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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
HOTEL LOBBIES
Progress on Gorgas Memorial

"The Gorgas memorial fund is growing at most gratifying rate" said pr. George G. Brownell of the university, who is in charge of the movement for the erection of a library on the university campus in memory of the late Mrs. Amelia Gorgas, the wife of General Jo- siah Gorgas, former president of the university, and mother of Gen. William c. Gorgas, surgeon general of the United States army. 'T hope to be able to re- port at commencement that we have se- cured the $20,00 which is to be raised over the state. The university is to supple ment this with an additional $20,OO0, mak- ing s4O,0o0 to be spent on the building now.
 Tt is planned to erect the library so that additional wings can be added when the money is secured and as the need arises, eventually making the Gorgas li- brary cost $10o,OOo. The alumni of the university and the people of Tuscaloosa subscribed about $40OO, and we have re- ceived liberal assistance in this work in Montgomery. I am now going to a num- Der of the cities and towns in north Ala bama and expect to get much assistance in each place to be visited"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
Holland Goes Hungry

The sturdy burghers of Holland, no longer able to get their accustomed supply of daily bread, because of England's rigid enforcement of her blockade of Germany, are beginning to express their opinion of John Bull rather freely and are also talking about Uncle Sam in a way that IS lar from complimentary. There is seri- ous shortage of food threatened in the little kingdom, particularly flour. The government has prohibited the baking of any more pure wheat bread until the supplies from America are re- plenished. As the Dutch people raise hardly a fifth of the wheat they con- sume and are almost entirely depend ent on the United States for their bread, England's interference with the trade of this country is working a great hardship on Holland.
 It is said that great deal of bit terness has been expressed toward the American government for not making more vigorous protests against England's treatment of neu- tral shipping and the Dutch realize, with exasperating clearness, that so long as a powerful country like Amer ica permits the belligerents to violate it's rights, but little attention will be paid to the complaints of small nation. Large numbers of Dutch ships have been sunk by mines and torpe- does, several vessels with consign- ments of wheat for Holland are de- tained in British ports and 45,000 tons of wheat bought for Holland are said to be awaiting shipment in America.
 Great Britain would hardly wish to make Holland suffer any more than necessary as result of the block ade, but in it's desire to prevent the Dutch from getting more foodstuffs than they need and slipping it into Germany, has gone to such extremes that the Dutch are no longer getting enough wheat to feed themselves. Yet the Dutch are reported to be. do- ing all in their power to prevent food being smuggled across the border, and it is said that not even a sand wich can be taken across the line, ex- cept in one's stomach.
 These are indeed trying times for all the small nations of Europe. When giants are fighting and pigmies are unable to flee, they are quite apt to get stepped on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
NEW WAY TO BEAT DRY LAWS


 From the Washington Post.
 Grand Forks, N. D., is a prohibition town, but that does not mean that visitors in Grand Forks or the residents there of cannot get all they want to drink" remarked Frank Brennan, a lawyer of Chicago, at the New Willard.
 Grand Forks is on the line between North Dakota and Minnesota, and Min nesota is not dry. But they have a diff ferent method of supplying those who want glass of beer or drink of liquor from most of the towns between wet and dry states. I observed after I had been in the town for few hours that there were great many one-horse carriages old-style vehicles-that paraded up and down the principal street. Every once in 8 while you could see one of these carriages drive up to the sidewalk and then drive of quickly in the direction of the bridge that spans the stream between the states.
 Tt took me sometime before I got on to the reason: then I observed that the driver of the carriage always responded to the call of the pedestrian The latter only had to give the high-sign and one of the vehicles would go up alongside the walk. when man or men would jump in and ride away. In about Ave minutes you could see the same vehicle drive back and unload it's passengers. They had imbibed all they wanted or needed.
 Tt was the finest burlesque on prohi- bition that I have seen anywhere. It has been my observation that there is a re- action setting in in the western states. Many of the towns in local option states that have been dry have voted recently to go back into the wet column. and in Vermont the people have overturned pro- hibiton, which had been in force for many years"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20

IN sense of course, we know him bet
 ter than they. His genius gains in = the long perspective of the years He doner, the successful playwright or, as he was to the folk of Stratford, the influ- ential citizen. Indeed he has become so much to us that we treat him rather as a legend than as man, and find it difficult to picture him in his habit as he lived. Those who would deny his authorship of the plays that go by his n4me-a hypo- thesis almost too absurd for mention think of him as shadowy figure, savor- ing of the commonplace, who never could have attained the deep perception of human nature and magic of style which combined have made him the greatest dramatist of any age. They have even gone so far as to rest his fame upon a huge conspiracy of deceit such as the world has never elsewhere known. They assume that his friends and companions, all who knew him well, were in scheme to bestow upon him laurels he did not de- serve. Thus Ben Jonson's noble tribute is satirical jest in the worst of taste. If 0LdhcSpcdIC, tiCy dA 6oCs WCAC ICdliy IHC greatest figure in Elizabethan literature, how does it happen that so much in his career is obscure?
 The question never had much point and it has had less since Sir Sidney Lee wrote the biography which in all probability will stand forever as the final word on the subject. As a matter of fact, our knowl- edge of Shakespeare even before Sir Sid- neys labors was greater by far than our knowledge of most of the dramatists of the time. Jonson was an exception, of course, though the date and place of his birth are uncertain. But his military ad- ventures, his Quarrels. literary and other. his intimacies with public men, the num- Der of his disciples-"The Tribe of Ben"- are perfectly familiar. We hear of Mar lowes birth. in the same year as Shake speare's, of his education. of his unfortu- nate death; hardly more. The father of Massinger was Fellow of Merton and an M. F.. and the sons friendship with recognition; his tomb at St. Saviour's, Southwark, however is the most tangible memorial of him, apart from his writings. Ford. though he came of county family. is an even more mysterious figure; the dates of his birth and death are alike ob- scure; the sole record is that he was edu- cated at Exeter college. Oxford. and be- came a bencher of the Middle Temple in 1902 Of Webster we know less still only tho period of his activity as a writer; and his plays, including two of the finest in the whole range of drama, were for gotten for two centuries. The wonder, then. is not that we know so little of Shakespeare. but SO much of him.
 There are patches of darkness, to be sure, like the eight years between his leaving Stratford and his first fame in London. After this the chief details are clear. There is no question as to his ma tertal prosperity. his prudence in manax-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
Getting Voting Lists Ready

''We are working hard to get the additional list of voters ready for pub lication by Saturday," said Judge J. P. Stiles yesterday. Tt will be a big job off our hands when we have the list completed and published. We have worked continuously on the lists and have had our hands full. l cannot say how nearly complete the list is. but we have something like 1900 addition al names to publish"
 The work of compiling the names and dividing the precincts into subdi- visions has been completed in Jeffer- son county several days earlier than in any other county in the state, while there are more names than in any three counties in the state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
Reason for High Prices

Treasurer John Calman of the Strand theatre is firmly of the opinion that the tremendous salaries paid to the various film stars will not be of lengthy duration and that within the next year or two af- fairs in the motion picture producing field will assume a normal status.
 ''At the present time,' said MT. Calman, 'the high salaries paid the big stars necessarily keeps up the price of the pie lures, which Is the reason for the 25, B and 50-cent movie prices. To even break even on a feature production these days the exhibitor increases his prices as the jitney' picture is a thing of the past with Mary Pickford drawing weekly salary of $350O and Charley Chaplin s10,oOO a week.
 However, matters will soon become ad- justed and the ruiuous competition will be removed amongst the picture companies when they become better organized. But even I can see no hope for the return of the Jitney' prices, as the improvement constantly demanded by the public in the pictures prohibits their exhibition at photoplay houses at less than 10 and 2o- cent prices"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20

At a meeting of the Independent OH Mems association, held recently in New York, the chairman was authorized to ap-
 point committee to investigate plan for using kerosene as fuel for motor cars.
 Prof. Charles E. Lucke of the depart
 ment of engineering, Columbia university, said such plan would be feasible. Freed from technicalities, his idea is to pre- with kerosene lamp. While many de- vices for burning kerosene have been | tried, it is said that none of them has proved satisfactory It is now thought that a combination of devices already produced may be used with better suc- 1 cess. The present high cost of gasoline and threatened shortage of this product
 has greatly interested automobile men in
 the use of kerosene as fuel. The latter sells for from z to 10 cents a gallon, while gasoline is retailed as high as 2s cents a gallon. the price of kerosene hav-
 ing been depressed by the increasing use i of gas and electricity throughout the country for Illuminating purposes AL
 though kerosene Is still used in rural dis tricts and large quantities are shipped
 abroad the demand is now relatively so
 small that millions of gallons are said
 to be in storage. In producing gasoline
 from crude oil the yield is 40 per cent of
 kerosene and about 20 per cent of gas-
 oline. oil men say the price of gasoline 1 Is bound to go higher than at present
 unless some practical way is found to | burn kerosene
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
BEST MEDIUM FOR PUBLICITY

AASA uAA]DAOHA rOA fU6LlClTH From the Spokane Spokesman-Review.
 Hugh Chalmers, head of an automobile corporation of the same name, remarked to the Ad club that newspapers are the best medium of publicity" and added that The does not place advertising copy with newspapers because he agrees with their editorials. but because they have circula- ton and reach the people"
 The statement of the reason for adver- Using through the papers is a sound state- ment and is well expressed. The fact that MT. Chalmers advertises heavily through the press and is successful in business adds the weight and force of experiencss to his views.
 The newspaper has proved itself in strenuous competition with other mediums of publicity to form the most effective means of reaching the public. The tntelli- gent advertiser uses the paper without the slightest regard to it's political position or editorial expressions upon questions of public policy. He buys advertising space, not because the paper is of this party or that sect, but because it has a circulation among purchasers of his goods. He car- ries on his advertising as he carries on other business. He invests in advertising In paper because it promises good re- turns on his investment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
CARTE DIEM

By William ShakeSpeare o mistress mine, where are you roaming :? o stay and hear! your true love's coming
 That can sing both high and low: Trip no further. pretty sweeting. Journeys end in lovers' meeting
 Every wise mans son doth know. What is love? 'tis not hereafter ss Present mirth hath present laughter.
 What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty Then come kiss me, Sweet and twenty.
 Youths stuff will not endure l
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
BIRMINGHAM HAS FRIENDS

From the Mobile Register
 The Birmingham Age-Herald learns from it's Washington correspondent that Evansville, Ind, and Atlanta, Ga, are in conspiracy to purloin the armor plate plant The correspondent writes: While Birmingham is peacefully dreaming in it's belief that the armor plate plant of the government will be located in no other environ than it's own, Evansville, Ind. is rot only making a strenuous fight for the honor at stake, but is endeavoring to ar ray against Birmingham other cities of the south, considered natural allies"
 Like a certain Turk who at midnight in his guarded tent dreamed that he had things fixed his way, Birmingham is awakening to the fact that the prospect is far from pleasant. The Evansville Chamber of Commerce has published g bulletin on the subject in which is to be read the following:
 "The question of the location of the projected federal armor plate plant was discussed Cat the Atlanta meeting) and Secretary Bonham of Evansville detailed to the Atlantans reasons why Atlanta could not possibly be selected as the site for the proposed plant. He then touched upon the commercial rivalry existing be- tween Atlanta and Birmingham, pointed out the fact that Birmingham is making an organized effort to secure the armor plate plant, and that Atlanta should, from a selfish standpoint, if no other, support a city which has reasonable opportunity to defeat Birmingham. The community of interests existing between Evansville and Atlanta, and the desire for co-opera- ton between the two cities were pointed out as reasons why Atlanta should SUD- port Evansville.
 "The proposal was enthusiastically re- ceived and Secretary Bonham feels confl- dent that when the fight gets down to the home stretch, Atlanta and Georgia will be found shoulder to shoulder with us and fighting for us.
 By the terms of the agreement, Evans vile will at all times pull for Atlanta for meetings which Evansville cannot handle. Atlanta's greatest service to Evansville at the present time will be in assisting Evansville in the fight for the government armor plate plant"
 It is a cold-blooded appeal to the most selfish interest; and an agreement that engages a city geographically located in the south to fight for northern city against southern one We do not know that it is true, but the story is circumstan- tial.
 If 1t is true, we think we know where every Alabama and Mississippi congress- man will stand; and we can count on Tennessee and Louisiana also. Atlanta, if it has seriously proposed this thing, wlli discover that there is more harm than good in 1t for her; and that Birmingham will be helped by that kind of a fight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
LIMITING LAWYERS
m fine HOuston Post,

From the Houston Post.
 George w. Armstrong of Fort Worth wants to limit the number of lawyers to one for every 5000 population. We be- lieve, too. that this would be an im- provement on the present ratio of 16 to 1. and possibly 5000 people might support a lawyer pretty well without starving to death themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20

BEGINNING THE DAY-My Fath- er. may my living today tend to tighten labor, rather than to add to it. May I help and not hinder. May my coming into any company prihS peace rather than concern. Make me satisfied to be an unnottced mes- sencer of light and harmony. For Cbrist,s sake. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
NO PERFECT BLISS.

Yes, June will bring her roses And sweetly smiling brides, And witching nights The soul delights
 And many joys besides. But something casts a. shadow
 On future days so fair; The month won't be Entirely free
 From turbulence and care. Two national conventions
 Will fill the land with strife And much annoy Those who enjoy
 The sunny side of life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
A CRAFTY NATURE.

Nobody seems to know just where our congressman stands on prepared ness"
 Cant you tell that by the way he votes?"
 No You see, he's politician first and a patriot afterward."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
All Went to Ball Game

Secretary Clarence Lloyd reigned su- preme in Mayor Commissioner George B. Wards office yesterday afternoon, and in fact over the entire city hall, as there was a general exodus for Redwood field about o'clock.
 T am left here all alone,' complained Secretary Lloyd, with not even jani- tor for everyone has gone to the ball game. Such is life. However, there is a reward for the virtuous. for I have an automobile downstairs where Mrs. Lloyd and the baby are waiting for me. I really believe a spin in the country will do me a world of good.' And bang went down the cover of the desk as Secretary Lloyd hurried out, leaving the city hall deserted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20

A large part of Birmingham's popula- ton iourneyed out to Redwood yester- day and saw the Coal Barons play tnelr first game of the season on the home grounds It isn't the tango that keeps neople young, but the circus and base I1o1I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
STRONG ROOF NEEDED

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
 Even joint harangue between those well-known colonels, Bryan and Roose- welt, would be interesting provided building could be found with copper rivited roof
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20

It requires a great deal of self-posses- sion for a man to walk calmly through the streets of Birmingham, bearing under his arm one of those tell-tale packages from the express offices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20

Ing his concerns, the respect his acquaint- ances felt for him, his great capacity for friendship. Nor although few great writers have been less obviously subjec- tive than he, is it difficult to gather from his plays some comprehension of his char acter and temperament, his views of his art, his outlook upon life. The sanity not to say the serenity, of large part of his career has been made an indictment against him. How could the creator of Macbeth and Lear have been the same man as the owner of New Place? The paradox is only apparent. The very scope of his genius suggests that breadth of vision, that equable perception of the val ues of life, which lesser writers often fail to attain. We may be sure that had we lived in his day and seen his gentle fig ure pass we should have loved him. even if we could not quite understand him. Jcnson was no easy person to get on with. and he confessed a devotion to Shake speare that was only short of idolatry. Remote in time as he is, vague in some respects as his figure may be, he is one of the authors whom their true lovers find it impossible to regard with abstract ad- miration. Shakespeare the man will al- ways be dear to them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20

A stage darling,' whose married life was thought to be ideal, is named as CO., respondent in a divorce sult She fair and temperamental. 'Tis cruel world!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
Contains Birmingham Reference.

''Last weeks issue of the Saturday Evening Post possesses strong local flavor" said D. B. Grace. Tt contains two quotations from the speeches of Col W. P. G. Harding, both with approval. One quotation is in an editorial, the other in contribution.
 "In the editorial Birmingham is re- ferred to without giving the state of Alabama. This is as it should be, as the country papers say. Birmingham is now a city of such metropolitan propor- tions and is so well known that it is no more necessary to give the state than it is in referring to New York or Chicago. Yhe name Birmingham also occurs in the same issue of the Post in an advertise ment, in which a picture of the Jeffer- son County Bank building is given.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20

Birmingham has one of the finest mu- nicipal jails in the country. Pickpockets who attend the Confederate Veterans reunion will be entertained there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20

The high price of golf balls doesn't trouble some people, but high price of gasoline has taken some of the joy out of joy-riding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20

Those 800 Japs who have ostensibly set tied in Panama as fishermen may be eX- pert military engineers and spies. And then again, they may not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
OH. HuSH!

From the New York Telegram.
 An authority on zoology, Ellen velvin, author of Prom Jungle to Zoo,' says that there. are only two absolutely dumb animals in the world. They are the gi- raffe and kangaroo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20

General Funston may abandon the hunt for Villa, on orders from the war de- partment, but the chances are that he will never look the same.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
Bankhead-Hobson Race

"A stranger visiting in Tuscaloosa now would think that Hobson and Bankhead were the candidates for Congress from that district" said Charles w. Weather ford, former city commissioner of Tusca- loosa, who came up yesterday to see the opening game.
 ''The people in Tuscaloosa have grown so accustomed to having these Hobson races that many of our people take just as much interest in the fight in the Tenth as they formerly did when Hobson ran in the Sixth. One can hear just as heated arguments on the streets in Tuscaloosa regarding the Hobson-Bankhead race as during the Hobson- Underwood contest. Even the interest in the county races does not exceed that which the people of Tus- caloosa are taking in the race for Con- gross in the Tenth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20

Reports from Nebraska indicate that the Bryan brothers failed to hypnotize the enlightened voters of that common wealth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
Political Sentiment in Mobile

Mobile and south Alabama are not very much excited over politics this year." said Carroll T. Prince a prominent Mobile attorney, who was in the city on legal business yesterday.
 ''The race for national committeeman. in which E. D. Smith and Borden Burr are the opposing candidates, is attracting the greatest interest in our section of the state. Mobile city and county will pile up overwhelming majorities for Ed Smith, and he will have lead in our county of several thousand over Burr. Ed Smith is also very strong all over south Ala bama- When this race for committeeman first opened, I was inclined to think that Burr would be the winner, but big change has taken place and Ed Smith now seems to be assured of success"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20
BEST THEY CAN DO

From the Savannah News.
 A former Wisconsin student has been burned at the stake and beheaded by the Turks. We'll. they are short on sub marines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-20

It took a long time to wake up Con- gress, but it is awake at last and will hardly fall asleep again during the pres
 ant session