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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
THE JAPANESE IN MEXICO

Writing in the March Metropolitan on
the japanese fishing colony in Mexico,
John l.. Mathews says:
why have the Japs come to this coast?
This is the first question we must ask.
To seek trouble with Uncle Sam? To plant
naval force? To start competitive man.
ufacturing?
For no such reason. starving peo-
pie are seeking food. An overcrowded ma
ton increasing 100000 every year must
plan colonies, to provide more. and cheap
er food for those at home. x heavy war
tax placed upon the principal items OF
Japanese diet has increased the cost OF
living. The rulers so far REFUSE to take
this off. Japan, under sucHa crisis. is
rapidly becoming an industrial country,
and is spending slOO,OOo,O0o a year for raw
cotton to manufacture.
Distress in Japan has so increased,
largely due to the rush of men, women
and children into the cotton mills, hat q
public meeting was held at Toxic, in the
Meiji theatre, in May, 1912, to discuss the
high price of rice and wheat. Starvation
has sent home loving Japanese farmers
and fishermen out into new lands, that
she may multiply her importation of un-
taxed foods and reduce the, number OF
those at home. Hundreds of thousands
have gone to Korea, Manchuria, Saghalien
and most of all to Formosa, where they
are restoring the cultivation of tea and
the camphor forests. More than .00G
of them are in the Philippines and 5,OO0
in Hawaii, for the same reason. Now a
private company Is taking over this big
concession on the Pacific coast, just south
OF us, to accommodate more Japanese, and
TO provide more food for those at home.
The question is not war; not intervention
in Mexico; not interferepce by our state
department administratioh>in the affairs
OF the Japanese. A nation as poor as this
we have seen is not seeking war. Its
total debt is s., 1,O00.000,0 900, nearly half OF
which results from the last war. 1t has
olened 1G treaty ports. many of them al
the very north of Manchuria, to interna-
tional trade and residence SO that Uncle
Sam and Germany win go in there and
buy and SELL We are set there to keep
watch on Russia. because Of the eternal
: fear of Japan that the Muscovite win
again light the beacons Of war In the
Orient. 1t win take Japan q quarter Of
"a century to recuperatess
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
Cold Storage Food Products

In December 25,0OO,O0O pounds of
butter were stored in the Chicago cold
storage warehouses and when this eff
fort to shove up the price of butter
was threatened with government in
>spection four-fifths of the quantity
was sent to other cities. But the gov
ernment has seized 250,00O pounds in
seven warehouses in Chicago and it
proposes TO show that this butter has
been adulterated with more than 10
per cent of water. The penalty is
heavy and the reports of the govern
ment chemists have already been laid
before the internal revenue bureau.
The cold storage warehouses have
become the stronghold of speculatorsl
in food products, particularly, in blt-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
How the Senate Stands

Up to this time the democrats have
49 senators and the republicans A.
There are three seats to be filled-one
in New Hampshire and two in Hi
nois. In both of those states progress
sive members of the legislature are
the balance of power, and it is exceed
ingly difficult to forecast the result
in either state.
The democrats greatly need two
more senator's, thus carrying their
total to 81. AS things now stand one
or two cranky standpat democratic
senators can in the Senate block any
measure. The rule permitting unlim-
tied debate could be used to block the
progress of any legislation. The sugar
senators from Louisiana, for example,
can deprive consumers of free sugar,
and many other instances of this ma
ture could be mentioned.
True, help in an emergency may
come from the republicans who are not
standpatters-from Poindexter of
Washington, Works of California,
Clapp of Minnesota, LaFollette of
Wisconsin, Bristow of Kansas and per-
haps three or four more that could
be named.
The hope is, however, still expressed
that two out of the three vacancies
will be filled by democrats. The SEN
ate would then consist of 81 democrats
and 45 republicans of all sorts, and
this would be good working majori-
ty, especially when the body will be
presided over by a sound democrat
armed with a casting vote.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
CLEANING UP THE "MOvIEsc

Writing in the March Metropolitan on
the great change that has come over the
character of the moving picture business
since the establishment of the censor
ship, which is entirely a labor of love un-
dertaken by the Peoples Institute of New
York, Will Irwin says;
This elimination of impropriety' occu-
pied the first year of the censorship. As
one looks over the records of the Peoples
institute, he finds the entry salacious'
against most of the films destroyed up to
1916 Afterward, this entry diminished
in frequency, until now it is rare. Grim
inal tendencies bad taste too sensa-
tional'-these are the prevailing causes
at present. And when the censors went
on to treat these breaches. of good and
sound theatrical art, they found them
selves enmeshed in difficulties. Who is
there among us worthy TO impose his
private taste upon the multitude? Then
also, the board of censors must approach
it's work from a peculiar attitude. Were
the spectators of moving picture shows
exclusively adults, the censors would feel
inclined to leave this mater to personal
judgment, feeling that a censorship of the
highly educated over the amusements of
the many spells paternalism. But most
of the spectators, in fact, are children,
and the board must censor always with a
view to the effect on the child mind. One
tendency of early years grew into a set
tied policy. The board decided not to
bar out absolutely any class of pictures.
AS for the criminal film-but there rose
sol, ,,.l
hot water even to this day.
''Crime, with the appeal to the primi-
tive passions, interests us all. Now the
moving picture makers perceived this
early; from the first, a great part of our
American films portrayed the adventures
of burglars, bad men of the west, muir
derers. Such people as probation officers,
children's judges and police matrons be-
gan to trace outbursts of juvenile crime
to the moving picture houses
I'm the treatment of the crime theme,
the censors found one, of their limitations.
IL is this: They can correct the faults in
the individual film; they cannot correct a
general tendency in the whole art. Just
at present the managers are giving us d
deal too much of this crime motive.' The
picture of the world which they present
is out of drawing, deeds of violence occupy
too great an area of the composition. But
what can the censors do? AT the moment
of writing, the Peoples institute, spurred
by newspaper complaints from all over the
country, has just taken official cogni-
,zance of the criminal tendency, and Fred
eric c. Howe, the president, is urging
upon producers the danger in such shows"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
JOAQUIN MILLER

primers, yet it had a scholarly distortion
which gained it absoIution; but joaquin
Miiler's deserved no pardon. 1t skipt let
ters or ran meaningless stub line where
letters he was not sure of ought to be;
but when we had read or guessed It he
was forgiven
AS man Joaquin Miller was gentle
ana iovable, even when he transgressed
conventions. He spoke for Justice. and
particularly for the Indians, who were
MS friends. He loved to be with thera.
In his later life he retired to a ranch ON
Knoll near San Francisco, where he butt
group of very small houses for himself
ana friends, and he surrounded them with
thousands of roses and trees planted with
MS own hand and watered by maze os
pipes from a higher source. sThere he
llved as retired philosopher a western
Ihcreau, more musical Whitman or
ike our own John Burroughs, welcoming
many visiting pilgrims to his blossomed
Shrine. For two years he had suffered
from paralysis, but we have heard whis-
pered his hope to conclude his greatest
poetical work, which he would show no
one. But death unlocks cabinets. The
Aeneid Virgil wished burned because il
was not filed smooth to his liking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
DUTY

BY William Wordsworth.
Stern daughter of the Voice of God.
O. Duty. If that name thou love
Who art a light to guide. rod
TO check the erring and reprove.
Thou who art victory and law,
When empty terrors overawe;
From vain temptations dost set free,
And calmst the weary strife of frail
humanity!
Stern 1awgiver! yet thou dost wear
The Godhead's s most benignant grace
Nor know we anything so fair,
AS is the smile upon thy face;
Flowers laugh before thee on their
beds.
And fragrance in thy footing treads; /;
Thou dost preserve the stars from
wrong; ~, r. i
land the most ancient heavens. through
rhee are fresh and strong.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
THE ART OF THE .Moyrrs,,

HOW the MOVIES Were Saved" in the
March Metropolitan.
The moving picture business is Tess
than 10 years old. BY 1907 the omovies
had sprung up everywhere Alike In the
remove regions OF the country which got
regular show" but seldom, and in the
tenement districts, where box office prices
set the regular theatres far above the
average purse, the business doomed.
In this period the quality of the per
formances was low from any standard
At first mere curiosity, the itch to be-
hold a new thing, sufficed to draw
crowds. A battalion of troops on the
march, the view of a retreating railroad
track from the rear platform reused
wonder and amaze in the populace-just
as the first automobiles used to cause
congestion and riot on the Streets That
stage passed of course; the audiences de-
manded something more entertaining than
purely mechanical marvels.
The continent Europeans, with their
better understanding of art, were first to
offer real Improvement. While we clung
to scenery apd the very journalism of
moving pictures, or produced at best only
trick shows, depending upon the illu-
sion of photography, they had begun to
stage pantomimic dramas with action,
plot and Vreal human effect. They had
grasped at once principles which we were
slow to learn; the Ignorance ofthose prin-
ciples Accounts for the crudity of our
first attempts For instance, they knew,
from their imAnemorial experience with
pantomime. that in a dramatic scene only
one character at time may be gesticu-
lating. Otherwise, it is as though a
whole cast in a spoken orama should talk
at once. We did not perceive that. They
had learned, also. subtler and more
important thing: the field of vision in a
real drama gradually recedes In scope
the spectator is looking into capital v
from above. The view of the moving
picture lens widens in scope; the specta-
tor is looking into the capital v from be-
low The best modern drama, If recorded
by the moving picture camera
world appear ineffective ana out of pro
portion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
NO BUTTONS ON WATERS NOW

From the Indianapolis News.
The King of Spain has ordered the
buttons on the sleeves of servants who
wait at his table cut off, This is be-
cause of an awkard happening at a
dinner given by the King at the palace
at Madrid to two eminent financiers.
One of the guests wore a peruke. One
of the walters. as he was serving this
financier, hooked his peruke on but
ton of his sleeve and carried 1t away
to the kitchen. Spanish etiquette is Of
too severe a character to permit laughs
ter at such an incident When the SER
want discovered what he had done he
fied, carrying the peruke with him. and
the financier left the palace baldheaded
and in a very bad humor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
Tom Long as Candidate

Il am greatly encouraged over the sup
port I am receiving as an applicant for
the position of United States marshal,
said Tom L. Long of Jasper, registered
at the Morris.
while the marshalship is presidential
appointment, it is so closely related to
the judiciary that the support of bench
and bar will count for much. l have been
gratifed at the Endorsements | am get
ting from members of the Birmingham
bar Fully rs per cent of the lawyers here
have signed my Petition
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

&. 1t was the plate that had, been fast
ened to the coffin of Louis XIV. When
the burial vaults of the royal family
in the cathedral at st. Denis were
rifed by the populace in 1893 1t had
been wrenched from the coffin, fitted
with handle. and turned into fry
ing pan.
The relic may now bee seen in the
Cluny Museum. The handle has been
removed, but three holes show where
it was attached.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

The eldest son of Baron Rothschild of
Paris was recently married. The cere-
mony was solemnized by two rabbis be-
meath a eanopoy of gold embroidered
white satin, festooned with white flowers
and supported by gold poles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
HE'D BETTER BE THERE.

PA, l wish you would tell me once
more what a .rara avis is"
''All right, son. A rara avis is a
practical politician resident in Alabama
who doesn't think it will be worth his
while to attend the banquet of the Br-
mingham Newspaper club on March 49,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

The new municipal building in New
York is be surmounted by great copper
statue. "Civic Fame" She is now in 44e
pieces of copper, which are being assem-
bled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
STILL HEsITATING.

STILL HESITATING. !.
We chance to know certain man
Who brags about his strength of mind:
He takes drink whene'er he likes.
Though to its evils far from blind
He often says to those around,
In somewhat of boastful tone.
Now, other men may lose their grip.
But / can let this stuff alone"
Quite often, draped upon bar
This kind of talk he doth emit;
And while he may be speaking truth
We notice that he's never quit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

In Gary, Ind, school children are to be
kept clean Ruling that all children
should be washed before she would hear
their lessons, Miss Laura Knagg, a teach
er in the primary grade of the Forebel
school, has inaugurated novel scheme
to keep the children cream She bought
combs last week and gave them to all her
pupils. She also unfolded the delights
Monday, the face washing contest was on.
For each boy who has a shiny counten-
ance every morning for a week a bright
Knagg is teaching the lads to comb
their hair pompadour
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

AS soon as Woodrow Wilson's resigna-
ton of the governorship of New Jersey
is accepted, he thinks he will likely turn
a handspring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

Five of the Taft cabinet will return 10
the practice of law one to the brokerage
business, one to retired wealth gained
in groceries, one to New York business
and one to farming
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

"A fifth box car loaded with part OF a
skeleton of a Utah lizard has been started
for the Carnegie museum in Pittsburg
1t is thought that the remaining bones of
the lizard will fill ten more cars. The
skeleton is being excavated on the banks
of the Green river. It is 81 feet long and
is quarried in blocks out of solid rock
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
NEARING THE LIMIT.

The first time we heard a comedian call
a moving picture film a shim, we
thought 1t was funny. Ever since the
554th time we have been groaning., When
the 999th time is reached, we expect 10
expire on the spot PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

And Cole Blease will not be there, and
yet the Inauguration ceremony will &c
right on without dropping an "i' OF
crossing a 't"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

Kansas has adopted the recall of
public officials. The bill provides that
only those who voted for an official
sign petition for his recall.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
THE EGoMETER.

"shagritz seems to think well of him
self"
yes, indeed. If there were some kind of
instrument to measure the extent of a
mans good opinion of himself, it couldn't
be used on Shagritz.'
You mean"
Exactly. The figures on the scale
would not run high enough
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

Washington was born 1S1 years ago. and
the spirit that actuated him still fills the
republic with patriots.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

The operation of the parcel post sys-
tenn has been so successful it will be pos
sible from and after today to secure ispe-
cial delivery of parcel post packages by
paying the customary fee of 10 cents in
special delivery stamps OF. ordinary pos
tage. In case the latter are used 1t will
be necessary to write the words. Special
delivery across the face of each package
Delivery will be made by the regular spe-
cial delivery messengers, who receive 8
cents of each 10 cent fee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

The cost of keeping the two houses of
Congress cool during the extra session is
put at $1S6000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

The weather prophets are doing their
best and the grounding should behave it
self in this emergency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

The testimony of the Pujo committee
fills 1900 pages without really telling any
thing new.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
SADLY CHANGED.

The girl he left behind him, o,
He wept for years and years;
She grabbed a much more likely man
And had no time for tears.
Her picture still he carries round,
When she was slim and fair;
Could he but see her figure now,
'Twould drive him TO despair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

Everything was created for good pur
pose, even a winters fog.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

Thirty thousand are going to the in
auguration from New York city alone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

Everett Row, his wife, IL children and
eight grandchildren, walked down tho
gang plank Of the steamer Noordam on
Tuesday last. Papa Row is but 49 years
old. On the Noordam the travellers occu-
pied seven staterooms in the second cabin
They had a table all to themselves in the
orado to raise fruit, vegetables and stock.
Tie Lincoln memorial in Washington is
to be completed in 1917, when woodrow
Wilson will be willing to enter upon a
second term.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

Turkey finds that good roads simply
serve TO expedite the enemy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
TIE GOAL AT LAST.

THE GOAL AT LAST.
Behold the doughty suffragettes
Who hiked to Washington,
Had they met mice along the road,
We fear they would have run.
Through mud and slush they plodded on,
Pathetic sight to see;
And now that their long walk is done.
They'll have a cup of tea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

The mixers have ceased from hiking and
the weary are at rest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

DRAW IT IN ADVANCE, GEORGE.
We acknowledge the receipt of an invi-
tation to attend banquet to be given by
the Birmingham Newspaper club on
March 13 to celebrate the Inauguration of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The state Fair

Preparations for the State Fair TO be
held next October are peing perfected
said President b. b. Burton. I'VE are
making an earlier start this year than
usual and the programme will soon be
ready for publication.
There Is every indication that the ex-
hibits willsbe more varied and more ex-
tensive than usual, and we know that
the amusements will be novel and Alto
gether the best we have ever had. Every
year We find more general interst in the
fair. This year it will be not only state
wide, but many visitors will come from
adjoining states"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

AT present Mexico city is in the torri'
zone of politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
LOOKING FORWARD.

Rosine Is a practical girl"
''Yes?'
"She says, Love is all very well, but
how about the groceries?p"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
Iron Business in Healthy Condition

Matthew Addy & Co.'s Cincinnati report
for this week says in part: 'All the iron
that is being shipped is being melted and
consumers are crowding the furnaces for
heavier deliveries. Everywhere in the
trade there is unabated activity Neither
in the yards of producers nor users is iron
being accumulated. The iron business IS
in a perfectly healthy and normal condi-
ton with neither a feast nor famine,
but with enough on both sides of the
house to keep every one satisfied
New business placed during the week
has been of fair volume. More and more
interest is being taken in the market.
Some consumers of iron have enough
bought to run them through March, and
some can run through June, but from now
on buying must grow in accelerSting vol
ume to keep pace with the needs of saelt-
ers. And of course for the last half no
iron has yet been purchased. So, from the
sellers standpoint, the situation is prom
ising.
1T is significant fact that every week
since the first OF the year the tonnage of
sales has been greater. They have con-
stantly been on the increase. This speaks
for itself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01

the first southern President SINCE he
war We indorse the banquet and inail-
ghration, but it is absolutely necessary
for US to be in Houston on March 1S. It's
pay day. Houston Post
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
BET THEY'RE THE SAME

Forty women and one man met in an
Alabama town the other day to organize
for an uplift movement. Draw your own
conclusions. We've drawn ours.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-01
A WARMING

A WARNlNG.
If she's "dream'-yeu will wake up.
If she's a .peach"-she will have a
stony heart.
Ii she's ''queen'-she will expect you
to be her humble subject.
If she's ''doll"Ashe will have sawdust
in place of heart and an empty head.
II she's ''wonder''-she will grow com
monplace. as all wonders grown too ia
milar do.
III she's a 'riddle'--remember the
Sphinx Killed those who guessed hers
II she's .'fiower''-she will fade.
IL she's 'kitten'-she will have claws
If she's a Observation-Disclosures some one
has to pay for the prizes you get for
nothing.
But II she's just Ifice, every day girl
with an average amount of pulchritude
loving her will grow on you like dam
delions on grassy lawn. and before the
time has come for you tos utter your last
metaphor. she may be to you dream,
peach queen" and all the other
wondrous names in one.--AIiriam Teich-
ner, in the Milwaukee Sentinel
WHO?
tContinued)
Who put the hack In Hackensack?
Who put the buck in Timbuetoo?
Who put the sand in Sandringhalne
Who put the zoo in insI<alamazoo?
Brooklyn Eagle.
Who put the can in Sankakee?
Who put the kolxe in Kokomo?
Who put-won't someone please tell me?-
Tho sin in Cincinnati. o.?
Birmingham Age Herald
Who put the hole in Holyose Mass?
Who put the ham in Birmingham?
Who put the link in Lincoln, Neb.?
Who put the dam in Amsterdam?
Cincinnati Enquirer
Who hung the wash in Washington?
Who filled the can for Canton, o.?
Who put the bloom i'm Bloomington?
Who put the man in Mankato?
youngstown Telegram.
Who put the chest in Manchester
Who threw the rock at Rockingham?
Who put the gloss on Gloucester Mass
Who put the rot in Rotterdam?
Springfield Union.
Who put the spring in Springfield, what?
Who put the ash in Ashevile?
Who gave, the lSnack to Mackinac?
Who clamped the gnash on Nashville?
Nashville Banner.