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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21
THE COLLECTED DUTCH
rom the Lowell Citizen

q
 The one people on earth that no one seems to be seriously considering at pres ent as possible factors in the European struggle are the Dutch. Yet no other peo- ple aside from the combatants immedi- ately involved. can have such serious ground for national apprehension. If the broad United States talks apprehensively of a possible German attempt in future wears, even across 5000 miles of sea, what can tiny Holland expect. abutting on Ger many herself and commanding not only the mouth of the German Rhine but the mouth of the Belgian Scheldt as we'll German triumph in this war would inev. itably spell Hollands extinction, in oui iudament-at any rate the Dutch must dread it acuteiy. Yet almost no one lately has talked of the Netherlands pouring those 100000 men into the German rear tc help finish utterly the German menace Is it indifference. or German sympathy or merely a cool waiting for the psyche logical moment?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21
MUSTN'T TOUGH"

saw her young son looking longingly at the steaming pies.
 l Mustn't touch" she warned, shaking a finger at him. Then she left the room. | The first think her son did was to grab one of the pies and eat it all. He became very ill
 He learned through experience that he shouldn't eat too much pie. The mustn't touch" warning had only made him all the more curious
 l Men and women are only big boys and i girls. They have almost the same thoughts and identically the same version | to the phrase "Musn't touch" Only in the realm of big boy and grhood it isn't mother or father who says Mustn't touch," but some law framed by a zeal- lot who would try to make legislation do what nothing but education or experi- ence will accomplish. Such laws are al- ways broken and thus is generated for good and necessary laws. | If law was passed today preventing a
 man from having ham and eggs for breakfast 1t would be safe wager that he would have ham and eggs for break fast for 364 days out of the year and on
 the 365th day he would have-ham and eggs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21
IncreHsed Patrnnarc

The renovation work at the Young Mems Christian association is progress ing rapidly, and the interior of the cen tral building will soon begin to take on
 most pleasing appearance remarked
 w. NJ. Cosby, president of the board of
 directors.
 Work in the basement or subway,
 is now well under way and the cafeteria
 has been enlarged for the accomm oda- ton of the rapidly increasing patronage.
 partition has been torn away and 2 new finish put on the walls. In fact work in the cafeteria is practically fin- I ished. Tables had been placed in the new annex yesterday, and the enlarged dining room had a most inviting ap- pearance at Thursdays luncheon. There
 were large crowds Of patrons, the busi- ness men of the city being well repre- scented, and many compliments concern ing the service and menu were heard. 'The service of the cafeteria, by the
 way, Is in charge of Mrs. Shaw, and this
 good woman takes great pride in con
 ducting the eating place in excellent style. cleanliness and wholesome food being two essentials to which especial attention is given. Members of the Bir-
 mingham association well as visitors
 are showing themselves most apprecia- tive of this com bination. and there is distinct evidence of refinement in the
 manners of those who lunch here; all though pleasant companionship is not allowed to grow stale The whole sub way will soon be in shape, and will be- come more popular than ever before.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21
Pan-American Conference

The Pan n-American conference to be held in Washington next week on the invitation of Congress and the state department will not be as large as some that have met there in connec- tion with the n-American union. but it will be perhaps the most fruit ful of practical results. It is to be confined to a limited number of bankers and financiers accredited from the Latin republics and a number of prominent financiers of the United States, especially invited by the Sec retary of the Treasury.
 The object of the conference will be a discussion of banking relations between this country and South and Central America with a view of pro- noting trade with our southern neigh bors. No question of Pan-American politics will be brought up. The con- ference will be strictly of business nature.
 As the discussions will be partly in English and partly in Spanish, free use will have to be made of inter prefers. The Americans taking part in the conference will, with one or two exceptions, speak in their own l tongue and the South Americans, as a rule, will speak in their native tongue. A clearer understanding of the mat ters discussed would be had if all those participating either spoke only one language or were bi-lingual.
 Since the United States has such close political relations with Latin America and since special efforts are being made to establish large trade relations with the Latin republics, it behooves the young business men of this country to acquire thorough knowledge and fluent use of Spanish. An exceptionally agreeable impression would certainly be made upon repre- sentative South Americans at the conference if Secretary McAdoo and our own bankers addressed them in their own language. Similar confer ences held at Washington twenty years hence will doubtless find the American members speaking Spanish and probably the Latin delegates speaking English.
 1 The conference next week will be the first of it's kind and that it will be worth while goes without saying.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21
Telltale Finger Prints

A shocking murder was recently committed in Chicago. A woman, the wife of a prominent business man, and her small son were killed with butcher knife. When their bodies were found a short while afterward lying in pools of blood, there was evidence that the woman had made a desperate fight for her life and that the child was overtaken as he ran into another room and killed to prevent his giving the alarm or identifying the murderer. There were no clues except bloody finger prints and rag that had dropped off a mans bandaged finger. The re- volting circumstances of the crime aroused the police department to the greatest activity. A large number of suspects were rounded up. The crime could be fixed on none of them and they were released.
 One man, youthful driver for a grocer, who had acknowledged deliv- ering groceries at the home a short while before the murder was com mited, bore such a good reputation and was such a model youth, according to all accounts, that only one person con nected with the police department be- lieved him guilty This was the head of the Identification bureau, where tests of finger marks are made. None of the arrested men's finger prints were identical with those left by the murderer, except those of the grocers assistant. But three sets of finger prints are required before suspect can be formally charged with murder in Illinois. The suspected man was lured to headquarters, where he went quite willingly, and the necessary prints were obtained by allowing him to handle specially prepared photo grabs taken from the rogues' gallery. The identification was complete. Con- fronted by this damaging evidence, the murderer quickly confessed, and what looked at first like one of the most baffling murder mysteries ever known in Chicago was solved.
 To the uninitiated Identification by finger prints looks like slender evi- dence on which to hang man, but it is even more infallible than a photo graph, and try as he may the criminal can hardly avoid leaving a finger print somewhere about the scene of his crime, unless he has the sufficient farethought to wear pair of gloves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21
Barrel for a Berry Garden

How does my garden grow?' Well. beautifully, and profitably, even if 1t is only a molasses barrel.'' said Dr. Cecil D. Gaston, who has an esthetic tempera- ment combined with utility in many things.
 Do you want strawberry patch of your own in a space 10 feet square? Get you molasses barrel, bore 120 two inch auger holes in the slaves (counting the bung hole); set the barrel on end. with the head out; fill it with rich earth mixed with fertilizer, routed manure preferably place perforated thee-inch tube of metal or tile down center to pour water into. After your barrel is duly prepared put a strawberry plant In each hole, and then, wait for the finest crop of luscious berries-from from grit. too-you ever plucked. They will hang there mingling their rich red with the white blossoms and the dark green foliage of the thriving plants,.a pretty thing to look at. You do not have to
 break your back picking the ripe fuit The barrel will be thing of ornamental beauty in the early spring with its
 green leaves and wealth of white bios sons almost covering it.
 Tt would be well to have a small
 canvas to shelter the barrel from early frosts, or the too hot rays of the sun Such a berry barrel as \ now have will
 supply continuously for weeks plenty Of berries for a small family break fast; IS much as an eighth of an acre
 of garden space. and cleaner better berries. too"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21

, on the market, most of which have fea- lures of their own, and their usefulness
 has developed so rapidly that they are
 considered an absolute essential to every
 sands of private homes. and the output each year runs into many millions of dol- lars.
 MT. Shoales was born in Columbia county, Pennsylvania and on his mater nal side he was lineal descendant of John Alden. His early years were spent 1 as a printer and his earliest invention was a machine for consecutively number-
 ing especially bank notes and the pages of blank books.
 | It was the publica ton of an article in
 an English journal, regarding the writing | by mechanism as devised by John Pratt,
 that suggested to Shoales the typewriter.
 With a quick perception he saw the possi- bilities of a revolution in the handling or 1 the pen From that moment he devoted
 his whole time and thought to the idea
 which has given his invention to the
 world.
 Mir Shoales never derived much man. cial benefit on account of his invention, but he lived to see the work of his genius accepted throughout the world and to hear the pleasing compliment rendered
 him that he was the father of the type
 writer" He died in Milwaukee on Febru- | rv r. 12Q0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21
MILLIONS OF GERMS WANTED

From the Huntsville Weekly Democrat
 We have just come across an old clip n,nr from the Hayneville Examiner, which is too good not to publish, however old 1t may be. It is on diversification and is as follows
 We wish diversfication was germ. We wish it would invade Alabama by the il- lions. We wish 1t would bite every hst one of the one-crop fafpsrs and bite them so deep that they wouldsnever slide back to the old way of doing things. We wish the only cure for the bite. of the germ would be diversified farming 50 that plenty of crops would be coming off at all times of the year. Ve wish the germ would spring into existence and be everlasting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21

1 has prevailed in our section. The stands of cotton are poor, but with all that our
 farmers are fairly prosperous and con
 tented. They are not buying on a credit,
 but are paying cash in most cases for their store needs. "
 MT. Lloyd was for five years back tax commissioner of DeKalb county. and served the state and county faithfully, causing some "tax-dodgers' to howl so i loudly twas heard in Montgomery. Some weeks ago he wrote an article for The Age-Herald advocating the now tenta- tive plan of the legislative tax commit tee. It is to have three appraisers for each county-residents-on to be appoint ed by the governor, one by the county commissioners and thees two to select a third. Assessments in realty are to be made every four years. Speaking of the matter. he said:
 While the first survey and appraise-
 ment of the property would require sev- eral months, yet once the common basis of values is established, it would hold for
 the four-years' period
 T wish to suggest that there be incor- porated in the proposed legislation that in- surance companies be required, under pen alty for failure to do so, to make specific
 returns to taxing authorities of all in-
 surance issued for property of every class This would aid in getting fairer valuation on improvements, and also
 escaped personal property for taxa tion.
 wish to emphasize that no elective assessment board will deal coura geously With local tax assessments for the reason
 that the power of the ballot affects the vision of men in public life. Only an an- poihtiVe system will bring tax matters ana conditions as to fair and equitable Naiua tioh or all property to a satisfactory solution"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21
FIRST AMERICAN TYPEWRITER

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 r IKE all inventions of it's character,
 the typewriter comes to us through - the usual form of development, and even the machine as nearly perfected A S it is today, is constantly undergoing improvement
 It is somewhat difficult to place the credit as to the originator of the type writer, but the person who has done more to bring the machine, as we use it today to be practical, was Charles Latham Shoales. The first American patent taken out by Shoales and his partner, c. Glid- den, was in 1868, but it was not until 1875. after effecting various improvements, that they finally placed the manufacture of their machines in the hands of a firm of gun makers of Ilion, N. r., who began their manufacture.
 In 1716 British patent for a typewriter was granted to Henry Mill who claimed that he had brought an invention to per lection at great pains and expense for "an artificial machine or method for the inn pressing or transcrbing letters, singly or progressively one after another as in writ ing. etc.," but beyond the title the patent gives no indication of the nature or the construction of the machine.
 In America in 1929, a patent for "typographer'' was obtained by William A. Burt, but the records of it were oe- stroyed by fire at Washington in 1886. In France the pioneer was X. Progrin or Marseiles This was in 1885, and his ma chine was on the type-bar principle. An other Frenchman, Pierre Foucauit oi Paris, followed in 1S49 with machine Tn | which series of rods tipped with type could be pushed down to emboss paper at the printed point to which they were arranged radially.
 | In the 'chirographer." for which Amer tcan patents were granted to Charles Tur- | her in 1S43 and 1S45. a horizontal wheel | carried in it's periphery series or rods each bearing a letter, the wheel being TO-
 tated till the required type was over the printing point.
 1 Between 1s47 and 1S56 Alfred E. Beach, l in America and between the latter year and 1860, Sir Charles Wheatstone in Eng land, constructed several typewriters, and | in 1857 the first machine with a pianoforte keyboard and type bars arranged in a circle was invented by Dr. s. W. Fran cis of New York. In 1866 John Pratt, an American living in London, patented a
 machine having 3s types mounted in three rows on type wheel. the rotation of
 which brought the required character op- posite the printed point.
 Then came MT. Shoales. The first ma. chine turned out along his ideas contained
 the type bar principle. but at first each oi the A bars carried only single character
 so that the writing was in capitals only But in 1874 type-bars with two bars were introduced, so that a machine with 4 keys. two being change-case keys. could
 print 76 characters, with both capitals anc
 small letters. Il This first machine was called the Rem
 ington, which may be considered the pio neer of American typewriters. r nfs> frs
 competitor was the Caligraph Rhd thi was followed rapidly by others, until toda,
 there are . great number of typewriter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21
From the Dothan Morning News.

From the Dothan Morning News. n EMEMBER when you were little TX tad, or taddess, and your moth- A CT or father pointed out something to your little eyes and said: "Musn' touch" Cuff course you remember it. You'll never forget as long as you live how those very words threw cloak of mys- tery. around the determination in your mind that you would touch. The other day a mother took her 2 year-old baby to call on a neighbor. The first thing the child noticed in the room was the glare of the fire in a stove. She pointed at it and said, in her childish lisp
 Pity"
 ''Musnt touch, baby,' warned her mother, drawing her away from the stove.
 Then the mother turned to talk to her friend. The very first thing the baby did was to touch the hot stove The .Musnt touch'' command of her mother only whetted her curiosity and made her touch the stove. But she burned her hand and learned through experience not to touch
 The other day the mother of a boy in town here made some pumpkin pies. As she placed them near a window to cool she
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21
The Public Conscience

Public conscience" has become more than threadbare phrase in the batter of the. political orator. It has arisen, shaken off the gathered dust of age-long inertia, and is making few experimental efforts, as if to test its returning strength
 Evidence of this awakening comes from widely separated sections of the country and is expressed in diamet- rically opposite ways. A Nebraska legislator, for instance, has returned saying he had drawn more stamp al- lowance than he needed. He neglected to affix his name to the letter accom- panying the remittance and there is much speculation as to his identity but he must have been frugal man tc save that amount out of his 15 cents a day postage allowance.
 A moral awakening is reported 1T Muskogee county, Oklahoma, also There the county commissioners have recognized moral obligation b, leasing offices for 5000 more a year than they would have to pay for guar ters in another building. The commits sioners, according to newspaper re ports, explain their moral" obligation by saying that they took their present building under ten-year lease, anc the fact that the law prohibits then
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21
THE TESTING

By Edwin Markham. When, in the dim beginning or the years, God mixed in man the raptures and the
 tears
 And scattered through his brain the starry
 stuff,
 He said. Behold. Yet this is not enough, For must test his spirit to make sure That he can dare the Vision and endure. q will withdraw my face. We'll me in shadow for certain space. And leave behind only a broken clew. A crevice where the glory glimmers thro', Some whisper from the sky. Some footprint in the road to track Me by. "I will leave man to make the fateful guess,
 Will leave him torn between the No ana. | Yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in Mea Drawn upward by that choice that maxos him free Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose.k With all in life to win. or all to lose" q
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21

England uses its garbage for making ed annually in the United States by de- stroying garbage. The borough of Rich mond, New York city, has plant in suc- cessful operation which turns waste ma
 terial into serviceable building blocks. Richmond plant than there is in any other modern American factory. The problem of steady combustion in cold or warm weather has been solved by a specially constructed burner. A novel system of draughts forces the combustion of all waste matter without additional waste of fuel. pound of water is heated by every pound of refuse burned. The steam thus generated runs all the machinery re- quired including the electric lighting sys- tenn of the plant. The clinkers left after combustion form the basis of the building blocks. They are converted into bricks lighter and stronger than those made of clay, by process similar to that of dinary hrickmakng. The clinkers are first ground fine. They are then mixed with a small proportion of cement and run through a brckmaking machine. Some municipalities have tried making fertil- izer out Of garbage, but most of these plants have proved unsatisfactory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21
Regarding Park Concerts

During the past four or five sum- mers bands capable of rendering ex cellent music have been employed to give concerts in the parks of Birming- ham and 1t is hoped some way will be found to raise a fund to pay for open air music again this summer said member of the Chamber of Commerce.
 Year before last the music fund was sufficient to provide a band of 2S men, with MT. Memoii conductor for six concerts a week. The city appropriated 5000, the Birmingham Railway Light and Power company contributed $750 and the Tennessee company contributed about s70o. Smaller contributors brought the total up to nearly $5000. Last year the contributions fell off but the Music Study club, under whose auspices the concerts have been given, was able to employ Memol with a somewhat smaller band for three con- certs a week.
 "I believe that If a concerted effort were made now enough money could be raised to have Memoli and a band of "A men give three concerts a week for at least six or seven weeks. Eight cen hundred dollars would be sufficient for a limited series such as this in dicated
 q believe that if the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary club would back up the Music Study club $2000 could be collected without much diff ficulty, even if the city gave nothing. An open air music tag day would be In order. Several hundred dollars could be raised by that means. There is scarcely a city of 50,000 population in this country that does not have first class open air concerts during the sum- mer. In most cases the city foots the | hills. In a year or two the Birmingham city commission will be able to provide | the music. In the meantime let our public spirited citizens take an interest in this question and give Birmingham what other cities not half so ambitious have in the way of free summer music. Amateur bands are worthy of en- eouragement. They afford diversion for
 their members, but they cannot per- l form the class of music that the peo-
 pie of Birming gham are used to hear ing.
 Park music comes under the head of civic enterprise as we'll as cultural progress And that being so all civic
 workers should be ready to lend help ing hand"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21
A SAD CASE.

"The first month chugson had his motor car he talked of nothing else
 sI see."
 Hes had it year now
 Docs he still talk about it?.'
 "Only when drinking He's one of those fellows who never unbosoms himself of his troubles unless he's drinking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21

GET AWAY FROM IT. Oh, let's uphold the President With all our might and main. War talk to end, why not pretend You've got to catch a train?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21

BEGINNING THE DAY-In the early hours of this day. Q Lord. teach me how periiOus il is to Iiye--how easy to mistake the path. tn choose the worst instead of the better. Help me then to cicave unto that which is good, to hold fast unto Thee lest any man take away my crown. For Jesus sake. Amen.-H. M. 10.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-21
THE WRONG TACTICS.

Those suffragettes who tried to force his recent visit to New York did not make any new friends for their cause and they certainly did nothing to convert MT. VII son.