The Birmingham age-herald. [volume], February 07, 1915, EDITORIAL SECTION, Page 27, Image 27

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BURGER’S
BURGER’S
BURGER’S
It’s the Goods!
The Goods! The New
And Better Goods
That Makes this Store the Greateet
Retail Establishment in the City
New DeLuxe Spring
Footwear Styles!
This season’s footery excells all efforts of the world’s most
skilled footwear artists, that gives to the foot chic styles,
symmetrical lines of grace and individuality.
This will be a season of two tone footwear in striking and
harmonizing colors. We are now ready to show you all the
newest 1915 creations—fawn, battleship gray, natural buck,
sand, black cloth and ooze calf inlays and quarters with patent
and dull vamp, short tongues ,small ornaments' shorter vamps
and receding pointed toes. Louis XV heels. Combinations of
these will be the season’s most stylish and popular footwear.
Special Values for Monday
$5 Values $4.45
Just four styles—patent vamp with fawn, battleship gray
and black cloth inlay, dull calf vamp and foxing with brocade
inlay, short tongue and new Louis XV heels. These four styles
are among the most popular effects in vogue for 1915.
Burger’s footwear insures satisfaction. Modestly priced at
$3.50 to $0. With competent, courteous shoe fitters to serve you.
A visit from you will prove most pleasing.
(Shoe Department, 1st Floor)
JNew Spring
Showing Laces &
Embroideries
Luckily we were favored to
receive all of our importation
orders from foreign manufac
turers.
Many handsome match sets
of two and three widths each,
18 inches to 45 inches, so much
in demand now for the latest
fashioned creations, where
many fluffy frills are required
to complete both bodice and
skirt. Some of the highest
grade novelties for afternoon,
reception and evening gowns,
combinations of pastel color
ings in many beautiful designs
on net chiffon, georgette crepe
and transparent organdy foun
dations.
We invite you to come and
let us treat you to this showing
of the most beautiful selection
we have ever offered to our
many appreciative customers.
Batiste and Swiss
Flouncings
Soft and sheer; many new
styles in large hand loom scal
loped edges with dainty floral
designs done to bring them into
the newest effects for spring
dresses. Very adaptable for
misses’ and children’s uses;
worth from 50c to 65c a yard.
Monday special.35c
Point de Paris Laces—Assort
ed widths of edges and one
width insertion to edch pattern.
Many effective designs. These
Lac^s are very durable and de
sirable for many uses of both
outer and undergarments, soft
and filmy; worth 15c to 25c
yard. Monday.12V&C
Tor chon Laces
An assortment of widths from
% to 3 inches wide. Many
match sets. Plenty of edges,
both torchon and cluny pat
terns; worth 15c to 20c.10c
For Spring Cleaning
Vacuum and Carpet Sweepers,
Wizard Mops and Liquid
Veneer
Bissell’s stand a r d Carpet
Sweeper; $2.50 kind _$1.75
Duntley’s Pneumatic Vacuum
Cleaners; $8.00 values . . .$5.95
Wizard Mops
$1.50 Mop and $1 wortli of oil
for .$1.50
$1.00 Mop and 50c wortli of oil
for .$1.00
Liquid Veneer
25c Liquid Veneer.15c
50c Liquid Veneer.39c
(3d Floor)
Silks! Silks!
Wonderful New Spring
Silks M a February Sale
Delightful and precious things, at
prices low, low! LOW!
All now, all fine and of first import
ance in spring fashion.
The prices go from 50c to $0 a yard,
and they average less than half their
actual value.
You will find the new- colors and
plenty of fine black silks, on account
of the emphatic part they will play in
the new' fashions.
A few specials for tomorrow :
Pre-Mere Chiffon Taffeta
Full 36 inches wide, a beautiful soft
finish and high lustre, all the new
spring shades to choose from, absolute
ly pure dyed taffeta j»d will not split
or crack from wear. Fashion has pro
claimed Taffeta the most popular fab
ric for spring wear.
Pre-Mere represents the highest
grade at the popular price of $1.49
yard.
40-Inch Silk Poplin
In new spring shades; sand, putty and
Ftelglnn blue, for early spring wear
there is none so beautiful as these
soft silks, and to make them more at
tractive we are selling them at 95c
yard.
$1 Messailne Monday 85c Yard
The best dollar Messailne made; we
offer Monday our entire line of stand
ard $1 Messaline, 36 lndhes wide, made*
from very high grade silk. All new
spring Bhades. Plenty of black and
white, at 85c yard.
(Silks, 1st Floor)
Specials In The
Store—‘3rd Floor
House Dresses
Made of gingham or percale, light
and dark shades. Many pretty new
styles, low or high neck, full line of
sizes; $1.25 and $1.50 values.$1.00
Ladies’ Muslin Gowns
Medium and low neck, some are neatly
trimmed, others very elaborate; are
slightly mussed; $1.25 and $1-50 val
ues .75c
! OFFICIAL PROGRAMME
FOR TEMPERANCE DAY
IIN ALABAMA MARCH 5
State Superintendent of Education Wil- |
Ham F. Feagln has designated Friday.
March 5, ns temperance day this year '
and has adopted as the officiai programme,
the temperance day programme arrange*!
by Mrs. Chappell Cory and Mrs. F. M.j
Jackson, state superintendents of seten-;
tilic temperance Instruction. These ladies
are asking many papers in the state to I
print*this programme as they will be ofi
great assistance to the teachers through
out the state. The Age-Herald herewith
reproduces the programme In full:
Official programme temperance clay for
Alabama teachers:
T^aw of Alabama requiring temperasiee
instruction in public schools: “Every
teacher shall give instructions as to the
nature of alcoholic drinks, tobacco and
other narcotics, and the effect upon the
human system and such subject shall be!
taueht as regularly as any other in the |
public schools.''
"If you ask me why r went any of the:
bad roads myself, I will answer you. very
trulv, that it was for want of a good
guide; ill example invited me one way. j
and n good guide was wanting to show
me a better."—Chesterfield’s Betters.
Arranged from temperance literature by
superintendents of scientific temperance
instruction. Mrs. Chappell Cory, Roebuck'
Springs. Birmingham; Mrs. F. M. Jack
son, ££00 Pine avenue, Birmingham.
PROCBAMATIOX.
Tn keeping with the snlrtt and purpose
of an act entitled, “To Educate the Chil
dren of Alabama on the Evil of Intem
perance." section 6 of which reads as fol
lows: l
“That there shall be one day in each!
scholastic term of the public schools set
apart to be known as temperance day, i
when a suitable programme shall he pre
pared to the end that the children of
Alabama may be taught the evils of in-,
temperance.”
T have designated Friday. 'March 5.1915,1
as temperance day for the current schol
astic year. Tn further compliance with
the above. I hereby adopt this as the
official programme for the regular ob
servance of the day.
WILBTAM F. FEAGTN.
Superintendent of Education.
PROGRAMME.
“GOP SAVE THE STATE"
(Tune, “America.”!
God Mess our native land:
Firm may she ever stand
Through storm and night:
When the wild tempests rave
Ruler of wind and wave.
Do thou our country save.
By Thy great might.
For her our prayers shall ri*e,
To God above the skies;
On Him we wait:
Though who art ever nigh.
Guarding with watchful eye.
To Thee aloud we cry,
God save our state.
RESPONSIVE READING.
Leader—Intelligent people now agree
that intoxicating drink is the foe of
human happiness. Great men and women
have spoken against strong drink and
taught valuable lessons. What did Mar
tin Lot her. father of the Reformation,
say of the beer industry?
School—“Whoever first brewed beer pre
pared a pest for Germany. T have prayed
lo God that He would destroy the whole
brewing industry. All Germany could live
on the barley that is spoiled and turned
into a curse by brewing.”
Leader— Name thre narcotics about |
which we have studied.
School—Alcohol, tobacco and opium.
Leader—What is the danger in using
them?
School—Those who take a little want
more, and the habit is formed which en
slaves and destroys every part of man’s
nature.
Leader—What is the effect of these nar
cotis on character?
School—They deaden conscience, destroy
the love for that which is good and pure,
the knowledge of right and the power to
do right.
Leader—How does alcohol affect the
blood?
School—Alcohol has such a thirst for
water that if takep in any quantity it
sucks the water from the disks and
makes them shrink up and harden so
that they cannot act. Tt often ecrowds
them lip together and so clogs the tiny
passages where the blood ought to flow.
Jt is a blood poison.
Leader—How does Alcohol affect the
heart?
School—Tt sometimes quickens the ac
tion of the heart a short time, %ut this
Is always followed by a depression in
which less work than usual is done. Tt
paralyzes the nerves which control the
heart action.
Leader—What injury does alcohol inflict
on the brain?
School—(1) It weakens the blood ves
sels, so they often burst.
(2T Tt impairs the substance of the
brain.
Leader— How much alcohol must be
taken to produce these effects?
School—The daily drinking of alcohol in
what Is called “moderation" will produce
them all.
MY OWN COUNTRY.
(Tunc, "Old Black Joe."!
Home land of love—Columbia rich and
free;
Love land of homes, far famed for,
purity;
Rich land of peace and great prosperity;!
Home land of love, blest from above; 1
My own country.
Fields, harvest-wed, enrlcliede with gold
en grain.
Hills, cattle-spread, enrift with carbon
vein,
Streams, water-fed, refreshed by Heav
en’s rain,
Home land of love, blest from above;
„ My own country.
Father of youth, sent out the world to
bless,
Leader, forsooth, in paths of happiness,
Guardian of truth, a friend to righteous
ness.
Home land of love, blest from above;
My own country.
O, Land whose fame will through the
ages stand:
O, Land whose aim is service hand-to
hand;
O, Land whose name is known from
strand to strand:
Home land of love, blest from above;
My own country.
Refrain:
Columbia! Columbia! the land so dear
to me.
My heart is thine, as thou art mine;
My own country.
LESSON IN FINANCE.
Leader—What did Gladstone say is the
duty of government?
School—A government should so legis
late as to make It- easy to do right and
difficult to do wrong.
Leader—Do you know* how much money
is invested in the business of alcohol in
the United States?
School—In the year 1906 there fere $416,
000,000 invested. Including money from
foreign capitalists.
Leader—What is the United States an
nual drink bill?
School—Our annual drink bill is about
$1,500.000,000—out of all proportion—larger
than our bill for clothing, food and edu
cational work.
Leader—Is It.true that this revenue is
needed to run the government?
School—It Is not true. More money Is
paid out each year to take care of the
criminals and paupers that are made by
strong drink than the revenue received.
Uncle Sam is fast finding this out.
Leader—What does King Alcohol cost
the city of Washington per year?
School—It costs per year $854,000 more
than It receives from the licensed sale!
of alcohol. This shows that the city is
running behind its finances on alcohol
at the rate of more than three-quarters
of a million dollars each year.
Leader—What did Cardinal Manning, the
great English churchman, cay of Eng
land’s drink bill?
School—“It is a great demon, sowing
broadcast and what springs In its furrows?
Deaths, mortality in every kind, disease
of every form, crime of every dye, mad
ness of every intensity, misery beyond
the imagination to conceive.”
Leader—When the Titanic sank In mid
ocean 1600 lives perished—how many are
carried off in one day by alcohol?
School—Alcohol carries down to prema
ture graves every day more than 200i>
American souls. •
Leader—If the capital now invested in 1
alcohol were put to useful channels, what
would it accomplish?
School—It would employ more than s
million and a half additional men—and
wage earners—and largely solve the prob
lem of the unemployed. This tremendous |
increase in the demand for labor would
cause a general rise in wages.
LeadeY —What do we know of the cost
of the tobacco habit?
School—It costs time, strength, health,
character, life and sometimes costs a man
his soul. It is interesting to study why
and how.
Leader—What is scientific management
of modern industry in every branch rap
idly coining to demand?
School—Total abstinence.
Recltations.to select at will, for low
er and higiier grades;
Primary classes:
"The first little drop of strong drink
that fs taken
Ts the first step to ruin, we children
all know;
If the first little drop be 1n earnest
forsaken.
We shall never be drunkards—Oh,
never. Oh, no'.
Lower grade classes:
Taste not the wine, 'tw ill only bring!
sorrow,
Por shame and dishonor, quickly will
follow
Those who love drink.
Response:
Girls—Is it manly to drink?
Boys—Oh no!
For it leads ere you think, unto ruin's
wide bring,
It neither is manly to smoko, drink or
swear:
Of habits like these it is best to be
ware.
NEVER MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE
DRINK ✓
You’ll need jour wit about you, boys.
On life’s great battle plain;
You’ll need a sure* ami steady arm,
A clear and active brain;
For if you falter in your aim
There's always this to dread:
If you should fail to hit the mark.
You may get hit instead.
So never make friends with the drink,
my boys.
All that’s worth having in life it de
stroys ;
Death lurks behind Its alluring .ioys
So never make friends with the drink
my boys. —Selected.
THE TEMPERANCE BOY. -
1 am a little temperance boy.
Good friends, do you doubt it?
Only listen and I’ll soon
Tell you all about it.
These are little temperance feet,
So you’ll never find them
Walking to a beer saloon.
Bragging me behind them.
These are little temperance hands,
Poison never psissos;
But with water pure and eobl,
TW will fill your glasses.
I Amlrthese lips shall never taste,
Brand.', beer or whisky,
Sooner would 1 see them all,
In the Bay of Biscay.
And these eyes shall never k* >k,
Where the^red wine glistens;
God forbids it in His book.
To tlie child that listens.
So. my friends, I think this truth,
You will soon discover- -
That T am a Temperance Boy,
Temperance all over.
AN APPEAL FOR THE BOYS.
By V. K. Burnett.
A question in importance overshad
owing all others faces us today. It is
this; What is to bo the character of
our citizenship in the new century we
are so soon to be entered? However
great our interest in politics, in tar
iff, or silver, or labor, we realize* there
Is still a greater question—on.- which,
indeed, is the end of all polities and
government—the child.
Building character is the ^roat
work of our puhlic schools. We want
to place on this broad domain a peo
ple “who shall know their rights, and
knowing, dare maintain.’’
The putting into tin* generations that
shall follow us the character that can
be trusted anywhere is the thing to be
aimed at. We want our boys to be #
“Truly equipped for life's mystic bat
tle,
Helmet fastened and sword in bund.”
We must fight the great battles of
| the world through the children. The
j secret which decides the fate of any
battle is found in the preparation
which goes before. It is true of battles
for reform.
The eye of this generation should be:
fixed upon the young. There is an army
marching forward, in which every man
may be a hero, made strong In mighty
conflict. Put your ear to the ground
and you may hear them, “Tramp, tramp,
tramp, the boys are marching.”
Whether they march to victory over
self, victory over fo'*s without as well
as foes within, depends upon the hab
its they are forming duiing childhood
and youth.
Within recent years an insidious vice
has sprung up all over our land, and
our brightest boys are falling victims
to its prey.
* This vice is the narcotic habit in all
its forms, and especially in its worst
form—the cigarette. The evil has grown"
to such mighty proportions that rtato
legislatures and school boards have
listened to the appeals of the crave
land of white ribbon women and nave
given legislation and secured the en- '
foreement of the laws In many places.
Parents, will you aid in the educa
tional work? Will you aid in the en
forcement of law? I ask you to look
in the faces of so many of our boys
who have formed this habit and see
how' the better nature is being crushed
out by this vice, and know' that no
boy is safe so long as our laws are
violated with impunity. Your boy may
be tempted and may fall. Just as good
boys have fallen. Place the barriers |
of enforced law about them. The man
who would wrong your son by selling
this poisonous drug to him deserves
greater punishment than he who robs
you of your property; yet you are
raising no voice, lifting no hand to
protect them. Why? Partly because you
do not know the dangerous nature of
the “deadly cigarette.” A committee
of United States senators appointed
to investigate the nature of cigarettes,
when legislation against their sale was
pending, brought in a report that they
are all injurious to youth, and Con
gress passed the law' that the women
petitioned for. A petition for this law
was signed by the teachers and minis
ters of the District of Columbia, and
£57 physiicans.
The president of Ada, O., school,
where are over 2000 young people fit
ting themselves for teachers, says:
“Several boys from here died last year
from use of cigarettes.” Two boys wero
sent to the Insane asylum from Hiram
college from their uses in one year.
The school boards of New York, San
! -- . . — - ■ -
Francisco, St. Louis. and many small
er cities, arc pushing vigorous cam
paigns against the hahit. Why should
not all schools take bold of this work?
Why spend money ho freely and per
mit conditions that make it of none
j avail ?
Now, friends, .to you all we appeal.
I and to the school children themselves
Can you see this destruction of our
young manhood going on a I oround
> ou and lift no warning voice to save?
I hi lan til ropy and patriotism alik urge
you by example, 'and couiihcI all your
powers as citizens to Have our boys
from this great foe. Save them from
tobacco, and you can Have them from
alcohol. We appeal to you in the name ,
of all you love and hold dear, to h**lp
us wrest this nation from the nico
tine habit.
“MY SON!”
Yes, sir, I know; and your words arc
kind, an* i tell you, sir, I’ve tried
To think we can find the things we've
lost, when we get to the other wide. ,
I’d give all I’ve got. sir, to know ’twas,
true, but I can’t, I .lust can't see
How some of those lost, those dear lost
things ’ll ever come beck to me.
I shall see her there; I know she stands
right close to the pearly gate.
Waintin’; and soon I, too, ’ll be there;
she won’t have long to wait,
But when she asks for the boy—our
boy—at she left when she went
away—
Asks all those questions a mother will
—Oh. wliat am i going to say?
Well, as I know he’s been dead this
many and many a year.
Do you think I'd dare to ask up there,
“What! haven’t you seen him here?”
God gives men power for good or ill
that ain’t for this world alone;
They can lift a soul to the gates up
there in the light of the great white
tin one,
Or sink it low as they sunk m> boy —
such beautiful eyes he had
Brown like his mother's—you’d never
have thought such eyes could have
turned out so bad.
An' he wern’t bad either, but true and
good, but—perhaps you know the
rest—•
There was only one for to bring him
up. and I tried to do my best:
But the world, *an' the flesh, an thf
drink are strong an* some men’s
hearts are stone.
An’ 1 tell you it seemed sometimes as
If I was fightin' ’em all alone.
For them as ’ll lift their fello.vinen
there's waitin' a starry crown.
But honor and power and wealth Is
got by them a* ‘11 pull V.n down.
Most men they -hope for the crown
sometime, hut they want it the
shortest way,
An’ they do their best an* their hard
est work for a dlfforent sort o’ pay
So, the world spins on at its rattlin’
gait as hard as ever she can,
An’ it don’t much matter that boys
are lost If they b’long to some oth
er man.
One night—^lead drunk—they brought
him home—my boy—an’ I Ini 1 him
there,
The blood of a street fight on Ills face,
an’ the gutter mud in his hair
He never knew me nor spoke again,
drunk an’ asleep he died.
An* I prayed 'at his mother *d never
know’ how we laid him by her side.
Yes, the golden streets an* the Jasper
walls—l'v© read of ’em all—but then
Do you believe, sir, that over there 1
shall find my boy aguin?
Fong, "Temperance Bella,” by chorus
choir.
(Used in connection with tl^e exer
else, “Temperance Chimes," ns indi
cated. )
Tune, “fling the Bells of Heaven.'
—Gospel Ilyin ns.
Temperance Bells are ringing,
Hinging out today
With a hopeful message to the . grid:
8atan's hosts are fleeing:
All along the way—•
; See hi* banners 'neath our feet at*
hu rled.
Chorus—tuning triangle for bells;.
Chime on, chime, ye Temp’rance 1 ells,
chime on!
Chime on, chime, ye Temp’rance "ells,
chime on!
Tell the world the story
Ring the note of cheer.
Victory is coming—Lo! ’Tie near
Temp’rance Bells are ringing,
Ringing out today
From the pages of the blessed Book;
Hear the woe and warning,
Heed what God doth say—
"Dare not thou upon the wine to look.'*
Chorus.
Temp*ranee Bella are ringing,
Hinging out today
With the truths of Science, loud and
clear;
Listen to the teaching,
Listen now, l pray.
"Alcohol—a poison all should fear.’*
Chorus.
Temperance bells are ringing,
Hinging out today
While the youth are training for the
fight;
Boys and girls are learning —
H outlniied on Page Thin; >
Loveman, Joseph & Loeb
Lovemcin, Joseph & Loeh
Now Dame-Fashion
Demands a Corseted Figure
Before pit returning your nrw hat
gel n nrn Swlteh or bang. Spr
elal tomorrou.
7.50 pr Qtt 4 00 9 QC
Snllehf* 70 Mwltehea ^»eO
(Beauty Parlor, Main Floor)
Women can no longer permit them
selves to drop into the habit of an uncor
seted figure.
Nor will fashion permit it.
To make sure that women would again
adopt a widespread use of the corseted
figure, fashion demands lines which are
impossible without corsets, especially the
curved waist!
Corsets are well boned this season to
give the new lines—you can’t be fashion
able or expect your new gowns to fit well
without them.
New Gossard Models 2.50 to 12.50.
Nemo Models 3.00 to 5.00.
New Loveman, Joseph & Loeb Specials
1.00 to 3.50.
LaCharmante Corsets 5.00 to 15.00.
An interesting corset economy is an
nounced in our Buyers’ and Managers’
Sale on page 12 ''d 1
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