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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-11-18
WAR ECHOES

New York Sun: The German press
bureau in New York gave out the follow
ing yesterday:
"A remarkable article has been pub
lished in Christiania from ethe pen of
the Norwegian writer Theodore Caspari,
who after profound meditation has con-
! eluded that the dance known as the
tango foreshadowed the present war He
writes:
When certain period of culture
nears it's termination for lack OF new
ideas, then humanity in it's search for
a fresh path to follow will undergo GER
tain psychological symptoms, which a
careful observer will recognize as pre-
cursors of new cultural epoch. These
symptoms are of a more or less cpl
demical character and spread over
smaller or larger parts of the world.
To dance is nothing abnormal in it,
self is the conclusion drawn, but when
all the world is as in frenzy, when
there is dancing on all the stages, in
every society, and serious business men
at their old age start to learn new steps,
there must be something wrong, there
must be some mental defect in humanity
which forms a grave symptom of an i'm
pending social decline.
London Correspondent of the Cincinnati
Times-Star: One of the most interesting
war spectacles that 1 saw in London was
nut soldier. The English significance
of the term nut" is only relatively the
same as ours. Instead of being just plain
crazy in a liberal sort of way about
any old thing, a London nut is only
nutty about clothes and manners. He
seeks to distinguish himself from the
common herd by carrying a walking stick
as tall as his shoulder or wearing green
collars with lavender shirts, or present.
ing a two-pound bunch of orchids to
all the girls in a revue because he is
slightly acquainted with one member of
the company. One of the best nut stories
1 heard concerned one of them who was
given five of the copper stove-lids, which
the British call pennies, in shop which
he was visiting for the first time.
"Deeh me-" he said. 'Er-what is this
just?'
Your change, sir" said the clerk.
"Ah, quite true" he said, cycling it
with curiosity and weighing it in his
hand. 1.-THE change Yes. I see. Could
1 have one of your men for little while,
piease?"
An employee was called forward.
Here, my man." said the nut. Heres
shilling for you. Take the change
home for me- 8
l saw the nut soldier In the promenade
at the Empire. He was all in khaki. His
| overcoat was the latest Picadilly coach
| box cut. His khaki trousers were turned
up at the bottom. He wore high Khaki
collar stock, fastened with gold pin
! shaped like a sabre. He seemed greatly
| satisfied with his get up. He had been
turned out for war by his own tailor.
Later I saw a companion spectacle to
this, in the Savoy. A lady in evening
dress was drinking champagne. smoking
cigarette and knitting a wooden sock
for a soldier.
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To Expedite Work on PostOffice

United States Senator Frank s.
White is ready to make a special eff
fort to have the supervising architect
of the treasury department begin
work on the new postoffice during the
coming year, and he asks the earnest
cooperation of representative citizens
of Birmingham. If he can secure this
cooperation the architects office,
which is now overcrowded with public
building commitments, can be in
duced to take up the Birmingham
postoficce project out of its regular
turn.
Congress made the appropriation
for the Birmingham office sometime
ago, but unless extraordinary efforts
are made plans will not be prepared
before 1916. There is very pressing
need for large, modern postoffice,
and the work of construction should
begin at the very earliest possible
date.
A general meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce is called for tomorrow
night t.. discuss the postoffice situa-
ton and to take action pledging Sen
ator White the unanimous backing of
the people of this city. If the super
vising architect will give the matter
his prompt attention the government
should be able to break ground for the
new building on the site already ac-
quired on Fifth avenue by the autumn
of 1915.
The building will cost upwards of
81 100000 The site has been paid for
and about 1925, 900 now stands to the
credit of the structure itself. A sup
Elemental appropriation will be made
as the building nears completion.
1t is hoped tomorrow nights meet
ing will be well attended.
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II am not a military man, although
a western state some years ago, but L
hope Congress will take up energetically
and in a large way the strengthening of
our coast defenses," said S. s. Lithgow
of Boston.
II vote the democratic ticket, state and
national but 1 frequently criticize my
party. I criticize 1t now for it's indiffer-
ence, or seeming Indifference to our mill
tary unpreparedness for war. Secretary
of War Garrison intimates that he will
make important recommendations to Con-
gress in his annual report in January.
take it for granted that he will have
definite recommendations with regard to
| coast defenses. To say nothing of arma-
ment, several thousand more soldiers are
needed to man our forts than we now
have available.
"The regular army should be increased
by about $4,000 men. OF that number
| 10000 would be needed for coast defense,
and the other $4,000 for field service. No,
this is not militarism. 1t is simply in
the line of ordinary prudence. In this
connection would say that the National
Guard, now highly efficient in the matter
of drill and discipline, should be
quadrupled in numerical strength. We
should have 100000 guardsmen, instead of
115,000 as at present"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-11-18
Guest of Honor Today

AT the regular monthly lunch of
the Birmingham Sunday School asso-
citation to be held Wednesday at 1880
In the Birmingham Newspaper club
cafe the guest of honor will be Fred
A. Wells of Chicago" said a prominent
Sunday school worker.
MIR. Wells is one of the prominent
business men of this country who is
actively engaged in organized Sunday
school work. He is chairman of the
executive committee of the lnterna-
tional Sunday School association and
gives much time and effort to adj
vance its interests He is known
throughout the country as great con-
tractor who has erected large build
ings in nearly all of the big cities.
The Tutwiler hotel and the Ridgely are
among his achievements.
"Mr. Wells recently had as his din
ner guests at the Tutwiler the officers
and committee chairmen of the Older
Boys council of the Sunday School
, association. and was greatly pleased
with the work that they are doing.
"a full attendance of the directors
is expected at the Wednesday lunch
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virginia's Varied Crops

"Virginias material progress has
been especially remarked in recent
years. and the old state seems to be
enjoying great prosperity this year.
said Frank S. Foster. assistant cashier
of the First National bank, who &C.
turned this week from short vacs-
ton spent in his old home town, STAN
ton, where President woodrow Wilson
was born.
Southwest Virginia is as is well
known a great stock raising section.
the highest quality of beef is produced
there, and this industry is evidently
very profitable. In the valleys of Vir-
ginia the grain crops are grown on a
large scale, and in that section greet
attention has been paid to the orchard
Industry. Choice apples have always
been raised in Albemarle county, bur
now apples in great volume are raise
in many counties. the crop this yea
was one of the largest, if not the larg-
est, in the history of the state"
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES


In the east we note improved bust
ness conditions and are looking for
ward with confidence to the great era
of prosperity scheduled for the new
year, but in the west prosperity is al
READY strongly in evidence" said Will
bur S. Thomasson of Pittsburg.
Il spent the last week of October
in the grain growing west and mar
veled at the business activity in all
tn. large towns and cities. The west
orn farmers seem to be more prosper
Gus this year than they have been in
many years past and this prosperity is
reflected very distinctly in Chicago.
1t is beginning to be reflected, too, in
New York and other eastern cities.
1t is the general opinion in business
circles that the year 1915 will be a
red letter year in this country
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THE WORST is OVER

From the New York World.
Great progress to the country is every
where apparent in working out from un-
der the burdens imposed by the war.
The avalanche of European liquidation
which overwhelmed US late in July is now
being succeeded by a European buying
movement of foodstuffs, materials and
munitions of war so extended as already
to foot up over s9oO,oO0,0OO in contracts
known to have been placed. Every day
brings news of industries starting up
which had been made idle and of indus
tries resuming full time which had been
forced upon part time.
The markets for unlisted securities are
The New York cotton exchange will open
Monday with every prospect of proving
an end of the need for extraordinary
measures to prevent a ruinous market
ing of the great crop Even the big stock
exchange is beginning to see, through
higher prices for seats there, the early
possibility of reopening under conditions
far removed from panic
With the opening the federal reserve
banks on Monday, the country Tor inc
first time in it's history will come into
possession of broad and uniform and
scientific market for business paper
nroof alike against future panic and
manipulation in favor OF special inter-
ests.
The great banking houses OF New YORK
are announcing still further reductions
in rates for money. Sterling exchange
has fallen below the normal gold export
point and exchange on Berlin is below
the normal gold import point. The ma
tional banks are rapidly retiring the
emergency currency taken on. 10 tide owe.
| the war panic as no longer needed.
| other evidences of general recovery
from this distant panic and havoc Vi
war can be found on all Sides The worst
OF that infliction for America is over
| The unparalleled opportunities heapinl
upon us from the financial and industrial
suicide of Europe are instead beginning
| to fill the nation vision.
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Mortality Among the Wounded

According to figures published in
Che Scientific American, in the
Crimean war out of every thousand
French troops 236 died of disease and
only GA from wounds. Among the
English troops the deaths per one
thousand were 179 by disease and AZ
from wounds.
Napoleon's march to Moscow cost
him two-thirds of his army, although
The fought only one general engage
nfent. The Russian armies opposing
him lost in five months four-fifths of
their fighting strength. In the civil
war the Federal armies in two years
had 53.2 deaths per thousand. OF
these only s.6 were caused by wounds.
The losses of the Germans in the
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KITCHENER, THE REMoRsELEss

hIIChENh LII, The REMOhSELESS
From pillars of Society,"" by A. C. Gardi-
ner; Dodd Mead.
Kitchener's merit is for organization
rather than for battle. He is not great
warrior, but, like Carnot or Moltke, a
great organizer of victory.
Some men say that he Is cruel. But
he is only cruel in the sense that he is
engaged in cruel game which has no
place for the humanities. You cannot
afford to have kind heart when you
go out to kill men. He believes in Lord
| Wishers Three RS of War"--ruthless,
relentless, remorseless. Roberts failure
after Paardeberg was due to his horror
at the sarcifce of life, and his deter
mination to wait for surrender rather
than shed more blood
| Kitchener's message to poor Hannay
at Paardeberg had the same quality OF
ruthlessness that Stoneall Jackson dis
played when one of his officers pointed
| out that a certain instruction meant the
total humiliation Of his men, and he re-
piled, Colonel, / always make 1t rule
| to attend to my wounded and bury my
dead. You have heard the instruction
Col" With Grant at the Bloody Angle
| he would have lit another cigar anc
poured more men into that pit of carnage
If he could not have beaten Lee by gen.
eralship he would have beaten him, al
Grant beat him, by sheer destruction OF
life.
He is not cruel, but he ID without com
passion. He keeps his eye on the enc
and steels his heart against the tugs o
pity. To him soldering is not profess
sion; it is a religion. Solitary. withou
homo ties, living his life In strange lands
he wears himself the hair shirt not o
mystery but of the martinez.
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From the Kansas City Star.

FROM the KANSAS City Star.
A NTHONY CoMSToCK, on the vice
~ firing line In our greatest city
4 = for nearly half a century, has
acquired an experiences in combating
the social evil which makes him a
marked man even among the greatest
students of vice problems.
There is no end to the startling and
dramatic things which Mr.. Comstock
has been doing as general secretary of
the New York Society for the Suppress
sion of Vice and in earlier years in less
prominent and powerful positions. One
of his latest antivice activities was the
arrest of Mitchell Kennerley, the head
of New York publishing company, for
selling and sending through the mails
copies of a novel which Mr.. Comstock,
as custodian of the public morals, de-
cided was one of the very best books
not to read.
The way in which he hurried the pub
Usher off for arraignment and con-
| fiscated a large supply of the novels
was typical of his virulent methods
which seem in strange company with
| his seventy years. None the less strenu-
BUSINESS has he shown in fights against
other books, against indecent bill
| boards, obscene postcards, immoral
plays and particularly against the Art
Students league for the publication of
a nude picture.
In the latter clash he had this to say
about his stand:
art and poetry are not above morals.
They are not privileged to destroy the
character, befoul the morals, or scar
the conscience of any boy or girl. I
cheerfully take my stand between the
! advocates of the nude in art and the
beloved children of this country, sneers,
ridicule and derision to the contrary
| Notwithstanding"
| Mr.. Comstock became an antivice
crusader as soon as he landed in New
York as poor Connecticut boy looking
| for a job. No sooner did he catch a
young fellow employee reading a sala-
cious story than he hunted up police
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COST OF DARK STREETS

Dark streets have cut $4,000 week from
the receipts of one London railway. Early
to bed Is now the order of the British war
office.
1t Is the desire of Englishmen that their
big city furnish as obscure target as
possible for raiding airships. But this
is the first definite information I have
ever found about the money value Of
great white ways.
Bright lights attract the crowd. AK
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Relief for ReIrfans

sit is really surprising how the peo-
pie of the state are responding to the
appeal for the relief of the people of
Belgium" said John Mcdonnell of Mo-
bile, "for no matter how much ei-
dived the people may be in their SYM
pathies with the warning nations ali
are unanimous that Belgium is in the
attitude of the innocent bystander and
has suffered untold anguish through
a war which she was not a party to.
either in bringing it about or taking
the offensive.
'Of my own knowledge I can state
that one prominent German citizen of
Mobile whose love for the fatherland
cannot be questioned, made a gener-
ous contribution to the fund from q
purely sympathetic feeling for suf
fering and stricken people. 1t is our
purpose to make the offering from
Alabama distinctive and to that end
all the contributions will be sent to
Mobile and shipped from that point in
an Alabama vessel, If possible, to the
little nation of Europe that has suf-
fered so bravely and so much
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..BOBs.

From Kipling's Tribute.
What e does not know OF war,
Central Bobs.
You can arsk the shop merit door, :
Can't they, Bobs?
oh, 'es little, but 'e's viz:
'E's q terror for IL size.
An - q - doe - not - A4vordse-
Do yer. Bohs?
Now they've made a bloomin' lord
Outer Bobs.
which was but Is fair reward
Weren't It, Bobs?
An ell wear a coronet
Where is 'elmet used to set;
But we know you won't forget
Will yer. Bobs2
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ALABAMA SANCTUMS

Admission Star: An easy mark never
wins an iron cross.
Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette: If Governor
Henderson is able to stand up to the
job he has on his hands, that of financ-
ing the state, he will have his hands
full. 1t Is liable to make him bald
headed, however.
Huntsville Mercury Banner: One of the
mingham as reserve city by federal
reserve board is that it gives the banks in
the other cities of the state an oppor-
tunity to keep their reserve funds neare,
home. Any movement that encourages
keeping our money at home sounds good
to U.S.
Dothan News: The palace of peace
| would serve as an excellent asylum for
| the widows and orphans.
opellka News: Now watch the Roose.
Welt followers here in Alabama do like
some other fellows did few years ago
Get onto the regular republican band
wagon and whoop it up just as though il
was the other fellow who bolted.
| Mobile Item: An expert from the Ma
tional Association for the Study and Pre-
vention of tuberculosis is now making
observations of the proposed sites Tor
tuberculosis camp in Mobile county. Thai
such a camp would prove a great bless
ing to the unfortunate ones who are vic
Tins of the white plague goes withou
| saying. Other cities in Alabama ant
over the entire country have established
such camps and reports are that eacf
has accomplished excellent results. Ever
encouragement should be given to the
movement here.
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BEGINNING THE DAY--My Faith
.r. thank Thee for my daily bread
thank Thee that have IL, and that
II came without crime. i thank Ihee
tbnt / can eat it-that my boay IL
willing to take IL and able TO use H.
I thank Thee that i eat 1t IN pence
that persecution or war does no.
h.yrudpe II. thank Thee that II
i,rirys me a though of God. Amen.--
Fl. NJ. E.
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THE KNIGHT OF PURITY"

man and got the publisher arrested.
Then he found that other publishers
were doing big business dealing in
immoral books. and he went after other
publishers. He got them, and getting
| them he found his real work.
| This warrior has not come away
| without his scars. He wears on his
cheek memento of one of his earliest
| combats, that with a vender of improp-
er pictures. 1t is in the shape of the
scar of a vicious knife wound. 1t makes
him one of the very few men who have
a legitimate excuse for wearing whisk-
ers.
This unrelenting knight of purity be-
lieves that he is sent to perform a
divine mission, and he shows the ten
acity of his belief in his fighting. To
his mind there is real, personal devil
working in all the evils which he is
combating. His mission is to slay this
devil
Where this devil gets in his hard
est work he told as follows in recent
interview:
| 1.-THE last census of the United States
discloses more than 10000, 00e persons
| cHIOileQ III the United states. More than
one-half of this number are 81 years
old or under. These latter are in the
plastic stage, when the walls in the
chamber of imagery in the heart are
being decorated; when the commissary
department of the soul is being stored
with good or evil influences.
IF through eye or ear-the portals
of the chamber of imagery-the sem
| suous book, picture or story, is allowed
to enter the thoughts will be corrupted.
the conscience scared, the heart hard
| ened and the soul damned.
81 almost shed tears sometimes when
I see improper poems and pictures in
the hands of children. I am appalled,
by the wickedness of debauchng the
minds of the young for a money con-
sideration 1t is the DEVILS work"
And the bigs massive headed, keen
eyed, explosive speaking Anthony Com
stock is not too great to weep over the
troubles of the little ones.
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, then the crowd must be fed, transported
and amused. Ergo, a great white way
fills theatres, street railway cars and
every species Of lobster rendezvous.
The songster warbled, I'm afraid to go
home in the dark" Not only that, but
there is no fun strolling about in Egyp-
tan blackness. Hence when Kitchener
turns Off the street lights London stays
at home and keeps its money in it's
pocket
The best way to coax people to spend
their substance in riotous living is to
pave a wide white way to fnnumerable
bright and festive places. So it would
appear that President Joseph B. McCalPs
big electric company is our greatest
agency in keeping Philadelphia money
in rapid circulation on winter nights.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-11-18

Germany was probably not expecting
an Australian warship any more than
she expected Belgium to check her adj
vance to Paris
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The French government wants to buy
10000 pairs of red pantaloons in Chicago.
That means that 10000 poor devils will
be made easy targets for German marks
men.
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If every person who weeps for the vic
Tins of war in Europe would contribute
a nickel for their relief, there would soon
be less excuse for tears.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-11-18

]. Caesar was fortunate In being his
own censor, although the average school,
boy wishes that he never had written a
line.
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The onward march of winter is making
1t increasingly difficult for ambitious ma
tions to get a place in the sun.
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If the Russians continue to advance il
will be only matter of time before
the victorious German generals will
stand stripped of their glory.
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THINes WORTH MISSING.

THINGS WORTH MISSING.
We're glad we do not drink at all.
For-this Is our position
mat way We miss the fool talk of
The boose house war tactician
-Jud Lewis, In Houston Post.
We're glad We do not drink at all:
Our bean is never buzzy;
We never founder in the hall:
Our tongue is never fuzzy.
youngstown Telegram
We're glad we do not care a cuss
For liquor rare and mellow,
No maudlin topper leans on us,
And says: "Yersh fine old fellow"
Detroit Free Press.
We're glad that we don't look upon
The wine when it is red.
For when we wake up at the dawn
There's no pain in our head.
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The qualification of Mexico is almost as
difficult as IL it were strictly a family
affair
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TIE ADVANCE GUARD.

THE ADVANCE GUARD
November winds are blowing.
They chase me down the street
And when 1 turn a corner
A blast I'm sure to meet.
Sometimes they nip me shrewdly
And skirl about my ears,
Sometimes they beat upon my eyes
Until they draw the tears.
All day they leap and gambol
And whistle through the night,
1--WE are King Winters messengers,
Who cometh in his might
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China is giving a fine exhibition of in
nocent Outstanding and the neutrality of
Persia is above suspicion.
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Russia has sent bath train to the
front and thus emphasized the POSSIBLE
ties of Civilized warfare.