The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27

educational problems with tact and skill, and the impress of his work on the pedagogic profession has been far-reaching for good.
 In recent years marked progress has been made in school music. Bir- mingham furnishes a striking exam lple of what can be done in arousing interest among children in the study of the most humanizing of the arts. Miss Kitts, director of the musical department, has accomplished much i in promoting taste for refined class of music, and will do still more when the board of education is able to pro- Ivide funds for broadening the scope of instruction.
 In the large cities music receives almost as much attention as the es- sentials of education, but in many of the smaller cities, to say nothing of the rural districts, little has been done in this direction. But the time must come when music, at least in it's elementary form, will be taught in every country school. It is understood that Commissioner Claxton is working on plan looking to the unification of musical peda- gogy. It is needless to say that any proposition of this sort will be awaited with keen interest by all edu- cators who keep abreast of the times. # # # The former manager of Terry McGov- ern got up benefit performance when the fighter was down and out and so invested the money that Terry had an in come of s25 a week to the day of his death Occasionally the manager of pugilist is both a gentleman and a phi lanthropist
 Representative Fuller shows a nice dis elimination in the use of words when he calls the House of Representatives 'the most inefficient and expensive barnacle that ever attached itself to a ship of state"
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 A glance at the war map will show war However, what makes us feel that life is still worth living is the knowl- edge that the war map is subject to change.
 When a restaurant patron takes a calendar out of his pocket and consults it before looking at the bill of fare, you may put him down as a patriotic citi- zen who is keeping tab on the Tess" days
 Young Nelson Norris who is unmar- ried refuses to tell the public why he claims exemption from military duty. He has sense enough to see how he could easily make bad matter worse * * < Covering" military operations along the western front for about six days ou. of seven looks like cinch to the reporter who has to turn in two or three | columns of copy day. as x * Judging from tho way American sol diers at training camps punch one an- other with boxing gloves. it will go hard with any boche who comes in contact with an American fist * * A writer says the German people really believe the Kaiser is in partner man to hynotize approximately rocco oOo people? MT. Willard insists on satisfactory ar engagements DelHS Hlaue DeIOre ne VIII fight Could it be- possible that he Is thinking of the purse and the gate re- ceipts?
 The fact that his brother-in-law is leading the German advance into Rus sia may be source of quiet satisfac- ton to Citizen Nicholas Romanoff. * E a I Admiral Sims does not choose to be wined and dined abroad. There's noth- ! ing like keeping ones brain clear when dealing with the U-boat problem # * *
 The way the German government ma nipulates the German press is enough to make any old-fashioned American editor have conniption fit. $ * E i What does 1t profit the Russians to surrender. when the Germans act as if there were no such word as peace in their vocabulary?
 MT. McAdoo and MT. Hoover are too
 useful to the American people to waste
 their valuable time in squabbling. 1 As long as the vodka holds out there ! will be more or less excitement in Pet