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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
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Bell (private exchange cohhec'i"s
ali departments), No. 1900.
TIE third hour of drowsy morning.
king Henry v.
Good Roads and Boulevards

What well paved streets and elegant
boulevards are to a city well built
roads are to the rural districts. Many
modern improvements go to make up
the model city, but fine streets come
next perhaps to pure water and san
itary sewers and no county can be
called progressive unless there is
steady expansion of its road system.
The economic value of good roads is
90 well understood by the people that
the arguments used in educational
campaigns of the past are no longer
necessary. The thing to be done IN the
counties that have been backward IN
road building is to start an organ
lied movement to induce narrow
minded and sordid taxpayers to vote
for instead of against necessary road
bond issues. A certain county in north
ern Alabama, widely known for the
thrift of its people, has been surpris-
ingly backward in good road work. 1t
is the last county in Alabama that one
would think would be without hard
roads and yet few mossbacks have
on several occasions defeated proposed
bond issues.
Prosperity has been very general, in
this country and all through the north
one finds splendid roads, In some of
the southern states the work of mod
ern road building has been far adj
vanced and in this state of Alabama a
good deal has been done in the last
two years In 1918 new high record
should be made in road building in
Alabama.
The Jefferson county board of rev.
enue is starting out to make new
high record and with all this activity
in highway construction in the Bir-
nlingham district there should be little
difficulty in inducing the city gov
ernment to go ahead with the East
Lake-Ensley boulevard. 1t would be
one of the most valuable improve
ments that could possibly be made in
Birmingham.
The time will soon come-it is safe
to say that it will come within the
next five years-when the southern
state that it not traversed in every
direction by good roads will be known
as an unprogressive and an undesir-
able state in which to live and will be
stunned by all homeseekers; and it
will be the same with regard to cities
that are backward in street and paw
ing and boulevards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
Latin-American States

President Wilson's statement con-
cerning affairs in Central and South
America and our relations toward
them is timely, peaceful and just. He
holds out no comfort for would-be
leaders and soldiers of fortune, but he
tells all the states to the south of us
that any government which is truly
representative will be cordially sup
ported by this administration.
There is a general spirit of unrest
in nearly all Of them except Costa
Rica, which is declared to be the one
peaceful spot in Central America. The
txpubls IL common and general. Many
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

More Wilson simplicity-the President
pays his way to the theatres and he will
as yacht for himself and his family.
The President and Mrs Wilson decided
that they would like to see "Bunty Pulls
the Strings at the Belasco theatre. lie
paid s35 for two boxes. The President
will not accept any passes or "courtesies'
which Mr.. Taft and Colonel Roosevelt en-
loved. He has declined baseball passes
offered by the Washington club of the
American league.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
xoxp.uTIsAN GOVERN MENT

Warren b. Bullock, in Harper's Weekly.
Non-pa rtisanship, devised as a means OF
uniting the socialistic sentiment OF
the city against the rule OF the red nag
of the socialist, has proved more tnah an
invention, politically, to defeat the rev.
olutionaries; 1t has been proved to be
a great economic discovery, destined, Mill
vaukee believes, to open new era OF
practical municipal management. ms
epoch. which with it's modern ideas OF
municipal research, properly limited pa
ternalistic control of private enterprises
had been an impracticable theory until
Milwaukee. with its elimination OF rae
tional no,jtics. opened the way for the
impartial reception Of new progressive
ideas by city officials, with open minds
not pledged to subservience to party coni-
mittees or bosses.
Milwaukee devised non-partisan ad-
ministration as a means of ousting the
socialists. who in two years ran the city
expenses higher than ever before by sl'-
Ooo. 900. 1t was not what the radical pro-
gressives call movement OF the pusi-
ness Interests" 1t was an outpurst OF
the common mans protest against mis-
rule. wastefulness and party machinery
domination of every phase of city affairs.
This outburst caused the politicians TO pe
forgotten, the every day business man 10
come into the ascendant, ana the nrst
wear of non-partisanship has proved SO
successful that already there has been one
cut in taxes, in the face OF the estao-
lishment of many innovations, some
costly.
Milwaukee is converted, 1t appears, for
all time, and the progresslces. republicans
or democrats will never again be known IN
Milwaukee city offices as such. The So
cialists plan to retain their efforts 70
make this socialistic city. but the non
partisans, as they are known here, nave
no fear that non-partisanship VIII ever
] be overturned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
SHE COULD

From the Buffalo Commercial.
DIR. Baillie was a famous Scotch ply
sician of the old school, patient and
gentle, as rule, but with great prac-
tce that sometimes Jnade him little
testy with persons who consumed too
much of his time with trining complaints,
At one time, after listening to long
story of her ailments from a lady who
was SO little i'll that she intended to go
TO the opera that night, the doctor left
the room with a sigh of relief. He had
Just got down the stairs when he was
called back
Doctor feebly asked the lady, may
on my return tonight eat few oys-
ters?'
.Yes. madam" roared the doctor,
"sbells and all"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

A new charter to be submitted to the
pie at the fall election will intrust the
government of Atlanta to a mayor at
$4,000 year and six trustees at $500 each.
The seven officials are to be departmental
heads after the commission plan. coun-
Gill; whose authority is limited to passage
of police ordinances and apportionment
of revenue, is to be elected on general
city ticket. The short ballot reform and
the recall are provided for and the city
is given full home rule and the right to
own and operate any utility. On petition
of % per cent of the voters all legislation
is made subject to the referendum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
Birmin CHAM as a Business Center

when | first saw Birmingham in 1890
il was a coal and iron town with pros
poets of growing as an industrial center,
but I was not prophet enough to fore
cast what it has come to be today said
c. d. Cairns of Boston. MY second
visit was in 1899 and. of course, Birming-
ham looked more like city then than
it did nine years before. But, still, it
was outclassed by a dozen or more of
the older towns in the south. This is
my third visit and I behold a great city.
Birmingham is quite metropolitan in
its appearance and in its ways and il
the crowds one sees on the streets 1t
is easy now to predict a population of
$4,000 within the next 20 years Bir-
mingham is sure to pass the 100000
mark before some of the young folks
reach old age. With its raw material
resources Birmingham will become great
er and greater as a manufacturing city
and what impresses me particularly now
is that it has reached the stage where
il may be classed as an important CEN
ter of general commerce. | used to
think that it would never he anything
more than a large industrial center, but
it is destined to be recognized as the
business and financial as we'll as the geo
graphical hub of the south"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
POWER OF SUGGESTION

Arthur B. Reeve in the Worlds Work
No doubt the law Of suggestion played
an important part In the notorious NC
Namara dynamiting case. Some of the
remarks made by Jim Mcnamara show
that he realized il. To prove that the NC
Namaras, McManigal and others had
been in several cities in which dynamite
explosions took place for several days
before these explosions occurred, the pros
ecution had to bring dozens of witnesses
from all sections of the country to Los
Angeles to make identifications. The wit
nesses included hotel clerks bell boys,
hotel proprietors, bus drivers, liverymen,
boarding house keepers and numerous
others
While the Mcnamara jury was being
mpaneled, witnesses kept arriving in Los
Angeles. That they might have a chance
to see Jim Mcnamara and identify him,
they were taken to court and were given
seats where they would have good
chance to ee.the defendant Therefore,
every day when Mcnamara looked about
the. courtroom he saw one or two persons
staring at him intently. Naturally he rec
ognized some of them. He must have
asked himself where he had seen those
faces before. Sometimes he could not re-
call. At other times he could. In both
cases he was frightened.
So was kept up, day after day, an end
less procession of accusing faces leveled
at him. 1t did seem endless, too, for there
were more than 100 such witnesses. The
strain began to tell on him. He thought
about those faces in the cell every day
after he left court. He had plenty OF
time to think about them in the loneliness
and silence of his prison.
My God, this thing is getting on my
nerves." he cried one day to his coun-
sci.
The law of suggestion was working in
exorably. Day by day as he strove to
recall just who some of the persons were
who We're there silently identifying him.
as he struggled to advise his counsel ac-
them, he began to Tealize the utter hope
lessness of his case. OF course, this was
not the only, nor perhaps even the great
est influence which moved him; but cer-
tainly compelling part was played by
this elaborate staging of the law of sug-
gestion in bringing this notorious case to
the conclusion of confession The GRIM
inal himself is perhaps the last to realize
how tightly he winds himself in a web
of his own making under the direction of
skiful detective. Seldom does he res
ize that it is he, himself, not the detec-
tive, who has caught him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

Il must find out how he stands ca
the tariff question:.
The tariff?"
"Of course"
She was silent moment The flush
died away.
'Why tell this to me?'
For an excellent reason. I want to
marry you, but l can't while the present
uncertainty exists"
But what has the tariff to do with
it?"
Everything. Listen. | am interested
in factory that manufactures a pre-
tccted article. If the tariff is reduced
[ cannot support you in the luxury to
which you are accustomed-as they al
ways say in the best romances. Before
I actually propose l must get satisfy
ing opinion from your father, the con-
gresham. DO you follow me?''
yes"
III he assures me that the reduction
will not be more than 20 per cent will
come to you and say the burning words
that are trembling ON my eager lips
The girl drew as deep a breath as.
fashion permits.
"And if the reduction is 30 per cent?
His face grew lark.
'Then,' he replied. 'it is all off and
we can only wait for a change in ad-
m;nistration."
AT least we can hope" she softly
said, "and hold our faith in the wisdom
of Congress-"
Faith, hope and the tarifflv he mur-
INJURED xend rolled fresh cigarette.-W.
r. Rose in the Cleveland Plain Dealer
MORE HOPEFUL NOW.
He gazed upon the dull gray skies
And hardened to the winter rain,
Than murmured, heaving doleful signs,
'Oh, Spring, wilt never come again?"
But that was several weeks ago.
More recently he's cheered up SO,
BY no one would he be suspected
or ever having been detected.
A QUAINT SPANISH INSCRIPTION.
A Kansas man who has lately been
abroad reports that this inscription ac-
tuslly appears on an old tombstone in
cemetery at Saragossa Spain Here
lies John Cabeca, precentor of my lord
the king. When he is admitted to tie
choir of angels, whose society he will
embelsh, and where he will distinguish
himself by his powers of song. God shall
say to his angels, Cease, ye calves and
let me hear John Cabeca, precentor 20
the king of Spain. kansas City Star.
ADDITIONAL SLIGHT.
$50 the editor called your attention to
a person whom he had employed ex-
pressly to throw poets out Of his of
fice?"
That's what lie did,
"Rather insulting"
'It was, indeed. But what rlade the
insult greater was the fact tia. his
official houncer was a very small m
significant looking person."
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
Many Good Restaurants

Birmingham has a large number OF
good restaurants-a larger number OF
them than many other cities of approxi-
mately its size" said Travelled man.
ATLANTA Is ahead of other southern
cities in many respects, but there are
two or three that outclass the Georgia
metropolis in cafes, and Birmingham is
one of them There are four or five cafes
in this city that will compare favorably
with the best in Chicago, st. Louis or
Cincinnati.
Every visitor to Birmingham is struck
with the large number of all night res
taurants here Such establishments in
dicate growth and prosperity. Fifteen
years ago there were only two or three
all night eating places and now there are
more than a Dozen"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
WILSON AS A sToRyTELLER

W. G. McAdoo in the Century Magazine.
Mr.. Wilson is singularly felicitous as
a speaker and uses apt stories with great
effect He has an inexhaustsble fund of
arecdote and an exceptional sense of re-
fined humor. More than two years ago,
and within month after he had been
elected governor of New Jersey, he was
introduced at a dinner of the New York
Southern society as "a future President
of the United States" He replied as fol-
lows:
"Mr. President. Ladies and Gentlemen:
The very kind in uction / have just
heard destroys my sense of identity. I
am told by psychologists that our memo-
ries are the seat of our sense of identit-
ty, and that II / did not remember who
| was yesterday, ] could not for the life
of me tell you who I am today. In view
of the confused and unexpected happen
ings of the recent past find it difficult
to remember who was yesterday. I find
myself in one respect G hope in only one
reapecD. resembling certain persons /
heard of in a story that was repeated to
me the other day. A friend of mine was
in Canada with fishing party, and one
member of the party was imprudent
enough to sample some whisky that was
called Squirrel whisky.
~.It was understood that it was called
squirrel whisky because it made those
who drank it inclined to climb tree.
This gentleman imbibed too much of
this dangerous liquid, and the consequence
was that when he went to the train to
go with the rest of the company he took
a train bound south instead OF a train
bound north. Wishing to recover him,
his companions telegraphed the condnc-
tor of the south bound train: Send short
man named johnson back for the north
bound, train. He is intoxicated. Pres
emily they got reply from the condue-
tor: Further particulars needed. There
are 1S men on the train who don't know
either their name or their destination.
Now, l am sure that know my name
bur 7 am not so sure as your presiding
officer that know my destination.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
ALMOST WON
,.au York Globe.

From the New York Globe.
Pat made a bet with Mike that he
could carry a hodfm OF brick up 'niee
ladders to the top of the building with
Mike sitting on the hod. The LADDERS
we're on the outside Of the building
On the third ladder Pat made ms
step, but caught himself in time TO save
Mike falling 40 feet to the stone side-
walk. Arriving at the top, Pat saiu;
"Begorra I've wan the bet.
Yes replied Mike But WIN "
slipped | thought / had w."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

The litigation over the estate of the late
Jerry Moynihan, known as the million
aire rag picker" which involved more
than GO claimants. was settled on Mon
day, when Probate Judge Holtcamp de-
cided that the estate should go to BEN
iamin Foster Moynihan of Ottawa, Can.
The judge held that it was established
that Benjamin Foster Moynhan was a
son of Jerry, and that the other claim
ants, asserting only collateral relationship,
need not be considered. Jerry Moynihan
died in 1910 in hotel where he had lived
Il years. The public administrator found
he had left an estate of $4,000 As soon
as the value of the estate became known
claimants began to appear. Several wom-
en- claimed to be his widow and many
men claimed to be his sons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
The Rotary Club

"The Rotary club of Birmingham is
a wideawake institution" said Vice
President j. E. Shelby. 1T is full of
boosters and will do its part in promot-
ing the best interests of this city. Quot
ing from our constitution, among the
objects of the club Is to quicken the
interest of each member in the public
welfare and to cooperate with others
in civic development We have many
applications for membership
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Great Interest in state Fair

Birmingham people who had priVi-
leges at the fair last year and who IN
tend to apply for them again this year
had better not delay" said President
B. B. Burton. Men who make a busi-
ness of state fair privileges are after
concessions now. There is. in fact, a
surprisingly keen demand and 1t Is wen
enough for our own people to UNDER
stand this.
Il have never known so much inter
est this far in advance in any state
fair as Is in evidence today"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
Many ..,,,cants for office

although the extension of the civil
service rules has greatly reduced the
number of federal offices to be filled
as rewards for political work there are
thousands of offieeseekers in Washing
con now beseeching congressman and
others to help them" said j. w Nc
Dougal of Philadelphia
Il am republican and used to take
an active part in politics, but now
am only a private in the ranks. l
look on with interest, however, and 1t
Is laughable. though sometimes pa
thetic, to see men wasting time and
money trying to secure political jobs
when the chances are all against them
The democratic administration seems
to have made a good start so far as
official methods go. President Wilson,
in fact, has proven himself to be very
business-like In the matter of hand
ling federal patronage. He Will not see
any applicants for office. Every ap-
plicant must file his petition with the
head of the department under which
the office he is seeking comes. All ap-
plications must be followed up by recon-
mendations of members of congression-
al delegations This is it should be-
If the delegation of a state agrees on
Smith or Jones or Brown for cer-
tain office which is to be filled then
the person recommended wins the
prize. Those that are not backed by the
delegation might as well give up the
fight, but, strange to say. thousands
upon thousands of men who lack con-
gressional backing hang on as appli-
cants as long as they are able to pay
board in Washington"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

The democratic steering committee is
engaged in assigning senators to COM
mittees Senator Johnston will doubt
less be made chairman of the military af-
fairs committee, and Senator Bankhead
will get the Craftsmanship of the commit
tee on agriculture and forestry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

Secretary of the Navy Daniels shocked
all the attaches of the department the
other day by sending out for his lunch
and eating it in the office. Isn't this
awful, Mabel?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

The Tonlne hotel in New Haven, which
is a century old, is to be torn down to
make way for 100000 postoffice build
ing. This hotel has been the headquar-
ters for Yale class reunions from time out
of mind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

Another Greek victory will certainly
raise the price of shoe shines in this
country. The sinners almost despise even
the new nicl1els.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

J. Pierpont Morgan and Gen. Porhrio
the Adriatic for Naples. Mr.. Morgan
was accompanied by doctor and
nurse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

The squirting of an extract taken from
a eonsumptiye turtle into consumptive
human being is an unsolved problem. Why
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
cIrPIn AND TIE TARIFF

CUPID AND THE IARIF T.
The very eligible young man looked
at the very charming young woman.
They had known each other for some
time The young man was impressed
by the young woman's gifts of mind
and person, and the young woman liked
him very much.
..Editha," he presently said as he
leaned upon the mantel and looked down
at her-an attitude sanctioned by all
the high class magazines, Il must have
a talk with your father
A rosy flush dyed her pale cheeks.
'Yes, George" she said very softly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

Washington shows that some men are
born to cameras, some seek cameras and
others have cameras thrust upon them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

When the House meets on April l there
will be a government bench and an op-
position bench. We will then be very
English.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

The suffragists call the minority leader
Stay me-Mann," and he may come
to think well of 'Alice-S Sit-by Fire"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
EXAGGERATED Et,.

"Plimblock seems TO have a high opin-
ion of himself"
Yes, indeed. Why. every time Plin-
block shaves himself he thinks he's
making history"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

If Vincent Astor really wants to be a
reporter he can find several who are will
ing to exchange places.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

Chairman Underwood proposes to revise
the tariff in IA independent bills to pre-
vent trading in Congress
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

The Greeks threw 10000 shells into ia
nina before the Turks would surrender
the town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

Perhaps 1t is Charles W. Morse's home
coming that is giving Wall street the
shivers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

Turkey does not permit soldiers to growl
about the weather. She executes them
on the spot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
IITSY WONDERING

.Odiva, says the Louisville Courier.
Journal, "a swimmer appearing in vaude-
vile, goes Lady Godiva one better By
taking off even the c. That being
the case. we are rather curious to know
the length of the swimmers hair
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

The new President and Lincoln are alike
In the respect of beauty. The one has no
more than his predecessor of 90 years
ago had.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

Mr. Taft is isolated in Georgia, and that
is probably what he desires as change.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
rNcoNSCIorSLY

''she does wnen she forgets to powder
her nese.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
IMPROVING SLOWLY,

'1 guess we are coming along"
"Yes?"
I'VE had murder trial the other day
that wasn't called travesty on JUS
tice 3"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
RELEASE

KEIEASE.
Poor wight, he dreamed day after day
or yistas rare and solace sweet.
But never slipped from cares away.
Until his tired heart ceased TO beat.
His soul sped upward to the stars
That beam beyond the utmost blue.
And time healed oer the secret scars
He'd won mid scenes of earthly rue.
Nor should We falter at deaths door.
However dark tn approach may seem.
II there We learn, half guessed before.
That lifes dream within dream.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

The grounding will soon leave his Of
fee and take to the brush.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
DRAWING THE LINE

Although my heart is tender
And crush a bug l wouldn't,
| could not love cochroach-
| simply couldn't!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
GASOLINE VERSUS poETRy

a poet talks about the time when
Night let's fall her sable curtain.'''
Rather pretty, don't you Think"
"um-yes, but as soon as night less
fall her sable curtain in this town joy
riders begin 10 tear holes in it with their
motor cars
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13

or two. No contracts will be signed
until 100 guarantors have been Sc
eured.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-13
EXPLAINED.

We heard about a woman once
Who never did her neighbor knock
1t seems she dwelt out in the sea,
Iron a high and lonely rock