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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-19
GOSSIP IN LONDON

From the Philadelphia Evening Tele-
graph
Not far up from Piccadilly, says the
Daily Sketch, a very tall officer in khaki
stands astride the gutter scanning the
narrow slit of sky to the northward. His
operations cause some swervings of shiny
limousines and impede the progress of
discreet green grocer's bicycle cart.
Zeppelins? One of those too-sad trag-
edies of this time of nerve strain? Not at
all. The warrior is simply choosing
pair of glasses before he catches the one
fifteen for the front, and by the lack of
reserve with which he has just walked
out of the shop behind him he symboizes
the war change which has come on Bond
street
For one may do anything in Bond street
now if only it has that hallowing quail
fication of being done on account of the
war. 1t is whispered darkly that one
might carry a parcel through its entire
length without loss of caste. Certainly
one could carry an armful of khaki muf-
fiers and achieve a certain chic thereby
There are few touches of life in Paris
now In the Rue Quatre Septembre is.
near the Opera very clever workman in
pipes. He has several men working with
him, and to see them turn on the lathe is
pretty sight, for they finish off meer-
schaum pipes in briar root and all sorts
OF stems in the front window. There 10
Always a group of lookers-on from one
end of the year to the other. The men
are gone-gone to the war, and the patient
wife of the owner of the shop is there
with two bright-eyed boys, teaching them
| to spell and read She has four children
and she cares for them and keeps the
| shop to the best of her ability. In speak
| Ing of this to Frenchwoman she replied
"Ah, she has the chance of Tiny boys
back again-or if they do may be mutt
lated for life or weakened by some deathly
disease"
I'm most parts of Paris the streets are
SO dark after nghtfall that you can hard
ly walk without fear of stumbling over
something you cannot see, and as for CO.
ing upstairs in many houses the pass
ages are so dark and the staircase is SO
difficult to climb that you really risk
breaking your legs or something. This is
put down to the rules of the police. who
forbid lights in houses that can guide
J the aeroplanes. but the landlords no doubt
take advantage of this to save money
in gas bills. ! saw young lady going.
writes an American in Paris to the Even
/ ing Telegraph. 81 suppose home the other
evening before dinner. and she had a lam
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-19
Passing of Noted Newspaper Men

It is not often that the newspaper
world sustains the loss of three nota-
BILE men within the short space of a
week. such as William r. Nelson,
founder and editor of the Kansas
City Star; John S. Shriver, Washing
ton correspondent and author and
secretary of the Gridiron club, and
Walter C. Henderson of the Atlanta
Constitution.
Each of these widely known work
ers had lived long enough to form a
connecting link between the old school
of journalism and the new. But each
was Of the virile type, and none of
them lost touch with the best in mod
ern life and methods.
The death of Colonel Nelson has
called forth editorial tributes from
every part of the United States. Per-
sonal journalism which was so telling
in the years that have gone is now
the exception to the rule. Few of the
editors whose name made the news
paper are left. Colonel Nelson was
one of the last of them. He made his
impress early in his journalistic ca
reer. He was the Kansas city Star
just as Horace Greeley was the New
York Tribune and Charles A. Dana
was the New York Sun. Although well
beyond the three score and ten limit
he was young in his feelings and
young in his ways up to the time OF
his fatal illness. He was great be-
lever in young men, and his staff was
largely made up of such. In Kansas
City and elsewhere he will be re-
membered as a very model for all
newspaper apprentices.
John Shriver, the correspondent
was a forceful and pleasing writer
He was one Of the brightest of news
papermen and one of the most person
ally popular.
Walter Henderson was one of tn,
strong factors in the making of tn,
Atlanta Constitution. He was a mas
ter in almost every branch of news
paper activity. In the mechanical de
partment he had no superior, and hi
keen appreciation of news made hin
one of the best telegraph editors il
the south.
Those who were associated will
these men personally or socially viii
long miss them. Peace to- their ashes
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-19
viii DIR. Gorgas Accept?

The Rockefeller foundation has in
vited DR.. William c. Gorgas, surgeon
general of the United States army to
become chief of its sanitary staff.
The members of the Rockefeller board
are naturally eager to have the great
est sanitary expert in the world asso-
ciated with them They want to send
him now to Servia, where fevers are
raging and where cholera is expected
soon to become scourge. From late
reports disease conditions in that I'M
happy kingdom are most horrible, and
if cholera breaks out it will spread
throughout many countries.
DR.. Gorgas is not only man of
great capacity for big achievement,
but he is a willing man. He loves
to work for humanity, and it can be
readily imagined that his inclination
will be to respond to the Rockefeller
foundations request and proceed as
early as possible to Servia.
In normal times or under ordinary
conditions the war department would
be glad no doubt to give DR.. Gorgas an
indefinite leave of absence in order
| for him to introduce modern sanitary
methods in Servia and to be the in
strument of saving thousands of lives
| by disease prevention. This govern
ment was glad to lend DR.. Gorgas to
Great Britain a year or more ago. The
| British possessions in South Africa
were fever ridden, and DR.. Gorgas was
asked to go there and show how mos
quitoes and fever could be driven out;
but now, in view of the European war
and the possibility of complications
arising if an army officer took charge
of sanitary matters in one of the bel
| ligerent nations, Secretary Garrison
makes it plain that DR.. Gorgas could
only become an agent of the Rookie
Teller foundation in Servia by resign
ing from the army Owing to his dis
tinguished services and his personal
popularity Congress would doubtless
be ready to pass a special act placing
DR.. Gorgas on the retired list before
he had reached the retirement age, il
he so requested, but as Secretary Gar
rison points out, retired army off
Ger being subject to military law ane
discipline, might make an embarrass
ing situation were he actively en-
gagged in any sort of work in Servia.
The public will await with interes
DR.. Gorgas' decision. Should he re
sign in order to go to Servia Con
gress, after he had accomplished hi
work, would unquestionably pass ;
bill providing for his retirement will
his present rank and pay of maio
general.
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The Russian Prisoner

Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jew
tsh paper Forward, has written an in
teresting account of his visit to a
prison camp at Frankfort-on-the
Oder, Germany. He states that the
prisoners he found there seemed on the
whole to be glad they were free from
the dangers and hardships of war,
and they were better treated by their
German captors than they had been
treated by their own officers. The
Russians he found noticeably con-
tented and 'happy, considering the
fact that they were prisoners in a
hostile land. His account of the laugh.
ing, romping Russians in this particu
lar camp strengthens the belief thai
the average Russian soldier is no
anxious to fight and is glad of an,
legitimate excuse to be out of tn,
war. However, this can hardly be tru
of the majority of Russians who hav,
fought with such gallantry in tn
eastern theatre of war" 1t needs blu
their showing against the Japs an
their victories over the Austrians an
Germans in the present war to prov
that their hearts are more in thi
struggle than in the Russo-Japanes
conflict.
A number of German prison camp
have been described by newspape
correspondents, all of whom agre
that the prisoners there are we
treated, but the characteristic thol
oughness Of the Germans is shown
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DYING MOUJIK AND PRINCE

resigned, patient and acquieseed as a
beasts; he saw above him the tall,
slender figure, the exquisite fitting
Khaki. the slung tassled sword and
he broad gold epaulets-the embodi-
ment of high authority.
God knows the Russian mind--not
l who are here for the sixth time il
10 years and find the Russian yet a
problem of wonder None can know
now what he saw, unless it was thu
gilt of power and aristocracy. the
badge of rank. Ills glazing eyes
dwelt it DULY; comprehension
came to him slowly; so that for some
seconds he stared at the prince. as
though making sure of the presence
he was in.
Then he perceived, and ancient in
stincts, cold, ineradicable slave tradl-
tions were at work in the misty fever
of his failing mind. He strained upon
his elbow and the supporting knee of
the sanitar; with awful and agonizing
effort, dying as he was. he made an
attempt to stand; his body bent in the
cony ulsion of his purpose and for
moment he was half up, on one knee
ana one manu-. he cOuiu not quite
achieve it; one saw, in his face, how he
realized that; but, none the less, his
great hand, horny like a hoof. the hand
of field laborer. of a plowman. came
up to the cap brim in a salute to the
epaulets.
"Nichevo" The prince, shocked and
compassionate, deprecated the salute.
but it was done. Even while, the last
spasm of his strength falling him, hs
sank back on the knee of the saritar.
his bent and obedent hand was lifted;
he died, under our eyes Russian to the
last. Russian to the bone, doci1e pliable
as a kind horse, yielding his life in
final impulse of faith in the power and
virtue of those who ruled him.
Have you seen man die That
queer hardening of the man into the
corpse, that terrifying metamorphosis
that with a gasp, gurgle in the tEroet
and a slackening of the jaw, makes of
man dead flesh? No? Then YOU
don't know war. War is death pervad-
ing humanity like an odor; it is the
spirit OF horrible burlesque working
upon the dignity of mankind it is all
-upt catastrophe intruding like a rob-
her upon the sanctity os life. War Is
HE'LL know all that; but war is insult
| too-insult to man, insult to the stuff
man is made Of insult to the image of
God.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-19
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Eugenics may be great stuff. But the
birth notices published so years ago con-
tanned as many "12-pounders as the birth
notices published today,
Tho lad who gets too much tamarack
in a saloon is drunk. But the man who
gets too much wine in club is intoxi-
Gated.
The blonde usually gets the blame. But
the brunette causes her share of the
trouble.
II woman ever finds So in her hus-
bands pocket she will ask him every
day for three months If he still has 1t
and wonder for six months what he spent
it on
Some men follow profession all their
lives without catching up with it,
A woman gets SO elated when her hus-
band gets a $40 raise that she quits talk
ing about her husbands salary and be-
gins talking about her husbands income.
A man often piles up a fortune because
he refuses to sit down and waste any
time wishing that he was rich.
II you tell little piling lies you get a
reputation as a liar. But if you tell big
MOI umental lies you get a reputation as a
statistician.
A friend is man who will listen TO
you and let on that he doesn't know that
you don't know what you are talking
about.
Wher man loses all his money the
loss makes such a change in him that a
lot of his former friends fail to recog-
nize him when they see him.
A man often thinks of a lot of grand
things he could do for his wife and his
| children if he didn't need the money for
| himself
, The man who doesn't own an automobile
often wonders what becomes of all the
nails and tacks that are manufactured.
When a lawyer is married he doesn
have to go into court to have hts objec.
lions overrulcd.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-19
Pereival Gibbon in Everybody's Mag,
zine

Pereiyal Gibbon in Everybody,s Maya
zine.
ars,. of .ns r saqSsp' w the t an
4 bursting of a beautifully timed
shrapnel, exploding. as 1t should, not
more than 20 feet above the road. The
noise of a fagot of sticks broken across
a giants knee, the sudden appearance
like a mean miracle, of the little bal
loon of bomb-smok overhead. and the
group of soldiers ahead of us burst
asunder with queer. tiny cries mere
startled squeaks.
Two fell; one, as we ran toward them
rose to his feet, cursing in a slow
monotonous voice like man who has
recently cursed a good deal; he had
merely tripped over his own feet IN
trying to run. But the other did not
rise.
The shrapne1 had taken him along
the side of the face, blowing down
through the cheek and descending into
the nest of arteries and vital parts
which is situated in the base of the
neck; but he was not dead. A sanitar
with the Red Cross brassard on his left
arm came running from somewhere
and was already with him before we
arrived. Do you know the color OF
blood-that startling red that not only
looks red but smells red and feels rcd
when you touch it? He was on one
elbow, his head dropping, and around
him the mud of the road was redden-
ing with the very essence of his LIE
that spouted from him, that dyed his
shoulder to the hue of horror-the aw-
full copious blood of a man.
side him, busy and deft; the others
his unhurt comrades, came wiling
round: the prince, my companion
showed his way in to look and direct
The sanitar, knee and arm holding the
wounded man up in q sitting position
made a face like a man who bites
something sour; he was no doctor, but
mere porter of the wounded, and
the thing was outside his slender
knowledge.
Round the princes shoulder I had )
view of the wounded mans face. roune
like a baby's, and bearded, rudy as
copper-another laborious moujil
whom events had TRANSPORTED into g
soldier
The prince gave some direction II
sibilant Russian the wounded mar
lifted his slow eyes toward the voice
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-19

From the Wall Street Journal.
" ECONOMISTS have never been able
~ to tabuate the costs of war. The
- difficulty is that the advantages
and disadvantages of war do not run in
the same terms.
Fifty years ago the civil war in the
United States gave us transcontinental
railroad, a new meaning to the constltu-
ton, a new bond of union for the states,
new nationalism, a national banking
system, unified currency. a civic spirit
and a material progress not previously
dreamed Of
How could this account be balanced
against killed and wounded, $4,000 100000 of
war expenditure and industrial and social
disorganization and destruction in the
between states?
Put your pencil over these items before
you read further and see IL you can strike
a balance and see also If any main item
Is omitted. In a large way all the debit
and credit items affecting the United
States are enumerated above.
But was the civil war a matter only
between states3s
Did not the civil war settle a world
problem and answer the question of
whether one human being was to be here
after born on this planet as the owner
| by divine right over another man whom
| he could call his chattel slave, to be
whipped or sold-the white race by divine
right dealing in the bodies and souls of
men and women born black? Southern
slavery and the social and industrial or
| ganization there perished by the only
manner in which it could be put out of
! existence-in civil war, when men gave
up their lives for principle. The south
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The use of wireless teIegraphy in the
present war has not been an unqualified
success, although it was probably due
to this form of communication more than
anything else that German commerce
raiders We're able to elude their pursuers
for many months while cruising In all
parts of the world. 1t was the chief dis
advantages of wireless telegraphy in it's
help to the German commanders, or while
they could not risk sending messages very
often on their own account, by picking
up the messages exchanged by enemy,
ships they slipped away from the danger
zone without their presence being known.
In warfare on land, as well as in the
air wireless telegraphy is not being used
to any great extent Although aeroplanes
have been equipped for sending wireless
messages, they can maintain communion
ton over only limited area and there
ls always danger of their messages be-
ing deciphered by hostile PHOTOGRAPHERS
who are numerous in the different war
zones. code message, even If it cannot
be read, at least puts the enemy on the
alert. A wireless message can be purposely
garbled by sending a meaningless tumble
of words or letters In rapid succession.
These become confused with the actual
message and invariably render it indie
cipherable However, wireless telegraphy
has already proved itself invaluable in
saving life at sea. Its failure in war is
not to be regretted
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-19

From the London Chronicle.
Is the mustache coming into fashion
again? One will have observed that
five of the oxford crew wear decorations
on the upper lip. Cambridge has only
one example. That however, makes six
out of is, surely an unusual average TODAY
among men who are not long out of their
teens" Leaving the army. in which
face fungus is compulsory. apart, com
mon observation leads one to the con-
clusion that about so per cent of the male
population in England are today clean
shaver. while the majority of the others
do not shave at all
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
stands by jackson Highway

THE road that runs by home,'' said
Sol Caheen. rs the road in which we are
vitality interested-that is the Jackson
highway, which was launched by the
Daughters of 1872 some four years ago,
ths one that Miss Alma Rittenberry, who,
as chairman or executive head. has
worked so diligently for. and almost un-
aided.
1T was launched as a trunk line road
from Chicago to New Orleans, through
the cities of indianapolis Louisville,
Nashville. Decatur, Birmingham, Mont
gomery. Selma and Mobile, on to New
Orleans. When this road is built, which
should be before any other highway is
constructed through Alabama, we will get
number of northern tourists that will
come down to Birmingham on the way
to New Orleans. and from Montgomery;
they can go across over through Georgia
to Florida, which seems to be the Mecca
for northern tourists.
IF the people all along the line and
the commercial clubs in the different
cities would take some concerted action,
and the Lakes-to- the-Gulf association and
the jackson Highway association combine
and hew strictly to the route of least re-
sstance, in 70 months we would have a
broad highway from Chicago down
through Birmingham.
ITS useless to think of building high
way through any county or state except
by bond issues. If federal aid is given,
why not stipulate that federal aid be given
to build bridges across rivers When you
ger a bridge built across a river at
given point the counties will build the
highway to that bridge. 1t seems to me
that Decatur is the most logical place to
build bridge, being half way between
Florence and Huntsville and a more di-
rect line from Birmingham. Let's pull
for the Jackson highway, and not go on
any more wild goose chases, like some did
after the Dixie highway, which was
planned and launched by people outside
of the state and not always be going
after something which some other town
or city has already launched while we
were asleep.
Every farmers wife should be good
roads booster and should at all times
and in every possible way use her IN
fiuence and her voice to the Improvement
of the highways and roads of her town
ship, county and state
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A STEEL TRAP KNOWS

From the Kansas City Star.
why do they say as smart as a steel
trap" asked the talkative boarder. IT
never could see anything particularly in
telectual about steel trap"
"A steel trap is called smart ex-
planned an elderly person in his sweetest
voice, because 1t knows exactly the
right time to shut Nd"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-19

Arizona intends to christen the new
battleship named after that state with
81 bottle of water. Why don't they
complete the job and get Great De-
stroyer Hobson to break the bottle?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-19

BEGINNING THE DAl-EVer!
normal day ought TO have in III some
work, some play, some rest, SOME
touch of the elbows with people,
some contact with world movements
through papers and maEah'"es'
some converse with the great Souls
of the past through books some
quiet, clear independent thinh"s
and same talking with God
III. NJ. r..
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-19

The man who found a cock roach in a
soft drink bottle and then sued the COM
pany for damages has a poor Imagination
He might have used that cock roach to
bait a fish hook and caught a trout which
would have made two or three meals
for his family.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-19

When a business man finds both ends
fail to meet, he tries to reduce eX-
penses, but when the underwriters as
ISOLATION makes the discovery they
merely wave a wand and order their
income increased. Pretty easy.
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WE ARE FREE


Robert Nicoi.
Like lightning's flash
Upon the foe
We burst and laid
Their glories low,
Like mountain floods
We on them came
Like whitening blast
OF scorching flame,
Like hurricane
Upon the sea-
Shout, shout again
Shout, we are free,
We struck for God
We struck for life
We struck for sire
We struck for wife
We struck for home
We struck for all
That man doth lose
BY bearing thrall.
We struck gainst chains,
For liberty.
Now for our pains,
Shout, We are free.
Give to the slain
A sigh-a tear;
A curse to those
Who spoke of fear.
Then eat your bread
In peace, for now
The tyrant's pride
Is lying low!
His strength Is broken
His minions flee
The Voice has spoken
Shout. we are freei
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-19

Pig iron is probably about the most I'M
ser timental thing in the wide, wide world.
but when it rises in price and sells like
hot cakes it certainly does bring lot
OF smiles and happiness to thousands OF
hearts in Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-19

The gentleman who coined the
phrase about opportunity knocking
the opportunity of the United States
to go to war during the year 1915
would occur about every other six
seconds.
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tern in her hand-she was not going to
fall if she could help it. The sight Is
a remarkable one and one to remember as
Renaissance of the WARRIOR the Paris
ians. In the metro, the other evening
just about s ocock-the hour for ceasing
running the trains in many parts of the
city, was on the platform waiting for
my train to come up when a lady, dressed
in black, modest in bearing and timid,
asked me If l could let her have a match.
| gave DER box and learned that she was
afraid of going upstairs when she reached
her home The tobacco shops are mostly all
wine shops, and they have to close at
o'clock. The grocers close a or there
abouts. Hence the ladys dilemma. This
Is unparalleled in my experience of Paris"
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Senator Lewis seems to think that Mr.
again However, the Hon. Jim Ham is
nor what might be called boss prognos-
ticator