The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-25
D EMOCRATS are still sounding U the praise of Martin H. Glynn

D the praise Ol MdIIiH II. 0iy III of New York.
 Not all political keynote speeches no matter how eloquent, take thei place in the permanent literature O. the nation, but MT. Glynn's address delivered at the opening of the St Louis convention, is in a class to it. self and should be preserved in bound form.
 Of course, the democratic campaign committee will make a pamphlet of il and distribute it far and wide. Those who heard Mir. Glynn in the conven. tion are eager to read his masterful oration, and those who read the press reports of it wish to peruse it in its entirety.
 That was telling tribute which Mir. Bryan paid to MT. Glynn as a "key- noter," and as the Nebraska states man does not often bestow compli- ments, his remarks will arrest the at tention and create a new demand for . copy of the speech.
 Some speeches win popular favor because of their finely rounded sen tences. Notwithstanding the growing tendency of high-brow critics to un- derrate the silver-tongue, vast num- Der of men who attend political "speakings" are still partial to florid rhetoric. And when an orator con- pines fervid style with Illuminating content-combine beauty of phrase with sound logic and intellectual drive his message compels and abides.
 One of the striking features of Glynn's speech was it's historic review of Americas international policy of neutrality from Washington's time down to the present. In defending President Wilson's neutrality position MT. Glynn stressed the fact with ring ing effect that the course of this ad- ministration in dealing with menacing problems has been identically the same in principle as that successfully adhered to by all his great predeces- sors.
 Free from party cant and free from hackneyed generalities, but sur charged with American patriotism and vitalizing thought, Glynn's speech will find it's way into the declaimer's handbook and into every reference library in the land.
 The keynote address will live as a classic, and will be read with profit and inspiration a hundred years hence; as long indeed as democracy remains.
 FORGE W. OLNEY, editor of the M World Almanac and connected with the New York World for forty six years, practically died in harness at the age of 81. MT. Olney occupied a unique place in the annals of journal ism. He was born in Charleston, s. C., and lived there. He graduated from Harvard in 1855, and was reporter during the civil war. The World AL manac is perhaps the most popular newspaper annual published in this country. It is an authoritative refer ence book and an accurate chornicle of events Much of it's excellence has been due to MT. Olney, who had ex- ceptional gifts for this kind of work He also edited the Weekly Under writer, an insurance journal.
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 prize of $500, which is award cd every second year by Yale univer- sity to ''the citizen of any country for ' Fked distinction in literature, fine ai or the science of government, J has }n accorded to Rupert Brooke, the young English soldier-poet, who died in the spring of 1915 while en route to Gallipoli. He hurried home from Italy to serve his country and was on his way to begin active ser sjce when he became ill. While only B years old. Brooke had shown the unmistakable gifts of a true poet Some of his verses, read in the light