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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07

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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03
Great Fair Opens Thursday

The State Fair opens next Thurs
day. 1t will be grand fair and as
there is promise of good weather, the
occasion should be marked by large
attendance.
AS attractive as the fairs in past
years have been this years exhibition
will be of surprising interest, and
when opening day comes there will
be none of the confusion that usually
characterizes such events. Most of
the displays are already in place and
before Wednesday the finishing
touches will have been added.
All fairs, no matter how small
some of them may be, are educational,
but the State Fairs held here are not
only instructive but the amusement
features are uncommonly varied and
diverting. The management has
spared no expense in its effort to set
new high record in pleasure giving.
Since the fair has become an estab-
lished annual show it serves as a
great social as we'll as educational
clearing house for the people of Ala
bama. Farmers and merchants and all
other classes of citizens with their
families come from every part of the
state. And as this is a year of plenty
the out-of-town crowds that will come
to enjoy the fair and meet their
friends will be the largest ever as
sembled inside the gates.
Birmingham never fails to show its
appreciation of the fair associations
enterprise, but many of the home peo-
pie have been in the habit of waiting
until the second week before visiting
the grounds. 1t is hoped, however
that Birmingham will turn out in ex-
ceptionally large numbers on the
opening day. A big crowd Thursday
will have splendid effect on the
general public and will do much to
insure a full attendance on all the
othor doyc
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03
Brilliant Lyceum Course

The tenth season of the Birming-
ham Lyceum is to be unusually bril-
liant. Opening this week with Will
liam Jennings Bryan and closing in
May with Edward Howard Griggs,
the course embraces lectures by such
distinguished men as DR.. Hamilton
Holt, editor of the Independent; Fred
erick Warde, David Starr Jordan
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Judge Ben B.
Lindsay, United States Senator Bur-
ton and Vice President Marshall.
Always popular, the lyceum fills a
real need, and it is believed that all
the season tickets will be disposed of
within the next few days.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03
IN COLLEGE LIFE
From the Kansas city Star.

From the Kansas City Star.
ENTRANCE as it may seem. youth
when 1t Is just rounding itself
~ out-tries its hardest in good
many ways to differentiate itself from
other youth, and very often by the ex-
clusion of other youth from opportun-
ity that 1t can command. number
of growing up, adolescent feelings en-
ter into that, some of them imita-
tive of youths elders, to be sure. And
nowhere has it ever been so evident
as in the greatst collections of the
essence of youth in the country, the
universities.
There has been lot of truth In the
charges brought against universities
that those who made up their student
body were in many ways trained far
out of touch with democracy. Woodrow
Wilson had a problem of that kind to
fight when he was president of Prince
ton. He mapped out a campaign to re-
form the alleged snobbish club sys-
tenn in that school and carried 1t to
successful issue. even though many
Princeton alumni fought against him.
1t is an interesting sign that youth
ITSELF caught up by the far echoing
voice of democracy. is setting to work
to right itself in this regard. The stu
dent body of the University of Mich
igan Is fathering a movement, backed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03
One Day for Health

Days have been set aside for civic
improvement, municipal clean-ups
and various undertakings of similar
nature, but now there appears some
thing new on the horizon and it is a
national Medical Examination" or
Health Day. A health week would be
more properly speaking for this
Health Day is one in tuberculosis
Week.
On Wednesday, December 8, every
one, whether sick or we'll, is urged to
consult physician and undergo a
medical examination. In other words,
the plan is to have every person know
just what their physical condition is.
On the very face of it the plan has
SO much to commend it that the only
strange phase of it appears to be that
no one started it long ago. How many
thousands may be harboring incipient
disease and have no idea that there
is malady lurking in their system
something which taken in time is
easily controlled, but neglected may
prove serious?
Twenty-Five or thirty years ago
dentists were not numerous-people
seldom gave their teeth a thought
until they were attacked by toothache,
and then they promptly had the molar
pulled" Now i is an almost univer-
sal practice to have the teeth exam
ined by a dentist at least twice a
year, that the slightest defect may be
detected and treated in time.
Why should not ones general health
be guarded with the same care? In
Japan it is the custom to pay the
family physician regularly so long as
each member is we'll. When they get
sick the physician receives no more
pay until he has restored the sick
one to health.
This oriental custom is based on a
correct idea-that it is better to pre-
serve good health than to neglect
health and then try to eradicate the
disease which has gained foothold
In disease prevention we have an
instance where an ounce of prevention
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03

present when the club had its annual
dinner and their entertaining" called
forth some "unkind comments" ac-
cording to the veracious correspond
ent.
The old adage that the worm will
turn is thus illustrated anew. Chorus
girls and cabaret performers make
the life of baldheaded man unbear-
able when these young women are
called on to entertain the guests at a
dinner or banquet It's bad enough
to have ones classic, if hairless, dome
slapped by mink who hopes thereby
to evoke laugh from the company,
but some of these young women even
go so far as to implant kiss on the
pink expanse of some prominent citi-
zen's head and smear his scalp with
rouge from their carmined lips. Where
every man at table is bald, as in the
case of the Baldhead club, the cab
aret girl has a broad field, SO to
speak, for the application of her
comedy"
1t were high time that baldheaded
men asserted their right to the purA
suit of happiness-at the banquet
board, at the theatre or elsewhere
without being mistreated. 1t is hardly
probable that they enjoy being
slapped or kissed, and so far as the
public is concerned such attempts at
comedy are not only cheap and vul-
gar, but long since outworn.
The baldhead men deserve square
deal. Let them have it. Who knows in
what honorable cause they parted
with their erstwhile flowing locks?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03

by the regents and faculty member
and alumni, to raise S1,000,000 anon
the graduates, the amount to be useI
just to foster democracy on the CAM
pus and break down barriers betwee|
widely divergent classes of students.
Specifically the Ann Arbor men in
tend building and maintaining CRED
union clubhouse where the 5000 stu
dents can come together in all thel
activities, where alumni can be entel
tanned and rebound closely to the DEM
ocratic traditions of a state universit1
where the young men who study then
can get out of their university careed
the valuable knowledge that is In hi
man contact and intimacy. The ide|
has taken deep root and the fraternit|
men as we'll as the Independents" al
working upon the project to bring tbei
into closer touch with their fellow
Committees have been formed in IL
cities to work among the 5000
alumni, and next month will see tn
campaign brought to a close
1t is an idea worth working fol
Aside from any possibility of success
failure the fact that $4,000 people al
banded together in an effort having
do with an extension of opportunit
and greater democracy anywhere
valuable evidence that human being
are still moved to work by abstrad
ideals Of generosity.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03

The business revival here, following
the recent depression. has come faster
than even an optimist like myself had
expected it would" said Robert Jem-
ison, Jr "Panics are sudden and vio-
lent, but in the nature of things, re-
covery is usually slow and often nerv-
Gus. There is nothing slow, however.
about recovery this time. The new era
of prosperity that Mr.. Harding talked
about last spring was pervading the
whole country before midsummer.
I'm Birmingham prosperity is today
sees signs of rapid business improve
ment on all sides. Sixty days ago there
were 10 vacant stores on Twentieth
street between Morris avenue and
Third avenue-three and half blocks.
Now they are all taken and three or
four of them for new lines of business.
At Fairfield thes demand for houses is
far greater than the supply. Several
new houses there are in course of con-
struction but If 100 more were built
at once they would be occupied i'm
mediately upon completion. These are
encouraging signs indeed.
"The high price of pig iron, the high
price of cotton and the pay rolls at
the steel plants are certainly making
business hum. 1t looks as If Birming
ham were starting upon it's greatest
forward movement"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03
THE MISSING sToPPER

From the Youngstown Telegram.
A Southside man who is overly par
ticular about having his house in or
der. said to his wife one evening re-
Gently: i lslsi III
ION a shelf In the Kitchen I noticed
bottle with no cork in it."
ION shelf in the Kitchen"
Eyes"
That's queer, because 1 can't think
what 1t can be-
TITS a bottle with some red stuff in
it."
That's cough syrup"
'"It shouldn't be uncorked."
Il had the stopper in it,"
What kind of stopper"
The wife, who isn't so particular
about little things, and who doesn't
care who knows it, admitted with no
misgivings:
II put a peanut in the top. I guess
one of the children must have eaten it.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03
ODE TO AUTUMN

BY John Keats.
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!
Close bosom friend of the maturing sum-
Conspiring with him how to load and
bless
With fruit the vines that round the
thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the mossd cottage
trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the
core;
And sti'; more. later flowers for the bees.
core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel
shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding
more
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never
cease;
For summer has oerbrimm d their
clammy cells.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03
The Lords Supper

At this season a great MANY
Protestant churches are coming to-
gether for their fall communion. Let
US consider some of the things which
should be in our minds and hearts, as
we draw near to our sacrificial feast
set as memorial of the sufferings
and death of our Lord and Savior.
The old sacrifices prefigured Christ.
Or, to put it differently and more
truly, perhaps, Christ met all those
human needs which were manifested
by the various sacrificial systems. AS
men of all times and climes were con-
strained to court the presence and
favor of God with their gifts so do
we meet with God in Christ, the sacri-
flee which He Himself has offered to
bring the world to Him.
They came in those vague, far days,
bringing with their sacrifice confess
sion, and expressing in their sacrifice
mind to lay the story of their sins
at the feet of their God.
So should we come at this season.
telling God the poor tale of our frail
humanity. God has sought through so
many centuries to widen us. Through
individualism, to family life, to tribal,
to national, to racial-and now He
asks us to live for the whole world:
and yet we have defeated the wears
and shamed our time by falling back
and crouching in the narrow temples
OF our own selves. Vanity, luxury,
greed-oh, what swine pens are these
into which we have crawled, and how
the stencil of them ought to sicken
us, as we come meeting with God in
Christ. And let us bare our bosoms
to the arrows of God, that if we do
not already feel our sin, He may have
open way to find the hearts of us.
With other sacrifices and at other
times those ancient forebears of ours
came expressing repentance. Of
course, confession, rightly speaking,
is part of repentance. But there may
be an idle confession of sin, without
any deep sorrow for it and without
the heavenly determination to eschew
it forever. Repentance is changing
the mind, the direction, the life, un-
der the impact of new light or of
old light newly impressed. Let US
come into the presence of God and
view His sacrifice with a cody sor-
row for sin and a godly resolve of
new obedience.
Many of the old sacrifices signified
conservation. How many millions have
come with shining faces and bursting
hearts, saying: 20 God, with this sac
rifice l give myself. Dare. hope that
Thou wilt have me?"
Oh, men and brethen, let us be con-
strained to make a new gift of our
selves unto God. He is the home of the
heart, the goal of the soul. 0 pomp
of power, o boast of heraldry, thou
hast no peace like His. o captains and
kings, o principalities and powers,
depart. For our God will feed unto
fullness. He has opened the deep
flowing wells, He has drawn down
the skies for His children! In Him is
abundant life, wondrous growth, new
creation, the world of our dreams
| HENRY M. EDMONDS.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03

From the Mobile Register.
The average charge for loans in Il
south Is less than in the New Englar
states and in the west. Mr.. Harding
statement about the enormous intere
charges in the south should have bed
qualified by a state. m eotnfshrdl1
qualified by statement of the cond
lions of the loans-the risk rum et
We daresay that no more is charg(
in the south than elsewhere, the COZ
ditions of credit and collateral beiI
the same.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03

When the Baldhead Club of Ameri-
ca, large and growing organization,
holds its annual dinner, October IA,
at Winsted, Conn.,, there will be no
festive cabaret girls from New York S
gay White Way to torment the MEM
bars by patting them on their heads.
Last year the cabaret girls were
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03
VOLTA, DONG!
From the Kansas City Times.

From the Kansas City Times.
How would you like to be President
of F'rance-now wait minute. And
get a letter from the Russian Empe-
ror-will you wait minute. please?
Felicitating you on the victory of the
French troops-no. don't answer yet.
and consult the manual diplomatic to
see what kind of an answer to make.
And find that you had to sit down
and write the Gear something equally
pretty about what the Russian troops
have been doing since Warsaw?
Now, would you rather be President
of France and write that letter or be
kept In after school and write, truth
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03
Great Credit to Birmingham

Memoirs concert band, which will
be heard at the State Fair, is in finer
form now than ever" said j. j. Scull,
the well known flutist
Mr. Memoli had an excellent band in
1913 and 1914 when he directed con-
certs in Capitol park, but his organi-
cation rehearsed, for the fair is larger
and better balanced. Such band is
certainly a credit to Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03

BEGINNING THE DAY. thank
Thee, my Father, for the calm with
which Thou hast invested the great
woodsy inland lakes. the sea, when
II rests, the everlasting hills. Let
me drink more of 1T into my soul.
May L feel myself immovable In
Thee, o Thou mighty sustainer of
worlds and men. In Christ's name.
Amen.-H. NJ. r.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03
HOTEL LOBRIES
Apartments Filling Up

THE Ridgely apartments are filling
up very rapidly" said j. M. p. OTIS,
rental agent of the Jemison Real Es-
tate and Insurance company
AT the rate people are signing
leases and moving in the Ridgely will
soon be turning over applicants. The
ddgely being an enormous structure
1T takes lots of people to fill 1t, but
Birmingham has started on new
stride and every room in the building
will be occupied probably before an
other month passes"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03

is worth an even ton of cure. Strict
observation of Medical Examination
Day will work more real good for the
nation than the usual observance of
the Fourth of July or other national
holidays.
You may think you are well, but do
you know that you are?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03

A New York prize fighter recently
offered $4,000 for two apartment
houses. Probably pacifist who doesn't
care to make money by investing in
war stocks.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03
MIGHT BE WORSE

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal
Alabama, by legislative enactment. is
dry but also by legislative enact
ment each citizen can ship into the
state two quarts of liquor and two
dozen bottles of beer every two weeks.
Huh! not dry enough to rattle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03

An automobile racer has written
description Of his sensations when
car turned turtle with him while going
about 65 miles an hour. The tale Is
not so remarkable as the fact that he
lived to write it,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03

The German crown prince is said to
be threatened with nervous break
such heavy losses If relieved of his
command under such circumstances,
the charge of incompetency would not
stick.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03

Under the caption. "Can Birming-
ham Do IT," the Musical Courier
says:
1t is disicult to see how Birming-
ham will be able properly to en-
terrain the National Federation of
Music clubs on the occasion of its
next projected biennial in 1917,
which is scheduled to take place in
the southern city The Musical
Courier already has pointed out
that Birmingham has no proper au-
ditorium, no orchestra, and no har-
monious cooperation between its
local musicians and the capitalistc
interests of Birmingham Unless
these conditions are remedied with
in the next two years, the Ma
tional Federation of Music clubs
may be asked long before that time
to change the location of it's 1917
celebration.
In Los Angeles it was rumored at
the time Birmingham was selected
by the federation that the Cham
Der of Commerce of that city and
the Birmingham Music Study club
had Jointly and formally invited
the National Federation of Music
clubs to hold its 1917 biennial in
Birmingham. Inquiry since then on
the part of the Musical Courier
does not establish the correctness
of that report. However, while at
present there seems to be some
confusion In Birmingham regard
Ing the whole matter, it Is to be
hoped that everything will be reg
ulated within reasonable time and
that the National Federation of
Music clubs will be enabled to
carry out Its original intention, es-
pecially as the thriving Alabama
city needs exactly the kind of mu-
steal stimulation and general ar
tistic uplift which would be the
direct result of the holding of a
National Federation of Music clubs
convention and biennial there.
The Courier may rest assured tina
there will be harmonious cooperation
between local musicians and the bust
ness interests of the city. The Musi,
Study club and the Chamber of Com
merce will do their parts.
While Birmingham is without 4,
complete concert orchestra such a.
would be expected to add brillianc,
to the convention programmes, Their
will be time enough to engage on
of the esteemed symphony organiza
lions found flourishing in some olde
and larger musical center.
Birmingham's only serious lack il
connection with the Forthcoming even
is an adequate auditorium. 1t ma!
be that the city will erect such
building before 1917. Whenever al
auditorium bond issue proposition il
submitted to the people it will doubt
less carry by an overwhelming ma
jority. Something like a year woult
be required in building an auditorium
after the architects plans were com
pleted. If, therefore, we are to hav,
an auditorium ready for the grear
convention a beginning should b.
made early next year.
The biennial meetings of the Ma
tional Federation of Music clubs ar,
not only largely attended, but the!
bring together a brilliant array o.
artists as we'll as mere music lovers
1t is believed that the 1917 conven
ton will here assemble between eigh
and nine thousand people.
Let the Chamber Of Commerce, il
conjunction with the Music Stud,
club, take steps without delay to pre-
pare for the occasion.
Yes, Birmingham can do it, evel
If it be found necessary to erect
temporary auditorium.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03
EXIT THE bogus HERO

From the London Globe.
Although in recent weeks there has
been Certain number of prosecutions
against individuals personating men
back from the front, it was stated at
Scotland Yard that the bogus hero
vogue is on the wane. 1t was added
that most of the cases brought to the
notice of the police were chiefly the re-
suit of a little vainglory on the part
of harmless privates
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03
ALABAMA PRESS

Shelby County Sun: Birmingham Is
to have new census taking at an
early date. She is on the anxious seat
for population of 100000, and the
Sun believes the Magic City will realize
its fond expectations and ambition
when the said census Is pulled off.
Birmingham's growth has been phe-
nomenal, and she is destined to be one
of the greatest cities in the south.
Centreville Press: The present legis-
lature made the enormous saving Of
$4,000 in redistricting the state judic-
larry Economy was the main reason
for the change in the judiciary but 1t
looks as If it has come down to what
does my friend want?' :
Mobile Item: Jim Fisk, whose name
figured In the news columns of every
paper in the country many long years
ago, having learned from experience,
offered the following advice to his
political friends: Don't write; send"
1t is very evident that some ENJOYS
never had opportunity to hear of the
wisdom of the one time political leader.
Prattville Progress: And the legis-
lature has adjourned. Some are unkind
enough to say the state of Alabama
would have been in better condition
in the future IL this legislature had
never met.
Admission Star: The hyphen in Ger
American is the tie that grinds.
Selma Times: European diplomacy is
engaged in the huge undertaking of
trying to balk the Balkans.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03
THOROUGHLY PREPARED

From Tit-Bits.
school, who was rather pompous, came
to shepherds house to baptize the
son and heir.
"Are you prepared?" he asked the
fond parent.
lou ay, munnister; I have got a
graund ham for tea"
Il mean spiritually prepared" thun-
dered the cleric.
"Af coorse l am; oh, yes. l got q
jar o. whisky from the inn," replied
the imperturbable Scot.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03

A Philadelphia educator says only
one person in 5000 has brains enough to
think. The average pedagogue has an
idea that he does most Of the thinking
in his community.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-10-03
UNI UST.

UNJUST.
1T recommended summer hotel to Cad
son."
did he go there?"
"Oh, yes, but I'll never do him another
service of that kind as long as I live"
why not?''
HE held me personally responsible for
every bore he met there