The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-08

ArEW YORK office boys, while not IN exactly trolling in wealth" are enjoying unprecedented prosperity. Ii is said that the demand for their ser vices is so great and their ranks are so depleted by rapid promotion that
 they now take New York Has an an offer of a Office Boy Famine position under
 consideration be- fore. accepting it. Furthermore, they dictate their own terms, commensu- rate with the amount of business New York firms are doing.
 The employment bureau of the Young Mems Christian association conducts 8 class for training young sters for office work and confesses that it cannot turn them out fast enough to supply the demand. Some think the ''war brides" are responsible for the shortage of office boys. Many have risen overnight, so to speak, from office boy to a clerkship, or the head of a newly created department, and have immediately started to grow a toothbrush" mustache. Other youngsters who rarely came within hailing distance of the "big boss" have been advanced with equal rapidity and as a result there is a loud vail for the sort of timber of which office boys and future capitalists are made.
 Throughout the east, staggering un- der its war orders and smiled on by the 1'war brides," there are golden op- portunities for lads who may one day be licking stamps and the next day fall heir to a roll-top desk.
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 A LMOST any number of "The A Star of Hope," the Sing Sing prison magazine, will show that there are men in Sing Sing who are gifted writers. This unique publica- tion, the first and oldest of prison
 magazines, is edited Able Writers by a scholarly man in Sing Sing who no longer hides
 his identity behind a number. His contributors, however sign their stories and poems with their numbers.
 As a rule, the verse is not dis distinctive, although most of it shows deep feeling and there are many lines of striking beauty. It is the short stories that arrest attention, and some of those that have to do with the under world are masterpieces. In the June number appeared story based on the war in Europe and if a more graphic bit of writing has been published in any of the current magazines, the au- thor may consider himself on the high way to fame.
 Those unknown geniuses behind the bars at Sing Sing view life from an angle that the average writer of fic- tion cannot fully grasp, even when he specializes in "crook" stories and flat ters himself that he has fair knowl- edge of the under world. They doubt less write, not so much of what they have seen and heard, as what they have actually lived through. That k one reason why some of the shorr stories in "The Star of Hope" are SC vivid. They are based on actual ex perience.
 In the meantime, the moving picture films might well employ Sing Sing'' literary talent for producing thrilling scenarios. Magazine editors should also investigate what seems to be ; promising field.
 A LWAYS organized and alway A keen for campaign activit, Tammany Hall promises to do effec tive work for the national democrati ticket this fall. In 1884 Tamman, openly opposed Cleveland and Hen .N dricks and fou Tammany Hall years later, whil. in the Campaign nominally support
 ing MT. Cleveland quietly knifed him. In 1892 Tammany worked hard for the nomination o1