The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-27


q PENNSYLVANIA man, ar
A raigned in court, declared ne
had a perfect right to beat his wl1e'
because the Bible says so. He pro-
ceeded to argue his case in such cir
cumstantial manner and with such
wealth of detail,
Bible Invoked Biblical ana oen-
bv a Wife, Beaten erwise, that the
woman he was ac-
cused of beating with an umbrella got
frightened and declared she was not
his wife.
The trouble with this Pennsylvania
is that he is behind the times. When
the word "obey" in marriage cere-
mony is a word and nothing more, and
some iconoclasts even advocate dis
pensing with it altogether, the man
agement of a wife that seeks to IN
clude chastisement is clearly obso-
lete. There are of course men OF a
cynical turn, chiefly bachelors, who
think husbands should be more strict
in dealing with their wives, particular
ly when those wives are of the glddy
sort, but the wife-beater is strictly
persona non grata in practically all
classes of society. Out in Kansas it
was planned to revive the pillory for
his benefit and in the state of Della
ware he expiates his cussedness at the
whipping post.
The ways of the patriarchs are not
our ways. The husbands and fathers
of Israel were stern disciplinarians,
but nowadays the average head of a
family depends on diplomacy to gain
his ends, and failing in that, gives a
good imitation of a man with nothing
on his mind.
r7T7HE other day funeral was held
u on the bottom of the ocean. OF
course it was the work of the IRE
pressible movie actor. In diving he'll
NETS which provided enough oxygen
without air pipes or life lines, the &C
tors portrayed
Filming Funeral the funeral OF
Under the Sea Captain Memo,
that famous nav
igator in Jules Verne's book, Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea-"
The camera clicked in a submarine
air chamber while outside in an ocean
setting, such as the hand of man could
never initiate, this part of the picture
was filmed. According to press re-
ports, it was the first dramatic scene
ever photographed beneath the ocean,
However, underwater pictures OF
many sorts have been taken by the
motion picture camera, including views
of marine life and, battles with mon
sters of the deep.
In certain aspects of realism the
"silent drama" is supreme. When that
master of imaginative fiction was
writing his wonderful sea tale he lit
tie thought how soon most of his
dreams would come true and how in
comparatively short time Captain
Nemo's adventures would be eclipsed
by exploits which through repetition
have become almost commonplace.
At any rate, one Of the fantastic
stories of Jules Verne has not yet
been duplicated in actual experience
Thus far nobody has undertaken trip
to the moon in cannon ball.
1EOUR years ago Roosevelt tried his
y best to put an end to the repub-
lican party, and it was generally
thought that he succeeded. According
to the doughty bolter the old party tc
which he had belonged and which hac
so greatly hon.
Independents Should ored him was
Rise in Their Might no longer
worthy of re-
spect. 1t was boss-ridden and stooc
only for what was detestable in OH
political life. Nothing bad that he
could say of it was too bad to find ar
echo among his followers. The pro-