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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-18
PERSONAL.

Lorenzo Bush of Brookline was in town
today
Mrs. G. A. Miles will 90 tomorrow to
Brookline, Mass; to visit 10 days or more
with friends
Mrs. Charles H Niles returned last
night, after a months absence. during
which time she visited in Westfeld. y. j..
New Rochelle, n IT,, and Richmond Hill,
l.. l.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-18
PERSONAL.

Miss Marion Murphy went this morn
ing to Burlington to visit friends.
Miss Louise Mann, bookkeeper in j. f.
Mann's store, is i'll in her home on Pine
street with a quinsy sore throat.
Fred Soper and Henry Cutter of Bos-
ton, travelling passenger agents for the
Union Pacific and Chicago and North
western railroads, respectively, were in
Brattleboro on business today
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-10-18

Tufts is putting in some hard drill
ing for the game with West Point next
Saturday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
Drastic Law for Prohibition States

The Reed amendment the postal appropriation b mak ing all prohibition states bone dry passed by the House yesterday The 319 to 72 This that Alabama and other states where the prohibition laws permit each per receive limited shipments of liquor will have those laws abrogated.
 The transportation of intoxicating liquors through interstate into any state prohibiting the manufacture sale of liquor forbidden except for certain specified
 great many prohibtonists think law of this kind is too drastic Prohibition leaders in Alabama have expressed them selves well pleased with the progress made under the state law which allows each individual to two quarts of liquor stipulated quantity of beer wine every two weeks though naturally they favor any law which will further min mize liquor consumption.
 Fear has been that the passage of the Reed amend will reaction that will hinder the work of the hibtoniss in trying to make the nation dry Even bone dry law will not stamp out entirely the consumption of liquor states where goes into effect but it will take away the express companies have been deriving from shipments while it is probable that the liquor houses iii neighborng states which have been catering the prohibition states will either have go of business look for customers elsewhere.
 Shortly the waiting lines at the local express office will dis appear When the law goes into effect Alabama gets any liquor it will come into the state as conraband.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
A HARDSEHEsl.L MIL I.L.IONAIRE

iidents of banks handling the public's money that directors of corporations
 whose stock is held by thousands of public investors, that overlords of semi public enterprises can snap their fin Igers at the publics will, has been pretty men. George F. Baker, however, is the Idean of the old school, the school of secrecy, the school that for a long time did not have to reckon with the power of public opinion.
 1 Many of those who voted on the question, Who Are Our Fifty Greatest Business Men. Men Who Are Making America?" accompanied their ballots with letters. One important publisher sent me this comment: '.You will notice that have not included in my list George F. Baker; regard him as noth- ling but money making machine"
 This is the general impression of MT. Baker among those not in 8 position to beer under his mask who know him only by his works who never hear of him doing a single generous act. but. see him only as the power behind many financial, industrial and railroad thrones, rolling up a gigantic fortune and so conducting the First National bank of New York that, by the aid of its stocxholding adjunct, the First Se- lcurity company, it pours into the Ipockets of it's stockholders dividends iof 50 to 70 per cent or more year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22

l66I1T1HE man with the hardest shell and the softest heart in S America"
 Thus did one of the country's leading bankers describe George F. Baker, the iclosest associate of the late J. P. Nor gan, and today the most powerful na- tional banker in Wall street, the dom- mating director of more corporations than any other man in the United Staes and perhaps the third richest living American.
 I can personally testify to the hard hess of MT. Bakers shell. It is impen- etrable. He affects absolute indiffer- ence to how he is regarded by his fe1- low men,
 Tt is none of the public's business what I do," he told me, just as he had told the Pujo Money Trust committee when summoned to the witness stand at Washington, an attitude which the investigators forced him to abandon.
 Did every fnancier adopt the Baker attitude toward the public and toward public opinion there would be revo- lution in this republic in 12 months
 The free citizens of a democracy some years ago taught capitalists a lesson. The younger generation have learned it. They realize that they can not show contempt for the hundred million human beings, of as good flesh and blood as themselves, who make up this commonwealth. The idea that pres-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22

Fl om the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 IA E7ANY and many time the efort ll\Wll has been made to separate man AVA from his customary suit of solemn black. The argument that you cannot tell a. guest in evening dress from waiter has been used again and again, on the assumption that the guest and not the waiter objects to the confusion in identity which may not always be the case. But man remains sartorial Bourbon. Even the tailors who have just brought to an end their convention in this city did not venture to pronounce for change, all though one intrepid reformer appeared at dinner in purple. We hear predictions of lavender and blue as we'll of colored hose, of lace, of satin pumps with gilt heels But will they come true? Years ago. when the "aesthetes" flourished, when Bunthorne was household word, there were vagrom attempts at the pie turesuue. Some blithe spirits affected knee brooches, occasionally with disas- trous effects. The common spectacle pre- sented when these were the wear for the bicyclist did much to prevent their uni versal adoption. Men cannot carry off any fashion as we'll as women can. The
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
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ONE GUARDsMAN,s VERDICT


 From the Cleveland Leader.
 A western guardsrnan, just back from the Mexican border, was asked by . friend, as his company was detraining in his home town, whether he was glad he went. You betcher!' he answered. There's Ia reason. and it's this: Before went Ito the border was skinny and not very strong. Look at me now. I've taken on 25 pounds and my muscles are as hard as rocks. We'll, a cousin of mine used to come over to our farm every day or two and because he was bigger and stronger than me he'd give me licking whenever he wanted to- And now I'm hurrying home to beat out of him.
 This young man didn't know it. but in these few words he preached three cornered sermon of the kind the country needs to listen to. He demonstrated the fact that human nature is human na- ture, and will continue so, in spite of ell the high-flown theories of the pacifsts and other self-constitutcd saviors of hs- manity, He showed most convincinely the great advantage of preparedness. And he delivered striking argument in favor of universal military training.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
SAJRTORIAIs LAZINESS OF MAN

, reign of the short skirt shows how woni- an can turn everything ito favor and to prettiness," by what means it were best not to curiously to inquire.
 If men ever had the gift they have lost it by long disuse. Few of them could support the dress of a gentleman of the court of Louis XIV with dignity and
 grace It takes an intimate experience in
 modern masquerade to qualify for such a part Again. it would be extremely difficult to persuade tired business man
 of these days that dress is the most iin- portant thing in life. He grumbles over
 the trouble of getting into the simple garb
 society now prescribes. He would object even to the transformations elegance of colonial days-the wig, the gold braidedl coat with silk ruffles the white silk stock ings, which were matters of daily wear: still more to the formal coat of scarlet embroidered with gold and the three-cor- nered gold-laced hat. If the reform in means wear is to come, the younger gem eration must bear the burden. But it
 bids fair to be a long and uphill fight to
 persuade any age to bring it's energy to
 the task. The plain truth is that man is
 satorially lazy This is another item of his inferiority to woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
FIFTY YEARS AGO

FIFTY YEARS AGO By Clinton Scollard. Farmer Johnson strode from the field With an eager step that was long and
 blithe; The summer sun, like . blazzing shield. Burned on high. in the haxy sky. A forked bough, as he hastened by. Seemed a fitting place for his scythe, So he hung it up in tho balsam tree; There let it hang till comev said he Then he homeward hied him, humminE
 a tune,
 But he heard word at the farmstead
 gate Under the fervid heat of the noon, A ringing call to each volunteer, For all the land was alive with fear. Doubt and fear for the country's fate. So Farmer johnson shouldered his gun q And left his scythe to the rain and sun Fifty years have sped since then, Fifty hastening years and more; By southern wood and brake and fen Faithful he fought. and in gallant wise Fought and died. and now he lies By the far-off Carolina shore, Where the long trades blow, and the
 grasses wave Over the loam of his sunken grave. ssrhere let it hang till come!' he said. Of the scythe he left in the balsan1 tree, And they let 1t hang, as the fleet days
 fled,
 Till the small hole. fed by the kind
 ly earth,
 clasped the scythe with motherins
 girth.
 Today whoever so will may see The starry emblem of freedom flow Over the tip of the scythe below. He gave his all and he never came. He that was strong and young and
 blithe, But the balsam boughs seem to nams
 his name,
 Name his name both late and lonA To the tuneful beat of a summer
 song.
 To the undulant sway-sons of tho ncythe; And the banner swings to the rhythmic
 bars, The banner he loved, the Stripes any
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
MRS. MATHIS OF ALABAMA

MRS. MATHIS OF ALABAMA From the American Magazine.
 Mrs. G. H. Mathis is the best|judge or farm land in the state of Alabama. She is so excellent a geologist that she was able. not long ago, to locate the richest onyx deposit in the world and snatch it from under the noses of experienced mining men, She is a public speaker of such good sense and good humor that organiza- tions in every state of the union have asked her to talk before them. Yet the surest key to her character is found in the title by which she Is known all over the sun-swept south--''The woman who loved Alabama into line.'
 A letter addressed to Mrs. G. H. Mathis, Alabama, will reach her. for she is an institution in the cotton state. Gov ernors are glad to serve her; congress- men are happy to do her bidding.
 "Anything that Mrs. Mathis wants. she gets,'' a New York broker told me the other day. When heard her speak, a little later at big luncheon atop a steel skyscraper. I began to understand why. For this woman had laugh that rippled confidence and most disarming pair of eyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
Lack ef Cooperation

Many of the movements that have been started to benefit this district have been
 killed for the lack of cooperation, said
 Henry Keller of Ensley. Ut seems diffi- cult matter to get all interests to com
 bine on anything that will benefit the town. Take, for instance, this movement to abolish the commissary. Even before the movement has got under way it is
 meeting opposition I am not a man to
 say I told you SO after thing has hap
 pened, but do say this, that five years ago the merchants of Ensley had a sfmi- lar movement well under way, we had
 reason to believe the big companies were
 with us at that time we had our plans well arranged. but when we asked the
 cooperation of the civic bodies of Bir- mingham we got nothing but snow wa ter I firmly believe that had the move ment been pushed at that time the com
 missaries would have been abolished. At that, am ready at this time to give what aid can to abolish them now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
LIFE EXPECTANCY
From Golfers.

From COIIlerS. 1
 According to the public health service, life expectancy during infancy and child hood has increased because of the more intelligent care of babies and young chill dren. hut life expectancy after the age of 40 is less now than it was 30 years ago because those who have arrived at years of discretion do not exercise discretion for themselves and take sufficient exer- else to overcome modern conditions. Many more people arc engaged in sedentary cc- equations than formerly. which deprives them of natural assistance afforded by physical exercise in eliminating through the skin and lungs the waste products of the body.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
LUKE srLUKE SAYS

A man is always willing to tell You how your business should be run. But he
 will get mad all over if anybody tries to tell him how to run his business. There wouldn't be many divorces if married men praised their wives as much at home as they do when away from home.
 When a woman has shape that is straight up and down. the other women fare willing to admit that her figure is her own.
 man who has painted nose has no busi- ness laughing at the woman who has painted cheeks. No matter what the doctor says, if you find that you can't quit smoking 1t Is easy to believe that the habit doesn't hurt 'you bit.
 A man spends the first half of his life wishing he was married and the second
 half of his life wishing he wasn't mar ried
 | Maybe the reason why they wear them so low is because they want you to see l that the frontss of their waists are not stuffed with excelsior. ! Our idea of happy husband is one who I is as well satisfied with his wife as he 1 is with himself.
 | We haven't much use for the lad who waits until his wife has acquired the mid
 dfe-age1 spread before he discovers that The didn't marry his affinity. i The reason why girl would rather have thin legs than plump ones is be- l cause her grandmother gets up at | o'clock every morning and goes out in thu
 back yard and strips off and takes . snow bath.
 l A man may flee from temptation. But
 he is usually thoughtful enough to get l her telephone number.
 Every time the average man xives six
 cents to charity. he expects about $s00o,
 OOe worth of gratitude.
 A reformer is lad who knows thai lyou are going to hell because you wont do as he wants you to do. A married man and his wife can always
 get up a quarrel If there isn't anything
 else to quarrel about, they will quarre
 lover whether the dos should sleep in th'
 house or out In the yard, if they have |
 dog.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
JourEaalisuaa Is a
 College Branch

7THE catalog of Columbia Univer- 4 sity's school of journalism for 1917-1S indicates marked progress in the great project which the late Jo- seph Pulitzer set going. With its rich endowment and it's strong faculty made up of successful newspaper men it's field is ever expanding.
 Courses in journalism are found in many colleges throughout the coun- try and few, Howard here in Bir- mingham among them, have fully or ganized departments. Columbia, how ever, is the only university that has . school of journalism like law, medi- cine and engineering. Its standard, as might be supposed, is high and it's entrance examinations test a young mans mentality.
 In all courses of journalism skill in typewriting is required for obvious reasons. But Columbia stresses the importance of stenography as we'll as typewriting. "These students" says the catalog, "who do not enter the school with fair degree of profi- ciency in both are advised to acquire them during the first session. But why stenography? Stenographers are used on all first-class daily papers; but many of the best newspaper men in this country have little or no occa- sion to write shorthand. The Eng fish Journalists" consider stenog- raphy a prerequisite for newspaper career. But that is not the view of American publishers or editors. In or der to enter the department of jour nalism at Howard college one must he able to use the typewriter, but no time is spent on stenography. That art hslongs essentially to the com nsercial college and is xeod thing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
Green Foliage Gone

For the first time in many years, ac- cording to my observation, the leaves of the evergreen bushes and plants in this county have been killed this winter" said Robert J. Powell This is due, of course, to the very severe weather we have experienced. While the bushes and plants are not dead, yet the green foliage that we have been so accustomed to see is gone and there is nothing but the bare branches left This is an indication of the damage that has been done the truck farms and early planters. If the weather was so severe as to kill the hardest plants we have in this section, it goes to reason that the young and tender growing plants or crops have had no chance at all. I am not a pessinlist, but it looks to me that home grown garoen truck will be very scarce this spring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
Ont Again for Trophy

Birmingham is going out after the at tendance trophy strong again this year, said President Smith. we won the trophy last year, but only by narrow margin. It is our desire to put at least 2o,0OO people in Redwood Field on April 1S, when the Southern league season opens.
 Birmingham opens at home this season for the first time In a number of years, and this will be a great advantage to us in our effort to break the leagues record for the opening attendance. Birmingham holds the record at the present with over F, 1000. No other city has ever beat this, so we must do it ourselves.
 We want everybody to start talking baseball. The Barons are going to be strong this year and ths fans will be of- fered some real baseball. It is essential that we win the trophy, however, so in the talk over the Baron prospects, don't overlook the opening day game"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
U-Boaes Cannot
SSarvc Great Britain

SG@TyG N1TGaG BTIG&lm
 ~ ERMANY'S unrestricted sub 0 marine campaign has proved a failure. The British admiralty main tains an ominous silence regarding the methods adopted to cope with the U-boats, but that they are proving successful cannot be doubted.
 According to figures issued by the British embassy at Washington, the Germans sank less than one ship out of every hundred sailing to and from British ports during the two weeks the new campaign has been under way. While there may bc some dis position to question the figures given out from British source, the fact that ships of the entente continue to arrive at New York and depart from that port shows that Germany's sub marines can never starve out Great Britain.
 The Germans planned to strike a swift, decisive blow. They had, so it was reported, made extensive preparations for the final attempt to bring Great Britain to her knees. Since February l Germany has used the full strength of her submarines, but in spite of the heavy toll taken among allied and neutral vessels, she is not accomplishing her purpose.
 The Germans themselves have virtu- ally acknowledged that their sole hope for a decisive victory lay in a successful submarine war. Now that this seems a failure, speedy end ing of the war with the entente vic torious seems certain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22

BEGINNING THE DAY--O Lord, my God, may it become a part Of my life, like breathing, to counsel with my Father. May no meal be sweet, may no way be light. without Him. May my joys be His joys, my bur dens His burdens, my sorrows His sorrows. May every day knit my soul more closely with His and inn hue my life more intimately with His life. In Christ's name. Amen H. M. F..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
sanr. from the Border

Misery and song are associated to- gether as the relentless chants of the prisoners in the Birmingham jails will prove, and sometimes one follows the other and vice versa. Perhaps one of the most interesting stories that the returning guardsmen tell is that concerning the texts of the songs that were sung in Douglas.
 "At times it must be admitted that the boys were somewhat down hearted while in Arizona" said Mark Hanna. Various little rhymes were devised to express these crestfallen sentiments.
 Perhaps the most popular song ran thus:
 "I would rather be in Alabama in a rat
 tlesnake's den, Than to be out here in the fix I'm in"
 Another was:
 "Td rather be yellow dog in nigger's s
 back yard Than buck private in the National
 Guardv
 "Of course. the boys didn't mean all that the words would imply, but they were mighty glad to get back to Bir- mingham."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
THE M. P. COMEDIAN.

The m. p. comedian
 Doth draw a princely wage, Far more than any actor
 Who struts upon the stage. His features are familiar To countless movie fans, His names in all the papers A hurried reader scans. We're told about his dinners, His dog, his motor car, The number of his servants And what his foibles are. The m. D. comedian
 A joyous life doth lead; He doesn't have to study
 His lines and pays no heed To certain limitations
 Of the dramatic art. He simply dons his makeup And frolics through a part. And every time he tumbles The movie patrons roar And each one pants, "I never Have laughed so much before."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
ADRHFT WITH THE TIMES
sTRANGuR THAN FICTION.

STRANGER THAN FICTION. You never can tell"
 'No?"
 "A young man who made a speciality Of leading germans married young woman who was famous for mixing cocktails. and I'm blest if they didn't settle down and rear family"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
HOTEL LOBBIEs
Disgrace not to Fight

Tt seems so funny to hear people down here talking against war" said Miss Grace Lainhart, who has recently re- turned from Boston. Up north every body is anxious to get into the war, and am with them. I think we ought to fight. I think the country win stand much in disgrace if we don't fight. And then, people in the north and east be- lieve that if we get into the war it will bring about an end to the great struggle. At least it will do much to shorten the war. For America only to issue declar- alton of war will mean much to the war ring countries, and, to my mind, and the minds of many of the big eastern men, it's the only thing to do. I get into an argument every time war is mentioned down here, because I want war"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
STARTING SOMETHING.

STARTING SOMETHING. q dare say the allies would like to cause riots in Germany.
 'of course"
 Then why don't they send some air men to drop few links of bologna saul sage on Berlin?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22
YAuLTING INHIBITION.


 vAULTING AMBITION. ''well, Tommie, do you expect to be President some day?"
 "of whatY"
 4'why, of the United states?" '.No, sir. I want a job where, instead of having one vice president under me, there'n be at least six NO STRIKER. "Son. the president of your college writes me that you are not doing much in your studies"
 Don't let that depress you, dad," re- piled the husky youth. "Just drop line to our coach and ask him about me-" HIS CHOICE.
 ..rsn't it rather dangerous to go to Europe at this timer
 "oh, I don't know" said the confirmed globe trotter. 'I understand that the professional gamblers who used to infest steamships have disappeared, because of. the war. I'd Nrather face a submarine than a card sharp PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-22

Happy are they that hear their de fractions and put them to mcndins.
 Much Ado About Nothing.