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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
From the Montgomery Advertiser.

From the montgomery AuVeruSer.
 WS7 7 F. HYPES, sales manager for
 wv the Marshall Field & co., Chi
 eago merchants, says: we prefer to get country boys for our work they stick to it better and are less in- clined to change about" MT. Types also went on to explain that the youth who has had some trade schooling in coun- try stores is better adapted to city sales manship than Chicago raised boys.
 All of that may be true. It probably is. MT. Types knows a salesman when he sees one. He has had a large expe- rience in hiring and firing clerks.
 But suppose what the great salesman why country boys should flock to Chi cago to get a job from Marshall Field or any other Chicago merchant? Is it any reason that country boys should for sake their present opportunities for work in any city store?
 The boy who goes into the city store must keep himself well dressed, and that costs money He must stand on his feet from opening time in the morning till llle dIleTHOOH IS spent. f1e IlluSI Do COli- fined practically the whole day within walls filled with an oppressive atmos- phere; he must breathe air that other people-mixed people-breathed. He must strive to be polite and patient with all sorts and conditions of people, whose manners are usually trying. That costs a man his health and nerves sometimes; certainly it adds nothing to his vigor. Again, a youth in such a position be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
UNPUBLISHED MASTERPIECES

From the Chicago Herald.
 It is announced that in awarding the Columbia University Pulitzer prizes of 5000 each for the best play and the best novel of the year consideration will be confined to novels that have
 been published and plays that have been produced. This for the reason that long experience has shown that the ex-
 animation of unpublished novels and unpresented plays seldom disclose enough merit to justify the trouble. Thus we see another one of lifes beautiful illustrations punctured. It has been 8 great consolation to thousands
 works of genius that couldn't see the light because of the obstinacy of pub fishers and the innate perversity of producers of plays. Now comes great
 university and practically expresses tho
 opinion that about all the novels worth reading get published-not to mention a number probably not worth reading land that about all the plays worth considering secure production in the theatre.
 It is only another step from this position to maintain that all the poetry
 that deserves publication gets pub lished and then there will be abso- lutely nothing left of the conventional
 idea of genius struggling for apprecia-
 tion against a cold and cruel world
 made up largely of publishers who will
 not publish. dramatic producers who
 can't be induced to produce and readers
 who will not be persuaded to read
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
CONCERNING vERs LIBRE

From the New York Tribune
 A poet of distinction in letter treat ing, a. o. t., of the so-called new verse, utters the following bit of criticism:
 If there is anything I find distasteful it is to hear the Tapping of a poets wings trying to fly high. l hear so much of it il. the poetry of today. Not that I lack sympathy for the new movement in verse; it's interesting, and I am sure something is going to come of it. This is the way it seems to me between the old and the new school: The old would-in a way-beep the world of poetry like a cathedral, or fairy island, place to go for refreshments after the toll and moil of daily life-to launder ones soul and scent it with lavender; the new folks wish to bring poetry into every day life, as Paddy does his pipe-to make the Aonian Mount sort of smoking room. There's sonething to be said for both conceptions. The new folks are interest ing-but I do wish they were not so cocky. It's irritating.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
THE LITTLE TOWN O. cARRIcK

THE LITTLE TOWN O. CARRICK By Denis Aloysius Mccarthy. In the little town O Carrick, sure, there
 isn't much to see; If you're wantin' style an splendhor, faith, you'd betther go elsewhere; But the pleasant face will meet you. An the cheery word will greet you, An a bigger-hearted people you will
 never find than there. In the little town O Carrick, sure. there
 isn't much to do; The atthractions of the city, 'tis in vain
 for them you'll seek; But the people there would pity What is laughed at in the city, An there's naught to thrip the trav'ler
 there, an naught to wound the
 weak.
 In the little town O Carrick, sure, the
 houses aren't high; They don't build them forty stories tYnore
 or less) as they do here; But 'tis not the hoghth of houses That the exiled spirit rouses, An the low gray walls O Carrick to her
 distant ones are dear. An the ould Main Street O Carrick, sure,
 it isn't like Broadway; 'Tisn't choked with thrucks of thraffick
 an with limousines of pride; You can cross 1t at your leisure, An you'll find with pleasure That, which ever way you cross 1t.
 there's friend on aither side. An. the lit tie town O Carick, sure, 1t isn't
 much compared With the saiehty fqafts of commerce filled
 with every 3dad of art; But Tn teiiin you this minute That Giere'z srsnething noble in it, An the iitfte towss O Carrick will be al-
 w'ays Hear ny heart!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
 N under the auspices of the Wom- S = ans club, the doctrine that the American moral attitude strifles art, re- grets the absence of the Rabelaisian scholar. or the scholarly Rabelaisian. in American letters. Rabelais, who had his fun with the girls! Rabelais, whose amorous impulses responded vigorously lais the jocund, the red -blooded, the un- trameled! In America, says the Eng lishman, we do not find his like, more's the pity American men of letters, American men of affairs, even American drummers-much to the amusement of Americans who know the Rabelaisianism of the typical travelling man and see the point of the familiar joke about the un- pedigreed kitten which sighed and ad- mitted that its father must have been a travelling man-are "nice.' puritanical, morally bleached, deplorably chaste. and
 show it in their guileless. gentle faces!
 Some allowance for/the period in which
 the two wrote might be made in com pairing Rabelais with, for example, Mark Twain. Rabelais wrote in the sixteenth
 century, Clemens in the nineteenth. Rabelais, called by extreme anti-Rabe-
 aisians, a dirty blackguard, who loved
 the muck for the sake of its savor, is
 regarded as unpardonably indecent by some readers of today who have read him, without reading the works of hls contemporaries, or of writers in France
 who preceded him. Allowance must
 then, be made for the influences of his period, and for the fact that he wrote in the spirit of his hour. He wrote popular books-as contradistinguished from what
 has been called the literary literature of France in the middle ages, which was as pure as it was polite.
 The coarse burlesque was popular in the fifteenth century. and was equal to the coarsest of Rabelais. The ludi- crous. and the now impossibly indecent, which came readiest to the hand of the humorist was handled freely by Ger vantes in Spain at the time Rabelais was writing in France. There are side splitting passages of Don Quixote, " more side-splitting in the sixteenth cen | tury than they are today, no doubt Whlch hardly could pc read 10 a tWen- l tieth century mixed audience in France or Spain.
 l Nearly four centuries of advancement 1 of civilization lie between the period of Rabelais and our own. The passing of four centuries has resulted in the use of the bath, the tooth brush. general in terest among intellectual men and womer l in hygiene, physical and mental. Tn, 1 Rabelaisian point of view, an attitude oi l the period, gives way, inevitably, not only ! in America, but elsewhere, to what g lbiographer of the famous humorist call, 'the considerable refinement of the gen.
 eral taste" insofar as it's reflection 1T letters is concerned. It still is reflected
 without the art which made the work.
 of Rabelais lasting, in the smoking room | of the sleeper when the drummers art
 swapping yarns. The travelling man witt his little red book containing record of the ''gaits and qualities" of the girl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
To Visit Chief Cities

'The question of getting the federal ar- nor plate plant board to come to Bir- mingham and look over our proposition is being agitated by a number of citi- zens," said Morris w. Bush, president of the Birmingham Chamber of Com merce. yesterday following a meeting of the Realty exchange This is just ex- actly what the committee wanted and when Birmingha brief was presented we asked the board to come down. The same invitation was made by the other 125 cities and towns contending for the plant The board, however, very wisely avoided the issue by refusing to visit any of the places.
 q had the information before leaving Washington, however. that after the board had gone over the briefs and thrown out all except the principal con tenders, that a personal visit to the most favorable points would be made"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
LUKE NI,LUKE SAYS

It is all right for a womans to have
 some self-confidence. But she should never get to a point where she gets a
 yen to support a husband.
 We have always found that the man
 who is most easily approached is the
 hardest to get away from.
 It isn't so blame cold yet. But a
 woman who has a swell set of furs
 would rather sweat than be seen on the street without them. It is none of our business. But we'll bet that the reason a woman is so afraid that her husband will get pneu- monia because he wears light under wear Is because she sin't wearing any underwear herself so you could notice it. Some girls lie about the number of
 men who have asked her to marry them. But an heiress isn't one of them. A man won't get out of bathtub to answer the telephone when it rings. But woman has more curiosity than that Some wives imagine that if they hang g. few God Bless Our Home" mot toes around the house they do not have to assume any of the Responsibility themselves.
 And the ld-fashioned wife who had Ia w ndC 1S f1OIue without a MOLneTs motto on the wall now has a married
 daughter who iS raising a poodle. Every man may not earn the salary he receives. But every wife does. After a heavy hailstorm people may disagree about some of the things thai happened. But they will all agree thai the hailstones were as big as hens eggs.
 Men are pretty ornery. But we wont
 lose our faith in them until we heal
 of one suing his divorced wife for al. imony.
 One difference between poverty ant wealth is that when wealth gets yol into trouble 1t will also get you out. Any man who has raised "a family
 can tell you that a single man has nc business having grouch. The surest way not to get a thini
 done is to wait for someone else tt do it.
 | When he and she are together be fore marriage, it is conversation. Bu when he and she are together after marriage. it is a monologue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
JOHN WALSH, HERO
From the New York Telegram.

From the New York Telegram.
 John Walsh, a fireman attached to hook and ladder company No. 8, was called to fire headquarters by Commis- sioner Robert Adamson and officially commended for heroism at the Houston street fire in effecting a difficult and thrilling rescue of a woman.
 The New York fire department is full of heroes, but they are so quiet and un- assuming, performing gallant deeds as mere incidents of their calling, we hear too little of them
 It is refreshing to turn from reading of the footing of the city of Yonkers Sy ring of political grafters and con- template the modest heroism of another kind of civic official Fireman John Walsh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
Ward Should Be Kept I'm Office

ward SM0WlG Be Kept I'm OfflcG
 \N NHILE Commissioner Are Barber has made formal
 w of his candidacy succeed President George B. Ward head of the city commission, he acknow edges that the idea of increase salary peases him and esses himself keen desrous of another ndcaton at the polls"
 The AgeHerad is unquafedy in favor of reeectng Mr. Ward, of his type to the position he has filled with honor to himself and to the best interest of Birmingham
 The present city commission has had much to contend with It has been under fire practically all the tme It has faced problems that seemed at times nsuperabe particularly in gard to the c finances and the maintenance of government economical basis without mparng its efficiency As everyone knows shortage of funds has proved tremendous handicap Yet this situation has been met we'll could be expected and much better than dissatisfied citizens diced Birmingham is not yet bankrupt and will be-
 Mr. Ward the head of the commission has done than any other member of that body bring something like order out of chaos He is capable leveheaded business and not faddist His advice has always been temperate and pedent He Is not afflicted with the Roosevelt form of egosm He is not noerant he In fact he is the type best fitted be at the head of the city commission Successful in business has had much experience municipal affairs both under the old regime and president of the commission Mr. Ward has made enemies but say fought openly and above board in all his tests Under the circumstances is doubtful anyone else could have accomplished than he has, He has made mistakes but who has not? In the main his record able If he for reelection which he will probably do he should be retained in his present position.
 Mr. Barber who is ambitious head the commission has not the temperament the executive ability that the place quire He made noise and accomplished less real constructive work than any other member of the commission
 The people Birmingham tired of being harangued; they tired of ensatonaism and Mr. Barber spectacular efforts stir up trouble the city hail. He acts and talks he and he between the helpless people and the forces of corruption in every fom from Standard Oil to the booegger and the house of epute As seconsuted guardian of the rights and liberties and morals of the community he has achieved notoety that has damaged Brminghams standing abroad stranger who here knows what to expect and frankly surprised at nothing that Mr. Barber under takes.
 Decidedly he is not the who should be the head of the citv government or member of the commission Birmingham needs pbudng of the right It should enjoy peace and prosperity without being kept continuously in political ur noil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
Will Crawl If
Woodrow Loses

M T last the man with an eccentric GN VOW turning upon the presi- dential election has arrived. He IS Dr. Charles Gray Shaw, professor ot psychology at New York university. He lives temporarily at Asbury Park, but his voting place is at Freehold. He is going to walk from his home to Freehold. distance of twenty miles, in the forenoon of November 7, and if his candidate, President Woodrow Wilson. should be defeated the pro lessor will manifest his lamentation by swalking back to Asbury on his hands and knees"
 Every four years, when President is to be chosen, cranks, usually from small towns, come along and register VOW to perform some odd feat in case their side loses. In other days 1t was mite common for two men to make wager. on the condition that the one who lost was to roll the other in a wheelbarrow through the main street. Among democrats freakish VOW used to be to let the hair and beard grow untrimmed when his party was defeated, until it was victorious again.
 Dr. Shaw is the first "high brow to make a freak VOW He is not only technically trained in soul science, but he is mighty sprinter. He walked from Philadelphia to New York in the shortest time on> record. But he has never tried locomotion on his hands and knees so far as the public is in- formed. He has made this sort of vow to emphasize his faith in the outcome of the election. May his democratic optimism be rewarded; but if Wilson should lose the professor can be re- lied upon to do what he says, and thereby contribute to the gaiety of nations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03

The return of Brooks Lawrence to Ala bama is regarded as highly significant in political circles, as the prohibition leader is not gentleman who travels much for his health.
 :s i: * There are doubtless few horses left on the farms out west, but the country roads are cluttered up with automobiles most of them made by a famous pacifist of Detroit.
 Looking at football coach in action, person wonders how that useful mem- Der of society endures the strain without a physical and mental breakdown.
 * * j:
 When a woman has on pair of nifty boots and an extra high skirt, 1t really doesn't matter what sort of hat she's wearing. Nobody notices that.
 !. .s *
 The high price of materials has also affected the toy market. The inventive youngster who can make his own play tnlngS IS Joy 10 ms parents. Conditions in Mexico, are said to be im- proving. Judging from his renewed ac- tivity, the physical condition of "Pancho" Villa is also improving.
 A * A Chicago newspaper publishes what is claimed to be the first profile picture of Mrs. Wilson. Must say it looks quite as well as the front view.
 * *
 No matter whether there is a dearth of good plays or not, there is always plenty of amusement provided for the tired business man.
 Preparations are being made for a big New Year celebration in New York's restaurants, regardless of the way the election goes. It is possible for surgeons to give a man new stomach, but if he is short of brains there isn't much hope for him. ;
  prohibition is joke now, but wait until their supply of liquor runsA out! * * * The Germans claim that they now have plenty of cannon on hand, but how about their supply of cannon fodder? ~ Captain Koenig talks like man who doesn't even suspect that he follows ar extra hazardous calling. * <; i: ] It's lucky for the peace of this country that every man who is mentioned for al office doesn't run for it.
 
 l Charles Warren Fairbanks will prob ably never succeed in making his nam, a household word. * < * l Jess Willard is for Hughes Jess nat urally lines up with the moneyed crowd. * l With all due respect to Dre Wilson, h, overworks the adjective solemn"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03

en prepared for service in commissariat, war office. in all deparrments which must be enlarged or created-as passport and censor officers, in every department under the national, state and municipal govern ments.
 "Such will be the national service re- quired of women. And our immediate and pressing task is to plan how we should be prepared to shoulder our burden"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
EIughes' sgtrikimg Lack
 of SGatesEmamshHp


 M7O matter how able jurist MT. IN Hughes may have been, he is singularly deficient in statesmanship. One of the objections raised by many proqressives to the nomination of the associate justice was that the public knew not how he stood on any im- portant question. Since becoming the nominee of the republican party he has lodged nearly every issue. His speeches have been woefully disap pointing to the more intelligent of his supporters.
 MT. Hughes has talked more than the most fluent political orators ever talk, and yet he has said not word that conno5ed a constructive mind. There has been no suggestion of statesmanship in his harangues. With all the prodding which he has been subjected to he has failed to tell how he would have acted had he been in President Wilson's place. He has been content to find fault and utter platitudinous phrases.
 His so-called arguments" have been merely what he wouldn't have done. His boldest declaration and at { the same time the least appealing to athe average sane citizen was in his Milwaukee speech. "The whole demo- cratic accomplishment" he said, must be wiped off the books for the good of the country" Twenty-two business men addressed an open letter to MT. Hughes to inquire if, in the event of his election, he would set to work to have repealed the federal reserve act, "with the insurance against panic and the facilities it has given us for mak- ing credit accessible to the deserving smaller business man, as it hitherto has been available to the largest busi- ness men,"
 That question and eight others re- lating to great measures of far-rcach- ine concern, placed on the statute
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
GOOD REASON

"so you are going to vote for Wilson," "Yes," replied the slangy politician.
 "But I thought you were rockribbed republican,"
 q don't mind being considered rock ribbed, but events have convinced me that if don't vote for Wilson I will also have concrete dome"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
AFTER ALL

Hopefulness will keep men smiling, All the cares of life beguiling,
 Even in a campaign year.
 Though their candidates defeated, Such men won't get overheated,
 Nor will shed a. single tear. Sooth, the sun will keep on shining, What excuse is there for whining?
 Things will rock along the same. Only here and there some fellow Maybe'll show a streak of yellow
 Cause he played a losing game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
sbopninr at Home

Birmingham equals the east in the ad- vantages which it offers to shoppers, ac- cording to Mrs. J. D. Dunlap of Gads- den, who is spending part of the week in the city.
 'I intend to go east in a week or two, but what was the use of waiting to buy my coats and frocks when I had an op- portunity of making as good selection in Birmingham? I thought it over and got on the train, and here I am," she said yesterday.
 'Ive bought almost everything need, and I intend to buy the rest tomorrow. The friend I am going to visit wrote me of the latest styles in New York. I've found simh3r models here.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE H. c. OF L.

THE H. C. OF l.. The high cost of living This lesson doth teach: A turk" for Thanksgiving Is out of my reach.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. Over this coming meal In worry I toss; How empty I'll feel Without cranberry sauce.
 Peoria Journal. And two piunks a bush. For spuds. Oh, gee whiz. Won't somebody tell us Why Thanksgiving is?
 Houston Post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
SUCH PEoPLE!

''The Jibways want to borrow our car for this evening""
 'I admire their nerve.''
 You haven't heard the worst" "Well?"
 They also want to know if we'd ob- ject to their pasting label over our monogram
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
DIDN'T KNOW M,KINLEY

From The Fighting Man." by WiIliam A.
 Brady. Bobhs-Merrill Co.
 Once when William Mckinley was gov- ernor of Ohio he and Corbett had long chat in a parlor of the principal hotel in Columbus. As they walked down the steps into the office a drummer stand- ing near said, There goes Corbett!" h. stantly there was furor. and another drummer standing near asked. ''Who is the little man with him?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
POSITIVELY TAME

POSITIVELY TAME "Now. this dance number strikes me as being-er-a trifle too daring for the average theatre audience"
 where have you been for the past few years?"
 ''Oh around and about"
 T suspect you've been asleep. There are any number of debutantes present who consider this dance too slow for words" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-03
Grand opera Humor

Grand opera may be all right said Jack Murray of Chicago, "but with Ring Lardner I'm one of those who can't ap- preciate it. I remember once I went to some opera with a girl, and she sat there during the whole thing with her eyes turned heavenward, and her mouth wide open. I just naturally couldn't see any excuse for it. Well, when the opera star had about quit singing, and the man, for a change, had decided not to in- terrupt her, and the music was going soft and dreamy like, I whispered to the girl to shut her mouth.
 "At least I meant to whisper. What I did was to scream it out. The scream just skipped upon me. You know how it is sometimes. Everybody in the or chestra heard me. I can say this. much for myself, though: I got laugh, and that was more than the opera got all trough I thought it was extremely funny.