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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-25
TEA BISCUITS

TCH DTOVOI y
One cup of flour.
One tablespoon lard.
Pinch of salt.
One teaspoon of baking powder
Mix these all together, make a lit
tie well in the middle and put in one
third cup of sweet milk. Beat this at
least 10 minutes, flour your hands
and lift dough out onto Toured board
Press out (don't rolf until an inch
thick. Cut with tiny tea biscuit cut
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ter, put in creased pan and bake in
a quick oven about 10 minutes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14
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CRIMINAL CHARACTERISTICS

From the journal of the American Med
ical Association.
The mental and moral shortcomings of
the criminal classes are generally accept
ed facts. As class they are physically
defective. The British Association for
the Advancement of Science reported on
the examination of 5000 criminals and
found them to be about inches shorter
and II pounds lighter than the average
Englishman. Baer of Berlin, reporting
on the German criminal gives much the
same results. Few reliable data are to
be found in American literature. Hamil-
ton Wey, reporting on 529 boys at the Ell
mira reformatory of an average between
20 and 21 years, gives an average height
of 651a inches and an average weight OF
133 pounds, which is below that of coll
lege boys.
An investigation of height at the Wis
consin State prison shows that the Wis
consin convict is Is inches below the
average American height. The 1921 GRIM
inals reported are, at the average of
Ss years and months, most markedly in
ferior to the average American citizen in
height. He lacks IA inches of the stature
of the average freshman at our state uni
versity, and is inches shorter than the
average Harvard student. He lacks Ia
inches of the height OF the men and boys
who enlisted in the civil war and is 3
inches inferior in height to the fellows
of the Royal Society of England and Eng
lish professional men.
The murderer Is well above the average
criminal in height, somewhat below in
weight, but leading in chest measure
ment and expansion. The thief is well
above the average in height and slightly
below in weight. Criminals through
fraud, though most often indoor work
ers, outweigh all others, and have a
good chest measurement though a small
expansion, as would be expected. The
sexual criminals are older than any of
the other classes and the shortest in stat
ure, excepting the habitual criminals
who lack 2.1 inches of the height of the
average Wisconsin boy just out of high
school. lack 2.5 inches of the height of
the average American of their age and
81 inches of the height of the avera &c
Harvard student as reported by Professor
Sargent. These facts are the result of
an investigation made by DR.. Sleyster
| prison surgeon at Waupun. Wis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14

ings and passions previously unfelt be-
cause unknown.
To make the anniversary of the
treaty of Client an occasion for the
celebration of peace between the Eng
lish speaking people of the world is
almost certain to arouse the suspicion
of all non-English speaking nations
and may be construed as an English
speaking alliance against all others.
This would be most unfortunate out
come, and instead of providing for a
prolongation of peace might be pro
vocative of a jealousy which would
eventually lead to war.
The United States is at peace with
the world and happily has none OF
these impulses which prompt other ma
tions to invade or oppress their neigh
bors. The United States seeks to hold
friendly relations with all nations, not
hunting trouble with any, nor running
away from it if offered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14
What Filtration Does in Pittsburg

Not long ago Pittsburg was regard
ed as the worst typhoid fever district
in the world, but now its typhoid rate
stands at So per 100000 of population
and no city in the country has lower
rate.
The filtering of the water supply
did it. It's water filtration system will
soon be complete and then Pittsburg
expects to make a still better show
ing.
The filtration of the water in Bir-
mingham cannot be too closely
watched, for filtering is just as i'm
portant here as it is in Pittsburg.
True, the milk supply cannot be kept
within the districts supplied with fill
tered water, but the dairy farms can
be frequently inspected and any imper-
fections can be detected.
After the milk and water supplies
have been looked after there remain,
it is true, the flies, and the free use
of screens is at present the only sure
remedy that can be applied to bar
them out of living rooms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14
OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY's

BY James WhitcCmb Riley.
Wasn't II pleasant, o brother mine,
In those old days of the lost sunshine
Or youtf-when the Saturdays chores
were through
And the Sundays wood in the kitchen,
And we went visiting, ''me and you,"
Out to Old Aunt Mary's?
1t all Genes back so clear today.
Though / am as bald as you are gray
Out by the barn lot and down the lane,
We patter along In the dust again,
AS light as the tips of the drops of the
rain.
out to Old Aunt Mary's!
We cross the pasture, and through the
Where the old gray snag of the poplar
stood.
Where the hammering "red-heads"
hoped awry,
And the buzzard raised in the Clear
ing sky
And lolied and circled as we went by
Out to Old Aunt Mary's.
And the teams we met, and the country
And the long highway, with sunshine
spread
AS thick as butter on country bread,
our cares behind. and our hearts ahead
Out to Old Aunt Marys
Why. 1 see her now in the open door,
Where the little gourds grew ur the sides
and DER.
The clapboard room!-and her face, ah,
me!
wasn't it good for boy to see
And wasn't it good for boy to he
Out to- Old Aunt Maly's?
And. o my brother. so far away,
This is to tell you she waits today
To welcome usAunt MaryAfen
Asleep this morning, Whispering, TEL
The boys to come" And all is well
Out to Old Aunt Mary's.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14
The pubIic Library

I'VE have not heard much of late aoout
public library building" said mem
Der of the Chamber of Commerce. The
public library in the city hall is much
used and Is becoming more popular every
year. But 1t is entirely inadequate for
city of Birmingham size and preten-
sions. We should have a handsome, spa
cious library building and 1t should be
we'll stocked with books.
''Ten years ago there were very Few
rich men here, but today we have sew
eral millionaires and not few near MIL
lionaires. The only way that we can
have such a library as this city needs
is for one or more rich men to give
the money. We have first class Cham-
ber of Commerce building, magnificent
Terminal station and an imposing, per-
fectly appointed Young Mems Christian
association building We are having two
skyscraper hotels and we are about to
have the largest auditorium in the SOUTH
The next wave of prosperity should bring
us a public lbrary-a building costing
about $15o,0OO or s20o, ,O00.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14

cess. and thinking that the whole state
favored drastic prohibition measures the
constitutional prohibition amendment was
submitted Since that issue was settled
in 1909 Alabama has returned again to
the local option policy.
Most of the state is dry now, and il
the prohibitionists try to get up a fiery
campaign again they will find the situa-
ton very different from that of other
days.
Not in many years have I taken a
drink in a saloon, and if there was never
a drop of whisky made 1 would be per-
fectly satisfied, for my liquor drinking
amounts to almost nothing. But l am
opposed to fanatical movements The
fanatical tendency is bad. 1t is bad on
business and In my humble opinion it is
bad on morals.
"Aiabamas next campaign should be
made on issues that are pressing-better
rural schools, abolition of the fee sys-
tenn, convicts employed ON the roads and
other issues tending to upbuild the state"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14
Peace Celebrations

It is doubtful if there was ever a
time in the worlds history when there
was SO much talk Of peace and such
preparation for war as today.
The political sky over Europe is a
yeritable tumult of war clouds super
charged with martial electricity which
any moment may flash into lightning
and thunder from the mouth of can
non unless diplomacy succeeds in keep
ing the conflicting elements apart.
Nor is the United States outside the
path of shadow cast by war clouds
although little heed is given to the
subject.
Just now there is considerable at
tention given to the preparations
being made to celebrate the anniver-
sary of the treaty of Ghent. While il
is true that peace between the United
States and Great Britain has existed
since that treaty was made century
ago, yet it would be erroneous to say
that the hundred years peace is due
to that treaty. In fact it would be
better for both sides if such anniyer-
saries were forgotten, and with them
the events and circumstances which
led up to their being. Once question
/. Is settled and satisfactory results fol
low that question should be allowed te
rest. Inquiring minds will naturally
sack to learn the causes that made
treaties of peace necessary, and in
their search will turn to the pages oi
history wherein will be found many
1hings which capnot fail TO revive feel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14
Fusing the Irreconcilable

The republican national committee
is to meet in Washington on May "a
to ascertain if possible where the
party "is at" The inquiry is full of
perplexities and problems. When a
party endeavors to cultivate harmony
with Senator LaFollette teaching one
set of policies and Senator Penrose
dealing out even stealthily wholly
different set, trouble is bound to come.
The western leaders have held pre-
liminary conference, and they are ag-
gressive and full of fight. They de-
mand progressive action all along the
line. The effete east will gumshoe to
the Washington meeting, and the ac-
tion that will be taken at Washington
is by no means determined. The reac-
tionaries are very quiet but they still
live unreformed There have been
many desertions, notably the New
York Tribune, but let no one think
that they are all dead.
The chief issue at Washington will
probably relate to the basis of repre-
sentation. The party sees the danger
of delegates who represent few voters
and no electoral votes. Every pro-
gressive will demand representation
based on the votes cast at the previous
election. This would put Alabama, for
example, pretty low in the scale of
representation, and the choice seems
to be between this and the old plan.
This is clearly the most practical
matter that will come before the
meeting on the Oath day of this month,
although the primary system will be
freely discussed.
After all, if progressives and stand
patters can be fused in a single party
oil and water and even fire and water
should get ready to embrace each
other
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14
WOMEN RULE PECK'S LIFE

is all due to Christian Science. The flesh
profits nothing-the spirit quickens."
Apparently the relations between the di-
vorced wife of the former Columbia pro-
fessor and his present wife are cordial
enough, although not intimate 1t Is no.
ticeable that Mrs. Cornelia Peck calls the
other not Mrs. Peck" nor Miss Du-
bois" her maiden name, but simply "Du-
bois."
I have never met Professor Pecks
wife," added the former wife. "She may
come here and visit him little later but
she must tell me so | can go away
shall provide for him until he is fully re-
stored to health, and then | shall return
him to her.
The broken condition of the man both
women have loved, his helplessness and
his needs have swept away the enmity
OF the women for the time being, at least
They have forgotten their differences in
the ardent hope that he can be made well
again. And stranger STILL Mrs. Cornelia
Peck, the divorced wife, paid all the
hospital expenses. though it is true with
money she obtained from Peck in the set.
tlement of her divorce action against him.
Women are still the dominating infIu-
enee IN the life of Harry Thurston Peck
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14
The very butcher of silk button, q
ducllisf. Romeo ana Juuet.
Mothers Pension Bill

The pension bill in Pennsylvania
has been signed by the governor, and
the state rejoices over it. 1t Is a
splendid piece of legislation. The state
appropriates each year 100000, and
this money is divided among the
counties. The combined total maxi
mum payment to widow or aban-
doned mother shall not exceed S12 a
month for one child, $40 month for
two children, $26 month for three
children, and S5 for each additional
child. The mother must have lived in
the county for three years.
The business is managed through a
board of trustees in each county. These
trustees serve without pay and they
are women varying from five to seven
in number in each county.
The mothers and babies in Pennsyl-
vania are to be congratulated on the
passage of this beneficent bill. The
children must be sent to school. Al
most any woman is better mother
than the best asylum, and the state
rejoices because in this way the or
phan asylums will be depopulated and
a great deal of public money saved.
However looked at the Pennsylvania
law is fine measure. Other states
are adopting the plan, but no state
has done better than Pennsylvania
proposes to do. Governor Tener should
exercise great care in selecting his
boards of trustees, and no doubt he
will do this, for he is full believer in
the merits of the pension plan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14
A Notable Career

I'VE sometimes hear that the days
OF self made men-men starting in OBJ
security and by their own efforts alone
rising to eminence-are gone" said an
old citizen.
Il can remember when nearly every
successful business man had worked his
way up from the bottom and had accu-
muated an estate by sheer pluck and
capacity. In the newer generation of
business men we find many sons of
the rich many who have had the ad-
vantages of college education. When a
college bred young man is ready to
go into business he has place waiting
for him and after two or three years
experience he is holding a responsible
position. But in President James A,
Farrell of the United States Steel cor
poration we have a strong man who, by
the time he was so, attained his present
high place and without any 'pulp-only
by character and ability.
"As witness for the defense in the
government suit to dissolve the Steel
corporation as combination in re-
straint of trade the main facts in Mr..
Farrell's life were brought out and, ac-
cording to the Associated Press, what
amazed his hearers was his intimate
knowledge of affairs in remote parts of
the woEd.' He held them 'keenly in
terested as he narrated the story OF
his rise from common laborer in a
steel mill at the age of Is to be the
head of the greatest industrial corpora
ton in the world at the age of So.
"By the time he was 21, Mr.. Farrell
was foreman in a wire mill. A few
years thereafter he became salesman
and those who have been closely asso-
ciated with him say that he is essen
TALLY a merchant When the presidency
of the Steel corporation became vacant
about two years ago, Mr.. Farrell was
selected not only because of his fami-
liarity with the steel business, but be-
cause of his almost phenomenal talent
for conducting the executive office from
a merchants point of view, leaving the
economy of construction and the econ
omy of operation to technically edu-
Gated men.
Il am told that Mr. Farrell is gen.
tleman of excellent address. Like many
| another man of aspiration who has ris-
en- in life unaided by influential rela-
tives or hackers and who has spent few
years in school. he cultivated himself
by reading and associatings with mel
of culture. Mr.. Farrell's career reads
like a romance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14
The Blue and the Gray

The annual reunion of the Confed
crate Veterans to be held in Chatta-
nooga May 27-29 will mark another
advance in the fraternal feeling that
exists between those who wore the
blue and those who wore the gray.
Chattanooga is a most interesting
city and the extensive and beautiful
government park on the battlefield of
Chickamauga, which attracts visitors
at all times of the year from all parts
of the country, will be more attractive
during the reunion than ever. Gen. G..
H. Grosvenor of Ohio is president of
the park commission and he and his
associate commissioners are sparing
no efforts to promote the pleasure of
the Confederates and reunion of all
visitors.
The ranks of the veterans are thin
ming out rapidly now and many of the
survivors of the Lost Cause are too old
and feeble to attend the reunion But,
still, there will be goodly turnout
and the places of those who are unable
to attend will be taken by the Sons of
Veterans. General Grosvenor, who, not
many years ago, was bitter south
hater and who while he was in Con-
gress was given to making inflamma
tory speeches against this section, has
changed entirely. He is as friendly
with the Confederates and is as SYM
pathetic in his references to them as if
he had never been northern fire
eater.
Times have changed. This is re-
united country. There is no more Sec
sectionalism and there never will be
any more sectional strife. The men
who wore the gray respect the men
who wore the blue and vice versa, and
each side is glad to give honor to the
other side.
In view of the irenic spirit mani
| tested in connection with the Chat
tanooga reunion and of the great love
feast which will take place at Gettys-
burg this summer, the suggestion
made by DIR. George Petrie of the
Alabama Polytechnic institute that
the semi-centennial of the close of the
civil war, which will occur two years
hence, be celebrated on large ma
tional scale, is particularly timely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14
ARTIoULATED STREET CARS

From the Engineering News.
The latest wrinkle in rapid transit is
the "articulated" surface cart Hump,
Sounds bit scholarly, but since it has
been Matched out in Boston, there is
nothing strange in that. This is not
course in spelling and enunciating while
you ride, but simply two small cars Joined
together by flexible platforms.
The Boston Elevated Railway company
has two articulated surface cars of this
type in service on a crosstown line, which
lies almost entirely within a residential
district, containing a few small shops
and a number of schools and halls There
were several transfer points on this line
and these cause heavy short haul traf-
fic. 1t was thought possible to design a
car which would hold as many people
as the standard cars of the company and
still run on narrow streets and around
sharp curves without Objectionable over
hang. The designers sought to find some
use for the 400 odd small cars which
the company possessed, and considera-
ticns of convenience and safety to entering
passengers also had weight.
AS is evident, one vestibule and plat
form were removed from two of the old
% foot closed cars, which were then con-
nected by an intermediate section to form
single unit 60 feet 10 inches long over
bumpers. The car had the intermediate
section floor "A inches above the roadway
giving a "stepless' exterior design.
A flexible waterproof curtain incloses
the passageway between the center and
end compartments. The roof extensions
of the end sections, which project over
have a horizontal hinge and rest on the
center section roof.
The conductors station, of course, is on
the center section. Near the fare box
are push buttons governing bells in the
front and rear vestibules to signal the
motorman in whichever end happens to
be forward. In the center section are 500
watt electric car heaters. All passengers,
of course, have to enter by the center
section, but the passengers in the for
ward section leave through the four ves-
tibule doors which are opened by the
notorman. A folding step drops with the
opening of the vestibule doors. The car
has semi-automatic air breaks with an
emergency valve at the conductors sta
ton The center doors are operated by
compressed air cylinders near the roof
instead of at the floor as is common. The
company reports that the average board
ing and leaving time on these cars is
about two seconds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14
A WORD no THE WISE

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
If you wrap yourselves up like num-
mics, girls, they will all say you are
ashamed of your shapes. II you give the
world an eyeful of joyous curves, they
yelp that you are mmodest. II | were
a girl | would try to appreciate the fact
that man has to be a homely critter be-
cause the Creator used up all the mud
making a useful animal and then worked
the rich clay into something that would
be an incentive to make man hustle to
make good. Beauty Is an asset and
curves are capital If nature has been
kind, don't be afraid to advertise your
Charms Any real man, married or sin
gle, gets more pleasure out of looking at
a pretty girl than he can find between the
covers of a book or on the surface of a
canvas. You were made for us worms to
worship, so do your durnSest This may
be sermon. but this is Sunday.
p. Sand they'll talk about you, any,
way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14
THE BEST HE COULD SAY

From the Philadelphia Telegraph
The talk in the lobby of a Washington
hotel a few nights ago turned TO things
theatrical, and William B. Wilson, Secre
tary of Labor, remarked that a show ne
recently attended reminded him very
much of a story they tell about an Uncle
Toms Cabin performance in western
Pennsylvania.
1t was the same good old show. the
secretary said, with two Topsies. two
Markses, plenty of bloodhounds and q
brass band. Although they had seen I,
sev veral times before, the thing was ir-
resistible, and everybody who had the
time and the price took in the perform
ance. On the following morning two ma
tives met at the village postoffice.
Hello, Jake.' heartily exclaimed one
of the pair. .How's everything? Did We
go to Uncle Toms Cabin last night?"
II surely did," was the prompt re.
sponse of Jake. Wasn't you there?v
No returned the first II couldn't
ge. away How was the show?"
1.-The dogs were pretty good refiec.
lively answered Jake, but they had pool
support
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Prosperous south

The south as a section seems TO have
developed. wonderfully within the past
hve or six years. said Jacob Kennedy
OF Chicago. Il made quite an extensive
trip through the south In 1907 and | have
been In this part of the country once
since then. There has been marked prog
ress In Alabama and the progress OF
Texas has been little short of phenom-
email =,
Few states in the union offer such ao-
vantages to the homeseeker as Alabama
and | am informed that thousands OIL
northern families have settled in THIS
state recently. One railroad company
alone claims to have brought into TINS
state within the past FIVE or six years
$1,000 families and most of them are now
prosperous Alabama farmers. The next
census will undoubtedly show big gain
in Alabamas s population
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-14

The Panama canal zone will be dry
isthmian canal commission a resolution
was adopted that no license for the sale
of intoxicating liquors in the canal zone
be granted for any period beginning on or
after July 1, when the new fiscal year
will begin. In the six fiscal years, dur
total income of 1926, 200 was derived by the
commission.