The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-18

in the south the future for the farmer is looking bright once more. Let there be no Tagging in this all-important cause.
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 To be Gala Event MMOS of the Confederate veteran 4V0 camps began early to arrange for the visit to Washington in June to attend the annual reunion; but after the United States entered the war against Germany the impression got around that the affair would have to be postponed or called off al- together. It is positively announced now by the committee of arrange ments that the reunion will take place as originally planned; and President Wilson has given it the seal of his approval by making public a letter in which he said that he saw no req son why the reunion set for Wash ington during the week beginning June should be postponed on account of the international situation. The reunion will be not only an occasion reminiscent of camp fires and the smoke of battle; an occasion for strengthening the old ties of comradeship, but it will be a great patriotic event. This approaching re- union will be full of thrills. The marching of the "vets" will stir the national capital as few other scenes could.
 Alabama will send large body of men in gray, wearing the insignia of the Lost Cause, but men who are fired today with Americanism and who will to the end of their days cheer for "Old Glory"
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 The fellow who pronounces Lens the same way he does a bit of glass ground to a certain thickness to see through, may know more about the war than you think he does.
 To torpedoboat destroyer with the Of being the first American warship to engage a German submarine.
 British "Tommies" call the Germans swine" when they lose their tempers. Just at present the "Tommies" seem to be doing most of the roofing.
 Golf links are being planted in food crops How will the caddies contrive to make both ends meet, unless they are employed as farm hands?
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 There Is a call for a new national an- them For heavens sake, don't say any thing about it to Irving Berlin. He may insist on writing one.
 All is not we'll in Berlin, to judge from brief telegraphic dispatches. The Der liners have excellent reasons for being dissatisfied with life.
 Mesopotamia stands sadly in need of a few good roads societies. The god of war finds 1t difficult to force his chariot through seas of mud
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 Pretty chorus girls are urging young men to enlist. However it is quite likely tthat they were put up to that by some press agent or other. The British and French are hitting the German line with the ferocity of a foot ball eleven IlSntlHS TOT goal III the laSt quarter.
 The "Pimple" will go down in history as the scene of many a gallant exploit, although it might have had worthier name.
 A miss is as good as a mile and a miss of 30 yards Is enough to make any Amer ican gunner snicker derlsively. The average small boy in Birmingham is hoping that the Germans won't capture the country until after circus day. Baid-headed married men, 45 years old and over. have no patience with the boys who don't want to go to war. l Sarah Bernhardt has been taken to a I hospital again. There's an end-even to farewell tours" Activities along the Italian front are not half as exciting as tag day in | Birmingham.
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