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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
Woman's Wages VS.. Those of Man

DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, the suf-
fragist leader, is complaining bitterly
that the Ford Automobile company
failed to include women equally with
men in its profit sharing plan. 1t has
been the rule of economics that women
should be paid little over half of the
wages that male employees receive;
thus where the average salary of a
woman teacher is $500, the male
teacher receives $500.
The root of this trouble may be
found in the inclination of women to
crowd into occupations paying low
wages. Statistics show that out of
4,800,000 women wage earners in this
country 1,165,000 are servants and
1873, 1886 washerwomen.
The employees of department stores
and workers in sweat shops are fire.
quently found protesting against a
minimum wage law, under the fear of
worse competition should wages be
raised.
Herein lies radical difference be-
tween the laboring sexes, for when a
man of any ambition finds himself in
an avocation where the supply OF
workers is greatly in excess of the
demand, he usually essays to equip
himself for successful competition in
a higher class.
1t is true that such lines of business
as dressmaking, millinery, restaurant
lodging house and bookkeeping profit
women equally with the men, but fe-
males engaged in such avocations, SO
far as numbers are concerned, are
relatively small.
When woman finds her calling
crowded she must follow the example
of man and prepare herself to ster
| higher. This is the only way, for wher
woman serves the public we'll the fact
of sex counts for little.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27

France and Great Britain so that the
Mohammedan invalid. only has to ap-
peal to one of the powers in order to
arouse a concatenation of national
jealousies and invoke a general war.
But we have the "sick man of
America" and that invalid is Mexico.
Our object is not to remove him but
to cure him. The Monroe doctrine has
not proved to be a panacea; indeed it
is being questioned whether it has not
been bottled SO long as to have lost
some of its medicinal virtue. The
monetary interests of European ma
tions connected with Mexico are an
analogue to the mercantile prestige
that involves the treatment of the
"sick man of Europe" while the at
titude of Japan and possibly Germany
render the sensitiveness of the situa-
tion somewhat akin to that which fea-
lures the display of national jealousies
of the governments across the water.
Whether the western invalid will be
able to maintain his status as long and
as successfully as his eastern proto-
type has done is a problem for the
future to solve.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
Two Fout PRISONS

From the Kansas City Star
Whatever opposition there is to the ex-
POSING of the Missouri pententiary is
about as foolish and discreditable as
was the political cry of some years ago
against exposing the boodling in the Mis-
souri, legislature. 1t was said then that
that was 'slandering Missouri" But the
people of Missouri were not fooled.
There is no public shame in a pad con-
dition when efforts are made To cure it.
The shame is in hiding or ignoring the
evil.
Prof. Charles A. Ellwood's disclosure
of the foulness of the Missouri peniten-
tiary and of the Missouri penal system
comes almost simultaneously with the
similar disclosure of Prof. Blackniar con-
cerning the Kansas prison at Lansing.
Now that these foul things are given
air. it is well to consider some hopeful
coincident circumstances. Professor ell
wood is the Missouri university sociolo-
gist. Professor Blackmar is the Kansas
university sociologist. In both states.
then' the universities are lending their
rnprejudiced experts to the service Of the
state. That is fine
Ihen' both Governor Hodges of Kansas
and Governor Major of Missouri are fac
ing facts as they are and advocating rad
lcal betterments in harmony with the
| impartial reports
Lastly, the curative process of public
information has begun. Foul peniten-
tiaries and foul penal systems canont
much longer proomte lawlessness and
degrade humanity in these two states
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
THE CITY A BIG BUSINESS

From the Albuquerque Journal.
The city is a corporation and should
le conducted on a business basis, just
as much as bank or dry goods store
or life insurance company or a news
paper. There was time when news
paper could not be conducted except as
an advocate of: the principles, right OF
wrong, of some political party. 1t was
expected to turn its batteries on the
opposition, right or wrong, and to de-
fend its party, right or wrong.
That attitude is changed now. In
the big cities scarcely newspaper is
found, worthy of the name. that is moi
Independent. The reason for the change
was that the people wanted reliable
news. not partisan news. They sup.
ported newspapers that put the inter
ests of the country first. The party
organ went into the scrap heap.
The same principle applies to mum.
cipal affairs as to other corporations
banks dry goods stores, manufacturine
plants, newspapers, what not. They
are all purely business propositions
and should be conducted as such.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
PROGRESS IN 13S YEARS

From the Philadelphia Saturday Post.
Counting, say, from the tertiary epoch
to the declaration of independence, the
human world changed more in the last
$500 years than 1t had changed in the
preceding 100000. And in many impor.
tant respects il changed more from the
declaration to the election of Wilson than
it had chansvd-n the preceding % CEN
turies.
To get from horseback to train took
many thousand years. To get from rail-
road train to flying machine took less
than a hundred. The British Parliament
of 1882 was constituted substantially like
those of the thirteenth century. Now
the shopkeepers and laborers sit on
nobility's neck.
For another illustration of the con-
stantly accelerating pace at which the
world moves, looks back only 15 years.
If public opinion in this country with
regard to war were in the same state it
we should have had an army in Mexico
months ago-probaby eating sunwhole-
some rations and dying very extensively
of camp diseases The argument for in
tervention in Mexico is perhaps as sound
as that for Intervention in Cuba was.
There is vast disorder at our door,
much cruelty and suffering, many inn
periled business interests-and jingo
newspaper, with one pious eye on the
grand old flag and the other on the cash
account, could probably increase its cir
culation as much by selling extras about
a Mexican war as about the Spanish
war; but the argument falls on very
different audience.
The country now wants peace much
as 1t then wanted war. In only 10 years.
we have travelled farther along a good
road than our forbears travelled in Z
thou sand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
married woman always believes too
much or not enough.
The od-fashioned man who used TO
kick because his wife paid SO for a shawl
to wear on her head now has a son
whose wife nails him for $50 for a hat.
The kind of men who haven't had A.
bath since they went swimming last June
can act just as fresh as anyone else.
Love is blind until Hubby comes home
with some strange perfume on his vest.
and then Love can see through a brick
wall
A man may be so low down and or
merry that he coulden't get another man to
when he does get home If he has to
find some woman who will take a chance
and marry him.
Any man would rather kiss his neigh
bors wife once in while than kiss his
own wife every day.
There are very few divorces in the
families in which the wife leaves nice
lunch and a cold bottle in the ice box
for the husband, instead of laying for
him with a yard of hot tongue when he
comes home late.
When man dies and his relatives
agree that he is better off, the chances
are that he is.
- 10 udiu u pass Il counterfeit dime
on woman. But she will always fall
for counterfeit man.
A wealthy man can always live to be
100 years old if he only has enough hun
CRY heirs waiting for him to die.
can't see the great need of sex edu-
cation in the schools. The children are
already demanding that old Doc Storlz
produce his Eskimos.
Cheer up. 1t is impossible to learn how
to play a cornet bysmail.
Father will stop in three hop emporums
on his way home to supper and will
waste an hour and half gabbing about
the chances of the Federal league. But
when he does get home. If he. has to
wait five minutes while mother warns up
his supper he wants a divorce.
Married men are always in debt be-
cause they have families, and unmarried
men in the same fix because they
haven't.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
Candidates at Court ON Monday

IF anyone has any doubt as to the
activity of the candidates for the sew
eral county offices. he can promptly
get that doubt removed by a visit to
the courthouse any Monday morning" 4"
said well known attorney. "A fell
low cannot walk two steps without
someone presenting a card announcing
the candidacy of someone for public
office ahd with the never varying re-
mark, I will appreciate anything you
can do for me- or him as the case
may be.
with all the courts in session and
practically all engaged in jury trials
there are several hundred jurors pres
ent from every part of the county and
while waiting for the several courts
to convene a hustling candidate can
see quite number and ask for sup
port. Possibly the friends of some of
the candidates are more persistent than
the candidates themselves and argu-
ments are frequent as to the merits
of their own particular candidate and
tie demerits of the other fellow, and
for one will be glad when the cam
pdign is over"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
RABBIT SAUSAGE IN TEXAS

From the National Provisioner.
Since Texas quit paying bounty for the
killing of mule ear rabbits they have be-
come very numerous, to the detri,nent OF
growing crops. 1t has recently been
found that they make a splendid food
product, and, it is said, will greatly
cheaper the cost of living
A full grown rabbit will dress about
five pounds. The meat trimmed off of the
bones and pound of fresh pork added
to five to seven pounds of rabbit ground
together through a sausage mill, sea
soned with salt, red and back pepper and
sage, it is claimed, will make a sausage
superior TO pure pork sausage
"A syndicate is planning to establish a
plant at Llano, Tex, for the manufacture
of rabbit sausage and to grind the bencs
into chicken feed. The plant will be suf
fcient to consume all the rabbits in
Texas, and thus the rabbit question will
be solved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
Hamlet Is Ond0ne

When Hamlet learned that the death
of his father had resulted from con-
sniracv between his mother and her
lover. he contemplated suicide. He
pondered long in regard to that sub
iect "To be or not to be- was his
perpetual theme. On the one hand, he
realized that bare bodkin could re-
lieve man of all his trouble, while on
the other hand the mysterious bourne
from which no traveller returns had
sufficient significance to give him
pause.
In everyday life, however, Hamlet
is outdoEe. lie is entirely eclipsed.
There is an individual in the Cook
county, Illinois, Jail. He has just had
a bullet removed from his head. If the
bullet had not been removed he would
have died. With the removal of the
bullet it is the consensus of expert
opinion that he will be left lunatic.
But there is still another phase of
the situation worthy of earnest con-
sideration. With the removal of the
bullet and preservation of his life with
no destruction of mentality, the man
would be compelled to face a trial, a
legal struggle of doubtful issue, the
stake of which would be his life. For,
unfortunately, he is charged with hav-
ing butchered his wife.
Andrew Oleson, the man in ques-
tion, is up against it. The Jail physi-
clan reached the conclusion that it is
his duty to save his life. lie knows
that he ran the risk of making his
patient lunatic. He knew that he ran
the risk of sending him a trembling
penitent on silent, mournful climb
up the steps of the melancholy gal
lows-there to come in immediate con-
tact with the uncanny moose of the
hangman.
Inasmuch asthe physician has sc
decided, it is interesting to speculate
on what decision Oleson himself would
have made had the proposition beer
given to him for solution
He would scarcely have taken &
week in determining the question, ''Tt
be or not to be-" for there is some
thing more tangible than the "mys
terious bourne" to give him pause.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Preparing for Big Acreage

The farmers and truckers Of the
south are preparing for heavy acre
age" said James A Wiebens, who Is
connected with the AMI Golden seed
company of Birmingham.
1T seems that the great crops oil
last year and the good prices received
by the farmers have only served TO
stimulate greater activity for the COM
ing year in all sections. Our great
Wholesale department is now flooded
with urgent inquiries regarding the
early varieties of vegetables and staple
crops, which come from every part oi
Alabama Georgia and Mississippi; and
we are stocking heavily to meet the ap-
preaching demand which threatens to
tax our resources to the utmost.
The farmers of Alabama, especially
VIII do business this year on the right
basis for the record breaking crop
values of last year served to pay off
any mortgages outstanding and in most
cases helped to put money in the bank
So the farmer naturally looks forward
with growing optimism to 1914's store
house of opportunity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
Need for Emergency Car

THE service rendered to the city
by a good automobile makes it pay
for itself in three months" said cit
izen interested in police matters. "At
the present time both the police and
detective departments are without any
means to answer the numerous emer-
gency calls which are nightly occur
rences in these important departments
When such a call comes the detectives
or police officers must either walk to
the scene or board a street car, which
proves a very great handicap to the
officers as by the time they arrive the
malefactor has had an excellent oppor-
tunity to make good his escape.
up to a few weeks ago there was
a police emergency automobile at po-
lice headquarters. 1t was purchased last
spring at the time of the labor trou-
bles and the service it rendered the
city more than repaid it's original cost
an6 upk eep judging by the stolen prop.
erty recovered and the numerous pris-
.oners captured by the quick calls the
officers were able to make by its use
owing to the breaking down OF the
patrol automobile this emergency car
is now being dismantled and will re-
place the old patrol. A new emergency
car would be wise economy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
The Sick Man of America

Turkey has long been dubbed the
"sick man Of Europe" and yet this
moribund patient has so managed to
play upon the sensitive chords that
maintain the strained relationship of
the respective European nations as to
induce the powers not only to refrain
from removing him to Asiatic soil but
to occasionally permit him to engage
in a policy of aggrandizement to his
present holdings.
Admittedly his existing status is a
disgrace to civilization. and yet while
the powers sometimes employ him as
a negative tool in thwarting the am
bitions of rival, it is a question if
the nations could remove the stigma
without great slaughter and bloodshed
should they so desire.
England needs the Turk just where
he is to prevent Russia from acquir-
ing a southern seaport and thus
threatening British maratime suprem-
acy, for should the Bear with his in
estimable natural resources once gain
a foothold upon the Mediterranean,
England's merchant marine is doomed.
Austria, well equipped as she is in
military provisioning, looks with dread
upon Russian encroachment, but she
dare not raise her hand lest she invite
the attack of France, who is an ally
of Russia, and proffer an excuse for an
embroglio with Italy, who is ever alert
for salient opportunity to declare
war upon the Viennese government.
Prussia, speaking the same language
as Austria, is friendly to that nation,
but her hands are full watching
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
Visitor shown Over Press club

w. II. Manning of Boston, a well
known financier, accompanied by w.
p. G. Harding, president of the First
National bank and Robert Jemison, Jr.,
inspected the Press club quarters in
the Jefferson County bank building
Yesterday afternoon.
From the promenade the visitor was
shcwn the whole city and various
Ilaces of interest were pointed out
Mr.. Manning was shown over the club
floor. the ladies' floor and the cafe and
promenade. He was well pleased with
the entire arrangement. Mr.. Manning
is here with George Bullock, president
of the United Gas and Electric COM
pany, whose opinion as to the Press
club has been heard many times. The
latter is very much pleased with the
beauty of the club arranged by the
newspaper men of Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
sight eccentric under which policemen

sight eccentric, under which policemen
work.
One of the rules which Washington
policemen must observe and which prob
ably takes the palm for stransencss, Is
the one prohibiting the use of toothpicks
while on duty. This regulation mas gone
the rounds of many cities of the country
and never fails when first brought TO the
attention of the citizen to bring a smile
to his face.
There is a good reason for It, though,
as explained by Major Sylvester. super
intendent of police, who originated the
rule some 10 years ago. Sophisticated
persons seeing the protruding toothpick
might have thoughts of free lunches aud
their attendant beverages, it is explained.
Here are some of the things the local
guardians of the peace cannot do
Enter a bar or other building while IN
duty except on official business.
Leave the District of Colwumbia except
when on vacation.
BE connected with a fire or militia COM
rany.
Engage in any business.
Gamble or participate in public gift con-
tests.
Carry an umbrella while in uniform.
Swing or toy with their sticks.
Play pool, billiards or other games il
the station on Sunday.
Talk with citizens or other officers
while on patrol duty, except on police
business.
Seek notoriety in the public press.
Simulate sickness df a policeman be-
comes i'll through carelessness or over
eating he shall be penalized)
Participate in obtaining subscriptions
for present to other members of the :crce.
Engage in political or religious discus
sons.
Though members of the force cannot
smoke while on duty, there is nc lmita-
ton on chewing either gum or tobacco.
But the negative side is not all. After
setting forth prohibitions occupying
many pages, the police manual takes
final fling at the hapless member % the
force as follows: while in the perform
ance of duty members of the force shall
maintain decorum and command of tenn
per- be patient and discreet and refrain
from using harsh, violent, profaae and
insolent language"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
Change Needed In oIalSing Bonds

| AN ordinance that will greatly in
| convenience all lawbreakers if passed
| by the commissioners will be suggested
TO the commission SOON" said well
| known attorney yesterday
Most anyone can sign a bond at
the present time, and the great ma
jority of the people who sign bonds
are not men of any property or stand
forfeited Is in the vast majority of
cases the city loses the prisoner, cost
Of handling the case and the revenue
from the fine and sentence the pris-
oner would have received If brought to
trial The ordinance which I viii urge
on the commissioners for consideration
VIII obviate much of this slackness in
making bonds.
First this ordinance will demand
| that a list of all property owners be
kept in the office of the chief of po-
lice. Second the bondsmen must come
to the office of the chief of police
to sign the bond and must be known
to desk sergeant in charge at police
headquarters as responsible men of
property before the bond can be ap-
| proved.
"At the present time the moment
someone breaks In iail a friend i'm
modiately rushes out with a bond and
| comes back to police headquarters a
few minutes later with some signatures
on it of men who it is claimed are
property owners. The bond is usually
approved and usually the prisoner con-
/ Vcpiently disappears and the bond is
| forfeited. However. when the city starts
To collect the forfeiture it finds thai
the signers have either no property or
they allege that their names We're
| forged on the bonds. In this manner
the city has lost thousands of dol
lars of revenue and very many in
tractors of the city laws have escaped
| punishment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
NOTHING TO DO UNTIL TOMORROW


An exchange says: 'It is easy to Re an
editor. To run newspaper successfully
man has merely to be able to write
poems, discuss tariff and money dues-
tons, umpire baseball game, report a
wedding saw wood. describe a fire so
that the readers will she'd their wrars.
make 81 do the work of $40, shine at a
dance, measure calico, abuse the liouor
habit. test whisky subscribe to charity.
go without meals, attack free silver, wear
diamonds. invent advertisements. snesr
at snobbery, overlook scandal, appraise
babies, delight pumpkin raisers, minister
to the afflicted, lead the disgruntled, fight
to finish, set type, mold opinions SWEEP
out the OFFICE speak at the prayer meet
ing, and stand in with everybody Ard
in addition to the above essentials the
poor editor has to print paper once a
week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
LAMENTED coRREspoNpEnrs

From the Springfield, (Mass.) Republican
Two well known and unusually capable
newspaper workers died In Washington
on Sunday One was Henry Lane Dun
lap. who for four and a half years had
been the head of a Washington bureau
of the New York World, and the other
was William s. Couch, a brilliant and
attractive man who went from Cleveland
to Washington in 1902, representing the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, and who, before
his health failed him a couple of years
ago. had also been connected with the
Scripps- McRea service and the New
York World. Those who worked with
Billy Couch will keep green the MEM
ory of one whose instincts We're fine and
whose perceptions were keen. He was
member of the Gridiron club. Mr.. Dun
lap, somewhat older man, did not go
to Washington until 1908. .ano had pre-
viously been managing editor of the
Post-Dispatch Joseph Pulitzer's st.
Louis paper.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
SOME RULES FOR POLICEMEN

From the Washington Post.
The average law abiding citizen who
goes about his business without harm
ing his fellows, and who is fortunate
enough not to be visited with violence
knows but little of the police force which
guards him and his property, or Of the
services the members of the force ren
der every hour of the day and night.
Perhaps his only contact with policemen
is to nod to one of them when he meets
him on the street.
How these men work and wna. heir
discipline is he does not know. One OF
the things which would surprise him
most. perhaps. is the system of rules, ri
of them rigid anG many of them on first
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-27
OUR TRAvELSCoPE.

lnterlaken, January blooming here We
crossed the mountain on a rack and pin
ion railway. There was rack enough,
but as for pinion, well, we did anything
but fly. They call it a funny kewler here.
Someone told ma that the car was full
OF Heidelberg alumni and she became SO
nauseated that had to open the window
ana let 1t out. All the waterfalls here
are called bachs. We saw the Geesbach.
the Staubach and the Trummelhscb but
no Sweibach. 1 understand that We will
see that in Germany.