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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18
The Booker Washington Memorial

The Booker Washington Memorial
 Under the auspices of the board of trustees of Tuskegee institute fund of $2,000,000 is to be raised to perpet- uate the institution as permanent memorial to the late Booker T. Wash ington. The negroes have pledged themselves to raise half of this amount among their race and the white people of the United States are asked to con- tribute the other half.
 Representative citizens of the south appreciated fully the far-reaching good that the principal of Tuskegee accom- plished during his long years of serv- ice and it is but reasonable to expect generous contributions to the memorial fund from the white people of this section.
 Booker Washington was a great leader-the greatest leader his race equipped by training and experience for building up the normal and indus trial institution of which he had charge, and his ideas touching the kind of education the negro needed were so sound and practical as to gain for his efforts the sympathy of every intelli- gent and fair-minded man in Alabama. Washington's heart was in his work. Progress at Tusl1egee was slow at first, but the principal never lost faith in the cause which he was striving to promote; and several years before his death he saw the institute the recog- nized center of education for the southern negro and saw, too, the ex- cellent results of his system in the arts of peace-on the farm, in the me- chanic trades and in pedagogy.
 In the years closely following the civil war the race problem was stagger- ing. Could the negro be advanced in education alongside the white race without serious clash? was question often asked.
 But the problem has been happily solved. The negro is not only here to stay, but the south needs him as much as the colored race needs the south. And the helpful relations between the whites and the blacks of Alabama and of other southern states is traceable either directly or indirectly to the leadership of Booker T. Washington.
 There should be no difficulty what ever in raising the $2,000,000 memor- ial fund. I|
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18
The Cotton situation

Henry C1ews, in his cotton review un- der date of January 15, says in part:
 Toward the end of the week the cen- sus bureau issued another report which placed the amount of cotton consumed in the United States during December at 554, 725 bales. Never before have Ameri- can cotton mills consumed this amount of cotton in a single month. In Decem- Der last year the consumption was 450,S69 bales and for the corresponding month in 1912 ,262 bales. The total consump- ton since the beginning of the new crop year, August 1, is about 19 per cent great CT than the corresponding period last year. Every month of the new crop year has shown an increase over the previous month, everything pointing, as has been record breaking consumption by Ameri- can mills for the current year.
 ''The overshadowing factor at the mo- ment, however, is the export situation. Unquestionably Europe needs our cotton and needs 1t badly, but the poblem is how to get it. Recent advices are to the effect that tramp steamers engaged in the South American trade will be diverted to the gulf ports to take cotton cargoes for it is realized that at the present sensation ally high level for cotton freight there is 8 great inducement to owners of steam ships to turn their attention exclusively to this trade. Signs of a revival of the export movement were apparent during the week. shipments for one day approx imating 15,000 bales-the largest for sin gle day in a long time past. It was cur rently reported that bookings for Janu- ary- February shipments total upwards of 35t,000 bales, and freight room for this amount was said to have been engaged weeks ago, before rates had advanced to the present high level.
 Cotton is going out by way of New York because more space is available here than in the south. As before stated the foreign need for our cotton is great and there is no question but that way will be found sooner or later to effect shipments. When the export situation clears. as it is reasonable to suppose that 1t must, such improvements ought to and no doubt will be reflected In an enhance ment of values in the local market
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18

From the New York World.
 Even if John Masefeld were to talk as freely of the war as his American in- terviewers would like to have him. he could tell of nothing more humanly inter- esting than the life he himself has lived Lecturing here, as he plans to do, on Eng fish literature, he can have nothing to of fer more amazing than the tale of his own rise in letters. For he who little more than 20 years ago was handy boy wash ing glasses and cleaning out in a West Side barroom, has come back to New York singer whose songs are known to two hemispheres.
 Joseph Conrad went to sea and revealed himself a great teller of stories, proving the world to be a romance to the right kind of rover. Masefield ran away to be a sailor and in due season showed himself a poet both born and made, who could find songs and philosophy alike in the rough tossing of the waters and the rough hearts of men.
 These two writers, one of prose and one of verse, have in common the faculty of seeing beneath the obvious facts of life and action. When he wasn't working says Masefeld's former employer, "he stuck to his room all the time, reading books But this does not explain the poet Before he came to the books he had learned to read things not to be set in type.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18
When Landladies Suffer

There is great unrest, not to say alarm, among the boarding house keepers doing business in the vicinity of the University of Pennsylvania. They have been wondering why some of their student boarders have been eating nothing but meat. They ceased to wonder when informed that certain members of the freshman class were cooperating with Dr. Alonzo E. Tay- Tor of the university medical staff in experiments to determine the increase of nitrogen in the blood caused by eating large quantities of meat.
 The situation may well cause acute anxiety among the boarding house keepers, who doubtless have a hard enough struggle, as it is, to make both ends meet. Potatoes and other vegetables known for their cheapness and filling qualities are left un- touched, while the students are call ing for double portions of meat at every meal. Vegetables cost little and meat costs a great deal. Therefore, if the present series of experiments con- tinues much longer, the boarding house mistresses will face deficit.
 While nobody planes the students, or Dr. Taylor, for their efforts to add to the sum of human knowledge, the boarding house keepers have some rights in the premises that ought to be considered. They should not be called upon to furnish the meat for scientific experiments at the usual weekly or monthly rates they are &C., customed to charge. Would it not be fairer, both to the students and their landladies, to conduct experiments in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18

militia without too great an expense. But most men familiar with naval af- fairs are agreed that the administra- tion's $5O0,000,000 five-year pro- gramme is not only reasonable but that its adoption will be approved by a vast majority of the thinking and patriotic citizens of America.
 National preparedness will call for heavy expenditures, but every dollar honestly spent will mean economy in the end. If the people were indiffer- ent to this vital issue a year or two ago, they are aroused now. Some of the farmers unions, under the baleful influence of Mir. Bryan and other preachers of unpreparedness, have resolved" against national security legislation, but they will wake up a little later on and come to realiza- ton of the fact that the farmers will be as much benefited by strong na- tional defense, taking far look ahead, as the people of the great cities.
 The Sixty-fourth Congress should
 -e-1 +lin army as well as the navy, but as between the two, the larger at
 -.--.>A 444st oe given to the latter. The country is we'll stirred up on the preparedness issue. It is paramount, and if Congress should adjourn with out accomplishing something worthy of the nation along this line, the dem- ocratic party would be swept out of power and it would deserve it's de- feat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18
EXAMPLE OF THRIFT

From the Detroit News
 Grand Rapids Mich.-On salary of 50 cents or less a day, Ellen McMurray Of Ada has saved a nest egg of S140O in 20 years.
 This remarkable example or frugallty was barred here when Ellen came to town to protest before the county road commission about having her land sur- veyed for the approach of a great steel bridge
 Few passengers on the Grand Trunk trains that pass through Ada have failed to notice Ellen McMurray, robust sturdy appearing woman, who bundles mail pouches on her little express wagon and then trundles off to the village post office. In the winter time Ellen uses handsled in the place of an express cart, but she is to be seen at the station never theless. Five times each day she makes the quarter mile trip each way from the depot to the village and the village to the depot
 Years of struggle and hardship to &C., cumulate little nest egg for Ellen have resulted in her favor, yet it seemed that this was to be taken from her when she heard that the road commission had sur veyed her land to serve as the approach for that bridge. The land meant quite a lot to her. for it represented the savings of her years of toil-she purchas sed the few acres last summer for cash.
 So she went into conference with the commissioners and after brief talk the parties agreed upon a most satisfactory price for Ellen's land. Happy and con- tented, she returned at once to her work. It was perhaps the first time in 20 years that she had absented herself from the duties but she says that she feels the time was well taken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18
Money Getting in Circulation

Every month witnesses an improve ment in business in this city and l think that by spring the real estate market as we'll as general trade will be very active, v said Col. E. l.. Higdon, former sheriff.
 Early last fall the industrial pay rolls of the Birmingham district began to in crease and the increase was rapid throughout the last quarter of the year. The immense pay rolls made an uncom- monly brisk holiday trade and as money is getting into wide circulation every in- terest will soon have ample proof that good times are with us once more.
 This is going to be fine year for Bir- mingham."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18

Konia, which has recently become one of the busiest railroad towns in the Otto man empire, is situated on the Constan- tinople- Bagdad line, near the southeast ern coast of Asia Minor. It is the head quarters of the most powerful brother hood in Turkey, the Mevlevi Order of Dervishes, or Dancing Dervishes, and was at one time the famed capital of the Seljuk sultans. The town was known in ancient times as Iconium and it's birth dates back to remote antiquity. AZ though the Sultans Of Rum are hardly more than a memory now, the central home of the Mevlevi order, the Mevlevi- tional renown and it is one of the few towns in the Turkish empire where the Turkish population has the numerical ad- vantage. It has 600O0 Turks of pure blood, who belong to the old school, says the National Geographic society. The head of the Mevlevi order is one of the hoHest persons 1n the MoSlem Worlu. lie is generally a man of wide culture and scholarly attachments whose rank is sec ond to that of the Sultan. It is the functions alone of this dignitary to gird each Sultan of Turkey with the historic sword of "Osman," an impressive cere- mony similar to a coronation. The pres ent Sultan of Turkey is devout Mevevi. ance toward races and religions. The whirling dance of the Mevlevi dervishes is said to symbolic the path of the soul s return to heaven.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18

meat eating at sort of training ta- ble, where the expense could be regu- lated so the boarding house keeper would not be out in pocket, or else have the students provided with meat out of some fund set aside for re- search work and experimentation
 Another aspect of the case is the quality of boarding house beef. It is reasonable to suppose that nitrogen in the blood would be increased to a much greater extent by a rich, juicy steak, such as the best restaurants serve at fancy price, than by the sort of meats the average boarding house keeper provides-especially in student ranches"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18
Preparedness Paramount Issue

While it is only recently that the people of the United States have given serious attention to the weak ness of our national defense, broad yisioned statesmen and military and naval authorities had spoken or writ ten about it many years ago.
 One of President Cleveland's great policies announced at the beginning of his first term was that which sought national security through the building of new navy. He saw that 1t would take many years to provide modern navy of respectable size, and he did a great work for the country when he induced Congress to make the necessary appropriations for a substantial beginning.
 Mir. Cleveland intimated in one of his addresses that the foreign policy of the United States had al- ways been weak because of it's weak national defense. He was lover of peace, but as he knew that this gov ernment could not make righteous de- mands of a European nation with convincing effect unless we were pre- pared to defend our coasts in the event of foreign attack, he proceeded to carry out his navy-building policy.
 In the eighties the democrats, as rule, were not distinguished for their far-sightedness in matters relating to defense, but Col. Hilary A. Herbert of Alabama, a member of the naval committee of the House of Represen- tatives, was an exception, and when, at MT. Cleveland's request, he was made chairman of the committee, he rave the administration the loyal and enthusiastic support necessary to make the new policy workable. Steady progress was made on the betterment of the country's sea fighting estab- lishment, and when Colonel Herbert became Secretary of the Navy in Cleveland's second term he had the proud satisfaction of seeing some of the results of well devised and well executed plan.
 But as strong as the United States navy is today, it is not in view of the lessons learned from the European war, strong enough. President Will sons military programme may be considered from various angles. There are differences of opinion among mil itary experts and congressman who have served iong on the military com- mittee as to the best means of ex- banding the army and the organized
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18
Rapid Increase

"The business of the Union Pacific rail- road in this district has increased at an enormous rate recently said Frank Jutes, commercial agent for that road in Birmingham. 'grhe tonnage out of this district is possibly as much as it ever has been in the history of Birmlng- ham.
 'The delay in the opening of the Pan anna canal, caused by g. big slide, made the Union Pacific think business might lag for time Contrary to their expec- tations, however, business has continued to improve and at present all the cars that can be used are in service. The opening of the canal will make things even better on account of the large ship ments which will come to the Pacific side that formerly was shipped to the Atlantic seaboard. With iron and steel at high prices and an abundance of orders to fill, no one need look for anything but pros perity for sometime to come"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18
The Cold Suan

The snow Monday morning and the freezing temperature recall the bliz- gard we had in February, 1S99," said Cary Thompson. "The mercury dropped many degrees below zero and it staid below zero for two or three days, ac- cording to my recollection.
 There was a heavy fall of snow just before the freeze and we had fine sleighing for a week or more. The oldest inhabitant of Jefferson county had never seen such a spell of win ter as we had then. As it came just before Mardi Gras it was afterward referred to as the Mardi Gras blizzard. No such hard winter can be expected again as we had in 1S9S-9, but this snow and freeze carry me back to the days when sleighing was not an uncommon sight in Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18
STRANGE MARINE. DISASTER

courage, even martyrdom, does not nec- essarily justify the term hero
 The ThessaIoniki had her passen- gers with her to the last, the skipper refusing to take them off The hardships of passengers and crew became ex- treme. The store of provisions and water got so low that they had to go on short rations The mental anguish of some of the passengers, as it became known that the ship had been battered all but one of the officers and most of the crew, in a body, remonstrated so forcibly with the stubborn captain that they would have been liable for mutiny had not the event justified their be- havior.
 The excuse that has been offered for the captain is that the ship was his first command. To lose it was certainly great misfortune, and in his des- peration he disregarded other consid- erations that should have appealed to him. To be rescued by a vessel of an other line, of course, meant to obligate his company for salvage money. But the Thessaloniki is now lost, after struggling hopelessly for five weeks. Incidentally, it appears from the evil dence that she was unfit to be sent across the Atlantic at this season. For the first storm opened her seams and flooded her engine room.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18
NEW STYLES IN HOSIERY

New York Correspondent Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 Here is something new for art lovers to keep their eyes glued to the ground. They are two dashy new styles in femi- nine hosiery. One is called the lamp shade stocking. This is a silk ruffle at- tached to the hose just above the shoe tops to give the wearer the effect of a puss in boots. When you see the lamp shade stocking on the street you cannot tell whether it is coming or going. The other new neither covering is called the purse pocket creation. This is very prac- tical for shoppers. It's a stocking bear ing pocket, with a flap and a clasp just above the ankle The new stocking makes it unnecessary when the wearer wants to get into the first national to hide be- hind something and hitch up her dress to reach the roll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18
A MAN IN THE KITCHEN


 From the Kansas City Star.
 The men of the Third Presbyterian church are reported in the Star of this morning as having prepared, cooked and serving a supper to the women of the church last night.
 But who told the men what to cook? Who told those men of the Third Pres byterian church where to find the things to cook with? Who was it that first put out the sllillets and the pans that were to be used, and the salt and pepper and see them? And what about the dishes afterward? That's the big job about cooking. any way. The men served the meal, but who cleared the table? Who 'stacked' the dishes just right removed every crumb from the covers put the chairs back in place, the cream back into the refriger- ator. and at the end brushed up" with nice little finishing touch that made the dining room look as spick and span as it did before?
 Any man can light match to the fire, put skillet or cooking pan over the blaze drop in chunk of seasoning" put the meat in afterward, or the pota toes. or whatever it is to put in, and watch it until it is brown to turn. But that is not preparing meal. Not by any means. It's the headworlx that counts when 1t comes to cooking. It's the know ing what to do and when to do. Where to turn here for this and there for that.
 It is all right, of course. for the men folks to give an exhibition occasionally. Doubtless they, really believe that they actually prepared the meal. But shucks! Think of a man in the kitchen trying to 'set supper
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18
WILLING TO HELP.
From the Provide

From the GfOVlQeilCe JOutHdl
 NNE of the strangest stories of the Il sea, in modern times, is that of O the Greek liner Thessaloniki, now foundered, or a derelict. after ly- ing some hundred miles off our coast for five weeks, wallowing helplessly in the sea or being knocked about by hur ricanes Luckily all hands were saved.
 The skipper who stuck to his ship to the last is hardly entitled to be called hero, though. That term is apt to be abused in our narratives of the sea.
 Thus the captain of the Volturno. ablaze in midocean, was hero" be- cause he remained with his ship until help came; though, in fact there was nothing else for him to do but to work to keep the flames in check, as he found out after more than 100 lives, passengers and crew, has been lost in tuous that cool-headed commander would seemingly have attempted it as a last resort. The case of the Thessa loniki was comparable to that of the million dollar liner which founded off Nantucket, because her captain, after seeing his passengers safe on rescu- ing ship, apparently thought he could make port unassisted and spare his owners the expense of salvage-he was called a hero, too, at the time. Personal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18
HOTEL LOBBIES
Largest Deposits

"Our Christmas club is more popular now than ever and club depositors are seen standing in a long line every day, said Otto Mooney, cashier of the Trad CTS National bank.
 "As for our regular line of business, it has been exceptionally large this winter. Within the last week or two our deposits have touched the highest mark
 "Conditions in Birmingham certainly denote prosperity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18

Greensboro Record: Governor Hen derson is not in anyway responsible for the debts the state owes. Whether you were a Henderson man or not in the last fight in the family, be broaa enough to wish to make success or his administration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18

BEGINNING THE DAY-O Lord, teach me that | am great only as serye, In whatsoever place | a"' high or low, help me to minister not to be ministered unto. But Aoru' teach me that pleasing men may not he serving them. Remind me or one who served best of all and was paid in scourgings and death. In Chrisrs name, Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18

Mobile Register: Russell county has the only woman Jailer in Alabama and in the whole country; and she Is de- scribed by the Girard Journal as active and energetic" She prevented 1all escape last Tuesday. Now, why shoulu- mt the women vote?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18

Choking scenes in film melodramas will never be as blood-curdling as simi- lar scenes on the stage until the versa tile drummer of picture house orches- tra learns how to initiate the noise man makes when he's being throttled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18

The Austrians claim to have captured 800 Montenegrins in a recent assault Montenegro feels the loss of only 300 men more keenly than Russia would feel the loss of 5000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18
THE roNsoRIAL UPL1Fr

From the Mobile Register.
 The barbers of Troy are going to close early Saturdays and not open Sundays, in order to go to Sunday school. Their patrons can now go also.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18

Andalusia Star: The Birmingham Age-Herald suggests "a dozen packing plants for Alabama" If they're all to be as large as the one at Andalusia' Alabama will slaughter all of the live stock raised in the southern states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18

A Los Angeles preacher charges that the moving picture studios of the Pacific coast are immoral Everything else is being investigated. Why not investigate the movie camps?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-18
JUST WAITING.

The snow king rules in Dixieland,
 A wondrous sight to see; Though some extend welcome hand,
 I'll far more happy be When good old Sol, still bright and gay,
 Although quite feeble grown, Drives all these frosty sprites away
 And comes into his own.