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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30

jovial moods. Then, too, his powers as mimic were exceptional and in a short time he was not only the fore most picture actor, but the highest paid. Wherever John Bunny went, he was hailed by crowds who recognized him, and often on gala days in cities where he happened to be visiting his progress down a street in his automo- bile was continuous ovation.
 Although Bunny is dead, his work survives in the films, and in this re- spect the moving picture actor is more fortunate than the actor who speaks his lines before an audience. The latter's reputation becomes a legend after his death, but the moving pie ture star may delight audiences many years after his career is ended. No doubt it was this thought which has prompted some of the greatest actors and actresses to appear in the "movies." The financial rewards are great, as Bunny's princely income showed, while the fame so acquired IS tangible and lasting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
She's Mostly Texan

Speaking of versatility, here seems to be the essence of it reinforced, riveted and rolled out into tabloid;
 Over at San Angelo, Tom Green county, Texas, Mrs. Pat Conway has demonstrated that the hand that makes the apple pie is also quick on pistol trigger, as well as mighty ef- fective in yielding a blackjack.
 Mrs. Conway, be it known, is the county jailer On the occasion of re- cent attempted jail break which oc- cured late in the night, Mrs. Con- way chased the fugitives, rounded them up and drove all of them back to their respective cells-all except one. A bunch of doctors got him and took him to hospital.
 The doctors said the jail facilities for bullet probing were not good and unless three or four of the leaden pellets imbedded in the mans anatomy were removed quickly, he probably would die.
 Woman like, the mother instinct in Mrs. Conway is so thoroughly devel- oped that she feeds her prisoners well, and her apple pies are noted for their excellence all over western Texas. Her short crusts make long sentences com paratively pleasant.
 Keeping jail is ordinarily a mans job, but Mrs. Conway is not suf- fragist.
 'I reckon I am mostly Texan," she is quoted as saying to an interviewer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30

ing the week points to better things. Sales locally have been satisfactory and have covered a variety of iron, and while no single tonnage is of unusual size the vol ume foots up well. Confidence is being rapidly restored and this is reflected in so many lines that the aggregate is of great importance and extremely encourage ing Every one seems to be looking for ward more hopefully.
 Reports of better conditions during the first quarter of the year, increase in earn ings by steel companies and railroads, keen interest in large tonnage of finished steel forms and rails, together with large sales of northern and southern iron in the last week. show the trend. Sales of basic and stee-making irons in the central and eastern territories have totaled large amounts and stronger prices on southern iron as result of recent business are re- ported.
 "The far-reaching influence of our for eign war trade is beginning to be felt throughout the entire commercial fab ric Many lines are affected by this which it was hardly expected would be touched. The effect of the great amount of foreign war orders has permeated nearly every in- dustrial and commercial activity to an ex- tent undreamed of by even the most op- timistic.
 Tt is reported that steel plants in the Pittsburg district now operating about TO per cent of normal, with a large ton mage of finished steel products under ne- gotiation. Business in this line during the last month was marked improvement and prospects are for bettering this.
 Mills, shops and factories continue to increase the number of employees as the number of idle freight cars begin to de- crease"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
A Famous Comedian

The career of John Bunny, noted moving picture comedian, who died recently, affords an illustration of the success that sometimes comes to man late in life. Although Mir. Bunny was veteran of the stage, it was only in the past four years that fame and fortune smiled upon him to any considerable extent. For many years he played various parts, having be- gun his career as an actor at the age of 19, and while he made a reputa- tion for himself, it was only when he became a moving picture actor that he won his greatest success.
 His face was said to have been the best known in the world. and that is quite probable. He was shown in the films everywhere and once seen, was never forgotten. He was endowed with comic features to begin with and the passing years had given him the em- bonpoint that. 70 fittingly express
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
The Opening of the Warrior

Since the steel industry became an established factor in the industrial life of Birmingham the greatest event in connection with this districts far reaching development will be the open- ing of the Warrior river from our mineral fields to the gulf.
 Plans have been made for a gen eral celebration of this event on May 13. when the Secretary of War, Llnd- lev M. Garrison, accompanied by sen ators, representatives in Congress and United States army engineers, will be here on tour of inspection.
 The completion of Lock IT puts the Rirninoham district on a navigable waterway and places this city more conspicuously on the map than ever before. It stresses wonderful stride forward and Senator Bankhead, whose untiring efforts in opening the, upper Warrior have been at last suc- cessful, is now the hero of the hour.
 When John H. Bankhead first took his seat in the House of Representa- tives he began his work for the inn movement of the Warrior. He had studied the situation and his presenta- ton of the proposition to the war de- partment engineers was so convincing that the government soon became committed to the vast undertaking. But a great project such as this needed q man like Bankhead on the rivers and harbors committee to be always on the alert and always pressing for ward. Had he not been on "hls job in season and out of season the appro- priations would have been insufficient and the work would have been de- layed; and no telling when we would have had an open Warrior.
 After Bankhead got to the Senate he took up his work where he had left it off in the House, and the cele- bration next month will mark the cul- imitation of his life achievement.
 Secretary Garrison and the dis tinguished men who accompany him to Alabama will be received with un- bounded hospitality by the people of Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. The 18th of May will be, indeed, gala dav and will become memorable in the history of the entire state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
East Lake Ready to Open

East Lake is putting on it's new dress for the opening of the season. which, I understand, is set for Satur- day" said Percy Clark.
 Manager Black has spent quite a sum of money gathering free geo for the children to enjoy
 "The boats and fishing will be in charge of Fred Monteabarro who is an experienced, capable man. He has finished putting the finishing touches of paint and repairs on the boats and they certainly look trim and nice in their new dress
 "The Lake Shore railroad has a third miniature engine-of mogul type This last is the one built especially to show the new Brown valve at the mas ter mechanics convention at Chicago and was shown at Atlantic City also The invention Is a pronounced success and will revolutionize certain parts of locomotive construction. It Is said 1t will throw eight men out of work for each engine installed. The little mogul' can pull five of the cars loaded 20 miles an hour. It is to be handled by Jim Eggler, who is in charge of tiie railroad at East Lake"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
The Southern Commercial Congress

The Southern Commercial congress, which has been meeting at Muskogee, Okla, this week has attracted much attention and the result will be new tide of capital and population to the south.
 With the exception of the meeting of the congress held in Mobile two years ago the sessions at Muskogee have been the most interesting in the history of the organization. Many distinguished public men delivered ad- dresses, and all the discussions were on constructive and practical lines. One of the speakers at Wednesdays session was Alabama's commissioner of agriculture, J. A. Wade; and his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
ALABAMA PRESS

Gadsden Times-News Colonel Roose- yelt is dragging skeletons from the re- publican closets with too much delight to ever be supporter of the G. o. P. again. He is certainly widening the split.
 Shelby County Sum Nobody seems to care much what kind of summer suit President Wilson is going to wear. That's the trouble with republic-it has no fashion autocrat.
 Dothan Morning News: Fathers day was not generally celebrated, owing to fathers ungenerous refusal to shell out the funds for this purpose.
 eventually find that there is good money to be made from raising beef cattle and like stock.
 Andalusia Star: We've often wondered why some rich man didn't set aside a sum of money so all the poor folk could have their homes screened against flies and mosquitoes. What health and happi- ness it would bring!
 Marion County News: Allowing danger ous walls to stand in Birmingham and the accidental killing of a lot of Innocent people is the result of thinking too much about politics and not enough about prac- tical things.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
ACHILLEs OyER THE rRENCH

ACHILLES OVER THE TRENCH Translation from the Iliad by Lord Ten nyson. So saying, light foot Iris pass'd away Then rose Achilles dear to Zeus; and
 round The warriors puissant shoulders Palas
 flung Her fringed aegis: and around his head The glorious goddess wreathd golden
 cloud, And from it lighted all shining flame. As when when smoke from a city goes
 to heaven Far off from out an island girt by foes All day the men contend in grievous war From their own city, but with set of sun Their fires flame thickly and aloft the
 glare Flies streaming, if perchance the neigh
 bors round May see and sail to help them in the war. So from his head the splendor went to
 heaven; From wall to dike he stept, he stood. nor The Achaeans-honoring his wise mothers
 word There standing. shouted, and Pallas far
 away CalPd; and a boundless panic shook the
 foe. For like the clear voice when trumpet
 shrills, Blown by the fierce beleaguerers of .
 town, So rang the clear voice of Aeakides; And when the brazen cry of Aeakides Was heard among the Trojans. all their
 hearts Were troubled. and the full maned horses
 whirrd The chariots backward. knowing griefs at
 hand; And sheer astounded were the chariot- To see the dread unweariabls fire That always OCT the great Peleions' !. head Burn'd. for the bright-eyed goddess made
 1t burn. Thrice from the dike he sent his mighty
 shout, Thrice backward reerd the Trojans and allies; And there and then twelve of their noblest
 died Among their spears and chariots.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30

the manner that MT. Moffet pictures the
 Germans as doing in 1921. That was at
 the time when the United States had no
 navy, except a few old wooden ships left
 over from the civil war
 The Chinese navy, which was then
 really superior to that of the United
 States, was some years later sent to the
 bottom of the sea by the Japanese in
 the battle of Yalu river. The story that
 pictured it's attack on New York was a
 great exaggeration of possibilities and
 seems ridiculously absurd in the light of
 the present. but. along with much other literature of the kind in circulation at that time, the story stimulated Congress to building the new navy that came quite conveniently into use at the time of the
 war with Spain.
 If the play called "The Englishman's
 Home" had had a similar effect in caus- ing Great Britain to provide for a con | script service like those they have in the continental countries of Europe, she would I be in a much better position for defense today than the latest phase of the war in Flanders sees to indicate.
 It is the Banners belief that if a for eign army of 10000 men, whatever their
 nationality, should succeed in landing in New York, and undertake conquest of New England, they would never get out of the country alive or free. A million American volunteers would overwhelm them in the course of a few weeks But l these volunteers would be little more than
 an armed mob without trained officers and without equipment. They could suc- ceed only by force of numbers. Still, while MT. Moffet's imaginings
 may be picturesque and entirely beyond the bounds of anything now probable,
 may, in fact, transcend possibility, they
 picture a danger from some source to
 which the country is exposed or rather
 will be exposed when the present Euro pean war is concluded and the victor has sufficiently recuperated to undertake other conquests
 This country doesn't need aaconscript system or a large standing army, but it should have an adequate navy in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, large supply of submarines, both for sea going and coast defense, and enough soldiers to meet any ! emergency pending the organization of volunteer army.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30

From the Philadelphia Telegraph
 One afternoon little Willie, who had been playing out on the lawn, entered the house and thoughtfully approached his mother.
 Mamma" said he, where do they keep the bear down in our church?"
 "The bear, child?' asked Willie's mother, with a wondering expression. What bear? Who ever told you such q ridiculous thing as that?"
 Nobody told me-" was the quiet re- Joinder of the perplexed youngster. but every time I go to church they always sing something about the con- secrated cross-cyed bear"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
Anti-TuhercuIos.s Notes

"A touching incident occurred at the dispensary yesterday afternoon when a poor negro woman who had been exam ined for tuberculosis, finding that the association was without funds, scraped together all the money she had with her and gave it to the nurse' said a cit izen. Another woman, who came with her sister to be examined stirred by this example, did the same thing, and the association was richer by 50 cents. Gifts like these are worth much more than their face value.
 Few Birmingham people understand how great is the pressure on the Anti Tuberculosis association this year through the loss of s2OO monthly from the city S appropriation. The work is very dear to the people of Birmingham, but numerous and sustained gifts are necessary to prove over again the high place it holds in the affections of many
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
A "SCARY' STORY
From the Nashville Banner.

From the Nashville Banner
 kkn HE Conquest of America" a
 story in the May McClures is
 the latest contribution to that class of literature which seeks to warn the United States against the danger of being unprepared to repel a foreign in- vasion. It is by Cleveland Moffet and he places himself in the hypothetical attitude of a correspondent of the London Times in the year 1921, describing an attack on New York by hostile German fleet, and the subsequent surrender of that city and Boston.
 The story is that the United States be- ing apprehensive of trouble with Japan, had sent all the important vessels of the navy into the Pacific. While this condi- ton existed 600 tons of dynamite, se- creted in the hold of a German merchant vessel, was exploded as the vessel passed through the Gatun locks of the Panama canal and 10000 tons of Port land cement had sunk in the tangled iron wreck to form huge blockading mass of solid rock on the floor of the narrow passage"
 This was followed by declaration of war from Germany and German trans- ports loaded with troops, conveyed by a fleet of battleships. set sail for New York
 It is not worth while to follow in detail MT Moffet's sensational and graphic story. q may add" he says, that at this time the United States army, in spite of many efforts to increase the size, num- bered fewer than 10000 men, and so many of these were tied up as coast artillery or absent in the Philippines, Honolulu and the canal zone, that only about 3O,0O0 were available as mobile forces for the na- tional defense.''
 The Germans had landed 150, 900 thorough ly equipped men on Long Island and New York was practically without defense. The fall of New York and Boston and the rapid conquest of New England followed; the rest of the story to be told in sub sequent installment.
 All of this is very remindful to those whose memory goes back 30 years ago Of a similar story written in the eighties, which told how the new Chinese feet just then constructed, sailed around Cape Horn and attacked New York very much after
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
Russia Seeks Our Friendship

Newspaper offices in these days have daily evidence of the magnitude of the publicity bureaus operated by the European nations at war. Each nation not only has representatives in America sending out tons of literature bolstering their cause, but also maln- tains these bureaus at home which send pamphlets, magazines, newspa- pers, booklets-anything which will present their aspect of the war favor ably to Americans.
 Perhaps the most striking feature about this campaign is the fact that Russia is not behind the others in seeking the favorable opinion of Americans. Among other things yes terday the mails brought an attractive booklet, "Russia's Gift to the World" by J. w. Mackail, and the February number of the journal of the Russian American Chamber of Commerce, sAwhich has offices in Moscow. Mir. Maekail reviews entertainingly what Russia has given the world in litera- ture. music. art, drama, mathematics, physical science, biology, history, philosophy and sociology.
 The journal of the Chamber of Con- merce is printed in both Russian and English and contains some news facts not seen elsewhere. For instance:
 Out of 54 furnaces in south Russia IS have been stopped owing to lack of cars to supply them with fuel and ore.
 Moscow spinning mills lack cot ton from central Asia.
 Insufficient supply of freight cars is hindrance to the whole economic life of the nation.
 The ministry of the interior takes very favorable attitude toward the formation of joint stock com panies to develop watering places. both in Russia and Siberia.
 Animation of trade with America has caused great congestion at the port of Vladvostok. Goods ex- changed at this port show: 1908, 24.300000 poods 1913. S3,S00,000 poods; 1914, 90,O0O,O0O poods Meas ures have been taken for enlarge ment of the piers, increase in num- Der of warehouses and purchase of new ice breakers.
 MT. Leed, the great English ex- porter, is now in Siberia, and this summer will take nine vessels from England to Siberia by the northern route and distribute the cargoes by the Siberian rivers
 Three routes are now open to Russia: Via Vladivostok, via Arch angel and via Scandinavia and Fin land The Archangel route is un- satisfactory because railroads are so busy handling war munitions. - NAmong the chief products Russia offers for export to America are bristles, calf skins, dry calfs hides, flax and flax materials, dressed flax, horse hair and COW hair hare skins raw and dressed, hops, old rubber and rubber waste, beetroot seeds. karokul, skins and sheep wool.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30

Under the new constitution of Dennoa Fl, women will have the right to vote. The basic law of Denmark is said to be the most democratic to be found anywhere in the world Every woman of legal age will be able to vote for members of the lower house. The minimum age is 9 years
 Woman suffrage has had easy sailing in Denmark. From the beginning it was seen that women would be given the bal lot. There was no agitation and none of the lawlessness that has characterized Engllsh's womens struggle for suffrage. Danlsh women were given the right to vote for members of the city councils years ago. Now they will vote for mem- bers of the Rigsdag. They may also be elected to the Rigsdag on the same foot ing with men. The two sexes will be treated exactly alike by the new constitu- ton. While there will be more votes ca st. it is not believed that women in Dem mark will modify the political situation to any extent until they have had political training. The new constitution will have to be passed by new Rigsdag, for which an election will take place May 31. It is expected that the King will sign the con- stitution June 5, the anniversary of the signing of the old constitution in 1s4s. However, the election of Rigsdag mem- bers may be postponed until after the war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
UNCONQUERABLE

From the Kansas City Star.
 The habit of never being whipped of always keeping up the fight-that IS man who never admits defeat is the man the world has to take into &C., count. Time and again the foes he is fighting may think they have him down. But before they know it he Is on his feet sounding the advance.
 Such man molds events. He helps create the new heavens and the new earth of the prophets vision.
 mighty force of the universe is the unconquerable soul.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
The Public Ought to Know

F. M Jackson, in commenting upon the effort of the master plumbers to make the people acquainted with the present plumbing laws and the disadvantages under which they work, had this to say:
 Tt is always best for the public to know, and I certainly commend the effort of the master plumbers to show to the people of Birmingham the disadvantages of the present plumbing laws under which they are compelled to operate.
 'The business in which 1 am engaged gives me an opportunity to see the injus tices of these recent laws It takes from $10 to $15 more to install an ordinary plumbing job for small house than it did before this ordinance was in effect. am satisfied in my own mind that this difference in cost is not essential. It is burden that falls hard on those who are least able to care for additional costs in the installation of plumbing which is be- coming necessary all over the district on account of the completed sewerage area. Ordinances should be enacted that would meet the requirements of all the people.
 T had occasion to examine the exhibit by the master plumbers Every person who possibly can ought to visit this ex- hibt. It is instructive, and I believe if every fair minded man in the city would see the inequalities and injustices that exist, universal demand would be made upon the city commission to repeal the present ordinance, and adopt one that would be equitable and right
 "I have frequently heard it stated that when travelling men reach Birmingham. representing other manufacturers, they talk about Birmingham specials and when they have an article of the same kind that has been approved by other sanitary inspectors, that is just as good and just as effective. at a very much bet ter price, they and the public wonder why this is so. Whoever is responsible for these very apparent inconsistencies which bring about a higher cost in plumbing ought to take steps to correct this trou- | ble.
 "I could call attention to many facts in connection with these complaints but all l this information can be had by a visit to the exhibit that is being made by the master plumbers in the building occupied by the Birmingham Railway. Light and
 Power company on Twenty-frst street.
 q repeat, the people should know and
 the omy way to know is for somebody to
 call their attention to these troubles. l
 make this statement hoping thereby to 1 give some aid in the correction of these
 apparent abuses"
 1 The Iron Market
 Rogers. Brown & Co.'S Cincinnati report saye in mart:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-30
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

\ TRUSTS THEM ABSOLUTELY.
 A cynic says men have no confidence in each other. That may or may not be true, but have you ever stopped to think about the faith the average man has ir his suspenders?