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Middletown transcript., 1915-06-19

Widower having a daugh-
ter years old, wants child about IL
or Is years old from the country as
companion for his daughter. Will fur
nish good home and opportunity to
attend public school. Apply with re-
ference to x. Y. L. this office.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
A Newspaper and It's Readers


 Tt automatic that influence of
 
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 advertising intimately valy The AgeIIerad by Louis Wiley, business manager New York Times
 Mr. Wiley thus states precisely accurately why The Age Herald is greatest in the Alabama newspaper field How intimately and how vitaly newspaper touches the daily life and thoughts of it's readers is shown many Eff he reads his newspaper thougtu and with confidence n what he is stirred to his views For such expression he will choose the medium which he feels to be part his fethe newspaper which he feels he has intimate, almost proprietary interest.
 The Herald year and year out publishes letters from its readers thoughtful subjects than all other papers in Alabama combined
 Another means of determining the intimacy of papers, appeal is the number of items found in its columns about peopen other words the reader keep up with the activities of friends by consulting it's columns? Take the society department of yesterdays Ageerad as an example of average Sunday There 3 separate items yesterdays society columns ranging in length from two lines almost column One of these items contains ll9 of and what they dong they all ranged from 50 the tem No other newspaper Alabama approach this intimacy of appeal to great number It is automatic newspaper offices to say that the classified columns the great public forum where the life of the people of community is refectedher work their wan their portuntes, their joys and their sorrows. There were 5O4 advertisers in The AgeHerads classified columns yesterdays normal days busness504 people who expressed their from 50 subjects This prob ably classified advertisers than in all the other Sunday Alabama newspapers combined yesterday.
 And thus goes through each department The AgeHerad brides itself upon its intimate appeal to its readers its trance into their daily lives vital component 4 It's readers know the it takes to be accurate That why they believe it. That why they know when speaks edoray speaking for them and for their best interests Mr. Wiley has sounded the true keynote of The AgeHerad greatness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
No chance for Republ.cans

Had it not been for the European war and President Wilson's success in keeping this country out of 1t, can easily imagine that the republicans might have had good fighting chance in 1s16," said W. J. Metcalf of Chica- go. "The country is highly prosperous now, largely as a result of the war. The republicans therefore will be de- prived of the capital they had hoped to have-industrial depression.
 .'They are talking about making their fight on the tariff issue but when things are as good as they are the voter is not going to bother about the traiff.
 "The republicans are quite elated over the fact that the progressive party has retired from business and that the former followers of Colonel Roosevelt have returned to their old allegiance. But the most they can hope for is vic tory in 1920.
 MT. Taft has expressed himself in favor of Elihu Root for republican standard bearer next year. Republicans with whom I have talked are in favor of Hughes. But as the nomination will be only empty honor it will make no diff ference who heads the ticket. The party might as we'll compliment MT. Root.
 .In a republican year almost any man strong enough to be seriously consid- ered would be elected. but l doubt Ii Root could be pulled through even Il the republicans were in the ascendant He is one of the ablest men in this country but he Is too much of re- actionary."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
PICTURIZING THE PLAY

bar fixtures bought from a well know thrilling revelation. Real apples we hung upon the apple tree in an orcha in presentation of Nathan Hale' eig or dozen years ago, and in the eys of many spectators the tragical posti of the gallant young hero was no iee moving than the actuality of the lars sound red apples in the trees over head. On well known producer of pla
 -now also a producer of ''movies"-h long been alive to the commercial val of picturizing for his audience the seen of the play. Some of his production. which have been of mediocre quality fro the point of view of the critic of plas table. because the furniture, the rug the pictures in indoor scenes and t.
 landscapes in out-of1door scenes have ( fled criticism. It is but a short step fro laying emphasis upon the faithful pictr ing of the scenes ina agined by the a thor to eliminating the larger portion ! the lines, and the voice of the actor, fl the crowd which always has liked higs ly picturefied plays and ha3 had no crif cal interest in acting and no critical al preciation of stage literature.
 There are barren spectators wi would be just as glad to see picturiz
 ton of the greatest of orators maxi
 the greatest of speeches as to hear hi Their taste provides fortunes for t producers of the pictures which misre resent great plays upon the screen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
Sundays Age-Herald

The Age-Herald of yesterday was another notable achievement in news paper publication in the variety of its appeal and it's chronicling of the news of the world.
 Yesterdays issue contained 523 separate and distinct advertisements, making total of 3110 inches, an in- crease of more than 400 inches over the previous Sunday.
 Among the features the Roto- gravure Section was again the most striking. Its reproduction of war scenes and views of Alabama places and people is source of never. ending pleasure to newspaper readers of the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
WHAT SHE WANTED
the Louisville Times.

Flon. the Louisville Times.
 A woman walked into the clerks office of the police court and asked MT. Holley where che could find tho "reprobate'' judge.
 'Do you mean Judge Boldrick?'' in quired MT. Holley.
 .No. the reprobate judge. I want tc see about will.''
 You mean the probate judge, then7" ''Yes, yes: that't it. My sisters hus.
 band died detested, and"
 ''You mean intestate, don't your
 "Yes, yes; and he left three children and want to be appomted their execu, tioner."
 ''Executrix. you mean" " prompted Mir Holley. as he directed her to the count, courthouse.
 "rm for the literary test" gasped Mir Holley when the woman had gone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
For Crime Prevention

Prof. Robert H. Gault of North western university recently submitted a report to the crime commission of Chicago, in which he declared that mental deficiencies and lack of home training are the contributory causes of crime. It appears that the learned professor has made an exhaustive in- vestigation to discover something that is already quite obvious. Mental de- ficiencies are being given increasing attention in studying criminal cases and the fact that boys and girls whose home environment is of the worst eventually become criminals is not at all surprising. In fact, it is about all that could be expected of them. h. vestigators spend great deal of time in gathering information along these lines, which might be better spent, not in suggesting remedies, of which we have any number to act upon, but in putting some of their theories into practice. While committees investi- gate and make their long, -winded re- ports, conditions over which they pro- fess to be gravely alarmed suffer lit- <1o o~ ,oo oho ofop1pnt
 Compulsory education and vocation al training seem to be the most prac- tical means of coping with juvenile delinquency. According to Professor Gault's report, many delinquent boys on probation in Cook county, Illinois, which includes the city of Chicago, are not empolyed, while others are em- ployed only half the time and of those many have occupations which offer them no future.
 It is claimed that if delinquent boys had work where they would be able to make something of themselves in the future, they would be much less apt to get into trouble again, after being placed on probation. As it is practi- cally impossible to provide home training for boys and girls whose parents belong to the lowest strata of society, their only hope of salvation lies in compulsory education.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15


 4 CRITIC of the drama finds in the
 "A picturization of great plays much A to lament. The public, he thinks, gets no adequate idea, no right impress sion, of a notable play by seeing it thrown upon screen. The entertainment provided may be all that 1t Is cracked up to be. There may be no fault to find with the show at the price asked. But the play of the theatre is not re- produced in pictures.
 There was always a public which would rather see pictures than read. The illus trated magazine with it's pages of pic- lures of the actresses of the day, the events of the period, the men of the hour, always had many patrons who left un- read much of its printed matter, how ever we'll selected, and got its money's s worth from the pictures. To that very considerable public the moving pictures are a boon, and such boon as former generations did not dream Of.
 It is true, of course, that the actor art is In the main vocal, not overlook ing the value of pantomime. But there are persons in every theatre audience who are vastly more concerned With the pictorial aspects of the play than in the acting, and much more interested in the mere skeleton of narrative than in any literary value that may attach to the playwright's work. To these patrons Of art the information that the bar fixtures in the big scene in the third act are real
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
THE DEADLY BAYoNET

From the November Worlds Work.
 The bayonet has returned to it's own as one of the most destructive of all weap- ons ever devised. It's thrust is deadlier than the cut of the sword or the blow of the ax or club. Anc the moral effect of 1t is incomparably greater. Tho de- fense against blow IS instinctive and effective--the arm upraised to break it's impact But there is no natural defense against the thrust and. worse still, 1t comes sickeningly at the seat of human courage. the pit of tho stomach. In eu- phemistic paraphrase of Private Null vaney's venacular. 1t takes diaphragm to stand 8 bayonet charge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
Bryan and Roosevelt

Some of the newspapers are drawing parallel between Bryan and Roosevelt in the matter of presidential politics, !" remarked John s. Garland of Washing ton, D. C., "but it is hardly fair, ac- cording to MT. Bryans friends.
 Roosevelt did disrupt the republican party in 1912 and made it easy for the democratic ticket to win. Had the re- prblicans acted wisely they would have nominated Roosevelt and with the party 'unsplit the republicans would have tri- umphed at the polls. I am glad 1t turned out as it did. for I am a democrat and lave long been an admirer of President Wilson.
 "As for MT Bryan, he is acting ugly but I have never thought he would go so far as to attempt to disrupt the party he pretends to love. However, stranger things have happened
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
More Zeppelins Being Built

A recent dispatch from Rotterdam to the London Daily Telegraph states that in score or more widely separ- ated places in Germany dirigibles of all types are being turned out with feverish haste. Zeppelin, Parseval and Schutte airships are being built, it is said, on an unprecedented scale, sur passing any other department of con- structionai work now carried on in Germany. New sheds of iron are also being constructed which will be inn mune from fire and aerial attacks.
 The idea of the Germans, the cor respondent thinks, is to "bring the war home to the English people, who, hitherto have not felt it's effects. so
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
Booker T. Washington

In recent years the negro race has produced a number of men of marked leadership, but Booker T. Washing ton, who passed away yesterday, was not only the foremost colored educa- tor of the south, but by universal con- sent he was in a pre-eminent degree the leader of his people.
 As principal of the Tuskegee Nor mai and Industrial institute from 1881 until the time of his death, he had done a work of far-reaching bene- fit: a work whose value no one can overestimate. It was to a large ex- tent pioneer work and only man of earnest purpose and administrative capacity could have overcome the diff faculties that confronted him.
 Booker Washington was very young man when he was placed at the head of Tuskegee, but he had graduated at an early age at Hamp- ton institute, Virginia, and taught there six years before coming to Ala bama. During that period he made frequent addresses in the Old Do- minion, which was his native state. At that time there was decided prejudice among many prominent white southerners against educating the negroes, but Washington's appeal to the better class of white people in Richmond and other educational cen- ters to give the negro chance to rise from a condition of ignorance to that of enlightenment and thrift, met with friendly response.
 His advice to the negroes was al- ways sound and wholesome. Wash ington made 1t plain at the start that there must never be any thought of social equality with the white race. He instilled into his people the les sons of honesty and frugality; and urged them to strive with all theil might to raise their own social standards.
 | For sometime it was generally thought that Booker Washington wal
 self-educated, and that his power ot
 expression on the platform was mere lly a gift. But he had good deal o.
 schooling, even as child. Born {
 slave in old Virginia in 1859, he moved
 with his mother to West Virginia sool
 after the war and there, as a boy worked in the coal mines during tn summer and attended school in tn, winter. When admitted to Hampton institute he was little more than l. years of age. He was not only abl to pass all the examinations, however Ibut was graduated with high honors ! Coming to Alabama he entered upol
 broader field than had ever beer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
greatness.

that they shall be more anxious for peace.'"
 Presumably more Zeppelin raids on London are contemplated. The Hull in these attacks may portend some thing of the sort, although a more plausible reason is the failure of the Zeppelins to strike terror into British hearts. Some damage has been done in London by air raids but not enough to warrant their repetition unless the Germans are really in earnest about carrying out giant aerial attack on a scale far greater than any att tempted heretofore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
HOTEL LoBRIEs
Making Race for Coroner

am making my race for coroner on the idea that the people of Jefferson county will not approve the action of the recent legislature in respect to this office,'' said Ed Patillo, the well-known automobile man. "As is known the legis- lature declared no one but physician could hold this office.
 T feel that this is a species of class Legislation and that the voters of the coun- ty so regard it. I am assure that if I get the requisite number of votes the ere dentials of the office will be issued to me. There is no better time to make a test of this class legislation than right now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
IF BELGIUM HAD PREPARED

Theodore Roosevelt, in the Metropoli-
 tan Magazine.
 Let us profit alike by Belgiums heroic example in the present, and by the ter rible fate brought on her by her lack of forethought and preparedness in the past.
 At present. in spite of the shattering disasters of the last year and a quarter and although only tiny fraction of her territory Is left unconquered, Belgiums s army is stronger and more efficient than ever before. It numbers about 120,o00 fighting men, with more than 400 guns and thousands of machine guns, and in addition first class services of aviation, food supply, sanitation, man.
 ufacture of ammunition and the like.
 There are IA centers for the drilling of recruits, and excellent schools for the officers. The morale of the army is ex- traordinary.
 I know of nothing finer in history than the way in which this army has been raised and maintained by the Bel gian nation in the midst of a cataclysm we'll nigh unparalleled in the history of
 A-.SAoAAs' 'ueei4io SeNeesSiS9 9iiis liiS iient- full and crushing disaster to Belgium occurred precisely because no such ef- for was put forth before the event. The splendid heroism of the present can only repair a small part of the horrible dam age due to the unpreparedness of the past.
 Belgium has suffered the last extremi- ties of woe; and she would have gone l almost unscathed if before the war came she had prepared an army as strong relatively to her then strength as the present army is strong relative to her present weakness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
IN A sCorCH HrAyEN

From the New York Evening Telegram
 Early in the last century an old Forfarshire aristocrat installed in the bedroom corridor of her castle an auto matic organ. It was her delight of Q morning to wake her guests with its strains.
 But it was not the delight of one o1 them, Miss Sophia Johnstone of Hilton to be awakened; and she said so.
 'Ye dinna like the music? Ye shouldna say that. sophy," said he, hostess. "Yell no win to heaven an " dinna take pleasure in music; it's te be all music there. ye know"
 "'Deed." said the incorrigible one Ian heavens a place wi auld wives playin' on hand-organs at o'clock 1T the mornin' it's no the place talk i, for; nor yet the place I want to be in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15

opened to a negro educator in any part of the south, but as has been seen he came with classroom equip ment and more than ordinary experi- ence acquired in contact with white educators in Virginia.
 At Tuskegee, Booker Washington soon displayed matured judgment and uncommon ability of a constructive kind. He knew that the south needed properly educated negro teachers; that it needed negro mechanics and negro farmers and that the better trained they were the more useful they would be and the greater would be their contribution to the wealth of the community. He built up a thorough organization and manual training at Tuskegee has now reached the highest state of proficiency.
 Northern philanthropists have lav- ished money on the institute, but the results have fully justified their bene- factions.
 In Booker T. Washington's death Alabama and the whole south sustain an irreparable loss. We'll may all friends of education pay tributes to his memory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
WHY THE SEA HAS PEARLS

From the Vancouver British Columbia)
 World.
 A few weeks ago I was talking with a woman of deep religious sentiment. who was in great distress because her very young baby had died before it could be baptized,
 l was led to ask natives of Norway, Finland and other places their views on this very delicate question. and so came across bit of very pretty Sicilian folk lore. 4.
 To the babies in Sicily life is very kind and death is gentle. Those who die un- baptized are doomed to wander, but do not wander grieving. Madonna Mary sends to them. every weekend. an angel. who lays aside his lily crown and romps with the dead babies. When he leaves them he gathers up in golden chalice all the tears they have shed during the week. These he casts in handfuls into the sea 'and that is why the sea has pearls" I like that story.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
A FAKE HERO

Paris Special to the New York Times
 Karl Friedrich Drosner. who has be posing as a hero of tho Foreign legid has been exposed in a letter from { commandant of the barracks of the legi at Lyons. who suggests that the M York Times inform Americans about hi
 A few months ago Drosner arrived the American ambulance in Neuilly. wi a slight wound in the hand, which said he had received in saving the ! of an officer wounded az the front. VI had died on his way to the hospital, \ not before telling Drosner that he vol be promoted to lieutenant and could proposed for the military medal.
 Drosner was married soon afterws and obtained great publicity for his sd reported heroism.
 The military records show that he listed for the duration of the war. soon deserted. He was caught at B deaux. taken to the headquarters of legion at Lyons. and sentenced to sci two years in the penitentiary of his II iment in Africa. the term 10 begin at end of tho war. Meanwhile he was sl back to the trenches, from which he turned wounded.
 Though ample time has elapsed for wound to heal. Drosner still remains| Paris, boosting in American circles his heroic deeds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
ssrHEY HAD NO POET


 Don Marquis. s'Dreams and Dust." Vain was the chiefs. the sages prid5 They had no poet. and they died.
 -Pop( By Tigris, or the streams of Ind,
 Ere Colchis rose. or Babylon, Forgotten empires dreamed or sinned, Setting tall towns against the dawi Which, when tho proud Sun smote upl Flashed fire for fire and pride for priI Their names were Ask oblivi' "They had no poet and they diedl queens. dusk of hair and tawny- skinn That loll where fellow. leopards fa|
  Their hearts arc dust before the wind Their loves. that shook the world.
 wan! Passion Is mighty bu* anon, { Strong Death hes Ro1nancs for
 bride: Their legenis 2 Asls ~. vioni
 s 'They hat 10 poss. ana sasy died.| Heroes, the axt 3rc IDS that dinl Their futf t,nphs, monarch, pa3 Wild tribesi sen, Ling 5oms dit ciplfned. Passed liks < whiriwtnd apd were go] They built with gold ana bronze 2 see' brawn. The inner Vision stll enisdl Their conqsests z Ask oblivion
  'They ha, no poet. and ffsy died. ! Dumb oracl and priests thdrawr| Was 1t but Asxh they aelE
 Their gods were blivion! l
 
 They has no pc < an " died.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
BEGINNING THE DAY-Graciou.

BEGINNING THE DAY-Gracious Lord of life, teach me the secret of being content. Do Thou, within me. feed the secret springs, that I shall not depend upon outward circum- stance. Make me master, not serv- mt, of fate. May I quietly use my disadvantages to grow strong, and to show a way out for other pris- oned souls. In Chrfsts name. Amen. H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15

Hereafter church workers will have to pay a license for serving meals to Bir- mingham business men. The commission has decided that the proprietor of per manent restaurant has uoeme rights In the premises.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15

The hectic newspaper correspondent who reports a break imminent between tho Kaiser and one of his generals sel- dom has the satisfaction of seeing his prediction verified.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15

The Kaiser's contemplated visit to Con- stantinople will be rare condescension to his good friends the Turks. and one they will doubtless appreciate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
IT'S OVERDUE

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
 William Sulzer. former governor of New York. called the colonel "a political corpse" The deadly blow from the corpse has not yet been delivered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15

A Frenchman says only the liquor In an oyster is really good to eat. Imbib- ing oysters through straw does not ap- peal to the gourmand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15

A wireless operator on transatlantic lirer nowadays usually knows what has happened when the vessel stops and women passengers begin to scream.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15

Americans desirous of seeking jobs in Mexico had better wait until General Car ranza gets the lid firmly screwed down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15

Mysterious strangers who travel about the country with suitcases filled with dynamite should have moro regard for the rights of the innocent bystander.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-15
HARD TO PROVE

From the Pittsburg Sun.
 Huerta is still in prison and his at- torneys. speaking through the bars, insist that the United States cannot incarcerate him.