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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10
Henry's Loose Again

When Henry Ford returned from Europe, apparently a sadder and a wiser man, leaving his peace pilgrims to follow him home later, 1t was gen orally believed that he had realized the folly of trying to stop the war In Europe by crusade" He was con oratulated on having sense enough to know when to quit, but he has recently announced that he is working on an- other plan to bring about peace and will take the public into his confl- dence" as before. If his next attempt fails he says he will try again and will keep on trying.
 The "great moral effect" which MT. Ford thinks resulted from the voyage of the Oscar II has buoyed his spirits considerably, it appears, and while the bows are still in the trenches and Henry is safe in this country, he still has an idea that the European bellig 
 erents can be prevailed on to quit slaughtering each other. It may be true, as he claims, that the men in Europe's armies don't want to fight, but their likes and dislikes are not be- ing consulted. Furthermore the war correspondents recount stories of such pluck and enthusiasm among the sol diers that large majority of them must be willing to fight for what they consider just cause.
 MT. Ford takes particular pains to deny that Mme. Schwimmer, the re- doubtable one, inspired the peace , voyage and bossed the peace doves. Mime. Schwimmer did not dictate any of the plans either before or after l left the expedition," declares MT. Ford. However, she contrived to be a conspicuous member of the party, and whether intentionally or not created the impression that she was impor- tant, if not indispensable.
 The sad part of MT. Fofd's case is that he hasn't been cured. He still has plenty of money left and is evil dently going to spend some more in a vain attempt to end the war. There doesn't seem to be much hope for Henry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10
BEER AND BOWLEGS

the prosecution of the duties suggested by it's name, has found that more knock knees than bow-legs are seen this year in the Queen City. The Sentinel of Mill waukee, whose duty it is to see who goes there, does not report that the raising of the hem of woman's neither garment e a point between the ankle and the knee rroves that the belles of Milwaukee are bow-legged.
 It might be mentioned, by way of sub mission of additional proof of the erro- neousness of the conclusions of the S. s. Seminoles in Florida, was reared upon "razor-tail pompano'' and alligator steaks and that, through no fault of his own, beer and sausage never passed his lips in childhood.
 It is true that the Dachshund comes from a sausage-eating country and has legs curved somewhat like those of grand piano. It might be held that the Dachshunds pronounced curvature of the legs arises from generations of devotion to the leavings of the typical Teutonic symposiac. It might be argued that saul sage is made to a considerable extent from Dauchshunds and contains an ele- ment which has the effect of reflecting in the consumer the qualities of the typ ical Dachshund underpinntng. But it is not fact that the German army is bow legged!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10
MYSTERY OF DEATH

From the Knoxville Sentinel.
 When you die everything is blank" said a Cleveland, O., man, who had re- turned from the dead according to Cleveland dispatch. Harry Tonis, the deponent in question, was shocked with electricity so badly that he was dead" for an hour, according to the dispatch. before he was revived by the use of pulmotor. Tonis stepped on loose wire on an elevator at the National Screw and Tack company's plant, and ordinary efforts to revived him failed. His heart had stopped beating and respiration had ceased for an hour before pulmotor was obtained and applied. Here's what hs said about dying, when he recovered consciousness at the hospital:
 Dying was quick and without pain. Coming back to life was slow and pain full. When I stepped onto the live wire
 it was like blow in the back of my head. It seemed as if millions of needles and pins were shot through me. Then suddenly I forgot everything. Every thing was blank.
 When l was coming back to life could hear before could see. There was a sound like rushing water and a heavy wind.
 Granting the truth of all that Tonis said, his experience was nothing more | than has been felt by most persons who have been rendered unconscious at some ! time or other in their lives. It is evident that the soul had not left his body, that the silver cord had not been loosed and
 the golden bowl broken. that he had not actually died and gone to that undiscov-
 cred country from whose bourne no trav-
 eler returns. His inconsistencies only
 simulated sleep, since he lived to awaken l from it.
 1 Whether death is state of blankness | and oblivion, the 'be-al and end-all
 here" cannot be determined by exper-
 fences undergone in mere state of un- | lcOnSciOuSneSS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10
THE POETRY QUoTERs

From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
 In commenting on the facility with
 which poetry memorized in early years is recalled, while hardly trace remains of that read later, the Saturday Evening Post surmises that this is because the young took it seriously and memo rzed it. This theory ignores the generally accepted view that the mind of youth is
 plastic and that the earliest impressions finger longest. Persons who have ac- quired several languages have first lost the last learned. In some cases the long neglected language of childhood returns to the old person. It is matter of common knowledge that very old persons vividly
 recall incidents of their early youth, while UT able to remember what happened yes- | terday. So there is something besides taking things seriously in the phenom- enon.
 | The Post further argues that it is doubtful if verse is much worth read
 ing unless the most striking thing about
 it is worth memorizing," and it recom-
 mends the general practice of memorizing,
 especially among the young. If people | wish to stock their minds with quota l tions the advice is good. But a decent
 regard for the feelings of their associates should restrain them from quoting mem- orized poetry to them It may be due to
 the general neglect of elocution, but there | is no more tiresome acquaintance than
 the habitual quoter of poetry. Such bore dom has gone into proverb. The theory Of the Post that there is no value in prose or poetry that does not leave clear | thoughts and images is vain. There are ! thousands of omnivorous readers who dc
 not have verbal memories, individuals who cannot quote anything. Yet they profit by their reading. They are like the man who eats and enjoys meal, with out ability to recte the menu from mem 1 ory He eats fish without counting the | bones Such persons have accomplished as much in the world as the habtua ! ouOterS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10

From the Louisville Courier-Journ
 "HE New York Sun accepts as final
 the word of the South Side Child
 \ Welfare association of Pittsburg that subsistence upon beer and sausage during childhood makes the subsister bow legged. The s. S. c. w. A. says that curvature of the shin bones Is caused by a diet of sausage and beer, when proper food for children would make their legs straight. The Sun agrees that this may be true, and exerts itself forensically in behalf of milk-and-eggs-fo fine straight-legs movement in behalf of the sausage-swamped and beer-foundered babies of the plain people in Pennsyl- vanias proud millionaire factory.
 Obviously the S. S. c. w. A. is bark ing up the wrong tree. Shins shaped like two scimitars with the blades turned out ward are visited upon some children as a complexion which freckles under the sun is the portion of others. In proof is net observable, in these days of short skirts that there is more bow-leggedness in Milwaukee or Cincinnati than there is in Louisville, which boasts exception ally pure milk and has interested itself sedulously in the welfare of children.
 It is well and widely known that saul sage and beer from the cradle to the grave is the rule in the two cities men toned Yet the Cincinnati Enquirer, in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10
EMBARGO's HEAVY COST

From the Philadelphia PuDllc Ledger. Occas sion may arise to lay an embargo on exports to the allied powers. It IS conceivable that England may push her restrictions on neutral commerce too far and make necessary policy of reta'la- ton. But that time has not yet come, and the people who are vociferously de- manding an embargo should consider just what it means to this country. A hun dred years ago, under similar circum- stances, Jefferson laid an embargo on
 English commerce, which resulted in great distress without remedying the evils aimed at.
 In the Il months ending with Novem- Der, 1915, the United States exported $45l.- l 5,O0O worth of goods to France, as against S132, SIS, ,OOO for the same time last year; SPAS, 900 to Italy. which took $71,-
 76s, GOO the previous year; s1O1 626,OOO to Russia as against $2l, 7S0.0 900 the preceding | year, and $1,066. .O19,0O0 to the United
 Kingdom, as compared with 5,95O. .00( the previous term. These figures do not i include Canada and the other British
 possessions and Russia in Asia.
 | An embargo to be effective would re- quire the stoppage of exports to all the allies and their territories. Our total ex- ports for the past Il months amounted tc
 $3 1SS, 1870 Of this total more than
 g OOO,O O.OOO was shipped to the allied
 countries. An embargo then would mean 1 the loss of more than two-thirds of oui foreign commerce. And this would mear
 an end of the abounding prosperity wt fare enjoying at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10
The Road Institutes

The good roads institutes being held under the auspices of the state high way commission and conducted by State Engineer w. s. Keller, will not only arouse renewed interest in road building but will prove of great prac- tical benefit in showing how the work can be done to best advantage.
 The second weeks itinerary will be- gin at Columbiana in Shelby county February 21, and will include Talla- dega, Anniston, Gadsden, Ashville, Centre, Clanton, Livingston, Butler Carrolton and Prattville and will end at Montgomery March A.
 Where the distance between towns Is short. two institutes are held on the same day. A little later the third < weeks itinerary will be announced.
 As every county in the state has ap : piled to MT. Keller for an institute t none Will DS ONtIlOuhSu,
 ~ It is believed the road institutes will assemble as large and enthusiastic gatherings of farmers as did the croL diversification institutes held in va rious sections of Alabama a year ago and that the results will be as satis factory.
 : After many years of educationa campaigning in the good roads cause 1t may be assumed that farmers ir general appreciate the economic value of improved highways, to say nothing N of the pleasure which country and kown folks alike have in riding over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10
Preparedness Programme Paramount

Preparedness Programme Paramount
 In view of enlightened public sentl ment and the administrations urgent appeal to Congress for the adoption oi adequate national defense bills 1t IS hardly conceivable that the lawmakers would fail to act favorably.
 President Wilson was never more earnest in advocating any policy ot wide scope than he is in insisting on Congress providing for a larger army and a larger navy, National prepared ness is now the paramount issue.
 There are some old fogies who think that because our forefathers got along without large standing army and without any navy worth speaking of the present generation can do the same. Conditions have changed, and thoughtful, patriotic Americans are alive to that fact.
 The European war teaches many lessons that must be reckoned with. The ocean is no longer barrier against foreign invasion; rather, as military experts have told us, the ocean is a menace, for a great army can be transported over sea and landed on our defenseless coast line more easily and more rapidly than the gov ernment could transport soldiers and provisions across the country by rail.
 After the European nations get through fighting it will probably be sometime before any one of them or any alliance is ready to make an at tack on the United States. But 1t will take this country five years or more to bring it's navy up to first rank, and until it is equal to the best it's excel lence would count for naught in a mighty defense struggle. An impor- tant thing to do is to start now on a comprehensive five-year naval pro- gramme and along with the expansion of our navy there must be definite military programme to be worked out gradually
 At such time as the European pow CTS may be rehabilitated unprepared- ness on the part of the United States would invite attack The better pre- pared we are for defense the less likely will be the necessity for firing a shot.
 President Wilson is making an eff fort to speed up" Congress and he should succeed in having his prepared ness measures enacted into law with as little delay as possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10
Mardf Gras in March

The New York World Almanac is an accepted authority on statistics and in- formation in general, but the editor being human, will let a little mis- take slip in here and here" said w. $. Davidson. 'In the Almanac for the current year, under the head of legal holidays, Mardi Gras appears as com ing in February. The carnival is the day before Ash Wednesday and Ash Wednesday is reckoned from the date of Easter, which in turn is a moveable feast determined as it is by the changes of the moon. Easter Sunday this year falls on April 23-later than usual which makes Ash Wednesday corre- spondingly late-March s. Mardi Gras therefore will be March '.
 A rev years ago Mardi Gras was a legal holiday for all of Alabama, but the law was changed to read in coun- ties having carnival In Alabama it is legal holiday only in Mobile"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10
SONG OF THE SOLDIERS

Thomas Hardy, in Aunt Sarah and the
 War;
 What of the faith and fire within us.
 Men who march away
 Ere the barn-cocks say
 Night is growing gray, To hazards whence no tears can Win us: What of the faith and fire within us
 Men who march away? Ills it purblind prank, o think you.
 Friend with the musing eye, Who watch us stepping by. With doubt and dolorous sigh? Can such pondering so hoodwink youl Is it purblind prank. o think you.
 Friend with the musing eye? Nay. We see well what we are doing, Though some may not sec Dalliers as they be- England's need are we; Her distress would set us rueihg: Nay. We see well what we are doing. Though some may not see! In our heart of hearts believing Victory crowns the just, And that braggarts must Surely bite the dust, March we to the land ungrieving, In our heart of hearts believing Victory crowns the just. Hence the faith and fire within us Men who march away Ere the barn-cocks say Night is growing gray, To hazards whence no tears can win us; Hence the faith and fire within us ~ Men who march, away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10
Great Festival Week

Birmingham is to have a splendid feast of music next week-grand op- era and symphony-and the Business Mems league has performed good service for music lovers throughout Alabama in inducing the railroads to grant very low round trip rate for the occasion.
 The transportation companies are always ready to make special rates for conventions and festivals when the matter is brought to their atten- tion 30 days in advance of the opening date; but in this case plans for the opera were not decided upon until two weeks ago. In response, however, to strong representation made by the officers of the Business Mems league, the passenger association made an ex- ception to the rule. Birmingham has had many musical affairs on large scale, but never has this or any other southern city had in conjunction, so to speak, grand opera of the highest class and a famous symphony orchestra of S5 perform | CTS.
 1 Next week will be a gala time in
 Birmingham. People will come in
 large numbers from all over the state,
 and all of them will be cordially vel
 comed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10

The forest products laboratory of the
 United States, by using domestic wood
 waste, has developed a yellow dye that is rapidly taking the place of the dye
 made from fustic wood, formerly imported
 in large quantities from Mexico and South
 America. A great quantity of Osage orange wood is the by-product of the manufacture of wagon wheel rims, insu-
 ator pins, fence posts and other articles and this has been used in making the new dye. The irregular form of the trees discarded in working it up into manufac- tured articles. The waste wood is pro- duced in Texas and Oklahoma. It can be shipped from those states and delivered at northern Atlantic ports at from S1O to S14 ton. The foreign fustic costs from
 SIS to $20 a ton laid down at the same
 ports. Plans are now being made to ob-
 tain a concentrated extract from waste wood at it's place of origin, instead of sHiPPiiS ehC IidS iiiSutS. u IS tSllllldleu 1 that between 10000 and 5000 tons of fus- | tic are imported annually into this coun- try. About twice this much Osage orange | is available every year in Oklahoma and Texas. The domestic dye was tested by
 the forest products laboratory on a num-
 Der of materials, including wool and | leather. The results were highly satisfac- tory
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10
HOTEL LOBBIES
Chicago's Mild Winter

wv nile we have had some cold snaps m Chicago this winter, we have had more warm weather than 1 have ever known before in the winter season." said s. J. Morris, business manager of the Illinois central Magazine, published in the Lake City.
 The south has had very little win- ter and l am told that the changes in temperature have been more sudden than usual Sudden changes with us have been observed too.
 Chicago is enjoying large measure or prosperity Business in nearly all lines has been active since last falln
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10
A TIourishing Knoxville Club

Among the visitors to Birmingham this week are Jefferson Davis and Mrs Davis or Knoxville. MT. Davis was formerly steward of the Southern club here but Tor nearly year past he has had charge Of the Cherokee Country club of Knox vile.
 We have fine club and it's finances are In excellent shape" said MT. Davis.
 The club is four miles from the city but we have good street car service and, of course, many of our members own auto-cars.
 Business conditions in Knoxville are always sound and one seldom hears any talk Of depression there. Prosperity pre- Valls everywhere now and Birmingham seems to be having it's full share of it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10
The Odd Fellows

The district convention of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows which closed at Ensley Wednesday, was one of the most interesting and instructive that l have ever attended" said Palmer P. Dauguette. There were in attend ance delegates from over 50 lodges in the district, as well as many of the grand lodge officers and committee men.
 "A feature was the exemplification of the degree and secret work which was of the highest order
 There is a decided revival in Odd Fellowship not only in this district but throughout the entire state, and indications are that large increase in membership will be reported at the next session of the grand lodge, which meets in Birmingham in the early part of May"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10

| CLAlMS UT NuO 1AHt, ! From the London Globe.
 1 It is not generally known that it is to 1 the persistent perseverance of Friese- Greene, an Englishman, that we owe the discovery of motion pictures; still less | is it known that Friese-Greene has him | half just been "discovered' in a widely l known English pleasure resort living in poverty Yet such are the facts as ascer- tained by a Globe representative. Credit for the invention of motion pictures has often been enormously given to Edison, but it seems that the first practical in- strument was devised by FrieseGreene, in conjunction with a clever mechanical engineer, MT. Evans, who perfected cer- tain working parts, the whole resulting in a joint specification filed in the two names on June 21, 1889.
 Years earlier, Friese-Greene invented
 the scheme, and from 1885 to 1889 he un-
 derwent a series of trials and troubles
 sufficient to crush an ordinary man, and
 had at length to give up temporarily ow-
 ing to absolute exhaustion
 At one time Friese-Greene was in re-
 ceipt of an income of $1O00O year, the
 whole of which, less a modest sum for
 maintenance, was spent upon inventions
 of one kind and the other Upon moving
 picture experiments alone Friese-Greene
 expended $S0,O00. Yet so great has been
 the distress of the inventor in these lat
 ter days that but for the kindness and
 public spirit of Mill Day and other men interested in the moving picture industry he was in danger of losing his home With the substantial help given by MT.
 Day to preserve the home and insure a cheerful Christmas for the inventor and
 his family larger helping hand is now
 being outstretched by a trade committee. There is a suggestion to raise a penny fund to which the patrons of the picture theatres may contribute, the idea being that if one-half of the 100000 or 5000, ,000 people who attend the 5000 picture houses will subscribe the needs of the inventor l will be handsomely provided for.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10
THE SCORE

From the Houston Post
 The Birmingham Age-Herald of Febru- ary has arrived, The poll tax score stands; Birmingham and Jefferson coun- ty 12,0O0 Houston and Harris county, 23,- 964 The audience will now sing the long meter doXology and be dismissed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10
The Name Strauss in Music

It is surprising to find how many per sons of education and general informa- tion, who are also lovers of good music, think that Richard Strauss, the greatest of contemporary composers, is the same Strauss who wrote 'The Beautiful Blue Danube The Strausses of waltz fame father and three sons, all composers of a high class of dance music-were Aus trians, while Richard Strauss, regarded by many musicians and critics as the most wonderful composer since Wagner, was a native of Bavaria. The two fami- lies are not kin
 It was Johann Strauss, Jr., who com posed 'The Beautiful Blue Danube" His father was famous ballroom conductor. It was Eduard Strauss, a brother of Jo- ham, Jr., who brought a large orchestra to America about 25 years ago, and gave concerts in most of the important cities, including Birmingham.
 It is happy coincidence that Johann Strauss, who gained the sobriquet of Waltz King, will be represented on the matinee programme of the Minneapolis orchestra next Wednesday by his most pouular waltz, The Blue Danube" and that Richard Strauss will be represented on the night programme by his most pop ular tone poem, Don Juan" Nothwith- standing the fact that many symphony orchestras have been heard here during the past b years, not one of them has ever given the Birmingham people an op- portunity of hearing Richard Strauss in his matchless orchestral coloring. Don Juan is a gorgeous work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10

BEGINNING THE DAN-O great Cad. bless the poor. Shield them from the cold. Feed them. Ciothe them. Give them chance. inci1he Thy world to render justice unto tue little sisters and brothers who arc fraiI. Show HIS the way out. break down the walls of partition. Me'' the hearts of stone. Hasten the co ing reign of perfect love. Tn o"r's' name. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

NO LONGER TROUBLESOME. What sort of man is old MT. Crab coin?"
 Are you figuring on doing some busi- ness with him?
 "Yes."
 Well, as you are friend of mine, I'll tell you. He sandbagged his conscience in early youth and it hasn't dared to re- proach him since.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-10

The Russians are still cheerfully blazing away with ammunition furnished them by the Japs. Being able to shoot as often as they please must be a new sensation for the Russians.