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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
As LOTT saw BROADWAY
Pierre Lott in the century Magazine.

Pierre Lott in the Century Magazine.
AT o'clock 1 descend and join the
crowds on the wide sidewalks of Broad
way. Though the women wear Partisan
costumes and the men suits and hor-
rible derbies similar to ours, the crowd is
not the crowd of Paris. These people have
a certain something in their bearing that
is more pronounced, more self assertive
and also more eccentric. And what a mix
ture of races. One recognizes, as they
pass. Japanese. Chinese with the European
hair cut, Greeks, Levantines, fair haired
Scandnavians. A native American said to
me tonight:
in New York you are. in sense, not
vet in America. You are only on the
threshold where the heterogeneous
masses that Europe sends US stop for a
while on disembarking. In the second
generation. when all these elements have
been fused by intermarriage, the true
Americans are born, and take on perfect
cohesion and love of the new country,
and prove the truth of our national motto,
70 pluribus unum. Americans of this
tvpe are more inclined to make their
homes in the cities of the interior, and it
is there that one should go to feel oneself
truly in the United States. and to study
the strong, enterprising race. rejuvenated
like a tree that has been pruned, which
springs from the union of all these
forces
Yet there are many well dressed women
on Broadway, and handsome ones. too.
at least when the white glare of the cleo
trio lights does not beat upon them too
crudely, giving them corpse like pallor.
The opulent shops, with their immense
show windows, remind one of our own
boulevards; but the electricity which flows
In rivers, and dominates everything. is
1000 times more aggressive than it is with
us. Everything seems to vibrate, to
craclxle. under the influence of these in
Vulnerable currents which dispense pow
er and light One is himself electrified al
most to the point of quivering under the
cfirotilus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
o! the blood more stirs,
10 rouse lion than TO start " h"re'
King Henry ".
statewide Health Campaign

The state health department Is
preparing to launch in every county
a health campaign, so to speak. State
Health Officer Sanders says the pro-
posed campaign will deal with sanl-
tation in the home as well as IN pub
lie affairs. This plan means that
better living will be taught. 1t means,
too. that many diseases will be pre-
vented, and prevention is ever better
than cure.
No doubt the campaign will be spe-
cialIy directed against hookworm, ma
laria and tuberculosis-the three great
diseases of this state. The programme
has not been presented to the people.
II soon will be, however, and all are
assured by DIR. Sanders that the cam
naipn will be methodical in every re-
spect. and that it will be the greatest
undertaken in the state in a number of
wears. Success to it. Alabama needs
q statewide health campaign. Every
county needs more and better SANTA
tion and disease prevention. None is
free from numerous ills. All need a
big dose of Reform, spelled with a
capital K.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14

sented in all its audacity in the Con-
necticut river dam bilt.
The claim of the federal government
is but step towards federal centrali-
zation, and the regret is that Governor
O'Neal, committed as he is to STATE
control and legislation, should have
refused to fight down and out the
Stimson policy. That policy cannot,
however, gain a precedent in this
Congress, All it certsiliy will not in
the sixty-third Congress.
No more audacious encroaehment
on states rights has been attempted
than that presented in the Connecti-
cut river dam bill. 1t came direct
from the brain of Secretary of War
Stimson and would never have been
heard from if he had not become Sec
retary of War. 1t is marked for de-
feat. Once defeated this device of
the Secretary of War will disappear
with its inventor and contriver.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
First Trip souih

81 am visiting the south for the first
time" said A. e. Parkinson of New
York, superintendent of agents of the
Scientific American compiling depart
ment.
within the past few years / have
heard of the south's wonderful pros
perity and find that the glowing ac-
counts from this section have not been
exaggerated. The important southern
cities which I have already visited in
clude Atlanta and New Orleans. At
lanta is a very progressive city and
so is Birmingham. / would say even
without looking at the figures that
these two cities had about the same
number of Inhabitants.
ATLANTA was little ahead of Bir-
mingham in the 1910 census. but ac-
cording to the census bureaus bulle-
tin tabulating the consolidated pop
ulation inside and outside of cities that
showed 100 900 population and upward
-10-mile limit, | believe-Birmingha
was larger; something like 1000 ahead.
"The south is attracting wider atten-
ton now than ever and during the
present decade there will be an i'm
mense advance industrially and COM
mercially."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
A colonial woman in London is agitat
ing against the admission of ''men-of-.
color" to social equality in London
The term "men-of- f-color" in London
means Mongolians, Americans and Afri-
can negroes. West Indians, Turks, Egyp-
Berbers from the Atlas mountains, Arabs
from beyond the Red sea, straight haired
blacks of the South Sea islands. Malays,
Australians, New zealanders, Kanakas,
Somalis, Singhalese, Afgnans, Abyssn-
ans, Filipinos and men of other divis-
ions of the human race, all of whom
are held by the protesting idealist to be
brothers under their skin.
Many Of the men of color who visit,
or reside, in London are titled aristo-
Gratis. They are often oxford graduates.
Some of them are of royal blood. Many
of them are not only picturesque be-
cause of their titles and their personal
appearance, but also men of charming
personality and wide culture. A prince
of India who plays polo, shoots big
game, speaks a dozen languages and
traces his ancestry back to the period
in which the Scotch were cannibals and
the English lived in mud huts, is not
merely an interesting man. from the
point of view of an English girl, but
an interesting conversationalist from any
ones point of view. The son of an east
ern sultan and heir to barbaric throne
who equals the titled young Englishman
in education rivals him in athletic
sports and exceeds him in wit and hui
NOR, makes an attractive dinner guest.
But, as the woman from one of the
colonies says, nobody who has lived
among the colored races advocates ANAL
gamation or looks favorably upon the
association of English girls and men of
color.
The question is not one of racial supe-
rority or infariority, but of race integ-
rity. The word caste" which means so
much in India, is derived from a word
meaning purity of blood The conser-
vation of purity of blood is for the best
of all races. That the half caste is not
fortunate in his lineage is we'll known
to every one who knows the British col
| onies; and the sundry i'll results of the
indiscriminate association of white per-
sons and persons of other races are well
known TO all who know anything about
race mongrelization. The race prob
| lem is not an American problem, al
| though there are still a few ignorant
and officious Americans who so regard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
Growing virginia cities

"The whole south seems to be booming,
but I doubt IL any southern state has
larger number of rapidly growing cities
than Virginia" " said F. NJ. Hartley Of
New York. IT had often been to Old
Point during the early summer season,
but I made a somewhat extended tour
of Virginia state for the first time last
fall
IT found Richmond not only a beauti-
full city, but a city as full of public
spirit as Atlanta. and that is saying
great deal, of course, for Atlanta has
long been accepted as the model get-to-
gether town of the country. Richmond
has a population of about 10000 and in
the next census It will easily go over
the 100000 mark Norfolk is going ahead
briskly and while there Is population
of something like 10000 within a radius
Of 10 miles 1t will be a long time before
Norfolk can overtake Richmond in popu-
lation as far as city limits go; perhaps
never.
Petersburg, one of the Oldest towns
in the state. is a flourishing city, but 1t
does not grow very fast. 1t has a popu-
lation of about 25.oo0. Lynchburg, with
population of between 10000 and 40,oOo,
is a solid, rich town, but very eonserya-
tive. I did not get as far west as Roam
oke. but I am told that that city Is max
ing remarkable progress. A population
of 10000 is claimed for it.
1.-THE Virginia cities of the smaller
class are all thriving and Staunton, the
town where woodrow Wilson was born,
is as busy community of 10000 as
ever saw.
phenomenal growth Birmingham leads 1t
is only a question of 30 or 40 years when
this city will have population of
| 1,000, ,O00'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
Water Powers in This State

Governor O'Neal has put himself
squarely on the platform that the
Mobile Register and The Age-Herald
had previously defined. His law is
good law. 1t is law that is as plain
as an old shoe. The state has by the
law of 1907 abandoned all proprietary
rights in its streams, leaving the ripa-
rian owners in the saddle subject to
federal rights of navigation only. The
state, however, says the governor,
"can by wise and just laws prevent
unjust and unreasonable exactions by
hydroelectric companies from the con-
suming public. 1t can under its
power of regulation remove the fear
and danger of monopoly by limiting
earnings to just and reasonable re-
turns upon the capital invested"
This is exactly in line with the de-
mand of The Age-Herald for a pub
lie utilities commission, or at the
very least for supervision by the rail-
road commission. This plan will no
doubt. command the support of the
entire press of the state and later
of the voters at the polls. 1t is not
only law, but it is, or soon viii be
public sentiment.
The Montgomery Advertiser joins
the Mobile Register and The Age-Her-
aid in opposing the Stimson plan of
Selling without shadow of right the
waters Of state and selling them for
what they will bring in the market.
The Stimson plan would increase the
cost of hydroelectricity to consumers
and would practically rob the state of
the power of regulating the price of it..
Stimsonism inspired the veto of the
bill relating to Lock Is and it is pre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
Intervention Would Mean Annexation

lnttINeniiOH NOuhu MtdH AHltSAdtioA'
Intervention in Mexico would mean
invasion by considerable force, and
invasion means war, and Congress
alone can declare war. President
Taft deserves credit for doing all
that President could do to maintain
peace between the two countries. Had
the Mexican troubles arisen in the
administration of Colonel Roosevelt
the measure of our difficulties in that
country would have been greatly in
creased, and this country would prob
ably have been led to shoulder vast
expenditure, long war, and an an
nexation that would have doubled the
number of our non-English speaking
citizens. 1t is simply impossible to
grasp the calamity that would have
become possible under the aggressive
general policy of President Taft's
predecessor. President Taft deserves
the thanks of the country.
Mediation, which is now proposed in
Washington, may prove feasible. An
effort in that direction is certainly
worth making.
Intervention in Mexico would mean
annexation under the circumstances,
and this country does not want 49,
100000 of half breeds and all other
forms of inferior breeding, compara-
lively few of whom would become good
American citizens. We are we'll
loaded up with undesirable citizens
at present, and an addition of 49,
100000 would constitute heavy and
distressing national burden.
The Mexicans might settle their own
troubles in their own way if let alone
and diplomatic pressure might suffice
to secure reasonable protection for the
American in Mexico. The thing that
stands out distinctly in the affairs of
Mexico is that the Mexican people are
incapable of self government. They
can be ruled by the iron hand of a
Diaz, but they do not understand the
first principles of self government.
This country does not want them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
poIlee fin LARGE Cities


"In large cities there will always be
Gus forms, but it is almost inconceiv-
able that the police force of great
American municipality like New York
should be honeycombed with corrup-
ton and be officered bx men paid good
salaries who are confessed grafters
one does not find such conditions in
the police departments of the large Eu
ropean Cities said Charles L. Little
ton OF Pittsburg, who has travelled
much in the Old World.
I'm Europe one scarcely hears of any
ficials and. having spent some time in
London. can testify to the excellence
of the discipline and the efficiency of
the metropolitan police there. OF course
in many of our large American cities,
Pittsburg among them, the police force
is all it should be but it seems that
in New York it is next to impossible
to keep out scandals. one would say
that a commissioner of character, grit
and education would be able to reform
the police department Commissioner
w dlQO is ui44utStlonclDiy liSH tidSS
man and he is bending every energy
now to reform the organization under
him. He will doubtless succeed but in
less than no time we will hear of the
old system of officers paid money by
lawbreakers for protection.
an London the metropolitan police
department consists of about 10000 Of
ficers and men. Very seldom, indeed,
is any member of the police force
called to answer to the charge of dis
honesty in any form or for breach of
discipline. Some of the caricaturists
and novelists of earlier days used to
make it appear that London policemen
were extremely stupid Only few
years ago l spent some weeks in the
worlds metropolis and / had occasion
to come in contact with the police. l
talked with patrolmen, with sergeants
and with three or four of the superin-
tendents and l found them all polite,
manly and well informed. The head OF
the metropolitan police is a colonel de-
tailed from the regular army. His pay
is $4,000 a year and besides that he
is furnished with mansion and SER
wants. With the commissionership
goes knighthood. Some years ago the
commissioner was Col Sir j. Il. Hem
derson. Before his day Gen. Sir Red
vers Butler, the famous soldier. was ap-
pointed commissioner of police, but the
job did not suit him. lie failed utterly
to grasp the police situation or police
problems and he soon asked TO be re-
iieved. Henderson, on the other hand,
made an excellent police chief and be-
came as shrewda detective as any
body under him at Scotland Yard.
There is an assistant commissioner
of Londons Metropolitan police of the
rank OF lieutenant colonel detailed
from the regular army and there are
four or five majors of the reg
ular army who have charge OF
police divisions. The superintend
ents Of police. of whom there are tbir-
ty-odd, are promoted from the ranks.
Americans have way of pokinc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
A READER OF SHAW
Kansas City Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
"A man with offices in one of the large
buildings keeps shelf of books. Coming
from lunch early one day he found the
charwonan of his floor reading a book
of Shaw's plays.
It developed that she knew them all.
She cleared for him many points OF
Shavian philosophy. She illumined the
discussion with references to other plays
and writings that present modern life and
modern problems.
The following list of comments has been
prepared. You may take your choice:
IN It is Just an individual case, like
hen with teeth or a white blackbird. II
has no significance.
(2) Who will do the dirty work If cul-
tire gets down to the masses?
go There ought to be a censorship for
such stuff as Shaw writes. 1t simply
makes the working class discontened.
90 Poor dear, 1 must find out who she
is and do something for her.
Is, The workers are the ones who are
doing the real thinking these days.
60 There is a necessary connection be-
tween the democracy of the time and the
democratic tendency in the literature of
the time. 1.-THE colonels lady and Judy
lOGrady are sisters under their skim
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
FEATs OF MEMORY

From Tit-Bts.
OF the many examples of prodigious
memories which have been recorded
from time to time none, perhaps, have
been so remarkable as the case of Rev.
Thomas Threlkeld, who was a Presby-
terian minister at Rochdale for 2S years.
and died there in April, 1906. at the age
of 67. Threlkeld's memory first attracted
attention when he attended the grammar
school at Daventry, where he began to
make a close study of the Bible. When
"a passage was recited to him he could inn
mediately give 1t, chapter and verse, and.
on the other hand. II a chapter and verse
were given he could at once repeat the
passage.
Both at Daventry and Warrington.
where he went to finish his education. his
fellow students delighted in putting LIS
memory to the test, and never once was
it known TO be 1T fault.
I'm later years." says Frank Hird, in
Lancashire Stories "Threlkeld was
looked upon as living concordance to
the Bible in Rochdale and the neighbor-
hood. and he was constantly asked the
Rost puzzling questions by his brother
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
Roosevelt a Democratic Asset

day afforded an opportunity
sp | Roosevelt and ex-senator
taHez;gs to declare anew that the
We party had come to stay,
and that there would be no compro-
mise, no amalgamation, no yielding
in the fight against the republican
party. Some democratic politicians
have said that this is the real reason
why the House will not adopt one
term presidential amendment. 1t is
desired that Colonel Roosevelt be
kept in the running. He is considered
a valuable asset on the democratic
side. To eliminate him in accordance
with the Works proposition would DE
to destroy the progressive party, and
would mean that the republican party
would not die. In all reason it should
die. 1t cannot exist in 15 states.
Sectionalism will utterly disappear
when the republican party does.
Many democrats therefore say that
Colonel Roosevelt should not be shut
out by means of a constitutional
amendment. Let him stay to carry on
the work of disrupting and finally OF
burying the republican party deep
down beyond all hope of resuscitation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
From the Housekeeper for February.

From the Housekeeper for February.
WY EST POINTS famous kitchen
A/ is the secret of the ruddy
w cheeks, the upheld heads and
bright eyes of the sturdy young ca
dets. An enticing menu for breakfast,
dinner and supper is daily furnished
at an average cost of 61 cents per day
per cadet! The 61 cents day includes
besides the foodstuffs the wages and
board and service for 56 help, the table
linen, china, pots and pans, breakage
and wear and tear and laundry, every
thing save rent for the building, light
and heat
The average houseSeeper struggling
with increased prices will inquire
wearily How"
Well, West Point does not do it by
economy--that is, as economy is gem
orally understood. 1t buys the best OF
everything, and serves everything in
unlimited quantities. Steaks served are
sirloin or porterhouse, roasts are prime
ribs butter and milk are the finest the
market affords. OF course. the institu-
ton gains an advantage by purchasing
in large quantities.
The cold storage rooms running off
on all sides OF the main kitchen al
ways boast a full supply of meats, but
ter. eggs, vegetables and fruits, while
the dry storage rooms hold still
greater supply of dry foods. Usually
there is at least $4,000 worth of food
on hand. But the saving effected by
buying in large quantities is negligible
whom compared with the saving ef-
fected by good management.
How many housewives keep an ac-
count of wasted food of spoiled food,
of damage done to pots and pans and
linen?
West Point records show every day
the supplies issued to steward, baker,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
VOICES OF THE NIGHT

From the Chicago Tribune.
Hello. Yes. Can't you call some other
doctor? I'm all i'm.
moi That telegram is for the man next
door, Can't you read figures, you blum
der head?''
mot another one. Jack. .Shl Be care
full as you go down the front steps;
they're very slippery"
Say, old chap, wake up! Far as we 60
All out,'
NAV, we've just got to have more
covers on this bedi'
"Aw, come onl Don't stop to look at
The thermometer,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
nooMERANG roR A LAWYER
from the Argonaut

From the Argonaut.
George Clarke. negro minstrel, on
one occasion, when being examined as
a witness, was severely Intercepted
by a lawyer. You are in the minstrel
business, l believer" inquired the law
yer. Yes, SIR" was the reply. rs not
that rather a low caIling?" II don't
know but what it is, sir" replied the
minstrel, but it is SO much better than
my fathers that l am rather proud OF
it," The lawyer fell into the trap.
What was your fathers calling? he
inquired. He was a lawyer" replied
Clarke. in a tone that sent the whole
court into a roar of laughter as the
discounted lawyer sat down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14

ministers, sometimes actually for infor-
nation, but generally for mere amuse-
ment. He was never known to be wrong.
Threlkeld's powers of memory. however.
were not solely concerned with theology
He was also a lingust, and knew nine or
10 languages, while dates were passion
with him, no matter how unimportant- his
knowledge of historical dates, of chronolo-
gy, heraldry and genealogy was encycio-
paedic and one of his favorite amuse-
ments was to so through the succession
in the Episcopal Sees and trace the pedi-
grees of families.
"In only one direction" continues MI
Hrd. .'would this wonderful memory
seem to have been of direct service
Threlkeld was me of the managers oil
fund for the benefit of the widows OF Pres
byterian ministers, and consequently Wa
II frequently appealed to on circumstances
connected with the lives of dead minister's
and such was the opinion of his memory
that If the books had been consulted and
had been reported differently the error
would have been imputed to the secretary
and not TO Mr.. Threlkelds memory. This
was deemed infallible.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14

Colonel Goreas has gone back TO the
canal zone. A feature of his work during
the coming months win be fighting mos
quitos. He will direct his effort to keep
ing the surface of Gatun lake, a link in
the waterway, cleared of mosquito breed
ing vegetation and refuse by artificial
means, until the opening of the canal in
augurates a running flow through the
lake. Colonel Gorgas was accompanied
by his daughter Miss Aileen, who on
April 20 will wed William Wrightson, in
Ancon, on the Pacific side, of the canal
zone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14
OUT OF THE FOLD
ON the National Monthly.

FROM the Natlonal monthly.
Mary's father beings a member of
Congress, the child naturally inhaled
politics with the air she breathed. and
grew firm in the faith that nothing
good could be found outside the demo-
|cratic fold. Miss Smith, q friend of
little Mary's sister, and a political
hereto in her eyes, was visiting in the
family. Late one evening, the child,
searching for her sister. wandered ints
the guests room, where she found
Miss Smith in the midst of her devo-
tions.
Mary stared at her in open-eyed as
constituent and as the young lady
arose from her knees, exclaimed, why.
Miss Smith. Do you say your prayers?
thought you were a republican,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-14

fun at our English cousins for anti
qnated institutions but we would be
fortunate indeed If we could come up
to England in many respects. especial
morale.
"The English. by the way. are great
believers in putting military men at
the head of all organizations that de-
pend for efficiency upon thorough dis
cipline. Not only is the head of the po-
lice department a detailed army officer
but the chief of the fire brigade is al
ways a lieutenant detailed from the
royal navy"