The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-29

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The present organic law pro-
at home and abroad. Let's rem
in favor Of the savings bank an
leaders in social service and university
life.
The republican party stands for re-
action and boss rule. If there are in
tellectual and high-minded men among
the republicans now it is largely be-
cause they do not wish to quit an or
ganization that they have supported
these many years. They are certainly
not there because the republican party
is animated by lofty ideals, for such a
thought is foreign to the party's pres
ent-day being. Conviction it has none.
Not in long years has the democratic
party so clearly or so forcibly demon
strated its capacity for constructive
and beneficent legislation as in the last
three years and half. And it's appeal
to peace-loving, independent and self
respecting Americans should be de-
termining at the polls on November Z.
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N OVERNOR BRUMBAUGH Of
W. Pennsylvania is credited with
saying that 95 per cent of the girls at
tending school don't know how to
cook an egg. He might have said that
95 per cent didn't know how to boil
water, and the assertion would not
have been denied.
What with learning all the latest
dance steps, keeping up with the ac-
Invites f
How Many Schoolgirls male movie
Know How to Cook? stars an d
pairing
herself for future social conquests, in
addition to devoting more or less at
tention to her school books, the aver
age miss simply has no time for cult
nary training. There are, of course,
schools where girls are taught to cook,
along with other subjects, as we'll as
schools limited to domestic science, but
the girls Governor Brumbaugh had in
mind, by far the most numerous, are
not ambitious little biscuit makers and
gas stove magicians.
Furthermore, the governor seems to
think that cooking an egg is simple
matter. Maybe he is one of those for
tunate individuals who always gets
his eggs exactly the way he wants
them and is therefore one person in a
thousand Kitchens presided over by
$40, 000-a-year chefs cannot cook eggs
more than once in seven attempts to
suit the individual consumer. In the
popular priced restaurants it is almost
impossible to get eggs served accord
ing to order. They are either cooked
too long or not enough.
Why should schoolgirl, who has
SO many other things to think about,
be required to stand the egg test, any,
how?
WHEN the presidential campaign
wv was about to start, the treas
urer of the national democratic COM
mittee said he hoped to raise 81 100000
by small individual donations, and no
time was lost in organizing move
ment in each state through the state
chairman to collect funds. The amount
thus far con-
Popular Subscriptions tributedh has not
Begin to Count Up been made pub
lie, but Cam
pai IN Chairman Mccormick is authority
for the statement that the response to
the treasurer's appeal has been en-
couraging, showing as it does that the
people, in some sections at least, are
eager to contribute as slight token
of their appreciation of what the adj
ministration has accomplished.
The republicans do not have to ask
for small individual aid in raising
their campaign fund.- The big inter
ests supply the "sinews of war" need
ed. Their checks come in large
amounts and it is reasonable to as
sumo that $10,OO0,00O or more will
pass through the republican ex-
chequer Chairman Wilcox will be
able to pour huge sums into the doubt
full states, although a smaller percent
age of the electorate is purchasable
now than in former years. There was
time when voters in Indiana, West
Virginia and few other states were
bought and delivered in "blocks of
five" but a reform in the election
laws has not only made old methods
of corruption difficult of application,