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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
Must Humanize Government

Solicitor Hugo l.. Black stated yester-
 day that while the entire industrial world
 was undergoing a change of ideals in that it was now considered the proper thing to treat a workingman on equal terms with a piece of machinery, the humanlza- ton processes were working very slow
 with governments.
 For instance, in the prosecution of law
 vlolators," said MT. Black, "a fellow changes his viewpoint almost continuously
 until his sympathy is always with the
 under dog.
 When l first was elected prosecutor and after serving on the bench as city
 recorder for several years, l was under the impression that law violators owed debt to society which they must pay by a prison sentence or suffer other punish ment. It is now my opinion from close in- vestigation that the reverse of this is true. That it is society that owes a debt to the criminal, in that 1t is the duty of society to look out for the welfare of individuals and where a man falls into error it is clear that the beneficial influences of society have not reached this particular individual. What Is needed is not so much punishment as the spreading of ed- ucation on the meaning of citizenship"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
Lumber Active

'The lumber industry has been the greatest aid to the people of the agricul- tural section in west Alabama in over coming the losses caused by the boil weevil and the floods of last July" said E. L. Dodson. prominent attorney of Tuscaloosa, who, was here yesterday. Necessity forced many of the farmers to sell timber which they had been hold ing for many years. This. in turn, re- suited in great demand for labor and many of the tenants of farmers gained employment in cutting the timber The teams which otherwise would have been idle were utilized in hauling the timber to the mills and the railroads. In Tusca- loosa and some of the other counties in west Alabama large sums of money have been put into circufation through tha lumber business lately"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
Graphite Fields

Clay county is experiencing splendid prosperity because of the development of the graphite fields,'' said D. H. Riddle, a prominent attorney from Talladega, who was in Birmingham yesterday. Com panies for the development of the graph ite lands are being formed every few days and large amounts of money have been put into this business. The hotels at Ashland and other towns in Clay coun- ty are filled to overfiowing almost every night in the week with people who are making investigations of conditions with view to investing in graphite lands. The bank deposits of that county have taken a tremendous jump due to the ex- cessively high prices which the people are receiving from outsiders for their lands
 'I understand that the railroads have discovered that graphite. mixed with oil and waste. makes the very best packing for the boxes on cars The old plan of using oil and waste has never been very satisfactory and has cost millions of dol lars in hot boxes and ruined brasses. This fact that the output of all the graphite mines In east Alabama can be sold ct a high figure for the next five years. The rush to Clay and the other counties hav- ing graphite beds Is not unlike the gold fever of many years ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17

in their catalogues rather than using book paper which has reached fabulous prices.
 But whatever be the reason, there is undoubtedly shortage of news print pa- per in the country. and hundreds Of small papers-especiany the weeklies- have had to cease publication.
 One great New York newspaper is so short of paper that 1t offered last week million dollars profit to a concern that had recently bought a large paper mill in New York. The owners refused to sell on the ground that at the present price of paper they could pay for the mill within year.
 Chicago newspaper was forced to pay six cents a pound at the mill for 4OOo tons of paper to tide it over short period.
 Newspaper owners are begging and their agents to get them paper at any price in order to keep running.
 I never thought the day would come when, with real money and fabulous prices, I would have to beg almost on pended knees to get paper.
 It makes one feel like a babe in the woods, and that the newspaper business is not always a joy.
 The Age-Herald may be reduced in size, by eliminating lot of syndicate matter and elaborate articles, but it will appear every day with the cream of all the news and will be a better, if not a bigger newspaper.
 By the way, the German bankers Of the Wall street element had their in- hing in New York during the past week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
General NivelIe
 Mam of the Hour

Man of GEac E10e1r
 TATE and his own efforts enabled J General Nivelle to win what is heralded by the French as a brilliant victory on the eve of assuming com mand of all French armies on the western front.
 General Joffre's successor thus be- gins his new duties under favorable auspices, hailed as the man of the hour in Paris. While the latest stroke of the French is gain in distance of only two miles, as the war is being fought along the western front that is a noteworthy advance. The capture ot approximately nine thousand troops and a large number of guns is also re- ported,
 As a rule, the victories" claimed by the allies in this sector amount to but little. In this case, however, General Nivelle has advanced to within a short distance of the position occupied by the Germans when the drive on Verdun began. Furthermore, te the sanguine Parisians he appears the great deliverer who has been long awaited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
Demand More Attention

stated yesterday that his Saturday after moons and evenings are now always oc- cupied with preparations for his Sunday school lesson the following morning:
 The time was," said Judge Smith when I could romp into my Sunday school class and tell those bullies most anything from my fund of experiences but the worm has turned in that the class now demands an intelligent discourse on the subject at hand. It Is in the prepara- ton of these discourses that my time is now taken up on Saturday afternoons and evenings"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
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ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
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THE H. c. OF L. The high cost of living This lesson doth teach; A turk" for Thanksgiving Is out of my reach.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Over this coming meal In worry toss; How empty I'll feel Without cranberry sauce.
 Peoria Journal. And two plunks bush For spuds. Oh. gee whizl Won't somebody tell us f@ Why Thanksgiving is?
 Houston Post. The high cost of living Gets many hard slams We'll have for Thanksgiving Georgia porker and yams,
 Savannah Press. The high cost of living Is tough, we contend; But our Thanksgiving dinner we'll take with a friend.
 Walton Tribune. Thanksgiving is gone, Christmas comes-you old sinner, Guess you'll now sing song For a big Christmas dinner.
 Savannah Press.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
IN THE VALLEY OF CAUTERETS

By Lord Tennyson. All along the valley. stream that flasheth
 white, Deepening thy voice with the deepening
 of the night, All along the valley where thy waters
 flow, walked with one I loved two and 30
 years ago.
 day, The two and 30 years were mist that
 rolls away For all along the valley. down the rocky
 bed < Thy living voice to me was as the voic{
 of the dead, And all along the valley by rock and
 cave and tree, The voice of the dead was living voice
 to me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17

benefactions aggregated something like $3O2,OOo,OO0; and in 1914 when depression prevailed during the last half of the year the total of donations was about $310,OO0, ,0O0.
 As this has been boom year it is reasonable to assume that big gifts have been more numerous than ever. While the munificent benefactions come from multimillionaires thou sands are in modest sums that go to swell the total. It will not be long before it reaches the billion mark. Among the recent gifts reported is one | of $500,000 from John D. Rockefellow to the Young Women's Christian as- Isociation, and one, said to amount to $750,000, from II. c. Prick to Prince ton university for founding and en- dowing department of music. Many princely gifts have been made by wealthy Jews, notably that distin- guished philanthropist, Jacob Schiff. In addressing his troops the other day Emperor William is said to have made a "warlike gesture" which produced fierce smile on the faces of his men" It was probably the sort of gesture that goes with "Gott strate England" A celebarted violinist was hurt in an automobile accident the other day and re- porters were careful to state that his hands were not injured, still, if he had broken his neck, his hands would not have been of any further use to him. A woman accuses Oliver Osborne" Of defrauding her out s2sOO by posing as a friend of John D. Rockefeller. Before giving him that money. she ought to have tried him out in a game of golf According to the latest reports, English newspapers are "calmly discussing peace proposals" The use of the adverb calm ly'' in this instance is both significant and encoura ging
 English engineers profess to think zep- pelins are clumsily constructed, but nat urally it is hard for them to see the good points of anything made in Germany Washington newspaper correspondents should use the 'buzz" system to warn them whenever Colonel House is headed toward the White House. According to Paris dispatches. Joffre has painful to be kicked upstairs as down in case like that. 
 Despite the scarcity of4eather, fathers in some parts of the country are still ap- plying the strap in the woodshed with unabated vigor. "The Old Homestead" is popular price" attraction now. which means that it will soon be time to shelve "The Old Homestead"
 Switzerland, who showed a willingness to let the belligerents fight 1t out, is equally averse to taking part in peace argument.
 Parisians may be able to worry along without absinthe, but novelists who write stories about Paris night life will miss it sorely.
 venizelo's first name means Deliver er," but he seems to be having the dick ems of time delivering the goods to the allies.
 * Guardsmen along the border complain of scarcity of girls.( Wives and sweet hearts back home won't object to that % &
 Emperor Charles of Austria is popular with his people At any rate, they can't blame him for getting them into war
 
 The New England mill hand who lives on 80 cents week, never spends any of his time dickering with garage men
 
 | The nerve of that william, Villa offer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
HARD WORK BEFORE THEM.

At this time of year one naturally meets with a great many optimists." Quite true. Still, I detect slight tendency toward pessimism in persons who have agreed to dress up in padded garments, put on long whiskers and play Santa Claus around Christmas trees"
 
 for this season of the year. I believe that there will be few Christmasless fam flies in Birmingham. this year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
A TEST OF SKILL.

Have you learned how to drive your new carr"
 Well" replied the amateur motorist' q am able to get about in it, but judg- ing from the mingled contempt and pity with which traffic policemen regard me when I try to extricate myself from traffic jam, I still have great deal to learn.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
Flourishing in Etewah

s. D. Sharp, county commissioner or Etowah county. was in Birmingham yes terday
 "Gadsden is still booming said MT Sharp, "but I guess so many Etowah vis- itors tell you that, that 1t is getting to be an old story. Things are really in fine shape in our section. however. New con- struction work is keeping lot of people busy and strange as it may seem, one Of Gadsden's problems just now is to supply enough houses for the people who want to rent them."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17

BEGINNING THE DAY-I thank Thee, o God, that ThOu mskest me unhappy when I do wrong. Make me ever more sensitive, that when sin even in smallest measure my pain may bring me back to phee' May I never grow calious enoush Ia s,r without suffering. In Christ's name. Amen.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
pccrease of sufferlng

Tt is gratifying to note the decrease in suffering among the poor of Birminr- ham this year. as compared with last year., said Dr. Fl. M Edmonds Last year was besieged with calls from peo- pie hunting work. I am glad to say that this condition does not exist this year. Of course. have many calls this year. but they are few and far between
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
COMPREHENSIVE.

V T understand you have bought set of Shakespeare's works" "Yes." replied MT. Dubwaite, loftily. "A complete set" And a glossary, too. I presume?" "oh, yes, yes, In fact, everything Shakespeare wrote"
 BEAUTY FOR SALE. A rare and radiant creature
 Her like is seldom seen;
 Her friends all say she ought to
 Become a movie queen.
 For fame as well as dollars
 She doesn't seem to care And so she plans to marry
 An aged millionaire.
 CHANGED CONDITIONS. ''Who wrote that song entitled, All Dressed Up and No Place to Coz" "I don't remember but it wouldn't apply to present conditions" 'No?"
 There is always somewhere to go now adays, regardless of one's sartorial mag nificence. since fashionable folk began putting on evening clothes and going to the mo1ies.''
 EASILY DISCOURAGED. '.Have you abandoned your plan for car ryng out a political career?" 'Yes," replied the defeated candidate. 'The other fellow appropriated all my policies. I'm going to walt until law Is passed enabling a candidate to coyp- right his own campaign thunder"
  ITpitad Statee will soon be in a position
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17

III blows the wind that profits no AoSv. Henry VI.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17

The explanation is that the great ma jority of the Canadian wood cutters have enlisted in the English army, and that the wood pulp of Canada, from whence the great majority comes, has been cut in half.
 Another explanation is that the great mail order houses of Chicago have bought up the news print supply to use
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17

0HAvE been a newspaper man since
 I left college, a mere boy, and be-
 gan setting type on the Augusta Chronicle at the munificent salary of $1.50 a week. I loved to set type; loved the work afterwards as a reporter, and as stelegraph editor and city editor, and l was much pleased with my nine years experience in Washington as newspaper correspondent; still better pleased when I became editor and principal owner of The Age Herald. I have thoroughly en- joyed my nineteen years experience in Birmingham and my annual spring visits to New York to attend the Associated Press meetings, and my fall visits to New York to make paper contracts.
 For the full nineteen years. representa- tives of the several paper companies have called upon me and importuned mo to buy paper from them.
 I have been to New York three times in the past three weeks, and have each time found my old friends of the paper trade all wearing the same pleasant smiles they did when begging me to buy paper from them at $.sO hundred pounds, but patronizingly saying, 'old fellow, we can't get anybody pound for less than five and half at the mill, and can only get short supply at that. We are selling to little papers in small lots at prices from nine to ten cents pound"
 The explanation is that the great ma
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
EASILY DISCOURAGED.

United States will soon be in position to have the entire world barterlng TOT it's goods"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
Beuaesaceior1s in
 Current Year

M s vast a sum as benefactions in 6N the United States totaled in 1915-about s512, o,o0o-the record this year will be still higher.
 Many of the large amounts donated to educational, religious and humane institutions have not been made pub lie, but the New York World Almanac makes a feature of collecting and tabulating the facts, and it is believed that the forthcoming edition will show total of gifts considerably above $500, ,000,000 The amount has in- creased Steadily year by year. Even in 1913 when there was only moder- ate degree of prosperity the reported
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
PAUL COOK.

the good gifts he has carried since the star of the east stood over the manager. Back to the east. where Christmas be- gan, the ship shall bear the ambassa- dor of Christmas--a ship of the United States navy--that for the helpless and the despajring a new star of Bethlehem may rise at the dawn of better day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
Kaiser's s Defender
Dies While LecGWrimg

Dies While LecGWTlmg
 IIUGO MUNsTERBERG, profes- 4 J sor of psychology at liar ward university, who died yesterday while delivering lecture at Rad cliffe college, enjoyed an international fame long before the war in Europe began, but his utterances since that time made him the most roundly abused college professor in the coun- try.
 It was but natural that he should have attempted to defend the German cause, being himself one of the most noted German scientists and scholars of his day and close friend of the Kaiser, but he brought down on his head a storm of criticism. He was re- garded by many as one of the most rabid "hyphenates" in the country, although this was not justified by any, thing he said or did. Harvard stuck by him nobly, and it must ever rebound to the r-mindedness of that institu- tion that Professor Munsterberg was not summarily dismissed. It is even said that Harvard refused a bequest of $10,000,0 ,000 made on the condition that he be removed from the faculty.
 His intimate knowledge of court life at Berlin qualified Professor Munster berg to speak with authority on Ger man affairs, and while he did not suc- ceed in making the German cause any more popular in this country, he did contrive to show that the Kaiser is not the monster he has been pictured Mentally, he was representative of the most brilliant German culture, in it's broadest sense.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala' postoffiee as second class matter un- der act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17
DESERVED THE PLACE.

"so you have a college graduate for a chauffeur" remarked the self-made man. 'sYes"
 "Now. that's a fine commentary on the value of a college education. ..so 1t is. My chauffeur was an honor man at college of motoring"
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-17

By the way, the German bankers Of the Wall street element had their in- ming in New York during the past week.
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-11-18

And that's why Pm a-thinkin' as l sit here
 maybe they Have lined each other wonder, after many
 weary day I bet there weren't no mornin' in that land
 of heavenly light As glorious as the mornin' when she sa"
 him come in sight, An she knew at last he'd slumbered and on
 wings of lovin care Had been borne by God'd good angels to be
 given to her there! Oh, if ever sweethearts tremb!ed in an
 ecstasy of joy ., It must have been when Riley and his old
 sweetheart again Were united by the angels, and turned back
 to girl and boy, Forgot in heavens goodness all the sorrow
 ing years of men! For oh, she must have loved him to have
 brought from him that song; And how he must have missed her, fol
 she'd been away so long And now tonight he's got her, and they're < happy, and they're fine In the memory of the story of an old sweet
 heart of mine!
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-11-18
WICKERSHAM AND THE DEVELOPMENT BOARD

It is much regretted that spite of the amount o newspaper space been filled with the subject and Of the amount printing dealing with the subject which has been sent broadcast there still misunderstanding o the provisions of Secretary Lanes proposed development board tor Alaska nexclsabc that persons who should and probably co know better should attempt confuse the public mind on this subject as done during the political campaign by public speakers The bold that Delegate Wckersham fighting the measure besides being misleading, must that gentleman considerable embarrassment it should to his ears The truth of the that when Mir Lanes plan preached Delegate skepca to its value to the people of the territory but withheld opposition. Later he drew up and introduced bill along the lines those gesed by Mir Lane with few changes from the orgna And this bill he advocated and still advocates.
 A speaker a Wickersham meeting at Flat to election quoted at considerable length from document entitled Alaska mttee on fisheries having under consideration the Carn bill ita out of the alleged by him that Wickeham certain rights did the following passage which made himself perfectly clear the subject
 MT. HardyYou would look this bill fully?
 Mir Wckershan-Yes, In view of what has been said these long hearings 1 should limitation
 the question; think it should be done in any bill
 Mir. Hardy-Ihat is your first choice, and your second choice bureau that would have charge of all these actvl ties, co-ordlnaed and centralized?
 MT. Wickerham-Yes, sir and to give that bureau the control which all of these bureaus have It should be development board within the territory of Alaska residing there and would be there all the time and have nothing else
Iditarod pioneer., 1916-11-18
WORK OF RECONSTRUCTION
 BEGINS IN NORTHERN FRANCE

PARIS, Sept. 27-The interminlsterial committee, together with the projects of the departments concerned are studying how life in the invaded districts of north arn France is to be restored after the war. It will be prodigous task.
 For some time supplies of food and other necessaries of life will have to be provided and already 9O,0O0 hundredweight of flour 10000 hundredweight of foreign wheat and quantities of condensed milk, chocolate soap, candles and other stutfs have been stored in preparation at Dunkirk.
 The first credit of about 6,250,000 francs (S1 25O,0OO) has been voted by parliament to allow the Dunkirk Chamber of Com merce to make the necessary purchases.
 The housing problem will arise next. Mil lions of bricks, with quantities of wood and iron, are being got ready, and 5000 trans port able houses gre being prepared for tenn porary shelter Evidently this will not meet the whole need for there are 100000 refugees from the Department Du Nord alone scattered about France. Many of these. however, will not wish to return at once All could not do SO Rather it will be sought to organize thell return gradually, so that the privations, dis order and Encouragement may be minim ized
 The way necessarily will be led by those who have means, intelligence and influence to commence the restoration of business anC industrial life Stocks of machines anC goods and quantities Of automobiles are being gathered for this happy event Ole army horses will be given to the farmers together with assistance in obtaining labor
 The reconstruction of the local admins trarions, posts transport legal and munlci nal services and so on also is being actively nlanned