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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-15

Delivering messages by aeroplane is be- set by many difficulties, as the aviators cannot always descend for this purpose Many aeroplanes are equipped with wire les1 apparatus. but the radius is small and the vibration of the aeroplane engine, as well as the speed of the machine. in- terferes with the electrical waves. A de- vice has been invented for dropping mes- sages. It is a hollow cylinder. The head Is weighted with lead so 1t will drop yer tically. There is also a pin in the head connected with springs. When the cylin- der strikes the ground the pin is forced in and sets off a quantity of Bengal fire" in the case of the apparatus This fire gives a brilliant light and a large volume of smoke, so that it can be easily located at night or in the day. The in- vention Is credited to Paul Fugairon, a French aviator. It has been used with great success at the front to expedite the work of airmen, who do not have to waste time in descending to deliver a message and ascending again to reconnoiter the enemy's positions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-15
WHY IS X LEGISLATUREY

| iohi .hc fortland Telegram.
 | Why is legislature? The American
 people as whole have not got to that
 question as yet, but the New York Times
 thinks it hears the whispering of some
 thing of the sort. It appears that the
 question has been actually asked in Ari- zona, and the New York paper exper-
 fences at least the suggestion of alarm
 over the possible pervasiveness of the idea | tbat comes out of the west.
 .Iet us acknowledge the gyves of con
 vention, and admit without discussion
 that to ask that question now would be ! damnable heresy. Yet we may with in- l terest If not with profit. turn to the con- | sideration of certain facts regarding leg 1 islatures which the New York paper is
 moved to cite by reason of this irreverent Arizona query.
 It IS the gist of those citations that some states have much more legislature than others. Georgia, Massachusetts ! New York. Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Rhode Island each have as much again
 as any other state in the union except Alabama and each four times as ni,cb as that state. In other words, this At
 lantic coast group has annual sessions cf
 the legislature; the other states biennial sessions, while Alabama manage to get along with spasm of law making every four years.
 IT legislatures are as good in one state | as In another; If, for example. the legis- | latures of Massachusetts average as good l as those of Alabama-and in the spirit of puritan pride and culture God forfend it should be otherwise-ought not the land of the Pilgrim fathers have four times as good government as the Land in Which We Rest?'
 | Does 1t appear that Georgia is better governed than Minnesota. Kansas O. Ida ho? If one were to put his finger on the state that in it's laws and government is truly representative of the most advanced democracy in this country, would he stop when he ran down the list to New York or again at Pennsylvania?
 We have not yet go to the question:
 Why legislature? Perhaps we are not
 even on the road to it; but we might cnn-
 slider the use and value of the legislat,i:e
 from this quantitive viewpoint. and from
 that there Is no telling where the con-
 clusions would lead. There is no account
 ing for the irreverent inquisitiveness of
 the American mind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-15
In the Diplomatic World

Dr. Dumba, the Austro- Hungarian
 ambassador, whose recall has been requested by the Washington govern ment because of his purpose to foment strikes in the steel works producing munitions for the allies, is letting himself down as easily as possible. He has asked the Vienna foreign office to recall him in order that he may make report on the situation in this country.
 He will soon leave the United States never to return as an ambassador. The manner of his going will not mat
 ter. His recall at his own request, presumably in the line of his diplo- matic work, will be considered by the state department as equivalent to a compliance with this government S demand.
 When Dr. Dumba, by his inexcus- able conduct made himself persona mon grata to the President, the latter took prompt action. Reasonable time was allowed for Vienna to act. In the meanwhile it was arranged between Dumba and Austria Hungary for the ambassador to quit the United States without his removal seeming to have been forced. When he left Washing ton for his summer place at Lemox, Mass, the incident" was practically closed. The President and Secretary of State Lansing had more important business to engage their attention and Dumba has about dropped out of the public view when he announced yesterday, through the Associated Press, his course.
 Certain differences between Berlin and Washington will, it is believed, be strengthened out. The international sky may clear before another week. In the meantime the fact that Se,re. tary Lansing is to take vacation of a few days would indicate clearly that the situation is not considered as grave as the public imagined.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-15
Out Into the Highways

"Out into the highways" will gc the Rev. D. H. Ogden, pastor of Gen. tral Presbyterian church, one of the wealthiest and most fashionable churches of Atlanta. The Rev. Ogden will preach on street corners, he says, to those who cannot be induced to go to church. With him will be the church choir of trained voices.
 The announcement that the pastor of a fashionable church will preach on the streets is creating quite a sensa- tion in ministerial circles. And vet. why should it?
 The Master, to whose service Chris tian ministers have dedicated their lives, taught from the little country lanes, in humble homes and even from dingy little fishing boats, setting an example for his followers of humility.
 Jesus sought the humble folk as be- ing most sympathetic and susceptible to gospel teachings. Possibly the At lanta pastor will be surprised at the results of his efforts, for the harvest from the humble field he has chosen may surpass his expectations.
 At all hazards he will have the comfort contained in the passage, "In- asmuch as ye did it unto the least of these, ye did it unto Me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-15
AIab.ma Crops

Notwithstanding the fact that Ala oama's cotton production Is smaller This year than usual and the further fact that weather conditions injured late corn, this should be very pros- porous year for the farmers and the merchants" said S. J. Ormond of St. Louis. T learn that the crop diver sihcation movement has been success ful.
 The corn crop in this state Is larger lhan In any previous year and other Iood crops are. 1 am told, large in pro- portion.
 The cotton producer will get a good price Tor his bales and if he has raised anything like enough foodstuff to sup ply hls needss' he is on the road to wealth."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-15
The Jackson Highway

l As the location of the route of the Jackson highway from the Tennessee line to the gulf is to be decided by the Jackson Highway convention, which will be held at Nashville Sep tember 23-24, it is of the utmost i'm portance that Alabama be we'll rep resented at that meeting.
 The choice of routes is to be be- tween Alabama and Mississippi. The proposed Alabama line through Ath- ems, Decatur, Birmingham, Montgom- cry and Mobile is not only the most logical, but motoring tourists from the north would be greatly disap- pointed if the route did not embrace the principal cities of this state.
 But for the active interest developed in Alabama within the past few days in the Jackson Highway meeting Mississippi's chances for securing the lOCdIlOH OI IHe route WOulu nave seemed exceedingly bright. State Highway Engineer w. S. Keller is organizing large parties of automo- bilists to proceed to Nashville. He has the hearty cooperation of the Chambers of Commerce of Montgom- cry and Birmingham and of the civic bodies of several other cities. Bir- mingham alone should send to Nash vile party with 100 automobiles. Such turnout would have telling effect on the convention.
 Mississippi is still hopeful of win ming the fight, but if the cooperative spirit now manifested in this section continues the great Jackson highway will be as was originally intended, through Athens, Decatur, Cullman, Birmingham, Montgomery and so on.
 Let there be no Tagging of Ala bama's efforts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-15
ROTOGRAVURE
PROGRESSIVE JOURNALISM

TUSCALOOSA News: The Birmingham Age herald Is to be congratulated for it's new sunday supplement consisting of iour pages of rotogravures. The SUD- plement made it's first appea rance Sum day and measured up in every way to lhe promise made when it was announced The Ase-Herald is the first Alabama pa- per indeed the first southern paper, we believe to put on this metropolitan fea- ture. The addition of this beautiful sup piement to it's already large Sunday edi- ton Is but another evidence of the pro- eressive policy that The Age-Herald has long followed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-15

Washington Special to the Chicago Tribune.
 ~ ECRETARY OF THE NAVY DAN IELS has announced the names of 0 the 22 scientists and inventors who, with Thomas A. Edison. the chairman. are to constitute an advisory board to assist the United States navy in its technical problems of development The members of the board were chosen by Il scientific societies. each of which nominated two men. Each of them was chosen for the inventions he had made or the leadership held in his particular science.
 MT. Edison was chosen by Secretary Daniels for the chairmanship of the board the plan resulting in the creation of the body having been taken up first with MT Edison as the foremost inventor of this country.
 Mir. Daniels announces that he has ar ranged for the first meeting of the d visory board to take place in his office at Il o'clock on Wednesday, October 6.
 At this meeting it is expected that the organization of the board will be effected and plans for the conduct of its work dis cussed.
 Of those chosen, Elmer A. Sperry prob ably is the one most widely known in Chicago.
 In 1879 he perfected one of the first arc lights in America and secured its practi- cal adoption. In the following year. al- though~not yet of age, he had founded his he orfr pany of Chicago, and had entered upon the manufacture of arc lamps, dynamos and other electric appliances.
 In 1888 he erected on Lake Michigan the highest electric beacon in the world. about 30 feet in height. Shortly after his first conspicuous successes in mining machin- cry MT. Sperry appeared as a practical designer of electrical street railway cars. Among other minor inventions may be mentioned his defining process and also his machinery for producing fuse wires. He also applied the gyroscopes success fully to the stabilization of ships and. pro- duced a kenetic stabilizer of aeroplaues.
 The other members of the board and their special field of endeavor follow:
 Hudson Maxim Brooklyn, ordnance and explosive expert and maker of the drst smokeless powder adopted by tho United States government
 Matthew Bacon Sellers Baltimore, au- thority on aeronautics and the first to de- termine the dynamic air pressure on arched surfaces by means of the wind funnel"
 Howard E. Coffin. Detroit, Mich.. and Andrew J. Riker, Bridgeport, Conn.,. in- ventors, automobile builders. and now vice presidents of large automobile rian- ufacturing companies.
 pr. Peter Cooper Hewitt, New York, in- ventor of appliances for telephones, hy- droplAnes. aeroplanes, balloons and elec- trio lights.
 Thomas Robbins, Stamford. Conn. in- ventor of many mechanical devices, in- cluding the belt conveyor for coal and ore; served In the New York naval re- serve and observed military conditions at the front in France during the present war.
 Dr. w. R. Whitney, Schenectady. N. .Y.. creator and director of the research ia boratory of the General Electric com- pany. r
 L. H. Baekeian. Yonkers. N. r.. . na-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-15


 fixes the increased value of every head of cattle in the county at $2.' Other estimates, it says, go as high as S4 head. It is believed that the value of cattle in the Montgomery section has already been increased s7o, ,O0o.
 Tick eradication means that the county with clean bill from the United States government can ship cattle without having them put in quarantine when reaching a northern or western market.
 Nothing in the way of diversified farming in this state will prove more profitable, year in and year out, than the raising of beef cattle. Until re- cent years this important branch of husbandry received comparatively lit tie attention in Alabama. This year Dallas county alone has dipped" sixty thousand head of cattle, and Montgomery, Marengo, Sumter and a number of other counties have each, by official count, upwards of thirty thousand head; most of them more than forty thousand.
 When the tick is gone entirely from the state, Alabama beef will be as famous in northern cities as the choicest meat produced in Kentucky or Texas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-15
TAKING IT EASY

By Walter G. Doty. when we're restin' in the shadtler at tb,
 fur end of row With plenty more a waitin' fer ve,
 everlastin' hoe, When the robins sing around ye an tn,
 coolin' breezes stray An the little crick behind ye keeps a,
 callin': Come an play," Then ye wisht ye was a millionaire and
 needn't never stir. Fer the sperit is onwillin' an, the flesh on.
 willin'er; An ye say, CT feel like sayin', to the
 weeds: Grow. durn ye, grow!" When. we're restin' in the shadder at the
 fur end of a row. That's the time fer real enJ'yment-jest s
 loafin' fer a spell Jest a-loafn' an a-waitin' fer the fur-of
 dinner bell. They's a lot O. work before va that ",
 ought to hurry through, But what fun is they in loafin' wher
 that's all ye got to do? Time to laf Is when we're busy-when we
 ought to be, at least Loahn' with job a-waitin' is a kind a
 mental feast. -'' It's Jy that him that's idle all the while
 kin never know, AS thAc icStui III the SnaQQer at the Ssll
 end of row. Layin' in the coolness dreamin' with yer.
 body quite at ease, But yer blamed old conscience stingin'
 like schooroomful O bees, somethin' way inside ye sayin': Git to
 work, ye wuthless coot!' An yer lazy bones replyin': "Tr be
 durned if I will! Scoot." An gray woodpecker tappin' at the tree
 above yer head. An lonesomeness on all things till ye
 wisht that ye was dead Er not dead, but jest a driftin' on the
 clouds a-trailin' slow, When we're restin' in the shadder at the fur end of a row. Gosh. the rows onhoed an wattin'
 stretchin', 'parently a mild! Them thar rows would, vurry likely. drive
 a nervous feller wild But. good land, if ye'd a mind to, ye
 could work from sun to sun Ever day from now till Doomsday, an
 they'd still be work undone, So ye puff yer pipe a-feelin' like a young
 ster cuttin school. Any mortal that ain't lazy sech a day
 must be a fool. Hear the bobolinks a-callin'. hear ff,e
 erik a-laughin' low. When ye're restin in the shadder at the
 fur end of row.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-15
Free of Cattle Ticks

According to proclamation of the United States department of agricul. ture, Montgomery county and Lime. stone county are now free of cattle ticks. Efforts being made in severa other counties to banish the tick will soon be crowned with success. Wher this pest is entirely eradicated the value of the cattle raising industry ir Alabama will be enhanced by millions Of dollars.
 The Montgomery Advertiser in dis. eussing the effect of the governments <proclamation says: "A low estimate
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-15
Convicts Get a Raise"

It is announced that convicts in Sing Sing will be paid S1 a day for their "services." At one time possibly the worst prison in the United States, Sing Sing now offers so many su- perior advantages to persons contem- plating a prison term that it is looked upon as an ideal place in which to "do" one's "time." So far the efforts of Warden Osborne to give convicts a ssquare deal" have met with unqual- flied success.
 The money will be made in the pris- pn, where there are some experts in that kind of work. There will be bills, the largest $10, but the paper money will not look like real currency. The 60-cent pieces will be aluminium. There will also be quarter dollars, dimes, nickels and cents, the latter made of brass. This money will not have any purchasing power except in the prison and the $1 per day will not be clear profit, as the convict will have to pay for his board and lodging. However, there will be enough left for him to buy extra food or luxuries. If he is thrifty he may put his savings in the prison bank, and they will be redeemed for real money when his term expires.
 A facetious reporter suggested to the warden that pickpockets might do flourishing business, but the famous Welfare league is expected to att tend to that. Since every convict will have money in his pocket, the tempta- ton to gamble will be greater, al- though gambling for tobacco and oth- CT luxuries is already common at Sing Sing. The advantages of this unique scheme are expected to outweigh any drawbacks it may have. That it will please the convicts there can be little doubt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-15
ALABANLA's GRAND WOMAN om thA ealyna Yo,,rnsJ

This editor has never enjoyed the pcs- sonal acquaintance and frlendship of Ala
 bama's grand and good woman, Misd Julia Tutwiler. She is. however, knovr
 to be one of the states noblest and best souls woman whose high standard of life and character have endeared her to
 thousands of people of the state who have known and honored her for many ysars
 past. Here is the opinion of Alabama's s
 legislature of Miss Tutwiler, and in fts| sweet sentiments and lovely tributss.
 thousands of Alabama people will join The legislature says of Miss Tutwiler: k home and of family to become . mother| to the widow and orphan. A friend to| humanity you champion the cause of tts| iowiy. and have constantly and persiet- ]
 enty worked for the relief of the poor, the| unhappy and the oppressed"
 "A Great Teacher: You teach . love| of learning. both for it's beauties and the power 1t adds to give help to others By| precept and example you inculcate toier-| ance-a tolerance that does not condemn or praise opinions for opinions sake, bud that recognizes and exalts that which ie
 good and noble in whomsoever found You have .immolited self on the altar or sacrince' giving up the pleasures eel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-15
Regarding an Auditorium


 Whlle our citizens generally real ize Birmingham's need of an auditor ium. 1t would be a great mistake for the city to build until plans were fully matured,' said J. Rivers Carter.
 It would never do to attempt a hurried Job in>order to meet some par ticular convention demand When the time comes for erecting an auditorium care should be taken in the selection or site and the architect should have ample time for developing his blue prints After ground was broken not less than nine months-probably a year-would be required for complet- ing the work.
 hen We do have an auditorium we should have something that would look well and something that would last long time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-15
PERSONNEL OF NEW BOARD

tive of Belgium, famed for the invention of photographic paper. f. Frank Julian Sprague, New York, an early assistant of Edison. who directed the building of the first successful electric trolley railways in the United States. Italy and Germany. and equipped the first electrically trained gun for the navy. Benjamin c. Lamme, Pittsburg, inven- tor and head of a committee which passes upon all Westinghouse inventions. - Robert Simpson woodward, president of the Carnegie institute at Washington. b. c. and an authority on astronomy, gcog- raphy and mathematical physics. Dr. Arthur Gordon Webster. Worcester, Mass, professor of physics at Clark uni- versity. inventor and the leading authority in America on sound. Andrew Murray Hunt, New York, grad uate of the United States naval academy and experienced in development of hydro. electric steam and gas plants. Alfred Caven. New York. son of m American rear admiral and now chief engineer of the New York public servics commission
 William Lawrence Saunders, New York. inventor and engineer.
 Benjamin Bowditch Thaysr, New York metallurgist and explosive export and now president of Anaconda Mining com pany.
 pr. Joseph William Richards, South Bethlehem, Pa.. professor of metaIlurgy at Lehigh university
 Lawrence Addicks. Chrome, N. J., metal- lurgical engineer and president of the American Electro Chemical society.
 William Leroy Emmet. Schenectady, N Y. engineer and inventor and first serious promoter of electric ship propul- sion. having conducted the recent spoch- making series of experiments on the naval collier Jupiter.
 Spencer Miller, South Orange. N. J.. in- ventor of apparatus that has simplified coaling of ships, and of the brooches buoy device now used by the Coast Guard service in shipwreck rescue work.
 Henry Alexander Wise Wood. student of naval aeronautics, and regarded by many as the worlds foremost authority on the engineering features of the art oil printing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-15
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
IN TIED vERNAcuLAR

IN THD vERNAcULAR.
 Tommy" said tho teacher. "sive mo an example of an adjective"
 Idon't know ono ma'am"
 "suppose . mad dog were after you and you ran home before he could catch you What sort of running would you call t1aatr''
 ''Td cali that 1ishtfn' . shuck'"
 A GOOD PLAN.
 Y don't hear Jibway describing his symptoms as much e hs used to end ho is looking much better phyGicaily. Is hs doing anything for his hsalthr' ''Yes He's forgetting about it."
 AN ILL ASSORTED PAIR. DO you care much for bric-a-biac, Jobson?"
 ''Yes. but think people should dlscrim- mate" For instance?''
 T don't admire the taste of a man who has a bust of Shakespeare in one corner of his library and plaster cast of Char ley Chaplin in another
 TALENT REQUIRED. If you go about 1t in diplomatic way believe, you can get a good-sized loan from Scadsworth."
 How do you mean?
 Well, tell him two or three rattling good stories that will make him laugh uproariously and then recite the history of your misfortunes in such a way that he will shed tears." E, sss. 94 "Umph! If could do all that I'd go Into vaudeville and be monologist' \