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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
Wars Waste of Human Life

Long deferred as it will unquestion-
ably be the era when Bryan's dove of
peace will perch permanently upon
the dome of the peace palace at The
Hague is a consummation devoutly to
be wished
Every year the horrors of war and
the terrible waste of human life in
cidental thereto are becoming more
pronounced and more appalling.
The figures of the census bulletin
just issued of the new Bulgarian ter
ritories acquired by conquest are pro-
vocative of shudder at the perusal
thereof and inspire commendation of
the recent utterances of President
Wilson that the United States will
never acquire another foot of soil by
conquest.
These figures show that the male
population of that portion of Mace
donia which fell to the allotment of
Bulgaria was reduced by the war
from 175,00O to 42,5O0.
In Bulgarian Thrace, out of total
of 494,000 males the slaughter left
but 225, 900; considerably less than
half.
The greatest percentage of slain,
however, is to be found in the district
of Mustapha Pasha, where the fight
ing was the fiercest and ragged the
longest, for in this stricken area only
1000 males were left out of total
of 33,000 Here more than six-sev-
enths of the entire male population
was entirely annihilated.
The train of sorrow, despair, dis
tress and desolation which followed
this Balkan war must beggar concep-
ton and the atrocities which COM
panioned the conflict cause man to
blush for humanity's sake. May we
never behold a repetition of such bar
barous and bloody annals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

little yellow men and women and chill
dren are starving.
Instead of crying for blood, they
are crying for bread.
No sooner was the distress signal
hung out, than America rallied to
meet the emergency. The President
of the United States as president of
the American Red Cross association
sent out petitions for aid, for bread
in order that the Japanese might not
starve, for clothing in order that they
might be protected from the weather,
for money that all other necessities
might be purchased.
A yellow peril, indeed!
The Jananese is sentitive in regard
to laws framed for his exclusion. But
there is no man quicker to show ap-
probation for the heart which throbs
in sympathy with his, or the people
who come to his aid when his people
suffer.
Jingoism is disarmed, indeed. 1t
is well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
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wOOD-ENGRAyING OF TonAy

From "The Field of Art" in the Febru-
ary Scribner.
For that essential quality" in the orig
inal engraving" of the day (more partic-s
ularly in wood carving) which has come
to be so much in evidence-the synthetic
1t is called, attained frequently by the
careful selection the freedom and bold
ness and increased size and. greatly di-
minished number of the lines and the
greater amplifcaton of the solid blacks
and the spacious whites-an American
artist, Mr.. Arthur Wesley Dow, has fur
nished general thesis: "Composition
building up of harmony, is the fundamen-
tai process in all the fine arts | hold
that art should be approached through
composition rather than through imi-
tative drawing. The many different acts
and processes combined in work of art
may be attacked and mastered one by one,
and thereby power gained to handle them
unconsciously when they must be used
together IL a few elements can be
united harmoniously step has been taken
toward furture creation. This ap-
proach to art through structure is abso-
lutely opposed to the time honored ap-
proach through imitation" Mr. Charles
II. Mackie, A. r. S. A., one of the most
successful of the color block engravers in
England, testifies much to the same pur-
pose: "One thing that has particularly
struck me in this work. in which | have
been experimenting for about Is years
is the capital exercise it affords of the
picture making faculty, since one sees
ones picture grow to completion in such
a. logical way. No more perfect exercise
in fact could be devised for educating
the logical side of an artist for one
has to plan the whole result from the
beginning. when one chooses ones forces
and sequences of the block color shapes,
while throughout the printing one has to
be as constantly on the alert as in paint
ing, perhaps even more so, as any error
in tone is irremedable." Some similarity
in principle may be discovered between
this system of instruction in art and those
which have obtained in other branches of
education.
With these, and other, buttresses for
his cause the painter-engraver of the day.
working on copper or on wood, has been
encouraged to continue in these pictorial
expressions of his temperament
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
Raising the Bars"

| When the democratic executive
committee of the state at it's meeting
January raised the bars" it ac-
complished more than erecting bar
rier against the participation by re-
lpublicans in the, democratic primary
of April 6.
AS a matter of fact, as result of
| that action of the committee of the
party, break between the democrats
and the republicans has occurred. The
former have told the latter that here
after there shall be no compromise.
"You go your way, and permit me
| to go mine," was the sentence implied.
For a number of years, on account
of the selfishness of candidates in
counties and districts possessing a
large percentage of republican voters,
there has been an effort made to COM
promise with the republicans.
The democrats have said: "Of
course, you do not believe in national
democracy, but you believe in me-"
And the republicans, thus invited,
| have participated in democratic pri-
maries, But no good has been accom-
plished. The republican who votes
for democratic candidates for county
and district offices is never converted
to the doctrine of unqualified DEM
looracy." It.is wise, therefore, to break
with them.
1t has beer shown already that com.
mittees of several counties have dis
played a disposition to court the
friendship of the republicans despite
the action of the state committee. No
good purpose can be conserved as a
result of this policy. AS soon as it
| becomes known that a republican
must vote for a democratic candidate
for President If he is to vote for his
neighbor for justice of the peace or
sheriff. or coroner, or congressman
then will real converts begin to come
into the fold. But as long as the DEM
ocrats hold out the olive branch-not
because they love the republican, but
because they want his vote-the adj
herents o. the "standpatters" will con-
tinue to edo as they please"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
Disarmed Jingoism
Jingoism is disarmed.

JlnXOlSIu 10 ulSdlIiSd.
1 Just month ago considerable
proportion of the. American people
were disturbed by unhappy dreams
in which the Janapese was the villain.
There was real fear lest some fair
morning he would come sailing out
of the east with blood in his eye and
. curse on his lip, would land on the
western coast and proceed to murder
and destroy until his vengeance had
been satisfied in the knowledge that
this country was no more.
And at the present time, there is
no man in America so silly as to be-
lieve that there is the slightest ele-
ment of danger to the United States
as regards the Japanese. For in the
northern section of the island the
crops have failed. And there came
the eruption of volcano carrying
in his awful wake death and destruc-
ton Of property. AS result. the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
pod.k.r,. Entrance 1n,o race

'The announcement of former Cnief
of Police George II. Bodeker that he will
enter the race for sheriff is interesting"
said a well known citizen last night. 1T
focuses the attention Of the public of
Jefferson county on the race for an Of
flee which always offers an interesting
contest
1.-THE record of former Chief Bodeker
should stand him in good stead In his ap-
peal to the voters. He is a thoroughly
efficient police officer and perhaps the
best trained and most practical detective
in the south today. These facts should
prove excellent campaign material to
use against his opponents
Never as far as memory serves me
has there been man trained in police
and detective work elected sheriff of this
county. What is needed in the sheriff' s
Office Is man competent in all phases
of police and detective work. There is
just as much crime to be investigated in
and about the county that needs compe-
tent attention as in the midst Of Bir-
mingham."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
Peach Buds AupearIpr

THE extreme mildness of the weather
for the past few days has caused the
sap to rise and buds are actually be-
ginning to appear on the peach trees,
said a fruit grower.
This means that the peach crop in
this county is likely to be very small
as there is hardly ony one who doubts
that we shall have plenty of frost be-
fore spring. l also noticed a bush in
the yard of a dwelling house on Twen-
ty-hrst street near the First Christian
church that is almost white with bios
SONS. However. we must hope for the
best and may possibly escape any
severe frosts, ana have good peach
crop anyhow"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
THE NEW AGE OF POWER

From THE Trap to Catch the Sum- by
II. G. Wells in the January Century
1t was in 1858 that the first Holstein-
Roberts engine brought induced radio
activity into the sphere of Industrial pro-
duction, and its first general use was to
replace the steam engine in electrical gen.
Grating stations. Hard upon the appea -
ance of this came the Dass-Tata engine
the invention of two among the brilliant
galaxy of Bengal inventors the moderni-
zation of Indian thought was producing at
this time, which was used chiefly for au-
tomobiles, aeroplanes, water planes, and
similar mobile purposes. The American
Kemp engine, differing widely in principle,
but equally practica Bile, and the Krupp-
Erlanger came hard upon the heels of
this and by the autumn of 1854 a gigantic
replacement of industrial methods ana
machinery was in progress all about the
habitabe globe.
For many years the price of coal and
every form of liquid fuel had been clam
bering to levels that made even the re-
vival of the draft horse seem a practical
BILE possibility, and now. with the abrupt
relaxation of this stringency the change
in appearance of the traffic upon the
wold's roads was instantaneous. IN three
years the frightful armored monsters that
had hooted and smoked and thundered
about the world for four awfA decades
were swept away to the dealers in cla
metal, and the highways thronged with
light and clean and shimmering shapes of
sivered steel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
Fire Waste of the Past Year

The toll upon our resources taken
by fire during the year that Is just
gone was one that should command
our consideration. .e..
+. According to the figures just pre-
sented by the New York Journal OF
Commerce the fire waste in the United
States and Canada during 1913 to-
tailed 1924, 1928, 900. This was slight
Improvement over the previous year
when the amount ran to 1925, ,320,00o.
The figures for 1911 and 1910 were
remarkably close to each other, being
1924 1897 900 and 1924 4,470,O0O respec-
lively.
The loss by fires has more than
doubled since 1897, and while 1904 is
probably the most memorable in fire
annals, its figures being 2,554, 900,
we are rapidly approaching it as the
annual loss
One reason for the excellent show
ing of 1913 was the absence of any
great conflagration, such as those that
swept Chicago, Boston and Baltimore.
The largest fire of the year was the
S2.50O.0 900 blaze at Hot Springs, Ark,
but there were 44 fires reaching the
half million class.
While accidents and unavoidable
casualties constitute an appreclable
nercentage of the causes for our con-
flagrations, the bulk of the blame is
charged to our faulty construction and
perfunctory care Of our buildings.
These features are avoided and in
tolerable in Europe and, excepting the
conflagratons formerly common to
the wooden cities of. Norway and
Sweden, but now decreasing, such
spectacular holocausts as those to
\ yhich we are almost annually treated
Ce unknown. The recent fire at Con-
ntinople may possibly be classed
= Il an exception to this statement, but
our reference is to modern and ad-
vanced Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
PORT FOR WEARY MARINERS
m the Louisville Courier-Journal

From the Louisville Cour1er-Journal
Any old port in storm-but not in New
York. Ask the bounding billow boys
about the best port and they will direct
you to the American Seamen's Friend
society in New York, which has snug
anchorage down where the salt breezee
do not lose all their tang by contact with
the land.
Miss Josephine Upham is the mis-
sioner of the institute, and for % years
has been the big sister of the sailors.
Miss Upham is smiling and CHEEKY and
comfortable. She has 2 way Of inviting
confidence that makes the boy who ran
away from good home in Dublin to seek
fame and fortune on the high seas tell
her about how much his mother must
miss him and how he would give .
months pay for a glimpse of Kathleen
Mavourheen. the prettiest girl in the
home parish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
LAssOEs BURGLAR
Plttsburg Dispatch to the Philadelphia

Plttsburg Dispatch to the Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Ludwig Smith, formerly catteman
In the west, put his knowledge gained in
former years to novel use when he
lassoed John Plata, an intruder he had
surprised in his (Smiths) home Just as
the intruder was jumping from the Sec
ond story window Smith whirled his
lariat. which caught Platos arms and
drew taut as Smith braced himself
Swinging helpless at the end Of the
rawhide rope, three feet from the
ground, Plato hung while Smith calmly
walked down the street and got po-
liceman. When the former cattleman
returned to the house Plato was swing
ing at the end of the rope completely
exhausted from his efforts to extricate
himself
Smith in court told the magistrate
he kept in practice with his rope just
for old times sake. and that when he
saw Plato stepping through the window
last night he had no trouble in drop
ping the moose over his shoulders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
ALMOST NAPOLEON RErNcARNArEp
From "Skobeleff, Russia's Chief War

From "Skobeleff Russias Chief War
Lord" by Richard Barry in the jan
& uary Century.
A few days before he sailed for Europe
on the trip which ended with his death on
the Titanic. Frank d. Millet said to
friend in his studio:
"Skobeleff! How well I remember him.
we used to call him The Madcap.' That
was when he swan the Danube against
orders, dashed into Plevna without rein
forcements, and committed other little in
discretions of that sort which cny
mailman or a genius would attempt Later
came to recognize him as almost re-
incarnation of Napoleon. His ambition
was literally about the same as Napo-
Icons. He wanted Russia to conquer the
world. | stood with him once on the
heights above Constantinople-it was in
March, 1878, just before the treaty of San
Stefano-when he outlined to ne his
schemes, which began with the absorption
of the Ottoman empire, then extended
to a conquest of India, and concluded with
piratical designs on England in Europe.
1t was unbeievably naive, and I should
have dismissed the talk as the veriest
moonshine had I not been witness dur
ing the preceding months to the mans
rise from an inferior position, where he
was under cloud, to lieutenant-gener-
alship, with which he had become the
hero of the war. He was then the practi-
cal hand which Russia held on Turkeys
throat. He died only a few years later,
miserable, wasted, futile. A strange
man. great man; l think the most re-
markable man l have ever known"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
TRIAL OF ROBERT EMMETT

made that memorable vindcation speech
which is so familiar and one of the finest
examples of its kind in our language:
My lords, what have I to say why
sentence of death should not be pro-
nounced on me, according to law? l have
nothing to say that can alter your pre-
determination, or that it would become
me to say, with any view to the mitiga-
ton of that sentence which you are here
to pronounce, and which must
abide
1 wish my memory and name may
animate those who survive me, while
look down with complacency on the de-
struction of that perfidious government
which upholds its domination by bias
phemy of the Most High.
MY lords, you are impatient for the
sacrifice. The blood you seek is not
CONCEALED by the artificial terrors which
surround your victims! it circulates
warmly and unruffled through the cham
nels which God created for noble pur-
poses but which you are bent to destroy
for purposes so grievous that they cry to
heaven! 1 am going to my silent grave;
my lamp of life is nearly extinguished:
my race is run; the grave opens to re-
ceive me and L sink into its bosom.
Il have but one request to ask at my
departure from this world; it is the
charity of it's silence. Let no man write
my epitaph, for, as no one knowing my
motives dares now vindicate them, let not
prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Let them and me repose in obscurity and
peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed
until other times and other men can do
justice to my character. When my coun-
try shall take her place among the ma
tions of the earth-then, and not till
then, let my epitaph be written"
Emmet's trial was hasty one. Though
few were there to plead for him, Mac
Carthy says: mo advocacy of either men
or angels could by any possibility have
stirred the hearts of those in authority
for one who rebelled against the union.'
Emmett was sentenced to death on Sep
tember 10, 1903, and the following morning
was hanged and according to the brutal
customs of the time was then beheaded
NETS grave has not only awaited its
epitaph but also its discovery, for the
body has been removed to some spot by
personal friends who have never revealed
its final resting place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
GIVE PROSPERITY A CHANCE
From Leslies.

FROM LeSlle s.
President Wilson has keen eye. lie is
watchful observer He reads the signs
of the times. Twice recently he has sought
to stem the tide of advancing depression
by words of announcement to the busi-
ness men of the country. They We're
timely and effective We congratulate
the President that he spoke so quickly.
But deeds speak louder than words.
President Wilson knows that the demo-
cratic party is on trial. He perhaps re-
calls what Senator Bailey said. in pre-
dieting the election of President Wilson,
namely, that If the democratic party pur-
sued a constructive and not destruc-
tive policy, it would remain in power
for generation. In signing the currency
reform bill, President Wilson spoke in a
similar vein when he urged upon his fol-
lowers "a policy of constructive action
and when he characterized the currency
bill as 'the first of a series of con-
structive measures by which the demo-
cratic party will show that it knows how
to serve the country
The President added. 81, myself. have
always ltlt Wneil the dtiHOCidliS pa
was criticized as not knowing how 10
serve the business interests of the coun-
try that there was no use of replying to
that In words. The only satisfactory re-
ply was in action. What we are pro-
ceeding to do now is to organize our
peace, is to make our prosperity not only
stable. but free to have an unimpeded
momentum" The country will stand be-
hind the President in the attitude he has
taken.
The President has expressed his earnest
desire that nothing shall be done un-
necessarily to destroy big business, but
that questions in dispute shall be adjusted
other than by recourse to the courts so
that our great industries shall be brought
into conformity with the law with the
least trouble and expense to their thou
sands of shareholders A number of these
were organized when different business
methods prevailed. Our present fair
minded attorney general might hold that
these were created through the merger of
competing units and were thus enabled,
for the time being, to control a larger
share of a particular business than was
good for the public welfare. In many
of these cases industries were created by
the absorption of numerous plants which
had become obsolete but upon which high
valuations were held, necessitating an
capitalization of the corporation that
acquired them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20

n OBERT EMMETT is a name that
tx thrills every Irish heart at its
4 \ mention, as we'll as every lover
of personal or national liberty. Ireland
was in a fevered state when Emmett was
a young man at college. Together with
other young patriots he belonged to q
historical society where they led the po-
litical feeling toward the popular cause.
and Emmet was expelled from the uni
yersity for his connection with the asso-
citation of United Irishmen.
The rising Emmett planned was abor-
tive, but 1t was nevertheless sincere.
Heading what he thought was band of
ardent, patriotic followers, an attempt
was made to seize the arsenal. and Dub
lin castle. At the first voley fired by
the troops ordered to dispense the mob,
it gave way and Emmet's followers fled
in all directions.
Emmet escaped and was in hiding
among the Wicklow mountains. A safe
opportunity offered itself for him to
Sarah Curran was too strong to allow
MIN TO go without a farewell WISH. lie
knew the danger of an appearance In
Dublin, but he took the chance.
Emmett was arrested the moment he
reached the city and was placed on trial
for his life. The Indictment that was
made against him consisted of IS charges.
This indictment was presented on We'd
nesday, September IA. 1903. before a spe-
cial commission held at the Session
house, Green street. The court then ad-
jurned until Monday, September 10, when
the prisoner was brought before the bar.
The prosecuting attorney an 1rishman
named OGrady, made the opening speech
to the attorney general and the jury. Fol-
lowing this speech, which was long, Mr..
Joseph Rawlins, an attorney. was sworn
and examined by the solicitor general.
This witness was followed by many 9TH
ers, and when 1t was asked whether En-
met desired to present any witnesses in
his defense, he replied that, under the
circumstances, it would be useless.
At the conclusion of. the examination
Lord Norbury charged the jury, who,
without quitting the box, returned ver-
dict of guilty. Emmett then being asked
by the clerk of the crown whether he
had anything to say why judgment should
not be passed upon him, he arose and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-20
THE FOLLY OF FUROR

Havelock Ellis IN the February Metro
politan.
The fiery zealot in fury of blind rage
strikes wildly at the evil he has just dis
covered, and then fiings down his weapon,
glad to forget all about his momentary
rage and the errors 1t led him into. 1t
is not SO that ancient evils are destroyed,
evils. It must be remembered that derive
their vitality in part from human ma
ture and In part from the structure Of our
society. BY insuring that our workers.
and especially our women workers, are
decently paid, SO that they can i've conn
fortably on their wages. we shall not. in-
deed, have abolished prostitution. which
Is more than an economic phenomenon.
but we shall more effeotually check the
Uhits slave trader than by the moeo