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The log cabin Democrat., 1916-03-30
HUTCHINS RENOMINATED.

A message from Augusta this aft ernoon states that Judge A. L.. Hutchins, formerly of Conway, was renominated for county judge of Woodruff county, defeating his op- ponent by vote of 990 to 735.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-03-30
CIVIC CLUB TO MEET.

The Conway School and Civic Club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the public school All mem- bers are requested to be present.
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-03-30

membership of the other congrega- tions, but to the public in general.
 Miss Bernice Jones, Chairman Invitation Committee. Mrs. J. J. Doyne,
 President Ladies' Aid
The log cabin Democrat., 1916-03-30

Mrs. A. D. Wright left this morn ing for visit to friends and rela- tives in GurdOn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03
Approves Ford,s Attitude

'"The article by Henry Ford, recently appearing in The Age-Herald, crowned, with the appropriate title Humanity and Sanity is one of the greatest educa- tional factors that has ever appeared in any paper for many years" said Dr. H. A. Elkourie. "The undeniable truths con- tained therein the uncontrovertable evil dences shown, the high and unselfish patriotism manifested will stir many an honest but misguided enthusiast in the fallacious doctrine of extensive prepar- edness to return to his sound and normal thoughts, and at once recognize that the propaganda of militarism is both unpat- riotic and harmful
 Tt was indeed a revelation to me to learn that the Maxim Battle Cry of Peace was indeed the Battle Cry of Maxim emanating from a cunning and resourceful brain for the purpose of finan- 'cial gain, at time when the opportuni- ties were both inviting and productive, and when the peoples minds were in re- ceptive mood for the absorption of in- fiammatory and sensa tional matter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03
Phenomenal Effect of War

"The effect of the war upon some in- dustrials is phenomenal, particularly upon those engaged in iron and steel produc- tion,'' says Henry Clews in his financial review. For example. the United States Steel corporations net earnings during the last quarter were reported at about $60, 100000, or five times what they were a year ago. Similar results are being reported by other concerns in this in dustry, although 1t must be remembered that comparisons are made with period of depression.
 Copper mining companies are making extraordinary profits, and their combined output for this year will considerably ex- ceed 2,0eo.000O00 pounds, which at cur rent average prices would approximate considerably over $500, ,0O0, 900 in value of product, compared with S2S0, ,0O0,000 last year. Moreover, the entire output for 1916 is said to have been sold to the allies, who seem to have secured all the sur- plus copper in the country. When the war is over there will be a tremendous vacuum in Germany which this country will be called upon to fill. The oil com panies are also securing their full share of present unprecedented activity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03
"LONG SWEETNIN'..

From the Kansas City StarS
 If sugar goes on soaring in price, as it has done since the war began, people may begin to think respectfully of the Tong sweetnin' " of the days before and during the war. In those days, in this part of the country, short ssweetnin' :" was loaf sugar, which came in chunks the shape of tall hat crown and so hard it had to be broken with hammer to get pieces small enough to sweeten cup of coffee. Long sweetnn'' was sor- ghum molasses, commonly known as '.sorghum" Loaf sugar was so expensive it was luxury and was put on the table only when company came. But every table had it's pitcher of sorghum, and mighty good it was, too, especially on pancakes or hot biscuit right after it was freshly made in the fall.
 In those days enterprising farmers here abouts planted patches of sorghum and made molasses by squeezing the juice from the cane and boiling it down. Golf fee became so scarce during the war that roasted grain was used in place of it; and people got along just as well with that, sweetened with a spoonful of sweetened with granulated sugar. It cost them little, and they knew that 1t was pure and wholesome.
 Sorghum molasses is yet made on farms in this part of the country and it may be bought in the grocery store but very little of it is used in comparison with it's consumption in the days of our ssranu- fathers. Granulated sugar has taken it's place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03
TO CURE CRIME BY MEDICINE

From the Cleveland Press
 Cure mems bodies of physical ills, and you'll cure the crime in their minds says Dr. G. c. Stewart, newly appointed resident physician at the Cleveland work house.
 pr. Stewart is 29 years old He grad uated in 1913 from the Ohio State Medi- cal college.
 T am going to try to turn these work house prisoners into useful citizens," he explained. Many. of course, are beyond hope. But building up their bodies and giving them work will do wonders
 'sThe physical condition has much to do with mental and moral welfare. If we could make everybody well, society would not have to cope with the crim- inal, and there would be fewer divorce trials
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03
To Vote on Auditorium Bond Issue

To Vote on Auditorium Bond Issue The city commission did great thing for Birmingham yesterday when it adopted an ordinance submitting to vote of the people $500,000 audi torium bond proposition.
 Few questions agitating this com munity are so we'll understood as this pertaining to an auditorium or con- vention hall. The matter has been So long under discussion that the need of such building is generally appre- ciated. Hundreds of prominent citi- zens, through the press or otherwise, have expressed themselves in favor of the project and now it only remains for the qualified electors to go to the polls on the fifth of June and indorse the action of the commission.
 No site or plan is mentioned in the ordinance, nor have the commission CTS committed themselves to any def mite scheme. All they ask is that a majority of the people vote for an auditorium. With $5OO,OOO of bonds authorized they will provide Birming- ham with the most spacious, the best appointed and the most beautiful audi torium in the south, and one that will be equaled by few in the United States.
 The Roden offer is wonderfully in- viting from a viewpoint of business economy, and looked at from the ar tistic point of view it is simply ideal. Never again will Birmingham have the opportunity of doing something fine-something on large scale and easily financed-as is now presented by the Roden estate The very mat ter of getting rid of an eyesore, in the naked, rusting, steel frame of twelve stories, is we'll worth considering; and when competent architects have found that this property can be con- verted into magnificent combination building-auditorium, city hall and public library-at comparatively small cost, sentiment is overwhelmingly in favor of it.
 When the time comes for deciding the commissioners should by unani- nous vote accept the Roden offer.
 But after years of agitation every body wants an auditorium so bad that the people can well afford to leave it to the commission to say whether the auditorium is to be at the southwest corner of Eighteenth street and Fifth avenue or on some other corner. But assuming that the voters will vote for the bond issue, Birmingham should be in happy frame of mind today and begin the shouting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03
A BAD MIXTURE

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 A judge in Detroit, who holds court amid swirling maze of motorists, has just sent man to the penitentiary for term of three to 15 years for run ming his car into safety zone while drunk and killing man. This will be a wholesome lesson to a lot of other fools in Detroit who think they can mix whisky with gasoline is the comment of his honor. Detroit has no monopoly of hooli- ganism awheel that uses the first liquid for personal lubricant and the second to burn up the speed laws. The com bination is peculiarly deadly, and the worst of it is that those whom it victim izes are usually the innocent. The man of the reeling head and the derelict wheel wakes from drunken stupor to mum bled penitence; but the bloody trail be- hind him cries from the ground for his proper penalizing. Public opinion Will applaude the decision of a righteous judge, whose seeming severity is a fore warning that will prevent the loss of other lives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03

something that will prevent it being classed with the productions of the older masters.
 A business man of Philadelphia, who says he loves music and never misses an opportunity of hearing a symphony, wrote to one of the news papers to say that he was disap- pointed in the Mahler symphony. He found fault with it because it lacked tune" He could not pick out single melody that was humable.
 But the striking fact about the New York performance was in the varying estimates of the music critics of the leading dailies. Leopold Liebling, editor of the Musical Courier, brings out in parallel columns and with humorous effect criticisms of about twenty papers. Here are few of them:
 The World: The symphony is
 tedious, dreary affair-a musical
 Sahara
 The Press: It is an intensely seri-
 ous attempt to express a great idea
 in terms symphonic the com
 poser has employed the material at
 his command with the hand of a
 master.
 The Herald: The ordinary opera
 inforced by a choir of boys would
 have achieved equally good results.
 The Mail: As for the performance
 it was in many ways revelation to
 New Workers. Such choral singing
 by large body of voices has seldom
 if ever been heard here.
 When Richard Wagner startled the world with his revolutionary princi- ples of opera and all musical art, com paratively few who heard his great works, now so popular, spoke well of them. Even the orchestra players and the singers said that Wagner was impossible. Later on when many Germans were going wild over Wag- ner many others got fighting mad" when arguing" that he would not last.
 The controversy now going on over Mahler recalls those days of disputa- tious talk about "the music of the future" and the merits of Wagner The composer of "Tannhauser" and the great music dramas is numbered with the immorals, notwithstanding the opposition he met with in life. Will it be so with Mahler's fame? It can hardly be expected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03
Mahler's Choral Symphony

The world of music has been agog for sometime over Gustav Mahler's symphony No. 8-a stupendous choral symphony-first produced in Phila- delphia several weeks ago, directed by Leopold St9kowski, with his or chestra augmented to nearly 200 and a chorus of 1000 voices; and so great was the enthusiasm it aroused in the Quaker City that Stokowski and his forces went to New York and gave it at the Metropolitan opera house under brilliant auspices-a new or ganization of music lovers, known as the Society of Friends of Music.
 While the chorus was made up of amateurs, the expenses of presenting the symphony in New York-just one performances amounted to $12,0OO. Mahler preceded Josef Stransky as conductor of the New York Philhar- monic orchestra, and while holding that position devoted much of his time to composition, but some of his larger works, including the eighth sym phony, were written or completed after he returned to Europe. As to the merits of this crowning achieve ment, critics differ widely.
 The greatest of Beethoven's sym phonies is the ninth. It is for chorus and is often performed in cities that support great orchestras and have large festival choruses. While it abounds in complex harmonies it is 1 full of beautiful melodic themes and !captivates everyone who has any eal for music; and, of course, it holds enthralled the educated musician.
 But Mahler's choral symphony lacks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03
UNDERWOOD ON ROADS

From the Mobile Register.
 Much of encourag cement of road de- velopment is found in the speech of Senator Underwood's upon the govern ment's duty to aid in providing good roads. The text of the speech appeared in yesterdays issue of this paper
 Considering that nine-tenths of the sustaining wealth of the country comes from the cultivation of the soil, and that the products of the soil must reach a market in order to profit the producer and the consumer, it is as- tonishing that the subject of roads as the necessary means of transportation has been neglected until our day. The senator points out that not until there is government aid is there ever proper system of roads established in any country. We are accustomed to hear praise of roads that exist in England and on the continent yet, as a matter of fact, these roads are prac- tically novelty. Even so short time ago as the beginning of the last cen tury a good road was rarity, and com plaint of the wretched conditions un- der which wheeled traffic suffered was constant. The states came to the aid of. the rural communities in this mat ter, and roads were we'll constructed and well maintained; so that the old troubles disappeared
 In this country we need system in planning. building and keeping roads and there must be money enough for operations upon large scale
 All this is understood and brought out clearly by the senator. His speech. printed as leaflet, would be good campaign material everywhere for good roads,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03
Favors Auditorium Plan

T cannot help feeling that the proposed auditorium project is an opportunity which comes to city but once in a gen. eration," said Frank Nelson, Jr.
 Tt is one of those things which should appeal to every citizen because, from a business standpoint, it is an excellent in- vestment. It utilizes the Roden frame, gives us a fine jail. city hall, library and auditorium, and the rent on the old city hall will virtually care for the interest charge.
 Furthermore, the conversion of the present city hall into a retail block will greatly enhance values in that section. These increased values will in turn yield more taxes so that it is better all around. The present city hall is too close in to be used much longer for city hall pur- poses. It will soon be in the heart of the retail district and the property is much too valuable to be utilized for a city hall and iail.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03
THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD

By Christopher Marlowe. Come live with me and be my Love- And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field And all the craggy mountains yield.~ There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.
 There will I make thee beds of roses And thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers. and a kirtle Embroder'd all with leaves of myrtle A gown made of the nnest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold. belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber stuos; And if these pleasures may thee move Come live with me and be my Love- Thy silver dishes for thy meat As precious as the gods do Cat, Shall on an ivory table be Prepared each; day for thee and me The shepherd swains shall dance and
 sing
 For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move Then live with me and be my Love.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03
H.s-REEN,s RENDEZVOUS

New York Correspondence Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 Broadway is the stamping ground for has -been pugs. Those now pounding the pave have made bodies of the long gren stuff in the boxing game, but they have failed to hold on to it. Many of thein are living on their reputation, liv- ing on the bounty of friends. Disconso- late Young Corbett," who won the light eight cbanlpionshoip from Terry McGov- ern, ssands in front of d Times Square cafe each day. Fate has made him quit the fighting game, and now he is doing nothing. The Kid never smiles, and from his dejection there is an indication that tra gedy is lurking closely. No sav- ing. no Understanding of the uncertainty Of the game came to him. On the other hand, there is Kid Mccoy. He is prosper ous looking, and still has his Today he is snew thoughter' and has the old philosophers for hobby.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03

buildings, and to go without them any longer would bring disgrace upon city known far and wide as especial ly progressive in it's educational ac- tivities.
 No matter how beautiful the homes or how handsomely built up the busl- ness district, or how strong the banks, or how salubrious the climate, made quate school facilities count against the community as nothing else would. All the good things said about city would be quickly negatived if school house accommodations were insuffi- cient to provide room for all children applying for enrolment.
 Two million dollars may seem a large amount to expend on schools in a years time, but it is not dollar too much.
 If Birmingham should turn down this school bond proposition it might as well acknowledge that it's claims to educational progress have been only idle boasting.
 But the school bond issue will not go by default. It is safe to say that the majority for the bonds will be large. Let's make it practically unan- imous. The reflex benefit to Bir- mingham of unanimous ballot, to say nothing of the direct benefit, would be incalculable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03
BUSINESS IN THE SOUTH

go rearing and tearing when anything Is done that looks like discrimination in favor of the larger centers of trade and industry. The question of pacifying Mex ico seems simple in comparison with working out a system of freight rates for the south that shall be regarded as equitable by all concerned. Personally, I would not want to have to be concerned with it.''
 After touching on one or two mill top ics of more or less minor importance, the talk was turned back again to the improved condition of the farmers. On this point the dry goods man said:
 One of the interesting things I saw was the increase in the number of auto- mobiles in the small towns. Where only main street lined with mule and horse rigs, today you see them lined with ma chimes. Most of the makes seen are those that sell around $1000 or less The mules are now being used largely for field work alone. The coming of the automo- bile to the 1ess-traveled portions of the south is naturally working in favor of good roads, and see no reason why the next few years ought not to bring the end of the kind of roads in the south that the manufacturers of concrete have found useful as advertising propaganda.
 '"rhe coming of more money to the gen. eral run of southern agriculturists is also seen in the growth and patronage of the movie shows. It is a very back ward small town now which does not have at least one moving picture house. The effect has been to bring cheap enter tainment to people who formerly had very few ways of enjoying themselves. Nowadays, instead of moping around on rainy days and getting blue outlook on life in general, the farmers run into town with the family and laugh at the antics of the screen comedians
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03
School Bond Issue Popular

Birmingham's $2,OOO,00O school bond proposition to enable the city to erect needed buildings and repair old ones is believed to be popular, and it should be ratified by an overwhelm- ing majority at the polls on June 5. SDther bond issues are to be voted upon
 -an auditorium and city lighting plant. These propositions are not only reasonable, but the demands for an auditorium and the school buildings are pressing and there should be no doubt as to the result.
 If by any streak of narrowness or contrariness on the part of a majority of the voters the $2,000,0O0 item on the bond ballots should be defeated X the city would be thrown back many years. Birmingham for four or five years has needed additional school
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03
AN UNKIND REroRr
From Answers, Londor

From Answers, London.
 Alas, the honeymoon was indeed over! That morning they had come to words over breakfast, and he had departed for the city in a rage.
 As the day passed, he began to think that perhaps. after all he had been rather hasty. So, as he wended his way homeward, he carried a small but inter- esting looking parcel. To his amaze mend, his, little wife refused to take the slightest notice of it-and him.
 Don't you want to see what's in my parcel darling?" he pleaded wistfully.
 T expect can imagine to survive not knowing" she retorted coldly.
 Well" he said playfully. its some thing for somebody I love more than all the world.'
 The womanss face frightened up.
 "Really?" she said Then I suppose it's that cigarette case you've been want inss so long,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03
THE THEATRICAL SEASON

From the New York Globe.
 "An expanse of Kindergarten plays stretches wearily before us,'' remarked 8 melancholy speaker at the farewell banquet to E. H. Sothern and Julia Mar lowe last Monday night. A touching tribute for two actors who have done much good work at no little inconvenience to themselves. The only trouble with it is that it isn't true. The present theat- rical season has been unusually interest ing in New York and it is no detraction from the praise due to MT. Sothern and Miss Marlowe to say that they have taken but small part in it. It is a matter of regret to thousands of people that these two artists are retiring from active work on the stage. But it does not by any means imply that America is now bereft of actors qualified or willing to maintain a high standard.
 The work done by Grace George during her season at the Playhouse is one proof that conditions are not so gloomy as the dithyrambic adnirer of MT. Sothern and Miss Marlowe declared. Miss George has successfully made one of the most in- teresting contributions to contemporary thea atrical history. She has offered noth- ing but plays of genuine distinction, plays commanding the attention and interest of all classes of theatre-goers. Acting and mise en scene have likewise been of a high standard. Financially her experi- ment has met with gratifying success. She has shown that it is possible to con- duct a season along artistic lines with out incurirng deficit that has to be financed with the profits from cheap trash
 When the list of this seasons produc- tions of the highest calibre is added up it makes an unusual total. It includes works of so wide variety and appeal as Justice "The Merry Wives of Windsor -unforgetable achievements-'"The Weav- ers." Flair and Warmer Henry VIII," "The Tempest and George Conan s Revue Several other plays of respec- table merit have been acted, and acted fairly well, too. It has been season of unexpected enjoyment for people of catholic taste-people who appreciate the racy humors of burlesque as well as the heights of human tragedy.
 Incidentally it has also been unusually, profitable for number of managers. For them it remains to distinguish between cause and effect, to decide whether they have made money because they have had exceptionally good wares to offer, or whether they were able to raise their standards because of the prosperity that made an exceptional number of people anxious to go to the theatre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-03
MORAL ART

By Robert G. Ingersoll,
 The artist, working simply for inc salxa of enforcing moral, becomes n laborer. The freedom of genius is lost and the artist is absorbed in the citizan The soul of tile real artist should ha ,novaa by this melody of proportion as th,. ,ody is unconseioLsly swayed by inc rhvthm of symphony. No one can ;,aasine that the great men who chisalad ths statutes of antiquity intended to teacl, the youth of Greece to be. obediant to their parents We are perfectly certain that Corot painted those infinitelv noetic landscapes, those cottages those s.J, non. lars, those leafless vines on ,vaat,,er tinted walls. those quiet pools. tbosa e.,.yy tented cattle. those fields flec,ed x light, over which bend the, ,>'l ,s<hy un~ as the breast of | mosSrr corss orn'ss's.. .a thinking of the ri,xioon from n ntans a.s ,rs ss There is the sa 4 be subject na'is... - moral art and siss Imprisonment
 that there is '"