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

highest degree reassuring. The Con- stitution, in an editorial on the mat ter referred to, says among other things:
 "The conclusion reached by Mr. Randolph, and every other lawyer and business man who has intelligently studied the act creating the commits sion, is that it's functions are to exert a distinctly constructive effect upon business in America. There will be no tearing down, no drastic regula- tions. If there is any cutting and slashing, it will be of dead timber that impedes the full restoration to pros- perity.
 "An especially significant feature of Mr. Randolph's analysis is that it brings out one of the duties of the commission to be to clear the fog of the twilight zone' that surrounds the Sherman antitrust act and the Clay ton antitrust act. The chief dread business has had of these two statutes is that it has been left uncertain where it stands under them, and in what manner to proceed, how far to go, what is legal and illegal. It is now to have a tribunal that will, in perfectly friendly and cooperative and constructive spirit, aid it in find ing way out of the woods"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
Increased Interest in Education

Increased Interest Tn Education
 The thirty-fourth annual conven- ton of the Alabama Educational as- sociation which closed it's three days meeting at Montgomery yesterday will be remembered as one of the best ever held. Nearly 2000 members were enrolled and while the attend ance at last years convention was somewhat larger the enthusiasm which marked the Montgomery pro- ceedings was never exceeded, per haps, in the history of the associa- ;! tion.
 The addresses delivered and the papers read and discussed were re- marked at once for their timeliness and their animating spirit. The col leges were well represented and dis tinguished educators participated in the work of the convention, but the largest representation was, of course, from the public schools and some of the most Eliminating discussions were led by principals and teachers. The slogan of the convention, "Il- literacy in Alabama-Let's Remove it." had a wonderfully stimulating ef- feet. All the members seemed con- sumed with a desire to do something to hasten the day when every young man and young woman in this state will be able to read and write.
 Education in Alabama has received decided impetus from the activities of the educational association. The teachers are full of zeal and no pro- fessional class has in it more notable examples of self-sacrifice for the good of humanity. In most cases teachers in the public schools are poorly paid yet many of them offer their services free in conducting night classes for the benefit of children and adults who cannot attend the day schools.
 Not until the proposed amendment authorizing counties and school dis tricts to levy special taxes for school purposes becomes law will public school education in the rural sections make strides, but the Alabama illiteracy commission, newly created will, in the meantime, with the hearty cooperation of the educational asso- citation, accomplish much in that di- rection. The school tax amendment will be ratified by the people at the general election in November, 1916; and it should not be long thereafter when a schoolhouse, large and sani- tary, is seen at every cross roads 1T Alabama, and when every country school will be open full term.
 Now is the time for valuable pre- liminary work and the educators and the commission are eager to under take it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 The sort of man who gets highly peeved because he can't find socks that will exactly match his necktie never makes a very big dent in the sands of time.
 There is just about as much fighting talk nowadays as there was before the telephone became q necessity, but there are fewer black eyes these days.
 The man who goes to church on Easter Sunday merely to hear the music derives a whole lot more benefit than the woman who goes merely to see the hats.
 Old Man Smallpox Is some unpopular. But he hasn't much on the only winner in poker game after an all-night ses- sion.
 If men would work as much as they talk we would all have money
 The old-fashioned man who used to judge a newspaper by it's editorial page now has son who judges it by it's sport ing page
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

who face the firing line. This may be well enough in military way.
 But while the band plays, the flags flutter and the crowd cheers the sol diers on their way, let us not forget that back of them, obscured in the shadow of the war cloud, stand the women-wives, mothers, sisters, sweethearts, who after all, are the real victims of wars desolation.
 These women live through weary days and endless nights of suspense, victims of loneliness and anxiety, oft en pinched by poverty. They fight battles in the face of which the most grizzled veterans would quail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
THIS IS THE LIFE

We're glad it's Sunday morning,
 We can stay at home and rest, Or else we go and listen
 To the preacher we like best. Our wise and great commission ii Might let us see a reel, Then, perhaps, they just might not If that's the way they feel. We can take little ride
 Or stroll around the zoo. Can eat a bag of popcorn
 And a sack of peanuts too. Back home in time for supper,
 To church or call on friends, Then go home and go to sleep
 And that's how Sunday ends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
SYD'S SCRIBBLINGS
A FISHING LINE OR TWO.

 When the sun begins to finger And to coax the blossoms out My mind just seems to fix itself On Dream and perch and trout I'm longing for Lake Purdy, A rod and line and reel. If you've ever been a-fishing You know just how I feel I never mind the redbugs If the catfish also bite, And the ants all over biscuits Never bother me mite. We care not for such trifles Or any other thing, When the fish are madly biting And the trout are on our string.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
A Job for HosOn

From one of former Congressman
 R. P. Hobson's speeches, when, he was
 opposing oscar Underwood for the
 United States Senate, he shadowed
 forth a novel idea something like this:
 Elect him senator and he would make
 himself so ueful that he would some day become an international executive "a sort of worldwide ruler or regula- tor" remarked an old democrat and dyed-in-the-wool local optionist. q haven't Hobson's speech before me, but what I gathered from 1t was that there was something in store for him great CT than mere national position or na- tional power-when all the nations of the earth formed a combine or uni versal merger, so to speak. All he need ed was a stepping stone along the Sem ate route.
 'Well, MT. Hobson took his defeat in good nature and it may be that some big international plum will yet be in
 his reach. Russia has nation wide pro- hibition. Great Britain is talking about having it. France is headed for near prohibition Germany is headed like wise and our Anti-Saloon league friends tell us that we will have na- tion-w wide prohibition in 1920 or soon thereafter
 If this should come to pass it would not be unreasonable to think that most of the countries of Europe would be dry territory Hobson would be the very man for international superin- tendent He would then be a bigger
 man than Brooks Lawrence. And tho job ought to pay handsomely"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

The German prisoners in France are happy. They probably realize that even though they are prisoners of war their surroundings are more conducive to health and continued existence than on the bat to lines with several thousand Britishers and Frenchmen taking hot shots at them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
Wars Real Victims

Just an incident of war, you say, as you hurriedly scan your newspaper and read where hundreds have fallen in battle. Just an atom in the aggre- gate of conflict consequences is the death of score. an hundred or a thousand men.
 Poems are written, songs are sung and flags are waved in honor of men
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
HE WAS CLEVER. ALL RIGHT.

HE WAS CLEVER, ALL RIGHT.
 My dear" said the wife of one of our most prominent bankers, do you realize birthday"
 'Yes. dearest, I did forget it." replied the husband. Isn't it natural that I you to remind me that you are a day older than you were year ago."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
BEGINNING THE DAY-I would

BEGINNING THE DAY-I would fix my eyes today, God, upon my
 risen Lord. May l know Him not only as dying but ns rising again, having broken asunder the bands of death. show me the pendent seal or the empty tomb. Show me the Victor coming forth clad for the sky. Thou Conqucror of the last enemy. Thou art my Hero, my King. Fill me with the unquenchable hope be- gotten in Thy victory. With Thee I shall be unmOvcd even in the crash of worlds and the wreck of time, my Lord and my God. Amcn.-- H. M. 10.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
DON'T BE DISAPPOINTED
From the Opelika Daily News.

FTUIl CIIt OpeIIhd 194y 4Vc"Ss
 Those who think the European war will be over in time for them to get high price for the cotton they grow this year will not be near so badly disappointed next fall if they have plenty of corn and other stuff to supply their farms for an other year as they will be if they neg lect to diversity and let another winter creep up on them and catch them with cotton that no one wants bad enough to offer as much for it as it cost to grow and market it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Some profit will come to the bond propo- stion through the organization of the anti-bond association for 1t will facilitate tho campaign of education by bringing out into the open the points upon which en- ughtenment is sought
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
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BUILD IT NOW
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If you want to build a. cottage Why, go and build 1t now. If you haven't got the money
 Why just build it anyhow.
 They say lumber is cheaper Than it's been in many a day. And brick has dropped to nothing, So all the papers say. So I think I'll build a castle
 For my lady love so fair. I haven't got the wherewith
 So I'll build 1t in the air.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

terest the minute details of the coaling of the Prinz Eitel, but we have a premoni- tion that something far moro interesting than coaling is going to happen to the German raider when she runs into that covey of French and British gunboats outside Newport News.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Marie Antoinotte when informed that eat, asked why they did not eat cake. When tie defenders of Przemysl were starving to the point of death, Elm peror Francis Joseph wrote them: Honor and favor await you, my children. Hold out till spring."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
Diveraification Pays

Land values have increased wonder fully in Alabama within the last few years," said J. M. Kyser of Albertville.
 '"This in my opinion is due more to the thrift of the men who till the land than to natural fertility of the soil. There Is, of course, as rich land in Alabama as there is in any other southern state; but the prosperity of the farmer, I believe, depends more upon his judgment in choosing the most suitable crops for cul- tivation than on the land which he works.
 For example, there are a great num- Der of farmers in my own locality who are now Independent of outside condi- tions. They raise corn. potatoes, meat and other products, which are readily used at home. In this manner the farm as a unit is made self-sustaining, and is not much affected by business depression The soil of tho Sand mountain district is not especially fertile. being composed of mostly sand and clay, but the men have opportunities and have succeeded in a marked degree Farm lands which only few years ago were valued at about SlO an acre are now selling for from SAC to S10O. 1 believe our farmers are in much better condition than those of Ala bama's black belt. who were content to confine their efforts mostly to the cul- tivation of a product great portion oi which must be shipped to all corners oi the globe"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

To be or not to be.-Hamlet. Intern or go to sea.-Commander of the Prinz Eitel And yet they say that history does not repeat itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

The Age-Herald's wireless station will be able to speak all languages. and we may print some of the compliments the Britisher and the German of this time are fond of paving to each other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
The Birmingham Bond Issue

Tt is now my opinion that the bond is- sue is the only proper solution of the perplexing problem that confronts the city of Birmingham" said c. T. Malloy of East Lake.
 Until recently I was undecided in the matter. A great many of my neighbors were enthusiastically in favor of the city
 issuing bonds, but I wished to reserve my decision until I had made thorough investigation. I attended a bond issue meeting Friday night and the speakers were so explicit in describing the neces- sity of this form of financial relief that any arguments which might be advanced against the proposed measure would hardly hold water.
 ''There is really no sound reason why this city should not pay off its floating debt now when by issuing bonds the money may be obtained at lower interest than is now being paid. The city's affairs should be placed on a business-like basis, and now firmly believe that the bond is sue offers the only form of relief that Is acceptable to the people. My friends believe that East Lake will go for the bond issue by 8 good majority"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

A French dancing master denies that Europe has the dancing craze. Well, that Italy has been doing quite bit of ''hesitating of late.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

The French newspaper man who quoted President Wilson in regard to neutrality when the President didn't say anything but ''IIowdy-do must be one of those yellow journalists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

An Illinois paper wants to know what is a strategic retreat. Joffre's inter- pretation seems to be that it Is a back ward motion where every little move- ment has meaning all its own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
MINISTER AND LIGHT"

1IItNik5 11Ik 1A4NI1 l1IOIII. One of our former minister's who has just left to accept a call in another city, at much larger salary. has a very bright young son. A member of his congrega- ton met the boy on the street one day about month after it became known that the minister was considering the off, fer.
 'Is your father going to leave us, sonny" asked the member. Well" answered Willie, father is still praying for light, but most of our things are packed"
 STD.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Venice dispatches say Austrian troops are now horribly equipped. Lending truth to the old slliteration about the Aus trian army being lawfully" arrayed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Government officials are looking for a diving bell to aid in. locating the F-4 What's the matter with Annette Keller mann?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Modern wal fare leaves little for the drummer boy to do, says an exchange. Well, he might use his spare moments in drumming up few superlatives for the war correspondents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

The reason woman likes to parade the streets in new clothes on Easter Is to conceal the fact that she's a year older than she was last spring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

That man Swoboda whom the French charge with being German spy. in addi- ton to being an American, certainly has a euphonious name.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

The coming of Sweetheart days is noted with indifference by the average suffragette.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

After three weeks stay at Newport News about the only thing the Prinz Eitel has done is to get a place in the head lines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Anniston Evening Star: If friend wife becomes unusually loving and thought ful this week, dear husbands. you'd better hold tight to your pocketbook and treat all millinery news in the paper like a liquor ad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

In the spring young mans fancy often turns to thoughts of-where his next meal is coming from.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Maybe the German government looks upon its submarine appropriation as a sinking fund.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

If @ choice had to be made, we'd rather spend a night in Mexico City than on board British trading vessel. .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

At any rate, recent experiences have taught Uncle Sam that neutrality Is moro than speech deep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

The Mexican situation has passed it's crisis. says Secretary Bryan. Yes, and taken a turn for the worst
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Don't blame too much the knocker. Per haps his liver Is out of order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

It strikes us that there arc good many family skeletons in Europe at pres- ent that are not hidden in closets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Decatur Daily: Help the Build It Now campaign, if you can't do anything but throw a brick at it. But be sure you buy the brick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Despite the reports from Havana It's hard to see how Jack Johnson is going to get in the pink of condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Gadsden Evening Journal: Birmingham proposes to issue bonds to meet her un- paid bills. Why cant the rest of us do something like that?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
LoNG DISTANCE wAR

From the Kansas City Journal
 And then the captain telephoned his men to charge" "Telephoned, eh? We'll being an offic0 under those circumstances isn't so bads
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

New Decatur Advertiser: "Slavs war for their passes says a bold headline. That so? Then they are in the same class with common American editors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
A POSSIBLE SUBSTITUTE.

What have you in the shape of cucum- bers this morning?" asked one of our newly weds of a truckster at Five Points.
 Nothing but bananas, ma 'am," was the reply.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
LIKE M,LUKE SAYS

Dry wit doesn't necessarily come from q orch. bitionist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

- OR months past, or since the begin
 ming of the European war, there
 has been curtailment of building in Birmingham.
 Thanks to the movement of the Builders Exchange. there now promises to be &C., tivity in the building world. The laborers. tho artisans, the decorators and the men who make things have united in a move ment to build up and build now.
 Wage earners have united in reducing the scale of wages from twenty-five to fifty per cent. They are tired of idlness and want work and are making their of fers so attractive to the man who wants to improve his property that he must do so. Brick masons who were working for seventy cents an hour are now making a scale of forty-lve cents an hour. Carpen- ters who were paid fifty cents an hour are now working for thirty-five cents an hour and even the plumber. who formerly stood on his pedestal of seventy-fve cents an hour, is now upon the earth and willing to work for 50 cents an hour.
 So 1t goes all along the line.
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 The prices of building material of all kinds have been cut in like proportion. The building material men of Birming- ham have gotten together and made prices so attractive that one can now build ten thousand dollar house for seventy-five hundred dollars. There Is no foolish-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
ALABAMA PRESS

Florence Herald: Florence, a second Birmingham in 10 years. has been pre- dicted and not by dreamer either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
The south's Corn Production

s"I am always interested in what lead CTS in the business world say about busi- ness conditions" said a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and I read with especial interest what MT. Forgan, the well-known banker of Chicago, and MT. Douglas, a prominent citizen of St. Louis,
 had to say about the south.
 "The views expressed by these promi-
 nent gentlemen, recognized authorities in
 their respective communities on the busi-
 ness situation and the business outlook
 were quite optimistic. They said there
 was substantial improvement in the south.
 MT. Douglas in referring to crop diversi-
 fication, said that there was greater di-
 versity in the south than was the case in
 any other section. I think he was mis-
 taken, although in some of the states
 like Missouri and Kentucky there has all
 ways been diversifcation on a large scale
 But the crying need of the cotton states
 today is diTersifcation. MT. Douglas was
 quoted as saying that the south already production was not so large relatively. In corn produced in the whole country. Had he looked up the government statistics he would have found that the south's corn production was not so large relative. In 1914 the total corn production of the United States was 2.676. .27O.OO0 bushels. Of this amount the south's production was only 952, 1901, 900 bushels. In the south are included Missouri. Oklahoma. Ken lucky. West Virginia and Maryland. Mis- souri Is one of the best corn sections, and its 1914 crop totaled 59.S05,0oO bushels ha cbo when the south's corn yield will reach ap- parently the proportion that MT. Doug las had in mind"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT BIRr1ING1AM'S
 SENSIBLE CUT IN LABOR AND MATERIALS

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

Didst not thou fall out with H tailor for wearing his new doubiet peiore EaSfere -Romeo and Juliet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Talladega Reporter: The German sub marines seem to be continually putting in blows beneath the belt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
AGAIN?

Again they try Mrs. Carman
 For shooting Louise Bailey dead; So of course the yellow journals
 Will be very muchly read.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Troy Messenger: Here's good note of returning prosperity: Ten thousand men who have been idle have now been put to work in factories which have been idle in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Dadeville SLot Cash: The man with a good garden coming on to supply his family table is wise. It saves on tha grocery bill and provides good. wholesome
 food at the same time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Selma Times: Birmingham wants .
 woman On her school board. A proof that Birmingham belongs to the progressive party, CT wants to join.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Planting No Cotton

J. w. Gresham of Griffin. Ga, after spending day or two in Birmingham, re- turned home yesterday. He is a promi- nent business man. being president of the Gresham Manufacturing company, lum- Der concern; he Is also a progressive farmer.
 T cultivate about $50 acres and I am not planting any cotton this year, said Mir. Gresham. at the Tutwiler, where he was stopping.
 Not single stalk of cotton will be seen on my place. I am raising all grain and hay. I can make good money on oats and have large oats crop com ing.
 Some of my neighbors are reducing their cutton acreage, but decided that for myself no cotton this year was best"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Lineville Headlight: Diversified farm ing is the salvation of the people of the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second class matter under act of Congress March 8, 1879.