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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
Crop Diversification Problems

If the boil weevil is destroying cot ton in south Alabama to the extent that is now reported, the crop diversi- fication movement will be greatly stimulated next season.
 But the leaders of the diversification campaign do not advise the farmers to quit raising cotton. Such ad- vice would be unwise. The boil weevil has way of moving on" The pest is probably doing it's worst in the infected counties this year. In Ia year or two it will be gone; and then cotton will be grown successfully again.
 The object of the diversification movement is to induce farmers to raise less cotton and more foodstuff crops; to make cotton the surplus crop and not the only money crop. Alabama has been sending millions of dollars out of the state every year to pay for corn, flour, meat and even hay, all which can be produced cheap ly at home. So long as this failure to feed themselves is in evidence the state will not prosper as it should.
 Cotton always finds a ready cash market, no matter what the price is, which has readily accounted for the extensive planting of the staple. But |from an economic point of view noth- ing is plainer than the value of cror diversification.
 The one problem that has. made some farmers in this part of the country hesitate about planting large acreage in food crops for the market is the difficulty of disposing of these products in bulk at remunerative prices. Stock raising will help solve that problem. Let the farmer raise corn for fattening hogs and cattle; let him kill his hogs and cure the meat There is never any difficulty in selling farm made bacon. And as for the beeves, they are always in demand al good prices. The stock raising in. dustry enables the farmer to reap tho benefit of the finished products, so tc speak. If this plan in crop diversifi cation is carried out the farmer vii have little corn for sale and, therefore no worry about the market.
 When it comes to wheat, the sug gestion has been made that the mer chants in the small towns combin and build elevators for storing tn grain that is hauled in wagons unti enough is accumulated for carloa shipments. In two or three town flour mills are now being built fo grinding wheat. There should b scores of them; and there will be i Alabama increases it's wheat produc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
A woman's Hat a Creation

Sometime ago was at the home of the president of Columbia university, Mir
 Seth Low in New York, to discuss edu- cational matters" said Belton Gireath.
 Mrs. Low came in and asked about Mrs Gilreath, who was expected to be with me. I answered that Mrs. Gilreath was unable to be present she was very tired from a hard afternoon of shopping. then turned to MT. Low and remarked very seriously my surprise that ladies, as a rule, were so fond of dress and shopping generally and especially I remarked that I could never understand why the women would pay such extravagant prices for Paris hats, so termed. MT. Low pleasant ly and in his polished conversational tone fectionately to me for my informa ton, Why, Mir Gilreath. these ladies do not pay those biz prices for hats, they pay for creations
 "I made no reply to this. but when I got back to the hotel l told Mrs. Gilreath | of the conversation. Mrs. Glreath said
 that Mir Low had answered me correctly.
 A genuine artistic Paris hat. she said,
 was in reality creation I replied in
 tone of surrender Well, Mrs. Gilreath, l If you and Mr. Low call a woman's hat
 cation it must be so l am learn
 ing /"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
 We do not know much. But we do know that minding your own business will never become the great American pastime.
 Why Is it that other things never taste half as good as the things that do not agree with you?
 A college education is a great thing. But this country is filled with fathers who have to support sons who know 10 times as much as their fathers know.
 After it has lived on canned beans and canned salmon for three weeks the hon. eymoon gets hungry and disappears for keeps.
 Why did they kill off poor old Ananias when they let the man live who tells you that it isn't the money he is kicking about, it is the principle of the thing? You never have any trouble telling when a man is making an ass of himself, you'll hear him praying about it. A big boob will sit down beside a girl and hold the girls hand and let the gir force him to ask her to marry him. Bu if you told the boob that there was such a thing as hypnotism, he would give you the laugh and tell you to go have youl head examined.
 Even the~ man who regards gambling as sin will go ahead and get married. Every woman Is az optimist Sht knows it Is a dimple when the rest of the world knows it is a wrinkle. Some men can't see why they should lay up anything For a rainy day wher they already own a 5O-cent umbrella. You can win at other games. But tsv game of love always results in tic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
ALABAMA PRESS

Ashland Progress: One year of the great European conflict is now history and according to estimates compiled from the most available reports the various belligerents have lost more than e'ooo'ooo men, dead, wounded and prisoners and more than 500 ships of which about 12o were war vessels.
 Leighton News: The genial travelling statesmen, who are usually close observers of things and especially those affecting trade. are making very optimistic re- ports as to the revival of business con ditions. What is to hinder times from being better with the prospects of the finest crops in years?
 Russell Register: According to report General Huerta was displeased with the developments of last week at El Paso Tex. The reason is plain. When the sun went down that day the general was in jail, where he belonged.
 Collinsville Courier: Haven't we had a nice bunch of them in Montgomery for the last few years? It seems like they will have most of them in jail or out of the state soon.
 Dothan News: A campaign for an all dry Chicago has been launched, and many fellows who are always dry are wearing the all-dry buttons. Red nose and blue button harmonise admirably well. The Cleburne News: bountiful fruit crop in Cleburne county. promise for 2 good corn crop and other crops doing | well, why will not Cleburne be in thu prosperity line?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
MAN rHE\MEsERr or

Arthur Chapman in tue New ork Ss I. He rests, half buriedA in the -ifN
 Of waterless and silent straM His fingers clutch a mfockinEfft sst The worthless windbEown6s s1f y1p Sii nds: He thought to close hfss ffnx Hpfsn A heavier and yeloW, prjzA sGs'S4 But now his lusts for spld siAavesne. Shriveled beneath thoses Slazip slfes, The lizard fits about his forlM
 The buzzards circle in the heita If there. be mercy in yon storm
 May he be covered deep ere Int: And may the dipping sands fssth OCT Upon the deserts face the5T Where ends his quest forevdlIre
 The quest of him the desertlt. The trails to distant water hcs
 His plodding feet shall ne'erstrace, For unto still more distant gos
 The prospector has turned h faco: These shifting sand hills lose fir glow. The breeze no more is furns hot And when the storm ends ne shall
 know .
 Where rests the man the dese gotl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
THOSE KANSAS CROPS

From the Augusta Chronicle.
 We bow in humble admirati ton before that wheat story from Dodge City, Kan. It always was a good story, but in it's latest incarnation 1t is unusually appeal ing.
 The Rev. Frank Page. according to the veracious correspondent who gave the yarn to the world, had driven to the town yqof Wright. few miles north of Dodge City, to conduct a prayer meeting. He started back on foot, taking the short cut through a ~1500-acre wheat eld. At the prayer meeting he had offered up fer vent thanks for the -bountiful wheat crop. It was 10 o'clock at night when the min ister started home. The next morning he had not arrived there He was not at Wright, and he was not in Dodge, and he was nowhere on the road between the two towns. Two days passed, with no word or sign.
 On the third day an old lady who hac been al the prayer meeting suggested thai maybe the pastor had got lost in the wheat field A party started out, sys tematically searching through the grain which is higher and thicker than ever be fore. At last one of the searchers heard faint voice murmuring as If in prayer Following the sound, he came upon tht minister lying exhausted and half delir ious, and repeating over and over, Lord we thank Thee for the bountiful provi- dence which has given us such a plentiful crop of wheat"
 "It's now time to hear from easterr Kansas about that little girl who wen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
IN TENNESSEE.
,e Nashville Tennessean.

From the Nashville Tennessean.
 The people of all. countries are be- ginning to realize the frightfulness c, the slaughter.-Jane Addams. That le- minds us of story. A man who had imbibed copiously was trying to take another one, but never got the glass nearer than six inches of his mouth and poured the contents all down the front of his white vest. Then ne brushed at the moisture with his fin- gers and said: Now, Ltrd omercy l must be beginning to ant drunk.'..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
The Japs Outwitted

Although suffering from lack of preparedness, the Chinese have by no means lost their natural astuteness. Bret Harte's humorous allusion to the craftiness of the ''heathen Chinee" would be appreciated just now by Japanese statesmen who have discov- cred that the Chinese have hit upon a way to boycott Japanese goods with out rendering the government culpa- ble.
 fingered by the Japanese demands last January, there was talk in Shang- } hai, the great commercial center of China, of boycott against Japan. The idea spread rapidly and soon came to the attention of the Japanese govern ment. Prompt representations were made at Peking that Japan would hold China to account if the boycott were allowed to continue. With equal promptness the Chinese authorities ordered that the boycott must stop at once. Such unseemly conduct would not be tolerated for a moment and drastic measures were adopted tc show Japan that the Chinese govern ment could in no way be held to blame. Boycott meetings were broken up, men and boys circulating boycott litera- ture were arrested and punished and Q . casual observer it would have ap- pearod that a determined effort was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

tion at the rate of increase this year as compared with last.
 All crop questions will surely be solved satisfactorily if farmers and country merchants are filled with the spirit of enterprise and are eager to take the initiative along progressive lines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
DETERMINING THE CAUSE

From the Arkansas Democrat.
 Two things to remember,' says tke Kansas City Star. are that only very rich country can stand the waste ie- sulting from bad roads, and only a very rich city can stand the waste resulting from an insufficient form of municipal government" And only a poor citizenry poor in pride and desire for accomplishment. will stand for either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
EASILY INFLUENCED.

You don't mean to tell me that you find inspiration in a moving picture the- atre?'
 Indeed, I do," said the tireless patron When I see so much splendor and mag nifcence supported by the humble jitney the presence of three or four of those coints in my pocket makes me feel like millionaire
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

into the field of young corn wth her
 fathers lunch and started right,but got lost because the corn shot up st fast ft obscured all the familiar landmaSs, and she never found her way out. \e hope, though 'that nopody will repeat le yarn about the boy who got lost in .e corn field and climbed up a cornstal to sed where the houselwas, and thussot into more trouble that ever becausehe corn grew up faster titan he could cliIb down.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
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PRETENSE.
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The bard who daily courts the muse. No matter how he's feeling. Though tempted to cry, Whats the
 use?n
 A troubled soul revealing, Must still advise a gladsome smile For everybodys wearing And tell how hope makes fife worth while For those who're burdens bs4ring. Methinks his task is far from light No matter how you take it. If there's no happiness in sight. Forsooth, he has to fake 1t. And when the whole wide world seems
 wrong,
 He doesn't dare express 1t, But warbles little bits of song Until you'd never guess it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
AN UNCHARTED ISLE.

Fair lies the land, beheld in dreams
 Where roaring guns are never heard And where the hearts of humankind
 By lethal hate are never stirred; Where peace still holds her perfect sway And right prevails above the wrong, And all men strive with purpose high
 To make of life a grand. sweet song.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
Bar Examinations This Week

"As usual Birmingham will be well rep resented among the candidates for the state bar examination to be held in Mont gomery from the 18th to the 18th in- elusive" remarked G. L. Bailes.
 "The bar examinations are held twice each year, beginning on the second Tues day of July and February The time, manner, subjects qualifications of candi- dates and the like are expressly provided for in the code.
 "The examining committee is composed of MT. Tom Knight, chairman; Judge Harrington and Judge Somerville
 "The would-be barristers are examined in the various branches of the law all the way from corporations and the fed eral constitution to garnishments and the grounds for divorce.
 "Birmingham's delegation will go down for the forthcoming examination Monday morning. They will get peep in on some of the legislators and besides have time to get their bearings before the fire
 works begin. Of course 1t will be a regu- lar Waterloo but each of the fellows hope to come off a Wellington"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

FOR THE SUMMER SEASON "Is the happer style of girl going out?' T don't know, but at any rate she mas been modified so as to look less like sea recrow in bathing suit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
CIRCULATING

From the eBaumont Enterprise.
 One cannot help wondering what kind of publicity stuff the Champ Clark family would have pulled off at the wedding of their daughter if the speaker had been elected President in 1e12
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
RESTRICTED SPORT.

'I feel the call of the wild this morn ing" said the head bookkeeper.
 What do you think of doing?s asked his first assistant
 "Of course, l can't get away now, but if my present mood lasts long, I shall certainly drop into shooting galley dur ing the luch hour"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

Doubtless General Huerta is begin ming to sigh for the comforts of his Long Island home. He should have taken the northern route to the Fanama-Pacific exposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

If there Is nothing particular en- gazing his attention at present, Coi onel House might go down to Mexico
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

Surely those irate Georgiaps don't mean to say that former Governor Slaton "sneaked" out of the state, when
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

Some of the ultrapacifists might employ their time in trying to re- establish the entente cordiale between General Miles and John l.. Sullivan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

Just because Herr Won Jagow was sensible enough to acknowledge that America has right to sell the allies munitions of war Is no sign that he views the proceedings with equaninity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

The allies are reported to be about six miles from their goal in the Dar- danelles In modern warfare that IS equivalent to at least SO miles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
uNyEpsAI.

From the Nashville Banner.
 Vice President Marshall says has re ceived numerous threatening lSers So do we all on the first of ever north.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

The prohibitionists are training some of their heaviest guns on the Mann presidential boom and the bon,- hardment has just begun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

QUITE THE THING.
 "I have nothing better to offer you than a cottage" said the impecunious lover Do you think we could be happy there?' Why, yes," answered the spoiled beau ty I've could give our dances and other entertainments at one of the fashionable hotels. I really prefer that"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE
 SITUATION AND OTHER INTEl

JTHOUGH there Is some alarm
 A among the business people over
 our conflict with Germany it strikes me that the German note is Tn good tone and that the German gov ernment Is making efforts to satisfy our government.
 Both the President and Secretary of State Lansing are men or good common sense and must recognize that Germany is endeavoring to avoid conflict with us while seek inc to make the most vicious warfare upon England. Germany's greatest hope is in the destruction Of British commerce and her submarine warface. while brutal and horrible, has had it's effect.
 Germany will not go to the extremity of forcing America to become involved in this European war. The good sense of her statesmen and of our President and Secretary of State will prevent this In the meantime, the diplomatic cor respondence between the two govern ments is intensely interesting and everyone is on the qui vive to see Sec retary Lansings next reply
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
ADRIFT WITH THE TIrlEs
EXAGGERATED CASE.

EXAGGERATED CASE. 'who is that man abusing the American government?' "why, that's a hyphenated citizen "Yes?"
 And judging from the way he talks the hyphen must be yard long"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

Secretary Daniels announces the ac- ceptance of a new type of gun for American suhm arines. Every little bit helps
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

European soldiers are greatly en- couraged to die when their ruler calls them my children"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

Theatre managers say Sneir business has been hurt by war blues" Still trying to ignore the movies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

There are times when a 42-centimc- ter mouth can do more harm than a gun of the same calibre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

The little Balkan states are enjoying the novel experience of being flattered by their more powerful neighbors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
Increasing Briskness in Trade

Business recovery continues in nearly every section of the country and through out the north. east and west and in some sections of the south much prosperity prevails, said B. W. Cantrell of Chi eago.
 Conditions in my city have been im- proving steadily since early in the sum- mer. although the carpenters strike nat urally depressed every branch of the building trade, but I read in Saturday s Age-Herald that the trouble was now ended and that the carpenters were ready to go back to work. The effect of the settlement will have fine effect on all lines of business in Chicago. I feel as if we will have great prosperity dur ing the last half of the year.
 Birmingham looks 100 per cent better in a business way than it did when l was here in February. As far as I can learn optimism is now the rule in the south"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

A machine has been invented that makes 1900 pies an hour. In pies qual- ity and not quantity is the desidera. tum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

Miss Jane Addams Is such an i'm portant woman these days that she
 really ought to have some sort of high sounding title.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

By the way, something was said about Uncle Sam going after South American trade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11
N
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city and county build-
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hotel leci1lGes of any southern city. it is to be hoped that Mr. John weakley and other Birmingham members of the legislature will provide the means es which the city of Birmingham can build an auditorium worthy of it. The people of Birmingham want it-they are almost unanimous for it-and the means should be found to permit the city to build it.
 I hear from Washington that President Wilson and members of his administration have requested the Supreme Court to render a decision in the appeal of the suit to dissolve the Steel Corporation as early as possible and that this decision will be rendered not later than February | The opinion in Washington is almost unanimous that the decision of the fren- ton court will be upheld.
 The delay of this matter is naturally holding up any great extension work pro- posed for this district by the Tennessee Company, but this company's existing plants are now in active operation and I understand should be up to a ninety per cent basis in week or two.
 With this a fact. mercantile business and business generally will fpntinue to improve and after the decislcFl of the Supreme Court Is rendered Ehrtinshams should boom as it has never bcomed before
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

expense of the Merritt Investigating committee. I am told that this commit tee has done most excellent work anu will make admirable recommendations Among these will be one to remove the convicts from the mines and put them on road construction
 | The committee will also recommend of the state and many other practical necessities.
 The legislature will probably adort many of the suggestions of the com mittee and by so doing put the state on such business basis as is em- ployed in the management of large cor poratio
 Alabama certainly needs such. 
 Speaking of taking convicts from the mines and putting them on the roads. something should be done about the Jeff ferson county jail and the Birmingham city jail. A man who has investigated the city jail told me yesterday that, in his opinion. it was absolutely the. viest. hlthiest and most unsanitary place imag- inable. The county jail is also in an un- sanitary condition and it seems cannot be fitted for the proper housing of prisoners What we need is a new jail building entirely for the county and a new one for the city as well.
 No legislation is more important than that providing that all state city and county buildings should be kept in clean and sanitary condition. Many of the dis eases prevalent in this state are spread
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

Watermelon time in Dixie brings temporary forgetfulness of troubled world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

BEGINNING THE DAY-Many battle Is won at the last ditch. Many victory is snatched out of the jaws of defeat. Many tide turns exactly in the nick of time. And know thisi If yOu fight for God and right and will not live up, you cannot 1ose.-Nf. M. F.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11

THE PENALTY OF SPEEDING.
 What have we here?''
 "A pamphlet entitled The Ins and Outs of Motoring"
 What does the author say?"
 "It seems that he is no sooner out than he's in again."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-11


 That the real estate business in Bir- mingham is well on it's way to prosperity is the belief of M. A. Hines, who says he has several large deals pending. Business is, in my opinion, on the up grade said MT. Hines, speaking to an Age-Herald representative My sales within the last 30 days have totaled more than $4O,000. Of course, 95 per cent of the sales made were due to advertising but the fact that so much money changed hands in one month when times are sup posed to be hard is significant. It means that confidence is being restored; that money which has been reposing in old stockings and other such receptacles Is being brought out to the light of day, it means that prosperity is approaching at a good clip and that we may expect great things of the future