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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-22

troops passed through several cities in
which it was impossible to purchase
cigarettes as the dealers were forbidden
to sell them to anyone, irrespective of
age.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
Bryan the MarplOt

William Jennings Bryan cannot pre- vent President Wilson's nomination but he will strive to cause his defeat at the polls in November.
 As the head of the state depart ment Bryan was not only misfit, but his bungling handicapped the ad- ministration to very serious extent, and since quitting the cabinet, al- though protesting friendship for the President, his attitude toward his former chief has been characteristical- | ly sinister.
 His taking sides against the Presi- dent in the congressional agitation over a grave and delicate diplomatic situation is what might have been expected. Years ago, before MT. Bryan's vanity and weaning sell fishness-his dog -the-manger man. estations-became so glaring, the Nebraskan was the idol of large section of the democratic party. But in the light of recent events it is well nigh inconceivable that any loyal democrat would follow him in his cum ming and unpatriotic devices.
 Embittered because he is no longer able to command the party support that made him a potential factor in the conventions of former years, it is evident that he will be ready to give aid and comfort to the republican party.
 Mir. Bryan's latest public act will make friends for the President and will estrange from the self-seeking politician some of those who still be- lieved in him. All well ordered men abhor a marplot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
THE OARSMEN


 
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
rhe NeMspaper Club

Friday mornings announcement that at special meeting of the members. the constitution of the Birmingham News paper club had been so amended that associate members were to be given the full prerogatives hitherto enjoyed only by the active membership is of much significance" remarked Dr. Howell T. Heflin.
 Tt brings to mind the fact that tne interest and support of the associate membership of the great club has been expressed in such a loyal manner that this latest courtesy has been extended as reward for effort in behalf of the Birmingham institution. And it will fur ther demonstrate the fact that business men and newspaper men can work to- gether in harmony in promoting the well fare of the club
 As a natural result of the new rules adopted renewed interest will be thrown into the activities of the souths great est press club and it's position as center of influence in civic affairs will become even more pronounced than ever. Birmingham could i'll afford to spare its show place at the top of the south's tall est building, and indeed, it will not dc so, for so long as the spirit of progress reigns, there will remain a pride in this unique and splendid organization. Watch the growth of the Newspaper club in the near futurel"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
Promise of Building Activity

The outlook for building activity in Birmingham this year is very bright. Contracts for the free dispensary, science hall at Birmingham college on Owenton hill, and other handsome structures have been awarded and plans are being perfected for several large buildings that will be in course of erection within the next few months.
 It is understood that bids for the foundation of the million dollar fed eral building will be asked for in July and beginning on this long needed improvement will give an inn petus to the real estate market and will greatly accelerate Birmingham's building operations.
 Let's have an early start on the city's proposed auditorium. With the building work already in sight and in contemplation the inauguration of practical auditorium plans would further accentuate the coming of a solid building boom.
 As The Age Herald pointed out sev- eral days ago, if Birmingham needed an auditorium three years ago when the people voted by an overwhelming majority for the issuance of bonds for that purpose, it needs it much more today. And the city can as well afford to provide one now as next year or the year after next.
 The national convention of the Fed eration of Music Clubs is to assemble here April 15, 1917. for ten days session. A great musical festival will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
HEROES OF SAFETY

rom l4eSiiS $.
 Safety The safety first" propaganda is making such progress in this country that in time Americans may no longer be noted for heedlessness in the matter of personal security At the recent dinner of the American Museum of Safety in New York, President Arthur Williams stated that six railroads were operated during the past year without the loss of a single life and two roads reported that no em- poyes or passengers were even injured in any train accident. On II street rail- ways nobody was killed in train acci- dents, and only three roads had fatalities in their industrial departments.
 This remarkable record is in great con- trast with the fact that 35 persons were killed in the streets of New York in one month The difference, of course is largely due to the earnest efforts of the carrier companies to safeguard their pa irons and their employees, and the latter s more careful attention to protective reg ulatons. One reason for the spread of the movement was in evidence at the dim ner referred to. Medals were there awarded to railroads and employees re- garded as the years champion promoters of safety. The Anthony N. Brady beau- tiful memorial gold medal for the electric street railway which best conserves safe ty of public and employees and it's silver and bronze replicas went to the Union Traction company of Indiana, the bronze medal being given to one of the em- ployes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
HOW JAPAN PLAYS POLITICS

Charlton Bates Strayer in Leslie s.
 If looks as if Japan is taking advan-
 tage of the war to play for position. She
 Is the ally of Great Britain and has
 scrupulously lived up to the terms or
 the treaty in rendering aid to her ally
 in the war, but Japan has plans of her
 own to dominate Asia. If Germany were
 to win the war. Japan would have the victor to reckon with. If Great Britaln' her ally, were to emerge clearly VIC torious, her jealousy of Britain's grow ing power in the Orient would be en- hanced Very significant, therefore, IS the outburst of criticism of the alliance with Great Britain in the Japanese press. | All conclude that the alliance is harm 1 full to Japan. Prof. Masutaro Niita, of | the Imperial university, urges that Japan's responsibility arising out of the l alliance is greater than that of Eng land. and that at the present time Eng l land is using the treaty as club to I beat Japan Japan says Prof. Tongyu Tatebe, also of the Imperial university stands for loyalty and justice; Germany for loyalty and justice; England for sel- fishness and disloyalty." "The economic value of the alliance with Great Britain, says Prof. Tatsuke Negase, a historian attached to the army department, may be judged from the fact that Englano ] classes the Japanese race with the colored
 races and excludes the Japanese from
 her colonies.' Japan plans to be the dominant power in the east; and is sus-
 picious of any nation. that disputes that l claim,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
May the Best Team Win

Much interest is centered around The Age-Heralds announcement that athletic relations between the Birmingham Ath- letic club and the Young Mems Chris tian association of this city are soon to be resumed" remarked J T. Hardwick of Birmignham.
 There has been much progress in re- cent months in the athletic endeavors of both organizations, and those who desire to participate in the different events must come up to high standard to be eligible. The basketball teams of both the Young Mems Christian association and the Athletic club have this year emerged victorious from several hard fought battles both at home and in other cities, and the event which has been ar ranged for between the two local aggre- gations is expected to be full of hotly contested scrimmages.
 ''As one Age-Herald writer remarked the two institutions might well be likened to colleges whose members are to play for the alma mater. There are certainly many college graduates enrolled in the membership of both organizations, and l think that I am not exaggerating when I say that the organization spirit is as strong as is the much exploited college spirit May the best team win, but let no bad feeling be engendered by an over anxiety for victory's laurels."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 The average American will feel that John Bull is playing it low" upon the North American Indian when he calls the aborigine into his European quarrel
 Both the French and the English used the Indians freely in warfare when the United States was wilderness. But the Indians were then the lords of a great part of the soil. They are nowadays on reservations. The spectacle of an emis- sary of the government of Ontario visit ing a Canadian Indian reservation-Wal- pole Island-to tell the red subjects of the King Emperor that they are needed in European battlefelds is not inviting or
 inspiring.
 The Indians of Canada are not nu- merous Their blood will be but a drop in the bucket if it is shed for Great Britain in faraway country in which the Indians can have no interest, and in cause of which they can have no con ception.
 It has looked since the wars begin ming as if the English want everyone, and anyone, to do their fighting for them. While 'Slackers' by the thousand, who ought to be glad to shoulder rifles and flock to the colors, are staying at home among the women in England, the Pro- vincial Secretary of Ontario, with much ado, plans a formal visit to Walpole Is- land to enlist a mere handful of reserva- l tion Indians.
 Respect for Great Britain on this side of the Atlantic will not be increased by
 this latest reflection of the British dis position to let George do it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
HOLLAND DRINKS MOST COFFEE

From the Kansas City Star.
 The people of the world annually con sume more than 2,500,000, GOO pounds of cof- fee Enough to load a train of cars reach ing from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. Three fourths of this is grown in Brazil, a country that has become rich from it's coffee industry alone. Europe and North America bear approximately the same re- lation to the consumption of coffee that Brazil does to it's production, these two continents using nearly four-ffths of all the coffee the world produces
 Holland is the greatest coffee drinking nation on the globe. It uses 15A pounds per capita annually, while we use nine and one-half pounds; Germany five and one-eighth pounds; Austria Hungary, two and two-fifths pounds and the United Kingdom, two-thirds of a pound On the other hand we use less than one pound of tea per capita, where the United Kingdom uses nearly seven pounds. Can ada is about two-thirds English and one third American in it's use of coffee and tea, but drinks less of it than the mother country, making up the difference with coffee. The Germans and the Austrians use only negligible quantity of tea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
A MARRIAGE GRAFT
c New York Herald.

rom lic NSW lOkh IiStdlds
 For the first time in 20 years the fates have turned on Abraham Oppenheimer, Brookyn's most distinguished and wealthy office boy" Apparently they did little more than turn. for after es-
 tablishing the probability that Oppen- heimer derived a golden harvest from accelerating the marriage of Brooklyn couples they managed to evolve recom- mendation to Mayor Mitche that the in-
 come he eliminated by abolishing the Brooklyn marriage chapel' now operat- ing in the Borough hall. The mayor has been asked to place the marrying busi- ness across the river on the same basis as recently was accomplished in the over
 flow of the wedding monopoly that ex-
 lsted in the city hall. Marrying now is
 done free of charge in the city clerk office.
 Oppenheimer. according to his own ad- mission, has gone gayiy on providing double harness for Brooklyn couples de- spite the fact that he is not a city em- ploye and never has been.
 The net result of a long investigation pv Leonard M Wallsten, commissioner of accounts, was an estimate that since 1898 Oppenheimer has been marrying couples at rate of about seven a day and at an average income to hlm of S. &
 a couple. Allowing for "days off," suci as Sundays now and then and periods when business has been slack. MT. Wall
 stein estimates Oppenheimer income tt have been approximately 5000 annually.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
As to Owen Mister

Readers of popular fiction will re- call that Owen Mister is chiefly known to fame as the author of "The Virginian," although he has written other books of merit and was con- sidered until recently a man whose literary pretensions were well found- ed. However, in an unguarded mo- ment-it would be more kindly to SUD- pose that he suffered from tempor- arv mental aberration-Mr. Mister dropped into verse and wrote scur rilous rhyme about President Wilson, which is not only in extremely bad taste, but is such drivel that the won der is how a man who is usually re- ferred to in the public prints as distinguished author" could have written it. The piece has no literary merit in itself and abuses the chief executive of the nation in style more befitting a cheap politician than man of MT. Wister's attainments.
 Not content with having composed his "hymn of hate,' MT. Mister added to his offense by sending it to a newspaper, with the expressed wish that it might thereby obtain the widest possible circulation. Nothing quite equal to this composition, in discreditable way, has appeared in the American press for long time. Even Mir. Kipling would hardly go any fur ther in denouncing the Kaiser, whom he has much more reason to hate than Mr. Mister has to hate the President.
 The Mister attack has reacted on himself. He did himself an extremely bad turn when he perpetrated his de- famatory verses. Perhaps the most fitting answer that could be made would be simply to reproduce the lines and let the author be judged by his own performance. But that, after all, would be too great an infliction on the reader.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
AN OLD SCOTCH JUDGE

From the New York Telegram.
 The Scotch Lord Justice Clerk Esk- grove had peculiarities which were inten- sified by most remarkable pronuncia- tion.
 One day he had to sentence some house. breakers, and began by expalining the va rious crimes of which they had been con victed He then reminded them that they had attacked the house and robbed it.. and so worked gradually up to the climax
 "All this you did, and, God preserve us, joost when they were settin down to their denner!'
 Another time he had to sentence man to death for murdering a soldier.
 Not only" said the judge, did you murder him, whereby he was berea-ved of his life, but you did thrust, or push. or pierce, or propel the leth-all weapon through the bellyband of his brooches. which were his majesty's."
 And there must have been something
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26

be held in connection with the con ve''.'o:: and a hall with a. seating ca- pacity of 1000 or 5000 will be re- quired for the occasion.
 If work on an auditorium is begun this spring, the building can be fin ished in time for the music clubs con- vention. There should be no unneces- sary delay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
MORE AwAKENINGs.

My love lies dreaming in her bed, But very soon she'll get shock; For mother, standing by her head, Is yelling, Say, it's nine o'clock" ala A@a EAHa Youngstown Telegram. My love lies dreaming in her bed, But, gee, it won't take any shock To get her started raising "Ned''- Cause I've been out till two o'clock.
 Geneva Free Press Times. My love lies dreaming in her bed, The house throbs with her gentle snore; I wonder what she'll say, when she Has to come let me in the door.
 Houston Post. My love lies dreaming in her bed A sight that does me good to see; Some nasty words she might have said, Had she sat up to wait for me.
  great about a judge who was in the habit of thus demolishing prisoners defense: And so, gentlemen, having shown you that the panels argument is totally inn possib-ill, shall now proceed to show you that it is extremely improbab-ill.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
spring Trnde ontIook

T am planning to start on tour of my territory-Alabama, Georgia and a small part of Tennessee-early in March, and I have every reason to think will find business good in most of the places I visit" said Hugh M. Brown, the shoe factory agent.
 ''In some of the black belt counties of Alabama the boil weevil did serious damage last year, but many of the farm CTS who lost 50 to 75 per cent of their cotton raised big corn crops and are not so bad off as they otherwise would have been. In northern Alabama and in the wiregrass country first rate business con- ditions are reported. From all accounts, farmers and merchants in the upper part of this state are in exceptionally good shape. I have encouraging reports from Georgia and excellent reports from Ten neSsee''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
Forrest Highway to Mobile

GOTI6Sb AIlSHNdy NV The good roads movement in Ala Ibama has been greatly stimulated by suirit of emulation which causes one county or section to vie with an- other in the matter of highway con struction. Last year witnessed the improvement of more road mileage than any previous year and indica- tions point to even a better record III I1916
 The Jackson highway contest has resulted in wonderful strides in the southern part of the state and by October next, when the scout commit tee will make it's final tour of inspec- tion for the purpose of recommending the route between Nashville and New Orleans, the decision is almost sure to be in favor of the Alabama rather than the Mississippi route.
 Our neighboring state has been very active in road building with view of winning the award, but Alabama has been busy, too; and while Mississippi will offer a long stretch of excellent roadbed. our state will have the smoothest and best built highway, and in addition to that it has much scenery of surpassing beauty, to say nothing of cities of more than ordinary interest and attractiveness, through which the proposed line passes.
 Another road of historic and popu- | lar distinction is the Forrest high way, originally projected from Rome, Ga, to Birmingham, but which is to be extended to Mobile.
 Last summer when the Forrest road movement was proposed it was taken up and pushed with enthusiasm and in a few months time this important highway-120 miles-was practically completed. At Rome it connects with the Dixie highway for Atlanta. To- day it is one of the most travelee roads in the south. It will be ex- tended ultimately from Birmingham to Memphis over one of the proposed Warrior river roads, but already wig orous effort is being made to have this Forrest highway extended iron Birmingham by the way of Montgom cry to Mobile.
 The Forrest highway meeting helt at Brewton Thursday was attended b. State Engineer Keller and larg' humber of representative citizen from various counties interested in tn proposition.
 ! The road between Birmingham am
 Montgomery is in prime condition. 1
 is in fact one of the best highways il
 the south. And that being so, no much expense will be involved i
 building to the gulf either throug
 Luverne, Andalusia and Brewtor
 Greenville, Georgiana, Evergreen an
 Brewton, or Fort Deposit and Monroe
 vile. The counties that were repre- . sented at the Brewton meeting wer Baldwin, Escambia, Conecuh, Butler
 Monroe, Covington, Mobile and Mont
 gomery.
 The outlook for the completion of
 Forrest highway road to Mobile b next fall or winter is bright indeed
 The Forrest Highway association ha
 the habit of doing first-class work an
 doing it expeditiously.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
CAUSE AND EFFECT.

People in this town must buy great many shoes remarked the visitor.
 why do you think so?" asked the old resident. a 1T see so many persons with what ap- pear to be boxes of shoes under their arms.
 "oh those are packages of liquor re- ceived from the express office and re- formers will tell you they explain why so many children hereabouts don't wear shoes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
Prennredness sentIment Groming

There is a very strong sentiment in the east in favor of national preparedness, and I am told by friends in close touch with the west that 1t is much stronger in that section than it was month or two ago. said W. W. Randall of New York.
 Many of my republican acquaintances say that the administration's national defense programme does not go far enough. They want the country to main tain standing army of 50O,00O or more. I think Congress will dispose of the army question by providing for regular es- tablshment of 175,OOO or 100000 men and a federalized National Guard.
 T used to run across a good many pacihsts, but those apostles of unpre- paredness seem to be lying low now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
EFFETE TEXAS

From the Kansas City Star.
 A Beeville, Tex, woman gives thrill ing account of how mad horse, with flaming eyes and foaming mouth, came and stood at the foot of her bed. New England formerly was the home of ths mince pie and the plum pudding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26
OUT OF HIS ELEMENT.

T like to meet people on equal ground, " said the precise individual.
 So do T." answered the low-browed person, but what are you going to do when fellow insists on quoting lot of old fogies who made speeches 1000 years ago?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-26

BEGINNING THE DAX-O my God, may | be willing in the day oi rby power. May I be willing to have ny tears stanched. May be willing to quit and to hate my sin. May | be willing to be enlarged and purI- fled and used. And may l know that this very day is the day of Thy power. In Cbrist's name. Amen.-H' M. F..