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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
The Return of Works

Senator Works of California, who
left Washington without being paired,
declaring that he would not return un-
til December, has changed his mind
and is Fastening from San Francisco
to the capital.
The absence of Senator Works had
been cause of jubilation among the
democrats. The death of Senator
Johnston and the critical illness of
Senator Culberson, coupled with the
contumacy of the two senators from
Louisiana, had awakened anxiety
over the final fate of the Underwood
Simmons tariff bill. The departure of
Mr.. Works served in manner to lull
this spirit of suspense.
Now that Mr. Works is returning,
the prompt filling of the vacancy
from Alabama is given renewed inn
portance. 1t is true that a few sena-
tors of republican persuasion are in
Europe, but cablegrams could bring
them home in plenty of time to vote
against the measure, should the lead
ers think there is a chance to de-
feat it.
The Californian has altered his
plans because of the seriousness of the
Mexican situation. Again in Washing
ton, however, he will not join Penrose
and his little clique who are trying to
create dissatisfaction with the poll
cies of President Wilson. Mr.. Works
is in thorough sympathy with the
White House views regarding Mexi-
co, and will make no move to oppose
them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24

with an outline of some of the welfare
work that has been done in the Bir-
mingham district. The Tennessee
company as subsidiary of the Steel
corporation has been the leader in inn
proved housing and sanitary condi-
tions and now other companies are
doing much along the same lines.
Mr.. Phenis remarks that as won
derful as all the developments are "the
feature of this work that struck me as
most wonderful of all is the consider
alton given to the human element. No
welfare commission could give half the
practical, efficient inspiration and
benefit which is here found as mere
part of every days activity. There is
no exploitation, hardly passing men,
tion in the discussions of the situa-
ton, and yet what is being done here
in the camps and villages where min
ers and laborers live would justify
pages of enthusiastic praise"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
NELoDRAMA ECLIPSED

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
At an expense of $4,000 moving pic
ture enterprise wrecked two locomotives
and several passenger coaches In New
Jersey in order to present to audiences
such a ''big scene" as no melodrama pro-
ducer could provide.
When popular priced melodrama was
popular the heroine could be tied upon
the railroad tracks and rescued by the
hero or the comedian in the nick o time,
and the train could pass across the stage
in full view of the audience. 1t looked
very real upon the Autographs, but to the
man in the front row the train seemed to
be a rather poor imitation. And mead
on collision between property trains
was hardly practical.
The moving picture hero can be seen
amid stirring events such as delight the
hearts of the millions who paid their half
dollars. quarters and dimes willingly
enough to see a plainly counterfeit pre-
sentiment of hairbreadth escapes and ne
roic rescues.
NIelodrama did not go out of fashion'
as critics predicted il would, because the
public became too discriminating to Wish
TO see blood and thunder plays. but be-
cause the moving picture theatre can sup
ply louder thunder and more blood in
much more realistic manner
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
TELEPHONE
Bell (prIvate exchange connecting IA
dcpartments), Main 49OO.
He's honorable,
And. doubling TINT, most holy.
--Cymbeline.
Chief BOdeker's Order

Dainty September Morn," shrink
ing with cold feet or modesty, as the
critic may ascribe her attitude to a
sudden chill or knowledge that some
one is coming, is to be followed into
retirement by pictures of the 'x-ray"
gown. Chief Bodeker has decreed it,
and it is so writ upon the bulletin
board at police headquarters.
September Morns" defenders con-
stitute considerable percentage of
her admirers, and the latter include
more legions than Caesar ever had in
his army. Chief Bodeker banished her
from the show windows, but he did SO
over the protest of many who pro-
fessed that she is a child of high art
that her attitude of shyness denotes
nothing of sex consciousness.
The chiefs latest order will, or
should, meet with unanimous APP
proval. 1t was aimed, of course. at the
vulgar display of woman's sfigure
surrounded by a diaphanous garment
which had been on view in a show
window for a few days. There was
nothing artistic about it. 1t was an
appeal solely to the bestial instincts
in man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
GATIrN LAKE

From the Philadelphia Record.
When Gatun lake is filled it will con-
tain $4,000, 100000 cubic feet of water.
The present height of water In the lake
is As feet above sea level and this is
nearly 40 below the top of the spillway
of the great dam. 1t Will be a gem
erous estimate to say that the lake is
now about one-third full; and that the
Chagres river will have to. discharge
120. 900. .000, 900 more cubic feet of water
into the big basin before the contem-
plated level is attained. The rainy sea-
son at the isthmus has just about set
in, and, thus far. the rainfall has been
below normal. Dividing the present
foot-second flow of the Chagres into
the number OF cubic feet required to
fill the lake. the conclusion is reached
that the S0-foot level will not be at
tained in the basin until the end of the
year, OF course, no ship can pass
through until the water is of navigable
depth above the sills of the upper
locks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
Baseball English
them.

A Chicago newspaper took test
vote of its readers to permit them to
say whether they want their baseball
stories told in pure English or written
with an especial attempt at slang.
Straightforward English won by a
large majority, but many who cast
their ballots for it made it clear that
their request is not for Addisonian
perfection of diction. What they de-
sire is a terseness and a vividness
which some times can best be attained
by the use of words not in diction-
ary.
1t occurs to The Age Herald that
the majority is right. The chief OBJ
lection which has been found to many
current accounts of baseball games
arises from their obscurity. Sporting
writer's, especially those of the young
er school, feel that they must lard
their stories with fantastic phrases,
and in the fulfillment of their sup
posed duty so involve their ideas in
turgid metaphors as to render them
unintelligible. The happy medium is
that of the Drydens and the Mulfords,
who restrict their illusions to men and
things well known, and confine their
figures of speech to the limits of the
understanding of the average reader
The person who peruses the sport
ing page does so as much to be amused
as to be informed. To choke the well
of wit with stilted expression and OBJ
literate the picturesqueness of de-
scription with constant reference to an
unabridged are not to be commended.
But the reader, on the other hand,
will seek the column of chess prob
lens or bridge for professionals" if
it is psychological somersaulting that
he longs for.
Vigorous, graphic English, but
plain, withal, is what the average man
wants when he reads about the base
ball game. Weird word-carpentering
striving to be smart and with the re-
suit of being silly, are attractive to
| few.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
FATHER OF pHRENOLOGY

From the New York American.
The first public notice of the "Father
of Phrenology" appeared In Weiland's 5
Dutch Mercury" 115 years ago, August
IA. 179S.
Gall was practicing physician of
Vienna and early in his career he be-
came a firm believer in the idea that
the talents and disposition of men are
dependent upon the functions of the
brain, and, furthermore, that thcy may
be inferred with perfect exactitude and
precision from the external appear
ances of the skull.
Gall was an able man; he set forth
his theory in graphic, unctuous man
ncr and in very brief period he hao
all Europe at the top notch of excite
ment. The idea spread like willfire,
and in all grades of society people We're
discussing "the greatest OF all dlscoV-
cries" The new theory had to meet the
customary opposition from the custo-
dians of truth and the preservers OIL
morality, but the opposition only IN
creased the popularity of the theory
and Calls celebrity Increased py leaps
and bounds. His lectures were inter-
dicted, and he was threatened with the
direst penalties unless he ceased ms
.immoral and atheistical teachings;
but he kept on with his propaganda
visiting all the large towns of Ger
many and the continent, and by 1905
al, Of Europe was interested in the vi
emma doctor
In 1s2s,A the year of Galls death,
phrenology was in vogue everywhere.
But after a great and glorious flood
tide of popularity it began % wane,
and today it Is but seldom heard Of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
A BOYS CURE

From the New York Sun.
Warren A. See, l3 years old, lay Ill for
weeks, and according to Washington
dispatch physicians said they did not be-
lieye he would recover. Then the lad
went into delirium and talked of Walter
Johnson, the speed king among the
pitchers of the American league. He had
been the boys idol, the man of men be-
fore whom this lad had stood secretly in
awe, and when the mind was free the
idol of his worship spoke to him.
When the team came back to Washing
ton from it's western trip a member of
the boys family had intuitive sense
enough to seek out the pitcher and tell
him what the doctor said. Naturally Mr..
johnson wanted to go to the childs bed
side, but the physicians said no, that the
excitement would be fatal.
So he wrote this letter and it was read
to the boy in an interval of delirium:
My Dear Warren: / take pleasure in
sending you herewith one of the baseballs
used on our western trip and hope that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
pleasnnt Antnmn nn,s

The backbone of the hot summer is
pleasant days and certainly pleasant
nights from now on said man who
observes weather signs. Nearly every
section of this country has had periods
of excessive heat this summer.
1T is not often that Birmingham has
had such long hot spell. As a rule the
climate here is admirable all the year
round. The winters are usually mild and
the summers seldom oppressive, but this
summer has been an exception to the
rule.
Now that the hot weather has passed
let us all rejoice in our abundant harvests
and in the approach of delightful au-
tumn"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
A FILM FAVORITE.

Our hearts beat fast when on the screen
Is shone the face of the movie queen.
We've watched her winsome features
change
And cover emotions widest range
From grave to gay and back again.
While many fearful risk was ta'en.
We've watched her ride in motor cars.
On horseback, too. meath western stars.
We've held our breath while perils great
Assailed her youth and beauty's state.
We've seen her tears fall thick and fast
We've seen her wear smile at last.
While many a villain has sought to gain
Her heart. in spite of her cold disdain
And yet alas, though oft she speaks.
And means and cries and sobs and
shrieks
Whichever appears the playwrights
we've never yet heard the sound of her
voice
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24

From the New York Herald.
France insists that the cocktail was
not invented in the United states. But
let's have no international trouble. Mr..
President, please tut-tut the contro-
versy-foledo Blade.
Only wicked progresso- republican
newspaper like the Blade would ever
have suggested involving the present
administration in any such contro-
versy.
With orange juice holding unques-
toned sway at the White House, grape
juice at the department of state and
buttermilk at the treasury, what possi-
BILE reason can our Ohio contemporary
have for -suspecting that any person
attached to this administration can
have even academic interest in the in
sidious cocktail?
And how could true friends of the
cocktail be expected TO intrust its fate
into such hands?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
you will soon have the opportunity of

YOU will soon have the opportunity of
using it with your friends.
pills. powders and surgery had failed,
but an idol worked another miracle AS
If touched by the gods Of old there was
an immediate change for the better, and
on Saturday it was said that Warren VIII
soon leave the hospital and be able to use
that baseball. The primitive mind had
been allowed to work.
MANY distinguished writers have tried
in vain TO describe the psychology of
miracles such as these. Kfpling and ms
"Bushwood Boy" Kenneth Grahame and
his Golden Age" they have essayed to
explain the mind of boy but it cannot be
done. All that we know Is, as Thack-
eray SAYS. that every boy at a stage in
his life has some idol OF course the idols
change. eventually becoming feminine.
yet If our learned uplfters would seek to
learn the name or nature of each boys
idol. and work through it, instruction In
moral hygiene and eugenics would be-
come obsolete. That way progress lies.
II an idol can save a life 1t can do other
things. for it represents the boys ambi-
tion at it's best and most impressonable
period.
And what matter the form the idol
takes? lit may be- as 1t often is, a loco
motive engineer a drum major, base
ball pitcher; through the hero worship of
these exalted beings the boys salvation
lies. Text books on biology We're never
intended for the primitive mind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
SOME FOG

From the September Womans Home
Companion.
'I suppose you don't get much fog
over here remarked the smartly dressed
young man had been talking of Lon
don fogs.
wall, replied the old salt, 1--WE do get
bit of a fog now an then. | mind last
summer 1 was shnglin that barn ye see
over thar on the point I had just used
up what had figured would do both sides
of the roof, and was calculatin to crawl
back to the ladder when the fog lifted
and / dropped plump into the middle of
the harbor. There ] had gone and Shin
gled bout 100 feet of that blamed fog"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24

his own pocket with lucre fleeced from
hundred million of his fellow citi-
zens, Mr.. Warren overreaches him
self. If the sheep owners yield TO de-
spair and send all their rams, ewes
and lambs pitty-pat to the slaughter
houses, mutton should drop in price
for little while
Recently in the Senate, Mr.. Myers
of Montana pointed out that notwith-
standing century of high protection,
the sheep industry is now decadent.
According to the census of 1900, the
sheep and lambs of the United States
totaled, in round figures, $4,000 900.
Ten years later the total had dropped
to 100000, But in 1900 the value
Of the 62,000,000 was placed at $780,
100000, while in 1910 the $4,000, 900
were estimated to be worth $3.50 ,000,-
900. When one considers that these
sheep are owned in large part by only
a handful of men, the iniquity of the
republican tariff policy is brought
home wildly.
Francis Emory Warren and Clar-
ence Don Clark have long ruled Wyo-
ming with all the staggering insol-
ence of feudal barons. 1t seems impos-
sible to dislodge them. The state is one
of the few ''rotten borroughs" remain
ing in the country. Owing to its small
population and the compactness of the
republican machine, it probably will
continue sore spot on the body poll
tic.
At one time an opportunity seemed
at hand to dispose of Francis Emory
Warren, He was accused of fencing
government land for the feeding of his
flocks, but when the investigators set
to work they found that the statute
of limitations had interposed itself be-
tween Warren and justice
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
consederute soldiers, Pensions.

1.-THE work to purge the pension rolls OF
the state of those not entitled to the
stipend provided for confederate soldiers
In good standing is an excellent move,
said the son of a confederate veteran.
II wish there were some way to pass
upon the exact status of some individuals
who have been posing as confederate vet
erans, but of whose record 1t is almost
impossible to ascertain by any means.
There are men in Alabama not necessarily
on the pension rolls. however, who hold no
parole; who can not establish any law
full claim, by either witnesses or records,
that they ever saw field service BY this
term is meant all persons VINO We're
either in the ranks or connected with the
bloody work of war; whether as ambu-
lance or wagon drivers, in hospital or
commissary service, or as miners, sappers
and engineers. A very notable incident in
this connection took place here In Bir-
mingham when the first reunion was
held. A certain major who had noisiiy
proclaimed, and actively paraded MS
prowesss as a member OF FORESTS com
mand, was unmasked by an officer OF tne
celebrated cavalry, who denounced him
as deserter
"While on the subject, | will call at
tention to the not generally known TACT
that there were some 2500 to 5000 Alabam-
ians mostly from the counties of Marion,
Franklin, Lamar and Fayette, in the fed
eral army.
And aAother matter bearing on the
pension question is that some persons are
on the federal rolls, and perhaps the con-
federate, for the perfecting and perpetu-
ating of honorable records in war. SEN
ator Warren of Wyoming is one of these
think the unfair newspaper paragraphsr
had better turn his shafts to more vulner-
able armors. Senator Warren Is eminently
correct, and he gives his well earned
stipend to charity. He should be praised,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
piura, Of kn,eh, remn,,r.

''Webstei's and some of the other die
tionaries give Knights Templars as the
plural of Knight Templar, but there is
good authority for Knights Templar, and
as it is a more euphonious phrase | much
prefer 1t, said a man who was once an
office bearer in Masonic knighthood.
Walter Scott in Ivanhoe, if my men,
ory serves me right. uses the phrase
Knights Templar. The word Templar
means simply of the temple-not of the
temples. When the word is used without
a qualifying adjective the plural of Tenn
plar is by common usage Tempars but
when we use the word knight it is COR
rect to say knights Templar.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
Steel Corporation in This District

NNNNh W. POiottOit III IhAS b1StTlCI
In The Baltimore Manufacturers
Record of August 21 is an exception
ally readable and enlightening article
with a Birmingham date line by the
well known special correspondent. AL
bert Phenis. It's caption is "The Steel
Corporation in the Birmingham Dis
trict."
After Introductory statistics show
ing Birmingham's rapid development,
Mr.. Phenis says:
Some years ago it wa declared by a
former officer of the Tennessee Coal
Iron and Railroad company that the
end toward which the company would
aim was the manufacture of every
pound of iron and steel the works
turns out into a finished product
ready for the consumers use. An
nouncements are not made here as to
plans and purposes it having become
fixed rule that information for the
public press shall emanate only from
the New York office, but the most
superficial observation by the visitor
to Ensley, Fairfield and Bessemer
demonstrates that great start has
been made i'm that direction While it
may be true that the S2l ,o0O,00O spent
here in the past six years by this
corporation-since the United States
Steel corporation acquired the Tennes-
see properties-represents largely the
replacing of Worn out machinery and
equipment with new and establishing
a plant where good steel can be made
on competitive commercial basis,
and undermining all old plants and
building some new ones like the S3.-
000,000 by-product coke plant, yet In
this work such striking steps have
been taken as to fill the observer with
enthusiasm as to the ultimate develop
ment of this section. 1t is all so
broadly laid out and so widely con-
ceived. with such far sighted view
as to future great requirements that
one is forced to accept the predictions
of those who believe that the Birming-
ham of the present is only suggestive
of the Birmingham of the future.
most notable instance of the trend to-
ward the production of finished articles
is furnished in the case of the Amer
lean Steel and Wire company's opera
tions
The huge wire mill at Fairfield,
which will cost 100000, win employ
1860 hands and consume $50 tons of steel
wire, nails, etc After two years de-
lay, work on the plant has been re-
sumed, and it Will he ready for opera
tion about the first of the year. 1t was
announced originally that this plant,
which covers is acres, being 1850 feet
long by 450 feet wide. is only one of
a group of four similar buildings to
be built on 96 acres of ground the
American Steel and Wire company
owns at Fairfield. the name by which
the model factory town formerly called
Corey is now officially known.
Mr.. Phenis points out the wonder
full things that have been done in tn
district, says that without the none
and the skill of the United State
Steel corporation they could not hav
been done here within so years, if a
all. "The company's great waite
works SYSTEM" he says, (which ha
daily capacity of $4,000, 900 gallons
cost s3,5O0,00O. ... Without thi
water the improvements that hay
been made never could have been cal
ried out"
Mr.. Phenis concludes his articl
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wives abreast, whilst the Christian takes
his tandem? Anyhow, the conception OF
marriage, held by these unmarried priest
esses of the hell roaring platform takes
into the account only the carnal. Their
philosophy is free love. They would abol-
ish marriage and leave every girl to pick
the father of her own baby. Yowl
Yet, gently! What does this Esther
Dresden know about it? The PaniShurst
school of political economy turns out all
sorts of feminine distortions Doubtless
this Dresden girl graduated there. She
chatters glibly of equality of opportunity
and wages" But she chatters like par
rot taught by Emmeline and Chrstabei
and SyIvie and the rest of them.
All along the line the one sole and
single ideal which seems to exist In the
minds of the women who talk loudest
about sex freedom" and ''the equality
of wages is that the wife shall earn her
own living and go her own gait 1t Is
not sound. 1t is most unsound. 1t may
do. to temper that other old fashioned idea
that a woman belongs to her husband and
shall do as he says. She does belong to
him, certainly; Dut no more lhah tS DS
longs to her She should do as he says
in some things: he should do as she says
in others. both maintaining in many con-
Germs entire freedom of individual action.
People get along in the married state not
by having separate incomes and doing as
they please. but by finding out what their
business is and minding 1t. 1t Is already
understood by the intelligent that 1t is
part of the business of the father of a
family to secure to all the women In 1t,
along with their livelihood, the utmost
freedom of action that is consistent with
family life.
Women may get. and already in many
cases do get, equal pay for equal work,
whether they vote or not, and notwith-
standing that the pay or grown man
is adjusted to the expectation that he will
share it with a woman; but no transfor-
nation of society ever will or ever can
"giye women equal opportunity in every
field of human effort"
Even now, as Martin points out, oppor-
tunity is open enough to women in GER
tain fields they do not enter because they
are not attracted to them or because in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-24
THE HoUsEkEEPER

BY Charles Lamb.
The frugal snail, with forecast of repose,
Carries his house with him whereer he
goes;
Peeps out-and If there comes shower
of rain,
Retreats to his small domicile again.
Touch but tip of him, a horn-tis we'll
He curls up in his sanctuary shell.
He's his own landlord his own tenant;
stay
Long as he will, he breads no Quarter
Day.
Himself he boards and lodges: both in
vites
And feasts himself; sleeps with himself
o. nights.
He spares the upholsterer trouble to pro-
Chattels himself is his own furniture,
And his sole riches. Wheresoe er he
roam
Knock when you wil-he's sure to be at
home