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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
Leader Underwood and the Party

Without the crossing of TT or
the dotting of an a." the Underwood
tariff revision bill was adopted in the
House democratic caucus, and then
the action of the ways and
means committee in naming at
this time only the committees
necessary for the transaction OF
business in session almost wholly
devoted to tariff, was overwhelmingly
indorsed.
This victory of Mr., Underwood
this confidence in his Judgment and
skill-will go far in smoothing the
way for the passage of the bill IN the
House. Leadership of this nature is
all-important and a party has rarely
had a leader in tariff revision that
was trusted as Mr.. Underwood is.
The victory in the party caucus
should lessen the anxiety and respons-
ibility of the chosen leader. 1t will
at any rate strengthen his hands and
90 far to assure him that he has
drawn up revenue tariff that is ac-
ceptable to his own party, no mat
ter what Minority Leader Mann or
the old guard in the Senate may think
of it. The majority leader stands
fully indorsed once for all, and he will
assuredly carry out his work as he
and his colleagues on the ways and
means committee have planned it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
PLAYS WE ALL COULD WRITE

By Robert C. Elravy, in Judge
The Irish Play--In which the brave
young Irish laddie is prosecuted by Eng
lish soldiers In red coats.
The Inventors Play-In which the old
inventors patent is stolen by a wealthy
scoundrel, and the hero finally brings the
rascal to justice
The War Drama-In which two brothegs
love the same girl and enlist on opposing
sides. One proves himself a coward and
the other hero. The hero gets the girl.
The Indian Play-In which the white
girl falls in love with dark eyed young
man, who turns out to be an Indian They
part with many tears and much elocution,
at the summit of a high ridge, with the
sun setting sadly in the background.
The Thief Play--In which the hero is a
successful, society thief, but decides to
give up this means of livelihood for the
girl he loves.
Musical Comedy-In which the plot is
occasionally thickened by row of
healthy chorus girls who can't sing.
The Crook Play-In which all of the
hopeless characters are killed or commit
suicide in the last act.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
MODEL PRISONS

From the Poular Mechanics Magazine.
The new federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kan, in which are housed prisoners Of
the United States, Is a massive structure
of steel and masonry containing 1900 cells.
each of which will hold two prisoners.
The building of this great prison was
begun Is years ago and cost the govern
ment $4,000, 900. More than 100000 brick
and several hundred tons of steel were
used. and the masonry for the entire
structure was made within the walls by
the prisoners.
The proposed new $s5oo,ooo penltentiary
at Joliet. ILL.,, will be located on the west
bark Of the Des PLANES river, about one
mile from the site of the present institu.
tion. Eight circular cell houses witt
class roofs. instead of the regular Inside
cells type. are to be constructed in addi-
ton to the other necessary buildings
these houses will be 10 feet in diameter
with four tiers OF 60 cells, thus providins
room for 24o prisoners ip each house. OF
a total capacity for abou1 1000 inmates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
POETRY AND PROFITS

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
1t is an old bromide that poets are al
ways poor. Homer was blind beggar;
Edgar A. Poe was a bankrupt; Burns was
trifler. Chatterton, the marvellous
boy" committed suicide in a garret,
though he had made the world ring with
his praises. John Davidson. that won-
derful maker of the ballad of Hell,p
falling to win attention or decent living,
jumped into the sea and was no more
in the flesh. That great poet, James
Thompson, who wrote 1.-The City of
Dreadful Night" never had enough to
eat
But what of Alfred Noyes, who came
| from England to America the other day
and declared himself to be poet who
could and did make more than a good liv-
ing out of poetry. One finds that he has
written 10 volumes in 10 years. and that
he has had no other means of support
than what accrued to him through those
volumes. Accordingly, he asserts that a
man can make living from poetry alone.
| There is fallacy in this claim, some-
are obliged to engage in other trades in
order to earn livelihood. Most of our
American poets have to engage in jour-
nalism in order to pay their rent. Amer
lea is full of we'll to do poets, but none
| Of them became well to do by being a
poet. Even James Whitcomb Riley has
made his money by lecturing. Even Edith
NJ Thomas has to write essays and short
stories. Clinton Scolard has to be a col
| lege professor. that his grocery bills may
! be settled on time. How is 1t that Alfred
Noyes is opulent by means of poetry?
The answer may be that Mr.. Noyes is
not SO much a poet as prolific versi-
| fer. Any single minded. whole hearted
| lover of poetry knows that if one adds all
the verses of Alfred Noyes together and
divides them by two, the result will not
| be poetry.
This Englishman may have made his
| fortune from something that he and his
readers have been pleased to call poetry.
That is something quite different, how
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
Don't get discouraged History is full
of also rams
Life Is a conundrum that everybody
gives up sooner or later.
But a man isn't necessarily self made
because his mistakes are.
The stout woman delights in referring to
the other kind as skinny"
IT takes a person who has known real
misery TO appreciate happiness.
Anyway, a man need not fear competi-
ton when he is in love with himself.
1t looks like eternal punishment to some
people who are unable to get divorce.
The man that woman says she doesn'i
care for is generally the one she cries
over
There is no hope for the misanthrope
who would rather believe a lie than the
truth.
A sensible young man never throws him.
self at the feet of girl who throws her
self at his head.
1t may be difficult for You to believe
that the world will so on just the same
after your demlse-but 1t will.
When one considers the press agent
methods by which some people acquire
fame, he doesn't care much whether he
acquires ii or not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
THE FAME OF A JOURNALIST

From the Popular Magazine. ss&s
Louis Brownlow was born in what may
be described as the backwoods down
south. In the course of times he straight
ened his, ,plumage. tapped his wings, and
sailed out into the cold and dreary world
to collect for himself finance and fame.
He landed on a newspaper in southern
city, and made so good on his job that
his articles were plastere4 under his Sig
nature across the front page of his Jour-
nal every day.
After he had felt for several months
the thrill of uplifting humanity and hav-
ing people come up to Jim and tell him
what a fine writer. deep thinker. and ex
cellent Judge of hum9n nature he wass
he went back home. lPo far as he was
able to determine, he was sunburst onl
the horizon of journalism. and fame had
hung about his form all the lights and
illuminations possible.
Louis" asked one II the old men at
the grocery store, speaking with a pro-
nounced drawl and caressing his long
thin whiskers, what be your line of en-
deavor?"
The newspaper BUSINESS replied
Brownlow, distinctly proud.
"Well Louis. pursuad the patriarch. "be
Won a-sellin, of the papers or a-settln' Of
the type?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
Cotton Planting Conditions

In some sections of Alabama the cotton
planting season is backward on account
of the wet weather. Former Gov b. B.
Conner said yesterday that he had just
come from his farm, and that the situa-
ton was very unfavorable so far as plant
Ing was concerned. w. p. G. Harding,
president of the First National bank; Will
liam r. Redd of the Grasselli Chemical
company and others who watch crop con-
ditions closely, report that the outlook for
large planting is much better than it
was this time last season.
indications point to about the same
cotton acreage In Alabama this year as
last" said Mr.. Redd. 1.-THE acreage may
be slightly larger; it is safe to say that
it will be no smaller. 1t will be recalled
that planting last year was very late on
account of the excessive rains. While we
have had a good deal of rain this spring
the conditions are decidedly more fav-
orable than they were year ago."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
Members of the Cabinet in Congress

Members of the Cabinet in Congress
The President is not the only icon
Oclast in Washington. There are
others. For example, there is ex-
Governor Montague of Virginia, now
a member of Congress, who mas
brought in resolution to give MEM
hers of the cabinet seats in the House
and in the Senate and the privilege
to participate in debate on SUBJECTS
relating to their departments. The
resolution goes further and directs
members of the cabinet to attend the
Senate sessions at the opening OF Sit
tings on Tuesdays and Fridays and
the House sessions on Mondays and
THURSDAYS of each week in order that
they may give information desired OF
Congress from their departments.
Twice in the last century efforts
were made to pass similar resolutions,
and one of them was favored by such
nowerful former Congressional lead
ers as George L. Pendleton, William
B. Allison, Daniel W. Voorhees,, James
G. Blaine, John J. Ingalls, and orville
Fl. Platt. Still it failed. In those
days the government was considered
too sacred to be touched.
Congressman Montague does not
consider the government an icon that
n ast not be touched. He does not
aant to smash it, but he does think
at the presence of members of the
~ ,inet "on the floor of the House and
'cee Senate for the purpose of giving
formation personally in regard to
ths business affairs Of the government
I'D then joining in debate as TO poll
81 will not only tend to bring the
a, scutive branch of the government
a the legislators in more sympa-
.h1tic working agreement, but will
provide Congress itself with more
light as to what is going on in the
departments"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
Manhood Suffrage in Belgium

Belgium is to have political strike
that is to say, strike by industrial
workers for the purpose of securing
political object. They want man.
hood suffrage in the place of the pres
ent plural system which enables the
capitalistic class to keep control of
the government. The liberals and So
cialists are working together, and
the clericals stand firmly by the plural
system.
The sending of women and children
out of Belgium by the thousand indi-
Gates the determination of the strikers.
When the strike comes on Monday
next the coal mines will be deserted,
furnaces shut down and factories and
workshops abandoned. The cities will
be without lights or street cars, and
the port Of Antwerp without dock
laborers,
A. O. rule political strikes have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
MIR. Morgan as a schoolboy


II never had occasion to meet the late
J. Pierpont Morgan, but many of my
business acquaintances knew him per-
sonally, and at least two of them had had
business transactions with him." said a
well known citizen who formerly lived In
New York.
Il have heard my friends say that Mr..
Morgan was charming gentlemen So
ally, but that he could be somewhat
gruff in his office in a business transac-
ton. On the whole, however, Mr.. Morgan,
as far as / have heard, was always re-
garded as a very courteous man. Here
is letter l found in the New York Sun.
signed by f. l.. Gaylord OF Bridgeport
Conn, which is of interest now:
:" I am writing to record, possibly for
a future biographer, a fact that In my
Sc years nave not seen in print. Though
magazines and newspapers in the last
three years have published minute de-
tails of Mr. ]. p Morgans boyhood in
Hartford and Boston, no mention is made
of his six years between 1s45 and 1851 at
the Cheshire Conn, school, The school
and Episcopal academy were made famous
by Mr.. Alcott and Mr.. Bronson, my uncles
OF Morgan incidents there l only men,
ton that jack-knife name in the old bel
yoke is still to be seen. Some years age
Mr. Morgans gift of 5000 was proof OF
his recollection and generosity. A visit
would doubtless reveal many incidents.
g The assertion that Mr.. Morgan was
"gruff and morose" | resent and am un-
willing to believe that man thinking
| in millions could without great kndnes.
of heart pen the following letter: my
Dear Mr.. Gaylord; l have received YOU
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
Cement Making at Village Spring

Cement Making at Village Springs
The proposed establishment of a
big cement plant on Blount mountain
near Village Springs is a promising
announcement. The limestone depos-
it's of Alabama are almost unlimited,
and when the Panama canal is opened
next fall, the opportunity of shipping
Alabama cement will be almost un-
limited also.
The plans call for plant that will
turn out 100000 barrels of cement a
year. 1t would not take many such
mills to make Alabama a cement CEN
ter ranking as high as the Lehigh OF
any other cement district.
The success of the Village Springs
plant when added to the known sue
cess of the Leeds plant would estab-
lish the high value of the states lime
stone deposits, and then Mobile and
the Alabama rivers would perhaps
promote the development of the in
dustry in this state. The Village
Springs plant is needed as corroborat-
ing evidence. Village Springs and
Leeds are to lead the way to an in
dustry with worlds demand that is
practically unlimited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
A JOURNEY IN THE CLOUDS

been sent to and received from stations
5000 miles distant Our own wireless
was busy but German reticence made
it impossible for the passengers to
learn results. After Nauen, Spandau
and Sharlottenburg came quickly into
view We were over the imperial pal
ace 5 minutes before o'clock, having
made the flight from Hamburg in less
than four hours. ~
Following the Spree river we came
in five minutes to the Air Traffic COM
pany's dock. The Victoria Luise point
ed her bow toward the landing place
and three motors drove the big ship
downward as though we intended to
to receive the landing ropes as they
were cast off. In another mo-
ment the yiktoria Luise was clamped
to the heavy motor trucks which drew
us into the great barnlike shed, whore
we disembarked.
From the time we took our places in
the cabin of the viktoria Luise until
we again stepped out upon solid
ground, just IL hours had elapsed. Dur
ing that time we had come from Dus-
seldorf-against a wind that at times
had a velocity of 20 miles an hour
by way of the seashore to Berlin. There
had been no untoward incident. Every
moment of the voyage was filed with
pleasure We came to earth rested
and refreshed, with none of that dusty,
worn feeling that fastens upon per-
son during a railway trip. That we
were fortunate in the weather encoun-
tered is true, but 1t is also true no
Zeppelin airship has ever had SER
ious accident while in the air. though
several have been destroyed while rid
ing at anchor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
sbippIng pianos Far Away

"1t may be of general interest for me
to state that have shipped this week two
pianos from Birmingham to far away
points" said ]. H. Holcombe. manager
of the Starr Plano company. Il shipped
one piano to San Jon, N. NJ, and another
to Ying TAX, China. In each case the
purchaser was former resident Of Ala
bama.
"The plano trade hero has been brisk
for some time past and when pianos are
shipped to distant places the fact may be
deserving Of special mention"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
Tra,n,oad of PIneappIes

while tropical fruit is passing through
Birmingham all the time it is worthy of
special note that one day this week train
of 46 cars filled with pineapples, shipped
from Cuba to Chicago. was hauled over
the Alabama Great Southern" said L.
Sewer. Such large shipment Of pine
apples in one train is enough to make an
impression even on Chicago.
1.-The fruit industry is growing right
along, and it now, constitutes a very Inn
portant part of our railroad. traffic"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
0cuRIsr AND BERGsON,

Canon George William Douglas, d. D., in
Review.
Bergson is not content to offer us his
philosophy as mere catalogue OF OBJ
servations-an account or life as he has
seen 1t; he expects that his philosophy
shall convey to us a dynamic influence;
that it shall carry to those who accept
ii positive force which will assist them
to happiness and right living Now when
we come to that-to serenity of soul, and
the determination to live rightly-is 1t
wise or seemly to ignore the message
and the life OF Christ?
Therefore, though Professor Bergson
is by extraction jew l hope that he will
apply his brilliant mind AID sympathetic
heart directly to the life and influence of
Jesus Christ; for Christ pre-eminently
laid stress on mans freedom, and none
so much as Christ enabled men to be fear
less of change, and even of DEATH Christ
too, certainly no less than Bergson, de-
livers us from the crush of necessity all
round, and makes quiekenng appeal
to each mans persistent energy. Christ's
method and philosophy of life are before
us, and, to say the least, they are as
worthy of consideration as Bergson's
Why, then, do gifted men not grapple
with the problem of Christ's life as they
grapple with the problem of life with
Christ left out? With seriousness and
passion and power, with determination to
see and to explain, with nice selection of
terse phrases and careful illustrations,
they expose the whole of human life as
they see it, but with one historic phase of
1t omitted. They pass by Jesus Christ,
though they are aware that He has been
the most striking and potent factor in
modern history. They are open to every
thing In the life process except Christs
part In it for two thousand years. .
1t is by observing the great general
masses of tendency, as manifested in
human soul life and history, not by at.
tempting to define what surpasses our
powers of definition, that we are like
liest to apprehend the significance of the
evolution. True, such men as Bergson
are ready to admit the stimulus of hard
ship. But, so far as his literary produc-
tions go. there is little to show that Berg
son has ever grappled with Christ, or
recognized the stimulus-the creative evo-
lution-of Gethsemane.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
The Ambassador to Mexico

Lewis Rojas is second vice presi-
dent Of the chamber of deputies in
Mexico City, and he asserts that the
American minister, Harry Lane Will
son, was morally responsible" for
the butchery of Francisco Madero and
Pine Suarez. Wilson does not in fact
deny that he knew they were to be
butchered, and he has upheld the
Huerta administration in every pos
sible way ever since.
Rojas is exempt from arrest, but
the Huerta concern says that Rojas
asked the United States to take steps
to save his life. Huerta says this
means intervention and is therefore
treason, and he proposes to ask con-
gress to permit his arrest. Once ar
rested he would be quickly tried and
killed, for the Huerta government
lacks the worlds moral support, and
it is seeking the lives of all who have
the courage to tell the truth about it.
The quicker the United States can
unload Henry Lane Wilson the sooner
it will be freed from the charge of
conniving at the deaths of Madero and
Suarez. Wilson's work in the Madero
crisis has never been satisfactorily ex-
planned and perhaps never will be-
Ambassador Wilson's successor should
be started toward Mexico City at the
earliest possible moment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11

DR.. Roswell Park, the eminent surgeon
of Buffalo, considers euthanasia as ap-
piled altruism. II know" says DR.. Park,
that others have assumed the respons-
blity, which 1 myself have taken in more
than one case, of producing euthanasia,
when, in the terminal stage of life, a pa
tient was suffering the tortures of the
damned and has pleaded for a method
of escape, the pleadngs being seconded
by the family. Under these circum-
stances think that to administer lethal
dose of morphine or of chlorororm is to
do as one would be done by have been
told by high legal authority that to do
this is equivalent. in the eyes of the law,
to committing murder. Nevertheless no
one need allow his conscience to trouble
him on this score. l am positive that il
is one of the kindest acts that medical
man can ever perform If one must die,
why should he die in agony, when death
can be made painless and, in sense,
happy?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
President wilson. or,s,narity

:" Think President Woodrow Wilson is
making a good record" said Alfred T.
Jennings of st. Paul. Il believe the peo-
pie like his originality or his tendency to
push aside convention and do things that
his predecessors have not done. That
must have been picturesque scene when
the President addressed both houses of
Congress in joint session.
Il have never voted the democratic
ticket, but / am glad to see that the
democratic President is proving himself
to be not only man of patriotic spirit,
but of large executive capacity. So long
as the democrats happen to be in power /
wish to see the democratic President
working for what he conceives to be the
best interests of the entire country rather
than for party gain.
| But, speaking of ignoring tradition,
| custom and convention, it will not do, in
my humble Judgment, for President Will
| son to go too far. If he makes a con-
stant habit of avoiding custom he is likely
to be called cranky and incur adverse
| comment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
VERY ENCOURAGING.

At first grave fears were expressed in
some parts of the country that the Will
son administration would not be popular
one. but President Wilson has accepted
a baseball pass, one of his daughters says
she greatly enjoyed a boxing match wit
messed on board a battleship, and there
are other indications that the present re-
gme will find warm favor among our
broad minded citizens
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11
SAY NOT THE sTRUGGLE NoUGHr
AVAILETH

Bv Arthur Hugh Clopgh.
Saw not the struggle nought availeth,
The labor and the wounds are vain,
rbe enemy faints not, nor faileth.
And as things have been they remain.
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;
II may be, In your smoke concealed,
Your comrades chase cen now the flyers,
And, but for you, possess the field.
For while the tired waves, vainly break
ing,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets mak-
ing,
Comes silent, f1ooding In, the main
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight coties, comes In the light:
In front, the sun CLIMBS slow, how slowly
But westward. lodf tho land y bright
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11

"The present fashions" said M. Worth
in New York recently, ARE to last a long,
long time. And why? First, because they
are so simple, ahl SO simple. It is getting
so that in the modern gown milady need
not bother dressing from 10 in the morn
ing until her ploughman homeward plods
his weary way. The motor, the shopping
trip, the tea-one dress will do for all of
these. And it is for this reason that the
colors are so plain, SO unobtrusive, that
one meeting milady the next day in the
same dress will not say, VOLTA. she wore
that yesterday.."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-11

The discovery of a chemical process
which develops human cancer in healthy
rabbits and guinea pigs, and the result
tant production of a serum by which rab-
bits have been rendered immune, is an
nounced by Dr. Edward w. NOVEL; OF
Boston university school of medicine II
an address before the Massachusetts, 'Hon-
eopathic Medical society. Dr. NOVEL; has
been engaged in original research along
this line for three years, and his col.
leagues regard his discovery as an impor-
tant step in the study of cancer. While
guarding against any impression that a
cancer cure has been found, DR.. Novel;
told of plans by which 600 cases of human
cancer are to be inocuated with the SER
um. 1t will require two years to deter
mine whether the serum will immunizc
human cancer victim, upon whom an
operation has been performed, from re-
currence of the growth.