The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-14

E7FHE Sultan of Turkey has writer
poem in honor of the Turkish
troops who defended the Darda-
nelles. He has wisely dedicated the
work to Enver Pacha, minister OF war
AS Enver is a
Sultan Finds Time bigger man than
To Write a Poem the Sultan, and Is
supposed to be In
a position to tell the worthy potentate
when and where to get off, the COM
pliment is easily understood.
The Turks did behave CALAMITY IN
the defense of the Dardanelles and
the world is willing to concede them
the honors they deserve, even with
out a poetical effusion from the Sui
tan, who probably has nothing better
to do.
The Kaiser and the various other
crowned heads, either in the war or
about to get in it, have no time for
wooing the muse of poesy. While they
are not conspicuous in the trenches,
they stir about considerably, doing
first one thing and then another more
or less related to the war. The Sultan
alone, happy man, can sit at ease in his
palace and write verses. That very
Enver Pacha, to whom he dedicated
his poem, has relieved him of all re-
sponsibility, along with great deal
of his power.
1t is situation that the Sultan may
find agreeable. 1t would never suit
the Kaiser.
IDA M. TARBELL has announced
y that President Wilson will have
her active support for reelection.
Miss Tarbell has direct way OF
writing and speaking. She comes
right to the
Miss Ida Tarbell point in sizing
Comes Out for Wilson up the various
candidates and
by way of good measure epitomizes
the shortcomings of the redoubtable
colonel.
Of Mr.. Wilson she says: "He is the
first progressive leader that this dec
ade has produced" Mr.. Hughes, she
thinks, "has not yet given any sign of
understanding or sympathizing with
the thing we call progressiveism."
As for the colonel, "the great
trouble with Mr.. Roosevelt is his out
of-dateness. He does not understand
and never has really understood what
the progressives are fussing about,
and there never has been one of them
who could tell him so that ne could
get the idea"
A statement of this sort, coming
from a woman who was one Of the
most conspicuous leaders in the pro-
gressive movement, may well surprise
Miss Tarbell's associates, but it must
have dumbfounded the colonel, who
considers himself the fountain head of
all progressiveism. To be told that one
does not understand the fundamentals
Of a cause for which he wrecked po-
litical party and organized one of his
own-and by a woman, at that's
little short of staggering.
If the colonel were susceptible to
such weakness, he might well feel
somewhat dizzy. To make matters
worse, there are a great many pro-
gressives who think exactly as Miss
: Tarbell does about Woodrow and
Charley and Theodore. This attitude
of mind will be felt at the polls. 1t
may be strong factor in helping to
re-elect Wilson,
I'D ERSONS Of a psychological turr
u continue to put in some of theil
spare time in trying to reconcile
Colonel Roosevelt's state of mind of
four years ago, when he reviled the
republican standpatters, with his pres
ent attitude of obedience to the same
party con-
4 Democrats Must Work trolled by the
With United Energy am e m g n
that made the
situation intolerable in 1912. But the
colonel being law unto himself,