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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
Birmingham's Y. w. c. A.

The quick completion of the Young
Women's Christian association fund is
a credit to this city as well as an aid
TO valuable work. To furnish protec-
ton and a home to every girl who
needs such in this city is indeed an
enterprise that deserves public con-
fidence and public support and the
quick response to its call for aid shows
it commands both.
As the city increases so will the
army of girls who earn their own liv-
ing increase, and no doubt other and
further appeals to the people for aid
will be made later on. 1t is far better
that the association should own the
property it occupies, for in that way
expenses can be kept at a minimum,
and the prices paid by the members
for rooms and board can be kept with
in reasonable figures.
The Young Womens Christian asso-
ciation is not charity institution in
the ordinary sense. 1t is home for
girls, and they pay for what they get
1t may not be quite self-ssstaining,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
A. 20 sunday L.aNNs

According to the newspaper reports OF
the minister's meeting on Thursday, one
of it's members charged that Judge Lane
in proposing to permit the picture shows
to be opened on Sunday was acting in vio-
lation of the laws Of the state said an
old lawyer.
1.-The laws Of Alabama forbidding GER
tain things TO be done on Sunday VIII be
found in sections 1914. 1915, 7slS and 1913
OF the code of 1904 Not one word in these
sections forbids, strictly or by implication,
tho opening of shows of any kind on that
day. This has been regulated by the
towns and cities of the state each for
itself There is no general law on the
subject lii the case of Conner VS.. jack
son, 50 Ala. 1884, it was decided by the
supreme court that acts not forbidden by
the statute to be done ON that day could
>be done lawfully. If there is any state
law forbidding the opening of theatres,
picture shows, etc. on Sunday l cannot
find It after most diligent search There
is, l believe, city ordinance against
such exhibitions on that day If So the
commissioners have full authority to re-
peal it,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
My way of life
MY way of life
7. ,aII,n into the scar; the yellow leaf.
Macbeth.
Two Senatorial Deadlocks

The election of Judge Goff in West
Virginia has narrowed the senatorial
deadlocks to New Hampshire and ILL
nois only. In the two states three
senators are to be elected to fill seats
formerly filled by republicans. In both
states the progressives are the bal
ance of power.>
If the two states remain deadlocked
to the close of their respective legis-
latures the democrats will gam
strength in the Senate through the
vacancies which cannot be filled by
appointment. The seats to be filled
are those held by Mr.. Burnham of
New Hampshire and Messrs. Cullom
and Lorimer of Illinois, all standpat
republicans. This would reduce the re-
publican strength to the extent of
three votes.
But some sort of combination is
possible in both states. Neither is a
standpat state, and the democrats will
probably secure one senator out OF the
three to be elected.
The clear democratic majority in
the Senate cannot be ascertained un-
til these two deadlocks are adjusted.
1t will range from three to five. This
is close but it is a needful part of the
great revolution of last November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
NEEDED EXPLAINING

supper was in progress. and the faith
er was telling about a row which took
place in front of his store that morn
ing: The first thing l saw was one
man deal the other sounding blow,
and then crowd gathered. The man
who was struck ran and grabbed a
large shovel he had been using on the
street. and rushed back, his eyes bla2-
ing tiercely [ thought he'd surely
knock the other mans brains out, and
stepped right in between them"
The young son of the family had be-
come so hugely interested in the mar
rative as 1t proceeded that he had
stopped eating his pudding. So proud
was he of his fathers valor. his eyes
fairly shone, and he cried:
He couldn't knock any brains out
of you, could he, father?"
Father looked at him long and earn
estly, but the lads countenance was
frank and open,
Father gasped slightly, and resumed
his supper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
Gov. Wilson'S New Jersey Record

Gov. Wilson's New Jersey Record
Governor Wilson has governed New
Jersey courageously and well. He un-
hesitatingly faced trust interests when
he brought in the seven bills which
prohibit and punish monopolies of
every description. These bills forbid
combinations to stifle competition or
to fix prices. Mergers must first be
approved by the utilities commission,
and holding companies cannot estab-
lish monopolies. All stock issues must
be devoid Of water. By these bills the
state which had been the mother of
trusts becomes now the champion of
open competition and fair play.
These bills are now laws. They were
not amended in either house, and Gov
ernor Wilson will leave New Jersey
with his influence unimpaired. He
has governed the state wisely and
WE'LL
He will soon go to larger duties, and
if he governs the United States as
wisely and efficiently as he has done
New Jersey, he will indeed become an
epochal President. He has courage at
any rate. He is just naturally stubborn
when he thinks he is right. He should
be perhaps; for the country often
needs man of just that sort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
Sunday Observancc

Those of us who have passed the three
score mark recall the days of our youth
when Sunday was observed by church
members much more rigidy than it is
now said a man who was brought up
in the Presbyterian fold.
My native town was too small to have
street cars, but had relatives in Cincn-
natl, the nearest big city, and they walked
a mile or more to church rather than
desecrate the Sabbath by riding in the
cars. When / became of age went to
the east to live and there l always walked
10 church and for years never entered a
street Car on Sunday. Gradually my rela-
tives and friends of the household of
faith modified their ideas with regard to
the Sunday question. None of them hest
tate now to take Sunday afternoon out
ngs. play golf or attend Sunday con-
corts.
II still consider myself a reasonably
consistent Sunday observer. l never pa
tronize cigar store or soft drink stand
an Sunday, but ! do attend Sunday aft
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
I.'ENvOI

BY Rudyard Kipling.
When earth's last picture is painted ana
the tubes are twisted and dried,
When the oldest colors have faded. and
the youngest critic has died.
We shall rest, and faith, we shall need
title down for an aeon or two,
Till the Master of All Good Workmen
shall put us to work anew.
And those that were good shall be happy;
they shall sit In golden chair;
They shall splash at a 10 league canvas
with brushes of comets fair;
They shall find real saints to draw from
Magdalene, Peter and Paul;
They shall work for an age at sitting
and never be tired at all.
And only the Master shall praise us, and
only the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for>money, and no
one shall work for fame;
But each for the Joy Of the working, and
each In his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees 1t for the
God OF Things as they xrsl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT TEAT1 WORK
AND THE GREAT GOOD lit r1UST DO HERE

changed the subject to smoke, and the
viaduct went up in smoke.
AS a matter of fact. why not smother
the smoke and volley into the viaduct
matter again. Let us ask the sloss CO.
pie to move their coke ovens or make
them smolxeless and ask the city commits
sioners. the railroads and the street rail-
way to viaduct the mass of tracks that
are menace to human life.
Get team work after the outfit of them
and they will do it.
y *sx
Go after a fellow with belief in his big
ness rather than battle-axe-tell him
you know he wants to do the right rather
than the wrong, and ninety-nine times
out of a hundred he will do the right.
But tell him you will do my way or 1
win do your Well if the fellow has any
spunk he will fight back like wildcat.
* i. !.
Now, let us get the team work going
and build up the town. its industries its
mercantile business, its streets, and its
roads extending outwardly to all sec
tons. Cut the convicts out of the mines.
Put them to building roads of practical
value. Give the farmer the privilege of
the town for the marketing of his make.
y j. y
In Birmingham there is enough OF tho
good for all of us We are not of the
Mexico City species where the fighter
would fileh from the family of the Garner
rather than work. The man with the gun
lis not far removed in savagery from the
man with the mouth and the percussion
cap attached Either is liable to shoot
first and think afterwards.
But be there team work the gun might
be laid away and garnished with gar
lands of good cheer, and the mouth mug
zled to make way for merriment and
much ado fer the many who would work
well gently. but with the firm spirit which
always backs the smile of the rightful
doer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
Reear,ing thc Music Festival

music festival in April but from the pres
cnt outlook if we succeed in having one,
it will be in May-probably the week OF
May o. said j. II. Holcombe, president
of the Music Festival association. I'VE
have had trouble in arranging dates when
would suit orchestras that were available
and which would not conflict with other
attractions.
1.-The Minneapolis Symphony, the Cinein-
natl orchestra, Victor Herberts orches-
ira and the Russian symphony are all
open now for festival bookings some time
in May. We will, perhaps, be able to de-
eide definitely within the next few days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

but it is nearly SO, and every girl in
the big building is glad she has a
comfortable home conveniently 10
Gated near the heart of the city on a
beautiful park.
The association is greatly strength
ened by the recent subscriptions and
it will go forward with increased cour-
age to do the work it has to do. The
city is proud of its Young Womens
Christian association, and it's appeals
for aid will never fall on deaf ears.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
LIVE FROZEN FISH

From the Scientific American.
Fishes belong to the class of animals
that have variable body temperature,
depending on the temperature of their
environment. In extreme cold they as
sumo a rigid condition, in which all of
the vital functions are suspended. while
life still remains present. During sew
eral months of each year some of the
great rivers of Siberia arc frozen solid
to the bottom, but many of the fishes
Imprisoned in the ice retain their vi
tality. and resume their active life
when the Ice melts in spring. This
fact has suggested experiments in the
freezing of live fish for transportation,
which are discussed in the Fischerci
Zeitung. Many years ago the cele-
brated physicist Pictet of Geneva put
fresh water fishes into a tub of water,
which he kept liquid at the freezing
point for "a hours, and then allowed
TO freeze slowly into a block of ice,
which afterward was cooled gradually
TO 20 deg. Cent. ca deg F'ahr.).
When the ice was>~melted.o a month,
or even two months afterward, the
fishes began to swim as brisl1ly as they
did before freezing and showed no.
symptom of i'll health. Similar exper
ments have recently been made In
France. The fishes are placed in water
which is kept near the freezing point
for fifteen TO eighteen hours, and IL
nally frozen-by immersIng the vessel
into freezing mixture, producing
cake of ice few inches thick, in
which the frozen fish are fmbedded.
This cake is wrapped in cloth and sur
rounded with a heat insulating pack
ing to prevent melting during trans
portation. 1t is necessary to thaw the
ice very slowly and to keep the water
near the feeling point for several hours
IN order to preserve the life of the
fishes Even which do not survive are
In perfect state of preservation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
Ben Hur in the chariot race.

ernoon concerts. I attend church services
twice on Sunday-morning and night
and / do not feel as if my religious
ardes had diminished in the least because
l occasionally hear fine concert music
on the day set apart for rest and wor-
ship.
About moving picture shows2 | seldom
attend in the week days and probably
would never attend one on Sunday, but
know there are thousands OF working
men in this city who are among our
iaw-abiding people and who would enjoy
moving picture shows on Sunday men
who would not strain their conscience IL
they attended. / have lived in several
cities where Sunday concerts have long
beer in vogue and where moving pie
turc shows are open ON Sunday and those
cities are famed for their orderliness and
for their excellent citizenship. They are
cities where homieides are almost-'un-
known
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
The Needed Auditorium

One of the standing committees of
the Chamber of Commerce appointed
by President Harding is the audi
torium committee, whose duty it will
be to devise some feasible plan for
providing this city with one of its
important needs.
Birmingham will soon have ample
hotel accommodations. With the COM
pletion of two skyscraper hotels,
which are now in course of construc-
tion, Birmingham will be known as a
high class hotel city. But in order TO
attract attention as convention city
we must have also an auditorium with
seating capacity of 5000 or 10000.
As vast auditoriums are in demand
only on occasions of large gatherings,
they are not counted on as dividend
payers, as rule; but Birmingham
must have what other cities of ap-
proximately it's size have, and it is
reasonable to think an auditorium
here, properly managed, would not
fall far short of yielding a fair
dividend.
The work of the auditorium COM
mittee will be awaited with eager eX-
pectancy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
of US occasionally mounts
a hobby and rides it full tilt like

VERYONEo of US occasionally mounts
a hobby and rides it full tilt like
Ben Hur in the chariot race.
What delight it was for the boys and
girls of Birmingham-bot of the young
and old persuasionr-to drive the Young
Womens Christian association work to
victory this last week. More than the
good women asked for was subscribed
and no man nor woman in this town-ex-
cept those who didn't understand the
questlon-failed to contribute There
we're mites of money and monuments of
gold gently tossed into the hands of the
"hold-up" commttees-and every gift
was given with smile and an exclama-
ton. "A good cause: wish could give
more"
An ideas spirit The big Birmingham
spirit! The Team Work spirit
y - y
Let Ms all take heed of this team
work. spirit and instead of trying to put
Brothers Motion and Malone and Sisters
Smith and Jones in jail because some
body plays craps or oribbage in loft
fl.atr l,,a,, 60 1offc toll han ~
of it by showing them the error of their
ways.
Instead of mass meetings and making
in newspapers to recall a good and godly
city commissioner because he would sus
gest moving picture entertainments foe
working man and woman on a sunday
afternoon. why should we not tai II
over with him and see that if he would
have them they be of the thoughtful and
the Instructive?
Far better would it be to see a play like
The Rosary" on a sunday afternoon
than to attend political meeting OF
venom and viciousness against man
who suggests an idea for upbuilding and
teaching.
Moving pictures are to be used in ...e
schools and the Sunday schools. Mr.. ',di-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
REFLECTIONS OF A BACEHLOR

From the New York Press.
The cost of living problem is just a
family matter
One way to tell man is rich is how
the sight of charity subscription list
scares him.
Nothing is clearer to a woman than
how much handsome Jewels could i'm
prove her character.
The reason a girls father thinks she's
as innocent as the day she was born is
nobobdy else does.
What makes 1t so dangerous to our
political Institutions for woman 10
have a little brains is IT makes it so
much more evident her husband hasn' I
Gny.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
LEASING CONvICTs

From the> Bessemer Tribune.
The Mobile Register and Birmingham
Age-Herald have both come out strong
" in favor of working the roads of the
state with convicts. With such support,
II is only a matter of time when the
states convict leasing graft will joir the
Louisiana state lottery and other gratis
that have fallen before an aroused public
sentiment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
ILesN3oueo~

said Did he mention what he had in
the basket?e
Some of tn. things, gran'pa He's got
aches and pains and shakiness and wrin-
kles ard lameness and weakness"
The grandfather laughed again.
"A full supply, eh? Well dearie, you gn
lack and tell HIM I'm so busy playing
with you that l haven't any time to
bother with him. just tell him there's
nothing doing today"
And If he won't go away. gran'pa?"
Then you I'll him there's an old boy
In here who win come out and chase him
Gown the highway. But / guess he's got
sense enough to see he cant do business
with us-were much too young for him.
But, wait. sweetheart. Tell him that
sometime. when ne has a long, long sleep
in his basket, he can leave it at the door.
But there's no hurry"
So the child went to the door and de-
livered her message and came back.
ITS your shot, gran'pa," she said.
And their laughter mingled.
Plain Dealer.
TRAPPED.
Tommy, did you break this Windows
pane9"
Father, l can not tell lie."
Come, now None of this George
Washington business"
"All right, pa | didn't break it,
"Ahl I've caught you in lie. l saw
you break this window-pane."
But. pa, you just now said, None OF
this George Washington business.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
From March Lippincotts.

From March Lippincott's.
Two of the many scholars had been
particularly obnoxious that afternoon.
One was Willie Briggs, who was the
son of the most influential man in town.
and therefore considered himself inn
mune from punishment Willie had
outdone himself in inventing new ways
to annoy the harassed treaeher, and he
had been ably seconded by Johnny
Witherup, son of the leading grocer.
The usual round of "sassing" the teach
err. tripping other scholars, throwing
spitballs, upsettlng the waste basket,
and similar tricks, had eliminated in
their putting several large thumb tacks
on the teachers chair-with results that
We're entirely satisfactory 10 all con-
cerned, with the sole exception of the
teacher,
The pupils were rather surprised
when the young teacher suddenly
walked down the aisle and locked the
door. Then she seized the two recall
citrant scholars, and. in spite of their
struggles, dragged them up to her desk.
Taking a bals of stout cord, she bound
them securely hand and foot, then, be-
fore the Mortified scholars eyes. she
took out a large pair of shears and de-
liberately clipped off the ears of the
two little boys. The other children
We're too amazed and too Mortified to
make any demonstration, but the vic
tins of the teachers brutality screamed
and writhed with pain-to her intense
enjoyment.
She next cut off their noses, after
which she amused herself by sticking
her hatpin into them alternately. FINAL
lY, firing of that. she produced a long,
keen knife, evidently provided for the
purpose, and carved the two little boys
into inch pieces. Then she woke up.
Il might have known it was too al
together heavenly to be true" she told
herself, yawning. Il wonder if it is
time to get up"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

son tells US. The best stories of the
Bible are told in them in way that the
average mind can grasp and hold to.
Because bad stories have been told in
moving pictures is no reason why they
should be driven out. Bad stories have
been told in books. But we exclude them
from the mails and prevent their sale in
Birmingham.
All things should be censored, but the
good should not be censured along with
the bad
y Y a:
But a few weeks ago beyySof college
boys, at home ON their Christmas vaca-
ton, were arrested OF a Sunday after
noon i'm a boys club for meeting there
and throwing dice for dimes to be con-
tributed to buying candy favors for the
dance to be held the following Monday
evening. These boys were Jailed for It.
1t was rainy sunday afternoon and
the boyish spirit was eager and earnest
to do something. Suppose there had been
moving picture show OF the Passion
Play? These boys would have used their
dimes TO go there.
What we want here in Birmingham and
in every town of Alabama is team work
and contestants. Let's go about every
thing in the manly and open way, and
give our neighbors time and opportunity
to right the wrong they are doing us.
Don't fine and jail people for making
smoke from Birmingham coal. The stuff
win make smoke. Let Us find way to
consumes this smoke and gradually do it,
1t has not been very many months
ago when provision was made for via
duets over the railway tracks and the
furnace tracks up First avenue toward
Woodlawn and East Lake to protect the
people who live in these sections of Bir-
mingham and who must come into the
business center In the morning aud re-
turn in the afternoon! but somebody
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23

The New York World cuts the list Of
ayailables for cabinet places to IS names
as follows: William Jennings Bryan of
Nebraska, jeremiah Sullivan of Iowa,
Frederick b. Lynch of Minnesota, LOUIS
d. Brandeis of Massachusetts, Josephus
Daniels of North Carolina Newton ID.
Baker of Ohio, William Kent of Cali
fornia. a. S. Bureson of Texas, William
McAdoo, Henry Morgenthau and Victor
J. Dowling of New York. obadiah Gard
ner of Maine, Charles S. Barrett of Geor-
gla, Charles Dabney of Ohio, Joseph w.
Folk of Missouri, A. Mitchell Palmer of
Pennsylvania, Martin j. Wade of Iowa.
and Charles r. Crane of Illinois. The
New York sun prints a slate, as follows:
State William J. Bryan of Nebraska
hesury, William G: McAdoo; war, Charles
r. Crane of Illinois; navy, John Il. Nc
Graw of West Virginia; Attorney Cen
eral A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania;
interior, Edwin L. Norris of Montana;
agriculture, Herbert Quick of Ohio, Albert
Sidney Burleson of Texas or Obadiah
Gardner of Maine; commerce and labor
Louis d. Brandies of Massachusetts,
Postmaster General, Josephus Daniels or
william G. McAdoo, or --avid j. Lewis of
Maryland.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
A DREANIER'S VOW.

A DREAMER'S $ VOW.
TN or the road to the Sunshine eoir-
tryi"
That was the cry of his storm tossed
soul;
i've set my heart on glad hereafter
Though the blizzards howl and the
waters roll.
Tho night comes fast and the tempest
lowers,
The thunder raves in the vault above,
But I'll win 10 the land of peace and
plenty,
And the vine-clad' cot and the cooling
dove.
I'm 'scapo from the strife and tho futile
clamor
OF crowded scenes where the masses toll
And the city's roar and the reek of labor
And the driven throngs who senseless
moil.
"Ill lay me down mid the roses blooming,
Asleep at last on the mother-breast
OF earth, and the strife for aye give over,
In the Sunshine land in the land of
resti'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
Difference in Ten Years

"on Friday the First National bank
called me up TO remind me that Satur-
Gay was a legal holiday and suggested
that il | needed any pay roll money l
bad better send around and check it out, y
said citizen prominent in mercantile
circles. Il take it for granted that the
bank notified all its depositors who were
known to be pay roll people, and the other
banks probably pursued the same course
that the First National adopted. 1t was
very thoughtful on the part of the bank
and, not only that, it showed that money
was plentiful and that bank methods were
broader tharr,in former days.
Il have been doing business here for 70
years and | remember when the banks
would call up q day before a holiday and
remind US that deposits would be appr
ciated They never suggested anything
about drawing cut money for pay rolls,
Yes, there has been great Improvement
in everything in Birmingham. Every man
in business now keeps a good bank ac-
count. The banks are flush and there is
never any trouble about getting CONNER
ciaI paper discounted"