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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-31
.DEPREDA1|ONS ANNOY
PRINCIPALS Of SCHOOLS
Misses Bevard and Cooling Report
Theft Of Flowers Planted
by Children.

Complaint of depredations upon the
grounds about the Ross and Wilson
Normal schools. with especial reference
to the destruction and stealing of flow
ers planted by the teachers and chill
dren Of those schools, Is made by Misses
K. H. Bevard and A. NJ Cooling, respec-
tive principals of the buildings. They set
forth the complaint in a circular in
which they ask the cooperation of per-
sons in the neighborhood in the pre-
lection of the grounds and the proven
ton of the outrages. Miss Cooling said
today the neighbors were joining in
the efforts to prevent the depreciation
and that the police have promised spe-
cial cooperation.
AS a matter of fact, however, flower
| stealing is not limited to any particular
section of the city. according to infor-
nation which has been received by The
Star from other quarters. Petty thieves
have caused considerable trouble in a
number of places where public-spirited
citizens have tried to beautify their
home grounds.
Statement by c. M. Campbell.
One correspondent. Charles NJ. Camp
bell, in a letter to The Star today says
in reference to the complaint of the
school principals:
Il have a large yard and in former
years planted many bulbs. The beds
were so uniformly robbed in the spring
that I have been compelled to abandon
flowers in my yard.
although | also live on Harvard
street, I have TO doubt the outrages of
which these teachers complain are not
confined to this locality. The sugges-
ton is therefore made that the super
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-31

serious annoyance suffered by many
citizens earnest attention, but that
some method should be devised OF per-
manently meeting the situation-a
method that will not be temporary, but
that will survive the present admins
tration of the police. If present dila-
tory and disheartening control of local
hoohgans continues l suggest that the
Commissioners will at least protect
such public grounds as Miss Bevard de-
scribes by signs that trespassers will
be visited by the penalty of the law"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-31

Visiting cards made of sheet iron
were one of Baron Krupps specialties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
HOTEL LOBBIES
An Excellent Exhibition

One of the most interesting exhibits shown of late at the city hall is on the library floor this week where the manual training department at the Central High school is showing what it has accom- plished during the past year. The ex- hibition is in charge of General Super visor 1T. B. Graves, who speaks glowing ly of the work of the boys in manual arts.
 This exhibition" said MT. Graves, will be conducted this week and throughout the next in order that the public may have an intelligent outlook on the work accomplished in manual training at the Central High school. We have classes in joinery, furniture making, all the various branches of manual arts and mechanical drawing, machine shop practice and forge work and students in these classes when graduated have a comprehensive idea of what to do with their hands and brain along these lines. Our idea is to develop the contscructive and creative instinct of schoolboys and this exhibition indicates our success
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
The Auditorium Proposition

If the $5OO,00 auditorium bond is- sue proposition carries at next Mon days election, as the public has a right to assume, the question must then be, What will the commission do about it?
 With the ratification of the proposed bond issue by the voters, it will still be for the commission to say whether the Roden estate offer shall be ac- cepted or whether municipal build ing, including big auditorium, shall be erected elsewhere.
 The commission will have it's hands full in considering all sides of the question. There will be public hear ings and interesting arguments, pro and con. But in view of the general demand for the auditorium the com- mission can be depended upon to de- eide and break ground with as little
 
 delay as possible.
 When an auditorium bond proposi- tion was voted on three or four years ago an overwhelming majority was cast for it. The members of the Chamber of Commerce who had pushed the campaign were thinking it would carry only by close shave. But it turned out that the proposition was as popular in the outlying sections of Birmingham, sometimes called Greater Birmingham, as in central Birmingham.
 There is good reason to think it will be so this time. The "suburbs" have as much at stake as "old" Birming- ham. If the people will only get to- gether and stay together monster majority for the auditorium will be the result.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
THE PRESS IN INDIA

Ram Chandra Tn Cartoons Magazine.
 In India no newspaper can be published and no press can be established unless its proprietor or publisher gives bonds in the sum of 5000 rupees as a guarantee Of loyalty to the British government. There fore no paper can promulgate the true aspect of British rule in India, or pub fish war news in any way contrary to the interests of the British government otherwise the bonds and press will De confiscated. the paper will be suppressed and the editor will be sent to jail. Even we'll known persons of literary and scien- tific attainments, not connected with the press, have been persecuted for mere sympathy with India's cause. The pri- vate house of the world famed scientist, Prof. J. c. Bose, was searched by the police and the Nobel prize winner, the poet Rabndranath Tagore, was pro- hibited from speaking in public and practically interned in Calcutta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
THE MAPLE LEAF FoREyER

(The National Anthem of Canadao By Alexander Muir In days of yore, from Britain's shore Wolfe. the dauntless hero, came. And planted firm Britannia's flag On Canada's fair domain. Here may it wave, our boast, our pride. And joined in love together, The Thistle, Shamrock, Rose entwine The Maple Leaf forever. The Maple Leaf, our emblem dear. The Maple Leaf forever! God save our King and Heaven bless The Maple Leaf forever! At Queenston's Heights and Lundy', i,
 Lane,
 Our brave fathers, side by side. For freedom. homes and loved ones dear. Firmly stood and nobly died; And those dear rights which they main.
 tained,
 We swear to yield them never! Our watchword evermore shall be. The Maple Leaf forever! Our fair dominion now extends From Cape Race to Nootka Sound: May peace forever be our lot,
 And plenteous store abound: And may those ties of love be ours Which discord cannot sever, And flourish green o'er Freedoms homo. The Maple Leaf forever! On Merry England's far-famed land May kind Heaven sweetly smile: God bless old Scotland evermore,
 And Ireland's Emerald Isle! Then swell the song both loud and long. Till rocks and forests culver, God save our King and Heaven bless The Maple Leaf forever!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
A Good Move

It is indeed gratifying that the mer- chants of Birmingham are going into a movement to close the stores at 9 o'clock on Saturday evening.
 In this hot weather the clerks are entitled to an early closing movement and it is well for the housekeepers ot Birmingham to give the servants an opportunity to do their shopping early on Saturday evening.
 The old methods of keeping the stores open until midnight Saturdays has been done away with by all pro- gressive cities.
 The early closing movement IS a good one and in keeping with these progressive times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
Justice Scores Again

Although his plea for clemency was strengthened by five hundred letters, many written by prominent citizens of New York, Joseph H. Shenk, a wealthy real estate operator and own- CT of eight apartment houses, who col lected $1,0OO,000 in rents last year, was sentenced to one year in the peni- tentiary on the charge of maintaining a disorderly resort.
 Shenk, it is said, made a speciality of catering to the underworld demand for flats on short notice to be used for disorderly purposes. His tenants en- joyed maximum of safety and it is presumed that he was shrewd enough to make them pay well. His manager was also sentenced to serve one year in the penitentiary by the same judge, a sensible man who stated that re- gardless of the requests for clemency, Shenk deserved little or no sympathy.
 During the investigations of the so- called vice trust in New York, made by the Curran aldermanic committee in 1912, following disclosures regard ] ing commercialized vice, Shenk was mentioned as one of those who profited largely by the trusts operations. He was arrested October 13, 1914, and while he evidently made strong fight to escape imprisonment, it would ap- pear that delayed justice has been at last meted out to him, although his sentence might be considered entirely too short.
 The disorderly flat and the buffet flat" play an important part in the underworld life of all large cities, par ticularly where reformers have broken up the fred light" districts. There are, of course, many landlords who unwit- tingly lease their property for im- moral purposes and some are repeated ly victimized, their eyes being opened each time by police raid, but men of the Shenk type are also numerous and it is difficult to place the respon- sibility for wrongdoing directly upon them. A few more prison sentences, could they be imposed, would have a good effect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
T. R. TAKES CHICAGO

Don't push boys; he won't run away"
 The colonel looked up, smiled, and shot up his hand in greeting. As he got through the gate into the first open space there went up a mighty cheer, accom- panied by the explosions of several flashlights The colonel seemed to be enjoying every second.
 It would have been dangerous for any other human being to tackle the big, ex- cited mob, but he went through it so easily, with the square shoulders working up a little exercise, that it was laugh able
 Hundreds tumbled down the stairways after him, and when he struck the mo- out with the stride that has covered miles of hard going in jungle trails.
 There were no police on the outside, and as he leaped the colonel never steps into a vehicle) into Harold Ickes' auto mobile, newspaper men and boys climbed on the running board of the machine. One enthusiastic youth went oveE the side and almost landed on the coloners knees.
 But he wasn't angry
 He told them to come on, and waved his hat again and again.
 Down La Sale street the automobile moved, with the score of men hanging to the sides Every one who had an au- tomobile there footed the horn, and the crowds yelled and waved small Ameri- can flags
 One man had bandanna handkerchief spread out across his breast and distrib- uted campaign cards for the progressive candidates for the superior court bench John T. Richard and Russel Whitman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02

orchestra, claimed the privilege of be- ing henceforth the sole packer. He gives $10O,0OO a year which more than makes up the annual deficit, and what the deficit does not absorb goes to a permanent endowment.
 At the rate the rich are promoting high class music it will not take long to put American opera and American symphony orchestras financially ahead of those in Europe, governmentally en- dowed, as they are in some cases all ready artistically ahead of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
Charles N. Wheeler in the Chicago Trib-

Charles N. Wheeler in the Chicago Trib-
 une.
 WHERE was no police guard at the
 La Sale street depot at o'clock
 @ yesterday afternoon and Col The odore Roosevelt got into mob that met with his full approval. Turning one of the square and thick shoulders at an angle of about 45 degrees he went through the crowd like football hero.
 He wasn't angry, either. He smiled and laughed, waved his sombrero, and thrust the wildly cheering partisans to either side as a boy would sweep through a wheat field.
 He had to stop to shake hands with the engineer and fireman of the limited, as is his custom. There were hundreds of yelling Roosevelt fans between him and the desired object. But he simply started for the engine and they tumbled away, with hats flying in all directions and the colonel's face one great, joyous smile.
 It surely looked like old times. Despite the steady downpour that had been at it all day, great crowd had assembled to welcome the Oyster Bay sage As he stepped from the Pullman in the train shed he saw the mob. both inside and outside the gates. and he was ready, with nerve a-tingle and joy in his soul.
 Hello! Hello I'm very glad to see you again. he kept saying as he did the flying wedge stunt with the newspaper men lined up behind him and assisting in the propelling force.
 An express messenger in a car on the adjoining track yelled out:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
Freight Congestion

Business and commercial interests throughout the country have been con- siderably interested in recent months in the question of freight congestion" said l.. Sevier, general agent of the Southern railway and allied lines. Many reasons have been assigned as to the cause for this condition, some of which have been correct and some erroneous. George D. Dixon, vice president in charge of traffic of the Pennsylvania railroad, in re- cent address before the Lumber Dealers association at Philadelphia, assigned the following reasons:
 l. The inability or refusal of consignees to unload promptly.
 g. Orders placed for coal in excess of immediate requirements, for speculative purposes, or in anticipation of labor troubles
 8. Speculative shipments of other com- modities.
 4. Scarcity of boats for coastwise traf- fife.
 5. Lack of steamer accommodations for the export trade.
 G. The closing of the Panama canal last fall, leaving freight at the eastern terml- nals which has never been removed.
 '. Unusually heavy snowfalls in the east, especially in New England.
 8. Frequent fogs, which hampered both water-borne and rail traffic.
 8. Immense shipments of coastwise and export grain regardless of the fact that consignees could not obtain vessels.
 10. Lack of sufficient track storage facilities along the lines to care for the heaviest traffic the railroads have ever hauled.
 "The above explanation may be of in terest to the many people in Birmingham and throughout the south"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
LYsIsTRATA AND OTHERS

From the Louisville Courier-JournaI
 The sensational ladies suggesting the plan of a sex strike among the
 women of belligerent countries may think they are proposing something new in urging wives and sweethearts
 of soldiers to refrain from caresses
 until the fighting stops. It so happens, however, that Lysistrata, titular be- roine of the most farcicaI of Aristo- phanes' comedies, headed a representa- tive gathering of Athenian matrons
 after 21 years of the Peleponnesian
 war and advised that very thing-a sex strike. Incidentally, it didn't work. Men are not the only people on earth who like kisses and such things."-Los An geles Times.
 Sex strikes, in point of fact, are quite common in all periods of his-
 tory. The s-that-touch- -liquor-shaIl- |never-touch- -mine'' strike never has been effective as a form of limited prohibition because kisses have been las numerous as "bootlegged" fasks in a dry district.
 The sex strike against the young man who would marry but lacks suffi- cient means is agitated in every fami- ly which includes a daughter, but it | is rarely effective
 The young woman who told her suitor that until he should save $10,0O0 he must not hope to marry her, or to communicate with her, illustrated the futility of sex strikes when she broke her resolution by writing to inquire what progress he had made in thrift. The reply was that he had saved $1S.40. He received in response dis pensation in the form of a perfumed
 note saying that the sum mentioned would do
 Cooperation of the sexes, and re- sultant inspiration, has accomplished about all that has been accomplished in the world. Opposition of the sexes
 never has scored notable victory It would be fortunate if women
 could, by frowning upon warriors, end
 war. There has been, undoubtedly, for
 some thousands of years, tendency
 to fawn upon them which has stimu- lated martial valor more than blasts from brazen bugles or the roll of drums. But the sex strike is like the | Farmers Alliance--it will not hold to- gether. It is impossible to unionize the
 female of the species. Nobody thinks of trying to institute a sex strike with men as the strikers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
THE OTHER WOMAN

New York Correspondence Cinclnnati
 Times-Star.
 Broadway is gossping just now about small tragedy in which the other
 voman,' appears in the light of a phi 1osonher and almost heroine. The man in the case was one of the well known figures in the night life of the biz street. He was buried last week, mistaken kindness having permitted him square meal four days after an appendicitis op- eration. He had been popular chap and a spender of reputed wealth. Ev- eryone, practically, knew of his two es- tablishments: one in the best residence section of Brooklyn. and the other In the Sixties, just off Broadway. They were almost identical in the things that
 belonged to them-each handsome apartment of many rooms. richly ana
 tastefully furnished, with a limousine car. chauffeur, butler. maids and all the other requirements of luxury and ele-
 gance in living The mistress of one es- tablishment was the mans wife. well known in the artistic set mother of a young daughter The second was pre- sided over by the other woman" She
 had been a show girl in one of tha
 Broadway musical plays before care-
 less, casual acquaintance with the man
 began to be something lifelong. When
 the man was dead they found that he hadn't left a penny. Even a small life insurance policy was subject to loan.
 which absorbed it. He had been the realest spender imaginable. His clever ness had brought him an income equal to his extravagant needs. but he had permitted his needs to keep abreast of it to the very minute. The other woman l had something near a thousand dollars in bank. In the wife's establishment there wasn't enough money to pay the servants The other woman, being ap- prised of the situation. sold her jewels. I her furniture, her motor car and every other article of value which she had re- ceived from the man. With her bank ball. ance, the total cash in hand was around | $100O0. Through a lawyer she trans ferred the money to the wife. Then she went down to Ziegfeld's office to look l for a job. The wife's friends comment | bitterly upon her unfortunate condition. | few thousand dollars,' they say. And think of the money he squandered on the other woman!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
THE RICH MANS WORK
By George Moore.

Those who are born rich work hard enough, and their work is the hardest of all, their work is amusement. For by some strange misunderstanding all the most tedious and unsatisfactory means betting, gambling, travelling, dinner par ties. love-making. Whereas, the valid and sufficient form of distraction. earn ing your livelihood by the sweat of your brow, is designated by the unpleas- ant word. labor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
NOT ADE's ENGLISH
the Philadelphia Record.

From the PnlIadeIphla RecOfd.
 We cannot believe that George Ade said: You can't teach bird to fly by tying him to a limb" We have exam ined this sentence carefully, and fail to detect any slang in 1t. It is perfectly we'll established that MT. Ade talks noth- ing but slang. If he has resigned as a trustee of Purdue university. where he has said that a student can get every thing he could get at Harvard except that sound of "a" in father" it must be because Purdue tries to teach classi- cal English, and of course that would be the limit and George should worry,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
PENCIL STUBS
New York Telegram.

From the New York Telegram.
 Thrifty persons are advised to save the ened pencil famine, owing to diminished supplies used in making these daily ne- cessities. The stubs, which almost every one has been in the habit of throwing away can be fitted into a holder and used to the extreme end.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-02
THE oArHs OF YESTERDAY

Burges Johnson in the Century Magazine.
 Most of our own commonplace excla- nations might be traced back to an earlier day when the vigor of their youth was still within them.
 Imagine two old Romans standing upon the deck of ship gazing upon the erup- tion of vesuvius. They watch in ave- struck silence, until one of the gasps T swear by Father love that never before have I beheld such wonders!' And the other echoes, "Oh Gemini. Heavenly Twins, gaze down into my heart. for have no words to paint the glory of this spectacle!"
 Centuries later the interiors of some of their classic speech gazed upon Ve- suvius, and one says, 'Jove! what a sightv' and the other echoes. "Piminy! ain't it grand!"
 Gone are the echoing oaths of a day when swearing was an art. Those swash- buckling phrases went with swashbuck- ling deeds. By the bones of Saint Michael! I will spit thee to thy cringlng gizzard!" There was a mouth filling and classic threat for you! In these days. when automatic revolvers have replaced fencing swords. there isn't time to say it. Gone are the cloud splitting denuncia- tions of militant churchmen. and if we fling out what is left of the sounding phrases of some theological curse, it is as a boy might take from his pocket a stingless hornet for the effect that 1t produces in the schoolroom. until in time both hornet and effect become worn out. ] Gone are all the fine old paths; but why are they gone? Their parts may all