The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-11

patent flour is made from western wheat, (which Is often stored in musty elevators for months," and "then ground and screened into a starchy dust with all the laxative ele- ments removed" and this, the com missioner contends, is the cause of many of our ills, such as indigestion and dyspepsia. Hence, home made flour is strongly recommended.
 MT. Wade, in his letter, names the varieties of seed adapted to this cli- mate.
 This year and the year before Ala bama's wheat yield, in round figures, was one million bushels-an increase of 100 per cent over the crop of 1915, for the planting being small the crop amounted to only five hundred thou sand bushels.
 Alabama Is good wheat state. Large crops were grown here before the civil war, and there is no reason why, with reasonable increase in acreage, we should not harvest two or threes million bushels next year. Hundreds of farmers who have stopped raising wheat should resume at once this important branch of az riculture. If they do not SOW large acreage they can at least set aside four or five acres for wheat-enough to supply the family with flour.
 It may be next to impossible to bring western flour into the south in the coming year, and with this in mind no farm-large or small-should be wheatless when harvest time comes in 1918.
 Having received a pair of fancy socks from the President, 1t is presumed that MT. Heflin feels compensated for the way his feelings were lacerated by Con- gress.
 With nearly thousand warships build ing in America to swat the Kaiser, the German navy's oft expressed desire to fight will doubtless be gratifed.
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 San Francisco has her head up." Mo- body objects to San Francisco putting her best foot forward and getting away with q bale of liberty bonds.
 
 Chicago fans didn't know that the world series games had been shifted to New York. Now. if that had happened in Philadelphia--f
 A contemporary objects to Red Cross nurses smoking. Still. they don't have leisure enough to really stain their fingers at 1t.
 Senator LaFollette should devote the time between now and the reconvening of Congress to pondering over tho error of his ways.
 To-day peace Is hell," says the Rev. Dr. IIillis. Has he no considerat ton whatever for tho tender sensibilities of a pacifist?
 pr. Sargent of Harvard says woman is the equal of man as a soldier. stin, we insist that trench is no place for a lady.
 It is possible to be every inch . pa triot and still have warm feeling in your heart for tho veteran in Confederate gray.
 NOV0 we are promised a scattering of Huns and tho early advent of the peace dove
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 General Won Hindenburg advises Ger many to walt. After three years the waiting attitude becomes bit trying.
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 Wherever the boys in khaki go, new theatres spring up and the musical com edies flock to town
 The U-boats have apparently reached the zenith of frightfulness and entered upon a decline.
 Any man who Is defeated for office can tell you that politics h most uncertain game to play.
 Miss Ruth Law, has como to regaNl the law of gravity as something that is easily dsflsd-
 Tn the meantime. how far along has Russia progressed in pulling herself to- getherf
 Tho Kaiser does not know 1t, but the firm of Me und Gott" never existed A HALT TO JOHN BARLEYCORN From ''The Progress of the World" in the American Review of Reviews for october. 1917.