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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02

If the Zeppelins had proved half as ef- fective as the German submarine in the present war. there would be some excuse for England's fear of a Zeppelin invasion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02
IN ALABAMA SANCTUMS
A Bold Statement

From the Columbiana Advocate.
 The democrats can't buy enough votes in this county to win the election nexi Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02

Germany seems determined to send the British navy to the bottom, one ship at a time. John Bull had better wake up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02
Trust in Pigs

From the Roanoke Leader.
 Our southern people had better put their trust in pigs than in princes or poli- ticians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02

It is becoming more and more apparent that General Villa is an ambitious man, a state of mind that bodes no good for Mexico.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02
Better Grade. of Cotton Sought

The demand for cotton in this mar ket has largely been from the Caro- hnas and eastern mills. and for the best grades said a local cotton man. For tunately. most of the cotton has been running well up in grades. I take the demand for strict middling and good mlddling to be that the mills think that good middling delivered at, say 7A cents. is better to work on than mid cling at a lower price
 The cotton warehouses here are al- ready getting crowded and, in fact, all the warehouse facilities of the state are being taxed to house cotton to their fullest capacity with overflow accom- modations under shed and canvass. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02

Walter Johnson, the baseball pitcher, says he is out for the money. Still. a little baseball patriotism is not amiss, even when pitcher can dictate his own terms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02

There seems to be a growing belief in some quarters that if the Germans should win the present war, and if it suited their convenience to do so later on, they would doctrine into a cooked hat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02
A GREAT ADVENTURE

From the Philadelphia Publlc Ledger.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02

Men shall deaI unadvisedly some times, which after hours give leisure 10 repent. Richard HI.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02

Paris Cable to New York Times: The Journal Conformation states that the French infantry have recently gained much ground in the Argonne region through the use of steel brea stplates, which, though unable to resist point blank bullets, are nevertheless impenetrable at range which permits troops to pause before the last rush with the bayonet.
 The Journal de Rennes announces that the Russian government decided to adopt the breastplate at the outbreak of the war and placed immense orders with a factory at St. Iiilaire de Harcouet, which had the exclusive manufacture rights
 The French government also has now ordered large quantities and has released the reservists employed in the factory, which is busy night and day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02
WAR ECHOES


 Rome Dispatch in the New York Sun: The efforts made by the authorities of Venice to form a students corps for the protection of the town against possible invasion have failed. Inducements of wa rious kinds were held out, but without effect. The students in the last year course were offered diplomas but only 30 out of 800 German students accepted and not single Italian.
 Great military preparations are going on at Trent, in the Italian Tyrol, where everybody seems to be at work construct ing Notifications. Large numbers of young men are crossing the frontier in the army.
 London Cable to New York American: Although the German experts declared that the renewed offensive in the north by the hurling of six or seven new Ger man corps Into the line must be decisive, the allied line remains unbroken. The unexampled sacrifice of life by the Ger man generals fills the towns and villages of Germany with wrecks of poor human ity but nothing more. General Joffre was fortunate to find at the head of the armies of his allies such brave spirits as King Albert and Sir John French. Meanwhile the capture of Warsaw and winter quarters on the vistula are far from achievement. Grand Duke Nicholas, assured of marked numerical preponder- ance, Is beginning a general offensive. The Germans have not yet displayed suf- ficient capacity to withstand it.
 The Austrians are putting up a better fight In Galicia than was expected after their reverses. but the Russian pressure Is felt severely all along the line
 Russian troops from Siberia, Cauca sus and Turkestan have arrived to strengthen the corps in Europe. The Russian staff can now begin to act with confidence born of strength.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-02

Entered at the Birmingham. Ala, postotfice as second class matter under act of Congress March 3, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-29
Automobiles in the War

A Philadelphia concern is reported to be working night and day on' large order of armored steel automo- piles which will be used by the Euro said that New England manufactory of arms and ammunition is engaged in making certain type of gun which will be mounted on these cars. A total of 1000 cars have already been or dered by the various powers, accord ing to the report, and negotiations are being carried on with France, Russia and Greece by the automobile manu- lecturers. The neutral position of the United States forbids the exportation of contraband of war to belliger- ent, but manufacturers easily circum- vent this ruling by shipping their product to a neutral port from which final destination. When full decla- ration of the nature of cargo is made the state department is powerless to interfere. As result American manu- lecturers of army supplies will doubt less reap rich harvest.
 It is not surprising to learn that there is a lively demand for armored automobiles on the part of the bellig- erents. Automobiles have already proved of great assistance in actual fighting, in field hospital work, in transporting supplies and in hurrying men to strengthen strategical point. Being less spectacular than the aero
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-29

From the Rochester Herald
 It would be an irreparable calamity If any of the great architecture of Europe were destroyed by the present war. Amer jeans who go to Europe and find some of their finest inspiration there from these wonderful works of art produced in ages when the spirit of art. rather than the spirit of commereialism, ruled the world. Our American cities are, for the most part, rather ugly, but many of the Eu- ropean cities are very beautiful. Brus- sells Is very beautiful city, and all lovers of the beautiful must hope that no great damage will be done to it. Strassburg is regarded as the pearl of Alsace, and it would be d sad thing If the French guns did great destruction to the city itself.
 But one never knows what will happen when great war breaks out. Daniel Webster once said that fin war there are no Sundays" and it may be added that there is small consideration then for those embellishments of existence which mean so much to us in the days of peace. There Is little excuse for war at the present time. We admit that 1t was different in ancient days, when nations knew comparatively little of each other, or even nothing at all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-29
Birmingham Will Be Benefited

The Alabama merchants convention held here this week was great success said Frank F. Ellis, treasurer Of the Avondale Stove and Foundry company
 Tt brought fine class of men to Bir- mingham-the very class that we are glad to cultivate. One of my friends. a pros- porous merchant from east Alabama, told me that the only commodity he had been buying in Birmingham was what my con- cern sold him. He said that until he came on this trip he had regarded At lanta as eminently the commercial city of the south. He had been buying his goods there, and it had never occurred to him that Birmingham was, in Atlanta s class. He has different viewpoint now He was simply amazed at Birmingham S bigness and at the commercial advantages which this city Nesented. Other mer- chants were doubtless equally impressed All our older citizens can remember when Birmingham was a small town, but as a mercantile center it is outclassed today by no southern city, and in the very near future it will outstrip all southern cities in population.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-29
Declines Ambassadorship

According to an Associated Press dispatch, Samuel M. Foster of. Fort Wayne. Ind, has declined the Pres ident's proffer of an appointment to an ambassadorship-first ambassador to Argentina. Up to this time the United States and Argentina have ex. changed ministers plenipotentiary but owing to the growing importance of the prosperous South American republic the post has been raised to ambassadorial rank. The salary of our minister has been $12,000. The ambassador will receive a salary of S17,500.
 Such positions are usually sought, but MT. Foster has the distinction of having this high office rendered to hi.i and declining the honor. He is doubt less well qualified to represent the United States in Argentina. Such may be assumed, at any rate, for the President would not have selected him unless he was satisfied with his fit ness.
 Mr. Foster is not in "Who's Who in America He is possibly one of those gentlemen, somewhat rare these days, who shun the spotlight. But man big enough to be an ambassador should eventually get into the refer ence books despite of idiosyncrasy or inborn modesty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-29
War Developments Yesterday

The most exciting event of the war yesterday was the naval engagement between the British and Germans off Helgoland, the fortified naval base protecting the mouths of the Elbe and Weser rivers.
 While of no great magnitude the battle indicates that the German fleet is resting only in fancied security under the guns of the Qualifications. The British warships entered the blight despite the floating mines and submarines and boldly attacked the Germans The forts on the island of Helgoland were supposed to be inn pregnable to sea attack and at the same time able to keep hostile fleet from molesting the ships in the bay. On. the face of the reports of the battle coming through London this they would appear unable to do.
 Operations in the war zone on the French frontier continue, but the censors pass so little that nothing is known except that the fight is going on and the allies are being pushed back.
 Germany says that the allied army is surrounded. As France and England had at least 750,000 men engaged it is difficult to credit this statement. However, the Germans in the recent fighting were successful and the effect of their victories can not be minimized.
 In the absence of reliable informa- tion as to the actual fighting, inter- ested military experts are speculating as to the nature of resistance Paris would .offer to besieging army. An interesting analysis of the situation around the French capital and the dis position of the Qualifications is printed in another column of The Age Herald.
 The Russians continue to advance, according to reports. They are said to be making directly for Berlin, and it is not impossible that the Cossacks might enter Berlin as soon, or sooner, than the Germans enter Paris.
 Great Britain is calling upon her colonies and instant response is being made The Princess Patricia Light Infantry will sail from Montreal to- day. Asiatic soldiers will, after all, tread the battlefields of Europe. Lord Kitchener yesterday announced that native troops from India will be used to reinforce the French. Australia's 5 contingent will soon arrive, while the English soldiers scattered throughout Africa are being concentrated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-29
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

ipHl tnc SlutiIlldll EnQulTer.
 When anything happens to a man he can't cuss without making the air blue. But when perfect lady gets mad she can swear with her eyes.
 Most of us would die from neglect if we loved ourselves as much as we love our neighbors.
 Old eugenics will have to do lot of ex- blaming before it becomes popular. You may have noticed that a man with face like camel will marry girl with a face like horse and their daughter will be the prettiest thing you ever looked at.
 One reason why we are strong for pro- hibition is because a man has no business running his health drinking cool glass of beer in a saloon when he could be hiding in a back alley taking swig out of bottle of wood alcohol.
 Anyway. Adam hadn't any kick com ing. He never had to stand for threa hours on the outside of department store while Eve matched fig leaves for her new autumn girdle,
 The old fashioned woman who believed that the night air was unhealthy now has daughter who hates to get home before ? a. m.
 Every now and then you meet man who believes that he has a monopoly on all trouble in the world.
 You can't get young man to believe that the time will come when girls will seem less important than business.
 Before marriage it is mostly Bliss. After marriage it is mostly blsters.
 Juding from the chances taken by the girls this summer there is a chance that they may make their dresses out of ham- 0aOcks next summer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-29
The Farmers Great Opportunity

For the last three years the farmers of the cotton belt have been making marked progress in the diversification of crops. The boil weevil menace ac- centuated the crop diversification movement in Alabama and several other southern states, but for. other reasons the farmers were finding it to their advantage to produce in ad-. dition to cotton, both corn and hay on larger scale than heretofore.
 As The Age Herald pointed out 8 few days ago, there should be re- turn to wheat growing in Alabama. There was a time when some of the farmers of northern Alabama pro duced as much wheat to the acre as the farmers of Tennessee and Kentucky And with the application of scientific methods even larger results per acre can now be obtained.
 The unsettled cotton market situa- ton due to the European war will make crop diversification all the more important and inviting. Foodstuffs will be very high next year-higher perhaps than ever before; and not only next year, but for several years to come high prices for grain will rule. The big war will last for months if not for years. Famine will pre- vail in the old world, and America s grain must supply the wants of the foreign nations.
 Since the farmers, by the intensive method, are able to produce from 50 to 100 per cent more cotton to the acre than they did three or four years ago, they can greatly reduce the cot ton area and still raise fairly good crops. But the main point is to in- crease the grain acreage. The farmer who has been planting 50 acres in corn and 30 acres in oats should plant 100 acres each. And in addition to these two grain crops he should try his hand on wheat. Withsfairly good weather conditions the money value of Alabama farm products in 1915 should total fully $400,000,000. The total was about 90,00O,0 ,000 last year
 As deplorable as the war is, it will prove of lasting benefit to the south ern farmer, for he has found that in the long run grain will pay as well as cotton, if not better.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-29
THE GLORY OF THE CoB

From the San Antonio Light
 Slaves of My Lady Nicotine may rave of briar or meerschaum. Freak smokers may prate of the joys of the nargieh. The buyer of choice Havanas may chatter about the 'bouquet' of his favorite pana- tella and the lover of cigarettes may tell of the especial flavor of his pet brand of mixed tobacco and alfalfa But where shall arise the poet to commemorate in adequate muse the delights of the corn cob pipe?
 The common or garden cob pipe of com merce is no expensive luxury. The poor can possess it as well as the rich, and when it is seasoned just right the poor man smoking 1t Is al happy as the rich one. It is sneered at by the dandy It has no place upon the streets or in polite society, at country club or garden party. On the counter of the tobacconist it wins no handsome show case. But has anybody ever invented pipe that tastes better when it has been smoked just long enough?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-29

From the Philadelphia Record.
 In the history of Europe during the past century nothing is more curious than the easy way in which national allia noes have been made, broken. made again and chahged as dynastic, economic and racial reasons have demanded. Here are a few of these political transformations:
 In 1915 Russia, Prussia. England and Austria combined against France and crushed the power of Napoleon forever.
 In 1s49, when revolution in Hungary threatened the house of Hapsburg in Austria, Russia intervened and by force of arms placed the present Emperor. Francis Joseph, firmly upon his throne
 In 1s55-6 England. France. Austria anu Italy allied themselves with the Turk against Russia fin the Crimean war.
 In 1859 France deefated Austria in Italy and gave great impetus to the unifica- tion of Italy.
 In 1866 Prussia gave it's present ally Austria, fearful beating at Sadowa and forced it out of first place in the Ger man confederation.
 In 1870 Prussia inflicted upon France the defeat, with accompanying loss of territory, that has been the cause of Eu- ropes unrest ever since. In 1877 Russia defeated the Turks de- cisively, but was cheated out of the right ful fruits of her victory by a combina- ton of the other powers in the treaty of Berlin.
 Old enmities and friendships are now forgotten, and Italy, which detests both Austria and Germany, is united with them in the triple alliance, while thoss
 old-time enemies. England and Russia. are allied with France in the triple en- tente.
 What will be the next switch? Events of the next few days may bring it about quicker than one could have supposed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIFS
Bright Outlook

Commercial travellers who cover cotton belt territory were thinking that their fall business would be backward, said Hugh NJ. Brown. .But the outlook for normal trade is beginning to be quite bright.
 The government plan for financing the cotton crop is satisfactory to all concerned and there is not the least fear that the cotton farmer will have to sell at prices barely enough to cover cost of production. Alabama has made big cotton crop, and the farmers will get prices that will yield q fine profit -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-29
Opti,nism of Ad Writers

The ad writer, wherever found<shas come to be recognized as great factor in the business world. He or she is a person of acumen, person in close touch with the business world and a req sonably strong optimist. One of the most wide awake and influential organizations in this country is the Sx-Point league-''six- point being the designation of a certain type that looks well on any page of any newspaper. President F. St. John Rich ards sends The Age-Herald this report of meeting of the Six-Point league. made up of 62S leading New York repre- sentatives. held recently:
 ''The effect of the war on newspaper advertising was freely discussed and members present testified as to their in- dividual experiences. Six-Point league members do business with advertisers in a large variety of lines and meet manu- facturers and dealers throughout the en- tire east, and it Is of interest to record that the feeling was decidedly optimistic and general tone encoura ging It was shown that steamship and travel ad- vertising comprise the bulk of business that has been definitely cancelled and that advertisers not intimately affected by lack of ocean, transportation were going ahead with their fall campaigns. Con- tracts already made are If normal pro- portions. The fact that crops are good and the market ready TOT them; that the freight rate is settled; that the new currency law is soon to be in opera 1 ton. and that new export markets are | to be open for. our trade, means large wealth for the producers of this country and good business for tsose who seek 1t in a reasonable manner.
 Tt was evident from some reports that in some lines of trade readiustment to
 new conditions would be necessary. but with our sound basis this should not greatly interfere with prosperity. It was
 the sense of the meeting that the adyer- i Using world would be encouraged by a
 knowledge of the facts brought out and | the president was authorized to send out
 this letter to all who would be inter- | ested."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-29
sympathy for L. NJ. Mccormick.

'l was pained to read the account in The Age Herald of a violent assault on Mr- l.. M. Mccormick, one of the most highly esteemed commercial men of Birmingham m.' said prominent citi- zeI
 T know MT. Mccormick and his kins- men here well, and upon investigation found that the assault, which oc- cured on Third avenue was most wan ton. Between Q and 10 o'clock MT. Mccormick went to the postoffice to get his mail from a box. From the postoffice he walked along Eighteenth street 10 Third avenue and was pro- ceeding quietly along the avenue, when he was waylaid and beat up. He was taken to St. Vincent's and was un- conscious all night. He and his family have the sincere sympathy of the good people of this community"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-29
Steel Industry to Expand.

That the European war is going to nave a profound effect on the iron trade in America is becoming every day more evident" says Matthew Addy & Co.'S Cincinnati report of this week. Tt is an axiom of history that war never leaves things as it finds them. Indus- trial conditions all over the world have been tremendously dislocated but of course 1t is too soon to know what permanent changes will result For one thing, the trade here Is taking energetic steps to supply from domestic sources those materials which have been com ing from abroad especially manga nese and high grade ferro alloys of various kinds. It may be that some of the raw materials cannot be found here. but they can be replaced by other things which we have. It Is absolutely certain that the steel industry here will have great expansion. Our mar kets are going to be immensely Wi iened. The stoppage of fmportations of many things from abroad-for example, Belgian and German steel manufactured into lighter forms, such as cutlery. en- ameled ware and host of knick- knacks of one kind or another-will lead to their production on this side of the ocean.
 ''fhe current iron market is more ac- tive and orders are more numerous Everywhere there Is much subdued ex |citement. It is felt that changes are in progress and that careful study of the situation is necessary so as to Jet no opportunity escape. The tendency of the market is upward and higher prices are being obtained. At the same tune production of pig iron Is declining and a sudden expansion of demand would develop shortage"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-29

plane, we don't hear so much of auto mobiles in the war that is now going on, but they are being used in large numbers and will doubtless figure even more prominently in the fighting than they do now.
 Armored automobiles are miniature forts on wheels. While not able to withstand heavy artillery fire, they are not easily demolished, and the speed with which they can be moved about makes them extremely formi- dable.