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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20

person has often started conflagra- tions which swept away large sections of our cities, laying waste block after block of handsome buildings and eX- acting a heavy toll of human life. It is hardly necessary to run over the list of American cities which have suffered disastrous fires in recent years. These calamities still finger wildly in the minds of most people, who have forgotten, however, that carelessness was chiefly to blame.
 Millions of dollars worth of prop erty has been destroyed by careless smokers who throw away lighted match that falls on some inflamma- ble material and starts a conflagra- tion. The careless smoker is a menace to every community, but there are hundreds of ways in which needless persons may cause fire which will spread far and wide from it's initial starting point, particularly if there is high wind and crippled fire de- partment cannot cope with the ad- vancing flames.
 The American people have two glar- ing faults. One is wastefulness, which they are being taught to overcome by the stern necessity of war. The other is carelessness, which has become more than a fault. It is a national sin. Save your own property and the of others, the lives of your self and your own loved ones as well as the lives of others, by being care ful. Study this Age-Herald advertise ment and practice what it breaches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
LUKE NI'LUKE SAYS

We like to brag about our moral communities. But if it wasn't for the fear of getting caught, the average police force would have to be 10 times as large as it is.
 No matter how absent minded man may be, he is never so much that way that he can forget his troubles. It is a hard matter to talk yourself into job, but it is a very easy matter to talk yourself out of one. It is mighty easy to overcome good habit, but it is different with bad habit,
 A woman can get what she wants from her husband by sitting down and bawlng for it. But if a man sat down and bawled for something. someone would swat him on the head with a club.
 | Many man who can tell you how tc | finance the war doesn't know how the hex he is going to solve his own finan | cial problems.
 l We are conserving other things ane 1 it might be well for the man with tn' large deckle- edged mouth to consume
 a half a pack of scrap tobacco in ont chew instead of an entire pack.
 Get a man cornered in an argumen | anu ne Will QeOSe anu Sdy NSAit meant generally speaking"
 This is speedy age. Girls are put | ting on paint when they get to the az
 at which they used to take off pima fores.
 l We are very fond of soup. And tha is as good an excuse as any as to Wh! l we do not raise a mustache. Some fellows are just beginning t appreciate their wives since they dis covered that said wives furnish then with legitimate excuse for not goini to war.
 If all the kisses tasted as good a
 the first kiss, about 29.000 perfectl good divorce lawyers would starve t death.
 Most married women are too bus trying to solve the man question t give any attention to the woman ques
 ton.
 A woman is smart enough abou
 other things. But she always forget and leaves her husbands pants hangin 'upside down after she frisks tn
 pockets.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
Prosperity Reflected in Bank Deposits

A CCORDING to the official report A of Alex E. Walker, superinten- dent of the Alabama banking depart ment, deposits in the state banks dur ing the last six months have increased by $14,OoO,OOO as compared with the previous six months. These figures reflect prosperity throughout the en- tire state. Thrift prevails in the Bir- mingham district, and as for the farmers, they were never no prosper ous as they are today.
 There is scarcely county that has not raised surplus crops, the market value of which runs high into the mil lions. The crop diversification move
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
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HARRY LAupER-coMEpIAN

From Golfers Weekly.
 It was growing late in the discreetly glittering corridors of Philadelphia magnificent Hotel Pomposia, and the at tendant magnates behind its great bronze counters were yawning wearliy. Tired business men, exhausted by the yigors of a six hourand-five-me worh- ing day, collapsed into huge ieatnern chairs for just one final 50-cent cigar before terminating the evenings misery. Jr the intervals of their conversation ,,e caught faint echoes of dance music from various bathrooms beneath that cosmic roof. Across this stuffed ana elided scene moved the hard-bitten' thrifty, bandy-legged little Scotch com edian in his trade marked costume ,kilts. bonnet. wriggly stick ana ah' sva ggering to his well earned rest. The .onrs he sang that night were hummed nv athletes in college shower baths. by lonely telegraphers waiting Tor the mid- night express to thunder past them up +he pockies. by fishermen holding their course out from Gloucester.
 ] r,re saw it all in that inimitable gait l -nride in his power of success, and
 with it just the slightest dash of con ..n,nt for those whom that success inn r,assed, Some eager young person in
 uniform slammed an elevator door on
 all this greatness, and the incident was aver. The Young Mems Christian asso- fciation auditorium at Camp Dix isn't in
 the least like the Hotel Pomposia, but tha songs were the same on a night six
 vears later. Four thousand boys in I uniform thought the comedian un- changed, and laughed and sang with him as of old. What could they know ot that bitter hillside in Flanders where his only son had died at the head ot his men, burying his fathers hope anc pride? There was no hint of that ir inc songs. The singer closed by telling
 dryly and briefly of this war and tht
 .oldier's share of It. He turned tt
 swagger off in the old way, hesitated
 stopped dead and his hand snapped Ill to his forehead: Soldiers of America,
 salute you.' he cried. queer husi followed, then thunders of applause
 Without knowledge the boys yet knev Itnat that salute was not from the com
 edian, but from the captain-dead il i, Flanders these two years and more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
Staggering Cost
 of Fires in America

1 AST year the property loss in the l6 United States, due to fire, was $213,539, ,670. During the past seven years the total loss was $1 ,447, ,867 ,245. With the exception of comparative ly small number of fires due to in- cendiary origin most of this appalling destruction of property was the re- suit of carelessness.
 The Age Herald's safety first' advertisement for today presents facts and figures which should arrest the attention of every man and woman who reads this newspaper. The tboughtless act of ons irresponsible
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20

iment was started in Alabama three years ago. Raise less cotton and more of everything to eat" was the slogan, but this is the first year that the state has fed itself, instead of sending millions of dollars away for food and feedstuff.
 Many farmers who were in debt this time last year are now we'll ahead. Those who raised cotton are flush with money, and so, too, are those who raised peanuts, sweet potatoes and other crops which find a ready mar ket.
 The unprecedentedly large harvests and the high prices obtained for agri- cultural products account for the com paratively small demand for loans from the governments rural credits banks established year ago with a view of supplying the farmers with money at a lower interest rate than the commercial banks felt it neces- sary to ask. As agriculture in the south progresses along business lines farmers will find it we'll worth while to borrow money in order to buy blooded live stock and install improved machinery for economic purposes. But this is a season when the average farmer finds joy enough in selling his surplus crops for enough to meet his obligations and accommodating a snug bank account for "a rainy day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
Atlanta spirit no Myth

"The Atlanta spirit is no myth said Dr. George Stuart who was in the Gate City last week to hear and to dine with Billy Sunday.
 "Just think of it, one of the hand somest homes in the city on Peachtree street, beautifully furnished, and with every convenience was put at the dis posal of Billy and Ma Sunday. It gives them so much more privacy than hotel.
 'Few people realize the nervous strain on an evangelist who has to drive at top speed for weeks. Billy Sunday would have broken down long ago if he had not kept in the pink CT condition by proper exercise, and in having as much time as possible to he alone. know something of the de- mands on the nervous system of an evangelist who puts mind, heart body and soul into his services.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
Generous Giving
 as Fixed Habit

M1INETY THOUSAND dollars NN raised as Birmingham's share of the Young Mems Christian associa- tion war fund-fifteen thousand dollars more than the amount allotted lis a proud record indeed, and will prove an inspiration for neighboring cities and especially for the state of Alabama, whose allotment is three hundred thousand dollars.
 Birmingham has always responded promptly to appeals for relief funds in times of local disaster, but with the city's growth humanitarian demands and civic responsibilities have in- creased approximately, and it is noteworthy fact that when the cause seeking relief was of vital concern the people never failed to rise to the occasion.
 But during the present year Bir- mingham has struck new and great CT stride in money-raising achieve ment. It has formed the habit of generous giving on broader scale and in each succeeding canvass has made a record that has been nothing short of a revelation.
 The explanation is found in Bir- mingham's keener appreciation of the value of community team work and its ripened experience in civic organi- zation. It las not been satisfied with doing merely what was expected, but in every instance has done much more for good measure.
 The Young Mems Christian associa- tion's state campaign is now in prog ress, and reports received thus far are highly encouraging. The allotment will not only be subscribed, but prob- ably oversubscribed.
 Several local charities that are sus- tained chiefly by private contribu- tions, usually send out their appeals in the holiday season. The "teams' which "put over" the Young Men'' Christian association campaign il such triumph could easily raise thu small sums needed for the various in stitutions referred to almost any fore noon.
 Now that generous giving is becom ing fixed habit let each year of tn war witness increased activities fo the welfare of our soldiers and tn care of the sick and friendless.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
Hundreds Wanted to Hear Trotter

T went to hear Melvin Trotter, the great rescue mission worker" said H. c. Redus" and he is q man of force, and without doubt doing great Work at the Pacific Garden in Chicago among the down and out.
 q also feel sure that his visits to the ercampments in the south will be beneficial as he has masculine mes sage in which the boys will be inter ested The quartette with him from the Moody Bible institute is one of the best I ever heard. I wish the First Methodist church had been larger, as hundreds who wanted to hear the speaker and the singers were turned away
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
THE TAGLIAMENTO RIVER

needed by the French. Bernadotte, who afterward was placed by Napoleon on the throne of Sweden as Charles XIV, led his army with signal dispatch from the banks of the Rhine to his com mander in chief, and at the passage of the Tagliamento won enduring dis tinction.
 "The Tagliamento flows past no in- portant cities of Venetia. The most im- portant of the small towns that squat upon it's marshy banks are Venzone, 20. miles by rail from the Austro-Italian frontier; spilimbergo, and Latisana. The last named place is equi-distant from Venice and Trieste on the 100-mile rail- way which connects those two impor-' tant cities.
 '"The Tagliamento flows 15 miles to the west of Udine, the first Italian city. of importance to fall before the on rushing Teutonic forces in the present. offensive.
 'In ancient times the Tagliamento was known as Tilaventus."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
Birmingham,s Noble Response

T think Birmingham is great place." said Rev. John Davidson, the pastor of the Selma Baptist church, who spent Friday and Saturday here on his way home from the convention at Sylacauga.
 T ran over to see some acquain- tances and to be with my friend John lnzer, who though at present Mobll- ian, still has his heart in the Magic City. Selma is a delightful place in which to live and the church and the community have been mighty good to me. am glad that Birmingham IS responding so nobly to the army f M. c. A. fund. It is the biggest thing that can be done for the boys at home ana abroad to care for their bodies minds and souls"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
IN. HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Liked New cnmp Paper

T have been gratified at the way the public took to Camp Mcclellan the little paper that Is filled with pie lures of the soldier boys and the camp activities,' said John C. Henley who does the writing which tells who is who and what is what while Canister, his partner, does the shooting with ms camera. The publication has life and looks like it is going to live.
 The sales of the first 5000 issued shows that there is demand for pie lures with punch in them. We are busy getting out another issue Which we hope will be even better than the first one, which drew forth so much praiseT
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
THE CELESTIAL SURGEON

By Robert Louis Stevenson. If I have faltered more or less In my great task of happiness; IF I have moved among my race And shown no glorious morning faces If beams from happy, human eyes Have moved me not; If morning skies, Books and my food. and summer rain Knocked on my sullcn heart in vain Lord. thy most pointed pleasure take And stab my spirit broad awake; or. Lord. if too obdurate I
 Choose thou, before that spirit die,
 A piercing pain, killing sin,
 And to my dead heart run thcm in. '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20

w s':s%s:: s,';s, 7; %:.,,,:
 graphic society at washing ton issues the following war geography bulletin on the Tagliamento;
 "The Tagliamento river, whose noon- cd banks served as a rampant Tor the retreating Italians, Is stream or no value commercially. It is one Of many small rivers rising in, the Carnlc Alps and flowing through the Venetian plain into the Adriatic. Its headwaters are near Mt. Clapsavon, about 65 miles northwest of it's entrance into the ad- riatic. but the course of the stream IS meandering, flowing first to the east and then south through marshy val ley, thus traversing distance or loo miles.
 "Just 120 years ago the Tagliamento figured prominently in another great military campaign in northern Italy. It was during Napoleon's campaign Of 17s7 that endorsements were greatly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20

BEGINNING THE DAY-As the sunshine covers the earth, 0 God' rest upon Thy people in beauty As it comforts the world after it's cold sleep, so caress us with Thy warmth. As 1t calls the faiiow soil to bear new flowers and fruits, so summon us to render up the hfd- den haryests of our lives. In Christ's name. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
ALABAMA PRESS

Montgomery Journal: "We are all Of the same clay" said Woodrow, at Buff falo Yep! with sprinkling of pa-... cifists who insist on remaining just clay.
 Selma Times: Most folks we's talked ,, with about the governors race seem to have a second choice but no first ! choice as yet. Maybe the peoples first choice has not yet shied his chapeau into the ring.
 Mobile Register: The Italians have turned on the water on the Austrians.A They have been fighting the devil with fire, and will now try the virtue of water. ~s
 Talladega Home: Prohibition or no prohibition. we occasionally notice cit-' izens 'loaded for bear"
 S.sniston Star: Government report says there are 54ooo0o less hogs this wear than last. Can't miss them on the street cars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
Community Singing
 Makes United People

MI oBILIzATIoN is the keynote 4V0 today. The problem before America is how best to mobilize all our resources and all our power for the service of the world. Community singing proves that the people of democracy can act together swiftly and effectively. Undoubtedly con- munity singing will be great factor in making us a united people.
 It was Sidney Lanier who said:
 "To make home out of a house. hold, given the raw material, to-wit: Wife, children, friend or two, and Ia house, two other things are neces- |sary; these are, good fire and good music; and inasmuch as we can do without a fire half of the year, I may say music is the one essential. Late explorers cay that they have found some nations that have no God, but I have not heard of any that had no music. Music means harmony, har- mony means love and love means God"
 Community singing under the able directorship of Robert Lawrence demonstrated last Sunday afternoon that Birmingham appreciates the inn portance of music in it's makeup. The most interesting thing about con- munity singing is the singers; re- cruited from every walk of life, from every age, from every color. In other words it is exactly what it set out to be-a community chorus with mem- bership such as would be found at any time at a free lecture or Red Cross parade.
 And everybody sings-the twenty two hundred people in the Bijou Sun day afternoon raised their voices in glorious song. The director knows
 how to handle them. He seems to know by instinct those who need a little urging and those who need not i be noticed.
 We need the community spirit more
 just at this time than ever before in
 Americas history. The war demands
 community of interests and we are
 not going to win the war by the army
 and navy alone. We are going to wir lit by people back of the lines solidly united; and there is no unifying force
 more potent than that of song.
 The community singing of Birming
 ham is practically an infant in arms as yet, but promising, healthy normal infant which only needs z : cradle large enough to rock it safely in other words, an auditorium com
 modious enough to shelter the thou : sands of people who are turned ava, ? every Sunday afternoon from tn r largest auditorium in this city-th ? Bijou.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
Amount Needed Not
 Large, But Urgent

 THE Jefferson County Anti J Tuberculosis association is do- | ing a great defense work for this community as we'll as caring for those unfortunate persons smitten with the white plague. But it is now in sore need of funds to carry on it's humani- tartan operations during the next two or three weeks.
 In December money from the sale of Christmas Red Cross seals will be available for the anti-tuberculosis Isanitarium. A sum totaling several thousand dollars was raised in this way last Christmas, and the directors of the association are hoping for even larger returns next month. In the meantime 5000 is needed today. So Istates Secretary George Eaves, and he never exaggerates. When he says Ia thousand dollars he means a thou sand dollars.
 The anti-tuberculosis cause is one that should appeal strongly to the public. The work has been kept go- ing in the past by liberal patrons. It cannot be that it will be allowed to go 1 by default now for the want of inn mediate cash.
 l The old-fashioned man who used to dering wet goods is now donating cheer fully to the Red Cross and the red tri- angle, not to mention the purchase of several liberty bonds. Henry Ford is giving the government such valuable aid in it's war prepara- tions that it would be the height of impoliteness to refer in his presence to the Oscar II and Madam Schwimmer. | * * | Occasionally we hear an echo of Dr. Dumba. Booting the doctor out of Amer | ca was one of the most satisfactory pieces of business this government has ever accomplished.
 l An army lieutenant thrashed a waiter who regarded presumably small tip with contempt. Exactly what millions of men have wanted to do in their time and didn't
 Mark Twain's memory is no doubt sa- cred to Joe Humility, who refrained from saying that the report of his death before a firing squad was exag- gerated
 Hope is expressed that in case the Teutons capture Venice, they will spare the city. Are the past performances of the Blond Beast so soon forgotten?
 The Germans bumped their heads I
 against a stone wall on the Marne. It appears that they've done ths same thing on the Piave.
 *
 If Father Neptune cared to lease the undersea junk concession. there would be plenty of battered U-boats to dispose oi as scrap metal.
 |
 That undermining work done by the Teutons in northern Italy was fortu- nately checked before it made muct } progress
 The fact that a castor oil famine i: reported imminent will not alarm little Tommy Jones and little Bobby Smith.
 Would it be deemed proper to say that Birmingham received Miss Jean t nette Rankin with open arms?
 a yard long, but his trough manner = are nothing to speak of.
 That master strategist, Secretary Ba ' ker, says the Italian situation is no s hopeless. So be it.
 
 Tammany emits a loud roar every tim anybody intimates that it is pacifis e organization.
 Billy Sunday yields prodigious pal
 of shears when he labors in the Lord IS vineyard.
 = Whoever thought the cossacks woul | |some day be called on to save Rus > sa?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
DOING HER BIT

From the Mobile. Register.
 Madame Schumann- Heink is pretty good American. She has four sons in the service of the United States. three in the navy and one in the army, and son-in-law in the signal corps
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
AMONG. THE MISSING

From the New York Herald.
 What has become of the old-fash- toned philosopher who was certain that the only thing the matter with Russia was vodka?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20

Happy is your grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Into so quiet and so sweet styie'
 As You Like 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
TAKE YOUR CHOICE

TAKE YOUR CHOICE The little town of Trouble Is not so far away From the little town of Laughter. Where everybody's gay. They're both found in the same spot, And happiness or rue Depends most altogether Upon your point of view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
GOING ON TRIAL

GOING ON TRIAL The egreat criminal lawyer was speak, ing a final word to his client before putting her on the witness stand. "can you cry quietly without sniff ing?"
 "Oh. yes, sir"
 "Then, shed few tears as you go along. Not downpour you understand, but enough to require the furtive use of your handkerchief"
 ''Yes, sir"
 And occasionally when your eyes are full of tears-by the way, you have lovely eyes-turn them on the jury. It wouldn't be amiss if you occasionally turned them on the judge. You will obey my instructions implicitly?" "Certainly.'
 "Goodl Answer the questions told you to answer and leave the rest to me-"
 MOST LIKELY
 How do the soldiers in one part of the war zone find out what Is going on in another part?'
 why" replied Mrs. Flitterbout thoughtfully, T presume they learn it from the communicating trenches"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-20
HARD TO AROUSE

"Dopple Is rather stodgy person. I suspect "Evidently so. At least I've known him to drop into movie theatre and
 C sleep right through vampire film that had everybody else writhing in their seats.' PAUL COOK. a