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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-28
Human Appeal In
 Christmas Seals

1T AST years campaign for the sale lA of Red Cross Christmas seals for the benefit of the anti-tuberculosis cause was a signal success. Some thing like $6000 was realized for the Jefferson county association.
 It is hoped this years campaign, which begins on Thanksgiving Day, will be even greater success. It should not be too much to expect $10,O00 as the net proceeds to be ap- piled to the local institution on Red mountain.
 The scope of the anti-tuberculosis work has assumed larger proportions year by year, and the operation of the sanatorium, which is doing so much to minimize the frightful ravages of the white plague in Jefferson county, has been marked by a high degree Of economic efficiency, as we'll as broad humanitarianism.
 No holiday appeal should meet with readier response than this for the sale of these beautiful little Christmas tokens.
 The alcoholic content of beer has been reduced, but in this part of the coun- try that is matter purely for academic discussion.
 Cold, hunger and rags will be Russias portion, unless she can produce man of the hour who will last longer than 50 minutes.
 German prisoners in this country are treated much better than American slackers. It doesn't pay to be stacker anyhow.
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 Since Washington went dry, citizens Of the capital are finding an astonishing amount of business to transact in Bal timore.
 A contemporary discusses the high cost of courting. Twas ever tax on the purse, even in piping times of peace.
 coal famine in the Birmingham dis trict would be a paradox, but the ulti- mate consumer is getting used to para doxes.
 But will compara lively light sem tence of 20 month in prison make German plotter see the error Of his ways?
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 It is all very well to tell poor moth- CTS their babies must have milk, but what about the prohibitive price?  When Britishers shout: "Byng! Byng Byng! they are not crazy. They are merely cheering a national hero.
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 Even if the Germans observed Thanks giving Day, they would be in no posi- ton to celebrate it this year.
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 Alien enemies are just about as well wills in a cotton patch.
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 It would not be the least bit surpris- Iing if Miss Tatiana Romanoff were soon starred in photoplay. # !: * "Mopping up a trench may sound like slang. but it describes the opera ton perfectly. Lenine may find shelter in Berlin il Russia ever gets too hot to hold him $ < # It will soon be time for the late Christmas shopper to Ego over the top. 2
 
 AMERICAN FIRST AND LAST Clarence Stratton, in Leslie's. An tl,a fora;onar x-i+t,i,, o,tr hnt1p la ri ias
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-28
LIBERAL DONOR

q didn't hear you raise your voice at the Red Cross rally
 "No," replied the wealthy citizen. But I've done my part"
 How so?'' T raised the ante"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-28

Albany Decatur Daily: Birmingham is boasting of new gas development At lanta is again challenged
 Gadsden Times News: The farmer gets only S1.25 a bushel for his corn but meal is selling for $2 bushel and over ill Gadsden. That's fine way to Hoo verize.
 1 Huntsville Times: The gospel of good roads will receive new impetus and cheer at the meeting of the Alabama Good Roads associati tipn in Birmingham this week. It will be great occasion and north Alabama counties viii be well /, represented.
 1 Montgomery Times The question of taking the convicts out of the mines Will l solve itself in the next four years, 1T 1 the ratio of discharges and entrants nto the penitentiary keep up. At the. present lime they are being discharged from the l service of the state. sentences having been completed, at the rate of about lo per month The various counties or Ala
 bama are sending to the mines about 1 25 her month. By this it Will be seen ! thai in the neighborhood of 930 convicts
 are being discharged and 300 placed in the penitentiary every year.
 ral,adega Home: The expression walk l if off" is the lingo of the mountaineer;
 .seep it off, of the townsman. with long odds in favor of the mountaineer, l7
 THE HIGH COST OF COUNTING Thomas F. Logan, in Leslie's.
 All the world may love lover, but the framers of the new war tax bill adopted a roundabout way of showing their affection. The congressional meas ure to raise additional revenue makes a particularly effective assault on the ibankroll of the young man who wishes IAo demonstrate his devotion to maid. ! If the object of the youths passion lives req sonably near him. he may escape the new tax on telegrams and telephone
 messages that cost less than l5 cents. I Every love letter he writes will cost
 him an additional penny however, even
 if he incloses only single burning
 poem If trip to the, theatre is plan
 ned, committing lovers who live more than 30 miles from the playhouse must Y give financial assistance to the war on
 the Hohenzollerns. Actual admission ta the theatre demands an additional TO per cent on the cost of the tickets.
 N@tnrally, the dear gtrl will wish tu
 make herself particularly alluring to her
 ardent swain. To do so. she must pay a
 per cent tax on the perfume essence Atojiet water, lip rouge or face powder psat to her seems the most effective de-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-28
THE WRONG NOTE

THE WRONG NOTE This barefoot dancer typifies spring. "So the programme says, but ra- diator is humping somewhere in the house and spells the illusion "Yes?"
 Keeps reminding us that it's winter"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-28
Finds LittIc Change,

"The training camps certainly change a fellows opinion of this life and if there is a spark of real manhood or the smallest streak of yellow in him, it will soon be shown up,' said William H. Davis, who has just returned from the officers training camp at Fort Ogle- thorpe. Mir. Davis received, an ap- pontment as second lieutenant with the division of the army stationed at Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. c.
 Birmingham hasn't changed a bit since was here last he said, except that such a large number of the fel- lows that I knew are in the training camps"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-28

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Let's teach ourselves that honouraDle stop, Not to outsport discretion.
 -OtkellO.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-28
A DOUBLE REAsoN

From the Boston Transcript
 Not only will your eating less candy help win the war, ladies, but the sac rifice will benefit some of you in the Way indicated in this limerick
 certain fair maiden of Perth Had eaten sweet things from her birth
 One day she cried: Gee,
 l must let such things be
 For 1 fear the effect on my girth."
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ALABAMA PRESS

Albany Decatur Daily: Birmingham is boasting of a new gas development At lanta is again challenged
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-08
KNITTERS ENTERTAINED BY
MRS. J. CHARLES LINTHICUM
Mrs. D. M. Garrison. Regent Peggy
Stewart Tea Party Chapter
Among Guests

Mrs. J. Charles Linthicum. wife of
Representative Linthicum and chair
man of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Knitting Committee, call
ed meeting of the committee at her
farm home, Twin Oaks, this county,
last Friday, at which the work of the
committee was fully discussed and the
future plans laid out. The committee
has to its credit now some 80 sweaters
which have been made by the COM
mittee and friends After the business
meeting the.guests we're entertained
at luncheon by the chairman.
Among those present were the State
Regent, Mrs. Arthur Lee Bosley (;
Mrs John F. Sippel, Regent of the
Baltimore Chapter; /. l.. Milburn,
Mrs. A. B. McElroy, Mrs. James Fl.
Patten, Mrs. Joseph H. Branham,
Mrs. F. P. Wilson, Mrs. D. M. Garri-
son, of the Naval Academy, Regent of
the Peggy Stewart Tea Party Chapter,
d. A. r. Mrs. G. W. Tjsms. and Mrs.
Brevett. Other guests were Miss
Emma Marburg, Mrs. Seth Hance
LinthicGm, Mrs. Wade Hampton
Linthicnm, Mrs. Charles F. King, of
Wilmington, Del, and Mrs. Joseph
X. Benson.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-08
Working For Red Cross

The women of Linthicum Heights,
Anne Arundel County, are energeti-
cally working for the Red Cross. A
branch of the Annapolis Chapter of
the Red Cross Society has been or
ganized and its membership is rapid
ly increasing. Beginning tomorrow
meetings will be held each Tuesday
in the Town Hall The women will
sew garments for the society and knit
sweaters and wearing apparel for
the soldiers.
A special meeting of the Brooklyn
(Anne Arundel County, Branch OF
the Annapolis Chapter of the Red
Cross Society will be held tonight at
the home of Mrs. James Arnold, 10
South First street The work of the
branch has thus far been marked with
success and extensive plans for
carrying on activities will be made.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-08
PLANT TREES
Fall The Time; The Maryland's State
Nursery The Place To Get Good
Trees For Little Money.

Down at the State Forest .sursery,
College Park, there are about $4,000
healthy little trees that need to be
planted in the vacant places of Mary
lands vast domain There is little
doubt that they will be. either. for in
1915. lust after the State Board OF
Foestry had made a start of growing
tested varieties of forest trees, and
distributing them at cost TO Maryland
ers. they put out some $4,000 seed
lings and transplants which went TO
reforest the unproductive portions OF
the country and render more attract
i've some of the good roads that had
everything but trees
Since then Marylanders have taken
well to cultivating waste places with
tree crops, and their lands have re-
sponded most favorably to such re-
forestation work. The Board of For
estry, realizing that practical service
of this sort filed real needs and SEEM
ed to be thoroughly appreciated. little
by little extended the size of the nurs-
cry, and planted trees, and then more
trees. Fall planting, thought not as
! old in custom, is now as successful
| in practice in the southern half of the
state, as such work done in spring. In
fact, from the standpoint of labor, the
advantage is often with work done in
the fall
Prices for trees this autumn are as
reasonable as formerly. ranging from
$4 thousand for white pine seedlings
to 20 cents each for hardwood trees
which may be used for roadside plant
ing. Other sizes of white pine suit
able for reforestation work, Norway
Spruce seedlings and transplants,
Loblolly pine and Scotch pine trans
plants and other conifers available,
with red oak. black locust. American
elm, and black walnut, in sizes which
range from to y feet. The highest
prices obtaining on these last are 20
cents each for oak, ash, and elm trees
from 10 to II feet high.
Those who wish to carry out orna-
mental paintings are strongly urged
to take the matter up with their near
est commercial nursery The object
of the State Forest Nursery is to grow
and sell to residents of Maryland,
trees OF the right size and standard
varieties for reforestiag farm and
waste lands and carrying out the pro
visions of the roadside tree law for
public shade tree work
With the exception of the white and
loblolly pines, all trees quoted will
grow in any corner of the State,
White pine is well adapted TO any sec
ton but the lower Eastern Shore and
Southern Maryland, and Loblolly pine
is suited naturally to the former re-
gion In Southen Maryland Scotch
pine will thrive and grow a crop of
value On the 675,000 acres of waste
lands in the otherwise rich State of
Maryland, there is not only much
room but also real need for planting
trees In times like the present, there
is not a State which could or should
afford to leave one acre idle that may
be made to yield efficient contribu-
ton toward the feeding. clothing or
warming of Americans and their
allies
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-08
LA TOILETTE CASE
MAY HINGE ON BRYAN
Ex-Secrelary To Be Heard Regarding
Alleged Statement About The
L.usitanIa.

The exodus from the Capitol, fol-
lowing adjournment of Congress Sat
urday is practically over.
investigation by a Senate Privileges
and Elections Committee on Senator
La Follette's speech at St Paul on
September 20 before the Nonpartisan
League promises to be brief. The
committee. headed by Senator POM
creme, with Senators Walsh, James.
Dillingham;. and Fall. viii hold pre-
liminary meeting today to determine
procedure. They expect to conclude
the inquiry within week or ten days
because of its limitation solely to the
accuracy of the recorded speech and
accuracy of Senator La Follette's
statements
whether public hearings will be
held is TO be determined today. Sen
ator La Toilette and William ]. Bryan
may be the principal witnesses. As to
whether Mr. Bryan knew the Lusi-
tania had munitions aboard at New
York and urged President Wilson to
detain the vessel, as stated by the SEN
6lOIs IL lnC POAAAN ~ AN~t 90 -
sue. Mr. Bryan already has publicly
denied the statement.
Mr.. La Toilette is working on a
statement regarding the controversy.
He hopes to submit to the Pomerene
Committee a correct transcript of his
ST Paul speech
Another investigation during the
recess will be the Newlands Commit
tees railroad inquiry to be resumed at
San Francisco on November /.
Most of the members of Congress
plan to go on the stump throughout
their districts for the second Liberty
loan, and to discuss the causes and
objects of the war. Members of the
Senate and House Naval Committees
plan to visit naval establishments
during the recess, while members of
the Military Committees hope to in
spect many of the army's activities.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-08
FIVE FILTHY FINGERS
Keep Your Fingers Out Of Your Mouth

Keep Your Fingers Out Of Your Mouth
Did you ever make diary Of your
fingers? Did you ever set down Ia
cold black and white the things your
fingers touch every day and did you
ever consider the number of times
daily thst your unwashed fingers seek
your mouth.
When surgeons discovered that it
ives their own Infected fingers which
carried germs into wounds they set
about trying to discover a means
whereby their hands could be rendered
surgicslly clean, j. e., free from
germs. The whole realm Of chemistry
was ransacked for agents which would
disinfect hands, and the scrubbings
and immcrsions TO which they subject
ed their hands are even yet tender
memory to the surgeons of that per
iod. But all Of these efforts proved
useless and at last in despair surgeons
took to wearing rubber gloves which
could be boiled, thus bringing TO each
patient, as it were, a fresh pair Of
sterile hands In other words, try
as you will you can't by any known
method make your hands absolutely
clean.
The great agent in the spres6 Of
those diseases whose causstive orean-
ism is present ia the secretions Of the
mouth and nose, is the human hand;
and if saliva was bright green, we
would be amazed at the color Of our
fingers. As matter Of fact most Of
Us carry to our mouth or nose many
times daily, there to implant the germs
of disease which other careless PEOPLE
have spread about. there to collect a
fresh cargo Of infectious material 20
scatter for somebody else
II is true that most germs Of dis.
ease die quickly once they leave the
human body but what does the death
of few billion germs matter 70 long
as the supply is copious and never end
ing.
What an enormous number Of ia.
fected things wa touch d1ring the day
and how infrequent and cursory are
the hand washings we perform.
The answer is to keep your fingers
out of your mouth and nose. Thus we
limit the spread of disease from these
orifices 1t least, thus we eliminate the
danger of contracting disease from
someone else who wss not quite 80
care full.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-08
Tomorrow Last Time to Register

Registration officials for the four
city wards and the several precincts
of the county will tomorrow hold
their last sittings in the voting
precincts throughout the county for
the registration of new voters and
granting of transfers, incident to the
forthcoming general election in No
vember This will make the third
sitting of the officials. One was held
last Tuesday, and there was special
meeting early in September owing to
the primary election. The registrars
will, however, meet again on Octo-
Der 16, but this will be entirely for
the usual revision of the lists.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-08
PERSONAL MENTION.
Those Who Come And Those Who 60
Our Floating Population.

VuI EAOauHS AOpuAhtAVhs
Mrs. w. C. MacCrone, wife of Capt.
W. c. MacCrone, U. S. M. C. and
small daughter, Evelyn, are visiting
Mrs. J. F. Maxwell. Baltimore.
| Mrs. G. o. Ward is visiting her
/, daughter, Mrs. ]. 7. Maxwell, Wal.
brook Ave, Baltimore.
Mr.. Strauss, of Maryland Ave.
proprietor of THE Fashion," is in
New York this week on a business
trip.
Mrs. Owens, of "The Cedars, I"
Howard county, Miss Eleanor Owens
and Miss Dennis, are the guests of
Mrs. James K. Brashears at Oak Villa.
: Mrs. Strahorn and SONS. spent SUM-
day with Lieutenant Strahorn at Fort
Myer, va.
Mr.. and Mrs A. B. McManus of
Brookland, d. c., spent Sunday with
Mrs. McMsnus's mother. Mrs. w. M.
Abbott.
Mrs. Charles Lyon, of Whitehall, :"
Ellicott City, is visiting her home,
the old colonial RidJut House, Duke
of Gloucester street.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Richards, u. S.
N. are visiting here.
MIR. and Mrs. Elmer M. Beard, who
are occupying their summer home on
the Severn river, near Annapolis, will
not return tn Baltimore for the winter,
but will join their daughter, Mrs.
Howard B. Mecleary, at Carvel Hall.
Mrs. Mecleary's husband, Lieutenant
Mecleary, United States Navy, is now
at sea.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-08
RETURN THE SALUTES
AMI Mt At Camp Devens In Aver
Mass.

The following, from the Christian
Science Monitor, is of especial inter-
est here, as Annapolis has a train
ing camp with many raw recruits not
far away, at Camp Meade:
"One incident at Camp Devens, in
Aver. Mass, which has now reached
civilian ears, should help somewhat
toward making the new United States
Army democratic AS the story has
been heard by outsiders, while near
ly all of the officers who have come
from the training camp in Plattsburg
hav been respected and liked, few
have been regarded rs martinets. A
short time ago, private passed one
of these officers, lieutenant, without
saluting. The Plattsburger at once
called the mans attention to the fact,
and the private apologized, explained
that he was a raw recruit and was
thinking of something else at the mo-
ment, and promised that he would not
again fail in showing proper courtesy.
but the lieutenant, as the report
goes, saw fit to impress the lesson on
the new arrival more forcefully, and
ordered him to make amends, on the
spot, by saluting 200 times. The sol
der began his task, but the officer, in
his haste, had set a rather high figure,
and, after a few minutes, many other
men of the camp had come along and
stopped to watch the performance.
When quite company had collected,
a colonel came that way and paused
to learn what was going on. After
hearing the lieutenant's report, the
superior officer asked the private for
his version Upon hearing it, the
colonel turning again to the lieuten-
ant, inquired. And when a private
salutes you, what do you do? 4 re-
turn it, was the reply. The colonel
then quickly concluded his own part
in the incident, which on the whole
must have been quite entertaining to
the bystanders. by saying. Return the
salutes'"
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-08
Do Yon KNOW

that extending the suffrage to women
increases the moral vote; that in all
States and countries that have adopted
equal suffrage the vote of the disrepu-
table women is practically negligible
the slum wards Of cities invariably
having the lightest woman vote and
respectable residence wards the heayi-
est; that only one out of every twenty
criminals is woman: that women
constitute a minority of drunkards
and petty misdemeanants that for
every prostitute there are at least two
men responsible for her immortality:
that in all the factors that tend to
handicap the progress Of society.
women form a minority, whereas in
churches. schools and all organiza-
tons working for the uplift Of human
ity. women are MISUNDERSTANDING
News.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-08
FOR NEW TRAINING CAMP
CoIlegians win Be Eligible To Those
Opening January S.

Graduates and undergraduates Of
Johns Hopkins University and ST.
Johns College are among those who
will be eligible for admission to
third group of officers training
camps. which will open January 5
and continue until April 5, according
TO a dispatch from Washington. The
camps will be primarily for the train
ing of enlisted men in the regular
army. National Guard and National
Army for commissions.
There will, however, be places for
249O men from SO specified schools
and colleges in various parts of the
country The camps will be establish
ed in each of the army divisions
Graduates recommended for commits
sions as second lieutenants will be
commissioned as vacancies occur
College men must be between q and
81 years old on the day of opening, and
none who did not take military
courses at the institutions will be
eligible.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-08
Heavy Frost Throughout The
County on Saturday Night

Old Jack Frost nipped everything
in sight during the cold snap that set
tied over this section of the State
Saturday night. A heavy frost pre-
vailed all over the county, and as a
result potato vines-both the white
and sweets-were touched. Today
the leaves of the vines are as black
as the fuzz of a cooked hat 1t is
also reported that ice formed in sew
eral sections of the county. Farmers
will now be getting busy in digging
their potatoes, for while they have
not been actually hurt by the frost,
there is no telling when freeze may
come, and this would have the usual
damaging effect