The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-10-02

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striving all the while to make hi'
speeches more pungent.
Colonel Roosevelt made a character.
istic speech at Battle Creek, Mich.
characteristic because the
ex-President was on his war horse
and spoke as a war lord. He found
the administration full of flaws, but
the greatest flaw was lack of the mill
tary spirit in handling international
problems. From the tone of his pre-
pared address it was easy to infer
that had he been in Wilson's place he
would have made war not only on
Mexico, but on the European powers.
This country was not prepared for a
big war, but that fact entered not at
all into Roosevelt's calculations.
Mr.. Hughes talks are not quite so
bellicose as Roosevelt's, but he blames
President Wilson for not doing some
thing to Mexico and for not being
more strenuous in his negotiations
with the warning nations across the
sea. AS Mr.. Wilson points out there
is but one inference, and that is, if
the republicans return to power this
country will be forced into war.
The great majority of thoughtful,
patriotic Americans do not want war.
They have desired peace and prosper
ity, and now that we have the full
dinner pail and an unprecedented vol
ume of business, both foreign and do
nestle, they should be reader than
ever in their support of"the democratic
ticket.
. Other slogans have been fetching,
but none has been so ringing as the
one suggested by present conditions.
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NMTILL the twelve hundred sets of
Wv false teeth shipped from this
country to Germany, but released by
the British government for return to
America, be placed on the bargain
counter for domestic consumers
The war has
Hundred Dozen MADE II
False Teeth Returned h e avy d
mands upon all
men of military age that the profess
sion of dentistry, like most other pro-
fessions, has suffered in personnel.
The ranks of the tooth surgeon have
been greatly reduced and to meet the
demand for false teeth orders are
coming to the United States just as
are the orders for munitions and food
stuffs.
Thousands of Germans, like thou
sands of other nationalities, have lost
all their teeth, and unless they can OBJ
tain artificial aid they must continue
to subsist on oatmeal or milk and
mush, or other soft food.
But the problem of selecting so
tempting a diet as mush, or oatmeal,
is becoming more and more serious.
The German inspectors, so limit the
quality of all sorts of eatables and
drinkables permitted to be sold week.
w to families or individuals that the
toothless, as we'll as the men with
their teeth intact must take what
they can get. There are enough
yictuals for all, so official Germany,
announces, but the common run OF
men must do without delicacies and
make out with food that requires good
teeth to master. In other words, with
out these Observation-Disclosures
teeth many German might be soon
at the point of starvation.
But after all, it may be well, n.y.
CHEMICALLY considered, that these hum
bred dozen sets Of false teeth did not
reach the land of the Kaiser. Imagine
all the would-be consumers Of the
American false teeth industry "try-
ing on" the artificial sets. No two
mouths are exactly alike and many a
fellow would insist on "sampling" the
entire lot before deciding which fit
best.
If the germ theory has made kiss
ing dangerous how much greater the
danger to a person buying false teeth
that had been in the mouths of other
persons-many Of them diseased per-
sons.
The older generation can remember
when custom-made shoes were not
well thought of by good dressers. The
stylishly groomed man had his boots
or shoes made to order. 1t is very
different now. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
footwear has gone out of fashion. Will
it be so with respect of teeth? It may
be doubted. Artificial sets made by
masters of dentisty are painful at
best, so long as they are new. How