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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04
CLOTHES FOR BILLBOARD BEAUrrE.

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Chanute GxaD Correspondence Kansas
City Star.
While one-half of Chanute is chuckling
with amusement .over the spectacle of
photographs of chorus girls with their
legs hidden by paper pajamas. pasted
on, and billboards with Autographs pasted
over with paper wherever leg protrud-
ed, the other half is convinced that q
long step toward morality has been taken
The clothing of the pictures was or
dered after delegation of church people
had waited on the city officials and asked
that the Offensive advertising matter
be removed from the streets and bill
boards or unclad September Morns' be
better protected against the chill October
breezes.
But the church people and the admins
tration had not figured upon the sense of
humor of Virgil Wise. the theatre man
enough, but not In the manner the friends
of civic purity had expected. He merely
draped the generous exposure of lower
limbs with pajamas of white paper.
And a good job was done. The bill
posters travelled their round leaving a
trail of spattered Autographs. Not sin
gle shapely leg was left in sight; not q
pair of dainty ankles were left to twinkle
on the boards. The result was only to
emphasize what was attempted to be hid
I den.
Whether this bit of billboard reform Is
to be permanent is not known. There are
advocates for both sides of the question.
Many look upon the incident as @ joke
growing out of the pervading religious
sentiment aroused by the three revival
services now in progress here. Others take
the matter seriously and believe perma-
nent reform has been inaugurated.
The city officials say that tights will
not be fashionable on Chanute billboards
the remainder of the season. The matter
of the overexposed posters. the officials
say, was checked up to them by the
church members, including a few business
men, and they do not purpose to back
down on the position they have taken.
The inference has been that to relieve the
pressure the authorities issued the edict
requiring the more modest draping of the
dancing girls figures and now they'll
not rescind
, Manager Marshall, of the theatrical COM
, pany which displayed the posters, con-
tends his paper Is no more immodest
than that in use by all musical comedies.
notable result of the agitation has been
to advertise the show and last night it
opened three-nights engagement with
a capacity house.
Following up the action of the city COM
missioners, Evangelist Barrett at the
Methodist church last night commended
the stand of the officials and scored those
who considered the affair laughing mat
ter. The subject of his sermon was: THE
Fig Leaf"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04
The GOforth Verdict

A dramatic scene occurred in a
Gadsden court room when a jury re-
turned a verdict of mot guilty" in the
case of Wiley Goforth, tried for the
murder of a German miner robbed
and slain at Altoona two years ago.
When the finding was made known,
Goforth sprang from his seat, and
raised high his hand, "God knows l
am not guilty of the charge that kept
me in Jail two years." he exclaimed
fervently. His old mother tainted.
The evidence against Goforth was
practically identical with that which
had already resulted in the conviction
of Joe Saulsberry. A jury had sent
Saulsberry to the penitentiary for life.
Many Etowah citizens are now con-
WINGED that Saulsberry was wrong
fully convicted. But no attempt will
be made at this time to obtain execu-
tive clemency in his behalf. This is
for the very simple reason that he es-
capped a long while ago. If he is cap
tured, he may be released.
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The south's Agricultural Resources

Il read from time to time accounts of
the south's progress in every material
way, and about the large stretches of IN
titled land that can be bought at cheap
prices" said r. L. Rosser of st. Paul.
Homeseekers from the north continue
to settle in Texas, and I suppose Ala
bama is getting fair share of farmers
from the states that are more thickly set
tied. It takes a little fortune to buy 200
or 300 acres of land in the middle west or
in the northwest.
I understand that in the southern
states excellent land can be bought for
$15 to $50 an acre. We have better roads
in the north than one finds In the south,
but am told the south is making steady
progress in good road building. Nothing
will pay this section better than hard
roads. County bonds are usually in de-
mand by bond bankers, and 1 would think
every county would vote bonds for good
roads.
But speaking of farming, the south s
resources are really wonderful and in time
the good lands will be taken up and farms
now offered at $50 an acre will be cheap
at 800 an acre.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04
The Elections Today

Despite the fact that in the New
York city election today only local
issues are at stake, and the fact that
in New Jersey and Massachusetts, the
decisions of the voters will in a meas
ure throw some light upon the trend
of national political sentiment, the
eyes of the average newspaper reader
are turned more intently upon the
struggle between fusion and Tam
many.
A mighty prize is contested for in
New York. The administration to be
chosen today will have the spending
of hundreds of millions of dollars for
public improvements. Hundreds of
thousands of Americans from the in
terror occasionally visit New York,
and somehow the whole country has
a perpetual interest in the great me-
tropolis, its vices and its virtues, it's
cosmopolitanism and yet its provin-
cialism. The campaign just ended has
been unusually bitter, and the charges
of theft and corruption have been
balder and more specific. As one
newspaper expresses it, this period of
assertion and denial, charge and coun-
ter charge, may make small eternity
in the life of mosquito, an amoeba,
or a Hennessy or Sulzer campaign
statement; but compared with ordi-
nary human existence it is an incon-
| siderable fraction. The world will go
on turning around whoever is elected.
Governor Fielder, who succeeded
Woodrow Wilson as New Jerseys
chief executive, is making a fight
for Endorsement, and he has been
given the aid and support of the
Washington administration. The re-
publicans and the progressives also
have full tickets in the field.
In Massachusetts the fight is
among Walsh, democrat; Foss, indie
pendent; Bird, progressive, and Gard
ner, republican. 1t is in the Old Bay
state that the bull moose party ex-
poets to make its best showing.
We will all know all about it to-
morrow. The general public more and
more is coming to believe that there
is some good and some bad in all
parties, anyhow. Alabama may re-
joice or mourn, just as it pleases, over
the results.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04

From the Montgomery Advertiser
If that great crowd which was in Mont
gomery votes as it cheered Oscar Tn
derwood will receive a sweeping and ever
whelming majority. The crowd was
fiercely and aggressively for Underwood.
At II o'clock at night part of the crowd
of Shriners were assembled In the lobby
of the Exchange hotel cheering Under
wood to the echo. The Underwood sup
porters were SO enthusiastic that the
noise of their cheering must have float
ed upstaids to Mr.. Underwood's apart
ments at the Exchange
When he first walked into the hotel
Hobbies he was given such a rousing re-
ception that he was forced to acknowl-
edge it in a brief speech. In the parade
he was recognized and several times the
crowd cheered him wildly. AT the banquet
the big gathering rose to him and cheered
him whenever it had the chance. In adj
dition to all this small crowds would
gather on the streets throughout the day
and demand to know what was the matter
with Oscar Underwood. The reply would
come instantly that there was nothing
the matter with Underwood and every
for him. Moreover every Albanian in
the crowd, no matter from what section
of the state he came, invariably reported
everything for Underwood down my
Wav"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04

Nearly every day brings new proof
that In the field of music America is at
last coming into it's own" said a musi-
clan. For number of years American
singers have been achieving success in
opera in Europe, and some of our COM
posers, such as Henry Hadley, Edward
Mcdowell, Ethelbert Nevin and Charles
Loeffler, have won the esteem of critics
on the other side of the Atlantic
But perhaps an even stronger proof of
the hold that American music and must
clans have gained in Europe is the fact
that the well known house of G. Schirmer,
Inc, has just opened large branch in
London for the direct promotion and sale
of American music throughout England
and the continent. AT this rate, who
knows but what Victor Herbert, John A.
Carpenter, Sidney Homer and others of
our composers may, in a few years, be
as well known in Berlin, Paris and Lon
don as they are in this country?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04
The Contest Is On

Yielding to a demand he found il
impossible to resist, Oscar w. Under
wood delivered political speech in
Admission yesterday, and by doing Sc
put his campaign for the United
States Senate in full swing. Mr.. I'm
derwood will make other addresses in
Alabama from time to time, but will
return to Washington whenever he is
needed. He will tell the people OF
Alabama what he has done during
his career in the House. No explain
ing what he has done" will be neces-
sary. His work shows for itself.
Many letters from outside the state
of Alabama, as well as frequent CON-
ment in the newspapers, tend to in
dictate that the rest of the world be-
lieves Alabama is excited over its
senatorial campaign; that it is trying
to make up its mind whom to nomi-
nate. OF course, this idea is a mis-
taken one. The people already have
decided upon Mr.. Underwood. He
wants q seat in the Senate, and that is
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04

By Andrew Norton Q7s6-1S5s). KS
l love. thou little, chirping thing,
To hear thy melancholy noise;
Though thou to Fancy's ear may sing
OF summer past and fading joys.
ers,
Nor sport along the travellers path,
But through the winters weary hours,
Shalt warm thee at my lonely hearth.
And when my lamps decaying beam
But dimly shows the lettered page,
Rich with some ancient poets dream,
Or wisdom of a purer age
Then will 1 listen to thy sound,
And. musing DER the embers pale.
With whitening ashes strewed around,
The forms of memory unveil;
Recall the many colored dreams,
That Fancy fondly weaves for youth,
When all the bright Illusion seems
The pictured promises of truth;
Perchance observe the ftful light,
And its faint flashes round the room,
And think some pleasures. feebly bright,
May tighten thus life's varied gloom.
love the quiet midnight hour,
When Care, and Hope, and Passion
sleep, 4N
And Reason. with untroubled power.
Can her late vigils duly keep; "A
l love the night; and sooth to say,
Before the merry birds that sing,
La all the glare and noise of dav
Prefer the cricket's grating wing
But, seel pale Autumn strews her leaves,
or wi nj sxssr
grave,
While giant Winter she percelves =.
Dark rushing from his isy cave;
And in his train the sleety showers.
That beat upon the bacren earth.
Thou, cricket through these weary hours !.
Shalt warm thee at my lonely hearth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04
Alabama Land Congress Today

A number of prominent railroad
officials and many men interested in
southern development will attend the
Alabama Land congress which meets
here today. 1t will hold it's sessions in
the city hall. At $3.50 o'clock this
morning the congress will be called
to order, and after an invocation by
minister, regular order of business
will be observed.
The land congress is largely an edu-
catioifal institution, and among those
who will make addresses or read
papers are farmers who have achieved
great success in recent years, educa-
tors engaged in technical training,
and railroad presidents. Oscar Under
wood will be one of the speakers to-
morrow.
The congress will be in session un-
til Thursday evening. The public is
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04

Howard III. Gross of Chicago, presi-
dent of the National Soil, Fertility
league, which is made up OF some OF
the most distinguished people of the
country, including James J. Hill, ex-
President Taft, Champ Clark, w. ]
Bryan and President Van Hise of the
University of Chicago, came to Bir-
mingham yesterday, a day in advance
of the land congress, for the purpose
of looking the city over, after an alb :
sence of Is years. He will deliver an
address Wednesday. Mr.. Gross ex-
pressed his amazement at the phenom.
email growth to be seen on every hand
here. He was at loss to place any OF
the landmarks that We're features Il
years ago. He said:
birmingham looks good to me. II
seems substantial, so far as l have seen
It's streets are far better than one will
generally find, while many of the build
ings would attract attention in chi
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04
BENNETT RAISED HIS SALARY

From the Popular Magazine.
James Gordon Bennett proprietor or
the New York Herald, lives in Paris,
and has done so for many years. He is
constantly in touch with his New York
office, however, and at uncertain inter-
walls runs over to this side. to see for
himself how things are going on In Herald
square. His decidedly aggressive person.
atty is always felt there, and many an
editor, reporter and office boy has been
summarily fired by cable when he least
expected it.
One day, a few years ago, the word
passed around that the chief was in
New York. He had slipped across the At
lantic on a fast liner, and might be in
the office at any moment. Instantly
every one dressed to the right for in
spection. In every department Of the big
newspaper building-business office, edi-
torial rooms composing room and press
room--there was apple pie order and vigil
liant industry Not a man meant to be
caught mapping If he could help it.
Mr.. Bennett came in brisl<ly, shook
hands with the leading members of his
part of the Herald office. In due course
he reached the pressroom in the base
ment. There everybody was in spotless
white overails, with one exception, so that
the general effect-with the shining steel
and brassworls of the great presses as
background-was that of the gun deck of
q battleship at morning parade.
The exception was a pressman. who.
lowed himself to get gloriously drunk
and, moreover, had contrived to fall into
a barrel of printers ink just before Mr.
Bennett arrived. The pressman's COM
rades had cleaned him off as well as they
could with paper and cotton waste and
they kept him in the back row as the
chief passed along.
But James Gordon Bennett has search
ing eye, and he caught sight of the ink
smeared unfortunate-in such sad contrast
to his immaculate fellow workmen-at
once.
"Who is that MANI he demanded of
the foreman in sharp tones.
why er-Mr. Bennett" was the hesi-
tating response. he's a pressman, and
his name is
Never mind his name' interrupted Mr..
Bennett. "He 1ooks-to me like the only
man down here who has been dong any
work. Raise his salary IS week.
And Mr.. Bennett passed on
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04
UNDERWOOD AND HOBsON
From the Fort Worth Record.

From the Fort Worth Record.
The great journals of the south are
lauding Underwood and criticising Hob
son. And why not? Underwood is a
statesman and an honest man. Hobson
is ranting demagogue. No man ques-
tons his personal integrity, but when
it comes to craftsmanship he has never
exhibited the least symptoms of state
craft. He's as wild as a March hare.
He does sensational stunts and he is most
reckless in his accusations, which are
never based on facts. An American sem
ator should have the poise, the learning,
the dignity and the information, so neces-
sary to make him the peer, or rather
measure up to the standard of southern
senators of other days. 1t is the consen-
sus of opinion that Underwood measures
up, and it is to be hoped that the demo-
Gratis of Alabama will honor him with the
highest office in their gift.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04
Birmingham's Attractive Exposition

The exposition of home made COM
modities which was opened yesterday
under the auspicies of the AID club in
the Gypsy Smith auditorium is of
very decided interest. While this city
is known as a manufacturing center,
comparatively few people, perhaps,
are aware of the wide diversity of
"Made-in- Birmingham products.
The exposition reflects great credit
upon the members of the AID club and
citizens should show their apprecia-
ton by visiting the exhibition.
The opening exercises last night
were interesting, and there will be
music and other attractive features
every night of the week. The success
of this exposition will mean larger
one next year. 1t will become an an
nual institution, and Birmingham will
be all the better off for it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04
AN EDITORS PROPHECY

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
to know that Hobson will carry Mobile
county in the election. Selma Journal.
We agree here in the presence of these
witnesses, that IL Captain Hobson carries
Mobile county we'll eat any edition OF
the Selma Journal published between now
and the primary. If we don't have to eat
The Journal, nothing will be required of
the editor of that paper other than that he
shall put on the brakes the next time
he decides to make a political prophecy
and remember his prophecies that Mont
gomery would go for the amendment in
1909?
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cago, or any other city. for that mat
ter"
Mr.. Gross has made an exhaustive
study of agricultural conditions of the
whole country, and particularly of stock
raising. He expresses the opinion that
the south is the land of opportunity for
many Industries, but in diversified farm
ing and the raising OF stock there is
no reason, he says, why'it should not
rival any other section of the country.
you can raise anything the north
can raise, said he, land as much of 1t.
The south is particularly we'll watered,
stock can range out doors practically
the whole year. Your land is cheaper,
so l can see no reason why Alabama
and the entire south may not quad
ripple its live stock and produce large
quantities of beef and pork and do it
from 10 to 20 per cent cheaper than 1t
can be done in the celebrated corn belt
LAS the matter now stands the farm
animals in the north on comparative
basis of area and population are four
to five times more than in the south
With the advantages stated there is no
reason, now tnal the cattle LICK Is
mastered, why the stock industry
should not go forward by leaps and
bounds The raising of poultry is an
enormous industry and 1t may quickly
be quardrupled in this state and at a
profit.
THE greatest good that Will come to
the south will be through the Lever
agricultural extension bill that Will un-
doubtedly pass Congress within a few
months. The league which I represent
is responsible for the bill and was or
ganized for the purpose of putting its
plan into operation. No one has given
this bill more loyal support than my
good friend Oscar Underwood.
'The bill provides for federal appro-
priations to aid the state colleges of
agriculture to, prepare, place andmain-
tain in every agricultural county a
trained farm demonstration and keep
him there to help the farmers to I'M
derstand and apply the best methods
in their operations. 1t will be. great
Improvement upon any existing plan
and it will be far more comprehensive"
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enough for the democrats. He shall
have the seat. All, the recent outburst
has been due to desire to let Mr..
Underwood know that he needn't
worry.
Alabama knows as well as the rest
of the country that it would be an
anomaly not to elect Mr.. Underwood.
He is the commemorative ablest son.
And Alabama wants able sons in the
Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04
From the Outlook.


~ NE sometimes hears the phrase,
He is beginning to take the old
mans view of things" It is not
pleasant phrase, but it stands for the
fact in the lives of many people.
What Is the old mans view? 1t is the
view of one who has ceased to grow,
whose ideas have all crystalllzed, the SUI
lures of whose brain, so to speak, have
closed, who is no longer accessible to the
teaching of new experience There are
old men and women of whom this is never
true. The physicians say that old age is
not a matter of years, but of the condi-
ton of the arteries that a man may be
old at 40 and young at So
Age is largely matter of loss of m
terests, of the closing of the mind This
may take place very early in life. There
are mef who in their youth are so old
that their emotions no longer respond to
any appeal from without. For them the
morning has already passed into MONDAY.
When Dumas the elder was asked how he
grew old so gracefully. he made the men,
orable reply: Madame, l give all my
time to it,
Now time is really duration made sig
nifcant by experience. Some men live in
duration only They do not attain the
dignity of living in time. A man who
can give all his time to growing old will
not grow old That is to say, life viii
never lose it's interest because experiences
will never cease to touch him: because
the wonderful procession of things will
g Ii "A
he will stand at the window with I'M
abated curiosity until his eyes are closed
by what we In our ignorance call death.
The wise Goethe who saw so many
things clearly, said, youth develops IT.
self anew by being brought into contact
with youth" and this is one of the Sc
crets of keeping young. Life is not a
matter of Accommodates investments. 1t
is a matter of daily dividends. He who
accumulates great amount of experience
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04
THE "ALPHA AND OMEG A,
From the scottsboro citizen

II UTi tIIe SNUtlSDUfU OIlIZVT1. :
Oscar is back home again. Alabama
gave him rousing welcome. The spirit
with which Birmingham received him is
the spirit of the entire state. Mr.. Under
wood doesn't hardly know that Mr.. Hob
son is in the race so far as an impress
sion on the people is concerned. The
Alpha and Omega of the. senatorial race
Is Oscar w. Underwood.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES


There is much interest in the cam
paign to be made to raise $4,000 for
building and equipping the University
Free dispensary," said a business man.
THE canvass is to begin next week
and If we have the whirlwind sort
which this city has witnessed in various
philanthropic campaigns, the total
amount needed should be raised inside
of 10 days. hope to see the list headed
by some of our rich men with large
subscriptions. 1 know that there are
hundreds like myself, men OF moderate
means, who are ready to subscribe $50,
and of course a great many will be
ready and willing to subscribe $500"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-04

In the November American Magazine
prominent theatrical manager writes an
article in which he gives many interest
ing details of his business. He tells
precisely how much it costs to make a
theatrical production, how much actors
really receive for their work, and he tells
the stories of famous successes and fail
ures. Among the facts that he presents
are the following, showing the amounts