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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-03-31
Permeates All Things Of
the Earth.
IS THE BEGINNING OF SPRING
Great Event Has a Physical
AS Well As Religious
Significance.
THE RHYTHMIC LAW OF MOTION

Easter is Christian festival,
fixed so as to occur at the begin
ming of spring.
Among all primitive peoples
Morse, Egyptian, Hindu or Greek
springs coming was given relig-
ious significance. The profound
heart of mankind has always inter-
preted nature spiritually-that is,
all events in the whole order of
things, the seasons, the movements
of the stars, the storms, the sun,
were conceived to be symbols ad-
dressed to the soul of man and not
mere dead and meaningless factors.
If man were a stone he might
think the universe to be nothing
but material; being mind and
heart, he persists in fancying the
world also imbued with purpose and
feeling. From this comes the race
wide phenomenon of religion.
Without entering into the theo-
ourselves, What is there in human
nature of which the springcoming is
a fit SYMBOL"
In four ways the soul sees itself
at springtime in the revealing mir
ror of nature. 1t sees its own
rhythmic law, the perpetual triumph
oil Of
despair and of life over death.
/. The rhythmic law. Herbert
Spencer beautifully explained how
all motion is rhythmic; none is
continuously steady. The blood cir
culates in pulses. the breath is Ia
ken regularly, day and night alter
nate, winds blow in gusts, laughter
and weeping are spasmodic, and so
on. So also the progress of growth,
the education of the mind, the I'M
folding of the soul and the progress
of civilization advance and recede.
yet with a constant excess of adj
vance; they go forward not as the
river flows, but as the waves of the
tide rise So the common philoso-
ply of the people says, I'VE all
have our ups and downs" "The
darkest hour is just before the
dawn" and the like.
2. The triumph of youth over
age. This is perpetually young
world it is for youth. not old age.
Trees shed their leaves, plants die,
all vegetation periodically disap-
pears and comes again young, lest
the earth be filled with old things.
So mankind perpetuates itself. not
by the old living on, but by babies
coming to replace them that 1t may
remain youthful forever. Youth is
the eternal truth; 1t is natures
point of view. Whatever the great
spirit may be who animates all
things. it is spirit that continually
renews its youth. The world is
ing as 1t was the days of Nineveh.
Boys and girls attack life as freshly
now as did the children of the an
cient Egyptians. Then let II be so
in our own experience and may the
young joy wonder of life be con-
stantly reborn in us.
3. The triumph of hope over de-
spair. Despair is essentially tenn
porary. self-destructive. II is pas
sing winter. But hope is the inevi-
table spring and comes to the hearts
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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-03-31

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Here's a Bird"

Newark, Ohio, March 13.-C.W.
Mandel. of this city, owns Ply
mouth Rock rooster that lays eggs,
crows and clucks. An X-ray photo
discloses that the fowl has the for
nation of both rooster and hen.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-04
ENGLAND,s WAR BILLS

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 It cost England seven years in time and $500 900 in money to lose it's American colonies That was the most expensive foreign war ever fought by any country up to that time.
 For one-fifth less than that in cash Ems land drove the French out of Canada and India-gaining it's two most valuable for eign possessions today.
 Like bulldog England fought the Napoleonic age It's population and wealth were less than three times that of Pennsylvania at the present time For those 20 years preceding Waterloo the cost to England for waging war aver aged $55O.000 a day-a price unequaled up to that time
 The Little Corporal set England back for cool $4,00O.0O0000. England is al ways a lavish spender in war When tine present conflict started the French na- tional debt was more than 50 per cent greater than England's, but Englandis now exceeds not only that of France. but that of any other country at any time.
 You remember that Paul Kruger sol emniy gave warning that he would make the Boer war so costly to Queen Victoria that it would stakger the world. It netted tidy $1,0Oo. .0O000t thus fulfilling the old Dutchman's prophecy with something to spare
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-04
PERIL OF UNPREPAREDNES

Claude H. Van Tyne in the New York
 Times.
 THE most pitiful thing about the war
 for unpreparedness, which the peace
 A at any price men are waging, IS the igr orance shown by it's advocates. The latest and saddest exhibition of this is the assertions of Henry Ford that all wars are tho result of preparedness.
 Facts those cutthroat bandits in the path or argument, have no terrors TOT
 him. That all intelligent high scnool boys can refute his assertion does not matter to him.
 His own ccuntry's history bellies his ar gument The American colonists brought on the revolution when they and their op- ponents were unprepared beyond the dreams of our most ardent contemporary advocates of doing nothing" MT. Ford does not need to take the word or any historian as to that truth. Let him put read the ittters of Washington, or Jonh Adams, of Franklin, of Thomas JeHer- son, of any of the contemporaries ana he will learn the woeful state of that urpreparedness. Yet the colonial mops howled for war, and was they had, which woulo have ended in ignominious defeat but for the fact that France and spain took that fitting time to settle old scores with England. Perhaps MT. Ford would like to rid our history of those nate fu facts, and would hold that, if they disagree with his arguments, they are per- nicious and ought to be destroyed But what will he do with the facts or the war of 1872? After democratic admin istrs tions had spent 12 years dismanthne our navy, reducing our army, creating | tctal unpreparedness, the country rushed ! ma dly into a war which it could have seen coming for 20 years but for which it was utterly unprepared Our patriotic hls- l torians have selected a few bright spots 1 in the dismal story-Perry's victory, Mac i Doroughs victory, Jackson's victory al New Orleans-and have pleased our hls- torical eye with them. But those "no
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-04
Permanent Prosperity

A feature of last weeks activity in the industrial world was the plac- ing of heavy orders for railroad equip ment.
 Early in the year, the transporta- tion companies needed rails and roll ing stock, but most of them bought sparingly. Not until now have they been ordering equipment on a large scale; another important barometer of abounding prosperity.
 Traffic business in the south began to improve several weeks ago, but it will not become normal until cotton and merchandise move briskly, which | will be about the middle of this month. By November, every railroad in the south will be crowded with freight and instead of the idle cars, there will be car shortage.
 Up to this time, the big orders fol equipment have been placed for the most part by eastern and western roads, but the southern lines will soor be in the market for millions of dol. lars worth of new material.
 When the prophets of good times were predicting three months agt that prosperity would be in full swing this fall, conservative observers saic that complete business recovery could not be expected before next spring But the optimists did not exaggerats the conditions that were making fol new high records in nation wide thrift. It will not be long before tht railroads will be doing much more than betterment work. A new era o1 extension is in sight. In many sec tions of the country new lines vii be built and rail mills will be over taxed in filling orders.
 The Birmingham district is one ot the busiest centers in the United States today, but it will be busie stil between now and the end of the year And the best of it is, this prosperit, is permanent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-04
Likes Birmin gh am

Birmingham has one of the most de- iieEtful climates I have ever lived in''
 said Boyle Woolfok of Chicago, who is visiting Birmingham for a few days. When I left Chicago l was wearing
 an overcoat. As soon as I got south l felt the pleasant weather much to my relief The best part of the climate in Birmingham in the winter is that the at mosphere is not too balmy, but there is just enough cold to make one feel good without suffering from the extreme winter weather. Of course. Chicago is cold from the reason of being on the great lakes an the constant breeze from these Akes and especially Lake Michigan makes it disagfeeable when the thermometer is down to zero.
 Things are hustling in Chicago, and from my observation here this city is also hustling. l see no signs of the ruination of the south on account of all the many calamities the war is supposed to have burdened the south with a year ago. like to see the people have hustle on all the time and that is the way Birmingham people impress me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-04
baby" even at the cost of her own

baby" even at the cost of her own life.
 To mother, her son remains al. ways "her baby '-hers to protect and cherish no motter how many years have passed since she cuddled the lit tie form to her breast. The boy may do wrong, he may become an outcast, a fugitive from the law, but his moth CT never ceases to love him.
 Everything else in the world may change, friendships may be shattered, other bonds of love may be broken, but a mothers love for her boy changeth not. It endures to the end and no sacrifice is too great for it.
 The essayist has pronounced love to be "the greatest thing in the world," and of this mother love is the strong est and most enduring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-04
HOTEL LOBRIES
On His Way to Atlanta

E. D. Torgenson, formerly of Birming- m, but for several years a citizen of Mobile, was here yesterday >>on his way to Atlanta, where he goes to accept po- sltion on the Georgian. As city editor or the Mobile Register he established a me reputation newspaper man, and he will doubtless rise rapidly in his new field of endeavor
 I am glad to know that prosperity is prevailing in Birmingham. When 1 was hefe little more than year ago busi- ness was quiet, but it is very different now. genuine boom seems to be in progress
 Conditions in Mobile are improving, anc the outlook for business expansion there Is very bright. The opening of the War rior for navigation to the Birmingham district is going to be great thing for Mobile Bunker coal is in more demand than ever at Alabama's s gulf port. Ships not only come there to discharge and take on cargoes, but for repairs. Repair work is done there more cheaply than In any southern port And now that ves- sels can coal at a minimum cost, Mo- bile will attract more and more ships"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-04
"The Greatest Thing"

If any proof of mother love were needed, an incident which recently took place in Oklahoma would afford all the evidence necessary.
 There had been bootlegging going on in this Oklahoma community and the sheriff started out one day to run down the offenders. He stopped at a farm to make inquiries and talked to the farmers young son. The boy be- came convinced that he was to be ar rested and drew a revolver and shot at the sheriff. A gun battle followed
 In the midst of the fracas, the boy's mother dashed out of the house, and just as the sheriff pointed his gun te fire point blank at the young offend CT, the mother threw herself in front of her son and received the bullet into her own body.
 sThe mother sank to the ground, dy- ing almost instantly at the the feet ol her boy-dying without a word of re- proach and with only a smile of con- tentment because she had saved "hel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-04

delve in the records Of that time and wretched failure of the raw militia. know the terrible cost of that unpreparedness Those who desire to reach the promised land of national honor without crossing the Red sea of preparation ought to takd warning from that dreary talk of failurd and disgrace.
 Concerning our civil war, has the peace loving MT. Ford ever reflected that if thd national government had been prepared there would have been no war? When hi! heart is bleeding for the millions of widl ows and orphans, will he take thought that 500,000 lives. untold millions of doll lars, might have been saved if the nal tional government had had the power td crush the rising rebellion? Perhaps ha thinks with his idol, Thomas Jeffer son, that "a little rebellion now and then is good thing" that the tree of liberty should be watered from time to time with the blood of tyrants and of patriots Tha is worthy sentiment; but does 1t fall in with the philosophy of peace at anJ price" men, and those whose mothers did not raise them to be soldIersr
 If MT. Ford is ready to sail away from the Scylla of historical facts toward th1 Charytdis of arguments based on th| prospects of the future, I ask him to anl swer squarely this query: Regardless ol wbar nation is to blame for this war, and of the leaning he may have toward thi| or that of the combatants, does he wish td live in a world dominated by a military caste with it's ruthless militaristic ideall and its disregard of all the calls or com mor hum anity? If he does. he should toll unremittingly for "unpreparedness. If he does not, he will use his $l,O00, %, with which he threatens to bribe the nal tioi. into policy of unpreparedness, t1 call the courage. the honor, the gloriou| youth of this country to meet in fittind way the fateful problems that await ul at nc distant future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-04

1 According to M. J. Greeman, director
 of the wistar Institute of Anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania. there is
 no eugenic reason why first cousins and even brothers and sisters should not
 marry. series of experiments with rats covering four years and a half, made by pr. H. D. King of the wistar in- stitute, has convinced Director Green tend to deteriorate types, but produces offspring larger and more efficient physi- cally than the marriages now universally recognized In experiments with rats Dr.
 Greenman said, there Is no way of tell ing what the effect might be on the mem tality. The improvement noted has been purely physical one" Discussing his ex- periments, Dr. King said: For 21 gener- ations l have intermarried brother and sister rat The result was that I got rat larger and better physically in every way thar the first ones. A rat is man. nal and man Is mammal; therefore it Is not too much to think that the same principal can be applicable to each. I be- lieve that If brother and sister, care fully selected and of a higher type, were to marry the result of the union would be higher type of offspring than from the intermarriage of two other people. The opinion regarding the degeneracy of the offspring of such a union exists because the only races who intermarry are degen- crate races and therefore you get a race of even great degeneracy."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-04
SUPPL TYING ARMY SURGEONS

circumstances, not enough work to fill their time. was critized. Sir James BarI pointed out that it was the number ol younger men. some of whom he under| stood had joined only for home service| which was the objectionable featurd
 These younger men ought to be witt
 the expeditionary force and not at thl
 base hospitals.
 Many medical students have for
 time abandoned their studies and joined
 the combatant ranks of the army Thl
 need for army surgeons is so great thai
 those near the completion of thei|
 course were asked to return to theil
 schools and complete their studies s|
 as to be able to Join the army inS thei|
 professional capacity. The medical de|
 partment of the war office requires al
 many doctors as 1t can obtain. Thl
 civil hospitals and the health depart
 ments are working with short staffd The roll of medical casualties continued
 As the army grows, more doctors vii be required and still more The numbe
 of medical students is dangerously low and the "visible supplies are not s| large as might be hoped. The war offic| recommends that medical students Il their fourth and fifth years should con tinue their studies with view to quail flying as soon as possible.' and dis s| courages the granting of commission to these men, but Is unwilling to sua gest that junior (medicaD student should be discouraged from taking con' blatant commissions It is contended ths
 this recommedation will have the effed of using up all the visible supplies d medical students and emptying tn medical schools. so that three or foul years hence the number of physiciarl
 will be even lower than at present Thi number was too low before the ws| partly in consequence of the increasel medical work under the insurance ac|
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-04
Radium Cure for Cancer

In a recent address, Dr. Francis Carter Wood, director of cancer re- search work under the George Crock CT endowment of $3,000,000 in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, ridiculed the widely her aided raduim cure for cancer. Judging from the published account of his re- marks, Dr. Wood is a level-headed man who has hit upon the true ex- planation of the marvellous results at tributed to the radium treatment.
 "Even writers of scientific papers, Dr. Wood said, speak of the magic power of radium'-magic because they do not understand it. When it's physical qualities are fully under stood we will hear very little about the use of radium in the treatment of cancer. In spite of all statements about the wonderful cures radium produces, we know that it will cure only very small number of cancers, and will do nothing which cannot be done by surgery. Owing to the furor and publicity over it, however, it is rot always possible to get patients to submit to surgery for the removal of . tumor, they are so anxious to be treated with radium. The farmer in the furthest New England hills, read ing in his weekly paper that radium is certain cure for all kinds of can cer, comes to town and refuses an op- eration, which might save him, only to fall into the hands of the nearest quack who has a little powder in a tube"
 The "element of mystery" in ra- dium, Dr. Wood thinks, accounts for its power to warp judgment ordinari- ly intelligent. The dread of the sur geon's knife tends to make people hail any "cure" which promises to spare them this ordeal. The almost fabulous price of radium, the wide publicity it has received and the startling claims made as to it's eff ficacy have dazzled the popular imagi- nation. Dr. Wood does not deny that radium has curative properties, but he claims that these are limited ir cancer cases. Practically everyone knows that the "radium cure" has failed lamentably in a number of cases, some of which attracted na- tional attention.
 There is doubtless some ground fol the hysteria over radium, but as Dr. Wood says, it is still something of a mystery and until we learn more about it, will continue to be exploited by uuacks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-04
Real Prosperity

After spending four days in Birming- ham I have been more impressed than ever with the greatness of this district, and I lived here for many years" said Charles Sumner, vice president and gen. eral manager of large gold mining com pany operating at Dahlonaga, Ga.
 The first day l came to town I saw that prosperity had returned, and in meeting friends on the streets Friday and Saturday I heard nothing but pros perity talk. I was here in 1906 when prosperity seemed to have reached high water mark, but it does not require much imagination to picture Birmingham more prosperous this winter than at any time in it's history In population and wealth this city will within a few years out strip Atlanta. and it will beat even New Orleans into the million class