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Bisbee daily review., 1915-05-18

Public Service Commission Of New York announces that within seven or eight months third tracking of elevat- ed roads in Manhattan and the BronN win be partially completed and Che new express service will Doe begun on some parts of the system
Bisbee daily review., 1915-05-18

preteutious buildings - mostly two family houses where laboriug men can live with surprising cheapness. Like the smaller places they eventu- ally become the property of the fam flies who live in them
Bisbee daily review., 1915-05-18

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Increased voIume of nu.ines.

Business in the states south of the ohio has of late increased greatly ir Noiume, said ". A. Whitman, southerr representative Of the Magee Carpet company, Bloomsburg. Penn.
 sales in the more progressive of southern cities and in Birmingham es- peeiaily' have shown marked improve rueht within the past month or so. hus'ness in Birmingham this trip seems exceptionally brisk. and I am encoun- 'efihg practically no trouble at all in uisposihg of large quantities of rugs ana tapestries. This city has, indeed, pflsht prospect before it for the im- nleoiate future. The recent decision in regard to the Steel corporation is cal ouiated to make things hum in the inn nneulate future; and the vast resources oi ehe district will, without a doubt. "e used to the best advantage. All in "ii' birmingham has probably a bright CT future in store than has any other southern city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14

encroachment of women workers ir the world of business.
 But it had not occurred to the mind of man that women would appropriate the privilege of wooing It is a part of masculine makeup to want to do the pursuing. He may tire of the prize, once the quest is ended, but the spirit of the chase held him enthralled.
 Dr. Ransom's theory may receive the indorsement of some advanced thought women, but in all probability there will remain a goodly number of the old-fashioned females who are as- ute enough to recognize that seeming reluctance is still an effective lure to man.
 pr. Ransom's idea has the ad- vantage of frankness and sincerity, but it is doubtful if it will be soon put into practice.
 It is just possible that there are still many women who prefer to be courted rather than to take the in- itiative themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14
More Grief for Father

For sometime Mir. Married Man has been enjoying happy freedom from the task of hooking his wife up the back. Styles have decreed that feminine garments should be buttoned up the front, hence the immunity of man from his accustomed task. But note of alarm is being spread broadcast.
 At the recent convention held in Chicago by the National Association of Garment Workers, attention was called to the depletion of the supply of clans, from the shells of which pearl buttons are manufactured. According to speaker at this con vention, the Mississippi clans have been so hunted, to fill the demand for buttons, that the supply is well nigh 
 exhausted, and it is probable that within ten or twelve years buttons will be valuable trinkets. If people wear clothes without but tons, the mode of dress will be ma terially altered.
 That probably means return to unnumbered hooks and eyes, and in- cidentally trouble for father.
 Talk about the elusive quality of re- fractory collar buttons!
 This is not to be mentioned with the perversity of the hook and eye. Why does not some practical Edison in vent a hook and eye that will bear some distinguishing mark, whereby it will be possible to identify which particular hook corresponds to that particular eye?
 Father is used to wrestling with many problems, but when is added the hook and eye problem, his cup runneth over.
 Why not garments that can be fastened with sailors knots?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14
What Roumania Wants

Since Italy has taken the plunge, Roumania's attitude toward the war ring powers is perhaps the most in teresting diplomatic problem just now in Europe. It is quite evident that Roumania is waiting for something to happen and this is thought to be a German reverse. It would be fool hardy just now for Roumania to cast her lot either with the allies or with | Germany, as the war seems far from being settled and neither side has been overwhelmingly victorious, all though in point of territory occupied the Germans lead their adversaries.
 Raymond E. Swing, correspondent of the Chicago News, who writes from Bucharest, predicts that the minute the tide turns Roumania's decision will be made, dependent on assurances that Bulgaria is not marching against Servia, which would leave the Aus trians free to attack the Roumanians, and guaranties that Roumania will be given Pennsylvania when the spells are shared by the victors. The country strongly desires expansion and has a large number of her people dominated by Hungary, as well as Russia. Rou- mania's expansion is theoretically possible, says MT. Swing, by the in- clusion of Pennsylvania, in eastern Hungary, with about three million Roumanians; Bukowina, north of Roumania, with a million Rouma- nians, and Bessarabia, Russian ter ritory, lying east of Roumania and having Roumanian population of nearly two million. Greater Roumania would contain nearly thirteen million people and would be considerable factor in European politics.
 Whatever motive lies behind the studied calm of the Roumanian gov ernment, it cannot be denied that it is playing its part cleverly. War with out the promise of profit is the wild est sort of political folly, leaving out humane motives, and, it is clear that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14

chants here are well disposed and are
 exceptionally prompt in meeting ob legations l wish also to say a good
 word for the beautiful residence sec
 tions of Birmingham.
 There is. however. one point on
 which I believe by home town has the
 advantage of the Alabama metropolis.
 and that is in regard to Sunday amuse-
 ment features. In Louisville the city
 government gives especial encourage ment to both popular amusement and recreation on the Sabbath. The parks are equipped with tennis courts always available on this day; there is both amateur and professional baseball. and the movies are well patronized. And Louisville Is probably the most order ly city in the south. There has in fact lieen only one murder that I have heard of in the past two or three months in this city. Attractive and wholesome amusements on Sunday is generally be- lieved to be one of the chief factors in bringing this state of affairs about.
 In most cities the heayiest crime day is Sunday. Many people having nothing worth while with which to oc- cupy their minds naturally turn to de- vising mischief Sunday baseball is, believe, one of the most wholesome amusements, and in nearly all large cities meets with popular approval It is seldom indeed that one notices in stances of disorderly conduct at the ball park. Attention is centered on the game, and after an afternoon spent at the park the enthusiastic fan returns home content to indulge in peaceful slumber. Sunday school teams play baseball in Louisville on the Sabbath, and are encouraged by the church or l see no reason why Sun day recreation should not be more en- oouraged in this naturally progressive city of Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14
LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE

world is now. lea gued in moral if not military opposition to Germany. Despite Lord Kitchener, these are facts which make for the ending and not the prolongaton of the war Just how the end will come if k inn possible to foresee, but that exhaustion will shortly give the peace maker his op- portunity is a generalization that is justl- fled by the precedents of history and the laws of physiology. and we have faith :, to believe that they are the safest sLides upon which human Judgment can rely. It may be that the correspondence now in progress between the United States and Germany will open the way for a cessa- ton of hostilities It may be that the kaiser's threatened invasion of Russia will prove his undoing as in the case of his great predecessor, Napoleon
 It may be that the fall of Constantino- pie will mark the climax of the struggle Even pathologists do not understand why or how it is that fever breaks when the crisis of the disease is past, but ex- perience has taught them that after a given time death is sure to follow if the fever does not subside.
 That the death of civilization and a re- version to autocracy are impending we refuse to believe.
 Such a theory would be a denial of nis- tory and an abandonment of faith in the progress of mankind
 The viruence of the war fever has reached. if it has not passed. the ei,nac- teric.
 An early abatement of the struggle is indicated by all the experience of hu- manity.
 That we are unable to understand the processes of nature does not shake our confidence in their recurrence.
 We know not how or why the summers crop will ripen or be gathered. but every thing we do and every plan we make as- sumes that any variation from the normal will be but temporary.
 By the same analogy. we must believe that peace cannot much longer be delayed unless we admit that nature has herself become an anarchist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14
Percy Argument Unanswerable

| Iercy argument UnanSwerdDie
 Walker Percy, in his card printed in The Age Herald Sunday, asked these questions:
 By increasing the number of com missioners would the government be improved? Would we be able to se- cure better men by decreasing sal aries? ?"
 In effect he was asking: Under the provisions of the Judge bill, what would be the situation in October, 1917?"
 The Judge bill provides that five commissioners, to be paid s4000 each, must in that month and year, be elected.
 The reduction in the salary of a commissioner would prevent the en- trance of certain excellent men un- able to make extraordinary financial sacrifices. The field of candidates, 1 therefore, would not be as select as under other conditions. The necessity of electing five men, whereas under the present arrange ment only one in stated period may be chosen, would make more alluring a candidates opportunity, and in- finitely enhance his chances of sue cess. Therefore, many, without cour- age to stand before the people in a man to man engagement, would greatly increase the number of en- trants in the hope that by some hook or crook they might secure bit of the spells.
 Under the present system, where a commissioner salary is $7000 and only one within a stated period may be elected, it is impossible for any man without ability and irreproach- able character to sit as member of the commission. Under the Judge plan, on the other hand, it would be possible for a candidate of little ef- ficiency, and possible for candidate Of questionable motives, motives tc win high place and honor.
 The Judge bill contains menace, therefore, against the hoiior of the municipal government. It is danger ous in that it offers opportunity for unprincipled men to make of this city cesspool of graft and corruption.
 The opponents of the present sys- tenn who base their fight on indirect criticism against the members of the commission, cannot conscientiously and with satisfaction to themselves answer the Percy card.
 For, if they do, they must of neces- sity consider the fruit of the future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14
HAS BROWN PRESSES AT 91

From the New York Sun.
 Kansas City, Mo-To reach 100 years with golden brown tresses is the achievement which Mrs. Emily C. De Masters of this city expects to accom- : plish. Mrs. De Masters, who is 91 years, old, has not discovered new tonic to preserve the natural color of her hair; she is growing new strands of the golden brown color of the hair of her youth. which turned gray years ago.
 By the time I am 100 years old she says. q expect to have as pretty hair as any girl"
 Mrs De Masters lives with her daughter, Mrs. John T. Davis Her grandfather John Nelson, who was one of the first settlers at Lexington. Mo. ST years ago, experienced the same phenomenon of his hair returning to its natural color in his old age
 Twenty years ago Mrs. De Masters received what she calls her SC, ond eye sight. Previous to that time she had worn glasses for several years When the glasses began to hurt her eyes ske consulted an oculist who advised her 10 discard them Today she sews anu reads with the naked eye. In spite of her advanced age Mrs De Masters has perfect health
 Farm life is the fountain of youth P she said recently. q always lived n the open until I came to Kansas City about 20 years ago. That is why l am alive today. l have always eaten just what I wanted, which, of course, was simple, wholesome food"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14
To Increase the Army

Secretary of War Garrison and his advisors of the war college have been working together over a bill to be submitted to Congress for reorganiz- ing and increasing the regular army, and the Secretary intimated recently that an effort would be made when the national lawmakers meet to get prompt action on the measure.
 As is well known, the Secretary of War endeavored to induce the Sixty third Congress to do something in a large way for the national defense; to increase immediately the coast ar tillery and to provide for increasing the army at an early date, but the democratic majority would not agree to a consideration of any military measure that called for a considerable expenditure of money above the new high record of appropriations already scheduled to pass.
 While the probability is that the United States will not be drawn into the European war, much thought is now given to this country's unpre- paredness. There is a stronger senti- ment, therefore, in favor of Secretary Garrison's military policy than was in evidence year ago.
 A trained army of not more than 100000 men, including the National Guard, could be readily mobil- ized in continental United States. and, according to some military critics, i've could not provide the necessary field artillery, am- munition and ammunition trains to equip an adequate army of defense for Is months after the landing of an enemy"
 It is understood that the war de- partment's plans call for a regular army, built up on a graduated scale, of 250,000. Anything the Secretary recommends will certainly receive more favorable consideration in the Sixty-fourth Congress than his meas ures for increasing the army received in the Sixty-third.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14

Theodore H. Price. in Commerce and Finance.
 THE disposition to assume that what
 ever is is permanent. is weak
 \ ness of humanity.
 At the height of a storm, men despair of fine weather and at the end Of a drought they cease to look for rain.
 When prices are high most people ex- pect them to remain so and when they are low there are not many who can discern the indications of an advance.
 Few are gifted with the ability to fore see radical change and fewer still have the courage to act on the vision of that unusual foresight. This is one reason why so many sell at the bottom and buy at the top.
 That each extreme breeds it's own cor rective and that the abnormal cannot be permanent are truths which every one admits and nearly every one fails to ap- ply.
 They forget that the power of cen trpetal attraction, which holds the uni verse together, has never yet failed to show itself supreme and that through the ages the rhythmic succession of night and day. winter and summer, and seed time and harvest has always been un- broken.
 They forget too that man himself is subject to this same law of attenuation and reaction; that activity is followed by fatigue, enthusiasm by apathy and eager ness to fight by willingness to make peace.
 Just now the tendency to overlook these fundamental rules of nature and of life, and assume that the war in Europe will last indefinitely, is the more remarkable because it is evident that the very in- tensity of the struggle is rapidly exhaust ing the combatants.
 Millions of men have been killed and billions of treasure have been spent in the war already; it is therefore, argued that 1t will be prolonged.
 The German casualty lists show that 2,10S0 GOO out of a possible total of 60000eo trained soldiers have been killed or dis abled thus far. An equal, if not a larger number. have been lost by the allies. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14
VACATION PRESCRIPTION

control and madness comes the sooner mentality and the delicacy of his nery- ous organization, but why is a cell worse than the confinement within a pathway from home to the office and back day after day-the performailce of the same or like tasks from month to month-the unvarying sameness of the lives to which most of us condemn oui selves? At last we break down and our friends say we grow o1d--the truth Is that We are the victims of a habit of the same kind as the devotion to a drug or a liquid but we cannot tell what is the matter with us and accept the sentence of a physician supported by the Judgment of all our friends that the end has arrived.
 The first necessity of vacation is that 1t shall provide pursuits, thoughts and feelings as different as possible from those of our normal existence The second is that 1t shall be chosen. not dictated. The third is that no reslric- ton follow from the old life-not even the most indulgent criticism of the fondest wife. When we take a vacation we must be ourselves as only the saw age can be every day-as irresponsi- Die and careless as monkey-wiliing to accept enjoyment as we find 1t with out regard to conventionalities or clothes or current ideals of decency and dignity. What luxury can compare with that of hogs mudbath? A little clean olrt on the outside defiles no man uho likes it-even an old man likes to yell like child occasionally. Be yourself on your vacation and you can be what others think you all the longer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14
LIKE M.LuKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer The average man measures his happiness by the size of his bank roll
 What has become of the old fashioned. open-in- the-back white shirt with lit- tie flap at tho bottom of the stiff bosom bearing the initials of the owner? Virtue has it's own reward. But many vlrtuous girl would starve to death if she didn't have a steady job. Education is great stuff But many a man who writes dollars "dolers when he makes out a check has fat bank ac- count.
 The lad who spends his life throwing bouquets at himself gets mighty few flowers when he dies It often happens that man of s2 has a twin sister who is only 24 II some lads would expend as much energy at working as they do at loafing they would have fortunes When father finds rip in his union suit he throws the garment away. l lt
 mother wears hers around the house un- til it is ready to turn into scrub rags. 1 A girl can't find hat big enough to
 suit her. But it is different with her shoes.
 | Why is it that the smallest and dirtiesi hotels in the one-horse towns are always
 ma med the Palace" or the "Grand?" 1 We are all unfair when 1t comes te
 giving credit. The liniment is boosted
 when the rubbing brings relief. And tho
 pen wouldn't be so blame mighty if ink
 had never been discovered.
 Father doesn't mind paying g per week
 for beer, because that is a necessity. But
 he hollers over paying 92 per month fol
 gas because they could get along with.
 out it.
 1 Why Is it that a souse always gets his
 red nose from rum and that a prohibi ticnist always gets his red nose iron stomach trouble?
 A man has no trouble in developing
 enough will power to quit going to church But the will power isn't in working order
 when he tries to quit going to burlesqrs
 shows.
 Some women go out and work for liv. ing and some stay home and work { husband for living l We know one man who never told lit
 to his wife. He is bachslos.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14
The Right to Woo

The privilenge of courting will be no longer confined to men, if Dr. Eliza Taylor Ransom, head of a hos pital in the Back Bay, has her way, according to an interview published in Boston newspaper.
 "1 maintain that if a woman wants to know a man she should go out of her way to make him notice her. She should feel free to call him on the telephone, write him letters and to drop into his office. She should forget that he is any different from woman friend" Dr. Ransom is quoted as say ing.
 Admitting that perhaps the right to take the initiative in seeking &C., quaintance should be accorded to women, yet vail of protest voiced in masculine tones has gone up every where against women usurping mans natural prerogative to woo.
 One by one the special privileges of man have been wrested from him by the tireless femininity of the world. Time was when men only enjoyed the delights of an afternoon smoke. Now, in the ultra fashionable circles, at least, women think nothing of smok- ing their golden-tipped cigarettes.
 Almost every occupation occupied by men has been invaded by women wage-earners. Women teach the schools, sell clothing, dispatch trains govern cities, in fact compete with men in almost every profession which man formerly regarded as (exclusivelS his own.
 All this men have Duiesced i'm they have complacently watched tho
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14
ODDLY DAMAGED
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 In the opinion of M. c. Mason f;r,+- fin he was greatly humiliateo In Wash l. ington recently by ...-memt--s Inf I. theatrical troupe forcirT eon ,m as he sat with his W inc :. performance. The ky .ys4 ar. entity part of a plan n., ca. h. ter by revealing blussndng. man to the audience. Griffin brc, suit for s1c0o against the theatre man. agement in consequence.
 A suit was brought against an old New Yort stage company by a passea- ger who complained that he has bean insulted by tn drlysr calling down From his seat outside that hs ought to get up and giss wons,i a sost. The driver protested his innocence and it was only after a well novfu yer- triloquist of the period came fsI'yasd at the trial and declared be had th rowr his voice 50 as to make Il sppear that the driver addressed the aegrievsd 2as- senEer that the snit was dropped. Thsi, the passenger declared he would g the ventriloquis- a'u Nas dissusdsd from doing so.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-14
In the Bu~iaess World

Henry clews, in his Saturday review, says in part;
 Domestic conditions are growing bet ter daily. We have now entered the sea- son when crops are an important factor in the business outlook Fortunately the promise is good The government report indiNates a yield of 95O00O0O0 bushels of wheat. the largest crop on record. Cot ton, though materially reduced in acreage, is in good condition and promises an ample yield for all requirements, when the amount of left over is taken into con- sideration. Our steel trade is benedting largely from war orders which continue on tremendous scale. The output of pig iron is steadily increasing and the prod uct of steel mills is fully so per cent of capacity and gaining daily For all metals there Is an abnormal demand at very high and profitable prices. Export of food stnffs and cotton are light as usual at this season, but will resume in the au- tLmn whether peace comes or not. There has been some recovery of late in i'm ports which is fortunate, as it helps the national revenue when needed. Our treas ury deficit has been growing at a rate which, if not checked means the neces- sity of devising new sources of revenue. Increased customs. and approaching pay ments on the income tax may, however, postpone any emergency in this respect.
 When Congress reassembles the oucs- uoh or national revenue will probably be pressing for solution The financial situ- atlon at New York is penaraII,, ,o+issoo tory' Money continues easy, stocks are Tn strong hands, and an undertone of confidence is observable which would un- doubtedly express itself in strong and more active market, were it not for the uncertainties of war and the frequency of unexpected shocks'