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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-09-29

MY BELIEF.-Mr.T T. L. asks very
fair question. Words cannot ade-
quately describe anybody's belief. The
bible is like a tree with hundreds of
branches: You can take your choice
and believe which one you take, from
Baptist to Dunkard, from Methodist
to Presbyterian, from Episcopalian to
Catholic, or if you choose you may
stay in the Old Testament and believe
the Jewish orthodox or Dowieism, the
House of David or Mormonism. The
number of words to describe any one
of these beliefs is legion and then it
is not fully understood.
These beliefs are what. call bible
religions, representing something
over a third of the worlds population,
the third that quarrels and fights the
most, and did so in history. l have
an open mind. want the truth, but
I refuse to accept the visions of the
priestcraft who wrote the bible and
wove into bible history all the myths,
legends, figures Of speech, hyperbo-
les, condemnations, curses, hell, fire
and birthstone that we find there. 1
refuse to accept either the Koran or
bible of the priests who wrote the cy-
cles or trinity of Mohammed or of
Buddha, Brahma and thousand
other religions. believe in supreme
God head, the architect of the uni
verse, but l refuse to be introduced
to Him by Christ, the Virgin Mary or
a set of preachers and priests.
My notion of the Creator is that He
is too big, too grand and too near us
all to need a formal or informal in
PRODUCTION. l believe He is love and
we are, a part of Him. We may be
in tune with the infinite, as when we
obey strictly the laws, as manifested
in nature about us. If we disobey
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-09-29

eouraging indeed. Public revenue
should come from land values, ire
speetive of improvements. These
values are the result of the presence,
the energies, the necessities and the
labors of all the people who live upon
the land. If this were done the bank
ers and everybody else would be free
from taxation.-Geo. v. Wells.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12

should be an inspiration to every woman in the south.
 This is but one of dozens of interest ing features of next Sundays Age Herald
 The Rotogravure Section will con- tain, in addition to striking and inti- mate scenes from European battle fields, magnificent view of Norwood boulevard, "the twin sister of Highland avenue" There is also a steamboat race on the Warrior river, new pie turc of Miss Fancy" the children's pet elephant, and views of Birming- ham people. O.
 The Sunday Age Herald is the big gest cents worth of newspaper issued in the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY

From the Washington Star.
 The war departments denial of the report that the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor is to be gilded was hardly necessary, for it was virtually incredible that the government should put perishable coat of precious metal upon a bronze figure that is in its natural color more beautiful than any extrinsic decoration can make it. A gilt Statue of Liberty would be little short of an atrocity, and it is not re- markable that persons of artistic tastes should have been excited over the re- port It may be that the statue has been somewhat neglected in point of repairs and attention to the inner structure, but nothing should be done to change the gray y-green coast that time has given the bronze and that has acquired a distinctive character. At present the great figure is part of the landscape. It is not garish, nor does it obtrude itself fiamboyantly. Yet it cannot be lost or mistaken. It is always there to welcome both strangers and citizens on their arrival in port. A gilt Liberty would be too much like an advertise ment Fortunately good taste prevails sufficiently to prevent such desecra- ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
Sunday Movies

pr. L. F. Whitten publishes card in another column of The Age-Herald today. Dr. Whitten likes to write and The Age Herald always has space to give him.
 He aks where The Age-Herald stands for the preservation of the Sab- bath. It is not for wide open city, but it does believe that the people have a right to the innocent amusement of moving picture shows on Sunday aft ernoon.
 If Dr. Whitten objects to Sunday moving picture shows, it would be well for him to specify his reasons. The Age Herald will gladly accord him space in which to give reasons why the innocent amusement of the moving picture show on Sunday afternoon should not be afforded to those people who work hard all the week and desire to see these pictures on Sunday after.
 noon during hours when there are nc
 services in any of the churches of Bir- mingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
PIMPLES THE HERO

A recruiting meeting in Trafalgar Square, London, is described by writer in The New Republic.
 The crucial moment had come Ar officer stepped from behind one of the liens leading a tall smirking man with g large and red fNe The crowd surged forward the soldiers cheered This tall soldier must be hero for certain per haps V. C., who had saved a comrade from death. He did not look like a hero but then heroes never do. and his foolish grin I took for bashfulness. Above the yells I heard the word cinema and ther the officer proclaimed the hefo's name as a herald might have announced a knight in armor to the tournament ot other days Pimples!
 'Eloquently the movie actor told us of the contract of $50 that he had beer about to sign when Engfands need ha6 sent him to war Fifty pun, Gawd, muttered a ragged cockney beside me and I recalled that Israel Putnam had only abandoned a blow. The cheers died down, and he told us of the suits o1 clothes that hung in his closet at home and the sums he had paid for them. Pim- pies had given up fame and wealth, an6 he asked us to give up our petty interests to the same cause. He ceased, and the intensity that I had no- ticed before seemed to increase with every second. A year and month the men about me had resisted the onni- present posters the appeal of regiments marching to the swirl of bagpipes the silent call of wounded soldiers. Would they now offer themselves because this man had touched their hearts?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
The Bethlehem Fire
zenS.

There is an element of mystery in the fire which completely destroyed the No. machine shop of the
 Bethlehem Steel company at South Bethlehem, Pa. Although there seems
 no evidence that the fire was started by sympathizers with Germany, the fact that the Bethlehem company has
 been turning out large quantities of
 munitions for the allies and the addi- tional fact that guns destroyed in the
 shop were worth millions of dollars is significant.
 If the work of an incendiary, he has dealt a serious blow to one of the greatest munitions plants in the coun- try and one that has profited greatly by the war in Europe. The fire was first discovered in oil conduits near the entrance and is said to have been "only spark" which lends some color
 to the theory that the destruction of the plant was due to an accident.
 However, German sympathizers, with whom the Bethlehem company has been sore topic for sometime, will have difficulty in concealing their satisfaction over this latest catastro- phe which befell plant that had been lately rebuilt and enlarged at an esti- mated cost of $3,000,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
Farming Population Decreases

At the present rate of progress the native born American farmer will soon become extinct. Iowa is the banner farming state of the Mississippi val ley, yet only nine of the ninety-nine sections covered by the government census showed an increase in farming population. Missouri, another great agricultural state, showed a decrease in farming population. In Rhode Island 96 per cent of the people are urban; in New York, 75 per cent; in Massa- chusetts, 93 per cent; in Connecticut, 89 per cent; in Pennsylvania, 61 per cent. Ut may be set down." says Cur rent Opinion, "that the only increase in rural population has been west of the Mississippi"
 There seems to be little or no sur prising increase of urban over rural population in this country, even in states where farming is the chief in- dustry Various theories have been ad- vanced, but none of these have been able to offset the very obvious ad- vantages rural life has over city life. The economic independence of the farmer, not to mention the healthful- ness of his calling, pure air, good, sim pie food and better living conditions, has not been sufficient, it seems, to keep the rural population up to nor mai standard
 "If the very base of all national prosperity is the farm, why is all this?" asks Current Opinion. "Why do people shun the most prosperous and independent of all vacations ?' The question is hard to answer. Eco nomically this condition of affairs is inexplicable. The answer must lie somewhere in the realm of psychology
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
PAWPAW BRANDY AND SUCH

Hoosier of southern Indiana could invite Colonel Watterson to come up there and taste fine sample of pawpaw brandy, for it is known--favorably, too-in that section of the Hooser State. But" says the editor of the News. before he comes to pies and liqueur, if he is among the
 knowing, he will encounter another paw paw dish that will tic'..e his palate, re- fresh him, delight him. He will be in- troduced to pawpaw salad. In the gilded
 cafes af Broadway, the alligator pear
 holds a place high in esteem and price.
 But it is nothing-even less than nothing
 has partaken of that and spreads the
 news, the pawpaw will come into its own."s.
 Yes, and when Marse Henry has sam
 pied the pawpaw pies and pawpaw brandy of the mountain country of Kentucky, and the pawpaw salad of the Hoosier State, if he will come to Platte county, in western Missouri, he may taste and eat his fill of pawpaw preserves and pawpaw pickles so delicious in flavor that the very thought of them afterward will make his mouth water, for the paw paw has been largely used and highly esteemed both as a sweet preserve and as sour pickle in the homes of Platte county. and of Clay county. too, ever since the first settlers of those counties
 came from Virginia and Kentucky and
 found the wild banana of the woods growing as plentifullly everywhere q walnuts and spersimmons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12

establish firm foothold in the
 markets of the world, which nei-
 ther political effort. tariff discrim-
 nation nor low prices can success
 fully assails
 MT. Farrell, after referring to the fact that the south has given many evidences of it's interest in foreign trade, not only for its cotton, but for it's lumber, coal, naval stores and other natural products and the products of its industries, says that southern manufacturers should be particularly interested in the consideration which the convention will give to ways and means for manufacturers hitherto en- gagged in domestic trade more effect ively to extend their operations abroad"
 Birmingham alone should be repre- sented at the New Orleans meeting by thirty or forty of it's enterprising citi- zens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
THE TALE OF TWO TADPOLES

which grew thicker and thicker as his activity waxed greater, and ere long he had churned the milk into butter upon which he scrambled to safety. 't'So it is with advertising says w. o. Broyles. It pays if you keep everlasting ly at it.
 "W. o. consistently advertised the facts about unhealthy inter mattresses. and today he is selling more long staple, san itary cotton mattresses than any other furniture dealer in town. 'W. O. consistently advertised the facts about imitation leather called 'Sterling. Tmperial. 'Muleskin' and other fictitious names, until today the public demands to know whether they are buying fake imitation leather upholstering' or the real thing.
 w. o. Broyles has always advertised the fact that no other furniture dealer could undersell him on furniture, or housefurnishings of any kind, and he s
 going to keep eyerlastingly at 1t until every woman in Birmingham visits his
 big store at 1914 Fourth avenue, where prices on furniture are always lower
 than elsewhere
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
MADISON CAwEIN
Margaret Steele Anderson, in the Loui vile Post.

 Margaret Steele Anderson, in the Louis
 vile Post.
 The wind makes moan, the water runneth
 chill;
 hear the nymps go crying through the
 brake;
 And roaming mournfully from hill to hill, The maenads all are silent for his sakeI He loved thy pipe, o wreathed and piping
 So playst thou sadly. lone within thine hollow;
 He was thy blood, if ever mortal man, Therefore thou weepest-even thou, Apollo!
 But o. the grieving of the Little Things, Above the pipe and Tyre, throughout the woods!
 The beating of thousand airy wings, The cry of all the frag gile multityaea.. The moth fits desolate, the tree toad calls, Tell the sorrow of the elf and fay; The cricket, little harper of the walls, Puts up his harp-hath quite forgot to play! And risen on these winter paths anew, The wilding blossoms make a tender sound; The purple weed, the morning glory blue, And all the timid darlings of the ground! Here, here the pain is sharpest! For he walked As one of these-and they knew naught of fear, But told him daily happenings and talked Their lovely secrets in his listening ear! Yet we do bid them grieve. and tell their grief: 1 untrue;. l o wind and stream. o bee and bird and leaf,
 Mourn for your poet, with long adieu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
Should Attract Truck Farmers

1 The reorganized Chamber of Com
 merce, with considerably more rev
 enue for promotion work than it has | had heretofore, should revive the farm l movement, which has for it's object the building up of extensive trucking in l terests in Jefferson county.
 The movement was started several years ago, and if direct results were not as numerous as had been hoped 1 for. a number of industrious families from the north were induced to settle on small tracts and raise truck for
 the Birmingham market.
 But lack of funds caused the work 1 to lag and finally the movement ceased altogether It is not necessary to expend large amount of money in exploiting Jefferson as county ad-
 mmably adapted to small farming. Not only are the soil and climate suited to the growing of all kinds of food crops several crops can be made in the same year-but the market is here. Birminghams demand for vege- tables and poultry is far greater than the nearby supply. Country produce is shipped here from many states and there is no good reason why the great CT part needed is not raised within radius of 50 miles of this city. But while no heavy outlay of money is called for, the Chamber of Com merce committee should have at it's disposal sufficient funds to get up at tractive literature, setting forth lief ferson county's advantages from homeseeker's point of view, and to em- ploy an intelligent, enthusiastic and in every way capable field agent to make occasional trips to the truck farming sections of the congested middle west or nOrLnWoSC anu meet peISOudlly Jle class of people desired in the Birming-
 ham district as settlers.
 It is understood that there are now
 about 200 truck farmers in Jefferson
 county There is room for 2000 or
 more truckers. It is not so much the question of adding to the county's pop ulation. It is the economic side that is of prime importance. Every truck farmer adds wealth to the community A thousand of them would soon cause
 the outlying sections of Jefferson
 county to become noted for thrift and
 wealth. Everything that benefits the
 county benefits Birmingham
 The Chamber of Commerce will find
 a new movement along farm lines well
 worth while.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
From the Kansas City Times.

II ioiil tuC 4AdliSdS Slty iiuCS. K xARSE HENRY wATTERSON, vet
 MI eran editor of the Louisville
 \ Courier-Journal, expressed pro-
 found suprise in his newspaper recently over the announcement of distiller in Campbellsburg, Ky, that he intended to distill brandy from pawpaws. "So far as known" says Mars Henry
 manufacture of pawpaw brandy never has been attempted
 Thereupon the editor of newspaper in Lee county, Kentucky, took fling at both the distiller and at Marse Henry. "Such ignorance is inexcusable, espe- cially on the part of Colonel Watterson, whose knoweldge of beverages for which
 Kentucky is famous is popularly sup posed to be complete and profound" !" writes the Lee county editor. '1f the enterprising distiller of Campbellsburg
 and Colonel Watterson will come up here we will take pleasure in showing them
 many who have been nourished and cheered from childhood on this insidious beverage"
 A correspondent of tine New York Sun. writing from Kentucky. protests, too. against the unfair blow that has been dealt the pawpaw by Marse Henry Wat
 terson. and writes that not only is paw paw brandy common in the country dis l tricts of Kentucky, but one of the de- lectab!e dishes of frosty October evenings
 down there is hot pawpaw pie. "When he has stuck tooth into that" writes
 the Sun correspondent, properly pre- pared and washed down with libations of pawpaw brandy, a man will wonder why the habitues of Olympus restaurant made piece de resistance of nectar and ambrosia.''
 The Indianapolis News admits that
 pawpaw pie is good and that many g
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
THE TALE OF TWO TAD
 POLES." an advertisement of

HR RohHs.@ H1@I an es Advertisement, %%s %Aes ss
 A the w. O. Broyles Furniture company in Tuesday mornings Age-Her- aid. has attracted Jmore attention than any advertisement that has been printed in southern newspaper in long period of time.
 Many of the mothers of Birmingham are reading this story to their children.
 The advertisement was so clever that it is worth reproducing as news story.
 It reads as follows:
 ''The Tale of Two Tadpoles.
 Two tadpoles once found themselves caught in pail of milk with no apparent means of escape. One of them, after 8 few feeble and intellectual efforts gave up the fight, sank to the bottom and per- ished. The other (and this tale is of him) was more persistent, being thorough ly imbued with the spirit of keeping ever lastingly at it. and convinced that sim cere effort, rightly directed. always brought home the bacon. So he kept on wriggling, he slashed, he splashed and To! there appeared froth upon the milk
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
Sundays Age-Herald

No one in Alabama is better quail fled to write on the advancement made in the facilities for education of young women in this state than Miss Julia s. Tutwiler. She has been for years a conspicuous leader in this work.
 Miss Tutwiler will have in Sunday $ Age Herald an article of exceptional interest at this time under the title, "How the Girls of Alabama Pushed Open the Doors of the State Univer- sity" The story of this achievement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12

never obliterated ia the real woman of the world.
 Tn succeeding acts the heroine was a trifle weak-a bit insipid. She was not as alluring in her day of regeneration as in her day of delinquency-althou this error may also be ascribed to the author of the play.
 AS for the male characters-pity them. An Englishman should never be en- trusted with role requiring outward. ap- parent force, strength. You can never improve a sordid picture by enclosing it in a silver frame"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
Cody to Manage Campaign

q hear the report" said a close stu dent of political conditions in Alabama yesterday. "that Michael Cody, we'll known Montgomery banker, will manage the campaign in behalf of the state bond issue which will be submitted to the peo- pie January IS.
 Tt is evidently the intention of the governor to entrust this fight which means so much to the success or his administration not to politicians but to business men, While opposition on the part of those who opposed the election of MT. Henderson will be strenuous, l carry.
 q note in the papers that Senator LusiS of Marshall has stated in an interview his intention of taking the stump against the issue. He fought the submission or the issue during the legislature, and l predict that his failure scored then will be repeated later on. Senator Lusk is quite a bitter fighter, and quite an orator with power to play upon the imagina- ton and prejudices of those who hear him. But he has not been remarkably successful in politics. He made race for Congress some years ago against J. l.. Burnett and was beaten in the Sew enth district by majority of 4s99 lie later made a race for the supreme court bench, and, despite the fact that he had the ardent support of the Conner admin istration, then in the saddle. he brought up the rear. So I do not anticipate great danger in the Lusk opposition. The issue will win or lose on it's merits or lack of merits
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
The Auburn-vanAy Game

'I am not a resident of Alabama or Tennessee" said William Furman of Meridian yesterday, ''and therefore Will be in fine condition to enjoy the Auburn Vandy game Saturday. It often detracts when one suffers during a battle from heart interest and therefore. prejudice
 .I anticipate witnessing the classic of the south. Auburn reminds me or the yeomanry of England, which made and still makes that country famous. Van derbilt and other teams which oppose Auburn remind me of the cavaliers of France, exhibiting more brilliance and greater variety of play. But Auburn's dogged determination, it's fugged defense, it's hard blows when on the aggressive generally count heavily.
 "I regret that Vanderbilt is shot to pieces just as would regret similar condition on the part of Auburn. Never theless, anticipate great battle and one worthy of being denominated the classic of the south."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
REMEMBERED HIS GRUDGE.

Were you still at loggerheads with your rich uncle when he died?''
 "Yes. The old gentleman never got over his animosity toward me-" made his will?'
 Its quite likely He didn't leave me cent''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
Criticize Modern shows

q was disappointed in the severa, newspapers criticism of Outcast,' the entertainment offered this week at the Jefferson. There was too much praise. In the first place, I object to parading soiled linen on the stage. In the second place, the sordidness was not relieved by brilliant lines or by depth of sweetness which invariably appeals"
 The speaker was T. 8. Hudgins. mer- chant of Perote, who is visiting Birming- ham. He added:
 Miss Eagles was in greater part ac- ceptab'e. In the first act she was a peripatetic in appearance only. She was lacking in the cynical~and sardonic. She was unabie-although the fact is prop er.y brought to the door of the play wright--to reveal that sentiment which is always to be found buried deep. but
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12

BEGINNING THE DAY-O God. help me to demand for myself no special privilege. Take away from me even the secret desire for 1t. May I accept life share alike with all the world. Give me te know but one King, but to count myself no better than any other. For Chrtsts sake. Amen.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
ABSORBED.

You call yourself an expert motion picture operator?" stormed the manager. "and yet you spoiled that feature film by running it too fast!,
 T know I speeded up iittle,'' an- swered the operator, contritely, but it was the first time I've run off that film, and I got so interested I hurried to see how it was going to end.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12
UNSYMPATHETIC.

What are you reading?" asked the
 inquisitive man. "oh, just little book about pictures. :" replied the art lover. I'm a movie fan myself Amt Charley Chaplin great?' Thereupon the art lover beat his breast and turned away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12

The Statue of Liberty will not be pro- who resorted to smelling salts when the idea was first suggested have fully re- covered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-12

Greece is holding on to her neutrality with grim determination, but she's like an elderly dame trying to manage an um- brelia in high wind.