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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-12-22
THE PUBLIC FORUM

JUDGE STELk AND REV. MY
ERS.-As a reader of The Day Book
am writing to express my sympathy
and admiration for two or three ar
ticles that have appeared lately
Irefer to those by Allen Steven in
support of Judge Stelk on birth con-
troll and Rev. Myers on segregation.
With this wave of mistaken reform
and intolerance oVershadowing Chi
cago, such men as Judge Stelk and
Rev. Myers need and deserve every
ounce of support that can be given
them.
The question is: Do these great
men know that others are thinking
with them or are they being left
alone to fight with prejudice and the
enemies of common sense? Can The
Day Book reach them in a direct way
and tell them they are right and help
them to persevere? If it can and will
the object of this letter will. be ac-4
somplshed.-G Ballard.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-12-22

place. you KNOW, Is part VI IuC44
charm, etc.. Jacobson.
TO WATcHMAKERS. - At last
we have decided to have a confden-
tial talk with you. True, we should
have done this before, but better
late than never. Brothers, we think
you will realize the condition you are
in and put your shoulder to the
wheel to change the present unfair
conditions under which we watch
makers are working.
It will not be exaggerating to tell
you that it was reported at the last
watchmakers' meetings that two re-
pair houses in the loop make their
watchmakers work on Sunday for
81 only and a cigar. This, brother,
is the truth. Now, fellow watch
makers, do you approve of such con-
ditions? You don't have to be a
rebel to say no. It is a shame and
disgrace to our trade.
We who require so much skill to
be good mechanics should not have
to stand for such shameful cOndi-
tons. We could also cite you many
more horrible conditions that are ex-
listing in our trade, but space does
not allow US. One thing is certain,
that things must be changed and we
must wake up and get busy in order
to better ourselves, for such condi-
lions are detrimental to our health
and social welfare.
Our trade is under an abnormal
condition and goes from bad to
worse. Workers of other crafts have
got wise and organized to their adj
vantage. But you, brother watch
makers, seem to be fast asleep about
your own selves.
So listen, men. For the sake of
sef-preserYation, wake up and COM
bine your strength with your fellow
men in the same craft and fight for
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-12-22

agine John D. in overaIls making an
honest living! Wouldn't he be out Of
place, though? So why take him
out of his place, or the pauper and
prostitute out of their places? Their
place, you know, is part of their
charm, etc.. Jacobson.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-06
SWAT THE BoARDER
New York Telegram.

From the New York Telegram.
An Ohio judge who has reviewed whole
professions of miserable mortals has ac-
cording to his idea solved the my stery CT
human happiness. 1t lies in one house to
each lot and one family to each house,
no flats, no apartments and no boarders.
His honor pictures a newly welded
couple who to make both ends meet rent
the spare room-take in a boarder or a
roomer.
The roomer while the husband is busy,
with perfectly honorable intentions, takes
the wife to the movies. The rest is so
easy to ina CINE it's shame to take the
money-suspicion, jealousy, divorce suit
and the narrowing of the feelings of q
sensitive judge.
Taking into account the number of cases
we never hear If where there are re
roomer scandals md the interests in
voved in the shape of apartment dwell
| ings to say nothing of the moving picture
houses it may be well to suspend jndg-
ment before Selling a club and starting
the boarder determination crusade.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-06
TELEPHONE COURTESY

From the Chicago Herald
is modern courtesy deep-rooted or a
mere veneer? The question is apt be-
cause modern inventiveness has supplied
a test well-nigh infallible. 1t is the tele-
phone.
That courtesy which is plain in the
sight OF all men may or may not be the
real article. 1t is like the charity re-.
corded in the public prints-one is left in
doubt whether real charity or ostentation
prompts the gift We all feel that the
charity which seeks to hide is real. Like
wise the courtesy which animates a con.
versation on the telephone, where the
speaker is unknown to his auditor, is
likely to be the real thing.
The grunting "wha'd'ye want" as a
call is answered betrays scant courtesy
So does the omission of the simple
please" when asking number. Loud
angry tones, unusual impotence and ths
numberless little incivilities which are a
part of the telephones daily grist-all
these offer abundant Illustrations that real
courtesy is unknown to a large minority.
AS we all respect the anonymous giver
anu do SuSH d SlNeI must nave d peCIildI
self dissatisfaction in his altrusm, so we al
respect the possessor of real courtesy
whether he is known to us or not anl
that possession is not the least of thu
riches of selfsatisfaction which its owner
must enjoy. The telephone is an adj
mirable test, and is an educator in cour-
tesy as well. 1t would be wise for all Of
us to take a thorough course in the tele-
phone university of courtesy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-06
TREAD SOFTLY

From the Houston Post.
Truman Steinmetz called on Andrew
MCGOWAN Friday afternoon. Andrew is
resting a little easier at this time.-Van
Vert, Ohio, Bulletin
We'd like to be present when Andrew
returns the call.--Judd Lewis in Houston
Post.
'Shl gently, Judd; you've much to learn.
Probably you never heard Larry Sharkey,
formerly of this town, but now of New
York, who is one of the greatest of all
Irish story tellers. Listen! Here's Lar
rvs version of just such a case:
Clancy came home one Saturday night
with his face all battered up. Look ut
yer cried his wife. What happened ye?'
"Well,' said Clancy. down at Otto's me
an Emil Schultz had a bit of an argu-
ment, an'e he hit me a clip Emil
Schultz" said she; Emil Schultz! An
you that call yerself an Irishman take
a batting from a little. sawed-off fat
headed, knock kneed-" 'Sh. Mary,
Clancy interrupted; never speak disre-
spectful of the dead."-Tom DAILY in Phil
adelphia Evening Ledger.
We'd have known that If we had known
that MCGOWAN was Irish We though he
was Scotch.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-06

scored by some of his democratic co.,
leagues for not giving up his life long
views on the tariff for the sake of ex-
pediehcy. AS result of his independence,
however, he has been the recipient of
many editorial bouquets even from re-
publican papers, like the Philadelphia
Inquirer, for instance, which says:
There is one democrat in Congress
who is not willing to undertake the peril
GUS course of trying to carry water on
both shoulders. This is Senator Under
wood. He won't stand by protective
tariff on dyestuffs, for it is a republican
proposition abhorrent to the principles
and practices of the democratic party. He
won't stand by the finance committee in
this respect. He is fearlessly outspokeu.
He won't swallow the dose which the
committee prepared. He intends to be
consistent.
He is that, all right, and he has the
courage of his convictions. His party al
ways has been opposed to the doctrine of
protection. 1t has held it to be uncon-
stitutonal Others may be led astray,
but not the senator from Alabama"
The Alabama senator has not waited
the usual two years before participating
In the senate debates. 1t seemed the nat
ural thing that one SO well known in the
nation should fall readily into the work
of the senate from the moment of his ar
rival upon that side of the house. Again,
in late years Senatorial courtesy as it
concerned now members, has rapidly lost
caste. 1t was Senator LaFollette, we be-
lieve, who was the first new senator to
disregard that antiquated custom of the
Senate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-06
SENSIBLE CLOTHES FOR MEN
From the Louisville Courier-Journal

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
81 T last, after many years of folly,
~ men in this country are adapting
q - their costumes to the extreme
temperatures of the temperate zone sum
mer.
Formerly there were few hot weather
substitutes for the lined and padded coats
in which men felt becomingly dressed.
The we'll dressed man disliked the appear
ance of an unlined coat, which did not
present to the view of the multitude the
faultless "built up shoulder which the
tailor made with consummate skill and
perfect ruthlessness as the sine qua non
of the well tailored suit of clothes, for
winter or summer wear Thin men look
ing like broad shouldered athletics. and
feeling like broiling live Holsters, and fat
men with their tubbiness counterbalanced
by shoulders which the spine of Sullivan
| hardly would have carried had they been
made of flesh and blood and bone, bore
with mistaken, but heroic, courage the
| more than tropical temperature of our
temperate zone hot waves. And women
declared that no man without a coat was
a gentleman.
Not every man is concerned greatly
| about being gentleman, in the estima-
| ton of those who think that the coat
makes the gentleman, and shirt sleeves
the mere man, but nearly everyone wants
| to get into the restaurant when he is
hungry. or hold his job at the bank in dog
days. So the women had their way. They
said-to give them their dues-that men
could, if they would, wear coats made of
| ma terials suitable for hot weather. But
the individual couldn't because the crowd
didn't, and because as long as that was
| true nobody offered to make him or sell
him anything approaching tropica. suit
F! of clothes which did not make him look
| like a hayseed and feel like an idiot. He
was condemned to the padded coat as a
maniac is condemned to padded cell, be-
cause in the opinion of others more num-
/, erous and powerful than he the padded
| coat was what should surround him.
| At last-suihmers of 1915 and 1916-the
thin, loosely woven. unlined, unpadded
| comfortable coat has become the rule
rather than the exception. There are va
rieties of clothing which are about as
cool as the white cotton which is worr
in the tropics. The red faced belligei ent
Hooking man in his shirt sleeves carrying
his padded coat with the athletic, ~
| degrees Fahrenheit shoulders, and crrs
ing the weather and the women because
! of the general lack of cordial welcom,
for the coatless man, no longer is seen
The "shirt-waist man" has ceased to be
come national issue. The women wn,
were agitated lest their dignity suffer al
injury are calm. The men who were no
in the collar-the dreadnaught types VIII,
went coatless ana stood up for their RICH
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-06
DIR. DUDLEY,s SUCCESSFUL QUEST

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
The story of how P. H. Dudley C. E.,
Phi. D., discovered the cause and found a
remedy for defective rails is one of great
interest 1t proves that the habit of SOW
in view, is characteristic of which foreign
scientists have no monopoly.
DR.. Dudley, more than 40 years ago,
came to the conclusion that defects in
railway rails could be prevented. He
realized, however, that searching the
heart of steel billets for their secrets
would not be the matter of a moment
Dr. Dudley prepared for a life work
Thirty eight years ago the scientist en-
gagged his services to the New York Cen
trail railway. Never since then has he lost
sight of his cause.
For thirty-three years Dr. Dudley and
his wife made their home on a special
car, moving hither and thither on the
railway systems always to the same pur-
pose. In his travelling laboratory lie
tested, analysed, estimated and drew de-
auctions. The mine, the smelter, the
rolling mill saw him often For four de-
cades he searched for the secret and at
last found it.
The New York Central, in general recog-
milton of Dr. Dudley's services, now gives
to the world a detailed account of his
work. After thorough experimentation
the company declares that the discoveries
of the scientist have reduced rail breaks
from a ratio of one to every 800 rails to
one in every $4,000 rails, and chat all
breaks from interior assures will soon
be things of the past.
The value of this discovery is plain.
The interstate commerce commission re-
ports show that during the past IA years,
3345 railroad accidents, costing 215 lives
and nearly 100000 dollars in property
damage, have resulted from broken rails.
The elimination of this fruitful cause of
accidents materially increases the safety
of travel.
DR.. Dudley has the comfort of knowing
that while hundreds of his fellow scien-
lists are devoting their energies to inven-
tons for death and destruction, his trl-
umphs lead toward a far happier end
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-06
PREFER FRENCH OFFICERS

Will Irwin in the Saturday Evening Post.
Testimony from those lively young
American boys, the members of the
American amb ulance section in France,
may be pertinent just now. They have
been going through hell of late to get
out of the wreckage of war from verdun;
three of them have just come Sdown
wounded
They are exactly the kind of men who
will form the first line of our volunteer
army in case of war. And pretty gen.
orally they prefer working with the
French officers Not that the French
officer coddles them. On the contrary,
he gets the work done; they have re-
sponded to his treatment. captain OF
chasseurs at the front told me the other
day that American section would per.
form in a pinch two or three times as
much work as any other section he ever
saw.
ITS this way" said one of these boys
who is doing his second term of enlist
ment. "A British officer Is a good fell
low, usually. But to us ambulance mer
mere privates-he speaks in the tone M
uses toward servants. The British may
i like it, we don't. The French officer just
looks you in the eve and talks to yo,
man to man. Once, I remember, we were
taking the wounded out of the Cham
payne. We'd been working for 70 hours
with only snatches of sleep. We were
getting to the point where, when wee
try to park the machines. we'd run into
one another Just then French officer
came along. Messieurs,' he said, al.
most feel I have no right to ask am
more of you, you have worked so long
and SO bravely. But what can l do? OuI
wounded will die if they don't get to the
hospitals Well, we'd have gone to he'll
for him, and we told him We braced
up and worked "a hours more
1t suits the French. The same system
with notifications to fit the national
character will suit us.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-06
"OUR LAST GREAT MAN,

who made the code of Napoleon" to-
day the basic organic law of the Latin
speaking peoples of the world. From him
it was that Baron Stein adopted the en-
tire wool and fabric of economic Ger
manic "Kultur' and Teutonic efficiency.
The results as we'll as the activities OF
war were contemplated by Napoleons
masterful genius and there is little doubt
that in the present conflict his memory
and inspiration has been the beacon Of
reha bilitated France. And may it not be
also true that the misjudged life of Ma
poleon which Kaiser Wilhelm pondered
as boy was a precipitative influence in
the present world-struggle? We cannot
think of war without thinking of Napo-
leon and his remaking of the map of
France.
1t seemed curious yet most fitting, that
in Washington, the capital of the coun-
try, which more than any other fulfilled
the fundamental ideals of Napoleon and
to which, through the Louisiana Pur-
chase, he contributed an area far exceed
ing any ever contributed by military con-
quest or acquired by settlement-that in
Washington should be celebrated the
birthday of the Little Corporal The act
of these swarthy Corsicans who paid
their tribute may have been the only
ceremonies in America concentrating
the birth and memory of the worlds
supreme genius, whom Carlyle described
as ''our last great man."
Only recently the school children and
plain people of the island of Elba raised
a fund of 100000 to erect a monument
to Napoleon Bornaparte, in memory of
the work he did for them in his 10
months residence there.
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Joe Chapple, in the National Magaz

Joe Chapple, in the National Magazine
for September.
81 GROUP of lads in Washington the
IN other day celebrated the one hun
q "a bred and forty-seventh anniver-
sary of the birthday of Napoleon.
They were natives or Corsica, the little
island on which was born the great man
whose denouement shook the world. On
August Is, in the year 1863, Napoleon
Bonaparte was born in poverty and OBJ
security. He still remains the most bril-
liant character in history. He wrested
achievement from difficulty and turned
obstacle into opportunity. Here was a
man who, in the face of banded Europe,
with no friend but his sword and no for
tune but his talents, entered every cap
itaI of the continent in triumph, and
medley of contradictions-a king of kings
the lord of war-and yet his favorite
flower the gentle violet.
What might have been the turn OF
events had Napoleon escaped to America
instead of st. Helena; or had he chosen
the United States instead of the dramatic
return from Elba and the Hundred Days:
American institutions today reflect the
genius of Napoleon. 1t was he who re-
stored the civil liberty of the Jews; who
planned the canal system of Holland and
modern Europe; who planned the Sue2
canal; who conceived the very basis OF
tariff legislation; who established pop
ular land tenure in France which is the
foundation of French wealth and thrift;
who severed modern Europe and estab-
lished the market system and special
lied educational work of modern times
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-06
A WIZARD OF INDUSTRY

FROM the New York World.
The annual report of the Ford Motor
company shows profit for the last fiscal
year of $59,994,11s, of which Henry Ford
share as holder of 81 per cent of the stock
is $34, 196,607
AT this rate of addition to the fortune
he already possesses. Mr.. Ford will soon
enter the higher sphere of wealth occu-
pied by Andrew Carnegie and John D..
Rockefeller. His riches will rank with
the monumental fortunes of the century,
but with essential differences in the meth
cd and manner of accumulation.
In the first place, the Ford fortune has
not been amassed from a public necessity
like oil or steel. 1t has been created from
motor vehicle which people got along
we'll enough without until it's inventor
with wizard hand evolved the need for
1T and made it quasi-necessity. 1t is
fortune, moreover, acquired strictly
through manufacture and under no condi-
tons of monopoly or oppression. The
Ford concern has never had to Keep
morgue for the terrorization of compete
tors. 1t has paid it's employees the high
est wages and given them share Of it's
profits. 1t has established the policy OF
allowing the public to participate in its
prosperity through rebates and reduc I'd
prices.
Perhaps the conspicuous thing about the
Ford millions is the moderation shown I'M
acquiring them. A great fortune based
on a policy of raising wages to a MAXI
mum and decreasing the price of the prod
uct to minimum is a unique monument
to the genius of the man who created It.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-06

TO DO so, and the conventional men who
suffered IN their coats, if not always IN
silence, have been seen wearing COM
Portable garments and looking much hap.
pier than they did in the period when no
American felt that it was possible to be
dressed properly unless he wore thick
suit of clothes-a closely woven blue serge
at least-with a bolt or so of raw cot
ton in the shoulders of his coat to make
his shoulders look like tailor shop con-
ception of Apollo and the matinee girls
conception of Ajax defying the hot wave
The women may be pardonad if they OBJ
serve the Palm Beach" suits. the
crashes" the linens and the like, and
say: We told you 1t could be DONE
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-06
LUKE M,LuKE SAYS
Copyright, 1916, by the Cincinnati Ei

Copyright, 1916, by the Cincinnati En-
quirer.
You wouldn't imagine that it was nee
essary to punch holes in mosquito netting
in order to see through it. But judging
from the waists some of them are wear
ing, the girls seem to think it necessary
Woman is an enigma. The young bride
who is making her first attempt and the
divorced woman who is on her honey.
moon with her fifth husband, both mag
inc that they have landed the only man in
the world.
A few drops of rain may keep a boy
away from Sunday school. But deluge
can't keep him away from circus
The old-fashioned Peeping Tom who
worked at night now has son who sees
more by working when the sun Is shin
ing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-06
Prefers the South

After spending several years in Ne
vada and San Francisco, 1 was certainly
glad to get back to old Alabama again"
said j. c. Carter yesterday. It spent
almost two years working in the west,
and I'll take the south in preference
any time.
I'm San Francisco it rains most of the
time, making working conditions very
unpleasant Southern California is much
better, however, the climate being almost
ideal. AS for the remainder of the west.
cannot see how some people can rate
that country above the south
In Nevada, the people suffer greatly
from the lack of rain Often several
months pass without rainfall, and then
it Is of practically no benefit. The in
creasing popularity of the motion pictures
Is great developer for California. The
moving picture companies employ a large
number of people and prosperity predomi-
mates in the towns where the large stu
dos are located"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-06
SERVICE TO COTTON GROWERS

FIom the Montgomery Advertiser.
Senator Underwood made vigorous
and successful fight to prevent revenue
tax from being imposed upon cotton
used in making war materials. Senator
Underwood pitched his fight on the
ground that cotton was the only agri-
4ltural commodity which would be SIM
fairly taxed. This would have placed a
burden upon cotton farmers not borne by
other farmers. The tax would have
raised considerable sum of money out
Of the pockets of the cotton growers. To
Senator Underwoods opposition to the
measure is due the credit of it's defeat.
In connection with the revenue bill Mr..
Underwood opposed any sort of protective
legislation. He held that the party
should stick to its creed. He was roundly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-06

From the Providence Journal.
Tho Standard Dictionary defines

From the Providence Journal
The Standard Dictionary defines the
word bromide III IT. slang sense as fol-
lows:
''One who utters platitudes; common
place BORE
The word is also applied to the plati-
tudinous utterance of the commonplace
bore.
If the dictionary editors desire good
illustration of a plattudinous utterance
for the next edition of their valuable vol
ume they may find it in the following
statement of Count Ernst Won Reventlow.
the naval expert of the Berliner Tage-
seitung regarding the appearance of Ru-
mania us belligerent in the European
struggle He says
I'm view of the geographical situation.
the presumption is permissible that mill
tary developments are imminent"
They certainly are.