The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-14

United States will need larger mili- tary establishment than it has now, but preparedness must always be the watchword, and the National Guard should be gradually recruited up to 300,0O0 or 100000.
 r ETTERS have been sent to Yale L men throughout the United States by Henry Stauffer, Wiscon- sin reformer and Yale alumnus, urg- ing that the famous college song, Here's to Good Old Yale, Drink It
 Down, Drink It Wants to Abolish Down." be abol- Drink It Down" ished. Incidental
 ly MT. Stauffer is an advocate of grape juice. The casual reader need hardly be told that.
 The beverage which MT. Bryan made famous and Josephus Daniels helped to advertise may not be intoxicating, but has a curious effect on a great many people who imbibe it. Alcohol impairs the vision to such an extent that one lamp post is mistaken for two or even more, but the effect is tenn porary. The perspective of the grape juice brethren is permanently wrong. Trifles become so important in their eyes that they make themselves ridicu- lous. Always theoretically sober, they are seldom normal.
 Drink It Down" is fine old song, greatly beloved by Yale men and in- terwoven with the history of a great institution. The Wisconsin reformer is wasting time, stationery and postage. Students will be roaring out that bibu- lous refrain long after he has gone where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest. And their morals will be none the worse for it.
 It is reported that some of the soldiers at Montgomery are begging on the streets and claiming that they don't get enough to eat in camp. The sooner men of that type are weeded out, the better if will ba for tho carvj,a
 The prohibitionists point with pride to the recent successes of the Russians, as showing what they can do without vodka. Still there is another side to the picture. The atrocious Turks never drink drop.
 The prohibitionists having chosen the camel for their party emblem, an ar dent standpatter who hates the socialists like poison, suggests that the monkey should represent their party. Another honest farmer has lost a for tune on a fake horse race. Honest farm
  they know what to do with, after they have bought an automobile. All Ahba mians don't agree on the cor rect spelling of Muscle Shoals, but that shouldn't prevent them from getting to- gether and trying to land the govern ment's nitrate plant.
 Sharks at eastern coast resorts are passing up the bathing beauties and going after male bathers. Is it possible that they don't know a choice morsel when they see it?
 l The late Josephine Conan (Mrs. Fred | Niblo) had a winsome face, and was not the least gifted member of clever | theatrical family.
 | It must be pleasant for Secretary Lan- sing to be off on a vacation and realize when he wakes up every morning that he isn't facing new crisis. 1 captain Parker refuses tQ peHeVe lna' the bull moose party is dead and buried Will someone kindly show him its grave somewhere in Chicago?'' 1 l During the past few days Captain Koe nig of the Deutschland has probably been the most photographed man in the United States.
 | MT. Hughes is generally considered g more handsome man than MT. Wilson However, the presidential race is not { beauty contest.
 | The weekly allowance of potatoes hal been cut down in Berlin but what reall. hurts is that the beer shortage continues Still, there are certain acid tests whicl can be easily applied to so-called no per cent Americanism.
 
 The Hearst papers continue to call ol Congress to do it's duty. but Congree seems as deaf as post
 If some patent medicine manufacture can get a testimonial from Villa, his for tune is made