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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16

By Joseph Rodman Drake When Freedom from her mountain
 height
 Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night
 And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And stripped it's pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; : Then from her mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave unto his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land. Majestic monarch of the cloud.
 Who rear'st aloft thy regal form, Tt hear the tempest trumpings loud
 When strive the warriors of the storm, And see the lightning lances driven, And rolls the thunderstorm of heaven, Child of the sun! to thee tis given
 To guard the banner of the free, To hover in the sulphur smoke, To ward away the battle stroke. And bid its blendings shine afar, Like rainbows in the shroud of war,
 The harbingers of victory! Flag of the brave; thy folds shall fly The sign of hope and triumph high, When speaks the signal trumpet tone, And the long line comes in glA&n1ins on Ere yet the life-blood, warm and wet, Has dimmed the glistening bayonet,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
CANNOT FOOL GERMANY

and put them in the army-a calamity equivalent to the loss of great
 battle.
 Nor could anything exceed the ab-
 surdity of the impassioned assertion
 of Missouri representative that "10,-
 900 volunteers patriotic enough to bare
 their breasts in battle are worth 100,- 900 conscripted men," If MT. Howard really thinks so, let him lead 10000 volunteers against 100000 German troops and see what happens. Members of Congress who insist that the volunteer system should have an-
 other trial before the system of se-
 lective draft is adopted might as well insist that the flint-lock muske should have another trial before we equip the army with machine guns. The vol-
 unteer system has had its trial in this
 war and Great Britain paid the full price of it. The system failed, not be- cause men refused to enlist, but be- cause 1t was not adapted to a kind of war which demands the mobilization of man power, financial power, indus trial power ana agrlcultural power
 and their complete coordination. Congress can fool itself but 1t can not fool the German government. It can experiment with the volunteer system but 1t cannot make the Ger man general staff believe that a coun- try capable of undertaking an experi-
 nent has entered the war in earnest. Britain is watching every step that Washington takes and nothing is more important than to convince the Ger man government at the outset that this is to be 100 per cent war OF our part.
 If the volunteer system is adopted in defiance of the Presidents protests by Congress blind to all the lessons of the war, German autocracy will have its immediate vindication. It can point to this legislation as triumphant proof that the German general staff was right when it assured the Ger man people that they had nothing to fear from the military power and the military capacity of the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
Regarding the
 End of the War

MM ILITARY critics hesitate to GV0 make predictions as to when the war will end; but the feeling ob- tains among many close observers of affairs that it will not extend beyond the summer of this year.
 There is a very general agreement in all quarters that the entrance of the United States into the conflict will materially shorten the war. The psy- chological effect of this country's &C., tion against Germany and it's support of the entente allies is compelling and far-reaching. It assumes victory for democracy over autocracy. England and France are buoyant once more and are braced to fight with greater valor than ever.
 America will keep the allies well supplied with money and munitions and will send soldiers into the smoke of battle if need be- It is losing no time in getting ready. But before the United States can train big army for over-sea warfare, hostilities will probably be over.
 The moral force of active prepara tions on the part of this government cannot be overestimated. And nobody feels it so strongly perhaps as the Kaiser and his advisers. Certain it is that peace seems to be much nearer than it did month ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
Wogman Delegate to
 Mexicam Congress

A MERICA is not the only country < aA with a woman in Congress. Se- norita Hermila Galindo, publisher of the Modern Woman, Mexico City, has been elected to represent the Fifth electoral district of Yucatan, one of the most progressive states in Mexi- co. Under Mexican laws, a person may be elected to office from state other than the one in which he holds citizenship.
 Senorita Galindo is described as a "young woman, fair and talented" She is an eloquent speaker and has travelled over Mexico, delivering ad- dresses for the cause of woman's freedom and also urging her audiences to support the revolution. She has made speeches in Cuba advocating greater privileges for her sex. Seno- rita Galindo is recognized as the fore most champion of women in Latin America.
 Judging from the complimentary manner in which Mexican publica- tions speak of Senorita Galindo, her presence in the national Congress marks new epoch in the history of the country and proves that the con- stitutional government is both pro gressive and enlightened. There is no disposition, apparently, to make light of her abilities, as has been done, rather unjustly, in the case of "The Lady From Montana"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16

The fact that London is superficially gay is no reflection on the great body of British people. Those jolly bounders in Iunnon never did know and never will know how to make themselves use fui.
 1 Now that he has become managing edi- ] tor of the Montgomery Advertiser, "Fuz- zy' Woodruff is MT. L. F. Woodruff. A managing editor must stand on his dig nity. ] Goethals was born in Germany, but it begins to look as if he will assist materi- ally in helping to put the Kaiser out of business. l The British food controller has put a band on afternoon tea" That's going to leave an aching void in many Brit on's life The suggestion that the dachshunds of the country be interned for the duration of the war should not be taken seri- ously. In the hurry of the moment President Wilson isn't going to overlook the main chance--permanent peace for the future. . * ;* It won't do to be too explicit in a mat ter of this kind, but Hon. Jeanette Ran kin Is still on the sunny side of 35.
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 The hand of the law will descend heavily upon any miscreant who violates citizens sacred onion bed.
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 Don't laugh at the militiaman who shoots a COW or pig in the dark. He can't afford to run any risks
 * * *
 The governor of Louisiana doesn't think whit more of Stacker Darcy than the governor of New York.
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 Billy Sunday is preaching ld-fashioned religion in New York, but his delivery is, strictly up-to-date.
 The little German band has disappeared, but the Hawaiian ukulele players are still with us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

After a man has been over the jumps for while he begins to realize that it is up to him to take care of himself, and that even his best friends haven't time to do much worrying on bis account. ! You may imagine that you can make a contrary wife good natured by agreeing with her. But it only makes her madder 1 than ever.
 1 Every woman who moves this spring l will tell how clean she left the house she moved out of and how dirty the house was that she moved into The average woman believes that if she
 stays away there won't be any party.
 Another Fairy Tale: Once upon time
 there was an assistant who didn't believe | that he did all the work. | A lot of men who talk about religious liberty want it for their own religion and
 wouldn't be willing to extend it to the other fellows religion. i It always makes a man mad to return l from a long trip out of town and dis 1 cover that nobody even knew that he had left town.
 The man who sleeps nine hours every night is always willing to admit that it is three.
 A complexion that will rub off often gets girl reputation for propriety. We have often wondered how far 8 movie film cowboy would run if he found himself alone in a field with real live COW.
 Some women are so. constituted that they are never happy unless they art feeling sorry for others.
 Once in a while you run into mar whose idea of being sincere is to tell vol ldisagreeable things about yourself. The world is growing better, and W, lhave more faith in mankind. The silly looking bow that adorned the back o
 the mems hats has moved around agail
 to the side where it belongs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16

From the New York World.
 WINERY mistake that the United
 dn States makes in this war must
 be paid for in blood and treasure. To blunder is to prolong the war. Pro- longing the war means killing men that need not have been killed, de- stroying property that need not have been destroyed and adding new bur- dens to the load of suffering and mis- cry under which humanity is stagger- ing
 It is vital that in all our military undertakings we should start on right lines and continue on right lines.
 Members of Congress may be con- fident that this country can raise an effective army by the volunteer sys- tenn, but the German general staff knows better. If we adopt the vol- unteer system the German government will rightly assume that we are not going into the war seriously and that our military activities will result in more harm than good to the cause for which we are fighting. To start with the volunteer system is to adopt a military establishment that will strengthen, not weaken. the German morale.
 If the German general staff could dictate the military policy of the Uni ted States it would adopt the plans of the members of Congress who are de- termined that we must handicap our military, industrial and economic ef- fectiveness with an antiquated vol unteer system which, whatever its or igina1 merits, has no more place in this present war than a smooth bore cannon
 As an illustration of the folly of which the volunteer advocates are capable, Governor Capper declares that 1000 volunteers will come forward" in Kansas if the President asks for them. The present state of recruiting in Kansas proves the contrary, but even if Governor Capper were right 1t would be national calamity to take 50,oO0 men from the farms of Kansas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
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HOW TO TELL A GERMAN SPY

HOW TO TELL A GERMAN SPY According to the Newspapers.
 If he wears German flag on his hat. If he flies German flag OCT his house. If he writes to the Staats zeitung cursins the government at Washington. If he wears an iron cross and carries a camera.
 If he runs delicatsssen store with the Kaiser's picture in the window. If he refuses to stand and remove his helmet at sound of the Star -Spangled Banner
 If he receives letters bearing the i'm perial stamp of Berlin.
 If he has a wireless station in his back yard draped in German colors.
 If he is found dead or alive, in the vicinity of recent explosion playing pinochle-
 Nab him-he is up to something.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
An Ell Dorado For Armericam Business

T7THE attention of American busi-
 O ness men has in recent years been drawn to the limitless possibili- ties for trade with Russia. Some prog ress has already been made and the revolution has removed many of the obstacles that would have been en- countered under the autocratic gov ernment which has been overthrown. Russia will look to America to sup ply most of it's imports after the war and the friendliness which char acterizes the relations between the two countries will make it all the easier for Americans to build up an enormous export trade.
 Little has been known of the Rus sian people and the resources of their country until comparatively recent times and publications which treat of Russia are eagerly sought. To busi- ness men and others who are inter- ested, The Age-H Herald takes pleasure in recommending a journal of Rus an-American trade issued by R.
 Martens and company, 24 State street, New York city. It is entitled, Rus sia," and is a we'll edited magazine Every issue contains a number of timely and informative articles about a country which it declares to be Americas greatest export oppor-
 tunity."
 | Jess Willard says he was turned aowi ty recruiting officers because he was to, tall and too heavy That sort of "alibi' won't go with the American people. *
 | If it is true that German prisoners cap tured by the British are refusing to obe, ] their own officers. the knell of Prussian ism has already been sounded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
Military Cadets
 Graduate Friday

HE senior class at West Point, 4 which would ordinarily graduate in June, will receive their diplomas next Friday. The "hurry-up" sched- ule is a war measure, of course, as nearly every act of the administra- tion is these days. The cadets will be commissioned second 1ieutenants in the regular army at once, and will be granted a months leave of ab- sence, according to custom upon graduation, but most of them have signified their intention to go to work at once in class of special training for practical service.
 There is opposition in government circles to universal military training, which would mean compulsory train- ing. It looks now as if Senator Chamberlain would fail to get his measure through.
 The general staff of the army is urging the universal training propo- sition, but this is no time for "quib- bling or clashing" over questions that can be taken up and disposed of at some propitious time in the future.
 But as the war preparedness ex- citement quiets down, it would be a good thing if'Congress would enact a law doubling the number of cadets at West Point.
 After the war the regular army will be much larger than it was a year or two ago. If not as large as 1t is today, or as it will be within the next few~weeks, it will need a great many more officers than it has now. Fully 1000 officers will be commits sioned shortly and only 140 will be found in the West Point class. The others will have to be taken from the noncommissioned officers, from the graduates of state military schools, ol from civil life.
 The whole number of cadets at vet Point is now approximately 600. The number should be doubled. Every
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
CHARGE DISMISSED
the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 Our earnest, If too gloomy. California contemporary the Signs of the Times, sees the United States drunken with pleasure as she hastens to her doom. . "A tidal wave of iniquity seems to be sweeping over the land" That is the charge. This is the evidence:
 The writer has been greatly im-
 pressed daily, while going about the
 city of Boston, with the mad riot of
 pleasure seeking.
 Charge dismissed. Anybody who can detect mad riot of pleasure seeking in Boston Is capable of finding Emporia, Kan. a Sybaris. and of sighting Capua in West Hurley, N. Y. When the Bos- tonians seek pleasure, not riotously, but sedately, after their manner, they flock to this city. The Signs of the Times should repaint itself with cheerfulness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
KGTCHIN-RA RANESIEN-TEARS

persists In his fight that explicit and ugly word will apply to him.
 Our information is to the effect that Mr. Kitchin intends nothing of the sort and we join the Sun in declaring that If after having made his protest, he is willing to subordinate personal convic- tions to the will of the nation and to give himself wholly and single -mindedly to the chief work before the nation today winning this war-well and good. If not, only his resignation should stand be- tween him and dismissal from his party hosts"
 Truth to tell It, what Br. Kitchin said that night, and the way he said it, hit home to the Courier-Journel, which has been something of an insurrecto it. self. When the Courier-Journal's party goes the gait the Courier-Journal bids it go the Courer-J ournal gives it hearty and, as the sequel has shown, effective support. It has on occasion-but rarely very rarely-said to its party you are going to the devil but we will go with you.' Often 1t has just said nothing and saw wood. But the Courier-Journal, like MT. Kitchin, ''pow'ful contrary at times, " has never, like MT. Kitchin, accepted of ficial leadership. That is different. MT. Kitchin should either lead" and lead as his party would have him, or else 'go way back and sit down!''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
HOTEL LOBBHEs
Army of Insect Pests

U
 1 "A ceaseless attack is being made upon
 the food supplies of Alabama by an army that far outnumbers those of man. This is the army of insect pests" said w. E. Hinds, state entomologist at Auburn.
 Some of these enemies are native Amer jeans, while many others are immigrants from foreign lands. The damage done by them year by year is always extensive and sometimes considered calamitous.
 At thls time, as we are planning to increase by as much as we possibly can the food and forage supplies which we shall raise in 1917 it Is extremely i'm portant that we guard against this insect army. Much of their work is preventable by prompt and intelligent application of appropriate insecticides.
 Take, for example. the little black weevil that is so common in the corn cribs in the spring time. This single small weevil takes at least s4,0OO,OO0 to $5,OOo,oOo worth of corn out of our cribs in Ala bama each season. In this case of the black weevil at least half of the loss mentioned may be prevented even with out using any insecticides, by simply changing in a few important respects our common practices in raising, harvest ing and storing the corn. If you do not know how to make this saving write to your experiment station at Auburn for Bulletin 176.
 "The department of entomology at Au- burn desires to help the people of Ala bama in their fight against these insect foes and suggests that it can best do so if those who are producing food supplies of any kind will watch for insect attack of any kind. Write the entomologist im- mediately for information and wage in- teligent warfare against these foes &C., cording to instructions that will be fur nished promptly and freely"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16

BEGINNING THE DAY-LOyalty to one land and world patriotism are not inconsistent. There are cer- tain things in American life which are Fundamentally good, and those are the things for which we stand embattled. They are good for us and for our neiEbbOrs and for all na- tfons, even our enemies. 1t Is not America against the world, it Is
 America for the vorld!-H. M. F.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
Velvet Bean Great Boon

q consider the velvet bean the greatest friend our southern farmer has struck up with in years" said originator of the hairless" velvet bean. "The velvet bean is but an in- fant in the hands of the til1er, but he has grasped the opportunity, and the slogan is now, Corn and velvet beans, instead of Corn and peas
 Just think, few years ago the value of velvet bean meal was un- known; today it is quoted at $SS per ton and going up have found the Yokohama bean one of the earliest turing and out of the way before kill ing frost. I am shipping great quanti- ties of Yokohama all over the south as it bids fair to displace varieties that can't mature in time. The 'hair- less velvet bean is being tested in many places and with seed more plen- tiful another year, look for great things from this bean, as the disa- greeable fuzz, so annoying in gath ering, is eliminated.
 'We have farming in full swing in Georgia. and the outlook is good. My pecan grove from which I shipped 40, 1000 pounds last season, will pro- duce at least 60,000 pounds the con- ing fall. All farmers should put in different kinds of berries fruits and nuts. All these things work while the tiller sleeps. And they all mean cash in hand"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
Demonstrative of Patriotism

"A wave of patriotism apparently swept the nation with the approach of war, and especially immediately after the declara- tion of war" said John Crupt, who re- gently returned to his city from San Francisco.
 War had not yet been declared when left the city of the Golden Gate, but among the passengers. However, I mo- ticed only one flag on the streets of San Francisco. As we journeyed eastward the headlines of the newspapers announce acted by Congress were seen In larger and blacker type at nearly every stop, and excitement among the passengers on the train became more and more in tense.
 ''However, it was when we reached the borders of Kansas that the signs of an outburst of patriotism became most marked. It was then that war was for. mally declared. Flags fairly bristled from practically all the public and office cars from end to end of the train buzzed with excitement. There were also notice able demonstrations in cities on this side of the Mississippi. And when I reached Birmingham the display of flags was very noticeable and most fitting. I be- lieve the patriotic spirit shown in Bir- mingham recently is even stronger than that demonstrated in the cities of Kansas as I passed through
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-16
THE IMPERTURBABLE REPORTER

From the Denver Post.
 A shouting. laundering, roaring mass of men and women leaped to their feet in the auditorium last night. Ten thou sand five hundred they were, their eyes cleaning, their faces red from a sudden rush of bethrilled blood, their hands waving, their threats becoming hoarse with their rasping, roaring cries. their whole being aflame with the fires of enthusiasm, 1O,50O men and women and children, shouting forth the answer to the question of Colorados patriotism, sending a message to the rest of the United States that all Is forgotten in this state save that America needs men and money and power to fight and to win the struggle into which it is to be plunged with a blood -maddened monarchy, and that from Colorado will come the last ounce of man power, the last ounce of gold, the last ounce of strength that patriotic -blooded, a country-loving, lib- erty- -adoring state can give.