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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05
LOYALTY IN MEN AND WOMEN

From "The Point of View in the June
 Scribner.
 As between men and women, leaving out of course the matter of love, men in- stinctively and quite unconsciously stand by each other. Their attitude is, often enough, amusing, but they don't see any, thing humorous in it. Even the small boy of a family, who turns to his mother for sympathy and help when it is an af- fair of cuts and bruises, addresses his serious conversation to the man of the house and is definitely on his side. Wom- en, however, are, as class, perhaps oftener reproached with lack of loyalty to each other than with any other fault.
 Woman has at times been compared, odiously, to the cat. Our essayist tells us that the cat has no herd She has always walked alone,'' while the dog s delightful friendliness and sympathy are of course due to his herd habits" note, in passing, that he uses the femi- nine pronoun for the cat and the mascu- line for the dog. It is his only feminine allusion. It may be, indeed, that the cat and the woman are rather inclined to look at things from the personal point of view. At least that is often affirmed of the woman. But much harder things are said of them both. Woman and cat are alike accused of treachery. Treachery to whom? The cat does not betray her kit tens, nor the woman her own little herd; and even the wider instinct is inimical to alien herds.
 Of course someone is going to remind us of the great womens movements of modern times, and also of the way in which women of all times have been swept along by the mob instinct and have joined in mob violence. Well, as to the mobs, one never said that women had no herd instinct whatever. and we all know that they are emotional. They may join a mob for some reason of per- sonal grievance; the children may lack bread, or even cake. Or they may go along with it from sheer love of excite ment. and the hysterical element in them will do the rest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05
Party Enthusiasm and SpOils

The operation of the civil service law has been extended by every Presi- dent since Cleveland until it now en- braces, besides consular positions, practically all government clerkships, fourth class postmasters and thou sands of other desirable jobs.
 Old-time politicians do not like the change, but the rank and file of those party workers who had yearning fo1 spells have got used to the new way As for the general public it always had leaning to the merit system and the nonpartisan classified list.
 But despite the elimination of muct of the spells there is considerable federal patronage left, and the "plums" are of the large and juicy sort. When a congressman does se' cure one of these offices with large salary attached he stands out ever more prominently than the spells . man of bygone days for the very reason that party patronage is now distressingly scarce, or at least rela lively hard to control.
 Every four years one or the othel of the two great parties, if not both must nominate new man for tht presidency. Genuine patriotism i. found in all parties, and the matter o1 patronage is also dominant factor in all party organizations as whole Nearly all party leaders have theil eyes on the good offices of presidentia appointment, but in year when tn incumbent of the White House is t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05
THE POET PATRIOTS

From the Chattanooga News.
 England's recent experience with the Sim Feiners was a war against poets.
 The leaders of the revolt were poets, dreamers-all intensely devoted to Irish literature and Irish history. Padraic Pearse and Thomas MacDon- agh, first to pay the death penalty, were both intellectuals. Pearse had a school called "St. Edna's," after one of the most illustrious of the ancient Irish saints. Writing to him in the New York Times, another Irish poet. Padraic Colum, says: "He used to say that ours was the first generation that had not striven in battle for Irish free dom"
 In one of Pearse's poems he write: ''The world hath conquered, the wind
 hath scattered like dust
 Alexander. Caesar. and all that
 shared their sway;
 Tara is grass, and behold how Troy
 lieth low
 And even the English, perchance
 their hour will comew
 Jospeh Plunkett, who died with Pearse and MacDonagh in the Dublin revolt, was also a noted Irish poet. He formerly edited the Irish Review. In one of his poems he says. For many live that one may die, and one must die that many live"
 MacDonagh was assistant professor of English at the National University |of Ireland. He, of the three poet-mar- tyrs, had the most developed poetic imagination, according to critics. One who knew him says, Tt was in the same knightly spirit with which he wrote these lines that he went to his death deliberately and calmly, and can think of no better epitaph than his own lines:
 I followed a morning star And stand by the gate of Light
 And child signs my farewell tonight, To the atom things that are.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05
IN SCHOOL DAYS

By John Greenleaf Whittier. Still sits the schoolhouse by the road, A ragged beggar summing. Around it still the sumachs grow,
 And blackberry vines are running. Within, the masters desk is seen,
 Deep scared by raps official; The warping floor. the battered seats,
 The jack-knife's carved initial; The charcoal frescoes on it's wall;
 It's doors worn sill, betraying The feet that, creeping slow to school.
 Went storming out to playing. Long years ago winter sun
 Shone over 1t at setting, Lit up its western windowpanes
 And low caves icy fretting. It touched the tangled golden curls.
 And brown eyes. full of grieving, Of one who still her steps delayed
 When all the school were leaving. For near her stood the little boy
 Her childish favor singled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

American paper manufacturers import ed 12S, 900 tons of rags and 3S0.0Oo tons of
 waste paper in 1913 Since the war in
 Europe started the supply from foreign
 countries has been cut off. with the re-
 suit that the price of all kinds of paper has been advanced, and there will be a still further increase unless more atten- tion Is paid to waste paper and rags in this country. According to a statement of the department of commerce, whose agents have been investigating the sub ject, the present daily consumption of all kinds of paper in the United States is about 15,OO0 tons. It is estimated that about 5000 tons of this paper should be returned to the manufacturers to be worked over again. About 7.S per cent of the fiber used in making paper is com posed of rags, while waste papers, books. magazines and other printed matter form 21.4 per cent. Clean linen rags are used to manufacture high-grade paper. Black and dark red, blue or brown rags are used with light-colored paper stock in making what is known as granite paper. The department of commerce calls the at tention of housekeepers and business firms to the great demand for all forms of waster paper, old magazines, old news papers, books and rags which can ce profitably disposed of. All this material must be kept dry, however, and must be carefully sorted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05
USE CARE IN NAMING BABY

From the Cleveland Press.
 Grown-up folk are sensitive about
 their Christian or given names. More
 especially so, if the name happens to
 be fancy one or one of austers plainness. We know man whose name Is Eli.
 He hates it. We knew a young couple who called their first-born Job. (They have a rich relative who glories in the same name.) We know middle aged fat woman who writhes under the name of Tiny. (Really, can you beat it?) When you name the baby, remember that the name is going to stick for a Lifetime.
 Don't call your baby anything sweet" because your baby will grow up to be big. rugged man or a regu- ular life-sized woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05
A TENDERFoOT IN ASIA
m the Christian Herald.

From the Christian Herald. The great size and stability of the tenn ples at Baalbek inspire confidence in the climber. A stairway leads to the top of the walls-the solid walls of the temple proper-which project for 50 feet above the ground. From the top of the stair way one has fine view of the surround
 ing country. and also of the great stones
 that await one below. AS I was crossing just above the great doorway my foot slipped. It didn't slip more than an inch. But that slip nearly scared me out of a weeks growth of beard that I was
 wearing at the time I looked back at the insignificant gap that I had jumped, and then down at the mass of solid stone below. None of that lace-like stone was in sight. It all looked hard. I trembled so hard that thought I would shake the temple. was on one side of the gap and the only way down was on the other I wanted to get down the worst way. Fall ing off seemed the worst way to get down, but that didn't suit me.
 1 I tried to cross that little gap on my hands and knees and every other way I , could think of, but would just get one | foo. or one hand across the gap when I
 began to conceive liking for the place where I was. Around the outside of the temple runs a little line of molding and five feet above it another. This is above a sheer drop of 50 feet, but went around that molding, or half the distance around the temple, rather than cross the gap which had been but a step until my foot
 slipped. I have since had to undergo the punishment of seeing a woman in a fair iy narrow skirt jump across. but when I come to that gap I am a thorough cow ard. Some day am going back there to force myself across that gap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

His cap pulled low upon a face
 Where pride and shame were mingled. { Pushing with restless feet the snow
 To right and left. he fingered. As restlessly her tiny hands
 The blue-checked apron fingered. He saw her lift her eyes; he felt
 The soft hands light caressing, And heard the tremble of her voice,
 As if fault confessing- I'm sorry that spelt the word;
 hate to go above you. Because-the brown eyes lower fell-
 Because. you see, love you!" Still memory to a gray-haired man
 That sweet child face is showing. Dear girl! The grasse on her grave
 Have forty years been growing. He lives to learn in life's hard school
 How few who pass above him. Lament their triumph and his loss. Like ker-because they love him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05
NOT THAT KIND OF A SKULL

From the Kntckerbocker Press.
 A fourpenny nail. after being nearly 50 years in the head of a gentleman resident in Dawson. Pa.. has come out through the roof of his mouth. When the subject of this interesting experi- ment in metalliferous craniology was IF years old a piece of lumber fell on his head. The wound healed, but an in cessant headache remained, for which medical skill could do nothing. When the bit of iron emerged, the headache ceased.
 Plainly this resident of Dawson, now happily relieved of his 50-year visi- tation, Is not one who believes that million armed Americans. able to sub- due any foe, could spring into the field. prepared for action, between sunrise and sunset Had he been of that type, his head might have yielded spinters and occasional chips, but no amount of spikes driven into it would have caused him the slightest discomfort.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05
EMPEROR JIM
From the Cincinnati Times-star.

Y TOIII IHG OIHCIIIIIdtI T III1tS-OCdI.
 The wild flight of Northern Pacific stock in 1901, when it passed 1000 per cent, was due to the rivalry of two of Americas empire builders, James J. Hill and Edward H. Hartman. They had encountered each other in the territory lying between the Great Northern and Union Pacific systems. Hill had taken over the Burlington system. Harriman's s answer was an attack far into Hills territory, an effort to secure control of the Northern Pacific. That Hartman was not successful was due to Hills formation of the Northern Securities company and the later pro rata dis tribution of the stock. which diluted
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05
Vote for Bond Issues

T am going to vote for all three of the bond issues tomorrow" said Mai Carl Seals yesterday. T think we should have the school facilities which will be pro- vided by the educational bond issue. ' feel that Birmingham is sorely in need of municipal auditorium, and I think we should also have the municipal light plant Even if the light plant should not prove to be the money-maker which the strong advocates of municipal owner ship think it will, it will pay the city in the matter of street lights.
 While s3.0O0,000 sounds like consider able sum of money to us now, the com- missioners have explained how the in- terest can be taken care of without diff ficulty, and as to the principle, past ex- perience shows that in a growing city, that will adjust itself without trouble. As to the $2,O00,000 for schools, I recall that only a little more than 10 years ago, Birmingham city officials and many of the people thought that S20O,000 was an awful large sum to be spent for high school and two grammar schools. With the growth which the city has undergone since that time, $2OO.Oo0 is nothing to us. The same will be true with the S2, 900 ,O0O which it is proposed now to issue for school purposes. Ten or 15 years from now, we will wonder why any of us ever argued that the sum was too large for investment in new facilities.
 ''The stimulus which business would receive at this time from the investment of $3,0O0,000 in construction work and other lines of industry would be won derful stimulus to conditions. and would serve to boost things along very greatly. It is much more important that we do this work now than it will be in two or three years from now. I think it good policy to construct municipal and gov ernment works at times other than the high tide of prosperity. If the bonds are issued now, it will put much money into circulation, will give employment to hun dreds of men in all lines of labor, and will be big impetus to all lines of trade in the city and the district"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

At any rate, London and Berlin agree that there was a naval battle in the North sea. Maybe historians will be able to furnish the correct details some years hence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

The white and yellow races may fight to a finish some day, but the clash will hardly come before the ravages of the present struggle in Europe have been ob- liberated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

St. Louis announces low hotel rates for the democratic national convention, but there will probably be no reduction in the price of cold bottle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

It Is predicted that aerial yachts will Atlantic. The man who dreads nal de mer is willing to await the advent of the aerial yacht.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

The doughty colonel is Just now having an experience that makes him feel at least 10 years younger.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

It is reasingly evident that General Carranza does not know all the ins and outs of diplomacy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05
BEGINNING THE DAY-"Teach

HEGINN1NW
 me today, o my God. that at small task and in small place l can yer pc great. Give me consolation in that glorified company of those wno nave been great in Thy sight, but whom men have never seen. Make me sat- isfied, O Thou Rewarder Of the iai'n- full, to work for Thee ana a"a' Thy recompense. Amen'"-h' M' h'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05
Business Highly satisfactorY

Business conditions are exceptionally satisfactory in many respects, and much | more so than stock market movements indicate,' says Henry CIews in his week. ly business review. There is some dis position to hesitate owing to high prices, war and political uncertainties, also to a closer scrutiny of credit, but this ten dency has not thus far become suffi- ciently pronounced to induce more than
 partial slowing down of activity, which, taking all things into consideration, was somewhat desirable. The war created abnormal conditions in certain directions, and there was serious danger of reckless expansion and speculation unless some form of restraint was imposed. This de- veloped more cautionary spirit among those who assume the initiative; bankers have become more discriminating and merchants are careful not to overstock, while manufacturers are protecting them selves against contingencies with more than ordinary conservatism. In conse- quence there is a widespread optimism throughout. the country mixed with a strong vein of caution.
 This healthy balance between these two forces is one of the best assurances of continued activity. The prosperity of I the United States has undoubtedly been greatly stimulated by the war, especially in the east; but this is only a transitory stimulus which will eventually bring it's own reaction; while far ahead of it in permanent importance is the better sort of prosperity based upon several years
 of big crops, especially the harvest of 1915. The American farmer was never so we'll to-do as today, and west of the Ale ghanies this is still the vital factor in
 business. notwithstanding the rapid de- velopment of industry, and trade in keep ing with growth of population"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

Onward Christian Soldiers is a fine marching song. It is characteristic of most belligerents to think the Lord is on their side.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

Tho political prognosticator who re marks, Tt looks like Wilson and Mar shall," makes a reasonably safe predic tion,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

It is presumed that most of those fe- male politicians in Chicago left their hus- bands at home to look after the poodles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

Britishers think Charley Chaplin vul- gar. There are a great many Americans who hold the same opinion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

Verdun was pushed off the front page by events in the North sea, but the eclipse was only temporary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

General Pershing shows a disposition to stand pat, which is in accordance with the best American traditions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

Preparedness is such a popular subject these days that it requires an excep- tionally bold pacifist to raise his voice in meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

The favorite sons" at Chicago will wait in vain for the lightning to strike. That elusive bolt will avoid them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

Great Britain is still mistress of the seas, but a slight discoloration mars one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

Herr Ballin is right in considering this the most idiotic of all wars. but what is he going to do about it7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-05

T followed a morning star
 And I stand by the gate of Light
 And child signs my farewell tonight, To the atom things that are.'"
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-12-26
BASKET BALL WILL
RESUME. next WEEK
ATHLETIC ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN
SUSPENDED OWING TO
THE HOLIDAYS
wheeling and Iinsly Institute Will
Opeu Seasons Next Week-other
Schools to Play.

Tho re-opening Of the schools Of the
Ohio Valley next Monday Will see re-
sumption of basketball activities. In II
number Of instances the teams ended all
activities Of this nature until AFTER
Christmas but commencing Friday night
Of next week will SEQ the games again
on in full blast Teams of the Wheel
ing district which have not been active
for the past two weeks will start again
it has been announced by the athletic
directors. .....
The basketball season OF the Wheel
ing high school will be formally opened
here Friday night of next week with he
Union High school Of Rcnwood The
Benwood team has already started the
season, winning and losing q game. The
Wheeling team has been at work several
days following the close of the football
season and with few days practice
next week, will be in good condition for
the opening contest.
Triadelph1a to Sistersvil1e.
Friday night, January 5. the Triadcl-
phia District High school basket ball
team will journey to SiSterSyille. where
they will meet the fast 1--WE Of that
place In the opening game Of the season.
Both teams are rivals of last year, and
a game Of interesting features is eN-
pected to result. On the following night
the Pike lads will play at Middlcbournc.
The latter team started the season sew
eral days ago by defeating Moundssville
The Bellaire High school boys and
girls teams will go to ST. Clairsvillc
Friday night after the holidays. Be
tween these two schools there Is much
rivalry.
The Linsly Institute basketball team.
following the close Of successful ser
les Of inter-class games. will open the
season Friday night with the Bridge
port High school team. The Cadets have
been practicing under the direction Of
Coach Holden and arc in good condition
and will need but n few days workout IL
timber up following the end of their
two weeks vacation.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-12-26
LAW COLLEGE AND MODERN
GYMNASIUM ARE PARTlCU-
lARLY DESCRIBED
According To Former Local NewsPa-
per Man Who Is Now Manager
OF Football Affairs At The
Biz Institution

The more pressing need o: West
Virginia University al present IS To-
new buildings, and particularly for a
new and separate building for the col
lege Of law, according 10 Lloyd L.
EneiX. former local newspaper man,
new and separate building for the col
manager OF the football teams for next
season. Mr.. EnriX is .;perdlng the
holiday vacation here. and yesterday
in speaking c. conditions al the state $
highest educational institution, he said
that mar" university buildings are
now crowded TO The point OF congestion
owing to the increase in enrolment
which has been almost phenomenal IN
the past few years.
An upto.date gymnasium is also
greatly needed. according TO Mr..
EneiX.
The increase In enrolment al West
Virginia University in the past two
years has been almost phenomena,
Mr.. Eneix said. Three years ago the
number of resident students was but
little more than 600. This year 1t IS
far above the one thousand mark anu
900 Of this increase was made at the
opening Of the present college year.
There were between 100 and 800 stu
dents enrolled in 1856, 1t seems
that the people OF West Virginia are
just beginning 10 realize that the STATE
has and maintains first grade uni
versity within It's limits AMI are send
ing their boys and girls there rather
than TO universities outside the state
where the advantages are no better
and in many cases not so GOOD. IL is
not unlikely that the enrolment next
year will be more than 1900.
Law College Crowded.
"At present the most pressing need
of the University is that for new
buildings, and particularly for new
and separate building for the college OF
law. Plans have been completed and
appropriations secured for the con-
structon Of new woman's hall and a
new agriculture building. but as yet
work has not been started on these
buildings. II will be necessary 10 have
these buildings ready for occupancy
before the opening Of the 1918 term.
or there will be congestion in all build.
jugs and departments even worse than
there is at present. A new medical
building and 4 new engineering build
ing have been completed during the
past two years. and these buildings are
now in use. If the coming legislature
will only make an appropriation pro.
riding for the construction Of new
building for the college Of law, and the
people Of Morgantown will put up
some more houses. which they are
planning 10 do, for the housing Of stu
dents. the University will be In fair
way for few years so far as build
ings are concerned. However, if the
enrolment keeps increasing at the