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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-12
WHEN THE LAW IS A JOKE-By

attending the event and the telegraph and telephone wires were burdened with accounts of 1t all.
 Bulletins: Robbie doesn't seem to re- call old Joe. the horse that for years has pulled the Dunbar buggy.
 Bulletin: A sight of the town pump doesn't seem to bring to Boobies mind any of the events of a former residence here.
 Bulletin. Boobies face is clean, and for this reason it is believed none of his former playmates seem to know him.
 Flash-Bobbie recognizes the family cat
 Flash; Robbie recognizes the family cat.
 Julia Anderson, from her North Caro- lima cabin, began to give out interviews. She had a son about the age of the boy found with Walters. A drummer who put up at hotel where she once cham bermaided had something to do with it. (1he drummer was never intcrviewed)
 She had given this boy into the custody of Walters.
 The most enterprising of the New Or leans papers had Julia Anderson to come to Louisiana to see the disputed child The arrangements were made with the
 utmost secrecy. The Anderson woman
 reached New Orleans one morning. The laper paying the freight nad lnuuced MI. Dunbar to bring the boy to New Orleans for the proposed inspection. MT. Dunbar was due to arrive in the afternoon. The astute managing editor thought his plans were alright. He did not publish any thing about the arrival of the Anderson woman that afternoon, awaiting her meet ing with little Robbie" Imagine his
 chagrin when the opposition sheet ap-
 peared with the story all over the front page and with pictures galore But this has little to do with the Walters case. Julia Anderson swore that little Bob bic" really was hers and the drummer S boy Bruce.
 The governor of Louisiana called upon
 the governor of Mississippi to surrender
 the body of William c. Walters to the care of the peace officers of Louisiana. The governor of Mississippi, with that love of the lmellght which seems to go
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man pursued by another ran in front of a seven passenger automobile containing several occupants. The man was killed and the car sped on. To- day the police don't know who was driving that car, or if they know they haven't told
 bicycle ridden by messenger boy collded with an automobile at high noon at the corner of Twentieth street and First avenue, the heart of Bir- mingham. The bicycle was wrecked but the boy was not badly hurt. A news- as follows; "All efforts to learn who owns the car or who was driving 1t have proved unavailing." Could any thing be more ridiculous or more dis couraging?
 In foreign countries the murderer swings for 1t. 1t is pessimistic 10 de- clare that our system of judicial pro- cedure is designed to protect rather than punish the guilty, but such is actually its effect. The jury system had its origin in the early days of Eng land Then a number of men who knew
 most about the matter involved were | summoned to pass upon it. How dif- ferent from the present arrangement! | Now those individuals who know the
 least concerning the thing at issue are | desired to act
 Birmingham has been shocked again
 of late by a series of brutal assassina- 1 tions.
 Will these bloody murderers be ap- l prehended?
 l If brought to trial, will justice be l served or will they be given their
 freedom because of some trivial teeh-
 nicality?
 1 It Is time Birmingham and Jeffer- | son county were up and doing. Men of murderous mind must be taught that
 punishment. swift and sure. will fol- | low the giving away to their hatreds
 and their passions. The bulk of the | citizenship Is conscientious and law
 abiding. Will 1t allow itself to be eowed by bloodthirsty minority?
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most prominent preachers declared in sermon that he had been told by d mem- Der of the legal profession that the pro- fusion of lawyers here made it almost impossible for man to follow the calling and remain honest
 The attorney who thrives by the bringing of damage suits has a corps of assistants to hunt up witnesses who will swear in favor of the complainant. This procedure is met with similar or ganization by the law firms repre- senting the great corporations The art of jury selection Is we'll recognized It has almost been reduced to a science
 Lately two men suspected of mur- der were arrested by the Birmingham police, The officers had sought for them high and low But success finally crowned their efforts. one of the want ed men was found in the county jail ; the other was delivered by ambulance to the city prison after he had been refused admittance to local hospitals.
 A young man shot his uncle and the coroner held him on charge of mur- der in the first degree. He employed counsel and they took the case be- fore a Judge of the inferior court and obtained bail in the sum of s15o0-a ridiculous sum, if the defendant is guilty of the crime charged by the coroner Yet the judge acted, as he Is sworn to act, upon the facts brought before him. The evidence which had been gathered by the coroner had no part in the proceedings.
 The criminal history of Jefferson county Is filled with unsolved mys- teries. The worst part of 1t all is that the public conscience has seemingly be- come calloused. That things can be ac- complshed when the people will was eonVincingly shown in the Lewisburg cases. This plague spot of assassina- ton was thoroughly cleansed
 Year or so ago Alabama gave in- dication. of breaking away from anti quated forms and promise was held out that justice would be rendered with regard to Justice only. and without the worship so long lavished upon the
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would make the crime of Kidnapping capital offense. Instead of doing so it made Kidnapping legal Walters has been set at liberty.
 It would be difficult to imagine any thing more farccal than the Walters case has proved.
 William o. Walters, the defendant, was a travelling tinker. He went about
 the country soldering pots and pans and doing such other jobs as the housewives demanded and his ability permitted. His reputation was unsavory and his shirt was dirty, but he was
 locked upon as a man of some native
 shrewdness and little mystery.
 Tn April 1912. Robert Dunbar, then
 aged years, disappeared from the
 home of his parents in Opelousas, La. The hue and cry was raised. Police officials everywhere were appealed to.
 The newspapers published page upon page about the missing child and the search made for him.
 About a year later Walters ap- peared in Mississippi with little boy
 answering to the description of Rob-
 bic Dunbar. The father of the latter was notified and he hastened to the scene. He felt sure the child found with Walters was the Kidnapped boy, but he wired for his wife to come in or der that the Identification might be rendered more certain. Mrs. Dunbar declared that it was her Robbie, and
 swore that she could not be mistaken Two states were agog. The indignation against Walters ran high. Many feared that the tinker be lynched.
 Walters remained calm. He main tained the boy was Bruce Anderson the illegitmate son of an ignorant woman of North Carolina, and that she had placed him in his custody. The New Orleans papers were fairly crazy. Nothing but the Dunbar case had a chance to get into print The colemns of the newspapers were filled with maw<ish twaddle about little Robbie" The child was carried to the Dunbar home in Opelousas. There en- sued a deluge of pictures of incidents
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check the youth in his manner of de- livery. The quaint reply of the bishop was that the only fear he had was that the madness would not last till the next Sunday For two years young White field went up and down England eleetri
 fying the multitudes wherever he preached, During this time John Wesley had sailed to America for the purpose of establishing chain of missions in the province of Georgia Knowing the tremendous force of Whitefield, Wesley believed that a wide theatre would be opened to him in the regions of the New World and accordingly sent for him to come across the seas and join him. White field consented and went to London to make preparations for the trip. His fame had preceded him to London, and at once he was beset to preach. Complying. the effect on the multitudes, irrespective of social position, was amazing. The stately Chesterfield. who always acted with con sciousness of every expression, was in-
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VXIE have a coterie of gentlemen A/ loyal to the core to the welfare
 W of this city. who are striving to bring a great blessing, a great uni- versity to this community. Their con duct in this matter, is the impersonation of patriotism-the doing of a good for the benefit of the whole citizenship.
 We fondly cherish the memory of men who do deeds devoted for the betterment of humanity. We erect statues, monu- ments to their memory. commemorating their virtues. Joseph Chamberlain, who died last week, has erected a monument to his own memory that will endear him forever in the hearts of his countrymen. He conceived, planned and prepared great university for Birmingham, Eng land. his native home That this institu- ton of learning has been that city's rich- est asset it's greatest blessing, is con ceded. No one achievement in Mr. Cham- berlain's brilliant career can compare with it. is not questioned. It stands 10. day as distinct mile post on the road of progress, for individual thrift, for soc cial and economic betterment of a great industrial city. MT. Chamberlain's genius COnCeIVeQ 1t reality, an untold blessing.
 Why Is This University a Blesslng?- Through it Birmingham, England, is rap idly becoming, for her population, the richest city in the world. It is said that in less than 25 years, she will be- at her present rate of progress, the richest mu- nicipal corporation known 10 man.
 As you enrich by culture the hand, the head, the heart of ' citizen. you enrich the city in which .e lives. The hand. that by skillful training, can earn from 8 to S5 per day; the head, that by educational care and culture, can com mand from $5 to s15 per day; that heart filled with enthusiasm and zeal or stirred by holy emotions that can by ex- ample or persuasive eloquence, lead thou sands into right living-such are not undesirable citizens, such are the win ners of bread for the body, as well as bread for the soul. They are the hope and the life of city. They constitute a community rich in splendid manhood ana noble womanhood. Such men and women Birmingham England, is training. edu- eating for their life-work, by means Of and through her university.
 Furthermore it is claimed that her citizens are the happiest of people in the way of rational living. Her schools are doing the work and her gyeat university is the inspiration of her schools.
 Wonderful Wealth.-Her university is bringing to her not only wonderful wealth. which is phenomenal, but also her mertal and moral growth, which adds i character to her citizenship. and gives happiness to her homes.
 You may say: All the great universities are not doing this wonderful work for the cities where located Harvard, Yale. Co., lumbia, the University of Chicago, have no such a phenomenal history as it claimed for the University of Birming-
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of having seats when the Il o'clock hour should come. In order to accommodate the multtudes, Whitefield gave up preach ing in house. and went into the open. For this he was exposed to authoritative censure but he was consoed by the eag- erness of the crowds to listen to him.
 He came To America. but did not re- main but a short time. 1t transpired that difference of theological view led to an estrangement from Wesley Though a Methodist Whiteied was Cavinistlc in his views. while Wesley was Arminian. They were unable to find any common ground of agreement, so they separated. Each was equally persistent in the pres sure of his view neither was disposed to yield. Both were later in London. where at Moorfield was Wesleys chapel few miles from the heart of the great city In exhibition of their loyalty, tne friends of Whitefield built for him tab ernaele in the same quarter. Compared with the multitudes that thronged on the
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ham, England. This is true, but all these
 great schools named, and others not
 named, are doing splendid work in the
 training of our youth for good citizen-
 ship. They have caused this republic
 to forge to the front as a great world
 power demonstrating not only the ca
 pacity of her people for elf-government,
 but also the capacity of her people for
 projecting and building institutions of
 learning, wherever and whenever the citl-
 zens of a community appreciate and de-
 sire culture and refinement to adorn the
 character of their city, and have a horror
 for crime and vice that will mar it.
 New Educational Venture-Birming
 ham, England, has taken one step far
 ther in the new educational venture be- yond our great American universities.
 She is giving the highest training pos
 sible, in theory and in practice, to her citizens in their various vacations economic, civic. commercial and others. Theory and practice go hand in hand. The idea Is sought to be made the real.
 so far as ingenuity can devise ways and means for so doing, genius has conceived a group of statues which vmbolizes the aims of Birming gham, England's education methods.
 A Group of Statues-It stands in a public plaza in Paris. It is in bronze young man in the hey-day of splen- did manhood with features bespeaking strength, culture and anticipation, stands upon pedestal of manuscripts and books, typical of the accumulated wisdom of the ages. these he and his helpmate have mastered. Beside him. Is his wife, with face radiant with joy and hope. He, with one foot stepping forward, with hand outstretched to widen the world mental and spiritual horizon, to conceive theideal and pro- ject it into the real. She with their child in her arms, bidding 1t to look, to listen. to catch the spirit of prog
 ress. to cherish in its inmost soul the deep desire for growth in all that is good and great in life, for humanity. This is the ideal in education of the great statesman whose death England today mourns. Joseph Chamberlain has bequeathed the richest. the rarest leg acy of any known life to his native city,
 Birmingham, England in her great uni versity. It is eliminating crime and vice, the desire to rob and to murder, and inculcating industry and thrift. vir- | tue and happiness in their stead.
 | Shall Birmingham, Alabama, richer in natural resources fail for the want of l a Joseph Chamberlain? We have a
 committee of Chamberlains! who see
 as clearly as did this great English
 man, the good in store. for this city for | ages to come, in this university.
 | Profit by Her Experience-Can we
 not profit by her experience. and reap
 even larger rewards, and enjoy greater prosperity? We as a city are running behind in our annual income $300.000
 annually.
 In ten years this will be s3.0oo.ooo
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Birmingham, England. is running ahead financially. How can we reverse our financial condition? Locate this uni- versity there, and the work will be eventually done. There is no place on earth yet known, where nature has lavished her wealth of minerals. for iron and steel making, with such a prodigal hand as he,e. We must not neglect our higher educational interest. Indifference is shame. failure is a crime. By it, our children and our people can become as skilled citizens as Birmingham, England's. They can
 become as thrifty and as prosperous as any people in America. What Is it that is impossible among possibilities, to enterprising Americans?
 Iron, cotton and steel, respectively. have been the financial barometers of trade in the world of commerce. Steel still holds sway. Birmingham, Alabama, is in the very heart of this raw ma terial. in the midst of the manufactur- ing enterprises that convert them into merchantabIe products. Why should these crude products be shipped away
 from here, for the want of trained ar tisans to reap the larger profits. in
 their finer manipulation and utiliza-
 ton? This university with it's techni- cal schools can do this work and bring
 prosperity to every mans door No
 citizen should be blind to his own
 interest, as to fail to give a helping
 hand, and hasten the day for these rich rewards. Shall strangers, with tech
 nical training and education have to be imported from other climes and other countries, to do the skilled work which properly belong to and Is the natural our citizens? They can be trained to do the work if this school is located here.
 The Ideal and The Real-All sciences and all arts aim at certainty, the attain ment of truth, the making of the ideal the real. This was the one aim, this grand Englishman sought to do for Bir- mingham, Eng, through her university. He. said in deeds that will never die, in deeds that will live to mstrest man.
 kind always: This university through its curriculum, it's course of study, shal come as near as possible to the very life of the citizen. It's Jcnools of instruc- tion shall come in touch with the voca- tions of all the people. These schools shall aid the bread winners in theii work, and demonstrate that the most in telligent. skillful way of doing things is commendable, prai,,worthy and honor able. That the source of living and tho art in living is in giving constant intel | ligent skillful physical expression 1T
 daily work. making ,nes animalism sub
 ordinate to his mentality the mind thus trained in daily control of the body | readily dominates It's passions and its
 appetites. in the realm of reason. These schools of instructions taught a deeper
 lesson to the citizen, through the daily
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duced to hear the youthful orator. and in spite of his conventionality of man ner gave way under his preaching. Bo- iingbroke, the leading skeptic of the time in England learning of the power of Whitetield, went, as a matter of curiosity to hear him, and to the surprise of his followers. fell a victim to the mastery of the gifted preacher. Under the sway of the simple preaching of Whitefeld.
 Bolingbroke lost sight of his cold phil osophy and became excited under the ap- peals of the matchless orator. Whitefield could not sail so early as he had expected.
 so clamorous was the desire that he finger in London to preach. He continued from day to day to expound the Scriptures
 not in a sensational way, but to him, in most natural manner. but the effect was overwhelming So anxious were the null utudes to hear him, that in the early darkness of the morning along unlighted streets of London. people were trooping
 with lanterns to the church. to be sure
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conservative for the starch of Scotch Presbyterianism. and too starchy for ths Arminanism of Wesley. Between the two was Whitfield. and here he stood tili his death. Again and again he came to America. With matchless and mereiless force he crashed through the Puritanism and Arminianism of New England, and while he sought not to organize sep- arate church. separation came. and around his views was gathered what was called the Separates Of New Lights those who equally rejected the views differently held by divers churches. The ploughshare of his oratory tore asunder the roots of many who were Arminians, congrega- tionaists and others and in the wake of his preaching sprang up q harvest of different growth from that which had hitherto iourshed. He set in motion 3. revival that rolled across the land. and did much to supplant the Puritanism of New England, a condition from which it has never recovered.
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smith, the barber, the baker. the clerk, the carpenter, the captains, in industry and commerce; in short, every citizen from the menial to the millionaire whether he owns slO0 or sl0o0000. should feel an interest and have an interest in this university, feel that 1t Is partly mine, that I helped to put it on it's feet and helped set 1t agoing. It will bless him and make his life and property moro secure and more valuable. It will create an atmosphere of thrift. enterprise pros perity and social betterment in which to live
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Methodist church, which was then in the stage of infancy, and tie principles, and more the unusual freedom from form, of that denomination, lured him into it's ranks.
 Whitefield was scarcely 21 when he he- came a Methodist minister. In his native town. Gloucester, he preached his first sermon. the effect of which was remark able. The vehemence of his oratory was startling and his dramatization so thrilling. that five persons in the audi ence became wild with fear and excite ment. At that time Methodism had not become a distinct organization, but it had stirred the stagnant lake of the tablishment, and it's initial inroads were manifest. Because of the unusual effect of the preaching of young Whiteheld. quite out of the ordinary humdrum meth cd of the establishment, complaint was made to the bishop and the instances of madness produced were recited to him, with the accompanying request that he
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HHE rare qualities of Whiteheld's S elo- quenee made him immensely pop uplar. even in his budding man. hood. Nature had made him d ma gician of eloauence, and perhaps his mastery over the passions of a multitude has never been surpassed and rarely equaled
 Patrick Henry was possibly the peer of Whitefield In the natural force of ora tory. but that of Henry was more nar- row than was that of the great English preacher Henrys power lay in his abili- ty to sweep by the tropical explosive ness of his eloquence. while that of
 Whitefield was not confined to the tumult element. but prevailed even in the soft cadence of persuasion. As a boy. at the grammar school a Gloucester, Whitefield grammar school at Gloucester, Whitfield and for the electrical effect of his speech on an audience. On the completion of ms university course. he entered the
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A Question of Politeness
the Boston Transcript

From the Boston Transcript.
 Robbie and Elsie were told that there were two apples on the table for them. Being taught to consider each other first. Robbie said: Take your choices Elsie"
 No" said Elsie. you take your choice"
 Each kept insisting that the other take first choice. until finally Elsie broke the deadlock by taking the big- ger apple. Instantly Bobbie's eye flashed and he exclaimed wrathfully, Put that back and take your choice.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-12-19

motor boat at the rot Of Corey street.
Iio was perhaps half an hour behind.
Florence never opened her lips She
stared ahead proudly, She would
show these scoundrels that she was
her fathers daughter. They piled
her with questions, but she pretended
not TO hear.
Well, pretty bird, wen make you
speak when the time comes. We've
got YOU this trip where we want you.
There won't be any jumping over
board this session, believe me We've
wasted enough time We've got you
and we're going 10 keep you
Let her be-" said Vroon morosely.
We'll put all the questions We wish
when we're nj a destination" Ana
he nodded Significantly toward the
ships riding az anchor.
Florence felt her heart sink IN spite
Of her abundant courage. Were they
going 10 take her TO sea again? She
had acquired a horror OF the sea. so
big, so terrible. so strong. She had
had an experience with It's sullcn
power. They had gone about four
miles down when she looked back
lonsingly toward shore Something
white seemed 20 be spinning over the
water far behind. Al FIRST sho could