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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-24
Street Car and Light
Service is Resumed in
Mississippi Coast Towns

Gulfport, Miss, December 23.-Electric
street car and lighting service along
the Mississippi gulf coast between the
towns of Pass Christian and Ocean
Springs was resumed today after an in
terruption of four days because of a
strike of local power house employees
and carmen Of the Gulfport and Missis-
sippi Coast Traction company, when
the company rejected the strikers de-
mands for recognition of their union.
The company today placed forces of
special men on cars and at the power
house under guards furnished by Har-
rison county authorities. Tonight there
has been no reports of efforts to in
terfere with either the operation of cars
or the plant.
Although only hourly car service was
in effect company officials said tonight
they expected to resume regular sched-
ules tomorrow.
An effort was made to furnish cleo
trical current to the gulf coast towns
last night, but the cutting of wires made
it impossible. The wires early today
were repaired
The company operates cars between
Biloxi and Pass Christian and in the
cities of Gulfport and Biloxi and fur
nishes electrical current to Gulfport,
Pass Christian, Biloxi, Ocean Springs,
Mississippi City and Long Beach. Power
also is supplied to the emergency naval
station here.
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Noted Evangelist at
Cumberland Church

| The Rev. T. Ashburn, a noted evangel-
list of Nashville. Tenn, occupied the pull
pit at the Cumberland Presbyterian
church yesterday morning and preached
! a strong sermon on: God Serving Man"
and said in part:
| 1--WE speak frequently of our serving
Cod and surely we cannot be too faith
| full in such service A neglected side
of this picture is that of God serving
| man. This side needs emphasizing as
well as the other side. I believe that
| from the beginning God has had as His
goal in all of His plans, the making
and caring for man and doing service
for man.
I 81 believe that God has had before
him in all of His movements the highest
interest of man.
"The fact of Gods special interest in
man was shown first in the work Of
creation. After God had finished all
else He decided to make man as the
crown of creations work.
Gods interest in man Is shown in the
fact that all of this material world was
made to do service to man. Not a thing
was made and laid by in the store
house of this great physical world but
what was put there for service to hui
mainly This leads me to say that all
that God has, He holds i'll readiness to
supply the wants of mankind
God is serving man in His provdences
over mankind. Some people, because
they cannot see Gods hand visibly lead
ing, are ready to reject the idea of
His providence. They forget the fact
that man is acted upon in every depart
ment of life by the unseen.
Another special indication of God
serving man we have in the worlds
first great Christmas gift. When God
saw that man had made shipwreck of
his first happy state and was doomed
for misery and separation from God
and all that was beautiful, He then
was so moved with tender compassion
to the making of the worlds first great
Christmas gift-the sending of His Son
to earth to become the Savior of man
kind. So all of this Christmas glee has
been made possible by Gods serving
man in the gift Of His own Son."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-24
DIR. STUART SPEAKS TO
LARGE CONGREGATION

Christmas as a National Holiday"
was the subject upon which Dr..
George r. Stuart of the First Meth
odist church addressed his congrega-
ton last night. He used for his text,
There was no room in the end for
them" Luke second chapter, seventh
verse
DR. Stuart first gave a history of
Bethlehem as the town of "blood" for
generations, the history of Palestine
and the formation of the Jewish races
and the Old Testament He told of
the hundreds of years of preparation
for the great event-the ages before
and the ages following, and the way
they pointed to this spot and yet that
in the end there was no room in the
end for the Savior
He took this spot and applied it to
the Christmas spirit and showed that
the ages have gradually crowded
Christ out of the social and business
life of today and that He Is
being left out of much of the
religious life. He represented the
Christmastide as the great citadel of
the Christian church and said that the
devil has been trying to capture it
been trying to make it into sea-
son of hilarity and selfishness ana
dissipation.
DR.. Stuart, after discussing the
crowdng out of Christ by the world,
made an appeal to the personal mind
not to continue to crowd the Saviour
out of person and the home.
A large congregation was in at
tendance
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-24
DIR. EDMONDS TELLS
CHRISTMAS STORY

1.-THE Christmas Story was the
theme of DR.. Edmonds' sermon at the
Lyric last night. There has been much
thinking concerning the birth of
Christi said Dr. Edmonds in part.
More significance has been placed
upon the miraculous birth of the
Christ than upon His miraculous ma
! ture. Jesus himself never alluded to
His birth, or made belief in it's miracle
the basis of a faith in Himself; in all
his dealings with the disciples, the sim
ners who sought peace and forgive
ness, did he once make that an is
sue. life, not belief, was His. Paul
in all his inspired writings speaks Of
His nature miraculous, but not once
of His miraculous birth, and few OF
the other narratives mention it,.
"And yet there are people who dare
to Judge their fellows because perhaps
they admit they neither understand
nor can believe in the birth of Jesus
as a miracle.
1.-THE vital fundamental thing is to
believe in the things for which Jesus
stands. Since Jesus was born life is
sacred. We see the divinity of chill
dren; we sense heaven in baby's eyes.
81 wish that / might open the doors
wide to every single man and wom-
an who stands without because of lack
Of belief in the miraculous birth.
whether you believe in it or not, il
you do believe in love and unselfish-
ness and truth and duty, all the things
for which He stands. God is walking
close and our great concern at this
Christmas time should be the rebrth
of Christ in our hearts, bearing fruits
of sacrifice and love-"
The great drive the Red Cross is
making was evident last night. DR..
Edmonds requested all the new mem
bers of the Red Cross to stand. The
vast congregation stood almost entire-
| ly, and the few who were not menu
bers were waited upon by commit
| tee stationed at the rear of the house,
assisted by number of young wom-
| en- in Red Cross uniforms
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-24
VESSEL MANNED BY
bOLSHEV|KI ARRIVES
AT AMERICAN PORT
Immediately on Landing the
Men Begin to Fraternize
With ]. w. w. Dock
LOafers

A Pacific Port, December 23.-The
Russian freighter Shilka. Captain
Boris Dogal, which unIera1ded slipped
into the harbor here late Friday night
direct from vladivostok, is under Boil
shevik control, it became known here
today. A number of Shilka sailors were
fraternizing on the docks today with
party of alleged Industrial Workers
of the World, Fl of whom were ar
rested by federal officials and held for
investigation. Among those taken into
custody were 13 Russians. None of the
sailors were arrested
Shortly after the vessel arrived a
report was circulated to the effect that
she had brought fund of 100000 in
gold for the defense of several scores
OF Induatrial Workers of the World
now awaiting trial at Chicago on con-
spiracy charges. The United States dis
trict attorney admitted he had heard
OF the report and federal agents
searched the vessel but found no gold.
knowledge of which was denied by the
captain and crew. Another search will
be made when the cargo of licorice
root and beans is discharged
Following out the Bolshevik prin-
ciples, the Shilka, it was said, is real
ly under the command of a commit
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-24
Philadelphia Interest
Takes Option on Mobile
Bay and River Front Site

Mobile, December q. Especial. )-Tak-
iig. an option on 96 acres of valuable
Mobile river and Mobile bay front land
By H. A. Stone & Co. corporation finan-
eers of Philadelphia. shas caused
furry in real estate circles here. The
property. according to report. is to be
used either for a new shipyard or for
marine engine works. The option was
given to F. A. Hueber by representa-
tive OF the P. +. Alba estate and by
Thomas w. Sims and Mrs. Virginia Sims
Ehen Of Mobile. The property lies most
" along the northern shore Of Mobile
bay and adjoins the famous Choctaw
point, in which locality are to be con-
structed the Gulf Mobile and Northern's
$1,000, OC0 terminals. The Turner Terminal
company is another important port unit
property close to the land.
The option stipulates that $127,0O0 Is to
be paid for the property by Stone & Co.
Persons well posted in large financial
q ttrA ard tseBsae'i0fs rs
that the option VII bt exsEessa WITHIN.
a few weeSs,
Mr.. Hneher when angaroaSned AAeat the
transaction Gel.sared that ~ net
at liberty - MA any anaeEncelssert.
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DR.. Byrnes Speaks on
Christmas Religion

DIR. Thomas P. Byrnes preached on
1.-THE Religion of Christmas at the
First Unitarian church last night DR..
fByrnes said in part:
1--WE have religion of the Christmas
time. and it has won all our hearts, and
, inspired all our lives. In the first place,
the religion Of Christmas is warm heart
! ed, ed-blooded, it is splendidly human,
and universal and worldwide in its
sympathy and reign.
christmas is our most human and
world wide institution, every race and
people has made some contribution to
it's spirit, and added some custom and
quality to it's many sided festivities.
"Christmas has absorbed from the
Persian, the Jew. the Roman, the Dru-
ids, the Norseman, the German, and the
peoples of the ancient and modern
world. We have merged Yuletide, the
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tee Of five. four sailors and one Of
ficer. This committee has the power
to cverrule any order of Captain Dogal
at any time. but members of the crew
stated that this unique division of au-
thcrlty had caused no trouble on the
voyage across the Pacific.
Members of the crew have been for
hidden to leave the vessel and 90 ca
diets from a naval training school,
working in three relays, under the
command of commissioned officers, are
guarding the shin from the dock.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-24
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
AT LOCAL CHURCHES

Special Christmas services were held
churches and sermons appropriate to
the occasion were preached and suit
able exercises held. At all the
churches the attendance was large and
the spirit of Christmas was much in
evidence by the many special offer
ings for the needy and distressed, as
well as in the decorations of the
churches. Among the Christmas SER
mons preached yesterday were the
following, in part:
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Girls

| Hurley, Gladys
2 Kearney. katherine
3 McEntee, Nerds
4 Sanders, Zana
8 Little, Aurela
s Bomar, Julia Il
Z White, Helen Evely
s Digger, Lucille
9 Potts. Alberta
10 Dewman, Mary
II Sanders, EVELYN
II Martin, Emma
Ii McCauley, Louise
IA Chappell. Eloise
10 Priest, Pauline
IS Gammell, Lila Mae
II Kelso, Margaret
IS Millstead, Elijah eth
10 Davis, Priscilla
~ Saxon, Gladys
p Ellis, Eunice
% Penfield, margarine
% Roberts. Bonnie j.
"a Warren, Genevieye
rs Mosko. Frances
IS Thompson, Mary
q Coleman, Dorotthi, Y
% Mccain, Vivian
20 Caffee, Caroline
30 Granger. Marie
81 Davis, Velma
% Dawson. Margaret
SO kirkpatrick. Sophia
"a Williams. Louise
So Glasgow, Frances r.
36 Asbury, Bessie
81 Sims, Evelyn
IS Brown, Annie
80 'Crosseth. Mildred
40 Goswich. Helen
Al Smales, Marion
AZ Harwell, Mildred
43 Owens. Adelyne
"A Mayfield. Sarah
IS johnson, Learoy
VI
As Lucy. Mildred
Al Mendenhall, Brownie
4S Granger. Maude
40 Woodan, Carolyn
50 Dugged, Charlotte
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Girls

l Martin, Dixie
2 Stull, Billie
8 James, Thelma
A Welch, Catherine
5 Caldwell, Ethel
6 Middleton, M. E.
Z Mason. Mary
8 Bass, Mary F.
9 Morris, Mary X.
10 Whetzel, Wilma
IL Kelly, Irene M.
II Hopping, Kathryn
13 Brown, Peggy
IA Steele, Judith
Is Brooks, Annie r.
16 Jones, Nellie Il.
II Dupree. Mary X.
IS Putnam, Myrtle
10 Caldwell. Lucille
20 Wilson, Dorothy
81 Hilton, Martha IS.
% Lindley, Arwyn
20 Morton, Dorothy
"a Bomar, Nellie
25 Smith, Clara G.
rs Patterson, Marie
II Yielding, Eleanor
20 Bare, Evelyn
80 Peacock. Carrie Il.
80 Shill, Evelyn
81 Arrico. Recello
so Farmer, Vivian
33 Robertson, Ruth
"a Prickett, Nina nj.
35 Nuff, Catherine
SO Davis, Leah Nora
81 Cooney. Anna
SO Caldwell, Edna
80 Nell. Eva
40 Hamilton, N. M.
Al Harding, M. NJ.
AZ Finley, Alice
43 Chappell. Lila NJ
Al Adams. Ruth
as Smith. Lucille
46 Wheeler. Parolyn
~ Hawkins, Rosa M
ATcIlale, Helen L
scholze. l.. ID.
Al scott. M T..
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-12-24
Tidings From Heaven
Theme of Sermon

| At the North Birmingham Christian
church in his Christmas sermon on
Glad Tidings from Heaven" DIR. sed-
don said in part:
God speaks to man in many ways:
in nature, in providence, in grace, by
visions, by Dreams by angelic mes
sengers and by audible voices. On at
! least three occasions during the earthly
| ministry of our Lord the silence of
| the heavens was broken to call the
attention of mankind to the Savior and
| to claim obedience to His commands.
4 If it were permitted to speak Of the
| relative Importance of any divine ut
fterance we must concede the voice that
| on the Mount of Transformation com
| manded the disciples to hear Him. as
| having the supreme claim; but in point
/ of view of narrative, of scenic beauty
| of heavenly music, of wonderful new
hope and outlook for the world there
never has been anything to surpass
! the first Christmas day. The angel mes
sengers that announced the birth of
| Jesus brought glad tidings to an I'M
| happy world.
| Historians agree in describing the
J epoch of the first advent as being one
4 in which the nations of the earth were
l plunged in great misery by reason of
| bad government and Astounding in
| iquity. But is the world any happier
| today? Go where you will you will
find sorrow, anguish and pain. In gay
Paris, on busy Broadway, in stricken
| Belgium, in starving Servia and Po-
land. in Armenia's blood stained fields
and villages, among the blizzard-swept
ruins of Halifax, in war threatened
Venice, in spots beautiful as the gar
| den of the Lord and in unnumbered
quiet homes you will find cheeks
"'Where the frequent tear
| Hath rolled and left it's STAIN
AT the present moment if the world
| in it's agony could formulate it's sor-
row into one urgent prayer that prayer
would be for peace And peace is the
gift that the Savior brings to every
individual and to every nation that
listens to and obeys His voice.
THE angels announcement that a
Savior had come was glad tidings to
a helpless and fallen humanity. The
tidings Were glad because the Savior
announced came clothed with heaven
ly authority and power. Is your sinful
heart skcptical on this point? Then
put this Savior to the test. Trust Him
wholly and you will find how truly
He has said, Him that cometh unto
Me I will in no wise cast out The
glad tidings announced by the angel
were intended for all people, Let US
pray that the time may not be far
distant when. like Ephriam, humanity
in its distress will say, What have l
to do any more with idols? and turn
ing penitently to God shall submit it
self humbly to the benevolent despot-
ism of redeeming love-"
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Girls.

/ Humphrey, M. G.
2 Lasiter, Doris
8 Billings, Barbara
4 Marcel. LOWE
5 Gum, Augustine
6 Smith. Gertrude
Z Hardman, Y.
s Trebbing, D. M.
Q Barrett, Lucille
10 McGoouck. Lorene
II Minter. Virginia
IL Hatcher. Annette
13 Walpole, Helen
IA Tripe. Helen
Is Evans. Virginia
16 Seelbinder, III.
II Davis. Katherine
IS Donnelly, M.
19 Sanders. Alma !.
20 Welsh. Althea e.
81 Thomas, Kacile
20 Ashmore. Ella.
23 Arnold. Ruth
"a lyle. Ever r.
25 Froyth, Virginia
26 Brook. Alice p.
81 Scollian. Mary G..
IS Jones. Annie Lou
30 Jackson. Della
80 Worrell, Virginia
81 Macdonald. v.
80 Smith, Mary Allen
33 Smyly. Pearl :
81 Durham. Mary A
35 Aliano. Anna
S6 Pierson. Georgia
81 Tiller. Audrey
80 Miller, Alma
SO Schwartz, NJ.
40 Kobake. Marg'te
Al Garfield, Clara f.
AZ Edmondson. NJ.
43 Monghon. Helen
"A Johnson, Nancy
45 Dempster. Eliz.
as Cornelius. Martha
.fnwrN cara
IS W4,ie. iSeala17 r.
"a htfsf I'll
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Girls.

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l Russell, Mildred
2 Sims, Della
3 Reeve, Frances
4 Cole, Kathrine
5 Scheally, Lucille
6 Adams, Elizabeth
7 Pickard, Louise
s kaufman, Sarah
9 Founder, Louise
10 Looney, Helen
IL Osborne, Dorothy
IL Thweatt, Thelma
IS Whitson, Nina
IA Eggler, Dor. j.
Is Herrin, Grace
16 Brown, Dolisha
II Fox, Eliza beth
IS Stuckey, Cathrine
19 Ogletree, Aleene
20 Goddard, jamie
q Roberts. Ella M.
% Craig, Marjorie
23 Hood, Mildred
"a Taylor. Lucille
% Upchurch, Nora
26 Parker, Kathryne
27 Yielding. ROBBIE A.
% Denton, Mary
20 Moore, Dorothy
80 Hayden, Helen
81 Ham. Mildred
80 Melton, Grace
s33 Golson. Mildred
"a Wheeler, Leona
35 Andrews, NJ. l..
sc Williams. Adelaid
~ BECK, Cathflne
3S Prince, Jacquelyn
SO King. Albertine
40 bearing, Mary s.
Al Murphy, Myra
AZ Cohn, Florette
4S Riser. Thelna
"A Johnson, Julia p.
As Bender, Ruth
As McRea, Junita
AZ Boyless, Alma
as Johnson, j, S.
40 Godfray, Grace
SO Williams, Sarah
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Girls.

/ Ragland. Mildred
Q Hayden, Mary
3 Snowden, Florence
A Carson, Margaret
5 Burnes, Eliza
6 Hochu, Mary e.
7 Hdrtney, Alice
s Mauldin. Dor.
8 Kerr, Mary
10 Bagley. Dora
IL May, Mildred
~ Hammitt, Jennie
13 Walters. Willie &.
& IA McLendon. A. i.
Is McAllister, Grace
16 James. Sarah
II Griffith. JOY
is Scale. Alice Mae
10 Bernard. Sarah
20 Oliver. Cora Rose
p Tarrant. Harriet
% Horton, A. Leta
23 Guthrie. Eliz.
"a Schoettlin, Sophie
25 Harrell, Bessie
26 Sims, Archie
27 Pate, Gladys
% Eskews, Marie
20 Wilson. Marie
80 Gammage, Elin're
81 Page. X. r.
32 Holcomb. Virginia
33 Underwood. i.
"a Johnson. Eliz.
35 borough. Win.
SO Martin. Mary L.
81 Fitzgerald, Hettie
SO Suddeth. Evelyn
80 Busby, Doris
40 Thompson, Ida l..
Al Sims, Freda
AZ McAnaley. A. L.
43 Arndt. Martha
"A Wofford, Annie l..
As Ward, Alice II.
46 Jones. Gladys
Al Calhoun, G.
As Orr. Ethelen
40 Reese. Ruth Alta
40 Pearce. Marjorie
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-30
Al REYOIR. GENTLEMEN,

Goethals and Denman have ceased
their disagreements about the building
OF ships. There is a clean sheet before
Capps and Hurley. That there cannot.
must not be any further delay in carry.
ing out the actual work Is what the
nation demands Of them.
With all possible optimism. the U.boat
menace is extremely serious. Month by
month, the German submarines destroy
more tonnage than is being built TO re.
place II. Germany believes that. II the
war continues, in forty.hve months
there will not be a ship anywhere on
the oceans OF the globe owned else
where than in Germany. 1t is the hope
OF everyone, Germany included. that
the war may be over long before forty.
five months have elapsed, but mean.
while the peril to our shipping Is in.
creasing instead OF diminishing.
Goethals and Denman. I'm withdraw.
ing from the ship construction. have by
no means ended their usefulness 10 the
nation. They are two good men avail.
able for future purposes. 4 middle west.
ern city is already trying to get General
Goethals for an important piece Of civic
construction work II will probably
not succeed, as. among other reasons.
there Is a scarcity Of material needed
But there Is other big work awaiting
these men. The nation will hear from
them again. under happier auspices.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-30

It is a rich alluvial country. Three
quarters of the people are agriculturists
and one-quarter Industrial
THE Prussians had come along and
gathered up the larger bones because
they were useful to them as phosphates
and fertilizer. The little finger bones
were still there with the rags of cloth
ing.
The little wicker baby baskets that
hold the baby as he swings by a rope
or chain from the rafters OF the peas.
ants cottage were there by hundreds
upon hundreds. | started counting
them for the first mile or two and gave
up I'm despair because there were so
many.
I'VE began to investigate the condi.
| tions Of those who were still alive. those
refugees who were homeless. We saw
no buildings in that whole 2S0 miles.
Everything had been destroyed; nothing
but the bare chimney. black and charred
was standing; no livestock, no farm inn
plements, in all that vast area
II saw with my own eyes between
$4,000 and 10000 of those refugees who
had been gathered together, about a
thousand to building, in rude, hardly
weatherproof barracks hurrledly put up
by the Germans.
81 took this matter up with the gov.
ernor-general and asked him what 1t
meant
HE said: 4 do not know; I have to
sign so many Of those things; but, he
continued go to the governors general
Of the Warsaw district and he will tell
you the whole story
II went there in a rage, and when he
told me that those were the facts
got up and said:
General l cannot discuss this thing
with you; 1t is worse than anything
ever heard Of. l did not suppose any
civilized nation would be guilty Of such
thing as this and started to walk
out.
"He said. Wait a minute: I want to
explain this thing to you. We do not
look at it as you do. Starvation is a
great force, and If we can use that to
the advantage Of the German govern
ment we are going to use it.
Furthermore. this is a rich allu-
vial country. We have wanted ii and
needed it for a long time, and If these
people die Off through starvation, per-
haps a lot of German people will over
flow into this country and settle here:
and after the war, IL we have to give
up Poland, the question Of the liberty
Of Poland will be solved forever because
1t will be a German province"
This deliberate plan Of the German
military machine to use starvation in
order TO destroy the Belgians and Poles
with view to populating these coun-
tries with Germans in the cold blooded
way in which one Of the German gen.
erals stated the case. as quoted by Mr.
Walcott, is so inhuman that It would
seem almost impossible to believe that
any man on earth could be guilty OF
deliberately making statements Of this
kind, or that any government should
follow such policy. IL we had not al
ready learned that all Of this is in di-
rect keeping with what Germany has
been doing since the beginning Of the
war and will continue to do until COM
pletely conquered.