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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08
THORNWELL HAYNES FINDS THEORIES IN TEACHING PAUL [TY Says Teachers Believe Too Much in the Divinity
 of Theories "UNAFRAIDISM" IS
 URGED IN ADDRESS Tells Them to Let the Divinity With in Themselves Show Itself-Cites
 Christ as the Worlds
 Greatest Teacher

Montgomery, April 7.-(special)-At this mornings session of the State Teach CTS association, which closed today aft CT meeting lasting since last Wednes- day an inspirational and rather precc- dent-breaking address on Educational Unafraidism'' was delivered by President Thornwell Haynes of Birmingham col lege
 According to the speaker teachers be- lieve too much in the divinity of the ories of teaching instead of a divinity within themselves, and teachers take such books as treat of systematic meth- odolgy or psychological pedagogy or pedagogical psychology or the harmony Of the teaching process and worship them as though they were tables of stone handed down from Mount Sinai and still warm with divinity.
 The speaker was careful to commend the great work done by the Alabama state department of education in it's teachers study and reading circle. Such work, he said, was right and proper, but the originators of such study circles were by such agencies working to lift the teachers into a realization of the divinity within themselves instead of divinity within the pages of a book.
 When a book on pedagogy begins to tell of unseen and unheard and unfelt things l begin to doubt, but when it speaks of the visible and audible and tan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08
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tack by European nations which the SND miles of ocean has been supposed to fur nsh has disappeared The immediate danger that a general European war will involve US is clearly and sufficiently shown by the fact that we are on the brink of hostilities with the central pow CTS and have already severed our diplo- matic relations with Germany because Of events growing out of such a war.
 Our government has attempted to pur- sue the course laid down Tor neutrals by international law. Our national con science is void of offense against Ger many. Indeed. many have thought that we have yielded too much to her and have not asserted our rights as we should. International law justifies a belligerent in stopping and searching the commer- cial vessels of neutral to find whether they are carrying contraband to the en- emy, and if so in confiscatng the con- traband International law justifies bel ligerent in establishing the blockade of q port or a number of ports of the enemy and in maintaining it within the immed-
 fate neighborhood by the actual potroll- ing Of war vessels; and where, after it IS proclaimed, a neutral vessel attempts to run the blockade, the vessel may be cap tured as a prize and taken into the courts of the captor and sold for his benefit. But in both the confiscation of contra band goods and the capture of a block ade runner, the crew and ships company are entitled to warning before their ves- gel is attacked, and if they make no resistance they are entitled to rescue be- fore the vessel is sunk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08

j. exists. The French workingmen are Frenchmen. Therefore they are pene- trated profoundly by the French national spirit. exalted in this period of war S. powerfully that private and pei sonal in terests have been merged in the national interest. The individual soul, as it were
 has been absorbed for the time being int the collective soul. The personal habits of men. the things dear to them in their daily round the motives which inspired their lives their very opinions concerning social and political arrangements. have for the time become so absolutely secon- dary that they seem not to exist. The rational aspiration to win the war and to do everything that can contribute to
 that result, is supreme in individual life throughout France. regardless of what a
 mans occupation is or what his ndi-
 vldual ambitions were. The French work i iingman, therefore, whether he Is serving ' in the trenches or whether he Is serving
 in the workshop. has a supreme aim, l that Is to contribute to the saving of | France. to do something toward the hunting from French territory of the in vader and to do something for Belgium, ! for Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08
35O,OOO WOMEN ARE WORKING IN
 FRENCH FACTORIES
These Are Aiding Govern ment Make Munitions to Win Great War-They
 Are Very Skilful

Paris, March 10-( -(Correspondenc Of the
 Associated Press)-Three hundred and fifty thousand women are now working in the government controlled munition works in France Albert Thomas, the minister of munitions, in talking of their work to the Associated Press, said
 They are more sSiIlful than men in things requiring dehcacy of touch, quick ness of hand, such as the mounting of rifle parts or the rolling of fuses. They are particularly good at laminating work. Then on the he eavier labor! Look at tn women on crdnes uitln5 nVe tonst 1 have in mind a scene in heavy mechanical man. agement in copper working mIll. An ac- tive girl of 10 on a travelling crane IS so attentive to her work that she anticl- pates the slowing down and stopping sig nals of the men who guide the load to it's place. Leaning over the railing, with out taking her hand from the handle to , the electric wheel, her eye judges the movement of her machine 30 40 feet ! below. The people underneath working | in cooperation with her know that she l will slow down at the necessary instant. It is a fine example of intelligent and | trained teamwork.
 This woman sewed ready made cloth 1 ing before the war. Her physical labor was spent on the pedal of a sewing ma
 chine. Now she has only to move lever. 1 Passing from feminine employment to ] some of the heaviest work of men, she i has said that she never worked at so l profitable trade with less fatigue In- stead of peddalling 12 hours a day she pre- l fers managing a travelling crane for eight
 The same qualities suffice. Instead of fol- lowing the way of the needle. she surveys
 the descent of the load. They see from l below the stern attention of her eyes, l M. Thomas has noticed that women
 have brought into iron working trades 8 personal consideration of working people | for one another.
 | ''Women from dressmakng and milli-
 nery shops, for example," said he, "com-
 ing into ruder workshops insist upon courtesy. They will not tolerate coarse
 ness and roughness of bearing They
 bring into the metal working mills their
 own standards of department and the men
 adopt them. The change where large numbers of women are employed has beer | remarka ble."
 l NJ Thomas was elected as an extreme l socialist, one of the 103 members of the
 unified socialist group in Parliament He l knows the feelings of workingmen in France more thoroughly. perhars, than
 any other member of the cabinet.
 1 T have an impression" said M. l Thomas that an idea has spread in
 America that the worl1ingmen's partiesn
 war. I would like to correct that view if
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08

krow ever spoke of painting, and yet me
 life picture of his attitude before his
 disciples has been the inspiration whereby
 the greatest painters of the world have
 made men to stop and stand and stare in
 awe before the most wonderful canvases
 eyes ever looked upon.
 He never tried to teach music. There
 is no record of His ever having tried to play upon a musical instrument He never even tried to sing a song. Yet the
 beauty of His words and the beauty of His life has been the soul and inspira- ton of the most heavenly music which ever fell upon the ears of man.
 And how did He do it? Certainly not by writing books on pedagogy, or figur- ing on how much mathematics should bs embraced in high school physcs.~ But He did it by an educational unafraidisn, which broke away from the laws and customs of the scribes and pharisees, and asserted the divinity of His own indi- viduality.
 And so it comes about that our schools need teachers who are thus unafrad. 'I can ina zine the honest worker with his hands-a carpenter for instance, who has caught the spirit of the Master Car penter-I can imagine him saying to his piece of work.
 You are only a piece of wood. After you leave my hands 1 may never see you again. People looking at you, however, will see me, and as far as they are con- cerned you will be me. So I shall mako you unafrad. Speak to those who see you and tell them you were made by a
 man of courage, a man who knows what good and honest work is Through you l shall proclaim the divinity which dwells
 in every carpenter, and whatever may happen, you'll stand for worker who is full of courage
 And so the teacher who has caught
 the spirit of unafraidism of the Master Teacher may speak to her pupil like this: You are only a piece of humanity. After you leave my hands 1 may never see you again. People and God looking at you. however, will see me, and as far as they are concerned you will be me. So want to teach you to be unafraid. I'll look intently everywhere for courage I'll laboriously search for it in the great and the small, in the unusual and com monplace things of this wonderful world and when l have found it I shall brins it with a song of joy and give it to you So that eventually you will speak to those with whom you come in contact and tel them you have been with teacher whc
 was an artist and not an artisan, a
 teacher who was an unafraid co-wor1er
 with the great Creator of the universe '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08
British Merchant Sailors
 Are Praised by Jellicoe

London. March 10.-(Correspondenc of the Associated ss.)-British mer- chant mariners have received high praise from Sir John Jellicoe, first sea | lord of the admiralty, for their cour- age in fighting off German submarines Writing to the president of the Clyde ! Steamship Owners association Sir | John declared:
 | '"fhe royal and allied navies and | the mercantile marine are working to- | gether to overcome the greatest men | ace with which this country and the l allies ever have been faced and the | heroism shown by officers and men of | the mercantile marine and their un- 1 faltering resolution deserves not onl v 1 the confidence but the gratitude and sincerest admiration of the whole na- | tion."
 ] Experts engaged by the chamber of | shipping have given their opinion that one more guns mounted on the stern | of merchant steamers give sufficient | protection against submarine attack. l In announcing this at the meeting of i the chamber William H. Raeburn the president said that some critics pre- | viously had asserted that the mar- 1 chan vessels should carry also a gun mounted on the bow. MT. Raeburn said
 that the British shipowners had begged 1 for guns for more than year, be I lfeving they were one of the best 1 methods of preventing attacks bx l U-boats. He said the merchants now 1 were satisfied with the vigor with which the admiralty was arming the l ships
 Losses of entente shipping from sub marine attacks during the last two or
 three months had been serious MT. I Raeburn said. but not alarming. They constituted very small percentage of l the total number. He asked if British ] shipowners were too sanguine in ex- pecting that one of the conditions Of
 peace would be the surrender by the l Teutonic powers of their entire mer- i cantile marine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08
Training the Baby

Marianna Wheeler, in Care of Children ''
 from the Peoples Home Journal
 Habits formed in childhood are hard to break. This is true of good habits as well as bad. Some mothers do not realize that baby. even at the tender age of three of four weeks, so far as sleeping, feeding, action of the bowels, etc, is concerned is a good deal like a machine So when the baby cries too much, is awake at the wrong hours. suffers from collie because of under or over feeding or from feeding at irregular periods, the machinery should not be blamed but rather the one who is taking care of it.
 During the nursing baby's first two or three months, the condition of the bowels is most easily regulated through the mothers diet. Mothers who drink large quantities of tea will find that their milk
 is apt to cause constipation in the baby, for tea contains a good deal of tannin and this is very constipating The nurs- ing mother may eat plenty of fresh, green vegetables and almost all fruits. It is a mistaken idea to omit these from her diet.
 Plenty out of door exercise for the mother will also help to keep her health good and so contribute to the baby's $ health. She should take water freely between meals and see that the baby get 5 a sufficient amount. If absolute naaes- sary, gluten suppository may s NsAd for the baby occasionally; they bef { ter than frequent enemas.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08
w. c. T. U. ACTIVITIES


''Hereditary Effects of Alcoholism" He recited the history of the medical move ment against the liquor evil in Alabama bringing to the mind of his hearers that it started in 1881 at one of their conven- tions when Dr. Brice made one of his characteristic speeches against the evil.
 Mrs Sibley. who has just returned from Atlanta, where she attended the Bone Dfy Jubilee,' gave a most interesting account of the celebration,
 The meeting was largely attended by mentors of the different unions who were highly pleased with Dr. Wyman's speech and Mrs. Sibey's report
 Mrs Elliott entertained the Fairview union at her home at Compton Station Friday evening at o'clock By special invitation the county president was pres ent and spoke to the members on What We Are Doing and What We Must Do
 At the conclusion of the meeting Mrs. Elliott served an ice and salad course.
 Mrs J. P. Moore, superintendent of the medal contest department, announces there will be a silver medal contest at the Fountain Heights Methodist church Sunday evening Through the courtesy og Dr. Sturdivant, the pastor, there will be special music for the occasion.
 The following contestants will speak, Elise Sparrow. Lena Kellogg, Edith Cal Her, Grace Worrell, Annie M. Haggard Nora Kellogg.
 Friday evening a o'clock at the Ems lev comnlunitv house. the Francis Wit lard union held a silver medal contest, ir which the foreign children were the con testants The meeting was presided over by Mrs Bumstead and a great deal Of in tercst was manifested by both parents and children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08
Tho Crisie

Ex-President Taft in the Yale Review
 The crisis in our relations with Ger many has made clear the necessity for a change in our policy of national defense and in our participation in world politics. The advantage of isola- tion which the Atlantic gave us in Washington and Jefferson's Day has ceased. The immunity from possible at
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08

salves and other things that ate off more of the toe than they did the corn. I'd cut and dig with knives and scissors, but now no more fooling for me. Two drops of 'Gets-It' does all the work. It makes ' the corn shrivel and get so loose that you can just pick it right off with your fingers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08

"Gets-It" Is sold everywhere, 25c bottle, or sent on receipt of price by E. Lawrence & Co, Chicago, III.
 Sold in Birmingham and recommended as the worlds best corn remedy by Eugene Jacobs Drug Store, Gale Drug Co. e stores), BOT First Avenue and Pratt Station, Pratt City. Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08
A Perfect Face Powd

A Perfect Face Powder by Mai Regular price Soc. Media" Face four tints, brown, rose. pink, Won't rub off, Avoids chalkiness mon to other face or comple3i. ders: sent by mail for 2Sc in state tint desired. Media Chem Atlanta. Ga.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08

gible, such as rural conditions, health, administration problems, statistics. l am attention"
 To emphasize the vagueness of some of the theories advanced by some peda- sogical writers, he read from a book on pedagogy taken at random from his library, as follows:
 ''The learner should not stop with hay ing performed merely the act of analysis. since that will leave him with a result ant product of dissociated fragments having neither coherency nor usefulness; this analytic act should be followed by the reconstructed act of synthesis. Hav- ing started with a whole or unit of ap- prehension, the pupil will return by ar analytic-synthetic process to this same unit of compTehension"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08
Corns Shrivel and Loosen Off
 By Using Magic ''GETS-lT''
Drops Do the Work Forget the Pain Lose the Corn

There has been nothing new discov- cred for eorns since "Gets-It' was born. It's the new way-the common, sense. simple, sure way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08

q tell you. before I heard of Gets [t 1 used to try one thing after another Or corns. l still had them. l used band ages and they made my toe so big 1t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08
KNOWLEDGE BY EXPERIENCE

'So I plead for less theory, less words, less worship of vagueness, less nothings. for one can know childhood a thousand times quicker and more satisfactorily by experience than by trying to live what somebody else imagined after drinking two or three cups of strong coffee.
 And as the resident of religious institution of higher learning I bring a message of educational unafraidism, and proclaim to you Christ as it's greatest disciple, and our schools must come to it sooner or later We will dethrone
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08

The executive committee of the Ala bama Womans Christian Temperance union held business session Friday morning in the auditorium of the local headquarters.
 At the meeting Mrs. Annie K. Weisel, state president, formally rendered her resignation, which was accepted with sin cere regret by her co-workers who appre- ciate fully the most excellent and self sacrificing work Mrs, Weisel has done for Alabama since elected president
 Mrs Weisel will leave for an extended stay in the east in a few days, where she will continue her splendid work for the cause of temperance.
 The vice president of the Alabama union, Mrs. W. H. Jeffries, who is also president of the county union. will serve as president In Mrs. Jeffries speech of acceptance she paid lovely tribute to the former president, and expressed a hope that. the work would go right on just as enthusiastically during the re- mainder of the year as it had done tke preceding months.
 The committee accepted the reports of the special committee on organization and also made plans for the institutes Mrs. l.. A, Daniel, chairman of the gen eral committee to investigate the photo- plays in Birmingham called a meeting of her committee Friday morning at which meeting members of the different unions were appointed to visit the photo play houses and be ready to make a re- port on conditions at the meeting the last of April
 At the meeting of the Central union Tuesday afternoon, Dr. B. L. Wyman made most interesting talk on the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08

from our stained glass windows this mas ter Christ teacher destroy our pipe or sans and quit publishing our Bibes-in a word, if for no other reason than to be consistent. we will either make Christ the example of all teachers and place him greatest of all pedagogical writers, or else overturn our altars of holy water, smother the fire beneath our incense burners, and boldly declare that it is bet ter to know the length of the Nile than that the pure in heart shall see God. Where is the Froebel or Pestalozzi or Wirt of Mcntessori or Sackville-Stoner who can measure with Christ? What | phoric method of teaching reading, or what simpifed spelling ever made the ! manhood and womanhood made by the teachings of this unconventional apostle 1 of educational unafraidism?
 1 His pupils were made up of poor, ig- norant, common people, mostly fishermen and publicans. And they came to him after they had reached maturity, long i after all possibility of directing the plas- 1 ticity of their youthful mental growth had passed and they remained with him only three years. But what marvellous re- suits. And in the light of such, how l miserable seem our failures in taking the boy at six or some years in the kinder garten before, and keeping him through
 
 school grades with a four-year college and a two or three-year professional course added-altogether some 15 or l6
 or IT years. All of it sometimes to make man who lives and dies and is never heard tell of outside his own county CHRISTS FORM OF TEACHING This master Christ teacher never taught his pupils any literature. He
 never commented on any classical forms
 of expression and the only recorded in stance of his ever having written any
 thing was when He wrote in the sand, | But the result was literature produced
 hy these peasant pupils more wonderful, more admired, and more quoted than the combined writings of all the other sons of men.
 He never tried to teach painting. He never handled brush nor as far as we
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08

"Of course anybody ought to under stand that" remarked President Haynes, but the author does not seem to think so, for hear what he says:
 Tn order that these generalities may be stripped of their vagueness and be- come practically useful, the learner must continue his thought and must make de- ductive application of them in new and varied individual instances. This alone can save him from a mere pretense oi wisdom, in which much dealing is done in glittering generalities.
 tThen follow pages detailing just what little Mary really can and ought to do with Johnny's cranial curiosities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-08
HOW MARY's MIND WORKS

Dr. Haynes suggested that this perhaps meant that if little Mary's mind begins to busy itself with Johnny's ears and nose and mouth and eyes the theoretical ly and systematically methodoogized and the pedagogcally and psychoogically trained teacher should be on the alert so as to prevent Mary leaving Johnny in that anatomical state of analytical appre- hension. but that before ceasing her mental efforts Mary should put all John nys facial protuberances synthetically back in place so as to leave his cranium comprehensively.
 In other words, said President Haynes, 'ifeyou go out, you must come back in again, or if you go up you must come back down. l believe it was the noble Duke of York who had 10000 men
 " He marched them up the hill one day
 (analytically and apprehensively), And he marched them down again (com-
 prehensvely and synthetically).
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-12-08

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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-12-08
The Markets


Sew York Dec Dealings ,n
stocks to-day were negligible. The
turnover was the rEhtcst of the ycar
Lower prices 90 he opening were
partl, uycrcuu" later but trading
dragged near the end. A few pruni-
inent rails Welded 90 point and some
active industrials lost as much with
% .is point decIiu, lu brooklyn r. T.
Many prominent stock were not quot
ed. The closing was heavy sales APP
proximated 100. ooo mares Lihort'
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the aus az gN. Is TO Hs.SG.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-12-08
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Nyv York Zee >- Mercantile Ul-
per. 90. n q, per cent sterling sixty
day bills i,l', per cent commercial
sixty dny hills ON banks. 81 per cent.
commercial sixty ia, bills. tl"'. per
cent demand i,rl. per cu' rhlp-.
I.t5 5-iG per cent.
Eur silver 80 20.
Mexican dullars-6G '4r
Government bonds Firm
Railroad bonds HEAVY.