. New York after concert tour or the west. For years l have been striving to reach the point where l could feel that l could take a rest. Now the time has come. During the past ten years l have given sometimes over 100 concerts season. You as layman will not understand What that means; but musicians who know that anything over 30 concerts s season is a hard seaso.- will understand No,n he replied. in answer to a ques- ton, q don't think I shall ever com pletely retire until I am forced to do so What 1 mean by taking things easy is not to give up my work, but to give fewer concerts and to devote more time to my little family I have never had a chance to enjoy my home and my five children"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
MILLMEN FOR MIR. UNDERWOOD

From the Washington Post.
 Ninety per cent of the people of North Carol na would vote for oscar Underwood for the democratic nomina- ton for the presidency II allowed to do so in a presidential primary said J. A. Long of Roxsboro. one of the most in- huential bushes men in the state, who IS at the Raleigh
 ''We cotton mill men have watched the record of Mir. Underwood in the House with a great deal of interest, and about I75 Ter cent of the millmen attending the convention here of the American Cotton Manufacturers association were for Mr Underwood for President. Any credit that the democra-s claim for the wise and sane legislation which has been passed by the democratic House must be given to MT. Underwood. He has accomplished what others have failed to dc--keep the unruly members in line Every bill which he has rec om- mended 10 the House has been wise and
 sane. l believe the democrats of the entire country will rally to the distin- guishcd Alabamian at Baltimore, and
 expect to sec him elected President at the November election
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
Industrial Corporations

Commissioner of Corporations Her bert Knox Smith calls attention to the fact that the dissolution of the Stand ard Oil company and of the American Tobacco company leaves the country uncertain as to the effects of that ac. tion enforced by court. The truth is, the country sees little change in the dissolutions in question.
 This leads Commissioner Smith to declare that "a permanent administra- tive office will be absolutely neces- sary. The vast complexity of corporate business and its constantly chang ing conditions makes it wholly inn possible to enforce effectively any real system of restraint through the courts alone"
 Commissioner Smith wants, in other wors, just such an administrative con- trol of interstate industrial corpora tions as the interstate commerce com mission exercises over the railroads. A commission or an inividual would suffice. Either needs sufficient power to render supervision effective and salutary.
 This is what the country will surely adopt in the long run. Chairman Gary of the Steel corporation has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
Baseball Properly Played

Baseball, says a recent writer, is a school of health, self control and hon or. This refers to organized baseball and perhaps to well regulated semi professional ball.
 It certainly is a game that leads to health, for even the rooters must ex- pand their lungs in the sunshine be- fore they can drive the umpire sin gle inch, or carry encouragement to the home team.
 1t is also a game that teaches self control, so far as the players are con- cerned. A player who under any cir cumstances becomes rattled is of course player who can accomplish but little. He must first acquire self control, no matter how wildly or how unjustly the bleachers or the grand stand may conduct themselves.
 The national game as now organized comes very near being a game of hon. or. Every feature of it is safeguarded. All decisions are not, it is true, just, but it is pretty safe to say that all professional umpires intend to be just. The trouble is, they cannot see every thing. An umpire who is maliciously unjust is indeed rare official, and he does not stay long. He is soon de- tached
 Let us then get ready for season of baseball conducted to win. All of the eight teams cannot stay in the first division. Four must fall back to the second division, and the separation of the sheep from the goats is after all the seasons chief task.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
\ Fine Concert

Tt is hoped the day will come when the city of Birmingham will be able to employ a large band to give free con certs in the park during the summer a band as large as that which Nappi con- ducted at the fair grounds Sunday after noon," said well known citizen.
 owing to the indictment weather the attendance at the Easter concert was comparatively small. A great many tick cts had been sold but there were prob ably only about 300 persons present. If Nappi will repeat his Easter programme next Sunday, or the Sunday following, the grandstand will be filled, providing, of course, weather conditions be favor abe.l
 q am glad we are to have open. air concerts again this summer under the auspices of the Music study club The ladies of that club are not only ener- getic. but they are successful in their ap- peals to the public. Disinterested mo. tives prompt the committee, and all lib- oral minded citizens appreciating the work of the Music Study women should respond promptly and Siberally to the open air concert fund.-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
Tired of inc nRnge Song

T will start public subscription list with $25 to raise a substantial reward for the vaudeville show in Birmingham which will agree to never again book an act containing That Mysterious Rag in it's repertoire, said man about town yesterday afternoon.
 Ever since that 'blasphemy' on music was published everything under the sun has been whistling. playing. singing or humming it or reproducing it in some form. It has about as much music to il as the bray of a jackass and there is as much sense to the words as there werld be to a lecture on psychology by a hog.
 "Everywhere I go hear it. In moving picture shows, the orchestra plays it: in the theatres, somebody sings 1t: in vaudeville houses, somebody else brings it out. The other day, thinking to escape it, I dropped into a cafe. I had been seated about five minutes when a girl in the balcony over the dining room began banging it out on a piano. Show me the fellow who wrote it anyway and I'll show you something like a first class tragedy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
UNDERWOOD UNDER FIRE

From the Schenectady Union-Star.
 Uneasy lies the head around which the presidential bee Is busily buzzing.
 Governor Harmon has been charged by no less 8 distinguished person than a&r- Bryan, himself three times a candi- date for the position to which the Ohio executive aspires with 5eing the agent of "the predatory interests of Wall street." Governor Wilson has been ac- eused of racial bigotry, fnsincerity, in gratitude ard with being an all around political switch engine. Speaker Champ Clark has been held up to criticism for his attacks upon Grover Cleveland while the latter was President and also with having been incorporate in his utter ances respecting Canadian reciprocity. Now Representative Underwood is coming in for his gruelling. He Is put forward for the presidency by the south primarily, and 1t Is the papers of that section that are now devoting their at tention to him from the standpoint of advocate and antagonist.
 The Alabama statesnlans newspaper adyersaries maintain that he Is not a true southerner because his father was a sympathizer with the Union in the war between the states. To combat this attack the newspaper champions of MT. Underwood point to the fact that he was born in Kentucky, educated In southern schools, had two uncles in the Confederate army, and voted against the bill to increase pensions of soldiers of the Union army.
 In the discussion both sides appear to have lost sight entirely of, the ques- ton of Mir Underwood's qualifcarrons for the presidency. The situation is an unpleasant one for not only MT. Under wood, but also for the country at large, which had come to the belief that the last Nestges of sectionalism had been wiped cut.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
COST OF MOTOR BOATS

'C. Non Culin in Leslie's.
 The coming of the motor boat has not taken away any of the pleasure of the sailboat, but has added very much to it. The installation of auxiliary power (ex- cept in strictly racing sailboats) has bo- come almost universal. The cost of an engine for auxiliary use, including in- stallation, which will enable the sailor moorings. to be able to come and go re- gardless of wind or tide, Is compara- lively low, when you consider tha, the 20 foot to 90 foot sailbozt may use from three horsepower to 25 horsepower. Much depends upon the requirements and the type of engine selected. For instance, a 20 foot sailboat may have installed three horsepower two cycle engine at a total cost of about S1O0. The 20 foot to 50 foot boat may use from five horsepower to 30 horsepower.
 The cost of engine and installation will vary according to changes which may be necessary, as. we'll as the type, make and power of engine selected. fair estimate, taking the minimum and maximum, would be five horsepower for $l75, 30 horsepower for from $500 to s1500-the lowest price being for me- dium duty two cycle engine. and the higher price for four cycle engine. Much depends upon the. beam. draft and actual speed required.
 The actual cost of maintenance of the auxiliary engine in the sailboat is very small. One pint of gasoline per horse- power each hour and one pint of cyln- der oil to each five gallons is a fair estimate A three horsepower gasoline engine can be run at cost of ' cents per hour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
-.I.-1l--'-'-- PER SENERING
From Harper's Magazine.

From Harpers Magazine.
 Aunt Julia, Mrs. B--'s colored washer woman, is a thrifty, respectable and self respecting representative of her race, but is unfortunate in having an utterly worth less scapegrace son, who lately served a richly deserved sentence in the peniten- tiary at Pittsburg. Notwithstanding his disgrace Aunt Julia is exceedingly proud of him and misses no occasion of chant ing his praises. Some time ago, on her weekly mission at the B-s she ob- served:
 'Ah s'pose yo'all didn't know ah'm gwine to hab my boy home for Christ mas"
 'Indeed?'
 "Yes, ma am, he done wrote yisterday he comin' home Tuesday"
 You must be very glad, Aunt Julia How long has he been away?'
 Eighteen months. Ah tell you, honey, he jes stuck right to itl'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
HE GOT HIS "CHANGEv
n the Chicago Evening Post.

From the Chicago Evening Post.
 The waning talk about the Ozark hound brings back the episode of Lag Spencer iu the courtroom scene of Opie Reads play, "The Starbucks."
 Lag, like all the other witnesses, was trying to 'stall'' in the interest of the old moonshiner, and undertook to en- certain the federal judge with an anec- dote.
 "A man up our way" said Lag, mad lot of dogs. He used to take one to town and trade him for a pint of likker.
 "One day lie took along the biggest hound you ever see. When the storekeep- CT give him the likker, this man said. What, Don't I git nothin' back. m changer And the storekeoper give him an old setter and bull pup.p
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
ANNOYED BY HEARsEs
Denver Telegram to the Pittsburg D

Denver Telegram to the Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 Lawrence c. Phipps and several of his friends residing in the fashionable Capital Hill district have gone into court to de- termne whether the dead shall hold su- premacy in that vicinity.
 Phlpps and four other prominent men have applied for an injunction restraining the Ira C. Gwin Mortuary and Manufac- turing company from conducting an un- dertalxing establishment at 11S3 East Col fax street.
 The ever present reminder of death, the sight of hearses and funeral processions by day and the rumble, rumble of dead wagons by night is a thing calculated to get on the nerves, in the opinion of the petitioners, all of whom live within a stones throw of the mortuary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
Uncle Sam and the Children

The bill creating a children's bureau in the department of commerce and labor has passed both houses of Con gress, and it will doubtless be signed by the President.
 Secretary Nagel is an advocate of the bill, and should the new bill be- come law he will do his utmost to make known the needs of the children of the country. It is always best to have new bureau in friendly hands.
 The proposed bureau will investigate all phases and conditions of child life. It will collect and disseminate data on infant mortality, the birth rate, or phanage, juvenile courts, desertiorf, dangerous occupations, accidents and diseases of children, and employment and legislation affecting children in the several states
 There is plenty of room for fed eral children,s bureau, and possibly some excellent legislation will grow out of the information furnished by it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-09
Churches Increase in Numbers

Some one writing to the New York Sun last week about churches and the Men and Religion Movement stirred up a hornets nest" said a citizen and one who takes an interest in religious mat ters.
 "A MT. John Pryse in letter to the editor of the Sun. April 3, said that the Men and Religion Movement bore no definite message He also asserted that the old doctrine as to salvation had been generally abandoned;' also that the be- lief in Jesus as the world savior is not essential to salvation He made 1t ap- pear. too, that considerable majority of the people of the United States had no church connection whatever.
 Among shose who replied to MT. Pryse was Mr. Eugene NJ. Camp. who, in a letter dated April 1, said that Prot estants and Catholics in America are united. more strongly united, indeed, than heretofore. on the doctrine that such belief is essential. Statistics show, he said that the Christian bodies in America, Protestants and Cath olics, that are reciting the old creeds are steadily increasing In their members, and that the few, the very few, that deny the creeds are losing ground and doing little or no uplft work.
 MT. Camp puts in a strong plea for the Men and Religious Movement. Allow just here said Mir. Camp. "a personal point. My business compels mo 10 hear from 300 to 500 persons and religious addresses a year, often ten a week. It has required me to do so for years l have never heard sermons containing more about Christ, more dogma, more many sided religion, Tall of it gospel, than during the past year