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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
Birmingham Seminary

Alumni of the Louie Compton SEM
mary are fairly ecstatic over the an
nouncement that the ole Sem is to
have a new and most modern home at
Edgewood," said Miss Pattie South
worth, who was student at the Louie
Compton seminary IA years and who
is now teacher in the state normal
school at Rock Hill, S. C.
"Of course we have all been looking
forward to the time when the school
would be moved to a better location
and have a real campus and all that
goes with it. The best part of it all is
that the new $4,000 building and the
administration hall are to be only a
unit in the plans and that more is to
be added later to make the Birmingham
seminary, which it is to be called, the
very best in the south. While others
have helped, the credit for the splendid
advancement is due to our principal,
Miss Hattie Morton"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
LIKE al,LIKE SAYS

If you really have something to say,
people will not criticize the grammar you
use.
Why does a jealous woman imagine
that she has to employ private detec-
tive? She can imagine as much in a
minute as he can discover in a year.
A girl ina ginss that all her troubles
will be over as soon as she is married
But the fact is that her troubles do not
begin until she is married.
If the word "I' were eliminated from
a mans vocabulary, he wouldn't have
much to talk about
A lot of lies are told about counting.
One Of them is that a girl screams for
help the first time you kiss her, and an
other is that father uses his boot on a
young man when the young man asks
father for daughters hand. AS "a mat
ter Of fact, a girl likes to be kissed,
and the only hollering she does is for
more kisses. And father seldom knows
that daughter is engaged until mother
tells him to put on clean collar and
come on and see daughter get hitched.
The modern small boy has an incentive
to study in school. He wants to be able
to read the captions on the fillums in
the movie shows.
Some men seem to imagine that the
one-cent piece was coined so that man
could give cheerfully to charity and the
church.
The average man is so rabid politically
that what he deems vice in the Other
party's candidate he deems a virtue in
his partys candidate.
We have met whole lot of pacifists
and we have never seen one who would
refuse a bunch OF stock in munition
factory.
The man who gets the worst of it in q
bunko game has no business squealing
If he hadn't been trying to cheat some
body he wouldn't have been cheated.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07

have tried to balk President Wilson's
war programme, but it will be differ
ent from now on.
1t is good to know that while there
are some traitors in the land--many
perhaps-the vast body of men of
fighting age and strength are loyal
to the backbone and will be found on
their mettle when called to meet their
country's foe
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
Concerning che Status
Of s'PamcIao" Villa

1T HE irresponsible Villa has again
4 been eliminated" as military
factor in Mexico. General Murguia,
commander-in-chie of the northeast
ern military zone, says Villa now has
less than 100 men and is once more d
common or garden variety Of bandit,
roaming the wilds of Durango.
With all due regard for the valor of
General Murguia, he had better not be
too certain of Villas elimination. 1t
is quite likely that shortage of sup
plies, particularly of ammunition, has
forced Villa into the passivity his soul
abhers. The arms embargo has been
lifted and some millions of rounds of
cartridges, held in warehouses along
the border, have been permitted to
enter Mexico for the use of the gov
eminent
Nothing quicl1ens Villas desire for
combat like the prospect of loot, and
ammunition to him is almost worth
its weight in gold. He may or may
not resume his former activities, to
the sorrow Of Murguia and other mil
itary heroes who are no match for the
bandit when he has anything like an
even chance, but it will never be safe
to make predictions about Villa until
he is dead for the last time.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
Even the Horse Realizes 1t

'rhe automobile is here to stay" said
Ben Stanley, rural mail carrier, "for
even my faithful gray nag realizes 1t.
Every time he hears 'honk, honk' in
the rear, without any effort on my part
he turns out to the right as much as
to say, l know the tin lizzies' have the
right of way, and it won't be long be-
fore it will be back to the farm for
me-"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
Quiet Saturday Nights

Saturday nights now are about as
quiet for US as any other nights" said
Chief Shirley, of the city detective de-
partment There is much difference
in the Saturdays now and those of the
time when there were open saloons in
Birmingham. They were not the same
then by any means. Saturday night
then meant that there would be much
additional work to be done and much
more trouble to be investigated than on
other nights. 1t was by far the heaviest
night of the week for US, but now
there is little difference"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
Planning Mill and Warehouse

II understand that Mayor Griffin and
some associates are figuring on putting
in mill and warehouse at West Bloc
ton to care for the corn, velvet beans,
peanuts and other forage crops" said
Councilman Fred Downing, land L hope
they will do it to conserve the great
amount of foodstufs that have been
practically already made in and around
the Bloctons. 1 think it a civic duty
for public spirited citizens in the towns
and cities to stand behind the farmers
who needed the call to plant crops that
man and beasts could eat''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
Paris PerGuraers Have
Lost a Good CusG0ruac

Lost a Good CUSTOMER
wv ELL may the perfumers Of
Wv Paris mourn the downfall of
the Gear and his consort, the Czarina,
for it means the loss of $4,000 a year
in business. The Czarina was not
only perhaps the best customer they
had, but one whose patronage could
be depended on, year after year. Her
toilet water was manufactured of
Parma violets, gathered between 5
and 7 o'clock in the evening, as the
Czarina said the fragrance of violets
was greatest at that time. Every day
her entire suite Of apartments was
sprayed with costly perfumes and her
toilet table literally groaned beneath
an accumulation of richly jeweled
bottles.
Extravaganza went to astonishing
extremes in the royal circles of Rus
STA. The grand dukes were not whit
behind the Gear and Czarina in lavish
display, but it is safe to assume that
what they now regard as the good
old days" are gone, never to return.
There will be no disposition to pity
the former Czarina, either in Russia
or elsewhere, because she will have
to worry along without some of the
sybaritic luxury which she was wont
to consider indispensable.
At any rate, the Romanoff family
is not deprived of all pleasures. Mich
olas still has bicycle, from which he
is reported to have tumbled not long
ago and fractured leg. There are
simple joys like gardening and SHOW
cling snow-in season-and other pur-
suits which are much more healthful
than court orgies and don't cost the
Russian people staggering sums. All
in all, the Romanoffs are better off
than they were before, though it is
hardly probable that they take such
"a cheerful view of their present stu
alton.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
Drying euantitlen of vegetnbles

Il am glad to find that the cam
paign for food preservation is having its
effect" said C. c. Kendig, an engineer
on the Mobile and Ohio, "for all along
my route 1 can see many thrifty house
wives drying all kinds of Vegetables
Many are canning what they can and
what they can't can are drying. A num-
Der of vegetables can be dried with lit
tie trouble and carried through the win
ter. have seen enough okra strings
hanging up to dry to make many
tureen of SOUP
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
Meeting at RomnIus

Il am on my way to Romulus to hold
meeting in one of the churches served
by Brother R. e. Hewlett said Rev. j.
j. Sandlin, the pastor of the Methodist
church at Piper, land if the men take
half as much interest in the revival as
a lot of young married men are taking
in avoiding being drafted we will have
a glorious ingathering"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
Cannot Shirlz Duty
With Iuappamity

W1THIN the next few weeks
Wv hundreds of thousands of men
will be distributed through the can
tonments or concentration camps for
intensive drilling, preparatory to
active service on the firing line in
France.
Notwithstanding the antidraft
demonstrations that have broken out
in spots under the leadership of pro-
Germans, comparatively few slackers
will be in evidence after the courts
martial get to work. The government
has announced it's determination to
take firm stand against drafted
men who attempt to hide themselves
or otherwise evade their duty.
Such men will be considered en-
rolled in the army and will be ar
rested for desertion. These deserters
will be tried by courtmartia,l and in
time of war the penalty for desertion
is death. o
The men in public life who are en-
couraging slackers to resist the anti
draft in this hour of the country's
peril are guilty of wicked conduct,
and are held in contempt by all good
Americans. The towards who are
trying to escape military service are
making a grave mistake, looked at
from any point of view. In the first
place, they are held up to scorn.
Ostracism would follow them. They
could never again look their friends
in the eye. And finally they are in
curing the risk of being condemned to
death and shot on short notice.
Taking the lowest view of it, even if
they are deficient in manly spirit,
far better for them were they to take
their chances with the patriotic young
men on the battle front and, if killed
in action, be kindly remembered, than
to fall in dishonor and fill slacker's
grave.
America did not declare war against
Germany as bluff. 1t is in the war
to win. Up to this time the govern
ment has been tolerant with men who
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
Bnc, From Walker Comfy

Il am just from Walker county. where
ings in different sections of it," said
Rev. H. H. Buzbee. "and I found the
minds of the people greatly distracted
over the draft and troubled about the
strike situation, These things, taken
in together with the war situation,
make it difficult to get people inter-
ested in religious topics"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07

BEGINNING THE DAY-A bless
ing for food. We thank Thee, Our
Father. for this food. which, as we
eat it. makes of one flesh; ana
for the faith, which, as we live IT,
makes US of one spirit. In the
name of Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Amen.--H. NJ. Il.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
Live and Newsy

81 do not see how could get along
without The Age-Herald," said w. c.
Puryear. Il have been in Birmingham
Il years now and have been taking
The Age Herald all the time. I have
become so accustomed to reading it
every morning that the events of the
day would seem all wrong if 1 should
miss it that morning. 1t is live and
newsy paper"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07

BY Sara Teasdale.
From naked stones Of agony
/ will build house for me;
AS a mason all alone
l will raise it, stone by stone.
And every stone where | have bled
VIII show a sign of dusky red.
/ have not gone the way in vain,
For have good Of all my pain; B
My spirits quiet house will be
Built of naked stones / trod
On roads where lost sight Of God.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
ADRlFT WITH THE TIMES
A CONFESSION.

Now, certain airs my soul entrance
soothe angry passions, too,
While others cause a mood that's quite
contrary;
And should you chance to ask me, then
Id have to answer you
That one of those bum tunes is Tip
perary"
Sometimes my feet will not keep still
when bands begin to play,
In days gone by 1 fell for 80 Long,
Mary"
But laying bare my secret heart, I feel
compelled to say,
l never did care much for "Tipperary."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
HOTEL LOBBIEs


Il was reared in Barbour county, >"
said j. B. Davie, the representative from
Bibb county in the last legislature, and
l greatly enjoyed Ned Braces story in
the Sunday Age-Herald about the dove
shoot for 1 remember what great events
they used to be in the days of my
young manhood. I am sorry the party
got involved in the law
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
DRY" TOWN TREASURE.

There are pearls without price"
81 don't doubt that" replied Mr.
Jagsby. But coming little nearer
home, I understand there is a man in
this town who has two quarts of genuine
Scotch whisky"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
SOUTH ABANDoNs STATE RIGHTS

SOGIH ADAINDO4eS So
From the New York World.
The vote in the Senate on the prohibi-
ton amendment to the constitution OF
the United States shows that the south
has definitely abandoned the doctrine OF
state rights
OF the Sc democratic votes cast in IA
yor of the amendment, 10 came from
southern senators. 1t is significant that
both of the senators from Mississippi,
the home of Jefferson Davis, supported
the amendment. From South Carolina,
the home of John C. Calhoun, only one
senator voted, and he voted in favor Of
submitting the amendment.
If state has any rights at all, one
of those rights is to make It's own
sumptuary rules and regulations. When
that power is centralized in the nation
al government there is very little left to
the states except their names and their
geographical boundaries, and that little
may be taken away from them at any
time.
Except for the votes Of the southern
senators the prohibition amendment
would have been defeated. They alone
furnished the necessary majority. and
now that the south has turned away
from it's historical doctrine it can hardly
be astonished if the movement for
force bill and federal control of cleo
lions is revived whenever the republic
ans gain control of Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
Kaissr' s Sllppra ssed
Letter TO Wilson

TINE autograph facsimile of a
u cable letter dated August 10,
1914, which Emperor William wrote
in English to President Wilson and
handed to Ambassador Gerard, bat
which, at the request of the imperial
foreign office, was suppressed, gives
the Kaiser's explanation of how the
war began. Mr.. Gerard now makes it
public by permission of the President.
1t appeared in the first installment of
series of articles which the former
ambassador has prepared for the
Philadelphia Ledger and was repro
duced in full in special dispatch in
Yesterdays Age Herald.
Although it is document of alb
sorbing interest, it has no place in the
official correspondence between Ber-
lin and Washington. 1t will be placed,
however, in the archives or museum
of the state department.
According to old custom, rulers or
heads of nations, in communicating
personally with each other, always
do so geographically. But not all
sovereigns have sufficient knowledge
of English to express themselves
dramatically in that language. The
usual way is to write the commune
cation in their own language and
trust to it being correctly translated
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07

Washington bureau. 2o7 Hibbs Build
Ing.
European bureau. Henrietta street.
Covent Garden, London.
Eastern business office. Rooms AZ TO
so, inclusive. Tribune Building, New
York city; western business office
Tribune Guiding. Chicago. The ). Z.
Beckwith Special Agency, agents !of
foreign advertising.
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Railroad Equipment
Is the First Need

n PROMINENT flour milling COM
9A pany of Nashville, one of the
largest industries of that city, sent
telegram to Senator Mcclellan a few
days ago calling attention to the
urgent need of more railroad equip
ment. The government, it points out,
is taking extraordinary measures to
build ocean transportation, yet it is
not seen where it is either building
or requiring railroads to build equip
ment, or even placing old motive
power in serviceable condition."
The company quoted submits that
the government should build imme-
diately sat least $4,000 railroad cars
for its own use, and start building
them now" This plan would, in a
measure, relieve the car shortage
which prevails today and which will
become more acute as soon as the
heavy government demands begin.
"Ships are useless" says the Nash
vile concern, unless you can place
cargoes in them; hence railroad equip
ment is the first need"
Senator Mcclellan should take up
this question with the President and
the department of commerce at once
with g view of getting early action.
Few industrial matters in connection
with the war are more important.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
THREE YEARS OF WAR

From Leslie's.
The war that began three years ago
has brought US three years nearer to
peace. 1t has done soma other things:
1t has brought us nearer to the time
when the people of every land shall rule
and be the sovereigns OF the state, and
not the servants of sovereign
1t has brought the old world to realize
that the arstocracy of manhood is far
better than aristocracy of birth
It has taught the new world that there
is something higher than the making
and spending of money and that serv-
ice to humanity is the noblest service
of all.
1t has taught the whole world the Bit
ter lessons of adversely and Of the chas-
tenng hand which spares not those il
loves.
Inhuman. cruel. ruthless sanguinary
awful in every aspect as this greatest
of all wars has been and must be-
it will be worth its terrible soll il
1t shall lift up the eyes of a thought
less. LUXURIOUS, spendthrft world unto
the hills from whence cometh our help"
In God we trustl
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07
BRIEF BLISS.

did you ever see happy and con-
tented wife?"
Certainly"
Your own, perhaps?"
yes 1t was fully week after we got
our car before she tired, of it,
ORFUL!
A boarding house
Burned down today,
Five million bedbugs
Passed away.
Luke McLuke.
Other losses
We have to breach,
With ev'ry bedbug
Went a roach.
GAINESVILLE Signal.
And, sad to say,
Among the ruins
There We're destroyed
Five million pruins.
Nashville Banner.
And one might find
Deep in the wreck
A tried and trusty
Chickens neck.
youngstown Telegram.
The blazes reached
The coffee pot,
And the Coffee that
One time, was hot.
Houston Post
The ancient cheesebox
Hit the floor,
One million shippers
Are no more.
-Tiffin Gilmore.
Also there persisted
In trice
Just scores and scores
OF rampant mice.
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
Prepare We now
For the worst of shocks;
The star boarder lost
His purple socks.
NOT FOR PARENTS.
Dear me! I must return home at
once"
Whats the matter, Gladys?"
st left one of my favorite novels on
the library table where mother is apt to
pick it up. would never forgive myself
if I were the cause of her reading q
book like that" PAUL COOK
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rate of exchange. The Age-Herald Will
not be responsible for money sent
through the mails. Address,
THE AGE-HERALD,
Birmingham, Ala.
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He wants wit that wants resolved
will. Two Gentlemen of Verona.
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No communication will be published
without its authors name. Rejected
manuscript will not be returned unless
stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
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STATIONARY OBJECTS.

STATIONARY OBJECTS.
Il hear you are thinking of buying
farm"
That's my intention" said the city
man, with a complacent air.
"Well, don't forget the importance of
silos."
Trust me for that, sir. BY the way
err do those things consume much gaso-
line?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-07

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala,
postoffice as second-class matter un-
der act of Congress, March 8, 1879.
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The Age-Herald is the only morning
and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham
carrying the Associated Press DIS
patches.
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NOT FOR PARENTS.
KEEPING UP OIL SUPPLY
Nv HOLLAND

mandeer, II necessary, the oil wells that
are paying propositions, it nevertheless
win pay no attention to the fact that
the one paying well may represent the
digging of 10 other wells which yield no
returns. The leading oil men say that at
present the oil producers of the United
States clearly understand the crisis the
oil industry now faces But it is not that
industry alone that is affected by this
crisis or may hereafter be unless new
production be equal to the demand which
will be made upon the industry. Almost
all kinds of business will be seriously af-
fected if there be a material impairment
of the oil industry, Some of these indus
tries will be brought to a standstill un-
less new fields are open and production
responds fairly wen to demand.
The government has the oil fields. The
government undoubtedly has the power to
commander oil that has been produced.
but it's power does not go beyond that.
The government cannot compel practical
oil men to prospect for, then to develop.
next to pipe oil, or to deliver oil upon
tank ships so that it may be transported
across the seas, if the cost of loading
and unloading is so large that it repre-
sents a loss rather than reasonable
profit upon the transaction.
Domestic consumption of petroleum
products has been and is still increas-
ing at rate which a few years ago
would have been deemed inconceivable.
This consumption will be continued until
peace is restored, and if there is no gain
in the production, then in a short time
the United States will have no oil to ex-
port. The best judges are Of the opinion
that the value of petroleum as fuel
will be more and more recognized. One
of the foremost of the authorities in the
oil business is quoted as having said re-
Gently that the question of future prices
is not to be answered by consideration
Of the volume of consumption, but rather
by the volume of available supply. The
oil men say that it now seems probable
that the development of new fields OF
great productive capacity is likely to be
larger in other countries than in the
United States. 1t is also the feeling that
some of those in authority in Washington
have as yet no clear comprehension OF
the meaning which was in President Bed
fords carefully and conservatively writ
ten statement, in which he asked the
users Of gasoiene to refrain from pleas
ure riding so that the available surplus
would not be so heavily cut into.
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UP TO THEM.
Don't you think it is the more sensible
plan to let women divest themselves Of
soggy garments and wear a bathing suit
that will permit them to swim?"
Why yes. But on the other hand,
think the women who are allowed to wear
scanty bathing suits should prove their
sincerity by getting wet occasionally"