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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
Gov. Sulzer's Primary Bill

Governor Sulzer vetoed primary
bill which retained the convention sys-
tenn and the organization idea. He
endeavored to pass straight out pri-
mary bill that repudiated all party
machinery but in the state senate 1t
|Was overwhelmingly defeated last
hight. Under its terms the regis
\ered electors of party were to meet
q select not only all nominees for
\ablic office but also all officers and
hnmittees of the organization itself.
The irresponsible conspiring eau
Us planned by politicians is discred-
ed in all the states, because eau
rs is as a rule an expression of the
NE of a few politicians instead of
Ee voters. Still an organization is
kedful in a country governed by two
parties. In this country there
hly three parties of nationwide
three that have ever elected
dent. Two parties as rule suf-
n this country, and no country
has party government in more dis
tincd and definite form.
The Sulzer bill was based on the
electorate acting directly. 1t wanted no
CONVENTIONS at all This may be feast
bic ih a state like New York and then
apajn it may not be. The limited cleo
torate of Alabama is wholly equal to
the task of doing public business with
but the intervention of conventions,
but it is question whether the cleo
korate of New York based on man
hood suffrage is quite equal to the
- l.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
There Is No Place Like Home

Romona Borden is a 17-year-old
school girl. She is the daughter of a
multi-millionaire. This millionaire and
his wife are not divorced, but they
live apart, and the school girl had no
home. Away from school she lived in
hotels and sanitariums.
And her greatest desire was a
home--a home presided over by her
father and mother. All the millions
that her father possesses are value
less to her unless she can have home
"such as other girls have" "The
trouble is" she said, 81 haven't had
home for many, many years. have
been sent from one school to another
and then to another one; but none
was home. What | have wanted so
badly was home-I have not had it,"
There is a lesson in all this. The
humblest home where love is is bet
ter than the richest school, sanitarum
or hotel-a thousand times better.
Nothing in this world takes the place
of a home. Romona Borden simply
voices the thoughts and desires of all
mankind of all sexes and all ages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
Greaf MusicnI Trent

Birmingham music lovers have heard
many great virtuosos this season and sew
eral fine concert organizations, but the
largest and most costly musical event will
be the symphony festival by the Cincin-
natl Symphony orchestra at the Jefferson
next Monday and Tuesday" said a club
man This orchestra is one of the best
in the United States. 1t is one of the
six really great orchestras. With the Gin
cinnati orchestra come several popular
soloists. including Mrs. Aldrich, who will
play the Grieg concerto; and Miss Chris
tine Miller. contralto.
Il am glad to know that the seats are
selling well. 1t would be surprising in
deed were 1t otherwise, for Birmingham
is music loving city and this will be the
only opportunity they will have this year
of hearing a symphony orchestra
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
FEWER NINE ACCIDENTS

From the Chicago Record-1erald.s
An explosion in Pennsylvania mine.
resulting in appalling loss of life, serves
TO remind us that mining, in spite of Sc
entific appliances \and the recent em-
phasis on safety first is still one of mans
most perilous trades. We have been
criminally careless in the past we have
shirked responsibility by talking about the
hazards of the business" Our lately
awakened conscience is beginning to make
itself felt In fewer disasters. but it is
plain that we have still far to go.
The governments figures show that 1850
out of fhe 10000 men employed in mining
lost their lives last year This is at the
rate of s15 In every 1000 men-the lowest
rate since 1899. Nineteen hundred and
twelve happened to be good year, and
the number of tons mined in proportion
to the human sacrifice was the greatest
on record. This improvement is ascribed
largely to the activity of the bureau of
mines, which during 1912 devoted itself
very largely to the activity of the bureau
of mines, which during 1912 devoted itself
very largely to a study of mine accidents
and gave the miners detailed instruction
in rescue work and the application of first
aid, on the theory that large number of
accidents are due to carelessness and
that they have been made needlessly
costly in the past by ignorance. This in
stfuction has already done good and
promises to do still more. 1t is notabfe-
that the loss of life In single great mine
disasters was less in the United States
than IN Europe last year, Notwithstanding
the fact that America now mines about
500, 0,000 tons of coal annually, or nearly
80 per cent of the worlds output
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
DR. Eriedmann's Mission

Assuming that DIR. Friedman has
burned over his turtle germ consump-
lion cure to an American corporation
10 be commercially exploited, he is a
&iscredit to his profession. No profess
hon in the world stands higher than
he medical profession in its unself-
h efforts to help the suffering. So
gh has the standard been held that
ID has become unprofessional to turn
a discovery into dollars and cents as
|Dr. friedman is reported to have
|done.
The valuesof the Friedman remedy
mo means established. It may be
valuable, but no official or final
- is at hand to support the claim.
Should it prove to be all that DR..
|Friedmann says it is, there would be
|glory and remuneration enough for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
MODERATION OFF MIR. SHAW

From the Chicago Record Herald.
Few persons of ou rhine have mastered
so thoroughly che art of temperate speech
as G. Bernard Shaw. II would seem as
II Mr.. Shaw, shocked and wounded bv tha
sensationalism and turbulence of other
speakers and writers, had deliberately set
himself to utter nothing put the most
carefully balanced judgments on all SUBJ
jects. Mr.. Shaw ought to be taken as a
model by noisy persons who yainly seek
to give authority to purely personal preju-
diees by denouncng all who happen to
differ from them as hopees blockheads
and blunderers.
Pinero ventured to suggest that It
might increase the attendance at theatres
IL patrons We're permitted to smoke. Mr.
Shaw's opinion is sought. Calling to his
aid all the profound knowledge of the
effect of tobacco on the human system
that he is known to possess, all the logi-
cal acuteness that characterizes his an
alysis of human affairs. and all the re-
spect for other mems opinions that is hab-
itually associated with his name Mr..
Shaw spoke as follows:
MY viewpoint IS that or one who does
not smoke, who regards smoking as ut
terly filthy and detestable; who considers
that persons who smoke not only should
not be permitted to go to the theatres,
bu. should not be allowed to go anywhere,
and should not be allowed to exist.
When contrasted with the personal
prejudice which most men might have
allowed to creep into their discussion of
such question, Mr.. Shaws noble dis
interestedness and largeness of view are
truly admirable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01


dItion; lots of people give their lives for
dognas they've ceased to believe In. Then
again, in this country the passion for
making money has preceded the knowing
how to spend it, and the American man
lavlshes his fortune on his wife because
he doesn't know what else to do with
it"
Then you call it a mere want of imag-
ination for a man to lavish his money
on his wife?''
Not necessarily-but it's a want If i'm
agination to fancy it's all he owes her.
Why does the European woman interest
herself so much more in what the men
are doing2 Because she's so important
to them they make it worth her while.
She's not a parenthesis. as she is here
they simply don't picture life without
her,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01

the German physician without resort
ing to out-and-out commercial
methods.
To turn the art, of healing into a
hunt for dollars is long step back
ward and the Friedman example
should become warning rather than
precedent.
A vast amount of human suffering
is at stake in this matter. The German
physician has not lived up to either
German or American standards, and
he cannot expect to receive the public
sympathy and encouragement that
would otherwise be allotted him,
whether his cure be authentic or the
reverse. He cannot, however, turn a
noble profession into money making
trade, no matter how important his
remedy may prove to be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01

L n W 4
BY Vice President Marshall.
/. Thou shalt not put the fee before a
just cause.
O. Thou shalt not put before thee the
god of money, to worship it. so that no
fee can be large enough to cause thee to
write a dishonest contract.
8. Thou shalt not take thy profession in
vain, but teach thy clients to walk in the
ways of peace.
a. Remember seven days in the week
that thou shalt not cnase ambulances,
for career is a worthy thing, and is not
built in a moment.
s. Honor thy profession as thou dost
thy sacred honor; and in so doing thou
wilt not seek, nor confound litigation.
6. Thou shouldst not accept contingent
fees.
Z. Thou shouldst throw thy full weight
against the allowance of counsel fees be-
fore the divorce cause has been brought
otrial; for therein lieth the root of the
divorce evil.
8. Thou shouldst use thy influence in
favor of compelling one charged with a
crime to testify in the cause: for the in
nocent man cannot thereby be harmed.
g. Thou mayst take the part of the ad-
witness against thy neighbof, only to see
that justice be performed, and tempered
with mercy.
10. Thou shalt not covet exorbitant fees,
nor first inquire of thy clients pocket
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
The Alabama Land Congress

THE Alabama Land congress, which is
to meet here in November, will be a very
important affair" said a business man
who owns large farm
THE marked progress that has been
made in agriculture in this state within
the past three years has attracted great
deal of attention in the north. Homeseek-
ers are looking southwark more than ever
and this states population will show a
gratifying increase In the next census.
THE land congress will do more to-
ward exploiting the natural richness of
our agricultural resources than anything
that has been attempted Emulation
among farmers is good thing Friendly
rivalry has already done much to stimu-
late production. The land congress de-
velops this rivalry in high degree. look
for splendid results from next falls meet
ing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
LITTLE SURPRISES

From the Chicago Tribune.
Il don't want any afternoons out, mum;
I'll be satisfied if 1 can go to church
Sunday evenins
Harry, you've been an awful long time
making up your mind to ask me to marry
youi''
Your bill. doctor, Is only about half
what I expected it would be-
Bobby I've kept you in after school
to tell you you're a dear, good little boy.
Won't you give your old teacher a kiss?"
mo, sir, I havht anything in stock
that's quite as good as what you are
asking for; try the druggist across the
street"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
WEAK POINT IN OUR SOCIAL LIFE

Mrs Wharton in April Century
"What do you call the weak point?'
Bowen paused. "The fact that the aver
age American looks down on his wife,
Mrs. Fairford was up with a spring.
Really, Charles-if that's where para
dox lands your
Bowen mildly stood his ground. 'Well
doesn't he prove it? How much does
he let her share in the real business of
life? How much does he reply on her
Judgment and help in the conduct of Sc
rious affairs? Take Ralph, for instance
You say his wife's extravagances force
him to work too hard; but that's not
what's wrong. Its normal for man to
work hard for a woman-whats abnor-
NAL is his not caring to tell her any,
thing about it,
ITO tell Undine? She'd be bored to
death if he did
Just so; she'd even feel aggrieved. But
why? Because it's against the custom of
The mans again-I don't mean Ralph, l
mean the genus he belongs to; homo sa-
piens Americanus. Why haven't we
taught our women to take an interest in
our work? Simply because we don't take
enough interest in them
Mrs. Fairford, sinking back in her chair,
sat gazing at the vertiginous depths
above which his thought seemed to dam
gle her.
you don't? mean the American man
doesn't-the most Shaving, self-efacine,
elf-sacrihcing
Yes; and the most Indifferent; there's
the point The 'slaving's' no argument
against the indiffdrence. TO slave for
women is part Of lhe old American tra-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
Alabama's Next Senator

The Mobile Item has got our sena-
tors mixed up. Senator Bankhead has
just begun a senatorial term that does
not expire until March 4, 1919. Sena-
tor Johnston's term does expire in
March, 1915, and the manner of Sc
Letting his successor is bothering the
politicians.
In Georgia it is proposed that the
Legislature which meets in June shall
call an election when it first meets
and it expects to count the vote be-
fore it adjourns. The Alabama legis-
lature might do likewise. 1t meets in
January, 1915. It could call an election
early in February and count the vote
before March A. Failing to do that the
new governor must temporarily name
the successor. Would the new gov
ernor consider himself bound to select
the nominee of the democratic primary
of 1914? The answer depends upon
who the new governor is and what
pledges he will make. The democratic
primary of 1914 is wholly outside of
the new constitutional provision. 1t is
irregular and unofficial. The legis-
lature has now no more to do with the
selection of United States senators
than the board of trade in Mobile. 1t
is matter that rests with the quail
fled electors, and if they cannot act
it then rests with a governor who has
not yet been elected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01

N this lone, open glade I lie,
Screen by deep boughs either hand
it's end, to stay the
Those back-crowned, redboed pine trees stand
Birds here make song his
Across girdling city's hum.
How green under the bough 1t is!
How thick the tremuous sheep cries come.
Sometimes child will the glade
To take his broken
Sometimes thrush fits overhead
Deep in her unknown days employ 3ss
my feet what wonders
What endless, active life is
blowing daisies, fragrant
arstrred forest, fresh and clear.
Scare fresher mountain
Where the tired angler lies stretched out,
And eased of basket and of rod,
Counts his days spoil. the spotted trout
In the huge which by
Be happy they
But in helpless cradle
Was breathed on by the rural Pan
l. on mems impious uproar hurled
Think often, hear them
peace has left the upper world,
And keeps only in the grave
Yet here IS peace newt
watch them away,
all things in this glade go through
The changes of their quiet day
They by their happy rest they pass
upcose, the birds are fed
night down upon the grass,
The child sleeps warmly In his bed
Calm soul of all things. make It mine
To feel, amid the city's jar,
abdes peace OF thine
Man did not make and cannot mar
The will to neither strive nor cry
power with others. give
calm more. nor let me die ~ kSfa@~
Before have begun to live
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
IN HOTEL LoBBIEs
Impressed with BIrminelnm

Every time I come TO this city I am
impressed with its solid growth said 7.
\. koeiher or Chicago, who is president
of the Barney Coal company Of the Bir-
mingham district.
The coal company with which I am
connected has been doing an excellent
business and I am well pleased with the
outlook for the rest Of the year.
when I first saw Birmingham few
Years ago I thought well of it. but ] had
no idea that it would grow to be a
metropolitan city so soon as it has. The
great future of Birmingham cannot well
be overestimated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
srEvENsoN,s LINES TO sToDpARD

From when They Were Twenty-One.
BY Bailey Millard In the May Book
man.
Stoddard's South Sea Idylls brought
Stevenson to him in San Francisco 1t
was that book which filed Robert Louis
with lust for travel among the Pacific
Isles. The two men became great friends.
In his broadcast Scotch, Stevenson, sitting
in stoddard's sunny den at North Beach,
wrote the following verses to his hero of
the islands:
Far had I rode an muckle seen
An witnessed many fertile,
Afore that I had Clappit cen
Upo' my billy, Charlie
Far had I rode an muekle seen,
But neer was fairly GODDARD,
Till I was trystit as frien'
WI Charlie Warren Stoddard.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
TRAGEDIES TOLD IN HEADLINES

From the Chicago Tribune.
Husband Tries to Wash Dinner Dishes.
Smashes $47 Worth of China"
Candidate for Initiation Thinks Cere-
mony Too Rough; He Makes a Wreck of
Lodge Room"
Ball Player Whose Sweetheart Is
Watching Him from Grand Stand Be-
comes Nervous; Loses Game"
Gay Lothario Weds in Haste; Finds
He Has Married Widow with Seven Chill
dren"
Man Who Has Sworn Off from Smok-
ing Wins six Boxes of Cigars at Rattle. y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
Next sundays CONCERT

The concert which will be given next
Sunday at the Jefferson theatre by the
Tennessee Company band and male
chorus will draw a full house" said a
clerk in one of the headquarters depart
ments in the Brown-Marx building yes
terday.
THE band gave a concert in Capitol
park last year. | heard it then and
enjoyed the music. but it is much better
now of course. have not heard it re-
Gently, but I am told by those who have
that it is an uncommonly fine band.
MIR. Restorff is the conductor of the
band. The male chorus of which Mr.. All
sopp is director, is 1t is safe to say I'M
surpassed by any organization of its kind
in the south. The band and chorus are
made up of Ensley material, and | under
stand that the people of Ensley will turn
out in large numbers Sunday. About $50
clerks in the Tennessee company office
in the Brown-Marx building will be in
the audience. Mr.. Crawford, the presi-
dent, who takes great interest in music
and especially in this band and chorus,
will be present, and so, too, will many
other high officials. Mr.. Charles J. Barr
is the president of the Tennessee band
and chorus.
II have only been working for the Ten
nessee company about a year, but have
been impressed with one thing which is
very pleasing to me, and that is the esprit
de corps that has been developed. The
Tennessee company for a vast organiza-
ton has more of the homelike feeling in
served"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
aDRIFT WITH THE TINES

CONFESSION OF WEAKNESS.
oh, Love" sang this poetic wight.
My heart has found its mate in thee ;
But now he leaves home every night
And ne comes back ill half-pas
three.
The joy bells once did gaily ring
Upon a golden day in June.
But since he's wed-a woeful thing
They're jangling sadly out of tune.
Dan Cupid-well, he's much to blame
For tricks on hapless mortals played;
We think 1t is blooming shame
That he still smiles, quite undsmayed
And needless of the havoc wrought
BY him with most unholy zest;
If ever in his tolls I'm caught,
I'll pshawi-do just like all the rest!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01

Representative Bathrick of Ohio. who
was on board the dispatch boat Dolphin.
with two senators and eight other repre-
sentatives, when her rigging was struck
by II inch shot from the monitor Talla-
hassee at target practice on Thursday
describes how 1t felt to be grazed by
cannon ball 1--WE knew the signal for
firing had been given" said he, "and
were standing on deck with our glasses
on the target. We heard the dull rumble
of the gun and the scream of the shot.
cannot describe that sound except that it
was a. combination of roar a shrek.
and buzzing sound such as might be
made by giant bumblebee. Then our
eardrums were almost split by the thun-
der caused by the air rushing into the
vacuum behind the shot. Eight hundred
pounds of steel, driving through the air
at meteor speed, can create quite a
vacuum, so that with US it was like stand
ing within 10 feet of a thunderbolt. Be
fore the brain could form an idea of
what had happened the shot struck the
water with a kissing splash. A column of
spray shot 100 feet" in the air, and in
descending showered several of us be-
fore we could get under cover"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
When Wire NIill starts

while I know nothing officially about
the plans for installing machinery in the
wire mill here with view of operating
the plant during the present year, it is
safe bet that work will be In progress
within the next three weeks said a well
known citizen.
when Mr.. Perkins was in Birmingham
the impression got OFT that an announce
ment concerning the wire mill would be
made before the end of April But
thought that a little more time would be
needed A number of details will have
to be considered, but I have no doubt
whatever but that force of men will be
at work completing the mill before the
end of May. 1t will take five or six
months perhaps to equip the mill, but
the mere announcement that the plant is
to be put in commission will have a most
cheering effect on this entire community
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
DISTINCTION

From the Chicago Tribune
Grandfather, did you ever hold any
officer"
20. yes"
well, what?"
Child, I'll answer that question II you
won't ask me any more"
II WON'T
"Well, long before you were born I
served several terms as prothonotary."
Whats a prothonotary
''You said you wouldn't ask me any
more questions"
That's how one of these ancient and
venerable patriarchs from Pennsylvania
delights to mystify his Illinois grand
children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01

Gen. Robert e. Lee is to have splen-
did memorial erected to his honor In
Washington. The chief feature of the
monument will be a statue of heroic size
of the Confederate leader. This tribute
has been made possible by the gift of a
northern man, Emerson McMillin, New
York banker, who has offered $4,000 to
pay for the statue. Admirers of General
Lee will seek to secure fine site for the
memorial, the details of which are as yet
not completed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
Active Business

Business In Birmingham is still very
active" said Sidney f. Lazarus. who is
engaged in the manufacture of ma actresses.
Our business has been exceptionally good
this spring.
was In 1911, and it Is a noteworthy fact
that our business has been much larger
during the past four months than it was
in similar. period of 1912 Not only are
sales brisk, but collections are good
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
A LONG M6NTH

From the Boston Transcript
Doctor Hirshberg. writing on THAT
Tired Feeling" in Harpers Weekly.
says: "A week in bed in April may
save you six weeks in June"
Yes, but what is so rare as AZ days
in June?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
4 BuppING sUFFRAeErrE.

My daughter has already written her
graduation essay.
. Beyond the Alps Lies 1taly'?"
Z should say not Ny girls student
of contemporary events. The title of her
essay is. Militaney AS Opposed to Lob
bying.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
SHORT AND CRISP

From the Kansas City Star.
A prize for practical abbreviation
should be awarded for the following
birth notices from the Rosholt (Wis)
Record
Born: To Messrs. -Mesdames H.. Dah-
len, boy: w. Clough. a girl.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
LIFTED % GIRLS

I TUIIl NdII6ly.
hicago.-Arthur Saxon. one Of the
strong men appearing at Ringlings Bros
circus at the Coliseum lifted % of the
girls in the ballet on wager Monday
right, and won a dinner from the ballet
master
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
THE EGG SITUATION
Ihe Louisville courier-Journal.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Birmingham Age-Herald's state
ment that if every hen does not carry
fountain pen nobody can tell when eggs
should be dated indicates that The laying
hen has no waiting list Of hungry appli-
cants in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-01
HER FIRST THOUGHT

From the New York Telegram.
Talk about the eternal feminine! Think
of an S-year-od child with her ring finger
crushed by a wagon wheel weeping bit
terly, not for the pain, but because II
can't never get married, cause no one
can never put weddin' ring on it."