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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1915-10-14
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-13
American Ambulance Hospital

Mrs. Robert Bacon, chairman of the American committee organized to maintain the American Ambulance hospital in France and other institu- tions, has announced that $2O0,O0O will be needed to keep the hospital in operation another year. An average of one thousand cases a day are being treated ill the hospital, while it's am- bulance service transports about ten thousand wounded soldiers a month from the battlefields to various hos pitals.
 Since it was started the American hospital and ambulance service has grown to meet increasing demands until it now comprises three hospitals and about one hundred and sixty cars. The base hospital is located at Neuilly, suburb of Paris, where there are about six hundred patients. The ad- vance hospital at Juilly, maintained by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, has more than two hundred patients, while the portable field hospital, con- sisting of thirty-three tents, is sta- tioned at the front and accommodates more than one hundred.
 ! The American committee has raised nearly $5O0,0O0 to carry on this work, which costs about 5000 a day. The generous response made to the appeal for funds last year will doubtless be repeated. It is an effective way of showing American gratitude for the kind offices of France in the past.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-13
HOW TO SLEEP
HQW lO SH ellogg, M. D., in Good Health.

J. H. Kellogg, M. D., in Good Health.
 Night t-time is for sleeping. The world of nature rests when the curtain of night is drawn across the sun. Night is time of refreshment, of repair, of gath erng force for the daytime activities.
 Sleep is natures sweet restorer, but if one is going to enjoy his sleep. to have restful, reparative, dreamless sleep. he must first have done something to expend force, to tear down tissue or earn repose; he must work.
 The Bible says that the sleep of the laboring man is sweet. It is the mill lionaire who has troubled sleep-dreams and nightmares-the man who is living on the fruit of another mans labors.
 Now the man who will not sweat can hunting about to find some way in which he can get living without sweating. A man who gets his living by the work of his hands Is undeservedly looked upon as a menial The higher classes are supposed to be people who do not have to work Now, one of the greatest priv ileges of mankind is the opportunity of working. Labor-healthy. honest labor is the greatest possible blessing to the human race. And so we find that it is the iaboring man in the country whose cir cumstances are happiest. Away from the congested cities, where the polluted soil and smoky air menace life, country folk can actually lie down and embrace Mother Hearth without danger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-13
No "Crime Wave" Here

The state newspapers which have fallen into the habit of moralizing on the wickedness of Bad Birmingham" will have to acknowledge that the pre- fix ''bad" is no longer applicable. Bir- mingham is now one of the cleanest and most law-abiding cities in the country, despite the fact that it's police force has been reduced in size. This may be taken as compliment to the efficient chief of police, Martin Eagan, and the men who are helping him to maintain order.
 In town of any size there is al- ways a lawless element which may be depended on to cause trouble now and then. The mining camps about Bir- mingham and the cosmopolitan char acter of its population make some dis order inevitable, but there is nothing to indicate that the city is any worse than other cities of the country. In fact, Birmingham's population is now and has always been for the most part law-abiding.
 Considering the smallness of our police force and the numerous nation alities represented here, as we'll as the wide territory Birmingham covers, making it difficult for. some districts to be patroled, the situation is highly gratifying.
 Crime is sporadic and there will be crimes committed here, as in other cities, but it is safe to say that Bir- mingham was never more free from crime and vice than it is today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-13
SINGING TO THE MOON
the New York World.


 During the long procession of the years, the moon has been many things to many men. She has been fair. tickle, golden, full orbed, lucent, silent. slvery, elusive, peeping, frosty, dewy, and as much further modified as the worlds wealth of adjectives has permitted. She has been the friends of lovers, who are counselled nevertheless, not to swear by her incon- stant light But above all things she has been the lasting theme and the standby of the poets and writers of song.
 Yet if we accept the sworn testimony of day in court, we must find that every minstrel to the moon, however sweet his melody. has assisted by his song in the undoing of his theme.
 The evidence on this point was brought out before federal district judge In this city on Monday in the trial of case of alleged fraud in the conduct of a song writing contest Speaking in a general way, the witness informed the court that poets fail to succeed in the fierce modern competition because 75 out of 100 of them put the moon into their verses. In other words, they have overworked the orb of night with fatality which their own works must share.
 To science, the moon has long been dead Hitherto the poets have rather prided themselves that in their stanzas she lived anew. The shock must be se- were indeed, of the revelation that by their own pens they have done to new, poetic death the easiest rhyming quan- tity in the language.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-13
CRoCKER LAND A MIRAGE

In Harper's Magazine for November, Donald MacMillan tells how, having found Peary's cairn built in June, 1906, he discovered that the much discussed Crocker Land was only mirage.
 Eagerly we now turn to an examina- ton of the Polar sea. At this spot Peary stood in June. 1906 and from this very spot he saw what resemb,ed land. The day was exceptionally clear, not cloud or trace of mist; if land could ever be seen. it could be now. Yes. there it wasl It could even be seen without a glass extending from southwest true to north-northeast. Our powerful glasses. however, brought out more clearly the dark background in contrast with the white, the whole resembling hills. valleys. and snow capped peaks to such degree that. had we not been out there for 15o miles. we would have staked our lives upon 1t. Our judgment then as now is that this was a mirage or loom of the sea ice. That there is land west of Axel Hei- berg Land, not northwest, as some yscien- lists would have us believe. have no doubt. would limit the eastern edge of this land to l2o degrees west longitude, and the northern edge to s2 degrees north latitude for the following reasons; Our nine days travel out from Cape Thomas Hubbard was over ice which had not been subjected to great pressure. evi- dence that it was protected by some great
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-13

PAUL JONES AND FRANKLIN
 Brander Matthews in Harper's Magazine
 for November.
 In his autobiography Franklin tells how
 he utilized the little spaces that occurred
 between the remarkable days" In the al-
 manac (which he issued annually for 25
 years, and which was the basis of his own
 comfortable fortune) to contain 'prover-
 bial sentences chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugaity as the means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue-it being more difficult for man in want to act always honestly, as to use here one of these proverbs. it is hard for an empty sack to so stand upright. :" Most of these proverbs were borrowed from ''the wisdom of many ages and na- tions,'' as Franklin himself acknowledges but not few of them seem to be due to his own witty wisdom; and that just quoted appears to be one of these. Taken as a whole the sayings of Poor Richard range rather with the lowly proverb
 than with the more elevated and more in-
 cisive aphorism; and Morley chose to dis miss them with curt contempt as kitchen
 maxims about thrift in time and money.
 Yet the saying about the empty sack rises little above the level of the kitch- en maxim; and so does that other which declares that If you would have your business done, go; if not, send" One of Franklin's biographers records that when Paul Jones, after his victory in the Ranger, went to Brest to await the new ship which had been promised him, he
 was tormented for months by excuses and delays despite his appeals to Franklin, u. the royal family, and to the king him. self Then at last he chanced to pick up Poor Richard, and the saying just quoted hit home. He took the hint. hurried to Versailles, and there got an order for the ship which he renamed in honor of his teacher. Bon Homme Richard''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-13
School superintendents Meet

"The meeting of the superintendents of city schools at the Tutwiler today was a great success" said W. s. Hud- gins of Eufauia, a member of the as- sociation.
 ''It is true that the principal busi- ness disposed of was of a routine na- ture. But in the discussions we learned much from the experience of each other and feel that we have &C., quired knowledge which will make us better teachers.
 Usually our attendance is about 50, but today about 100 of us were gath cred together It is probable that the game between Auburn and Vanderbilt attracted many, but the majority at tended in order that the service might be improved. We are always delight ed to get to Birmingham, for the big city has subtle charm and attraction which we cannot forego."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-13
THE OLD-FAST1IONED BONNET

hoopskirt and the unspeakable hustle. more daring costume, but she's better dressed than her mother was, the style of her clothes is prettier. If this be icon- oclasm, make the most of it.
 None the less we are disposed to be fair about the matter. and give the reader the benefit of what one on the other side of the question has to say. The Observer entertains us thus:
 The construction of poke bonnet was one of the first items in the education of the younger girls generation ago. The mother would cut out a pattern in lawn or dimity or calico, the main part of which looked like nothing more than a small section of a porch shade of the present day. It was equipped with slated spaces into which pasteboard slips would be inserted. This formed the covering for the head and at the same time . screen from public gaze for blushirS cheek and dimpled chin. The rear piece was a ruffled and billowy protuberanca that gave protection to the back knot and the tortoise shell comb. The deadly hat p;n was at that time unknown and the bonnet was secured by knotted string under the chin. But it was the Sunday go-to-meetin' affair in which the pride of| our mothers hearts was centered anal which was generafly known by the en- dearing term of duck of bonnet.' ItI was an affair in black silk and satin, withI ribbon adornments. Feathers and fiowers| would have been considered of vulgar or-| namentation.t The bonnet was fitted on| top of the head like saddle to the backI of horse, and gave full play to theI beauty of forehead. and cheek and chin-| and the forehead of the woman in the| bonnet was glory to dwell on in mem-| ory."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-13
HOTEL LOBRIES
To Attend the Game

While we are without heart inter- est in the Auburn Vanderbilt game scheduled for this afternoon said William Rochester of Tuscaloosa, a visitor yesterday. i've have come.
 There promises to be much sport and wherever sport is promised the Tuscaloosa contingency will be on hand. And all of us are pulling for Auburn despite the fact that Auburn was at one time the bitterest athletic enemy of the university-and despite the fact that in it's annual declination of our challenge, we do not think the Plains men display the proper spirit.
 But blood is thicker than water. and all of us are A1abamians. There fore we will go to the game this aft ernoon wearing the colors of our rival and pulling for an Aubun victory"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-13
natural resources of this part of the
 south. In it's New York correspond ence are these striking paragraphs:

ence are these striking paragraphs;
 Congress and the administration would have the backing of big busi- ness if it should appropriate from s5O,ooo,00O to slOO,0e0.O00 at the forth coming session to be expended for the establishment of munition plants in the interior and for dry docks along the southern coast. The first would help to protect the nation from the danger heretofore pointed out by the Manufacturers Record; the second would be an aid in restoring the mer- chant marine of the country, and both would be direct aids to private capital already invested in the south and southwest, or to be invested there.
 The greatest single factor in the southern iron and steel industry is the United States Steel corpora ton. That 1t is to continue to hold it's premier ship there can be no doubt. That 1t may soon inaugurate proposed great expenditures for enlargements, held up so long by the government dissolu- tion suit, is the confident belief of well posted people. It probably would well come the advent of the government into the southern field and cooperate with it in a gigantic development plan that would bring into being new in- dustrial center and enhance the safety of the nation.
 Bankers have become students of war history. They see ill the proposed co-operation of the government and private interests to change existing iron and steel conditions through southern development the road to a so- lution of the question of adequate steel production, whether in peace or war.
 Spend one hundred million dollars developing iron and steel industries in the south should prove slogan which would bring to the side of the Manufacturers Record all those froces under whatever banner they may have enlisted-which have as their aim the enhancement of national security through preparedness in the essentials of public safety.
 If the administrators army and navy programme appeals to Congress, and the indications are that it will be by decisive majority, the no less important proposition in the security scheme, that of To- eating munition plants in the south, should have very distinct and ready appeal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-13
,PossUM TIME IN KANSAS

From the Kansas City Times.
 Yes, it's sad. sad story, mates. about the poor city youth who plays on brick and asphalt streets, gets his sunshine diluted and has never even heard chick adee chick.
 For instance. there's the sad case of John Weidemann, Errett Williams, Elm melt Phillips. Ellsworth Davis, Melville Robinson. Frank Gahan and Clarence Bell, average age IA years. What do they know of real boyhood? Making their dreary way to and from school yester- day afternon all they did was to catch two fat 'possums
 The seven live in and around Fiftieth street and Prospect avenue. The eight blocks intervening between home and school take the boys across Brush creek. with its short spell of wood and under brush. Ordinarily there isn't much to do on the way but gather walnuts and persimmons, watch the squirrels and dodge motor cars.
 But when the frost is on the pumpkin and the corn is in the shock, Br'er Billy 'Possum waxes fat. And the seven wern' t long in learning that the 'possum family was frequent and plentiful in the Brush creek trees So the seven went at getting them in the most direct manner, without dogs guns, beaters, lanterns or the other usual accessories of 'possum hunt. They just shinned up the tree to the possum home in hole in the trunk. and hauled him out by the tail. Last month they fished a 15-pounder out of tree. Yes terday afternoon on the way to school John Weidemann pulled out one weigh ing eight pounds, and on the way back Brett Williams captured 1O-pound pos sum. The two possums were carried home by the tails and locked up and the seven hunters went back for more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-13
WHY THEY PREFER
 MORNING PAPER

In response to an inquiry by the edi tor of The Age Herald, addressed t Adolph ochs of the New York Times why people prefer to read mornin MT. Louis Wiley, bushes manager of the Times, responded. NJ Wileys position on what many peopl regard as New Works greatest news paper should make his views carry un usual weight. He writes:
 New York, November 10, 1915. MT. E. w. Barrett. Editor The Age
 Herald, Birmingham. Ala.
 Dear Sir: Responding to your in quiry of the Sd instant addressed to Mir Ochs, it is automatic to say that the power and influence of d newspaper are derived from it's readers-from the confidence and support they accord to it.
 This response of the reader which is the real basis of adver- Using value--in turn depends upon how intimately and vitally news paper touches his daily life.
 The morning newspaper is es- sentially the current days news paper-its time of arrival, no less than it's place of arrival, the home, is of outstanding importance.
 The whole family is eager for the worlds news.
 The needfuls for another day are
 
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 The morning newspaper is the days first contact with the social world It is in the quiet of the home that we mediate and form our opinions of men and things, rather |, than in the hurly-burly of the street car or office-thus it is the morning newspapers editorials which are most thoughtfully read.
 The morning newspaper has distinct advantage in it's time of preparation-while the world sleeps 1t may be more deliberately prepared, tne reliability of it's news verified, whereas the afternoon pa per is necessarily a more hastily prepared bulletin of events.
 That which custom has estab- lished and practically supports, may not be easily disputed or even denied.
 And no one seeking facts" will wish to pass over lightly the ex- perience of the shrewdest and largest advertisers.
 Possibly no single fact is more significant and convincing than this: Of the tremendous annual ex- penditure of newspaper advertising in New York, approximately 62 per cent goes to morning newspapers and 3S per cent to evening news papers.
 We trust that the foregoing, in some degree, answers the question "Why the morning newspapers. Very truly yours,
 THE NEW YORK TIMES. Per LOUIS WILEY, Business Man ager.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-13
THEN CAME THE AUruiaNr

By Spenser. Then came the Autumne, all in Yellow
 clad. As though he joyed in his plenteous store Laden with Fruits that made him laugh
 full glad, That he had banished Hunger. Upon his Head Wreath; that was en1
 rOld With Ears of Corne of every sort. h(
 bore, And in his Hand Sickle he did holde. To reape the xjp0ned Fruit the; n *ss1
 Earth kxd Fold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-13

body of land to the west against the tre7
 mendous fields of ice driven on by the
 Arctic current. which has its inception| north of Bering strait and wrangeiI Island, across the pole. and down the| eastern shore of Greenland. At our farthest north. s2 degrees, all was sud-
 denly changed The long, level fields ended in sharp line going east and west; beyond this line there was the| toughest kind of ice. which had evidently| been pushed around the northern point
 of this unknown land over shoaf ground extending toward the north. Therefore| N would limit the northern edge of thia land to s2 degrees"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-13

BEGINNING THE DAY--Give me a place, 0 my God, in the secret of Thy presence. May I be quiet in the midst of all the turmoil. nnmoyed amid the storm. May l approach all things with Thy mind and go back to Thee for my daily and hourly reckOninRs. Breathe rest Into nay soul; cover me with Thy wings. For Christ's sake. Amen.-H. M. E.