The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-04-18


the example of Messrs. selfridge and
Harrods. Ltd. who have placed orders
with us
We have developed scheme for
training women in market gardening
and poultry farming. We have had
and lent to us for this purpose and
| rave been offered the generous serv-
ices of experts. As soon as We pos
sess the necessary funds large num-
| Der of middle class women will be
trained and helped in their endeavor
| to win a living in the country.
we have placed a number of women
| Of all classes in posts suitable to their
temporary or permanent need.
we have registered numerous Of
| fers of hospitality; houses have been
given to us: children and adults have
been taken into country homes. and
many Of the most desolate sufferers
from the war have been in this way
housed and comforted. We have sup
piled the Red Cross society. the /. G..
g. care committees. Soldiers and Sail
ors' Families association, maternity
eenters, mayors distress committees,
and creches with over 500 selected vol
untary workers.
we are teaching new trades to wom-
en-, for instance, we have at present 60
girls working In our toy shops.
To-day the country needs every woman
no less than it needs every man. 1t is
for us as women TO wage nnremitting and
strenuous war against all conditions of
poverty and disease and misery that
weaken the empire at its heart. 1t is for
us as women to fight in dead earnest
against the spirit of society apathy, in
difference and despair. 1t is for US as
women to show that loyalty in each other
which is manifested by comrades in the
fia1d m cto nd nv m bau
their economic weapons and to save them
from the defeat that comes with loss of
independence. Therefore we call on all
women to come and help u.s."
New Test for Aviators
One of the big surprises of the war,
of course has been the magnificent show
ing that has been made by Brtain's fly
ing men. In both the calibre and the
rrowess of her flyers, Albion was sup
posed to make a bad third to France
and Germany, but it is question if the
aviators of either of these countries have
surpassed. if indeed, they have equaled.
the deeds of the English airmen.
Recently, 20 L told yesterday by
member of the royal flying corps back
from France on a few days leave, a new
test has been instituted for applicants
wishful of joining the ranks of that
branch of the service. To gain his pilots
Gidate must fly from Farnham, in Sur
rey. to the firing line in Flanders and
back again, and | am told that this feat
is performed inside of two hours and a
half. Some testi
Union Hours in the Trenches
How on earth do the Germans find out
things as they do2 A friend of mine
" hose adopted home is Vancouver, and
who is now in France with the first Can
adam contingent Che is a Highlander),
writes home that the trenches that his
regiment occupies are only some 20 yards
from the German "diggings." They had
only been established there an hour or
SO, he says, when voice from the Ger
man earthworks called out in perfect
English, Hello, Canadian Scottish how
did you leave Vancouver looking?" SinCe
then, he continues, quite friendly rea-
tions have grown up between themselves
and the foe. One evening one of the
Canadians called out to the Germans,
II say, you fellows must be members of
trade unions what do you mean by going
on popping after hours?"
"We'n stop firing after six If you will"
replied a spokesman for the Germans,
and since that, after p. m. not a shot
has been exchanged. Every morning
however. both sides get to work and pro-
coed to pick off as many of the oppos
ton as possible.
IncOnveniently Important Aliens
The handling of enemy aliens in
England is causing the military au-
thorities more sleepless nights than
they would like to acknowledge. There
are a number of persons who must
for very good and sufficient reasons
lie exempted from even surveillance.
For example, it would be obviously al
surd to place Wolfgang ST. Just, a high
official in the foreign office, or Mark
Rreiter of the home office under sus-
picion. And for equally good reasons
there are a most of lesser important
aliens in the civil service who cannot
be Compounded"
rather more difficult problem con-
fronts the government in regard to
Germans or Austrians in the employ of
royalty. In the English royal house
| hold there are not more than two or
three Germans for, when King Edward
assembled the throne he made a clean
sweep of the German servants then in
! royal employ and restaffed the whole
royal establishment with English men
and women But practically every
servant in the employ of the Batten-
| berg and Christian households are Ger
mans. Under the recent order in coun-
| Gil every one of these should be placed
| In a concentration camp. But for Oh
yious reasons they are not There are
difficulties in the way of leaving the
| two chief royal households, next to
! that of the sovereign, servantless,
which the government does not care
| to face. But the problem is compli
| Gated by the fact that number of
highly placed people who have Ger
m ans in their employ do not sec why
they should be deprived of them If
royalties are permitted to retain their
alien servitors. The German royal
servants whose services We're dis
pensed with by King Edward were all
pensioned and are now resident about
| Windsor. Are these enemy aliens to
whom not a vestige of suspicion of
being spies could possibly be attached,
| to be arrested? As q. matter of fact,
when the order in council was made.
they were all notified that they would
have to be removed to a concentration
camp but so far this has not been
| DONE
Beggars Appeal to Privy Council
| For sheer oddly it would be hard to
| beat many of the legal cases which
| come before the judicial committee of
! the privy council. the great appeal
court of the British empire, which sits
In a room in Downing street and con-
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