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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07

most men and honesty of purpose and fair dealings will always develop the good.
 believe every reader of a newspaper would prefer to read of a good accom- plished by someone if trutlfully. but not gushingly, told, than of brutality-a murder, or a fight. The latter is only read with relish when 1t Is mysterious or when there be hidden motive which the reader seeks to solve from the printed account.
 Everyone will read of new invention which saves labor or produces a better edible. Every gardener and every house. keeper is interested in how Burbank de- veloped the Honey Dew Cantaloupe, and everyone who has ten square feet Of ground wants to raise few next season.
 Everyone likes to read about how Henry Ford developed the cheap motor car, and everyone Is eagerly awaiting the prom ised tractor which will blow and pull his wagon to market and do the work of a mule and sell for the price of a mule. The mule must eat on rainy days when one cannot blow. The tractor promises only to eat when working and producing. Therefore one's interest in It's arrival. tor in the machine shop. but when he butt into politics and the other fellows business he made mess of it. He was as primitive as would be 8 Ford runabout pitted against tank or a Creme de Menthe, as the armored tractors of the English army are known.
 The Wilson peace note and the slump in tho stock market preceding its pub
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07

~OMB one said to me: "So now you N are a sure enough journalist" Not at all. Just a plain newspaper man. admit 1t was quite a jump from weekly to a, daily. The extra space makes the blood jingle and its good to be back in the thick of tho light
 Morning after morning I've picked up The Age-Herald and thought to myself how eaHly I could make it better, but now that 1t is up to me to make good' the problem seems more complex.
 How few realize just what goes into the making of a great daily. confess that frequently have been rather critical of Barrett the editor, but now as Barnett. his associate, am not 90 coolxsure about making 1t better, but this know. share his view that nothing is too good for Bir- mingham, too big for Birmingham.
 The first thing did for the paper was to 20 and hear George Stuart preach last Sunday morning. I meant to give a re sumo of his sermon. but he gave Solomon such a boost that forgot all my roper torial cunning and sat during his fine dis course without jotting down line. He pictured Solomon in such vivid way that you almost expected to see him appear before you in the flesh. He made the Old Testament hero 1.-Two in the twentieth cen tury. It was neariy 20 years since I had heard him preach, and yet remember as though it was only the day before great sermon he preached at McKendree church in Nashville. George makes you see things and what you sec sticks I vel come him to Birmingham. Birmingham needs him.
 Having heard George Stuart in the 
 morning, of course went to hear Dr. Edmonds at night. Edmonds Is word painter. His presentation of any Bibli- cal topic is never conventional. His
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
HOTEL LOBBHES
Chance For New Industry

Birmingham needs and can have more industries, both small and large, if proper efforts are made to obtain them" said Col. N. F. Thompson yesterday. Right now there is open for Birmingham the establishment of an industry here that would focus the eyes of the entire south on this city, as perhaps no other one in- dustry could accomplish. and possibly at tract worldwide attention This is the manufacture of a machine that will over come the ravages of the boil weevil and render cotton production in the south as profitable and as certain as at any for mer period in the history Of that staple
 Birmingham can secure the manufac- ture of this machine, and in doing so, great step will be taken toward secur- ing other kindred lines of farm imple- ments and machinery"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
Contemporary Finds
 Fault With Birrmingharn

Contemporary FImcs
 Fault With Birmingham ID EPLYING to the question, UN "What's the matter with Bir- mingham?" the Carbon Hill Journal says: gro the outsider, one of the chief things, if not the chiefest, that is the matter with Birmingham is that the town has been boosted half to death."
 It requires but moment to answer that criticism. There never was town or city, unless 1t merely existed on paper or in the imagination of get rich-quick promoters, that could be 'boosted half to death." That "it pays to advertise" is just as true when ap- piled to cities as to business enter prises. A city as large as Birming- ham, with millions of dollars of cap- ital invested and firmly established by years of substantial achievement and growth cannot be advertised too much. As matter of fact, the city shas advertised itself so well that it's people have not done as much volun- teer publicity work as they should have done.
 The Journal refers in a sarcastic vein to the "flare and blare of the 'million-dollars-a-week pay roll talk" Turing grafters, spectators and fakers of all sorts who "have had to live like leeches on the community" That is way grafters, spectators and fakers have the world over. They al- ways live like leeches on any town in which they locate. If gentry of this sort have been disappointed in Birmingham it is indeed matter for congratulation. Persons who want to get rich overnight at somebody else's expense, more honest and less sophisticated than they, are not wanted here.
 Birmingham's friends have not been "too zealous." Some of her enemies may have been. This city's resources and attractions as place of resi- dence and business location have not been overrated since the old boom days. What we have we have, and the future holds greater things In store. Let the citizen or the critical visitor ride or walk through some part of Birmingham that he has not seen in six months or year. He will be Iamazed at the changes that have taken place, and all in the nature of Improvements.
 Ti.sre is nothing the matter with Birmingham except occasional colicky symptoms which an application oi common sense will relieve.
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 And not so very long ago we had ar idea that Grand Duke Nicholas would play conspicuous part in helping th' allies to win the war
 The prohibition band wagon Is beinE enlarged every day to make room fo
 gentlemen in the public eye who wan
 to climb aboard.
 It must exasperate those Carranza gen
 erals for 'Pancho" Villa to bob up SC
 renely just after they have announces his defeat
 Joffre is great fisherman, but he won
 use his marshal's baton for fishini
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES
A MERn sNAIES PACE

A MERE SNAIHS PACE '-Do you call 30 miles an hour movingT' asked che first speed fiend.
 Certainly not" answered the second speed fiend. "Still, if a chap kept 1t up long enough I dare say he would even tualiy get over some ground"
 GLADDENED HIS HEART Isn't this view magnificent" ex- claimed the rhapsodical tourist Tt looks pretty good to me-" an swered the lynx-eyed manufacturer. lover there on a hill to the left see one of our bil1boards.''
 SLOW MENTAL PROCESS T don't like this metaphor, quicker than thought ''''
 why not?'
 4.It's rather misleading. Some people live to be 90 years old and never fully make up their minds about anything"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
. UTE bit of find 1t seems to
 have been on my part in getting >S Frank Willis Barnett on the stafr

@ UTE bit of a find 1t seems to 70 hay. been on my part in getting
 ~S Frank Willis Barnett on the stair of this newspaper.
 have never seen man love newspaper work better nor have ever known of a man who has moro really admiring friends-those who believe in him.
 My desk has been swamped with con- gratulatory letters daily from all classes of people-from the humblest and "cus- sinest" to the most cultured and wor- shipful. But Barnett is real man; and that accounts sfor 1t.
 I let off little pent up steam last Sum- day in telling about what the merchants of Birmingham had endured and put up with for year or two past. Every mer- chant of Birmingham knew, the meaning of every word then said, though. per haps many others did not elaborate the sentences and meanings in their minds. The men of merchandise were apparently glad said 1t for them, and now they have gotten together for the good of themselves and their fellow workers in Birmingham.
 These merchants of Birmingham are as good set of fellows as one will find any, where. There may have been jealousies and cut-throat methods among them in the past, because of lack of knowledge of their fellows, and because in every human body there yet remains some Of the animal instinct of fight--but in the past week there have been get-together meetings which have developed closer re- lations and a spirit which should mean much for this town.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07

county in Alabama will mark great forward movement in public school education. If the time is not pro- pitious for levying the tax in every county, a majority of the counties, no doubt, will be eager to act before the compulsory school attendance law goes into effect next fall.
 In large population there will al- ways be some voters who will cast their ballots on the wrong side, but there should be few such in Jefferson county on January 30. Let's get to- gether and make the victory for bet ter schools virtually unanimous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
SHOP TALK-By Frank Willis Barnett

preaching is high art as to language. thought and delivery. He had much to say about Moses. He set him in the midst of the Orient, remembering that the Bible is an eastern book. His sermon was psychological rather than theologi- cal While there was beauty in 1t, there was no toning down of sin.
 Just a word of contrast between the men, their audiences and their audi toriums. Dr. Stuart preached in the great First Methodist church, a magnificent building. to 2 great body of men and women. welded to Methodism, and yet sprinkled all through the audience were representative people from many churches Dr. Edmunds spoke at the Lyric, a brilliantly lit theatre. to . large crowd composed both of church people and workings. And yet the great num- ber of men and women reciting verses of Scripture gave the entire service an evangelical tone. and the congregational singing warmed the meeting. These men represent a different religious viewpoint and yet Birmingham is big enough and cosmopolitan enough to look on both as men who serve. am glad to have them both as friends
 got a real taste of newspaper diff culties when I had to go over the white paper situation. and give advice about signing contract which meant thousands of dollars of additional cost in getting out the paper. I knew good deal about the situation in small way, and had read much about it. but, believe mo. I
 hadn't the fainteat idea just what the publisher of e daily newspaper was up asanist- You who read this are paying s2 more for your paper than you did last
 year. and yet this amount in no wise pays
 for the extra cost of the white paper. find that utility man on morning
 paper is called upon to serve in many ca
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07

BEGINNING THE DAY---O Great God, save me from the Hat an" meaningless life, that has lost its wonder. Give me reverence. Heveal to me the heavenl mystey oA things. show me the unsearcna"le heights and depths of Hfe' Ana pacA of it all and abvOe 1t all let my eyes and nay sOuld rest upon my God. LR ChrtsTs name. Anfenn' nI. H.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
BAD OFF AS EVER
Washington Star.

From the Washington Star
 The lambs who are sacrificed as the result of a peace rumor do not feel pre- cisely that they are being kept out of war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
sENsIBLN GIRL

"when Arthur proposed to me he was so excited he couldn't speak,"
 "But how did you know he wanted to marry you, if he couldn't speak?'
 ..weu he was down on his knees ana knew he wasn't looking for a lost col- lar button.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07

Score as Gsrst. makes after love the aasses
 1.-TWO Gentlemen of Verona
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
pr. cIarIe ana Drnma League

''We have been so anxious to have the men of Birmingham show some interest in the Drama league" said Mrs. B. F. Wilkerson yesterday. and so the Bir- mingham center has chosen this season distinguished men to appear before us, Dr. S H. Clark of the Chicago univer- sity being the third to appear, follow ing Dr. Memminger of Atlanta and Dr. Phelps of Yale.
 "Dr. Clark is one of the principal pro- motors of the Drama league movement in America, his name. with the names of Percival Chubb, Norman Guthrie, Dr. Richard Burton, Walter Pritchard Eaton and other notables, standing for the most exquisite culture and broad education along dramatic lines. The Drama league is not g. fad nor woman's movement by any means; it is as much for the men as for the women and as so many men in Birmingham have requested that we have some of our meetings in the eve ming so that they may attend, we have answered the requests by asking pr. Clark to read Justice next Tuesday evening and this will give the men of Birmingham an opportunity to attend a splendid reading"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
Preparing For the
 Msnsic CnnvemEi@Ea


 Music Convention
 TOREPARATIoNs for the biennial k convention of the National Fed eration of Music Clubs to be held here in April-from the 18th to the 21st' inclusive-hegan year ago, and among local committees very active work will be in progress from now on. Los Angeles was host to the last con- vention, which was notably success ful event, and it is believed that Bir- mingham will achieve high distinction in entertaining the forthcoming gath ering.
 This city Is widely known for it's love of good music It has annual festivals that attract visitors from Alabama and neighboring states, but the biennial convention being coun- try-wide affair is of interest to all sections from the Atlantic to the Pa cific and from the lakes to the gulf.
 The railroads will soon announce their special rates for the occasion They will advertise it in every city in the United States, and it Is estimated that the crowd in attendance will number upwards of ten thousand. A crowd of twenty thousand, perhaps, would not be too much to expect.
 A symphony orchestra has been en- gagged for three days and with it will come a galaxy of celebrities, vocal and instrumental As the programme will open on Sunday, special song services will be given at various churches, an organ recital by dis tinguished virtuoso will be a feature in the afternoon and late in the after noon great community chorus will be heard in Capitol park.
 The season tickets for all the con- certs-seven or eight of them-will De on sale within the next few weeks, as Birmingham's Music Study club is responsible for the financial end of the enterprise. Active cooperation on the part of citizens in general is counted upon. This convention will certainly give a fresh and mighty i'm petus to musical art in the south, with Birmingham as its musical center. Campaign For Tax
 Election Begins
 Tf1HE committee in charge of the II campaign for the 3-mill school tax election in Jefferson county has issued it's first address to the cleo. torate in which attention is called tc tho shortness of the time intervening between now and January 30, wher the question of increasing the schoo revenue is to be decided at the polls Also in this address the importance of the cause is stressed and the duty of the voters made plain.
 The large majority by which the county ratified the educationa amendment in November, making pos sible special tax for school improve ment, encourages the committee t assume that decisive affirmative vote will be cast three weeks iron next Tuesday, but in view of th' urgent necessity for favorable actioi the campaign should start off witt snap and be kept up with enthusiasm until the polls close.
 While a bare majority for the 3 mill levy would suffice, the peopl should be satisfied with nothing les than an overwhelming expression The high record vote would be far reaching. It would be felt throughout the state, for many counties will b. ready to hold elections soon afte Jefferson votes.
 A 3-mill tax in the most populou
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
LIGHT FICTION

LIGHT FICTION Of fairy tales
 There seems no end; And here's one that's An old, old friend. TT merely want
 This fifty, Jack. A day or two.
 I'll pay 1t back 'aTomorrow or
 When next we meet. And then he'll dodge Jack on the street, And when six months Have rolled around That borrower
 Cannot be found.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
A BLOW TO ART

 "so this magician had to go out Of business because eggs were so hlghY'' Yes" a
 Es "But couldn't he do some tricks thse didn't require him to waste eggs9' "oh. yes. But his next best trick wa4 performed with strips of white paper. and when the prico of that went up he quit in disgust"
 NATURAL PRIDE why is Dubwaite's chest so inflated this morning?'' ''Oh. he's strutting about town and boasting that he has an iron will" ''But whyfs' "IIe hasn't smoked in a week"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07

pacities. I had to try and settle a dam age suit. I was placed in rather an awk- ward position. The plaintifr was a warm personal friend and surely I'm friend of the paper. This task reminded me of my old lawyer days.
 If you have never been in the advertis- ing game, you have no Idea of It's bigness orits fascination. It's no longer a hit and miss affair. Tho average advertiser is medium wise and not easily blindfolded. and yet some of the ad solicitors are able at times to lead an advertiser into pit that he has dug for him. am going to try and get the advertisers' viewpoint know tho papers. believe their inter esta are fdeuffcaJ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
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That writer will not miss his lunch Who gr1nds out fiction with punch" But writing for posterity Brings hunger with ceerity.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
A Company with vision


 "One of my most intense pleasures recently was q visit to tho Tennessee Coal and Iron company's night school at Ensley," said President Thornwell Hayes of Birmingham college. You think it only coal and iron this com pany deals in? No. They look more carefully after their men than their machines and as went from room to room of the near 200 pupils. whers they were studying reading. algebra, me- chanical drawing, geometry, trigonome- try. etc. marveled at the vision of the managers of this magnificent in dustrial plant who not only give these men tools and machines and books and teachers whereby they may develop manhood, but who actually pay them A weekly and monthly wage to come and grow into the betterment of them selves and of the world.
 ''Mr. F. Fries, an efficient and cui- tured business man who cast his lot with the T. c. I. last October, Is deeply Interested in this phase of the com panv,s work and with the assistance of MT Brakeman. who has direct over sight. and Professor Banks, principal of the Ensley high school. he Is making a great success of this most important phase of our industrial growth and de- velopment. And do not only feel like saying, but do say, all honor to the Tennessee company. to MT. Fries, to MT Brakeman to Professor Banks and tc the faithful corps of teachers and pu- pils. I regret Miss Ida Tarbell did not have time when she was in Birmingham to visit this plant, and especially the educational part of it,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
Urges Co-operatton


 With the coming of Dr. s. H. Clark, who will appear before the Drama league next Tuesday afternoon and evening"" said Mrs. William D. Smith, president of the Birmingham center, T consider that we have made splen- did offering to our members and the public generally. In the afternoon pr. ClarN will read 'Androcless and the Lion,% admission to which will be by memb Arship in the league. But in the evening when he reads MT. Gals worthts famous play, Justice, small admiaeion will be charged, and would like bo much for the public to CO., operate with us in the matter of large attendance on that occasion, as Dr. Clark Is a noted reader and man of tremendous personality, and in bringing him here, if we bespeak the CO., operation of our fellow townsmen out side of the Drama league, as well as the members of that body, and if they will show us that they really care for such attractions 1t will be our pleasure to bring other notable speakers and readers here at different times"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
Likes the Movies


 "Pve gotten to be regular movie fan," said Robert c. Redus yesterday. 'Up to a short time ago nothing could induce me to go into a movie play house but after saw few good pic lures why you can't keep me away now.
 Take oliver Twist for instance; that was as fine play as ever saw on the legitimate stage; take Douglass Fairbanks in American Aristocracy, and his latest play, The Matrimoniac. He's simply fine. He moves about just the way I like for people to move. lots of pep and ginger Then there was the distinguished actor E. H. Sothern, in The Man of Mystery have seen Sothern in all his legitimate plays from Lord Chumley' to If Were King and I never saw him do better piece Of acting than in this screen play.
 Do you know I believe the reason that lot of old croakers don't like the movies is because they don't know what they are; take them to see one or two good pictures and they are all just like I am-you can't keep them away"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07
Sanitary Betterment


 Tt is remarkable how much has been accomplished during the past year In work for sanitary betterment," said Com missioner J. R. Hornady. T daresay that more has been done than ever before. The city is engaging in work that was never known prior to 1916 All of the ice cream is being pastuerized- The COW herds are being tested for tuberculosis There are other phases of the sanitary work that require persistent effort that are not known to the public.
 During the past year. more than 15oo closets were given water connections. A vast number of dry closets were rendered sanitary. Despite the extensive work that the city Is now doing. we are planning for even greater things"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07

There be lots more good than bad in ]
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07

most men and honesty of purpose and fair dealings will always develop the good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-07

HENRY M. EDMoNDs.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-09-20
Estate of ANGELISE VI. UOLLEY.
Order of Notice VIII.

State Of Vermont District Of Man
chester As.
The Honorable Probate Court for the
District Of Manchester. To all persons
Interested in the estate Of Angelina M.
Holley late OF Dorset in said District,
deceased. GREETING;
Al a Probate Court holden at Man
chester within and for said District on
the 18th day OF September. 1917 an
instrument purporting TO be the last
VIII and Testament Of Angelina NJ.
Holley late Of Dorset in said District.
deceased. was presented 10 the Court
aforesaid. for Probate
And IL II ordered by said Court that
the nth day Of October. 1917, az the
Probate Office in said Manchester. be
assigned for proving said instrument
and that notice thereof be given 10 an
persons concerned. BY publishing this
order three weeks successfully IN the
Manchester Journal, newspaper cir
cniating in that vicinity. ia said Dis
trict, previous to the time appointed.
Therefore. you are hereby notified 20
appear before said Court. at the time
and place aforesaid. and contest the
porbate Of said will. II you have cause.
Given Under Ny Hand at Manchester
in said District this 18th day OF Sep
sss EDWARD GRIFFITH. Judge.