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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-15
A TASK FOR THE SOUTH From the Knickerbocker Press.

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 Investigation on the part of southern CTS in northern regions to which thou sands of southern negroes have lately migrated has disclosed, according to the Birmingham Age-Herald, that the negroes do not better their conditionby moving north It is charged, for example, that in the Pennsylvania steel district. which has imported thousands of negroes lately, living conditions are not what they should be; that the negroes cannot stand the climate, but prove easy victims of pneu- monia; that northern people do not un- derstand the negro as southern people do. and their sympathies are not as warm to- ward him; that the negro has no better the south; that though he is admitted into white churches and white schools, he suf- fers as much real segregation as if he occupied his own church and school in the south and that he is brought into contact with cheap foreign labor which entertains against him deep prejudice which is rapidly growing
 Some of these contentious will strike northern people as unsound; the truth of others must be admitted. But if the south were really an ideal place for the negro it is not likely that such allure ments as the north can offer would have tempted thousands of black men from the south The south needs the negro
 His departure is distinct loss and his place cannot be filled. Why. then, does measures of careful regard for the hous- ing, health, comfort, happiness and safety of the negro as will keep him at home?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-15
EVENING AT HOME

From the Kansas City Star. The greeting.
 The inquiry as to what is wrong. The unspeakable condition of the gas pressure. The dinner.
 The apologies and deprecations. The assurance that all is superb. The ablution of the tableware fifty fifty
 The review of the day The newspaper
 The suggestion of the movies. The examination of the photoplay column.
 The decision to stay at home. The hope that nobody comes The book
 The refusal to read aloud. The cigar ashes on the rug. The removal of the collar and the search for house slippers. The bell The scramble for the collar. The delivered package. The return to comfort The opinion of the printer who put Dickens into agate type. The yawn. The avowal of fatigue. The apple, The rattlins window. The clock. The darkness.
 The conversation.
 The silence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-15
Ready for Spring Work

well, our spring membership campaign will soon be on." said Secretary Stallings of the Young Mems Christian associat tion yesterday.
 Spring is in the air, and nowhere is 1t felt stronger than among the bunch of fellows who frequent the 'Y. The tennis courts are being trimmed up in readiness for players; and 1t Is anticipated that fully 100 players will use the courts on an average each day. Several volley ball teams have also been organized. Gymna- sium classes are also becoming even more popular of late.
 The membership campaign will run during the three last days of the present month and will continue two days in April and some vigorous work will be done by loyal adherents of the Central " True. we now have the largest membership on record; but that is no reason why others should not learn to appreciate the Birmingham association
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-15
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

A womans idea of arbitration is to have her own way all the time
 Why does the man. who hasn't been found out imagine that it is his duty to go around knocking the man who has?
 The tough part about being absent minded Is that 1t never enables you to forget your troubles.
 Some men are so careless with the truth that they would eat raw onion and then try to lie out of it.
 Don't get a swelled head. The mo- ment you begin to consider yourself indispensable your usefulness becomes impaired.
 The worst sin a married man can commit is to leave a window up and let the lace curtains blow out when it is raining
 As rule we do not give people much credit for having good sense. never go to a poor man when they want advice. When a girl makes up her mind to land you, the more you discourage her the more you encourage her. Away down in his heart every man has an idea that he is getting the worst of it.
 Most of us use the high cost of liv- ing as shield for our wastefulness and extravaganza. l Every now and then you will meet a man who spends most of his life wish- l ing he had it to do over again. When woman is undecided as tc whether to wash the dishes or go down town shopping. she never makes ur l her mind which to do until she has | dressed and hailed street car. When a woman gets back from a | trip she will listen to her husbands story of what he did during her ah- sence. but she depends on the neigh bors for the facts. And there wouldn't be so many divorces if a man tried to please his own wife the way he tries to please
 some other mans wife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-15
JOHN LYLY'S ssEUPHUlES''

and in perfectly endless chains of anti theses. <" The freshest colors soonest fade, the keenest razor soonest touneth his edge, the finest cloth is soonest eaten with the Moathes, and the Cambricke sooner stayned than the course Can vas" So it goes on. Yet it was received with rapture, and quickly became a new tongue. Everybody who would be any body strove to initiate 'Euphues' in the that many years afterwards the pub fisher, Edward Blount, recalling the as- tonishing enthusiasm with which it was greeted, wrote of John Lyly, oblivion shall not so trample on a son of the Muses, and such a son as they called their darling Our nation are in his debt for new English which he taught them. .Euphues and his England began first that language. All our ladies were then his scholars, and that beauty in court, who could not barley Euphuism was as little regarded, as she which, now there. speaks not French" The trick wore out, of course, and, by the close of the reign of James I. Euphuism had become q dead language" It had however, a lasting effect on English literature. Lyly found many imitators, whilst many of those who, like Sir Philip Sydney af- fected greatest contempt for his style, ncne the less were considerably influenced by it. Perhaps, indeed, says one fa- nous critic. ''our language is, after all, indebted to this writer and his Euphuism for not little of it's present euphony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-15

From the Christian Science Monitor.
 0OHN LYLYS "Euphues" is a re- markable book. No doubt the " reader who buys it today, in all the glory of its recently issued new edition fully annotated may be inclined to put 1t down, after an hour or so, filled with wonder that it should, even more than England He can, however hardly fail to be attracted by its quaint elegance and the captivating charm of its rhythm. He may be inclined, perhaps,g to do more than echo Sir Philip Sydney's querulous complaint against this
 Talking of beasts, birds, fishes flies,
 Playing with words and idle similes.
 But then he should remember that Sir Philip Sydney. himself, by the way, largely influenced though he would have repudiated the charge with scorn, by John Lyly's work, refused to take the author of "Euphues'' as he desired to be taken. John Lyly determined to, do the unpre. cedented thing. He never took kindly to the ordinary studies of the university. Indeed, during his sojourn at Magdalen college, Oxford. it is authoritatively re- corded of him that his genius being naturally bent to the pleasant paths of poetry las if Apollo had given him
 wreath of his own bays without snatch ing or struggling) did in a manner neg lect academical studies So when 1t began to come to him that he had some thing to say and could say it, I4yly deter mined to address himself to "the gentle women of England" Such thing was quite unheard of. and whom John I4yly declared gayly, to all who cared to listen, that he would rather see his books "lie
 shut up in lady's casket than open in a scholars study" he caused no little flutter in the dovecotes of literary Eng land. It was just such a flutter. however, that Lyiy rejoiced to bring about, and he gave his critics no rest
 .'Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit,' pub llished in 157s, was followed two years later by "Euphues and Ills. England, {
 The plot Of the books is, of course, simple enough. It tells how Euphues the hero, 1 .spreferring fancy before friends, and this present humor before honor to come" travels to Italy, and there falls in love
 with the lady already betrothed to his friend Philautus. The lady ultimately
 discards them both for more favored suitor, and Euphues and Philautus are drawn together again "by a common af- fliction." All this is made the occasion flor endless conversations, and well nigh Iirterminable correspondence. on all the
 subjects under heaven. In "Euphues and His England" the two friends come -to England, and make slow progress from { Dover to Canterbury and from Canter- i bury to London, writing and talking all the while. Once in London, Euphues Hays himself out for further. wonderful excursions into the realms of fancy.
 It was, however. the style of 1t all
 which made "Euphues'' like some new and .outlandish comet trailing across the
 sky of sixteenth century literature Lyly
 aimed artificiality. He set himself to
 create superfine style of writing, and, on almost every page, he exhausts pos
 abilities in the nice balancing of phrases.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-15
TENNYsON'S VISION OF BAGDAD; Adown the Tigris I was borne

By Bagdad's shrines of fretted gold, % High-wall&d gardens green and old; K By garden porches on the brim, M The costly doors flung open wide, Gold glittering through the lampliglt. dim And broider'd sofas on each side The sloping of the moonlit sward Was damask work. and deep inlay Of braided blooms unmown, which crept Adown to where the water slept. A sudden splendor from behind Flushd all the leaves with rich gold
 green. And, flowing rapidly between i Their interspaces. counter-charged ss The level lake with diamond plot. With dazed vision, unawares From the long alleys latticed shade Emerged, I came upon the great Pavilion of the Caliphate: The fourscore windows all alight A million tapers flaring bright From twisted silvers look'd to shame The hollow-vaulted dark and streamed Upon the mooned domes aloof In inmost Bagdad till there seemed Hundreds of crescents on the roof Of night new-risen, that marvellous
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 To celebrate the golden prime Of good Haroun Al Raschid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-15
Naeior1 Is Proud
 of Mir. Gerard

E ORMER Ambassador Gerard, U who arrived in Washington yes terday, after an arduous journey from Berlin, has been welcomed home with the distinguished consideration due a man who has acquitted himself ad- mirably in trying situation.
 Mir. Gerard has had no bed of roses in Berlin. Almost from the beginning of the war animosity against Amer ica was shown in Germany. Yet, until diplomatic relations were broken off, he exercised such good sense and diplomacy that on the surface, at any rate, the relations b' cween the two governments continued friendly.
 In addition to the important affairs of state entrusted to him, matters which were made more difficult to handle by interrupted communica-  ton between the United States and Germany, MT. Gerard has been prom i1ient in relief work and represented belligerent governments in Berlin when their embassies were closed.
 America may well feel proud of MT. Gerard, who has labored with honor to himself and his country. No other American diplomat has had to contend with so much unfavorable public opin- ion abroad, and by his avoidance of any unpleasant complications, MT. Gerard comes home with an unblem- ished record.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-15
DISSATISFIED DINERS

From the Irish World.
 Recently the sergeants of a certain battery in France sat down to an ex- ceptionally fine dinner, the crowning glory of which was a large plum pud- ding.
 Seems mighty hard" remarked the sergeant-major, as he vainly tried to stick his fork into it.
 Have you boiled us a cannot ball?
 "Or the regimental football?" asked another Where did you get the flour frorn?" questioned the sergeant-major, again struggling vainly. Where from! the cook rctorted. From Store No. 5, of course" You did? -roared the quartermas- ter-ergeant. Then, hang you, you've made the pudding wi4h portland ceA mentr' s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-15
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MISS FANCY IS OUT OF DEBT

MISS FANCY IS OUT OF DEBIT From the Tuscaloosa News.
 Fancy" that is the name of Bir-
 minghams elephant. They have other elephants over at Birmingham, but this is the only real live one.
 Fancy was paid for by the children and the last note was wiped out last Sat urday. When Fancy was first purchased g wag wrote this: Fancy, Fancy. I've been thinking. What great stunt it would be, If John Henry Wallace, warden, Could parade around with, thee" At that time 1t provoked the noted game warden of Alabama. but he's again in the public eye and so Is Fancy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-15
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A sTRIkERq

A STRIKER?
 Who was Ajax, Bobby"
 q don't remember, ma am.'
 What did he defy?"
 was it organized baseball, ma'am?"
 GOING HIM ONE BETTER
 You say Doppel is a good salesmaf?''
 q believe he could sell automobile gog- gles to Eskimos.'
 '.Pshaw! That's nothing. We have fellow working for our firm who could sell snowshoes to South sea islanders NEEDLESS ALARM
 "Scrubly-is much upset"
 whats the trouble?" Mrs. Scrubly has gone in for prison reform and scrubly is afraid she will adopt two or three convlcts.' JUST HAPPENED so Mrs. Glithers used to be soulful crea- ture." "stiu, she had common sense enough to marry a good provider." ''wer, yes. The match turned out all right. but wouldn't give her too much credit for that. She never would have fallen in love with Glithers if he hadn't been star football player" CAN'T AFFORD IT Now that the price of all foodstuff Is causing much alarm Few people ever eat enough To do them any harm. PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-15
Whisky Island. Ala.

According to Happy Koerber, there is an island in the Chattahoochee river a short distance below Columbia where re- pose 100 barrels of the finest liquor in America. For 70 years the turgid tides of the Chattahooche have held firmly in their embrace this pounteous supply of obejoyful. and it was 20-year stuff when it found lodgment there.
 There was a steamboat from Columbus bound for Apala chicola that hit snag and went down at that place 40 years ago, come July said Happy. Tn her hold were 100 barrels of 20-year-old Kentucky bourbon. Shortly afterward a freshet came on and with the hull of the boat as nucleus formed deep, wide sand bar that is known to the lumberjacks and dwellers thereabout as Whisky Island. T know that the booze Is there, and with little intelligent effort (which is my long suit) and some capital I can bring it to light. And take it from me, old top, the gods that used to hang around Mount Olympus never wet their whistles with anything that could stack up against the nectar that is calling from the bowels of Whisky Island"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-15
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

The hot air artist is being refrigerated in the ice box.
 I've found this out by attending the sessions of the armor plate and the ni- trate plant boards.
 
 When the armor plate hearing was scheduled at the Tutwier l went to it prepared to hear a lot of spread eagle oratory about the historic south, the great Birmingham district and the Magic City, but it failed to materialize.
 said to myself someone has blundered, but not at all, it was done with malice aforethought. The perfervoid orator was either pushed off the board or put in the cooler. It was more like a judicial trial than a Fourth of July celebration We got sane fourth, helpful presen- tation without any pyrotechnics.
 
 was, however, sure that no other crowd could ever put it over again l was loud in my praise of Morris Bush ana his committee for their strategy. Then along came those handling the staging or the hearing of the nitrate board ana they did a great piece of work.
 Few people realize the money, the work, and the time it took to stage the caring. It took past master like J. w. worthington to give such a finished show.
 I doubt if a committee ever had placed at it's disposal such a lot of data. The dia grams, charts and maps were accu- rate and illustrative.
 'America's Gibraltar the Muscle Shoals booklet is without doubt one or the most beautiful and elaborate pieces of printing I have ever seen. The motto was striking: Tn peace, prosperity Tor the farmer. In war, preparedness for the nation.'
 I'm of the opinion it did more to in form and catch the attention of the board than anything said or done save the trip itself down Muscle Shoals.
 The Tuscaloosa hearing was also devoid of the flamboyant and sophomore mode or speech which was once so popular in this climate.
 do not see how the Tuscaloosa people could have better presented their claim. The case was admirably handled. The witnesses dealt in facts.
 have come to the conclusion that Ala bama is truly wonderful state. No man could hear experts tell of its fabulous wealth in coal, iron, lime rock and other minerals without being impressed.
 No one can visit our great industrial plants as I have done in the past two weeks without having his faith in the Birmingham district strengthened.
 No one could have spent a week with Mrs. Mathis hearing her tell of the pe- tential power of the agricultural situa- ton without wanting to make Alabama his home.
 No one could have listened to pr. Cut Ter, the great eastern dairy expert, speak of our farm lands and the hidden wealth in alfalfa without wanting to buy herd of cattle.
 Is the board going to locate the plant at Muscle Shoals? That do not know, They wore souvenir mussels In the lapels of their coats, but they were as silent as clans.
 Will the Warrior river get the plum? They said it was a beautiful body of water, but so far as anybody knows it is still a secret.
 One thing, however, is sure. Here in Alabama we have untold possibilities and all that we need to do is to go to work and realize on them whether Uncle Sam helps us or not.
 P. s.: This is not hot air.
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 probability that the election will carry" At the start he stressed the mistake that would be made if cam paigns were forced.
 The following counties have called elections: Houston, Escambia, Ran dolph and St. Clair. The counties of Chambers, DeKalb, Etowah and Cal4 houn- are 'agitating" for an election. The Alabama Educational associa- tion, which holds it's annual meeting in April, and which always quickens the interest in public schools, will give mighty impetus to the 3-mill meas ure. Many counties will proceed to act as result of that meeting.
 
 English authorities deny that they seized rubber heels worn by the Ger man diplomats on board the Frederik VIII The newspaper correspondent who wrote that idle yarn still believes it was a corking good story business man. writing of a. trip through eastern Russia, says German war prisoners wouldn't even sleep with their Austrian allies. However they sleep side by side quietly enough in hastily dug graves
 General Maude says the inhabitants of Bagdad gave the British a warm well come. History teaches that the inhabit- ants of captured town can't afford to be cold and distant to the conqueror. In a new play vivisectionist substi- tutes human beings for guinea pigs. He doesn't really cut them up, because if he did he would soon run out of material. Nobody will object to those Yarrowdale Prisoleis siNAs out newspaper lnter- views, but it is to be hoped that none of them will enter vaudeville. While St. Louis has fewer saloons than formerly, it is still possible to acquire a headache there without having to travel any great distance. The rumor that Captain Boy-Ed wis., ited his fiancee in Philadelphia the other day may have been set afloat by some society reporter.
 A socialist declares heatedly that this Is not his war. He seems as much op- posed to the firing line as he is to the bread line.
 Technically, the United States govern ment is still at war with the Seminoles. Maybe the pacifists don't know that. Municipal goldfish are said to be losing their color, which doesn't necessarily | mean that they are in poor health. \ ! New York man was sentenced on his wedding day but it was judge and not a parson who passed sentence. x Many of the southern negroes who go north leave their faithful mules behind. l That's theme fit for tears. k l Hawaiian bathing suits of grass, when worn by seashore beauties. will certainly make the fish take notice.
 
 l The Austrian cabinet seems to be about as unstable as soap bubble in high wind.
 l Cuban revolutionists are making hor- | rendous war on the cane patches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-15
Our Colleges and
Community Spirit

Community SplrlG
 THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE U will be asked today to join the movement to make Birmingham more than ever known as "college town" /" and by so doing advance the true com munity spirit.
 This city has been widely known as a financial and industrial center. It has come to be known, too, as city of fine cultural advantages. Besides it's excellent public school system and it's many select private schools the two colleges situated here--Howard and Birmingham--are broadening their activities every year and devel- oping more and more distinct atmos- phere of higher learning.
 Although each of the institutions named is denominational-one under Baptist influence and the other Meth odist-each is undenominational in it's teaching and each has public appeal entirely apart from creed.
 Birmingham has right to feel proud of it's two colleges and the the symposium conducted recently through the columns of The Age Herald makes it plain that our most representative business men and Christian workers, regardless of church utilization, are not only ready with their moral support, but will be glad to render material aid in any effort undertaken for increasing the number of college buildings or in Strengthening the faculty.
 The suggestion was made by Frank ( Willis Barnett. as associate editor of this newspaper, that the people start . community campaign for aiding the colleges financially It would be a rood thing for education and a good thing for Birmingham. The proposi- tion met with cordial indorsement One after another of our prominent citizens wrote letters to The Age Herald testifying their appreciation of each college as a moral and up building asset to the Birmingham dis txict.
 The members of the respective de nominations supporting Howard col lege and Birmingham college have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-15
AN OBITUARY

Flat Rock Qll.) Journal.
 Death overlook Jim Mahutska Sunday evening He was the horse of MT. and Mrs S. D. Fleenor. They were sorry to part with him. but as it was it could not be help. He was quite old and it was his time to die. He had an easy death of old age and heart failure. He had been the faithful horse of the Mahutska oil company He was always ready to go when wanted to. which wasn't often.