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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28
Cupid Invades Suffrage Forces

Cupid does not fear the suffragette. Dire predictions have been expressed on all sides that suffrage for women would unsettle them and unfit them for domestic duties-in the end pro- ducinR a race of unlovely spinsters rho had lost womanly graces.
 But these predictions have gone the VT of many another prophecy. The roonan's suffrage society, in order 5> conc with the epidemic of mar !5iSesS among the suffrage forces, has ,n obliged to arrange a set of rules < -toi inino to the matrimonial affairs IF members.
 n(iss Mary Hay is quoted in dis rhes as advising her coworkers in cnffra9e cause as follws;
 sof married as much as you like' 6xss. buf you can't give up your 1s unfil tlDs vote is won. And don't Vsrr money to your husbands <. IT vou work hard you want the
 fioa of spending your own
 e way you want to-"
 fnsnt organizers of the
 cse married within .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28
TREASON

scribe would be a bad thing for the coun- try. They felt so strongly about 1t that even the word telescribe was never men tioned out loud by them, never was per- mitted to appear in print and cannot he found today in the records of the consti- tutional convention or the debates of the Philadelphia congress.
 Will MT. Edison maintain that there is anything about telescribe in Washing tons farewell address? Did Ben Franklin ever say anything about it. hey? Did Thomas Jefferson ever get up and clamor for the privilege of having his words taken down in San Francisco? No. Then what kind of patriot is MT. Edison. any, way? Where does he get the notion that the American people will applaud the spectacle of him rompng over the silent tombs of the fathers proclaiming that he has got a telescrbe on them?
 It's bad enough to have San Fran cisco that John Adams never heaVd of, but to have your words reproduced there without taking the trouble to go is nothing less than treason and Mir Edison may as well be told it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28

year. They, however, have continued their work and interest in their so- ciety
 Instead of being a detrimert, it looks as though young Daniel Cupid will fill the part of valued ally. For so long as the woman voter asks nothing more in the way of domestic concession than to handle her own money and visit the election booth oc- casionally, the young men of the day will experience no great alarm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28
"HIs WAY.

aHIS WAY" w. A. White in the Emporia Gazette.
 ..The colonel then had his picture taken with the jury said the Associated Press report.
 Some men would have gone off on big bewildering drunk; others would have let out a few whoops and for days would have walked chestily up and down the earth; still others would have hastened home to love their wives and children. few repressed spirits would have lighted cigars, taken a few philosophic puffs, struggling visibly to be calm and thus showing their joy. while they thanked God inwardly that they had won.
 Not so with the colonel.
 The Juggler of Notre Dame turned flip Hops, for the glory of God to show his love for the blessed Virgin
 And the colonel then had his picture taken with the jury"
 Joys speak variously fin the human heart. But praise God it always speaks. We may hide our sorrow till it corrodes our souls; may sink our shame beneath the faces deadly mask. We may even restrain the outer evidences of fear; but in joy the heart speaketh. and bless th- dear mans heart, let us hope that in this beautiful expression of thanksgiving ana gratitude the picture was good one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28
WORLD ARBITRA TON

tion, in view of their importance in the comity of nations. Of the score or mere of formal addresses. only two were deltv- cred which professed to have specia. bearing on this point These were by local eminence. But in each case the so- ciological rather than the business side was the keynote of the address.
 Here is a suggestion for negotiations after the war is over. Let us discard the diplomatists, who have made an urspeak- able mess of international affairs in the past. Suppose we even leave out the sol- dier? If our own delegates were lot an international lawyer, an enlightened pni- lanthropist and a retired admiral. but A. Barton Hepburn. Ebert H. Gary and John Hays Hammond. and if the other ations would send like delegates. the terms of peace would probably be sane and per manent.
 These would include inevitably iatarna- tional borders like that between this coun- try and Canada. They would include an international open door, not involving free trade but guaranteeing to every country the same tariff treatment and eliminating once and for all favored nation' clauses and special trade treaties, amounting to thinly disguised alliances
 This indeed is but the ratification Of the great principle that international eompe- titon in trade Is not hostility nut ex- change. The diplomat and the soldier have been unable to see this There are plenty of business men in this and other countries able to demonstrate it to the worlds satisfaction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 A big roundhouse curve isn't much of an asset to a big league pitcher. But it is different when a corn-fed girl has 1t.
 It is hard to describe a good time A nan with a flock of corns can get as much pleasure out of taking off his shoes and resting his feet as another man can have by blowing in SlO0.
 Every time a man sees fiunky taking poodle out for an airing in a $lO00O H. mousne he feels like voting the anarch- ist ticket.
 The ld-fashioned faker who used to sell twc-carat diamonds for 50 cents apiece merely to advertise his wares, now has a son who is saving souls at $500 per soul because salvation has been taken off the free list.
 woman is woman because she can save money by ruining a 425 suit and $4 waist fighting her way through bar gain mob to get 50-cent article for 49 cents.
 girl knows that she may not have enough powder on her face, but she can't realize that she might have too much of 1t on her face. | The world tries to give you the worst | os it when you are here because it knows that you will get the best of 1t when your obituary is painted. l Ever notice that the man who carries rabbit foot in his pants pocket never has much coin to keep the rabbit fooot company?
 l The only labor some men do is to work on the sympathies of others. l If it ever came to a show down, most of us wouldn't have nerve enough to preach what, we practice.
 The reason a bachelor is so particular i about wearing socks that do not wrinkle around his ankles is because after he is married his big worry will be to get 1 pair of socks that have no holes in them
 The good fellow who spends the early portion of his life burning money usually spends the latter portion of his life sitting ! the ashes.
 There are a whole lot of philanthropists who give blind man nickel for pencil
 and then take two pencils out of the biiod | mans hat.
 Tell a woman that her new hat looks l stylish. or that 1t looks pretty. But Soi the love of Mike never tell her that il looks sensible.
 Women are like cigars You can't tell
 anything about the filler when you look at
 the wrapper.
 When woman is wrong she is always
 the last one to find it out
 Any tailor can tell you that there art
 no such animals as early settlers in thif
 country
 Most people can't tell the difference be tween endurance and hospitality. Cheer up! You may be but mere worm. But you have 1t all over the othel worm who is dangling from the other enc
 of your fishing line. Bad habits cause the trouble, but tat luck gets the blame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28
Plaint of the Baldheads
Oh, pshaw!

Oh, pshaw.
 Nobody loves bald-headed man!
 baldhead is never included Tn the description of the ideal husband, according to Miss Minerva Clymer, lecturer before Pennsylvania Farm ers' clubs
 Sparkling eyes, however, are, ac- cording to the fair lecturer, charac- teristic of the ideal mate. Among the specifications named by Miss Clymer are the following:
 "The ideal husband must be five feet ten inches tall; he must be at tractive, bright and intelligent; clean in appearance and in his actions; his sparkling eyes must see clearly and wisely; he must realize that his wife can do as much in her way as he can in his, and he must be satisfied with heaven-if he gets there"
 Taken all together this description
 
 is of luminous individual seldom met in days journey. The lecturer, how eyer, fails to specify whether the ideal husbands nose should mirror the rosey brightness of his other features.
 To the disinterested reader, it would appear that Miss Clymer has described a matinee idol, rather than the com mon, every day, garden variety of husband, who sallies forth in the early morning hours, in quest of the where withal to supply friend wife's bon nets and gowns and club dues.
 This glowing description of the ideal husband might be passed over with tolerance by the just-ordinary man, but the reference to his bald-headed- ness rankles.
 For what profiteth man if he so cudgel his brain in an effort to suppy the lucre to provide his wife with the AIlilS dllu ithullCo QSaA eO hSA iiSoi until his hair falleth out if his bald ness deprive him of the reward of ap- preciation?
 Should the teachings of this woman lecturer become generally accepted, il will become more profitable for a man to invest his time and money in hail tonic, rather than waste his efforts ir the mere assembling of bank ac- count.
 A few timid questions present themselves to the bald-headed popula- tion of the country.
 What of the ideal wife? Should the roses adorning her cheek be the real bloom of youth and health? And what of the satiny puffs and curls which adorn the dressing table at night?
 But what's the use?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28
Census Bureaus Widening Scope

Census Bureaus Widening Scope
 In the last decade the scope of the United States census bureau was widened and it's activities greatly in- creased.
 In the early decades the enumera- tion of the countrys population was not only the principal work of the bureau but it's efforts to compile in- dustrial information were very meagre.
 The bureau was virtually closed the greater part of ten years. It was busy with organization a year before the time for taking the census and was busy a year or two afterwards, com piling and tabulating. And then the bureau was left in charge of a care taker, so to speak, until the next cen sus year approached.
 But now census activities are con- tinuous. The bureau experts are at their desks year in and year out and there is plenty for them to do. The bureau gives much attention to industrial statistics. It is now talk ing what it called the quinquennial census of the industrial operations of the United States. The data being obtained by "field men" is of the year 1914. In 1910 the bureau made de- cided advance in it's method of col lecting industrial statistics. In previ- ous census years the enumerators of population were required to make a canvass of the manufacturing plants but this additional duty made the work of the census takers too heavy burden; and the results were unsat. isfactory. But in 1910 especially equipped men were put in the fielc to visit every plant and obtain sucf information that, when compiled would be of real value to economists publicists and statesmen, to say noth ing of the manufacturing interest," themselves.
 No department of the goyernmen manifests a more obliging spirit thai the census bureau. Any one desirinl information about anything within the province of the bureau-and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28
GOSSIP IN LONDON
From the London Telegraph.

From the London Telegraph.
 'I hope at Easter" wrote Sergeant Pin chien, Second battalion, Manchester regi- ment, from the prisoners camp at Dober- itz. to his wife, you will read my favor ite verse duke XIV, verse 17)." The verse runs: And when he came to himself he said, how many hired servants of my fathers have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!'
 Many Japanese ladies are anxious to help in any way the wounded soldiers, and a great number are being trained as hos pital nurses.
 Already 21 of them have just arrived in Paris with Professor Thista, their most celebrated surgeon. An hotel in the Champs Elysees has been placed at his disposal. and he has turned it into an up-to-date Japanese hospital. containing ITO beds and there he will receive any English or French wounded soldiers The French minister of war and the Japanese day.
 When General Pau, who has just re- turned to Paris from a visit to Athens, Rome and Warsaw, arrived at Nice he was accosted at the station by the Abbe Crepeaux, of Notre Dame de Nice. The abbe was a former comrade of the general at the Military academy of La Flech. When the two old friends met they embraced affectionately, and the
 abbe asked Have you still got your
 pipe?" For answer the one-armed general puroduced from his pocket fine old meer1
 schaum. beautifully colored. And you? The "cure" immediately pulled out g
 similar pipe to the amusement of every
 one present.
 | Some days ago a luxurious motor cal
 drew up in front of a restaurant in z town in the Midi, and beautiful girl 1T white-a bride obviously-got out. ana gave her hand to a young soldier. tht
 bridegroom, who bore the military meda | on his breast. He was a tall. handsome robust young man, but his steps faltered and he leaned pathetically on the arm O. his charming bride. For he was blind And this is his story:
 The bride Is the only child of a great i land owner. The bridegroom is the sor of farmer on the estate. And they Nhat ] met and loved each other in the days be
 fore the war Two years ago even. thu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28
Every man is odd.
 -TroiIus and Cressida.

BEGINNING THE DAY-O my God, why do the innocent suIfers Why do little children languish in pain. Why do the cruel prosper Why is Thy world desoiated with wronrdoing. l must wait on Thee, my Lord, for my answer. mus, he patient. But I must he confident that God is not unaware, unable or discouraged. And deliver me- great God, from the sin of compininihs md not giving myself heart, bioo" and aIl to the mighty work. in Christ's name. Amen.-H. M. f'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28
The Cost of Unpreparedness

It is believed that the United States will be able to keep out of the Euro pean war, but in view of possibility of this country being drawn into a for eign conflict some day administration officials and party leaders in Congress are giving more consideration than ever to the question of our national defense.
 We have in most respects very strong navy. But in order to make It highly effective for big war the government must provide scout cruis- CTS and a good many of them. As for the army there seems to be no question now but that Congress will agree to Secretary Garrison's military nroqramme-a considerable increase in the regular army and its complete reorganization.
 The Secretary of War, man ot sound judgment and large vision, urged the Sixty-third Congress to pro- vide for a small increase in the coast artillery and small increase In the mobile army, but his urging was With out avail. But public sentiment has been aroused since then. The Sixty- fourth Congress will act, it is thought, and act promptly on war department measure which will make our regular establishment far more efficient than l it has ever been.
 International arbitration for set ting disputes is being advocated ny many of the greatest and most patri- otic men of America. And that method of averting war while maintaining nations honor will, soon or late, De universally accepted and practlced. Rut no matter how remote the possl- bility of war for us may be, it will be economy in the long run to be well prepared for defense.
 The cost of unpreparedness IS ln- calculable. That is seen in the case of Great Britain. Had that nation been prepared when the war started last August it would have given a much better account of itself than it has been able to do. There would have been no scarcity of munitions, no need for a coalition cabinet and no pessimistic speeches from the prominent men of Great Britain.
 The British government was natur- ally expected to be the leader of the allies. England has always had an able foreign office and it's credit is practically unlimited, but with all that men like Asquith, Lloyd-George and Lord Landsdown admit that Eng lands war business has been badly handled and that the situation has become desperate.
 By not being prepared for a war that for sometime seemed almost in- evitable, Great Britain has lost un- told millions snd, worse still, it's na- tional prestige has been seriously weakened. It will recover from it's gloom, but the United States and all other nations should learn a lesson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28

farmer greatly daring for his sons sake, had put on his old frock coat and coevai top hat and gone up to the big house to urge the boys suit He was met with blank refusal. and told, not too kindly that what he proposed was an impossible mesalliance. And then came the war. The vo,,np folk-in spite of their parents kept up a correspondence.
 On the eve of mobilization the farmers s son wrote: 'I leave tomorrow ana may never sec you again. If l die you VIII be free. You will forget me- pernaps' marry in your own rank and be happy. But the girl would not have it thus. DO vour duty. and your whole duty, she wrote but do not expose yourself madly shall wait for you. Your death would mean my death. too.' At the patt'e oi the Marne the young soldier by that tune sergeant, distinguished himself by an action of conspicuous bravery, and his neme was proposed for the military medal. A few days later he was struck by fragment of shell and sent to central hospital
 1 Three months later he was convalescent and returned to his home-with the mili- tary medal, but without his sight. He dared no longer think of marriage, and wrote to release her whom he loved
 .Father," she asked, "do you still op-
 pose our marriage?"- The old man kissed
 her NO, my child" he said, T withdraw my opposition. Your lovers noble wound lis a dowry which equals yours in my sight" A few days later they were mar
 ried What pity" said the bridegroom's
 mother to him, sadly, that you cannot see your wife's beauty"
 "No," replied the young soldier. do no pity me. I can see her as used to ses her, and perhaps better than anyon'
 else And there is this, too. Years may pass, and white hairs come, and thu cruel inevita ble lines of age, and l shal Ialways see her the same as she was whei we first confessed our love, with he
 brown heavy hair and her clear younI leyes. and all her dover of freshness an'
 of youth" .'| !
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28
OUR NATIONAL WEALTH

mage and earning capacity. And values generally have shriveled because of unem- ployment and score of causes. lccal or general, that have affected the business and industrial situation. We dare say that our mineral activities have suffered a loss of almost 50 per cent, and what numbering. steel, textiles and even agri- culture have suffered would be hard to estimate.
 It all shows that there is a sentimental element in value that, is extremely sensi- tive to change, and that statistics can scarcely ever be depended upon to record what a nation Is really worth. Besides. the value of one thing is so dependent upon the value of another thing and all values are so interwoven in their ex~ tremely delicate structure that we can never tell just what a day may bring forth.
 For example, a man may have what is generally admitted to be worth S25,0o0 in property, and in a week he may be rated as worth less than half that without in any way changing the immediate charac- ter of hie estate. And conditions affect ing values are always arising some giving great increase to the value of one form of property or cutting the value of an- other form of property.
 For the present, we do not know how far the doings of the rest of the world
 have affected our fortunes. We know that our values have been profoundly affected, and necessarily so because of our large business relations with Ine outside world. and what the result will be upon IS when the present conflagration shall. have run its course and the nations of the world shall have destroyed their substance IS more problematical still
 One thing is certain, there is marked shifting of values in progress at present | all over the world, and we may be sure the statisticians will have to revise their | figures by the time humanity recos'1s us | equilibrium and the survivors of the l human race resume their wonted activl-
 ties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28
FAIRY TALES

Laura Benet in the outlook. A half-starved flock of little city strays, They sit expectant in the warm school
 room,
 Lighting with their wan smiles it's orr
 dered gloom
 ways With eager shuffle. He in rags displays Bare feet all dusty from the weaving And she the stamp of early. tragic In sunken . cheeks and fervent hollow But now they hear blue waters beating
 free
 Upon the prows of Jason's gliding ships; Now. shadowed by the dragons brazen
 wings, They pluck the golden apple ffs his
 tree, frt And, draining this sweet cup sasy.
 lips, .aqes In land of rainboW-tia sasazs-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28

Both of the Pages-Walter Hines and Thomas Nelson-are kept busy now. The former as ambassador to Great Britain, has not had much idle time since ne first entered upon his duties in London, but until Italy broke into the war Thomas Nelson Page as ambassador at Rome had something of a sinecure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28

The colonel has been keeping remark ably quiet since he got the decision in the Barnes libel suit, but as soon as the political cauldron begins to boil he will have something to say. The erstwhile progressive candidate canhot keep long from the front page.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28

Fairfield hit upon a prosperous period for celebrating its fifth anniversary. A year ago there was more or less 1epres- sion in and around this districts model in- dustrial city, but now nearly all the plants are being operated at high ca pacity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28

In Chicago a crowd rushed a church and windows to get at the counters Looks like the churches were catching business ways
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28

A Pittsburg man, arrested for drunken ness, pleaded to be released, saying, 'I am personal friend of my wfe's and she is waiting for me-" It would be interest have made if she had been present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28

A Georgia man recently gave n dinner to Il of his fathers former slaves. serving the aged negroes himself. He takes the golden rule literally
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-28
Commencement season

The commencement season Is with us once again." remarked an old citizen Of Birmingham, and the sweet girl grad uate and the learned young man vii soon come forth in our midst with hearts that beat high with hope.
 Naturally, many of these young peo- pie are doomed to keen disappointment and only few visions will be fully realized. Many preconceived ideas Will have to be adjusted 10 the practical af- fairs of life. This naturally requires time; but the vim and vigor of youth will prove equal to many occasions, ana will ultimately carry those who are per sistent through to success. Let the sweet girl graduate and the blushing orioe again grace the month of June.