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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01

John R. Cox, in the Popular Mecnanics
 Magazine.
 A N inconspicuous speck on the newer
 "A maps serves to denote the location 4 of Winthrop, Md. A bold heao- land jutting on the Potomac river, oe- tween two of it's tributaries, it attracts little notice from the thousands or pas sengers on that picturesque stream, two-and-a-half-hour sail below Washing ton. Yet despite it's modest position in the atlas Winthrop is a significant fac- tor in our system of military effectlVe- ness, for it is the base of small-arms craftsmanship of the United States navy and marine corps.
 Winthrop derives it's name from for mer assistant secretary of the navy Beekman Winthrop, who did much to en- courage the promotion of small-arms shooting in the marine corps. The tract, comprising 11Oo acres, was formerly known by the uneuphonious name ot Stump's Neck, but since it has been given the dignity of a government station, 1t is officially designated as the Marine Rifle Range, Winthrop. It's isolation af- lords ideal facilities for the work in which it is engaged.
 Every newly enlisted man in the east ern division of the marine corps must un- dergo the course at Winthrop, and qual- fly before he is assigned to general ser vice. As these recruits mostly come from the interior with little or no previous experience with the rifle. they have a great deal to learn; but two weeks of in- tensive instruction works wonders with them, and they are sent to marine de- tachments with an excellent working knowledge of the use of small arms, and no longer gun shy"
 But Winthrop is not merely a rifle range. It is also a school for coaches in rifle and revolver shooting; and it is there that the foundation is laid for small-arms practice in both the a-going services of the United States fighting force Sail ors, from chief petty officer to ordinary seaman, are detailed from naval vessels in squads of 10 men each during pe-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01
Many Cards Distributed

N'It would take an expert mathemati. elan years to figure out just how many pounds of white paper have been con- sumed by candidates in Jefferson coun- ty."' said Edward Patillo, candidate foI coroner, yesterday. q should say, rough ly estimated, at least 20 tons of paper have been used for printing the cards and other matter issued by candidates for office. The printers ink also runs up to a very large item.
 Some candidates say they have dis tributed as many as 90,00O cards. I am proud to say that I haven't distributed a single card in this campaign. have never seen fit to push a card into mans hand and have him glance down and read, Vote for me! have not yet become so des- perate for votes that I have to demand man to give me his ballot. I shall continue to request the voters to grant me their suffrage, and I am confident they will do so.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01

From the Popular Science Monthly.
 N NE of the most recent examples
 of the marvss s vel s,,o of moasss 1,as sns- sss way or Harlem river tubes built beneath the Harlem river to form the connecting link between the Boroughs of Manhat- tan and the Bronx subway systems now nearing completion.
 The Harlem river at the point of this crossing is 500 feet wide and varies in depth from 20 to 26 feet. In accordance with the requirements of the Secretary of War, the top of the structure was fixed at depth which placed it an average of seven feet below the river bottom and made the lowest point in the structure about 57 feet below water.
 The method consisted in assembling the steel shell or form of the four tubes, in sections about 220 feet in length upon timber supports above water. With the ends sealed or partially closed, a sec ton was launched and floated as a boat. Towing 1t to and anchoring 1t above it's designed location. its tubes were filled with water under positive and accessible controls and gradually lowered into a previously dredged and prepared trench. As each section was lowered in turn, it was attached to the end of the previous crete. When all of the sections had been lowered and properly encased with their ends closed by water-tight walls or bulk
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01
Cattle Industry

T have just returned from a trip through Mississippi" said Emery E. Smith, travelling representative of the De-
 Bardeleben Coal company, "and I can't
 keep from telling how those people over there are giving cotton raising and wood | burning the go-by. They are diversifying crops raising cattle and burning Slpsey coal
 The cattle industry in Mississippi is becoming enormous, and think very
 profitable. The state as whole is all
 most free from the tick, due to the use of dipping vats. The cattle are fat and healthy, and grow to good size. Many of the farmers are breeding better cattle
 and seeing the results in actual money. T think it is only a short time until
 the south will have live cattle industry. Each year more and more cattle is be-
 ing raised, and when we are free from
 the tick our cattle will be as good as
 those raised in western and eastern
 states
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01
DAMNs PAST AND PRESENT

From the New York Tribune.
 It will be sad day for English speak ing peoples when the fiction that damn is real cussin is thoroughly exploded. The English language Is peculiarly poor, as compared with the renaance languages, in moderate imprecations With the ex- ception of damn" what is there which a gentleman in a hurry may wrap his tongue about to check his fall. as it were? To shout ''hell is to touch bottom. of righteous wrath on too slender reed. to cry .'the devil!' is to rest the burden
 Damn Is really the only adequate and
 convenient compromise between silence and depths of articulation unprintable.
 Of course. the dictionary in all candor
 petrays the inherent innocence of this ex-
 plosive. It points out that in Latin, old
 French and middle English. whence it has descended to us, damn" occupied an |honored but commonplace niche in popu- lar English. The King James version of the Bible employs it freely. But. for tunately, the revised version, jealous. per- haps, of the world $ enhancement of value in modern usage. substitutes condemn in each instance. That is the proper spirit. The fine edge of it's expressiveness should not be blunted by needless em- Iployment
 By the same token we deprecate the published discovery of the Harvard nu- lmismatists that the original damn 1.-the ancestor of the Latin. and old French land middle English forms was merely the name of Persian coin It was used then. but without the n. z if the repor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01
Regarding New Federal Building

After long delay in perfecting plans for Birmingham's new federal build- ing ground is to be broken this sum-
 mer or early in the fall. The site on
 the north side of Fifth avenue, ex-
 tending from Eighteenth to Nine- teenth streets, has an area of 400 by 190 feet, which is ample for the im- posing structure to be erected on it. Something like year will be re- quired for the excavation work and
 the completion of the basement walls, and two years should be sufficient time in which to rear the superstruc- ture-three stories. But as Uncle Sam is very slow builder he is likely to take five years all told.
 Every brick and every piece of stone and every piece of steel used in a large edifice must be of the best
 quality, and at different stages of construction experts make rigid in- spection of the work. When the build- ing is finished it is not only thing of architectural beauty but is strong
 enough to last till doomsday.
 But cannot the government be in-
 duced to hurry somewhat, in view of the pressing need for better post office facilities The design of the new building combines the utilitarian
 and the artistic in a rare degree and
 when the structure is ready for occu- pancy it will be adjudged one of the
 most elegant and attractive public
 buildings in this country. But if the work cannot be completed in three years let's insist on the government
 having it done in four years at most. But what the people of Birmingham
 are particularly desirous about is to see start made; and in this they will soon be accommodated
 It would be a happy coincidence if
 work on the federal building and the
 Roden municipal building, diagonally opposite, were in course of construc- tion at the same time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01
TESTING A HAIR TONIC

From the Pittsburg Sun.
 Out in San Francisco the police arrest ed woman the other day on a charge of defrauding the public. She was mak- ing and selling a nostrum which she claimed would grow hasr on a bald head There was nothing strange in her con duct The same thing is taking place in rearlv every city in the United States, and in peace time, when peoples minds are free to dwell on the ravages of re- morseless time, in every city in Europe. Badness is as universal as love and hate, pleasure and pain. Wherever there are human heads there are glistening, hairless dcn.es, the owners of which are very ready to listen to the words of blandish- ment that the faking dermatologist, the glib barber, the deceitful vender and the constituencies nostrum maker utter with such sincerity and such disregard for truth.
 The boasting grower-of- hair on- bald heads is omnipresent and irrepressible. The only difference between the one ar rested in the Golden Gate and others more fortunate but no less deserving is the amount of nerve possessed by the western dame She appeared in court and boldly proclaimed before a bald headed judge that her tonic would do the work she claimed for it. His honor chased a persistent fly from his glisten-
 ing cranium and thereupon promised the woman that if she could demonstrate the truth Of her statement he would let her go free. She accepted the gage of bat tie. Meanwhile the case is suspended while she works on the judges pate in an effort to prove the assertions of her ad- versisement.
 Now a world of bald-headed men and women arc waiting patiently to hear from San Francisco. Like the army of physi- cal sufferers who in desperation hail each new utaclz with his cure-all, so the bald fall victims to every one of the phalanx of hair-ra:sers. They are hoping against hope that the prisoner at the bar will make good and that the judge will emerge from the ordeal as shaggy as a New that will make Paderewsl1i's pate seem like that of a 6-months-old child. If the woman falkland there is a lurking sus- picion that she will-the only people who will smile broadly are the other mak- CTS of guaranteed cures for badness who live outside the California's judges baili- wick, for they know that nothing can de- ter the man with surplus of forehead and s2 from buying another bottle"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01

the crook. It has been that way ever since the days when the records of cur rent crime were tabulated on stone by secretary with chisel. but the element of surprise still exists when there is an expose. There is for instance the case of Alexander Jessup, editor of the Blue Moon" magazine.
 Editor Jessup keenly planning to cap italize for himself, the aspirations Of un- known literati, sent broadcast his printed invitations for contributions from pens which, though able, might not yet have become famous. Editor Jessup admitted that there has been day when he had not been famous himself. This was done with becoming modesty and as matter merely of encouragement to deserving. mere of well-known works by other au- thors which he said were his own.
 Many manuscripts were submitted to the editor for publication in the Blue Moon." A number of authors said that they had long aspired to see their names beside those of the more distinguished contributors to the "Blue Moon." Which proves a certain amount of insincerity  as well as naivete on the part of the humble but aspiring, for there never was any "Blue Moon."
 To all of the authors Editor Jessup sent back bright, encouraging, happy reply, discovering a mine of merit but an un- fortunate modicum of maltechnique in the contribution in question. For $10 he would himself supply the very slight polish which alone was needed to make the eff fort one which would just simply bust the bullseye of fame. And most-let us be sincere even if not classical-most of the boobs came across with the cush
 After they arrested Editor Jessup for fraudulently using the mails it was dis covered that his only official recorded lit erary work was an indecent letter to a little girl which got him six weeks on Blackwelps Island. But he made more money for a while than any strictly sim cere and honest magazine editor. Certain ly there are such. Several of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01
Mississippi Laws

Nine jurors can now decide a civil case in Mississippi" said David Holt, the
 well-known newspaper man, who repre- sented the Mobile Register and the Me ridian Dispatch at the legislature which
 has just adjourned. This measure was one of the most important before the
 body and attracted much attention not only In Mississippi but over the entire country.
 Mississippi also put into effect the Weakley prohibition bills, which are sim liar to those passed by the last Alabama legislature. However, under the terms of the Mississippi law, a man can only get one quart of only one kind of liquor each 15 days, and that amount must be in one bottle.
 About 60 bills of a more or less rad ical nature to regulate the business con- duct and finances of railroads were in- troduced, but none of them were en- acted into law.
 ''The legislature passed laws to put into effect the constitutional amendment re- gently voted for the initiative, referendum and recall. Any session of a legislature in Mississippi is an interesting proposi- tion,'' said Mr. Holt, land the present one proved to be no exception
 MT. Holt is spending a few days in the city as the guest of friends, after com pleting his rather strenuous work of cov- ering the legislative sessions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01
THE PREFERENCES

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 An addition has been made to the known varieties of human kind. This can be regarded as an amazing discov- cry when it is remembered that there Ia very little unknown territory for the in- vestigators to penetrate
 Of course, there always will be a host of archaeologists to unearth tombs and tablets and stir the dust of forgotten na- tions. Here, however. Is a discovery that would seem to be of much more practi- cal value.
 There is but remnant of the strange race left and that remnant was in ex- treme destitution when the Amazonian expedition, sent out by an eastern uni yersity. rescued the nine survivors Their preservation, urged by humanity and prompted by science. must have, afforded the members of the expedition a good ceal of satisfaction. The man who saves a race from extinction might be con sidered quite as deserving as the grubber who unearths a Rosetta stone
 The survivors, chief, six women and two boys, are Pikipitanges. a name new
 
 dian tribe of the Amazon basin. They speak an unknown tongue and have characteristics that distinguish then from other tribes Their discovery is co. incident with that of relics that show that certain Indians of the same regior buried their dead in urns and had other customs that suggest the habits ana manners of the early Egyptians. Of the links with the past there ars no end. They are found in tombs ane temples and tablets, dug up and de ciphered by the wisest of scholars. Btu here are living links with race tha may be quite as old as the builders O Babylon.
 Anyway. the Pikipitanges, nam ascribed to them by the expeditionar, leader take on a new interest through the fact that they appear at the psyche logical time when war is rapidly thin Eing the ranks of the known races
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01

Stephen Fiske, widely known as an au- thor, dramatist and war correspondent, died recently in New York at the age of 76. He was born in New Brunswick, N. J., and graduated from Rutgers college in 1862, being admitted to the bar of that state two years later. He soon aban- doned the legal profession and became an editorial writer on the New York Herald, accompanying President Lincoln, the Prince of Wales, later King Edward, and other notables on their American tours. He also acted as war correspondent for the Herald during the civil war. He was dramatic editor of that paper for a time. to England. He was with Garibaldi in Rome during the revolution, and after returning to London became manager of the St. James theatre and the Royal English Opera company. When he came back to America, MT. Fiske assumed the management of the old Fifth Avenue the atre in New York. presenting Mime. Mod jeska and Mary Anderson. He founded the New York Dramatic Mirror and was one of the originators of the Actors fund. Among his plays were Corporal Car touche," Martin Chuzzlewit' and My Noble Son-in-Law" Among his books were English Photographs, Holiday Tales" and "offhand Portraits of Promi- nent New Yorkers.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01

JAPANESE PROBLEM IN HAWAII From "Honolulu: The Melting-Pot," by Katharine F. Gerould. in the May Scribner.
 Hear now the confession of re- fromed Japanouobe. Before our Hawaiian experience I had been quite convinced that the Japanese were the Prussians of Asia. Every one knows how easy that impression is to get. I do mot pretend to have arrived at it by profound study. It shocked me not a little, at first, to find Islanders taking the Yellow Peril so lightly-not to say scoffingly. They seemed to me like those folk who have always nestled comfortable under Vesuyius In an- other generation the voters of Ha- waii will be overwhelmingly Japanese, for Japanese children, Hawaiian born, are, of course, American citizens. It is Interesting. too, to note that the Ja- panese do not. like Chinese, Portu- guese, and whites. intermarry with other races. They are in the melting pot, but they do not. in that sense. melt. Japanese children must go to the gov
  they must also go to Japanese schools before and after school hours, on Sat- urdays and Sundays, and be instructed i in their ancestral language, literature and history. How they can work SC hard, poor babies, and still look so gay and ephemeral, is a puzzle Perhaps the secret of it is the kimono-as, in- deed I suspect (though it is frivolous confession) the kimono was at the root of my own conversion. A Jap father in a clean kimono, tending the baby. is
 the most disarming sight in the world
 And they are always doing it, whether l in front of their Honolulu shops or 1 in their plantation villages Undoubt- edly they work, and work hard, but they are always playing with the ba-
 bies, first, last, and in between. While | we saw them daily in this attitude
 forgot the Japan Language schools (often placed, for convenience, next the
 government school building) and the Shinto temples tucked away every
 where in the foliage. It is Impossible
 to be afraid of any one who wears 8 lximono, and that fact may be either our salvation or our undoing in oul relations with the orient. do not pre-. tend to say.
 | But my conversion was not so friv. olous a matter, after>all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01
Successful Membership Campaign

Birmingham, like all other enter pricing and prosperous cities, has many institutions of philanthropic purpose and social service activities, Abut the organization which is perhaps Closest to the hearts of the people in general is the Young Women's Chris ! ian association; and it is a matter E. rejoicing on the part of all right inded men, as we'll as all the ladies
 this community that the member
 ip campaign is exceeding even the
 .hest expectations.
 The young ladies' teams started out
 eek ago to enroll one thousand new smbers within ten days time. On < aturday it was seen that 813 names ad been listed and as the canvass will continue until Thursday, the "work- CTS" have determined to extend the goal and set the peg for 1900 new members. Nothing could be much aeasier than to secure seven hundred Additional names within the next few Bays.
 8 When the Young Women's Chris titan association recently celebrated Its fiftieth anniversary in the United States the Birmingham branch had d trong and distinguished record, al- npough it was one of the newer of
 e general group. Not many years
 Eo the Birmingham association was
 tablished in very modest way, in
 nted quarters with small accommo-
 fjons; but the noble women at the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01
A SUBMARINE SUBW AY

heads, the water by which they had been sunk was pumped out, and a reinforced concrete lining was placed inside the steel shell to complete the structure.
 The steel portion of the structure con- sists of four parallel tubes bolted to- gether. with flat sides on their interior walls. Between the tubes are vertical tervals perpendicularly to the direction of the tracks and which extend to the rectangular limits of the structure.
 The safe submerging of this light steel form and the temporary control and final location of it, comprise the most spec tacular part of this great scheme. The trench into which the subway was to be located was formed by a ''clam- -sheal' dredge. While the trench was being pre- pared, the structural steel tubes were in process of building over a slip about . mile away.
 The Notation of the structure was made possible by the water-tight wooden bulk heads which completely closed the ends of the outside tubes and the lower half Of the ends of the center tubes. These bulkheads and tubes presented something of the appearance of four large subma- rines tied together. their ends cut off and boarded up. As the same essential prin- ciples are involved in their submersion, they might be termed the subway sub- marines" Their weight or displacement when entirely equipped was about 75O tons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01
HOTEL LOBBIES
Spend Money on veterans

We are going to have great reunion of the veterans this time,' said Sol Ca heen, and I am glad to know that the money we raise is to be spent on the veterans themselves.
 ''Of course we want everybody who comes to have a good time, but after all. the veterans are the guests of honor and our efforts should be centered on them. I hope we can make the Bir- mingham reunion the most eventful oc- casion of their declining years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01
AMONG THE HoFI
m the New York Telegram.

From the New York Telegram.
 Among the numerous tribles of Indians native to North America few have more interesting characteristics than the Hopi. the name being a contraction of Hopitu, which means peaceful ones The last remnants of this once powerful tribe are to be found in>the northeast section of Arizona. United stateSof America. where, on reservation of about 2,5oo0oO acres, they occupy six villages. or pueblos. which have a population of about aOoo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01
vIOLIN-MUsIC

Richard Le Gallienne, in Harper's Mag azine. Somewhere tonight among the hills of
 Heaven
 She walks with all her stars around
 her; And l who lost her here on earth Grow happy, knowing God has found
 her. So many days along all paths of radiance Made for her feet to tread. sought her Through all the wide lagoons of dawn And mazy lanes of moonlit water Now know by the path of this strange
 music Beyond the world she went a-straying, Almost you bring me where she walks- An! for the love of God. cease not
 your playing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-01

For some people a residence in Ala bama is just twice as desirable now as a residence in Georgia. Alabama's s prohibit ton law permits person to receive two quarts of liquor every two weeks, The Georgia law allows him only two quarts every 30 days.