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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10

New York, November 9.-(Special.)-A few days ago Lord Northcliffe summar- ized for publication some of the exper- fences, most of which were happy and encouraging, which he met with while upon his recent extended tour throughout the middle west. Among the other fea- lures of the visit which especially inl- pressed him was his meeting with Orville Wright at Dayton, O., and the delivery to MT. Wright of the Albert medal issued by the Royal Society of Arts in London in recognition of the fact that Orville Wright, with his brother, Wilbur, was the inventor of the first machine, heavier than air which was able to navigate the air safely and swiftly.
 In England the recognition of MT. Wright and his brother Wilbur as the real inventors, absolutely original, of the flying machine, has been far more gen. eral than has been the case in the United States. Not only the public in Engiand but men of science there who have studied the progress made by the Wright brothers from the time they began their tests and experiments until they con structed the perfected machine, have .e- garded the Wright brothers as worthy of a place among the immortals because of an invention which was absolutely origi- nal, and 30 years ago was deemed in- possible.
 Lord Northcliffe had opportunity when in the west, especially at Dayton, to. make some inspection of the manufacture of airplanes This inspection apparently satisfied him that the United States will within the next six or eight months have under construction many thousand aero- planes, some of one type and some Of another It is understood that one of the large aeroplane manufacturing pants which was established near Lake Erie is to be speedily transferred to a conven- tent site on Long Island. Reports havo been brought to this city from men of large affairs who have visited the Buffalo plant which tell of their amazement at the magnitude of the operations already under way there, although those who have had charge of the Buffalo plant when that is removed to Long Island.
 Lord Northcliffe, however, appears to have been strongly persuaded that the devel0pment of aeroplane manufacture near the city of Dayton and presumably under the counsel of Orville Wright is to be speedily so great as to make that city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
This Is Tag Day
 for the Syrians

1T7HE appeal for the suffering Sy O rians cannot be made too strong These poor, isolated people are cruel ly treated by the Turks and their con dition is unspeakably wretched. Thou sands are dying daily from starvation
 Several good women have volun teered to sell tags today for the bene- fit of the Syrian relief fund, and not withstanding the fact that appeals for charity gre numerous, it is hoped and believed that the response for this most worthy cause will be generous
 Those members of Birmingham $ Syrian colony who have prospered have given liberally of their means, but very large sum will be needed to afford anything like adequate aid and every man and woman here should make contribution. No charity will be more gratefully ac. cepted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
ABOUT MARK TWAIN
le Kansas City Times.

From the Kansas City Times.
 Samuel Langhorne Clemens, an Amer ican novelist and humorist, better known as Mark Twain,' name derived from calls used in making soundings on the Mississippi river and first employed by MT. Clemens in newspaper work in 1868. MT. Clemens was born at Florida, Mo. on November 30, 1885. He received the common school education of frontier town, entering a printing office in ISIS. and, becoming an expert cornpostoi, worked at this trade in St Louis, New Fork and other cities. In 1851 he gave up printing and became steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, accommodating a fund of experience that he was later to turn into unique literary account The civil war closed this livelihood to him. "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country,' written in 1867, led to his participating, with journalistic intent in an excursion to the Orient His letters about his trir, in revised form, became tho well known Innocents Abroad qS69), which won him fame on both continents Although pop uiarly known as a humorist, Mir. Ciencns lad . thoroughly serious side to shI]
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
Burying the Dead
 on Battle Fields

PHOTOGRAPHERS motion pie G ture in particular-brings vivid- ly home to us the horrors of the war in Europe. The daring war photog- rapher, who frequently risks his life for a picture, tells us more with his camera than all the correspondents put together, and in far less time The world owes a debt of gratitude to the brave men who are recording his tory in a way that will leave no doubt in the minds of future generations. They will be able to see the conflict iii Europe just as it was.
 Recently a picture was published in American newspapers showing British soldiers burying long line of Ger mans in a trench dug hastily by spe- cial machinery. There is frequently no tlIlle to PLY tllS PlSh HAAu oAAosSA 'AA burying the dead. Men in the ranks who fall in great numbers must be put under ground as quickly as pos sible or incinerated, for their decaying bodies are menace to the lives of friend and foe alike. Huge trenches are scooped oGt. The dead are placed side by side, their battered faces barred to the skies above them and the falling clods which speedily cover them up. This is the emergency burial. Europe is dotted with individual graves, but thousands of bodies have been laid together and the pitying earth spread over them.
 It is the aftermath-the last chap ter in many story of individual sac rifice and heroism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
Is Russia Facing a Civil War?

E7T7HE possibility of civil war in
 H Russia is being considered by America and her allies. The most op- timistic observer can see little pros pect for stable government save one created by fire and sword.
 The Russian people seem doomed to suffer much before their national aspirations are realized. Some strong figure may appear and by few hard, swift blows dominate the situa- tion so completely that the Russians will not have to wade through a well ter of blood to win the true, the last ing freedom of which they dream. This, however, appears to be a for lorn hope. Korniloff, who might have been that man. shot his bolt too soon and is now in prison. A military die tator is needed, one who can hold the Russian armies together and inspire Aloyalty in, his troops. A leader of that sort could make short work of the fanatics who overturned the Kerenslly government and are now discussing all sorts of fantastic schemes for making Russia a Utopia, proving themselves impractical dreamers, in- stead of showing comprehension of the plight in which unhappy Russia now finds herself. Such men as Lenine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
PROGRESS IN AVIATION
By HOLLAND

the aircraft capital of the entire world. That, according to Lord NorthcliHe, would be entirely appropriate in view of the fact that the aeroplane was first per- fected at Dayton by the Wright brothers.
 Lord Northcliffe is apparently in partial if not full agreement with men Of high military authority who are now per suaded that the military victory whlch must be achieved if Germany is perria- nently defeated win be greatly if not chiefly influenced by the airship. There are several features, however, In airship construction that are still to be worked out satisfactorily before the machine can be regarded as perfect as 1t is possible to make 1t. The Liberty motor has solved one problem. Those who have seen 1t re- gently speak with even greater assurance of it's success than did the men of science who were first permitted to look at 1t after the Secretary of War, Mr. Baker had announced that a few engineers who were made voluntary prisoners at hotel at Washington had within short time perfected the ideal motor for the air plane.
 Apparently, however, the government and the airplane makers are not entirely satisfied with tho lubricant now in use It is of the utmost importance for satis- factory working of the airpiane that q lubricant of exceptional quality be em- ployed. It is fact that the government may within a short time have offered to it a lubricant upon which one Of the great authorities upon lubricating t.as been at work. It will not be offered to the government for profit. It will be freely offered to the government and the people.
 The government has secured two ad- mirable supplementary apparatus which will be of the greatest assistance to the aviator. One of these is 8 device which after having been attached to the motor will indicate with accuracy to the aviator how many revolutions minute the en- zine is making. The other is a device which will show how fast the aeroplane is flying through the air. One of these de- vices Is now being manufactured at Day. ton. perhaps both. The government nas secared great advances in the manufac- ture of tools which are necessary TOT making the standardized parts of air. panes. In fact, these tools are now pe- ing manufactured at place or Wnicn the government prefers there should be no public mention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
rniorcd saln nf MuIer

'Tt must be in the blood" said J. L. Dent, secretary of the Alabama State Fair association" but just can't keep away from auction sales of stock.
 T went down to Fies stables to watch them sell two carloads of mules. saw one derelict knocked off at si, and it was proud darlsey who led away his old and crippled purchase.
 "A few in the lot had been hurt in the mines or crippled so bad as to be of little value, but the great majority were fine animals and brought good prices. think the crowd got more fun out of watching the negroes bid on the damaged ones than it did when the sound ones were put on the block"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
THE FAIRIES

From Punch. The fairies have never penny to spend They haven't q thing to buy. But theirs is the dover of bird and of
 flower. W And theirs are the earth and the sky And though you should live in palace
 of gold
 Or sleep in a dried-up ditch You could never be poor as the fairies
 are,
 And never as rich. Since ever and ever the world began They have danced like a ribbon of
 flame, They have sung their song through the
 centuries long, And yet it is never the same. And though you be foolish or though
 you be wise. With hair of silver or gold You could never be young as the fairies
 arc.
 And never as old
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
TOKYO BARS TIPS
Telegram.

From the New York Telegram.
 Learn from Tol1io that the Imperial Japanese Railroad board has abolished the giving or receiving of tips by its employees out of regard for the self respect of the men.
 Their wages have been increased 10 to 20 cents d day. with an allowance ol $2.50 month for clothing.
 No wonder Japan is growing in favor with some and mourning the deadly hatred of some others.
 You can draw the dividing line your self.
 Wonder what Japan would do with the hat check freebooter.
 Tho news from Tokio is commended to the red cap brigade at the railroad stations and to Mr Robert T. Lincoln of the Pullman Car company,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
Flush With Money

T have never known the farmers Of Alabama So prosperous as they are now," said Columbus Teacher, the well known fertilizer man. "They are flush with money. Small farmers, who raised four or five bales of cotton, find themselves with more cash than they ever had before at any one time The whole south seems to be unusually prosperous this year. It is feeding it. self Instead of paying out millions to the west for food and ,feedstuff. This practice will soon make the cotton belt immensely rich"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

A woman has sense enough to know that if she keeps an egg in hot water long enough it will get hardened. But she forgets that husband is the Same way.
 A man never gets so poor that he isn't willing to share his poverty with some woman.
 some human shrimps get away with bluffs because they are aware that their neighbors are ashamed to take wallop Ut q smaller man.
 This is a great country in which the Tact that a man is a candidate, even II he is only candidate for dog catcher. is entitled to the prefix Hon" before his name during tho campaign.
 A man may forget the old homestead when he gets out into the world. But a mortgage never loses it's interest in the old place.
 Our idea of being miserable would be to be deaf mute and have to put up a wrong font stove pipe and have our hands so full that we couldn't use them to swear with.
 It would make a girl very angry to think that the young man who has just kissed her thinks that he could kiss her if he wanted to.
 The biggest cinch we know of right itch 4S ehae WHSi Nou Put It LiliHS oiA until tomorrow you put 1t off indefinitely.
 A man wants moro than his share Of some things in this world. But it is dif- ferent with trouble.
 The old fashioned woman who used to make living as fortune teller nov has i, q Son vino is selling mining stock. Never harry girl when she is dressing to go to the theatre With you Wouldn't 1t be awful if in her haste she went out with only one eyebrow on? After all, the difference between a lux ury and necessity is merely getting used to it.
 The biggest pest in the world is the l goop who has heard your pet story before and who butts in and spells it when you are telling it. Another reason why small boy hates to get sick is because he knows that the first thing the doctor will prescribe is castor oil
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
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GOOD ADVICE

From Everybody's Magazine.
 She was never happy unless she was suffering from some malady or other Her physician was at his wits ends in treating her because he dislilzed to dose her with medicines for imaginary ail- ments.
 One day he examined her and found, as usual, that there was nothing wrong. q shall give you something for what troubles you, but you must promise faithfully to follow directions She assented but much to her sur prise found later that the directions were: keep this bottle tightly corked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
work for Rows and Girls

T do not know what it is," said Jim Weatherly, "but whenever hear the Alabama Industrial School band play 1t sets my blood to tingling even more than does the playing of the great mill itary bands.
 "It must be the sympathy have with the fellows who are beginning to find themselves by learning that after all it is best to go straight and study to be men. The state is doing a great work for the boys. It ought not to continue to neglect the girls''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
Prussianizing of
 the German People

1 N~ IODL4Nl D VI ooSADA g and ethnic problems who have observed the German people at close range are emphasizing the fact now more than ever that the Prussianiz- | ing of the empire has made the Fatherland seem like different country. The change has been as insidious as it has been far-reaching.
 Tourists may readily recall the so- cial life of Berlin as ideal in many of its aspects and the rest of Prussia as singularly hospitable. But today these same people, systematically in- fluenced by an autocratic regime, have lost, in no small degree, that domes- tic grace which formerly distinguished them. And the Prussianizing of the smaller states has proceeded so stead 1 ily as to make all Germany symbol of despotism.
 One of the most Illuminating au- thorities on German life as it is and as it used to be, is Otto H. Kahn of New York, business man, financier, publicist and man of letters. He is an uncommonly versatile writer, but what gives character and weight to what he says, is his strong human sympathy.
 1 Few statesmen or men of affairs i have done more to stimulate patriot ism in the breasts of Americans of German descent, like himself, than MT. Kahn.
 No one understands the signifi- canoe of a Prussianized Germany more clearly than MT. Kahn. In his address, delivered recently before the Harrisburg, Pa., Chamber of Com merce, he said: q speak as one who has seen the spirit of the Prussian governing classes at work from close by, having at its disposal and using at the full, practically every agency for holding the public mind" He had watched the Prussian spirit gaining with relentless persistency and profound cunning, to instill into the nation the demoniacal obsession of power, worship and world dominion, to modify and pervert mentality, in deed the very fibre and moral sub stance, of the German people, a peo- lple which, until misled, corrupted and systematically poisoned by the Prus- sian ruling caste, was, and deserved to be, an honored, valued and welcome member of the family of nations"
 MT. Kahn had loathed that spirit ever since it came within "his ken" many years ago; hated it all the more as he saw it ruthlessly pulling down a thing which was dear to him-the old Germany to which he was linked by ties of blood and fond memories.
 Among other burning thoughts in the Harrisburg speech were these:
 The difference ill the degree of guilt
 as between the German people and
 their Prussian or prussianized rulers
 and leaders for the inonstrous crime
 of this war and the atrocious barbar-
 ism of it's conduct is the difference be-
 tween the man who. acting under the
 influence of @ poisonous drug, runs
 amuck in mad frenzy and the un-
 speakable malefactor who adminis-
 tered that drug, well knowing and
 fully intending the ghastly conse-
 quences which were bound to follow.
 From each successive visit to Ger
 many for 9 years I came away more
 appalled, by the sinister transmuta-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10

BEGINNING THE DAY--Great God, in the light of Thy face l know the depths of self-reproach. Grant me over and over again that vision of Thyseif, which must shame me into penitence and deep humib- ty. am not worthy. am man or unciean lips and l dwell among peOpIe of uncIean lips. Cleanse me. c gracious One; renew me, God of might. In Christ's name. Amen. II. M. ID.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10

cbaracter as shown by his discussion of political questions. His best and pernaps most permanent work was done as pic- turesque novelist in the Adventures or Huckleberry Finn" No other writer nas so ,ividly portrayed the irresponsiDie American boy, or so given his readers an adeouate impression of the larse' bon,e,v. spontaneous life led by native Americans in the great valley or the MS sissippi. He died in Bedding, Conn.,, Aprli o1 1a10
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10

son after person cried out just double mine. Men who had given hber- ally for themselves added sub seriptions for their wives, and many also for their. children. I saw men arise and give and I knew from their gifts that they were giving until it hurt. I'll never forget the night un- til my dying day. I am glad I was able to be present and see the Jews of Birmingham act so heroically.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
Emporia Man in City

T have been in your hustling city for few days" said A. H. Plum, a capitalist of Emporia, Kan.
 My home town is famous as having within her borders William Allen White and Walt Mason. These two, with the help of the state normal, have put Emporia. the lovely little city of 12,0o0, on the map. Kansas is at present very prosperous. Governor Capper, who has string of publications, has announced his candidacy for senatorial honors, and 1t looks as if he has a good chance to win out.r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
NATURAL MISTAKE

NATURAL MISTAKE Here's wonderful painting of the sea-
 'The artist is strictly up-to-date, too. In the distance see the prov of sub marine emerging from the waves'' ''No, you don't. This picture was painted long before the day of the U-boats What you see is a buoy,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
ENiERSON'S "DAYs,

from the Kansas City Star.
 Emerson, we believe, is regarded now adays as very far from up-to-date as a poet He never wrote a line of free verse in his life and he wasn't obsessed with the ideas of the problem novel But one who has the courage to pick up his poems and dip into them will find re- ward for the adventure. This editorial is prompted by a chance rereading of his poem, Days his own favorite, by the way, among his poems. Here it is: Daughters of Time, the hypocrite Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot der
 wishes
 Bring diadems and fagots in their hands To each they offer gifts, after his will, Bread, Kingdoms, stars and sky that
 holds them all.
 I. in my pleached garden, watched the
 pomp,
 Forgot my morning wishes, hastily TOOK a few herbs ana apples, and the Turned and departed silent. I, too late, Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
 There is an elevation about these lines and beauty of expression that give them a haunting quality. What a vivid picture the endless procession of the Days, untitled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,' and the silent scorn of the one who saw her best gifts sighted Why Is it that the school readers the old readers, at least-always cite the quarrel of the mountain and the squirrel as Emerson's offering? He had much better music in him than that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
THE JOYOUS EDITOR

From the Talladega Home.
 Every time we strain joint to wrig- gle from under the crush or deliquent
 Subscribers rushing to pay up, we wish
 we had some more joints to strain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
STRONG ATTRACTION

When a little town that's wet
 Is near a little town that's dry There's frequent passing to and fro I needn't tell you why. A line of chugging motor cars
 Goes winding OCT the plain, The occupants assuage their thirst And hasten home again. There's always something doing
 And rents are very high In the little town that's "wet" And near little town that's "dry.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
Christmas Packages for Soldiers

"I had to have some special tin boxes made to hold the few Christmas pres- ents that I wanted to send some of the soldier boys in France" said Hugh Morrow.
 q went in person to the postoffice to 1arn the best way to get them across safely. I found that it was useless to tie them up before taking them to the parcel post window as they had to be inspected and passed before wrapped.
 "The ones I sent weighed six pounds and cost 72 cents each. also found out that if friends wanted to get their gifts to the boys overseas by the holidays it was necessary to do 1t at once. hope every soldier boy in France will get Christmas package from home"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
A FOOD PRODUCER

A FOOD PRODUCER There goes man who is doing his duty in the trenches" "Abroad?, 'No, at home He makes the trenches with a plough"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10

IN LOVE WITH HIS VOICE
 CT don't understand why you say Dub son is an entertaining talker. Every body else says he's bole.'
 CT mean he entertains himself. The sound of Dubsons voice Is sweeter music to his ears than the strains Of sym phony orchestra directed by foreigner with 2, lot of whiskers and an artistic +en,nArament,, PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10
A DIRECT APPEAL

A DIRECT APPEAL
 Judge, I throws myself on dc mercy of dis court" said the old darlSey.
 "In appoint Q lawyer to defend you"
 Don't do dat, judge. ain't gwine ter have you tired out by no speechi- fyin' lawyer. wants ter talk ter you, man ter man."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-10

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