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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-21
IS HE FORGOTTEN

To the Editor of The Age -Herlad: I have been reading your valuable pa per ever since we have been at this camp and certainly would be oblige to you if you would put this in prin as I have no correspondence of any kind as the people of my home town have forgotten all about me. Thankin you in advance for same. I remain
 M VERPERE Camp Mcclellan.
 Anniston, Co. I. Hath w. s. Infantry December IS, 1917.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-21
DAMAGE SUITS

The following damage suits were filed in the circuit court yesterday:
 s1o0OO J. F. Kenney vs. E. B. Craw- ford, for alleged personal injuries re- ceived December 3.
 5000: Mack Garner vs. the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company for alleged personal injuries sustained De- cember F.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-21
Rumors Send Up Grain

Chicago, December 20.-Rumors that the eastbound embargo on corn and oats was to be lifted, and that the maximum price of corn was to be re- moved, led to sharp upturn in the corn and oats market on the board of trade today. May corn advanced GAG to $1.26k. Oats rose Sc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-21

Only One "BROMO QUININE"
 To get the genuine, call for full name LAXATIVE PROMO QUININE. Look for signature of E. W. GROVE Cures Cold in One Day. BOG.
Evening journal., 1917-04-26
DEMAND WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR.

VNoMEN enlist yeomen They can volunteer
w for hospital service They help raise funds
they make bandages They can drive aHbuanccs
and trucks. They get close to war in many ca
pactes, but the vast majority OF women take
close active part Dr. Harvey Wiley, Americas IA
nous food expect, says that the biggest work in
which the women OF America engage at this mo-
ment is TO demand whole wheat flour" lie adds that
for every American who shoulders rife. there should
be two to join the agricultural army; that we must
choose war bread now or bread tickets later
There is question but whole wheat bread is
healthier than the white. The nours about alike
as to price. But in turning wheat into -four the mill
discard 2S per cent. OF the wheat over quarter
Of the wheat crop is lost human food simply be
American women demand -four as white pos
sble; in other words, il the demand Of their
grocors whole wheat instead OF white -four they will
save to this country SOOOOOOO and 90 600
bushels OF wheat.
One Of the big parts that Uncle Sam is to play in
the war is that Of provider OF food How deep is the
patriotism of the housewife who reads this?
Evening journal., 1917-04-26
Joffre
(Trom the New York Tribunol

II was happy thought--to be eX-
pected of the French-that they
should send to us the most distin-
guished soldier Of the present war.
After nearly three years the victory
of the Marne remains the greatest
single event OF the struggle. and the
man who won il deserves both the
distinction due the greatest soldier
and the honor due the man who saved
Europe from Germany and civilization
from barbarism The Battle OF the
Marne will in the future be remem.
bered as were Valmy in French his
tory and Marathon in ancient history
since Yalmy saved democracy in Eur
cpe and Marathon saved civilization
for all mankind.
Even now the facts of that momen
tous campaign which began in Alsace
Lorraine and Belgium and ended along
the Aisne are little known and less
understood The problem Of Joffre on
the morning of the Great War was
the greatest problem that had ever
fallen to "A single general. With insult
fcient armies I'll equipped; with a
northern frontier defenceless and
open. with willing but weak British
allies, he had to stem the flood of a
German invasion organized over forty
years for the blow that was to destroy
France.
The measure Of the man Joffre Is
best taken in the fact that he failed
frequently before he won completely
His initial offensive in Lorraine broke
down under German heavy artillery
For the same reason his attacks in
the Ardennes and at Charleroi failed
Mobile heavy artillery on the German
side triumphed over gallant infantry
unsupported save by field artillery
and I'm the third week of August
Joffre contemplated situation which
might well have broken the spirit o
a smaller man. All French armies had
been defeated; all French armie.
We're in retreat, and a great and vic
torious German machine was moving
forward as it had moved A years be
fore. Defeats that seemed TO forecast
new colossal Sedan were already q
matter of history, and the collapse o
the French military establishment was
already acceptes in Germany
Yet Joffre neither faltered nor per
mitted himself to recognize what
seemed to be inevitable From a tragic
offensive such as wrecked MacMahoI
at Sedan he withdrew. He even broke
off some engagements that promised
well. He took defeated armies from
embraces that threatened destruction
and coolly and calmly drew his forces
backward. always keeping in mind a
purpose TO strike once more.
Perhaps the great decision of tho
whole war was taken in the last days
OF August. when, with armies still
unready. Joffre faced the Germans
along the line of the Somme, the OisC
and the Meuse. Should he risk dan
gerous battle there or surrender thou
sands OF square miles 10 the invader
and continue a retreat to a position o
relative security? He never hesitated
He ordered the retreat which surren
Evening journal., 1917-04-26

dered Rheims, St. Quentin, Amiens.
ChalOns, all of Northern France, to
the invader But looking beyond the
moment. he saw that by such a tenn
porary sacrifice, he might win.
The story of how Joffre led the
German armies into the fatal strategic
positions between Paris and Verdun
and, having led them there-having
led them beyond their bases. ahead
OF their supplies-struck them, ex-
hausted with the strain of long
marches. rolled them back. narrowly
missed destroying them. is the story
OF the greatest feat in military history
( the victory of a million men. in pre-
pared and III organized, who had al
ready been frequently defeated, who
had fallen back for one hundred miles
before a victorious army Of more than
a million and half, nourished i'm the
tradition of invincibility and already
sustained by victories unequalled even
in Napoleonic history. The Battle of
the Marne was the victory OF French
genius over German force It was a
victory of smaller numbers over
larger II was a triumph compar-
able with Valmy and with Marathon,
! the one a victory OF the spirit. the
other the triumph 81 intelligence.
After his success at the Marne,
/ JOffre, having defeated and turned
back the barbarian food, pinned l. to
! tho trenches, blocked every success.
sive attempt to retake the road TO
Paris and finally transformed the Ger.
man blow into an inert German Occu,
patton of French territory. Behind
trench lines two armies faced each
other while time was allowed to the
4 English to raise an army. to trans.
form themselves into a military ma.
ton and to begin the campaign which
we now see going forward.
There was lacking to JOffre the
numbers and the resources TO make
Immediately complete his great vic.
: tory OF the Marne. but what is hap.
pening today in France-the ebb tide
OF German occupation-is an newt.
able, If delayed. consequence OF his
great victory The blow that was to
crush France forever was parried at
the Marne. The gigantic thrust that
was to win world power was blocked
between MeauX and Vitry-le-Francois
{ MaunOury, d'Esperey, Foch. able
lieutenants OF supreme commander:
: Gallieni, the defender OF Verdun; de
Castelnau, the savior OF Nancy and
later OF Verdun-these did their part.
, To them enduring fame is assured.
But TO Joffre now and hereafter the
first praise must fall
Americans will welcome Marshal
Joffre as a soldier OF France and as
the victor OF the Marne. They will vel
come him now in the light OF the
growing consciousness of the fact that
had he failed in the last days of Au-
gust and the first days of September,
1914, all that we love and hold to of
democracy and OF civilization might
have been destroyed by that barbar.
ism which is writing its shame indeli.
bly, over the fairest cities and fields
or France and in Belgium has re.
newed the horrors of the Dark Ages
Evening journal., 1917-04-26
ELKTON GOSSIP.
Special to THE EVENING JOUI

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
ELKTON. Md. April 26-Again have
the wages of the employees of the Rad
nor Pulp Mill been increased. this
time the addition being twenty per
cent.
Cecil county fishermen have been
warned by bulletins issued by the
Maryland State Conservation Com
mission. against the wholesale de-
struction Of food fish.
DR.. II. Arthur Mitchell has recov-
cred from injuries received by the
slipping Of a jack under his automo-
bile.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Third
district, TO Union Hospital. enter
tanned the Cecil County Medical So
ciety at lunch on Thursday.
Miss Laura e Clark, of Cedar
Vale is the guest of the Misses Ash.
Mrs. John Gray, wife Of Lieutenant
John Gray, of the Revenue Service.
is visiting her grandmother. Mrs
Elizabeth II. Harris, after spending
Evening journal., 1917-04-26

Compulsory service means compulsory democracy
Evening journal., 1917-04-26
NOW Is THE TIME.

NT oW is the time to begin TO swat the hy It is
y patriotic public duty to do it, because it is
recognized that the swat-the-hy slogan should be
taken literally in the Spring.
During the eaSy days when the first flies
crawl forth from their winter quarters they can be
killed and future numbers greatly reduced After mil
lions Of the insects swarmng about the effect of
swatter or even hundreds of swatters amounts al
most nothing,
More important perhaps, than killing the first flies
is the destruction OF every possible breeding place
Flies breed in hlth. Any accumulation Offering mois-
ture, retaining some heat, through decomposition
actually creating heat are particularly good fields
for the breeding of flies 1t is therefore very important
that manure be hauled away II accumulatOns must
remain the premises they should be thoroughly
sprinked with kerosene or borax. Borax is probably
the better there is danger Of its causing fire
Sweepings from homes, ash piles and the rubbish
that usually goes with them must also be destroyed
Rubbish that will burn should be set fire This not
only destroys its bulk, but burns up fly eggs.
Don't dump waste and rubbish vacant property.
Flies will develop quite readily there and will spread
throughout the neghborhood
Evening journal., 1917-04-26
The Heavy Penalty We Pay for Starving
the Railroads
CFrom the New York SUM

their revenues 10 meet the new drains
on them, and howled down in derision
every plan for raising their receipts.
The roads have been squeezed be-
tween the public regulation of rates
and services on one SIDE enforced by
public authority, and on the other
private desire for higher pay en-
forced by organized labor with en-
thusiastic support from the public,
which refused to reimburse their
treasures for the additional expenses
imposed on them. The wages the
roads pay to workers, the. prices they
pay for material, the sums they pay
for the support of Government, have
been forced up steadily; their appeals
| for permission 10 charge more for
better. more frequent. more eXpedi-
tiOus service have been rejected with
out thought. Even the economies pos
sible from consolidation and har-
monlous cooperation have been de-
clared criminal
This treatment has had its newt
able effect, and produced its newt
able result. Deprived of the posi-
bility Of steady, satisfactory earnings
on the capital invested the railroads
have sought new capital in vain. In
vestors have shown a human desire
to put their money into properties
that did not invite the ruinous wrath
Of the community They have with
held their money, and thus the rail
roads have been compelled to restrict
new building until in a nation of con-
stantly increasing population the track
mileage has now become practically
stationary; the increment of cars has
become negligible, and even the up
keep Of the roads has been skmped,
not because money could be wisely
withheld from it, but because there
was no money to be put into IL.
It may suit the fancy Of amateur
and political fnanciers, to believe
that the railroads were prepared to
meet the normal needs of the United
States last year and this year, and
that their difficulties arc due solely
TO the requirements of export trade.
But railroad men and financiers know
better. They know that in starving
the transportation system OF the Uni
ted States the misled and deluded
public was strangling the nation, that
by preventing the expansion OF the
system It was stopping the flow of life
blood through the arteries of the
country.
VIII the waste. the delays, the los.
ses OF the last "a months open the
eyes OF the public to the suicidal
course it has pursued in its treatment
of the railroads?
Evening journal., 1917-04-26

For two years the railroads OF the
United States have not been able to
transport the goods offered to them
by shippers There have been short
age Of rolling stock, insufficient ter
minal facilities, lack OF trackaee. EN-
bargoes have been laid first by one
road then by another, occasionally by
all. Shippers, manufacturers, farm
ers, merchants, househOlders. capital
lists, laborers, the whole population
has suffered in comfort, in prosperity,
IN safety from the inadequacy of the
transportation system.
II has been popular to attribute the
evils all have recognized to abnormal
conditions created by war in Europe.
but like many other popular expla.
nations Of industrial and commercial
phenomena this does not 20 to the
bottom OF the case. Nor will ii salts
~ hamstrung nation when the
United States finds i'm its war against
Germany that its efforts are crippled,
IT'S power unavailable and its plans
thwarted by lack of transportation
facilities. When the day comes in
which the people Of this country
learn that they are manacled by car
riers without the capacity to serve
them they will demand the full story
OF the failure 10 develop the railroads
to meet the needs of the country.
For the railroads are inadequate
not merely 10 the demands of an alb
normal and extraordinary situation.
They are inadequate to the normal
needs OF the nation. Their facilities
have not increased i'm proportion TO
the growth of population or to the
requirements Of internal trade. The
building OF new lines, the extension
OF established systems, the expansion
OF terminals, the purchase of new and
more commodious rolling stock: all
these necessary. essential develop
ments have been curtailed. and even
the plant already in existence has
not had the attention in the way OF
rebuilding, renewal, and repair that
it actually required.
Why?
The answer is simple. For a quarter
OF century. the country. misled by
ignorant domagOgues and selfseeking
politicians, has starved the railroads
II has subjected them to forty-nine'
regulatory sOvereignties and com
PEELED them to obey rules promulgat-
ed by antagonistic commissions or de-
creed by malicious legislatures. It
has mulcted them in taxes and license
fees, supported every movement to
squeeze more wages out of them for
their employees without increasing
Evening journal., 1917-04-26
rHE LEAGUE APpREcIArIoN.

ERoM Miss Clara Southwick, executive secretary OF
the Consumers League OF Delaware. have
ceivcd the following letter Of appreciation:
Wilmington, Del, April a. 1917.
Mr.. George Caner Editor.
THE EVENING JOURNAL
Wilmington Delaware.
My Dear Mr Carter:-For the Consumers League
OF Delaware wish to thank THE EVENING JOURNAL
for its very Valuable cooperation during the past year.
both in its and in its editorial columns and espe-
ciay for the words Of appreciation in last Saturdays
editorial
During the coming year shall need your asss-
tance-more than before perhaps-to help carry
has at this critical time in nations history That
message will be that output and health nsepara-
ble and that only by maintaining the industrial stand,
ards which have labored hard TO obtain can
we preserve the heath-and thereby the efficiency
OF the army Of and who will serve our
country as truly and Loyalty in factories and
farms viii their brothers on the and in the
trenches
We feel sure chat we can rely upon. THE EVENING
JOURNAL to hep us in very definite policy which
will be to
l. Preserve Short working hour wherever they exist
Maintain the present minima OF sanitation and
safety
g. Keep the children in school by Of scholar
ships where necessary
4 Uphold the standard Of living for the family,
whether the chief be soldier at the front
working national supplies at home.
Yours very truly
CLARA soUTHWICK.
Executive Secretary.
Members Of the League may rely upon THE EVEN
ING JOURNAL. to aid them, in all reasonable ways to
accomplish any end which this paper deems be for
the public good, and it feels that they will adyo-
cate nothing that'is not Of a beneficial nature.
Evening journal., 1917-04-26
THE MOTHER
BY Berton Braley.

BY 5erton 5raey.
do not want my boy to to war
To suffer cruel pain. perhaps to die,
Evening journal., 1917-04-26
With The Paragraphers

About the only right the pedestrian has left is
chance to get part of his hospital bill pad.-Kansas
Industralist (lanhattan)
Why talk about corn being king when armed guards
accompany shipment of potatoes from Greeley Colo =?
Sioux Falls Is. d. Argus-Leader.
All these years OF wonderful automobile development
and stn practical invention to save walking from
the sidewalk TO the evator!-Alilwaukee Journal.
Probably one OF the most serious mistakes man
can make is to proceed the theory that slim girl
won't be hard a fat Observation-Disclosures (Tex0
News
Evening journal., 1917-04-26
CREDIT WHERE CREDIT is DUE.

TN factory district in Wilmington two we'll dressed
men street commented with forced wit
upon little patches OF garden land four feet
square, spaded in front OF workingmen's cottages.
They'll raise lot there-hchl heh!" laughed one.
Perhaps, fine friend, they'll raise whole lot more
there than you think they Will
Perhaps they'll raise real appreciation of their
patriotic duty do their bit the seed OF which doesn't
seem to have been even planted in your cultivated
mind.
Evening journal., 1917-04-26

the winter in Porto Rico.-Mrs. Nor
ris Dunbar, Jr., Of Iron Hill, was the
guest OF her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank II. Moody on Tuesday.-Mrs.
Virginia Mackall McCabe. has re-
turned from visit to Mrs. John
Francis Porter. of Wilmington
George w. Cosden, of North East,
was in town on Tuesday.-Mrs. Isaac
ID. Davis is spending a few days in
Baltimore.
Evening journal., 1917-04-26
GEMS OF THOUGHT

Better the feet slip than the tongue-Herbert
:-:--:-:
Life is a fatal complaint and an eminently con-
tagious one--Holmes
.-.-.-:
/ will chide 10 hreather in the world but myself
'gainst whom know most faults--As You Like It.
.-.-.-.
Il is maxim with me that no man was ever writ
ten out of his reputation but by hmself-Richard
Benteley.
Evening journal., 1917-04-26

British aviators. operating at altitude OF $4,000
feet destroyed forty German aeroplanes in day
this week. Only OF the British air feet which did
such destructive work missing Such results indi-
cate clearly that the superiority which the British have
developed the and on land has been extended
to the air. Each days developments to
leave the Germans in more desperate plight.
Evening journal., 1917-04-26

The Little Sisters OF the Poor in this city doing
a fine work in caring for the aged and the nfrm Any
thing that community may do to aid them will be
OF public benefit.
Evening journal., 1917-04-26

The best evidence OF the inefciency of the volunteer
system in this country is the way in which it is work
ing at the present time II would take years 10 build
up big army at the prevailing rate OF enlistment.
Hispano América., 1917-07-15
HISPANO AMERICA.
TRIUNFOS DE UN ARTISTA
MEXICANO EN- EUROPA

Siempre ha habido I'm nuevo arts
ia que siga las tradiciones de Breads
ley, ell famoso genio cuyas obras fue-
ron cOnservadas por sus ~encantos e.
Xoticos. Uno de los ultimos partida-
rios de Breadsley, es Ell joven Rober-
to Montenegro, artista meXicano que
ACADIA de hacer un famoso retrato de
NiJinski, ell notable bailarin russo. En-
esta pintura admirable, Montenegro
ha sabidO eXpresar una de las muchas
cualidades del va celebre Nijinski.
En- una nota de introduction, es-
crita por el senior c. w. Beaumont,
d~istinguido critico de arte y publicis-
ia de Londres, encOntramos un para
70 que dice. "Nijinski no es un hom-
bre como los demas. Siempre esta ro-
deado de n aureola invisible, pero
susceptible de zanzibar; parece que al
nacer fue tocado por Oberon, ell rey
de las hadas".
Montenegro ha sabido interpreter
esta especie de bale sobrenatural en-
sus pinturas. siendo esta la causa de
que sus dibujos hayan hecho Juror en-
Inglaterra y en- Francia, aun en- cstos
tiempos de guerra.
Montenegro tiene un curiosO talen-
to para dibujar a las personals con los
rasgos caracteristicos de los ANNA
les, que Sc r~eflejan en- sus fisonomias,
y ademas divide a la raza humana en-
personas-pajaros, animales e insectos,
Y ha pintado a Nijinski, con cara de
cato, dando a su cuadro TN attractive
singular.
Hispano América., 1917-07-15
UN NUEVo DEsCUBRIMIENTo
MARAVILOSO DE UN FAMOSO
QUIMICO-FARMACEUTICO

Entire los multiples descubrlmlentos mo-
dernos hechos en- beneflcIo de la humanI-
dad, Sc ha anunciado uno de grande I'M
portancla en- ell mundo de a Medlclna y
que esta destlnado a producer un sentl-
mIento de consueIo al p1blico en- general y
en- particular a una numerosa clase de
pacientes.
Muchos Infelices que, no de ahora, han
lvldo en- continue ansiedad por Ell tenor
e no poder curarse y de ser una carga pa
a los amigos y para la propIa famlIIa, ter
mInaran por consIderar ell nueVo descubrl-
mlento como un Verdadero don del clelo.
Hispano América., 1917-07-15

NO ma tdItddO QUIET maya
querldo InvestIgar las VEN
tajas de tan gran descunrI-
mlento, avocandose con Ell
descubrldor, Ell Qulml1o y
Pharmaceutical kronperyer
(e43 kearny St., San Fran
cisco, CALI cullen ha sldo
condecorado en- las mas &C.
Iebradas UnlversIdades de
Europa.
Hispano América., 1917-07-15

Ell senior Gustavo Ador, que ACADIA de
ser electo miembro del Consejo Fede-
raj de Suiza, y jefe del d-epartamento
politico. Por razon de su cargo ell Sc
nor Ador es ell p%residente nato del Co.
mite International de la Cruz Roja,
institution que lie debe grandes bene-
ficios.
Hispano América., 1917-07-15

Roberto Montenegro es un joven
mexicano originario del Estado de ia
lisco, Y Sc educo Ell Europa, por cuen-
ia del gobierno de su patria. Pertene-
&c por el lado materno a la familia del
poeta Amado Nervo. 49,. ......