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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05
Wee President Marshall

I'm my day vice presidents have cut lit
tie figure, but 1t will be different with the
new vice president, Thomas r. Marshall.
said Andrew b. Fozer of Chicago. He
is a real statesman. I have heard him
speak several times; have read his utter
ances and have watched his career since
he became governor of Indiana, and since
/ was old enough to vote in 1884 do net
recall many democrats who have I'M
pressed me so favorably.
president Wilson is an eminent scholar
and something of wit. and Vice Presi-
dent Marshall has the reputation of be-
ing an exceptionally able lawyer. Every
thing Marshall says on the subject of
democracy has the true ring. lie never
plays to the gallery, but is always sim
cere. lie is like the President, ready
wit. He is as plain as an old shoe. A
friend of mine who Is in public life tells
me that Marshall reminds him somewhat;
of John Sharp Williams. They are not
wholly unlike in appearance, it seems.
and both me mare waggish. Marshall will
doubtless be very much of a lion in Wash
ington.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05
Even from Hyperion's rising In the east
Until his very downfall In the sen.
Titus Andronicus.
Business Continues Active

There was much prosperity in this
country throughout last year and
prosperity continues. From the early
summer when bumper crops were IN
sight all industrial and commercial IN
terests were booming.
Business has started off we'll this
year. January trade was larger IN
volume and more satisfactory than 1t
was in the same month last year and
February business has been quite up
to expectations.
In financial centers some pesslmlsts
have said recently that halt would
be called on business progress when
the entire government became demo-
cratic, but the calamity howler at
tracts less attention now than in for
mer years. Business today is as sound
as it ever was. The country has new
President and there is every prospect
of continuance Of prosperity.
If the June crop reports are good
there will be another lively boom. In
the meantime, the Birmingham dis
trict is flourishing as never before and
optimism is greatly in evidence here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05
JOURNALISTS OF THE PAST

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
For the Pulitzer School of Journalism
it was a rare and critical undertaking 10
pick out half dozen journalists of the
rest to use their faces on medaliors
Some distinguished men We're barred
merely because no authentic portraits of
them are known to exist. Among these
was John Peter Zenger. who made the
fight for a free press in colonial New
York. and whose trial first established
the principle that in libel prosecution
the jury are judges both of law and fact.
The list determined ON is as follows:
Daniel Defoe, 16o9-113i.
Joseph Addison 1612-l7l9
Benjamin Franklin. 1706-1790.
Isaiah Thomas 17i9-1S3l.
John I. Delane, 1s1I-1Ss9.
Horace Greeley. 1S1i-lS12.
Defoe, best known as the author of
.'Robinson .Crusoe,' is claimed to have
been the father OF the. editorial leader
He founded several different types of pa
pers, and made trade and commerce in-
formation newspaper feature for the
first time Addison's Rambler and Spec
tator, made up of essays, did much to-
ward the creation of a polished English
style in journalism. Benjamin F'ranklin's
name and career are familiar to all Amer
leans. Isaiah Thomas of the Massac achu-
setts Sry (Bostonl, and later of the Wor-
cester Spy, wrote THE History of Print
ing in America; with Biography of
Printers and an Account of Newspa pers;
to which is Preiixed a Concise View of
the Discovery and Progress of the Art
in Other Parts of the World" John l.
Delane succeeded Thomas Barnes as edi-
tor of the London Times, and held thai
place for SO years. Horace Greeley started
the Tribune, the same year that Delane
began as editor of the London Times,
1s41. and was concededly powerful influ-
ence on the thought of America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05
Washington's Hoodlums

The commission form of govern
ment in Washington stood confessed
failufe on Monday. Its provisions for
securing order in Pennsylvania avenue
when pageant of unusual attractions
was to pass were the height of inef-
ficiency, and mob Of drunken hood
lums held possession of the street.
Congress should indeed investigate
the entire affair. The women of this
country are peaceful. They repudiate
the tactics of their sisters in London.
They deserved to present, and did pre-
sent under difficult circumstances, a
pageant intended to illustrate the
progress they had made and hope to
make in the future. If the pageant
could have moved along peacefully and
promptly it would have been demon
stration of rare dignity and force.
The commission that governs Wash
ington should be called to account by
Congress when it meets on April l..
It permitted crowd Of hoodlums to
destroy the unity and effect of a
peaceful and picturesque procession,
acting wholly within the law, and the
commissioners and the public officials
should be brought to the bar of public
e.,s,,s<,.a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05
vIuSic Festivals

"Spartanburg. S. c.. is one of the
few southern cities-the only one l
know of that has the old time music
festivals extending over four or five
days." said music lover whose ex-
perience goes back to the eighties.
81 attended several of the annual
festivals in Petersburg. Va. They were
delightful affairs. The chorus trainer
was Mr.. Noltenius, German American,
who was an active business man and
at the same time an accomplished mu
sician. He was the mainstay of the
festival lie had local chorus Of
$50 and towns within a radius of 10
or so miles contributed small choruses
that augmented the festival voices to
about 900. | have heard the mass
chorus in Petersburg when it was as
good as the big choruses 1 used to
Noltenius health failed and no one was
found who could take his place. That
meant goodbye festival.
Richmond has fine festivals under
the auspices of the Wednesday club,
but they last only two days, ! be-
lieve. Two days is probably long
enough-twO night performances and
one matinee-but Spartanburg, having
stuck to the old way of giving a week
to the festival will probably continue
as the leading festival city for some
time to come.
Opera festivals are educative in q
certain way but for real solid culture
in music the festivals with symphony
music prominent come first"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05
President Wilson's Address

yesterday
unmistakeab meaning Its
Justice Equal Opportunity 1t recalled the
the declaration of independence from which
republic All the declaration created equal endowed
by including Liberty
and the Pursuit of Happiness.
hurry drifed far from
meant says Wilson, the
humbest well the powerful Mr. Wilson there
cleanse, the evil without mpairng the
purify of life with
out weakening entmenaizing it.
The sober thought with vision in
really visionary the Presidents plans He
that the of politics we shall deal he
with system it is and be modified
might be sheet write upon He
words rehaped do
the best with what be-
The President is sometimes regarded doctnae rather than
practical much ideal But he dcaist
ndugng particular
when he mentions tariff faci
interests the banking which restricts credits;
industrial system that limits the agicul
facilities
the undeveloped the unrecamed places the
laws which
individuals
be parts of the business of justice legal efficiency
All through this address vision of justice, of the
right and the need of RESTORING where has
eliminated And this the concluding which
both appeal pledge that will find the
citizen This is not said the President the day
dedication. the
forces of humanity Mems hearts wait lives hang in
shall live the trust? Who dares fail to try
all patriotic all forwardookng
helping will fail them they will but
mel"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05

her child's life may be a happy one
SO. in furtherance of this desire the
young mother cannot do better than
give her baby "happy" name with
which TO start life
Everyone is familiar with the names
Ada and Ida, but perhaps their beauti-
ful meaning of "happy one" is not al
ways equally well known. Then Felicia
and Felicity thappiness) are used in
several countries In France, under the
forms Of F'elise (happy), and Felieite
(happiness) in Italy as Felice and
Felicia: in Spain, Felicaded, and in
Portugal as Felicadade.
"A happy messenger is signified by
Evangeline, Evangelina and Evange-
lista. The shorter form, Angelina, An
Isengerr (from God).
Letitia and Lefty both mean glad
ness while Allen and Allan denote
''cheerfulness.'
Another name, not so much used as it
deserves to be, is the pretty Hilary,
which also reveals the same virtue.
JOY should assuredly be the inheri-
tance of those christened so. or by the
uncommon and beautiful name Aine
Goy). title borne by a famous Irish
queen of the fairies.
Merry of "sportive' is the signifi-
cation of the names Joye, Jocosa and
Jocelin; but two somewhat similar
names Joycelin and Joscelin, mean
Just"
Mabel ever popular and ever loved,
denotes "mirth;" it is not, as often err
roneously imagined, derived from the
two French words, Ma Belle, but from
the old Irish word Meadhail, a shout of
mirth. Meadhbh or Meave. being an
chosen to be the queen of the fairies in
Leinster.
Eustace is one who should be happy
In heart" while the rare but lovely
Greek names Eudora (happy gif) and
Eunice lhappy victory are indeed
worthy of notice.
! And since true happiness is mainly
dependent upon nobility of life and
character, selection may be mad e
| from the class of noble" Names which
include such familiar ones as Ethel
(noble) and its combinations-Ethel
burga (noble protection), Ethelred (no-
| BILE counciD, Alice, Adelaide, Adela and
| Adele (noble cheer); Adelina (noble
manner), Athelstane (iiob1e stone) Al
| bert (noble brighD and Alaric (noble
lruler); or from the 'kingly" names
Roderick famous king), Richard (stern
king) Tiernan (kingly), Stephen Ca
| CROWN, Robert and Rupert (bright
| fame), and Rex Ga king).
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05
THE vAGABoND
By Robert Louis Stevenson.
Give me the life l love.

BY Robert Louis Stevenson.
Give me the life love, f
Let the lave go by me,
Give the jolly heaven above
And the byway nigh me.
Bed in the bush with stars to see,
Bread dip in the river
There's the life for a man like me,
There's the life forever.
Let the blow fall soon or late.
Let what will be DER me;
Give the face Of earth around
And the road before me.
Wealth seek not. hope nor love-
Nor friend to know me;
All / seek, the heaven above
And the road below me.
Or let autumn fall on me
Where af1eld linger,
Silencing the bird on tree
Biting the blue finger,
White az meal the frosty field
Warm the flreside haven
Not to autumn will yield,
Not to winter. even!
Lot the blow fall soon or late.
Let what will be DER me;
Give tho face of earth around.
And tho road before me.
Wealth l ask not, hope. nor love.
Nor = friend to know me;
All ask. the heaven above
And the road below ines
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05
A PATRIOTIC GIRL
From L .eSlia'S

From Leslie's.
Splendid! little girl IN public school
in Lawrence, Mass, loves the American
flag and fears God and she is not AFRAID
to say so. She is the daughter OF Jew
came to America five years ago from Rus
sia and says her father makes COM
Portable living working in the mills She
resents the untruths told about Lawrence,
during the recent strike. She slor1es over
the fact that 81 900 men. women and chill
dren, resenting the accusations against
the city of Lawrence. took part in re-
cent parade, each wearing an American
flag. In letter to the New York sun,
giving these facts. this little girl says
I'VE had this parade to show our 10y
atty to God and country. IL IS on the
boys and girls of this kind that the nope
of the future of our great ration must
depend. There are a good many of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05
Tribute to Josephus Daniels

Il have known Josephus Daniels ever
since my youth. and he is not only a man
of marked ability, but he Is one of the
best men | have ever known" said Will
liam NJ. Little, a native of North Caro-
Ina, but for some years member of
the Birmingham bar.
Mr.. Daniels deserves great credit for
working his way up in the world. With
out pecuniary means he acquired an edu-
cation by his own pluck. lie determined
to make something of himself in life and
he has succeeded admirably. AS editor
of the Raleigh News and Observer, he
has long held a position of influence i'll
North Carolina. l am glad that President
Wilson has selected him for member
of his cabinet. He will, l think, make an
excellent Secretary of the Navy. In fact,
he is just the sort of man to make good
at anything he undertakes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05
President Wilson'S Strong Cabinet

Of the 10 men who are to constitute
President Wilson's cabinet several Of
them are widely known while those
who have not been prominent in the
public view are recognized by all who
are familiar with their records as men
of force and ample equipment.
The state department needs especial
ly at this time man of large capacity,
familiarity with international ques-
tions and great deal Of backbone, and
William Jennings Bryan easily meas
ures up to these requirements. Next
in rank to the Secretary of State is
the Secretary of the Treasury. William
G. McAdoo of New York has had the
sort of experience that will inspire
confidence in the financial world. He
is lawyer and a railroad president.
AS the operating head of the Hudson
River Tunnel system he has achieved
marked distinction.
For many years when the United
States army was limited to $4,000 men
the war department was of compara-
lively little Importance but it is very
different today. Not only has the Sec
rctary of War to look after an army
more than three times as large as that
of Is years ago but he is responsible
for the conduct of affairs in the Phil
ippines. Lindley Nj. Garrison Of the
chancery court Of New Jersey, who is
to have the war portfolio, is said to
possess in addition to judicial temper
ament highly developed executive
turn of mind. 3st
Perhaps the strongest man in Pres
ident Taft's cabinet has been Attor-
MY General George w. Wickersham
MD he is to be succeeded by man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05
GUARDING THE PRESIDENT

Robert d. Heinie, in Leslie's.
The day following the election of Gov.
Woodrow Wilson TO the presidency secret
service men went to Princeton to begin
q vigil which will last until the end OF
his term as President. There will never
be a time during the coming four years
when he will not be guarded,
1t is a fact that at the time Czolgoss
made his attack Mr.. Mckinley was being
guarded by an entire company of coast
artillery forming a double line through
which the single line of visitors passed in
front Of the President. There were fully
a half hundred uniformed policemen in
the vicinity and possibly a dozen plain
clothes detectives. 1t was a holiday
crowd, and the visitors carried bundles,
bags, and lunch boxes such as are commo
at fair grounds. Thus, when the assassin
came along. his hand covered with a
handkerchief, he was not noticed. That
is all changed now. After the assassi-
ration, and for the first time in the his
tory of the United States, an appropria-
tion was made by Congress for the pro-
lection OIL tno cliieI eNtCullNe. NuW HO-
body approaches the President carrying
any kind of a package.
/ have been told that the secret service
men with the President are nervous to
this day when they go to Buffalo. Not
long ago, when Mr.. Taft was there, he
was first shown where Mr.. Mckinley was
shot. Then the place was pointed out
to which the martyred President had been
carried. After that the committee drove
Mr.. Taft past the Milburn residence,
where Mckinley died, and finally they In
dicated where the body had lain in state.
1t is related that all of this did not have
a tendency to make the President more
comfortable. Later in the day at Buffa-
10, when long line was filing by Mr.
Taft. a secret service man noticed that
one individual kept his hands in his
pockets. 1t is also secret service rule
that no man shall approach the President
unless both hands are in plain sight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05

-Agostino Barbadano died intestate in
Buenos Ayres, leaving an estate amount
ing to s6,0oo,O0o lie emigrated from Italy
to death in his absence for the murder
OF a papal gendarme. He resumed his
real name 20 years later, when his sem
tence had lapsed under the statute Of linn
itationA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05


one who has had considerable training
in public life--James McReynolds of
Tennessee. He was engaged in private
practice at Nashville for several
years; was professor in the law school
at Vanderbilt university. for three
years. He was an assistant attorney
general of the United States from
1903 to 1907 and at the expiration of
his term removed to New York and
was long retained by the federal gov
ernment in matters relating to the en-
forcement of the antitrust laws.
Albert S. Burleson of Texas, the
Postmaster General to be, has been a
prominent member of Congress for
many years. Josephus Daniels OF
North Carolina, who becomes Secre
tary of the Navy, although still in the
prime Of life has been a wheel horse
of democracy time out of mind. He
describes himself modestly as "a
newspaper man." He was admitted to
the bar but never practiced. He has
been editor of several newspapers and
is now, and has been for several years,
editor of the Raleigh News and OBJ
server. Mr. Daniels is not snowy
man but is very solid man and can
be relied upon to give good account
of himself at the head of the navy de-
partment.
Franklin X. Lane of California, who
is to preside over the interior depart
ment, is lawyer by profession and is
known as one of the most efficient
members of the interstate commerce
commission.
The new Secretary of Agriculture,
David f. Houston of Missouri, is a
distinguished educator and in scholar
ship ranks next to the President
himself. He is native of North Caro-
lima, has degrees from many universi-
ties including Harvard; was tutor in
ancient languages in South Carolina
college; was superintendent of public
schools in Spartanburg; was gradu
ate student of political science at
Harvard; was professor of political
-. of 70 tu of n
University Of Texas; was afterwards
president of an Agricultural college in
Texas, and still later president of the
University of Texas. Since 1908 he
has been chancellor Of Washington
university at st. Louis. Although he
has had less experience in agricultural
class room work than in other
branches of education he is said to
have a particular liking for the farm
and it is believed that he will prove
an enthusiastic promoter Of hus-
bandry.
William C. Redfield of New York,
the new Secretary of Commerce, has
served one year in Congress, and Will
liam B. Wilson of Pennsylvania, who
will be the first Secretary of Labor,
has just served out his second term in
Congress. In early life the latter
made his living as coal miner.
The cabinet taken altogether is as
we'll distributed geographically as cab
inets usually are and that it is re-
markably strong cabinet no one will
deny. They are all bright men and
with such cabinet the democratic ad-
ministration starts off most auspi-
ciously.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05
IN HOTEL LoBBIES
After Eight Years

Il am visiting Birmingham for the frsl
time in eight years. and / am most favor
ably impressed with the city's progress.
said Philip Fosdiek, a prominent Cinein'
natl manufacturer. "About eight years
ago I came here with an excursion party
of business men. We saw then that THIS
district had great future and the
growth of Birmingham in these eigh'
years has fully justified all predictions.
Mr.. Fosdick and family are stopping ir
Birmingham on their way to the Pacific
coast. They will take the trip leisurely
and will spend some days in New Orleans
After leaving the Crescent City they vii
tarry few days in Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05

Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Hilles are both Ohio
the former, for, sas the partner of the
resident manager of the Employers Liza
biity Assurance corporation of London,
he. will receive $4,000 a year and he will
remain chairman of the republican ma
tional committee. Mr.. Taft, ON the other
hand, will have no standing In his party
and his pay as a Yale professor will be
but $1,000 a year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05
From the Atlanta journal.

From the Atlanta journal.
TN recent years none of the worlds
great prisons has attracted more at
4 tention than the federal prison at
Atlanta, Ca, interest in the institution
being due in large measure to its revolu-
tionary method in dealing with offenders.
More than nine hundred men are serv-
ing sentences there at the present time
tho list including murderers, bank wreck
ers. counterfelters, burglars and men who
have used the mails tofdefraud their vic
tins. They are sentenced there from all
parts of the country and many of them
are desperate, but no matter how serious
their offenses they are given the chance
to show they are still worthy OF some
consideration. If man doesn't leave the
prison with better feeling toward the
world II is his own fault and not the fault
of William II. Meyer, the big hearted,
brainy warden, or his capable assistants
Liberty is about the only thing denied
the inmates of the prison. Comfort,
cleanliness, entertainment, physical ex-
ero.se. we'll cooked food and plenty of 1t,
tobacco and good reading are some of
the cOmDeDSdtlonS lndt ldii W thO ioe ~.
the man who Is deprived of his freedom.
After the first shock of separation from
family and friends wears off most of the
prisoners begin to appreciate what is be-
ing done for them, and they cooperate
with the prison officials In the most
hearty manner. If they are old offenders,
men who have served terms in other
penal institutions, they lose no time IN
announcing their intention to behave, the
recollection of what they had to endure
in other prisons making them appreciate
the humane system in vogue at Atlanta.
Visitors leave the institution marveling
at the perfect sanitation of the big plant.
Every part of the prison is kept in spot
less condition, fioors walls, windows, cor
ridors and furniture rejecting the vast
amount of labor bestowed on them. The
kitchen, where the meals of this small
army are prepared, is model of clean
liress, It's spic and span appearance win
ming unstinted praise from sightseers..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-05
HEROIC GIRL

Capt A. H. Rostron In scribner's Mag
azine.
We heard OF many great and noble
deers of self sacrifice performed by those
on the. Titanic that night; tales OF hero
ism and bravery Of men and women,
of men who had everything in this
world to live for, men who were send
Ing away In the boats those who were