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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
ACCORDING TO LAW
From tho Lufkin News.

From tho Lufkin News
 If a man were to give another an orange he would just simply say. T give you this orange" but when the transaction Is intrusted to the hands of a lawyer to put in writing he adopts this form: q hereby give and convey to you, all and singular, my estate and interests right. title, claim and ad. vantages of and in said orange, to- gether with all of its rind, skin, juice, pulp and pips, and all right and ad- vantages therein with full power to bite, cut. suck and otherwise eat the same, or give the same away. as fully as I. the said A. B., am now entitled to bite, cut, suck or otherwise eat the same orange or give the same away with or without the rind. skin, juice, pulp or pips, anything herein before or hereinafter or in any other deed or deeds, instrument or instruments of whatever nature or kind soever to the contrary in any wise, notwithstand- ing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

woman doesn't need to go around half-naked in order to attract atten- tion. There is something wrong with any man who won't take a second look at pretty face.
 What has become of the old-fasb toned man who used to announce that you were gentleman and a scholar when you purchased him drink?
 pr. Eliot claims that there is no hell. We'll, we'll bet that the doctor never came home to friend wife and forgot to remove a pair of elbow-length gloves. a perfumed handk erchief and some hairpins from his pockets before she frisked them.
 When a woman has figure like a bed slat, her female friends are all ways generous enough to admit that it Is natural.
 The woman who fails to attend the weekly gab fest held by her Sewing club wonders why she feels so run down that day.
 Another good bet is that if woman is a good housek eeper. the stockings she is wearing around the house hav., holes in the toes.
 The day girl puts on her first cor set she just naturally can't help dreaming about her wedding dress and selecting her bridesmaids.
 We do not know much. But we do know that if you praise the bread and the cake. the hostess isn't going to fess up and admit that she bought 1t at the bakers
 The reason why scratchy beard ir- ritates woman when she has been married to you for 10 years Is because it never worried her bit when she was engaged to you.
 man likes to see his wife get hooked up in conversation with some other woman who is the champeen talker of her neighborhood because It makes him feel good to see how his wife suffers when she has to do part of the listening.
 We have no objection to those flat shoes without heels that the princesses are wearing. The only trouble is that they make the princesses walk as if they were wearing lsnowshoes
 corn fed girl is always handi- capped when the hammock on the lawn season Is on. But now that the lounge ge-in-the-fron room season Is here she has as good chance as the other girl.
 We all have a good many theories that we would like to have some other fellow practice.
 You may have some difficulty in To- eating the most beautiful woman in the world. But if you want to locate the smartest man in the world just stop the first man you meet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
Duration of War

T was very much interested in the interview of Frederick Palmer, consid- cred the worlds most famous war corre- spondent, concerning the time in which the war would end In Europe" said James Enrich. While I must admit that MT. Palmer Is a very astute war correspondent do not think 1t Is within the power of any man to come close to predicting the exact time in which the war will end
 The late Earl Kitchener said that the war would last from three to five years. It has been going on for two years and four months now. would rather take the word of the late commander-in-c chief of the British forces than that of Fred erick Palmer. As matter of fact, the duration of the war Is problem too ab- struse for the people to figure on. The sooner it is over the better 1t will be for all concerned. If 1t lasts many months longer Europe will be a desolate waste so far as vigorous manhood is concerned. The old the young and the crpples will be all that is left if the slaughter con- tinues for three years longer, as pre- dicted by Palmer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
A MORO IN THE LIMELIGHT

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 This will introduce Hadjii Butu. The gentleman has not heretofore been known to fame but he Is an important person and 1t Is well to get him firmly fixed in ones mental Who's Who. Butu -or should one call him Hadjii?-is a symbol as well as an individuals; q milestone. as 1t were, in peoples rise to the dignity of a nation.
 Hadjii is a Moro and the first of his race to sit in the Philippine senate. Just the other day, as time Is reck- oned loosely, he was prime minister of the Sultan of Sulu, agent of a wild, unorganized state within a state: now he assumes the dignity of lawmakel by authority of the Congress of tho
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
s 'eDARKY'' CONTRIBUTORS?

From the Louisville Courier-J Journal. E7T7 HE COURIER-JOURNAL has pub
 lished letter from William War
 ley. a negro, in which objection is made to the use of the term "darky'' in the sporting column of the Courier Journal
 "High-minded editorials mean nothing" says our critic, If in the news columns the race is ridiculed and libeled.
 we submit that such slurs Che use of the terms sdarky' and 'blackD in- crease race prejudice. We can not believe that such words as Sheeny' and Mick would be used by any reporter on your staff"
 One of the primary rules of the city room Is that the gratuitous use of terms offensive to a race, a class, a sect shall be avoided; that the same degre of con sideration that is shown for the dignity, the pride the possible sensitiveness of the interest of fairness, and in applica- tion of the principle that the amenities of polite conversation must be observed in the columns of the press. A news paper, It's columns filled by many indi- viduals, its 'copy" read rapidly, does not succeed invariably in making It's every line a model of tact. It Is not proved malignant or inconsistent because, be- tween the shank of the evening and the cold gray dawn of the morning after thoughtlesS word or phrase or line injures the feelings of reader, or g. class of readers. If, however. the use of the term "darky'' or black were. upon the part of the Courier-Journal deliberate, would it be contemptuous?
 In Stephen Fosters famous song. My Old Kentucky Home," there occurs the following line:
 "'Tis summer, the darkies are gay"
 In ''Old Black Joe' a stanza Is some thing like the following:
 I'm coming, Pm coming,
 For my head is bending low.
 heah de angels voices callin'
 Ole Black Joe."
 In negro folk songs and highly senti- mental plantation songs written by white persons, but sung in every cabin in the south during the days of slavery, and sung widely in the south today, the use of "darky'' and of black" as descrip- tive is common The white and negro races never are more closely in sympa- thy and more respectful mutually than
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26

when under the spell of the old-fash- toned songs, many of them humorous ones hitting off the racial characteris- tics, the foibles of negroes, and describ- ing them as "darkies'' or even "niggers," because those were slang terms employed familiarly by negroes and whites during the period of slavery.
 It was reported sometime ago that . public library in a southern state had excluded Mother Goose" because of the blithesome Bit in which occur the lines; This is the way the gentlemen ride,
 Trot, trot, trot
 This is the way the farmers ride,
 Gallop, gallop, gallop.'
 The objection lodged against the ad- mission of Mother Goose as a whole was that in this particular lyric it made a distinction between gentlemen and farmers. 4 Upon the unassailable ground that a farmer may be. and often Is, as much gentleman as banker or mer- chant. a doctor or lawyer, Mother Goose" without knowledge of which
 
 firmly ndded The censors went out Of their way to discover offensiveness.
 It is conceivable that there might be negroes who would find Polk Miller's sorgs, or "Old Black Joe," or My Old Kentucky Home" offensive, but they are exceptional They belond to the class of hunters for trouble who invariably find it. A sufficiently refined faculty for discovering the offensive could see an indictment of the morality of the ne- gro race or an affront In the form of a choice of terms in that rousing old-tme plantation song the refrain of which was: e"Oh. darlsies. there's a good tine connin' For Massa's g'wine away.'
 Newspapers and individuals nowadays usually avoid, in abundance of caution. race or class. Among those terms. un- doubtedly Is 'darky." Yet who that knew the south before the war. or knows the south at the present time, does not know that wherever banjo has twanged in the moonlight an accompaniment of negro songs sung by negroes 'darky'' has occurred in songs celebrating the happier phases of the close relationship between the races in plantation life. and that it is rarely. if ever, employed with the feeling that Is reflected in the use of ''Sheeny'' or 'Dago' or Mick"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
A coNGREsswoMAN's SPEECHES

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
 The Hon. Miss Jeanette Rankin. one of the members of Congress-elect from Mon- tana, says making speeches doesn't bother me a bit" but reassuringly adds that T don't know just how I stand on many questions. I will consider each as 1t comes up." Elected as republican. Miss Rankin will have the advantage of the republican national platform as a general guide. and she may be trusted to have the mother wit to deal with all official duties. She promises to think as well as talk. It Is encouraging to note that she sees the difference. Making a speech should be based on the mastery pardon the gender of the word) of the subject. Then, if the power of express sion Is terse and lucid. the speech ought to bemore than mere sound. and signify something. Miss Rankin has no fear of stage fright when making an address, and no one need be who is thoroughly up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
IN MEMORY OF @NEDn HARRIGAN

From the New York Herald.
 The gathering of 500 old-tirne freouen- ters of the Theatre Comique to do honor to Edward Harrigan, of blessed memory, conveys a lesson that all serious students of the drama should heed and theatrical managers profit by. No body of citizens celebrates in like manner the memory of A. M. Palmer, of Augusta Daly or of Lester Wallack-ali contemporaries of Harrigan and esteemed by the public of that day as of greater artistic distinc- ton.
 In fact, it was the habit of the hyper critical to refer to Harrigan and Hart's entertainment as variety show" us- ing the term as one of obloquy. It was, in- deed, the very finest fruit of the variety stage, now recognized as our national theatre by those wise in theatrical mat ters. In assembling the company that was destined to outlive in memory all Of it's contemporaries. Harrigan drew from the variety profession many of it's best "teams'-inen who like himself and his partner Tony Hart, were accus- toned to playing together and who could extract from a 15-minute sketch every possible flash of humor. It was in team work' of this sort that the old fash toned variety actors excelled, and with such men as Wild and Gray, Goss and Fox, and Herman and Cronin the enter tainment was so closely knit that 1t had not dull moment.
 When variety, in which feeding was an honored art, was superseded by "re- fined vaudeville" and dramatic schools began to teach facial expression" our stage entered upon its present era of de- cline.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
THE WORKERS.

Of heroes there are many,
 You meet them everywhere; Not all on fields of battle.
 Nor in the spotlights glare. Full oft they are but toilers,
 Unheralded, unsung, by whom the gleamlng railway
 Across the waste is flung, The soaring bridge uplifted
 That spans mighty stream, Those lasting works perfected, Of which the pioneers dream. They labor in the desert
 And in the roaring town; w here grimy shafts of peril
 Deep in the earth go down; In crowded office buildings,
 Out in the open plains; With hands upon the throttle
 They speed the flying trains And where the white-hot metal
 Flows to the waiting mould They keep the worlds wheels turning Tend fires that ne'er grow cold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
HOTEL LOBBIES
Camera In Warfare

The kodak craze is more evident every day." said S. J. Stevenson, southern sales
 manager of the Ansco company. Each year sees a greater increase In the sale of cameras than the year before. Almost every traveller now equips himself with a camera, in order to firmly impress upon himself. as well as others, the wonders he has seen during the course of his travels.
 There are more than 100 models of
 ameras made by the various kodak manufacturers in the United States. The prices range from $1 up and the demand $ so great right now that orders are booked ahead, for the next three months. suppose the actual price of the cameras IS the only thing that has not increased during the war times. It Is true that the films have gone up some and the chemicals for development have more than tripled in value.
 The warning nations in Europe are using the kodak or camera to a great extent In their campaign against one an- other. There are thousands of kodaks in the service of every belligerent nation in Europe. About half of the airplanes are equipped with specially constructed cameras for the purpose of taking pie lures of the enemys trenches. This modern warfare calls into play every sort of scientific device known to man."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
COMING MONEY.

That's the most realistic wild man I ever saw His contortions are horri- ble."
 Just confdentia1ly," said the side show manager, 'T'11 tell you what's the matter with poor Sam He's suffer- ing with jumping toothache. It seems a shame to make him stay in his cage all day, but look at the business we're doingw
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
EEoliday Spirit
 All 4eryadlimg

T1THISsis Thanksgiving week and the
 O holiday spirit will be all per- vading until we enter upon the new year. Generous hearted men and women and charity workers in Bir- mingham and other cities are busy with plans to aid the needy, for no Thanksgiving festival fully meets the high purpose of it's observance with out combining relief activities with praise to Almighty God for His mani- fold blessings. The Mercy Home, one of Birmingham's most deserving and tenderly regarded charities, is being we'll remembered, and all institutions that care for the poor and neglected will be the objects of especial atten- ion this week.
 It used to be that Thanksgiving Day was only an occasion for religious
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
OF COURSE NOT.

"This health expert says bad cook ing causes more divorces than any thing else"
 "oh, you can't believe all the ex- perts say. Now I have it on good au- thority that cabarets cause more di- vorces than anything else, yet hard ly anybody goes to a cabaret to. eat"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26

BEGINNING THE DAY--"If Iib- erty Is to be saved 1t will be by the faith of individuals who believe that God wills man to be free but also pure; it will be by the seekers after holiness, by those old fashioned piOus persons who speak of immortality and eternal life, and prefer the soul to the whole world; 1t will be by the enfranchised chii- dren of the ancient faith of the human race."--Amiel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
Favors Warrior Canal

"The Warrior canal, which the Bir- mingham Real Estate exchange Is be- hind, is one movement that all Birmlng- ham seems to be united on," said Secre- tary Robert McDavid. Since we started plans for our meeting, to be held tomor- row night, I have talked with several hundred business men about the matter, and there seems to be one general re- sponse in favor of it. The fact that Bes- semer and Birmingham are working hand in hand in the matter is one thing that makes 1t so interesting, and we hope to show the government that not only Bes- semer but Birmingham and this entire district is heartily in favor of the canal being built. Tt Is at least one way to utilize the Warrior river, which the gov ernment has spent several million dol lars opening up. and which is now prac- tically useless to the Birmingham dis trict'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
PASSING or SOCIAL TAvoR1rE.

PASSING OF SOCIAL FAvoRITE. Here lies the dust of William Walls. Erstwhile brokers clerk; He paid so many party calls He had no time to work. And when his boss said, You must
 go."
 It proved no idle boast, For William went and fell so low, He soon gave up the ghost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
EXTRA LARGE SIZE.

There goes Miss Grabcoin, the heiress. It is said that duke once drank champagne out of her slipper"
 Possibly so," answered the caustic young woman. Some of those foreign noblemen have an astonishing ca pacity for wine"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26

services in making grateful acknowl- edgement to the Creator for the boun- ties of the year, but it is coming to partake more and more of the Christ mas spirit, insofar as it has to do with making those around us happy, or of ameliorating the condition of those who are suffering from bodily ills or who are heart-sore and heavily bur- dened.
 President Wilson stresses the chari- ty side of Thanksgiving in his procla- mation and Governor Henderson in issuing his proclamation follows in the same tone. No feast of good things indulged in by the rich or well-to-do can bring real enjoyment unless those feasting have share in providing for the afflicted.
 A fitting feature of this Thanks giving Day will be the sale of Red Cross Christmas seals for the benefit of the anti-tuberculosis fund. The Jef- ferson county association has been do- ing beneficient work for several years past, and the state league is now thoroughly organized for effec- tive service.
 Governor Henderson, in testimony of his lively interest in the cause, will appear in the role of auctioneer at the football game Thursday and dispose of sheet of one hundred seals to the highest bidder The nominal price of the hundred would be S1, but with spirited bidding they should bring SlOO or more. It is only by the sale of the seals that the league can count on raising money with which to carry on its labor of love. It hopes this year to sell ten million of the little tokens. In this time of world suffering Thanksgiving in this land of plenty would be an empty formality indeed if the idea of relief did not find a con- spicuous place and large expression. The new problem plays are interest ing, but Lincoln J. Carter knew how to run an express train over a bridge at the psychological moment in q good old-fashioned melodrama. * * * The gay college boys visited the Age-Herald building yesterday morning at a time when most of The Age Herald employees were asleep. but they were nevertheless welcome. * * * Jack London seems to have been d hero to his Japanese valet. Some very great personages have failed to stand that test of character.
 
 The new Emperor of Austria Is said to be popular with his soldiers. De- ponent sayeth not whether or no he's popular with the ladies. * k * If Charley Fairbanks wants to do the handsome thing he'll emerge tenn porarily from cold storage and felici- tate Tom Marshall * * * If MT. Bryan would take notion to go abroad and stay there for the rest of his life old John Barleycorn would breathe easier
 Vienna makes brave show of mourning for the late Francis Joseph, but theatre managers will doubtless grumble bit.
 Sir Hiram Maxim was another Amer | ican inventor who had to go abroad to be appreciated at his true value. ' It will be positive relief to safe and sane people when all freak cleo ton bets are paid. That proposed NO Meat" day is a blow directed at the roast beef of old England.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
A DIFFERENT MATTER.

DO you look for peace in Europe?
 "oh, yes" replied the purist. 'Tn the sense that hope peace will be de- clared before long. but would con- slider it the utmost folly to go abroad as MT. Ford did and look for peace"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-26
UmiEorrra of the Service
Shouuld Be H0m0red

Sh0GGl@ Be FI0Bl0TGd
 1.-TWO theatrical men of Brooklyn
 U are to be tried this week on the charge of barring four United States sailors in uniform from box in their theatre. The managers claim that the box in question was sold out to "one party" but acknowledge that the tickets held by the sailors did not call for any particular box seats.
 Just why enlisted men of the navy should be discriminated against by the proprietors of public resorts, such as theatres, parks, restaurants and hotels, has never been determined, but cases of mistreatment similar to that fin Brooklyn are unfortunately not rare. However, public sentiment does not uphold any hotel, restaurant or the atre manager who objects to men in uniform, be they sailors or soldiers, regardless of what few of his pat rons may think. Patriotism in this country is still paramount to snob- berg.
 The injustice of such discrimination must impress any fair-minded person. Of course, when an enlisted man is in- toxicated or unruly he is not entitled to any more consideration than any one else who does not believe in a gen. tlemanly manner, but the uniform of the service should command respect everywhere and at all times.
 Kipling, in one of his "Barrack Room Ballads" expressed the senti- ments of the English "Tommie," who is given scant consideration in time of peace, but becomes hero when sum- moned to fight for the glory of the British empire.
 All honor to our "jackies" and our 3boys in khaki" Any misguided the atre manager, whether of foreign ex- traction or home product, who thinks they are not good enough to sit any, where, even in the Golden Horseshoe" at the Metropolitan, mistakes the at- titude of few snobs for the temper of the American people.
 BIrEnimghaSm and
 JacksoE1 Highway
 TIT HE adjourned meeting of the di- z rectors of the Jackson Highway association to be held in this city shortly to consider the question of adopting a branch route that would embrace Birmingham will probably decide in favor of such proposition. In selecting the Mississippi highway as the official route between the Ten nessee line and New Orleans the board was evidently influenced by sentiment rather than physical considerations. General Jackson's trail in Mississippi, along which part of the route lies, Is supposed to have been the convinc- ing factor. As to the quality of road bed, to say nothing of scenery, or the number of cities included, the Alabama route had the advantage.
 On the Mississippi route there is much larger unimproved mileage than was found in this state. Between \ Montgomery and Nashville most of the road is hard macadam, and in an- other year it is safe to assume that the road all the way from Nashville, through Alabama to Mobile, will be in practically first-class condition for automobile travel.
 No Alabamian should wish to put . crimp in Mississippi's ambition or its enterprise. If our neighbor had presented the most attractive line that