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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
The Committees Good Work

The outlook for the city of Bir. mingham's financial betterment is now very bright indeed.
 The general committee of 100 citi- zens met yesterday to receive and con- sider the reports of the three sub committees, one on temporary fi- pancial relief, one on permanent relief and one on the investigation of the city's operating expenses. The report of the last named committee was re- ferred to the city commission. The other two reports were adopted.
 The general committee was thor oughly representative. It included many of the largest taxpayers of the city; and it was gratifying to see such large attendance at this most i'm portant meeting There was con- siderable discussion, but the reports on financial relief were adopted by virtually a unanimous vote.
 The subcommittee on temporary re- lief had a comparatively easy task in making it's recommendation, but the subcommittee of fifteen citizens who had to propose plan for permanent relief had anything but light task. They agreed unanimously, however, on every point-the submission to the voters of proposition for an increase in the tax rate, an equalization board and a city commissions annual budget of income and estimated expendi- lures to be officially published with provision in the proposed act of the legislature making it unlawful for the city to exceed the outgo called for by the budget.
 It was really great civic achieve ment-a large committee of citizens getting together" on difficult mu- nicipal problems. The work of the committee is only of an advisory nature, but now that it has acted with such practical unanimity President Commissioner Ward should, with the community back of him, find it easy to obtain the necessary legislation for putting into effect the recommends tions agreed to yesterday.
 Birmingham's municipal govern ment will, in time, be well on it's feet financially and that will be of far reaching benefit to every property interest and every up-building inter- est in this great city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
A Noted Comedian

A few lines in recent Associated Press dispatch contained the informa- ton that George Byron Frothingham, who won fame as the original Friar Tuck in "Robin Hood," had died at Burlington, Vt. The brief announce ment brought sorrow to thousands of theatregoers who remember MT. Frothingham in his humorous DOT trayal of the friar, which he played 5601 times. The night before his death in hotel he had appeared in the part for the 5601st time.
 MT. Buckingham was 7S years old and had been on the stage for 60 years. He was the son of brewer and was born at Duxbury, Mass. He began his public career as a concert singer and was at one time the suc- cessful basso of Boston quartet. After some experience as minstrel man with Carncross' minstrels, or ganized in Philadelphia, MT. Froth- ingham was engaged in the spring of 1879 to play Dick Deadeye in "Pina- fore," with the Boston Ideals. The company made great success of the opera and Mir. Buckingham became one of the most popular Dick Dead eyes who ever appeared in the role. He added to his fame by his por- trayal of the Abbe Bridain in "The Musketeers," which was also pre- scented by the Ideals. In the same company at that time was Henry Clay Barnabee, now 81 years old, whose fame is equal to, if not greater than, that of MT. Frothingham in comic opera.
 The name of the Boston Ideals was changed to the Bostonians in 1886 and in its career of 35 years it was per- haps the most successful and the best known comic opera organization in the country. Robin Hood" is the opera with which the names of Bar nabee, Buckingham and the other stars of the Bostonians will always be associated in the public mind. The company disbanded in 1904. MT. Bar nabee retired from the stage, but Mir. Buckingham continued to appear in revivals of Robin Hood' until the time of his death. He also appeared in moving pictures.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
This COuntry's Increase

According to estimates prepared by government bureaus the population of continental United States is now ap- proximately 1OO,0O0,0OO. Geographer c. B. Sloane figures to a nicety, and If his estimate is accepted the popu- lation will be 1O0,OOO,O51 on April 2.
 J. s. Mccoy of the treasury de- partment, who is an actuary of high reputation, calculates that the popu- lation will be 100,016,01O on Febru- ary 1. The census bureau estimates a population in round numbers of 10S.- 100000 in 1920.
 The United States naturally grows at faster rate than any other great country. Large tides of immigration have accounted, of course, for the phenomenal increase. In 1790, when the first census was taken the popu- lation of the United States was only S,929,214. In 1860, just before the civil war, the population was 31, ,443,- S21. In the census of 1900 this coun- try's population was 75,994,575, and in 1910 it was 91, ,972,266
 In the last census it was found that we had native white population of 66,389,1 ,104, and of negroes 9,828, ,294. Other large nations have various alien elements, and they are slow of assimilation. In Bohemia, now an in- tegral part of Austria, the Slavs and the Teutonic people seldom intermarry and rarely mix" In the Balkan states there are many peoples of diverse traits and of different an- cestral stocks.
 Many good Americans have feared that unless immigration were greatly restricted the United States would lose its so-called Anglo-Saxon domi- nance and that American ideals and distinctly American characteristics would suffer if not be altogether overborne. Such fears were absolutely groundless. America will always be America just as it has been in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
TO THE MARQUIS OF ABERDEEN

From the New York Tribune.
 The Marquis of Aberdeen's announced intention to call himself the Marquis of Aberdeen and Tara has excited criticism as an unwarrantable association of his personality with Irelands historic shrine. and now William Watson has contributed A furious attack upon him in verse to the Evening News. which reads as fol- lows:
 Tara. the place of kings, the hill of fate;
 Tara, the throne of song. the hallowed
 shrine,
 Tagged as a tassel to your marquisate.
 Made an appurtenance of your house and line!
 Who cares though you were marquis ten times OCT? Bemarquised or bedecked. who cares . straw?
 But linked with Erin's irnmemorial lore, Her memories sacrosanct. her mount of awei Nay. why so modest? Why so humble?
 Pause in your too meek flight on Tara Hill,
 Marquis of Aberdeen and Sinai? Consider were not this ev'n better still; God made me English. English through and through,
 But bound to Ireland by one bond su-
  know her souI-something unknown to you
 Her vision and her passion and her dream. know as all who have breathed her air. How transient how unrooted in her heart, mere ephermeral thing of passage there, Were you that in her glories claim a part. And this last insult before gazing men This ignominy--the bitterest yet by far She will remember and forgive not when You in Times volume an erasure are. You soon enough will be by her forgot. Lodged in some suburb of her thoughts were you; But this will as proverb live of what Dull, sightless, soulless statesmanship can do. This proclamation. blind and coarse and crude, Of things the holiest held from sea to. sea This is immortal as ineptitude. This is eternal as stupidity. And even to this from all the ages past, Through all the long self-torturing, Ire land came, Left to her disillusions at the last,
 And Tara fallen 2 pendant to your
 name. !" t1 -sz - 4- z-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
THE "HOTEL DE GINK"

New York Correspondence of the Cincin-
 natl Times-Star.
 The Hotel de Ginll,'' about which the newspapers are doing a lot of talking, now is likely to complicate rather than improve the situation with regard to un- employment here, according to experts It may be as we'll to explain that the said .hoter is large vacant building in the downtown section, which has been turned over to the homeless and unemployed for their free and uninterrupted use. They are permitted to solicit assistance in equipping and maintaining it, under re- strictions, and they can run it as they like They are already in possession and the free hotel has now about 150 guests Walter Lincoln Sears, superintendent, of the municipal employment bureau. is one of the experts who are against the hotel. ''The idea which prompted the donation of the use of the building is humane one," he said intended to do something for people who can't do much for them selves. But 1t will not work out. As soon as it gets properly advertised, the hotel will make Manhattan the mecca for all the so-called ginks in America. Mark my word within fortnight you will see them here in such numbers that the 'hoteP will not hold half of them.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
Gradual Improvement

T was as far west as St Paul in De- cember and I found business conditions good in that section," said Jacob P. Winston of Buffalo, N. Y. Prosperity has been so much in evidence in the grain growing region that people have all most forgot that they had ever heard of hard times
 Tn the east there has been a gradual improvement in business, and New York city seems to be almost up to its normal level l keep in very close touch with the south, and in all the cotton states there has been as a matter of course, con- siderable depression, but the sharp ad- vance in the price of the staple has put a much brighter aspect upon southern conditions The farmers are now selling their cotton at prices that will not re- suit in much if any loss to them. They are looking forward enthusia stically to crop diversifcation this year, and I will predict that by the late fall the cotton states will be in excellent shape. By reducing the acreage one-half or more those who have cotton left over from the 1914 crop will probably get 10 to F cents for it. But the great thing for the future is diversification. The south is destined to become in time the richest section of the United States"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23

TN the February American Magazine
 Cleveland Moffet writes the story Of II the remarkable adventures of young American who persuaded the Pope to ap- pear in motion pictures The title of the article is .Doing the Impossible, and the man who accomplished this piece or work is James Slevin, who spent IS months at the task. To accomplish his purpose, he learned Italian, showed the pope all sorts of fllms-even made special pictures or the King of England to use as an argu- ment-and finally succeeded in removing every objection. One man, good Catho- lie, who tried to get moving pictures or the Pope, was communicated TOT ms over-zeal Another spent sl5o,ooo at the task and failed. MT. Slevin succeeded because he was tactful, ingenius and per sistent almost beyond comprehension. As a result of his efforts, Pope Pus x posed for the pictures, and 250,OOo,0oo Catholics And others can see him in the movies. How success finally met MT. Slev1n's ef- forts is described in the following pas sage taken from the article. The reader should remember that MT. Slevin had spent IS months at the job when the events described below happened-and it looked as if failure were staring him in the face:
 Finally, one day in the early summer of 1914 the American called upon Cardinal Merry del Val and announced his depar- ture for America. And he begged the cardinal to accept little souvenir which he desired to offer to his holiness.
 "'There is no need of a souvenir said the cardinal, you will be pleasantly re- membered here.'
 "The American insisted, however, that he wished to spare his holiness future annoyance in connection with motion pie ture exhibitions, and had collected from various motion picture companies in America a large number of the best films that he could find, on all suitable sub- jects These films dhey were worth thou sands of dollars) he was presenting to the Vatican with gratitude for kind nesses and honors, together with a very fine projecting apparatus. The pope could now have his own motion picture entertainments.
 ''The cardinal was much pleased with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
Regarding the Iron Trade

''rhe great question in the iron trade is, Must we wait for the end of the European war to see prosperity return, or will trade revive before that timer" say Matthew Addy & Go. in their Cincinnati report.
 ''The majority of business men seem to feel that things will gradually improve. in fact, that start has already been made; but there are others who point out the fact that American trade and finance were paralyzed by the war, and until it is over we can expect no lasting improve ment One thing we do know, and that is that war and prosperity do not walk hand in hand, and that for a full development of our industrial possibilities peace is essential. We have gotten over our first idea that we would grow fat because of the European war. Quite apart from the humanities the business men of this coun- try have. come by bitter experience to regard war as an unmitgated evil, and they realize more and more the truth of many of the arguments advanced by Norman Angel in his Great Illusion
 ''Of course there are some manufActur- ing concerns profiting by the war, yet where one profits half dozen are injured. The makers of agricultural implements are not able to export a ton, and there are many American producers of purely peaceful things. sewing machines and the like, who are in the same box. Their export tradeis vastly more valuable than any temporarily trade we could establish in war materials. In other words, this mushroom trade in materials for war in no wise compensates for the loss in other directions.
 Enquiry for pig iron on the whole is better but the trade is still in such a highly unsatisfactory condition that prices have shown no advance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
SUCH LANGUAGE:
he Montgomery Times.

From the Montgomery Times.
 The suffragettes are active at Mont gomery, where there is no Woodrow Will son to hand them the icy mitt.-Birming- ham Age-Herald.
 But there is legislature that will hand them a rebuff whenever 1t gets a chance, and the Alabama statesmen will let them know that they think they could employ their time to much more profit in looking after their homes than running after politics and pursuing an illusion which they will always find find false and tickle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
Lacking fin Courtesy

l have been in good many cities dur ing my travels about the world, but the people of this city of Birmingham show
 less regard for each others rights than any people I have ever met" said a re- cent arrival.
 ''I would not like to call it rudeness or discourtesy. It Is rather due to the fact that your people are too busy to think; too much engrossed with their own af- fairs to give a thought to anyone else see people meet on the sidewalk, stop and talk to each other, on business, of course, but absolutely regardless of the incon- venience they are causing others. I see people in street cars taking up the whole seat while other passengers are standing. l see people at the stamp window in the postoffce delaying all behind them while they stamp letters. In the banks I see people occupy the whole desk to the ex- ciusion of those who are compelled to wait or else push in. Even in church find the same lack of courtesy and kindly spirit which is the true sign of the lady or gentleman.
 But if this want of good manners is found among busy people, we might req sonably expect to find a better condition among those who have no such excuse. A lady will wear her hat in a theatre when she knows she is cutting off the view of those in the rear. There are many peo- pie who interrupt and ruin another's s pleasure at concert by. their frivolous talk. There are those who come in late and throw everyone about them into con fusion in reaching their seats. All these things and many more are to be seen every day and evening.
 Until people learn to be accommodate ing and obliging to each other. to consider each others rights and respect them there's very little difference between sav- agery and civilization 1 think it would be a good thing if we had school of gooc manners established so that much of the annoyances we suffer from today might be remedied."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
The New Orchestra

'The Birmingham Orchestral associa- tion, of which MT. Rienzi Thomas has been chosen conductor, will soon be able to assemble an orchestra of S5 or 40 mu- sicians, including some of the best pro fessionals and a number of accomplished amateurs" said Second Vice President J. H. Hard
 We will begin rehearsals soon and l believe that by next fall we will have a concert orchestra that will be as good as many heard in cities considerably larger than Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23

An illuminating magazine article tells how to shoot an airship or an aeroplane. Rules are all very well, but in this as in other forms of sport it is practice that makes perfect
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
WORTH WHILE.

Stone walls do not prison make,
 Nor iron bars cage" But when man is in the pen"
 You'll find he can't engage In crooked schemes for getting rich At your expense, my friend; That's why stone walls and prison bar, Both serve a useful end.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23

BEGINNING THE DAY-O Thou Christ child, be born in me this day. Grow up in me and have Thy way with me. Establish Thy mild reign every dark place. Thy warmth into every cold and barren spot. Drive out unrest with Thy peace, and nIl sclfishness with Thy love. Amen.- H. M. F.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23

contemporary objects to the state leg members are not long -eared, of course, but those who make the most noise are often thus equipped
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23

Although the Germans have had their hands full ever since the war began, they don't seem to have dropped anything that was really worth keeping, except, of course, the friendship of the world at a rcp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
THE POPE IN THE MOVIES

 this generous gift and assured his enter to grant the motion picture privilege to anyone it would have gone to Slevin. Whereupon the American expressed him. self as happy at this mark of confidence, and withdrew.
 I had done all that I could think of for the moment explained Slevin, and if my efforts had failed'-he smiled eagerly-I suppose I should have found some other way to get those pictures
 But his efforts did not fail. A few days later note came saying that if MT. Slevin would present himself at a cer- tain door of the Vatican at a certain hour with his motion picture apparatus it was possible there would be developments of a nature that would much interest him.
 The developments were that he was allowed to take a motion picture of Plus X in an imposing ceremony And on sub- sequent occasions he was given similar opportunities to take other scenes in the Vatican, other motion pictures Of his holiness in other ceremonies and to take motion pictures in St. Peters and in the Sistine chapel, motion pictures of the Pope addressing vast audiences from the balcony of the Vatican. motion pictures of cardinals, archbishops, royal chair bearers, mace bearers, trumpeters, cham berlains of the Sword and Cape, also the famous Swiss Guard, the Palatine Guard and the Noble Guard, marching and drill ing in the papal court. In short, he was allowed to get the pictures that he had come to Rome to get and that no one else had been able to get.
 "I don't know exactly how it came about explained Slevin. You might say that I never had formal permission to take those pictures. l just went ahead and took them, and no one objected or paid any attention to me- I was never obtrusve and I never asked for any, thing, but things seemed to happen in wonderful way. Doors would open and processions would come along and the pope would appear, just as I had my pie ture machine ready. I think they saw that I was sincere and they felt the force of my arguments, although they could not say so officially, and, summing it all up, I guess it was case where you conquer by yielding"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23

Francis Sayre is doubtless no more re- born recently in the United States, but he happened to be left by the storlS in the White House.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23

London nursemaids doubtless frighten their charges into good behavior by say ing, "The zeppelins will get you if you don't watch out!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23

The Germans who forced Belgian of ficials to take the oath of allegiance to Germany could hardly expect it to be an "honest to goodness oath.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23

If wooden passenger cars are as safe as some backward railroad officials say they are why do ticket agents sell ac- cident insurance to the prospective tray eler?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23

Despite the fact that Doe" Cook has been in vaudeville for sometime, he was recently tried out" by a discriminating manager. Is the Doe losing his punch :?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
Good Year for Birminsham College

We are having a good college year, said the Rev. pr. J. D. Simpson. presi- dent of Birmingham college.
 We have just finished our examinations Tor the first. half of the session. and they have shown good work on the part Of the student body. We have 153 stu dents. which total about as large a num- Der as we have had in former years.
 We had hoped to begin work on our new administration building this spring, but We have postponed the enterprise un- til we have more money in hand. We have subscriptions sufficient to pay for hand some building. but on account of the de- pressed business situation collections have been slow. I hope, however, that we will be able to begin work next fall"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23

With three revolutions going on simul- taneously within her borders, Mexico must feel like frog that has swallowed a live hornet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
HER ONLY CHANGE.

"Confound that woman, I wish she would quit talking to her husband all through the play.''
 You ought not to blame her. He's gone during each intermission.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
SURE.

Pa. what is skiiiful strategist?"
 "A skillful strategist. my son. is q man who knows when to quit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23

The only woman in the Oregon legisla- ture is said to be a democrat which may explain how she happens to be there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Bushes. Activity in the Spring

II IS reasonable to expect more busi- ness activity hereabouts in the spring than we have had this winter,D said a member of the Chamber of Commerce.
 The Tennessee companys rail mill is operating steadily and will continue to do so.
 The Louisville and Nashville's 3SOOO ton order came just at the right time to start things well a-going. But larger or ders will come, I understand, within the next few weeks.
 Another thing that will make for busi- ness activity in the spring is the reduced cotton acreage. The governments April report will, if the reduction is what it should be- send cotton prices up. As a result conditions all over the south will improve rapidly, and, of course, Birming- ham will feel this improvement directly"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23

Marching through trenches where the mud is IS inches deep is one of the most unpleasant features of modern warfare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23

Nobody seems to care whether the Mex ican gets his pulque regularly or not, but control of the oil wells is an important matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-23

monarch sends subject out to fight. If he wins and lives he's decorated. If he wins and dies he's simply buried.