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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
Good Road Days

Alabama's good road days last year
were well observed, and there is prom
Use this year Of even a more general
observance. The middle of August is
a good time for bringing out the farm
ers. for the harvest is over and the
weather is usually dry. Last year
thousands of brawny men worked with
enthusiasm in improving the public
roads, and the good roads movement
throughout the state received a de-
cided impetus.
The governor of Alabama has al
ready issued his annual proclamation
calling upon the people to observe
good road days, August Ia and 10, and
the people in every county are dis
cussing the importance of the work to
5e done. The movement for setting
aside certain days when the people
would be called upon to work upon
the roads was inaugurated in Ala
bama.
. Since that time fully fifteen states
have commenced to observe good road
days, and now the United States Good
Roads association, of which Senator
Bankhead is president, is making an
active effort to have August IA and
Is adopted as good road days in every
state in the union. 1t is hoped this
effort will prevail, but whether it does
or not, Alabama will push forward
in good road building. 1t is now
ahead of many of the southern states,
and in the next few years will be be-
hind few states in the union in the
matter of macadam highways.
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money, therefore. will have to be of
the whirlwind order.
Birmingham has raised large sums
for various worthy institutions, but no
new enterprise of such large and Gull
tural nature has ever been within
our reach as the. Methodist university
1t will mean much more than the mere
building of university halls. 1t will
make of Birmingham a great educa-
tional center, while from a CONNER
cial point of view alone, it's value can
not be overstated.
The reason that the question of 10.
cation is to be settled soon is because
at least one department of the uni
versity must be ready to begin work
in the fall-the theological school,
Temporary quarters can be found for
the theological students at Birming-
ham college.
The construction of adequate uni
versity buildings will require time. but
if the decision of the committee is in
favor of Birmingham, ground will be
broken for adequate university build
ings without unnecessary delay.
The Methodists have never been
lacking in zeal or backbone. Now that
they are separated from Vanderbilt at
Nashyille-long the pride of Method
ism-they will erect here such a. uni
versity plant as will attract the at
tention of the whole country.
The Birmingham Chamber of Com
merce is certainly justified in it's
activities in behalf Of securing this
great prize.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
The University Movement

II birmingham does not secure the
Methodist university 1T will not be
because of any Jack of efforts on the
part OF the Chamber of Commerce,
President Shook has appointed a COM
mittee of public spirited citizens to
assist him In pushing the movement,
A canvass will be made for subscrip-
tons to supplement the offer of Bir-
mingham college, and in view of the
enthusiasm that has been aroused 1t
is reasonable to assume that a large
fund will be raised.
Phe committee appointed by the
educational commission of the Method
list Episcopal church, south, charged
with 1the duty Of locating the proposed
university will make its decision on or
abeRt hs l5th Of July. The canvass ter
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24

President Wilson's recent reference to
psychology as one of the contributing
causes for the wave of pessimism which
had spread through the business circles
OF the east, has been the subject of
much comment upon part of the press
of this country; and the word has been
discussed in it's many phases" said a
professional man.
Until recent years psychology-the sci
ence of the mind or soul-like most other
complex sciences, was classed by most
of us along with the fourth dimension
something to puzzle scholars and theor-
lists. and of little practical value. Ply
slcians were the first to make an effort
to apply this science directly to matters
pertaining to their profession. Some of
the more advanced members of the pro-
fesson. by careful observation discov-
cred that the attitude of the mind of
the patient and of those having access
to the sick room was one of the most
important factors to be considered in
treating many diseases. Or, in other
words. that the mental state of the pa
tient was of almost as much Importance
as the physical condition.
Hypnotism, one of the most spectac-
ular forms of applied psychology, is as
q rule induced by suggestion; and the
power of suggestion is regarded as one
of the important phases of the new
psychology The Pennsylvania railroad
has recently adopted a psychological test
for prospective employees, In order to
ascertain the adaptability of the mind
OF the individual to the kind of work
contemplated.
Some magazine writer's have ascribed
President Wilson's mysterious power over
Congress as the result of applied psychol-
ogy; and 1t IL hoped that the Presi-
dents future measures will embody
enough psychology to rid the country of
any further pessimism that may develop
In business circles"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
THE MErHop1sr UNIVERSITY

| From the Atlanta Constitution.
If Atlanta wants the $5,O0O,000 eastern
university of the Southern Methodist
church 1t must reckon with Birmingham
That city, as told in news dispatches,
has already organized and taken the field
In aggressive style. President Shook, of
the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce,
has appointed a campaign committee.
The personnel of this committee COM
prises the leaders of industry and bust
ness in Birmingham, bankers lawyers,
doctors, laboring men, merchants, rail-
read men, newspaper men.
At the first session of the Birmingham
committee Birmingham took the first
trick in the campaign by rendering the
Birmingham college, its plant and it's o.
acre campus, as a nucleus. With this
start it is expected that little trouble will
be experienced in raising the remainder
of the fund up to $1,oO0,00o, since the Bir-
mingham college is rated at a value of
$500 600.
The eastern college will be supported
by the entire Southern Methodist church
The western college has already been es-
tablished at Dallas, Tex. Birmingham is
now Atlanta's main competitor. While
the institution will start with a valua-
ton of $1,000.000 the church plans within
a very short time to increase that amount
to s5,0OO,O0o.
It is evident that if Atlanta's campaign
is to be successful it must meet organiza-
ton with organization. If the Birming-
ham Chamber of Commerce can so quick
ly get a campaign on its feet 1t is In
oumbent upon the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce and other bodies to exhibit
similar enterprise. With Agnes Scott and
the Georgia School of Technology and
Oglethorpe university Atlanta already
has far handicap IN becoming the edu-
cational center of the south. The addi-
ton of the Methodist university, drawing
students from all the south, increasing
prestige and involving the expenditure Of
hundreds of thousands each year, would
clinch Atlanta's supremacy.
differentiation must be met with or
ganization and time is flyingl
What does Atlanta propose to do about
it?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
ON A BEAUTIFUL DAY

BY John Sterling
Oh, Unseen Spirit; now a calm divine
Comes forth from thee, rejoicing earth
and air.
Trees. hills and houses. all distinctly
shine
And thy great ocean slumbers every.
where.
The mountain ridge against the purple
sky Res
Stands clear and strong, with dark.
ened rocks and dells,
And cloudless brightness opens wide
and high
A home aerial, whore thy presenc,
The chime of bells remote. the murmur.
ing sea.
: The songs OF birds in whisner,r.
copse and wood,
The distant voice Of children's thourht.s.
less glee,
And maiden's song. are all one voio1
OF good. 's
Amid the Navss green mass a SUNNI
OF flash lash and shadow stirs like inward
The ships white sail glides onward FAD
away. A"s
Unhaunted by q dream of sterm a.
strife. -
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that of a great many other successful
men who don't always do business by
the golden rule.
Without railroads this country
would never have arrived at its pres
ent prosperity, and without good rail-
road presidents the high efficiency of
the principal railway systems in the
United States would be impossible. 1t
is time for the anvil chorus to cease
its clamor.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
A Poor Form of Wit

Gas honest as a railroad president
is a paragraph published as an Gun
truthful epigram" in a humorous
weekly. In this particular case no
harm was meant, but the paragraph is
indicative of the way the general pub
lie has come to regard the railroads
and the men who manage them. Sur
prising as it may seem to a moder-
ately well informed person, there are
thousands of people in this country
who consider the average railroad
president as little better than a bri-
gand, while the corporation of which
he is the head is held to be incapa-
BILE of even approximating fair deal
toward the downtrodden public. The
efforts of INSCRIPTIONS politicians
and the sensational writer's for news
papers and magazines are bearing
fruit to such an extent that it is the
railroads and not the long-suffer'~g
public who fail in a great many in
stances to get a square deal. "Any-
thing to beat railroad" seems to be
q popular slogan in some parts Of tire
country nowadays.
To infer that because a man is
president of railroad he Is neces-
sarily dishonest is absurd and does
a great injustice to the vast majority
of capable and conscientious officials
who perform their duties to the best Of
their ability and are men of much
more value to the community than
their detraetors. Men don't get To be
presidents of railroads by chance.
Most of them have worked up from
subordinate positions and all of them
have been thoroughly tested before
they are entrusted with the RESPONSE
bilities which go with their high posi-
Hons. They are bound to have soms
moral worth, or they never could
overcome the distances they dc,
Now and then an INSCRIPTIONS
sailroad president is given great
deal Of publicity, but it is folly to
condemn all railroad presidents be-
cause one allows himself to become
9 tool in stock jobbing operations that
deprive stockholders Ct their profits.
The average railroad president is a
hard working person and his rating
fss honesty n 1ssbsbly higher than
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
ia Cinoinnati Nno,,irer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer,
One reason for the high cost of living
Ia that a lot of ginks try to make a rab-
bits foot take the place of hard work,
The reason you think a girl Is suffering
from a broken heart Is because her tight
shoes are raising cain with her oornsr
This would be fine world If a man
oauid change his luck as easily as a
woman oan change her mind,
Rumors of war aiwayH excite a single
man, But married man doesn't pay
much attention to them. He is used to
wap,
The reason some men are always hus-
Ting for jobs is because they never hustle
to keep one,
Before marriage he thinks she Ia the
dearest girl in the world. After mar
riage, when the bills come in, he knows
she Is,
A failow never realizes what big place
tbs world is and how few people In 1t
he knows until he gets arrested and starts
to figure out some one to go on his bail.
If the styles get any worse a whole
lot of the fashion publications will be
barred from the mails
AS long as woman doesn't lie about
anything else but her age, her hair and
hsr weight, she has as good a chance 81
apybedt 81 setting te heaven.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
GREAT TRIALS OF HISTORY
THE BOORN MURDER CASE

huence that was brought to bear on
the brothers previous to and at the
time of making confessions The Judge
charged that no weight should be at
taohed to the confession, leaving 1t to
the jury to determine as to whether 1t
was SO Influenced.
After the jury had deliberated an
hour they brought in verdict of guilty
Of murder In the first degree against
stephen, and 1t was directed that he be
hanged; and of the second degree
in the case of lessee, and he was at
once sentenced to imprisonment for life,
and began serving his sentence.
The day for the execution of Stephen
approached, and as last resort To
prove his innocence he had his attorney
insert in Rutland, VT, paper a request
for information as to the Whereabouts
OF GOWN, with suggestion that other
papers copy it. 1t was copied by the
New York Evening Post and a party
Of men assembled in New York hotel
noticed the paragraph one of whom re-
cognized, as he believed, the brother-in-
law as man who was employed in
Dover. N. j, as a farm hand.
He hunted up the man and found he
was Colvin, took him to Manchester,
where he was fully identified. The
town at once took on gala appear
ance. cannon were fired and Stephen
was brought from his cell to fire the
first shot. Jesse was released from the
state prison at Windsor. After a time
Colvin requested to be returned to New
Jersey which was done. This was no
doubt one of the most singular cases in
the annals of criminal Jurisprudence.
Tomorrow-Trial of John Barbot.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24

While people in Kansas were swelter-
ing in fierce tropical heat, people in
Bunalo We're wearing overcoats and felt
hats. The trouble is that man can't
travel about the country and follow up
the pleasant weather, as it shifts from
place to place By the time he got to
Buffalo people there might be swelterins
while the people Of Kansas were enjoy
ing a mild blizzard
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
MONEY FOR CROPS
From the Talladega Home.

FTO1I IHe IHIIdueBd I1OIlt.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
again stands ready to let southern and
western bankers have money to move
the crops IT, necessary. Present indica.
lions are that bumper crops are ON
the way and they will require the
greatest sum of money yet needed to
handle them. Last year the secretary
offered $50, 100000 to the bankers and
they used ts7.000.o00 in the crop move.
ment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24

BEGINNING THE DAY-My Faith
er, grant me grace to be lenient with
others and exacting with myself. 1
know my own case, the lnrgeness OF
opportunity, the wilifulness of my
heart. Others have temptations and
weakness and hidden yenrnings for
God, that i can never know. May
Judge not, except where Thou judg-
est. For Christ's sake. Amen.-H.
NJ. e.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24

ON ABoLIsHING OFFICES

From the Dothan Eagle: And while
they are about abolishing fee systems.
they can abolish some offices. Take the
office of county treasurer 1t could be
done away with, and no one would suf-
Ter. As 1t Is, the banks make the bond
of the official and handle the funds, re-
ceiving them and paying them out, and
the treasurer has but little to do. In
some instances the banks pay interest
on deposits.
The banks might as we'll bid on the
money. give bond to the county for it,
and let the money be placed with the
bank that pays the most interest fog
the use Of the money. They would
keep the accounts of the office. as they
now keep them, and save the salary of
the county treasurer.
From the Fort Payne journal: An ef-
fort will be made to induce the legis-
lature to reduce the number of courts.
The state is now paying for courts and
officers about quarter of a million
dollars a year and 1t IL believed nearly
a fourth Of that sum can be saved
without serious injury to our judicial
system.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24

Americans as class have much to
learn In the preparation and selection
of foods and they should remember that
the most expensive food is not necessarily
the best" says DR.. Charles f. Bolduan
of New York's public health department.
People who have passed their fortieth
birthday are dying Off faster than thew
did 80 years ago, and in the opinion of
physicians over-indulgence in meat is
largely responsible for this condition. The
death rate in general in this country ba g
decreased steadily for sometime, but
that's principally due to increases in the
birth rate, not that people are living
longer. We have done much to drive
down the death rate in the way of bet
tering sanitation and such things, but in
spite of all this our death rate for persons
over 30 is increasing" DIR. Bolduan says
summer than in winter, better plan still
is to eat less the whole year around, both
of proteins and of fats, starches and SUI
gar Over indulgence in food is a COM
mon trait of nearly all ages in this coun-
try where food is plentiful less gem
many people who die just at the time
when they ought to be enjoying life to
the fullest extent
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24

Henry Watterson's Glove letter" to
Gen" Resale Jones will make that
dauntless leader mad enough to engage
In a real old-fashioned scratching fest
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24

The feminine dog fancier who is suing
a Cincinnati millionaire for breach of
promise Is 40 years old and noted for her
Startling" clothes Yet she says she and
Papa" zimmerman talked about a little
cottage In the country
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24

Fathers Day may be denoted by wear
ing red and white roses. but 1t will never
amount to much IL father has to celebrate
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24

Villa Is plain man who probably never
had haircut, shampoo. a shave and a
massage at one time In his life,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
GOING THE PACE.

The gay Bohemian life for me-"
Said Arthur Babson Huey;
And then he ate with well feigned glee
A bowl of rank chop suey.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24

While a stabilizer for aeroplanes Is no
doubt good thing, what we really need
in this country is an automobile that
won't turn turtle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24

The Hon. Tyrus Cobb assaulted a
butcher and a pleasant time was had all
because Mrs. Cobb didn't like a fish she
bought.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24

Vice President Marshall may not figure
in the newspapers every day. but he
makes a fine Sunday feature.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
THE SASSY MARK.

THE SASSY MARK.
Bill Crook again is in disgrace,
And off to jail he's trotted.
Poor Bill has got freckled face,
That's why he's always spotted.
Luke McLuke in Cincinnati Enquirer
Some brains is what Bill seems to lack,
Or else they couldn't jail him.
Bill has head just like a tack
That's why they always nail him.
New York Mail
Poor Bill has dreams of flying high,
With sycophants to sing him;
And maybe that's the reason why
The cops contrive to wing him.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24

War Is being waged on the roadside
signboard. except. of course, when It
hangs invitingly from the roadside inn,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24

1t takes all kinds of people to make a
world. including the fussy old gentleman
who likes to concoct his own salad Dress
ing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
THE CAUSE.

old Mr.. Benson made millions by MAN.
ufacturing tablets to perfume the breath"
Il used to wonder why the family was
so close-mouthed about the source of their
wealth.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
THE GOVERNORS BORpow

From the Selma Journal
big news item was printed In the
morning papers of last week. 1t was
too big to be any good for Alabama.
1t was such a stupendous news item
that we felt aggrieved that it was
published, at least that there was a
necessity for publishing 1t. 1t was to
the effect that
Alabama had borrowed a million.
Seems like the governor has about
gotten tired of borrowing a hundred
thousand at time. so he Just jumps
the broom and grabs a million dol
lars of good money from a New York
bank and will now get busy with the
spending of 1t. Maybe he did this just
to show his friend Harding of Birning-
ham that the First National bank OF
Birmingham was not the only bank
that could furnish the state with money.
Something has been said recently
about an empty treasury. 1t was
claimed that Conner left an empty
treasury after he had found 1t filled
with a million dollars O'Neal seems de-
termined not to leave an empty treas
ury even If he has to fill it up with
borrowed money. 1t will be for Hen
derson to scratch his bald pate and
wonder how in the world this million
dollars is going to be paid back,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
LUKE M'LUKn SAYS

The longest day In the year left great
many people short,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
VACATION TIME.

Now doth my neighbor fold his tent
And softly steal away,
But leaves the family cat behind
To shift as best it may.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24

birmingham has a greater number
OF good restaurants than any city of
approximately its size in the north or
SOUTH" said Charles F. Sayre of Chi
oago.
Atlanta Is a progressive, thriving
city. but 1t has few high class cafes.
Birmingham Is, really the only city in
the south that is noted for good
restaurants and a lot of them. No mat
ter how much this city may have been
criticized in the past for its lack of
up-to-date hotel accommodations 1t is
now in the fine hotel class and will be
we'll advertised accordingly"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
EXAGGERATED EGO.

'Dabb seems to have a very good opin-
ion of himself"
Yes. Because he has one or two Wag-
merriam selections among his photograph
records he considers himself a patron of
art"
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A LATER CHOICE.

A LATTER CHOICE.
Some poets sing
The old-time swing
That we as children knew.
But nowadays
I'D rather praise
The hammock built for two.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
wALLINGFoRD BREAKS A WILL


Cincinnati Dispatch in the New York
Sun,
How George Randolph Chester, the au-
thor of "Get Rich Quick Wallingford,"
won the regard of his wifes relatives by
playing pinochle with her grandfather
was disclosed in common pleas court here
today during the hearing of the case to
break the iatter's will,
The author married Lillian Hauser of
College Hill few years ago. John Meag-
ly Mrs Chester's grandfather, objected
to the marriage because the author was
divorced, but he changed his opinion later,
Mrs. Chester's mother said in her testi-
mony;
MY sen-in-law used to play pinoohle
with my. father almost every night.
Father said he never would have thought
it possible to meet as nice man as Mr..
Chester. He said he was sorry for the
things he had said about him right after
the marriage"
Uhe will was broken.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
HIGH FINANCE,

HIGH FINANCE.
MIS-. BioWster wears expensive
Clothes"
She can well afford to- She makes
every one of her bridge parties declare a
dividend"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-24
DEFINED.

DEFINED.
What is stirrup cup. anyway"
The stirrup cup is obsolete now, but
it's equivalent to the last drink a man
takes downtown just before catching
trolley car for home"