The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-25

on, however, and may be able to holc out for another year, but when Gen eral Pershing is ready to lead his American army on the firing line and give France valiant assistance, en- agreements will follow that will tell against the Huns with crushing force
 Emperor William did not think Americas entrance into the war need be taken seriously. But the idea dis seminated among his subjects that 1t was only a bluff on the administra- tion's part, and weak bluff at that, has ceased to have it's effect on Ger man statesmen or German officers.
 The United States is in the war to win and the Kaiser, obsessed though he be, should be getting it we'll into his head.
 In the meanwhile, France is going to remain on it's mettle and continue to fill it's role nobly.
 A Minneapolis telephone company thinks red-headed girls have sunny dis- positions and even tempers. Maybe SO, maybe so. However, the impression has gotten abroad that they mustn't be rubbed tho wrong way, particularly by friend husband. after marriage
 It Is feared that the spread of prohi- bition will decrease the number of col oneis in the south It has certainly de- creased the number of colonels accus- toned to take little nip every morning and at frequent intervals during the day.
 Some of the fair elevator girls who have taken the places of men are so pleasing to the masculine eye that a fellow. is apt to forget all about getting off at. his floor and ride all the way to the roof while lost in admiration.
 The Houston Post thinks "Bilr Thompson Is so unpopular now that his wife makes him eat in the kitchen and smoke In the cellar It doesn't neces- sariiy follow that "Bill'' is unpopular with his better half.
 A clergyman deplores the encourage nlens given to the cigarette habit by sending smokes" to the soldiers abroad. This Is no time for pieayunish reform CTS to get in the way. There is work for men to do.
 Russell county "bootleggers' used ammonia to keep officers at bay until they made their escape. Those chaps haven't been reading about gas attacks for nothing.
 The improved Zeppelin has no better luck In raiding England than it's pre- decessors. Yet Count Zeppelin thought he was born to wipe out London with his airships
 For some reason or other, Berlin is not dwelling at length on the fact that l6 German warships were put out of action by the Russian fleet in the Gulf of Riga.
 Seven months in jail should give the White House pickets plenty of time to see the error of their ways, but seven years wouldn't be long enough for that i: * <
 Daughter finds that the movies inter- fere dreadfully with her war work. but daughter hasn't reached the point yet where she can pass up the movies.
 * *
 There are people who seem to think 8 shortage of sugar Is something to joke about-but not the man who takes three teaspoonfuls in his coffee.
 Chicago police are waging war on cabarets and disorderly hotels. That seems to be the kind of war that never ends.
 k
 It would never do for Kaiser-ridden nation like the Germans to surpass the greatest democracy on earth in a war loan. In the heat of it's municipal campaign New York should not forget that there is also serious trouble in Europe
 American hearts beat as one yester- day and no slogan was more popular than Swat the Kaiser"
 LUKE M'LUKS SAYS
 About the only time some employees are fired with enthusiasm is when the boss is doing the firing.
 A fisherman often wonders why na- ture didn't put a little mosquito blood into bass so the bass wouldn't be so fastidious about biting.
 And. by the way, what has become Of the old-iasliioned female baritone?
 Nothing ever makes woman madder than to find an envelope addressed to him in a female hand in her husbands s pocket and no letter in the envelope.