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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
ALABAMA PRESS

Dothan Eagle: Campaign experiences hurt the unsuccessful candidate worse than expenses.
 Anniston Star: The reporter who de- scribed an intoxicated man with, bald head as "a pickled onion'' at least had imagination.
 West Alabama Breeze: We believe thoroughly in science and progress and are of the opinion that entirely too many germ scares are reeled off to Tighten us.
 Rhinestone Democrat: Post-mortems have been a very popular form of diver sion in Alabama during the past week. The principal troble with a majority of the candidates was a lack of votes. It is funny, however, to hear the various causes assigned for defeat.
 Guntersville Advertiser: Jefferson coun- ty voted overwhelmingly in favor of tick eradication The most progressive and enlightened communities are always against ticks Marshall county will vote to rid herself of the pest when the question is submitted to the voters.
 Centreville Press: Montevallo has or ganized a community association for the bettering of conditions and 1t has proven beneficial in many respects. The citizens have met and are cherting the, principal streets of the town. while others are looking after the sanitation and still others are working to beautify the town. If the people continue in this spirit. it is going to count and in a few years Is going to make wonderful Improvement in conditions in that little city. It is a good example to follow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

try to devise some means of increas- ing enlistment activity. In the mean time Uncle Sam will have in sight, with the regulars and an increased National Guard combined, defense force that will be a credit to the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

years more of carnage! It would then take long time to repair the waste places.
 As earnestly as the people of Amer ica pray for peace there should be no relaxing of interest in national de- fense preparedness, for, as President Wilson puts it, "Ours is preparedness for peace"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE REUNION
 AND OF SOME OTHER THINGS HEREABOUTS

generations have been members of this church. My mothers side were Metho- dists. l have never gone deeply into the controversy between Catholicism and other religious denominations. I their creeds and when I know from many years contact with him that d man is true blue, all the underhanded methods in the world could not swerve me from not only being just but ap- preciative of such a man, and being his loyal friend as long as he lives.
 The Ku-Klux Klan was for great purpose. It went to extremes, it is true, but for the purpose of protecting the women and children of a devas- tated land The men of it adopted their methods for the protection of home and of great land against ignorant hordes of another race.
 Such methods cannot be borne with in times of peace and plenty by intel ligent and self-respecting people. Every man has the right to his opin- ion and to his belief, but underhanded methods and the boycott have no place in this good land and particularly no place in this great city of Birmingham.
 Neither the buffer, the bulldozer nor the underhanded assassin of the boy colt can swerve this newspaper from justice to all classes, nor can such have an iota of effect upon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
HAwA1ps FAMED VOLCANO

HAWAIpS FAMED VOLCANO
 From By Ways in Hawaii" by Rather
 inc Fullerton Gerould. in the June
 Scribner.
 Of the volcano of Kilauea who shall speak? Approach it as cynicaly as you like, you will be startled from your in difference. It will bA strange if you do not feel looking down into that pit. many comfortable veils stripped off your swathed mind. A naked human emotion is a great and terrible thing to encoun- ter: sometimes thing to turn one s face from. But this is even more ap- pallin. You may clutch. first off. at the easy metaphor of hell. Kilauea is not like hell-it is worse Worse, because there is no moral significance in it to knit our souls to such a spectacle. Dan te's eighth circle with it's barrateri sunk in boiling pitch. was part of mighty plan: a physical result of moral facts: comprehensible. it's very hideousness de- erdent on the historic threescore-years- and-10 of mortal life. You can avoid hell by being gozod; and even if you descend into it, you will have human company. But this has nothing to do with vice or virtue; it makes naught of moral values. You squat on that rim and stare 700 feet down into Halemaumau-the inner pit of Kilauea-and history is superseded. The sulphur stench blows up now and then like great wave and drives you gasp ing from the brink. You wander about the lava bed for little (you could wan der on that same lava bed for miles. if you chose) and then return. The simple fact of Halemaumau is a pit. some 20 acres in extent. that seethes and boils in- cessantly. Every few moments an acre
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
REUNION EDITION

From the Carbon Hill Journal.
 The reunion edition of The Birminghaph AEe- Herald. in honor of the United Con- federate Veterans. was handsome and interesting issue. The Age-Herald is ac- QYiring merited reputation as . high cahss metropolitan daily.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
TRIBUTE TO sHAKEsPnARn

From the Noble Register.
 Possibly the best tribute paid to Shake sreare's genius at the recent celebration at Mansion House in London came from an American. It read:
 T join with all lovers of great litera- ture in unqualified admiration of the great genius who spoke the human spirit in fuller measure and more authentic tones than any other man of any race or age"
 You have guessed 1t: Woodrow wil- son.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
UP IN THE AIR.

UP IN THE AIR. And you never fell in love with a bareback rider in circus when you were a boy?"
 "No. indeed. I looked higher" You must have had good opinion of yourself"
 You don't understand. I mean I fell in love with a trapeze performer in pink tights"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
FEELS IMPORTANT.

Who is that pompous looking old gentleman"
 That's MT Grabcoin. He donated s1oo to relieve war suffere4s in Europe and expense to be consulted when peace terms are made"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
A BANDITS ESTATE

case, from the point of view of the ear nest seeker for the real life gentleman crook, is that the estate of the bank robber and burglar amounts to $50 and consists of his automobile and household furniture. The earnings of his calling seem high when we read of bank being robbed of thousands of dollars. and Hohl had few thousands, which he had just taken from bank, when he was killed in Cincinnati. But successful robberies involving large amounts are compara- lively rare. Crooks are numerous. The profession, like law and medicine, is crowded. Unlike the surgeon who has charged a wealthy man $10O0 for remov- ing his vermiform appendix. or the law yer who has divided unevenly with his client after winning a law suit which he prosecuted on contingent fee, the crook cannot operate again in the same locality, and more profitably, because of the advertisement incident to his success
 His travelling expenses, and occasional legal expenses are inordinately high in proportion to his earnings. He dies poor
 in most cases Sometimes he is shot in action, but oftener he survives the ex- citement of adventures to repent at leis- ure the follies of life misspent al- together and half spent in prison.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

of solid lava rises Up out of the caldron, is sucked back into the scarlet waves and molten again before your eyes Iri another corner of the pit a fiery foun- tain bursts like great geyser. The worst of it is that you can hear it. the pot seethes and boils and growls in your very ears, for all the 700 feet between you and it. And if you cared to make misstep. you could bound, from little ledge to little ledge, straight into the mutter and flame of It. I leave you to imagine the spectacle of Kilauea when the sudden tropic night has fallen on the vast crater of which Halemaumau is only the deepest pocket.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

BEGINNING THE DAY-My Fafn- CT. make me to doubt all things be- fore | doubt Thee. May l quesuoh vxbat | can see and hear but not what my heart tells me. be near me. Be warm to me. Make me to know that | am Thine. In His name' Ameu.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
A DELUDED MORTAL.
A,e,t3,ueo-

A DELUDED MORTAL A Header of the people" With most expansive chest Who wonders how the world will wag When he goes to his rest. I'm sure 'twou1d make his proud heart
 sad
 And most unduly fret him. Did he but know how soon the world. When he's dead will forget him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
HOTEL LoBBIEs
Having Grest Revival

The Rev. Curtis Shugart, evangelist writes The Age-Herald from Wolf City, Tex, that he is having very successful revival in that city.
 We are engaged in a great revival here" he says, and will be here two weeks longer and then go to Tennessee, whence we will return to Alabama for several meetings.
 Texas is a great country. but after travelling over great deal of this state in the last two years, I feel sure that Alabama is far ahead of this country, and the opportunities much greater Yin every line of business
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
LOVES SECRET

By William Blake. Never seek to tell thy love,
 Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently. invtsibly. told my love. I told my love. told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears An! she did depart. Soon after she was gone from me A traveller came by; Silently. invisibly,
 He took her with . sigh.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

The Panama canal is better protected than most people suppose, says a noted engineer. Even than the secret agents of foreign governments suppose?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

Nobody has yet written Shakespe- rean rag to commemorate the tercen- tenary, says contemporary. And here's 8 hoping that nobody will. 60
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

Tulsa. Okla., is bent on entertaining a reunion of the Confederate veterans, even if 1t has to wait until there is only one veteran left to attend.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

It is announced that kissing and swear ing will be prohibited in Boston business offices. In both cases easier said than done.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

MT. Ford continues to loom up as presidential possibility. Meanwhile the Oscar II Is presumably still ploughing the seas as an ordinary liner
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

Birmingham made a conspicuous suc- cess of entertaining the Confederate vet erans, but the need of an auditorium was painfully emphasized.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

The railroad that doesn't traverse ma ture's wonderland" in the summer time evidently lacks an expert publicity man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

The Germans claim that they have al- ready won the battle of verdun If that's the case, why don't they go ahead and capture Paris?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

The republicans are having hard time getting together enough explosives to make a little campaign thunder.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

Now that the Kaiser has warned Ger man citizens of the United States to have to behave The Kaiser has spoken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

That lone American soldier paid with his life for his folly in riding across the Mexican border. He made a mistake in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
MELoDRAMA.

"Is this what you would call grip ping play?"
 Most assuredly. The villain chokes the heroine and the hero chokes the villain off and on for nearly three hours.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

President Wilson may be busy man. but he still finds time to shake hands with baseball players.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
Tulsa's Enterprise

Tulsa, Okla, is one of the wonder cities of this country and people not fa- miliar with it's rapid growth learned q great deal about it at the Confederate reunion," said R. J. Gaines of St. Louis.
 Tulsa is full of boosters and the train load they brought to Birmingham, in cluding a large and expensive band, was evidence of uncommon enterprise It is safe to say that no other city Tulsa s size-it claims a population of 45,oOo-ever did anything quite so plucky or impress slve. Tulsa came with an invitation and an eloquent plea for the next reunion, and while I was quietly pulling for Memphis I would not have been sorry to see the Oklahoma town win.
 'I was surprised and disappointed, in looking over one of the best of the New York dailies to find in the account of the reunion that Tulsa's name was not even mentioned. The% Birmingham dispatch told of Washington being selected for the 1917 reunion and mentioned that other cities in the contest were Memphis, Mont gomery and Atlanta. Neither Atlanta nor Montgomery sent an invitation. Tulsa came out second I believe if another reunion Is to be held after 1917 Tulsa will have the right of way"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

From the Louisville Courier-Journal TIT is rarely the case. off the stage
 and outside of novel, that a bandit = or burglar occupies a residence in a fashionable suburb or residence quarter of a city and is known in society while engaged in his calling. The case of Frank Hohl whose estate is to be wound up in Jefferson county because he re- sided ten nporarily in Beechmont and was a neighbor of the Union Pacific railroad and of many individuals more entitled to social consideration upon the score of their exemplary morals was in some re- spects like a page from fiction or an act in a ''crook play
 The street pistol battle in which Hohl was killed in Cincinnati had every ele- ment of the romantic, as the romantic is understood by the readers of Rallies" literature and patrons of 'Arsene Lu- pin' melodrama. And Hohl actually had been occupying residence upon Grand boulevard, keeping an, automobile-in 1914 before automobiling was the pastime of the populace-and enjoying social ac- simultaneously in rather exclusive resi- dence section.
 The disappointing feature Of the IIohl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

Judge Tuthill of Chicago has relapsed irto the'obscurity from which he emerged by romping on Shakespeare's fame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
FILM COMEDY.

fIIIM COMEDI. "This moving picture comedian has large round face.'' "Yes. Nature endowed him with the sort of face that is an ideal target for custard pies"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

| This Boy Scout organization is a great preparedness work for the country. Splendid soldiers these young fellows will make. They are trained, ambitious and proud of their work Money presents were showered upon them by veterans and others, but not one accepted tip. In every case for services rendered the young Boy Scout replied:
 Thank you; it is my duty and my pleasure to serve you" and with salute and smile he was off to aid another veteran.
 My hat is off to these splendid young soldiers.
 I am told that there is a secret or ganization in Birmingham in which there are some good men, but, judging II Oiil 1 lluIlUeI Ol dHOUy IlOuS l6lt6TS and publications, I have received re- gently, some. of the members of this organization are neither just to them selves nor to their fellow man. They are assaulting to me one of the old school, brilliant writer and as fine gentleman as ever drew the breath of life. for no other reason than that he is a member of the Catholic church.
 They anonymously assault The Age Herald because he is a member of it's staff. They want him removed from The Age-Herald because he belongs to the Catholic church.
 I am Presbyterian. myself. My family on my fathers side for many
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

MT. Irwin s. Cobb wears a wrist watch. but MT. Henry B. Walthall simply can't afford to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
OFTEN THE CASE.

The great and great
 Assemble together And often it's hard For one to tell whether The former receive
 More praise than the latter, Because people find
 It difficult matter To escape from the chumps
 Who strut about grandly, With such pompous airs
 And smiling so blandly, The stranger in town,
 Bewitched by their blowing, Mistakes them for men Who're really worth knowing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
ADRIFT WITH THE TIr1ES

EPITAPHs. Here lies the clay Of Benny Brandt. He worked in Munitions plant
 -Columbia State. Here rests the dust Of Thomas Root; He didn't hear The auto toot
 Macon Telegraph. Here are the ashes Of Jimmy Trickle: He attempted to ride A motorcycle.
 -Spartanburg Journal. Here the remains Of Bill Jones 1ie For Bill refused to Swat the fly
 Savannah Press. Here lies the dust Of William Cruse, Who tried to drink Blind tiger booze.
 EASY Il see where nrm adYert1SeS 5U aS- sorted hotel labels for $1. You stick them on your suitcase and pose as a widely travelled man." What if people ask you questions about the places you pretend to have visited?" "oh. you simply memorize the name of the principal hotel in each city and there is nothing more you need to know"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
Veteran Enjoys Stay

Tn the name of A. P. Hill camp, U. c. ", want to thank the people or Birmingham for the best reunion have attended in 20 years" said T. s. Beck with of Petersburg, Va., who left for his home yesterday afternoon with other members of the A. P. Hill camp.
 T thank the people In the name or my people. This reunion far exceeded any of those I have attended, and l have been present at 20 of them. Too much cannot be said in praise of the Boy Scouts, and of all the people of Bir- mingham, who were so generous. and so hospitable, and so accommodating to every one of us while here. I have en- joyed my stay here and hope it will be my pleasure to have another opportunity of visiting the city,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

N HAVE always been an anti-prohibtion- H ist or a believer in local option. but I must pay tribute to the splendid results that prohibition Birmingham achieved with the Confederate Veterans reunion.
 Not one serious accident; not a fight not a pistol fired or drawn in anger; and yet there were nearly one hundred thou sand visitors in Birmingham and nearly two hundred thousand local people.
 Whiskey was scarce; but there was suf- ficient to nourish and stimulate those whose advanced age or illness required it. Each of these was amply cared for, but the seeker who wanted it to aid him in becoming noisy could not get it. Had the grog-shop of old been in existence last week the story would have been different.
 The whiskey the express companies are bringing in here now is distributed for good. Ninety per cent of it is for honest rses and the other ten per cent is hardly noticeable in this great Birmingham.
 It is indeed an i'll wind that blows no good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

you undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look iair'
 -TImon of Athens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21
ELUSIVE MECHANISM.

ELUSIVE MECHANISM. Well, have you familiarized your self with all the working parts of your automobile yet?"
 "No," replied the discouraged motor ist." Every time I take an inventory I find something missing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

And the Boy Scouts! What a great work these splendid young fellows did re- union week. Everyone of us who sub scribed to this movement were proud of our aid. The police force played second fiddle to the Boy Scouts. Indeed. the Boy Scout was So competent and so clever that the police force was hardly needed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

Dothan Eagle: Campaign experiences
 hurt the unsuccessful candidate worse than expenses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-21

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, post office as second class matter under act of Congress March 3. 1879.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04

'The higher Hospitality w,ll he
tire tcplc of Rabbi Leo NJ Franklin
IN the Temple Beth Fl.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04
DESIGNER OF
WORLD FLAG
SPEAKS SUNDAY

The Rev. J. w. Van X:..SS. .:
Youngstown. G., who is internation-
ally famous as worker for world
peace and as the designer Of the in
ternational flag. will deliver an ad-
dress In the Church OF Our Father,
Sunday evening, on Signs and en-
signs OF world civilization
DIR. Van Kirk has travelled twice
around the globe and is beginning
his third trip. campaigning for an
international federation which shall
stand for world peace. His flag has
been accepted by The Hague peace
and he bears the az
OF practically every puo-
lie man In this country. and many
abroad. His address viii be sur
vey Of some OF tine things he dis.
regarding the attitude o:
the public mind toward the general
principle of world peace.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04
LITTLE STORIES FOR BEDTIME.
Peter Rabbit Has Spring Thoughts.
By THORNTON w. euResss.
Copyright, 1915. by T. w Burgess.
WfuzoFua RiuabfrG'H on the Wav.

Copyright. 1915. by T. w Bnrg }
Winsone Biuebird's on the way.
He ia due most any day.
II Was Old Mother West Wind s
children. the Merry Little Breezes,
that sang this softly as they danced
over the Green Meadows and around
the Old Briar Patch Peter Rabbit
pricked Up his long ears.
How co you know? Who told
:-ou so7" he demanded.
Nobody tod u so: We just feel
| IL. Peter cried ne Merry Little
/ Breezes and sept on singing as they
danced
Huh" said peter Feeling isn't
snowins Perhaps Winsome is on
his way. and perhaps he isn't
hope hs is. for that would mean
Mistress Spring Is on her way, too,
and she can't ge. here TOO soon TO
sLit me. But I would feel a lot
more sure OF il IL could zee some
signs"
Use your eyes, Peter, Use your
eyes There are fiowers in bloom
already, for we've seen them. What
better sign that Mistress Spring is
coming do you want ?7 chanted the
Merry Little Breszes.
Peter jumped a foot off the
ground. Say he cried. ARE you
crazy? Look at t.lis snow all oycs
TIE Green Meadows, DO you expect
me to believe any such story as
that7"
We don't care whether you be.
lIeYe II or no., II Is So" cried the
Merry Little Breezes. dancing
arcuni Peter and throwing snow in
ais face
Welcome Robins on the wing.
Very soon yOu'I hear him sing.
With this the Merry Little Breezes
danced away across the Green
Meadows toward The Green Forest
leaving Peter to stare after them
as IL quite sure that they really were
as crazy as they seemed.
! "Of course. ''The very idea oi
saying that they lad seen flowers
IN bloom when ne ground is still
frozen and there H. snow every
where don't believe word oi
lu."
Nevertheless Peter couldn't. get
II out of his head that the Merry
little Breezes hsd seen something
that he hadn', Thoughts OF the GLAD
springtime began 20 chase each 9th
er through a,s funny little head
1.-Two or three times he found him
self listening for the soft voice o.
The Detroit times., 1916-03-04

have harried the fleeing Turks. Hus-
bahds are avenging wives. sons
mothers, and fathers daughters.
Terrible Is the toll that is being
taken OF the Turks by these aveng
ing Armenians. They are oriental
Christians and feel themselves TO be
ministers OF retribution. They must
be Ieaven OF insatiableness and
firelessness In the Russian army
The recent dramatic change in
The fortunes of war brings Russian
relief to the Armenian refugees In
Persia and upper Armenia, and Is
opening channels TO all the other
cities captured. OF course. the dis
organization following military oper-
ations intensifies the need. and this
Is peculiarly an hour for Americans
10 remember that the National
Armenian Relief committee has been
organized, with Charles p. Crane
as treasurer; his office being 40
Fifth avenue, New York.
II Aleppo falls TO the Russians.
then Alexandretta. it's port on the
Mediterranean will likewise be TAX
en- by the Allies, and full, free chan
nels for relief supplies will be open
ed into ali OF Armenia
Meantime. despite the sanguinary
aspects OF the situation, the Chris
tian world must rejoice that an end
is to be put to the Armenian atroci'
ties by the strong hand OF war.