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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
THE HEROIC INSANE

From the Chicago Herald.
 The fine display of courage and of abil- ity to save human life made by the three male patients at the Kankakee State hospital comes at a fortunate moment. By their conduct they have perhaps spared hundreds of other sufferers the cruelty and the waste of unnecessary confinement.
 The mentally diseased men who shared in the rescue of four women attendants from drowning in the Kankakee river have demonstrated an important truth by refuting a sinister fallacy. Because of the terrible act of one murderous fa- natic too many people appeared to be ready to impute potential murder to all persons suffering from sick minds
 The life saving act of these three men stands out as vital contradiction to that panicky misconception. The Kankakee patients announce to the state that the insane differ among themselves just as normal people vary. Some lunatics at large are safer than are other well people. Each individual, sane or diseased, must be judged upon his own needs and his own capacities.
 That is the message of three male pa- tients to their more fortunate fellow cit izens. Happy, indeed, was the chance which permitted these insane men to add to the sanity of their state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
OYSTER BAYS SAD CASE
From the New York World.

IOHl LiC NEW 1OIk w OTlQ.
 The awful situation at Oyster Bay somehow shakes our faith in Theodore Roosevelt. Since March 4, 1909, he has been the most eminent inhabtant of the town. During that time he has exhibited great dissatisfaction with most of the leading governments of the earth, espe. cially that which has it's seat at Wash ington, D. c.
 Yet it appears from his own words that Oyster Bay is asleep; that it needs sew rage system. a garbage plant and an iso- lation hospital; that it's hygienic condi- tions are scandalous; that it's sign posts are in cans and flying newspapers; that. although the colonel has lived there for many years. the town has never had a real cleanup, and that the one chance of getting hospital lies in taking build. ing near the railway station now occu- pied as a saloon.
 If, as the busiest busybody on earth says, "the sanitary unpreparedness of Oyster Bay is like the unpreparedness of the nation in other respects" whose fault is it? Is it an example of the Prus- sian efficiency which MT. Roosevelt ad- mires so profoundly to let things at home go to the slattern while the proprietor is instructing mankind in general in the art of correct living?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
LEARN LATIN IN SEVEN DAYS

From the Portland lore. )Oregonian. University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore. Betty Schafer, 13, and Jane Campbell. H. translated few days ago a 2oo- word composition into Latin after only seven days instruction. pr, Berle. na- tional educator of Cambridge, Mass, IS employing the services of the two girls to show the pedagogical classes at the university the time that can be saved in teaching.
 Seven days before neither girl had ever studied any Latin. In the compost tion submitted there was not a mistake Tn vocabulary or position and the other errors were very few. The translation called for the use of the first and sec- ond declension.
 "The secret lies in teaching the pupils to associate Dr. Berle said. q started Jane and Betty by having them learn the vocabularies through looking ur every English derivative. When we came to the word 'Magnus' they went to the dictionary and found 'magnani- mous magnificent magnify and so on. Those girls will never forget that magnus' means great
 As result these girls know theil l vocabularies. The trouble with the av. craze person is that they cannot collect l together what they already know, Every subject studied should be made to coordinate with what one is study. ing in other lines"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
BALTIMORES HUMILITY

|, that has made it source of news read habitable and literate world. One might ina zine, from the Suns admissions aa to Baltimore's need of advertising, that Baltimore was a real estate proposi. some real town on which a new and su- perior sort of flying machine had con. descended to alight or a squalid collection of huts in Africa or Greenland where . establish his headquarters for awhile. This humility is puzzling. Didn't and doesn't Baltimore know that to few eara did her name come with a shock of sur.
 prise when the stories about Captain Koe- nig began to arrive? Why even in New York, where knowledge of the American hinterland is supposed to be least varied ana extensive we had heard quite lot and none of us thought of seeing in tho dispatches about the submarine a revela- tion of Baltimore's existence. Such reve-
 lation as we did receive was of nature
 quite different, and our surprise Was not
 because Baltimore is, but because of the
 warmth and heartiness with which a
 seeming majority of it's residents unhy-
 phenated as well as hyphenated, wei.
 comed a captain and crew and craft
 that for most of us woke anew such bit-
 ter memories.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
THE LIBRARY OF THE BIBLE

By Lyman ApOott
 The Bible is not book, but library; perhaps should rather say literature. It is composed of 66 different books. writ ten by between 40 and 50 different au- thors; written centuries apart. in differ ent languages. to different peoples, for different purposes, in different literary forms. It is the selected literature of 1E centuries it includes law, history, poetry, fiction, biography and philosophy. It is to be read as literature, judged as lit erature One may therefore reject book from this collection of literature and yet believe in the literature. It is not like a painting, which either is or is not the work of one master; it is a gallery of paintings. in which some works may be originals and others copies. To believe in the Bible is one thing; to believe in the canonicity of every book in the Bible is very diqfferent thing. Luther be- lieved in the Bible, though he rejected the Epistle of St. James.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
RloodIhounds for City

why should the board of revenue of Jefferson county buy two bloodhounds for the detective and police departments of the city of Birmingham asked T. N. Cottrell, manager of Whithington's phar- macy, yesterday
 Both the city and the county should not have less than four bloodhounds each, in my opinion. We have had nine criminal assaults on our white women in the last six months by black brutes in the vicinity of Birmingham. Only one of these criminals has been captured The city commissioners should wake up tc these facts, and not ask the board of revenue to purchase two bloodhounds for the police department of Birmingh gha m well experienced bloodhounds? These dogs would not cost over $500 Nearly this amount alone has been paid out fol transportation for suspects arrested ir connection with the assault of little Nancy Baird and the guilty party has not been apprehended.
 'The city also needs experienced dogs in running down burglars and other criminals in Birmingham. Why not dc away with the stool pigeon expense money of the purity squad for only two months? This alone would purchase two of the best bloodhounds in existence"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
Fake Extras and Circulation

MT Advertiser what good does noon extra of
 newspaper do you with it's rehashed from the morning paper?
 It swes circulation figures but what does do to help you and your business? Thousands of fake extras sold in Birmingham by the Birmingham News Business men and others in their hurry buy them because they cheap hoping against hope find something in hem glance at the head lines and throw them aside.
 These thousands of socaed newspapers go into circulation figures pad for circulation but what good do they do Mr. Advertiser? Of what value you fmsy extra whose page headlines the reader goes? You buy yourself throw them aside don't you So do other business
 This feature which The Herald refers when it speaks of padded and misleading circulation.
 When newspaper begins brag unduy about the quantity its circulation stop and anayze Eghpage extras are one thing that helps to swell this quantity.
 Advertiser do you realize that the Birmingham News poets you sensible business accept this waste basket and trash wagon circulation as genuine?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04

AAS 4ork Sun or a recent QaIe. John Raymond fought for the confederacy, and when the end of the war came he refused to be recon structed He quit the United States for Mexico and there he is today, still rebel; almost destitute, 79, and beyond that measure of protection the United States gives it's citizens Consul Bonney, whose post is at San Luis Potosi, offered money to Raymond to take him north, but Raymond would not accept it. The state department is studying his case; diplomacy will perhaps find a way to re. lieve the old fellow"
 The department of state is perhaps not troubling itself. But, in case it does,
 it might consult an alienist. There was harmless idiot over on the headwaters of Bitter creek away back in 1S44 who ok a solemn oath that he would not cut his hair until Henry Clay was elected President of the United States
 The Sun seems more than usually inn pressed. It is moved to moral on the theme. We quote again:
 Thus in the news of the day appears a representative of a class of Americans once numerous and of whom there must be more than few survivors. They were the men of the confederacy who could not reconcile themselves to the po-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
Enioyed a Great Trip

E. N. Brown, the well known typewriter salesman, has returned from his honey moon. He attended the ball game yes terday.
 Well, I'm glad to get back" said MT Brown, although I had the best time oi my young life while away. In every city that we visited it was good time upon good time. and I was so busy enjoying myself that I had no time observing business conditions except to notice that everybody in the world seemed to have automobiles and plenty of money, so reckoned there is plenty of money in the west and middle west at the present time
 While away I enjoyed a few real bal games. However, I am still a big heart ed fan and can find entertainment ever in the performance of this years Barons.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
From the New York Times.


 YVI1 HEN there were made in the \X/ Times, something over week
 w aso. a few remarks to the eff feet that the arrival of the Deutschland at Baltimore had put that city on the map at last, it was done with conrl- dent expectation that the Baltimoreans would treat the little article as the Jest it was intended to be. In that case they either would have commented on it as H. frustrating the humor that lies in saying one thing and meaning its exact oppo- site-joking of a sort supposed to be dis tinctively American, though. of course, IL isn't-or else would stimulate rage and violently protest that a city notably an- cient and historic, as American cities go, was put on the map by its own achieve ments long ago, and that those who did not know it's name and fame before the Deutschland came up the Patapsco were of the class for whom night schools are provided.
 Strangely enough, Baltimore took neither course. At any rate. it didn't if it's Sun completely speaks it's emotions. for that paper devotes almost a column of it's valuable editorial space to a serious dsquisition along exactly the lines of our frivolous one.
 graduates the city on the good fortune
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
THE MoCkING BIRD


 THE MOCkING BIRD By Frank l.. Stanton. He didn't know much music
 When first he came along; An all the birds were wonderin'
 Why he didn't sing song. They primped their feathers in the sun. An sung their sweetest notes: An music jest come on the run From all their purity throats! But still that bird was silent In summer time an fall; He jes set still an listened, An he wouldn't sing at all! But one night when them songsters Was tired out an still, An the wind sighed down the valley An went creepin' up the hill: When the stars was all a-tremble In the dreamin' fields O blue, An the daisy in the darkness Felt the fal1n' O the dew There come sound O melody No mortal ever heard, An all the birds seemed singin' From the throat, O one sweet birdi Then the other birds went Mayin'
 In land too fur to call; For there warn't no use in stayin
 When one bird could sing fer alll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
HOTEL LOBBIES
EoothaII Pronnects

"The football prospects at the Univer- sity of Alabama are very bright" said B. L. Noojin. director of athletics, w1fo was at the Tutwiler last night. We are arranging to start practice at an early date, and we are assured that we will have more good material than for some seasons past. While we lost VandeGraaff and Harsh, who were towers of strength for our team last year. we will return the great majority of last seasons var sity In addition, the other material we will have should enable us to turn out a team that will make the alumni of the University proud"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
WHAT CYRIL SAW AND HEARD

From the New York Globe.
 Cyril Brown, correspondent with the
 German army on the Volhynia front, does
 not dissemble his admiration for General
 von Linsingen. In dispatches, which bear internal evidence of being untrimmed
 by the censor. he plays him up as bigger
 than von Hindenburg.
 Won Linsingen is presented as large
 and fierce man, with "a tremendous, pug
 nacious. aquiline Roman nose''-truly a
 formidable combination. His moustach
 is terror striking and his voice loud roar
 ing as befits a Marshal Vorwarts. This
 his time in appropriate exercises. Cyril,
 when he drew near to the presence, heard
 mighty shouting. Entering, he discov-
 cred the general, surrounded by his staff. chanting Deutschland uber Alles'' amid
 pauses in mighty potations. A giant
 boar's head was above the fireplace. while
 "a stuffed gray wolf in kennel in a cor ner snarled (miracle of miraclesD at the generals feet.' It was scene from Wagner-Valhalla had come to earth. We have no reason to suspect that Cyril is deficient as truth teller. That von Linsingen and his leonine young men. when they encounter Russians. eat 'em alive may be accepted as literally accurate. But in one sentence, neverthe- less. Cyril rather strains credulity. De- scribing his interview with the mighty chieftain, he says: "He showed also a very human solicitude for the welfare of correspondents" This is not in char acter. The tiger of the Carpathians gets out of the picture when he does not growl and lash his tail at the slightest smell of a correspondent. If he has the human solicitude aforesaid our hero has weak. mess and does not measure fully up to the specifications of man of blood and iron. It is as if Stevensons pirates were to sing Rescue the Pertaining rather than "Yo, ho, and a bottle of rum! Long established literary conventions
 should De respected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
MOUNTING NEwsPAPER ExprNsps

From the Kansas City Star. newspapers generally have assumed that the public was. not interested in their business arrangements. Sucb an unprecedented situation has arisen. however In connection with the ad- vance in the cost of print paper-and. Tor that matter, of practically every- thing that enters into newspaper pro- duct1on-that newspapers all over the country are being compelled to make readJustment of advertising and sub- scrlptlon rates to meet the new condi- tions
 White paper is the chief item of ex- pense in newspapers of general cir cuiatlon' and in the last few months it's price has advanced 20 per cent, 50 Der cent, and even in some cases 100 per cent. For metropolitan newspapers this means an added cost of production of several hundred thousand dollars a year. The advance in other materials While not so great, is very material, and increases the gravity of the prob lem
 The magazines are feeling the same pressure. The August issue of the Worlds Work, for instance, devotes considerab ble space to the paper situa- tion. while Life, the Independent and other periodicals have explained to their readers the necessity of changes in the circulation schemes because of the emergency.
 Newspapers and magazines alike are doing their best to tide over the situa- tion with no radical changes. It is only prudent, however, to recognize the fact that if the advances of the last few months continue-as they seem likely to-the entire periodical business will have to be readjusted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
State-Aid Highway

T made 20 miles to the gallon of gas oline yesterday" said Fred McDuff, who drove his "flivver" to Mountain Creek Chiffon county, and back. This is lit tie more mileage than the average for gas, and it speaks well for the roads through Jefferson, Shelby and Chiffon counties. The stretch of road on the Bir- mingham to Montgomery section of the state-aid highway in Chiffon county is one of the prettiest pieces of road build ing I ever went over. The road is very smooth and has wide surface. It ex- cells anything I have seen in Jefferson county, or any adjoining counties"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
Why Not a Paper Mill.

Alabama ought to have a large paper mll," said Hill Ferguson yesterday This state has certain advantages for such an industry which have attracted the atten- tion of paper manufacturing experts dur ing the past few years. but so far noth- ing definite has been done Practically all grades of paper are now selling at the highest mark, in many years and certain kinds have reached almost a prohibitive point. Therefore. this should be an op- perfume time for launching this move- ment.
 Tt will be recalled that sometime be- fore the war, J. J. Hurlburt of Lock- haven, Pa, an experienced paper manu- facturer of that city, which has long been noted for it's paper mills, made ex- haustive investigations of the situation on the Warrior river around Tuscaloosa. and after working with his assistants about year, reached the conclusion that this section offered greater advantages than any other in the country. The wood from which the pulp is derived in many sections of the country has been practi- cally exhausted, while in Alabama un- limited quantities can be had almost for nothing. The fact that very large vol ume of water is required would make a site on the Warrior river the ideal one.
 Paper can be made from the waste materials of lumber mills. from the stumps, the limbs and slabs. Two of the largest lumber mills of the south are To- cated at Tuscaloosa, Raul Lumber com pany having the largest. The plans for financing the mill there two years ago fell through on account of the beginnins of the war. but it would seem that that could be arranged now. There is plenty of material from which paper can be made within short radius of Birming- ham, and one of these plants would bring large revenues to this section of the state in addition to employing many high priced men,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
ALABAMA PRESS

Dothan Eagle: A Dothan merchant wants to know what's become of the old fashioned race of people who used to buy something besides automobiles and pfioDo- graphs.
 Mobile Register: If the United States were to shut down on cotton shipments to Lancashire. we'd hear good deal said in England itself about the evil of the British blacklist
 Montgomery Journal: It has not been figured out yet, we believe, by the war statisticians, but if we may be permitted to guess we would say that after the war there will be dozen or two less men than women in Europe
 Selma Times: Germany has agreed to settle with Switzerland for the Swiss citi- zens who lost their lives on the Sussex. She has, however, shown no inclnatio to send her check for the Americans who went down on the Lusitania
 Tal1adega Home: Editor Ed Barrett of The Birmingham Age-Herald says prohi- bition has been a good thing for his city, and Ned Brace" has never been known to express any affectionate regard for the camel.-Anniston Star But "Ned' knows the truth when he sees it.
 Montgomery Advertiser: We are willing for the independent voters of the coun- try to compare Hughes phrases to Will sons actions and vote as their conscience dictates The democrats have nothing to be ashamed of in their candidate and welcome comparison between him and his opponent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
Happy are they that hear their de fractions, and put them to mendinE.
 Much Ado About Nothing.

BEGINNING THE DAY-Give me eyes. 0 Lord, that I may see Thee going Thy way among men. Thou art writing Thy name upon the faces and, behold, I see 1t not. Thou are showing Thy face in the way they toll and sing and suffer; Thou art declaring Thyself in their sim uIe deeds and words and thoughts; and, behold, I am blind. Give me eyes, o Lord, give me eyes. Amen' H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04

notified at his home there the latter part of September. It is rare CO., ,, incidence that presidential nominee and two vice presidential nominees live in the same town. No wonder that the Indiana capital is chesty over it's political importance.
 Departing from our hospitable shores, Captain Koenigs men cheered America. None of the prophets ever predicted that would happen on the deck of German submarine.
 Milwaukee society is reported to be "cooling off, in the early morning hours by motoring in pajamas. As a provided.
 The scarcity of titled foreigners at sum- mer resorts this year makes it com paratively easy for the ribbon clerk on his vacation to masquerade as a man of fashion.
 There is no telling how much liquor has been poured into Jefferson county sew CTS during the past 12 months, but in some quarters every drop was regretted. President Wilson continues to stand pat in his attitude toward woman suffrage just as if there were no such thing as political expedency.
 Defaulting bank officials who commit suicide should have more consideration for bank depositors and allow themselves to be sent to prison.
 Mr Fairbanks will not be notified of his nomina ton until August 31 but he will no doubt be able to possess himself in pa tience until that time. Occasionally one sees a magazine on newsstand that doesn't exploit a bath ing beauty on it's cover--but those occa- sions are rare.
 Cyclone Davis was defeated in Texas, but the Lone Star State still has few statesmen" in office who should be turned out.
 The former Mrs. John Jacob Astor isn't enjoying her comparative obscurity any more than the average newspaper reader enjoys it.
 The premier of Newfoundland says the war is practically over. However, the Russians still have some ground to gain.
 
 strike in Mexico should not alarm General Carranza unless the strikers en- list the services of "Pancho" Villa.
 
 The high cost of paper has not yet de- creased the output of mash noteso di- rected to idols of the screen"
 when scientists'' take a hand in a murder trial, it is astonishing how much fiapdoodle results.
 At any rate. the Deutschland helped to show that Uncle Sam still has his neu- trality on stra ight.
 The daily hike" makes a guardsman long for the comforts of home even more than army fare.
 Jersey City is so wrought up that a. mere tire explosion is liable to cause a panic
 The next time Lemberg falls it won't De the Ieuts' turn to hold celebra- ton.