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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08
A Striking Rotogravure Issue

The Rotogravure Section of tomor- rows Age-Herald will contain mag nificent new photograph of Dr. Henry M. Edmonds, minister in whom every man, woman and child in Ala bama is interested, because of the re- markable work he is doing in this community. This Rotogravure view IS eight and one-half inches long and seven and one-half inches wide, and makes a very striking souvenir for preservation.
 Efforts are constantly being ex- erted to improve the Rotogravure Sec tion-that most striking of all news paper features. It is designed to make it's appeal as widespread as pos sible. Among the striking pictures of Alabama people in tomorrow's issue will be Mrs. Harold R. Samson, vice president of the Woman's Society of the Independent Presbyterian church; Mrs. Henry Sprott Long of Jasper and her little son; Mrs. Ralph s. Barrow; two children of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Warren; little Margaret Chewning Tutwiler and Felton Wimberly, Jr.
 There is picture of McLane Tilton's bank at Pell City, "the finest small town bank in the United States"
 A committee of New York judges recently discovered an American girl whose measurements tally exactly with the famous Venus de Milo. Her picture is in tomorrow's Rotogravure.
 There will be some great animal pie lures, novel Indian picture and some touching scenes from European coun- tries.
 But the Rotogravure Section is only a part of the greatness of the Sunday Age-Herald. Tomorrow's features are selected with unusual care.
 The Sunday Age-Herald is the only paper in Birmingham using Asso- ciated Press dispatches. Readers know what that means in news accuracy and completeness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08

For 20 years A. J. Gleeman has been an elevator man in the Germania Ma tional Bank building. Pittsburg. During a quarter of a century of service he has never been seriously ill, has never had serious accident, and, with the excep- tion of an occasional day off, has never been absent from his post of duty Dur ing his long career as an elevator man, Gleeman is estimated to have made about 100000 trips in his car and has trav- eled more than 10000 miles, carrying ebout 9,000,0O0 persons, or an average of three passengers for each trip. Although Gleeman has done practically all his trav- cling inside an elevator cage he has had rlenty of opportunities to study life as typified by his numerous passengers. That his studies of human nature, not always at it's best in an elevator, have rot soured his disposition is proved by the unfailing good humor with which he per- forms his duties and the large number of friends he has made in Pittsburg, where he is the oldest elevator operator lu point of service.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08

needed to carry on the war, accepted with good grace MT. McKenna's pro- posal.
 Of the $325, 5,0OO,000 to be raised by new taxation, England's favorite sport, horse racing, is to bear heavy part. All forms of amusements are to be taxed and of the necessaries of life sugar and matches are on the list. Matches alone will yield a total of about $10,O00,000. But as with the comparatively inexpensive little article which starts the kitchen fire and the poor mans candle; likewise the pipe, cigar and cigarette of rich and poor, economy can be practiced without serious inconvenience. It is safe to say that in none of the necessaries is there greater waste than in the match. It IS especially so among smokers. Let the man who lets his pipe go out half dozen times before he has finished his smoke exercise his mind bit and he will find that one match will go as far as several had gone before.
 But in the face of McKenna's new tax scheme the public will continue to hope that there is mistake concern ing the duration of the pitiless war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08
Hail to the Chef

Poor food and bad cooking have been blamed for nearly all the ills that flesh is heir to. This is probably why the impression is growing that we cannot pay too much honor-ano hardly too much salary-to compe- ten cook. The old fashioned woman who was a wizard with the pots and pans belongs to the good old days that are gone forever, but more highly complicated plan of existence has produced more professional cooks than the world had ever possessed before restaurant and hotel life as- stunned such immense importance.
 The city dweller who eats three meals day at home is the exception rather than the rule. Lunch is taken in town by nearly everybody whose busi- ness or pleasure calls them there, and dining in restaurants is becoming more and more the fashion among people of means. It has been predicted that "home cooking" except as a spacious lure on the menu cards of popular priced restaurants, will soon be obsolete and the community kitchen will come to stay.
 All this by way of preface to the statement of New York hotel man that $10,000 year is not an unusual salary for a proficient chef. Even now there are such places going beg ging for lack of men capable to fill them. This does not imply dearth of competent chefs. It means only that there is scarcity of those great men who win imperishable fame by their art. Even a cooks assistant receives from $8O to $150 month and his board while learning the fine points of his profession. What other calling offers such lucrative rewards for tal- ent and application? The average col lege boy with diploma would turn up his nose at the idea of being a chef, but his chance of ever being paid a salary of $10,O00 a year is so small as to be almost negligible.
 The country has plenty of good chefs, but it needs more superchefs, and he who can qualify as high priest of the kitchen may have his limousine and live withal like gentleman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08
A DISCROWNED PEASANT KING

the Baltic to the Adriatic and the Black sea, The ashes of their dead are found in urns the lids of which not infre- uuently represent human faces. The headgear of that ancient folk is much like that of contemporary Serbs. The Serb is morally just as unmalleable. And since the essential strength of his char acter is independence. since the more you oppress and defeat him the more he will arise and fight again. free Servia has not disappeared forever.
 Christ is arisen" "He has arisen, in- deed;" so the pious Serb folk will be saying, if many there are left to say it, on Easter Day, among the plum trees in flower. As Palm Sunday and Easter draw nearer, King Peter will remember that on them began the two famous Serb insurrections of the nineteenth century. one of them triumphant. Not till St. Georges Day, which commemorates with the saint some pagan god of youth and spring and all green things and grow ing plants and animals, does the Serb sacrifice. In spite of "extermination, sacrifice. In spite of 'extermination. starvation, death," Servia is alive. All the April omens are of revival and hope. A year from now may King Peter be sip- ping his plum brandy in Belgrade!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08
STARVATION AND PELLAGRA

From the New York Globe.
 We suspect that not few readers of the Globe. although respecting his pure food and anti-fraud work, think that AL fred w. McCann is a bit of crank in his vehement insistence on natural foods and on the importance of the mineral salts taken out by our sophistcating manu facturers. Such skeptical and overwise persons would do well to read Burton J Hendricks S article on pellagra in the April Worlds Work, which tells of the discov- cries of Dr. Joseph s. Goldberger of the United States public health service. Pellagra, formerly unknown to America, is a disease that has afflicted and been studied in Europe for two centuries. Lom- broso established his scientific reputation by discovering that it came from Indian corn-a theory now disproved. Ten years ago it appeared in the United States, and 7500 persons will die of it this year. It is particularly prevalent in the south among those with slightly varied dietary.
 Having demonstrated that pelagra was not contagious, and that it ragged among the i'll nourished, Dr. Goldberber tried an experiment on two orphanages in Missis-
 sppi, in one of which there were 79 cases in the spring of 1914, and in the other 13O cases. Leaving other conditions the same,
 he ordered more milk, meat, eggs, and beans and peas to the ration of the or phans. Only one case of pellagra devel- oped in the spring of 1915. Reversing the
 experiment, Dr. Goldberger secured the consent of Il convicts dhe governor hav- ing agreed to pardon them at the end of the experimenD on the farm of the Mis- sissippi state penitentiary, where there was no pellagra, to live on diet consist ing of corn meal, biscuits, mush, grits, turnip tops, syrup, sweet potatoes, and coffee, but no lean meat, eggs, beans or peas. Six developed pellagra, the only cases in the institution. As it has been proved that the eating of polished rice develops beri-beri, so pelagra is developed by a diet consisting of sophisticated corn, syrup, and sowbelly. If the experi- ment were crowded step further, and corn and syrup not denatured were pro- vided, it is possible that the addition of other forms of natural food would not be necessary. The fact that polished rice causes beri-beri, while the eating of whole rice cures it, is significant.
 More people starve to death in America than there is now adequate notion Of. Preventable medicine must look to other things beside light and air and water supplies. The present fashion of prettify- ing food is responsible for perhaps as
 many premature deaths as the war in Flu rope
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08
Proves q Boomerang

President George B. Ward of the city
 commission has received and given out
 marked copies of the New York World in which is correction of that papers
 recent attack on Birmingham The article reads:
 News articles published recently in various parts of the United States, in
 cluding an article published in the Sunday World of March 12, have made it appear that statewide prohibition in Alabama
 and the resulting loss of revenue from liquor taxes were responsible for a ma-
 terial cutting down of appropriations for
 maintaining the city government of Bir- mingham A part of the World article was a quotation from the Survey of Sep
 tcmber H. 1915. which was interwoven with the news in manner to create a false impression damaging to- the city of Br- mingham.
 Standing alone, the Survey article did
 not even suggest that prohibition was re- sponsible for the economical streak in the government of the city of Birming- ham. The true cause for reduction in expenditures was a large floating city debt that had been accumulating for years. This debt was funded by bond issue, with the understanding that in future the city of Birmingham would
 keep within it's income. To do this the cut ting in expenses was necessary.
 President George B. Ward of the board
 of commissioners. which governs the city | of Birmingham, states that the liquor interests in various parts of the United States have deliberately twisted and dis torted the Survey article for use as an anti-prohibition campaign document. and that this false information is being spread systematically by interruptions press agents.
 " It is known in Birmingham said MT. Ward, that l have never voted the prohibition ticket. but in fairness to the prohibitonists I cannot stand idly by and see the results of their efforts de- 1 stroyed by false and absurd reports. The | loss in revenues from prohibition is being
 offset in so many other ways, both finan- cially and morally, that gthe result is !; startling. The city of Birm- '-or'l has the handsomest jail in the south. sur i rounded by 20 acres of ground beautifully cultivated. The normal numbar n CTS before prohibition was 200 and up- ward. Today the number ranges from 60 to 70, most of them colored women. One of cur new problems is what to do with
 this fine jail Our reduced police force
 has proved more effective than ever and
 our reduced fire department has made
 one of the most wonderful records in the history of the United States. The fire losses were si16,OoO last year. as against
 s1 .252,00e for the preceding year. and the insurance companies harr practically
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08
Home Products Exhibit

"The home products exhibit of work done in the colored schools of Alabams is something that should be seen by every teacher in the state and by the people of Birmingham who are interested Y the cause of education,' said J. l.. Sib ley of Montgomery, rural school agent ''The exhibit is located at 1902 Fourth ave nue, and more than 1000 articles made i.I the colored schools are shown. Twenty three Alabama counties are represr i in the exhibit.
 'The articles featured in this o''''t are all made of Alabama materials anc many people will be surprised to fine just how useful some of the products of the state can be made. The work is carried on by supervising industrial teachers employed through the Jeannes Foundation and shows how children are being taught to utilize the materials found around them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08
For Better Schools

The Alabama Educational associa-
 tion has been mighty factor in re-
 cent years in cultural progress and has worked earnestly and effectively in creating public sentiment in favor of local school taxation.
 Among the stirring speeches heard here Thursday night under the auspices of the associations pro- gramme committee were those on the school tax amendment by Governor Henderson, President o. P. Ford of the Alabama Farmers union, and Sydney J. Bowie, who for many years has been a tireless advocate of spe- cial district tax. As the governor explained the leg islature, in submitting the tax amend
 ment proposition to the people, had
 done all in could do in this matter. It is for the voters of the state to ratify the amendment at the general election in November and then for the voters in each county and district to vote special tax for school pur-
 poses. When this is done there will
 be no longer lack of school facili- ties in the rural sections of the state,
 and illiteracy, which is now being
 removed gradually, will then disap-
 pear rapidly.
 It was good to hear MT. Ford say
 that the farmers of Alabama were fully alive to the importance of an educated citizenship. "We need" he said, "trained and educated men on the farms of this state, for the
 changed conditions that now confront us make the old methods of careless farming impossible" MT. Ford said, moreover, that the farmers were in favor of local taxation; that they
 were willing to back up the campaign 
 for more money for the schools. Mir. Bowie made hit when he de- clared that we were guilty of mis-
 homer when we spoke of contribu- tions to "the education of our chill
 dren as in the nature of tax or burden" for the fact was that money appropriated to this purpose repre-
 sented the highest and most necessary form of investment.
 Although the school tax amend
 ment is one of such far-reaching inn
 portance that the majority of votes
 cast for it should be overwhelming, it will not do to take it's adoption for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08

granted and, therefore, it behooves State Superintendent of Education Feagin, who did telling work in be- half of the measure when it was be- fore the legislature, and it behooves all the other members of the Educa- tional association to labor with their characteristic enthusiasm for the rati- fication of the amendment at the polls. After it's adoption a campaign of education will be needed in many of the counties to secure a vote for the special tax, but the teachers and all the other friends of the public schools can be counted upon to CO., operate in this cause.
 When the Alabama Educational as sociation meets a year from now it should have the pleasure of seeing the machinery under the tax amendment in motion, and in two years hence a public school at every crossroads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08
THE AMERICAN POET

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 TT is gratifying, at time when the
 world is overwhelmed with the in- A tensity of the great emotions that in here in racial and national aspirations, that we are not altogether neglectful of our own, as is shown by the interest aroused by the visit of MT. Robert Frost, the New Hampshire poet, to Philadel- rhia It is so easy for Americans to rally around the exotic, and we have had so much palpitation over the newer bards among the English, palpitation which does not always deal with their merit but simly assumes the intrinsic superiority of the alien versifier, that any apprecia- tion of contemporary American that IS reflected in not inconsiderable book sales is somewhat of phenomenon, but it is to be hoped a phenomenon which is an augury of better things all around. For while art may have no boundaries, the inner heart of poesy has ever been true to the folk, to those intimacies of life and thought that may in the best sense ot the word be called provincial" to the manner born," doubly dyed in the yer acular of locality and life, though none the less universal in their simplicities.
 The modern poet, live where he may, cannot escape the publicity that belongs to literary output these days, which IS, so far as the American goes, a very differ ent kind of thing from the comparative and even absolute privacy in which Bry- ant, Taylor, Longfellow, Emerson and Poe twanged their heartstrings. So long as there is this open scrutiny, by all means let our own have share in it. The clear looming of the rugged mountains that hem in F'ranconia Notch, where MT.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08
New Taxes in Great Britain

Many observers had been of the opinion recently that the European
 war would be ended within the next few months, but when Reginald Nc
 Kenna, chancellor of the exchequer,
 stated in the House of Commons this
 week, in proposing new tax to as sist in the payment of the cost of hos
 tilities, that the wasting conflict
 would last at least another year, the
 English public seemed to accept his
 remarks as authoritative and his dire
 forecast as something not to be ques- toned Leaders on both sides of the terrible struggle have been hoping no
 doubt that peace negotiations would
 not be long delayed, and Mir. McKen- na in predicting that the war would
 continue well into next year, probably
 prayed secretly that he might prove to i: be poor prophet; but the English : statesman, like his cousin, the Ger man, is practical when dealing with large questions and never allows sen- stiment or optimism to get the better .of his plans.
 The additional tax that Great Brit ain seeks to raise amounts to 965,- : :00O,00 ($325, ,000,O00). MT. McKenna :is Great Britain's ablest economist when it comes to the matter of raising staxes and framing a government { Sbudget. MT. Gladstone was distin- guished as fiscal expert, and MT. 2 sMcKenna is probably the greatest sEnglishman since Gladstone's time in .that department of statesmanship thence it was that the British public, swhile it manifested some surprise at the large amount of additional money
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08
HEATHENIsM IN ALABAMA

From the New York Times.
 There should be Kansas settlement in Alabama. The Montgomery Adver- tiser angers or saddens all the friends of virtue which is one with Kansas, by this confession of more than heather blind ness:
 we do not like Kansas Kansas rubs us the wrong way because it is always Haunting its virtue in the face of other states. This country has been flooded with literature boa sting that there are few jails and no prisoners in Kan sas, and that there are no insane asy- lums.'
 The most virtuous of Kansan papers is owned by and named after the governor of Kansas If the Montgomery Adver- tiser will cast an eye on the editorial page of Capper's Weekly "a journal of humanity" it will find why there are no insanes asylums among the Sunflowers:
 T am in hearty accord with Governor Capper's stand against preparedness for war.
 "The world is getting out of humor; misunderstanding is rampant; we are swirlng and girdling in delirium of drunken ideas. Even our President. the sanest and safest of men. is losing his mental balance.
 Gods vision to me about November 20 1890 was: The light men will stand and the dark men will fall in Europe and America and the city of New York will be the capital of the nation."
 These three specimens of the clear wis., ion and balanced judgment of Kansas members of Governors Capper's flock need not be accompanied. as they easily might be, with thousands of others. In mad world Kansas is the one sane asylum It can do without jails because there is nobody, except an occasional out lander, to put in them. There is move- nent to use them as shelters for the un- uplifted from other states.
 Kansas is one grand sweet song of prosperous goodness. The bold blasphemer who says he doesn't like Kansas thereby admits that he dislikes the happiest, the purest. the most peaceable. the soberest, the most enthusiastic, the most uniform, and the best advertised commonwealth in the whole AS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08
Warm Congressional Races

It is rather hard to tell which of the Alabama congressional races is stirring up the most interest," said Col l.. B Musgrove of Jasper, the well-known lead CT of the Hobson forces, who was ir town yesterday.
 "Of course, in our district it looks like we are making the most fur fly, but that may be because we are so close to the fray that our point of view is dis torted. In Walker county we hear that lively times are going on in the Fourth district, where Abercrombie Blackmor and Judge are fighting it out. Then there come reports that the Eighth district is seeing one of the greatest contests in years between Almon and Callahan.
 In the Seventh district there is always a fight going on between Burnett and someone else, but somehow the other races seem to be getting more in the limelight this year."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08
Walker County's Growth

Walker county is proud of the fact that she is one of Alabama's s banner counties" said Tax Assessor c. w. Stub- blefield of Jasper, who was in Birmlng- ham yesterday with the members of the Walker county tax commission for a conference with Governor Henderson.
 T have been tax assessor of Walker county for 20 years. When 1 went into office the county's tax values were $3,- 50O,000. They are now approximately $12,- 000O00, gain of nearly 400 per cent, and I think that is pretty good evidence of Walker county grsWth.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-08
PAINTING FISH CELLS pm the Washington Star.


 The latest thing in food adulteration is reported from New York. where woman has been haled into court because of painting the faded gills of fish that have Leen too long out of water, in an effort to give them the appearance of fresh- ness. A food inspector passing the stand thought he saw something wrong about the color of the gills of some of the fish and did a little sleuthing, with the re- suit that he detected the proprietor of the establishment applying a coal tar prepa- ration with paint brush The fish were destroyed and the woman was arrested. This suggests the advisability of fish buy CTS taking color scale to market with them for assurance against being imposed upon by interruptions dealers with an ortistic touch. Fish that have been so long out of their native element as to reed the application of paint brush to prevent their gills from being sure give away are not likely to be particularly wholesome as food.