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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05
The Presidents Speechmaking Tour

The fIe6lueut opcCChudhHuS AOAA
 President Wilson will open the Pan- ama-Pacific exposition in San Fran cisco in February, and on his return east will make many stops by appoint n1ent and will deliver as many as B or 40 addresses.
 It had been the purpose of the President to make a number of speeches in the recent congressional campaign, but when the time came it was impossible for him to leave Wash ington and he had to assist the demo- cratic candidates by merely writing a campaign letter.
 Since> his inauguration in 1913 President Wilson has made three of four notable addresses, including one 1t Mobile, but his projected western trip will be his first "swing around the circle" He is a man of rare gifts, and one of them is that of oratory. It is not oratory of the old "silver tongue school" But being fresh, crisp and clean-cut, it is gripping and convinc- ing. Among public men, and especial ly among educators, many masters of English are found; but Woodrow Will son surpasses all of them, perhaps, in power of expression.
 The President, since the war, who excelled in speechmaking up to Will sons time was Benjamin Harrison. On one of his speaking tours President Harrison made something like 100 addresses, and no two of them were the same. He seemed to have no limi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05
INFLUENCE OF MUSIC

rom the Chicago Tribune.
 MT. Websters experience with the Pro- testants against his way of criticism has, possibly, imbued him with dubious faith In the softening influences of the art of
 music upon it's practitioners.
 Literature is full of testimony to that arts seraphic effects. John Armstrong s epitome of It's soothing attributes included
 power to exalt each joy, allay each grief, expel disease, heal all pain, and subdue
 the rage of poison and the plague. So indeed have all the poets and the sages sung and discoursed of it's sweetening properties-the food of love, soft charm of heaven and earth, writ in paradise in the language of the angels, the art to
 raise the soul above all worldly storms. Yet returning from Orchestra hall with the utterance of a symphony still enchanting their ears, musicians sit them
 down and compose murderous epistles to
 and about the music critic with whose customs they are not pleased. They hold
 meetings wherein they emit sinister, not to say diabolical, sounds as of the brazen sarrusophone, demanding that the scribe be separated from his employment. An otherwise docile 'cellist once, after par
 ticipating in an exquisite sonata descend
 ed forthwith into the audience and pulled
 the nose of Glenn billiard Gum. Miss
 Garden turns her back on a rival prima
 donna; MT. Paderewski grows infuriated
 at his hearers when they applaud him
 too much; and Mime. Cavallieri is cruel to
 her American husband, to mention a
 few minor eccentricities. The annals of
 the muse are replete with the petulaut
 misdemeanors of her gifted celebrants Asked to write of "Elijah" once. MT. Runciman, the London critic, declined philosophically. "The only thing ito be
 said about Elijah he remarked. is
 that people get angry when they read
 that it is not mighty work" Mir. Run
 ciman speculated on the paradoxies af- forded by the great masters of music. He recalled that the tremendous passion which enabled Beethoven to compose glo- rious sonatas and symphonies went with
 an ungovernable temper; that Wagner was entirely insensible to the claims and rights of other people, that Mozart could not cut his meat at dinner. and that Liszt tainted at the sound of French horn. "The musical gift" he announced, "goes with some shortcomings or disabil- ity"
 This judgment is, of course, too harsh, though given by one himself a musician, and will not be urged as the cause of the critics troubles. We must retain our confidence in the divine efficacy of a | rcble art excusing the occasional dis cordances of it's results because of the
 febrile temperaments of those who come under its spell. They are petulant and thoughtless rather than calicious and de- structive and their earnest outbursts add
 savor to what otherwise might become a sugary monotone,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

they should now stand side by side with its good inhabitants for its defense. For it was the English who in 1883 laid siege to the fair city. subdued it. and expelled it's weavers.
 It should be said, however, that pre- vious to that period Ypres had gone through trying times. through civil wars and the peril of 1347. But worse fate was in store for it two centuries later, when the troops of the Duke of Alba approached murdering and plum dering. The city was taken by Alexan- der Farnese in 1884, the number of th. inhabitants having been reduced by then to 5000. During the wars of con- quest by Louis XIV Ypres was taken no less than four times-jn 1648, 1649 and 1858 by the French and finally in 1878, when it was incorporated with France. During the eighteenth century Ypres. as a so-called barrier fortress. was gar risoned by Dutch troops, but was twice stormed by the French. in 1744 and 1747. during the Austrian war of succession. and in 17s4 conquered by the French armies of the revolution. At the Con- gress of Vienna Ypres was allotted to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. but when in 1880 Belgian separted from Holland it became Belgian.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05
PARoLED MEN MAKE GOOD

From the Kansas City Star.
 Jefferson City. Mo.-The state board of pardons and paroles submitted report to Governor Major today showing that out of 312 convicts paroled from the prison in the last two years. only 12 have vio- lated their paroles, and have been re- turned to prison. All the others are fol- lowing some useful occupation. Those whc have obeyed their paroles are earning from s9 a week up, several instances be- ing cited where they are earning as much as $1O0 month. Out of 300 paroles issued in the last four years only IS have vio- lated the terms of their release.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05
Corn Versus Cotton

Southern farmers are beginning to awake to the fact that there are numer- ous other crops that can be readily pro- duced in our fertile soils which will prove as remunerative to the planter as our old standby. King Cotton." said James A. Wiebens of Birmingham, who owns a
 large Alabama farm.
 Indeed there are several crops that are not only better money makers than cot
 ton: but there are others which have the
 further advantage of affording more than
 one harvest in the year, whereas only one crop can be planted on land which bears cotton. For instance, corn is a far better revenue crop than cotton. Land that will raise a bale of cotton to the acre can easily be made to bear 75 bush els of corn by intensive cultivation meth- ods. and when sold as low as 75 cents per bushel this will bring as much as a bale of cotton at a fairly good price. A large crop of oats can also be produced on this land during the same year, and the cost of labor is very much lower."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05
The Travelling Men

T am not commercial traveller myself, but have many close friends among the knights of the grip, and am glad to learn that an army of travellers will Soon in- wade the south,' said an ex-hotel clerk.
 ''When the bottom dropped out of the cotton market as a result of the war, business in the south became suddenly depressed and travelling men laid them selves off or were laid off as far as this section was concerned. But they will be- gin to swarm in our midst before the end of this month"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05
Little or No Hard Times Talk

Early in the fall business in the middle west began to show signs of recession notwithstanding the large crops in sight and in November one heard a good deal of hard times talk. but there is little or no hard times talk now" said H. H. Pen dleton of Cincinnati.
 "In the business world there has been much better feeling within the past four or five weeks than has been in evidence since last summer. There is really de, cided optimism all through the country was recently in New York and Chicago and heard little about hard times. "The month of January will undoubt, edly show large improvement in the in dustrial field and in general trade.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05
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BEGINNING THE DAY-o God' cure me of seIf-consciousness. Let me walk with Thee fin entire Tor xctfulness. Make me as child play ing in Thy gardens. Make me "s a flower blooming for the sun, cnrei"i only that my face he toward my Master. May I give Thee my ire linen trust Thee for color and form and aII, Amen.-H. M. ID.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05
GRANTS WARNING

GRANTS WARNING
 From "The Personal Memoirs of U. B.
 Grant
 To maintain peace in the future It ID necessary to prepare for war. There can scarcely be a possible chance or con flict, such as the last one (the CIVIL war; occurring among our people again; but growing as we are. in population' weai'n and military power, we may become the envy of nations which led us in all these particulars only a few years ago; and unless we are prepared for 1t. we may be in danger some day of 8 combined move ment being made to crush us out. NOW scarcely 20 years after the war, we seem to have forgotten the lessons 1t taught, and we are going on as if in the greatest security. without the power to resist an invasion by the fleets of fourth rate Eu- ropean powers for a time until we could prepare for them. <
 We should have a good navy, and our sea coast defenses should be put in the finest possible condition. Neither of these cost much when it is considered where the money goes and what we get in re- turn. Money expended In nne navy not only adds to our security and tends to prevent war in the future. but Is very material aid to our commerce in the meantime with foreign nations. Money spent upon our sea coast defenses is spent among our own people. and all goes back again among the people. The work accomplished. too. like that of the navy. gives us feeling of security.
 "The war has made us a nation of great power and intelligence; we have but lit- |stle to do to preserve peace, happiness and Prosperity at home, and the respect of na- tions. Our experience ought to teach ua the necessity of the first; our power se- cures the latter. :.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

General Won Hindenburg received so many New Year messages from friends in America and Europe that he was unable to reply to them all. However, Grand Duke Nicholas was not among those who said Good luck to you"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

An Illinois educator has lost his job by winning the daughter of college president who doesn't believe in nepotism However, he is probably in a frame of mind just now to warble Miss Eva Tan guay's justly celebrated song, 'I Don't Care
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

The coroner of Jefferson county says he is paying $500 year for the privilege of acting in that capacity. The coroner of murderous Jefferson is a hard-worked official besides.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

The French battery which acquired a rooster for mascot did not overlook the fact that such fowl in an emergency may be eaten.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05
Brisk Christmas Club Business

Christmas clubs in the large cities of the country are all the while gain ing in popularity" said member of the Chamber of Commerce, "and here in Birmingham people are falling over themselves to deposit in the American Trust and Savings bank club or in the Traders National bank club.
 Every time I go into the American Trust. which is almost daily. I see crowds of people at the Christmas club receiving teller's window. For the Christmas just gone the American Trust and the Traders each sent out checks for approximately the same to- tai, l Notwithstanding like s50,- coo. The two banks next Christmas will probably send checks to the mem bers for an aggregate of $2O0 000 or $SO0,000, instead of $10O,O00 as in 1914'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05
Boyles Will Grow Faster

Having considerable property in terest at Boyles, I was interested ir the election on incorporation and was pleased that the proposition was de- feated," said Arnold Masberg last night
 "BoyIes, as everyone knows, is g Louisville and Nashville enterprise The company has spent large sums on its yards there and in the course of time will spend a great deal more on big buildings The Louisville and Nashville did not want Boyles incorporated. A railroad company that has established itself outside of city limits prefers to iemain. out and the fact that the Louisville and Nashville preferred that Boyles should continue unincorporated accounted for some of the negative votes. I believe that everyone inter ested in Boyles will be glad eventu- ally that the election turned out as i, cid. Boyles will now grow 'all the taster."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

It is said that there is no way for a sailor aboard submarine to dry his clothes if he gets wet. Also 1t is danger ous to get wet on submarine that is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

If German airmen would continue t, drop greetings instead of bombs, they would never be censured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

Mexican belligerents are politely re- quested to strike in and fight farther away from the American border.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

brate the New Year properly if it takes all of January.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

Englands young men are still surpris- ingly backward in offering themselves as 'cannon fodder''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

Mars is a mighty god, but wet weather plays hob with some of his most care- fully considered plans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

Chancellor Won Bethmann-H Hollweg says. "I didn't want this war The problem just now is to find someone who will acknowledge that he did want it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

The call has gone out for standardized restaurant pumpkin pie. Make it mince.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05
WAR ECHOES

Philadelphia Public Ledger: British
 partisans will make no attempt to mini
 mize the severity of the blow struck at British naval power by the destruction of the battleship Formidable. This is the I third vessel of the battleship class sunk
 since the beginning of the war, and whether it was the victim of a mine or of
 an enemys submarine, the moral effect ! of the blow will be far more severe than l it's material influence upon the relative I sea strength of the combatants. It is a 1 form of attack against which no certain | defense has been evolved and it increases | the tension to which the British naval de- lenders have been for so long subjected. So far as material results are concerned, the British navy might lose many more fighting vessels of the first class without altering the primary fact of the naval situation. The British predominance on | the sea is so great, and there are so many
 new vessels in an advanced state of preparedness that Germanys only pres- ent hope of progress is by the slow pro- cess of attrition. only after picking off the British fleet one by one, by means of submarine attack or by mines. can such an equality be brought about as would justify the emergence of the Ger man fleet from it's shelter behind the coast fortif1ca tions. A great deal more will have to be done before such a bal ance can be brought within measurable distance, and while the people of England will mourn the sacrifice of her brave de- lenders, the loss of the Formidable is not such disaster as to cause discour- agement.
 Chicago News: Airships are such new instruments of warfare that rules have not yet been formulated governing their use with view of preventing the kill- ing of non-combatants. When interna- tional conferences are held in the future for the purpose of devising ways of miti- gating the horrors of war, 1t may be as- sumed there will be formal pronounce ments against the dropping of bombs or steel darts from airships on cities with out notice sufficient to enable noncom- batants. and especially women and chill dren, to flee to places of safety.
 According to press dispatches, a num- Der of persons were killed and many more were wounded when four German aero- planes dropped bombs on the French city of Dunkerque last Wednesday. Build ings in various parts of the city were wrecked. The arm of child, according to the press dispatches. was blown off and an old woman was killed outright
 So long as there are no accepted rules on the subject, a nation engaged in a var the outcome of which is certain to be
 ally important to it feels that it must utilize every resource at its command to terrify or otherwise weaken the enemy. The terrifying effect of Arship raids upon the people of cities is very great
 Looked at from the broad point of view, however. unannounced bomb throwing which Is as likely to kill or injure women, children and other noncombatants as to strike down soldiers must be regarded with disfavor. Future peace conferences undoubtedly will condemn the practice as violation of proper usages of war fare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

Times may be hard, but the movies are still being literally patronized.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

The Christmas tie continues to brighten the streets with its glowing hues.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

Centreville Press: The Uniontown Her.
 aid has suspended publication on account
 of lack of patronage. Other newspapers
 are reducing the size and trying their
 best to economize and tide over without suspending publication. The city doilies are not suffering like the weekly papers, but the boys are up against the trough and doing their best. The city merchants
 advertise during the dull season and thus stimulate trade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05
ALABAMA PRESS

Lineville Headlight: An honest public opinion sustained by a free press is a country's safest safeguard against war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

Anniston Star: The September Morn'' fad seems to be upon the bald-headed crowd, as we are told that hereafter clothes must match the hair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
A GREETING.

A GREETING. Well, here's hoping
 You'll stop groping
 In the valley of despair
 That you'll cheer up,
 Skies will clear up
 And you'll say good-by to care.
 Life's a gamble
 And a scramble,
 From the cradle to the grave;
 Can't be choosers,
 Most are losers,
 But, at least we can be brave,
 DANGEROUS LOCALITY. n Those soldiers in the trenches of Eu- rope must have lively times lodging bull let's" said MT. Twobble. "Oh, I don't know that they are any worse off than am,' replied MT. Was serby. Santa Claus distributed half a dczen air rifles among the boys of my neighborhood"
 HARD TIMES, WHAT? Here's a sad New Year story printed In this newspaper" '"Tell me about it." "A poor man ran amuck with a sheaf of bills in his hand" "He couldn't collect them?" ''No He couldn't pay them" 
 GALA OCCASIONS. "Do newspaper men always work with pipes stuck in their mouths?' asked the casual visitor. Not always answered the assistant police reporter. Sometimes local poli- tician comes in and distributes cigars"
 A TIGHTWAD. ''You say he carries a big roll of bills around with him?" "All the time?' "Do you suppose it's all real money?" ''I don't know. As he never peels one off. there's no way of telling
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

THE REALITY OF WAR From Judge.
 MT. McGovern. a heavyweight ger tleman of London's East End, who hal never been known to work, but whtA nevertheless has added to the popul~ tion of the earth in figures uD to 1& suddenly became heroic and enlisted. The following dialog took place be- tween Mrs. McGovern and a lady, Mrs. McGovern being happy and complacent in the receipt of her 27-6 from the war office:
 Mrs. McGovern-Good morning, miss.
 I.ady-Good morning, Mrs. McGovern hear MT. McGovern has gone to the war. 4
 Mrs. McGovern (cheerfully)--Yes miss
 Lady--Well. Mrs. McGovern, what do you think of this terrible war? Mrs. McGovern-Good God, lady! hope it will last forever!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05
GERMAN VERSION OF "TIpPERARY,

From the London Globe. Several versions of "Tipperary'' in French have appeared; so it is only fit- ting that we should receive a German yer sion for the use of Tommy when he gets to Berlin. Here it is: Der Weg is lang mach Tipperary. Els liegt welt won hier Der Veg is lang mach Tipperary, Da wohnt mein Backnsch and mein
 Bier.
 Leb wohl, Picadilly!
 Adieu, du Leicesterplatz. Paradeschritt mach Tipperary, Da wohnt mein Schatz.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05
TO A PH0ToGRAPHER

 By Berton Braley. in Harpers Weekly. have known joy and woe and toll and f1 fight; P I have lived largely. have dreamed
 and planned, And Time. the Sculptor. with a master hand, Upon my face has wrought for all mems
 sight The lines and seams of Life, of growth
 and blight. : Of struggle and of service and com
 mand; And now you show mo This-tt1s
 waxen, bland And placid-unlined, untroubled, white! This is not I-this fatuous face you show Retouched and prettined and smcoth1
 to please. Put back the wrinkles and the lines I
 know, have spent blood and brain achieving
 these; Out of the pain. the sorrow and the
 wrack, They are my scars of battle-Put Then sS 80eX4 n<s- tt<s ff* .~s=: .s.. f =
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

Franklin County Times: Merchants expect big business is a big head line in Birmingham paper. Sure thing, and their expectations will come true. because not more than one-half of the cotton has been sold out of the hands of the .arm- CT and he has come through to the first of the year in pretty good shape. The next three months will be velvet. Our county ginners' report says that nearly 4OOO more bales ginned up to date than last year. You bet we're going to have a big business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-05

Decatur Daily: Birmingham has a de- pertinent store that claims to be the largest south of the Ohio river. This same store is undoubtedly the largest ad- vertiser of any department store south of the Ohio river. This is probably some- thing more than a coincidence
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-10-31
Divorced" Is
Superior S Offering
For This Week

There Is big story in Divorced"
the fve-part photo-play by Edwin
Archer, in which Hilda Spong. Eng
lands most celebrated emotional &C
tress Is the star, which is coming to
the Superior Theater on Monday and
Tuesday. The play shows the evil re-
suits which yielding. by an impress
sionable man, TO the lure of a stage
siren leads up to. A marriage Is
broken up by the elopment of the
husband, the wife secures a divorce.
and with her son lives on the income
provided by the recreant husband.
When the son grows up to the college
age this income is insufficient, and she
is aided financially by a rich So
ciety man. who induces her to live
with him on the understanding that
they will be married as soon as he
can obtain a divorce from his wife.
When his wife dies he refuses to keep
his promise. The son finds check
made out to his mother by this man;
his suspicious are aroused. he de-
mands the truth from his mother. but