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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-17
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
Mir. Smith for National Committeeman

Senator Oscar W. Underwood's s letter in Sundays Age-Herald prac- tically settles the question of who will be elected democratic national com mitteeman from Alabama. The sena- tor is outspoken for Mir E. D. Smith and gives the strongest and best of reasons for MT. Smiths election.
 Senator Underwood finds no fault with Mir. Borden Burr, the other can didate, except in the matter of his record, which shows that he places prohibition above all other issues. Senator Underwood places democratic success in the foreground. Prohibition is all right in Alabama if the people want it, but the prohibitionists of Alabama or any other state have no right to force this issue upon the democracy of New York, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, where the democrats will not stand for it.
 The success of the democratic party in the national campaign depends upon its leaving severely alone the prohibit tion question as national issue. Mir. Burr has shown in his signed state ments dealing with Mir. Underwood's position, that prohibition is upper most in his political thought. MT. Burr has numerous promises of support from office holders in Alabama, ob- tained months ago. Since that time the issues have been changed. MT. Burr stands for one and MT. Smith for another. Mr. Smith believes in the states settling this issue for them selves and Senator Underwood is out spoken for MT. Smith.
 Taking the situation all in all, it is the duty and should be the pleasure of every office holder and every we'll wisher of democracy in the state of Alabama to get behind the man who stands for democracy in it's broadest sense, for the reelection of President Wilson and for the nomination and of Underwood four years hence.
 Such man is Ed Smith.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
HIGHEST DAM IN WORLD

From the New York Telegram.
 Arrowrocll dam in Idaho is the key to an irrigation system that is transform
 ing 2s40Oo acres of barren sagebrush des- ert-adjacent to Boise, the state capital into fruitful gardens. orchards and farms.
 By throwing dam across gorge in
 the canyon P miles above the city the
 channel of the river is converted into reservoir running back IS miles into
 the mountains.
 It holds, when full 244,ooo acre feet oi water, enough to cover 3S1 square miles to the depth of one foot. It will re- claim 234 ,OOo rich acres in the Boise val ley.
 Arrowrock is the highest dam in the | W orld today, as4.5 feet from the low poin! ir the foundation of the 16-foot driveway over the top. It is 240 feet thick at the base and 1060 feet long. The great mass is below the bed of the river; it was necessary to go down 9l.i feet through volcanic rick to reach a solid foundation in granite. In it's con
 struction 53o000 cubic yards of concrete were used.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
From the Cincinnati Times-Star.

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
 is an expression Of contempt inspired probably by the familiar figure seated before a country store and counting the hours in the innocent if rather unener- getic avocation of making little pieces of wood out of larger ones. He has be- come the symbol of the man who has re- the cause of our civilization. We there fore pass him by derisivey and draw disparaging comparison between him and ourselves, who have joined in the mad race toward the indefinite goal which with more or less clearness of vision we have ordained for our efforts.
 But is this derision justified? In our heart of hearts are we so contemptuous of the whittier? May there not be a trace of envy as we gaze at this idler and pass on in the task of life? The whittier is content. Rested by his day 8 rumination he approa ches his home with zest that our tired nerves do not know. He needs not the stimulation of bright lights when the sun ceases to do duty and he has no desire for the raucous joys which impart to our more ener- getic lives an ugly rhythm. The glow from the cauldron-the city beyond-does not tempt him. To him moon and stars appear without the alloy sof artificial light. The sun is his friend and his clock. And he meets hour after hour with true appreciation of their inevitability.
 The whittler's life is dull, you say? Poetry was born among shepherds who had but their sheep and the heavens as companions. They sang from pure joy, and perhaps the whittier, too. has a song that he sings to himself and pre- fers to the more clamorous message in which we participate. This is the phil osophy of laziness, but it is also the philosophy of serenity.
 He has whittled his life away" Yes, hut he may have sung his own song and thought his own thoughts. and never lost the peace that originally was given bs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
Cotton Acreage and the Market

If all the cotton states were like Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia the acreage planted this spring would be sufficiently reduced to assure strong market between now and July.
 The bankers of the cotton states or ganized in ample time for concerted action in persuading the farmers to give more attention to food crops and reduce their cotton planting.
 Have the farmers of Texas and Oklahoma acted on the advice of the bankers? It will soon be known.
 Texas is not only the empire cotton state, but it is the one state that can raise bumper crop without com mercial fertilizer.
 Alabama, which usually produces one-tenth of the entire crop of the United States, should and will fall below that mark this year. The boil weevil wrought havoc in the black belt last year and it will be as abundantly in evidence again this year. Alabama farmers who stop to think, and most of them do a good deal of thinking, will plant much less cotton this spring. Instead of producing 100000 or even 100000 bales as in years past, 75O, 1000 bales will be ample this year.
 If the south produces a bu-,per crop the price will drop to 6 or 2 cents. if the advice of Mir Harding and the Cotton States Bankers as- sociation is needed, the price will easily climb to 15 cents.
 The cotton farmer is now the chief factor in the market situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
-------------'--- -'os------------------- THE BOOK AND THE PLAY
By Anatole France.

By Anatolc ffanCe.
 I cannot think that 1a0O individuals met together to hear a play constitute an as sembly necessarily inspired with infal- liable wisdom still the public. it seems to me- does bring with it to tho theatre a simpleness of heart and sincerity of mind that give q certain value to the feelings it experiences. Many people who find 1t impossible to frame an idea of anything they have read are capable of giving d very fairly exact account of what they have seen represented on the stage. When you read book you read it how you please, you read in 1t or. rather into 1t, what you choose. A book leaves every thing to the imagination. This Is why uncultivated. common minds as rule take only a feeble, ineffectual pleasure in reading. The stage is different; it puts everything before the eyes and dispenses with any help from the imagination. This is why It satisfies the great majority. and likewise why it does not apepal very strongly to pensive, meditative minds. Such persons appreciate a situation, a thought. only for the sake of the ampli- fications it suggests to them, the melo- dlous echo it wakes in their own minds. Their fancies are unexercised in thea tre; the play gives them only a passive pleasure. to which they prefer the active one of reading.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
MopEnN sHoRr sTonY

From the Minneapolis Tribune.
 A conmendabc fra anllness. at least. is to be found in the recipes which various magazines of America have printed for the benefit of their potential contributors. No longer can the contributor be left in doubt concerning the demands of the ordinarily close -mouthed editors.
 The millennium has apparently been reached and stories can now be nanu- factured with the same readiness and by the same process as ready-rnade clothes. Not until this bra nch of art became thor orghly commercialised in our own proud twentieth century did 1t attain to the lofty rank of an exact science. In the old days when crude methods prevailed the poor short story was the victim of certain well-meanhg blunderers. such as Maupassant and Poe and Hawthorne, who denied any Knowledge of the formulas which the magazines now print broad cast. and puttesed and fussed over such petty details as truth, originality. style, construction and philosophy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
Lighthouse Keepers Troubles

Squawling infants, barking dogs and meowing cats, switch engines, ''joy- riders" and scores of other noise mak- ing agencies have been known to keep people awake at night with consequent wear and tear upon their temper, but seldom, indeed, is citizen of the Uni ted States prevented from sleeping by the barking of sea lions.
 Every tourist who has visited San Francisco remembers the sea lions whose weird cries mingle with the roar of the surf on the rocks below Cliff House. They are great attrac- tion to visitors who seldom come away without snapshot or post card pie ture of Seal Rock and the sea lions, but close association with these deni- zons of the deep, day after day and night after night, is just about as pleasant as making ones home in a mcnagerie that is in constant uproar.
 The keeper of the lighthous on Ano Neuvo island, below Pigeon Point, on the California coast, has appealed to &he federal authorities at San Francis @ to relieve him from the pups, which he is forbidden by law to kill. He Says they have increased to such an oxtent that he is afraid they will tn1e possession of the island. Ac- geording to this veracious man, or an oGzaally veracious newspaper cores 6ondont, sometimes when he opens a door a troop will march into the kouse and the scent of food draws tke entire colony to his domocile, bark inx loudly for admittance.
 Worse still, when the lighthouse |tooper retires for a much needed nst, the sea lions stay awake, or &1oop with only one eye closed, for
 ' Sliehtest disturbance starts them
 barking Anyone who has heard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
Age-Herald and the Movies

The Age-Herald is the leading forum in Alabama for the presenta- ton of moving picture news-the form of amusement which now has more devotees in America than all other forms combined.
 The Sunday Age-Herald makes a special feature of this form of news and yesterdays issue was striking example of the completeness and care with which movie" activities are chronicled. Not only are the illustra- tions and gossip of the news columns highly instructive, but the Birming- ham theatre men themselves recog- nize the Age Herald as the leading medium for reaching their patrons and their advertisements always contain messages of interest to those who want to keep in touch with the new attractions.
 This is only one example of the pains taken to make every department of The Sunday Age Herald superior to those of any other publication in the south.
 It is in line with this policy that The Sunday Age Herald added it's Rotogravure Section-the most artis- tic and most expensive feature ever undertaken by southern newspaper. Yesterdays Rotogravure Section con- tained one of the finest collections of views yet published.
 In yesterdays Age-Herald there were 624 separate advertisements, occupying 2S68 inches of space, an increase of 400 inches over the same Sunday one year ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20

story which was not primarily moral propaganda had reason for being, what is an artist? Stevenson, it is true, has been called moralist, "an exponent of militant gayety and bracing bravery of spirit" as someone put it. But the cour7 ageous moral teaching is in the whiplikd snap of the artistic outpouring, and nof in the form of tedious melancholic insis [ tence upon the rightness of the autho1s and the wrongness of mankind. It Is al sunny philosophy expressed by exemplif17 cation, which Is better cheer and betteIs art than philosophy hourly drummed intd the mind of the reader at the expense of both literary style and narrative quality-I
 But to leave alone literary criticism and questions of the merits of individuals, \ what tel n should we use to describe thsl best sellers which, by the score, defy the| rules laid down in the definition quoted < Many of the problem novels so-called | are as unromantic as the report of committee formed to investigate comner{ cialized vice. Romance will not de@ scribe them. And many which strive td be romantic are no more related to life as anyone has experienced it than thu filmed adventures of our leading movie stars.
 If "novep' means something entirely diff | ferent will The Bookman provide a termf by which to describe the average bAs4 seller?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
THE NEGRO IN MUSIC

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
 Assuming that the basis of what is
 termed national music is found in folk
 song. it may be urged that American
 music, so far as it is peculiarly Ameri-
 can. Is based on negro melodies. This
 finds support, for example, In Dvorak' $
 symphony From the New York World, 7,
 which abounds in melodies strikingly sug-
 gestive of our plantation tunes. True,
 it is contended that none of these melo-
 dies is to be found in negro music, in
 the form in which Dvorak wrote them,
 but the influence of the plantation song
 is apparent. Of Indian music, as it sur
 wives to us. there is much to be said, but the scope of negro folk-song is of
 more immediate importance, since its eff feet is more widely felt.
 But the negro is not confined in music to melodies crooned in the field or walled in meetings or chanted on decks. The musician is becoming less essentially negro, and more widely musical. In other words. here and there negroes are writing music; not merely repeating tra- ditional tunes from generation to gen. eration, but composing music that has no racial qualities to set it apart. In cburchel all over the English-spealSing wrold, chors are singing the works of Coleridge-Taylor a negro whose death a few years ago was regretted by all the world of music, and choral societies are singing his beautiful setting of ''Hia- watha' And only last week, Amato, the great Italian baritone, sang in a con cert in New York a song of warning Italy. which was composed by Harry G.
 Burleigh. modern American negro, whose music has been played in Rich- mond frequently. notably by that remark able negro organization, the Clcf Club chestra
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20

Canon Hannay. in the London Daily News.
 C"George A. Birmingham THE day closes early in a great camp. At s;sO the recreation huts
 -@- close their doors. Concerts and en- tertainments are over. The men stream
 back to their tents along muddy roads, laughing. chatting, singing. Lights ap- pear in the tents, and a glow, red or white, shines through the canvas. One after another these are extingushed. The last post sounds from a dozen bugles The multitudinous noises Of camp life die away. The rifle fire which has crackleG all day on the ranges has long ceased. The sputtering of the machine guns in the training camps vexes the ear no more. The heavy explosions of shell-testing are over for another day. Save for the sharp challenge of a sentry here and there. and the distant shrek of a railway engine there is almost unbroken silence for a while.
 At 930 perhaps, or a little later men come silently from the tents and assem- ble on the parade ground. They fall in, small attachments from four or five regi- ments, each forming its own lines of men. They carry rifles. Their packs are on their backs. Their ilaversacks, mess tins, and all the kit of marching infantry are strung around them. A draft from this camp, and many drafts from all this great collection of camps, are going "up the line" tonight. up the line" The phrase means a long railway journey, for the yr.tx -x-;tr l where the railway stops short of the firing line and these men will join their comrades, filling the gaps in many bat talions Some of them are fresh from home, young soldiers. Others, recovered from wounds or sickness, are going back to perils and hardship which they already know. For all of them this is the last pa- rade in safety for many a long day. Henceforth, till the coming of peace re- leases them, or a wound sends them back to rest, or death puts an end to their sol diering, they will go in peril day and night, will endure incredible hardness con- stantly.
 They stand silent At the head of the waiting columns are men with lanterns in their hands, faint spots of light in the surrounding gloom A sharp order is given. There is 8 rattle of arms and ac- coutrements. The men stand at atten- ton. A commanding officer moves through the ranks. He makes his progress up and down the rows of men by the light of the lantern which is carried before him. He inspects each man mnutely. He speaks a few words now and then in low voice. Otherwise the silence is com plete. His inspection is over at last He takes his place at the head of the column and addresses the men. Something of what he says is merely formal orders about discipline on the journey, read from a paper by the light of a lantern held high for him. Then, no longer giving or ders but speaking as man to men. he wishes all good fortune to those who go, assuring them that the hearts of the others who stay behind are with them He stays behind; but there is something in his voice which makes us sure that he would gladly go and not stay if he could He does not say this It is not the way of the English officer to talk heroically or to apepal to sentiment. But
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
WHY FUNSTON WAITED
nm the New York World.

From the New York World
 A great many emotional and excitable patriots cannot understand why there has been so much delay on the part of the army in setting forth to capture vil- la. As our neighbor the Press views it. a great part of the military force of the country was right on the spot" and yet General Funston waited week be- fore crossing the border.
 ''Right on the spot happens to be . frontier of more than 1sOO miles, along which the army was scattered for police purposes. Only a single-track railroad has been available for the concentration Of troops and supplies at Columbus, and if the army had been five times as large it's size would probably have made little difference in the length of time neces- sary to get ready for an expedition of this peculiar character.
 Even after the German army was mobi- lized it was possible to send only lSOU troops into Belgium for the first in vasion, which shows that preparedness Fever means preparedness in the sense that an army can be made instantly ready for anything that may happen.
 The war department has shown sound military sense in giving General Funston q free hand and in refusing to nag him into starting before he was ready. This is serious business. It is not a nov ing-picture performance, and haste Is one of the least important elements in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
War on Tottering Legs

Henry Clews in his Saturday review says in part:
 Wall street has shaken off it's pessi-
 fit of optimism, accompanied by a gen.
 eral increase of activity. This was due mainly to developments in our foreign
 relations which, as usual, seem to control
 financial. operations. The situation in
 Mexico at the present is less serious than at one time feared, and served to divert attention from our German negotiations
 which had been decidedly upon the public nerve
 'The European war is tottering legs, and I anticipate that this summer
 will close up hostilities, and that start for final settlement all around will be
 made. None of the big nations will get Faway with any increased territory. The only change in that respect will be some slicing up of the smaller nations, which will make for a. more permanent peace when it comes. This war will accomplish
 one great result. That is, it will show that all the nations involved have put up an amazing fight, and that the bravery of all has been equally credita1le to their colors. None has shown a white feather
 anywhere. They have shown beyond cavil that their soldiers and people are
 made of the same valiant material as are
 those of this country as evidenced in our
 civil war, both north and south alike, which is our proud record, and that is convincing proof that there will never be another such war. Neither will there be again. between the great nations of Eu- rope, another such fight as at present nor should there be between other great
 nations in other parts of the world, as lthe devastating European war makes 1t i Self evident that there is nothing to be gained in the end from such huge strug- gles compensatory with the sacrifice of human life, destruction of property, gen. eral suffering and dreadful misery en- tailed thereby throughout the entire world. And all for what? God only knows.
 | "On the stock exchange there was in- creased activity Some of the specialties ] made striking advances. Trading was en- outraged by divergencies of opinion and the more hopeful news regarding our rela- | tons with Germany and Mexico. The fav 1 orable conditions referred to above in the 1 domestic trade also exerted a stimulating effect, particularly in the steel shares, 1 United States Steel acting as good mar ket leader. Railroad shares are also re- | ceiying increased attention from investors | because of heir improved financial con ! dition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
A DAYS WORK
From the Montgomery Advertiser.

IOiI Il1S IaonlBOiLcly <AoN SltfpSi.
 What constitutes a days worl1?-Hart- selle Enterprise. Get up in the morning, dress, shave with cheap razor, bring in enough c.al for the day, hold the baby while breakfast is being prepared, eat hurriedly, rush to town work fiercely at your job till dinner; then walk hur- liedly home, hold the baby while the nlid-day meal is being put on the table, then after eating, hurry back to the job. After which, work till 6:30 and go home for the evening meal. and hold the baby while the cook and the housewife arc rreparing the meal After supper put the taby to sleep, bring in some more coal. cut the water off If it's threat ening night, bring the flowers in. put the cat out, and poke up the fire. If that isn't a days work it is because it takes part of the night to finish your tasks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
MARCH
By William Morris.

By William Morris Slayer of the winter, art thou her
 again? Oh. welcome, thou that bring's the sum
 mer nigh! The bitter wind makes not thy victor,
 vain,
 Nor will we mock thee or thy faint blu
 sky.
 Welcome, o March! whose kindly day
 and dry Make April ready or the throstle's song Thou first rcdresser of the winter
 wrong! Yea. welcome March! and though di
 ere June, Yet for the hope of life give tho
 praise, V Striving to swell the burden of the tun That even now hear thy brown bird
 raise. Who sing. 70 joy! new year has begun What happiness to look upon the sun!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-20
HOTEL LOBBIES
At Temple Emanu-EI

"A rare treat is in store for those who attend pr. Edmonds lecture at Temple hmanu-E Fl Tuesday night, under the auspices of the Temple Alumni associa- ton, said Rabbi Newfield. "Dr. Ed monds will tell US of his trip to Europe on cattle boat. Those who have heard this lecture will be glad to hear it again, and those who have not cannot afford to miss it. for it is at once informative and entertaining by reason of pr. Edmonds characteristic humor.
 'The Sunday school orchestra of the temple will render several numbers, and altogether the entertainment will be un- usually interesting"