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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27
WAR ECHOES

Baltimore Sun: Sir Thomas Lipton. who has shown by risking his life in Servia that he is as dead game" n sport in war as in peace, has rendered
 fine humanitarian service by his careful investigation of conditions in that country. Servia. in his opinion, must be purified of the plague as Lon don was by fire. and houses and cloth ing must be destroyed wherever they have become infected, which means over a wide stretch of territory. We do not know whether Seryia is behind the times in medical skill and scien- tific sanitation, and the prevalence of the present epidemic does not provo that she Is, because the events that have occurred there during the last few months were enough to disorgan- ize the most efficient system and to open the door to any form of disease, It is evident however, that she is un- able to cope with the present situation and that help from without must be ex tended to her liberally and quickly
 American doctors and Red Cross nurses are already on the scene and seem to be doing the greater part of the work, but they need strong reinforcements
 and it is to be hoped they will be speedily sent. And while we are send ing them might 1t not be a good idea to put our relief force in command of some sanitarian of high rank whc would perform for Servia, with Servias permission, the same kind of service We have done in Cuha and Do nj =, q [ War has left the germs of disease there and in the weakened condition of the general health they may remain g source of danger long time. ready to break out into fresh activity. unless servia is thoroughly cleaned up ani put on a sanitary basis. We are feed ing Belgium. Why not heal Sesvia and help her to establish sanitary sys- tenn that will protect her in future
 Louisville Herald: Why is Austria-of
 ficially Austria Hungary -ineffectiye? Hov
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27
CANOEING IN THE RAIN

From Outlng.
 have used the same provision-sack for over 12 years-an oblong affair of heavy duck, with top Tapping over to buckle twice in front. and with shoulder strap behind. I am not able, therefore to discuss the merits of any other bag. Here, again. it is not the kind of bag that counts so much as the method of hand ling it: but in O bag of this kind surely things are always more get-at-able. With any kind the cook for the day should de- eide at the morning packing what he will use for lunch, and perhaps dinner, and place these near the top, so that if he meets rainy lunch all his stuff is easily available and under cover; and al- ways there should be placed at the bot tom of this kind of bag articles that will take no harm from wetting-ham, po- tatoes. certain dried fruits, some canned goods-but never the latter where they will press the back in portaging.
 Having unspoilable goods at the bot tom, though is not enough; one does not like to get even these wet hence it is well to put fin the ,csAnoe crosswise under this bag pieces of poles about two and one half inches thick
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIEs
Improvement slow But Sure

The Iron market is much like the pres ent weather-there are plenty of signs of spring, but it is pretty bleak March after all says Matthew Addy companys mar ket review
 This week the distinguishing feature of the situation has been the activity of speculators. They have been figuring in nearly all sections on large purchases to be held against the day of higher prices There IS story of an English syndi- cato that has negotiated for the purchase Of 100000 tons The story came in an in- direct way, but it Is attended by fairly good circumstantial evidence. However, large blocks of speculative iron have been made up of small lots for prompt de- livery This small buying has been grow ins of late, and the shipments from fur mace yards show a notable increase. Pig iron stocks are heavy considering the times, yet they do not amount to much in view of the normal needs of the country, and when the extraordinary needs of the world, following peace, are taken into consideration, they do not amount to even a safe surplus.
 Prices remain unchanged. They are still on the low level and until they can be raised, iron makers will have hard time. for at present prices the business is unproftabe
 There can be no question in regard to the increase in consumption All foun- dries are melting more than they were six months ago. Improvement in this di- rection is slow, but it is sure.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27
Cost of Investigation
the game worth the candle ?

Is the game worth the candle?
 Newspapers differ among them selves at to whether or not the state is extravagant in spending it's money for the support of the members of the recess committees of the legislature.
 It has been estimated by the Mont gomery Advertiser that the three com mittees, when their labor is completed, will have cost the commonwealth the tidy fortune of $18,000. The Adver- tiser intimates that in it's judgment the product of the committees will not justify the expenditure. Other papers, differing, declare that the committees have already "paid for themselves"
 The Investigating committee will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27
WOULD BAR WOMEN SMOKERS

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
 Seattle.-Charlotte F. Jones, prominent club woman, threatens to bring suit against restaurants and cafeterias in Seattle where smoking is allowed unless a bill is passed by the city council com polling the downtown diner to forego the soothing weed and cigarette.
 She declares other club women are backing her.
 The bill allows restaurant proprietors to install smoking rooms adjoining the dining rooms; but they must be inclosed by four walls, and the door connecting with the restaurant proper must ale ways be kept closed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27

II. Y. Brooke, examiner for the federal reserve banking system, told the members of the recess committee on investigation that legislators come to Montgomery for and having performed that duty, fall into the hands of the Philistines, who use them It is entertaining to note that the committee neither denied the allega- tion nor cited the witness to appear be fore the legislature for contempt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27
Quiet Day i'm Police Court


 That Judge Perry Turner's idea of running the Birmingham police court upon the golden rule plan is proving great success was evidenced by the fact that only IS cases came up be- fore him today" said man who keeps in touch with the courts. His policy. since taking the position of municipal judge, has been one of tempering mercy with justice and thus far it has worked admirably
 "A great number of Birmingham cit- izens believe Birmingham to be one of the worst towns in the country for it's size, but glance at the police docket for the past few months will disprove this. It can be readily un. derstood that where there is a thriy- ing community of nearly 200000 there must be a certain amount of crime at all times, but in so far as the po- lice court is concerned crime is on a decrease in Birmingham instead of getting worse.
 "Of all the places where one can study human nature, the police court is in class by itself, the work is highly interesting at all times and there is always a chance of doing some poor unfortunate good. It seems as though exorpitant fines, in most cases, rather makes the offender more likely to appear in court again than to di- minish his chance of return visit. that is in most misdemeanor cases, and it seems as though this especially is true when applied to the fines of n mi an come before Judge Turner so often.
 Taking it all in all, Judge Tur- ner has certainly gotten much better results than did his predecessors and a gread deal of 1t may be attributed to the golden rule"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27
THE QUIET LIFE"
J. Albert Pierce in the Forum.

J. Albert Pierce in the Forum.
 1.-TWO street musicians, g. young girl
 singing in penetrating but unde-
 \ veloped voice and a woman with a guitar. represent to me my last tangible idea of music. The song was from 'The Bohemian Girl" and even now I can visualize the scene and the song. can see the women as they stood that night beneath their smoky gasoline torch, can hear the elders ill-tuned guitar, and l can hear as plainly as if 1t had happened last evening the voice of the girl trem- bling and cften breaking on the high notes of what is to me the most wonder ful song ever sung. A month later l
 lost every vestige of my hearing.
 You can close your eyes and imagine yourselves as blind, but you cannot shut out sound from your ears so entirely that you are abe to grasp the meaning Of lire without sound or anything resembling sound the quiet life.
 They say that Beethoven created his greatest masterpieces after he had be- come deaf. I can well believe it. No one can really understand music as well C4 alllfec1Glc IL dS luily dS it Niio SdH- not hear it. It is the absence and not the possession of it that is vital to him. He does not hear music, he knows not of it, the heart hunger for it, gives him the power to create mental music from poems and printed songs and to see harmony in the incidents of his daily life.
 It is not to the man or woman with opportunities every day to absorb musical sounds, not to him satated with the priv ileges of an unGcfective body, that the full appreciation comes; it is to him who car rics about in his mind the visualization of some once heard song, or who can make his own mental melody, that music reaches it's highest degree of enjoyment. Beethoven, the unhearing, filled with a passion for it and unable to gratify it through his ears. heard music with his soul. Being able to give it form and ex- pression. he passed 1t. as heritage to his fellowmen
 In Kipling's 'grhe Light That Failed, we find Dick telling his friend Torpen how to "take him away" because the sweeping. blood-stirring lit of the mii- tary band as it played 'He must be man of decent height he must be man of weight reminded him altogether too forcihly of what he had once been. This is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27

any European town to a peasant of that district, and he can spell it, even though he never saw it in print The laugh is not on the foreigner-it Is on the Ameri- can or the Englishman, whose language and orthography are so chaotic that they actually cannot recognize phonetic spell ing! There are societies and clubs and schools for the promotion of simplified orthography in English speaking lands we laugh at them as freak institutions. being secure in the superstitious ven-x eration of our own traditional illogic.
 But, going back to place names, one finds that even when we discard discus sions as to spelling and pronunciation we are still unoriginal In virgin lands we have been content to plaster borrowed ti- ties on new born villages. A man who comes from Newport calls his new home New Newport. A community starts south of the original settlement, and it is called South New Newport, while the first col- lection of houses is known as Old New Newport. The Indians may have had a poetical name for McBillingsville and its environs-we don't use the aboriginal n0menclature because IL IS outidHelSii.
 When New York was settled (and why should the Empire state have been named after sleepy English cathedral towng and thriving communities arose in it's fer tile acres why could those communi- ties have not received names that were racy of the soil? Why are the cities called Rome. Syracuse, Troy, Utica andr so on all the way through the classical dictionary? Let us be thankful that Schenectady and such original spots rel fused to be bromidic; that Peru, Inds Mexico, Mo-; New London, Wis, and St. Petersburg. Pa, are offset by Kokomo and KillilSinnik and Oskaioosa and Cana joharie and Hogwallow.
 And let no one laugh at Przemysl whl1o he asSs Foreigners to pronounce Moosa- tockmaguntic as it is said in Maine. or Piqua, O., as this town is pronounced by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27

Life in felicitating Alabama on the pas sage by the legislature of a law which precludes the circulation in this state of newspapers and magazines containing liquor advertisements, concludes with the exclamation ''vive LIgnorance." The Age-Herald contends that Alabamians are not as ignorant as the legislature makes them appear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27

The Greene County Democrat, published in the home town Of Senator J. T. Denson, bers of the recess committees of the leg islature are making more money trav- cling throughout the state than they could make at home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27

visualization, though not of the deaf mans variety. Dick heard the music and visualized the movements of the soldiers a deaf Dick would have seen the soldi&s and visualized the music; and each would have had as lucid an impresson as if neither had been defective. Kipling, in the same paragraph, characterizes this lit tie musical ballad as perfect quick step" To those people who can hear, but who never have heard, these particular werls set to music, they surely mean something. Mental music can certainly be found in them, visualized. Just think for moment of their effect upon a deaf man with a musical instinct, To me, at least this is the best part of "The Light That Failed" It represents to me some-( thing very personal. v
 So you see, the deaf mans life is not all together quiet one, after all. This men, tai appreciation to him is sound; sound as satisfying as the actual sensation would be to you. The crash of thunder, the rattlng of heavy wheels over pave ment and even the 'feer of stick on a picket fence are Sounds"
 To the deaf, some of the things the hearing man does are merely an odd con- glomeration of unconventional ideas. To the abnorma, the normal are abnormal, just as the normal believe the abnormal a little queer.
 do not mean that the deaf reason differently or dsapprove of life as it is. do not mean to imply that there is any radical difference between these two classes of people. It is just that the quiet life seems to nourish a certain fatalism, q we'll defined trust in a future that has already been planned in the past. Charles Miller expressed very accurately the deaf mans ideas of life and the meaning of life without having thought of these peo- pie at all when he wrote:
 Life is a game Of whist; from unseen
 sources
 The cards are shuffled and the hands are dealt. 4 Blind our efforts to control the forces
 That, though unseen, are no less strong
 ly felt
 do not like the way the cards are shuf-
 But still like the game and want to
 pay.
 Thus through the long, long night will
 ], unrlffled,
 Play what I get until the break Of day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27

The Gadsden papers regard as big news item the report to the effect that negro had stolen the revolver of Repre- sentative A. R. Brindley was erroneous. It might be pertinent to inquire why it hap pens that J man of the great uplift" as MT. Bidndley is should be possessed of murderous weapon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27

The Jasper Eagle in it's editorial col umns felicitates Walker county that there prohibition has endured for seven years. On it's front page it prints what it terms a story of a cold-blooded murder on Loss Creek bridge, and a drunken row" mur- der at BanlShead mines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27

The effort of the city council of At lanta to regulate the service of iitney busses has deprived Leo Frank of his ac- customed position on the front page of the Gate City newspapers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27
ALABAMA PRESS

Selma Journal: We are glad this -Przemysl-whatever that may be, has surrendered and hope that if may not be necessary to refer to it any more during the war. It is en- tirely too hard to spell
 Alexander City Outlook. Tho ad- vance agent of an American circus is not In 1t when it comes to making cialms compared to those Europeans sending out reports concerning hat ties. They are all past masters at the job.
 Dothan Eagle: They also serve who only sit and investigate.
 Sylacauga Advance: Since the war ring nations of Europe are so set on stopping the exportation of American products, suppose we use our products at home and improve the manufac- ture of our raw materials. The fin ished product will find market anv- where and there are several counties on the western half of this little elobc that can use the products of this conn., try
 southern Star: If there has been q year in the past 40 when it was neces- sary for our people to look out for nome living, that year Is the present one We must grow on the farm what Is consumed there. There is no money in cotton.
 West Alabamian: It is claimed some planters made big money out of pea nut hay last year. Inquire into inc possibilities of this crop-ft's easy made.
 Falkville News: All honor 10 the on- tim1st He is really one of the greatest assets town or community can have. and this glorious republis great as if Is would wither and perish if it were not for the optimists scattered throughout its great domain In de- pressions he is the guiding star of hope and in prosperity he contributes to greater abundance thereof.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27

could she well be other with the widely divergent desires and the conflicting po- litical aspirations of the races that go to make up the empire?
 We read that, when they had about come to their last crust, at Przemysl, the
 commandant called the people together and thanked the various nationalities for their loyalty to the Hapsburg, as well as for their courage and endurance. That, surely, is typical. It could hardly hap pen in quite the same way anywhere in Europe outside the dual monarchy We read, further, that the greater part or the civilians were Jews and we are re- minded that there are not far short or 1, ,O00,0OO of that faith in this crownland that until the partition about a century back, was part of the kingdom of Po- land For the most part they congregate in the cities-Cracow, Lemberg, Brody and others of less import.
 With nearly 50,O00000 inhabitants, not more than 100000 are of Teutonic stock. These, for the most part. are in Vienna and in the provinces that lie to the west and along the borders of Bavaria and Switzerland. North of them, in Bohemia, are nearly 100000 Czechs; down in the little triangle of the Tyrol, between Lom- bardy and Venetia, are less than 1000,- 900 Italians. There are nearly as many Magyars in Hungary as there are Ger mans around the Kaiserstadt of Wien. There are more Serbs than in Servia; as many Roumanians as in Roumania; and, besides, in great numbers. Poles, Slovaks and Russians of the Ruthenian variety. For the most part each of these races clings tenacously to its own tongue, its own costume, and it's own customs In the army they must frequently be kept apart. In the deliberative assemblies at Vienna they debate in their own speech producing confusion that, not so long ago, was solved by adopting Latin as the common medium
 | The veteran Emperor is popular With all races though not with all sections ms uncompromisingl aristocratic ieanink offending that growing sociai1st party that, more than once in recent years mas sought expression in violent ana danger
 ous outbreaks. His wars; frequent m the earlier days of his long reign, have rare llv been successful, and his gains have been won principally in the fields of diplo- imacy.
 The speculation as to what might hap l pen when at length he should go to join his fathers in St. Stephens church has
 been one of the favorite pastimes of those who believe that empires fall apart,
 1 with or without external encouragement,
 | that do not respond to the needs and the
 l dreams of the smaller nationalities.
 1 Cleveland Plain Dealer; Tine war news
 l affords variety of material for thought
 | less American humorists. "Przemysr' Iias I been captured. but it was worked to death
 l by jokesmitlls long ere it fell. The Anglo
 Saxon humorist thinks that any word he
 I can't pronounce is funny.
 The withers of the Anglo-Saxon are
 not unwrung, however. Most foreign
 Languages are spelled as pronounced. and I vice versa. Any Galician peasant can pro-
 nounce "Prsesmysl." Speak the name ol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27

If Senator Lusk. member of the recess committee on Judiciary, continues to fol- low ms inclination of inquiring into the personal conduct of a certain state of- hcial, the Investigating committee will be- come convinced that he is poaching on it's preserves
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27

The Selma Times quotes Captain Hob- son as having declared that President Will son IS the "country's greatest liability" Captain Hobson has been so reluctant to criticize those with whom he differs that The Age-Herald fears he has been done another grave injustice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27

It IS pitiable how completely the great European conflict has knocked into a cooked hat that utopian argument that DE navy acts as preventative of war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27

pr. Earle Drennen, in speaking Thurs day night of his experiences as a war surgeon in France, sealed the heights of realistic narration when he declared the Paris of the present to be as dull and monotonous as Montgomery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27

It required good deal of urging to tive law practice and enter public life, but that was nearly IA years ago. After he got into the political game he liked 1t and it is now believed that he would be even willing to accept the republican nomination for the presidency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27
stand thee close, then, under this pent house, for 1t drfzz1es rain.
 Much Ado About Nothing.

BEGINNING THE DAY-O God, I thank Thee for the morning with It's sparkling mir. it's dew-wnshed earth, its train of fresh mercies, it's new chance. May I answer its call, may I bathe myself in its promise and It's balm. In Chrfst's name. Amen. HI. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27
MAJOR AND MINOR

George William Curtis. in the Kansas
 City Times. A bird sang sweet and strong
 Tn the top of the highest tree; He sang, T pour out my soul in song
 For the Summer that soon shall 5e' But deep in the shady wood
 Another bird sang, T pour My soul on the solemn solitude For the Sprin9e that return nc more
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27

The man in Birmingham in whose breast does not throb patriotic desire to serve on the city commission or the board of revenue Is an exception.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27

When peace is declared in Europe time VIII not hang heavy on our hands. The Mexican problem will still remain
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-27
Lessons from wars of Past

T was much interested in General French's remarks about the civil war leaders in his interview with Frederick Palmer said a student of civil war strategy. General French rightly &C., knowledges the. debt the modern sol- dier owes General Lee because all the tactics of the present war originated with General Lees campaign in defense of Richmond
 Lee 1t was who first dug himself in and hung on before Grant thwart- ing his every move and the Confederate leader first demonstrated the possi- bilities of the trench. Prior to the ad 7 vent of Lee earthworks were used in general way, but they did not play so vital part in the fighting as in the battles around Richmond.
 Just as the Germans dug them- selves in along the Aisne so Lee en- trenched along the road to Richmond and as long as he had a handful of men held at bay the innumerable le gions of Grant.
 Another part of General French's interview interested me. It was what he said about artillery. The British commander maintains that infantry Is still queen of battles,' and that it is the deciding arm of the service This may be true and I would be the last one to dispute the learned Britisher but nevertheless it has been unmistakably proven that the guns will have a mighty influence on the outcome of the war.
 Already the system of modern de- fense has been revolutionized. After this war is over frontiers and import ant cities will be defended not by costly towers of cement and steel but by line after line of trenches, for the modern artillery has made the for mer obsolete.