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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12
off; some of them will yet wait until the last r,nin1,+a

the last minute.
 The government, the bank commit tees, the women's clubs and the news papers have done a great educational work in the liberty bond campaign. AS Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo says, this war against German autoc- racy-this war for humanity, this war for liberty-must be won largely by dollars. The United States is now in the war and is preparing as rapidly as possible to place huge armies on the firing line in France. As bloody as the conflict has been the worst is yet to come.
 This country can raise the needed money and do it without exhausting it's resources, but looking to victory so much depends upon the readiness with which the people absorb the war loans. This is where moral effect counts.
 Let's have no more apathy. With a whirlwind canvass the loan should be largely oversubscribed before to- morrow night. It is rumored that New York restau- rants and cabarets will be permitted to stay open until o'clock a. m instead of l, the present closing hour. Something must be done to provide for the summer visitors.
 Raemakers show the Kaiser and the Crown Prince standing before a mirror looking at themselves in civilians clothes. Radicals go so far as to predict that they will some day be wearing stripes
 *
 A soldier of the allies is reported to have captured a German general single handed during the recent British drive. Cant imagine what that general was doing so close to the front.
 *
 A magazine writer says General Haig dislikes publicity Too bad. Future his- torians are going to devote a great deal of space to General Haig.
 *
 Despite the fact that it is the season for dra wing girls, American illustrators are irding time to turn out military posters for Uncle Sam
 Marconi is anxious to return to Italy Marconi knows what the allies need most right now. It is now officially seaplane and not hydroaeroplane Looping unnecessary syllables out of word makes for ef- ficiency. It has been declared legal to transport liquor in an automobile through Ala bama, but the automobile must keep on it's way.
 Another Norwegian steamer has been sunk by a submarine. There is no doubt about 1t. Germany can't do enough for Norway.
  General Joffre was greatly impressed by American skyscrapers, but the chances are that he would hate to see one go up in Paris.
 The Kaiser announced that the British offensive had come to definite conclu- sion before Messines ridge was taken.
  fish to ram U-boats will find himself under the care of alienists. Flat feet will keep man out of the army, but flat feet are more desirable every time than flat head
 
 The law sholud make short work of the person or persons who kidnapped and murdered the Rect baby.
 * * *
 If Congress hadn't wasted so much valuable time in talk, it would not be facing a summer session
 
 We might celebrate the Fourth of July this year by starting something in Eran
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12
NEVER WITHOUT IT

Your threat to slap Reggie on the wrist was merely a bit of sarcasm, I suppose?"
 Perhaps"
 You couldn't have done much damage that way"
 'Oh, don't know. 1 might have smashed his wrist watch
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12
HEIGH-HOl

Where's the man who doesn't wish
 Long bout now to go and fish, Hear the ripples as they sing Watch the lazy willows swing, Sitting idly by a stream I'll he's in a mood to dream And his head begins to nod And he stretches on the sod? Though the fish might be for biting, Sleep is much too good for sighting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12
cAaukzIa<Nl@au1fH

F. S.-Don't wait for a wind to blow the greenbacks off the trees that a bountifu nature has planted at your door, but shin up one and pluck few leaves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12
HOTEL LOBBIES
Eniored ReunIon at washIngton


 Never in all my life have I seen more inspiring sight than the Confeder- ate reunion in Washington" said Miss Lula Tyus of the Stephenson studio, who returned yesterday.
 After the first day and night the vet erans were beautifully taken care of, but on account of those in charge not hearing how many were going to be in at- tendance, naturally there was confusion. I was told that out of letters sent to S7 camps only 12 responded, hence the lack of room when they arrived.
 The parade was the most magnificent sight I've ever witnessed and the float which showed the old Confederate soldier in gray, shaking hands with the Union soldier in blue, elicited the most tremen- dous applause. Of course, everybody caught glimpse of the President, but as for getting anywhere near him, it was impossible, because he was so closely guarded. I believe the reunion in Wash ington will go down in history as one of the grandest events that has ever taken place"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12
Minnesota Bans
 Cabaret Show

S66M1 IGHT life" in Minnesota has
 4 been dealt a hard blow by the Minnesota public safety commis- sion, which has put cabaret shows un- der the ban. Such performances are forbidden in all cafes where alcoholic liquors are served. Presumably there is no demand for the cabaret unless the facilities for acquiring a jag are also provided. This decree includes all forms of entertainment in restau- rants, whether the performers are on a stage or mingle with the patrons.
 The Minneapolis Tribune rejoices over the passing of the cabaret, which it considers inimical to the moral and physical welfare of young people at a time when the nations men and women are needed for patriotic ser vice.
 The cabaret show is an exotic; forced, hothouse bloom which has it's roots in the thin surface soil of a mad phase of modern life and opens its hectic petals in the few erish atmosphere exhaled by un- natural surroundings. It has no truly artistic purpose and no gen uine, basic desire to entertain. In it's final essence 1t Is simply bait to draw minimizing people into a cafe or restaurant and hold them there while they spend their money for more food than they need and for drink they do not need at all. It has no logical place in the world and no defense other than that of increasing one line of busi- ness.
 Hencefore residents of Minneapolis who have acquired the cabaret habit
 
 and can't eat or drink without the accompaniment of a jazz band and dances by young women in diaphan ous costumes, will have to journey to Chicago and perhaps on to New York, where the cabaret has reached full flower.
 Cabaret psychology" is the sim plest thing in the world The more the average person drinks, the more noise he makes. In cabaret he finds plen- ty of noise made to order" which he can supplement by his own efforts without drawing black looks from his fellow diners. Liquor calls for the cabaret and the cabaret calls for liquor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12
Summer School a+ Hayward

The Howard summer school at East Lake is now in full blast" said Profes- sor Percy Burns, the teacher of Eng fish. 'Dr. Shelburne is delighted over the fact that 130 have enrolled and oth- CTS are coming. It is fine place to spend few weeks delightfully."- and at the same time do some real sure enough studying"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12
ADRTFT WITH THE TIMES
ONE OF THE ELECT

 Whats your idea in taking your grandmother out to a cabaret? She'll spoil the party" Indeed she won't Grandmother's so well known to the head waiter that he will give us one of the most desirable tables in the place"
 A TRIFLE HIGH NO more of these temperamental mani cures for me- What's the matter now?" T had one to do my nails this morn ing. She hummed airs from grand op- era"
 That's nothing to get mad about" True, but when she finished I discov- cred that she charges grand opera prices"
 DO YOUR BIT
 Hells to pay
 Across the pond;
 Go today
 And buy bond
 STILL HOPING Now that we are engaged, you mustn't even look at another man. T can't promise that.' You love me, don't you?" Yes, Henry, but how do I know that won't be able to better myself?"
 A WORSE RISK "At any rate, these women politicians won't pass around campaign cigars" "No," replied the dyspeptical person. but I would rather take my chances with cigar than tackle campaign sandwich, made by woman in a hurry whose thoughts were elsewhere"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second-class matter un- der act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12

No communication will be published without it's authors name. Rejected manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12
A TRIFLE HIGH

DO YOUR BIT Hells to pay
 Across the pond; Go today
 And buy a bond
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-12

It was upon this belief MT. Morgan acted when he placed the iron and steel business in America upon a solid and permanent basis. That the day on which the United States Steel corporation was formed was the biggest and brightest day in the history of Birmingham was brought close to us by the recent visit of the finance committee, every one of whom, like Mr. Morgan. Is an optimist and believes in America.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-17
LABOR AFTER THE WAR

TTE subject of labor conditions
following the war is occupvinp
the attention of men evervuboro
who understand that the world CON
met has precipitated changes that in
the SLOW processes of peace-times
might have been painfully evolved
throughout a considerable neriod of
years. If material progress has beep
set back by the conflict, social prog
ress and increased reward for tba
worker have been advanced with
startling rapidity. We hear tall, of
returning to "old conditions" with
the restoration of peace. But that &c
impossible. The old milestones are
already out of sight behind the
horizon, and just as a new day is
dawning for democracy, so the sun
is rising on a better day for the
masses. If it were not so, then the
sacrifices we are making were all
in vain.
Americans doubtful Of the trend
of events would do we'll to study
recent labor discussions in the House
of Lords. England, formerly a
citadel of conservatism and very
properly regarded by trade unionism
in Great Britain as labor's greatest
bar to progress. Changes in the
views of that body are most amazing
and ought to be food for thought for
those in high place at Washington.
A prolonged debate the other day re-
vealed a clear belief on the part of
those who spoke that "the war has
changed all that" in regard to labor,
and that labor. having borne q vast
share in saving the nation in time of
crisis should be welcomed in the
national life of the future as a part
ner, and not as hireling. Against
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-17
THE AMAZON

Pause in your resonant turmoil and
patiently hearken
Rivers, whose fame I eclipse as a
tempest will darken
The world with it's wing.
Mine is the candid, unmanacled lib
erty owning
No mortafs light sway;
Kindred am l to all winds in their
moving and moaning,
And tameless as they.
On my circuitous roamings, my rhy-
thmic pulsations,
With stars where they roll;
He that would utter my name in its
meaning stupendous,
With all it's enshrouds,
Must for the words that he uses take
torrents tremendous,
Take mountains and clouds.
Lo, 1 am lifted above insubstantial
traditions,
Nor heed while they pass;
Less to my forest t-clad pride are a
Kingdoms transitions
Than dewfalls on grass.
Yet as the adequate symbol of vir-
tues resultant
From aims that eXalt,
Heaven at my summons will glass in
these waters exultant
Her uttermost vault:
Edgar Fawcett.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-17
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Socialism is the Trojan horse OF
Autocracy.-Chicago Daily News.
Lansdowne wishes to stop the
war; John Bull wishes to end it
Boston Herald.
O'Leary says he is shocked" over
indictments. That was the intention.
Wall Street Journal.
Lord Lansdowne should know that
while he may twist the lions tail he
can't tie white flag on it.--Brook-
lyn Eagle.
The Liberty motor of the Civil
War was the army mule. And it
rarely missed on any cylinder
Minneapolis Journal.
Treating automatically with the
Bolsheviki is like buying q barn from
the tramp who has lived in it over
night.-New York Sun.
Everybody must hope that the re-
duced alcoholic content of beer will
not result in any deaths by drown
ing.-Chicago Daily News.
Tarring and feathering seeming
fmpotent to curb the /. w. W., why
not go to the extremes of cruelty
and try soap and water?-Atlanta
Constitution.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-17
Over tie lob
;~ Pexna.

The East Stroudsburg school
board may drop the study of Ger
man. Action was taken at the
meeting of the directors to find out
from the state educational authori-
ties whether it can be taken from
the selective curriculum.
Food must be getting scarce over
in Reading. Edward Feltenberger,
Sr., was arraigned before Judge End
Itch for robbing his son, Edward
Jr's hen coop of three lusty fowls.
Il don't know what got over me,
said pop" Must be these war times.
Never stole anything from Eddie be-
fore"
Letters from Sammees abroad
frequently tell of kidding" matches
or chatting" as the English call it
One relates how an Englishman took
Yankee to mountain spot where
his echo was four minutes return
ing. That's nothing" said the
Yank. When we go to bed over
home we yell out the window:
Time to get up; Wake up; and
eight hours afterward the echo
comes back and gives you the
alarm"
One hundred deer have been
killed this season in and among the
Seven Mountains.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-17
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Senator William f. Crow, wh,
suffered from a carbuncle. says h,
is all right again, but that stayinp
in the house is hard work.
General Tasker Fl. Bliss, whS
retires as chief of staff this month
will remain where he can give &C
tive service, IL asked.
E. M. Redheld, who won tn,
Carnegie gold medal at the Academy
of Design in New York, is a Pitts
burgher.
DIR. j. M. B. Schramm. John
ston's city bacteriologist, has beef
commissioned in the medical re-
serve.
"A. L. Humphrey, we'll knowl
here and general manager of thI
Westinghouse Air Brake Companl
plant, is taking an active part in fua
conservation work at Pittsburgh.
George c. Bordner, of Kutzl
town, is the new president of thl
Berks County School Directors As
sociation.
-Bertram Leopold, Blair fuel adj
ministrator, is a clothing merchant
and active in Altoona affairs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-17

this view no voice was raised in pro-
test. and all those who spoke. the
Marquis of Salisbury. the Arch
bishop of York. Lord st. Davids,
Lord Beresford, the Earl of Selborne
and Viscount Miner, expressed views
and identified themselves with pol
icy which before the war would
have been labeled extremely PRO
gressive."
This does not mean that England
is on the eve of solving its labor
problems, but 1t does indicate that
government and capital and labor
are going to get into closer touch
after the war. and that if labor and
government keep their heads, cap
ital, willy nilly, will come into part
nership with them, a condition that
wise employers will be ready enough
to accept once all are on the same
basis.
Men love independence and real
cash gives it. But wages is not the
only element involved. Working
conditions, healthful surroundings.
proper housing, the elimination of
the drink evil, increased understand
ing by laborers of the problems of
business and the limitations of the
earning power of business, an In
creasing share in the profits OF busl-
ness and popular education-all
these and more enter into the diff
culties of readjustment that Great
Britain is facing and which we must
take up, the sooner the better. The
once familiar figure of the woman
in unwomanly rags, plying her
needle and thread in poverty. hunger
and dirt" must pass for all time,
and with it host of kindred evils.
Poverty there always will be, but
not ground down, enforced poverty.
These problems are for the joint
consideration of government and
capital, mainly. But that is not all.
On the other hand, government and
labor must revise their views of
trusts and great combinations of cap
ital. The war is proving that were
it not for our great business organ
izations, we should be helpless now
in the face of the enemy. After the
war the trust must be made to serve
the nation as a commercial agency
abroad. In that way only can we
maintain our place as n world power
and sell our goods in competition
with other nations in foreign
markets. Trusts we must have
curbed. tanned and regulated trusts,
no doubt. but still trusts.
These things are not socialism, nor
even an approach to it. But they are
conditions that must be brought
about if we are to pass along to the
people the blessings of that world
wide democracy for which we are
now striving and sacrificing as a ma
ton.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-17

But when it comes to voting, he
goes into closet with his conscience,
and no Interior influence can reach
him there. I'll never criticise him for
his little faults, so long as he keeps
right on the things that count"
Like every one else in the world
l was born very intolerant. 1t is
the natural state of the human ami
NAL.
Gradually, little by little, as meet
more men l am striving to cure my
self of this weakness.
1 have found that almost any man,
II you get to know him, has some
very human and very likable quail
ties.
And almost every man thinks in
his own heart that he is sincere.
is Billy Sunday sincere?" men
ask me. OF course he is. He may
be self-deluded it may be that the
money which he makes has more in
fiuence with him than he supposes.
But, in so far as he knows his own
heart, he believes that he is the mes
senger of God, doing a great and un-
selfish work in the world.
l am much slower to criticise than
l used to be.
When l see crowd that appears
to consist of wild-eyed fanatics pro-
claiming crazy faith, 1 say to my
self:
What must the crowd have
looked like who followed the Car
penter of Nazareth? Do really
know these people we'll enough to
be sure that there is no truth IN what
they advocate?"
When L see all the respectable
people lined up on one side of a uues-
ton, ana a few ragged agltators on
the other | remember the crowd of
the best citizens of Ephesus, who for
two hours shouted at the top OF their
voices to prevent the Apostle Paul
from being heard.
All of our very best people"
against one ragged outcast. But the
one was right.
have decided that, generally
speaking, will let other editors do
the undertaking.
So many people who seem to me
to be wrong turn out in the end to
have been right all the time: and so
often, when l am surest that I know
ell, 1 find that my wires are crossed.
Bruce Barton, Editor in Every
Week."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-17
\ GOOD EXAMPLE

-HE example of the Harrisburg
Pipe and Pipe Bending Com
Il pany, which has taken out
membership in the Red Cross for
each of it's $500 employees, is one
deserving of commendation; and also
emulation.
The Pipe Bending Company since
the beginning of the war has proved
itself intensely earnest in it's desire
to aid in all patriotic ventures; and
the well-known Harrisburg men
who control this extensive operation
have been in the fore in all move
ments designed to. aid the cause of
the Allies. The employees of the COM
pany are no less forward in these
movements. They have bought many
thousand dollars worth of Liberty
Bonds and they have contributed
handsomely to many charities.
The Christmas present of the COM
pany to the men will result, doubt
less, in an increased membership
in the Red Cross from the families
of the $500 employees.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-17
On Meeting Man Whom |
Had Always Supposed ! DisIiked

I heard him make a speeGn one
day, and something in his manner
prejudiced me against him.
From that time, whenever 1 ran
across a reference to him in the
newspapers, my prejudice tended to
deepen.
Once or twice I made critical COM
ments about him.
But ! never say him again until
last week. And then, at a dinner,
l found myself sitting beside This
man whom l had always supposed l
dsliked.
We fell to talking of various
things. 1 discovered that we had
mutual friends and mutual tastes. He
began to tell me about his work. To
my surprise, 1 found him, under the
surface, an idealist.
The thing he is trying to do in
the world is a truly magnificent
thing. L left him with a real ad-
miration.
And all the way'home kept say
ing to myself Let this be a lesson
to you, young man.
What can you know, from a
casual meeting, of the hearts of your
fellow men? How many other times
have you been unfair, in your
thought or your conversation, 10 a
man who, If you really knew him,
might prove to be one of the finest
fellows in the world?"
A few days later I met q promi-
nent newspaper publisher who had
just come back from Washington.
st had long talk with Daniels"
he told me. "It didn't change my
idea that he is out of place as Sec
retary of the Navy. But it gave me
an entirely new conception of MIN as
a man. He's not hair 81 ID as I've
been tellig my readers he is.''
| repeated to him what very
powerful editor had once said to
me-
Il make it a rule never to criti-
cize q man on a matter of mere
TASTE" this great man said. $50
long as he is fundamentally honest,
so long as he is trying to live up to
his oath, / give him the benefit of
every doubt.
Take Senator X, for example. He
is one of the queerest freaks in the
world - egotistical sophomore,
walking about as if he carried the
world on his shoulders. L could, If
1 wanted to, poke fun at him in
every issue of the paper.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-17
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

The Adventures, by Arthur b.
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metz Arthur b. Reeves has con-
tributed another fascinating detective
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statement that it is a new Craig
Kennedy detective story adds to the
interest which reader will have in
this book. There is one outstand-
ing feature in the story which is
worthy of note. Mr.. Reeve does not
confine his plot to a few characters,
but diversifies it so we'll in each sue
ceeding chapter that the intense in
terest created in the first few chap
ters is certain to increase. Another
unusual feature is the climax The
reader does not know until the last
two words of the closing chapter are
read just what is the solution of the
mystery.
The story is one of a rich man, a
member of a family in which the
members are in dispute about the
settlement of the estate. He and his
brother both seem interested in a
Spanish dancer who is the lad
ventures" The murder of the mil
lionaire, of his brothers Japanese
servant, the theft of plans and a
model of the telautomaton,s which
would control by wireless, subma-
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planes, and the abduction of young
woman, are only few of the turns
introduced in this mystery. In the
detective which Mr.. Reeve has Gre
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Jameson, Kennedy's assistant, comes
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The Adventures" is well
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