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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-02

Tie American Truth Society. which By the
say is 1:Hcered by persons of Teutonic names.
stats as one Of its requirements" of the Aneri-
eeatnasi0n We VeqssiFe @f tho press to I've pro.
American instead af being 'nro-Britsh.' or any
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-02
Women Justices for New York.

Albany, April THE senate Codei
Committee today reported favorAbly
the bill providing for the appointmenk
by Mayor Mitchell OF two women -
sistant justices of the inferior GRIM
inal "o''"-S Of New York city. to 30
as r'hstdren's Court. IL
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-02
Verses by Virginians


All too long the shackies OF rum
Our nations throat have bound
And now the day has we'll nigh come
When relief with he found
There's sound Of going In tree-tops--
There's rumbiing on the earth
The race for nationwide ne'er stops
TIL dawus that good days birth.
Battle royal in Washington
n capita! Of each State
Ger all our land the fight goes on
Victory will be great
Danish the raging demon drink
Down with the mocker wine.
he our Christian land. We think
lis time to rise and shire
Ne model license league we'll trust
Nor Greeks who come with gifts;
The demon drink shall bite the dust
Wen lend the cause some lifts
a saioonless Land Is our aim
Nor shall the battle ceaae
Until freemen attain the same
And saloons all decease
R w. GRrZZARD.
'rtinsburg. W. Va.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-02

Virginia will make Statewide fight on vice
When you get the Virgnians started in worthy
cause they don't stop until they get decisive
results. 1t is agreeable to North Carolina to
find the Old Dominion taking so kindly TO
Statewide.-Raleigh News and Observer.
We stu have Il few up our sleeve. Just you
T9rheels watch
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-02

Next sunday is Easter and will venture
that not IN the world may find as many
beautiful and beautifully women and as
many ugly and loudly dressed as in Chat
ham-Chatham Enterprise.
Wonder whether a or wrote
that.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-02
With the Fraternity

Says the Newport News Press:
"A New England clergyman says that there
are four kinds OF women. But there must be
five, for we know one woman who is in class
TO herself"
Maybe the clergyman knew several of that
kind himself
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-02

Last night Jack tried TO put his arm around
me three times"
Some arm."--Yale Record
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-02

F}ora--i think Molly's fellow Is a pill.
l'aui--lias she taken him et?--Penn Punch
Sowi.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-02

vTRCiNrAN PHONES
AAvertssing--Mad. S.
Editor.ai---Mad. 1881.
6ociety--Mad. isss.
General Mgr Ran 37i.
Circaiation--Ran. s?3.
Contest Dept Ran. 722.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-04-02

April FIRST was certainly The Day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-26
More Life In Pig Iron

The steel industry has been active long enough for the public to be used to the weekly reviews setting forth the various features indicating the return of prosperity. In addition to war or ders contracts were closed last week for rails, cars and bridge and other structural material. The steel mills are crowded with work and full ca pacity operations at open-hearth fur nace plants may be expected through out the fall and winter.
 The Associated Press report on the iron and steel trade is condensed but this brief sentence means good deal. "More life was evident in pig iron"
 During the past few months large tonnages of pig metal have been sold but at prices that barely covered the cost of production. Recently the price has advanced Birmingham iron is selling for 50 cents-in some instances a dollar-a ton more thar it brought last spring. And now that there is more life in the market il is hoped the advance will soon bring the price level above $11 on a No. : foundry basis. An active S11 market would be welcomed by everybody ir this district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-26
ON THE CARDINALS BIRTHDAY

From the New York Sun.
 James Cardinal Gibbons at S1 surveys the world from his tower of years with charity, insight and good will He has seen much. thought much, understood
 much. His judgments on men and events are sought and respected. Far beyond the bounds of his faith the ripe wisdom that inspires his words carries his messages of admonitiori, advice and encourage ment.
 A sage who quickly distinguishes the true from the false. the trivial from the important, mere noise strives in vain for the dignity of his recognition, while the Ilghtest knocking of merit springs wide the door to his interested cooperation For frauds and charlatans his eminence has
 no time: only~pty, for they have missed the good things that lie at the hand of sound purpose and honest endeavor. Yet that instinctive pity has not dulled the
 steel of his duty or paralyzed the hand
 that yields the whip of just punishment. The cardinal has wit and humor. With out them he could not have lived so usefully so long. The Sun felicitates itself this morning on conveying to him the good wishes of it's readers and itself. We know man when we see him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-26
More Work Than Rest

If any man has earned real vaca- tion it is President Wilson. No chief magistrate of the United States-not excepting Abraham Lincoln-was ever subjected to a greater nervous strain than Woodrow Wilson has experienced. Compared with his grave responsibil- ities the problems which confronted most of the other Presidents were easy of solution.
 But MT. Wilson has been equal to the strain. He is a man of fortitude and rare endurance, and he knows the value of play He finds the air of Cornish invigorating and motoring along the mountain roads diverting, but his greatest relaxation comes from golf. Fortunate it is that he is fond of this sport-the intellectual work CTS finest nerve tonic for it is only when he is on the links that the cares of office are entirely forgot.
 While the President is waiting for Germanys reply to his ultimatum, he is revolving in his mind the note which he will soon dispatch to Great Britain asking for a modification of its blockade policy. Other questions that will have his very serious atten- ton while away on his vacation relate to the Mexican situation and the na- tional defense.
 A new naval policy and new mil itary policy will be developed within the next few weeks, regardless of any turn the international situation may take. The navy is to be strengthened and the army is to be reorganized, and during his vacation the President will give much thought to these matters.
 In all human probability Germany's reply to the administration new note will be satisfactory, and as for Mexico whatever course the American gov ernment may feel constrained to take in order to restore peace and aid in establishing a stable republic in that unhappy land, it will not mean anything like costly or wasting war.
 In the meanwhile the President will derive no little benefit from his vaca- tion albeit more time will be given to work than to rest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-26
KANSAS MEANT TT

From the Philadelphia Evening Ledger.
 Tomato catsup out in Kansas has quit being pumpkin mush with coloring mat ter. pound of butter is a pound of but ter. and the water is still in the we'll Spices spice by their own unaided efforts and sausa ges-as Ellis Parker Butler would say-is pigs In eight years the pure food law has really done something
 This reform which Professor Willard food analyst, announces is one of those typical things that we are apt never to notice. We get all stirred up over some thing. We make a great fuss We pa ss law And we forget all about It until some one tells us that something has happened. Mostly. when we wake up. we get the impression that things have gone on just as badly as ever and we haven't noticed. But it seems to be quite as plausible to say that in a good many cases like this pure food rumpus, it's a matter of benefits forgot" We get so used to pure food-gradually and unop- truslvely. of course-that we never re- member that things were any different.
 Of course, plenty of laws of this kind simply haven't worked. They haven't had the vitality, the kick of public interest be- hind them. It isn't so much the act that has purified Kansas food, says Professor Willard. as the grocery store demands of the consumers. The people wanted pure food They got the law, of course, which made the labels truthful. But they got the food. too. Something like that is usually the case when they really mean it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-26
JUGGLING WITH TIME
om the Cincinnati Times-star.

from the Clncinnati TfmeS-Star.
 The craze shown by certain middle western cities to attach themselves to eastern time, according to report, has had some exasperating consequences. Tn Cleveland hotel keepers, railroad men and others are said to be nventing new and expressive terms to denote their disgust. Transient visitors say. many uncompli- mentary things about a town which mon- keys blithely with the natural laws of Old Sol, and keeps the travelling public busy setting watches first at one hour and then at another.
 traveller from a town 50 miles east of Cleveland finds that he reaches the latter city precisely at the same hour at which he left home, say l o'clock. Or. perhaps, if his train has been particularly speedy, he arrives few minutes prior to the moment he Is supposed to have started. If he goes few miles west of Cleveland he Is jerked back into mid afternoon with an abruptness which Is disconcerting This is due to the fact that cities east of Cleveland and west of Pittsburg have not changed their time to conform to that of the former city.
 Other towns which are contemplating this same joyous unheaval In the natura course of the clock might with profit Clevelal0 experiment. It does not always pay to be indifferent to the comfort and convenience of contiguous communities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-26
TOrpedoes From the Sky

Patents have been issued to Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske of the navy war college, covering aerial torpedo boats for attack on ships in protected harbors. So many visionary schemes have been suggested for making war more horrible than it is already, that it is difficult for a person who is not a scientist to judge what is feasible and what is not. At first glance, Ad- miral Fiske's invention seems of ques- tionable utility, but it has received expert indorsement and the Germans are said to be working out similar idea. The plan is to equip a monster aeroplane, similar to machines that are now being constructed for Great Britain in this country, with a White head torpedo of regulation size.
 According to the press dispatches,
 oWOOplllS dOWll tI d DiSldllCe Ol 1lNe sea miles from the object of attack, the air craft would drop it's deadly passenger into the water just as it would have been launched from a de- stroyer. The impact sets the torpedo s machinery in motion and it is off at a speed of more than forty knots an hour toward the enemy ship"
 The torpedo could be carried over harbor defenses at height beyond the range of gun fire, and once over the bay, could be dropped in the water to do its work while the aeroplane sped away. The mere matter of trans porting a 2000-pound weapon on an aircraft would be easy, as aero planes to carry ton of dead weight have alerady been perfected and the installation of twin motors on Flu ropean aeroplanes has greatly in- creased the lifting power of these ma chimes, but the necessity of "swoop- ing down" to within twenty feet of the water and in range of hostile guns would expose an aerial torpedoboat to hail of shells which would make the proper launching of the torpedo, not only difficult, but extremely hazard puS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-26
OPERA AS INSTITUTION

must be the gift of the people either by d. rect taxation or popular subscription. It must not be the gift of multi millionaire Why not? Because from that moment the. peoples interest in it is killed, or if they. have any it is a resentful interest that bodes i'll for the opera houses success
 But if John Smith or Tom Brown Ina sI given up his dollar freely or by taxation itI will be quite otherwise; proudly he will point it out to the stranger: That's ouu opera house; they soaked me coupled of dollars for it, so I suppose a few oil the bricks belong to me. Guess I'll have' to go in sometime and see what they rel doing in there"
 Can 1t be done? We'll. let us see what they have done in Germany. There they. have at least 100 opera houses, most of them municipal and therefore built by public taxation Let us take one of thesei as an example. The opera house at Cologne. I take Cologne because it is: familiar to most American tourists Its has a population of about 50O,O0o. and itsf opera house cost it's people S00o,000 marks or nearly s2,0000O0.
 There for nine months of the year., not for three or four nights of the week. but every night of those nine months-,5 opera is given at prices ranging for the best seats from sl to $2, according to the opera. given. A seat in the gallery vii cost you a quarter; if you have sturdy legs and don't mind the standing-weIls s you can stand for 50 pfennings Q21a cents) I
 Impossible you say? How can they giv9 good opera or pay their artists decent wages? My dear reader, l have lived sevi eral years in Germany. I have seen opera performances in most of it's cities and Il have never seen a really bad perform, ance Haven't you the proof right here i1 Where dc we get the artists for Geri| man opera if not from Germany? Fl
 As to the pay. The American tenor at| Freiburg in Breisgau, town of not quite s5,o0o people, received salary of s6OO for season of eight months. Not so. bad, eh?
 You see opera in Germany is norma part of the normal lives of normal people They do no task for the exotic any moro than they would ask for caviar with every meal. They would see in the vocal pyroi| technics of Signor "Bullvoci" blasphemH| on art Tit more for the monkey house tha1I the stage of an artistic institution. H
 In Cologne l know one young Ameri| ican singer who was receiving a salarY| Of S000 marks (s200O. The director of ond| of our American opera houses offered he'll S100a less than she was receiving in GeriI many.
 In Cologne the director the is also th{ head of the municipal playhouse) is emil gagged for a period of three years. If h4' wishes to be re-engaged he must shoY' results. and he can oniy show results bI| employing the best material. He is notI Influenced by the social set. lie is noI| responsible to them but to the peoplelI He can keep down the deficit in no othet way.
 In Cologne the deficit is usually about sl50,oO. The people pay this cheerfullN and willingly because 1t is to them a. much a municipal necessity as clear streets or a good police force.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-26
BETTER DAY FOR THE DRAMA

From the Knickerbocker Press
 American theatre-goers have seized with great interest the news that Augustus Thomas has been chosen to direct in fu- ture the theatrical enterprises of the late Charles Frohman, who lost his life on the
 Lusitania. The Frohman name will be
 preserved in the firm.
 The late MT Frohman was in a sense
 commercial manager He did not have or pretend to have special artistic train- ing yet he was an intelligent business
 man and good judge of plays and play
 CTS. He did not at all times look on the commercial side of the theatre
 There has been much just and unjust
 criticism leveled at the commercial man.
 agement of the American drama. There fore. the fact that Americas greatest liv- ing playwright should be chosen to direct
 the nations largest theatrical enterprises is most significant and promising of a better day for the drama. No dramatist in this country. not even Bronson Howard.
 rivals MT. Thomas. who, while his work has been uneven. has sum of achieve
 ment of remarkable excellence. Even on
 the English stage, probably only Pinero and MT. Jones excel Mir. Thomas.
 MT. Thomas has catholic taste, and highly trained judgment and he is sure
 to encourage the production of the best work of which the American dramatists are capable. He is not likely to be ac- cused of a failure of intelligent co-opera-
 ton with the dramati lists. Mir Thomas, of
 course. must take things as he finds
 them and move slowly upward to better
 things He promises to accomplish much ! In uplifting the theatre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-26
At the Athletic Club

One of the best assets a club or any other institution catering to the man about town Is, in my opinion a tact ful porter who desires to serve diIli- gently" remarked Dr. Howell T. lief lin, and when really good man skilled and conscientious In service 1. once discovered praise should not go unsung.
 This recalls our Turkish bath man and masseur at the Athletic club. Big Sam. as he is generally called, is al- ways on the job, and never loses a chance to put in cheerful word. Whom 1t comes to administering steam ba he is certainly there with the goods
 One is at first somewhat unneryed when contemplating such a formida ole undertaking as a Turkish bath but Sam's manner is most reassuring. and after having gone through the rub With this capable attendant once or twice you feel like new man. In- deed, l can imagine nothing so re- freshing as a good Turkish bath ac- companied with a vigorous rub down Of course one should not indulge too often in this luxury; but the benefit to be derived from an occasional yisi, to the sanctum of the masseur Is not to be passed up lightly"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-26

river, but he swan it at flood stage, when the Republican was a mile wide.
 The other day Crum faced the sit uation of being separated from his fiance by river so swollen by floods that fording it was impossible-and his wedding date only few hours distant. Crum took no one into his confidence, but swan the swollen stream and, after borrowing some clothes, appeared at the home of the girl in time for the wedding.
 This incident should be brought to the attention of those pessimistic croakers who assert that romance is dead, and no longer does the gallant lover perform feats of daring.
 The fact is, human nature may be more refined, but it is essentially the same now as it was in the time of Ulysses. The love-lorn youth of the twentieth century is just as prone to perform deeds of daring as the heroes of ancient mythology. After a year or two of married life, he may be con- tent to let the same girl get up in the cold, gray dawn of the morning, and make fire in the kitchen range-but in the courting days he does not hesi- tate to "swim a river"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-26
Business Conditions Improva

When people take their cars out of storage and use them constantly if is pretty good sign that the times are
 manager for a well known tire con- cern. Our business for the past few months has increased greatly. Of course, the weather has had somethfng g
 to do with the improved conditions.
 Tor good weather Is essential to pleas
 ure motoring. but the big increase can
 not be attributed to fine weather sole ". Confidence in the future prosper ity of the country must be given due
 credit.
 T make quite number of towns in Alabama from time to time and 1t is indeed gratifying to see how much better the people all over the state
 are feeling. Any talk about hard times
 is looked upon as out of order in most of the thriving communities. The greatest improvement in busi-
 ness in Alabama is here in Birming
 ham. I think A few weeks ago If you
 talked to a man about getting a bet ter quality at a better price he would
 not listen. Today 1t Is different; it isn't the price so much as it is the quality and all are buying the bes, we have in the shop.
 "Collections are a great deal better too. When you go in to collect a bill
 from a man now. he at least scans it
 and says he will mail a check at a l certain date. Formerly it was embar- 1 rassing to even mention to a customer that he was indebted to you. If you did he generally frowned and said you would have to wait; then a long tirads about hard times. the war, etc Now
 such things are tabooed by all men | who have noticed the improved con- dit.ons and most of them have care. fully noticed the increase in sales. Nc | more war talk for me. Prosperity is here for keeps"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-26
Pleasant Summer Climate

During the past twelve years I have visited Birmingham several times and each time in the summer" said J. P. Henning of Philadelphia, "and I can testify to the pleasant temperature that l have found here as rule
 T am told that June Is usually Bir- mingham's most oppressive month; bur have never come earlier in the sum mer than the middle of July, and while the thermometer registers high 1 find the nights delightful. A few years ago l spent nearly all August here and a pleasanter month I do not recall.
 Nearly everybody who comes south visits this city but most people one meets in the north have an idea that the southern summers are insuffrable. Never was there a greater mistake. I suffer more from the heat in PhiIa- delphia and New York when the sum- mer temperature is ranging in the sos than l do in Birmingham or New Orleans when the mercury touches 92 or 93"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-26
WHAT DID YOU DO.

From the New York Times Did you give him a lift? He's brothe1
 of man And bearing about all the burden he can| Did you give him smile9 He was downl
 cast and blue. And the smile would have helped him td
 battle it through. Did you give him your hand? He wad
 slipping down hill And the world. so l fancy, was using
 him ill Did you give him a word? Did you show
 him the road? Or did you just let him go on with hid
 load?
 like you, But the grasp of your hand might ha e
 carried him through. Did you bid him good cheer? Just word
 and a smile Were what he most needed that lasa
 weary mile. Do you know what he bore in that bur That Is every mans load and that sym,
 pathy shares? Did you try to find out what he neede
 from you? Or did you just leave him to battle Il
 through? DO you know what 1t means to be losing
 the fight.
 When a lift just in time might set every
 thing right? Do you know what 1t means-just tha
 clasp of the hand When a mans borne about all that q
 man ought to stand? Did you ask what it was-why the quiv5
 ering lip, And the glistening tears down the paid
 cheek that slip? Were you brother of his when the timd
 came to be? Did you offer to help minor didn't yoI|
 see? Don't you know it's the part of brothei
 of man To find what the grief is and help whaA
 you can? Did you stop when he asked you to giv4
 him a lift, Or were you so busy you left him to shift Oh, know what you meant!-what yol|
 say may be true Q But the test of your manhood is, what }
 you do?
 Did you reach out hand3 Did you find
 him the road? Or did you just let him so by with hi1 af|f r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Next Years Reunion

Alter the annual meeting of the state camp of the United Confederate Veterans, to be held in Selma in September is past, we will begin organizing for the DE reunion to be held in Birmingham next year, said Capt John G. Smith.
 While we cannot hope to have as many veterans here as we had in 1908, the crowd of visitors will be as large as it was then-probably larger. Birmingham IS city that people like to visit and no matter how gfeat the crowds may be they always find comfortable accommo- datlons
 The exact dates for the reunion have not yet been fixed. The latter part of May will be about right for Birming- ham,"