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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
From Popular Mechanics.

From Popular Mechanics.
 IN the hope of displacing foreign mar
 kets in the distribution of Ameri- U can cotton and thereby enabling the southern planter to reap the full value of his crop, Louisiana has developed pub lie warehouse and terminal facilities at New Orleans that permit 100000 bales of cotton to be handled in a season. This enormous plant is described, with inter esting illustrations, in the June numper of Popular Mechanics Magazine.
 The port now offers a deposit market where cotton can be shipped by interior buyers and held subject to their orders, and likewise where planters can store their product and await good prices. The project has been carried out at an ap- proximate cost of s, 500,0O0 and enables factors, f. 0. b., and through cotton to be cared for with equal efficiency. That the plant may be operated at maximum earning capacity it has been designed to permit the storage of coffee, jute, to- bacco, sugar, rice, and other commodi- ties during the part of the year when if is not needed solely for cotton. It is as well equipped for unloading ship car goes and transferring them to freight trains as it is to receive products by rail and deliver them aboard river and ocean steamers
 All of the buildings are of reinforced concrete construction. These warehouses occupy about A acres of SO-acre site
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
The Bond Issues

The three distinct bond issue prop ositions-school buildings, auditorium and municipal lighting plant-whlch will be voted on next Monday by the qualified electors of Birmingham, have been much discussed and the polling of a large vote may be regarded as certain.
 Some bond elections in Alabama have been notable for apathy on the part of the people. But in Birmingham the voters have usually become aroused when local proposition was to be decided and have turned out at the polls iii good strength.
 While there will be no cause for dis appointment in the size of the total vote Monday, no one who has taken an active part in the campaign for one or all three of the propositions will venture a general forecast of the result
 The city asks for $2,000,000 for school purposes, and as the ad- ditional buildings are sorely needed, it is hardly conceivable that any con siderable number of good citizens will cast a negative ballot. The vote for the school bonds should be, therefore, practically unanimous.
 Should this proposition fail Birming- ham would be thrown back to such an extent that it would take years of up- building to overcome the injury thus inflicted It would be indeed the most staggering blow that Birmingham has yet had. It behooves the Chamber of Commerce and every other civic or ganization here, and every property owner, to work, with all their might for the s2,0O0,000 school bond issue.
 While it is believed there will be a decisive majority for the bonds, let nothing be taken for granted. The is sue is too important and far-reaching for anything to be assumed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
Alabama State Fair

Tt used to be very difficult for me to get the women interested in the work of the woman's department of the Alabama State Fair" said Mrs. John B. Reid, who is already busy arranging the booths for
 the coming exposition. II do not expect
 to have any great trouble along this line
 this year, however, as We are offering
 s753 in cash prizes for the women of Ala
 bama alone. The Fair association at one
 time made these prizes open to women
 from all states, but the officials feel that
 they should use this money now for the
 benefit of the women of Alabama exclu- sivey.
 ''The prizes we are o1ering for the women's department this fall sare ex- trenely attractive and already we are seeing the good results from this fact. Many women are working out the plans for their exhibits now, and the indica- tions are that we will have the best de-
 partment in the history of the annual ex- positions. The womans department of the Alabama State Fair is a movement as valuable to the home as the school improvement associations are to the schools
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
Enjoyed the Centennial

Commissioner J. R. Truss returned from Tuscaloosa yesterday afternoon where he enjoyed the commencement exercises at the university and the cen tennial celebration.
 Tt was a great affair." said Com missioner Truss, and carried off very successfully. In that respect it remind ed me of the great Confederate re- union just held in Birmingham How ever what attracted me the most in Tuscaloosa was the address of the Hon. w. P. G. Harding. The former presi- dent of the First National bank in formed the people of this state what they must do to get out of the rut and his speech was we'll worth the trip to Tuscaloosa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01

Panama canal. In spite of the fact that the 500" is closed about four months in each year because of ice formation, and the Panama canal is not affected by weather conditions of this sort, during the year ending with the middle of last September when the Panama canal was closed by landslides. the "Soo" had more than six times as great a tonnage as the isthman waterway. The monthly aver age of the Sault Ste. Marie was nearly as great as the total business done by the Panama canal in the year, being but 1,1O0O0O tons less than the 6,7O0,O00 tons transported through the Panama canal. To make the comparison all the more striking, it is pointed out that the United States "Soo" canal divides traffic with a parallel Canadian waterway distant but a stones throw.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
THE FEDERATED HUSBAND

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 A brave man is Herschel T. Smith of
 Fulton, Ky, courageous enough to be termed truly heroic, an enemy of the pussyfoot of sort that should reJolce the heart of Oyster Bay. There is various sorts of courage and some of them su- perior to the courage that takes men into battle but where in the whole realm of that moral courage that we are told far exceeds the physical kind, will be found anything finer, nobler, more soul stir ring withal than that of the lone man who goes to sit with 49s9 women in
 womens club convention? Uncle Hers chel," as he terms himself, is in New York for the one and only purpose O. attending the gathering of the General Federation, to which Friend Wife is a delegate, and to which she took him along as an alternate.
 There are other husbands in the great city accompanying their delegate wives; but only Herschel enters the gate of the convention hall properly ticketed and credentialed as one having the right to the floor. The others bid the partneA Of their joys and sorrows adieu at the convention hall or the hotel, as the case may be, and he them to other attrac- tions the city affords. Not so Alternate Smith. He is there for serious business; he takes his mission seriously, and no man but will admit he has a right to do so.
 The federated husband is happy sort of hero. To use his own description, he weighs 200 pounds, is built on luncheon lines and is ready to tackle everything on the convention menu from grapefruit to chocolate ice cream The honor that is due a pioneer should be forthcoming to Herschel. He has shown that courage is not confined altogether to the war news, that gallantry has not been elimi- mated from the lexicon of progress, that Kentucky is still true to her womenfollS and nobility still is an attribute of the Blue Grass State, even though the colonels may me rapidly dropping off And yet the episode of Herschel gives reason for and worth a feature story, soon to be so common that none will notice it? Men always have been more or less al- ternates where their wives were con cerned, much as they may have endeav- ored to disguise the fact. What does the future hold when they not only admit it. but glory in it?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
Busy on the Elections

Secretary Clarence Lloyd of the city commission asserts that preparing one
 election is rather an arduous task, but that arranging all the details for three bond issue elections at one time is a job.
 MT. Lloyd, flor every precinct, as each
 bond issue will have its own partic- ular election machinery. New ballot
 boxes have been purchased, the notices printed, the officials notified and ev-
 erything is in readiness for the ex- citement next Monday morning. How
 ever, it was some job"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01

From Two Collaborators of Genera
 Joffre: General de Caste,nau and Gen
 eral Foch," by Captain X, in the June
 Scribner.
 ~ ENERAL DE CASTELNAU was born at St. Affrique in the 0 Aveyron. Somewhat short Tn stature. but we'll proportioned, thick set and solidly built, with bronzed complex ion, quick gestures, and frank, alert expression, he is vigorous offshoot or a race which unites southern vivaclty with the sturdiness of Ia mountain stoch' a race of hot blood and cold brain.
 The rough soil of the table lands or Languedoc and Gascony has, in fact, pro- duced a notable line of warriors. Typi- cal of them is Montluc, man with whom General de Castelnau presents more than one point of likeness. Montluc, too, was hard; hard on others, but harder still on himself, ardent in the cause of hls serV- ice possessed of an unfailing imagina- tion a fluent and vivid gift of language distinguished for his prowess in the field, and no less for his power to recount the story of that prowess to the delight or his contemporaries and of posterity. The "Commentaries' of 'Montluc are certainly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
Loyal Co-operatiOn

The commencement of the university which closed today was the greatest in the history of the institution" declared Maj. R. E. Steiner of Montgomery, mem Der of the board of trustees, who was here last night. The spirit was the fnestI ever saw, and I believe it will result Tn the institution receiving much more loyal cooperation from the alumni than has been the rule in the past.
 And, incidentally, my hat off to Tuscaloosa That is the biggest town in the United States. No city in the coun- try could do things up in more finished style than Tuscaloosa. The centennial celebration was wonderful, and then the manner in which Tuscaloosa handled the social affairs of the week would have done credit to the largest cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
HAPPY MAN, LUCKY DOC.

From the New York Sun.
 At New Bedford, President Elliott of the New Haven railroad recently told this:
 T well remember. when a little boy, hearing my father tell a story that his father told him about the grea Lafay- ette, who was such a warm friend of the United States, then in the making, when Lafayette came back to this country on a visit. My grandfather met him at a reception, and as an evidence of his tact and humor to one man to
 whom he was inroduced Lafayette said
 How do you do? Are you married man.? The man replied, Yes, sir And Lafayette said, Happy man! Happy man.. The next man to whom Lafayette was introduced was asked, Are you a married man?' and replied. No, sir. "Whereupop Lafayette said, Lucky dog Lucky dosP"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
THE REAL PROSPECTOR

From "The Gold-Hunte. .," by Charles J.
 Lisle, in the June Scribner.
 It was only a few years ago, when I was visiting in Montana. that I met one of the "real genus prospector. He lived through the hard winter-God knows how nursing his rheuma tism and his hunger and his almost 30 years of age, and a decrepit old pack-horse, through the 40 below zero and the five-foot drifts of the long, dreary winter. You would say he was an absolute wreck, physical, mental that he lived on only because he was too dead to forget to breathe. But when the ice began to go out of the streams, and the bare rocks to peer out from the green under the snow, he expanded like lilies of spring.
 Mister, I have been rich half a dozen times. an I aint been as keerful as I ort. But I'm goin to strike it richer this year than ever-I jest know it! Thars patch of ground back in the hills that's wonder-an' I need leetle grub-stake for to open it up. It'll make us rich-Son, you hear that?-Rich. Elf you want to, heres where you kin take chance that cant lose The old manll win yet.'
 And the octogenarian miner, married to his hope of the gold that he believes he will find, got his grub-stake-as, I doubt not he has done every year since from some one who marvels at his boyish en- thusasm and recuperation. He never found his elusive Golconda; if he had, he would have sought me to the ends of the earth to divide according to his prom ise-for these mems word is as sacred as the word of your mother or mine. And do not believe he is dead indeed, I doubt whether he ever dies-at least until his dream is fulfilled. Like the Wan dering Jew-though gladly. lovingly bound by his hope and not by his dreadful doom he must go on, eternal in his hope.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
The Last Chapter

The other day in Chicago crowds lined both sides of the Chicago river as the Eastland was lowed by two tugs into Lake Michigan on it's way to South Chicago, where it will be used as training ship for the Illinois Ma val Reserves. As the death ship neared the spot where it capsized at it's moorings, July "A, 1915, with the loss of SIP lives, someone shouted, "Blow her up!" Men in the throng who watched the vessel pass took off their hats, others cursed the ill-starred steamer, while cries of Burn hern' "Cut her up!" and Don't send out that ghost ship again!" were heard on ali sides.
 And thus what appears to be the closing chapter in one of the most ap- palling disasters in history was writ ten, for the Eastland will never again be permitted to resume its career as an excursion boat. As training shir it will doubtless have usefulness which will not be impaired by the faulty construction which is supposed to have caused it to turn over while lashed to it's pier on summer morn ing when literally crammad with hu- man beings ready for holiday trir on Lake Michigan.
 Americans are a forgetful people and the horrors of that day in Chi cago are already fading from mem. ory, although the incidents attending the Eastland's departure from the spot in the north branch of the Chicago river, near Halsted street, where il had been moored for months, showed that resentment is still felt agains the vessel and whoever was responsi ble for the criminal carelessness whicf cost so many lives.
 Nobody seems to have been pun ished, although for time the catas trophe aroused the owners of othel excursion steamers to sense of theiI responsibility. But now, when boat laden with merrymakers starts out for . lark trip, uith band playing and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
CHICAGO HAS A GOOD IDEA

From the St. Louis Republic. From the Chicago Herald we learn | that 1400 leading business men of that city in many branches of commerce and l finance have joined in a league to shorten and simplify the trial of busi- ness disputes by taking them out of | the courts.
 l Instead of the involved, technical and ! unsatisfactory trial by jury the mem bers of the organization will submit l their business disputes to arbitrators who will be expert in the kind of business out of which the dispute grew. 1 Under this plan, as we understand it, a dispute between a wholesale and
 a retail grocer would be considered by
 grocers, who would determine just what the facts were. If after that de- termination is made there is a dispute
 about the law case for the courts
 termined and a judge will lay down | the law.
 This does away with the jury trial entirely, and it is a safe guess that
 when the plan is we'll worked out the
 arbitrators will generally be able to settle the case with no appeal to the
 courts. Another safe guess is that if
 the plan works out as the planners hope, the organization will finally take
 in the most of Chcagos business men who have any sort of business that l takes them to court with any cOnsid-
 erable degree of frequency, and the I benefits at large when the courts are
 relieved of heavy burden of busi
 ness litigation will find the legal busi- ness moving more swiftly. .
 Missouri, by the way, has statute providing for the settlement of civil
 cases by arbitration--but has it ever
 been put to use?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01

Uncle Sam has at home a canal which permits tremendous annual tonnage of freight to be transported. The Sault Ste. Marie, or "Soo canal, as it is bet ter known, carries every year millions of tons of iron ore from the Superior mines en route to eastern srnelters, and millions of bushels of grain and barrels of flour from the fields and mills of the western lake states. At present the 500 waterway is far more important in commerce than the Panama canal. al though it remains to be seen what differ ence in the status of the two canals will
 be made by the ending of the European war, Ehich is now increasing the trade of thj "Soo'' and reducing that of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
STRICTLY MODERN

The way of man with a maid
 Has often been told in the press But, canddly, we are afraid
 There's much that you never would
 guess Goes on in a swell cabaret
 When one of those foxy old boys Who's known as a wicked roue, Dimes out with a maiden whose boise And knowledge of life and its guile Are such that we venture to say None like her eer stood at a stile And kissed, back in grandmother's day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
HARVARD AND MIR. BRANDEIs


 From the New York World.
 Charles w. Eliot, the venerable pres ident emeritus of Harvard, speaks oi Louis D. Brandeis as one who mas known him intimately for 40 years. pr. Eliot testifies to his distinguished schol- arship his gentleness and courage, ms honesty and sincerity, his desire for jus tcc and his learning as jurist. He aods that the rejection of MT. Brandels nominatlon as a member of the United States supreme court would be grave misfortune for the whole legal profes- sion. the court, all American business and the country
 In placing this estimate on the char acter and lapability of Mi. Brandeis, MT. Eliot consulted no safe deposit box and no social register. He took no .:oun- SC; of railroad attorneys or railroad wreckers. He had no advice from invest ors or spectators in State street or Wall street. He was no more deferential to the bigots of wealth and caste than to the hardened masters of industry He spoke of his own knowledge of what Mir Brandeis had done through practical all u uism and public spirit for wider and better circles.
 One such witness will carry nor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
England's Social Lines

 While to all intents and purposes Great Britain is a republic, being a
 monarchy for the most part in form only. class distinction is as much in evidence today as it was in feudal times. The fact that democracy, social and political, has made strides I in recent years has led some observ- CTS to believe that the crown, as the old symbol of authority, will at no dis tant day be numbered with the things of the past and the royal family be retired like military officers on three quarters pay But nothing of the sort is likely to happen in this century or | the next.
 Notwithstanding the bloodless rev olution that has taken place in mod
 ern England, affecting labor condi- tions and the body polite, caste in army and navy and in social life gen
 erally is still recognized and respect ed as unwritten law
 Gen. Sir William Robertson, now the ranking officer of the British army, and the hero of the hour, is being more written about than any other personage connected with the Euro pean war, and this is because he rose from the humble position of an aris- tocrats footman, through the ranks of
 the army, to his present place of spec tacular glory.
 Napoleon Bonaparte was born poor and was appointed to an important command in the army without the in- | fluence of friends; but his father, al though without fortune, was Cor sican nobleman, and Napoleon himself l had received a military education. General. Robertson was advanced solely on his merit. He acquired a l linguistic education while still serving | in the ranks as a private and became noted finally for his scholarly attain ments as we'll as his natural capacity for leadership. He was knighted some time ago and will be raised to the peerage shortly.
 British civilians who began life far
 down in the social scale have by ex- traordinary achievement received baronies, and in a few instances higher peerage rank, but in the army, where caste is more strongly inn bedded than in other branches of so- ciety, a case as unique as Robertson s
 is not likely to occur again in long years to come.
 After the war is ended all social lines will be somewhat relaxed, as a matter of course. There have been
 signs of change already. But England
 
 how fast democracy moves in the
 Kings realm, caste will never be broken up entirely as long as any of the old families are left to tell how so- ciety should be regulated.
 In America, where every boy, if he | develops ability and turn for states
 marship, is eligible to the presidency,
 class distinction has never held any
 one back and never will. That's the
 reason this country is known as the
 asylum for the oppressed of every
 land. The old world has still much
 that the United States can study with
 profit, but in it's social structure this
 country must ever be in the lead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
BOOSTING HIS TOWN
the Indianapolis News

From the Indianapolis News
 Every little boost helps. An Indiana man wrote to his grandson in another state as follows:
 Our little town has more people in Indianapolis hospitals than any town in the state, according to population. Seven of our citizens are now in In dianapolis hospitals and three others have just come home. Nearly all of our leading citizens have now been op- erated on."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
THE DEAD WARRIORS CHILD

Tennyson's "The Princess" Home they brought her warrior dead ; She nor swooned nor uttered cry; All her maidens, watching, said:
 'She must weep or she will die. Then they praised him, soft and low,
 Called him worthy to be loved. Truest friend and noblest foe;
 Yet she neither spoke nor moved. Stole a maiden from her place,
 Lightly to the warrior crept. Took the face-cloth from the face;
 Yet she neither moved nor wept. Rose a nurse of 90 years,
 Set his child upon her knee- Like summer tempest came her tears
 Sweet. my child. I live for thee"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01
ALABAMA PRESS

Anniston Star: Congressman and sem
 ators will leave the country to it's fate
 while they attend the political conven- tions.
 Troy Messenger: A person in Chicago
 advertises for lost dog, a deaf bulldog
 answering to the name of Dick EVl- dently lip reader.
 Decaturs Daily: Irwin Cobb upholds the traditions of Kentuckians. Accord ing to report, he drank three highballs
 in two minutes the other day in Birming-
 ham.
 Huntsville Mercury: We notice that the
 official returns show that Editor Walter ! Miller of Tuscumba was elected presi-
 dential elector and Herbert Blair of Troy elected district delegate. This is con firming the statement that good editors
 can be as popular as any class of men i and can win in elections if they are straight.
 Talladega Home: The husbands of the clubwomen attending the convention in
 New York are said to be such tame lot that they won't even sneak off to
 roof garden when they have the chance. Birmingham Age-Herald. And this sug- gests that the world will soon have but little use for husbands and preachers
 only on special occasions Advancement and new ideas and new things are fast shelving these once foremost and re- spected limbs of civilization.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01

dancers thronging the ballroom, few among these hghthearted passengers give thought to the Eastland tragedy which darkened so many homes less than one year ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-01

Certain Philadelphia publications are
 being criticized for carrying pictures of famous Americans at their "mastheads. .' tions don't reflect on the famous Amer icans