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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-21
ALABAMA PRESS

Montgomery Advertiser: Alabama has the advantage of logic in its impending controversy with Mississippi over the Jackson highway issue. The only tell 1 ing argument Mississippi can make is the fact that the route through that state is straighter, more direct But nas Mis-
 sissippi the improved highways already constructed, as has Alabama? Has Mis- | sissippi the same historic interest in Jack
 son which Alabama has? Has Mississippi third of the population on her proposed route which Alabama has on her pro-
 posed route? will Mississippi be able to
 maintain such a road as we'll as Alabama, the richer statef
 Mobile Register Mir. Bryan Is going to Europe to talk peace. Let Mir Roosevelt go, too. He can talk war; and then the Europeans can hear both sides, and make
 wise choice of what they are to do. A little friendly help of thls sort will be graceful thing, and besides. we may be rid of two disturbing factors while we settle our own delicate questions. Anniston Star: Memphis Is brasgins about having a night blooming cereus. Over in Birmingham the other night we
 saw blooming idiot
 
 WHO READS THE BEST SIX NOVELS
 From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. In the symposium conducted by the Public Ledger on the best six novels in English, Vanity Fair was tho choice of half of the 2s voting novelists; Tom Jones" was second. The masterpieces of Dickens, Scott, Hawthorne and Defos were mentioned. and among recent nov elists Hardy alone found high place. The extraordinary thing about the chosen novels is that they ars not fre- auently read. If one takes Into account their prestige and the publicity which has been given them by generations of critics, they are really far behind the six best sellers of last month. Every one admits they are great; few know why, because few read them steadily. One of the reasons for this unhappy circumstance is that many of the great est novels are required reading in schools. rom Jones' is seldom required. and the affection it begets is much greater than that of the others. For many thoushtful readers Scott Is spoiled forever because 100 pages had to be read by next Tues day" David Copperfield' is remembered merely because it is insufferably long when you happen to be preparing for a quiz on 1t. "3e prepared to discuss the character of Becky sharp has ruined Vanity Fair" irretrievabiy for 1000 po- tentia lovers of great novels.
 Of course. this Is no argument against the teaching of literature in schools. It is an argument for teaching literature not as lessons and assignments, but as part of life. a good and great part. If they were so taught the greatest six novels might also he the six most read.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-21
NEITHER ARE HEAvYwEIGHTs

From the Charleston News and Courier.
 Carranzas 8 pen seems to be decidedly mIghtier than his sword.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-21

King George smashed precedent in a good cause by toasting President Wilson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-21

To be honest as this world goes, is to he one man picked out of ten thou- sand. -Henry II.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-21
POINT IN HIS FAVOR.

POINT IN HIS FAVOR. The cave man had his faults, no doubt, As we all have. alas; But when he>}<Docked his neighbor out He didn't fight with gas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-21
DIFFICULT TASK

Whats Professor Diggs doing these dsys?'
 He's trying to decipher Babylonian tablet"
 Any results so far7''
 Yes. Mrs. Diggs has nervous prostra- ton and the children have been sent to the home of a relative"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-21
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
SELECT CIRCLE.

SELECT CIRCLE. How was the social life at the .um- mer resort you visited7"
 "oh, quite gay. The pulmotor set were particularly lively" 'The 'pulmotor set'7"
 "Yes. The young women who had been rescued from drowning"
 QUITE VAIN. Kippsrs Is that he has an exaggerated Idea of his own importanoe." "r hadn't noticed it."
 But it's fact. Why, he thinks he's the only man on earth who could have married Mrs. Kippers." BUSINESS NECESSITY. Yer honor, if yer'l let me go dis timeI I'll never appear before yer on dis charsss again." I'm afraid you are not sincere" T mean 1t, yer honor. Dere ain't no money no more fin pickin' pockets. I got. ta git mine some other way" AVOIDING TROUBLE A certain type of citizen You very often meet; He talks of little else besides The corns upon his feet. And while a tiresome topic, still It might be worse, by far; With him it isn't hard to keep
 From arguing bout the war
Evening star., 1915-06-06
What a Barber Earns

THAT is one of his pcrquisitcs, and in a
profession that goes back into dim CEN
turics and proudly announces itself as the
mother profession of modern surgery, per-
quisitcs count for something. In the mod
crn barber shop in the modern city they
count for something definite. The Jour-
ncyman barber may be paid only $40 or
$l2 week, rarely more than that. ex-
cept perhaps on the Pacific Coast, where
all labor commands higher prices. but in
almost every ease he receives a commits
sion of from twenty to thirtythree per
cent. on his weekly earnings over say. S25
Then there are special commissions paid
sometimes on the sale of hair tonic and
other condiments
After which there remain the tips, al
ways a probcmatical figure, and dcpen-
dent largely upon the skill and cordiality
of the barber. So il will be seen in an
Evening star., 1915-06-06
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for June 6, 1915
&C Next!''
By
EDWARD HUNCERFORD

IN this number Edward Hungerford begins
series of articles giving inside figures and inside
facts of some typical American businesses.
Each article is written from first-hand investi-
cation: each one gives a remarkable picture of
the factors that make for success or failure in
it, of the risks, opportunities, earnings, and
drawbacks that a man encounters in each
calling. MIR. Hungerfords next article will
deal with 1.-The American Hotel''
Evening star., 1915-06-06
Gives Bargain Shaves

A SMART barber who runs a shop in a
city in the middle part of the country
has worked out an ingenious plan for the
development of his own business His shop
is situated on a side street, nearer the
residence section of the town than tho
business. His rent is low; but his location
not such as to draw much transient busi-
ness. Yet he runs eighteen chairs, and
keeps them filled almost all day long.
This man has worked out an ingenious
scheme. If you wish to become regular
patron of his shop, he will sell you on the
first day of each month card, which en-
titles you to a daily shave, two har-cuts,
and two shampoos. This card costs YOU
three dollars, and is great saving-if you
can reach his shop regularly. Even if you
do this, and use the card down to its last
punch-mark, the boss smiles on you pleas
antly He is not losing. He is bringing
to his shop the life-blood of any busi-
ness,-steady income.
A successful shop or store, a retail busi-
ness of any sort, is rarely built up on
what an engineer would call a peak
load" The smart boss barber in Ohio
has already learned that. And if really
large syndicate of barber shops should
ever come into being, you may count upon
him as leading it.
Evening star., 1915-06-06

IA Oh SOclal democracy lIc oHoI) vi
~ the Striped Pole is to be at once
L - compared with the voting booth
and the jury boX,-where each man is the
peer of every other man and sharing
equally the Republic privileges of life, lib
erty, freedom, etc. You may be the chief
man in your town,-and let us hope that
you arc,-but when you step within the
door of the Shop of the Striped Pole the
head barber looks up for "A single moment
from his chair. smiles his impartial smile
of greeting to all good customers, and
merely says:
"rhcrc are only five ahead of you, Mr..
Binks."
With three chairs working and two of
them engaged upon somewhat compli-
Gated performances, you look dubiouSly
at the prospect. 1t is Saturday,-a short
day even in your town, which has not
acquired all the metropolitan vices as yet.
There is to be IA meeting Of the directors
out at your factory, and YOU also must
make the bank before the noon whistle
blows After that Jinks is going to take
you out to lunch and II couple of rounds
at the Country Club, and YOU do not
know when you will be back After that
noon, and you pass the plate tomorrow
morning in church.
You recount these things quickly in
your mind. There is another shop at the
new hotel but it is sure to be more
crowded; another down near the carriage
works, but it has foreign BARRIERS; then
You have come to this shop for eighteen
years now, and
You slink meckly into seat and pick
up a comic paper, three weeks old and
badly thumbcd At another time YOU
might enjoy it; but now you are thinking
of the time you are going to waste until
the two mechanics from the paper mill,
old DR.. Hedges, the links chaffcur and
weascl-faccd stranger in town. shall have
had their opportunity and your time is
come. You fuss and fumc-inwardly. At
heart you are an aristocrat. You drop
the comic weekly and pick up religious
one-and find ironic JOY in so doing. Fl
nally in your ears this:
"All ready, Mr.. Binks."
1t is your favorite barber.-thc favorite
barber of all the wise men of the town.
lie tucks you in as a mother might tuck
in her child, and runs his fat finger over
your jowls as butcher might inspect n
fresh carcass in from the storehouse. But
you like it-you honestly do! The splosh
of the lathcr on your cheek has feeling
of enchantmcnt; while in your ears there
runs the music of the choice gossip of the
town. In the chair the time goes quickly.
There is gay banter as we'll as a democracy
in the place, and before you know it you
are sitting upright again, and the barber
is softly asking:
"Isn't it about time we tackled the
hair once again."
What a Barber Earns
THAT is one of his pcruuisitcs. and in
Evening star., 1915-06-06

fifteen years ago, and I'd have eighteen
or twenty shavcs and perhaps half dozen
jobs of hair-cutting, shampooing, and the
like. Now | won't shave more than five
or six men in the passing of single day
But the shop keeps just as many chairs,
and every chair is just as busy as then be-
cause more men come to it, and because
every man wants more work these days:
not only hair-cutting, but shampooing,
singeing, facial massage, all those things
that used to be looked on as dudificd but
now have become a part of every business
mans routine"
Evening star., 1915-06-06

instant that the barber, like the waiter
and the sleeping-car porter, draws his real
income not from his employer. but from his
patrons. And this is not IA tradition that
goes back through centuries of barbering
1t came in with the tipping habit, one of
the European nllisances that we have i'm
ported.
For even such established institutions
as barber shops do progress. 1t was a
long time ago that the ancient profession
of the cuppcr and the leecher was married
to the able profession Of the shoe sinner.
And more recently others have come
the chiropodist and the manicure (who
is an institution of herself. and therefore
deserves her own story.
Some big modern shops. particularly
those situated in or near the large railroad
terminals, have complete bath and dress
ing rooms. and valet service in addition.
But the once familiar swinging sign of the
tin bathtub which always used to hang ad-
jacent to the Striped Pole, has disappeared.
The private bathtub has become one of
the Great American Institutions.
Barber Shop 90 Years from Now
WILL the barber shop itself disappear
as well? There are some worldly wise
folk who aver that they already see signs
of its forthcoming disintegration. They
will call your attention to the number of
your friends who today shave themselves
perhaps you yourself have that ceanly
and efficient habit And the roll seems to
be growing constantly.
Barber shops. yes" they will tell YOU
"but not to shave in. The barber shop
of the future will be a hair-cuttng estab-
lishment simply and entirely
And, as if in support of this theory,
they can show you right in the heart of
the city of New York two or three shops
in which man could no more hope for
"A shave than in cigar store or tango
palace. And there is smart old shop
foreman down in the Wall Street district
whose name is almost as we'll known as
any of the big brokers there. who can
tell you of the changing taste of his
patrons.
"Thosc fellows uptown who will only
cut hair are really French beard cutters,
he says; "but they get away with it pretty
well. just as my old boss used to get away
with it with his name and Hair Cutter
underneath it stuck up in the biggest gilt
letters on the door. The big bugs would
wait for him to tackle their hair, and get
a worse job of it than they would have
had at any other chair in the shop. Still,
that's all in the days work.
81 can see the difference in the business
these days myself, though. Twelve or
Evening star., 1915-06-06

yond the bellboys' bench, through devious
and winding back halls and alleys, to be
eventually let into an unused storeroom
where nervous barber hovers over an
improvsed chair, and between uncertain
strokes dreams of the police and Jail
sentence.
You Can't Shave in Cincinnati
SUCH cities as New York, Chicago, San
- Francisco and New Orleans proclaim
their metropoitanism by permitting their
barber shops to run openly and legally
on Sunday. Boston has the advantage of
a Massachusetts statute permitting hotel
guests to be shaved in their own rooms.
And in a good many other cities the
hotels have made such a statute for their
own convenience The State laws are al
most always forbidding on this point
Thcaters may run, films do likewise. soda
fountains gurgle, but if a man wishes to
be shaved in a barber shop on Sunday he
is Immediately classcd among the fcons.
There Is variation. of course. in the
way these State laws are observed In
Cleveland a man may be shaved easily
in shop on Sunday. In Cincinnati the
thing is absolutely taboo. In Kansas City
YOU may be publicly scrapcd; but in st.
Louis, in the same State one must go
unshaved or else cross the bridge to East
st. Louis-which is nearly as bad. In
Atlanta YOU are shaved on Sunday by nm
aged and badly scared negro, who charges
you five times the regular tariff for trem-
bling on the verge of a Jail settlement;
but in Savannah-well, Savannah is not
in the same State as Atlanta
The immediate result of these strict
laws in regard to opening barber shops
on Sunday was to boom the safcty-razor
trade. A man had more necessity of be-
ing clean-shaved on Sunday than on al
most any other day And having solved
the problem by shaving himself, it followed
as only a matter of natural course that
he would shave himself each day of the
week. So the BARRIERS found themselves
shaving six men day instead of sixteen,
and the business for its very existence has
fallen back upon the development of its
specialties. Men cannot cut their own
hair. The barber thanks Heaven for that.
Other businesses, Indispensable and
highly profitable, are being gathered
into the chan-store systems across the
country The barber shops, apparently
being neither Indispensable nor highly
profitable, have so far escaped this proc-
ess of economic evolution.
Evening star., 1915-06-06
Side Lines the Salvation

TT is the development of special side
lines, then, that has saved the barber
shop, just at the very time that the safety
razor threatened its very existence. But
before the crisis arose there We're shops
that did not hesitate at specialties, nor at
applying them by brute force. There is
tradition that in one of the historic
hotels in downtown New York country
man once paid $l2 .45 after single session
in its barber shop, and was fortunate in
escaping with his life.
BY singular coincidence it was probably
the barber himself who was the begin
ming of the popular craze for the safety
razor. Not by his own methods or lack
of cleanliness so much as by his own auto
cratic position, did he give strength to
his new opponent. He had forgotten one
thing. He had forgotten that to II man
whose beard grows fast and black an open
shop each day of the week is necessity,
just as an open drugstore each day of the
week is a necessity. Drugstores and rail-
roads and newspapers and telephone eX-
changes manage to operate seven days a
week by giving their employees Sundays
scattered through the week.
But the barber would not see it that
way. He sought to work each of his men
seven days week, and long hours in
addition. They rebeled. And in one
State after another the men. working
through their well organized unions, Sc
cured the passage of laws closing the bar
bcr shops all day Sunday.
These laws still hold. And getting
shave on Sunday in many towns deserves
to he rcckoned among the great American
adventures. 1t is quite out of the ques-
ton, unless you are willing to paya barber
privately and have him come to your
house on Sabbath morning, or else have a
friend who is running a hotel. In this
last case you will probably be examined
more minutely than a German suspect
going into the English lines. and, having
passed this examination successfully. will
be conducted through small door be-
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Miss Clara Hough
is New Librarian
moReANrowN YOUNG WOMAN
RECENTLY REcATAloGuEo
NORMAL SCHOOL LIBRARY

Miss Clara Hough. of Morgantown,
has been selected by the Fairmont
Public Library Association to Ill, ten.
porarily, the place as librarian of the
Public Library. made vacant by the
resignation OF Miss Gladys Fisher.
Miss Hough will arrive here on Mon.
day to take charge of the library. Miss
Fisher leaves Friday for Morgantown.
Miss Hough is well known in this
city. having a short time ago cata.
logued the books at the Normal school
library. Several applications have
been received for the place as lib
rarian of the Public Library but have
not been acted upon and 1t is not
known Just when the place will be
filed,
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HUNTING SEASON
ISSOON' CLOSE
With the End Of This Month
&c 1924 Hunting Licenses
Become Void.

Rabbits foxes and racoons residing
In the fields and forests OF Marion
county are planning a hilarious cele.
bratlon for New Years day. January
!, when the game laws OF the state
again become effective for their pro.
lection. After midnight December 81
Bunny and Reynard may frisk and
lightSwithout danger from the hunters
gun and o Joyous new year Is antici.
pated by the furry denizens OF the
hills OF Marion county.
The Estate game laws for the protec:
tion Of quail. pheasant, squirrels and
other game have been In effect for a
number OF weeks, but Bunny and Rey.
nard will have q trying time lodging
the hunter during the holiday week
preceding New Years day. The great:
er number of the 1924 men and wo-
men who have been granted licenses
TO hunt by "A. G.. Martin, clerk Of the
Marion County court, will probably
take advantage Of the holidays to spend
at least a little time In the fields be:
fore the beginning OF the new year
when their licenses expire.
NC n luluillcat FuhL6tIS Tue topltt
the Fox and the Rabbit must face
during the coming week, will how
ever. be followed by a long period OF
peaceful security for all the hunters
licenses granted this year expire at
midnight, on December 81, and no more
will be issued until early next fall
preceding the opening Of the 1916
game season.
During the coming months OF colo
and snow Bunny. Reynard and the
feathered denizens of the hills may
repose peacefully in their snug win
ter homes or Journey forth in search
oftood and recreation In security. Dur.
ing the warm days of sniping the
quail and pheasant may woo and win
his mate with none to modest OF
threaten as he fits among the trees
with his Joyous song of love. Dur.
Ing the long summer months his home
snug among the hills will not be dis
turbed by the hunter and father and
mother may rear their family pro-
tected by! the strong arm OF the law
from molestation by human kind.
Late in the summer, however, the
protection of the law will for time
be withdrawn and armed with licenses
bearing the seal Of the state, hunters
will again be permitted to seek the
lives of the feathered and furry deni.
zens of stheSwild.
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Parkersburg Finds
Lost Corner Stone
BUT MASONIC CEREMONY TWICE
POSTPONED, MAY NOT &C.
CUR TILL SPRING


The corner stone for the Parkers.
burg Tigh School building. which was
lost In transit, has been located, &C.
cording to news from that city and is
now on its way there. The stone was
located at Washington and was trans.
fcrred to the B. and o. railroad ana
there routed to Parkersburg. Consid.
cradle Inconvenience has been caused
by the stone going astray. Two dates
were set for the laying Of the stone,
but owing to Its failure to reach Par.
kersburg. the ceremonies were called
Off. No new date has been set as yet
for the laying OF the stone and the
ceremony may be postponed until
spring. It is thought the stone will
be on the ground. at least, by that
time.
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No Arrests Made-so far there have
been no arrests made in the robbery
ofthe Morgan and Vangilder store on
Market street early yesterday morn.
ing. But small losses were discovered
ct the store and It is figured that the
lumber OF missing articles will be
very small.
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Court News
peeda Filled

The following deeds were yester.
day filed with County Clerk a. G..
Martin for recording:
]. E. Jasper and wife to w. C. Ma.
lone. parcel OF land in. the village
of Colfax. Consideration $500.
j. Glenn Parrish and wife to VII.
liam G. Malone. parcel OF land in
the village of Colfax. Consideration
$4,000.
Cyrena Straight and husband to
Nancy A. Straight, a parcel OF land
on Panther Lick Run in Paw Paw
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district. C
Consideration s1.5oo.

dlstflct. CONSIDERATION Sl,500.
William d. Ice, Jr., and wife TO
George w. Ice, ct ais, u parcel OF
land in Fairmont district. Considera.
ton 500.
W. L. Fox and wifc to the Fairview
Athletic Association. parcel OF land
in the village of FaIrview. Consider.
alton $500.
License Issued
The following marriage license was
yesterday issued By County Clerk a.
G. Martin:
Clyde Hail, Is. and Lille Gump,
81, both of Warrington.
Administrator Named
w. II. Bunner was named admins.
traitor of the personal estate OF the
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Fined Five DoIlars.-Robert wilke.
shire. OF Uniontown, was arrested last
night on his way from the Baltimore
and Ohio station to the traction line
TO get II car for Grant Town., Wilke.
shire was picked up for being drunk,
to which charge he pleaded guilty be.
fore Mayor Anthony Bowen this morn.
ing. lie was fined So and costs, which
lie paid.
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JOE MURPHY
GETS PONY
IN CARNIVAL
Continued from page u

and the winners will call at Carnival
Headquarters, 404 Main street, Watson
Hotel Building, for them. Those who
have cash commissions due will also
call for their checks at the saa'n hour.
Tho jules report follows:
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Pay Car Here = The Mononga.
bella Railway company's pay car ar.
rived herelat II o'clock this morning
With pay for it's employees for the
first half Of December.
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hunters Lleenses-Count Clerk A.
g. Martin and his assistants are be.
ginning to think of the new applica.
tons for hunters licenses which will
begin to come in with the new year.
Al 1915 permits expire with this
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CITY BRIEFS.

Surgical operatlon-Will Deshon, a
CORNER resident OF Fairmont. who Is
now manager of theatre in Hunting.
ton, will submit to minor surgical
operation lin hospital in that city
thi1E week.