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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-22
German Finances Are Easi- ly Able to Stand the
 Terrific Strain
BANK DEPOSITS IN
 ENGLAND INCREASE
This in Spite of the Fact That About S15O,O 900, ,O00 A Week Is Be- ing Spent on the
 War
By HOLLAND

Nev York. June 22-(Special.)-The death of Lord Kitchener reminded one or two of the American national imam ciers who had opportunity last winter and once or twice before to meet him in London of the view which, as they un- derstood it, he firmly held that the Eu- ropean war would be continued until August 1917. One of those brought III touch with Lord Kitchener and others of the government of Great Britain stated Kitchener's view in another way saving that he was convinced that the war would be ended in August, 1Sl7 That seemed a more reasonable view than the other attributed to him-namely, that the war would be continued until August of next year.
 More and more. there is realization that the third year of the war will demon strate either the ability of Germany ana Austria to maintain themselves from the economic point of view, no matter how long the war continues, or else there Will be demonstration that collapse is inevit- able because of the economic strain. Germany has abundant means so far as credit and currency are concerned Tor sustaining herself many months, perhaps until the allies are worn out The latest statement of the Deutsche bank for the year 1915 has caused a great deal of com ment in the financial district, especially it's report that it is maintaining a gold reserve of B 1-3 per cent with ease as cover for it's currency issue.
 Nevertheless, speaking wholly from the point of view of finance, the impression does prevail in the financial district that the credit and the money resources Of Germany. large as they are and long as they can be continued, may be of little avail after another year has passed. The wonder is whether Germany may not find herself in the position of the man who has an abundance of gold in his pocket, but is not able to spend it be- cause there are no commodities in sight to buy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
Garage for Taxicabs

"The city commissioners should pass an ordinance prohibiting taxica bs from parking in the downtown streets,' said Arthur M. Wiggins yesterday. If the taxicabs were taken off of the streets and placed in a garage, where they belong, our streets would not be oil and grease stained, as they are, and besides this, there are about 100 taxi cabs in the city of Birmingham now, and this would give more street space for traffic, which is badly needed
 "As long as they are allowed to re- main in the streets, the chauffeurs are going to make repairs on their cars, which calls for large quantity of tire and other automobile accessories sit ting on the sidewalk, taking up more needed space. This also makes the streets resemble an automobile repair shop. The only place for the taxicabs is in a garage, but it would not pay one company to put their automobiles in a garage unless the others did the same"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
A GRIM FAIRY TALE

From the Kansas City Star
 While Arabian Night stories are being told every day about poor, plodding Kan sans who have suddenly become fabu- lously rich through lucky strikes in the oil fields, perhaps the case of Miss Helen Hayes, society .editor of the Hutchinson Gazette, should not be overlooked. All her life Miss Hayes has spent planning and preparing herself for a battle for ex- istence. She is Lawrence girl, a graduate of the state university, and a finished product from the journalism school of Dean Merle Thorpe. After a short service on a Lawrence paper, she went to the city edtorship of the Great Bend Tribune. A year later she became society editor of the Hutchinson Gazette. So it is apparent that her career thus Gar has not been formed in anticipation of wealth. The other day she received 8 trunkful of money from a brother, to whom money is as hay. But it hasn't turned her head, nor changed her plans Despite her great fortune, she will con. tinue gathering items of society doings in Hutchinson. Miss Hayes fortune came from her brother with the Kansas Ma. tional Guard, now stationed at Eagle Pass, Tex. The money is Carranza and Villa currency, and the whole consigu ment is worth somewhere in the neigh borhood of 40 cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
Route of Highways

"The Birmingham Motor and Country club issued sometime ago a very com plete and useful route of the highways entering Birmingham" said G. T. Braz- elton, one of the directors of the club, in referring to a similar booklet issued in Mobile "Our publication shows logs of the five most important highways leading into the city and it shows the routes to the principal cities within 9 radius of 200 miles of Birmingham. The traffic laws of the city, the principal places of interest, the chief amusement resorts, fishing places and all other in- formation of this character which would be of interest to tourists and to motorists in this district are shown in the publication.
 While the booklet is not as elab- crate as we would have liked, still 1t will serve every purpose and we are aways glad to furnish them to motor ists who are interested. When it is considered that it was published by the club alone, without any outside assist ance, think it is very creditable booklet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
Wants High cIas. Pictures

''It is cheering to note the growing dis position of your 'Footlights and Screen editor to lambast the questionable and the unclean in the movie drama" said w. H. Vim. This eternal and internal triangle business, sex problems and blatant vulgarity masquerading as comedy is leading either to the decadence of the movie art or to puritanical censorship that will amount to the same thing in the end.
 "The proprietor who screens rnIs brand of rot to a fair attendance is absolutely deceiving himself if he believes the pub lie delights to bask in hog wallow. He should figger on the vast numbers who never enter his place and why. The bulk of Americans are clean-minded and de- mand clean sport and clean amusement, and when this ceases to be fact it's all off with America.
 There was a time in this country when horse racing and the licensed saloon were stitutions could well be. But consider how low in the scale of public opinion they stand today-the one put on the bum by the tout and the other touted out by the bum. Producers of motion pictures could put in some highly profitable time in contemplating the rise and fall of these and many other institutions, isms and ologies and get down to turning out work that everybody would care to see instead of the sort where a husky lad of 16 may accompany his sister of IS only as far as the door and then hunt other entertain ment while she spends an hour or so con templating the anatomical mysteries of sex differentiation.
 'I wish your 'rootlights and Screen scrivinator more power. Let him gird ur his loins and smite the unclean and the licentious hip and thigh"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
THE vOICELEss

By Oliver Wendell Holmes. We count the broken Tyres that ret Where the sweet-wailing singers sl
 Der, But OCT their silent sisters brea st
 The wild flowers who will stool
 number? A few can touch the magic string. { And noisy fame is proud to win the
 Alas for those who never sing, { But die with all their music in thed Nay. grieve not for the dead alone. I Whose song has told their heart s l
 story; Weep for the voiceless who have kd
 The cross without the crown of gl Not where Leucadian breezes sweep \ sO'er sappho's memory haunted
 low, But where the glistening night
 weep On nameless sorrows church !
 pillow. o hearts that break and give no sigj Save whitening lip and fading tre| Till Death pours out his cordial win Slow-dropped from misery's crus|
 presses! If singing breath or echoing chord ; To even pang were given, What endless melodies were pouredl As sad as earth, as sweet as heaJ II
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
Free Vaccine

Our company's quick action in sup plying typhoid vaccine to all its eGn ployes free of charge when the recent epidemic struck Birmingham I believe had much to do with keeping them inl- mune from the disease" said Frank Hammond, general agent of the Birming- ham Railway, Light and Power com pany, yesterday. "We supplied the vac cine to all employees free of charge, and it only cost members of their fam lilies what it cost us for the material.
 When the epidemic first was discov- cred few typhoid cases were found among our employees, but we immedi- ately began supplying the vaccine, and the number of cases reported was very low.
 The city commission is taking the right step in making the effort to clean up Birmingham. Proper sani- tation is the solution of all our disease problems, and the sooner Birmingham is made right from a standpoint of sanitation, the better it will be for the community
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
Too Careless About Garbage

During the past few days many complaints have been made regarding garbage disposal The complaints all the from East Lake to Ensy and embrace not only the of handling by city collectors but also the nfrequency of coec tons.
 Once week not often enough collect garbage in the dense residence sections in summertime.
 Though the housewife be careful of the sanitary dtons of her premises she helpless the city fails her in it's obligation to get the refuse away.
 Complaint made that the garbage collectors handle the roughly that is impossible keep them air tight In too many the garbage scattered in the street in front the premises
 The present health campaign in Birmingham is everybody work and the city should example of efficiency
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
A SMOKY VALLEY PARAGOT

I use cream where most people use btl
 for cooking. I iron early of morr' and late of evenings with my breaf,
 and supper fires. I do most of my i, ing the same way. By working system do all my own work, inclrs dressmaking, tend my. garden, chickens, do quite a bit of fancy MI and find time to read several magaG
 and farm papers and never worry al
 the unavoidable Wordsworth's perfect woman II
 planned" was of little interest to
 ciency experts or to optimists in
 parison with Mrs. D.. from whose uh ing, and untired, hands weeks wast
 slips like water from ducks back, {
 who has time to read the magazines
 many minds more figurative language. pressing utter leisure after everys. that is of spiritual or temporal inn ance or interest has been attended and do fancy work What a mere Il,
 of Doubt discovery, in point of poll interest, was Moore's woman M fancy uncommon,'' when compareI Mrs. D., the hitherto unknown andI acclaimed matron of Smoky Valley, does the ironing and baking before bl fast and after dinner in the spirA which the average human being humi refrain of a song from comic opera, , hardly realizes the passing of weeks washing through her busy 1
 much otherwise engaged fingers!
 Never worry about the unavoidal
 Here lies the kernel of contentment. l
 philosophy might make the dray hors
 carefree as the linnet. But would it I.
 him capable of doing the work q
 fcur-horseg team and leave him leisuI pursue the pleasure of equine medits
 as vacuous as the hours spent by
 D. over the pages of the popular mi zines? l The average human being, housekeI l or hod-carrier, will credit good Mrs
 with exceptional ability to get arouns
 and through, scheduled tasks and jobs, rather than make any serious persistent attempt to follow Mrs. | highroad of happiness and reach the
 water mark of achievement, which 1 D., because she is peculiarly endd with the punch. reaches without | ceptible effort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
"CIPHER. AND "zERov

From The Cleveland Plaindealer.
 Did you know that the words 'cipher" and zero came from the same Arabic original? Of course you know that they commonly mean the same thing, but they don't at all look as if they had the same root.
 It came about in this way: The Arabic word was ''sifr." The old Latin treatises on arithmetic took this word from the Arabic, but Latinized 1t into "zephyrum.' The Italians contracted this into ''zefiro." We knocked the two middle letters out and still further shortened it to zero" The French, on the other hand, contracted the Latin term into "cifre," thus getting nearer to the Arabic
 And since the English language has always taken what it wanted from the French-whethei it was needed or not we took this word, changing its spelling to cipher"
 We have differentiated the meanings of the two words now; zero means nothing, and cipher means the charac- ter for nothing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
PREACHING AND ADVERTISING

From the Spokane Spokesman eviau,
 Preaching Is a matter of persuasion. So is advertising. Are there not, there- rore, some important items of tech nique that the preacher and the adyer- Using man can learn in common? A discussion of the subject by clerical writer in the Methodist Review runs along these lines. It should be noted that in this discussion no reference ,is made to publicity methods to be used by the preacher to fill his pews. but solely to the use of advertising first principles in order that the sermon it- self may reach its audience and make lasting impression. Summed LID col loquially, the query propounded is: What can the preacher learn from the advertising man in the way of getting over the message he wants to deliver? The writer complains that most of the sermons he has heard are but a confused blur in his recollections Preaching that is vague, he concludes. IS no better than vague advertising. Some preachers. it would seem, .'know only in spots the thing they are set to project" They miss "a whole lot of what we advertising men call good talking points on the social side of Christianity-points that have a strong appeal and drawing power in that they make Christianity appear as a real part of what men want"
 Here is bit of sound constructive criticism of ordinary preaching. based on what men have learned about ad- vertising:
 "The appeal is not tied up closely enough to a particular thing-the definite acceptance of Christianity. A man might listen to great many ser- mons and get the idea that the Chris tian message was-'Be good Gerald Stanley. Lee calls it teasing men to be good If you have no more definite message than that you might as well save the money your. space costs. Be- |lieve on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved is a message which covers all that is implied in the vague and general Be good but 1t brings a thousandfold moro inquiries and re- suits"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
Back from Detroit

''The automobile factories of Detroit are now exceedingly busy" remarked Doug las Mcqueen, who has just returned to Birmingham after two weeks stay in the bustling Michigan city.
 The war trade has been very heavy of late, and thousands of trucks and pas senger carrying cars are to be seen on the Detroit wharves in readiness for ship ment to European countries as soon as the embargo shall have been broken. Many trucks are also in use down on the Mexi- can border. The domestic demand for cars has never been greater.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
WORSE STILL.

 Did MT. Jobbles pay his bill?' ''Yes, sir,,' answered the collector, he made lot of fuss about it. "Um. Don't let that trouble you, It's the fellow who bellows and dc pay that we should worry about" THE OFFICE BARD. The buzz fan still
 The poet pleases
 And helps him trill Of ocean breezes.
 Birmingham Age-Her; And when he climbs
 The office stair
 He dopes out rhymes
 Of mountain air. Harrisburg Patr And when the heats
 At ninety-three,
 He sings a song
 Of the blue sea.
 Houston P
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
TO OUTLAW A GRIM WEAPON

From the Springfield, Mass, Republican.
 Little notice seems to have been drawn to the grim statement the other day. made quite incidentally in a report from Petrograd that the Germans in one I.ace, having used flame projectors, they were refused quarter.
 This amounts to declaration of out lawry against this hideous weapon. which was first used in war. so far as is known, by the Crown Princes army against the French in the Argonne. but which was employed, together with poisonous gas, in a destructive way against the Russians in the fighting on the Dunajek in the spring of 1915.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
MODELS IN DEMAND

New York Correspondent Pittsburg
 patch:
 Newspapers are printing column
 ads" calling for models for val
 cloak and suit houses. Perfect S6 S
 Misses 16' are wanted in hundred
 places during the rush season, whic
 from now until the first week in tember. The biggest crowd of buyer
 the history of the cloak and suit ness is in New York at the present While they are here manufacturers ploy anywhere from one to fifty els to exhibit their goods. Models paid SIS week. Many firms that mand really beautiful models pay $50 and even more. Firms that < dresses and millinery must have gir striking appearance as models. Chan from one garment to another from the morning until 5 in the afternoe not a vacation. Despite the strilx garment makers, the trade says going to be the biggest year in the ( and garment business in it's history Is looking forward to a season of UT l cedented prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
HOTEL LOBBIE,S
HOIcOmbe Wants Prophet Released

oAcOnDe NnntS Propnet heAeaSeu
 While l don't place much confidence in seers and prophets said J. H. Hol- combe yesterday. T am in favor of get ting that colored preacher and self-styled prophet out of the big rock The story is going the rounds, you no doubt know, that he predicted rain every day he is confined in jail as a punishment for the white folks I am willing to go on his bond with any three bondsmen in the city. Let's get the prophet out of jail-- we can't afford to overlook a chance to stop the rain"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
PUBLIC HEALTH AS A COMMODITY

From the kansaS Clty Star
 Here is the motto of the New York department of public heath;
 Public health is purchasable."
 within natural limitations com munity can determine it's own death rate"
 That means community is respon- sible for the unnecessary deaths that follow its failure to take advantage of every resource of modern training in the organizing of it's health depart ment.
 If it permits a political health de- partment or well l-meaning but ineffi- cient health department. it is deliber- ately inviting sickness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
SPEAKING OF FISH.

When Jonah saw the whale draw nes He ventured to remark, "Oh, stranger, you are welcome here I'm glad you're not shark"
 Washington SI When Jonah saw ,the4whale draw ne He chuckled ir high gIee And said. This trip, 'tis very cle; There'll be no tips from me-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
From the Louisville Courier Journal:

From the Louisville Courier Journal:
 66G NHAKESPEARE says that ignor-
 ance is the curse of God, and
 that order is heavens first law, "- writes Amelia Phillips of Smoky Valley, Ky, to the New York Tribune, by way of introducing the subject of good housekeeping
 That intelligence and order are the two essential factors in the economy of life, as necessary in housekeeping as in any other occupation" is the burden of the argument. The writer tells of one domestic establishment characterized by confusion, pessin1ism, backache, and com- plaint. And here Is the brighter pie ture:
 "A few days after I went to see Mrs D. we were greeted with a cheery good morning. Mrs. E. I am so glad to see rocking chair reading a popular maga- zine; she was dressed neatly and had cheerful look and presented a healthful appearance. The house was in perfect order and everything tidy and neat as pin. The contrast was great and I re- quested her to tell me the secret of her success.
 It Is not much of secret she said, Tn the first place, I never worry. I try to have place for everything and to Keep everything in it's place. I take no useless steps and quietly study out every thing beforehand. teach the children systematic habits and to depend upon themselves as much as possible The older ones are taught to assist the younger ones. and all to be very careful | about soiling their clothes or throwing things around the room. I have my floors painted, as you see. This saves much labor. On wash day I put my | clothes to soak early in the morning. | At noon I put the water on to heat, take the clothes out of soak and boil them During this process do my sewing. After boiling take them from the suds and place them in 8 clean tub and cover With cold water and leave them until next morning, when I finish up the task Thus do big washing and hardly realize it. simplicity in everything is the Keynote.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
What next, I wonder?"
BASE SUBTERFUGE.

My neighbor woke me up this morning singing patriotic songs."
 "1n case like that you should have patience, He may have been actuated by the loftiest motives.'
 Nothing of the sort. I suspect he was bawling at the top of his voice merely to drown out the cutting remarks made by his wife about the condition he was in when he came home last night"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
thou monster, ignorance, how de- faorm'd dOst thou look.
 Loves Labor Lost

o Beauty of ancient days, ancient but ever new, too late l sought Thee, too late I found Thee. l sought Thee at a distance and did not know that Thou vast near. l sought Thee in Thy works, and behold, Thou vast in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
WORTHY.

The cheerful plodder may not win
 To starry heights and lasting fame, But with brave hearts may enter in,
 Without apology or shame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26
DRAWING THE LINE
inc NochviIle TarueSsean

From the Nashville Tennessean.
 One thousand women are said to have signed petition for the parole of convicted Alabama wife murderer, but none of them, it is understood. has peti- tioned for the privilege of being the next wife.