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The sun., 1916-08-30
Both Sides Prepare for Action.

II the issue comes to Q strike the lat
ter will maintain their headquarters in
washington. The railroad executives
have turned the situation over to the
standing committee OF railroad execu-
tives which has been ia existence for a
year or more.
Following the conference of the Presi-
dent with tho four brotherhood chiefs at
the White House last night, when they
refused to recall the strike order for
September I. the events OF to-day came
In rapid succession.
The special committee OF executives
went to the White House for a confer
ence at IL A. NJ. Immediately after
ward they returned to their hotel and
gave out a statement OF their side Of the
controversy.
In the meantime the announcement
was made that the President would APP
pear before the Joint session of Cong ress
at $50 to present hts Legislative pro-
sramme.
The word was given by the executives
that all negotiations were off From the
White House also came the information
that the President had decided to have
no further discussions with either tine
executives or the employees.
From the time the President delly.
cred his message there was an obviou
air Of relief at both railroad %head1uar.
'ers. The feeling was that the matte,
~ now In the hands Of Congress. whence
the controlling decision will come
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
The Passing of Bryan

Although William Jennings Bryan had been steadily losing ground as a political leader since 1908, when he was, for the third time, the demo- cratic nominee for the presidency, probably few people imagined that the day would come when he would be denied the honor of representing Ne braska in the national convention as a delegate for his state-at-l large, but so it is.
 MT. Bryan admits that he feels cha grined at this last defeat, and well he may be. For long time Nebraska was assuredly republican, but with the help of the poplists or peoples party, MT. Bryan carried it twice. Some of his enthusiastic followers were led to think that he had made it dependable democratic state, but in 1904 and 1908 it was back in the republican column and as the election returns showed, it would have re- mained there in 1912 but for the Roosevelt episode, which resulted in the electoral vote going to Wilson.
 But notwithstanding the fact that Nebraska is normally republican it was supposed that MT. Bryan was still power there and especially within the democratic organization. The peerless" as his partisans used to regard him, only sought at this time complimentary position inside the party, and that he would be chosen . delegate to St. Louis was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26

When a storm is brewing along the cial storm warnings are flashed forth from hundreds of government weather bureau stations, according to writer in the Washington Star. The lights are col ored and combined in way to furnish navigators with specific information which will enable them to prepare for the coming storm. This service, (which has been furnished since the weather bu- reau was established, is of particular .ject to sudden squalls, rendered extreme ly dangerous by shallow water. With all most inconceivable rapidity storms gather and break, transforming a surface us smooth as glass into mountainous waves which swamp many small craft and ire quently cause disaster to larger vessels In order to make needed improvements and cope with the growth of traffic on the lakes, the government experts are
 
 both in plan and equipment. It is hoped this year to give the freighters on the inland lakes better service than ever be- fore. The development of lake ports into cities brilliantly lighted at night has caused many of the government stations to be obscured. These stations are now being moved to spots more easily To- cated by navigators and are being in stalled in tall steel towers, dozens of which have been erected along the shores of the five lakes and their connecting waterways. Talle> towers will make pos sible the use of three lights in vertical line, instead of two lights now employed. Experiments with the new equipment have been made on the Potomac below Washington, with highly satisfactory re- suits.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26

taken as a matter of course. But the fact is that the democrats of Ne braska, like the democrats of other sections, have wearied of the Bryan type of democracy.
 Despite MT. Bryan's persuasive ora tory his admirers were losing faith in him as a leader. His overweaning selfishness and his rule-or-ruin pro clivities must have become apparent even to the blindest of his followers. The wonder is how he kept his fol- lowing together so long as he did.
 The St. Louis convention will hardly seem like a democratic nomi- hating body without the presence of the ex-leader. But it will be all the better for his absence.
 Mr. Bryan may continue to be a chautauqua star, but as a democratic counselor he is thoroughly discred- tied. Some politicians, like some pu- gilists, have been able to "come back, v but MT. Bryan will not be one of them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
Will It Be Last Reunion?

The fact that many prominent vet erans-men active in the affairs oi the United Confederate Veteran or ganization-are expressing them selves in favor of making the Bir- lmingham reunion the last of the south wide gatherings will naturally increase the interest in this forthcom- 1 ing event. Those who will be ready to vote to have in the future only state reunions give as the reason that a majority of the veterans are too feeble to travel long distances.
 It may be that the veterans in con- vcntion assembled here next month will vote to make this the final great rendezvous; but it is safe to assume that such a proposition will meet with serious opposition. To begin with, it is estimated that of the 10000 survi- vors of the Confederate army not less than 25 per cent of them were under "A years of 1e when Lee surrendered. A considerable proportion of them were under 21. But fix a line at 24 years, and the veterans today would be only 75. In these days when men are accustomed to take good care of themselves many a veteran is still strong and active up to the age of 80.
 Of the 10000 or 12,000 able bodied veterans yet in the land of the living it is not unreasonable to think that a third of them would be ready to journey to at least ono more reunion after this of 1916. However, those who, as a matter of sentiment, desire to be among the visitors to the last reunion must come to Birmingham to make sure.
 Birmingham is leaving nothing un- done that might contribute to the con- fort of the "vets" and the pleasure of the crowd on the 18th, 17th and 18th of May. The railroads are ad- vertising the reunion extensively. They are inserting notices in all the newspapers throughout the south and are displaying posters and window cards profusely. The fare is only one cent a mile-a lower rate than is even granted for any convention ex- cept the Confederate reunion.
 Birmingham will entertain the larg- est crowd next month in all its his tory. But there will be room for all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
THAT "GREEN POWDER,

From the Chattanooga Times.
 The Associated Press announced that
 Henry Ford had visited Louis Enright of
 Farmingdale, l.. l., the inventor who
 claims to have found green powder
 fuel that will operate gasoline motors,
 and had decided to buy the invention out
 right provided 1t will do what is claimed
 for it. Before leaving New York MT.
 Ford said that he was satisfied Enright
 knows what he is talking about" MT.
 Ford, all will admit, has no illusions about business, whatever may be his weakness about the establishment of peace in warning Europe, and some en- couragement may for that reason be en- tertained by automobile owners and mak- CTS over the possible solution of the fuel question, of which he appears to be hope ful. If MT. Enright knows what he is about" as Mir. Ford thinks he does, then all the machine owner will have to do to get motive power will be to stop at the 'cornel drug store" as MT. Enright says, "buy a few cents worth of greenish powder, drop the same in a bucket o1 | Tennessee river water" and >behold the car moves just as rapidly and surely as l if the tank were filled with Standard oil fluid.
 l The only "fly in this ointment is that
 there is only Enright's assertion that | the green powder" will do the business no test having been made to show" ldr Ford what it would do. The chemists o1 1.-the Standard Oil company ridcule the I idea, and for the present at least, the long, suffering consumer will either have | to park" his car or follow gasoline ol
 its ascending scale of prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
GOLDEN LADS OF BRITTANY

From Golden Lads" by Arthur Gleason
 Our friends have the faults of young men, flushed with life. They are scorn-. full of feeble folk, of men who grow tired Who think twice before doing. They laugh at middle age. The sentries amuse them the elderly chaps who duck into thefi' caves when a few shells are sailing over head. They have no charity for fraf nerves. They hate races who don't rally to a man when the enemy is hitting the trail. They must wait for age to gair pity, and the Bretons will never grow old. They are killed too fast.
 When it came my time to say good- by. my sailor friend, who had often stopped by my car to tell me that all was going well, ran over to share in the excitement. I told him was leaving and he gave me a smile of deep under standing amusement Tired so soon? Tha, smile carried live consciousness of un- tapped power, of the record he and his comrades had made. It showed a disre-i gard of my personal feelings, of all adult human weakness. I rode away from him, past the CoxydeI encampment of his comrades. There they were, as I had often seen them, witt the peddlers cluttering their camp-candy
 men, banana women; fringe of basket
 merchants about their grim barracks; q dozen peasants squatting with baskets oi
 cigarettes fruit, vegetables, foolish brighl trinkets. And over them bent the boys dozens of them in blue blouses, stoopins
 down to pick up trays, lingering red apl ples and shining charms, chaffing, dick ering. showing one another the old loves of their childhood still tangled in theii being.
 So when I am talking abont the sailors as if they were heroes. suddenly song thing gay comes romping in. see then again, as I have so often seen them in the dunes of Flanders, and what I seA is a race of children. Don. forget we are only little ones, they say. We don't die; we are jusI at Dlay"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
Confederate Memorial Day

In Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Mississippi April 26 is known as Con- federate Memorial Day and is legal holiday. Other southern states ob- serve other days in honor of the men who fought and died for the Lost Cause.
 In the north May 30 is Decoration Day and is a general holiday, and Vir- ginia has chosen the same time for strewing flowers on the graves of the Confederate soldiers who fell in battle.
 It is pious custom to remember the dead, and community can give no better evidence of it's nobility of sentiment than in paying tribute to the patriots who gave up life in a struggle for what they believed to be just.
 Both north and south will always cherish the memory of their heroes and every man who sheds his blood fol state or country is hero ill the true sense-and it has come to be the rule in some cities for the Blue and the Gray to exchange acts of comradeshir and of reverence for the valiant dead by placing wreaths on the mounds o1 those who fought on the side against them.
 Sectionalism has long since van ished and been forgot. The country | is one not only in it's national life but it is inseparably united in the spirit of brotherhood. But tht solidarity of the union will never cause the people of the north or tht people of the south in their respectiv, geographical divisions to neglect tn, graves of their soldier dead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
address at the banquet of the Community

address at the banquet of the Community club.
 T was very much impressed with Gads- den and that district in an industrial way. When I get back to Tuscaloosa am going to tell our people that we will have to look to our laurels if we do not want Gadsden to surpass us The de- velopments being made at Gadsden by the Gulf States Steel company, together with the large number of fine industries already at Gadsden, Attalla and Ala bama City are giving that district fine and substantial boom.''
 pr. Denny has already made several speeches at chautauquas in various parts of the state, and is scheduled to make a number of others during the next few months. q noticed at one of the places where attended 8 chautauqua that while the meetings were held in tent, there was splendid auditorium near at hand, v said pr. Denny. T asked the reason for holding the meetings in the tent rather than the better and more comfortable building, and was informed that people would not go into an auditorium in such numbers as they would in a tent. These men told me that they had tried both and under no circumstances would they give up their tent for a building TOT holding chautauquas.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
Instructive Movies

The motion picture as form of en- >tertainment has achieved tremendous popularity, and is becoming factor spf increasing importance and value III educating the masses. There were re- gently shown in Birmingham motion spictures of wild animal life, taken by a famous naturalist, which gave the spectator in something like two hours a more vivid and lasting impression of the subject than he could have gained by boring over books for months. Similarly, the motion DIG ture brings to the person who Will probably never have money enough to travel in foreign lands intimate plimpses of life in those far-away countries which he might never be able to gain at first hand and are ant to be even more lasting than his own untrained observation would be while on a hasty sightseeing tour. The motion picture camera has done more, probably, than any other de- vice of modern time to make the ac- ouirement of knowledge easy for peo- ple who are not students.
 The New York Central railroad IS using motion pictures to teach it's em- ployes the danger of fire. Marcus A. Dow, general safety agent of thls road, has written and produced "Steve Hills Awakening" and 1.-The House That Jack Built" two educa- tional films. They have been shown in all parts of the country to railroad men and their families, employees being required to see these instructive films. A rear-end collision between a large freight locomotive drawing a heavy train of cars and another train was arranged by the company to make a real movie thriller"
 
 It is said that Steve Hills Awak- ening' has been shown to between 5000, ,0OO and 100000 persons, most of them railroad employees. It has been exhibited before more than 10O,- 900 employees of the New York Gen. tral and many other companies have obtained the right to use the reels for educational purposes. They will fit up movie cars" which will travel all over the various lines.
 Not only the railroad companies but industrial organizations have uti- lized the motion picture in theil "safety first" campaigns with grati- flying results.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
DOG TEACHES LION

doze in the hayhouse Baby would al- ways lie down beside him. and when if came tune for him to feed the elephants or make his rounds of the houses Baby, so Bill says, would wake him up by playfully poking him in the ribs with his nose. Once he licked Bills face, but Bill protested so vigorously that the lion never tried 1t again. And Bill tells this story. Spot became i'll one night, and it was Baby who aroused the zoo by his cries, and kept them up until James Crowley, who was on night duty, went to look after the dog.
 Many more were the adventures of Spot and Baby, told by Bill to friends who were openly doubtful till Hurton added his testimony. He said that he, too had noticed the strange friendship between the brutes. Spot. he said, used to follow Baby around, and took delight in tryine to teach him to leap from bale to bale.
 Tt was amusing how disappointed Spot would be when Baby failed to leap aJ gracefully or as far as his teacher" said Hurton And when Spot failed to make a jump it was beautiful to watch Baby comfort him.
 That was more than Pat Keenan. the veteran keeper, could stand And I sup. pose," he said. making for the door, F''that Baby parked like dog?''
 You have said it." came BiIPs reply Once heard Baby initiating Spots bark and doing fairly well at it''
 But the door banged and Pat was gone
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
HOTEL LOBBIES
Munjciu8l League

The Alabama League of Municipalities should have a most successful meeting this year." said City Commissioner James WeatherIy yesterday Tt has been decided to hold the meeting in Tuscaloosa during the university commencement and the Tuscaloosa centennial. It is believed that this time will best suit the vast majority of the members of the league and that it will result in securing the attendance of many city officials who do not now belong. There will be very cheap rates to Tuscaloosa at that time, and we eX- pect to outline plans for some important work affecting municipal government.
 The Alabama League of Municipalities was organized in Tuscaloosa several years ago, and had as one of it's main pur- poses the securing of some legislation greatly needed by most of the cities of the state. While some good was accom- plished, the league had not been in ex- istence long enough and it had not se- cured the cooperation of enough cities and towns to accomplish all the things desired. However, I think the organiza- ton is & most important one, and that it will become an important factor in aiding the various city governments of the state and will result in securing 8 closer cooperation among the cities and towns of Alabama"
 The decision to hold the meeting of the league in Tuscaloosa was reached yesterday, following conference between Commissioner Weatherly, who is presi- dent of the organization, and pr. George Jacob Davis, dean of the engineering de- partment of the university, who is the secretary and treasurer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
ALABAMA PRESS

Gadsden Journal: Berlin Baths Now Limited by Cards says headline. This should lead to an influx of knights of the road'
 Anniston Star: The defeat of the pro- posed cattle dipping law in this county last fall is now being recognized as a most unfortunate occurrence even by. the men who voted against it.
 Selma Journal: How's this for good comparison? ''It makes me sick and tired to hear a man who stands around on the corner with not enough money to buy axle grease for a wheelbarrow, always kicking about the price of gasoline"
 Mobile Register: If there were no other indications of an agricultural awakening in Alabama, and all the other southern states for that matter, the country news. papers would offer convincing evidence that the south has once and for all turned to diversified farming. Not in one paper or dozen papers, but in all the smal
 town weeklies and dailies does one fin6 news of the new scientific method of get. ting the most out of the soil.
 Montgomery Advertiser: The Selma Times opines that MT. Bryan will go te the convention as a four-figured newspa per reporter. MT. Bryan has long beer an advocate of the presidential primary He had it adopted in Nebraska. One O the necessary principles of the primary ii that the majority shall rule. MT. Bryar was beaten for delegate. He may get q proxy and 80 to the convention, as he die in 1896. But the fact remains that he wal beaten in straight-out fight. He vii not speak authoritatively for the peopl, of Nebraska if he goes to the convention
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
THE POSITION OF GREECE

From the Washington Star.
 Although venizelos, late premier or
 Greece, in his interview at Athens on the
 subject of the position of Greece in the
 present war specifically disclaims talking
 fin any sense of the possibility of re-
 publican Greece" his argument is cer-
 tainly calculated to arouse the democratic
 spirit of the Greek people as against the
 alien monarchy He definitely challenges
 the divine right of kings in Greece. The Greek rulers are of an imported stock the
 late King Constantine having been brought from Denmark, with an alien wife, and his son, the present ruler, hav- ing married the sister of the Emperor of Germany. Thus there is no Greek blood in the royal family of Greece, and hence the challenge of venizelos on the score of divine right appeals to Hellenic spirit. Practically venizelos' statement is dec- laration of the purpose to test the Greek governments present position as a neu- tral. No indication is given as to the method by which this test is to be ap- piled. The government is in possession of the electoral machinery, and although there is a heavy majority on popular vote against it and in support of Venizelos, it l Is practically impossible in the present disturbed conditions, with the army mo- bilzed, to obtain an electoral verdict The declaration of Venizelos emphasizes the 1! fact that the Greek government is acting l virtually by autocratic power and with out popular support, and unless some ac- ton is taken by the allies which will in- flame the public feeling and make for general resentment against them the gov ernment at Athens is likely to find itself | increasingly embarrassed, not merely by l the presence of the allies on Greek soil, | but by the lack of the sympathy of the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
Fine Work Dy Male ChOrIIN


 Tt is said that recreation is both a physical and mental builder for a man who leads busy business life.' and apropos of this,'' remarked Fred M. Moore of Cable Shelby Burton Co, "twc of the local musical affairs are developing surprising interest among business men. The T. C. l. chorus, under the regular direction of Philip Allsop does splendid work. They are rehearsing regularly now for the May music festival and once a week, on Tuesday evenings, they come in for the practice of the cantata, The Captive with the Music Study, the Treble Clef and several men singers about town, who are cooperating with all three clubs to make this May festi- val great success. There are in all about 14o voices for the night chorus, and I tell you they are going to give demonstration of choral work that will surprise the average music lover of this city.
 It is a pity that Birmingham cannot have the Philharmonic for longer fes- tival so that we might give an entire evening to choral work, but since that is impossible this season they have chosen that beautiful cantata which is not so long IS those given heretofore, but very beautiful William Gussen is the director of the Music Study and Treble Clef choruses. However, on the night of the festival, Joseph Stransky will direct and the orchestra accompaniment will be a great feature of the work. The vocal solo work will be done by Eleanor Coch- ran and the baritone, Dadman."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
Eood poads and Schools

''The most hopeful thing I observe ir Alabama after years absence said J. Sterling Moran of Washington, D. C.. an official of the office of markets and rural organization of the agricultural de partment, "is the sentiment in favor of good roads and better schools" MT. Mo- ran several years ago had charge of the social and economic survey for the gov ernment in Alabama, and stopped over last night en route from Alexander City to Knoxville.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-04-26
sHAw's REPLY
Washington Post.

From the Washington Post. G. Bernard Shaw is a bit concerned about the future of a San Francisco bo, who yearned for the witty Irish authors autograph. The lads father set forth his sons request in letter that has elicit ed the following typically Shavian re. ply:
 Heaven help your 4-year-old son! ''Is he to be brought up to collect other peoples signatures instead of mak ing his own valuable?
 Tor have you selected the profession ol forger for him?
 What sort of parent are you? Really! Really!
 ''G. BERNARD SHAW"