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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
After the Conventions

There was great deal of business activity in most sections of the coun- try in May and considerable briskness the first week in June. but there has been a Hull for a week or more owing to the stir over the national conven- tions," said & J. Dodson of Philadel- phia.
 T usually vote the republican ticket and will probably vote for Taft next November. but if the democrats have a conservative platform and high class candidate. the next President is almost certain to be a democrat. don't care much how it is just so the radical element is not in control.
 "If Taft is the republican nominee and Underwood is the democratic nom- inee, the country will be safe. If the business interests can look forward to a conservative administration we will have great prosperity the remainder of the year.
 1T have an idea that we are going to have a period of prosperity lasting at least three years from the first of next month"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
unaernood.a Popularity


 "One hears a good deal of Mayor Gay nor as a presidential possibility, but do not think his candidacy is taken very seri- ously,', said W. w Rogers. who repre- sents large business concern in New York.
 T am a republican, but have high re- spect for our mayor. He is a good, strong man, but I do not think the demo- crats have any idea of nominating him for the presidency. While I am repub- lican I am not politician. I have thought, however, all along that Presi- dent Taft would be nominated. and that he would stand good chance of being elected.
 .'Underwood has grown rapidly as democratic presidential aspirant. In the past two weeks I have heard more ia vorable mention of his name than that of any other democrat. As New York goes so goes the Union is an old saying and although the political map may be changing the victorious party must carry New York next November. just as in times past. Can Taft carry New York? He can unless the democrats have an unusually strong ticket. MT. Underwood is so we'll thought of by conservative people that he might beat Taft in New York and one or two other doubtful states I doubt whether any other demo- crat could poll as large vote in the east as MT Underwood"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21

London Cor. New York Evening World.
 The placing of passengers in alumi-
 mum cases carrying them upward on aeroplanes to the eastward drift above
 the storm stratum and shooting them ffom America over to Europe between
 breakfast and afternoon tea is not so wonderful a performance as the send ing of an aerogram across the English Channel. the transmitting of the human voice over a metallic circuit or the re- production of words that were uttered by lips since closed in death" This prophetic hint was dropped by Prof Willis L. Moore. the chief of the
 United States weather bureau, in the opening lecture of series he is to de- liver before the Royal Institution in London.
 He predicted, too. that the time will come when weather bureaus would have the added responsibility of mapping daily air routes for passenger aero planes; and intimated a belief that the dream of the meteorologist of forecast ing the character of coming seasons may be realized.
 He said In part:
 Aviation is largely indebted to me- teorology for it's existence. The aero plane Is but kite of the meteorologist
 with power and rudder attached and
 the art of aerial navigation and that of weather forecasting will be closer allied in the future than they have been in the past.
 The time may come when many of
 the 200 stations of the United States weather bureau and those of other | weather services will be equipped with aviators and flying machines. "It is no wild flight of fancy to as-
 sume that in the near future the wealth CT forecaster will daily lay out the
 routes of the ships of the air. The geographic poles are attained.
 Mans future most interesting, hazard
 ous and fruitful regions of exploration
 and research will be the high air and deep earth"
 As the eastward drift" is always
 eastward there would be no return tick
 cts on Professor Moore's aerial line
 However, that could be overcome by
 having the returning American make
 the complete circuit of the globe when he wanted to come home. As the earth would make a complete revolution
 under him in 24 hours, the journey
 could be made in considerably less than
 the present schedule.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
AERorrANEs coME HIGH

H. H. Windsor. in the July Popular
 Mechanics Mazagine.
 After long deliberation and much ex- perimenting England has finally acknowi- edged the necessity of the aeroplane in modern warfare, and has placed it's seal of approval thereon with an initial order for 60 machines. This number will be in- creased to 100 just as soon as sufficient number of sky pilots can be trained to navigate them. To fully appreciate the importance which this arm of the service has already attained one must note the appropriations for the current year, by the three great continental powers. France will spend s6,25o,Ooo-a sum sufficient to build very fair warship; Germany. s3, 500,00O; and Britain, $1,500,000 A total for three countries of s11, ,250,000, thus illustrat- ing the increasing and high cost of mili- tary living.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
CLOUD PHOTOGRAPHY
Charles stuart Moody, in the July ol

Charles Stuart Moody, in the July Outing
 Your cloud picture depends largely upon your choice of subject. Rivers and small lakes, mountains and hills lend the best contrast, while trees in the immediate foreground come next. Wide expanses of level lands or vast stretches of water are unsatisfactory. If you desire an ocean cloud effect, be sure to place cliff or some prominent landmark in the fore ground to break the monotony.
 The exposure for cloud effects. made necessary by the laws of light and optics, Is necessarily very rapid. Anomalous as it may seem, this does not presuppose an extra rapid lens. In fact. such one may defect the very object you hope to attain I make my cloud scenes with an ordinary rcetllinear Ions by preference. The ex- posture with an eight stop should be the maximum speed of the ordinary shutter If the day is exceedingly brilliant the stop must be correspondingly decreased the great danger is in over exposure thereby dissolving your clouds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
At the End of the Fiscal Year

The federal administration will be able to boast treasury surplus at the end of the fiscal year. It is an- ticipating a surplus of s25,O00, ,000, largely due to the coming in of corpor- ation excise taxes. Some of the sur plus will no doubt be due to manipu- lation. To report a surplus at the end of the fiscal year is better, however, than to report deficit, and all will be glad to hear that the treasury is in a sound and promising condition.
 If Congress would accept the tariff bills including the excise tax that MT. Underwood has reported the surplus would remain a surplus indefinitely. The majority leader of the House never forgets in the reform bills he brings in the treasury, and if he should be elected President the coun- try has ample assurances that the present surplus of the treasury would never be supplanted by deficits.
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they may compel Jefferson county to carry an additional number of non- supporting counties.
 However, the decision is rendered, and the 2500 taxpayers whose valua- tions are considered by the back tax commissioner unequal and deficient, should get ready to try their respect i've cases on their merits.
 If all other cases of undervaluation in the state could also be tried on their respective merits no harm would be done, but all effort toward in- creases is apparently confined chiefly to Jefferson county. What the state tax board did not raise the back tax commissioner was expected to sup plement.
 The man who believes the other counties of the state will be treated as Jefferson has been is indeed credulous. This, however, has no relation to the present phase of the subject matter. All tax increases in Jefferson should be tested in the broadest and best manner. The com parative injustice of the raises in one county out of sixty-seven will simply serve to point the moral and adorn the tale.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Some Royal Genealogy

A popular New York journal, noted for it's painstaking news service. printed q special from it's Paris correspondent re- helmina was described with "a geneao1og- ical outburst that seems to have been al- together wrong" said man interested in Dutch history.
 "Dr. Henrik Wellem Van Loon. so- journing in Washington, D. C., writes a letter to the editor of the paper referred to, to correct the mistakes, which is correcting some Queen Wilhelmina is not direct descendant from William the Silent, as the correspondent made it appear. The line of William the Silent. writes Dr. Van Loon, died out in 17o2. with William IL Stadtholder of Holland and King of England. The Queens s French blood therefore does not come from Louise de Coligny. the wife of Will liam the Silent.
 The Queens child is not called Juliana after the wife of the Huguenot admiral, but after Juliana of Stolberg Koningsteyn d5o6-15s0), who married William the Rich. Count of Nassau Dillenburg Dietzs and
 'ttS '~~o eitC HiOtatt Ot " AilioaH tthN oAAOAe.
 The second son of William the Rich and Juliana of stolberg was John ethe old), who founded the House of Nassau Dietz, of which Queen Wilhelmina is member. Exactly where the Queens French blood comes in I could not tell you.
 But with the law of combination. va riation and permutation, which is in force among the European royal houses, every sovereign of every country has few drops of blood from every other country.
 Such statements should not be taken too seriously; no more so than when the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt tells the aborigines of Maine. Virginia, Florida, Ohio, California and a few dozen other states how proud he is of having their blood in his tumultuous veins
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
Rey,ya, of once Popular Opera

"The Aborn English Opera company will have for one of its attractions next season. Chimes of Normandy one of the most beautiful of the light operas,'' said a music lover. This opera used to be given by amateurs as well as profession als, and-never failed to draw. The libretti is bright and of absorbing interest, and the music is light and tuneful.
 "The Gilbert and Sullivan operas. which had a great run about 20 or more years ago, are being presented in New York and are making decided hits. No libret- perhaps, as Gilbert. In 'Pinafore' the amusement going public saw great take off on the political demagogy of England. The Pirates of Penzance,' unsteady much better than 'Pinafore,' is being en- Enthusiastically received in New York, and so too is the Mikado.'
 Another comic opera which will al- ways be regarded as standard. but which has not been heard outside of New York for some time, is weber's 'Freischutz.' It was given by the German society of one of our southern cities many years ago in fine style. The Birmingham Turn Nerein, which has a good Maennerchor section, will be assisted during the com ing season, I understand, by female voices. With it's mixed chorus and local solo talent .Freischutz' might be given here very creditably."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
coLonED MOVING PICTURES

| From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 l Ordinary moving pictures are wonderful enough, when all the facts are considered.
 Their great defect all along has been rec ognized-an inability to reproduce the colors in which nature is wont to array
 herself Hitherto the pictures have been all in black and white; but now the "Kine-
 macolor'' has arrived, and they portray l nature in all her varied roles. The prin- I ciple is based upon a scientific knowledge of the solar spectrum. White light Is com- posed of all the rainbow colors blended 1 into one But three of these, it has been
 known. are primary colors. out of which by proper combination, the rest of the spectrum may be produced. The primaries
 are red, yellow and blue. further fact has become known, namely. that since yellow and blue are in combination equiv-
 alent to green, 1t is possible to reduce all the colors of the rainbow down to two,
 the essntial and independent red and green. To understand the operation of
 the new "kinemacolor' process, it is nec- essary to remember that the human eye can catch only about seven or eight sepa- rate images to the second, that the images formed upon the retina finger there for some little time, and that by mingling red
 and green all the other colors can bs
 made.
 It is possible to tint the films by hand,
 but the process is very slow and costly. It is quite as satisfactory, moreover, to pro-
 duce the colored effects by causing the light to pass through colored screens. In very fine work four colored screens have been used but the red and green alone are | sufficient for most purposes. Printers | have learned how to make capital lifelike pictures by usin gonl ythe two printing | plates, one red and the other green. and of this method of kinemacolor is mere
 adaptation. To produce the new film double the number of exposures has to
 be made-s2 a second instead of the former | 16. First a picture is made through a red screen and so on alternately to the end the two colors being manipulated so rapid- | ly as to mix them in all conceivable ways and proportions. Before a red impression has time to leave the retina of the eye a green impression is produced, so that the | two are virtually simultaneous.
 The machine Is quicker than the eye. Then, in exhibiting the pictures, the films
 made with green screen are thrown on the canvas through a green screen, the red pictures through red screen. The alternating screens, green and red, are
 made to revolve before the moving pie ture machine, presenting the appropriate color at the exact moment required. The effect upon the spectators eye is to pre- sent the hues of nature from end to end of
 the spectrum. Just as the pictures follow each other with such rapidity as to merge them into one apparently, so it is with l the primary colors that produce all hues. | The representation of nature is not always | strictly accurate, but it is a long stride | in that direction
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
MORALITY AND THE SHOP GIRL

Herbert Kaufman in Womans World
 for July.
 As body, self supporting women are wholesome and decent. In every walk of life. a certain proportion of humans are weak and wayward. Sin finds will ing listeners throughout the entire so- cial range, and while shops and fac tories and offices contribute their pro rata share of wantons. when one con siders the privations. the hungers, the denials which they suffer--the hard ships they endure-the drab. mononto- nous lives they live--it Is splendid tribute to the integrity of the sex that so few working girls go.wrong.
 The we'll ihtentioned persons who continually babble about the pitfalls that lie in their paths, overlook the very important fact that idleness is the root of most trouble, and that busy peo- pie fnd least time for temptation.
 Women who drag their aching bodies out of bed in the chill gray dawn, keep busy until dusk, and reach home after ten hours of constant activity, are so Jagged that the Gay White Way can offer few attractions equal to the Cool White Sheet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
BULLETS AND BRAVERY

From the Popular Magazine.
 Clarence c. Hamlin of Colorado Springs, is small man and full of nerve. On one occasion he came very near being full of bullets. Something like riot was impending in western mining camp. and Clarence lifted his short and attenuated form to the top of a bench for the purpose of delivering few remarks. What he said did not appeal to the militant minds of his hearers, and they with one accord began to shoot at him.
 Get down, Clarencel' yelled his friends. "You'll be killed in min ute"
 "Oh." said Hamlin carelessly. I'm so small and they're such poor shots that they'll never hit me" Then he finished his speech.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
YANCEY AND THE GIFT HORSE

in less than 50 days after the congress met In Montgomery the Confederacy had perfected and adopted reformed federal constitution. The constitution was so im- practically an Improvement on that of the United States. although of the same form and constructed upon the same general prlnciples, that a great movement started at the north to bring about its adoption by both sections as the basis of restoration of the old Union before a war. This feel ing was so pronounced when MT. Lincoln got settled in his office that in order to save himself and his party he resolved upon immediate and consuming war with the sole purpose of destroying, root and branch, the government at Montgomery and all it stood for.
 MT. Yancey was most sagacious and well poised mind. Designing nature had gifted him with subtlety of power to un- fold to the listening multitude the aspira- tions of his own depths. The helpless mass saw as he saw. He was 'logic on fire.'' His voice was like the bugIe call. The greatest orator that ever lived, said pr. Hawthorne. He founded the motives of the men who had won the Confederacy on
 
 the tented field, until the Confederate. Grouchy in a fell moment spoiled all. It was Grouchy at Waterloo it was Grouchy at Richmond.
 Sneers at Yancey are sneers at every heart that the gray covered. The rebel yell was but the echo of his voice over the hills and along the dales of Alabama. The confederate constitution stands an eternal testimony of honor to his teaching.
 T have mourned Yancey as a lost star: lost because there are no observers to reach the height where he was last seen." That is a tribute of one great Alabamian to his peer. It is what Morgan wrote and signed.
 Set up that organic law over the whole land, from sea to sea, today and there could be no such burlesque free institu- tions as the Chicago convention. Under- wood would be the normal product of po- litieal conditions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
HINTS FOR nousEKEErERs
rom the Chicago Tribune

From the Chicago Tribune.
 once every five or six years you should oil up the old revolver you keep to shoot burglars with; then put 1t back in its hiding place in the right hand corner of the bottom bureau drawer.
 Somewhere in one of your scrapbooks you will find directions as to what should be done when little red ants get into the pantry.
 The best way to keep the neighbors children from playing on your lawn is tc move out into the country.
 If the man next door persists in running his lawn mower at o'clock in the morn ing. write an indignant protest and have 1t printed in one of the papers.
 Don't take the painter into your confi- dence if you are merely having your house painted so you can sell it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
ARIsTocRATs
From the Chicago Record Herald.

From the Chicago Record-H Herald.
 Is your mother at home, Bub?''
 NO, sir. Mother is at the police sta- tjon.'
 What is she doing there?'
 Furnishing bail for our chauffeur, who was arrested while taking her to town this morning."
 "Is your father here?''
 NO, sir. Father is in court.''
 I see. He Is helping your mother to get the chauffeur set free, is hep NO. father has been indicted for de. stroying books that the government want ed in trust busting case"
 Are you the only child your parents have?"
 No sir. I have a sister,"
 'Is she at homer"
 She's out at one of the country clubs entertaining a French count"
 Well, 1t is evident that your family he- longs to our most aristocratic circle"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
Railroad Rates in Alabama

"No reasonable man." says Attor- ney General Brickell, "can believe as a matter of fact However theories of bookkeeping may seem to demon strate it) that rates which are &C., ceptable to the other roads of the state are confiscatory when applied to the Louisville and Nashville, South and North, Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, Central of Georgia and Western of Alabama"
 This pretty much sums up the case on the part of the state which is pre- pairing to carry the questions involved to the United States supreme court. A decision by the highest court is needed to settle stubborn contro- versy which touches the pockets of half of the people in the state.
 The litigating railroads stated at the recent conference that they had decided to restore the rates of 1907 on passengers and on the 1O1 com modities, and they sought the confer ence because they wanted to do so "as politely as possible" Their sense of politeness is uncalled for. It is a question of law and not of manners, and when the United States supreme court decides where the state "is at" the state will in January, 1915, know exactly what to do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
An old Timer

Senator Chauncey M. Depew of New York, who is in Chicago as locker on at the convention, was one of the most popular republican politicians in the coun- try some years ago." said an ex-office- holder.
 He was a candidate for the presiden- tial nomination in the convention which met in Minneapolis in 1888. and which
 nominated Benjamin Harrison MT. Depew was then the president of the New York Central railroad. He had held that posi-
 tlon for many years, and was the personal representative of the Vanderbilts in all their railroad business. He was a good railroad executive, but he always found time to make addresses and participate in politics. I knew him very well. and in a conversation during the campaign of 1888 he told me that he had entertained 1 high hopes of securing the presidential nc n.ination. but that he soon found the western farmer element would not near l to- railroad magnate' for standard
 bearer.
 MT. Depew used to visit Europe every year. He was wined and dined by crowned heads and I happened to be in Homburg, the fashionable German water ing place, near Frankfurt-on-the-Ma Main. while Emperor William. the Grand Duke Michael of Russia. Albert Edward. Prince
 of Wales (afterward King Edward VID
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21

and MT. Depew were there. The latter gave about the grandest dinner l ever heard of. The German Emperor sat on his right and the Prince of Wales on ms left. A German band of 60 pieces fur- nished the music. The blowout was efe- gant, indeed. and was the gossip of Eu- rope for few weeks.
 MT Depew, is still socially popular, but he is little in the spotlight. It all goes to show how a man may be famous for time and then pass out of the public xyfour
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
Senator NewIand's White Plank"

Senator NeNiduu "hec f1'n
 Senator Newlands of Nevada is a democrat. He is not delegate to Baltimore, but he is going there to urge the convention to declare in favor Inf a constitutional amendment which would confine the right of suffrage in the future to people of the white race. He also favors a law prohibiting the immigration to this country of all peoples other than those of the white race, except for temporary purposes of education, travel or commerce. This is put upon the ground that it is 'folly" to invest "an inferior race with which amalgamation is undesir- aSle with the right of suffrage" or to admit to our shores people differ ing in color, with whom amalgamation is undesirable"
 Should Senator Newland's proposi- tions be accepted to the point Of law they would wreck the Alabama con- stitution of 1901, and especially its provisions for conferring the suffrage privilege to the whole race. No one would regret to see the cumulative poll tax knocked out even if it has to be done on the lines laid down by the Nevada senator. ,