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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20
iron AND STEEL
BUYING BETTER
A New High Rate of Pro-
ductiOn
BESSEMER RAIL ORDER
Furnace Stocks In Alabama Go Up
to $4,000 Tons March Resale
Iron Holds the Market
BESSEMER RAIL ORDER

New York. March Especial )-The
Iron Age will say tomorrow: lmple-
ment markers have begun to buy bars
for the coming season and at Chiciga
i 900 to 10000 tons just placed was
at the fun contract price.
| While still less than shipments buy
lins has been better IN the past week
than in the first 10 days of March
Weather and other conditions have
given a new high rate of production
and shipment, after all the remarkable
records of the past six months. Much
of the new business now coming out is
for the third quarter.
| The Steel corporation has just bought
$4,000 tons of steel billets In the east
and south.
| In some products deliveries are easier
! and premiums are smaller. They have
practically disappeared in sheets. Bars
have succeeded plates as the most con-
spicuous premium product.
+! Railroad buying has taken fresh
start. Chicago reports $4,000 ton
order for Bessemer rails on which ship
ments have already begun. The Chi
cago and Alton has placed 1000 tons
and Texas road $4,000 tons. There
/ are some large plans Tor DfluSe WORK,
the requirements of the Pennsylvania
lines west being put al $4,000 tons
Pig iron stocks in Ohio and western
| Pennsylvania were but $4,000 tons
| on March l. against $4,000 tons Feb
ruary Is. In Alabama from 10000 tons
the low point last fall, furnace stocks
had gone up to $4,000 tons March L.
| The Steel corporation may have to
buy iron, one or two more furnaces in
the Pittsburg district being on the
Verge of going out for repairs.
| The buying of $500 tons of foundry
| iron by Pittsburg interest brought
out considerable dip in prices, No.
| 2 iron going below $3.50 at furnace.
| Southern resale iron holds that mar
l<et down to $13. Birmingham, for No.
and as low as $12.75 is authenticated.
Cleveland, O.. March 19.-(Special)-Th
| Iron Trade Review tomorrow says:
| The United States Steel corporations
new bookings this month are consloerabY
| in excess of those for the same pei
are unusually heavy
| Leading steel makers report considerable
activity for the fourth quarter in which
! the manufacturing trade is prominent.
Heavy products, such as skelp, forging
bilets and structural shapes. have been
an important factor in this buying Agri-
cultural implement manufacturers have
also been among the active buyers
They are famous for obtaining conces-
sions in prices and also unusually long
ufacturers declare that no price conees-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20
MONTGOMERY AIDS
FLOOD SUFFERERS
Business League Sends Ship
ment of Groceries and
Clothing to Garland

Montgomery. March 49, Especial 1.-THE
Montgomery Business Mems league to-
night sent a large shipment of groceries
and clothing to the destitute residents
of Garland, where flood waters from the
overflow of Persimmon creek have in
undated the entire place.
Reports received from there earlier in
the day stated that 200 or more families
constituting the population of the town
were without food, the rising waters hav-
ing soaked the stocks of the merchants
beyond a pallatable state.
dyed in the wool progressive ever since
last November. till-elings to the chair
nnanship of the finance committee-the
most important in the Senate-with the
same cOn,incndable tirmness characteris-
tic of a republican fourth class pugtmas-
ter under the civil service
In short. a study of the committee
chairmanships will disclose the fact thar
the old progressives beat the young rrc
gressives to 1t, and give them sore
pointers at their own game
In the meantime O German Of New York
quietly slipped in between Senator Hon. /.
and the calcium and is now using all the
limelight to which the Presidents n,outh-
piece in the Senate is entitled while Luke
Lea blew up n his bid for leadership
in trying to make himself solid by pro-
noting the candidacy OF the President 8
brother for Secretary OF the Senate. II
would seem that Uncle Hoks and Luke
lave many things to ponder over, while
the pcndering is good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20
Others Knew Game of Politics


foxy" crew They were destined to
learn that there were others who could
play at the game of politics besides them
selves. What one of these old boys
who have served two. three and four
terms in the United States Senate has
overlooked in the way of taking every
advantage In the game of politics wouldr /
burden a snow bird TO fly away with.
They blandly informed the latest arrivals
that they were "progressives' themselves.
Then they began TO prove it by OUT
progressing the progressives. In the corr
test that followed the result speaks for
itself. They held onto the principal chair
nanships with remarkable unanimity.
They did so because the 'progressives,'
did not have the nerve to throw them
oUt.' They laid down the principle that
they were entitled to those places be-
cause of service and that they were dem
ccrats. and constituted part of the DEM
ocratic majority of the Seuate--a very
slender majority. and that they were ab-
scl.tely necessary to the programme of
legislation which the party desired to
garry out. They said they were ready IL,
sacrifice as much in the way of personal
ambitions for the good of the party rs
anyone. but they couldn't very clearly
see any reason for them to do all the sac
rificng. They made no threats, but the
Intelligence was delicately conveyed to
sthe 'progressives' that they didn't pro-
pose to be the goats il such term
may be used in connection with 50 dig
srfied body as the Senate OF the United
States, and that II they persisted in their
course, some one in fit of absent mind
-edness might drop a monkey wrench in
-the legislative machinery about the tr,e
The tariff programme was heing rushed
Through.
Hoke and Luke Learn Things
e The result was that the wind was taken
out of the sails of several ambitious Young
Statesmen like Uncle Hoke and Luke Lea
who, fresh from the new mown hay Of
Georgia and Tennessee, have undertaken
-ille task of illustrating the game of poll
tics to lot of seasoned past grand mas
ters of the game
The great victory gained by the pro
sEressives" amounts to what? The re-
moval of Martin of Virginia as caucus
chairman, and the election of Kern of
S1pciana in his stead the defeat of poor
2old Senator Bacon of Georgia for presi-
dent pro tempore of the Senate and the
election of Clark Of Arkansas the over
throw CT the venerable Ben Tillman of
.South Carolina. too feeble in health to be
fJonger dreaded as q user of the pitch
1fork. and in removing him from the ap-
preparations committee they drew in his
place Martin of Virginia one of our most
progressive little progressives.
- Senator Simmons of North Carolina. a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-20
OLD WAR HORSES IN
! SENATE TAUGHT THE
NEW 0NESALESS0N
S0-Called New Pr0gressives
Have Little to Show for
Their Recent Fight
HOKE SMITH AND LEA :.
ARE NOW PONDERING
Net Result Shows That Old Democrats
Who Have SO Long Fought in
Minority Are Promoted
to Power
BY G. Il. STEWART

Washington, March i5.-tSpeclai)-ii
viewing the recent contests In the
ranks of democracy, progressive and con-
servative, or frequently termed reaction
ary'' in. the United States Senate, it is
very hard TO see after close analysis
where the progressives have won such
a signal victory after all
For the past three or four months there
has been, much talk from the so-called
'.progressive" democratic senators about
how they were going to .reorgarize tie
Senate The rule of seniority has been
under fire. Soon after the national cleo
tion in November, Hoke Smith of Geor-
gia, backed by Senator Gore, Luke Lea
and others INDUCED In a lot of plain and
fancy representations about things va
rous and sundry that simply must be
changed in that venerable body, the
United States Senate. The spirit of re-
form had them, and it was poor day
when one or the other did not get into
print. careful survey of the field told
them that after the democrats captured
all branches of the government, the old
war horses of the Senate, who had been
in that body for years fighting the battles
of democracy against odds, were about TO
reap some reward in honors for their
one-sided service.
Enlisted Aid of Bryan
They enlisted the aid of Mr.. Bryan in
the fight against the rule Of seniority.
The Commoner turned its guns on the
ancient customs OF the United States Sem
ate and joined in the clamor for recog-
milton for the new progressive element"
The general impression gained by the
nninitiated public was that every senator
Z who had been in Congress long enough te
. become a ranking member on some i'm
portant committee. and therefore under
| democratic organization of the Senate.
entitled by seniority to the chairmanship
lof that committee, was a 'reaetionary''
f&nd therefore should be kicked cut.
while every senator recently elected and
whose congressional experience ard SER
vice had not been of long enough dura-
ton to entitle him TO place and power
under former customs was progressive,
and therefore entitled to the 'best in the
shop
With the change in the political COM
plexion of the Senate. and further
changes by the retiring of certain sena-
tors on the democratic side, there were
as natural sequence more democratic
senators whose service had not been long
enough to enttle them torecognitlon then
there were otherwise. The progress
sives," therefore. were in the majority.
They had control, and the power by SUI
rerior numbers to take over all the choice
plums and back the old timers out of
the limelight.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-07-25
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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-07-25
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-06
The Romance Modern Edcdow the


teacher work not only academic, but
moral; it gave to the boy an atmos-
phere not only scholarly, but spiritual;
for the teachers in these academies
were the moral leaders Of the day
preachers, missionaries, the choice
scions of long lines of noble blood.
Indeed, one who will study the
announcements of these old academies
will find among the names of the
faculties some Of those which have
stood highest in the South.
In their curricula, these schools
occupied position midway between
the present-day academy and the
college. They were equipped to teach
Latin through all the masters, Greek
through Sophocles and mathematics as
far as Calculus. In addition, they
taught literature, moral philosophy
and that interesting natural science"
which is now divided into several vital
branches.
The Place of the College.
Then, as now, Of course, the dream
of the old masters of the Southern
academies was that their boys should
graduate in due season and enter the
colleges Of the South. These colleges,
in the meantime, had passed through
an evolution not less remarkable than
that of the academies, an evolution
which no account of Southern educa-
ton can fail to trace.
Until the foundation of the College
of William and Mary, the lads who
were equipped in the home schools of
the day were forced to pursue their
college education in the North at Yale
or Harvard, or else were forced to go
across seas to the historic schools of
old England. A not inconsiderable
number of young men. went to New
England and on the ancient rolls of
Harvard and Yale, as on the later
records of Princeton, will be found the
names of many Southerners But
apparently the larger number went to
England and renewed the ties which
their sires had severed when they came
to the colony.
The Influence of England.
This custom was something more
than mere educational necessity. 1t
was sentimental and a political
course, fraught with the greatest pos
sible consequences to the South, and to
Virginia in particular. 1t was natural
that men whose grandfathers wore the
academic gowns Of Oxford to wish that
their sons might do the same; but it
was good politics to show the Mother
Country that the colony was sending
back her sons to learn new lessons.
But if loyalty begot this custom,
it, in turn, bred more loyalty. The men
who went back to England came home
to Virginia and the South with new
and stronger love for Britain, and this
love they showed when they entered
public life. No one writing of the
Revolution can fail to consider this
fact, and no one can understand Vir-
ginia's loyalty to England during the
years preceding the Revolution, unless
he remembers how many Southerners
were educated abroad The family of
Lee is in point.
Building Our Own Colleges.
But there were few planters in
Virginia, or in the other Southern
colonies, who could afford the expense
of training their sons in England.
Consequently, there was a growing
demand for college in Virginia. This
had early been felt in the abortive
effort to establish a University of
Henrico, and it reached it's first frui-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-06

college, one can see that it was, so to
speak, the front axle of Virginia life,
while the nearby House Of Burgesses
was the rear axle. The teachers in the
college were the respected leaders of
the day; their pupils passed from the
college chapel to the House of Bur-
geSSes.
The New College Movement.
For almost three generations the
College of William and Mary was left
alone to exercise this profound influ-
ence on Virginia life. All the men who
were the leaders in the public life of the
day had either to be equipped there or
else to go, as did young James Madi-
son, to Princeton, or to some other
Eastern college.
But toward the end of the eighteenth
century there came the movement for
the establishment of a new college. In
only restricted sense was this due to
any jealousy of the college at Williams
burg, since it was the general feeling
that Virginia needed larger educa-
tional facilities than those which were
afforded at the College of William and
Mary. This new movement, as is we'll
known, found expression in Hampden-
Sidney College, which has occupied
such a notable place in the educational
history of the South.
Tbo
BY 1800 then, these two colleges
were firmly linked with the magnificent
system of academies throughout the
State and drew to them the best blood
of the day. Some still preferred that
their sons should be trained in the
Northern or Eastern colleges, but the
vast majority of young Virginians who
went to college journeyed to these two
schools.
But new spirit was again astir.
Thomas Jefferson, returning to Vir-
ginia to become member of Washing
toms executive family, brought with
him many new ideas in farming, in gov
eminent and in education, the fruits of
his marvellous assimilation during his
residence in France
1t was not until he had retired from
the presidency that Jefferson had an
opportunity of putting these ideas into
form; but once he was master of his
time, he matured his plan for the foun-
dation of great State university in
Virginia. What followed is too we'll
known to need narration With the
support Of the Legislature, he saw the
walls rise at Charlottesville, and lived
to see at least the beginning of that
schools remarkable influence in the
South Other States emulated Virginia
in the establishment of State UNIVERSE
ties, or else infused new life into exist
ing schools; new day dawned, and the
standard Of general education was
immeasurably raised. Little wonder
that when he balanced the many
achievements of his great life of service
Jefferson ranked among the few deeds
he wished recorded on his tomb the
foundation of the University of Vir-
ginia.
The Colleges of the Thirties.
Viewed in broad light, the greatest
Influence of the University of Virginia
during the early years of its creation
was not the effect it had upon public
life or upon the young men it trained
Public life was to feel the touch of the
new power, and the students were to
go forth for great deeds; but in the
early thirties the greatest service of
the university was the stimulus it gave
to college building in the State and
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-06
Where the Academy Excelled.

Admirable as was this system for
it's day., it excelled as did the home
school in that it afforded the means of
close and intimate contact between
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-06
Philip Fithian's Career.

A striking example Of the teacher
Of this type was Philip Fithian, whose
printed diary is altogether one of the
most interesting commentaries on Vir-
ginia Colonial life. To be sure, he found
ample employment in teaching the large
family of single rich planter, but his
methods were typical, and the position
he occupied most Illuminating. A
Princeton graduate with strong lean
ing toward the ministry, Fithian came
to Virginia in the middle of the
eighteenth century to the famous
plantation of Robert Carter, generally
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-06
Building Our Own Colleges.

But there were few planters in
Virginia, or in the other Southern
colonies, who could afford the expense
of training their sons in England.
Consequently, there was a growing
demand for a college in Virginia. This
had early been felt in the abortive
effort to establish a University of
Henrico, and it reached it's first frui-
ton in the establishment of William
and Mary College This marked an
epoch in the educational annals of the
South, the Importance of which is
perhaps literally beyond comprehension
at this late day.
Here at last was college, to which
came as teachers the masters of Oxford
and the dons of Cambridge, men who
had mastered the best learning of the
day and were equipped to unfold it to
the young men Of the Old Dominion.
The Winslow mail., 1913-12-20
THE EDUCATIONAL RE.
SOURCES OF A COM
MUNITY

The word education stands for
more than it did half a century
ago. Then the term was made
to include the schools and their
teaching and little else, while at
the present time the term is un-
derstood to mean the process of
understanding which begins at
birth and Continues to the end of
life, and possibly beyond. It is
seen that the process is carried
on through many channels, and
is subject to a great variety of
influence outside the ken of the
school. Man is educated by
means of all the institutions and
forces that operate upon him and
society is the means whereby
civilization is attained. That we
are conscious of the defects of
our civilization is the more rea-
son why we should attempt to
remedyly the defects evident
known to exist in our educational
system. Universal education free
to all is the greatest and most po-
tent factor in the advancement
of our modern civilization, and
when that happy day is reached
peace and enlightenment will
reign supreme.
The school in it's best develop
ment seeks to promote the sub
lection of self to the greater in
terests of the community, and to
create an atmosphere that is fav-
orable to self denial ano faithful
service. There are other great
I'd potent educational forces at
work in every city, as the news
paper, the church and the library,
and it is for the best interests of
all to work tor the common ideal
expressed above. AS the school
authorities and officials are only
empowered to establish and main
tain such schools as are ordered
by the voting portion of the com
munity, and first of all the voters
consent must be gained in order
to maintain a.school it behooves
all right thinking voters of this
city to ponder well the question
as to best means of educating the
great majority who are anxious
to become useful and successful
citizens. of this nation.
AS Martin Luther so truly sale
in summing up the elements Of
national greatness, the life anc
character Of a nation do not de.
The Winslow mail., 1913-12-20
How to Bankrupt the Doctors.

A prominent New York phvSi-
elan says: Ifit were rot for the
thin stockins and thin soled
;. o>,, worn ~ women the doc
tors would probably be bank
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do not wait for it to develop in
to pneumonia but tre4t it at
once. Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy is intended especially
tor coughs and colds, and has
won a wide reputation by it's
cures of the diseases. 1t most
effectual and is pleasant and safe
TO take. For sale by all dealers.
ADV.
The Winslow mail., 1913-12-20

All the reading and study in
the world cannot convey one
half as much of the awful mag
nitude of the eruption of Mt,
Vesuvius and the obstruction of
Pompeii as few short minutes
of George Kleine's great photo
drama The Last Days of Pom
peii', adapted from Lord Lyt-
tons famous novel. With the
reader and student much is left
to the imagination but in the
pictures it is brought out in vivid
realism and the impress is
photographed forever on the
brain through the worlds most
wonderful camera, the eye.
Mr.. George Kleine's photo drama
THE Last Days of Pompeii"
will be presented at the Electric
Theatre Monday Night Decem-
Der 22, with matinee at 4 p. m.
Two shows at night, beginning
at 7:15 and 900 p. m.
The Winslow mail., 1913-12-20

When his condition points to
kidney trouble takes an unWlse
risk. Backache, pain and sore
ness over the kidneys, nervous
or dizzy spells, poor sleep, are
all symptoms that will disap,
pear with the regular use oil
Foley Kidney Pills. They put
the kidneys and bladder in a
clean, strong and healthy con-
uition, and rheumatic pains,
stiff joints, lumbago and ilregul
ar bladder action are all relieved
promptly when Foley Kidney
Pills are taken. Kelly Drug Co
The Winslow mail., 1913-12-20
Junior Class Notes

What is the meaning of the
word adage? Miss Cavanaug ask
ed. "A place to put cats into,
was Waltea Creswell's answer" f"
What put such an idea into your
heed? Well, does't it say in
Shakespeare, Like the poor ca
in the adagep'
Miss Clara Allen was out of
school four days last week. AL
though she is not a member of
the Junior Class, she was missed
by everyone.
Lee Eastman quit school the
first of December to go to work,
but returned last Monday to take
up his High School studies.
1t was posted on the Bulletin
board last Tuesday that school
would close for the Christmas
VACATION on Tuesday December
%, instead of Wednesday Decem-
Der "a.
The Winslow mail., 1913-12-20
BERTHA WHILLOCK
WELTON HUGHES
CLAUDE PHILLIPS
CITY SCHOOLS EXHI-
BITION DAY Tues
DAY, DECEMBER
23RD, 1913.

All class rooms in the three
buildings will be open to inspection
and the work of the various classes
will be shown to all interested.
Come and see the work done in
Drawing, Writing, Music, Manua
Training, Cooking and Sewing in
both Public and High Schools.
Parents and citizens are cordially
invited to spend all or any portion
Of the day with us. Programs at
2 in several rooms of the North
Grammar School, and on the South
side.