The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-07

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 we won't get hurt Austria will look on armed merchantmen as pirates and treat them accordingly. A rupture in diplomatic relations is inevitable. Raise Something
 of Food Value THE slogan of the United States 0 agricultural department is Raise Something to Eat" This timely advice is being reiterated by the agricultural commissioners of all the states. Commissioner Wade of Alabama is ringing the changes on it.
 In other days the great field crops were all essential; the garden patches side lines. But now, when scientific methods are everywhere in vogue and when economy in every department of food supply is seen to be worth while, the kitchen garden plays big factor. A vast domain like ours, with it's fertile sweeps, can never face starva- tion. But in times like these when the whole world is begging for our products the food production of the world is far less than the supply-we must look ahead.
 The planting season is at hand. Let every man get ready to plant something to eat, whether he has a big farm or a small one, or only a patch measuring 25 by 50 feet. And the garden should not only be planted, but it should be cultivated right on through the summer, no matter how rank the weeds grow.
 With this country's teeming mill lions of population there are millions 1 of home gardens. The aggregate of | food thus produced will add enormous ly to the wealth of the nation; not | only so, but solve the high cost of l living problem.
 According to a recent dispatch, the | Kaiser believes the German navy was | defeated in the battle of Jutland. Evi- dently the kind of dispatch that is re- routed several times before it finally 1 gets into print
 The British admiralty will not state how many German submarines have been sunk and captured However, it is assumed that Britain has among her military boarders more than one U-boat crew.
 Despite the popularity of Caruso, Q seat on the New York stock exchange l still costs trifle more than a seat 1 in the Metropolitan opera house when Caruso sings.
 Things have come to a pretty pass | when General Won Ludendorff's pic-AI ture is published in the center of the | page and the Kaisers is stuck off in one corner.
 A brakeman claims he can't support | his wife because he's taking the drink | cure. A man of moderate income can't 1 pay alimony and doctors bills at the same time.
 Austria Hungary will support Ger many in unrestricted submarine war fare Austria Hungary knows her mas ter's voice when she hears it.
 Those senators whose conduct has been repudiated by their state legis- latures can already feel their jobs hanging in the balance.
 
 The fair Annette Kellermann may spend lot of money for clothes, but they are not, strictly speaking, her working clothes.
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 .i Despite the activity of government | agents, there are a number of mys- terious explosions that have not yet 1 been explained
 A writer says the public soon tires of seeing baseball players on the stage | The public is certainly not to blame | for that A novelist deplores the lack of great l actors in America Needless to say, he !! is not a confirmed patron of the | movies. There are any number of reason ably happy people in this country who 1 are not interested in the price of golf | balls President Wilson's inauguration