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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27

prefiv would still remain to worry the dictionary people and to invest the old word "aeroplane" with continued interest and to keep the idea of "aero'' as the essential part of 'airoplane," instead of
 "airplane," ever before one And, again, while committees on words can do much, it is doubtful if at this late day the substitute ''airplane" can be forced into use, since discrepancy between spelling and pronunciation is not fatal; no one worries over the spelling of ''aerated' bread, for instance, even if most people ask for "air-ated' bread when buying it.
 Under the circumstances, therefore, 1t would not seem that the use of "airplane'' would be an improvement even if it be granted that the public never will learn to give "a-er-o-plane'' its four syllables, since the simplification would prove to be a stumbling block in the standardization of all the other "aero'' compounds, which will not be given up and should not be, Moreover, it Is to be remembered that tt simply because the general public refuses to pronounce correctly terms used in any of the sciences or arts immediately the words should be modified in spelling to accord, not with the proper analogies of the language, but with the lazy ways Of the uneducated or the illiterate. No one has ever urged that athletic be written "ath-el-letics," although that Is the common mispronunciation; so why supplant "aeroplanen by "airplane" to make an photographic holiday for the syllable clippers, while keeping "aero- Haut" and 'aerodrome' and ''aerody- namics'' and ''aerostatics"? eLt's have school in pronunciation as well as in aviation for all who can't tell an "aero''
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27

combining all the needed materials close at hand and easily available, that Alabama has an excellent chance to obtain the plant.
 Representative Oliver seems confi- dent that a thorough investigation of this district will be made by the com mission. Its members will not fail to be impressed by the resources of the industrial cities of Alabama, where pig iron can be made cheaper than anywhere else in the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27
HOSPITALITY A PASSING ART.

From the Irish World.
 Hospitality seems to be almost lost art in the present age. The days when the unexpected stranger at the. door was bidden in to eat and sleep are past. In some parts of the west, however, one still finds that open hearted hos pitality in homes where the host and his wife are always glad to welcome any traveller who happens to come to their door, But the modern housewife of the east is almost unacquainted with impromptu entertaining. She must be forwarned in plenty of time before sffe will even attempt to dine a friend.
 It is rather pity that this highest form of hospitality should be allowed to die out. After all, it is not much of a tax on ones hospitality to entertain when the invitation has been given week or so in advance. Any woman can do that kind of entertaining with ample time for preparation.
 But one's true metal as a hostess is shown when a friend arrives unexpect- euly LOT luHcIi, UT WHtu liiS iioii oi '--e. house turns up with business ac- quaintance or two for dinner. That Is a sort of situation which tests the real value of ones hospitality, and un- fortunately very few housewives rise to such occasions at all successfully.
 Don't let impromptu hospitality die out in your home. Encourage your hus- band to bring his friends home for din ner, and your daughter to bring her girl chums to lunch. Keep a stock or canned goods always ready on your shelves, and supply of clean tapie linen Tn vour linen closet for such oc- | n ci
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27

mans ears and eyes are apt to be jolly well open it is out there in the sliny darkness of No Mans Land.
 You may very well chance to stick your hand in the upturned face of a far gone corpse, as did my first time out: but if you do you mustn't shiver-far less grunt-becausees eshivering may make your osldn coat or something elss rustic and draw fire on you and your party. So man needs to have his wits about him when he's over the parapet. and the cooler he keeps, and the more deliberate his movements, the better for all concerned. One needn't loaf, but on the other hand, it Is rather fatal to hurry, and quite fatal to furry, esps- cially when you are crawling among wire, with loose strands of it and giant gooseberries" of the prickly stuff lying round in all directions on the ground to catch your hands and knees and hold you up.
 If you lose your head or do anything to attract attention there, your number is pretty well up. But, on the other hand, if you keep cool and steady, mak- ing no sound whatever and lying per fectly still while Boche flares are up. or their machine guns are trying to locate you, it is surprising how very difficult 1t is for the Hun to get you and what an excellent chance you have of return ing to your own line with a whole skin
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27
TEMPERAMENT
From the Louisville courier-Journa1

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
 A writer of plays has said that he could not write save when sitting at his desk-not a desk, but his own facing black curtain hung behind the desk to obliterate all objects which might interfere with concentration. supdry writers who have worked in cities have found it difficult to work in the country. A humorist confesses that he found it impossible for years to write save when engaged in some other calling. He travelled as a sales man for a wall paper concern ani wrote successful humorous articles in hotels in his territory. But when he felt prosperous enough, as a humorist, to give up his commercial calling he could think of nothing about which to write. He returned to work" and was again able to turn out salable maga
 zine articles and books. It has been believed popularly that temperament IS the exclusive possession, or oppres- sion, of artists. But it appears from facts set down by a writer for "IMdus.
 trial Management the wage earner as well as the writer, the painter, the sculptor, the composer, has his temper amental peculiarities and limitations.
 "A remarkable instance of the effect of environment was exhibited in manufacturing job. An operator. who was turning out steadily, day after day, high number of parts, because of q encouragement of the shop found
 his jig moved to tho other ena of rne
 floor. His production ;n1mediately
 dropped 25 per cent. notwithstanding lis earnest efforts to bring 1t up to
 wEat it had been. Upon returning to his old position, However, he immedi-
 ately got into step again and produce1 the full number of parts"
 "The effect of environment" is merely another term for Temperament" No doubt the mere inconspicuous man who cannot enjoy his book in his library
 unless the cat or the dog is lying on the ahearthrug, or unless he has on his smoking jacket and slippers, has just as much temperament as Caruso, but he hasn't press agent to write about it, and doesn't permit himself to in dulge it when it would interfere with the rights or conveniences of Someone else who would not call it tempera- 1 ment, and who would have no patience with what he would call peculiarities
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

The reason why man acts as if he was boss when his wife has company is because he is afraid to act that way when they are by themselves.
 During the honeymoon the kisses she gives him are kisses of ardor. But later on they are kisses of investigation.
 What has become of the old-fashioned boy who used to get a lot of music out of dragging a stick along a picket fence?
 Things could be worse Just suppose that the bright kids went around tell ing about the smart things their fathers said.
 We'd like to bet that before Adam took Eve for a stroll in the garden he had to wait around for a few hours while she matched autumn leaves enough to make a new girdle.
 If we had to eat our words, some men would have to digest an awful lot of tommyrot.
 It has gotten to a point where some housewives imagine that they are can didates for nervous prostration if they have to telephone for the groceries them selves.
 When there are four or five children in the family and woman needs all the patience she has, and then some, she can't understood why she has to be afflicted with a husband along with her other troubles. A girl may be pretty enough to make you love her after she has been eating onions. But it is different with a man. Another reason why we are fond ot corn feds is because we would rather live with 190 pounds of curves than with 90 pounds of nerves. deep voice is often used to make shallow remarks. A mans idea of hard luck is to be born a cripple. But boys idea of hare luck is to be born on Christmas day. Men. do not wear corsets. But a lot ol them look as though a straight from might help some. Next to hearing herself praised, 5 woman would rather hear some other woman criticized. i Question the fellow who is in trouble and you will usually learn that he flrtec ] with temptation just to show how strong
 he was.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27
B. c. Forbes, in Leslie's.

B. c. Forbes, in Leslies.
 N NDREW CARNEGIE will leave A\ the smallest fortune of any mod s1, ,Ooo, ,OO0, 900 less than John D. Rockefeller S10O 0oO, 900 less than Prick, and less, too, than was left by Morgan, Hill, Hartman. the Harknesses, Russell Sage, Hetty Green or John Jacob Astor. Carnegie has given away $S25. 100000 and has. I am told less than $50, 100000 left--a statement that will cause astonishment.
 Carnegies original investment in steel making was $250,0o0. In 27 years he sold out the Carnegie Steel company to Nor gan's steel corporation for $500, 900, in bonds, nearly s1OO,O 900 in preferred stock and $9000O, 900 common stock. Carnegie, canny Scot, took the bonds and left the stock for his 40 partners, who owned about 40 per cent, and Carnegie about 60 per cent of the Carnegie company. In his Gospel of Wealth" he formu- lated this cardinal article of his faith:
 ''The day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him mil- lions of available wealth, which were free for him to administer during life. will pass away 'unwept, unhonored and un- sung no matter to what use he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him. Of such as these the public verdict will then be: The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.'"
 Elsewhere he has recorded: "I would as soon leave to my son a curse as tho almighty dollar"
 Carnegie has no son. only one daughter, born in 1S97 She will not be one of the worlds richest heiresses.
 Carnnegie, relatively speaking, will die poor. He is now s1 and feeble. An adequate character-sketch of Carne- gie is here impossible. Modern history contains only one character comparable to Carnegie-John D. Rockefeller Car negie created "a new era," the era of stu | pendous philanthropy-no. not exactly a new era, for he had his prototype in the palmy days of Greece and of Rome, when | rulers and wealthy nobles distributed
 largess with equally lavish hand.
 
 l No American has been more extolled--
 and few more execrated. He has been in- vested with all the virtues of saint and condemned as bloodstained tyrant and slave driver. To him some have ascribed wisdom, foresight, and ability
 not less than superhuman; others have portrayed him as a popinjay the incar-
 nation of snug self f-satisfaction, the for tunate creature of circumstances, whose only claim to- distinction he himself sci
 down in the epitaph he composed for his ltombstone-"Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were>cleverel than himself
 He has been called both a capitalistie socialist and czar who refused to coun-
 tenance any man, even the brainiest, al his equal in the realm of business. Be
 cause he has no fixed religious belief tn,
 epithet atheist" has been hurled at hin all through his career, yet he has giver donations for 1000 church organs. Lis
 tening to music, particularly that of tn organ, is form of religious expression
 to him. declares an intimate. : He has been accused of having guar
 reled with and cheated more of his asso
 ciates than any other man in industria
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27
Learn From other FeIIovy

"The sales managers of the Alabama. Goodyear branches met at the Tutwiier hotel for general conference last Sat urday night" said Jewell S. Taylor, local Goodyear manager. More than 15 sales men were present and the good accom- plished by the informal business talks will be of great value.
 Tt does not matter how long a man has been selling goods. he can always learn something from the other fellow. We make it rule at these conferences to tell all of the little personal experi- ences we may have had while bucking competition. In addition to the Alabama men present, W. A. Gardner of Atlanta: w. H. Ector of Memphis, and J. D. Ivey of New Orleans took part in the meet ing. D. M. Caldwell, southern district manager, presided at the meeting and kept the crowd entertained with remin- iscences of the hardships of the tire sales- man in different parts of the world Need less to say, all the men were agreeably surprised to find business conditions here so good.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27
HOTEL LOBBIES
Can They Come Backr

helly's Klan Kan Kun Back"
 That is the slogan the University of Alabama football team, students and alumni have adopted for the Georgia Alabama game here Thanksgiving, ac- cording to Borden H. Burr, president of the University Alumni association.
 We are going out after this game against Georgia with a vengeance, be- cause it will mean much to us in this years rating" said MT. Burr yester- day. Due to the unfortunate outcome of the game against Tulane, our stand- ing at the close of the season will be much lower than it should be unless we can trim the Crackers Thursday. But if we can defeat them by more than three points. the football experts will be forced to give us a high rating.
 We want to make this an annual foot ball event in Birmingham, one that will rank with the Alabama-Sewanee and the Auburn-Vanderbilt contests in point of popular interest. With the governors of Alabama and Georgia both present, and with an assured attendance on the part of prominent people from both states, the outlook is good. Now, if the people of Birmingham will only eat their Thanksgiving dinners a little early and turn out in large numbers, they will witness one of the best games of the season and will help assure the football enthusiasts this contest annually"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27
PASSING TWENTY-ONE

By Leonard Harris. Yes, that sweet year--the year of
 years-has fled, To join the revelers, to lead the clan Of knighted Days of Youth that Forever branded grown" with
 childhood she'd Yet granted one fond year to lightly
 tread 'Twixt Youth and Age, to better form
 the plan Of after years, with Youths touch
 nearer than The grip of Father Time. Thus man is
 led Apart from prancing glee to pace full
 Staid As stealthily as night succeeds the And I submit The revels will be
 played But sweeter when ripe age my work has done And mem'ry dwells on things or JOY that laid My heart that year lived a score
 and one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27
Villa Is Still to
Be Reek@med Wieh

Be l&GcE0nGQ W8eh 1T T is a foregone conclusion that there 0 will be no peace in Mexico until Villa is eliminated. It is too late now to speculate on what would have hap pened if the United States govern ment had recognized him while he was in the ascendency.
 Although at present apparently fighting against great odds, the show ing he is able to make with a small army, indifferently equipped and with out artillery, shows that Villa has not yet lost his ability as a military leader. Given half chance, there is probably no other Mexican commander who could defeat him. In spite of his recent rcverses, he still appears the strongest character and most resource ful man in Mexico. Carranza would be putty in his hands and the first chief probably realizes that as well as anybody else.
 The Carranza forces have made poor showing in hunting down the rev. olutionary leader. In fact, he does most of the hunting himself and the Carranza troops consider themselves lucky if they succeed in beating him off.
 While not forceful man, the first chief seems sincerely desirous to re- establish the government of Mexico on firm basis. He has so far con- ducted himself more like a patriot and less like an ambitious revolution dry than his immediate predecessors in power.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27
Civilians to Become
Secomd LieuGemamGs

Secomd LieuG@mamGs
 77 HE reorganization and increased U strength of the United States army, provided for by the national de- fense act passed by Congress last summer, will require something like 1000 additional second heutenants. Of these about 800 are to be appointed from civil life and already nearly half that number have passed the examina- tion for provisional commissions.
 Not since the Civil war has such a large number of civilians had the op- portunity of becoming officers in the army. It used to be that when there were not enough graduates of West Point to fill vacancies, the list of non- commissioned officers, trained at the Leavenworth school, supplied the de- ficiency. But the demand is now so great that the eligible" list was ex- hausted before the requisite number of second lieutenants was secured.
 The West Point graduating class of 1917 had hoped to come in ahead of the civilians. The adjutant general of the army, who was invested with authority to settle such matters, was petitioned to waive formal gradua- tion in time to advance the cadets ahead of the civilian list, but he de- clined to do so. This was pretty hard on the West Pointers.
 In recent years a second lieutenant could count upon promotion to first ieutenancy within two or three years after his entrance into the army, but with so large a number of officers as the reorganization makes necessary promotion from the lower grades will 
 be very slow.
 The West Point class of next year numbers 14S or 15O, and as they will come behind hundreds of freshly ap- pointed second ieutenants they will be turning gray before reaching the grade of major, unless in the mean time the country should have a big war on it's hands.
 Now that the war department is getting ready to provide the officers for larger army, what will be done to recruit the ranks up to the re- quired strength? There will be no need for hundreds of new second lieu tenants until there is an army for them to practice on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27
CARNEGIlEE'S MILLIONS

history. 'No man ever made so many men millionaires or shared his profits 50 lavishly'' Is the verdict of such men as his bounties and bonuses
 ''The modern Patron Saint of Scotland he has been called-yet the people of his native town, carried away by their in- dignation at his peace views in the. early days of the war; splattered his statue with mud and filth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27
Much Interest in Racing

New Orleans has just closed her first fair and the event was such success that the officials have decided to make It an annual event" said Joseph Spanier who was in charge of the races there.
 There was an average of not less than 5000 visitors in New Orleans daily and some of the most novel features ever saw at fair were given the crowds One thing that impressed me about the week was the widespread interest in the races. No less than 5000 people wit messed the horse events daily. It proved to me that people, despite legislation against racing, are still strong for this form of amusement"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27
ALABAMA PRESS

Dothan Eagle: Now Is the time for all good men to give the Red Cross stamps a good licking.
 Ashland Progress: There's no longer any telling just where the south extends to and the west begins, politically speak ing.
 Cullman Tribune: The first county in the state to take advantage of the new constitutional amendment for the holding of an election to ascertain whether or not the 9-rnin tax shall be levied for the public schools of the county appears to be Jefferson, which has decided to hold an election for this purpose on Febru- ary 6.
 Choctaw Advocate: We realize the temptation that the present high price of cotton furnishes the farmers of our southland. The temptation is great-one that has tendency to cause our farm CTS to plant extensively to cotton next season, but let us hope that the south ern cotton growers, especially the small farmer, will not permit himself to be carried away with it. Diversification is the safe road that leads to success for our small southern farmer-in fact, for all farmers. Hold the production of cot ton in check, let 1t be the sr plus crop and greater still will be the demand and higher the price for cotton.
 
 Albertville Banrer: The announcement that Congressman Burnett is considering making the race for governor of Ala bama will doubtless be joyful news to the fellows who would "roll'' him for his seat in Congress.
 Prattville Progress: If the farmers of Missouri can afford to raise cattle on their land valued at s20O per acre, we can afford to raise cattle on our land valued at s20 per acre.
 Luverne Journal: Alabama Is raising bread and the quality of oceans raised are the best that go on the market.
 IAudueSd dO1ne. blrnnngnAm may procure a silk mill. That would be d. versified industry-from silk to iron.
 Greensboro Watchman: Although it has not been officially announced, it Is gen. erally understood that the amendment proposing to allow the Alabama legisla- ture to meet every two years was de- feated on November ', as it should have been. Four years is often enough. It takes the average person that long to find out all the things the legislative body did during It's brief existence.
 Anniston Star: Judge Hughes went from the supreme bench to anxious bench and now he is off that There is nothing left for him to do but lean up against the bar.
 Centreville Press: The action of the west has touched the hearstrings of the President. It also touched a vital spot in some one else's heart-but we are ae not calling any names.
 Attalla Herald: Attempts to "baby'' the members of the national guard have never met with the approval of the guardsmen. They are grown men and dislike to be made ridiculous
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27
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BEGINNING THE DAY--Lord God, blessed Father, I thank Thee rom my heart that Thou hast so gra1ous- Iy preserved me through this night Fit me for what Thy holy Wal ls' and grant that I may do nothing this day, which can divide me rom Thee. For my Redeemers saAe' Amen.--Fredefick the Great.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-27
Opp0rtuniGies for
 The Small Farmer

TT RUCK farming in counties that
 H are not remote from a market is profitable; and in localities where transportation facilities are favorable or where the producer and consumer can be brought into close relations few mercantile pursuits can be made to pay better. Within the past seven or eight years small farming in Jeff ferson county has increased steadily and in that time some snug little for tunes have been made on fruits and vegetables, poultry and dairying comparatively small investments.
 Any experienced trucker within a radius of fifty or sixty miles of Bir- mingham can save money on a twenty-acre farm; and on forty to eighty acres he soon becomes rich. Many large farms not far from this city have been cut into small acreage and are offered for sale at remark ably low prices.
 The trucker finds great profit in cantaloupes, but there are dozens of other things on which he can special ize and wax rich. In this climate fig orchards can be made to pay hand somely. Another truck crop that is profitable is cucumbers for pickle l factories.
 Homeseekers in the th are now