The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-28


 round trip tickets that the railroads will announce, will bring thousands from the north, east and west as well as the south.
 The last biennial was held in Los Angeles, and it was estimated that the attendance wasaover 25,000. It should not be surprising to see some thing like that large number here. While Birmingham is without an ade- quate auditorium even for the sym phonic concerts that will make up a part of the programme, it happens that greater part of the scheme calls for open air entertainments community pageants and community choruses. The convention will open on Sunday, April 15, with sacred music in the churches and a great community chorus in Capitol park in the late afternoon. The convention will be in session an entire week, and will close with outdoor attractions.
 The Music Study club here, which is responsible for the working out of the details, and will be right up to the convention time, will issue at tractive literature about Birmingham and about the musical importance of this event. Leaflets will be mailed to every part of the United States. Con spicuous advertisements of the affair will appear in all the musical papers during the next few weeks; and the whole country will be talking about Birmingham and the biennial.
 It is needless to say that our citi- zens in general will gladly cooperate with those enterprising women who have taken upon themselves the bur den of an enterprise that will rebound to the glory of Alabama.
 Colonel Roosevelt calls the Hay bill to federalize the National Guard 'as foolish and unpatriotic a bit of flintlock legisa- tion as was ever put on the statute books" Regardless of the merits or de- merits of the Hay bill, there is entirely too much "flintlock" legislation in this country.
 A Georgia citizen is so anxious to make Georgia .'bone-dry'' that he has offered to pay the expenses of special session of the state legislature. He's evil dently one of those thirty third degree prohibitionists
 The Turk has been given every op- portunity to behave himself and since he won't do that the soner he is driven out of Europe, the better it will be for the future of civilization.
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 There is no telling how many love let ters have been delayed by heavy snows in the western states, but impatient lovers may still communicate with each other by telegraph.
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 A man dropped dead the other day, while listening to funny story. but as no one will repeat the story for publica- tior, it is believed to be unfit for the family circle o
 The Paterson, N. l., board of health issues birth certificates engraved in gold and tied with pink or blue ribbon There's nothing like encouraging the stork
 The proprietor of a Broadway cabaret announces to his patrons that a new thrill awaits them at his place That's what Broadway is always looking for.
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 Those hotelkeepers of Washington won't mind being called pirates by an- gry senators, so long as business is good during presidential inaugurations.
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 The President has done a great deal for the common people of this country, but asking him to live on 9 cents a day is going too far.
 
 No matter how many poets are killed at the front the supply will always ex- ceed the demand.