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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
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A FAMILIAR TYPE

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
We find this type made the hero in 4
large number of late short stories: The
idle young man, with a patrimony, who
spends his seasons" at first one resort
then another. who likes His liquor and
tennis Shoes whose one great quandary
is after meeting a girl, shall work or
loaf?" He has views on things, and is
temperamental He becomes a hero by
virtue of the girls success in awaken
ing" the mans interest in honest toll
He finds that regular employment at
some honest work is not vulgar or del
grading. What an awakening!
In a sense the story writing artists are
justified in constantly reproducing this
type on paper, for it is a fact that there
are enough such young men in this coun-
try to take the places Of the young men
on the Mexican border; only they are not
likely to do it. But these young men
are not America! They are merely
worthless young fellows whose fathers
had the brains and industry to amass
a fortune. They are as SO much drift
wood, serving only one good purposes:
They give an impetus to the circulation
OF money.
We would give this type of young man
a place in our literature; but we would
give him q place that would not cause
him to glow with. pride when he reads it..
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
HOW 1T WORKS IN MILWAUKEE,

From the New York Herald.
Rebuke for the knownothings as we'll as
for those who profess leadership of a
'hyphenated'' vote is found in conditions
prevailing in Milwaukee. A correspon-
dent of the Herald making survey of
the situation there finds that while
Americans Of German birth or descent
will divide between the two great parties
they are practically unanimous in resent
ing the imputation that they belong to a
"disloyal American class. According to
the Herald's correspondent, the misrep-
resentations of Mr.. Wilson's knownothing
supporters are sure to do more harm
than help to his cause.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12

To-day is my birthday and l am A
years of age said Commissioner Bar
Der yesterday. II was elected to the
office of commissioner of Birmingham on
this date last year. The last year has
been an exceedingly busy as we'll as amin
teresting one for me. have been hard
at it each day and I feel just as well as
IL I had been taking it easy.
There are a great many problems that
must be solved by this city and l believe
the commission as a whole is trying to
work toward this end. 1 have been IN
Birmingham Is years of my life and one
who has moved here during the past II
years can hardly realize how rapidly our
city has grown. Let US hope it will con-
tinue to grow and in the meanwhile will
continue to grow older
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

When he takes her out when they are
counting, a dollar looks like 80 cents.
When he takes her out when they are
married, 80 cents looks like a dollar.
Sit down and be honest with yourself
and you will have to admit that what
you call your principles are merely your
prejudices.
You can give mans children candy.
and he will think nothing of it. But il
you give his dog a bone, he imagines
that you are trying to poison it,
A husband and wife may have Sc.
crets that neither tells the other. But
what they think of one another isn't one
of the secrets.
Just because a boy has to wear his
daddy's made-over pants is no sign that
he takes after his father.
Our idea of a good citizen is a hard
headed man who has a soft heart
1t is mighty hard for man to look
dignitied when he realizes that his nose
Is running and that he has forgotten to
bring handkerchief with him.
1t isn't orneryness that is responsible
for the daily increasing batch OF divorce
cases. 1t is selfishness.
| The reason why a man has to have a
few eye openers in the morning is be-
cause he is blind to his own faults
| This would be fine world if the friend.
ship OF our friends WAS as constant as is
the enmity of our enemies.
! The reason why men are greater whis-
J tiers than women is because when you
are whistling you can't talk.
| Every time an old-fa shioned woman
| sees wooden bed she feels like taking
a hairpin and investigating the cracks t.
see if there are not few families oil
bed bugs hidden away
You can purchase anything on the in.
stallment plant. even freedom. That:
all there is to paying alimony.
A fall doesn't shock girl as much a.
does the fact that she wasn't wearing hel
best stockings when she fell
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an atheist was common. The husband
wanton statement that he would rather
have a devil than a holy picture in the
room was supposed to have been the
cause of the devil babys birth. The
child was thought to be punishment
from above meted out for the sacriiege.
Miss Jane Adams has taken the cpl
sode and woven about 1t beautifui
explanation of the manner In Which
these folk stories are created. In the
Atlantic Monthly she recounts how the
tale itself may have ignited fire, as
it were, who light illumined some OF
my earliest memories of neglected and
uncomfortable cid age, of old peasant
women who had ruthlessly probed into
the ugly depths of human nature"
Thousands of the people of drab and
unimaeinative city believed the wild
story because it gave them comfort to
believe it. They wanted to see the
devil BABY because they craved ocular
proof that the great powers interviewed
to reward sin in it's own coin. Old
women especially were eager to gaze
uron the devil baby. For them 1t would
be evidence Of their own wisdom bought
with bitterness.
Thus she suggests the explanation of
the prairie fife spread of a primitive
legend, fabricated here in the heart of
one of the greatest industrial cities. 1t
was material fit to compose the solace
reeded by simple women battered by the
cruelty of things beyond their control
They took i, hungrily. Miss Adams has
transformed it into a noble calculation
of the iot OF hard working women.
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SOME BOOKS YOU KNOW

popular appeal: Lessons in Elementary
Physiology" and Vertebrate Fossils"
Sixty-six witnessed the issue of Fanny
Kemble's Poems" the Sequel to Drum
Taps" from Whitman, Doctor Holmes
enthusiastically delightful "Soundings
from the Atlantic" and books of even
higher worth from whittier Lowell and
William Dean Howells, who, just re-
turned from his consulship at Venice, Of
fered his Venetian Life
With this appeared the "Biglom Pa
pers; Second Series" which John Fiske
considered probably the greatest politi-
cal poem in existence" We of today,
with Mexican complications again and
emphatically existent, cannot fail to re-
member that it was our clash with our
neighbor to the south of the Rio Grande.
in 1S46-48, which called forth Hosea"
humorist, philosopher and patriot, the
first series Of these Papers" In them,
as In their later fellows of &c, Lowell
accomplished two worthy ends: he voiced
the ethical idealism of a minority not
afraid to stand out against an oppor-
tunist majority, and he showed a mastery
OF Yankee dialect so consummate as to
leave him, ever since, without peer or
successor.
The Quaker Poet" who was later to
pen the praise of his Cambridge friend
in these lines, gave him, in '66 oppor-
tunity to read and extol Gas beautiful
in the warmth of it's affectionate mem
DRY and religious faith") his wintrye
cameo of "Snowbound," then first pub
lished. Here was the greatest of the
new books of so years ago. 1t is adj
mittedly the most artistic, most sus-.
tanned, most important of Winters
work, but is it not even more? Is there
not wrapped in it's lines enough to write
1866 high in American literary history?
TWO of our critics who speak with large
authority would seem to be of such opin-
ion-Edmund Clarence Steadman and
George Edward Woodbury.. the latter re-
marking that it takes rank with "The-
Cotters Saturday Night" and 1.-THE De-
serted Village"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
HAMLET AND OTHER MEN

From the New York Telegram
AS every man. according to Coerdge,
is born either a Platonist or an Aristo-
tellian. so there is no human being in
whom some of the characteristics OF
Hamlet do not exist.
In this marvellous creation is pre-
scented mirror in which the most ex-
allied and the most contemplate Of our
species may catch glimpses of them
selves.
Hamlet is not so much an individual as
humanity individualized not SO much
man IN integrity as man in solution.
Probably no poet, no artist, no phi
losopher las ever existed who would
not recognize kinsman in him. and who
would not read more than one chapter of
his own most secret history in this all
typical delineation
He is at once the type of those to
whom life owes it's richest possessions
and of those who strew it with wrecks.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
KICKING THE DOUBLE STANDARD

From the New York Globe.
Because a young man the other day
went into court at the moment his sweet
heart was being sentenced for stealing
5000 from her employers, as she had con-
fessed, and declared he wanted to marry
her. because "at heart she was honest
the judge and everybody else made
nine days wonder of it.
Forgive" and give new start'-such
are the utterances of the world when,
accorded time in which to don hypocrisy,
it puts on it's party manners and its SEN
timental false face. But here was an in
cident that caught it off guard. True
feelings and true face were surprised into
being. We are told the judge sat per-
picked and astounded. What does it
would have felt the same perplexity, the
same establishment.
For the truth is that society looked at
the man and said: Poor fool"
A man is forgiven populations. When
he steals and stands revealed society
says he was hard pressed" or the
temptation was too great" And it es-
teens him none the less. But reverse
this present case. Let woman go into
court and plead for a confessed thief,
saying she believed him honest and
wanted to marry him. Society would not
pity the woman, or call her poor fool. .
No, it would say: well, he's had his
lesson and now he'll settle down and
make her good husband. She might
have dona worseD
1t all is bottomed on the old false dou-
BILE standard that has existed since the
morning of the world, one for men and
one for women. And it is bottomed, too,
on the universal misconception of women.
A man can be pretty much of anything
and society forgive him. And why not?
Nobody is perfect. But as regards
women that truth is not recognized.
Woman must be either saint or sinner.
Kick the double standard out the door
and practice common sense Of merely
talking 1t. r~ y.
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HULL HOUSES DEVIL BABY

From the Chicago Herald.
Some two or three years ago the story
that a devil baby--a marvellous infant
born with horns and tail and prefer
natural precocity--was OH exhibition al
Hull House was rumored about the city.
Literally thousands of people trooped to
the settlement and demanded that the
!, baby be produced. After a time other
hosts journeyed to the Art institute and
to the Chicago Academy of Sciences
with the same insistent and often an
cry request
but 1t WAS believed by immense num-
beers Of simple women and men. The YER
sions We're numerous. but the Italian
form OF the pious girl who had married
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WELCOMED BACK

From the Pine Belt News.
The Birmingham Age-Herald has made
its welcome temperance on our ex-
change table. 1t is one of the country's
leading morning newspapers, and we're
glad to have it with us again.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lord, lift
me up today by vision of the con-
uuering army of God. Show me the
flame of His presence as He LEADS
His people. Thrill me with the sight
of millions innumerublc sweeping
down from the hills of the morning.
Fill me with the shouts and the
songs of the mighty tide. In the
name of the King. Amen.-H. NJ E'
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matter how meritorious, travelled
slowly. Old world nations accepted
Waldsee Mueller's suggestion and that
settled it. There is no reliable evil
dence showing that Vespucci was
self-seeking or over-reaching, but
feeling flattered, as he must have
been, offered no word of dissent.
The people of the United States, in
the spirit of poetic justice, did the
next best thing by accepting Column
bia as a fitting sobriquet and as the
Goddess of Liberty.
Columbus Day is one of the more
recent of American holidays, but few
are more appropriate.
If Captain Parker wants to stay on the
stump that's his privilege, but he could
accomplish just about as much for the
defunct bull moose party by attending
the world series.
The stout Dutch are in fighting mood
as the result of the loss of one of their
finest ships. Some of these days the
y
Captain Boelke has just put his thir-
tieth aeroplane out of commission. The
doughty captain should rest a while and
give other aviators chance to catch up.
The Divine Sarah was on board a
liner that eluded that pesky German sub
marine. The Teutons had better think
twice before trying to blow up Sarah.
Henry Ford says the war in Europe has
, not contributed to his prosperity. AS a
matter of fact, it has cost him some
thing. That peace junket came high.
* 4 X
Birmingham is not jealous of Mobile
and Montgomery. Birmingham simply
has the logical location for the farm
loan bank and is going after it.
- -
When a man in public life addresses a
party of newspaper men as boys" he
knows a thing or two about keeping in
touch with the press.
The new Greek cabinet may be color
less" politically, but each statesman
name is imposing from an photographic
point of view.
Possibly those bold sea captains who
saw several German submarines where
there was but one, were wee bit ex-
cited.
With hundreds of Age-Herald news
boys present, the State Fair yesterday
was more of bowling success than ever.
" y
| The more we read the papers the more
the woder grew that one small German
submarine could find so much to do!
\
| Whistles footed when Ambassador Ger
ard arrived at New York. That's always
better than blowing ones own horn.
| X u ~
| A great deal of newspaper copy is
going to be made at Shadow Lawn be-
tween now and November /.
| Il II Y
| In the arduous matter of winning the
west, Candidate Hughes finds that his
work is never done.
! Gunner are said to be rampant in De-
troit. Is this another indication of ex-
cessive prosperity?
| II X "
Women campaigners who go on the
stump needn't expect to have a 'per,
fectly lovely time
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Gerard Coming

ST would not be greatly surprised to
wake up some morning and find that
the United States is about to go to
war" said E. M. Wingate of Baltimore,
who was in the city yesterday. THE
visit of Ambassador Gerard to America
to confer with the President on an i'm
portant matter looks much more Sc
rious to me than any incident of the
European struggle so far.
There is no doubt but what Mr.
Gerard has many things to tell that
the public knows nothing Of If his
mission is so important that he would
not trust the mails to deliver his mes
sage it must be of serious import.
Little news is being heard from Ger
many lately. Stories of hardships and
suffering have leaked out from time 10
time, but as a general rule we have
had little information so far. The Pres
ident has had many problem TO
wrestle with, but at the present time 1t
looks as if he will have hard time
handling the situation caused by the
recent submarine activities of Ger
many"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
INCONSISTENT

II hear you were arrested for speed
ing"
Yes. The judge was a friend of
mine"
You were in luck"
Not at ALL It's true he inquired po-
litely about my health, but when I said
1 was feeling we'll he assessed fine that
made me SICK
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Grades of Tobacco

1.-The increase in the consumption of to-
bacco during the past Il months shows
that the cigar is finding more favor each
year." said Edgar B. Mayer, who is spe-
cial representative of 8. Fernandez COM
pany of Tampa, who manufacture "Ad-
miration'' cigars. More cigars are being
manufactured and imported into this
country every month this year from Ha-
vana than before. according to govern
ment statistics.
1.-THE cigar industry is a good barom-
eter on the condition of the United
States from a financial standpoint. At
the beginning of the European conflict
the sale of high-priced cigars fell off
more than 20 per cent the first 60 days Of
the war. The next 60 days showed that
the sales of the high-priced cigars had
fallen off 30 per cent. These figures We're
compiled from the different cigar factor
les and jobbers in the United States.
"At the present time the sale of i'm
ported cigars of the high-priced variety
has increased 40 per cent more than at
any time during the past five years. This
means that the man who used to smoke
a cheap cigar can now smoke better
grade of tobacco, and he is doing it."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A WORD TO REFoRMERs

A WORD TO REFoRMERs
In times like these it doth behoove
All men of conscience to reprove
The growing tendency to dance
Those jungle steps that don't enhance
The beauties Of Terpsichore,
But, au contraire, would seem to be
Contrived a wicked world to show
How far a debutante may go
In recklessness and youthful zest
And not be subject to arrest.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
EFFECT OF FLArrERY

EFFECT OF F'LATTERY
why do we see so many commonplace
individuals strutting about these days
and looking as important as If the fu-
turo of the country depended upon
them?''
Evidently you don't understand cam
paign Psychology"
Maybe not"
These men have been called sovereign
voters so many times lately by political,
spelibinders that they are beginning to
think they amount to something after
ALL"
SETTING HIMSELF RIGHT
And you saw Niagara Falls while il
luminated?"
Yes" replied the tourist, but get
this straight in your mind. The falls
were Illuminated; was not"
STRICT ECONOMY
Jack spratt could eat no fat-'twas
tough.
His wife could eat no lean;
But that was how they saved enough
To buy n limousine.
A HAPPY THOUGHT
II see where q small automobile horn
has been made to take the place OF bells
in apartment houses"
AN innovation OF that sort ought to
prove popular
why so7'
Nothing pleases some people more
than to have their friends come by and
'honk' for them
DOING HIS BIT
A campaign speech he's never made
He finds such things a bore,
But he'll march in a street parade
Until his feet are sore.
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-12
Auto Association

1.-The meeting of the automobile deal
ers of Birmingham tomorrow night at
s o'clock at the Chamber of Commerce
will be an important one" said Donald
Drennen, president of the Birmingham
Motor company. Matters of impor-
lance to every automobile owner in
the city will be taken under consid-
GRAFTON. One of the things that will
be discussed will be the apprehending
of the automobile thieves who have
been active all the year.
Most of the time the work of the
automobile thief does not consist of
selling the car. A great many
times crowd OF boys will steal car
for a joy ride and after the gasoline
runs out. they will leave it beside the
road There are many criminals who
make a speciality of stealing the lamps.
presto tanks, and any tires or tubes
that may be on the car The forming
of local automobile dealers assocla-
ton will be of great benefit to the
automobiles of Jefferson county"
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INFORMATION WANTED

INFORMATION WANTED
Now. that's the sort of man would
call at Good Samaritan. He IS offering
to assist an intoxicated stranger"
"Umph! After you have lived in a
prohibition town a while you win learn
to question mans motives in 9 case
like that"
why so?
HE may be trying to find out where
the picked person got his jag"
LOW FORM OF EGoTIsM
"Dubson was planning trip to Egypt
to see the sphinx. but the war prevented
him from going"
ITS Just as we'll"
You don't sympathize with him in his
Disappointment"
mo. II Dubson ever got close enough
to the sphinx, he's the kind of person
who would want to carve his initials
on it."
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SETTING HIMSELF RIGHT
STRICT ECONOMY

Jack Spratt could eat no fat-twas
tough,
His wife could eat no lean;
But that was how they saved enough
To buy limousine.
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A HAPPY THOUGHT
DOING HIS BIT

DOING HIS BIT
A campaign speech he's never made
He finds such things bore,
But he'll march in a street parade
Until his feet are sore.
PAUL COOK.
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with this truth: An engineer "with
only good character will build roads
without any character"
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Entered at the Birmingham, Ala |
postoffice as second class matter under |
act of Congress March 3, 1879.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-28

BEGIN THE NEW
YEAR RIGHT

"Searle'S best interests demand a com
plete reorgani&ati0n oJ the Chamber n
Commerce and Commercial club.
No middle-ot-the-ro0d broPyam 'oiH do.
'The slate must be ggiped cIedn
'There must be- truly fresh START
"C0nSohdAion. IN itself. is not nj-
fciem.
"The consolidated body must have ne,o
leadership IN 7ohom the people of Senule
haze confidence. II has been lacking here
f0fore.
n cipic body. like a ne,oSpabey. mnn
haze the confdence of The beoble. in order
10 be an Influence foy good"
The Star made the above statements
before. 1t repeats them today on the
heels of the news that a consolidation Of
the two clubs has been effected by the
conferees.
The union of these two bodies, with
a complete reorganization and new
blood in its leadership, is capable of the
greatest substantial and lasting good to
the city. The Star welcomes it-and
again expresses the hope that mere per-
sonal consideration for any of the old Of
.hcers shall not stand in the way Of the
real success such a consolidated body
can achieve.
Let's finish the old year and start the
new one right, boosting for Seattle, all
hands joined.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-28

Billingsley. has as yet been ar
rested
Besides Margett. Sergt Putnam
and the following officers of the
dry squad testified before the
grand jury: G.. Hasselblad and
Patrolmen c. " Harvey, w. W.
Morris. W. l.. Bayh. J. o. Revelle.
y. Nelson. c. p. Olsen. A. G. Ford.
Ed Norman. f. A. Johnson r. n.
Colby and Bert Tvedt
Neither Fred Billingsley. Ora
Blllingsley nor William II. Pielow.
indicted at the same time as Loga n,
Billingsley. has as yet been arrestj
ed
Fred Gels. manager OF the Plant.
ers' hotel and Fred W. Varnell.
dock agent, were witnesses before
the grand jury.
The Billingsleys at one time
made the Planters hotel their head
quarters.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-12-28
RETURN N0NPARTISAIv
PETITIONS TODAY!

Bring in your Nonpartsan petitions headquarters 3lO7
Arcade building Even ii it contains only name, be
it,
All the petitions must be in today They be filed
with the city registration clerk by evening.
There is delay. Tomorrow will be late
Every name counts-and may be that your petition
contains just enough make the campaign Tor
partisanship successful
The petition requires at 5000 signatures Several
thousand still shy. But there 600 petitions i'll
circulation. Bring them in. And hurryl