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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
Fitness the Underwood Issue

The conference or convention of
supporters of Oscar w. Underwood
for the United States Senate, which
met in Birmingham yesterday, elected
a strong and thoroughly representative
state campaign committee. 1t was a
most enthusiastic gathering. Some
! Anti-Saloon leaguers had been trying
to inject the prohibition issue into
this contest between Underwood and
Hobson for the senatorship, but as
has been seen during the past few
weeks many well known and earnest
prohibitionists have refused to follow
the lead of Anti-Saloon league mana
gers.
Capt. Samuel Blackwell of Morgan
county, one of the best known prohi-
bitionists of the state, in accepting
the Craftsmanship of the Underwood
convention in brief but ringing
speech made it plain that the issue
in this campaign was fitness and not
prohibition. 81 presume that you
have conferred this honor upon me
because | am democrat" said Chair
man Blackwell. 81 am a Methodist.
I am prohibitionist of prohibition
lists. / was an advocate and ardent
worker for the constitutional prohi-
bition amendment. | have been a
chairman of all the prohibition cam
paign committees Of my county. But
| am a democrat. | have come to
Birmingham to help you honor Bir-
mingham, Jefferson county, Alabama,
the United States of America. He who
reached the high plane of manhood in
his speech in Admission is statesman
of whom any country may well be
proud" Captain Blackwell's patriotic
and eloquent words were punctuated
with spontaneous applause.
The Underwood state convention,
composed of representative from each
district, is made up mostly of prohi-
bitionists. In fact all but two distric.
members are prohibitionists. In ris-
ing above narrow lines these gentle
men have greatly commended them
selves to the patriotic people of Ala
bama regardless of faction and of is
sues Of the past.
There is to be no mud singing on
the part of Underwood men. Those
who call themselves supporters of
Captain Hobson will do well to re-
frain henceforth from unfair argu-
ment and abusive language.
| Yesterday was a great day for Mr..
Underwood. This popular Statesman
will be elected to the Senate by a
sweeping majority.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
DICKENS A STAGE FAVORITE

Charles McEvoy in the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger.
I IT is growing to be an accepted axiom
that Dickens cannot be effectively
presented on the stage. The apparent
impossibility of dramatizing Cor rather
of acting) work which seems essentially
dramatic, may we'll be a source of won
der
How can it be that, given intensely
vivid narratives, given tragedy and its
comic relief" given distinctly differen-
tiated characters, boldly and decisiyely
drawn-how can it be that, given lavishly
all these component parts of the drama,
teh thing when it is attempted falls?
Whether one knows 1t or not, what one
feels about a stage Pickwick Is that ii
can't be like Mr.. Pickwick, because it's
like a man. There, 1 believe, lies ex-
posed the root of the mischief. AS Mr..
Chesterton has discovered for us. Dick
ems characters are\ not like men, women
or children. They are not like human
beings. They are greater than that
They are like human souls. Here is the
reason why the difficulties which besei
the same task when it is applied to other
authors.
What living woman could feel like Kate
Nickleby? Kate is more than a young
lady in the family cage'of that era. She
is the spirit of the cage, the writing on
the wires OF the cage.
Kate Nickleby defies the would-be dram
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
A Big Engineer

II am glad to see Lieut.. Col w. l..
Sibert of the United States army engi-
neer corps we'll and active" said an old
citizen.
He is a native of Etowah county. Bio
graphic books have him born in Gads-
den, but 1t was a little outside of that
good old town where he first saw the
light. He claims Gadsden as his home,
however, and is now enjoying his annual
leave of absence, spending most of his
time in Alabama. As The Age-Herald
stated, he is visiting his Gadsden rela-
tives. He spent two days in Birmingham
this week and said he would be back
here for a day or two before leaving
Alabama. He will return to the Panama
canal zone where he is in charge of the
most important engineering division. Col
onel Sibert will be full colonel in about
two years, and 1 hope to see him made
brigadier general and chief OF engineers
before before he reaches the age of 6o.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
GALL EDGE AND NO HANpLEY

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
The Washington Post makes a fine anly-
sis of the puerile charge that Oscar I'm
deEwood is a tool of Wall street, 1t
says that II Underwood is now, or has
ever been such a tool ''he has managed
to conceal the fact so successfully that
neither his associates in Congress, the
President of the United States, nor Wall
street itself has ever suspected the fact
Following the battle on the floor of the
House few weeks ago, the natural ques-
tion arises, what is a tool of Wall
street? Says the Post with great force
and truth:
rs a tool of Wall street one who writes
tariff bill that cuts to the heart the
duty on steel, which is supposed to be
Wall streets pet investment? Is it one
who helps to push through currency bill
that arouses the ire of the Wall street
bankers? Is it one who keeps intact a
democratic majority which has been
cracking Wall street on the head for the
past two or three years?
with all the tools that Wall street is
supposed to have little headway is made
in Washington. To have one of its tools
in complete command of the majority of
the House ought to put Wall street in
high good humor, but instead we find it
in the do1drums. Stocks have been sag
ging and investments have been tagging.
If Mr.. Underwood is the tool of Wall
street, he is all edge and no handle"
That is a neat summing up of the awful
charge There is entirely too much bun
combe in this attack on Mr.. Underwood" !"
continues the Post. paper published in
Washington and thoroughly familiar with
the public men of that city. 1.-The demo-
Garlic party, almost from top to bottom,
knows what it owes to his remarkable
leadership. There is scarcely q man In
the House, either on the democratic or
republican side, who will not say that his
record is without a single blot so far as
honesty of purpose and moral integrity
are concerned
Mr.. Underwood's whole public record, a
record of legislative achievement, and not
a period of incessant lip work, has been
terests of Wall street. He hasn't spent
much time talking in his sleep or when
awake, but he has worked hard every
day, work which is redounding to his
credit and to the good of his country.
1t is indeed true that If "Mr. Underwood
is the tool of Wall street, he is all edge
and no handfen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05

proposition; and Mr.. Underwood, who
is always in sympathy with public
spirited and philanthropic enterprises,
is lending the weight of his influ-
ence to the good cause. DIR. Denny,
the president of the University of
Alabama, is an attractive and con-
vincing speaker. He is eally great,
up-to-date orator-fresh, earnest and
gripping.
The canvass to raise $125, 900 will
begin next week, and, in the mean
time, the citizens of Birmingham are
being thoroughly aroused. The meet
ing tonight will be the elimination of
the preliminary work for the free dis
pensary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
It's easy for a fool to fool himself.
Why are other women proud of their
husbands?
Girls with the most cheek do the least
blushing.
Nothing is the thing women cry over
and men fuss about.
Beware of girl who is a peach;
peaches have hearts of stone.
Blessed is the man who doesn't expect
too much from his friends.
1t is easier for a country minister to
earn his salary than it is to get it.
There are things that money won't buy
because nobody will have them.
When you feel in a scrappy mood don't
try to take a fall out of an airship.
Small vices are sometimes useful in
leading people off the trail of big ones
Show us a man who never made a
mistake and we will show you a man
who never made anything else.
Cut out the fear Of things that never
happen and you will be able to reduce
your troubles 80 per cent.
And many a girl has married a man
she knew would not make a good hus.
band rather than run the risk Of not
getting married at all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
You couldn't make q man believe it,.
But one way to solve the high cost of
living would be for him to turn his pay
envelope over to his wife
When a woman's hat appears to be on
straight to a mere man, it is a sure sign
that 1t isn't.
1t takes a bachelor to tell a poor mar
ried man how to manage wife.
1t doesn't take hired girl long to know
enough to avoid place where they ad-
vertise that they well treat her as one
of the family.
As boy grows bigger the Greatest
Show on Earth grows smaller.
No matter how crazy a man is about
his wife, she is always taking a long
chance on holding him when she goes
around the house attired in a raggedy
kimono that he can see through
The one best bet is that every woman
is older than she thinks she looks.
You can be happy without knowing 1t,
but it is different when you are miserable.
When father gets up in the morning
and sees mother downstairs with towel
tied turban-shape around her head, he
doesn't have to be a prophet to foresee
trouble with a big T when he comes
home that night.
A woman doesn't mind wearing a greasy
wrapper when she answers the door bell
as long as she has a clean apron about
the size of napkin tied In front of her.
The only way to fix it so women won't
want to vote is to fix it so they have a
right to vote.
The reason a man likes to see mis- wife
smoking q cigarette is because he is
fond of being knocked down by automo-
biles every time he crosses street.
Virtue lays off when the whistle blows.
but Vice is always on the job.
A girl who Is too short can wear high
heeled Shoes but a girl who is too tall
can't go barefooted.
A woman can get her fortune told for
quarter but fool man has to go out
and work for his.
don't know much about mathematics,
but / do know that Il 16-year-old girls
can sit comfortably In space that you
couldn't jam six 60-year-old girls into.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05

equally capable in the halls of Con-
gress, possibly the greatest leader the
democratic party has ever elevated to
power in the House.
Jackson accomplished by might and
through the use of the steam roller"
0f that expression may be used in
reference to a period as far back Us
the time of Jackson) while Underwood
has risen to power by reason of his
marked fnesse and magnificent diplo-
macy--because he had positive, exact
knowledge and kept cool head un-
der attack
There Is another observation that will
be permitted in this connection. The
celebration which brings Mr.. Under
wood to Admission is promoted by y
patriotic body of women, the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution fact
which brings up the question as to
woman's rightful sphere in our civil
alton today
tits eminently meet and proper that
the gentler sex should assert then-
selves to keep alive the spark of pat
riotism in our hearts and inspire us to,
an emulation of our il1ustrious fore-s
fathers; but it was we'll that their cele-
bration per Sc has been discovered from
politics, for the day has not yet arrived,
we believe, when our women should
invade the field of political activity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
The Wells Verdict

Different individuals will act diff
ferently under exactly the same cir
cumstances. This trite truism is
brought to mind by the case of w. l..
Wells, deputy sheriff tried in Au-
tauga county on charge of murder.
Wells had in his custody a negro
securely handcuffed. They were alone.
The negro asked Wells to free his
hands for a minute, and when the
deputy humanely complied, the negro
attacked him desperately. Wells then
shot the negro twice, killing him.
Then the officer stopped down and
again put the iron upon the wrists of
the black and went for help"
Such was the story told the jury.
Wells was acquitted, despite the fact
that Governor O'Neaf had employed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05

From the London Chronicle.
AS a man of periious occupation, tho
miner has many superstitions. One wide
spread belief is that to introduce rah-
bit into a mine is to court disaster, aid
heralded by the appearance of a white
rabbitsto the men who were doomed to
die. He would be bold miner, too, who
would whistle at his work, for whistlira
is direct invitation of disaster, and
though miners are cleanly folk very few
ever wash the small of their backs lest
the roof should fall on them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
THE FIRST sKYsCRAPER

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The skyscraper is distinctly an Amer
ican architectural development. Europe
knows it not. But America knows 1t so
well that it seems to have been always
with us. No city can claim metropolitan
dimensions without few groups of these
great structures erected on valuable land
to give office space to thousands of busy
citizens.
So distinctly is the skyscraper part
of the American city life of today that
it Is difficult to realize that the first
structure OF this type was erected only
"a years ago. In less than a quarter OF
a century the skyscraper idea has ad-
vanced till 1t dominates American build
ing. and has to be repressed and regu-
lated by law to keep 1t from passing be-
yond the bounds Of public comfort And
safety
The first steel frame edifice was the
Tower building" at 80 Broadway, New
York. 1t was frankly an experiment.
It had II stories, and lowered to the
height of 129 feet. 1t was SO alarming
in appearance that some tenants of near
by buildings moved away, fearing that II
would be blown down by the first high
wind
And now the Tower building is about
to be torn down. It's size is so insight
icant that the structure is losing in
vestment for it's owners. The land on
which the buildings stands is valued at
81, 1850 and something more pretentious
is needed to make sufficient return to
pay taxes. 1t is probable that a 30
story or 4o-story building win take the
place of the interesting pioneer.
1t is rather pitiful to note the passing
of this structure, young In years, but the
first of it's kind. 1t meant a great deal
to America, for had 1t not been builded
well, had 1t not withstood stress of the
elements. the skyscraper idea might new
er have prevailed to make American
cities strikingly different in appearance
from all the other cities of the world
The 24-year-old edif1ce' is really an his
torical landmark, as significant as many
Of those which are cherished by patriotic
societies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
Free Dispensary Meeting Tonight

Oscar W. Underwood and DR..
George H. Denny will speak at the
Jefferson theatre tonight on the
needs of free dispensary in con-
nection here with the University
Graduate School of Medicine. A dis
pensary is now maintained in small
frame building, and it is doing a
large and important work; but there
is great demand for spacious brick
building of modern style and appoint
ment, and the people of Birmingham
are asked to raise S125,00O for the
purpose of providing and furnishing
such a structure.
A great crowd will doubtless attend
the meeting. Prominent business men
~ committed to the free dispensary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
1 SAW THEE WEEP.

BY ByrOH.
l saw thee weep-the big bright tear.
Came DER that eye of blue;
And then methought it did appear
A violet dropping dew;
I saw thee smile-the sapphire's blaze
Beside thee ceased to shine;
1t could not match the living rays
That filled that glance of thine.
AS clouds from yonder sun receive
A deep and mellow dye,
Which scarce the shade of coming ew
Can Danish from the sky,
Those smiles unto the moodiest mind
Their own pure joy impart;
Their sunshine leaves a glow behind
That lghtens DER the heart.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
UNDERWOOD AND JACKSON

From the Admission Star and Hot Blast
of November 8.
Annistonians today have as their
guest Alabama's most distinguish
statesman He comes at the invitation
of distinguished body of women to
pay tribute to the memory of a dis
|tinguished southerner and to commem-
crate the anniversary of notable bat
tie. 1t is meet that we bid him welcome
and join in the spirit which calls for
this celebration.
Mr.. Underwood is the only man in
Alabama who has ever been seriously
considered by the people of the nation
as a presidential candidate, and in de-
preciating his entrance into the race
for United Estates senator some have
considered that his chances of becom-
ing President would be lessened, stat
ing that no man has ever gone from
the Senate to the White House, while
the chairman of the ways and means
committee of the House has long been
regarded as a logical stepping stone to
the highest office within the gift of
the American people.
This view was given credence by the
Star, but an investigation proves the
assertion that no man has ever gone
from the United States Senate to the
presidency to be incorrect. Andrew
Jackson made this advance, and Jack
son was a southerner. The day has not
yet arrived when history will not yet
repeat itself, and that it will do so is
the sincere wish of every patriotic
Alabamian who takes pride in the credit
that has been reflected on this great
state by the honorable Alabamian who
is our guest today.
We are today celebrating one of the,
great achievements in the life of An
drew jackson, and a more appropriate
selection of the orator of the day could
not have been made; for the things for
which jackson fought were largely the
same issues that have been striven for
by Oscar Underwood Jackson was one
OF the first of our Presidents to depre-
cate and oppose the encroachment OF
capital in the affairs of our nation
through an abuse of the protection
granted manufacturing interests by the
federal government, and in his second
and fourth messages to the Congress
Of the United States discussions of the
tariff are featured, while his fight
againt the United States bank was not
unlike feature of the currency fight
that is being waged in the United States
today, fight in which Oscar Under
wood has been the right hand man of
Woodrow Wilson.
jackson stood for the restoration of
the government to the hands of the peo-
pie, from whom he sprang. Oscar Un-
derwood. cooperating with President
Wilson, stands for the same principle,
and just as Andrew jackson had to rely
in the main on his patriotic co-laborers
for the achievements which made his
administrations notable. even SO has
Woodrow Wilson had to rely on Oscar
Underwood,
jackson was great general on the
field Of battle, and Oscar Underwood
has proved himself to be general
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05

The grand democratic victories in yes
terday's elections are particularly sgnif-
icant at this time. Those republicans
high protectionists and pessimists who
said that the democratic policies and espe-
cially tariff revision downward, would
prove unpopular when the people came
to vote this fall, were poor prophets The
big democratic majorities polled is a
strong vindication of President Woodrow
derwood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05

in the nation today. In the Senate he
is power OF strength-recognized by
his colleagues as having no superior,
and is often consulted by President
Wilson concerning matters of state.
This is the kind of man that patrons
of the lyceum course will have an op-
portunity of hearing at the Central
High school on Friday evening, Novem-
ber z. He is indeed one of the great
men of the nation"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
A. a Farm state

ST was glad to read the Lobby inter-
view with Mr.. Gross of Chicago on Ala
bama as a state of wonderful oppor-
tunity for the farmer" said a member
of the Chamber of Commerce. "Mr.
Gross is here attending the Alabama
Land congress and is to snake an ad-
agricultural resources and advant-
ages. He is president of the National
Soil Fertility league and enjoys the rep
utation of being an authority on all
phases of farm industry. It goes with
out saying that he Will have large and
appreciative audience"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
A CLINCHER.
From Lippincott's.

From Lippincott's.
The American chorus girl, who is now
invading London with great success, is
nothing If not up-to-date. Mr.. George Ar
liss, whose performances in "Disraeli''
are arousing so much interest, illustrates
this with a story.
you are behind the times over here, y
said pink and pretty American show
girl. why. I notice that Twelfth
Night is playing in one of the Strand
theatres, and we had thatStwo years age
on Broadway
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
Suggestion for Music Festival

'I like the idea advanced recently
that Birmingham should open the au-
ditorium about to be built by holding
a great music festival" said a mem
ber of the Arion chorus.
"If work on the auditorium is started
not later than the middle of December,
the building should be near enough
completed by the middle of May or the
first of June for festival 1t has been
q long time since Birmingham had a
big festival chorus. BY calling upon
singers In the various cities and towns
of the state to organize local choruses
for the purpose of taking part in Bir-
mingham festival we might have a
mammoth chorus-a chorus of 1000 OF
more. Such chorus would not be ex-
pected to sing long numbers or render
a full work, but in excerpts from ora
torios or masses, such as the Heavens
Are Telling" and Gloria in Excelsis,
the value of sound would be most stir
ring"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05

atizer, for it is only as long as Dickens
himself is whispering In our ear his
thousand and one asidea, his thousand
and one. stage directions, that she has
any sort of being. In vain do we struggle
to interpret her through the medium OF
the modern theatre.
Now for years the common and popu-
lar argument put forward in the discus
sion of this question of the difficulties of
dramatizing Dickens has been that his
people are not really lifelike. are too ex-
ton to point out to us that they were
more than lifelike.
II is because we translate these admit
tedly impossible and unreal beings into
more or less realistic men and women
that we fall There is only one way OF
dramatizing and acting Dickens, it is by
the ceration of a new theatrical idea.
along who sees the spirit, aud mot the
flesh, who can run riot on the modern
stage and abandon the unities.
The Dickens character who is to appear
real must appear likewise to be the most
fantastic representation OF human be-
Ing that human eye has ever beheld.
Not ludicrously So but profoundly and
spiritually so. The truth is that at present
we are defeated by our own realism. 1t
is our ideas of the theatre which will
have to be altered before we can see.
with that joy which might be, Dickens on
the stage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
ADRIFT WITH THE TINES
ONE VIRTUE


l love the movie actors.
Because they never flaunt
Their imitation British
BY drawing out a ''Cawn,t"
Peoria Journal
I love the movie actors;
This speech they never make
That Rags is royal raiment
When worn for Virtues sake.v
Chicago Inter Ocean.
l love the movie actors,
They never me annoy
With jokes that had long whiskers
When grandpa was a boy.
Houston Post.
love the movie actors,
They don't increase my woes
When there's a bit of pathos,
BY talking through the nose
THOSE SWEEPING GESTURES
Campaigning is hard on mans vo-
cal chords"
''Yes, but it's fine exercise for his arms
UNFORTUNATE RESEMBLANCE
"You say the count groveled at your
feet and you actually laughed"
Eyes. but I couldn't help it. His hair
reminded me of my Pomeranan poodle
A MATTER OF TASTE
This world contains some curious wlghts- !.
A type you'll often meet
Thinks "hot dogs served on frosty
nights
Are very hard to beat.
AN EXTREMIST
''Spraggins is always striking pose.,
Eyes. I've seen him hang to strap
in trolley car and try to do it grace-
fully"
CoNsoLING THOUGHT
"He called me mud carp
Don't be angry. Maybe that is just a
roundabout way he has Of saying that
you are in the SWIM.
PAUL COOK.