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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-10-19
GREYs BALKAN STATEMENT
Viviani Thinks Italy viii Take Part
in Campaign.

in Campaign.
London, Oct. 15.-Sir Edward Grey,
the British foreign secretary, made a
long statement in the House of Com
mons yesterday on the situation in
the Balkans, but as he dealt with the
diplomatic side of the question he ad-
ded little to the knowledge of the
public and failed to satisfy curiosity
as to the progress of the Anglo
French expedition landed at Saonica.
He did say, however, that Russian
troops would cooperate "as soon as
they were available" The French
premier, NJ Viyiani, had more cheer
ing news for the allied countries,
when, in the French Senate, he ex-
pressed the belief that the allies can
count on Italian cooperation in the
Balkans
There is naturally much specu-
lation as to how Italian and Russian
assistance will be afforded Italy
has large number of troops avail
able and the means of moving them
to the desired spot, but Russia Is
handicapped in this respect, and
there is an inclination in London to
believe a report from Rome that Pet
rograd has asked Rumania to allow
Russian troops to pass through her
territory on the way to Bulgaria.
To grant such a request would be
construed by Germany as tantamount
to definite alliance with the entente
and would doubtless result In Austro-
German troops attacking Bumania.
This, it is thought, might happen any
way. as Germany has already Chown
her displeasuIe at Rumania's refusal
to allow munitions to pass through to
Turkey, and now it is reported that
Germany has suspended the postal
service and is holding up all food
stuffs consigned to Rumania over
German railways until Bucharest
more clearly defines it's attitude tow
ard the central powers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-25
HOTEL LOBRIES
Must work On Highway.

"If Alabama wishes to be included in the Jackson highway the sooner she gets to work on mending her roads, the better" said w J. Rushton last night.
 'In fact, it is highly important that the roads be in first class condition not later than May of next year. Those in Jefferson county are In satis factory condition, but most of those in counties north of us are.adeplorable, as I found to my cost in 8 recent au- tomobile trip to Nashville. There was a portion of the time when I might have been excused for thinking I was running a motorboat instead of a land machine
 "All the same, I enjoyed the trip and bagged a number of interesting snapshots with my kodak one of them being field in Tennessee covered by hundreds and hundreds of turkeys. The production of turkeys in the Vol unteer State is quite large this year, as may be gathered from the fact that a few days ago there were six tons of dressed turkeys on our cold storage plant at Columbia. They didn't finger there long, however, and tomorrow these birds will be on dining tables in many states"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-25
STEVENSON BUYS A DONKEY

From Travels With Donkey
 There dwelt an old man in Monastlr, ol rather unsound intellect according to some, much followed by street boys. ana known to fame as Father Adam Father Adam had a cart, and to draw the cart a diminutive she ass, not much bigger than a dog, the color of mouse, with a kindly eye and determined under Ja'W' There was something neat and high ored' a ouakerish elegance, about the rogue that hit my fancy on the spot. Our first interview was in Monastir market place. To prove her good temper, one child after another was set upon her back to rlde' and one after another went head over heels into the air; until want of conn- dece began to reign in youthful! bosoms' and the experiment was discontinued from a dearth of subjects I was already backed by a deputation of my friends; but as if this were not enough, all the buyers and sellers came round and helped me in the bargain; and the ass and l and Father Adam were the center or hup- bub for near half an hour. At length she passed into my service for the considera- tion of 65 francs and @ glass of brandy. The sack had already cost eight francs and two glasses of beer; so that Modes tine, as I instantly baptized her. was upon all accounts the cheaper article. Indeed, that was as it should be; for she was only an appurtenance of my mat tress, or self-acting bedstead on four castors.
 I had 8 last interview with Father Adam in a billiard room at the witching hour of dawn, when I administered the brandy He professed himself greatly touched by the separation. and declared he had often bought white bread for the donkey when he had been content with black bread for himself; but this, ac- cording to the best authorities, must have been a; flight of fancy He had a name in the village for brutally misusing the ass; yet it Is certain that he shed tear, and the tear made clean mark down one cheek.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-25
"Bon WeeviI Remedy"

"Nothing will stop the progress of the boil weevil," said E. D. Smith yesterday. 1T know but one man who has made a good crop despite the ravages of the little pest That man is Judge A. P. Smith Of Eutaw
 Judge Smith simply ploughs his field every week. In the ploughing the plants are shaken, and the weevil, in great numbers, poured upon the ground. He cannot live when covered with warm dirt
 "The remedy appears very simple, and at first glance one could scarcely believe that it would be effective But in the field thus treated by Judge Smith, about 70 per cent of a normal crop was pro- duceG, and in other fields, not so treated, the production was very poor indeed.
 Judge Smith tells me that hereafter or until the coming of such time as the weeviI will have gone to other parts he will deal with the pest as above indi- cateG in all his acreage. He is very op- tinistic. ,.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-25
Approves Civic rhankssivins.

T heartily indorse the civic Thanks giving service to be held at noon today" said Charles H. Wood, land hope it will be attended by crowd that will over flow the Lyric theatre, where the service is to be held It is an innovation that will surely appeal to all right thinking peo- pie for it will tend to bring to mind the countless blessings we have received from kind providence and offers a ready opportunity to show our apprecia- tion by attending this service of praise and thanksgiving.
 T do not intend to convey the idea that the civic service should supercede the services at the various churches but in my opinion it will bring together many persons in this civic service that might from the rush of business or other reas- ons fail to attend the church service The committee in charge have set the time limit at one hour for the service, and with the length and varied programme prepared it will be impossible for any one not to be interested in the service.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-25

when the people along the way be- come aroused.
 Fifteen years ago when good road building in the south was in the ex- perimental stage there was a marked lack of appreciation of the economic value of improved highways. A cam paign of education was necessary. But now since it is seen that good roads mean not only big saving to the farmer in the matter of hauling and in enhancing the pleasure of farm life, but an immediate enhancement of property values, it is well nigh in conceivable that any inhabitant of any county should be slow in joining the good roads procession.
 If the renewed efforts to fulfill the Jackson highway conditions are earnest and unflagging they can but be fruitful in the contest. Determina- tion will do it. When the pathfinding committee makes it's next tour Ala bama should easily be found on the winning side.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-25
The Poor Huntsman.

Judge William M. Walker, after his ex- perience with game wardens in Arkansas, is in Birmingham again.
 "Orr experience was not as unpleasant as the press reported" he said. We were not arrested, tried, convicted and fined. Our game was not confscated. However, when we learned that we had violated the law of that sovereign state, we con- siiered ourselves fortunate in getting off without being arrested, and consd- eredeG it wise to leave our game be- hind.
 Every state is giving attention to the protection of it's game Iire and the sportsman with great difficulty manages to keep himself posted. In Arkansas, for instance, the law denies a nonresident the right to hunt. Kentucky requires a license at the cost of $15 for a non- resident. The laws are not uniform and the sportsman is very apt to get in trouble when he strays across the border
 But despite the Interruption, we had a pleasant time and am anxious right now to get again into field after the game little quail''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-25
Ignorant Critics

Some of the individuals who discuss in the columns of the press the ad- ministration's national defense pro- gramme are ignorant of actual condi- tions and what they have to say, therefore, makes no appeal to persons reasonably well informed.
 Not a few of the men who have rushed into print say that we may need a great navy, but they oppose any increase in the army. They then proceed to criticize the war depart ment and to tell the public that what is demanded is a reform in the mill tary establishment. According to these faultfinders the regular army should be overhauled, it's personnel improved and new methods in organi- zation and discipline should replace the methods that now obtain.
 All such idle talk is calculated to do harm. Certain it is that it can do no good, for it is a fact we'll known to all citizens who take any interest in military affairs that in personnel and in the morale of the rank and file the United States army is surpassed by no army in the world and equalled by few. In discipline and drill there is absolutely no room for improve ment. What is needed>is a somewhat larger army to insure greater results in mobilization.
 These same critics try to make it appear that the navy is poorly organ ized and that reform in that arm of defense is called for; but officers of high rank unite in saying that the navy from any point of view is in most excellent condition. It is big navy, too, but looking to the future it should be even bigger.
 The country may well trust to the Presidents department heads and their expert advisors when they make their report and recommendations.
 Opinions of laymen in regard to technical mates are often of real value. But the best judges of what is needed for national preparedness are those officials who have made a study of the situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-25
HOW MOTOR TRUCKS PAY FL M Slausnn in I.eslia,s

Dy II. w. SlduSOA III llcSllc $.
 Almost any reliable motor truck manu- facturer will admit that there are cer- tain conditions attendant upon the con- duct of certain lines of business in which motor truck cannot be made to prove profitable on the dollars and cents basis. For example, a business which is so small as to require the use of but one horse and wagon would not furnish suf- f1ciert work for a motor truck to repre- sent a saving in delivery costs that would begin to pay the interest on the invest ment and depreciation charges. Also, cer- tain lines of business in which stops are frequent and which, by virtue of their na- tue. would not obtain from the motor truck the full benefit of it's high speed possibilities, would probably show that the horse and wagon system of delivery would cost less per pound mile than would the truck system.
 But the actual dollars and cents cost of delivery should not represent the sole consideration of the man contemplating the advisability of a change In delivery methods. From a pure business stand point, the average merchant or transfer company can afford to pay a higher cost per pound mile solely because of the pub licity and advertising which this modern method of delivery will give his product or his business Take the case of the milk dealer A properly selected truck will in itself bespeak certainty and punctuality of deliveries and possesses an air of cleanliness and sanitation that can never be associated with the stable
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-25
The Democratic Convention.

Early in December the national democratic committee will meet and fix the time for holding the next con- think it a good guess that Chicago will be chosen" said M. F. Driscoll of St. Paul.
 "Chicago's central location is always in its favor. Then, too, that big, rich city has no difficulty in raising the large amount of money necessary to provide an adequate hall.
 Dallas, Tex. Is displaying commend able pluck in bidding for the conven- been working for months and that it has sufficient money in sight to >pro- vide for the convention. San Fran cisco has come into the race and of- fers s200,000 as an inducement to the national committee to divide it's favor. St. Louis Is another entrant. If Chi cago does not get the convention hope St. Louis will, as it is really ideal in It's location. Dallas is too far south and as for San Francisco 1t is entirely too far out of the way. especially since nearly everybody in the east who had the price crossed the continent this year to attend the Panama-Pacific ex- position.
 President Wilson's renomination seems foregone conclusion. Never theless the convention will be spirited. It will certainly not be tame affair. MT. Wilson has many supporters in my part of the country. voted for him in 1912. and will vote for him with even greater pleasure in 1916."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-25
PINK JEANS

From the Boston Advertiser.
 It appears that the supply of blu dye for coloring the humble jeans or overalls of the proletariat is run ming short. Inquiry has been made O jobbers and retailers regarding tn possibility of the trade handling
 pink-dyed garment of humble toll. w trust the response will be strongl, favorable. Why should woman. win now asserts her share in all the right that men have previously held, hay monopoly of this most tender 0 colors? Man, as the toiler. contente, himself in the past with the modest neutral tints of brown or black or blue But of late there have been signs o revolt. Those fearful and wonderful pea-green hats of the present seasol may be merely the early rumble of tn, coming upheaval Why not pink over alls, to brighten the landscape of tn, hay fields, or to relieve the dull dral of the smoky city streets? Have we no made our world too sombre ?/Has no every man, deep down in his heart. 2 sneaking fondness for colors which h, represses only because custom has Sd ordered? Pink jeans? The very word opens up the most delightful vistas oi human apparel in the days to come!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-25
From the Louisville Courier-J Journal. OSBORNE of Sing Sing
 \A< says he finds that baths in the

IVY ARDEN OSBORNE of Sing Sing
 \A/ says he finds that baths in the
 Hudson river are of the ut spiritually as well as physically. He believes that prisoners should have a cold plunge every day in the river, when the season permits, and in a swimming pool after shower in cold weather, instead of the statutory lone cleansing bath a week." Very prob ably he has hit upon the key to the puzzle of the criminologists. What to do with the criminal brother? Plunge him into the mighty Hudsons spirit ually healing, icy, bracing flood. It will do more for him than the sacred waters of the Ganges ever did for a pious Hindu pilgrim! Why not? It sounds altogether reasonable.
 But, it will be said. baths do not make the man, although a lack of them may oft proclaim him. The criminal classes are not made up wholly of the unwashed. Was it not at magnifi- cent bathhouse, a marble palace of va riegated hydropathy. a place where UT hlSIi, ASOiudl, LeuSoidily Pidih tuO anu shower baths were purveyed, that "Gyp the Blood" Lefty Louis and the other gunmen appeared immediately after the murder of Rosenthal? Do not many criminals come from families which maintain porcelain tubs and needle showers?
 There are baths and baths. The highly moral bath Is the ice cold tub. It requires moral courage to think of it on a winter morning without shiv- ering under the cider down. The man who can get out of a warm bed and into cold bath must have the grit that is the possession of the four-year- old child who can take castor oil straight and not make grimace. When anyone has done something that is impossible to weddings, and not a probable accomplishment in the case of the average strong man, he@experiences a virtuous, self-respecting, superior, boastful feeling. He is not in mood of mind to yield to temptation, or ex- perience temptation. Like the proud early riser. who proclaims himself with almost as much pride and With Qulte as much noise as growing rooster, the cold plunger is person altogether virtuous. All of the low passions are frozen out of him. like poisonous trop- ical flowers subjected to a zero tenn perature, or the germs of disease that are killed by the first white frost.
 Frequenters of Turkish baths. al- though a Turkish bath may end in cold plunge, after leading up to It in such manner that the bather is pre- pared against it's shock, are not ably austere. The bathhouse is sensuous. It hales to it's soothing warmth the i'll living, the late carousing, the weak. |the pleasure loving. the devotees of luxury. But tic snatutinai cold tub called . "plunge" although nobody can plunge into tub. xhd majority of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-25
THE FINAL CURTAIN

From Vhe Cincinnati I1meS-Star.
 The death of E. S. Willard will cause expressions of deep regret among Amer ioan theatregoers. For, although MT. Willard was an Englishman by birth and attained success upon the English stage before his first American invasion, it was in the United States that he re- ceived the greater appreciation. Year after year he returned to us, appearing in London only at intervals. until it might have been said that he had adopt ed the United States as the country of his art and that we had raised him to the position of one of our stage fav- orites. In the latter part of his career most of his premieres were reserved for American production.
 It was Henry Arthur Jones who fur rished MT. Willard with his first success ful part, The Spider" in 'The Silver King" produced by the late Wilson Bar rett. But the character. villain of the old school was not to MT. Willard's liking and later MT. Jones wrote for the rising young actor, "The Middleman." !" which contained the memorable role of "Cyrus Blenkarn." In after years MT. Willard appeared with success in a num- Der of plays, Barrie's "A Professor S Love Story" Jones' Judah" 'The Car dinal," a revival of David Garrick,' ?
 Tom Pinch,' and dramatization of 1.-The Man Who Was occurring to mind. Invariably MT. Willard's was an intel ligept performance assisted by sym pathetic personality. His retirement of several years ago removed him definitely from our stage. but his memory is fresh and the realization of his final passing a shock to those who admire the finer things of the theatre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-25
A Happy Innovation

A civic Thanksgiving service under the auspices of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and cordially indorsed by the city commission, IS a happy and wholesome innovation There will be religious exercises and civic addresses, and many citizens who have not been in the habit of at- tending places of worship on this great annual holiday will be found in large numbers at the Lyric theatre, where the meeting is to be held.
 In several of the churches Thanks giving services will take place as usual, but Birmingham is large city and an overflow crowd at the theatre may be expected.
 Birmingham, as an industrial and commercial center, has much for which to be thankful. Good health and material prosperity are we'll in evidence and nothing could be more fitting than a community Thanksgiv- ing voiced by representative citizens of various creeds and callings.
 It will be an inspirational gather ing and the result will be of far reaching benefit. Birmingham should be all the more united in civic pur- pose and in promoting clean living and the spirit of brotherhood among all classes.
 The programme has been admirably balanced, and as the exercises are to last only one hour speakers have been chosen who were known to possess the art of condensation.
 President Crawford Johnson of the Chamber of Commerce and his CO., workers are to be congratulated inl deed upon offering the people of Bir- mingham this opportunity of joining in service that is to be as unique as it is sure to prove uplifting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-25
A Singers Sacrifice

From Cleveland comes the report that Mime. Nellie Melba, one of the worlds most noted songbirds, has donated $200,000 and the use of her apartments in Paris for a war hos pital. "See my tight skirt," said the soprano. q have bought neither gowns, hats nor blouses since the war began. I can't afford new garments until every suffering man, woman and child has food and shelter I will give my last gem to aid those boys fighting over there"
 Narrowing visions are conjured up by the thought of greater and more pressing sacrifices on the part of Melba. It is even reported that she is stinting her food in order to give more to the war sufferers among the allies. However great these needs may be, it is painful to contemplate the possibility of a prima donna, minus that plumpness so characteris- tic of successful singers and, without a single jewel to flash in the foot lights glow, trilling in tattered gown. It would be novelty, at any rate, but with all due regard for Mel- ba's great sympathy for the allies, some-er-gentleman of the press has perhaps "colored' somewhat a "story" that in itself was full of throbbing interest.
 Just as the Czar would dedicate his last moujik, so the diva would give her last gem to the cause of the al- lies. Let us hope that neither will be called upon to make this supreme sacrifice. A Czar without a moujik would be almost as piteous a spec tacle as prima donna sans clothes, sans jewels and sans everything, ex- cept voice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-25
A HELEN OF MODERN GREECE

From the New York World
 It Nleases the instinct of analogy to picture the Grecian Queen as modern Helen, cause of woes Innumerable, of fierce, vain battles. The likeness may be overworked, but it exists.
 Greece lives at the mercy of sea power. Her people were always sailors; their merchant fleet is huge, their navy weak. Less than half the race are on the main land By joining the allies. Greece could have had Cyprus at once, and later much of the Syrian coast. The powers that at Nayarino made her free could at Smyrna have made her united. No wonder the people were fired with the vision of Ven izelos.
 As it is. Greece may stay on the fence not much longer. If her King pushes her off on the German side. she must starve under blockade. Britain may re- take Corfu, which she ceded only on con- dtion of the constitutional government that the King defies. Italy and France may divide almost at will Syria and the Aegean Islands. Servia may yet have Sa- loniki if the allies win.
 Is it not astounding that when honor and advantage point nations way so clearly, 1t can be controlled by the stale old trick of imperial marriage; by plant ing on a strategic spot, long before, the daughter of 8 modern grand monarch, and about her court building up as struc- ture of intrigue and bribery and usurpa- tion in the interest of autocracy against the people?
 Some say women have little political pcwer: here is one by whose influence and what it represents. 100000 men must needlessly die and her land risk ruin For if Greece had carried out it's prom ises at the Dardanelles-if even she had kept her Kings own treaty with an ally the war need not have looked 50 long and dark and terrible in prospect as it does today.