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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18
vARDAMAN FOR UNDERWOOD

From the Florida Times Union.
 When MT. Vardaman was governor of Mississippi the Times-Union said a few pleasant and many unpleasant things about him. The praise we gave him was for just enforcement of the law. Gov ernor Vardaman did more than every other governoD in office at the time e prevent lynchings. When in search f votes he constantly appealed to the sions of the whites, but he didn't per s passion to take the law in hand. Wh ever there was danger of lynching u he was with the troops. For this he served the highest praise and the ri
 Union though not admiring him, ac corded it on more occasions than on
 But Governor Vardaman is d pow H Mississippi and we are very glad to H9 him at work for Underwood for esi4 dent He does not belong to the ana wing of the party that claims MT. I HIfi= wood who accepts the party as it is an,. has always been, while Governor Varda- man would like to add the initiative, referendum and recall to the creed. But he says:
 While I do not agree with MT. Under- wood in all his views, and am most heartily in favor of the initiative, refer- endum and recall-particularly so far as the recall applies to the judiciary and dc not know but that l would favor inserr- ing it in the national platform-those questions are not an issue and cannot be in this campaign. The tariff is the great problem to be solved. and I think Mir. Underwood is the impersonation of that issue"
 Governor Vardaman also favors ITnder- wood because he is a southern man and the reasons he gives are precisely those which induced the Times-Union to sup port the Alabamian. When asked if Gov ernor Wilson was not also supporting the initiative, referendum and recall he re- piled: He is now but I do not believe very much in these deathbed confess sions."
 It seems inconceivable that the men who belonged to whagis termed the Bry- an wing of the party should prefer Will son who bolted the ticket and steadily denounced them as populists until he de- sired their votes to Underwood. who was one of them. Before Bryan was ever nominated for President Underwood was silver democrat He has no need to ac- cept MT. Bryan as a master because dur ing all these years he has marched by his side as an equal while Wilson was ie- nouncing both. And he is the same true democrat today he has always been. With Governor Vardaman's help Under- wood will be reasonably certain of getting the vote of Mississippi. Let's go to work to give him the vote of Florida.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18
Police and Lights

The law abiding people of Birming- ham are making an organized effort to minimize crime, and in this con- nection there should be an agitation for an increased police force.
 Also more street lights are needed in some of the residence sections. Let the citizens living in dark streets get up a petition to the city commission for more electric illumination.
 This city has entered upon an era of record breaking prosperity. Cor porations and individuals will expend more money on improvements this year than ever before in the history of Birmingham. But with all it's stride in material things Birmingham will not be the city it should be unless it's homes have adequate police pro- tection. Tax payers, of course, ob- Ject to the city being overburdened with debt, but there are not enough patrolmen here.
 The police department of every city is expensive but it is manifestly false economy to leave outlying districts unprotected. The city commission must find some way to increase the number of police officers for patrol duty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18
THE CHILD's TOYS

Martha Cutler in Harper's Bazaar.
 Cloaked under pretense of making the children happy, our sins have been many. In the first place. we have been giving them too many toys and have made the recipients blase and unappreciative. One at a time is enough. In our secret souls most of us have been conscious of that mistake. In the second place, in our de- sire to produce something new and wOr- derful at frequent intervals, something that would do us credit in the eyes of our young admirers. we have been getting the wrong kinds. The imported mechanical toys upon which we have fallen with gusto and played happily ourselves until obliged to hand them over are far better for us, it seems, than for them. They do the work for the child instead of mak- ing him do 1t.
 Here we have in a nutshell the main principle underlying the selection of toys. The childs toys should stimulate his imagination and make him work. If he has too many he has nothing left to
 imagine: if they respond to the magic of a key, he can only stand by and watch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18
New York Wants a Bachelor Impost

New York Wants Bachelor Impost
 The closer woman suffrage comes and Ohio is preparing to put it in her new progressive constitution-the more imminent does bachelor tax be- come. Such a tax is no longer to be treated as a joke It is tax that is booming large and larger on the po- htital horizon. The Rev. w. T. Me Guirl of St. Michael's, New York, would impose tax of S100 yearly on bachelors at the age of 20, increasing the tax as the subject or victim be- t,mes elder
 To pcnalize tacnelors will just naa- urally secure the support of the wom- an vote of the future, and the women will be reinforcCl hv a heavy male vote. The bachelor will, in fact, be without popular support, and no doubt he will be taxed.
 The new woman with ballot in her hand will first and last work many changes, and the bachelor will not stand alone. The bachelor will, per haps, be the first one asked to pay a discriminatory tax, but he will soon hav0 friends in distress. He stands very much exposed to tax raid on the part of women voters, and perhaps he could make better terms by sur rendering his demand for fair play aro asking for terms at the outset thar he can after a bitter campa ign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18
The Building Trades

Early in the year the business men of Birmingham became optimistic about the outlook for this district. The air was full of boom predictions. Now we begin to see realization of some of the building projects that were discussed few weeks ago.
 There is prodigious activity in the building trades, and what is in evil dence today is small compared with the larger operations that will be in full swing before the spring is gone The buoyant spirit is everywhere in this community and the prophet of Birmingham is fully justified in his roseate pictures. The year 1912 will certainly be a banner year for this urban center, credited by the census bureau with a population of 211, ,961 as of 1910, and now having a popula- tion of 250,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

I want to see the piece quilts the Jonea
 girls is making; And I want to poster Laury bout their
 freclkled hired hand. And joke her bout the widower she como
 purt' nigh a-takin'. Till her pap got his pension lowed in
 time to save his land. Les go a-visitin' back to Griggsbys Back where they's nothin' aggrevatin'
 any more, Shet away safe in the woods around
 the old location Back where we ust to be so happy and
 so pore. want to see Marindy and hep her with
 her sewin', And hear her talk so lovin' of her man
 that's dead and gone. And stand up with Emanuel to show me
 how he's growth, And smile. as I have saw her fore she
 put her. .mournin' on. And I want to see the Samples. on tho
 old lower eighty Where John. our oldest boy, he was
 tull and burried-for His own sake and Katy's-and I want
 to cry with Katy AS she reads his letters over, writ from
 the war. Whats in all this grand life and nigh
 situation. And nary pink nor hollyhawk a-bloom-
 in at the door? Les go a-visitin back to Griggsby's
 Station Back where we ust to be so happy anl % porel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18
CONQUERING A CANNON

trap. The man, nothing daunted, pursued h1s chase
 Such a struggle must necessarily be brief. Suddenly the cannon seemed to say to itself: Now then, there must be an end to this. And it stopped. A crisis was felt to be at hand The cannon, as if in suspense, seemed to mediate, or for to all intents and purposes 1t was living creature-it really did mediate, some furious design. All at once 1t rushed on the gunner, who sprang aside with a laugh, crying out, 'Try it again." as the cannon passed him. The gun in it's fury smashed one of the larboard car ronades; then, by the invisible sling in which it seemed to be held, 1t was thrown to the starboard. toward the man, who escaped. Three carronades were crushed by it's onslaught then, as though blind and beside itself, it turned from the man, and rolled from stern to stem, slintering the latter, and causing a breach in the walls of the prov. The gunner took refuge at the foot of the ladder. short distance from the old man, who stood watching. Tile held his handspike in readiness. The cannon seemed aware of it. and without taking the trouble to turn, it rushed backward on the man, as swift as the blow of an ax. The gum her. if driven up against the side of the ship. would be lost.
 One cry arose from the crew.
 The old passenger-who until this mo- ment had stood motionIess.sprang for whirls He ss'e of tho tsa false assignats. and at the risk Of being crushed succeeded al throwing it be- tween the wheels of the carronade. This decisive and perious maneuver could not have been executed with more precision and adroitness by an adept in all tn ex- ercises given in the work of Durosels Manual of Naval Gunnery."
 The bale had the effect of a plug. Al pebble may block log; a branch some- times changes the course of an avalanche. The carronade stumbled, and the gunner, availing himself of the opportunity, thrust his iron bar between the spokes of the back wheels. Pitching forward, the can non stopped; the man, using his bar for lever, rocked it backward and forward The heavy mass upset, with the resonant sound of a bell that crashed in it's fall. The man. reelzlng with precipitation, threw himself upon it, and passed the slipnoose Of the tiler rope around the neck of the defeated monster
 The combat was ended. The man had conquered. The gnat had overcome tho mastodon; the pysmy had imprisoned the thunderbot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18
Prospective Canal Legislation

The New York Journal of Commerce presents the general terms of the bill regulating the Panama canal that is to be reported by the interstate com merce committee. Under this bill the canal would be opened to ships of all nations on equal terms and conditions in every respect. In very truth the country stands pledged in the Hay Pauncefote treaty to this policy of fair play and equal rights.
 The coastwise shipping is ponop- oly in this country, anyway, aYd in the foreign trade we should deal fairly. A repeal of the navigation laws would give us fair share of foreign trade,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18
Rusiness SiiuafiOM

Henry Clews in his Saturdays review says in part:
 "The more horsrul sentiment which first developed a month ago is making steady progress. For this most welcome change there is substantial foundation, both at home and abroad. At home this change in sentiment is discernible, not only in financial circles, but in the po- litical, commercial and industrial worlds also.
 "Politically, there has been decidedly more confident feeling. It is uncertainty that kills business, and now that this de- terrent has been largely removed, un- easiness has correspondingly diminished. Congress will remain in session for some months to come but the impression IS growing that the agitations and invest- gations which have been going on all win ter and producing so much irritation wlp end in comparatively little new legislation. Politics may continue to be disturb ing factor in business, but the worst in this respect has probably been ex- perienced..
 "commercially, the improvement is based upon empty shelves and depicted supplies. Merchants all over the country have been operating for many months upon unusually conservative lines, buying only for immediate wants, until now they find themselves totally unprepared Tor any real increase in demand Consum- CTS have done likewise, and after long period of economy are now obliged to re- plenish. Liquidation has run it's course in ordinary business circles, and com- mcdity values refuse to decline further because of the relative scarcity of many raw materials
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

ation, and numbers of skilled technoio- gists have been called there by one in terest or another to look over and inn prove public conditions. The movement, by the way. has resulted in the bringing together of a goodly number of graduates of Tech, and it was the occasion of form ing an alumni association in the city that was the motif of pr. Maclaurins jour ney.
 "It was interesting for me to note at Birmingham. as in the west" said the president, in discussing southern condi- tions. that the bushes enterprises are coming to rely more and more on techni- cally trained men,. It is true that here pig iron has become merely the by-prod- uet in view of so many things of recent ly discovered value in the processes" Much of the work in the country is min ing and Dr. Maclaurin was particularly struck by the outcome of the struggle to make every item count, in which waste steam and even the heat of the smoke are utilized. and attention is paid, as a com mercial matter, even to the health condi- tions of the workers. These are miners, not skilled laborers, who, might be expected are negroes. The usual condi- tion of such people is not favorable to sanitation and there has been an effort throughout the south to improve their condition by the study of their ailments. by treatment of the different cases and by education in elementary health mat ters by attention compelling posters or pictures. Here the hookworm and other enervating diseases formerly ragged. In Birmingham the corporations have real ized that the healthy laborer means to them more regular product, of more even quality and greater in quantity, and they have taken measures to cure and care for their workmen. one of the features is the improvement of the mining camp. In older days any shack was good enough for the miner, but now the old order has been supplanted by cottage camps, little four room houses with gardens and with a larger social centre for the group. The sanitation of the camp is carefully looked after and baths are provided for the workmen. In the mines as well the sani- tation has been especially improved.
 Hookworm and mines is long story ot
 
 phalia have been found to be infested with the parasite. The conditions in mines, usually warm and damp without sunlight. are peculiarly suitable for the preservation of the forms, while the lack of outhouses or centres for the collection of human wastes has resulted in distrbu- tion of infected material pretty well throughout the workings. Ladders on which hands and feet alternately touch the rounds help in the distribution of the parasite from the ground to the mouth of the new victim. These are factors in the distribution in Europe. In the south, warm country, the infesting of the soil with the worm has been common about those places where the people congregate and such foci have made the infesting Of the mines the more easy. For one or these corporations~it is a recent student under Professor Sedgwiek who is in charge, bringing the very latest of mod ern sanitary science to business opera tions which even a decade ago had hardly begun to realize that there was any re. lationship between them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18
nErLEcTIoNs OF 4 BACHELOR
rom the New York Press

From the New York Press.
 Tell the truth and have the devil shame you.
 It's chasing after the butterfly girls that trips men the hardest.
 Woman can understand thing in spite Of the way man explains it to her.
 old folks are forever trying to convince the young ones that the life behind them is the life ahead,
 Those who spknd the wealth that others make ha1 a big grievance be- cause those other don't pake more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18
DIR. MACLAuRIN ON THE SOUTH

From the Boston Evening Transcript.
 One of the interesting bits of informal ton brought back from the south by President Maclaurin of the Institute of Technology is the close interest that there is in matters of public health cn the part of mercantile corporations. The particular objective point of the late fly ing trip of the president was BirmnS- ham. Here in connection With business there has been civil rejuyen-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18
SIn1y Tax Payers

The taxpayers were slower paging their taxes this year than for several years past said Phil B. Bowers, chief clerk m the tax collectors office.
 T attribute it to the tight times early in the year and the high cost of living. Many persons make this complaint. Mo- the price of cotton had very little to do with it. for comparatively little cotton is grown in this county. Many large tax payers, some of them corporations, let the day of default pass and must pay the fee and the interest al s per cent. Yes, we count every cent of the interest Tor it amounts to quite neat little sum ana the tax collector is charged with it by the state in settling for delinquent taxes.
 Next year all the taxes, state, county and city, will be payable at the office or the county collector. This will be of bene- fit to some of the uninformed taxpayers who overlook their city taxes on small holdings -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18
The MotOrcycle Nuisance

''rhe attention of the authorities should be and Is called to the motorcycle nolse nuisance on the streets said a citizen.
 'Young boys, mostly errand runners and delivery boys, make a point to shoot their way through town. It sounds very much like a cavalry skirmish and there is 10 reason for it. On Sunday they disturb Sunday school, public worship in the church and a stop should be put to it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

ism is to be opened next September In the meanwhile all those who know just how newspaper should be run can write freely to Prcsideni@9u:ler, and tell him all about 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

Dom Shelby cuIlom is over s9 years old and he is campaigning for another term of six years. He is warm rival of Tama Jim Wilson in office holding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

Five cargoes of American coal have been shipped to Argentina. Heretofore England had kept up the fuel supply of South America. The strike may change the habit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

The Alenites of Carroll county, Vir- ginia, have d system of recall that is marvel of directness. The sage of oys- ter Bay is outclassed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

Boxing matches are to be permitted in Paris if the contestants will give assur- snces that they will not hurt one another Tho denatured prize fight is something new under the Paris sun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

The ice cap at the south pole is 1,0O0 feet deep in some places. That is what a place gets that has one snow after an- other Ask St. Louis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

The real question before the people next November will be this: Shall MT. Tart ride in the ne;t Inauguration as chap
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

President Taft is spending the closing days of the winter end in Washington He will begin to stump again in the glad springtime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

It is safe to say that suffrasette would be very angry if some one smashed her windows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

Railroad fare to the Baltimore conven- ton is to be cents mile, which is a plenty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

The presidential primary bill in Massa- chusetts is considered gerat victory by all progressiyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

No ordinary policeman will attempt 10 arrest the Countess of Warwick while she, retains the determined look shown in her pictures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

The south pole bids fair to be overdis- covered when all the explorers have re- ported.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Thc snciefx Circ,ls

Society. school children and theatregoers are all agog over the Society Circus which opens it's engagement at the Jefferson this afternoon.
 There will be three performanees-tNo today, matinee and night, and one tomof- row night. The circus is being given by fine local talent It is for good cause and the audiences doubtless will be large
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

Give spring time enough and it will respond> It needs time to turn in this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

Masculine slenderness is demanded this year and the tailors anticipate trouble in filling the bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

Ii is predicted that in 25 years steam locomotives as well as steam rollers will both be abolished
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

The explorers who made a dash to the south pole will proceed to make another dash for the lecture platform.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

The presidential preference primary is and Michigan are to have it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

The Nearer South where the baseball teams are training, is now more interest," ing than any pole.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

The inauguration of President Yuan was pulled off iii March without mourning indictment weather
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

Madero and Mexico should get busy if they want to keep off intervention, Tor they are in the China class.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudGe bear
 him Merchant of Venice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

Dom Shelby Cullom is over s3 years old and he is campaigning for another term of six years. He is warm rival of Tama Jim Wilson in office holding.
  The Allenites of Carroll county, Nir- ginia, have d system of recall that is a marvel of directness. The sage of oys- ter Bay is outclassed.
 
 The ice cap at the south pole is 11,000 feet deep in some places. That is what a place gets that has one snow after an- other Ask St Louis.
  President Taft is spending the closing days of the winter end in Washington He will begin to stump again in the glad springtime No ordinary policeman will attempt to arrest the Countess of Warwick while she. retains the determined look shown in her pictures
 It tADlOItlH Nlio iieib' e '"Fh 'N NfS south pole will proceed to make another dash for the lecture platform. The presidential preference primary is spreading rapidly. Both Massachusetts and Michigan are to have it.
  Madero and Mexico should get busy if they want to keep off intervention. for they are in the China class.
  The inauguration of President Yuan was pulled off iii March without mourning indictment weather The Nearer South, where the baseball teams are training, is now more interest ing than any pole. It is predicted that in 9 years steam locomotives as well as steam rollers will both be abolished
  Masculine slenderness is demanded thls year and the tailors anticipate trouble in filling the bill
  The presidential primary bill in Massa- chusetts is considered a gerat victory by all progressiyes.
 ----.s.--------- It is safe to say that a suffragette would be very angry if some one smashed her windows.
 The south pole bids fair to be overdis-.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala~' postoffice as second-class matter under act of Congress March ;. lst9
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-18

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