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Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-29

A Massachusetts woman claims to. have found a piece Of newspaper in a hard boiled egg. The only trouble with that story is that 1t neglected to state that the slip of paper contained the words Strictly Fresh Eggs,' or
 Please send me pair of mittens for Christmas.''
Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-29

Norwich, Thursday, June %, 1916.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-20
Preparedness Parades

President Commissioner Ward Is quoted as saying that as the city gov ernment will nave its hands full on June 8 looking after the bond issues election coming two days later, 1t cannot undertake to get up pre- paredness demonstration pursuant to the plan adopted by the League ot Mayors, or words to that effect.
 If the people wish to parade on June 8, Mr. Ward sees no reason why they shouldn't, but he, as the executive head of the city, will not give the project his official support.
 It was fitting and worth while for New York to have monster parade to show it's interest in national de- fense. One hundred and fifty thou sand men were in line. It was the greatest body of volunteer marchers ever seen in this country.
 New York being the American metropolis, the demonstration there could be taken as representative of the people in other cities. Public senti- ment in the United States is now strongly for preparedness. The peace-at-any-price people are dimin- ishing.
 Birmingham was selected by the demonstration committee as one of thirty cities to have a preparedness parade on June 3. But in view of the fact that President Wilson's national defense programme is generally ac- cepted as right, might it not be we'll for the parades committee to reduce the number of cities from thirty to ten, or even five? The object of or ganized demonstrations has been ac- complished. Congress is all right.
 New Orleans has already announced a parade for June 3. In addition Chi cago, St. Louis, Denver and San Fran cisco would be enough to make sure of the American average being over- whelmingly in favor of preparedness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-20
General Chairman's Achievement

The public knows that the splendid success of the Confederate reunion was due in large measure to the strong leadership and tireless work of R. A. Brown, the general chairman, but only those who were closely asso- ciated with him and knew of the many details which he had to have mind to, could appreciate fully his excep- tional capacity for handling great en- terprises such as this.
 Mr. Brown is wonderful organizer. No work is too hard for him and like the leader that he is he knows how to make other people work. He has a genius for tackling difficult problems and making success of whatever he undertakes. And added to his nat ural talent for organizing and direct ing he has had years of practical ex- perience. These facts combined in- spire such confidence that whenever MT. Brown is in charge, whether it be of State Fair, Business Mems league, or what not, success is as- sured.
 The people of Birmingham were full of enthusiasm over the reunion and the various committees of the Cham Der of Commerce were made up of public-spirited citizens, but master manager who knows how, and who knows that he knows how, is neces- sary to bring order out of confusion and score a success at every turn. Birmingham has been under civic obligations to MT. Brown many times before. But his crowning achieve ment was in managing the reunion, and he is now a greater asset for this community than ever before. The people will not fail to accord him due honor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-20
HeIped Where He Could

Commissioner J. R. Truss admitted yes- terday that he was kept rather busy during the parade of Thursday, as he was the only member of the commission that remained at the city hall.
 While hanging around the city hall during the parade" said Commissioner Truss, 1T found time to be of service to several persons in distress. One old vet eran came around the hall and fainted from exhaustion, so I jumped in and helped to see that he was taken cared of. Then as I prepared to leave pretty girl came in and said she was lost. Need- less to state was gallant enough to es- cort her back to her friends. Finally to cap the climax a bunch of girls wandered in the city hall searching for Henry B. Walthall I did not know who MT. Wal thall was but kept my ignorance to my self and informed the young ladies that nearly all the Confederate generals were at the Tutwiler and undoubtedly General Walthall was up there also. They gig gled and left.
 "So you see while I did not ride a horse like Commissioner Ward I also enjoyed myself and helped to make the reunion a success GA.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-20
To Remove Illiteracy

Alabama's we'll organized educa- tional activities should result in de- cisive majority for the school tax amendment at the general election in November; and these potential agencies can be counted upon to con- tribute largely to the work of the campaign for removing illiteracy from the state-a campaign that will be needed for several years to come.
 The Alabama illiteracy commission, which is laboring to improve con- ditions in the rural districts by volun- tary aid and without costing the state dollar, made encouraging prog ress last summer and will achieve even more this summer, but the greatest factor in the movement to banish illit- eracy is the proposed tax amendment which will authorize the people of each district to levy a special tax for school purposes.
 It will be two or three years before the practical operation of the new law will be seen and appreciated, but with an object lesson campaign of education carried on in every part of the state, it will be only a question
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-20
A Fine Appearance

One of the features of the great Coh- federate reunion parade of Thursday ac- cording to J. D. Moore, was the fine ap- nea rance of the school children whose presence with the veterans brought in a colorful contrast.
 "One of the most impressive sights oi the whole beautiful parade said MT. Moore. was the marching of the dele cations of school children from, the va
 rious schools of the city. It was an
 impressive sight and citizens all along
 the route of the parade commented to the effect that they were unaware that there were so many children in the city
 schools, while, as matter of fact only about one-twentieth of the actual en- roliment of the public schools Of the city marched with the parade of Thurs day. If all the school children had ap- peared in the parade it would have been twice as long, and would have convinced everyone with the dire need for the | S2 poO,ooo school bond issue. However the children in the parade of Thursday presented an excellent argument in ia vor of the bond issue, which l am posi- tive will carry by an overwhelming ma jority at the polls on June D.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-20
Record for Community Work

'"The twenty-sixth reunion of the Uni ted Confederate Veterans, just held in Birmingham promises to prove to be a Hotpoint event" said J. Frank Rushton. "That is to say, it is almost perfect from every angle-preparation, attendance care of the veterans and visitors, social features and the parade. It shows what we can do in Birmingham when we put our shoulders to the wheel. and practical ly every shoulder was to the wheel this time, for am told that the percentage of slackers' among the numerous com mittees was negligible. The roll of honor should, therefore, include all the com mittees and if space permitted l would like to see-that roll printed in the lob bies' column of The Age-Herald tomor- row. This is impossible, but distinguished mention can be made in that column of the executive committee, which bore the burden and heat of the day. Chairman R. A, Brown and his associates, Messrs. Morris Bush, B. B. Burton Sol Caheen and George A. Blinn, Jr., have set an ex- ample of unselfish, whole-hearted service which is an inspiration to every citizen Of Birmingham. Everybody is glad we nao the reunion, and believe all the readers of The Age-Herald will agree with me that Crawford Johnson is entitled to vote of thanks for going to Richmond and securing the historic gathering for us. The reunion will be of great value to Birmingham as an advertisement, put it's effect in pulling our people together is even more important. We have made A. record for community work which Will be hard to equal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-20
Progress of Preparedness

While the House naval committee has agreed to abandon the flve-year building programme recommended oy the administration, it is understood In official circles that the programme which will be presented will satisfy the President and Secretary Danleis.
 Although the naval appropriation bill will be taken up for consideration next week it is hardly possible that 1t will be disposed of before the date of inc national convention. It probably will be midsummer before the final ac- ton stage is reached. But the more decided feeling of harmony existing in the naval department and among the members of the House naval com mittee makes for optimism and Will have a good effect on the prepared ness situation generally.
 The changed attitude by Chairman Kitchin of the ways and means com mittee toward preparedness is natur- ally gratifying. He will not only not oppose the programme as provided tor in the naval appropriation bill, but will make speech in favor of 1t.
 Another gratifying fact in connee- t;on with the preparedness measures is the official statement of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo that the ad- ditional revenue to be raised on ac- count of army legislation would be S75,OO0,0OO less for the fiscal year than the most conservative estimates called for several months ago.
 The army reorganization bill which will soon reach the President for hls signature will, according to Senator Chamberlain and other public men who have made study of militay affairs, give the country not only the largest standing army it has ever had, but the best balanced and the most scien- officially constructed from view point of mobilization efficiency. It IS not quite as large as some prepared ness leaders sought to make it, but if the liberalization of the National Guard works out as expected, Uncle Sam's defense establishment will be large enough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-20
NONE WILL CARRY YOU

Eron, the Philadelphia Public Ledger
 4 MONO the so-called lower animals
 A that sometimes by their conduct 4 X bring to shame the highest oroer oe n,ammalia. mother love notoriously recoenizes a comparatively brief period of dependence of the offspring upon the parent; whereas human mother loVe' aS everybody knows, would go to the looe of the gallows tree if it could' anu through the shadow land to the other side of the grave. But ono of the pa- thetic facts of existence is that the oe- s;re to shoulder anothers burden ana live apother's life beyond given point is frustrated No rule Of natural phi- ,osophy is more rigidly inexorapie than +hat which prescribes, in the organic cvc,e between birth and death, that lave which may yearn to the boundaries oe he;ng still must be bystander ana not a participant in the struggle or soul on it's itinerary through the Worio'
 We must go our own gait, make our own way, choose our own profession' ln- +roductions. connivances. favoritism, the living start of the position held or the influence yielded by others will help us inst so far, no farther. Beyond a certain line soon reached only a blessing and nraver can follow us into the uncharted space. The initiative rests with us' It comes home startlingly to us that the ives" and "no' hereafter must De or our own saying. We see others reacnlng the
 lucrative rewards we thought we de-
 served. We see others scaling the
 heights which we expected to ascenu
 with the slogan and the flag of Excel
 sior It is of no avail to raise the hue and cry at this late date after the thief of inc credit that we think belonged to
 us. We slept and beautifully dreamed' but another awoke and went through the chill gray of the dawn and stole marcn
 on our closed eyelids. Therefore we are as those that mourn, and our DOT tion is in waste places with the wolves and foxes while they are palatlally housed and fed.
 ..If wishes were horses, then beggars might ride" The grandiose equipment or your dreams requires to be translated into furniture more substantlal than the moonbeam ladders of fairyland if you would climb The prizes do not come to YOU travelling on roller coaster, and nothing is handed you on silver tray; the strong man whose career you ap- pls ud was not the spoiled darling of luck, but he went hard and fast after all he got, and his fortune was that which is accustomed to favor the brave. Many are ready to share with him the fruit of his tail and travail who would finch even from a printed description or pie ture of the downright sweating labor whereby he now stands where he is and has what he has
 somebody to discover how supremely
 meritorious we ere. We are deeply in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-20

ropean nations will permit a return to former trade relations.
 It may be too early yet to speculate on the terms of peace, but the allies show no disposition to relent and the Kaiser will have to pay dearly for the vaulting ambition, the midsummer madness or whatever it was that plunged Europe into the bloody strug- gle. France, Russia and England no longer doubt the issue. Germany will not be "wiped off the map" but 1t will be a different Germany after peace is declared, with less arrogance and a great deal more of the Tive and let live" spirit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-20

jured because we have not received the recognition we are sure is our due. Our patent merit languishes and droops for want of a patron. It is a blind and stupid world, of course, that cannot see how worthy we are. What a deal of breath is wasted in litigation as to who shall get the credit! What difference does it make who does the thing if the thing is done? Yet over the headlines and even the size of the type fierce jeal- ousies are engendered; and the centuries smile the inscrutable smile of the sphinx that looks out over the desert where Em- perors who announced themselves insu- perably mighty are nothing but mirage of dust and heat.
 Let the proclamation of your rragnifi- cent merit take care of itself; your busi- ness is to do the work, to run the race, to blow the clean, straight furrow to the end. If you wait for men and angels to perform the task to which you were ap- pointed, or to laud your name, you may grow old in the inanition, and the tide of the darkness will flow round you un- aware with the great business of your life unfinished
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-20
TEAM WORK FOR BIRMINGHAM

, increased purchasing power per unit of population and better city in which to live and to own property. John w. Gates predicted 100000 popu- lation for Birmingham before 1890. This
 prophecy, made to the Manufacturers
 Record few years before his death, is possible of fulf1llment if all the forces of Birmingham work in thorough accord Aggressive, bumptious individualism is
 very dear to the heart of the average
 American citizen, but it takes team work to get a community or nation very far
 ahead.
 In the days of Chicago's making the
 newspapers of that city worked so
 untedly and so unceasingly in presenting the claims of Chicago to the attention
 and consideration of the world that the Windy City-the blowhard-became a
 pseudonym; but Chicago was pushed
 ahead of all the cities in the United States save one.
 Kansas City was known as Westport
 Landing within the memory of people
 now on earth. Today it has bigness and wealth and intensity of purpose which put it in the front rank of thoroughly wide-awake American cities. There is never anything else but team work with the people of that town, and this public spirit dates back to the time when the newspapers of the place first began to systematically boost, day in and day out, for Kansas City first, last and all the time.
 Birmingham has great opportunity.
 Her million population will come soon or it will come late, just in accordance with
 the team work, the public spirit the get
 together enthusiasm which the people end the press put into action.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-20
Colonel sbndbournc Living

Many veterans at the reunion Ill BIT n1ingham will be glad to learn that George G. Shadbourne, chief of scouts with the Army of Northern Virginia, cavalry division, is sdll in good health, and is a prosperous citizen of Alameda, Cal,'' said Gen. James G. Holmes, for merly of Charleston, s. C., who now lives in New Orleans.
 'shadbourne was one of the most fa- nous scouts produced during the civil war, and his exploits are familiar to many of the veterans who visited Bir- mingham this year, while his place In history is secure He served under both Jeb Stuart and Wade Hampton. So far as I know, Colonel Shadbourne has never attended a reunion, as he went west inn mediately after the war and never re- turned, and many of his old comrades think him dead However, I can testify that he is very much alive, since at the age of "A, when I visited him at his home nj California, I discovered that he was the father of an infant, 10 months old"
 During the civil war General Holmes was member of F troop, Sixth South Carolina cavalry, Buffers brigade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-20
MT. Hills Prediction

Samuel J. Hill, son-in-law of James J. Hill, recently returned from abroad with the statement that Germany IS beaten and the end of the war is in sight. "Peace will come suddenly" he said, "as the great war started, in August, 1914. There will not be an- other winter campaign. Germany can- not struggle against the overwhelm- ing financial strain and the economic conditions prevailing since the war. In 1913 Germany imported 500,000 labor CTS to harvest her crops, and this year she will only gather in 60 per cent of the harvest of the year before the war"
 MT. Hill visited London, dined with King Albert of the Belgians, at his headquarters, went to Paris, visited the firing line in western France and Flanders, talked with cabinet minis ters, went to Scotland, visited the English fleet and thus enjoyed unusual facilities for gathering information. The opinion he formed is now shared by many other financiers who predict that Germany is nearing the limit of her resources. Her armies may still be unbeaten, but there is something more powerful than armies and that IS money. Germany is face to face with economic ruin and despite the efforts made to hide the true situation of af- fairs, practically everyone believes that the war will soon end The con- sessions recently made to the United States by the German government would probably never have been con- sidered if German leaders had not read the writing on the wall Ameri- ca is their only hope after the war is over, for it will be long time be- fore hatred engendered among Eu-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-20
From the Manufacturers Record.

From the Manufacturers Record.
 "HE three newspapers of Birmingham
 are to pull together hereafter for
 IL the development of that great Ala bama center of industry. Announcement of this purpose follows the reports or meeting between the heads of the three papers, the president of the Rotary club and the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Birmingham.
 This is an important announcement. Cooperation will help Birmingham tre- mendously. It is the one thing in which Birmingham has not shown lumlnously. If the press now come together and exert a united influence on the public spirit of the place, Birmingham will be equipped for greater things than have ever been possible for that city heretofore.
 Birmingham should be the Pittsburg of the south, and more. Not only in pig iron production, steel billets and rails should it be a center, not only in the manufac- ture of big units, of shapes and struc- tural steel should it excel, but there should here be a development of the finer forms of manufactured machinery, ma chine tools, small tools, springs of all kinds, etc.
 Instead of selling billets around $45 ton, rails at BPS or $32, and structural shapes at s45 to 80, the energies of the Birmingham district might be more prof. tably employed in marketing its product for the hundreds and thousands of dol lars a ton that are represented in the finer forms of steel. This would mean more workmen, better workmen-artisans. in fact-with the consequent greater strength of an augmented population, an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-20
HOTEL LOBBIES
Deputies Were Idle


 One of the most remarkable things in connection with the reunion, in my opin- ion,' said Chief Deputy Sheriff E. B. Knight, lis that there was little or no disturbance The sheriffs office put on large number of extra men, but it was only to assist in handling the old sol diers. We had even less to do toward maintaining the peace than at the ordi- nary times.
 "Of course we were kept busy, just the same as the police force, and that noble band of Boy Scouts were, but it was not to enforce the law. It probably was the greatest crowd Birmingham has ever had and l think every one should be proud of the fact that Birmingham handled so great a thing without a single thing hap pening. No fights, no murders and but few arrests-thats great"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-20
VICTIMS OF DATES
'm the Boston Herald.

Oll lH6 BOSIOn Herald.
 Some appointed May 12-absit omen!-the day for wearing straw hats; others May 15. There is no great CT folly in sumptuary laws than to name any particular day for the don ming or doffing thick underclothes or straw hats. Our varied. uncertin, ir- responsible climate mocks any at tempt at regularity in the daily life of mortals. This may be said, however: many men now wear underclothes of a certain weight throughout the year, while few would be so brave as to cover their heads with straw in win ter. There have been exceptions. Many years ago lawyer in Boston con- suited his own taste, heroically re- gardless of remarks made by rude boys and wondering strangers, and in AL bany, N. T., the assistant attorney gen eral of the state would be seen in the late seventies with battered straw in December. Men thus defying conven- tionality were looked on as amiable eccentrics; to be classed with wealthy persons that wore silver watch with a leather chain, or smoked stogies with an air.
 In a dismal, east windy day, and they are not uncommon this month- for smiling May in New England is a fiction of the poets-a man with a straw hat is an incongruous and depressing sight. No one knows what
 the morrow may bring forth. The derby or the slouch should hang on a peg next the straw. Surely there is no weakness in suiting the hat to the weather, but such is male obstinacy, that straw once sported must be worn whether the sun blazes or sulks like Achilles in his tent. No one, armed in triple brass, can help knowing in the inmost recesses of his heart that he is foolish and looks fool ish in his defiance of rain and cold Yet as it has gone forth that straw hats are the thing on May 15, man out wardly glories in his obedience to cus- tom It may also be said, the newer the straw hat, the greater the in- congruity.