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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
BInMINaHAM AND THE UNIVERSITY

From the Tuscaloosa News.
 Having failed to land the Methodist university, Birmingham now wants to build technical school of its own better than anything else in the country, or, in lieu or that, to annex several parts of
 the University of Alabama. This latter proposltion, the latest. was advocated in a round bout editorial in The Age Herald Saturday morning
 | The editorial is in no sense mandatory. On the contrary, it is extremely diplo- | natic. evidently having been put out as | a kind of feeler. After having praised the | university for the excellence of it's in- struction and congratulated it upon it's remarkable progress, The Age-Herald states that 'it is only a question of time
 when the universltys medical college will | Le removed from Mobile to Birmingham" and then goes on to suggest that Bir- ln.jngham is singuarly inviting field for
 the university's technological depart
 ment
 |! Tuscaloosa will hardly get excited over
 this proposition made by the Birmingham
 daily. Birmingham is no doubt a good site for a technical school on account of l it's many industries and mines However, ] it would be inadvisable to establish such school there when there Is a well equipped school of technology at the uni
 versity less than SO miles away and an- other such school al Auburn. As for nov ing the 'university's technological depart ment to Birmingham, that is out of the question.
 Ttere-are numerous obvious reasons for not making such change, and other equally obvious ones for keeping 1t at | Tuscaloosa.
 It should not be moved to Birmingham
 because the expense of making the change would be too great. New buildings would Of course have to be put up and new equipment would have to be bought But that would be merely the beginning of 1 the additional expense to the state. The real additional expense would be in n,ain- l tfnsuce. A purely technological school ] eal not exist. Technical students must
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
a.ooo.ooo CHILDREN WORK

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 From the Washington Star.
 Of the females 10 years Of age anu over in the United States, 2S.4 per cent were engaged in gainful occupations Tn 1910. according to the figures presented in the report on occupations recently ls- sued by the department of commerce.
 ..The proportion, continues the reporr twas per cent in the age period lo to 13: 19.S per cent in the age period li to 15;,S99 per cent in the age period It to 20; 263 per cent in the age period 2i to A. and 157 per cent in the age period 45 years and over.
 ..The large proportion of the females IS to 20 years of age engaged in gainful occupations is accounted for by the fact that in this age period all the females are old enough to work. and matrfmony has had little effect in decreasing the number of workers.
 There were 1,990,225 children of both sexes, 10 to 15 years of age, engaged 1 in gainful occupations in 1910. The re- port also shows that the per cent of child workers Is increasing in the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

"HE tragedy of Anne Askew IS one
 of the most pathetic in the annals
 | of English history. She was a mar tyr to her religion and at a period when many others were compelled to suffer through a strict adherence to their faith.
 Anne Askew, who was the second daughter of Sir William Askew of an old Lincolnshire family, was reluctantly com pelled to give her hand ip marriage to Thomas Kyme of Kelsey. Her presump- ticn for caring to exercise her own judg- ment In religious matters so incensed her husband that he drove her with ignominy from his house. To sue for separation she went to London.
 In London she met with favorable re- ce rtion at court and was particularly fav- ored by the Queen, Catherine Parr, who alrroved in secret the doctrines of the reformation. In March, 1645, she under went an examination for heresy, first at Ss dler's hall, before one Christopher Dare, and then before the lord mayor of Lon don. who committed her to the Counter. The substance and particulars of these examinations were written by herself and were published after her death.
 On March 2s a relation succeeded. after several attempts, to baiiing her. But she was soon apprehended again and sum- mcned before King Henry WITS council at Greenwich. Here she replied to the in ouiries with iirmness and without prevarl- cation. she was remanded to Newgate, and not allowed to receive visits from any one, not even from Dr. Latimer.
 Anne herself wrote to the King and chancellor explaining her opinions; but her letters served only to aggravate her crime. She was then taken to the Tower ard interrogated res oscting her patrons at court, but she heroically refused to betray them.
 Anne's magna animity served but to in- >ense her prosecutors. who endeavored to extort a confession from her by the rack but she sustained the torture with forti- trde and resignation. The chancellor, Wriothesley, comma nded the lieutenant oi inc Tower to strain the instrument oi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
The Kentucky FeudiSts


 While reformers go about the land telling helpless people what they must eat and drink, shedding light in dark places," cleaning up cesspools of filth" 1" breaking down the barriers of sin," and performing all the other Herculean labors peculiar to the American whipster, the crack of the feudist's rifle can still be. heard in the mountains of Kentucky, and the clansman taken unawares bites the dust with as much frequency as of yore. Recently man and his two sons were returning to their home in Bath county after a trip to nearby town with some tan bark and cattle. They had almost reached the door of their home when shot was fired. Turning to face their assailants, shots came simultaneously from three direc- tions and the man and his two sons, one of them boy Is years old, fell before the deadly fusillade. The two sons were killed and the father se- riously wounded.
 Tragedies of this sort have hap pened so often in the "feud districts of Kentucky that they awaken but lit tie surprise. The mountaineer takes the law in his own hands, to kill and be killed, according to his own rude code. The feudists flight it out" among themselves until there are no more survivors to carry on the war. Some times a clansman, believing that dis erection is the better part of valor,
 moves awau to escape the wrath of his enemies, but most of the feudists pre- fer to remain, although they never know what hour will be their last.
 Civilization goes marching on. At least, we like to think so, but it hasn't changed the. mountaineer to any ap- preciable extent, although strenuous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
General Leonard Woods Visit

The visit of Major General Leonard Wood to Alabama for national guard inspection was of more than ordinary interest. Until recently General Wood was the head of the regular army or ganization with the title of chief of staff, but having served out his four years detail in that position, he is now in command of the department of the east, including Alabama, with head quarters at Governors Island, N. Y.
 Before the volunteers or organized militia were brought into close rela- tions with the regular army about all the government did for them was to furnish arms and ammunition. In the years following closely after the civil war young men, north and south, enlisted in the militia regiments in large numbers, partly because of in herited military spirit and partly be- cause of the attractive social side of the citizen soldiery. In the south es- pecially, every regiment had one or more companies in it known as cen ters of "society" activities.
 Many of these volunteer commands : went into camp annually at some fashionable summer resort at the height of the gay season. Certain : companies in Virginia, South Caro- lima, Georgia, Alabama and Missis- sippi were very exclusive, and only young unmarried men made up the rank and file. It was not easy for a young volunteer to be enrolled in those exclusive companies unless he danced the german, which was greatly in vogue in the years gone by. The citi- zen soldier not only had to buy his own uniform, but he was assessed for many regimental contingencies.
 During and just after the recon struction period volunteers not only never touched elbows with the regu- lars, but they never saw so much as m inspection by an army officer. Some years before the Spanish-Amer- 1. ican conflict, however, the war depart , ment and Congress began to take practical interest in the volunteers or national guard, but it has been only within the last five or six years that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
AN ORIGINAL CoNsERvER

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 It would be difficult to estimate how many lives, how much money, how much industrial derangement Judge William l.. Chambers of Alabama has saved this country. If any man in the nation de- serves credit as an original conserver from Alabama.
 Judge Chambers is chairman of the fed eral board on mediation. He has just in duced. the warning factions in the threat ened railway strike in the west to lis ten to the possibilities of mediation He may fail. If he does 1t will be his first important defeat. If he wins he will have to his credit the averting of q strike involving most of the railroads the paralysis of business west of the Mississippi and of much business cas- of the Mississippi
 The man who has undertaken to ac complish these practical wonders is no a stranger to Atlantans or Georgians
 He was the umpire in the Georgia rail road trouble here, year or so ago, ant he handled that difficult situation witt such masterful skill that his verdict lief him with the respect and esteem of botl principals. One of his great triumph
 has been the settlement of railroa, wage and hour controversy in the east on virtually the same scale as the on, now threatened in the west He ha ironed out countless small in,iustria squabbles.
 I Judge Chambers Is diplomat-plu Fl
 has a phenomenal keenness for gettinl
 at essentials. an uncanny facility fo
 unruffling tempers, and for persuadini
 with sweet reasonableness and crystal clear logic. It will not be his fault 1
 his prediction that we had seen the las
 of great industrial strikes is not verified
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

The United States bureau of standards uses remarkable machine for testing
 structural material. In appearance it looks like a huge building jack rest ing in horizontal position. The material to be tested is placed between the two steel jaws of the machine. the move- ments of which are regulated by two enormous steel screws. One of the screws is 8 feet long and 12 inches in diameter. The machine has a compression power of 2,900,00O pounds and pulling power of 1150.000 pounds. The pressure is regis tered by device so de1icately adjusted that the compression power of steel sirder is shown to the smallest fraction of pound. Immediately after testing a huge steel column the machine can be adjusted to compress a globe of the thinest glass The compression power of the glass will be indicated with the utmost accuracy. The machine was built by the United States government at a cost of $150,000 and is the largest of its kind in the world. The government has larger testing machine at Pittsburg, but this machine is used for rougher kinds of work. It has a capacity of about 100000 pounds and is arranged for vertical tests The machine in Wash ington is of the horizontal type and is said to be the most accurately adjusted testing machine in use.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

efforts have been made to educate his children and convert him to a more orderly regime. The feudist is an outlaw whose chief object in life is revenge. According to his own stand ards, he is not bad fellow His grim determination commands a certain sort of respect and he is always pre- pared to "take his medicine" Nor alizing seems to be wasted on him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

have education along other lines. They
 must have some literary and linguistic
 training else they are only half educated
 They must also have chemistry, physics,
 geology. mathematics and other sciences, all of which any university must effer to it's nontechnical students. Therefore, if the university's technical school were re- nnved to Birmingham, it would be neees- sary to duplicate this work at Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. And if there is one tragedy in Alabama education today it is in the unnecessary duplication that ex- ists
 Another reason why the technical school of the university should not be removed to Birmingham is that 1t would destroy the solidarity of university life. It is destructive to college spirit when the several departments of university are locAed in different parts of the same tfwn. It is of course worse when they are in separate cities.
 It is in every way desirable that the uni versity be kept intact in Tuscaloosa. In Con.er hail. the university already has tLere the largest and best equipped build HE IOf tecnn1cat euucdtlOn to De iouiiu il the south. It has a corps of instructors in the college of arts ard sciences to give the technical students the training that they need outside of their strictly tech nical courses. As for Birmingnam's ad- vantages over Tuscaloosa as a site for te technologica1 schoool they are few if any. Birmingham has mines; so has Tusca- loosa. Birmingham has big iron manu- featuring industries; so has Tuscaloosa But Tuscaloosa has in the great govern nent locks on the Warrior examples Of erglre eerlng Birmingham cannot equal But these things are vf only relative inn portahee in technical training. The real technical education is given in the class room and i'll the laboratories where prin- cipios are worked out. If Birmingham has anything in the way of industries to offer which Tuscaloosa has not it is a, very easy matter for a class of. -stUdents to go up to Birmins nsI.;as.i1--ftf I.sa.,i fSf a day and see what the meInbers need to see.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
QUAKER QUITS
From the Philadelphia Record.

Y T
 You can't always tell a polished man by looking at his shoes. It is quite possible for man to be short-sighted without being near-sighted
 If you can't tell light music from the heavy variety. try it on the scales.
 The widow is entitled to her third. and sometimes she even marries her forth.
 It doesn't take much to please some people who are perfectly satisfied with themselves.
 The man who has a bee in his bonnet has no right to object if his wife has a bird in hers.
 Many girl who thinks she could love man till death do them part soon pro- ceeds to cut him dead.
 The girl who marries for money might just as we'll make up her mind to take a man for just what he is worth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
A Lively Rotntor

Oliver Cox, assistant secretary of the Rotary club, and editor of the Rotator, gets up lively edition every week and yesterdays issue was spoken of by the members of the organization as espe- cially bright and spicy. The first page was devoted to Hale Tarrant, one of the most energetic and persuasive of Ro- tarians
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
ONE MIST LIVE
IDLE OPINIONS.

IDLE OPINIONS.
 The foollSilier works overtime on Sun day.
 It is a mistake to drag people through sewer in order to teach them moral lesson.
 Some peoples idea of getting up in the world is to be able to snub the neighbors who were kind to them n their poverty. A preacher took a small army of chill dren to circus the other day at his own expense. A man of that sort ought to be able to preach good sermon. The trouble with human dynamo is that he too often combines meddlins with dynamics.
 Tangoing in the open air is just now & favorite diversion of the idle rich and the Salamanders.
 Being able to see both sides of question isn't going to help a man in an argument with his wife,. P. C.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
Every mun Is odd.
 -TroiIus md Cressida.

BEGINNING THE DAY-O God, use me this day as Thou wilt. Take me as am or change me, according. to Thy pleasure. Call me to large task or to small, as suits Thy wis., dom. Let me see the results of my labor, or not, let me be conscious of Thine employ, or not. Only use me, 0 Great God. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

Secretary Bryan walked out of a Wash ington haberdashers shop rather than pay dime for collar button and went to a shop where he could buy one for nickel. There's thrift for you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
At.raeti.e Re.laence secttea.

Birmingham is one of the few cities that has attractive residence sections in every direction," said a travelled man
 Some large cities have as many as two fashionable districts. but the majority of cities of from 100000 to 100000 population have only one district of handsome homes Birmingham has attractive resi- dence sections north. south, east and west
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

Anniston Star: If Birmingham succeeds in building large technologica1 school as complement to the state university, 1t will detract from Auburn; and if Au- burn is injured in this way, it will be well to abolish some of the agricultural colleges of the state, if not all Of them, as well as some of the normal schools and appropriate the revenue now going to them to the enlargement of the agri- cultural department of the Polytechnic in stitute.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
Pco,Srs FoR nIRMINCHAM

.9ddsden Journal Undaunted by their failure to land the big Methodist univer- sity, Birmingham citizens now are work ing for the establishment of a great technical institute there. They are to be commended for their progressiveness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

The Ohio judge who decided that hus- band cannot libel his wife did not intend to convey the meaning that the Ohio wife is impossible"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

A Connecticut man has cat with two faces, but with the usual complement of nine lives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

Santo Domingo is boiling away as mer- with Mexico.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

Sacriigious dancers at Atlantic City Sunday danced the tango and the hesi- tation to the air of Rock of Ages"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

T. R. and the tiger! Well. stranger things have happened in politics.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

A cavern of natural ice has been dis covered in New Jersey Terms of in- corporation according to the methods pre- vailing in New Jersey will probably be announced before long
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

Considering the size of the loot, there is no reason why Huerta should not be a cheerful loser.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
THE OUTWARD MASK.

heart
 And learn what fate has written there, It might some bitter truths impart, Epitomizing l1fes despair. How many times smile conceals Soul wasting fires that turk beneath; A front that seeming mirth reveals, Within, the grim abode of death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

The Kings speech read at the open ing of Parliament is always intention ally colorless, but King Georges re- marks submitted at the conference of political leaders at Buckingham pal ace Tuesday seems to have been lively enough to provoke a storm of criticism from supporters of the liberal party Premier Asquith stated that thH
 was submitted to hip ,a,4 therefore assy,ay sproved and that he .msTlmed all responsibility for it; 4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

Come to think of it. old Huerta got away after all without saluting the flag
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

If your meal dsagrees with you it is possible to obtain damages in the en- frightened state of Kansas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

As a banker and politician Lormer failed, but he made good in the Chicago Y. M c, A.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

The fool-proof aeroplane wasn't needed half as much as the fool-proof row boat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

Montgomery Times: Birmingham has organized convention bureau and is going out after the meetings of all bodies of whatever character. They all carry a big lot of money wherever they go, and the hotel and cafe men know their value Birmingham is going out after the good things now in way that is worthy of imitation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
.ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
 PATHETIC.

IL. Oh. sad is the lot Of the poet, Hes hungry but won't let you noet. Hell touch up a friend For what he will lend, And the poet will gracefully oct.
 Cincinnati Enquirer. Oh. sad is the lot of the poet; His shirt tears. there's no one to soet; But you can't get his goat, With his hgh-buttoned coat He's shirtless, but no one will noet.
 Allentown Democrat. Oh. sad is the heart of the poet. Of Rody McPhee tyou should noeD He hasn't hair On his head, though LID there Is dandy big smooth place to groet.
 Houston Post. We've always opined that a poet Had hair and the breezes would bloet, But Judd and McPhee Are a pair who are free or all thatch and their craniums shoot.
 WE'LL HEELED. Old Huerta could go to Paree And quaff his fill of fizz And buy the smiles of some Fss With all that loot of his.
 ONE MUST LIVE. Our cook has gone'' Did she take French leaveg" "Yes; also choice assortment Of pan- try stores.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

because she made him wash dishes and
 scrub floors. If she did that much be- fore the honeymoon was over, what would she have done if he had continued to stick around?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
THAT KIND OF MAN.

"Gadson thinks his wife is the most re- markable woman in the world
 T think she's rather remarkable my self'
 Why so?',
 shes been married to him for 10 years and so far as know, has never tried to shoot him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
T,IRERCULOsIs TO VANISH

The crown prince of Germany seems to be the bad boy" of Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
THE UNHELPEqu. SORT

THE UNHELPFUL SORT. T would like to be friend to man." You would. ehg" Yes"
 Well you can make a very good be- ginning by lending me a flyer" T mean I would like to be a practical Il philanthropist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23
A FEMALE MARTINEZ.

T.
 Mrs. whympus has very dictatorial manner"
 T agree with you. She is one of those women who creates some doubt in your mind as to Whether you ought to bow to her, CT salute and stand at attention"
 DURING THE QUARREL.
 'I wish you were half man. she said bitterly.
 Even as it is. take a whole mans punishment" he replied.
 MANAGERS WOULD PURSUE HIM. IT Porte should fly across the deep And land upon the other side, In vaudeville he would shortly reap The profits of his risky ride. WOMAN'S WAY. Why. I thought you wanted a motor carp 'I did. dear, when we couldn't afford it. I want yacht now
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

Marion Standard: Birmingham always does things on a big scale. She is cor pulant by virtue of her city territory. She builds big furnaces, big manufac- tors, big hotels, big stores, big theatres, big churches meets in big numbers, has big committees, makes big show. blanks down big money, has a big heart, goes out after big schools, caters to big enter prises. Then why criticize her too severe ly when she kills a few big criminals when the state piles them on her in big numbers?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala postoffice as second class matter under act of Congress March 3, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

Montgomery Times: Birmingham is not at all set back by the failure to secure the great Methodist university for that city, but proposes now to have a great college of it's own, and it ought to have it. The foundation is already at Owen- ton, one of the prettiest places in all the state, and we hope the movement will be pushed to success. Great Birmingham is expected to set the pase for the rest of the state, and we think she will come up to all expectations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-23

A. !. Eaton, Jr.. and O. k. Young arc the only authorized travelling repre- sentatives of The Age-Herald in its circulation department.