The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-22

and having the commissions prepared without consulting him. He still att taches his signature to all presiden- tial commissions, but even this duty would be delegated to a rubber stamp but for the sentiment connected with it. Every postmaster feels all the prouder of hanging his commission on the office wall when he knows it is hand-signed by the chief of his politi- cal party.
 But reverting to Woodrow Wilson's habit of toll it is safe to assume that he will be known in history for his hard working propensity without showing fatigue.
 T HE national prohibition party, | which never polls enough votes to be reckcned with, used to hold short and quiet conventions, but this year at St. Paul it was different. Eu- gene Chafin, twice a presidential can- didate and the most aggressive leader
 among the faith Infused Spirit ful adherents of Into Convention the cause, deter
 mined to infuse life into the party's quadrennial pro- ceedings and obtain a large measure of publicity. If he encouraged sensa- tional and tumultuous methods it was because, as he expressed it, he was tired of running "these conventions" like Sunday schools.
 When the St. Paul convention ad- journed yesterday it had been in ses- sion nearly a week. In the pre-con- vention conferences MT. Chafin pro- posed presidential ticket headed by Henry Ford, but the noted paciflst failing to take to the idea, the leaders put William Sulzer, the deposed gov ernor of New York, in the running. Chain presented Sulzer's name to the convention, but it aroused little en- thusiasm. Ex-Governor Hanly of Indiana was nominated for President and the Rev. Dr. Ira D. Landrith of Tennessee for vice president.
 The largest popular vote ever boiled by the prohibition party was in 1904 when Silas Swallow received a total of 258, ,536. It dropped to 207, ,873 in 1912 when Chafin ran the second time. It is probable that still smaller vote will be boiled next November. rIME was when the actor was little
 better than vagabond and was glad to have a clean shirt on his back. His plight in those days contrasts sharply with the opulence enjoyed by the modern Thespian.
 It is no new thing for actors to live we'll and even luxuriously, but the
 thrifty actor, Modern Actors Who with large Are Well-to-Do fortune at his
 disposal, one or two homes and all the other attributes of a substantial citizen, is compara- lively a modern development. There are said to be thousands of players in this country who are rich, and the number is being added to with sur prising rapidity, particularly among those who have gone into moving pic ture work.
 According to New York corre- spondent. some of the stars now in the class are David Warfield, estimated to be worth $1,50O, O,OOO; William H. Crane, $75O,OOO; William s7OO,OOO; Edgar Selwyn, s7oo, ,OOO; Chauncey Oleatt, $5O0,o0O; George M. Conan, $500, ,oOo; May IT, yin, s5OO,OOOi John Drew, $SoO,ooo; Otis Skinner, E. H. sothern and frank Daniels also have no difficulty In laHng both ends meet.
 It is rather surprising that the ln- MT. Conan, with his nu- nerous stage pieces that were sue .essful, his song royalties and his ac- ,ivities as manager, has accumulated comparatively modest fortune of half a million, only third as large as that of David Warfield. However, MT. Cohan has the reputation of being a good spender," while MT. Warfield is not only one of the thriftiest men in his profession, but also has a leaning toward the simple life. war with Mexico seemed WV imminent every army officer dreamed of promotion, and the higher his grade the greated might have been his expectancy of attaining more dis rank. But now that a
 bloody conflict be- Dream of High tween this country