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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
800 "HELL0 GIRLS" ASK
BOSS TO BE BEST MAN
Special Gable to The American.

ROME, July 19.-The Postmaster
General is bewildered over the result Of
the recent permission which he granted
to telephone girls to get married.
Three hundred Of these girls promptly
awaited themselves OF the chance and
every couple asked the Postmaster Cen
eral to act as best man.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
MarrieS His Aunt,
II Years His Senior
Young Actor Takes as Bride the
Recently Divorced Wife of
His Uncle.

NEW YORK, July 19.-Earl Oscar
schenck, "a years old, an actor, of No.
500 West l3sth street, was married in
the City Hall yesterday to his aun,,
Marion Carr Schenck. twelve years
his senior.
The bride Of yesterday was married
in April. 1899, to Oscar A. Schenck,
the uncle Of her present husband, VINO
on January II Of this year divorced
her in Columbus, Ohio. for gross
neglect Of duty"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
Miss Elliott Returns
To Stage To Be Happy
VIII Play Potiphars Wife in Sir Her
bert Trees Joseph and
His Brethren"
Special Gable 10 Tho American.

LONDON. July 19.-Maxine Elliott,
yielding TO Sir Herbert Trees persua-
sion, will return to the stage Septem-
Der 2 in a great production of Louis
n. Parker's play, Joseph and His
Brethren" She viii play Potiphar's
wife.
Miss Elliott gives as the chief reason
for her temperance that every one is
happier when occupied. She is now
living in her beautiful house at Bushey,
Just outside London.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
GREAT BRITAIN is AFTER
LATEST GERMAN AIR CRAFT

BERLIN. July 19.-Great Britain, Il
IS stated. is negotiating for an Unger
airship, which is larger, faster and more
lgid than any others yet designed, in
Guiding the Zeppelins.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
Billie Burke Wires
She Is Recovering
Actress Was Threatened With APP
pendlcitis, but Did Not Have to
Undergo Operation.
Special Gable TO The American.

LONDON, July 19.-Biue Burke tel
egraphing the London bureau Of The
American to-day from Carlsbad in re-
says:
Thanks awfully. Was threatened
with appendicitis. but have not had TO
undergo operation. Recovering nicely
BILLIE BURKE"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
NOTICE

II you have any difficulty in buying Hearst,s
Sunday American anywhere in the South notify
Circulation Manager. Hearst's Sunday Ameri-
can, Atlanta Ga.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20
Needed at His Post.

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
YES" said the man just back from the
West, when | went out to Montana l did
what nearly every other tenderfoot does
bought one of those broad brimmed felt
hats like the ones stage cowboys wear,
and put it cn at the first opportunity.
mine wasn't the only one in town, but
felt conspicuous sust the same Some
how or other hadn't acquired the lnack
of wearing it, One windy day-and, fe-
lieve me. it can blow some in B with
out half trving-I walked down the main
street of the town holding onto my hat
with one hand and my coat with the other
As | turned corner the wind seemed to
stop blowing, and | let go of the hat, when
a sudden gust came, took it off. my head
and sent it rolling like a frightened hooI
down the street.
81 started to give chase, when another
hatless man-he was a sure enough west
erner too-tock me by the arm and said
Don't chase It, pardner; there'n be
another one along in a minute!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06

terially developed in his researches on
electrodynamics and submarine teleg-
raphy led up to the Investigations
which he applied to the Atlantic and
other cables.
Lord Kelvin was a deeply religious
man. In his mind there was no con-
flict between science and religion. He
was not only a consistant member of
the Presbyterian church but he took
very earnest part in all its delibera-
tions. When he died in 1909 he gave
renewed evidence of his faith in the
religious tenets to which he had long
adhered.
If the note of skepticism is becom-
ing more dominant among so-called
advanced thinkers, it is gratifying to
point to a man honored by the whole
world for his intellectual force and
constructive work in science, who was
at the same time eminent among
Christian believers. The unveiling of
the Kelvin tablet will be an event of
interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
"THE YOUNGER NOvELIsTs,

Mrs. w. L. Courtney, in The July issue of
the North American Review.
Every publishing season brings it's crop
of novels by established favorites and rep
utations already made advance, recede,
or mark time. But it was characteristic
of the spring season of 1918, and surely
appropriate, that it marked a very dis
tinct advance in the case of some repu-
tations not 50 securely established. Mr.
H. G. Wells and Mr.. Maurice Hewlett
gave us their fresh work In the autumn,
and there was nothing very new to say
about it. Mr.. Arnold Bennett has been
resting on his oars and turning his atten-
tion to dranatizatlon. But such compar-
ative new corners as Mr.. Gilbert Cannan
and Mr. Hugh Walrole have been going
ahead and producing work, which from
many points of view is rather remarkable.
First we note that the fashion for the
long novel tracing the hero from his cradle
to his grave still holds. 1t is difficult to
say who began it. There was Mr.. De Nor
gan of course, but he was more of a sur
vival and an anarohronism than a pio-
neer. He had graduated in the school of
Dickens ana Thaclleray, aud Joseph
VaIce was merely the late termination of
seed scwn in boyhood. Probably Mr.. Fl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
Too often the soul kiss breeds the germs
of alimony.
A young man courts danger when the
girls father objects.
The political band wagon has need of an
emergency brake
True love rever dies, but it frequently
gets stranded a long way from home.
Some people take themselves so seriously
that others look IpSn them as joke.
People who think they are good look
ing have warm place in the hearts Of
photographers.
A man seldom discovers the dangerous
microbe in kisses until about year after
marriage
There is always plenty of room at the
top because many who set there becont
dizzy and fail off.
If a woman keeps her face closed when
she has nothing to say it's safe bet she
has reached the ase of discretion.
It's the easiest thing in the world for a
mans wife 70 convince him that he ought
not to work SC hard during hot weather.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
The Kelvin Memorial

On the 18th of this month a me-
mortal tablet to William Thompson,
Lord Kelvin, will be unveiled in West
minister abbey.
The nineteenth century produced
many great men of letters and science.
It was a century of genius-a century
in which scientific achievement
startled and almost revolutionized civ
ilization. Many of the constructive men
in science and philosophy, notably Oar
win, Huxley, John Stuart Mill and
Herbert Spencer, were agnostics or
lrationalists in religion. But there were
men of science who believed in Chris
tianity and in the divine inspiration Of
the Bible.
William Thompson, afterwards Lore
Kelvin, who was born in Belfast in
1924, was one of the greatest scien-
tific men that the world has yet pro-
duced He was great mathematician,
q great engineer and the foremost
electrician of his time. He was the
most original thinker of all the elec-
trical engineers. 'In general physics,
says one authority, she did more thar
any other man to apply mathematics
as a means of expressing the relations
of observed facts. He worked cut fer
tile ideas as to the nature of ether, OF
inertia and the application of vortex
motion to explain the properties OF
atoms" His celebrated paper on the
laws Of electrostatics, which was ma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
Prisons and Reform

The Investigations being conducted
and the disclosures being made show
that the prison system of the United
States is sadly in need of reforma-
ton. That criminals should be pun
ished will not be denied, but there is
vast difference between the punish
ment that is inflicted for corrective
purposes and that punishment which
sends the victim back to society a
worse and more degraded character
than he was before Imprisonment.
The criminal is not subject for
maudlin sentiment, neither is he to be
regarded as an outcast. He is a
sociological and psychological prob
lem worthy the intelligent considera-
ton of men who approach the matter
from scientific point of view. Com
miseration is bad but cruelty is worse,
so far as leading the criminal to mend
his evil ways is concerned, and it is
generally along either of these lines
his treatment is pursued. By violating
the laws of society he has forfeited
the rights guaranteed him by society,
and the loss of life, liberty or property
is the punishment meted out by So
cietv tn its enemies
The criminals most to be considered
are those who return to society after
serving a term of Imprisonment. By
their subsequent career the system of
Imprisonment must be judged, and
taking that guage as test of the
question, the system stands con-
demned. Judges of police and criminal
courts are well aware that the "old
offenders" are the class most diff
cult to deal with and that imprison-
ment only serves to make them more
obdurate.
Here then is subject calling for
the consideration of philantropists
who have money to give towards the
cause of human uplift and reform.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
Be Not Hasty

The general public, which is the
final abiter-the jury sitting in judg-
ment--on the rather sensational de-
velopments by the lobby investigating
committee in Washington should not
be hasty in forming it's conclusions.
A sweeping verdict that all congress
men-that all public men-are corrupt
would be a calamity.
Mulhall's charges should be careful
ly analyzed, the motive for making
them studied, and then they should
be sifted to the very bottom before
the people make up their minds that
all the high public men indicted by
him are guilty of treason to their con-
stituents, and are betrayers of their
trusts.
The mere writing of cordial letter
to an acquaintance; the mere fact that
member of Congress stands for a
piece of legislation favored by certain
interests who use under-hand methods
for securing that legislation, does not
convict that congressman of being a
corrupt man. Many honest men
favored the legislation advocated by
the National Association of Manufac-
turers, or part of it, and they were
not influenced or bribed directly or in
directly by that concern. There is no
question of doubt but what Mulhalls
charges will develop both sides of this
question before the investigation is
over. Let the public withhold its ver-
dict until the evidence is all in.
The National Association of Manu-
facturers are to be heard yet and they
will probably show evidence which
cannot be controverted which may
cause the public to entertain some
doubts as to the truth Of all the state
ments made by Mulhall.
1t is easy enough for the committee
to put it's fingers on those who arc
guilty and they should receive the
punishment of an indignant public
But the public should not in advance
let its mind become prejudiced against
possibly innocent persons. Wait until
the evidence is all in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
Travelling Without Detectives

President Wilson in some of his in
novations may have seemed eccentric
He may have seemed sometimes to
strive for effect. But on the whole
his democratic ways have made dis
tinct appeal to the American people
His little trip on the Mayflower the
other day combined dignity and m
pretentious bearing He was unat-
tended except by his physician. There
was no secret service man with him
and it seems to be understood that ir
travelling back and forth he will be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
Washington bureau. =or HiDbs build
nfcIEPHOND
Keep thy pen from lenders books
md defy the foul fiend.
king Lear.
Mrs. Browning's Poems

At recent happy meeting of three
friends, all of them fond of literature,
the confession was made by two of
them that they could not enjoy the
poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Such confessions do honor to the in
dividuality of the critic; but are they
otherwise creditable? The attempt to
answer that question sends one back
again to the poets pages.
If we consider the message of
Mrs. Browning, at least we must con-
cede that it is intensely genuine. She
deals with real things in an honest
way. She is graphing in the twilight,
as all teachers must, with the mon
sters that prey upon human hearts.
There was none of the tritely conven-
tional in her life. Overshadowing her
days was the form of impending
death, and she most bravely accepted
the fact, but did not grow lachrymose.
Granting that the superb genius of
her husband has dwarfed hers, has
there been even a masculine poet who
has looked more faithfully at the
facts and into the questions that en-
viron us than did this delicate, sehol-
arly woman? Did Shaftesburg break
away from his social entanglementa to
serve the people more nobly than Mrs.
Browning from the pious orthodoxy
of her day to speak for womanhood? :?
The Equal Suffrage association will
yet bring tributes and chaplets to this
Englishwoman who OILY slightly in
vaded the second half of the nine
teenth century.
Here is the true, broad note, for
men and women, too:
"In the young pagan world
Men deified the beautiful, the glad,
The strong, the boastful, and it came
to naught:
We have raised pain and sorrow into
heaven"
Her interests were with the dawn
ing rebellion against certain phases
of the English dissenter:
"If thou hadst gazed upon the face of
God
This morning for moment, thou
hadst known
That only pity fifty can chastise;
Hate but avenges."
When her most widely known vol
ume was published in England, a mes
sage came across the upper skies
which has reverberated ever since, in
"The Cry of the Children" Judging
literary greatness by its effects, this
poem must rank with the most power
ful things done in English speech
Though careless of form, it is safe to
predict that Mrs. Browning will some
day experience a great American
popularity. But it will be i'll a time
when we have intellectual leisure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
TO sEGREGATE "sTUPIDsl

Chicago Dispatch to the New York
Times.
Addressing the convention of alien
lists in session here. DIR. Henry III. God
dard of Vineland, N. j., declared that
slow and weak minded children should
be segregated and receive a special ed
ucation. He asserted that the average
stupid child recruits the criminal class
when he is brought up among normal
children, whose education leaves hin
still ignorant.
"Often the stupid child is the IA
vored and petted one of the family ane
many parents do not, or will not, rec
ognize that a child of theirs is mentally
deficient" asserted the speaker. "Tht
child thus becomes spoiled and becomes
dangerous factor in society.
Twenty five per cent of the criminal
class belong to the mentally backward
so per cent Of the prostitute class and
20 per cent of the persons in reform in
stitutions are mentally deficient-stu
pid."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
Churches Well Attended

"The Birmingham churches have been
well attended on Sunday during the hot
SPELL" said a churchgoer.
Il attend the First Methodist church
and Notwithstanding the fact that last
Sunday was very hot the congre ations
were large. | was told that practically
all the churches were well filled Sun
day. 1t is considered a test of ones
piety to go to church in hot weather
but when we come to think of it most
of the churches are as. comfortable as
our homes.
birmingham is a good church, going
town. 1 am not familiar with the statis-
tics but in the few years I have lived
here I have been struck with what
seemed to me a larger attendance at
places of worship than was the case in
some other cities with which l am
familiar"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
The Stock Market

Henry Clews in his weekly review
says in part:
I'VE enter the second half of 1918
after nearly a year of almost contin-
uous shrinkage in stock exchange val
ues. The highest average point reached
for 20 leading railways in 1912 was 124
on August IA, and 80 for the IL lead
ing industrials. on June 80 of the cur
rent year the average of 20 leading
railways was 1913 and of IL leading
industrials IA. This is drop within
II months of 21 points in the average
of railroad shares and Is points in in
dustrial shares; an almost sensational
decline; and the bulk of it has taken
place since the election. That it has
been accomplished with no serious dis
aster is excellent evidence of the in
herent soundness of affairs in general.
The question is, will the second half of
1913 show a continuation of this ten.
dency; or is not at least a moderate re-
covery about due?
Ever since the election the market
has been treated to a succession of
Nightmares The Balkan war was one;
fear of a world wide stringency in
money another; tariff revision anoth-
er; an unsatisfactory railroad situation
another and the series of important
dissolutions in compliance with the
Sherman anti-trus tlaw still another.
And yet the much dreaded Minnesota
rate decision was finaiiy handed down
and proved to be reassuring rather
than disturbing.
''As result of the conservative bank
ing policy pursued for the past two
or three months our banks are steadily
strengthening their cash resources and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
MUSIC

BY Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Let me go where'Cr l will,
| hear a sky born music still
1t sounds from all things old,
1t sounds from all things young.
From all that's fair. from all that's foul,
Peals out a cheerful song.
1t is not only in the rose,
1t is not only in the bird,
Not only when the lainbow glows,
Nor in the song of woman heard,
But in the darkest. meanest things
There alway, alway, something sings.
'Tis not in the high stars alone,
Nor in the cup of budding flowers,
Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone,
Nor in the bow that smiles in showers.
But In the mud and scum of things
There alway. alway. something sings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
onen Air CONCERT rnnd

THE Music Study club hopes to increase
the open air concert fund and it is reason-
able to think that this can be done very
materially without much difficulty" said
citizen who appreciates good music.
''The fund as ii stands now is sufficient
understand to pay Memoli and his band
for about seven weeks. But If individuals
will come forward with small contribu-
tions something like $1,000 might be raised
in that way.
Il am satisfied that when the people
hear Memoli's fine band Sunday after
noon that there will be no further ques-
tion about continuing the concerts into
September
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
Good for Summer Resort.

Summer resorts will be crowded this
summer said Charles f. Darden of
Philadelphia. "rhe eastern seaside re-
sorts are already thriving and / am told
that the Virginia seaside places are well
filled.
THE Virginia mountain resorts are
now beginning to fill up and before the
end of the month the more popular of
them will be turning away people. 1t is
always a good sign of business pros
perity when you see the resort places
well patronized. The weather will prob
ably turn cooler in few days but it
will still be warm enough to make
those who have the means spend a few
weeks in the mountains"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
DANGER IN FACE POWDERS
ate Upson Clark, in Leslie's,

The foolish girls who puff powder
on their cheeks and on the tips of their
noses. should see two ladies who be-
long to 1.-The upper ten" in certain city,
and would rater die than not to be in
the fashion. They have always powdered
and now their faces are covered with
little pits, almost as though they had
had terrible disease. Thousands of
women come to this condition, for al
most superhuman cleanliness is re-
Quired in order to free the pores Of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Prosperity i'm u,ssis.ippi

Agricultural and business conditions
are excellent in Mississippi. said Harry
Jones of Moore & Handley. who returned
day or two ago from the neighboring
state.
I spent several days in the section of
which Columbus is the center. Crop pros
poets are exceptionally good and in an
agricultural state like Mississippi when
the crops promise well everybody feels
good.
ut looks as if the whole south would
have bumper crops this year and that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06

By HUGH w. ROBERTS

$500, 100000. The suffragettes have prom
bill in half. Friday, in emphasizing this
promise. they hurled their petition for
equal suffrage into the placid face of
gentle King George, and in the pleasant
city of Birmingham. fired warehouse,
, inflicting damage to the tune of $4,000
John Bull only smiles when woman
she would purify the ballot" and by so
doing cut down his soda and whisky
expenses. lie realizes at the same time
that something must be done. America
has the same impression in regard to
itself For in addition to drinking more
! liquor and beer each month than in the
smoking more cigars, more cigarettes,
more tobacco in pipes, and are consum-
ing more snuff. In the fiscal year of 1913,
Americans smoked 7707, 100000 cigars. an
increase of 2l7,OOo.OOO; 14ol2,OO,OO0 cigar
cites, an increase of 2,79O,0OO, 900. In the
same year Americans consumed In va
rious manners 400, 100000 pounds of tobac-
co, an increase of 100000 pounds; 3S,2oO,
900 pounds of snuff, an increase of 100000
pounds.
What shall America do? Annually its
material development is greater. Annu-
ally it advances to still more promi-
nent position among the nations of the
world. 1t is the most powerful country
of the universe. But still in its con-
sumption of 2.s52. 600 gallons of whisky
and beer per annum, its pace is a trile
too fast. If every man, woman and child
drank his prorata share each would con-
sumo in 12 months S17 gallons. or If you
would omit Sundays, more than gallon
a day.
The prohibitionists. after a century of
toll, have failed. The American suffra-
gists promise to qucnch the great Amer
lean thirst. 1t is even argued by their
horror of grog, certain men oppose their
efforts to secure the ballot This Is spe-
cious. Women might decrea Sc the num-
ber of saloons. The prohibitionists cut
the list down last year by 1900. But
still the thirst endures and will endure, it
is probable until the end of time.
That woman would purify the ballot is
exceedingly doubtful. She is loftier at
the present time in her ideals than man,
and her horror of crime Is more acute.
But this is not due to inheritance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06

unattended by any of the numerous
detectives that followed President
Taft and other chief executives.
There have been times when the
secret service man had to be close to
the President, but in this republic
where everything like court is miss
ing, and where military display is
minimized, it has always seemed a
pity, not to say anomalous, to have
the President accompanied on his pri-
vate journeys by detectives heavily
armed.
1t need surprise no one if President
Wilson manages to get through his
term of office without being shadowed
even for day by secret service
man