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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-08-19
A MERE NOVICE.

Old Captain Kidd was pirate bold
Who sailed the Spanish Main;
He'd scuttle ship or slit a throat
A chest of gold to gain.
But Captain Kidd was a kindly soul
AS truly doth appear,
For all his wild and wicked ways,
Compared to a profiteer.
PAUL coon
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BEGINNING THE DA Y--Thy
blood, nay Lord, Thy blood is upon
me. L can never stray away from
1T. L can never forget it. l can
never wash it clean. Lit binds me to
Thy cross. And Thy cross is my
cross. Thy cross is all mems cross.
1t is the law of my life. We must
surrender If we would achieve.
III. Nj. Z.
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EFFICIENCY PLUS.

"A friend of mine, as efficiency expert,
was called upon not long ago to solve
puzzling problem"
What was it?"
The head of firm stated that three
of his bookkeepers were in love with
one of his stenographers. Their rivalry
was interfering with their work, but he
couldn't afford to lose them. and it
wouldn't have been fair to discharge the
girl He asked the efficiency expert to
see what he could do.'
And did the expert make good?"
Decidedly. He hung around two weeks
and married the girl himself"
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POPULAR WITH THE MASSES.
Whats Jobbles doing now?''
He's making money selling uphol-
stored food at cents an order"
That's something new isn't it?''
mo The hot dog is now a national
institution.
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Giving the Convict
Chance to Make Good

1HHE salvage of men is a compare
Is lively new science, as applied
to convicts, but it has made rapid
strides in America and it is sub
ject close to the hearts of humani-
tarians who have long believed that
the man behind the bars should be
helped to redeem himself. Until re-
cent years he was not even given a
chance If long prison term made
"a good citizen out of desperate
character it was due to his own physi-
cal and mental powers of resistance.
1t was achieved in spite of close con-
finement, brutality and degrading
environment.
For the past five years the Prison
ers' Relief society has been recognized
as a great factor in ameliorating the
hard conditions of a convict's life. A
wealthy American has offered to do
nate 100000 TO this cause if the
society can raise 100000. Hereto
fore the organization has been handi-
capped by a lack of funds. With
81 900 900 it will be able to do much
afd nf llNy fn xxyhN orsn va
leased from prison and are helped to
become useful citizens, but indirectly
it will benefit society by reducing the
number of confirmed criminals, who
might otherwise prey upon law-abid-
ing citizens and continue to be care
and an expense to the states.
Public sentiment has greatly
changed, and for the better. There
was time when the convict was
doomed to a living death in prison
and when his term ended he was
marked man, whose past record
logged him to his grave. Nowadays,
even where no concerted effort is
made to find him work and a chance
to earn an honest livelihood, many
employers on their own initiative give
such unfortunates an opportunity to
redeem themselves. 1t is creditable
to human nature that in spite of past
sufferings and grievous mistakes, hun
dreds of former convicts have made
good and are now useful citizens.
y * =
The savannah News speaks good
word for the salaried man. lie deserves
II for he has not planted a single horuh
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DULL TIMES.

Selling many papers these days jim
my?"
Nav" answered the small newsboy,
in disgusted tones. Il useter make two
an three dollars a day when dem Frit-
zies wuz gittin' de stuffin' licked outer
'em. If some o. dem guys in Yurrup
don't start another war in de next ninety
days you amt goin' ter see me on dis
corner no more. I'll quit de business
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NO CHANGE.

Notice any change in the volume Of
your mail since the 2-cent postage rate
was restored?'
NO." replied the impecunious citizen.
MY creditors enjoyed the local rate
with the usual promptness."-
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Tls locomotive fremen should have
gone step farther and demanded that
substitutes be hired to do their work
while they sit in the engine cab and en-
joy the scenery.
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Remittances can be made at current
rate of exchange. The AS-Herald VIII
not be responsible for money sent
through the mails. Address
THE AGE HERALD,
BIRMINGHAM Ala
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member of the Associated Pres.

What our contempts do often hurl
from us,
We wish it ours again.
Antony and Cleopatra.
n 4 4
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The savannah News speaks good
word for the salaried man lie deserves
it, for he has not planted single bomb,
or demanded shorter hours. more pay
and no work.
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No communication Will be published
without its authors name. ReJeetco
manuscript viii not be returned unless
stamps are fnciosed for that purpose.
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Entered at the B!rmin CHAM, Ala,
postcffice as second-class matter, ia
der act Of Congress, March 5, 1879.
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MEN, WOMEN
AND THINGS

I have been asked to give little more
detailed Information about my flight to
Demopolis and the return one TO Tusca-
loosa, where the ship met with a slight
accident.
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Soon we began to strike cloud banks
and would dive through them or climb
over them, but within five minutes the
whole heavens changed to a threatening
aspect. 1t was no longer possible to
dodge. dive under or climb over the
clouds, for the horizon became a black
inverted bowl which seemed closing down
on us. The rain began to beat against
the ship and the force of it against my
outstretehed hand made it sting as if it
was being shot with a small rifle loaded
with mustard shot.
I saw that Lieutenant Trotter was driv-
ing straight towards the university
buildings at Tuscaloosa. He got over
the landing place and began to spiral
down, and then things happened mighty
fast, for before l was fully aware of it
the ship was standing on its head, and
was dangling in the air. Trotter was
unhurt for he was belted in, but 1 had
foolishly failed to strap myself in and
got skinned up a little. 1t was his ex-
perience and nerve which guided the ship
through the storm, ana it was piece OF
hard luck for him to land in a muddy
field after having handled the biplane so
skillfully. 1 am ready to ride with him
again at the first chance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09
A Mans
Happiness

These enemies of his, "in the press
and in the backstairs Of politics." who
used to claim that Mr.. Roosevelt hated
Mr. Wilson because he wanted to be
president himself, spoke what the writer
OF this article knows "to be lie" For
you could not see man day in and day
Out, and work with him for four years,
especially man 30 frank and free Of ex-
preston, without having a very good idea
" what he was aiming at. We know that
aafing these four years he thought Of
hosning but America and Of how he could
sefve America. And he so IMPRESSED his
'aeas on all Of us that We came 70 feel
Vaas before the war Ut least very few
people really felt-that q mans happiness
hss in thinking Of his country and sery-
'hs his country ali the time"
When the Lusitania WAS sunk the
magazine wanted 10 rush through an
aftieic on the subject The Colonel wan
- Albany just then, carrying On his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09

needed a leader with political as we'll as
military ability. Roosevelt called for 5O-
900 men a maximum, with Leonard Wood
in command. We sent about 1000 men
affairs in command Result, miserable
failure. The excuse was that we hadn't
the men or the ships for Roosevelts plan
unless we starved the Western front. Just
the same sort Of argument had been used
against sending real army to France. Yet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09

average woman of the duty performing type re-
alize that the highest of all duties the one essen
tlal duty, is the duty of perpetuating the. family
life, based on the mutual love and respect of the
one man and the and on their purpose
10 rear the healthy and fne=soued children
whose coming into life means that the family,
and therefore the nation, shall continue in life
and shall not end in sterile death.
Woe to those who invite a sterile death; a
death, not for them only but for the race the
death which is insured by life of sterile sell
fiShnesS.
But honor highest honor, to those who fear
lessly face death for a good cause; no life is so
honorable fruitful as such death Unless
men are willing to fight and die for great ideals,
including love OF country, ideals will vanish and
the world will become one huge sty of material
ism. And unless the women of ideals bring forth
the men who ready thus to live and die the
world OF the future will be filled by the spawn Of
the unfit. Alone Of human beings the good and
wise mother stands plane of equal honor
with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone
down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to
bring back the children i'm whose hands rests the
future of the years. But the mother, and far
more the father, who finch from the vital task
earn the visited on the soldier who f1inChes
in battle. And the nation should by action mark
its attitude alike toward the fighter in war and
toward the chd=bearer in peace and war; The
vital need of the nation is that its men and
women of the future shall be the and daugh-
tiers of the soldiers of the present. Excuse no
man from going to war because he is married. but
put all unmarried men above fixed age at the
hardest and most dangerous tasks; and provide
amply for the children of soldiers, so as to give
their wives the assurance of material safety
u
In America to-day all people are sum-
moned to service and sacrifice. Pride is the por.
ton only of those who know bitter sorrow or the
foreboding of bitter sorrow. But all of us who
give service and stand ready for sacrifice are the
torclbearers. We with the torches until we
fall, content if then pass them to the
hands of other runners. The torches whose flame
is brightest are borne by the gallant men at the
front and by the gallant women whose husbands
and lovers whose sons and brothers, are at the
front. These men high of soul, as they face
their fate the she'll shattered EARTH or i'm the
skies above or in the waters beneath; and no less
high of soul are the women with torn hearts and
shining eyes the girls whose boy lovers have
been struck down in their golden morning and
the mothers and wives to whom word has been
brought that henceforth they must walk in the
shadow.
These the torchbearers these are they
who have dared the Great Adventure.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09

sight was shown in many ways all
through his long career. The writer
speaks Of several special issues, one
Of which ia discussed as follows:
"Roosevelt believed that intervention by
way Of Siberin (not by Murmansk or Arch
angelo was possible There was strong
anti BoIshevist nucleus in Siberia and
plenty Of food But we needed an Allied
army of 100000 men, Of whom at least
10000 should have been American And we
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09

when the emergency stared us in the face
and we were forced to act we found the
men and the ships. The fact is that no
one ever took the trouble even to look for
the men and ships in the case of the Siber-
ian expedition. Certainly Mr.. Baker did
not look for Wood. Now that the futility
of that Siberian expedition is exposed
Roosevelt is again seen to have been right.
GLOW often was he pressed to go to
Europe during the war and how wisely he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09

with other kinds of critics he had other
ways of dealing. Once a lady of advanced
views went out to tackle him at Oyster
Bay on the subject of birth control She
was determined to speak very frankly and
shock the Colonel into giving some thought
to her views. Not content with birth con-
troll she, daringly touched on free love,
a terrific assault on the known respect
ability Of Sycamore Hill. The Colonel al
lowed her to discourse with great freedom
and then, beaming upon her in his most
delighted manner, he said: My dear lady,
you and are practically Of one mind. The
only difference between us is that I want
all the married women to have children.
You want only the unmarried ones to have
them
at was no trying to shock the Colonel.
He knew life too we'll for that. Prudsh-
ness and priggishness he abhorrcd He was
for the od-fashoned virtues mainly be-
cause his wide experience and his knowl-
old-fashioned virtues made the world go
round
with still third kind of criticism. he
dealt quite differently i don't care, he
used to say, what Bryan or any Of my
political opponents say about mo. They
can't hurt me. But won't forgive the man
who pretends to be my friend and then
stabs me in the back One such person
had made most unjustihablc charge
against him in some periodical. l asked the
Colonel If he would make any reply. TO
that miserable creatureY he asked. 4
doubt IL It's worth while. he reminds me
Of cockroach creeping over marble
floor. 1t Is just question whether 1T is
better TO crush the cockroach or TO refrain
from staining the MARBLE"
The CdloncPs almost uncanny fore
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09
The Great Adventure
By Theodore Roosevelt
From The Metropolitan Magazine October, 1918

~ My those are fit to live who do not fear to
" die; and none fit to die who have
shrunk from the Joy of life and the duty of
iIfe Both life and death parts of the same
ureat Adventure. Never yet was worthy ad-
venture worthily carried through by the man who
put his personal safety first. Never yet was a
country worth living i'm unless its and daugf1-
tiers were OF that stern stuff which bade them die
for it at need; and yet never was a country worth
dying for unless its sons and daughters thought
OF life not as something concerned only with the
selfish evanescence of the individual but link
III the great chain OF creation and CausatiOn
that each person is seen in his true relations as
an essential part Of the WHOLE whose life be
made to the larger and continuing life of
the whole. Therefore it is that the who is
not willing to die, and the who is not
willing to send her to die, in a war for a
great cause are not worthy to live. Therefore it
is that the and who in peace time
fear or ignore the primary and vital duties and
the high happiness of family life, who dare not
beget and bear and the life that is to last
when they in their graves, have broken the
chain of creation and have shown that they
unfit for companionshp with the souls ready for
the Great Adventure.
With all my heart | believe in the Joy of liv-
ing; but those who achieve it do not seek it as
end in itself, but seized and priced incl
dent OF hard work we'll done and of risk and dan.
ger wantonly courted but shirked
when duty commands that they be faced. And
those who have earned Joy, but rewarded only
with sorrow, must learn the stern comfort dear
to great souls, the comfort that springs from the
knowledge taught in times of iron that the law of
worthy living is not fulfilled by pleasure, but by
service, and by sacrifice when only thereby can
service be rendered.
No nation can be great unless it's and
daughters have in them the quality to rise level
to the needs of heroic days. Vet this heroic quail
ty is but the apex of a pyramid of which the
broad foundations must soidy rest on the per-
Torrance of duties ordinary that to impatient
minds they commonplace. No army
great unless it's soldiers possessed the fight
ing edge. But the finest natural fighting edge is
utterly useless unless the soldiers and the Junior
officers have been through months, and the Off
of higher command and the general staff
through years, of hard, weary, intensive training.
SO likewise the citizenship of any country is
worthless unless in crisis it shows the spirit Of
the two million Americans who in this mighty
war have eagerly forward to under
the Banner of Stars, aflOat and ashore, and of the
other millions who would be beside them
overseas if the chance had been given them; and
yet such spirit will in the long avail nothing
unless in the years of peace the average and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09
A Mighty Leader Gone
at a Critical
Hour

TIVE leading editorial in "The
Manufacturers Record" for
January 9 is devoted to the
passing of Colonel Roosevelt.
The editorial emphasizes the great loss,
not only to America, but to the whole
world, at time when the world has the
utmost need of great and farseeing
leaders. The writer says
"In the death of Colonel Roosevelt the
world loses one of its most heroic leaders
Vigorous, aggressive and sometimes i'm
pulsive, Colonel Roosevelt was one of the
most remarkable men which the world has
ever known. His courage-mental, moral
and physical-was of the highest order.
Time servers and men without backbone
could not understand character which
never fiinched before any task or any dan
ger He was the very embodiment and
exponent of the best in American character,
which IS courageous and idealistic, and
which, indeed, always sees straight and
thinks straight and acts straight.
Colonel Roosevelt was a mighty leader
of men. He ennobled their thinking and
ne stimulated their aspirations for higher
achievements
His influence in moulding American life
will be more clearly seen as time moves
on and looking backward we see his heroic
figure ever looming larger and larger and
throwing its illuminating power over the
thought and life of the nation.
Colonel Roosevelt's influence, however.
was not confined to America 1t has been
worldwide \in its power, and America
missed a great opportunity when it failed
to utilize his tremendous qualities of
leadership during the last two years. when
he could have been tremendous factor
for good in Russia OF elsewhere.
His death is loss to the world Mt
time when civilization needed. as never
needed before, the mightiest power OF
leadership to help mould and guide the
destnies OF the world at the most critical
hour in all human history"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09
Nice of
Robins

Then the reader is invited to 90 back
three and one-half years, to the summer
Of 1915:
"The scene is the big room on the top of
Sycamore Hill on a glorious sunny after
noon The Lusitana had been sunk in
May and Roosevelt had raised q clean cut
issue between himself and the President.
He was for war the minute the Lusitania
was sunk But the public was not for war;
the hot anger of the moment had been
dissolved in maze of strongly worded but
gradually weakening notes. l was sur
prised, therefore, when the Colonel pro-
duced letter from Raymond Robins say
ing that he was ready to start in imme-
diately and round up delegates pledged to
Roosevelt for the 1915 Republican conven-
ton. He was sure that the thing could be
done il the Colonel would say he was will
ing to accept Republican as we'll
Progressive nomination. The Colonels
answer was emphatically: No.
It's nice of Robins to think even of
the possibility Of such thing, but it can't
be done. In the first place. I don't want
to be President. It's nothing for me to go
to the White House again. I've had all
want Of that. And why shouldn't enjoy
quiet lifes Don't imagine that 1 wouldn't
like to be at the White House at this
minute. The war has been on for year and
we're doing nothing to prepare. The Ger
mans have killed our women and children
and we write to them about it, There is
no self-respecting American who wouldn't
want to have his hands on the reins now at
this moment to save US all from disgrace
But simply to be President is the last
thing want, and the last thing my family
wants for me.
In the second place, cant be elected
I've been TOO long in public life and I've
made TOO many enemies, and they're tired
OF me. Good Lord, is Roosevelt running
again." That's what they would say. And
won't do IT,"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09
''Truly, With Roosevelt i'm the Com
pany You Breathed an
Ampler Air"

same. From the moment she arrived she
held the interest of every one Silent all
the way out in the automobile she broke
into fluent speech as soon as she met
Roosevelt in whom she recognized a kim
dred spirit. She knew exactly what she
meant to say and she said it in high pitched
oratory such she might have used in
addressing a battalion And she looked
right at you as if she thought every word
was understood, though in fact none of US
spoke Russian except her interpreter
Roosevelt at once saw in her a remarkable
character Astounding in natural wisdom and
determination. She told us exactly how
many men were needed from the Allies; she
explained why Siberia was the way to go in
and not Murmansk or Archangel, and she
convinced US of her ardent patriotism. She
was completely outspoken. don't want
your sympathy she had said to Secretary
BAKER, what l want to know is whether
you will help US to fight Germany When
the Colonel asked her who would paw the
Russian troops that might join the Allied
forces she said promptly, you Allies will
pay them It's more important for you
than for US. We know that in the long
run Germany cannot beat Russia. It may
take fifty years or hundred, but in the
end we shall throw them out. A hundred
years is nothing to Russia. But you West
erners want to beat Germany now. And
you must pay the price Next day Roose-
Welt called me up and said, Il never en-
Joyed an afternoon more. She's q remark
able woman And when he was dividing
up the money of the Nobel Prize he gave
$1,000 to be placed to the credit of Maria
Botchkareva
"The last time I saw the Colonel was on
the Monday before his death, when went
to Oyster Bay with an Englishman who had
lived in Russia for some months under the
Bolsheviks. We talked at some length on
1he RUSSIAN situation, the Colonel being
strongly against intervention in Russia it.
self. 1 am perfectly willing, for my own
part he said to go in for policy of dis
interested violence all over the world. But
1t can't be done. Our people won't send
their boys to police Russia; there is no
reason why they should Siberia is another
matter. We have incurred obligations there.
and we have to help out the Czecho- Slovaks.
and any law and order movement that has
relied on our support. IL is comparative
~ easy job, and should be done by volun-
teers. There are plenty of soldiers at home
waiting Tor consolation prize Do you
want me to touch or that in my next ar
ticle ?"