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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
BOMBS ON VENICE.

From the New York World.
 The marvel city of the Adriatic glows like great jewel. Just one of it's thou sand facets, the Ca dOro," initiated against the full background of Forty fourth street. gives a faint hint of how incomparably rich are Ruskins Stones of Venice" St. Marks is one of the six most notable churches including Rheims, smashed by German guns, and the shrine Of Heavenly Wisdom in Constantinople, held by Germany's Turkish ally.
 For seafety the pictures have been taken from Venetian walls, but in pictures Venice is not supreme. It is an open- air city; it's treasures cannot be hid den. Brick supports have been built in the Doges palace; St. Marks is bar ricaded with sandbags; the Campanile roof is painted white. But if a bomb falls on them. as it fell on Tiepolo's frescoes in the Scalzi. we know what will happen. A possession of all humanity, in the Ital- ian city which is dearest to thousands of Germans because of its nearness and its charm, will be marred or destroyed.
 The plea of military necessity is as vain in Venice as in Rheims. Sometimes it seems as if the German powers. hopeless of conque,ing Europe, were bent, in a wild rage for rule or ruin, upon gashins it with scars centuries cannot erase.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
Will Alabama Win.

There is great interest in the Alabama Georgia Tech football game to be played in Atlanta next Saturday" said Clarence Ballard, faithful alumnus of the Uni- versity of Alabama, yesterday.
 There has always been keen rivalry between the Alabama teams and the George Tech teams, and between Alabama coaches and J. W. Heisman, who has served Georgia Tech for many years. The rivalry is especially keen this year, be- cause Alabama last season, completely upsetting the dope, trimmed the yellow jackets. From all reports, the Tech team is unusually strong, and since the Ala bama-Sewanee game last Saturday, there Is general admission that Alabama is strong.
 T intend going to the game unless business complications arise, and from what I can gather, the Birmingham crowd will be large enough to startle even staid and b1aSe Atlanta" /"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
SOUTHERN RAILWAY EARNINGS

From the New York Times.
 s A cheering item of news was the September report of the Southern rail- way. The gross operating revenues were higher than for the corresponding month in 1914 and 1912, and within $400,000 of 1913, the banner record. The net earnings exceeded the record of the same month for the last four years The figures were $5,616, ,933 gross, an increase of $1o7,201, and ST. 67S,S91 net, an increase of $657012 Gross earnings for the three months of the new fiscal year are still $762, ,o00 behind the same period of last year but the net earnings are S1,000,000 ahead The increase is due to a reduc- ton of expenses, and while the railroad probably cannot continue to cut operat- ing expenses at that rate, 1t is in a fortunate position for the present The Southern did S300000 more business in September than in August and in creased it's net earnings s56.000 com : pared with August.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
In Alabama and Other Cotton States

In Alabama and Other Cotton States The bankers of the cotton states will hold a conference in New Orleans in December for the purpose of urging the farmers to a greater diversified ton of crops next year than has been in evidence heretofore, although in some states, notably Alabama, there has been wonderful gain in food stuff production.
 When Alabamas 1914 corn crop totaled about fifty-four million
 bushels, a new high record had been made; but this year the estimated corn yield is seventy-one million
 bushels. At this rate of increase Ala
 bama will soon be in Kentucky's class.
 If all the cotton states had gone into
 the diversification movement early this year with Alabama's vim there
 would be little cause for the bankers
 to take up the question at this time.
 No state could possibly have done bet ter than Alabama in the first year of diversification campaign. Next year it will go far ahead of anything in this line ever dreamed of. On account of the boil weevil, only small cotton acreage will be planted in 1916; smaller than this year, it is believed. But there will be other money-producing crops that will more than make up for any deficiency in cotton.
 Quite a number of states have been laggard in diversification despite the constant discussion of the subject. And that is why the bankers are concerned. Now that Alabama has virtually led the way in showing the practical bene- fits of this movement, which is today of such absorbing interest, all the other states should strive to do their best.
 A very distinct incentive to the Ala bama farmers in crop diversification has been the splendid exhibits of the /! Alabama State Fair at Birmingham and the excellent exhibits at the vari- ous county fairs. Also the highly creditable state fair of the negroes, which came to close in this city this week. This has been Alabama's greatest fair year, but as diversified tion practice extends the fairs of the future will be all the more attractive and educational.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05

or 500, but the visitors that can be counted upon to attend make a gather ing running high up into the thou sands. Hence the need of an audi torium of vast seating capacity.
 Birmingham is fast becoming known as convention city. We have the finest hotel accommodations of any city in the south. In total room ca- pacity Birmingham is now consider ably ahead of either Richmond or Atlanta. But each of these cities has spacious auditorium and in order for Birmingham to take it's place in the highest convention rank, the city must at the earliest possible date be- gin the erection of building large enough to seat 5000 or 10000 people. The qualified electors will, when given the opportunity, vote the necessary bond issue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
HOTEL LOBRIES
JItnex Drivers, Relief

Until day or two ago." said city official, ''the drivers of jitneys in Bir- mingham were literally up in the air. This was because of a report which became disseminated that in addition to the annual state license of $40, they would be compelled to pay into the treas ury of the city each month $17 in addi- ton.
 ''The load appeared staggering, but, strange to say, none of the drivers inves- tigated for himself. Yesterday, however, someone inquired into conditions and the relief was great. Instantly the glad tid- ings spread throughout the city and the drivers began paying their licenses.
 ''The city of it's own laws gets nothing from the drivers. The state, however, collects $40 per annum on an average based on the number of passengers the cars can accommodate. and subsequently, turns over to the city it's pro rata share"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
The Music Clubs Convention

When the National Federation of Music clubs, at it's biennial convention in Los Angeles last summer, accepted an invitation extended by the Bir- mingham city commission, the Bir- mingham Chamber of Commerce and other organizations to hold its 1917 convention here no question was raised as to the intention of the local musical interests to cooperate hearti- ly in entertaining this large and inn portant body.
 The implied conditions upon which the invitation was accepted were few and wholly reasonable-an adequate auditorium, symphony orchestra to be engaged for week and the united activities of the Chamber of Con- merce and the musical clubs.
 A few weeks ago The Age-Herald reproduced an editorial from the Musi- cal Courier of New York in which it was made to appear that there was a lack of harmony between the business men and the musicians or those es- pecially interested in music. The Courier called attention to the fact that Birmingham was without either auditorium or orchestra and intimated rl ,f ho tion might have to select some other city for the convention.
 As matter of course Birmingham must be able to give assurance that a suitable auditorium will be provided There is nothing in the point raised about the orchestra. While some cities of Birmingham's size have what they call symphony orchestras, not one of them is in class that would satisfy the National Federation. One of the seven or eight great orchestras main tained in this country would have to be secured for this occasion; nor would the expense of such an attraction cut any figure, for the box office receipts would more than meet the cost.
 As for the lack of cooperation in local circles, the Music Study club is noted for its enterprise and the broad nlindedness of it's officers and direc- tors. But to clear up any possible doubt that may obtain in the federa- ton management as to Birmingham $ eagerness to have the convention and its ability to make it success, rep resentatives of the Chamber of Com- merce and representatives of the Music Study club will jointly renew the invitation, at the same time making it plain that suitable audi torium would be constructed in ample time.
 The biennial conventions of the music clubs are big events. The dele gates may not number more than 300
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
THE RIDE OF EDNA mGRArH

From the Chicago Tribune.
 There is something epic about the ad- venture of Edna McGrath She left her
 work of inscribing homely platitudes on
 picture frames-to be sold, as she so
 vigorously put it, to country boobs-and
 went on one of the widest, craziest rides
 Ill the annals, of the Indiana police. She
 explained band of youths who srose ~n
 automobile purposely upset two milk
 wagons, fired on train, took several
 prisoners, and finally capitulated to the
 police. Excitement was the only motive
 she had
 She did it because it was fun to live dangerously
 Sociologists will probably flock about her, explaining why she did it. Anti- suffragists will argue from her case that woman has no place in industry, and hug
 manitarians will assert that more play grounds are necessary. Had she remained in her home, it is 1 true that her excitement might have been all vicarous-a novel and a box of choco- lates-and the Indiana officials might have had their nights sleep If she had gone regularly to social center. she might have worked off some of her ex- tolerance
 But Edna McGraths ride was just as thrilling and almost as significant as Paul Revere's. The moving picture cen sors have not eradicated with their daily cuts the desire of youth for violent and i dangerous pleasures. The playground builders have only partly succeeded in the place of the acrid smoke of revolvers l denaturing it. Calisthenics cannot take nor parallel bars supplant the wild fear | of pursuit.
 1 Although collectively we canont tolerate
 the Edna McGraths, individually, if some what guiltily. we understand them and 1 to a certain degree envy them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
How to Wear Jewelry

Today's fashion section of The Age Herald will be of such great interest to feminine readers of the paper that a few hints on how and when to wear gems will be timely. These sugges- tions emanate from no less an au- thority than the American National Retail Jewellers association. Now, you would think that the chief purpose of a jeweler is to sell all the gems he can, and the more women deck them selves with such costly ornaments the better pleased the jewellers will be. But not so. The Jewellers association takes pride in it's catholicism, and while there is certainly no desire to lessen the sale of it's wares, it rightly holds that there are fashions in jew els, just as there are in clothes, and nice sense of discrimination should he exercised in wearing them. Milady may have any number of caskets filled with precious stones, but she cannot put them all on at once without ap- peariag ridiculous.
 Nearly everybody knows, or should know, that diamonds in the daytime are not good form. But there are oth- CT offenses, the jewellers say, almost { as grievous, For instance, a woman ! should never wear a necklace of any sort studded with heavy stones in the summer. With a filmy gown she should wear, so to speak, filmy jew elry. Besides, the idea is to keep cool "Dainty pendants of la vallieres of 1 fine platinum ware are proper.' Also in summer, one should not wear many rings. A narrow platinum band, set with one or two stones, either dia- mond or diamond and an emerald, is correct. Winter calls for heavy and substantial jewelry to match the cloth ing worn.
 These suggestions are lost on the person or male gender and more or less sporting tendencies who wears a ring set with large solitaire in lieu of scarf pin, as well as on the wom- man who thinks three or four rings to each finger are just about right, but the public in general already recognize and adhere to the rules laid down by the Jewellers association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
READY FOR TT

From the Argonaut.
 He was travelling in the south and had to put up overnight at a second rate hotel in western Georgia. He said to the clerk when he entered:
 Where shall I autograph?"
 'Autograph?" said the clerk.
 Yes; sign my name, you know"
 "Oh, right here"
 As he was signing his name in the register in came three roughly clothed, unshorn fellows immediately recognizable as Georgia crackers. One of them advanced to the desk
 Will you autograph?' asked the clerk, his face aglow with the pleasure that comes from the consciousness of intellec- tual superiority.
 Certainly" said the cracker" his face no less radiant. than that of the clerk ''mine's rye.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
DELAYING THE HARVEST.

From Various New York Papers.
 TT HE entire span of Herman Ridder'
 life, measuring almost 65 years, ana
 Il all of it spent in this city of hls
 birth. was typical of what the ambitious
 and industrious boy of immediate for
 eign ancestry, even the foreign-porn poy
 himself. may accomplish with nothing to
 start on except the opportunities offereo
 most freely under the Stars and Stripes. His parents, who had enigrated to New York from Germany, were too poor to pay for schooling for the boy, but near oy their home at 400 Greenwich street in the old Ninth ward where he was born on March 5, 1851, were the free schools or Manhattan And so in the public schools for while-the boy had to leave school and go to work when he was only Il years old-he learned the groundwork ot the three R's. by means of which in later years he was enabled to become an ed itor and publisher and protagonist Of the German propaganda whose word meant much to countless German-Amer- ioan admirers here and throughout the country.
 From errand boy with a natter MT. l Ridder when still a mere lad went to work in a Wall street office, where he stayed two years Next he went with a tradesmens fire insurance company, where he remained for 14 years. Then
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
NEAR SALOONS :

From the St. Louis PoSt-D1spatch.
 That the world loves to be fooled is again illustrated in the marvellous sue cess of the limitation saloons in Okla homa.
 The state being prohibition. an enter prislng citizen conceived the idea of fit ting out a place with all the appurten- ances of the old saloon, but selling only near beer. This beverage has slight tas.c Of hops. the color of real beer, to- gether with the joy of exuberant bubbles The only ingredient lacking to make it the real thing is alcohol. of which it con tains so slight trace that it escapes the ban of the prohibition law. To increase the realism. a few empty beer barrels were placed on the sidewalk, while the bartender. with customary white apron and cheerful smile. stood behind the counter
 From the opening of the doors the place was so liheraliy patronized that it has led others to start similar establishments throughout the state Today the Okla horna men arc happy in their delusion. They sit around a table in a place hav- ing all the atmosphere of a saloon, sip their beverage out of real beer mugs, play a same of cards and have all the enjoyment they hadsbefore.
 Tho experiment goes far to prove that drinking, to a great degree, is social habit The saloon Is the poor man s elub,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
NOT WITH VAIN TEARS

By Rupert Brooke. :. Not with vain tears, when we're beyond the sun,
 We'll beat on the substantial doors. nor
 tread Those dusty highroads of the aimless
 dead. PIaintive for earth; but rather turn and
 ru1i Down some close covered hyway of the
 air,
 Some low sweet valley between wind
 and wind, stoop under faint gleams. thread tho
 shadows. find Some whispering. ghost forgotten nook.
 and there Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise; Learn all VIC lacked before; hear, know
 and say < What this tumultuous body now denieS: And eeel. who have laid our gropng hands
 away;
 And see. no longer blinded by our eyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
BRIEF DECISIONS

From Judge.
 Many man who brides himself on his physical strength cannot even hold his tongue.
 Armed with a tongue and a broom stick the average woman can defeat regiment of men.
 A girl feels that she has fulfilled her mission in life when she attempts to rear a goldfish
 The rule is that the more worthless the Husband the more faithful the wife.
 We can say this much: none of our clothes button up the back.
 A pessimist will borrow trouble from himself if he can't do any better.
 The man who is afraid of his wife never has any time to love her.
 If you would lead, keep out of the way of those who would follow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
Issssssssssspsss
FATEiS PLAYTHING.

The forward looking brother
 Is very hard to down; Tn half 8 hundred diff're ways
 He hopes to win renown. He tackles almost everything
 A man could undertake, And says, with any sort of luck,
 His mark he'll surely make. But, somehow, all his plans go wrong
 Of course he's not to blame; He'll tell you confidentially
 It really is a shame. But just when fortunes bout to smile
 Upon his weary quest, His doctor looks him OCT and says,
 You'll have to take a rest.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
The Alabama Democrat

There is much interest in the appear ance of the first edition of the Alabama Democrat" said William Pittrnan yester- day. 'I am advised by Ava Fitzpatrick, who will be the editor of the new weekly to be issued from Montgomery, that the paper will be in the mails November IS.
 There is distinctly a place in Ala bama journalism for paper of the type the Alabama Democrat plans to be- It will be of general news character with a strong editorial policy. Its slogan will be Democracy, Pure and Undefled."
 MT. Fitzpatrick is one of the able news paper men of the state one of the best writers and best posted observers l predict a prosperous future for the new Journal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
FORTUNATE

From the Chicago Herald.
 Signor Marconi, who is undoubtedly one of the most popular men in Italy just now, has been telling a story about certain celebrated admiral who was countryman of his
 ''rhe admiral" he says, had won many battles and great renown, and at a ball given in his honor one lady said to an- other: How frightfully fat our dear ad- miral is getting!'
 Yes. replied the second lady. Isn't it fortunate? Otherwise he wouldn't be able to wear all his medals D
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
OFF TO WAR

New York Correspondence of the Cincin-
 natl rimes-Star.
 addition to the British army passed through New York this week in the per son of John Eaton, a Scot, who is a re- servist of the Edinburgh Scottish Horse, Eaton is hurrying to join his regiment. He lives at Lake Harbor, in Baffin' s Land, and didn't hear about the war until last nontii
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
A LAST RESORT.

You seem a man of literary taste.'
 Well. I've read few books" s
 ''Now, don't like poetry and don't care much for fiction. while history and philosophy nearly always put me to sleep. What would you advise me to read?"
 "Umph! You might tackle a, time-ta- ble''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
THE FARM AUTO

From the Savannah Press.
 A great many things can be done on the farm with an automobile, but as soon as farmer gets a car he wants to breeze into town.-Birmingham Age-Herald.
 Usually when a farmer buys an auto he wants to ride away from the mortgage as soon as possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
SUNDAYS HUMAN SIDE

From the Providence Journal.
 Billy Sundays housekeeper is credited with the statement that he is extremely fond of milk and apple pie. We might have suspected that there was an alto gether human side to the man somewhere. Very ligely this gastronomic revelation accounts for his success in magnetizing the popular fancy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
A PROPER DIsTINcTIoN

From the St, Louis st-Dispatch.
 Former Secretary Nagel says that if ''hyphenated citizens implies dual al legiance. he resents the title; 'bpt if it refers to my ancestry, I am proud of it. An admirable statement of proper dis tinctiOn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
THE STATE LAWS

From the Anniston Star.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald is entitled to a vote of thanks for the S4-page sup plement giving the official text of the laws passed by the legislature at the last session. But it is nothing new for The Age-IIerald to show enterprise,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
A POINT TO CONSIDER.
-Frono the Chicago Tribune.

'This waiter is polite and attentive think I'll give him dollar''
 Why, your dinner itself won't cost you more than s1.5O.'
 T know it, but if he had made me wait , long time before being served, I might have had to spend ss to satisfy my hun- ger.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
BIDDER HAD ACTIVE LIFE

when a prosperous insurance agent 27 years old he decided to go into the news paper business.
 He founded first the Katholisches Volksblatt Eight years later in 1886, he started another paper, the Catholic News, and in a comparatively short time he had made his second venture one of the lead ing organs of the Catholic church in this country.
 Oswald Ottendorfer at this time con trolled the Staats-Zeitung. MT. Ottendor- fer was growing old. Consequently when Mir Ridder called at the Staats-zeitun9 office one day in 1890 and sought some of the Staats-Zetung stock MT. Ottendor- fer, who had begun to show a fondness for speunding much of his time abroad, welcomed MT. Riders offer.
 MT. Bidder immediately became di- rector. treasurer and manager of the Staats-Zeitung. Later he arose to control of the paper as chief owner of it's stock. He was president of the company at the time of his death.
 Through the columns of his papers and in his speeches MT. Ridder was an ad- vocate of tariff reform and noninally at least. a democrat therefore. He was, however, in fact. an independent who might be found lined up with the repub- lican party one year, a fusion indepen- dent group the next and back to the dem- ocratic ranks the next
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
AN MIGRATE

From the Nashville Banner
 A Birmingham man is suing motorist who ran over him. Is it possible that there is a man in all this country So de- void ct gratitude as not to. be thankful to the motorists that he is permitted to live?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-11-05
Great Bird Season

'Ths will be notable bird season," :" said Walter Terry, a well known planter of Lowndes county, who spent yesterday in Birmingham
 q have followed the quail for many sea- sons, and generally am posted as to bird conditions in the various counties of the state. The reports which have reached me this fall are to the effect that every where birds are more plentiful than ever before
 "There are many more coyies in Lowndes county than in previous years. We are anticipating splendid sport right at home. The Letohatchie course, over which the annual field trials are run, abounds in cartridges, and there is no question but that the dog which wins honors in December will have to be a bird dog--in other words, will have to find and handle birds"